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 objects to query a specific cell (or group of
cell) of this table, a specific row (or group of rows), etc.
So, let's take the example of ronotica,
you want to index a 1:N relationships between students and educations.
Your Solr document will look like:
doc {
student_id: 100
firstname: john
lastname: doe
education: {
[[2008], [OHIO_ST]],
[[2010]], [YALE]]
}
}
where student_id, firstname and lastname are normal solr fields, and
education is a siren field. This field represents a table with two
columns, degreeYear and Institution, and where each row represent an
entry, or record, associated to the student.
Then, you can use SIREn to query a document having a row matching 2010
and Yale. In this case, SIREn will not return you the john doe student.
I hope my brief synopsis and example is clear,
let me know if there is something that you don't understand (maybe in
private).
Regards,
--
Renaud Delbru
