Weekly Course Schedule – Fall 2016

INFOST 780 - 201 (Online)

Week 6 (October 10 – October 16)

Tuesday, October 11 (6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M., GoToMeeting) Optional Session
Online Office Hours	Every Tuesday evening, I will be holding Office Hours using the GoToMeeting Platform. Please feel free to drop by to review solutions to recent Coding Assignments, to ask a question, to get help with your assignments, to discuss your plans for the student project, or just to say hello. Please use a headset when joining this session. You may join the GoToMeeting session using this link.
Other Resources	Recording of Online Office Hours session

Sunday, October 16, @ 11:55 P.M. Weekly Assignments Deadline
Topics	Creating Modular XML Documents Using oXygen XML Editor projects Using Entities Using XInclude MARCXML Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
Required Readings	Harold & Means: Chapter 3. Review material on External Parsed General Entities (p. 50). Harold & Means: Chapter 12 (XInclude) Wikimedia Foundation (2015) . MARC standards: MARCXML Wikimedia Foundation (2014) . Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Required Recordings	Lecture Video: Introduction to Modular XML Documents
Other Resources	Library of Congress (2014) . MARCXML - MARC 21 XML Schema - Official Web Site OASIS (2015) . dita.xml.org - Online Community for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture OASIS Standard OASIS (2015) . OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC IBM (2005) . Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Coding Assignments Due	Entities_and_XInclude Description: Using the demo videos as your guide, reproduce the same steps yourself on your own computer. Note that these videos are from a prior semester. A few logistical details for this assignment have changed since the recordings were made. In particular, files to be downloaded are located below instead of being located on D2L. Submit to: Entities_and_XInclude Tutorial Video: Using Entities Tutorial Video: Using XInclude Instructions for Entities and XInclude coding assignment Grading Rubric for Entities and XInclude coding assignment monolithic_book.xml book.dtd test_transform_1.xsl Kevin's solution to Entities_and_XInclude: Resource is available on D2L.
Class Participation Assignments Due (Forum Posts)	Consider MARCXML as project subject (Pick 3) Description: After reviewing the assigned readings on MARCXML, consider choosing MARCXML as the subject of your project. Your post should note the ways in which MARCXML might relate to your current or future job responsibilities. Also, please note the ways in which you might find MARCXML an interesting subject. Submit to: Final Project (Pick 3) – MARCXML Consider DITA as project subject (Pick 3) Description: After reviewing the assigned readings on DITA, consider choosing DITA as the subject of your project. Your post should note the ways in which DITA might relate to your current or future job responsibilities. Also, please note the ways in which you might find DITA an interesting subject. Submit to: Final Project (Pick 3) – DITA