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RESOURCES

ETEXTS AT VIRGINIA

Homepage: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
Projects: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/
Ebooks: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

MARKUP META-LANGUAGES

XML

http://www.w3.org/XML/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/ Microsoft's XML site includes guidelines for authoring and displaying XML documents.
http://www.xml.com/ XML.COM is rich source of articles and other features about XML.
Michael Beddow, "What is XML and what use is it?: Some answers from a Humanities perspective." http://www.anglo-norman.net/sitedocs/whatis.html
David Seaman, "XML for Fun and Profit." http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/services/helpsheets/xml-sgml/xml-basic.html

Advanced XML Topics

Jay Greenspan, "Understanding XSLT." http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/43/index2a.html?tw=authoring
Norman Walsh, "Entities: What are They Good For?" http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/08/xmlqna0.html
Norman Walsh, Understanding XML Schemas http://www.xml.com/pub/a/1999/07/schemas/index.html?page=1
Text Manipulation: UNIX Help -- File Manipulation Utilities http://www.ualberta.ca/HELP/unix/utilities2_.html

SGML

Virginia: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/xml-sgml/sgml.html
The SGML/XML Web Page, by Robin Cover: http://xml.coverpages.org/sgml.html

MARKUP TAGSETS

TEI

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium 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 TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange http://www.tei-c.org/P4X/
Searchable version at UVA: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standards/tei/teip4/

EAD

EAD Official Web Site: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/
EAD at Virginia: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/guides/

HTML

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

STYLESHEETS

Brett Merkey. "Cascading Style Cheatsheet: Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples." http://home.tampabay.rr.com/bmerkey/cheatsheet.htm
Epic Studios (UK): "CSS Beginners Tutorial." http://www.epicstudios.co.uk/files/tutorials/tut.php?tid=9
G. Ken Holman, "What's the Big Deal With XSL?" http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/1999/04/holman/xsl.html
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
CSS and Media Types http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/cssmediatypes.html

METADATA

DUBLIN CORE

http://dublincore.org/
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/ (A web service for generating HTML Dublin Core META tags).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april03/weibel/04weibel.html "State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative." D-Lib Magazine, April 2003

METS

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/. The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library.
"METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard." Richard Gartner, Pearson New Media Librarian, Oxford University Library Services. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_report_0205

MODS

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS): http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/

MARC

MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloguing) - is a format standard for the storage and exchange of bibliographic records and related information in machine-readable form: http://www.loc.gov/marc/

ONIX

ONIX is the standard for representing and communicating book industry product information in electronic form. ONIX is developed and maintained by EDItEUR jointly with Book Industry Communication and the Book Industry Study Group: http://www.editeur.org/

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

OAI has two classes of engagement: Data Providers administer systems that support the OAI-PMH as a means of exposing their metadata; Service Providers use metadata harvested via the OAI-PMH as a basis for building value-added services: http://www.openarchives.org/
OAIster: http://www.oaister.org

TOOLS

The Cover Pages: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
Xmetal: http://www.xmetal.com/
NoteTab is a text and SGML/XML editor for Windows http://www.notetab.com/
MS Office 2004 Professional Edition. http://office.microsoft.com/
XML SPY http://www.xmlspy.com/
TEI Pizza Chef -- will help you design your own TEI-conformant document type definition (DTD) in either SGML or XML format. http://www.tei-c.org/pizza.html
Cygwin: a Linux-like environment for Windows. http://www.cygwin.com
FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) -- print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO): http://xml.apache.org/fop/
Instant SAXON: an XSLT processor that can be executed directly on Windows 95/98/NT/2000 platforms (requires the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine). http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.3/instant.html
XMLint: a tool that checks whether an input file is a well formed or valid XML file, from the Microsoft XML Developer Center http://www.microsoft.com/xml/.