Technical Architecture

Platform Goals & Desired Outcomes

• Modular / component based design that allows for the system to evolve over time
• A system designed to plug in or take advantage of community services, software, and processes.
• Flexibility to add, remove, and modify a diverse set of content types
• Ability to easily improve and iterate on the user interface
• Provide machine access to Folger data holdings to the public
• Develop a platform with low cost of entry for other institutions to adopt.