Daily Archives: August 19, 2009

Easy Solr types for library data

[Yet another bit in a series about our Vufind installation]

While I’m no longer shocked at the terrible state of our data every single day, I’m still shocked pretty often. We figured out pretty quickly that anything we could do to normalize data as it went into the Solr index (and, in fact, as queries were [...]

Going with and “forking” VUFind

Note: This is the second in a series I’m doing about our VUFind installation, Mirlyn. Here I talk about how we got to where we are. Next I’ll start looking at specific technologies, how we solved various problems, and generally more nerd-centered stuff.

When the University Library decided to go down the path of an open-source, [...]