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© 2015 Deep Web Technologies, Inc.

By Abe Lederman

CEO and CTO

Presentation to FEDLINK 31 March 2015

Access the Best, Public Science Content in Less Time


About Deep Web Technologies...

• A “Silicon Valley” start-up in Santa Fe, NM

• A pioneer in federated search • Founded by Abe Lederman in 2002

– A co-founder of Verity, acquired by Autonomy

– BS & MS Degrees in Computer Science from MIT

– 25+ years experience in Information Retrieval

• 16 employees • Over 100 solutions deployed

worldwide • $5 Million in DOE SBIR Grants

2003-2011


Dark Web vs. Deep Web


The “Google Myth”


Why Do Researchers Like Google and Google Scholar?

•It’s fast

•It’s easy to use

•It’s relevant

(seemingly)

•It’s FREE


Library vs. Google How do “uninformed researchers” search?


Why Should Researchers Be Leery of Google?

Google ranks results by how popular the page is. The more links pointing to it, the higher it ranks. This doesn’t work when searching scientific databases.


What Google Returns…

Top 25 Results for "Climate Change"

Opinion

News

Government

Ads

Wikipedia

Peer Reviewed

Education


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.”


Federated Search Also Known As…

• Distributed Search

• Broadcast Search

• Data Fusion

• Meta Search

• Parallel Search

• Cross-Database Search

• Single Search

• One-Search

• Integrated Search


Federated Search Your Sources, One Search


http://www.science.gov/


Science.gov Search 93% of Federal Research


http://www.osti.gov/eprints/


http://www.osti.gov/nle/


http://mednar.com/mednar/


http://environar.com/environar/


Demo


What is Multilingual Federated Search?

Multilingual Federated Search translates the researcher’s query from the researcher’s language into the language of the curated sources, retrieves results in the source’s language, then translates the results back into the language of the researcher.


Why Do Researchers Need Multilingual Search?

•In the coming years, China is expected to publish more content, and much of it in Chinese.

•Databases in other languages are not indexed by Google and other popular search engines.

•Multilingual searching is faster and more efficient than translating databases and papers one-by-one.


http://worldwidescience.org/


http://askia.uneca.org/askia/node/1/


11 Search Tips

Courtesy of Joan Goodbody, USPTO


More Tips

• Use Authoritative Portals with focused content.

• Use Advanced Search to select categories that support your research goals.

• Use Filters to narrow a broad results set.

• Use My Library to select results and save, email, print or export them.

• Use Alerts for repeated search queries.


Explorit Everywhere! Library Solutions


Why Do Researchers Like Federated Search Portals?

•They are fast

•They are easy to use

•They are relevant

•Many are free

•They access curated content

•They search in different languages


List of Public Portals

Portal Link

Science.gov http://www.science.gov/

WorldWideScience.org http://worldwidescience.org/

E-Print Network http://www.osti.gov/eprints/

National Library of Energy


Mednar http://mednar.com/mednar/

UNECA ASKIA http://askia.uneca.org/askia/node/1/

Environar http://environar.com/environar

http://www.science.gov/

http://worldwidescience.org/

http://www.osti.gov/eprints/


http://mednar.com/mednar/

http://askia.uneca.org/askia/node/1/

http://environar.com/environar


Bookmark – Try It Now!

http://www.deepwebtech.com/product-trial/try-it-now/


Other Resources

•Deep Web Technologies Resource

Center

•Company Blog

•Federated Search Blog

•Multilingual Search Webpage

•Scalability Webpage

http://www.deepwebtech.com/company/resource-center/




http://deepwebtechblog.com/

http://federatedsearchblog.com/

http://www.deepwebtech.com/multilingual/

http://www.deepwebtech.com/scalability/


Thank you!

Questions?

Please email me:

Abe Lederman

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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