MacDonald Delivers Presentation at Syracuse University

Peter MacDonald assistant systems manager at Burke Library, delivered a presentation at Syracuse University on May 16 highlighting Hamilton's Digital Civil War Collection. Funding for this project came from the Central New York Library Resources Council, who also sponsored the presentation. The Digital Civil War Collection presents images of more than 1000 documents and objects from the  special collections. The complete journal of a Civil War soldier from Marcy, N.Y., and more than 50 letters from a soldier from Clinton were converted to text. These will be indexed and fully searchable in the future when the Web site is made available to the public. The technology behind the project involves storing the images in TIFF and JPEG formats, storing the metadata in XML files, Web scripting with PHP, and XSL transformations using the Sablotron XML processor.