Below are five differnet options for the technical solution required to develop the Mouseion metatool. Each option is explained with a technical overview, implementation, advantages and disadvantages:
Objective: To determine the best and most appropriate technology, operating system, and browser framework to build Mouseion's next-generation web-based tools on top of.
Overview: Mouseion is currently planning the development of a web-based tool that allows the end user (typically the average web surfer) to find out various pieces of metadata about a web site (and the web page) they are visiting. The tool must be unobtrusive, easy-to-use, and straightforward. It must also be available to maximum number of end users as possible, without sacrificing any pre-determined functionality and interoperability. The web-based tool must also cleanly integrate publicly-available information (metadata) with Mouseion-created editorial content, commentary, and relational hypertext.
Metadata: Data about data. Metadata describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. Metadata is essential for understanding information stored in data warehouses.
Technologies: Mouseion currently has a couple of different options for technical solutions to their web-based tool:
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