Database Reference
In-Depth Information
eXist-db is at the core of [the Office of the Historian's] open government and digital
history initiatives. It powers our
public website
, allowing visitors to search and browse
instantly through nearly a hundred thousand archival government documents. On the
fly, it transforms our XML documents and query results into web pages, PDFs, ebooks,
and APIs and data feeds. Its support of the high-level XQuery programming language
and its elegant suite of development tools empower me and my fellow historians to
analyze data and answer research questions.
The open source nature of eXist-db has delivered far more value to us than its simply
being “free”; its active, welcoming, expert collaborative user community has helped us
learn, discover eXist-db's plethora of capabilities, and find the best solutions to our
research and publishing challenges. eXist-db belongs in the toolkit of all digital
humanities, open government, and publishing projects.
—Joe Wicentowski,
Historian,
Office of the Historian,
U.S. Department of State
Contributing to the Community
There is a vibrant and supportive community around the eXist software, whose goal
it is to make using eXist easy for beginners and as painless as possible for advanced
developers. The eXist community prides itself on the agility and quality of its respon‐
ses to support requests.
There are many ways to contribute to eXist and the community. You need not be a
crack software engineer; even beginners asking questions on the mailing list can help
others learn from their issues and encourage the developers to simplify or consider
new approaches.
To get in touch with the eXist community, you have several channels available to you:
Email: the eXist-open mailing list
This is the official preferred mechanism, and your best bet for getting a quick
answer. There are also the
eXist-development
and
eXist-commits
mailing lists; the
former is used for technical discussion of features and fixes that go into eXist,
and the latter is a feed of any changes made to the source code of eXist.
For further details, see
http://sourceforge.net/p/exist/mailman/
,
http://exist-
Stack Overflow: the exist-db tag
While the mailing lists should currently be considered the primary support
mechanism, Stack Overflow is also becoming popular for asking eXist questions.
You can find eXist questions and answers under the
exist-db tag
.
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