Knowledgespeak, an online service dedicated to the STM (science, technology, and medical) publishing industry, recently conducted an interview with MuseGlobal President Kristina Bivins. This interview is a nice complement to the luminary series interview I conducted with MuseGlobal co-founder Kate Noerr.

The interview covers a number of subjects:

1. A number of components of MuseGlobal’s plug and play content integration technology

2. Two new products MuseGlobal released this year: News Hound and Blog Hound

3. Partnership with Adhere Solutions to extend functionality of Google’s Search Appliance to include federated search and more

4. The Muse Content Machine

5. Biggest challenges for publishers and how MuseGlobal is positioned to meet the challenges

6. Growth of the company

Readers of this blog may also enjoy a number of the Knowledgespeaks interviews; many are with publishers who provide content that is federated.

I am honored to have had the opportunity to interview Kate Noerr for the federated search luminary series. Kate is co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of MuseGlobal, a leading supplier of content integration software. Kate, through MuseGlobal as well as in prior businesses, has been developing innovative solutions to what are now termed “federated search” problems since the 1980s. Kate is not satisfied to address only the challenges of federation. Her company considers these interrelated areas to be critically important as well: harvesting, transformation, enhancement, security, source maintenance, and multiple delivery mechanisms.

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Last week, federated search vendor MuseGlobal announced that it had partnered with consulting firm Adhere Solutions to provide federated search for the Google Search Appliance. Dubbed the “All Access Connector,” MuseGlobal and Adhere have developed an extension to Google’s Search Appliance. The press release announcing the partnership lists a number of features:

• Access to hundreds of millions of pages of content from over 5,400 sources, all through the Google interface.
• Simple one-click entry to external sources with no additional log-in requirements through a powerful proxy server.
• Non-stop and instantaneous, 24-hour content retrieval through automatic updates to connectors as changes take place to target sources.
• A much lower cost than the manual acquisition and indexing of all desired sources.
• Compliance with current authentication and security policies with a role-based search access model.
• Pre-built and constantly monitored connectors that require no coding to implement.
• Easy navigation of search results by source, subject, date and other meta-data categories.

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