Gabriel

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Gabriel

• Gabriel Website
• Upgrade and Redesign
• Henk Matthezing
• Gabriel editor
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek

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Netherlands
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Gabriel

• Gabriel History
• Need for Modernisation
• Redesign Upgrade
• Platform/software choice
• Editorial Procedures
• Demo version

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Netherlands
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History Gabriel

• Pilot Project in 1995
• Operational service from 1997
• Rising number of participants
• Treasures
• Gabriel as platform for TEL

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Netherlands
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Need for Modernisation Gabriel

• Largely text based
• Complex structure to maintain/navigate
• Outdated design
• More professional web presentation
• Easier for contacts/editor to edit
• More consistency in page layout
• Syntax errors in used languages

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Netherlands
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Redesign Upgrade Gabriel

• Front end
• fresh modern look and feel
• good navigation structure
• Back end
• efficient management for editor(s)
• better control over own text by contact
• more structured content
• syntax check English/German/French by editor(s)
• export to static webpages

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Platform/software choice Gabriel

• Unix vs Windows NT
• Open source vs proprietary software
• Cost of maintenance
• cost of software packages vs cost of in house
  script development
• Ease of maintenance
• Choice NT, ISS, ASP

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Netherlands
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New Editorial Procedures Gabriel

• Contacts
• update/new pages
• Editorial Team
• language (syntax) check by chosen native speakers
  (language editors)
• final ok by Gabriel editor

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Netherlands
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Demo version Gabriel

• AND NOW
• FOR THE REAL THING!
• Gabriel system demo
• by
• Aldo Quispel

Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the
Netherlands