[opensource] Digital Information Virtual Archive (DIVA)

[Zach Chandler]

I think JF has the stack correctly.

> PHP, Java, some C(something - plus maybe?)
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And Vijoy is right about PostGRE, with abstraction layer so that it can 
be run with MySQL, as I recall.

Mostly PHP, I think the Java and/or C was for multimedia processing 
stuff, like FFMPEG.
> It was quite slick, and had a number of accessibility hooks built in and
> ready to be taken advantage of (I actually applauded at the presentation
> <smile>)
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Yup, they seem to have done everything very thoughtfully. Extremely 
impressive.  Even moreso as it was the work of one guy (more or less) 
right?  Diva is a much better DAM system than Drupal, and since they 
were talking about open API, there is no reason to think that somewhere 
down the line we couldn't devise a Drupal module that relies on Diva (or 
similar) for file management.

I think that the Diva server stack is a little too hefty for me to 
handle under my desk*Nix/Apache/Tomcat/C/SQL, no? but if we could have a 
central server running Diva that we could tap into from our various AFS 
mysql/php projects, that would be pretty keen.

Z.
> JF
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>> Thanks, Lois
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>> On May 19, 2008, at 11:01 AM, James Jacobs wrote:
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>>> the DIVA folks spoke here last week. it's soon to be open-sourced.
>>> looks very cool. could be a very useful tool for stanford faculty,
>>> researchers and students to store and share their files and data.
>>> much more robust collaborative environment than AFS. check it:
>>>
>>> http://diva.sfsu.edu/
>>>
>>> james
>>>
>>>
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>>> Green Library
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Zachary Chandler
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Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Academic Computing, SULAIR
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