<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005>I was recently talking with John Sowa (among other accomplishments, J.S. is author of <SPAN><EM>Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical, and computational foundations</EM>, 2000. <A name=OLE_LINK212></A><A name=OLE_LINK211><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK212">ISBN 0-534-94965-7--a book that is pertinent to thinking about long-term digital preservation) about a topic related to CHM considerations.</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005><SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK212"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005><SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK212">In this conversation, he suggested candidate content management software that I had not heard of, as follows:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005><SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK212"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><FONT><SPAN class=015110919-08022005><SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK212"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <P class=Normquote style="MARGIN: 0in 0.3in 4pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005>"</SPAN>If you are looking for an open-source software platform for CHM, you might take a look at Gnowsys: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnowsys/"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnowsys/</FONT></A></P> <P class=Normquote style="MARGIN: 0in 0.3in 4pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005>"</SPAN>This is based on Zope and uses Python as its language.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Its single most useful feature is a high-performance object-oriented database.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The chief designer, Nagarjuna, has avoided RDF for internal use in Gnowsys, but he has support for XML-based notations for data interchange.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Following is the Gnowledge home page (it's in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> where the power often goes down, but it was up this morning): <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">     </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.gnowledge.org/"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://www.gnowledge.org/</FONT></A></P> <P class=Normquote style="MARGIN: 0in 0.3in 4pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005>"</SPAN>Since Zope is already robust and reliable, you could consider Gnowsys as Zope+ with a free OODB (or you could use MySQL or PostgreSQL for an RDB).<SPAN class=015110919-08022005>"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P> <P class=Normquote style="MARGIN: 0in 0.3in 4pt" align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005>The context was a discussion of what a cultural heritage institution might need to know about competitive content management offerings (including DSpace, Fedora, and Greenstone) to make a choice of the best base for an implementation of its own repository.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005>Question: does any SCC member have sufficient knowledge of this SW to endorse it?  (I do expect to take at least a cursory peek at it, but my doing so is not likely to occur in the near future.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=015110919-08022005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes, Henry</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Saratoga, California 95070</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney">http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>