Let There Be Light! Indexing Items from Digital Commons in Apache Solr via OAI-PMH

Authors

Graham Hukill, Wayne State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

To increase visibility and discoverability of assets in our Digital Commons repository, we have created a fully automated, regularly scheduled utility that, using the OAI-PMH protocol, indexes items from Digital Commons in the powerful, open-source search platform Apache Solr. Indexing metadata of items from Digital Commons allows us to support cross-collection, cross-database, and cross-platform searching for our patrons by integrating Digital Commons search results in library created search interfaces. This poster will provide a brief overview of Solr, outline the mechanics of this utility, and suggest how other institutions could harness this technique.

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Recommended Citation

Hukill, Graham, "Let There Be Light! Indexing Items from Digital Commons in Apache Solr via OAI-PMH" (2013). Library Scholarly Publications. 68.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/libsp/68

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This poster was presented at the Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group (DCLUG) 2013 Meeting at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Event URL: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/dcglug/