Science.gov utilizes Deep Web Technologies’ next-generation federated search to provide one-stop access to the most comprehensive sources of government R&D information.  Our press release has more details!

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SANTA FE, N.M., Aug. 4, 2009 — Deep Web Technologies-powered federated search engine Science.gov (http://www.science.gov) was featured in the Government Computer News article “Great dot-gov Web Sites 2009? (http://tinyurl.com/mqs74e) as one of ten websites that take online government to the next level. “The days of a web presence being an optional component for agencies are long gone. For most citizens, the primary way of interacting with their government is through websites,” says Joab Jackson, author.

The Science.gov website, hosted by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), searches 38 government science collections, comprising over 200 million pages of science information, with the ease that citizens have come to expect doing research on the Internet. Science.gov utilizes next-generation deep web search technology (called federated search), to provide one-stop access to the most comprehensive sources of government R&D information. Also provided are a host of features, including clustering of results; links to related Wikipedia and Eureka News articles; selections capability to email, download or print research results; and an alerts service. In addition, all Science.gov searches are performed in real-time, helping citizens obtain up-to-the-minute new information on topics important to them.

“We like to call the audience the science-attentive citizen,” said Sharon Jordan, OSTI’s assistant director for program integration. “We recognize that while it is of great use to scientists, there are also citizens in the public sector, as well as students and teachers, who need to know the source for authentic science information. We try to serve them all.”

Next-generation deep web searching represents the future of search, because it allows for comprehensive searching of many obscure government databases and small collections, as well as popular collections, at the same time. The application obtains results in an easy-to-follow, aggregated list, all from a single search request, placing tremendous research power in the hands of everyday citizens. Fast, effective, efficient and comprehensive information discovery is a by-product of this technology: government databases don’t necessarily contain the most popular (i.e. often-visited) information, therefore the mainstream search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing, which rank results on popularity instead of relevance, aren’t as strong for information discovery purposes.

Deep Web Technologies has powered applications for the U.S. government dating back to 1998. Next-generation federated search is used for many  popular information discovery tools provided by the federal government, including Nutrition.gov (http://www.nutrition.gov/), Defense Technical Information Center MultiSearch (http://multisearch.dtic.mil/dtic/), Science Accelerator (http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/), E-print Network (http://www.osti.gov/eprints), Food and Nutrition Information Center (http://fnic.nal.usda.gov) and WorldWideScience (http://worldwidescience.org).

“RefWorks is one of the premiere web-based solutions for citations management,” noted Deep Web Technologies’ President, Abe Lederman. “Integration with RefWorks was a natural step for expanding Explorit’s value to our clients, who rely on RefWorks for citation management.”

Explorit currently integrates with citation management programs such as EndNote, Zotero, and WizFolio, via RIS files. The RefWorks Direct Export feature works differently, since it allows users to directly post to their RefWorks account from any Explorit application with RefWorks integration enabled. If RefWorks users are logged in, posting to RefWorks after performing a federated search with Explorit will immediately import the RIS formatted file to their RefWorks account. If not logged in, they will be prompted to login by RefWorks first, and after logging in, citations will be automatically posted to their account.

Citation management is an important feature for academic users of federated search, who want to easily maintain the citations of the articles representing their “needle-in-the-haystack.” With Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator next-generation federated search, the most relevant results are pulled from multiple collections of information, creating a simple yet powerful tool for researchers to find, select and download valuable information.

Explorit Research Accelerator Federated Search allows users to select results from across multiple searches. All selected results can then be emailed, printed or downloaded using RefWorks Direct Export or the RIS files downloader. The Selections feature also integrates with Explorit Alerts, an automated results search which delivers time-sensitive results on critical queries to a user’s email or RSS feed.

“This is an example of Deep Web Technologies’ continuing efforts to improve federated search,” noted Brian Despain, Vice President of Professional Services for Deep Web Technologies. “We will continue to introduce new features to Explorit to meet the needs of tomorrow’s researchers.”

Deep Web Technologies intends to introduce additional tightly integrated features using their advanced Web Services Application Programming Interface (API). “Our aim is to open up complete access to the deep web, giving companies, software developers and end-users the full power of the deep web at their fingertips,” said Despain.

Deep Web Technologies partnered with Scitopia.org, the world’s leading scientific federated search portal, to debut this new feature. Those interested in testing Deep Web Technologies RefWorks Direct Export may visit Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org), select results with the “Add Clipping” tool, then click on the “My Articles” link to view clipped results and download citations.

About Deep Web Technologies

Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com) creates custom, sophisticated federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The tool of choice when needing to access the deep web, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple information sources, merging the results into one page. Serving Fortune 500 companies, the Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov), the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Defense, Scitopia.org (http://www.scitopia.org), Nutrition.gov, WorldWideScience.org (http://www.worldwidescience.org) and a variety of other customers and partners, Deep Web Technologies has built a reputation as the “researcher’s choice” for its advanced, agile information discovery tools.