RaPIDS: Rapid Prototyping of Intuitive Discovery at Stanford
Federated Searching
Federated searching is a strategy for simultaneously searching a number of online resources and pooling the results into one interfiled result set. As part of the RaPIDS (Rapid Prototyping of Intuitive Discovery at Stanford) initiative, SULAIR is experimenting with federated searching as a means of giving scholars a broad view of disparate resources held across many different, isolated systems. For this effort, SULAIR is working with Deep Web Technologies. The company’s federated searching system, Explorit Research Accelerator, is currently powering a number of science, technology and government search portals, including National Digital Library for Agriculture (NDLA), Science.gov, Scitopia, and WorldWideScience.org. SULAIR has developed with Deep Web Technologies three demonstrations of federated searching within the Stanford environment: