Re: [eXist-TEIXML] TEI projects using eXist-db

[Peter W. <plw...@bl...>]

   Hi Joe and Others

As a graduate of the 2010 TEI Summer School this list is a really 
welcome development for me.  My own project is a personal one supporting 
my DPhil research on a set of twelfth and thirteenth century land deeds 
for a family living in the depths of the English Midlands.  I looked for 
software that would allow me to place the deeds in a database using a 
single copy of the transcribed texts for all purposes.  TEI plus 
eXist-db does this for me.  I have developed the following functions, 
apart from the html rendering which came from the summer school material 
that Joe provided:

  * TEI tagging of names, dates and places allows me to list and search
    the database in a variety of structured ways.
  * PDF printing from an fo transform based on XQuery, quite similar to
    rendering in HTML.
  * Visualization of social network data is under development using
    NodeXL, externally at present, though long term I would like to be
    able to integrate visualization into eXist.
  * Integration with my bibliography based on Zotero.  At present this
    uses an RDF copy of my Zotero database saved into eXist so is not
    completely real time.  Ffrom eXist I can also gain access to the
    Zotero data via  SQLite, on which Zotero is based, though again this
    uses a copy of the Zotero data.
  * I have also transformedand imported an XML copy of a much larger
    database of C12 &C13 charters from an Access database which allow
    these to be accessed much more easily whilst also retaining the
    ability to search the data that Access allows.
  * I have the utilities to enable me to search an earlier database I
    developed based on MediaWiki, which sits on an SQL database.

I'd be very keen to learn of any one else who is doing something similar 
to this. At the moment all of this is on my laptop.  Providing access to 
what is a prototype is some way down the list of priorities, unless 
there is a simple solution to getting the data hosted.

Best wishes

Peter




On 30/08/2011 23:40, Joe Wicentowski wrote: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 Sent from my iPad 
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