The first in a series of posts on Solr and the ISFDB. (Try Solr-ISFDB for all the posts.)
ISFDB = Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
A bit over 650,000 documents when this series started last January so we aren’t talking “big data” but its a fun data set. And the lessons to be learned here will stay us in good stead with much larger data sets.
I haven’t read all the posts yet but did notice comments about modeling relationships. As I work through the posts, will see how close/far away that modeling comes to a topic maps approach.
Working through something like this won’t hurt in terms of preparing for Lucene/Solr certification either. Haven’t decided on that but until we have a topic map certification it would not hurt.