This presentation is an introduction to Topaz, an Open Source content modeling and storage framework that uses the Fedora Service Framework and Mulgara semantic technology as the core engine, and Ambra, a publishing application built on the Topaz framework.

1. Introduction to the Topaz OTM framework and the Ambra publishing platform Richard Cave – rcave at plos.org Russell Uman – ruman at plos.org

8. Ambra / Topaz journal publishing platform Apache Ambra Fedora + Mulgara RDF Store Topaz OTM Topaz Files CAS Fedora is used to store digital objects (XML, PDF, images, etc.) article metadata, annotations (annotea) and user information (foaf) is stored as triples in Mulgara Topaz is used for storage and retrieval of the digital objects and triple stores through the Objects to Triples Mapping (OTM) Ambra (user interface) CAS single sign-on service Apache webhead

11. why Objects to Triples Mapping (OTM)? allows for retrieving collections of objects (fast) with one query instead of a single object at a time (slow) as an online-only publisher, we need fast

13. Ambra features Ambra article ingestion search annotations discussions security mgmt ratings user profile/ preferences atom feeds multiple journals trackbacks SignOn Server article publication CrossRef registration DOI resolver Cache for web content and digital objects CAS single sign-on

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23. future development…? © by David Shotton