| Location: |
University Library Instructional Center, Room 4059 on the 4th floor of
the Shapiro
Undergraduate Library, University of Michigan. See
more location information. |
| Dates: |
July 30 - August 3, 2007.
|
| Instructors: |
Phil Farber, Chris
Powell, Tom Burton-West, John
Weise, Suzanne Chapman, with Kat
Hagedorn, and José Blanco,
Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan |
| Contact: |
John Weise, DLPS, University
of Michigan |
The preliminary Course
Schedule & Outline (and this entire site) will
be expanded as the workshop preparation is finalized.
- Learn to install DLXS Text Class & Image Class middleware
- Learn about indexing and searching text data with the XPAT search engine
- Learn to encode and prepare data for use with DLXS middleware
- Learn to configure and deploy Text Class and Image Class collections
using DLXS middleware.
- Learn about using DLXS Middleware's User Interface model of XML, XSL, and
processing instructions.
- Time permitting, discuss Bib Class and OAI/Broker, Finding Aids, DLPS's development
environment
- Be a member of DLXS
- It helps if you are familiar with:
- UNIX shell commands
- HTML
- vi or emacs
- XML, XSLT
- And we will probably have brief encounters with, but
no prior experience is necessary in, the following:
- Programming in Perl or another programming language
- Familiarity with Object Oriented concepts like: class, subclass,
inheritance, method
- Experience programming CGI applications
- Familiarity with basic functionality of the DLXS
system. As we will not
be including an official "demo" of the different classes' middleware as
we have in previous workshops, if you are not familiar with the functionality
of DLXS systems, please test drive these URLs in some depth: