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, a spatial search company, approached us…

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It’s that time of year, so I thought I would take a look back at the year that was for the Lucene Ecosystem and maybe look ahead just a little bit too.

First and foremost, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that the Apache Lucene communities are thriving.  Not only is it a great time to be involved in open source, it’s a great time to be involved in Lucene.  Both as a…

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Slides from the first Lucene/Solr SF Bay Area meetup are now available here.

Thanks to everyone who participated.

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Another year, another successful ApacheCon Europe, at least as far as Lucene, Solr and I are concerned.  This year, like last, Erik Hatcher and I had trainings on Lucene and Solr.  Both were well attended, despite the economy, showing once again the power of open source and the fact that people are still invested in search.  (If you missed the training, see here for alternatives.)

During the conference, there were several talks on Lucene, Solr,  Mahout and…

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