A major requirement for electronic publishing systems is the availability of rich and intuitive mechanisms that enhance the user experience of viewing and searching online electronic documents such as books, monographs and journal papers. This work concerns a set of infrastructural components and their utilization for the creation of related coherent services and features for end users. We present a set of sophisticated platforms, tools and mechanisms that have been employed in real-life cases for implementing document viewing and full-text search features, shared among application instances of various types. Challenges encountered and the provided solutions are discussed.
Houssos, Nikos, Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou, Andreas Kalaitzis, and Alexandros Soumplis. "Shared service components infrastructure for enriching electronic publications with online reading and full-text search." In Let's Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation - 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 94-103. ELPUB. Thessaloniki, Greece: IOS Press, 2014.