>I'd agree... the nice thing about the WebDAV interface is that is
>works with all these backends! Whether SVN, a native XML database, or
>a file system... all have WebDAV interfaces. I've been very
>interested over the years watching Art (and Ross) experimenting with
>WebDAV and catalog records.
On 11/27/06, Kevin S. Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WebDAV and catalog records. Have there been any code4lib proposals
along these lines? I'd vote for that.
And if I get around to writing the voting module, I'd make sure you
could vote for that one twice...
Seriously, please don't get h
On 11/27/06, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My ideal solution is WebDAV interface with commit hooks into Solr.
With Subversion behind the scenes of the WebDAV interface, or an XML
database, or file system or whatever. :)
I'd agree... the nice thing about the WebDAV interface is that i
On 11/27/06, Andrew Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My only concern about lucene is the lack of a standard query language.
I went down the native XML database path because of XQuery and XSL, does
something like lucene and solr offer a strong query language? Is it a
standard? What if someone de
On 11/27/06, Bess Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At UVa we have been burned several times by poor search performance
of XML native databases. In light of this, we're starting to look at
the database and the index as separate but cooperative pieces of the
application. That way you can use solr
On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
My only concern about lucene is the lack of a standard query language.
I went down the native XML database path because of XQuery and XSL,
does
something like lucene and solr offer a strong query language? Is it a
standard? What if someone develop
On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Bess Sadler wrote:
application. That way you can use solr / lucene for search, faceted
browse, etc, and your XML database only for known item retrieval,
which it is generally able to do without performance issues. I'm
hopping up and down wai
On Nov 27, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Binkley, Peter wrote:
Fair point, and that's how my current solr-based project works. I'm
thinking I would like the other advantages of an XML db: the
ability to
run xqueries, batch updates, etc., alongside the Lucene searching.
And I
want them integrated under the h
On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Binkley, Peter wrote:
You've got enough flexibility in the way you
set up your Lucene index, and Lucene search results give you access to
the term weights for each hit,
It does?
so you can tell which fields actually
matched.
You can?
I'm curious how you're doin
On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
BTW, have you played with Hadoop? I guess it's something like the
open-source attempt to google's search algorithm. I would be curious
about implementing hadoop across a few servers to store the marcxml
records.
Hadoop is not a search engine. I
Lucene has a pretty well-specified search syntax which is unlikely to change
all that much, even though it's not a standard. It's not perfect, but I think
it's pretty good. Overview here:
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html
I believe Solr adds a bit to the standard
Fair point, and that's how my current solr-based project works. I'm
thinking I would like the other advantages of an XML db: the ability to
run xqueries, batch updates, etc., alongside the Lucene searching. And I
want them integrated under the hood in Solr so that people smarter than
me will mainta
Binkley, Peter wrote:
There would probably be a lot of optimizations you could do within Solr
to help with this kind of thing. Art and I talked a little about this at
the ILS symposium: why not nestle the XML db inside Solr alongside
Lucene? Solr could then manage the indexing of the contents of
Casey Durfee wrote:
I am writing a Solr-powered OPAC right now and have not had any performance
problems (either indexing or querying) using Solr for both data storage and
search. You can indicate in Solr whether you want particular data fields to be
stored, indexed or both. So I stick the
I don't see any aggravation of this problem because of the hybrid
approach Bess is proposing. You've got enough flexibility in the way you
set up your Lucene index, and Lucene search results give you access to
the term weights for each hit, so you can tell which fields actually
matched.
There woul
Bess Sadler wrote:
Hi, Andrew. Since this will be an all-day event, the session would be
starting first thing in the morning on Feb 27. I'm thinking 9am, but
I haven't confirmed that with anyone else. I'm just flying by the
seat of my pants here.
I wouldn't be able to make this then due to tim
I am writing a Solr-powered OPAC right now and have not had any performance
problems (either indexing or querying) using Solr for both data storage and
search. You can indicate in Solr whether you want particular data fields to be
stored, indexed or both. So I stick the entire MARC record in
Bess Sadler wrote:
application. That way you can use solr / lucene for search, faceted
browse, etc, and your XML database only for known item retrieval,
which it is generally able to do without performance issues. I'm
hopping up and down waiting for someone to take this approach with an
ILS, so p
On Nov 27, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
Could you please describe the time for when this might occur as I have
already booked my flight into Atlanta for late in the afternoon so I
would need to change that if you plan on having the session earlier in
the day.
Hi, Andrew. Since this wil
Bess Sadler wrote:
Enough people are interested in ILS related topics that it might be
worth forming groups around specific ILS products. If you are one of
these people, email the list if you're interested in setting up such
a thing.
Bess, this sounds like a great conversation. You can count
On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Bess Sadler wrote:
Comments? Suggestions?
Sounds great! If you get a chance add a story to http://code4lib.org
when things get solidified.
//Ed
I responded to Bess regarding question #1. (A "yes, I am interested.")
> 2. What kind of format would folks like to see for this event?
My personal preference is not to travel with a laptop, plus I'm
old-school, so I would favor more of a lecture/presentation format.
> 3. Some folks on #code4li
Since the request I sent out last week, I've received quite a lot of
email expressing interest in a lucene pre-conference, but it hasn't
been an overwhelming amount. Based on this, I think it's safe to
reserve the smaller, wi-fi enabled room that we've been discussing,
and to plan for a max of 40
Can anyone point me to a gentle, example-laden tutorial for using Perl's
LibXML module? The few examples I can find online all point back to a
single O'Reilly example that does precisely nothing when I try it.
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Thomas Dowling
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