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Resource Discovery with iMu. Scott Williams October 17, 2012. penn.museum/collections 1.0. Good. Not good. Search limitations Text matching Cross-module Presentation limitations Facets Related objects EMu as gatekeeper. Collections data was searchable Launched on-time
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Resource Discovery with iMu Scott Williams October 17, 2012
penn.museum/collections 1.0 Good Not good Search limitations Text matching Cross-module Presentation limitations Facets Related objects EMu as gatekeeper • Collections data was searchable • Launched on-time • KE supported product (iMu) • Huge step forward
Solr + iMu • Apache Solr • Full-text search, hit-highlighting, faceted search • iMu • Still great • Data export and transformation
Results? Solr launch
Implications Thesaurus United States Ohio Hamilton County (Ohio) Cincinnati Item level description Cincinnati
#+ “Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.” – Dr. Ian Malcolm
Demo penn.museum/collections 2.0
Lessons? • Know your tool • iMu • Exporting • Importing • Updating • Solr • Indexing • Searching • Portal
Questions? Scott Williams scottwi@upenn.edu