The University of Maryland Libraries has released a beta edition of teiPublisher, open-source software for building repositories for TEI and other XML-coded digital documents. From the site: 'The <teiPublisher>, an extensible, modular and configurable xml-based repository, is being created by a team of programmers and content developers. It is designed to bridge the gap between having a collection of structured documents which are posted on the Web as static HTML or XML pages, and having a functional digital library. This is being done by providing the tools to manage an extensible, modular and configurable XML-based repository which will house, search, browse, and display documents encoded in TEI on the World Wide Web. <teiPublisher> is designed to provide administrative tools to help repository managers with limited technical knowledge manage their repositories. Building on the native XML database eXist, the application provides a range of administrative functions crucial to maintaining a web-assessable digital repository.' The site doesn't say whether teiPublisher repositories are OAI-compliant. For more details, see the press release. (Thanks to Science Library Pad.)
Update. Also see the teiPublisher FAQ, which for some reason has no link from the project home page. Here's what the FAQ says about OAI compliance: 'Is there an OAI interface in <teiPublisher> to allow metadata harvesting? No, but we provide links to XML Documents, so you could use your own harvester on the appropriate URI.' (Thanks to Ross Scaife.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/03/2005 09:53:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
