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*L-70: XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts*, taught by David Seaman, Associate Librarian for Information Management at Dartmouth College Library. Join us at Rare Book School for a week-long, practical exploration of the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with a special focus on Special Collections materials. *XML in Action* is aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, scholarly communication, or teaching purposes. The week will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images (probably 18th and 19th century letters, which are short enough to allow each participant to take an entire document through all its creation stages during the course). Past students have said that the focus on Special Collections materials makes this course "a great way to learn TEI. Even if you have already worked on digital projects, David Seaman provides an interesting overview, and it is a worthwhile way to consider digitization from a Special Collections viewpoint." Like other Rare Book School courses, this course offers intensive training: "the course exceeded my expectations. In a world where digital course instruction is more widely and readily available, this course plays a vital role in its RBS setting." Topics include: XML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines; Unicode; metadata issues (including a discussion of METS and Open Archives Initiative harvesting), project planning and funding; and the manipulation of XML texts using stylesheets for re-publishing HTML, in ebook formats, and in PDF. Applicants need to have some experience with the tagging of HTML documents. In their personal statement, they should assess the extent of their present knowledge of the electronic environment, and outline a project to which they hope to apply the skills learned in this course. Amanda Nelsen Program Director Rare Book School, University of Virginia 114 Alderman Library PO Box 400103 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4103 T) 434-924-8851, F) 434-924-8824 www.rarebookschool.org