File/Dossier:
I will be out of the office from July 4th to July 14, 2000. Glenn Massey is
my replacement on the digitization project. Glenn's phone number is 947-5678.
Je serai absent du bureau du 4 au 14 juillet, 2000. Glenn Massey me
remplacera sur le projet de num
Sylvain Lemieux
Project Manager, Systems Division
Gestionnaire de projet, Division des systèmes
National Archives of Canada
Archives nationales du Canada
Tel: (613) 992-3032 Fax: (613) 995-4472
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From: "Jerome McDonough" <[log in to unmask]>, on 7/11/00 3:11 PM:
At 11:25 AM 7/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>It seems to boil down to this: MOA II as a solution is more elegant,
>comprehensive, and robust - but like with many proto-standards, the
>tools for actually making use of MOA II are not widely available yet
>for "the rest of us". The UC Berkeley Library has a MOA II server
>going - but let's face it, they are a powerhouse of programming in
>this area. MOA used to be based on a client side Java applet + some
>XML files to create complex objects online. Now it's shifted to
>server-side java for greater speed and cross-platform compatibility,
>but that also means installing java servers, etc. I wonder if anyone
>has tried (or would be interested in trying) to use some of Jim
>Clark's tools to deliver MOA XML objects?
Rick Beaubien (the programmer who developed the MOA2 applet
and servlet viewing tools) and I talked about the possibility
of using XSLT to translate MOA2 documents into HTML for
display over the WWW. I think it would be very difficult to implement
the full range of functionality that Rick's tools provides, but a
more basic display shouldn't be too hard to do. That would probably
go a long way towards making the MOA2 format easier to adopt for
new projects.
Jerome McDonough
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Digital Library Development Team Leader
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University
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New York, NY 10012
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