If I built this website today and not in 1994,
http://runeberg.org/irescan/0014.html

(you can see it hasn't changed much,
http://web.archive.org/web/19970227191652/http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/fstal/1b.html
)

then I would probably use CSS rather than HTML tables for
layout, I would probably use a MySQL database instead of
plain text files, and I would probably use some open source
content management (CMS) or digital asset managment (DAM)
software rather than a Perl script that generates static
HTML files.

But which open source framework would I use? Greenstone?
XTF? DSpace? Mediawiki? Django? WordPress?

I found the Mark Twain Project, which uses XTF, and it looks
quite nice, http://www.marktwainproject.org/

Then I saw the video showing how to add a new document to an
XTF website, and that didn't look so good,
http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-started-tutorials/the-exercises/exercise-1/

in particular I didn't like these steps:
     5. Shut down tomcat.
     6. Do an incremental re-index (2) to include the new document.
     7. Start up tomcat.
     ...

To be clear: I need a platform where regular users, logged
in or not, can upload new books through a web interface.
Does that leave me with anything else than Mediawiki?


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   Lars Aronsson ([log in to unmask])
   Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/