eSciDoc Report definition interfaces eSciDoc Browsing ●HTML plain view ●export to MIME types, e.g. txt, xml, html, rtf, pdf etc.) ●export to bibliographic formats, like: EndNote, RefMan, RefWorks, etc. …

eSciDoc Output Workflows End User Browsing and exporting workflows eSciDoc dessiminators ● OAI-PMH ● SRU/SRW ... XML eSciDoc Browsing HTML generation eSciDoc RDBMS eSciDoc browsing application ●Bibtex ●EndNote ●RIS (Refman) ●RIS (EndNote) … ●Some other eSciDoc export format (in UTF-8 or latine1) generation of export formats (output without layout) eSciDoc export application Report workflow eSciDoc XML □ Report □ Citation in MIME formats: ● rtf ● pdf ● html … Report/ Citation Styles library Cocoon server XSL-FO transformation (output with layout)

Technologies eSciDoc query metalanguage with supporting of run-time variables. Prototypes: Lucene query syntax http://lucene.apache.org/ (Java) xapian QueryParser Syntax http://www.xapian.org/ (C++, interface to Java) CQL http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/cql/. (Java) eSciDoc Layout description script Languages: XSLT (1.0 or 2.0), XSL-FO WYSIWIG Page Layout Designer Prototypes: Apache FOP http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ (Java; Status: new release (since 18 July 2003) in mid-November 2005) JasperReports http://www.jaspersoft.com/jasper_report.php (Java) htmlArea http://www.dynarch.com/projects/htmlarea/ (JavaScript) Cocoon server for XSLT and XSL-FO transformations http://cocoon.apache.org/ (Tomcat Web application, Java) eSciDoc internal libraries handling class for Queries, Report/Citation styles, Page layouts and other template libraries. (Java, JSP )

Tasks (proposal) Definition of some predefined prototype reports and citation styles based on the selected MPS web-sites. Note: An analyze and restructuring of current eDoc styles for further implementation in Reporting concept of eSciDoc have been partly done by “The Revision of the eDoc Citation Style” Related documents: CVS: edocpg/documentation/requirements/req_rev_citation_style.rtf AFS:Needs_Analysis\Administration_NA\Local_Database\escidocDB_institutes_0205.xls Definition of eSciDoc Page Layout description language. Development of simple web interface for editing of its. Note: XSLT+XSL-FO or some own XML-Based language (prototype: JasperReports .jxml) Evaluation and selection of eSciDoc fulltext search engine concept. Building of query metalanguage on top of it. Related documents: “Usage Scenario Publication Management – Searching” AFS:eSciDoc\Requirements\Requirements_PubMan\Usage_scenarios\Searching\usc_pubman_searching_v02.doc

Tasks (proposal) Evaluation and selection of prototype for WYSIWYG Page Layout Designer. Related documents: “Evaluation of XSLT-based Reporting Tolls” AFS: eSciDoc\eSciDoc_System\bits_pieces\Reporting\rpt_eval_reporttool_v01.doc “Evaluation of Reporting Tool” AFS: eSciDoc\eSciDoc_System\bits_pieces\Reporting\rpt_eval_reporttool_v01.doc Report definition interface. Note: Should include run-time variable handling for query metalanguage and report cronjob handling. Related documents: “Usage Scenarios Publication Management - Reporting” AFS: Requirements_PubMan\Usage_scenarios\Reporting\usc_pubman_reporting_v02.doc Development of eSciDoc internal libraries concept. Note: For Page Layouts, Queries and Reports/Citations libraries. Related document: “Citation Style Library”, CVS: \documents\eSciDoc\eSciDoc_System\bits_pieces\Reporting\rpt_citation_styles_v04.doc