Solr4Lib

Besides the great pointers on the IntegratingSolr page, libraries integrating Solr have their own unique challenges that the rest of the computer programming world is advised to steer clear of. Brain storming some ideas of what can go here:

• (MARCXML/MODS/MADS/EAD/TEI) -> Solr XML XSLT examples

  • Terry Reese has kicked this area off to a great start, video and all, showing MARC -> Solr via MarcEdit

• Faceting on LCSH experiences

OPACs based on Solr

• http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/ (Django/python)

MARC4J

Emily Lynema posted the following to the code4lib preconference list:

For any solr4lib folks who are Java friendly and looking for a good
(aka, fast and easy) way to go from MARC to MARCXML.

I just discovered that the MARC4J package has a class that can be run
as a command line utility (MarcXmlDriver) to convert a MARC file to a
MARCXML file. I think it took me maybe 10 minutes to process 2K of
records. It also does MARC8 to UTF-8 conversion.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure the MarcXmlDriver will also post-process the
MARCXML output via user-defined xslt. Although I haven't tested that
part myself yet.

http://marc4j.tigris.org/