EvREsearch FAQs

What is EvREsearch LTD?

 EvREsearch LTD is a company dedicated to the invention of systems and methods to integrate information independent of scale in all sectors of society across the world. Its patented information-integration technology effectively does for any collection of digital records what the Dewey Decimal System did for printed materials: bring functional organization and access to information regardless of content, media, source or scale.

 What is the Digital Integration System?

This is an EvREsearch^® product that can transform any collection of digital information of any size or form into accessible insights. This system is based on the patented “Information Management, Retrieval and Display Systems and Associated Methods” (USPTO 6,175,830 and 6,484,166). The Digital Integration System operates by automatically extracting information granules from digital resources and then displaying those granules in expandable-collapsible hierarchies according to parameters determined by the user. Instead of simply generating lists of information sources that hide all of the relationships, the EvREsearch^® system produces dynamic hierarchal displays that comprehensively describe all relationships within and between information resources.

 Why the need for these integration tools?

 The nature of discovery is recognizing new cognitive relationships. The challenge with the tidal wave of information through today’s technology is not access; it’s organization and integration. Knowledge of relationships is the key to creativity, discovery, and focused decision making.

 Digital-information organization and access remain tied to a “paper paradigm.” When searching electronic documents with conventional technologies, you get lists of documents that hide relationships within and between the diverse information resources. Moreover, digital records commonly are organized by folders, just as you would with paper documents. Thus, the potential of electronic information is effectively underutilized by relying on this outmoded “paper paradigm.” 

Current technologies are designed to organize information to facilitate searchability, not integration. The EvREsearch^® Digital Integration System implements the “electronic paradigm” to fully utilize the rich content of digital information. With its user-defined granularity, this system provides a robust solution for identifying relationships among disparate information granules that can be combined to create new knowledge. In this electronic world, if you combine two documents and understand their connections, you effectively can create an infinite number of new documents.

 What are the limitations of current digital-information mining strategies?

 To create the functionality of organization and access, current technologies necessarily contaminate authentic digital information with mark-up language tags. EvREsearch implements that same functionality with increased granularity – but without any mark-up tags or other alterations of the original digital resource.

 Similarly, metadata tags have become an industry standard to facilitate the searchability of electronic information. However, the expansion of metadata is outpacing the actual information content that is of interest to the user. Moreover, because metadata is separated from the digital records, there is the risk for decoupling and effectively losing the information resource. Combined, the limitations of metadata and mark-up tags threaten the implementation of persistent archives of authentic digital resources.

 How does the EvREsearch^® Digital Integration System overcome the limitations of mark-up and metadata tags?

A specific feature of the EvREsearch^® Digital Integration System is its modularity. Invention of the “break module” allows digital-information resources to be broken into a plurality of discrete information granules, each of which is tagged uniquely and directly in relation to its original location within its parent information resource.  These tags and the discrete information granules can be accomplished in memory without contaminating the authentic digital resource. The “break module” itself integrates with index, search and un-break modules as well as other types of modules (e.g. pattern recognition, natural language, semantic web, or statistical) that would enhance the system’s functionality for the user.

 So, what could I accomplish with these EvREsearch^® tools that I couldn’t do before?

 How creative are you?