Bess Sadler wrote:
application. That way you can use solr / lucene for search, faceted browse, etc, and your XML database only for known item retrieval, which it is generally able to do without performance issues. I'm hopping up and down waiting for someone to take this approach with an ILS, so please come and show us what you've got!
Would this approach complicate hilighting of hits-in-context? One of the biggest things missing from most current OPACs in my opinion is google-style excerpting of WHAT part of the record matched the query--on the results page. Many mainstream OPACs do currently provide some form of hilighting on the detail/full-bib page, but it's not generally truly identifying _which_ parts of the record _actually_ matched your search (a search just on title will still hilight the word found in a non-title field), which I find annoying. Do these kind of hybrid approaches complicate the task of providing proper result hilighting in context, or am I off on the wrong direction? Jonathan
Bess
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