Government Computer News (GCN) recently reviewed mobile apps developed by the federal government. Science.gov Mobile was among the top 10 listed. GCN gave the Science.gov Mobile app (which runs on the Android and on the Mobile Web) scores of 7 for usefulness, 8 for ease of use, and 8 for coolness factor. The Science.gov website [...]
The other day Abe received in the mail the document from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granting us a trademark and service mark on the multilingual version of Explorit®, our federated search system. As any of you who have filed patents, trademarks or service marks surely know, the process is arduous and time [...]
The Universidad Católica de Temuco (UC Temuco) in southern Chile is proud of their new search portal that we built for them. They recently shared some of their excitement in their official announcement. (While the announcement is in Spanish, Google Translate does a decent job of producing readable English.) My version of the translated text, [...]
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 [...]
