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Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project

2010 CALA MW Annual Conference. Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project. Suzhen Chen Richard Wisneski Kevin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University May 22, 2010. Institution . Case Western Reserve University (CRWU)

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Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project

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  1. 2010 CALA MW Annual Conference Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project Suzhen ChenRichard Wisneski Kevin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University May 22, 2010

  2. Institution Case Western Reserve University (CRWU) • Founded in 1967 (federation of Case Institute of Technology founded in 1881 and Western Reserve University founded in 1826) • A private research university in northeast Ohio • ~10,000 students Kelvin Smith Library • Main library of CWRU • ~ 1.7 million volumes • ~ 60 library staff

  3. Project (What) Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project • A collection of digital resources of history of Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve date from early 19th century to early 20th century • The collection covers various topics including women of Cleveland, religion, housing etc. • About 100 text files added to the collection, more to be added including some manuscripts

  4. Project(Why)

  5. Metadata standard

  6. TEI: Text Encoding Initiative • A consortium that develops the standard for representing texts in digital form. • Maintain encoding guidelines for text • Often applies to humanities, social science and linguistics

  7. Example: Projects from other institutions: Shakespeare Quartos Archive Newton Manuscript Project (University of Sussex) Early American Digital Archive (University of Maryland)

  8. Example of TEI Header • <titleStmt> • <editionStmt> • <publicationStmt> • …

  9. Example of an encoded text

  10. TEI Metadata Standard • Mark up specific genres such as prose, verse, drama • Mark content structure such as paragraphs, divisions • Mark up feature of a text such as quotations, footnotes etc. • Mark up texts for literary and linguistic analysis

  11. Example http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples

  12. Example of an encoded text <lg> <l rend="font-size(110%) indent(-60)">"Fury said to</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-40px)">a mouse, That</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(0px)">he met</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(10px)">in the</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(20px)">house,</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(17px)">'Let us</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(5px)">both go</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-7px)">to law:</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-23px)"><hi rend="italic">I</hi> will</l> <l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-26px)">prosecute</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-40px)"><hi rend="italic">you.</hi> —</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-30px)">Come, I'll</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-20px)">take no</l> <l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-7px)">denial;</l> … </lg> http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples

  13. TEI Metadata Standard • Provides various manifestations of a text or audio • Independent of applications • TEI is extensible • Accommodate encoding methods for data processing needs and analysis • For better description, organization and classification of information

  14. Implementation • Staff • Funding • Time management • …

  15. Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project

  16. Procedures

  17. Implementation • Workshops • In-house documentations for best practice • Standards • On line resources • Examples for completed work • Assistance from supervisor • Learn from each other

  18. Example of an In-house documentation

  19. Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project • For future metadata conversion, exchange, facilitate metadata harvesting and federated search • Facilitate metadata sharing and cross-collection searching

  20. Future Improvement • Make text searchable through web • Have hyper linked, referenced electronic resources

  21. Resources • WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/guide/index.html • Teach Yourself TEI: http://www.tei-c.org/Support/Learn/tutorials.xml • A Gentle Introduction to XML: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-doc/html/SG.htmlA • A Companion to Digital Literary Studies: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/

  22. References • TEI: Text Encoding Initiative, “TEI: Text Encoding Initiative,” 2010, http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml • International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Cataloging Section. “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report,” 1998, http://www.ifla.org.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm • TEI By Example Project, “TEI By Example Project,” 2010, http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples • …

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