Software architecture

OpenMind has a layered software architecture:

• user interface (e.g. Web, Desktop GUI, script UI)
• domain specific layer (e.g. ISMI model)
• repository layer (OpenMind)
• storage layer (e.g. SQL, file-based, Fedora(?))

OpenMind is totally generic up to the repository layer. It stores, searches and retrieves all kinds of objects with all kinds of attributes and relations.

The domain specific layer specialises the objects and their relations. It defines object types, permitted and required attributes and relation types and their attributes.