Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating DSpace instances

2013-07-30 Thread helix84
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Gary Browne gary.bro...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Would you mind if I sent my requirements and thoughts on how to proceed back to the list to get your further input? Please, do. One thing I do know is that yes, Ben, I am planning to build an interface to search

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating DSpace instances

2013-07-29 Thread Hilton Gibson
Check vufind, see: http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/OpenCampus/Library On 29 July 2013 07:29, Gary Browne gary.bro...@sydney.edu.au wrote: Hello all, I can't seem to find much info on this topic. I'm interested in federating a couple of our DSpace instances and am not sure

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating DSpace instances

2013-07-29 Thread helix84
Hi Garry, this is a really interesting use case. There are several ways to approach this, but first you should clarify your requirements. Do you require real-time search or is harvesting enough? By real-time search I mean that after an item is updated in the source repository, any search on it

Re: [Dspace-tech] Federating DSpace instances

2013-07-29 Thread helix84
One more real-time option. I'm not sure if this would be easy, because my Solr-fu is not that strong. You could somehow channel the content of the Solr indices of all the DSpace instances into a single Solr index and do searches on top of that. The open question here is how this would handle

[Dspace-tech] Federating DSpace instances

2013-07-28 Thread Gary Browne
Hello all, I can't seem to find much info on this topic. I'm interested in federating a couple of our DSpace instances and am not sure what/who/where to ask about it. I'm looking at having one interface for a couple of DSpace instances where people can search and even go to items and