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This paper is an overview of some recent developments within the Oxford Text Archive (OTA). Specifically it focuses on the use of various forms of metadata used within the OTA, including the manipulation of the TEI header, as a means of assisting in the discovery and delivery of resources from the OTA. The paper explores the use of metadata throughout the Arts and Humanities Data Service as a whole, and how this has facilitated the building of an integrated gateway to digital humanities resources. Finally there is a brief discussion on how the OTA currently provides access to its holdings via the WWW and a look at some possible future developments.
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Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. and L. Burnard Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (TEI P3). Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative, 1994.
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) URL http://ahds.ac.uk/
UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN)
URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
Dublin Core URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc.html
ISO/IEC 10179:1996 Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)
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Morrison, A. Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web: The Current and Planned Practices of the Oxford Text Archive. Computers and the Humanities 33, 193–198 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001726011322
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001726011322