We’re travelling a bit over the next few weeks to visit and speak at various events. This weekend Alan Woodward is at Berlin Buzzwords, a hacker-focused conference with a programme full of search talks. He’s not speaking this year, but if you want to talk about Lucene, Solr or our own Luwak stored search library and the crazy things you can do with it, do buy him a beer!
Next week we’re hosting another London Lucene/Solr User Group Meetup with Doug Turnbull of Open Source Connections. Doug is the author of a forthcoming book on Relevant Search and the creator of Quepid, a tool for gathering relevance judgements for Solr-based search systems and then seeing how these scores change as you tune the Solr installation. Tuning relevance is a very common (and often difficult) task during search projects and can make a significant difference to the user experience (and in particular, for e-commerce can hugely affect your bottom line) – so we’re very much looking forward to Doug’s talk.
The week after I’m in Singapore visiting the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation conference – a new event focusing on knowledge management and search. I’ve been asked to talk about open source search and to keynote the second day of the event and speak on ‘The Future of Search’. Do let me know if you’re attending and would like to meet up.
