DLXS Workshop

Location: Instructional Lab, Room 4059 on the 4th floor of the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, University of Michigan. See more location information.
Dates: July 22-26, 2002. See the schedule for this 5 day workshop.
Instructors: Phil Farber, Alan Pagliere, Chris Powell, John Weise, with José Blanco, Kat Hagedorn, Matt Stoeffler University of Michigan

Course objectives

1. Learn to install DLXS Text Class & Image Class middleware
2. Learn about indexing and searching text data with the XPAT search engine
3. Learn to encode and prepare data for use with DLXS middleware
4. Learn to configure and deploy Text Class and Image Class collections using DLXS middleware. Time permitting, classes other than Image Class and Text Class may be discussed.
   

Prerequisites

It helps if you are familiar with:

• UNIX shell commands
• HTML
• vi or emacs
• SGML or XML

And we will probably have brief encounters with, but no prior experience is necessary in, the following:

• Programming in Perl or C or Java
• Familiarity with Object Oriented concepts like: class, subclass, inheritance, method
• Experience programming CGI applications

Sites and information to peruse before coming:

• Michigan's implementation of Text Class
• Michigan's implementation of Image Class
• Michigan's implementation of Bib Class
• Michigan's implementation of Finding Aids
• DLXS Documentation Site
• Digital Library Production Service home

Other sites that use DLXS-based software:

• Making of America
• American Verse Collection
• Bentley Historical Library Finding Aids
• Bibliography Collections
• University of Michigan Technical Reports
  

Other miscellaneous collections (with interesting features and functionality)

• Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (Sorting, Restrictions of use, etc.)
• Pictures of Record (Text and images data in separate collections on separate machines, XPAT server daemon)

History

• What started it all: WWW-to-PAT Gateway