Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998

[David M. Seaman]

BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1998 (RBS): Rare Book School is
pleased to announce its schedule of week-long courses for the summer of 
1998, to be offered on the grounds of the University of Virginia in 
Charlottesville, 13 July - 7 August. 

Subscribers to this list may find the course listed below to be of
particular interest:


27 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES. 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; text analysis tools; and the management and use of online
texts. See  <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/97> for detailed
information about last year's course. Some experience with HTML is a
prerequisite for admission to the course. Offered in Weeks 2 and 4.
Instructor: David Seaman.

DAVID SEAMAN is the director of the nationally-known Electronic
Text Center <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu> and on-line archive at the
University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently the creation 
and use of electronic texts in the humanities.

Tuition per course for RBS 1998 Summer Session is $595.

Applications may be requested via the contact information at the end of
this message. The complete brochure and Expanded Course Descriptions are
available at our Web site:

                <http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks>

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