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There are a number of important technical features that Urkund possesses and that are necessary for the system to be manageable and for it to work well with a large amount of users.
References and Notes
References and notes follow a distinct number of standards. A reference or a note shall have a certain format. This means that if identical references and notes occures in different documents this is generally not instances of plagiarism. A system that is designed to deal with plagiarism must therefore have a method to exempt references and notes. Otherwise the consequence will be plentiful of irrelevant markers for the teacher to sift through. Urkund has solved this by developing a unique technology that identifies references and notes and excludes them from the comparison.
Quotation
Quoting is an allowed form of copying a source and its practice is not to be regarded as plagiarism. For the same reasons as stated above, a manageable system needs to be able to exempt quotations from the comparison. Urkund has developed such as system.
Scalability
The Urkund system is developed in light of the need to manage a large number of users from within the entire European market. The system is optimized to handle peaks in usage, for instance in times of exams, and is scaleable in order to handle increased use in the future
Security
Necessary operational security is a cornerstone in order to assure that the system can be used on a regular and reliable basis. Urkund was founded in autumn 2000 and has since then suffered but a few disruptions of operation, none which lasted more than 24 hours.
A safety graded server hall, with four redundant connections to the largest Internet nodes in Sweden , certifies both access and availability. In combination with camera surveillance, an automated fire extinguishing system and a diesel power plant that supplies the Urkund servers even during longer power outs, this warrants a very safe physical operational security.
Compatibility
The Urkund system is designed to be easily integrated with other administrative and pedagogical systems like FirstClass, SharePoint, Fronter, Blackboard and Ping Pong.
It is also necessary for the system to be able to handle documents of several types of word processors. The Urkund system is able to process more than 300 different types of files.
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