| Monday, 21 September 2009 | to | Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
I will be presenting “Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr” at the upcoming EdUI 2009 Conference. I’m honored to be finally speaking at the same conference as my great friend and UI mentor, Molly Holzschlag. I’ve got my work cut out for me to come up with a presentation worthy for a “UI” conference with folks of this caliber headlining – I’m even looking forward to the goodies I’ll try pull out of my hat. Here’s the abstract:
Solr powers library, government, and enterprise search systems in thousands of applications. This talk will showcase the various technologies and techniques used to build effective user search, browse, and find interfaces on top of Solr. Several of the full featured open-source library Solr front-ends will be shown, including Blacklight and VuFind. We’ll also demonstrate several front-end frameworks including:
• SolrJS – a JavaScript widget library
• Solr Flare – a Ruby on Rails plugin featuring Simile Timeline integration, Ajax suggest, and more
• Solritas – a builtin lightweight UI templating framework
Hi Erik,
If you’re preseting on solrjs in September, you might be interested to know that over the last few months, Evolving Web have undertaken to package solrjs as a Drupal module to seamlessly integrate with the ApacheSolr module by Robert Douglass.
The code and description should be put up within the next 2 days (in time for Drupalcon Paris) at the following url: http://drupal.org/project/solrjs
As you can imagine, in the course of a few months of work, we’ve had to put in quite a bit of work into the SolrJS library itself, effectively making a fork. Over the next 30-60 days, we’re hoping to coordinate with with Matthias Epheser (the original author of SolrJS) on merging the two, if that’s possible
Because of how trivial our Drupal module makes it to deploy SolrJS on a website, we hope that it’s use will grow quite rapidly.
If you’re interested in discussing this with me, please feel free to get in touch.
Finally, I’ve had the second edition of Lucene in Action on Amazon’s pre-order since May. Really looking forward to it!
August 24, 2009 07:25 — Alex Dergachev
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