Future development

Software selection

eXist

• Advantages
  • Xml support
  • already in use at MPIWG
• Disadvantages
  • not scalable for many documents
  • not really stable
  • upload of documents sometimes produces system crashes

mediaWiki

• Advantages
  • scalable
  • stable
  • version control system
  • many users worldwide
  • user interface
    • simple (e.g. for data uploads)
    • user know this system
  • many extensions / templates
    • footnotes: ​internal, ​Cite
    • ​presentation of old books
  • programming: php, Java over JavaBridge?
  • free software
• Disadvantages
  • XML support has to be implemented (relative easy)

eSciDoc

• Advantages
  • scalable
  • already in use at MPIWG
• Disadvantages
  • not in use by many users
  • very complicated API
  • not many (free) developers

JackAss?

• Advantages
  • scalable
  • already in use at MPIWG
  • XML support
• Disadvantages
  • performance of many queries not tested