About the author
Daniel Lewis
Daniel Lewis is a postgraduate student at the University of Bristol. His primary area of research is machine learning and data mining. His interests include all kinds of intelligent systems, and he's also an advocate of open source and cross-platform development. Outside of computing, he enjoys spending time with his girlfriend and reading about religion, philosophy, and psychology — all of which he writes about on his blog.
CWIS (pronounced see-wis) is software to assemble, organize, and share collections of data about resources, like Yahoo! or Google Directory but 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 (a la Amazon)
* keyword searching (with phrase and exclusion support a la Google)
* fielded searching
* recommender system (a la Amazon)
* OAI 2.0 export (with oai_dc and nsdl_dc schemas)
* 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
CWIS also has functionality (PHP) separated from appearance (HTML), making it relatively easy to customize for your own site.
WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project