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> ... the Zinterop records (which are described > in detail in that pdf but aren't available for > download anywhere I could find ... I sent Bill Moen an email asking if the records described in the report were available for download, and if not, could they be made available. -- Michael # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian # University of Texas at Arlington # 817-272-5326 office # 817-688-1926 mobile # [log in to unmask] # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Binkley, Peter > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:13 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] Radioactive records for Solr > > In hunting for data to help model subject faceting for MARC > records, I've just been looking at Bill Moen's Zinterop > report > (http://www.unt.edu/zinterop/ZInterop2/Documents/ZInterop2Fina > lReport_we > m4Dec2005.pdf). It occurs to me that with all our various > projects working on indexing MARC records in Solr, we should > set up and distribute a set of "radioactive records" to use > in each project to diagnose and compare indexing and querying > behaviour. Probably we could just use the Zinterop records > (which are described in detail in that pdf but aren't > available for download anywhere I could find); but we might > want to enhance them with data suitable for testing our > faceting systems. Not sure what that would mean but I thought > I'd throw it out. > > If you were at Access '05, you heard Bill describe the Z39.50 > testing he was doing with radioactive records: records with > known unique values in all indexed fields, that could be used > for automated testing of Z39.50 search functionality. The > same approach might be very useful as we feel our way towards > a Solr MARC indexing system. > > Has anyone already done something like this? > > Peter > > Peter Binkley > Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information > Technology Services 4-30 Cameron Library University of > Alberta Libraries Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 > Phone: (780) 492-3743 > Fax: (780) 492-9243 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] >