Yeah ... a vote of confidence for the work Gert and his team are doing: GSearch takes a lot of the headache out of indexing any XML datastream (or combination of them) on your objects into a powerful search index (and with Solr you get some geospatial index/query helpers).
Scott On 10/13/2011 03:41 PM, Gert Schmeltz Pedersen wrote: > I could add, that if you want to use Solr (with Lucene inside) the > straightforward way to make your Fedora objects searchable is to generate > Solr index documents with Fedora GSearch. > > Gert > > > On 13/10/2011, at 16.57, Kevin P. Foote wrote: > >> Thanks for the feed back .. >> >> Main goal is to make this data available and search-able to a larger >> audience. >> >> to browser - yes (needs the plugin) >> >> to specialized clients - yes >> >> georef - i believe so .. more detail shortly :-) >> >> >> ------ >> thanks >> kevin.foote >> >> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, aj...@virginia.edu wrote: >> >> -> Putting MrSid images into Fedora objects will not be particularly hard, >> unless they are remarkably large. I suspect that your concerns will end up >> being centered more around the issue of getting them out to users in a >> useful way, because MrSid is not a very open format, to say the least. >> -> >> -> What is it that you need to do with this material? Is it to be delivered >> to browsers? To specialized clients? Is it georeferenced imagery for use >> with GIS software, or simply scans of maps? >> -> >> -> --- >> -> A. Soroka >> -> Online Library Environment >> -> the University of Virginia Library >> -> >> -> >> -> >> -> >> -> On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:42 AM, aj...@virginia.edu wrote: >> -> >> -> > Fedora does include a simple DC metadata stream with each object in a >> repository. This is to support basic administration and maintenance. It is >> _not_ meant to provide a platform for discovery or search. >> -> > >> -> > Fedora's abilities to store metadata for an object are amongst the >> most flexible you will find in the sphere of object repository software. >> Anything you like can be stored in a datastream. Many institutions prefer to >> use XML serializations, but that is not a constraint. >> -> > >> -> > Fedora also offers special treatment for RDF data with automatic >> indexing to a triple store available. >> -> > >> -> > If your use case amounts to storing some specialized geospatial >> metadata in an allocated datastream, you will have no problem doing that. >> You probably will _not_ want to rely on the repository-maintained DC >> metadata for anything other than administration and simple harvesting. >> Creating a discovery service around a repository is an entirely separate >> question, and there are lots of good resources and solution packages >> available. You may want to examine some of the web application frameworks >> for Fedora, like Islandora or Hydra. >> -> > >> -> > --- >> -> > A. Soroka >> -> > Online Library Environment >> -> > the University of Virginia Library >> -> > >> -> > >> -> > >> -> > >> -> > On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Kevin P. Foote wrote: >> -> > >> -> >> Hi all, >> -> >> >> -> >> Apologies for the xpost .. but sort of relevant to both repository >> -> >> implementations (at least for me). >> -> >> >> -> >> We are currently using DSpace (moving to latest version soon). I have >> -> >> a general high level type metadata question and did not know where >> else >> -> >> to post, so here goes. (perhaps someone can point me to a better >> list) >> -> >> >> -> >> We have a largish (in our terms) project that involves map data or >> rather >> -> >> (.sid) images[1] produced from said map data. >> -> >> >> -> >> We currently have an in-house application that catalogs these images >> and >> -> >> stores some crazy 90 field metadata info within it. >> -> >> >> -> >> My question is what is the best way (read any way) to handle getting >> -> >> this content into dspace (or fedora commons) in an intelligent manor. >> -> >> >> -> >> My understanding is that dspace and fedora use the dc-metadata >> -> >> standard to search, catalog, and provide a common way for libraries >> and >> -> >> repository software get at content. >> -> >> >> -> >> >> -> >> Would this additional metadata get in the way with operation? >> -> >> >> -> >> Would it be best to create dc records for each item and then augment >> the >> -> >> dc info with this complete additional metadata set in a new type of >> metadata >> -> >> (not in the dc)? >> -> >> >> -> >> Is there a common standard for map type metadata? (USGS?) >> -> >> >> -> >> >> -> >> Any help pointers appreciated.. >> -> >> >> -> >> >> -> >> [1] images are 'Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database' files from >> -> >> what I gather. Related to ArcGIS, ERDAS software.. >> -> >> >> -> >> ------ >> -> >> thanks >> -> >> kevin.foote >> -> >> >> -> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> -> >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a >> -> >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security >> -> >> threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and >> makes >> -> >> sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. 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