---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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/