Gig: Joomla implementation

Posted Jul 27, 2009   |   Comments disabled   |   by Abe Crystal

Gig: Joomla implementation for a history reference website.

Contact:
Marek McKenna—marek_mckenna@yahoo.com

Gig description:
I want to house the biggest collection of historical primary sources on one place.  There are several sites that house large collections, but they are maintained on institutional websites and as a result are not updated often and are incomplete.

Here are two examples:

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

So I think there will be roughly 10,000 documents when this project is completed.  So the database needs to be very robust.

The documents need to be easily organized under lots of categories with the capacity to cross reference.  For example—the 19th Amendment would be under women’s history and Legal History.

Currently a version of JOOMLA! DOCMAN was installed on the site. Perhaps it was not set up right. This might work, but the person that put the site together seems to be out of his depth. His reply to my push back—this is what you need. I uploaded two documents to the same category on docman and it crashed.  Obviously if this can’t handle two documents in the same category there is going to be a problem when there are 10k.  Plus I do not see how to cross reference documents in docman and it requires documents to be converted into pdf.

When uploading or updating the documents I want to copy and paste the document. I do not want to convert them to a pdf file before uploading them. I want my visitors to be able to click on a hyperlink and view the document like on the two sample sites listed above.

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