Depending what you want, Elated is available as a simple, light-weight,
front-end (see www.fedora.info/tools). The latest version there will
run only with Fedora 2.1.1 in non-secure mode, we have a modified
version for secure-mode if you want. We need to look at having this
work with 2.2 as well (not a trivial problem because fedora's web
services have changed substantially between those two releases). Bear in
mind that Elated was a one-off project and I don't think the software is
maintained any longer; however it could be a starting point?
Richard
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Richard Green
Manager, REMAP and RepoMMan Projects
e-SIG, Academic Services
University of Hull
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www.hull.ac.uk/remap
www.hull.ac.uk/esig/repomman
-----Original Message-----
From: Fedora UK&I Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Mike Cave
Sent: 16 April 2007 09:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Building a Front-End for Fedora
Dear all,
The Forced Migration Online portal, FMO
(http://www.forcedmigration.org/), at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford
University, currently has a Digital library component that contains a
mixture of scanned / born-digital documents, and scanned / born digital
back-runs of several Journals. This component is currently built using
proprietary software, and we are soon to make a funding application to
re-engineer certain parts of FMO, including its Digital Library
component.
We are trying to investigate the possibility of using Fedora as the
underlying repository solution, but of course need to build a front-end.
What we would like to establish is whether we can produce a Fedora
front-end to fit within FMO 'in house', without having to buy in a
costly solution.
We have looked at VTLS Vital, but we think that:
a) it would be prohibitively expensive
b) it would possibly be overkill for FMO
c) as we want to deploy offline 'intranet' copies of our website on
partner servers, we don't want a solution that incurs a licensing /
maintenance fee.
I was wondering whether anybody out there has had to build an interface
foe themselves, and would be willing to talk to us about the experience,
so that we can better understand what lies ahead!
Kind regards,
Mike Cave
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Technical Development Manager
Forced Migration Online
Postal Address:
Refugee Studies Centre
University of Oxford
Department of International Development
Mansfield Road
Oxford
OX1 3TB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1865 270262
Fax: +44 (0)1865 270297
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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