[eXist-TEIXML] de Heresi - a website of early inquisition documents in TEI built on eXist-db

[Jean-Paul R. <re...@gm...>]

Dear all-

This message to announce the (beta) launch of de Heresi: Documents of the
Early Medieval Inquisition at http://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/

The site features transcriptions, translations and images of the oldest
extant original document of the first inquisitions, a manuscript that
contains the statements of over 5,500 witnesses taken between 1245-46 at
Toulouse, France.  The documents are TEI-XML delivered in eXist-db using
XQuery, XSL and XSL-FO. The site is aimed at social historians and
educators - I am including other documents which build the social world of
those accused of heresy so that one can follow a person across documents.

The site is hosted at www.huma-num.fr , a site funded by the CNRS for
digital humanities projects. All documents are made available under
Creative Commons and can be downloaded from the site. All the development
was done by myself, but wouldn't have been possible without the power of
eXist and the important contribution of the community at Stack Overflow.

I hope to offer workshops at my university in the coming year on using
eXist-db and integrating it with TEI and XSLT.

Kind regards-

Jean-Paul Rehr
PhD candidate, Université Lyon 2 Lumière/CIHAM
Academia.edu <http://universite-lyon2.academia.edu/JeanPaulRehr>
http://medieval-inquisition.huma-num.fr/