[open-literature] open correspondence server

[Rufus Pollock]

On 4 October 2010 20:44, print.crimes <print.crimes at yatterings.com> wrote:
>  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).

I think you are right that Xapian is probably the best way to start out.

> 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.

Great. Thursday evening this week would be good for me ...

> I think Open Correspondence is beginning to get there :)

Definitely, I am working on a new visualization for the front page --
when I get a spare hour!

Rufus