Joshua Penick
Vince Kocks
Reference Information
Andreas Girgensohn, Frank Shipman, Francine Chen, Lynn Wilcox, IUI’10, February 7-10, 2010, Hong Kong, China.
Summary
The idea in this paper is essentially the creation of a search engine that looks through all documents and information in an enterprise environment. This includes databases, papers, documents, intranet, etc. The web type searching today is quite refined and intuitive, but an employee searching through a companies documents is not as good. This produced DocuBrowse in order to search through these documents. DocuBrowse knows a lot of document types and therefore can search through slides of a powerpoint or what-have-you and then display it in a intuitive way to the user. DocuBrowse is visually oriented which helps the user remember what he or she is looking for exactly. It also works by looking at the access history of the user in all of his or her documents in order to make suggestions as to what he or she is looking for. This is very helpful and important if the user also wants to look at related content or find it based on little information.
Discussion
This will be an interesting project to lookout for because essentially it is a networkable form of Google and advanced search. The fact that you can search based on type (slides, document, pictures, etc.) will be very helpful in finding just what you need. As companies move to a more cloud type structure, this will be very helpful as the program is web based and distributable.
I can definitely see this being useful for businesses and the individual. There are times when I need to search through several sets of power point slides while working on my homework. Though I don't have more than four or five sets to search through, I would still find this system helpful.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really awesome idea in my opinion. The question I have would be "what database would it be looking at to find these results?" If it was something like EBSCO, it would be pretty cool if it had priority into vast databases of useful information, but I just don't see too many places having a lot of different file formats that would be of use to a search.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really cool idea. While this engine is very similar to already existing products like the search in newer versions of windows, it levels it up by looking through the entire enterprise network.
ReplyDeleteI am curious how big of a server it needs, though.