RFP for Alliance Digital Repository (ADR) User Interface Development

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (The Alliance) seeks proposals for the development and design of user interface(s) for the Alliance Digital Repository.

RFP available here.
 
A proposed timeline is included within the RFP. Please address all questions to jessica[at]coalliance.org by August 20th, 2007.

The interface will provide acustomizable “look and feel” to the ADR’s initial discovery and access portal,encompassing the searching, browsing, and viewing actions related to digitalcontent, including jpegs, pdfs, xml documents, and audio and video files. Theinterface will bring together multiple software platforms (Fedora, Fez, XTF) currently usedwithin the ADR. The interface will need to interact with existing PHP and JAVAprogramming.

Objectives of the user interfacedesign work are to:

• Create a granular, customizable interface that ultimately allows for institutional/community branding, adjustable labeling and positioning of components (i.e. search boxes, results lists, etc.)

• Provide a centrally managed, but easily distributed design customization environment

• Generate templates that are geared not only towards different institutions, but also content types and audiences

• Support integration with other services (Uportal, widgets, etc.)

• Support interactions with local authentication services (LDAP, etc.)

• Build off of the existing interface foundations provided by Fez and XTF