Server-side javascript implementation of a Distributed Text Services (DTS) server fed from a corpus of TEI files.

Status: this package is currently customised for the Alice Thornton's Books research project. The intention is to generalise it so it works with other projects.

Installation

npm i git@github.com:kingsdigitallab/kdl-dts-server.git

Usage

To start a local DTS web service:

npx kdl-dts-server

Features

• The TEI files can be located under a folder in the local filesystem or in a github repository.
• Support for HTML output format using XSLT (see responses/tei-to-html.xsl)

Corpus requirements

• source TEI files should be placed under a folder on filessytem or github repo
• TEI files have at least one element, it is used to separate DTS passages
• TEI files have unique file names in the entire corpus (regardless of their path)
• TEI files must have a tei:title in the header

TODO

Must

• test the static generator with github
• add a github action to generate static DTS from thornton corpus

Should

• set the name of the top collection from settings.json
• default collection.json
• move settings file under a collection.json file under the top collection folder
• document!

Could

• XSLT file could be placed under corpus folder
• Extend DTS services to support CSS stylesheets
• paramterise the units of texts (at the moment only )
• support for large collection: paginate collection responses
• support for large collection: don't read all files at once, only on demand
• support for sub-collections
• support TEI files having a single passage
• support request to entire document