What: Blacklight BOF / Show & Tell / Install & Hackfest
When: Tuesday, 11/10 at 6:30 PM
Where: Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, Corsican Room
Of note:
* there will be food and drink (thanks to CLIR's generous support)
* developers should bring laptops, and there will be wireless
The agenda for the event will be determined by those who come. We will have a group of current Blacklight users ready to discuss/do any of the following:
* provide a Blacklight overview, including features, advantages, demos, how to get involved
* discuss (and help set) the feature roadmap for the project
* help new users and/or the curious get up and running, including getting it installed
* have a hackfest for those eager & ready to add new features
If you are interested and/or planning to come to the event, to help set the agenda and ensure enough food & drink,
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What's Blacklight?
Blacklight is an open source, "next generation" discovery application that works equally well for catalogs as for repository interfaces. First developed at the University of Virginia, it has since been adopted up by several other institutions. It's built on top of SOLR with Ruby on Rails, and it supports faceted searching & browsing.
Some exemplar sites are: