What’s MongoDB Days? MongoDB is one of the leading NoSQL databases. MongoDB Days is a global event for developers and administrators using MongoDB. Hosted in different cities around the world, every 12-18 months in each one, it is a great opportunity to learn more about the database and how to get the most out of
Implementing NER There are multiple ways we go about implementing NER. A simple method would be to have a dictionary of words that belong to a certain type of entity (e.g. a list of all the countries in the world) and do simple string matching against a provided document. Despite the simplicity of this approach
Introduction Here at RAVN Systems we’re always looking for new ways to deal with unstructured data. Approaches we’re using on a day-to-day basis include: Indexing/searching: RAVN Pipeline connects to multiple repositories that can contain unstructured data (such as filesystems, CMS systems and so on). The documents it crawls are typically indexed into RAVN Core which
Type Accelerators are a great PowerShell feature that allows shortcuts to .NET classes. When writing .NET code, once a namespace is imported with the ‘using’ directive, types in that namespace can be used without referencing the namespace itself: [csharp]using System.Collections.Generic; List l = new List(); // Instead of: System.Collections.Generic.List l = new System.Collections.Generic.List();[/csharp] However, it’s
We recently finished an interesting piece of work for a large Law firm in London. They needed to migrate some of their “Know How” documents that were stored in their Document Management System (DMS) into SharePoint 2013. This was part of the company upgrade to SharePoint 2013 and the project to bring together documents from other systems.
After a hard week of knuckling down building state of the art enterprise search solutions there’s nothing RAVN like more that to have a nice relaxing sit down meal in the trendy Old Street area. It’s important we line our stomachs for Beer O’clock later that day! We’ve put together a run down of our
When managing and maintaining our client’s Autonomy infrastructures, it’s often beneficial to thread the underlying scripts. At some installations, we manage tens of servers and thousands of services so running maintenance tasks in parallel saves plenty of time. Powershell jobs are great for executing quick background tasks, but they can be too resource-intensive and cumbersome
Big data is not only a buzzword… here is an attempt to describe it in a short and simple fashion. Big In today’s world, we use a computer to do more or less everything. All of these actions generate and consume data in a heterogeneous way. Obviously, the rate we are doing this is constantly
The State of the Art in Search If you are interested in enterprise search technologies, you might have come across an excessive amount of articles regarding the use of graph search in the social media environment and how much insight it can deliver. I have noticed that people are very enthusiastic about it and more
While developing some Search Web Parts for a customer, we came across a unique problem. The customer required multilingual web parts but without the use of any Language Packs. We agreed that sometimes it is unnecessary to download these very large Language Packs on every SharePoint Server just to translate a few words in a
