Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 13, No. 459.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:03:31 +0000
From: "Jennifer de Beer" <jennifer@grove.uct.ac.za>
Subject: OTA Guide to Creating and Documenting Electronic
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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@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@ota.ahds.ac.uk
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Jennifer de Beer
Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) & INFOLIT
c/o the Adamastor Trust
Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)21 686-5070 Fax: +27 (0)21 689-7465
E-mail: jennifer@adamastor.ac.za
Regional Research Update: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/rru/index.htm
CALICO: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Calico/portal.htm
INFOLIT: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Infolit/default.htm
POINT TO PONDER:
Complex machines are an emergent life form
The Post-Human Manifesto 8.13
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