- Polaris Digital
Polaris Digital is a small
web development andpost production company based inManchester ,England who provide full service web hosting and produce open source software for the web. Founded in 2001 by Sam Clark, Polaris Digital initially ran as a pseudonym for services provided by himself.In April 2006 Polaris Digital was incorporated as a Limited Company with
Companies House in theUnited Kingdom and has been trading as Polaris Digital Limited ever since.Software
Polaris Digital currently specialise in producing
accessible web sites, using current best practices and actively contribute to the Simple PHP Framework by Tyler Hall hosted onGoogle Code .Polaris Digital has produced two pieces of
Open Source software to date, although it should be noted that neither have achieved a version 1.0 status to date. PDnH Server is a modular Content Management Framework written inPHP using aMySQL database backbone and more recently, Symposa.In April 2007 Polaris Digital announced a new event management system called Symposa (sic) (from the word '
symposium ') that will enable online communities to organise and manage events in the real world, allowing online communities to meet outside of the world wide web. Alongside this announcement, Polaris Digital announced that all there software releases would be licenced under an Open Source agreement from April 2007, although they did not specify which licences they would adopt.Government work
JISC Collections have contracted Polaris Digital to maintain and update both the JISC Collections andNESLi2 web sites from September 2007 until further notice.In February 2007 JISC Collections and Polaris Digital launched a new web site to observe the effectiveness of
e-books ineducation , called the National e-Books Observatory Project. This project is managed by Caren Milloy of JISC Collections and exclusively developed and hosted by Polaris Digital.Awards
In 2004, Sam Clark was awarded the
Royal Television Society Student Non-Factual Award for the short film The Möbius Strip Act 1, a modern interpretation ofKoyaanisqatsi byGodfrey Reggio andPowers of Ten by the Office of Ray andCharles Eames juxtaposed. This short film was originally a student project for Sam Clark's final year at TheUniversity of Teesside , however in 2006 Sam Clark announced that Polaris Digital are working to complete Act 2.See also
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JISC
*JISC Collections External links
* [http://www.polaris-digital.com Polaris Digital]
* [http://pdnh.polaris-digital.com PDnH Server pages]
* [http://www.jiscebooksproject.org National e-Books Observatory Project]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcgfXdd2t2E The Möbius Strip Act 1]
* [http://code.google.com/p/simple-php-framework/ The Simple PHP Framework] on Google Code
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