14th Annual Slavic Librarians' Workshop
Digital Text Workshop
July 7–9, 2004
Both events will be held at the ACES Library, Information, and Alumni Center
(LIAC), home of the Funk ACES Library for Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental
Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
14th Annual Slavic Librarians' Workshop
Tuesday, July 6 • Heritage Room (rm. 107)
- Acquisitions Issues • Coordinator: Steve
Corrsin, Assistant Director & Head of Acquisitions, Library System,
Wayne State U. • 1–3 p.m.
- Cataloging Issues • Coordinator: Jackie Byrd, Head,
Area Studies Cataloging Section, Indiana U. Bloomington Libraries, IUB •
3:15–5:15 p.m.
- ABSEES Online • Focus session on new developments
& future directions • Coordinator: Marina Pluzhenskaia, Managing
Editor, ABSEES • 5.15-6.00 p.m.
- Vendor Presentations & Cocktail Hour • Courtesy
of Proquest Information & Learning • 6–7 p.m. (East
View Publications, IDC Publishers, Proquest Information/Learning, Russia Online,
Russian Press Service, others)
Wednesday, July 7 • Heritage Room (rm. 107)
- Adding Value to Digital Texts: Major Encoding Systems
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Its Applications in Scholarship
& Libraries • Martin
Mueller, Professor of English & Classics, Northwestern University
• 8:30–9:30 a.m.
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) • Martin
Mueller, Professor of English & Classics, Northwestern University
• 9:45–10:45 a.m.
- Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
• Christopher
Prom, Assistant University Archivist, University of Illinois Archives,
UIUC • 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Infrastructure Issues: Creation & Delivery
- Creating
Cyrillic Texts: Cyrillicization, OCR • Andy
Spencer, East European, Slavic, & Turkic Bibliographer, U. Wisc.—Madison
• 1:30–2:30 p.m.
- Delivering Cyrillic
Texts: DLXS-XPAT, XSLT
• Kevin Hawkins,
Electronic Publishing Librarian, Scholarly Publishing Office, U. Mich.;
Tom Habing,
Research Programmer, Grainger Engineering Library, UIUC • 2:45–3:45
p.m.
- Review: Cyrillic Projects: Concept to Fruition •
Robin LaPasha, Perkins Library,
Duke U. • 4.00-4.45 p.m.
- Welcome Reception • Courtesy of East View Publications
• 5-6.30 p.m
Digital Text Workshop
Note: Participation in the lab sessions on July 8 & 9 requires a modest
$20 registration fee. (Attendance on July 7 requires no charge.)
Wednesday, July 7 • Heritage Room (rm. 107)
For program, see schedule above for second day of Slavic Librarians'
Workshop (July 7).
Thursday, July 8 • Instruction Lab (rm. 509)
- Structural Markup
- Introduction to Markup: Structural & Basic Content •
David Birnbaum, Associate
Prof. & Chair, Dept. of Slavic Lang. & Lit., U. Pittsburgh
• 8:30–9:30 a.m.
- Encoding Tools • Kevin
Hawkins, Electronic Publishing Librarian, Scholarly Publishing Office,
U. Mich., Ann Arbor • 9:45–10:45 a.m.
- Hands-On • Kevin
Hawkins, Electronic Publishing Librarian, Scholarly Publishing Office,
U. Mich., Ann Arbor • 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
- Slavic Scholarly Applications I
- Slavic Manuscripts
• David Birnbaum,
Associate Prof. & Chair, Dept. of Slavic Lang. & Lit., U. of Pittsburgh
• 1:30–2:30 p.m.
- Hands-On • David
Birnbaum, Associate Prof. & Chair, Dept. of Slavic Lang. &
Lit., U. of Pittsburgh • 2:45–3:45
p.m.
- Review Session: Archiving Issues • Workshop staff • 4:00–4.45 p.m.
Friday, July 9 • Instruction Lab (rm. 509)
- Semantic Markup
- Introduction to Analytical Markup/Text Analysis: Using
the TEI • Kevin
Hawkins, Electronic Publishing Librarian, Scholarly Publishing Office,
U. Mich. • 8:30–9:30 a.m.
- Slavic Scholarly Applications II
- New Automated Approaches
Please note that, as usual, participants in both these events will be asked
to register as associates of the Summer
Research Laboratory for a $35 fee. (See the application
for more information.) This makes participants eligible for a housing
grant, awarded for a maximum of 10 days. The application deadline for housing
grants is April 30. Otherwise, housing costs $40 a night.
For more information, contact Miranda
Remnek.
