On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:40:43AM -0400, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem
> > then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in
> > any discovery system.  Presumably, you could learn from the
> > experiences of the many projects that have done that - some in Python,
> > such as http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/  (though they use
> > Django, they don't appear to be using its object-relational db model
> > for MARC records; I say this from a 2 min examination of parts of
> > their code; I may be wrong. PyMarc itself doesn't support it.)
> 
> Fac-Back-OPAC doesn't use the Django ORM because we're using Solr 
> for indexing.

Right, and while there are projects to more closely integrate various
search engines (see http://code.google.com/p/djangosearch/ for example),
we haven't attempted to mimic Django's ORM yet in Fac-Back-OPAC/Helios.


Gabriel