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Breaking down language barriers through multilingual federated search

Issue title: NFAIS Annual Meeting 2010 – Redefining the Value of Information: Exploring the New Equation

Guest editors: Marjorie M.K. HlavaGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lederman, Abea; * | Warnick, Walterb | Hitson, Brianb | Johnson, Lorrieb

Affiliations: [a] Deep Web Technologies, Santa Fe, NM, USA | [b] US Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Abe Lederman, Deep Web Technologies, 301 N Guadalupe Street, Suite 201, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. Tel.: +1 505 820 0301 ×227; Fax: +1 505 983 7621; E-mail: abe@deepwebtech.com.

Keywords: Surface web, deep web, federated search, distributed search, multilingual, machine translation, international collaboration

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2010-0617

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 30, no. 3-4, pp. 125-132, 2010

Published: 3 March 2011
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Abstract

WorldWideScience.org (WWS) is a global science gateway developed by the US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in partnership with federated search vendor Deep Web Technologies. WWS provides a simultaneous live search of 69 databases from government and government-sanctioned organizations from 66 participating nations. The WWS portal plays a leading role in bringing together the world's scientists to accelerate the discoveries needed to solve the planet's most pressing problems. In this paper we present a brief history of the development of WWS and discuss how a new technology, multilingual federated search, greatly increases WWS' ability to facilitate the advancement of science.

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