Search, information discovery and e-discovery seek and display information in different ways
Government information technology workers might have heard the following three phrases used interchangeably: search tools, information discovery tools and e-discovery tools.
Depending on your definition, there is some overlap among the concepts. But there also are significant differences. Thus it’s important to understand the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle differences among the terms, especially as government agencies are entering more information into sprawling storage and data archiving systems.
All three terms relate to seeking information across multiple data archives. But the three concepts are differentiated by the way searches are conducted and the presentation of results.
Search tools. This term often is used in a generic way to refer to multiple types of internal or external search engines, directories and information archives. Most search tools are usually designed to interact with a computer program — often a crawler, spider, indexing bot or similar system — that was created to retrieve documents or data. The crawler and its associated search tools can be set up to interact with one specific database, a set of databases, a single computer network or even the full Internet. When using such tools, searches often are based on a keyword, set of keywords, or a phrase that can be contained in one of the files that was indexed by the spider.
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Source: gcn.com
By: Shawn McCarthy
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