NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTS BUILDERS A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY Catherine

NORTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTS & 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 charge AND 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 Edit. Live! 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/