1. 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. …

2. 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)

3. Technologies
eSciDoc query metalanguage with supporting of run-time variables. Prototypes: Lucene query syntax (Java) xapian QueryParser Syntax (C++, interface to Java) CQL (Java)
eSciDoc Layout description script Languages: XSLT (1.0 or 2.0), XSL-FO
WYSIWIG Page Layout Designer Prototypes: Apache FOP (Java; Status: new release (since 18 July 2003) in mid-November 2005) JasperReports (Java) htmlArea (JavaScript)
Cocoon server for XSLT and XSL-FO transformations (Tomcat Web application, Java)
eSciDoc internal libraries handling class for Queries, Report/Citation styles, Page layouts and other template libraries. (Java, JSP )

4. 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

5. 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