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PARC Xerox researcher seeks beta testers for UpLib digital library system
December 8, 2007 | 3:05 pm
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By David Rothman
From Bill Janssen of PARC, via eBook Community List:
“We’re planning to release our UpLib digital library system as open source software in a couple of months, and I’m still looking for beta testers, people who’d like to receive early a raw codebase tar file which may require some hacking skills to compile and install (though, I like to think, not too much). If you know about ‘configure’ and ‘make,’ you’re a candidate. I’m particularly interested in finding beta testers who use Windows, as that platform is still somewhat of a mystery to me. We use MSYS and MINGW to create the installer for Windows. For those of you who are wondering, the core of UpLib is a document repository server which serves as a base for a number of document analysis functions. Particularly nice for scanned documents.
Related: Background on UpLib (PDF). Excerpt: “The system consists of a full-text indexed repository accessed through an active agent via a Web interface. It is suitable for personal collections comprising tens of thousands of documents (including papers, books, photos, receipts, email, etc.), and provides for ease of document entry and access as well as high levels of security and privacy. Unlike many other systems of the sort, user access to the document collection is assured even if the UpLib system is unavailable.”
Detail: I don’t know if the screen shot is up to date.
Update: Also see info from 2005, and an ACM article from 2005 (thanks, to Leslie Johnson at Digital Eccentric).
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Comments:
It’s a tad old, but not bad. Newer screenshots are at http://uplib.parc.com/uplib/screenshots.html
Thanks for the newer screenshots. UpLib looks like an innovative and wonderful system. A universal repository of the type described and implemented is exciting, and will help people understand what is possible. Thanks for your plan to share this system via open source.
By the way, that “ACM article” shouldn’t be up there. It was never published by the ACM — I’ll have to see why PARC put up that draft, and I’ll have them take it down. The correct final version is at http://www2.parc.com/isl/members/janssen/pubs/TR-05-5.pdf.
So where do I go to get it, read more?
No link that for the story?
Hi, Douglas. For the latest how-to-get-it info and more, you can reach Bill directly at janssen NOSPAM parc.com. Just substitute the trusty @. I’ll be grateful to Bill if he can use this comment area to provide people with the latest links. When you write him, I’ll appreciate your mentioning this.
Thanks,
David