This is a proposal for several pre-conference sessions that would fit together nicely for people interested in implementing a next-gen catalog system.
1. Morning session - solr white belt Instructor: Bess Sadler (anyone else want to join me?)The journey of solr mastery begins with installation. We will then proceed to data types, indexing, querying, and inner harmony. You will leave this session with enough information to start running a solr service with your own data.
2. Morning session - solr black beltInstructors: Erik Hatcher (and Naomi Dushay? she has offered to help, if that's of interest) Amaze your friends with your ability to combine boolean and weighted searching. Confound your enemies with your mastery of the secrets of dismax. Leave slow queries in the dust as you performance tune solr within an inch of its life. [We should probably add more specific advanced topics here... suggestions welcome]
3. Afternoon session - Blacklight Instructors: Naomi Dushay, Jessie Keck, and Bess SadlerApply your solr skills to running Blacklight as a front end for your library catalog, institutional repository, or anything you can index into solr. We'll cover installation, source control with git, local modifications, test driving development, and writing object-specific behaviors. You'll leave this workshop ready to revolutionize discovery at your library. Solr white belts or black belts are welcome.
And then anyone else who had a topic that built on solr (e.g., vufind?) could add it in the afternoon. Obviously I'm biased, but I really do think the topic of implementing a next gen catalog is meaty enough for a half day and I know people are asking me about it and eager to attend such a thing.
What do you think, folks? Bess On 12-Nov-09, at 4:10 PM, Gabriel Farrell wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 02:47:42PM +0000, Jodi Schneider wrote:If you'd be up for it Erik, I'd envision a basic session in the morning.Some of us (like me) have never gotten Solr up and running. Then the afternoon could break off for an advanced session.Though I like Bess's idea, too! Would that be suitable for a conferencebreakout? Not sure I'd want to pit it against Solr advanced session!The preconfs should be as inclusive as possible, but I'm wondering if the Solr session might be more beneficial if we dive into the particulars right off the bat in the morning. There are only a few steps to get Solr up and running -- it's in the configuration for our custom needs that the advice of a certain Mr. Hatcher can really be helpful.You're right, though, that the NGC thing sounds more like a BOF session.I'd support that in order to attend a full preconf day of Solr. Gabriel
Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler Chief Architect for the Online Library Environment Box 400129 Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904 b...@virginia.edu (434) 243-2305
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