Location: University Library Instructional Center, Room 4059 on the 4th floor of the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, University of Michigan. See more location information.
Dates: August 1-5, 2005.
Instructors: Phil Farber, Alan Pagliere, Chris Powell, John Weise, with Kat Hagedorn, and José Blanco, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan
Contact: John Weise, DLPS, University of Michigan

Course Outline

The preliminary Course Schedule & Outline (and this entire site) will be expanded as the workshop preparation is finalized.

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.
  5. Learn about using DLXS Middleware's User Interface model of XML, XSL, and processing instructions.
  6. Time permitting, discuss Bib Class and Broker, Finding Aids, DLPS's development environment

Prerequisites

Be a member of DLXS

It helps if you are familiar with:

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