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[d . borodaenko]

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Dmitry Borodaenko <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Samizdat
System name: samizdat
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open 
publishing web sites. Samizdat will let everyone publish, view, comment, edit, 
and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and 
classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of criteria, cooperate and 
coordinate on any kinds of activities (see Design Goals document for details). 
Samizdat intends promote values of freedom, openness, equality, and 
cooperation. 

Samizdat builds its underlying data model on RDF (Resource Description 
Framework), and defines a schema of resource classes and properties for core 
concepts of a Samizdat site: member, message, thread, tag, proposition, vote, 
version, part, and so on (see Concepts document). Open nature of RDF allows to 
add new metadata and new uses of site resources without effort, and to 
transparently interoperate with diverse set of applications supporting this 
standard.

Samizdat project was inspired by Matthew Arnison\'s Open Publishing initiative 
and Active engine used by the IndyMedia.org project, and by rusty\'s Scoop 
engine used by Kuro5hin.org and other sites (see References document). It 
differs from other advanced open publishing engines, such as Active2 or Mir, in 
that it uses RDF model from the ground up and targets other domains beyong just 
publishing, such as coordination, education, and material items exchange.

Samizdat is free software and is built using free software, such as Ruby 
programming language and PostgreSQL relational database management system. All 
Samizdat source code and documentation can be redistributed and/or modified 
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by Free Software 
Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later 
version.

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It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it. Design documents and 
specifications that I now actively work on, and some preliminary source code is 
available at http://people.debian.org/~angdraug/samizdat.tar.gz

Other Software Required:
Ruby (GPL), PostgreSQL (BSDL), Apache (ASL)/mod_ruby(LGPL) or other web server 
with Ruby CGI support, YAML4R (LGPL).

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