(apologies for cross-posting) Hi, I'd like to invite the subscribers of this list to check out a proposal for a new open-source XML project: DURITO, a flexible XML- and RDF-based framework for publishing and searching within documents in Web and CD-ROM environments. The general idea is to try to create a new Semantic Web / open-source software option for text-based research (especially) in the humanities and social sciences. The design proposal is explained at: http://durito.sourceforge.net Any comments would be extremely welcome! As would participations of any kind! Axkit (which I just discovered) seems to provide some of the functionality that we're proposing for Durito, minus the RDF component, the CR-ROM environment option, the search features, and the syncronizing of text and audio. Axkit also seems to implement all sorts of stuff that I hadn't realized would be important for web-based XML prublishing. Perhaps the two projects, or elements of the two projects, could be integrated in some way. The first implementation of Durito will be a Win32 (and hopefully Linux) CD-ROM edition of oral testimonies on the Mexican Revolution. The testimonies were collected in the 1970's and were recently digitized. The CD-ROM (or series of CD-ROMs) will contain texts (transcriptions) in TEI - XML and audio in MP3 or OGG. We have over 200 hours of sound recordings of interviews, though the first version of the publication will contain much less than that. We hope to set this up so as to easly be able to create an Internet version of the collection as well. Many areas come together in Durito: semantic markup; multimedia, audio compression and streaming; techniques for making searches within text archives more effective; intelligent metadata management; ways of making applications portable between network and local environments. The design proposal on the web site is pretty sweeping and surely evidences my newness to many of the areas involved. Please consider helping us out. Many thanks in advance, Andrew Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-web
