In this technical report, we describe the historic development of the zooarchaeological database OssoBook and the resulting framework xBook, a generic infrastructure for distributed, relational data management that is mainly designed for the needs of scientific data. We describe the concepts of the architecture and its most important features. We especially point out the Server-Client architecture, the synchronization process, the Launcher application, and the structure and features of the application.
@article{arxiv.1801.08052,
title = {The Historic Development of the Zooarchaeological Database OssoBook and the xBook Framework for Scientific Databases},
author = {Daniel Kaltenthaler and Johannes-Y. Lohrer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08052},
year = {2018}
}