behind the portal software - the naaya technology

Sophia Antipolis, September 2006

Behind the portal software - the Naaya technology

Miruna Bădescu

Finsiel Romania

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What is Naaya?

A multilingual content management system based on glossaries and thesauri for data indexing

Strong interoperability featuresAllows non-technical people to administrate

various aspects of the portal

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Naaya main features

User friendliness in content managementMultilingual supportSkinable layout Publishing workflow and version controlEasy import/export of dataFlexible security modelModern accessible layoutExpandablePowerful search mechanismsCollaboration (syndication and web services)

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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 portalscustom features, relevant for each customer

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History of Naaya

2000 – the EEA needs more and more Zope-based portals with common CMS functionality

2002 – the first portal toolkit is released - NatPort2004 – EWPublisher is released, a more advanced

toolkit2005 – 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

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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

CHMmodule

SEMIDEmodule

Finsielmodule

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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:

http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/ptk

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Source code management

The EIONET SVN repository

http://svn.eionet.europa.eu

makes the Naaya tools and SEMIDE custom components publicly available

(Currently, the SEMIDE components are stored on Finsiel’s SVN)

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The Naaya community

Each successful (open source) framework has a community behind it:end users giving feedbackstakeholders deciding on trends, standards,

technologiessoftware developers implementing the updates

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How to maintain/build the community

Tracker for wish lists?Helpdesk agent – ticketing systemDiscussion forum for end users (countries)?Mailing lists?Online demonstration website for upcoming

versions What else?

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Why the name?

Because we like how it sounds and it didn’t have hits on Google

Linguistic sciences say:Naaya = little sister, in GreenlandicNaaya = dog, in the Indian dialect from CalcuttaNaaya = round trip journey, in the Navajos

dialect from AmericaNaaya = common surname in Uganda

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Coming up…

www.naaya.org