Talk:ESciDoc Solutions summary

= How to make escidoc solutions reusable? =

Currently, our solutions cannot be reused other than forking the projects because there are project-specifics in the source code as opposed to in configuration only.

This page may serve as a place to collect issues about what should be configurable.

Definitions
The distinction between source code and configuration is understood as the distinction between what can be edited by a user (for a particular installation of a solution) and what comes with the solution package (of course a default configuration can be included in the package).

Obviously, there are more ways to extend the reusability of a solution, e.g. by providing a plugin mechanism.

Naming convention
Project-specifics should not be part of the software. Thus, the names of MPDL projects like virr and faces should not be used as package/file/any names in the solutions developed to address the project's software needs.

FACES:
 * Picture Management (according to Publication Management), short PicMan --Kristina 16:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * DIOM - Digitized Images Online Management
 * DIFE - Digitized Images for E-science
 * OINK - Online Image Navigation Kit
 * SCORPIO - SCientific Online Repository for Picture and Illustration Organization / SCientific Online Repository for Picture Interpretation and Organization
 * SCORPION - SCientific Online Repository for Pictural and Illustrational Object Navigation
 * DIMeS : Digital Image Management for eScience
 * IDEA: Image Digitization, Editing and Archiving (nice as well: The e-Science IDEA)
 * Image Digitization, Enhancement and Archiving

VIRR:
 * DROMEDAR: Digitized Resources - Online Management, EDiting And Retrieval
 * DEGERO: Digitized Editions of  GEneric Resources Online

Configuring the user interface

 * themes/skins
 * mechanism to detect user supplied themes

Configurable GUI Tools

 * Topic started already while ago, architectural changes are necessary. Not certain indeed if it belongs to this discussion


 * Browsing tools
 * Searching tools
 * Metadata editing tools