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Welcome to APLAWS+

The Accessible and Personalised Local Authority Website System, APLAWS, was designed as part of a national drive to enable local governments in the U.K. to deliver services online. It was incorporated into the Local Authority Websites National Project, and between 2003 and 2005 the base system and the various website extensions were improved considerably.
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Aplaws is based on an open source Collaboration and Content Management System (CCM) — a set of tools for managing WEB based collaboration and website content. It was developed from the ArsDigita Community System (ACS) that was initiated at MIT by Philip Greenspun, who, together with several MIT colleagues, founded the company ArsDigita. ArsDigita was later acquired by Red Hat, and ACS was developed into the Red Hat CCM.

Currently, we are in the process to release the next generation of APLAWS+. Besides a lot of technical improvements you will find among others a new advanced theme engine which improves the user experience and makes it easier for designer and administrators to provide a vivid web site design.

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  • Mar 1, 2017
    fedorahosted retirement
    The APLAWS project used to host the source code repository on fedorahosted.org. Unfortunately the Fedora project decided to close the site in favour of pagure.io. That move includes some technical issues and we are still in the process to decide where to host the source code and the developer documentation. At the moment there is no publicly available source code.

See also

  • APLAWS+ at joinup
    The European Commission created the platform "joinup" offering several services that aim to help e-Government professionals to share their experience with each other. A specific focus es the promotion of interoperability solutions.
  • The ScientificCMS Project
    is our sister project. Both use the identical code base. Their website provides more detailed information on the technology as well as the basic structure and mode of operation of the system.