From: Light PROJECT <light@cern.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.announce
Subject: SOFTWARE: CERN: LIGHT open source
Date: 18 Jun 2000 20:04:07 -0400
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Project: LIGHT - Logical Information Global HyperText
Version: alpha release 1.0 (first public release)

Description:
LIGHT is a system that automatically represents and connects
information, making it available as objects on the network.

Web:   http://light.cern.ch
Email: light@cern.ch


LIGHT is a system that is under development at CERN. 

The goals is to:
 - represent information as "LIGHT objects" available via 
   the network, replacing the concept of "web pages" to 
   represent information; 
 - provide a software framework with servers to store, 
   manage and distribute these LIGHT objects;
 - provide an architecture so that LIGHT objects can be 
   produced and retrieved automatically from any standard 
   Java-enabled browser; 
 - provide an implementation of these concepts with a 
   general open source framework. 

LIGHT:
 - is general to any type of information and organization; 
 - automatically identifies information and understand the
   structure and connectivity of that information; 
 - is scalable and distributed on the network; 
 - is configurable to:
      - receive information in any format; 
      - display the information to any Java-enabled browser.

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We believe in open source initiatives and CERN decided to 
publish the framework of the LIGHT system under the GNU 
GPL license.
This means that any modification to source code of the 
framework must be shared with the rest of the community.
LIGHT plug-ins can be either open source or proprietary 
depending on the choice of the developer. CERN-developed ]
plug-ins are going to be open source as well.

For more information please visit our web site: 
http://light.cern.ch

If you are interested in collaborating with us please
email to: light@cern.ch

Alberto Aimar and Dante Borillo

-- 
The LIGHT Team
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LIGHT project                      CERN Copyright 2000
Web: http://light.cern.ch         Email: light@cern.ch

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