[Asis-l] Five-Day EAD/Etext/XML Courses at RBS

[Rare Book School]

                 [Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]

RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Winter and Early Spring 
Sessions 2004, 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 
the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions, providing additional details about 
the courses offered and other information about RBS, 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:


13 (L-70). ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 5-9 JANUARY).  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.


24 (L-80). IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION  (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8-12 
MARCH). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized 
machine-readable descriptive 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 XML encoding techniques in part using 
examples selected from among their own institutions' finding aids. Other 
topics covered include: the context out of which EAD emerged; introduction 
to the use of XML authoring tools; the conversion of existing finding aids; 
publishing finding aids; funding sources for EAD projects; and integration 
of EAD into existing archival processing.

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. He has 
taught this course since 1997, usually twice annually.