Cataloging/EAD/Etext/XML courses at Virginia (RBS)

[Rare Book School]

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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

                http://www.rarebookschool.org

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.


45. PRINTING DESIGN AND PUBLICATION (MONDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 7-11). In today's 
cultural institutions, the texts for announcements, newsletters -- even 
full-dress catalogs -- are composed on computers, often by staff members 
with scant graphic design background. By precept and critical examination 
of work, the course pinpoints how available software can generate 
appropriate design from laser-printed posters and leaflets through complex 
projects involving commercial printers. Prime concerns are suitability, 
client expectations and institutional authority. Instructor: Greer Allen.

GREER ALLEN has designed publications for Colonial Williamsburg, the 
Houghton, the Beinecke, the Metropolitan, Yale's art museums, the 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rosenbach, the Art Institute of Chicago, 
Storm King Art Center, and many other libraries and museums. Formerly Yale 
University Printer, he now serves as Senior Critic in Graphic Design at the 
Yale School of Art. He has been designated Honorary Printer to the 
Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City.