Hi Eric, I found this very interesting. The promise of Manakin and Cocoon is that they allow non-developers to make significant changes to the user interface. I would be interested to hear about the experiences of librarians out there that have got their hands dirty with Manakin.
Cheers, Robin. Robin Taylor Main Library University of Edinburgh Tel. 0131 6513808 > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Jansson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 22 February 2010 17:43 > To: dspace-general > Subject: [Dspace-general] sharing Manakin project results > > Our organization sponsored a short-term project to explore Manakin. > The goals were to investigate the utility of the Manakin > toolkit and the resources necessary to employ Manakin, > particularly for smaller institution DSpace repositories. > We've produced some results that we felt might interest others. > > The project involved rapid development of two themes... > > 1) An image gallery theme: > http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/2468/browse?type=title > > 2) A prototype of a TEI object viewer: > http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/11695 (generates HTML > display from Text Encoding Initiative transcripts and markup) > > ...and a report on the work: > http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/12618 with a focus on > the resources needed to use Manakin and key decisions in so doing. > > We also put the image gallery code online: > http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/12005 and linked it from > the DSpace wiki here wiki: > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Manakin_Themes_and_Recipes > > We hope this may be of interest and utility to others, > particularly to smaller institution repository initiatives. Best, > > Eric Jansson > > -- > Eric Jansson > NITLE | National Institute for Technology in Liberal > Education http://www.nitle.org [email protected] > (307) 213-9123 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new > software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
