[eXist-TEIXML] Welcome to eXist-TEIXML Mailing List

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

Hello, and welcome to the eXist-TEIXML mailing list!

Inspired by the "Introduction to XML Databases" seminar at the recent
Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2011
(http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/DHSS2011/sessions.html#xmldb),
this mailing list aims to fill the need for a discussion list for the
community of users of TEI and eXist-db.

There is a growing community of digital humanists who have learned TEI
to encode their documents.  They want to create dynamic, searchable
websites to display and interact with their documents and share them
with others.  eXist-db, a free, open source XML database, offers an
excellent platform for doing this.  In fact, eXist-db is already
popular in the TEI community, and TEI is popular in the eXist-db
community.  Both communities have their own mailing lists, but they
cover a broad range of topics.  This list exists to cover the
intersection of eXist-db, TEI, and digital humanities.

Thanks to Wolfgang Meier and Sourceforge for graciously hosting this
mailing list.

Joseph Wicentowski and Jens Østergaard Petersen, moderators