Building a Library Search Infrastructure with Elasticsearch

This article discusses our implementation of an Elastic cluster to address our search, search administration and indexing needs, how it integrates in our technology infrastructure, and finally takes a close look at the way that we built a reusable, dynamic search engine that powers our digital repos...

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Main Authors: Kim Pham, Fernando Reyes, Jeff Rynhart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2020-05-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15203
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