Server Techniques

• The web servers should support random access to single pages (see the delivery formats section).

  Explanation: As a single file per article or book may yield very large files (there are many fundamental papers of 300 and more pages, e.g.), it is expected that the delivery format allows an automatic page by page delivery through the web server to enable random access to single pages without decomposing the whole file.

  It should also be possible to point directly to a given page in the file (e.g., when the request comes after a word search in the plain text, e.g.), or to a given location (something similar to http://..../book#chapter.3). Highlighting a given word or text portion should also be possible.

Hints concerning the given format examples:

• for DjVu, ``indirect documents'' should be delivered (this can be achieved by setting up the server appropriately, at least for apache).

• for PDF, ``byte optimized'' (or ``linearized)'' files should be delivered, server should be configured for ``byte serving''.