> From: Alan Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
>
> The Oxford Text Archive is pleased to announce the web publication of
> "Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts", a new guide to take users
> through the basic steps involved in creating and documenting an
> electronic
> text or similar digital resource. The guide is available at:
>
> http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/
>
> A printed version will also be published by Oxbow Books later in the
> year.
> For more information, please contact Oxbow Books, email:
> [log in to unmask], +44 (0) 1865) 241249, fax: ++44 (0) 1865)
> 794449,
> URL: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/
>
> The guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and
> organizations
> involved with, or planning, the digitization of texts or similar
> material.
> As electronic texts are not limited to a specific discipline, genre,
> period, or language, the guide aims to recommend good practice and
> standards that are relevant to a variety of projects. The authors
> have
> tended to concentrate on those types of electronic text that, to a
> greater
> or lesser extent, represent a transcription of a non-electronic
> source,
> rather than the category of electronic texts which are primarily
> composed
> of digitized images of a source text (e.g. digital facsimile
> editions).
> Many of the guidelines are, however, more widely applicable.
>
> The guide includes a glossary and a bibliography of recommended
> reading,
> and offers guidance about:
>
> Document Analysis
> Digitization - Scanning, OCR, and Re-keying
> Document Markup
> Important Global Standards
> Documentation and Metadata
>
> The guide is the first of two created by the Oxford Text Archive as
> part
> of
> the Arts and Humanities Data Service publication series Guides to Good
> Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources
> http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html. The series aims to provide
> guidance
> about applying recognized good practice and standards to the creation
> and
> use of digital resources in the arts and humanities.
>
> Oxford Text Archive
> web: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
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