The Federated Search Blog brings an important set of observations about search to our attention. Search pundit Avi Rappoport makes it clear that it’s not so clear that discovery services are the holy grail of search nor the answer to everybody’s search problem. Search is complicated. As Sol Lederman writes in the Federated Search Blog [...]
One of the critical problems in federated searching is de-duplication of results. Many sources contain the same journal articles and, clearly, presenting the same result multiple times isn’t useful to users. To solve this thorny problem, Deep Web Technologies has taken a flexible and configurable approach to de-duplication. The Explorit application de-dupes on multiple fields to [...]
This afternoon, I put aside an hour from yet another hectic day to read Dr. Walter Warnick’s article, “Federated Search as a Transformational Technology Enabling Knowledge Discovery: the Role of WorldWideScience.org.” This article by Dr. Warnick–or Walt to me–presents a wonderful overview of OSTI’s mission dating all the way back to 1947. OSTI (Department of Energy [...]
