Reading List (DTW)
Here is a list of readings with background information on the
topics we will cover during the Digital Text Workshop. If you are not familiar
with these sources, you may want to skim them before you come to UIUC, especially
the articles by (1) Abby Smith, (2) Jon Bosak and Tim Bray, and (3) Rick Darnell.
Digitization as a whole
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.
– Read the section on the TEI
and on EAD
"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.
- Look at the W3C's XML
in Ten Points page, and this XML
FAQ, both linked to from this MITH
webpage – from an introductory workshop offered in January 2004 at
the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
TEI
- The Text Encoding Initiative
- 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. archived copy
from TEI Consortium of A Very Gentle Introduction to the TEI Markup
Language
EAD