XML BOOKS

XML Title List
For a list of all XML-encoded titles currently available online, see:
XML Title List

XMLBacklist Experiment
Results from HEB's XML Backlist Experiment survey are now available in narrative format.

HEB White Papers

• NEW: HEB White Paper No. 2: ACLS Humanities E-Book XML Conversion Experiment: Report on Workflow, Costs, and User Preferences

HEB’s new White Paper is now available. It details our findings in the XML Backlist Experiment, as well as what we've learned about comparative workflow, schedule, and costs. The White Paper is available as a free PDF download on our site or as an attractively bound paperback for a $10 purchase on Amazon.

• HEB White Paper No. 1: Report on Technology Development and Production Workflow for XML Encoded E-Books [for the ACLS History E-Book Project]

(Please note: White Paper No. 1 above was written when ACLS Humanities E-Book was still known as the ACLS History E-Book Project, and this is the name that appears throughout. Also, XML-encoded books may be referred to as “frontlist”. Scanned page-image titles are referred to as “backlist.”)

XML Features & Specifications
For XML features and specifications, see the following links:

• HEB XML Tools, Functions, and Capabilities
• HEB Specifications
• HEB Proofing Guidelines

While most scholars today work with a variety of computers and programs—word processing, database, spreadsheet, even perhaps graphics and web-authoring packages—the special requirements of web-based and other electronic-format books necessitate new approaches in the production process that are described below and under the section, The HEB Center.

The Tagged E-Book

HEB has developed specifications for its new books to enable publishers, authors, and/or vendors to provide all electronic files for text, charts, maps, and other elements in a format that can be published online in a time- and cost-efficient manner. These specifications show how files should be coded or tagged in XML (extensible mark-up language) according to a DTD (document-type definition) that was developed from the TEI Lite (Text Encoding Initiative) DTD with the help of SPO. The Specifications are available online.

The goal of HEB is to create replicable and scalable models for publishing new XML scholarship. It has therefore developed every feature (see list of tools, functions, and capabilities) currently used in even the most complex humanities websites and fit them into a standardized series of coding modules that are scalable, replicable, and easy and inexpensive to reproduce.

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