Factsheet
| Resource reviewed | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | ediarum | |
| Editors
Bibliographical description of responsible personnel. Please indicate names as “forename surname”. |
Stefan Dumont, Martin Fechner, Sascha Grabsch | |
| URI | http://www.bbaw.de/telota/software/ediarum | |
| Publication Date
Format should be either yyyy, yyyyff. or yyyy-yyyy, e.g. 2007 or 2007-2013 |
2018 | |
| Date of last access | 15.10.2019 | |
| Reviewer | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Mertgens | |
| First Name | Andreas | |
| Organization | University of Cologne | |
| Place | Cologne | |
| a.mertgens (at) uni-koeln.de | ||
| General information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type of reviewed software
Tool: computational application to be used for accomplishing one task or a number of related tasks in the process of digital scholarly editing; Virtual Research Environment (VRE): a platform on which various tools (independent or not) are working as an integrated whole in order to perform a series of tasks or to cover the entire workflow. |
What type of software is it?
|
Tool |
| Environment/platform
operating system, e.g. for stand-alone applications; web-browser for web-based applications, web-services, and APIs; another application, i.e., a plugin |
On which platform runs the tool?
|
Another Application |
| Purpose |
For what purpose was the tool developed?
|
General purpose |
| Funding |
Which is the financial model of the tool?
|
Free |
| Maturity |
What is the development stage of the tool?
|
Release |
| Methods and implementation | ||
| Programming language(s) |
Which programming languages and technologies are
used? |
Java, XSLT/XQuery |
| Reuse |
Does the tool reuse portions of other existing
software? |
 |
| Input format |
Which programming languages and technologies are
used? |
XML, XML-TEI |
| Output format |
Which programming languages and technologies are
used? |
XML, XML-TEI |
| Encoding |
Which character encoding formats are supported?
|
latin-1, utf-8, utf-16, other |
| Preprocessing |
Is a pre-processing conversion included?
|
 |
| Dependencies |
Does the documentation list dependencies on other software,
libraries or hardware? |
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| Dependencies installation |
If yes, is the software handling the installation of
dependencies during the general installation process (you don’t have to install them manually before the installation)? |
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| Usability, sustainability and maintainability | ||
| Documentation |
Is documentation and/or a manual available? (tool website,
wiki, blog, documentation, or tutorial) |
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| Format of documentation |
Which format has the documentation?
|
readme |
| Sections of documentation |
Which of the following sections does the documentation
contain? |
Getting-started (installation and configuration), Step-by-step instructions, Examples |
| Language of documentation |
In what languages is the documentation available?
|
English, German |
| Active Support |
Is there a method to get active support from the developer(s)
or from the community? |
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| Type of support |
Which form of support is offered?
|
Mailing list |
| Bug/issue tracker |
Is it possible to post bugs or issue using issue tracker
mechanisms? |
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| Build and install (personal learning curve) |
Grade how straightforward it is to build or install the tool on
a supported platform: |
Normal |
| Testing |
Is there a test suite, covering the core functionality in order
to check that the tool has been correctly built or installed? |
|
| Deployment on platforms |
On which platforms can the tool/software be deployed?
|
Linux, Mac, Windows |
| Deployment on devices |
On which devices can the tool/software be deployed?
|
Deployment on desktop, Deployment on laptop |
| Deployment on browser |
If the tool is web-based: On which browsers can the
tool/software be deployed? |
Mozilla, Chrome, Safari |
| Browser plugin |
If the tool is web-based: Does the tool rely on browser
plugins? |
|
| API |
Is there an API for the tool?
|
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| Code |
Is the source code open?
|
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| License |
Under what license is the tool released?
|
GNU/GPL |
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Does the software make adequate acknowledgement and credit to
the project contributors? |
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| Registered in software repository |
Is the tool/software registered in a software
repository? |
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| Contributing possible |
If yes, can you contribute to the software development via the
repository/development platform? |
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| Code Analysability |
Can the code be analyzed easily (is it structured, commented,
following standards)? |
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| Code Extensibility |
Can the code be extended easily (because there are contribution
mechanisms, attribution for changes and backward compatibility)? |
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| Code Reusability |
Can the code be reused easily in other contexts (because there
are appropriate interfaces and/or a modular architecture)? |
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| Information of security/privacy |
Does the software provide sufficient information about the
treatment of the data entered by the users? |
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| Maintenance |
Is there information available whether the tool will be
supported currently and in the future? |
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| Citability |
Does the tool supply citation guidelines (e.g. using the
Citation File Format)? |
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| User interaction, GUI and visualization | ||
| User group |
What kind of users are expected?
|
Researcher, Humanists |
| User interaction |
What kind of user interactions are expected?
|
Reading, Text editing |
| User Interface |
What kind of interface does the tool provide?
|
Graphical User Interface |
| Visualization |
Does the tool provide a particular visualizations (in terms of
analysis) of the input and/or the output data? |
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| User Empowerment |
Is the user allowed to customize the functioning of the tool
and the output configuration? |
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| Accessibility |
Does the tool provide particular features for improving
accessibility, allowing „people with the widest range of characteristics and capabilities” to use it? |
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