Invenio (new release)
From the website:
Invenio is a free software suite enabling you to run your own digital library or document repository on the web. The technology offered by the software covers all aspects of digital library management from document ingestion through classification, indexing, and curation to dissemination. Invenio complies with standards such as the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH) and uses MARC 21 as its underlying bibliographic format. The flexibility and performance of Invenio make it a comprehensive solution for management of document repositories of moderate to large sizes (several millions of records).
Invenio has been originally developed at CERN to run the CERN document server, managing over 1,000,000 bibliographic records in high-energy physics since 2002, covering articles, books, journals, photos, videos, and more. Invenio is being co-developed by an international collaboration comprising institutes such as CERN, DESY, EPFL, FNAL, SLAC and is being used by about thirty scientific institutions worldwide (see demo).
One of many open source library projects where topic maps are certainly relevant.
Questions:
Choose one site for review and one for comparison from General/Demo – Invenio
- What features of the site you are reviewing could be enhanced by the use of topic maps? Give five (5) specific search results that could be improved and then say how they could be improved. (3-5 pages, include search results)
- Are your improvements domain specific? Use the comparison site in answering this question. (3-5 pages, no citations)
- How would you go about making the case for altering the current distribution? What is the payoff for the end user? (not the same as enhancement, asking about when end users would find easier/better/faster. Perhaps you should ask end users? How would you do that?) (3-5 pages, no citations)