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[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (51)
Subject: Ray Siemens on "The Dynamic Textual Edition" Feb 20,
U. Maryland
[2] From: Rare Book School <fac-fbap@virginia.edu> (48)
Subject: EAD Etext XML courses at Virginia (RBS)
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:19:51 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Ray Siemens on "The Dynamic Textual Edition" Feb 20, U.
Maryland
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
February 11, 2003
The Dynamic Textual Edition, Underpinnings and Above
A talk by Ray Siemens
Sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Thursday, February 20, 2003, University of Maryland, College Park.
McKeldin Library, Room 6137
3:00-4:00 p.m
>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:58:35 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ann Mairin Hanlon <ahanlon@wam.umd.edu>
>To: david@ninch.org
>
Announcement:
The Dynamic Textual Edition, Underpinnings and Above.
A talk by Ray Siemens, Founder and editor (1994-9) of the electronic scholarly
journal Early Modern Literary Studies.
Sponsored by MITH, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities.
Thursday, February 20, 2003
3:00-4:00 p.m.
University of Maryland, College Park
McKeldin Library, Room 6137
The idea of the dynamic textual edition builds on earlier notions of the
dynamic text and the hypertextual edition. The dynamic text, as defined
some 15 years ago, consists of an electronic text and advanced textual
analysis software; it is, in essence, a text that indexes and concords
itself, allowing the reader to apply textual analysis techniques to
interact with the text in a dynamic fashion. More common today is the
hypertextual edition, which exploits the ability of encoded hypertextual
organisation to facilitate a reader's interaction with the text, the
apparatus (textual, critical, and otherwise) that traditionally
accompanies scholarly editions of texts, as well as relevant external
textual and graphical resources, critical materials, and so forth. Rarely
do the two notions of electronic editions meet. Mr. Siemens's talk will
address the necessary underpinnings and user-level functionality of an edition
where the two - the dynamic text and the hypertextual edition - do meet.
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:19:25 +0000
From: Rare Book School <fac-fbap@virginia.edu>
Subject: EAD Etext XML courses at Virginia (RBS)
[Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]
RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer 2003
Sessions, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning
rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special
collections to be held at the University of Virginia.
FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure and
Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details
about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School,
visit our Web site at
Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School courses to
be of particular interest:
24. ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3-7). A practical
exploration of the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical uses of
electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will center
around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images,
for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival Description guide.
Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding
Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of XML; publishing on the
World Wide Web; and the management and use of online texts. Some experience
with HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the course. Instructor: David
Seaman
DAVID SEAMAN became Director of the Digital Library Federation in 2002. He
was the founding director of the internationally-known Electronic Text
Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia.
75. PUBLISHING EAD FINDING AIDS. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 4-8). This course
will introduce students to standards and software used for publishing
Extensible Markup Language (XML) encoded documents, with a focus on EAD
encoded finding aids. It is aimed at systems support personnel in archives,
libraries, and museums, or self-supporting archivists, librarians, and
museum staff who would like an introduction to EAD publishing technology
and methods. The course will focus on writing stylesheets using Extensible
Stylesheet Language-Transformation (XSLT), but will also cover Web server
technology, available software for indexing and searching XML encoded
information, and use of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Formatting
Objects to produce printed finding aids. Topics include: in-depth
introduction to the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL); authoring of
stylesheets using the XSLT language, focusing on XML to XML, and XML to
HTML transformations; use of multiple stylesheets and frames; survery and
functional evaluation of available indexing and searching software; use of
XSL Transformation and Formatting Objects to produce PostScript, PDF, RTF,
and other printable encodings; survey and functional evaluation of XSL and
XSLT software. The course will conclude with a discussion of management and
administrative issues presented by Web publishing. Instructor: Daniel Pitti.
DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in 1997, before which
he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of California,
Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival Description
initiative.
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