[opensource] Digital Information Virtual Archive (DIVA)

[Matthew Jockers]

Minor correction, I believe it was *JavaScript* and php not Java and  
php.  i.e. No compiling.  DIVA is built almost entirely in php with a  
DB back end.   javascript gives some whiz-bang to some pages but same  
pages were also available in an un-javascripted form to meet  
accessibility standards.

Looked very good to me.

M
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Matthew Jockers
Stanford University



On May 19, 2008, at 2:31 PM, ShinJoung Yeo wrote:

> I was very impressed by Diva as well. I heard that they're planning to
> incorporate with moodle which is their open source course work  
> platform.
>
> Shinjoung
>
> Zach Chandler wrote:
>> I think JF has the stack correctly.
>>
>>
>>> PHP, Java, some C(something - plus maybe?)
>>>
>>>
>> 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>)
>>>
>>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Lois
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 19, 2008, at 11:01 AM, James Jacobs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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>>>>> International Documents Librarian
>>>>> Green Library
>>>>> Stanford University
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