A search endpoint which spans types (e.g. Works, Authors, Subjects)

[cdrini]

We have a single solr for all our different data types, so why not take advantage of it? This means a user could search for "j k rowling" and get a mix of authors/works(/editions? maybe) back, scored by solr by relevance, rendered differently. This is a little experimental and would be a decent amount of work, but not exceptionally challenging work since a lot of similar code already exists. Candidate for #603 hackathon!

[xayhewalo]

@cdrini @tfmorris This seems like your area of expertise. Are either one of you willing to be assignee? Note, being the assignee doesn't necessarily mean you are responsible for doing the work, just responsible for gathering/providing information to address the issue. From the Wiki.

The assigned owner is not necessarily the person who will fix the issue (it is not necessarily even established, at that point, if or when the issue will be fixed at all), but rather they are the person who will do as much or as little as needed to handle the issue (asking questions, soliciting input, establishing and updating the priority, checking if it is a duplicate, etc).

Once an issue is labeled State: Work In Progress, the owner is the individual doing the work, or leading/coordinating the group that is doing the work.

I've added tags per the issue's context: let me know your thoughts.

[tfmorris]

I think the description is adequate. It's a feature request which is much lower in priority than all the critical bug fixes that are needed, at least from my point of view. Not willing to be the assignee until it bubbles to the top of the priority queue.

[mekarpeles]

Related to #8740