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)

Day 1 - Monday

Morning - Monday

  1. Introductions and course objectives
  2. Administrative details (Perry Willett / Suzanne Chapman)
  3. Overview of systems (Phil)
    1. XPAT
    2. Web Server
    3. Authentication / Authorization System
    4. Directory Structure
    5. Middleware
    6. Collection and Group Databases
    7. Collection Manager
  4. XPAT (Phil)
    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 - Monday

  1. XPAT continued (Phil)
  2. User Interface Issues (John)
    1. XML files and PIs
    2. XSL files
    3. General layout of XSL templates

Day 2 - Tuesday

Morning - Tuesday

  1. Data Conversion to Unicode/XML (Chris)
  2. Findaid Class (Tom and Chris)
    1. Overview
    2. Encoding Issues
    3. Data Preparation
    4. Indexing

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

Presentation:

Afternoon - Tuesday

  1. Findaid Class continued... (Tom and Chris)
    1. Web Presentation/Rendering
    2. Customizing
    3. Troubleshooting

Day 3 - Wednesday

Morning - Wednesday

  1. Text Class (Chris)
    1. Highlights and summary of differences relative to Findaid Class

Afternoon - Wednesday

  1. OAI: UMProvider, new Nameresolver, other OAI discussion (Kathleen, Josh, Kat)

Day 4 - Thursday

Morning - Thursday

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

Afternoon - Thursday

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

Evening - Thursday

  1. Please join us for dinner at Pizza House, Thursday, 6pm. It's on us!

Day 5 - Friday

Morning - Friday

  1. DLXS Documentation Wiki
  2. Installation (Phil)
    1. XPAT installation
    2. Middleware installation
  3. Database installation and upgrading (Phil)
  4. Troubleshooting middleware (Tom)

Afternoon - Friday

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. Other Topics, possibly but not necessarily including: