For reasons I’m still not entirely clear on (I wasn’t there), the Code4Lib 2010 conference this week inspired renewed interest in a JSON-based format for MARC data.
When I initially looked at MARC-HASH almost a year ago, I was mostly looking for something that wasn’t such a pain in the butt to work with, something that [...]
NOTE 2: It turns out that I did find a minor bug in the system, but that in general LCCN normalization is working correctly. I just happened to hit a weirdness with a bad LCCN and a little bug in the parser on their end. Which is getting fixed. So…good news all around, and huge [...]
[Note: in this post I'm just going to focus on the "get stuff into Solr" part. My normal focus -- MARC data -- will make an appearance in the next post when I talk about using this in addition to / instead of solrmarc.]
Working with Solr
I love me the Solr. I love everything about it except [...]
Yea! My first gem ever released!
[YUCK! It was a disaster in a few ways! Don't look at this! It's hideous! There's a new jruby_producer_consumer gem on gemcutter that is slightly different from this in that it works. Ignore the stuff below.]
[In working on a threaded JRuby-based MARC-to-Solr project, I realized that my threading stuff was...ugly. [...]