BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: Rare Book School May 2002
Electronic Texts and Images
David Seaman
This course will provide a wide-ranging and practical exploration of
electronic texts and related technologies such as ebook formats. It is aimed primarily
(although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop,
use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, or
teaching purposes. Drawing on the experience and resources available at
UVa's Electronic Text Center, the course will cover the following areas:
- how to create archival-quality etexts, including digital image facsimiles;
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for etext development and use;
- the management and use of Web-based XML text databases.
- ebook and other non-web browser output options from XML.
As a focus for our study of etexts, the class will create an electronic
version of an archival collection (this year we are working on
Civil War letters),
mark its structure with XML-compliant Text Encoding Initiative tagging,
create digital images of sample pages and illustrations,
build an EAD guide,
produce versions from the TEI master file for web and ebook dissemination,
and make it all available on the Internet.
Transcriptions
Background Reading List
Syllabus
Summary of Resources
Participants
DicChri.xml
ISOlat1.pen
ISOlat2.pen
ISOnum.pen
ISOpub.pen
ISOtech.pen
MobHaml.xml
rbs2002.clb
rbs2002.xsl
brand-ead.xml
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/2002/