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April 28, 2006
tei p5
Encoding for Interchange: an introduction to the TEI
The "Green Books" manual revised for P5
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Sarah and Friend
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Convert P4 to P5
An XSLT stylesheet for converting P4 to P5
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/META/p4top5.xsl
and some additional advice, and a book recommendation from David Sewell:
>> a) all the references to TEI element names need namespacing, ie prefixing
>> with tei:. This is hard to automate (think of //p[1]/emph[@rend='foo']/@id)
>> I believe XSLT 2.0 might make a 2-in-1 stylesheet possible.
XSLT 2.0 has one great advantage for people wanting to adapt P4-based
stylesheets to P5 TEI-XML: the
attribute "xpath-default-namespace" that specifies the namespace to
use for unprefixed elements. So starting a stylesheet with
eliminates the need to insert all those "tei:" prefixes. (Even if
prefixing can be 100% automated, unprefixed XPath is easier for human
readers.)
It's true that there is (for practical purposes? or genuinely? I'm not
sure) just one implementation of XSLT 2.0, Michael Kay's Saxon 8
(www.saxonica.com), but it's an awfully good one, it comes in a
platform-independent Java version, and the basic Saxon-B version is open
source and free.
[begin rant] I would urge, exhortate, plead with, annoyingly evangelize
anyone who uses XSLT 1.0 at all heavily to learn about version 2.0. It is
so much more powerful that you'll never look back once you've started
using the new features. For the TEI community's purposes, a lot of the
difference is the vast improvement in string handling from the new
functions introduced in XPath 2.0 (which underlies both XQuery 1.0 and
XSLT 2.0).
So much so that the best way to transition to XSLT 2, I think, would be to
work through the core chapters of Michael Kay's book "XPath 2.0:
Programmer's Reference".
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April 27, 2006
Educause Online
Check Educause Online occasionally especially for their "& Things You Should Know" series:
http://www.educause.edu/
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Canterbruy Tales Project
The Canterbury Tales Project: home page
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April 26, 2006
NYHS 19th century portrait exhibit
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=whats_new&page=detail_pr&id=5765978
"GROUP DYNAMICS: FAMILY PORTRAITS AND SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE AT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY EXHIBITION OPENS
A visual treasury of 18th and 19th century America on display
May 5, 2006 through September 17, 2006
The New-York Historical Society (N-YHS), New York City’s first museum,
presents Group Dynamics: Family Portraits and Scenes of Everyday Life at
the New-York Historical Society, an unprecedented exploration of group
portraiture drawn from the Society’s extensive collection of paintings,
photographs and sculpture. The exhibition features 90 works of art ranging from masterpieces of colonial, federal, and Victorian- era painting to painted portrait miniatures and souvenir tintypes. Group Dynamics opens on May 5, and is on view through September 17, 2006 at the New-York Historical Society, located at Central Park West and 77th Street.
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April 22, 2006
Vintage textiles
High-style vintage clothing at Vintage Textile
She collects and sells vintage clothing and textiles, but keeps and archive of images of pieces.
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April 12, 2006
Will Richardson: Blog in Ed
Will Richardson's blog on blogs and ed. He also has a book out "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms"
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April 11, 2006
METS navigator
Jenn Riley announces:
The Indiana University Digital Library Program is pleased to announce the release of METS Navigator 1.0 Beta, a METS-based system for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects. More information, documentation, and downloads are available at
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April 8, 2006
Runninh TNT
The local Team in Training Sunday runs and info:
http://www.runwithjan.com/groupRuns.html
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April 6, 2006
Rockwell original found
No Flattery Is Found in an Imitation of a Rockwell - New York Times
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