[ckan-dev] Search inside data files

Tue Mar 8 08:04:36 UTC 2016

There is also the aomewhat simpler approach from Hamburg:

https://github.com/transparenzportalhamburg/ckanext-fulltext

-Matt
On 7 Mar 2016 3:40 p.m., "David Read" <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
wrote:

> Vangelis kindly responded by mentioning the main technologies that
> dataopen.eu is based on:
>
> Apache Tika, MariaDB, Sphinx Search & Redis
>
> The back-end glue is Scala, and is sadly closed-source. But it really
> shows the possibilities for us all to evaluate. We'll certainly be
> watching it and people's interest in it as a way to search CKAN in a
> deeper way.
>
> In the meantime, I'd love to know if people have ideas in how this
> could be done for CKAN.
>
> David
>
> On 7 March 2016 at 11:38, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
> wrote:
> > I noticed the implementation of search *inside* of the PDF/XLS/CSV
> > files listed in CKANs:
> >
> > http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/searching-open-data-never-0
> > http://dataopen.eu
> >
> > Since it's associated with Open Knowledge it would be great if the
> > rest of the CKAN community can take advantage of the code - does
> > anyone know? I've just sent an email to Vangelis Banos to ask more.
> >
> > I wonder if anyone else has attempted this sort of thing? I imagine
> > it's a challenge to create such a big index. Our CKAN SOLR index is
> > big enough already with just the metadata!
> >
> > David
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