Video on Deep Web 101 for Treasure Hunters

Deep Web research is a critical skill for many academics, engineers, and businesses. It is a means to find the right road forward.

However, I had the opportunity to teach Deep Web 101 to a Metal Detecting Club, as it is very useful in helping them find historic location to hunt.

A video presentation of the talk is available at --

http://deep-web.org/treasure-hunting-deep-web-research-video/

10 Steps to Vetting online anonymous sources

We've all been stuck in that spot - digging thru deep web on a project and find a possibly valuable snippet of a report but no author listed and we aren't sure about the source. What do you do?

Here what you can do - go down the merry path to find the author and evaluate him or her as best you can. Possibly unlock their identity, address, and ultimately establish their level of authority on what they wrote.

Here is 10 steps to vet online sources.

Obtaining Historic Aerial Imagery from the Deep Web

A good example of a useful deep web asset is historic aerial imagery

http://learninggis.com/videos-out-on-how-to-get-free-aerial-imagery

there are some tutorials on using USGS to obtain historic imagery for GIS or other purposes.

Deep Web presentation for Treasure Hunters

Thursday I presented the first of a 3 part series on the use of Deep Web for finding leads for treasure hunters.  This will be made into instructional videos available online soon.

Part 1: Deep Web 101 -Basics of Deep Web, how to do good research, how to do Deep Web research, how to vet sources, and an example problem.

The main take aways are:

• Deep Web is anywhere in the Internet where Bots can't index
• 90% won't show up in Google.
• Up to you to figure out what possible databases may have relevant materials
• Some of your research will be off line in a library or collection

Part 2: Digging in the Deep Web - Will go back and show how to get the most of the Surface Web before delving more about Deep Web resources. At the end I'll tease with some aerial photographic resources that can be used.

Part 3: Deep Web Aerial Photography - Covering the main resources for finding historic aerial photos, and then we'll go deep into how to do remote sensing to find the footprint of houses long gone.  If time permits, we'll cover aerial archeology to find other man man features.

Deep Web Tool - Maltego

I've found a useful Deep Web tool of tracing relationships when trying to vet the authority of some websites. The software tool is put out by a company called Panterva (http://www.paterva.com/web5/client/overview.php), which I think is designed for computer security. However, it is rather useful but unfortunately complex. Expext to spend 1-3 hours understanding the tool itself.  BTW, you must register to download the software. It is free, however.

Deep-Web.org launched for deep web search tools

As adamant researchers in this great pool of knowledge know as the web, we've created a website for deep web researchers. We'll be posting lessons learned for other researchers to benefit from, so stay tuned!