The Rest of the World
Here we put links to other projects and applications, which may contain cool ideas or concepts. You can also check Daniel's Net7 bookmark collection at http://del.icio.us/averell/net7
Institutions and standardisation initiatives
- Delos Network of Excellence on Digital libraries: http://www.delos.info/
- Open Archives Initiative: http://www.openarchives.org/
- Bricks: http://www.brickscommunity.org/
Digital Library Software Packages
- JeromeDL, a semantic library system with social collaboration features: http://wiki.corrib.org/index.php/JeromeDL it uses it's own ontology for the data. Interesting: User authentication and permissions are defined through FOAF
- Bricks is another semantic library system, which has already been deployed in a few instances. It can be used with user-defined ontologies. http://www.brickscommunity.org/
- Fedora is an open source web services based framework for managing and delivering digital content. It's appears that it's quite mature and has already been deployed in many scenarios. It uses semantics by storing RDF with each object in the library, and combining these triplets in an additional triplet store.
- Old version of Hyper: http://www.hypernietzsche.org/websvn/
- HyperJournal, a Journal Management System derived from Hyper: http://www.hjournal.org/
- DSpace Devoped at MIT. The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material.Research institutions worldwide use DSpace as an institutional repository, a learning object repository, for records management, and more.
- CDS Invenio is a digital library system developed at CERN
- Eprints
- http://www.opencollection.org Interesting application originally developed for museum collections.
REST and Resources
- Discovering a World of Resources (DHH keynote): http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html
- ActiveResource? plugin (the readme): http://svn.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk/activeresource/README
- ARs "test drive": http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006/12/12/taking-ares-out-for-a-test-drive
- Beast (a restful forum system written with rails): http://beast.caboo.se/forums/1/topics/381
Continuous integration
- CruiseControl?.rb: http://www.rubyinside.com/cruisecontrolrb-continuous-integration-for-ruby-and-rails-436.html
- CI plugin by DHH: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails.core/790
Deploy related stuff
- Deprec peepcode movie: http://topfunky.com/clients/peepcode/free-episodes/peepcode-free-deprec.mov
- Rails deployment articles: http://blog.craigambrose.com/articles/category/deployment-series
Semantic Web (RDF, Onthologies, Queries)
- Rdfs / Owl: http://swa.cefriel.it/download/CEFRIEL-DellaValle_AASI_04_tecnologie-RDFS-OWL.pdf
- RDF Semantics: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/
- RDF at the Venice Project: http://www.leosimons.com/2006/rdf-at-the-venice-project.html
- OWL: http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
- Semantic Web languages: http://alek.xspaces.org/2005/04/27/semweb-facets
- SPARQL Tutorial: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/16/introducing-sparql-querying-semantic-web-tutorial.html
- SPARQL: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
- Jena: http://jena.sourceforge.net/
- Jena RDF database persistence: http://jena.sourceforge.net/DB/index.html
- Sesame: http://www.openrdf.org
- ActiveRDF: http://www.activerdf.org/
- Forward production rules for RDFS and limited OWL inferencing on top of ActiveRDF: http://rubyforge.org/projects/activerdf-rules/
Images / Multimedia search
- Riya: http://www.riya.com/
Authorization in Rails
- http://www.billkatz.com/authorization
- http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/02/20/new-plugin-acl_system
- https://activerbac.turingstudio.com/
- http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ModelSecurity/
Open projects under development (related to talia)
ICA-AtoM
ICA-AtoM http://ica-atom.org/ is web-based archival description software that is based on International Council on Archives (ICA) standards. 'AtoM' is an acronymn for 'Access to Memory'. ICA-AtoM is multi-lingual and supports multi-repository collections. The 1.0 version of ICA-AtoM will be formally released, along with training material and workshops, at the ICA Congress in July 2008.
* Its information architecture has some similiraties with talia http://archivemati.ca/2006/12/08/the-information-model-to-end-all-information-models/
Collex (Nines project)
It's written in rails too http://www.patacriticism.org/collex/ See also my blog post "Digital Libraries on Rails" at http://blog.barbz.org/archives/43
OpenCollection?
OpenCollection is a full-featured collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. It is designed to handle large, heterogeneous collections that have complex cataloguing requirements and require support for a variety of metadata standards and media formats. Unlike most other collections management applications, OpenCollection? is completely web-based. All cataloging, search and administrative functions are accessed using common web-browser software, untying users from specific operating systems and making cataloguing by distributed teams and online access to collections information simple, efficient and inexpensive.
