I am interested in this opportunity, however I am very inexperienced so it may take me much longer than someone who is more qualified. I am a huge fan of the CCEL. - Nick
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 3:18 AM Peter von Kaehne <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > This is a call for volunteers interested in (mostly) English language > commentaries and general spiritual books. > > After a long hiatus of non-communication with CCEL I have been given > permission to use their ThML files to upload to CrossWire. This is a > brilliant thing. > > Trouble is when I looked at it closer I realised we actually do not > have any thml2vs like import utility. We do have a utility for general > books, but not for commentaries. I do see that we have some work on > scripts for the Calvin commentaries which are CCEL derived, but I had > not had a deeper look inside that yet. > > So, in short - if someone feels willing and called to tackle this > > 1) a well described and fully automatised process to create a > commentary module from ThML source, including XML validation > > 2) a well described and preferably fully automatised process to pre- > process CCEL source to make it clean for further import. > > any language, as long as it runs on Linux. C, C++, Perl or Python > preferred though. > > Then, if someone wants to take on a guardian and shepherding role to > deal with what is on offer and produce quality modules from it, with > conf files etc etc, this would be hugely appreciated. I will continue > to deal with the upload. > > This is probably a huge opportunity to help us get a large number of > quality texts from a well reputed source, so it would be wonderful if > someone or some who are previously maybe not so deeply involved want to > tackle this. > > Thanks! > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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