Re: [VuFind-Tech] Please test/comment -- new SolrMarc version

[Greg P. <Gre...@us...>]

Hey Demian,

Was this built from the solrmarc trunk? I need to reapply our local mods to completely test.

Ta,

Greg Pendlebury
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University of Southern Queensland
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From: Demian Katz [mailto:dem...@vi...]
Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 5:35 AM
To: vuf...@li...
Subject: [VuFind-Tech] Please test/comment -- new SolrMarc version

Hello, everyone.

I've been working with Bob Haschert to get a new version of SolrMarc in place in VuFind.  I have just successfully completed the upgrade in a development branch.  I'm hoping some of you can pull down this new version and let me know if it works for you.  So far, my tests have had promising results.

Here's the SVN URL for my branch:

https://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vufind/branches/demian_solrmarc

All of the changes are in the import subdirectory -- everything else is unchanged.  Imports work exactly the same as before, using the import-marc.sh script.

Here are the key improvements in the new SolrMarc:

1.) Support for multiple MARC mapping specification files.  This allows us to create a standard map file and then override certain settings in a local customization map file.  See import/marc.properties and import/marc_local.properties for an example of this in action.

2.) Translation maps are no longer embedded in the SolrMarc jar file -- it's now much easier to alter and fix them.  See the import/translation_maps directory.

3.) BeanShell script support has been added.  You can now create custom indexing functions without having to recompile the SolrMarc binary.  See the settings in import/marc_local.properties and the scripts in import/scripts for examples of this in action.

4.) Several bugs have been fixed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or run into problems.  If others find that this is working well, I'm hoping to bring this to an admin vote to see if we can get it into the trunk in time for RC2.  It will allow us to close a number of open issues in JIRA, and it will make future import customizations much easier.

thanks,
Demian

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