Last Wednesday evening the Cambridge Search Meetup was held with too very different talks - we started with Zoë Rose, an information architect who has lent her expertise to Proquest, the BBC and now the UK Government. She ga...Continue reading
As usual there's several interesting events on the horizon this autumn: first up is an London Elasticsearch User Group Meetup on Monday September 9th, which will probably be shortly followed by a Cambridge Search Meetup once I have confirmed a venue - we're hoping to include a talk on Solr & Continue reading
Last night the London Search Meetup returned after a year's absence: it's great to see it back. The venue was at St Pancras with the room overlooking Eurostar trains and statues, inside the beautifully restored station building. The speakers were both there to talk about their recent books: prolific author Martin White of Intranet Focus has written a book on Enterprise Search with the strapline 'Enhancing Business Performance'. Martin ha...Continue reading
Last Thursday I spent the day at the British Computer Society's Search Solutions event, run by their Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Unlike some events I could mention, this isn't a forum for sales pitches, over-inflated claims or business speak - just some great presentations on all aspects of search and some lively networking or discussion. It's one of my favourite events of t...Continue reading
After a short break the Cambridge Search Meetup returned last night with our usual mix of presentations, questions, networking, beer and snacks. We had a few issues with the projector and cables (one of these is on the shopping list for next time) so thanks to both presenters and audience for their patience! First up was Li...Continue reading
We spent Friday at the riverside offices of Sirius Corporation, our support partners, for the first and hopefully not the last of their Open Days on open source enterprise search. We were lucky to have Mike Davis, a very well known and highly experienced analyst to open the talks - despite suffering from flu he gave an engaging talk on why open source ...Continue reading
Another Cambridge Search Meetup this week, with two speakers on unstructured data, plus the usual networking, beer and snacks. We started with Dean Yearsley of Pingar talking and bravely attempting a live demo of their API, which amongst other things has facilities for entity extraction i...Continue reading
Details of search events in 2012 are beginning to appear already, here's a few to start with:
I spent yesterday at the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual Search Solutions conference, which brings together theoreticians and practitioners to discuss the latest advances in search. The day started with a talk by John Tait on the challenges of patent search where different units are concerned - where for example a search for a plastic with a melting poin...Continue reading
The theme of Big Data continued at the next conference I attended, the first Enterprise Search Europe held in London. There was a good mix of presentations ranging from the academic to the practical, my favourite probably being Martin Belam and colleague's talk about using Solr to dynamically generate content for the ne...Continue reading
