Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library

[Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com>]

Hi Matthias-

Your demo looks great.  I'd love to see a general solr javascript  
library.

I need to look more at what it takes to be a mentor, but I'd be  
willing to do that.

ryan


On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
> Hello community
>
> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about  
> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large  
> indices" (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted  
> browsing and field collapsing.
>
> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my  
> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of  
> integration into existing projects and a good self declaring user  
> interface are important things to consider when creating a faceting  
> browsing solution.
>
> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript  
> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls  
> to create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>
>                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and  
> propose the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this  
> library as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already  
> participated in gsoc and I think it's a very good way for students  
> to start contributing to an open soure project.
>
> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test  
> it here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>
>                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based  
> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good  
> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget  
> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created  
> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>
> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs  
> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser  
> using the solr url:
>
> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>
> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget  
> consists of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used  
> to create the appropriate response from solr. See http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js 
>  for the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an  
> alpha version:
>
> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view"  
> including paging buttons
>
> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These  
> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image"  
> as an example
>
> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical  
> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>
> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>
> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating  
> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>
>
>                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks,  
> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>
>
> WDYT?
>
> Best regard,
> Matthias
>
>

Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: I need to look more at what it takes to be a mentor, but I'd be willing to do
: that.

Ryan: In case you haven't found it yet, the info (on the ASF side) committers need to 
familiarize themselves with to be mentors is...

http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor

(note in particular there is an oddly named "code-awards" mailing list you 
need to subscribe to, and you need to update committers/MailAlias.txt to 
include your "Google Account")


BTW: Sweet demo Matthias.


-Hoss

Re: [GSOC proposal]: Solr javascript client library

[Matthias Epheser <ma...@gmx.at>]

Ryan McKinley schrieb:
> Hi Matthias-
> 
> Your demo looks great.  I'd love to see a general solr javascript library.
> 
> I need to look more at what it takes to be a mentor, but I'd be willing 
> to do that.

Great!

So the first "official" steps on my side should be creating a student 
account on the GSOC site (which I just did) and adding a proposal 
addressing "The Apache Software foundation" as target group (which I 
will do tomorrow evening).

You should be able to "accept" this proposal in the mentor area.

I will write a short announcement on this list after I uploaded the 
proposal.

matthias


> 
> ryan
> 
> 
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:31 AM, Matthias Epheser wrote:
>> Hello community
>>
>> I am a student from Vienna currently writing his master thesis about 
>> "Fast and userfriendly information retrieval in large indices" 
>> (working title), that focuses on techniques like faceted browsing and 
>> field collapsing.
>>
>> The funtionalities and internals of Solr cover a large part of my 
>> theoretical work and I also want to point out that ease of integration 
>> into existing projects and a good self declaring user interface are 
>> important things to consider when creating a faceting browsing solution.
>>
>> As a showcase for these things I am creating a reusable Javascript 
>> Widget Library that directly queries solr using asynchronuous calls to 
>> create a very fast, dynamic and easy to use data browser.
>>
>>                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> I now want to introduce my (planned) work to the community and propose 
>> the implementation, elaboration and documentation of this library as a 
>> Google Summer of Code 2008 project. I already participated in gsoc and 
>> I think it's a very good way for students to start contributing to an 
>> open soure project.
>>
>> I started creating a small prototype a few weeks ago, you can test it 
>> here: http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/
>> It covers a fictional media library created by a testdata generator.
>>
>>                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> It uses a prototype of my MooTools(http://mootools.net) based 
>> javascript library. Mootools are chosen because of the good 
>> inheritance mechanism, thus you can create a very "clean" widget 
>> system using baseclasses. As mentioned before, everything is created 
>> under the paradigm "keep it simple"
>>
>> Looking at the html sourcecode, you just have to create empty divs 
>> that act as "targets" and then create an instance of Moobrowser using 
>> the solr url:
>>
>> mooBrowser = new MooBrowser('url-of-solr');
>>
>> Now you can add various widgets to this browser. Each widget consists 
>> of its javascript class and a xslt stylesheet that is used to create 
>> the appropriate response from solr. See 
>> http://lovo.test.dev.indoqa.com/mepheser/moobrowser/moobrowser.js for 
>> the js source code. Currently these widgets are supported in an alpha 
>> version:
>>
>> - MooBrowserPageableResultWidget that creates the "result view" 
>> including paging buttons
>>
>> - MooBrowserSingleFieldFacetWidget for simple facet fiels. These 
>> fields can be dependend on other fields, see "by medium" -> "image" as 
>> an example
>>
>> - MooBrowserTreeFacetWidget: this is used to display hierarchical 
>> facets (see "by category" -> "sports" -> "tennis" -> ..
>> The data is stored in layers like category_0, category_1 in the index.
>>
>> - new MooBrowserSearchFacetWidge for full text searching
>>
>> All rendering is done using css, every "target" div is self-updating 
>> and delivers its fitting html after the user changes his selection.
>>
>>
>>                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Of cource I would formulate an "official" proposal containing tasks, 
>> timeline, etc. AFAIK, the timeline is extended till next moday.
>>
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Best regard,
>> Matthias
>>
>>
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