Non-Profit and Education Case Studies

Epi-Search, a free academic resource, lets researchers enter up to 10,000 words and, using dtSearch, find “more like this.” Epi-Search provides no-charge search access to the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence (ISCE) library. Contegra Systems performed the dtSearch Engine integration, leveraging the library’s SQL metadata along with the original book text to find conceptually similar items. "We then invoke the dtSearch Engine to query for ‘more like this’ across the library’s SQL metadata and the full-text of the books themselves. The dtSearch Engine already offers natural language vector-space analysis, including an option for differential ranking of SQL metadata versus full-text content, so this part was easy.” Learn More

Extra! FWOSS adds dtSearch to online 18th and 19th Century British and Irish newspaper collection. FWOSS specializes in the creation of market-leading content-rich websites for a wide range of public and private-sector clients. One of FWOSS’ clients is Last Chance To Read, a website with a publicly available collection of 18th and 19th Century newspapers. “The ASP.NET integration and samples were so straightforward to setup,” and “the PDF hit highlighting feature within the dtSearch Engine was so useful to this project.” “The automation of the indexing functionality ... allowed us to synchronise changes to the documents with the search indexes quickly and reliably.” Learn More

FASOLT re-launches with dtSearch. FASOLT, For All Serious Opera Lovers Today, is a website dedicated to the opera. It includes over ten thousand opera recordings, a large opera reference guide, and much more. “Visitors can search this data using standard Boolean logic in conjunction with pre-prepared keywords to filter search results. The search is extremely fast.” Learn More

Vitvan Archives adds dtSearch. “We’re using a program called dtSearch, which is a very high-end searching program used by governmental, educational, military institutions — the kind of people who have terabytes of information.” Learn More (video link)

The Foursquare Church uses FileHold with embedded dtSearch to achieve “powerful searches.” FileHold Systems is the developer of the FileHold document management, archival and recovery software. Key features include: document and record lifecycle management, a workflow component, extensive security features, and browser-based access. FileHold's customer, The Foursquare Church, has approximately 8,000,000 members and 65,000 churches worldwide. “The Foursquare Church found that FileHold document management software met their business objectives of full-text searching vast quantities of electronic information to find exactly what they were looking for ... The more advanced users were able to structure more complex and exact queries, while the basic users could query the system for single terms within a given sub-collection.” Learn More (Foursquare case study) Learn More (FileHold case study)

Earthjustice finds dtSearch of use in its representation of the Earth. Earthjustice is the nonprofit law firm for the environment, representing—without charge—hundreds of public interest clients, large and small. Founded in 1971 as Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Earthjustice works through the courts to safeguard public lands, national forests, parks, and wilderness areas; to reduce air and water pollution; to prevent toxic contamination; and to preserve endangered species and wildlife habitat. “ dtSearch products will help Earthjustice access our growing collections of information, allowing us to locate pertinent information with ease and speed across the organization so that we may further our goal of protecting the environment through our legal work.” Learn More

FultonHistory.com’s online newspaper archive uses dtSearch to let visitors explore newspapers going back to the 18th Century. From Processor Magazine: dtSearch “‘scales excellently’” and “‘the ability to do fuzzy searches is key when you‘re OCRing old newspapers from microfilm because of the poor quality of the original paper and/or quality of the microfilming.’” FultonHistory.com adds Contegra’s server-side PDF hit highlighter to dtSearching for automatic highlighting right on the original newspaper picture. With the new installation, Fulton History visitors can not only instantly search 34 million newspaper pages, but also automatically hone in on the exact place on the PDF newspaper image that contains the search term. “With about a million visitors a month to FultonHistory.com, it is critical that the site runs smoothly. Adding Contegra’s highlighter to dtSearch makes the whole user experience run that much more seamlessly.” Learn More

Middle English meets dtSearch. In circulation prior to Chaucer, the National Library of Scotland’s Auchinleck Manuscript contains a large collection of Middle English text. The project uses dtSearch “to search transcriptions of the entire Auchinleck Manuscript.” Of course, there is a caveat about Modern English vs. Middle English: “be warned, as dtSearch has been designed for use with Modern English, only Modern English forms will be found. For example, a search for play with the stemming box checked would ... not find playeþ, playeth, playande, playinde etc.” Learn More

MHC embeds dtSearch in historical archival site spanning multiple different languages.  Located in Belgium, MHC offers technical assistance and development services with a focus on global solutions. MHC used dtSearch in making online searching available for archival documents covering a variety of different languages, including Greek, Hebrew and Latin. "We picked up dtSearch for its blazing search speed, its highly customizable behavior, and the richness of its native API." Learn More

Content Data Solutions applies dtSearch to ancient Latin lexicon. The Electronic Publishing Services Group of Content Data Solutions focuses on bibliography lists and linguistic references for libraries and scholars around the world. Included in this group’s projects is the creation of an electronic version of the authoritative monolingual Latin lexicon, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. “We liked the versatility of the dtSearch Engine ... Working with dtSearch has been nothing but good news.” Learn More

dtSearch is a key tool in humanitarian projects. John Cosgrave is the Evaluation Advisor and Coordinator for the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition. The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition is a joint initiative by UN agencies, Donor Governments, the Red Cross, Non-Governmental Organisations and the Active Learning Network on Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP).  “I have been using dtSearch for working with large data sets in humanitarian evaluations for the last five years, and it is an essential tool for working with such large sets of documents ... Using dtSearch Publish allows me to distribute CD-ROMs with evaluation data-sets to colleagues in the field, so that they can use the power of dtSearch to interrogate the data-sets.”     Learn More

AppsPlus engages dtSearch for the Open Scroll. AppsPlus’ client, the Open Scroll, tasked AppsPlus to develop an online research library, with various levels of user library access and easy administration. “AppsPlus integrated dtSearch with AJAX.” “The dtSearch Engine provided the functionality and great performance we needed.” Learn More

Graphic Sciences includes dtSearch in digital services for multiple public libraries. Paper newspapers and newspapers on microfilm have always been a popular reference resource. Graphic Sciences specializes in converting newspapers and newspaper on microfilm to digital images, and publishing them to the Web. “We were looking for a product for publishing the PDFs to the Web and making them instantly searchable. dtSearch fit the bill perfectly ... searching was instantaneous. The end result is a much more accessible archive for the library and its constituents.” Learn More

Smith Imaging engages dtSearch to make major Detroit library’s 150-year old newspaper collection instantly searchable. Based in Michigan, Smith Imaging Solutions specializes in providing digital archiving equipment, as well as providing archival solutions and services for its clients. For a major library in the Detroit area, Smith Imaging Solutions turned a nearly 150 year old newspaper collection into an instantly searchable archive. “We needed a turnkey, custom server solution that was not only easy to use, but also easy to maintain and update. We sought to both make access to the collection as easy as pointing a web browser at the archive, while at the same time maintaining full document integrity.” “When you’re working with documents that are over a century old, even the best Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software can make mistakes. dtSearch helps alleviate this issue with fuzzy searching. In fact, dtSearch’s array of features and the ability to customize it, has elevated our archive server solution into a new primary product line.” Learn More

15,000+ old Hebrew books, OCR’ed and searchable online with dtSearch, are now available through hebrewbooks.org. The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books has scanned more than 15,000 volumes of rare and out-of-print works, dating back to the Middle Ages, which were in danger of being lost, destroyed or simply disintegrating due to the passage of time. “Thanks to technology from dtSearch, the public can now instantly search these books from our site. Through dtSearch, we can display the full image (PDF) of these works, and dtSearch will jump straight to the highlighted hits in the full image of the texts, including all graphics and even handwritten annotated notes.” Learn More From The Jerusalem Post:  “The Web site’s dtSearch Engine allows visitors to search the text for key words and topics.” From Information Week:  “The dtSearch Engine allows visitors to search within document collections with more than one language ... The search engine provides dozens of search options, with Unicode support for hundreds of languages, and can display Web-based documents with links and images.” Learn More

Contegra Systems redesigns Cornell’s TEEAL Library, including dtSearch capabilities. The Essential Electronic Agriculture Library (TEEAL) is an electronic collection of full-text articles, abstracts and graphics from 140 agriculture science journalsA project of Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library, TEEAL was launched in 1996 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation to provide a cost-effective resource for agricultural researchers in developing countries worldwide.   “dtSearch provides the core technology that enables advanced search, navigation and browsingThe new version uses dtSearch to provide users instant search access to both the meta data and the full-text content covering 5+ million pages of information.” Learn More

dtSearch welcomes usage by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). IFAW works to improve the welfare of wild and domestic animals throughout the world by reducing commercial exploitation of animals, protecting wildlife habitats, and assisting animals in distress. “Our Guelph, Canada office is essentially a hub of information, statistics, data, etc. needed for our worldwide animal welfare campaigns. Our IT team is very excited about how dtSearch will impact their work in this information hub, as well as usage here at headquarters and for our online marketing team.” Learn More

NALIT finds dtSearch. The National Association of Legislative Information Technology (NALIT) operates within the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)NCSL is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL is an effective and respected advocate for the interests of state governments before Congress and federal agenciesFrom its analysis posted as an online document entitled Replacing a Search System : “We found dtSearch ... People easy to work with ... Product easy to work with.”  “dtSearch API — robust, well documented.” Learn More

“I’ll remember the content I’m looking for, I could never find the name of the darned file until dtSearch came into my life. Yes, it is blinding fast and also it’s my security blanket. I know that I can find what I want—filename be hanged. I can’t imagine a better investment for a writer.” — Author of “The Memory Triggering Book”

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“I think dtSearch is an extraordinary software accomplishmentI’m a university professor, and I’d find it hard to function academically — in teaching, research, and book-writing — without dtSearch. I’d recommend it strongly to any academicdtSearch is a great solution to information-finding problems shared by all academics.” — Sociology Professor, York University, Toronto

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