Leveraging eXist-db for Efficient TEI Document Management

Schutt, Kyle; Morgan, Kyle

Leveraging eXist-db for Efficient TEI Document Management

dc.contributor.author	Schutt, Kyle	en
dc.contributor.author	Morgan, Kyle	en
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-11T00:50:52Z	en
dc.date.available	2012-12-11T00:50:52Z	en
dc.date.issued	2012-12-10	en
dc.description.abstract	Professor David Radcliffe has created Lord Byron and his Times (LBT), a large digital archive of works surrounding Lord Byron and his contemporaries. The original website was unusable slow due to the expensive XSLT transformations and XPath queries being applied to TEI documents. By removing the reliance on XSL and using eXist-db and XQuery, while relying on ubiquitous and well-documented CSS for client-side styling, we have been able to increase performance dramatically without sacrificing features or functionality. In this paper, we go over an overview of the project, including challenges and potential solutions, and performance metrics of the original system in section 1. Section 2 contains a user's manual detailing difference between the old and proposed systems. Section 3 contains a developer's manual, which contains overviews of various technologies that were being used in the system designed by Professor Radcliffe. The fourth section describes technologies relevant to the proposed system. Finally, documentation and installation instructions are given in the fifth section. The rest of the paper contains a VTechWorks inventory, contacts for everyone involved with the LBT project, and references.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	David Radcliffe, Edward Fox	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19082	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/	en
dc.title	Leveraging eXist-db for Efficient TEI Document Management	en
dc.type	Learning object	en
dc.type	Software	en
dc.type	Working paper	en
dc.type	Report	en