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Workshop "DTDs and the usage of new XML-technologies for electronic theses and dissertations"

May, 10 th - 12 th, 2000; Humboldt-University at Berlin, Computing Center, Demonstration Room.
The workshop was held in English.

NDLTD:

Scope of the workshop

The Idea behind this workshop was to bring together experts and developers working on SGML or XML-based Document Type Definitions for electronic theses and dissertations. Within the NDLTD-initiative several document type definitions (DTDs) for dissertations have been developed. To come to a standardized or generalized searching and archiving structure, it is absolutely necessary to summarize all those developments and research and to work out correspondences between all of them. If SGML and XML are the preferred future document formats for theses and dissertations, the DTD will play a major role within the whole initiative.

The following questions shall be discussed:

How to get to a generalized DTD?
Is there just one DTD necessary or is it possible to have more than one DTD, e.g., for different subjects and sciences?
Where exactly are the current differences between the existing document type definitions?
Which approach shall we follow to unify our DTDs?
How to come to an aggreed Dublin-Core metadata element set?
How many markup should be done by the author, how much by machine translation?
Evaluating several tools and ways to come to an SGML/XML-based document

A result of our discussion could be :

an element database valid for all theses and dissertations worldwide and correspondences between them
a plan for a modularized DTD according to the needs of the different sciences and/or countries
an aggreed worldwide DC-metadata element set

For further information email: dobratz@rz.hu-berlin.de	© Projektgruppe Digitale Dissertationen --- last edit: 29.05.2000; 16:00 (sd).