Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread K.G. Schneider
> I'm not sure where stemming comes in (does Lucene do this?), it seems > faceted browsing could be handled by something like Carrot2. Rumor > has it Solr has faceting support somewhere, as well. At least, > according to the 9s project. http://www.nines.org/ > > -Ross. Lucene doesn't have nativ

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread Ross Singer
Plucene is (was?) a Perl port for Lucene. Scuttlebutt has it that it's really, really slow. KinoSearch is also a Perl port for Lucene (although not as strict and, apparently, much faster). The developer of KinoSearch and the developer of Ferret (the Lucene port for Ruby) are teaming with one of

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread K.G. Schneider
> There is nothing wrong with Lucene. In fact, Lucene seems to be > becoming the indexer of choice. I just do not have the abilities to > write things in Java. Ah--I read your document as referencing Lucene, but you actually wrote *Plucene.* Karen S.

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On May 30, 2006, at 6:59 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote: So, ok, on that level (and ignoring the "fundamental underpinnings" argument, which may be what I was incoherently striving for at least in part), what's wrong with Lucene? Java? There is nothing wrong with Lucene. In fact, Lucene seems to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On May 30, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: But that's not the only model. An 'indexing' thesaurus or controlled vocabularly can be applied at the time of indexing. It can be applied by a machine algorithm, in which case it would certainly be part of the indexer/searcher. (There are

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread K.G. Schneider
> Let's not confuse the functionality of an indexer/search engine with > the functionality of a search interface. An indexer is used to find. > The finding process can be enhanced with features that are not a part > of the indexer. Spell checking is one of those features. The > exploitation of a th

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
> On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote: > Similarly, exploiting a thesaurus (an authority list, a controlled > vocabulary, or whatever you want to call it) works in the same way. > Use it to reformulate and/or suggest alternative queries to be > applied to the index. Thesauri are not a

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/kinosearch/ Sorry if I overreacted to the "featuritis" comment--I live and die by search these days... I've already had to explain to more than one stakeholder why we can't just use Jimbob's Crapola Indexer o

Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread K.G. Schneider
> I have been having fun with KinoSearch (an open source indexer/search > engine with a Perl API), and I have documented my experiences here: > >http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/kinosearch/?cmd=about > > Cool! > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan I'm taking a break from evaluating search engines to re

[CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch

2006-05-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
I have been having fun with KinoSearch (an open source indexer/search engine with a Perl API), and I have documented my experiences here: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/kinosearch/?cmd=about Cool! -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame I hiring a Senior Programmer Analys

Re: [CODE4LIB] Monthly newsletter of Table of Content?

2006-05-30 Thread Ross Singer
Two alternative workarounds could be: David Walker's RSS Creator: http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker/rss_creator/ If you have any sort of metasearch engine you might be able to do something similar (or if not, you could try SFU's dbWiz2 or, when they release it, OSU's LibraryFind). Or CiteULike's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Monthly newsletter of Table of Content?

2006-05-30 Thread Houghton,Andrew
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mang Sun > Sent: 30 May, 2006 09:32 > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Monthly newsletter of Table of Content? > > We don' like to manually copy and paste TOCs from Journals' > sites into a webpage. However, most

[CODE4LIB] Monthly newsletter of Table of Content?

2006-05-30 Thread Mang Sun
Hi all, Our library, a legislative library, is going to produce a monthly webpage-based newletter bearing tables of content of around 30 magazines(journals) and distribute it to our patrons via e-mail. The TOCs will be extracted from Magazines' websites. We don' like to manually copy and paste TO