[Dspace-general] Week 3: Good Repository Software

[Graham Triggs]

Mark H. Wood wrote:
> Are we having a communication problem here?  I think I see two
> different uses of the word "inside".  If "inside" means "designed and
> built and maintained as part of DSpace" then I have to say I think we
> should not do that.  If "inside" means "can easily be made to appear
> as part of a system which also includes DSpace" then that makes a lot
> of sense.

That's what I'm basically getting at - integrated services [should] mean 
that people don't see the boundaries, even if the provision of those 
services is distinctly separate.

As something of an illustration of the point, take a look at the BioMed 
Central website - that's running across half a dozen machines, some 
especially provisioned to do certain tasks. Even where different parts 
of the website are running on the same machine, it is actually 
implemented using a variety of different technologies and [computer] 
languages.

But as a user - or author submitting a manuscript to one of the journals 
- you wouldn't know what machine, what application server, what language 
was used at any point during your interaction. It all just looks like 
one continuous site.

And that's where a suite of applications should sit - a faculty member 
should be able to access the 'library services' website, and within that 
single url space there could be a CMS, a blog, a DSpace repository, a 
collaboration service, and regardless of how many applications, 
languages, servers, etc. are involved in delivering that, the experience 
would be seamless and feel like there is just one application sitting 
behind it.

G

 
 
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