Webhamer Weblog: Search & ICT-related blogging

# quickly try Carrot2 with your own data
# tune Carrot2 clustering settings in real time

At the heart of any search solution is a good understanding of the business problem to be solved as well as knowledge of the available content and metadata. You have to work within the confines of the content you have (or can add with content enhancement). You have to analyze that content and be able to describe how you can identify some documents as being relevant for solving a business problem and why other documents are not relevant. That is just the beginning.

Make your site richer with free, high-quality data and smarter with powerful tools for crosslinking content.

We've all seen promises that semantic search will be the next big thing. However I'd love to know if it actually exists in a workable form for the enterprise, or whether it's still just a marketing department's dream. Comments? Examples? Thoughts?

In this whiteboard video, Attivio Architect Martin Serrano provides an overview of query-side JOIN in AIE.

The text-overflow declaration allows you to deal with clipped text: that is, text that does not fit into its box. The ellipsis value causes three periods to be appended to the text.

The World Clock – Time Zone Converter – results

The first two pair nicely. Each entrant — working independently — tried to explain IA in terms simple enough for a 5 year old. I know US newspapers are supposedly written at a 4th grade level, but given how chronically underfunded IA is, I think the profession has learned to go even younger as a survival skill.

The Enterprise Search Bus is becoming key in the information and IT infrastructure of organisations. It announces a decline in the strategic importance of the relational database, emphasizing its greatest weakness: its rigidity that seen from an intelligence perspective makes it a rather dumb tool. Here's why and here are some consequences to the software ecosystem.

An SRW/SRU interface for Lucene Databases
This project contains the Lucene database interface for the OCLC SRW server. This component, when added as a jar to the SRW server, supports SRW/SRU access to Lucene databases.

CQL, the Contextual Query Language, is a formal language for representing queries to information retrieval systems such as web indexes, bibliographic catalogs and museum collection information. The design objective is that queries be human readable and writable, and that the language be intuitive while maintaining the expressiveness of more complex languages.

This site is the Cheshire project's SRW/U implementation work done by Rob Sanderson (azaroth@liv.ac.uk), one of the editors of the SRW protocol. Comments are welcomed.
2009-09: Site now maintained by John Harrison

That expansion has some analysts wondering whether Google is in danger of losing focus on what made it such a profitable company, even as those same analysts say it can't rely on search as its only avenue for making money. Right now, Google relies on search for 95% of its revenue, according to Karsten Weide, an analyst with IDC.

SKOSEd is a plugin for Protege 4 that allows you to create and edit thesauri (or similar artefacts) represented in the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS).

As a [user role], I want to [goal / feature], so I can [reason / benefit].

We very quickly switched to Apache Lucene, Solr and are very happy with the result. Performance is good, and we have cut hosting costs by a staggering 400%.

In this whiteboard video, Attivio Architect Will Johnson provides an overview of guaranteed indexing in AIE.