On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira <ja...@cornell.edu> 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
I second the request. I've been doing a fair amount of work with Node and ElasticSearch as well lately. > [1] https://github.com/milesworthington >
