Selected Resources

Included here is a list of materials that you may find useful for your work in the class. Most are available in an electronic format and can be printed if a paper copy is desired.

Suggested Readings

• Thomas Tanselle, The Editing of Historical Documents, in Selected Studies in Bibliography
• Documents & Relational Databases Overview
• Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of HyperText"
• Jerome McGann, "Radiant Textuality"
• Mary-Jo Kline, A Guide to Documentary Editing, (Baltimore, 1987)
• Beth Luey, Editing Documents and Texts: An Annotated Bibliography (Madison, WI, 1990)
• Documentary Editing (quarterly periodical published by the Association for Documentary Editing)

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML):

• Writing HTML Documents
• HTML Reference Manual
• HTML Quick Reference
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• Resources for WWW Page Publishing
• Introduction to HTML and URLs
• Tables as Implemented in Netscape 1.1
• Redbeard's Cool Tools
• Harvey Cohen's Thumbnail Primer

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

• About SGML, by David Seaman
  
• The Electronic Text Center Introduction to TEI and Guide to Document Preparation, by David Seaman
  
• Mu - Forms Assisted SGML Markup version 1.1.

Search Engines

• PAT, from OpenText Corp.

At the University of Virginia:

• Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)
• The Electronic Text Center
• The Multimedia Resource Center
• Information Technology and Communication (ITC)
• The Association for Documentary Editing
• The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
• The Virginia Newspaper Project
• Oxford English Dictionary
• The Bible,King James Version
• The Bible, Revised Standard Edition

• Text Encoding Initiative
• Model Editions Partnership
• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)

• Internet Resources (George Mason University)
• The Library of Virginia
• Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA)
• The Public Record Office (P.R.O., Great Britain)

Useful Sites:

• John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Copyright Issues

• United States Copyright Office

Funding

• Where to Locate Grant Information on the Web

History

• Index of Resources for History
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
• Center for History and New Media
• History Reviews On-Line
• Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda Restored: A Pictorial Review With Commentary, by Joseph Lee Vaughan and Omer Allan Gianniny, Jr.
  
• Antebellum Richmond
• Electronic Historical Publications

Miscellaneous

• Studies in Bibliography
• Essays in History
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities

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