Siderean Seamark Faceted Metadata Search

Product Information

Platform: Java: Windows 2000 and XP, Unix: Solaris, OS X, Red Hat Linux
Price: contact company

Features

• Designed for faceted metadata search and browse, providing dynamic contextual access to structured data including e-commerce product databases, news feeds, or scientific articles
• Works with existing taxonomies and categories
• End-user tools for both expert tagging and folksonomies.
• Data source formats: JDBC, XML, RDF, RSS, flat files
• Data sources: CMS, CRM, DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Hypersonic), RSS, web pages
• Uses RDF an an intermediate storage format
• Uses Unicode, has Il8N (internationalization) compatibility features
• Scalable to millions of records using clusters for high-demand, high-performance situations
• Admin interface provides tools for adjusting categories, developing applications
• Uses Lucene search engine for queries.
  • Fast indexing with light RAM requirements
  • Index compression, option to cache full text of documents
  • Finds words in the body text of documents as well as metadata fields
  • Performs a default "and" search, finding items which match all query words
  • Recognizes quotes for phrase searches
  • Supports Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) and internet query operators (+, -)
  • Allows a right asterisk (*) for wildcard search
  • Query spellchecking and suggestions
  • Shows matched terms in context from documents
• Dynamically determines attributes, no dead-ends
• Preview numbers show how many are in each category
• Extends search results with browsable sets of options such as price, size, color, etc.
• Can deliver results using HTML pages, Web Services, SOAP, RSS, ASP or JSP .
• Automated APIs for indexing, search languages, user interface, links to National Instruments LabVIEW and other systems
• Seamark Analytics provides search and navigation reports, uses Crystal Reports.

Articles and Reviews

• Siderean: Navigation is the new enterprise search Computerworld Blog, September 15, 2005, by Robert L. Mitchell
  Short description of the value of faceted metadata browse for navigation, but the author doesn't quite understand how well it integrates with full-text searching.

Examples

• Environmental Health News - environmental information site
• Indiana Educational Clearinghouse - access to school teaching packages
• Fortunoff Fine Jewelry - online jewelry and furniture store

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