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@@ -14,19 +14,35 @@ small- to medium-(?) sized archives. It is designed to function in environments
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with unreliable connectivity and requires very low technical and human
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resources to set up, run, and use.
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-Pocket Archive fulfills the following functions:
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+Pocket Archive fulfills the following business functions:
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- Storage and management of files and metadata-only resources
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- Management of descriptive, administrative, and technical metadata
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-- Dynamic relationships between resources
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-- Static site generation (discovery interface)
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-In spite of its design simplicity, Pocket Archive strives to be highly
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-flexible. It is based on [Volksdata
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-](https://git.knowledgetx.com/scossu/volksdata), a very compact Linked Data
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-store written in C. There is no restriction to the types and schema of metadata
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-allowed, or the file types supported. A file-based configuration allows to set
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-up content types and validation rules, or to have (almost) no rules at all.
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+- Static site generation (presentation)
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+Some interesting features it currently provides (or plans to implement soon):
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+- Content creation and update are done by pushing spreadsheets (CSV) to a drop
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+ box
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+- Fully implementing Linked Data under the hood, hiding its ugly parts from the
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+ end user
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+- Higly customizable content model
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+- User-definable relationships between resources
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+- Able to run presentation site without an Internet connection
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+In spite of its design simplicity, Pocket Archive strives to be flexible. It is
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+based on [Volksdata](https://git.knowledgetx.com/scossu/volksdata), a very
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+compact Linked Data store and manipulation library. There is no restriction to
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+the types and schema of metadata allowed, or the file types supported. A
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+file-based configuration allows to set up content types and validation rules,
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+or to have (almost) no rules at all.
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+Pocket Archive is designed to reinvent as little as possible and to use
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+standard tools found in open source operating systems to provide a full
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+management and preservation environment. It creates and updates resources using
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+spreadsheets instead of running a web user interface; it writes all contents to
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+disk and metadata in an embedded database that can be archived, replicated,
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+backed up, and restored with reliable UNIX tools such as `tar`, `rsync`, etc.
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## Why
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