[Asis-l] Program at Cleveland State University March 18: Text encoding / Cleveland History book project

[Penny OConnor]

Text Encoding Initiative Program / 

Cleveland History and Western Reserve Digital Book Collection at CWRU

Sponsored by NORASIST, the Northern Ohio Chapter, 

American Society for Information Science and Technology

 

Title:

TEI Projects and Small Libraries: Encoding the 

Cleveland History and Western Reserve Digital Book 

Collection at Case Western Reserve University

 

Speakers: 

Virginia Dressler, Richard Wisneski, and Stephanie Church

from Case Western Reserve University

 

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cleveland State University

Room 502 Michael Schwartz Library

(located in Rhodes Tower)

 

 

6 - 7 p.m.    Pre-paid Dinner from Café Ah-Roma; Networking

7-8:30 p.m.    Text Encoding talk (free)

 

 

The program is free but there is a charge for dinner, which must be
pre-paid.* 

Please reserve a spot even if you are coming for the program only.**  

Students welcome!

 

 

This event is sponsored by 

 

the Northern Ohio Chapter 

of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ~

NORASIST

 

http://www.slis.kent.edu/~norasis/

 

 

Abstract

This discussion will present one small library’s attempt at a TEI Project
following Level 2 encoding, with its 

desire to incorporate some features defined by Level 3.  Case Western
Reserve University's Kelvin Smith 

Library has begun a project to digitize and text-encode its books on
Cleveland History.  The project, Books on 

Cleveland, Ohio and the Western Reserve Digital Text Collection, contains
over 130 primary source texts on 

the history of Cleveland and its surrounding area, which date from the
mid-nineteenth century to the early 

twentieth century, and cover a wide array of subjects, including: ethnic
groups in and around Cleveland; 

Cleveland charity organizations; religious organizations in and nearby
Cleveland; directories; Cleveland 

educational history; Western Reserve settlement; and historical homes and
landmarks of Cleveland and 

Cuyahoga County.  Currently, approximately half of the collection has been
scanned and OCR'ed, and an initial 

workflow has begun, which includes structural text markup in conformance to
P5 Level 2 encoding, but with 

aspects of Level 3 encoding, particularly in regards to divisions, lists,
and figures.  The project is expected to 

last two years, and then continue with contributions from neighboring
institutions. 

 

Speaker Bios

 

Richard Wisneski is head of Bibliographic and Metadata Services for Kelvin
Smith Library at Case Western 

Reserve University.  He is a member of the Best Practices for TEI in
Libraries Group, DMS Training 

Assessment Committee, and OhioLINK Cataloging Functional Requirements
Committee.  His research interests 

include TEI encoding practices for libraries, and interactions between
academic libraries and digital humanities 

programs.

 

Stephanie Church is an Acquisitions Assistant for the Kelvin Smith Library
at Case Western Reserve 

University.  She received her MLIS in 2008 from Kent and enjoys text
encoding whenever possible. 

 

Virginia Dressler is a Digital Library Programs Librarian at Case.  After
completing a Master's in Art Gallery 

and Museum Studies at the University of Leeds, Virginia found employment at
the Louisiana State Museum as a 

digital archivist in January 2005.  After evacuating New Orleans after
Hurricane Katrina, Virginia eventually 

relocated to her Northeast Ohio hometown and finished a Master's in Library
and Information Science at Kent 

State University in 2007.  She is currently enrolled in the Certificate
Program of Advanced Study in Digital 

Libraries at Kent State University.

 

Dinner Choices and Prices

(dinners include sandwich, chips, pickle and cookie;  

vending machine beverages will be available for purchase)

 

Cafe Smoked Turkey

Our signature smoked turkey scintillatingly stacked on our sesame egg braid
bread with green leaf 

lettuce, tomatoes, and provolone cheese, and spread with real mayonnaise

 

Classic Tuna Salad

An all-time favorite served with green leaf lettuce and tomatoes 

on our homemade honey whole wheat bread

 

Veggie Ah-Roma

A walk through the garden with green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, red onions,
cucumbers, green bell 

peppers, mushrooms, and alfalfa sprouts served on a multigrain baguette with
honey mustard dressing

 

Students/Retired/Between Jobs    $9

NORASIST, SLA, ALA members    $11

Others                                           $13

 

*****

 

To reserve your spot, please contact Sue Fensore  sfensore at kent.edu

 

By 3/10/10, mail check for dinner, and indicate dinner choice to:

NORASIST c/o Sue Fensore

36112 Billingsley Row

Avon, OH  44011

Please make check payable to NORASIST

 

**If you’d like to come for the talk only, please reserve your spot by
emailing the 

following information to Sue Fensore (sfensore at kent.edu):  your name, phone
# 

and preferred email, as well as your organization’s name

 

*If you would also like dinner, please email Sue indicating your dinner
choice and 

affiliation, and mail your check to the above address by March 10

 

 

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