Lyceum (software)
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- This article is about the blogging software Lyceum. For the conferencing system developed by Open UniversityOpen UniversityThe Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
, see Lyceum (synchronous CMC software)Lyceum (synchronous CMC software)Lyceum is a synchronous computer-mediated communication software which allows groups of people to speak to one another in real time over the Internet using Voice over IP conferencing....
Lyceum is an open-source blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
ging platform based on WordPress
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...
. It was developed by ibiblio
Ibiblio
ibiblio is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source software, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. As an "Internet librarianship," ibiblio is a digital library and archive...
, though is currently inactive.
History
Lyceum was first made public in February 2006. It originally began in mid-2005, and development is synchronous with WordPress. As of March 2009, Lyceum was based on an old version of WordPress and was inactive while the developer considered whether or not to resume development. As of May 2010, the project has been discontinued.Differences from WordPress MU
WordPress MU, developed by the core WordPress team, is extremely similar in functionality to Lyceum. The primary difference is that Lyceum stores all of its information in a set number of databaseDatabase
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
tables (it has a normalized schema
Database normalization
In the design of a relational database management system , the process of organizing data to minimize redundancy is called normalization. The goal of database normalization is to decompose relations with anomalies in order to produce smaller, well-structured relations...
). WordPress MU, on the other hand, adds new tables for each weblog added (it has a sharded
Shard (database architecture)
A database shard is a horizontal partition in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database shard.- Database architecture :...
schema).