You could be up and running with Blacklight by following the quickstart
instructions in only a few minutes, but Ruby and RoR know-how will be needed to
go further with the types of customizations you mentioned. Some things will be
purely in configuration sections (but still within Ruby code files) and done
easily, but some other customizations will require deeper knowledge.
With only a few minutes (given the prerequisites already installed) to give it
a try, might as well give it a go :) The Blacklight community is very helpful
too, so ask on their e-mail list for assistance, or tap into the #blacklight
IRC channel.
Erik
On Oct 25, 2011, at 05:53 , Memory Makers wrote:
> Looks very interesting -- actually I looked at it a while back but in a
> different context -- for a non RoR person how much of a learning curve is it
> to set up?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Blacklight - http://projectblacklight.org/
>>
>> It's a full featured application fronting Solr. It's Ruby on Rails based,
>> and powers many library front-ends but is becoming much more general purpose
>> for other domains. See examples here:
>> https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Examples
>>
>> Also, the forensics domain has used it as well, as mentioned in the slides
>> and talk I attended at Lucene Revolution earlier this year: <
>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/06/01/solr-and-law-enforcement-highly-relevant-results-can-be-a-crime/
>>>
>>
>> Often the decision for an application layer like this is determined by the
>> programming language and frameworks used. Blacklight is "opinionated" (as
>> any other concrete implementation would be) in this regard. If it fits your
>> tastes, it's a great technology to use.
>>
>> Erik
>>
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 15:56 , Memory Makers wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings guys,
>>>
>>> Is there a good front end application / interface for solr?
>>>
>>> Features I'm looking for are:
>>> configure query interface (using non programatic features)
>>> configure pagination
>>> configure bookmarking of results
>>> export results of a query to a csv or other format (JSON, etc.)
>>>
>>> Is there any demand for such an application?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>>
