The Creation and Use of Electronic Texts & Images
David SeamanElectronic Text Center,
University of Virginia
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C.
14-15 November 1997
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Introduction |
Syllabus |
Participants |
Selected Resources |
Seminar Project:
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Churchman, August 8, 1787
Seminar Project:
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Churchman, August 8, 1787
This Folger Institute seminar gathered college faculty who are conducting or contemplating an electronic project for research or classroom use. Over the course of an intensive weekend, the seminar addressed the overarching theoretical, pedagogical, and technological frameworks in which the variety of its participants' projects are accommodated.
As part of the practical application of SGML and archival imaging, we created as a group a Text Encoding Initiative tagged text of a Jefferson letter from the University of Virginia collection. This item is now freely available as a text and image facsimile on the Web, as part of the University of Virginia Library's publicly-accessible Modern English Collection.
The sessions for this seminar were held either in the Folger Library or in the Digital Library Visitor's Center at the Library of Congress.
Syllabus
FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER
| 8:45 a.m. | Coffee and pastries. Folger Library Board Room |
| 9:00 a.m. | Introductions and Projects.
Folger Library Board Room |
| 10:00 a.m. | An Introduction to Scanning and Archival Imaging Issues.
Includes a demonstration of the scanning of historical maps.
National Digital Library, Library of Congress. |
| 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 2:00-5:00 p.m. | Etexts online:
An Introduction to Encoding Texts in SGML.
Includes a demonstration of the American Memory project.
National Digital Library, Library of Congress. |
| 5:00-6:00 p.m. | Reception.
Folger Library Founder's Room |
SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER
| 8:45 a.m. | Coffee and pastries Folger Library Board Room |
| 9:00 a.m. | Review and planning Folger Library Board Room |
| 10:00 a.m. | Pulling it all together --
creating an SGML text. National Digital Library, Library of Congress |
| 12:30-2:00 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 2:00-5:00 p.m. | Teaching and analysis tools
in the electronic environment.
Folger Library Board Room |
Participants
The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
Raymond Camp
North Carolina State University
Kathleen Campbell
Austin College
Kurt Daw
Kennesaw State University
Martin Elsky
Graduate School, Brooklyn College, CUNY
William Ingram
University of Michigan
Susan Jenson
University of Maryland, College Park
Roslyn Knutson
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Richard Kuhta
Folger Shakespeare Library
Zoe A. Schneider
Georgetown University
Selected Resources
Electronic Texts
The Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 37 : Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges-- The United States Focus
http://www.acls.org/op37.htm
Early American Fiction:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/eaf/
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
SGML at Virginia : http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/xml-sgml/sgml.html
The SGML Web Page: http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html
Van Herwijnen, Eric. Practical SGML. 2nd ed. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
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/
The Text Encoding Initiative Home Page http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/
Seaman, David. The Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/uvatei.html
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
EAD Standards Page: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org
UVA HTML Help: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/sgmlscan.html
Musciano, Chuck, and Bill Kennedy. HTML: the Definitive Guide. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1996.
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
OCR Scanning
Text Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scantext.html
Optical Character Recognition: Some Sample Scanshttp://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan-train.html
Image Scanning
General Image Scanning
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scanimage.html
Archival Image Scanning
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/specscan.html
Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core Homepage
http://dublincore.org/The metadata group at UKOLN
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/The Dublin Core Generator
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
(A script for generating HTML Dublin Core META tags).
Tools
Textual Tools at the Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/textual.htmlThe Centre for Computing in the Humanities, U Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/