[LINK] What's up with Trove?

[Tom Worthington]

On 21/11/11 14:10, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Ross Kelso wrote:
>> ... I've become somewhat addicted to ... Trove ...

Trove addicts can find out how it all works in "Scaling up: the
technology behind the NLA's newspaper digitisation and the Trove search
service" by Kent Fitch, at the Australian Computer Society Canberra
Branch Forum, 6 December 2011: 
http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=load&temID=eventdetails&eveID=30215850566954

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Australian Computer Society, Canberra Branch Forum

Scaling up: the technology behind the NLA's newspaper digitisation and
the Trove search service

Each week, the NLA's Trove search service, receives around 200K "real"
unique visitors and delivers almost 3M page views. Although Trove
describes a diverse set of 250M items, its most popular content are
digitised Australian newspaper articles.

This talk will describe the technology behind Trove in general then
focus on the technical aspects of digitising and full-text-indexing over
60M newspaper articles, discussing aspects of image formats and
processing, OCR correction, the scalability of the Lucene text indexing
library, search result ranking, and how commodity SSD has made the
unthinkable both easy and cheap.

The presentation will encourage audience interaction and questions.

Biography:

Kent Fitch has worked as a programmer for over 30 years. Since 1982 he
has been a principal of the Canberra software development company,
Project Computing Pty Ltd. He has developed many commercial systems and
communications packages and custom software for many clients. In the
past ten years, his work has focused on library-related systems
including AustLit, NLA Newspapers Digitisation, and Trove.


About this Event

     Date: Tuesday 6th December 2011
     Time: 4:45pm registration for 5:15pm start

     CPD Hours offered: 02 hours

Who should attend:

All ACS members and non-members.
A light meal of quality hot and cold finger food and refreshments are
also provided at the event.

Workshop Registration:

To ENSURE you gain your Professional development (PD) hours, please
register online AND attend the events.
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Online registration:
http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=load&temID=eventdetails&eveID=30215850566954


     Event Prices (Inc GST)

     Regular Fee:
     Members: $0.00
     Non Members: $40.00

     Regular Fee - Guest:
     Guest: $20.00

     Onsite Fee:
     Members: $10.00
     Non Members: $60.00

     Cancellation Clause
     A cancellation refund will only be given to paying guests provided
that notice is sent to Jenalle Wei no later than 2 working days prior to
the event.

     Contact Details

     Jenalle Wei
     Branch Events & Office Administrator
     Australian Computer Society - Canberra
     Tel: (02) 6230 1588 Fax: (02) 6230 0290
     Email: jenalle.wei at acs.org.au,
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