Automatic Generation of the SIGWEB Anthology CD

The ACM SIGWEB Anthology of Hypertext and Hypermedia is a CD-ROM incorporating ACM Hypertext conference proceedings from 1987 to 2003 and the research articles from three special issues of Communications of the ACM (CACM) on hypertext and hypermedia. The CD-ROM also includes bibliographic metadata in three formats, EndNote, Bibtex, and Dublin Core. The vast majority of original content on the CDROM (tables of contents, abstracts, bibliographic metadata) was automatically generated based on information extracted from the ACM Digital Library. This paper describes the process and tools used to create the CD-ROM image, as well as lessons learned. Central to the generation process is replication of ACM Digital Library articles and metadata to a WebDAV server, followed by the execution of XSLT stylesheets to transform the WebDAV metadata into HTML, EndNote, Bibtex, and Dublin Core formats. Tools employed are freely available, making it easier to replicate the described process.