On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Benjamin Li wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a senior CS major at the University of Miami, and I am interested > in participating in the google summer of code for Dspace. > > I emailed the dev list earlier about the "Revise search to use Solr > instead of plain Lucene" project, but didnt really get a response from > the committers, although someone on the list said that he was going to > work on it.
I think that was someone in the community suggesting they may try to use Solr with DSpace because they were using it with a Wiki, but I don't think that there are any architected plans in our current roadmap that limit the use of Solr, but likewise, we have no specific projects to replace Lucene with Solr. Many of the topics in the wiki page come from brainstorming sessions and right now anyone in the community can post an idea there. You are welcome to apply for a project to explore that, the applications have picked up today and as I said, we do have another week for you to prepare yours within > So if that doesn't work out, I was thinking about applying > for the "DSpace UI + AJAX" project: autocomplete/listing, > spellchecking, highlighting. Some more ideas include interfaces for > viewing the digital objects, e.g. a google-map like interface for > viewing large images, ability to play sound and video objects in the > web page itself. Not to derail those who have applications in this area, but I do know that this is actually somewhat older concept and there have actually been some other projects in the last year (and a GSoC 2007 project) that explored the subject and created examples of this. I would highly recommend working on a proposal and submitting it in the GSoC project, its best to have such discussions there concerning what are best approaches. I do recommend trying to put together a detailed proposal rather than just posting a resume, we are as interested in your creativity in coming up with a proposal as we are in your experience base. So I'm not going to go further in discussing how to implement such a project. The great thing is that there is more time for you to work on such a proposal and/or make additions via comments on an existing proposal. Best of luck, Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
