Interesting. What is it, and what do they do with it? How does what they
are doing differ from indexing available in TMS? Is this a day-to-day
registrar, curator, art handler user interface or something on the
backend, perhaps specifically related to their websites?

 

 

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Subject: Anyone using Lucene or Lucene/Solr to enhance search?

 

Greetings:

 

We just got back from a tour of the Getty and observed that they were
using Lucene to index the data in TMS (actually in SQL Server). I was
told that Boston MFA did this as well. I'd love to hear from other
institutions who have developed their own front end to TMS and employed
Lucene or other search engine to make TMS easy and intuitive to search.

 

Thank you,

 

Emily

 

Emily Nedell Tuck

 

Data Standards Manager

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

P.O. Box 6826

Houston, Texas 77265-6826

(713) 353-1523
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