General website development

project: AsChart: Anglo-Saxon Charters (AsChart )

Grant Holder:
The project aimed to provide historians with new ways of interrogating Anglo-Saxon charters and it resulted in the publication of charters written in Anglo-Saxon England before A.D. 900. The project explored the benefits of using an XML markup model based on the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and specifically tailored to the requirements of historians or literary scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon charters. [read more]

tool: Python

Purpose: 

A general-purpose high-level programming language that places an emphasis upon code readability. Python supports a number of development models, including object oriented, imperative, and functional design. It provides automatic memory management and a fully dynamic type system.

Features: 

• very clear, readable syntax
• strong introspection capabilities
• intuitive object orientation
• natural expression of procedural code
• full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages
• exception-based error handling
• very high level dynamic data types
• extensive standard libraries and third party modules for virtually every task
• extensions and modules easily written in C, C++ (or Java for Jython, or .NET languages for IronPython)
• embeddable within applications as a scripting interface

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr)” has used Python to pre-process the files containing the Latin and Greek inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica.
Publisher: 
Python Software Foundation
Creator: 
Guido Van Rossum
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Disk publishing
Desktop publishing and pre-press
Server scripting
Web browser scripting
General website development
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Java
C
C++
Microsoft's .NET Framework
COM
CORBA
XML RCP
lifecycleStage: 
creation
Tags: 
JAVA
Programming language
Alternate tool(s): 

Perl, Ruby, Java, Scheme, Tcl

Platform: 
Java
All major operating systems
.net
Licence: 
Python Software Foundation
Software/programming languages used: 
Python
By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 04/03/2010 - 12:29

tool: Perl

Purpose: 

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Originally developed for text manipulation, it is now used for a wide range of tasks including graphics programming, system administration, network programming, applications that require database access and CGI programming on the Web.

Features: 

• C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed
• powerful text processing facilities
• flexibility and adaptability
• support for multiple programming paradigms
• reference counting memory management

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Developing Archival Context Standards for Functions in the Higher Education Sector” project has used Perl to develop the web interface. Perl was used to design simple navigation between the various data components, free-text and index controlled searching based on the underlying structure of the XML formatted data and an easy means of updating existing data.
Creator: 
Larry Wall
Publisher: 
Perl.org
Strategy and project management: 
System quality assurance and code testing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Disk publishing
Desktop publishing and pre-press
Server scripting
Web browser scripting
General website development
lifecycleStage: 
creation
Specifications: 
PHP
Java
C
C++
Ruby
Microsoft's .NET Framework
Apache HTTP server
Tags: 
JAVA
PHP
Programming language
Alternate tool(s): 

Ruby, Java, Python

Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Artistic License
Software/programming languages used: 
Perl
By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 04/03/2010 - 12:21

tool: Adobe Flash

Purpose: 

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Features: 

• manipulate vector and raster graphics
• support for bidirectional streaming of audio and video
• 3D transformation
• Motion editor
• Metadata (XMP) support
• XFL support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Imaging papyri at Oxford” project has used Adobe Flash to visualize content.
Creator: 
Macromedia
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
Interface design
Specifications: 
Adobe Illustrator (AI)
PSD
FLV
exe
hqx
fla
flax
mxml
swd
asc
abc
f4a
f4b
f4v
f4p
swc
swt
jsfl
flp
spl
aso
sol
xfl
xmp
Software/programming languages used: 
Macromedia Flash
Flash
Adobe Flash
Suite: 
Adobe
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Animation
Alternate tool(s): 

Microsoft Silverlight

Tags: 
Animation
Web design
Licence: 
EULA
lifecycleStage: 
creation
publishing
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Solaris
Mac OS X
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:24

tool: Adobe Dreamweaver

Purpose: 

An editing tool for web content. Dreamweaver offers a graphics-based (What You See Is What You GET) and code-based user interface for the development of web pages and sites. The tool may be used to simplify the process of web site development (in comparison to creation of individual web pages), through the provision of a templating system that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

Features: 

• WYSIWYG
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
• Subversion integration
• FTP/SFTP support
• WebDav support
• Web site template system
• Adobe Spry AJAX framework support

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing (1700-1945) project has used Dreamweaver to design and develop their project web site.
Creator: 
Macromedia
Publisher: 
Adobe Systems
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Disk publishing
General website development
Interface design
Specifications: 
PHP
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
SVN
CSS
PSD
SWF
FLV
Ajax frameworks
ASP
ColdFusion
JSP
Suite: 
Adobe
Software/programming languages used: 
Adobe Dreamweaver
Tags: 
css
html
web site
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
PHP
Web design
WYSIWYG
SVN
Alternate tool(s): 

Quanta Plus, Aptana, Kompozer

Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
By Valentina Asciutti at Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:17

project: British printed images to 1700, a digital library

Grant Holder: Professor Michael Hunter
‘BRITISH PRINTED IMAGES TO 1700’ (bpi1700) is a project funded by the AHRC under their Resource Enhancement scheme. It represents a collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London). The other partners are the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It currently makes over 5,000 printed images from early modern Britain available online in fully searchable form. [read more]

project: Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW )

Grant Holder: Professor Charlotte Roueche
Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW) aims to record all surviving information about every individual mentioned in Byzantine textual sources, together with as many as possible of the individuals recorded in seal sources, in the period 1025-1261. The current online database is the first major result of PBW, a project covering the period AD 1025-1180, and represents a continuation of prosopographical work originally inspired by A.H.M. Jones in 1950, and sponsored since then by the British Academy. [read more]

project: CESAR a comprehensive online repository of French Theatre resources in the 17th and 18th centuries

Grant Holder: Professor Valerie Worth-Stylianou
The primary aim was to produce a single, coherent listing of all known theatre and related performances in France between 1600 and 1800, searchable by date, title, location, genre and by the names of the people involved in whatever capacity. The database was to have an interactive web interface. The second aim was to make the entire structure bi-directional, i.e. to take advantage of the same web interface to permit members of the international scholarly community, after a simple registration procedure, to annotate, comment upon, extend and correct any field in the database. [read more]

tool: Xalan

Purpose: 

Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0.

Features: 
  • Conversion between structured markup formats
  • Stylesheet validation
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Tibetan text project used Xalan to convert Classical Tibetan texts stored as XML into other formats for publication.
A&H use case 2 description: 
The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub has used Xalan to convert XML tagged copies of the revised Anglo-Norman Dictionary between XML and HTML.
Creator: 
Apache Software Foundation
Publisher: 
Apache Software Foundation
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
Data capture: 
Use of existing digital data
lifecycleStage: 
creation
analysis
publishing
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Coding and standardisation
Tags: 
XPath
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Software/programming languages used: 
Xalan
Platform: 
All major operating systems
Licence: 
Apache
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT)
XPath
By garethknight at Thu, 11/02/2010 - 10:58

project: arts-humanities.net

Grant Holder: SheilaAnderson
arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. [read more]

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