National Library of Australia


Joseph Henry Maiden: Forest Flora of NSW

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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Last modified: October 20 2009.