DLXS Collection Implementors Workshop

Course objectives

1. Become familiar with the DLXS Text & Image, and Bib Class middleware
2. Become familiar with the basics of text encoding using SGML
3. Introduce principles of document analysis, including DTD reading and using XPAT
4. Discuss issues of interface design and build a rudimentary interface to a sample collection
5. Gain a basic understanding of the process of deploying an electronic collection for Web access
6. Discuss issues of user support for electronic collections and of the relationship of the digital library to the traditional library

Required readings: (these open in a separate window)

• SGML Primer
• The Gentle Introduction to SGML from the TEI Guidelines
• Introductory portions of the Pat 5.0 manual
• The Image Class (detailed description)
• Image Class DTD Description
• Preparing Data for Image Services (guidlelines for content providers)
• Image Class Data Transformation
• The Text Class (detailed description)

Other useful things to think about:

• DLPS Homepage: gateway to all our collections plus lots of stuff on how we think about things around here
• Making of America (a Text Class collection)
• Image Services, University of Michigan, Digital Library Production Service (Current production system/collections)
• All of the Text Class documentation
• SGML Creation and Delivery: The Humanities Text Initiative
• OTA Guide to Good Practice -- Text Encoding
• TEI Listserv -- send email to TEI-L@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU with

      subscribe Your Name
in the body of the message.
• Build your own TEI DTD -- not TEILite, which is already built, but a combination of other core sets.
• ISO 639-2 Language Codes -- we use the three letter codes, because we need to distinguish between English, Middle English, and Old English.
• All of the Image Class documentation
• Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging, from the Digital Library Federation and Research Libraries Group
• Introduction to Imaging by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant
• Moving Theory Into Practice by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger