Hi Eric,

You do not have to store the entire text content of the EAD guide in order
to enable facets.  Here's an example:
http://kittredgecollection.org/results?q=*:* .  There are about 15 facets
enabled on a collection of almost 1500 EAD documents (though quite small in
filesize compared to traditional EAD finding aids), and there's no slowdown
whatsoever.  I don't believe you need to store the guides to enable
highlighting either, though I have heard there is some dropoff in
performance with highlighting enabled.  I've never done benchmarking on
highlighting enabled versus disabled, so I can't tell you how much of a
dropoff there is.  In an index of only several hundred documents, I would
think that the dropoff with highlighting enabled would be fairly negligible.

Ethan

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eric James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> For our finding aids, we are using fedoragenericsearch 2.2 with solr as
> index.  Because the EADs can be huge, the EADs are indexed but not stored
> (with stored EADs, search time for ~500 objects = 20 min rather than < 1
> sec).
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> However, we would like to have number of search terms found within each
> hit.  For example, CDL's collection:
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> http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?query=Donner
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> Also we would like highlighting/snippets of the search term similar to
> CDL's.
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> Is it a lost cause to have this functionality without storing the EAD?  Is
> there a way to store the EAD and have a reasonable response time?
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> Eric James
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> Yale University Libraries
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