OPEN SOURCE Project

Our saga over open source applications for CMS never ends. After Filnet's collaboration with the Philippine Gutenberg Project, its webmaster (Jeroen Hellingman) who also happens to run http://www.bohol.ph/ generously gave us his practical advice on the ongoing development of Filnet. He even gave us some files he had already process so we can have something to start with. One thing that give us another way to think around is his TEI platform for publishing.

Since I have already started with the development of Plone (this is the sample site i made) now i have to tweak around and look what at the core of the TEI who run such big database site such as the Guttenberg project. Well,i know that theres so many other CMS available in the open source arena but we have to practically adapt applications that are already proven and used by other organizations. Besides, we should always follow the International Standards to make it available in a cross repository sites online. So after Plone, what is this TEI?

TEI or the Text encoding Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary standard that enables libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to represent a variety of literary and linguistic texts for online research, teaching, and preservation. They use TEI Publisher an extensible, modular and configurable xml-based repository. 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. So basically, its concept is similar to Plone and what we should do is to be able to identify which is more applicable to our requirements..........and my saga continues..

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