Hi Dan, You might want to take a look at pazpar2 [1], an open-source, federated search engine with first-class support for SOLR (with addition to standard information retrieval protocols like Z39.50/SRU).
[1] http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2 On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: > Hello list, > > A student of a friend of mine made his masters on that topic, especially > about federated ranking. > > I have copied his text here: > > http://direct.hoplahup.net/tmp/FederatedRanking-Koblischke-2009.pdf > > Feel free to contact me to contact Robert Koblischke for questions. > > Paul > > > On 28 août 2013, at 20:35, Dan Davis wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Amit Jha <shanuu....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Would you like to create something like > >> http://knimbus.com > >> > > > > I work at the National Library of Medicine. We are moving our library > > catalog to a newer platform, and we will probably include articles. The > > article's content and meta-data are available from a number of web-scale > > discovery services such as PRIMO, Summon, EBSCO's EDS, EBSCO's > "traditional > > API". Most libraries use open source solutions to avoid the cost of > > purchasing an expensive enterprise search platform. We are big; we > > already have a closed-source enterprise search engine (and our own home > > grown Entrez search used for PubMed). Since we can already do > Federated > > Search with the above, I am evaluating the effort of adding such to > Apache > > Solr. Because NLM data is used in the open relevancy project, we > actually > > have the relevancy decisions to decide whether we have done a good job of > > it. > > > > I obviously think it would be "Fun" to add Federated Search to Apache > Solr. > > > > *Standard disclosure *- my opinion's do not represent the opinions of NIH > > or NLM. "Fun" is no reason to spend tax-payer money. Enhancing > Apache > > Solr would reduce the risk of "putting all our eggs in one basket." and > > there may be some other relevant benefits. > > > > We do use Apache Solr here for more than one other project... so keep up > > the good work even if my working group decides to go with the > closed-source > > solution. > > -- Cheers, Jakub
