Hybridism and Mash-ups

From the start, ARK has been about providing systems that are flexible enough to accomodate real world systems rather than an attempt to invent new and ever more rigid systems. In the argument about paper vs digital recording systems, we sit firmly on the fence, insisting that the two worlds must co-exist.

Use in the best way the services available to us

Similarly, in terms of software development, we take a hybrid approach preferring to offer ARK output up to other content management systems such as blogging software or online collaboration suites. In this way we don’t waste our time re-inventing complex software and instead we profit from all those man hours of developemnt time that have made Mediawiki, Textpattern, Wordpress or Google Documents so successful.