Version 1.2 Beta

About NOESIS

Noesis is a meta-search engine and resource aggregator that uses ontologies to help users produce intelligent searches of internet- based resources. It suggests search terms by drawing information from its underlying domain ontologies. These ontologies encode domain specific knowledge of concepts, constraints and the relationships among them. For the GoMRC project Noesis has ontologies that express the relationships among terms for Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) and Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Noesis helps users refine their search query and thereby achieve better precision and completeness in their results. The search results are aggregated according to filters selectable by the user. This following describes how Noesis is used to search for information and how the user can organize the results.