Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Drill Down! The INEEL Docu-Search provides extensive searching capabilities Von Crofts Interlab 2004

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Agenda Drivers Challenges Solutions with “screen-shot” examples Summary/questions

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Drivers—Records Management Problem: Locating records –Time consuming, costly, and confusing –23% of searches ended in failure –Rework associated with lost-record information Goal –Reduce time, and rework –100% retrieval success rate –“One place” for record information

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Drivers—Internal Home Page Problem: Search limited to keywords –Did not include page content –Did not crawl –Did not include applications, databases Goal –Extend search to page content, not just keywords –Access multiple resources (web pages, databases, flat files) –Provide casual search and advanced search

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Challenges Security/Access Crawling issues Casual users and knowledge workers Various types of data sources Availability of data sources Ranking of results Limited funding

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Solutions Developed “Master Index” Oracle ® Text Multiple levels of search capabilities Allow ALL to search internally –Resource owner specifies information available to search –Separate link to access information source Used “Home-page” database as information source Result Ranking –Meta Data –Content –Other Algorithm “tweaks” –Drill Down Administrative tools

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Oracle ® Text Integration with Oracle ® DB Simple management Scalability Indexing: standard, catalog, classification, Xpath Storage: database, file system, web Intelligent text management Inso filtering Multilingual Search Quality –Exact match –Word positioning –Inexact match –Intelligent match –Boolean combinations –Relevance ranking

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Multiple levels of search capabilities

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Allow ALL to search internally Resource owner specifies information available to search Separate link to access information source

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Result Ranking –Meta Data –Content –Other Algorithm “tweaks” –Drill Down

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Administrative functions Scheduler Reports

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

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