Developing Community Networking Portal for Academic Service Provider
About
The client is an education service provider. They are a great example of the transition from open content to open communities in the open education space. The client approached Brainvire to develop a community networking portal which includes Academic Room, Social Network, Online Courses, Video Lectures, Scholars Directory, Online Research Tools, MP3 Files, Journal Articles, Online Books, Book Reviews and Ancient Manuscripts.
Project Highlights
Brainvire’s development team created a web application with features like all academic content on a single platform. The application also allows knowledge sharing through downloading, uploading, and file sharing.
The Challenges
- High ranking search techniquesWe used Apache Solr, a competent technology, to meet the client requirement. The application can now search according to various sections such as search according to tags, geographical focus, category-based, related disciplines, related videos.
- Discipline-based contentIt was difficult to add discipline-based content.
- Developing different modulesThe client wanted to develop different modules.
- Access to the databaseThe client wanted to ease access to the database.
Tech Stack
CSS 3
JavaScript
Apache Lucene
AJAX
HTML5
Drupal
Apache 2.0 Handler
Apache Solr
Result
Search and browse options
Brainvire’s team added a comprehensive search and browse options within optimized query features using Apache Solr.Scalable framework
The entire framework was kept highly scalable in order to provide adaptability & ease while incorporating new features.SEO Optimization
Search Engine Optimization activities were regularly resorted to with a view to ensuring high visibility for the site over the internet.Easy navigation in the interface
Web usability guidelines were strictly adhered to during the development and the interface was made easily navigable through the judicious use of CSS and HTML controls.
