David Hawking, CSIRO If your a search and information retrieval geek, an article in the just online issue of SIGIR Forum has a great annotated bibliography that you'll want to take a look at. It's titled, "Recommended Reading for IR Research...
Annodex has been in development for about 4.5 years at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in Australia. CSIRO is also where the Panoptic (enterprise search technology) was developed.
CSIRO blasts enterprise search engines. But there was an "online" before the Internet, and some early pioneers have published a fascinating account of creating the world that was the principal ancestor of the web.
CSIRO gets googleeyed striving to search the Web. Or 42ºS 147ºE? Searching by geographic location, especially for areas in our examples (near Transylvania and Tasmania, respectively) isn't something you'll want to try with most search engines.
