Hey, Adam. 

I'm working on something very similar right now and I'd be happy to compare notes. I'm starting to use solrizer (http://github.com/projecthydra/solrizer) to index fedora contents into solr and point blacklight at the resulting index. I've indexed fedora datastreams into solr before, but always with custom programmed solutions. Using a tool like solrizer for that is new to me and I'd love to talk it over with you and see what the best approach might be. Feel free to talk to me in irc or on email. 

Bess

On 2010-06-17, at 8:47 AM, Adam Wead wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently developing an interface to our fedora repository using the active-fedora RoR plugin.  I'm doing this in Blacklight for starters, but not using the indexing capabilities since I don't know how to do that yet.  I've built a simple form that creates a descriptive dublin core xml document for the object and now need to start expanding it with more fields.
> 
> Before I start digging into that, has anyone done such a thing before and with whom I could "compare notes" before coding myself into a corner?  I've cribbed a lot stuff from Matt Zumwalt's active fedora wiki and JWA fedora project.  I've also looked at Hydrangea which is do for alpha release, I believe, at the OR conference in madrid.  I didn't see anything like a dc form in Hydrangea but I didn't look very hard.
> 
> Any help or comments would be welcome.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> ...adam
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