Search vs. Folders

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Agenda

• Infinity Experience

• The Promise of “Folders” Taxonomy, Controlled Vocabulary, etc.

• The Promise of Search - Indexing

• Aligning Expectations

• “Adoptable” Solutions

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The Promise of “Folders”

If I can just get everything organized…

I’ll be able to find it when I need it.

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Infinity Experience

• eRoom

• Groove

• Documentum

• Exchange

• Windows File Shares

• Spotfire

• Partnering with 3rd Parties

• Internal Scientific Collaboration

• Integration of Bio & Chem

• Integration of Business & Science

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The Promise of Search

If I can just get everything Indexed….

I’ll be able to find it when I need it.

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Aligning Expectations

• Neither search nor tagging are sufficient to enable people to find what they need when they need it.

• Taxonomies should be locally defined…exchange folders

• Search should be as broad as possible…email, fileshares, eRooms, etc.

• Next step will be to use a user’s self-defined taxonomy to tag information and use the same taxonomy to provide personalized interface for search…personalized indexing

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“Adoptable” Solutions

• Solutions need to be “Adoptable”

• Extension of existing desktop tools – Office, etc

• Enable users to leverage locally defined taxonomies (already have these) to search broadly indexed information (Google Appliance)