Kiln is an open source multi-platform framework for building and deploying complex websites whose source content is primarily in XML. It brings together various independent software components into an integrated whole that provides the infrastructure and base functionality for such sites.
Kiln is developed and maintained by a team at the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH), King’s College London. Over the past years and versions, Kiln has been used to generate more than 50 websites which have very different source materials and customised functionality. Since DDH has in-house guidelines for using TEI P5 to create websites, Kiln makes use of certain TEI markup conventions. However, it has been adapted to work on a variety of flavours of TEI and other XML vocabularies, and has been used to publish data held in relational databases.
This implementation of Kiln is extended with XSLT and JavaScript components for the Digital DuChemin project. It provides an environment for rendering MusicXML files in an HTML5 canvas via the MEI format. See links below for more details.
- Kiln: https://github.com/kcl-ddh/kiln/
- MEItoVexFlow: https://github.com/raffazizzi/MEItoVexFlow/tree/experimental
- VexFlow: https://github.com/raffazizzi/vexflow/tree/experimental