MTP: Core Technologies
| This is a simple
diagram to give you a sense of the core technologies underlying the Mark
Twain Project. As you can see, the
primary components are the web site, the eXtensivel Text Framework, the
Database and the Database Client.
Editors at the MTP (will) use the client to enter into the unified
(most likely MySQL) database descriptive metadata about various works as well
as any associated bibliographic, source, digital surrogate, or biographical
material cross-referenced from the TEI texts of those works. That metadata
about the objects will then be indexed and queried either as objects using
services from the CDL Common Framework or with more direct lookups using
Saxon SQL extensions – we’re not sure yet which, hence the dotted line. The
TEI documents themselves will be handled by the CDL’s eXtensible Text
Framework (XTF), a flexible indexing and query tool that supports searching
across collections of heterogeneous data and presents results in a highly
configurable manner. |