NORTH CAROLINAARCHITECTS & BUILDERS:A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

Catherine W. Bishir

Joseph Ryan

Markus Wust

June 16, 2009

Credits

Internal contributors Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center Digital Library Initiatives Special Collections Research Center Information Technology External Relations Metadata and Cataloging Design Library Administration

Credits

External contributors 35 authors, many other content

contributors libraries and cultural institutions who

provided images free of chargeAND North Carolina’s architects, builders, and

other artisans

Demonstration

http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/

Technology: Content Creation Content stored as XML Each person and building has a separate

XML file At launch: over 170 persons and 1500

buildings Commercial web-based XML editor for

creating XML records Custom-built tools for managing data

Workflow

Editing Creating building IDs and building entries Creating personnel entries, adding

building IDs and links to other entries Creating and adding bibliography items Adding Image IDs Checking XML code for problems Reviewing entries for errors Posting new entries

Selected Tools

Ephox EditLive! for XML (XML editor) Entry Helper (Creating new entries and

unique IDs, searching entries) Bibliography Database Content Review

Project History

Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building (1990) by Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood III

Follow up volume on people: write another book or make a web site?

Thank you.

Catherine Bishir Joseph Ryan Markus Wust

http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/