[SOA] NORASIST program: TEI /Cleveland History project, March 18

[Janet Carleton]

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Subject: 	[oclis] Program at Cleveland State Univeristy March 18: Text
Encoding Initiative /Cleveland History project at CWRU
Date: 	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:47:03 -0500
From: 	Penny OConnor <pjo at earthlink.net>
To: 	<oclis at ohionet.org>



Text Encoding Initiative Program /

Cleveland History and Western Reserve Digital Book Collection at CWRU

Sponsored by NORASIST, the Northern Ohio Chapter,

American Society for Information Science and Technology

Title:

TEI Projects and Small Libraries: Encoding the

Cleveland History and Western Reserve Digital Book

Collection at Case Western Reserve University

Speakers:

Virginia Dressler, Richard Wisneski, and Stephanie Church

from Case Western Reserve University

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cleveland State University

Room 502 Michael Schwartz Library

(located in Rhodes Tower)

6 - 7 p.m.    Pre-paid Dinner from Café Ah-Roma; Networking

7-8:30 p.m.    Text Encoding talk (free)

The program is free but there is a charge for dinner, which must be
pre-paid.*

Please reserve a spot even if you are coming for the program only.**

Students welcome!

This event is sponsored by

the Northern Ohio Chapter

of the American Society for Information Science and Technology ~

NORASIST

http://www.slis.kent.edu/~norasis/

Abstract

This discussion will present one small library’s attempt at a TEI
Project following Level 2 encoding, with its desire to incorporate some 
features defined by Level 3.

Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library has begun a 
project to digitize and text-encode its books on Cleveland History.  The 
project, Books on Cleveland, Ohio and the Western Reserve Digital Text 
Collection, contains over 130 primary source texts on the history of 
Cleveland and its surrounding area, which date from the mid-nineteenth 
century to the early twentieth century, and cover a wide array of 
subjects, including: ethnic
groups in and around Cleveland; Cleveland charity organizations; 
religious organizations in and nearby Cleveland; directories; Cleveland
educational history; Western Reserve settlement; and historical homes
and landmarks of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.

Currently, approximately half of the collection has been scanned and 
OCR'ed, and an initial workflow has begun, which includes structural 
text markup in conformance to P5 Level 2 encoding, but with aspects of 
Level 3 encoding, particularly in regards to divisions, lists, and 
figures. The project is expected to last two years, and then continue 
with contributions from neighboring institutions.

Speaker Bios

Richard Wisneski is head of Bibliographic and Metadata Services for
Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University.  He is a member 
of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries Group, DMS Training
Assessment Committee, and OhioLINK Cataloging Functional Requirements
Committee.  His research interests include TEI encoding practices for 
libraries, and interactions between academic libraries and digital 
humanities programs.

Stephanie Church is an Acquisitions Assistant for the Kelvin Smith
Library at Case Western Reserve University. She received her MLIS in 
2008 from Kent and enjoys text encoding whenever possible.

Virginia Dressler is a Digital Library Programs Librarian at Case.
After completing a Master's in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the 
University of Leeds, Virginia found employment at the Louisiana State 
Museum as a digital archivist in January 2005.  After evacuating New 
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Virginia eventually relocated to her 
Northeast Ohio hometown and finished a Master's in Library and 
Information Science at Kent State University in 2007.  She is currently 
enrolled in the Certificate Program of Advanced Study in Digital 
Libraries at Kent State University.

Dinner Choices and Prices
(dinners include sandwich, chips, pickle and cookie;
vending machine beverages will be available for purchase)
Cafe Smoked Turkey
Our signature smoked turkey scintillatingly stacked on our sesame egg
braid bread with green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, and provolone cheese, and 
spread with real mayonnaise

Classic Tuna Salad
An all-time favorite served with green leaf lettuce and tomatoes
on our homemade honey whole wheat bread

Veggie Ah-Roma
A walk through the garden with green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, 
cucumbers, green bell peppers, mushrooms, and alfalfa sprouts served on 
a multigrain baguette with honey mustard dressing

Students/Retired/Between Jobs    $9

NORASIST, SLA, ALA members    $11

Others                                           $13

*****

To reserve your spot, please contact Sue Fensore  sfensore at kent.edu

By 3/10/10, mail check for dinner, and indicate dinner choice to:

NORASIST c/o Sue Fensore

36112 Billingsley Row

Avon, OH 44011

Please make check payable to NORASIST

**If you’d like to come for the talk only, please reserve your spot by
emailing the

following information to Sue Fensore (sfensore at kent.edu):  your name,
phone #

and preferred email, as well as your organization’s name

*If you would also like dinner, please email Sue indicating your dinner
choice and

affiliation, and mail your check to the above address by March 10