One thing I’ve been working on over the past few month has been preparing OpenDSM for release as an open source product (See Jerry’s blog for more details). It’s been an interesting task - DSM is a mature product with years of development behind it. That has the benefit that it is stable and well tested (it has supported millions of searches per year for a number of years now), but the code wasn’t designed with modularity in mind.
Now we’ve worked though that I think it will be useful for a lot of people. The OpenDSM page on the education.au website links to some of the places it is currently used, but probably understates its usefulness. For example, it comes an OpenSearch adaptor, as well as a Solr adapator, which means it can be used to federate results from any number of OpenSearch and/or Solr servers together with a number of different sorting strategies. Other adapters are also available.
If you find this interesting take a look at the product roadmap and join the mailing list/discussion group.
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[…] A couple of us at education.au have blogged previously on openDSM, our distributed search manager software that was released recently as open source and is housed on Google Code. If you would like to know more about this software, the problem areas that it addresses and the philosophy behind it and some of the work that we do, here is a really interesting podcast with the lead developer/architect, Nick Lothian. There is a great discussion on open source more generally too. […]
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