Workshop on Electronic Texts Proceedings

Supported by a Grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Proceedings

Welcome

Prosser Gifford and Carl Fleischhauer

Session I. Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What Will They Do?

James Daly (Moderator)

Avra Michelson, Overview

Susan H. Veccia, User Evaluation

Joanne Freeman, Beyond the Scholar

Discussion

Session II. Show and Tell

Jacqueline Hess (Moderator)

Elli Mylonas, Perseus Project

Discussion

Eric M. Calaluca, Patrologia Latina Database

Carl Fleischhauer and Ricky Erway, American Memory

Discussion

Dorothy Twohig, The Papers of George Washington

Discussion

Maria L. Lebron, The Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials

Discussion

Lynne K. Personius, Cornell mathematics books

Discussion

Session III. Distribution, Networks, and Networking: Options for

Dissemination

Robert G. Zich (Moderator)

Clifford A. Lynch

Discussion

Howard Besser

Discussion

Ronald L. Larsen

Edwin B. Brownrigg

Discussion

Session IV. Image Capture, Text Capture, Overview of Text and Image

Storage Formats

William L. Hooton (Moderator)

A) Principal Methods for Image Capture of Text: direct scanning, use of microform

Anne R. Kenney

Pamela Q.J. Andre

Judith A. Zidar

Donald J. Waters

Discussion

B) Special Problems: bound volumes, conservation, reproducing printed halftones

George Thoma

Carl Fleischhauer

Discussion

C) Image Standards and Implications for Preservation

Jean Baronas

Patricia Battin

Discussion

D) Text Conversion: OCR vs. rekeying, standards of accuracy and use of imperfect texts, service bureaus

Michael Lesk

Ricky Erway

Judith A. Zidar

Discussion

Session V. Approaches to Preparing Electronic Texts

Susan Hockey (Moderator)

Stuart Weibel

Discussion

C.M. Sperberg-McQueen

Discussion

Eric M. Calaluca

Discussion

Session VI. Copyright Issues

Marybeth Peters

Session VII. Conclusion

Prosser Gifford (Moderator)

General discussion

Appendix I: Program

Appendix II: Abstracts

Appendix III: Directory of Participants

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Carl Fleischhauer and Prosser Gifford for the opportunity to learn about areas of human activity unknown to me a scant ten months ago, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for supporting that opportunity. The help given by others is acknowledged on a separate page.

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