Introducing CWIS 2.0

CWIS - the Collection Workflow Integration System - is an open source software package created to assemble, organize, and share collections of data about resources, conforming to international and academic standards for metadata. CWIS was specifically created to help build collections of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) resources and connect them into NSF's National Science Digital Library, but can be (and is being) used for a wide variety of other purposes.

Some of the features of CWIS include resource annotations and ratings, keyword searching (with phrase and exclusion support), fielded searching, recommender system, OAI export, RSS feed support, integrated metadata editing tool, user-definable schema (comes with full qualified Dublin Core), prepackaged taxonomies (includes GEM Subject taxonomy), user interface themes, turnkey installation and much more. The core features of CWIS will be covered in this poster session along with highlights from the new CWIS 2.0 release.

CWIS also has functionality (PHP) separated from appearance (HTML), making it relatively easy to customize. CWIS requires a web server that supports PHP and MySQL. The software is designed to run on a LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP) platform, but is also being run in the field on OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD.