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	Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice by  Alan Morrison Michael Popham Karen Wikander
	Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1: Aims and organisation of this Guide 1.2: What this Guide does not cover, and why 1.3: Opening questions — Who will read your text, why, and how? Chapter 2: Document Analysis 2.1: What is document analysis? 2.2: How should I start? 2.3: Visual and structural analysis 2.4: Typical textual features Chapter 3: Digitization — Scanning, OCR, and Re-keying 3.1: What is digitization? 3.2: The digitization chain 3.3: Scanning and image capture 3.4: Image capture and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) 3.5: Re-Keying Chapter 4: Markup: The key to reusability 4.1: What is markup? 4.2: Visual/presentational markup vs. structural/descriptive markup 4.3: Implications for long-term preservation and reuse Chapter 5: SGML/XML and TEI 5.1: The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) 5.2: The Text Encoding Initiative and TEI Guidelines 5.3: Where to find out more about SGML/XML and the TEI Chapter 6 : Documentation and Metadata 6.1 What is Metadata and why is it important? 6.2 The TEI Header 6.3 The Dublin Core Element Set and the Arts and Humanities Data Service Chapter 7: Summary Step 1: Sort out the rights Step 2: Assess your material Step 3: Clarify your objectives Step 4: Identify the resources available to you and any relevant standards Step 5: Develop a project plan Step 6: Do the work! Step 7: Check the results Step 8: Test your text Step 9: Prepare for preservation, maintenance, and updating Step 10: Review and share what you have learned Bibliography Glossary

 

 

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