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Cataloging/EAD/Etext/XML courses at Virginia (RBS) 

[Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]

RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer 2003 
Sessions, 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 
Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing additional details 
about the courses offered and other information about Rare Book School, 
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:


23. ADVANCED DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3-7). A 
continuation and extension of Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography 
(G-10), this course is based on the intensive examination of a 
representative range of books from the c16-c19. The goal of the course is 
to deepen students' familiarity with the physical composition of books; to 
gain further experience in the use of Fredson Bowers' Principles of 
Bibliographical Description; and to consider critically some of the uses of 
Bowers' method (and its limitations) in the production of catalogs, 
bibliographies, critical editions, and histories of books and reading. 
Instructor: Richard Noble.

RICHARD NOBLE is Rare Books Cataloguer at the John Hay Library, Brown 
University. He is co-author (with Joan Crane) of Guy Davenport: A 
Descriptive Bibliography 1947-1995 (1996), and co-editor of The Dramatic 
Works of George Lillo (1993). He has taught this Rare Book School course 
twice since 1999.


24. ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3-7). 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.


64. RARE BOOK CATALOGING (MONDAY-FRIDAY, 28 JULY - 1 AUGUST). Aimed at 
catalog librarians who find that their present duties include (or shortly 
will include) the cataloging of rare books or special collections 
materials. Attention will be given primarily to cataloging books from the 
hand-press period, with some discussion given to c19 and c20 books in a 
special collections context. Topics include: comparison of rare book and 
general cataloging; application of codes and standards (especially DCRB); 
uses of special files; problems in transcription, collation and physical 
description; and setting cataloging policy within an institutional context. 
Instructor: Deborah J. Leslie.

DEBORAH J. LESLIE is Head of Cataloging at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 
before which she held positions as rare book cataloger at Yale University 
and at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She is the chair of the RBMS 
Bibliographic Standards Committee. Various instructors taught this Rare 
Book School course 14 times between 1983 and 1997; DJL has taught it at 
least once annually since 1998.


75. PUBLISHING EAD FINDING AIDS. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, AUGUST 4-8). This course 
will introduce students to standards and software used for publishing 
Extensible Markup Language (XML) encoded documents, with a focus on EAD 
encoded finding aids. It is aimed at systems support personnel in archives, 
libraries, and museums, or self-supporting archivists, librarians, and 
museum staff who would like an introduction to EAD publishing technology 
and methods. The course will focus on writing stylesheets using Extensible 
Stylesheet Language-Transformation (XSLT), but will also cover Web server 
technology, available software for indexing and searching XML encoded 
information, and use of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Formatting 
Objects to produce printed finding aids. Topics include: in-depth 
introduction to the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL); authoring of 
stylesheets using the XSLT language, focusing on XML to XML, and XML to 
HTML transformations; use of multiple stylesheets and frames; survery and 
functional evaluation of available indexing and searching software; use of 
XSL Transformation and Formatting Objects to produce PostScript, PDF, RTF, 
and other printable encodings; survey and functional evaluation of XSL and 
XSLT software. The course will conclude with a discussion of management and 
administrative issues presented by Web publishing. Instructor: Daniel Pitti.

DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's 
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities 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.
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