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 ********************************