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As an addendum to my previous email about ajax/solr/openlayers, here's a post detailing the work: http://numishare.blogspot.com/2011/02/american-numismatic-society-collection.html Ethan On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've done a lot of ajax/Solr stuff with jquery and Cocoon. I typically > deal with large XML datasets, so Cocoon is an ideal application for me to > use. Ajax calls are made to Cocoon pipelines that are transformations of > Solr XML search results processed by Saxon against XSLT. It's quite fast, > even for facet pagination. I've also done some work with TermsComponent to > deliver autosuggest for controlled vocabulary terms, like LCSH, which are > stored in a Solr index. > > Beyond the typical use of Ajax to load HTML content dynamically, I've built > an OpenLayers front end that is dynamically generated from Ajax calls to a > Cocoon pipeline that queries Solr and returns results in the form of KML. > > Ethan Gruber > American Numismatic Society > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Did you consider using an existing open-source project to provide the >> AJAXy UI to your index? VuFind and Blacklight are among the >> candidates. That's where I'd start, if I were in your position. >> >> -- Mike. >> >> >> >> On 28 February 2011 03:34, Yitzchak Schaffer <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > We are working on creating a public-facing biographical index. We're >> planning on using Solr with faceting, and building an AJAXy search frontend. >> We have experience with symfony for overall framework, so we have begun the >> project using that. >> > >> > The only robust-looking material I was able to find on Solr with AJAX >> tonight was >> > >> > https://github.com/evolvingweb/ajax-solr/wiki >> > >> > Can anyone offer any alternate projects or approaches? I'm just getting >> my feet wet in both advanced JS/frontend dev techniques, and Solr. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > -- >> > Yitzchak Schaffer >> > Systems Manager >> > Touro College Libraries >> > 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 >> > http://www.tourolib.org/ >> > >> > >> > >