Introduction to Etexts: Syllabus

May 11^th and 14^th, 2002

David Seaman
Director, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

OVERVIEW

This course is designed for a library, academic, and publishing audience. It will provide a wide-ranging and practical exploration of XML-based electronic texts and related technologies (including ebook formats and Print On Demand).

Syllabus

This syllabus outlines the major subjects for each day. The second morning will start with a brief review and reminder of the salient features of the previous day.

Day 1:
am:     Introductions
        A Practical Introduction to SGML and XML

pm:     Using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTD.
        Ebook technologies.

Day 2:

am:     Text and Image Scanning -- theory and practice.
        Project management techniques

pm:     XML software tools.
        The Great Transcription: using the TEI Guidelines for manuscript materials.

Day 3:

am:     The TEI header and other metadata issues
        Introduction to stylesheets

pm:     TEI/XML entities -- special characters, and inclusion of image and other external files
        Digital images of textual items

Day 4:

am:     The Great Parsing: validating TEI documents

pm:     SGML/XML as an interchange format
        Demonstration of TEI to web and ebook conversions
        The final product and review.