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