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RELEASED: May 18, 2005
(SIOUX FALLS,SD) -- BrightPlanet Corporation announced today the release of version 3.0 of the Deep Federation Portal™ (DFP) with Management Center. The DFP is an automated Web portal that can harvest from hundreds or thousands of other Web sites and publish that information on a unified, comprehensive portal — all automatically.
"The State of South Dakota has over 40 Web sites supporting all the
state agencies and several state college sites. The state government
uses a DFP to make all that information available to the citizenry from
one comprehensive and easy to use portal: SoDakLive", remarked Duncan
Witte, BrightPlanet's president. "Visitors need only go to
SoDakLive.com to search for any documents available from any and all
state agencies WITHOUT having to know which agency Web site to visit.
And as responsibilities and related documents shift from one agency to
another, site visitors don't need to know what has changed — they don't
need to visit and search individual agency sites — they only need visit
SoDakLive to find those documents. It's one-stop shopping for state
information!"
Full-life-cycle costs from the new product can be dramatically lower
than older solutions largely because portal maintenance is largely
automatic. Jerry Tardif, BrightPlanet's VP who managed the rollout of
the new release for BrightPlanet, stated, "In the past, maintaining
large portals took many librarians. But DFP requires manual
intervention only for initial setup and minimal follow-on maintenance.
The topic nodes are defined when the portal is initially installed, and
harvested documents are automatically placed into the appropriate topic
nodes. As new documents become available, subsequent categorizations
are run periodically (weekly, monthly, etc.) and the system
automatically places new documents into the correct topic node without
human intervention. Project maintenance that required a team of
librarians in the past is now performed in a few person-days per month
by existing staff — the savings can be enormous!"
The new Management Center makes the process of setup, node definition
and maintenance easy for any individual responsible for portal
operation. Categorization is especially fast because it is performed
dynamically as nodes are defined and added. Even a complete
categorization doesn't take much time — a portal of over a thousand
nodes and 250,000 documents will place documents in just one hour.
The Deep Federation Portal is able to harvest from conventional Web
sites, search engines, and Web directories, as well as from the Deep
Web. And organizations can also harvest internal documents from their
file systems in a wide variety of formats.
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BrightPlanet Corporation, Sioux Falls, SD, Washington, DC, and New
York, NY, is the leader in deep document content and the development of
innovative ways to efficiently search, monitor and manage all Internet
and internal content. BrightPlanet offers unique, patented technologies
for discovery, harvest, management, aggregation, qualification and
classification of document information.
For more information about BrightPlanet and the Deep Query Manager™, visit its Web site at http://brightplanet.com/, or contact Thane Paulsen at BrightPlanet Corporation - 605.331.6012.
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