The making of the ASIST Digital Library

✍ Scribed by Marjorie Hlava; Annette Grant; Alice Redmond-Neal; Colleen Finley

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 11 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-7870
• DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450420144

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The American Society for Information Science and Technology publications in a full text searchable digital library. All documents, Journal, Proceedings, Bulletin, Annual Review and Thesaurus needed to be captured to the same XML Standard from a wide variety of original formats, paper and digital. All articles were indexed using a semi automated process against the thesaurus. The DTD is a holdover from SGML implementations. The paper will outline the process for the digitization, the software used, the production process and the verification programs to insure a seamless load of the data to the Digital Library Site on the Wiley InterScience Platform. There were two streams of data used. We only used Access tagged data for the Bulletin Wiley used our version of the tagged data for all other products. Participants will learn:

how to adapt an SGML DTD to XML

how to apply keywords from a taxonomy for enhanced retrieval

an outline of a real production process for XML document conversion