Code4lib – Wrap up (not gonna go crazy and rewrite the wheel) visit the code4lib site and read everyone elses blogs!

Solr - covered in detail during the pre-conference. High powered search interface for Lucene.

Villanova’s Web Portal – They were essentially building an “ILS Independent Search Tool” based on Solr. He informed us that he has approximately 500k records in his development system, and returns search results in about 0.1 seconds. Solr also has facet features, however they do decrease performance.

NCSU Site Search – Really a “mash up” of several components. Currently using, Nutch, Swish-E and Web Services into their catalog. I will be following this model shortly. Nutch is an indexing and searching interface to Lucene (isn’t everything), while Swish-e is a similar yet significantly less powerful tool. It is a Perl application which allows spidering and indexing of pages. We currently use it, but I’m very unhappy with it.

Just my synopsis of projects I plan on following up on.