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Digitization Guidelines 

This guide will offer guidance to faculty who wish to donate digital materials for inclusion in the Library's digital collections.
Last update: May 06th, 2009 URL: http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/content.php?pid=40437  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Text Standards

Capture

 

 

 

Purpose

Description

Format

Standard

Structured Text Transcription

A literal transcription of the text, encoded in XML. Requires additional files and specialized server software to deliver, especially if searching is desired.

XML

TEI P4 (Text Encoding Initiative), with local modifications; follow the DTD available at:

http://pogo.lib.virginia.edu/dlps/public/text/vendor/vendor.html

Unstructured Text Transcription

Plain text that may include minimal structural or formatting information.

XHTML, ASCII text, e.g. OCR output

 

Page Images

If the text will include references to page images, select the capture specifications from the Image Table above.

As appropriate from above options

 

Toolkit

PDF texts for use in Toolkit.

PDF

If PDFs are needed, please contact Instructional Scanning for assistance.

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/leo/iss/

Deliverables

 

 

 

Purpose

Description

Format

Standard

Structured Text Transcription

Marked-up to reflect the content and the structure of the original document.

XML

TEI, as documented above.

Unstructured Text Transcription

Plain text that may include minimal structural or formatting information.

XHTML, ASCII text, e.g. OCR output

 

Page Image Deliverable(s)

If the electronic text is a transcription with dependent page image deliverables, select the deliverable specifications from the Image Table above.

As appropriate from above options

 

 
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