Taxonomy faceting

2011-06-30 Thread Russell B
I have a hierarchical taxonomy of documents that I would like users to be able to search either through search or drill-down faceting. The documents may appear at multiple points in the hierarchy. I've got a solution working as follows: a multivalued field labelled category which for each

Re: Taxonomy faceting

2011-06-30 Thread darren
That's a good way. How does it perform? Another way would be to store the parent topics in a field. Whenever a parent node is drilled-into, simply search for all documents with that parent. Perhaps not as elegant as your approach though. I'd be interested in the performance comparison between

Re: Taxonomy faceting

2011-06-30 Thread Toke Eskildsen
- plants - animals you have to do more requests. Are there better ways to achieve this? Taxonomy faceting is a bit of a mess right now, but it is also an area where a lot is happening. For SOLR, there is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-64 (single path/document hierarchical faceting

Re: Taxonomy faceting

2011-06-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
) : Are there better ways to achieve this? : : Taxonomy faceting is a bit of a mess right now, but it is also an area : where a lot is happening. For SOLR, there is right, some of which i havne't been able to keep up on and can't comment on -- but in my experience if you are serious organizing your

Re: taxonomy faceting

2011-02-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: I have many taxonomies and each document can apply to some of them. I dont : know how many taxonomies they are, so i cant define a field in the schema : for each taxonomy (one field per each taxonomy). : : I want to use these feature but i need to know if i can handle the context : where each

Re: DIH for taxonomy faceting in Lucid webcast

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Hostetter
: : NonFic/Science, how do I turn that into 0/NonFic : : : 1/NonFic/Science using the DIH? : : I don't have any specific suggestions for you -- i've never ... : Thanks Chris. : : What did you use to generate those encodings if not DIH? I've used this gereral approach several

Re: DIH for taxonomy faceting in Lucid webcast

2010-12-23 Thread Erick Erickson
SolrJ is often used when DIH doesn't do what you wish. Using SolrJ is really quite easy, but you're doing the DB queries yourself, often with the appropriate jdbc driver. Within DIH, the transformers, as Chris says, *might* work for you. Best Erick On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Andy

Re: DIH for taxonomy faceting in Lucid webcast

2010-12-23 Thread Lance Norskog
The DIH lets you code in Javascript- you can do anything. On 12/23/10, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.com wrote: SolrJ is often used when DIH doesn't do what you wish. Using SolrJ is really quite easy, but you're doing the DB queries yourself, often with the appropriate jdbc driver.

Re: DIH for taxonomy faceting in Lucid webcast

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Hostetter
: : 1) My categories are stored in database as coded numbers instead of : fully spelled out names. For example I would have a category of 2/7 : and a lookup dictionary to convert 2/7 into NonFic/Science. How do I : do such lookup in DIH? My advice: don't. I thought i mentioned this in that

Re: DIH for taxonomy faceting in Lucid webcast

2010-12-22 Thread Andy
--- On Wed, 12/22/10, Chris Hostetter hossman_luc...@fucit.org wrote: : 2) Once I have the fully spelled out category path such as : NonFic/Science, how do I turn that into 0/NonFic : 1/NonFic/Science using the DIH? I don't have any specific suggestions for you -- i've never tried it

DIH for taxonomy faceting in Lucid webcast

2010-12-19 Thread Andy
Hi, I watched the Lucid webcast: http://www.lucidimagination.com/solutions/webcasts/faceting It talks about encoding hierarchical categories to facilitate faceting. So a category path of NonFicScience would be encoded as the multivalues 0/NonFic 1/NonFic/Science. 1) My categories are stored