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

[O'Donnell, Dan]

I think it would be a great idea.

On 10-08-12 08:57 AM, Laurent Romary wrote:
> I do support this. Shall I ask David to procede further on this?
>
> Le 9 août 10 à 17:01, Kevin Hawkins a écrit :
>
>    
>> 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
>> PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA
>> Email: dsewell at virginia.edu   Tel: +1 434 924 9973
>> Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/
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> Laurent Romary
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> laurent.romary at inria.fr
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