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Blacklight

Last updated: 2022-09-21 19:31 UTC
Description: Blacklight is an open source Solr user interface discovery platform. You can use Blacklight to enable searching and browsing of your collections. Blacklight uses the Apache Solr search engine to search full text and/or metadata. Blacklight has a highly configurable Ruby on Rails front-end. Blacklight was originally developed at the University of Virginia Library and is made public under an Apache 2.0 license.
Homepage: http://projectblacklight.org/
Codebase: https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight
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Licensing: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Pricing: free to use
Adoption level: Significant
Readiness level: TR9
Governance: Community (ad-hoc)
Business Form: Not Classified
Status: Actively Maintained
Categories: Software Component
Functions: Discovery
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