Overview of content related to 'search technology'
This page provides an overview of 8 articles related to 'search technology', listing most recently updated content first. Note that filters may be applied to display a sub-set of articles in this category (see FAQs on filtering for usage tips). Select this link to remove all filters.
Modern web search engines are complex software systems using the technology that has evolved over the years. There are several categories of search engine software: Web search engines (example: Lucene), database or structured data search engines (example: Dieselpoint), and mixed search engines or enterprise search (example: Google Search Appliance). The largest web search engines such as Google and Yahoo! utilize tens or hundreds of thousands of computers to process billions of web pages and return results for thousands of searches per second. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Search engine technology)
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Book Review: Getting Started with Cloud Computing |
Martin White reviews a collection of essays on cloud computing that attempts to clarify the technology and its applications for librarians and information professionals. |
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Book Review: Information Need - A Theory Connecting Information Search to Knowledge Formation |
Brian Whalley reviews a book about a new theory of ‘information need’ that builds upon the ideas of Allen and Taylor from the 1960s to provide a basis for information searching. |
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Book Review: Mob Rule Learning |
Fiona MacLellan reviews a book which discusses the current unconference phenomenon and highlights the learning opportunities that these environments offer. |
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Editorial Introduction to Issue 69 |
The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 69. |
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme |
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Launching a New Community-owned Content Service |
Caren Milloy describes some of the challenges overcome and lessons learned by JISC Collections during the development of JISC eCollections. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal |
Thom Bunting explains some of the technology behind the migration of Ariadne (including more than 1600 articles from its back issues archive) onto a Drupal content management platform. |
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Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Acceptance in Academic Environments |
In the light of a workshop run by the Geological Society of London and Wikimedia UK, Brian Whalley reflects on the attitudes and practice of academia in respect of present-day Wikipedia content. |
July 2012, issue69, feature article |
