Memory Place

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Implementation

Features

The implementation of this project is characterised by the following elements:

Broad Scope Relational Design Advanced features

Project Overview

We are implementating the project in three stages:

Stage I:

  • Researching Indigenous Knowledge - data modelling and consultation with local Indigenous people to ensure model reflects Indigenous Knowledge System and is reflective of Indigenous needs and expectations
  • Digitising existing information
  • Stage II:

  • Designing and implementing base system
  • Implementing advanced features
  • Stage III:

    Technical Information

    The core of Memory Place is a relational database which represents the various connections between many facets of Indigenous knowledge. This information and the relationships are displayed using a browser based interface which is being prototyped using Ruby on Rails. The database is currently PostgreSQL, but can be adapted to make use of another SQL database if needed.

    More technical details of the project are available on our sourceforge project site.

    Licensing

    Memory Place is Copyright to Anindilyakwa Land Council. Memory Place is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Go to www.sveinbjorn.org/license to read about this license.

    The GNU General Public License is the most widely used license for free software projects. The following explanation of "free software" is from the GNU Project website www.gnu.org/:

    "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free food".

    Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

    Anindilyakwa Land Council and NT Library are unable to support software at this time and do not warrant any issues that may arise from using this software. People who use this software do so at their own risk.