Hi Erin, Saw your posting on the plone list, been meaning to follow up with you.
Erin O'Halloran wrote: > We're looking at implementing an open source CRM for a project called > Knowledge for All (K4All). An explanation of the site (that hasn't > launched yet) is as follows: > "Knowledge for All is an open access citation database (...). It will > provide researchers with a single tool to search across all > disciplines and the general public with *free access to a scholarly > citations*. Thousands of libraries around the world will *share > project costs and content creation, thereby contributing staff > expertise and saving thousands of dollars on database subscriptions.* > Knowledge for All will be an open source, customizable tool with > robust search features that will give institutions control over their > content and technology." Just a thought, but before you reinvent the wheel, you might want to look at several existing projects that might provide a good starting point for you. 1. Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) - a very mature, open source citation manager, that has both a personal version (runs as a browser plug-in) and a server-side citation sharing version 2. There are several library-oriented packages developed in the academic libary community - that are primarily document repositories, but I believe also have citation capabilities In particular MIT DSpace and Eprints. Both are well supported open source efforts. There are several additional projects out there that provide similar capabilities. http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/technology/index.html http://www.eprints.org Regards, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
