Learning from library projects TEI in digital publishing and Sydney University Press University Library Susan Murray-Smith, Business Manager, Sydney University Press
Overview › Background and Library projects › TEI and APRIL › Workflows and issues › Commercialization › Lessons for SUP 2
Sydney eScholarship ›Promote ›Publish ›Preserve ›Partner ›OA repository and OJS ›Sydney University Press ›SETIS/Sydney Digital Library ›Digital Project Analyst 3
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 University 4
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 Creagh Cole as Chief Investigator alongside academics and poets 5
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 6
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 7
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 8
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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 11
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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 15
16 april.edu.au sydney.edu.au/sup