[okfn-help] Solr on OKF projects

print.crimes print.crimes at yatterings.com
Wed Oct 6 19:21:58 UTC 2010


  Hi Rufus,

Thanks for this. I'll have a play with both Xapian and Solr here, though 
I suspect that Xapian might be the better option for Open Correspondence 
as it leaves it in line with the Shakespeare / Milton sets of code. I'll 
see and come back and bear in mind the set up costs of Solr.

Iain
On 05/10/2010 18:17, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> On 4 October 2010 20:52, print.crimes<print.crimes at yatterings.com>  wrote:
>>   Hi Rufus,
>>
>> Sorry one more thing. Off the top of your head, would you know which OKF
>> projects are using Solr or which Solr library they use? I'm assuming its the
>> one that shipped with Solr 1.2 but just wanted to chekc before diving off
>> into the wrong library.
> You want this python library:<http://code.google.com/p/solrpy/>
>
> A simple example of usage (for COINS db search):
>
> <http://bitbucket.org/okfn/coins/src/tip/querysolr.py>
>
> BTW: setting up solr is a bit of a hassle and we already have it
> running on one of the OKF servers so we could set you up an
> experimental 'core' if you want (though obviously a local install is
> best for dev purposes!)
>
> Rufus
>






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