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Use the web pages on this site to find and lookup scholarly resources made available through technical standards discussed here.
These pages let you look up scholarly information drawn from network services using the Firefox web browser.
The most developed page at this point (July 13, 2006) lets you read texts from a Classical Text Services installation. In addition, it allows you to associate indexed information either as links on spans of the passage you're reading, or appended to the passage like footnotes.
So what's a Classical Text Services installation?
The Classical Text Services protocol defines ways to lookup and retrieve passage of texts using reference systems that are conventional in classical studies. See more information about CTS here.
The reader dynamically loads XML documents using an XMLHttpRequest, and transforms the documents with XSLT to present the raw data in XHTML (that is, as a Web page your browser can view). It therefore requires a browser that supports XMLHttpRequest (these include at least Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, and Opera), and also support XSLT transformations in the browser. The current release versions of Safari and Opera do not include XSLT support (although the beta version of Opera 9 promises to add XSLT). When they add in-browser XSLT, it should be possible with only a modest effort to make the reader work in those browsers, too.
As far as I am aware, dynamic loading of XML in Internet Explorer requires use of ActiveX controls. Because of the security risks of ActiveX, I do not use them, and cannot encourage others to use ActiveX. Since Firefox is available for all platforms that support IE (and others not supported by IE), try Firefox and limit your exposure to malware.
What do I have to do to get Firefox to work with the reader?
See the configuration instructions here.
Is there any documentation for users?
Not much. See some initial notes here.
Can I install a copy of this on my own web server?
You can (see the README file in the downloadable package for instructions) and you may (all code is copyright 2006 Neel Smith and licensed under version 2 of the GPL), but you might want to wait until this very rough test version is more finished (date of this version: July 13, 2006).
Where do the linked indexes come from?
The reader can use indexed information from any service following the CTS Indexing Services protocol.
The default configuration uses an index of morphological lemmata, created by the Perseus Project's morphological parser, Morpheus.