Resource Discovery with iMu
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Resource Discovery with iMu
Scott WilliamsOctober 17, 2012
penn.museum/collections 1.0
Good• Collections data was
searchable• Launched on-time• KE supported product
(iMu)• Huge step forward
Not good• Search limitations
– Text matching– Cross-module
• Presentation limitations– Facets– Related objects
• EMu as gatekeeper
Solr + iMu
• Apache Solr– Full-text search, hit-highlighting, faceted
search• iMu
– Still great– Data export and transformation
Results?
Solr launch
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Implications
Cincinnati
United States Ohio
Hamilton County (Ohio)Cincinnati
Item level description
Thesaurus
#+ “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
Corrections
Images added 2011- 2012
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Questions?
Scott [email protected]