Workshop Schedule

each morning runs from 9 am to 12pm with a break at 10:30 am;
each afternoon session from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm with a break at 3:00;
on days 1 and 2, lunch will be provided along with an informal presentation by one of the workshop attendees;
Wednesday evening we will go to Cottage Inn for dinner (on us)

Day 1

Morning

  1. Introductions and course objectives
  2. Administrative details (Perry Willett)
  3. Overview of systems (Tom)
    1. XPAT
    2. Web Server
    3. Authentication / Authorization System
    4. Directory Structure
    5. Middleware
    6. Collection and Group Databases
    7. Collection Manager
  4. XPAT (Chris)
    1. Discussion of text and region indexing
    2. Searching / Query Language

Lunch provided: 806 South, Hatcher Graduate Library, 12:00 - 1:30 pm

Presentation:

Afternoon

  1. XPAT continued (Chris)
    1. Fabricated regions
  2. Unicode support in DLXS (Phil)
  3. User Interface Issues (Tom, Suzanne, Chris, John)
    1. XML files and PIs
    2. XSL files
    3. General layout of XSL templates

    4. Day 2

    Morning

    1. Data conversion to XML / Unicode (Chris)
      1. Migration issues
      2. Data transformation

    Lunch provided: 806 South, Hatcher Graduate Library, 12:00 - 1:30 pm

    Presentation:

    Afternoon

    1. Text Class (Chris)
      1. Content preparation
        1. Text Class DTD Overview
        2. Text Conversion Strategies
        3. Other Text Modifications
        4. Validate and Normalize SGML
        5. Storing Texts and Page Images

    Day 3

    Morning

    1. Text Class Index Building with XPAT (Chris)
      1. Set Up Directories and Files for XPAT Indexing
      2. Build the XPAT Index
    2. Text Class Collection to Web (Chris)
      1. Review the Collection Database Entry with CollMgr
      2. Review the Groups Database Entry with CollMgr
      3. Make Collection Map
      4. Set Up the Collection's Web Directory
      5. Try It Out

    Afternoon

    1. Findaid Class (Tom)
      1. Similarities and differences to Text Class
      2. Encoding Issues
      3. Data Preparation
      4. Indexing
      5. Web Presentation/Rendering
      6. Customizing
      7. Troubleshooting

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    Evening

    1. Please join us for dinner at Cottage Inn.

    Day 4

    Morning

    1. Image Class (John)
      1. Content Preparation and Loading

    Afternoon

    1. Image Class (John)
      1. Content Preparation and Loading
      2. Enhancements
      3. Collection Customization
      4. Other / Advanced Topics

     

    Day 5

    Morning

    1. Installation (Phil)
      1. XPAT installation
      2. Middleware installation
    2. Database installation and upgrading (Phil)
    3. Multiple installed releases
    4. Troubleshooting middleware (Phil)

    Afternoon

    Friday afternoon is left as a kind of grab bag. Below are topics that we can cover if there is interest, but we are happy to take the entire time to answer questions or discuss topics and issues of particular interest to the workshop participants.

    1. BibClass: steps for data prep and transform (Kat)
    2. OAI, Broker, MODS, SRU (Kat, José)
    3. Other Topics, possibly but not necessarily including: