Learning from library projectsTEI in digital publishing and Sydney University Press
University LibrarySusan Murray-Smith, Business Manager, Sydney University Press
Overview
› Background and Library projects
› TEI and APRIL
› Workflows and issues
› Commercialization
› Lessons for SUP
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Sydney eScholarship
›Promote
›Publish
›Preserve
›Partner
› OA repository and OJS
› Sydney University Press
› SETIS/Sydney Digital Library
› Digital Project Analyst
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Sydney University Press
› restarted in 2003 to provide POD for SETIS titles
› harness infrastructure within University to produce (Library), print (Uni Printing Service) and sell
(ICT ecommerce)
› publishing new work from 2005
› 25 new books per year plus reprints from digital collections
brand promotion for the University4
Use of TEI
› SETIS collections (TEI5)
- Major project in 2009 to convert collections from TEI4 to TEI5 (contracted external programmer)
april.edu.au› APRIL Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library (TEI4)
- Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 2004
- Creagh Cole as Chief Investigator alongside academics and poets
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APRIL
› Project to create a web-accessible database of Australian poetry
› Currently 160 poets and 42,000 poems
› Rights negotiated by Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) – Australia's collecting society
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APRIL content
› Full text of Poems in published collections
- Some duplication, slight changes
- Images for highly formatted poems
› Biographical material on poets
- Text
- Images
- Video, audio
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APRIL workflow
1.DTD creation based on TEI4
2.Scans of texts (saving images for formatted poems)
3.Double key text creation and mark-up (outsourced)
4.Digitization of Images for highly formatted poems
5.Search and display developments (XTF)
6.Anthologisation development (Cocoon)
7.Commercialisation and release
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Sample TEI
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Sample TEI
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APRIL - search and display
› XTF for search and display
› Easy to generate search and browse options
› A-Z, gender, decade, etc
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Next stages
› Anthologise – custom and chosen anthologies using Cocoon
› ePub and POD creation – covers and pricing
› Purchase and royalties to rights owners
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april.edu.au
sydney.edu.au/sup