From: Reynolds, Camille (creynolds@Nossaman.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 09:27:29 PST
Message-ID: <1167DF5724AAD211B93B0008C7B189010242BFE7@EXCHGSF01> From: "Reynolds, Camille" <creynolds@Nossaman.com> Subject: FW: "Getting Started with XML" Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:27:29 -0800
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From: Goldman, Ava [mailto:Ava_Goldman@CalPERS.CA.GOV]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:18 AM
To: 'ncal-lib@ucdavis.edu'
Subject: Sacramento location: "Getting Started with XML"
>Infopeople is offering a unique opportunity for California libraries to
>learn directly from a national expert in digital access. Eric Lease
>Morgan, Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
>at the University Libraries of Notre Dame, is coming to California to
>deliver three sessions of "Getting Started with XML" for Infopeople.
>
>
>Title: Getting Started with XML
>
>Dates and locations:
>
>Tuesday, March 11, San Francisco Public Library
>Wednesday, March 12, California State Library
>Friday, March 14, Cerritos Public Library
>
>To register for this workshop: Use the online registration form at
>http://www.infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Workshop/116
>
>
>If you have looked at the title of this workshop and thought:
>
>What is XML and why should I care?
>
>Or if you are wondering:
>
>--What's the difference between HTML, XHTML and XML?
>--How do I make sense of the XML alphabet soup when I have to deal with
>things like CSS, TEI, EAD, and XSLT?
>--How can XML help me in my day-to-day work?
>--What's it mean to "render" XML documents?
>
>Then this workshop is for you!
>
>Workshop Description: Designed for librarians and library staff, this
>workshop introduces participants to the extensible markup language (XML)
>through numerous library examples, demonstrations, and structured hands-on
>exercises. Through this process participants will be able to evaluate the
>uses of XML for making their libraries' data and information more
>accessible to people as well as computers. Examples include adding value
>to electronic texts, creating archival finding aids, and implementing
>standards compliant Web pages. By the end of the workshop participants
>will have acquired a thorough introduction to XML and be able to: 1) list
>the five rules governing the syntax of XML documents, 2) create their very
>own XML markup language, 3) write XML documents using a plain text editor
>and validate them using a Web browser, 4) apply page layout and
>typographical techniques to XML documents using cascading style sheets, 5)
>create XML documents using a number of standard XML vocabularies important
>to libraries such as XHTML, TEI, and EAD, and finally, 6) articulate why
>XML is important for libraries.
>
>Topics To Be Covered:
>
>--Demonstrating the use of XML in libraries to create, store, and
>disseminate electronic texts, archival finding aids, Web pages, and
>bibliographic data
>--Teaching the five simple rules for creating valid XML documents
>--Practicing with the combined use of cascading style sheets and XML
>documents to display data and information in a Web browser
>--Practicing with the use of XHTML and learning how it can make your
>website more accessible to all types of people as well as Internet robots
>and spiders
>--Demonstrating how Web pages can be programmatically created using XSLT
>allowing libraries to transform XML documents into other types of documents
>--Enhancing electronic texts with the use of the TEI markup allowing
>libraries to add value to digitized documents
>--Writing archival finding aids using EAD thus enabling libraries to
>unambiguously share special collection information with people and other
>institutions
>
>Workshop Instructor: Eric Lease Morgan. Eric is the Head of the Digital
>Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries
>of Notre Dame. He considers himself a librarian first and a computer user
>second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to
>improve library and knowledge services. Applied research and development
>has included investigations in traditional library science, digital
>libraries, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction.
>
>Who Should Attend: This workshop is designed for librarians and library
>staff who are responsible for creating all types of digital content for
>their institutions.
>
>Prerequisites: This is not intended to be beginner's level workshop;
>participants are expected to have a working knowledge of a markup language
>such as HTML, and they are expected to know how to proficiently create
>plain text HTML files with something like NotePad.
>
>Fee: There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop. Infopeople does not
>provide parking passes, lunch or refreshments.
>
>Other Logistics:
>
>*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM; instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30
PM.
>
>*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople
>Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions
>
>*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch. Since some training
>locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople
>recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.
>
>To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general
>information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main
>Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop
>
>If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops,
>please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at
>assist@infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685.
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