Sophia Antipolis, September 2006 Behind the portal software - the Naaya technology Miruna Bădescu Finsiel Romania

2 What is Naaya?  A multilingual content management system based on glossaries and thesauri for data indexing  Strong interoperability features  Allows non-technical people to administrate various aspects of the portal

3 Naaya main features  User friendliness in content management  Multilingual support  Skinable layout  Publishing workflow and version control  Easy import/export of data  Flexible security model  Modern accessible layout  Expandable  Powerful search mechanisms  Collaboration (syndication and web services)

4 What does Naaya bring?  A set of components that allow the creation of an “out of the box” portal with:  generic characteristics for today’s portals  custom features, relevant for each customer

5 History of Naaya  2000 – the EEA needs more and more Zope-based portals with common CMS functionality  2002 – the first portal toolkit is released - NatPort  2004 – EWPublisher is released, a more advanced toolkit  2005 – Naaya is released and widely used:  EC CHM toolkit version 2  SEMIDE portal toolkit  EIONET West Balkans nodes  Various Italian clients  Finsiel’s public websites  Others in preparation

6 Naaya … Naaya glossary PTK – sustainable development  Zope – mature Web and application server  Naaya – framework with a core set of generic modules + 1 custom module for each type of application Naaya content Naaya calendar Naaya forum Naaya core CHM module SEMIDE module Finsiel module …

7 Toolkit distribution page  A page to be decided on the SEMIDE public website  Needs to keep track of all released versions  Needs a changes log for each new version  Offers links to tutorials and manuals Example distribution page for the CHM community:

8 Source code management The EIONET SVN repository makes the Naaya tools and SEMIDE custom components publicly available (Currently, the SEMIDE components are stored on Finsiel’s SVN)

9 The Naaya community  Each successful (open source) framework has a community behind it:  end users giving feedback  stakeholders deciding on trends, standards, technologies  software developers implementing the updates

10 How to maintain/build the community  Tracker for wish lists?  Helpdesk agent – ticketing system  Discussion forum for end users (countries)?  Mailing lists?  Online demonstration website for upcoming versions  What else?

11 Why the name?  Because we like how it sounds and it didn’t have hits on Google  Linguistic sciences say:  Naaya = little sister, in Greenlandic  Naaya = dog, in the Indian dialect from Calcutta  Naaya = round trip journey, in the Navajos dialect from America  Naaya = common surname in Uganda

12 Coming up… 