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LevTermen
November 27th, 2006, 10:28 PM
Hi,

I need to refresh the current web frontend of my lab, which is as of now based on a custom engine, thus hard to keep up to date and flexible.

I'm in the process of searching a relevant CMS engine (or similar) that would do the job, the automation of publications and projects per lab member by accessing a database being mandatory.

After some quick googling, I've found the following addons for Plone:
http://www.ecology.uni-kiel.de/ecology/site/projects-en/plone-project

Have you ever used such solutions? Which (other) one would you recommend me then?

Thanks!
LevTermen

adamkane
January 29th, 2007, 07:49 PM
You want to make sure that the wiki/CMS is UTF-8 and LaTeX enabled. Most CMSes are not UTF-8 enabled by default.

Zope/Plone is great in that it allows you to create a Python based wiki/CMS. Zope/Plone is not for beginners though:
http://mcelrath.org/Notes/LatexWiki

However, if you're still learning, you may want use some of the ready-made LAMP CMS options. Mediawiki has several science related macros/extensions:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ASCIIMath4Wiki

timmie
February 2nd, 2007, 01:43 AM
I'd recommend drupal. It has new features in the latest version and several good modules:

http://drupal.org/project/biblio
RSS-Streaming
http://drupal.org/project/usernode
Search for "academic": http://drupal.org/search/node/academic


Before stepping to Plone/Zope I'd rather test it for 2 month the thing is very heavy and not such a out of the box solution as LAMPs. I was administering one site and it was not easy. Well, the software may have changed...

There are some others for science. Wait.

If you know some German (or translate it (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de%2Fedv%2Fde%2Fforschung%2Fproj%2Fdetail .php%3Fid_obj%3D27435&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools)) you could look at BayCMS (http://www.bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de/edv/de/forschung/proj/detail.php?id_obj=27435) which was tailored to serve such purpose:
Projects, Chair members, publications etc.

Maybe just send them a email and ask for the code or cooperation?