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