As part of our work on the BioSolr project, I have been continuing to work on the various Elasticsearch ontology annotation plugins (note that even though the project started with a focus on Solr - thus the name - we have also been developing some features for Ela...Continue reading
I spent yesterday afternoon at UCL for ISKO UK's event on Taming the News Beast - I'm not sure if we found out how to tame it but we certainly heard how to festoon it with metadata and lock it up in a nice secure ontology. There were around 90 people attending from news, content, technology and academic organisations, including quite a few young journalism...Continue reading
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
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
