A short detour to correct a misapprehension:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Ross Singer wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> its way into many RFPs. The concept is also absent in VuFind and other
>>> open source products. (I sometimes doubt the developers even understand
>>> the usefulness.)
>>
>> This, of course, is the beauty of open source "products". If you
>> doubt the developers understand the usefulness, you are more than
>> welcome to submit a patch that accomplishes your needs.
>>
> It's not as if I didn't point this out to developers on various
> occasions. But the tools they choose, like RDBMs and SQL and Solr,
> are ill suited for the purpose, so a mere "patch" will hardly do.
The National Library of Australia's implementation of VuFind added
browse (and I believe offered its patch back to the VuFind project);
see for example
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Subjects?browse=subjects&from=straw+man
It is an error to assert that SOLR/Lucene is "ill suited" to the
purpose of supporting index browse because it supports it very
efficiently.
Kent Fitch
Received on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 17:22:12 EDT