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November 6th, The Geological Society, London... a FREE lecture and FREE software! Not only the Tony Kent Strix Annual Lecture, but by way of an introduction a talk by Jan Wyllie about working with Tony Kent and the <<STRIX>> software. Jan will talk about 10+ years of close collaboration with Tony Kent moving towards a system of information working which combined collaborative pre-coordinate classification with post-coordinate word-by-word search - something offered by <<STRIX>> to yield an information universe where users could find what they want and / or need with as little searching as possible. He will conclude with a quick outline of the latest iteration of this vision, using 'Visual Boolean' databases, combined with the latest generation of my taxonomies to meet today's unmet knowledge needs. Jan will also be demonstrating some key and possibly unique <<STRIX>> database functions. The <<STRIX 5.4>> C++ source code will be made open source 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. The Tony Kent Strix Annual Lecture - Understanding and Improving Search using Large-Scale Behavioural Data - is to be given by Dr Susan T Dumais of Microsoft Research, the winner of the 2014 Award... 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. The 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. Bookings can be made at: 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 Organisation UK Chapter (ISKO UK) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG). The Annual Lecture series is sponsored by Google. -- Sheila Thomas BA FCLIP MWeldI MBCS Weldasearch Manager TWI Ltd, Granta Park, CB21 6AL, UK 01223 899295 www.weldasearch.com This e-mail is issued subject to our e-mail disclaimer statement. Please refer to http://www.twi-global.com/email-disclaimer/