RE: ANNOUNCE: Stump Hoss @ Lucene Revolution

2010-08-24 Thread Ma, Xiaohui (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]
Hello,

I just started to investigate Solr several weeks ago. Our current project uses 
Verity search engine which is commercial product and the company is out of 
business. I am trying to evaluate if Solr can meet our requirements. I have 
following questions.

1. Currently we use Verity and have more than 20 collections, each collection 
has a index for public items and a index for private items. So there are 
virtual collections which point to each collection and a virtual collection 
which points to all. For example, we have AA and BB collections.

AA virtual collection -- (AA index for public items and AA index for private 
items).
BB virtual collection -- (BB index for public items and BB index for private 
items).
All virtual collection -- (AA index for public items and AA index for private 
items, BB index for public items and BB index for private items).

Would you please tell me what I should do for this if I use Solr?

2. Our project has different kind format files I need index them. For example, 
xml files, pdf files and text files. Is it possible for Solr to return a search 
result from all?

3. I got a error when I index pdf files which are version 1.5 or 1.6. Would you 
please tell me if there is a patch to fix it?

Thanks so much in advance,


-Original Message-
From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] 
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 4:50 PM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Stump Hoss @ Lucene Revolution


Hey everybody,

As you (hopefully) have heard by now, Lucid Imagination is sponsoring a 
Lucene/Solr conference in Boston about 6 weeks from now.  We've got a lot 
of really great speakers lined up to give some really interesting 
technical talks, so I offered to do something a little bit different.

I'm going to be in the hot seat for a Stump The Chump style session, 
where I'll be answering Solr questions live and unrehearsed...

http://bit.ly/stump-hoss

The goal is to really make me sweat and work hard to think of creative 
solutions to non-trivial problems on the spot -- like when I answer 
questions on the solr-user mailing list, except in a crowded room with 
hundreds of people staring at me and laughing.

But in order to be a success, we need your questions/problems/challenges!

If you had a tough situation with Solr that you managed to solve with a 
creative solution (or haven't solved yet) and are interesting to see what 
type of solution I might come up with under pressure, please email a 
description of your problem to st...@lucenerevolution.org -- More details 
online...

http://lucenerevolution.org/Presentation-Abstracts-Day1#stump-hostetter

Even if you won't be able to make it to Boston, please send in any 
challenging problems you would be interested to see me tackle under the 
gun.  The session will be recorded, and the video will be posted online 
shortly after the conference has ended.  And if you can make it to Boston: 
all the more fun to watch live and in person (and maybe answer follow up 
questions)

In any case, it should be a very interesting session: folks will either 
get to learn a lot, or laugh at me a lot, or both.  (win/win/win)


-Hoss

--
http://lucenerevolution.org/  ...  October 7-8, Boston
http://bit.ly/stump-hoss  ...  Stump The Chump!



Re: ANNOUNCE: Stump Hoss @ Lucene Revolution

2010-08-23 Thread Israel Ekpo
Chris,

I have a couple of questions I would like to through your way.

Is there a place where one can sign up for this.

Is sounds very interesting.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Chris Hostetter
hossman_luc...@fucit.orgwrote:


 Hey everybody,

 As you (hopefully) have heard by now, Lucid Imagination is sponsoring a
 Lucene/Solr conference in Boston about 6 weeks from now.  We've got a lot of
 really great speakers lined up to give some really interesting technical
 talks, so I offered to do something a little bit different.

 I'm going to be in the hot seat for a Stump The Chump style session,
 where I'll be answering Solr questions live and unrehearsed...

http://bit.ly/stump-hoss

 The goal is to really make me sweat and work hard to think of creative
 solutions to non-trivial problems on the spot -- like when I answer
 questions on the solr-user mailing list, except in a crowded room with
 hundreds of people staring at me and laughing.

 But in order to be a success, we need your questions/problems/challenges!

 If you had a tough situation with Solr that you managed to solve with a
 creative solution (or haven't solved yet) and are interesting to see what
 type of solution I might come up with under pressure, please email a
 description of your problem to st...@lucenerevolution.org -- More details
 online...

 http://lucenerevolution.org/Presentation-Abstracts-Day1#stump-hostetter

 Even if you won't be able to make it to Boston, please send in any
 challenging problems you would be interested to see me tackle under the gun.
  The session will be recorded, and the video will be posted online shortly
 after the conference has ended.  And if you can make it to Boston: all the
 more fun to watch live and in person (and maybe answer follow up questions)

 In any case, it should be a very interesting session: folks will either get
 to learn a lot, or laugh at me a lot, or both.  (win/win/win)


 -Hoss

 --
 http://lucenerevolution.org/  ...  October 7-8, Boston
 http://bit.ly/stump-hoss  ...  Stump The Chump!




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Re: ANNOUNCE: Stump Hoss @ Lucene Revolution

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Hostetter

: I have a couple of questions I would like to through your way.
: 
: Is there a place where one can sign up for this.

Heh  sure, all the details were in my email...

: http://bit.ly/stump-hoss

...and...

:  type of solution I might come up with under pressure, please email a
:  description of your problem to st...@lucenerevolution.org -- More details
:  online...
: 
:  http://lucenerevolution.org/Presentation-Abstracts-Day1#stump-hostetter

-Hoss

--
http://lucenerevolution.org/  ...  October 7-8, Boston
http://bit.ly/stump-hoss  ...  Stump The Chump!