Re: [eXist-TEIXML] Back from #TEIConf2014

[Granholm P. <Pat...@ub...>]

Hi Joe,

 

Thanks for updating the Punch app! It will no doubt be very useful to many, including myself. 

We are going to use eXist for our forthcoming digital catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in Sweden (http://www.manuscripta.se/) and plan to release the source on our GitHub repo (https://github.com/manuscripta) as soon as it’s a bit more presentable J

 

Best regards,

Patrik

 

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From: Joe Wicentowski [mailto:jo...@gm...] 
Sent: den 2 november 2014 19:23
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