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Subsystems

This project is divided in three modules to facilitate the adaptation and configuration for the differents instances and new requirements.

• Dataimport

• Liferay Portlet

• Liferay Webservice

Main End-User Features

The KnowledgeFinder project provides a base software which is adaptable to different use cases. It provides a list of features which can be easily modified to fit the current need. The Portlet - User Documentation throws light on the following topics

• Full-text search

• Visual Data Exploration

• Menu navigation

Technology

This project is written in Java and JavaScript (Frontend). And uses the following frameworks:

• Data import, indexing and search: Apache Solr

• Webservice / Portlet: Liferay

• Portlet: Bootstrap, D3.js, jQuery, NodeJS

• Build and deploy: Maven

For more information see the set up section in the development guides of the subsystems: Quick Set Up

The KnowledgeFinder backend runs on Linux and Windows. The frontend in Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Documentation:

• Architectural Overview

• KnowledgeFinder - Instances

• Licenses

• Glossary

Submodule Documentation

• KnowledgeFinder - Dataimport (submodule wiki)

• KnowledgeFinder - Webservice (submodule wiki)

• KnowledgeFinder - Portlet (submodule wiki)

Administration Documentation

• Dataimport - Administration Documentation (submodule wiki)

• Webapp - Administration Documentation (submodule wiki)

Developer Documentation

• Contribution

• Code Guidelines

• Non Functional Requirements

• Developer Prerequisites

• Dataimport - Developer Documentation (submodule wiki)

• Webservice - Developer Documentation (submodule wiki)

• Portlet - Developer Documentation (submodule wiki)

User Documentation

• Dataimport - User Documentation (submodule wiki)

• Webservice - User Documentation (submodule wiki)

• Portlet - User Documentation (submodule wiki)

Publications

• Lima, Efrain: "Aplicación web para la visualización del conocimiento del Centro Aeroespacial Alemán", 2014 (Source of thesis and matching slides: https://github.com/efrain70)

• Schäfer, Thorsten: "Semantische Suche in Wissensportalen", 2013