The Scriptorium

What is Scholarly Electronic Text?

• Read a Basic Introduction  
• Slides from a presentation  

UVM's Forays into Scholarly E-Texts

• UVM Scholarly Electronic Text Server - collections created by UVM faculty, staff and students.

Some Full Search Text Collections

• University of Virginia E-Text Center
• University of Michigan: Making of America
• UPenn's On-line Books Page (links to 10,000+ etexts - search by title/author)
• UVMs Electronic Journal Holdings (restricted access)

The MLA

• Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions  

TEI

• The Text Encoding Initiative is "an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the language industries more generally." If you are a humanities scholar or interested in scholarly texts, this is the one you should know about. 

Other DTDs

• METS - "The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium ." http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/
• OAI - "The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication." http://www.openarchives.org/  (try a search: http://oai.grainger.uiuc.edu)
• Dublin Core - " The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. " http://dublincore.org/  
• MODS - "The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed a schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications. As an XML schema, the "Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS) is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records. " http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
• Other DTDs from Robin Cover's page: http://xml.coverpages.org/xml.html#applications
  

Projects, Tutorials, Best Practises and Resources

• Cornell: Moving Theory into Practise: Digital Imaging Tutorial - http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/oldcontents.html
  

SGML

• The absolutely easiest, non-techno-jargon, Introduction to SGML  
• C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard's A Gentle Introduction to SGML  
• Robin Cover's famous SGML Web Page - everything you always wanted to know about SGML and then some. 

XML

• xml.com - the online xml magazine and information site
• Robin Cover's XML page  
• Tim Bray's XML Resources - with links to Robin Cover's XML information. 
• W3C's XML documents  

HTML

• Web Publishing at UVM: the UVM Template
• Create Your Own Web Pages at UVM   - old but still works
• The W3C's latest word on HTML  

Assorted Others

• TACTWeb - the web version of the DOS-based textual database Textual Analysis Computing Tools  
• Links to text centers you should know about. 
• Eastgate Systems - creators of StorySpace, a proprietary, but interesting, hypertext authoring system used by many hyperfiction writers. 
• Tim Bray's "SGML vs. HTML vs. PDF