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Sophia Antipolis, September 2006
Behind the portal software - the Naaya technology
Miruna Bădescu
Finsiel Romania
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What is Naaya?
A multilingual content management system based on glossaries and thesauri for data indexing
Strong interoperability featuresAllows non-technical people to administrate
various aspects of the portal
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Naaya main features
User friendliness in content managementMultilingual supportSkinable layout Publishing workflow and version controlEasy import/export of dataFlexible security modelModern accessible layoutExpandablePowerful search mechanismsCollaboration (syndication and web services)
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What does Naaya bring?
A set of components that allow the creation of an “out of the box” portal with:generic characteristics for today’s portalscustom features, relevant for each customer
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History of Naaya
2000 – the EEA needs more and more Zope-based portals with common CMS functionality
2002 – the first portal toolkit is released - NatPort2004 – EWPublisher is released, a more advanced
toolkit2005 – Naaya is released and widely used:
EC CHM toolkit version 2 SEMIDE portal toolkit EIONET West Balkans nodes Various Italian clients Finsiel’s public websites Others in preparation
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Naaya …
Naaya glossary
PTK – sustainable development
Zope – mature Web and application server Naaya – framework with a core set of generic modules + 1
custom module for each type of application
Naaya content
Naaya calendar
Naaya forum
Naaya core
CHMmodule
SEMIDEmodule
Finsielmodule
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Toolkit distribution page
A page to be decided on the SEMIDE public website Needs to keep track of all released versions Needs a changes log for each new version Offers links to tutorials and manuals
Example distribution page for the CHM community:
http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/ptk
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Source code management
The EIONET SVN repository
http://svn.eionet.europa.eu
makes the Naaya tools and SEMIDE custom components publicly available
(Currently, the SEMIDE components are stored on Finsiel’s SVN)
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The Naaya community
Each successful (open source) framework has a community behind it:end users giving feedbackstakeholders deciding on trends, standards,
technologiessoftware developers implementing the updates
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How to maintain/build the community
Tracker for wish lists?Helpdesk agent – ticketing systemDiscussion forum for end users (countries)?Mailing lists?Online demonstration website for upcoming
versions What else?
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Why the name?
Because we like how it sounds and it didn’t have hits on Google
Linguistic sciences say:Naaya = little sister, in GreenlandicNaaya = dog, in the Indian dialect from CalcuttaNaaya = round trip journey, in the Navajos
dialect from AmericaNaaya = common surname in Uganda
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Coming up…
www.naaya.org