The 8th International Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) took place from the 29th of August to the 2nd of September.

The ESSIR is the only word-wide school for Information Retrieval (IR). It offers a programme of lectures on the management of information on the Internet for a range of people, including students, researchers and people in industry.

In his keynote lecture Professor Shadbolt discussed the challenges of Information Retrieval and Web Science.