SkinMuseum: a museum collection management software

SkinMuseum : a museum collection management software
Nel Taurisson
[email_address]
Nuxeo Dev Day 2008
01/12/2008

SKIN-SOFT
Young innovative R&D organisation
Focuses on developing collection inventory and publishing softwares
First application : SkinMuseum dedicated to museum inventories
More to come...

SKIN-SOFT
No one-shot-application development
A framework instanciated in multiple applications
Naturally, we turned to the Open Source community
Naturally, we wish to participate

Agenda
Museum collection management : Constraints
SkinMuseum snapshots
The SKPlayer
ExtJS client
Google Gears integration
Nuxeo Action / View / Layout player
Open Source release: first semester 2009

Constraints (1)
Very complex document structure
lots of fields
deep fields

Constraints (2)
Huge structured thesauri and controlled vocabularies, i.e., huge directories
tree directories
unpredictable tree depth

Constraints (3)
The audience : no IT gurus seen yet !
Articulate collaboration in the museum
this is a new feature / existing software
Web Based

Constraint (4)
WebBased BUT should be able to work partly offline :
The « récollement » need
Can be used to align the inventoried objects (the data in the software) with the objects that really are in the museum

Dealing with the constraints
Complex Document Structure / Rich and Simple UI
ExtJS / SeamRemoting
Huge structured directories
Gears : client side directory replication with a dedicated implementation of SQLDirectories
Offline mode
Gears : document replication / locking / update

SkinMuseum Snapshots

SKPlayer overview
Javascript / SeamRemoting Client
Acts as a player for the Standard Nuxeo Action / View / Template mechanisms
Widgets are written in Javascript (With ExtJS)
UI designed through the standard xml contribs
Our goal :
Business code only lives in workflows and event listeners
UI design is only a configuration issue (xml / css)
JS only used to develop reusable UI components

SKPlayer mechanisms (1)
UI described in layout contribs

SKPlayer Mechanisms (3)
Properties are applied to Underlying ExtJS Widgets

A widget library
Base widgets : text, textarea, int, float, layout...
Composed widgets : list, complex
Container widgets : border container, column container, tabs container
Rich widgets : repository explorer, selected document view, media management widgets ...
Workflow widgets : worflow layout, work item layout...

Client side message bus
Some widgets broadcast messages (ex: selection widgets)
Any widget can react to messages (react code added in the layout)

TODOs (before public release)
Complete l10n
Code cleaning / refactoring
Improving documentation
Demo App
LGPL Release: end of first semester 2009

SkinMuseum : a museum collection management software
Nel Taurisson
[email_address]
Nuxeo Dev Day 2008
12/01/2008

SKPlayer overview
Gears integration :
Layout caching
Client side directory replication
Document caching (coming soon...)
Offline mode (coming soon to...)

SKPlayer Engine / Theme
The ExtJS engine :
Bootstraps the JS framework
Theme fragments :
contribute ExtJS building block (base UI : document views, repository explorer tree, etc...)

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