| Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
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to view the recorded webinar or download the slides
It’s a safe bet your end users can read and write, but can they search? How can you be sure your search application will know that when users type in “Serious Black of Askaban” it should return Sirius Black of Azkaban from Harry Potter in your online bookstore? Or that “Inglorious Bastards” should find reviews of the …
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By now, many of you have had the opportunity to use the online, searchable version of the LucidWorks Certified Distribution Reference Guide for Solr 1.4. In this post, I’ll describe how we took the original document version of the Reference Guide (LWCDRG), and transformed it into an online resource searched by Solr.
I hope that you might find this useful if you are faced with creating a similar, online searchable service from existing …
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| Working at Lucid Imagination gives me the opportunity to analyze and evaluate a great many instances of Solr implementations, running in some of the largest Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the smallest start-ups. This experience has enabled me to identify many common mistakes and pitfalls that occur, either when starting out with a new Solr implementation, or by not keeping up with the latest improvements and changes.Thanks to my colleague Simon Rosenthal |
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| Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
Introduction to Search Development with Solr
Search Development with Solr by Lucid Imagination is a 3 day instructor-led hands-on in-classroom training course, written and led by the engineers who helped write the Lucene/Solr code. The objective of this course is to provide you with real use cases and teach you how to apply Solr search engine technologies to business requirements. During the course you will learn …
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| Thursday, 4 March 2010 |
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Virtual Class: Solr Essentials
Course Overview:
Targeted to application developers unfamiliar with the basic constructs and functions of Solr and the underlying Lucene libraries, focuses on the basics of getting Solr up and running, importing the data you wish to index, and understanding how the search process works, from end to end. The virtual class expands on key features that Solr uses to make searches more relevant and …
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Short Version
The Apache Lucene Connector Framework project has officially entered incubation. LCF, for short, is going to be a framework for connecting to content repositories like Sharepoint, Documentum, etc. and will make it easy to hook into Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, while, of course, remaining agnostic of the final destination of the data. See the Connectors website and the original proposal for more info. Help wanted!
Long Version
Background
A while back, MetaCarta…
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A recent Slashdot poster asked for Solr-powered “Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces”. First, for some inspiration on what you might want to have in a search user interface, check out Peter Morville’s excellent set of screenshot examples. One of my favorite examples is, of course, from the library space. Morville showcases the NCSU library system site on one of his sets:
Several Solr-powered open source faceted navigation search systems for libraries have been …
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Summary
Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server, by David Smiley and Eric Pugh is a must-have for all new-comers to Solr. It provides a comprehensive overview of the features needed for practically every project, from indexing common data sources to searching with faceting, highlighting, spell checking and then covers deployment and performance topics. One tough issue this book, and practically all books based on open source software, faced was coinciding publication with the release of …
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We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest release of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr.
LucidWorks for Solr v1.4 is a major update for LucidWorks for Solr, incorporating Apache Solr release 1.4, an upgrade for all of the packaged utilities, and two new additions – a reference guide and an installer and update service.
Solr 1.4 Reference Guide
Developed by Lucid Imagination, the new reference guide organizes and unifies key information on all important …
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I’ve long had a passion for improving the findability within libraries. The richness of the cultural artifacts that one can find with a bit of foraging astonishes the imagination. I had the pleasure of working with the Applied Research in Patacriticism group at the University of Virginia. While building the first version of Collex (collect/exhibit) for NINES I was approached by Bess Sadler asking about the viability of using Solr for searching and faceting on …
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