On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search mechanism take a 
> look something one of my colleagues developed.  http://vivosearchlight.org
>
> It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that will 
> initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile information 
> from several institutions using VIVO (a semantic web application).  From any 
> web page, clicking on the "Vivo Searchlight" button in your browser will 
> initiate a search and find experts with expertise relevant to the content of 
> the page.  Highlight some text on the page and it will re-execute a search 
> with just those words.

Thanks for sharing John. That's a really a neat idea, even if the
results don't seem particularly relevant for some tests I tried. I was
curious how it does the matching of page text against the profiles. I
see from the description at http://vivosearchlight.org that
EleasticSearch is being used instead of Solr. Any chance Miles
Worthington (ok I googled) would be willing to share the source code
on his github account [1], or elsewhere?

//Ed

[1] https://github.com/milesworthington

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