I am in the process of creating a bibliography / list of key books & papers on Enterprise Search. I’m ideally looking for peer-reviewed, published works, from either a practitioner or researcher perspective, but am also interested in well-regarded online resources. Here are a few that immediately spring to mind:
- Martin White, Enterprise Search. O’Reilly Media, 2012
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley, 2010. (See Chapter 15)
- Ron Miller, Unlock the Power of Enterprise Search. EContent Magazine, 2008.
- David Hawking, Challenges in Enterprise Search, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, 2004.
- R. Mukherjee and J. Mao, Enterprise search: Tough stuff. Queue, 2(2), 2004.
And there are various online resources, e.g.
- The TREC Enterprise Track
- The FindWise Enterprise Search & Findability Survey
- AIIM What is Enterprise Search?
But I’m struggling to find a definitive, up to date bibliography out there anywhere. Even the bibliography on the TREC enterprise search pages looks rather out of date now. There are of course many excellent books about search and information retrieval in general, but I’m ideally looking for works that focus specifically on enterprise search.
Do you know of any other definitive works? Which ones would you recommend?
what about “Search analytics for your sites” by L. Rosenfeld?
Thanks Marina – actually I thought of that one, and it’s included in this list too:
http://www.norconex.com/top-10-enterprise-search-must-reads/
But being a purist I’d say that’s more site search than enterprise search, i.e. similar technological issues but a very different social/organisational context. And very different tasks too (the Hawking book chapter above provides a good overview of this distinction)
if you type “enterprise search” in google scholar, you get academic papers. This one has an interesting title in my opinion “Using annotations in enterprise search” …
The Turn (Ingwersen, Peter, Järvelin, Kalervo) has some parts which is very “Enterprise Searchish” http://www.springer.com/computer/book/978-1-4020-3850-1 And some quite some time ago FAST (Silvija Seres) did a book called “Book of Search” which I don’t think is available anymore print anymore – but you can find it here: http://www.silvija.net/0000FastPublications/Book%20of%20Search.pdf
Thanks Henrik for sharing the link to the FAST “Book of Search”. I’d not seen this before. It’s still really relevant and written by true search enthusiasts.
What about the various Lucene / Solr / Elasticsearch books? Check under “Publications” at http://sematext.com/about/index.html – looks like 6 books from Sematext alone. There is also Solr in Action and a few other Solr books. Sure, not purely Enterprise Search, but neither is Modern Information Rertieval…
Thanks sematext, I’ll follow up on those – which would you say is the most useful for people adopting a platform-agnostic view?
I agree with your last comment (that’s why I added the words ‘see Chapter 15’ 🙂 IMHO that and Martin White’s book are probably the best (platform-neutral) resources on enterprise search. OTOH it is just a single chapter and it’s at least a few years old now….
The chapter itself is available here: http://david-hawking.net/pubs/ModernIR2_Hawking_chapter.pdf
Henrik: New Idea Engineering is no more, as far as I know. Its founders are now at LucidWorks.
Tony: I’m not sure how to address the platform-agnostic question. They are not platform-agnostic. They are search technology-specific. Some are about Lucene, some about Solr, and some about Elasticsearch. None of them is a “general search book”, but the knowledge gained from each of them could be used to build an Enterprise Search application.
Take a look at New Idea Engineering http://www.ideaeng.com/
sematex: Yes I know, but their website was still up, and at last they used to have quite some good stuff there.