[open-literature] open correspondence server

Mon Oct 4 19:44:35 UTC 2010

  Hi Rufus,

Apologies for the delay in replying, I've been offline for a bit.

I'm looking at Xapian for full search (but I'll try Solr as well, was 
having a quick look at it today).

I was mooting the idea of using pyparsing for some of the parsing the 
names and so on for to get better results which can be categorised for 
the RDF.  To paraphrase somebody though, it might be like taking a 
howitzer to a sparrow shoot. Since I'm still fairly new to the 
virtualenv, I'll leave it for now and find a different method.

I'm trying to start getting search into the letters by the end of the 
month, probably through Xapian (which I vaguely remembering doing 
something with for Open Milton).

Re: migrating Open Correspondence. I'm in and out but I'll try to be 
around on IRC when I'm a bit more awake during one evening.

I think Open Correspondence is beginning to get there :)

Iain

On 03/10/2010 13:10, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> Not sure exactly what you are up to but I'd strongly recommend we use
> something like xapian (used on openshakespeare) or solr (used on many
> of our other projects). They are both great tools and take care of
> things like stemming etc etc.
>
> Re. pyparsing i doubt it is installed as a core module so I'd suggest
> installing it into the virtualenv if you need it. (We really need to
> migrate opencorrespondence off eu1 to eu0 asa btw).
>
> I'll aim to be on irc if you're around.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> PS: i don't think there is harm in cc'ing these requests to
> openliterature or to okfn-help (and useful i think for others to
> participate)
>
> On 3 October 2010 12:13, print.crimes<print.crimes at yatterings.com>  wrote:
>>   Hi Rufus,
>>
>> Currently playing around with searching on Open Correspondence and improving
>> the RDF output. I'm playing around with pyparsing to do it. However, is
>> pyparsing on that server? If so, is there a particular version of it?
>>
>> Hope that all is well. Yours,
>>
>> Iain
>>
>>
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