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White House releases open source code
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Friday, 23 April 2010, 19:28 IST |
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Washington: As an effort to have their website on an open platform, White House has released an open source code, reports Spencer Dalziel of the Inquirer.
"This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We're excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications," said the White House sources.
The code is part of the Drupal project, which is an open source content management system. The White House said that its coders have added to Drupal functionality in three ways.
The development team has released a scalability module called "Context HTTP Headers", which allows site builders to add metadata content. A second module that addresses scalability is "Akamai" and it allows website to integrate with Content Delivery Network, Akamai.
White House website development team has opened the website to make it more accessible as possible and is committed to meet government accessibility standard, Section 508. As part of that compliance they have developed "Node Embed", which is a management system that embeds the right metadata for images and videos.