Introduction

This wiki page provides information about how to implement a customized search site with functionalities similar to http://beta.vivosearch.org/.

8/2013: Note that the code linked from this page is obsolete and is being redeveloped as presented at the 2013 VIVO Conference

• see also the VIVO Multisite Search wiki space

Useful resources:

• mailing list: vivo-dev-all
• list archive: List Archive
• main wiki: Wiki Home
• Live IRC chat room: #VIVO

2011 Downloads

• Apache Solr from http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
• Linked Data Index Builder from https://sourceforge.net/p/vivo/tools/code/
• Drupal from http://drupal.org/
• VIVO search Drupal module from https://github.com/milesworthington/vivosolr
• MySQL from http://www.mysql.com/

Setting up the applications

Dates from late 2011

1. Apache Solr

• Unpack the downloaded Apache Solr file
• Copy the files schema.xml and solrconfig.xml from /LinkedDataIndexer/solr to $APACHE_SOLR_HOME/example/solr/conf
• Go to $APACHE_SOLR_HOME/example and run java -jar start.jar to start solr
• Open http://localhost:8983/solr and check if solr is running

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