HuNI GovHack 2014

What is HuNI?

HuNI is a new research and discovery platform developed by and for humanities and creative arts scholars. The Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) is a national Virtual Laboratory project developed as part of the Australian government’s NeCTAR (National e-Research Collaboration Tools and Resources) program. HuNI combines information from 30 of Australia’s most significant cultural datasets. These datasets comprise more than 2 million authoritative records relating to the people, organisations, concepts, places, works, and events that make up Australia's rich cultural heritage. HuNI also enables researchers to work with and share this large-scale aggregation of cultural information. HuNI has been developed as a partnership between 13 public institutions, led by Deakin University.

HuNI data

HuNI harvests a summary of selected records in the above mentioned data sets and indexes them via Apache Solr. You can find the data sources listed at http://wiki.huni.net.au/display/DS/Data+Source+Details%2C+Harvests+and+Mappings. The source agency codes and counts of records can be seen on the HuNI data status page.

Access the HuNI Solr search service at http://solr.huni.net.au/prod02/select.

Here are some example queries;

• Search for "attended Monash University" and return the second 15 rows as XML - http://solr.huni.net.au/prod02/select?q=attended+Monash+University&rows=15&start=16&wt=xml
• Search for "sheep" in the Bonza data set returning the first set of results as JSON - http://solr.huni.net.au/prod02/select?q=(text:sheep%20OR%20text_rev:sheep)%20AND%20(sourceAgencyCode:Bonza)&wt=json
• Return the first set of "Place" records as CSV - http://solr.huni.net.au/prod02/select?q=entityType:Place&wt=csv

Here are some resources to get started with Solr searches;

• Solr query syntax
• Common query parameters
• Everything else there is to know about Solr search syntax