Europeana::Blacklight

Ruby gem providing an adapter to use the Europeana REST API as a data source for Blacklight.

Usage

See the Quick Start Guide.

Features

Supported Blacklight features

Search
View record
Pagination of search results
Field facets
Query facets
Facet limits
Fielded search
Bookmarks
Range queries

Unsupported Blacklight features

Result sorting :(
"Did you mean" spellcheck
MLT Solr-style (but see custom features)

Custom features

Nested EDM field names
MLT by record ID in :mlt URL parameter
Query facets with arbitrary API parameters

In the configuration for query facet fields, the :fq option is a Hash, to permit specification of multiple parameters to be passed to the API:

configure_blacklight do |config|
  config.add_facet_field 'Cities (reusable content)', query: {
    paris: { label: 'Paris', fq: { qf: 'paris', reusability: 'open' } },
    berlin: { label: 'Berlin', fq: { qf: 'berlin', reusability: 'open' } }
  }
end