1. 6 October 20151 Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Within the VisIT Web Services Architecture

2. 6 October 2015Slide 2 The Problem It’s increasingly difficult to find quality information on the Internet. Easy to find an address, or company’s website but, more difficult to research or learn. –Nearly 70% of business professionals agree that finding information is a difficult process; 61% of them believe they have a less than 75% chance of finding the information they need. - Delphi Group, 2002

3. 6 October 2015Slide 3 The Problem Lack of effective tools for analyzing and sharing information –“Despite the broad array of existing information management technology tools, knowledge workers are still unable to find the needed information to perform their jobs or they must spend an inordinate amount of time seeking that information.” Delphi Group, 2002

4. 6 October 2015Slide 4 VisIT VisIT®, helps people sort out the “noise” and learn from their results. VisIT® provides quality information. VisIT® allows users to learn from other users and reduces the need for many people to do the same search (you can start with an experts results). VisIT® is a Web Services model that can allow a variety of analytical tools to plug in to help the user analyze information from numerous sources.

5. 6 October 2015Slide 5 VisIT

6. 6 October 2015Slide 6 VisIT Initial Search Results When you do a search in VisIT, you get your results in a “Search Space.” What you are looking at are Websites and pages in the Website. You can also have the corresponding search engine results shown in the browser window.

7. 6 October 2015Slide 7 VisIT Edit results, save/ open

8. 6 October 2015Slide 8 VisIT Text summaries, navigation trail

9. 6 October 2015Slide 9 VisIT Double click shows page

10. 6 October 2015Slide 10 VisIT Interface Label/ Annotate

11. 6 October 2015Slide 11 VisIT Interface Change Icons

12. 6 October 2015Slide 12 VisIT Knowledge Share

13. 6 October 2015Slide 13 VisIT “Case” study

14. 6 October 2015Slide 14 VisIT Customize, update, research

15. 6 October 2015Slide 15 VisIT Save the Knowledge of Your Workers for Others to Use

16. 6 October 2015Slide 16 VisIT Endless Possibilities

17. 6 October 2015Slide 17 Wrap Up VisIT is a information visualization tool that plugs into Internet Explorer™ VisIT will allow the user to search multiple sources and types of information sources simultaneously VisIT interfaces with data/text mining, and other state of the art tools to provide clustering, classification, extraction of data and other analysis VisIT can work on managed sources and, can work dynamically on unmanaged (Internet) sources

18. 6 October 2015Slide 18 Wrap Up VisIT can augment existing search engines making them smarter, more current and comprehensive as well as working with its own search engine which can be directed by its users. VisIT search spaces can be saved by users and shared with others making VisIT the only search tool with “reusable” search results. Imagine if you could get search results organized by a world renowned expert instead of 2 million hits in a list!

19. 6 October 2015Slide 19 End Dan Kauwell kauwell@uiuc.edu 244-0131 359-3437