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Dear all, This may be of interest to some of you. The lecture is free but you need to book. Please share with other colleagues. Phil Tony Kent Strix goes Open Source: book now for this afternoon meeting in London, November 6th "Understanding and Improving Search using Large-Scale Behavioural Data" is the topic chosen by Dr Susan T Dumais of Microsoft Research for the first in an annual lecture series marking the Tony Kent Strix Award for information retrieval. Dr Dumais, co-inventor of the Latent Semantic Analysis and Indexing technique, was the winner of the Award in 2014. Entry will be free to all who book for the event - 6th November, at The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. To kick off this first event in the annual series, Jan Wyllie will provide an introduction to Tony Kent's work and a demonstration of Strix-inspired software. He and Tony were collaborators over 10 years in the heady Strix days. Jan has never abandoned the Strix vision, and now plans an open source release of the <<STRIX 5.4>> C++ source code on November 6th. This will be the beginning of a project to make a Windows version (<<STRIX 6.x>>) available in the Cloud giving people the capability to store and control their data in a professional standard, full function text database free, forever. After this sparkling launch comes the core lecture. Over the last decade, the rise of web services has made it possible to gather traces of human behaviour in situ at a scale and fidelity previously unimaginable. Susan Dumais's talk will highlight how observational logs provide a rich new lens onto the diversity of searchers, tasks, and interactivity that characterize information systems today, and how experimental logs have revolutionized the way in which web-based systems are designed and evaluated. Although logs provide a great deal of information about what people are doing, they provide little insight about why they are doing so or whether they are satisfied. Complementary methods from observations, laboratory studies and panels are necessary to provide a more complete understanding of and support for search which is increasingly a core fabric of people's everyday lives. This is a FREE event but bookings are necessary. For more information, and to book your place, go to: http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/tony-kent-strix-annual-lecture. The Tony Kent Strix Award is managed by UKeiG (a Special Interest Group of CILIP the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) in partnership with the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC CICAG); the International Society for Knowledge Organization UK Chapter (ISKO UK) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG). The Annual Lecture series is sponsored by Google. Phil Carlisle Data Standards Supervisor Data Standards Unit, Listing Group Historic England The Engine House Fire Fly Avenue Swindon SN2 2EH Tel: +44 (0)1793 414824 http://thesaurus.historicengland.org.uk/ http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/ We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people to understand, value and care for them, now and for the future. Sign up to our enewsletter to keep up to date with our latest news, advice and listings. HistoricEngland.org.uk Twitter: @HistoricEngland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of Historic England unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it. Any information sent to Historic England may become publicly available.