[tei-council] Virtual language-based TEI Guidelines hosts are live but incomplete

Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info
Mon Apr 5 05:33:52 EDT 2010


(1a) sounds fine to me as long converting the language-specific links 
isn't going to be a big problem.  But I think the Oxford team needs to 
weigh in ...

On 24/03/2010 08:08, Laurent Romary wrote:
> Hi David,
> I am taking up on this... Thanks  for having implemented this so
> quickly.
> I would favor 1.a indeed.
> As to 2. It would be good to test this with our Oxford colleagues and
> define the easiest procedure (also from the point of view of
> maintenance).
> Oxford: what do you think?
> Laurent
>
> Le 21 mars 10 à 01:03, David Sewell a écrit :
>
>> Shayne has created virtual hosts by language:
>>
>> http://en.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>> http://de.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>> http://es.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>> http://fr.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>> http://it.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>> http://kr.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>> http://zh-tw.guidelines.tei-c.org/
>>
>> He overlooked one for Japanese so I've asked for that.
>>
>> Please consider and provide feedback on two problems with this system:
>>
>> 1. each of the above URLs currently goes to the top level of the
>> language documentation release, i.e. one directory above /html. Should
>> we:
>>
>> a) make 'html' explicit in all links to the HTML version of the
>> Guidelines, i.e. for English link to
>> http://en.guidelines.tei-c.org/html/, or
>>
>> b) add a rewrite rule so http://en.guidelines.tei-c.org/ ==>
>> http://en.guidelines.tei-c.org/html/ ?
>>
>> (one disadvantage of 'b' is that Web crawlers going to the domain
>> might
>> miss any non-HTML content. Or is that a good thing?)
>>
>> 2) If you're at http://en.guidelines.tei-c.org/html/ and click on any
>> other language version, the link is broken (because it's generated
>> as a
>> relative link). Likewise, the alternate language links in the
>> Reference
>> pages. Are we willing to convert all language-specific links to use
>> the
>> domain aliases?
>>
>> Obviously, those problems need solving and other testing should be
>> done
>> before we can advertise the existence of these virtual hosts. Unless
>> we
>> want to use those hosts only as a way to get Google to index by
>> language?
>>
>> David
>>
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