[Yulcat-l] XML and XSLT Workshops to Be Offered by ARL and DLF

[Nolte, Jennifer]

http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/3048-xml-and-xslt-workshops-to-be-offered-by-arl-and-dlf



XML and XSLT Workshops to Be Offered by ARL and DLF<http://www.arl.org/news/arl-news/3048-xml-and-xslt-workshops-to-be-offered-by-arl-and-dlf>
by Angela Pappalardo | 202-296-2296 | angela at arl.org | on December 10, 2013

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Assessment program and the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, are pleased to offer two three-day in-depth workshops focused on using XML and XSLT in the library environment: “An Introduction to XML and XML Applications” and “Transforming Library Metadata with XSLT.”

An Introduction to XML and XML Applications
February 26–28, 2014, in Washington, DC

Taught by experienced XML instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, director of digital initiatives at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Christine Ruotolo, digital services manager for humanities and social sciences at the University of Virginia Library, this three-day workshop is designed for the relative newcomer to XML. The workshop will be a mix of lecture and hands-on demonstration and experimentation. Some topics the workshop will cover include:
·         Differences between XML and HTML and SGML
·         Writing well-formed XML
·         Writing and validating XML with DTDs, Schema, and Schematron
·         XML Namespaces
·         Exploring XML applications specific to librarians and digital humanists: MODS, METS, TEI, KML, etc.
Event Details

Dates: Wednesday, February 26–Friday, February 28, 2014
Time: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: ARL, 21 Dupont Circle NW #800, Washington, DC
Fee: $1,000
Register: Register online<https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1630799-5GSUnHeorQ> by February 10, 2014

Transforming Library Metadata with XSLT
May 14–16, 2014, in Washington, DC

Taught by experienced XML/XSLT instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, director of digital initiatives at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Christine Ruotolo, digital services manager for humanities and social sciences at the University of Virginia Library, this three-day workshop will explore XSLT with a specific focus on the role of XSLT in digital library projects and an emphasis on practical tasks such as metadata crosswalking. The workshop will be a mix of lecture and hands-on demonstration and experimentation.

Lectures, exercises, and projects will allow participants to gain experience using some of the more powerful components of XSLT 1.0 and 2.0, including:
·         Navigating the XML tree with XPath 2.0
·         Working with recursion, modes, and named templates
·         Using and creating functions
·         Combining source documents and creating multiple result documents
·         Sorting and grouping data
·         Using branching and control structures

This workshop is designed for information professionals who have a good understanding of XML and work with it frequently. While some understanding of and experience with XSLT is a plus, this is not a requirement.

Event Details

Dates: Wednesday, May 14–Friday, May 16, 2014
Time: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Location: ARL, 21 Dupont Circle NW #800, Washington, DC
Fee: $1,000
Register: Register online<https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1630799-5GSUnHeorQ> by April 16, 2014

Registration

Register online<https://www.formstack.com/forms/?1630799-5GSUnHeorQ>. Register for both “An Introduction to XML” and “Transforming with XSLT” by February 10 and receive a $200 discount.

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web athttp://www.arl.org/.

A program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation is a community of library practitioners engaged in and committed to building and sustaining digital libraries through collaborative effort and establishing best practices. The DLF community includes project managers, code developers, and all who are invested in digital library issues. The DLF website is available at http://www.diglib.org/.


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