Rare Book School
Preliminary Reading List

Electronic Texts and Images

Preliminary Advices

Required Reading

Read these before coming to Charlottesville. They will provide important contextual information for the course content.

Document Markup: Text Encoding Initiative & Extensible Markup Language

• TEI Consortium, eds. TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. TEI Consortium, 2007.
  
  Please read A Gentle Introduction to XML and About These Guidelines.
  
  

Digitizing Archival Materials

Read as much as you can of the following (heavy skimming will suffice):

• U.S. Government Printing Office. Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation. Washington, D.C., March 12, 2004


• Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access: Creation of Production Master Files -- Raster Images. Steven Puglia, Jeffrey A. Reed, Erin Rhodes, and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. (June 2004). http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf103/