© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. Federated Search: A Tool for Knowledge Discovery iGroup Online Education Conference Presented by Abe Lederman Founder and CTO of Deep Web Technologies

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. About Deep Web Technologies... Founded by Abe Lederman, a co- founder of Verity Pioneered federated search technology Over $3M in Research and Development Production applications since 1999 Deep Web Technologies is focused on providing next generation federated search solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate and analyze content from web-based databases.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 3 Knowledge Discovery Spreading electronic information through research communities, local or distant.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 4 Federated Search Supports Knowledge Discovery All information available in one place Searches sources from many disciplines (cross-fertilization of ideas) Connects people in distant research communities (global discovery) Accesses the highest quality sources Speeds the research process by presenting the most relevant results

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 5 #1 Reason for Federated Search Accelerate discovery by bringing content to researchers that Google can't find

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 6 What is “Federated Search”? Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results.

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8 User Benefits of Federated Search  One-stop access to all your information sources –Users don’t need to know where/how to search –Saves researcher time and money –Improves utilization of information sources  Consolidated, ranked and de-duped results –Important results are not missed

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 9 Discovering Federated Search  Access to Collections  Quality Connectors and Results  User interface  Results delivery  Automatic alerts  Instant Search Customization  Administrative Console  Multilingual Translation It’s about Quality, not Quantity

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 10 Unlimited Collections Search an unlimited number of resources tailored to your organization’s specific needs ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud BioMed Central Cochrane BVS DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore LegalPublish MD Consult Open J-Gate ProQuest SCIELO PubMed UpToDate

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 11 Unlimited Collections ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud BioMed Central Cochrane BVS DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore LegalPublish MD Consult Open J-Gate ProQuest SCIELO PubMed UpToDate Compatible with various protocols including Z39.50

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 12 Quality of Search Results Thorough connector development Tie all of your internal, subscription and external collections together, extracting the most information to your results.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 13 Quality of Search Results Boolean and Fielded Searching We support Boolean searches, wildcards, stemming and fielded searches.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 14 Quality of Search Results Relevance ranking of retrieved data Instantly find relevant results with our five-star ranking system.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 15 User Interface “Intuitive” navigation Integration with your library’s website “Intuitive” navigation Results display incrementally

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 16 Results Delivery Clustering or grouping of results by Source, Date, Topic, Author or other designated field Aggregated, ranked results

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 17 Results Delivery Analysis tools such as filters and sorts Results export to and citation managers such as RefWorks and EndNote

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 18 Automatic Alerts Alerts can be set for a daily, weekly or monthly frequency

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 19 Automatic Alerts Results are delivered to Your RSS/ATOM feed reader or inbox, and can easily be ed or downloaded

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 20 Automatic Alerts Search any or all collections automatically for repeat queries.

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 21 Customizing Search Engines Create search boxes and search pages easily Easily enable/disable your collections and search fields

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 22 Customizing Search Engines

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 23 Administrative Console View website statistics from one administrative console

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 24 Multilingual Translation

© 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 25 Thank You! Questions? Please me: Abe: Deep Web Technologies