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[Fwd: RE: [dm-l] Switching XSL on the web (Lazy question)]
by Dan O'Donnell 25 Mar '06

25 Mar '06

>From Michael Beddow ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: RE: [dm-l] Switching XSL on the web (Lazy question) From: "Michael Beddow" <mb(a)mbeddow.net> Date: Sat, March 25, 2006 5:18 pm To: "Daniel O'Donnell" <daniel.odonnell(a)ULETH.CA> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Dan, A couple of hours back I was quaffing a double-shot latte in a supermarket cafe near the Scottish border when, as invariably happens in such circumstances, a former student of mine emerged from nowhere and said "there was a posting on DM-L a while back about dynamic XSLT sheet switching you could have answered". So I took a peek when I got home (I don't subscribe to DM-L) and behold, 'twas even so. I think my first response would have been to say do the transform server side. It's certainly not necessary to get embroiled with Cocoon to do that. Half a dozen lines in any common scripting language that has an XSLT library will get you a CGI script that will accept as params from your browser an xml file name and a stylesheet name, then apply the xslt to the xml and send the html back to the browser. However, it looks like you want a client side solution, so I've hacked a quick one together for you as a demo. If you go *using IE6 on Windows* to http://www.anglo-norman.net/sitedocs/workshop/switch-demo.html you will get a page that lets you apply any of a choice of three xslt sheets to it client-side. If you like, you can also download www.anglo-norman-net/sitedocs/workshop/switch-demo.zip that contains all the necessary files: an xml document; three xslt sheets; and the loader switch-demo.html file itself, which contains the actual code that does the business. But the only essential thing is the html; beyond that you can plug in any xml and xslt you like and the thing will work on that data instead. I have tried to explain the workings of the dynamic html in the html file itself. I haven't similarly commented the XSLT, because that's not really the point of concern here. The sample I provide is for IE6 on Win32 only. Before that brings down the wrath of the self-righteous upon me, let me say that it can just as readily be done in Mozilla/Firefox on any platform using its internal Transformix engine instead of the MS DLL I use here, although the necessary code is a bit more complicated and you have to be more careful about the mime-type configuration of any server from which you deliver. But if any knee-jerk anti-Windowers care to put their brains where their zeal is, they will I'm sure soon be able to put together a Redmond-free version. Please feel free to repost this on my behalf if you think it would be of any broader interest. Bon weekend! Michael -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Director, Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. +1 (403) 329-2377 Fax. +1 (403) 382-7191 (@webmail)

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RE: [dm-l] virtual commons
by Binkley, Peter 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

There is a cluster of projects around MetaScholar and the Ockham project that are working on this kind of framework: http://www.metascholar.org/ and http://www.ockham.org/ . I haven't kept up with them recently to see what's actually been deployed, though. They are producing open-source tools to do this kind of work, so it would be interesting to try them out in the digital medieval community. Among digitization projects the most radical I'm aware of is Project Runeberg in Sweden, which allows users to proofread the OCR text against the page images and submit corrections. http://runeberg.org (the server seems to be slow at the moment, though). Sample page: http://runeberg.org/hagberg/e/0046.html . Peter -----Original Message----- From: dm-l-bounces(a)uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Donnell Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:17 PM To: Digital Community mailing list Subject: [dm-l] virtual commons At Kalamazoo last year, I heard a discussion of a project that was planning to use an virtual commons--i.e. a place where users could contribute to the development of the project through shared annotation, textual development, and the like (I think they actually described it as a piazza. As I understood the idea, and in discussion at the Digital Medievalist business meeting a couple of people mentioned similar proposal, the idea was to build what we might now think of as adding wiki-like capabilities to a larger, unified, scholarly project. Does anybody know of any scholarly projects that have actually implemented such virtual piazza-type interaction? I'm interested in projects that allows arbitrary users to contribute to the content, either with or without refereeing. -d _______________________________________________ Digital Medievalist Project Homepage: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org Journal (Spring 2005-): http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal.cfm RSS (announcements) server: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/rss/rss2.cfm Wiki: http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php Change membership options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l Submit RSS announcement: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/newitem.cfm Contact editorial Board: digitalmedievalist(a)uleth.ca dm-l mailing list dm-l(a)uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l

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Junicode's new home
by Peter Baker 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

It's been a month and ten days since I moved Junicode, the font for medievalists, to Sourceforge, the big Open Source software distribution service. Today I'm celebrating the 999th download from that site by releasing version 0.6.7, which fixes bugs and continues to chase after the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative specification. The new URL is http://junicode.sourceforge.net. If you have Junicode and have not updated your copy lately, I urge you to do so, for it continues to offer new features. Recent additions, for example, include characters in all styles for the transliteration of medieval Arabic and characters and OpenType features to support African languages. If you wish to keep up with releases (and I suggest you do, since releases include bug fixes and cosmetic improvements as well as new features), you can sign up at the Junicode website for the junicode-announce mailing list, which I promise will emit an e-mail *exclusively* when a new release is posted. Peter Baker

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[Fwd: New jobs at CCH, King's College London]
by Daniel O'Donnell 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Of interest to members of the list.

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[Fwd: MGH]
by Daniel O'Donnell 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

FYI

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Re: [dm-l] [Fwd: MGH]
by Norman Hinton 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Thank you very much, Herr Radl. Everything you say is very good news indeed.

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Call for Participation: Virtual Humanities Lab
by Vika Zafrin 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Dear colleague / Caro collega, Please pass this on to interested students and peers working in Italian Studies, medieval history and any other related fields. La preghiamo di distribuire questo annuncio agli studenti, dottorandi e colleghi potenzialmente interessati. N.B.: La versione italiana di questo annuncio segue quella inglese. -Massimo Riva, VHL Principal Investigator Vika Zafrin, VHL Project Director ===== The Virtual Humanities Lab (VHL) at Brown University is seeking online collaborators to participate in verifying indexes generated from Giovanni Boccaccio's Esposizioni sopra la Comedìa di Dante and Giovanni Villani's Cronica Fiorentina. Participants may be qualified graduate and undergraduate students and/or their instructors. Reading knowledge of Italian and the desire to do some literary/historical research is required. Group work as well as individual work is welcomed. Participation in this endeavor, while rewarding in itself, also provides excellent training in the fields of medieval Italian studies, history, humanities computing and philology. Further information is available at: http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/help/guidelines_indexing.pdf General information about the project, as well as its texts and indexes, can be accessed from http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/ We hope you will join us in this exciting venture. ===== Il Laboratorio per le Scienze Umane Virtuali (Virtual Humanities Lab) della Brown University ricerca collaboratori a distanza (dottorandi, ricercatori o docenti) disponibili a verificare l'accuratezza degli indici dei seguenti testi generati su codifica xml: Giovanni Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Comedìa di Dante; Giovanni Villani, Cronica Fiorentina. Si offre la possibilità di contribuire attivamente ad una comunità di formazione e ricerca, all'intersezione degli studi storico-filologico-letterari e dell'informatica umanistica. Per ulteriori informazioni sul progetto: http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/ http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/VHL/help/guidelines_indexing.pdf -- Vika Zafrin Director, Virtual Humanities Lab http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/ Brown University Box 1942 Providence, RI 02912 USA

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[Fwd: Digital Collections Librarian Position Announcement]
by Daniel O'Donnell 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

I think this might be of interest to some members of this list.

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TEI/XML manuscript markup initiatives?
by Martin K. Foys 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Dear DM's I looking for a bit of an update on current initiatives for encoding medieval MSS with TEI or XML, and being out of the loop of such things recently, I have been having trouble figuring out what is, actually, still current and active. I've know of a few from past and recent work (TEI workgroup Medieval Manuscript Description, the MARC initiative, the MASTER program, and of course, EPT), but what ones (those and others) should be considered as still active and working -- leading the charge, if you will, towards the markup of medieval MSS? Much thanks in advance, Martin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Semper aut discere aut docere aut scribere dulce habui" -- Bede, HE, 5.24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin K. Foys Associate Professor Department of English Hood College Frederick, MD 21701 vox: 301~696~3740 fax: 301~696~3586 ether: foys(a)hood.edu

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[Fwd: PhiloLogic Maintenance Release (3.002)]
by Daniel O'Donnell 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

This is quite an interesting looking project. Others on this list may find the software useful. -d

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