For the past year I’ve been talking with Christopher Ball and Erik Hatcher about how frustrating it is to have to carve time out of our regular day jobs to work on Solr and Lucene. Thanks to their enthusiasm for the idea of spending a couple of days hacking on Solr and Lucene, last weekend [...]
Recently, we had a project where we helped a client index a corpus of Chinese language documents in Solr. We have asked Dan Funk, a committer to Project Blacklight to provide a guest blog post for us on the details of how to approach indexing Chinese, particularly when you are a non-speaker. Take it away, [...]
At OpenSource Connections, we strongly believe that search is not simply a matter of installing a search engine, putting in a search box, and forgetting about it. Yet, that’s what we find most site owners do, and when they do that, they leave the door open to customer dissatisfaction and lost revenue opportunities. That’s why [...]
Eric Pugh got notified today that he’s been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon. So, what, you may ask, does search engine testing entail? Great search implementation isn’t just about installing Solr and making it run a millisecond faster. It’s about setting up the conditions to ensure [...]
I just came back from the 2011 DI2E conference in Dallas, Texas and certainly left with a lot of impressions. I want to state up front that my impressions were very positive about the state of U.S. intelligence activities. We’ve come a long way since we first started inserting Green Berets into Afghanistan. Whereas we [...]
We’re thrilled to announce that Scott Stults was presented to speak on the topic of Multi-Level Security (MLS) with Solr at the Open Source Search Conference: Lucene and Solr in Government on June 15, 2011 in McLean, VA. He will be discussing how to use MLS to search and retrieve documents for users at various [...]
SAIC has been a leading developer of intelligence analysis software for decades. In fact, their Pathfinder application has seen continual usage at a variety of agencies since the early ’90s. It has been periodically updated with newer and better technologies as they emerged, and OpenSource Connections was an integral part of one of these latest [...]
