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The type of hosting plan will determine what kind of search they can do. Wordpress probably isn't the best platform for this, unless you can put a search layer on top of it. It's a bit clunky with handling the files - made for browsing to files, not searching. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jason Raitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Okay, I just got some more information that makes the problem much clearer > and adds a time sensitivity. > > I was going to cut and paste, but it looks like there is a legal factor to > this that may make sending identifiable information in the clear a bad > idea. It looks like this is actually an organization that it hoping to > document the human rights abuses conducted under the former Duvalier > dynasty in Haiti with the aim (I believe) of getting him convicted. It's > goal is to set up the library interface and have Renee go to to Haiti to > train people to use and manage the library. > > Renee does have background setting up Wordpress sites and writing basic > HTML. They've purchased hosting on Godaddy and hope to use a MySQL db. > the documents are in 4 languages and all types of media formats: pdf, > audio, images and video. > > current skeleton wordpress site: http://haiti-lutte-contre-limpunite.org > > They hope to create the whole shebang in the next month! Definitely > doesn't sound like an academic library timeframe. ;-) > > Jason > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jason Raitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint > > Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a > searchable, > > bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured > > hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or > more > > documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had > an > > interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I > > briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're > heading. > > I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school > > like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. > > > > If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with > > such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. > > > > She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't > > consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), > > she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and > > that she is able to learn what's necessary. > > > > I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this > > message. > > > > Cheers, > > Jason Raitz > > NCSU Libraries > > >