In the data era, knowledge extraction from massive data is the most important issue which brings people in big trouble. Creating a platform to retrieve proper information from massive data is an idea to make the High-level Segment more dynamic and interactive. On the other hand, audiences of different sciences have not the same goals, knowledge and mental ability. Experts, scholars, students, and other segments of society who are not familiar with the sciences form different spectra. It is appropriate to plan the facilities according to each one's understanding, ability and opportunity. Information management research center in Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy responded to this by designing, developing and releasing a platform entitled "Ganj" which has four sections includes thesaurus, encyclopedia, indexing, and digital library that bring comprehensive tool for managing, organizing and retrieving knowledge in sciences. Ganj also has a powerful search engine that uses artificial intelligence techniques to return more accurate and reliable results (semsearch.isca.ac.ir). The thesaurus section contains organized terms based on the relationships between the concepts of sciences. In the Encyclopedia section, any term explained in a specialized article. In the indexing section of the system, the resources are indexed and organized using thesaurus terms. The digital library contains 4 million documents that are growing day by day by connecting to other libraries. Ganj is based on service-oriented architecture that means it's cross-platform (windows, android, web) and can negotiate with other systems through APIs.
With Ganj, everyone can have easy, free and fast access to organized knowledge and structure of sciences.

http://thesaurus.isca.ac.ir

• International

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Researchers and Scientists

The Ganj development is based on up to date world standards and technologies with the use of open-source software. It can be integrated – partly or completely – in any region of the country and the world.

Project sustainability is confirmed by the statistic of usage, 4 years of stable work and positive results of the surveys among the system users. Also, this is a continuous development project.

Ganj has contributed to the development of E-Science by providing integrated free access to knowledge in sciences all over the world to eliminate knowledge poverty and bring equal opportunity for all people to access organized information and structure of sciences through electronic services. Ganj also helps scientists and researchers to develop sciences boundaries.