The highly regarded Charleston Advisor, known for its “Critical reviews of Web products for Information Professionals,” has given Deep Web Technologies 4 3/8 of 5 possible stars for its Explorit federated search product. The individual scores forming the composite were: Content: 4 1/2 stars User Interface/Searchability: 4 1/2 stars Pricing: 4 1/2 stars Contract Options: 4 [...]
There’s an NFAIS draft Discovery Service Code of Practice that’s up for review. The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™) is releasing a draft Discovery Service Code of Practice for review and comment by March 16, 2012. NFAIS believes that discovery services have the potential to provide ease of information discovery, access, and use, [...]
One of the many unseen costs in corporations is the actual time spent doing research for the company. Researchers, product managers and scientists use a significant time researching a wide variety of sources to bring a new product to market. There are multiple costs in research. First, there is the cost of the research materials [...]
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 [...]
As is usual for me I’m up early this morning after the three day Memorial Day weekend, going through my Biznar Alerts, and I run into this interesting blog post: Net Neutrality and Federating Searching Jake, a librarian in the D.C. area and beer aficionado (he’s the beerbrarian), writes on how the neutrality of federated [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to “The Best of the Federated Search Blog.” In this ongoing series I will be commenting on classic articles that I have authored for the Federated Search Blog. I aim to focus on the relevance of the article to current and prospective customers of Deep Web Technologies. In this first “Best of” article, Diagnosing [...]
Our minds like to be fed with the best information possible! In the case of researchers (academic, medical, business, or others), their works depend on it. Here is a great blog post by Sol Lederman I would like to share. It’s on the topic of information quality vs. information coverage. It really illustrates the importance of search [...]
Sometimes when I lie in bed with the dream of federating 1,000,000,000 sources dancing around in my mind, I often wonder, “What’s the best search engine?”. I suppose that depends on who (or what) you seek. The Internet is the largest collection of information that has ever been amassed, leading us to need better search [...]
