Re: [CODE4LIB] vivosearchlight

2011-12-17 Thread John Fereira
I haven't looked at my C4L messages in quite awhile so I missed this.
I've asked him before about making the code available but at the time he didn't 
think it was ready to be shared.  We've talked about some other applications 
for it and one of the things we discussed was making it work with Solr instead 
of elastic search.  I'm going to be on a skype call with him next week for 
another project we're working on and can ask him more. I've also been looking 
at some text mining/entity mining apis (anyone else looking at AlchemyAPI?) 
that might improve the relevancy of the search results but the result are only 
going to be as good as what's in the search index and I haven't really looked 
at that piece.

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Ed Summers
 Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 6:54 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] vivosearchlight
 
 On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu wrote:
  If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search
 mechanism take a look something one of my colleagues developed.
  http://vivosearchlight.org
 
  It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that
 will initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile
 information from several institutions using VIVO (a semantic web
 application).  From any web page, clicking on the Vivo Searchlight
 button in your browser will initiate a search and find experts with
 expertise relevant to the content of the page.  Highlight some text on
 the page and it will re-execute a search with just those words.
 
 Thanks for sharing John. That's a really a neat idea, even if the
 results don't seem particularly relevant for some tests I tried. I was
 curious how it does the matching of page text against the profiles. I
 see from the description at http://vivosearchlight.org that
 EleasticSearch is being used instead of Solr. Any chance Miles
 Worthington (ok I googled) would be willing to share the source code
 on his github account [1], or elsewhere?
 
 //Ed
 
 [1] https://github.com/milesworthington


Re: [CODE4LIB] vivosearchlight

2011-11-21 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu wrote:
 If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search mechanism take 
 a look something one of my colleagues developed.  http://vivosearchlight.org

 It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that will 
 initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile 
 information from several institutions using VIVO (a semantic web 
 application).  From any web page, clicking on the Vivo Searchlight button 
 in your browser will initiate a search and find experts with expertise 
 relevant to the content of the page.  Highlight some text on the page and it 
 will re-execute a search with just those words.

 Thanks for sharing John. That's a really a neat idea, even if the
 results don't seem particularly relevant for some tests I tried. I was
 curious how it does the matching of page text against the profiles. I
 see from the description at http://vivosearchlight.org that
 EleasticSearch is being used instead of Solr. Any chance Miles
 Worthington (ok I googled) would be willing to share the source code
 on his github account [1], or elsewhere?

 //Ed

I second the request. I've been doing a fair amount of work with Node
and ElasticSearch as well lately.

 [1] https://github.com/milesworthington



[CODE4LIB] vivosearchlight

2011-11-20 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu wrote:
 If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search mechanism take a 
 look something one of my colleagues developed.  http://vivosearchlight.org

 It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that will 
 initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile information 
 from several institutions using VIVO (a semantic web application).  From any 
 web page, clicking on the Vivo Searchlight button in your browser will 
 initiate a search and find experts with expertise relevant to the content of 
 the page.  Highlight some text on the page and it will re-execute a search 
 with just those words.

Thanks for sharing John. That's a really a neat idea, even if the
results don't seem particularly relevant for some tests I tried. I was
curious how it does the matching of page text against the profiles. I
see from the description at http://vivosearchlight.org that
EleasticSearch is being used instead of Solr. Any chance Miles
Worthington (ok I googled) would be willing to share the source code
on his github account [1], or elsewhere?

//Ed

[1] https://github.com/milesworthington