Find knowledge unerringly:
Your enquiry, directly to the right source
Would you like to find information you can back up with facts or refresh a vague memory? It's easy with Meere Online. Enter your search query as a whole phrase for the best results, e.g. "Ozean Online bundles knowledge from oceanography". Meere Online's intelligent search system then searches the data set for the most similar phrases.
The hit list shows you the most suitable results first - the more similar the phrase found is to your query, the higher up it appears. Each result links directly to the source, so you can see the relevant information in the original document with just one click.
What is special about the Meere Online Search?
The Meere online search is based on two essential elements:
Firstly, it exclusively searches the websites of all DAM member organisations, strategic partners, the Stakeholder Forum and trusted marine-related sources. As a result, Meere Online offers targeted access to science-based information from marine research.
Secondly, the search function combines a classic keyword search with a semantic search based on text similarities. This combination allows users to recognise related topics and find relevant information more precisely.
A curated data set
What data is recorded?
Marine knowledge is focussed through a carefully compiled data set. Meere Online draws on the websites of all DAM members, the stakeholder forum and trustworthy marine-related sources. This is supplemented by idw press releases from the Oceanology / Climate section, which originate from DAM member organisations.
Meere Online thus guarantees precise access to well-founded, science-based information from marine research.
Discover the recorded pages carefully selected to provide accurate and relevant data.
How is the data set recorded?
Websites are recorded using “scraping.” This means that all machine-readable texts are read from the websites and collected in a database.
Websites whose content goes beyond marine research are specified using marine-specific keywords. This ensures that only marine-relevant content is included and false-positive search results are excluded as far as possible.
With this data set, Meere Online offers reliable marine knowledge.
Keywords for the specification of the marine knowledge data set
Sites that go beyond marine research have been checked against specific criteria and keywords to provide you with reliable information.
Accordingly, only information that contained at least one of these keywords and thus contained a marine reference was included in the data set.
The AI tool now works on curated data. It analyses search queries for keywords and phrases to deliver precise and relevant results. To this end, the team at our cooperation partner, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has expanded its question-answering (QA) and information extraction (IE) tool specifically for Meere Online.
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What technology is behind Meere Online Search?
Our semantic search tool, developed by DFKI, uses advanced technologies such as vector search and machine learning to understand the meaning and context of your search queries. Unlike traditional search methods that rely solely on keyword matching, semantic search interprets your query based on the underlying concepts and intent behind the words, providing more relevant and contextualised results - even if the exact terms of your query do not appear in the results.
What's unique about our tool is that we combine the power of this advanced semantic search with the precision of keyword search. While the semantic search uncovers the broader meaning of your search query, the keyword search ensures that exact matches and essential terms are accurately retrieved from the database. This hybrid approach allows us to capture the intent and nuances of complex search queries while ensuring that specific, relevant keywords are not overlooked, giving you the best of both worlds regarding search effectiveness and accuracy.
Can't find what you're looking for?
The latest web publications are only visible on our website the following day. Our web scraping usually runs every evening at 7 pm. A few exceptions exist for pages we know are unchanged, such as www.eskp.de.
We can add additional websites to the Meere Online search record at any time. Do not hesitate to contact us for suggestions and additions.
