Recipe 1: replicate the CroALaBib database

What is needed

• Mercurial SCM; Croatica et Tyrolensia also have a small tutorial
• An XML database; we use BaseX
• Documentation of BaseX is on its wiki
• Croatica et Tyrolensia have deployment instructions for BaseX too
• Knowledge of XQuery language for querying XML is welcome (you can start from BaseX Adventures of our project)

Procedure

• Install all required software
• Clone the croalabiblio repository from BitBucket: hg clone https://bitbucket.org/nevenjovanovic/croalabiblio
• Build the database with BaseX, either by adding all files in the repository to a new database, or by using the script create-croalabib.bxs (part of our BitBucket repository with XQueries and other scripts: croalatransform) — modify the address of cloned croalabib directory as needed:

XQUERY db:create("croalabib", "/home/yourusername/croalabiblioclonedir/", (), map { 'ftindex': true(), 'chop': false(), 'intparse' : true() })

• The script is run from the command line by giving the addresses of basex executable and of the .bxs script:

neven@figulus: ./basex/bin/basex -c /home/neven/local-scripts/croalabib-backup.bxs

• Start the BaseX GUI and open the croalabib database
• Or, start the BaseX server (on the command line, from the BaseX directory: ./bin/basexhttp -S) and go to Database Administration page, at the local URL such as http:localhost:8984/dba