Findability: Designing the Search Experience
Join special guest Tyler Tate, user experience designer at UK-based TwigKit Search, for a high-level discussion of key user interface strategies for search that can be leveraged with Lucene and Solr. The presentation covers:
- Ten things to know about designing the search experience
- When to assume users know what they’re looking for — and when not to
- Navigation/discovery techniques, such as faceted navigation, tag clouds, histograms and more
- Practical considerations in leveraging suggestions into search interactions
Mastering the Lucene Index: Post-processing. Performance. Results.
Lucene is at the heart of open source search: the index is at the heart of Lucene.
Lucene/Solr index implementation is critical to the performance of your search application and the quality of your results — and not just at indexing time. If you're developing applications in Lucene/Solr, your index will reward care and attention — adding power to your running search application — all the more so as you inevitably increase the scope of your query traffic and the dimensions of your data.
Authors' Podcast: Lucene in Action, Second Edition
Since its first publication in 2004 Lucene in Action has been the Bible for those wanting to learn more about Apache Lucene. Recently, Manning Publications the book's publisher has released a long awaited second edition of the book. With over 100 pages of new content, Lucene In Action Second Edition is and remains the definitive guide to effectively integrating the Lucene java libraries into your applications. The book details this mega-hit superfast search technology, Lucene's easy-to-use API, features like numeric fields, payloads, and near-real-time search capabilities and much more.
Now, listen in as Grant Ingersoll speaks with Lucene in Action co-authors, Mike McCandless Erik Hatcher, and Otis Gospodnetic, covering the book's goals, new material and new features, how the book can help search application developers working in Solr, and more.
Introduction to Solr for the Enterprise, with Grant Ingersoll
Solr is the Lucene search server. It presents a web service layer built atop the Lucene search library, extending it to provide application users with a ready-to-use search platform. Solr brings with it operational and administrative capabilities like web services, faceting, configurable schema, caching, replication, and administrative tools for configuration, data loading, statistics, logging, cache management, and more.
Cutting Search Chaos: Faster Findability for Lucene/Solr
Smartlogic, makers of Semaphore, have partnered with Lucid Imagination to cut through chaos for better findability. Smartlogic Semaphore adds a layer of findability on top of native Lucene/Solr's search, along with a rich set of APIs, enhancing content metadata using automated classification for dramatically better search results and improved navigation. Join Smartlogic's Toby Conrad and Lucid Imagination's Tom Hill for a detailed debrief on how combining Semaphore with Lucene/Solr turns a good search engine into the platform for compelling, intuitive search applications.
Experts Found: How Cisco’s Pulse uses Lucene/Solr to put Social Networks to work
Cisco’s new PulseTM delivers a powerful platform that uses embedded Lucene/Solr search technology to harvest expertise hidden in your organization’s social network. Using cutting edge enterprise search techniques developed at Cisco with the help of Lucid Imagination, Cisco combines automated content discovery with social search and analytics, indexing a broad range of media in real time — including email, documents, and even video — that deliver results into tools you use every day.
Rapid Prototyping Search Applications with Solr
Join Erik Hatcher, Apache Solr and Lucene committer and co-founder of Lucid Imagination, for a workshop on getting started with Solr, the Lucene Enterprise Search Server. Erik shows you how to use LucidWorks for Solr, to iteratively work your way from raw data to full featured search application, complete with features such as faceting, highlighting, and spellchecking. (50 minutes)
Download the slides and follow along with the video.
Getting Started with Solr 1.4 Tutorial
Learn how to get started with Solr 1.4 with this useful video featuring Tom Hill, a Solr developer and trainer. Below, we have also included a quick Start Guide and a printed transcript of the video to help you get your Solr search platform up and running quickly.
Rapid Prototyping Search Applications with Solr
Join Erik Hatcher, Apache Solr and Lucene committer and co-founder of Lucid Imagination, for a workshop on getting started with Solr, the Lucene Enterprise Search Server. Erik shows you how to use LucidWorks for Solr, to iteratively work your way from raw data to full featured search application, complete with features such as faceting, highlighting, and spellchecking.