The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick

Alan Burk and James Kerr
Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick

www.lib.unb.ca/Main/Texts.html

ABSTRACT

In support of scholarly communication and UNB's networked learning process, the UNB Libraries began three prototype Web publishing projects in June 1996 and formally launched its Electronic Text Centre in January 1997. The Centre is Web publishing to SGML and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards a variety of texts, all fully searchable under the OpenText full text search engine. The Centre developed its first SGML prototype project, a transcription of the UNB Archives' Marston diaries (1776-1787) with images,working with with David Seaman, Founding Director of the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.

The Centre has in production three electronic sholarly journals and is developing prototypes for an additional seven. It has recently concluded an agreement with one of the Province's major newspapers, the Telegraph Journal to Web publish news articles in full text from 1991, fully searchable under the Centre's OpenText search engine. This publishing project is now in production. The Centre is beginning a number of SGML projects some in partnership with other institutions.

We will be describing how the Text Centre is playing a significant role in our University's move to networked learning, how we are quickly building institutionally backed content for the Web to standards, and how we are establishing a series of partnerships within our own instituiton and with other insititutions in the U.S. And Canada.

It was just announced that the Centre has won a national innovative award sponsored by the Canadian Association of University and College Libraries. It was also recently awarded a contract by SchoolNet to build four SGML projects.

Alan Burk
Director
Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick

James Kerr
Journal Publishing Coordinator
Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick

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