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Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project
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Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection Project
Suzhen ChenRichard Wisneski
Kevin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve UniversityMay 22, 2010
2010 CALA MW Annual Conference
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Institution Case Western Reserve University (CRWU) Founded in 1967 (federation of Case Institute of Technology founded in 1881 and Western Reserve University founded in 1826) A private research university in northeast Ohio ~10,000 students
Kelvin Smith Library Main library of CWRU ~ 1.7 million volumes ~ 60 library staff
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Project (What)Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve
Digital Text Collection project A collection of digital resources of history
of Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve date from early 19th century to early 20th century
The collection covers various topics including women of Cleveland, religion, housing etc.
About 100 text files added to the collection, more to be added including some manuscripts
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Project(Why)
Provide resources for historians, scholars and others who are interested in Cleveland, OH and Western Reserve
Online representation of the collection
Serve the learning and teaching purpose
Promote scholarly communication
Long term preservation of regional history
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Metadata standard
Metadata
Standard
Intendedusers
Types of materials
Preservation needs
Subjects, Genre
…
Project needs
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A consortium that develops the standard for representing texts in digital form. Maintain encoding guidelines for text Often applies to humanities, social science and linguistics
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
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Example:Projects from other institutions:Shakespeare Quartos ArchiveNewton Manuscript Project (University of Sussex)Early American Digital Archive (University of Maryland)
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Example of TEI Header <titleStmt><editionStmt><publicationStmt>
…
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Example of an encoded text
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Mark up specific genres such as prose, verse, drama Mark content structure such as paragraphs, divisions Mark up feature of a text such as quotations, footnotes etc. Mark up texts for literary and linguistic analysis
TEI Metadata Standard
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Example of an encoded text <lg> <l rend="font-size(110%) indent(-60)">"Fury said to</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-40px)">a mouse, That</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(0px)">he met</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(10px)">in the</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(20px)">house,</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(17px)">'Let us</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(5px)">both go</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-7px)">to law:</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-23px)"><hi rend="italic">I</hi> will</l><l rend="font-size(100%) indent(-26px)">prosecute</l><l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-40px)"><hi rend="italic">you.</hi> —</l><l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-30px)">Come, I'll</l><l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-20px)">take no</l><l rend="font-size(90%) indent(-7px)">denial;</l>…</lg>
http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples
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Provides various manifestations of a text or audio Independent of applicationsTEI is extensibleAccommodate encoding methods for data processing needs and analysisFor better description, organization and classification of information
TEI Metadata Standard
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ImplementationStaffFundingTime management…
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Finalize the project
Establish workflows,
policies and procedures
Trainings are provided
Text files scanned
Run through optical
character recognition software –
Abbyy FineReader
Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project
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ProceduresSpelling check for the texts
Create TEI headers
Bibliographic description, revisions, source of text
Encode the text
Quality control
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Implementation Workshops In-house documentations for best
practice Standards On line resources Examples for completed work Assistance from supervisor Learn from each other
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Example of an In-house documentation
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Cleveland, Ohio and Western Reserve Digital Text Collection project
For future metadata conversion, exchange, facilitate metadata harvesting and federated search
Facilitate metadata sharing and cross-collection searching
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Future Improvement
Make text searchable through web
Have hyper linked, referenced electronic resources
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Resources
WWP Guide to Scholarly Text Encoding: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/guide/index.html
Teach Yourself TEI: http://www.tei-c.org/Support/Learn/tutorials.xml
A Gentle Introduction to XML: http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p4-doc/html/SG.htmlA
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/
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ReferencesTEI: Text Encoding Initiative, “TEI: Text Encoding
Initiative,” 2010, http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Cataloging Section. “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report,” 1998, http://www.ifla.org.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm
TEI By Example Project, “TEI By Example Project,” 2010, http://tbe.kantl.be/TBE/TBE.htm?page=examples
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