Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Cramer
++ Jonathan and Bill. 1.) Do you have any thoughts on extending traject to index other types of data--say MODS--into solr, in the future? 2.) What's the etymology of 'traject'? - Tom On Oct 14, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Jonathan Rochkind (Johns Hopkins) and Bill Dueber

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

2013-10-15 Thread Bill Dueber
'traject' means to transmit (e.g., trajectory) -- or at least it did, when people still used it, which they don't. The traject workflow is incredibly general: *a reader* sends *a record* to *an indexing routine* which stuffs...stuff...into a context object which is then sent to *a writer*. We

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

2013-10-15 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Yep, what Bill said, I have had thoughts of extending it to other types of input too, it was part of my original design goals. In particular, I was thinking of extending it to arbitrary XML. Unlike MARC, there are many other options for indexing XML into Solr (assuming that's your end goal),

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Cramer
Jonathan, Bill, Very interesting--thanks for the replies. While I'm not sure I understand what indexing arbitrary XML into solr might look like, this does prompt me to think it would be interesting to look at Trajecting up some EAD (may I use it as a verb?) into solr, for finding aid

[CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

2013-10-14 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Jonathan Rochkind (Johns Hopkins) and Bill Dueber (University of Michigan), are happy to announce a robust, feature-complete beta release of traject, a tool for indexing MARC data to Solr. traject, in the vein of solrmarc, allows you to define your indexing rules using simple macro and