Resources

Resources

Listed below is information on tools, guidelines, standards and other kinds of resources that project developers may find useful, such as presentations and articles describing how certain tools and encoding systems may be applied for scholarly analysis.

Contents:

1. Copyright Information
2. Encoding Guidelines
3. Encoding Tools
4. Digital Archives
5. Digital Repositories
6. GIS
7. Knowledge Management Tools
8. OAI
9. Qualitative Data Analysis
10. Unicode
11. XML: Guidelines
12. XML: Sample Projects
13. XSLT

Copyright Information

• Subcommittee on Copyright Issues of AAASS Bibliography & Documentation Committee

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Encoding Guidelines (TEI)

• The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium main website. Contains the Guidelines, other documentation, introductions to the TEI, tools, wikis, and information on all the activities of the Consortium. Also links to searchable archives of the varioius TEI mailing lists.
• Lou Burnard: Text Encoding for Interchange: a new Consortium . "which has been created to take the TEI Guidelines into the XML world and beyond." Ariadne, issue 24.
• Eric Lease Morgan. Getting Started with XML. 2003. Read the section on the TEI "designed for information professionals such as librarians and museum curators."
• Martin Mueller. A Very Gentle Introduction to the TEI Markup Language. Visit the archived copy from tei-c.org.
• Tobin Nellhaus. "XML, TEI, and Digital Libraries in the Humanities." Portal: Libraries and the Academy. Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 2001): 257-277. Available from Project MUSE.
• TEI Lite in Russian (sixth bullet point down, bottom half of page)

Also see this TEI-related bibliography (referenced also on the Selected Readings page in this wiki) on the TEI site:

• A Bibliography of Publications related to the TEI

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Encoding Tools

• Category:Editing_tools from the TEI Wiki

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Digital Archives

• The Internet Archive
• LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe")

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Digital Repositories

• DSpace
• Fedora

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Introduction: What is GIS?
• Resources
• Projects
• Literature
• See Also

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Knowledge Management Tools

• Topic Map Tools (downloads for engines, navigators, XSL, metadata frameworks, etc.)

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Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

• openarchives.org
• Digital Library Federation evaluation of the Open Archives Initiative
• DLF-NSDL OAI Best Practices
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign OAI Metadata Harvesting Project. Includes Powerpoint presentations about OAI, free software, and more.
• Experimental OAI Registry at UIUC
• University of Michigan's OAIster
• Getting a Leg Up on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
• Information for Potential Data Providers Suggestions from the University of Michigan
• OAI for Beginners - the Open Archives Forum online tutorial
• Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital Projects' OAI page

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Qualitative Data Analysis

• "Dealing with Data: Using NVivo in the Qualitative Data Analysis Process," Forum: Qualitative Social Research 3, no. 2 (May 2002).
• "Qualitative Research in a Changing Epistemic Context. The Case of a Small Social Science Community [in Slovenia]," Forum: Qualitative Social Research 6, no. 3, art. 40 (Sept 2005).
• Stanford University Library's getting started page on Social Science data and applications.

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Unicode

• unicode.org
• David Birnbaum. "Unicode for Slavic Medievalists"
• Kevin S. Hawkins, "Frequently Asked Questions and Selected Resources on Cyrillic Multilingual Computing"

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XML: Guidelines

• World Wide Web Consortium's XML homepage & the XML Core Working Group's page, where you can find published technical specifications
• World Wide Web Consortium's w3School's XML Tutorial
• World Wide Web Consortium's w3School's DTD Tutorial
• World Wide Web Consortium's w3School's XML Schema Tutorial

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XML: Sample Projects

• Alistair Dunning. "The Newton Project: Implementing and Exploiting XML"

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XSLT

• XSLT page on the TEI wiki
• World Wide WEb Consortium's w3School's XSLT Tutorial

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