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Enterprise Search Europe in London – Open source focus

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Enterprise Search Europe is the largest european event dedicated to Enterprise Search. Looking at this year’s agenda, I have the feeling a particular highlight will be given to open source. As in the recent years, several case studies are dedicated to open source, but in addition, the keynote will be focused on it. Charlie Hull, CEO and cofounder of Flax, expert in open source enterprise search, will be sharing his thoughts on the future of search and the link betweeb search and big data. Other open source tracks include a migration from Exalead to Apache Solr (the talk will be given by France Labs, yeeepieeeee), and a round table on open source implementation. You can find more details on the ESEU 2015  programme page.

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Schemaless Solr

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We can often see on the web that Elasticsearch is really cool because it is schemaless, and Solr is not. Although Elasticsearch is cool for many reasons, we want to remind you that Solr is also schemaless since July 2013 (Solr 4.4).

To remind you what schemaless means: Without manually editing the Solr schema, it can recognize some data types  automatically when receiving data to be indexed. Those types are: Boolean, Integer, Long, Float, Double, and Date

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Tutorial for combining ManifoldCF and Elasticsearch for files search

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With the arrival of Manifold CF 1.0 (now already in v1.6.1), the open source community is looking for tutorials to combine it with Elasticsearch. That’s the intent of this tutorial, which will drive you through the different steps required to make it work.

First, we’ll recap the installation process of Manifold CF (we’ll call it MCF later on). Second, we will install ElasticSearch with the attachment plugin so that it handles rich document indexing. Third, we’ll configure MCF so that it crawls a windows file share and indexes documents in ElasticSearch. In this tutorial, when I specify installation directory such as apache-manifoldcf-1.6.1, you have to complete with the absolute path of the installation directory.
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