| Project participants: |
Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS),University
of Sydney Library |
| 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: A test site for the digitisation of classic works by J. Maiden and
F. von Mueller on Australian flora. |
| URL of site: |
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/badham/ |
| URL for project
information: |
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ |
| Content: |
Digital versions of publications by Maiden and von
Mueller |
| 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. |
| 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.
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| Comments: |
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Last modified: August 09 2004.