DLF April 2004
ACLS History E-Book Project
•SPO provides publishing system for page image and XML encoded book, image viewer/database, search engine,
authentication, MARC cataloging,
scanning, statistical reporting.
•Project includes “backlist” books which are previously published
titles selected by
scholars. Backlist books delivered as page image scans (TIFF to GIF). Searching is on uncorrected OCR
text.
•Project also includes “frontlist” books which are new books encoded in XML. Frontlist books, are encoded in XML and
delivered in HTML for
display in standard web browser.
•Production,
design, proofing stages - use XSLT to transform XML
•Specs, DTD, XSLT, templates, proofing guidelines available on our web site. Used by publishers to create files for
submission.
Tech specs, SPO