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Explore the benefits of federated search solutions in accessing and aggregating information from multiple sources. Save time and improve utilization of information sources.
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Uniting Global Information with Federated Search Abe Lederman, President, Deep Web Technologies Dr. Rosanne Hessmiller, CEO, Ferguson-Lynch Presentation to USAID, July 9, 2008
“We in the information business need to recognize this gap between availability and need, and seize the opportunity to provide information consumers with better tools.” -Dr. Walt Warnick, Director, DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Ferguson Lynch Information Consultancy Firm • Founded 1998 • Services include: • Website and portal development • Internet applications • Online workflow solutions • Online research applications • Interactive video and television production • e-solutions for business and research processes • Distance learning
Who is Deep Web Tech? Founded in 2002 Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico 20 Employees Over $2 million in R&D funding DWT is focused on providing state-of-the-art federated search products and solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate and analyze content from web-based databases.
Abe Lederman-Background Earned B.S. and M.S. Computer Science degrees, MIT Began work in information retrieval in 1988, Co-founded Verity Consulted to LANL, 1994-2000 Developed some of the first web-based applications that searched text-based content, 1994 Pioneered “Deep Web” searching in 1999, OSTI
Some of Our Customers Department of Defense DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information Intel Corporate Library National Agricultural Library Stanford University
What is Federated Search? Federated Search is an application or service that allows a user to submit a search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duped results.
In Other Words…One Search, Many Sources Begin Search Subscription Sources News Blogs & Wikis E-Books Technical Reports Public Web Sources
Development Select results Refine your Search
Download, print or email results View session selections Create an Alert
Benefits of Federated Search • One-stop access to multiple 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
Thank You! Rose Hessmiller info@fergusonlynch.com Abe Lederman abe@deepwebtech.com