The Potomac Technical Processing Librarians announce the following workshop:
XML Workshop with Matthew Gibson
Friday, May 13, 2011
9 AM - 5 PM
OCLC Office (11 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036)
Matthew Gibson, an experienced XML instructor and developer, is Director of Digital Programs at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia. This one-day hands-on workshop will explore XML with a specific focus on fundamentals of design, markup, and use. The workshop will take the student through building a document in XML, validating that document, and transforming that document into another format for the public user.
Topics to be covered include:
• XML: What is it? What's the difference between XML and HTML? And why as librarians should we care about XML?
• Understanding XML validation: What it is, and why is it important?
• Content transformation (using XSLT and XPath) to enable XML that we build to be read and used in a variety of formats by our potential users.
Registration: $85 PTPL members, $100 non-members
All registration must be submitted via the PTPL web site:
http://www.potomactechlibrarians.org/
Due date: April 30, 2011
Payment: Online via PayPal or by check
For questions about registration, please contact Linda Wirth (Treasurer) via e-mail at wirthll(a)verizon.net or by phone (703) 978-0831.
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Potomac Technical Processing Librarians (PTPL), a regional affiliate of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, is a professional organization for technical services librarians in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. For general information about PTPL, contact Vera Clyburn, Chair, at vcly(a)loc.gov.
The PTPL Executive Board and Advisory Council gratefully acknowledge the kind support of OCLC in making their Dupont Circle office available for this workshop and other events.
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Suzanne Picken
Integrated Library Systems Librarian
Washington Research Library Consortium
901 Commerce Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Phone: 301 390-2039
Fax: 301 390-2020
picken(a)wrlc.org
http://www.wrlc.org
