Below is the official announcement for our exciting upcoming webinar.
This one is near and dear to my heart, so I'll be eagerly listening
too, and participating with my experiences as it fits with the flow of
the webinar.
I'm a card-carrying library geek, and I've had the pleasure of working
alongside Bess Sadler at the University of Virginia as we began the
Blacklight[1] project. Now at Stanford, she and Naomi Dushay continue
to shine Solr on collections of various types. And Tom Burton-West
and the Hathi Trust project have put Lucene and Solr through some very
heavy challenges, breaking Lucene's limits even! (and ultimately
working to alleviate them). The scale of Tom's project is massive in
scale and importance, with OCR challenges in various languages. I've
been blessed to know all three of these folks personally thanks to the
code4lib community in which I continue to participate.
[1] http://projectblacklight.org/ - a vibrant open source project
using Ruby on Rails as an elegant and flexible discovery front-end for
Solr.
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Forget the dust jackets and Aunt Shirley in 'Reference': libraries
today are on the screaming edge of Lucene/Solr implementations. Solr
applications for library data offer practical, general purpose
solutions to some of the knottiest search problems: daunting indexes,
metadata whipped into shape, deep field faceting, data types a mile
wide, phrase queries that will make your head spin, unforgiving
relevancy for the masses, even OCR. Join Stanford's Bess Sadler and
Naomi Dushay, plus Tom Burton-West of the Hathi Trust Project, for a
walking tour of how Solr can tame the wildest of search challenges,
including:
• Strategies for dealing with non-normalized data
• Leveraging field data and user experience for improved relevancy
• Tackling big and unexpected phrase queries
Join us for a free webinar
Thursday, April 29, 2010
11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT
Go here to sign up:
http://www.eventsvc.com/lucidimagination/042910?trk=WR-APR2010B-AP
