Tips for Archiving an Online Publication HTML Publication To archive an HTML publication, it must be easily transferable and operational on our server. To meet these criteria, all files and sub-directories must be under a single directory. Relative URLs (e.g., ../images/flowers.gif, images/flowers.gif, flowers.gif) must be used for hypertext links accessing the publication directly, while absolute URLs (e.g., http://www.nlc-bnc.ca) must be used for hypertext links accessing information outside the publication. The Electronic Collection resides on a server running a Unix operating system. This system reads uppercase and lowercase letters. Therefore, the file flower.gif is different from FLOWER.GIF. The same case must be used in file/directory names as in the HTML coding of publication file/directory names. Also, file/directory names should not have a character "space", accentuated letters (é, î, ô, etc.) or special characters ( ; , : ? etc.) in their names. For example, use "afile.txt" instead of "a file.txt"; use "ecole.pdf" instead of "école.pdf"; use "tree-03-07-12.pdf" instead of "tree,03-07-12.pdf". Means of transmission: Publishers may transmit files to the Library using the following methods: • e-mail • FTP • diskette • compact disk Copyright. The National Library of Canada. (Revised: 2003-07-03).