Library of Congress kasutab SharePoint’i ja Silverlight’i
08.05.2008 | Gunnar
USA Library of Congress kasutab oma külastajate leheküljel SharePoint’i (mis see on) ja Silverlight‘i. Lisaks sellele on Microsoft’i tehnoloogiatest kasutusel ka Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) ja Live ID.
Lisaks uuele veebilehele paigutati Library of Congress ühte hoonesse ka Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) kasutavad infokioskid, mille kaudu saavad külastajad infot otsida. Projekt vältas kokku üheksa kuud ning selle aja jooksul sai Library of Congress omale uue ja võimsa sisuhaldusplatvormi SharePoint Server 2007 näol. Silverlight’i võimsusest annab aimu näiteks virtuaalne piiblite kollektsioon.
Library of Congress. Selline näeb välja piiblite virtuaalse kollektsiooni esilehekülg. Millal meie raamatukogud selliseid üllatusi hakkavad
külastajatele ja huvilistele pakkuma?
Lahendusest kirjutab lähemalt Lamont Harrington oma blogi kandes New Library of Congress website launches on MOSS 2007. Lisaks leiab mõningast infot Michael Gannotti blogi kandest Re-launched Library of Congress Website Powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Silverlight!.
09.05.2008 kell 20:59
The new paradigm in office suite rests on the following elements:
Creation of open content through the use of open and free formats, ideally standards
Freedom to share and distribute this content
Ease of use, simplicity
These three elements ultimately make up for an interesting consequence; they don’t just liberate the content and the creativity of users, they also lower significantly the barriers of adoption for people who could never afford this before. In doing so, this paradigm puts forth the urge to enable participation. Ultimately, that’s what office suites should be nowadays: Participation Enablers.
One can understand now why I think MS Office 2007-2008 has already missed this shift of paradigm: The use of proprietary formats and spreading confusion around the concept of openness will not really help in the end. Yet, the latest versions of MS Office suffer from their excessive integration with MS SharePoint, the mother of all office technologies by Microsoft. This CMS/Groupware platform may be very easy to use, but it does create a fortress of formats and DRMs beyond which users are forbidden to go, and share. This centralized process is also very telling of a deprecated mentatlity even before being a compelling offer for certain types of organizations.
The truth here, tools such as SharePoints will fade away, as wikis take the lead. And precisely, OpenOffice.org allows you to export your content in certain wiki syntaxes while choosing directly the server that needs to be accessed. So much for command and control…But lets go back to our topic.
10.05.2008 kell 21:57
I really cannot understand why should SharePoint fade away. Also I cannot understand why is integration between MS Office and SharePoint so bad. I’m using SharePoint as document management system and for me many things went much easier. There is a lot of powerful and useful stuff in SharePoint that is ready to use out-of-box. Why is it bad?