Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 87.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:01:40 +0100
From: Gianni Rubagotti <gianni@postino.it>
Subject: Ermes_net: philosophy and XML
I think it could be interesting for this kind of list to receive the
message of my friend Massimiliano (massileo@libero.it), about his
university project that use XML and other technologies for the
philosophical analisys of texts.
Best wishes,
Gianni Rubagotti
I'am Massimiliano Leone, a student of Philosophy at the
University of the Studies of Milan in Italy.
I'm taking my degree in Theoretical Philosophy with the
prof. Paolo D'Alessandro and i'm taking part at the
Ermes_net project. I would like to introduce it to you
because i think that you could be interested by the way
we've realized it: using XML and PHP3 and Webdav for
downloading and uploading files to allegate.
Also i hope you'll give us your suggestion to implement and
evolve it.
Best regards.
Massimiliano Leone
Ermes_net is born like a plan of the chair of Theoretical
Philosophy III of the University of the Studies of Milan,
held by the Prof. Paolo D'Alessandro. Here is the
presentation made from the Professor D'Alessandro and
situated in the presentation pages of the site
http://www.lettere.unimi.it/ermes_net:
" The philosophical Laboratory has been planned and comes
activated by a group of researchers of the Chair of
Theoretical Philosophy III , department of philosophy of
the University of the Studies in Milan. It means to give
life to a virtual community of theoretical searches that
experiments the possibility to make philosophy with the new
technologies of informations and, at the same time, to
verify the result of a search lead in common. We are
convinced that the medium of communication cannot be
considered neutral, and during the experiment it will be
dealt to control the specific modalities with which it is
succeeded to produce thought, collective and connecting at
the same time, by using a PC, marking the difference with
what happens with other average: the voice, the pen and the
characters to press."
Here in synthesis the operation of the site. This is
fruibile only by the qualified customers with password. But
i've made a demonstration with Power Point that you can
download at www.lettere.unimi.it/ermes_net/ermesinglese.zip
It's introduced a philosophical text, that it appears on a
html frame. This text is written in xml (well format),
visualized with a stylesheet xsl (without DTD). It is
subdivided in phrases, to the end of them there is an icon,
clicking on which they come visualized, on an other html
frame, the commentary notes brought to that phrase from the
customers participants to the argument. It is possible, in
one first modality, to visualize all the comments of all
the customers to each phrase of the text in issue, or the
comments realized from a single customer to the relative
phrase, or all comments to one single phrase. How?
There's a "job modality" in which it is possible to decide
which phrase to comment on and, if it is desired, to bring
to the commentary notes a minimal particular style and to
insert an hyperlink or also an image. Clicking on the icon
placed to the term of the choised phrase of the text (a
file xml), a form HTML in which inserting notes, link and
eventually the name of the image, comes visualized. A
program in php3 captures the data contained in every field
of the form and modernizes the new file xml creating new
note-tag in the reference phrase.
In the "visualization modality " of which it was said,
anyone who approaches the site with password, will be able
to visualize the comments previously realized. Clicking on
the icon to the term of the phrase, or when it is decided
to visualize all the comments, or when it is demanded
(through one small form) to visualize the comments of a
single participant, a php3 program creates a new file xsl
that allows to obtain the demanded visualization.
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