Folks, here's an upcoming Solr webinar sponsored by my employer. It's Hoss on faceting, so it should be good!
-Yonik http://lucenerevolution.org Lucene/Solr Conference, Boston Oct 7-8 --------------------------------------- Webinar Details -------------------------------- Join us for a free webcast Mastering the Power of Faceted Search with Chris Hostetter Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST / 17:00 GMT Click here to sign up http://www.eventsvc.com/lucidimagination/event/f5d87726f8ab4ed4911aad605f94f455?trk=AP Few search features have contributed as much to findability and user search experience as Facets. By organizing and classifying underlying information into an intuitive method for filtering information, faceted searching gives users a powerful tool for navigation and discovery. Once the province of costly proprietary commercial systems, the Faceted Searching capabilities of the Apache Solr Open Source Search have led developers around the world to build this popular feature into their search apps. Yet many of its more powerful features are not as widely known and used, and offer yet more powerful improvements to the search experience. Join Apache Lucene/Solr committer Chris Hostetter of Lucid Imagination for an in depth technical workshop on the what, why and how of faceting with Solr, the Lucene Search Server. This presentation will cover: * the different types of facets that Solr supports * techniques for dealing with complex faceting use cases * performance factors to be aware of * new faceting features on the horizon About the presenter: Chris "Hossman" Hostetter is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation, and serves on the Lucene Project Management Committee. Prior to joining Lucid Imagination in 2010 to work full time on Solr development, he spent 11 years as Principal Software Engineer for CNET Networks, thinking about searching "structured data" that was never as structured as it should have been.
