Learn the basics about Jumper 2.0

Jumper 2.0 Collaborative Search Users

What is a tag?
A tag is a type of meta-information that describes or defines some aspect of an information resource. A tag can be a keyword or term, a description or comment, a category or classification, even a hyperlink. In fact a tag can be almost anything you can capture about the information itself. Jumper uses a special type of tag called a knowledge tag.

Applying tags is easy. In Jumper there are a number of tag fields that can be filled in by the user. Because Jumper is open-source and written in PHP these tag fields can easily be customized to meet the unique requirements of your business, organization, or industry.

How to create a tag profile?
In Jumper users create references to information resources that reside in distributed storage silos. To reference a resource users create a tag profile. The tag profile contains the tag fields that are filled in by the user. These tags are collected in the tag profile.

Creating a tag profile is easy. Simply click on the ‘Create a New Tag Profile’ link on the search page. Once a user logs in they select the 'Profiles' tab in the bookmarking engine and fill in some or all of the fields. A few of the fields are required for the profile to be searched, such as the global name of the profile and the category.

Searching Information - content, media, data, web pages, blogs, wikis, emails, people, etc.
In Jumper the first screen you see is the Search engine. There are a number of ways to search for information. You can enter a simple keyword or phrase, you can browse by a specific category, or you can use the Advanced Search feature to search for very specific information by using the search filters.

System Administrators

Installing Jumper
Installing Jumper is fairly straightforward. Jumper requires a web server such as Apache or Microsoft IIS, it requires that the webserver be running PHP 4.3.1 or higher, and it requires a database which by default is configured for MySQL. The good news is that all of these platforms are free. They can be challenging to install so we recommend using XAMPP as the easiest all in one package. You can download it for free at XAMPP for Windows.

To build the default database simply use the ‘db_install_2.0.sql’ file that can be found in the jmp\install upgrade directory (for example C:\xampp\htdocs\jmp\install_upgrade). XAMPP comes with a very convenient mySQL admin window called PHPMyAdmin. Simply select the Import tab on the far right and browse for the ‘db_install_2.0.sql’ file. This will automatically build all of the required Jumper tables for you.

Configuring Jumper
Jumper operates right ‘out of the box’. It requires very little configuration. When you first enter Jumper it will bring up the search engine page. In the top right hand corner select the Profiles tab and then log-in when prompted. The default username is admin and password is demo. Once in the bookmarking engine you will see a blue bar along the top with a number of links to configure Jumper. In particular the Settings link will allow you to set up the view of Jumper as you please. For more information please see the Jumper User Guide.

Creating Group Permissions
Creating permission groups is easy with Jumper. On the same blue bar in the bookmarking engine you can select either Members and Administrators to create permissions for users or create new permission group.

Platform Developers

Customizing Jumper Source Code
Jumper is open source software written in PHP and Javascript. The source code is available on Sourceforge at Project Jumper. It can be easily customized or modified to meet your specific requirements without a great deal of effort.

The Jumper 2.0 software is published under the GPL. All modifications of the software that are not part of core code are licensed under the CDDL that allows you to maintain control of these modules. Please read the licensing section for more information.

Submitting a patch
Jumper is a community effort and we greatly appreciate all the help that everyone has provided in making Jumper such a huge success. If you would like to contribute to the Jumper code by providing a design change, or patch to the software you can do so on the Sourceforge Jumper project page.

If you would like to report a bug or a feature request you can do this on Sourceforge or you can make these requests on the Jumper Developers Group. We look forward to your ideas, opinions, and insights into how to make Jumper better.

Jumper Reference material
The Jumper User Guide has been updated and is available in the Documentation section. In addition, you can find installation instructions, as well as all licensing and marketing information there as well.

Why get started with Jumper?

Insight drives research and development. Insight hidden in growing volumes of distributed content, media, or data. Harnessing this explosion of information is a constant challenge. There are simply too many sources to even remember that they all exist, never mind remember all of the information that relates to your field of study. These information systems are generally a patchwork of purpose-built, highly-fragmented, isolated storage resulting in little ability to effectively search or share these hidden resources even within a single institution. To improve information access and sharing demands new ways to search this information, to identify quality resources, to capture real-world knowledge about the information, and to quickly identify the best sources.