Rare Books School 1997

University of Virginia
Course 46:
Introduction to Electronic Texts & Images

David Seaman

4th-8th August 1997

This syllabus outlines the major subjects for each day. All sessions are in the Electronic Classroom, Alderman Library 4th Floor, unless otherwise noted. Each morning will start with a brief review and reminder of the salient features of the previous day.

Monday:

• am -- Introductions/Projects
  Etexts at Virginia: 1992-1997
  
  
• pm -- A Practical Introduction to SGML: HyperText Markup Language 3.2 and 4.0
  Looking ahead to XML

Tuesday:

• am -- Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTD
  Discussion of text creation procedures
  
  
• pm -- Group splits in two:
  • Group I: Scanning -- a hands-on session // SGML guidelines
  • Group II: SGML guidelines // Scanning -- a hands-on session
  [The scanning sessions will be held in the Electronic Text Center, Alderman Library, 3rd floor]

Wednesday:

• am -- The Great Transcription: using the TEI Guidelines for manuscript materials.
  
  
• pm -- Data control and MARC interchange: the Text Encoding Initiative header
  
  Another form of SGML: the Encoded Archival Descriptions DTD (we will build an EAD guide for our collection of Civil War letters).

Thursday:

• am -- Transcription and mark-up issues.
  
  Digital images of textual items: creation, manipulation, uses, and control.
  
  
• pm -- Digital Images continued. Text analysis software.

Friday:

• am -- The Great Parsing: validating TEI documents using NSGMLS
  
  Our texts go on-line Friday lunchtime.
  
  
• pm -- SGML as an interchange format: automated TEI to HTML conversion
  
  The final product and review.