HEB is now launching a new experiment in format: our “XML Backlist.” Up until now we’ve offered two distinct title formats: our retrospective conversion (backlist) of carefully selected monographs presented in page-image (TIF-to-GIF) format, used by JSTOR and The Making of America; and our new titles, presented in cooperation with a small group of university presses, learned societies, and digital publishing offices, in XML format, with a wide range of features and functions.
With our XML backlist experiment we’ve taken a select group of twenty “backlist” titles and also prepared them in XML. In the table below, these titles are available in both page-image and XML formats for users to compare basic interface, readability, and features such as images, text display, annotation, and navigation.
We appreciate your interest in helping HEB evaluate the relative advantages of these two technologies and to help us plan for the future of HEB and related online resources.
Please take some time to compare the two formats. HEB has sent email invitations to subscribers, librarians and others requesting feedback via a brief survey so that we can improve the HEB collection. The overall results will be made available in Fall 2008 and in a subsequent White Paper detailing our findings, as well as what we’ve learned about comparative workflow, schedule, and costs.
If you did not receive an email, but are interested in participating, send an email to survey@hebook.org with the words “HEB Survey” in the subject line.
Format Comparison (Click icon to view)
Title
Author
XML Format
Page Scan Format
Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI
Alford, Stephen
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard
Brett, Judith
Holy Women of the Syrian Orient
Brock, Sebastian P.
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century
Dunn, Ross E.
Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066
Fell, Christine
Respectable Lives: Social Standing in Rural New Zealand
Hatch, Elvin
Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife
LeBlanc, Robin M.
The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in Abenaki-Euramerican Relations
Morrison, Kenneth M.
Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company
Nevins, Alan
Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915-1933
Nevins, Alan
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-1962
Nevins, Alan
Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World
Newman, Barbara
Cuba: Island of Paradox
Phillips, Ruby Hart
China's Foreign Relations, 1917-1931
Pollard, Robert T.
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
Robertson, Jennifer
The Encomienda in New Spain: The Beginning of Spanish Mexico
Simpson, Lesley Byrd
The Two Cultures
Snow, C.P.
Byzantiums's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
Stephenson, Paul
The Syrian Princesses: The Women Who Ruled Rome, AD 193-235
Turton, Godfrey
Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
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