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NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTS & BUILDERS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

Explore the rich history of North Carolina's architects, builders, and other artisans through this comprehensive biographical dictionary. Discover over 170 individuals and 1500 buildings from the past, with detailed profiles and links to relevant resources.

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NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTS & BUILDERS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

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  1. NORTH CAROLINAARCHITECTS & BUILDERS:A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Catherine W. Bishir Joseph Ryan Markus Wust June 16, 2009

  2. Credits Internal contributors • Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center • Digital Library Initiatives • Special Collections Research Center • Information Technology • External Relations • Metadata and Cataloging • Design Library • Administration

  3. Credits External contributors • 35 authors, many other content contributors • libraries and cultural institutions who provided images free of charge AND • North Carolina’s architects, builders, and other artisans

  4. Demonstration http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/

  5. Technology: Content Creation • Content stored as XML • Each person and building has a separate XML file • At launch: over 170 persons and 1500 buildings • Commercial web-based XML editor for creating XML records • Custom-built tools for managing data

  6. Workflow • Editing • Creating building IDs and building entries • Creating personnel entries, adding building IDs and links to other entries • Creating and adding bibliography items • Adding Image IDs • Checking XML code for problems • Reviewing entries for errors • Posting new entries

  7. Selected Tools • Ephox EditLive! for XML (XML editor) • Entry Helper (Creating new entries and unique IDs, searching entries) • Bibliography Database • Content Review

  8. Project History Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (1990) by Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood III Follow up volume on people: write another book or make a web site?

  9. Thank you. • Catherine Bishir • Joseph Ryan • Markus Wust • http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/

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