[Egothor-tech] Detailed feature inquiry (mainly Metadata andprotected data)

[Rolf Grau]

Dear Leo

Thanks for your reply  :)

We already had a first look at Lucene, but think it will not be enough for
our needs.

When you speak of functions that will have to be covered by an upper layer,
is there any that already exists, and that you could recommend together with
Egothor? Any other software that you could recommend in combination with
Egothor?

Thanks again,

       Rolf

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo Galambos" <Leo.Galambos at egothor.org>
To: "Egothor list" <egothor-tech at egothor.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Egothor-tech] Detailed feature inquiry (mainly Metadata
andprotected data)


>
> >§         Enforce security access assigned through AD to users of
content.
> >
> >
>
> This should be implemented in an upper layer, not in the engine.
>
> >§         Be able to Index Documents locally stored in the portal
location.
> >
> >
>
> yes
>
> >§         Search of Metadata information.
> >
> >
>
> yes, except of queries similar to "field LIKE '%something%'..."
>
> >§         Be able to index remote web sites.
> >
> >
>
> yes
>
> >§         Be able to index local CMS content.
> >
> >
>
> yes
>
> >§         Be able to index database storages (critical for collaboration
> >tools or other applications such as Image banks).
> >
> >
>
> yes, but you must implement the indexer.
>
> >§         Ability to save queries that can be reused by users.
> >§         Ability to get alerts of changes occurred to queries run by
users.
> >§         Ability to present results in categories, based on source.  For
> >example: Collaboration tools, People etc.
> >
> >
>
> this is not part of the engine, you would have to implement it.
>
> >§         Search logs to track users success and failure in searching.
> >
> >
>
> this should be implemented in an upper layer (not in the kernel) IMHO
>
> >§         Federated search, so that a search engine of another portal can
be
> >queried for results.
> >
> >
>
> yes. currently, a student is also working on a metasearch module, so
> that the respective modules will be extended soon.
>
> >Does Egothor provide all of this?
> >
> >
>
> If you can give me a solid specification then it is not a problem to
> support all of them. ;)
>
> >If you think Egothor cannot provide this, could you maybe
> >recommend any other free open source solution?
> >
> >
>
> You can always peek at Lucene library (Apache project). It could work
> for you to some degree, but it does not solve all your needs. Moreover,
> they tried to integrate a classic search (a la DBMS) with fulltext, but
> their solution is not as good as Oracle with InterMedia or Postgresql,
> at least, when you have plenty of data in DBMS module (AFAIK).
>
> Cheers,
> Leo
>
> -- 
> Leo Galambos
> Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, DSE
> Malostranske namesti 25
> Prague 1
> CZE
>
> http://kocour.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~galambos/
>
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