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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:10:22 -0500
From: Terry Kuny
To: DIGLIB
Subject: [DIGLIB] OSS: libData - subject pathfinders authoring application
LibData
LibData is a library oriented web based application which provides
authoring environments for subject pathfinders (Research QuickStart),
course related pages (CourseLib) and general purpose web pages
(PageScribe). LibData encompasses all of these applications, but a
typical installation need only take advantage of one or two of them
-- great local variation and emphasis is possible.
LibData was built with open source components ( Apache ,mySQL , and
PHP ) and moved into production at the University of Minnesota for
Fall Semester 2003. Our production instance at the University of
Minnesota uses a different security mechanism (campus-wide x500), and
has some additional development work for enterprise portal
connectivity. Having and controlling easily-understood source code
greatly enables this sort of localized integration.
The project is approximately 34,000 lines of programming code,
strongly function based (with a few objects thrown in), and is well
documented internally. It was written in a fairly simple and
consistent style which should be easily understood by Perl/c
programmers wishing to make further contributions or customization.
LibData is best approached as an application delivered over the web,
rather than as a series of web pages with database components.
More information at:
URL: http://plato.lib.umn.edu/
