NDLP: Text Quality Review



Review Guidelines \| Reference Docs \| Tools \| Examples \| Other Resources

Use the following listings for reference and to review Text Quality Review requirements for the American Memory project. If you have specific questions regarding these documents or other aspects of Text Quality Review, please contact Production staff.

Larger documents are provided in MS Word or WordPerfect format. You can use the Document Viewers to view these documents (see Tools for downloading information) or set your browser preferences (Options/General/Helper Apps) to open the full MSWord and WordPerfect applications when encountering a .doc file or .wpd file, respectively.

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	These documents outline both the review process and acceptance standards for Text Quality Review.
		- Description of Quality Review Process (narrative) - Standards for Quality Review (chart)

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	Use these documents as an online reference or to update your printed copies.
		- American Memory Document Type Definition (DTD) - (Text) - American Memory DTD Tag Library - (WordPerfect) - American Memory DTD - Sorted Alphabetically - (Text file) - American Memory DTD Hierarchy Tree - (Acrobat .PDF) - File Naming Structures - Text Keying And Encoding Instructions sent to Contractor - (MS Word) - Special Keying Instructions (examples) George Washington Papers - 07/30/98 (WordPerfect) Law Collection (MS Word) First-Person Narratives of the Upper Midwest (WordPerfect) Printed Ephemera - 07/02/98 (WordPerfect) Printed Ephemera Cataloging Cards - 04/98(WordPerfect)

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These descriptions contain download information and NDL-specific settings you may need to use this software efficiently.

- Text Check PERL Script		Recommended ASCII Editors
- Parsing Instructions		- NotesPad (not Windows Notepad)
- Entity Checker		- Codewright
- Quality Review Computation Form (EXCEL)		- RulesBuilder

Web Browser Viewer Instructions		Available SGML Editors
- MS Word Document Viewer		- Author/Editor
- Corel WordPerfect Document Viewer
- ThumbsPlus (for viewing images)		File Transfer
- Docuview (view images)		- CuteFTP (WARNING)
- Panorama (view SGML documents)		- WS_FTP LE

Working in UNIX

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		- SGML TEI Header "Boilerplate" Sample (template for constructing the TEI Headers sent to Contractor) - SGML-tagged Document Header (sample of completed Headers sent to Contractor) - Complete SGML-tagged Document (see Page Image - note: SGML text is abridged) - File Examples: .omt file .ent file .pgi file .ref file

	- TOP - These external Web sites may be of interest for Text Quality Review. If you know of another Web site which would be helpful in Text Quality Review for the NDL, please let us know.
		- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines - A Gentle Introduction to SGML (UMich version) - The SGML/XML Web Page - ISO 8879 Character Entity Set for SGML - Character Entity Set for HTML 3.2 - Character Entity Set for HTML 4.01