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Alpha 1 Knowledge management for Open Atrium, test it now!

CEO, Co-Founder
Feb 19, 2010

We've blogged before about the Knowledge management feature package that Pronovix developed for Open Atrium. To make it really easy for you to test out the features, we made a tarball that contains an installation profile that by default will enable all the knowledge management goodness:

  • Mindmaps a.k.a. Graphmind, a mindmap module for Drupal that allows you to upload mindmaps to your Drupal site and even use data from your site to build mindmaps.
  • Semantic editor: makes it possible to mark up snippets in a text using a WYSIWYG editor with RDFa markup.
  • Semantic layers/filters: these 2 technologies together allow you to add CSS classes to RDFa marked up text and then change the way these are displayed. This could be used to let users choose the type of information they would be interested in seeing (e.g. advance level, knowledge space, etc.).
  • Faceted insert: an asynchronous faceted search interface that lets you search and paste the content of another node into the text field you working on.
  • Bookmark trail: a bookmarklet feature for Drupal (javascript snippets that live in your bookmark toolbar) that makes it really simple to submit snippets of text that you encounter on the internet as solutions for a problem you are working on. Since it can be integrated in one's project managment system it can be as simple as click-review-submit.

Currently it's only available as a "ab initio" package of Open Atrium (so you can't install it on an existing site). It's also built on Open Atrium Beta 3. We are really excited about the new features in Beta 4 (especially the testing suite), so updates will come. You can download it here.

Installation is the same as for a standard Drupal 6 or Open Atrium install (we already made a copy of settings file in the default folder). Just select the installation profile "Pronovix Knowledge Management Distribution" during the installation process.

System requirements:

  • PHP 5.2
  • PHP GD extension
  • ~128MB memory limit (apc suggested)
  • MySQL 5
  • Apache
  • Apache mod_rewrite module for clean urls

Remarks:

  • If you want faceted insert to also work with bookmark trail solutions you'll have to add that in the faceted search environment ([yoursite]/admin/settings/faceted_search/1).
  • If you are installing this on your localhost and you are experiencing problems you can try increasing your php.ini settings for:
    • max_execution_time
    • realpath_cache_size
    • memory_limit

We really need your help to further improve these features. All feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome on the drupal.org issue queue.

Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, developer relations, and technical writing communities. He is the host of the Developer Success & the Business of APIs and the API Resilience podcasts.

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