From Our Readers: Virtues and Values in Digital Library Architecture

Mark Cyzyk

doi:10.6017/ital.v27i3.3244

Abstract

From Our Readers:Virtues and Values in Digital Library Architecture

Highlights

A t the Fall 2007 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) conference in Washington, D.C., I presented “A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems.” Toward the end of my presentation was a slide enumerating some of the things I had personally learned as a Web application architect during my review of the systems under consideration:
Toward the end of my presentation was a slide enumerating some of the things I had personally learned as a Web application architect during my review of the systems under consideration: n Platform independence should not be neglected. n One inherits the flaws of external libraries and frameworks
Our goal as system architects needs to be that we provide to our users simple and flawless installation procedures so that our systems can, on average, be installed and configured in equal or less time than it takes to perform major brain surgery

Summary

Introduction

A t the Fall 2007 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) conference in Washington, D.C., I presented “A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems.” Toward the end of my presentation was a slide enumerating some of the things I had personally learned as a Web application architect during my review of the systems under consideration:. As you take a break to read some more of the documentation, it sure looks like required Library Number 19 is dependent on the current version of Library Number 7 and won’t work with any previous version.

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