Paul: I cannot attend the meeting. I would like to have any info you can forward to me. Doris Saunders> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:20:23 -0500> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 2 January 2008, "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age Ancestors"> > Wednesday, 2 January 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting> > TOPIC: "The Digital CSR: Saunders and Clark (and Weeks) in the Internet Age"> SPEAKER: Jason Tomberlin> > Documenting the American South and the North Carolina Collection, both a> part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, are> digitizing the twenty-six volume set of The Colonial and State Records of> North Carolina, together with the four-volume Index to the Colonial and> State Records of North Carolina. This three-year project continues the> legacy of an earlier generation's extensive scholarship, improves it with> this generation's technology, and empowers today's and tomorrow's users by> offering easier, more efficient, and more flexible access to 9500 colonial-> and early state-era documents. They are encoding all 30 volumes in XML/TEI> according to current national standards and best practices. The 400,000> index entries are encoded by their type, i.e. personal name, geographic> name, and topic (e.g., "slaves," "slaves and quotas"). Through XML encoding> and database records, they are connecting all relevant index terms to each> document. They are also offering the functionality to search by document> date, document type, personal name, geographic name, topic, and creator, as> well as offering several browse features. In addition, they are working with> the University's School of Education to provide learning objects and lesson> plans that will guide K-12 teachers and students in using these valuable> documents. For genealogists, K-12 students, university faculty, and members> of the general public, these documents are of great importance both because> of their inherent value and because of the paucity of such resources.> > Jason Tomberlin, who is currently the special projects librarian at the> North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, is a native of> Knoxville, Tennessee. He has, however, lived in various parts of North> Carolina for most of his life. He graduated from the University of North> Carolina in 1997 with a BA in History and from North Carolina State> University in 2003 with an MA in Public History. Prior to working at UNC,> he held positions in the special collections libraries at Duke University> and North Carolina State University, and for four years, he worked in public> services at the North Carolina State Archives.> > D-OGS Meeting will be held on:> Wednesday evening, 2 January 2008 at 7 p.m.> Duke Homestead Visitor's Center> 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705> Phone: (919) 477-5498> One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175)> Follow the brown historic site road signs.> > A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj> Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm> ********************************> > *************************> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/> Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ i’m is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_Cause_Effect