Re: [eXist-TEIXML] Back from #TEIConf2014

[Winona S. <wsa...@gm...>]

Hi all,
We are using TEI and eXist in an ongoing project I am working on;
http://syriaca.org/ (code and data is available on github:
https://github.com/srophe/srophe-eXist-app).  Content currently available
includes a bibliography, a gazetteer and a prosopography with more modules
in development, including some sort of editing pipeline. We have been very
pleased with the integration and what we have been able to build so far.

I have also been involved with an effort to teach xquery to digital
humanists, and we used eXist for our teaching platform.

I look forward to hearing about other projects in development. I was
particularly interested in Martin's presentation (pdf version) on
CodeSharing and have passed it along to my colleagues, I think could be a
useful tool as our TEI markup strategies develop.

-Winona Salesky

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Winona Salesky
Consultant
wsalesky.com
wsa...@gm...



On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
>
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