Developer's Site

This is the developer's site for the ReDBox / Mint project. Please see the public site if you landed here by mistake. The public site contains most documentation not immediately related to the development process, include software design and architecture.

The project is funded by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS).

There are several sub-projects under source code control:

• ReDBox: https://redbox-mint.googlecode.com/svn/redbox/
• Mint: https://redbox-mint.googlecode.com/svn/mint/
• LACS: https://redbox-mint.googlecode.com/svn/lacs/

For documentation please refer to the wiki. Some of the more important pages:

• Release history : Current version is 1.5
• Pre-Release notes on the version currently being developed
• Maven deployment process to release artifacts to Maven Central
• Building ZIP packages to upload pre-built servers to this site

About ReDBox

ReDBox is web based metadata registry application, similar to an institutional repository, for describing research data. It is being developed for use at the University of Newcastle, and subsequent deployment at USQ, Swinburne and other universities. It is designed to be used at any research institution which needs to record details of research data holdings for a variety of reasons, including both compliance with codes of practice and to make data discoverable via services such as Research Data Australia. A key principle underlying ReDBox is that as much metadata (eg about parties such as people, grants and project, and subject codes) as possible will follow Linked Data principles, and we are designing the application to make that as easy as possible. Unlike the VIVO application, it is built on a repository (Fedora Commons) which is capable or storing data if needed (though that is not the case with the initial version), and it uses the high performance Apache Solr text indexer to drive the portal interface rather than an RDF triple store.

About Mint

The Mint is an application which complements ReDBox, and acts as a clearinghouse for other data sources. It is called The Mint, because it can be used to mint Linked Data identifiers (HTTP URIs which basically means URLs) for things and concepts that don't have them yet.

About The Fascinator

Both ReDBox and Mint utilise The Fascinator Platform. You'll notice that there's an overlap in configuration setting and a variety of ReDBox/Mint concepts and that's because they're both application running on top of The Fascinator.

The Fascinator has its own developer site that will help those looking to develop ReDBox or the Mint further.