Introduction
LibData is a library oriented web based application which provides authoring environments for subject pathfinders (Research QuickStart), course related pages (CourseLib) and general purpose web pages (PageScribe). LibData encompasses all of these applications, but a typical installation need only take advantage of one or two of them -- great local variation and emphasis is possible. This page template, and the LibData open source philosophy, borrows from the GNU Project.
LibData was built with open source components (Apache, mySQL, and PHP) and moved into production at the University of Minnesota for Fall Semester 2003. Our production instance at the University of Minnesota uses a different security mechanism (campus-wide x500), and has some additional development work for enterprise portal connectivity. Having and controlling easily-understood source code greatly enables productive localized integration.Currently (August 2008) LibData continues to serve our production environment. And although we are beginning a migration process of some services to Drupal, LibData's strengths remain: self-contained, simple to maintain, relative simplicity of the code.
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LibData has been released open source on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/libdata/) under the GPL license terms. So feel free to customize and build on this work, but you may not sell it or re-release it in any closed fashion. We encourage institutions deciding to use LibData to acknowledge our work with something like Built with LibData, Powered by LibData, and a link to https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/IT/DigitalLibraryDevelopmentLab/.
Supplied with the distribution are README files for separate audiences: server administrators, web designers, and a general staff audience.
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The LibData Demo instance is currently out of commission until it is upgraded to LibData 3.00.Other Resources
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