Hi Lars,

You might take a look at our recently released digital library system
called Ibidem (http://www.maflt.org/products/Ibidem).

Its strengths are its simplicity and its flexibility. For example, items
can be in multiple collections. And you can define custom metadata sets,
where you can have user friendly names that get translated to Dublin Core.
Does the typical user really know what Relation or Coverage mean?

BTW, it's multilingual and multitenant.

I'll be modularizing the code soon to make it easier to  build custom end
user UIs, or you can access the data via OAI-PMH calls. Right now Ibidem is
very good for administration and I'm working to make it better for the end
user experience. (There will probably be a mobile interface within the next
6 months.)

-Brad

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www.ontherhoads.org


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Lars Aronsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If I built this website today and not in 1994,
> http://runeberg.org/irescan/**0014.html<http://runeberg.org/irescan/0014.html>
>
> (you can see it hasn't changed much,
> http://web.archive.org/web/**19970227191652/http://www.**
> lysator.liu.se/runeberg/fstal/**1b.html<http://web.archive.org/web/19970227191652/http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/fstal/1b.html>
> )
>
> then I would probably use CSS rather than HTML tables for
> layout, I would probably use a MySQL database instead of
> plain text files, and I would probably use some open source
> content management (CMS) or digital asset managment (DAM)
> software rather than a Perl script that generates static
> HTML files.
>
> But which open source framework would I use? Greenstone?
> XTF? DSpace? Mediawiki? Django? WordPress?
>
> I found the Mark Twain Project, which uses XTF, and it looks
> quite nice, http://www.marktwainproject.**org/<http://www.marktwainproject.org/>
>
> Then I saw the video showing how to add a new document to an
> XTF website, and that didn't look so good,
> http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-**started-tutorials/the-**
> exercises/exercise-1/<http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-started-tutorials/the-exercises/exercise-1/>
>
> in particular I didn't like these steps:
>    5. Shut down tomcat.
>    6. Do an incremental re-index (2) to include the new document.
>    7. Start up tomcat.
>    ...
>
> To be clear: I need a platform where regular users, logged
> in or not, can upload new books through a web interface.
> Does that leave me with anything else than Mediawiki?
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson ([log in to unmask])
>  Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
>