Apache SOLR

project: Anglo-Saxon Cluster

Grant Holder:
The project builds on research carried out on four other projects mentioned elsewhere - PASE, LangScape, eSawyer and ASChart - which collectively provide models for digitising prosopographic data, boundary clauses, charter catalogues and the diplomatic discourse of the charters themselves. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) is developing a new web-based digital resource articulated around the Anglo-Saxon charters as core material, through which the data and the corresponding metadata embodied in each of the component projects will be available together in a thematic cluster. [read more]

tool: Solr

Purpose: 

Solr is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. It operates as a standalone full-text search server within an appropriate servlet container, such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually any programming language.

Features: 

• May be tailored to many types of application with minimal programming knowledge
• Extensive plug-in support
• Full-text indexing and search

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “British Cartoon Archive Digitisation (BCAD)” project has used Solr to deliver the search results and metadata.
Creator: 
CNET Networks
Publisher: 
Apache Software Foundation
Data analysis: 
Collating
Collocating
Indexing
Content analysis
Data mining
Searching and querying
Topic Detection and Tracking
Text mining
Specifications: 
PHP
Python
Java
Ruby
XML
HTML
HTTP
JSON APIs
XSLT
Software/programming languages used: 
Solr
Apache SOLR
Suite: 
Apache
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Alternate tool(s): 

Sphynx

Tags: 
Indexing
JAVA
full-text search
cross-platform
Licence: 
Apache
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
Platform: 
Cross-platform
By Valentina Asciutti at Mon, 19/04/2010 - 10:40

project: Musicians of Britain and Ireland 1900-1950

Grant Holder:
The project provides recordings of performances by British and Irish musicians made between 1900 and 1950. owing to changes in company policy in the 1930s, their work was gradually excluded and mush of it forgotten. MBI is accessible through an attractive online search interface that also gives access to the complete recorded output of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM). [read more]