Subject: Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:35:35 -0800
Message-Id: <v02130515b17e383df00d@[204.31.254.44]> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:35:35 -0800 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
May 12, 1998
BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1998 (RBS)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
13 July - 7 August
<http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks>
>Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 10:05:17 -0400
>From: "David M. Seaman" <dms8f@ETEXT.LIB.VIRGINIA.EDU>
>To: ETEXTCTR-L@cornell.edu
>Subject: Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998
>
>BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1998 (RBS): Rare Book School is
>pleased to announce its schedule of week-long courses for the summer of
>1998, to be offered on the grounds of the University of Virginia in
>Charlottesville, 13 July - 7 August.
>
>Subscribers to this list may find the course listed below to be of
>particular interest:
>
>27 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES. 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; text analysis tools; and the management and use of online
>texts. See <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/97> for detailed
>information about last year's course. Some experience with HTML is a
>prerequisite for admission to the course. Offered in Weeks 2 and 4.
>Instructor: David Seaman.
>
>DAVID SEAMAN is the director of the nationally-known Electronic
>Text Center <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu> and on-line archive at the
>University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently the creation
>and use of electronic texts in the humanities.
>
>Tuition per course for RBS 1998 Summer Session is $595.
>
>Applications may be requested via the contact information at the end of
>this message. The complete brochure and Expanded Course Descriptions are
>available at our Web site:
>
> <http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks>
>
>Book Arts Press/Rare Book School biblio@virginia.edu
>114 Alderman Library fac-fbap@poe.acc.virginia.edu
>The University of Virginia (804) 924-8851
>Charlottesville
>Virginia 22903
>
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