Breakfast Links 13.01.2009

* IA Konferenz 2009

I never went to this conference before and pretty happy about the location (100km from my home office) in Hamburg this year. Call for papers is not done yet but there were also interesting topics at the IA 2007 you can find here.

* Virtualization and Search: Performance Tests Summary

The answer of what I’ve ever asked myself and never tried out. The article also brought me to the public Enron email data set, wow, never heard about it so far!

I wasn’t able to write any Breakfast Links since monday due to projects (like the upcoming relaunch of this blog), birthday parties and efforts for christmas presents (big, big family)! Finally I turned on my news reader today…

* Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research

Amazon (AWS) provides public data sets to demonstrate use cases for their (cloud) services. The article on TechCrunch also links to Swivel which is a repository for open data sets. Unfortunately you won’t find any textual data but a lot of data like U.S. Census, historical oil prices, world photovoltaic production and more.

* New Open Source Search Vendor

An interview of Hans-Christian Brockmann (Brox IT-Solutions GmbH) about Brox Open Source strategy in the field of enterprise search. Really interesting is Brockmann’s number of 180.000 lucene projects (more or less productive) out there! Brox already came up with their Eclipse project SMILA, which is going to be a base architecture to better integrate search and text mining into common systems. Nice to hear from those kind of projects in my business area!

* Z! – Episode 134: Qimaya – Anwendung neuronaler Netze (german)

Interesting interview with Roy Uhlmann (Qimaya aka former Queap) about neuronal networks in their search engine Qimaya. If you are interested in testing Qimaya you can request access to the demo – next invitation and access delivery is even today! As I can see, Qimaya is currently a german language only project!