Breakfast Links 08.12.2008

* Arnold White Study Published

Galatea published the study “Successful Enterprise Search Management” by Stephen E. Arnold (Beyond Search) and Martin White (Interview at ArnoldIT). The study is essentially about how to manage an enterprise search environnement, beginning from the selection and integration of a vendor and how a project team is setup. There are also some chapters about search and technology in general like content processing (text mining). I don’t know yet wether it makes sense to get the study for businesses in germany but will write a report on it!

* Tika and Solr

Grant Ingersoll just committed an ExtractingRequestHandler module for Solr which adds Tika support to solr. Meaning, it is now possible to feed Solr with a variety of common document formats like Office, PDF, HTML and more. Awesome!

Unfortunately I was not be able to attend at the ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans this year – way too far away from good ol’ germany! But I reviewed the given sessions on Lucene (and Solr, Mahout, Tika) afterwards the conference to get some inspiration. Some comments on it:

* Advanced Indexing Techniques with Apache Lucene (Michael Busch)

Detailled presentation about Indexing capabilities of Apache Lucene and a very interesting part on how to use Token Payloads and POS-Tagging with the new TokenStream API.

* Apache Solr: Out of the Box (Chris Hostetter)

Introduction to Solr from installation and administration (Admin Console, Luke), querying (Facets, Highlighting) and configuration (Analyzers, Multiple Indexes, Replication).

* Introducing Mahout: Apache Machine Learning (Grant Ingersoll)

Already posted this session in my recent Breakfast Links. A nice presentation about what Machine Learning stands for and the approach of Mahout.

* Apache Solr: Beyond the Box (Chris Hostetter)

Presentation about Solr’s history and real world examples such like Geo search.

* Content analysis for ECM with Apache Tika (Paolo Mottadelli)

Impressive and extensive presentation about Apache Tika and its Alfresco integration for content extraction.