Introduction to Text Encoding
Instructor: Lisa Charlong
August 2-3
Registration limited to 15
Course Fee: $450.00
Introduces participants to the issues and practices surrounding the transcription and markup of electronic texts. Through hands-on exercises and discussion, participants will learn the fundamentals of text transcription, text encoding, and displaying texts on the World Wide Web. The course is designed for editors, librarians, academics and others who would like to learn more about text encoding, a basis for electronic publishing, digital collections, and text analysis.
Participants will learn the fundamentals of XML, XSL, and CSS, the data standards used for text encoding, transformation and display. While the course will focus on the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines to Document Creation and Interchange (TEI), persons with an interest in other schemas (i.e. DocBook) are encouraged to attend.
Familiarity with HTML is a prerequisite and background-reading material will be provided.
Advanced Topics in Building Electronic Texts
Instructor: David Seaman
August 4-6
Registration limited to 20
Course Fee: $525.00
This course will further develop participant skills in the use of TEI, the presentation of data with CSS and XSL stylesheets, and in the manipulation of XML data. Topics will include TEI document design, project management approaches, XML conversion to other formats, and a discussion of relevant digital library technologies, such as the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
Building Metadata Application Profiles
Instructor: Diane Hillmann
August 4-6
Registration limited to 15
Course Fee: $525.00
Increasingly, projects with metadata requirements are looking at constructing application profiles to meet their metadata needs, where metadata, sometimes taken from more than one element set, is combined with local policies and guidelines. This course will provide a practical, hands-on investigation into application profiles and their issues. Topics will include investigating some sample profiles, such as the RSLP collection description schema; the concepts of namespaces and registries; data dictionaries; controlled vocabularies; and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and Resource Description Framework (RDF) for metadata interchange. Participants will be expected to build a profile of their choosing, hopefully, related to a real life need.
Advanced Web Publishing
Instructor: Daniel Pitti
August 8-12
Registration limited to 20
Course Fee: $875.00
The course will focus on indexing and rendering of Extensible Markup Language (XML) texts for Web publishing. Topics covered will include Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) and Formatting Objects (XSL:FO), XQuery, rendering into HTML and PDF, and open source XML publishing tools. Students will receive hands on experience installing publishing software, and developing stylesheets and indexes.
Required: experience creating XML documents, in particular documents encoded using EAD or TEI and an aptitude for working with computers. Highly recommended: some programming or scripting experience.
Fundamentals of Digital Imaging
Instructor: Marc Bragdon
August 12-13
Registration limited to 15
Course Fee: $275.00
Digital Imaging combines technical infrastructure with people, policies, and techniques for capturing, processing, archiving and Web publishing collections of visual resources. Such resources might include manuscripts, photographs, maps, and paintings. Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, workshop participants will be introduced to the practical considerations of creating a digital imaging environment that meets the highest standards for preserving and making accessible visual resources.