Introduction to Electronic Texts & Images

University of Virginia Rare Book School

David Seaman

August 1998

SUMMARY OF RESOURCES

ETEXTS

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/projects/

EAF

Early American Fiction: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/

SGML

Virginia: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/xml-sgml/sgml.html

The SGML Web Page: http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html

TEI

The Text Encoding Initiative Home Page: http://www.tei-c.org/

The Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/uvatei.html

The complete P4 TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/teip4/

EAD

EAD at Virginia: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/ead/

HTML

World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org

XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) : http://www.w3.org/XML/

PNG

(Portable Network Graphics): http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/Overview.html

DUBLIN CORE

List of elements: http://dublincore.org/documents/1998/09/dces/

Metadata: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/

DC Dot: Dublin Core Metadata Editor: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/

• (A script for generating HTML Dublin Core META tags).

OCR Scanning

Text Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scantext.html

Optical Character Recognition: Some Sample Scans: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scan-train.html

Image Scanning

Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/scanimage.html

Archival Digital Image Creation: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/scan/specscan.html

Tools

Virginia: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/text/textual.html

Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, U Toronto: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/