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OLIVER and iSpheres
OLIVER features
Automatic image resizing
Full text indexing
Customised metadata
Configurable authentication
Simple user interface
Quality control managed by indexing experts
APSR and SORRT
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
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
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
iSpheresImage (general purpose image
repository)
WebCT
Resource Builder
Med Faculty CMS
PARADISEC
OAI harverster client
Desktop iSpheres