Metacat

Metacat Indexing

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SOLR background information

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Features:

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* more

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Something to explain the advantage of solr over the old metacat index approach

Indexed documents and fields

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Metacat reuses the default DataONE index which includes many common metadata formats

out-of-the-box

1. EML

2. FGDC

3. Dryad

Default indexed fields

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Describe the existing fields like in the DataONE docs, with link to them

Index configuration overview

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Describe the configuration files and extension points for the implementation

Adding additional document types and fields

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Step-by-step guide for adding new documents and indexed fields.

Querying the index

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Provide example SOLR queries and expected results. Show a variety of return types

and query facets.

Access Policy enforcement

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Explain how access control is processed and honored when utilizing the index.

Regenerating the index from scratch

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When the SOLR index has been drastically modified, a complete regenration of the 

index may be necessary. In order to accomplish this:

Step-by-step instructions

NOTE: this may take a long time depending on the size of your Metacat store.