April 9–11, 2012, Gainesville, FL

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics and Assessment Program and the Digital Library Federation, a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, are pleased to offer an in-depth workshop focused on using XSLT in digital library projects.

Taught by experienced XML/XSLT instructors and developers Matthew Gibson, Director of Digital Programs at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Christine Ruotolo, Digital Services Manager at the University of Virginia Library, this three-day workshop will explore XSLT with a specific focus on the role of XSLT in digital library projects. The workshop will be a mix of lecture and hands-on demonstration and experimentation.

Lectures, exercises, and projects will allow participants to gain experience using some of the more powerful components of XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 including navigating the XML tree with XPath 2.0; working with recursion, modes, and named templates; using and creating functions; combining source documents and creating multiple result documents; sorting and grouping data; and using branching and control structures.

Participants should have a strong background in XML markup. A basic understanding of XSLT technology is encouraged, as is a thorough familiarity with HTML markup.

Event Details

Dates: Monday, April 9 – Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Time: 9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
Location: Florida Center for Library Automation at the University of Florida
Fee: $1,500
Register: by March 15, 2012

For more details and to register, see http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/XSLT-workshop.shtml .

A program of the Council on Library and Information Resources, the Digital Library Federation is a community of library practitioners engaged in and committed to building and sustaining digital libraries through collaborative effort and establishing best practices. The DLF community includes project managers, code developers, and all who are invested in digital library issues. The DLF Web site is available at http://www.diglib.org .

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/ .

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