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BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: Rare Book School 1998
Preliminary Reading List for Course No. 27; 46

Introduction to Electronic Texts

David Seaman
July/August 1998





Document Markup: Text Encoding Initiative & Extensible Markup Language

  1. Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., and Lou Burnard, eds., Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Oxford: TEI, 1994. Available on the web at:
    http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/teip4/, as part of the Etext Center's About SGML page.

    Read A Gentle Introduction to SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) -- Part I.2 of the TEI Guidelines -- and About TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative -- Part I.1 of the TEI Guidelines.

  2. Seaman, David. Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation. Charlottesville, 1994-6. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/uvatei.html

  3. XML: http://www.w3.org/XML/

  4. XML: http://www.microsoft.com/xml/

Metadata

  1. The TEI Header: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/uvatei5.html

  2. Dublin Core: http://dublincore.org/

  3. Encoded Archival Descriptions (EAD): www.loc.gov/rr/ead/eadhome.html and http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/ead/

Text and Image Scanning

  1. Besser, Howard, and Jennifer Trant. Introduction to Imaging: Issues in constructing an image database. Getty, 1996. http://www.ahip.getty.edu/intro_imaging/home.html Also available in print from Getty Trust Publications. Phone: 1-800-223-3431.

  2. The following Etext Center helpsheets, all at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/