NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTS & BUILDERS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Catherine W. Bishir Joseph Ryan Markus Wust June 16, 2009

Credits Internal contributors  Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center  Digital Library Initiatives  Special Collections Research Center  Information Technology  External Relations  Metadata and Cataloging  Design Library  Administration

Credits External contributors  35 authors, many other content contributors  libraries and cultural institutions who provided images free of charge AND  North Carolina’s architects, builders, and other artisans

Demonstration

Technology: Content Creation  Content stored as XML  Each person and building has a separate XML file  At launch: over 170 persons and 1500 buildings  Commercial web-based XML editor for creating XML records  Custom-built tools for managing data

Workflow  Editing  Creating building IDs and building entries  Creating personnel entries, adding building IDs and links to other entries  Creating and adding bibliography items  Adding Image IDs  Checking XML code for problems  Reviewing entries for errors  Posting new entries

Selected Tools  Ephox EditLive! for XML (XML editor)  Entry Helper (Creating new entries and unique IDs, searching entries)  Bibliography Database  Content Review

Project History Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (1990) by Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood III Follow up volume on people: write another book or make a web site?

Thank you.  Catherine Bishir  Joseph Ryan  Markus Wust 