SMILA Tutorial

13. Februar 2012, 15.30 – 19.00 Uhr

 

The amount and diversity of information is growing exponentially, mainly in the area of unstructured data, like emails, text files, blogs, images etc. Poor data accessibility, user rights integration and the lack of semantic meta data are constraining factors for building next generation enterprise search and other document centric applications. Missing standards result in proprietary solutions with huge short and long term cost. Overcoming these problems is a key issue for gaining agility in an organization.

SMILA,  an open source project under the umbrella of the eclipse foundation, is an extensible framework for processing unstructured information in the enterprise. Besides providing essential infrastructure components and services, SMILA also delivers ready-to-use add-on components, like connectors to most relevant data sources. Using the framework as their basis will enable developers to concentrate on the creation of higher value solutions, like semantic search applications, information extraction and the like.

 

Igor Novakovic, Attensity Europe GmbH, will introduce the concepts and approach behind the framework, how to use it to build an application and how to integrate new components into it. The topics that will be addressed are: SMILA in a nutshell Installation, crawler and service configuration, and building a search application with SMILA and Lucene Creating a simple native SMILA component Using Web Services as SMILA components (Open Calais as exercise) Presentation of some Demo Applications based on SMILA Participants should have a basic understanding of JAVA and programming. For the practical exercises, a laptop running Windows or Linux is required. Participants will receive a CD-ROM containing the most recent SMILA release, Eclipse, Protege and a Java SDK.