Amphora

Amphora is an extremely minimalistic data repository implemented in Django. In contrast to monolithic one-stop-shop repository packages that require an army of developers to support, JARS focuses on providing bare-minimum data and metadata storage out of the box.

Notable Features

• Add resources and collections from your existing Zotero collection,
• Supports just about any metadata schema that can be expressed in RDF,
• Interfaces with Giles to provide automated image and text extraction for PDFs, and Digilib-powered image services,
• Can interface with remote authority services like Conceptpower, and include references to remote resources in metadata,
• Provides a simple REST API for interacting with your resources,
• Provides an OAIPMH-compliant metadata endpoint,
• Can talk to a Handle server to generate unique handles for resources (planned),
• Curate and retrieve collections of resources (e.g. a corpus for text mining), including remote resources,
• Friendly and simple content access control for projects working with copyright or otherwise restricted data.

The target audience is primarily scholars working with digitized texts that need a more robust storage facility than whatever mess is on their harddrive, and need stable URIs.