Re: Open Source OPAC - VUFind Beta Released

From: Casey Durfee <Casey.Durfee_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:34:00 -0700
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Ah.  I just did a search on "book" and assumed it would return most of your results.  550K records is much more impressive.  
 
I don't know if the LoC records being available was public knowledge or not.  I just stumbled upon them a month or so ago by searching for MARC records at archive.org:
 
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=marc%20records 
 
Oh, and Erik Hatcher is of course right that Solr performance corresponds to number of facet values, not # of records, though the number of possible facet values is strongly correlated with number of records indexed in the various datasets I've tried.  Well, at least the number of author facets -- which has by far the most number of possible values of all the stuff I've tried faceting on -- who knew there were so many authors in the world?
 
--Casey

>>> Andrew Nagy andrew.nagy_at_VILLANOVA.EDU> 7/19/2007 12:52 PM >> ( mailto:andrew.nagy_at_VILLANOVA.EDU> )

We currently have about 550,000 records loaded.  I was hoping to try it out with a larger dataset.  I didn't know the LOC records were available.  I guess I have been in a hole the past few months.

I have been playing around with your system a bit to see the performance of a large dataset.  Doesn't seem too bad with the amount of records you have loaded.

Thanks!
Andrew
Received on Thu Jul 19 2007 - 14:16:57 EDT