Plone is a powerful, flexible, open source Content Management System (CMS) built on top of Zope application server and CMF.
Features:
• Flexible and adaptable workflow
• Customisable
• Free add-ons
• Versioning, history and reverting content
• Support for multiple mark up formats
• Multilingual content management
• RSS feed support
• WebDAV and FTP support
• WYSIWYG
A&H use case 1 description:
The “Concordia” project has used Plone to run the Pleiades website.
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
Features:
• Scalable, high-performance indexing
• Powerful, accurate and efficient search algorithms
• Cross-platform solution
A&H use case 1 description:
The “Freeze Frame – Historic Polar Images 1845-1960” project has used Lucene for advanced search of photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
A highly intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs.
Features:
• recognition of Digital Camera and Mobile Phone Camera Images
• comprehensive Language Support
• complete Integration with Popular Office Applications
• PDF conversion, archiving and security
A&H use case 1 description:
The “Digital Library of Core e-Resource on Ireland” project has used ABBYY Fine Reader to digitise collections of Irish journals, monographs, manuscripts and pamphlets.
CONTENTdm is digital collection management software that allows for the upload, description, management and access of digital collections.
CONTENTdm is mostly used by libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, universities, corporations, historical societies, and other organizations that wish to host a digital collection.
Features:
• supports numerous industry standards including Unicode, Z39.50, Qualified Dublin Core, VRA, XML, JPEG2000 and OAI-PMH
• flexible and fully customisable
• integration with OCLC products
• not limited by format
A&H use case 1 description:
The “First World War Poetry Digital Archive” project has used CONTENTdm to form the backend of the archive of highly valued primary material from major poets of the First World War period.
