DuPont v Kolon Industries Shines Light on Keyword Search and Spoliation and Ignores Predictive Coding
June 27, 2013
The article on e-discovery 2.0 titled The eDiscovery Trinity: Spoliation Sanctions, Keywords and Predictive Coding explores the three issues most relevant to clients and council. One case cited is Dupont v. Kolon Industries, an intellectual property lawsuit in which Kolon’s complaint was that DuPont’s forensic experts failed to exercise an efficient keyword search, meaning that of the nearly 18,000 hits only about ten percent were relevant. The article explains,
“Kolon then asserted that the “reckless inefficiency” of the search methodology was “fairly attributable to the fact that DuPont ran insipid keywords like ‘other,’ ‘news,’ and ‘mail.’” The court observed how important search terms had become in discovery: “… in the current world of litigation, where so many documents are stored and, hence, produced, electronically, the selection of search terms is an important decision because it, in turn, drives the subsequent document discovery, production and review.”
Ultimately the court favored Dupont, calling their efforts reasonable. The article mentions that although spoliation and keywords were taken into consideration in this particular case, it did not address predictive coding. What would have happened if DuPont had utilized predictive coding is entirely hypothetical, but some do argue that it could have minimized the cost and produced the same group of relevant documents. The article, though an evocative metaphor for eDiscovery, is certainly not the end of the debate.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 27, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Big Data Solr Training at Lucene Revolution EU
June 27, 2013
Lucene Revolution EU 2013 is shaping up to be one of the biggest events of the open source community this year. In addition to the regular conference line-up, two-day training workshops will precede the conference. One of the course summaries that looks particularly compelling is “Big Data & Solr.”
The course summary states:
“The twenty modules and five labs teach participants about the essential technologies for generating both traditional Solr search indexes and NoSQL/analytics ‘databases’ using Hadoop, Cascading, Cassandra, Mahout and Storm. By the end of the class, students will understand both good and bad use cases for these popular ‘big data’ technologies, and how they can be used to create larger, more sophisticated search and analytics solutions based on Solr. Click here for details and a full course outline.”
Solr 4 is emerging as a major Big Data player due to its NoSQL database capabilities and analytics engine. LucidWorks has built their very successful Big Data solution based on Apache Lucene Solr. In fact, LucidWorks is the major sponsor of Lucene Revolution, continuing their ongoing dedication to open source technology and development. Do not miss Lucene Revolution EU 2013, and if time allows, make sure and attend one of the workshops beforehand.
Emily Rae Aldridge, June 27, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Sales Leader Will Zuckerman Named Chief Revenue Officer of BA Insight
June 26, 2013
So-Co-IT posted a press release on May 28, 2013 titled BA Insight Promotes Will Zuckermann to Chief Revenue Officer. Zuckermann joined Insight in 2010 and has lead sales activities since he started. This is not the only change at BA Insight, a field leader in search-based information integration. They also have a new CEO, Gary Traynor, who spoke candidly about the change,
“Will has brought a tremendous wealth of knowledge to BA Insight. Under Will’s leadership, the company has transitioned to an enterprise focused sales and marketing organization, which has significantly improved the company-s performance… Will’s extensive experience overseeing global sales efforts, and driving collaborative high-performance programs will be integral to our future success as the company is growing and expanding into new markets.” …Prior to joining BA Insight, Mr. Zuckermann served as Executive Vice President of North America Sales for Mimecast, a cloud-based email management solutions provider.”
Zuckerman, honored at the chance to serve, said that although the full power of enterprise search has remained unexploited, BA Insight would certainly be exploring its potential and helping interested organizations tap the new technology for additional efficiency and cost saving benefits. Will similar changes be visited on other search and content processing firms working to keep investors happy? We will be on the lookout.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 26, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Helm from DocAuto Works with Autonomy IDOL Worksite DMS and Worksite Communications Server
June 26, 2013
The article titled DocAuto Releases “Helm”, A Full Scale Infrastructure Monitoring Application on e-releases explains the software developers’ newest user engagement solution. Helm, the product at the center of attention, promises to by the most methodical infrastructure supervising resource for Autonomy IDOL as well as Worksite Communications Server, and Worksite DMS. The article states,
“As a result of utilizing DocAuto’s many cumulative years of experience with the Autonomy infrastructure, we have released Helm, a scalable, customizable, real-time monitoring solution specifically designed to analyze and alert based on technologies used in the IDOL and WorkSite environment.” – Dave Pilling, Vice President of Operations and Strategy at DocAuto, Inc. Helm combines the intricate functions of multiple monitoring applications with widely expanded capabilities and one central command center to control it all. “
Part of the excitement lies in the trivial impact of Helm on system resources while providing users with wide-ranging information of system performance. We are interested to see the DocAuto has gotten into the Autonomy services business. Helm has automated what were once manual IDOL and DMS administration errands, simplifying the job for the IT Team and IDOL experts (less system checks). It is not limited to the suite of applications for iManager anymore either, but able to analyze any Windows Services application.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 26, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Attensity Lauded With FiReStarter Honor at Future in Review Conference for 2013
June 26, 2013
The article FiRe Conference Names Attensity a FiRe 2013 FiReStarter on Mexico Tecnologia refers to the 11th annual Future in Review (FiRe) tech conference. It features roundtable conversations that often involve audience participation and an excellent opportunity to network. The honor of being named a FiReStarter company is based on Attensity’s innovation in customer analytics. The President and CEO Kirsten Bay stated,
“By leveraging our deep understanding of real-time information and data flow, Attensity is creating the next generation of corporate intelligence that will transform the vast sea of data into knowledge,” said Kirsten Bay, President and CEO. Future in Review is an annual gathering of world-class thought leaders in technology and economics, convened each year with the goals of providing the best look forward in these fields, and of using technology to solve major world challenges.”
Keeping technology current and able to meet the difficulties posed by today’s problems (at home and abroad) are the goals of FiRe, as well as functioning as a platform for new ideas. The 2013 theme, Digitizing the Planet includes National Medal of Science recipient Leroy Hood as an opening night speaker, Patrick Hogan, head of NASA World Wind, breakthrough stem cell researcher Tony Blau and Oracle President Mark Hurd.
Chelsea Kerwin, June 26, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
LucidWorks Video Now Available
June 26, 2013
LucidWorks continues to add richness to their online presence through videos, webinars, and social media. They enhance their already robust formal support and services offerings through online communities, the most recent and rich community being SearchHub.org. The latest posting directs users to video content found on the LucidWorks YouTube channel, “Stump The Chump: San Diego Video.”
Here’s the teaser:
“The video of my Stump The Chump Session in San Diego is now available online in the Lucene Revolution YouTube channel. Follow @LuceneSolrRev on Twitter to be notified of new videos as they are posted, and to get announcements about the upcoming Lucene/Solr Revolution EU 2013 in Dublin.”
While you are checking out the video, there are lots of other great resources available on open source enterprise, Solr 4, and Big Data. LucidWorks continues to invest in not only its own customers, but open source support and development in general. They employ one-quarter of the core committers on the Apache Lucene/Solr project. They reach out through LucidWorks University, whitepapers, and webinars, in addition to the already mentioned SearchHub community.
Emily Rae Aldridge, June 26, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Keeping Up with Popular Culture Google Style
June 25, 2013
Google has done it again. More new features have been released and the article, “Google Trends Now Ranks Most Searched People, Places and Things in 40+ Categories, Releases Visual Trending Product,” shares more details on the search giant’s two new capabilities.
Google’s new charts will be updated every month and they will display the most searched people, places and things in more than 40 categories. The ability to filter by 11 countries is also available and the rankings go back to 2004. The article suggests that PR companies and their customers will find this as a good metric.
We learned more about this new feature in the article:
“Built on top of Knowledge Graph, the data is accurate beyond simply keywords. Google understands the difference between “The Next Web”, “TNW” and “TNW Conference” for example, and therefore the charts are an accurate representation of what is being searched for in both broad and specific terms.”
Google has also added a visual way to showcase trending searches in real time. Keeping up with popular culture is a never ending source of entertainment and now people can keep in Google style.
Megan Feil, June 25, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Talking SEO with those Outside the Industry
June 25, 2013
SEOmoz shares an interesting article in light of the semi-recent Mother’s Day holiday. He has an open conversation with his mother about his industry, SEO, to pick her brain on the subject. He shares the interview in the posting, “How My Mom Thinks Search Engines Work.”
After learning that the author’s mother understands that search engines make money through advertising and that she believes search engines give sites placement at the top of a search result based on which have had the most people click through to them.
The author also spends some time reflecting on understanding a comprehension gap:
“This is certainly not exclusive to SEO, as any of us who have friends in terminology-heavy industries like software, finance or medical fields can easily get lost listening in during a technical conversation. Or my personal favorite, ask someone in the US Military to spout off as many acronyms as they can remember and your head will be left spinning; it’s impressive. Point being, it is important to understand that this gap in comprehension exists.”
In the article’s conclusion we are, of course, left with a happy Mother’s Day wish. Additionally, we wonder about whether the future of search will be a lowest common denominator approach.
Megan Feil, June 25, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Conversational Search by Google has Arrived
June 25, 2013
Notice the ‘search by voice’ function on your Google search bar? Well, that has been there for almost two years now so it is about time. However, you may have noticed something different about its functionality. Once you speak to it, it speaks back to you directly with an answer. Search Engine Land covers this new development in “Google’s Impressive ‘Conversational Search’ Goes Live on Chrome.”
The author of this article acknowledges that that’s cool and impressive, speaking a search and getting an answer read back to you. However, this is the really cool aspect:
“What’s really special is that you can continue your search “conversation” by asking further questions in a way you could never do with regular search, by making use of pronouns and other shortcuts that reference things in your previous query. For example, after doing the search above, I asked, ‘how tall is he’ and got back this: ‘Barack Obama is six feet one inch tall,’ came back the spoken response, along with a text answer. But I hadn’t asked tall Barack Obama was. I’d asked, ‘How tall is he.’
We wonder what audience these feats are impressing: professional researchers, dabblers, advertisers? Who really benefits from this?
Megan Feil, June 25, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
Enterprise Analytics with Similarity Search
June 25, 2013
Today SearchHub.org is offering a webinar designed to help organizations implement Similarity Search across the enterprise. In a collaboration between Knowledgent, MapR, and LucidWorks, the webinar, “Operationalize Enterprise Analytics: Similarity Search at any Scale,” will explore integrating Big Data analytics into daily business.
The webinar will address:
“How do you introduce big data analytics into your daily business, foster rapid adoption, and ensure a return on your investment? Similarity Search provides a foundation for enterprise analytics that can be operationalized by delivering advanced, automated data exploration capability. Learn how Similarity Search can significantly increase productivity across a broad spectrum of data search use cases.”
It is very exciting to see collaboration between so many heavy hitters in the open source enterprise world. Such partnerships are really molding and shaping open source enterprise technologies, and Big Data solutions in particular are really benefiting. The LucidWorks products on their own are intuitive and efficient solutions for many organizational needs. However, such collaborations truly push the edge on what emerging technologies can do and we cannot wait to see what is next.
Emily Rae Aldridge, June 25, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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