XML workshop in Madison WI

[Debra Shapiro]

XML for Libraries: Potentials, Pleasures, and Pitfalls
http://www.slis.wisc.edu/academic/ces/XML.html

Date: March 7-8, 2002
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location: The Pyle Center, UW-Madison
Fee: $349
Registration deadline: February 20
CEUs: 1.5

This 2-day course is designed for librarians who have heard of XML 
and want to learn how the technology can be put to work in a library. 
What are the advantages of creating malleable electronic texts? 
Various output options, such as web use, ebooks, and PDAs will be 
discussed.

Course outline: Day 1

A plain-English guide to HTML/SGML/XML; DTDs and stylesheets; 
structural markup and parsing An up-close look at the Text Encoding 
Initiative tagset in action.  How does XML data work in a library? 
How does tagging and metadata get done?  What are the range of 
possibilities for using the resulting files?

Day 2

A practical "hands-on" session, applying what was learned in Day One 
to add XML tags to some sample documents, and to look at tools for 
markup, display, and conversion of XML texts Build Once/Use Many: XML 
source files and the output options, including web use; ebooks; Palm 
Pilot; WAP; PDF; and Print On Demand

Course instructor: David Seaman is the founding director of the 
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. This 
internationally-known Internet library service pursues twin missions 
with equal seriousness of purpose: to build a standards-based online 
collection and to build and maintain a user community adept at the 
creation and use of these items.

To register:

Please print this form and mail to Pyle Center Registration Office, 
Dept. 102, 702 Langdon Street, Madison WI 53706-1487 USA,

OR Fax (608) 265-3163 or 800-741-7416

OR Call (608) 262-7942 (Faxes and phone registrations must include 
payments by credit card or purchase order)

XML for Libraries registration form

Library Information Studies Registration Form UW# L82
Please enroll me in: XML for Libraries March 7-8 2002 (2020) Fee: US 
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(NOTE to students outside the U.S: If you prefer to pay via bank 
transfer please email Jane Pearlmutter, jpearl at slis.wisc.edu for more 
information)


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dshapiro at slis.wisc.edu
Debra Shapiro
Continuing Education Services
UW-Madison SLIS
4282 Helen C. White Hall
Madison WI 53706
608 262 9195
FAX 608 263 4849