= 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: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes internal], [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite Cite]
    * [http://wikisource.org 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