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Dubai

Building Number 25Office Unit Number 104 Dubai Healthcare CityDubai, UAE

Tel: +971 4 439 0630Fax: +971 4 366 1043

Email: [email protected] [email protected]: www.techknowledge.me

Amman

Building No. 58, 4th floorAl Hussiene centerShaker Bin Zaid street , AlShmisaniAmman, Jordan

Tel: +962 6 5154294Fax: +962 6 5162296


Riyadh

King Fahd RoadAl-Bustan Bldg. 2nd Floor Office No. 4026 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tel: +966 146 04818Fax: +966 146 02497


MuseGlobal is the world's leading supplier of content integration, aggregation and transforma-tion solutions for today's sophisticated publishers, enterprises, government organizations and online and mobile media providers. MuseGlobal solutions provide these organizations with the ability to compete with intelligence and insight.

MuseGlobal, the company behind MuseKnowl-edge, has been developing over the years a search engine specifically tailored for researchers and academic library patrons.

MuseKnowledge combines several compo-nents comprised of an on-demand Search, anautomated Harvesting engine, a source factorywith over 7000 connectors ready to use and a set of APIs and user interfaces that provide users with the most intuitive experience and allow them to get the information they need in the shortest time.

MuseKnowledge Platform is designed to offer you maximum ease, scalability and flexibility. Written in Java employing a modular architec-ture, Muse technology operates within the Information Connection Engine (ICE) — a dynamic multi-user, multi-session, multi-threaded software environment that provides the underlying functionality for all Muse products.

Overview

MuseKnowledge provides one of the most advanced search functionality for academic and research community available on the market. It has a huge pool of available source connectors that covers thousands of resources and content providers, with a wide array of added value features, mobile compli-ancy, intuitive user interface and a flexible product. MuseKnowledge has been developed and keeps on getting improvements based on librarians and researchers feedback.

The two major Muse Platform components, Muse Federated Search and Muse Harvesting are the best technology for the user, but also to providing support to make the system as simple to maintain as it is to use.

Federated SearchMuse® Federated Search, today’s most powerful of its kind, is known as best of multiple target searching and content normalization to a single data model. The ability to access the authenticated objects found from search of a single click, makes the life easy for the users using it. The deep level of extraction, the high scalability and the Smart Connector it uses makes it a high level product.

Search

Authentication

Entity ExtractionNormalization

Custom BridgesWeb Bride

Bridges

Authorization

Content MgmtSystems

CorporateInfrastructure

EnterpriseApplications

RDMSFiles

SocialMedia

NewsSources

SearchEngines

InternetDatabases

CONTENTPROVIDERS

MUSEFEDERATEDSEARCH

CLIENTSystem Integrators

Muse as Back-End ServerMuse as Front-End Server

Humans

Query Translation

Various protocols:Atom, HTTP/HTML, HTTP/XML, JSON, NCIP, OAI-PMH,RSS1.0, RSS2.0, SIP2, SQL, SRU, SRW, Telnet, Z39.50

Connectors

HTML Output XML/JSON Output

De-Dupe,Enrich, Rank

Record Enhancement

Muse HarvestingMuse® Harvesting, is based on different types of controlled extraction, such as search, date or feed based. Aggregated from any number of sources, records are gathered by feed or query either timed or as an ‘on demand’ operation. It features a consistent delivery record format, enhanced, ‘virtual’ records, all delivered by file or feed.

Unified search indexThe benefits of Muse Harvesting can be barely counted as they have a lot of unique characteristics, each of them being a key factor of the process.

Entity Extraction

VALIDATORS

Normalization

FILTERS

Record Enhancement

De-Dupe,Enrich, Rank

Import

Direct

Full Record Writers

DeltaWriters

Writers

Import

Local FilesRDBMS

CONTENTCONSUMERS

MUSEHARVESTING

CONTENT

ContentProviders

FeedRepository

Full Records RepositoryDelta Repository

Search

Various protocols:Atom, HTTP/HTML, HTTP/XML, JSON, NCIP, OAI-PMH,RSS1.0, RSS2.0, SIP2, SQL, SRU, SRW, Telnet, Z39.50

Connectors

Pre-built Data Source PackagesThe Muse Source Factory keeps the details, stores, manages, and distributes the thousands of Muse Smart Connectors to Muse installations worldwide. More than 7000 different Data Sources are accessed by clients based on their own credentials and rights, using our Muse Smart Connectors. This collection is continuously updated and maintained to keep up with the latest native changes.

Administration, Multiple AdministratorsThe easy management via browser based console and their easy usage via enterprise applications give the users and administrators a pleasant experience. By means of administrator consoles there is access to any settings of the system. Each administrator can have access to its own set of administering rights, which can vary from creating administrator accounts to only checking if a source is working.

The granularity of the administering rights allow an extended set of actions as filtering which applications to administer, which sources, which groups of sources, if another administrator users or applica-tions can be created also.

End User AuthenticationEnd user authentication is handeled by single sign-on techniques. Muse controls end users’ access to resources using either User/Password files, client IP addresses, standard or custom authentication methods (LDAP, IMAP, SQL). Users are thus granted access to the application area containing the authorized resources with just a single point of access.

Extended Logging CapabilitiesEach Muse Product generates log files which are kept in special designated places. Sizing of logs dimension and rotation rules are very flexible, matching any usage of the servers. There are also available many logging levels. access.

API Ready, Bridges, Back-End ServerSoftware can interact with Muse components by using various APIs. Federated Search Engines, Discovery services, Crawling, Harvesting or ETL processes are usual examples of how our partners are using Muse.

Features

Load Balancer ReadyMuse is load balancer ready. Using complex strategies, it can be places behind a software or hardware balancer to cover high traffic and usage requirements. There are available comprehensive manuals that treat any case of balancing, starting with scenarios where balancing should be applied and ending with very detailed settings that must be applied to each Muse component.

Developing ToolsIntegrated Development Environment, a suite for building connectors. The suite is completely integrated with Muse Source Factory to allow authorized staff to view develop-ment progress. Using the Muse Integrated Development Environment, building connectors becomes a production line activity, and maintenance takes its toll, as there are available syntax mappers, data conversion generators, overnight builds and automated testing. All these are much easier and more efficient, reducing the weeks needed for hand coded connectors to days.

Task Scheduler for Maintenance TasksMuse Control Center can be used to execute tasks at any given moment. The tasks lists, either default or custom, can be used for various purposes, starting from regularly updating the connectors to sending emails to users or even generate usage statistics of the system they run on.

Sessions, Searches, Users Monitoring and StatisticsMuse offers high level real time monitoring and logging. Muse reports various types of statistical information through JMX and log files. The logged data can be used to obtain any kind of information, from the standard access logs as for any web server, to statistic logs which keep detailed data for all the Muse activity.

Multi-PlatformBeing implemented in Java, Muse can virtually run on any platform the Oracle Java Virtual Machine can. The Muse Setup is also multi-platform, providing both, OS depend-ent and independent installation packages.

Multiple Sources, Various ProtocolsThe big number of connectors used for a large variety content and source types, make The Muse Platform a leader in the branch. It connects via tens of protocols (Atom, HTTP/HTML, HTTP/XML, JSON, NCIP, OAI-PMH, RSS1.0, RSS2.0, SIP2, SQL, SRU, SRW, Telnet, Z39.50) to thousands of Data Sources providing either free or premium content, no matter their record formats (XML, MARC, HTML, ISO2709, Fixed position, Fixed length, Lotus Notes, CSV, Office Docs).

Dubai

Building Number 25Office Unit Number 104 Dubai Healthcare CityDubai, UAE

Tel: +971 4 439 0630Fax: +971 4 366 1043


Amman

Building No. 58, 4th floorAl Hussiene centerShaker Bin Zaid street , AlShmisaniAmman, Jordan

Tel: +962 6 5154294Fax: +962 6 5162296


Riyadh

King Fahd RoadAl-Bustan Bldg. 2nd Floor Office No. 4026 Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Tel: +966 146 04818Fax: +966 146 02497


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