I have implemented another version of my Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, more specifically, I have dropped the use of one indexer and replaced it with Solr/Lucene. See http://infomotions.com/alex/ This particular implementation does not have all the features of the previous one. No spell check. No thesaurus. No query suggestions. On the other hand, it does support paging, and since it runs under mod_perl, it is quite responsive.
As always I am working on the next version, and you can see where I’m going at http://infomotions.com/sandbox/alex4/ Like the implementation above, this one runs under mod_perl and supports paging. Unlike the implementation above, it also supports query suggestions, a thesaurus, and faceted browsing. It also sports the means to view metadata details. Content-wise, it included images, journal titles, journal articles, and some content from the HathiTrust.
It would be great if I were to get some feedback regarding these implementations. Are they easy to use?
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