Fesite

Fesite is a fictional open-source web platform designed for hosting and curating scientific and educational content, including articles, datasets, maps, and media. It emphasizes interoperability through standards-based metadata, licensing, and programmable interfaces, enabling institutions and researchers to publish, discover, and reuse materials.

Fesite originated in 2009 as a collaborative project among researchers, librarians, and educators. It evolved from a basic content-management system into a modular platform with a built-in data catalog, versioning, and workflow features. The project is maintained by a community consortium and distributed under an open-source license.

Its architecture centers on a core service that stores content and a suite of pluggable modules. Core capabilities include multiple content types (articles, datasets, multimedia), metadata mapping to Dublin Core and schema.org, rights management, and version control. The platform provides search indexing, authentication, fine-grained permissions, and activity logging. It exposes REST and GraphQL APIs, supports data export, and offers embeddable widgets and peer-review workflows. Internationalization and accessibility are included in the design.

Fesite is used by universities, museums, and citizen-science projects to publish and share materials. Typical use cases include publishing research articles with datasets, curating digital collections, and delivering educational resources. The platform aims to be interoperable with external repositories through standardized metadata, identifiers, and cross-repository linking. Reception notes its openness and extensibility, while critics cite complexity and potential performance issues on large data collections.

See also: Content management system; digital repository; open data portal.