Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) are developing Brown Dog, a Web-based tool designed to make accessing unstructured data significantly easier. The researchers say Brown Dog is an effort to bring together all of the best existing automated tools for accessing data. The two primary components are the Data Access Proxy (DAP) and the Data Tilling Service (DTS). The DAP is embedded into a user's machine settings and operates like an Internet gateway. When the machine requests data over HTTP, the DAP will determine if the machine can read the native file and, if not, convert it into the best possible readable format, all in the background. To read further, please visit http://gcn.com/articles/2014/10/10/brown-dog-deep-web-search.aspx.