From Publisher To Platform: How The Guardian Embraced the Internet using Content, Search, and Open Source
Presented by Stephen Dunn, Guardian News and Media UK at Lucene Revolution 2011
In 2009 The Guardian launched The Open Platform, a suite of services and tools that enable content partners and developers to build applications with The Guardian's rich content. The content API, hosted on Solr instances on EC2, contains JSON representations of all Guardian articles back to 1999 - over 1 million articles, and is an increasingly complete representation of the output of the organisation. The DataStore contains curated data sets for use in applications and virtualizations.
This talk will cover how The Guardian opened up their business, enriched it, and reached new markets with its Open Platform strategy. Stephen will cover the technical architecture, implementation of Solr (the key technology powering the platform), and how The Guardian has used it to embrace disruption in the media space, while finding new sources of revenue and innovation. With two years since its launch, Stephen will cover some of the lessons learned, and explain how the Guardian complements use of Solr with other open-source non-relational technology, as it platform evolves.
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