Uniting Global Information with Federated Search Abe Lederman, President, Deep Web Technologies Dr....

Uniting Global Information with

Federated Search

Abe Lederman, President, Deep Web TechnologiesDr. 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, andseize the opportunity to provide information consumers with better

tools.”

-Dr. Walt Warnick, Director, DOE Office of Scientific and Technical

Information

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

Our primary focus is in helping clients assimilate emerging technologies within their personal organizational process and purpose.

Ferguson Lynch Information Consultancy Firm

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

Technical Reports

Blogs & Wikis

SubscriptionSources

Public Web Sources

E-Books

News

Begin Search

HIV Vaccine

Select results

Refine your Search

Development

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

Information Discovery

Deep Web’s Search Gallery

Thank You!

Abe Ledermanabe@deepwebtech.com

Rose Hessmillerinfo@fergusonlynch.com