Archive for December, 2008
December 9, 2008 at 3:55 pm · Filed under Doctorate, Uncategorized
I have now updated the new Vindolanda tablets viewer and index searcher which I have been working on recently.
There is two parts to this application:
1. A viewer which allows you to view the same documents as XML, HTML in a new Vindolanda style and HTML in an EpiDoc style.
2. An index searcher which will allow you to search through the different index using AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) LiveSearch and link to the instances of a word in a document HTML view. The index is a database of words extracted from the XML documents. At the same time the words in the documents HTML view link to a pop-up box, which was generated from the database.
December 3, 2008 at 8:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
I did my first web service using SOAP all the time being aware that RESTful would be an easier and probabply also faster solution. However, when I did my first web service there was not a lot out on RESTful web services yet so I kept on pulling my hair out over the SOA protocol.
Now a couple of years have passed and there seems to be much more information out there on RESTful web services so I wil give it another try. My agenda is has also changed. Before I was building a web service for my MSc project and it was my first go at anything like that so I needed a lot of documentation (not that there was a lot on SOAP either) however, now my agenda is to see how easy/difficult it is to build your own web service since I want to try and get more people making their own for their own data resources.
For now I have found a pretty nice slideshow on RESTful by John Cowan which I find has a nice and easy way of explaining it all and the main differences with SOAP.
December 3, 2008 at 2:51 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Marking out numbers in this way is a regular feature of Latin script, the intention being no doubt to alert the reader to the fact that i, l, x etc. are not to be treated as letters but as figures.
Bowman, A. and Thomas, D. 1994. “The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II)”, London: British Museum Press
I am using this huge publication to encode the Vindolanda Tablets in XML.
This was selected according to the following viral criteria:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
December 3, 2008 at 1:33 pm · Filed under Doctorate
The Doctorate is going accourding to plan at the moment. That is the plan that I have just finished writting up. Accouring to my thesis proposal I will be spending the next half year building an ontology and looking into all things ontology related.
I have been spending the last half year on the Vindolanda Tablets in XML form trying to get the encoding up to the latest EpiDoc standards and incorperating a more detailed granulation. I have been looking into the idea of contexual encoding where you encode the actual words in a text like: pullu (i.e. chicken) as a word which has the lemma pullus:
<w lemma=”pullus”>pullu</w>
The next step here is use the new indexing and searching system I have developed out of this into a new website and build a web service for this which I and other can use later.
December 1, 2008 at 2:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Joomla won the toss. We have been using it now for 6 months on the eSAD website. It has been really good on most accounts. Unfortunately, not all the plugins work very well, but then again they don’t all work that well for WordPress. However, there is an unfortunat tendency for the better Joomla plugins to be commertial. This I do not agree with and it is a great source of irritation when you finally find the thing you want and it then turns out that they do not have an open source lisence.
