Students are responsible for their performance in meeting their own educational goals and those of the course; instructors are responsible for providing guidance, expertise, and support to help students reach those goals. Students are expected to participate in class exercises and discussions. Satisfactory work will receive a grade in the C range, good work will receive a grade in the B range, and superior work will receive a grade in the A range.

Final grades will be calculated as follows: PostScript programming assignment: 20% &tex; formatting macros: 20% XML DTD and valid document instance: 20% Final Project: 30% Class Participation: 10% On Adapting the Work of Others

Criteria for grading assignments include (but are not limited to) creativity and the amount of original work demonstrated in the assignment. However, students are permitted to use and adapt the work of others, provided that the following guidelines are followed: Use of other people's material must not infringe the copyright of the original author, nor violate the terms of any licensing agreement. Know and respect the principles of fair use with respect to copyrighted material. Students must scrupulously attribute the original source and author of whatever material has been adapted for the assignment. Summarize (e.g. using sourcecode comments) the changes or adaptations that have been made. Make plain how much of the assignment represents original work. Assignment 1: PostScript Program

Write a PostScript application and document it with appropriate comments. The program should be a small application or simple document type, but the exact functionality of the program is up to you. The program should include examples of looping and/or branching logic, the definition of at least one subroutine, and a non-trivial graphics state transformation. The instructors will present an example of an application with complexity and scope appropriate for this assignment.

Submit the assignment via email as a set of machine-readable files. The email address to which you should send it is docproc@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu. Encode the PostScript file (or files) and the documentation as MIME attachments. PostScript file names should end with a `.ps' or `.eps' suffix. Documentation files (in plain text) should be named with a `.txt' suffix. The subject line of the message should read as follows: &odq;LIS450-DP Assignment 1 email-address&cdq; (where email-address@uiuc.edu is your email address in the UIUC domain). Assignment 2: &tex; Formatting Macros.

Write a set of &tex; macros for formatting a simple document class of your choice. Wherever possible, write declarative, structural macros rather than presentation macros. Turn in the macros and &tex; source for a document that illustrates them.

Submit the assignment via email as a set of machine-readable files. The email address to which you should send it is docproc@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu. Encode the &tex; macros, application, and documentation as MIME attachments. &tex; file names should end with a `.tex' suffix. Documentation files (in plain text) should be named with a `.txt' suffix. The subject line of the message should read as follows: &odq;LIS450-DP Assignment 2 email-address&cdq; (where email-address@uiuc.edu is your email address in the UIUC domain). Assignment 3: XML DTD and Conforming Document

Design an XML Document Type Definition for a simple document class. The instructor will present an example of an application with complexity and scope appropriate to this assignment. Submit (via email) the DTD and a non-trivial conforming document, valid under the DTD you have designed.

Submit the assignment via email as a set of machine-readable files. The email address to which you should send it is docproc@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu. Encode the DTD, conforming document, and documentation as MIME attachments. XML document instance file names should end with a `.xml' suffix. DTD files should end with a `.dtd' suffix. Documentation files (in plain text) should be named with a `.txt' suffix. The subject line of the message should read as follows: &odq;LIS450-DP Assignment 3 email-address&cdq; (where email-address@uiuc.edu is your email address in the UIUC domain). Final Project

All students enrolled in the class must complete a final project that has been approved by the instructor. The final project represents in-depth investigation of a topic related to electronic document processing. The project can take one of three forms: A software development project, with supporting documentation and a 1–2 page report/explanation. An example of such a project would be a Perl program for transforming (via an existing parser) documents conforming to the DTD of assignment 3 into the &tex; format designed for assignment 2 (assuming both assignments modeled the same document class). The program must be submitted to the instructor as machine-readable source code. A research paper (approximately 20 pages in paper form) on an approved topic related to document processing. The paper should present in-depth research on the topic, demonstrate familiarity with relevant literature and should be documented with appropriate references. The research paper must be prepared in a declarative markup language, either application-specific (e.g., a &latex; document class) or conforming to an SGML/XML DTD expressive enough for academic writing (e.g. DocBook). The paper must be submitted as a machine-readable ASCII file. A short research paper (approximately ten pages in paper form) related to a modest programming project. Format and submission guidelines as per the first two options.

Students must write a one-page proposal for their project, and approve it with an instructor no later than the eighth week of class. The proposal should include details of the format in which the project will be submitted. Class Participation

The class participation grade is based on consistent attendance, contribution to in-class and/or online discussions, and providing assistance to classmates outside of class. Please alert the instructor if a classmate has been of help to you outside of class.