[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.
