[Dspace-general] RE: [Dspace-tech] DSpace search engine (HELP)

[Chen, Kevin]

Charles,

We have been implementing a huge learning object repository using DSpace for
a year. To my best knowledge there is no way you can instruct the current
version of DSpace to search inside the files. Searching inside files is not
an easy task for search engines. For one thing, there is no application or
code module in the world that knows how to "decode" the contents from every
kind of file format.

I don't know whether Lucene has the capability of doing so, but if it has
you'll have to do it by yourself - making new Java classes to call Lucene
APIs to search on files ~

Nai-Shuo Kevin Chen
Senior Applications Systems Analyst
University of Arizona Libraries
MS.MIS, U. of Arizona 2003
MS.Administration, Central Michigan U., 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: charlselo [mailto:charlselo at intelnett.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:29 AM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Dspace-tech] DSpace search engine (HELP)

This year we start an enterprising project using DSpace.  We want to make a 
library that is going to be use by all the students of our University.  We 
are making some source development using DSpace and other tools, but maybe 
this is not exactly an idea or comment, is a question.  I'm now working with

the DSpace search engine ( Lucene wrapper ).  But my question is , Does 
DSpace only search through the metadata ? Can I search through the documents

( inside the documents [files] ) extending some DSpace search engine 
preferences ?  How ?.  I'm using now the complete Lucene tool to do so, but 
I have to make a new index (indexing the files) , but I want to use the 
index that is already in DSpace. Is there a DSpace version that has this 
functionality, to search inside the files ? Well , I'm going to appreciate a

little help here. So thanks ! 
Please mail me to this address: charlselo at intelnett.com

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