[MCN-L] Is anyone using Lucene to index and search collection data?

[Seth]

Hi,

It might be useful to mention that there is a port of Lucene for the PHP programming language that is part of the Zend framework. A lot of people think this is actually "the" Lucene, but it's not. It's just a PHP implementation that happens to use the same on-disk index format. The performance of the PHP Lucene is pretty terrible for databases of any real scale and is probably best avoided. As others have mentioned Apache SOLR is a very good, stable and scaleable Lucene option that you'd be hard-pressed to go wrong with. We've used it for museum and archive projects and have been very happy with the results.


Good luck with your project!


seth

On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At the University of Virginia Library, Solr the primary index, which is
> built on top of Lucene.  Solr is very common throughout the library/archive
> world, but not so much in the museum world, it seems.  I have worked on
> several projects that can be considered to be museum artifactual
> collections, and have adapted Solr with great success, taking advantage of
> faceted querying and TermsComponent for autosuggest.  It is the most robust
> index out there that I have used, and I highly recommend it.  I wouldn't
> consider using anything else, to be honest.  I'm using it for the UVA Art
> Museum numismatic collection (http://coins.lib.virginia.edu/) and the
> Kittredge Numismatic Foundation collection (
> http://www.kittredgecollection.org).
> 
> Ethan
> 
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Tuck, Emily <etuck at mfah.org> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am trying to identify institutions that are using Lucene to index and
>> search a collection database. I'm thinking of advocating for it at the
>> MFA Houston, but I wanted to find out who else is using it especially if
>> you have a public facing website.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you for replying.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Emily Nedell Tuck
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Data Standards Manager
>> 
>> Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
>> 
>> P.O. Box 6826
>> 
>> Houston, Texas 77265-6826
>> 
>> (713) 353-1523
>> etuck at mfah.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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