[eXist-TEIXML] TEI projects using eXist-db

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

Hello all,

Today I sent out an announcement about this list to the broader TEI community via TEI-L.  Welcome to all who have just joined!

To kick the discussion here off, I think it might be useful for those new to eXist-db to learn about some current TEI-based projects that employ eXist-db in some way.  

There is a list of some eXist-db projects on the TEI wiki: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/EXist#Sample_implementations.  

The project I work on (also listed on the wiki) is the Office of the Historian website (http://history.state.gov/).  The entire website is driven by eXist-db, it has been in production since March 2009, and it is hosted on Amazon EC2.  The functions of eXist-db are used throughout the site, and all article- and book-length content on the site is encoded in TEI.  All pages are rendered into HTML by eXist-db on the fly as they are requested.  Perhaps one of the most interesting portions from a TEI perspective is how we use TEI person and term tags to drive filtered glossary listings for the documentary edition as the heart of our site, the Foreign Relations of the United States series.  See, for example, the right sidebar labelled "Persons" and "Abbreviations & Terms" on http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v18/d1.  The information shown in these sidebars comes from each book's glossaries.  The site-wide full text search is driven by eXist-db's lucene index.  We also use eXist-db to drive our content management system (accessible only to internal users).  

Please feel free to respond with the URL of your eXist-db / TEI project, and a brief description of your project.  Feel free to add your projects to the wiki link above too if it isn't already there.

Cheers,
Joe

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