Summary of Archimedes Week 16-20 Dec 2002

what was accomplished

• wrote bundle documentation
• wrote program to generate catalog files on OS X
• finished docspecs (DDL) documentation
• agreed on changes to DTD
  • <emph/> and <emph.end/> to be replaced according to proposals made in presentation (PPT)
  • xml:lang attribute to be used for language specification
  • <figure> not to be allowed within <s>

what was demonstrated

• new Arboreal developments
• support for Arabic language in Arboreal
• Brian's indexing services
• GATE (D. Mimno)
• pseudo-Euclid bundle prepared by Peter McL

meetings with external personnel

• meeting with MoWGLI representative to discuss XML representation of formulae
  • further interaction desirable
• ZIM
  • decision re: eDoc server to be reached by mid-January

meeting with Mohamed to discuss status of Arabic texts

• verified that MS Word can handle Arabic Unicode
• Harvard group to coordinate with Mohamed in conversion of Arabic database

immediate next steps

Berlin

• update texts to reflect agreed changes in DTD
• continue preparation of bundles
  • pseudo-Euclid bundle 3.0 contains program to generate catalog file on OS X

Cambridge

• Arabic texts to be converted systematically at Harvard from FM database
• prepare pseudo Aristotle applet version
• work on integration of Arboreal and the Archimedes Repository