http://news.DiverseBooks.com - Case Study

DiverseBooks is a news and reviews website for fans of books. The site is made up of two parts; news (news.DiverseBooks.com),which can be updated daily, and an archive of older articles. OpenWeb Analysts used two pieces of Open Source software to create the site, Jyve and Slash.

News on the site is managed by the Slash software. Using this software we were able to create a site that is easy to update and that can accept submissions from users. Articles and submissions are categorised by both topic and section with full search capabilities being included in the software itself. The software is quite capable of handling thousands of hits per minute as proved by its original implementation on the www.Slashdot.org technical news board.

Users can also register with the site, comment on existing articles and recieve e-mails giving brief details of recent submissions.

Jyve is used to maintain the archive of book reviews and information that make up the other half of DiverseBooks. Designed to store information for things such as FAQs, OpenWeb Analysts devloped this idea to suit the needs of DiverseBooks.com, which were to organise reviews of books in a tree structure by genre, author and title. Jyve is available from the Apache Software Foundation.