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The following page has been changed by BessSadler: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Solr4Lib ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Besides the great pointers on the IntegratingSolr page, libraries integrating Solr have their own unique challenges that the rest of the computer programming world is advised to steer clear of. Brain storming some ideas of what can go here: + Besides the great pointers on the IntegratingSolr page, libraries integrating Solr have their own unique challenges that the rest of the computer programming world is advised to steer clear of. - * (MARCXML/MODS/MADS/EAD/TEI) -> Solr XML XSLT examples - * Terry Reese has kicked this area off to a great start, video and all, showing [http://oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset/blog/archives/418 MARC -> Solr via MarcEdit] - * Faceting on LCSH experiences + = How to index MaRC records into solr = + + * solrmarc is a java solution used by both Blacklight and VuFind, available at http://code.google.com/p/solrmarc/ + * Terry Reese has a video of how to use MarcEdit in this way: [http://oregonstate.edu/%7Ereeset/blog/archives/418 MARC -> Solr via MarcEdit] + * You can also use [http://marc4j.tigris.org/ marc4j]'s command-line utilities to convert binary marc records to MARCXML, and use XSLT to convert these to solr add documents, but be warned that this process is significantly slower than other methods mentioned here. = Library Catalogs based on Solr = * http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/ (Django/python) - * http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/ (Blacklight) + * [http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/] ([http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/ Blacklight]) * http://www.vufind.org/ (VuFind) + = Other resources = + * There are many people on the code4lib mailing list or on the #code4lib irc channel who have tackled this issue and would be happy to help. + - = MARC4J = - Emily Lynema posted the following to the [http://groups.google.com/group/code4libpreconf code4lib preconference list]: - {{{ - For any solr4lib folks who are Java friendly and looking for a good - (aka, fast and easy) way to go from MARC to MARCXML. - I just discovered that the MARC4J package has a class that can be run - as a command line utility (MarcXmlDriver) to convert a MARC file to a - MARCXML file. I think it took me maybe 10 minutes to process 2K of - records. It also does MARC8 to UTF-8 conversion. - - Oh, and I'm pretty sure the MarcXmlDriver will also post-process the - MARCXML output via user-defined xslt. Although I haven't tested that - part myself yet. - - http://marc4j.tigris.org/ - }}} -
