Monthly Archives: March 2009

A plea: use Solr to normalize your data

March 30, 2009 – 4:22 pm

[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 [...]

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Enough with the freakin’ LC Call Number normalization!

March 18, 2009 – 11:29 am

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.

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