Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr (ApacheCon US 2009, Lucene Meetup)

Solr Flair Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr Erik Hatcher erik.hatcher@lucidimagination.com http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ LuceneAtApacheConUs2009

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

patacriticism.org "Poets are the unacknowledged engineers of the world" - Monna Grémejc

Patacritical Projects • RoSe: Rossetti Search rossettiarchive.org • Collex: Collect/Exhibit collex.org

serendipity

Rossetti Archive http://www.rossettiarchive.org/rose/?query=%2Bpresentation+%2B%28archivetype%3Arap%29

NINES on Collex http://www.nines.org/search/saved?user=erikhatcher&name=wombat

NINES tag cloud http://www.nines.org/tags

Finding the Celtic on Collex http://celtic.ibiblio.org/collex/

Simile Timeline http://celtic.ibiblio.org/timeline/show

Geographic http://celtic.ibiblio.org/atlas/show

Graphs http://celtic.ibiblio.org/graph/show

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)

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

Tang on Flare

• UVA radiation = blacklight • libraries are much more than books • opinionated • Ruby on Rails: best choice for an extensible user interface development framework

Blacklight @ UVa

Blacklight @ Stanford

Blacklight @ AgNIC

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/

SolrJS Example

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

Lucene in Action on Solritas coming soon: lucenebook.com

LucidFind http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/?q=user+interface

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

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Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr (ApacheCon US 2009, Lucene Meetup)

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