Description
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive guide to explore the growing field of electronic information, The Text in the Machine: Electronic Texts in the Humanities will help you create and use electronic texts. This book explains the processes involved in developing computerized books on library Web sites, CD-ROMs, or your own Web site. With the information provided by The Text in the Machine, you?ll be able to successfully transfer written words to a digitized form and increase access to any kind of information. Keeping the perspectives of scholars, students, librarians, users, and publishers in mind, this book outlines the necessary steps for electronic conversion in a comprehensive manner. The Text in the Machine addresses many variables that need to be taken into consideration to help you digitize texts, such as:
- defining types of markup, markup systems, and their uses
- identifying characteristics of the written text, such as its linguistic and physical nature, before choo
Table of Contents
Contents Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Markup Systems for Electronic Texts
- What Is Markup?
- Markup-Free Texts?
- Descriptive Markup Systems
- Further Reading
- Web Sites
- Chapter 2. Creating an Electronic Text
- Keying the Text
- Reusing an Existing Text
- Scanning the Text
- Further Reading
- Web Sites
- Chapter 3. Delivery Mechanisms for Electronic Texts
- Transmission Media
- Software
- Further Reading
- Web Sites
- Chapter 4. Organizing Access to Electronic Texts
- The Individual Scholar As Publisher
- Institutional Approaches to Publishing
- Generic Issues: Metadata and Preservation
- Further Reading
- Web Sites
- Chapter 5. Structures, Architectures, and Editions
- Structure and Architecture
- Types of Editions
- Further Reading
- Web Sites
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
