BibJSON in and out of BibServer

Today I enabled BibJSON input and output from BibServer, and it is available on the example running at http://bibsoup.net. Each collection has a “download” link on the bottom left, and also, each page can be requested as JSON/BibJSON by simply adding .json onto the end of the path. For example: http://bibsoup.net/collection/pitman.json returns the same 10 .. read more

indexing and storage considerations

During this project we have considered several options for storing and indexing our data. Here is a chronological review of what we tried, and reasoning for our current setup (CouchDB for storage, SOLR for indexing) CouchDB Stores JSON really easily, provides functionality like simple API and replication, allows for MapReduce sort of functionality for searching .. read more