XML BOOKS
For a list of all XML-encoded titles currently available online, see:
XML Title List
Take part in HEB's XML Backlist Experiment! Browse titles presented in both XML and page-scan formats and take a quick survey so we can improve the HEB collection.
For XML features, specifications, and white papers produced by HEB, see the following links:
(Please note: The white paper 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.”)
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.
HEB02.01
rev. 4/23/08
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