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.

Logical Architecture