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RARE BOOK SCHOOL is pleased to announce its Spring and Summer 2003
Sessions, a collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics
concerning rare books, manuscripts, the history of books and printing,
and special collections to be held at the University of Virginia.

FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure
and Rare Book School expanded course descriptions, providing
additional details about the courses offered and other information
about Rare Book School, visit our Web site at

               http://www.rarebookschool.org

Subscribers to the list may find the following Rare Book School
courses to be of particular interest:


24. ELECTRONIC TEXTS & IMAGES. (MONDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 3-7). A practical
exploration of the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical
uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will
center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and
digital images, for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival
Description guide. Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using
the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of
XML; publishing on the World Wide Web; and the management and use of
online texts. Some experience with HTML is a prerequisite for
admission to the course. Instructor: David Seaman

DAVID SEAMAN became Director of the Digital Library Federation in
2002. He was the founding director of the internationally-known
Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of
Virginia.


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

DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginia's
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in 1997, before
which he was Librarian for Advanced Technologies at the University of
California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator of the Encoded Archival
Description initiative.