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;
Thursday (changed from Wednesday) evening
we will go out for dinner (on us)
- Introductions and course objectives
- Administrative details (Perry Willett / Suzanne Chapman)
- Overview of systems (Phil)
- XPAT
- Web Server
- Authentication / Authorization System
- Directory Structure
- Middleware
- Collection and Group Databases
- Collection Manager
- XPAT (Phil)
- Discussion of text and region indexing
- Searching / Query Language
Presentation:
- Member Demonstrations (by those who volunteered).
- XPAT continued (Phil)
- User Interface Issues (John)
- XML
files and PIs
- XSL files
- General layout of XSL templates
- Data Conversion to Unicode/XML (Chris)
- Findaid Class (Tom and Chris)
- Overview
- Encoding Issues
- Data Preparation
- Indexing
Presentation:
- Findaid Class continued...
(Tom and Chris)
- Web Presentation/Rendering
- Customizing
- Troubleshooting
- Text
Class (Chris)
- Highlights and summary of differences relative to Findaid Class
- OAI: UMProvider, new Nameresolver,
other OAI discussion (Kathleen,
Josh, Kat)
- Image Class (John)
- Content
Preparation and Loading
- Image Class (John)
- Content
Preparation and Loading
- Enhancements
- Collection
Customization
- Other
/ Advanced Topics
- Please join us for dinner at Pizza House, Thursday, 6pm. It's on us!
- DLXS Documentation Wiki
- Installation (Phil)
- XPAT installation
- Middleware installation
- Database installation and upgrading (Phil)
- Troubleshooting middleware (Tom)
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.
- Other Topics, possibly but not necessarily including: