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OnRamp is a content management and distribution system that facilitates re-use of content in multiple contexts. Fez Software, an open source institutional respository developed at the University of Queensland, along with a few enhancements serves as the content management system. OnFire is an NCore project that extends Fez to add a distribution system for the content stored in OnRamp. Together Fez and OnFire make up the OnRamp system.
What's Happening
See it in Action
Latest Release
OnRamp 1.1 beta is up and running. It includes Fez and OnFire. The latest OnFire functionality includes:
- managements screens for setting up destination templates, destinations, and destination ranges
- distribution workflows to create and edit distributes
- distributing content from multiple records
- browse Destinations and Distributions
Currently available destination templates include:
- Issue Publication RSS - used by White Board Report
- eZine - used by Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears eZine
- website2m - two menu level website used by NCore's main website
Coming Soon
- Destination Template for a Photo Gallery
Development Team
- Lynette Rayle, Software Developer
- NSDL Core Integration, Cornell University
- Dean Krafft, Technical Director
- NSDL Core Integration, Cornell University
Current Work in Progress
- Versioning - Expand Fez Software system to include a facility for versioning content within the Fedora repositoy that serves as the Fez datastore. Users with appropriate privileges will be able to view previous versions.
- Photo Gallery - Exploring using Gallery 2 UI for viewing photos being driven by an RSS feed from an OnRamp Photo Gallery destination. The RSS will provide information about photos stored in records within the OnRamp system.
Get Involved
This project is currently in beta for its first release of the OnFire extension. We'd love to hear about your ideas for new destination templates, new features, and any other suggestions. Our current list of planned features is fairly long, but we'll add your ideas to the list too.
For suggestions, questions, and more information, please send email to the onramp-suggestions mail list
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Download Links
- No downloads at this time.
Prerequisites
Documentation
Examples and Demos in Use
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 Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears eZine - Twenty thematic issues of an online magazine which include standards-based science and content-rich literacy learning on the polar regions. OnRamp is used to store the text and images seen on the website. Content is distributed to an agnostic webapp through the OnFire extension.
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 White Board Report - Monthly issues delivering research news and notes from the National Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program. The content of each item in the report is stored in records in OnRamp. An RSS feed summarizing each item in an issue is generated by the OnFire extension and used by NSDL.org to display the report.
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 NCore website - The main website for NCore is generated based on information and images stored in OnRamp. An RSS feed generated by the OnFire extension drives the webapp's structure and content.
Additional Information
Supporting Documents
Presentations
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