The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Drupal Toolkit
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users.
Please visit our project website at http://www.extensiblecatalog.org for a more complete overview of the eXtensible Catalog project and the software we are creating.
Additionally, there is an overall XC mailing list, not just for the Drupal Toolkit, but other toolkits and topics, available at http://groups.google.com/group/extensible-catalog.
Drupal Toolkit
The Drupal Toolkit is a modular system that handles the creation and manipulation of metadata in accordance to the XC schema format within the Drupal content management system by:
- Defining metadata
- Importing and exporting metadata
- Storing and retrieving metadata
- Searching metadata
- Extending and modifying metadata
- Controlling user access to metadata
- Generating fully customizable XHTML and CSS output
Some modules are part of the Toolkit however can be used independently from it. These are:
- OAI harvester
- NCIP integration
- Integration of Syndetics Solution services
- URL rewriting to EZProxy server
All of these core functionalities will be handled by XC defined hooks for Drupal that will allow XC modules, and perhaps any future contributed modules, to plug into and extend the features of the XC Drupal Toolkit.
The software code repository for the Drupal Toolkit is http://drupal.org/project/xc.
The documentation pages for the project is available at http://drupal.org/node/499770.
Drupal Toolkit API documentation is available at http://api.xcproject.org/drupal.
We haven't really released any stable versions. If you want to follow the development, use the dev version, and ask us any questions.
Releases
| Official releases | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.0-alpha1 | 2009-May-22 | 159.77 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 6.x |  |
| Development snapshots | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2009-Nov-24 | 302.77 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot |  |
