social/collaboration features on top of solr

[Robert Stewart <bs...@gmail.com>]

Has anyone implemented some social/collaboration features on top of SOLR?  What I am thinking is ability to add ratings and comments to documents in SOLR and then be able to fetch comments and ratings for each document in results (and have as part of response from SOLR), similar in fashion to MLT results.  I think a separate index or separate core to store collaboration info would be needed, as well as a search component for fetching collaboration info for results.  I would think this would be a great feature and wondering if anyone has done something similar. 

Bob

RE: social/collaboration features on top of solr

[Demian Katz <de...@villanova.edu>]

VuFind (http://vufind.org) uses Solr for library catalog (or similar) applications and features a MySQL database which it uses for storing user tags and comments outside of Solr itself.  If there were a mechanism more closely tied to Solr for achieving this sort of effect, that would allow VuFind to do things with considerably more elegance!

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Stewart [mailto:bstewart.ny@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:28 AM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: social/collaboration features on top of solr
> 
> Has anyone implemented some social/collaboration features on top of
> SOLR?  What I am thinking is ability to add ratings and comments to
> documents in SOLR and then be able to fetch comments and ratings for
> each document in results (and have as part of response from SOLR),
> similar in fashion to MLT results.  I think a separate index or
> separate core to store collaboration info would be needed, as well as a
> search component for fetching collaboration info for results.  I would
> think this would be a great feature and wondering if anyone has done
> something similar.
> 
> Bob