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+# The EOA cosmos
+
+An inventory of all programs related to EOA and how they play together
+
+## EOASkripts
+Contains the most important programs for the whole document conversion workflow.
+
+ - `create_tmpbib.py` : A helper script that creates a temporary bibtex file from a formatted list of references.
+ - `eoatex2imxml.py` : Converts Latex files into a customized DocBook XML file.
+ - `fix_tei.py` : This program is a processing step after the conversion from docx to TEI.
+ - `imxml2django.py` : Create an XML file that can be inserted into the Django database of an EOAv1 installation.
+ - `imxml2epub.py` : Convert a customized DocBook XML file into a set of files that constitute the contents of an EPUB file.
+ - `imxml2tei.py` : Unfinished program to convert a customized DocBook XML to TEI-XML.
+ - `libeoabibitem.py`: A library for the formatting of bibliographical references.
+ - `libeoaconvert.py` : A collection of functions for the different conversion steps
+ - `mkimage.py` : Create an automatically generated dummy cover to be used during testing.
+ - `tei2eoatex.xsl` : An XSL converter from TEI-XML to EOATeX
+ - `tei2imxml.py` : A converter from TEI to customized DocBook XML.
+
+## chapterdownload_frontmatter
+A program for generating LaTeX frontmatters for chapter downloads. In
+fact, it provides functions for a general query on book metadata. A
+variant creates ONIX type XML.
+
+The main functionality has been built into the new eoa-django platform
+and can be run via `manage.py`. A recent addition is
+`find_chapters.py` which uses data from the LaTeX auxiliary files to
+determine the chapter breakpoints and splits the book pdf into the
+single chapters that are made available for download, as well.
+
+## eoa-csl
+A nearly-abandoned version of a CSL configuration for EOA. Currently
+slightly customized version of `chicago-author-date.csl` is used.
+
+## eoa-django
+Contains the Django platform which is currently re-developed. The
+functionality offered via the `manage.py` interface is currently
+expanded and offers
+ - `bib2tei` : Converts a bibtex bibliography file to a TEI-XML `listBibl` structure
+ - `check_tei_output`
+ - `publication_add_chapter_frontpages`
+ - `publication_export_tei` : Exports a publication from the database as an TEI-XML file
+ - `publication_list`
+ - `publicationimport`
+ - `statistic`
+
+## eoa-django2-gitlab
+A prototype for the new EOA2 platform. It accepts TEI-XML documents as input.
+
+## eoa-opds-module
+A proof-of-concept to create files for an OPDS catalogue service.
+
+## eoa-tei-schema
+Contains the RELAX NG schema for the EOA publications.
+
+## eoa-umbrellapage
+A small Django-CMS platform for the umbrella page.
+
+## eoa-utilities
+A collection of small tools and files
+
+## eoa_sample_project
+A EOATeX sample project that contains all the possible markup
+possibilities. Also a testing ground for new features. The text markup
+is congruent with the example file found in `eoa-tei-schema`
+
+## eoa_skeleton
+Provides the basic structure for an EOATeX project.
+
+## latex2eoa
+A tool to convert common LaTeX markup into EOATeX markup.
+
+## rssfixer
+A small tool to correct the links in the rssfeeds.