E-Text Internship
The text encoding internship will provide students with hands-on experience using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard for representing literary, administrative and other texts in a production digital library environment. Students will learn the semantic and syntactic principles and challenges of document-centric mark-up, and will be exposed to various stages of the text encoding workflow for TEI-based projects.
Duties:
- Document analysis, compiling TEI tag sets, drafting encoding guidelines
- Encoding texts, compiling bibliographic metadata
- Quality assessment of encoded texts
Qualifications:
- Exposure to or experience with XML and XML-related technologies such as XSLT and XPath
Preferred SLIS Prerequisites (at least one)
- S503 Representation and Organization
- S515 Information Architecture
- S652 Digital Libraries
- S603 Introduction to XML Workshop
- S504 Cataloging
Contact
If interested, please send résumé and list of courses taken to: Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects & Usability Librarian, mdalmau@indiana.edu.
