Re: vivosearchlight

From: Gabriel Farrell <gsf747_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:21:57 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Ed Summers <ehs_at_pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu> wrote:
>> If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search mechanism take a look something one of my colleagues developed.  http://vivosearchlight.org
>>
>> It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that will initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile information from several institutions using VIVO (a semantic web application).  From any web page, clicking on the "Vivo Searchlight" button in your browser will initiate a search and find experts with expertise relevant to the content of the page.  Highlight some text on the page and it will re-execute a search with just those words.
>
> Thanks for sharing John. That's a really a neat idea, even if the
> results don't seem particularly relevant for some tests I tried. I was
> curious how it does the matching of page text against the profiles. I
> see from the description at http://vivosearchlight.org that
> EleasticSearch is being used instead of Solr. Any chance Miles
> Worthington (ok I googled) would be willing to share the source code
> on his github account [1], or elsewhere?
>
> //Ed

I second the request. I've been doing a fair amount of work with Node
and ElasticSearch as well lately.

> [1] https://github.com/milesworthington
>
Received on Mon Nov 21 2011 - 09:23:36 EST