The Canonical Text Services Protocol
- Summary: The Canonical Text Services (CTS) are part of the CITE architecture. The CTS specification defines a network service for identifying texts and for retrieving fragments of texts by canonical reference expressed as CTS URNs.
- Introduction: see an overview of CTS
- Specification: the CTS specification document is currently being revised; the formal written specification of the protocol and Relax NG schemas defining the syntax of replies to CTS requests will be made available from the project's Sourceforge site.
- Test suite and CTS validator: the test suite includes a sample data set of texts and a TextInventory file describing them, test requests to apply to the sample data set, and files with valid responses to the test requests. CTS validator is a webapp that uses the test suite to measure an installation's compliance with the CTS 3 protocol. More details (with download links).
- Code: the reference implementation of CTS version 3 in groovy/java, and a parallel python implementation using Google's AppEngine framework are currently being tested. See a roadmap to final beta testing of the specifications and reference implementation.
- Sourceforge site: http://cts3.sourceforge.net/
Page last modified: Dec. 6, 2008
Digital Incunabula: always work in progress packaged on Dec. 20, 2008; installed on this site Sat, 20 Dec 2008. Edited by and copyright 2004-2008 Neel Smith except where otherwise noted.
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