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XQuery Samples for Blue Mountain Project

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CCliffordAnderson
Last edited Mar 24, 2017
Created on Mar 24, 2017

This example shows a sequence of XQuery scripts that analyze the language metadata of TEI-encoded journals from the Blue Mountain Project, a digital archive of avant-garde publications. The scripts query a collection called `bluemountain-transcriptions` using the `fn:collection` function, counting documents, extracting distinct languages from `tei:langUsage`, and identifying journals with multiple `tei:textLang/@mainLang` attributes. Later scripts partition documents by language, using `db:create` to store French texts in a new database, and verify the results by listing the URIs of the partitioned files. The code relies on the XQuery 3.1 standard and the eXist-db database API for collection access and database creation.

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