Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 838.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:01:29 +0100
From: "Lisa Charlong" <lcharlon@unb.ca>
Subject: Summer Seminar Series at the University of New Brunswick
Announcing the Eighth Summer Seminar Series at the University of New
Brunswick/ Fredericton/ New Brunswick/ Canada/ August 13-20, 2004
For the past seven years, the Electronic Text Centre at the University
of New Brunswick has offered a highly successful summer institute,
“Creating Electronic Texts and Images- a Practical exploration of the
Research, Preservation and Pedagogical uses of Electronic Text and
Images”. This year the Centre is pleased to announce an expanded
offering of two one-week workshops, “Essentials of Electronic
Publishing” with David Gants, and “Intensive Introduction to Encoded
Archival Description” with Daniel Pitti. There will also be a two-day
workshop “Fundamentals of Digital Imaging” with Marc Bragdon.
The workshops are designed to effectively balance technical components
with theoretical and practical “hands-on” learning opportunities in
state-of-the-art facilities. Participants gain a greater
understanding of the latest techniques, tools and standards while
expanding their communities of practice.
Essentials of Electronic Publishing Workshop
Instructor: David L. Gants
Aug. 16-20
Registration limited to 20
David Gants, http://www.unb.ca/research/research_chair/grants.htm
works in the fields of English and Humanities Computing, with special
interests in textual and editorial theory, the history of the book,
and Renaissance English literature. As Canada Research Chair in
Humanities Computing, he is working to develop a new generation of
digital publications that incorporate the power of hypermedia and
computer networks to investigate textual culture.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will introduce students to the essential elements of
electronic publishing. Topics to be covered include:
Principals of transcription and editing
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Basic data structuring
Using XML
HTML/SGML to XML conversion
Cascading Stylesheets
XSL transformations
This course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who
are planning to develop digital projects; for scholars who are
creating Web-based resources as part of their teaching and research;
and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the
Internet. The teaching method will emphasize hands-on learning and
deal with a variety of source materials ranging from letters and
journals to essays and articles.
Course participants will learn to create a set of on-line digital
objects, while making extensive use of the TEI Guidelines and mark-up
resources: transcribing the source document, planning the textual
structure, marking up the resource, building stylesheets and XSL
transformations, and finally publishing the completed work on the Web.
As well, the course seeks to inform the creation of digital resources
with an awareness of the long tradition of books and printing. This
will include readings and lectures on textual scholarship and printing
history. Finally, there will be a half-day mini-workshop on creating
and manipulating digital images to accompany the electronic texts.
Intensive Introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Workshop
Instructor: Daniel Pitti Aug. 16-20 Registration limited to 15
Daniel Pitti, (http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~dvp4c/), is currently
Interim Co-Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the
Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. He has been involved in
the development of EAD, as the chief technical editor, since it’s
beginning in 1993. Daniel is a member of the EAD Working Group of the
Society of American Archivists. He has taught introductory and
advanced courses in the Rare Book School (Virginia) and around the
world since 1997.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an established international
standard for the XML-based encoding of archival description. This
course will provide an intensive, hands-on introduction to Encoding
Archival Description. Topics to be covered include:
Overview XML and XSLT
Overview of XML editing and publishing tools
History and Current Status of EAD
EAD Semantics and Structure
Guided encoding of a typical finding aid
Encoding of students' finding aids
Conversion techniques
Organization and funding models for archival description projects and
programs
This course is primarily aimed at archivists and manuscript librarians
who would like an intensive introduction to EAD that includes an
extensive supervised hands-on component. Repository administrators
contemplating the implementation of EAD and technologists working in
repositories will also find the course useful.
Lecture and discussion topics will include: an introduction to
Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet
Language-Transformations (XSLT); use of software tools to create and
publish finding aids; the history of EAD, focusing on its theoretical
and technological foundations; the current status of EAD and related
standards development activities, including Encoded Archival Context
(EAC) and Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS); in-depth
introduction to the structure and semantics of EAD; use of software
tools to create and publish finding aids; conversion techniques and
methodologies; and the integration and management of EAD in an archive
or library, including funding and organizational models. The class
will jointly encode and publish a finding aid that will illustrate a
wide variety of essential EAD and XML concepts. Students will also
encode and publish one of their own finding aids.
Fundamentals of Digital Imaging Workshop
Instructor: Marc Bragdon
August 1314
Registration limited to 15
Marc Bragdon is Electronic Services Librarian with the University of
New Brunswick Libraries Electronic Text Centre. Marc plays a lead
role in the ongoing development of digital preservation strategies for
UNB Libraries that incorporate international standards in digital
imaging and information exchange as well as associated networked
indexing and search/retrieval applications.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on
exercises, the instructor will introduce workshop participants to the
practical considerations of creating a digital imaging environment as
well as developing and maintaining production workflows. Theory
covered in the workshop will be firmly grounded in practice so that
participants leave with a strong sense of where to begin in setting up
a custom digital imaging operation that meets the highest standards
for preserving and making accessible heritage resources.
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COURSE PREREQUISITES:
This year’s Summer Seminar Series suggests that participants have some
experience with the Web and an elementary understanding of HTML or
XML. For the EAD workshop, applicants should have, at a minimum, a
basic knowledge of archival descriptive practices and experience using
word-processing software with a graphical user interface.
FACILITIES:
The workshops will be held in two state-of-the-art research and
teaching lab facilities in the Harriet Irving Library on the UNB
campus. A Windows PC will be available for each participant in a
comfortable air-conditioned environment.
REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS:
Registration before July 15 is $950.00 (CDN) for either five-day
workshop and $275.00 (CDN) the two-day workshop. Late registration
fees are $1,050.00 (CDN) for the five-day workshops and $300.00 for
the two-day workshop. Tuition includes taxes; all course fees,
nutritional breaks and lunches. Tuition does NOT include cost of
accommodations.
BEGINNING May 7, Workshop Registration and additional details will be
available at: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2004/
The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in picturesque downtown Fredericton is offering
special room rates at $109.00 plus tax (Canadian) for single occupancy.
Participants will be responsible for making their own reservations at (506)
455-3371 or 1-866-444-1946. Rooms are reserved under UNB Libraries and
must be booked by July 20 to ENSURE RATE AND AVAILABILITY. Additional
accommodations are available at the City of Fredericton tourism webpage:
http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/eccom04.asp
SPECIAL EVENTS FOR AUGUST 16-20 WORKSHOPS ONLY:
1. Tour and dinner at King’s Landing Historical Settlement Sunday
afternoon, August 15 (http://www.kingslanding.nb.ca/englishhome.htm)
2. Barbeque (beef & lobster) Wednesday evening, August 18 3.
Friday
Farewell Dinner August 20
Please note that modest additional charges will apply to some of above
special events.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Please contact Susan Oliver (suoliver@unb.ca)
OR
Lori Tozer at 506-452-6325
Information on prior institutes is available at:
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2003/summerinstitute.html
------- End of forwarded message -------Lisa Charlong
Assistant Director
Electronic Text Centre
University of New Brunswick Libraries
Fredericton NB
506-447-3458
FAX: 506-453-4595
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