SpinqueA Story of Adaptation

Arjen P. de Vries

@spinque

ECIR Industry Day, 2015

background Information Retrieval and DB integrationCornacchia et al. Flexible and efficient IR using Array Databases. VLDB‘08 JournalMühleisen et al. Column Stores as an IR Prototyping Tool. ECIR’14 & SIGIR’14

Best student paper, ECIR 2007

background

concept

Information Retrieval and DB integrationCornacchia et al. Flexible and efficient IR using Array Databases. VLDB‘08 JournalMühleisen et al. Column Stores as an IR Prototyping Tool. ECIR’14 & SIGIR’14

Search by StrategyAlink et al. Searching CLEF-IP by strategy. CLEF’09PatOlympics, 2010 and 2011

Norbert Fuhr, Thomas Rölleke. A Probabilistic Relational Algebra for the Integration of Information Retrieval and Database Systems (1994)

Search by Strategy

http://www.comsode.eu/index.php/2014/11/building-an-application-on-open-data-with-spinque/

Data silos

SQL

CSV

XML

HTML

OAI

JSON

Linked DataComplex Tasks

Generate links Linked DataSearch Strategies

Custom search engines

API

STRATEGY EDITOR COMPILERINDEXING PIPELINE

SQL

CSV

HTML

OAI

XML

APPLICATIONS

background

concept

product

Information Retrieval and DB integrationCornacchia et al. Flexible and efficient IR using Array Databases. VLDB‘08 JournalMühleisen et al. Column Stores as an IR Prototyping Tool. ECIR’14 & SIGIR’14

Search by StrategyAlink et al. Searching CLEF-IP by strategy. CLEF’09PatOlympics, 2010 and 2011

Tailored access to connected datasets

February 2013

“What happens if an entrepreneur approaches an angel investor, a VC company, a bank, or a prospective buy-out partner? What sort of numbers are typical in the life-cycle of a company? What's this "Series A" people go on about?”

Technology mindednessOriginal internal codename: 5F (Flexibility, eFFiciency, and eFFectiveness)Work on projects because we think they are cool (instead of work for a client with a business need)

Technology mindednessOriginal internal codename: 5F (Flexibility, eFFiciency, and eFFectiveness)Work on projects because we think they are cool (instead of work for a client with a business need)Work on projects because we think they are cool (instead of work for a paying customer with a business need)

Target: partner with other, less technology minded companies

Look & feel

Effect not to be underestimated...

Method: partner with other, UI/UX minded companies

Community Platform

1. Combine recency and a theme’s terms

2. Include URLs mentioned in related Tweets

3. Include 300+ RSS feeds related to a theme

4. Emphasize the tweets originating from the community

Bottlenecks…

Open source “competitors” are not zero cost (they are zero cost entry!)

HTTP://XKCD.COM/292/

Bottlenecks…

Open source “competitors” are not zero cost (they are zero cost entry)

Spinque creates search engines, but who creates the index?!

Spinque LINK

National “alignment service” for the cultural heritage sector in The Netherlands

www.beeldengeluid.nl www.comsode.eu www.spinque.com

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