[DOC] OTA Guide to Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts

[Terry Kuny]

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         OTA Guide to Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts
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The Oxford Text Archive is pleased to announce the web publication of
"Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts", a new guide to take users
through the basic steps involved in creating and documenting an electronic
text or similar digital resource.  The guide is available at:

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/

A printed version will also be published by Oxbow Books later in the year.
For more information, please contact Oxbow Books, email:
oxbow at oxbowbooks.com, +44 (0) 1865) 241249, fax: ++44 (0) 1865) 794449,
URL: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/

The guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and organizations
involved with, or planning, the digitization of texts or similar material.
As electronic texts are not limited to a specific discipline, genre,
period, or language, the guide aims to recommend good practice and
standards that are relevant to a variety of projects.  The authors have
tended to concentrate on those types of electronic text that, to a greater
or lesser extent, represent a transcription of a non-electronic source,
rather than the category of electronic texts which are primarily composed
of digitized images of a source text (e.g. digital facsimile editions).
Many of the guidelines are, however, more widely applicable.

The guide includes a glossary and a bibliography of recommended reading,
and offers guidance about:

Document Analysis
Digitization - Scanning, OCR, and Re-keying
Document Markup
Important Global Standards
Documentation and Metadata

The guide is the first of two created by the Oxford Text Archive as part of
the Arts and Humanities Data Service publication series Guides to Good
Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources
http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html. The series aims to provide guidance
about applying recognized good practice and standards to the creation and
use of digital resources in the arts and humanities.

Oxford Text Archive
web: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
email: info at ota.ahds.ac.uk