POMONA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Auto-Graphics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AUGR), a technology innovator providing library automation solutions for over 36 years, and ChiliFresh Enterprises, Inc., the industry leader in Web 2.0 functionality, today announced a technology collaboration to more flexibly integrate ChiliFresh’s Review Engine into the AGentâ„¢ suite of library automation solutions and other library systems. The two companies worked together to develop a Web Services application that allows libraries to adapt integrated ChiliFresh content into a customized results set display. Previously, subscribing libraries were limited to a standard display of book reviews; with the development of the new Web Services application, libraries have the ability to present book reviews and ChiliFresh content through their OPAC in whatever manner best suits their needs.
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Summary The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) has contracted with Index Data to implement the first phase of a substantial re-engineering of their discovery services platform. Taking advantage of Index Data’s advanced metasearch technologies and modular, tool-oriented software platform, OhioLINK will work together with Index Data to implement its MasterKey suite of technologies. The new discovery service, which will be deployed this fall, is the first phase in an extensive re-implementation of the services now offered by OhioLINK, including the harvesting and indexing of information resources, both commercial and public.

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SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 10, 2009 — Deep Web Technologies, providers of next-generation federated search technology, is pleased to announce that Andy Alsop has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Alsop joins Deep Web Technologies with 20 years of experience in information technology. In his role as VP of Business Development, Mr. Alsop will drive the adoption of Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator through strategic partnerships with companies that want to embrace the power of federated search. “Andy is a welcome addition to our team,” said Abe Lederman, founder and President of Deep Web Technologies. “He brings a wealth of experience in small business strategy and development. We’re looking forward to repeating his past successes.”

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SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ — Deep Web Technologies is proud to announce development of a prototype of a multilingual translation capability for clients using its federated search applications. An early prototype of multilingual searching was demonstrated to the members of the WorldWideScience Alliance in June of 2009. This new feature, when fully developed and implemented, will translate a user’s search query into the native language of the collections being searched, will translate result titles and snippets back to the user’s original language and aggregate and rank these results according to relevance. The translation process will be seamless, making it simple to search collections in multiple languages from a single search box in the native language of the user.
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Summary Serials Solutions announced that University of Huddersfield is the site of the first commercial adoption of the Summon web-scale discovery service in the UK. The university library will use the service to enable single-search access to its collections, by integrating searches of online databases, along with the local catalogue, Repository and archival collections. Users will be able to refine the results of their search by date, subject area and format.
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Summary In a single year, more than 400 libraries have chosen AquaBrowser Library. With 700 participating libraries, AquaBrowser Library, the original discovery layer offering visual, faceted searching that connects to any data source, is used at more libraries around the world than all other discovery layer and next-generation user interfaces combined.
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SANTA FE, N.M., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ — Deep Web Technologies-powered federated search engine Science.gov (http://www.science.gov) was featured in the Government Computer News article “Great dot-gov Web Sites 2009″ (http://tinyurl.com/mqs74e) as one of ten websites that take online government to the next level. “The days of a web presence being an optional component for agencies are long gone. For most citizens, the primary way of interacting with their government is through websites,” says Joab Jackson, author.

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SANTA FE, N.M., July 28, 2009 — Deep Web Technologies’ Federated Search product, Explorit Research Accelerator, now includes seamless integration with RefWorks. Deep Web Technologies has added RefWorks Direct Export support to Explorit, allowing users to select specific results, and have their citations import directly into RefWorks.

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Auto-Graphics, Inc. (Pink Sheets: AUGR), a technology innovator providing library automation solutions for over 36 years, today announced the successful completion and full production launch of AGent Iluminar™, the next generation patron user interface for the company’s library automation platform. The beta testing program occurred over several months this past spring and incorporated a representative cross section of library customers, varying in both size and library type. The program encompassed a range of AGent™ library automation products including: AGent VERSO™, a complete integrated library system; AGent Resource Sharing™, a robust interlibrary loan and consortial borrowing solution; and AGent Search™, a powerful federated search application.

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