Monthly Archives: April 2008

Best of JA-SIG 2008

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
Lots of great Open Source and Community Source work was showcased at JA-SIG this week. Here’s a list, in no particular order, of the most interesting, most relevant projects for me: OpenCollection collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. Sophie software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. SEASR/NEMA rich media [...]
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Manakin XML UI for DSpace 1.5

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
Mark Diggory Look & Feel CSS, HTML layout Branding Repository Communities Collections Items Visualization Interpret metadata Link metadata can serialize metadata to JSON Explain metadata Share Tiers Style Tier Simple themes XHTML + CSS Theme Tier Complex themes XSL + XHTML + CSS Aspect Tier Add new features Introducing new content into pipeline Introducing new functionality Cocoon + Java Resources Documentation DSpace manual Theme writing tutorial Mailing Lists Cocoon DSpace will use Spring-based Cocoon in future Understand the Cocoon Pipeline. Manakin imposes another model on top of Cocoon [...]
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Upgrading DSpace

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
Mark Diggory, MIT Upgrading Version 1.4.2 to Version 1.5.x Pre-session chat/gripes about inadequacy/orphan status of stats module. 1.5.1 coming out soon Code Reorg Separates Java code into functional units (API, OAI, JSP-UI) Reorgs resources by web-app service (OAI, JSP-UI) Adds new web-app services (SWORD, LNI, XML-UI) Allows for better customization (Overlays) These services are all committer supported going forward \src is broken up into each [...]
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JA-SIG 2008

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
I’m at JA-SIG, St. Paul.  It’s winding down today with some sessions, a BarCamp and a uCamp.  I’m looking forward to the uCamp.  Overall, it has been a good conference, probably not as relevant for me personally as the Open Repositories Conference, but still very useful.  And it’s inspiring to see these different projects and [...]
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kudos: Cleveland Public Library site

By jts | Published: April 9, 2008
I just came across Cleveland Public Library’s site featured on drupalib.  They’ve done some very nice design work.  Their use of “Premium” as a paradigm for describing research databases is both catchy and sensible.
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