|
The Deep Query Manager™ is an extremely capable and functional document
harvesting, tracking, management, analysis, reporting, collaboration,
results and publication platform. This page, and its two accompanying
siblings, presents a few of the DQM's screens among the multitude
available in the product. This page covers Login , Quick Search , Harvests and Add Sources. Across all three related pages the sections include:
Login
The Deep Query Manager™ is a server-based enterprise application with a
highly scalable distributed architecture. Users access the system via
a cross-browser compatible Web app, which can also run in a secure
mode. Each DQM user has his or her own private work space.
User-specific results are a key basis for subsequent sharing and
collaboration functionality. Also note that the Deep Query Manager™
comes with many optional plug-in modules; many are shown here by the
slash-separated designators (e.g., / C / F / I / P / FAC):
Back to top
Quick Search
Quick search provides a fast discovery option prior to purposeful
harvests, using common Internet search engines. Quick search works
exactly like the use of standard search engines, except it is embedded
within the powerful retrieval, indexing and mainipulation capabilities
of the DQM:
Quick search results also look like those from standard search
engines. Note, however, that the check box by each result allows you
to download the full text and include selected documents in your
personal and enterprise repository. (Another DQM feature -- Site
Grabber, not shown here -- provides a similar capability as part of
your browser while doing standard Web surfing.) Thus, any of the Deep
Query Manager's powerful features can be applied to standard Web
searches or browsing:
Back to top
Harvests
Document harvesting is one of the singular strengths of the Deep
Query Manager™, in any language, from any source, in hundreds of
document formats or within or without the firewall. In this instance,
the harvest is taking place from Russian sites and databases. Since
all candidate results are evaluated within DQM in full-text mode, your
searches and search syntax can be as detailed and precise as you like.
The DQM will retrieve all possible candidates and then evaluate them
how you want. Thus, the Deep Query Manager establishes the highest
common denominator possible for your searches -- even if the issuing
source databases only speak "primitive" search dialects.
Harvests are guided by reusable profiles that can retrieve from
multiple databases simultaneously (so-called 'deep harvests') or via
intelligent and discriminant crawlers directed to Web sites or file
systems ('site harvests'). All returned resuts are indexed, qualified,
scored if qualified, and ranked on a common basis with all duplicates
removed. Everything in your personal or enterprise repository is now
treated consistently and on a common footing.
In addition to DQM's flexible Boolean or natural language queries,
additional term, phrase or domain filtering may be applied to candidate
results on either an inclusion or exclusion basis. The Deep Query
Manager™ is distirbuted with literally hundreds of proven dictionaries
and controlled vocabularies to ensure only the most refined results.
Of course, you can also easily create, group and name your own filters
as well:
Harvesting can be a very purposeful weapon for tracking and
monitoring competitors, new developments, intelligence or any topic or
source of interest to your organization. Once refined, harvests can be
flexibly scheduled and run as often or on whatever periodicity you
desire.
Back to top
Add Sources
While the Deep Query Manager™ comes pre-packaged with access to more
than 70,000 specialty databases grouped in hundreds of pre-vetted
categories such as news or engineering, BrightPlanet also makes
available its patented techniques for automatically configuring to and
adding new databases -- singly or in batch -- of your own choosing in
real time. Many of our customers literally have thousands of specialty
databases in foreign languages or topics of specific importance to
their organizations. Adding and configuring a new source is as simple
as a 1-2-3 wizard:
The advanced configuration wizard is especially helpful for
complicated Web sites or ones with very elaborate advanced search
forms. Note in this CNN example that the default search mode is to
search the entire Web. The DQM advanced wizard allows us to now set
our retrievals from only within the CNN site itself. In fact, any
radio button, check box or other advanced search option can be made
persistent for highly specialized retrievals, such as limited by author
or publication date. Again, each configuration can be saved separately
and used in search groups on any scheduled retrieval basis of your
choosing.
Back to top
|
