BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: Rare Book School 1997
Preliminary Reading List for Course No. 26; 46

Introduction to Electronic Texts

David Seaman
Monday 21 July - Friday 25 July 1997
Repeated Monday 4 August - Friday 8 August 1997

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.

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

The new HTML standard: Introducing HTML 3.2.. http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/Wilbur/

Dave Raggett. HTML 3.2 Reference Specification: W3C Recommendation 14-Jan-1997. http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-html32.html

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.
The following Etext Center helpsheets, all at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/
- Text Scanning (Optical Character Recognition): A Basic Helpsheet
- Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet
- Special Collections Digital Image Creation

Musciano, Chuck, and Bill Kennedy. HTML: the Definitive Guide. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1996. This should be easy to find in a good-sized bookshop. Online ordering information is available at http://www.oreilly.com/. A free preview can be found at http://www.ora.com/info/html/