Re: [Exist-open] Hierarchical TOC of TEI collections

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi Gary,

> Thanks to all who replied about this - looks like an overwhelming YES to eXist being an appropriate technology here. Now for my (second?) dumb question. Joe, I've been reading your presentation which is great, thanks for that.

Wonderful!  By the way, the files that power the Punch website demo
(which was the exercise for my TEI@Oxford presentation) are posted at:

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/materials/workshops/eXist/

(The files are zipped; or you can browse the repository.)

> But I'm using Linux and can't see how to get my TEI data into eXist. Any pointers much appreciated.

As Jim suggested, there are many ways to get files into eXist.  My
personal preference is to use a WebDAV client, and connect to
http://localhost:8080/exist/webdav/ .  Follow the directions at
http://exist-db.org/webdav.html; the Linux client on that page is KDE
Konqueror.  For an alternative Linux client, let me suggest AnyClient
(http://www.anyclient.com/); I have had success with AnyClient on a
Windows 7 machine (which is quite a feat because Win7 has notoriously
buggy WebDAV support!).

If you have any problems with WebDAV, I'd suggest using eXist's
Java-based admin client.  Follow the directions at
http://exist-db.org/quickstart.html#sect7.  To upload a file to
oXygen, just click on the document icon with the +.

If these don't meet your needs, let us know why, and we'll suggest any
one of the alternatives (Ant, XMLRPC, curl, etc.) that would hopefully
fit the bill.

Cheers,
Joe



On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Absolutely, eXist is ideal for publishing TEI.  My site
> (history.state.gov) is pure eXist - the Historical Documents and
> Countries sections are good examples of hierarchical browsing.  You
> might have a look at the slides for the presentation I just gave at
> TEI@Oxford, an introduction to eXist for TEI users.
>
> http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/Oxford/2010-07-oxford/materials/workshops/eXist/exist-tei-workshop/slides/exist-slides.pdf
>
> The accompanying files, which demonstrate hierarchical browsing and
> search of a TEI collection, will be posted shortly.  Thanks to Dan
> McCreary, the files are running on a demonstration server, so you can
> check them out running live:
>
> http://www.syntactica.com/northwestern/apps/punch/index.xq
>
> I'll share the link to the source files in this thread when they're ready.
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Gary Browne <gar...@sy...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Most of my work here is in TEI XML (both 4 and 5). I have a small (I think!) project which involves publishing a bunch of collections of philosophers, with the files in TEI 5. Initially I'd be looking at some browse pages like Author=>Collections=>Works and so forth. Following this I'd look at implementing some search functionality and presentation of search results, through to presentation of the individual works.
>>
>> My questions are:
>> i) is this sort of application something that is suited to eXist development
>> ii) any pointers to get started quickly?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Gary
>>
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