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The Solr 2012 Preconference Notes of Greatness:
How to get titles like Nature (specifically, big journals like "Nature") to appear near the top:
* exact title match fields, boost those. (left and right anchored)
* create boost fields on index for specific things (like serials, you want to boost)
Things coming down the pike on solr:
* Solr 4.0: hierarchical facets? (do any nightlies work?)
* new way of handling other languages other than CJK
Replication:
* works fine, but slower than scp for ingests.
* jrochkind: not as slower as you'd expect.
* ingest with higher mergefactor for speed, then optimize to 1 merge segment, then use on read only
* etsy: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/01/23/solr-bittorrent-index-replication/
How to get started on solr?
* don't be afraid to ask on list
* don't be afraid to use jetty
* buy this book: http://www.amazon.com/Apache-Solr-3-1-Cookbook-Rafal/dp/1849512183
* look in comments, don't necessarily trust the wiki
* don't use the example, start from scratch
* lucidimagination.com : run by erikhatcher, solr conference (http://www.lucenerevolution.com/ ).
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR
* http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mailing_lists.html
How to get data in:
* sunburnt in python ( https://github.com/tow/sunburnt http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sunburnt)
* solrmarc for marc
* rsolr for ruby ( https://github.com/mwmitchell/rsolr )
How to track results?
* google analytics
* put in specific fields for tracking what people search for and click, especially which result number.
What are people doing to present info to user? Just from solr?
* one method is to mark some fields in solr as "display only"
* hathi (per Tom Burton-West) takes user to first page of document, then allows user to search, (against a separate index)
Relevance testing:
* types of tests that should always be true (hyphenation should work this way)
* worry about adding too many "result X should appear here"
* cucumber http://cukes.info/
* talk to ndushay about stanford's use of this
Tika (http://tika.apache.org/ ) use with Solr?
* Danish Web archive used it.
