I would build it in Drupal, or possible Islandora, which is a Drupal
and DSpace package.
I got started with Drupal, lo those many years ago (six, actually)
when I was building out a DSpace server and realized that I could not
get it looking very user-freindly on its own. I did my own mashup, and
it worked.
Cary
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Lars Aronsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
> --
> Lars Aronsson ([log in to unmask])
> Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com
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