openacademia

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.0.1

Notes:
openacademia 1.0: an RDF-based publication repository for
research groups and scientific communities.

We are proud to announce the first major public release of 
openacademia, an RDF-based publication repository for 
research groups and scientific communities.

openacademia allows researchers to enhance their homepage 
with dynamic publication lists and RSS feeds, without any 
programming or additional effort. The information may come 
from the researcher's BibTex file or a collective 
openacademia repository.

For research groups and scientific communities openacademia 
provides a future-proof solution for sharing publication 
metadata and presenting publication results on the Web.

In terms of technology, openacademia is a Java-based web 
application that builds on the emerging Semantic Web. 
Metadata is stored internally in a Sesame triple store. 
Queries to the triple store result in dynamically created 
BuRST feeds [1], RSS feeds carrying publication metadata. 
BuRST feeds are transformed into a variety of output formats 
(BibTex, HTML, JavaScript, JSON) using XSLT stylesheets. 
Data can be added and queried using an intuitive AJAX-based 
interface.

openacademia is open source software and is distributed 
under the LGPL license.

Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from:

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/openacademia/

A public demonstration site is available at:

http://www.openacademia.org/

Feedback on this first public release is highly appreciated. 
The openacademia Wiki can be found at:

http://wiki.openacademia.org/

Special thanks to our colleagues at the Vrije Universiteit, 
Amsterdam and the team of openrdf.org (Jeen Broekstra and 
Arjohn Kampman) for their help and support for this project. 

Best,

Michel Klein (michel@openacademia.org)
Peter Mika (peter@openacademia.org)

[1] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~pmika/research/burst/BuRST.html




Changes:
Fix: querying remote servers failed due to security limits in browsers.
Added the possibility to import blog comments from Technorati
Added search on events