[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [GSoC 2013] Interested in developing full-text search functionality within Evergreen

[Nilesh Chakraborty]

Hi,

I am a 3rd year undergraduate student of computer science, pursuing my
B.Tech degree at RCC Institute of Information Technology. I am proficient
in Java, PHP and C#.

I couldn't figure out which mentor to approach for this particular project
idea, so I am emailing all three of you. :) Among the project ideas on the
GSoC 2013 ideas page, the one particular idea that seemed really
interesting to me is the one titled "Offer management and integration of
full-text search of objects within Evergreen". I want to work on it. I
think my experience will come of good use in this project.

I am passionate about data mining, big data, search and recommendation
engines, therefore this idea naturally appeals to me a lot. I have
experience with building search functionality into a live production site,
where I'm interning at. I used Sphinx with MySQL and was responsible for
all the database configuration, trigger and index creation, and full-text
search configuration. I have thorough experience with Sphinx and am willing
to dig deeper into Lucene or learn SOLR if the need arises. I have a little
experience with Lucene and using DefaultSimilarity (uses Cosine Similarity).

I have a few questions. These clarifications will help me a lot to
understand the current search functionality of Evergreen and what needs to
be done to add full-text search of digital objects.

   1. I have cloned the Evergreen repo from GitHub and browsed around the
   code. Could you point me to the module/files that are used for searching
   metadata currently?

   2. As far as I understand from the "Problem" description, we basically
   need to implement full-text search on text chunks that can be ebooks,
   theses, dissertations etc. Is that right? Is there more to it? Please
   provide more details.

   3. Could you provide me with more details on your plans on how to
   integrate the search with your system (ie. whether I should focus on
   exposing a REST-API or a Java client, what API hooks or methods should be
   there?)

Please share your views, advise me on my next course of action should be,
and do ask me if you have any questions. I'm looking forward to hearing
from you very soon. :-)

Cheers,
Nilesh

-- 
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You can also email me at contact at nileshc.com or visit my website
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