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Subject: Major Search Services in Government
There is ongoing work under the E-Government Act to prepare recommendations on search interoperability. Our interest in search technologies includes database query as well as information retrieval, and includes facilities for internal government use as well as those supporting public access (see draft "Statement of Requirements for Search Interoperability" at http://www.search.gov/interop/requirements.html ) As part of that work, I am seeking a rough sense of how many different search technologies are now in common use. If you are aware of such a list of major search products/services in use across government (especially but not exclusively, the U.S. Federal Government), please let me know. I have in mind to compile a list as products/services are suggested, similar to the attached skeleton HTML page. EliotTitle: Statement of Requirements for Search Interoperability
Categorization of Government Information (CGI) Working Group
U.S. Federal Interagency Committee on Government Information
This document, version 1, is located on the Internet at http://www.search.gov/interop/services.html
Comments on this document may be sent to the editor, Eliot Christian, U.S. Geological Survey (e-mail:
echristian@usgs.gov )
Products or Services | Examples in Government | Notes |
Alta Vista | ||
Autonomy | ||
Blue Angel Technologies | ||
BookWhere? (Sea Change Corporation) | BookWhere is client search software focused on searching of library catalogs, including search by geospatial constraints. | |
Convera | ||
ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) | Geodata.Gov (Geospatial One-Stop portal) | This search technology features search by geospatial constraints. |
Excite | ||
Fast | FirstGov.Gov (GSA-operated portal) | |
HtDig | HtDig is open-source, free software. | |
Index Data | ||
Infoseek/Ultraseek, Inktomi, Inquery, | ||
Isite | Isite features search by geospatial constraints. Isite is open-source, free software. | |
Microsoft | ||
OCLC (Online Computer Library Consortium) | OCLC software focuses on library catalog searching. | |
Oracle | Oracle software supports database queries, typically through SQL (Structured Query Language). | |
SIRSI | SIRSI software focuses on library catalog searching. | |
Texis | ||
Verity | ||
Vivisimo | ||
WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) | GPO Access | At GPO, this technology is expected to be refreshed soon. |
Yahoo |
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