Vufind and Sirsi

Wayne — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:08:25 +0000

I committed a bunch of small fixes into the Solrmarc and Vufind projects today to deal with the release of Solr 1.3 RC 2. We’re using the multicore functionality of Solr for Vufind and we were having some issues with the resource loaders for the different cores. The fix was pretty minor, just creating a CoreContainer and set the SolrCore from that:

CoreContainer cc = new CoreContainer(solrCoreDir, configFile);
solrCore = cc.getCore(solrCorename);

Ok, so that was more of an update, but it got me to reindex the our marc content. Our 001 fields don’t always have info, so our Systems Librarian told me just to use the 035a for the id field. There was only one problem…they had a “(Sirsi)” as a prefix to the actual number. This wouldn’t be that big of an issue, but it was causing the queries sent to Solr to be off, and I wasn’t getting any results for a detail view.

Fortunately, Solrmarc already has a facility to deal with this: PatternMaps! To pull out just the number, I changed the id definition in the vufind.properties file to

id = 035a, (pattern_map.id), first

This basically maps the id field in the schema.xml file to the 035a, using a patternMap named pattern_map.id, and only takes the first of the 035a if there are multiples. I know, there shouldn’t be, but I’ve seen funky things

Now, to add the PatternMap definition:

pattern_map.id.pattern_0 = \\(Sirsi\\)\\ (.*)=>$1

It’s just a simple regex pattern definition that takes out the “(Sirsi)” and the space between it and the actual id we’re using.

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Wayne — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:12:49 +0000

Yesterday Sourceforge was doing some work on their SVN projects. We’ve been using them for the Vufind project. I was attempting to finish putting in a snapshot of the solrmarc code to use that codebase for indexing marc. I put in the stuff out of the Google repository, but hadn’t realized that Andrew had modified the solrmarc code in the Vufind project and we were missing a couple of functions. I was going to modify the code by just going into the SVN browse on Sourceforge, but it’s still a bit on the flaky side. Right now the solrmarc code isn’t a little out of synch with the Vufind code, but I should hopefully get that fixed up this weekend.

I did add a bunch of code to the solrmarc project today for logging using log4j. I have to say it’s pretty nice to actually have spent the time to actually get most of this implemented since logging had been on my list of //TODO.

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Vufind and Sirsi

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