Stupid Solr tricks: Introduction (SST #0)
Bill Dueber writes:
Those of you who read this blog regularly (Hi Mom!) know that while we do a lot of stuff at the University of Michigan Library, our bread-and-butter these days are projects that center around Solr.
Right now, my production Solr is running an ancient nightly of version 1.4 (i.e., before 1.4 was even officially released), and reflects how much I didn’t know when we first started down this path. My primary responsibility is for Mirlyn, our catalog, but there’s plenty of smart people doing smart things around here, and I’d like to be one of them.
Solr has since advanced to 3.x (with version 4 on the horizon), and during that time I’ve learned a lot more about Solr and how to push it around. More importantly, I’ve learned a lot more about our data, the vagaries in the MARC/AACR2 that I process and how awful so much of it really is.
So…starting today I’m going to be doing some on-the-blog experiments with a new version of Solr, reflecting some of the problems I’ve run into and ways I think we can get more out of Solr.
Definitely a series to watch, or to contribute to, or better yet, to start for your software package of choice!