Muruca is a suite of Open Source applications to create and manage Semantic Digital Libraries.
It is especially suited for Digital Libraries (including archives and museums) in the field of Cultural Heritage and the Humanities but it can easily be adapted to any field of knowledge.
Currently Muruca is made of the following components:
- Talia. The Framework. This is the glue that keeps it all together and provides the publication mechanisms and the end-user interfaces. More…
- SwickyNotes. Semantic Annotations. It is a desktop application that can be used to semantically enrich the metadata of the resurces stored in Talia. It can also be used as a collaborative annotation and study tool. More…
- IIPImage. Image Server. It’s a powerful high resolution image visualisation system. It is embedded in Muruca and we enriched it with a powerful tool for annotating images by drawing polygons over the images and by semantically linking them to additional data and other resources.
- Dyno
Dyno is a very simple jQuery widget to integrate data coming from the LOD cloud into your web app. It uses the Sindice API in the background.
Dyno’s source code and docs are on Gituhub. - BoxView
Boxview is a Javascript library to handle the simultaneous visualization of several digital objects in the same browser window. - Erato
Erato is a linked data editing API that connects to any remote SPARQL endpoint and automatically builds a easy-to-use editing UI. Erato can be fed with repository-specific configurations based on extended Fresnel templates to create ad-hoc editing UIs.
We want Muruca to be not just an infrastructure for Semantic Digital Libraries but also aCollaborative Environment for Scholarly Research and Publication, therefore will integrate it with tools for scholarly research. As our resources are limited, the integration depends on the needs of the users who support the development of Muruca. Integration is envisaged in the near future with:
- Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. Juxta is part of the Nines project.
- Collex. Collex is an open-source collections- and exhibits-builder designed to aid humanities scholars working in digital collections or within federated research environments. Collex operates under the assumption that the best paths through a complex digital resource are those forged by use and interpretation. A Collex approach works to assist scholars in recording, sharing, and building on the interpretive purposes to which they put their online teaching and research environments. Collex is part of the Nines project.
