Archive for the ‘Search’ Category
MARC2Solr (Slight Return)
Awhile back, Andrew Nagy posted an XSLT for turning MARCXML into Solr’s XML indexing format. I thought it would be fun to take his XSLT and do the same thing in XQuery. I think it is pretty much a 1 to 1 conversion.
For the upcoming Code4Lib preconference, I thought about forming an XQuery [...]
Relevance In Time?
Update: The following was written when this weblog was called Kevin’s Worklog (and my personal journal was called The Bruised Edge). Now this is called The Bruised Edge and my personal journal is Kevin’s Journal. Confusing, I know… anyway, here it is.
Interesting… I recently changed the URL of my worklog from “/worklog” to [...]
Federated Searching Misconceptions
I found a link on Catalogablog about an article from Information Today that tells The Truth about Federated Searching. I’d have to agree wholeheartedly with everything it has to say despite working on my library’s own version of a federated search. To be fair, the point that relevancy ranking is not totally relevant is not [...]