Hi. We at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, are in the
process of setting up a Fedora Commons Repo. We are using the Chisimba
framework for our CMS and are wanting to setup requests to the Fedora
Commons repo for disseminations and searches. We are looking at using
Apache Solr as it has good full-text faceted searching (although our
ultimate goal is to do semantic searching).
I understand that we need to index Solr with the Fedora Commons
digital objects. I looked at the Fascinator since it is also a
java-based system, it seems that we
should be looking at using it (or some of it's code) rather than
reinventing the wheel. However the current version, the-Fascinator2 does
not yet support indexing fedora objects. It was suggested using the
Fascinator's OAI-PMH harvester for now.
I think I should also take a look at the genericsearch (gsearch) fedora
service - which
now also supports use of solr. Anybody looked at this? Does anybody have
any comments / suggestions whether this would sort our needs - I should
probably look at the Muradora project - they have implemented it!
Any help / suggestions would be welcomed!
Ana Ferreira
Wits University, Johannesburg
At the moment, the Fedora 3 storage plugin is not working as it has
not been updated with the recent Storage API changes. In the meantime,
to index the items in your Fedora repository, I would suggest using
the OAI-PMH harvester for now.
- it seems that this has already been done by the
Fascinator and since it is also a java-based system, it seems that we
should be looking at using it (or some of it's code) rather than
reinventing the wheel.
I have downloaded the-Fascinator2 code but have not worked out exactly
whether I just need the Indexer or whether I need to look at the
Harvester as well?
Web protocols and technologies are all fairly new to me and I would
appreciate any ponters / suggesyions / etc ... that anyone maight
have.
Thanks
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