Future development MPDL

Software selection: frontend and backend system

Magnolia

• URL: ​http://www.magnolia-cms.com/
• Advantages
  • scalable
  • stable
  • performant
  • is used at MPIWG: see ​here
  • user management included (incl. LDAP)
  • version control system with easy usable history functions (commercial EE version)
  • notes/annotations: blog comments for each web page
  • many installations and users worldwide
  • many extensions / templates
  • programming: Freemarker, Java Server Pages, XSL, limited XPath (works also in JCR 2.0 ?)
  • fulltext search contained (Lucene)
  • multimedia support (image, sound, video)
  • free software (CE version)
  • MPDL software
    • document upload: stable and mostly included
• Disadvantages
  • user interface: all web pages have to be implemented
  • XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
  • MPDL software
    • get page fragment in XML document: has to be implemented in JSP (relative easy)
    • language technology: has to be integrated by JSP's (relative easy)
    • viewer: has to be implemented by templates and JSP/XSL/HTML (relative easy)

mediaWiki

• URL: ​http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
• Advantages
  • scalable
  • stable
  • performant
  • is used at MPIWG: see for example this ​TRAC
  • user management included (incl. LDAP)
  • version control system with easy usable history functions (not free EE version)
  • notes/annotations: discussion of each web page possible
  • many installations and users worldwide
  • user interface
    • already included (Wiki web pages)
    • simple (e.g. for data uploads)
    • user know the Wiki system
    • no extra web server
  • many extensions / templates
    • footnotes: ​internal, ​Cite
    • ​presentation of old books
  • programming: php, Java over JavaBridge?
  • fulltext search contained (Lucene)
  • multimedia support (image, sound, video)
  • free software
  • MPDL software
    • document upload: stable and mostly included
• Disadvantages
  • XML/XSL support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
  • XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
  • MPDL software
    • get page fragment in XML document: has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
    • language technology: has to be integrated by Java programs (relative easy)
    • Viewer: Zope programs have to be implemented in Wiki/Java? (relative easy)

eXist + Zope

• URL: ​http://exist.sourceforge.net/
• Advantages
  • performant
  • XML/XSL support
  • is used at MPIWG: see ​MPDL system
  • some installations and users worldwide
  • XQuery/XPath support
  • programming: Java, XQuery/XPath, XSL
  • fulltext search contained (Lucene)
  • MPDL software
    • get page fragment in XML document: already implemented
    • viewer: available as Zope programs on another web server
    • document upload: already implemented
  • free software
• Disadvantages
  • not scalable for many documents (> 1000 XML 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, no history functions
  • notes/annotations: has to be implemented
  • user management not usable / has to be implemented
  • user interface: all web pages have to be implemented
  • not many extensions / templates
  • MPDL software
    • document upload: not stable through eXist

eSciDoc

• URL: ​https://www.escidoc.org/
• Advantages
  • scalable
  • is in test use at MPIWG: see ​Pubman
  • user management included (incl. LDAP)
  • 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.)
  • version control system: no easy usable history functions
  • notes/annotations: has to be implemented
  • not many users, installations and developers
  • user interface: all web pages have to be implemented
  • not many extensions / templates
  • XQuery support has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
  • MPDL software
    • get page fragment in XML document: has to be implemented in Java (relative easy)
    • language technology: has to be integrated by Java programs (relative easy)
    • viewer: has to be implemented in Java/XSL/HTML (relative easy)
    • document upload: has to be implemented (relative easy)