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Syllabus | Resources

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This course will provide a wide-ranging and practical exploration of electronic texts and related technologies. 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, 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.
• PDF, Palm, 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, 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.

The collection we are working on is the Correspondence of Charles Tenney with Adelaide Case, 1861-1863 (Accession #11616, The Special Collections Department, University of Virginia). See also the EAD Guide [PDF printable version] and OPAC Catalog Record: [PDF printable version]

David Seaman
Executive Director
Digital Library Federation
1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
tel: 202-939-4762
fax: 202-939-4765
e-mail: dseaman@clir.org
web: http://www.diglib.org/