Evaluation of existing Open Source Software Sample Clauses

Evaluation of existing Open Source Software. To provide an overview of the Tool to be realized, a top-down approach is a helpful measure to describe the overall design. Therefore, in the sections to follow a general layout in the form of a System Architecture is described. The scope of the architecture is to put as many open source-“of the shelf” and “exchangeable” tools together to stay as flexible as possible in the later process of choosing already available packages that conform to the architecture. I.e. the tool to be delivered will consists of several exchangeable tools that are at least partly integrated. The degree of implementation will be decided after the evaluation of the open source tools has been completed. G.2.1 ( Long Term Goals) describes the rationale behind the evaluation process of the open-source tools chosen. As a result an open-source Document Management System was chosen to be the file storage system for the implementation of further tools. Additionally DMS conforms to open communication standards, which facilitate the modular integration of such tools. In the section about Programming and Configuration it becomes clear, why we chose the very overall system architecture: Only a small part of the system needs to be configured (workflows, users, groups etc. within the DMS), another tool (the GSN tool) needs to be programmed to talk to existing or customized interfaces of the DMS. The principles of a Workflow Tool are presented to show how they integrate with the DMS. The GSN Tool is described as well to get an idea, how the system will work. Finally an overall User Experience is shown.