The New York Public Library launches public beta of new Drupal powered site

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Posted by anarchivist on December 10, 2009 at 4:51pm

We're proud to announce the public beta of our new site, available at http://new.nypl.org. Please use the feedback mechanism available on the site if you would like to give us your input, but I'm happy to try answering any informal questions here.

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It looks really nice. I

Posted by mikeybusiness on December 17, 2009 at 2:14pm
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It looks really nice. I really like the tabbed search results a lot. Was that all the Apache Solr Mojo I have heard about or some of your own special sauce?

Tabbed search

Posted by anarchivist on December 17, 2009 at 2:20pm
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The site search is powered by Solr; the Digital Gallery search is provided by an internal API (but might also be switching to Solr), and the catalog is totally separate.

tabbed search

Posted by Lon Barfield on February 10, 2011 at 10:59pm
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Hi,

Intrigued by the reference to 'tabbed search' do you mean typing a search term in and then the results are shown with a row of tabs below which are the results and clicking on a different tab (like photos) shows the photos that match that search term.

The url doesnt work. Did this become the www.nypl.org web site, if so where are the tabs?

tabbed search

Posted by anarchivist on February 10, 2011 at 11:09pm
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Yes, precisely. This was moved over to www.nypl.org - sample search: http://www.nypl.org/search/apachesolr_search/water

Aha - yes - only the middle

Posted by Lon Barfield on February 10, 2011 at 11:19pm
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Aha - yes - only the middle tab is solr, the others are all links to other technologies. We are trying to set up something similar but where the whole thing is a solr search and where there is one solr search and the tabs behave a bit like facets of that search; 'show me all photos of bristol, show me all books about bristol etc.'. Ever seen anything that behaves like that.

(I appreciate the lightning fast response by the way!)