Workshop Schedule
each morning runs from 9 am to 12pm with a break at 10:30 am;
each afternoon session from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm with a break at 3:00;
on days 1 and 2, lunch will be provided along with an informal presentation
by one of the workshop attendees;
Wednesday evening we will go to Cottage Inn for dinner (on us)
- Introductions and course objectives
- Administrative details (Perry Willett)
- Overview of systems (Tom)
- XPAT
- Web Server
- Authentication / Authorization System
- Directory Structure
- Middleware
- Collection and Group Databases
- Collection Manager
- XPAT (Chris)
- Discussion of text and region indexing
- Searching / Query Language
Presentation:
- Charlotte Boulay will lead a discussion about documentation.
- XPAT continued (Chris)
- Fabricated regions
- Unicode support in DLXS (Phil)
- User Interface Issues (Tom, Suzanne, Chris, John)
- XML files and PIs
- XSL files
- General layout of XSL templates
- Data conversion to XML / Unicode (Chris)
- Migration issues
- Data transformation
Presentation:
- Mike Bolam, Univsersity of Pittsburgh
- Eric Weig, University of Kentucky
- Text Class (Chris)
- Content
preparation
- Text Class DTD Overview
- Text Conversion Strategies
- Other Text Modifications
- Validate and Normalize SGML
- Storing Texts and Page Images
- Text
Class Index Building with XPAT (Chris)
- Set Up Directories and Files for XPAT Indexing
- Build the XPAT Index
- Text
Class Collection to Web (Chris)
- Review the Collection Database Entry with CollMgr
- Review the Groups Database Entry with CollMgr
- Make Collection Map
- Set Up the Collection's Web Directory
- Try It Out
- Findaid Class (Tom)
- Similarities and differences to Text Class
- Encoding Issues
- Data Preparation
- Indexing
- Web Presentation/Rendering
- Customizing
- Troubleshooting
- Please join us for dinner at Cottage Inn.
- Image Class (John)
- Content
Preparation and Loading
- Image Class (John)
- Content
Preparation and Loading
- Enhancements
- Collection
Customization
- Other
/ Advanced Topics
- Installation (Phil)
- XPAT installation
- Middleware installation
- Database installation and upgrading (Phil)
- Multiple installed releases
- Troubleshooting middleware (Phil)
Friday afternoon is left as a kind of grab bag. Below are topics that we can
cover if there is interest, but we are happy to take the entire time to answer
questions or discuss topics and issues of particular interest to the workshop
participants.
- BibClass: steps for data prep and transform (Kat)
- OAI, Broker, MODS, SRU (Kat, José)
- Other Topics, possibly but not necessarily including: