The document describes an interactive search tool, development platform and evaluation system called ezDL. It allows searching across multiple digital libraries, organizing and filtering results, and exporting metadata. Features include query history, personal libraries, and support for eye tracking evaluations. The system is open source and customizable, allowing users to build their own solutions. It provides enhanced daily searching, a platform for implementing new ideas, and tools for user interface and retrieval evaluations.

1. Contact
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Search tool
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Development platform Dipl.-Inform. Thomas Beckers
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Evaluation system +49 (0) 203 / 379 - 3755
tbeckers@is.inf.uni-due.de
Features Dipl.-Inform. Matthias Jordan
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Meta search in several DLs (ACM, +49 (0) 203 / 379 - 1310
Springer, PubMed, …) mjordan@is.inf.uni-due.de
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Organize, filter and sort merged results
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Export document meta-information to Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Inform. Sascha Kriewel
RIS, BibTeX, HTML +49 (0) 203 / 379 - 3944
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Query history for multi-session search kriewel@is.inf.uni-due.de
In development or planned Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Inform. Claus-Peter Klas
FernUniversität Hagen Easy Access to
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Personal library with group-internal +49 (0) 2331 / 987 - 4775
sharing claus-peter.klas@fernuni-hagen.de Digital Libraries
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Strategic support
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Web interface
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and more Web
See for yourself at
Build your own system! http://www.ezdl.de
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General search UI framework Follow us on Twitter An interactive search tool,
Easy to extend, Java 1.6, „state of @ezdl development platform and
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the art“
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Open source, licensed under GPLv3 evaluation system
(other licenses on request)
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Service-oriented architecture (via
JMS), Backend/Frontend
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Unit tests, automated building,
documentation available
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Eyetracker support (AOIs, export to
SMI AOI description files) Universität Duisburg-Essen
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Lucene/Solr connection Faculty of Engineering
Information Engineering
47048 Duisburg
More information at
http://www.is.inf.uni-due.de/projects/ezdl/ Germany
10/2010
10/2010

2. Perform searches that Search multiple Keep track of your Berrypick results
and many more
are not even supported DLs at once past queries as you go
by some DLs
Frontend
Backend
Sort, filter and Your own DL
export results
Export
document
metadata to
different
Highlighting for formats
filter and query
terms Analyze your
results at the
click of a button
Synchronize even scrolling Download full-text Aggregate information
surrogates with your eyetracker from their original from multiple DLs
for easier evaluations source
ezDL for everyday search ezDL as development platform ezDL as evaluation system
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Enhance your daily searches ●
Implement your ideas and services ●
User interface evaluations with
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Interactive and multi-session without reinventing the wheel eyetracker support
support ●
Fast and reliable ●
Classical IR evaluations
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Persistent storage of queries ●
Participate in the development ●
Comparative evaluations
and your personal library of ezDL