Vaishali Singh posted an Question
July 11, 2020 • 19:33 pm 30 points
  • UGC NET
  • Library and Information Science

What is blacklight in open source discovery tool

what is blacklight in open source discovery tool plz explain the word "blacklight" what is its use n why this tool comes under the open source discovery tools in the topic of web- scale discovery services.

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    Eduncle Best Answer

    Dear Vaishali,

    Greetings!!

    It is open source software in library.It is a free and open source Ruby on Rails based discovery interface (a.k.a. “next-generation catalog”) especially optimized for heterogeneous collections. You can use it as a library catalog, as a front end for a digital repository, or as a single-search interface to aggregate digital content that would otherwise be siloed.

    Thank You for asking your query

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    Owais best-answer

    Blacklight is an open source, Ruby on Rails engine/gem that provides a discovery interface for Apache Solr. Blacklight provides a basic user interface for searching a Solr index, and provides search box, facet constraints, stable document urls, etc., all of which is customizable via Rails (templating) mechanisms.

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