Blacklight (software)

Blacklight is an open-source Ruby on Rails engine for creating search interfaces on top of Apache Solr indices. The software is used by libraries to create discovery layers or institutional repositories; by museums and archives to highlight digital collections; and by other information retrieval projects.

Blacklight
Initial releaseOctober 30, 2009 (2009-10-30)
Stable release
7.0.1 / January 13, 2019 (2019-01-13)
Repository
Written inRuby
TypeLibrary and information science software
LicenseApache License
Websiteprojectblacklight.org

History

The University of Virginia began developing Blacklight based on its Collex scholarly publishing software, which also used Ruby and Rails and Solr.[1] The goals of the project included improving the user experience over contemporary OPAC systems, particularly with regard to relevance ranking, and showcasing historically underutilized library collections.[2]

Features

Blacklight includes support faceted browsing, relevance-based searching, bookmarking documents, permanent URLs for documents.[3] It is relatively simple to customize Blacklight, typically by writing Ruby code that overrides default Blacklight code.[4] There are several plugins available for Blacklight as well, including an extension for geospatial data,[5] a digital exhibit creation tool,[6] and various search and user interface features.

Implementations
gollark: Name, Email, Website.
gollark: My website now contains an infinite amount of pages.https://osmarks.tk/infipage/index.html#-422
gollark: Naturally.
gollark: Websockets = TCP sockets (mostly) but with a fancy HTTP-y wrapper so they can be used in JS.
gollark: A GraphQL REST API written in Go using Docker and Google Cloud, obviously.

See also

References
  1. Cohen, Laura B. (2007). "Adapting an Open-Source Scholarly Web 2.0 System for Findability in Library Collections or: Frankly, Vendors, We Don't Give a Damn". Library 2.0 initiatives in academic libraries. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. pp. 58–72. ISBN 9780838984529.
  2. Eden, Brad; Sadler, Bess (6 March 2009). "Project Blacklight: a next generation library catalog at a first generation university". Library Hi Tech. 27 (1): 57–67. doi:10.1108/07378830910942919.
  3. Kang, Hyeran. "A new interface for IUCAT: Blacklight". reDUX: a blog by the Discovery & User Experience dept. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. "Configuring and Customizing Blacklight". GitHub. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  5. "GeoBlacklight". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  6. "Spotlight". Project Blacklight. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  7. Cartolano, Robert T. (4 November 2015). "History of Blacklight". doi:10.7916/D8J38S9M. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. DuPlain, Ron; Balser, Dana S.; Radziwill, Nicole M. (19 July 2010). Build great web search applications quickly with Solr and Blacklight. Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy. doi:10.1117/12.857899.
  9. Hackett, Robert (11 April 2016). "The Panama Papers Search Tool Began as an Academic Skunkworks Project". Fortune. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
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