Re: [eXist-TEIXML] Back from #TEIConf2014

[Martin H. <mh...@uv...>]

Hi Joe,

It was great to meet you for the first time too, and so many other TEI folks I only knew through name, reputation and email!

eXist folks may be interested in my presentation from the conference, "CodeSharing: a simple API for disseminating our TEI encoding," which has a theoretical aspect (I'm proposing a protocol) but also an implementation for eXist. The abstract is here:

<http://tei.northwestern.edu/files/2014/10/mholmes_codesharing-1ybmalo.pdf>

and the project is here:

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/codesharing/>

with an example user-friendly interface here:

<http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/codesharing.htm>

Peter Stadler has joined the project and made some great contributions, including a script to build it into an eXist plugin (as opposed to just XQuery and XSLT). If you have novice encoders who need an easy way to find examples from your repository to help them with their encoding, this might be useful.

Peter's own project:

<https://github.com/peterstadler/Query-TEI-data-by-class>

is also really interesting.

Cheers,
Martin

Martin Holmes
UVic Humanities Computing and Media Centre
mh...@uv...
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From: Joe Wicentowski [jo...@gm...]
Sent: November 2, 2014 10:23 AM
To: exist-teixml
Subject: [eXist-TEIXML] Back from #TEIConf2014

Hi all,

It was great to meet and see many of you again at the TEI Annual Meeting at Northwestern the week before last.  For those who couldn't make it, the conference Twitter hash tag has tons of great material.

Peter Stadler and I were chatting about this list, the community of TEI and eXist users, and we thought this would be a good opportunity for everyone to check in and say a few words about how you are doing.  What are you working on these days?  How is it going?  Lessons?  Questions?

A few things occurred to me about the state of TEI and eXist:

First, this list was launched after the eXist seminars at TEI@Oxford 2010 and Digital Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2011.  It occurred to me that, thanks to the incredible improvements have been made in eXist, a seminar like those would be so much more effective today.  I spent easily the first hour helping people with setting up eXist, connecting it to oXygen, and installing the sample Punch application.  Now, between eXist's new default "apps" directory, the powerful and free eXide app for writing apps in the browser, and eXist's new Package Manager for installing new applications and libraries, all of that setup and configuration could be skipped - leaving much more time for instruction and exploration.  These same improvements benefit not just first time learners, but the entire community.  Today, it's so much faster to get up and running, developing applications, and sharing them with others

Second, I kept hearing from folks online and at the conference that the Punch application I used at the seminars was still useful.  On the plane back from the conference and in the days since, I've worked on updating Punch to use some more modern frameworks in eXist, and I've re-released the app as a .xar file (EXPath Package) - easily installable via the Dashboard.  Pull requests and suggestions are welcome.

Best regards to all,
Joe