Is there any way to assign metadata to terms in a field and then filter on that metadata when using that field as a facet?
For example, I have a collection of news articles in my index. Each article has a field that contains tags based on the topics discussed in the article. An article might have the tags "Barack Obama" and "Chicago". I want to assign metadata describing what type of entity each tag is. For these tags the metadata would be "person" for "Barack Obama" and "place" for "Chicago". Then I want to issue a facet query that returns only "person" facets. I can think of two possible solutions for this, both with shortcomings. 1) I could create a field for each metadata category. So the schema would have the fields "tag_person" and "tag_place". The problem with this method is that I am limited to filtering by a single criterion for each of my queries. 2) I could leave the Solr schema unmodified and post-process the query. This solution is less elegant than one that could be completely contained within Solr. I also imagine that it would be less performant. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Asif -- Asif Rahman Lead Engineer - NewsCred a...@newscred.com http://platform.newscred.com
