Europeana Recommendations Updater

Spring-Boot2 and Spring-Batch web application for generating updates to the Recommendation Engine

The software retrieves set names and uses this to loads records (of a particular set) from a Mongo databases. Part of the record data is then send to the Embeddings API which returns vectors. The vectors are saved into a Milvus database.

Prerequisites

• Java 17
• Maven^*
• Europeana parent pom
• Record Solr search engine
• Record Mongo database
• Embeddings API
• Milvus Recommendation Engine (v2.2.x)
• At least 90 GB free HDD space (for about 60 million records)

^{* A Maven installation is recommended, but you could use the accompanying mvnw (Linux, Mac OS) or mvnw.cmd (Windows) files instead.}

Run

The application is a command-line application. Either select the RecommendUpdaterApplication class in your IDE and 'run' it

or

go to the application root where the pom.xml is located and excute
./mvnw spring-boot:run (Linux, Mac OS) or mvnw.cmd spring-boot:run (Windows)

Command-line parameters

One of the following command-line options is required:

1. --FULL to start a full update covering all records
2. --from=<date> to start a partial update with all records created or modified after the provided date. The date needs to be in ISO format, e.g. --from=2021-10-08 or --from=2021-10-08T12:15:00
3. --sets=<setId1>,<setId2> to start an update for one or more sets. The list of sets should be comma-separated
4. --setFile=<fileName> to load a list of sets from file. Expects 1 set name or set id per line

At the moment the 4 options cannot be combined.

Optional extra command-line options are:

• --DELETE to delete the existing Milvus data before starting the update
• --batch to modify the batch size (overrides option in configuration file)
• --threads to modify the number of threads (sets) that are updated in parallel (overrides option in configuration file)

License

Licensed under the EUPL 1.2. For full details, see LICENSE.md.