National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education NITLE

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• National Institute for Technology and Liberal
  Education (NITLE)
• Eric Jansson
• Program Officer, Digital Assets Management
• eric.jansson_at_nitle.org
• Advancing liberal education in the digital age

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Deploying Fedora

• How to deploy Fedora to liberal arts colleges?
• 1500 undergraduates
• Small class size/high interaction
• Few (if any) developers on IT staff
• Often close IT and library operations (and other
  depts)

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ELATED (2004)
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Elated

• Web-based management interface
• Institutional Repository use cases
• Non trivial
• Constantly developing
• Maintenance
• Full Java object model
• 20K lines of code

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SPiFFy

• Simple PHP Framework for Fedora
• Create an ecosystem of innovation (bazaars, not
  cathedrals)
• Empower technical staff/developers
• Build user experiences on top of Fedora

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Spiffy

• Spiffy
• PHP scripts to search and publish Fedora
  collections
• Simple plugin system
• Spiffy plugin BDEF
• Capitalize on behavior defs, implementations
• Customized indexers / Lucene search (Zend)

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Spiffy

• Spiffy (continued)
• All interfaces customizable
• Minimal 3rd party libraries/configuration
• Code samples!
• Simple! Simple!
• http//spiffy.sourceforge.net

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• eric.jansson_at_nitle.org
• pennington_at_rhodes.edu