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- Implementing a web service interface (with authentication) to the VIVO RDF API, to allow the Harvester and other tools to add/remove data from VIVO and trigger appropriate search indexing and recomputing of inferences.
- This would also enable round-trip editing of VIVO content from Drupal or another tool external to VIVO via the SPARQL update capability of the RDF api
- Put and delete of data via LOD requests – this has been suggested but we're not sure a specification even exists for an LOD "put" request – please add references here if you're aware of discussion or documentation.
- Authentication will be involved
- Could manage in our own authentication and authorization system and tell Apache that the servlet requires an HTTPS connection
- This approach would allow testing in a known environment without
- Would you want a bundled atomic change set for at least one graph together, so could control additions and retractions better than when piecemeal
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- Provide a way to re-index by graph or for a list of URIs, to allow partial re-indexing following data ingest as opposed to requiring a complete re-index
- The same desire applies for re-inferencing, which is typically more time consuming
- However, re-inferencing is potentially more complicated because our simple reasoner depends on knowing the delta – what has been removed as well as what has been added – and this may be more complex than search re-indexing a specific set of URIs
- Implementation of additional facets on a per-classgroup basis – appropriate facets beyond ref:type, varying based on the nature of the properties typically present in search results of a given type such as people, organizations, publications, research resources, or events.
- Huda Khan has been implementing the ability to configure additional search facets for the Datastar project; some improvements may make it into 1.6
- An improved configuration tool for specifying parameters to VIVO's search indexing and query parsing
- Question – are any of these run-time parameters or are they all parameters that must be baked in at build time, requiring re-generation of the index?
- Relates to another suggestion for a concerted effort to explore what search improvements Apache Solr can support and recommendations on which to consider implementing in what order
- Changes are not expected for 1.6 – more requirements are needed before this work can be prioritized or scoped.
- Improved default boosting parameters for people, organizations, and other common priority items
- Here the question immediately becomes "improved according to what criteria"
- This is a prime area for a special interest group of librarians or other content experts willing to document current settings and recommend improvements, including documenting use cases and developing sample data that could be part of the Solr unit tests listed above under "Installation and Testing"
- Improving the efficiency and hence speed of search indexing in general – we have no indications at the moment that search indexing is being a bottleneck. It can take several hours to completely reindex a major VIVO such as Florida or Cornell, but the ability to specify a single named graph or list of URI's to index would address most of the complaints around the time required search indexing after adding new data via the Harvester, which does not trigger VIVO's search indexing or re-inferencing listeners
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