univis2typo3 - A Generic Connection Between UnivIS and Typo3

In order to improve the quality of our lab website, we developed univis2typo3 , a TYPO3 extension which imports all content that is available from the UnivIS system into our local Typo3 website. Therefore, data does not have to be updated in two locations.

The project was started by four (former) grad students of the Pattern Recognition Lab:

• Hannes Hofmann (UnivIS connection)
  
• Benjamin Keck (UnivIS connection)
• Christoph Forman (Typo3 integration)
• Christian Schaller (Typo3 Integration)

The current website of the Pattern Recognition Lab (LME) runs with univis2typo3, so you are looking at our demo system at this very moment.

Key features:

• Easy to use tool to generate a whole lab website based on UnivIS data in just a few mouse clicks.
• Fully automatic import of staff, lectures, projects, publications, theses, and general information.
• Userfriendly interface to edit personal pages and lecture pages.
• Independent of the UnivIS system once the website is installed.
• Nightly backup    and update.

Currently we are about to finalize our implementation, once this is finished a release candidate will be issued.

For further information send an email to Christian Schaller

See also: univis2typo3 code repository at GoogleCode.