CIL2006 Day 1: Open Source Software for Library Website Management

by davidleeking on March 22, 2006

(Karen Coombs was the speaker)

summary - open source is cool!

sometimes it’s not free… there might be a licensing cost

still need hardware and time

advantages: change and expand on the source code if you want to, offers an active developer community - very nice!

Foundational Software:

apache, tomcat - another java-based web server
php, perl, python, ruby - open source programming languages
mysql and PostGres - more robust

Content Management:
Drupal - weblogs.ucalgary.ca - for the students
Plone - Requires Zope application server - stony brook suny runs on plone (health sciences site)
Textpattern - much simpler, fewer features

Bloging Software:
wordpress - probably best-known (LITA’s blog runs in wordpress)
WordpressMU - mu.wordpress.org - alpha stage, multiple blogs
or you can do a wordpress farm to run multiple blogs…

Movable Type - create multiple blogs with multiple authors (UHouston uses this) - another university runs thousands - mt is very scalable

Wiki software:
- mediawiki, PHP Wiki, Pm wiki - usc aiken gregg-graniteville library - runs on a wiki…

maintenance
awstats, w3c link checker, log validator - checks to see if your HTML is valid

other tools
Nvu, opensourcewebdesign - free code
tinymce.moxiecode.com - wysywyg html editor - open source, incorporate into your site. It looks like word. It can be incorporated into a CMS

htdig, Lucene - full text search engines written in Java

Furl and Wikipedia both use Lucine… hmm…

CIL2006 

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 mai 11.08.06 at 6:45 pm

I want to search source code of a web application about library topic in asp.net.Can you help me?

2 davidleeking 11.08.06 at 10:05 pm

Unfortunately, not much. But there are countless asp.net discussion boards - that’s where I’d go first.

So go to Google, and search for something like this:

“asp.net “discussion board”

Hope that helps!

3 new software 05.19.08 at 9:35 am

I want to search source code of a web application about library topic in asp.net.Can you help me?

thanks

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