Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Renaud Delbru
On 27/04/11 19:50, Walter Underwood wrote: This kind of thing is really easy in an XML database. That is an XPath expression, not even a search. Indeed, in fact SIREn is based on a XML IR technique, i.e., a simplified node-based indexing scheme. -- Renaud Delbru

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Walter Underwood
This kind of thing is really easy in an XML database. That is an XPath expression, not even a search. MarkLogic implements it with search engine technology, but you don't have to care about that. wunder Walter Underwood, MarkLogic On Apr 27, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Renaud Delbru wrote: > On 27/04/

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Renaud Delbru
On 27/04/11 19:37, Renaud Delbru wrote: Hi Jason, On 27/04/11 19:25, Jason Rutherglen wrote: Renaud, Can you provide a brief synopsis of how your system works? SIREn provides a new "field type" for Solr. In this particular SIREn field, the data is not a piece of text, but is organised in a t

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Renaud Delbru
Hi Jason, On 27/04/11 19:25, Jason Rutherglen wrote: Renaud, Can you provide a brief synopsis of how your system works? SIREn provides a new "field type" for Solr. In this particular SIREn field, the data is not a piece of text, but is organised in a table. Then, SIREn provides query object

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread ronotica
Thanks Renaud - I'll look into that asap. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Search-across-related-correlated-multivalue-fields-in-Solr-tp2871176p2871395.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Jason Rutherglen
Renaud, Can you provide a brief synopsis of how your system works? Jason On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Renaud Delbru wrote: > Hi, > > you might want to look at the SIREn plugin [1,2], which allows you to index > and query 1:N relationships such as yours, in a tabular data format [3]. > > [1

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread ronotica
Thanks Jonathan. We thought this through and have done quite a bit of digging on this and saw there was no easy way around this. It was our last attempt to post to the forum and see if there was some killer feature we were missing somehow We thought of the concatenated fields route, but quickly g

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Renaud Delbru
Hi, you might want to look at the SIREn plugin [1,2], which allows you to index and query 1:N relationships such as yours, in a tabular data format [3]. [1] http://siren.sindice.com/ [2] https://github.com/rdelbru/SIREn [3] https://dev.deri.ie/confluence/display/SIREn/Indexing+and+Searching+

Re: Search across related/correlated multivalue fields in Solr

2011-04-27 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
There is no great way. One approach would be to 'de-normalize' at index time, to actually have a field that looks like this: institution_year: 2010.OHIO_ST ; 2007.YALE Then, with some code on client side, you could more easily facet and search how you want. It still doesn't (I don't think