This talk, first presented at Lucene Revolution 2014, focuses on the architecture and development of the National Archives Online Public Access (OPA) initiative, a public search interface for browsing their billion+ document archive - both catalog information and on-line content - which has been completely rebuilt using SolrCloud.

Bio:
Paul Nelson was an early pioneer in the field of text retrieval and has worked on search engines for over 25 years. He was the architect and inventor of RetrievalWare, a ground-breaking natural-language based statistical text search engine which he started in 1989 and grew to $50 million in annual sales worldwide. RetrievalWare is now owned by Microsoft Corporation. During his many years in the industry, Paul has been involved in hundreds of text search installations of all shapes and sizes. This includes enterprise search for dozens of fortune 500 corporations as well as large government installations for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Government Printing Office (GPO). Paul is the Chief Architect at Search Technologies where he provides architectural oversight for clients projects and conducts design, technology research and training.
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Food, drinks, and books will be served.