A Whiter Shade of Grey: a new approach to archaeological grey literature using the XML version of the TEI Guidelines.

Gail Falkingham

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures, Tables and Plates

Section 1: Grey Literature Explored

• 1.1 The definition of grey literature
• 1.2 The importance of grey literature
• 1.3 The inaccessibility of grey literature
• 1.4 Grey literature in archaeology
• 1.5 The nature of archaeological grey literature reports
  • 1.5.1 The commissioning body/funding sources
  • 1.5.2 Producers
  • 1.5.3 Format
  • 1.5.4 Content
  • 1.5.5 Dissemination
• 1.6 The importance of archaeological grey literature
• 1.7 Inaccessibility and the 'research gap'
• 1.8 Calls for wider circulation and new methods of publication
• 1.9 Overview

Section 2: Making Grey Literature Accessible

• 2.1 Electronic dissemination
  • 2.1.1 Grey literature on the World Wide Web
  • 2.1.2 Archaeological grey literature on the World Wide Web
• 2.2 Issues of accessibility
• 2.3 Factors influencing the availability of archaeological grey literature
  • 2.3.1 Security and confidentiality
  • 2.3.2 Freedom of Information, Environmental Information Regulations and eGovernment
  • 2.3.3 Intellectual Property Rights and copyright
  • 2.3.4 The views of commercial archaeological organisations
• 2.4 Accessibility of grey literature report content to users
• 2.5 Interoperability
• 2.6 Aspects of short and long-term accessibility: preservation and archiving
• 2.7 Electronic document formats and media: delivery, dissemination and preservation
  • 2.7.1 Overview of electronic document formats
  • 2.7.2 Digitisation of non-digital reports
• 2.8 How accessible really is online access?
  • 2.8.1 Computer usage and Internet access in the UK
  • 2.8.2 Resource discovery
• 2.9 Overview

Section 3: Introducing The Extensible Markup Language and Related Technologies

• 3.1 XML and markup
• 3.2 The advantages and disadvantages of XML encoding
• 3.3 The Text Encoding Initiative and the XML version of the TEI Guidelines (TEI P4)
  • 3.3.1 Advantages and disadvantages of using the TEI Guidelines for document markup
  • 3.3.2 XML editors
• 3.4 Web browsers and parsing
  • 3.4.1 Client-side versus server-side processing
• 3.5 Displaying, styling and transforming XML documents
  • 3.5.1 Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
  • 3.5.2 The eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
  • 3.5.3 The XML Linking Language (XLink)
  • 3.5.4 Other XML languages
    • 3.5.4.1 The Wireless Markup Language (WML)
    • 3.5.4.2 Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
  • 3.5.5 The future of XML technology
• 3.6 Current uses of XML in archaeology
• 3.7 Uses of XML for the provision of online content
• 3.8 Overview

Section 4: A Practical Evaluation of XML Technologies and TEI P4 for Archaeological Markup and Multi-layered Presentation

• 4.1 Background to the case-study
  • 4.1.1 The North Yorkshire County Council HER and development-led archaeology
  • 4.1.2 Users and user needs
  • 4.1.3 The selection of reports for the case-study
    • 4.1.3.1 Bar Lane, Roecliffe, North Yorkshire
    • 4.1.3.2 Catterick Bridge, Catterick, North Yorkshire
    • 4.1.3.3 Market Place, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
• 4.2 Implementation: aims and objectives
  • 4.2.1 The general aims of the markup case-study
  • 4.2.2 The specific aims of the encoding
• 4.3 Methodology: the encoding of archaeological text
  • 4.3.1 The choice of XML technologies and the TEI P4 Guidelines
  • 4.3.2 Structure versus content
  • 4.3.3 Previous examples of archaeological markup
  • 4.3.4 Terminology and data standards (Inscription wordlists and thesauri)
  • 4.3.5 The compilation of the document type definition (DTD)
  • 4.3.6 The TEI Header
  • 4.3.7 The main text: front, body and back matter
• 4.4 Methodology: transformation and presentation of multi-layered output
  • 4.4.1 The display of the XML documents in Microsoft Notepad, Word 2000 and Internet Explorer 6.0
  • 4.4.2 The use of Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to present the XML Documents
  • 4.4.3 The use of XSLT and XPath for retrieval of selected content
    • 4.4.3.1 Public: the extraction of report summaries, conclusions and images
    • 4.4.3.2 Curator: The extraction of OASIS Project and HBSMR-related data
    • 4.4.3.3 Specialist: the retrieval of the appendices
  • 4.4.4 Other XML applications: the Wireless Markup Language (WML)
• 4.5 Evaluation and conclusions

• Multi-layered presentations of the three reports

Section 5: Towards a 'Real World' Application: The future of XML and Archaeological Grey Literature

• 5.1 The future and archaeological grey literature
• 5.2 The markup of grey literature reports
  • 5.2.1 Who should encode?
  • 5.2.2 When to encode?
  • 5.2.3 What to encode?
  • 5.2.4 Costs of markup
• 5.3 Advantages of online access to XML-encoded grey literature
• 5.4 A real world application?

• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography

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