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Federated Search: A Tool for Knowledge Discovery

Federated Search: A Tool for Knowledge Discovery. iGroup Online Education Conference Presented by Abe Lederman Founder and CTO of Deep Web Technologies. About Deep Web Technologies. Founded by Abe Lederman, a co-founder of Verity Pioneered federated search technology

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Federated Search: A Tool for Knowledge Discovery

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  1. Federated Search: A Toolfor Knowledge Discovery iGroup Online Education Conference Presented by Abe Lederman Founder and CTO of Deep Web Technologies

  2. About Deep Web Technologies... Founded by Abe Lederman, a co-founder of Verity Pioneered federated search technology Over $3M in Research and Development Production applications since 1999 Deep Web Technologies is focused on providing next generation federated search solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate and analyze content from web-based databases.

  3. Knowledge Discovery Spreading electronic information through research communities, local or distant.

  4. Federated Search Supports Knowledge Discovery • All information available in one place • Searches sources from many disciplines (cross-fertilization of ideas) • Connects people in distant research communities (global discovery) • Accesses the highest quality sources • Speeds the research process by presenting the most relevant results

  5. #1 Reason for Federated Search Accelerate discovery by bringing content to researchers that Google can't find

  6. What is “Federated Search”? Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results.

  7. User Benefits of Federated Search • One-stop access to all your information sources • Users don’t need to know where/how to search • Saves researcher time and money • Improves utilization of information sources • Consolidated, ranked and de-duped results • Important results are not missed

  8. Discovering Federated Search • Access to Collections • Quality Connectors and Results • User interface • Results delivery • Automatic alerts • Instant Search Customization • Administrative Console • Multilingual Translation It’s about Quality, not Quantity

  9. Unlimited Collections ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud BioMed Central Cochrane BVS Search an unlimited number of resources tailored to your organization’s specific needs DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore LegalPublish MD Consult Open J-Gate ProQuest SCIELO PubMed UpToDate

  10. Unlimited Collections ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud BioMed Central Cochrane BVS DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore LegalPublish MD Consult Compatible with various protocols including Z39.50 Open J-Gate ProQuest SCIELO PubMed UpToDate

  11. Quality of Search Results Thorough connector development Tie all of your internal, subscription and external collections together, extracting the most information to your results.

  12. Quality of Search Results • Boolean and Fielded Searching • We support Boolean searches, wildcards, stemming and fielded searches.

  13. Quality of Search Results • Relevance ranking of retrieved data • Instantly find relevant results with our five-star ranking system.

  14. User Interface Integration with your library’s website “Intuitive” navigation Results display incrementally “Intuitive” navigation

  15. Aggregated, ranked results Results Delivery Clustering or grouping of results by Source, Date, Topic, Author or other designated field

  16. Results export to email and citation managers such as RefWorks and EndNote Results Delivery Analysis tools such as filters and sorts

  17. Automatic Alerts Alerts can be set for a daily, weekly or monthly frequency

  18. Automatic Alerts Results are delivered to Your RSS/ATOM feed reader or e-mail inbox, and can easily be emailed or downloaded

  19. Automatic Alerts Search any or all collections automatically for repeat queries.

  20. Customizing Search Engines Create search boxes and search pages easily Easily enable/disable your collections and search fields

  21. Customizing Search Engines

  22. Administrative Console View website statistics from one administrative console

  23. Multilingual Translation

  24. Thank You! Questions? Please email me: Abe: abe@deepwebtech.com Deep Web Technologies

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