First Data Convergence Cloud Launched
April 10, 2012
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Governor Pat Quinn, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle and Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently unveiled www.MetroChicagoData.org, the nation’s first data convergence cloud that brings public data from the City of Chicago, Cook County and the State of Illinois into a single Open Data portal. With easy access by residents and businesses in the Metro Chicago area, this enhances the previous Internet offering.
New Do It Yourself Search Engine
A new search engine plans to do battle with the giants, i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. YaCy plans to put the search into the hands of users by giving out its indexing engine around the Internet for free.
The Benefits of Open Source
November 1, 2011
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Apache developers started back in 2003 to develop an open source web search engine. After much work turning their vision into reality and many features such as capabilities for crawling the web and adding a web database for computing, storing and analyzing all web pages discovered, the project – named nutch – went in the Apache Incubator.
Open Source Giant Celebrates Anniversary
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Apache Lucene. First developed in 1997, the Lucene information retrieval software entered the ASF as a sub-project of the Apache Jakarta project in 2001, and soon became a standalone, Top-Level Project (TLP) in 2005.
Alfresco Releases New Platform
Open source content management provider Alfresco has released their platform, Alfresco Community 4, at JavaOne.
Apache Lucene 3.4.0 Released
No one will argue that search is a very important part of any enterprise content management system. Findability is key. What is the point of having quality content if no one can find it?
PostgreSQL 9.1 Released
The PostgreSQL 9.1 open source database offers users new features including some that are not duplicated with any other vendor.
Crowdsourcing Needs a Solid Taxonomy
Editing by committee is a prolonged, mostly painful, process that quite often sends me running away seeking refuge among my own office and my own delete key. Crowdsourcing can be very similar. One approach that can help is to have a taxonomy built with categories and terms that apply to the entire industry.
UK Government Embracing Open Source
August 31, 2011
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Embracing open source, the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom has chosen a proprietary software system to implement its goal and fulfill the government’s election promise to eliminate bias against open source software.
Lucene 4.0 Focus of ApacheCon 2011
Apache Lucene 4.0 has been released and is garnering quite a bit of chatter, especially with the impending ApacheCon 2011. So what are the new features and more importantly, what does it mean to users?