Presentation of Apache Solr for TYPO3 in a lightning talk at Berlin Buzzwords

1. Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

2. Open Source Enterprise Search
meets
Open Source Enterprise CMS

3. TYPO3
What is TYPO3
Free and Open Source Enterprise CMS
Estimated 500.000 installations worldwide
Over 4.500 public extensions
Community driven development
Conferences in Europe and North America
2x Google Summer of Code participant
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

4. TYPO3
Core Features
Page tree and content elements
Stable, scalable, and extendable CMS Framework
Multi: language, site, domain support
Flexible templating system
Complete user permission management
Workflows and Versioning
...
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

5. TYPO3 is a great CMS
but ... its search needed improvements
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

6. Apache Solr for TYPO3
www.typo3-solr.com
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

7. Apache Solr for TYPO3
History
Prototype in summer 2008
Kick-off February 2009
First goal „Acts like Indexed Search“
Organized funding
September 2009 release of v1.0
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

8. Apache Solr for TYPO3
Components
Indexing
Searching
Rendering of Results
Analysis and Statistics
Administration
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

9. Apache Solr for TYPO3
Challenges
Rendering of pages in TYPO3
Respecting Access Restrictions for content
Indexing of files
Easy setup for Non-Java people
Integrating / Accessing Solr
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

10. Apache Solr for TYPO3
Solutions
Record Monitor and Indexing Queue
Custom Solr Query Parser plugin
Integration of Apache Tika
Fully automated bash install script
SolrPhpClient and JSON Response Writer
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

11. Apache Solr for TYPO3
Features
Faccetted Search - facet.field, facet.range, facet.query
File Indexing - Apache Tika
Multi-Site and Multi-language handling
Spellchecking / Did you mean
Field Boosting
Autocomplete / Suggestions
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

12. Apache Solr for TYPO3
Upcoming
More like this
Content Elevation
Spatial Search
Administration of Stopwords, Synonyms, Protected Words from TYPO3
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share

13. Thanks
www.typo3-solr.com
Apache Solr for TYPO3 Inspiring people to
Open Source Search meets Open Source CMS share