Query & Search

Capabilities

• Assistance in installing and training in using modern search software such as Wrensoft Zoom - used on www.skagitriverhistory.com as well as this website - and ISYS Query.
• Creation of Access or Excel Database to help find records
• Information brokerage - service as an information broker to search for historical data or photographs or information on the internet.

• Usage of ISYS Query to:

  • Search documents to remove for privilege

  • Summarize documents

Example Projects Skagit IMS Has Done:

• Using ISYS to screen tens of thousands of privileged documents for a major Seattle law firm.  An assignment completed "ahead of schedule" and "exemplary" to quote the senior counsel.
• Skagit IMS continues configuration and operation of www.skagitriverhistory.com and www.skagitims.biz's Wrensoft Zoom search engines.
• Occasional creation of CDs with documents + a search engine on them for clients.
• Database digesting for Skagit County Government, summarizing hundreds of public comments into a 14-page Word document.
• Data entry and digesting for the Hamilton PDA on two surveys about the flood risk, as profiled on the organization's client page.
• Information brokerage for the City Government of Mount Vernon in researching Eddy's New & Used/J.B. Laughlin Building at 419 Main + some multimedia and multi-spectrum information brokerage to help with a historic inventory of downtown.  Please see the client page for details.
• Information brokerage for the City of Burlington as part of assisting in the preparation of likely appeals of federal bureaucracy flood elevation maps.