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Toolkit Home Page for end-users: http://www.desire.org/toolkit/
This is the final report describing the public release of the DESIRE Toolkit, available in April 2000. During the course of the DESIRE project, a number of different software components have been produced. In many cases, these build upon previous work (such as the ROADS toolkit), or on work undertaken in phase one of the project (eg Combine). Phase two of DESIRE includes a number of strands that share common software requirements. The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a supporting environment and framework to allow collective and ongoing development of this software, and to provide both an environment and framework for their maintenance beyond the lifetime of DESIRE-II.
The report is available in the following formats:
A Peer Review by Eric Miller, OCLC to now available.
Abstract
During the course of the DESIRE project, a number of different software components have been produced. In many cases, these build upon previous work (such as the ROADS toolkit), or on work undertaken in phase one of the project (eg Combine). Phase two of DESIRE includes a number of strands that share common software requirements. The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a supporting environment and framework to allow collective and ongoing development of this software, and to provide both an environment and framework for their maintenance beyond the lifetime of DESIRE-II.
There are already a number of 'resource discovery', metadata and Web indexing themed software toolkits in existence. There are also projects such as the Advanced Search Framework (ASF) which draw together a number of smaller components to produce services and applications. ROADS and Combine, are good examples of toolkits which themselves include a number of sub-components, while also usefully serving as components of large applications.
Many of the developments in DESIRE phase two build upon these software distributions. Rather than risk duplication by creating a monolithic 'DESIRE software distribution' for the DESIRE toolkit, we instead adopt a decentralised model. ROADS and Combine have an existence beyond the scope of the DESIRE project. Through the creation of the DESIRE software toolkit, we aim to bring these diverse components together under a broad umbrella.
In order to provide a resource that will have a continued applicability beyond the lifetime of the project, the tools themselves will be used to construct an online system that will allow developers to contribute, select and check the compatibility of a wide variety of software tools, initially drawn from the DESIRE environment, but extensible to other relevant tools in the future.
Keywords
Software, Toolkit, ROADS, Metadata, Web Indexing
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