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Thanks. I've looked into Chiba, but it doesn't really impress me. http://www.chiba-project.org:8080/chiba/ I don't mind Orbeon. It may have more features than I would ever use, but their support is fantastic. There are a lot of users and a very active listserv, and the developers always respond to your questions within 24 hours. Ethan On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Ashton <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Nice job, Ethan. This looks really cool. > > We have an Orbeon-based MODS editor, but I have found Orbeon to be a bit > tough to develop/maintain and more heavyweight than we really need. We're > considering more Xforms implementations, but I would love to find a more > lightweight Xforms application. Does anyone have any recommendations? > > The only one I know of is XSLTForms (http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms) > but > I haven't messed with it yet. > > -Andy > > On 11/13/09 9:13 AM, "Eric Hellman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > XForms and Orbeon are very interesting tools for developing metadata > > management tools. > > > > The ONIX developers have used this stack to produce an interface for > ONIX-PL > > called OPLE that people should try out. > > > > http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/pals3/onixeditor.aspx > > > > Questions about Orbeon relate to performance and integrability, but I > think > > it's an impressive use of XForms nonetheless. > > > > - Eric > > > > On Nov 12, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Over the past few months I have been working on and off on a research > >> project to develop a XForms, web-based editor for EAD finding aids that > runs > >> within the Orbeon tomcat application. While still in a very early alpha > >> stage (I have probably put only 60-80 hours of work into it thus far), I > >> think that it's ready for a general demonstration to solicit opinions, > >> criticism, etc. from librarians, and technical staff. > >> > >> Background: > >> For those not familiar with XForms, it is a W3C standard for creating > >> next-generation forms. It is powerful and can allow you to create XML > in > >> the way that it is intended to be created, without limits to > repeatability, > >> complex hierarchies, or mixed content. Orbeon adds a level on top of > that, > >> taking care of all the ajax calls, serialization, CRUD operations, and a > >> variety of widgets that allow nice features like tabs and > >> autocomplete/autosuggest that can be bound to authority lists and > controlled > >> access terms. By default, Orbeon reads and writes data from and to an > eXist > >> database that comes packaged with it, but you can have it serialize the > XML > >> to disk or have it interact with any REST interface such as Fedora. > >> > >> Goals: > >> Ultimately, I wish to create a system of forms that can open any EAD > >> 2002-compliant XML file without any data loss or XML transformation > >> whatsoever. I think that this is the shortcoming of systems such as > Archon > >> and Archivists' Toolkit. I want to integrate authority lists that can > be > >> integrated into certain fields with autosuggest (such as corporate > names, > >> people, and subjects). If there is demand, I can build a public > interface > >> for viewing the entire EAD collection, complete with solr for faceted > browse > >> and search, but this is secondary to producing a form that people with > some > >> basic archiving knowledge and EAD background can use to easily and > >> effectively create finding aids. A public interface is the easy part, > in > >> any case. It wouldn't take more than a week or two to build something > >> fairly nice and robust. > >> > >> Here is the link: http://beta.scholarslab.org:9080/cocoon/eaditor/ > >> > >> I should stress that the application is *not complete.* I am using > cocoon > >> for providing a list of EAD content in the system. I will remove that > >> application eventually and utilize Orbeon's internal pipelining features > to > >> achieve the same objective. I haven't delved too deeply into Orbeon's > >> pipelines yet. > >> > >> Here are some things to note: > >> > >> 1. If you click on a link to open the main part of the guide or any of > its > >> components, you have to click the "Load" link on the top of the form. > Forms > >> aren't being loaded on page load yet. > >> 2. Elements that accept mixed content per the EAD 2002 schema (e.g. > >> paragraphs) only accept PCDATA. I haven't worked on mixed content yet; > it > >> is by far the most challenging aspect of the project. > >> 3. I only have a few C-level elements available to add. > >> 4. Not all did elements are available yet. > >> 5. A lot of the generic attributes, like type and label, are not > available > >> for editing yet. This may be the type of thing that is best customized > per > >> institution relative to their own best practices. I don't want more > input > >> fields than necessary right now. > >> 6. The only thing you can add into the archdesc right now is the <dsc>. > >> Once I finish all of the c-level elements, I can just put some > xi:includes > >> into the archdesc XForm file to show them in the archdesc level. > >> > >> I think those are the major issues for now. As I stated earlier, this > is > >> sort of a pre-alpha. The project is open source and available (through > svn) > >> to anyone who wants it. http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/ . I have > put > >> together an easy package to get the application up and running without > >> difficulty. All you have to do is unzip the download, go into the > apache > >> tomcat folder and execute the startup script. This assumes you have > nothing > >> running on port 8080 already. > >> > >> Download page: http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/downloads/list > >> > >> Wiki instructions: > >> > http://code.google.com/p/eaditor/wiki/QuickstartInstallation?ts=1257887453&up > >> dated=QuickstartInstallation > >> > >> Comments, questions, criticism welcome. The editor is a sandbox. Feel > free > >> to experiment. > >> > >> Ethan Gruber > >> University of Virginia Library > > > > Eric Hellman > > President, Gluejar, Inc. > > 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 > > Montclair, NJ 07042 > > USA > > > > [log in to unmask] > > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ >