Technical Components

Island Scholar uses many pieces of technology to provide the simple interface presented. This is an attempt to create that list for my interest.I hope it is of interest to others as well.   

  1. Fedora (ver 2.2.4)
    • Lucene - Indexing/searching
    • MySQL - Database
    • Mulgara - Resource Index
    • XACML - Security
  2. RuleEngine Framework - Rules for conversion processes
    • OpenOffice conversion engine
    • Searchable PDF
  3. Drupal - ver 5.12
    • Digital Repository Module
      • OpenSource module for connectivity  to FEDORA
      • developed by UPEI
    • Faculty Authentication with UPEI Credentials
      • LDAP Module
    • Book Module - Automatic Book menu generation
    • Path Module - renaming of URL's
    • SpamSpam Module - obfuscates email addresses
    • Printer Friendly Pages
  4. Discovery/acquisition of Published Copy
    • Sherpa/Romeo -auto-connects to display publisher permissions info for articles
    • COINS support
      • LibX UPEI Edition
    • OpenURL
  5. Refworks
    • Compiling Collections
    • Data Cleanup
    • Creation of XML for import into FEDORA.
  6. Programming Languages used
    • PHP
    • XML
    • Java
    • JavaScript
  7. Operating System/Hardware
    • SLEZ 10
    • Dell PowerEdge
      • Dual Quad Core CPU's
      • 16GB RAM