| Project participants: |
University of Sydney
Library with cooperation from University of Western Australia, State
Library of NSW, Scholarly Editions Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy and
the Maquarie Dictionary Database. |
| Contact officer/s: |
Dr Creagh Cole, Coordinator, Scholarly
Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) (email
c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au,
phone 02 9351 7408 or fax 02 9351 7290) |
| Project
description: An electronic text collection of Australian Literature from 1840
onwards. This database is under development. It includes works by Vidal,
Spence, Lawson, Paterson, Clarke held by the University of Sydney Library.
These texts are uniformly SGML-encoded and therefore fully searchable. They
display as HTML files, but SGML encoding allows more probing searches. |
| URL of site: |
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit/
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| URL for project
information: |
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ |
| Content: |
Includes photographs, handwritten material
and typed text. Mainly 19th century texts, but some 18th century and early 20th
century fiction, non-fiction prose, drama, poetry, explorers journals. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
Digitisation policy - library oriented
partly to creation of digital texts in humanities - following text encoding
initiative standards. |
| Timetable: |
November 1997 - ongoing |
| Budget and funding: |
No funding at present. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation undertaken inhouse and by a
private company. Many created in-house. All encoded in-house. SETIS aims to
provide training at the University of Sydney and beyond in the use of SGML for
creation of e-texts. |
| Technical standards: |
Text files SGML encoded using DTD of Text
Encoding Initiative (TEI). Some texts include 400dpi black and white TIF images
of each page (Web available as GIF/JPEG lower resolution) - illustration images
in JPEG. Software used: Open Text 5 Search Engine. Hardware: X-terminals
linking to IBM RS 6000J servers, IBM PCs, Power Macs; Omni Page 8, Adobe
Photoshop 3 for image capture. Storage devices: Unix Server, backup. SGML
encoding chosen to give the best chance of platform software independence.
Problems however with suitable search engines and their ability to recognise
SGML elements - only two widely used at present on the Web, as far as I know.
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| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Each text file includes full TEI header
containing bibliographic information, statements about creation, encoding,
editorial comment etc. Each will also appear in University of Sydney Library
catalogue. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: October 20 2009.