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Lucene – the de-facto OEM search engineThis article looks at an open-source product that’s rapidly infiltrating all parts of the content management market – Lucene.
Relevancy Driven Development with SolrThe relevancy of search engine results is very subjective so therefore testing the relevancy of queries is also subjective.One technique that exists in the information retrieval field is the use of judgement lists; an alternative approach discussed here is to follow the Behaviour Driven Development methodology employing user story acceptance criteria – I’ve been calling this Relevancy Driven Development or RDD for short.
The Golden Age of Open SourceI have already seen the change happen in the world of content management. As we came out of the summer of 2009, hard on the tail of a global economic meltdown, something changed in the take up of open source ECM in the blue chip arena of business. Our projects suddenly shifted from strategic, point solutions leveraging the open source model of Alfresco to become main stream, enterprise adoptions of Alfresco as a chosen, strategic enterprise content management platform across global corporations and organisations. Not just on one or two occasions, not just in one or two sectors, but across the board.
