
Editorial
Welcome to the Autumn 2016 edition of Informer! It’s been a busy few months and as you can see we waited until the election period was over before going live so that we can now officially confirm (hot off the press) that Stefan Rüger is the new chair of the IRSG. Stefan brings in many years […]

Review of Taxonomy Boot Camp, London, Oct 2016
The first ever Taxonomy Boot Camp (TBC) this side of the Atlantic took place in London on 18th and 19th October 2016 at Kensington Olympia, organized by Information Today Ltd. As I have attended and presented at Taxonomy Boot Camp in the U.S. several times, I was keen to see what the first TBC in […]
Deep Learning In the News – Digest
It seems you can’t go very far these days without hearing something about Deep Learning. Here is a quick digest of some of the recent Deep Learning news and blog posts and a couple of pointers to potentially useful resources. This compilation was made possible thanks to Lumi News AI. Articles in this digest appeared […]
Searching for talent: the IR challenges of recruitment professionals (part 3)
And finally… here’s the third installment of my trilogy of posts on the information retrieval challenges of recruitment professionals. The background to this (in case you missed the previous two) is that a few months ago I published a post describing our InnovateUK-funded research project investigating professional search strategies in the workplace. As you may […]

Conference Review: Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Foraging 2016
This year, following a series of successful editions, Leibniz Centre for Informatics at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany has, yet again, hosted The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF). The event took place from the 3rd till the 8th October 2016 and was co-organised by The University of Hildesheim. The ASIRF 2016 attracted […]
Events Autumn 2016
One Day Events Search Solutions 2016. The annual practioner focused event for the IRSG held at the BCS offices in Covent Garden, together with a tutorial day. 29-30 November 2016. http://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2016/sse2016.php Conferences/Workshops ISS 2016: ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces. Of interest to members working in the area of alternative interfaces search. 6-9 November 2016, Niagara […]
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