Define Dataverse-specific schema.xml for Solr (make authors searchable)

[eaquigley]

---

Author Name: Philip Durbin (@pdurbin)
Original Redmine Issue: 3480, https://redmine.hmdc.harvard.edu/issues/3480
Original Date: 2014-02-03
Original Assignee: Elda Sotiri

---

For a while we were almost exclusively using "dynamic" fields in Solr that have underscores in them:

• type_s
• subtree_ss
• citationyear_i

We did this for speed of development and convenience (everyone can use Solr "as is" out of the box) but we are now requiring a Dataverse-specific Solr schema.xml. We are aiding in constructing it with a new API call ( http://localhost:8080/api/config/solr/schema ) so we can hard-code metadata fields into schema.xml, including "copyField" directives into the "catchall" field.

Originally, this ticket said "finalize" but I changed it to say "define" since I'm sure we'll continue to iterate on the schema.xml.

But for the purposes of QA, a lot of work was done this week in this area and we think it's good enough for now.

Instructions for updating one's schema.xml are in the dev guide.

[eaquigley]

---

Original Redmine Comment
Author Name: Elda Sotiri (@esotiri)
Original Date: 2014-03-27T21:06:05Z

---

resolved