Semantic Discovery Engine
The InfoLibrarian™ Semantic Discovery Engine enables contextual metadata search across business glossaries, catalogs, technical assets, and distributed metadata domains — all unified by the Metadata Fabric. This capability empowers self-service users to locate trusted data with semantic precision.
Key Capabilities
- Federated search across multiple metadata repositories and data sources.
- Semantic understanding of glossary terms, lineage, and data relationships.
- Governed access to search results based on roles and classifications.
- Integrates with the Metadata Fabric and Portal for enterprise-scale delivery.
- Designed for cloud-native, hybrid, and air-gapped environments.
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The InfoLibrarian Discovery Engine™ is the next generation of secure, enterprise-grade search and indexing technology. Designed to intelligently crawl, index, and semantically search millions of documents, web pages, and databases, it enables users to find exactly what they need—instantly and securely—across your entire information ecosystem.
Built on the foundation of our trusted Search Appliance™, the Discovery Engine delivers faster performance, enhanced AI capabilities, and flexible deployment options across cloud and hybrid environments. While honoring the appliance's legacy of plug-and-play simplicity, the new platform provides modular extensibility, powerful metadata classification, and a modern API-first architecture.
From enterprise search and metadata discovery to document governance and lineage-aware indexing, the InfoLibrarian Discovery Engine™ is built for today’s semantic and scalable data environments.

The original InfoLibrarian Search Appliance™ — now evolved into the Discovery Engine™
Why Choose the InfoLibrarian Discovery Engine™?
The InfoLibrarian Discovery Engine™ provides a unified and intelligent platform for indexing, classifying, and securely searching enterprise content—documents, structured data, metadata, and more. Whether you're managing millions of files or integrating data across cloud and on-prem environments, the Discovery Engine brings semantic intelligence and speed to the forefront of your information strategy.
Modern Capabilities at a Glance
- AI-Enhanced Discovery: Natural language understanding and semantic ranking for context-aware search results.
- Metadata-Aware Indexing: Integrates with metadata repositories and taxonomies to enrich search context and classification.
- Continuous Crawling: Real-time indexing of changing data from web, file, database, and cloud sources.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: Role-based access and pre-authentication ensure compliance and secure visibility.
- Open APIs and Extensibility: RESTful APIs, templates, and integration with your apps and portals.
- Smart Categorization: Automatic classification with support for synonyms, business terms, and controlled vocabularies.
- Real-Time Monitoring: Live dashboards and logs provide insights into indexing performance and coverage.
Legacy Performance—Redefined
Evolving from our trusted Search Appliance™, the Discovery Engine delivers all the plug-and-play simplicity with today’s performance expectations: scalable to billions of records, capable of full semantic enrichment, and optimized for hybrid architectures.
Smart, Secure, Searchable.
Whether you need to federate search across multiple repositories, expose secure knowledge to your intranet, or drive insight from unstructured content, the Discovery Engine is your foundation for modern enterprise search and metadata intelligence.