Style Sheets for EAD: Delivering Your Finding Aids on the Web #1106

Registration Type	Fees: Early-Bird / Regular
Full Registration #1106	SAA Member: $325 / $375 Employees of Member Institutions: $365 / $415 Nonmember: $405 / $455

Workshop Agenda

Event Name	Date & Time	Instructors/Speakers & CEUs
Style Sheets for EAD: Delivering Your Finding Aids on the Web #1106	Thu, Jul 08, 2010 - Fri, Jul 09, 2010 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Michael J. Fox (Instructor) Kris Kiesling (Instructor) General CEU Credits: 1.5 Archival Recertification Credits-ARCs: 10

Workshop Description

"Now I've got everything I need to make EAD work!"

Become the master of your finding aids, and learn how to transform EAD-encoded finding aids into Web documents whose appearance is customized for participants' institution and users.This two-day workshop provides an introduction to style sheets, in particular the XSLT programming language, as they are used to format archival finding aids for the Web. If you have a basic understanding of the EAD element set and the HTML encoding scheme, you're ready to take the next big step and create or modify style sheets.

Upon completing this workshop, you’ll have:

• Gained a fundamental understanding of XSLT concepts;
• Produced a basic style sheet; and,
• Reviewed how it affects the display of a finding aid.

Two instructors facilitate this highly interactive, hands-on workshop to provide a substantial level of practice to participants.

Who should attend? Archivists, programmers and system administrators using TEI and other XML applications.

Testimonials:

When participants were asked "what aspect of the workshop methods/materials was most valuable to you?" responses included:

• "It's fantastic to be able to use a computer and the software throughout the workshop. These tools make the workshop lessons learned more realistic and applicable to daily life. Much better than 2 days of theory without practice."
• "Building upon concepts, from simple to more complex." - Jeremy McWilliams
• "Even pace; excellent explanations - presenters have the ability to make things appear deceptively easy." - Michelle Falke
• "The whole thing. Before coming to the workshop, I felt like I didn't have control over how my finding aids displayed. Now I feel empowered to make significant improvements in style and useability."
• "I think the workbook is fantastic, comprehensive and easy to follow and also to see how to apply and change small pieces. It is obvious a lot of thought and effort went into it."

Attendance is limited to 25; participants may be asked to share a computer.