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Please send feedback, suggestions, and additions to the SAA Technology Best Practices Task Force at techbp-tf [at] forums [dot] archivists [dot] org
Managing Electronic Records and Assets: A Working Bibliography
4. Digital Texts
- Encoding Standards for Texts
- Selected Best Practices, Guidelines, and Handbooks
- Selected Articles, Books and Reports
See the Library of Congress’ Digital Formats Web site for specifications and the sustainability of various formats.
http://digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/text.shtml
Encoding Standards for Texts
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
See the SAA EAD Roundtable website for links to standards, best practices, implementors, tools, and news.
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/
Model Editions Partnership (MEP)
http://adh.sc.edu/
The Model Editions Partnership is derived from TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and is a DTD to be used for the preparation and interchange of electronic editions of historical documents
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
http://www.tei-c.org/
The Text Encoding Initiative is an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research.
Selected Best Practices, Guidelines, and Handbooks
American Memory DTD for Historical Documents
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs/amdtd.html
The Library is converting a wide array of documents to searchable form, including books, pamphlets, broadsides, legal materials, serial articles, and manuscripts. The American Memory Document Type Definition (AMMEM.DTD) was developed to accommodate this broad range of materials by conceptualizing a generalized humanities text, rather than seeking to describe specific document types and subtypes, or text genres. The American Memory DTD is conformant with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
Library of Congress Technical Standards for Digital Conversion of Text and Graphic Materials
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/techStandards.pdf
The Library is currently revising a series of standards and best practices to guide the Library's digital conversion efforts. These documents detail the current digitization standards followed by the Library. (See last page for change history.)
Selected Articles, Books and Reports
Lundberg, Sigfrid, “St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library: An excursion along the border between resource discovery and resource description,” NetLab, Lund University Libraries, Sweden, 2002
http://laurentius.lub.lu.se/search/presentation/laurentius.pdf
This paper discusses the experiences gained by the development of a service to provide access to digitized medieval manuscripts. It discusses the database used from the point of view of both retrieval of the intellectual content (the texts) of these manuscripts and of the retrieval of the manuscripts as unique entities.
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