Re: Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project)

From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:14:16 +1100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 21:01, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> Search is not browse.

You're missing the point here; Solr is just software technology for
indexing, and with it you can create the searching or browsing you
want. Solr is agnostic to what you can use it for.

> That's cool but that is NOT a browsable index. To browse a result set
> set means you first have to _have_ a result set. It will contain
> whatever matched your query - no more and no less.

The VuFind Kent pointed to did just this (search with blank fields),
albeit it's a pretty pointless exercise.


Alex
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