W. Digitale Bibliothek (wdbplus)

An extensible framework for digital Editions for the eXist XML database.

This framework still lacks a good name. If you have an idea, please let me know!

Installation

You need a working instance of eXist (4.0 or later). It is recommended that you use the default software selection during installation. The default memory settings usually work very well but you can, of course, always give eXist a little more RAM.

Using the .xar package

1. Clone this repo including its submodules (xstring, wdbmeta)
2. cd edoc
3. run ant
4. install the .xar file created in edoc/build/ using eXist's dashboard

The app will be installed into /db/apps/edoc.

eXgit

Additionally, it is possible to use eXgit to clone the current version directly into a running eXist instance.

1. Install eXgit as stated in the repo.
2. create a user wdb and a group wdbusers for the framework and log in under that name –– CAVEAT: this user, at least for the duration of the installation, needs to be in the dba group!
3. create the target collection (default would be /db/apps/edoc) as this user
4. open eXide from eXist's Dashboard
5. paste:

   xquery version "3.1";
   
   import module namespace exgit="http://exist-db.org/xquery/exgit" at "java:org.exist.xquery.modules.exgit.Exgit";
   
   let $whereToClone := "/home/user/git/wdbplus"
   let $targetCollection := "/db/apps/edoc"
   
   let $cl := exgit:clone("https://github.com/dariok/wdbplus", $whereToClone)
   let $ie := exgit:import($whereToClone || "/edoc", $targetCollection)
   let $ic := exgit:import($whereToClone || "/edoc/config", "/db/system/config/db/apps")
   

6. replace the value of $whereToClone with the full target directory on your file system where the app shall be cloned into
7. if you do not want to install into /db/apps/edoc, change the value of $targetCollection to the full DB path
8. run the script
9. open post-install.xql in your target collection
10. if you did not install into /db/apps/edoc, change $targetCollection accordingly
11. run post-install.xql to set rights and index configuration

manual installation

1. clone this repo including its submodules
2. put folder edoc anywhere you want in your eXist; the default would be /db/apps/edoc; you can also rename it to your needs (in this case, you have to adjust the paths in the next steps!).
3. import the index configuration files – i.e. the contents of the config directory – into /db/system/config/db/apps (see the wiki if you change the destination)
4. run edoc/post-install.xql to set execution rights and apply the index configuration (if you change the destination, adjust your paths).

Initial configuration

Set the name for the instance and other settings in edoc/config.xml or using the form under edoc/admin/admin.html.

Creating and uploading projects

While many different ways of putting data into the application are possible, the standard way is to have one collection under data for each project. It is possible to create an initial setup using admin/admin.html. The following describes a manual installation and assumes that you work with a standard setup, i.e. have installed the app into /db/apps/edoc and want to put your projects into /db/apps/edoc/data/yourproject.

1. create wdbmeta.xml in /db/apps/edoc/data/yourproject, either by copying, pasting and editing the example below or by using admin/admin.html for the basic settings (it also creates the collection) and adding the other settings.

   <projectMD xmlns="https://github.com/dariok/wdbplus/wdbmeta"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="https://github.com/dariok/wdbplus/wdbmeta https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dariok/wdbmeta/master/wdbmeta.xsd"
     xml:id="yourProjectID">
       <projectID>yourProjectID</projectID>
       <titleData>
           <title>Project Title</title>
       </titleData>
       <files>
           <file path="pathTo.xml" xml:id="xml-id" />
       </files>
       <process target="html">
           <command type="xsl">/db/apps/edoc/resources/xsl/tei-transcript.xsl</command>
       </process>
       <struct label="1722" order="1722">
           <view file="xml-id" label="Title of File" />
       </struct>
   </projectMD>

   You have to set at least one process; the example above points to a standard XSLT provided by wdb+.
2. add project's XML/XSLT etc. files to your projects, e.g. into a subcollection /db/apps/edoc/data/yourproject/texts
3. add a <file> entry to wdbmeta.xlm for each file to be displayed; you MUST give it an xml:id which SHOULD be the same as that file’s /*/@xml:id
4. The file is now available to view under http://yourserver:8080/exist/apps/edoc/view.html?id=xml-id

Usage and Configuration

Global configuration options, i.e. those that concern options for the whole instance, have to be set in config.xml (e.g. the instance's name). Settings for a project are set in the project's wdbmeta.xml.

See the Wiki for details!

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Currently used in these projects:

• HAB Wolfenbüttel
  • Editionsprojekt Karlstadt
• ACDH Wien
  • Wien[n]erisches Diarium Digital
  • Repertotium frühneuzeitlicher Rechtsquellen
  • Protokolle der Sitzungen der Gesamtakadmie
• Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg
  • Theologenbriefwechsel

If you use wdbplus for your editions, please drop me a message so I can add you to this list.