Month: March 2009

[Only, of course, if you’re using Solr. Otherwise, that’d be dumb.] We’ve been working on Mirlyn2-Beta, our installation of VuFind for some time now (don’t let the fancy-pants name scare you off), and the further we get into it, the more obvious it is that I want to move as much data normalization into Solr itself as possible. Arguments about how much business logic to move into the database layer, in the form of foreign-key requirements, cascading inserts and deletes, stored procedures, etc. are as old as the features themselves. Solid arguments for and against are made on all sides,…

OK. I’m done with it, and this time I mean it. I’ve updated and improved the lc normalization code, documented the algorithm, and put it all into Google Code. In the next couple weeks, I’ll be turning it into a Solr text filter so we can do some decent sorting on call-number search results.