Yale is using Solr/Lucene for a cross-collections search project as well. The Gallery uses Lucene on a subset of TMS data for our online catalogue (http://ecatalogue.art.yale.edu). (We encourage students and visitors to use that instead of TMS if they just need basic object info.) If the Getty uses Solr/Lucene to supplement their own TMS usage, we’d be interested in learning more too.

From: The Museum System (TMS) Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tuck, Emily
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:32 PM
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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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