Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi, 26-27 August 2013

CULTURe EXchange Platform (CULTUR-EXP) project

kick-off meeting, 26-27 August 2013, Tbilisi, Georgia

Joint Operational Programme - BLACK SEA BASIN 2007-2013

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Presentation Overview

• GA2. Selection of existing open source platform – overview, planning – R. Kvatadze GRENA, P. Bogatencov RENAM

• GA3. Platform adaptation and implementation – overview, planning – P. Bogatencov RENAM, R. Kvatadze GRENA

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Project Platform ?General structure and requirements (as specified in the Grant Application Form):• User presentation module - will be used to create and store platform users’ own profile, the user presentation module will be able to support:

– Artists: allow digitized samples of own art, express interest in types and geographical locations of performance events, interest in particular arts or culture areas.

– Culture infrastructure owners: inventory of performance sites operated and available to artists, timetable of the events and availability.

– Culture operators: description of activities, schedule of planned events.

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Project Platform?• Event scheduler – a sort of thematic calendar, where

platform participants will be able to locate and advertise their events.

• Culture browser – this module will provide a catalogue and search facility for any type of content on the platform. It will be tailor-made to enable searching the content (e.g. events) by art, region, operator, artist, etc. It is assumed that there will be a possibility to interface with 3rd party systems to provide the schedule other important 3rd party events.

• Collaborative tools – the popular collaboration tools (videoconference, chat) will be integrated so the platform users will be able to work online for preparation of common events.

• Announcement boards – a functionality allowing for posting messages, announcements related to culture.

• Thematic discussion/reflection spaces - where users from different areas, cultures may freely participate and express their opinions on events, art, tradition.

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Project Platform?

• To provide rich content on the platform – by attracting, encouraging and training culture providers to advertise on the platform, and (for some participants) – to provide own cultural content.

• To ensure the uptake of the platform by the users – by disseminating, advertising, training activities

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Project Platform ?

• Open source (or any other cost free solution)

• Web oriented architecture• Multilingual, multinational • Various types of content (widget, calendar,

add, tickets, multimedia files, …)• Type and possibility of convenient

organization of operating, adaptation and development

• Having users’ friendly interfaces and simple for take up

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GA2. Selection of existing open source platform – overview

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Project Platform ?

What we want to analyze, propose to install and use:

§ Web platforms:• CMS• CMF

§ Repository Platforms§ Leading platforms for online communities/social

networks§ Case studies of similar European Cultural Websites§ Analogous sites in Moldova and in other countries

of the Black Sea region

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List of content management systems (CMS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems

Name Platform RDBMS Latest release Licenses

Apache Roller Java HSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, Apache Derby

5.0.1 Apache 2.0 License

OpenCms Java HSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL 8.5.0 LGPL

Ametys CMS Java MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, JCR, Apache Derby 3.4 Apache 2.0 License

Liferay Java HSQLDB, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Apache Derby, Informix, InterBase, JDataStore, PostgreSQL, SAP,

Sybase

6.1.1 LGPL

DSpace Java Oracle, PostgreSQL 1.8.2 BSD License

Fedora Commons

Java MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Mulgara (MPTSTore RDF Semantic Triplestore)

3.6.1 Apache License

dotCMS Java MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL 2.2.1 GNU GPL v2

LogicalDOC Java MySQL, Oracle 6.6.1 LGPL

Nuxeo EP Java MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres, PostgreSQL 5.6 LGPL

AlfrescoCommunity

Edition

Java MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres, PostgreSQL, DB2 4.2.c LGPL

Magnolia Java MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres, JCR 4.5.8 GPL proprietary

Hippo CMS Java MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres, PostgreSQL, JCR 7.8 Apache 2.0 License

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List of content management systems (CMS, continuation)

VosaoCMS Java/GAE BigTable 0.8 GPL

Java Any, via Yarep/JCR Continuously Apache License,

Version 2.0

OpenWGA Java MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, HSQLDB, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Lotus Domino, CMIS

6.0 GPL & proprietary

OpenKM Java MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, HSQLDB 6.2.1 GPL

Microsoft ASP.NET

Name Platform Supported databases Latest stable release

Licenses

Composite C1 ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC)

XML, SQL Server 3.2 Mozilla Public License

DotNetNuke ASP.NET (Web Forms) SQL Server 7.0 MIT License

mojoPortal ASP.NET SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, SQL CE

2.3.9.6 CPL

Orchard Project

ASP.NET (MVC) SQL Server, SQLCE, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL[6]

1.6.0 New BSD License

Umbraco ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC)

SQL Server, MySQL 6.0.4 MIT License

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List of content management systems (CMS)Perl

Name Platform Supported databases Latest stable release

Licenses Latest release date

blosxom Perl Flat-file database 2.1.2 MIT 2008-10-02

Bricolage Perl on mod perl MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 2.0.1 BSD 2011-02-09

Cyclone3 Perl MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle versionless (SVN)

GPL 2012-11-29

EPrints Perl on mod perl MySQL, PostgreSQL 3.3.11 GPL 2013-01-31

Foswiki Perl Plain files (under version control) 1.1.8 GPL 2013-03-01

Ikiwiki Perl Git (software), Apache Subversion, Mercurial

3.20120203 GPL 2012-02-03

Movable Type

Perl, mod perl, FastCGI, w/PHP

MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite

5.2.3 GPL 2013-01-23

TWiki Perl Plain files (under version control) 5.1.4 GPL 2013-02-16

WebGUI Perl on mod perl MySQL 7.10.27 GPL 2012-10-29

Python

Name Platform Supported databases Latest stable release

Licenses Latest release date

Django-cms Python/Django PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite 3 and Oracle 3.1.0 BSD 2012-11-09

FeinCMS[3] Python/Django PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite 3 and Oracle 1.7.4 ? 2013-03-01

MoinMoin Python Flat-file database 1.9.7 GPL 2013-03-17

Plone Python/Zope MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, ZODB, via Zope

4.3 GPL 2013-04-13

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List of content management systems (CMS)Ruby on Rails

Name Platform Supported databases Latest stable release

Licenses Latest release date

BrowserCMS Ruby on Rails MySQL, SQLite 3.3.2 LGPL 2011-10-12

Comfortable Mexican Sofa

Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 1.8.4 MIT 2013-07-09

Flagship Docs Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 2.0 MIT 2010-02-02

Radiant Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2[66]

1.1.0 MIT 2012-08-30

Refinery CMS Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 2.0.8 MIT 2012-08-18

Typo Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 6.1 MIT 2012-03-17

CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language)

Name Platform Supported databases Latest stable release

Licenses Latest release date

Mura CMS

Railo / OpenBD / Adobe ColdFusion

MySQL/Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle

6.0 GPL / Commercial

License

2012-12-13

FarCry CMS

Railo / OpenBD / Adobe ColdFusion

MySQL/Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle/Postgres

6.2.7 GPL / Commercial

License

2013-01-21

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List of content management systems (CMS)Name Platform Supported databases Latest release Licenses Latest release date

AdaptCMS PHP MySQL 2.0.4 GPL 2012-09-29[

ATutor PHP MySQL 2.1.1 GPL 2013-03-15

b2evolution PHP MySQL 4.1.6 GPL 2012-11-23[

BEdita PHP MySQL 3.1.7 AGPL 2012-03-05

CMS Made Simple PHP MySQL 1.11.6 GPL 2013-4-19

CMSimple PHP Flat-file database 3.4 GPL 2011-05-15

concrete5 PHP MySQL 5.6.1.2 MIT 2013-03-21

Contao PHP MySQL 3.0.6 LGPL 2013-03-21

Cotonti PHP MySQL 0.9.13 BSD 2013-03-16[

Directus PHP MySQL[21] 5.1 GPL 2012-03-20

Dokuwiki PHP Flat-file database 2012-01-25 GPL 2012-01-25

Dotclear PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 2.5 GPL 2013-03-16

Drupal PHP MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server

7.22 GPL 2013-03-06

DynPG PHP MySQL 4.5.2 GPL 2012-11-15[

Exponent CMS PHP MySQL 2.1.3 GPL 2013-02-22

eZ Publish PHP5 MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

5.0 GPL 2012-11-22

Geeklog PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 1.8.0 GPL 2011-06-12

GetSimple CMS PHP Flat-file database 3.2.0 GPL3 2013-02-11

Habari PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 0.9.0 Apache License

2011-12-13

ImpressCMS PHP MySQL 1.3.4 GPL 2012-12-03

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List of content management systems (CMS)

Joomla! PHP MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite[32]

2.5.9 (LTS) / 3.0.3

GPL 2013-02-04

Kajona PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, Oracle

4.0 LGPL 2013-01-09

KnowledgeTree

Community Edition

PHP MySQL 3.7 GPL & proprietary

2009-12-08

Lyceum PHP MySQL 1.0.3 GPL 2008-06-04

Magento PHP MySQL 1.7.0.2 GPL 2012-07-05

Mambo PHP MySQL 4.6.5 GPL 2008-06-01

Mediawiki PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 1.20.3 GPL 2013-03-14

MiaCMS PHP MySQL 4.9 GPL 2009-07-29

Midgard CMS PHP (Midgard framework)

MySQL 12.0.9.2 LGPL 2012-09-26

MODX PHP MySQL 2.2.6 GPL 2012-12-03

Moodle PHP MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, or Oracle 2.4.3 GPLv3+ 2013-03-18

Nucleus CMS PHP MySQL 3.64 GPL 2011-03-14

Ocportal PHP MySQL 9.0.6 CPAL 2013-02-189.0.6

papaya CMS PHP5 MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 5.5.2 GNU/GPL 2 2013-02-12

Phire CMS PHP 5.2.6+ MySQL 1.1.2 New BSD License

2011-07-07

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List of content management systems (CMS)PHP-Fusion PHP MySQL 7.02.06 AGPLv3 2013-01-27

PHP-Nuke PHP MySQL 8.1 GPL 2009-05-22

phpWebLog PHP MySQL 0.5.3 GPL 2013-04-16

phpWebSite PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL 1.6.3 LGPL 2009-06-17

phpWiki PHP MySQL 1.2.11 GPL 2008-03-18

pimcore PHP MySQL 1.4.9 BSD 2013-03-02

PivotX PHP MySQL, Flat-file database 2.3.3 GPL 2012-05-13

Pixie (CMS) PHP MySQL 1.0.2 GPL 2009-03-24

PmWiki PHP Flat-file database[49] SQLite[50] 2.2.36 GPL 2011-12-28

Prestashop PHP5 MySQL 1.4.7 GPL 2012-02-08

ProcessWire PHP5 MySQL 2.3 GPL 2013-03-18

RavenNuke CMS PHP MySQL 2.5.1 GPL 2013-02-17

SMW+ PHP - MediaWiki MySQL 1.6.0 GPL 2011-12-02

Serendipity PHP + Smarty MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQLi, SQLite 1.6.2 BSD 2012-05-16

SilverStripe PHP 5.3.2+ MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle

3.0.2 BSD 2012-09-17

SPIP PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 3.0.8 GPL 2013-04-17

TangoCMS PHP MySQL 2.6.1 GNU/GPL 2 2010-11-29

Textpattern PHP MySQL 4.5.4 GPL 2012-12-05

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

PHP MySQL 10.0 LGPL 2012-12-21

Tribiq CMS PHP MySQL 6.0.5a BSD 2012-11-07

TYPO3 PHP MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL 4.5.25 (LTS) / 6.0.4

GPL 2013-04-04

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List of content management systems (CMS)

Wolf CMS PHP MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL 0.7.5-SP1

GPL v3 2012-04-11

WordPress PHP MySQL 3.5.1 GPL 2013-01-24

Xpress Engine

PHP MySQL, Cubrid, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, MSSQL

1.5.1.2 LGPL v2 2012-01-05

Xaraya PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL 2.2.0 GPL 2012-06-23

XOOPS PHP MySQL 2.5.5 GPL 2012-04-17

Zikula PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle 1.3.5 GPL 2012-12-07

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List of content management frameworks (CMF)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_frameworks

Name Technologies

Alfresco Java

Ametys CMS Java

Apache Jackrabbit Java

Apache Lenya Java, Apache Cocoon

Apache Sling Java, JSP, ECMAScript

AxKit Perl

Catalyst Perl

CherryPy Python

Cotonti PHP 5 and MySQL

Django-CMS Python, Django and MySQL/PostgreSQL

Drupal PHP and MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite

DotNetNuke .NET Framework, works with SQL Server (www.dotnetnuke.com)

Exponent CMS An MVC framework using PHP and MySQL

eZ Publish PHP 5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server

Jakarta Slide Java

Joomla! PHP and MySQL

Liferay Java

Magnolia CMS Java

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Mambo PHP and MySQL

Maypole Perl

Midgard GLib, D-Bus, PHP, Python and MySQL

MODX PHP 4.1.x-5 and MySQL 3.2x-5

Orchard ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft SQL Server or SQL Server Compact

OpenACS AOLserver and PostgreSQL or Oracle

Pimcore PHP 5.3+, Zend Framework and MySQL

Piranha CMS ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Compact or MySql

Plone Python

ProcessWire PHP and MySQL

Refinery CMS Ruby on Rails

RIFE Java

SilverStripe (Sapphire framework) PHP 5, works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

Solodev PHP 5, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server

Symfony CMF PHP 5.3+ (NoSQL dabatabases, RDBMS through PHPCR)

TangoCMS PHP 5 and MySQL

TYPO3 PHP, works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.

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Umbraco .NET Framework, works with SQL Server, VistaDB, with XSLT or .NET UserControls

Microsoft SharePoint Server .NET Framework, works with SQL Server or Windows Internal Database

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

.NET Framework, works with SQL Server or Windows Internal Database

WordPress PHP and MySQL

Xaraya PHP and MySQL

XOOPS PHP and MySQL

Xpress Engine PHP with MySQL, Cubrid, Firebird, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL

Zotonic Erlang with PostgreSQL

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Repository Platforms part 1

Archon http://www.archon.org/index.php - Open-source, award-winning software from University of Illinois for archivists and manuscript curators. It automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects in a user-friendly website.BePress DigitalCommons http://www.bepress.com/ir/ - Full service, commercial digital repository platform from Berkeley Electronic Press.ContentDM http://www.contentdm.com/ - OCLC's commercial platform for digital libraries. "High-performance storage and retrieval software for multimedia collections".Digitool http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/DigiToolOverview/ - Commercial digital collections platform from Exlibris.DSpace http://www.dspace.org/ - Open-source digital repository software developed at MIT. "DSpace captures, stores, indexes, preserves and redistributes an organization's research material in digital formats." The MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP) jointly developed DSpace. The system is now freely available to research institutions world-wide as an open source system that can be customized and extended.DXLS http://www.dlxs.org/index.html - University of Michigan Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) provides the foundation and the framework for educational and non-profit institutions to fully develop their digital library collections. Participating institutions include the National Library of Medicine and The Getty Research Institute. Basic DLXS and searching is open-source and free, but a more robust search platform is available commercially.EPrints http://www.eprints.org/ - Open-source and commercial institutional repository platforms and support. Developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.

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Repository Platforms part2

• Fedora Commons http://www.fedora.info/Fedora open-source software, a robust integrated repository-centered platform, enables the storage, access and management of virtually any kind of digital content. Fedora Commons is a non-profit organization providing sustainable technologies to create, manage, publish, share and preserve digital content.

• Greenstone http://www.greenstone.org/Open-source, multilingual digital library platform from UNESCO

• Hyperion http://www.sirsidynix.com/Commercial digital archive management from SirsiDynix.

• Innovative Interfaces – Digital Asset Management http://www.iii.com/products/digital_asset_mgmt.shtmlCommercial programs from Innovative: Content Pro, Symposium, MetaData Builder, Media Management.

• InMagic Presto http://www.inmagic.com/products/Presto/index.htmlCommercial platform for managing internal digital assets.

• Vital http://www.vtls.com/products/vital/Commercial institutional repository solution from VTLS. Built on Fedora™, this software is designed to simplify the development of digital object repositories and to provide seamless online search and retrieval of information for administrative staff, contributing faculty and end-users.

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Enabling deposit, preservation, and access to digital content.

ToolImplementa

tionCost Platform Installation

User interface

API

CONTENTdmDownloadService

SubscriptionLinWin

Simple Web Yes

DataFlow Download Free Lin ComplexCLWeb

Yes

DSpace Download FreeLinMacWin

Moderate Web Yes

EPrints Download FreeLinMacWin

Moderate Web Yes

Fedora Download FreeLinMacWin

ComplexCLWeb

Yes

Wordpress.org Download FreeLinMacWin

ComplexCLWeb

Yes

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• CONTENTdmCONTENTdm is a digital collection management system and hosting service.

 

• DataFlowDataFlow is a two-stage data management infrastructure that is designed to allow researchers to work with, annotate, publish, and permanently store research data.

• DSpaceDSpace is an institutional repository system which enables easy deposit, preservation, and access for all types of digital content.

 

• EPrintsEPrints provides digital repository software that is intended to create a highly configurable web-based repository.  

 

• FedoraFedora provides the back-end foundation for digital repository systems responsible for managing and preserving all types of digital content.

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Ten leading platforms for online communities

• 1. Open source, based on PHP, and a fork of the Mambo project, Joomla is one of the most widely used content management systems and community platforms. It includes the usual page posting, discussion, blogs, polls, etc. Joomla has an extensive community of its own and the number of 3rd party plug-ins is very extensive, with over 3,700 currently listed, making it one of the richest community ecosystems in existence.

• 2. Drupal is one of the darlings of the community world and would come first on this list for many in the community business. It's a highly capable, mature, and extremely popular community platform that includes the usual features as well as a workflow subsystem, support for OpenID, granular user security, and much more. Drupal is developed in PHP, is open source, and has several thousand 3rd party modules available for it as well.

• 3. One of the older CMS/community platforms, PHP-Nuke doesn't have the flair of the first two on this list but is still one of the most widely used community applications available. PHP-Nuke is eponymously named after the language it uses, is open source, and have several hundred add-ons available for it. Despite being one of the older and more traditional community platforms, PHP-Nuke continues to grow marketshare rapidly.

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Ten leading platforms for online communities (continued) • 4. The platform formerly known as PostNuke is now called Zikula and is a fork of

PHP-Nuke 5.0. Rounding out the top four, Zikula is one of the older, more established offerings. It is also open source and developed in PHP.

• • 5. Microsoft's Sharepoint is the first commercial product to make the list and is also

one of the most mature and popular. Though Sharepoint can be used to develop collaborative environments that have few community features, the most recent emphasis and the majority of uses I encounter are for community-style deployments. With the advent of the Community Kit for Sharepoint which adds "best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code", the product is now a capable contender in this space. Sharepoint has very extensive enterprise penetration and will be on the short list for many organizations given that they often already own it, though the warning above about "technology first" should apply.

• 6. The first SaaS community platform to make the list is Lithium, an innovative and fast-growing solution for customer communities that is seeing broad uptake according to my metrics. One of the advantages of Lithium is the extensive support around community developers and managers that it provides. One of the disadvantages is that it does not have an open source ecosystem so the the amount of extensions and plug-ins available for Lithium is limited to standard Web widgets.

• 7. The second .NET plaform (after Sharepoint) and the first open source .NET community platform on this list, the capable DotNetNuke has been going through extensive maturation over the last year. Written in VB .NET, DotNetNuke has an extensive set of 3rd party modules through its Marketplace service, which enables for-pay modules to be developed and sold, resulting in some high-quality offerings.

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Ten leading platforms for online communities (table continued)

• 8. One of the few .NET blog platforms has evolved into a full-blown community product. Community Server is now aimed squarely at the enterprise and has been used in very large scale, for example, it is currently used to operate MySpace's customer forums for over 70 million users.

• 9. KickApps is a relatively new up-and-comer that is getting wide distribution in a relatively short time period including major wins with large public Web sites for ABC and the BBC. KickApps is a SaaS-based solution like Lithium that is extensively widgetized for maximum integration flexibility into existing Web sites.

• 10. ClearSpace Community from Jive Software has been getting a lot of attention lately, particularly with its popularity in the enterprise space. Over 15% of the Fortune 500 currently use it and while it's highly likely that the open source products at the top of this list have higher penetration, Jive has consistently focused strengths in areas where open source products tend to be weaker, particularly on enterprise issues around security, integration, and customizability.

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Leading platforms for online communities (continued)

We can see how the technologies and platforms shaped up in terms of open source and commercial software as well as software packages vs SaaS. We're seeing a healthy mixture of options available for just about any requirements, though the open source options tend to be richer because of their extensible nature and the large number of contributors building plug-ins and add-ons.

• A number of interesting offerings didn't make this top 10 cut and so we thought it would also be worthwhile to be aware about the next 15 candidates since we are likely to see them more often in the near future. They made the list due to overall popularity, innovative features, early groundswell, or a combination thereof:

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Leading platforms for online communities (continued)

11. Mambo - Popular, old school PHP community-platform. 12. Lotus SameTime and Lotus Connections - IBM's answers to community with

many integrated capabilities. 13. OneSite - White label, on-demand social network and community. 14. BoonEx - SaaS community that is extensively widget-based with many

features and capabilities. 15. Crowdvine - Used to power the community for the popular Web 2.0 Expo

conferences, Crowdvine has full community, content management, and external site integration.

16. Facebook Open Platform - Use the Facebook platform for your community with the open source version of the platform.

17. Mzinga - A solution designed for industry verticals such as HR and marketing, Mzinga is seeing strong uptake.

18. Leverage Software 19. HiveLive 20. SocialGo - On-demand SaaS community service. 21. IglooSoftware - A relatively new entry, Igloo is focusing on the enterprise

user with ease-of-use and simplicity as a top feature. 22. GroupSwim 23. SocialCast 24. Tomoye 25. Pinax - Brand new and feature rich. Pinax is getting considerable early

adopter interest. Based on Python, Pinax is open source.

WordPress (http://wordpress.org/showcase)

Today WordPress is the most popular platform. This is an open-source software distributed under the GNU GPL. WordPress provides a lot of features that allow the developer to quickly and easily manage the contents of the site. These include: simple installation, and publication through third-party programs and services, support for Atom, RSS, pingback, trackback; ability to connect additional plug-ins, a huge selection of many excellent audio/video plug-ins, a huge number of topics on various subjects to quickly change the UI, built-in capabilities to support the sites in multiple languages, and many others.

In addition, WordPress includes features such as comments, trackbacks, blogger profiles and pinging services, making it easy to use for the analysis of traffic and control the operation of the site.

On the other hand, WordPress is not a «developer-friendly» system. In addition, certain plugins and WordPress updates have more bugs than fixes and may compromise your computer. It is therefore necessary to check the updates for the presence of viruses and read reviews when upgrading or installing WordPress plugins. Overall, WordPress is an effective system for any beginner or an experienced user, which makes it a very versatile CMS.

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WordPress (http://wordpress.org/showcase) Advantages:

•WordPress is not just received a reputation for being extremely easy to use system. Thanks to the pre-set templates, you need just a few clicks to deploy a workable website and by connecting multiple plug-ins required, we will get is a full-fledged CMS. In addition, the user is not required to know HTML to work with site. It is an ideal platform for beginners.

•Since version 3.0 WordPress provides a very convenient navigation menus that greatly improve the usability of the site. This menu is easily configured, allowing better adaptation to the specific needs of the site.

•There are hundreds of free themes that you can use on your website. If desired, you can always get exclusive themes for an additional fee.

• WordPress combined with special plug-ins making great integration with search engins with SEO. As a result, your website has a much better chance of getting new visitors through search engines.

• Currently, there are about 13,000 of free plugins available for download. This makes WordPress very flexible to satisfy very complicated requirements.

Disadvantages:

• Unfortunately, not all changes are carried out within the site on WordPress so simple. For example, if you need to change or remove the date of posts, then without some additional knowledge it is not possible.

• Despite the fact that there are many ready-made templates for WordPress, some users will want to create your own unique patterns, and you cannot do this without knowledge of CSS.

• Versatility WordPress is hidden in the hundreds of available plug-ins. However, setting too many plug-ins can affect the speed of loading pages. Often there are situations when to achieve the required functionality you need such a lot number of plugins that it will be rational choose a different platform.

• Frequent updates, which can be classified as disadvantages and advantages to the system. In any case, all updates are intended to improve the reliability, security, and usability of the system, but makes inconvenience to the site administrator.

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WordPress (http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress)

Hosting WordPress• Most hosting providers and personal installations on Unix/Linux systems should

be able to host WordPress under very common configurations. Server requirements • WordPress server requirements for Version 3.2:

– PHP version 5.2.4 or greater – MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater – (Optional)(Required for MultiSite) Apache mod rewrite module (for clean URIs known

as Permalinks) Recommended setup • It is recommended to use a robust platform comprised of the Linux operating

system, and either the Apache web-server or the NGINX web-server. Almost any server that supports PHP and MySQL will work.

• It is also essential that the host allows remote connections, for many of the WordPress features to work. If the host blocks outgoing HTTP connections, many parts of the WordPress will not function.

Hosting providers • Hosting can be easy implemented to realize a host possibilities that supports the

above. For the hosting suggestions, please use: • WordPress Recommended Hosts - these hosts support WordPress, in more

ways than one. • Searching the WordPress support forums for recommendations • Requirements: PHP 5.2.4 or higher, MySQL 5.0 or higher, Apache or nginx

recommended.

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Conclusions

Taking in account results of comparative analysis, recommendations of independent experts and (that is

important from practical point of view) existing experience in similar systems implementation and hosting we propose the following platforms for future development and deployment:

WordPress - http://wordpress.org/

DSpace - http://www.dspace.org/

Fedora Commons http://www.fedora.info/

The proposed list is open for other recommendations / findings. Practical realization of the cultur-exp platform can require to make necessary adaptation and combination of the proposed software systems and solutions.

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GA3. Platform adaptation and implementation – overview

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Platform adaptation and implementation

The activity includes execution of works to ensure realization by the selected platform (platforms) complete set of functionalities specified as output of GA1 - “Platform requirements definition”.

This requires to estimate and follow:

• Specified criteria

• Possible risks

• Ability to get expected operational solution

• Compatibility/openness for development

• Return of necessary investments

• …

Implementation

Human Resources

Technical resources

Platform configuration and reconfiguration

Labor expenses, other costs.

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Final decisionThe initial prerequisites to make final decision on the proposed/selected platform adaptation and implementation: • Availability and analysis of the clear elaborated requirements to Cultur-exp platform• Review of proposed/selected platforms to comply with the elaborated specification of the system• Recommendations of the project partners and independent experts• Examination of case studies of similar cultural platforms realizations• Estimation of necessary investments of manpower, technical resources, qualification of the available personnel.• Agreement of all (or majority) of partners to contribute to the proposed/selected platform adaptation, implementation and development • …

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System functionalities offered by cultural websites by ‚discipline’

The following content operation functionalities have to be taken in consideration for the platform adaptation and implementation:

• Performing arts• Visual arts • Cultural and architectural heritage • Literature • Film • Music / audio production • Architecture • Design / furniture / jewelry etc. • Cultural creative industries • "Kulturwirtschaft" • Culturalpolicy • Cultural science / research • Community arts • Museum/Archives • Online-Media• Other art content

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Typical functionality of the cultural content collections

• Information repositories • Photo / video gallery • Podcast / videocast • Forum • Chat • Blog• Wiki • Rating • Online community• Online content ordering / selling / buying• RSS• Newsletter

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Case Studies of European Cultural Websites (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

No Name Country URL

1LabforCulture.org - The networking platform for information on European arts and culture

Netherlands www.labforculture.org

2 On The Move – The performing arts traveller’s toolkit Multinational www.on-the-move.org

3 BJCEM - International Association of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean

Multinational www.bjcem.org

4 European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Netherlands www.eurocult.org

5 Europeana Netherlands www.europeana.eu

6 Radio station 'Tilos' Hungary tilos.hu

7 Readme Austria www.readme.cc

8 Roots&Routes Multinational www.rootsnroutes.eu

9 Virtueel Platform Netherlands virtueelplatform.nl

10 Rhiz.eu Netherlands www.rhiz.eu

11 Visegrad Fund Slovakia visegradfund.org

12 Res Artis Netherlands www.resartis.org

13 Agonia Romania www.agonia.ro

14 Sculpture Network Germany www.sculpture-network.org

15 Online Film Multinational www.onlinefilm.org

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Case Studies of European Cultural Websites (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

16 Frieze United Kingdom www.frieze.com

17 BabelMed Italy www.babelmed.net

18 Artservis Slovenia www.artservis.org

19 Artsactive Spain www.artsactive.net

20 RESEO - European Network for Opera and Dance Education

Multinational www.reseo.org

21 IETM, international network for contemporary performing arts

Multinational www.ietm.org

22 THE BUDAPEST OBSERVATORY – Regional Observatory on financing culture in East-Central Europe

Hungary www.budobs.org

23 Resonance104.4fm United Kingdom resonancefm.com

24 A Soul for Europe Multinational www.berlinerkonferenz.eu

25 Trans Europe Halles (TEH) Sweden www.teh.net

26 MICHAEL Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

Multinational www.michael-culture.org

27 Futureplaces 2009 Portugal www.futureplaces.org

28 FutureEverything United Kingdom www.futureeverything.org

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Analogous sites in Moldova, example (http://www.fest.md) part 1,

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Analogous sites in Moldova, example (http://www.fest.md)

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Analogous sites in Moldova, example (http://moldovaholiday.travel) part 2

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Analogous sites in Moldova, example (http://moldovaholiday.travel)

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Conclusions

Work plan for the GA3 activity – “Platform adaptation and implementation” has to take in considerations achievement of the following important objectives:

to comply with the elaborated requirements to the system to offer expected/specified/requested functionality to relay on available Human and Technical resources to ensure realization of effective and perspective solution, compatibility and be open for development to have perspectives to return of effectuated investments

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Thank you for your attention!

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Case study - summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

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Case study summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study summary descriptions

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Case study - summary descriptions

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study - summary descriptions

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study - summary descriptions

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)

Cultur-exp project, Tbilisi 2013

Case study summary descriptions (CULTUREMAP_final_report_2010_03_23.pdf)