FEDIDEVS

Stefan Voigt opens the Open Search Symposium #OSSYM24 at LRZ Munich

Noor Afshan Fathima presents the impressive #OpenWebSearch crawling infrastructure at #CERN. #OSSYM24

Gijs discussing selective search and document clustering. #OSSYM24

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2024/an-open-source-implementation-of-web-clustering-algorithms-for-selective-search/

Renaud @renchap Chaput from Mastodon is (online) in the house! Renaud discusses the #Fediscovery project: opt-in by server admins, opt-in by users, only indexing public data, does not receive personal data. #OSSYM24

https://www.fediscovery.org/

Richard Socher from https://you.com: You stopped calling itself a search engine, because unfortunately, search is not very "novel" anymore. #OSSYM24

Great talk by Alex de Vries on energy efficiency of search: the big culprit is AI. ChatGPT takes at least 10 times more energy than a "standard" (already quite wasteful) Google search. #OSSYM24

Nina Leseberg of Wikimedia Deutschland: Wikimedia is making a text-based version of Wikidata, so LLMs can "read" it (=trained on it). #ironic #OSSYM24

"The gini coefficient of the distributiion of traffic on websites in Germany equals... 0.988 (1.0 would be all traffic to one site)"
Martin Andree at #OSSYM24

https://atlasderdigitalenwelt.de/

To be presented at the Open Search Symposium #OSSYM24: An open source implementation of web clustering algorithms for selective search

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2024/an-open-source-implementation-of-web-clustering-algorithms-for-selective-search/

There will be an Open Search Symposium #OSSYM24 in Munich and Online on 9-11 October (that's AFTER the Oktoberfest)

https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/ossym24/