Since several days the service http://service.simile-widgets.org/babel/
is down. Any idea if and when it would come up again. Did any of those posting here already succeed in running it on your own server? any return on experience to share here? thanks On Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:03:51 UTC+2, Ben Ransford wrote: > > On Monday, April 22, 2013 2:01:11 AM UTC-4, Mark Wilkinson wrote: > >> The problem is that on this page: >> http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/Data you say that I should "consider >> >> running it [myself]" (quoted below). Unfortunately, there are no >> instructions on how to do so. No installation instructions, and no API >> description. >> > > +1 for making it easy to run babel locally. Speaking for myself, I have a > script that runs my group's BibTeX file through the babel web service [1] > to generate a JSON file for Exhibit to display -- but at the moment my > script fails for reasons that may be outside my control. > > I checked out https://github.com/zepheira/babel just now, but am not > enough of a Maven maven to grok the build system (reactors? lifecycle > phases?). Is there an easy way to convert a BibTeX file to an Exhibit JSON > file from the command line? > > Current issue aside, thanks for making Exhibit! > > -ben > > [1] FTR, the meat of my script is: > $ curl --insecure --show-error --fail -F [email protected] -o > mybibfile.js ' > https://service.simile-widgets.org/babel/translator?reader=bibtex&writer=bibtex-exhibit-json&mimetype=default > ' > which worked when I last checked a few weeks ago but now returns HTTP 400. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
