WHAT IS IT?
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...
- SwikiNotes. 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.
We want Muruca to be not just an infrastructure for Semantic Digital Libraries but also a Collaborative 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.
- Commodoro. XML Engine. It's a collaborative XML editing tool that can be used to make XML based electronic edition of texts. It also includes a powerful XML query engine that is used by Talia to create navigation interfaces and search engines on the editions. Contact us to know more...