Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

August 21, 2013

Techniques To Improve Your Solr Search Results

Filed under: Drupal,Solr — Patrick Durusau @ 4:28 pm

Techniques To Improve Your Solr Search Results by Chris Johnson.

From the post:

Solr is a tremendously popular option for providing search functionality in Drupal. While Solr provides pretty good default results, making search results great requires analysis of what your users search for, consideration of which data is sent to Solr, and tuning of Solr’s ‘boosting’. In this post, I will show you a few techniques that can help you leverage Solr to produce great results. I will specifically be covering the Apache Solr Search module. Similar concepts exist in the Search API Solr Search module, but with different methods of configuring boosting and altering data sent to Solr.

If you are interested in using Solr in a Drupal environment, here is a starting place for you.

January 21, 2013

Drupal + Azure = OData Repository

Filed under: Azure Marketplace,Drupal,Odata,Topic Maps — Patrick Durusau @ 7:31 pm

Using Drupal on Windows Azure to create an OData repository by Brian Benz.

From the post:

OData is an easy to use protocol that provides access to any data defined as an OData service provider. Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., is collaborating with several other organizations and individuals in development of the OData standard in the OASIS OData Technical Committee, and the growing OData ecosystem is enabling a variety of new scenarios to deliver open data for the open web via standardized URI query syntax and semantics. To learn more about OData, including the ecosystem, developer tools, and how you can get involved, see this blog post.

In this post I’ll take you through the steps to set up Drupal on Windows Azure as an OData provider. As you’ll see, this is a great way to get started using both Drupal and OData, as there is no coding required to set this up.

It also won’t cost you any money – currently you can sign up for a 90 day free trial of Windows Azure and install a free Web development tool (Web Matrix) and a free source control tool (Git) on your local machine to make this happen, but that’s all that’s required from a client point of view. We’ll also be using a free tier for the Drupal instance, so you may not need to pay even after the 90 day trial, depending on your needs for bandwidth or storage.

So let’s get started!

Definitely worthwhile to spend some time getting to know the OData specification. It is currently under active development at OASIS.

Doesn’t do everything you might want but tries to do the things everyone needs as a basis for other services.

Thoughts on how to represent “merged” entities in OData subject to the conditions:

  1. Entities and their unique identifiers are not re-written, and
  2. Solution is consistent with the base OData data model?

Thinking back to the original text of ISO/IEC 13250 which required presentation of topic as merged, whether bits moved about to create a “merged” representation or not.

(Disclosure: I am a member of the OData TC.)

November 27, 2012

Adobe CQ5 – OpenCalais Integration [Drupal too!]

Filed under: Content Management System (CMS),Drupal,OpenCalais — Patrick Durusau @ 5:35 am

Adobe CQ5 – OpenCalais Integration by Mateusz Kula.

From the post:

In the massive amount of information available on the Internet it is getting more and more difficult to find relevant and valuable content and categorize it in one way or another. No doubt tagging this overwhelming amount of data is becoming more and more crucial from the SEO and digital marketing point of view as it plays important role in site positioning and allows end users a keyword search. Problems appear when editors are not scrupulous enough to add tags for new pages, press releases, blogs and tweets and to update them when content significantly changes. The worst case scenario is when there is a CMS filled with a whole bunch of untagged content. Then it may take too much time and resources to catch up with tagging. OpenCalais turns out to be a great solutions to such problems and what is more it allows for auto-tagging and can be easily integrated with other services.

An interesting take on integrating OpenCalais with Adobe’s enterprise content management system, CQ5.

Suspect there are topic map authoring lessons here as well.

Rather than seeing topic map editing as always a separate activity, integrating it into content management workflow, automated to the degree possible, could be a move in the right direction.

BTW, there is an OpenCalais module for Drupal, in case you are interested.

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