Documentation

 User Manual

• NotreDAM User Manual   – V0.7 draft
• The former NotreDAM Manual (v0.6) is available here. (it is being split up into 3 manuals: User Manual, Administration Guide and Developer’s Manual).

We are currently working to move all NotreDAM documentation to an online HTML format. This document reflects the latest work in progress. 

Administration

• Release notes - read this before installing a new release of NotreDAM
• How to install NotreDAM - explains the several ways of installing NotreDAM
• Advanced configuration - how to change Notre-DAM default configuration
• NotreDAM Administration Guide  - V0.1 – VERY FIRST DRAFT – PUBLISHED ON August 26th

Development

• NotreDAM Developer’s Manual  - WILL BE PUBLISHED SOON
• System Architecture    – (DRAFT) – read this to understand how NotreDAM was designed
• REST API - how to use NotreDAM from another application
• Java API - documentation, tutorials and libraries
• TinyKB developer’s manual - internal class/object storage and ORM, used for implementing “real objects”
• Handling XMP Metadata in NotreDAM   – a preliminary analysis about metadata
• MediaDART - the framework used by NotreDAM for managing multimedia resources

Other documents

• FAQ - still in work
• Roadmap - see what’s coming in the next releases

Presentations

• The teaser slide from the TPDL 2011 Conference 

Papers

• The draft of the paper “NotreDAM, a multi-user, web based Digital Asset Management platform“, accepted for the TPDL 2011 Conference (Theory and Practice of the Digital Libraries, 2011, Berlin) 
• The C5 2008 Conference paper (draft) “MediaDART: a decentralized framework for sharing multimedia content” [WARNING: this paper describes a MediaDART version which is no longer in use; NotreDAM  uses a much simplified version of MediaDART which essentially acts as a broker]