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@verizon.net or by phone (703) 978-0831. ______________________________________________________ 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@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. ******************** 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@wrlc.org http://www.wrlc.org