Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr

Solr Flair Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr Erik Hatcher erik.hatcher@lucidimagination.com 1

patacriticism.org "Poets are the unacknowledged engineers of the world" - Monna Grémejc 2

Patacritical Projects • RoSe: Rossetti Search rossettiarchive.org • Collex: Collect/Exhibit collex.org 3

serendipity 4

Rossetti Archive http://www.rossettiarchive.org/rose/?query=%2Bpresentation+%2B%28archivetype%3Arap%29 5

NINES on Collex http://www.nines.org/search/saved?user=erikhatcher&name=wombat 6

NINES tag cloud http://www.nines.org/tags 7

Finding the Celtic on Collex http://celtic.ibiblio.org/collex/ 8

Simile Timeline http://celtic.ibiblio.org/timeline/show 9

Geographic http://celtic.ibiblio.org/atlas/show 10

Graphs http://celtic.ibiblio.org/graph/show 11

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) 12

Lucene analysis inverted index from "Taming Text" by Grant Ingersoll and Tom Morton 13

Facets • Sets, buckets • (Un)common / similar metadata • Useful for making sense of large datasets: navigation, foraging, context, visualization • By ﬁeld, date ranges, or dynamic queries 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

Solr Powered Library Systems • VuFind (PHP) • Kochief (Python) • Blacklight (Ruby) • and others 17

• UVA radiation = blacklight • libraries are much more than books • opinionated • Ruby on Rails: best choice for an extensible user interface development framework 18

Blacklight @ UVa 19

Blacklight @ Stanford 20

Blacklight @ AgNIC 21

SolrJS • jQuery-based interactions with Solr • Query navigation state management and widgets • Evolving rapidly: Drupal contributed improvements (see http://drupal.org/project/solrjs) coming soon • Live example: http://solrjs.solrstuff.org/ 22

SolrJS Example 23

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 24

Lucene in Action on Solritas coming soon: lucenebook.com 25

LucidFind http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/?q=user+interface 26

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 27

Shout Out 28

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Solr Flair: Search User Interfaces Powered by Apache Solr

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