AWOB Evaluation

MPDL,GAVO

Platforms

 * XWiki
 * Sakai_OEM
 * Google (Apache) Wave
 * Liferay
 * Confluence

Evaluation Criteria

 * Open Source
 * Web usability
 * a lot of plugins
 * a big community
 * non-obsolete versions
 * WEB 2.0
 * sufficient documentation
 * performance

Evaluation Criteria

 * simple and intuitive user management
 * flexible user management
 * possibility to define quick and easy own user groups
 * possibility to assign privileges to the user groups
 * flexible user authentication - LDAP, etc.
 * quick and easy invitation of users
 * enough user groups / roles by default
 * possibility to put one user to many groups (by default)
 * user self registration
 * user self management
 * central user administration (instance-related)
 * decentral user administration (project-related)

Evaluation Criteria

 * simple way to upload resources
 * quick and easy project publishing
 * a project have a search capability for all available resources
 * a user can have a personal page in a project
 * a project has a status
 * a project mailing list
 * a project private wiki only for members
 * a project may contain sub-projects
 * the collaborators can manage project resources
 * a project has a project dashboard
 * a view of all public projects
 * project calendar

Evaluation Criteria

 * supports a large number of types of resources (by default): HTML, Wiki, Word, PDF, JPG, Links, RDB, and so on
 * upload/attach a resource to a project
 * view of available resources
 * annotate resource with comments
 * users get specific privileges for accessing project resources
 * overview and search capabilities on the project resources