I've got a couple of questions for the community...
* what's the simplest way to get Solr up and running with a
relatively richly schema'd index of a Wikipedia dump?
What I'm looking for is something as easy as something along these
lines:
java -Dsolr.solr.home=./wikipedia_solr_home -jar start.jar
cat wikipedia.bz2 | wikipedia_solr_indexer
My goal is to index wikipedia in order to demonstrate search to a
class of middle school kids that I've volunteered to teach for a
couple of hours. Which brings me to my next question...
* anyone have ideas on some basic hands-on ways of teaching search
engine fundamentals?
One idea I have is to bring some actual "documents", say a poster
board with a sentence written largely on it, have the students
physically *tokenize* the document by cutting it up and
lexicographically building the term dictionary. Thoughts on taking it
further welcome!
Thanks all.
Erik
