Welcome to VirtL!
You can manage your medias, for example books, CDs, DVDs and magazines with the Virtual Library (VirtL). The cool thing about VirtL is that you will not only manage your media you will find them again!
This pages shows you how to use VirtL, what we created until, the VirtL roadmap and the technical details of VirtL.
The english pages are under construction. Until now only a few pages are translated. If you are able to read german please go to the german language seletion.
VirtL is a big project and we had to write a lot of documentation to manage and control it. We made a documentation plan and before you read all the documentation you can look which documentation is necessary for your needs.
Find out which documents you have to read (currently only in german) look here.
Why VirtL?
Like descriped in the first sentence: With the Virtual Library (VirtL) you are able to manage and find your books, magazines, CDs, DVDs.
VirtL is not only another managing tool for media. It is a system which can be used to manage the media!
We had the problem not to know where our medias are exactly and which media we had already. Because of this we have started to build this manage tool.
You can manage your own media collection, or you can use your media collection together with your friends and collegues.
You can protect you media collection from your friends and collegues or share it with them.
If you are in a book store you can ask your mobile which books you have stored on your wishlist.
Your friends can look at your wishlist and buy for you most wanted medias.
Why one more tool?
Oh no! They build another management tool which nobody needs. Dont't worry, we have thought what we need and don't like to create a tool which nobody needs. We had some real problems to solve.
The problems
Do you know this messages from somewhere?
"Shit, I've bought twice the same Book / CD!"
"Which CD is the best gift for him? Did he own this one? "
"Look Karl! I bought this amazing book about design patterns in the jungle. That's a very good book'!". Karl said: "I've bought this book one year ago and it is crap."
"I want to know if my collegues know anything about this book. It is very expensive but if my collegues say that it is worth the money I will buy it."
"Wonderful, I am in the biggest DVD store of the region and I didn't know the name of the regiseur of the cool movie.."z2
This problems have people who didn't manage the medias.
Our problem solving
We want to solve some problems with this project.
- You can store your media descriptions for books, magazines, DVDs and so on at one place in the world wide web
- A web application is the primary administration tool
- Via email you can acces information when your collegue bought a book or the book is available for rent
- With your mobile phone you are able to fetch your wishlist when you need it in the book store
Where to get more information?
We created a documentation plan which gives every user a fast access to the need documents. This documentation plan will be soon available in english.
The documentation is very important for us. The system is quite complex and without good documentation we are not able to keep track with the changes.