I did some of the development on Kochief, a discovery interface that places Django in front of Solr [1]. I made some stabs at including cataloging as well, but never got too far in that direction.
Django-nonrel looks like a neat project, with a lot of what one would need in a collection management system already built in. I'm impressed by their work on a search engine. I wonder how many documents it can handle. [1] http://kochief.googlecode.com On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:11 AM, BRIAN TINGLE <brian.tingle.cdlib....@gmail.com> wrote: > Having been several months since I've tried to run django on the google app > engine, I took a crack at it today with Django appengine > http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine > > Since it is based on django-nonrel, in theory it does not have vendor lock in > to app engine, so you could start to develop there and move in house if you > need to. > > I set up a very simple little app, and it deployed to appspot okay, here is > the code and a short screen cast on my blog > > screen cast: > http://tingletech.tumblr.com/post/2334189882/ > demonstrates the django admin interface running in the google app engine > editing the super basic models > > The super basic models: > https://github.com/tingletech/collengine/blob/master/items/models.py > > code repository: > https://github.com/tingletech/collengine > > Dose anyone know of any other django or app engine based digital library > metadata collection tools? Seems like being able to run for free on app > engine (if things fit in google quotas) would be an advantage for small > libraries and short term grant funded projects. Also, the django-nonrel > looks like is has some interesting search features that could be used in > access systems. > > Anyway, just throwing this out there in case it might be useful for the > hackfest > > -- Brian >
