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Lightning Talks 2
1 Mar 07
[I skipped Lightning Talks 1 yesterday to meet up with J. . .]
All Lightning Talks are listed here
Karen Coombs: CMS on Steroids
Homegrown CMS built at U of Houston Libraries
– anybody can edit any page
– different kinds of content types on one page
– each page built out of modules (rss feeds, staff, databases, etc)
– easy to create portal-like pages for subject areas
– need to expand existing modules, expand the UI
– display order can be changed, would like to add position on the page
Aaron Krowne, Emory University: SouthComb
– meta-collection/DL/portal (harvesting)
– collection dev. rather than just presentation
– focus on Southern studies
– OAI harvesting to gather data
– also focused web crawling and library catalogs (only Emory so far)
– system consists of repository core, coll dev layer, admin layer
– portal environment either Java-based or custom (Rails)
– connect to data as web services (SOA)
– repository in Fedora
– content model, Fedora putting together CMDA spec
– use DBMS for some aspects
– coll dev curation tasks in OXF framework (OAI/OCKHAM Xforms)
– standardized XML configs and modularization
– presentation will be online
Posted by pzed on March 1, 2007 at 12.59pm
Categories: code4lib 2007, conferences, libraries
