05-13-2001, 03:08 PM
Well! How fortunate this may be for us that you're one of the XML illuminati, Rich!<br>
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You might have noticed on the RomanArmy.com Sitemap there's a hidden section for the Roman Army Digest (aka RAD) that's still in concept form at this stage. However, since I have received some inquiries regarding when RAD will be ready for launch, I've been contemplating how best to format and present the journal.<br>
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There's definitely a need for a specialist journal on the Roman army. We are blessed to have ARMA and JRMES thanks to the singular efforts of Mike Bishop, but all previous efforts at developing academic journals dedicated to classical military history have met with little success. If you were subscribing to RES MILITARES (the SAMH newsletter I now edit) you might have read that several European academics attempted a couple years ago to find a publisher for a neophyte journal they pitched as the Journal of Ancient War Studies (JAWS!). When that idea was judged by various presses to be too limited, they reformulated it as an ancient-and-medieval warfare journal. Neither incarnation ever found a publisher, unfortunately.<br>
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However, the beauty of e-journals is their lack of the emcumbrances and cost typically associated with print journals. I think, given some dedicated volunteers who either know something about print publishing and editing (I might be so bold as to put myself in that category), or are willing and able to learn (you? Sander? Jasper? others to come?) we could make a go of it.<br>
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XML, based on my preliminary contacts with Ross Scaife at the Stoa Consortium (which advocates XML as a medium for classics journals online) at www.stoa.org, is the way to go. But how to make a start?<br>
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I don't know XML. I know only a little HTML -- the bits and pieces necessary to fine-tune what my WYSIWYG editor (FrontPage) produces. The result is RomanArmy.com, of which I'm proud, but I realize its HTML structure will be obsolete within two years, certainly.<br>
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Are there any XML WSIWYG editors yet? How would a team (say you and me, as a start, assuming you're willing) go about putting an XML e-journal together? I'm asking Ross the same question, and with his and Stoa's support, and yours, I think it might be possible.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Jenny <p></p><i></i>
<br>
You might have noticed on the RomanArmy.com Sitemap there's a hidden section for the Roman Army Digest (aka RAD) that's still in concept form at this stage. However, since I have received some inquiries regarding when RAD will be ready for launch, I've been contemplating how best to format and present the journal.<br>
<br>
There's definitely a need for a specialist journal on the Roman army. We are blessed to have ARMA and JRMES thanks to the singular efforts of Mike Bishop, but all previous efforts at developing academic journals dedicated to classical military history have met with little success. If you were subscribing to RES MILITARES (the SAMH newsletter I now edit) you might have read that several European academics attempted a couple years ago to find a publisher for a neophyte journal they pitched as the Journal of Ancient War Studies (JAWS!). When that idea was judged by various presses to be too limited, they reformulated it as an ancient-and-medieval warfare journal. Neither incarnation ever found a publisher, unfortunately.<br>
<br>
However, the beauty of e-journals is their lack of the emcumbrances and cost typically associated with print journals. I think, given some dedicated volunteers who either know something about print publishing and editing (I might be so bold as to put myself in that category), or are willing and able to learn (you? Sander? Jasper? others to come?) we could make a go of it.<br>
<br>
XML, based on my preliminary contacts with Ross Scaife at the Stoa Consortium (which advocates XML as a medium for classics journals online) at www.stoa.org, is the way to go. But how to make a start?<br>
<br>
I don't know XML. I know only a little HTML -- the bits and pieces necessary to fine-tune what my WYSIWYG editor (FrontPage) produces. The result is RomanArmy.com, of which I'm proud, but I realize its HTML structure will be obsolete within two years, certainly.<br>
<br>
Are there any XML WSIWYG editors yet? How would a team (say you and me, as a start, assuming you're willing) go about putting an XML e-journal together? I'm asking Ross the same question, and with his and Stoa's support, and yours, I think it might be possible.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Jenny <p></p><i></i>
Cheers,
Jenny
Founder, Roman Army Talk and RomanArmy.com
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Jenny
Founder, Roman Army Talk and RomanArmy.com
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
