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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/ -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com