[Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

2014-02-05 Thread Stefano Bargioni
The Koha Gruppo Italiano is proud to present a new project for the development of Koha. Recently the community has shown a big interest in substituting Zebra with a new search engine. How this is done -- whether Zebra is replaced or complemented, etc. -- will determine the workload and

Re: [Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

2014-02-05 Thread Martin Renvoize
It's great to see such an interest in putting ElasticSearch into Koha. May I suggest you try to catch up with Chris Cormack.. he stated in the 3.16 Architectural Goals mail thread on this list that he was already working on integrating ElasticSearch (some Catalyst with Bywater collaboration I

Re: [Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

2014-02-05 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     In general for your efforts: bravissimi! :D I feel that it's much needed. We are very interested to hearing your first impressions, your suggestions etc. about this proposed project. Please respond to this e-mail if you have any comments. Probably the best contributions

Re: [Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

2014-02-05 Thread Colin Campbell
I'd like to see some effort up front on defining what we want from search and how we evaluate what works. A couple of days ago I did a totally unscientific survey of a few uk public and academic libraries' opac searches. They'd all obviously spent money and resources on buying nice search