Comments on: Tagger for hermeneutic markup http://london2010.thatcamp.org/2010/07/02/tagger-for-hermeneutic-markup/ Just another THATCamp site Fri, 17 Jan 2020 04:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Marco Petris http://london2010.thatcamp.org/2010/07/02/tagger-for-hermeneutic-markup/#comment-37 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:00:38 +0000 http://thatcamplondon.org/?p=169#comment-37 Hi James,

thanks for your comment. Yes, I definitely prefer a client/server architecture as this makes collaboration a lot easier. I would like to add that I thought more of an application that has a low entry level. I work a lot with literary scholars and students and something like oXygen is too complex to start with. Even the “author”-mode is way to close to XML. I think the user shouldn’t get in contact with XML. XML should be an implementation detail kept hidden from the user. A tool for the MS Word audience more than the LaTeX audience, so to speak.

Really looking forward to THATCamp!

Marco

]]> By: jamesc http://london2010.thatcamp.org/2010/07/02/tagger-for-hermeneutic-markup/#comment-36 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:10:09 +0000 http://thatcamplondon.org/?p=169#comment-36 It sounds to me that what you really want is a client/server setup. I.e. server software that is able to handle ajax requests and a client that is javascript (say +JQuery) based. But the crucial point is that it should be arbitrary schema-aware (so works with any schema). Having something to do stand-off annotation in a visual and intuitive way is something that would be very useful (and that others have tried before). So sure, the user can define custom tags, but really all you are doing there is building a loose schema… we already have mechanisms for this and generally tighter schemas end up with more consistent and usable data. An ajaxy basic schema-aware validating online XML editor with code and tags-free view would be something everyone loved. You can already get part-way there, of course, with oXygen Author since this can be run as a java web start app inside a webpage and update its content with ajax. (For any server-related solution, of course one should be able to run the server locally as well. 😉 )

-J

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