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Digital Encoding
  •        What’s behind E-text Resources?
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Before Metadata...
  • How to structure your data
  • Ontology: a specification of a conceptualization of reality
  • http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil/
  • OWL (Ontology Web Language)
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
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Mark-up Languages
  • GML: Generalized Markup Language
    •  IBM (1969-1980)
  • SGML: (Standard Generalized Markup Language
    • American National Standards Institute (ANSI) (1980- )
  • XML: Extensible Markup Language
    • W3C (1996- )
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What is Metadata?
  • http://www.vraweb.org/metadata.html
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Examples of Metadata schema
  • TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
  • Dublin Core
  • EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
  • MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging)
  • RDF (Resource Description Framework)


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Variations of TEI
  • TEI:  Full DTD, uses SGML (437 elements)
  • TEI Lite:  Subset of the TEI DTD, uses SGML (140 elements)
  • Bare Bones TEI:  An even smaller subset of TEI developed in 1994 primarily as a learning tool, uses SGML (33 elements)
  • TEI xLite: TEI Lite DTD, rewritten in XML
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TEI in the Metadata World
  • TEI and its variations have become some of the most widely used text encoding standards for texts in the humanities.
  • While the full original form of TEI is perhaps too elaborate for many projects, it’s abridged versions such as TEI xLite have nevertheless been used on many successful projects.
  • http://www.tei-c.org/Applications/index-lang.html


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Dublin Core
  • Dublin Core: all elements are optional.
  • The base set of DC elements = 15 elements
  • title, creator, subject, description, publisher, contributor, date, type, format, identifier, source, language, relation, coverage, rights
  • DC-Qualified:
  • http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/qualifiers.shtml
  • http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/rdf/dc-in-rdf-ex.html
  • http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcdot/
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EAD
  • Developed in the mid-1990’s, with version 1.0 of the DTD being released in 1998
  • Version 2 (called EAD 2002)
  • 146 elements defined in EAD 2002 DTD
  • http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/element_index.html


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MARC
  • MARC21
  • http://www.loc.gov/marc/
  • MARC21XML
  • http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml///
  • MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
  • http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
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"Can’t find a schema to..."
  • Can’t find a schema to fit your project?
    • Make your own!
  • Custom making a DTD (Document Type Definition)
  • http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/default.asp
  • http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/letopis/search.jsp?lang=en
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Version on of custom DTD
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Simplified version of mark-up
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The End!
  • Further Reading