Resources

Within each section, these will perhaps make the most sense when read in order. Please send suggestions of other resources to Miranda Remnek. We are especially interested in your comments on which articles are most and least useful, especially those whose content is covered by more current sources.

Introductions

Digitization as a whole

Smith, Abby. Why Digitize? Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
Morrison, Alan, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. Arts and Humanities Data Service. – This overviews digitization from start to finish.
Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000. – while focusing more on images than text, this guide describes the whole process of digitization.
Available in the LIS Library stacks (027.7 M869)

Markup

Bosak, Jon and Tim Bray. "XML and the Second-Generation Web." Scientific American. Vol. 280, No. 5. (May 1999), p. 89-94. – "The combination of hypertext and a global Internet started a revolution. A new ingredient, XML, is poised to finish the job"
Also available through EBSCO and in the Biology Library (Q.605 SAN.S.).
Darnell, Rick et al. "Procedural and Descriptive Markup." in Chap. 3 ("SGML and HTML DTD") of HTML Unleashed. (1997).
Morgan, Eric Lease. Getting Started with XML. 2003. – "designed for information professionals such as librarians and museum curators"
Document Analysis — from the XML Reference Guide at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College London.

TEI

Nellhaus, Tobin. "XML, TEI, and Digital Libraries in the Humanities." Portal: Libraries and the Academy. Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 2001), pp. 257-277.
Available from Project MUSE.
Mueller, Martin. A Very Gentle Introduction to the TEI Markup Language (archive copy from TEI Consortium)
Advance Reading for Introduction to XML and the TEI – from an introductory workshop offered in January 2004 at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

EAD

"Development of the Encoded Archival Description DTD" – A basic introduction.

Electronic texts in the humanities

Burrows, Toby. Text in the Machine: Electronic Texts in the Humanities. New York: Haworth, 1999.
Available in the LIS Library stacks (070.5797 B946t).
Hockey, Susan. Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Available in the Main Stacks (025.060013 H659e)

Guidelines and standards

EAD

Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
- Encoded Archival Description Tag Library: Version 2002
Backround on and discussion of EAD – from December 2003 E-Text Working Group meeting

TEI

The Text Encoding Initiative
- TEI U5: Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI – TEI Lite was meant to be a training device but has been widely used for encoding projects instead of "full TEI". TEI Lite also include a list of all elements.
- Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange: The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines (TEI P4) – This canoncal version includes a list of all elements near the end. However, there is no way to search these guidelines, short of searching the whole TEI site.
- Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange: The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines (TEI P4) – This non-canonical copy at UVa is searchable.
- Projects Using the TEI
- TEI@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list
TEI Text Encoding in Libraries: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices — These guidelines have been endorsed by committees in the library and scholarly communities.
TEI/MARC "Best Practices" — a recommendation on using the TEI header in a way consistent with cataloging practice

TEI extensions and other DTDs

TEI Medieval Manuscripts Description Work Group (TEI MMSS) – This working group works closely with MASTER.
Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts (EAMMS) – EAMMS is a North American project in partnership with MASTER. EAMMS seeks only to develop guidelines for encoding catalog descriptions (much like EAD (see below) focuses on "finding aids").
Digital Scriptorium – Another American project, focusing more on images and bibliographic information about them.
Markup Guidelines for Documentary Editions – These guidelines, developed by the Model Editions Partnerships (MEP), are a TEI-conformant markup scheme that modifies some of the recommendations in the TEI Guidelines to make it more easily applied to historical documents.

Regularized dates

Other

Humanist Discussion Group – "an international electronic seminar on the application of computers to the humanities" (a moderated email distribution list affiliated with ACH and ALLC).
Linking EAD to Electronically Retrievable Sources (LEADERS)
Script Encoding Initiative
The XML FAQ
ZVON – "The Guide to the XML Galaxy."

Advanced

Comparison of SGML and XML (a technical comparison)
The Annotated XML Specification – much more comprehensible than the original. This is based on the first edition of version 1.0, which is now considered obsolete. There has been one official version since then (1.0 second edition), and version 1.1 is in the works.
encoding URLs
XML.com – from O'Reilly

Bibliographies

Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography.
WWP Bibliography
Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
The CoverPages. – exhaustive in its retrospective documentation of nearly everything related to markup. Overwhelming for the beginner, but good if you're trying to track down something very specific.

Campus digital projects and scholarship

Outdated but still valuable

Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 176, No.1 (July 1945), pp. 101-108.
Available from The Atlantic Online.
Wisbey, Roy, ed. The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research: Papers from a Cambridge Symposium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
Goldfarb, Charles F. The SGML Handbook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Johnson, Eric. "Electronic Texts and Their Use for Literary Research." c. 1993.
Robinson, Peter. The Transcription of Primary Textual Sources Using SGML. Oxford: Office for Humanities Publications, 1994.
Ide, Nancy and Jean Vèronis. Text Encoding Initiative: Background and Context. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995.
Coleman, Jim. "Creating and Delivering E-Texts Over a Network." 1995.
McGann, Jerome. "The Rationale of HyperText." 1995.
McCarty, Willard. Selective Bibliography for Humanities Computing. (1995-1996)
Finneran, Richard, ed. The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Lancashire, I. et al. Using TACT with Electronic Texts: A Guide to Text-Analysis Computing Tools Version 2.1 for MS-DOS and PC-DOS. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996.
Willett, Perry. "The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts." Public-Access Computer Systems Review. Vol. 7, No. 6 (1996).
Price-Wilkin, John. "Just-in-time Conversion, Just-in-case Collections." D-Lib Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 5 (May 1997).
DeRose, Steven J. The SGML FAQ Book: Understanding the Foundation of HTML and XML. Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 1997.
Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. "What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care?" 1997.
Hockey, Susan: "Electronic Texts: The Promise and the Reality." American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter. Vol. 4, No. 4 (February 1997).
CoverPages: Academic Applications



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