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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
