This is an introductory workshop to Apache Solr (https://solr.apache.org/), the fast and open source search platform that powers the search feature behind many websites around the world. Do you have a ton of structured or unstructured information and want to allow users to perform a variety of searches on it? Will you like to slice and dice the information in facets? Come and join us! This workshop is geared to anyone that has never used Solr, or uses it, but has not looked under the hood to see how it can be configured or explored some of the features that Solr offers out of the box. We'll start the workshop with a quick review on how Solr stores data and the process that it goes through when a search is submitted. We'll then review the main features in Solr: * Indexing: where all of it starts * Solr's document-based data model and that means to you * How to configure fields for different needs * What are Search Request Handlers * How to use facets, synonyms, and hit highlighting * How to tweak the ranking of results While practical, this workshop does not require you to be a coder. The idea is for you to learn the concepts, features, and how they work. If you choose, we'll show you how to install Solr on your machine to experiment with the concepts as we go. But if you prefer not to install Solr (or updating configuration files is not your thing) you can still follow along and learn with us.
Meet the facilitator:
Hector is a software developer within the Research Data and Scholarship Services team at the Princeton University Library.
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