[tei-council] Fwd: Re: TEI Web site

[Kevin Hawkins]

I think David Sewell's recent note to TEI-L about how the TEI website 
works is an excellent start to a colophon for the TEI website.  How do 
others feel about having such a page?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: TEI Web site
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:03:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Sewell <dsewell at virginia.edu>
To: Kevin Hawkins <kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info>

Kevin,

I certainly wasn't composing it to be an official document--but I'd
suggest you run the idea of an "About this website" page by Council. If
created, it should probably have more content than just a technical note
on underlying data.

David

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Kevin Hawkins wrote:

> David, I think your message would make a fine colophon for the TEI website.
> Perhaps, in the navbar, there could be something like
>
> About --> This website
>
> which would bring up a short page containing more or less what you wrote
> below.
>
> > The content on www.tei-c.org is a composite of quite a few underlying
> > sources. To wit:
> >
> > * Most of the content pages, such as those under Activities, Membership,
> > and About, live as mostly XML data in OpenCMS, a content management
> > system; our configuration converts TEI-XML to HTML on the fly
> >
> > * The news sidebar on the main page and /News/ are pulled in
> > quasi-dynamically from content that lives in the TEI WordPress blog on
> > Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/)
> >
> > * Some areas of the site are simply filesystem mirrors of the current
> > TEI Sourceforge packages, e.g. the P4 and P5 Guidelines documentation
> > under /release, and Roma under /Roma
> >
> > * Others are static filesystem directories with special material, such
> > as the "TEI Vault" (http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/)
> >
> > * Yet others are pointers to TEI-related material hosted externally (the
> > TEI webstore at http://www.tei-shop.org/, the new TEI Journal aka J-TEI
> > site at http://journal.tei-c.org/)
> >
> > All integrated via an Apache configuration file resembling the wiring
> > diagram of a nuclear submarine, and ably maintained by our sysadmin
> > Shayne Brandon.
>

-- 
David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager
ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press
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Email: dsewell at virginia.edu   Tel: +1 434 924 9973
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