XooNIps is easy-to-use software that can facilitate to build a database website to organize enormous volume of information in various types of electronic formats, such as text files, URLs and research papers along with the metadata, and to share them users worldwide on the internet.
XooNIps helps you, even non-experts of computer systems, create a database.
XooNIps does not bother you with thinking of logic or structure of the website; thus allows you to concentrate on web designing.
XooNIps is mounted functions for quality control.
This software was originally developed as a neuroinformatics tool for neuroscientists who necessarily make full use of immense and complex materials, such as experimental data, mathematical models, simulation programs and instrument data.
Neuroinformatics is an emerging research field where neuroscience and informatics are combined to breakthrough the enigma of the brain. In November 2005, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) was established for facilitating international collaborations to conquer the challenges in this interdisciplinary field. Under these circumstances, the Laboratory for Neuroinformatics, RIKEN BSI, embarked on developing XooNIps, and it has expanded the number of users to even other academic fields.
Since XooNIps is open source (free) software and has been improved to be open up to everyone who is interested in online information sharing, lately it has been used as an institutional repository system by universities and other institutions as well as a neuroinformatics tool.
As of April 2007, the Neuroinformatics Japan Center (NIJC), RIKEN BSI, has taken over the responsibility for XooNIps operations including the maintenance of extended functions (add-ons).
The site's operation environment, (ex. manner of user registration and item publication, etc.) can be easily set up by following the directions given on the Administration screen. You will simply choose the most appropriate one from the pulldown lists.
Examples:
User registration
[Certification by moderators] (The moderator will check the profile of the new user).
[Certify automatically]
Item publication
[Certification by moderators] (The items will be peer reviewed)
[Certify automatically]
Public
Public area: The items registered in this area will be publicized broadly to the public.
To register items in the public area, it is necessary to request for the site moderator's certification.
Group
Group area: Access to this area is restricted to a group of registered users.
To register items and share them among the group, it is necessary to request for the group administrator's certification.
Private
Individual area: registered users (given a user ID and password) can use this area just like a personal folder.
The following are the benefits from using XOOPS.
Reduce the costs for system construction and operation.
XOOPS is open software (enables free downloading).
Expand the functionality.
XOOPS modules offer wide varieties of site design.
Allow to change visual effects easily.
XOOPS templates (themes) enable to easily change the visual effects such as layout, etc.
XooNIps is designed to support a variety of item types (12 different data formats). Besides, it provides advanced features to apply to emerging formats.
The items will be organized by the Index Tree. The Index Tree consists of the following publication areas: Public, Group and Private. Each of the areas consists of keywords so that the items can be logically and effectively sorted.
To obtain a new account, the requester has to be checked / identified by the moderator to decide whether or not to certify the user as a registered user.
To prevent from malicious users.
Import and export
Register items in the block
Download items in the block
Access log analysis
Download event logs
Download logs classified by event or period and present them in a graphic chart
Check the current status of users and registrations