= Future development =

== Software selection ==

=== mediaWiki ===
* Advantages
  * scalable
  * stable
  * already in use at MPIWG (TRAC)
  * version control system included
  * many users worldwide
  * user interface
    * already included (Wiki web pages)
    * 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 
  * fulltext search contained (Lucene)
  * free software
* Disadvantages
  * XML/XSL support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
  * XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)

=== Magnolia ===
* Advantages
  * scalable
  * stable
  * already in use at MPIWG
  * many users worldwide
  * XML/XSL support
  * many extensions / templates
  * programming: Java, ... ?
  * fulltext search contained (Lucene) ?
  * free software
* Disadvantages
  * performance of many queries not tested ?
  * version control system included ?
  * user interface: all web pages have to be implemented ?

=== eXist ===
* Advantages
  * XML/XSL support
  * already in use at MPIWG
  * many users worldwide
  * programming: Java, XQuery, XSL
  * fulltext search contained (Lucene)
  * free software
* Disadvantages
  * not scalable for many documents
  * not really stable
    * many system crashes at startup time (up to 2 days)
    * sometimes system crash when a document is uploaded
  * no usable version control system included
  * user interface: all web pages have to be implemented 
  * not many extensions / templates

=== eSciDoc ===
* Advantages
  * scalable
  * already in use at MPIWG
  * version control system included
  * XML/XSL support
  * programming: Java
  * fulltext search contained (Lucene)
  * free software
* Disadvantages
  * not in use by many users
  * performance of many queries not tested
  * very complicated: much work for administration and development (API etc.)
  * not many users and developers
  * user interface: all web pages have to be implemented 
  * not many extensions / templates