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 Judy Gire, Roberta Woods, Kathy Pierce, Barry Shanks, Melanie Cornell Search for a federated search solution Search for a federated search solution –Webfeat –Muse –TDNet –Metalib –Sirsi –Endeavor

Why Federated Searching Doesn’t Work

Federated Searching Paradigm Simultaneous Searches in REAL TIME !!! Witness Tamperin g

Common Shortcomings Speed Speed De-duping De-duping Relevance ranking Relevance ranking Server demand Server demand No real proof of concept No real proof of concept No legal content No legal content

Google’s GSA Hardware/software product Hardware/software product Developed for internal e-document discovery Developed for internal e-document discovery Pricing model needs tweaking for this implementation Pricing model needs tweaking for this implementation e_demos.html e_demos.html

Google Solution Google spiders crawl content providers’ data and create an index that our patrons search before going to our content provider to retrieve data.

Google Search Appliance Witness Tamperin g Getting results is faster and better since the entire data set is already there …relevance ranked and de- duped.

Benefits to Us Fast Searching Fast Searching Don’t have to wait for “our” databases to be profiled nor incur additional costs for the privilege 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 Vendor sites aren’t overwhelmed with meaningless searches We create and control logical collections and we schedule when spiders crawl for content We create and control logical collections and we schedule when spiders crawl for content We own the solution, we house it We own the solution, we house it

Where we are Early days of promising talks with Google Early days of promising talks with Google Two vendors interested in partnering for proof of concept Two vendors interested in partnering for proof of concept Working on role of consortium as “mother ship” Working on role of consortium as “mother ship”