Help Documentation on Searching and Creating Electronic Texts

I. Documentation Related to Searching Interfaces:

• Local Documentation
  • Networked Resources
    • PhiloLogic User Documentation
    • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Using Pandora
  • CD-ROM Products
    • Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
    • Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina
    • The CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts
    • Monumenta Germaniae Historica
    • The Packard Humanities Institute Classical Latin Texts (PHI 5.3) Using Pandora
    • Responsa Project: the database for Jewish Studies by Bar-Ilan University

• Other Sources
  • LETRS' Resources with QuickGuides
  • CD-ROM Helpsheets from University of Virginia
  • Glimpse: Documentation and Other Information
  • Online Help for DynaWeb
    • WWP Online Help
    • WTW Online Help
  • Opentext Pat 5.0 Manual

II. Documentation on Creating E-Texts

• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice (Oxford Text Archive)

III. Documentation on Standards

• Related to Encoding
  • Beta Code
  • EAD (Encoded Archive Description)
  • HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
  • NISO Standards
  • Oasis SGML/XML Web Page by Robin Cover
  • TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) (UVa)
  • TEI Lite DTD
  • Unicode Consortium Home Page
  • XML (Extensible Markup Language)

• Related to Metadata
  • Admin Core
  • Dublin Core
    • Dublin Core Metadata
    • User Guide for Simple Dublin Core
  • EAD (Encoded Archive Description maintained by LC)
  • MARC
    • MARC Home Page (Library of Congress)
    • Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
    • OCLC Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide
  • NISO Standards
  • TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
    • TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange
    • TEI Lite
  • Visual Arts
    • AMICO Data Specification
    • CIDOC Information Categories
    • Visual Arts Data Service
    • Visual Resources Association (VRA) Data Standards

IV. Persistent Object Identification: The University of Chicago Library has implemented The Handle System for some of its digital library projects in order to provide persistent identification for digital objects. For more information, please contact hdladmin@lib.uchicago.edu.