BioSolr at BOSC 2015 – open source search for bioinformatics

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Charlie Hull

Matt Pearce writes: I spent most of last Friday at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) Special Interest Group meeting in Dublin, as part of this year's ISMB/ECCB conference. Tony Burdett from EMBL-EBI was giving a quick talk about the BioSolr Read more

The four types of open source search project

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Charlie Hull

As I'm currently writing content for our new Flax website (which is taking far longer than anticipated for various reasons I won't bore you with) I've been thinking about the sort of projects we encounter at Flax. You might find this useful if you're planning or starting a search project with Solr or Elasticsearch. Note that not everything we do fits cleanly into these four categories! Read more

Innovations in Knowledge Organisation, Singapore: a review

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Charlie Hull

I'm just back from Singapore: my first visit to this amazing, dynamic and everchanging city-state, at the kind invitation of Patrick Lambe, to speak at the first Innovations in Knowledge Organisation conference. I think this was probably one of the best organised and most interesting events I've attended in the last few years. The event started with an enthusiastic ...
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More about Open Source

oOpen Source describes software where the source code is freely available.

Common examples of Open Source software projects include the Linux operating system, the Mozilla Firefox web browser, a powerful alternative to Microsoft Office called Libre Office and indeed many of the programs that run the Internet. In practical terms Open Source software has a different Read more

Government Digital Service

The Government Digital Service is a new team within the UK government's Cabinet Office tasked with transforming government digital services. Flax assisted the team with tuning of the Apache Solr search engine for the e-petitions website and also with migration of the search facility on www.gov.uk from Apache Solr to Elasticsearch....
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Partners

Our carefully selected partners allow us to offer additional services such as user experience design, strategic consultancy, training and support to clients across the world.

Lucidworks, formerly known as Lucid Imagination, is the trusted name in Searc...
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Matt Pearce

Matt Pearce worked at the Press Association, leading digital agency netXtra and at Proquest before joining the Flax team, where he has worked on a document management system, upgrading a news search application, indexing ontologies and on product search. (more…)...
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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press, the publishing business of the University of Cambridge, asked Flax to assist with performance tuning of an Apache Solr-powered search engine for one of their high profile digital products.

'Flax helped us at very short notice with a Solr performance problem, working with both our local and offshore teams to remove a significant bottleneck – their expertise was invaluable.' Anthony Joyes, Technical Services Mana...
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Community

Flax is highly active in the open source search community, running and presenting at events, contributing to open source projects and publishing our own software as open source.

Meetups and Conferences

Flax offer expert consulting services on Elasticsearch, Lucene/Solr, site search tuning, media monitoring and Big Data software

As specialists in all aspects of search and related technology, we have deep experience of Apache Lucene/Solr and Elasticsearch, the two leading open source search engines (here's how to choose between them). The o...
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