What is WhereIsNow™
You want it, you search it... got it
WhereIsNow™ gives you what other search engine don't, the sureness of:
- getting the document you want exactly in the moment you want it.
- informing your customers of the occurred updates exactly in the moment they want to know them.
The problem
Documents become out of date too rapidly, especially in a world dominated by technologies in which documents are updated, renamed and moved from one location to another very frequently.
Uhm... self updating documents ?
From the user's point of view
How many times, while reading a document, you have thought "is this one the latest version? If not, where can I find it?"
Whatever the document contains, it must be up-to-date to become useful.
Up to now, you probably satisfy this need asking someone confirmation or using a search engine or even by crossing your fingers, with the hope you have found the right one.
How much time do you spend and waste seeking? And after the pursuit... are you sure that it really concerns with the latest version?
Consider if the document itself could redirect you to its latest version, permitting you to be always updated avoiding errors and making the search useless!!!
From the publisher's point of view
The purpose of who publish a document is to inform the user that a new version of a document has become available.
E-mails, articles, calls are all publishers' means of action used in order to give a piece of advice or news.
But, are all the customers so diligent to verify if new versions of a document, they already have, had become available?
Consider if the document itself could allow your customers to be always updated on your initiatives in the moment they need to know it!!!
The Solution
WhereIsNow™ always provides the addresses where you can find the latest version of a document.
How does it work?
Publisher-Document identifiers
Every document registered inside WhereIsNow™ received an associated key given by Publisher and Document identifiers.
A Publisher identifier is associated to every registered WhereIsNow™ user, while the Document identifier is associated to every document registered inside WhereIsNow™ by a specific Publisher.
During the registration of a document, a Publisher must insert some information fields and at least one valid address.
Everytime a new version of the Document becomes available or the Document has to change its address location 'cause it has to be renamed or moved, the Publisher simply registers the new Version address.
Client
Using the key Publisher-Document you can verify if an updated version of the Document registered by the Publisher exists inside WhereIsNow™ and go to the specified address location to get it.
Application
There are potentially infinite ways to query WhereIsNow™ due to the fact it has been developed as a Web Service in order to facilitate a machine-to-machine integration.
The main way to query the service is to get through WhereIsNow™ website and use the Key-Search functionality. Further on everyone can develop its application without any limits neither to sectors nor to functionalities they want to satisfy.
What kind of document?
For WhereIsNow™, a document is any object capable to communicate (i.e. images, text, video, audio ...) regardless of its format or of the way to distribute it.
What it is not
We cannot stress it enough: WhereIsNow™ is not a document archive. We do not store a copy of the registered documents. We don't even know, nor care, the contents of the documents indexed by WhereIsNow™ web service. We just give every information publisher the opportunity to tell the world where the latest version of his documents can be found, providing a unique Publisher+Document key for each and every document indexed into the WhereIsNow™ database and one or more addresses where the latest version of that document can be found.
Share your document
In order to protect your data, WhereIsNow™ provides to you a Grants System. You can choose to reserve your contact information:
- to all (so creating a public contact document)
- to all WhereIsNow™ users
- only to a closed restricted list of WhereIsNow™ users you have specified
- only to an open restricted list of WhereIsNow™ users you have specified ( in this configuration, you will be notified of users who tried to access your document's information )
Everytime you need, you can allow or deny grant to someone.
Furthermore, you can accept or deny requests for your document from users who are not in your open restricted list.
Few Technical Information
Are you a developer interested to create a new application? Or you just want to understand better how does it work? View the Developer Zone of WhereIsNow™.
FAQ
Please check the document section of our FAQ. There you can find more details and descriptions on how to create, share and use a WhereIsNow self updating document. If you don't find the answer to your question, please contact us at support@whereisnow.com
you want it, you search it... got it!