Digital Libraries are complex systems that take a long time to create and tailor to specific requirements [1]. Their implementation requires specialized computer skills, which are not usually found within humanities text encoding projects. Many encoders working on text encoding projects find they cannot take their work to the next level by transforming their collections of structured XML [2] texts into a publishable web searchable and browsable service. Most often these teams find the way to encode their texts with a high degree of sophistication, but unless they have funds to hire computer programmers their collections remain on local disk storage away from public access. <teiPublisher> is a novel tool designed with the aim of bridging the gap between simply having a collection of structured documents and having a functional digital library for public access via the web. The goal of this project is to build the tools to manage an extensible, modular and configurable XML-based repository which will house, search/browse on, and display documents encoded in TEI-Lite [3] on the World Wide Web. <teiPublisher> provides an administrative interface that al- lows DL administrators to upload and delete documents from a web-accessible repository, analyze XML documents to determine elements for searching/browsing, refine ontology development, decide on inter and intra document links, partition the repository into collections, create backups of the entire repository, generate search/browse and display pages for users of the website, change the look of the interface, and associate XSL transformation scripts and CSS stylesheets to obtain different target outputs

1. digital scholarship
2. linguistic computing
3. literary computing

Original publication information:

Originally presented at Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 8th European Conference

Year: 2004

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/67450

License: (CC BY-NC-SA)

Original citation:

Schreibman, Susan, Amit Kumar, Stewart Arneil, Alejandro Bia, Martin Holmes, Martin Holmes, and John Walsh, <teiPublisher>: Bridging the Gap Between a Simple Set of Structured Documents and a Functional Digital Library, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 8th European Conference, ECDL, 3232, 2004, 434 - 441