1. Uniting Global Information with Federated Search
Abe Lederman, President, Deep Web Technologies
Dr. Rosanne Hessmiller, CEO, Ferguson-Lynch
Presentation to USAID, July 9, 2008

2. “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

3. 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

4. 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. 4 4

5. 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,
Developed some of the first web-based applications that searched text-based content, 1994
Pioneered “Deep Web” searching in 1999, OSTI 5

6. Some of Our Customers Department of Defense
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Intel Corporate Library
National Agricultural Library
Stanford University 6

7. 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. 7

8. In Other Words… One Search, Many Sources
Begin Search
Subscription
Sources
News
E-Books
Blogs &
Wikis
Public Web
Sources
Technical
Reports 8

9. HIV Vaccine

11. Development
Select results
Refine your Search

12. Download, print or email results
View session selections
Create an Alert

13. 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

14. Information Discovery

15. Deep Web’s Search Gallery

16. Thank You! Abe Lederman Rose Hessmiller abe@deepwebtech.com