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Starting points

Links to introductions, tutorials and software for students and scholars who want to learn about and begin using using any of the following fundamental technologies.

While these starting points should be generically useful, the first ones to be completed and updated are technologies currently supported by student and faculty in the Holy Cross Classics Department's St. Isidore of Seville Research Lab.

Each "starting point" can be read or referred to independently, but they are presented here in a suggested sequence for new comers with no prior background.

Starting points for supported applications

1. Secure communications on the internet
2. Version control systems for managing extended projects [incomplete]
3. Markup languages for rich content
4. Web serving to publish and disseminate information [incomplete]
5. Transforming markup
6. XML-based publication using cocoon
7. Relational databases for efficient querying of large datasets
8. Geographic Information Systems for working with spatial information

Starting points for other topics (applications available in St. Isidore of Seville Lab, but not yet supported)

• Unicode and other schemes for representing complex character sets
• Text manipulation with regular expressions
• Statistical analysis and visualization for working with quantitative data
• 3-D visualization and modelling
• Type setting of musical scores
• Choosing and installing an open-source operating system