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OLIVER and iSpheres
OLIVER features
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Automatic image resizing
Full text indexing
Customised metadata
Configurable authentication
Simple user interface
Quality control managed by indexing experts
APSR and SORRT
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SORRT is a subproject of APSR
APSR = Australian Partnership for
Sustainable Repositories
SORRT = Sustainable Object Repositories
for Research and Teaching
The main partners in SORRT are the
Library, Med Faculty, the SSIU, and
PARADISEC
iSpheres
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Emerged from Med Faculty’s and SSIU’s
image repositories (OLIVER, ImageBank,
ArchImage)
Development began in 2004, code released
on sourceforge.net July 2005 (under Apache
licence)
Features
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Configurable metadata
Distributed
Data source Connectors, to allow plugging
in to existing repositories
Object file types and transformations are
plugins
SOAP interface for building specialised
front-end interfaces, linking into existing
tools (WebCT, etc) or protocol translators
iSpheres is middleware
Planned (or hoped-for) front ends
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iSpheresImage (general purpose image
repository)
WebCT
Resource Builder
Med Faculty CMS
PARADISEC
OAI harverster client
Desktop iSpheres