Re: Semantic Suggestions please ... for oilit journal

Just a second.
Actually Carmen has done something that often happens when there is a
"hacker" who knows their tools and has that special energy "hackers" so
often have. In this case she has introduced me to different solutions that I
had never heard of. OK small win, and I may never do anything with this. But
it is important. For instance it makes me question (why does Andrew
Aksyonoff say "Despite the amount of time passed and numerous improvements
made in the other solutions, there's still no solution which I personally
would be eager to migrate to."?) I', not looking for an answer for these
questions here. But it is very valuable to question. On the other hand, to
echo Dan, academic institutions and the spirit of academic institutions is
that of questioning and finding answers.
I just think there is a special energy that "hackers" - inverted commas
because who is a hacker? - have.
As Andrew Aksyonoff also says ruefully "... the obvious decision is to
continue developing Sphinx (and, eventually, to take over the world)."
This energy really is a fantastic thing.

Adam

2008/10/3 Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>

>
> carmen r wrote:
>
>> thats why I recommended to let this be done by people who have  experience
>>> and can calculate the costs.
>>> consulting companies. Hackers always underestimate the effort
>>>
>>
>> consulting companies (or large universities/institutions) are likely to
>> propose a solution which is more complicated effortwise to begin with
>>
>> primarily as a way to justify their considerable expense and achieve 'lock
>> in' to their expertise, for future updates/maintenance
>>
>> hackers would convert his oil-IT journal's semistructure data to
>> Django/Rails/ARC fields in an afternoon, set up some Sphinx searching, and
>> move onto their next gig without even uttering "Lucene"
>>
>
> Let's not divide the world between Hackers and Consultants please... Plenty
> of companies and universities give away vast and precious piles of work
> (code) for free. Even large universities. Generalisations at this level
> don't help anyone, really.
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
> ps. I'd be happy to hear if anyone is integrating
> http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ with http://arc.semsol.org/ ...whether it
> took an afternoon or more...
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