Hello Bastiaan, On Aug 12, 2013, at 4:24 AM, Bastiaan Braams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings. I am a newcomer looking for advice about getting started with > Lucene Core and/or Solr in order to present to the world a searchable > bibliographical database. Excellent. > I have the database in my filespace in a plain text format; let us say as a > BibTeX file. So the data is quite well structured, with fields such as > Author, Title, Journal and Year, but also some less structured fields: > Abstract, Notes, Keywords. I don't have the article full texts. The trick will be to get this data into one of the formats that Solr can digest (XML, JSON or CSV), or write a Java client that uses SolrJ that reads the file and submits it. > There are about 100 000 entries in the database; the total size is less > than 1 GB. That's fine, that's a reasonable amount of data. > I have access to a server that already provides web pages to the world. Now > I want to provide these bibliographical data to the world, with some search > functionality for the visitors. Good. > Would Lucene Core be a good building block for this? Would I have any use > for Lucene Solr? I would strongly suggest Solr over Lucene. > I have the impression that I should consider Solr only if > the data were distributed over the web, ... This is not correct, although I'm curious how you got that impression? The "cloud" in SolrCloud refers to Solr itself being able to run on multiple machines for larger datasets, although I think other people are sometimes confused about what the "cloud" really means. > but in my case the data are all in > one place that is under my control. Solr can run on one machine, that's fine. > > The quick tutorial for Lucene Core shows how I may create a Lucene database > and query it on my system through the command line. Could someone please > recommend a tutorial about creating a web interface for the prospective > world-wide users of this database? You really want Solr for this. You can customize the Solr interface with the Velocity templates. Here's an article that discusses several options: http://searchhub.org/2010/01/14/solr-search-user-interface-examples/ Welcome on board!
