The 11th Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop (BIR 2021) was held online on April 1st, 2021, at ECIR 2021 as virtual event only for the 2nd time due to the pandemic situation. As before, the aim of the interdisciplinary BIR workshop series is to bring together researchers from different communities, especially scientometrics/bibliometrics and information retrieval. In… Continue reading Another BIR Please — Report of the 11th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
Month: April 2021
ECIR 2021 – Cooking Class with Chef Paolo Monti
What can a conference organiser offer to virtual participants as a social programme? The brilliant solution from the ECIR team was to offer two cookery classes from the most renowned chef in Lucca. You can watch the demonstrations and download the recipes from the web site.
The BIRDS were flying again – Bridging Gaps at CHIIR 2021
Can Data Science, Information Science, Information Retrieval and Human-Computer Interaction get together and learn from each other? Bringing together these different communities is the aim of the BIRDS workshop. While in Information Retrieval we learnt over the last decades how to meld user- and system-oriented approaches, one of the questions is how we can make… Continue reading The BIRDS were flying again – Bridging Gaps at CHIIR 2021
Thinking about information behaviour – Professor Tom Wilson
Each year the UK Electronic Information Group, a special interest group of CILIP, makes the Farradane Award. The Award honours Jason Farradane, who first made an impact on the LIS community with a paper on the ‘scientific approach to documentation’ presented at a Royal Society Scientific Information Conference in 1948. He was instrumental in establishing… Continue reading Thinking about information behaviour – Professor Tom Wilson
Book Review Information Behaviour by Tom Wilson
Nowadays we are very familiar with information retrieval, interactive information retrieval, information risk and information management but information behaviour (not information behaviours – as Tom Wilson emphasizes in this book) is rarely discussed even though thanks to Luciano Floridi we have a good understanding of the philosophy of information. There is now no excuse for… Continue reading Book Review Information Behaviour by Tom Wilson
Paul Cleverley's presentation to Search Solutions 2020 has now been published
At Search Solutions 2020 Paul Cleverley presented a paper on the research he had carried out with Fionualla Cousins and Simon Burnett on the search patterns for Covid-19 within a very large oil and gas company during the initial stages of the lockdown in early 2020. Paul was not able to share his presentation slides… Continue reading Paul Cleverley's presentation to Search Solutions 2020 has now been published
Search Insights 2021 is now available
Since 2018 The Search Network has been publishing an annual Search Insights report which is a set of short essays on a wide range of issues broadly (but not totally) related to enterprise search. Search Insights 2021 can be downloaded free-of-charge, and with no requirement to register, from the web site of The Search Network.… Continue reading Search Insights 2021 is now available
Open source search and OpenSearch
At the beginning of 2021 ElasticSearch took the open source search community by surprise when it announced some changes to its licensing model and subsequently highlighted the differences between the ElasticSearch and AWS offerings. Charlie Hull, Managing Consultant at Open Source Solutions, has been tracking the outcomes of this decision, and very courageously set up… Continue reading Open source search and OpenSearch
Events Spring 2021
Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
IRSG Committee Meeting Highlights (January 26 2021)
Greetings all. As your acting IRSG secretary, I am pleased to kick off the inaugural update from the most recent IRSG committee meeting. This will be a very brief piece highlighting key points from the meeting. Our last meeting IRSG committee meeting took place on January 26th 2021. Key action points from this meeting were