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Stylesheets for EAD:
Delivering Your Finding Aids on the Web

Pattee Library, Penn State
Thursday—Friday, April 24–25, 2008
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs): 1.5
Archival Recertification Credits: 10

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REGISTRATION FEES:
Scholarship Rate: FULL (first fifteen registrants, on or before 3/24/2008): $40
(Funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)

Registrants sixteen through twenty-five:
Early Bird (on or before 3/25/2008): SAA Member—$325; Non-member—$405
Regular (after 3/25/2008): SAA Member—$375; Non-member—$455

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"Now I've got everything I need to make EAD work!"

Become the master of your finding aids, and learn how to transform EAD-encoded finding aids into Web documents whose appearance is customized for participants' institution and users.This two-day workshop provides an introduction to style sheets, in particular the XSLT programming language, as they are used to format archival finding aids for the Web. If you have a basic understanding of the EAD element set and the HTML encoding scheme, you're ready to take the next big step and create or modify style sheets.

Upon completing this workshop, participants will have:

• Gained a fundamental understanding of XSLT concepts;
• Produced a basic style sheet; and,
• Reviewed how it affects the display of a finding aid.
  

Two instructors facilitate this highly interactive, hands-on workshop to provide a substantial level of practice to participants.

Who should attend? Archivists, programmers and system administrators using TEI and other XML applications.

Attendance is limited to 25; participants may be asked to share a computer.

Testimonials:

• "It's fantastic to be able to use a computer and the software throughout the workshop. These tools make the workshop lessons learned more realistic and applicable to daily life. Much better than 2 days of theory without practice."
• "Building upon concepts, from simple to more complex." —Jeremy McWilliams
• "Even pace; excellent explanations—presenters have the ability to make things appear deceptively easy." —Michelle Falke
• "The whole thing. Before coming to the workshop, I felt like I didn't have control over how my finding aids displayed. Now I feel empowered to make significant improvements in style and useability."
• "I think the workbook is fantastic, comprehensive and easy to follow and also to see how to apply and change small pieces. It is obvious a lot of thought and effort went into it."
  
  

Instructors:

Kris Kiesling (Bio)
Director, Archives and Special Collections
University of Minnesota

Michael J. Fox (Bio)
Deputy Director
Minnesota Historical Society

LOGISTICS:
The workshop will be held in W211A Pattee Library, Penn State University Park campus. The nearest airport to the Penn State campus is University Park Airport in State College, PA.

Lodging is available nearby at the Nittany Lion Inn located at 200 West Park Avenue for $107/Single and $117/Double plus tax by calling 800-233-7505. You must give the group code SOCO420 to qualify for this special rate. Reservation received after March 21, 2008 will be based on space availability and may be at a higher rate. Even if you are unsure if you will be able to attend the workshop, we recommend making a reservation at the Nittany Lion Inn as reservations can be cancelled without charge 48 hours prior to your arrival. Be aware that the Nittany Lion Inn is a five minute walk to the library. Note that the Nittany Lion Inn offers a complimentary shuttle service around campus as well as to/from the airport. For more information regarding this hotel, directions and maps, visit the Penn State Visitor's Guide.

The closest parking area is the Nittany Parking Deck next door to the Nittany Lion Inn; it is a five minute walk to the library. There is an hourly charge if you are not a guest of the Nittany Lion Inn.

SAA does not endorse specific facilities. The above is provided for information purposes only.

For more information regarding directions to Penn State as well as campus maps, visit: campusmaps.psu.edu.

For more information regarding other hotels, and entertainment in the area visit: www.visitpennstate.org.

For more information about workshops, please contact Susan Hamburger, 814-865-1756 sxh36@psulias.psu.edu.

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