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Re: [eXist-TEIXML] greetings! eXist and web servers
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From: Leif-Jöran O. <lj...@ex...> - 2014-11-11 11:55:58
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Den 2014-11-04 21:08, Elisa Beshero-Bondar skrev: > Greetings, list members! > I'm a newcomer to the eXist-TEIXML list, and joined during the wonderful > TEI Convention in Evanston not long ago. I'm working on multiple > projects that rely in some way on eXist and XQuery, and I'm currently > teaching an XQuery unit in my coding-based Digital Humanities at > Pitt-Greensburg. My course materials are posted here (and I'm grateful > for suggestions and advice on them!): http://www.pitt.edu/~ebb8/DHDS/ > > Among a number of small experimental TEI-based projects (such as the > Thalaba project on which I presented at the TEI conference), I'm the > principal editor of big project with a ~20 member team, the Digital > Mitford archive: http://mitford.pitt.edu > Though we don't have a large body of material posted yet, there are some > hundreds of files we've been generating behind the scenes that I'm > compiling in eXist in preparation for querying from the site. > > What I need to learn at this point is how best to work with eXist to > develop search queries (rather than simply to use it as I've been, which > is to run queries to check for consistency of our coding, to generate > "code reports"--or reports on our use of particular TEI elements, etc., > and to gather for myself a comprehensive view of our editing and data > extraction to our centralized prosopography list (currently posted for > use by our editing team at http://mitford.pitt.edu/si.xml ) Just to chirp in here on this part which was not already addressed by others: We do a lot of these formal checks including generating diagrams (charts) and graphs when, in my case, student coders and proofreaders, check in their work into subversion (rcs) for the Swedish Drama Web <http://www.dramawebben.se/>. Cheers, Leif-Jöran PS I wished I could have joined you in Evanston but other projects and conferences kept me elsewhere. DS > I'm learning my way around how to implement eXist to support live search > querying from our site, and I wonder if members of this list can help > with some advice: I'm an English professor who has some intensive > background with all the coding I'm teaching my students, but thus far > I've only implemented XQuery to compile data from files and generate > HTML output (or collect text-based output to process in network analysis > or graphing software) --data extraction that thus far I and my students > have been doing "manually." I'm working with my head of IT at my > campus, who's more familiar with databases like MySQL, etc. but has been > learning about eXist and is willing to work with me to experiment as we > try to build query tools for the Mitford project (as well as the other > smaller-scale projects.) I need (or at least I think I need) to learn > PHP and REST, and I'm keen to do that when I come up for air from a busy > college semester: I like to think I'm a quick study when I find time to > breathe from my teaching load! > > Here are some things I and my IT colleague would like to learn as we > figure out how best to implement eXist for the Digital Mitford project: > > * Should eXist be installed at the "front end" of a public-facing web > project? How direct can the relationship be between web interface and > eXist database? > > * What methods do other projects use to invoke and deliver XQuery > scripts from website to database? > > We're considering whether to have eXist run behind a firewall on another > server, to speak to public-facing site pages. In reading eXist's > development pages, I'm thinking I'd like the simplest possible > interface: If I could have users press a button that simply delivered an > XQuery file to process in eXist, and have eXist post the HTML output > directly to the site, I'd be pretty happy---I'm just not sure how it's > done! > > This is my second time teaching the coding-based DH class at my campus, > and I hope to offer it each fall. Each year, prepping for the class > offers some opportunity for me to explore something new--and this month, > as my students are writing their first XQuery to the eXist installed on > our intranet "sandbox" server (behind the campus firewall), I'm hoping > to learn how to bring eXist from behind our firewall...any leads are > most appreciated! > > Thanks, > Elisa > -- > Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD > Associate Professor of English > University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg > Humanities Division > 150 Finoli Drive > Greensburg, PA 15601 USA > E-mail: eb...@pi... <mailto:eb...@pi...> > about.me/ebbondar <http://about.me/ebbondar> > > > > > From: Joe Wicentowski [mailto:jo...@gm... > <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 > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 12:40:30 -0500 > From: Winona Salesky <wsa...@gm... <mailto:wsa...@gm...>> > Subject: Re: [eXist-TEIXML] Back from #TEIConf2014 > To: Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm... <mailto:jo...@gm...>> > Cc: exist-teixml <exi...@li... > <mailto:exi...@li...>> > Message-ID: > > <CAJthYRd_z_fKsKAgrD76iY6ou77UR_y_TfWWtUDSA=3Kz...@ma... > <mailto:3Kz...@ma...>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > ----------------------------------- > Winona Salesky > Consultant > wsalesky.com <http://wsalesky.com> > wsa...@gm... <mailto:wsa...@gm...> > > > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm... > <mailto: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 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > eXist-TEIXML mailing list > > eXi...@li... > <mailto:eXi...@li...> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/exist-teixml > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > eXist-TEIXML mailing list > eXi...@li... > <mailto:eXi...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/exist-teixml > > > End of eXist-TEIXML Digest, Vol 12, Issue 2 > ******************************************* > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > eXist-TEIXML mailing list > eXi...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/exist-teixml > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iD8DBQFUYflChcIn5aVXOPIRArcNAJ0fB5532d2bgOMLuXFHVgX1iPTLvgCgqHyM wu7MVJPH1ysiiPDodMQ+ykw= =IiiH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
