Abe Lederman is heading to the ALA Annual Conference this weekend in New Orleans to take part in a fascinating panel discussion: The Age of Discovery: Understanding Discovery Services, Federated Search and Web Scale. Here’s a brief description: Findability, discovery services, federated search, web scale—ways to discover content are increasing all the time, but [...]
WorldWideScience is a global science gateway that combines national and international scientific databases into a search engine. From a single search form, a scientist, researcher, or curious citizen can search over fifty databases in English and now 22 multilingual sources (with translation to the searcher’s native language) and seven multimedia sources. WorldWideScience is the brainchild [...]
Welcome to the second edition of “Best of the Federated Search Blog.” In this series I pull articles out of the Federated Search Blog archive and comment on them for the benefit of those considering Deep Web Technologies‘ offerings. In March, 2008 I explored the “incremental results” feature which Deep Web Technologies makes available in [...]
December 15th, 2010 kicks off Deep Web Technologies’ first webinar installment! Titled: “Explorit Federated Search Key Differentiators” Interested parties will have the option to sign up for different dates, depending on your convenience. Our webinars typically last 30-40 mins, with the last 10 minutes devoted to questions and answers, which means that it will be [...]
Last week (on November 23rd) Sol wrote an article for the Federated Search Blog, Beyond search results bias, which raises the concern over search result bias by Google and by discovery services. Sol refers to the allegation by Harvard Professor Benjamin Edelman that Google is biasing some of its search results by first displaying results [...]
SWITCH TO DEEP WEB TECHNOLOGIES AND SAVE THOUSANDS Deep Web Technologies is offering a unique chance to replace existing WebFeat installations. The catch? You must be willing to save over $3,800 on next-generation federated search for your library! Now, with Deep Web Technologies next-generation federated search, you can go deeper and faster than you have [...]
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 [...]
It was an honor to attend and for my company to have played a key role in the launch of multilingual WorldWideScience.org in Helsinki this past June 11th. Beginning more than three years ago, the R&D effort that ultimately resulted in the launch of our ground-breaking multilingual federated search capability involved plenty of hard work [...]
One of the most interesting features of our Explorit search product is our clustering engine, which analyzes results and produces “clusters” that represent a new and powerful way to navigate search results. The true power of these clusters is often overlooked, for they superficially resemble the output generated by the keyword-based systems and fixed taxonomies [...]
