If Carlo or someone else is willing to help with admnistering it, we can provide webspace, computing, and bandwidth on either the PGDP server or our test server to be used for this same purpose. Being located in the US, we would be following the same copyright rules at PG. We would also be happy to keep XML versions of any projects until PG is ready to accept them. JulietS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlo Traverso" <traverso@dm.unipi.it> To: <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: barriers to XML posting
The problem is how to have beta-testing AND respect PG tradition of posting only definitive stuff.
Would this be useful?
I might offer web space, computing and bandwidth to post XML, convert it to txt and html and what else, and submit the result to whitewashing.
You will be able to have installed all the software to handle the conversion, and have submissions converted by automatic procedures.
This might be seen as a beta-test of xml whitewashing procedures. I am at most neutral to xml (I recognize its unavoidability, but I complain the trend, I would prefer a more human-friendly markup). So it will not be pro-XML biased. And I am authorized to whitewashing, so this can be seen as making my whitewashing in public.
The posting-and-converting should be automatic: a web interface to submit a zip/tar.gz/tar.bz2 file, semi-automatic unzipping and conversion, poster and site administrator OK to make the posting public. Then the whitewashing could start WITHOUT corrections: if anything in the result is wrong, then one should repeat the submission. If the post will be XML + converted, or converted only, will be PG choice. The posts, complete of XML, will remain indefinitely on the test site. Of course, an additional line will be included to warn that the file is not an official PG file but only an intermediate working file. But except for this line, everything should be identical to a PG file, header and footer, PG number and filename included.
Drawback: the server is located in Italy, so I cannot do it for non-EU clearable items. You'll have to submit clearance for death+70 (with procedures to decide, but a copy of a LOC authority record or an encyclopaedia article will of course be enough).
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