[Koha-devel] ElasticSearch for Koha - presenting the Koha Gruppo Italiano's project

[Martin Renvoize]

It's great to see such an interest in putting ElasticSearch into Koha.

May I suggest you try to catch up with Chris Cormack.. he stated in the
3.16 Architectural Goals mail thread on this list that he was already
working on integrating ElasticSearch (some Catalyst with Bywater
collaboration I believe), visible here:
http://git.catalyst.net.nz/gw?p=koha.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/elastic_search

I'm sure he'll pipe up by himself soon enough.. but it would be terrible to
see duplicated effort.. on the flip side it would be great to see some more
collaboration and funding for the developers to be able to spend more time
on getting this right.

Martin Renvoize
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Content Management and Library Solutions
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On 5 February 2014 16:34, Stefano Bargioni <bargioni at pusc.it> wrote:

> The Koha Gruppo Italiano is proud to present a new project for the
> development of Koha.
>
> Recently the community has shown a big interest in substituting Zebra with
> a new search engine. How this is done -- whether Zebra is replaced or
> complemented, etc. -- will determine the workload and necessary financial
> support.
>
> The Koha Gruppo Italiano wants to promote the project through a
> crowd-funding campaign, sponsorships, events, endorsements etc.
>
> The Koha Gruppo Italiano would like to bring together the community of
> developers to determine the possibility of introducing the new search
> engine, to set up the work flow, and to collect the funding necessary for
> the project. On March 11, 2014 the project will be presented in Marseille
> at the Koha Hackfest for evaluation. Important software editors/producers
> working for Koha, and others interested in the project will be invited. The
> project will be presented by Stefano Bargioni, Deputy Director and System
> Librarian at the Library of the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce.
> The goal is to discuss solutions, and propose ideas in order to take
> initial decisions.
>
> The project and its progress can be followed through the website <
> http://kohagruppoitaliano.moonfruit.com>, on FB <
> http://www.facebook.com/KohaGruppoItaliano> and on Twitter <
> https://twitter.com/kohagruppoit>.
>
> We are very interested to hearing your first impressions, your suggestions
> etc. about this proposed project. Please respond to this e-mail if you have
> any comments. Probably the best contributions during this early phase will
> be the definition of the fundamentals. Example:
>
> - Which search engine? - ElasticSearch, Solr or other (even if, at this
> time, the name of the initial project is ElasticSearch for Koha)?
> - Should the effort focus on complementing Zebra or on its replacement?
> - Subdivide the workload.
> - Draft a road map.
>
> We are grateful to all developers who will be contributing to our project.
> We hope that this project is seen favorably within the community, and
> specifically wish that the Librarian community worldwide see the benefits
> of this project and would be willing to assist us with finding financial
> support.
>
> Kindest regards,
> Franziska Wallner, Stefano Bargioni, Sebastian Hierl, Juan Diego Ramirez
>
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