--- texttool-architecture/soft-cgi.tex	2004/01/05 13:36:57	1.3
+++ texttool-architecture/soft-cgi.tex	2004/01/14 21:40:51	1.10
@@ -1,6 +1,47 @@
 \subsubsection{rec.cgi (register text)}
 \label{sec:rec.cgi}
 
+\paragraph
+On the ECHO server, the registration of new texts is implemented by
+means of a cgi script, reg.cgi
+(archimedes/web/cgi-bin/toc/admin/reg.cgi ). reg.cgi retrieves a
+metadata file  in MPIWG archive metadata format from the entered uri
+(currently only local paths are supported ) and constructs from this
+file a toc.cgi object file (see below) , which it writes to toc.cgi's
+data section. [corpus???] It should be stressed that this is a
+registration procedure developed for a particular implementation of
+toc.cgi and not a part of the core application. 
+
+\paragraph
+reg.cgi takes two parameters, path and show.  Path should give the
+local path to the metadata file for the text that is being
+registered. If ``show'' is set to 1, reg.cgi will return for
+inspection the toc.cgi object file that it has built out of the
+submitted metadata file. 
+
+\paragraph{input metadata file}
+
+The input metadata file must have the following form
+
+\paragraph
+
+<resource>
+    ...
+    <meta>
+      <meta>
+                <bib type=''Book''>
+
+<title>Mainzer Untergerichtsordnung (von 1534)</title>
+<author>anon</author>
+<year>1580</year>
+        <texttool><display>yes</display>
+	<image>pageimgtif</image>
+	<text>/mpiwg/online/experimental/echo_DRQEdit_test/anon_Mainz_1580/fulltextDW/mainzugo02_utf8.xml</text>
+	<pagebreak>pb</pagebreak><presentation>01-presentation/info.xml</presentation></texttool></meta>
+
+    </meta>
+
+\paragraph{archimedes object registration}
 
 \subsubsection{toc.cgi (display text)}
 \label{sec:toc.cgi}
@@ -8,10 +49,42 @@
 \paragraph{plan of this section }
 
 \begin{enumeration}
+\item An overview of toc.cgi architecture
 \item A walk-through of typical cgi queries for toc.cgi
 \item An index of cgi parameters and values with short descriptions of function
 \end{enumeration}
 
+\paragraph{Overview of toc.cgi architecture}
+
+\subparagraph{}
+toc.cgi is a perl script for displaying collections of xml texts and 
+linking them to related resources such as page-images, morphological
+analysis, commentaries, dictionaries, etc. It implements generic methods
+for resource-linking provided by a series of perl modules which are in
+turn based mainly on generic open-source tools for xml manipulation and networking
+written in C. 
+
+\subparagraph{toc.cgi collections--Network transparency}
+Each of the collections in toc.cgi is a ``virtual'' collection, that
+is, a collection of links or uri's to resources that reside somewhere on an accessible
+network, local or remote.  
+
+\subparagraph{toc.cgi collections--remote resources}
+
+What is at the other end of the link is of no concern to toc.cgi, as
+long as the resource referenced by the link meets minimal toc.cgi
+requirements--how the resource is actually implemented and exposed is
+a matter for the resource provider. The link may, for instance, point
+directly to an xml text or it may point to a container which exposes a
+particular xml view of an underlying resource that is perhaps not in
+xml format at all. 
+
+
+\subparagraph{resource registry}
+
+
+
+
 \paragraph{cgi parameters -- standard queries}
 
 \htmladdnormallink{ http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?step=corpus }{ http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?step=corpus }
@@ -68,6 +141,16 @@ get a page of text from a work from defa
 \subsubsection{Indexing}
 \label{sec:indexing}
 
+\paragraph{Status quo ECHO}
+Currently indexing is not implemented on the ECHO server.
+
+\paragraph{Plan ECHO}
+
+\begin{enumeration}
+\item construct remote (141.14.236.86) index for each file at
+  per-change or daily intervals
+\item store indices locally in 
+\end{enumeration}
 
 \subsubsection{Morphology}
 \label{sec:morphology}
@@ -77,6 +160,30 @@ get a page of text from a work from defa
 \label{sec:dictionary-server}
 
 
+\subsubsection{helper programs}
+
+\paragraph{addarch.pl ARCHIMEDES} 
+
+Automatically registers new texts as toc.cgi objects when they appear in
+cvs. Automatically updates relevant morphological indices (slow!) each
+time a cvs update occurs. This program is called by a hook in the cvs
+``loginfo'' configuration file. 
+
+
+\paragraph{makelemma.pl ARCHIMEDES}
+
+Updates lemmatization indices. 
+Parameters: 
+No parameter--update all lemmatization indices
+[latin | ital | greek | en | nl | de]--  update this language
+
+\paragraph{makefast.pl ARCHIMEDES} 
+
+Updates the toc.cgi morphology indices
+Parameters
+No parameter--update all lemmatization indices
+[latin | ital | greek | en | nl | de]--  update this language
+
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