[AG-TECH] CCS Wednesday Seminar

[Santhosh Kumar]

Hi,
  The CCS Wednesday Seminar will continue today with the following 
seminar:
  Title: "Using Cocoon in Humanities Digital Libraries"
  
  Speaker: Hugh Cayless
           University of North Carolina
  
  Venue: Lucky Lab

  Time: 3:30 Eastern Today

  Abstract:  Computing projects in the humanities present special 
problems: they are often focused more on documents rather than data, they 
often involve content providers who are subject matter experts, but who 
are not programmers, and are perhaps not technically inclined, and they demand 
a high degree of flexibility in the manipulation and presentation of the 
documents they deal with.  At the University of North Carolina's Office of 
Arts and Sciences Information Services, we have been using Cocoon as a 
platform for various applications, including digital library 
services.  Cocoon is a Java-based XML web publishing framework developed 
by the Apache software Foundation.  Its design and features make it a 
particularly useful tool for developing digital library services for 
humanities computing projects.  This talk will include a brief 
introduction to Cocoon, a discussion of why it is such a good fit for electronic 
publication in the humanities, and will provide several examples of its 
use in current projects.


All sites are invited to participate in the seminar. Sites are requested 
to join us by 2:45 Eastern for A/V Testing.

Thanks,
SANTHOSH K CHENNUR
Center For Computational Sciences,
University of KY.