EAD Course at Virginia, March 2002

[Rare Book School]

[Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]

RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its 2002 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:

                 http://www.rarebookschool.org

Subscribers to the Web4Lib list may find the following Rare Book School 
course to be of particular interest:

25. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION  (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 
11-15). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized 
machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed 
at archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an 
introduction to EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on 
component. Students will learn SGML encoding techniques in part using 
examples selected from among their own institution's finding aids. Topics: 
the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction to the use of SGML 
authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of existing finding aids to 
EAD. Instructor: Daniel Pitti.

DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's 
Institute for Advanced Technology 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.