ApacheSolr

(For information about my project, see here. Put shortly, it's about enabling Solr to index RDF data via drupal.)

Before starting the actual coding, even on prototypes, the basic options for implementing this will have to be discussed. At the moment, my mentors and I see the following three possibilities:

Hi,

Can anyone let me know if it is possible to index and search multiple Drupal and non-drupal websites using the ApacheSolr module?

If not please let me know of any other way that this could be achieved.

Thanks

Overview

This project is about adding RDF Support to the popular ApacheSolr module in the form of a Solr RDF contrib module. The module should be able to read an RDF class specification and automatically generate the necessary mapping to a Solr server, provide the capability to search resources with that type and also generate facets based on its properties. It would even be possible to build the existing Node search capabilites completely on top of this mechanism! But in any case you could also add arbitrary other types like users or taxonomy terms, or resources from other websites altogether.

Hi Everyone,

Today I took a couple hours and attempted a backport of ApacheSolr D6 to D5. This will bring all of the cool features that D6 has to D5. The patch needs work. It doesn't yet work. If anyone has time to chip in and work on the indexing of nodes (currently not working) that'd be great. With a little momentum I think we can do the backport relatively quickly, after which keeping the two in sync will be much easier.

http://drupal.org/node/337735#comment-1240921

Just want to share my experience with using the apachesolr module as an API. I use apachesolr module purely as interface between my own drupal modules and the Solr instance. Part of the reason to do so is that I use a different schema.xml, compared to the one provided with the apachesolr module.

For the single technical detail, read this issue.

Thanks a lot to the developers for creating the apachesolr module and making it nicely extensible!

(repost from http://drupal.org/node/296198 by drunkenmoney)

While implementing the attachment indexing mechanism, we (febbraro, robertDouglass and I) stumbled across a problem: how to store the attachment text?
It would be easily possible to just append it to the "text" field or add a new, multi-valued field or both. But then it would be impossible to distinguish the place of occurence of the term at search time, which, unfortunately, is a requirement, since the attachments should appear directly in the search results, not just links to the nodes containing them.

With the help of Drunken Monkey and many others we've come up with an Alpha 3 of the ApacheSolr module. In addition to lots of bugfixes and a performance improvement, there is a new feature: you can set the number of facets per block. Check it out:
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

This is a BoF discussion that is planned for August 24, 2008 at 16:30 - 17:45 as a part of the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

• What improvements have gone into Drupal search as a result of the Minnesota Search Sprint?
• ApacheSolr demonstration
• Xapian search and Drupal.org

Search is cool. Come talk about it.