Compendium Process Archiving
The Processes attached to the Compendium
The Compendium creation, population, manipulation, retrieval and presentation process is composed of three major steps:- Information is prepared for inclusion in the Compendium
- Information is processed and stored in the Compendium
- Information is served to the user
The way in which a user interacts with the information is captured in the following document:
- How is the information used?: Documenting Interactivity on the Globalization
- Additionally, a PDF simulating user interaction is available for the Globalization Compendium.
Content Preparation Process
The editor of the Compendium has prepared a comprehensive guide for the preparation of documents for inclusion in the compendiumResearch Paper
Research Summary
Position Paper
Bibliographic Citation
Glossary Entry
South-North Dialogue Entry
Contributor Entry
Content Processing and Storage
Lucene indexes the text files every day at 2am to generate a fresh index of the compendium content. When glossary items are added to the database via the editor screens, the individual glossary item is stored in the appropriate directory and the glossary item is added to the aggregate glossary file via jsp.Server Process
When a user requests a Research topic, a complete list of articles, summaries, and position papers is compiled from xIndice.- The query is run against Xindice, which returns XML which is transformed via appropriate XSLT into HTML which is displayed to the user.
- When an individual page is requetsed, Xindice is not invoked, and the XML is drawn directly using XPath from the appropriate directory. Its is then display to the user after the appropriate XSLT transformation.
- If a PDF of an individual document is requested, XSL-FO is invoked to render the page directly from the XML file.
