Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr (ApacheCon US 2009, Lucene Meetup)
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The document discusses various user interfaces powered by Apache Solr, highlighting features such as document indexing, faceting, and scalability. It mentions several projects and tools like Solr Flare and Ajax-Solr for enhanced user experience and search functionalities. The author emphasizes the importance of user interface design in facilitating exploration and discovery within data systems.
Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr (ApacheCon US 2009, Lucene Meetup)
- 1. Solr Flair Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr Erik Hatcher erik.hatcher@lucidimagination.com http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ LuceneAtApacheConUs2009
- 2. My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay
- 3. patacriticism.org "Poets are the unacknowledged engineers of the world" - Monna Grémejc
- 4. Patacritical Projects • RoSe: Rossetti Search rossettiarchive.org • Collex: Collect/Exhibit collex.org
- 5. serendipity
- 8. NINES tag cloud http://www.nines.org/tags
- 9. Finding the Celtic on Collex http://celtic.ibiblio.org/collex/
- 13. Solr • Data Search server, powered by Lucene DB • Document Document Indexing/searching via HTTP, responses Documents in XML, Ruby, PHP, Python, XSLT, etc • Faceting Solr • Scalability: caching, replication, distributed search • Integrates: spell checking, highlighting, Search Results more-like-this, clustering, rich document indexing, data import handling (RDBMS, and more)
- 14. Solr Flare • Ruby on Rails plugin • facet field detection, autosuggest, saved search, inverted facets, pie charts, Simile Timeline and Exhibit integration • Useful for rapid prototyping • See Flare's big brother, Blacklight, for production quality
- 15. Tang on Flare
- 16. • UVA radiation = blacklight • libraries are much more than books • opinionated • Ruby on Rails: best choice for an extensible user interface development framework
- 17. Blacklight @ UVa
- 20. AJAX-Solr • Forked and improved from the now deprecated SolrJS • JavaScript framework agnostic (jQuery, prototype, Dojo, etc) • Query navigation state management and widgets • http://github.com/evolvingweb/AJAX-Solr • Example of SolrJS on Reuters data http://solrjs.solrstuff.org/
- 21. SolrJS Example
- 22. Solritas • celeritas: swiftness, speed (Latin), origin of the symbol "c" for the speed of light • solritas:Velocity template rendering of Solr responses • Useful for rapid prototyping and more
- 23. Lucene in Action on Solritas coming soon: lucenebook.com
- 25. Food for thought • The interface is the application • URLs are UI too! • Facets aren't just for lists (with counts) • be creative: clouds, maps, graphs, etc... • entice users to forage and browse, facilitate serendipitous discovery