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Subject: Re: Unstructured/Structured data for indexing
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 08:05:09 -0800
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Often Solr documents are =E2=80=9Csemi-structured=E2=80=9D. They have =
some structured fields and some free-text fields. e-mail messages are =
like that, with structured headers and an unstructured body.

wunder
Walter Underwood
wunder@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)


> On Dec 9, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafalov@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> Don't think about indexing so much, think about searching.
>=20
> Say you are searching a video? What does that mean? Do you want to
> match random sequence of binary values that represent inter-frame
> change? Probably not. When you answer what you want to actually search
> (title? length? subscripts?), you will discover that structure. What
> do you want to return? A whole video, a segment, a description with a
> link?
>=20
> So, you pre-process/index your data to give you the things you want to
> search for and in the form you want them to receive.
>=20
> Regards,
>   Alex.
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> Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates:
> http://www.solr-start.com/
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>=20
> On 9 December 2015 at 03:09, subinalex <alexkutty19@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I am a solr newbie,just got a quick question.
>>=20
>> SOLR is designed for querying unstructured data,but then why we have =
to send
>> it in a structured form(json,xml) for indexing?.
>>=20
>> Thanks & Regards,S
>> Subin
>>=20
>>=20
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