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Digital Collection Builder 1.2.1 (11 MB)

The DCB is web-based software. You can download and install it on your own webserver to make your copy of DCB available to anyone with an internet connection. DCB comes with an installer that helps you through this process.

The DCB is an application based on the Qubit Open Information Management Toolkit. Installation instructions for the the DCB application are available at the Qubit Toolkit website. Currently, these instructions are in English only.

To run DCB you will need a webserver and database server installed on your system, as well as PHP 5.3 or higher. We recommend the open-source Apache webserver and MySQL database engine. The DCB Installer will check your system and report back if you need to upgrade any of your server's technical requirements.

Virtual Appliance
A virtual appliance is one file containing a minimal operating system and server software. You can "play" this file with a free virtual machine player like VMware Player or Sun VirtualBox. The virtual appliance allows you to try DCB on your personal computer if you don't have access to a webserver on which to install DCB.

dcb-vmserver-1.2.0.tgz (214 MB) (MD5)

The DCB virtual appliance instructions are identical to those posted for the ICA-AtoM application.

Hosting
The DCB is free and open-source software. There are no fees to download and run the software. However, if you do not have access to a web server but you would like to make your copy of DCB available online to the public, you can always have it hosted for a monthly fee. Artefactual Systems, the DCB lead developers, provide a DCB hosting service. You can also contact Canadiana.org for more information.

Code
DCB is a web-based application written entirely in PHP5 using the Symfony framework and the Qubit Toolkit. Qubit was created by the DCB development team, in collaboration with the ICA-AtoM Project, to make it easy for both projects as well as other initiatives, institutions or communities to adopt and customize the software for their own use.

DCB is made available as a distribution of the Qubit Toolkit (much like Ubuntu or Red Hat are Linux distributions). Both Qubit and DCB are freely available for re-use under the AGPL-3 license.

DCB is managed as a branch in the Qubit code repository. It is publicly available there for read-only checkout to developers familiar with the Subversion version control system.

svn checkout http://qubit-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/dcb/

To get your checked-out copy running, see the Qubit Toolkit installation instructions which are identical for DCB.

A stable release of the Qubit trunk is merged to the DCB branch twice a year. If you are a developer and want access to the software code as it is being developed, you can check out the Qubit trunk from the code repository. Of course the trunk is in active daily development and will contain features that are in mid-development as well as the likelihood of more bugs that have not been yet been eliminated through the release testing process.

svn checkout http://qubit-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/