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 [...]
One small step for Science.gov, one giant leap for Federated Search. “Science.gov is a gateway to more than 42 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to more than 2,000 scientific websites from 18 organizations within 14 federal science agencies. These agencies represent 97% of [...]
Filtering results is as much an art as a science. Refining or clarifying an initial set of search results is a fairly common practice among search engine users that don’t know exactly what they are looking for. Yet in federated searching, refining a group of results is often not the best strategy for a user to find [...]
