21.357 XML-related queries

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 357.
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   [1] From: Susan Brown <sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca> (29)
         Subject: XML document management systems

   [2] From: Susan Brown <sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca> (28)
         Subject: Open Conference Systems/Open Journal Systems

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         Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:06:08 +0000
         From: Susan Brown <sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca>
         Subject: XML document management systems

Dear colleagues,

For those of your working collaboratively with XML documents, what
systems do you use to manage your work?

The Orlando project built its own system years ago to support the
collaborative writing and editing of its documents. It archives,
provides version control, tracks workflow according to the
responsibility tags within the documents, allows communications
between team members about particular documents, enables various
reports to be generated, provides access to project documentation,
etc., but most of these things are discrete tasks. We need before
long to rebuild the system and are interested in developing a new
environment that would integrate some of the key activities more
effectively to simply our workflow processes.

Has anyone developed anything along these lines, or do you know of
off-the-shelf/open source systems that do any of these various things?

Many thanks,
Susan

-- 
Susan Brown
Associate Professor			Visiting Associate Professor
School of English and Theatre Studies	English and Film Studies
University of Guelph			University of Alberta
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada		Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5
519-824-4120x53266 (office)		780-862-0155
519-766-0844 (fax)
sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to
the Present is out at http://orlando.cambridge.org
The Orlando Project: http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO
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         Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:06:49 +0000
         From: Susan Brown <sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca>
         Subject: Open Conference Systems/Open Journal Systems
Dear Colleagues,
Another question: has anyone used the Public Knowledge Project's Open
Conference Systems to publish conference proceedings online?
If so, how well did the system support collaborative editing and
communication among authors and editors?
Does the system support XML? A quick scan of their introductory
documentation suggests that it does not, apart from allowing
abstracts to be exported in NLM Meeting Abstracts XML format.
I'd also be interested in knowing what kind of experience people have
had, if any, using the PKP's Open Journal System for publications
other than journals, and whether the system supports XML publication
beyond the possibility to export metadata in particular XML formats.
Had anyone used the Erudit plug-in for OJS, and if so, how well does
it support XML and the collaborative production/editing of texts?
Many thanks,
Susan
-- 
Susan Brown
Associate Professor			Visiting Associate Professor
School of English and Theatre Studies	English and Film Studies
University of Guelph			University of Alberta
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1 Canada		Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5
519-824-4120x53266 (office)		780-862-0155
519-766-0844 (fax)
sbrown_at_uoguelph.ca
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to
the Present is out at http://orlando.cambridge.org
The Orlando Project: http://www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO