Electronic Text Centre (ETC), University of New Brunswick Libraries

[CR: 19970405] [Table of Contents]

Under the Director Alan Burk, (also Associate Director of Libraries), the Electronic Text Centre of the University of New Brunswick Libraries is seeking "to make available and publish over the Web a variety of information from archival material to journals and newspapers. The Centre is also planning to assist faculty and graduate students in publishing texts electronically. The Centre in the near future will be offering instructional assistance, the use of a server, software and eventually physical space, pc's and scanners for project construction."

"At the Centre, archival texts will be marked up in the Standard Generalized Markup Language or SGML. Some other types of publications such as journals will be tagged primarily in HTML. SGML is a descriptive markup language which allows for rich search capabilities and for easy print or Web publishing. HTML is largely a formating language allowing information to be delivered over the Web. At the Centre data is stored on a Sun ULTRASPARC server which is running OpenText search and retrieve software for tagged text. SGML tagged text is converted on the fly to HTML for delivery over the Web."

"With the assistance of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia, an ETC staff member has been marking up in SGML the Benjamin Marston diaries. The Benjamin Marston Diaries Project was designed as a prototype in the creation of the University of New Brunswick Electronic Text Centre (ETC). The diaries form part of the Libraries' Winslow Papers and consist of 3 volumes, covering most of the years 1778-1787. Marston was a prosperous and respected Harvard graduate whose life was torn apart as a result of the American Revolution. A declared Loyalist, Marston quickly lost his wealth, position and family and spent the remaining 17 years of his life struggling to survive."

Links:

• Home Page
• About the Text Centre
• Summer 1997 Seminar on SGML; see also the text version of announcement
• Centre Announcements online
• Benjamin Marston Diaries
• Read the Marston Diary (SGML)

Addresses:
Electronic Text Centre (ETC)
Harriet Irving Library, Fifth Floor
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3
Tel: 506-447-3309
FAX: 506-453-4595
Email: mailto:etext@unb.ca
Email: burk@unb.ca (Alan Burk, Director)

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Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal

[CR: 19980323] [Table of Contents]

A program is underway by the Direction des publications électroniques des Presses de l'Université de Montréal to use SGML as the base technology for constructing a specific production line for learned journals. The first step consists in receiving from the publishers the articles in word processing format, and converting them to SGML. The SGML documents thus become the genuine products of the electronic publishing process. The encoders then create and disseminate on the Internet some by-products (SGML, HTML, PDF, and XML). The publications team hopes that these diversified means of diffusion will satisfy the various needs of the readers. Up to now they have produced an electronic version of an issue of Géographie physique et Quaternaire journal as a pilot project. They are now entering a new project which consists in producing all the issues of five different learned journals for the current year." [adapted from a communique of Marie-Hélène Vezina]

Links:

• Main Page
• Project use of SGML

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The Canterbury Tales Project

[CR: 19951206] [Table of Contents]

The Canterbury Tales Project is sponsored by the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford under the leadership of Project Director Professor N. F. Blake, Executive Officer Dr Peter Robinson, and Principal Transcriber Dr Elizabeth Solopova. "The Canterbury Tales Project CD-Rom's will be published by Cambridge University Press. The first of these will contain transcripts of the fifty-five manuscripts and four pre-1500 printed editions of the Wife of Bath's Prologue and computer images (subject to necessary permissions) of all eleven hundred pages of these manuscripts and editions. It will also contain full collations and analyses of the manuscript relations of the Prologue, in both regularized and unregularized forms, databases of spellings and variants, and (for the Macintosh version) collation and analytic software." [from the electronic edition description]

The electronic edition is being published on CD-ROM using the DynaText browser from Electronic Book Technologies. DynaText displays SGML documents and supports a rich set of searching, hypertext linking, and structured document navigation features based upon the SGML markup. In the production of the CD-ROM, the Collate program is used to to carry out the text collations, and then to generate all the collations and spelling databases in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Collate is also used to convert the witness files into SGML.

Links:

• The Canterbury Tales Project Home Page
• Principal Investigators
• Demonstration (using screen shots) of Dynatext presentation for the critical edition
• Contact the Project
• Project Description from Electric Scriptorium (conference) [mirror copy with text only; graphics are required to make this document most meaningful]

Project addresses:

University of Oxford
The Canterbury Tales Project
Faculty of English
St Cross Building
Manor Road
Oxford
E-MAIL: PETERR@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK

University of Sheffield
The Canterbury Tales Project
Humanities Research Institute
Rm 1.19, Arts Tower
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S10 2TN
Tel: 0114 - 2824789 or 2768555 ext. 4789
Fax: 0114 - 2768251
E-MAIL: M.PIDD@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK

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University of Pittsburgh Electronic Text Project

[CR: 19960728] [Table of Contents]

"The University of Pittsburgh Electronic Text Project is a reseach and development effort investigating the technology and policy issues involved in producing, collecting, and serving richly marked-up scholarly texts over the University and wide-area network. The project was chartered in July 1994, and commenced in September 1994. The Electronic Text Project is composed of librarians and faculty from the University of Pittsburgh. An initial and large and component of the project is the SGML TEI encoding of the texts, and a subset of the Project Team is working exclusively on those aspects. Two other subsets of the Project Team will be convened to deal with Interface Design and Collection Issues."

"The [pilot] project will involve a small focused team of librarians and faculty with a teaching or research interest in electronic text. The project will produce: (1) a detailed survey and analysis of electronic text issues and technology, to be used to in form future ULS electronic text policy, (2) a set or sets of complex electronic texts of scholarly importance utilizing SGML markup, and (3) a core of electronic text technology experience and knowledge from which can develop future electronic text services and initiatives." Tasks include..."In depth study and practice with electronic text technologies and scholarly-use applications, primarily SGML, the TEI and HTML applications of SGML, and existing e-texts, textual computing software and corpora as available."

Links:

• Electronic Text Project, University of Pittsburgh
• Electronic Text Pilot Project Charter. University of Pittsburgh Library System
• Electronic Text Project (ETP): American Medical Association DTD Development, by David J. Birnbaum. "The ETP team adopted the Text Encoding Initative's (TEI) teilite.dtd, a reduced TEI-conformant DTD, as its starting point for the etp_ama.dtd that we will be using to encode early volumes of the Journal of the American Medical Association." [mirror copy]
• mirror copy of ETP_AMA DTD
• Automating the Structural Markup Process in the Conversion of Printed Documents to Electronic Texts, by Casey Palowitch (cjp+@pitt.edu) and Darin Stewart (dlsst51+@pitt.edu)
• AMA-ETP Tagging Team Guidelines, by Trent E. Curtis
• AMA-TEI-LITE Mark-Up Elements [mirror copy, July 1996]
• General Documentation (Project)

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Georgetown University: Labyrinth Medieval Studies and Peirce Projects

[CR: 19950903] [Table of Contents]

Project Opéra (Outils pour les documents électroniques, recherche et applications)

[CR: 19951113] [Table of Contents]

A wide range of SGML-related research has been conducted for the past 10 years within French universities and government laboratories. Many theoretical papers and design documents have now been made available on the Internet, and the commercial products (the Grif SGML editor; Symposia) are visible proof of the success of these researches. Grif SA (a technical association of INRIA) has commercialized SGML-based products built upon the early prototype Grif editor, while parallel development of the structure editor Thot continues as a research effort within Project Opéra.

Bibliographic entries have been created in this database for representative works made available from the Opéra Project. Look for titles under the following names: Vincent Quint (e.g., the languages of Grif); Jacques André (e.g., SGML and train crashes); Extase K. A. Akpotsui (e.g., Thesis on Type Transformation); Cécile Roisin (e.g., cut-and-paste in structured editing); Dominique Decouchant (e.g., structured, cooperative editing); Philippe Louarn (e.g., electronic documents for the WWW); Hélène Richy (e.g., indexing of structured documents); Irène Vatton (e.g., with V. Quint, hypertext aspects of Grif). Richard Furuta (now at Texas A&M University) while not a part of Project Opéra, has co-authored a number of publications relating to the prototype structure editor Grif (e.g., structured editing with Grif). Fuller bibliographic lists are available in the project reports, and the documents themselves are accessible via the IMAG (Institut d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble)and IRISA FTP servers.

Vincent Quint (Grenoble) is current Project Head for the Opéra Project, and Jacques André (Rennes) is Opéra's scientific co-leader. Opéra has working relations with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Lausanne, Maryland and California (at Berkeley). It "is concerned with electronic documents (technical documentation, hypertexts, multimedia, digital typography, etc.). It studies models of documents which take into account both their logical or abstract organization, their graphical presentation and contents. It also involves the development of editing techniques based on these models. The long-term goal is to design and build an editing environment for developing and maintaining large, complex multimedia documentation. OPERA is a common project with INRIA Rhône-Alpes, INRIA-Rennes and IMAG.

Opera's Research Topics

• Design of a meta-model that can represent different types of documents in a homogeneous way, including structured documents, hypertexts and multimedia.
• Research into document "contents" and their relationships with structures.
• Production of a structured document editor called Grif [now called Thot within the research program], as the basis for a number of experiments on active documents, the embedding of complex physical structures into logical structures, transformations of logical structures, multimedia editing, etc.
• Construction of a first prototype of the editing environment with two components: a cooperative structured editor (called Alliance) and a version management tool based on document structure.
• Development of an authoring system for hypertexts and multimedia documents on the World-Wide Web, Tamaya

SGML-related research topics from 1994:

• Transformations de structures (trees and types)
• Outils d'édition
• Présentation des documents structurés
• Édition coopérative (e.g., Grif [Thot], Alliance)
• Édition multimédia
• Manipulation sur le contenu des documents

WWW Links:

• Bibliographie du projet Opéra
• OPERA.2.html OPÉRA Overview [or the Postscript version of the report]
• OPERA Overview (from INRIA)
• Project overview
• OPÉRA: Outils pour les documents électroniques, recherche et applications: Rapport d'activité 1994
• Bull-IMAG/Systèmes

Contacts:

• Vincent Quint (Project leader, Grenoble): INRIA-IMAG, 2 avenue de Vignate, 38610 Gières, France; E-Mail Vincent.Quint@imag.fr, Tel +33 76 63 48 31; Fax: +33 76 54 76 15
• Jacques André (Rennes): Email Jacques.Andre@inria.fr, Tel +33 99 84 73 50
• IRISA/INRIA Rennes; Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu; 35042 Rennes Cedex; France; Phone: + 33 99 84 71 00; Fax: + 33 99 84 71 71

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MULTEXT (Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora) and MULTEXT-EAST (Multilingual Texts and Corpora for Eastern and Central European Languages)

[CR: 19970609] [Table of Contents]

"Project Overview: MULTEXT (Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora) is a recently initiated large-scale project funded under the Commission of European Communities Linguistic Research and Engineering Program, intended to contribute to the development of generally usable software tools to manipulate and analyse text corpora and to create multi-lingual text corpora with structural and linguistic markup. It will attempt to establish conventions for the encoding of such corpora, building on and contributing to the preliminary recommendations of the relevant international and European standardization initiatives. MULTEXT will also work towards establishing a set of guidelines for text software development, which will be widely published in order to enable future development by others. The project consortium, consisting of eight academic and research institutions and six major European industrial partners, is committed to make its results, namely corpus, related tools, specifications, and accompanying documentation, freely and publicly available."

"At the outset of the project, the consortium will undertake to analyse, test and extend the SGML-based recommendations of the TEI on real-size data, and gradually develop encoding conventions specifically suited to multi-lingual corpora and the needs of NLP and MT corpus-based research. To manipulate large quantities of such texts, the partners will develop conventions for tool construction and use them to build a range of highly language-independent, atomic and extensible software tools."

Markup occurs at four different levels. "The TEI Guidelines provide the basis for markup at levels 0 (the TEI header), 1 and 2 as well as many elements of level 3. In collaboration with Eagles, MULTEXT is extending the TEI scheme in order to specify a TEI-conformant Corpus Encoding Style (CES) that is optimally suited to NLP research and can therefore serve as a widely accepted TEI-based style for European corpus work. Application of the CES to CEE languages, which may require minor modifications to accomodate CEE language-specific information and structures, will provide a test of both the TEI Guidelines and MULTEXT and Eagles' extensions to it." [from Ide/Véronis SLNR paper]

Links:

• Bibliographic entry for SLNR conference paper on MULTEXT, by Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis.
• Brief Description of MULTEXT
• Links to MULTEXT from Nancy Ide's Home Page
• [mirror copy of HCRC description, text]
• Index of /pub/multext/
• Announcement for MtRecode - a program for translation between various character sets
• Announcement for MtStr - Multilingual string library
• Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora (MULTEXT)
• http://issco-www.unige.ch/projects/MULTEXT.html
• The MULTEXT-SW Project (Swedish)
• [On NSL, see below] Thompson/Finch/McKelvie: The Normalized SGML Library (NSL); OR: ftp://scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/HCRC-papers/tr-74.ps.gz, or mirror copy, December 1995
• Also: the bibliographic entry for documentation sub Thompson
• ftp://issco-ftp.unige.ch/pub/multext (public documents concerning the ongoing MULTEXT project)
• Multext-East
• See: Encoding and Parallel alignment of linguistic corpora in six Central and Eastern European Languages, by Tomaz Erjavec, Nancy Ide, and Dan Tufis. Presentation at ACH/ALLC '97. [archive copy]
• Overview
• EAGLES Project

Addresses:
MULTEXT (Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora)
Coordinator: Dr. Jean Véronis
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
CNRS & Université de Provence
29, Avenue Robert Schuman
F-13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1
France
Tel: +33 42 95 20 73
Fax: +33 42 59 50 96
E-mail: veronis@fraix11.univ-aix.fr

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EAGLES Initiative (Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards)

[CR: 19960114] [Table of Contents]

"The Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES) is an initiative of the European Commission which aims to accelerate the provision of standards for: (1) Very large-scale language resources (such as text corpora, computational lexicons and speech corpora); (2) Means of manipulating such knowledge, via computational linguistic formalisms, markup languages and various software tools; (3) Means of assessing and evaluating resources, tools and products." [from the Home Page]

"Text representation: The Text representation subgroup will continue developing a Corpus Encoding Standard to provide a precise set of guidelines for the encoding of corpora optimally suited to use in language engineering research and applications, and which can serve as a widely accepted standard for European corpus work. This will involve evaluation, adaptation and extension of the TEI Guidelines. The final report will provide a Corpus Encoding Standard, which will recommend: (1) A minimal level of encoding that a corpus must achieve to be standardised from the point of view of the descriptive representation (bibliographical information, markup of structural and typographical information); (2) Mechanisms to encode linguistic annotation and alignment; (3) A library of DTDs." [from the Introduction]

Corpus Encoding: "This work has been carried out in collaboration with the LRE project MULTEXT, as part of a task on markup specifications, the goal of which is to develop a proposal for a Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) optimally suited for use in language engineering. The standard will be formulated as a Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)-conformant application of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) ISO 8879." [Introduction]

Links:

• EAGLES server, Home Page
• EAGLES introductory document [October 1994], by N. Calzolari and J. Mc Naught [mirror copy, January 1996, partly linked]]
• EAGLES Corpus Encoding DRAFT WORK IN PROGRESS. EAGLES DOCUMENT EAG--CSG/IR--T2.1. Version of October 1994 [mirror copy, partly linked]
• Interaction between EAGLES and other projects
• Institute of Computational Linguistics (ILC)
• Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Home Page
• EAGLES: http://www.echo.lu/programmes/en/LangEng/eagles.html
• EAGLES: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/Eagles.html
• See also See also the MULTEXT Project

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Corpus Encoding Standard (CES)

[CR: 19960412] [Table of Contents]

[Abstract] "This document is the first version of the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES). The CES has been designed to be optimally suited for use in language engineering research and applications, in order to serve as a widely accepted set of encoding standards for corpus-based work in natural language processing applications. The CES is an application of SGML (ISO 8879:1986, Information Processing--Text and Office Systems--Standard Generalized Markup Language) compliant with the specifications of the TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange of the Text Encoding Initiative."

"The CES specifies a minimal encoding level that corpora must achieve to be considered standardized in terms of descriptive representation (marking of structural and typographic information) as well as general architecture (so as to be maximally suited for use in a text database). It also provides encoding specifications for linguistic annotation, together with a data architecture for linguistic corpora."

Links: (sample)

• CES Home Page
• Introduction [mirror copy, partial links]
• Part 1. General Principles [mirror copy, partial links]
• Part 2. Recommendations common to all documents [mirror copy, partial links]
• Part 3. The Header [mirror copy, partial links]
• Part 4. Encoding Primary Data [mirror copy, partial links]
• Annex 5. CES DTDs and related files

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European Corpus Initiative (ECI)

[CR: 19951220] [Table of Contents]

"The European Corpus Initiative was founded to oversee the acquisition and preparation of a large multi-lingual corpus to be made available in digital form for scientific research at cost and without royalties. We believe that widespread easy access to such material would be a great stimulus to scientific research and technology development as regards language and language technology. . . . No amount of abstract argument as to the value of corpus material is as powerful as the experience of actually having access to some in one's laboratory.

"In reply to this call, many colleagues spontaneously offered their data and/or supplied the contacts to negotiate redistribution rights for the ECI. In many cases we actively sought out data providers especially for the under-represented languages and for larger parallel collections. The majority of the work of collecting materials and permissions and converting them into a consistent format has been done at the HCRC in Edinburgh and at ISSCO, University of Geneva, under the overall supervision of Henry S. Thompson and Susan Armstrong, respectively."

"The ECI/MCI corpus has now been published on CD-ROM, and contains almost 100 million words in 27 (mainly European) languages. It consists of 48 opportunistically collected component corpora marked up in [TEI] SGML (to varying levels of detail), with easy access to the source text without markup. Twelve (12) of the component corpora are multilingual parallel corpora with from two to nine sub-corpora."

Links:

• ECI Overview, from http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/projects/hcrc.html#ECI [v 1.3 1994/06/24]
• ECI Home Document - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/eci.html (mirror copy, December 1995)
• Armstrong, et al., Data in Your Language: The ECI Multilingual Corpus 1, available online
• , TEI-Conformant Structural Markup of a Trilingual Parallel Corpus in the ECI Multilingual Corpus 1, available online
• ECI/MCI Info: CDROM Contents Listing - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/mci_listing.html (mirror copy)

Addresses:
Henry S. Thompson
HCRC,
2 Buccleuch Place,
Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK
Email: eucorp@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
or
ELSNET (ECI)
OTS, Utrecht University
Trans 10
3512 JK Utrecht
The Netherlands

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Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura (CRILet)

[CR: 19980310] [Table of Contents]

"The Centro Ricerche Informatica e Letteratura (CRILet) is a research group established at the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Roma La Sapienza. The group is co-ordinated by Prof. Giuseppe Gigliozzi, and is composed of a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers. The main objectives of CRILet are to conduct studies in Humanities and Literary computing and to produce digital and on-line literary resources and archives. CRILet has initiated as an experimental project the Web publication of some texts of the Italian literary tradition encoded in SGML according to the TEI P3 or TEI Lite DTD. The currently-available encoded text are browsable on-line with the help of an SGML browser like Softquad Panorama. The project has also recently prepared an Italian translation of TEI document N. TEI U5, written by Lou Burnard and Michael Sperberg-McQueen, TEI Lite. Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange." [adapted]

Links:

• CRILet Home Page
• Announcement for CRILet work, from Fabio Ciotti
• TEI Lite: introduzione alla codifica dei testi [Italian translation of TEI U5]
• CRILet TEI encoded texts, [samples]
• Introduzione - Introduction to text encoding
• "Lo Standard Generalized Markup Language"
• SGML Resources

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Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum

[CR: 20010116] [Table of Contents]

[2001-01-16] "TMEuro is an information system for Western music history that contains digitised and enriched source materials dating from before c. 1750. The aim of TMEuro is to provide effective and user-friendly access to these materials, to connect these to related materials outside the system, to store knowledge acquired by users and to communicate it to others, by means of suitable and innovative technology. TMEuro is destined for and supported by a broad group of academic and professional users. TMEuro consists of: (1) reliable, high-quality and durable digital representations of sources (text, music notation, pictures, objects) in a suitable form (facsimile, transcription, edition, translation, sound or otherwise); (2) knowledge that is related to these sources (enrichment, annotations, links, thesauri, databases, electronic publications etc.); (3) a software environment providing access over the Internet (not excluding distribution through other media), making use as much as possible of SGML/XML and related technologies..."

[1997 description] Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI) is a multimedial edition of Italian music-theoretical sources. It is "an initiative of the Department of Computer and Humanities at Utrecht University, the aim of which is to publish a cohesive electronic corpus of Italian music treatises from the second half of the sixteenth to the early seventeenth century." [...] "The TMI will employ a specialized SGML markup system for the representation of historical source materials developed by the international Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). In addition to indicating its structure, this system allows the recording of layout and physical properties of a source, which are often of the greatest importance for research. . . DARMS [Digital Alternate Representation of Musical Scores] will be used at the start for the storage of music notation, but the aim is to convert all music notation to SMDL [Standard Music Description Language] if it proves viable. Both DARMS and SMDL allow the encoded music to be played automatically."

References:

• Home Page
• Contact: Frans Wiering (Institute of Information and Computing Sciences [ICS], Utrecht University)
• See: XML and Music

Earlier/old links:

• TMI Home Page
• TMI project description (English version)
• [Another description]
• Zarlino, Le istitutioni harmoniche (Venice, 1558), selections
• Announcement from Frans Wiering for the availability of a CDROM containing music treatises of Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590)
• Brandhorst, van Huisstede, Loeffen, and Wiering: Toward a Uniform Registration of Textual Sources in the Humanities. Two Dutch Encoding Projects Using the TEI Guidelines.

Project addresses:
Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum
Dr. Frans Wiering, Project Coordinator
Vakgroep Computer & Letteren
Achter de Dom 22-24
NL-3512 JP Utrecht
Tel: +31 (0) 30-2536335 or 2546426
FAX: +31 (0) 302539221

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Language Technology Group (LTG), Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC), University of Edinburgh

[CR: 19970128] [Table of Contents]

Part of the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC), the Language Technology Group offers natural language engineering and software services, drawing upon "the skills and expertise of one of the largest communities of natural language processing specialists in Europe." The LTG supports a Software Helpdesk: "a free service dedicated to the support of public domain and freely available software for natural language processing and the fostering of its use in practical applications." "The Language Technology Group makes available various software packages. For research purposes, these are often available for free to academic research groups and for a small fee to industrial R&D groups." The package LY NSL (a library of normalised SGML tools) is described below. [extracts from the Home Page]

"LT NSL is a development environment for SGML-based corpus and document processing, with support for multiple versions and multiple levels of annotation. It consists of a C-based API for accessing and manipulating SGML documents and an integrated set of SGML tools. The LT NSL initial parsing module incorporates v1.0 of James Clark's SP software, arguably the best SGML parser available. The basic architecture is one in which an arbitrary SGML document is parsed once, yielding two results: (1) An optimised representation of the information contained in the document's DTD; (2) A normalised version of the document instance, which can be piped through any tools built using our API for augmentation, extraction, etc."

"The use of the cached DTD together with the normalisation of SGML to nSGML means that applications processing nSGML streams can be very efficient. LT NSL provides two views of an nSGML file; one as a flat stream of markup elements and text; a second as a sequence of tree-structured SGML elements. The two views can be mixed, allowing great flexibility in the manipulation of SGML documents. It also includes a powerful, yet simple, querying language, which allows the user to quickly and easily select those parts of an SGML edocument which are of interest. Finally, LT NSL supports SGML output, making it easier to write SGML to SGML conversion programs."

Links:

• January 28, 1997: Announcement from David McKelvie for the HCRC Language Technology Group's public release of LT NSL --- Normalised SGML Library, version 1.4.6. The toolkit offers significant enhancements over version 1.4.4. "LT NSL is an integrated set of SGML querying/manipulation tools and a C-language application program interface (API) designed to ease the writing of C programs which manipulate SGML documents. Its API is based on the idea of using 'normalised' SGML (i.e. an expanded, easily parsable subset of SGML) as a data format for inter-program communication of structured textual information. The API defines a powerful query language which makes it easy to access (either from the shell or in a program) those parts of an SGML document which you are interested in. Both event based and (sub-)tree based views of SGML documents are supported."
• See the review article by George Alexander and Liora Alschuler, Review of LT NSL in Seybold Report on Publishing Systems 25/19 (June 1996)
• Announcement from Henry S. Thompson of the HCRC Language Technology Group for LT NSL [May 1996 version]
• LTG Home Page [or, no frames: ]
• LT NSL main page
• The LT NSL documentation
• Papers on LT NSL given at SGML Europe in May 1996
• LT NSL (access)
• HTML version: "A software architecture for simple, efficient SGML applications" [mirror copy, May 1996]
• [Conference presentation, SGML Europe '96 Munich: "A software architecture for simple, efficient SGML applications: The LT NSL software library", by Henry S. Thompson and David McKelvie
• Thompson/Finch/McKelvie: The Normalized SGML Library (NSL); OR: ftp://scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/HCRC-papers/tr-74.ps.gz, or mirror copy, December 1995
• "Survey of SGML transformation languages", workshop presentation, by David McKelvie

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The HCRC Map Task Corpus

[CR: 19980501] [Table of Contents]

The HCRC Map Task Corpus represents publicly distributed material which uses the TEI encoding scheme for linked spoken language transcripts (of unscripted dialogue) and digital audio. The following entry supplements and partially supersedes information provided in the European Corpus Initiative (ECI), above.

"The HCRC Map Task Corpus was produced in response to one of the core problems of work on natural language: much of our knowledge of language is based on scripted materials, despite most language use taking the form of unscripted dialogue with specific communicative goals. Our intention, therefore, was to elicit unscripted dialogues in such a way as to boost the likelihood of occurrence of certain linguistic phenomena, and to control some of the effects of context. To this extent while our dialogues are spontaneous, the corpus as a whole comprises a large, carefully controlled elicitation exercise. . ."

"The HCRC Map Task Corpus consists of 128 digitally recorded unscripted dialogues and 64 citation form readings of lists of landmark names. All dialogues were transcribed verbatim in standard orthography, including (where possible) filled pauses, false starts, hesitations, repetitions and interruptions. The sampled speech data, transcriptions, list reading, and some other ancillary material has been published for distribution on a collection of 8 CD-ROM disks. . . Transcriptions are provided for each conversation, marked up with TEI-compliant SGML, in a minimally intrusive and easily separated way. PostScript files of the map images used in the experiments are provided, along with full documentation of the experimental design and data collection protocol, resources for using SGML tools on the transcriptions and other text materials, and an extensive set of source code for performing basic signal processing functions on the waveform data, such as down-sampling, de-multiplexing, channel summation, and D/A conversion for Sun workstations (including playback of segments selected via inspection of transcripts in Emacs)."

Links:

• Several relevant bibliography entries for online documents may be found alphabetically under the names Thompson (Henry S.) and McKelvie.
• Project Description; [local archive copy]
• Sample Map Task Dialogues - Corpus Web Interface Sampler
• The HCRC Corpus Interface
• "Using SGML as a Basis for Data-Intensive Natural Language Processing [NLP]," by McKelvie, Drew, and Thompson.
• Bibliographic references, provided by Henry Thompson

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Lingua Parallel Concordancing Project

[CR: 19980309] [Table of Contents]

"The Multilingual Parallel Concordancing project is supported by the European Union under its Lingua initiative, and is led by the University of Nancy II, France [1]. The objective of the project, which began in 1994, was to develop software for parallel concordancing that would enable a user to enter a search string in one language, and find not only the citations for that string in the search language, but the corresponding sentences in the target language. It operates therefore on parallel translated texts which constitute the corpus. . . The corpus itself is designed to conform with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), using Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) to encode the text. This is to allow the corpus to be used in UNIX and Macintosh environments, as well as on IBM PC's. The program uses the bare minimum of encoding to reduce the physical size of the distributed corpus, and to allow potential users to mark up their own texts relatively easily." [from the University of Birmingham description]

"The proposal for a parallel concordancing project put to the Lingua bureau of the EU originated in the desire of a group of lecturers from different European universities to enhance the use of concordancing in the process of learning a second language. . . Despite the considerable amount of work implied for anyone who wishes to conform to such guidelines as those produced by the Text Encoding Initiative, it appeared to us that this was definitely worth the effort. Indeed, as a norm, it makes it possible for a given electronic text to be transferred from one scholar to another without spending hours in defining an interchange format and writing tools for transcription. Besides, it offers the possibility to incrementally add new information to a given text without any loss of generality. We have seen how natural it was to add alignment information to a text, but in the context of second language teaching, there is always a possibility to add some specific syntactic or rethorical elements on the basis of the different sets of tags defined within the TEI. It is clear however, that such encodings have to be accompanied by a clearly defined set of tools which will effectively give a semantics to the corresponding marks." [from the project description; see below]

Links:

• The Lingua Parallel Concordancing Project: Managing Multilingual Texts for Educational Purpose [mirror copy]
• Creating and Using a Multilingual Parallel Concordancer. By Philip King and David Woolls. [local archive copy]
• Multiconcord: the Lingua Multilingual Parallel Concordancer for Windows
• MultiLingual Parallel Concordancing
• The Lingua Project release 0.1 documentation
• Papers relating to the project
• Demonstration
• Information & Technical Aspect
• List of Multilingual Parallel Files
• Project List of Participants [mirror copy, April 14, 1996]
• The Parallel Corpus: What's Available

Addresses:
CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine
Bâtiment Loria
B.P. 239
F-54506 Vandoeuvre Lès Nancy
Email: romary@loria.fr (Laurent Romary)
OR:
David Woolls
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Email: DAVID@ccbl.bham.ac.uk

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University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research

[CR: 20000314] [Table of Contents]

The current research interests at the Centre are very broad, including: "SGML and SQL, Management of text through grammars, Integration of text and relations, Federated database technology, Database optimization, Update of text." Research on SGML and document grammars as applied to the NOED forms a significant body of valuable literature. See a description of some of the NOED work provided in the annotation to Gaston Gonnet's report "Examples of PAT Applied to the Oxford English Dictionary". The Centre's research results have been further developed and commercialized by Open Text Corporation, a spin-off company located in Waterloo. Numerous publications and technical reports relating to the use of SGML are registered in the online bibliographic database which is a part of this work. Search in the relevant bibliography documents under the names of the personal authors, including Frank W. Tompa [example: "What is (Tagged) Text?"], Gaston Gonnet [example: "Mind Your Grammar: A New Approach to Modelling Text"], Darrell R. Raymond [example: "Flexible Text Display with Lector"], Heather J. Fawcett, Derick Wood, and others.

Is there a DTD for the OED? Apparently, of sorts. . . Tim Bray wrote: "I was the only person ever to write a grammar for the OED, & did so by programmatically reverse-engineering the tagged text. It had 25,000 productions, sigh, and was hard to boil down (but was still useful). That's an extreme example of course, but early evidence suggests that the task of automatically abstracting structure from pre-existing texts is Really Hard." (Perl-XML Mailing List, perl-xml@lyris.activestate.com, Fri, 04 Sep 1998 10:59:46 -070).

• The New OED Project at Waterloo
• "Doing Other Things with Texts: The Use of Electronic Resources in Revising the OED", by Jeffery Triggs, Oxford University Press [mirror copy]
• Centre for New OED and Text Research Home Page
• Text/Relational Database Management System Project
• New Oxford English Dictionary Publications
• UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research: Software [GOEDEL, PAT, LECTOR, etc.]
• Frank Tompa's Publications Page
• [August 04, 2000] "How Oxford University Press and HighWire Took the OED Online." By Mike Letts. In The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing Volume 4, Number 09 (May 2000). "Oxford University Press, with the help of HighWire Press, recently launched the first Web edition of the massive Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Behind the scenes, the project team overcame numerous challenges that the voluminous reference work posed to online delivery, and proved the return on investment that careful markup provides. Believing that contemporary dictionaries were not adequately documenting the history and usage of the English language, the Philological Society of London decided in 1857 to begin a complete documentation of the evolution of the language from the 12th century forward. However, it wasn't until 1879 that a formal agreement was reached with Oxford University Press (OUP) to begin work on what would eventually become the eminently staid, but authoritative, Oxford English Dictionary. Considered the definitive guide to the evolution of the English language, the first full edition of the dictionary wasn't completed until 1928 under the name A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. What was planned as a four-volume undertaking, became a four-decade, 12-volume project. By 1984, with supplemental volumes added to the first edition, OUP decided to move its magisterial reference work (now known as The Oxford English Dictionary) into an electronic format using a then innovative SGML tagging scheme. The project took five years and cost $13.5 million, culminating in 1989 with the publication of the 20-volume second edition. Now, using the foundation that was laid in SGML some 15 years ago, OED has established the dictionary on the World Wide Web. OED Online (www.oed.com), which went live on March 14, is a complete online copy of the second edition, which features more than 500,000 defined terms and 2.5 million quotations. It will also be used as the foundation of the reference work as OUP begins what it estimates will be at least a 10-year project to publish a third edition of the dictionary. . . Oxford's approach to taking the OED online marks yet another major print reference work whose editorial and production processes has been transformed from a print-centric workflow to a Web-centric one, in which print publications are merely snapshots of the live publication that lives online. The speed at which the project was brought online and its relatively small price tag were made possible by Oxford's prescient decision 15 years ago to convert the dictionary from film and typesetting files into SGML. To move a century's worth of work and accumulated material onto the Web in 16 months, at a cost of only about $1.5 million, is a testament to what solid markup, responsible content management and forward thinking can do. It's worth noting that the project could have been done even faster and at less cost had Oxford cut corners in the quality of the presentation or the efficiency of the application. It didn't. OED Online is well-executed, a pleasure to read and to use. Oxford didn't go it alone, however, and credit is certainly due to HighWire Press for its skill in production. Its tuning of Verity's K2 engine to handle the fine-grained searches that OED demanded defies conventional wisdom, which says to avoid such finely grained markup when deploying to thousands of readers. And its experience in SGML-based Web publishing, proven for more than 100 journals, translated well into its first venture into reference works and was essential to the successful launch of this landmark Web publication."
• [March 14, 2000] On XML-DEV, David Megginson noted the appearance of the 'OED Online': "The OED (an XML-like project, if not XML itself) is now online... That in itself is cool. The fact that they think they'll convince Web users to cough up US$550.00/year for single-user access on a slow server, on the other hand, is just plain..."
• "Element Sets: A Minimal Basis for an XML Query Engine." By Tim Bray. "Between 1986 and 1996 I was employed, first at the New Oxford English Dictionary project, then at Open Text Corporation, in both places almost entirely concerned with the problems of search and retrieval in large structured text-bases. The technology developed for the New OED project at the University of Waterloo and further refined and marketed by Open Text was a search engine named pat. Pat implemented a facility much like that described in this note. It was applied successfully to the 572 million characters of the electronic OED and variety of other text-bases, including service in one of the first large-scale Internet search engines, the now-defunct Open Text Index. Pat (under a variety of different product names) remains in active use by Open Text customers (although the company has retreated from the chronically-unprofitable search and retrieval business.) The data to which pat was applied was typically tagged in the SGML style, but did not have a DTD - in effect, XML..."

Other links for the University of Waterloo

• SGML Introduction - An Introduction to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
• Understanding the Report DTD using InContext (Report SGML Tutorial, University of Waterloo)

Addresses:
UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
CANADA

Tel: (519) 888-4567 ext. 6183 or 4675
fax: (519) 885-1208
email: newoed@uwaterloo.ca

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University of Waterloo English Department - Technical Writing Course Using SGML

[CR: 19961009] [Table of Contents]

"The University of Waterloo English Department is using SGML to develop hypertext courseware for a second year Technical Writing course on the World Wide Web. Subject matter experts from the university and business communities develop tutorials in the InContext structured word processor and save them as SGML. Then they run them through special Windows-based conversion software to create files in the World Wide Web hypertext format, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). This software was written for English 210E and we were pleased to find that the printed and online versions of our documents are generally of higher quality than we would have created by hand. The automatic publishing process removes the inconsistencies that plague manually formatted print and online documents. . . SGML is also used for student assignments. All assignments are written in SGML and submitted. The submission system converts them and mounts them on the World Wide Web for peer review. Marked assignments with marker's comments are returned through password-protected Web sites. . .English 210E uses three DTDs for resume, letter and report documents. The resume and letter are very confining DTDs intended to be an easy introduction to SGML. Instead of overwhelming students with choices, they give them a strict "menu" of core options." [extracted]]

Links:

• English 210E Technical Writing - Main Page
• The Bookcase
• Student assignments
• Descriptive overview from Paul Prescod
• Introduction to SGML

Addresses:
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1

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Indiana University: LETRS Services

[CR: 19960811] [Table of Contents]

LETRS (Library Electronic Text Resource Service)provides online access to SGML tagged texts. "Access is provided by use of the UNIX textbase management system called PAT, originally developed by the Open Text Corporation for the 2nd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. In conjunction with related client display programs used to access the Open Text system from various types of computers, PAT supports the rapid indexing, searching, retrieving, and navigating of large, structured, full text files in ways relevant to the types of questions that humanists ask about texts. Texts are tagged in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and conform to the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) implementation of that standard, which allows tagged texts to be transferred electronically from one location to the other and from one hardware and software system to another without loss of information." (from the home page)

Try the following links:

• LETRS WWW Home Page
• Texts and Tools at LETRS
• LETRS (SGML) Support Policy
• Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Collaborative Delivery of Electronic Texts [see provisionally December 1995 announcement for new CIC effort]

Addresses:
LETRS, Indiana University
E-157 Main Library
Bloomington, IN 47405-1801
Tel: (812) 855-3877 (85LETRS)
Email: LETRS@indiana.edu
Email: csherayk@indiana.edu (Carolyn C. Sherayko, LETRS Manager)

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Indiana University: Victorian Women Writers Project

[CR: 19980313] [Table of Contents]

"The goal of the Victorian Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate, SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period. The works chosen for this project will otherwise not be available in SGML-encoded form, either in the Chadwyck Healey English Poetry Full-Text Database, through the Brown Women Writers Project, or elsewhere. The works will include anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Considerable attention will be given to the accuracy and completeness of the texts, and to accurate bibliographical descriptions of them. Texts will be encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, using the TEILite.DTD (version 1.6). We will include with each text a header describing fully the source text, the editorial decisions, and the resulting computer file. The texts will be made freely available through the World Wide Web. A faculty advisory board will consider textual and editorial issues, while a technical advisory panel will consider issues of encoding and distribution." (from the Home Page)

As of early 1998, some 34 encoded works were available online.

Principals in the project include: General Editor: Perry Willett [email: PWILLETT@indiana.edu]; Editorial Advisor: Donald J. Gray; Technical Advisor: Richard Ellis; Contributing Editor: Felix Jung.

Links:

• The Victorian Women Writers Project
• VWWP Guidelines
• "The Victorian Women Writers Project." In The Source: the Newsletter of the Indiana University Libraries 1/2 (Fall 1996). [local archive copy, text only]
• Access to the collection (select HTML or TEI-SGML format)
• VWWP Encoding Guidelines; [local archive copy]
• Victorian Women Writers Project Library - List of Works
• "The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts." By Perry Willett. In The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7/6, 1996. [local archive copy]

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Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Finding Aids Projects

[CR: 19980829] [Table of Contents]

"Finding Aids," according to a description at Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, are "inventories, registers, indexes or guides to collections held by archives and manuscript repositories, libraries, and museums. Finding aids provide detailed descriptions of collections, their intellectual organization and, at varying levels of analysis, of individual items in the collections. Access to the finding aid is essential for understanding the true content of a collection and for determining whether it is likely to satisfy a scholar's research needs." The leadership role of the US Library of Congress in promoting the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard is documented in the "Government Applications" section of the database. The EAD DTD is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress in partnership with the Society of American Archivists. In early 1998, revisions to the DTD were made to render it usable for XML data.

In several sections which follow, applications of the EAD DTD and other SGML-based digital library collections are featured. The institutions and activities described are meant to be representative.

Links:

• US Library of Congress - Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD - as XML
• SGML for Archivists - Resource collection maintained by Simon Wilson.
• SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language - Resources for Digital Libraries
• "Standardised Languages for Data Exchange and Storage. The Encoded Archival Description: Using SGML to Create Permanent Electronic Handlists." By Richard Higgins, Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections. [local archive copy]
• Interface EAD Information Site

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Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE [Formerly: Berkeley Finding Aid Project]

[CR: 19980319] [Table of Contents]

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE is a digital library and a resource center for other digitial library projects. It is sponsored by The UC Berkeley Library, UC Berkeley, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Among its principal resources are the American Heritage Project, the California Heritage Collection, the Finding Aids for Archival Collections (delivery supported by Inso's DynaWeb software), and The Online Medieval and Classical Library. Beginning in 1993, the University of California, Berkeley was the primary center of activity on SGML-based Archival Finding Aids. Several of these collections use SGML encoding. Since 1995, several other academic institutions and consortial bodies have sponsored independent and collaborative research in this domain. The discussion below focuses upon Berkeley, but links will be found to several sites now participating in this effort.

Background: "Developing the EAD DTD has been a cooperative venture since October 1993 when the University of California, Berkeley, Library initiated a project to investigate the desirability and feasibility of creating a platform-independent encoding standard for inventories, registers, indexes, and other finding aids, which are created by libraries, museums, manuscript repositories, and archives to describe and provide access to their holdings. The project's growth has been nurtured through a series of fellowships, grants, and in-kind contributions made by several institutions and professional associations, including the Department of Education (Title IIA grant); Library, University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; Commission on Preservation and Access; Bentley Historical Library; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Preservation and Access); Library of Congress National Digital Library Program; and the Council on Library Resources."

"Detailed information about the history and development of the project from October 1993 to January 1996 may be found at the Berkeley Digital Library SunSite. On 26 February 1996, the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (NetDev/MSO) announced the release of the alpha version of the EAD. A few months earlier, NetDev/MSO agreed to serve as the international maintenance agency for the standard. At about the same time, the Society of American Archivists (SAA), through an EAD Working Group of its Committee on Archival Information Exchange (CAIE), accepted responsibility for monitoring and assisting in the ongoing development of the EAD. The working group includes individuals representing various interests within the SAA as well as representatives from OCLC, Research Libraries Group (RLG), and the Library of Congress." [From: Background Information on EAD Development and Sponsorship

With assistance from Electronic Book Technologies' Educational Grant Program and the NEH (Act Title IIA Research and Demonstration Grant. October 1993 - September 1995), the University of Califoirnia at Berkeley is sponsoring advanced research in SGML technologies for use by electronic libraries.

BFAP Project Overview: "The Berkeley Finding Aid Project is a collaborative endeavor to test the feasibility and desirability of developing an encoding standard for archive, museum, and library finding aids. Finding aids are documents used to describe, control, and provide access to collections of related materials. In the hierarchical structure of collection-level information access and navigation, finding aids reside between bibliographic records and the primary source materials. Bibliographic records lead to finding aids, and finding aids lead to primary source materials. A standard for encoding finding aids will ensure not only broad based access to our cultural heritage and natural history collections, but that the findings aids themselves will survive hardware and software platform changes, and thereby remain available for future generations."

"The Project involves two interrelated activities. The first task entails the design and creation of a prototype encoding standard for finding aids. The prototype standard is in the form of a Standard Generalized Markup Language (ISO 8879) Document Type Definition (SGML DTD). Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are developing the encoding standard in collaboration with leading experts in collection cataloging and processing, text encoding, system design, network communication, authority control, and text retrieval and navigation. The design and development team is analyzing the structure and function of representative finding aids. The basic elements that occur in finding aids are being isolated and their logical interrelationships defined. The DTD is based on the results of this analysis. The project team is using ArborText's Document Architecture to facilitate DTD development. The first iteration of the DTD was completed in Fall 1994."

"Building a prototype database of finding aids is the second objective of the Project. Toward this end, available SGML based software has been evaluated. For authoring and validating finding aids compliant with the DTD, project staff are using ArborText's Adept Editor . Conversion of finding aids that already exist in various word processing and database formats is accomplished through a combination of Adept Editor, WordPerfect macros, and Microsoft Access. Scanning and OCR of finding aids that only exist in paper form will follow conversion of those finding aids already in machine-readable form. Currently the database has approximately 100 finding aids from Berkeley, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Australia, the Getty Center, Duke University, University of California, San Diego, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and others."

"Electronic Book Technologies' DynaText is being used for electronic network publishing of the finding aids. At this time the only version of DynaText available for use on the Internet is X- Windows. Stand-alone versions of DynaText are available for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows . DynaText supports inline display of a variety of graphic formats (GIF, TIFF, etc.) and launching of external display software for image viewing and manipulation. DynaText also supports a variety of search types within and across finding aids: boolean keyword, word adjacency and proximity, as well as element or field qualified searches. The text viewing and navigation component of DynaText provides dynamic generation of an expandable table of contents adjacent to the document text to supply context clues for reading comprehension and random, informed access to the text." [from the project description]

Links:

• Finding Aids for Archival Collections
• SunSITE Information on Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
• Finding Aids for Archival Collections: SGML Translated on-the-fly Into HTML - "These SGML-encoded finding aids are served by a special Web server (DynaWeb) that translates SGML into a form that most Web browsers can understand. For explanations of the DynaWeb buttons, see the DynaWeb Quick Reference. For more complete instructions, see the DynaWeb User's Guide." [link checked March 1996]
• EAD DTDs and Tag Library: ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/ead ("On February 26, the Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC/NDMSO) released to early implementors the alpha Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD and an EAD Tag Library" [see posting from D. Pitti, March 14, 1996]
• Main entry for Library of Congress EAD Finding Aids Project
• EAD Finding Aid Pilot Project - Library of Congress Site
• Background Information on EAD Development and Sponsorship
• Obtaining Copies of the DTD and Subscribing to an EAD Listserv
• Finding Aid Samples
• EAD Progress Reports
• List of Finding Aid Collections by Institution
• The Encoded Archival Description Forum [mailinf list]
• October 1993-September 1995
• Standards in Navigation (Daniel V. Pitti) [mirror copy]
• Access to Digital Representations of Archival Materials (Daniel V. Pitti) [mirror copy]
• BERKELEY FINDING AID CONFERENCE PAPERS. APRIL 4-6, 1995
• Structured Information: Navigation, Access, Control (Steven J. DeRose) [mirror copy]
• RLG: Access to Archival Collections -- The FAST Track - "(FAST (Finding Aids SGML Training) Track is a series of workshops designed to train RLG members in encoding their finding aids with Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard and guidelines"
• Settling the Digital Frontier (Daniel V. Pitti) [mirror copy]
• NISTF II: The Berkeley Finding Aids Project and New Paradigms of Archival Description and Access (Steve Hensen) [mirror copy]
• Ann Arbor Accords: Principles and Criteria for an SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Finding Aids
• Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Overview
• Encoded Archival Description Development Meeting List of Participants (Digital Library Visitor's Center, Library of Congress. November 1-3, 1996
• Society of American Archivists. Committee on Archival Information Exchange, Encoded Archival Description Working Group
• SGML Information (Digital Library SunSITE)
• Daniel V. Pitti, NASIG Paper Standard Generalized Markup Language and the Transformation of Cataloging. Also available here in mirror copy, March 27, 1995.
• University of Durham University Library - EAD Finding Aids. Contact: Richard Higgins, r.i.higgins@durham.ac.uk.

• Older links [need testing]:
• BERKELEY FINDING AID PROJECT
• Project Overview "BERKELEY FINDING AID PROJECT, PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND LIST OF COLLABORATORS". Also available here in mirror copy, March 27, 1995.
• ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (EAD)
• EAD DTD version 8 [January 1995]
• SGML-Marked Finding Aids (marked up with EAD DTD)
• Descriptive document by Daniel Pitti. Title: The Berkeley Finding Aid Project: Standards in Navigation. Also available here in mirror copy, March 27, 1995.
• Project description. Title: California Heritage Digital Image Access Project. Also available as mirror copy, March 27, 195.
• Announcement from Electronic Book Technologies, March 22, 1995: "EBT ANNOUNCES EDUCATIONAL GRANT PROGRAM: UCBERKELEY FIRST RECIPIENT TO DEVELOP DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE. Also available here in adapted mirror copy, March 27, 1995.
• SGML DTD for the Finding Aid Project, dated February 23 [1994], 64K.
• Note also the ".../sgml/marcdtd" subdirectory: MARC DTD and "MARC-to-SGML" tools [were available in this FTP area as of March 27, 1995]
• Related SGML work at UC Berkeley includes that of Ray Larson and others (SLIS), "CHESHIRE II: A NEXT GENERATION ONLINE CATALOG SYSTEM". See a brief description here, and below.

Addresses:
Daniel Pitti
Librarian for Advanced Technologies Projects
386 Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Phone: 510/643-6602
FAX: 510/642-4759
Email: dpitti@library.berkeley.edu
OR
Beth Davis-Brown
National Digital Library Program
The Library of Congress
LIBN/CS/NDL (1025)
Washington, DC 20540-1000
Tel: 202-707-3301
FAX: 202-707-0815

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Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive

[CR: 19970523] [Table of Contents]

The Web site has made a recent [May 1997] "addition of several searchable resources of film documentation (12,000 curatorial film notes encoded in SGML) and EAD-encoded guides to our art collection.. . The means we use for delivery of all the SGML data (including the EAD guides) online is to have them be searchable in both fielded and relevance-ranked full-text searches, and then convert the SGML file (or chunks of it) to HTML on the fly for viewing in standard web browsers."

"These guides present our collections information in a context for greater understanding of them than an object-level database alone would provide. We wanted two things when looking for a way to present primary collections information - use of standards so that this information would have lasting value and maximize the work put into it; and the maximum flexibility and ability to share this information since it is the core upon which we will build. The method we found that fit all the above needs was the EAD. SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is an international standard for encoding full-text and richly structured information. The EAD (Encoded Archival Description) is an implementation of SGML intended to encode information which describes collections. . . The collection guides are comprised of essays by curators and scholars including overviews and organization of collections, as well as artists biographies and historical context of their creation and collection. These guides are intended to provide context and depth to enable meaningful access to our collections."

Links:

• Main Page
• EAD collection guides
• Announcement from Richard Rinehart on trhe EAD collections
• Behind the Scenes at the BAM/PFA WebSite and New Media Projects; [mirror copy, text and partial links only]

Addresses:
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
University of California
2625 Durant, Berkeley, CA 94720-2250

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Electronic Binding Project (EBIND) - UC Berkeley Digital Page Imaging and SGML

[CR: 19970601] [Table of Contents]

"The Electronic Binding Project, or Ebind, is a method for binding together digital page images using an SGML document type definition (DTD) developed at UC Berkeley in 1996 by Alvin Pollock and Daniel Pitti. The Ebind SGML file records the bibliographic information associated with the document in an ebindheader, the structural hierarchy of the document (e.g., parts, chapters, sections), its native pagination, textual transcriptions of the pages themselves, as well as optional meta-information such as controlled access points (subjects, personal, corporate, and geographic names) and abstracts which can be provided all the way down to the level of the individual page. . . This SGML file acts primarily as a non-proprietary, international standards-based (ISO 8879) control file for the multiple image files which make up a digitized book or document. But it can also serve as the basis for browsing the images in any SGML-aware software system in a natural and convenient way." [from the main page]

"The structure of the Ebind DTD is based loosely on the Core tag set of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTDs. Like TEI, Ebind is divided into a bibliographic header, front matter, a body, and back matter. The front, body and back elements can themselves be divided into generic textual divisions called divs. A type attribute on the div element may specify the type of division more precisely, e.g., type='chapter'."

Links:

• Digital Page Imaging and SGML - An Introduction to the Electronic Binding DTD (EBIND); [mirror copy]
• Ebind-encoded documents
• Ebind DTD, by Alvin Pollock, 07/25/96
• SGML tagging of some sample Ebind-encoded documents (examples); [mirror copy, samples]
• perl conversion script (ebind.pl) to create SGML encoding from worksheet

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American Heritage Virtual Archive Project

[CR: 19970609] [Table of Contents]

"The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project will investigate one of the most serious problems facing knowledge seekers everywhere, the geographic distribution of both collections of primary source material and the written guides describing and providing access to them. We propose to solve this problem by creating a prototype "virtual archive", integrating into a single source, hundreds of archival finding aids describing and providing access to a large body of primary source materials from collections documenting American culture and history held by four major academic research libraries. The project will demonstrate the feasibility of providing both scholars and average American citizens with user-friendly, universal Internet access to the research collections of the world."

"...the project's participants have agreed to adhere strictly to standards. The collection-level records use the USMARC format. The finding aids are encoded with the Standard Generalized Markup Language Document Type Definition (SGML DTD) developed in the Berkeley Finding Aid Project. . . using X-Server software on networked workstations [researchers] will be able to search, browse, and navigate the finding aid database directly using DynaText software, or by launching DynaText from within the catalog record. Second, using a World Wide Web browser (for example, Mosaic or Netscape), they will have full searching and navigating access to the full DynaText database using Electronic Book Technologies' new product DynaWeb as a filtering device for converting the SGML to HTML. The virtual archive will thus be widely and publicly available."

Institutional participants include [June 1997}: Duke University, Stanford University,The University of California, Berkeley, and The University of Virginia.

Links:

• Home Page
• Project Description; [mirror copy]
• Papers and Documwents relating to AMHER
• Browsing the Finding Aids
• FTP Sever (DTDs, Tools,)
• [SGML] Tools and Resources

Addresses:
Tim Hoyer, Project Manager
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 643-3202
Email: thoyer@library.berkeley.edu

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Yale University Library EAD Finding Aids Project

[CR: 19970520] [Table of Contents]

"The Yale University Library EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids Project provides access to archival finding aids in a platform-independent electronic format, using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the finding aids created by repositories may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections. Access to finding aids through the Internet will assist scholars in determining whether collections contain material relevant to their research."

"The finding aids mounted on Yale's server are encoded in SGML, using the beta version of the EAD DTD (Document Type Definition). SGML encoding of files allows for more complex formatting and navigation than does HTML. The EAD encoded versions of Yale's finding aids are configured to be viewed using SoftQuad's SGML browser, Panorama . . . The system includes finding aids from three Yale repositories: the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Divinity Library Special Collections, and Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives. There are currently 324 finding aids in the database and more will be added as retrospective encoding of existing finding aids takes place and as new finding aids are created." [from the online descriptions]

Links:

• Yale EAD Home Page
• Announcement from Richard Szary [May 1997]
• Searching the Finding Aids
• Finding Aids Help page
• EAD Search Page
• Navigator support for hierarchical documents
• [earlier] Announcement for the Yale EAD Finding Aids Project (documents)

Addresses:
Yale University Library
New Haven, CT 06520
USA

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University of Iowa Library, Iowa Women's Archives

[CR: 19970316] [Table of Contents]

"The mission of the Louise Noun - Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives is to collect, preserve, and make available primary source material on the women of Iowa. Established in 1992, the archives is named for its founders, two prominent Des Moines women who conceived the idea of a repository that would collect solely on Iowa women and who worked to bring it to fruition."

"The archives has over 700 linear feet of materials including, but not limited to, letters, diaries and journals, memoirs, scrapbooks, reports, minutes, memoranda, speeches, photographs, audio and videocassettes, oral history interviews, slides, and films. A select number of finding aids have been encoded in SGML and HTML and can be accessed through this web page. The SGML files are best viewed with Softquad's Panorama Viewer, a Netscape plug-in for Windows95."

Links:

• Iowa Women's Archives Home Page
• Finding Aids in SGML format

Addresses:
Email: lib-women@uiowa.edu

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California Heritage Digital Image Access Project

[CR: 19961217] [Table of Contents]

The California Heritage Digital Image Access Project is building a digital archive containing photographs, pictures, and manuscripts from the collections of the Bancroft Library. The project is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the library, University of California and Berkeley, with a software grant from Electronic Book Technologies. Public access to the archive is provided through "embedding digital representations of the primary sources directly within the documents -- archival finding aids -- created by the Bancroft Library's curators and archivists to describe the collections of which they are part. . the user of the California Heritage collection finds the objects of his search within an electronic version of the finding aid itself. This is made possible through the use of the emerging standard for archival finding aids, Encoded Archival Description (EAD)."

The SGML-encoded finding aids are served by a special Web server (Electronic Book Technologies' DynaWeb) that translates SGML into [HTML]. "The online finding aid collection can be searched using a rich and powerful query language. In addition to the full range of standard search tools--wildcards, proximity searching, boolean searching--users can search the underlying SGML with which all of the finding aids in this database are marked up." The DynaWeb browser interface also supports a "Stylesheet Selection Form" that allows Net users to configure the view of the information sent by the server (e.g., "default view," "Show Inline Thumbnails", "Show Images As Icons", "Display SGML Tags").

"The project's central objective has been to build a prototype demonstration database that, by the project's end, will provide collection-level access to 25,000 digital representations of primarily source materials documenting California history, which have been selected from the collections of The Bancroft Library. By creating this prototype system and making it available for testing on the Internet, the California Heritage Digital Image Access Project will be addressing important issues in digital image access and control. When fully developed, the prototype will also use USMARC collection-level records to provide access to its EAD encoded finding aids and digital images. While the USMARC access component of this project is still under development, direct access to the encoded finding aids is currently provided here through a WWW interface (DynaWeb) that lets users directly search and navigate the SGML encoded finding aids and digitized primary source materials." [from the Home Page, December 1996]

Links:

• Home Page
• Text copy of the project announcement [December 1996]
• Browse the Finding Aids Collection
• Link to Encoded Archival Description (EAD)

• Sample California Heritage Finding Aids:

  • 1934 International Longshoremen's Association and General Strike
  • California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856
  • African Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1963-1974
  • Franciscan Missions of California by Watkins, ca. 1876-1882
  • Oil Industry in California, 1911-1914

Addresses:
Daniel Pitti: dpitti@library.berkeley.edu

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Harvard/Radcliffe Digital Finding Aids Project (DFAP)

[CR: 19961204] [Table of Contents]

"The Digital Finding Aids Project was established in February 1995 to plan and oversee the design and deployment of a new computer application system to store, search, and retrieve digital finding aids in SGML format format for all of the forty-nine (49) Harvard/Radcliffe repositories in a shared database. Presently, eight repositories are participating in the project: Baker Library (Business School), Design School, Divinity School, the Gray Herbarium and Houghton Library (Harvard College Library), Law School, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (Radcliffe), and the Harvard University Archives."

The new DFAP WWW site "includes a history of the project to date; Harvard guidelines for using SGML for finding aids, based on the Encoded Archival Description (EAD), a proposed national standard; repository-specific versions of the guidelines; and a growing number of SGML-encoded finding aids."

"The Digital Finding Aids Project is the first step towards establishing a strong administrative structure for the creation and technical support of SGML-encoded finding aids at Harvard. The project is a collaborative effort involving curators, archivists, catalogers, electronic text specialists, and library systems people, engaging participants from across Harvard." [adapted from the announcement]

The project members say: "We are not alone in our belief that SGML finding aids will be a major force in creating the library of the future. The EAD is rapidly becoming a national standard. The Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, working with the Society of American Archivists, will maintain the EAD as it does the MARC standard. The Council of Library Resources, with SAA, is committed to the development and publication of application guidelines for the EAD. And the National Digital Library Federation sees in the EAD a common standard enabling searches for digitized archival materials across collections and institutions. Products like Hytime, a hypermedia extension of SGML, can be used to li nk images and sound to the finding aid. Overall, SGML and the EAD promise future flexibility as such enhancements are demanded by the scholarly community." [from the History, "Finding Common Ground"]

Links:

• Harvard/Radcliffe DFAP Home Page. Includes links to the online SGML Finding Aids.
• Announcement for the Harvard/Radcliffe Digital Finding Aids Project (DFAP) [From Leslie A. Morris, December 1996]
• Harvard/Radcliffe DFAP History and Project Report; [mirror copy]
• Guidelines for using the EAD DTD at Harvard/Radcliffe repositories, October 22, 1996; [mirror copy]
• Guidelines for Houghton implementation of the EAD DTD, [9/6/96]
• Directory of Members

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Research Libraries Group (RLG) FAST Track: Finding Aids SGML Training

[CR: 19961212] [Table of Contents]

In July 1996, the RLG received $100,000 from the Delmas Foundation to "support RLG's project to train its members in applying SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) coding to their archival finding aids." The finding aids documents will become part of the RLG digital collections, a current example of which is Arches (Archival Server and Test Bed). RLG's Arches Project is devoted to building "the conceptual and physical foundation for collaborative projects that will create long-lasting, internationally accessible digital resources of all types" In early 1997, the Arches project plan calls for full-text searching capability that can take advantage of SGML-encoded texts.

The RLG FAST Track project is designed to "enhance national and international access to primary sources through digitized finding aids linked to their RLIN collection-level records. Finding aids are guides that provide detailed descriptions of the content of archival collections; they can form a valuable bridge between collection-level cataloging and whole information objects. The FAST (Finding Aids SGML Training) Track is a series of workshops designed to train RLG members in encoding their finding aids with Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard and guidelines. . . RLG members trained in encoding their finding aids with SGML according to an international standard. Links in the RLIN database leading searchers all over the world to these finding aids. Widespread adoption of the evolving EAD standard. A growing body of valuable primary sources information accessible worldwide."

"With generous support from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Council on Library Resources, RLG has fostered the creation of training curriculum materials and has organized a series of eight regional workshops for members. The RLG FAST workshops build on the work of members and allies in the archival community. The University of California at Berkeley pioneered in developing the EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) through the Berkeley Finding Aids Project. The Bentley Library Research Fellows advanced the EAD standard to the alpha stage, and the EAD "Early Implementers" are helping to take it through the beta stage. The Library of Congress has agreed to be the ISO maintenance agency for this standard. The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has agreed to cosponsor the standard, form a working group to develop application guidelines, and help promote its use." [extracted]

"Four workshops were conducted in 1996, training 60 staff from 35 RLG member institutions through sessions held in St. Paul, Minnesota; at the National Archives II in College Park; Maryland; and at the British Library in London. The schedule for 1997 is: (1) January 9-10, 1997 -- Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin; (2) March 6-7, 1997 -- Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; (3) April 28-29, 1997 -- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; (4) June 9-10, 1997 -- Columbia University, New York, New York."

Links:

• Arches: RLG Archival Server and Test Bed; [mirror copy]
• RLG FAST Track: New Access to Archival Collections [mirror copy]
• Press release: receipt of $100,000 from Delmas Foundation for FAST; [mirror copy]
• RLIN Focus Article: RLG FAST: TRAINING TEACHES SGML MARKUP OF ARCHIVAL FINDING AIDS; [mirror copy]
• "Studies in Scarlet", from The Research Libraries Group News, Spring 1966 [has a description of the FAST (Finding Aids SGML Training) program]; ["Studies in Scarlet," mirror copy]. See also the overview in the bibliographic reference.
• RLG Home Page

Addresses:
RLG Member Services
Attention: Fran Devlin
Email: bl.fed@rlg.org
Tel: +1 415-691-2239)
Tel: 1-800-537-7546
FAX: +1 415.964.0943
or:
Research Libraries Group, Inc (RLG)
1200 Villa Street
Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 USA
Fax: +1 415.964.0943

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Cheshire II Project and SGML (UC Berkeley)

[CR: 19960716] [Table of Contents]

"The Cheshire II project is developing a next-generation online catalog and full-text information retrieval system using advanced IR techniques. This system is being deployed in a working library environment and its use and acceptance by local library patrons and remote network users are being evaluated. The Cheshire II system was designed to overcome twin problems of topical searching in online catalogs, search failure and information overload. The system incorporates a client/server architecture with implementations of current information retrieval standards including Z39.50 and SGML." [from the main WWW page]

"The Cheshire II system is intended to provide a bridge between the purely bibliographic realm of previous generations of online catalogs and the rapidly expanding realm of full-text and multimedia information resources. To accomplish this goal, the Cheshire II system includes the following design features: (1) it supports SGML as the primary data base format of the underlying search engine. . .

Links:

• Cheshire II Project Home Page
• JASIS Paper (online)
• Bibliographic entry for "Cheshire II: Design and Evaluation of a Next-Generation Online Catalog System, by Ray R. Larson, Ralph Moon, Jerome McDonough, Lucy Kuntz, and Paul O'Leary
• Cheshire II and SGML; [mirror copy, partial links]

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UCSD Archives Finding Aids Database UC, San Diego)

[CR: 19960912] [Table of Contents]

The Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego, has mounted a subset of the library's finding aids on the WWW in SGML and HTML coded versions. The database is located at http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/mscl-fa1.html.

The database currently includes approximately 65 listings for manuscripts, personal papers, and UCSD records. Each listing contains a link to the SGML-coded finding aid, to the HTML-coded finding aid, and to the corresponding catalog record in ROGER WEB, the WWW version of UCSD's library catalog. In turn, each catalog record for items having a finding aid includes a link to the SGML finding aid, to the HTML finding aid, and to the "homepage" for the database, where one can search the entire database of SGML finding aids. The SGML part of the database is indexed and searchable by means of Verity Query Language. Also, corresponding records in OCLC's Intercat database include links to the two versions of the finding aids and to the database homepage."

Links:

• Finding Aids Database - Main Page
• Public announcement for the database prototype
• Guidelines for Searching Finding Aids Database

Addresses:
Bradley D. Westbrook
Manuscripts Librarian / University Archivist
Mandeville Special Collections Library 0175S
Geisel Library
UC, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
Tel: 619-534-6766
FAX: 619-534-5950
Email: bdwestbrook@ucsd.edu

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Durham University Library - EAD Finding Aids

[CR: 19971008] [Table of Contents]

In an October 1997 announcement from Richard Higgins (Durham University Library, Durham, UK), the availability of 100 (+) finding aids was advertised. The EAD (SGML) encoded finding aids for Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections are available via Dynaweb as HTML for ordinary WWW browsers. The Durham University Library's DynaWeb Server "is designed to serve HTML created on the fly from SGML documents, which at present are handlists for the holdings of Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections, which have been created in SGML using the EAD (Encoded Archival Description) DTD. Dynaweb should sense whether your browser is frames-enabled, and if so use a three frame layout; if not, it will format the response to appear within a single screen. If your browser has Javascript, ensure that it is enabled."

Links:

• Home Page
• Contents of the DUL Handlists Collection
• "Standardised Languages for Data Exchange and Storage. The Encoded Archival Description: Using SGML to Create Permanent Electronic Handlists." By Richard Higgins, Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections. [local archive copy]

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Consortium for Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)

[CR: 20021028] [Table of Contents]

See now the separate document "Consortium for Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI)."

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Project AQUARELLE

[CR: 19970826] [Table of Contents]

AQUARELLE, "The Information Network on Cultural Heritage," is carried out by an international consortium gathering public and private cultural organisations. Two of its principal objectives are to "develop a resource discovery system for the cultural heritage information available in archive and folder databases, and to provide the technical facilities supporting information access through hypertext navigation as well as information retrieval by querying." The partnership is currently composed of cultural organisations, publishers, information technology companies, and research organisations; it is for "curators, urban and regional planners, publishers and researchers." Under Project Manager Dr Alain Michard, The project is sponsored ed by ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and supported by the European Commission, Telematics Applications Programme.

"At the technical level, the most relevant and important standards on which AQUARELLE rely are: (1) Z39.50, a protocol supporting distant access to documentation systems, and (2) SGML, a language supporting the specification of complex document structures. . .The main technical challenges of the project are to support query broadcasting to multilingual archive databases, to provide powerful resource-discovery facilities, and to provide tools for authoring and indexing of distributed hypermedia folders with specific SGML DTDs. The project will long for three years (1996 to 1998), with a total budget of 6,5 MECUS, and an EU-funding of 3 MECUS. It will coordinate with national and international bodies which have launched similar intiatives (e.g.: UNESCO, Getty Trust, CIMI, etc.). "

"SGML DTDs: Folders in Aquarelle version 1 will be based on two different SGML DTDs . The first one has been designed by the CIMI in Project CHIO, and is primarily adapted to process documents related to museum collections. The second one, developed under a French initiative to create digital versions of the "Dossiers de l'Inventaire Giniral", is adapted to document the built heritage of geographical areas. Both DTDs have been slightly modified to match the precise requirements of the cultural organisations involved in Aquarelle. For the second version of the system, merging these two DTDs into a single one will be considered. . .The Grif SGML editor will be tailored to the specific folder DTD's that will be defined. Besides being fully WYSIWYG, this editor works with any SGML DTD, includes a full API, has a sophisticated physical structure language, includes structured hypertext links and supports most content formats. It is widely used and recently a version of Grif for HTML , the Grif Symposia has become available to the Internet." See the published report: C. Bounne, SGML Documents Type Definitions , Project AQUARELLE IE-2005, Deliverable Number D6.2, St Quentin, 13-November-1996.

Links:

• AQUARELLE Home Page
• AQUARELLE Project Description
• The Partnership
• AQUARELLE Activities
• AHDS link speaks of ". . .the flagship EC project Aquarelle"
• ERCIM News article on Aquarelle

Address:
Dr Alain Michard
Project Manager
ERCIM c/o INRIA
BP 105
F-78153 Le Chesnay
Cedex, France
E-mail: Alain.Michard@inria.fr

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Project Silfide (Serveur Interactif pour la Langue Française, son Identité, sa Diffusion et son Étude)

[CR: 19971007] [Table of Contents]

"SILFIDE est un projet du CNRS et de l'AUPELF-UREF. Son objectif principal, en tant que serveur interactif, est de permettre l'accès d'une manière conviviale et raisonnée à des ressources textuelles (quelle que soit leur origine, écrite ou orale) à l'ensemble de la communauté universitaire travaillant à partir de la langue (linguistes, enseignants, informaticiens,...) à travers un réseau de serveurs informatiques et d'actions en alimentant les fonctions. Ce projet s'effectuant dans un cadre francophone, la langue de base est donc le français. L'utilisateur aura la possibilité de questionner le serveur à partir de différents index (accès par auteur, titre, langue,...). A partir de cette élection, SILFIDE propose différentes visualisations des résultats obtenus avant d'accéder au(x) texte(s) directement ou via le fournisseur. Les ressources proposées sont toutes codées sous le format SGML et conformes aux directives de la TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). Le second rôle de SILFIDE est de permettre a tout utilisateur de travailler sur les ressources auxquelles il a accès au moyen de différents outils (recherche de mots-clés dans le texte, alignement multilingue,...)" [from the description]

Links:

• Silfide Home Page
• Description
• Le serveur SILFIDE : mise en oeuvre, fonctionnalités, évolutivité." By: Bonhomme P., Bruneseaux F., Cruzlara-Silva S., Mapelli V., Nitti A., Romary L. Project Report, March 1997.
• Main research centers
• Related: Codage et Manipulation de Ressources Linguistiques
• XCorpus description (in English)
• Database entry for SILFIDE on the TEI server
• Presentation on SILFIDE at the TEI 10th Anniversary Conference by Laurent Romary (CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine): "Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded Documents."

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Network of Literary Archives (NOLA)

[CR: 19960229] [Table of Contents]

The intent of NOLA is to "focus on what may be called literary archives - the unpublished sources on major novelists, philosophers, musicians and painters. Some of these collections are kept by libraries, others by museums, archives and research institutions, in the private as well as in the public sector. NOLA will establish a common platform for cooperation on use of standards, tools and methods as well as the provision of mutual access to resources between libraries and other institutions."

"NOLA will build upon the work already carried out by the EU-funded Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in definining Guidelines for the encoding and interchange of the widest range of machine-readable resources. The TEI is a major international project, with an unusually high degree of visibility, in North America and the Far East, as well as within Europe. It is the most successful attempt so far made to determine a comprehensive set of encoding standards, based on ISO standard SGML, which are of truly general applicability in realistically scaled projects."

Links:

• NOLA Home Page
• About NOLA [mirror, February 29, 1996]
• Members of the NOLA Consortium {E.g., THE DORSET COUNTY MUSEUM (DCM), Dorchester; FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT BRENNER-ARCHIV (FIBA), University of Innsbruck; NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTRE FOR THE HUMANITIES (NCCH); The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB); OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES (OUCS); ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Stockholm; ROYAL LIBRARY (RL), Stockholm; TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE (TEI); UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK LIBRARY]
• Link from David Barnard's Home Page

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Duke University: Special Collections Library, SGML Finding Aids

[CR: 19980121] [Table of Contents]

"The Duke University Special Collections Library has been an active participant in the Berkeley Finding Aids Project. We have put together this series of WWW pages as a demonstration of some of the benefits of encoding our finding aids, using SGML."

The collection already contains many finding aids already encoded in SGML. Each collection name is a link to the SGML source file. If you are using Windows Mosaic (or Spyglass Mosaic), and have SoftQuad's free SGML viewer, Panorama, you will be able to view the finding aid as it is meant to be seen in an on-line environment, complete with a table of contents view, and a full text view. Panorama employs a browser that supports Object Linking and Embedding (OLE), so that it can interact with the Web browser to retrieve auxilliary files, such as the style sheet(s), navigator(s), catalog files, and the Document Type Definition (DTD). Three example documents (with extension .sgml) are provided in the list below:

• [January 21, 1998] Update: see the announcement from Stephen Douglas Miller (Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University) for enhanced access to the library's online reference materials through a Dynaweb Internet Server. The new Librarys Internet Server has been supported by Inso Corporation through a grant of its Dynatext/Dynaweb SGML and XML publishing system. The browsable and searchable collections are maintained in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and are translated on-the-fly to HTML. The Duke resources include 153 Finding Aids, based upon the Encoded Archival Description (EAD); a Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, with information about 5991 collections; Digital Image Access Project Photographs database, in which "the images, associated descriptions, access points, and administrative information have been encoded into an image database using Encoded Archival Description."
• EAD at Duke
• EAD Tools (MS Word template and user guide, contains macros designed to aid in EAD markup
• The Encoded Archival Description Retrospective Conversion Guidelines: A Supplement to the EAD Tag Library and EAD Guidelines [1996]
• Finding Aids Database Duke University Special Collections Library [Updated: January 29, 1997]
• Primary page: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/findaid/
• Finding Aids encoded in SGML and HTML
• Collection Guides on the Internet (Hartman Center)
• The Diaries of William James Carlton
• The Papers of Wallace W. Elton
• The Papers of Sam Meek
• Also: Advanced Papyrological Information System [mirror copy]
• Also: NISTF II: THE BERKELEY FINDING AIDS PROJECT AND NEW PARADIGMS OF ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS (Steve Hensen, Director of Planning and Project Development, Special Collections Library, Duke University

Addresses:
Special Collections Library
Duke University
Box 90185
Durham, NC 27708-0185
Internet: specoll@mail.lib.duke.edu
Telephone: 919-660-5820 (office)
Tel: 919-660-5822 (research services reference desk)
Fax: 919-684-2855

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University of Warwick Modern Records Centre, Finding Aids Project

[CR: 19980319] [Table of Contents]

"The Modern Records Centre is beginning to convert its finding aids to an electronic format. The finding aids are being encoded in the EAD DTD (Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition) of SGML (Standard Generalised Mark-up Language). The Modern Records Centre is pleased to announce that it has finally placed an EAD encoded catalogue on the web site (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/mrc.html). EAD encoded documents may be viewed using Softquad's Author/Editor and Panorama PRO packages. We invite all members of the list and other interested parties to visit and to send in any comments or suggestions. The actual web page from where you can access the SGML document is http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/wwwead.html. [Adapted from the EAD page and from a posting by Alan Crookham to the EAD list, March 05, 1998]

Links:

• Modern Records Centre EAD Cataloguing Project
• SGML for Archivists - References to online resources, maintained by Simon Wilson

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Project ELSA (Electronic Library SGML Applications)

[CR: 19970316] [Table of Contents]

"Project ELSA is carrying out research into the use of documents in libraries which have been marked up in SGML format (Standard Generalized Markup Language). The project will construct an electronic store of documents which will take the form of a server on a network. Client computers will be able to access the material on the server, download it and make it available to librarians and end users for use and manipulation. The project will establish a detailed specification end user environment based on a client server model through consultation with librarians and end users. The specification and an examination of relevant standards will drive the construction of a user interface which will be produced to provide the ability to search, retrieve and view material. . . The project is funded through European Commission DG XIII and has three partners. Jouve System D'Information (France) the lead partner, will provide the search engine, user interface software and client server software, Elsevier Science (Netherlands) will provide the documents and De Montfort University will develop the user interface and provide a test bed."

. . .Central to the project, there will be an electronic store of articles, which are coded in SGML (Standard Generalised Mark-up Language) with corresponding artwork. The documents are articles from approximately 100 Elsevier Science journals."

• ELSA: Electronic Library SGML Applications
• ELSA's Home Page [mirror copy, text and partial links only, July 1995]
• Elsevier Articles
• Index of /ELSA/articles/
• See David Houghton's article "Displaying SGML documents on the World Wide Web"
• R. J. Adams, "Electronic Libraries SGML Applications: Background to Project ELSA"
• Search the Elsevier Collection
• Contact: Catherine Lupovici (cl@blutch.jouve.fr), Albert Fischer (a.fischer@elsevier.ch), or Suzanne Ward (shw@dmu.ac.uk)

Addresses:
Catherine Lupovici
Jouve Systemes d'Information
Tel: +44 76 86 00
Fax +44 76 86 10
Email: cl@blutch.jouve.fr
OR The ELSA Project
Division of Learning Development
De Montfort University
Gateway Building 1.8D
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
Email: djh@dmu.ac.uk

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UCLA - InfoUCLA Project, including ICADD SGML

UCLA has used SGML in a number of projects. From the historical overview: "In the summer of 1992, Simile [UCLA information processing group] began to experiment with SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) as a way to publish its data so that it can be accessed in a variety of ways, one of which is via the International Committee for Accessible Document Design (ICADD) document type definition, which through the use of enabling technologies makes electronic information accessible to people with disabilities. Of no small additional benefit is that using SGML for data representation can permit InfoUCLA's data investment to be preserved as future technologies become available. The initial experiments with SGML demonstrate Simile's intention to keep equal access to electronic information a central and ongoing concern."

"For the future, Simile continues to conduct its search for the perfect information client/server combination: one that allows browsing, searching, sorting of results with relevance feedback, transaction processing, use of non- Roman character sets, file and document delivery, image, sound, video, access to a number of different kinds of servers, and one that is compatible with all platforms. Future projects include a prototype client/server system based on Open Text Software's PAT database engine and LECTOR SGML browser, which will incorporate support for the ANSI Z39.50 search and retrieval protocol, bringing some of the College Library reserves online, and posting Internet training materials online."

• See provisionally: The InfoUCLA Project
• History of InfoUCLA [document as of March 28, 1995]
• The people behind InfoUCLA
• See provisionally: links to ICADD (SGML) Project at UCLA
• Contact: Jeff Suttor (Email: JSuttor@Library.UCLA.edu)

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Representative Poetry Project: University of Toronto

Representative Poetry is "a historical anthology of English poetry, from the early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century, which includes about 730 poems by roughly 80 authors. Based on the University of Toronto Press publication of the same name (3rd edition, revised, 1967)."

"Representative Poetry is available on-line in the World-Wide Web front page of the University of Toronto English Library (UTEL). It is encoded in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and is converted on the fly to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for Web browsers. The encoded collection is part of the TACT manual to be published by the Modern Language Association in 1995. The tagging guidelines for this collection give further details. . .Representative Poetry root files are encoded in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), an ISO-sponsored syntax for the tagging of electronic documents, but are converted to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for display on the World Wide Web. SGML tags are useful for the exchange of electronic documents across many different computers and for the enrichment of texts with information. . .the poems are encoded in Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to make explicit features of the original edition that were often unstated, such as line number (for long poems like Spenser's Faerie Queene), stanza number, type of text (including heading, subheading, epigram, note, speech prefix, and stage direction), and language. This kind of tagging assists in text analysis and retrieval." [from the introductions]

• PREFACE TO REPRESENTATIVE POETRY
• ENCODING GUIDELINES FOR REPRESENTATIVE POETRY
• INDEX OF POEMS IN REPRESENTATIVE POETRY BY PUBLICATION DATE
• AN INDEX OF POETS INREPRESENTATIVE POETRY (Ian Lancashire)

See the related work at the University of Toronto in the 'Renaissance Electronic Texts' series ("A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of Renaissance books and manuscripts (with critical introduction), transcriptions of basic texts, and supplementary studies, published on the Internet as a free resource for students of the period. [General Editor: Ian Lancashire]"). The URL: RENAISSANCE ELECTRONIC TEXTS: http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/ret/ret.html.

Contact:
Ian Lancashire
Department of English, New College
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Robarts Library
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1

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Stanford University - Academic Information Resources (AIR) and Academic Text Service (ATS)

[CR: 19960323] [Table of Contents]

Stanford University's Academic Text Service (ATS) hosts a number of informative resources for researchers wishing to prepare electronic texts using SGML encoding. ATS is "now introducting Web-based access to a number of electronic texts, and by the beginning of the 1996-1997 academic year we plan to make all of Stanford University's electronic texts available over the Web. [Due to licensing restrictions, these texts are currently limited in use to the Stanford community only.] The texts that ATS is delivering are encoded in SGML, using a document type definition (DTD) that complies with the TEI."

Links:

• What is the ATS? (Home Page)
• Textual Mark-Up
• Converting ATS Texts for Web/SGML Access
• Obtaining/Creating E-Texts
• Mounting an SGML E-Text in the PAT Environment, Step by Step
• Database/Network Considerations
• Shakespeare, Oxford Edition (Search)
• Contact: jwciii@leland.stanford.edu [Jim Coleman, Head, Academic Computing for the Humanities and Area Studies]

Addresses:
Stanford University
Academic Text Service (ATS)
315 Sweet Hall
Email: ats@lists.stanford.edu
phone: (415) 725-3163

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Project PREMIUM (PRoduction of Electronic Materials through International and Uniform Methods)

[CR: 19951015] [Table of Contents]

Project PREMIUM is an academic project closely affiliated with the Department of Humanities Computing of Groningen University. It has a significant SGML emphasis, as described in the project plan, referenced below. The project is commissioned by Stichting SURF (SURF Foundation) and executed by SURFnet bv during 1995.

• Project PREMIUM Home Page
• Production of Electronic Materials through International and Uniform Methods: Project Plan
• Premium: Literatuur en netwerkbronnen (includes references for about 20 publications on SGML
• Premium - Survey of SGML products (with Alfa-Informatica van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
• Groningen TEI Workshop, sponsored in part by PREMIUM; see also the conference entry

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CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) - University College Cork [was:CURIA Project]

[CR: 19971126] [Table of Contents]

"The CELT database is a growing corpus of literary, historical, social, and political texts relating to Ireland and Irish culture. The text is encoded using the TEI DTD, and is available online in SGML, HTML, plaintext, and PostScript."

The CELT Project (Corpus of Electronic Texts), online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics, is centered at University College, Cork, Ireland. "The CELT project grew out of the joint involvement of the Department of History and the Computer Centre in a number of related text projects over many years, including the project formerly known as CURIA, the Peritia and Chronicon journals, and the History Ireland project. The CELT project aims to produce an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It will provide material for the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out. Texts are taken from the best printed editions*, scanned, and proofread. Markup for structural and analytic features is added according to the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Conversions to HTML are made for online reading in the World-Wide Web, and the master files can be used to create versions in other formats, and for contextual searching, concordancing, and other analyses."

Links to the CELTProject:

• CELT Home Page
• Text searching in the CELT database
• CELT Project Description
• Representation of TEI content markup in HTML
• Text Listing
• CELT SGML/TEI Page
• Contact CELT

Addresses:
Margaret Lantry
Managing Editor
CELT Project
Computer Centre
University College
Cork
Ireland
Tel: +353-21-902736

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Chadwyck-Healey: English Poetry Full-Text Database, Patrologia Latina [other full-text databases]

[CR: 19950831] [Table of Contents]

All of Chadwyck-Healey's full-text databases are SGML encoded. The description for the English Poetry Full-Text Database is illustrative of the philosophy behind the C-H endeavor.

"English Poetry is a machine-readable full-text database encompassing [about 165,000] works of 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the nineteenth century, available commercially from Chadwyck-Healey. [The poetic canon draws upon 4,500 printed sources.] It is the largest and most accessible full-text database yet published in the humanities. The great size and chronological span of English Poetry and the consistent coding of all the texts make it a valuable resource for research, teaching and reference."

"An important feature of English Poetry is the use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for the coding of the texts. This internationally recognised coding language, specified in ISO 8879, greatly enhances the value of the database to researchers: (1) SGML coding breaks down the full text into its structural elements so that each of these elements can be searched or manipulated separately; (2) It provides a standard method of text capture and description which allows the encoded data to be interchanged or combined with other SGML-coded texts. Users can merge texts from the database with their own texts for analysis. Texts from English Poetry can also be used with any SGML-compatible software; (3) Most traditional coding languages have been designed with specific ends in mind, e.g. database manipulation or typesetting. SGML, however, is deliberately neutral so that the output format is determined by the processing software employed, not by the coding itself."

"The SGML encoding scheme to be used by English Poetry is closely modelled on that being developed by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), the international research project sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computational Linguistics, and jointly funded by the US National Endowment for the Humanities, the Commission of the European Communities (DG XIII) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."

"Examples of elements distinguished by the English Poetry encoding scheme include structural units such as volume, part, book, etc down to the level of individual poems or groups of poems, stanzas and lines. Titles, headings, refrains, prologues, notes, etc are dearly distinguished from texts, and prose from verse. Page divisions, use of typographic emphasis and indentation are also all clearly marked. For verse dramas scene, act, speaker, stage instructions and cast list are coded. [extracts from the database overview online at the University of Virginia]

PC versions of the English Poetry database use a modified version of the SGML browser DynaText, developed by Electronic Book Technologies. The license fees charged by Chadwyck-Healey for institutional/mainframe use of the database are rather high.

• See a fuller description from the University of Virginia WWW server [mirror copy, text only, partially linked]
• WWW Browse of the English Poetry Database [Indexes only]
• English Poetry Database: Sample of the SGML data [mirror copy, July 1995]
• University of Virginia's query/browser interface to the The Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Full Text Database

Other links. Chadwyck-Healey plans to have a dedicated WWW server soon. Meantime, from an experimental page, here are some descriptions of the electronic databases of probable interest to humanities scholars. Several (which ones?) of the databases use SGML encoding and can be licensed for use with the Windows-based SGML-aware software based upon DynaText.

• Voltaire électronique. "This important new database will form the most complete and up-to-date critical collection of Voltaire's works. . .In addition to the 24 volumes so far published in the Voltaire Foundation's printed edition of the Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, it will include all Voltaire's other texts which have been prepared in electronic form by the Voltaire Foundation but not yet published in print. . .All texts have been prepared by the Voltaire Foundation with SGML-coding and the database will also be published as SGML-encoded data on magnetic tape, for institutions wishing to network it with their own retrieval software."
• The English Poetry Full-Text Database. "English Poetry contains over 165,000 poems drawn from 4,500 printed sources. It is, in essence, a database of the complete English poetic canon from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the nineteenth century."
• English Poetry Plus on CD-ROM. "5,000 poems by 314 poets from Chaucer to the end of the nineteenth century with biographies, portraits, background illustrations and recorded readings."
• English Verse Drama: the Full-Text Database. "English Verse Drama complements and extends the pioneering English Poetry Full-Text Database. It adds six centuries of poetry intended for the stage to the thirteen centuries of poetry already available. English Verse Drama contains more than 1,500 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the unparalleled output of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period to the end of the nineteenth century."
• Patrologia Latina Database. The Patrologia is divided into the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeco-Latina. The Patrologia Latina covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. In 221 volumes, it covers most major and minor Latin authors and contains the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. Patrologia Latina Database is the full-text electronic version of the Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Illustrations are also included, as are Migne's column numbers - essential references for researchers."
• The American Poetry Full-Text Database. "The poetical works of over 200 authors from the earliest American poets of the seventeenth century to the beginnings of modernism. . .with more than 30,000 poems. The complete text of each poem is included. Any accompanying text written by the original author and forming an integral part of the work, such as notes, dedications and prefaces to individual poems, is also generally included."
• African-American Poetry, 1760-1900. "More than 2,500 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare. "The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. You can search the text quickly and precisely within and across editions and display different versions simultaneously on screen. Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare provides a complete and accessible concordance to Shakespeare's works and enables different editions to be compared as never before."
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction "Eighteenth-Century Fiction contains a selection of works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. All of the most widely-studied texts are in the database, alongside others which are being made available for the first time in many years. The complete text of each work is included, and any accompanying authorial material, such as footnotes or introductions. . . Searches can be made on any word or phrase in the whole database or be limited to an individual author or work and can be further restricted to the text alone or to critical apparatus or secondary authorial matter."
• English Prose Drama contains more than 1,800 plays by approximately 400 authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. As with English Verse Drama, the bibliographic basis is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, CUP 1969-72. Early, and where appropriate, collected editions are generally selected. If a contemporary edition is considered unreliable, a later edition may be used. In certain cases, modern critical editions are included. . . As with English Verse Drama, you can search on any word or phrase in the text or title of any drama in the entire database. The detailed encoding of the texts provides you with a wide choice of search criteria, enabling you to select and view, from a vast body of text, just the lines or passages of interest to you."

See now [September 1995] links to the CH WWW site:

• The Quill Mailing List from Chadwyck-Healey, a "forum for users of Chadwyck-Healey's literary full-text databases"
• Chadwyck-Healey Home Page
• Patrologia Latina Database
• The English Poetry Full-Text Database
• English Poetry Plus on CD-ROM
• Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
• The American Poetry Full-Text Database
• African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
• English Verse Drama: the Full-Text Database
• English Prose Drama: the Full-Text Database
• Voltaire électronique
• The Bible in English
• Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Chadwyck-Healey contact address:

Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.
1101 King Street
Alexandria, VA 223l4
Phone: (800) 752-05l5
Fax: (703) 683-7589
Email: info@chadwyck.com

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Cambridge University Press Electronic Editions

[CR: 19970429] [Table of Contents]

Several of the Cambridge University Press Electronic Editions use SGML encoding and the DynaText SGML searching/browsing software. In addition to the rich hypertext navigation, SGML encoding permits very specific searches within the texts, including: (1) restricting queries to particular SGML elements, or (2) enabling queries that address the hierarchical text "structure" itself. In addition, the search software supports traditional query logic (proximity, context regions, boolean operators, substrings, wild card characters, etc.) Examples of CUP's SGML encoded electronic texts are given below.

For Samuel Johnson: Dictionary of the English Language on CD-ROM: "The CD-ROM contains: A complete transcription of the text of the First Edition of Johnson's Dictionary of 1755 (c. 40,000 entries), with full SGML coding and page breaks following the original. A complete transcription of the text of the Fourth Edition of Johnson's Dictionary of 1773 (c. 40,000 entries), with full SGML coding and page breaks following the original. Digitised images of the original printed pages of both First and Fourth Editions. A DynaText search and retrieval engine with user-friendly screen design."

For Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue: "The CD-ROM contains: (a) Transcriptions of all 58 pre-1500 witnesses of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue (54 manuscripts and 4 early print editions), fully encoded in SGML (Standard Generalised Mark-up Language); (b) Digitized images of the originals of 1,200 manuscript pages, useful for teaching purposes or for checking the accuracy of any transcription against the original; (c) Hypertext linking between files allowing the reader to call up the full collation of any word across the entire range of witnesses; (d) A lemmatized spelling database permitting scholars to trace every spelling of every word across the witnesses; (e) A description of each witness based on examination of the witness itself; (f) Transcripts of all of the glosses in every manuscript of the Prologue. (g) A powerful DynaText search and retrieval engine with user-friendly screen design."

Links:

• Sample of SGML encoding, with descriptions of three electronic editions using the SGML encoding: Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue, and World Shakespeare Bibliography
• The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM [a related description]
• Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language [a related description]
• The Works of John Ruskin
• CD-ROMs from Cambridge University Press - Series description

Addresses:
Cambridge University Press
Edinburgh Building
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge CB2 2RU
UK
Tel: +44 1223 312393
WWW: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/
Email: ktaylor@cup.cam.ac.uk (Kevin Taylor)

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The Electronic Arden Shakespeare: Texts and Sources for Shakespeare Studies

[CR: 19961119] [Table of Contents]

The Arden Shakespeare is a major SGML-based reference resource for Shakespeare scholars, originally developed as an electronic text project by Database Publishing Systems Ltd of Swindon, UK in conjunction with Routledge, where Brad Scott was the Electronic Project Manager. Thomas Nelson will soon [November 1996] be distributing the electronic text as The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM. The project's consulting editor was Jonathan Bate of University of Liverpool, UK. While the SGML encoding was done by DPSL, the academic involvement comprised considerable detailed planning with various Shakepeareans about what should be on the CD, and what functionality it should have. A distinguished group of international scholars created a unique design to support a high level research across the entire corpus. SGML encoding permits searching within collections and tagged units: within all plays, within specific plays (acts, scenes), within groups of plays selected by the user, within prose or verse sections, within songs, asides, stage directions and speech prefixes, etc.

The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM "contains the complete works of Shakespeare in the Arden edition (plays as well as poems and sonnets), together with commentary and variant notes. Related texts are are synchronized in a scrolling multiple-window display based upon a customized DynaText SGML browser application. The database includes images of the key early editions, which are also synchronised with the the play texts. In addition, it includes a large amount of source material on which Shakespeare probably drew; the most important of these are linked to the individual scenes in the plays. There are a few other useful reference works in there as well. The core texts are thus supplemented by reference and supporting materials which, together, help undergraduates and researchers carry out in-depth research into the works, Shakespeare's sources and the modern editor's reading of the text. [adapted from online descriptions and comunique from Brad Scott]

The Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM is an integrated database that includes: (1) The omplete modern text of every Shakespeare play from The Arden Shakespeare 2nd edition; (2) Facsimile images of each page of first Folios and appropriate early Quarto texts the key source texts on which any edition must be based; (3) Poems and Sonnets; (4) Bullough: Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare to examine major sources for an act, scene of play, and resonances within the texts; (5) Bibliography: Bevington's Shakespeare with details of over 4,600 titles for further research; (6) Abbott: A Shakespearean Grammar; (7) Onions/Eagleson: A Shakespeare Glossary; (8) Partridge: Shakespeare's Bawdy; (9) Introductions, notes, appendices and variants from The Arden Shakespeare editions; (10) Original illustrations from all texts; (11) Chronology of works (with caveats); (12) A fact table on each play including dates, place in the corpus, and more.

Links:

• Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM: Main Page
• Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM: Contents
• Teaching and research applications
• Editorial Board
• Screen Shots
• Design and Functionality

Addresses:
Thomas Nelson
Attention: Roda Morrison
Nelson House
Mayfield Road
Walton-on-Thames
Surrey KT12 5PL
Tel: 01932 252211
FAX: 01932 252497
Email: Roda.Morrison@nelson.co.uk
or:
Routledge
Attention: Brad Scott, Electronic Project Manager
11 New Fetter Lane
London EC4P 4EE
UK
tel: 0171 842 2134
fax: 0171 842 2299
Email: bscott@routledge.com
WWW: http://www.routledge.com/routledge/routledge.html

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting The American South: The Southern Experience in 19th Century America

[CR: 19961201] [Table of Contents]

"This database presents primary sources documenting the culture of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. We plan to scan and encode texts and digitize images so that faculty and students at colleges, universities, and even secondary schools throughout the South - and the world - can use them. This database is the first stage of a larger project to document the cultural history of the American South. It will offer diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature drawn from the splendid Southern holdings of the UNC--CH Academic Affairs Library. We have begun with testimonial materials because students use them heavily, and we believe they are of interest to a larger audience."

"All the selected materials are encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI P3) SGML-based Guidelines, using TEILite.DTD (version 1.6). Please use SoftQuad PanoramaPro, the SGML-browser for the WWW, or its free version - SoftQuad Panorama Free - to read the files."

Links:

• Home Page
• Project Background
• About the Project
• SGML Links
• Narratives on Slavery
• Nineteenth-Century Diaries and Memoirs

Addresses:
Academic Affairs Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA

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English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus Project

[CR: 19951128] [Table of Contents]

The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus project (ENPC) is a research endeavor carried out primarily under the sponsorship the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities and the Department of British and American Studies, University of Oslo. All texts prepared for computer processing are encoded according to the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), as specified in TEI P3. "The document type definition for the texts in the corpus differs in some respects from the TEI model. The differences are, however, mainly additions to the TEI model; a few new tags and entities have been introduced. These tags and entities can be found in the files ENPC.DTD and ENCP.ENT respectively. Together with ENPC.TXT, which invokes the appropriate TEI tag sets, they constitute the complete ENPC tag set."

"The aim of the project is (1) to compile a parallel corpus of English and Norwegian texts for computer processing; (2) to develop tools for analysing parallel texts; and (3) to carry out studies of the structure and communicative use of the two languages on the basis of the corpus. The project is carried out in cooperation with a research group at the University of Lund (headed by Bengt Altenberg and Karin Aijmer) and with similar research teams in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, and Germany. Cooperation has also been established with HarperCollins Publishers, who will provide some English texts in machine-readable form. Through the cooperation with other contrastive teams, the study can be extended to multilingual comparison."

Some primary links:

• Humanistisk datasenter, Bergen
• Overview: The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus
• ENPC Reports
• See bibliographic entries for several publications on the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus: Johansson and Ebeling ( = ftp://ftp.hd.uib.no/pub/corpora/enpc.poznan.ps); Hofland ( = ftp://ftp.hd.uib.no/pub/corpora/enpc.allc.ps); Johansson, Ebeling and Hofland ( = ftp://ftp.hd.uib.no/pub/corpora/enpc.lund.ps)
• FTP to the Corpora Directory
• ENPC: Documentation, English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus Manual (or try: ENPC Manual); [mirror copy, partial links]
• HDs Gopher tjener

Addresses:
Department of British and American Studies
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1003, Blindern
N-0315 OSLO
Norway

Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
University of Bergen
Harald Hårfagres gt. 31
N-5007 BERGEN
Norway
Email: Stig.Johansson@iba.uio.no

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ETAP - Uppsala University Parallel Corpus Project

[CR: 19961216] [Table of Contents]

ETAP is "one of the research projects at the department of Linguistics in Uppsala University, Sweden: 'Etablering och annotering av parallelkorpus för igenkänning av översättningsekvivalenter' (in English: 'Creating and annotating a parallel corpus for the recognition of translation equivalents'). This project is a part of The Stockholm-Uppsala Research Programme 'Translation and Interpreting - A Meeting between Languages and Cultures' financed by the National Bank of Sweden (Riksbanken Jubleumsfond). . . Text structure in the documents in the two corpora has been automatically marked up with TEI Lite conformant SGML by means of software developed in the project." [from the Home Page]

"The basic aim of the project is to develop a computerized multilingual corpus that can be used in bilingual lexicographic work and in methodological studies directed towards the automatic recognition and extraction of translation equivalents from text. The corpus will comprise Swedish source text representing different styles and domains with translations into several languages. A basic requirement on the corpus is to have it word class tagged and aligned, primarily, sentence by sentence. By October 1996, the project has resulted in two parallel, aligned, subcorpora, the Scania Corpus and the Swedish Statement of Government Policy Corpus."

"The Scania corpus is a collection of truck manuals which were orginally written with the word processing program Framemaker. The documents in the corpus are available in eight languages. In order to be able to process the corpus for linguistic purposes we have converted the documents in the corpus to TEI SGML." [from abstract, E. F. Tjong Kim Sang]

Links:

• Home Page, [mirror copy, December 1996]
• Overview of the Parallel Corpora Projects in Uppsala; [mirror copy, December 1996]
• The Scania Corpus Project [with bibliography]
• Converting the Scania Framemaker Documents to TEI SGML, by Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. Internal report, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University, 1996. Abstract in HTML, or compressed Postscript format, [mirror copy]
• Aligning the Scania Corpus, by Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang. Internal report, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University, 1996. Abstract in HTML, or compressed Postscript; [mirror copy]
• Swedish government documents

Addresses:
Anna Sågvall Hein
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 513
S 751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
Fax: Fax: +46-18181416
E-mail: Anna.Sagvall_Hein@ling.uu.se
or:
Institutionen för Lingvistik
Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
phone: +46 18 18 11 13
fax: +46 18 18 14 16
Email: corpora@ling.uu.se
WWW: http://www.ling.uu.se/corpora/

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Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project

[CR: 19970812] [Table of Contents]

The ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project) is coordinated through Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, sponsored partially through the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA). The ETD Project management believes that SGML "is the logical solution for the long-term problem of preparing and archiving electronic documents." "The concept of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) was first openly discussed at a 1987 meeting in Ann Arbor arranged by UMI, and attended by representatives of Virginia Tech (Ed Fox from Computer Science and Susan Bright from the Computing Center), University of Michigan, SoftQuad, and ArborText. As followup, Virginia Tech funded development of the first SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) for this purpose, by Yuri Rubinsky of SoftQuad."

A current submission option in the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project is "for ETDs encoded in the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). SGML was designed to encode electronic documents that are portable across platforms. It is the logical solution for the long-term problem of preparing and archiving electronic documents. SGML documents may encode diverse document structures including headings and paragraphs, but also including structures as complex as music and virtual reality. In fact, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is an application of SGML for documents available on the World Wide Web."

Links:

• Virginia Tech - ETD Home Page
• Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project - Brief Description; [mirror copy]
• Document Type Definition for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, by Neill A. Kipp; [mirror copy]
• ETD DTD
• Bibliographic entry for SGML '96 presentation by Neill A. Kipp, "SGML Usability and DTD Design."
• Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project - FAQ
• ETD: Statement About Publications
• "Electronic Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities", by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, 1996 Convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington DC. [archive copy]

Addresses:
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Project
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia
Edward A. Fox, Computing Center (Email: fox@vt.edu)
John L. Eaton, Graduate School (Email: eaton@vt.edu)
Neill Kipp, Computer Science (Email: nkipp@vt.edu)
Email: etd@vt.edu

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Princeton University: The Charrette Project

[CR: 19950903] [Table of Contents]

"The Charrette project is a complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript tradition -- that of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180). It is developed and maintained by the Department of Romance Languages, Princeton University." A leading role is played by Karl D. Uitti, The John N. Woodhull Professor of Modern Languages, in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.

The text of this Old French narrative verse romance "composed by Chrétien de Troyes around 1180, tells the tale of Lancelot and his love for King Arthur's wife Guenevere. This seminal text was recast into the Old French prose Lancelot in the thirteenth century, the primary source for Mallory's Morte d'Arthur, which in turn has been the source of modern retellings of the Arthurian legend, including Tennyson's Idyls of the King, White's Once and Future King and Renault's popular novels." It now contains about 7100 verses, and modern editions are based upon 8 mss from the 13th century.

The archive includes transcriptions in TEI P3 SGML: "Electronic diplomatic transcriptions of the eight manuscripts of the Charrette tradition with markup for physical representation and for rhetorical features. The electronic transcriptions include markup for manuscript abbreviations, illuminations, marginal and interlinear text as well as for rhetorical features such as rich rhyme, chiasmus, and adnominatio. The transcriptions follow closely the manuscript sources, preserving source word spacing, punctuation, and textual variation. We have adopted the tagging protocol provided by the Text Encoding Initiative, version P3, a dialect of the Standard Generalized Markup Language."

Using PAT 4.0 and the TEI-SGML encoding notations, the texts are searchable online using specifications for "dictionary form" and "part of speech" in addition to the customary string searching strategies. A forms-based retrieval alternative allows the user to search specifying variable lines of context.

• The Charrette Project
• Introduction to archive components
• The manuscripts
• Manuscript transcription keys: (6) pages in .GIF format explain the TEI/SGML codes used in the manuscript transcriptions, as well as the short-hand scheme used in data entry
• Diplomatic Transcriptions
• Search: Le Chevalier de la Charrette
• The Foulet-Uitti Edition: the complete published text

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RIDDLE Project - Rapid Information Display and Dissemination in a Library Environment

RIDDLE (Rapid Information Display and Dissemination in a Library Environment) is sponsored by the Libraries Programme of the Commission of the European Communities' TELEMATICS programme.

"Technical approach: Following consultation within the European library community, a set of user requirements has been produced. The project has investigated the current state of the art in the areas of scanning technology, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and automatic markup/translation. Information from a wide variety of different scientific journals has been analysed and a system design produced which can be applied to any target OLC. International, industry and formal standards such as the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML, ISO 8879) have been examined. The catalogue at CWI forms the basis for the pilot which demonstrates the success of the concept."

The RIDDLE Project's evaluation of SGML software has resulted in a valuable published appraisal of post-OCR tagging/conversion technologies using products like SGML Translator (Shaftsall Corporation), TagWorX (Xerox Information Systems), IntelliTag (WordPerfect Corporation), TagWrite (Zandar), OmniMark (Exoteria Corporation), and FastTag (Avalanche Corporation). These studies are presented in the project's fourth deliverable, WP4 - Translation of contents pages text to Online Library Catalogue format. See the full bibliographic entry for this document and an overview article by the developers.

Net links:

• Informatics - Projects - RIDDLE (with mirror copy dated May 1995)
• RIDDLE information
• RIDDLE - more information (with mirror copy dated May 1995)
• http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/RIDDLE (ftp.cwi.nl/pub/RIDDLE)
• RIDDLE - WP4, Translation of contents pages text to Online Library Catalogue format

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Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Jyväskylä

• Document Management Research
• Gradute Theses/Pro gradu -tutkielmat
• Document Modelling: Publications in English

Address:Department of Computer Science and Information Systems; University of Jyväskylä; Mattilanniemi, Building MaD, 3rd floor; P.O.Box 35; 40351 JYVÄSKYLÄ FINLAND; Telefax: (+358 41) 603 011

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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Document Architectures Research Unit

[CR: 19961119] [Table of Contents]

SGML research of the KU Leuven Document Architectures Research Unit includes participation in the CAPS, HARMONY, MATHS, and DigiBook projects, as summarized in the extracts and links below. Some of these researches are financed under the Technology Initiative for Disabled and Elderly people (TIDE) programme sponsored by the Directorate-General XIII for Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation of the E.U. Primary TEO research participants include: dr. ir. Jan Engelen (project head), with three research assistants: ir. Bart Bauwens, ir. Filip Evenepoel and ir. Geert Bormans.

"The research group on Document Architectures originated from within the former division of Applied Electronics and Optics (Toegepaste Elektronica en Optiek ) within the Department of Electronics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The electronic research in the Applied Electronics and Optics group was mainly focused on the hardware research in the field of rehabilitation engineering, more specific, on the design of braille printers."

Document architectures are formal computer languages to describe the logical structure of an electronic document. There are two ISO Standards which describe such document architectures. The first, and most used, standard is called the "Standard Generalized Markup Language", abbreviated by SGML. The second standard is called "Open Document Architecture" or "Office Document Architecture" (ODA). This Research Group in the field of Information Technology focuses on the study and application of ISO standards for Document Architectures, especially those related to SGML." [from the Home Page]

MATHS Project: Mathematical Access for Technology and Science for Visually Disabled Users. "The MATHS Project started in January 1994 and will run until December 1996. . . The MATHS workstation is based on a number of different technologies which are brought together to provide the benefits of their combined facilities. It is important that the workstation should give access to a range of material rather than just to material input by using the workstation itself . This requires a standard format to be used. The project is based upon SGML which provides an international standard for describing the structure of documents. A document conforms to a specific template (or DTD) written within SGML which defines the components which can appear in that document; For example, a DTD for books would consist of author details, title page, chapters etc. This project requires a DTD for describing mathematics. The one which has been chosen is a variation on one of the EUROMATH DTDs. A new development from SGML is HTML, which extends the use of the language to the description of hypertext documents. This has become important as the description language for documents on the World Wide Web. An extension of the MATHS workstation can therefore be used to provide browsing facilities on the Web."

DigiBook Project. "The DigiBook Project started in December 1994 and will run until November 1996. This action is financed under the Cooperation in Science and Technology with Central and Eastern European Counties (COPERNICUS) programme by the Directorate-General XIII for Telecommunications, Information Industries and Innovation of the E.U. The TIDE Office is responsible for co-ordinating the activities for this project." It is the overall aim of this project, DigiBook, to improve the production of talking books and structured electronic texts for use by reading impaired persons. This can be realised through the application of digital speech processing and document structuring based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML, ISO 8879)."

Links:

• European Projects at T.E.O.
• TEO: Research Unit on Document Architectures
• For the CAPS and HARMONY projects see the general entry elsewhere in this database, OR see the following two links
• CAPS Project
• HARMONY Horizontal Action
• DigiBook Newsletter 1
• DigiBook Project: Digitized Speech Processing for Efficient Distribution of Texts
• The DigiBook Consortium
• TIDE - Technology Initiative for Disabled and Elderly Persons: The MATHS Project
• The Maths Project
• About the Euromath Editor
• The TIDE MATHS Project: Publications

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Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

[CR: 20050319] [Table of Contents]

Note: References in this section are under revision.

[March 19, 2005] Updated information from the Commission for the Publication of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae [Kommission für die Herausgabe eines Thesaurus Linguae Latinae der Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften], October 27, 2004 or later:

"The task of the institute is to produce the first comprehensive scholarly dictionary of the ancient Latin language from the earliest times down to AD 600. The work is based on an archive of about 10 million slips which takes account of all surviving texts. In the older texts there is a slip for each occurrence of each word; the later ones are generally covered by a selection of lexicographically relevant examples. Nowadays this material is supplemented by the use of modern data-banks. The first fascicule appeared in 1900; two thirds of the work have already been published.

The project is staffed by about 20 Latinists, both German and non-German. Among them are holders of scholarships, who work at the Thesaurus for a limited period as part of their academic training. The institute's archive and its unique library are consulted by scholars from the whole world. Since 1949 the Thesaurus has been an international project, in which at present more than 20 academies and learned societies from three continents participate..."

As of October 2004, work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae was hosted at the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Marstallplatz 8, D-80539 München, Germany; Tel: +49 89 23031 1160; Fax: +49 89 23031 1275; Email tll@thesaurus.badw.de. Contacts: Vertretungsberechtigter: Professor Dr. Ernst Vogt, Kommissionsvorsitzender; Redaktionelle Verantwortung: Dr. Hugo Beikircher, Generalredaktor; Technische Verantwortung: Dr. Johann Ramminger.

[February 17, 1997] Historical. "Recently work has begun on developing an electronic version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, or TLL. This work is being done under the auspices of the Consortium for Latin Lexicography (CLL). An electronic TLL on CD-ROM has the potential to be an extremely valuable tool, bringing the advantages of computerized search to the wealth of information in TLL. With an electronic TLL, users will be able to find and examine articles that meet the criteria they specify--for example, all articles that cite a certain author or work. It will be possible to retrieve articles of interest with a speed and thoroughness that is impossible with the printed version."

"The CLL has decided to use the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) implementation of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) as functional tags to distinguish the different types of information found within TLL articles. TEI offers features that we need in our tags for the TLL, such as functional, as well as formal, definitions, and the use of both start and end tags to surround an element; it also has the advantage of being an emerging standard in tagging electronic texts in the Humanities. . .In devising a tag set for the TLL, our starting point will be the tag set for printed dictionaries defined in the TEI P3 guidelines (Sperberg-McQueen and Burnard 1994), which is the set used in the figure above; however, since this tag set does not meet all of the needs of a historic lexicon like the TLL, the CLL hopes to work with the TEI and other interested parties to develop a tag set for historic lexica. (These plans are contingent upon all parties receiving the requisite funding.) The CLL is confident that it will be possible to devise a TEI-conformant SGML tag set that will be able to define each of the sections and types of information within the TLL." [see APAlink below]

References:

• Munich TLL Project web site
• Announcement posted to TEI-L December 21, 1995: "The project will use TEI encoding..."
• 2005-03 revised 'tllHome.html' document. Replaces the obsolete cache/mirror of the 'Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Home Page' hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan

Historical/legacy references:

• http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/devito/e-TLL/. 1995 URL for the Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Home Page.
• Developing an Electronic TLL: Constructing a Grammar for a Latin Lexicon." Ann DeVito. HTML version of a paper presented by Ann DeVito at the meetings of the American Philological Association in San Diego, California, 28-December-1995. It describes plans to use a grammar to direct the automated tagging of the electronic TLL database. From the Introduction: "The Consortium for Latin Lexicography (CLL), based at the University of California at Irvine under the Directorship of Patrick Sinclair, has just begun to plan the development of an electronic version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL). We hope to release, in several years' time, an electronic TLL on CD-ROM, complete with its own search engine and user interface. With an electronic TLL, users will be able to find and examine articles that meet the criteria they specify with a speed and thoroughness that is impossible using the printed version. In order to support computerized search of this sort, it is necessary to tag the TLL database appropriately. This paper concentrates on the CLL's grammar-directed approach to automating the tagging of the electronic TLL..." [cache/mirror, partial links]
• Ann DeVito: Developing an Electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, July 1995. [mirror, text only partially-linked, December 1995]
• LEXI. Description: "LEXI: An E-mail List for Greek and Latin Lexicography and Language. The LEXI listserv provides an open forum for discussion between scholars interested in the study of Greek and Latin language and lexicography. It is maintained by the Consortium for Latin Lexicography (sponsor of the project to create an electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. The listowner is Patrick Sinclair, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California at Irvine and Director of the Consortium for Latin Lexicography..."

Addresses:
Patrick Sinclair, Director
Consortium for LatinLexicography
Dept. of Classics, 156 HH
University of California
Irvine, CA 92717-2000
USA
Tel: +1 (714) 824-5831
FAX: +1 (714) 824-2464
Email: CLL@uci.edu

Ann DeVito, Systems Analyst
Consortium for Latin Lexicography
Dept. of Computer Science
1C101 Engineering Building
University of Saskatchewan
57 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
CANADA S7N 5A9
Email: devito@cs.usask.ca
WWW: Home Page

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University of Helsinki - Document Management Research Group

[CR: 19960418] [Table of Contents]

"DocMan is the structured document management research group at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. . .Text with a structure is quite common: dictionaries, reference manuals, annual reports etc. are typical examples. In recent years, research on systems for writing structured documents has flourished. The SGML and ODA standards have further increased the interest in the area. Active Projects include: SID (Structured and Intelligent Documents), and DOKU (A Finnish joint project on structured documents and text databases). Previous Projects included: HST/RATI (A structured text database system/Rakenteiset tekstitietokannat), and VITAL/ALCHEMIST (A general purpose transformation generator)."

"Structured and Intelligent Documents (SID) is a three-year research project, which studies and develops methods for attaching intelligent features to structured documents. The purpose of these features is to make the manipulation, i.e., storage, retrieval and assembly of documents easier. . . The SID project started on August 1, 1995 and will end on July 31, 1998. SID is a part of the Electronic Printing and Publishing programme started by the Finnish Technology Development Centre (TEKES). . . As a basis for the project we consider structured documents marked up according to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), which is an ISO standard for defining document markup languages." [from the SID home page]

Links:

• DocMan - The Document Management Research Group
• SID (Structured and Intelligent Documents)
• DOKU (A Finnish joint project on structured documents and text databases)
• DocMan Publications
• Project on Syntax Directed Document Processing (SYNDOC)
• Project on Filtering of Structured Documents
• Project on Structured Documents and Text Databases - List of publications

Addresses:
Department of Computer Science
Attention: Project Manager, Pekka.Kilpelainen@cs.Helsinki.FI
P.O. Box 26 (Teollisuuskatu 23)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
Phone: +358 0 70 851
Fax: +358 0 7084 4441

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Project ELVYN: Implementing an Electronic Version of a Journal

[CR: 19951201] [Table of Contents]

"Project ELVYN is a research project funded by the British Library Research and Development Department (BLR&DD) in cooperation with the Institute of Physics Publishers (IoPP) to look at how publishers and libraries can work together to provide an electronic version of a printed journal. The project involves a number of academic institutions in the UK and Europe: Loughborough University of Technology; University of Manchester; Oxford University; University College London; Imperial College; University of Hertfordshire; Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden; The Harwell Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Authority."

"IoPP offered to make all issues of the journal Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (MSMSE) available in electronic form to the members of the project. The offered formats were SGML, PostScript and plain TeX. It was up to the individual libraries to ascertain which format was best for them and to devise their own delivery strategy. The libraries also had to attempt to recruit users who would find the journal useful and would be willing to use an electronic version (not always an easy task!). At Loughborough we looked at the offered formats and decided to adopt the SGML format and use the IoPP's DTD to convert the SGML documents into HTML documents for viewing using standard World Wide Web. To accomplish this we used Klaus Harbo's Copenhagen SGML Tool (CoST). The use of HTML and the WWW fitted in with the change that was occurring on campus at the time to make more information available over the network using the Web and hypertext." [from the Home Page]

Links:

• DILS: Project ELVYN [mirror copy, November 1995]
• BLR&DD Technical Report [check above link for availability]
• J. P. Knight, "Translating SGML to HTML for Electronic Publishing" [mirror copy November 1995]
• "Project ELVYN: Implementing an Electronic Journal" [mirror copy November 1995]
• Project ELVYN Digital Libraries 94 Paper [mirror copy November 1995]
• Woodward. et al. "ELVYN: The Delivery of an Electronic Version of a Journal from the Publisher to Libraries." [mirror copy November 1995]

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HyperLib: Hypertext Interfaces to Library Information Systems

[CR: 19951201] [Table of Contents]

"HyperLib is the EC funded project of the Loughborough University (UK) and the University of Antwerp (B). The project aims to improve access to the services of the libraries of the University of Antwerp and thereby enhance the library's utility to its users. The project adopted a human factors oriented design methodology to ensure that the revised computer interface achieves the advances intended for as wide a spectrum of the library's users as is possible. In order to achieve a system that is both effective and easy to use the project partners decided to investigate graphical interfaces supporting dynamic hypertext linking. The project focusses on two implementations: electronic guides (for library end-users) and manuals (for library staff), and database related resources (an academic bibliography and a navigation tool for subject classification). The technology of the project is based on SGML, WWW and HTML. The complete online documentation (including a report on the HyperLib DTD design and on the conversion from SGML to HTML) can be found at http://www.ua.ac.be/docstore.html." [description from Jan Corthouts, Deputy Librarian, December 01, 1995]

HyperLib: Hypertext Interfaces to Library Information Systems. Telematic Systems in Areas of General intereset Libraries Programme. CEC Project: LIB-HYPERLIB/3-1015.

Links:

• HyperLib Electronic Document Store
• HyperLib: Open Access to Library Resources
• Report on the SGML to HTML conversion process - May 1995
• Report on the design of DTDs (Document Type Definitions) for library manuals amd library user guides - May 1995
• HyperLib electronic document store
• WP31: Text encoding: SGML

Contact address:
Jan Corthouts
Deputy Librarian
UIA-Library
PB 13
2610 Antwerpen
tel.: +32-3-820 21 42
fax : +32-3-820 21 59
e-mail: jan.corthouts@uia.ua.ac.be
www: http://jcort.bib.uia.ac.be

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Electronic New Testament Manuscript Project

[CR: 19970426] [Table of Contents]

"The Electronic New Testament Manuscripts Project aims to make available on the Internet, and on CD-ROM, transcriptions and digital images of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. . ."

"Transcriptions will come under a copying policy similar to that of the Free Software Foundation. This would mean that transcriptions are redistributable but that the original transcribers and editors would retain the copyright."

"Transcriptions will be done under the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) application produced by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). This scheme, devised by Humanities scholars in Europe and North America provides a standard means for the the transcription of primary sources and textual variants. An increasing amount of software works with TEI encoded documents, including software for collating manuscript variants automatically. Because the manuscript transcriptions will be based on an SGML application, they will be platform-independent and will not become obsolete as software technology advances."

• Electronic New Testament Manuscript Project Home Page
• ENTMP - Pilot Phase Proposal; [mirror copy, April 1997]

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UMI (University Microfilms International)

"UMI is one of the world's leading providers of information to library, corporate, and academic organizations. The company opens up access to more than 25,000 periodicals and newspapers, and over 1.3 million dissertations from universities around the world."

"ASCII/SGML/HTML Dissertations:

"As part of an overall effort to increase the number of documents available in ASCII format, UMI will be testing the creation of ASCII collections of dissertations in selected subject areas."

"We have no immediate plans to receive, convert to, or distribute dissertations as SGML- or HTML-formatted documents. However, we are implementing internal document database structures that will allow us to convert dissertations to some basic level of SGML or HTML tagging."

• http://www.umi.com:80/dissert/develop/formats.htm
• UMI Home Page

Addresses:
UMI Electronic Sales
300 North Zeeb Road
P.O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346
Telephone: (800) 521-0600 x3898

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Perseus Project

[CR: 20001026] [Table of Contents]

[1998] A Marlowe web site is "currently under construction at Tufts University as part of the Perseus Project, a digital library for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. This SGML-encoded edition of the complete works of Christopher Marlowe and his sources has been produced according to TEI standards."

Links:

• [October 26, 2000] See now the updated section: "Perseus Project."
• Perseus Project Home Page
• "The Perseus Project and Beyond. How Building a Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology." By Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Perseus; [local archive copy]
• See David A. Smith, David A, "Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI" in the abstracts volume of the TEI Tenth Anniversary.
• The Perseus Project, by Elli Mylonas [mirror]

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University of Bergen (Wittgenstein Archives)

[CR: 19960324] [Table of Contents]

MECS is "sorta-SGML", for studied reasons: "The transcriptions under preparation at The Wittgenstein Archives are coded in a primary format using a syntax called MECS (Multi Element Code System). MECS defines the syntax for The Wittgenstein Archives' registration standard, MECS-WIT, while MECS software allows for varying presentation formats, code extraction, variant control, word lists and other statistical data. . .The relationship between MECS and SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language) can be outlined as follows. All SGML documents are formally MECS-conforming, but not vice versa. MECS contains some of the properties of SGML, but it also contains additional, simpler mechanisms for representing structures which are cumbersome in SGML. Unlike SGML, MECS allows overlapping elements and does not require a Document Type Definition, although it allows (but does not require) the specification of a similar (though simpler) Code Definition Table." [from the Transcription description; see below]

See now: "Markup Language for Complex Documents (Bergen MLCD Project)".

Links:

• Wittgenstein Archives Home Page
• MECS - A Multi-Element Code System. By Claus Huitfeldt. [Excerpted]
• MECS - A Multi-Element Code System. By Claus Huitfeldt. [Forthcoming in] Working Papers from the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, No 3. ISBN 82-91071-02-0, ISSN 0803-3137. Copyright: Claus Huitfeldt. First version: 1992. This version: October 1998. "The subject matter of this document is text encoding. It presents what I have called the Multi-Element Code System, MECS. This is a working paper in the full sense of the term, i.e., a report on work in progress..." [cache]
• Introduction to The Wittgenstein Archives
• Transcription and Text Encoding at The Wittgenstein Archive
• Electronic Publication Plan
• Working Papers from The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen

Addresses:
The Wittgenstein Archives
The University of Bergen
Harald Haarfagresgate 31
N-5007 Bergen
NORWAY
Tel: +47-55 58 29 50
Fax: +47-55 58 94 70
E-mail: wab@hd.uib.no
Internet: http://www.hd.uib.no/wab/wabhome.htm

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The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles

[CR: 200109-7] [Table of Contents]

Information on the Orlando Project is available in a separate document.

Description of 19971018: "The primary objective of the Orlando Project is to produce, in both printed and electronic form, the first scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles. The integration of the project's key disciplines -- literary history and humanities computing -- will produce a highly sophisticated research tool for the study of women's writing in the multiple traditions of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales."

"...Using a combination of project-specific SGML with the TEI, we plan to extend the current capabilities of textual markup to include both subject tagging and the mapping of critical and argumentative movements within our textbase. Doing so will maximize the search, retrieval and display capabilities of our computing project."

Links:

• Orlando Home Page
• Brief project description (March 1996, text)
• See Susan Fisher, "The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles," CETH Newsletter 4/1 (Spring 1996) 12-13.
• Orlando Project: Humanities Computing in Conversation with Literary History. ALLC-ACH '97 Session, with chair Susan Hockey.

Addresses:
The Orlando Project
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
Canada
T6G 2E5
Email address: Orlando.Project@Ualberta.ca
Tel: (403) 492-7803
FAX: (403) 492-8142

OR:
Sue Fisher
Project Librarian
An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
CANADA
T6G 2E5
Email: Sue.Fisher@UAlberta.ca

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British Women Romantic Poets Project

[CR: 19971007] [Table of Contents]

"The British Women Romantic Poet's Project aims to produce an online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British women written between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period. . . The texts will be tagged using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and encoded using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, with the TEILite DTD."

Links:

• BWRP Home Page
• Project Introduction
• Project Description
• British Women Romantic Poets Project: List of Works. "These texts are encoded in Standard Generalized Markup Language. To read them you will need an SGML Browser, such as SoftQuad's Panorama."
• Database entry on the TEI server

Addresses:
Nancy Kushigian, Ph.D. (General Editor)
British Women Romantic Poets Project
Shields Library
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
Tel: 916-754-4337
Email: njkushigian@ucdavis.edu

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SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts

[CR: 19980120] [Table of Contents]

In January 1998, Patrick Durusau (Information Technology, Scholars Press) posted an announcement for a new mailing list to support the the ongoing work of the SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts. This seminar is designed for "biblical scholars, publishers, librarians, archivists, researchers and software designers [who] need good computer tools for working with biblical langauges and texts'" and is "dedicated to solving problems such as interchange and publication of materials containing biblical languages, creation of electronic texts for analysis and archiving, and other problems routinely faced by those working with biblical materials."

"The Biblical Language Standards mailing list is a forum for discussion of and announcements concerning the ongoing work of the SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts. In February of 1997, the steering committee for the Seminar adopted the following statement of goals:

1. Create standards for electronic representation and interchange of all types of documents in biblical and related studies. These standards will include naming, description, and analysis.
2. Encourage the development of software implementing these standards.
3. Produce a set of sample documents and software developed as models which are consistent with these standards.
4. Build a consensus for adoption of these standards.
5. Provide training in their use.

The Seminar is using the TEI Guidelines as the starting point for its discussion of encoding biblical language texts with a view of modifying or extending those guidelines as necessary."

Links:

• Announcement for the Biblical Language Standards mailing list
• Program from SBL '97 - Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts Seminar, November 23.

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Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative

[CR: 19960831] [Table of Contents]

"An ad hoc committee has been formed to extend the Westminster Morphologically Analyzed Machine-Readable Hebrew Bible (MORPH) to the syntactic level. The committee was formed loosely under the auspices of the Computer-Assisted Research Group (CARG) of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)."

"So the project entails: (1) a partially tagged data file(s); (2) a front-end interface; (3) some sort of search engine . . . [the project] is looking at a solution using the Text Encoding Initiative's SGML DTD (document type description) and marking up MORPH; then, using and hacking a SGML parser (like SGMLS), creating the syntactic tagged text, leaping off MORPH. Then the SGML parser can be used to create a query language (or maybe tcl [Tool Control Language]) and attach it to the (probably GUI) interface. Other SGML tools exist which can actually be used to quickly build applications based upon a DTD. That is the theory. Why TEI's DTD? Because it is a standard. SGML DTDs are reconfigurable either by changing the DTD itself (which changes the meaning of the tages already present) or by changing a parser which would actually reconfigure the data files in some arbitrary manner. This approach - if successful - satisfies many of the requirements of HSEI." [adapted from "What is HSEI?"]

Links:

• What is HSEI? [mirror copy], August 31, 1996
• HSEI Membership
• Cache data

Addresses:
Kirk Lowery, Ph.D.
Szeplepke koz 3/b
H-2119 Pecel, HUNGARY
Tel: (36) 30/423/440
Email: Kirk Lowery

or

Vincent DeCaen, Ph.D.
c/o Near Eastern Studies Dept.
4 Bancroft Ave., 3d floor
University of Toronto
Toronto ON, M5S 1A1, CANADA
Email: Vincent DeCaen

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Archivio Testuale Multimediale (ARTEM) Project

[CR: 19960609] [Table of Contents]

"The project, named "Archivio Testuale Multimediale" (ARTEM), will pursue three main goals: (1) To build a repository of electronic texts in Italian language, selected on the basis of the best editorial reliability, and fully encoded according to the best standards available. The repository will be freely accessible in WWW network; (2) To link the repository to other similar ones, offering the same scientific reliability; (3) To build a catalogue of existing electronic texts in Italian language, providing a statement of their editorial reliability and encoding methodology, and stating if and how they are available."

"Special attention is devoted to the problems of encoding, following the SGML procedures, according to the standards proposed by TEI. The previous analysis of textual features, to obtain the full list of elements to encode, will be declared and discussed."

Links (provisional):

• Announcement for the ARTEM project (Archivio Testuale Multimediale)
• lincei@axcasp.caspur.it [Tito Orlandi]
• Progetto ARTEM - Archivio Testuale Multimediale

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Université de Montréal (EBSI-GRDS)

[CR: 19970531] [Table of Contents]

Researches programs and results of the Groupe départemental de Recherche sur les Documents Structurés (GRDS) and École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) are summarized in the linked information below.

Links:

• Brève introduction au GRDS
• Main Page - Groupe départemental de Recherche sur les Documents Structurés
• Announcement from Guy Teasdale for the publication of two books in SGML
• Online books: http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/doelec/pul/
• Proposal for pubishing SGML on the WWW, by Guy Teasdale; [mirror copy]
• Brief presentation; [mirror copy]
• Groupe départemental de Recherche sur les Documents Structurés - "A research group within EBSI, that studies issues related to SGML and to other forms of structured information"
• Basic formats of electronic documents - Introduction, by Yves Marcoux
• Home Page of Yves Marcoux, director of GRDS (Groupe départemental de Recherche sur les Documents Structurés)
• Article by Guylaine Beaudry, "La Text Encoding Initiative: les moyens pour donner de la valeur a un texte numérisé" in Cursus
• Project page of Martin Sévigny, and bibliography for (querying) structured documents
• Bibliographic entry for an article by Marcoux and Sévigny, "Why SGML? Why now?" in Journal of the American Society for Information Science
• See the summary for the thesis in French: Conception et réalisation d'une interface-utilisateurs pour l'interrogation de bases de documents structurés. Travail dirigé présenté à la Faculté des études supérieures de l'Université de Montréal, par Martin Sévigny. Pour l'obtention de la Maîtrise en bibliothéconomie et en sciences de l'information de l'EBSI.

Addresses:
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal (Québec), Canada
H3C 3J7
Téléphone: (514) 343-7750
Télécopieur: (514) 343-5753

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GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) Project [Sheffield]

[CR: 19960907] [Table of Contents]

"The GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) project is a 3 year EPSRC-funded initiative which aims to enhance collaborative research in Information Extraction (IE) whilst developing a general architecture for language engineering (LE) systems both in research and industrial environments. . . The basic architecture of GATE includes: (1) an object-oriented model of the information associated with documents during their analysis under a range of algorithms; (2) a client-server distributed database for document management based on the US Tipster architecture; (3) SGML input and output for compatibility with, for example, MULTEX and TEI initiatives." "GDM is the GATE document manager, based on the TIPSTER document manager with added SGML capabilities; GGI is the GATE graphical interface, a development tool for LE research and development, providing integrated access to the services of the other components and adding visualisation and debugging tools; CREOLE is a Collection of REusable Objects for Language Engineering." SGML support is added to the TIPSTER model via i/o filters; SGML annotations are stored in a separate database.

Links:

• GATE Home Page
• Technical Report "A General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) - A New Approach to Language Engineering R & D. By: H. Cunningham, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks. Technical report CS - 95 - 21, University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science, 1995. [mirror copy]
• GATE Architecture overview
• Managing information about text (GATE and SGML)
• Language Engineering R & D using GATE
• GATE - a General Architecture for Text Engineering, by H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas. In: Proceedings of COLING-96. [gate_coling96.ps]; [mirror copy]
• GATE: An Environment to Support Research and Development in Natural Language Engineering. By: Robert Gaizauskas, Hamish Cunningham, Yorick Wilks, Peter Rodgers and Kevin Humphreys. Accepted for: (ICTAI96) Toulouse, France, 1996. [gate_ictai96.ps]; [mirror copy]
• NLP Group Home Page
• TIPSTER

Addresses:
GATE - Natural Language Processing Research Group
Department of Computer Science
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street
Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

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The LEGEBIDUNA Project (Universidad de Deusto)

[CR: 19970313] [Table of Contents]

"The LEGEBIDUNA project concentrates on the explotation of a bitext corpus of administrative documents in both Basque and Spanish as a source for the development of simultaneous editing and translating software. [The Web site] includes discussion on legal texts, translation memory, descriptive mark-up (SGML, TEI, MULTEXT), variable translations units, and parallel text alignment."

The Legebiduna Project has "created a corpus of administrative documentation: Official Bilingual Journals of the Basque Administration - almost 10 million words in each language, Basque and Spanish. [Researchers are] now tagging the texts, i.e. recognizing administrative and legal formulae and terminology, and their distribution in the texts' structure. The DTDs are deduced from the tagged corpora, i.e, first the text is tagged, then the DTDs are constructed." [adapted from a posting of Joseba K. Abaitua Odriozola to TEI-L.

Links:

• Home Page: http://www.deusto.es/~abaitua/konzeptu/lege2dun.htm
• Reference: "Automatic Generation of SGML Content Models", Electronic Publishing 8/2-3 (1996): 195-206, by Helena Ahonen (helena.ahonen@helsinki.fi)
• Reference: Keith Shafer's Fred parser for automatic DTD creation in http://www.oclc.org/fred/docs/papers/

Addresses:
Joseba K. Abaitua Odriozola (Universidad de Deusto), Email: abaitua@fil.deusto.es, WWW: http://www.deusto.es/~abaitua
Arantza Casillas Rubio (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares), Email: arantza@aut.alcala.es
Raquel Martínez Unanue (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Email: raquel@eucmos.sim.ucm.es

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SETIS: Electronic Texts at the University of Sydney Library

[CR: 19970316] [Table of Contents]

"The University of Sydney Library has acquired a large number of primary texts in digital form over the last few years. These texts include numerous versions of The Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Goethe and Kant, more than 700 classical Greek texts in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, the enormous Patrologia Latina Database of the Church Fathers, the English Poetry Full-Text Database, and the Intelex Philosophy Texts. To these texts and others like them must be added the texts available from remote sites such as the collection of some 2,000 French literary, scientific and philosophical texts at the Frantext Web site, and the many public domain texts available at the University of Virginia Electronic Text Centre and the Oxford Text Archive."

"SETIS makes available a growing number of SGML encoded texts for use via web browsers. . . SETIS is engaged in a number of text creation projects, and this has involved acquiring knowledge and skills not only about scanning and text recognition software, but more significantly, about Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) and the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines for humanities texts. Current projects include work on lecture notes by Professor John Anderson from the 1930's up to the 1950's and which are held in the University of Sydney Archives; an edition of Lord Shaftsbury's Characteristics, Manners, Opinions, Times held in the Rare Books collection at Fisher Library, digital images of the New Australia Journal in Rare Books which are in a state of decomposition. SETIS is also engaged in encoding the novels identified for digitisation by the Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project. These projects will give us the expertise to provide support for similar initiatives at the University among academic staff and research students." [from the article of Creagh Cole, cited below]

Links:

• SETIS Home Page
• Description of SETIS in Adriane 8 (March 1997), by Creagh Cole; [mirror copy]

Addresses:
Creagh Cole
SETIS Coordinator
University of Sydney Library
University of Sydney 2006
Australia
Email: creagh@library.usyd.edu.au
Phone: +61 02 9351 7408
Fax: +61 02 9351 7290

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OUCS

OUCS: Oxford Humanities Computing

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Falch Research Projects

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