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Blue Sky Thinking. A possible alternative to federated searching Tracy L. Thompson NELLCO. Franklin Pierce Law Center. Judy Gire, Roberta Woods, Kathy Pierce, Barry Shanks, Melanie Cornell Search for a federated search solution Webfeat Muse TDNet Metalib Sirsi Endeavor.
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Blue Sky Thinking A possible alternative to federated searching Tracy L. Thompson NELLCO
Franklin Pierce Law Center • Judy Gire, Roberta Woods, Kathy Pierce, Barry Shanks, Melanie Cornell • Search for a federated search solution • Webfeat • Muse • TDNet • Metalib • Sirsi • Endeavor
Federated Searching Paradigm Witness Tampering Simultaneous Searches in REAL TIME !!!
Common Shortcomings • Speed • De-duping • Relevance ranking • Server demand • No real proof of concept • No legal content
Google’s GSA • Hardware/software product • Developed for internal e-document discovery • Pricing model needs tweaking for this implementation • http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/live_demos.html
Google Solution Google spiders crawl content providers’ data and create an index thatour patrons search before going to our content provider to retrieve data.
Google Search Appliance Witness Tampering Getting results is faster and better since the entire data set is already there …relevance ranked and de-duped.
Benefits to Us • Fast Searching • Don’t have to wait for “our” databases to be profiled nor incur additional costs for the privilege • Vendor sites aren’t overwhelmed with meaningless searches • We create and control logical collections and we schedule when spiders crawl for content • We own the solution, we house it
Where we are • Early days of promising talks with Google • Two vendors interested in partnering for proof of concept • Working on role of consortium as “mother ship”