Xapian talk slides
Last night, I gave a brief 13 minute talk to the “Cambridge Geek Night” – a group of around 30 very switched on and interesting technology people, meeting above a pub in Cambridge. The atmosphere was wonderful, and I had a great time. There were also talks from Taylor Vinters solicitors about intellectual property, and Michael Brunton-Spall about many of the Guardian’s electronics services and experiments.
I’ve put the slides up on slideshare here – I’ll try and find some time to record an audio track to go with them soon.
I’m produced a prototype text-retrieval database program – only so far without the underlying ‘engine’ for storing, indexing and word-searching. It strikes me that Xapian may well offer the type of facility that is needed to complete this project – comments and input would be welcome as I’ve probably bitten off more than I can chew.
The prototype program, presently called ‘Knowledge’ is here:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Knowledge?content=111504
The second of the comments on this page explains what I am trying to achieve. ‘Knowledge’ was developed on kubuntu, but will also run on Windows if Python 2.6, Qt4.5 and PyQt4 are installed.
Andrew.
Andrew G
September 11, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Xapian might well be what you’re looking for – I strongly recommend asking for help and feedback on the Xapian mailing discussion list (http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss), or in the #xapian IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, rather than here, since you’ll get through to many more useful people that way.
richardboulton
September 12, 2009 at 3:13 pm