From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: C++ and Gnu on a PC Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 18:21:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 474 (1) Bill Winder wants to compile Gnu C++ on a PC under a *NIX* OS. He could, in theory. The Gnu C++ configuration files do have the details for compiling on a 386 platform, and of course all Gnu stuff compiles well on the Sun 386i machine. But I suspect a 8086 or 80286 machine might present problems. Gnu C could be adapted for any machine code set in theory. It really depends on how much time you have, and how well you understand your chip. sebastian rahtz From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: obfuscation Date: Mon, 2 Jan 89 19:39:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 475 (2) Although all of us here are engaged in the humanities, we are hardly a monolithic group. Some are linguists, some biblical scholars, some literary critics, historians, etc. Within our unity there is a tremendous variety. And yet we still communicate fairly effectively. Occasionally, though, I notice letters which employ terminology that applies to a very specific humanistic discipline. Generally that discipline has something to do with literature. I have speculated often on why posters might write in this manner. Are they addressing people in their own field (effectively excluding the rest of us)? Or are they trying to display their command of certain terms and con- cepts? Perhaps they are simply forgetting that not all of us have the same extensive literary background. Every one of us here could launch into jargon if he or she so desired. Most don't. I believe that this is because our goal here is to unite people of diverse backgrounds. In general, the effort here has been to share knowledge rather than display it. Surely a term here and there might be employed out of pure laziness or oversight. I have to wonder, though, whether postings filled with literary conceits and allusions really serve the common good. -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer From: WIEBEM@QUCDN Subject: IZE (15 lines) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 16:14-0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 476 (3) I was very interested in the description of IZE that someone mentioned a while back; I sent for a demonstration copy, and it strengthened my interest. I am thinking of using it to manage a very large collection of Wordperfect files which are frequently revised. The context is a large edition (letters of Disraeli); I hope eventually to find a management program that will work with files that begin as mere entries identifying documents (Disraeli's letters) before they are even transcribed, but which then develop as the editorial work on the letters proceeds. The files eventually become the camera-ready copy that is sent to the press. What appeals to me about IZE is that it does not require the material to be formatted or re-entered according to its needs, and its flexibility does not require one to anticipate all the uses that will be made of the textual database that is developed. Are there people who have any knowledge of IZE that might be relevant to my interest? I would be very happy to hear from them, or from people who have found other systems that I should be looking at. M.G. Wiebe, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6 From: Subject: phonetic transcription of French text Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 09:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 478 (4) I am looking into automatic phonetic transcription of nineteenth century French poetry for a literary project. My starting point is the work done by Pratt and Silva, "PHONTRNS", CHum 1969; and more recently Nina Catach, La phonetisation automatique du francais, CNRS 1984. Can anyone help me out with suggestions or information about... - Similar projects on progress - Other programs in use or under development - Transcription programs modified to transcribe French poetry - An E-Mail address for Nina Catach - Sources for French poetry in machine readable form and - making our machine readable texts available to others I strongly believe that the mind functions best when it works in symbol systems which it is udes to. To this end I have insisted on CRT display of the International Phonetic Alphabet in my own programs. Does anyone work with commercial software which permits such a modified character set on PC-DOS machines using Herc+, EGA or VGA cards? I am thinking of a kind of TSR program which would allow any other software to have two keybords, display an altered character set, and print this changed character set. A program called "Turbofonts" does the basic job but the version I have used is very awkward. Thank you. Robert Ponterio Dept. of French Middlebury College PONTERIO@MIDD From: Prof. Yaacov Choueka Subject: AI Symposium Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 18:59:13 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 477 (5) Bar-Ilan Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 19-21 June 1989 Sponsored by the Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Bar-Ilan University, through its Center for Applied Logic and Artificial Intelligence (CALAI) of the Research Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is pleased to announce its first "Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence" to be held June 19-21, 1989. The Symposium will be international in scope, with invited lectures by several leading researchers from Israel and abroad. Although a small meeting is anticipated, with selected speakers and no parallel sessions, an attempt will be made to open attendance to all interested research scientists. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. AI SYMPOSUM. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Willard McCarty Subject: 15th supplement to the biographies Date: 4 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 479 (6) I would like to take this opportunity to express the delight I always seem to feel after editing a new batch of biographies. It is, of course, a relief to finish an overdue task (this time there are 28 of them!), but the largely clerical labour involved is made very light indeed by the infectious energy and enthusiasm most of the biographies express. I find the community of computing humanists to be especially interesting and congenial in comparison to other academic groupings I know. Perhaps this is because so little status is to be obtained among the mighty for being involved with computing, perhaps also because computing in the humanities naturally tends to attract a radically interdisciplinary group of practitioners. Then, too, computing is fun. Whatever the causes, the effect continues to be full of sap, though the wintry chill of unavoidable work periodically leads to spare silences. Let 10,000 forests foliate! Willard McCarty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Autobiographies of Humanists Fifteenth Supplement Following are 27 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the Humanist discussion group and 1 revised entry. Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Humanist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas.bitnet 4 January 1989 ================================================================= *Aichele, Klaus E. Prof., Department of Modern Languages, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn NY 11210. Telephone 212 877 3389. I was born in Germany in 1939 and have lived in New York since 1966. I have doctoral degrees in Classical Philology (Tuebingen l966) and in Comparative Literature (Columbia Un.l972). Books on Greek tragedy (Tuebingen l966) and on the drama of Antichrist in medieval and Renaissance literature (The Hague l974). Since l975 my interests have shifted to the theater, I have received solid training as an actor-singer-dancer, have participated in a number of Off-off Broadway productions and written two plays (unpublished). In l989 I will have a sabbatical that I would like to spend in North Africa with the goal of learning Arabic which I studied for two years about five years ago. I am interested in Computer software for the study of Arabic and in language institutes and schools in North Africa. ================================================================= *Anderson, Ivy Brandeis University Libraries, PO Box 9110, Waltham, MA 02254- 9110, (617) 736-4671 I am the Systems Librarian at Brandeis University, where I manage an automated library system and participate in long-range planning for information technology. Prior to 1985 I worked in the field of music librarianship (also at Brandeis), and I have a background in music history and theory, although I do not work actively in music at present. I am interested in knowing about the kinds of things scholars in the humanities are doing in the area of computer applications, and how computer systems are being used in general to support scholarly communication and research, as part of my role in trying to develop the kinds of information systems and services that scholars will need from academic libraries in the future. ================================================================= *Burt, John Department of English, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254, (617) 736-2158 I am an Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis, and I direct its Freshman Writing Program. My chief interests in computers are in supporting Freshman Writing. I also of course use both our mainframe at Brandeis and my computer at home for word processing and recordkeeping. I have recently published a book on Robert Penn Warren. I also have an interest in public domain programming for the cp/m operating system. I have put together out of public domain parts a word processing system which does just about everything I might want to do, and I have done some recreational programing in MBASIC and Small-C. ================================================================= *Cope, KEVIN L. Assistant (Associate Pending) Professor of English Literature, Department of English, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803-4001, U.S.A., (504) 388-2864 or (504) 388-5922 (offices), (504) 766-2719 (home and answering machine). Kevin L. Cope took his doctorate at Harvard University in 1983. Since that time, he has served on the faculty of the Department of English of Louisiana State University, specializing in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies. His interests and publications include genre theory, especially the theory of satire, relations between philosophy and literature, gothicism, Samuel Johnson, Scottish studies, political rhetoric, social contract theory, sentimentalism, and a variety of other topics in his field of specialization. Recently, he has taken an interest in comparative studies and comparative literature. Kevin Cope is a member of the American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, the Northeast Area Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Mississippi Philological Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, the International Comparative Literature Association, the International Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and the South-Central Modern Language Association. He reviews books in his area of expertise for the South-Central Review, the South Atlantic Quarterly, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, The Age Of Johnson, and Studies in the Novel. He is currently organizing conference sessions on extreme experience in the eighteenth century and on philosophical rhetoric in Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Shaftesbury. ================================================================= *Corre, Alan David Professor of Hebrew Studies, Department of Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA. (414) 229-4245 I was born in London, England May 2, 1931. I am married with four grown children. I came to live in the United States in 1955 and served for eight years as rabbi of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia. I received a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1962 from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1963 was appointed to the Hebrew Studies faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where I have remained ever since. My research interests include Semitic Linguistics and the history and culture of the Sephardic Jews. I am particularly interested in Judeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew characters) which spans both interests. I became interested in computer applications in the Humanities around 1975 when I visited Professor Alinei at the University of Utrecht to see his project on Italian. I decided to work on a computerized dictionary and chrestomathy of modern literary Judeo-Arabic, and this disk-based project has been completed. I learned a number of computer languages including Pascal, Lisp and Snobol-4. I have written a number of programs for instructional purposes in Hebrew, and have taught Pascal in faculty computer literacy programs. I have also worked summers for the Astronautics Corporation of America on such things as data flow analysis and writing procedures for software production. I have written a book on the Icon programming language which is scheduled for publication in April 1989. ================================================================= *Halteren, Hans Dept. of English OR Dept. of Language and Speech, University of Nijmegen, Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT Nijmegen, The Netherlands; telephone (NL) 080-512836 As computer science was not available as a main subject at the time, I studied mathematics. However, I threw in all the computer science courses that were given. Apart from being fun, this had another positive effect: I was offered a job as a computer scientist before I got my master's degree. The job was being the main worker on the Linguistic DataBase (LDB) project. This joint project of the computer science and the linguistics departments was to create a database for the storage and access of syntactic analyses trees of natural language utterances. As I thought it would be nice to work with computers and language (as well as just to work with computers, and even just to work), I took the job and thus became part of the TOSCA (originally abbreviation for TOols for Syntactic Corpus Analysis) group, the local corpus linguists. As you can guess from the name and from the job description above, the main focus of the group's work is syntactic analysis (i.e. full syntax trees, not just morphological tagging) of corpora (i.e. running texts with all those strange things people never produce when they are asked to provide example sentences). After about three years (I never believed the two years they planned) the LDB was pronounced complete, stable and available to the outside world (of course bug were discovered and fixed afterwards, and will be until the end of time, as the laws of software engineering teach us). It could store analysed corpora, let linguists view the analysis trees on their terminal (whatever type: vt100-like if lucky, adm if not) and contained a full query language for searching, counting, creating frequency tables etc. ... I'd better stop now ot I'll be rewriting all those nice descriptions sitting around; see eg. the Humanities Computing Yearbook for a short, the proceedings of ALLC86 for a medium or Linguistic Exploitation of Syntactic Databases (van Halteren and van den Heuvel, Rodopi, Amsterdam) for a long description. ... Now, after some more years, more than 40 universities all over the world have requested, been sent and (I hope) used the LDB. Meanwhile, back here developments went on. The LDB was transformed to the Computer Library of Utterances for Exercises in Syntax (CLUES). The query language was extended for the specification of student exercises, such as filling in categories removed from the analysis tree nodes or even rebuilding parts of the trees. The terminal interface also was extended, so that the student could do these exercises interactively. After the experiences with implementing these programs, together with lots of other, smaller, programs operating on analysis trees, I concluded that there was a real need for a development system for applications working on linked data, at least suitable for trees but preferably even nets. It should provide storage, search and terminal interfacing facilities and more. I coined the name STRIDER (Study of Tree Representable Information by Direct Exploratory Research, sorry, better forget that) for this project and am now working on it, hoping it will result in a Phd. for me and something useful for the world. All this means that my interests are: Primary interest: - large amounts of data with links between the items, eg. analysis trees, family relations, hypertext (let me know if you have/know of such data) Secondary interests: - compilation, analysis and exploitation of corpora - syntactic analysis of natural language Other interests: - everything else ================================================================= *Harpold, Terence Alan 420 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (USA), office: 215 898 6836; home: 215 386 5569 Education: September 1983-present: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. A.M. (Comparative Literature and Literary Theory), May, 1987. Currently working towards PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory. September 1982-June 1983: Universite de L'Etat de New York a Stony Brook, Programme de Philosophie et de Sciences Humaines (Paris IV), Paris, France. Courses in Philosophy (Paris IV), Linguistics (Paris III), Literary Theory (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris VII),and Sociology (Paris X). September 1977-May 1983: State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. B.A. (English), May 1983. Extensive coursework in Computer Science, Mathematics and Linguistics. Current research interests (dissertation topics?): The hysterical subject in the English sentimental novel; Psychoanalytic interpretation of non-linear narrative structures (i.e.,hypertext); Hypertext models of psychotic discourse. Lectures: 1. "The Dream of the Dead Father in the Scene of the Law: On Wilde's ." "Lacan, Language, and Literature." Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, May 26-29, 1988. 2. "'Did you get Mathilda from Papa?': Family Romance and the Circulation of Mary Shelley's Mathilda." (Program on "The Romantic Family", arranged by the Division of the English Romantic Period.) 1986 Convention of the Modern Languages Association of America. New York, NY, December 27-30, 1986. 3. "The Anatomy of Satire: Psychic Aggression and Satirical Physic in Gulliver's Travels." International Conference on Wit and Humor in Literature and the Visual Arts. West Georgia College, Atlanta, GA, 7-9 November 1986. 4. "'An object of terror and delight': Notes on a Privileged Signifier of Sexual Difference in Cleland's Fanny Hill ." Conference on Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Illinois State University, Normal, IL, May 1-3, 1986. Publications: 1. "'Wilde's Incision': Murder, Sacrifice and the Fading of the Subject." Forthcoming (Fall 1989) in collection of selected essays from Kent State University conference, Fall 1988. 2. "'Did you get Mathilda from Papa?':Seduction Fantasy and the Circulation of Mary Shelley's Mathilda." Studies in Romanticism (Forthcoming, Spring 1989). Other: Independent consultant for Macintosh (hardware, software, instruction), specializing in custom Hypercard design and programming. ================================================================= *Harris, Judi Teacher-LINK Coordinator, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, 292 Ruffner Hall, 405 Emmet Street, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A. (804) 924-7471 Hello! I am the coordinator for a teacher telecommunications network called Teacher-LINK that is a cooperative effort between IBM and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. We link professors, supervising teachers in public schools, student teacher interns, university student teaching supervisors, and public school students electronically through remote use of mainframe computers from classrooms and homes. Our participants share lesson plans, solve practical problems, share resource information, engage their astudents in international correspondence, even help public school students to electronically correspond with novels' protagonists and historical figures by using electronic mail and conferencing in a variety of innovative ways. My job is to function as the facilitative liason between the school of education, where I am completing my doctoral work in Instructional Teachnology, and the area public schools. All of our participants have BitNet access, and we would love to hear from those of you that would like to correspond with them! I came to the University in the fall of 1986 to do doctoral work and teach graduate courses in instructional computing. Before then, I was an elementary school classroom teacher (6th grade), elementary math and computer specialist, and adjunct professor for six years in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. In 1981, I became involved with teaching the Logo programming language to students and teachers as a specialist, graduate instructor, and computer consultant. I've written a monthly column for a national publication called LOGO Exchange since September 1986 that offers ways in which Logo use can be integrated into traditional subject study in elelmentary and middle schools. Now I also write a Logo column for a national educational computing journal called The Computing Teacher. My dissertation, is, of course, a study involving Logo. It is a qualitative study of the scope and depth of cross-referencable information that can be culled from upper-elementary students' drawings done with Logo, a touch-sensitive graphics tablet, and crayons. I hope to finish it in December of 1989. My non-academic interests include folk music, metaphysics, and undoing racism. ================================================================= *Harris, Tim Assistant Professor, History Department, Box N, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912. U.S.A. Tel: (401) 863 2131 My research is into religion, party politics, popular politics and popular culture in late seventeenth-century England. My book, London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II, came out in 1987, and I am currently working on a study of Britain in the First Age of Party, 1660-1714. Before coming to Brown, I was a research fellow at Emmanuel College Cambridge. ================================================================= *Hawthorne, Mark Professor of English, Department of English, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, (703) 568- 6655 office, (703) 886-0576 (home) Most recent publications: _Spanish Business Letters_, with Howard Cohen, an interactive MSDOS program written in Turbo Pascal, November 1988. _Checker_, a style and mechanics checker for Advanced Composition, an interactive MSDOS program written in Turbo Pascal and used with WordPerfect 4.x, August 1988. _Review_, a grammar and style review for Remedial Composition, an interactive MSDOS program written in Turbo Pascal and used with Diana Hacker's _Rules for Writers_ in our computer composition lab, June 1988. Most recent activities: Running the Computer Composition Lab, a part of the English Department's composition program, December 1986 to now. Seminar on Seminars, an interdisciplinary project developing materials and software for a university wide and cross cultural course in Liberal Studies. Scholarly areas not referenced above: Earlier in my career I published on Maria Edgeworth, the O'Hara brothers, the young Browning, and Anglo- Irish literature before 1850. Later my attention shifted to computer composition and James Joyce, a strange pair of bedfellows. I earlier helped to develop Humanities curricula in Florida (Jacksonville University), a background that I am using now in work with the Liberal Studies program here at JMU. I have spent the last twenty-five years teaching a wide variety of courses in the humanities--from such literature courses as those dealing with Finnegans Wake and prosody to such humanities courses as graduate seminars on Wagner and Verdi and in comparative arts. ================================================================= *Heberlein, Friedrich University, Slf, D-8o78 Eichstatt, W.Germany. I am a lecturer in classics, my work focusses on Latin linguistics. The computer activities of our institute are about compiling databases on Latin word history and running (and, hopefully, enlarging) a morphosyntactic coded computer corpus of Latin texts. ================================================================= *Hernandez, Nicolas Jr. I hold the B.A., Summa Cum Laude, with majors in French and Spanish from Iona College. I hold the M.A. in Hispanic literature from Cornell University and the Ph.D. also from Cornell, Field of Romance Studies, major in Hispanic lit. and minor in comparative lit. As an undergraduate I wrote my honors thesis on the Comparative Origins of French and Spanish Romanticism. My doctoral dissertation is entitled "Una aproximacion a la estetica de Larra como articulista"(1982). My main specialty is Spanish peninsular lit. of the 19 and 20th centuries. As a comparatist I am interested in the European novel since since realism, and in poetry since symbolism, and in literary relations between Spanish American modernismo The aforegoing description might sound stuffy, but I guess it is a formality of the application process in academe. Allow me to reserve the right to make it less pompous in the future. I teach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I am supervisor of the Modern Languages Computer Laboratory. I have published in applied linguistics and literary criticism in various journals. I have also spoken at conferences on these fields. I established a new department at ISAAC (Information System for Advanced Academic Computing): The Languages & Linguistics Room. ISAAC is operated by the University of Washington-Seattle, and it is funded by IBM. I have written reviews for CALICO Journals (Computer Assisted Language Learning & Instruction Consortium. I am also an avid contributor to FLEFO at CompuServe (Foreign Language Education Forum). I have worked on a couple of television and radio programs, and I am very interested in advanced technologies in higher education (SCOLA at Creighton University, for example). I love music and I am not a bad keyboard person. I am also interested in graphic arts, especially printmaking and some painting. I work mostly with Spanish and French, but I am also interested in Italian, Portuguese, Latin and some German. I have struggled with Esperanto (there is a neat community of Esperantists at FLEFO) but without much success. I guess I speak BASIC thanks mostly to Clive Sinclair's revolutionary ZX81 machine. I am interested in concordance-making and in computer modeling of language structures. ================================================================= *Hollander, Robert or Professor in European Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 After a literature major (French & English) at Princeton, a Comp. Lit. doctorate at Columbia (1962), I have taught in the Departments of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at Princeton since 1962. My area of special interest is the Italian fourteenth century. Almost all of my scholarly publications have dealt with Dante and Boccaccio (some 7 books and three dozen articles). I became interested in the application of the resources of computing to my own work at Dartmouth College when I taught there in the summer of 1982. The Dartmouth Dante Project is the most tangible sign of that interest. It is a database of sixty commentaries on the COMMEDIA which will "open" in October of 1988 with twenty or more commentaries running. The database will be on-line starting then--at least that is our plan. The administrator of the database is Jonathan Altman: is his e-mail address. If we can find the necessary funds, we hope to finish editing the commentaries by 1991. While this project has taken (and will continue to take) a considerable amount of my time, I hope also to be involved in other projects of a similar sort, and would like to be of aid to those who hope to develop computing resources in the Humanities. I should add that I am not particularly skilled in the art of talking about this remarkably powerful addition to our competence as teachers and scholars, and am probably too old and too involved in my studies to become "computer-literate" in any meaningful way. Nonetheless, I am a true believer, and already spend a certain amount of time trying to get my colleagues interested in what computers will mean to their future, and to that of their discipline. ================================================================= *Jennings, Edward M. English, State University of New York at Albany. I was a charter subscriber to CHum, originated NEMLA "computer" section, am interested in literature and science, have taught writing via terminals-mainframe-network (without paper). ================================================================= *Keller, Michael A. Associate University Librarian for Collection Development, Yale University Library, P.O. Box 1603A, Yale Station, (130 Wall Street/ 118 Sterling Memorial Library) New Haven, CT 06520 USA 203-432-1763 Present occupation: senior library adminstrator with responsibility for overseeing collection development in a major research library and general responsibility for participating in the administration of that library on all fronts. B.A. Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. (1967 -- Music, Biology) M.A. SUNY/Buffalo (1971 -- Musicology) M.L.S. SUNY/Geneseo (1972 -- Academic librarianship) [Ph. D. SUNY/Buffalo (ABD -- Italian instrumental music of the late Renaissance)] Employed as Music Librarian and Lecturer at Cornell and UC/Berkeley. Visiting instructor at Stanford University in music bibliography. (1973-86) Co-director of Italian Music and Lyric Poetry of the Renaissance, a multi-national project attempting to develop full text data bases of poetic texts and musical texts (poetry in a poetry file and musical text in a parallel file) in order to: 1. define the extent of the literature, a purely bibliographic and indexing endeavor; 2. using a variety of SPIRES tools investigate the practice of parody and imitation in these art forms; in the case of poety consider the relationships of rhetorical and/or structural elements to meangin; in the case of music attempt to define tune families; 3. To date, about 16,000 poems have been entered into the data base; a total of apx. 484,000 more remain to be entered; we are still exploring the ways music needs to be coded so that the SPIRES algorithms can be applied in ways parallel to those used on the poetic texts; 4. the Italian part of the project has developed from about 25 incipitari a single, collated incipitari of perhaps 100,000 poems; the source incipitari are in manuscript form; 5. a number of grants and donations have permitted the project to continue for the past 3 years; the largest single grant was from the NEH. I am engaged in a small number of musicological and musico- bibliographical investigations using IBM PC/ATs to store and manipulate information. I am a constant and reasonably fluent user of the RLIN bibliographic data base. As a collection development officer, I am quite concerned that my library and the humanists it serve are very much up to date in what is occurring in the field. Yale is a very traditional place, but there are many here who are already engaged in humanistic research using computers. I have made a point of discovering what is underway around the world, not necessarily to purchase data sets, but to able to provide information to those who may not have the knowledge of what is being pursued beyond the Yale campus. Because of my role as a bibliographer, a reviewer and panalist for the NEH, and my interest in the retrospective conversion of card catalogs to machine readable form, I am reasonably up to date with developments in the commercial world applicable to humanistic research in general. ================================================================= *LaCure, Jon 103 E. Southern Dr. Bloomington, IN 47401 (812) 332-3101 I'm currently working on a dissertation in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Indiana University. The topic is: "Sound, sense and structure in the Kokinshu: an analysis using the Icon programming language." The Kokinshu is an early 10th century Japanese poetry anthology of about 1100 short (31 syllable) poems. So far I'm mostly doing lexical analysis (alliteration, vowel usage, etc.). I also recently became involved in the Tibetan Union Catalog Project. This is a grant funded project to produce a bibliography of IU's Tibetan holdings. We are still working on a test tape but when the records are stripped from the library's OCLC archive tape, the plan is to use Icon to clean up the tapes, sort, delete duplicates, and explode the remaining records to produce separate entries for all subjects and names. To pay the bills I work at the IU library as a Japanese cataloger and doing acquisitions work with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials. In the library we are using Icon to run the user interface (log, announcements, registration, etc.) for a BBS providing dial access to a CD-ROM database. --From: Confessions of an Icon Addict. ================================================================= *Lockyear, Kris 123, Adelaide Road, St Denys, Southampton, UK. I am an archaeologist. I did my first degree at The University of Durham and am now studying for a M.Sc. in archaeological computing at the University of Southampton. My main interests lie in later Roman archaeology and numismatics. ================================================================= *Mabry, Don. Professor of History, Mississippi State University, Miss State, MS 39762 Land mail: P.O. Box 1096, Mississippi State, MS 39762 Telephones: office: (601)325-7084; home/computer: (601) 323-6852 Speciality: 20th century Mexico (books written on PAN, UNAM, and US-Mex relations, plus articles. Current research and writing: Latin American narcotics trade. Second academic interest: History of US rhythm & blues, early rock'n'roll as reflection of social change. Also, interest in the role of reason in humanistic studies. Have son in Marburg, W. Germany and another in Kansas. ================================================================= *Milikowsky, Chaim F12016@BARILAN Talmud Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel I have been teaching Talmud at Bar Ilan University for the past eleven years, and also teach Talmud at the Jerusalem Campus of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. I use computers extensively in my personal work, mainly, of course, word processing (Nota Bene). I am involved in several computer projects, one inputting manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud into computer format and developing collation programs, and the other a large index to citations of rabbinic in medieval and modern Jewish literature. I would be happy to give more information to anyone interested. Most of my experience is with micros, including networks, and use the mainframe at Bar Ilan mainly for BITNET, etc. I find the mainframe staff not very helpful to Humanities people, very much behind the situation in the States. Am interested in text collation, text retrieval, text storage, word processing, i.e. the computer as tool on the boundary between quantitative and qualitative change. Very unenamoured of computer as revolutionary. ================================================================= *Oksa, Jukka Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, P.O.Box 111 80101, Joensuu, Finland I am researcher (sociologist) doing work on rural agricultural and forestry communities. They are located in periphery of Finland, one could say in periphery of Europe. I am interested in the possibilies and threats that new information systems may bring to people living in remote areas. Secondly, in addition to my research work, I am running a training and support project for humanists and social scientists of our university to introduce them into use of BITNET. I have organised introductory courses of BITNET and maintain an userid for questions&answers and other information for beginners. In my net there are several linguists, sociologists, economists, psychologists, and experts of social policy. Besides being myself interested in socially meaningful use of these new devices of communication, I would like to introduce HUMANIST network to my group. I have studied social sciences at universities of Helsinki and Tampere, and worked for over ten years as reseache at University of Joensuu, mostly in Karelian Institute, doing regional research, and recently rural studies. My intertwined professional interests and hobbies are (too) various, from social movements and remote communities to third world development problems, politics, sci-fi, cinema, daughter (20 yrs), her mother, some friends, and computer networking. ================================================================= *Peebles, Christopher Spalding Director, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, 9th and Fess Streets, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA, (812) 855-9544, -6274 Christopher Spalding Peebles is Director of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology at Indiana University. He also is a member of the Department of Anthropology and the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies at that institution. He is a 'corresponding member' of the Albert Egges van Giffen Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Amsterdam and an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of Alabama. Professor Peebles received the AB in anthropology and philosophy from the University of Chicago and the PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught at the University of Windsor, Canada and the University of Michigan. He was curator of the Division of Great Lakes at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. He has been a visiting associate professor at Northwestern, Northern Illinois, Indiana, and the Pennsylvania State University. He was visiting Professor of Cultural Prehistory at the University of Amsterdam. His scholarly interests include the later prehistory of the Southeastern United States and the Iron Age of northern Europe. He has maintained an interest in database and management information systems over the last three decades. His first work with computers was in 1959, on an IBM 709 owned by his employer, the U.S. Air Force. His recent research in this area includes the construction of intelligent knowledge based management systems and the application of expert systems and other techniques from artificial intelligence to archaeological research. One of his current projects involves the emulation of early hominid cognition with the aid of a frame-based production system. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has served as a consultant to several state and federal agencies and to the J. Paul Getty Trust. ================================================================= *Pulli, Joe I am currently working on a Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and am fairly new to computing. My areas of interest are primarily in the field of forensics, more specifically competency and insanity defense evaluations. My dissertation will focus on the determination of criminal responsibility and how attribution theory might help in the understanding of that process. I have both a bachelor's and master's degree in social work, a master's degree in adult education, and worked for two years on a Ph.D. in sociology. My area of interest while in sociology was ethnomethodology. The Ph.D. program in which I am currently involved places much emphasis upon the use of computers in research and I am rapidly gaining experience with SAS and SPSSX. I would like to be involved in a discussion group that deals with more than just the statistical applications of computing and hope that your group may be the answer. ================================================================= *Reed, John Shelton Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of American Studies, and Director, Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3355, USA, (919) 962-0781 I've written a good deal about the society and culture of the U.S. South, particularly in the 20th century. Recently I've published a couple of articles and I'm working on a book about the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Victorian Church of England. I am a sociologist by training, but find that I'm interested in applying sociological concepts and methods to topics usually regarded as historical. I've directed seminars for the (U.S.) National floor, Endowment for the Humanities, and presently sit on the NEH council. As president of the Southern Sociological Society, I've made the theme of our 1989 meetings "Sociology, the Arts, and the Humanities," and I was on the American Sociological Association committee that prepared a report for the ACLS on sociology as a humanistic discipline. I guess I saying that although humanists might not recognize me as one of their own, to sociologists I look like a humanist. ================================================================= *Ridings, Daniel University of Gothenburg, Department of Computational Linguistics, S-412 98 Gothenburg, Sweden, telephone: +46 31 634553 I am employed part-time at the above address. The rest of my time is spend at the same university though at the Dept. of Classics/Greek. I am working towards my dissertation in Greek. The dissertation is nearing the end. At the Dept. of Computational Linguistics I work as a systems analyst for the departments projects in lexicography with a slant towards bilingual dictionaries. The works in progress at this point are Swedish/Greek (Modern), Swedish/Kurdic (northern dialect), Swedish/Viet., and Swedish/Farsi. ================================================================= *Sandys-Wunsch, John. Provost, Thorneloe College, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ont. P3E 2C6. 705-673-1730 (office) 705-674-3286 (home). My basic competence is in Bible, both Hebrew Bible and New Testament. I have of late become interested in the history of exegesis, especially in the 18th century. This has led me to wider considerations of the history of western thought in the modern period and in particular to criticisms of the basic assumptions of much of our cultural and political life. As head of a liberal arts college I have to consider both the realities and the theory of humanistic studies in the age of the silicon chip. (I might add I also enjoy computers but agree with Theodore Rozak). In particular I would like to hear from anyone exploring the nature of public theology (e.g. ideas of Max Stackhouse, Parker Palmer, et al). ================================================================= *Tucker, Charles W. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 (803) 777-3123; 1714 Maplewood Drive, Columbia SC 29205, (803) 254-0136. I was born 7/31/1937 in Flint, Michigan and spend my first nineteen years there until I went to California to attend college (Whittier College, 1960) then returned to Michigan State University (MA, 1963; PHD, 1966) and came to USC-Columbia in 1966. Except for three years at Emory University, Dept. of Psychiatry (1968-71) I have been in this department. I have continued my interest which developed in graduate school with my colleagues McPhail (UIUC), Brymer (McMasters), Waisanen (MSU), and Stewart (USC-C) of trying to develop an answer to the question: How is society possible? This question as you may notice is credited to Simmel but I have found George Mead, John Dewey, Herbert Blumer, Erving Goffman and other symbolic interactionists/behaviorists/pragmatists to be most helpful in my attempts to formulate an answer to this question. More recently I have found the work of Bob Stewart, Morse Peckham, Bill Powers, Gregory Bateson, David Willer and several of my friends to be useful. This interest in human behavior has led my to an approach that I would consider to be humanist. At times it is as simple as saying that "people" must be taken into account in solving problems to proposing a drastic recon- struction of human group life is required to solve our societal problems. I am firmly convinced that the pragmatic approach, as put forth by Dewey, Mead and Blumer, the most reasonable way to devise solutions our problems. It is most unfortunate that very few people approach problems in this manner and find that empiricism, positivism and political expediency to their liking. The Enlightenment doctrine has given rise to these procedures and they are firmly entrenched in our liberal arts disciplines. Unless the disciplines are transformed there will be very little support for a pragmatic approach and in my view we will continue to create our own problems with little chance for meaningful, fair and honest solutions. I look forward to hearing from anyone who has anything to say about the issues, questions and problems with my view and proposals. I have come to view the computer and its related culture pragmatically; how can these matters be put to use to move toward solving my problems? If I find that any of these matters become more complicated or, even worse, become an end in themselves, I will abandon them; throw out the computer and all of its "stuff" and find another way to proceed. I always try to keep that thought in front of me; I want the computer ( or whatever) to serve my interests! I have found that the computer has served an number of interests in terms of efficiency, record keeping, writing, rewriting and now I want to see if it can help me with more that these matters. First, I am interested in finding out if through simulation I can model very simple sequential interaction that occur between human organisms. If these simulations can "test" some notions about human interaction without bothering other human beings to perform the instructions that can be simulated then that might be useful. I think that much of the existing experimental work is so simple (some even simplistic) that simulations can serve the same purpose. Second, I would like to find out if programs can be written where people can actually interact meaningful with a computer and actually learn information beyond the most simple exercises. I have recently found several programs in sociolgy (called "Sociology on a Disk") that I think have great promise but they require adequate testing and may require modification to become useful. If anyone knows about such programs from their own use, please tell me! Third, several of my colleagues are thinking about extending the one person interacting with a program on a computer to several people interacting with each other with several computers and their programs. Initially, our ideas are generated from experiments of face-to-face interaction which we want to modify by have the persons interact with another through a computer whose program we will construct so as to control and perhaps modify the communication content and form. This is an extention of simulation. Again, any help would be appreciated. Finally, for now, all of these matters present problems of proper hardware and software and especially programming. We want to see if we can make any dent in the compatibility problem. We have to be able to move quickly and simply from one language to another; one machine to another; one program to another. This is quite a challenge. ================================================================= *Wang, Jude Wang Manager, Humanities Computing Facility, c/o English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 U.S.A., (602) 965- 2679 I manage a PC-lab supporting faculty and graduate students in the departments of English and Foreign Languages. Mostly this means word-processing and some text analysis programs. My academic training was in linguistics rather than computers. I would like to know more about what one can do with computers in the humanities. ================================================================= *Whittaker, Brian Assistant Professor, Department of English, Atkinson College, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3, (416) 736-5098 Major disciplinary interests: stylistic analysis, philology, literary history, linguistic history. Major fields: Old English (Anglo-Saxon); Sixteenth Century; Canadian. Much of what I do is interdisciplinary (as opposed to multi- disciplinary). For example, a colleague and I are currently engaged in a seminar on the reformation of the tenth century in England, combining historical linguistics literary criticism, genre theory, institutional history, liturgical history, art history, aesthetic theory and theory of design. I have developed an introductory course for the Canadian Studies Programme at Atkinson College in which students learn to combine the theoretical foundations, methodologies and data from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, literary criticism history and engineering to analyse selected topics, including the Jesuit mission at Midland, the CPR and the development of Toronto over the last two centuries. For many years I taught a course on Aesthetic Theory and Photographic Technique that combined a survey of aesthetics from Plato to Cassirer with the history of photography and a thorough training in lab technique, including desnsitometry and the Zone System. I am currently preparing for publication a book on sentence structure and style in the Old English poem Beowulf. I have produced two text books by way of what is now called Desk Top Publishing. The first is on stylistic analyusis at the grammatical level and the second is a manual for English students on how to write essays of literary analysis. *****END***** From: Daniel Ridings Subject: Brown Corpus Date: 5 Jan 89 10:12:00 EST (Thu) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 1 (7) I, on the behalf of a colleague, have a question concerning a text (J21) in the Brown Corpus. In the text one can read "...requires that there be a line through ?1 which meets ?2 in ?3 points..." In our text we have a P-with-underscore for ?1, an up-arrow followed by g for ?2, and a square box for ?3. On the microfiche the lines on which these "words" occur are "J21 1250 9" and "J21 1270 2" in case that helps in identifying the passages. Daniel Ridings From: Richard Giordano Subject: Dubliners Date: Thu, 05 Jan 89 13:00:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 2 (8) Someone at Princeton University is looking for a copy of Joyce's _Dubliners_ in machine-readable form. Does anyone out there have a copy that we can acquire relatively quickly? Feel free to call me directly at 609-452-6009. Richard Giordano Princeton University From: Kris Lockyear Subject: Roman baths Date: 4 January 1988 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 481 (9) [Apologies to K.L. and others interested in this subject for the delay in publishing the following announcement. It was hidden inside a biography and remained unnoticed until yesterday! -- W.M.] This is an announcement about Roman Baths - reconstruction and conference. At Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England a Roman bath-house attached to a villa was excavated in the early 1970's. It was preserved in a vault under the motorway and is now open to the public. Tony Rook, the excavator, is now hoping to build a reconstruction of the baths. This is not to be a tourist attraction primarily, although this is an obvious secondry use, but a serious experiment in construction. We are hoping to build the replica using as close as is possible the original formula for the mortar, the 'opus signinum', as close as possible to the original vaulting techniques, wall construction, interior decor etc. The baths when completed would be fired and the wood consumed linked to the figures for copiced wood in the area collected by the excavator over the last ten years. Anyone interested in helping on this project, especially if they have any ideas about raising funds should contact either me (JANET address ayp104@uk.ac.soton.ibm) or Tony Rook at 23 Mill Lane, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England. THE CONFERENCE We are hoping to hold a conference on Roamn Baths at Welwyn in the Autumn of 1989. Anyone who would like to attend, or who would like to give a paper ON ANY ASPECT of Roman Baths, anywhere in the Empire, should contact me or Tony on the above addresses. Further information, in the form of a prospectus, is available. Please pass this information around to anyone who might be interested in our project. Kris Lockyear University of Southampton From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: IPA alphabet Date: Fri, 6 Jan 89 11:55:25 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 482 (10) I would suggest looking at the Duke Language Toolkit for an IPA alphabet. I don't know whether one is included; but one of our graduate students has used it to develop a version which suits his purposes. Peter Batke (now at the U. of Maryland (L64A3779@JHUVM.bitnet) can give more information. Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: phonetic transcription of French (40) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 89 21:09:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 483 (11) I have two suggestions that may not really be what you are after, but you never know. On the matter of fonts, screen display and printing, it is fairly easy to create new characters or even whole fonts on the Macintosh using a commercial program called Fontastic (from Altsys). Because both screen display and printing are dealt with as bit-mapped graphics on the Macintosh, no extra gadgets are required once you have created your characters or have found them. I am certain that there is a international phonetic font available as either shareware or freeware, but I can't offhand remember the source... I believe it is on one of the disks from Educomp. If you're interested I could track it down. Anyway, the question really is how committed you are to DOS at this point and whether the Macintosh offered sufficient advantages for display, printout and recognition to make it worth considering the expense and work of changing systems. (Much of my own work is with stylistic analysis of Old English poetry, and I designed a set of Old English characters which I then inserted in one of the standard Macintosh fonts.) The other suggestion is probably a cold scent, but twenty years ago (when I was last doing anything serious with phonetics) Pierre Leon had a team of researchers at The University of Toronto doing phonetic research on nineteenth century French poetry using a roomful of high-tech acoustic hardware. I have lost touch so I don't know what if anything is going on there now. You're probably more up to date than I am on that issue but, as I said at the start, you never know. Brian Whittaker English Department Atkinson College York University Downsview, Ontario, CANADA From: Richard Furuta Subject: Preliminary Announcement/Electronic Publishing '90 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 89 13:11:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 3 (12) [Taken with thanks from IRList 5.4] Preliminary Conference Announcement EP90---Electronic Publishing '90 EP90, an international conference on electronic publishing, document manipulation, and typography, will be held in mid-September, 1990, in the Washington, DC area on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards). An associated exhibition will provide an opportunity for participants to see commercial and research systems in action. [material omitted] As with its predecessors, EP90 will adopt a broad definition of ``electronic publishing.'' In short, electronic publishing will be taken to encompass all aspects of computer-assisted preparation, presentation, transmittal, storage, and retrieval of documents. The scope of the conference also includes the design of the related computer systems, the design of their components, and the theory that underlies such systems. Both linear and non-linear documents are appropriate subjects for discussion. The conference definitely will be oriented to new ideas and techniques, although careful presentation of important earlier results inadequately described in the open literature is also appropriate. Papers should present previously unpublished original research results and should be well-grounded in experience. A partial list of topics includes: - Document preparation systems: design, concepts, and experience. - Document component identification and manipulation. - Hypertext systems, particularly those that provide additional insights on the characteristics of these systems. - Font design and use: design and evaluation of computer-based tools, techniques and goals, visual issues. - Representations specialized for electronic display: fonts, presentations, etc. - Page description languages. - Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of document preparation systems. - Critical analyses of proposed and established international standards. Experience with standards. - Managing the complexities introduced by scale. Scaling up to large documents. - Hardware-environment issues: Printers, displays, networks, workstations. - Distributed document manipulation systems (in the sense of distributed processing). - Specialized documents (e.g., catalogs, programs, manuals, and proposals), with insight into how they differ from generic documents. - Text and document recognition (recognition of physical and/or logical structure from a printed document). - Heterogeneous target reader populations (e.g., multi-lingual). - Application of database technology to document preparation - Integration of documentation tools with other tools, e.g., CASE, CAD-CAM. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. EP90 CONFRNCE. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "Bernard Rous (Associate Director of Publications)" Subject: ACM and Hypertext Date: Sat, 7 Jan 89 13:11:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 4 (13) [Taken with thanks from IRList 5.3] ACM has produced its first hypertext publication called "Hypertext on Hypertext." (It is available from ACM for IBM pcs, Macs, Suns and Apollos. For more information call 1-800-342-6626.) ACM is now planning to produce a series of hypertext publications. ACM is looking for vendors who are interested in working with ACM in a hypertext publishing venture. An rfp has been prepared and is being mailed out. If you are such a vendor or know of one who would like to receive the rfp, please let ACM know immediately. Bernard Rous Associate Director of Publications ACM 11 West 42 Street New York, NY 10036 e-mail: Rous-CR at ACMVM.bitnet From: Eslinger@UNCAMULT.BITNET Subject: IPA fonts and font editors Date: Fri, 6 Jan 89 20:46 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 485 (14) For the Mac there is already a nice IPA font available from Linguist's Software" (see any MacConnection ad [aka PCConnection] for good price & easy availability). For the PC, the FED editor in the Duke Language Toolkit will do a nice, easy job of it. Lyle Eslinger UNCAMULT (U. of Calgary) From: Ronnie de Sousa Subject: logical/mathematical characters for PCs Date: Mon, 09 Jan 89 14:26:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 486 (15) Several people kindly replied to my query about logical symbols ON IBM PCS (ESPECIALLY USING NOTABENE). HERE IS A DIGEST OF REPLIES, with occasional quotations, and addresses of senders in brackets. Since there were so many replies to my specific problem, I have not included recommendations for such packages as Lotus Manuscript or LATEX, which don't give you WYSIWYG ON THE SCREEN, though they do allow you to print those. In my experience, you get used to those, but why bother if you don't have to? The key to the answer seems to be the Hercules Graphics Card PLUS recommended by several people: "NB interfaces extremely well with the card, and you can easily design any special characters you want with it. It can handle up to 3,000 characters or more. But it it offers no solution to the problem of printing them out. For that, you might look at a program called FONTMAX (ISS, 3463 State St., Suite 283 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; 805-964-9671.) [Ron Zweig ]; Stan Beeler , has written a character generator for printers that works with the Hercules card; Sterling Bjorndahl Claremont, California BJORNDAS CLARGRAD, gives a qualified endorsement for Turbofonts "a TSR package that works with nearly all MS-DOS word processors and printers. It requires an EGA, VGA, or Hercules Plus card, or one of their special print PROMs if you don't have graphics. List price is $US220 for Turbofonts with Laser printer support. Turbofonts is available from Image Processing Software, Inc P.O. Box 5016 Madison, Wisconsin 53705 Phone them at 601-233-5033 for a brochure." "Another excellent, but less flexible program is ChiWrite, a $120 (US) scientific and mathematical wordprocessor. ChiWrite comes in a basic version with add-on modules for foreign-languages, 24- pind laser printer support, and Hercules or EGA video support. For about $140 (US) you can have a fully configured program which will even write Hebrew right to left on screen. It is available from Paraclete Software, 1000 E. 14th St., Suite 187, Plano, Texas 75074". [Ian M. Richmond, Department of French, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. 519-661- 2163 Ext 5703 also IMR@UWOVAX.BITNET] Harry Gaylore also recommends Chi-writer. JEK%NBS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (JOHN E. KOONTZ, NBS 714 (BOULDER), 303-497-5180/FTS 320-5180) RECOMMEND T3 (TCUBED) AND write: "It runs in graphics mode to get good screen characters. It has nice menus and a nice logical organization, but a rather inferior text editing facility, reminiscent of WordMARC. It doesn't do much with logical organization of text, but does support footnotes, etc. It was initially designed to run under early DOS, and doesn't pay much attention to paths and SUBDIRECTORIES. LIKE NB OF TWO EDITIONS BACK IT DOES ALL THAT for you. T3 includes extensive facilities for designing new characters for the screen and printer, and for integrating them in alphabets and keyboards. In short, T3 has both good and bad points. One major competitor is called Techwriter. Its handling of the mathematical symbols is about comparable to T3. I don't know much about the rest of it. T3 and Techwriter let you type equations by keying each symbol in its appropriate place. Exotic symbols are entered with macros. In T3 the name of the macro happens to be the name of the TeX character, though the manual doesn't mention this. The import of this is that you do your own layout. On the other hand, Lotus Manuscript and Ventura Desktop Publisher both have equation modes based on typing and editing the equations in with a metalanguage reminscent of TeX. The results are displayed and printed as equations, with the package doing the layout. There is also an add-on package by Technical Support Software of Brookline, MA. It works with various word processors, but I don't know about XyWrite/Nota Bene. Apart from the blurb in my files, I have some literature, but it is in circulation, and I can't lay my hands on it at the moment. I believe it works somewhat like Manuscript. The phone number of the company is (617) 734-4160." I (RDS) SHD ADD THAT T3 FILES ARE COMPLETELY UNDREADABLE BY DOS, WHICH CAN SOMETIMES BE A DRAG. ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF NB IS THAT IS PRODUCES CLEAN ASCII FILES. Bill Winder (416) 960-9793 WINDER@UTOREPAS reports seeing an ad in Byte magazine for Math Cad, by MathSoft. Should get anything you want on the screen. (Check the advertiser index in any recent Byte.) Others also mentioned TEX or TECH specialized mathematics software, as well as one called EXP, ($120) Wadsworth & Brooks- Cole, 511 Forest Lodge Rd., Pacific Grove, CA 93950, said by Jed Buchwald to be superior to T3. These are complete packages, as I understand it, rather than ones that work with other text processors. HOPING THIS MIGHT BE OF HELP TO SOMEONE ELSE, MANY THANKS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF THIS INFORMATION. Ronnie de Sousa Department of Philosophy University of Toronto TORONTO, ONT., CANADA M5S 1A1 TEL: 416-923-6987 (H) 978-6789(O) From: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Mon, 9 JAN 89 11:12:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 5 (16) The Oxford Text Archive has had a request for machine-readable versions of the works of Immanuel Kant 'preferably in German and indexed according to the standard Akademie edition' from a Professor at Drury College, Missouri. If anyone has any information on the availability of such texts, or knows of anyone contemplating their preparation please let us know at the Archive and we will pass on the information. Many thanks Judith Proud, Oxford Text Archive. Archive@uk.ac.oxford.vax From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: Duke Univ. Language Toolkit Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 14:43 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 6 (17) There used to be a bulletin board run at Duke which had hundreds of "Toolkit" fonts on it. Many for the HP LaserJet too. Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, etc. I have found it impossible to log on recently. Does anyone know definitively if the BBS has been withdrawn, or relocated? Dominik From: Subject: Social Darwinism and Cultural Calvinism Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 10:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 7 (18) I'm hoping someone can recommend a good, recent book or article to serve as a review on the topics of "social Darwinism" and/or "cultural Calvinism." I am looking for something that reflects current state(s) of thinking in these areas and that will allow me to move backward through the older literature (I'm already aware, in an unsystematic way, of such classics as the books by Max Weber, R. H. Tawney, and R. Heilbronner). If you reply to me individually, I'll summarize back to the list if the response warrants. Jim Cerny, University Computing, University of New Hampshire From: STAIRS@vm.epas.utoronto.ca Subject: OCR Scanners Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 09:50:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 488 (19) The CCH here at U.of Toronto has some money to spend on a scanner and some companion software. What we have won't buy us the scanner and all the software we might need. My question is whether any of our fellow Humanists have looked into/bought a scanner recently. I have been told by someone that he felt the HP Scanjet would be the standard for all other scanners much the same way the HP LaserJet was the non-postscript standard for laser printers. The Scanjet only offers 16 shades of gray scale. There are other scanners out on the market that offer 256 shades. This is not a factor for text recognition but matters if you want to scan in pictures and diagrams as well as text. Do people think gray-scale is a selling point? The state of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software is changing rapidly. As it stands now there are software packages available which can read read typeset, laser printed, accented text. There are packages that can be trained. But rumor has it, the glossy pictures and catchy sales pitches that come with the software are *slightly* enhancing the picture. I was wondering if anyone out there has been able/willing to read through the lines and distinguish the reality from the illusion (not allusion, Willard). HELP... A computationally literate sort-a-guy who is naive in the ways of the big, scary world of consumerism, Michael Stairs Site Coordinator Centre for Computing in the Humanities U. of Toronto From: Mark Olsen Subject: Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 14:45:37 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 489 (20) Computers and the Humanities Call for technical reviewers As of January 1989, _Computers and the Humanities_ will increase its publication frequency from 4 to 6 issues a year, and plans to increase the number of technical reviews it publishes. Technical reviews cover hardware, software, technical books, and electronic publications such as CD-ROMs of interest to researchers and teachers in humanities disciplines. We are looking for active researchers and teachers in the humanities with experience using computers in the classroom and for research to review material for the journal. Prospective reviewers do not have to be programmers or computing specialists, but should have a good knowledge of computer applications in the humanities and be able to impart complex technical issues in a readable fashion. We are interested in finding reviewers with knowledge of IBM-PCs, Apple Macintosh, UNIX micro/minis and other computer systems. Material we hope to review ranges from application packages, such as full-text retrieval and statistics programs, to compilers, font generators, specialized hardware, data services, and CD-ROMs. Technical reviewers typically get to keep the software they review. Hardware review periods range from 60 to 120 days. If you are interested in being added to our list of potential reviewers, please fill out the following form and send it to: mark@gide.uchicago.edu or, if e-mail is not possible, to: Mark Olsen ARTFL Project Romance Languages and Literatures 1050 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computers and the Humanities Reviewer Form *Name: *Position: *Department: *University: *Mailing Address: *Phone: *E-mail: *Computers: (what types of computers do you have access to for review purposes) *Category: (what types of material are you interested in reviewing. Please be brief: wordproc, full-text, stats, graphics, compilers etc.) *Software/Hardware/Books you would like to review: *Research Interests: *Recent Publications: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are sending this by e-mail, please start each category next to the colon ending the prompt. One line answers to the first 9 questions would be appreciated. Please avoid using asterisk (*). From: Jean Veronis Subject: transcription phonetique du francais Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 17:43:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 490 (21) Je vous signale que l'equipe de Guy Perennou au CERFIA, a Toulouse (France) a mis au point des programmes de phonetisation du Francais. Cette equipe se consacre de facon active a la mise au point d'une base de donnees lexicale sur le francais (BDLEX) et d'un ensemble de programmes associes, tels que le programme de phonetisation. Contacter: Guy Perrennou Laboratoire CERFIA Universite Paul Sabatier 118, Route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex (France) tel: 61 55 67 67 Perennou a une adresse electronique, mais je ne la connais pas. Si vous etes interesse, je peux la lui demander. Jean Veronis Groupe Representation et Traitement des Connaissances Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique Marseille (France) ps: j'ai moi-meme travaille sur les relations phonie-graphie en francais, mais pas sur la phonetisation automatique. J'ai etabli un inventaire quantitatif du materiau phono-graphique, et realise des programmes de correction automatique. From: "Allen Renear, CIS, Brown Univ. 401-863-7312" Subject: Conference Notice Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 14:50:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 491 (22) Computing in Foreign Languages and the Humanities Brown University, Providence, RI February 17, 1989 [Brief summary of events; explanatory material omitted] Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: A Case Study in Applications for Humanists Joel Goldfield, Associate Professor of French, Plymouth State College Teaching Shakespeare with Computers Rev. Donald Lynch, S.J., Professor of English, Fairfield University Foreign Language Forum Navigating a Large Humanities Multimedia Database Elli Mylonas, Managing Editor of the Perseus Project, Harvard University Crossing the Threshold: CAI That Works Stephen Clausing, Assistant Professor of German, Yale University Linking the Continents of Knowledge: Expanding the Curriculum with Hypermedia George Landow, Professor of English, Brown University Language Learning and Computers: The MacLang Authoring System Judith Frommer, Professor in Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University CD-Word as a Tool for Biblical Studies Steven J. DeRose, Researcher, Summer Institute for Linguistics, Dallas, TX Software fair; Building tours -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. CFLH CONFRNCE. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Gerd Willee 0228 - 73 5620 UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1 Subject: Kant auf Deutsch Date: 11 January 89, 17:48:46 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 492 (23) There has been a request for Kant-texts in machine readable form. At our institute we do have most of the work of I. Kant on mag tape and parts of it on floppy. Only vol. 10 - 13 are still missing, but will be read on tape within this year. Available on floppy are vol. 1 - 9, as plain text and preindexed by WordCruncher as well. All texts are taken from the Akademie-Ausgabe with the proper references. The Kant-corpus is available for requests already for many years, a lot of scholars have submitted requests for text-searches, which is done as a cost-free service by our institution. To get the corpus itself or the preindexed versions please write to Institut fuer angewandte Kommunikations- und Sprachforschung e.V. (IKS e.V.) Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-5300 Bonn 1. There you can get further details (especially the conditions of distribution, the prices, etc.). I hope that this answer will help the people interested in Kant. Yours Gerd Willee (UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1.BITNET) From: "Charles W. Tucker" Subject: SUGGESTIONS Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 14:48:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 8 (24) Dear E-Mailers, Bitneters, and Bitnoters: Several months ago I became familiar with Bitnet and since then I have spend much time finding out about it, communicating with colleagues, joining various groups, getting addresses from various places throughout the world and, in general, exploring the possibilities of using this means of communication to serve my purpose of answering questions about human behavior that I have been struggling with for many years. I have also received past notebooks of communication for several groups as well as read all of my current mail. From my reading I have noticed a number of concerns that people have about communicating by E-mail but I have rarely noticed any solutions for the concerns that goes beyond - just keep writing and maybe it will work itelf out. The concern that I noticed most often was not being able to adequately explore, explicate, examine or develop ideas within the boundaries of E-mail. This made me think of some ways to deal with this concern as well as several other means that we could use E-mail to further our interests. Several of these suggestions may have been mentioned before my time (i.e., Before Bitnet) while some I have noticed used only occasionally but I have not seen mention of these. I offer them in the spirit of furthering the conversation. They are: --the idea of posting conference notices, making bibliographies available and making unpublished papers available is great but I would add to this mode that we ought to let each other know about particularly useful books, articles, papers and persons relevant to an issue or problem. The sort of thing I have in mind is a note which says "I have been working on "X" recently and have found A, B, and C quite useful because ..." It seems to me that this type of note would be just as useful as those where a person will ask if anyone has any information about a topic. Of course, recent findings from research would be treated in a like manner --recently I travelled to Arizona and California on partly business and partly pleasure and thought that I should have let others on the "network" know I would be in certain places so that we might meet and talk about matters of mutual interest. I could have placed a note of the times and places of my availability and anyone interested could have let me know of their availability and interest in meeting. This could be done for travel of any type including travel to professional meetings; it seems that it would be useful for further discussion of ideas to know those face-to face that we now know electronically. --this same sort of "notice" could be used to notify others of a colloquium that is being presented as well as "advertise" the availability of a colloquium. What I have in mind here is that many places have a "colloquium series" each year and either have the same people or have a difficult time getting anyone to speak on the topics of interest to the group. What could be done is that a person notify the possibility of a colloquium "slot" on a certain topic and those with the interest and time available would respond to the notice. If more information was needed (abstract, vita or the like) then this could be send by E-mail. I think this would be worth a try. --we could notify each other of the availability of data that we have that others might use as well as the current practice of asking for data or for data sources. Many persons have these data on files anyway so mailing them would be a slight problem. --we should continue to announce the availability of positions but I would add to these announcements, notification of new or present graduate programs where graduate assistantships are available for the better students. There is much concern about the positions that will be available in the academy the next 10 years so we should begin training people for these positions. I hope that these suggestions might be useful for furthering the conversations on Bitnet. I hope that you will generate some and tell me on Bitnet. Chuck Tucker Charles W. Tucker (Chuck) Department of Sociology University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 O (803) 777-3123 or 777-6730 H (803) 254-0136 or 237-9210 BITNET: N050024 AT UNIVSCVM From: AYI004@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Subject: Snobfuscation Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 19:52:33 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 9 (25) R. Goerwitz has me scurrying around in my back files checking for bits of impenetrable, and hence, offending jargon (one day I called the network a 'big blancmange'; would 'bland pudding' have sufficed?, etc.). His two recent comments on Humanist's discourse have been wise, and make me wish the network was more like the old kitchen table. Could such opprobrium also cover pompous and arrogant manifestos in the name of those empty concepts 'seriousness' and 'professionalism'? Still checking my own closet, Brian Molyneaux (ayi004@uk.ac.soton.ibm) From: Terrence Erdt Subject: Call for Nominations: CHum Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 10 (26) Computers and the Humanities Call for Nominations and Applications News & Notes Editor Courseware Review Editor Book Review Editor To accommodate the increase in number of issues from four to six per year, the journal Computers and the Humanities is expanding its number of editors. Applications and nominations are therefore invited for the positions of: Notes and News Editor to manage a new feature of the Journal that will report on newsworthy products, services, information resources, upcoming meetings, and other items of interest to computer using humanists. The editor will be responsible for creating a network of international contributors. Courseware Editor to elicit and assign for review computer applications and hardware designed for instruction in any area of the humanities. Book Review Editor to elicit and assign for review books falling within the domain of humanities computing, from technical treatises on programming languages to discussions of the philosophic implications of treatises on computer-based models of psychology. Candidates should have significant interest in research and publication in the humanities and possess sound knowledge of the use of computers in the field. Of particular importance is the capacity to work in areas of the humanities outside one's specialization and to meet deadlines. Prospective editors should have ready access to electronic mail. Nominations and applications, including CVs and a statement describing computer experience and areas of expertise should be sent to: Terrence Erdt erdt@vuvaxcom Associate Editor Computers and the Humanities Grad. Dept. of Library Science Villanova University Villanova, PA USA 19085 From: JLD1@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: Arabic/English computing Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 12:51:37 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 11 (27) Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre and Centre of Middle Eastern Studies University of Cambridge jointly announce a two-day seminar on Bilingual Computing in Arabic and English 6th and 7th September 1989 Call for papers: Papers for the indicated sessions are invited. THEMES * Bilingual word-processing: manufacturers' presentations; users' experiences; the need for standards. * Computer-assisted language learning: Arabic as a foreign language; language education of young native-speakers. * Machine translation (Arabic/English) * Computing and Islamic Studies. * Computer based lexicography with special reference to the compilation of dictionaries. (Monolingual Arabic or bilingual English/Arabic). -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. ARABENGL SEMINAR. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 11 JAN 89 10:35:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 12 (28) Computers and Teaching in the Humanities, 1988 Conference Report This was the second conference on the theme of Computers and Teaching in the Humanities to be organised by the Office for Humanities Communication and the University of Southampton, with the support of the ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), CTISS (Computers in Teaching Initiative Support Service) and the AHC (Association for History and Computing), and, this time around, some sponsorship from IBM. It attracted a similar mixture of attendees to that of the preceding conference, more or less evenly divided between academic staff from both universities and polytechnics with a third estate drawn from the growing body of arts computing support staff. It was unlike the previous conference however (also held at Southampton a year ago) in two respects. The first conference had resembled a bazaar, with numerous parallel sessions organised as workshops introducing specific applications areas with the aid of a volume of essays (since published as IT in the Humanities, ed Rahtz, Ellis Horwood, 1988). This conference built on the evident interest generated by the first, laying a greater stress on the practical problems of introducing computing tools to the undergraduate curriculum. It also had a more unified programme, exemplified by the conference subtitle `Redefining the humanities'. To many delegates, it seemed, the chief effect of the introduction of computing had been to provoke a re-evaluation of the methods and priorities of teaching methods in the humanities, quite independent of any technological considerations. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. CATH88 REPORT. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: crosby@cosy.uoguelph.ca Subject: Other lists/discussions Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 23:32:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 13 (29) We are all aware, obviously, of HUMANIST, and have heard recently about HISTORY, but are there any other lists or discussion groups out there related to computers and the humanities? What about all you philosophers, dramatists, musicians and artists out there? I am curious to find out what I am missing out on! Connie Crosby University of Guelph crosby@vm.uoguelph.ca From: "Steve Dill (UGA10SDNET.BITNET)" Subject: Book Query Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 11:52:11 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 14 (30) Does anyone know the full name of the author and the publisher of a book by Solomon called SIGNS OF OUR TIMES? I'd like to order a copy. Thanks, UGA|08@SDNET.BITNET From: "J. S. Reed" Subject: Re: Scanners and gray-scale? (38) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 09:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 496 (31) We've recently bought scanning equipment here at the Institute for Research in Social Science (U. of N.C.). Our hardware wallah finally settled on a package that seems to deliver a lot of bang for the buck, as follows: Hewlett-Packard scanner $900 document feeder $350 PC interface $350 Truescan software (from Calera Recognition, Inc) $3500 You'll also need a PC to interface with, so add another few thousand if you don't have one lying around. Nobody here has any strong opinions on how many shades of grey scale to have, but there is a consensus that the flatbed H-P is preferable to the page model, since it is less subject to jamming. We don't have this stuff yet -- we've just ordered it -- but we've seen demonstrations, and it seems to be perfect for our applications, which mostly involve getting machine-readable copy of some pretty filthy documents. Good luck. From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: Machine translation Date: 12 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 497 (32) Here is a short description of TOVNA, a machine translation system which I have been preoccupied with recently. I believe this information can be of interest to others who are both skeptical of and fascinated by machine translation. This particular system is very promising indeed. (I wish to declare that I am in no commercial or other way connected to this product. My report is wholly based on information received from the company when I was testing it, as well as on my personal experience with its performance. Though I have not operated it independently, I managed to test it in a sufficient variety of ways to be able to express some opinion about its capacities. - Itamar Even-Zohar) TOVNA - MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM TOVNA MTS (I will refer to it in the following as "Tovna") is a sophisticated AI solution for multi-language environments. It currently allows automatic translation for French-English Russian- English (both ways). The French-English option is at a more advanced stage than the Russian-English one. In accordance with new developments in this field, automatic translation (AT) is no longer conceived of as man-independent. Translation is interactive in the sense that both a "regular" and an advanced user (a "power user") can intervene in the various stages of the MTS decision making. The system consequently can be taught both rules and new material, including personal preferences on various levels, both directly and indirectly (through extraction - see below). Tovna maintains a complete and rigorous separation of knowledge of the language from the software. This means that there is only one set of software programs which work in exactly the same way with *all languages* available with Tovna. There is only one system for the user to learn. Moreover, Tovna is a learning system which improves with use. The more it translates, the better its performance. Ambiguity (which leads to incorrect translation) is handled by discovering, at each phase of the translation process, all the possible alternatives, passing them on to the next phase in the expectation that later phases will reject the incorrect alternatives. The problem of incomplete specification of grammar (which leads to incomplete translations) is handled by Tovna's capacity to extract (construct) rules from examples. The linguist who "teaches" Tovna a language's grammar can do so by either specifying a rule, or where more convenient, by providing a local solution to a specific case, i.e., an example. One is never required to specify an algorithm and in fact has no way of doing so. Although ambiguity and incomplete specification of grammar are the crucial problems which must be solved by an MT system, they are hardly the only ones whose solution is critical to the success of the system. Other, less technical but still important issues which must be addressed are: a. Pre-editing and post editing of text. b. Adding new words and phrases to dictionaries. c. Adding new languages to the system. Pre-editing and post-editing of text consume valuable time because the user must hunt down sections which require post-editing, and the output format is often not suitable for word processors and typesetting equipment. With Tovna, no pre-editing is required. A high degree of accuracy will eventually eliminate the need for most post- editing as the system improves its performance. Moreover, Tovna maintains typesetting and control codes for complete compatibility with word processors and typesetting equipment (existing and future). Tovna makes it easy to add words and phrases to dictionaries, by providing sophisticated and easy to use menu based screens which enable the user to enter the required data accurately and quickly in a user friendly environment. The problem of adding new languages to an MT system is especially vexing. Most existing systems have to be completely rewritten to accommodate a new language, a process which takes several years. Often, the new system has different capabilities and a different user interface, thus confusing the user. Since Tovna maintains a complete and rigorous separation of knowledge of the language from the software, new languages can be added relatively quickly. ("Quickly" is, of course, relative: I am told that each new language requires something between 6 months and 2 years, depending on how remote the relevant language is from the extant material.) The language's complexity is reflected not in the algorithms but rather in the rules and in the example-based language model. More complex languages simply have more rules and more examples in their models. The software is the same for all languages, and the system's capabilities and user interface are consistently maintained across all languages. In addition to being language independent (that is, the same software works with all languages), Tovna is also operating system independent and machine independent. Tovna can work with most commonly available operating systems and most commonly available computers. It works best, however, with large memory and large storage, which means that it would be fastest with an advanced SUN. When I worked with it on a SUN (with 16 MB of memory), it speed was very impressive, especially in entering new material and teaching it new fatures. Tovna headquarters are located in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. The European sales office is located in London. Here are the addresses for those who wish further information: Tovna TM Ltd. Yigal Alon 127 Tel Aviv 67443 Israel (Phones: 03-256252/3; Fax: 03-256257) Tovna TM Ltd. Betar 17 Jerusalem (Phones: 02-712623, 02-719157) Tovna TM Ltd. C.I.B.C Building Cottons Lane London SE12QL England (Phones: 1-2346633/4/5. Fax: 1-2346897) Itamar Even-Zohar Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics Tel Aviv University From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: ASTRA Date: 7 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 498 (33) [The following is a somewhat truncated and reformatted document about an interesting electronic service intended for IBM VM/CMS users on EARN, but users on Bitnet and NetNorth should be able to access it. I have deleted from the end of the document a long list of commands in the query language and the transcription of a sample session. Those of you interested in having this information will be able to get it from the online help system. Thanks to Itamar Even-Zohar for bringing it to my attention! -- W.M.] ASTRA: A GENERAL DESCRIPTION Ottobre 1988 CNUCE Institute of CNR Via S.Maria n.36 I-56100 PISA ITALY TABLE OF CONTENTS _________________ INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 EARN (European Academic & Research Network) . . . . . . . 4 THE ASTRA SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE ASTRA DATA BASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ACCESS TO ASTRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 THE ASTRA USER GROUP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 SUBMISSION OF DATA TO ASTRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 HOW TO ACCESS EARN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 (THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE QUERY LANGUAGE . . . . . . . 12) (AN ASTRA SESSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15) Table of Contents 2 INTRODUCTION ____________ ASTRA (Applications Software and Technical Reports for Academia) is a joint project between IBM and CNR (the Italian National Council of Research). The aim is to design and implement a free European service for distribution of information, software in public domain and documentation about academic projects in education and research through EARN (European Academic and Research Network). The project started in January 1988 and has 2-year duration. The first year has been dedicated to the design and implementation of an experimental service based on prototype software, and to the collection of enough data to start the service at the beginning of the second year. During the second year, the service will be checked and it will be improved according to the suggestions and the experience gained during its use. The final version of the service is planned to be available to all EARN users in January 1990. At the end of the project, the results (including database, software and documentation) will be passed on to EARN or CNR, which will then be free to activate a real life service or to drop it depending on the user demand. The next section of this publication is dedicated to a brief description of EARN and of the experimental ASTRA service as implemented in September 1988 and accessible through EARN starting from January 1989. INTRODUCTION 3 EARN (EUROPEAN ACADEMIC & RESEARCH NETWORK) ___________________________________________ EARN is the European Academic and Research Network established in 1984 as a joint academic-IBM initiative and presently managed by the EARN user association. It is a network based on the use of IBM NJE protocols and is used for academic and research pursuits and carries no commercial traffic. It has grown to interconnect over 600 machines in Europe and, via gateways, more than 2000 machines in the world. It is connected to other networks as BITNET, ASIANET, etc. through leased lines mainly at 9.6 kbps. In total more than 500000 users communicate with each other through EARN. In the Appendix access to EARN is explained. The Network Job Entry (NJE) protocol was developed for remote job entries and, for the current standards, it is a fairly simple one. It has an unusual and powerful facility that lets a document sent from a computer to be staged through a number of intermediate machines until it reaches its final destination. This allows a fairly complex network to be constructed for file transfer, job entry, and mail, even if the network was not suited to interactive traffic. EARN (European Academic 4 Research Network) 4 THE ASTRA SERVICE _________________ As known, it is possible to exchange messages and/or files with other users through EARN. Based on this possibility, ASTRA searches documents in a remote database and obtains results of queries as number of occurences, list of documents, the documents themselves, software and documentation of a particular project. The service allows EARN users to retrieve documents located either in the ASTRA database at CNUCE or in other databases located somewhere else but accessible from ASTRA with the same user interface. The search is performed on the machine where the database is located and the search time is not charged to the ASTRA user. In the Appendix a terminal ASTRA session is described [omitted]. THE ASTRA SERVICE 5 THE ASTRA DATA BASE ___________________ STAIRS/CMS has been chosen, in the creation of the ASTRA database, mainly for its powerful information retrieval capabilities. The basic unit of information in the ASTRA database is the so-called 'bibliographic document', or 'abstract'. For every research/educational project an abstract has to be prepared according to the format and rules described in the booklet 'How to submit data to ASTRA'. The abstract contains information about the project: title, name and institution of the participants, project description, HW and SW used, starting date and duration of the project. It also contains information about all the products of the project. And, for each product, are included product description, HW and SW requirements, availability status, name and address of the authors. ASTRA provides a central European Data Base of information, about projects in education and research, and about their products (software, reports, prototypes, etc) and distributes such products if they are in machine readable form. Initial data include information and products about IBM Europe joint projects with academic institutions. By using the same language, the ASTRA users can access other data bases, located in either Pisa or other locations, provided that a suitable interface, for converting the ASTRA retrieval language to the access language of the other database, exists. At the present time in Pisa, in addition to the IBM Europe projects data base (STAR), several data bases are available, like the CNR patents data base (BREV), the AEP data base produced by the University of Texas. And through ASTRA, it is possible to access the CNR projects database resident in Milan at the CNR institute SIAM. It is planned to cooperate with other institutions in Europe and USA in order to include or access other databases. THE ASTRA DATA BASE 6 ACCESS TO ASTRA _______________ The ASTRA interface is written in REXX language. This makes the ASTRA service accessible by the EARN users with a virtual machine in CMS only. In the future it is planned to implement other interfaces in order to render the service available to all the EARN users. To access ASTRA the EARN user has to apply for subscription. This is done by sending the following message: 'TELL ASTRADB AT ICNUCEVM SUBSCRIBE firstname name' The user receives the software ASTRA EXEC and a guide manual file, through EARN. The ASTRA EXEC has to be received by the user and must be resident in the virtual machine in order to be able to access ASTRA any time. Once the software is received, the user has simply to type the command ASTRA to access the service. After ASTRA is typed the logo of the ASTRA service appears on the screen. By pressing ENTER, the ASTRA user interface panel appears and the ASTRA session may start. The panel is subdivided in 2 horizontal windows. The upper window lets the user to specify the query, and the lower one contains all ASTRA messages and results of the query. First of all the ASTRA user has to select the database he/she wishes to search, then he/she can specify up to 9 keywords connected with the operators AND or OR (by pushing the PF6 key the operators can be switched from AND to OR or vice versa). Through PF4, the user can enter into a different environment, in which all the power of the on-line dialog system AQUARIUS of STAIRS is available for more sophisticated searches. The main characteristics of AQUARIUS are described in the Appendix. In this screen the user can interrogate more than one database at the same time. After a query is sent, the user receives messages from the service and results of the query at the bottom part of the screen, in a time span depending on the traffic of EARN. According to the results the user may formulate other queries and obtain other results. The response time for receiving the files is strictly dependent on the traffic of EARN and may range from a few seconds to days. Since EARN is based on file exchange the ASTRA user session cannot be in real time, although the service is based on interactive software. Response will be given in the message window. Message window will be refreshed every time the RETURN or ENTER key is pressed. ACCESS TO ASTRA 8 THE ASTRA USER GROUP ____________________ The ASTRA service includes the distribution of a newsletter, a periodic collection of information about the service, to all the members of the ASTRA user group. Any EARN user can subscribe the Astra User Group by the command: 'TELL LISTSERV AT ICNUCEVM SUB ASTRA-UG firstname name' The user can quit the subscription to the ASTRA-UG by the command: 'TELL LISTSERV AT ICNUCEVM SIGNOFF ASTRA-UG' ASTRA users may contribute to the newsletter with articles and suggestions. THE ASTRA USER GROUP 9 SUBMISSION OF DATA TO ASTRA ___________________________ Academic and Research Institutions may submit data about their own projects in education and research, provided that results are in public domain and of interest to the academic world. To submit data, the provider should prepare the bibliographic document or abstract in English, according to the format and rules described in the booklet 'How to submit data to ASTRA', which can be obtained by mail, or directly via EARN by typing the command: 'TELL NETSERV AT ICNUCEVM SENDME ASTRA FORM' In the abstract all kinds of information about the project must be specified. The abstract and the attached material should be sent to ASTRA as separate files, by the command: 'SENDFILE filename filetype filemode TO ASTRA AT ICNUCEVM' ASTRA has the right to accept or reject any data, but has no responsibility for neither the quality nor the eventual loss of data. If project data are not accessed for long time (1-2 year time), ASTRA may decide to move those data from online to offline storage. It is responsibility of the provider to send additional data for updating his/her project or to delete project data from the database. The first document of a project to be sent is the bibliographic document. If the first document is correct, the ASTRA SYSTEM will send back the acknoledgement, the assigned PROJID, and a listing of the loaded data. Further files (software and/or reports) related to a same project should provide the assigned PROJID. ASTRA receives the files, performs formal checks and, if the check is successful, performs the required functions, and acknowledges the provider. In case of error in the format, ASTRA send the document back to the submitter with indication of the errors and discards all the attached files. SUBMISSION OF DATA TO ASTRA 10 The provider may send the bibliographic document and the attached files also through magnetic tape or diskette, which should be, at the present time, compatible with the systems PC/DOS or VM/CMS. An hardcopy of all the material should be attached. SUBMISSION OF DATA TO ASTRA 11 APPENDIX ________ HOW TO ACCESS EARN __________________ This paragraph is only for not-EARN-users. a) If your Institution is an EARN node, you have to apply to your EARN representative to have a virtual machine and become an EARN user. b) If your Institution is not an EARN node, but has its own mainframe, you can apply to the EARN representative of your country for becoming an EARN node. Afterwards you are in the case a). c) If your Institution does not have any mainframe or does not want to become an EARN node, then you should apply to the EARN representative of the closest EARN node to your Institution for obtaining a virtual machine there and a connection to EARN. THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE QUERY LANGUAGE ________________________________________ The information retrieval facilities of STAIRS/CMS are provided by an online dialog system called AQUARIUS, which stands for A QUery And Retrieval Interactive Utility System. You can compose your investigation on the ASTRA documents Using the STAIRS/CMS Commands. [material omitted] *****END***** From: John Roper Subject: Scanners Date: 13-JAN-1989 14:00:45 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 500 (34) OCR Scanners. We cannot yet respond to Michael Stairs request for OCR scanner information. However, we currently have an HP Scanjet on order to evaluate both its hardware and software performance as we have also been informed that it is the standard by which others are to be judged. Likewise our interest is in storing and manipulating images possibly for rescreening rather than desktop publishing. Major problems are the choice of suitable software and the choice of internal standards of storage as none seem pre-eminent and many packages are incompatible with each other. The restricted number of grey scales may be a problem as may be the resolution of 300dpi. However from our experience in colour images, we would strongly advise potential buyers only to believe what they see and can manipulate themselves and not to believe salesmen, sales leaflets or reports in magazines. We would also welcome any reports of hard won experience. John Roper, UEA, Norwich, UK S200 @ UK.AC.UEA.CPC865 From: Subject: Lists of lists. Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 16:31 EDT (32 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 499 (35) These is stimulated by Connie Crosby's recent expression of interest in what other lists are "out there" of interest to HUMANISTS. I think it is also in keeping with the other recent wish for more volunteered information. There are two indexes of lists that are the first place I always look. One is LISTSERV.LISTS which lists all the current LISTSERV-supported lists on BITNET. The other is the so-called "list of lists" that Rich Zellich maintains on the Internet. You could get copies of these lists and search them for yourself, but since I keep current copies on hand, it is easy for me to do some searching on everyone's behalf. I'll do this as two installments for obvious reasons of time and size. The first installment covers the LISTSERV lists, working from a copy I obtained 04-Jan-1989. There is a one-line entry per list. Some lists are peered, which means they are distributed to spread the subscriber load; for those I've just included the first entry. I indicate the search string I used by indenting, marking the line with *** and putting it in quotes; the matches follow (edited to remove a couple of logical mismatches). I think, BTW, some of the MUSIC entries are to software (operating system?) called MUSIC, but I did not stop to confirm which those may be (probably the MUSIC/SP). And, yes, I've deliberately left out details of how to subscribe to a list or otherwise interrogate LISTSERV for more information. Some other installment perhaps. Network-wide ID Full address List title --------------- ------------ ---------- ***"art " DESIGN-L DESIGN-L@PSUVM Basic Design (Art and Architecture) FINE-ART FINE-ART@EB0UB011 (Peered) Fine-Art Forum ***"drama" ***"english" REED-L REED-L@UTORONTO REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discus ***"history" HISTORY HISTORY@FINHUTC History ***"humani" CHUG-L CHUG-L@BROWNVM Brown University Computing in the Humanities HUMANIST HUMANIST@UTORONTO HUMANIST Discussion ***"litera" SBRHYM-L SBRHYM-L@SBCCVM SUNY/Stony Brook Literary Underground ***"music" MUG MUG@MARIST (Peered) MUSIC/SP discussion list MUG-JPN MUG-JPN@JPNSUT30 MUSIC Users Group in Japan discussion List MUSIC MUSIC@FINHUTC Music-Research MUSIC-ED MUSIC-ED@UMINN1 MUSIC-ED List MUSIC-L MUSIC-L@MARIST (Peered) MUSIC/SP User discussion list NMUSIC-L NMUSIC-L@NCSUVM New Music Discussion List NOTMUS-L NOTMUS-L@UBVM NOTIS MUSIC LIBRARY LIST ***"philo" NSP-L NSP-L@RPICICGE Noble Savage Philosphers mailing list PHILCOMM PHILCOMM@RPICICGE Philosophy of communication PHILOSOP PHILOSOP@YORKVM1 Philosophy Discussion Forum From: Willard McCarty Subject: Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988 Date: 13 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 501 (36) The Humanities Computing Yearbook is now in print. Here is the bibliographic information: Ian Lancashire and Willard McCarty, The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 396 pp. ISBN 0-19-824442-8. Hardbound only. May I be forgiven if I recommend this book very highly to all Humanists? Although we have not yet been told the price, I expect buying it will make a serious dent in your bank account. I cannot help thinking that its purchase is in a good cause, however -- by which I mean the progress of computing in the humanities, naturally. Objectively yours, Willard McCarty From: R.J.Hare@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: UROPI Date: 13 Jan 89 09:34:26 gmt X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 15 (37) Does anyone out there know anything about a new language called "UROPI"? It is supposed to be a late twentieth century realisation of the ideas which inspired Esperanto, and is supposed to be easy to learn. Any information welcome. Thanks. Roger Hare. From: STAIRS@vm.epas.utoronto.ca Subject: Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic TeX fonts Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 11:04:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 16 (38) Do any Humanists know where I could find Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic fonts for TeX? We need them for production of the next Humanities Computing Yearbook. Mike Stairs Site Coordinator Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto 416-978-6391 STAIRS@UTOREPAS From: Stephen Clausing Subject: call for papers/MLA conference Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 11:03:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 17 (39) The Division of Applied Linguistics of the MLA is sponsoring a section entitled "Computers in Applied Linguistics Research". As the organizer for this section, I would like to invite members of HUMANIST to submit abstracts. The abstracts should be 1 page maximum in length and should contain the following information: your name: academic affiliation: mailing address: e-mail address: title of paper: summary of paper: short biography: Please submit your abstract to my e-mail address: SClaus@Yalevm or to my mailing address shown below: Prof. Stephen Clausing Dept. of Germanic Languages Yale University P.O. Box 18A Yale Station New Haven, CT 06520-7384 The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 15. You must be a member of the MLA by April 1 of this year to give a paper at the conference. From: THEALLDF@TrentU.CA Subject: preliminary conference announcement Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 08:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 18 (40) P L E A S E P O S T P R E L I M I N A R Y A N N O U N C E M E N T ================================================== The Energy Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the United States Census Bureau have pledged some support for a small conference or workshop on ADVANCED COMPUTING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Thus the following applications seem most suitable: Economics Planning Sociology Geography and urban studies Transportation studies Policy analysis Government Topic areas include, but are not limited to Supercomputing Parallel processing Satellite tracking & imagery Expert systems Natural language processing Databases and information retrieval Computer networks Advanced microcomputer applications The conference is tentatively scheduled for Williamsburg, Va. in mid to late 1989. No fee schedule has been proposed; however, any conference fees will be held to a reasonable level to permit the broadest possible participation. Contributed papers will be accepted at a later date after submission details have been finalized. If you have an idea for additional topic areas, wish to receive additional conference information as it becomes available or are interested in submitting a paper, please contact Lloyd F. ARROWOOD Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box 2008 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6207 (615)-574-8700 LFA @ ORNLSTC.BITNET or LFA @ STC10.CTD.ORNL.GOV ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY ATTENDANCE FORM Name: ____________________________________________ Institution: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Phone: _______________ Email address: _________________________________________ ----- I am interested in attending the conference ----- I am interested in submitting a paper for presentation at the conference. Title of paper: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Topic area: ______________________________________________ From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CATH88 report Date: Sat, 14 JAN 89 12:16:19 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 504 (41) The CATH88 report which I somewhat precipitately sent to Humanist last week contained a number of minor errors. The more significant ones were:- Peter Denley is not the Chairman of the AHC but its Secretary general; IBM was not sponsoring the event for the first time; the HIDES project is not primarily CTISS-funded. Two paragraphs contained wordprocessed gobbledegook, in one case entirely distorting the sense of what was being described (the paragraph describing Roger Martlew's paper). My humblest apologies to all; by way of partial recompense a corrected version of the report follows:- Computers and Teaching in the Humanities, 1988 Conference Report This was the second conference on the theme of Computers and Teaching in the Humanities to be organised by the Office for Humanities Communication and the University of Southampton, with the support of the ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), CTISS (Computers in Teaching Initiative Support Service) and the AHC (Association for History and Computing), and some sponsorship from IBM. It attracted a similar mixture of attendees to that of the preceding conference, more or less evenly divided between academic staff from both universities and polytechnics with a third estate drawn from the growing body of arts computing support staff. It was unlike the previous conference however (also held at Southampton a year ago) in two respects. The first conference had resembled a bazaar, with numerous parallel sessions organised as workshops introducing specific applications areas with the aid of a volume of essays (since published as IT in the Humanities, ed Rahtz, Ellis Horwood, 1988). This conference built on the evident interest generated by the first, laying a greater stress on the practical problems of introducing computing tools to the undergraduate curriculum. It also had a more unified programme, exemplified by the conference subtitle `Redefining the humanities'. To many delegates, it seemed, the chief effect of the introduction of computing had been to provoke a re-evaluation of the methods and priorities of teaching methods in the humanities, quite independent of any technological considerations. The conference was opened by Peter Denley (Westfield College) who, as secretary general of the Association for History and Computing, is well placed to deliver a 'sociology of computing in the humanities'. He began by describing the rise of humanistic scholarship itself in renaissance Italy, stressing its emphasis on rhetoric and purity of language, together with its importance as a way of both defining and sustaining the growth of a secular educated elite. Movements as successful as renaissance scholarship inevitably distort their successors' perceptions of them; nevertheless, Denley argued, some of the problems currently faced by the Humanities can be related to the change of direction implicit in the reasoning of the first Humanists. It could be argued that emphasizing the purity of classical Latin above the Latin vernaculars of the middle ages had replaced practical linguistics by arid philology, while the emphasis on classical education as vocational - on rhetoric as a necessary political accomplishment - was clearly a two-edged sword. If the humanities were purely vocational, what was the function of humanistic research? A new agenda was needed, Denley argued, which recognised and reaffirmed the fundamental importance of the humanities, rather than regarding them as a useful collection of skills. As to computing in the humanities itself, he suggested, it was time to take stock: the role of IT in the arts course should be more than just to impart necessary skills, like word-processing. Discipline-specific training was important, whether or not it used the computer. Yet the structure of arts computing as it currently existed did not always encourage new ideas: there was no career structure for the strange hybrid characters who currently become arts computing advisors. For Denley, history and computing go hand in hand: history, as a way of handling information, demonstrates the complexity of knowledge, while a database system enforces rigour of analysis, by requiring that events fit into a structure. The Humanities, he concluded, needed urgently to reassert their importance and their relevance in the evolution of information processing. A rather different perspective was offered by the next speaker, Tom Stonier, Professor of Science and Society at Bradford. His message was an evangelical one of unbridled prosperity for all, just around the corner. In the nineties, he said, education will absorb more of the GNP than anything else. Pursuing this rather odd economic metaphor, he pointed out that human resources were the only sort of capital which could be made to appreciate, by means of education. Like Denley, he felt that training for skills alone was short sighted; unlike him, he was confident that education and material progress would go hand in hand. Today's pupils would have life expectancies of a century and enjoy enormous material wealth, apparently caused by extensive use of robots and improved factory farming techniques: there would be guaranteed income for all. Doubters in his audience were exhorted to learn from the past: the purpose of history was (of course) to enable us to forecast the future. We should abandon the protestant work ethic, stop making a living and learn how to live. Computers are the greatest pedagogic devices since grandmothers. When the information operatives take over, their level of education will necessarily preclude totalitarianism. A materials based society evolves through competition, but an information based one develops only by means of cooperation. And so forth. Such millenarianism seemed to a number of the audience not only foolish, but also dangerously foolish, given the increasing marginalisation of the humanities to which Denley had already drawn our attention; however, as a morale booster, this was a most amusing and effective speech. David Bantz (Dartmouth College) was considerably less charismatic but perhaps more reasonable. His presentation promised to address the extent to which educational problems were solved by computing methods and whether computing methods might not undermine traditional humanistic values, by being inimical to the `great conversation of ideas' which Wayne Booth sees as characterising the humanities, by over-valuing reductionism and calculation at the expense of reasoning. He made several sound criticisms of the current state of the art in computer aided criticism and computer aided learning systems (for example, the way that most historical simulation systems permit of only one right answer, the `drill and kill' style of CALL etc.), but had little positive or practical to propose other than to point out that computing hardware should be regarded as an expense item rather than a capital investment, since a four year old machine is useless. We learned that at Dartmouth, as at Bradford, all students are required to buy their own machines (Macintosh) and that 85% do, at a special price of $1500-2400, not so expensive when set against tuition fees of $20,000 p.a. David Miall (College of St Paul & St Mary, Cheltenham), in one of the more thought provoking papers of the conference, talked of a crisis of belief in the humanities. Like Marlow's Faustus, the modern day humanist feels that all the learning at his disposal has failed to give him power. The Humanities are not about the acquisition of knowledge, but of transferable skills, the purpose of which is to change people's feelings and raise their consciousness. Miall then considered a variety of ways in which the introduction of the computer in the classroom helps this by defamiliarising a text, by interacting with and challenging affective models, and by changing the nature of student/teacher relationships, of which he gave a detailed and impressive discussion. The teaching of literature in particular, he concluded, is concerned in the nineties with re-reading, rather than reading, for which tools such as hypertext are eminently well suited. This was followed by a rather weak paper on the use of a standard text retrieval package called Personal Librarian, used by every student at the Stevens Institute of Technology to access the 7 Mb of set texts used in a course on the History of Science (Ed Friedman), and a rather stronger one on the implications of hypertext for poetry teaching by John Slatin, from the University of Texas at Austin. This was of interest more as a demonstration of what tools such as Hypercard look like from the perspective of an English literature specialist than for any concrete results presented. Alan Dyer (Lanchester Poly) picked up the same theme in his presentation, which concerned the way in which computing skills necessarily spanned the division between the traditionally linear `readerly' skills and visual or spatial skills. He described, and later presented, an interactive hyperfiction produced by one of his students as an instance of what could be achieved when creative people were offered suitably powerful and easy to use tools. Sebastian Rahtz (Southampton) gave a rapid but detailed description of the Southampton/York Archaeological Simulation System, in which a database of archaeological information is front-ended by something that looks suspiciously like a computer game, but which reportedly enables students to learn resource management. He also described the `arch_help' system developed at York, in which a tailored form of the DEC mainframe Help system is used to provide students with organised information about courses, lectures, booklists and even accomodation details. Both systems represent a shift in stress away from `teaching about the computer' to `teaching with the computer'. Charles Henry (Columbia) initially treated us to a brief survey of the pedagogic importance of visualisation in cognition and memorising, from Pestalozzi to neural nets. His subsequent attempt to use the insights gained in analysing the structure of the Old English epic Beowulf was fascinating but too short to be convincing. Arthur Stutt (OU) began by quoting Umberto Eco's definition of a novel as a machine for generating interpretations. The artist, he argued, has always been ready to apply technology: the special contribution of the computer should be to facilitate processes otherwise impossible. Pointing to the importance of argument in humanities, he made a good case for extending the traditional single explanation school of expert systems to cope with the traditional formal stages of argument. He did not draw a parallel between the renaissance view of rhetoric as an essential component of the humanities on the one hand and, on the other, the need to teach techniques of argument as, in Gardin's phrase, `propositions which mutually support each'. R.A. Young (Dundee) also dealt with ways of formalising knowledge, but from the point of view of the professional philosopher. He identified a tension between the different attitudes to conceptual processes implicit in the construction of formal logics by philosophers in the Russell tradition, on the one hand, and the need to make expert systems that behave `as if' intelligent which characterise knowledge engineering on the other. There was a need for synthesis, not least because of traditional philosophy's abilities to deal with inconsistencies and ethical issues generally mishandled or ignored by the knowledge engineering paradigm. Paul Davis (Ealing College) described a hybrid music system, and indeed performed on one, after dinner. He gave a brief survey of various approaches to the synthesis of music, stressing the importance of the performer in designing appropriate interfaces for digital music systems and asserted that music science was an area rather than a discipline. Coming at the end of a long and intellectually demanding day, his presentation seemed a little under-powered. Lynette Hunter (Leeds) began by attempting a structural analysis of contemporary computing mythology, in terms of the dominant myths of the Western post renaissance man-made world. The machine offered an illusory promise of freedom from drudgery by its power over semiotics, mediated by the magical powers of the shaman (or computing advisor) and vicarious participation in the club culture of the technocracy. But (as David Miall had already remarked) it conferred only the appearance of power. She then described recent changes of emphasis in the computing component of the Leeds arts courses. Reductionism and the myth of exactitude were inimical to humanistic skills of analagy and metaphor. The place of the computer was to help in marshalling facts and memory, and so it fitted better into courses dealing with textual editing or bibliography, where classification skills and principles of selection needed to be taught. Alison Black (Reading) gave an interesting and well-presented paper on the differing reactions and achievements of students introduced to designing documents on paper and on screen. Her talk was effectively illustrated with examples of projects undertaken by the students and by statistics drawn from questionnaires aimed at assessing student reactions at different stages of their exposure to the different methods of document design. Her analysis of the way new technology affects working practices was clear and convincing as was her warning that whilst WYSIWYG desktop publishing has a lot to offer the design student, we should not be so dazzled by its superficial merits as to forget its limitations and to abandon more traditional methods of document design. Cell biology was the somewhat suprising subject of the demonstration provided by Wendy Hall, the object of which was to present a hypertext system developed at Southampton with Hypercard. This linked images held on videodisc (some 54,000 images per side) with extracts from relevant textbooks, adding sound and animation where appropriate. Although this particular project was not humanities based, Wendy Hall was quick to point out the general applicability of the technology and the pedagogical methods behind it. In his paper `Videodiscs and the Politics of Knowledge', Roger Martlew (Southampton) returned to a key theme of this conference: the relative roles in the classroom of the teacher, student and computer. Like David Miall and the DISH duo, he argued that traditional styles of Humanities teaching impose specific roles on both lecturer and student which computers had the potential either to fossilise or to radicalize. He clearly felt that recent pedagogical developments in secondary education were equally applicable at the tertiary level, and that the lecturer `must cease to be a controller of knowledge, and must become a manager of learning'. The link between Martlew's archaeological videodisc and the politics of knowledge became slightly blurred in the talk, but recourse to the abstract of his paper sets us back on the right track with the reminder that `the control of access to visual information in archaeology confirms the lecturer's power over the educational process'. The videodisc controlled by a lecturer could be used in the same didactic way as the traditional 'chalk and talk' methods of teaching; the videodisk controlled by the student was equally possible, if the lecturer has the courage to renounce power for the sake of pedagogy. The last full session of the conference was concerned with three major teaching packages. In the first, Frank Colson described and demonstrated the HIDES CAL software package, used at Southampton as an important part of the special subject component of the history degree. The software runs on a network of PS/2s located in the University library, and presents students with a structured walk through documentary sources, supported by impressive graphics. It was claimed that students enjoyed using the system, and that it also lead to their making greater use of original (non- computerised) sources. In the second Susan Hockey and John Cooper described, and Jo Freedman demonstrated, the 'Oxford Text Searching System', developed at Oxford with CTISS funding to encourage arts undergraduates to use concordance and free text searching software in their study of set texts. Finally, Nicholas Morgan and Richard Trainor described (but did not demonstrate) some of the principles underlying the development of the highly successful DISH project for teaching history at Glasgow. They reiterated the changes in the teacher-student relationship made possible by the use of computers: the transformation of the instructor from teacher into guide and the resulting emphasis on exploration, and on the diversity of insights resulting from a variety of routes through the material offered. The conference was closed by Nigel Gardner (now with ESRC) whose valedictory address as head of CTISS indicated that the Initiative had been less succesful as an exercise in institutional change than in causing re- assessment of the requirements of specific disciplines. The next round of CTISS funding (announced at this conference by Gardner's successor, Jonathan Darby) was thus aimed specifically at setting up topic-oriented `centres of excellence', which would need to address more precisely such matters as project management, staff training, resource control and evaluative procedures. Gardner also suggested that there was a shift in the role of computing centres which, if they were to survive at all in the world of the individual work station, needed to re-emphasize their role in providing administrative computing facilities, and support for telecommunications and `learning resource centres' (what we used to call libraries). A somewhat sporadic general discussion followed this closing address, but did not really bring together the two major themes that had run through an unusually well-balanced and unified programme. The first is that with or without the presence of a computer terminal in a classroom, teaching methods in tertiary education must move away from the traditional master/disciple roles which the availability of hypertext systems and videodiscs are beginning to expose and challenge. Secondly that whilst new technology has a lot to offer the humanities, particularly teaching in the humanities, a great deal of caution and selection should be exercised in the manner and degree to which it is applied. In retrospect, though little was actually said about redefining the humanities as such (except by those who wanted to annex computer science), quite a lot of thought had evidently gone into redefining the teaching of the humanities. Several speakers referred in passing to the copyright problems implicit in using electronic materials for teaching purposes: this has been a recurrent area of concern, and it is to be hoped that a special session at some future conference will address it explicitly. Lou Burnard and Judith Proud (Oxford Text Archive) ----end From: "Kevin L. Cope (ENCOPLSUVM)" Subject: Announcement of Conference Panel Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 11:40:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 505 (42) IMPORTANT CONFERENCE PANEL SCHEDULED HUMANISTS INVITED Members of HUMANIST are cordially invited to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, in Jackson, Mississippi, on January 26, 27, and 28, 1989, at the Radisson Hotel of Jackson. The conference will include a panel hosted by Humanist member Kevin L. Cope, the title of which is "Modernity: A Problem for All Ages." The panel will address the problems created in all eras by the dogged determination to imagine the present age as the "contemporary" or "modern" one. Papers will include an essay by Ellen Chauvin on Machiavelli, an essay by Henry Russell on Kipling, and essay by Deborah Jacobs on matrimony in the seventeenth century, an essay by Patricia Gardner Kersey on poets and their idea of modern community, and an essay by Michaer Crumb on the topic of the drum of post-modernity. This should be a startling event. Be there***** Write to me for information, or get in touch with Rosalie Daniels of the Department of English at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, 39217, U. S. A., who is the President of the MPA. From: Randall Jones Subject: BITNET addresses for Basel & Zurich Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 09:59:31 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 506 (43) I would like to make contact with someone (anyone) in Basel & Zurich, Switzerland. Can a HUMANIST provide for me a name and BITNET address of a colleague at either of these two universities? Thanks in advance, Randall Jones Brigham Young University JONES@BYUADMIN From: lang@PRC.Unisys.COM Subject: Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic TeX fonts Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 09:01:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 507 (44) In response to Mike Stairs' query about non-Roman fonts for LaTeX, a person you should contact about the Greek fonts is Silvio Levy at Princeton. His e-mail address is levy@princeton.edu --Francois From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: A Mac in England now that Spring is Here... Date: Tuesday, 17 Jan 1989 08:13:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 19 (45) In early March, I will be spending a week in Cambridge making revisions with the series' editor on a manuscript I've written. I'd like to take my Macintosh, but have heard that proper adapters are very expensive and hard to come by. Does anyone know whether in fact this is true? And if it is, can an English humanist slip me the phone number of a good place to rent a Mac in Cambridge? Many thanks in advance. --Pat Conner --West Virginia University From: Johnfox@RCN Subject: Word Perfect 5.0 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 11:16:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 20 (46) Have just installed Word Perfect 5.0 on a Tandy 1000 TL. Printer drivers do not contain one for Radio Shack DWP 210. By using the PTR.EXE program have been able to modify the standard printer driver so that it will allow the 210 to underline. Still need to modify it further so that it will provide for super/subscript and (if possible) bold. I need to have the use of super- script for end/footnotes in the text of manuscripts. I can't figure out where or how I modify the driver to give me these capability. In 4.2 it was obvious where to modify. Appreciate any help on modification or any suggestions where I can get a driver configured for the DWP 210. The Word Perfect Forum on Compuserve does not have such a driver, nor does the WP company. John Fox@Taylor.Rcc.Rcn.Edu From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: philosophers on-line Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 18:47:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 21 (47) Could readers of the list please send me information about machine-readable texts of philosophers? I will summarize the material, together with whatever I can get from other sources, and post it. Thanks, Leslie Burkholder lb0q@andrew.bitnet lb0q@andrew.cmu.edu (arpa internet) 412 268 8532 (phone_net) From: Mark Olsen Subject: Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 20:33:01 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 22 (48) The Chicago Linguistic Society announces its 25th Regional Meeting with Parasession on LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT. April 27-29, 1989. Main Session: (April 27-28, 1989) We invite original, unpublished work on any topic of general linguistic interest. Invited speakers: Morris Halle -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Barbara Partee -- University of Massachusetts, Amherst Parasession: (April 28-29, 1989) We invite original, unpublished work in linguistic theory and practice relating to dimensions of situated speech. We encourage contributions from linguists and students of language working in such related disciplines as anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Relevant areas of investigation include, but are by no means limited to, discourse analysis, deixis, speech acts, narrative structure, and conversational analysis. Invited speakers: John Gumperz -- University of California, Berkeley Jane Hill -- University of Arizona William Labov -- University of Pennsylvania Jerry Morgan -- University of Illinois, Urbana Michael Silverstein -- University of Chicago Deborah Tannen -- Georgetown University Workshop on Autolexical Syntax An Ancillary meeting to CLS 25 Wednesday, April 26, 1989 Ida Noyes Hall, The University of Chicago The workshop solicits both presentations within the framework of Autolexical syntax and statements of problems to be discussed at the workshop. Participants will be encouraged to write up their work following the conference and a volume of papers will be published. Please submit five copies of a one-page anonymous abstract of your paper or statement of the problem to be discussed, along with a 3x5" card with your name, address, telephone number, E-mail address, and title. You may append a page of data and/or references if necessary. Send hard copy (no e-mail) to the address below. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 10, 1989. Autolexical Workshop c/o Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago 1050 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 E-mail: schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. LANGUAGE CONFRNCE. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT -- CONFERENCE READING Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 12:55:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 23 (49) SPECIAL READING AT THE CONVENTION OF THE MISSISSIPPI PHILOLOGICAL ASSOC. PATRICIA GARDNER KERSEY, well-known southern writer, will read from her work at the forthcoming Mississippi Philological Association Convention. Ms. Gardner-Kersey is the former student of HUMANIST Kevin L. Cope, and a rising figure in southern letter. Her reading will be entitled "SECOND DEATH." It's scheduled for 1:00 Thursday, January 26, at the Radisson Walthall Hotel, in Jackson, Mississippi. Write to Kevin Cope (ENCOPE@LSUVM) for more information, or to Rosalie Daniels, English Department, JACKSON State University, Jackson, Mississippi, U. S. A., 39217, for more information. From: Willard McCarty Subject: I'm not playing hard-to-get Date: 19 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 510 (50) For historical reasons (meaning no good reason at all) I have two accounts, mccarty@utorepas (or mccarty@vm.epas.utoronto.ca) and mccarty@utoronto, an unpublicized and nearly dormant address. Since Humanist's is humanist@utoronto, people naturally get confused and send mail to mccarty@utoronto, where it sleeps, undisturbed, sometimes for weeks. So, if you send me something and it gets ignored, please check where you sent it, and if to me @utoronto, send it again to utorepas. (If it still gets ignored, assume the mail was lost and try again.) Elusively yours, Willard McCarty From: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 18 JAN 89 10:09:41 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 24 (51) Following the very helpful responses I received to my enquiry about machine-readable Kant in German, I should now like to put out an APB on St Cyril of Jerusalem (Baptismal, Pro, Lenten and Mystagogical catecheses), and any texts of John Chrysostom. Many thanks Judith Proud, Oxford Text Archive From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: WordPerfect 5.0 fonts Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 13:39 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 25 (52) I don't use WordPerfect myself (I'm a XyWriter), but everyone around me does. They are all pleased with their new version, 5.0. However, the manual says that there are all sorts of fonts and character sets that can be used with this new version, including a fully accented and ligatured Greek font. There is also Cyrillic, Multilingual, and many other very useful looking goodies. *BUT* although reference to all this stuff is in the WP 5.0 manual, there seems to be no way to implement it. It may be possible to show the characters on the screen, if you have a Herc plus or EGA, although we have not had success with an EGA. But there certainly seem to be no bitmaps of these fonts for various resolution printers. (300dpi would be an obvious starting point.) I phoned WP (from the UK!) and they were nice, but useless, and seemed as puzzled as me about all this. They sent me a letter later, referring me to SoftCraft and Turbofonts. Have any other HUMANISTs faced and solved this problem? Dominik From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Instructional programs for literary analysis Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 15:08:34 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 26 (53) I would be very grateful for the names and publishing data (if the materials are commercial) of programs along the lines of Richard Rust's LitTerms, i.e., programs designed to introduce undergraduates to basic concepts of literary theory (in any natural language). Is LitTerms itself commercially available? Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu telephone: (415) 642-2107 From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: CD-ROM Sublists Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 20:47:47 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 27 (54) [Republished from the Ibycus-L list. Apologies to those who subscribe both to Humanist and to Ibycus-L.] For research by my students and myself into the historical development of various terms, expressions, collocations, etc., I created a sublist of TLG CD-ROM C files containing in rough chronological order all of the Jewish and Christian authors I was able to identify on that disk -- about 55 in number (ignoring such problems as the inclusion of Clement of Rome with the Ps-Clementines under one rubric). Largely because this overlaps my field of expertise, it was not a terribly difficult or time consuming task, and the resulting rewards are significant. If anyone would like the list to port into the "l" function (create your own list) on their machine, just say so (send a disk for the file?). I decided to try to do something similar for the other Greek authors on the disk -- e.g. to have a list of 3rd century BCE authors, etc. This proved extremely time consuming, partly because of the bulk of them, partly because to use the "l" option, the list needed to be correct in relation to what was on the CD-ROM -- that is, I couldn't simply extract from the Canon files the relevant authors, since if the author was not yet on the CD-ROM, the "l" option would not accept the list. (If anyone is interested, I can describe the procedures by which I extracted the pertinent names from the Canon.) Thus my plea. Has anyone -- including TLG -- done a chronologically arranged list of the CD-ROM C authors, or significant subsets thereof, that would be available to us users. If not, would any of you enter into a cooperative agreement with us to divide the task up and to produce such lists? I think that I could make such a list for, say, the 3rd century BCE (on which I was working last night) in about three hours, knowing now what I have learned by trying. Any suggestions or solutions or volunteers are welcome! Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Richard Pierce Subject: Macintosh Program Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 09:02:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 28 (55) Below follows some information on a useful Macintosh program which I have been using for half a year or so to convert and clean up files. It is simple to use, fast, reliable, and effective. For example, I entered rules into Paradigm to convert TLG files into SuperGreek and then dumped them into a HyperCard stack for further manipulation. What follows is the author's description (which corresponds to my experience): Paradigma 1.0 is a fast and flexible file converter for the Macintosh. You can specify up to ten ascii characters to be replaced with any other ten characters, e g abc ---> dfg The program can process a file with a set (a 'paradigm') of up to 100 such rules, depending on memory capacity. Paradigms are stored and edited within the program, and selected from a menu when you want to use them again. The speed is about 150k/min on a Mac+, independent of the # of rules. Ascii codes can be specified in square brackets (e g [10] (= linefeed)). Unfortunately, no wildcards, due to algorithm Applications: Changing codes in a formated text file (e g Microsoft rtf-format) Transforming TLG-files to supergreek-compatible text Converting between Mac and IBM ascii Removing linefeeds Cleaning up mailing list files before printing them (by removing return chars unless they represent end of paragraph (ie are preceded by a "." Paradigma is in the public domain, and available on request from Espen Aarseth Computer section for the humanities University of Bergen, Norway Bitnet: HDBFS@NOBERGEN From: "J. S. Reed" Subject: Column by Dave Barry Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 09:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 29 (56) Humorist Dave Barry recently produced a column called "Ask Mr. Language Person" which some HUMANISTs might find amusing (and others offensive). Anyone who'd like a copy, just ask: uncjsr@unc.bitnet. Glad to oblige. John Reed, U. of North Carolina From: Dana Paramskas Subject: Conference announcement Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 16:25:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 30 (57) C O N F E R E N C E A N N O U N C E M E N T - - The First Conference on Canadian Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CCALL89) will be held consecutively at the University of Guelph and York University, April 27-29, 1989. Keynote speakers: Glyn Holmes, John Higgins and J.S. Noblitt. Over 40 researchers from universities and colleges across Canada, representing most of the current projects in the field, will present papers and demonstrations covering the following range of topics: vocabulary, writing, reading comprehension, grammar reinforcement and pronunciation programs; parsers/expert systems; videodiscs; hypermedia; CALL research; overviews of CALL; how to set up CALL labs; and introducing CALL into the curriculum. Fee: $60 before February 28 and $75 after. - For further information and registration forms, contact LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH or write Cheryl Dickie, c/o Computer-Assisted Writing Centre, 530 Scott Library, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 From: AYI004@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 16:54:37 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 513 (58) Clarification My recent mean-sounding note was not directed at Richard Goerwitz, who, as I said, spoke wisely and agreeably about Humanist discourse, but rather at S. Bjorndahl's recent outpouring (already commented on by someone else regarding his arrogant attitude towards 'students'). I got a bit too economical with the text and I'm afraid it has found the wrong target. Sorry, Brian Molyneaux (ayi004@uk.ac.soton.ibm) From: Donald Spaeth x3573 Subject: Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 11:42:14 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 514 (59) Re: A Mac in Cambridge (Patrick Conner) I believe that U.K. Macs will take input either voltage from 100-240V without requiring an adapter. A look at the back of your machine should tell you whether U.S. Macs can do the same, in which case all you will need is your Mac and a U.K. cable. Can U.S. other U.S. Mac owners confirm (or deny) this feature. Donald Spaeth Arts Computing Development Officer University of Leeds ecl6das at cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk (earn/janet) From: Johnfox@RCN Subject: M.A. Program Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 15:08:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 31 (60) Salem State College History Department Graduate Committee is re-evaluating its M.A. program. Would appreciate information from colleagues who have such a degree program. Should note that we do not offer a Ph.D. Most of our candidates are teachers. Specifically: 1. General degree requirements? 2. G.P.A. for admission? 3. How many grad credits may be transferred in? 4. How many credit hours must be earned? 5. How many c/h must be in history? 6. How many required courses, i.e.: Historiography, etc? 7. At conclusion of program is a comprehensive examrequired? 8. Is a thesis required or is it an option? 9. How many credit hours is thesis worth? 10 How many C's is a candidate permitted before out ofprogram? 11. Does program have a time limit? 12. At the master level do you offer degree program which are more specific than an M.A.History i.e.: Master in Public History? Thank you for your help and time John Fox@Taylor.Rcc.Rcn.Edu From: GILES R. HOYT Subject: Polyglot program Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1989 09:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 32 (61) Is anyone acquainted with the word processing program POLYGLOT from YATEX, Inc, P.O. Box 3667, Teaneck, NJ. ? It is advertised as handling WYSIWYG Russian and 11 other languages. It is supposed to drive an Epson or IBM compatible 9-pin printer. -grh From: "DOV - DR. ART ST. GEORGE" Subject: Translation Program? Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 13:58 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 33 (62) I would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows of the existence of software to perform Chinese-English translations. Thanks in advance. From: Anthony Aristar Subject: English Texts Date: Fri 20 Jan 89 16:20:51-CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 34 (63) My wife is doing linguistic research for which she needs machine-readable English texts. Unfortunately, she's having some difficulty finding precisely what she wants. She knows about the Oxford archive, but wonders whether there are any other sources, whether private or public, to which she might gain access. She's interested in texts of all historical periods, from Anglo-Saxon through Middle English to Modern English. Can anyone help us? ------- From: Sterling Bjorndahl - Claremont Graduate School Subject: libel Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 10:48 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 516 (64) Lest the libel that I don't like students get spread any further, I have a file folder of teaching evaluations which says quite the opposite. Sorry to bug all the Humanist readers with this, but I do have a career to think about, so I feel obliged to defend myself. Sterling Bjorndahl Claremont, California From: "Dana Cartwright, Syracuse Univ, 315-443-4504" Subject: Mac's on Foreign (to us) Power Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 07:03:20 LCL X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 35 (65) My Mac-II has a sticker over the power cord which says "Input voltage range is self-setting from 100-240 V." This suggests it would be fairly easy to use in Europe and the U. K. A recently-purchased SE here bears the same sticker. Our venerable office Mac Pluses state flatly "120 VAC," suggesting less flexibility. There is a strong trend in the computing business towards "switching" power supplies, which take their electrical input and literally chop it up into very small samples, thus in a sense just "biting off" as much power as they need. Such power supplies are very efficient and light-weight, and they will accept just about anything by way of input (any frequency will do, and the voltage can vary over an order of magnitude). Manufactures use such supplies for many reasons, among them being that it makes marketing to a global audience just that much easier. People traveling between the States and other countries will appreciate this bit of engineering prowess. However, rather than gathering opinions from us rather unqualified users, how about a call to Apple? From: Jude Wang Subject: Re: a Mac in Cambridge Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:26:33 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 36 (66) This is to confirm that Donald Spaeth is correct about Macs -- U.S. ones as well as U.K. ones -- supposedly being able to use different input voltages. On the back of our brand-new Mac SEs there is a label stating that "input voltage range is self-setting from 100 - 240V". Of course, we haven't actually put this to the test. Perhaps some other travelling Humanist has. I, for one, would like to know whether the Mac really does this. Thanks. Jude Wang Humanities Computing Facility Arizona State University From: "Michael E. Walsh" Subject: Re: Macs in the UK (25) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 18:25:19 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 37 (67) Checking the equipment here shows the following: MAC II - 100-240V MAC SE - 100-240V MAC Plus 220-240 V It looks like the newer equipment uses an 'intelligent'(?) power supply. From: Donald Spaeth x3573 Subject: WordPerfect v5 fonts Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 14:27:54 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 518 (68) WordPerfect's new fonts are a bit of nothing, I'm afraid. In short, WordPerfect has only done half the job. They supply the definitions for screen fonts, but NOT downloadable versions of them. If you want these, you must buy them elsewhere. Furthermore, although WP supplies 1200 additional characters, less than half of these are available with EGA (you should be able to get 512, but I haven't been able to verify this). There is no way to choose which half you want, so if you want the full 1200 a Hercules Plus card with RamFont must be purchased. Many of the allegedly extra characters shown with EGA appear to me to already be part of the extended character set (e.g. Greek); cyrillic and hebrew are not included. Finally, a rather lengthy sequence of keypresses must be used to display one of these characters, including its table and character number. WP does allow the user to define new keyboards with individual "macros" executing these keypresses. If you ring WordPerfect technical support in the U.K. they will send you, free of charge, a package from Bitstream which includes a number of downloadable laser fonts, both for Hewlett Packett LaserJet II and Apple LaserWriter. But these are for Roman fonts. To WP's credit, IF you do find downloadable non-Roman Greek fonts, a mechanism is supplied for storing and downloading them. How these work in practice I don't know as I have yet to get any such fonts (typefaces, really!). This pessimistic and cynical account is based on my own experimentation and calls to Sentinel (now WordPerfect) technical support in the U.K. (tel. 0932 248488, serial number from U.K.-purchased copy necessary). If others have had more success with the product or have experience in buying laser printer typefaces and printing to them from WP, I would be delighted to hear it. For the time being, I have abandoned WP in favour of Nota Bene (on IBM-compatibles) and the Apple Mac. Donald Spaeth Arts Computing Development Officer University of Leeds email: ecl6das at cms1.ucs.leeds.ac.uk (earn/janet) From: Mark Olsen Subject: libel? Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 12:57:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 38 (69) So far, we avoid politics, religion, teaching methods and many many other interesting topics on Humanist for fear of offending someone. Am I now going to have to get my lawyer to vet submissions to Humanist for fear of legal action? LIGHTEN UP GUYS. E-mail has a number of difficiencies as a medium of communications. The most serious is that it lacks all of the hedging of verbal interaction. The tone of messages is sometimes completely missed, and this can lead to misunderstanding of intent and content. Mark From: Willard McCarty Subject: personal remarks and defenses Date: 22 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 39 (70) Dear Colleagues: Mark Olsen, in the preceding note, says exactly what I hoped someone would about the minor bit of name-calling and self-defense recently on Humanist. Ad hominem remarks are dangerous. The ill humoured ones don't belong at all, and the electronic medium is simply not sophisticated enough to allow most of the good humoured insults to be properly interpreted by the victims. Defensive remarks, provoked by these insults, are equally hard to read, as Mark says. Periodically we are reminded that Humanist is recreated each day, for better or worse. Memory gives it a little grace, and us the encouragement to use it and improve it with our contributions, but it could be ruined very easily. Yours, Willard McCarty From: Jeutonne P. Brewer (BREWERJ@UNCG) Subject: Call for papers/MLA Date: 21 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 40 (71) The Language and Society Division of the MLA organizes three sessions. I would like to invite members of HUMANIST to submit abstracts. CALL FOR PAPERS LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY DIVISION MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 27-30 December 1989 Washington, D.C. 1989 Theme: Language in Public Life Possible topics include: Language in the Professions, Influences of Technology, Language Planning and Language Policy, Relationship of Academe to Language Policy, Language in the Classroom, Language of Ethnic Conflict, Language of Public Discourse 200-Word Abstracts due: March 15, 1989 Jeutonne P. Brewer Department of English University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27412 Bitnet Address: BREWERJ@UNCG (Please note: All participants must be a member of the MLA by April 1.) From: Subject: Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 41 (72) REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE BOOK, SOFTWARE, AND HARDWARE REVIEWS FOR JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY The first issue of the "Journal of Quantitative Anthropology will be published this month by Kluwer Academic Publishers. As Reviews Editor for that journal, I hope to use this conference as a means of soliciting help and advice about the conduct of my office. There are five distinct areas where I ask assistance: 1) Titles of books that ought to be reviewed. 2) Software that ought to be reviewed. 3) Individuals who might be asked to do particular hardware, software, and book reviews. 4) Departments that might be interested in reviewing MAJOR software packages (SYSTAT, SPSSX, SAS, etc.). I envision a multiple author reviews that would narrate the course of installation, learning, and use of the package by members of an anthropology department on their departmental PCs. In turn, the department would get a legal, "free" copy of a significant piece of software. 5) Information about Bulletin Boards and other Conferences on BITNET, USENET, etc. that should be of interest to anthropologists. I would like to put together a brief description of these conferences and lists for publication in "QA." Please direct responses to any one of the e-mail addresses listed below. Cheers, Chris Peebles [HEPnet : IND::BLACK::PEEBLES | C.S. Peebles ] [ARPA : peebles@silver.bacs.indiana.edu | Glenn A. Black Lab ] [ARPA : peebles@gold.bacs.indiana.edu | 9th and Fess Streets ] [UUCP : {pur-ee,rutgers,pyramid,ihnp4}!silver!peebles | Bloomington, IN 47405] [BITNET : PEEBLES@IUBACS | (812) 855-9544 ] From: Mark Olsen Subject: ARTFL Project -- shameless advertisement Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 15:11:32 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 42 (73) A number of people have asked me about what ARTFL is and what it does. I am sending along a bit of shameless advertising. I am closely connected to the ARTFL Project and will benefit -- indirectly albeit -- from my favorable comments. Mark ARTFL A Textual Database 2000 Texts 17th-20th Centuries Literature, Philosophy, Arts, Sciences... A Cooperative Project: Centre National de la The University Recherche Scientifique of Chicago A Research Tool for Scholars and Students in all Areas of French Studies. The ARTFL Project In 1957 the French Government initiated the creation of a new dictionary of the French Language, the Tre/sor de la Langue Franc+aise. In order to provide access to a large body of word samples, it was decided to transcribe an extensive selection of French texts for use with a computer. Twenty years later, a corpus totaling some 150 million words had been created, representing a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. [much deleted] -------------------- [A complete version of this description is now available on the file-server, s.v. ARTFL PROJECT. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: request for information (Brit) Date: 21 January 1989 20:49:15 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 521 (74) Can anyone tell me anything about Brit Software? Good, bad, indifferent or just references to reviews? Thanks. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Mon, 23 JAN 89 11:37:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 522 (75) I have three questions of the Humanist readership today. Here they are: 1. Do you use any commercial (i.e. not handcrafted) database management system as a fundamental part of your computing? 2. What is it? 3. Would you be willing to submit yourself to a more detailed electronic interrogation about your use of it? (No prizes for guessing who's doing the 'Databases' section of the next Humanities Computing Yearbook) Lou Burnard From: Terry Harpold, University of Pennsylvania (tharpold@penndrls) Subject: Mac & power overseas Date: Monday, 23 January 1989 1111-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 523 (76) Just a note to add to to the recent discussion on using the Mac overseas. Re.: using the Apple printers with overseas voltage. The ImageWriter II will NOT work with non-American voltage, but the older, ImageWriter I DOES. (You can get one of these used, for a pretty good price--if you're in the 'States, try Sun Remarketing). I don't know about the LaserWriters--have to check my manuals when I get home. From: C447847@UMCVMB (Stephen Whyte) Subject: text for cognitive science Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 10:59:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 43 (77) At least a couple of people (Boggess, Gene III GBoggess@MSSTATE and Koch, Christian chk@oberlin.edu.csnet and some other address I forget) that they would soon be teaching a course in cognitive science. I would like to take this opportunity to recommend a text for their consideration and the consideration of anyone else who might be interested: Haugeland, John "Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea" MIT Press, 1985. (Sorry, I don't know how to underline.) I studied it in a philosophy of mind class and found it a fascinating introduction to AI. It includes historical and philosophical perspectives on the subject. Of course, like all texts, it has a bias which may or may not be correct. Virtually Yours, Stephen Whyte From: "CONNIE GOULD" Subject: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 09:56:21 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 44 (78) The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and Rutgers University are pleased to announce that a prototype of the Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) is now available for purchase through the MEMDB Editorial Office at Rutgers University. MEMDB, a joint project of Rutgers University and RLG, aims to provide scholars with a continually expanding reference library of information concerning the medieval and early modern period, roughly A.D.800-1800. The prototype runs on AT-class computers with ten megabytes of available hard disk storage. It contains 13,254 medieval currency exchange quotations from Europe, Byzantium, the Levant, and North Africa--the kernel of what will ultimately be a greatly expanded database with information on wages, prices, demography, property holding, and many other subjects. The expanded data bank will be available on the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) in 1990. The MEMDB prototype is the first truly non-bibliographic database to be developed by RLG. It is a very flexible reference tool, allowing users to retrieve both the scholarly source and background text for any item retrieved from the database. It also provides for exporting of items to standard word processing, database, and spreadsheet programs. Even in its prototype form, we believe that MEMDB's unique features will make it a model for databases in the humanities and social sciences. Copies of the prototype cost $250.00, which covers the price of the underlying software (Advanced Revelation), and diskettes, handling, and mailing. It may be obtained on 5.25- or 3.5-inch diskettes. The accompanying MEMDB Handbook will provide information on how to use MEMDB. To place orders, or for further information, please contact: Dr. Martha Carlin Executive Director The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank Department of History, CN 5059 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08903 phone: 201/932-8316 electronic mail: BB.MXC@RLG.Bitnet From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: Jewish Inscription Project Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 13:30:44 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 45 (79) Dear Colleagues, With a grant from the British Academy, the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge is beginning a project to index all inscriptions relating to Jews and Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period. Our ideal is a corpus, both machine-readable and in hard copy. The immediate goal is as comprehensive an Index as possible. The grant is currently for one year only; we need some tangible results if it is to continue. The first step is to establish the current state of activity. The more machine-readable texts we can locate the higher we can set our sights. We are experimenting with automatic input of the current Corpora, but are not sure whether our KDEM will cope with the fonts, diagrams, and so on in which they abound. We appeal therefore to anyone interested, to enable us to make the project as adventurous and useful as possible. All suggestions, information, potential sources of further funding, &c, will be most gratefully received. In particular, if you are interested and use a computer in your own research, we would be grateful to have details. This will help when we come to decide how to distribute the computerised format. Gratefully, Douglas de Lacey (DEL2@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX). From: Stephen Clausing Subject: language authoring system Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 14:47:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 46 (80) I recently offered to make my Macintosh authoring system (Private Tutor) plus Germam exercises available to members of HUMANIST for the cost of distribution. Six of you took me up on this offer, which strikes me as a good response. However,the original notice was directed to German on-line help and some of you may not have read it. I am therefore repeating my offer to distribute this at the cost of $10 U.S. ($12 U.S. for overseas) which pays for the disks, printed documentation, and mailing. I might add that I am being bought out by Kinko's which will charge $40 for a single-user licence and $300 for a site license. I don't believe it would be fair to Kinko's or myself to give the program away in the future so this is, as they say in advertising, my final offer. Feel free to request a copy through my e-mail address: SClaus@Yalevm, or call (203) 488-6527, or write: Stephen Clausing, 408 Thoreau Rd., Branford, CT 06405. If you give me a university address I will send the materials on credit. Incidentally, the German exercises won the 1988 NCRIPTAL/EDUCOM award for Distinguished Software in the category of languages. At present, Private Tutor has been acquired by over 40 universities in 9 countries and has been used to create exercises in French, German, Chinese, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. From: Randall Jones Subject: ACH Sessions at the 1989 MLA Annual Meeting Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 16:42:04 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 47 (81) The Association for Computers and the Humanities will once again sponsor two sessions at the 1989 Modern Language Association annual meeting (27-30 December, Washington, D.C.). Below are the topics and a brief description of each session. Anyone interested in participating in either session should send a brief abstract to me by April 1st. ACH Session #1 Topic: The Humanitst and the Electronic Text Brief Description: The electronic computer has made it possible for texts to be created, modified, analyzed and tramsmitted without ever being written down. This session will treat topics such as electronic mail, electronic publishing, computer processing of texts, etc. ACH Session #2 Topic: The Representation of Literary Texts in Electronic Format Brief Description: Limitations in the size and type of character sets in most electronic computers make it necessary to devise special coding mechanisms when converting literary texts to electronic format. This session will address these issues and report on the progress made by the Text Encoding Initiative which is co-sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Randall L. Jones Humanities Research Center 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84604 JONES@BYUADMIN From: Randall Jones Subject: Help on Learning BITNET Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 14:36:34 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 525 (82) Dear Humanists, A few months ago I solicited information about teaching novices how to use BITNET. Several of you kindly sent me information from your local computer centers which I had intended to synthesize and make available to anyone who wished to receive it. Unfortunately, the more I studied the more I realized that protocols and conventions differ drastically from installation to installation. BITNET commands seem to come in a variety of local colors and flavors and it is often difficult to separate out local conventions from those which are universally applicible. I know in my own travels that trying to use BITNET somewhere else is like trying to learn a new language. Thus I apologize for letting anyone down, but express my appreciation for those who responded. Perhaps each of us could press for our respective centers to write a decent BITNET users' guide. Randall Jones Brigham Young University From: Walter Piovesan Subject: MRDF - William Blake. Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 10:01:28 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 526 (83) A researcher here at SFU is looking for computer-readable texts of works by William Blake. I checked the Oxford Text Archives and their catalog did not have any listings for Blake. Does anyone on HUMANIST know of where such texts might be found? Thanks. Walter Piovesan Research Data Library Simon Fraser University From: GUEDON@CC.UMONTREAL.CA Subject: database software? Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 20:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 527 (84) In reply to Lou Burnard's question, let me say that I use 4th dimension on a MacII (and the help of a friend for the programming needed to manage a population of several thousand people strung across two centuries of history. Jean-Claude Guedon From: Willard McCarty Subject: Plans for The Humanities Computing Yearbook Date: 24 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 528 (85) As I have announced on Humanist, The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988 is now in print from Clarendon Press, Oxford. Preparations for the next volume are well underway, but the organization of this and all subsequent volumes is very different from that of the first. Reviewers of HCY 1988 and other computing humanists may be interested to know how we plan to change and thus improve the Yearbook. Both authors regard the HCY as the first step towards an acceptable reference work for the field rather than a finished design. In particular, we realized while volume 1 was in progress that such a resource could only be done properly with the collaboration of many scholars around the world. While we think that this first volume shows the possibilities clearly enough, it necessarily lacks two things: detailed knowledge of activities in the many countries where they are taking place, and expertise rooted in each of the academic disciplines affected. The need for such expertise is especially great because the Yearbook must represent in each year what is currently of interest to practicing scholars. It is not just a report on the activities of the year, nor is it (at all) a cumulative listing of everything done so far. Consequently, in the last few months we have appointed members of an Advisory Board to take charge of specific sections of the HCY under the general editorship of Ian Lancashire and myself. This board consists of about 40 individuals in North America, Europe, and the Near and Far East. Members are expected to scan sources in their academic area for articles, books, software, associations, and the like. The Toronto office takes responsibility for sources more explicitly dedicated to computing, contacts vendors and developers of software for their cooperation, and gives Advisory Board members other appropriate support. Electronic mail in general, and Humanist in particular, are bound to play a significant role in the speedy interchange of information among the several collaborators of the HCY. You can expect to see inquiries from them on Humanist, such as Lou Burnard's recent one about database management systems. Your help and suggestions will be most welcome. Our joint experience is that electronic media, such as Humanist, serve to update experts faster than printed books, although these are still the main scholarly medium for the humanities as a whole. A resource book on humanities computing does more than cater to the expectations of our colleagues, however. It provides a useful stability that the electronic counterpart lacks; it tends to demand a standard of accuracy not common in the rough- and-tumble of e-mail; and as Ben Shneiderman has pointed out, it gives closure to the subject, hence draws attention to its shape as a whole. We hope that in this way the HCY will make a real contribution to our understanding of the one thing that we are severally doing. Willard McCarty From: "Michael A. Keller" Subject: Re: database software (19) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 16:26:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 529 (86) In response to Lou Bernard's question, I use SPIRES and Advanced Revelation. I'd be willing to subject myself to electronic interrogation on the subject. MAK From: Richard Giordano Subject: MACII software for foreign language teaching Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 16:15:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 530 (87) I always have good luck when I post a question on the Humanist. Aside from MacLang and Drill, does anyone know of any software that runs on the MacII that's designed to help students learn foreign languages? The software should be designed for use by undergraduates. Please respond to me directly at RICH@PUCC.BITNET or RICH@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Thanks in advance for your help. Richard Giordano Princeton University From: N.J.Morgan@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK Subject: Re: How to study history? Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 13:20:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 531 (88) I enclose an abstract of a papper recently delivered at the CATH88 conference in Southampton, England, that might be of interest in the context of the discussion on teaching history. Nicholas Morgan Department of Scottish History University of Glasgow Liberator or libertine - the computer in the history classroom ? What are we trying to acheive when we teach history ? `... the purpose of teaching history to undergraduates is to equip them with the special intellectual training embodied in the study of history at any level. This intellectual training consists of two elements: a sharpening of the critical analytical faculty, and a deepening of the imaginative and constructive faculty.' G R Elton The practice of history (pbk, 1969, p.186) This paper, based on the experiences of the DISH project at Glasgow, will argue that this objective has become clouded by a desire to impart facts rather than intellectual `training' or the development of critical and analytical skills. Facts are perhaps more easily examined and are certainly more easily taught in conventional lectures. Within the Scottish educational system they are (or at least traditionally have been) the stuff of both secondary and higher education. Facts about the past have become more important than sources of information from the past: and yet it is in an understanding of the nature of these sources that the key for independent judgement resides. In the absence of this independence it is the authority of the lecturer, or the course textbook, which counts. This primacy of content over method can be explained by a variety of institutional factors. Not least, it stems from the spread of history teaching among various departments in many universities, each seeking to create and maintain power bases constructed partly on the sanctity of specialised content. Computers in the classroom offer a means of returning to a form of teaching that places intellectual training at the forefront by relegating `facts' to context for detailed source based assignments modeled on a workshop format. New technology enables students to approach and interrogate types and amounts of information about the past that would, without new technolgy, be unavailable to them. In the process their work becomes less passive and more participatory, their questions more logical and imaginative, and their evaluation of answers more structured. Computers both liberate and discipline the user. They liberate in as much as their potential is only limited by the user's imagination (and more practically by the resources available to him or her). They discipline in the way they force a user to think logically about the structure of the information about the past that they are using. It may seem obvious that historians do this already, but on further investigation it is self-evident that they frequently don't. And yet understanding information is the key to asking questions of it. At Glasgow the DISH project is involved in a collaborative project with the Learning Technology Unit of the Training Agency, and the Clydesdale Bank, to produce a computer-based teaching package aimed at developing such an understanding of information. The package is being designed for use both by undergraduates, but also by businessmen who need to either to handle large amounts of information themselves or to understand how others are handling it for them. It is based around business archives and public records, specifically the Scottish Calendar of Confirmations, and records of the Glasgow firm of undertakers Wylie & Lochhead. Much of the material being used is similar to many other past and present types of business record - it appears to have an obvious structure and content. Yet the Wylie & Lochhead order books, for example, contain at least 72 data items, the identification of each of which enhances the use to which the source can be put. The CBIS package will take users through the process of identifying relevant data- items, asking them to structure their database in a form that allows the linking of items from one of the three sources to another. Such an exercise has the attractiveness of a crossword or puzzle; it forces clear and logical thinking about sources, but this in itself is not enough unless students are to go beyond analysing the structure of a source to analysing the information contained in it. But how do these apparently liberated teachers and students avoid enslavement to the computer as libertine, a promiscuous mistress of information. In particular, can the creative processes of the computerised classroom avoid being overshadowed by the complexities of computerised datasets and accompanying software. This tension, presented flippantly here, is real. The temptation exists to overload the learners with a plethora of complex information and related issues. In order to avoid this congestion the teacher must deliver a structured exercise which isolates the most important questions and the minimum of data necessary to explore them properly. But the key word is exploration: the exercise must be structured so as to permit learners to pursue a variety of routes to an outcome which (like an adventurous essay) is a plausible resolution to a complex problem rather than a single answer to a simple question. The learner choses his own route and makes his own way there. This change in emphasis fundamentally challenges current assumptions about the role of the teacher of history in Universities. Computer based teaching must and will challenge such assumptions in all humanities disciplines. Indeed, at an extreme it could be argued that for historians this approach liberates academics from having to teach history at all. Instead they can become guides accompanying their students in an exploration of the past. Their role becomes more participatory, more challenging. The lecturer is liberated from the tyranny of content, although at the clear expense of the time and effort that is implicit in the preparation and presentation of computer workshops. As a consequence traditional relationships between teacher and taught are modulated (as indeed are relationships between students); institutional claims to departmental autonomy based on content are challenged. The teacher's relationship with his subject is revolutionised. Nicholas Morgan Department of Scottish History University of Glasgow R H Trainor Department of Economic History University of Glasgow All correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to N.J.Morgan at Glasgow.VME (N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.uk.ac) From: Subject: blake Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 20:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 48 (89) In response to the query about electronic versions of Blake's works: the texts which were used to generate the Cornell Blake concordances are available from Cornell for a small fee ($100US I think). They are full of very odd encoding symbols and in upper case only, but they constitute the only known machine readable version of Blake's full corpus that I know of. I personally have the Songs of Innocence and Experience in mcahine readable form, although the texts are not verified for accuracy. Nancy M. Ide ide@vassar.bitnet From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: electronic Blake? (25) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 08:22:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 49 (90) Walter Piovesan's query about an electronic text of William Blake's writings reminded me that the existence of the texts used to make concordances is often overlooked by students and archivists. The Cornell, Garland, Gale (etc.) concordance list of authors ought to be in the Oxford archives. The text of Blake's writings used by David Erdman for the Blake Concordance exists on tape at Cornell and at the University of Western Ontario. Unless copyright prevents the distribution of these electronic texts, the concordance base texts should be very useful. R.J. Shroyer: Department of English, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 3K7. (519)-679-2111, ext. 5839 or 5834 Canada: Shroyer@uwovax.uwo.ca UUCP: Shroyer@julian.UUCP ...!watmath!julian!Shroyer From: Laine Ruus Subject: Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 10:28:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 533 (91) In response to Lou Burnard's question, the University of Toronto now also is a Spires site. From: "Charles W. Tucker" Subject: A RECENT PUBLICATION OF INTEREST Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 08:29:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 534 (92) Dear Colleague, I strongly recommend an issue of CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION: A NEWSLETTER OF IDEAS IN CYBERNETICS, Winter, 1988 edited by Greg Williams. This issue contains a report by Thomas J. Smith and Karl U. Smith entitled "The Cybernetic Basis of Human Behavior and Performance" which summarizes their work during the last fifty years on "... the general phenomenon of closed- loop control, which may in fact involve positive or negative or feedforward control mechanisms (1)." Anyone with a concern in human behavior will find some aspect of this report relevant. This issue of CC can be obtained ($2 in US; $3 elsewhere) from: Greg Williams Hortideas Route 1, Box 302 Gravel Switch KY 40328 (606) 332-7606 If you get this report, I would appreciate your comments on it. Chuck Tucker, Sociology, USC-Columbia SC 29208 N050024 at UNIVSCVM From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: RE: electronic Blake (57) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 10:43 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 535 (93) Dick Shroyer and Nancy Ide both remark that the Cornell concordance texts should be available. This is not my impression: in the past the Text Archive has repeatedly tried to get copies of several of the texts without absolutely no success. If the climate has changed, it would obviously be worth trying again, and I will certainly approach whoever is the right person to approach. But who is it? Nancy's point raises the interesting question of fees: does the Humanist readership think we should continue our cost-only policy? if so, how can we deal with organisations which want to charge large sums for electronic texts. The fees may or may not be reasonable - the point is that we have no budget to buy them. Should we be building up a catalogue of places, prices and sources? Someone should lou Oxford text archive From: Willard McCarty Subject: a contest Date: 24 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 536 (94) Steve DeRose, who has been coordinating efforts to put Humanist's biographies into shape, tells me that the first version will soon be ready. For several reasons we need a sample biography, but I'd rather not have one of us contribute his or her own. I have cherished the notion that a fake biography, say of that redoubtable academic Morris Zapp (a character in some novels by David Lodge), would be far more suitable. I have tried to write one but have discovered that I lack the necessary talent to make it sufficiently humorous -- and true to Lodge's character. So, I would like to propose a contest, to which all Humanists are invited to submit one or more entries. If you have not read Lodge's books, esp. _Changing Places_ and _Small World_, this contest may give you the incentive to do so. Know that the character of Zapp is based on a very well known professor of English, who teachrs in the U.S.; I am told that the resemblance is uncomfortably close, but I do not know the victim in question. Willard McCarty From: Willard McCarty Subject: 16th supplement to the biographies Date: 26 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 538 (95) Autobiographies of Humanists Sixteenth Supplement Following are 23 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the Humanist discussion group. Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Humanist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas 26 January 1989 ================================================================= *Aristar, Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Address: Human Interface Laboratory, Natural Language Project, MCC, Austin, TX 78759. Telephone 512 338 3443 I'm an Australian citizen who's lived in America since 1978. I did my BA (Hons) at the University of Melbourne, specializing in Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic and Linguistics. I came to this country in order to study at the University of Chicago, where I did an AM in Comparative Semitics. My PhD, from the University of Texas at Austin, is in linguistics, the major focus of my work being in typology and language change. In my last year as a student I was offered a job in computational linguistics, a field which has successfully kept me in America since 1984. Most of my research has been focussed on Arabic---I've written a pretty complete morphological analyzer for the language---and on the definition of computational formalisms which are capable of capturing cross-linguistic generalizations in syntax. At the moment I'm interested in theories of morphology in general, and in computational models of language change, though somehow I always find myself being dragged back into work on the more ancient Afroasiatic languages, in part because cultural contrasts fascinate me, in part because I'm intrigued by the problems dead languages present. On occasion I've idly speculated about the computational approaches to the problems of undeciphered ancient languages---Linear A always comes to mind---but none of this musing has resulted in anything more concrete than a tipsy after- dinner conversation. ================================================================= *Birnbaum, David Jonathan [Internet] [UUCP] [Bitnet] Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard University; 11 Adams Terrace, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; 617-492-8511 Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics (Harvard). Slavic philologist specializing in the study of medieval Slavic texts and in Slavic accentology. Current major projects are a critical edition and English translation of the Life of Stefan Lazarevic (Serbian despot, d. 1427) and accentual dictionaries of medieval Slavic manuscripts. Additional research interests include Slavic and general linguistics, both diachronic and synchronic, specializing in phonology and morphology. Computational interests include the use of computers in the study of orthographically complex manuscripts (on which see the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, Madison, SD, 1988), Cyrillic character sets (information interchange standards, font design), multilingual word processing and typesetting, foreign language Optical Character Recognition, and SNOBOL. Member of the Advisory Board of the Humanities Computing Yearbook sharing responsibility for Slavic languages. ================================================================= *Dupuy, Luc Chercheur, Centre d'Analyse de Textes par Ordinateur, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, C.P. 8888, Succ. "A", Montreal H3C 3P8; (514) 678-0628 (514) 282-8256 At the present time, I am employed by the Centre d'Ato in Montreal. My principal interest are in relating discourse analysis and computational techniques. Anything that will be concerned with Artificial Intelligence in a sociological perspective (expert systems just to mention this one) will get my attention. I have been associated with this type of research at the centre d'ato for 3 years, and hopefully will continue to do so for the next 5 or 10 years. I have a preference for "logic" as far as it is concerned with the natural aspect of cognition (read sociological cognition). Quite obviously, I am a French "native" and I intend to remain this way... but I appreciate chatting about things so there is room for much curiosity. Among other things I have a preference for hands on experience of computers; and programming activities also get a fair deal of my attention (mostly Lisp, C and Pascal). So I guess there is plenty to talk about. Last but not least, I am a Ph D candidate in the sociology department of the Universite du Quebec a Montreal; thesis domain : analyse du discours journalistique et question nationale. Key Words : artificial intelligence, C, Pascal, Lisp, epistemology sociology, social theory, critical theory, expert systems, computers, sociology of knowledge, philosophy of knowledge, ideology, social psychology of communication Salutations amicales, Luc Dupuy ================================================================= *Geary, Patrick J. Professor of History, University of Florida, 4131 Turlington Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA (904) 378-9267 Research: medieval continental history, especially social and cultural. Archival work concentrates on France, Austria, Germany, and Italy. Previous publications include: Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (1978); Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Era (1985); Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World (1988). Currently I am writing a book on memory and oblivion in the eleventh century in which I examine the implicit and explicit means by which the past was used, transmitted and transformed between 950 and 1050. Special areas of research involving computer work: statistical analysis of naming patterns in Europe ca. 800-1100; structure of Carolingian manors based on network analysis. ================================================================= *Gilbert, John K. (Jody) e-mail address userid=dog1 At present, spring 89, I am a graduate student in English at Simon Fraser University. My present work involves investigating hardware and software to assist in teaching and researching English. At the '88 MLA conference in New Orleans, Professor Paul Delany and I presented a paper and a demo of a piece of Hypercard software which we created around Fielding's *Joseph Andrews*. I believe that developing communications and information handling technology will not only increase the efficiency but also, and perhaps more importantly, the pleasure and sense of community of our shcolarly endeavours. So I continue on an X-year mission to seek out new hardware / English scholars have gone before. ================================================================= *Glazer, Mark Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Pan American University, Edinburg, Texas 78539 (512) 381-3551 I am an anthropologist specializing in folklore studies with special emphasis on legends and archival data bases. The Rio Grande Folklore Archive, where I do my work, has thousands of folklore items on line. This includes folk beliefs, folk medicine, recipes, proverbs and a certain number of folk tales. All items include contextual information. This information is stored on a Bernouli Box attached to a Zenith computer. We are currently using Nutshell which has served us well with its full indexing capacity. We are about to start experimenting with AskSam and Nutshell Plus. As to my background, I am a Northwestern University Ph.D. in Anthropology, a Professor of Anthropology, and the Head of the Rio Grande Folklore Archive at Pan American University. I must also confess to being the Associate Dean of our College of Arts and Sciences. ================================================================= *Hobohm, Hans-Christoph Institute for applied social research, Greinstr. 2, University of Cologne, D-5000 Cologne 41, West Germany. Phone: 49 221 470 4406 (a.m.), 49 221 31 94 28 (p.m.) My principal subjects of interest are Romance Litterature, historical data- base managment systems like kleio (CLIO) and applications of computers in library work. I am about to finish my PhD on censorship of novels in the early French enlightenment and I am earning my life by teaching computer to litterature students as well as to future librarians for I am running the library of a sociological institute. ================================================================= *Holmes, Steven H Research Assistant, Department of Computing, Plymouth Polytechnic, PLYMOUTH PL4 8AA UK I am currently employed as a Research Assistant at Plymouth, where I am conducting investigations into issues of user- understanding, user-attitudes, user-preconceptions and issues of usability in a general sense with respect to systems which may be regarded as in some way intelligent; for example, expert systems, knowledge-based advisors and intelligent decision- support environments --- situations in which users are more likely to feel threatened than is the case with traditional data- processing systems. At the present time, I am working with social workers on the implementation of a decision-support system which offers advice on how to deal with cases of child abuse. In 1986, I graduated from Plymouth Polytechnic with a BSc(Hons) in Computing and Informatics -- I am currently working towards a PhD in the area I have described above. My research interests may be broadly summarised as: artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, the psychology of computer usage, intelligent systems, and human-computer interaction. I am a member of AISB (the Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) and HICOM (the electronic working environment and conferencing system for Human- Computer Interaction). ================================================================= *Hoyt, Giles R. Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of German, Indiana University- Indianapolis, 425 Agnes St., Indianapolis IN 46202. Phone: 317-274-2330. My major field of research is early modern German literature, particularly narrative literature. I also do work in ethnic studies as related to Germans in North America. In that field of study I have concentrated on the Germans of the Midwestern United States. My interest in computing as applied to humanistic research dates back to late 1982 when I purchased an Osborne CP/M machine. I became active in user groups and was named coordinator for the Indiana University Faculty Computer Literacy Program in the School of Liberal Arts on my campus. I am very interested in the use of text based data bases, electronic manipulation and study of texts, telecommunications, and to a limited extent CAI. Currently I have been using WordPerfect, AskSam, and WordCruncher to set up bibliographies, prepare course materials, handle university bureaucracy, edit texts, and research texts. I am very interested in the possibility of an on-line refereed journal in my field and have done some research on that topic. ================================================================= *Humanists at Brown University At Brown University HUMANIST is posted on BRUNO (BRown University News Online). BRUNO is a conferencing system system based on GRAND, a distributed database system developed at IBM. It is used to make electronic lists and digests available to the university community and to support special interest conferences. Bruno is the principle means of electronic conferencing at Brown and is accessible to the Brown University community without charge on Brown's VM system (brownvm.brown.edu). All of the HUMANIST logs are also available and may be accessed with the BRUNO text retrieval and browsing tools. There are many avid HUMANIST readers/contributors at Brown, as scanning the HUMANIST logs for strings like Coombs, Mylonas, DeRose, Renear, Seid, Brennan, Landow, &c. reveals. Brown is also home to the Brown Computing in the Humanities User's Group (CHUG), the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), and the Pre-Victorian Women Writer's Project (WOMWRITE@brownvm.brown.edu), as well as other humanities computing projects. Most HUMANIST readers at Brown will not show up on the LISTSERV subscription list at UTORONTO. And although they are encouraged to submit their biographies to McCarty it is likely that many will not get around to it. Consequently anyone who would like a mailing list of computing humanists at Brown should request the CHUG mailing list from Allen Renear (ALLEN@brownvm.brown.edu). Before BRUNO went into production HUMANIST mailings and logs were maintained online for Brown by Tim Seid of the Religious Studies Department. ================================================================= *Kirsner, Robert S. Associate Professor of Dutch and Afrikaans, Department of Germanic Languages, 302 Royce Hall - UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90024- 153 USA; Office (213) 825-3955 Home (213) 390-5367 I am a linguist with an interest in the semantics of grammatical systems, the use of discourse data in grammatical analysis, in objective (i.e. quantitative and experimental) methods in linguistics, and in pragmatics. I have concerned myself with the semantics and pragmatics of modal auxiliaries, the so-called "passive" in Dutch, its tense system, adverbial pronouns, the so- called "indirect object", the semantics of demonstratives, and discourse particles. Though I have worked primarily on Dutch, I have also authored or co-authored papers on English and Swahili. Theoretically, I have recently become intrigued with Cognitive Grammar and the possible areas of agreement between it and more Saussurean approaches. For me the most crucial question in linguistics is: What does a meaning look like? Though I am a linguist, my teaching at UCLA deals with all aspects of the languages I am responsible for within the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, including the literatures written in Dutch and Afrikaans. These literatures are VERY rich and, as my colleagues and students have discovered, well worth studying. In addition to topics of linguistic interest, I am interested in Computer Assisted Language Instruction. In my function as Departmental Representative to the Humanities Computing Committee, I would welcome descriptions of software, etc. which we could possibly use in our language programs. ================================================================= *Lacey, Douglas de Literary & Linguistic Computing Centre, Sidgwik Avenue, Cambridge. Tel: 0223-335019 (LLCC); 0223-276474 (home, with ansafone). After teaching in several theological colleges, I am now involved in various part-time consultancy jobs, in the hope this will also provide time for writing and research. I run a small company which acts as European agency for the Ibycus SC (sorry about the advert!) and am involved in consultancy work for the LLCC; and also for the Divinity Faculty here in the University, co- ordinating a project to index all Jewish inscriptions of the Graeco-Roman period (and hopefully to provide a corpus). I am an Affiliated Lecturer in the Divinity Faculty and keep my hand in with various lecture courses. My major research interests are: Exploring the ways in which new religious beliefs emerge, with particular reference to the development of christology in the early church; Semantics and computer studies of lingusitic phenomena, with particular reference to koine Greek; Desk-top publication of obscure and/or difficult fonts. ================================================================= *Langston, Peter Scot M.T.S., Bellcore MRE 2D-396, (201) 829-4332, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 I have been involved with technology and the arts, jointly and separately since 1964 when I first discovered computers. Since that time, I've been involved in a number of seemingly unrelated projects. I wrote the software for the first (and probably the last) time- shared analog computer at Reed College in Portland, OR; I taught computer science, song-writing, and audio recording at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA; I supported myself playing original music ("New Music" & Rock'n'Roll in Portland, Bluegrass in Olympia, New York, & Portland, modern acoustic music in Olympia and Boston); I wrote scientific analysis & graphics programs for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA; I wrote financial database/analysis programs; I developed an office automation system for a large Wall Street law firm; I headed a group that designed high-tech computer games at Lucasfilm Ltd.; and now I'm working at Bell Communications Research on algorithmic music composition, among other things. I've had pieces in computer graphics shows, been interviewed by Scientific American, miscellaneous radio & TV stations, the Wall Street Journal, and Business Week, given concerts of electronic music, played in an experimental ensemble with scores that looked like Klee sketches and a stage band with no scores at all, consulted as an electronics designer, repaired stringed instruments, and written a program that was the world's champion GO playing program for two years. Oh yes, I have a degree in Chemistry, (a subject about which I remember almost nothing, but that was 20 years ago). My principal interest is in using technology in the arts and my crusade is to do so without destroying the attractiveness of the result. ================================================================= *Malling, Glenn A. Computer Systems Specialist, Computing and Network Services, Skytop Office Building, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244; (315) 443-4111 My request for subscription to HUMANIST is an attempt to combat the growing isolation of the computer specialist (me) from the cares and concerns of the people for whom we run these machines. One way I have of doing this is to sit on the sidelines of discussion groups such as HUMANIST and eavesdrop. ================================================================= *Mandell, Dan Senior Academic Specialist, Saint Mary's College, Computing Center, Notre Dame, In 46556; (219) 284 4610 PhD. in Philosophy (1979). Since 1984 I have worked with the Academic Computer Users at Saint Mary's College, from my staff position as Academic Specialist. At present we are focusing on the Humanities Faculty, and the importance of developing a Strategic Plan for information access and management on our small liberal arts campus. ================================================================= *Perry, David Editor, University of North Carolina Press, Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 (919) 966-3561 I am an acquiring editor for the University of North Carolina Press, specializing in works in folklore, American studies, American history (particularly southern history), and Latin American studies. As a member and former chair of the Computer Committee of the American Association of University Presses, I have a special interest in the use of microcomputers for the preparation of scholarly manuscripts, computer-aided book production, alternatives to traditional book publication, and computer applications in the humanities in general. ================================================================= *Rae, Simon Liaison Officer - Schools of Modern Studies & Education. Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham Computing Services, Burton Street, NOTTINGHAM, England. NG1 4BU phone: (0602) 418248. Recently appointed as Liaison Officer to 2 schools in the Polytechnic. Expected to provide backup service for existing computer work and to encourage/initiate more use of computers in the degree/research work of the schools. Exciting prospect! Modern Studies encompasses Literature & Language, History, Geography and Creative Arts. Braver individuals in all these areas are at the stage of beginning to use computing techniques to assist their work: Wordprocessing, Databases, Spreadsheets. They are not (yet) constrained by WHAT YOU SHOULD DO WITH COMPUTERS - they don't really know enough yet so they keep asking 'simple' questions which have a habit of extending the use of soft/hardware into new areas. My background includes study as a Fine Art student, degree in all sorts (Maths, Statistics, Technology and Art History), work in theatre, wife who works in theatre and arts administration and 14 years of offering advice/help/assistance to users of academic computers. I get the impression that you in the states are further ahead of us in the use of computers in the humanities and the arts. Hopefully regular mailings of the HUMANIST will help! ================================================================= *Sveinbjornsson, Jon Professor, Faculty of Theology, Director, Institute of Theology, University of Iceland, Sudurgata, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland. Telephones: 0354-1-694345 and 0354-1-33493 (home). I have been professor of New Testament Studies (Luke, John, Romans, New Testament Theology) from 1974. Earlier I was assistant professor in Ancient Greek language and literature in the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Art and New Testament translator for the Icelandic Bible Society. My main areas of research are: Methods of ancient rhetoric to influence the reader as a basis for modern reading of ancient texts. Semantic analysis of New Testament texts for preparation of a machine readable dictionary/concordance based on semantic domains (in collaboration with colleges from the Department of Linguistics. Translation Theory (I have been engaged in the translation and revision of the Icelandic New Testament 1981). I am interesed in engaging students in applying computers to Bible texts: text retrieval - HyperCard - etc. I am a member of a Macintosh-users group called BOREAL. We are a discussion group for computing humanities and applying computers to scholarship in the humanities. At present we are especially concentrating on ancient texts (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old-Norse, Old- English). All the members are teachers and researchers at the University of Iceland, both in the Faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Art. ================================================================= *Taylor, Richard C. <6297TAYL@MUCSD> Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233 U.S.A. I was born in Lockport, N.Y. in 1950 and educated in Catholic schools through high school. After spending a year at Syracuse University, I completed my undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Buffalo receiving a B.A. (with honors) in Philosophy in 1972. There I enrolled in several courses taught by the late Prof. George Hourani, an expert in ancient philosophy and medieval Islamic thought as well as ethics. As a result of association with Prof. Hourani, I undertook graduate studies at the University of Toronto in Medieval Studies and Philosophy. I received an M.A. in Medieval Studies in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies and Philosophy in 1982. In 1982 I joined the Philosophy Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee where I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient and medieval philosophy was well as in other areas. In 1986 I was named chair of the Editorial Board of the Marquette University Press series, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation. My studies in Toronto concentrated on ancient and medieval Christian and Islamic philosophy and the requisite language work. My doctoral dissertation, directed by M.E. Marmura of Middle East and Islamic Studies, was an edition with English translation and study of an Arabic text, KALAM FI MAHD AL-KHAIR ("Discourse on the Pure Good") which I edited from manuscripts examined during a research trip to Holland, Turkey and Egypt in 1979-80. This Arabic work, based in large part on a work by the Greek Neoplatonist Proclus, appeared in Arabic in the 9th century C.E. and was translated into Latin in the late 12th century under the name, LIBER DE CAUSIS. In the Latin West, it was for some time thought to be a work by Aristotle and enjoyed enormous popularity, something reflected by the fact that there are nearly 250 extant Latin manuscripts of it and the many commentaries on it by Thomas Aquinas, Albertus Magnus, Siger of Barbant, Giles of Rome, Roger Bacon and others. My publications have for the most part dealt with this text and its importance and influence in Medieval Islam and Christianity. In addition to my work on the Arabic text of this treatise, I have also done some work toward the preparation of a critical edition of the Latin version. I have published articles in MEDIAEVAL STUDIES, BULLETIN DE PHILOSOPHIE MEDIEVALE, MANUSCRIPTA, MELANGES DE L'INSTITUT DOMINICAIN D'ETUDES ORIENTALES and in two collections of essays. I have also been co- editor of two collections of essays, THE LIFE OF RELIGION and MORAL PHILOSOPHY: CONTEMPORARY MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF MORAL THOUGHT (forthcoming). Recently I completed a translation into English of the COMMENTARY ON THE LIBER DE CAUSIS by Thomas Aquinas, done in collaboration with Rev. C. Hess, O.P., and Rev. V. Guagliardo, O.P., of the Dominican School at Berkeley. This is to be published by Catholic University Press. Currently I am working on an English translation with notes and introduction of the GREAT COMMENTARY ON THE DE ANIMA OF ARISTOTLE by Averroes (Ibn Rushd). This work, originally composed in Arabic, is extant in full only in a Medieval Latin translation which was widely read by philosophical thinkers from the 13th century well into the time of the Renaissance. This translation is being funded substantially by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and will be published by Yale University Press. My interest in joining the network lies with my desire to be able to explore further computer use for text edition, bibliographical research and organization, and general study of philosophy and the history of philosophy, particularly Medieval Islamic and Christian thought. I would also like to contact humanists for discussion of programs and utilities valuable to academics generally. ================================================================= *Tomlinson, David Otis Professor of English, English Department, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5044 (301)267-3425 (301)267-3274 (secretary's office); Home: 418 Kensington Road Baltimore, Maryland 21229-2401 Rheumatic fever disabled me for nearly a year when I was six. It forced me to take up sedentary occupations early. I began reading voraciously then and began the study of music. The reading did not take much talent; the music did. Although I had little talent, I enjoyed the musical study though my joy in it these days comes primarily from listening. In college, I could not decide which of the humanities would be my major and consequently shifted between philosophy, English and history, finally settling on philosophy. A Rockefeller Brothers fellowship in religion led me to three years of study in that field before returning to graduate school in English and philosophy. Hired by the U. S. Naval Academy to teach English in 1970, I have happily remained there since. The school does not offer a full range of humanities courses, so those of us (there are near 40 at the moment) in English must furnish not only a look at literature but an understanding of cultural forces as well to students in a technical environment. For two terms (four years), I served as chair of our English Department. I collect books and have also headed the Baltimore Bibliophiles as well as the Maryland Association of Departments of English and, presently, the Mid-Atlantic College English Association. I work at a school which for many years considered typewriters too expensive an item to purchase for its teachers, but in recent years it has furnished us with wonderful computers which make those typewriters look like dime store toys. I glory in this new technology, believing that it will work to allow people to communicate better and therefore to be more humane. The belief has led me to work on the board of the COMPUTER-AIDED COMPOSITION JOURNAL, to work on an instructional development project reviewing software for use in English at the Naval Academy and to serve on Academy committees choosing hardware and software for our students. ================================================================= *Woodill, Gary Faculty Member, School of Early Childhood Education, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3. (416) 979-5306 I have worked as a school teacher, guidance counsellor, psychometrist, college teacher and university teacher over the past 18 years - one of those people who has never left school. My personal and professional interests are rather diverse - personal: sailing, travelling (a fondness for trains), drawing, chocolate truffles, the Midi of France, the Yugosalvian coast, etc..... professional: computers and young children, computers and disabled persons, the history and sociology of disability, the psychology of humour concerning disability (send cartoons and jokes to the above address), art and photography which depicts disabled people. My interest in disability started while working in a school for children with cerebral palsy in the province of Newfoundland in 1973 and has been a thread throughout my work ever since. Last year my wife (who is a sociologist at York University) and I spend a sabbatical year France where I did extensive networking and library work on the history of disabilities and special education. One outcome of the year was a seminar in Paris on "Infirmites, histoires et societes" where a group decided to form an international association for the study of the history of disabilities. The first general assembly of the association will be held in Feb. 1989 in Paris. One of my goals is to have the association set up computer links among its members. A Canadian group is being set up, and we are looking for organizers in other countries. If any of the HUMANIST group share my particular passions, I would certainly welcome messages over this network. ================================================================= *Whyte, Stephen Ray 303 Cramer UMC, Columbia, MO. 65201(314) 884-0404 OR 620 Ballman St. Louis, MO. 63135(314) 522-8525 I didn't know that there was such a thing as professional humanism, so I have nothing to say about my activities in that field. I have a b.s. in psychology and am presently completing a M.A. in philosophy. Of the different schools of psychology, I have always believed that the attitude of the humanistic psychologists was the healthiest, although I am not altogether averse to utilizing the methods of the behaviorists and the insights of the freudians and gestaltists. Other than marx, pragmatism, existentialism, and a section in an introductory philosophy text about humanism as a world-view, I have not studied much humanistic philosophy. I used to subscribe to a humanist magazine called "free inquiry" (sorry, I can't underline with this terminal), but I found it overly emotional in tone and no longer subscribe. Now, I buy "humanist" magazine whenever I get the chance. I prefer it to "free inquiry", but of course I can't agree with everything. Finally, I do like the humanities. Besides philosophy, I have enjoyed literature, music and drama. I apologize for writing such a collage as this. It seems that each sentence should be its own paragraph. ================================================================= *Zubrow, Ezra B.W. Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo, 350 Millard Fillmore East, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. 14261; 716-636-2369 (office), 716-636- 2414 (secretary), 716-636-2511 (laboratory) I am an Anthropologist whose primary interests are archaeology. My field work has been in various time periods and areas. They include first millenial Southwestern and Northeastern U.S., neolithic Arctic Norway, pre-Toltec Mexico, classic India, as well as paleolithic Israel. Substantively, I am interested in prehistoric demography, geographic information systems and archaeometry. Educated at Harvard and Arizona, I taught at Stanford prior to Buffalo and have had visiting fellowships and scholarships to Cambridge University. I am presently the director of the Northeastern Archaeological Laboratory, the Anthropological Geographic Information System Laboratory, and co-director of the Archaeometry Research Group. I am a member of the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis and various international commissions. Finally, I have written and edited books on prehistoric carrying capacity, anthropological demography, new world archaeology, and other topics. Avocations include playing the cello, squash, travel, and driving, racing and rallying motorcycles. *****END***** From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: Re: a contest (32) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 18:48:11 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 50 (96) The funniest and most brilliant fake biographies I have ever read are Peter Ustinov's biographies of composers, writers etc., published some 20 (sic! alas) years ago in *Encounter*, if I am not mistaken. Somehow I've lost my copy of that particular issue wondering if anybody could quickly find it for all of us, HUMANISTs. Itamar Even-Zohar. From: Brendan O'Flaherty Subject: the contest Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 17:27:51 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 51 (97) If anyone has an E-MAIL address for Persse McGarrigle, Dept of English, University of Limerick perhaps they could mail him to enter the contest (if he has returned from his quest, that is). I'm waiting. Brendan. From: Ezra Zubrow Subject: RE: database management software, cont. (14) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 23:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 52 (98) In response to Lou Burnard's question, we use on pc's dbase iii +, rbase system 5 mostly for archaeological site control, specimen cataloging, and keeping track of collection development (space, funds, etc.) On the main frames (Vax cluster and primes) we use primarily info-ususally in combination with ARC ie ARC-INFO; which is a Geographic Information System. We are part of the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis and we are a beta test site. We are just beginning to use an object oriented data base system which is also a GIS called System nine. It runs on sun and prime platforms. We have been using these systems to examine historic and present trade patterns as well as changing demographic patterns over time and space. Best wishes, Ezra Ezra Zubrow Director, Anthropology GIS System Laboratory, Suny/Buffalo Prof. Dept of Anthro. ---- --/ \-- --/ \--- "the crooked pyramid" From: Subject: databases Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 11:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 53 (99) I use System 1032 on a Vax 8650 for managing my Freshman English placement records. From: Subject: DATABASES Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 22:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 541 (100) I use Nutshell at the Rio Grande Folklore Archive for large text oriented files. I have thousands of beliefs, folk remedies, proverbs and recipies as well as their contextual information on line. I use a Bernouli box for mass storage. I am about to upgrade to Nutshell Plus which is relational. I own a copy of askSam 4.1, but I have not had a chance to work with it. Finally I am about to receive a copy of Ize. I plan to use tales in Word Perfect files with Ize which reads WP. Mark Glazer (MG6BE8PANAM) From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 22:13:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 542 (101) re: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank from Connie Gould at Rutgers sounds like an extremely valuable resource. Are the software and data available in a format that can be used on the Macintosh? Brian Whittaker Department of English Atkinson College, York University Downsview, Ontario, Canada BRIANW@YORKVM2 From: Willard McCarty Subject: trends in the distribution of Humanist's mail Date: 30 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 543 (102) Those of you who have looked through the most recent supplement to the biographies will have noticed an entry for "Humanists at Brown". Not uncommonly, though often less extensively than at Brown University, mail from Humanist is being received by a single address at a given university or research centre and distributed from there to local subscribers. Such redistribution has been going on for some time at a few sites, but in the last few weeks the trend seems to have accelerated. I am not certain what this will mean for Humanist, but it makes good sense for the economical use of our costly resources. This seems good enough reason for me to encourage groups of Humanists, where possible, to request the facilities for redistribution from their computing centres. Since the biographies have proven so useful, however, I would ask that each such group send in a "biography" for that group and that active members still be asked to send in their own. I will depend on the organizer at each site to see that new members comply with this our only requirement for membership. From time to time I would also like to receive from these groups some words about their activities in humanities computing, should anything of interest be happening there. Some notion of how Humanist is being used in the classroom, in research, or otherwise would also be welcome. Thank you so much for contributing to the development of our fascinating experiment in communication. Willard McCarty From: Willard McCarty Subject: missing issue Date: 29 January 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 54 (103) Ever watchful Sterling Bjorndahl has pointed out to me that there never was an issue number 537 of Humanist. I can speculate about the cause, but I have no certain explanation. Probably just carelessness on my part, and if so, my apologies. Willard McCarty From: Mark Glazer Subject: Folklorists' discussion group Date: 30 January 1988 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 55 (104) COMPUTER NETWORK FOR FOLKLORISTS The Folklore List on BITNET A computer network for folklorists has just been established as FOLKLORE@TAMVM1. We would like to hear from anyone who is interested in joining us in using an international interactive computer network for folklore study. Some of the ways this network can be used are outlined below, but I am sure its users will think of more ways to use this network. Other disciplines than folklore have had links available through computer networks using Bitnet by which course syllabi, bibliographies, paper calls, research notes, queries, employment notices and other items are distributed. Such a computer link among folklorists will be very useful for researchers whether they be students, teachers or independent researchers in folklore. Besides the uses already mentioned there is another use which particularly excites us -- enabling us to keep track of new upgrowths of such contemporary folklore as joke cycles, customs, legends and so on. Initially this list will be a forum for discussion and a kind of file server or periodical electronic magazine. If you would like to participate in this list please subscribe to it by using the following command: tell Listserv@tamvm1 sub folklore Your Name or you can write or call one of us. Philip Hiscock MUN Folklore & Language Archive (MUNFLA) Memorial University of Newfoundland St John's, Newfoundland, CANADA A1B 3X8 (709) 737-8401 E-mail: PHILIPH@MUN.BITNET or Mark Glazer Rio Grande Folklore Archive Pan American University Edinburg, Texas 78539 (512) 381-3551 E-mail: MG6BE8@PANAM.BITNET From: Steven J. DeRose Subject: Biography statistics Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 11:25:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 56 (105) Here's an initial statistic from the biography database: Although these counts may be incomplete, since some people did not indicate their institutions and I didn't look up their node locations, the institutions with the most Humanist members seem to be: 11 U Toronto 9 York 7 Oxford, Yale 6 Brown, Columbia, Queen's, Waterloo 4 Iowa State, McMaster, Simon Fraser, Syracuse, Tel Aviv, UNH, Princeton. More to come. Steve DeRose From: david tomlinson Subject: dbms Date: 30 Jan 89 08:13 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 545 (106) In reply to Lou Burnard's query let me note that four commercial database/ textbase programs get use in the English Department at the Naval Academy. 1. A third of the 38 member department use a free-form database program to track appointments, writing deadlines and ephemeral information. The program, MemoryMate, is published by Broderbund and retails at about $50. It searches each database it creates using Boolean logic. It is fast, completing a search at the rate of 2 megabytes a second. For those of us who need a simple way to keep records, this program suffices. 2. The ARNOLDIAN, a thrice-yearly publication edited by members of the Department, uses Lotus SYMPHONY for its mailing list and subscription information. 3. The Writing Center, an arm of the Department offering tutorial assistance to students, keeps the records of its sessions on D-Base III. 4. A number of Department members use the Textbase portion of Nota Bene to keep track of their research. The program catalogues key words; or, if the user wishes, all but the most common words in all passages of a text. The program can then count the number of times an individual word is used, ex- From: Steve Dill Subject: 18C: ASECS Conference Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 09:02:19 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 546 (107) The annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies will be held from March 27 to April 1 in New Orleans. Besides the regular list of seminars and discussion groups, a demonstration of electronic networking, e-mail and file transfer, is tentatively arranged to be held at the Tulane University Computer Center. Members of ASECS or ISECS or other affiliated organizations or of HUMANIST who are interested in this demonstration in New Orleans or who wish to receive a report of the demonstration should write or address e-mail to me--Steve Dill (UGA108 at SDNET.BITNET) From: Jeutonne P. Brewer Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 547 (108) Borland's Reflex has excellent capabilities for importing files from other databases and exporting files to them (for example, dBASE III+ and Lotus 1-2-3). It has a crosstabs function and the capability to graph numerical data in the file. Reflex automatically recognizes and uses expanded memory in the computer system. It runs equally well on floppy systems and hard disk systems. It is easy to design forms for data entry and easy to set up report formats for printing the data. The cost is not exorbitant. I'd be glad to answer additional questions. From: Richard Pierce Subject: Mac program Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 03:56:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 548 (109) Some of the people asking for the Paradigma text file manipulator program announced on HUMANIST last week have not received an answer from the author, Espen Aarseth, because he has not been able to reach them through the net, probably due to some node routing/ address insufficiencies. The program can now be obtained from the Info-Mac archives at Stanford, under the filename /info-mac/util/paradigma.hqx Of course, Espen will still try to send it to those who ask him for it. His bitnet address is: HDBFS at NOBERGEN. The net file must be run through the "unpacking" programs BinHex and Stuffit, so you'll need those as well. From: Ted Brunner Subject: Sign of Life from TLG Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 12:01:23 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 549 (110) [The following has been taken from the IBYCUS-L discussion group, with thanks but without permission. My apologies to those who have seen it before. --WM] A recent contributor to the Ibycus Scholarly Discussion asked the question "TLG-are you there?". Yes, we're there, and we try to keep up with what's happening on the Ibycus bulletin board as much as possible (sometimes it's difficult because regular mail delivery brings an average of 25 letters twice a day, and all of them require attention of one sort or another). Anyway, and to comment at least on a couple of issues which have cropped up as of late: 1. All texts in the TLG data bank have been dated by now (or at least all of the texts that can be dated with a reasonable degree of certainty). 2. Allof the texts (texts -- not authors!) in the TLG data bank have, by now, been classified (i.e., tagged with generic or other similar identifiers). 3. None of item #2, of ourse, is currently reflected on TLG CD ROM "C#, the most recent TLG CD ROM version. 4. When will the next CD ROM version be issued? I can't give a specific date yet. Tentatively, we're thinking of mid- or late 1989 (in any event, there is by now enough newly verified and corrected material to warrant issuing a revised disk version before too long). 5. Mark Riley: you've expressed disappointment over the absence of Ptolemy and Archimedes from CD ROM "C". Sorry about that - we'll try to do the best we can. The problem is that both of these texts are bears in terms of verification and correction problems, and we've been trying to focus upon some easier stuff lately in order to catch up with our overall v&c schedule (Jacoby FGrH) really set us back as far as that schedule is concrned. 6. We're having major problems with some publishers who claim that we have violated their copyright in converting their texts intoelectronic form. Those of you who read our Newsletter know about this. The issue still has not been resolved yet. 7. Directly related to the previous item: I want to issue yet another reminder that the TLG license agreement forbids downloading of TLG texts from the CD ROM for purposes other than those directly related to licensee's temporary research activities, and that the license agreement (particularly Section V) has a lot to say about other kinds of permitted or non-permitted CD ROM and text use. I don't want to seem to be nagging about this, but it is the text downloading and/or transfer that the aforementioned publishers are most acrimonious about. There are major proprietary, legal, and economic issues involved here, and I (=the Regents of the University of California) don't want to run the risk of a major law suit from a publishing house (particularly since UC would simply turn around and sue the text or CD ROM licensee in turn). So much for now. I will try my best to keep up with my e-mail, but can't guarantee that I can retrieve it every day. In fact, TLG communication is shifting ever more rapidly toward FAX (this will assure the quickest response). Our number is (714) 856-8434. Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae From: Maurizio Lana Subject: dbms and exotica Date: 1 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 550 (111) Maurizio Lana CISI - Universita' di TORINO Via S. Ottavio, 20 10124 TORINO, ITALY TEL. 011/837262 Date 1 febbraio 1989 [The following query was send to me by Maurizio Lana. Please reply directly to him at the address given below. --W.M.] Do you know of any DBMS program which can print reports in exotic alphabets (that is, greek and linguistic)? Or of any way of filtering output of report to the printer so that one can add formatting controls to some sections of the report? I know that Lettrix can do something like this in conjunction with DB III, but i'd like to know your opinion about the whole matter. Thank you. Yours Maurizio (u245@itocsip) From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: announcements (107) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 12:11:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 551 (112) I hate to criticise Steven Rose for his work on biographies, but I can recall at least 6 Humanists from my institution (3 from archaeology, 1 from French, 1 from computing service, 1 from computer science). it suggests his summary statistics are not accurate. vivamus, mea lesbia, atque amemus sebastian rahtz, computer science, southampton From: MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK Subject: Information about HUMBUL, as requested Date: 1-FEB-1989 16:19:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 552 (113) [The following report on Humbul I requested from May Katzen, its founding mother, guiding light, and energetic editor. Since Humbul has become easily accessible to people outside the UK, it should now be of great interest to Humanists wherever they may live. --W.M.] HUMBUL is an online bulletin board which contains up-to-date information about all aspects of the applications of computers to the humanities. It is run by the Office for Humanities Communication at the University of Leicester in the UK. and is mounted on the VAXcluster at Leicester. It is a dedicated service, which provides current information on the use of computer-based techniques in the Arts and Humanities in the UK and abroad. It contains information of general interest, as well as information targeted to specific user groups, eg the Association for History and Computing, the Music Research Digest, the Archaeological Information Exchange, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and so on. HUMBUL was designed to be easy to use. The information it contains is divided into a number of files and sub-files, all of which are listed on the main menu. The underlying structure of HUMBUL enables the user to move about through this electronic newsletter somewhat in the way a reader browses through a printed publication. There are now two ways of accessing the information on HUMBUL: 1. HUMBUL files are available via the JANET network, which provides direct terminal access to users. For users on JANET, the network call address is: LEICESTER.HUMBUL Alternatively, HUMBUL may be accessed by calling the following JANET number: 00002121001002 To use HUMBUL you need direct terminal access to JANET. This is not available via BITNET or EARN. However, those without direct terminal access to JANET have two alternative means of access to HUMBUL: by dial-up telephone, or via public data networks. If you would like to access HUMBUL in this way, please send an e-mail message to MAY@UK.AC.LEICESTER and the relevant details will be sent to you. 2. A new method of accessing HUMBUL is now available using electronic mail. HUMBUL files are stored on a computer at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Every time new information is mounted on HUMBUL, all those on a distribution list are sent an e-mail message briefly describing the content. The information can then be downloaded onto the user's own terminal via a LISTSERV. If you are on EARN or BITNET, and would like to join this distribution list, send a one line message to: LISTSERV@UKACRL containing the single line: SUB HUMBUL your name Users who are on JANET should use the address: LISTSERV@UK.AC.RL If you decide to join the distribution list, please send a message to MAY@UK.AC.LEICESTER , so that the information on how to use the LISTSERV can be sent to you. From: N.J.Morgan@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK Subject: DISH/CTICH APPOINTMENT Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 13:39:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 553 (114) University of Glasgow Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History (CTICH) Research Officer The Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils has awarded Glasgow's DISH (Design and Implementation of Software in History) Project a major grant to establish a national centre to promote and coordinate computer-based history teaching in universities. A historian (PhD or equivalent) with computing skills is required as soon as possible to carry out these national functions in collaboration with the DISH team of historians and computing professionals. Secondment may be possible. The post will be for two years (renewable for a third) in the first instance, with placement on Research Staff Grade 1A (9,865- 15,720) or 2 (14,500-19310) according to age, qualifications and experience. Applications (including the names of 3 referees, who should send confidential references without being requested by the University) should reach Mrs R Hemphill, University Archives, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, from whom further particulars may be obtained, by 13th March 1989. E-Mail DISH@uk.ac.Glasgow.vme From: connie crosby Subject: Humanities lists Date: Wed, 01 Feb 89 00:15:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 554 (115) Thank you to everyone who responded to my inquiry about humanities lists a few weeks ago. Besides all the ones previously listed on HUMANIST, here are some others that people have told me about: PHILRELSOC@HAMPVMS POLITICS@UCF1VM MUSIC-RESEARCH@PRG.OXFORD.AC.UK Also, there is one called "SFLOVERS", which is an interest group on, guess what, science fiction. I am not sure how to contact that one, however. Thank you, everyone, for your help! Connie Crosby CROSBY@VM.UOGUELPH.CA From: Alan Rudrum Subject: ISAAC Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 20:41:56 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 57 (116) The description of ISAAC from LISTSERV sounds interesting, but I don't think it gives an e-mail address or any other address to enable prospective clients to make contact. And I couldn't find the name of the description's author on the list of HUMANIST members. Could anybody help? Alan Rudrum, English Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.,Canada V5A 1S6. From: "Charles W. Tucker" Subject: contacting china Date: Thu, 02 Feb 89 15:02:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 58 (117) Dear Colleagues, I have a colleague who teaches chinese in the Department of Foreign Languages who would like to find some way/someone that he could contact in China by E-mail. I have not seen such an address but my exploration has been shallow. If you can help him please contact at: n280014 at univscvm His name is Chuck Alber. Thanks Chuck Tucker From: Willard McCarty Subject: help with Latin elegy Date: 2 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 59 (118) [The following request for help comes from a graduate student here in the Department of Classics. Please direct your suggestions to me, since he does not yet have access to electronic mail. --W.M.] Gustaf Charles Hansen Department of Classics University of Toronto. The purpose of this communication is to collect information regarding the existence and availability of computer programs for stylistic analysis of Latin generally, Latin elegy specifically. The project being undertaken is an exhaustive analysis of the style of Ovid's elegy. As this study will endeavor to be as complete as possible, a final list of features to be examined will be in part determined by the range of computer programs available. At this point I can only provide a wish-list of the type of software that would be particularly useful: 1) A morphological analyzer for the purpose of studying word order and sentence structure. 2) A text of Ovid's elegiac poetry that has been metrically scanned 3) Progams for analyzing meter. The following features will be examined as to their frequency, position within the line and distribution throughout the work: line types, word types, ictus and accent, elision, caesura and diaeresis, etc. Any assistance that can be provided on this matter will be most welcome. Thank you. Gustaf C. Hansen From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Micro-OCP Workshops Date: Thu, 2 FEB 89 10:11:05 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 60 (119) MICRO-OCP WORKSHOPS 6 and 11 April 1989 Micro-OCP is the IBM PC implementation of the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) which produces word lists, indexes and concordances from texts in a variety of languages and alphabets. It is suitable for many applications in languages, literature and social sciences. The workshops will give an overview of the applications of Micro-OCP and show how different Micro-OCP commands can be used. The major features of the program will be covered in the day and there will be an opportunity for practical work. The workshops will also be suitable for users of the mainframe version of OCP. The workshops will be held on 6 and 11 April 1989 at Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. Timetable 10.15 Arrival and Coffee 10.45 - 12.45 Overview of Micro-OCP and its applications. Use of the options available in the commands construction kit. 12.45 - 2.15 Lunch 2.15 - 3.45 Advanced usage. Additional commands obtainable via the commands editor. 3.45 Tea and departure An elementary knowledge of MS-DOS will be assumed. Workshop tutors: Susan Hockey and Stephen Miller The cost of each workshop including documentation, lunch, coffee and tea will be 30 pounds Academic 50 pounds Non-academic The academic rate applies to students and staff of recognised educational institutions. For further information and a registration form, please contact the OCP Secretary Mrs. Lindsey Mills Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Telephone: O865-273265 E-mail: OCP@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX The final date for registrations is 22 March 1989. Copies of this notice and a registration form are being sent to all purchasers of Micro-OCP and site representatives for mainframe OCP within the UK. Please note that payment must be made with the registration form. Cheques must be made payable to Oxford University Computing Service. From: marcelo dascal Subject: symposium in portugal Date: Thu, 02 Feb 89 18:03:26 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 61 (120) [The following announcement of a symposium has been sent to me for posting. It has been extracted from a slightly longer note. Thus the initial fragment. W.M.] .... one such symposium, to be held in September in Lisbon. The title is "Communication, Meaning, and Knowledge in the Age of Information Technology". It is co-sponsored by the Portuguese Association for the Development of Communication (A.P.D.C.) and the Portuguese Society of Philosophy (SPF). The dates are Sept. 13-15, 1989. Abstracts of suggested papers should be sent to engineer Maria R. Prata Dias/ Rua Tomas Ribeiro, 41 - 8., 1000 Lisboa, Portugal. Three sections are planned: 1. epistemology and cognitive systematization of the models of communication, artificial intelligence and computation. 2. advanced communication technology; ai and computing systems in education. 3. advanced communication technology; ai, computers and robotics: historical perspective, prospective trends, cultural and social impact. Each section will have an opening session by a guest lecturer, commented by another invited guest. There will then be working sessions, with the contributions by the participants. The threefold division does not exclude other possible topics, relevant to the general aim of the symposium which is to bring together engineers, computing and communication specialists, educators, and philosophers in an interdisciplinary spirit. Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Tel Aviv University. From: Peter Batke Subject: UNIX Query for HUMANIST Members Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1989 10:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 62 (121) Dear HUMANIST; In several weeks I will be doing a presentation on UNIX and the Humanities to an AT&T meeting. One of the themes I will sound is: Humanist have good reason to be afraid of UNIX. At Hopkins, a substantial user base was recently wiped out by a hardware upgrade that killed the e-mail as well as the Ibycus system. All energies of the systems people were devoted to fixing the mail, and the Ibycus will probably be reborn on the Macs, not on UNIX. This is just a small anecdote of what happens to the humanist minority of computer users. For my presentations I would like to collect success stories as well as reports of atrocities. If you would like to help in this project, please respond (a brief note will do) via e-mail to: Peter Batke Humanities Discipline Specialist Academic Computing Johns Hopkins University e-mail: L64A3779@JHUVM (sorry about the random numbers and letters) I will send a summary of my findings to HUMANIST. Here is what I would like to know: 1. Some background on UNIX and the humanities at your institution. 2. Ongoing UNIX projects. 3. Harware being used. (mainframe, workstation, PC) 4. UNIX dialect (4.2, V, Ultrix, etc... 5. Any anecdotes you might want to pass on. Thanks in advance. I am hoping to further the cause of humanities computing by getting into a serious discussion with the System V people on what humanists require for computing. Peter Batke Johns Hopkins University From: mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU Subject: Micro-OCP Date: Fri, 03 Feb 89 07:40:53 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 63 (122) Speaking of Micro-OCP, has anyone on the US side of the Atlantic been able to acquire the program? I sent an inquiry to Oxford some time ago. I was told I would be be contacted by a distributor in New York, but I've heard nothing. Further inquiries to Oxford have as yet produced no results. thanks Malcolm Brown Stanford From: Mark Olsen Subject: Kermit documentation Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 11:57:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 64 (123) I am looking for good MSKERMIT documentation in machine readable form for distribution. Most of the documentation I have seen is difficult for novices to follow and use. Any suggestions? I would also appreciate the titles etc. of good books regarding KERMIT that can be recommended to novice users. Thanks in advance, Mark Olsen From: Subject: Address for ISAAC Date: Thu, 2 Feb 89 21:33 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 558 (124) I considered responding directly to the inquirer, but thought that other HUMANISTs might be interested in the same information. To join ISAAC, write to: ISAAC m/s FC-06 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 or call: (206) 543-6504 From: Subject: Information on ISAAC Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 16:50 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 65 (125) A HUMANIST recently asked for information on ISAAC. Here is ISAAC's own description of itself: "What is ISAAC? "ISAAC stands for Information System for Advanced Academic Computing. Funded by IBM and operated by the University of Washington, ISAAC's purpose is to encourage innovative applications of IBM computers in higher education. "ISAAC is an outgrowth of the Advanced Education Project, which funded over 2600 projects at 19 universites. It evolved out of the need to share information among those nineteen schools, but access to the system was soon expanded to include faculty, staff, and students at any institution of higher education in the U.S. "Isaac is divided into databases and a bulletin board. The bulletin board contains forums where users exchange information on a wide variety of topics." ISAAC can be reached at: ISAAC m/s FC-06 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-5604 isaac.uwaee.bitnet Best wishes, Charles Young From: HGREESON@LAUVAX01.LAURENTIAN.CA Subject: ISAAC@uwaee Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 17:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 66 (126) [Thanks to Hoyt Greeson for the following application form. W.M.] Perhaps you are already familiar with U of Washington's ISAAC, the IBM Information System for Advanced Academic Computing databases of academic software available for IBM-compatible computers. If not, the following application for this free service can be sent to "isaac@uwaee.bitnet" ISAAC Application Name Mailing address Phone (w) ( ) ext University Method(s) of access ------PC/modem disk size: ---5.25" ----3.5" ------Bitnet address: --------@-------- ------Internet The following paragraph explains how ISAAC can be used: For example, if you wanted to find software that simulates a chemistry lab, you could search the database for entries that contain the word "chemistry" and the word "simulation." You might retrieve a screenfulof titles. With a single keystroke, you could retrieve the full description of any entry. With another keystroke, you could find out how much the package costs, what kind of hardware it requires, and whom to contact for more information. I pass on this information from the December, 1988, "Computer Center Bulletin" of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. All the best, Hoyt Greeson (HGreeson@Lauvax01.Laurentian.Ca) From: Willard McCarty Subject: it's difficult to speak when your mouth is frozen shut Date: 4 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 560 (127) Dear Colleagues: During a recent meeting that I happened to attend, a senior official from IBM wanted to know if our upcoming conference in June would feature the kind of spirited public argumentation that he found so astonishing and delightful at our last conference, in April 1986. We replied, of course, that it would, since we have reason to think that the strongminded academics whom we have invited will be equally as unwilling to hold their peace as those who spoke out three years ago. The question suggests, perhaps, that meetings at IBM are far less interesting, or at least less dynamic than those held by computing humanists, but I cannot say. Speaking of arguments, I am puzzled by the recent lack on Humanist of spirited debate over basic and essentially unresolvable issues -- perhaps the only kind worth troubling about. Surely someone amongst us is struggling to understand the strange fallout from the often rude collision of technology with the humanities. To paraphrase V. Gordon Childe, the computer continues to shed new light on the ancient past. We have made this device. Are we not ourselves enigmatic? Or am I just ignoring the obvious fact that few of us, at least us northerners, have enthusiasm for anything in the bleak month of February? Willard McCarty From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 15:42:17 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 561 (128) I have just completed work on a computer program which I think may be of interest to some members of HUMANIST. I have written a search program for use with the TLG CD-ROM #C and the PHI/CCAT Latin CD. This is only a first version, and there are still a few flaky things in it, but I think it works well enough that it may be of some use to people who have one or both of these CD's. The program works with all the texts on the TLG CD, but only with the Latin texts on the PHI/CCAT CD. The hardware requirements are an IBM compatible computer w/512K memory (I use an AT clone, though an XT clone or a 386 based computer should work as well), a hard disk, an EGA card (to display Greek), and any CD player with High Sierra device drivers. The program searches the texts for either words or phrases, or two words near each other in the text. The output can be references alone (e.g., Plato Symposium 184e2) or include context as well. Greek context is displayed in accented Greek characters on an EGA, printed on a Toshiba 351 printer, or placed into a Nota Bene SLS file. (Note: for those without any of the above devices, Greek may be printed in Roman characters using TLG Beta Code.) Source code is included with program so that changes and improvements can be made. I only ask that I be kept informed of any changes to the code so that I can keep the program under control. I do not charge for the program, though I am compelled by our administration to ask for $10 to cover disks and postage. If you would like a copy of the program, please specify whether you would prefer 3.5" or 5.25" disks. I do not have a Macintosh version available, though I would be interested in someone performing such a conversion. The whole program, except for some video drivers, which I think are included in the Mac's toolbox, is written in C, so it should be an easy conversion for an experienced Mac programmer, which I am not. My address is: Randall M. Smith Department of Classics University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 961-3556 E-mail: 6500rms@ucsbuxa.bitnet From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: database software? (27) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 89 13:35 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 562 (129) We use 4th dimension on the Mac for a large administrative db, and Double Helix II for a text oriented/research db. We also use Hypercard for various lexical and bibliographic dbs. All on the Mac SE or II. I'd be glad to provide more info later if you wish. Vicky From: Steven J. DeRose Subject: Kermit Guide Date: Mon, 06 Feb 89 13:13:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 67 (130) A colleague of mine wrote a Kermit Guide for our field linguists. It is "Guide to Using Kermit", by Steve McConnell. Published by SIL and available from: Book Center, SIL 7500 W Camp Wisdom Rd. Dallas TX 75236 (214) - 709-2404 SJD From: Steven H Holmes Subject: Kermit documentation Date: Mon, 06 Feb 89 21:03:02 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 68 (131) In response to Mark Olsen . A reasonable documentation is available by FTP from the UK public domain software library based at uk.ac.lancs.pdsoft. The file you need for MSKERMIT is 'kermit/ms/mskerm.doc'. To get hold of it, the easiest way is to e-mail the system administrators at pdsoft@uk.ac.lancs.pdsoft I believe they also have a list of Kermit publications. Steve. From: E S Atwell Subject: research vacancy Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 22:37:39 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 564 (132) The University of Leeds - Department of Modern Arabic Studies / School of Computer Studies *** RESEARCH ASSISTANT to develop software for the teaching of Arabic *** Applications are invited for the above post from April 1989 for a fixed period of about nine months. The Research Assistant will join a team developing Arabic teaching software for the Macintosh environment. Expertise in software development is required, particularly in the area of AI. A knowledge of Arabic is advantageous but not essential. The salary will be between #8675 and #10460 depending on qualifications and relevant experience. Further information and application forms may be obtained from the Registrar, The University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, quoting reference no. 17/1. Informal enquiries may be made either to Adrian Brockett via JANET (sem6ab@uk.ac.leeds.vms1) or by phone on (0532) 333424, or to Eric Atwell via JANET (eric@uk.ac.leeds.ai) or by phone on (0532) 335761. From: Ivy Anderson Subject: Micro-OCP availability Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 14:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 69 (133) In response to MBB@JESSICA.STANFORD's query concerning availability of Micro-OCP, Oxford was demonstrating this package at its exhibit booth at the American Library Association Midwinter meeting in January. According to the literature I picked up it is available from the following address: Oxford Electronic Publishing Oxford University Press 200 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 tel. (212) 889-0206 The flyer also lists the price as $275 individual, $395 institutional, with site licensing options for use on educational networks. It is said to run on the "IBM PC, XT, or AT (and close compatibles)." From: Daniel Ridings Subject: Micro OCP Date: 6 Feb 89 21:00:06 EST (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 70 (134) Be careful with Micro OCP. Just today we discovered something that just might be a bug. Imagine you have the following lines: text text ... dia- fulassoi text text text text Even if you have "text hyphen "-"." Micro OCP seems to miss the second half when a COCOA reference comes between. This happened to us while working with Plutarch where the a,b,c,d,e references do not always fall at a natural break in the line. From: Subject: intellectual property Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 10:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 566 (135) [The following was passed to me by Stephen Clark. Perhaps it will start a worthwhile discussion about software development. Let me observe, in passing, that although some commercial ventures deserve our suspicion, or worse, some receive it unjustly. Most of us get paid for what we do and would not do it, at least on present terms, were the money not necessary. So, I wonder, is an edenic campaign for a free interchange of software itself entirely free from the serpent's influence? -- W.M.] New York Times.....Mid-January 1989 A BATTLE TO MAKE SOFTWARE FREE By JOHN MARKOFF Richard M. Stallman is a computer programmer obsessed with a mission. He wants to bring back the good old days when programming was a communal activity and those toiling at the craft freely shared their ideas and their source code, the internal instructions that tell the computer what to do. Mr. Stallman, known among his colleagues as the "The Last Hacker", has spent the last decade battling a computer software industry that increasingly builds ownership walls around intellectual property. He believes that computer software should be freely shared and devotes himself to creating sophisticated programs that he gives away. He spends his days and nights in a cramped office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory working to spread his philosophy that software is different from other physical commodities since it can be copied at virtually no cost. He believes there should be no restrictions on freely copying and distributing it. Mr. Stallman's ideas have gained increasing importance of late because the computer industry has been moving toward "open" software that will run on many different brands of computers. Consortiums of computer companies have formed to champion their version of the open software, based on the popular Unix computer software operating system. But Mr. Stallman carries the idea one step further. Not only should the software run on different computers, but it should also be free. Mr. Stallman is doing nothing illegal, but his is an argument that raises bitter objections from many programmers and companies. They counter that protecting intellectual property is vital to encouraging innovation. During the last two decades intellectual property protection has become the foundation of the modern software industry. However, Mr. Stallman asserts that what he calls "the use of human knowledge for personal gain" has had a negative impact because information is no longer widely shared. "It's impossible to do anything without copying something that has come before," he said. "People talk about the bad effects of government secrecy in Russia. The U.S. is heading for the same place in terms of commercial software." In a manifesto that outlines his philosophy, Mr. Stallman says that software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them by making each agree not to share with others. "I have decided to put together a sufficient body of free software so that I will be able to get along without any software that is not free," he writes. Perhaps Mr. Stallman's concept of free software would be easier to dismiss if he was not university considered-even by his enemies-to be one of the nation's most outstanding programmers. And his body of software is considered distinguished by industry experts. The computer industry is now evenly split between two giant consortiums that each claim to champion open software systems based on the Unix system. They contend that the open systems will emancipate the computer user from a single company's private standards. One has allied I.B.M., the Digital Equipment Corporation and others opposite American Telephone and Telegraph and Sun Microsystems. Mr. Stallman is somewhere in the middle and his alternative of truly free software is gaining attention-and credibility. For example, Steve Job's Next computer comes bundled with Mr. Stallman's free software, and a number of other computer companies, including the Sony Corporation, Sun, the Hewlett-Packard Company, the Intel Corporation and the Data General Corporation, are now giving support to aid Mr. Stallman's development work From his outpost on the M.I.T. campus, Mr. Stallman operates the Free "Software Foundate, a loosely run organization of part-time staff members and volunteers that is now will on its way to creating a complete software system called GNU. The name is a Mobius strip-like acronym that stands for "GNU's no Unix." When complete, GNU will include a computer operating system and all the tools needed by programmers to design and write the most sophisticated applications for a wide variety of computers. It will also include word processors, spreadsheets, data base managers and communication software, making it just as useful to non- programmers. It is a Herculean undertaking, comparable to those that corporations like I.B.M., D.E.C. and A.T.& T. each devote millions of dollars and hundreds of programmers to annually But unlike commercial software ventures, GNU programmers are distributed with source code, the original programmer's instructions. This permits any user to modify the program or improve it. While most software companies jealously guard their source code, Mr. Stallman argues that by freely sharing it he has created a software community in which each programmer contributes improvements, thereby bettering the program for all. Mr. Stallman, who likes to be called by his initials, R.M.S., forged his values as a member of an elite group of M.I.T. computer hackers who, during the 1960's and 70's, conducted pioneering research in developing the world's first minicomputers and the first time- sharing computers. M.I.T., which is where the term hacker was born, also served as the incubator for many early computer hardware and software companies. In that community, software was freely shared among the hackers, who would build their work on the earlier programming efforts of their friends. While the press has come to identify the term hacker with malicious individuals who break into computers over telephone lines, the hackers themselves have an earlier and different definition. A hacker, Mr. Stallman said, is one who "acts in the spirit of creative playfulness." But while hacking began as intellectual sport and became a way of life in the mid-1970's, many of the hackers who had participated in the tightly knit community of computer researchers left to take advantage of lucrative employment opportunities at the new companies. Only Mr. Stallman remained behind, intent on carrying on the traditions. The breakup of the hacker community embittered him and for several years he labored in solitude, intent on the incredible task of matching the world's best programmers, writing for free the same programs they were developing on a for profit basis at their new companies. In his book, "Hackers", Steven Levy describes how during 1982 and 1983 Mr. Stallman matched the work of more than a "dozen world-class hackers" at Symbolics Inc., rewriting their programs and then placing them in the public domain. "He believes that information should be free and he interprets it in the most literal fashion, "Mr. Levy said in an interview. "Most hackers make accommodations with the way the world works. Stallman doesn't want to make those concessions. He's a total idealist." Some computer scientists believe there is a place for Mr. Stallman's free software. "There is room in the world for free stuff and commercial stuff," said Brian Harvey, a computer science lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. "We don't have to take over the world. Its good enough that I can run his software on my computer." The most popular GNU program is an extremely flexible editing program known as Emacs. The software package, originally written by Mr. Stallman at M.I.T. in the early 1970's, has become one of the most widely used-and imitated-programming editors. Another widely used GNU program is s compiler, a program that translates text into a form that can be executed by a computer. For a programmer, a compiler and editor are equivalent to a carpenter's hammer and saw, the to most important tools of the craft. Emacs's popularity is due to its flexibility, programmers say. An entire computer language is embedded in the program, giving it the utility equivalent to that of a Swiss Army Knife. For tens of thousands of programmers, Emacs has become virtually the only program they use because they can fashion it into a data base, word processor, appointment calendar or whatever else they need. "You start up Emacs and you never leave it," said Russell Brand, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in Livermore, Calif. GNU software is freely distributed, but in a different manner from public domain and "freeware" software among personal computer users. While public domain software can be freely copied, freeware authors ask users to contribute a fee if they find a program useful. In contrast, GNU programs are not placed in the public domain. Instead they are distributed with a public license that Mr. Stallman calls a "copyleft." This license insures that the software will stay freely copyable and not be incorporated into a for-profit program. While Mr. Stallman's software is widely used at universities and research centers and by professional programmers, his zealous commitment to the idea of free software has angered others. Several years ago the idea led to a bitter dispute when executives at Unipress Software Inc., an Edison, N.J., company that sells a commercial version of Emacs, pointed out that some of their code appeared in aversion of Mr. Stallman's Emacs. The problem stemmed from the fact that Mr. Stallman had decided that because the original idea of Emacs was his, he could freely borrow parts of a version written by another programmer, James Gosling, who now works at Sun. While a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Mr. Gosling had written his own version of Emacs and distributed it to friends giving it to Unipress to sell commercially. Mr. Stallman said he had been told by a friend of Mr. Gosling's that he could use parts of the program. Angry messages passed back and forth over computer networks before Mr. Stallman decided that the way to end the dispute was simply to rewrite the offending passages. "We thought it was a little ironic," said Mark Krieger, president of Unipress. "He says he plans on taking on the giants and then the first company he goes after is little Unipress." Despite the remaining bitterness over the quarrel, Mr. Krieger said he had great respect for Mr. Stallman's programming prowess. "I would give him negative credit for his ideas on free software," he said, "but give him a lot of positive credit as a brilliant design engineer and the creator of the first Emacs." Today, although he uses an office at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, he is no longer a staff member. He resigned a number of years ago when he set out to create the GNU software system. He makes a living as a part-time software consultant. [above forwarded from a local bbs] From: Willard McCarty Subject: JANET addresses Date: 5 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 567 (136) Terry Harpold has usefully noted that May Katzen's address, given in a recent note about how to access HUMBUL, is out of sequence for users not within JANET (the Joint Academic NETwork of the U.K.). I'm afraid I have become so accustomed to reversing JANET addresses for use on Bitnet/NetNorth that I forgot to add the appropriate warning to May's notice. My apologies. So, in general, given a JANET address such as "realmensch@UK.AC.location", users on Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN should write "realmensch@location.AC.UK", where "realmensch" is the userid and "location" may consist of one or more parts separated by periods. You will see several examples of (reversed) JANET addresses on Humanist's membership list. Willard McCarty From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Gremlins in e-mail to OCP Date: Mon, 6 FEB 89 10:47:38 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 568 (137) Apologies to those of you who have sent e-mail to OCP recently and whose messages have been returned undelivered. I hope that the gremlin which caused this particular problem has now been found and eradicated. If it does happen again, please inform me (SUSAN@UK.AC.OX.VAX) or Stephen Miller (STEPHEN@UK.AC.OX.VAX). Susan Hockey From: Subject: Displaying and printing greek Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 22:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 71 (138) This query may appear trivial to many of you, but I'm new on Humanist and I don't know everything a contemporary learned young man should. I need to display and print classical greek on a PC/XT compatible using an Hercules graphic card and an Epson FX-86e printer; my graphic card can also emulate CGA and Plantronics but, if possible, I would prefer to avoid those. I read the information available on the GREEK.SOFTWARE file maintained on LISTSERV@UTORONTO and I retained three IBM packages that are said to do so at a somewhat decent price. These three packages are: 1. ChiWriter by Horstmann Software Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 2. DukeFonts by Humanities Computing Facilities, Durham, North Carolina; 3. DjuangJan by Megachomp Corp., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Of course, I will ask to receive documentation from each of these companies but what I would also like before making a choice are suggestions and comments from real users of any of the above. Please don't answer me I should use a Mac. Thanks in advance. Benoit LAPLANTE Departement de sociologie Universite de Montreal LAPLANTE@UMTLVR (old style) LAPLANTE@CC.UMONTREAL.CA (new style) From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Technical Question Date: Tue, 07 Feb 89 14:07:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 72 (139) Could anyone explain to me how I can write (via e-mail) to persons whose names and nodes exceed the eight characters allowed by my university computer? What do I do to send a note to someone with an address like terminator@shellac.ac.uk.blutwurst.plato? Thank you for your help. Your debtor, Kevin L. Cope (ENCOPE@LSUVM) From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 18:11:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 73 (140) [This note appears late because it was posted to mccarty@utoronto, not to mccarty@utorepas OR to humanist@utoronto. Be warned! W.M.] OUTSTANDING SOFTWARE AWARD NOMINATIONS REQUESTED Dear Colleagues, If you know of any U.S. colleagues who have created exciting software implementations or educational courseware for the undergraduate curriculum, please let me know. I am assisting EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL in encouraging applications for the EDUCOM/National Center for the Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning 1989 Software Awards. We added both engineering and accounting to the usual undergraduate discipline eligibility list (all liberal arts areas) at last year's jury. There are awards in types of tools (tutorial, simulation, etc.) as well as for Curriculum Innovation, Implementation and content area. Best Award winners receive a trophy and $5,000. Distinguished Award winners receive a plaque and $500. The application deadline is March 27, 1989. You can contact EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL directly at: 1-313-936-2741. I'm glad to report that two HUMANISTS were among last years' winners. Congratulations Jim Noblitt & Stephen Clausing! --Joel From: david tomlinson Subject: Style checkers Date: 06 Feb 89 21:34 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 74 (141) While teachers of composition argue over the efficacy of style checkers, business persons regularly employ them to judge their writing. Find out what style checkers are and which ones for the IBM PC and its clones are most comprehensive by downloading the four-part material on style checkers kept on LISTSERV. A list of contents for each part follows: PART I Introduction to Style Checkers A Letter From Willy: A Sample Used in Testing Style Checkers Reviews of Clearcut Grammatik II PART II Contains Reviews of Grammatik III Maxi-Read Parse PC-Style 1.0 Phrase Watcher Pro~Scribe 3.0 PART III Contains Reviews of "Punctuation" + Style 1.21 Readability 1.1 RightWriter 2.1A PART IV Contains Reviews of RightWriter 3.0 Styled 1.0 Have fun reading about and trying out the style checkers. -------------------- [All four parts of this lengthy report are now available on the file-server in four files, s.v. STYLECHK REPORT1 through STYLECHK REPORT4. Copies may be obtained in the usual manner, by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: 18C: Conference Announcement Date: Tue, 07 Feb 89 13:57:30 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 75 (142) THE SKELETON OF A FORM: THE GOTHIC, THE SENTIMENTAL, THE SUBLIME, AND THE ECCENTRIC I invite all members of the HUMANIST network to attend my panel at the forthcoming annual meeting of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, which will convene in Shreveport, Louisiana, from February 16-19, 1989. Please visit my panel, whose topic is shown above, for the intellectual experience of a lifetime (or, in the case of skeletons, for an experience which goes beyond a lifetime!). Papers scheduled for presentation will include such enticing topics as polygenderism, pseudo-Frankensteinian self-assembly, the dialectic of the boudoir, characterization and mental marginality, Fielding and funerary events, and Boswell on the gothic. For more information, write to me via BITNET or related system (ENCOPE@LSUVM) or call me (in the U. S. A., (504) 766-2719). Y'all come! KEVIN L. COPE From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: open software Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 23:03:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 76 (143) Richard Stallman has some very attractive ideas. Although I don't yet hold strong enough ideas on the matter to take one side or the other, I've noticed that information does not flow as freely as it might when commercial interests are at stake. This feeling of withholding was particularly strong at the SBL meet- ings (Society for Biblical Literature) this last fall. The academics would get up, and tell us what they did and why. They'd also answer any questions anyone cared to ask about the implementation of search algorithms and what not. Then the folks with commercial ties would get up and give their demos, using SBL time to make money for themselves. In return, we expected to hear from them something of what they were doing and how. Instead, we got the clear message: "It's proprietary." My own feelings were that such messages were contrary to the whole point of a convention. Presumably we were all there to share know- ledge. Sharing was simply not on the agenda of some of the business interests represented there. What made the whole thing kinda funny was that the commercial people hadn't made any major breakthroughs. Their technology represented at best a refinement of what many of us already knew about. It surely would have been useful to discuss implementation specifics with them. But their steadfast determination to hang on to "proprietary infor- mation" still struck me as out of step with with the tone of an aca- demic conference, and with the nature of their contribution. Although I think people should have a right to make money off of soft- ware they have written, I also feel that the rest of us should be granted the right to be annoyed when such activities begin to stifle the free flow of information at an academic conference. -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer From: Joe Giampapa Subject: Re: intellectual property Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 14:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 77 (144) I cannot speak for Stallman. However, my feeling is that the article was sensationalized and glossed over some rather important historic details. My suggestion for people is to read Steven Levy's _Hackers_ (the last chapter mainly), which is where the article writer probably got most of his info anyway. For people who are interested in how copyright laws apply to "intellectual property" and software, I might be able to provide some additional information. I am an executive committee member of "Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility" (CPSR), the Boston chapter. One of our guest speakers was the copyright lawyer who drafted Stallman's GNU distribution policy/copyright notice. While our "library" is not very coherent, I might be able to find some references and articles on this subject. In the meantime, I will forward this notice on to RMS and/or FSF. I have communicated w/ him before, but not in any "successful, verbose" way, so I cannot promise a response. Joe Giampapa giampapa@brandeis.bitnet From: Richard Pierce Subject: Info-Mac Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 04:32:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 572 (145) I reach Stanford via our micro-VAX by calling an ftp protocoll. The procedure is as follows: ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu user (try anonymous) password (anything seems to work) cd dir (a search string, e.g., 00*) get (a filename) quit The transfer is very fast! But you still need StuffIt to unpack the file. Good luck. Pierce. From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Micro-OCP orders Date: Tue, 7 FEB 89 09:28:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 573 (146) I phoned OUP as soon as I read Malcolm Brown's note. They have already sent two copies of Micro-OCP to Malcolm, the second about two weeks ago. It may be that they have an incomplete mailing address. Could I remind you to add your full mailing address when you send electronic mail to OCP@VAX.OX.AC.UK. Thank you Susan Hockey From: Subject: Access, innovation, proprietary SW Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 14:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 78 (147) Two more viewpoints on intellectual property vs. development, etc. Last year I kicked around an idea on the MED-SIG on Compuserve that "someone" should develop a public domain medical records system so that all these small shops wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel, with, hopefully, an improvement in energy devoted to improving medical care, consolidating epidemiological info, etc. Many people pointed out that such a system (namely, COSTAR in MUMPS) was done in 1975-or-so, and that most users preferred to buy a commercial version that included support, upgrades, etc. over essentially the same thing for free. That is, of course, a high-stakes arena. Proprietary vendors, on the other hand, sometimes seem to get so paranoid that they cut off their own air supply (lessons here for the USA as a whole vs the world, anyone?) I once spend a full day at IBM's offices with them showing off their latest database, word processing, etc. It only took 5 minutes or less in each area before I was asking "How do I..." about some feature that was quite prominent in other products on the market, and IBM looked blank and surprised and replied "Well, you can't do that yet..." Apparently they totally isolate their development teams so nothing can "leak out" -- nor, apparently, IN. I suspect it's not just IBM -- I asked digital about a feature that was trivial on a Macintosh, and got a blank look,like, what's a macintosh... I'm not sure what that leads to, but I thought I'd share the experience. Wade Schuette, Johnson Graduate School of Management @ Cornell U. From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: Intellectual Property Date: 08 Feb 89 15:26:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 79 (148) I am in strong agreement with the sympathies Stallman expresses towards the sharing of software. While it is quite reasonable to protect unique and individual products of a creative mind (novels, poems, art works), it is an antisocial act to lock away ideas or to make them accessible only to those with money--lots of money, in fact. The production of software should be in the same class as the production of scholarly and scientific ideas, i.e., freely available in journals or books. I think this is particularly true in the case of materials produced by academics. The other day I was copying a program (so shoot me) for a friend in an eastern European country. This program would have cost him his salary for a few months--though an academic from the States could have afforded it easily enough. In other words, making software expensive is one more way of distorting the world, making sure the haves keep on having, etc. None of us want that, do we? I remember a point Buckminster Fuller made about most forms of material wealth being expendable, depletable, but metaphysical wealth, ideas--that's different. With ideas, the more you have, the more everybody will have. It is a renewable form of wealth. That is the model for software that we should adopt. From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: lucre, filthy or not Date: 8 February 1989 14:40:03 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 80 (149) There are a number of ironies about the way we all view software and intellectual property generally. Academics are usually fairly aware of intellectual property rights for authors, at least to the extent of disapproving of pirated editions and pressing for the reform of the U.S. copyright law to close the loopholes that made it possible (for example) to pirate Tolkien's work in the U.S. But disapproval of piracy doesn't connect, somehow, to the mass photocopying of class readings from books that are still in copyright (or even still in print). And we hardly need to tell each other how widespread software piracy is on campus, and not because academics are making a principled stand for freedom of software. I find myself torn. It seems to me only fair for someone to be able to ask for royalties in exchange for using the fruit of their labor, and I believe piracy should be treated with the same seriousness we bring to, say plagiarism. (Not the same penalties, necessarily, but the same seriousness.) On the other hand, who wants to be a policeman? I wouldn't want to try to make money off of software development, if only because I don't want to find myself thinking more about ways to limit unauthorized copying than about ways to use computers in textual research, or having to say "Oh, I can't tell you about that, it's proprietary" at a conference. We had an eloquent posting some time ago from Jim Coombs about giving up a development project out of the realization that a commercial product aimed only at academics was suicidal. I admire the reasoning that leads Stallman, for example, to his current heroic endeavors, and I savor the stories of his exploits. It's not *strictly* true that making copies of software doesn't cost anything (you have to have the system in the first place), but the marginal cost is really pretty low, and the renunciation of royalties is a good way to help make the machine a leveler, not a toy only of the rich. There was a time, of course, when all or almost all software *was* free. The courts forbade that in the course of one or the other of the anti-trust suits against IBM. Has that really helped us, or the computer industry? One long-term result in mainframe computing is that IBM, now convinced that system-level software is "strategic", refuses to distribute electronic source code even to licensees. Result: it's harder to maintain and harder to find and fix bugs. Whether one is convinced by the idealistic arguments or not, the general rule is correct: if software were free (i.e. if software development costs were absorbed as overhead where not volunteered by individuals) many things about the world could be nicer. [The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer, who needs every nickel it can find, and not even necessarily what I will think after I meditate on this some more.] Michael Sperberg-McQueen From: Stephen Clausing Subject: free software? Date: Wed, 08 Feb 89 16:28:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 81 (150) I think it is unrealistic to expect commercial software programs to exist without the profit incentive. Many of these programs require years of work from professional programmers with families to support and these people have to be paid. The real issue is whether we in the academic community should be going after the dollars or whether our software should be free. After all, we already have jobs and can afford to be generous. The problem is that we still need promotions, tenure, merit pay, not to mention respect and a pat on the back now and then. I don't see much of any of this in my own work and my experience from talking to other academic software developers is that they feel the same way. I recently won an EDUCOM award but I would gladly trade my prize money for tenure. Since I cannot get the first, I might as well take the second. This is sad. From: Mark Sacks Subject: Re: intellectual property (246) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 89 21:13:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 82 (151) Debate Re Mr. Stallman's COPYLEFT Apparently Mr. Stallman's critics object to his ideas, claiming that protecting intellectual property is vital to encouraging innovation. This sounds like a view from deep inside a particularly mercenary point of view. The notion of intellectual *property* is dubious. I am much more comfortable with the notion of intellectual *authorship* or *rights*. But of course not all rights are property rights. For better or for worse it is probably the case that protecting authorial rights is vital for the encouragement of innovation. Egos will be egos. But it is not clear that to protect those rights we must introduce the notion of property rights, with the related financial stakes. Fair attribution, and a degree of fame, would probably be enough. Mr. Stallman might want to deny that even that much was necessary. But it is difficult not to notice that that very stance has already given him the kind of profile that assures fair attribution in his case. In the relevant sense, Mr Stallman already owns his ideas. There is no doubting that programmers should be paid to do what they do, just as much as anyone else. Nor is there any doubt that an author must be recognized to have certain rights over his or her work. But there is every doubt as to whether the rights to intellectual or artistic results (assuming a difference between them) need be interpreted as property rights in order to encourage or indeed protect innovation. In fact, if the stakes were reduced, innovation would not be such a risky business. From: Subject: SF Lovers Discussion List Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 23:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 83 (152) Connie Crosby mentions an ArpaNet list titled "SF-Lovers." This list is distributed weekly in digest form. It is wide-ranging, with entries on film and TV SF, and includes a wealth of useful information on SF literature. Interested HUMANISTS can subscribe by sending the following: SEND LISTSERV@RUTVM1 Sub sf-lovers Your_name Messages to the list itself go to SFLOVERS@RUTGERS.EDU --John Ahrens ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Make no mistake: the opinions expressed above are mine. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | John Ahrens | Snail: Department of Philosophy | | BITNET: AHRENS@HARTFORD | University of Hartford | | PHONE: 203-243-4074 | West Hartford, CT 06117 | From: Yechiel Greenbaum Subject: Judaic Studies Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1989 20:51 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 84 (153) 1 Feb 89 JUDAIC STUDIES 26 Shevat 49 BS"D This is the inaugural edition of a weekly newsletter, which we hope will expand into a into a bulletin board. The main idea is communication. Who's doing what and how can they be contacted? Does anyone have information rel- evant to my work and have I knowledge that can guide anyone else? Comput- ers allow quick, efficient gathering of information which can be accessed and responded to at leisure. We also hope to be a source of information on computer applications in Judaic Studies, such as hebrew word processing and textual analysis. The Chovos HaLevavos emphasized the importance of thankfulness. We wish to thank all of the following people for their part in creating this letter: 1) Avrum Goodblatt, our mentor, whose constant encouragement seems to have finally gotten things off the ground. 2) Dr. Emanuel Tov, with whose help we have an account at Hebrew U from which to begin operations. 3) Dr. Kuzriel Meir, who has assisted both in computers and in Judaic Studies. You may have been wondering who's been writing all this. Well may you wonder, since, impartial as he may try to be, an editor almost inevitably brings his own views into what he edits. My name is Yechiel Greenbaum. I am an observant Jew. I am interested in Judaica bibliography & reference, generally, and in what may be broadly defined as methodology of learning, specifically. I'd prefer to err on the side of being accurate and tho- rough. Please send the electronic address of anyone who might be interested in receiving this letter. More important, please send your ideas of what you would like to see: questions you want answered; areas you'd like discussed; good ideas that you are working on (or that you wish someone else would save you the trouble of working on). Our electronic address is WWRMK at HUJIVM1. My mailing address is 5 Beit Shearim St., Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem, ISRAEL. My phone is 02-536105 NEXT WEEK - Topology: Where Judaics Are Studied Further Acknowledgements From: Yechiel Greenbaum Subject: Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1989 20:57 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 85 (154) [Here is the first issue of JUDAIC STUDIES, the announcement for which appears in the previous note. Anyone wishing to receive further issues should communicate with Dr. Greenbaum directly. --W.M.] 8 Feb 89 JUDAIC STUDIES 3 AdarI 49 BS"D TOPOLOGY: Where Judaics Are Studied This overview will begin presenting sources of information which can help locate places involved in the study of Judaica. It will cover the essentials of academic Judaic Studies (hereafter JS) and offer a number of not-strictly-academic settings as future subjects of investigation. Among the reasons for this research is the need to accumulate a mailing list for this newsletter. Eventually, with the permission of those involved, the whole list can be posted, including e-addresses, telephone numbers, hours, directions, specialties and so on. Many of the leads to the information given here were graciously supplied by Libby Kahane, the ever-helpful head of the Bibliographic Reference Room at the National Library. There are three basic lists of JS locations: 1) The World Union of Jewish Studies sells a mailing list which, I am told, contains about six thousand entries. They can be contacted at Hebrew U, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904. (Here I shall pause to insert a note about American & Israeli address confusion. American- Five digit zip codes, even with the word "Israel" written after them, occasionally bounce up & down the west coast until someone notices. It is therefore sometimes better to omit the zip. Israeli- Everyone knows that the WUJS is located in Binyan Mazer... there is a yellow sign pointing around the side of the building which says "Binyan Mazer". The building itself is only marked "The Institute for Advanced Studies". It is the first of the rectangular buildings to the right of the grass campus as one enters Givat Ram- or #3 on the map ahead. The office is two levels above ground, thru the door in the rear left corner, on the right- Room 209B.) The office is open Sun thru Thurs 9-1. The phone number is 526-910. 2) The International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization publishes surveys of schools which teach JS. They are located in the free-standing building as one enters the Hebrew U complex opposite the Van Leer Institute (46 Jabotinsky on the corner of Molcho, entrance around back). They are open Sun thru Thurs 8:30-1. The phone numbers are 633-005 and 699-032. Mrs. Florinda Goldberg gave me both time and liter- ature, and sold me a new survey of european JS (excluding the British Isles) done in 1988 by Doris Bensimon, called "The Teaching of Jewish Civilization at European Universities". It is available from the Center, POB 4234, Jerusalem 91042. A world survey came out in 1985- Verbit, Martin F., Ed., "World Register of University Studies of Jewish Civilization". It is available from the Center, and from Markus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 2901 Broadway Suite 107, NY, NY 10025 (212-678-7138). 3) B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation publishes "Jewish Life on Campus". (The information in a recent issue was conveniently tabulated on pp.403-418 of Ivan L. Tillem's "The 1987-88 Jewish Almanac".) The Foundation's address is 1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. A combined count of the "World Register" and "Jewish Life" produces the following figures: Graduate Level Total Departments of JS 14 31 Programs in JS 40 103 JS are taught on a graduate level at 87 institutions. The european survey by Bensimon adds that there are now 27 schools which offer a "broadly based course in JS" (p23). In the US & Canada, there are 28 schools which offer doctoral degrees, 12 more which offer masters, and approximately 63 others which offer undergraduate degrees. Yet other schools offer large numbers of JS courses. Many universities join forces with each other, or with other institutions, in order to make programs available. Others establish Chairs of JS, or grant certificates. I was especially intrigued by the yearly 4 week "Spring Seminar on Jewish Medical Ethics" held at Texas Medical Center - Baylor and U.T. ("Jewish Life"). Of course, these numbers represent widely disparate course offerings and programs of study, which would best be grouped by level of instruction, scope, size, and, most important, areas of emphasis (the Center publi- cations take steps in this direction). They also do not include studies done in 1) Jewish History and Civilization (in Israeli, Holocaust and other institutions), 2) Hebrew Language (from the Academy of the Hebrew Language to the many approaches taken to hebrew and it's creoles), 3) Bibliography (by both libraries and collectors of Hebraic and Judaic books and art), 4) Biblical Studies (by secularists and the adherents of three major religions), 5) Rabbinics (at religious and secular educational institutions and publishing houses), and 6) Genealogies (an umbrella group of jewish organizations exists, and separate records such as US Immigration and the Mormon church), to recite an off-the-cuff, far-from-complete list. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS- Advice and material aid has been offered by Infotec Software (4/33 Herzl Ave., Jerusalem), particularly by my good friend D'n Russler. Eitan Hurwitz of the Computer Center at Hebrew U Mount Scopus has taken an interest in the project. I want to thank Dr. Moshe Idel, Ruth Wahaba, and also the staff of the Computer Center for their quick and efficient handling of an un-named crisis last week. IDEAS- Dr. Robert Kraft stated explicitly an idea that I learned from Avi Feldblum implicitly; don't confine the letter to a regular production schedule. Essentially, I agree that results should be published when they are ready. They should not have to wait for publishing dates nor should they be distorted to meet deadlines (the word "deadlines" tempts me to speculative etymology). What we really want, eventually, is a Bulletin Board. I started this letter as a weekly with the idea of giving the reader a sense of security (so many things do not continue beyond the first issue), as well as an impetus to submit ideas as soon as possible, in order that the letter achieve the broadest possible scope. NEXT TIME- LISTS From: Subject: TALON Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 19:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 86 (155) I was wondering if Canadian members of Humanist had heard tell of the Jean Talon project of putting together on electronic disks a sort of record of Canada in the 20th century (comparable in many ways with the one done by the BBC for the UK)? It is not yet sure that it will go but the big pushes behind it appear to be open for suggestions on appropriate categories, etc. John Sandys-Wunsch, Laurentian University. From: Subject: Does anyone access VAX db via Mac/Hypercard? Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 12:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 87 (156) Comment: forwarded by CRNLGSM/FMAIL v2.0 Comment: REPLY may not work. Comment: Network-Source: _JGSM2::WADE (CRNLGSM) Comment: Originally-From: WADE Comment: Originally-To: GATEWAY::"HUMANIST@UTORONTO" Is anyone out there accessing VAX databases (RMS, & Rdb preferably, but Oracle is also of interest) through a front end on a Macintosh written in Hypercard? I'm trying to find users of Alisa, Pacer, or CL/1 that are actually working... Wade Schuette (607 255-6300), Johnson School @ Cornell U. From: Subject: Info-Mac archives Date: 08 Feb 89 13:44 -0330 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 577 (157) Bitnet users will, I assume, be unable to ftp material from Stanford in the way that Richard Pierce describes. The Info-Mac archives have traditionally been echoed at Princeton as MACSERVE@PUCC (and at other sites on Bitnet and elsewhere), but this ground to a halt when the Stanford archives were moved to a new Unix box in January. I am assured by the moderators of the Info-Mac distribution list that they are in communication with Princeton and the other sites and that this problem should be solved fairly soon, but in the meantime it may be faster to write to Aarseth if you want his programme and if you can't send e-mail to his address. David Graham From: AYI004@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 19:23:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 578 (158) [The following was delayed because it was sent to mccarty@utoronto rather than to mccarty@utorepas or humanist@utoronto. -- W.M.] Hyperblake I was surprised to read that Blake hasn't yet been reduced to little green letters. And him, one of the original hypertextualistes. Brian Molyneaux (ayi004@uk.ac.soton.ibm) From: Peter Roosen-Runge Subject: talk on Jean Talon Project Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 15:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 581 (159) Victor Glickman from Statistics Canada will be giving a talk on the Canadian interactive videodisk project known as the "Jean Talon Project" Tuesday, February 21 at 11 AM Rm. 105 Admin. Studies Bldg. York University Call Sam Lanfranco 736-2100 x5218 for more information. The Domesday project (BBC) laser disks are being displayed in the Educational Development Office, Feb. 11 to 24th (736-2100, x3220). .......... Peter Roosen-Runge From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: Info-Mac archives: when up and running... Date: Thursday, 9 February 1989 0904-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 88 (160) This follows David Graham's recent message on problems with the echoing of Info-Mac archives on Bitnet nodes--from which Mac users can then access material in the archive. When Stanford gets things up and running again, would those who've been getting to Info-Mac via Bitnet please post a message to that effect? Thanks. Terry Harpold From: Roberta Russell Subject: Paradigma Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 09:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 89 (161) I have a copy of PARADIGMA.HQX and will be happy to forward it to any HUMANIST unable to reach Aarseth or Stanford. Roberta Russell Oberlin College prussell@oberlin From: Steven J. DeRose Subject: Distribution by country Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 15:49:12 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 579 (162) Here is a list of the countries we come from, derived from the biography database. Please insert lengthy caveat about incomplete data.... I did some regularizing, but in general did not even try to regularize things like GB vs. UK which might reflect significant personal or other preferences of the members. (Thanks to Allen Renear for suggesting making this list). Steve DeRose 158: USA 59: Canada 39: UK 10: Israel 6: England 5: GB 3: Belgium 3: France 3: Norway 2: Denmark 2: Finland 2: Northern Ireland 2: Spain 1: FRG 1: Ireland 1: Italia 1: NL 1: Scotland 1: Sweden [Those who have joined Humanist recently, such as the Austrian, the Icelander, and the few additional members from the Federal Republic of Germany and from Finland, should know that the data available to Steve DeRose does not include their biographies. Humanist changes too quickly for any such table to be entirely accurate. --W.M.] From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: VAX via Hypercard? Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 09:00:16 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 90 (163) Oracle is now selling a Mac front end for distributed data bases. At the Macworld Expo in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago it was available for $99. From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 8 FEB 89 09:49:12 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 91 (164) Belated thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information on DBMS usage. I am drafting the 'more detailed questionnaire' threatened - indeed you may have already received one - and will post fuller results in due course. For the moment, I can report that from about thirty responses, I culled almost as many different packages in use, which is interesting, and shows that however much consensus there may be among 'database experts', the humanist on the clapham omnibus is just as esoteric and eccentric as we'd all always hoped! Packages so far mentioned, for the record, are (in alphabetic order)... 4th Dimension; Advanced Revelation (2); AskSam (2); dBaseIII+; dBaseIV; Excel; File Express; FYI3000p; Hypercard (3); Notebook II (3); Nutshell; Omnis Quartz; pc-file III+; Prime Information (2); ProCite; Reflex (2); Spires (3); SQL/DS (2); Superfile; System 1032; Unify; WP Notebook Noting the absence of (most) major mainframe packages (anyone heard of Oracle? Ingres? IMS? IDMS? SIR? DB2? Informix?) I wonder if this constituency just doesn't use them, or whether it's assuming there's nothing new to be said about them. Don't hold back! If the package you use doesn't appear on the above list, please let me know about it. Software evaluation is only partly about describing what's available: it's also important to know what people actually use, and what they think of it. From: Darrell Raymond Subject: In reply to Richard Goerwitz Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 10:17:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 583 (165) [deleted quotation] As the person who actually said these words, I feel a reply is in order. My presentation at the SBL was invited. I agreed to speak at the conference because I was assured by Robin Cover that people would want to hear about our experiences with the OED, and because it would be an opportunity to talk with CARG members about their specific text database problems. I intended to present not a sales pitch, but a research contribution in our approach to text management, which involves more than just our search algorithm. I did not think the SBL invitation involved an encumbrance to tell you everything you want to know. I had no intent to make money for myself or my project, nor did I seriously expect any orders for software. My statement was in response to Greg Crane's question about whether we used hashing to index the OED. When I replied that we didn't, he said that he was glad and wanted to know what we did use. Hence the infamous line, "It's proprietary". Perhaps I should have said instead, "We use patricia trees, but the details of the implementation are really irrelevant to your question." [deleted quotation] Apart from the specifics of the indexing used in Pat, our search engine, I was willing to discuss anything that we are doing. I'm sorry that this part of my message didn't get through to you. I did discuss our stuff in much greater detail with several people who came to see me later on; I don't honestly remember if you were one of these. [deleted quotation] You have the right to be annoyed whenever you want. Whether your annoyance is justified is another matter. I certainly agree that a conference shouldn't become a forum for developers to vend their wares. But on the other hand if I invite Apple to talk about Hypercard I am not justified in complaining that they don't hand out free source code. While we at the New OED project are primarily researchers, our funding is contingent on the pursuit of "technology transfer" i.e., the commercial exploitation of our work. I hope that any resulting bouts of schizophrenia on our part won't upset the academic community too greatly. -- Darrell Raymond Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary University of Waterloo From: Johnfox@RCN Subject: BA History Program Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 09:59:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 92 (166) The Curriculum Committee of the Department of History, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, is reviewing the undergraduate history program and would appreciate information regarding programs at other institutions. We offer a B.A. in history and a B.S. in applied history. The latter has two tracks: pre-legal or public history. Students in the B.A. program must complete 36 credit hours. The core curriculum of 24 hours consist of Development of U.S. History I & II, Problems in American History, American Economic History, History of Latin America, History of the Far East, History of the Middle East, and Russian History. Students may substitute one other history course for a core course. The remaining 12 hours are history electives. There is no senior paper required nor must students take a course in historiography or historical research and writing. Background on Salem State College: It is a member of the Massachusetts State College System and is under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts Board of Regents. Founded in 1854, it is the largest of the nine state colleges with an enrollment of @ 5000 full time students and @ 3000 part time students in the division of continuing education. It evolved from a normal school to a teachers college to a multi-faceted college. Background on the Department of History: The department has 16 full time faculty members and several part timers who teach over-load sections of required world civilization. The majority of the full time faculty are American historians. It is fair to say that the staffing of the department was developed without a great deal of thought. The full time faculty is 100% tenured. We have not added a new full time member in 16 years. Half of the faculty do not have the Ph:d. Most are not professionally active. The mean age of the department is 52 years. At present we have 85 majors. During the past three years the number of majors has increased by about 5 to 8 a year. Early admission figures seem to indicate this trend will continue. Most of our B.A. majors are interested in going on to do full time graduate study. It is the desire to adequately prepare them for graduate work that is motivating the curriculum committee's study of the program. John J. Fox Department of History Bitnet: John Fox@Taylor.Rcc.Rcn.Edu From: Joseph Raben Subject: Hamlet or Lear in electronic form? Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 10:58:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 93 (167) I am thinking out a contribution to the fuzzy-matching discussion, which I hope to send you before long. In the meantime, I'd like to post a general query about the availability of a complete Shakespeare play, preferably HAMLET or LEAR. I want to try some analysis with my excellent and varied group of faculty in our development seminar, but the materials I got with Word Cruncher are not appropriate. Perhaps someone on the HUMANIST network can help me. From: Lou Burnard Subject: Text Archive Report - part 1 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 12:44 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 585 (168) At the request of a fellow Humanist, I am posting the following interesting text, presented at an informal gathering here at OUCS this morning by Judith Proud, as the first stage of her long-awaited Report on the Oxford Text Archive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard, private TeX, had to think of something fast. The Boolean operators were coming to get him. They were logical operators, and if they got their hands on his cluster, there'd be no Basis left for negotiation. He thought of Janet, and his steely gaze softened momentarily -- maybe she wasn't Word Perfect, but at least she was there Write Now. The door of the Pad swung open and a rasping voice with a slight Lisp could be heard from the hallway. "You ain't got a Snobol's chance in hell, Burnard. When Vi and the Crays hear about your dossing around with Eva and Ada the Sun ain't gonna shine for you no more, you'll be eating WORMS. This is just the Prolog CHum -- when we get our hands on your front end, you'll be hitting high 'C'. Get wise quick PAL if you don't wanna end up one of them Unix. And remember -- you ain't got the Ghost of a chance." Just then, he got an idea, -- it was a Simpleplot, but it might just work ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A summary of the rest of Judith's Report will be posted next week, when the full report will be submitted to the British Library. From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: frustration; open software Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 02:27:50 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 94 (169) I was both sad and glad to find Darrell Raymond's response to my recent posting. I was glad that I had apparently misunder- stood his intent at the SBL meetings. I was sorry that I was indeed not one of those that spoke with him afterwards. [deleted quotation]offended him. My indelicacy was a by-product of feelings that have festered since the conference. It seemed to me, sitting there, listening, that at the precise moment when the questions got interesting, the answers got rather slim. There were several inquiries about whether straight sequential searches were ever necessary. The answer was more or less "no," and this intrigued several of us. When the question was asked about how this was accomplished, the information given was not terribly helpful. One member speculated that bitmaps of some sort were being used, but no direct response was made. I walked away from the conference with unsettled feelings. It appears that, had I stayed around, I would have had the oppor- tunity to discuss these things with you in greater depth. Perhaps we can still do this some time. Until then, please accept my apolo- gies for what must have seemed a slight. I was merely playing back the impressions (frustrations?) I had, as a listener at your presen- tation. Nothing personal was intended, though I fear that apologies are still in order. -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer From: Brian Molyneaux 0703-551358 Subject: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 12:12:25 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 95 (170) By the time we are flocking to see Rocky XX, innovation will likely be difficult to detect in the basic useful software. Familiarity will breed and breed; feathers will no longer ruffle about the bounds of proprietary property. From: MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK Subject: Accessing the HUMBUL list Date: 10-FEB-1989 10:25:35 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 96 (171) [deleted quotation] We would like to apologise to any HUMANISTs on JANET who have had difficulty in accessing the HUMBUL LISTSERV distribution list. The LISTSERV address that we gave out on HUMANIST was incorrect. The following address should be used for those on JANET wishing to subscribe to HUMBUL: LISTSERV@UK.AC.RL.MAIL You should then send a one line message saying: SUB HUMBUL your name Users on BITNET and EARN should send the same message to: LISTSERV@UKACRL For more detailed information, send a message to May Katzen: MAY@UK.AC.LEICESTER (JANET) MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK (BITNET/EARN) From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Technical Question Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 03:16:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 97 (172) Could anyone explain to me how I can write (via e-mail) to persons whose names and nodes exceed the eight characters allowed by my university computer? What do I do to send a note to someone with an address like terminator@shellac.ac.uk.blutwurst.plato? Thank you for your help. throw away your IBM mainframe and buy a real computer sebastian rahtz, computer science, southampton From: P.Burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Re: database management systems, cont. (55) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 06:13:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 98 (173) DBMS Usage. At Edinburgh University Data Library we use a number of different software packages as filing cabinets for data, not all of them 'qualify' for the dbms label. Survey data are mostly held in SIR and SPSSX system files. The Postcode Directory for Scotland (a directory linking postal (zip) codes to Ordanance Survey (geocode) references and a number of census and admin area codes) is held in Oracle. Population Census small area statistics are held in SASPAC, the UK equivalent of CENSPAC. The University has recently acquired BASIS and this is being used in a project for retrieving information on research activity and publications, and we intend that it should be used for catalogue information on research datafiles (using the conventions agreed in 'Cataloguing Computer Files in the UK: A Practical Guide to Standards). We are using Inmagic on a PS/2. I have an Atari ST on which I run Superbase Personal. Quite a mix really and we are aware that this can be a problem, but different systems have particular strengths the relevance of which varies. We also have a number of datasets which sit as character files and are accessed by a variety of programs/packages. This is largely because, at the time we had to make decisions, a suitable dbms was not available in the computing environment (ie the operating system/hardware combination) on which we wanted to offer the service. For example, we have had an interest in descriptive fields for research data (numeric, map outlines, text, etc) for some while and wanted a software vehicle for a mainframe that could be accessed by our (prospective) users across the network and provide admin data for our own use. We looked at several including Famulus and Oracle, and are pleased to have Basis - although Oracle Text/SQL looks interesting. Regards Peter Burnhill From: Walter Piovesan Subject: database management systems. Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 13:10:44 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 99 (174) In response to Lou's query regarding DBMS. At SFU I use SPIRES and ORACLE on a mainframe platform, and Reflex and Hypercard on the mac platform. From: janus@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu Subject: request for OCR information on MAC Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 08:55:57 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 100 (175) Does anyone have any experience with the low end graphic to text scanners that I have seen advertized for the Mac? I am talking about READ-IT (sells for about US $200 mail order) and I think it's called OMNIPAGE (about $600). Is it worth buying something like this, or should I rely on the big guys who can afford Kurzweil machines? It would be nice to be able to do my own scanning (we do have the Apple scanner), but not if one ends up correcting more than one would if one typed it manually. Basically, how fast and accurate are these? I would be interested in foreign language uses, mostly the Scandinavian languages. Thanks Louis Janus St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057 USA janus@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Elusive Identity Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 12:50:25 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 101 (176) Does anyone know anything about a writer/guru/scholar/person by the name of KEITH KENNEDY? He may be a journalist, or he may not; I'm not sure about his vocation. He's reputed to have said "you've got to make it on your own," "nobody can make it for you," and other sage advices. He's prominent enough to have been interviewed by the media. I greatly appreciate any help y'all can afford in identifying or locating this elusive party. Yours, Kevin L. Cope (ENCOPE@LSUVM) From: Walter Piovesan Subject: Yellow Pages Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 13:20:56 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 102 (177) Can someone on HUMANIST please provide me with an e-mail address to a contact person at Dartmouth College. I would like to make contact with someone in the the computing center there. Many thanks. From: connie crosby Subject: HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 16:33:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 103 (178) I also have some questions about history, but these are more theoretical. I am putting these here rather than on the HISTORY list because they apply specifically to computer use in history, and HISTORY seems to be discussing other areas. I am concerned today with historical simulations. 1. Are historical simulations based too much on 'sociology'? I had one historian tell me that simulations weren't truly historical research, since they do not deal strictly with *facts*. How would you respond to this? 2. Are simulations, in fact, not based on fact? I would think they are. Rather, does a problem lie with the interpreting and interpolating of previous events; and, is this a sociological rather than an historical pursuit? 3. I had always understood that one purpose of the study of history is to understand what could happen in a similar situation in the future, to allow for the preparation for or perhaps even control of these potential events. One result of simulations would be to give a reasonable prediction or extrapolation of future evetns of a system similar to the one being studied in the simulation. If this is correct, then is a simulations not a highly methodical way of extrapolating future events and therefore valuable to history? Or am I wrong, and is this skepticism against simulations justified? 4. Perhaps the answers to these questions depends on one's definition of "history"--does historical research in some capacity overlap with sociological research? I am interested to hear especially from those working on simulations. Is there anyone who is working on a simulation that would be considered to be a strictly "historical" simulation, even in the eyes of a purist historian? Connie Crosby University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario CROSBY@vm.uoguelph.ca From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Electronic Shakespeares and their use Date: Fri, 10 FEB 89 12:29:52 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 104 (179) In response to Joe Raben's query, Oxford University Press will shortly be publishing an electronic version of their Wells and Taylor Shakespeare. This leads me to a wider question. At Oxford, with a grant from the UK Computers in Teaching Initiative, we have been developing a text searching system which is suitable for use in the undergraduate language and literature courses, which here consist almost entirely of the close study of literary and literary texts. Undergraduates typically write weekly essays on topics related to these texts. We have software, now called the Oxford Text Searching System (OTSS), which runs on any IBM PC connected to the university data network. OTSS provides an easy-to-use interface to OCP and the free text retrieval program BASIS on the central VAX cluster. It allows searches and concordances to be performed without the user having to know anything about using the VAX, OCP or BASIS. We have so far used OTSS in courses for classics (Latin verse and some Homer), Italian narrative verse (Dante, Tasso, Ariosto etc) and this term in 16th century German. These courses have used OTSS for studies of lexis, syntax, phonology and othography. OTSS can also be used outside the classroom environment, thus enabling undergraduates to decide for themselves when a text search is appropriate for their essay work. It can be used, too, during a tutorial if there is need to clarify any point by looking at the text. We are now beginning to look at how effective these tools are in undergraduate teaching. Do other HUMANISTs have experience of using OCP, Wordcruncher or other free text retrieval programs for this? Do they improve the teaching/learning process? How can they be related to other more traditional methods of teaching? Any comments on this would be most welcome, particularly as Oxford has recently received a grant in the follow-up to the Computers and Teaching Initiative (CTI). We will shortly be setting up the CTI Centre for Literature and Linguistic Studies which will promote and support the use of computers in teaching these subjects. The centre's work will include reviewing software, organising workshops and preparing a newsletter (in paper form) to go to those less fortunate people who have not yet discovered BITNET. It will of course collaborate with other centres, notably with the work on the Humanities Computing Yearbook so admirably organised at Toronto. One final point, does anybody have any machine-readable text in Russian which we could use in OTSS? If so please contact John Cooper (JOHN@VAX.OX.AC.UK) who looks after the text part of OTSS. Susan Hockey SUSAN@VAX.OX.AC.UK From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: OFFLINE 22 Date: Friday, 10 February 1989 1015-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 588 (180) ---------------------------------- by Robert A. Kraft ---------------------------------- The "pilot" column for OFFLINE appeared nearly five years ago under the title "In Quest of Computer Literacy" (CSR Bulletin 15.2 [April 1984] 41-45). At about the same time, I prepared a two page stopgap "Computer News Update" for use in responding to inquiries that were arriving rather regularly in my mail. Not surprisingly, the topics discussed in these two pieces often overlapped -- the need for reliable information, for accessible electronic texts and data with which to work, for easy transfer capabilities to permit individuals to work independently on their own microcomputers, and for appropriate multilingual display systems for screen and printer. During subsequent installments of OFFLINE, attention has returned again and again to these and closely related issues. Significant progress has been made on all fronts, although the informational need remains and will remain most vexing, given the rapidly changing nature of the technology and its applications. Humanists have come a long way in the quest to harness this technology for their needs. People whose faces once turned pale (or some other shade) at the suggestion that they might want to investigate how to use computers in their work now routinely expose their thoughts and locutions to "word processing," and perhaps their finances (and grading?) to a "spreadsheet" approach. Bibliographies and similarly ornery materials are also atomized and reshaped by means of "data base management" systems. With increasingly regular frequency, selfconfessed novices are getting accounts on their local mainframe computers and are linking into the electronic bulletin boards and discussion groups such as HUMANIST or the various field oriented listings for history, philosophy, Anglo-Saxon studies, folklore, archaeology, music, and the like. For biblical studies and related interests, the wealth of information recorded in John J. Hughes' BITS, BYTES & BIBLICAL STUDIES (Zondervan, 1987) strikingly attests this explosion of progress. The new annual HUMANITIES COMPUTING YEARBOOK (Oxford Press), coordinated by Ian Lancashire and Willard McCarty at Toronto, will help survey the larger context of humanistic scholarship and teaching. Of course, "seeing is believing," but the opportunities for seeing even a small sampling of the latest developments in humanistic computing are still relatively rare. Fortunately, professional societies such as SBL, AAR, ASOR, APA, MLA, and others have made various attempts to expose their memberships to these developments to some degree, although perhaps not always as consistently as might be wished. The new technofocal humanistic societies, born out of this very revolution in technology, exist in part to mediate the technological advances to the scholarly interests, although this has also taken place with varied degrees of success. On 6-10 June, two of the most prestigious of these "new" societies -- The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) -- will hold a joint international meeting hosted by the University of Toronto Centre for Computing in the Humanities at which, it is hoped and planned, the latest and best computer related developments for humanistic academic interests will be demonstrated in the setting of a gala "Software and Hardware Fair." Keeping up with technology does not "come cheap," and the present bifurcation in professional scholarship between the traditional societies (SBL, AAR, ASOR, etc.) and the "computers and ..." groups causes added hardships. It is not clear that our deans and adminstrations are aware of this type of problem -- at my University, faculty are permitted a maximum allowance of $400 towards formal participation in one professional conference per year. If I attend the annual SBL/AAR/ASOR meetings, as I ought, there are no funds left for meetings such as the ALLC-ACH. But the computer/humanities meetings are also very important for scholarship in my field, and there needs to be a way in which the traditional scholarly support structures (professional societies, academic institutions) provide incentives, rather than discouragements, for such dual or even multiple participation! Registration for the ALLC-ACH Conference and the Fair is in the neighborhood of US$200 for non-members of ALLC or ACH (about US$100 for students). In addition to the Fair, and the traditional smorgasboard/banquet of papers and panels, there will also be an associated Summer School in Humanities Computing, jointly sponsored by the University of Toronto and Oxford University. Educational institutions, professional societies, and other possible patrons should be encouraged to consider underwriting the cost of sending representatives to take advantage of this unusually rich opportunity. Indeed, many OFFLINE readers should seriously consider attending these sessions at their own expense, if that proves necessary. The following courses are tentatively scheduled for the Summer School, on a graduated fee scale starting at about US$150 ($125 for ALLC or ACH members) for one course (the more you take, the less each costs, maximum of four courses per week). During 29 May through 2 June, the topics are WordPerfect, Computer Assisted Instructional Writing, Desktop Publishing, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Humanities Computing in China-Japan-Korea, Hypertext, Interactive Writing for Students, HyperCard, Meeting Campus Needs in Humanities Computing, Meeting School Needs in Humanities Computing, and Writing with Computer Support in the Schools. On 5 June there will be a one day workshop on Advanced Function Workstations. From 12-16 June, three of the earlier courses will be repeated (WordPerfect, Desktop Publishing, HyperCard) plus Scholarly Publishing, Interactive Video, Relational Database Systems, Programming in SNOBOL4, Study of Reader Response, Tools for Translation, Nota Bene, Literary and Linguistic Computing, and Discourse Analysis. For further information, contact Professor Ian Lancashire, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Robarts Library, 14th Floor, 130 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 CANADA (tel. 416 978-4238; BITNET IAN@UTOREPAS). In addition to any involvement with software/hardware displays, my own special assignment for Toronto is to coordinate a panel on humanities Archives/Repositories. As is clear to readers of OFFLINE, this is a long and abiding interest of mine. The computer offers a fantastic set of tools for textual research, but they cannot work in a vacuum. We must have access to the electronic texts and related data. Over the years -- now even decades! -- a wide variety of electronic materials have been generated in a wide variety of forms and under widely varying conditions. Some -- perhaps many -- of the early individual efforts are no longer recoverable. Certainly many electronically typeset books survive now only as hardcopy orphans, having lost the electronic parent. Although there have been sporadic efforts to catalogue and/or collect the surviving sea of material, none have yet proved successful in any comprehensive sense. The Oxford Text Archive is probably the largest unstructured collection of such materials -- and it distributes a catalogue of holdings as well -- but it is at the mercy of the various data producers, who may or may not choose to list or deposit their materials at the Archive. The off-again, on-again Rutgers Inventory of Machine Readable Texts deserves encouragement and support for its intent to create a comprehensive list of what is out there, although for a variety of reasons, progress has been slow and sporadic. Archiving is largely a thankless task, and requires both personal commitment and fiscal support to be effective. That the Oxford Text Archive has survived as an active enterprise as long as it has is perhaps more a tribute to British resourcefulness and tenacity on the part of its staff than anything else. As its (usually) amiable overseer, Lou Burnard, would be among the first to admit, the fact that such a collection exists does not guarantee that the needs of the people for whom it exists are being met or even actively addressed. It takes time and resources to document adequately what is in an archive, to correct errors, to harmonize formats and make coding choices consistent, to service inquiries and orders, to stock tapes and diskettes, to make and dispatch copies, to protect legal rights and keep track of the whole business -- to mention only some of the most obvious desirable functions. At the most basic level, an archive (or repository) is involved in collecting and preserving. This can be viewed as a predominantly passive function -- to serve as a storage area for whatever relevant materials are submitted for deposit. Apart from anything else it has done or hoped to do, the Oxford Textual Archive (OTA) has been able to fill this function. It is there, and welcomes contributions of data from whatever source -- including material that is not allowed to circulate independently under any conditions. The fact that all producers of electronic textual material have not in fact sent their materials to or even listed them with the OTA is unfortunate, and hopefully can gradually be remedied. At one level, CCAT is among the guilty. We have sent some materials to the OTA and have agreed to provide a complete listing, but thus far have not fulfilled the promise. But at least we are committed to and are working in a cooperative mode. If every producer and collector of electronic text would take similar steps towards cooperation with the OTA we would all be in a position to reap significant benefits! Why do I emphasize working with the OTA? Because it is in place (and has been for many years), is widely known, and is willing to serve this function. The OTA issues a catalogue of holdings, classified by language and author/work, which includes references to the holdings of cooperating archives elsewhere. Is there really any point in spending scarce humanistic resources to try to replicate this function elsewhere? That makes no sense to me. Many other archives and levels of archiving exist, usually with a specific area of focus. I have not attempted to include projects that are primarily concerned with excerpting and indexing data although they also qualify, in a general sense, as archives. Instead, my main focus here is on consecutive textual data. The classicists saw the need for making electronic material available quite early in the game, and created the American Philological Association's repository of machine readable texts. The Latin side of this endeavor has recently been taken up by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), while the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) has worked for many years on encoding the ancient Greek literature. At Duke University there is a related project to encode Greek documentary papyri. Projects that focus on ancient Greek inscriptions are underway at Cornell and at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. Electronic versions of Ancient Near Eastern materials can be found at UCLA. The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon project is creating its archive centered at Johns Hopkins, and the Yiddish Dictionary project at Columbia. At CCAT, we have concentrated on producing and collecting electronic materials related to biblical studies. Bar Ilan University has its massive "Global Jewish Database." French efforts have produced the "Treasury of the French Language," now being continued also at Chicago. Spanish is centered at Wisconsin. The list goes on and on. It would not surprise me to find that more than 50 major archival centers for electronic texts and related humanities materials exist throughout the western world. (I have only the vaguest idea of the situation in Japan, China, and Russia, for example, and should know more about Australia.) I have not yet mentioned major collections and efforts of which I am aware in the Universities and associated institutions of Canada (e.g. Laval, McGill, Toronto, Waterloo), Great Britain (Cambridge, Essex, Glasgow, London), Scandanavia-Iceland (Bergen, Copenhagen, Goeteberg, Oslo, Reykjavik), the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen), Belgium (Liege, Louvain-la-Neuve, Maredsous), France (Nancy, Paris), Spain (Madrid), Germany-Austria (Bonn, Cologne, Goettingen, Mannheim, Tuebingen, Ulm, Vienna), Italy (Pisa, Turin), Israel (Academy of the Hebrew Language, Hebrew University). In the USA, other institutions with major collections include Berkeley, Brigham Young, Cleveland State, Colorado, Dartmouth, Rutgers, San Diego, Southern Mississippi, Stanford -- and there is always talk of new archival projects and centers being developed. In preparation for the Toronto panel on Archives, I hope to be able to make available a more precise list of such resources, with at least some general characterization of their holdings. For this, I will need a great deal of cooperation. In most instances, the primary function of such institutions and organizations as those mentioned above is not simply to collect data, but to do something special with the data. And herein lies a labyrinth of problems. Working with data within a specific context and strategy is not necessarily easily compatible with distributing data to general users. It can be very expensive and bothersome to field requests, provide information, replicate the data in various formats, etc. Few places are adequately equipped for such tasks. Thus is is not really surprising that although a relatively large amount of humanistic data has been encoded, it may not be possible to obtain access to that which interests you. And even if you can locate what you want, and can get permission to use it, you may find that the amount of preparatory work necessary for using it is foreboding. Sometimes the data is protected in some way so that it can only be used within a specific framework. Access may be only "online" -- that is, through a direct electronic connection with the archive/repository (e.g. by telephone line, or limited on-site use) -- without the possibility of the user taking electronic material to work on elsewhere. In some instances, the data can be obtained and referred to at the user's convenience, but can only be accessed by means of special software that places limits on the process (e.g. CD-ROM packages under software control). Often the need to protect and control the data is dictated by legal considerations (e.g. copyrighted material), or financial (recouping expenses, if not making a profit). Even where no intent to restrict is present, the circumstances may cause such a situation -- e.g. when distribution is only possible in a form incompatible with the users' equipment (9 track tape, CD-ROM, etc.), or with the available software (a specific data base management system, for example). In short, there are many obstacles between the would-be user and the extant data. Concerted efforts are needed to attack at least the following overlapping areas: (1) Information is needed about the existence of materials in electronic form, whether they are in large "archival" centers or are the products of isolated individuals. Please provide basic information (e.g. title, format, ownership, availability) to OTA (Lou Burnard, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, England; BITNET ARCHIVE@VAX.OX.AC.UK) or to OFFLINE. And please alert me to the existence of collections ("archives") that I may have overlooked in the preceding discussion! (2) Support is needed for gathering available materials into appropriate locations for preservation, access, and/or distribution. This is a more difficult problem since few places are ready and willing to attempt to handle all available external formats (diskettes, tapes, etc.). Frequently most of the necessary equipment for such tasks is available in the major centers, but there is no staff or funding to do the job. Fortunately, concern at least for preservation seems to be growing, as evidenced by recent discussions with some professional societies (e.g. SBL) concerning the archiving of relevant electronic materials (book manuscripts, articles, reports, bibliographies, etc.). CCAT hopes to launch a pilot project to explore this type of archiving on mass storage media such as WORM laser/optical drives. Hopefully, other professional groups and centers will also commit themselves to this important step. Authors who have an electronic copy of their own published work should consider depositing it with such an archive. (3) Support is needed for reshaping the data, as needed, into consistent internal formats that can be manipulated effectively by readily available software. At this point the "archive" becomes an active participant in insuring that the data can be put to good use. An example of this process is the TLG data, which is internally consistent so that appropriate software will work on the entire data bank or on any of its parts. Similarly, the "on-line" data banks mentioned above (e.g. Global Jewish Databank or the ARTFL/French Language project) have already performed this service. The costs involved in such a process are enormous, but the resulting increase in value for users cannot easily be measured. Again, close cooperation of the various archival centers will be required to move effectively towards this goal. And the development of widely accepted standards for coding new electronic materials will help to bring this ideal closer to realization (OFFLINE has mentioned recent efforts in this direction in earlier columns). We are discussing an area of major transition for traditional educational and research institutions. With regard to textual materials, the major archives of the past and present are our libraries. And it is to the libraries, expanded to embrace electronic "text," that we doubtless will look in the future. They are rapidly gearing up, trying to catch up with the topsy-turvy growth of the computerized archives during the infancy stages of the new technologies, trying to harness any useful results. Also playing catch-up are the publishing houses, whose fates will become increasingly tied to their integration of computer-related activities. As the situation gradually stabilizes, with publishers and libraries finding their proper balance in relation to the computing expertise of the future, individual scholars and humanities computing centers will probably have much less to be concerned about at the archival level. Our grandchildren probably will have little firsthand knowledge about these struggles. But for the moment, we are presented the opportunity and the responsibility to help shape that future, and it is to our own benefit and the benefit of those who follow that we make the most of this challenge. Moises Silva of Westminster Theological Seminary has prepared an electronic index to the Westminster Theological Journal for the years 1938-1988, and has made it available for distribution for non-commercial purposes. Contact OFFLINE for details. The latest Newsletter from the ATARI ST User Group announces the availability of the main CCAT biblical texts on diskette for that machine. Contact Doug Oakman, 1114 - 121st Street South, Takoma WA 98444, who also reports that he has acquired an IBM/DOS Emulator for the ATARI. Dove Booksellers (3165 W. 12 Mile Rd., Berkeley MI 48072), with its growing line of computer materials, announces a new "After-Hours Computer BBS" (bulletin-board service) at 300/1200 baud M-F 5-8pm, weekends and holidays 24 hrs. Dial 313 547-9693. The Winter 1988 issue of the ACH Newsletter contains these items of more general interest to OFFLINE readers: a report on a proposed "Sanskrit Text Archive Project," and a summary of the past 6 months of HUMANIST discussions on BITNET. Do you have access to a library that subscribes to the publications of the Association for Computers and the Humanities? <-----> Please send information, suggestions or queries concerning OFFLINE to Robert A. Kraft, Box 36 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6303. Telephone (215) 898-5827. BITNET address: KRAFT at PENNDRLS (no longer PENNDRLN). To request information or materials from OFFLINE (or from CCAT), please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label. From: Willard McCarty Subject: when is software "free"? Date: 11 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 591 (181) It's difficult for those of us in university, and esp. those of a certain age, not to feel a deep and abiding distrust of the profit-motive and to find the commercialism of the present age, to say nothing of software pirate-captains like Lotus and Ashton- Tate, repugnant. Our ability to share ideas freely, knowing that our paycheques will not suffer, permits us a great freedom. Make no mistake -- without this freedom our society as a whole would be in real trouble. I guess we feel uneasy about the commercial folks partly because we know where commercialism can and is leading (consider the Thatcherite siege of the universities in the U.K.), partly for reasons too complex and murky to examine here. Everyone who has been involved with computing at universities knows what good has come from paying people to play with computers and share their ideas openly. In many cases, I suspect, these ideas simply wouldn't have arisen in a commercial environment at all. At Toronto, for example, we are very fortunate to be able to develop and distribute some software without charge. We do this pragmatically, in order to disseminate ideas and demonstrate their cogency. I very much doubt that this software would sell at a higher price than the cost of the diskettes, much less repay the cost of development -- not because it is of low quality, which it isn't, but because the ideas involved are experimental. The trouble I have is not with fine ideas, such as Stillman's, but with their unrealized subtext and with the way they work out in the world. It seems to me a profound error to identify "open" software with the Good and proprietary software with the Bad. Things are just not that simple. It is a fine thing for someone who doesn't need to make a living by selling his or her software to give it away. But what about those who happen to be very good at writing software, who dedicate their lives to doing that, and who need to support themselves? What about software that is far too complex to be developed by the odd humanities computing centre, where resources are slim at best? I have a good friend, a scholar by training and inclination, who turned from an academic career to software development. To my mind he has done more for his colleagues through his software than most of them ever accomplish through their no doubt numerous articles and books. He is, as we say, a genius in his chosen pursuit. He also must earn a living, and having a small company must charge a stiff price for his work to keep his co-workers employed. His chief competitor is by comparison a financial giant and so can afford to employ many times the number of programmers and still charge much less -- for what I think is an inferior product. My friend is frequently vexed by the unkind insinuations of secure academics, who breezily assume that he must be making a fortune -- but, then, having never tried the same, how could they know what is involved? And he is troubled by the extent to which his program is illegally copied, since that means a serious loss in revenue and so threatens the very basis of his work. Most North American academics whose salary is above the midrange of an assistant professor's are better off financially than he is. Shouldn't it be possible for us academics to pursue software development when we can and to support those on the other side of the wall, at least the like-minded ones? Darrell Raymond speaks of "technology transfer" and so raises the interesting and broader question of cooperation between universities and industry. At Toronto we are just now concluding a very successful "partnership" with IBM, whereby we received a good amount of equipment in exchange for an unspecified number of "deliverables" -- software, conferences, workshops, papers, etc. Unquestionably the partnership was good for everyone. I am aware, however, of the pernicious effect outside forces are having on academic freedom, so far mostly in the sciences. Perhaps we steer a dangerous course, the chief danger being that we lose sight of the scholarship in acquiring the tools with which to enhance it. Comments? Willard McCarty From: Martin Ryle Subject: historical simulations Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 10:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 592 (182) In response to Connie Crosby's inquiry about historical simulation. I find that historical simulations that are based upon manipulation of quantities of things like economic production, religious intensity, foreign trade, bureaucratic development, and literacy indeed fall more into the realm of sociology or anthropology than history. Certainly, these simulations may be quite interesting and enlightening to the historian, but they are, I think, fundamentally unhistorical. The discipline of history focuses on the particular, on a given time and place and on the particular evidence that remains from that time and place. Not since Toynbee, perhaps, has the notion of seeking the general "laws" of historical development been considered a reasonable goal of historical research. We toilers in the dusty archives tend to agree, I think, that history offers little direct insight into what happens in the future, for the particular circumstances that we study are most unlikely ever to recur. Perhaps those who write and read histories gain an unusual sense of the variety of crises and of responses that are possible in the human experience, but they are not likely to bet their professional reputations on the particular crises and responses that may occur tomorrow. I am currently writing historical game simulations that are based upon the documents that normally are considered historical sources. I have done one on the Russian revolutions of 1917, and I am plotting another on the rise of Stalin to political power. My approach has been to present a paragraph or two of text that is true to the sources and then ask the player what happens next. A historically accurate response leads to more text that is verifiable. An answer that deviates from the sources draws text that describes what might have been had that answer been correct. The player may, at the cost of a wretched score, pursue the "what if" line to improbable conclusions (such as Lenin becoming a wealthy corporate lawyer in NYC). To achieve a high score, the player must pursue the historically accurate line to the Bolshevik victory. The game may be criticized on pedigogical grounds for encouraging students to confuse what happened with what might have happened, but my own classes seem to have no problem recognizing the difference when they have completed play. Some historians may blanch at the notion of pursuing the the will-o-the-wisp of "what if," but I suspect that the question of what if lurks somewhere in the heart of every researcher. Incidentally, one of the most creative and thoughtful of those who create the quantitative, anthropological sort of simulations is Steven Heuston, who works out of Kent, Washington, and will soon be doing graduate work in anthropology in California. He has done one on medieval Spain, another on the Incas and a third on the ancient Mediterranean basin. They are elegant, sophisticated efforts, based largely on the historical record. But they do ignore, perforce, the behavior of the historical actors who made their decisions without knowing how they would come out. Martin Ryle, Professor of History University of Richmond, Virginia 23173 bitnet: Ryle@urvax From: Ron Zweig Subject: Beta-testers for Hebrew version of AskSam Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 13:38:24 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 593 (183) If any Humanists would be interested in beta-testing a Hebrew (and Hebrew/English) version of the full-text retrieval program AskSam, please send me a note. Ron Zweig Tel Aviv University (H27@TAUNIVM) From: Willard McCarty Subject: biographical template Date: 10 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 594 (184) Some of you will know that Steve DeRose and others have been busy getting the biographies of Humanists into shape. Their aim, if I may presume to state it, is to make the information in the biographies more easily accessible. I hasten to point out that although this involves a more demanding format than before, no one is suggesting that the contents of the biography itself be any less expressive or humane. I am attaching below Steve's standard template. The idea is that henceforth all new members would be asked to fill in the template and that any updates submitted by members would have to use it as well. (Existing biographies have been edited accordingly and will shortly be made available in three forms: as an SGML file, as a plain file without tags, and as a HyperCard stack.) The fictitious biography to which Steve refers has yet to be written. Is no one challenged enough to write a suitable biography for Morris Zapp or for some other such character? Your comments, please. Willard McCarty -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biographical Template for Humanist Last updated February 2, 1989. The following template provides markup tags to delineate the various pieces of information which should be included in your Humanist biography. The biographies are available to the members of the forum, and are a good way to find others with common interests, so please take care to include what you most want others to know. The biography should be written in the first person. Note that the markup tags are examples of the syntax of SGML, an international standard system for descriptively tagging the elements of documents. This method makes the information usable not only for word-processing, but also as a database and for other uses. The biographies are available in SGML, as formatted ASCII files, and in a HyperCard(tm) stack. General instructions: Please keep lines to at most 70 characters, and break lines only at word boundaries. You may include the "

" tag to mark the start of a new paragraph, and the "" tag to start a new line (e.g. in addresses, lists, etc.). For this simple application, every tag should begin a new line. As is usual in online forums, please express emphasis by surrounding emphatic words by asterisks: "*very*". There follows an empty template, which you may simply fill in and mail to the moderator, Willard Mccarty, MCCARTY at UTOREPAS on Bitnet. A fictitious biography is also included below as a guide, as are some notes on how best to express particular data. ----------- Template -- see below for further information ------------ ------------ Fill in and mail to MCCARTY@UTOREPAS.Bitnet ------------- ---------------------- End of biography template --------------------- *||||||| -- Must appear at beginning of each biographical sketch. *||||||| -- Last name first, as in "Washington, George." *||||||| -- Institutional affiliation, not including department or job title. Please abbreviate "University" to "Univ.", and include the period. When both are appropriate, use "Univ. of X", not "X University". For state universities, append the city after a comma if appropriate. Note the separate entry and tag for department and position within an institution -- these data should not be duplicated here. *||||||| -- Department within the institution. Abbreviate to "Dept. of"; e.g., use "Dept. of English" rather than "English Department"; consistency makes sorting and searching easier. Not everyone has a "Department"; thus the the name of this field only generally describes its use. *||||||| -- Job title or similar specification of work. *||||||| -- Paper-mail address, not including country or postal code. Line breaks within the address should be coded with the "" tag. *||||||| -- Postal code *||||||| -- Country. No periods in abbreviations. A few of the more common specifications are (for consistency) spelled: USA, UK, GB, Canada. *||||||| -- Full telephone number(s). An office phone may be prefixed by "(o)", and home by "(h)". *||||||| -- Electronic mail address. *||||||| -- Primary computer hardware. To avoid spelling differences, here are some standard names: PC, AT, PS/2, Vax, Mac, IBM mainframe, Sun, Apollo. When it is more relevant than the particular hardware, you may specify an operating system (e.g. Unix, VMS, etc.) instead. *||||||| -- Significant or unusual software used (few members include this). *||||||| -- A terse list of one's primary (relevant) interests. These will probably be discussed further in the biography proper, so this element should contain only a brief list of keywords which others (or perhaps programs) can scan quickly to get a rough idea of one's area(s). *||||||| -- Marks the start of the biography text per se. The biography text should describe your background, current research activities and interests, and perhaps what you hope to contribute to the forum, as well as any other information you deem interesting. Please write in the first person. The

(paragraph) and (new line) tags may appear within the scope of other tags. -------------------------- Sample biography -------------------------- -- to be added -- From: JACKA@PENNDRLS Subject: I'm a GNU. How about you? Date: Monday, 13 February 1989 0945-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 599 (185) Anyone who has experience with GNU, a freeware UNIX system, please contact me directly (215 898-4917 or JACKA @ PENNDRLS). Thank you. From: Subject: JEAN TALON Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 19:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 595 (186) For those interested in the Jean Talon project, the people in charge are Jim Page (Canadian Studies, Secretary of State's Department, Ottawa, K1A 0M5 - Ph 819-994-1544) or Victor Glickman in the Census Bureau at Ottawa. John Sandys-Wunsch. F540000@LAUVAX01.LAURENTIAN.CA From: Brian Molyneaux 0703-551358 Subject: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 16:45:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 598 (187) Platitudes for a Free World Knowledge is property; the pursuit of knowledge is a business. Academic freedom is, therefore, the freedom to do business. It should come as no surprise, then, that corporations and academics should get on so well. They share the same high ideals. From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Scanning software for Macs Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 12:05:59 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 596 (188) I know of two software scanning packages for the Mac, Omnipage (Caere, Inc., Mountain View, CA), and Accutext (Kurzweil, Cambridge, MA). Omnipage has an English-language version and is supposed to announce the foreign-language version in March. Accutext is in beta test for the English language version and is supposed to have a foreign language version 3d quarter 89. I have seen both packages demonstrated at trade shows, with about 97-99% accuracy. Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu telephone: (415) 642-2107 From: "Terry Langendoen (602)621-6898" Subject: RE: e-mail problems and their solutions (62) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 10:07 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 105 (189) Sebastian's remark about long addresses is about as inappropriate as anything I've read on humanist. There are various solutions to the long address problem on ibm mainframes, as I indicated privately to the person who posted the question. Terry Langendoen (langen@arizrvax ; langen@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu ) From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: RE: e-mail problems and their solutions (62) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 10:30 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 106 (190) It may be that the solution proposed by Sebastian (throw away your mainframe and buy one with a decent mailer) is a little too complicated for some sufferers I therefore copy the following advice from an excellent summary to the vagaries of e-mail addressing produced by Tim Clark at the U of Warwick: " If none of these address forms work, you may have to consult your network manager. It should be explained to him/her that, to send mail via Earn/BitNet/ NetNorth to JANET, the address in the envelope must be quite different from the address in the RFC-822 header. In particular, the mail envelope must specify MAILER@UKACRL as the intended recipient, whereas the RFC-822 hedaer should contain as the value of the 'To:' field the address in the form person@machine.place.ac.uk The file should be sent as a PUNCH file to user Mailer at Earn node UKACRL with class M." Isn't it nice to see something as alien as an RFC-822 header still has something called an "envelope" attached to it? Incidentally, if you want a copy of Tim Clark's document , send a mail message to info-server@uk.ac.nott.cs containing in its text the following lines request:sources topic: request:end where is one of mail-gateways.6.txt (readable text file) mail-gateways.6.ms (for use with dtroff or troff) mail.gateways.6.latex (LaTex format: not yet available according to my copy) mail.gateways.6.ps (PostScript format) Please dont all do it once! From: Subject: we use VAX Rdb, dBase III+, Oracle Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 08:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 600 (191) Re databases in use: We work primarily on the VAX here and have large databases in either pure RMS (indexed) format for use from home-brew fortran (for 1Million + record stock transaction files), or VAX Rdb (accessed via Basic, pascal, Rally, Teamdata, or Datatrieve) for daily administrative files (records for 20,000 people's addresses, gift records, calendar system, etc.) We've been a "beta" field-test site for VAX Rally for the last year and like the product a lot (See article on our use of Rally in Digital Review, Feb 6, 1989, page 87.) We are (sigh...) a reference site for Rdb/Rally, so I'll be glad (with some delay) to answer questions re VAXen, distributed databases, etc. (I taught a course here in Database Management.) We have also just started developent of Hypercard courseware and I'm have very strong demand for hypercard front-ends to (particularly) the fortran databases, so that's next on our agenda. (I don't personally maintain ANY large text or bibliographic databases.) Wade Schuette, Database Administrator, Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4201 (607) 255-6300 From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: open software, cont. (195) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 00:05:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 107 (192) The discussion of openness and rights of ownership, of free dissemination of software and commercial sales, of copying and copyright has been refreshingly unstructured, as befits a topic on which it is still too soon to claim to advance a final judgement. I'd like to add a few random thoughts to the discussion. The notion of "intellectual property" is less clear than some suppose. It does seem at first glance to be simple fairness that someone who develops a particularly good algorithm should be able to charge for its use and forbid making changes to it. However, this notion does run contrary to the common practice in many areas of intellectual activity. Suppose Descartes had been able to place similar restrictions on the use of the cogito, or Witgenstein on the advice that we should ask, not what a word means, but how it is used. What if Einstein had placed similar restrictions on his work with relativity--this analogy is particularly tempting, since Einstein had worked as a clerk in a patent office, and so might be presumed to have an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of owning ideas. In most branches of scholarship, it has long been a commonplace that NO work is acceptable to the scholarly community unless all of the details of the method and the data are made available to one's colleagues for verification. Results derived from secret methods or from secret data are simply inadmissible. Claiming credit, whether tangible or intangible, for writing a program while keeping the code secret is comparable to claiming credit for assertions about Anglo-Saxon kingship or the dating of Hamlet while claiming coyly that the scholar cannot reveal his sources. A glance at Bacon's ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING and Spratt's HISTORY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY might not be inappropriate. The medieval and renaissance guilds had guarded their trade secrets carefully, with the result that each guild owned a few precious secrets, but overall scientific progress was painfully slow. New institutions like Gresham College and later the Royal Society were built around the idea that if knowledge were shared people would profit from one another's ideas and advances would come much more rapidly. Since then the scholarly tradition of honouring the owner- ship of ideas has been to provide explicit acknowlegement of sources... not payment of licensing fees. The analogy between program disks and books is also suggestive. The student who is poor can use books in the university library; programs can only be purchased or pirated. A meaningful deterent to photocopying books is a reasonable price: it is foolish to spend fifteen dollars photocopying a book that can be bought with sturdy binding for twenty dollars. The temptation to copy a program onto a blank three dollar disk rather than spending three hundred dollars is much greater. Ironically, it is probably possible to satisfy most of the needs of a business office with relatively inexpensive software, while the needs of a student or professor often demand much more expensive software. This point became ludicrously obvious a little while back when the publisher of a particularly useful and expensive wordprocessing program brought out a cheaper version for students: the economy was achieved by eliminating several features, including footnoting, that are rarely used by anyone except students and professors. This company thus has two versions of the program on the market: an economy version which will serve the needs of big business and a very expensive version which will serve the needs of students. Finally, there is the problem of finding software that will do the job at all. Understandably, business is well served with software and manuals for producing form letters, parts inventories, accounts, and so on. It's very difficult to buy software off the shelf that will perform even the most rudimentary tasks of scholarship. Now with a little tinkering, Microsoft Excell would serve my needs admirably, but it's sealed tightly against that kind of tinkering and it really is beyond the scope of a mild mannered philologist to write code from the ground up that will do all that Excell does and more. Once upon a time it was said that we stood on the shoulders of giants. It seems that giants' shoulders have become proprietary and the giants are charging rent. From: Richard Stallman Subject: Fame as a reward Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 21:00:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 108 (193) [{14 February 1989 I am attaching a copy of a message I received from Richard Stallman in response to my comment to HUMANIST on the issue of Copyleft, dated February 8th. It seems to me to capture well the intended point, that it is both dangerous and unnecessary to collapse authorial rights into proprietary rights. Mark Sacks, Liverpool .] /:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/Original message:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/:/: I have no objection to fame as a reward for contribution to society, and I'm happy to be famous. (Alas, no groupies in this field:-) The important thing is that fame can be given *without negating the value of what was contributed*. Even money as a reward is ok with me, as long as it is raised in ways that don't obstruct the use of what you are being rewarded for. My objection to the system of proprietary software is that people are being rewarded, not simply for developing software, but for developing software and then being obnoxious obstructionists. It is dangerous to reward being a bad neighbor. Forward this to your discussion if you wish. From: Scott Earley Subject: HUMANIST garbling closed Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 17:49:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 602 (194) [Humanists in the North Eastern U.S. were plagued by scrambled messages late last year. The problem was taken seriously by the Bitnet staff, who investigated even the possibility of intentional tampering. Here is a report from the chief investigator, which at least some of you will find interesting. --W.M.] After getting notice of unexplained "message garbling" on both the HUMANIST and NOTIS-L LISTSERV discussion groups I began tracking it down with expert assistance from others. The consensus of opinions is that this was more than likely an occurrence of random, non-human intevention, possibly caused by failure of a data compression algorithm in an intervening machine or mail subsystem. Furthermore, it was isolated and apparently confined to a small set of BITNET sites. In the wake of other, more serious worm-related events it was wise to be safe and investigate this event. Since Dr. McCarty, owner and editor of HUMANIST@UTORONTO, has seen no similar transmissions since this condition was first noted I'm quite confident in closing it. Many thanks to those of you who alerted the BITNIC staff and to the skilled volunteers.... Scott Earley Network Services Consultant BITNET: Scott@BITNIC BITNET Network Information Center Phone: 609-520-3377 From: HEBERLEIN@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: DMBS usage Date: Thu, 89 0 02:14 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 603 (195) According to Lou Burnard no one HUMANIST seems to know Oracle; yet there is at least one, in the deserts of innermost Bavaria, who uses Oracle v. 5 on a DG MV 7800 (as well as v. 4.1.4 on a PC) in order to run a DB on Latin word resarch. Best regards from cold Eichstaett, Fritz Heberlein. From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 13:20:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 109 (196) Does anyone out there know where I can obtain a device driver to connect an MS-DOS micro to an Apple ImageWriter II? Thanks. --Joel D. Goldfield From: Mark Olsen Subject: Beckett Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 12:45:40 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 110 (197) We are looking for English texts by Samuel Beckett in addition to those held in the Oxford Text Archive. Any information regarding machine readable English Beckett (we have the French) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Mark Olsen ARTFL Project Romance Languages University of Chicago mark@gide.uchicago.edu From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: OCR's Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 10:05:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 605 (198) I have seen Omnipage in action, and it is impressive. It as able to scan 6 pages of a magazine article with very few errors. It is not, however, a low-end system--except in comparison to a Kurzweil, perhaps. It requires 4 or 5 Mb of memory, and is itself not inexpensive. I also do not think that it is trainable, so although it has a built in capacity for many Roman character sets, that's it. I hear that there are some European OCR applications for the Mac, which are trainable, require less memory, and cost less than Omnipage. I think one of them is Spanish, and it is being marketed by a Canadian company. Does anyone have more specific information? For the present, however, Omnipage is impressive. Maybe the Brown people, who have access to the system, can send in some more specifics? From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Hyphens in Micro-OCP Date: Tue, 14 FEB 89 10:40:34 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 606 (199) While I accept Daniel Ridings' point about hyphens in Micro-OCP, which will be corrected, I should also point out that this is most likely to occur in texts in TLG code or derived from TLG coding where the references for chapter, book and sentence ends are not in the correct place. In TLG, they occur at the beginning of the printed line within which the new sentence or chapter begins, not at the actual place within the line where the reference changes. The only other occasion where hyphens might occur before a COCOA reference is at a page boundary, but a hyphen as the last character on a page is not good typography. Is anybody interested in our program to fix the TLG problem? Susan Hockey From: Shu-Yan Mok Subject: Submission to HUMANIST on Open Software Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 22:21:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 111 (200) I'm sure most of the humanists would agree that the ongoing debate on open software is itself open-ended. This may indeed be a source of excitement for both the active and silent participants. But in more than one occasion I could not help feeling that beneath the unstructured discussions there is an unspoken seriousness about the debate itself--a seriousness which, I think, is misplaced. We are debating the subject as if we really want to win the verdict of the audience. But where is audience? The truth is that the debaters are the audience themselves. Certainly not the vendors! Equally unlikely are the legislators. This is not to deny that debating with oneself, or, for that matter, among kindred-spirited humanists, can be a useful exercise. Before, I might be convinced that the idea of proprietary software stinks, but now I may be comforted by the thought that I'm not alone and that there are indeed many arguments to confirm my belief (and a few arguments to counter my belief). I'd like to suggest that when we feel we have more or less exhausted the arguments for or against proprietary software, we may turn our attention to arguments of a different order. The subject is still proprietary software; the methods of argument also remain the same (critical, moral, casual, passionate, . . .). Only the questions we hope the debate can help solve, that is, if we are serious, are different. One such question is: if the present laws protecting proprietary rights of softwares are bad laws, can the humanists justify breaking these laws? To exchange notes on how to break these laws with impunity (or, the other side of the same coin, how to exemplify the duty to uphold these laws) does not belong to the humanist forum; but to debate whether we are justified in doing so certainly does. From: Subject: intellectual property Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 10:57 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 112 (201) There's a parody - I think it's a parody - in Jerome Tuccille's *It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand*: a theory is described to the effect that inventors have an absolute and inalienable property in their own ideas, and anyone who wants to pass them on must pay royalties to the inventor. Obviously Tuccille and I can't give any more details of this fascinating system since we haven't paid the inventor for permission (and I don't know whom to pay). This in turn reminds me of an imaginary (and soon to be extinct!) bird in Douglas Adams' universe, who builds nests that no-one could get out of - it's heard about evolution and wants nothing to do with it. Regards, Stephen Clark (currently at Vanderbilt). From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: Open software... A few thoughts Date: Wednesday, 15 February 1989 1234-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 113 (202) I know that I'm coming into this debate in its latter stages, so something along the lines of what follows may have already been mentioned. Willard McCarty's thoughtful comments on the issue of the commercializaton of academic software, or the cooperation of academics with commercial developers (some would add, the "cooptation of academics by commercial developers")--Feb 11 1989--brought a few things to mind. The anxieties revolving around free and open exchange of humanities computing, versus the restraining effect of proprietary controls and profit ventures are in large part, I believe, a product of the uncertain (and anxious) status of humanities computing in the academy: those of us who are working on software and/or hardware development, without much (if any) support from the institutions with which we are affiliated are in a bind: entirely apart from the issue of recognition measured by the barometers of publications, tenure, etc., there is the barometer of funding. One can't turn out good work if one isn't supported materially. That material support will not be forthcoming until the work that is being done is recognized as valuable by colleagues who don't share our interest in the application of computing to literature, linguistics, etc. The lack of material support binds all the more because of the nature of the work: computing software and hardware is much more expensive than the tools of "conventional" humanities research. On several occasions, I've been party to a discussion between humanities computing people where a tenured academic has warned a non-tenured academic not to spend too much time on the computing stuff, and to make sure that she has a solid base of "conventional" scholarship to fall back on, lest she be found wanting come tenure review time. Advice not only from "conventional" tenured academics, but also tenured humanities computing folk. I guess that this is a problem with any field of research that is perceived to be outside of the mainstream, but it seems to me to be made worse by 1) the material problems specific to computing (the cost of the tools) and 2) The continuing mistrust of computing on the part of (I suspect) the majority of humanists. Specific problems with specific answers, though I can't come up with anything other than a general idea that scholars in humanities computing can and should do what they can to increase the acceptance of their field by the academic community at large. If developers of software in the academy were more sure of receiving professional recognition (and consequent financial support) for their work, many who now fret over whether or not to charge for, or control the distribution of, their work, would--I think--be more likely to let the stuff circulate openly. From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 23:18:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 114 (203) If knowledge is property, and the pursuit of knowledge is a business, and if academic freedom is the freedom to *pursue knowledge* THEN: 1) Pursuing knowledge is the pursuit of property, in which case we should all go into real estate and; 2) The freedom to pursue knowledge is a business, in which case all scholars should be paid for their free learning. Then we could all invest in more real estate. What a system! Let's copyright it! --Joel From: Angela Subject: folkloristics? Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 14:29:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 115 (204) Yes, I'm interested in the folkloristics discussion group.. What is it? Any more info?? Thanks, Angela From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Logoteca Espan~ola de Gotemburgo Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 14:12:24 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 116 (205) We have received an order form for the text and concordances of two large text corpora produced at the Institut d'Etudes Romanes of the U. of Go"teborg (Sweden), from 11 Spanish novels published between 1951 and 1971 and from 3000 newspaper articles published in Spain in 1977. This is being made available in printed and microfiche. Is it also being made available in machine-readable form? Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu telephone: (415) 642-2107 From: Subject: Intro. to computing in the humanities Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 19:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 117 (206) I am a sociologist and I am used to do statistical analysis of quantitative data much like what is gathered by census or socio- economic surveys. But right now, I'm starting to get interested in what people on this list are specialists of -computer analysis of textual data- and I'm first trying to get a general idea of what are the main types of applications, what are the problems each of them can solve and what are those each creates, and what is the state of the art in each area. Unfortunately I don't have *direct* access to someone who is familiar with what's going on in that field. The processes from various congresses haven't been of much help to me since they are intended to be read by people who are already familiar with the topics and the only general introduction I have found so far by myself is dated 1980 (HOCKEY, Susan, _A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities_, London, Duckworth), an age when ASCII seemed to be somekind of science- fiction-like esperanto, a terminal was something convenient to use when correcting data read from punched cards, *micro* was the short name for the micro-processor of a pocket calculator and Pascal still a French philosopher... I guess some parts of that book are still valid but I'm sure somebody published something comprehensive in the past couple of years and that I've been looking for it in the wrong place. So I would be very grateful if anyone of you could direct me to one or several references that would help me to find my way in your world. Thanks in advance. Benoit LAPLANTE Departement de sociologie Universite de Montreal LAPLANTE@UMTLVR (old style) LAPLANTE@CC.UMONTREAL.CA (new style) From: Sterling Bjorndahl - Claremont Graduate School Subject: re: Hyphens in Micro-OCP: at the ends of pages Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 11:35 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 609 (207) Susan Hockey says: [deleted quotation] What about the following scenario? I have taken over responsibility for the machine readable form of the Nag Hammadi Coptic Gnostic texts as they have been produced here in Claremont. Since most of the texts are represented in only one manuscript, the original editors decided to keep the machine readable form of the texts using the same line and page breaks as the manuscript. In other words, we have an edition of the *papyri*, not just an edition of the *texts*. This means that we have many hyphenated words, including quite a number at the bottom of pages, and many hyphenated words partially in lacunae or otherwise interrupted with TLG-type "escape sequences," e.g., where X represents a Coptic character and [] surround lacunae (and ~ starts a TLG-style citation line): XXX ... XXXX- ~2.3.1 XXX ... or XXX ... XX[XXX]- XXX ... or [XXX] ... XXX- [XX XX]XX ... or some combination of the above. Was it a mistake to do an edition of the papyri and to try to maintain line and page integrity, and to indicate lacunae? We need some way of knowing page and line numbers, since that is the only way most of these texts are cited. Should we convert the whole thing to SGML - will we be able to keep all the information that we have currently coded in TLG compatible codes? But we want to stay as close as possible to TLG coding so that software used for TLG will need to be modified only minimally to deal with Coptic. It seems to me to be not unreasonable to expect software to be intelligent enough to deal with these situations as they stand. Sterling Bjorndahl Institute for Antiquity and Christianity Claremont, California From: Subject: Another DBMS user of Oracle Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 09:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 118 (208) We also play around with Oracle on a PC, and plan to acquire it for the Macintosh. I'm particularly interested in the Hypercard interface ($199) which the company tells me will let Hypercard on a Mac retrieve data from any other Oracle or SQL database (except, of course, Rdb on the VAx, the one I need...) on a mainframe. All that will change when Apple's connectivity tool to the VAX (CL/1) becomes available later this year. Since some other Humanist had a question about it, here's a fast core dump on Oracle. Company (ORCL on NASDAQ) is about 12 years old, was formed by group of IBM's staff who thought IBM was going too slowly with development of relational databases (System R at that point, then DB2), and was the first commercial release of SQL. Company has grown apx 100% each year since then, (as has its stock price) and is now 3rd largest database Co. in US. (Some say too much, as they expand from 3000 to 5000 staff this year.) In any case, they appear solid and here for the long run. Variants of the product run on almost every machine and operating system, making it a prime choice for integration of multi-vendor environments, including NATO, the entire Saudi Arabian air-defense system, etc. I taught three lectures on this in a DMBS course, and had the MBA's use it on a PC... The product works, but it seems like a product for serious DP people to build systems in, not for amateurs, unless the Hypercard link does all the work for you. Benchmarks show it loads data just about the most slowly of all PC products, which is because it does a great deal of clever placement on the disk -- and, as a result, it is just about the fastest product out for search and retrieval. I believe versions exist in at least 20 other languages. There are extended form-building, application- building tools, etc, but the manual set is about 2500 pages and intimidating. Still, if you need to build a system that will survive the next four operating system changes, a switch from IBM to VAX to BULL without needing to rewrite your code, this may be worth looking at. At last check, there were no such things as open-ended free-text fields, which can make this a poor choice for a text-oriented database. New versions come out almost monthly, though, so you should ask. (1-800-ORACLE1, which is on Pacific time (Eastern - 3, UTC - 8 right now.) Wade Schuette, Johnson Graduate School of Mangement, Cornell University. From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: DBMS Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 12:58:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 119 (209) Gregory Crane started to use Oracle on the Mac to hold the endings and stems of Greek words for his morphological parser of Greek. It seemed attractive because it allows SQL queries from HyperCard. Unfortunately, we had to send it back because it does not permit variable length text fields. He is now using Reflex. Otherwise, we use Filemaker II on the Mac for standard office work and for catalogues of images. HyperCard can sort of fit into the DBMS category, but I would hesitate to call it a real database. I started to use it for office information and gave up. We use it here more as a developent environment. From: Jody Gilbert Subject: Scanning software for Macs (30) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 18:35:16 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 120 (210) If we are talking about Optical Character Recognition software as opposed to simple scanning software, I have also seen Read It (by Olduvai I think) and TextPert. Read it worked OK, but the copy of TextPert we got wouldn't open files that had been scanned by other programs, although it was supposed to. From: Allen Renear Subject: Omnipage Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 12:03:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 121 (211) Andrew Gilmartin, Brown CIS, forwards the following on Omnipage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have been using OmniPage for a short while now mostly to sample the range of original page quality it will except. In general OmniPage does not like photocopies of articles typeset at below 12pt. For example, a typical Byte magazine article which uses a serif font in a multicolumn layout with headings crossing columns and interspersed graphics will be read with 100% accuracy while a high quality photocopy of the same article is unusable. Bold text is read accurately. Italic text is problematic, the finer its strokes the poorer the result. I now simply plan to retype the italic sections. Earlier this week we tried scanning a photocopy of an Italian document printed on a Macintosh ImageWriter with 12pt New York (fully justified). More care must to be taken in placing each page on the scanner because of the ImageWriter's poor resolution but once this was discovered the result was quite acceptable. 'Acceptable' is a little fuzzy so let me say that the scan resulted in a document that could be given to a student to cleanup in a half an hour or so. Others in our office have scanned everything from tables of data to the front page to IBM documentation. Each time the resulting document would have taken much longer to have had retyped than it took to scan and clean. It has been my experience that a five to ten page typeset article takes a little over an hour to scan, clean up, and reformat. The equipment used is an Apple flatbed scanner connected to a Macintosh II running OmniPage under MultiFinder with the default memory settings. Andrew Gilmartin at Computing & Information Services andrew@brownvm.brown.edu ps OmniScan can distinguish between a hyphen and an em-dash! From: Mark Olsen Subject: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 21:38:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 122 (212) ARTFL Project PhiloLogic and MacPhilo Release We are releasing our new access software to the Treasury of the French Language in the next day or so (depending on printer speed:-). PhiloLogic is a full text system that can search on some or all of the database of 2000 French texts and can send results to users by download, e-mail, and FTP as well as hard copy printing. It supports word list management, sub-string searching, on-line help, and limited (at this time) proximity searching. We have two full screen interfaces. PhiloLogic runs on any terminal or terminal emulator, such as the VT100. MacPhilo runs on the Macintosh and makes full use of the Macintosh graphics interface. You can access PhiloLogic via telephone lines or through INTERNET using the telnet protocol. HUMANISTs who would like to look at PhiloLogic (and MacPhilo) should contact me. We have set up a guest account for testing and demonstation purposes. I would be very interested in getting the reactions of individuals whose primary interest is French language and literature as well as those interested in full text retrieval. Mark Olsen ARTFL Project Romance Languages Univerity of Chicago mark@gide.uchicago.edu From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Appreciations Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 09:28:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 123 (213) I'd like to thank all of those who took time to respond to my question concern- ing e-mail nodes of greater length than eight characters. I received a great many replies, both on and off the HUMANIST network--so many, in fact, that I'm resorting to this general statement of appreciation rather than writing to each contributor individually. I'm now in the process of presenting these solutions to the genii of our computer laboratory; I expect that some of them will work on our system. One again, thanks for your help! Cordially, KEVIN L. COPE (ENCOPE@LSUVM) From: Joe Giampapa Subject: LIPADIT Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 09:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 124 (214) "LInguistic PApers DIstribution Tilburg is a student initiative to distribute papers on generative linguistics on the electronic network. It is a pure pre- publication service. All available papers are final drafts as submitted, or ready to be submitted, for publication on paper. Papers are deleted from the database as soon as they appear in a journal or book." Currently there is no charge for membership, but the posting explains that there will be a $10 membership fee in the future. The file is rather large, and I have not made it through to the info about how to subscribe. However, any HUMANISTs who are interested may send me e-mail and I will forward the posting to them. ------------ Just an asside: are there any art critics who are a part of HUMANIST? -Joe giampapa@brandeis.bitnet From: onomata@bengus (nissan ephraim) Subject: Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 17:46:40 -0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 125 (215) The "International Journal of Expert Systems: Research & Applications" (ESRA) is now in its Vol. 2 (1989). In Vol. 1, some papers on Natural-Language Processing have been published. There has been a special issue completely devoted to the topic. Inquiries on subscription should be directed to: JAI Press Inc., P.O. Box 1678, Greenwich, Connecticut 06836-1678, U.S.A. Submissions are invited, as far as AI is involved. Six copies of submitted papers should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi T. Harandi, 130 Digital Computer Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A. Submittors from Europe can send papers either to the above address, or to the Associate Editor for Europe: Ephraim Nissan, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi T. Harandi Associate Editors: Veronica Dahl, Makoto Nagao, Ephraim Nissan, David C. Rine Editorial Board: Bruce W. Ballard, Daniel G. Bobrow, Nick Cercone, William J. Clancey, Norbert Cot, Michael G. Dyer, Lee Erman, Larry Fagan, J.D. Foley, Charles L. Forgy, Mark Fox, Herve' Gallaire, Michael P. Georgeff, Aravind Joshi, Abraham Kandel, Kamal Karna, Larry Kerschberg, Casimir A. Kulikowski, Jean-Louis Lauriere, Giorgio Levi, Leon S. Levy, Alan K. Mackworth, David D. McDonald, Perry Miller, Jack Minker, Sanjay Mittal, Ugo Montanari, Tim O'Shea, Jacques Pitrat, Lucas Pun, J. Ross Quinlan, Jean-Claude Rault, C.K. Riesbeck, J. Alan Robinson, Azriel Rosenfeld, Andrew P. Sage, Derek Sleeman, Reid G. Smith, Elliot Soloway, Marco Somalvico, Steve Tanimoto, Sholom M. Weiss, Yorick Wilks, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Carlo Zaniolo. Advisory Board: J.-P. Aubert, Ronald Brachman, Eugene Chouraqui, Marco Colombetti, Franco Di Primio, Amitava Dutta, Steven J. Fenves, Peter Friedland, Brian R. Gaines, Francesco Gardin, Helen M. Gigley, John F. Gilmore, Martin C. Golumbic, Giovanni Guida, Anoop Gupta, Sture Hagglund, Bruce Hohne, Arie Kaufman, Yves Kodratoff, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, Mark S. Monmonier, Constantin Virgil Negoita, Istvan Orci, Thomas Pierce, Henry Prade, Kenneth Preiss, Hans-Jorg Schek, Maria Simi, Alan Solomon, Leon Sterling, Franco Turini, Beverly Woolf, Gian Piero Zarri. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 126 (216) DATE: Tuesday, February 14, 1989, 22:11:50 MST FROM: John J. Hughes SUBJECT: Job Advertisement ------------------------JOB DESCRIPTION------------------------ The Zondervan Corporation, a subsidiary of Harper & Row, has developed an Electronic Publishing Division and is about to release its first major software product. Other products are in the works, and the division is looking for someone to fill the position of Director of Product Management. The division has strong growth potential. Anyone who might have an interest in this position should contact Tom Mockabee, Assistant Director of Human Resources, The Zondervan Corporation, 1415 Lake Dr. S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49506; (616) 698-3346. A job description follows. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Education: College graduate Experience: Minimum of two years experience in microcomputer application development, with experience in design, project management, testing, and version control. Background in structured design preferred. Experience programming in C and Assembler. Other Qualifications: Able to: -Creatively analyze problems and develop new ideas or solutions. -Listen well and communicate clearly. -Plan, organize, and coordinate activities independently or as part of a team. -Demonstrate self-confidence and positive attitude toward self and others. Job Title: Director of Product Management Duties and Responsibilities: General: Responsible for the management of technical issues concerning electronic publishing products. Specific: -Participate in the development of standards and design of electronic products -Manage product development and quality control with contract programmers -Manage product support systems and revision control -Perform product testing on new products (black box and white box) -Assist with text processing and program development Comments: This position is one of three key positions for electronic publishing. This individual will have to wear a variety of hats as this division begins to develop its product line, but ultimately this person will be a key manager, not merely a programmer. He or she will be involved in establishing text-formatting standards, foreign-language display, and large databases design. It will be important that he or she be able to quickly understand approaches presented by other programmers to these issues and then to participate as part of the Zondervan management team by detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches. Zondervan uses many contract programmers to fulfill much of their programming needs. The person in this position will play a significant role in defining product specifications so that work will proceed quickly and smoothly with a minimum of time and expense. People and project management skills will be important in directing and controlling product development. Quality control of work done by contract programmers is a key element of this work. There will be opportunity to be involved in both testing and aspects of coding as a project enters the final push to completion. The control of all software revisions will be the responsibility of this individual. Products that are on the market will have phone support. This individual will oversee this effort, providing training and a more technical level of support. Since Zondervan products deal with biblical materials, a background in this area would be helpful. This is a secondary concern, but awareness of the Bible, the role of commentaries, textual issues, and some awareness of foreign languages (particularly Greek and Hebrew) will speed the design of products to the Zondervan standard. This individual will be part of the Electronic Publishing management meetings and will play a role in marketing, budget, development, and operation decisions. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Tools for Humanists: the door is not yet closed Date: 15 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 613 (217) Most of you will know about the software and hardware fair, Tools for Humanists, that I am organizing in conjunction with the ALLC/ICCH conference to be held here in Toronto this June. I was unpleasantly surprised yesterday to learn that one potential exhibit in the fair, and a particularly interesting one, had not been proposed because the person in charge thought that she was too late to make a proposal. My soft deadline, 1 February, has passed, but in the next two weeks I will still be able to entertain suggestions. We have a goodly number of quite promising exhibits, but there is still room in the room. Remember, there will be scheduled exhibits and a "Hacker's Corner" where anyone can test or demonstrate software. Only those who have scheduled exhibits will be able to get information about their work in the guidebook, however, so the extra effort is worth it. Please don't bushel-hide any genuine light. It's quite challenging to exhibit software to a large crowd of knowledgeable colleagues, but the suggestions provoked and interest generated can be invaluable. Send me a note if you wish an application form. Willard McCarty From: Joe Giampapa Subject: open software, from the source. Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 16:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 614 (218) Why Software Ownership is bad for Society Talk given by Richard Stallman at Univ. of Texas, Feb. 1987. [ca. 650 lines] -------------------- [A complete version of this talk is now available on the file-server, s.v. SOFTWARE TALK. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Yaacov Choueka Subject: Re: B-testers for Hebrew AskSam? (19) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 18:06:14 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 127 (219) Yes, Yaacov Choueka Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52100 Bitnet: choueka@bimacs Arpa: choueka%bimacs.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Csnet: choueka%bimacs.bitnet%cunyvm.cuny.edu@csnet-relay UUCP: uunet!mcvax!humus!bimacs!choueka From: Mark Glazer Subject: Folklorists' discussion group Date: 30 January 1988 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 128 (220) COMPUTER NETWORK FOR FOLKLORISTS The Folklore List on BITNET A computer network for folklorists has just been established as FOLKLORE@TAMVM1. We would like to hear from anyone who is interested in joining us in using an international interactive computer network for folklore study. Some of the ways this network can be used are outlined below, but I am sure its users will think of more ways to use this network. Other disciplines than folklore have had links available through computer networks using Bitnet by which course syllabi, bibliographies, paper calls, research notes, queries, employment notices and other items are distributed. Such a computer link among folklorists will be very useful for researchers whether they be students, teachers or independent researchers in folklore. Besides the uses already mentioned there is another use which particularly excites us -- enabling us to keep track of new upgrowths of such contemporary folklore as joke cycles, customs, legends and so on. Initially this list will be a forum for discussion and a kind of file server or periodical electronic magazine. If you would like to participate in this list please subscribe to it by using the following command: tell Listserv@tamvm1 sub folklore Your Name or you can write or call one of us. Philip Hiscock MUN Folklore & Language Archive (MUNFLA) Memorial University of Newfoundland St John's, Newfoundland, CANADA A1B 3X8 (709) 737-8401 E-mail: PHILIPH@MUN.BITNET or Mark Glazer Rio Grande Folklore Archive Pan American University Edinburg, Texas 78539 (512) 381-3551 E-mail: MG6BE8@PANAM.BITNET From: Brian Molyneaux 0703-551358 Subject: Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 10:42:33 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 129 (221) Joel Goldfield's idea about converting intellectual property to real estate using the profits of a wage-supported pursuit of knowledge is brilliant. Unfortunately for beleaguered humanists, the idea has already been copywritten - by universities. We can debate about various forms of freedom, but we're just slaves to the mortgage. From: Subject: Now they're patenting algorithms? Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 10:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 130 (222) Anyone involved in this open software / intellectual property debate should note the article in yesterday's New York Times (Wed 2/15/89) on (I think) the first Business page, on the recent trend to patenting mathematical algorithms and the implications of that move, as well as the patenting of life-forms. Wade Schuette From: Subject: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 11:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 617 (223) I'd like some basic information about the Medieval and Early Modern Databank. Where is it? How do I find out more about it?: How do I use it? From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Mice Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 10:42:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 131 (224) The following is the conclusion of "Evaluation of Mouse, Rate- Controlled Isometric Joystick, Step Keys, and Text Keys for Text Selection on a CRT" (found in "Readings in Human-Computer Interaction" pages 386-392) [deleted quotation] In the tests that led to this conclusion, each subject [deleted quotation] The interesting thing is that mice apparently become difficult when selecting small targets (like periods in Geneva 9 point.) This study did not address the aggravation of those who do not like mice and are consequently slowed down by their irritation. Yours Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 40 01 51 20 EISINGER at FRIBM11 Subject: Date: 14 February 89, 12:00:15 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 132 (225) [deleted quotation] At last some fresh air on Humanist ! Exactly what my younger son said to his elder brother : my toy is nicer that yours. P.S. By the way, VM users (there's still some) can use a so-called CROSSNET EXEC to go to over 100 networks with any kind of addressing pattern. From: Michael Feld Subject: Quattro and MSWord Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 13:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 133 (226) Could some Humanist help me with a mundane problem? I'm running Quattro and Microsoft Word on an XT clone. Word claims to be able to update the spreadsheet Lotus1,2,3 via Word's "Link" utility, and Quattro claims to supersede Lotus1,2,3; but I've not bee able to figure out how to use Word to update Quattro spreadsheets. Can it be done? And if so, how? From: Sterling Bjorndahl - Claremont Graduate School Subject: Machine readable Pseudo-Clementines? Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 16:25 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 134 (227) A colleague is requesting a machine readable form of the Latin and Syriac portions of the Pseudo-Clementines. I don't see it in the Oxford list on the Humanist filelist. Anyone know of such things, or where to check for them? Sterling Bjorndahl Claremont, California From: Hilde Colenbrander Subject: Medieval and Early Modern Databank Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 16:49:34 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 135 (228) "The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB) is a resource project established at Rutgers University and cosponsored by The Research Libraries Group, Inc. ... MEMDB currently is available in a pilot version that runs on personal computers. It contains a master data set of 13,256 medieval currency exchange rate quotations compiled by Dr Peter Spufford of the University of Cambridge for his Handbook of Medieval Exchange ... usable on any AT-class personal computer with ten megabytes of available hard-disk storage ..." To obtain a copy of the information leaflet from which the above was taken, write to: MEMDB, Dept of History, CN 5059 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08903 The September 1988 price was US$250. From: "CONNIE GOULD" Subject: answer to question about MEMDB Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 11:36:02 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 136 (229) I received a request today for more information on the Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank. This is a project undertaken jointly by The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) and Rutgers University. The PC prototype is now available; a larger, on-line, version will be disseminated on the Research Libraries Information Network in 1990. The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (MEMDB), the first non-bibliographic database to be developed by RLG, will provide scholars with an electronic reference library of information on the medieval and early modern period, roughly A.D. 800 to 1800. It currently contains over 13,000 medieval currency exchange quotations from Europe, Byzantium, the Levant, and North Africa--the core of what will eventually be a greatly expanded database of information on wages, prices, demographics, property holding, and many other subjects. The prototype, which runs on AT-class computers with ten megabytes of available hard disk storage, has been designed to be easy to use by scholars and researchers. MEMDB is a flexible reference tool that allows users to retrieve both the scholarly source and background text for search results. It also allows items to be exported standard work processing, database, and spreadsheet programs. MEMDB's directors are Rudolph M. Bell, Professor of History, and Martha C. Howell, Associate Professor of History, both at Rutgers. Last year, European offices were opened in Leiden and Brussels to provide European users with direct access to the prototype and also to serve as centers for the acquisition and distribution of data. Copies of the prototype cost $250 and can be obtained on 5.25- or 3/5-inch diskettes from The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank, Department of History, CN 5059, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. (MEMDB is not available in a version that will run on a Macintosh.) Martha Carlin, Executive Director, will be happy to answer any questions at BB.MXC@RLG.Bitnet or 201/932-8316. If there are questions about RLG and its automated information system, RLIN, I'd be happy to answer them. Connie Gould (BL.CCG@RLG.Bitnet) Research Libraries Group From: Itamar Subject: CoLing 1990 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 11:12:12 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 622 (230) Originally from Hans Karlgren KVAL Please note ... the coming COLING 90 conference, i.e., the 13 intern conference on computational linguistics in Helsinki 19-26/8 90. Papers should reach the program committee by Dec 1 89, address: KVAL Research Institutet, Skeppsbron 26, S-111 30 Stockholm, SWEDEN, HKARLGREN@COM.QZ.SE, fax +468 7969639, voice +468 789 66 83, telex 15440 KVAL S. You are encouraged to submit * a topical paper on some crucial issue in computational linguistics or * a (brief) project note with software demonstration. The volume should not exceed 5 pages or 12 000 characters in E-mail and the text should be delivered for evaluation in 5 copies on paper or as an E-mail message. A few contributions will be selected as "dispuations", which will be made accessible beforehand and for which an opponent will be appointed. He will be given access to comments which arrive beforehand, and the respondent will be given 1 hour of dispuation at the congress. More details soon. Hans Karlgren Program committee chairman From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: open software, cont. (146) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 22:29:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 623 (231) A recent correspondent (THARPOLD@PENNDRLS) has suggested that one of the pressures that inclines academics, particularly untenured professors, to augment their financial security by charging for their software is the realization that their computer work may not contribute directly to either tenure or promotion. This is indeed a serious problem. It is certainly clear to anyone coming up for tenure, or hiring for that matter, that any "real" (that is, traditional) publication will count for much more than a substantial piece of work put out via desk top publishing, even though a book published through a conventional academic press is almost certain to be a year or two out of date before it reaches the bookstores, and the economics of traditional publishing have made it less and less feasible to bring out a new edition of a textbook every two years in just about any of the areas related to the humanities. On the other hand, there is another problem which is at least as serious in stifling some types of research, and this problem is fed in part by the campus-based software sellers. There is more and more pressure from university presidents and deans who publicly rate departments according to the number of dollars they bring into the university in grants from businesses. These grants in turn are often tied to agreements by the academics to guard the proprietary rights and hence commercial marketability of whatever programs or databases they produce. Once this trend has begun in a university, it is very difficult for the job applicant or the tenure candidate who has written a fine study of Catullus or the Niebelungenlied that will be required reading for all (both?) of the major scholars in the field to compete with someone who has brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware, graduate research assistantships and post-doctoral fellowships into the university for developing a massive database... even if it's on Catullus or the Niebelungenlied. Once again, my thoughts on this subject are random probes rather than arguments in support of a parti pris. In this spirit of probing the subject, I shall close with a provocative but true story: A few years ago a young assistant professor came up for promotion and tenure in a department that was one of the leaders not only in its university but in the country for pulling in funding and free equipment from outside sources. Moreover, most of the faculty members in this department augmented their salaries (already larger than in most departments of the university) by means of consulting fees. Fortunately, the young candidate had drawn in an impressive amount of grant money, all of which he had distributed among graduate research assistants, including the part the granting sounce had originally wanted to use to relieve him of his teaching load. He had also published a very successful textbook that had done quite well, both academically and financially. He had an interview with the promotion and tenure committee of his department. He looked around the room at his colleagues, each of whom made much more in consulting fees than in their salaries as full professors. They awaited his speech of self- justification. Instead he presented a cheque for the full royalties from his already famous textbook, made out to the university, which was in some financial difficulties at the time, and said only that he felt that since he been a full-time employee of the university for the last few years, and had been paid an honest salary during that time, he felt it would be not merely unethical but dishonest to draw a second income for work done on university time, in university facilities, with support from the departmental secretary, who was also being paid by the university. Brian Whittaker Atkinson College, York University From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: ISAAC (at UWAEE) and CHAMAS at DOLUNI1 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 13:42:28 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 137 (232) I have never been able to get any response from either ISAAC or CHAMAS (@DOLUNI1). Somebody has written in HUMANIST that CHAMAS is a "comserve-like" server. Well, I always get the answer "not logged on" for both, while COMSERVE always responds. Has anybody ever received a better treatment? Itamar Even-Zohar Porter Institute. From: Marshall Gilliland Subject: Request for Macintosh program (9 lines) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 10:54 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 138 (233) Request for Macintosh program: REFLIST Can anyone help? If any HUMANIST has a copy of the Macintosh shareware program REFLIST I will appreciate your sending me a copy. The program is not in the PUCC or RICE archives. I get no response from its maker in Wisconsin. Thanks for any assistance. Marshall Gilliland GILLILAND@SASK.BITNET From: Subject: PARADIGMA comment. Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 12:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 625 (234) Two condensed comments that may help anyone else who acquires a copy of Aarseth's PARADIGMA program, as recently mentioned on HUMANIST. (1) I took advantage of the offer by Roberta Russell to provide a copy since I can't FTP and it was not on MACSERVE@PUCC. I discovered that PARADIGM.HQX would not decode with BinHex 4.0, but it *would* decode with the BinHex decode option in the Macintosh StuffIt utility. (2) I then discovered that the HELP button in PARADIGMA did not display any help. The author, Aarseth, tells me that it is ok with pre-6.x versions of the Mac operating system, but won't display with 6.x versions (though you can examine the message code by using ResEdit, nonetheless!). Jim Cerny, University Computing, University of New Hampshire From: "Robin C. Cover" Subject: DIGITIZED LUTHER TEXTS? Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 23:08:17 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 139 (235) A friend of mine in Historical Theology would like to know if any of Martin Luther's writings are available in machine-readable form. I did not see any listing in a recent short-list of the Oxford Archive. Does anyone know of a center for reformation studies where work may be underway to digitize Luther's works? From: A_BODDINGTON@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: Exam Scheduling Date: 20-FEB-1989 15:19:36 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 140 (236) I am intested in a package to schedule exams. That is to match available rooms to exams, invigilation staff and student availability. For the latter I would just need to program in likely major clashes (a student taking course A, is also likely to be taking course B etc.). As we examine 120,000 student's a year, I have no intention of trying to resolve all clashes for all students! Presumably there are existing packages that deal with course/resource scheduling? The program could run on an IBM PC, Mac or VAX. Does anyone have any suggestions? Andy Boddington Open University UK From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: computers and bells Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 16:14:54 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 141 (237) I am passing on this query for a colleague (well, I'm married to her actually) who is a bell-ringer. Does anyone out there in HUMANIST-land have any knowledge of `computerised bell-ringing', whether it be analysis, simulation or creation of new methods of change-ringing? I realise that proper change-ringing is not very common outside the UK, but HUMANIST's are the people to be doing it if anyone is. If I get lots of info, I'll pass it on. Sebastian Rahtz Computer Science, University, Southampton S09 5NH From: FORTIER@UOFMCC Subject: publication notice Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 00:05 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 142 (238) DE/COR ET DUALISME: L'IMMORALISTE D'ANDRE/ GIDE. By Paul A. Fortier. Stanford French Italian Studies, 56. Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1988. Pp. x, 215 (including 22 Tables, 35 pp.). Bibliography. Price: $(US)29.50, $(US)19.00 to individuals paying by personal cheque. Note: This study is written in French. Building on earlier studies of Camus (Klincksieck), Ce/line (Minard), and Robbe-Grillet (Naaman), this analysis of form and content in Gide's novel reveals the dualistic structure of the narrator's vision and sheds powerful light both on the sophistication of the author's aesthetic creation and on the profundity of the irony which pervades this text. The primary technique used is close reading of key passages in the novel, supplemented where appropriate by the insights of previous critics and by computer-generated profiles of significant themes. A careful effort has been made to avoid jargon and unnecessary technical language, and to document all aspects of interpretation by reference to textual phenomena. An introductory chapter evaluates published criticism of the novel, dividing it into bibliographical, philosophical and aesthetic studies. An aesthetic approach is chosen, and shown to be compatible not only with Gide's ideas at the time of the composition of l'Immoraliste, but with present-day literary theory as well. After a brief explanation of the computer techniques used in this study, examination of the novel begins. L'Immoraliste is studded with a multitude of features which constantly remind the reader that Michel - the main character - is an unreliable narrator. This justifies particular attention to descriptive passages as not always conscious reflections of the narrator's state of mind. The next chapter demonstrates that, as a result of his sickness, Michel develops a dualistic outlook rejecting sickness and a series of themes which he associates with it. At the same time, he places health at the centre of a group of themes with a positive value. Succeeding chapters trace the dynamics of these two theme groupings, as Michel integrates more and more aspects of his condition into his dualistic outlook and attempts to live by it, a process which causes the theme groups to add, lose and exchange elements. Particular attention is paid to how Michel's ideology affects his relationship with his wife Marceline, for the structure of this relationship permits evaluation of the narrator's actions and ideas. The concluding chapter demonstrates the rigorous coherence of thematic structure found in l'Immoraliste, and suggests that it is a source of the enduring literary success of the novel. The data used for the quantitative aspects of this study were prepared with support provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under grant number S76- 0734. I shall be happy to share this data with interested colleagues, provided that such sharing does not infringe on the rights of the holders of the copyright. For further information about sharing please contact: Paul A. Fortier, FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET, Department of French and Spanish, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man., CANADA R3T 2N2. From: Ben Shneiderman Subject: HyperTies, users' group and courses Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 14:51:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 143 (239) Call for Participation Hyperties Users Group Community Meeting, April 12-13, 1989 University of Maryland, College Park, MD Sponsored by the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and Cognetics Corporation Goals: For users and developers to exchange information, experiences, ideas, suggestions, and even complaints about the IBM PC commercial version of Hyperties 2.3. We want to hear about success stories and recommendations for future versions. Featured speakers: Charles Kreitzberg, President of Cognetics Corporation, will talk about the commercial product directions. Ben Shneiderman, Head, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, will talk about research directions. Presentations (Initial List): Dan Ostroff: Interactive Encyclopedia of Jewish Heritage Ken Holum: Guide to Opportunities in Volunteer Archaeology Carole Pincavage, Getting hypertext projects started in AETNA Catherine Plaisant-Schwenn: NCR College of Management Course Catalog Yoram Kochavy: ACM's Hypertext on Hypertext database Janis Morariu: National Agricultural Library's AGRICOLearn [material deleted] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Maryland University College Center for Professional Development presents HYPERTEXT: A NEW KNOWLEDGE TOOL A three-day course taught by: Ben Shneiderman, Charles Kreitzberg, Gary Marchionini, and Janis Morariu May 10-12, 1989 Overview This course presents hypertext systems and concepts in order to facilitate the development of hypertext applications. Participants will learn and use available systems, understand implementation problems, recognize which applications are suitable, and design knowledge to fit hypertext environments. Participants receive a copy of Hyperties 2.3 ($349 value) . [For more information about HyperTies, its workshops and courses, contact Professor Ben Shneiderman at the above address.] From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: NISO CD-ROM Standard Date: Monday, 20 February 1989 1052-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 144 (240) I got a "press release" through the mail the other day from NISO headlining "CDROM STANDARD TO BE DEVELOPED" (2 pages). It is aimed at defining the content and format for the following files: publisher identifier, data perparer identifier, copyright file identifier, abstract file identifier, and bibliographic file identifier. It will also address issues of disc labels, materials accompanying the disk, and packaging. The notice then identifies the members of the committee and solicits input "from all sectors of the optical disc and information community." First meeting in March, first draft aiming for early 1990. Comments and questions to Committee Chair Dan Iddings, RMG Consultants, Inc. PO Box 5488 Chicago, IL 60680 312-321-0432 Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: JACKA@PENNDRLS Subject: Date: Friday, 17 February 1989 1122-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 628 (241) Subject: ONLINE NOTES DECEMBER, 1988 EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS IN COMPUTING At the University of Pennsylvania there exist various organizations that are responsible for educating the university community in the use of computers. Most of the educational programs are run by the Computer Resource Center (CRC) which is supported by the central administration. Individual schools and departments however do provide special programs for their students and faculty. In the undergraduate school my office continues to offer semester-long courses in various aspects of computing. In addition, we will be providing special workshops to our faculty this semester. Though we had done this in the past it is only recently that we have returned to this form of educational outreach because there appears to be a great need here to provide help on some more sophisticated uses of computing. Below I have listed planned workshops this semester. Some 20 percent of the faculty in humanities will be attending one or more workshops. BITNET and Electronic Mail Concordance Packages Desktop Publishing Hypercard Optical Scanning Language Acquisition Projects CCAT and its services MS WINDOWS Video Disk technology in instruction The Next Computer CD-ROM technology VIDEO DISK SUB PROJECTS AT PENN Work continues on expanding the use of video disk across the humanities at Penn. Currently the following sub-projects have been proposed and are in various stages of development: Professor Language Sub-Project Roger Allen Arabic Video-disk for Arabic in conjunction with "Let's Learn Arabic." This video disc is being pressed by Technidisc, Inc. Peter Conn English American Literature of 1930's as depicted in film. This project will begin in May and concentrate on two movies, Grapes of Wrath and The Wizard of Oz. Bill Labov Black Using popular film in a course English on Black English. Several movies have been purchased including Street Fighter, 48Hrs and Eddie Murphy Raw. One question on the midterm will be related to information tied to a bar scene in 48Hrs. Katie MacMahon French French films for teaching culture and language to advanced students. Subtitles and other information is being prepared for the movie The Last Metro. Horst Daemmerich German German films for teaching culture and language to advanced students. Work continues on improving presentation in Die Blechtrommel and Das Boot. Readers who are familiar with on-going language projects using Video disks-- or for that matter VCRs--, I hope, can detect a different tactic for use of this technology than what is normally done. If I were to characterize in my normal brash manner, it would be that most designers inside and outside of the Industrial-Defense Establishment believe languages can be taught on video disk much in the same way one teaches fighter pilots how to fly F-16's. Well, you can certainly teach some language survival skills probably that way....Isn't language much more than that? The Online Notes is probably not the appropriate place to have a full discussion of methods for instruction. I merely want to point out that our use of video disk differs significantly from that of West Point, the Naval Academy and others who are using this functional technology for a different audience with a distinctly different methodology. WISC WARE Many readers may or may not know of Wisc Ware, a depository of academic software supported by IBM Corporation. Wisc Ware is the distribution arm for software that was written with support from IBM's Advanced Educational Projects (AEP). Recently Wisc Ware has had a major increase in the number of academic packages available (190 new packages) thanks to an IBM Transfer grant to 19 institutions. My office sent two such packages, one for introductory linguistics and one for intermediate Spanish. Here is how you can contact Wisc Ware: Outside of Wisconsin: (800) 543-3201 In Wisconsin: (608) 262-8167 BITNET: WISCWARE @ WISCMACC [list of subscribers deleted] From: Subject: MS-DOS - IMAGEWRITER DEVICE DRIVERS Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 21:01 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 629 (242) In response to Joel B. Goldfield's query about a device driver to connect an MS-DOS micro to an Apple ImageWriter II, I will reply concerning our experience, but in the hope that someone else has better news for him. We were successful in connecting Zenith 159's to an *AppleTalk* ImageWriter through our TOPS network using TOPS "NetPrint." Notice, however, that this solution implies (a) the existence of a network to which both machines are connected and (b) the outfitting of the ImageWriter with an AppleTalk board. Even that solution was not entirely satisfactory for our purposes, because the ImageWriter II cannot normally handle the "upper 128" ASCII characters needed for accented foreign characters (i.e., those codes have altogether different meanings in the Apple character set from the IBM character set). The TOPS "NetPrint" package includes a font that duplicates the IBM character set, including graphics characters; but it can only be downloaded to the LaserWriter, not to the ImageWriter. One other disadvantage is that, even if you don't need the "upper 128," an ASCII dump to the ImageWriter can only be printed in draft mode, the intermediate and "near-letter-quality" modes imply printing of a bit-mapped screen dump. If you need only to print word-processed documents, check carefully the printer drivers delivered with your word processor. (For example, my copy of WordPerfect, version 5.0, includes adequate drivers for both the ImageWriter and the LaserWriter.) However, if you need (as we do) to send unprocessed files or screen dumps to the printer and if you need characters from the "upper 128," then you will probably need to write a filtering/translation program through which you "massage" the file first to make it print properly on the ImageWriter. That involves adding the proper escape codes at the beginning of the file to put the printer into the proper "foreign-language character set" and translating the accented characters in your text into the "normal" characters (such as @, {, etc.) that are replaced by accented characters when the printer prints in that "character set." (I started doing one, but gave up when I saw the possibility of a better solution [see below]; I could give you more details if you want.) I finally skirted the problem rather than attacking it head on when frustration with the ImageWriter II's tendency to come to a halt with a paper jam every time my back was turned met with my Dean's agreeing to let me buy another printer to attach to the MS-DOS machines. (By the way, colleagues report to me that paper-jamming problems are if anything worse with their new ImageWriter NLQ printers.) From: Robin Smith Subject: MUSIC-L list Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 17:41 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 145 (243) A colleague recently asked me about the discussion group MUSIC-L, and I disco- vered that I had lost its (electronic, of course) address. Could someone sup- ply me with the needed node? R. Smith Philosophy Kansas State University RSMITH@KSUVM (or, if that doesn't work, RSMITH@KSUVM.KSU.EDU) From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: text and apparatus on UNIX Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 08:36:35 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 146 (244) Does anyone have a utility for making a text and apparatus usable in machine-readable form on UNIX? Typically in a file which has been prepared for typesetting the apparatus is intercalated into the text at the point of reference, which makes it extremely difficult to use it in machine-readable form. Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu telephone: (415) 642-2107 From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: Queries (93) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 12:58:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 631 (245) Benoit Laplante's query reminds us that we have had no comprehensive survey since Hockey and Oakman made their heroic efforts in 1980. But we should be grateful for the next best attempt, John J. Hughes' BITS, BYTES AND BIBLICAL STUDIES (Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1987). Despite its title, this book of 643 pages is a remarkably comprehensive (almost too comprehensive) survey of practically everything going on in humanities computing and many tangential areas. By amplifying the book with his excellent newsletter, Hughes is performing a prodigious service which has not been generally noticed. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: jargon Date: Tuesday, 21 February 1989 0846-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 632 (246) Overheard somewhere offline: So Sebastian Rahtz' wife is a bell-ringer! Does he have to parade it so publicly among those of us who may be less fortunate? As for computerized assistance for achieving such matches, I have heard mixed reports. Electronic matchups may work for some, but seem to be busts for others. The idea of change-ringing in the UK is fascinating, although I imagine it was even more challenging before the coinage was decimalized some years ago. My suspicion is that the haypenny and the maxipenny really clunked when one attempted to chime them, and the thrupenny bit, with all those sides and angles (not to mention thickness) just couldn't produce a decent tone. But the bigger, silver pieces and the tiny sixpenny bit may have made beautiful music. On the other hand, I doubt that HUMANISTs are the ones most likely to be doing it -- unless one argues that the lack of folding money implies the presence of large amounts of change. A.Nonny Mus From: EIHE4874@VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK Subject: Date: 22-FEB-1989 10:39:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 147 (247) CALL FOR PAPERS 1er Congres Europeen d'Analyse Musicale The first European Congress on Musical Analysis is to be held in Strasbourg (France) on September 28-30, 1989. We have been invited to organise a day of papers and discussion on GENERATIVE GRAMMARS IN MUSIC. If you are work- ing in this field and would like to attend, please contact us at the earliest so that we can schedule your contribution to the Congres. Further details on request: Bernard Vecchione (Universite d'Aix-en-Provence) Bernard Bel (CNRS, Marseille ) Jim Kippen (The Queen's University of Belfast ) From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: Translation Studies Newsletter, n.s. 5 Date: 23 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 148 (248) AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER OF TRANSLATION STUDIES NEW SERIES NUMBER FIVE / JANUARY 1989 ISSN O792-O58X ________________________________________________________________ TRANSST, an international newsletter of translation studies, is published by the M. Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory and the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Tel Aviv University (Israel). It is edited by Gideon Toury, with the help of Jose Lambert (University of Leuven, Belgium). -------------------- [A complete version of this newsletter is now available on the file-server, s.v. TRANSST5 NEWSLETR. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Subject: Second Chimes-ringer emerges Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 09:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 149 (249) I wouldn't be so rash to assume how many chimes-ringers are in a population of N humanists! My wife, Judy Ogden, has been ringing the Cornell University Chimes for 18 years -- the largest set of true chimes in North America. She was featured in a 3 minute TV special on the Osgood File on CBS Morning News on Christmas morning, 1987. (LP's available at cost via yours truly, but, sorry, no CD's yet.) Rare, indeed. Harumph. Wade Schuette, Cornell U. From: PHILOSDO@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Subject: RE: ranging the chingers (32) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 10:31 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 150 (250) Sebastian's recent "inappropriate" response to a serious question has now been topped by Kraft's fatuous reply to Sebastian's serious question. Now can we get back to helpful commentary? Stephen From: GRGO@UORDBV Subject: The mystery of change-ringing Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 17:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 151 (251) All I have ever known about change ringing is to be found in Dorothy Sayers' "The Nine Tailors," which is one of the best of the classic detective stories. Since fiction is an excellent way to learn about interesting and obscure corners of the world, and since there's a good chance that HUMANISTs read more than average fiction, then HUMANISTs probably KNOW about lots of things they can't afford to do... From: Robin Smith Subject: E-mail addresses for ancient philosophers Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 21:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 152 (252) Charles Young (YOUNGC@CLARGRAD) and I (RSMITH@KSUVM) are collecting a list of e-mail addresses of persons working in ancient Greek philosophy. A notice to this effect appeared in the last SAGP newsletter (a tangible document, of course). If you are such a person and would like to be included, please let us know. At the very least, we promise to circulate the list itself to all contributors (it is our assumption that sending us your address is an expres- sion of a desire to have it promulgated). Thanks for your responses. Robin Smith (RSMITH@KSUVM, or more fully RSMITH@KSUVM.KSU.EDU) From: AU100@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: Arabic on Macitosh Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 16:20:12 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 153 (253) I am looking for exhchanging experience and information about using Arabic on Macitosh with with following software: (1) ArabicScript (from Canada) (2) WinType or WinText (from France) (3) al-Nashir al-Maktabi (DTP the Arabic verstion of Ready, Set Go, Arabized by Diwan of London). Anybody interested please contact via EMail or my address: AHMAD UBAYDLI TRINITY HALL CAMBRIDGE CB2 1TJ ENGLAND Tel: (223) 246 705 From: Grace Logan Subject: Finding Tony Smith Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 15:36:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 154 (254) I have a request from a member of the Classics Department here to find the userid for Tony Smith at Manchester (in the U.K.). If anyone knows the e-mail address for Tony, would he please send it to me at LOGAN@WATDCS.UWATERLOO.CA ? We'd both be grateful. His interest in contacting Tony Smith, by the way, is to find out if the rumour is true that he has software that makes it possible to use TLG on an ordinary IBM PC cheers and thanks, grace From: connie crosby Subject: Comprehensive Humanities Surveys Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 23:58:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 155 (255) Benoit Laplante asks if anything in the way of a comprehensive book has been published in the last few years, and Joseph Raben replies that there has been "no comprehensive survey" since Hockey and Oakman's books. Both of these books have been very helpful to me, and should still be consulted, but I have found something "new and improved" and would like to recommend it to everyone here. It is called Volume I: Fundamentals by Robert S. Tannenbaum published by Computer Science Press, Inc. in 1988. This particular book deals with, as the title indicates, fundamentals. It takes a complete vview of the history of computing concepts, the development of hardware and software, using programming in problem solving, and many other basics such as input / output devices, text processors, DBMS, spreadsheets, operating systems, and electronic communication. As the title also indicates, this is aimed at both humanities and social science scholars, so it should be an excellent start for Mr. Raben. Although some specific applications are indicated in this volume, Volume II is supposed to deal with specific applications. Volume II was to be published this year. However, I believe it is to be published under a different title. I am hoping that if Mr. Tannenbaum is currently taking part in HUMANIST, he can give us the correct information on this. An outline of what will be contained in Volume II is being or has been published in an issue of under the article title "Computers and the Humanities". I should indicate to any educators that Volume I is set up like a text book with chapter summaries, "key vocabulary", questions, and complete references for each chapter. I think this would be a terrific resource for the humanities / social sciences classroom ! Hope this helps Joseph Raben and others! Connie Crosby University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario crosby@vm.uoguelph.ca From: Joseph Raben Subject: Hughes' address Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 15:00:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 156 (256) I have been reminded that, in my plug for John Hughes's book and newsletter, I neglected to give his Bitnet address. It is xb.j24@stanford. From: JACKA@PENNDRLS Subject: video disks Date: Wednesday, 22 February 1989 1042-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 637 (257) How to order video discs? I have been asked recently by several subscribers to humanists for my source for CLV and CAV video discs. My major supplier is Sight and Sound in Waltham, MA (617 894-8633): Sight and Sound 85 River St., Suite 5 Waltham, MA 02154-8304 USA I have also used Wall to Wall Sound and Video in Ardmore, PA. This local record store has just gotten into video discs and has a fair collection of opera and music videos. From: Ian Lancashire Subject: ALLC/ICCH Conference, summary announcement Date: 23 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 638 (258) The Dynamic Text: ALLC/ICCH Toronto Conference Tools for Humanists, 1989: a fair of notable software and hardware June 5--10, 1989 Toronto-Oxford Summer School in Humanities Computing May 29--June 16, 1989 _________________________________________________________________ A full conference schedule, course descriptions, summer school timetable, planned participants in the Software Fair, as well as other information are available from Humanist's file-server. Request the file DYNAMTXT CONFRNCE by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives. NB: The file DYNAMTXT CONFRNCE is 2212 lines, ca. 99K. _________________________________________________________________ THE CONFERENCE The Dynamic Text (16th International ALLC Conference and 9th ICCH Conference) will take place in Toronto June 5-10, 1989 and will have about 160 speakers and software fair participants. All activities will take place on the main campus of the University of Toronto in the center of the city itself. Confirmed invited speakers are Etienne Brunet (Nice) Nicoletta Calzolari (Pisa) Northrop Frye (Toronto) Jean-Claude Gardin (Paris) Nigel Gardner (Oxford) Jostein Hauge (Bergen) Akifumi Oikawa (Japan) Bernard Quemada (Paris) Helmut Schanze (Siegen) Manfred Thaller (Goettingen) Liu Yongquan (Beijing) Antonio Zampolli (Pisa) They will speak in plenary sessions on literary computing, large text databases, new technology, methodologies in literary and historical analysis, lexicography, and humanities computing in the Pacific Rim. Thirty parallel sessions will take place, some of them sponsored by a dozen invited associations and institutions. These sessions will concern the following topics: archaeology lexical databases authorship attribution manuscript bibliographies computational linguistics music and humanistic research national research funding computer-assisted learning agencies content analysis narrative analysis databases scanning discourse analysis stylistics editorial problems text archives the French novel textbases funding issues text encoding hypertext The associations and institutions sponsoring special sessions are: American Historical Association (AHA) American Philological Association (APA) American Philosophical Association (APA) Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Association for History and Computing (AHC) Association Internationale Bible et Informatique (AIBI) Linguistic Society of America (LSA) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Libraries Group (RLG) Participants will come from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, West Germany, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries. Our major corporate sponsor is IBM Canada Ltd. Principal academic supporting sponsors are the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada-wide Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines. The conference is also presented in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Toronto Semiotic Circle, and the Humanities Research Consortium (University of Toronto). _________________________________________________________________ TORONTO-OXFORD SUMMER SCHOOL IN THE HUMANITIES The University of Toronto and Oxford University are offering a Summer School in Humanities Computing, to take place in the week before the conference (May 29-June 5), and the week after the conference (June 12-16). The directors of this Summer School are Ian Lancashire (Toronto) and Susan Hockey (Oxford), the local host is the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and the sponsors are the ACH, ALLC, and COCH/COSH. The objectives of the Summer School are to deliver the most current information about, and practical experience with, applications for computers in arts and humanities teaching and research. Instructors have been specially selected for their extensive teaching experience, their knowledge of current technology, and their international reputation in this field. Most courses will consist of five two-hour seminars, one each day from Monday to Friday, and (as appropriate) work in laboratories at convenient times. It will be possible for registrants to attend four courses: they will be taught at 8:45--10:45 am, 11 am--1 pm, 2--4 pm, and 4:15--6:15 pm. A one-day course/workshop on Advanced Function Workstations will take place on Monday June 5 on the day before the conference begins. The schedule of courses follows: COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR INITIAL CLASS Advanced Function Workstations Norman Meyrowitz, June 5 Ronald Weissman CALL Robert Ariew May 29 CJK Humanities Computing Kazuko Nakajima May 29 & others Computer Tools in Translation Alan Melby June 12 Desktop Publishing: Pagemaker Patricia Hood May 29 Desktop Publishing: PageMaker Patricia Hood June 12 Discourse Dynamics Pierre Maranda June 12 HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell May 29 HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell June 12 Hypertext George Landow May 29 Interactive Video TBA May 29 Literary & Linguistic Computing Susan Hockey June 12 Meeting Campus Needs Vicky A. Walsh May 29 Meeting School Needs Ronald Ragsdale May 29 Nota Bene Willard McCarty June 12 Programming in SNOBOL4 Susan Hockey June 12 Reader Response Elaine Nardocchio June 12 Relational Database Paul Salotti June 12 Scholarly Publishing Catherine Griffin June 12 WordPerfect Martha Parrott May 29 WordPerfect Martha Parrott June 12 Writing Theory into Practice Helen Schwartz May 29 Writing with Computer Support Earl Woodruff May 29 & others ______________________________________________________________________ TOOLS FOR HUMANISTS (hardware and software fair) At the same time as the Conference, the ACH and ALLC, with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, is sponsoring "Tools for Humanists, 1989", an international fair of notable software and hardware, with a published guidebook for all registrants. The Fair will include a wide range of products of special interest to computing humanists. Microcomputer software for IBM, Apple and Sun equipment, mainframe programs, online databases, and related hardware will be demonstrated, in most cases by the developer. Academic exhibitors will not be charged, although commercial vendors will pay a modest fee. The guidebook to the Fair will be designed along the lines of the volume put together for the Toronto conference in April 1986. Each entry in the Guide will consist of a lengthy description written by the developer, and accurate technical information. Approximately 50 demonstrations are planned for the software fair and associated workshops. _________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION Registration for the conference includes admission to all sessions, workshops, the software fair, several receptions, and the excursion on Saturday June 10 to Niagara Falls. Among conference materials will be two books, a conference guide and a software fair guide. Registration fees for the four-day conference and software fair, payable (in Canadian dollars) when one registers, are as follows. ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH member/speaker $ 225.00 Non-member $ 255.00 Student $ 125.00 Late registration $ 295.00 (after May 15) Membership forms for the ACH and ALLC are available in the full conference file, DYNAMTXT CONFRNCE, on the Humanist fileserver. COCH/COSH is the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines. Summer School course fees are as follows. Those attending the Summer School will be encouraged to take more than one course. Rates for the second and third course will be progressively lower than that for the first course. A lower fee has been set for the one-day Advanced Function Workstation (AFW) course. FULL COURSES 1st 2nd 3rd-8th AFW course course courses course Member of ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH 175.00 125.00 100.00 75.00 Non-member 200.00 175.00 150.00 100.00 Student 125.00 100.00 75.00 50.00 You may request information for both conference and summer school or register immediately by telephone on a 24-hour basis. Using a touch-tone telephone, call North American area code (416) 978--2400. Your call will take about 15 minutes. Press button 1 if you wish to request detailed information mailed to you. Ask for The Dynamic Text brochure. Press button 5 to register immediately or pay by VISA, MasterCard or cheque. When prompted, enter the appropriate course number and section code for association members, non-members, or students. 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By mail, you may request information by writing to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies 158 St. George St. Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 2V8 By FAX, you may request information by transmitting to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (416) 978--5673 By E-mail, send requests to: The Dynamic Text Conference CCH @ VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA or CCH @ UTOREPAS _________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION Accommodation has been reserved in the Park Plaza and Westbury Hotels and in University of Toronto student residences. The Westbury Hotel, 475 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. M4Y 1X7. Special group rates are $89 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Westbury Hotel is located in Toronto's busy downtown entertainment and shopping area and is a pleasant 10-15 minutes' walk from the university. Telephone: (416) 924--0611. Canada and USA: (800) 387--0647. FAX: (416) 924-5061. Reservations are required no fewer than 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel, 4 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ont. M5R 2E8. Special group rates are $125 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel is located about 10 minutes' walk north of the university in the fashionable Yorkville shopping area off Bloor St. West near the Royal Ontario Museum. Telephone: (416) 924-5471. FAX: (416) 924-4933. Telex: 0622295. Reservations must be received no later than May 13, 1989. University of Toronto residences: Whitney Hall (co-ed), University College, 85 St. George St., Wilson Hall, New College (women only), and Wetmore Hall, New College (men only). Rates, including breakfast, are $35 per room, per day (single), or $23 per person, per day (twin: two single beds), in Canadian dollars. These rates do not include provincial sales tax. Washrooms are communal; bedding, towels, and soap are provided. Accommodation cannot be provided for children under age 5. Residences are about 5 minutes' walk from the conference and summer school locations. Telephone: (416) 978-8735. Reservations must be received by April 28, 1989 (to allow time for a confirmation to be mailed out), together with a non-refundable deposit of one night's stay per person by certified cheque, money order, or Visa/Mastercard number. Mail to ALLC-ICCH89 Joint Meeting, Conference Services, University of Toronto, Room 240, Simcoe Hall, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1. *****END***** From: mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU Subject: Paper dealing with Umbrian Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 10:38:35 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 639 (259) Dear Colleagues, I am submitting the following paper as a favor to the author. I presume it will be of interest primarily to classicists, linguists and historians of the ancient world. As I am none of these, I have little appreciation for the paper's contents. All I know is that the submission does not appear to be inappropriate for this forum. Please direct any comments to the author, whose name, address and telephone number are given near the end of the paper. Malcolm Brown Stanford %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Paper for the Humanities Network PLAUTUS' Fellum Elogium VS. THE LEGACY OF THE GOOD FATHER KIRCHER (For free photographic slides of both faces of Umbrian stele to first five qualified respondents, see end of paper.) Dear Recipient: Kindly print and please pass on to your resident linguist(s), historian(s), archeologist(s), and most especially, the rare Latin-fluent scholar with strong cryptanalytic background, who is "into" UMBRIAN, the language of Plautus which became the basis of a large portion of Harpers, Latin, not Umbrian, Dictionary. The simple reason that Umbrian cannot be read by the truly doctus Latin scholar with no tool other than Harpers with its Plautinian Umbrian vocabulary, are the Kircheritic-type assigned phonetic values. Ref. to Cleator's Lost Languages, Kircher entry, for the continuing hoax, if you will. For probability calculations of text give to your resident expert in Math Dept., who will, hopefully, refer to Chaos, op. cit. Being restricted in length and unable to quote extensively herein, please, at the same time refer to Gleick's Chaos, Viking, 1987, p. 256 for the methodology used in 2 years of patient cryptanalysis in transcribing Plautus' Fellum Elogium to Plautine. Fellum Elogium, the bitter refrain repeated 10 times, is my apt title for it also as it reflects the labor involved in sifting to discover/uncover phonetic values as opposed to 'reading' Umbrian (sic) with arbritary, whimful values assigned to some the the Umbrian script's letters, 'readable' only by Kircherites, with special 'glossaries,' endless notes and 'explanations.' The Fellum Elogium requires none and is simply explained (Gleick on Shannon) and may be simply checked using the elementary statistics on E.H. McKnight's 1923 model, repeated by C. Murphy in The Atlantic, 1988. The importance of statistics (letter frequency etc.) in analysis of the compressed data-script of steles (acronyms, apocopes, etc.) with hapax and resuras, cannot be overstressed, obviously. Assuming the foregoing known and/or re-reviewed, I give the climactic last line, first: STATE! COGITATE OPTIMIS OMNIS, OPTIMATES UNAE, AUT(-EM) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTIUS: EIUS CAECE(-UM) USUS, AT ILLIUS ILLUSUSE, ET SUUS, EST! All of the numbered -US- monosyllables are transcribed from the syllabogram written using the koph sign, familiar to any peruser. And, N.B. , how educated reader is expected to supply endings. Therefore my request for Chadwick-like help, this being, overall, just a decoding. Following are the first two paragraphs, as they have emerged, with consistently applied crypyanalysis in a literatim with rigid use of discovered phonetic values throughout. But remember that Plautus bragged his lingua non manu, i.e. that his puns and double entendres were "non-manageable," as you read. And, N.B., the commas, parentheses and quotation marks have been added. Exclamation points, along with hyphens, are in the text. The Transcription, not a translation: (Note numbered, i.e. easily compared/checked/rechecked/statistically and mathematically important Fellum Elogium, among others. Kircher's, et al, hoax is exposed with this simple, rigorous, consistent, unvarying transcription of phonetic values.) EU, NISI TIBI ITA TANTUM ANNIS AN NI AB LAPIE EXITUS, JUVO ANNIS 1 ECFAUSTIS PLAUTINE, PLAUDO TIBI N'ELOHIM AN (FELLUM ELOGIUM) ME EMI TIBI ILLA AFFUAM UNAM STELEM OB OSSUM, OB, CARUM CAPUT, UTI TE ISTI AN AFFUSUMIT BRIAREIS IT (unkn.hapax) SIQUIDEM QUI MIHI, TE, EI, IMMO DAMNET MI MIGRARE ANNIS AD HINC CEREN HENNAM PER XII DIES 2 LUMINUM (EPIPHANIAM), PER XII TABULAE LEGUM, ET (FELLUM ELOGIUM) OB OPTIMAS OURANIAM ARAM, PERAMICE CENIUNT UT NIL EST CULTIS UTI ILLJUS, ILLIUS SI - EN! - NESCIUNT EPULAS TIBI UTI LARUM (AGUSTI) 3 AUTEM AULAE MEI! ET (FELLUM ELOGIUM) AM-MARTII-NATALIS, STEMMATIS MEI! OB OLIM! OB OLLIS! OB ILIUM CUNABULUM!! OB OILEUM CUNABULUM! CENAEUM CENANDUM!EPULATICIS AFFELICIS TIS LAR AGO OB OPTIMAS ALMAM MAAM AFFUIT UNEM, ENIM. (end paragraph one) CLAM, CLAMO, OB OMNUS, OB UNUS, UT VOLO EFFATAMIUSSIME NI EFFULTUM 4 TE 'ELOHIM (FELLUM ELOGIUM) AB HINC NI (VE) INNO AD SAGE NI (VE) UNIS IS LETIFER TIBI (name in hapax here) NIVE AST SU SURSUM, NAE, AGE! AGER(APER) ROMANUS MAGISTRATUS PATRICIUS AN? SIS IT TOLLERE 5 EFFATUMI TIBI! ET (FELLUM ELOGIUM) AD HUC UTINAM CERENT GENTES BONOS ILLOS ILIORUM? NISI AB SUIS ASININIS NAE! STELLAE! STELLIONATUS! AFFU 'UNA' ELOHIMA A NIL ERAT ILLA ILINIA! INTRA TE ES, NISI AB, NIVE ERIT CAMENALIS SEMEMALIS! 6 (FELLUM ELOGIUM) ILLA IAM MAIA TENEVIT ESSE SI NAE! ECCA EADEM! 7 (FELLUM ELOGIUM) OB OPTIMAN OURANIAM, OB OMNES OPTIMATES, OB OPTIMATE AURAM HELVINIAE (OB OPTIMATE AURAE HELVETI!) UT TIBI, TE ES SINE DAMNESES TI, TE ES SIN MIHI TE IMMO DAMNES MUSI NISI OB OPTIMATES MUSAGETES ET GELOS OMNIS OPTIMUS! UT TIBI ITA TAM IAM CUM CUNA AB AFFU 'UNA' NAM NISI AENEAS HENNENSIS - HEM! - NAE GENERE SIC! SIS CAMENALIS SEMENALIS HAEREAT UT TUI, MEI! (end paragraph two) I trust a few John Chadwick types in 200 B.C. Latin will be interested in cleaning up most of the remaining pieces of CACA in the transcription, N.B., of the text. I have taken it to the Ventris stage. It now requires, and I welcome, the assistance of the relatively few who are able to read pre Ciceronian Latin, without the infamous "Ciceronian editing" (Amer. Ency. 1956 ed., 6-37), like any literate natives who listened to Plautus' 'Pseudolus" (op.cit. 22-241) in 191, for the Magna Mater, i.e. the Maam of the text. The reason for the now relatively simple encoding, especially for those perfectly familiar with Harpers', letters entries and history, was equally simple: To avoid the rockhammers of "unius deus" priests who had, as is seen, gotten to his father, and who, as is common knowledge, would, when they achieved complete and absolute power much later, leave only a tiny part of 200 B.C. literature. Here is what Plautus says in the 3rd paragraph, explaining his CAECE(-UM) in final line quoted: SI (supply EGO or UNI) IRE AD MAGES ELEATES NAE COGITUNT: EFFLUNT 'UNIUS DEUS' FAMIS GELOIS! (Note infinitve w/o pron. Then note my Eng. syncopes and apocopes which you just automatically supplied.) The foregoing, including more than 2/3rds of text, is my precis, evidence and macro-analysis. The micro-cryptanalysis, in a line- by-line literatim, is two voluminous ring binders, generally unnecessary, of course, for those familiar with exact word meanings, customs, vocabulary and so forth, especially Plautus' signature words, i.e. Plautinisms. For those who referred to Chaos, p. 256, an excellent illustration is: Thxs, wx cax drxp oxt exerx thxrd xetxer xnd xou xtixl mxnaxe pxetxy wxll. Thng ar a litl toghr i we ls leve ut he pac. Anevnwrisfecnnctheors. (Translation at end of paper.) (Lindsay & Norman, Human Info. Processing, Academic Press, NY, 1972, pp 488-9) The last sentence is a fair approximation of the usual stele sentence with apocope, syncope, acronyms, synaloephas etc., all run together in a money-saving stream of encoded material; of the initial struggle required to separate words; great, but easier with each sense-making word, confirming and/or reconfirming discovered phonetic values.Letter frequency/percentages in still-to-be-done computer studies of the pitiable documents of 2nd Cent. B.C. Latin left, should coincide very closely with fleshed-out inscription text of the Fellum Elogium. (Refer to Kemp, K.W., & editors, p.610, Bits, Bytes & Bibl. Studies, by J.J. Hughes, Academic Books, Grand Rapids, 1987, ISBN 0-310-28581-X pbk.) While a friend has converted the transcribed text into "Republican Latin" by substituting more common, high-frequency terms (Examples: amarum for fellum, annos for annis, both circa and de for am-, as he saw fit, etc.) this is, as Plautus says: IIT EADEM, IT IUS(JUS) SIC EST NESCIUM! (Correcting Shakespeare's English!) The transcribed text, as is, requires Chadwick-like attention before it is converted to a Latin which any mediocre Latin scholar may scan-read, and, words such as 'Elohim dropped consequently, to conform to "Ciceronian editing." (Theologians in Berkeley advise that 'Elohim must be changed to Deus in all Catholic documents, for example.) Inasmuch as the few of a relative handful of scholars who should be able to handle such lingua non manu and who live around the San Francisco Bay area that I have able to contact either have no interest or no time, (For the reaction of a few refer to Chaos, P. 304ff, for Ford of GIT, and the reaction which "he did not understand," a reaction completely understandable from theologians, obviously, but not from linguistic scientists, who can, if they will, use the old simple, tried-and-tested, replication.) I am going farther afield, expecting to find 2-3 Ronald Fox types (See Ford's colleague in Chaos) with Apples for replication rather than fruitless discussion on how certain assigned phonetic values became sacred. If jus, in context, in quote above, means common sense and common law, and caecum = caput coli (Ency. Amer., index, 1956 ed.) and Kircherites, now simply exposed, then both quotes could be repeated at this point. Certainly, my friend's "Republican Latin" paraphrase: Qui caeco usus est, se et suos illusit, did not better the Old Master. But a few real 'Chadwicks' could further improve my transcription, as is obvious, before publication. Scholars who can read the decoded text, as is, please contact: Ben F. Blankenship 2675 Meadow Glen Dr. San Ramon, CA 94583 (415) 820-7595 For your copy of Apple Mac program to replicate, along with coordinated alphabet values chart/vocabulary and photographic slides to study interpunctio. Translation: Lindsay & Norman used the same technique as Plautus: The key was in the first line. For those who did not take the time to work it out the message on spaces and word separation follows: "Things are a little tougher if we also leave out the space. And even worse if we connect the words." Humanist Network Paper 21 February 1989 From: Richard Pierce Subject: Tibetan Canonical Scriptures of Buddhism Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 09:45:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 640 (260) I am submitting the following inquiry on behalf of a colleague at the University of Oslo. "The rumour has reached me that work is being done on making the collected Tibetian Buddhist scriptures Kanjur and Tanjur machine- readable. In editing and translating the Mahayana sutra Akshaya- matinirdesa with its commentary by Vasubandhu, I have written the whole Tibetan text onto disks, and I have made indices by means of computer. My interst is to participate in such projects of editing, especially if the material is to be stored on CD-disks. I can be reached by snail-mail at: Jens Braarvig, Religionshistorisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Pb. 1010 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo 3. NORWAY. If anyone can mediate contacts, it will be much appreciated. They may reply directly to me (Richard Pierce) at my e-mail address or write to Braarvig directly. EARN: HKLRP@NOBERGEN Micro-VAX: pierce@rose.uib.uninett From: Joseph Raben Subject: humanities computing Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 14:02:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 641 (261) Connie Crosbie and others looking for basic and relatively comprehensive books on humanities computing may benefit from acquiring two that came out just as micros were becoming available, and therefore are more uptodate than Oakman and Hockey. The first is THE ELECTRONIC SCHOLAR: A GUIDE TO ACADEMIC MIRCRCOMPUTING by John Shelton Lawrence (Norwood NJ 07648: Ablex). While his emphasis is on such mechanics as word processing, file searching, and publishing, his perspective is constantlythat of the humanist. The same is true of Bryan Pfaffenberger's THE SCHOLAR'S PERSONAL COMPUTING HANDBOOK: A PRACTICAL GUIDE (Boston: Little, Brown). (He informs me that the inventory has been transferred to Scott, Foresmanin Chicago, to whom a query might more efficientlybe sent.) He goes beyond Lawrence to include such topics as networking and number crunching. Both are well written and organized. They might work as textbooks for a graduate course. If others of this sort are around, I would like to hear about them. And if anyone knows of a real survey of current activities, such as Oakman and Hockey attempted about a decade ago, I'd like to hear about that too. From: Stephen Page Subject: The Music-Research Digest Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 13:27:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 643 (262) In vol 2 no 630 of the Humanist digest, there was an enquiry about a mailing list called MUSIC-L. I know nothing of such a list - and would be very interested to hear of it - but there is one called the Music-Research Digest, of which I am the moderator and Brad Rubenstein (Sun Microsystems, CA) is the US redistributor. I enclose below an extract of our standard list description, which I ask subscribers and potential subscribers to note carefully, as it excludes some subject areas which tend to clog traffic. Requests for addition to the list should be sent to me at music-research-request@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Internet address) music-research-request%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (old form) We also maintain - thanks to the generosity of our host systems' administrators - file servers in the UK and US which will mail out back issues and a few other relevant documents. - - - - - The Music-Research electronic mail redistribution list was established after a suggestion made at a meeting in Oxford in July 1986, to provide an effective and fast means of bringing together musicologists, music analysts, computer scientists, and others working on applications of computers in music research. As with any forum for discussion, there are certain subject areas which are of particular interest to the group of people on this list. Initially, the list was established for people whose chief interests concern computers and their applications to - music representation systems - information retrieval systems for musical scores - music printing - music analysis - musicology and ethnomusicology - tertiary music education The following areas are not the principal concern of this list, although overlapping subjects may well be interesting: - primary and secondary education - sound generation techniques - composition This restriction on subject matter has recently been reaffirmed: many readers asked the Moderator to reject articles on electronic music, and especially electronic musical instruments (MIDI, synthesizers, "how do I make the frobnyx box work on my Commodore 12399XL+??", and so on). Such areas are covered elsewhere in the electronic mail and network world. From: "Eldad Salzmann (+972)-3-494520" Subject: Esperanto List Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 09:19:33 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 157 (263) Dear networkers, A new list has been created these days: ESPER-L at TREARN. The list is intended for speakers of Esperanto and all those who are interested in the International Language which was created 101 years ago by Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, a Jewish oculist from Bialystok. The list is run by me (Eldad@TAUNIVM) and by the other owner, Turgut Kalfaoglu, the Node Administrator of TREARN, to whom I wish to express my deep gratitude for helping me with this project. The list has just been established, so there is still a lot to be done. I have heard that a similar list exists on ARPANET, but I don't know anything about it, if anyone does -- please let me know. A variety of topics will be discussed on this forum; among others, the promotion of Esperanto as an international tool for peace and understanding, and also some more earthly topics like how to represent the diacritical marks on c, g, h, j, s and u, developments in the grammar of modern Esperanto, etc.). Amikajn salutojn kaj agrablajn diskutojn deziras Eldad Salzmann (pron. Esperante: Zalcman) Eldad Salzmann P.O.Box 53160 Tel Aviv 61531 Israel tel: 972-3-494 520 From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: List of those attending the MLA sessions on hypertext Date: Friday, 24 February 1989 1015-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 158 (264) An attendance list was circulated at the two sessions on hypertext at the recent MLA annual meeting (New Orleans, Dec. 1988). As the list was circulated, I noted that the names would be available to those who attended, but I failed to mention that I hoped to post it to Humanist. After some discussion on the point with W. Mccarty, I've decided not to post it to Humanist (it's possible that many who attended may not want their names and addresses circulated in so open a forum). The complete list is, however, available to those who request it directly from me . Terry Harpold From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: (1) Micro-OCP hyphens and (2) Humanities computing Date: Fri, 24 FEB 89 11:12:12 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 645 (265) (1) Further investigation of Micro-OCP's treatment of end-of-line hyphens shows that it can handle Daniel Riding's problem and also that of Sterling Bjorndahl. I will be happy to supply Micro-OCP commands which work on Daniel's and Sterling's texts to anybody who requests them. Apologies for the confusion. (2) I have read with interest the comments on my book 'A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities'. HUMANISTs might like to know that, as part of the Toronto-Oxford Summer School in Humanities Computing in June, I will be giving a course on literary and linguistic computing which will be modelled on my book, but with updated and current information. For information about the summer school, please contact CCH@CA.UTORONTO.EPAS.VM. Susan Hockey [The above address for information about the Summer School is, of course, in the unique dialect of JANETspeak. For NetNorth/Bitnet/EARN-speakers, the address would be cch@vm.epas.utoronto.ca, or cch@utorepas. --W.M.] From: A_BODDINGTON@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: UK Postmasters Date: 24-FEB-1989 10:29:34 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 646 (266) [deleted quotation] Nearly all JANET sites have a POSTMASTER and nearly all of those answer requests about IDs. So if you address you query to: POSTMASTER@MANCHESTER.AC.UK you should get a reply. Cheers Andy Boddington From: "Robin C. Cover" Subject: UNIX FULL-TEXT RETRIEVAL Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 22:19:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 647 (267) Last year when we were discussing ideal query languages and search engines, I had my eye on DOS applications, not UNIX. Things have changed: we now have a MIPS (RISC) machine and an HP 9000/840s running modified System V UNIX with BSD extensions. So now I need to ask again: does anyone have a good recommendation for a full-text retrieval engine that will run under System V UNIX? PD software with source code would be best, but I'll take any suggestions I can get. The BRS implementation looks good, but it's expensive. Thanks for your help. Robin C. Cover Director of Academic Computing zrcc1001@smuvm1.BITNET 3909 Swiss Avenue convex!txsil!robin.UUCP Dallas, TX 75204 killer!dtseap!robin.UUCP 214/296-1783(h), 824-3094(w) killer!utafll!robin.UUCP From: Willard McCarty Subject: 17th supplement to the biographies Date: 25 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 648 (268) Autobiographies of Humanists Seventeenth Supplement Following are 30 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the Humanist discussion group. Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Humanist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas 25 February 1989 ================================================================= *Baller, Sharon R. (Sharon R. Brown) Sr. Business Systems Analyst, ERIM, PO Box 8618, Ann Arbor, MI 48107 313-994-1200 x 3287 I have had many titles, from Staff Accountant, to Montessori Teacher, to Instructor, Computer Information Systems, to Sr. Business Systems Analyst, but I think of myself primarily as a Teacher. I work for Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, a world-class research institute, specializing in designing products for making war and peace, for inspecting parts on a factory floor, for mapping the earth from satellite, or for reading a hand-written zipcode for the U.S. Post Office. Our engineers and scientists are specialists in Technology Transfer, too. We ponder ways in which to make the products developed for commercialization of space serve man on earth, improving quality of life. ERIM is a good place in which to be a Humanist. For ERIM, I provide quality assurance of our computer business applications, and supporting this, computer training for our end users. I also teach part-time for Washtenaw Community College (student body of 9200) and for the University of Toledo, UAW Contract at Chrysler Proving Grounds, at Chelsea, MI. I taught full-time at West Liberty State College, West Liberty, WV for 3 years before coming to MI in 1987. I have taught MIS, Wage and Salary Administration, BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, DBASEIII, numerous word processing programs, and Lotus 1-2-3. At ERIM, I train our employees how to use many ORACLE-based products. Data Communications is a special in- terest of mine, for I teach it now at WCC. I am 18 years married to an auto worker for Johnson Controls. We have 2 teenagers, 14 and 17, a tri-color collie named Sun and a mutt named Moon. We have traveled the world a little while serving a tour of duty in the US Army. My husband was stationed in Giessen, FRG and El Paso, TX. Our son was born in Germany. I like my at-home life as much as my at-work life. I have a B.S. degree in Business Administration from West Liberty State College, an A.A.S. in Accounting from WV Northern Community College, Wheeling, WV, and 24 hours towards a masters in Human Resources Development from WVU, Morgantown, WV. I did not finish my masters when the job at ERIM presented itself, but from the experience I gained some valuable insight: that people skills are as valuable as technical skills in the training business that I'm in. I hope in my lifetime to use my specila skills as a teacher to remind people of the importance of being human in an increasingly technical world. And I hope to help educators of our children to bring quality computer training into the classrooms earlier to teach them how to bring these tools to bear on their problems. I have only been working for 5 years; I graduated college in 1983. So I started late, but have many good ideas for working SMART, not hard. And I still want to be known as a Human human being as I do it. ================================================================= *Dale, Robert <...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!epistemi!rda> uucp ARPA JANET University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland; Phone: +44 31 667 1011 x6470 My research interests are in two distinct areas: natural language generation, and intelligent text processing. Within work on natural language generation, my focus of interest is in the generation of referring expressions, both in characterising the conditions under which particular forms of anaphoric reference can be used, and in characterising the representational requirements underlying reference to non-singular entities. Typical questions that arise are then: when can a pronoun be used to refer to an entity? When can definite reference be used? How is the semantic content of a referring expression determined? How are complex mass and plural entities to be represented, so that strategies for subsequent reference can be easily applied? My other major area of interest is perhaps of more relevance to the HUMANIST list. In the area of intelligent text processing, I am primarily interested in the semi-automation of editorial assistance. This involves tasks like that of massaging a text into a house style, and the detection of grammatical errors. This work is inspired by the AI paradigm of expert systems, so that, for example, house style rules can be maintained in knowledge bases which are applied to a text by an `inference engine' which knows about the relevant aspects of text. ================================================================= *Ericsson, Patricia Instructor, Liberal Arts Division Dakota State College 111 Beadle Hall Madison, S.D. 57042 (605) 256-3046 I am currently teaching freshman composition, junior composition, and computer concepts at Dakota State College in Madison, S.D. My background includes a traditional undergraduate degree in English and graduate work which has concentrated on rhetoric and writing and the applications of computers in the composition classroom. My scholarly activities have mainly involved computers and composition. Through a legislative mandate in 1984 DSC became a computer-oriented college and computers were integrated in all curriculum areas. This mandate allowed instructors at DSC to begin research and applications in computer assisted instruction before CAI became popular. As a result I have presented papers and panel discussions about various practical and pedagogical issues in the area of computers and composition. My first computer and composition experiences were using an IBM mainframe computer, the VM operating system, and the text editor Xedit in the composition classroom. My recent experiences have included using a variety of personal computers and most recently a newly installed local area network in teaching composition. I am now preparing a panel (along with two colleagues) in which we will examine some of the assumptions we have made in the last five years of teaching composition with computers. We will present this panel at the Canadian Council of Teachers of English National Convention in May. ================================================================= *Frishberg, Nancy NANCYF at IBM.COM Assistant to the Director, IBM Scientific Centers, Address: IBM, 472 Wheelers Farms Road, Milford, CT 06460 USA Phone: 203/783- 7384 Currently member of the Executive Council of ACH, and liaison to the LSA for ACH so my subscription is actually necessary to my fulfillment of duties in those roles. Former "Discipline Specialist for the Humanities & Social Sciences" of IBM's Academic Information Systems. Still interested in liberal arts applications for computing. Early introduction to humanities computing as an undergraduate at UCBerkeley, where I learned a bit of SNOBOL, enough about lists, indexes concordances and so on to get a feel for all of this, well before the personal computer made the scene. Spent 15 years thinking,teaching and writing about American Sign Language and other sign languages of deaf people...which leads to thinking about writing systems for unwritten languages, about dance and movement notations, about universals of human language and cognition. And leads to learning about video (a bit), just to let you know that my interests in technology are relatively broad. Having come to IBM after spending a lot of time in academia and some as a "freelance linguist" or independent scholar and consultant, I have now had experience with several mainframes, several advanced workstations and at least three micros. I have used 4-6 word & text processing packages, a couple of statistical packages, plus a bit of business software. I have less direct experience with most of the instructional and research software packages than I might like, but have gotten a good feel for issues and concerns of academia from my two years-plus of intense interaction with the university community in my Discipline role and subsequent continuing relationship with NEACH and the ACH crowd. Need to know more? Send mail! ================================================================= *Goode, Greg or Microcomputer and Text Processing Consultant University Computing Center, User Services University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 U.S.A. Telephone: (716) 275-2811; also Assistant Editor, Syndicated News Service, 1170 Genesee Street, Rochester, NY 14611 U.S.A.; (716) 436-4874 and (716) 328-8818 B.A., Psychology, Calif. State University (1975) n.d. Germanistik, Literature, Philosophy, Universitaet zu Koeln, Cologne, W. Germany (1982-83) M.A. Philosophy, University of Rochester (1983) Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Rochester (1987) My interest in humanities computing began before I'd ever heard the term! It was in the winter of 1983 and I was looking for a word processor with which to produce my doctoral dissertation in Philosophy. At that time, the only serious competitors around the University of Rochester ("UR") were MacWrite and two mainframe products. Disdaining MacWrite and SuperWylbur, I opted for University of Waterloo's SCRIPT on IBM's CMS/VM system, and later added GML (Generalized Markup Language). Since then, most of my scholarly papers, articles and bibliographies have been done in SCRIPT. My involvement in *microcomputing* in the humanities area began with my involvement in Syndicated News Service, which circulates a weekly film review column to approximately 45 newspapers in the New York-Pennsylvania area. We do our film reviews and articles in WordPerfect or other micro-based word processors, and then employ all manner of communications technology to take the material from (i) the micros to (ii) mainframe storage on one of the local State University of New York mainframes, to (iii) the CompuGraphic typesetter which prepares the column. By the time I got the degree, I had observed what many of you out there have probably seen or experienced: many new humanities Ph.D.'s find themselves taking a series of one-year teaching jobs all around the country before (maybe) landing tenure-track jobs. Some end up quitting that nomadic life for something completely different. Seeing all this along with the rate of tenure denials, I quickly snapped up an offer from the Computing Center at the UR to do consulting in PC/compatible hardware/software and text processing. I'm quite happy at this! I hope I can help forward the interests of humanities scholars by learning and advocating systems, software and solutions that will benefit them. My professional responsibilities involve teaching, consulting, writing about, and doing project development in WordPerfect 4.x and 5.x and laser printing. Other target areas include * micro- and mainframe-based laser printer support * fonts, graphics, special and non-English language characters * other WordPerfect Corp. products, such as WP Library * SCRIPT, GML support * communications software to support micro-to-mainframe connections * the PC/PS2/compatible cards and add-ons to drive the software Many of these areas are becoming increasingly interesting to scholars in my local area, as more and more of them become computerized. I am interested in learning more about these areas of humanities computing: scholars' workstations humanities computing outside the U.S. foreign language tutorial software high quality printed output online scholarship and publication (such as "Missouri Review Online") scholarly networking over wide area networks and LISTSERV's (such as "Humanist" and perhaps CompuServe) Most of this interest is healthily driven by my own interests in topics in the humanities themselves, most of which I've published on (sometimes I wish I'd stuck narrowly to Philosophy!!!): Philosophy, German, Spanish, Popular Culture (U.S. and non-U.S.), Literature, Film, Crime, Mystery and Adventure Fiction, Book Collecting, "Collecting" as a psychological phenomenon I must say, I'm thrilled to see humanities computing conscious of its presence in the computing field, and excited about it too! If you're interested in *any* of the above areas, let's correspond. ================================================================= *Han, Jining 1608 Redbud Hill, Bloomington, IN47408, USA Phone: (812)334-1332 I'm a graduate student in Comparative Literature Program at Indiana University. I don't know if I have any special field, but since I came from the People's Republic of China, it seems natural (and easier) for me to compare Chinese and Western literatures. My interest is fairly wide-ranged. I have just completed my MA thesis entitled "Where the Heart Goes: The Unconscious in Chinese Poetry," and the next thing I plan to study is the current Chinese mentality projected or reflected in fiction over the past five years. So I'm really flirting with psychoanalysis while trying to arrange a marriage between it and Chinese literature and cre. BTW, I'm 33 (in case this is important) and came to the States in 85. Having been through unusual political, cultural and social happenings, I'm trying to sort somethings out, both by hearing what others have to say and by expressing what's in my mind. ================================================================= *Irizarry, Estelle (irizarry@guvax) Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University. Research interests are computer-assisted literary analysis, courseware, and modern Hispanic literature. Author of eighteen books and critical editions in Spanish and in English (Twayne's World Authors Series) on contemporary authors (Ayala, Laguerre, Dieste, Granell), writers who are painters, and literary hoaxes. Author of an annotated edition of CAUCE SIN RIO by Enrique A. Laguerre with extensive computer analysis, and of articles on computer applications in HISPANIA, COLLEGE LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES, FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, ANTHROPOS, and HISPANIC LINK syndicated columns. Developed software for business Spanish (distributed by National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse) and guided literary analysis in Spanish. Software reviewer for HISPANIA and president of computer sessions for AATSP 1989. In charge of Spanish and Portuguese sections of THE HUMANITIES COMPUTING YEARBOOK for 1988. Originator of the Hispanic Archive project at Georgetown. ================================================================= *Johnston, Patricia A., Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, Rabb 141, Brandeis University Waltham, MA, 02254-9110; Telephone: 617-736-2182. Associate Professor of Classics; Professional interests: Greek and Latin Literature and Philosophy, Alexandrian influence on Latin literature; influence of Greek and Latin on English literature; Roman Law; Computer-aided instruction of Greek and Latin. English literature; Roman Law; Computer-aided instruction of Greek and Latin." ================================================================= *Jones, Elizabeth Louise Joan 156A Johnston Hall, UMC, Columbia, MO 65201 USA; (314) 884-1809 6245 Columbia Ave., St. Louis, MO 63139 USA; (314) 645-1596 I am a senior majoring in English at the University of Missouri- Columbia, with an emphasis in writing. I have written a few short stories, for classes and outside classes, but as of yet lack the courage to send them out and therefore have no professional writing credits to boast! About the only things I've done professionally (ie, got paid for) are type, waitress, and slice deli meats. My interests lie mostly in the humanities: I enjoy music and literature, in the latter category preferring Romanticism, Transcendentalism and contemporary works. I have a smattering of background in several literary periods, though I don't claim expertise in any of them. I also like sf, for those interested. I hope from this discussion to find new authors to look into, in any humanistic field, and continue discovering just how little I know! P.S. "Hello" to all my friends at the University of Guelph, especially James and Connie, that I know are subscribed to this conference. ================================================================= *Kucznetsov, Adam (Cat) 309 West 102d St. #3F, NYC 10025, 212-678-4395 I am a student in the (imperiled) department of linguistics at Columbia University in New York. I'm interested in a wide variety of subjects, both in linguistics and in other areas. I also have some training in mathematics and in the physical sciences but have nevertheless been taking a rather traditional (perhaps not?) philological approach to linguistics thus far. At the moment I am studying, among other things, historical Hungarian. I am an experienced user and programmer of computers and am particularly interested, of course, in their use in the context of linguistic study (and in the handling of text in general). ================================================================= *Laplante, Benoit Graduate student (Ph.D.), Departement de sociologie, Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. A, Montreal (Quebec), Canada H2H 1Y8; (514) 522-5190 Here is a brief description of my interests: Computerized analysis of textual data; Statistical modeling applied to analysis of textual data; Sociological processes of arts and literature production and reception; Theater theory and history; Classical studies (mainly Aristotle and ancient Greek theatre). ================================================================= *Lavenda, Robert Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S.A. I am a cultural anthropologist. My anthropological interests are in the interpretation and performance of culture, and in what is still called symbolic anthropology. My most recent research has concentrated on small town festivals in Minnesota, and I have been exploring the ways in which people in these communities construct meanings from their experiences of the world, and how those meanings then become the ground for further interpretations of experience. Festivals are one of the few common experiences that people in small towns have, so they become, I think, particularly important for gaining an understanding of people's lives. This research and computers link up in two ways. The more obvious, perhaps, is the use of a statistical package for the analysis of data from a questionnaires sent to the organizers of a number of different festivals. But the research also involves students--I run a field school in cultural anthropology every other summer--and I have found the text-base in Nota Bene to be of tremendous use. Last summer, I taught the ten students in the course how to use Nota Bene, and they all entered their notes using it. I then indexed all the notes into separate text bases, and have been able to do tremendously useful searches through their notes. The three previous field school data bases exist on hundreds handwritten 4 x 6 notecards. By comparison, the power of computer-assisted research via the NB text-base is staggering. My other connection with computers is writing. In 1983, my wife (also an anthropologist) and I bought a Kaypro 4 when we signed a contract to write an introductory cultural anthropology text. I became interested in word processing as a result, and, discontented with both WordStar and Perfect Writer, published a review of four CP/M word processors (WRITE, Spellbinder, Palantir, and VEDIT Plus) in ProFiles magazine (April 1986). Since then, I have discovered Nota Bene, and am now content. There is no better word processor for academics. ================================================================= *Mealand, David JANET Bitnet Senior Lecturer, N.T.Dept, University of Edinburgh, Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. EH1 2LX; 1, Buckstone Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., EH10 6UB; telephone +44 31 445-3713, +44 31 225 8400 (office). Studied Classics and Theology at Oxford. Have since mainly been teaching New Testament Studies with special interest in various topics requiring knowledge of the Hellenistic world and Hellenistic literature and the history of the period. Currently using computers especially Ibycus and the TLG and PHI cd-roms to look at a) stylometry and b) comparative stylistics e.g. a) an article on positional stylometry looking at the use of sentence connectives and statistics based on them and b) various articles either accepted, under consideration or in production looking at stylistic affinities between Acts and Hellenistic writers esp. historians in the use of particular Hellenistic Greek phrases. ================================================================= *Mehta, Ashok (ASHOK@SUVM) PhD Candidate in International Economics, 202 Economics Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 (USA) Tel: (315) 443- 2196 (O); (315) 445-8741 (H) I am developing an empirical model of international capital flow from developing countries to the developed countries for my PhD dissertation. I am also interested in development economics. I am working as a research consultant at Research Consulting Services of Syracuse University. ================================================================= *Meyers, Scott Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Department, Brown University, Box 1910, Providence, RI 02912; 401/863-7600 My interest in Humanist is rather informal, since my dissertation research focuses on software production by professional programmers. Nonetheless, I have a general interest in all kinds of applications software, including that in the humanities. I am much more interested in the use of software as a *tool* to achieve some goal than as something to study in and of itself. ================================================================= *Murray, Rhonda Student Editorial Assistant (313) 577-4802 I am an English major at Wayne State University. I am training as a Technical Writer at WSU's Computing and Information Technology. There appears to be a common belief that Liberal Arts majors are uninterested in Computing. It is my interest in computing that prompted me to join this list. I am curious as to whether other people on this list have noticed that those in technical majors and professions devalue your non-scientific disciplines. ================================================================= *Oakman, Douglas Edward Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447, 206-535-7317; Home address and phone: 1114-121st Street South, Tacoma, WA 98444, 206-537- 2376. Ph.D., Biblical Studies (New Testament), Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 1986: Dissertation "The Economic Aspect in the Words and Ministry of Jesus" published as _Jesus and the Economic Questions of His Day_ (Edwin Mellen, 1986); M.Div., Christ Seminary-Seminex (Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches), St. Louis, 1979; B.A. with honors in Religion, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1975; member of the Catholic Biblical Association (1988), Fellow of the Westar Institute's Social Facets of the Ancient World Seminar (1986), member of the Society of Biblical Literature (1981), Phi Beta Kappa (1975). As scholar, I am focusing on the use of social science methods for the study of the Bible and antiquity, particularly the interrelationship between the ancient economies and early Christianity. I coordinate an Atari ST User Group for the Society of Biblical Literature and am interested in computer- assisted analysis of biblical texts, programming in Icon (as well as Pascal, 'C', and 68000 assembly language), and the use of the computer to manage databases for the study of antiquity. I regularly use WordPerfect and have some experience with Desktop Publishing and PostScript programming. ================================================================= *Olley, Lorraine (rutherfo@iubacs) Head, Preservation Dept. Main Library E050 Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-5647 I am a librarian specializing in the preservation of deteriorated research library materials. Conseuquently, I am interested in the information needs and information-seeking behavior of scholars in the humanities. I have a B.A. in philosophy, and master of arts degree s in divinity and library science. ================================================================= *Patrikis, Peter C. As the Executive Director of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, I initiate and coordinate projects in foreign languages (any language at any level) and am thus in a position to distribute both information and services to faculty in eleven private research universities in the States (Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale). My own training is Romance Language and Literatures (B.A.) and Comparative Literature (M.A., Ph.D), all from Harvard. My specialization is thought and criticism in the seventeenth adn eighteenth centuries. After seven years of university teaching, I served as program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., with special responsibilities for projects in languages, linguistics, and literature. I regularly use both a MacII and an IBM AT. ================================================================= *Ritchie, Jarrly Brooke P.O. Box 6870, Mississippi State, MS 39762; 601-325-4535 I am currently majoring in History at Mississippi State University. I am also seeking a minor in computer science. My education has included studies in literature, history and five computer languages. My interests lie in history research and writting, as well as computer programming. I am interested in the computerization of libraries and compilation of extensive databases for use in history as well as other subjects, neither of which is currently present at Mississippi States library. I also have an interest in Hard-Wired campuses, with terminals or at least hook-ups for each individual, and the implimentation of such a system, as well as instillation problems that may be encountered. I am interested in seeing computers implimented where ever possible in order to augment research and learning in any subject. ================================================================= *Roddy, Kevin Medieval Studies, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616 USA I currently serve at book review editor to Computers and the Humanities, and hope to use your network to publicise new arrivals and solicit reviewers. My only other credential seems to be being a good sport. ================================================================= *Sandelin, Karl-Gustav JANET I am a lecturer and a "docent" at the theological faculty of Aabo Akademi, the Swedish university of Finland (which is a bilingual country). My main field of research is the New Testament, but I have been working especially with back- ground problems. I have published two monographs: Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Weisheit in 1.Korinther 15, Aabo 1976, (diss.) and Wisdom as Nourisher, Aabo 1987. At the moment I am working with the question how Hellenistic Judaism coped with the problem of non-Jewish cult. To what extent did Jews participate in pagan religious activities during the Hellenistic and early Imperial era? Paul warns the Corinthians against idolatry (1.Cor.10). He seems to use a common Jewish argument. But is the situation in Corinth analogous to Jewish contemporary communities? Were the Jews generally seen less affected by paganism than the Christians in the congregation at Corinth? Special questions: Who knows something about the present stage of excavations at Corinth? Is there any documentation of mystery cults at Corinth? Has the phrase "koinoonia tou soomatos/haimatos tou christou" v.16 any clear analogies in mystery-language? MAIL-address successfully used by colleagues at Cambridge: ================================================================= *Suhl, Alfred Prof. Dr., im Muehlenfeld 20, D-4400 Muenster 51. Professor for New Testament exegesis and theology at the Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultaet der Westfaelischen Wilhelms- Universitaet, Universitaetsstrasse 13- 17D-4400 Muenster. Special interests: Synoptics and Paul, theology and vita. Computer-fan since 1986, although already born in 1934. Specialist and trainer for WordPerfect. Member of the University committee for computer questions. Interested in all fields of computer assisted research in theology, especially in biblical studies. Interested in group-dynamics and psychology as well. Licensed trainer for Thomas Gordon`s Parents effectiveness training. Hobbies: Sailing and fishing, hiking and chorus- singing. ================================================================= *Ubaydli, Ahmad Y. University of Cambridge Tinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ England, UK Tel: (0223) 246 705 Fax: {+}44 223 334748 Telex: 81240 CAMSPL G University Education: 1985-89 Candidate - Ph.D. University of Cambridge, Subject of Research: Oriental Studies (mainly History of Oman). Expected finishing date: 1989. 1982-84 M.A. in Islamic Studies, Centre of Islamic Studies, Beirut 1964-69. B.A. in Economics with Political Science Minor. American University of Beirut Work Experience: Teacher of English and researcher 1969-82; worked in the weekly magazine _al-Misbah_1980-1981; published 59 articles in Arab daily weekly papers; Instructor for M.A. level students in the Centre of Islamic Studies 1984-85; Member of the Board of Trustees of Dilmun Publishing Ltd. Languages: Perfectly bilingual (Arabic and English), good working knowledge of German and French. A working knowledge of Shihri (a spoken South-Arabian language); interested in bilingual computing (Arabic and European languages), and computing in humanist fields. A member of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (__BRISMES__); attending regularly the meetings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, and presented a paper to the Oxford meeting, 1988. Designing: Interested in designing posters and book covers. Five designs of book covers were used in published works; Author, translator and wrote introductions to 6 published books and 4 unpublished books; published papers and book reviews: 4 in English periodicals and 15 in Arabic periodicals. ================================================================= *Uchitelle, Daniel Manager of Online and Special Services, Modern Language Association, 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003; 212/614-6350 (voice) 212/477-9863 (FAX) As Manager of Online and Special Services at the MLA, I am responsible for a number of bibliographic projects, including the Wing Short Title Catalogue, the Research-in-Progress Database, the Early Research Access retrospective conversion project, and the Directory of Periodicals. I am the primary liaison with distributors of the MLA Bibliography database, online through DIALOG and the H. W. Wilson Company, and on CD-ROM through Wilson. I also serve as an advisor to various MLA projects on matters of computer technology and applications. Previous professional positions include reference librarian at Yale University, Index Manager for New Standard Encyclopedia, and administrator at the New York Public Library Performing Arts Division at Lincoln Center. My academic training is in the humanities, with advanced coursework in library science, computer science, and American history. I have published articles in all three of these areas. I look forward to adding my (electronic) voice to this bit- network of scholars. I am particularly interested in serving as a resource for those engaged in activities of the the type that the MLA has traditionally encouraged: the study and teaching of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. ================================================================= *Verbrugghe, Gerald P. Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, Camden, Armitage Hall, 5th & Penn, Camden, N. J. 08102; 609-757-6071 (Office); 609-757-6080 (Departmental secretary) I am an ancient historian, basically interested in ancient historiography. I am trying to prepare a critical edition with commentary on the fragmetns of the ancient Roman historians. I am also interested in the encoding of ancient texts. In my efforts to edit the ancient Roman historians, I would be interested in bit-mapped fonts of the Greek alphabet for the Laser Jet printer. ================================================================= *Viden, Gunhild Institute of Classical Studies, Dept. of Latin, Gothenburg University (address Vastra Hamngatan 3, S-411 17 Gothenburg, Sweden). I have a Ph. D. in Latin. My thesis dealt with the language of the imperial chanceries of the Eastern and the Western Roman Empire respectively. My present field of interest is descriptions of women in Silver Age Latin, and the usage of topoi in such descriptions. I would be happy to get in contact with other people working within the field of women within antiquity, or women in literature in general. (Since my Christian name usually leaves people outside the Scandinavian countries in the dark, I might add that I belong to the female species myself.) ================================================================= *Wallmannsberger, Josef Assistant Professor of English, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Interests include computational linguistics, contrastive analyses of English and German, English for specific purposes and the philosophy of language. My present focus in computational linguistics is the possible relevance of hypertext models for both linguistic research and advanced second language learning. Some recent publications include "German-English contrastive linguistics" with M. Markus, Peter Lang publishers, 1987. "West- coast perspectives on computational linguistics" 1988, "The creole hypothesis in the history of English" 1988. ================================================================= *Weyker, Dennis SHAYNE Student at Univ. NC at Greensboro, 1821A Walker Ave. Zip:27403, 919-272-1965 Since 1983 I've been more or less constantly involved in some form of Electronic Discussion. It started with being lucky enough to have several high quality (one even internationally known) Bulletin Boards in my hometown of Winston-Salem that had worthwhile discussions on: Religion, Politics, Ethics, (Science) Fiction, Music, and Science. In 1986-87 I discovered the networks (the usenet newsgroups and the bitnet listservs). My background is pretty generic. I'm presently an undergrad with strong interests in Moral Philosophy, Applied Ethics, International Politics, Foreign Policy, Computer Networks, and (Science)Fiction Writing. I'm hoping for a nice job with one of the Intelligence agencies or Washington DC "Institutions" such as Brookings, Heritage, or Cato (although Brookings reflects my political beliefs the most accurately of the three). I'm presently taking a writing workshop with Orson Scott Card in addition to a noramal 15hrs of courses. In the past I've worked with computers in Data Entry, Transfer/Retrieval, Manipulation (all for Tenn Valley Authority engineering lab in Norris TN), and Troubleshooting simple equipment/software failures (for a small business). ================================================================= *Wilson, Harold Stacy Associate Professor, Department of History, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0091 Born 62235 in Tennessee (U.S.A.). Interests: American intellectual history, cultural history*, 19th century U. S., southern history, American Civil War. At present researching both fiction and non-fiction dealing with the history of manufacturing (and impact of technology upon society). *History of slavery, etc. *****END***** From: iwml@UKC.AC.UK Subject: NT GREEK TUTOR PACKAGES Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 21:35:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 159 (269) I have been asked to explore the availability of packages for teaching koine (NT) Greek to first year undergraduates, and would welcome advice and comment on (a) what you know to be available and idea of its cost; (b) what hardware it runs on; (c) how you evaluate it; and/or (d) any experience you have had in setting up such a teaching programme. With thanks for any response you can make, Ian Mitchell Lambert University of Kent at Canterbury Department of Theology EARN: iwml@ukc.ac.uk From: AU100@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: getting in Contact with MESA Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 16:51:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 160 (270) Can Anybody help me in getting in contact through EMail with Middle East Studies Association of North America. Michael E. Bonine (University of Arizona) was its Exceutive Secretary. MESA Address used to be: MESA Dpartment of Oriental Studies UNiversity of Arizona The reason I want to contact MESA is to see if they can help in supplying me with a EMailist (and/or ordinary mailist) of its members. A Seminar on bilingual computing is going to take place here at U. of Cambridge (6-7 September, 1989), about which I would like to inform them. AHMAD UBAYDLI SEMINAR CONVENOR C/O LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING CENTRE SIDGWICK AVENUE CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA UK TELE: (UK) 0223 335029 TLX: 81240 CAMSPL G FAX: +44 223 334748 From: Willard McCarty Subject: history as students see it, in two parts Date: 25 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 650 (271) [The following has been borrowed from the History discussion group, contributed by Gary Woodill (FCTY7310@RYERSON), who in turn got it from another source. Since we all need something to cheer us up at this time of year, I'm passing it on to you. Apologies to those that need them. --W.M.] A BRIEF HISTORY OF EUROPE (Five year veteran of the University classsroom, historian Anders Eriksson -- possibly as an act of vengeance -- has assembled a brief history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, derived from papers submitted by his freshman classes at McMaster University and the University of Alberta. The spelling is as written.) * * * * * * * * * * History, as we know, is always bias because human beings have to be studied by other human beings not by independent observers of another species. During the Middle Ages, everybody was middle-aged. Church and state were co-operatic. Middle Evil society was made up of monks, lords and surfs. After a revival of infantile commerce slowly creeped into Europe merchants appeared. They roamed from town to town exposing themselves and organizing big fairies in the countryside. Mideval people were violent. Murder during this period was nothing. Everybody killed someone. England fought numerously for land in France and ended up winning and losing. The Crusades were a series of military expaditions made by Christians seeking to free the holy land (the "Home Town" of Christ) from the Islams. Finally, Europe caught the Black Death. The bubonic plague is a social disease in the sense that it can be transmitted by intercourse and other etceteras. It was spread from port to port by inflected rats. The plague also helped the emergance of the English language as the national language of England, France and Italy. The Middle Ages slimpared to a halt. The renasence bolted in from the blue. Life reeked with joy. Italy became robust, and more individuals felt the value of their human being. Man was determined to civilise himself and his brothers, even if heads had to roll! It became sheik to be educated. Europe was full of incredable churches with great art bulging out their doors. Renaissance merchants were beautiful and almost lifelike. The Reformation happened when German nobles resented the idea that tithes were going to Papal France or the Pope thus enriching Catholic coiffures. An angry Martin Luther nailed 95 theocrats to a church door. Theologically, Luthar was into reorientation mutation. Calvinism was the most convenient religion since the days of the ancients. The Popes, of course, were usually Catholic. Monks went right on seeing themselves as worms. The last Jesuit priest died in the 19th century. After the refirmation were wars both foreign and infernal. Louis XIV became King of the Sun. He gave the people food and artillery. If he didn't like someone, he sent them to the gallows to row for the rest of their lives. The enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire wrote a book called Candy that got him into trouble with Frederick the Great. Philosophers were unknown yet and the fundamental stake was one of religious toleration slightly confused with defeatism. The French revolution was accomplished before it happened. The revolution evolved through monarchial, republican and tolarian phases until it catapulted into Napolean. Great Brittian, the USA and other European countrys had demicratic leanings. The middle class was tired and needed a rest. The old order could see the lid holding down new ideas beginning to shake. Among the goals of the chartists were universal suferage and an anal parliament. Voting was to be done by ballad. A new time zone of national unification roared over the horizon. Nationalism aided Itally because nationalism is the growth of an army. Here, too, was the new Germany; Loud, bold, vulgar and full of reality. Culture fomented from Europe's tip to its top. Wagner was master of music and people did not forget their own artists. France had Chekov. World War I broke out around 1912-1914. German was on one side of France and Russia was on the other. At war people get killed and then they aren't people anymore but friends. Peace was proclaimed at Versigh, which was attended by George Loid, Primal Minister of England. President Wilson arrived with 14 pointers. In 1937 Lenin revolted Russia. Communism raged among the peasants and the civil war "team colors" were red and white. Germany was displaced after WWI. This gave rise to Hitler. Germany was morbidly overexcited and unbalanced. Berlin became the decadent capital, where all sorts of sexual deprivations were practised. A huge anti-Semantic movement arose. Germany invaded Poland, France invaded Belgium and Russia invaded everybody. War screeched to an end when a nukuleer explosion was dropped on Heroshima. A whole generation had been wipe out...and their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces. According to Fromm. individuation began historically in medieval times. This was a period of small childhood. There is increasing experience as adolesecence experiences its life development. The last stage is us. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD 'The World According to Student Bloopers' by Richard Lederer St. Paul's School (Spring 1987, Verbatim, The Language Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 4) One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eighth grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. They Pramids are a range mountains between France and Spain. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain. once asked, "Am I my brother's son?" God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark. Jacob was a patriarch who brought up his twelve sons to be patriarchs. but they did not take to it. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph, gave refuse to the Israelites. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Afterwards, Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar. He fought with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines. Without the Greeks we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns--Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. Achilles appears in The Illiad, by Homer. Homer also wrote the Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn't climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men. Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlics in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. Then came the Middle Ages. King Alfred conquered the Dames, King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery, King Harold mustarded his troops before the Battle of Hastings, Joan of Arc was cannonized by Bernard Shaw, and victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. Finally the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense. In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the time was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. Another tale tells of William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head. The Renaissance was an age in which more individuals felt the value of their human being. Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenburg for selling papal indulgences. He died a horrible death, being excommunicated by a bull. It was the painter Donatello's interest in the female nude that made him the father of the Renaissance. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper. The government of England was a limited mockery. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself before her troops, they all shouted, "hurrah." Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespear. Shakespear never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He lived at Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies, and errors. In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. In another, Lady Macbeth tries to convince Macbeth to kill the King by attacking his manhood. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Writing at the same time as Shakespear was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the Ocean, and this was known as Pilgrims Progress. When they landed at Plymouth Rock, they were greeted by the Indians, who came down the hill rolling their war hoops before them. The Indian squabs carried porpoises on their back. Many of the Indian heroes were killed, along with their cabooses which proved very fatal to them. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this. One of the causes of the Revolutionary Wars was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. During the War, the Red Coats and Paul Revere was throwing balls over stone walls. The dogs were barking and the peacocks were crowing. Finally, The colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original thirteen states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. Then the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mothe died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. When Lincoln was President, he wore only a tall silk hat. He said, "In onion there is strength." Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation, and the Fourteenth Amendment gave the ex-Negroes citizenship. But the Clue Clux Clan would torcher and lynch the ex-Negroes and other innocent victims. It claimed it represented law and odor. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltare invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the Autumn, when the apples are falling off the trees. Bach was the most famous composer in the world. and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened. The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon. During the Napoleonic Wars, the crowned heads of Europe were trembling in their shoes. Then the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. Napoleon became ill with bladder problems and was very tense and unrestrained. He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear children. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her reclining years and finally the end of her life were exemplatory of a great personality. Her death was the final event which ended her reign. The nineteenth century was a time of many great inventions and thoughts. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radium. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers. top The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by a surf, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history. *****END***** From: Daniel Ridings Subject: Micro-OCP Date: 25 Feb 89 11:17:54 EST (Sat) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 651 (272) The problem seems to be other than what we thought. Further investigation has shown that it was not the reference that caused the failure of OCP to report on a word but the use of wildcards and hyphens. Our text looked like this: text text text text dia- fulassoi text text text xrw- ntai text text text. The command: pick words "dia* xrw*". found both diafulassoi and xrwntai. But strangely enough, if the wild card fell after the hyphen the words were not found, ie: pick words "diaful* xrwn*". or pick words "diafulassoi xrwntai". failed to report on the above mentioned instances. It should be noted that we transcribe the Greek from TLG's 7-bit coding to Nota Bene's 8-bit coding for Greek. This results in a very long "alphabet" command and some of the accents receive non-printing values. We ran through our texts and CTL files time and time again, always with the same result. I have now sent them to Oxford for testing. From: Daniel Ridings Subject: Hyphens and Micro-OCP Date: 25 Feb 89 14:51:54 EST (Sat) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 652 (273) Just so that there is no misunderstanding. I am including an exact text file and two .CTL files (command files). ------------------------------------text file----------------------------- text text text text dia- fulassoi text text text xrw- ntai text text text text text. ------------------------------------CTL file 1---------------------------- *input text hyphen "-". *words alph "A=a B=b C=c D=d E=e F=f G=g H=h I=i J=j K=k L=l M=m N=n O=o P=p Q=q R=r S=s T=t U=u V=v W=w X=x Y=y Z=z". *action pick words "DIA* XRW*". do concordance. *go -------------------------------------CTL file 2---------------------------- *input text hyphen "-". *words alph "A=a B=b C=c D=d E=e F=f G=g H=h I=i J=j K=k L=l M=m N=n O=o P=p Q=q R=r S=s T=t U=u V=v W=w X=x Y=y Z=z". *action pick words "DIAFUL* XRWN*". do concordance. *go -------------------------------------END------------------------------------ The first CTL file finds the two instances. The second CTL file fails to find anything. I might add that both of these files give correct results with the version of OCP we run on our Data General mini (version 1.4). This is a serious problem. Now that classical scholars have a wealth of material to work with, thanks to Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, we have a tendency to work with large files. When working with large files it is to our advantage to narrow down our search criteria. This problem turned up when one of our researchers wanted to find all of the forms of "diafulassei, diafulassoi etc" in Plutarch. We were lucky. This instance that Micro-OCP missed happened to be a case he knew of. It would be unreasonable to have to search for "dia*"---and get all the prepositions in Plutarch, ca 7 Mbytes---when "diaful*" would have done nicely. So, the problem is not with references between the two halves of a hyphenated word. The problem is using wild-card searches on words that are hyphenated. Please don't get me wrong. Micro-OCP is an excellent help. My only wish is to warn of the possible pitfalls. The most reasonable solution for the time being would be to dehyphenate all words in a text. With Greek this is simple as hyphens are never part of a word but in English text this could be a problem, eg, text text text text counter- charge text text text. From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: Umbrian meditations (259) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 16:59:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 653 (274) Mr. Blankenship has also been in touch with me requesting me to place the same message on Humanist. My own view was that it needed a little bit more scholarly context to be intellible. What he calls the "Fellum Elogium" is Umbrian Stele, no. 366, discussed by A.J. Pfiffig, in Studi Etreschi, XXIX, 111-54, XXX, 355-57. Mr. Blankenship's contention is that what has traditionally been called Etruscan is really an Italic language which can be deciphered using standard cryptological techniques and positing the values of Plautine Latin. From: Subject: STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC CULTURE Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 13:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 161 (275) Are there any scholars/students of Islamic Culture who can recommend some books about the Koran and Islamic Culture (from a secular, historical, critical viewpoint)? I am interested in something akin to the secular studies of the Bible in the tradition of Spinoza, Welhausen, & Freud. For instance, is there a book on the Koran akin to the recent book by Richard Elliot Friedman "Who Wrote the Bible?" Thank you. Sheldon Richmond S_RICHMOND@UTOROISE.BITNET From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Colleague search in Taiwan Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 13:50:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 162 (276) I need to get in contact with Marinus van den Berg, who is currently a visiting Professor at the National Taiwan University. Can someone give me his Bitnet address or the address of someone at that university who might know him? Thank you. From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: Translation Studies Newsletter, n.s. 5 Date: 23 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 655 (277) AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER OF TRANSLATION STUDIES NEW SERIES NUMBER FIVE / JANUARY 1989 ISSN O792-O58X -------------------- [A complete version of this issue of the newsletter is now available on the file-server, s.v. TRANSST5 NEWSLETR. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: OCP Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 13:01:45 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 656 (278) forgive my impatience, but couldn't this obscure dialogue about whether or not OCP parses Martian correctly be limited to the complainer and Susan Hockey. I know that lots of people use OCP (lord only knows what for), but I cannot believe the problem is widespread, caused by bad milk, or likely to cause offence.... so can it stop clogging my mail? Sebastian Rahtz PS a conversation with fellow HUMANIST Brian Molyneaux reminded me that we H.s have no way to recognise each other *in the flesh*; how about a nice society tie? then we could stop those silly conversations of 'gosh, you mean it was YOU who said all those things on HUMANIST? wll i never etc etc etc'. I suggest a small mallard as our symbol. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 163 (279) "It is therefore against these things that our contest lies -- against the institutions of our ancestors, against the authority of tradition, the laws of our governors, and the reasonings of the wise; against antiquity, custom, submission; against precedents, prodigies, miracles -- all which things have had their part in consolidating that spurious system of your gods." Tertullian, ad nationes 2.1 From: PHILOSDO@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu Subject: RE: historia mundi discipulorum (340) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 14:23:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 657 (280) Just as a contribution to the meaningless coincidence department: I had just finished reading the history of Europe and the world (with the usual slightly guilty amusement: after all some of those errors are honest mistakes, some are slips of the pen and some, probably, are deliberate jokes) when I happened to glace along the shelf in the office I am sharing with a permanent staff-member here at Vanderbilt and saw a tattered xerox copy of the piece, from Wilson Quarterly 1983. Am I alone in not having seen it before? Does every office in North America have its copy? Regards, Stephen From: Robert Kirsner (213)825-3955 Subject: Re: secular studies of Islam? colleague in Taiwan? (46) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 23:13 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 164 (281) Vin, Weet jij misschien waar die Van den Berg zich heeft verstopt? From: Dr Abigail Ann Young Subject: Re: a plea (27) Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 07:46:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 165 (282) Bravo, Sebastian! Perhaps a tasteful pin for female HUMANISTs.... And a secret handshake could be introduced, just to guarantee the authenticity of the society logo... From: Willard McCarty Subject: software for the Yearbook Date: 27 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 659 (283) Developers and vendors of all software mentioned in The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988 are just now being sent xerox copies of the appropriate page(s) with a request for updated information. If you have been mentioned, please look out for my request in the mail. If you know of software that you think should be mentioned, please encourage the developer to contact me or send me as much detail as you have or can conveniently note down. Thanks very much for your help. Willard McCarty From: Beth Jones C465904 at UMCVMB Subject: A request for reading lists Date: 28 February 1989, 16:00:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 661 (284) Hello all, I am looking for a general reading list for Humanities students, in Philosophy, Literature, Social Science, et al. I ask this because in the course of my studies, it seems the more "good stuff" I read, there's more I discover I haven't read, and a consolidated (albeit subjective?) list would be quite helpful in my studies! This list could be in either text file (IBM PC or Mac) or printed form. Thanks for all your help. Sebastian: If you find something you receive from Humanist to be not useful to you, you could use any of several ways to erase the offending material. Every entry isn't pertinent to every user. I'm sure there are people that the information proved useful to, and the rest of us should be willing to grant them that information. --Beth. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: DOS 386-based Systems Review Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 166 (285) The Computing Resource Center at Penn publishes a Bulletin called PENN PRINTOUT every month or so, and in the past has agreed to supply copies to outsiders on request. The current issue (February 1989, vol. 5.6) headlines a comparison of eight 386-based DOS machines that may be of interest to some HUMANISTs. Seven of them are given benchmark tests for speed, with Dell, Compaq, and AST leading the pack in that order (20 MHz), followed by HP, Zenith, IBM, and AT&T from the 16 MHz class. The Sun 386i/250 is also reviewed, although not included in the benchmark tests since it would be inappropriate to do so. Contact Computing Resource Center, U.Penn, 1202 Blockley Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104-6021 for further information. Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Willard McCarty Subject: topical collections on Humanist Date: 28 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 167 (286) For the past several months I have been accumulating Humanist's mail and sorting it by general topic. Thanks to a routine written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (without whom, not), I am now able to offer these topical collections, with the headers appropriately simplified, on the file-server. Each collection is given as clear a filename as 8 characters will allow and a filetype that contains the characters TOPIC- followed by a volume number. As an initial offering, I have put the following on the file-server. More will come as time permits. ALLUSION TOPIC-1 characteristics of textual allusions ALLUSION TOPIC-2 and methods for finding them by ALLUSION TOPIC-3 use of computers BIBSYS TOPIC-1 bibliographical and reference systems CALL TOPIC-1 computer-assisted language learning HUMCOMP TOPIC-1 humanities computing None of these have been altered since initial publication, nor have I edited the collections at all, other than to add an explanatory header. Items in the collections are sometimes out of order, and collections themselves sometimes fragmentary. I apologize for this sloppiness, but time does not permit much careful work. As a result, the outpourings from Humanist remain purely conversational. With a very few exceptions I have not bothered to save notes either requesting or giving information as such. Seldom do these have continuity, and in any case the daily logbooks remain. What I have saved are discussions of topics and issues, the debates in which, to my mind, Humanist's genius is clearest. One exception is the very long series of exchanges over optical scanners and software. The amount of interest in these is really quite remarkable. I am limiting the file-size of each volume to about 500 lines or less. Thus the series on allusions takes up 3 files, that on bibliographical systems only 1. In the future I plan to issue a collection when its topic has grown dormant, so that file-size will vary accordingly. As always, your comments and suggestions will be most welcome. Willard McCarty From: Mark Sacks Subject: Philosophy Lectureship Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 10:32:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 168 (287) I have been asked by colleagues at the University of Sheffield to bring the following job announcement to the attention of all HUMANISTs, who might want to pass it on to other non-HUMANIST philosophers. Mark. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 169 (288) Applications are invited for the post of full-time Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. The post is tenable from 1st September 1989. The successful applicant will be expected to have a broad range of philosophical interests, to possess teaching ability in a number of philosophical fields, to be active in research and publication, to contribute effectively to the administrative work of the Department, and to be capable of presenting the subject to non-specialists in other departments and faculties in the University. Candidates with research and teaching interests in any central area of philosophy are invited to apply. Preference may, however, be given to those with expertise in social and political philosophy. Further enquiries may be directed in writing to Dr. D.A. Bell, Department of Philosophy, The University, Sheffield S10 2TN; or by phone, to 0742-768555 (ext. Philosophy). Official application forms are not provided. Applicants should send a full curriculum vitae, including information about their qualifications, fields of interest, teaching experience, publications, and plans for research, together with the names and addresses of three referees, to the Registrar and Secretary (Staffing), The University, Sheffield S10 2TN, by 17th March 1989. From: Jody Gilbert Subject: DUCK LOGOS Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 20:47:22 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 170 (289) Why a mallard for our logo? As a duck, a mallard is a little stereotypical. How about the BUFFLE HEAD--nice little black & white duck, unassuming, cute name. From: Subject: HUMANIST logo Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 17:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 171 (290) I'm tempted by Sebastian's idea of a HUMANSIT symbol/logo. A mallard seems very preppie, however, unless there is some totemic siginificance I'm missing. Let's see. Hmmmm. How about Zippy the Pinhead? I always think of Zippy as androgynous and epicene (to resurrect Jack Paar's old phrase), so that might take care of sex bias objections. Zippy's mode of thought and commentary in many ways reminds me of the eclectic and non-linear thought processes we often see on HUMANIST! And Zippy is interested in computers! Tell me, doesn't this dialog from the recent Zippy strip dated 2/24 capture the nature of many HUMANIST dialogs????!!! [panel 1] Zippy's friend: "Computer generated graphics will never match th' line quality of pen & ink drawing!" Zippy: "No way." (Zippy's image has been stretched horizontally) [panel 2] Zippy's friend: "Even at its most advanced, computer art is cold & unfeeling .." Zippy: "I'm in complete agreement!" (Zippy now is stretched vertically) [panel 3] Zippy's friend: "No laser-equipped digitized hunk of steel & silicon can ever replicate th' sensitivity of th' human hand!" Zippy: "Your point is indeed well-taken!" (a large screw is piercing Zippy's head) [panel 4] Zippy's friend: "Zippy, I want you to promise me you'll never allow your likeness to be scanned and printed by any hi-tech philistine!" Zippy: "Am I clip art yet?" (the background is filled with copies of Zippy's image) Well, I guess there is the problem that Zippy's image is owned by his creator Bill Griffith (and perhaps some syndicate). Back to reality. Let me mention something that deals with recognition of each other and that is more far-reaching than face-to-face meetings. When Willard last circulated info on the state of HUMANIST biographies, I suggested optional inclusion of scanned images. I may never meet Willard or Sebastian or most of you, but I'd really like to be able to download a file of images ... "Oh, so *that's* what [insert name] looks like!" :-) <--The best I can do for now! Jim Cerny, University Computing, University of New Hampshire From: LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 1 MAR 89 18:18:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 663 (291) Humanists with an interest in the Bard will no doubt be pleased to learn that Oxford Electronic Publishing has just published the long-awaited Electronic Shakespeare. This is a handsomely bound volume containing either 10 3.5-inch or 20 5.25-inch disks for the IBM PC and a snazzy green booklet. The diskettes contain the full text of the recently published Wells/Taylor OUP Shakespeare edition, tagged for use with the Oxford Concordance Program or anything else that can make sense of its style of markup. The booklet contains a full description of the markup used and some examples of how to use it with OCP. The whole shooting match will set you back 150 crisp oncers in the EEC, or 300 greenbacks in the RestOfWorld, excluding P&P, VAT etc etc. Or you can even persuade your library to take out a site licence (500/1000 dittos) which entitles licensees to install (i.e. presumably copy) the disks onto 'an unlimited number of computers or a local area network within their institution' Contact Ann Yates at OEP (OUP, Walton St, Oxford OX2 6DP; +44(865)56767 or fax +44(865)56646 Please form an orderly queue. Lou (who is not, alas, getting any royalties on the deal) From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 17:11:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 172 (292) Subject: A HUMANISTic society Abigail and Sebastian may have something there. We could have our own... "frarority." But it won't be complete without a secret decoder ring! Who else has ideas about a logo? How about a motto as well? Wisst Ihr, was ein HUMANist (ist)? --Joel From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca> Subject: mallards Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 09:12:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 173 (293) I wonder if Sebastian Rahtz knows that the mallard is the symbol of that arch-conservative institution, All Soul's College, Oxford. The college stationery bears an embossed mallard (pronounced mal-lar'd) and I recall witnessing a Gaudy when I was there in 1970-71 during which the senior fellows marched behind a stuffed mallard. Dick R.J. Shroyer: Department of English, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 3K7. (519)-679-2111, ext. 5839 or 5834 Canada: Shroyer@uwovax.uwo.ca From: Subject: MISSOURI REVIEW ONLINE Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 07:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 174 (294) I'm asking this on behalf of a colleague. There is apparently a publication called MISSOURI REVIEW ONLINE. Anyone know of it? Is it, as the name might suggest, available via some network connection? Jim Cerny, University Computing, University of New Hampshire From: "Charles W. Tucker" Subject: HUMANIST DISCUSSION GROUP Date: Wed, 01 Mar 89 10:15:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 175 (295) TO EVERYONE, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO OBTAIN WHAT WAS CALLED IN THE PAST AS "CURRENT CONTENTS." AS I UNDERSTAND IT, MANY YEARS AGO LIBRARIES HAD A BOOK WHICH CONTAINED THE TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR ALL THE JOURNALS PUBLISHED IN THE US. ONE ONLY HAD TO GO TO THE LIBRARY, CIRCLE THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE, AND IT WOULD BE REPRODUCED FOR HIM/HER. MY QUESTION IS: DOES THIS SERVICE EXIST IN OUR ELECTRONIC MAIL NETWORK? PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF IT DOES AND HOW TO GET IT. THANKS MUCH. CHUCK TUCKER From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: help with authorship Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 19:34:12 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 666 (296) BASKETBALL COACH SOLICITS HELP FROM HUMANISTS A renowned university basketball coach has asked for help in determining the authorship of the following poem. If you recognize it, would you please help me help him to victory by attributing it to an author, and thus making it possible to include it in team motivational literature? Thank you. Yours ever, Kevin L. Cope THE ROAD AHEAD Sometimes I think the fates must grin as we denounce them and insist, The only reason we can't win is the fates themselves have missed. Yet, there lives on the ancient claim-- We win or lose within ourselves, The shining trophies on our shelves can Never win tomorrow's game. So you and I know deeper down there is a chance to win the crown, But when we fail to give our best, we simply haven't met the test Of giving all and saving none until the game is really won. Of showing what is meant by grit, of fighting on when others quit, Of playing through not letting up, it's bearing down that wins the cup. Of taking it and taking more until we gain the winning score, Of dreaming there's a goal ahead, of hoping when our dreams are dead, Of praying when our hopes have fled. Yet, losing, not afraid to fall, If bravely we have given all, for who can ask more of a man Thus giving all, it seems to me, is not so far from -- VICTORY. And so the fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind, It's you and I who make our fates, we open up or close the gates, On the ROAD AHEAD or the ROAD BEHIND. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSU BASKETBALL NEEDS HELP IDENTIFYING AUTHOR OF SECOND POEM Does anyone know the author of the following poem? Thank you. Kevin L. Cope -- ENCOPE@LSUVM THE BRIDGE BUILDER An old man, traveling a lone highway, Came at the evening, cold and gray To a chasm vast and deep and wide The old man crossed in the twilight dim The sullen stream had no fear for him; But he turned when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near, "You are wasting your strength with building here, Your journey will end with the ending day, You never again will pass this way. You've crossed the chasm deep and wide, Why build you this bridge at eventide?" The builder lifted his old gray head: "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said "There follows after me today A youth whose feet must pass this way; This chasm that has been as naught to me To that fair-haired you may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim, Good friend, I am building this bridge for him." From: Willard McCarty Subject: more topical collections on Humanist Date: 2 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 176 (297) Four new topical collections are now available on the file-server: FONTS TOPIC-1 specialized fonts FORUM TOPIC-1 on the nature of Humanist, the humanities, etc. HARDWARE TOPIC-1 design issues through for hardware in general HARDWARE TOPIC-4 and workstations in particular HYPRTEXT TOPIC-1 what else? through in five HYPRTEXT TOPIC-5 volumes SCANNERS TOPIC-1 optical scanners through and their SCANNERS TOPIC-3 software Remember, send your requests to ListServ, not to Humanist, as described in the Guide to Humanist. Comments welcome. Willard McCarty From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: topical collections Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 177 (298) Bravo for the topical collections---some of which I have been keeping on the primitive Mail filing system here. As you remark, the interest in optical scanners is remarkable. For medievalists an accurate scanner for printed text will be truly revolutionary, for we can then get texts in machine-readable form and do all those nice things that classicists can do with the corpus of Greek lit. Thanks for all of your labors at Toronto! Grover Zinn [Thanks for the kind words. The pleasure is mine. --W.M.] From: Robert Kirsner (213)825-3955 Subject: secret society of Humanists (47) Date: Wed, 01 Mar 89 23:40 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 178 (299) How about a Society of HumanOIDS??? There are plenty here, especially in the Administration. From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: bards and mallards Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 08:19:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 179 (300) Are OUP living in the real world? Am I alone in thinking that #150 for 20 floppy discs with text marked up in OCP is not exactly the most exciting idea in the world, or the cheapest? If they sold it for half the price (ie at the price of a Borland program), or packaged it with something like Wordcruncher, it might be more attractive. Do they seriously think it will harm the sales of the paper version? do YOU read the bard on a manky computer screen - no of course not, you want a real book. Why should the electronic version cost more? But I don't suppose OUP will answer because, unlike real software firms, they haven't heard of electronic mail. Its a sad blow about the All Souls mallard, though an excellent anecdote. But I am quite attached to the duck in general, though I am assured that mallards are not nice creatures at all. Perhaps a duckophile could suggest a webbed friend with a more equable temperament, as befits the august HUMANIST. I'd suggest that humanisttes (may I murder the language?) might prefer a bow tie version? a tattoo? but no T-shirts, please. My favourite reconginition code comes from Lou Burnard - 'Who had 20 pounds of headlines stapled to his chest?' sebastian rahtz From: mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU Subject: Why stop with a secret handshake? (sigh) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 89 09:57:00 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 180 (301) I think Abigail's suggestion about a secret handshake is only the beginning. We must have a handshake, as well as secret rituals of greeting, so as to make sure we can recognize each other. We must also have a code of beliefs, shared by everyone, and in order to maintain coherence as a group, demand strict adherence to the code of Humanist!! This way we can protect ourselves against "those others" who don't think like us. We could even arrange for the removal of those who write things we don't like and firebomb stores that sold such writings ...and that would just be the beginning... Naw, we could never pull it off. Such things never happen in the REAL world in which people behave rationally. malcolm brown stanford From: N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Re: Author? author? (89) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 09:06:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 181 (302) Basketball good, poetry bad. So I go for the mallard as author. Nicholas Morgan From: Alan Rudrum Subject: reading lists? (30) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 20:55:14 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 182 (303) Like Beth Jones, I am looking for a reading list; this is for a course to be given in our Humanities Institute; and essentially I need help because I have bitten off more than I can chew! The course proposed is to be called "Dominion over all the earth" with subtitle as yet un- decided but something like "Anthropocentrism and environmental crisis." If I give the main part of the tentative course description, and add that this is a thirteen-week course, the problem should become clear. "The course has two principal aims: an understanding of the way in which human beings have, through history, thought about the natural world and their relation to it; and an understanding of the present geo-political context in which major environmental decisions are made......In the historical part of the course we shall look at Western thought, beginning with Plato, biblical understanding, drawing upon both the Hebrew and the Christian Scriptures; the seventeenth century debate on the relationship between humans and the creatures; and literary expression, principally but not exclusively drawing upon literature in English, for example Milton, Vaughan, Traherne, Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge....After the historical survey we shall examine current scientific understanding and current political action and inaction." At the present stage of planning (bewilderment) I envisage each student writing two papers, one of which will be concerned with twentieth century issues. It seems clear that the list of recommended works, and works available on library reserve, should be long, while the list of compulsory readings should be comparatively short. So far I have got to the Timaeus and the Bible as set texts; am wondering about St. Francis; wondering about how to make an anthology of the relevant passages from the poets mentioned without violating copyright (a lot of local paranoia about that). Of course I know of, without yet having read, a fair amount of the relevant secondary work; but I shall be grateful to anyone who would like to imagine what can reasonably be done in thirteen weeks, and who has ideas about what are the indispensable primary texts. Porphyry on abstaining from animal food; Bacon (and if so which bits?); I shall run on no longer but just repeat that I shall be grateful to hear from any interested person. If Stephen Clark is listening, he partly got me into this; but mostly it was Henry Vaughan, and while he can still be helpful, he's not in a position to make the suggestions I need. Alan Rudrum, English Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 (useranth@sfu.bitnet). From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Request for Lists of "Archives" Date: Wednesday, 1 March 1989 2332-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 183 (304) In gearing up for the Panel on "Archives" that I have agreed to organize for the forthcoming ACH-ALLC meetings in Toronto, it occurred to me that it would be very useful to have an uptodate and relatively comprehensive list of active "Archives" that could even be distributed at the meetings. So I have consulted with some of the more obvious HUMANIST savants on such matters, and have worked through my own materials here, with the result that I am ready to ask for HELP more widely! Does anyone out there have a list of centers, institutes, projects, etc., that qualify as "archives" in the rather loose sense of selfconscious repositories of significant and (at least potentially) accessible humanistic materials? I know that's a very vague definition, but my first aim is to locate those persons/places that CONSIDER THEMSELVES to have archival materials. Down the road a bit I will worry more about the less selfconscious collections. My suspicion is that noone out there will offer a ready made master list, in which case I will follow up on this request by listing the "Archive"-type names I already have in hand as a catalyst to enlarging and/or making the list more accurate. Counting the various levels of archival activity (e.g. general collections such as Oxford, focused but wide ranging collections such as ARTFL or TLG or OED, specific text-oriented projects such as on Blake or Faulkner, social science type data of relevance for humanists, etc.), I already have a list of more than 70 such archival endeavors, but in many instances my listings constitute little more than a name, with almost no detail. For example, does anyone have even some general information on the Armamagnaean Institute at Copenhagen, or on Stofnun Arna Magnussonar in Reykjavik, or on "ATR" in Japan -- information pertinent to a discussion of "Archives," that is? Any help will be appreciated. Next installment will give you a chance to correct, expand, etc., the lists that I plan to produce (in cooperation with Lou Burnard at Oxford, Mike Neuman at Georgetown, Marianne Gaunt at Rutgers, among others). Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Sterling Bjorndahl - Claremont Graduate School Subject: electronic folklore? Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 11:42 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 184 (305) [Passed on from another list.] Hello, My name is Mark Dawson. I am a student of Folklore and a computer consultant at Indiana University. I am currently working on a folklore project collecting computer folklore. I am sending this letter to several listservers to request contributions on the subject. What is computer folklore? I leave this to you decide. Some subjects I am interested in include: Hacking (feats and/or tech.) Phone Preaking (feats and/or tech.) The "Electronic Tribunal" Electronic executions These are just my particular interests, I am taking a "shotgun" approach to the subject. If you have any sort of computer story please send it on, whether you think it is folklore or not. It is not important if the information is first hand, second hand or 12th hand. Nor is it important -whether you may think the material is true or not . Myth and legend has reached the computer age, and has been going strong for 20 years. All contributions are greatly appreciated. Please send information to: Mark Dawson bitnet: DAWSONM@IUBACS ACCESS MicroCenter IMU 059b Indiana University 1(812)335-0910 Bloomington, In 47405 Please Feel free to forward this on to other list servers. M. Dawson From: Joe Giampapa Subject: censorship of bulletin boards Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 23:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 670 (306) [The following newspaper article has passed through several hands, the messy record of which I have deleted. As many of you will know, Humanist has itself struggled with the issues of selective publication, which some insist on calling censorship, and which still others applaud as censorship. My own view as editor is that Humanist has a wide but limited focus. Some subjects are relevant, others not. A remarkable thing about it is the extent to which self-regulation (the only kind worthy of human beings) has worked. Recent events remind us of how valuable our liberal traditions really are, how much our study of the humanities depend on them, indeed how much the very idea of electronic networks stems from them. At the same time, conditions may require than a line be drawn, as I found I had to do with the text below, which repeated a joke that caused offense, ostensibly as an example of what gets people upset. I didn't think an example was required! No sermon intended (for which I'm not qualified), just background for those who have joined recently, and an expression of interest in Joe Giampapa's contribution. --W.M.] This is from the February 20, 1989, San Jose Mercury News: Computer users worry that Stanford set precedent They say decision to block bulletin board impedes free acces to public information. By Tom Philp Computer scientists at Stanford fear the university has entered a never-ending role as a moral regulator of computer bulletin boards by recently blocking access to a list of jokes deemed to serve no "university educational purpose." Many computer users on campus consider bulletin boards to be the libraries of the future - and thus subject to the same free access as Stanford's library system. Instead, Stanford apparently has become the nation's first university to block access to part of the international bulletin network called Usenet, which reaches 250,000 users of computers running the Unix operating system, according to a computer scientist who helped create the network. To some computer users, Stanford's precedent is troubling. "We get into some very, very touchy issues when system administrators are given the authority to simply get rid of files that they deem inappropriate on publicly available systems," said Gary Chapman, executive director of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a Palo Alto-based organization with 2,500 members. "My personal view is that freedom of speech should apply to computer information." Ralph Gorin, director of Academic Information Resources at Stanford, disagrees. "I think that it's very clear that one should be either in favor of free speech and all of the ramifications of that or be willing to take the consequences of saying free speech sometimes, and then having to decide when," Gorin said. Since the jokes ban, more than 100 Stanford computer users, including a leading researcher in artificial intelligence, have signed a protest petition. And there is some evidence to indicate Stanford officials are looking for a way out of the dilemma they have created. The joke bulletin board, called "rec.humor.funny," is one of several bulletin boards that discuss controversial topics. Stanford, for example, continues to permit access to bulletin boards that allow students to discuss their use of illegal drugs, sexual techniques and tips on nude beaches. Gorin said he is unaware of those bulletin boards. The jokes bulletin board came to Stanford officials' attention in December, after a report about it in a Canadian newspaper. The jokes hit a raw nerve with campus officials, who have been plagued by a variety of racist incidents on campus. And so they decided on Jan. 25 to block the jokes from passing through the university's main computer. "At a time when the university is devoting considerable energy to suppress racism, bigotry and other forms of prejudice, why devote computer resources to let some outside person exploit these?" Gorin explained. The joke that sparked the complaints is this ...[text deleted for reasons that would be obvious if it hadn't been --W.M.] ....Most of the jokes are not racist or sexist, Gorin said; they are just plain silly or political. An example: "What did Mickey Mouse get for Christmas? A Dan Quayle watch." But Stanford officials were troubled because the jokes bulletin board is "moderated," meaning that one person controls everything that it publishes. The jokes bulletin board "does not in itself provide for discussion of the issues that it raises," Gorin said. The moderator, Brad Templeton of Waterloo, in the Canadian province of Ontario, publishes only jokes. Comments he receives go on a separate bulletin board, called "rec.humor.d." For Stanford, the existence of a comment bulletin board is not enough because people who call up the jokes will not necessarily see the comments. The problem with "unmoderated" bulletin boards is clutter, according to Eugene Spafford, a computer scientist at Purdue University who is one of the pioneers of Usenet. The network accumulates the equivalent of 4,000 double-spaced, typewritten pages every day, far too many comments for any person to read. "People who use a network as an information resource like a more focused approach," Spafford said. They is why another, unmoderated, bulletin board that has many comments and fewer - but equally offensive - jokes, is far less popular. Stanford does not block transmission of that bulletin board. Templeton's bulletin board is the most popular of the 500 on Usenet. An estimated 20,000 computer users pull up the jokes on their screens every day, Spafford said. Usenet has its own form of democracy, calling elections to determine whether a new bulletin board should be created, and who - if anyone - should moderate it. Templeton's jokes bulletin board was created by such a vote. Stanford's decision to block access to it "strikes me as hypocritical," Spafford said. "At best, it's someone who doesn't understand the situation who is trying to do something politically correct." John McCarthy, a Stanford computer science professor and one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence, has met with university President Donald Kennedy to discuss his opposition to blocking the jokes. "No one of these (bulletin boards) is especially important," McCarthy said. The point is that regulating access to them "is not a business that a university should go into." Since deciding to block access to the bulletin board, the administration has referred the issue to the steering committee of Stanford's Faculty Senate. The future of the bulletin board may end up in the hands of the professors. "I think that is an entirely appropriate internal process for reaching that decision," Gorin said. Added McCarthy: "I should say that I am optimistic now that this ban will be corrected. There are some people who think they made a mistake." ... *****END***** From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Steps Toward an Identity!!!! Date: Fri, 03 Mar 89 19:26:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 671 (307) BRIDGE BUILDER IDENTIFIED! Thank you all for your help in identifying the author of THE BRIDGE BUILDER. The man behind the poem is WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE, a popular poet of the early twentieth century. Alas, the proposition that the author was the All Souls College mallard has now been debunked. The claim of Lawrence Welk has also been exposed as a fraud. But, then, mallards do take swims in champagne (witness the Peabody Hotel in Memphis), so we can imagine that Lawrence and Quackles may keep one another company in the old impostors' home. I still need help in finding the author of my first poem, THE ROAD AHEAD. I look forward to receiving your responses to my problem in attribution. Remembering Norma Zimmer, Yours ever, Kevin L. Cope From: Willard McCarty Subject: still more topical collections on Humanist Date: 3 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 185 (308) Two new topical collections are now available on the file-server: LIBRARY TOPIC-1 Electronic and paper libraries LITCOMP TOPIC-1 Literary through computing LITCOMP TOPIC-4 ! Comments welcome. Willard McCarty From: Greg Goode Subject: Missouri Review Online -- a bit of info Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 17:24:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 186 (309) Missouri Review Online is available online, but I am currently in the process of finding out just where. I believe it is from the home residence of its editor, Speer Morgan, of the University of Missouri, Columbia. I have a call in to him now, saying that there is some interest in the journal. I'm not sure whether it's a full-text version of the printed version, or abridged in some manner. In case anyone's interested, Speer Morgan, who is the director of one of U Missouri's Creative Writing Programs, is also the author of a mystery novel with a computer background. The book is called THE ASSEMBLERS (E.P. Dutton, 1986; Worldwide Library, 1989), and is generally accepted as one of the more serious crime novels with a computer background. I'll post the info about Missouri Review Online as soon as I get it. --Greg Goode From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Gregory the Great, Moralia Date: Thursday, 2 March 1989 2325-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 187 (310) At the request of one of our classicists, I dredged up an old tape (vintage 1982) with a text of Gregory the Great's Moralia that we had inherited with other Latin materials when we first installed a mini IBYCUS System in the early 1980s. The text is entirely in upper case letters, and has some obvious mistakes from the outset. I do not know where it came from originally, but would like to know (1) its origins, (2) whether it has been proofread and corrected anywhere, (3) whether an updated form can be acquired, and (4) whether CCAT can have permission to publicize its availability and/or distribute it (if noone else is already doing so). Years ago, I put it into TLG ID code format (book, section, etc.) so that it could be searched conveniently, then forgot about it util now. Thanks! Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Sterling Bjorndahl - Claremont Graduate School Subject: Duke Language Toolkit & Epson 24 pin printers Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 20:45 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 188 (311) Can anyone tell me whether or not the Duke Language Toolkit (i.e. FED and its associated programs) supports the Epson LQ-800 and LQ-850 series of printers? The version of the toolkit I have only supports the Toshiba for 24 pin printers. (Direct replies to me would be greatly appreciated.) Sterling Bjorndahl Claremont, California BJORNDAS@CLARGRAD on BITNET From: HEBERLEIN@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: 6bit-Code to ASCII? Date: Thu, 89 0 03:03 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 189 (312) Recently I got a package of lemmatizing tools (for a concordance of Plinius min.); now it turned out to be written in a 6bit code, which i neither can identify nor read. Is there anyone, who could me give a hint how it can be 1. read, 2. converted into "normal" ASCII / EBCDIC - code? Fritz Heberlein, Classics KU Eichstaett W. Germany HEBERLEIN@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Encoding Footnotes Date: Friday, 3 March 1989 0936-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 190 (313) Charles Fulhaber raises an interesting issue in his 21 Feb 89 note to HUMANIST (that's some indication of how far behind I am!) -- how should encoders and text distributors handle the positioning of footnotes? Doubtless the "Encoding Initiative" group will bandy this one around quite a bit. Charles complains that typesetting files have the notes/apparatus intercalated into the text at the point of reference. It is my impression that, at least with footnotes (and why not also textual apparatuses?) that is exactly the way to do it. Otherwise it becomes very difficult using "normal" software to see what is going on. The text of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (Danish) on the PHI/CCAT CD-ROM has only a few footnotes, but they have been put at locations adjacent to the text to which they apply. What are the alternatives? (1) Preserve the original printed page format and put the notes in groups every so often, as the page breaks dictate? (2) Move the notes to the end? (3) Put the notes in a separate file (for windows users)? It is an eminently discussable issue for us HUMANISTs! Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Joseph Raben Subject: Current Contents? (44) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 20:45:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 674 (314) CURRENT CONTENTS was (and is?) published by the Institute of Scientific Information in Phildelphia. I believe the address was 3109 Chestnut Street, but a directory call to 215/555-1212 should get precise information. When I last heard of this operation, I recall some talk about an online version, but since it was through an expensive private service, I did not follow up. Presumably information is available from the company. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 675 (315) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A Guide to Humanist +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ rev. 4/3/89 C O N T E N T S I. Nature and Aims II. How to use Humanist A. Sending and receiving messages B. Conventions and Etiquette C. Borrowing and republishing D. Distributing files E. Using the File-Server F. Other commands and facilities G. Suggestions and Complaints ================================================================= I. Nature and aims ================================================================= Humanist is an international electronic discussion group for computing humanists and for those who support the application of computers to scholarship in the humanities. Currently it consists of about 400 members in 17 countries in North America, Europe, and the Near and Far East. Its scope is broadly defined to include all matters of professional concern to its members. Equally relevant are technical questions about hardware and software, specific problems in humanistic scholarship, and both the administrative difficulties and philosophical issues arising from the application of computing to the humanities. Calls for papers, bibliographies, and reports of lasting interest are also welcome. The lingua franca of discussion is English; although contributions in other languages are welcome, they are unlikely to be understood by a majority of the members. Technically speaking, Humanist is a ListServ "list" that runs under VM/CMS on an IBM 4381 at the University of Toronto. It makes use of NetNorth, the Canadian equivalent of Bitnet in the United States and EARN in Europe, and is known as HUMANIST@UTORONTO. Through the Special Interest Group on Humanities Computing Resources, it is affiliated with the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. It is open to all qualified individuals, whether members of those organizations or not. Within the University of Toronto, it is supported by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) and by Computing Services. It is edited by Willard McCarty (CCH), with the continuing assistance of Lou Burnard (Oxford), David Sitman (Tel Aviv), Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Illinois), Steve DeRose (Texas), and Steve Younker, our postmaster in Toronto. Several others have helped on occasion. Humanist is neither an electronic bulletin-board nor a conferencing system, since all members normally receive all contributions within 24 hours of their submission to the editor. As a result, Humanist most closely resembles a conversational group, such as a collegial seminar or informal gathering. It tends toward spirited, desultory, and wide-ranging discussions, often interrupted by other topics or questions. Activities are periodically summarized in a report circulated electronically to all members and printed elsewhere for non-members. In addition, extended conversations on topics of wide interest are periodically posted on Humanist's file-server. The report and these topical collections help bring continuity and a kind of permanence to the discussions, but Humanist remains essentially a spontaneous vehicle of the moment. Because of its spontaneity and relative lack of restrictions, Humanist is at any one time chiefly what its members make of it. Much therefore depends on their attentiveness, courtesy, and self-control. Normally the editor publishes contributions without altering them, though they are commonly grouped according to topic. However, when in his judgment a contribution is incompetent, offensive, or clearly outside the scope of Humanist, he reserves the right not to publish it. Humanist thus lives in the balance between free-wheeling discussion on the one hand and decorum on the other. Decorum consists in participants' regard both for the sensitivities of fellow members and for the necessarily limited scope of discussion. Humanists recognize that the application of computers to the humanities is a revolutionary and only partly understood activity. It thus requires vigorous and incisive discussion of basic issues and the challenging of received truths and established procedures. "The sharp compassion of the healer's art" is sometimes required. Nevertheless, without courtesy and respect for the differences of others, the international, multi-cultural community of Humanists could be threatened by irreconcilable discord. By nature Humanist is both informal and scholarly. Thus the standards of good scholarship generally apply: to encourage accurate statements, clear attributions, delimited opinions, and skillful use of language. As is appropriate to the medium, however, rigor should never be allowed to stifle humor and the play of the imagination. Mindfulness in whatever form is the principle thing. ================================================================= II. How to Use Humanist ================================================================= A. Sending and receiving messages ----------------------------------------------------------------- Although Humanist is managed by software designed for Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN, members can be on any comparable network with access to these, for example, Janet or Arpanet. Submissions to Humanist are made by sending electronic mail as if to a person with the user-id "HUMANIST" and the node-name "UTORONTO". Mail to Humanist is automatically sent to the editor, who reviews and normally groups messages by subject area before sending them to ListServ for distribution. Mail may also be sent directly to the editor, MCCARTY@UTOREPAS, but should be marked as intended for distribution to all Humanists. The volume of mail on Humanist varies with the state of the membership and the nature of the dominant topic, if any. Recent experience shows that as many as half a dozen messages a day may be processed. For this reason members are advised to pay regular, indeed frequent attention to their e-mail or serious overload may occur. A member planning on being away from regular contact should advise the editor and ask to be temporarily removed from active membership. The editor should be reminded when active membership is to be resumed. The editor also asks that members be careful to specify reliable addresses. In some cases the advice of local experts may help. Any member who changes his or her userid or nodename should first give ample warning to the editor and should verify the new address. If you know your system is going to be turned off or otherwise adjusted in a major way, find out when it will be out of service and inform the editor. Missed mail can be retrieved, but undelivered e-mail will litter the editor's mailbox. [Please note that in the following description, commands will be given in the form acceptable on an IBM VM/CMS system unless otherwise noted. If your system is different, you will have to make the appropriate translation.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- B. Conventions and Etiquette ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conversations or asides restricted to a few people can develop from the unrestricted discussions on Humanist by members communicating directly with each other. This may be a good idea for very specific replies to general queries, so that members are not burdened with messages of interest only to the person who asked the question and, perhaps, a few others. Members have, however, shown a distinct preference for unrestricted discussions on nearly every topic, so it is better to err on the side of openness. If you do send a reply to someone's question, please restate the question very briefly so that the context of your answer will be clear. [Note that the REPLY function of some electronic mailers will automatically direct a user's response to the editor, from whom all submissions technically originate, not to the original sender or to Humanist. Thus REPLY should be avoided in many cases.] Make it an invariable practice to help the recipients of your messages scan them by including a SUBJECT line in your message. Be aware, however, that some people will read no more than the SUBJECT line, so you should take care that it is accurate and comprehensive as well as brief. Use your judgment about the length of your messages. If you find yourself writing an essay or have a substantial amount of information to offer, it might be better to follow one of the two methods outlined in the next section. All contributions should also specify the member's name as well as e-mail address. This is particularly important for members whose user-ids bear no relation to their names. ----------------------------------------------------------------- C. Borrowing, republishing, and use of the membership list ----------------------------------------------------------------- Material that appears on Humanist may freely be published elsewhere as long as the author, place, and date of first appearance are clearly stated. All contributors to Humanist implicitly agree to such borrowing unless a note to the contrary is appended to each contribution. Members are themselves responsible for the accuracy of the material they cite and for conformity to the conventions of the sources they use. The editor agrees not to circulate Humanist's membership list beyond the membership itself and asks that other members likewise refrain from publishing it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- D. Distributing files ----------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist offers us an excellent means of distributing written material of many kinds, e.g., reviews of software or hardware, calls for papers, notices of conferences, and bibliographies. Although conventional journals remain the means of professional recognition, they are often too slow to keep up with changes in computing. With some care, Humanist could provide a supplementary venue of immediate benefit to our colleagues. There are two possible methods of distributing such material. Highly specialized reports should be reduced to abstracts and posted in this form to Humanists at large, then sent by the originators directly to those who request them. The more generally interesting material in bulk should be sent to the editor, who will both distribute a brief notice to all members and arrange for the entire file to be stored on Humanist's central file-server, from which it can be fetched by any Humanist automatically at any time. See the next section for details. At present the following files are kept on the server: - the monthly logbooks in which all contributions to Humanist are stored. These are named HUMANIST LOGyymm, where "yy" represents the last two digits of the year and "mm" the number of the month. The log for January 1989 would, for example, be named HUMANIST LOG8901. Only logbooks for the last 12 months are kept online, however. Earlier logbooks are stored in the Text Archive at the Oxford University Computing Service; inquiries should be directed to Lou Burnard, archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk (on Bitnet/NetNorth/Earn) or archive@uk.ac.oxford.vax (on Janet). - the files of biographies. These are named BIOGRAFY x, where x ranges from 1 to the number of the latest supplement. - occasional summaries of activity. These are called METASUM x, where x = 1, 2, .... n. - various bibliographies, e.g., on hypermedia. - calls for papers from various conferences. These are named confname CONFRNCE, where confname is some abbreviation of the name of the conference. - the brief listing or "snapshot" of the contents of the Oxford text archive. - topical collections of discussions on Humanist, named topicnam TOPIC-n, where topicnam describes the subject matter and n is the volume number - notes and other material of various sorts. System software imposes a fixed limit on the amount of data that may be fetched from the file-server at any one time. The logbooks frequently approach this limit. See the following section for instructions on how to download material from the server. ----------------------------------------------------------------- E. Using the File-Server ----------------------------------------------------------------- Two separate but very similar operations will usually be required: (1) to discover what files the file-server has to offer; and (2) to request one or more of these. What you do will depend on the kind of system you are using and the network to which it is attached. Note that in the following what you type is in caps; all semicolons and periods are not part of the commands to be typed; and addresses expressed as USERID AT NODENAME may have to be entered as USERID@NODENAME. Note also for interactive procedures that if at any particular time you cannot get through to UTORONTO from your site (normally you will be alerted to a problem by some error message) you will have to try again later; interactive commands are not preserved by the various systems and automatically retried. A. If you are on Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN and use an IBM VM/CMS system: - for (1) send the interactive command: TELL LISTSERV AT UTORONTO GET HUMANIST FILELIST HUMANIST - for (2) send the command: TELL LISTSERV AT UTORONTO GET fn ft HUMANIST where fn = filename, ft = filetype (of the file you've chosen) B. If you are on Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN and use a Vax VMS system, you may be able to use 1. the following interactive procedure: - for (1) type: SEND/REMOTE UTORONTO LISTSERV you should get the prompt: (UTORONTO)LISTSERV: then type: GET HUMANIST FILELIST HUMANIST - for (2) repeat the above but substitute GET fn ft Humanist, where fn and ft are as above. 2. or the following: - for (1) SEND MESSAGE UTORONTO LISTSERV GET HUMANIST FILELIST - for (2) the same, replacing HUMANIST FILELIST with fn ft HUMANIST C. If you are on Bitnet/NetNorth/EARN but don't use an IBM VM/CMS system, or if you are not on Bitnet (e.g., JANET, arpa, uucp), etc.: - for (1) use your mailer of whatever kind, e.g., MAIL, to send an ordinary message to LISTSERV AT UTORONTO and include as the one and only line, GET HUMANIST FILELIST HUMANIST This should be on the first line of mail message. In other words, there should be no blank lines preceding this line. - for (2) repeat the above but substitute for the first line GET fn ft HUMANIST, where fn and ft are as above. D. As an alternative to B, use whatever command you have to send a file, e.g., SENDFILE, to LISTSERV AT UTORONTO, the first and only line of this file being again, for (1): GET HUMANIST FILELIST HUMANIST and for (2) GET fn ft HUMANIST If you have enduring material of interest to Humanists, please consider submitting it for storage on our file-server. Send a note to the editor describing what you have. Since space on the server is not infinite, we need to exercise some restraint. If you have problems getting files from the file-server and have tried the various alternatives suggested above, please contact David Sitman, A79@taunivm (on the Israeli branch of Bitnet/NetNorth EARN), for help. He is Humanist's ListServ guru. ----------------------------------------------------------------- F. Other Commands and Facilities ----------------------------------------------------------------- ListServ accepts several commands, for example to retrieve a list of the current members or to set various options. ListServ commands are described in the document named LISTSERV MEMO, which I mentioned above. This and other documentation is available to you from your nearest ListServ node or from Humanist's file-server. ----------------------------------------------------------------- G. Suggestions and Complaints ----------------------------------------------------------------- Suggestions about the running of Humanist or its possible relation to other means of communication are very welcome. So are complaints, particularly if they are constructive. Experience has shown that an electronic discussion group can be either beneficial or burdensome to its members. Much depends on what the group as a whole wants and does not want. Please make your views known, to everyone or to me directly, as appropriate. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Willard McCarty, editor Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto mccarty@utorepas mccarty@vm.epas.utoronto.ca *****END***** From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: footnotes and apparatus Date: 6 March 1989 09:50:54 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 191 (316) Charles Faulhaber asks for a utility to make text and apparatus "usable" in a Unix environment; Bob Kraft asks what's wrong with the form he's got (with the apparatus intercalated at the point of reference), and further asks "where *should* footnotes and apparatus go?" I can never resist a discussion of textual apparatus . . . I can't answer Charles Faulhaber's question because he doesn't say what will count as usable for him. If he wants a screen editor which will scroll an apparatus window in synch with the text window, I wish him luck but don't think he'll get one soon. If he just wants to separate the text from the apparatus, shouldn't awk do that? (How you'll ever get them back together, though, I can't imagine; I'd leave them be if I were you.) But if one wanted to *write* an editor or other software to understand critical apparatus, where should the apparatus go? Bob rightly focuses on this as the interesting question. The Text Representation Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative will, I am sure Bob is right, kick this one around a good deal. But it seems to me there are at least two plausible answers (which I want to describe here to get my two cents' worth in before the committee takes up the issue). 1. If I control the text myself, I'd almost always just as soon have the notes and the apparatus embedded at their reference points in the running text. Notes, then, would be embedded at the point where the footnote symbol should appear in the text -- at the end of the passage or phrase being annotated. Apparatus, similarly, would have to be embedded at the point in the reading text associated with the variation (where the Nestle symbol would go if you were using Nestle symbols). Nestle symbols are little marks in the reading text designed to draw your attention to omissions, additions, transpositions, and variants in other manuscripts, given in full by the apparatus; the idea is to allow the reader to monitor the apparatus without having to look down at it constantly to see whether it has anything for the current line. They were developed by an editor of the Greek New Testament and seem to be rarely used outside it; most people seem to find them distracting. This complicates things a bit, because variants in the apparatus are associated with the point where the variation begins, not the end, so they sometimes seem to run backwards. This isn't too bad for just a few variants: I taste a liquor never brewed-- From Tankards scooped in Pearl-- Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! ... (The variant is an alternate entered in the autograph ms.) But it begins to be hard to read for even just a few more variants, even if we allow ourselves to abbreviate the lemma to the first letter or so of each word. We also have to begin marking verse boundaries explicitly, since we run over so much. I taste a liquor never brewed-- From Tankards scooped in Pearl-- Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! ... (The new variants are from the poem's publication in the Springfield Daily Republican of 4 May 1861.) I am improvising an SGML markup which I hope is fairly obvious: '' marks the beginning of a variation, and takes the attributes 'lemma' (the reading in the base text), 'ms' (which mss have the variant about to be given) and 'reading' (what they read instead of the lemma). The tag 'var' marks only the beginning of the lemma, not the end, because as we see in line 3 multiple variations can hit overlapping lemmata, and SGML doesn't handle that very well. (We *could* mark begin and end of the variation explicitly, and then we wouldn't need the 'lemma' attribute, but I believe the result would be even uglier than this approach. This approach also at least looks something like a normal positive apparatus.) 2. For the sake of easy legibility, we might prefer to bunch the apparatus sentence by sentence (or stanza by stanza for poetry), to keep the machine-readable form human-readable: I taste a liquor never brewed-- From Tankards scooped in Pearl-- Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! ... Separating apparatus from the base text has forced us to add an 'id' attribute on the (verse) tags, to identify each line within the stanza, and to add a 'line' attribute to the tag to link (the beginning of) each variation to a line of text. Apart from the labeling of each attribute, this looks to me a lot like the apparatus criticus I know and love from good critical editions. If we were confident of the absolute consistency of the linear file, we might even use the SGML 'Shortref' facility to make the whole thing look more like a normal apparatus: defining 'new line plus number plus period' as ' I taste a liquor never brewed-- From Tankards scooped in Pearl-- Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! 1.1 b.-- ] brewed, =SDR 1.2 T. ] tankards =SDR 1.2 P.-- ] pearl; =SDR 1.3 a. t. ] [om.] =SDR 1.3 Frankfort Berries ] Vats upon the Rhine =autograph alt. 1.3 B. ] berries yield the sense =SDR 1.4 Y.s.a.A. ] Such a delirious whirl. =SDR ... 3. With the rise of CDs, it will not be uncommon for us to work with texts frozen on CDs -- for these texts, we will have no choice but to keep our annotations and our apparatus separate from the text. Unless we want to copy the file entire onto a read/write medium, we will have to find a way of linking our apparatus to a text possibly encoded with no expectation of receiving any apparatus at all. This requires nothing new, except that (a) we have to identify the poem and stanza as well as the line, and (b) we have no guarantee that the lines of the base text were given identifiers, so our SGML parser may not be able to verify that our 'line=' values in the apparatus point at real lines, and our application program will have to be responsible for finding the lines they do point at. Speaking for myself, it seems to me that any of these three approaches ought to be possible, though I don't know that the last one can be done cleanly (pointers to unmarked passages seem fraught with complications). Of course, this is just my opinion, and I am eager to be instructed by those with different ideas about the problem of apparatus. Michael Sperberg-McQueen From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: apparatus, cont'd -- if only it were so simple ... Date: 6 March 1989 15:44:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 192 (317) Before anyone else points it out, I should probably admit that the SGML markup sketched out in my last note was too simple in at least one way: it cannot provide more than one alternate reading for the same lemma without repeating the lemma. The problem did not arise in Dickinson poem 214, but it does in (say) poem 636: . . . And slowly pick the lock-- . . . We really ought to be able to define a variation as comprising one lemma and one or more pairs of reading-plus-ms, so we can code it thus: . . . And slowly pick the lock-- . . . Or thus: . . . And slowly pick the lock-- 2.4 slowly slily margin softly margin . . . This last version has the advantage of allowing tags for highlighting or other features to appear within lemmata and variants, together with its obvious disadvantage of crowding the text with a *lot* of markup. It's slightly less obvious, though, that one 'variation' corresponds to exactly one 'line' and one 'lemma', which is why I tend offhand to prefer the other versions. Michael Sperberg-McQueen From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Etruscan Date: Sat, 4 Mar 89 00:59:34 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 193 (318) About a month ago I saw a posting on "Etruscan," which I neither understood, nor cared to spend the time to try to understand - at least at the time. In retrospect, this might have been a bit hasty. I've been reading Phoenician and Punic texts lately, and I can't help but wonder whether this posting might have some rele- vance to an "Etruscan"/Punic bilingual I'm about to start work on. Can someone who participated in the posting, or in the response that followed, or just someone who knows what it was all about, help me out here? -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer From: John C. Hurd (416) 978-3056 HURD at UTOREPAS Subject: screen-image-to-projector-screen device? Date: 4 March 1989, 11:36:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 194 (319) Some time ago I read of a liquid-crystal display device which was designed to sit on an over-head projector so that the output of a microcomputer could be seen by a class. Now I have lost the reference. Does anybody know offhand who makes it? Has anyone had experience with it? Proleptic thanks. From: HEBERLEIN@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: Rutgers inventory Date: Thu, 89 0 03:06 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 195 (320) In Offline (22) Bob Kraft mentioned the existence of a "Rutgers inventory of machine readable texts". I am afraid i'm not the only HUMANist who never heard of it. So, could we entertain hopes to see some details added to this somewhat laconic message? Thanks, Fritz Heberlein HEBERLEIN@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE From: Laura Moye Subject: reading list for "Dominion over all the Earth" Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 12:27:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 678 (321) Sorry, no books for you but I do want to point something out. Your subtitle has something to do with anthropocentrism. Shouldn't you think twice about starting out with only western texts. I understand your time is limited but, for instance, when I read your posting I first thought not of Plato but of Chinese culture and its brand of anthropocentrism. Curious that a course spec. on anthropocentrism would stick to western texts. I know it is difficult, as you are already feeling like 13 weeks is an impossibly short period of time to cover all that you wish to cover, but perhap s you should either change the title of the course to "Dominion Over All the Earth: A Western Perspective," or broaden your early readings. For example, it would be extremely interesting to find out what Chinese scholars were saying about dominion over all the earth, or Indian scholars, who were writing way before we were anyway. Other than this, I much admire the course, it sounds like a good one and something well worth considering. Hope it goes well. From: Ron Zweig Subject: Re: secret society of Humanists (47) Date: Sat, 04 Mar 89 10:30:29 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 196 (322) I vote against the mallard as logo. It is reminiscent of a dead duck, and therefore not an appropriate symbol for Humanist computing. Ron Zweig Tel Aviv University From: TREAT@PENNDRLS (Jay Treat, Religious Studies, Penn) Subject: Author? Author? Date: Friday, 3 March 1989 2227-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 197 (323) I do not recognize the first "poem" but it has all the marks of being verse by Edgar A. Guest. I'm confident the second piece can be found in McGuffy's Reader. From: Itamar Even-Zohar Subject: Re: Queries (64) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 08:59:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 198 (324) About Richard Goerwitz's Etruscan query: I don't know what poster Goerwitz has seen, but I guess it was about the Etruscan-Phoenician golden plates found in Pyrgi, and now kept at the Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome. I believe material can be found in _Studi Etruschi_ (published in Florence). Etruscan is discussed by Pallottino (various works), and the plates, to some extent, by Staccioli, Romolo A. 1977. _Il "mistero" della lingua etrusca_ (Roma:Newton Compton). Illustrations included. (The plates are called in Italian "i laminetti d'oro".) Itamar Even-Zohar Porter Institute. From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: Queries (64) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 14:18:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 199 (325) Arrgh. As it happens I can answer all 3 of these. (1) Richard Goerwitz is presumably inquiring about the Etruscan materials which a non-HUMANIST is attempting to decode as Plautine Latin. Contact: Ben Blankenship 2675 Meadow Glen Drive San Ramon, CA 94583 (2) There are a number of devices for projecting computer displays via an overhead projector. The one I am familiar with is Looking Glass (Chisholm, 910 Campisi Way, Campbell, CA 95008, (408) 559-1111). Prices range from $1395 to $2295 depending on capabilities. (3) The Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts is run out of the Rutgers University Library. Contact Marianne Gaunt (201) 932-7505. For the moment this is essentially a bibliography, which is accessible in the U.S. via RLIN, the Research Libraries Group Information Network. There have been discussions concerning the possibility of turning it into a text archive along the lines of Oxford, but so far nothing concrete has been decided (to my knowledge). From: Subject: secret society of humanists Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 07:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 200 (326) I vote for an ostrich. It is symbolic of the editorial policy towards certain topics in this network. From: Brian Molyneaux 0703-551358 Subject: Date: Tue, 07 Mar 89 17:11:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 201 (327) Using the Garotte Given that the best we so-called Humanists can do on a real issue, concerning the book *** ******* ****** - one oblique reference in one text and some meek and bland innuendo in the recent censorship editorial - I think the tie should sport a big chicken or, better still, an ostrich. From: S200@CPC865.EAST-ANGLIA.AC.UK Subject: Date: 7-MAR-1989 09:04:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 202 (328) OHP Displays. The first examples of OHP displays sought by John Hurd were good ideas in search of development. The characters were badly affected by heat and also were rather faint and lacking in contrast for large lecture theatres. They were effectively in monochrome only despite misleading sales hype. More recent models have tried to overcome these drawbacks but with limited success. Their resolution is also better and approaches VGA standards in some cases. They cost about 1000 pounds sterling but are becoming cheaper. There are various suppliers. Kodak produced an early model and I have a flyer from "In Focus Systems " Tualatin, Oregon on my desk but there are certainly other suppliers. I cannot recommend a best buy. John Roper, UEA, Norwich, UK S200 @ UK.AC.UEA.CPC865 From: Mike Norris Subject: Re: Queries (64) Date: Tue, 07 Mar 89 09:45:05 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 203 (329) Re John Hurd's query about screen-to-OHP devices: We've used both the Kodak Datashow and the Apollo PC-9600 Presenter. The latter has worked out fine, and can be used with PC, Apple ][ or Macintosh. It comes from Apollo Audio Visual, New York (516 467-8033). Mike NORRIS From: David.A.Bantz@mac.Dartmouth.EDU Subject: screen-image-to-projector-screen device? Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 03:42:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 204 (330) Some time ago I read of a liquid-crystal display device which was designed to sit on an over-head projector so that the output of a microcomputer could be seen by a class. Now I have lost the reference. Does anybody know offhand who makes it? Has anyone had experience with it? Proleptic thanks.>> There are several marketed; some older models had low contrast and quickly decayed in the heat of an overhead; newer ones are quite useable. We've had experience with the Kodak DataShow and the Sharp QA50, both of which give sharp readable images even in a meduim-sized auditorium, assuming overhead/ambient light is high enough. Both units require installing a video adaptor on a Macintosh; the Sharp will connect directly to the video output of a PC. The Kodak is strictly b&w, the Sharp will display grey levels, and you can varry the mapping of colors to grey level (I've not actually seen this in operation). The Kodak is simplicity itself; the only adjustment is for overall contrast; rock stable; very quiet. The Sharp has adjustments for synching with various video signals and for color-grey mapping; it's possible to spend a lot of time getting the adjustments set properly; usually requires a minor adjustment every few minutes in use; it has an annoyingly loud fan, but then so will your overhead. These two models, unlike many others I've seen (Dukane, nView & others I can't remember) have very little coloration, only modest persistence leading to ghosting (I wouldn't want to display rapid animations, but anything else is fine), and, as I said, good contrast. From: Terrence Erdt Subject: LCD panel displays Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 11:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 205 (331) John Hurd asks about LCD projectors (the flat panel displays that allow an overhead projector to be used with a pc). There are a number of them being sold, some now with a rudimentary color output. I have had experience with the Telex Magnabyte display. The setup is easily performed: a short card goes into an available slot in the pc, and a cable is attached to the panel, which is then set upon a standard overhead projector. Unfortunately the Magnabyte (and I understand that the same is commonly true among LCD projectors) loses picture quality rather quickly; apparently the overhead heats up the panel. In any case, after about fifteen minutes after the machine is switched on, a bright spot emerges in the center of the projected picture. Several manufactures claim to have licked the low resolution and heat problems, and now at least one company is producing an EGA compatible display. Perhaps other Humanists have found more reliable display devices. Terrence Erdt erdt@vuvaxcom (215) 645-4670 Villanova Univ. Villanov, PA USA From: Subject: SGML Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 09:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 683 (332) Some time back some one mentioned a recent book on SGML that did an adequate job of presenting the basics. I wrote the reference down but am now unable to find it. I am interested in converting some articles and an old dissertation to SGML format and need to learn the basics of SGML mark-up. Does anyone recall the author and title of the above book? Also, does anyone know whether progress has been made on SGML parsers (that would run under Unix) and programs to convert other types of mark-up to SGML? I have a long dissertation in "Treatise" format, a format created at the University of Chicago specifically for its own dissertations. It's based on Script, I believe (from Waterloo?) (all formatting commands are dot commands beginning in the first column.) I may try writing a conversion program myself, but would hate to duplicate someone else's efforts. David Carpenter St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, PA From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Shakespeare: Complete Works, OUP Date: Tue, 7 MAR 89 09:49:02 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 684 (333) The first question I ask myself is whether or not Sebastian Rahtz is living in the real world? His ill-informed little contribution does the quality of the HUMANIST and the respect I have had for people contributing to it no good at all. I am sure that if Sebastian had to pay for his email (some of us have to go through BTGold and pay REAL money), he would think twice about clogging up the post with rubbish of the "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" variety. Simply because some readers keep quiet doesn't mean that they are not monitoring what is going on .. time is money in some circles. The level of cheap jibe in SR's communication doesn't really deserve addressing, but I would not want other readers to go away with the wrong impression about the production of electronic texts, or OUP's attitude in general. 1. Cost Does anyone else reading HUMANIST really think that publishing an electronic edition of anything -- let alone something as extensive as the new Oxford Shakespeare -- is simply a matter of pressing a button and replicating a few floppy disks? Clearly SR has not seen the publication, otherwise he might just begin to appreciate what the unit cost could be. For the record, this publication took over one year to prepare from compacted and complex typesetting tapes to the 'clean' ASCII text that finally emerged. This cost a great deal of money -- much of it in in programmers' time. To suggest that this publication be priced in line with Borland is a nonsense. Borland sell to a vast consumer market in such numbers as to make possible their prices; bear in mind also the nature of their products. The academic market into which OUP sells is by contrast minuscule, and the scope of what we publish infinitely more specialist. If SR is keen on dissuading publishers from marketing electronic products in the academic community, he is going the right way about encouraging their complete withdrawal. The only losers would, good humanities computing friends, be you. 2. Format of the text It is important to point out that these texts are not exclusively readable by Micro-OCP. It was a prime consideration not to lock the text into any one retrieval program -- hence why the manual accompanying the publication goes into such detail about the tagging scheme and layout of the files. Anyone who chooses to write their own retrieval software is free to do so (which they would not have been free to do had it been 'packaged ' with WordCruncher). 3. Paper versus electronic publication I thought this old chestnut had died some time ago, but clearly there are still those who think that paper and electronic publications are somehow in competition. They are not -- a book does some things very well, an electronic publication others and differently. It never crossed my mind that anyone would imagine they were supposed to READ the electronic edition of Shakespeare on the screen -- how bizarre! The publication is intended for those who wish to analyse the text using a computer, and for ease of use in teaching, preparing lecture notes on a word processor, or writing dissertations. If any readers would like a copy of the brochure, please let me know and one will be sent to you via conventional mail (email can't do colour yet). Ruth Glynn, Editor, Oxford Electronic Publishing From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: Markup: footnotes and apparatus (238) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 21:22:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 206 (334) Michael Sperberg-McQueen has obviously put a lot of thought into what was launched originally as a response from a query from one of my colleagues in classics. It turns out, in fact, that he has a new TLG tape that he wants to read, essentially separating text and apparatus into two separate files. I do not know enough about either TLG or UNIX capabilities to advise him. But returning to the SGML schema outlined by Michael, as a mythical end user, I want to be able to search and analyze (1) text alone (2) apparatus alone (3) both together (4) any given MS or edition. I think that in the long run we have to look at hypertext editions as the real solution, where at any point in the text we can move into any of the MSS or editions which either underlie or parallel the text at that point. No symbols are necessary in the text, although there obviously has to be some mechanism to keep the text and witnesses in sync. Then one can add in editorial notes, source notes, etc., which could in fact be marked by the nestle symbol. And at the same time this could all be keyed to a standard dictionary of the language. I don't know enough about the Dartmouth Dante project to say whether all these features are available, but it seems to me that it would probably serve as a point of departure. Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu telephone: (415) 642-2107 From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Textual Variants Date: Monday, 6 March 1989 2104-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 207 (335) How to handle author's footnotes (usually supplementary materials applicable to a definite and unique textual location) electronically may well require widely different treatment from textcritical matters -- especially where the latter abound. At CCAT, we have had a lot of experience with floods of overlapping textual variants in our quest to encode the textual apparatuses to the Old Greek Bible. In the approach we are using, here is how Michael Sperberg McQueen's short example would appear (more or less): ~a"poem"b"214"c"[abbrev]"y1 I taste a liquor never brewed --] : , SDR ~y2 From Tankards] : tankards SDR scooped in Pearl] : pearl SDR --] : ; SDR ~y3 Not all] > SDR the] > SDR Frankfort] : Vats ms-alt + upon ms-alt + the ms-alt Berries] : berries SDR : Rhine ms-alt + yield ~SDR + the + sense ~y4 Yield] > ~SDR such] : Such SDR an] : a SDR Alcohol] : delerious SDR + whirl SDR !] : . SDR [deleted quotation]organize, represent, etc., the significant information, and can even browse the text in place without too much interference. The symbols will be mostly obvious -- + for plusses, > for minuses, : for substitutions, and ~ to warn that something transpositional is happening. Variants within variants can also be managed (with occasional problems) in similar ways. Although the flow of variant units is often broken in artificial ways (e.g. "Vats upon the Rhine"), it can usually be restored fairly easily by scanning the alternatives offered. What it would look like in SGML tagging may be more forboding.... Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: Latin--belated answer Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 14:35:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 686 (336) This is a tardy answer to Willard's request for information on Latin texts available online and tools for analyzing them. The answer is that there are none to speak of, or that the people creating and using them work in such isolation that we don't hear of anything. Apart from the APA Repository of Greek and Latin Machine Readable Texts, which has a strange collection of what scholars have entered over the years, in different formats (Livy has no line or paragraph numbers...), and the much more standardized collection of Latin on the PHI compact disk, there is nothing else in North America. Liege and Gottingen have more, but I was never able to make a good contact there. Finally, Italy (Pisa??) may have some Latin, but again, we don't hear of it over here. Software that has been written specifically for Latin is even rarer. This is curious since so much exists for Greek, and that is much harder to write because of the non-Roman character set, and difficulty of dealing with accents. I know of a program that parses Latin hexameter, written in Fortran many years ago at Oberlin by Nate Greenberg. A graduate student at Brown got it running under CMS 4, with a current Fortran compiler. I do know of several graduate students who are using standard search tools to work through Latin texts for their dissertations. It is amazing how the SCAN command is CMS can produce useful results. I have used that, also the Texas HyperCard text indexing program in my own work. The problem with Texas is that it indexes in KWIC format, and since poetry has fixed line lengths and is serialized in the rightmost columns, the reference is often truncated, or lines wrap in a way that does not make sense. Finally, some work has been done on word repetition in Latin poetry, by Jeff Wills who is now at the University of Wisconsin. However, his programs (C programs running under UNIX) are more in the nature of personal research tools than distributable software. Most work in Latin is of that nature. I should not neglect to say that the Ibycus can, of course, search the PHI disk. It would be great to learn if there are other a) texts, and b) software for analyzing them available. Also, any ideas why there is such a sparsity in the domain of Latin, and not in Greek? Is it because David Packard and the other computing Classicists are Hellenists? Is it because of the existence of the TLG? (or is that due to the same cause?) I think that Latin is, on the surface, easier -- morphology isn't so bad to learn, and the alphabet is the same for most of us, so the heavy artillery wasn't considered as necessary. Actually, I have never understood whether these developments are driven by individual accomplishment, or the type of scholarship prevalent in the discipline. --elli mylonas (elli@wjh12.harvard.edu) From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: LCD projectors Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 14:33:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 687 (337) There are several of these LCD displays on the market. MacUser had a grespectable survey of the Macintosh ones in the January a989 issue. My personal experience and that of others I know have used this is that the Kodak Datashow has the best image quality over time--image quality tends to change when the panel heats up--and that it also is better than average in quick update of screen changes. The LCD screens are always a little slow in updating, so for example rapid cursor or mouse movements may not be visible to the audience, and many of us use the cursor or the mouse as a pointing device on the display screen. To use an LCD panel on the Mac, you need to get the panel and the card that drives it. This is easy to install on the SE or the II (but a different card is necessary for each machine), not so easy on a Plus, since a hole has to poked in the case, and it has not card slot. One word of warning, some of the software that comes with these screens treats them as if they were a second monitor on the Mac, and do not just reproduce the image on the actualy computer monitor. This means that the lecturer has to figure out what her primary screen (one with the menu bar is), and to be able to view only the projected image, not the screen image. I have also seen LCD projection screens used with DOS machines. It seems that you can buy two cards, one for the PC and one for the Mac, and use the same actual LCD display for both machines. -Elli Mylonas (elli@wjh12.harvard.edu) From: Subject: Reading re Dominion Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 12:12 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 688 (338) I'll be sending Alan Rudrum a few suggestions directly (since I take it that the sensitivities of HUMANISTS preculde reading material of no immediate interest to them: sorry, "preclude"), but I did want to make a puzzled noise about Laura Moye's remark that there is a lot of non-western material, and the claim that Indian scholars were writing long before "us". I don't know that either of these claims is false, but my suspicion is that "the Western tradition" is actually the oldest continuous tradition in the world, and that our habit of assuming that "the Orient" is older is actually a very old *Western* habit. I'd be interested in comments. Regards, Stephen. From: Jody Gilbert Subject: Computer Assisted Writing Instruction software Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 19:25:12 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 208 (339) A colleague of mine has asked me to help her in locating information about available Computer Assisted Composition Instruction programs. She is interested in the names of all and sundry programs running on different micros, minis, and mainframes as well as whatever comments you might have about them. Sources for more detailed discussions of specific programs or discussions on the topic in general would also be useful. Thank you in advance. From: Alan Rudrum Subject: Turbofonts Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 21:32:48 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 209 (340) Turbofonts comes in two versions, one for dot matrix and another (more expensive) for laser printes. Our local suppliers don't know the answer to this question, and I wonder if any HUMANIST can help, before I resort to the desperate expedient of a long- distance phone call. Does the more expensive "laser" version INCLUDE the ability to print Greek and Hebrew decently on a dot matrix or not? Seems to me that one would want both capacities at some time or other, and it would be ridiculously expensive to buy both versions. At present, I have a new EGA card in my AT- compatible, doing nothing;and my disk-space on SFU's IBM is all taken up with queries and responses about Greek & Hebrew characters. I'd like to move ahead! From: "Klaus E. Aichele" Subject: Arabic Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 16:20:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 210 (341) I am planning on studying Arabic at the University of Tunis starting July of l989 and would appreciate information on programs of Arabic and on use of PCs in Tunisia.Thank you, Klaus Aichele. From: Subject: uuencode and uudecode; xword.program Date: 8 marzo 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 211 (342) When I downloaded xword.program file from humanist's server, I read about two programs at now unknown to me: uudecode and uuencode. It seemed to me that they must be something common and usual, but I never heard of them. What does xword *do*, and how can I purchase the uu programs? Thank you. Maurizio Lana (u245@itocsip) From: Subject: bug(s) in WordCruncher v. 4.2 and 4.203 Date: 8 marzo 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 212 (343) Some months ago (sigh|) I indexed with WordCruncher (WC) the de rerum natura from Lucretius. I used WC v. 4.2 (dated March, 1988). When I went to Frequency Distribution display, I got a silly answer about expected frequencies for the sixth book: 0 % ! Sixth book of de rerum natura is about 15 % of the entire work. That silly answer appeared within any search, and obviously it isn't possible that the expected frequency of -say- "et" (wich totals about 2000 occurences) be *0* for book 6. After many trials, with the same error in frequency distribution (I tried reindexing, grouping books together, splitting them, and so on) I wrote to ETC. They answered that there was a bug (in ViewETC, not in IndexETC) and sent me a new version of WC: it was v. 4.203, dated August, 1988. Accidenti: the bug was still there, producing the same error. I checked the dimensions of the single books and of the entire work (about 300K), but they are right. Anyone can help? Thank you. Maurizio Lana (u245@itocsip) From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: apparatus, cont'd -- the end user and the marked-up form Date: 8 March 1989 09:54:32 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 690 (344) I agree with Charles Faulhaber that one would prefer to have software that supported the manipulation of textual variants properly. In such software one need not see any markup at all (although being able to turn Nestle marks on and off would be convenient). But "not seeing the markup when one is editing the file" is a far cry from "not having so much markup". All hypertext systems, like all simple text systems, have markup (usually lots of markup). Since the markup expresses the essential facts about the textual variations, any system at all that handles variation must and will have this information embedded in the text, either as codes in the text or structurally in the storage arrangements. There will *always* be "symbols in the text" whether they are echoed to the display or not. Schemes like those presented here by Bob Kraft and myself are not intended as "the" way to look at text with variants. But unlike current hypertext schemes, they are readable by more than one program; they do not strand you with your data on a hyper-island. In the global scheme of things, they can be regarded as sketches for possible input formats for loading data into the intelligent text systems of the future, which also have the advantage that they are usable with existing software. Michael Sperberg-McQueen From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 05:10:47 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 213 (345) Ruth Glynn, Editor, Oxford Electronic Publishing, concerning Sebastian Rahtz's recent posting, has used the following language: [deleted quotation] You would think that SR was code for Rushdie. Look, with all the hate spilling out all over the world right now, can't we at least maintain some semblance of "humanity" here? I can't blame RG (same initials as mine) for feeling resentful, but I don't think SR can be accused of anything other than having another (perhaps wrong) point of view. If you two can't kiss and make up, then could you at least step outside? From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Oxford Electronic Shakespeare defended (80) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 10:27:38 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 214 (346) Many of the contributions I make to HUMANIST are trivial/in bad taste/ignorant; my remarks about OUP's release of the electronic bard were not actually intended to fall into that category. So if Ruth will forgive me, I will try and reply. Firstly, I take back my jibe at OUP not having access to email; I am delighted to see Ruth on HUMANIST. Does this mean that NotaBene users will get support via email as well? people contributing to it no good at all. I am sure that if Sebastian had to pay for his email (some of us have to go through BTGold and pay REAL money), he would think twice about clogging up the post This is fair enough in a way, but how many readers of HUMANIST pay for their mail? If HUMANISTs vote that contributions should respect the chequebook of OUP and others, then I would respect that. At the moment, I assume that anyone can not bother to read my messages if they look stupid. Does anyone else reading HUMANIST really think that publishing an electronic edition of anything -- let alone something as extensive as the new Oxford Shakespeare -- is simply a matter of pressing a button and replicating a few floppy disks? well, yes, actually, I did; I had assumed that the Shakespeare was typeset from generic markup version which you then put on floppies. So in fact you had compacted and complex typesetting tapes and created 'clean' ASCII text but you cannot blame me in 1989 for assuming that OUP (the great defenders of SGML) had used a more flexible system. OK, so the Shakespeare has probably been in the works for decades... So it took a year and cost a great deal of money -- much of it in programmers' time. well gosh, a whole year. how many man years do you think go into software products that sell for a lot less than the Bard? To suggest that this publication be priced in line with Borland is a nonsense. Borland sell to a vast consumer market in such Borland took a niche product and made it popular by selling it cheap. I am not convinced that Pascal (as it was) was much more obscure than the most famous writer in the world. Electronic drama will remain expensive if you put it on a pedestal. Shakespeare is your big chance to popularize electronic text publication by selling it at a loss, and creating the market which you say is not there. Then you could make money later out of the obscure things. only losers would, good humanities computing friends, be you. -------------------- Maybe this is the problem. Stop trying to sell to 'humanities computing' and sell to 'humanities'. Those are the people in English departments who have PCs, but have no interest in learning OCP, and simply want a working Bard. Since you sell the OED in that fashion (and I admit I would rather you didn't, but I'm in a minority there), why not produce a push-button Bard? preferably on a CD-ROM. exclusively readable by Micro-OCP. It was a prime consideration not to lock the text into any one retrieval program -- hence why so why is not SGML-compatible, eh? the manual accompanying the publication goes into such detail about the tagging scheme and layout of the files. Anyone who chooses to write their own retrieval software is free to do so talk about niche markets! how many people write retrieval software, for Allah's sake? is that an obscure enough reference, Brian? <\footnote> in teaching, preparing lecture notes on a word processor, or writing sounds like they need WordCruncher... Anyway, I apologize to Ruth for the 'Disgusted of T W' nature of my note, and if I had known she was going to read it, I would have put it more politely. But I still believe that the pricing policy on the Electronic Bard will discourage its wide acceptance. If it had cost #50, or was on a CD, our order would have been in the post, and I would have been on the phone to the library and the English department recommending that they buy it, but as it is, all I had was a note from my professor saying 'can we justify all this money?'. One last question - did you pay Wells and Taylor (is that right?) to do their work on text? if so, then the cost of your programmers for a year must be tiny in proportion. Sebastian Rahtz From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: Oxford Electronic Publishing Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 16:36 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 215 (347) I am appalled at these recent oubursts of indignation concerning the cost of e-mail and the cost of electronic publication. Yours disgustedly, Dominik (near Tunbridge Wells) From: kproddy@ucdavis.BITNET (Earl H. Kinmonth) Subject: Books to Review March 6, 1989 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 10:27:09 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 216 (348) The following books have come into my hands for review in *Computers and the Humanities*: Ian Lancashire and Willard McCarty, eds. *The Humanities Computing Yearbook: 1988.* (Oxford). Herbert Ernst Wiegand. *Theorie und Praxis des lexikographischen Prozesses bei historischen W"orterb"uchern* (Niemeyer). Eliot Slater. *The Problem of *The Reign of King Edward III*: A Statistical Approach* (Cambridge) E. Paul Goldenberg and Wallace Feurzeig. *Exploring Language with Logo* (MIT). James Clayson. *Visual Modeling with Logo* (MIT). John Haugelands. *Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea* (MIT). Jonathan Slocum, ed. *Machine Translation Systems* (Cambridge). Terry Patten. *Systemic Text Generation as Problem Solving* (Cambridge). J.-P. Haton, ed. *Fundamentals in Computer Understanding: Speech and Vision* (Cambridge). Stuart C. Shapiro. *LISP: An Interactive Approach* (Computer Science Press). If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, and can do so within six weeks, please contact me for the appropriate protocol. Kevin Roddy, Book Review Editor, CHum Medieval Studies, UCD Davis, California, 95616 USA kproddy@ucdavis.BITNET From: Subject: CALL FOR REVIEWERS Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 18:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 217 (349) I would like to invite people in different disciplines to review instructional courseware for COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES. Disciplines include languages, literature, linguistics, music, history, art history, and humanistically oriented social science. If you are interested, please let me know your area of expertise and the type of equipment you work with. Also indicate specific products you would like to review or whether you prefer to choose from an annotated list of courseware in your field. Reviewing provides an excellent opportunity to examine instructional software without having to buy it; many distributors are willing to supply complimentary copies or 60-day examination copies (not just demos) to have them reviewed in important journals like CHum. Reviews of hardware that are particularly suited to instructional needs are also welcome. I shall be happy to send you brief criteria, guidelines, and suggestions for writing reviews, which would be due 60 days after receiving software. Please contact Estelle Irizarry, Courseware Editor, CHum, jnet%"irizarry@guvax" (Georgetown University, ICC407, Washington, D. C. 20057) From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: Software on Unix Date: 09 Mar 89 13:59:06 gmt X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 218 (350) We may be shifting much of our work to Unix in the near future. Does anyone have a list of software on Unix suitable for literary computing please ? I believe many of the utilities I already use such as Compare, Diff, TR, Grep etc originally come from Unix so I am hoping for an informative list in reply. David Mealand From: Anthony Aristar Subject: Contacts in Norway Date: Thu 9 Mar 89 13:10:48-CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 219 (351) My wife has been awarded a Fulbright to the University of Tromso in Norway. Are there any contacts with net access that anyone might be able to suggest, either at the university or at some other institution in Norway? She's a text linguist, and works largely on style and discourse. My thanks. ------- From: Duane Harbin Subject: Search for Biblical text in French Date: Thu, 09 Mar 89 15:31:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 220 (352) I have had a request from a colleague for a machine-readable Bible in French. No particular text was requested, so if anyone out there is aware of such a beast, please contact me. By the by, I would be interested in hearing the opinions of Humanists who have examined such products as Bible Quest, The Word, Godspeed, and Gramcord. I see blurbs for these things and get constant inquiries about them. However, as a faithful user of the CCAT, PHI, and TLG texts, I have never examined them. From: JACKA@PENNDRLS Subject: Online Notes, January 1989 Date: Thursday, 9 March 1989 1418-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 694 (353) ONLINE NOTES JANUARY, 1989 DIGITIZED SOUND BOARD After some initial shipping problems, we finally received ONLINE COMPUTER PRODUCT's DMA board for sound digitization. This board can work with both InfoWindows and MS Windows on a PS/2 system, Models 50 or 60. We have been testing the board and the software editor for a month now and are incorporating the use of the board first into the CINEMA project for language acquisition. We remain impressed with the board, though the software editor is a rather weak product. But to the credit of this company, they did provide us with "C" code necessary to operate the board outside their generally worthless editor. What follows is the company's description of the board. The DSA-340 card provides audio editing, recording and playback capabilities for IBM PS/2 Micro Channel computers. The DSA-340 mixes recorded audio with external sources. The card has two inputs for mixing and recording and two outputs for high impedance and speaker/headphone. Audio files can be recorded directly from cassette, reel-to-reel, or microphone with preamplifier. Online's software drivers access record and playback features in real time for memory, hard disk, floppy disk, CD-ROM or WORM storage. The software selectable sampling rates provide different storage or audio quality requirements used in information delivery system. In playback mode the DSA-340 can dynamically change data rates to allow contiguous playback in any sequence of audio files recorded at different rates. The board features a 2K byte FIFO buffer which stores output audio data. The DMA and interrupt multitasking capabilities of the DSA-340 give greater flexibility and eliminate the need for large on-board memory buffering. For audio development Online's mouse-driven Studio PC Audio Editor lets you create, edit and catalog libraries of phrases for use in your application programs. For more information contact: Online Products Corporation 20251 Century Blvd. Germantown, Maryland 20874 (301) 428-3700 (800) 922-9204 Telex : 3746439 FAX : (301) 428-2903 ONLINE NOTES, BACK ISSUES Back issues of the Online Notes for 1985 through 1988 are available. Send your request to JACKA @ PENNDRLS. VIDEO DISK UPDATE Three films will be used this month in CINEMA by Penn students in German and French conversation classes: Das Boot, Die Blechtrommel and Tirez sur le pianiste. If you would like to receive a printed description of the CINEMA project, send me a non-electronic address to which I can post the description. My address is: JACKA @ PENNDRLS. From: "Nancy J. Frishberg" Subject: Composition Instruction Date: 9 Mar 89 13:20:59 ET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 695 (354) The long answer to Jody Gilbert('s friend)'s question will not be given here: too much software, too little time. The short answer is get together with the people who know about Computer Aided Composition Instruction, namely the "5th C" group of CCCC (say "four cee's"). The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is part of NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), meets annually and has a special interest group about computers (the 5th C). CCCC will be held this year in Seattle, March 16-18. (yes, next week) The 5th C publishes a hardcopy newsletter. From: Dr Abigail Ann Young Subject: Latin online Date: Thu, 09 Mar 89 12:54:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 696 (355) Further to what has already been said on this, there IS material on line in Belgium. CETEDOC has put into computer readable form the texts of the authors published in the mediaeval continuation of the CCL (which contains modern editions of the Latin Fathers) who are associated with what is now Belgium. I found them very helpful in supplying KWIC listings for a long list of terms used by Rupert of Deutz.... I understand that their archive is available on-line at some Belgian universities but that there are copyright problems. I may be getting this point confused with another European text archive: I hope someone from CETEDOC can correct me if I'm wrong about it. Scholars working with mediaeval Latin texts at the Centre des etudes medievales in Montreal have developed a program which parses Latin, or at least Latin verse: I've not seen it in operation myself, but it's been described to me by someone using it with Scotus Eriugena's Peri- physeon. Several attempts by people at PIMS in Toronto to buy a copy were unsuccessful, I was told, although I don't know why.... Anyway, it does exist, but it is the only such software I know of. Abigail From: Yaacov Choueka Subject: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 16:36:00 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 697 (356) To Ruth Glynn: Bravo, Bravo! From: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Thu, 9 MAR 89 11:47:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 221 (357) The book on SGML referred to is probably 'SGML: an author's guide to the standard generalized markup language' by Martin Bryan, published by Addison Wesley in 1988, isbn 0-201-17535-5; price in the UK: Outrageous (but slightly less so if you join the SGML Users Group) As to conversion - it all depends on what you mean! The SCRIPT type notation will probably include lots of procedural tags for which there may not be any SGML equivalent and others for which you will have to make an interpretative decision - e.g. 'I went into italics there because it was a book title but there because it was an embedded quotation' - so I doubt if there will be a general purpose solution to the problem of an automatic x-to-AAP-approvd- SGML converter. Of course, if the system you use has descriptive markup in which (to quote a famouus Humanist example) all s appear as the conversion is a trivial problem. But I bet it doesn't. That's one of the reasons SGML is a better way of marking up a document in the first place, as we all know. Since the topic has been raised, can I ask the Humanist readership generally to keep us informed about SGML software as it emerges through the grapevine? I know of 3 (all very expensive) packages: AuthorEditor, Avalanche and Sobemap. DEC (and any other vendors wishing to deal with the US Governments) keep muttering about new office automations system based on SGML but I have no details. Another thought: there was a lot of discussion about SGML here on this network about a year ago. Would it be worth repackaging that in some way? Lou Burnard Associate Editor, Text Encoding Initiative From: Willard McCarty Subject: your wish is my command Date: 8 February 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 222 (358) By popular demand, the following topical collection has just been placed on our file-server: MARKUP TOPIC-1 All issues of markup through including, of course, MARKUP TOPIC-3 SGML I was in fact waiting for the current discussion to go dormant before issuing this collection, but Lou has persuaded me otherwise. Other collections will follow as time permits. May I point out, however, that valuing the past can indicate either the wisdom of the present or its poverty. Sharpen your wits and fall to, o my colleagues! Yours, Willard McCarty From: janus@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Louis E. Janus) Subject: unix utilities for humanists -- suggestions Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 10:58:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 223 (359) In response to David Mealand's request about useful UNIX utilities for literary computing, I can suggest two approaches: 1. If he (or anyone else) requests me to, I will send my class notes, handouts and assigments from a class I taught to undergraduates twice on just this topic. 2. We requested some time ago the BERKELEY package called "HUM-- A Concordance and Text Analysis Package." It installed easily on our VAX systems. + I have unfortunately misplaced the address of the humanities consultant who helped me, but his name was TIM MAHER at Berkeley. This package can do KWIC, KWOC, reverse concordances, word character and digraph frequency counting, and a cross-reference generator. All of the modules have the proper UNIX- flavor, allowing piping, redirection, and using other UNIX utilities (like SORT) when desired. The package was done under the direction of William Tuthill in the early 1980's. -Louis Janus St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057 USA 507/663-3486. janus@stolaf.edu From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Unix software Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:22:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 224 (360) UC Berkeley has a package of batch-oriented routines for generating concordances on UNIX (HUM package). It can be ordered for a nominal fee from the Campus Software Office (cld-cso@ucbcmsa.bitnet for more information), or write to Claire LeDonne, Campus Software Office, Information Systems & Technology, UC Berkeley, CA 94720. The package also contains a number of ancillary routines for preparing text for concording, specifying character set, sort order, etc. It was originally written by Bill Tuthill, now with Sun. Charles B. Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley CA 94720 bitnet: ked@ucbgarne internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu telephone: (415) 642-2107 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Unix? Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:02:41 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 225 (361) I don't think David Mealand need look very far for tools under Unix useful for text-processing. I am sure he can acquire OCP for most machines (if he buys a FORTRAN compiler, that is, which will not come as standard with yer average Unix box), but otherwise he should ensure that he purchases the Documentors Workbench and the Writers Workbench utilities (unless they are bundled) - the latter not as useful as it sounds. Maybe other people can recommend 3rd party software; I'd recommend a good read of The Awk Book, and getting a copy of the Icon programming language from Arizona. I don't know whether others would agree, but I think there is quite a mental hurdle to leap when you start trying to construct things under Unix, because of the piping mechanism, and the emphasis on concatening small tools which are in themselves trivial. The tendency to construct a program which does everything you want should be suppressed in favour of seeing whether 10 existing tools will do the job. Forget about efficiency, and concentrate on what the Unix environment is good for - rapid, personalised prototyping. Sebastian Rahtz From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: xword, uuencode Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 12:09 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 226 (362) Xword is a shareware program that converts between different word processor file formats. It can deal with ASCII, WordStar 3.3 or 4.0, XyWriteIII (orII), Nota Bene, Multimate (or Multimate advantage), WordStar 2000 (release 2), WordPerfect (4.1 or 4.2), and dBase III comma-delimited (target only). This list is taken from my documentation to version 2.24, which is what registered users get. I think the one that HUMANIST has is 2.23, the only one that is meant to be circulated freely. It may have one or two fewer options. Xword runs under DOS. UUencode and UUdecode are a couple of programs that allow one to transfer binary files (containing horrid characters that choke the networks) as ordinary mail. UUencode reads a file and converts it into a plain ASCII representation; UUdecode turns it back into the original. More advanced implementations of UUencode/decode will automatically divide the ASCII file into chunks small enough to mail, and reassemble the chunks afterwards. Otherwise you have to use your editor (easy enough). These programs were developed as part of Unix, although the code is not difficult and they have been implemented on nearly every machine. Dominik From: John C. Hurd (416) 978-3056 HURD at UTOREPAS Subject: Date: 10 March 1989, 09:01:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 227 (363) In partial response to Duane Harbin's query concerning GRAMCORD. I have not used the other pieces of software that he mentions, but assume they help pastors find their way around the English Bible. GRAMCORD, however, is in a class by itself as yet. It provides the Greek New Testament text and a morphological identification of each word form. The software allows searches through the text which produce concordances of selected grammatical patterns, e.g., all the genitive absolutes in a book or books. Or all the adjectival material in the second attributive position. Etc., etc. The software is written in Pascal and is batch oriented. The project is twelve years old now, and is supported by a stable organization at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago. I have used the materials for more than a year and find them uniquely valuable. Paul Miller is the contact person; he is prompt in his responses and very helpful: The Gramcord Institute, 2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, IL 60015 (312-223-3242). From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: Biblical material on line: Gramcord and Bibles in French Date: 10 Mar 89 12:53:10 gmt X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 228 (364) For discussion of tools, texts etc. in this field see J.J. Hughes Bits,Bytes and Biblical Studies, Zondervan 1988 David M. From: Robert Kirsner (213)825-3955 Subject: AANS announcement for Humanist Date: Thu, 09 Mar 89 23:35 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 229 (365) A. A. N. S. FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS The American Association for Netherlandic Studies is pleased to announce that the Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies will take place June 19-22, 1990 at the University of California, Los Angeles. The organizers wish to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of the conference. In addition to contributions in traditional areas such as Dutch Literature, Dutch Linguistics, and Language Pedagogy, we encourage submissions in fields such as Colonialism, Creole Studies, History, Pre-History, Art History, Political Science, Science and Technology, Music, Neo-Latin, French (Burgundian, Walloon, Huguenot), Ladino, Platdeutsch, Anglo-, Franco-, or "other"-Dutch/Low Countries Relations, Printing, Film, Religion, Medieval Drama, Sephardic Studies or Economics. Presentations must be based on original, unpublished research and should be no longer than 20 minutes; selected papers will be published in the series *Publications of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies*. Please send the text of your contribution or a 250-word abstract by May 15, 1989 to: Program Committee, ICNS 5 - 1990 Netherlandic Studies Program International Studies and Overseas Programs 11250 Bunche Hall University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90024-1487 USA FAX: (213) 206-3555 We encourage contributors outside the United States to forward submissions and to seek funding from their local institutions as soon as possible. From: Greg Goode Subject: Missouri Review Online discovered! Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 22:10:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 230 (366) This evening I talked to Speer Morgan. His publication, "Missouri Review Online," is available on The Source, as "PUBLIC 52," and costs about 21-40 cents per minute connect time. It's not an online version of the printed journal, it's got a slightly different editorial policy -- because of online space constraints, the online version evolved into something more designed to give young, beginning writers more of a chance. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction pieces. The editor is considering ways of Bitnet/Internet access. If I get any more information, I'll post it here. --Greg Goode From: sp299-ad@violet.Berkeley.EDU (Celso Alvarez) Subject: XWORD Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 01:41:09 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 231 (367) I don't know how or why, but sometime ago I got a copy of XWORD for MS-DOS PC's. What is XWORD good for? Is it a word processor? Please e-mail. Thanks, Celso Alvarez sp299-ad@violet.berkeley.edu celso@athena.berkeley.edu From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Locke Date: Fri, 10 MAR 89 16:50:25 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 232 (368) Does anybody have or know of machine-readable versions of any of the works of Locke? Susan Hockey SUSAN@VAX.OX.AC.UK From: Brad Inwood (416) 978-3178 INWOOD at UTOREPAS Subject: Date: 10 March 1989, 09:10:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 233 (369) Re: Electronic Shakespeare. Yes, of course it should be cheaper; so should most everything I want and need. But at my ideal price (you can guess) no one provided it. There are, presumably, advantages in having a big press like Oxford get into the business of distributing electronic text: they go through the legal hassles (or own the copyright already), develop and support the expertise, give us someone to bitch at if the text is inaccurate, someone to harass for improved markup schemes, etc. But stability, even the stability of a target for our complaints, has a price. Large businesses don't do very much at a loss, unless they are very sure that a big profit is coming by next quarter. And publishers, as many Humanists know, are always conservative. So if we want someone like OUP to do our electronic text publication, we will probably be stuck in the short term with all the drawbacks as well as the advantages. Those of us who have struggled with the APA repository and the TLG may appreciate OUP more, at any price. That said, OF COURSE, the markup should be more general -- I would love to see the markup used in this case, not so I can write a new text retrieval programme (SR is right on that) but so that I can set myself t editing the text for my Wordcruncher as *I* like it. Which suggests that SR's further suggestion about CD-ROM is a non-starter. Few of us want an absolutely read-only text. And probably even fewer of us have CD-drives. Ibycus users are all too familiar with file transfer headaches. So by all means let us have the text on standard floppies -- we'll copy it onto our (now relatively cheap) big hard drives. And let us start the campaign for re-release in more generic mark-up form -- and while we are at it we can do the same for the TLG. And let us see which bureaucracy gives us our SGML text base first. I am betting on OUP. Brad Inwood, Classics, University of Toronto From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: Charging for Data (47) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 10:02:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 234 (370) Let me hurl myself *politely* into the fray... Although I understand the problem of marketing information on this new electronic medium, and realize that preparing it is a difficult task I also think that a lot of electronic publishing is priced far higher than is reasonable considering who the market might be. I do not direct this specifically at OUP, by the way. However, although startup for an electronic edition may be more expensive--having to get the information into the new form--I hope that new editions, excerpts, anthologizing, educational editions etc. will be a great deal easier to derive from the initial material. That means that any subsequent material should cost less. Also, It seems that production for an electronic edition may be less. (I am not sure of that, since I don't know what it costs to print a book, but I do know what it costs for CD ROM production.) So perhaps that startup cost should not be the one taken into account when pricing an electronic edition? By the way, I think that a lot of commercial software is extremely expensive. The only way I use the programs that I own personally is because of special university site licensing agreements, so that I don't have to pay $295 (mailorder) for MS Word and other such useful programs. It seems that electronic material is often priced according to the perceptions of what people who own computers, or who are in a particular area of computing, are expected to pay. Brian Hawkins, vice president of academic computing at Brown University, discussed the pricing of software in an article in Academic Computing (spring 1988, I think). He concluded, from statistics that they had collected at Brown, that there is about a 30 dollar window which separates software that is bought from software that is stolen. Programs priced at about $40-60 sold the expected number of copies. Programs that were priced over $80 did not sell the anticipated number of copies, and I have the impression that their use did not necessarily diminish. Exact reference can be furnished if anyone wants it. I bring this up because it seems that certain types of pricing make a product mora attractive. Since a company like OUP et. al. has to make a profit, it would be nice to see *very* aggressive marketing at universities, at least, and a general sliding scale. Finally, from my own experience, I have to agree with Sebastian, and say that there is a huge market of non-specialists who would love to get their hands on the text of Shakespeare, the Bible, Greek Lit, or whatever they read after work. These people also have home computers, and would love to have these electronic texts to play with at home. They cannot necessarily pay full price, either, but again might generate quantity at a lower cost. This is a loose collection of ideas about pricing of electronic information, generated by Sebastian's and OUP's exchange-- any other comments? --elli mylonas (elli@wjh12.harvard.edu) From: CATHERINE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: politeness to all Date: Fri, 10 MAR 89 10:43:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 235 (371) Sebastian is entitled to his opinions. But surely these opinions (if only he took the trouble to make them informed opinions) should be phrased so that all eyes might read them without embarassment. In his reply to Ruth Glynn's sizzling defence, he says "if I had known she was going to read it I would have put it more politely". I, for one, want no part in any internecine invective; surely we Humanists are entitled to mutual courtesy and respect. If our opinions cannot be stated in terms fit for all eyes, let them not be stated at all. It is quite simply a matter of decency and respect. Catherine Griffin Oxford University Computing Service (Catherine%uk.ac.oxford.vax@earn-relay) From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: Oxford Electronic Shakespeare, cont. (150) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:35:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 236 (372) Without entering into personalities, I would like to second enthusiastically Sebastian Rahtz's comments on electronic publishing and pricing policies as expressed in his most recent posting. We really do need to make electronic texts available outside of the computing in the humanities ghetto. From: Brian Molyneaux 0703-551358 Subject: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 12:29:45 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 237 (373) The Gender of Praise Wouldn't supporters of Ruth G. say 'Brava!'? From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Scanning on the Mac Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:22:30 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 703 (374) In the latest issue of Hispania, journal of the American Assoc. of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese, there is a very useful article on the state of the art in scanning hardware and software for the Macintosh, both for images and OCR: Mark D. Larsen, "Maintaining Images with the Macintosh" Hispania 72.1 (1989):209-13. In addition to very clear explanations of what scanners are and the range of features available, there are lists of currently available scanners and software packages with prices and addresses of vendors. From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: Markup: SGML, cont. (73) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:27:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 704 (375) There is another package which can produce SGML output, The Publisher (ArborText Inc., Suite 300, 535 West William Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103; tel.: (313) 996-3566. Currently available only for Sun workstations and also very expensive. It is essentially a (more-or-less) user-friendly front end for TEX. From: HEBERLEIN@URZ.KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: Latin Parser (v. Online Latin (35)) Date: Thu, 89 0 03:10 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 705 (376) There is another parsing program for (classical) Latin texts eloped by Pieter Masereeuw, Amsterdam, which he will present at the 4th International Colloquim in Latin Linguistics (31.3. - 4.4., Leuven, Belgium). We are just going to install (a part of) it here in E., in order to enlarge our db of encoded Latin texts. For further information contact: PIETER%UVAALF@HASARA5.BITNET Greetings, Fritz Heberlein Eichstaett/Bavaria From: connie crosby Subject: Electronic text libraries Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 10:24:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 238 (377) I have been following the conversations concerning various electronic texts, but I am now wondering about those a little closer to my own interests. I have two questions: What electronic text libraries exist in Canada (ones that are generally accessible) ? Are there any electronic text libraries (in Canada and elsewhere) that contain a collection of Canadian literature ? If you know of any, please let me know how I can go about contacting them for further information, if possible. Thank you. Connie Crosby University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada NetNorth address: CROSBY@VM.UOGUELPH.CA From: Joe Giampapa Subject: mailing list censorship Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 12:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 239 (378) A week or so ago I posted an article reprint about an incident at Stanford where the university blocked access to an electronic mailing list. To this date, I have not received one comment on it, either publicly or privately. Such a reaction surprises me, as I am sure many HUMANISTs can realize the implications and the problems which are created by such an action. Perhaps the international nature of HUMANIST resulted in the attitude among many to treat this as an isolated incident, "private" to Stanford and the US at most. I know there are computer literacy teachers, ethicists, and other "authorities" out there, who should have an opinion on this matter. Why the silence? -Joe Giampapa giampapa@brandeis.bitnet From: Joe Giampapa Subject: incentives to patent Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 12:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 707 (379) It has been a while since the last e-message on software ownership was circulated. However, a newspaper clipping I just received adds another dimension to the problem which I thought would interest others. It is in paraphrased form, below. "Disgruntled inventors urge new patent policy at Yale" by Abram Katz, Science Editor for the New Haven Register (no date on clipping) One of the most prominent computer scientists in the country, Roger C. Schank, is likely to leave Yale's department of computer science for a post at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is displeased over the way Yale pushes for patents and licenses, according to faculty members and a Northwestern official. Yale researchers now can place their inventions in the public domain --- and receive nothing --- or submit them to the Cooperative Research Office for possible patenting. Patents can later be licensed to companies and converted into commercial products. Yale researchers now receive 30 percent of the profits from patented inventions, as do their departments. The university gets 40 percent to buy equipment or support further research. Yale secured six patents in 1988, compared with 13 in 1987, according to Steven Bertha, assistant director of the Cooperative Research Office. The university earned about $500,000 in royalties and fees in 1987 from all its patents. No figures were available on how much was earned in 1988. By contrast, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology obtained 66 patents last year, which led to 92 licenses, said Chris Jansen, licensing officer in MIT's Technology Licensing Office. MIT earned $6.9 million last year from all its patents, including those on computer software. The licensing office takes 15 percent of the gross income. The remainder is split into thirds between the inventor, his lab or department, and MIT's general fund, Jansen said. While MIT has six full-time staff members in its licensing office, Yale has three. [...] ------ Anyone who wants to see the article in its entirety may send requests to giampapa@brandeis.bitnet. From: Ivy Anderson Subject: RE: Oxford Electronic Shakespeare, cont. (150) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 19:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 240 (380) I seem to have missed the offending message from Sebastian Rahtz that has engendered such controversy, but I do find the references to the high cost of the Oxford Electronic Shakespeare rather odd. If I read the price correctly as $300 US, and $1000 for a site license, then for a library (which is what I represent) the cost is quite reasonable when compared with other commercial electronic products that one is considering. The question I have is, of what use would the electronic Shakespeare be in the library if we chose to acquire it? How exactly would it be used? It isn't the type of consult and lookup database that most of our other forays into electronic acquisition are, e.g. abstracting and indexing services, statistical databases, encyclopedias, etc., nor would you be likely to curl up in a study carrel with it. I would be interested in receiving comments on this. Or would we simply acquire it for those of our users (not ours, probably, but other institutions') who are doing computer-aided textual analysis? Forgive me if any of this has been hashed out in the electronic library discussions, I am fairly new on HUMANIST and haven't managed to read that material yet. Also, here's a reply to the question on Current Contents: this publication (actually a series of publications) is available as an online database (series of databases) via the Dialog and BRS search services. These services are available at most academic libraries, most of whom charge back the cost of the search to their patrons. The online time is not cheap. One can also purchase these databases in other forms, e.g. tapes that can be mounted on an institution's local system (for a hefty fee), weekly diskette subscriptions, etc. As to circling the article and having it delivered the next day, you must have had a very accommodating and well-staffed library! But most libraries are happy to assist you in acquiring articles you need. The publisher of Current Contents is Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), 3501 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. From: Joe Giampapa Subject: Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 11:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 241 (381) In response to Elli Mylonas' Friday posting, "Charging for Data", I thought that I would add some incidental evidence for support of two of her claims. [deleted quotation] An article written by the "80-Micro" (TRS-80 microcomputer magazine) editor explained his dilemma in pricing the supplementary disks of "neat and useful" programs, including soon-to-be highly marketable games. " ... We wanted to encourage the dissemination of utilities and games, and therefore only thought it fair to charge a couple of dollars above the cost of materials and shipping. However, we discovered that we did not get nearly as favorable a response as we had hoped. People seemed to think that paying $25-$30 for one commercial game was preferrable to spending $10-$15 for a disk of several non-commercial games of comparable quality. Rather than lose money by selling these programs at the cost we thought they were worth, we had to sell them at the cost the market expected." [deleted quotation] I do not know how "huge" this market may be, but I can name at least four people who fit this category. One such person, a graduate student in Bio- chemistry, has been working on typing in entries from the Oxford English Dictionary just so that he can get his etymology programs working. He has been doing this in his spare time for the past year and a half. From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Markup: SGML, cont. (20) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 15:55:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 709 (382) There is another package which can produce SGML output, The Publisher (ArborText Inc., Suite 300, 535 West William Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103; tel.: (313) 996-3566. Currently available only for Sun workstations and also very expensive. It is essentially a (more-or-less) user-friendly front end for TEX. I wouldn't call it VERY expensive, I think we paid arouund \pounds 1000 for educational discounnt. Having introduced it last week in a course I am teaching, I forced myself to use it, and was pleasantly surprised. It seemed to me a good way of getting into SGML, as one can fiddle with things in an understandable way (for me, ie I can see the TeX it produces), and then get it to dump SGML and examine the results. Arbortext do promise Mac and OS/2 versions, I believe Sebastian Rahtz From: "Eric Johnson DSC, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: Grammar and Style Checker Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 09:12:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 242 (383) I have received a series of requests for information about StrongWriter, the grammar and style checker I created. HUMANISTs may be interested in knowing that it is described in my article in the January, 1989, issue of RESEARCH IN WORD PROCESSING NEWSLETTER (vol 7, no 1) pages 10-13. From: Willard McCarty Subject: another topical collection Date: 11 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 243 (384) OPENSOFT TOPIC-1 is now available on the fileserver. This is a discussion about Richard Stallman's idea of "open software". Willard McCarty From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Xword? Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 18:36:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 244 (385) Xword translated from various word-processors formats to others. So if you have a Wordperfect document and want to use Wordstar.... It does not cover a huge range, mind you. What puzzles me is a) how the questioner got the .EXE file without the documentation, and b) why simply typing XWORD does not come up with suitable words of wisdoms. My version is pretty explicit about what it is doing, as I recall (never having used it in anger,so to speak, only to prove that it works). Sebastian Rahtz From: "Richard C. Taylor" <6297TAYLORR@MUCSD.BITNET> Subject: Latin texts Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 09:50:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 711 (386) There are some Latin texts from Italy listed on the Oxford Text Archive list but there seems to be only a handful of medieval latin texts. But what about the great IBM Index Thomisticus project that generated the multivolume indices and the accompanying text of Aquinas? Surely the texts of Aquinas used there must be on tape somewhere. Does anyone on HUMANIST know anything about this? For my own work, I have had a kind 65 year old, blind-in-one-eye secretary type in Averroes' COMMENTARIUM MAGNUM IN ARISTOTELIS LIBROS DE ANIMA in pure ASCII (italics=ALL CAPS, page nos. embedded, etc.). (I'm not cruel. She said she would enjoy it because it would remind her of her schoolgirl days of learning Latin in her Milwukee Polish gradeschool. And she did enjoy it!) The work, all 546 pp., has been proofed and is now done. What can I do with it? Well, certainly it is valuable for me for my specific work (translation of the work into English for Yale UP), but can I make it available to others in some public way? What are the sorts of restrictions on the distribution of such materials? Can I give such things to any interested party or leave it at some repository? Surely I have to get the publisher's permission even if I am not doing it for profit. I would appreciate comments on this from HUMANISTs since I may want to have more texts entered on disks this way. Dick Taylor Philosophy Dept., Marquette University BITNET: "6297TAYL@MUCSD" From: Willard McCarty Subject: migration of the scholastic temperament Date: 12 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 712 (387) The following has been taken, with much gratitude to the author, from David Bromwich, `Making thought possible', Times Literary Supplement, no. 4483 (March 3-9 1989), p. 220. "Ever since the preservers of writing gave up a monastic asceticism, they have earned what respect still lingered for them largely by their character of therapists-of-the-word. Within that class of interpreters, they enjoyed less emotional authority than psychoanalysts or pastors. At the same time their lack of spiritual pretensions gave them a wide and self-respecting audience. Not until recently would it have seemed quaint, therefore, to think of the professor's work as a calling. Part of what outsiders to the academy are seeing now, and not always liking, might be described as the fast disappearance of the scholastic temperament. This is a poor term for a quality that has no other name. It describes the sort of person who would rather toil for a week with a hundred books than travel across a continent to address a colloquium for a thousand dollars. The scholastic temperament has not, of course, vanished, it has only migrated. But there is less of it than there used to be where people expect to see it, in the classrooms and offices of a modern university. Humanities academics are now less like pastors than they once were, and more like lawyers. How far this different temperament ought to be fostered, and how far discouraged, the profession surely will decide, but it will not decide alone. The bad fortune of British education was not that such matters were ever broached outside the profession, but that someone did undertake the final decision alone -- Mrs. Thatcher." Willard McCarty From: Joseph Raben Subject: Introductory reading Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 12:03:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 713 (388) People who wish to get a handle on what humanists are doing with computers would benefit from a new book published by Time-Life. It is called THE PUZZLE MASTER (an unfortunate designation) and consists of three sections: Seeing Patterns and Connections, The Language Machine, and Peepholes to the Future. Although all three are worth reading, the second is most relevant; its forty pages cover wordcrunching, concordances, electronic libraries, authorship attribution, lexicography, foreign language instruction, machine translation, optical scanning, and hypertext. Written for the intelligent layman by a team of experts, it is about the best thing of its sort around. It can be ordered from Time-Life Customer Service, P.O. Box C-32068, Richmond VA 23262-2068. The price is $15, but there will be postage and handling. This the latest in a series on UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS, of which the ones I have seen are equally good in their way. Why they are not being marketed to academics (who certainly get enough other promotional mail from T-L) I cannot understand. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Latin Texts and Tools Date: Monday, 13 March 1989 1004-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 245 (389) Since Elli Mylonas and Abby Young have raised the issues of what is or isn't available for Latin studies, a quick note is in order from this side of the kaleidoscope. (1) PHI (the Packard Humanities Institute) is committed to the production of a Latin equivalent to TLG and is working hard on it. Steve Waite is at PHI, which means that the APA repository that he has administered for years is part of the new PHI package. PHI is also producing various tools to manipulate the Latin texts (currently on IBYCUS), including an impressive spell checker with immediate editing capability. The basis on which the checker is built involves morphological analysis as well, so various other related tools can be expected. (2) OTA (Oxford Text Archive) lists a number of Latin texts, both classical and medieval, and should be consulted from the outset. Several other Latin oriented archives/centers/projects also exist, especially in Canada (Montreal, Laval?), Belgium (CETEDOC, LASLA), and Italy (Pisa, Turin?). Hopefully, more information will be forthcoming as the proposed list of archival resources is made available. (3) Some years ago, in cooperation with Eva Thury at Drexel University, CCAT purchased the Latin Morphological Analysis package and some texts from Louis DeLatte at LASLA. We insisted that there be no restrictions on what we could do with the material, and he agreed. This arrangement has been confirmed with his successors at LASLA. The Latin Morph program was mounted on an IBM mainframe here by Eva Thury, who has used it in connection with her project on the Latin Milton. I have not yet worked with the package, or her results, but at least in principle, it is availabe to anyone interested. Similarly the texts (I can supply a list at some point; some Spinoza and Descartes is included). Our only real problem at CCAT is time and staff (i.e. time and money). (4) At CCAT, we also developed a program (on the old IBYCUS) for identifying illegitimate forms in any language for which lists of legitimate forms were available. We did a Latin list, using the LASLA materials plus our work on the Vulgate and some Christian Patristic texts. That list is included on the PHI/CCAT CD-ROM if anyone wants to use it. It can be offloaded to diskette or distributed on tape as well. Hope this will be of help. Much else could also be added. I don't think the picture is as grim as Elli suggested, although it is certainly better for IBYCUS users in some respects than for other micro-computists. Mainframers are also in relatively better shape. Bob From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: more Latin texts (40) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 17:16:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 246 (390) A database of Nordic Neo-Latin literature is being compiled by the Inter-Nordic Research Project conducted by Marianne Alenius and Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Department of Classical Philology, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 94, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Oxford Electronic Shakespeare, etc., cont. (84) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 10:25:08 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 247 (391) people who fit this category. One such person, a graduate student in Bio- chemistry, has been working on typing in entries from the Oxford English Dictionary just so that he can get his etymology programs working. He has been doing this in his spare time for the past year and a half. isn't this illegal under copyright law? Sebastian Rahtz From: Martin Ryle Subject: RE: software ownership (56) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 16:12:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 248 (392) How long before Universities apply for listing on the NYSE and send out quarterly reports? From: CLL6WFO@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK Subject: Computer-Assisted Teaching material for Afrikaans Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 05:57:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 249 (393) Can anyone please tell me if they know of any computer software (any machines) for teaching Afrikaans ? Replies please to William F.Oleske Subject: Greek Fonts Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 11:59:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 250 (394) Can anyone recommend a Classical Greek font for the Mac? I have literature form Linguist's Software, are their fonts any good? Are there any Greek fonts in the public domain? Thanks in advance Geoffrey Rockwell University of Toronto rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca From: Charles Ess Subject: telecommunications packages Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 13:14:15 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 251 (395) As a newcomer to BITNET and HUMANIST, I have found the discussion of on-line etiquette and censorship fascinating. But may I begin with a simpler question? Because my college does not have its own BITNET node, I am forced to dial over to the node administered by the local branch of the state university. As grateful as I am for this service -- the terminal emulators on the telecommunications packages I have tried (*Xtalk*, *Procomm*) are astonishingly limited: in particular, most of the "function" (PF and PA) keys are not available -- nor do they appear to be programmable in any straightforward fashion. Anyone out there in a similar situation? Beside singing a few bars of Alice's Restaurant -- what do you do when you find yourself in a similar situation? In short -- any recommendations for telecommunications packages for the PC or the Mac with better terminal emulators? Proleptic thanks (if I may be allowed to plagiarize) Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 (417) 865-8731 From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Gramcord, Ibycus, French Bibles Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 09:11:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 717 (396) As a user of both GRAMCORD and Ibycus let me add a comment for Duane Harbin. John Hurd has given a brief description of the former -- perhaps a trifle over-optimistic. On my version at least one cannot find 'all the genitive absolutes'. All one can do is to write a program (no front-end to make it user-friendly, tho' the form of the program is not bit PASCAL-like) to pick out all situations where a NOUN in the genitive is in agreement (number and gender) with a PARTICIPLE in the genitive, within so many words of each other; and only in the same sentence. One can then repeat this for, say, a PRONOUN or an ADJECTIVE. There are no booleans, you cannot remove all genitives following prepositions, and the thing is order-dependant. There is no category of SUBSTANTIVE. So a search for Genitive Absolutes is a tedious job! There are also a number of other constraints. You may be able to get over some of them by hacking into the text with your own search software, but again the text is not particularly user-friendly. The PHI CD plus Ibycus allows similar searches on the morphologically- analysed Frieberg text of the NT and is ever so much simpler to use; but each allows particular searches not possible in the other (not with the current software, anyway). As far as Bibles go (especially in French), who would know better than the secretariat of the AIBI, at Maredsous? Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge UK (DEL2@UK.AC.PHX.CAM). From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: Xword's author Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 11:14 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 252 (397) Ronald Gans wrote Xword, and his address is 350 West 55th Street #2-E, Nwe York, New York 10019. (212) 957-8361 Compuserve 74216,264 I have had more luck phoning him than getting written answers. Dominik From: Greg Goode Subject: Word Processing conversion formats Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 14:16:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 253 (398) This is a response to Dominik Wujastyk's note about xword and uuencode. For anyone looking for good conversion packages for IBM-based word processors, the best one I've seen is called R-Doc/X. At present, there are 33 source formats and 32 target formats, listed below: ASCII text ASCII text (Lines) DCA/RFT DisplayWrite-3 Extended ASCII Enable (WP) Leading Edge WP Lotus Manuscript Microsoft Word Multimate (3.3 & before) Multimate Advantage NewWord OfficeWriter (before 4.0) OfficeWriter (4.0 & later) Palantir PC Write (before 2.6) PC Write (2.6 & later) PeachText 5000 pfs:First Choice pfs:Professional Write pfs:Write Pmate Spellbinder Volkswriter WordMarc Composer WordPerfect 4.1/4.2 WordPerfect 5.0 WordStar WordStar 2000 Writing Assistant XyWrite (does Nota Bene too!) R-Doc/X is $149 from Advanced Computer Innovations 30 Burncoat Way, #A Pittsford, NY 14534-2216 U.S.A. Telephone: (716) 383-1939 Fax: (716) 383-8428 --Greg Goode From: Stephen Clausing Subject: censorship Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 12:03:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 719 (399) I would like to respond to Joe Giampapa's remark that no one had responded earlier to his comment on "censorship" at Stanford. I suppose my own reasons for not responding were that I was not particularly disturbed by Stanford's actions. It seems to me that freedom of speech does not necessarily guarantee the right to publish. If Stanford finds a message offensive then it is presumably in their right to decline publication, publication here being defined in an electronic sense. Censorship to me involves the intervention of another agency, such as the government, in the publication of materials that have already been deemed acceptable for publication by the publisher. Since Stanford is the publisher, there is no censorship here. Now that Joe Giampapa has brought this up, I would be curious to know what the legal definition of censorship is. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Date: 14 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 720 (400) Dear Colleagues: The membership list of Humanist today exceeded for the first time 400 entries. The actual size of the membership is in fact much larger, since several of the "members" are groups of people, some of indefinite size. These are in almost all cases explicitly named on the list as "Humanists at x", where x is the name of a university, city or region. The major change I have detected in Humanist as its size has increased is the greater tendency to a diversity of topics, questions, and answers. My strategy for keeping the number of messages to a minimum each day has been to group them by subject or type. This greater diversity occasionally makes such groupings difficult. I would like to know from the membership (again, for those of you who remember) if reducing the number of messages per day by grouping related contributions together is a desirable goal. I must be candid at the same time as playing the humble questioner, however. The only way I can manage Humanist is to be very efficient, and so any preference of the membership will have to be matched against considerations of my own survival! I would also like to know, especially from the newer members, if you think that Humanists should continue to be sent all of the biographical files when they first join. Since I started sending biographies to new members, the number of files has more than doubled. I have persisted in doing this because I thought that otherwise the biographies would never be read by most people. No one has objected, but I wonder what suffering has been endured in silence. I realize that survivors tend to believe in the ordeal they have survived. 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Keller SCLAUS@YALEVM Stephen Clausing SMOULTHR@YALEVM Stuart Moulthrop UTTANU@YALEVM Niko Besnier YAEL@YKTVMH2 Yael Ravin DANIEL@YORKVM1 Daniel Bloom YFPL0004@YORKVM1 Shu-Yan Mok YFPL0007@YORKVM1 Stanley Tweyman YFPL0018@YORKVM1 Paul Kashiyama BRIANW@YORKVM2 Brian Whittaker psl@YQUEM.BELLCORE.COM Peter Langston CS100006@YUSOL Peter Roosen-Runge GL250012@YUVENUS Jim Benson * * Total number of users subscribed to the list: 401 * Total number of local node users on the list: 0 * Willard McCarty From: Joseph Raben Subject: Electronic Scholars Resource Guide Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 22:30:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 254 (401) The ELECTRONIC SCHOLARS RESOURCE GUIDE is nearing completion and should be in print very soon. Any group using computers in any aspect of humanities research and not already included is invited to submit data about itself. The categories in which information has been organized are: 1. Country 9. Major activities 18. Medium 2. (n/a) 10. Hardware used 19. Newsletters 3. Official name 11. Software used 20. Staff publications of facility 12. Software developed 21. Keywords for index 4. Postal address 13. Networks used 22. Databases 5. Parent organization 14. Bulletin boards maintained 23. Personal names 6. Name of director 15. Databases developed 24. Software 7. Telephone number 16. Databases imported 25. Brochures available 8. Other personnel 17. Access to databases This information can sent via Bitnet to Marianne Gaunt , who can also answer questions about the questionnaire. From: kproddy@ucdavis.BITNET (Earl H. Kinmonth) Subject: Books to Review Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 15:49:11 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 255 (402) The following books have come into my hands for review in *Computers and the Humanities*: Sven Naumann. *Generalisierte Phrasenstrukturgrammatik: Parsingstrategien, Regelorganisation und Unifikation.* Linguistische Aribeiten, 212 (Niemeyer). Jack Kulas, James Fetzer, Terry Rankin. *Philosophy, Language, and Artificial Intelligence* (Kluwer). Stephen Grauber, ed. *The Artificial Intelligence Debate: False Starts, Real Foundations* (MIT) Dan Maxwell, Klaus Schubert, Toon Williams, ed. *New Directions in Machine Translation* (FORIS). Theo Bongaerts, Pieter de Haan, Sylvia Lobbe, Herman Wekker, eds. *Computer Applications in Language Learning* (FORIS). Keith Cameron. *Computer Assisted Language Learning* (ABLEX). Edward Barrett, ed. *Text, ConText, and HyperText: Writing with and for the Computer* (MIT). If you are interested in reviewing any of these books, and can do so within six weeks, please contact me for the appropriate protocol. Kevin Roddy, Book Review Editor, CHum Medieval Studies, UCD Davis, California, 95616 USA kproddy@ucdavis.BITNET From: "David Owen, Philosophy, University of Arizona" Subject: Locke and Electronic Texts in Philosophy Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 10:25 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 256 (403) In response to Susan Hockey's request for information regarding an electronic version of the works of John Locke: The American Philosophical Association Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy has decided to tackle the problem of the creation and distribution of philosophical electronic texts in a centralized and organized manner, rather than relying on ad hoc projects. As a first step, they have formed a Subcommittee on Electronic Texts in Philosophy, which will soon officially announce its goals and objectives. Jumping the gun a little, may I say that a first step will be the gathering and collation of information concerning all currently available philosophical texts in electronic form, as well as information concerning the status of current projects. We hope to provide a liaison for future projects, in order to avoid duplication of effort and maximal ease of access to the resultant electronic texts. So may I here ask, before the official announcement, from those involved, for any information concerning completed, current, and future projects? Jumping the gun a little more (and to get back to Susan's particular question), I am currently trying to get a project off the ground (ie I am trying to get money) that will involve getting the works of Locke available in electronic form. This will require the cooperation of the OUP who publish the Clarendon edition of Locke's works. If anyone is already involved in the creation of an electronic version of any of Locke's works, or would be interested in co-operating in this current project, I hope they will get in touch. David Owen Dept of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 BITNET: OWEN@ARIZRVAX INTERNET: OWEN@RVAX.CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: Wheels for the Mind Date: Tuesday, 14 March 1989 1610-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 257 (404) To: HUMANIST@UTORONTO I'm passing on the following call for articles for Chris Kim. If you're unfamiliar with _Wheels for the Mind_--apart from the information you'll get from the description below--it's a more or less informal publication with articles, notes, queries on Macintosh applications in academia. The topics covered are broadly defined--just about anything doen on a Mac, and the spirit of the writing is friendly, open. Kind of a paper equivalent of the sort of dialog that you might see on a good BBS--or maybe (?) Humanist. Wheels is published by Apple, but it does _not_ contain advertisements by Apple or other companies. Chris tells me that they're trying to increase their visibility. It's a good place to get information about your project or ideas out to peers who may not have access to forums like Humanist. _Wheels for the Mind_ Call for Articles It's time for the next issue of _Wheels for the Mind_. Wheels is a quarterly publication produced by Apple Computer and Boston College, highlighting Macintosh solutions in academia. Wheels was originally begun as an informal exchange of information for faculty who had developed software and programs for the Mac. Today, Wheels offers in-depth articles on projects developed by faculty and students and administrators from universities around the world. Wheels is divided into the following sections: Focus on Humanities Focus on the Sciences Focus on the Professional Schools Administrative Applications Multimedia and the Macintosh News & Notes Resources Each section contains material relating to applications in instruction, applications in research, project reports, and questions and solutions for readers. Wheels is a very strong communication piece for higher education. It is very appealing to faculty as it is written by their colleagues. However, it is only viable and important if we receive articles covering the most current projects at college campuses. You are our closest conduit to universities. Let faculty know about Wheels and encourage them to send in articles. We are finishing up work on the march issue of Wheels, which will focus on the use of Macintosh in business schools. The following issue will focus on the humanities; however, stories from any discipline are always welcome. PROJECT REPORT/ARTICLE DEADLINE IS APRIL 7. Guidelines: Send articles or reports on disk with a hard copy. MacWrite--the oldest and simplest software!--is preferred. We strongly encourage the submission of graphics, line art, diagrams, and charts to accompany the article. These sould be sent on disk and with captions. We now include a small bio and photo of our contributors. Please ensure that contributors include a black and white photo and a brief, two-line biography. Send diskettes to: Chris Kim Apple Computer 19925 Stevens Creek Blvd. MS:43P Cupertino, CA 95014 408-974-8558 AppleLink: Kim1 The projected calendar for the next three issues is: Friday, April 7: Article submission deadline; Humanities focus Monday, May 22: Article submission deadline;Future technologies Monday, July 27: Article submission deadline; Focus TBA _Wheels for the Mind_ is a great resource for you and your higher education customers. Help us continue to profile the best successes your faculty are experiencing with Macintosh. Thanks for your help. From: Robin Smith Subject: Terminal emulators Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 06:32 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 258 (405) In response to the recent query about satisfactory terminal emulators, if the only problems are such things as getting PF keys to work correctly, then even the lowly (public-domain) Kermit can handle that readily. I use MS-Kermit both from my home PC (at 1200 baud) and an office link (at 9600); it's not overly fancy, but it does what needs to be done, handles file transfer with the main- frame (using a mainframe Kermit), and is locally supported for free. The 'set key' function can be used to attach whatever sequences are necessary to the PF keys to get them to have their usual effects (and many installations provide versions with all this built in, through an appropriate .INI file). If some other institution is willing to make their machine accessible to you, then pre- sumably they would help you with something like this. From: COM3RAE@CLUSTR.TRENT.AC.UK Subject: re: contacts in Norway Date: 14-MAR-1989 17:33:13 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 259 (406) The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities based in Bergen produce a journal on computing in the humanities published three times a year. Each issue contains some articles in English and English abstracts of the rest of the material. The people who produce the journal (called Humanistiske Data) would welcome foreign subscribers and contributers. The editor name, address etc is: Kristin Natvig, Editor Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities P.O. Box 53 - Universitetet N-5027 Bergen Norway e-mail: FAFKN@NOBERGEN.EARN From: david tomlinson Subject: XWORD Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 06:54:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 260 (407) Another text translation package for use on the PC and compatibles is WORD FOR WORD. I have had good luck in using it. The newest version is 4.0 and allows conversion to and from the following formats: ASCII (Smart) ASCII (Standard) Communications Format DisplayWrite (DCA/RFT) EBCDIC IBM Writing Assistant 1.0 Microsoft Word 3.0,3.1 Microsoft Word 4.0 Microsoft Rich Text Format MultiMate 3.3 MultiMate Advantage 3.6 MultiMate Advantage II NAVY DIF OfficeWriter 4.0 OfficeWriter 5.0 OfficeWriter 6.0 PFS: First Choice 1.0 PFS: First Choice 2.0 PFS: Professional Write 1.0 PFS: Professional Write 2.0 PFS: Write version C Volkswriter 1 1.0 Volkswriter Deluxe 2.2 WordPerfect 3.0 WordPerfect 4.1 WordPerfect 4.2 WordPerfect 5.0 WordStar 3.3,3.1 WordStar 3.45 WordStar 4.0 XyWrite III XyWrite III Plus I think the retail price is around $150; on the other hand, deep discounts reduced the price we paid to under $100. Usually COMPUTER SHOPPER magazine will list a number of places where software goes for less than full retail. Let me also mention that SPRINT, the Borland word processor, contains a massive file conversion capability of its own. WordPerfect 5.0 has a utility program to convert many formats to WordPerfect. While the WordPerfect conversion is one way, from the alien format to WordPerfect, the SPRINT utility allows conversion both to SPRINT and to any of the other supported formats. No matter which one of the conversion systems you use, you are bound to find that some special characters do not get handled. Still, using the systems saves considerable time. From: David Tomlinson Subject: communications Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 09:28:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 261 (408) In reply to Charles Ess' query about communications packages. 1. Apparently the difficulty you have with PROCOMM+ is the lack of programmable macro keys. If the terminal emulation you are using is ANSI-BBS, VT-100 or VT-52, you might wish to try BOYAN 4.0. The number of available macro keys approaches 200. You should have few problems making the program work to your satisfaction. 2. PROCOMM+, on the other hand, can emulate a wider variety of terminals though it does not supply so many macros. 3. They Boyan program is available on BBS nationwide as a shareware product. If you are unable to find it on a bulletin board near you, you can call the Boyan support board (919)682- 4225. 4. The registered version of the program is available from Justin Boyan BOYAN Communications 9458 Two Hills Court Columbia, MD 21045-3228 Registration alone $40.00 Registration and disks $55.00 Printed user's manual $10.00 5. I would suggest downloading a copy of the program first and seeing whether it meets your needs. You will need to print out the extensive manual which comes with the download. From: F12016@BARILAN.BITNET Subject: TEXTUAL VARIANTS‡i Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 20:52 O X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 723 (409) I found the recent discussion concerning the electronic marking of variants -- it really started with footnotes, but quickly moved to textual variants -- very interesting. I think it is important to distinguish between two questions. Question no. 1: How do we get the mass of textual material -- specifically variants -- already extant in printed books into our computers, so they can be searched, analyzed, etc.? Question no. 2: If we had no critical editions of anything, what would be the most productive manner of computer input? With regard to question no. 1, there is no choice but to develop suitable mark-up methods, which utilize the already existent lemmatization in the specific edition being input. (Did CCAT, TLG or anyone else do this by OCR or was it all keyed in?) With regard to question no. 2, though, straight text input, with the development of software which handles the full texts and not simply the variants, would seem to be the best option. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the format of the critical edition is a second-best mode, necessarily developed by editors/printers because there was no other feasible way to present the reader with the necessary material. Lemmatization, all of us who have worked on critical editions know, is a very time-consuming job, and would, in a sense, become more than semi-automatic by means of the comparison and collation software which would be developed. The reader of the text would have all versions immediately available, and could browse or search at will. Obviously such programs would have to have methods of indicating relationships between words, etc., but I do not think the word "mark-up" would accurately describe these methods. "Mark-up" denotes separating elements in one text, while here we are dealing with many texts, with software pointers connecting them all together at the thousand different intersections. (Obviously, by means of suitable programming, such texts could be converted into a single text with the requisite mark-ups). This, I think, is very similar to what Charles Faulhaber wrote several days back, though I would prefer not to use the term hyper-text in this context. Chaim Milikowsky From: Donald J. Mabry Subject: Belgium-medieval on-line Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 06:08:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 724 (410) Last week, if I remember correctly, someone wrote about the existence of some data in Belgium on medieval religious matters. I printed the screen text and passed it along to a colleague, who works in medeival history, but I paid little direct attention. Yesterday, she asked me more about what kinds of information exist, accessibility, etc. but neither of us could find the printout. Can the orginal sender give us some information or can someone else provide us with some? Her work, by the way, is on a Pope named IVO (12th century, I believe). Thanks Donald J. Mabry DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! Professor ! History Department P.O. Box 1096 ! Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! Miss State Univ. Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! 20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: Lou Burnard Subject: shakespeare on disk Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 9:55 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 725 (411) I've just learnt (thanks Tom) of an outfit in the US which also sells a straight unadorned ASCII text of Shakespeare on floppy disk! It's called Shakespeare on Disk, Hollow Rd, PO Box 299, Clinton Corners NY 12514 tel (914) 266-5705. They charge $175 for "twenty favorite plays". The text is I quote "a specially revised version of The Stratford Town Edition" not the first edition to spring to mind perhaps. It says in the flyer that teachers librarians and performing groups are welcome to copy till they are blue in the face (well, actually, it says "for student/performer use" ) and goes on at great length about how you can import the text into your favourite word processor... would the Electronick Text Corporation care to comment on the pricing/format of their electronic text? anyone else want to join in? Lou From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: CD-ROM Access Date: Monday, 13 March 1989 1955-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 726 (412) I could hardly agree less with Brad Inwood's comment that getting Shakespeare onto CD-ROM would be a "non-starter" -- well, actually he claims to be quoting SR, so I can disagree with both at the same time. And how Brad sees this related to "file transfer headaches" for IBYCUS is not clear to me. Personally, I would love to have the Shakespeare on a CD-ROM, preferably one that runs on IBYCUS (thus optimizing its immediate usefulness and negating "transfer" issues), but even one that runs on a standard "High-Sierra" format reader. If I want to play with it, loading from the CD-ROM to my machine is a minor inconvenience relative to what I lose by having it only on a packet of diskettes. And if I have the appropriate software to work with it from the CD-ROM (for the non-IBYCUS world), all the better. Speaking for Librarians, which I am not, and Archivers, which I am (sort of), the fixed CD-ROM form is preferable to the uncontrolled read/write diskette medium. At least I know what I have, and can get back to it as a control. It does not prohibit me from offloading and making changes on hard disk or diskette (unless access to the CD-ROM is protected, of course), but it protects me from making fatal data destroying errors on the base text. Don't knock it until you've tried it. I've been working with CD-ROM data for almost four years now, and I would not like to go back to the other approaches, for highly verified materials that I want to consult easily and often. Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Encoding Variants Date: Wednesday, 15 March 1989 2229-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 727 (413) Chaim Milikowsky asks how CCAT has been encoding variants. For the initial experiment, we (myself and one of my graduate students) did it by hand, producing the file for the book of Ruth in Greek, based on the Cambridge Larger Septuagint apparatus. Thereafter, we have been scanning the apparatuses (both Cambridge and Goettingen) with a KDEM III and running a series of reformat programs to reshape the material as much as possible automatically. Because of inconsistencies, idiosyncrasies, etc., in the way the published apparatuses are set up, some things remain to be done by hand in the final reformatting and verifying stages. For the Sahidic Coptic project, however, which in most instances must work from individual copies of manuscripts (or fragments), we scan in whatever we can (e.g. Budge's Psalter edition of a British Museum MS), then we use those verified results as the base to be modified in order to produce running texts of other manuscripts of the same material. This reduces considerably the time that would be needed for typing anew and verifying, although it may foster certain types of errors if the encoder is not alert (e.g. minor spelling variations). Thus the Budge Psalter is kept as a separate file, but it is also used as the base for encoding other Psalter material. In some instances we also use the alternative approach and simply verticalize the base text (e.g. Budge) and fit in the variations from any other MS. This is even quicker, in the long run, and provides the sort of multifaceted flat file that I described earlier in the HUMANIST discussion, from which individual MS texts can be reconstructed easily. (A hypertext base in flat form!) Bob From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: IJCAI-93 site decision made; please post Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 10:35:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 262 (414) IJCAI-93, Chambery, France, 29 August - 3 September 1993 The Trustees of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. are pleased to announce that IJCAI-93 will be held 29 August - 3 September 1993 in Chambery, France. Jean-Pierre Laurent, Universite de Savoie, will be responsible for Local Arrangements. The Conference and Program Chairs for IJCAI-93 will be elected by the IJCAI Executive Committee during the IJCAI-89 conference. Don Walker, Bellcore, the IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer, will also serve as Secretary-Treasurer for the conference. For further information, contact one of the following: Prof. Jean-Pierre Laurent Local Arrangements Chair, IJCAI-93 Universite de Savoie BP 1104 F-73001 Chambery, FRANCE (+33-79)961-062 usenet: jplaure@imag.fr Dr. Donald E. Walker Secretary-Treasurer, IJCAI-93 Bellcore, MRE 2A379 445 South Street, Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA (+1-201)829-4312 internet: walker@flash.bellcore.com From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: IJCAI-91 announcement; please post or print Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 10:33:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 263 (415) IJCAI-91, Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August 1991 IJCAI-91 will be held 24-30 August 1991 in Sydney, Australia. Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, has been elected Conference Chair; John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter, University of Toronto, have been elected Program CoChairs; and Robin Stanton and John Debenham have been appointed to chair the Local Arrangements Committee. Don Walker, Bellcore, the IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer, will also serve as Secretary-Treasurer for the conference. For further information, contact one of the following: Prof. Barbara J. Grosz Conference Chair, IJCAI-91 Aiken Computation Lab 20 Harvard University 33 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138, USA internet: grosz@harvard.harvard.edu Prof. John Mylopoulos Program CoChair, IJCAI-91 Computer Science Department University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5S 1A4 (+1-416)978-5180 csnet: jm@ai.toronto.edu Prof. Ray Reiter Program CoChair, IJCAI-91 Computer Science Department University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5S 1A4 (+1-416)978-6324 csnet: reiter@ai.toronto.edu Dr. Donald E. Walker Secretary-Treasurer, IJCAI-91 Bellcore, MRE 2A379 445 South Street, Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA (+1-201)829-4312 internet: walker@flash.bellcore.com Prof. Robin Stanton Local Arrangements CoChair, IJCAI-91 Australian National University Department of Computer Science GPO Box 4 Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA (+61-62)49-3475 usenet: munnari!anucsd.oz.au!rbs Dr. John K. Debenham Local Arrangements CoChair IJCAI-91 School of Computing Sciences University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW, AUSTRALIA 2007 (+61-2)218-9562 usenet: munnari!nswitgould.oz.au!debenham From: Willard McCarty Subject: topical collection Date: 15 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 264 (416) RIGHTS TOPIC-1 and RIGHTS TOPIC-2 are now available on the file-server. They contain conversations on copyright and other legal matters related to electronic texts. Willard McCarty From: Randall Jones Subject: ETC & Shakespeare Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 13:21:51 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 729 (417) I'm not sure what kind of response Lou wants from ETC about the pricing policy for their Shakespeare. An apology perhaps? The company negotiated with Houghton-Miflin to obtain permission, and is paying them a royalty in return. Literally thousands of dollars were invested in the scanning, proofing, indexing, etc. The product is not just the text but an indexed version to be used with WordCruncher. It is certainly not out of line with the Oxford edition. The same holds true for the other texts ETC has to offer, i.e. Cather, Faulkner, Emerson, Hawthorne, H. James, J. London, Melville, Thoreau, Twain, Whitman, the Bible and the Constitution Papers. Randall Jones From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: Text Archive Report Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 14:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 730 (418) [Judith Proud's Report on the Oxford Text Archive has now been submitted to the British Library, and should be published in full as a Research Report in the near future. Because of its interest to the Humanist readership, I have prepared the following condensed version of the Report's main findings, with the author's blessing. Comments and views would be gratefully received- LB] The report has five main sections. Section 1, which I have not summarised here, describes what machine readable texts are, the uses to which they are typically put in the research environment and the Archive itself. The aims and methods of the research project are also outlined. Section 2 describes the origins and nature of the Archive's holdings. Section 3 summarises the usage made of the holdings to date. Section 4 addresses the question of copyright as it affects the Archive. Section 5 makes recommendations for the future. Section 2: The Archive's Holdings The rate of deposits in the Archive has shown little increase over the last 5 years, which indicates a decline in real terms. Of the 900 or so texts currently held, 60% are in category U, i.e. generally available, 26% in category A (requiring depositor's permission before they may be released) and the remainder in categories X or 0 (not available outside Oxford). In terms of volume, 30% of the texts are derived from other major corpora (such as TLG or ICAME); 20% come from typesetting tapes, 18% are deposited by individual researchers, 16% from the OUCS KDEM service and 16% from other Archives and facilities such as the OUCS Lasercomp. Considerable effort has been put into investigating and improving the bibliographical information held about the texts, which was found to be highly deficient as a result of the particular accessions policy of the Archive and the limited resources with which it operates. Source editions have now been identified for about 50% of the texts, compared with approximately 6% known at the start of the project. Pilot studies were also carried out to assess the accuracy of the holdings. In one such study, samples of texts taken from the begining, middle and end of texts prepared on the KDEM were checked: 31% had 0 errors; 46% had 1-3 errors; 19% had 4-20 errors; 4% had over 20 errors. Initial investigation of the tagging schemes employed in the Archive's holdings has highlighted the very varied nature of these schemes and the lack of adequate documentation and standards to describe them. In a sample of 100 texts (excluding any from established corpora), 16 had no markup at all, 1 had fixed column refs, 6 had typesetting codes, and the rest (77) had either a few COCOA tags or embedded special characters to mark various features. In the latter case, there was no clear distinction made between coding used to mark special characters, variants, editorial comment, presentational features, structural features etc. The report stresses the importance of the success of the Text Encoding Initiative in this connexion. Section 3: Usage of the Archive Usage of the texts has steadily increased from 28 orders p.a. in 1981, to 92 in 1988. (It should also be noted that the number of texts per order varies greatly). Text Archive users are geographically widespread (21 countries including N. America, Israel, Japan, Australia as well as Europe). In 1988 for the first time US orders equalled those received from the UK. To assess usage in more detail a questionnaire was sent to all who ordered since 1980 (about 400), generating 91 replies (about 25%). 65% of these had used texts succesfully in a research project, the chief areas being in linguistics, lexical research, computer aided language instruction, teaching of quantitative methods, literary research, computational linguistics and hardcore computer science. Details of many of the projects are given in the report, which also includes a bibliography of resulting publications. In some cases, OTA texts had been successfully combined with texts from other sources. However, many project descriptions given were rather vague and not primarily research oriented. 35% of respondents had been unable to use the texts supplied for a variety of reasons (technical difficulty, wrong texts, insufficient documentation to understand text, text too inaccurate) but most had simply not had enough time to work on the texts due to other commitments. Over 300 enquiries from people who didn't subsequently use the Archive were also analysed. Many of these were general enquiries only, and many others asked for specific texts known not to be available or in formats not provided. A follow up questionnaire addressed to these had a poorer response rate (18%). About 25% of these had abandoned their project after contacting the Archive, but nearly 30% had gone on to do research using texts from elsewhere. 17% had done the research without using machine readable texts at all. Section 4 of the report discusses in considerable detail the legal problems of copyright with reference to machine-readable texts. It relates only to British law, under which a literary work has artistic copyright for 50 years after author's death, and a publisher has 25 years copyright in the typographic arrangement of a publication. During the 80s there has been a growing concern over the applicability of the 1956 Act to electronic rights. Its 'Fair dealing' section allows use of literary works for purposes of research or private study: this is what underlies the Archive's current Conditions of Use agreement. But increasingly texts are being used for purposes barely describable as private study or research, for example in teaching packages or the creation of new critical editions. At the same time there is a growing awareness among publishers of the potential market for electronic texts. (Examples discussed include ETC, NeXT, OEP, and the reuse of typesetting tapes being archived by Knowledge Warehouse). The 1988 Copyright Act is due to become law in April 1989. It introduces a new restriction into the fair dealing section which specifically prohibits copying of copyright literary works for use by several people at the same time for the same purpose ('copying' is explicitly defined in the Act as including storage in electronic form). This obviously has important consequences for the Oxford Text Archive and many similar institutions. The clear definition of copying given in the Act also means that for any work which is not strictly private scholarly research, of which, as the report shows, there is an ever-increasing amount, permission must be sought from the copyright owner or his licensee before the text may be put into machine-readable form. As far as public domain texts are concerned, a publisher only has copyright in the typographical arrangement of the text, that is its physical appearance. As the copyright law in such matters prohibits the making of a 'facsimile copy' of that physical appearance, the making of a machine-readable version of such a text does not constitute a contravention, nor does displaying it on a screen or even printing it as long as the original appearance is not reproduced. The copying of electronic material does however constitute a restricted act under the 1988 Act, as a 'facsimile copy' results. The Archive is, regrettably, not usually involved at the time that texts are created, which is when proper licensing should be arranged. A laissez faire attitude has prevailed, so that in many cases it is not even known who converted a text let alone whether they had permission to do so. The originals of texts in the Archive span the full range of possibilities from unpublished mss, copyright or out of copyright editions of public domain works, out of copyright editions of copyright works and copyright editions of copyrighted works. Fortunately, only 25% of titles are copyright works. Some of these were deposited by their author. Of the rest, about 200 titles, in only a quarter of the cases is it known that the creator of the electronic text received permission to make it, but not always to deposit it with us, nor necessarily from the actual owner of the machine-readable rights. Considerable investigation is needed to determine the status of these texts, which should strictly be withdrawn from the Archive when the new Act becomes law, until their status has been determined. As regards commercial distribution of texts, the Report suggests that the Archive could either continue to refuse to provide texts for commercial purposes or seek appropriate licensing arrangements with electronic copyright owners, i.e. usually the depositors. These might include e.g. the payment of a royalty on commercial applications of the text. The use of texts for teaching purposes is also discussed in the section on copyright. The use of short extracts of copyright works for teaching purposes is no longer allowed under the new Act, unless permission has been obtained from the copyright owner. The developing relationship between researcher, publisher and author is investigated. It is important that authors realise the range of rights at their disposal before handing them all over unconditionally to book publishers; that publishers realise that electronic publication can stimulate book sales; that there should be discussion and co-operation between researchers and electronic publishers for the greater good of the academic's needs. Section 5: Conclusions and recommendations The main areas where improvement is needed all relate to distribution of material. As a deposit agency, the Archive continues to provide a unique and much appreciated role. The report suggests that the rate of technological change makes this archival function increasingly important. As a distributor of texts however, the Archive's procedures amd standards need considerable revision in light of the changing expectations of the community it serves. A discussion of the problems of funding these improvements draws attention to the need for external involvement, and the importance of collaboration with national and international ventures referred to in the Report. The Report recommends action in the following areas: - documentation of existing holdings - resolution of the copyright position of current holdings - proof reading and correction - formulation of standard encoding guidelines and conversion of holdings to them - extension and consolidation of the range of holdings Of these, the copyright question is regarded as having the highest priority. This should be followed by a cost/benefit evaluation of improving the status of the holdings in different topic areas. The report concludes by stressing again the importance of international co-operation in disseminating information about the holdings of other archives and establishing a common code of practice. ----------------------------------- LB/JKP 14 mar 89 From: Joe Giampapa Subject: per request of Bob Amsler, the article for archive Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 23:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 731 (419) --------- ``Disgruntled inventors urge new patent policy at Yale'' By Abram Katz, Register Science Editor (March 1989) NEW HAVEN --- Yale inventors may be able to collect more cash for their creations under a new formula being considered by the university at the prompting of dissatisfied professors. Robert K. Bickerton, director of Yale's Cooperative Research Office, said Wednesday the new policy is being considered by Provost Frank M. Turner and the university's research advisory board. Bickerton said no specifics have been settled but a new formula would give researchers a larger cut. Some professors are not happy with the amount of money they receive for their patented and licensed products, Bickerton said. Others are unhappy with the effort Yale makes to translate their inventions into commercial products. One of the most prominent computer scientists in the country, Roger C. Schank, is likely to leave Yale's department of computer science for a post at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He is displeased over the way Yale pushes for patents and licenses, according to faculty members and a Northwestern official. Schank could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Martin H. Schultz, professor and chairman of computer science, said Schank's departure would be a ``major blow'' to the department and its artificial intelligence research. Other professors said Yale would probably shift emphasis from Schank's quest to imitate human thought to more applied research aimed at producing workable software. Yale researchers now can place their inventions in the public domain --- and receive nothing --- or submit them to the Cooperative Research Office for possible patenting. Patents can later be licensed to companies and converted into commercial products. Yale researchers now receive 30 percent of the profits from patented inventions, as do their departments. The university gets 40 percent to buy equipment or support further research. Yale secured six patents in 1988, compared with 13 in 1987, according to Steven Bertha, assistant director of the Cooperative Research Office. The university earned about $500,000 in royalties and fees in 1987 from all its patents. No figures were available on how much was earned in 1988. By contrast, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology obtained 66 patents last year, which led to 92 licenses, said Chris Jansen, licensing officer in MIT's Technology Licensing Office. MIT earned $6.9 million last year from all its patents, including those on computer software. The licensing office takes 15 percent of the gross income. The remainder is split into thirds between the inventor, his lab or department, and MIT's general fund, Jansen said. While MIT has six full-time staff members in its licensing office, Yale has three. David Gelernter, associate professor of computer science at Yale, said the university is ill equipped to handle the tremendous amount of work in securing patents, licenses and creating products. Gelernter invented a software language called Linda to program the most advanced parallel ocmputers. Most features of Linda were copywrited through Gelernter by the Scientific Computering Association company of New Haven. ``Yale is not an adequate organization to distribute software with large commercial applications,'' Gelernter said. Gelernter added that he does not think Yale should seek to devote as much time, money and energy to patents and licenses as MIT and Stanford University, another major source of university patents. ``Yale is not a commercial enterprise,'' said Schultz, chairman of the department. And for those researchers who are interested in marketing software, ``it is possible to do it,'' Schultz said. ---end of article--- From: Willard McCarty Subject: topical collections Date: 16 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 265 (420) Two new topical collections are available on the file-server: E-TEXTS TOPIC-1 (issues involving electronic texts, here pricing) and SOFTWARE TOPIC-1 (general discussions of preferences for software) I am not at all sure I have my categories right, so there may be a fair bit of overlap in some of these collections. Please have patience. Beneath the moon patterns can be seen through the murk, but gradually, as with the snail climbing Mt. Fuji. Willard McCarty From: Marsha Frankel Subject: 1990 Women's Congress Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 17:41:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 266 (421) Hunter College, The City University of New York, has been chosen as the U.S. host site for the 4th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women and will be held at Hunter College June 3-7, 1990. The call for papers and abstract form will be ready to mail next week and I would like to know if any of your people would be interested in more information on the Congress. If so, please have them bitnet me, Marsha Frankel, MAFHC@CUNYVM. The mailing address is: 1990 Women's Congress/ Dept of Anthropology/ Hunter College/695 Park AVenue/NY,NY 10021. The phone is 212-772-5566. Sincerely, Marsha Frankel Congress Officer From: ROBERT E. SINKEWICZ (416) 926-7128 ROBERTS at UTOREPAS Subject: Date: 16 March 1989, 09:24:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 733 (422) Abercrombie JACKA@PENNDRLS Jack Abercrombie Adman p.adman@VME.CC.HULL.AC.UK Peter Adman Ahrens AHRENS@HARTFORD John Ahrens Aichele KAEBH@CUNYVM Klaus E. Aichele Amsler amsler@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM Robert Amsler Anderson ANDERSON@BRANDEIS Ivy Lee Anderson Archive archive@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Oxford Text Archive Aristar hi.aristar@MCC.COM Anthony Aristar Badagliacco JMB@POMONA Joanne M. Badagliacco Baldini ATPMB@ASUACAD Pier Baldini Balestri BALESTRI@PUCC Diane P. Balestri Baller baller@VAXC.ERIM.ORG Sharon Baller Bantz dbantz@DARTMOUTH.EDU David Bantz Barnard BARNARD@QUCDN David T. Barnard Barnett 8122313@UWAVM Gerald Barnett Batke L64A3779@JHUVM Peter Batke Baumgarten BAUMGARTEN@UMBC Joseph Baumgarten Beeler USERSTAN@UALTAMTS Stan Beeler Belgium THOMDOC@BUCLLN11 CETEDOC Belgium Benjamin FAC2090@UOFT01 J. 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Junger Kalinoski ACDRLK@SUVM Ron Kalinoski Kashiyama YFPL0018@YORKVM1 Paul Kashiyama Katzen may@VAX.LEICESTER.AC.UK May Katzen Keith E00050@MSUS1 Philip Keith Keizer BUDANK@UOFMCC Donna Keizer Keller MKELLER@YALEVM Michael A. Keller Kenner RKENNR@CONU1 Roger Kenner Kippen eihe4874@VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK Jim Kippen Kirsner IDT1RSK@UCLAMVS Robert S. Kirsner Koch FKOCH@OBERLIN Christian Koch Kossuth PKOSSUTH@POMONA Karen Kossuth Kraft KRAFT@PENNDRLS Bob Kraft Krovetz KROVETZ@UMASS Bob Krovetz Kruse udaa270@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK Susan Kruse Kucznetsov AJUUS@CUVMB Adam Kucznetsov Kutish ACRC0008@UNLVM Gerald Kutish Labbett m110@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK Beverley Labbett Lacey del2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Douglas de Lacey LaCure LACUREJ@IUBACS Jon LaCure Lambert iwml@UKC.AC.UK Ian Mitchell Lambert Lana U245@ITOCSIP Maurizio Lana Lancashire IAN@UTOREPAS Ian Lancashire Landow EL403012@BROWNVM George P. Landow Lang lang@PRC.UNISYS.COM Francois-Michel Lang Langendoen LANGEN@ARIZRVAX Terry Langendoen Langston psl@YQUEM.BELLCORE.COM Peter Langston Laplante laplante@CC.UMONTREAL.CA Benoit Laplante Lavenda LAVENDA@MSUS1 Robert Lavenda Ledgerwood ledgerwood@RHODES Mikle Ledgerwood Lella DILELLA@CUA Alexander A. Di Lella Lessard LESSARDG@QUCDN Greg Lessard Little N270019@UNIVSCVM Greta Little Lockyear kl88a@ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Kris Lockyear Logan LOGAN@WATDCS Grace Logan Logan LOGANG@QUCDN George Logan Lowry lowry@CUNIXC.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Anita Lowry Lyman MALYMAN@AMHERST Mary Ann Lyman Mabry DJMABRY@MSSTATE Don Mabry Makivirta MAKIVIRT@FINJYU Joni Mikael Makivirta Malling SYSGAM@SUVM Glenn A. Malling Mandell XLYKN8@IRISHMVS Dan Mandell Marcos-Marin MARCOS@EMDUAM11 Francisco Marcos-Marin Marker DDAHM@NEUVM1 Hans Joergen Marker Martindale RPY383@MAINE Colin Martindale Massirer MASSIRERM@BAYLOR Mary Massirer Masterson IVW7KJM@UCLAMVS Karie Masterson Mathis EM@MACALSTR Elizabeth Mathis Matsuba matsuba@MTSG.UBC.CA Stephen N. Matsuba Maynor MAYNOR@MSSTATE Natalie Maynor McCarthy MCCARTHY@CUA William J. McCarthy McCutchan WALTER@WATDCS Walter McCutchan McDaid MCDAID@NYUACF John McDaid McDonald MCDOJK@QUCDN James K. McDonald McMaster humanist@SSCVAX.MCMASTER.CA Humanists at McMaster McNeil WARMCN@DALAC David McNeil Mehta ASHOK@SUVM Ashok Mehta Meyers sdm@CS.BROWN.EDU Scott Meyers Milikowsky F12016@BARILAN Chaim Milikowsky Miller stephen@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Stephen Miller Mills MILLS@UCRVMS Ted Mills Mitchell d.mitchell@QMC.AC.UK David Mitchell Mok YFPL0004@YORKVM1 Shu-Yan Mok Molyneaux ayi004@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Brian Molyneaux Morgan hi.morgan@MCC.COM Martha G. Morgan Morgan LZMORGAN@SBCCVM Leslie Z. Morgan Moulthrop SMOULTHR@YALEVM Stuart Moulthrop Mylonas ELLI@HARVUNXW Elli Mylonas Neuman NEUMAN@GUVAX Mike Neuman Newton MNEWTON@MUN Michael Newton Niska helge_niska@NORRKOM.UMU.SE Helge Niska Nissan ONOMATA@BENGUS Ephraim Nissan Northumbria humanist@NEWCASTLE.AC.UK Humanists/Northumbria Novak 2631002@RUTVM1 Rich Novak Nuessel FHNUES01@ULKYVM Frank Nuessel Nye NYEDEN@UWYO Eric Nye O'Cathasaigh fri001@IBM.SOTON.AC.UK Sean O'Cathasaigh O'Kelly MOKELLY@IRLEARN Michael O'Kelly Oakman oakman_d1@PLU Douglas E. Oakman Oksa JOKSA@FINUJO Jukka Oksa Oleske cll6wfo@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK William F. Oleske Oliver ANDREWO@UTOREPAS Andrew Oliver Olley RUTHERFO@IUBACS Lorraine Olley Olsen mark@GIDE.UCHICAGO.EDU Mark Olsen Ooi ELLOOIBY@NUSVM Vincent Beng Yeow Ooi Ore FAFEO@NOBERGEN Espen Ore Orvik ORVIKT@QUCDN Tone Orvik Oslo humanist@INGER.UIO.NO Humanists at Oslo Ott ZRSZOT1@DTUZDV2 Wilhelm Ott Owen OWEN@ARIZRVAX David Owen Oxford ctcmiker@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Oxf.Comp.Teach.Centre Oxford incoming-humanist@PRG.OXFORD.AC.UK Humanists at Oxford Paff TOBYPAFF@PUCC Toby Paff Papakhian PAPAKHI@IUBVM Ralph A. Papakhian Paramskas LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH Dana Paramskas Parker PARKER@IUBACS Randolph Parker Parrott PARROTT@UTORVM Martha Parrott Peebles PEEBLES@IUBACS Christopher Peebles Perry CARLOS@ECSVAX David Perry Pierce HKLRP@NOBERGEN Richard Holton Pierce Piovesan USERVINO@SFU Walter Piovesan Ponterio PONTERIO@MIDD Robert Ponterio Potter GG.BIB@ISUMVS Rosanne G. Potter Presutti LIDIO@UTORVM Lidio Presutti Proud proud.j@EXETER.AC.UK Judith Proud Raben JQRBH@CUNYVM Joseph Raben Radai RADAI1@HBUNOS Yisrael Radai Rae com3rae@TRENT.AC.UK Simon Rae Rahtz spqr@CM.SOTON.AC.UK Sebastian Rahtz Ravin YAEL@YKTVMH2 Yael Ravin Raymond drraymond@WATMUM.UWATERLOO.CA Darrell Raymond Reed UNCJSR@UNC J. S. Reed Reimer SREIMER@UALTAVM Stephen R. Reimer Rice USERCRIC@SFU Curtis Rice Richardson IBQ1JVR@UCLAMVS John Richardson Richman d_richman@UNHH David Richman Richmond IMR@UWOVAX Ian M. Richmond Richmond S_RICHMOND@UTOROISE S. Richmond Rickard RICKARD@EDUCOM Wendy Rickard Riley MTRILEY@CALSTATE Mark Timothy Riley Ritchie JAYRICHY@MSSTATE Jarryl Brooke Ritchie Roberts ddrob@WATDCS.UWATERLOO.CA Don D. Roberts Rockwell rockwell@GPU.UTCS.UTORONTO.CA Geoffrey Rockwell Roddy KPRODDY@UCDAVIS Kevin Roddy Roosen-Runge CS100006@YUSOL Peter Roosen-Runge Roper s200@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK John Paul Goy Roper Rudman RUDMAN@CMPHYS Joseph Rudman Rudrum USERANTH@SFU Alan Rudrum Russell PRUSSELL@OBERLIN Roberta Russell Rutherford rutherford@CTSTATEU John Rutherford Ruus LAINE@UTORVM Laine Ruus Ruus USERDLDB@UBCMTSG Laine Ruus Ryle RYLE@URVAX Martin Ryle Sabelli nsabelli@NCSA.UIUC.EDU Nora H. Sabelli Sacks ap02@IBM.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Mark Sacks Salotti dbpaul@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Paul Salotti Salzmann ELDAD@TAUNIVM Eldad Salzmann Sandelin ksandelin@FINABO Karl-Gustav Sandelin Sandys-Wunsch F5400000@LAUVAX01 John Sandys-Wunsch Santiago d_santiago@UPRENET Delma Santiago Schlunk UN07144@WVNMVS Jurgen E Schlunk Schostak m090@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK John Schostak Schuette WADE@CRNLGSM Wade Schuette Scullion 23scullion@CUA Jim Scullion Seid ST401742@BROWNVM Timothy Seid Shroyer shroyer@UWOVAX.UWO.CA Richard Shroyer Sinclair USERNHMS@SFU Gerri Sinclair Sinkewicz ROBERTS@UTOREPAS Robert Sinkewicz Sitman A79@TAUNIVM David Sitman Smith 6500RMS@UCSBUXA Randall M. Smith Smith C51017@JPNKUDPC David Smith Smith mffgkts@CMS.UMRCC.AC.UK Tony Smith Smith RSMITH@KSUVM Robin Smith Spaeth ecl6das@CMS1.LEEDS.AC.UK Donald Spaeth Sperberg-McQ. U35395@UICVM M. Sperberg-McQueen Stairs STAIRS@UTOREPAS Mike Stairs Stampe STAMPE@UHCCUX David Stampe Strait STRAIT@UMUC Michael J. Strait Stuart C078D6S6@UBVM Thomas W. Stuart Stuart ST5@CORNELLA Christopher Stuart Stutt a_stutt@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Arthur Stutt Suhl ANT01@DMSWWU1A Alfred Suhl Sveinbjornsson jsveinb@RHI.HI.IS Jon Sveinbjornsson Svennerstam bjorn_svennerstam@NORRKOM.UMU.SE Bjorn Svennerstam Swenson ESWENSON@UTORVM Eva V. Swenson Taylor 6297TAYL@MUCSD Richard Taylor Theall THEALLDF@TRENT Donald Theall Tomlinson 19910TOM@MSU Tom Tomlinson Tomlinson h01024%n1%susy.usna.mil@USNA.MIL David Tomlinson Tompa TOMPA@WATDCS Frank Tompa Tompkins H156004@NJECNVM Kenneth Tompkins Toronto humanist@UTORGPU.UTORONTO Humanists at Toronto Tosh WAYNE@MSUS1 Wayne Tosh Toulouse UOFTOULS@FRCICT81 Humanists at Toulouse Tov HUUET@HUJIVM1 Emmanuel Tov Treat TREAT@PENNDRLS Jay Treat Turner CLAS056@UNLCDC3 John Turner Tweyman YFPL0007@YORKVM1 Stanley Tweyman Ubaydli au100@PHX.CAM.AC.UK Ahmad Y. Ubaydli UC-Irvine HUMANIST@UCI Humanists at UC-Irvine Uchitelle MLAOD@CUVMB Daniel Uchitelle Verbrugghe verbrugghe@CANCER Gerald P. Verbrugghe Wall gw2@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK Geoffrey Wall Wallmannsberger C60903@AINUNI01 Josef Wallmannsberger Walsh IMD7VAW@UCLAMVS Vicky Walsh Wang AOJXW@ASUACAD Jude Wang Ward J_WARD@UPRENET James H. Ward Waters 93651@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Stacy Waters Webb DONWEBB@CALSTATE Don Webb Weinshank weinshank@MSUEGR Donald J. Weinshank Werner WERNER@FINUJO Stefan Werner Weyker WEYKERS@UNCG Dennis Weyker Whitelam wwsrs@VAXA.STIR.AC.UK Keith Whitelam Whittaker BRIANW@YORKVM2 Brian Whittaker Wiebe WIEBEM@QUCDN M. G. Wiebe Willee UPK000@DBNRHRZ1 Gerd Willee Willett PWILLETT@BINGVAXC Perry Willett Wilson HSW100U@ODUVM Harold Stacy Wilson Wilson qghu21@UJVAX.ULSTER.AC.UK Noel Wilson Winder WINDER@UTOREPAS Bill Winder Wood bs83@SYSA.SALFORD.AC.UK Max Wood Woods A014@UORVM Jorie Woods Woolley WOOLLEYJ@LAFAYETT James Woolley Wujastyk wujastyk@EUCLID.UCL.AC.UK Dominik Wujastyk Wyman LIBJCW@SUVM John Wyman Xerox xeroxhumanists^.x@XEROX.COM Humanists at Xerox Yanos U08208@UICVM George Yanos Yevics PEY365@SCRANTON Philip E. Yevics Young young@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA Abigail Ann Young Young YOUNGC@CLARGRAD Charles M. Young Zacour nz101@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Norman Zacour Zahavi-Ely ELINZE@YALEVM Naama Zahavi-Ely Zinn FZINN@OBERLIN Grover Zinn Zubrow APYEZRA@UBVMSC Ezra Zubrow Zweig H27@TAUNIVM Ron Zweig From: Ruth Glynn (RGLYNN@UK.AC.OX.VAX) Subject: "Stratford Town" Shakespeare Date: 17 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 735 (423) "Twenty favorite plays" for $175 ... quick calculation then suggests around $350 for the lot (if they do the lot, that is), which is more than the OUP electronic edition. Seems we got the pricing right! From: janus@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Louis E. Janus) Subject: what is IJCAI-91 ? Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 13:25:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 267 (424) May I ask what the IJCAI-91 conference in Australia will cover. Could we resolve these kinds of abbreviations, please? -Louis Janus St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057 USA From: STAIRS@vm.epas.utoronto.ca Subject: OCR Software... Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 17:04:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 268 (425) Help! We are about to take the plunge and buy a scanner and OCR software. I have asked the members of the Humanist *club* once before what they knew about this area and got some informative responses. I've decided upon the scanner, the Canon IX-12F (flat-bed with sheet-feeder and 32 shades of gray). The price is good, the name is reputable, and PC Magazine gave it the Editor's Choice (for all that's worth, see March 28, 1989 issue). Now I'm at the cross-roads... Should we get the Mac or PC interface? Hmmmm... (This should get some people's patriotic blood pumping). We have a Mac II and an AT. There is no cost difference between the interface for the Mac and PC. The only deciding factor is the quality of OCR software on either platform. Does anyone have impressions about Omnipage, Texpert, or TrueScan by Calera? Does anyone know how I can find out more about Texpert (the program from Spain)? Any grains of wisdom may be thrown my way without fear, I'm wearing safety glasses and lots of padding (in expectation of the war of words that may ensue between the Apple and Ibm crowd). One who urgently awaits enlightenment, Mike Stairs Site Coordinator Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto 416-978-6391 STAIRS@UTOREPAS From: Donald J. Mabry Subject: Australian network Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 18:18:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 269 (426) I would like to reach a friend who is a visiting prof in English at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australia. Does anyone on Humanist have an address I can "borrow?" Appreciate a speedy reply as I fly to London on Sunday afternoon (Central Daylight Time) and would like to send a message before leaving the U.S. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: CLL6WFO@CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK Subject: C.A.L.L. Survey of Humanist institutions. Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 04:27:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 736 (427) It appears fairly reasonable to me, a cairn's throw from the Moors of Northern England, to state that an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of Computer-Assisted Language Teaching software USAGE at the Undergraduate level ( either class or individual study materials ) does not exist at present. I make this assertion after plowing through numerous journals, collected papers, etc., which almost invariably reflect isolated developments. What I am proposing, a propos Lou Bernard's database query is the co-operation of fellow Humanists in reporting the various language teaching software packages used by departments at their respective universities and colleges regularly and "happily". Hopefully, replies will be sent directly to me, so as not to further clog e-mail boxes of those disinterested. I have been given a small endowment to collate the information received and for further correspondence by regular post. Hopefully the survey will result in a catalog which may prove of interest to departments embarking upon computer-assisted teaching. Such a catalog might be posted in the Humanist fileserver or the Yearbook. Details reported should be simple: mention of foreign language name of package/application name of tutor using it machine it runs on comments/critique on package I will endeavour to acknowledge all replies. Thank you. My addresses: Mr. William F. Oleske Technical Manager Central Language Laboratory The University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT England U.K. e-mail: Janet: CLL6WFO@UK.AC.LEEDS.UCS.CMS1 Bitnet: CLL6WFO%CMS1.UCS.LEEDS@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Archive List Date: Friday, 17 March 1989 0016-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 737 (428) Attached is a list of electronic "archive-type" endeavors that a group of us who are interested in getting a better handle on what is "out there" has drawn together (names below). The main focus for this "first pass" is to spread the nets widely and attempt to IDENTIFY those endeavors that actually or potentially have the intention (selfimage) of serving as a resource for others. We need your HELP to make the list as accurate and complete as possible at this stage. Please notify KRAFT@PENNDRLS of any errors, omissions, etc., and if possible supply the name and address (electronic, preferably) of any known contact person. I apologize for the inconsistencies, errors, oversights, etc., in the list. The main catalyst for preparing the list has been the hope that something could be circulated at the forthcoming ACH-ALLC Toronto meetings, in connection with the Archive Panel to be held then. The procedures envisioned are noted below. Thanks to all, Bob Kraft (for the group named below) SIMPLE LIST OF ARCHIVE-TYPE HUMANITIES-RELEVANT COMPUTER OPERATIONS Draft Updated 16 March 1989 Robert Kraft (CCAT), in cooperation with Marianne Gaunt (Rutgers), Lou Burnard (Oxford), Joseph Raben (CUNY), and Mike Neuman (Georgetown), among others. The plan is to maintain the List in three different forms: (1) Simple identifying titles of actual or potential archives or archive-type endeavors -- by "archive-type" we mean actual or potential sources of relevant data for humanistic research and teaching; (2) Intermediate List with as much of the basic information listed below as can be ascertained; 0. Identifying Acronym or Short Reference 1. Name and Affiliation of Operation Reference to any published description? 2. Contact Person and Addresses (including e-mail) 3. Primary Focus (+ Secondary Interests) [e.g. Literature, Language, Linguistics, Music, Art, Biog.] 4. Time Period Covered, Geographical Focus 5. Language(s) coded [or used otherwise -- e.g. data fields] 6. Intended Use(s) [e.g. Textbank, Database, Scholarly Tools, Bibliography] 7. File Format(s) (sequential text, data base excerpts, etc.) To what extent are the formats consistent? 8. Form(s) of Access (online, tape, diskette, CD-ROM, etc.) What software is needed for accessing? 9. Source(s) of the Archival Holdings Encoded in-house, or obtained from elsewhere (where)? (3) Comprehensive List (long-range goal), including detailed inventory of holdings, information on copyright status, full bibliography, descriptive keywords, coding(s) and markup used, pricing, etc. The basic list has been organized geographically, to facilitate identification and encourage completeness. Subsequent forms of the list will pay more attention to sub-categories of data and group the archives accordingly -- e.g. general archives, text/language archives, graphic data (archaeology, art, cartography, etc.), biographical and demographic data, etc. AUSTRALIA: /??{where}/ Texts in Australian Aboriginal Languages /Berrimah NT/ SIL-AAIB = Australian Aborigines and Islanders Branch AUSTRIA: /Vienna (Univ)/ Vienna Data Base on European Family History BELGIUM: /Brussels (Free Univ)/ GITA = Groupe d'Information et de Traitement Automatique /Leuven (Kath Univ)/ Etude Linguistique de la Langue Parlee /Liege (Univ)/ LASLA = Laboratoire d'Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes /Liege (Univ)/ Institut de Lexicologie Francaise /Louvain-la-Neuve (Kath Univ)/ CETEDOC = Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents /Maredsous (Monastery)/ CIB = Centre: Informatique et Bible CANADA: /??? (Queen's University)/ Mnemosyne Project /Laval (Univ)/ Project RELAI = ?? /McGill (Univ)/ Keirkegaard-Wittgenstein Project /Montreal (Univ)/ Instut d'E/tudes Me/die/vales /Montreal (Univ Quebec)/ Centre d'Analyse de Textes par Ordinateur /Newfoundland (Univ)/ Folklore & Language Archive /Ottawa (Dept Communications)/ CHIN = Canadian Heritage Information Network /Ottawa (Carleton Univ)/ Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts /Toronto (Univ)/ CCH = Centre for Computing in the Humanities /Toronto (Univ)/ Dictionary of Canadian Biography /Toronto (Univ)/ DOE = Dictionary of Old English /Toronto (Univ)/ DEEDS Project = Documents of Essex, England Data Set /Toronto (Univ)/ Greek Index Project (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies) /Waterloo (Univ)/ Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary /Vancouver (Univ British Columbia)/ UBC Data Library DENMARK: /Copenhagen (??)/ Armamagnaean Institute /Copenhagen (Univ)/ Inter-Nordic Research Project (Classical Philol) ENGLAND: (see United Kingdom) FRANCE /Nancy (Univ??)/ Institut National de la Langue Franc+aise /Nancy (Univ, CNRS)/ CATAB = Centre d'Analyse et de Traitement Automatique de la Bible et des Traditions E/crites /Paris (CNRS)/ Tre/sor de la Langue Franc+aise /Paris (Univ??)/ Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes GERMANY, WEST: /Bonn (Univ??)/ IKS = Institut fuer angewandte Kommunikations- und Sprachforschung /Bonn (Univ??)/ Kant Corpus -- see IKS/Bonn /Erlangen (Univ)/ Computer Center /Go%ttingen (Max Planck Inst)/ CLIO/C - Historical Databases /Go%ttingen (Max Planck Inst)/ Europaische Rechtsgeschichte /Ko%ln [Cologne] (Univ??)/ Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung /Mannheim (Univ)/ VASMA = Vergleichende Analysen der Sozialstruktur mit Massendaten /Mannheim (Univ)/ IDS = Institut fu%r Deutsche Sprache /Stuttgart (Inst f Informatik)/ Projekt SEMSYN = ?? /Trier (Univ)/ MESY = /Tu%bingen (Univ)/ /Ulm (Univ)/ [Archive of Psychotherapy Interviews, etc.] ICELAND: /Reykjavik (Univ)/ Stofnun Arna Magnussonar ISRAEL: /Bar Ilan (Univ)/ GJD = Global Jewish DataBase (& Responsa Project) /Jerusalem (Hebrew Univ)/ AHL = Academy of the Hebrew Language /Jerusalem (Technion)/ Computer Assisted Biblical Research Center /Jerusalem (Technion)/ Hebrew Computational Linguistics Project ITALY: /Bologna (Univ)/ Istituto per le Scienze Religiose /Catania (Univ)/ Informatica Letteraria /Pisa (Univ)/ ILC = Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale /S.Cuore (Catt Univ)/ GIRCSE = Gruppo Interdisciplinare Ricerche Computerizzazione segni Espressione /Siena (Univ)/ Corpus of Sienese Art /Udine (Univ)/ Sartor Fabio JAPAN /???(where)/ ATR = ?? NETHERLANDS /Leiden (Univ??)/ Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie /Leiden (Univ)/ Institute for Armenian Studies /Nijmegen (Univ)/ TOSCA = The Nijmegen Research Group for Corpus Linguistics NORWAY: /Bergen (Univ)/ Norweigen Center for Computing in the Humanities /Oslo (Univ)/ ICAME = International Computer Archive of Modern English /Tromso (Univ)/ Norwegian Historical Data Archives SCOTLAND (see United Kingdom): SWEDEN: /Goteberg (Univ)/ Department of Computational Linguistics (Spraakdata) /Goteberg (Univ)/ Institut d'Etudes Romanes SWITZERLAND: /Lugano (??)/ Vocabolario dei Dialetti Svizzera Italiana UNITED KINGDOM (England, Scotland): /Cambridge (Univ)/ LCC = Linguistic Computing Centre /Edinburgh (Univ)/ EUDL = Edinburgh University Data Library /Edinburgh (Univ)/ Greek Text Database /Essex (Univ)/ ESRC = Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive /Glasgow (Univ)/ DISH = Design and Implementation of Software in History Project /Lancaster (Univ)/ UCREL = Unit for Computer Research on the English Language /Oxford (Press)/ OED = Oxford English Dictionary /Oxford (Press)/ Oxford Shakespeare /Oxford (Univ)/ OTA = Oxford Text Archive /Oxford (Univ)/ Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (Bodleian Library) /York (Univ)/ Graveyard Database UNITED STATES: /AZ ??? (Univ AZ)/ Documentary Relations of the Southwest Project /AZ Tucson (Museum)/ Documentary Relations of the Southwest /CA Berkeley (Univ CA)/ Anthologies of Italian Music and Lyric Poetry of the Renaissance /CA Berkeley (State??)/ SDB = State Data Bank [supplements ICPSR/Michigan] /CA Berkeley (Univ CA)/ Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus /CA Davis (Univ CA)/ Project Rhetor /CA Irvine (Univ CA)/ TLG = Thesaurus Linguae Grecae /CA LosAltos (Inst)/ PHI = Packard Humanities Institute /CA LosAngeles (UCLA)/ Computerization of Arabic Biographical Dictionaries for the Onomasticon Arabicum /CA MenloPark (Cent)/ Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities /CA Riverside (Univ CA)/ Laboratory for Historical Research /CA Riverside (Univ CA)/ Biographical Data Base for the Soviet Bureaucracy /CA SanDiego (Univ CA)/ International Electronic Archive of the Romancero /CA SantaBarbara (Univ CA)/ Domesday Book Database /CA SantaMonica (Getty Art Hist Info Prog)/ Provenance Index /CA Stanford (Univ)/ Institute of Basic German /CO Colorado (Univ)/ Siouan Languages Archive /CO Boulder (Univ CO)/ CCRH = Center for Computer Research in Humanities /CT Hamden (??)/ Encyclopedic Thematic Catalog of Russian Sacred Choral Music /DC Washington (Georgetown Univ)/ Electronic Text Repository /DE Newark (Univ DE)/ Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771 /FL Talahasee (FL State Univ)/ Center for Music Research /HI Manoa (Univ HI)/ Salish Lexicography /IL Chicago (Univ)/ ARTFL = American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language /IL Chicago (Newberry Lib)/ County Boundaries of Selected United States Territories/States /IL DeKalb (N IL Univ)/ Tai Dam Dictionary and Text on Computer /IL Urbana (Univ IL)/ Hymn Tune Index /MA Boston (Center??)/ Census of Gothic Sculpture in America /MA Cambridge (Harvard Univ)/ Boston Dainas Project /MA Cambridge (Harvard Univ, Boston Univ)/ Perseus Project /MA Williamstown (Getty Art Hist Info Prog)/ Art and Architecture Thesaurus /MD Baltimore (Johns Hopkins Univ)/ CAL = Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon /MI AnnArbor (Univ MI)/ Family Life and Conditions in the US, 1888- 1936 /MI AnnArbor (Univ MI)/ ICPSR = Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research /MI Dearborn (Univ MI)/ Comprehensive Computer Data Bank of the Medicinal Plants of Native America /MS Hattiesburg (S MS Univ)/ Faulkner Computer Concordance /NC Durham (Duke Univ)/ DDBDP = Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri /NC Winston-Salem (Museum)/ Index of Early Southern Artists and Artisans /NH Hanover (Dartmouth Univ, Princeton Univ)/ Dartmouth Dante Project /NJ NewBrunswick (Rutgers Univ)/ Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank /NJ New Brunswick (Rutgers)/ Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae /NJ Princeton (Inst Advanced Studies)/ Greek Inscriptions from Asia Minor /NJ Princeton (Univ)/ American Founding Fathers Project /NY Binghamton (SUNY)/ Italian Madrigal and Related Reportories: Indexes to Printed Collections, 1500-1600 /NY Ithaca (Cornell Univ)/ Greek Inscriptions from Attica /NY Ithaca (Cornell Univ)/ Cornell Blake Concordance Texts /NY NewYork (Columbia Univ)/ Women in Religious Communities: Italy 500-1500 /NY NewYork (Columbia Univ)/ Data Archive, Center for Social Sciences /NY NewYork (Columbia Univ)/ Data Base on Labor Unrest in Imperial Russia /NY NewYork (Columbia Univ)/ Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language /NY NewYork (Columbia Univ)/ Buddhist Canon Project /NY NewYork (Jewish Theological Seminary)/ Talmud Text Databank /NY NewYork (NYU)/ The Verdi Archive /OH Cleveland (Cleveland State Univ)/ Century-of-Prose Corpus /PA Philadelphia (Drexel Univ)/ The Latin Writings of Milton /PA Philadelphia (Univ PA)/ CCAT = Center for Computer Analysis of Texts /PA Philadelphia (Univ PA)/ Language Analysis Project /RI Providence (Brown Univ)/ WWP = Women Writers Project /RI Providence (Brown Univ)/ Romanian Love Incantations /RI Providence (Brown) ??/ Nelson Francis Brown Corpus /TX DelValle (??)/ Chol (Mayan) Dictionary Database /TX Edinburg (Pan American Univ)/ RGFA + Rio Grande Folklore Archive /UT Provo (Brigham Young Univ)/ HRC = Humanities Research Center /UT SaltLakeCity (Church of Latter Day Saints)/ Genealogical Data /WI Madison (Univ WI)/ DOSL = Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language /WI Milwaukee (Marquette Univ)/ Works of Karl Rahner Project From: Brian Whittaker Subject: emulating PF keys Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 00:02:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 270 (429) Charles Ess inquired about emulating PF keys. For the Macintosh, Red Ryder version 10 does a pretty good VT100 emulation, including PF keys from 1 to 12. The PF keys are mapped onto the number pad on the Mac keyboard, but for reasons unexplained the rows are flipped top to bottom; however, Red Ryder comes with a utility called "Install Keypad" which allows you to re-order the PF keys. Red Ryder is produced by Scott Watson's FreeSoft Company, 150 Hickory Drive, Beaver Falls, PA 15010. It began as shareware, but is now commercial. It is readily programmable if you want to automate recurring operations. Brian Whittaker Department of English Atkinson College, York University BRIANW@YORKVM2 From: Ruth Glynn (RGLYNN@UK.AC.OX.VAX) Subject: Word for Word etc. Date: 17 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 271 (430) I too use *Word for Word* and find it quite efficient. For those who have *Nota Bene*, use the XyWrite option with *WfW*, just as you can with *Ventura Publisher*. To date I haven't had any problems using this route. The price of *WfW* in the UK is 143 pounds, plus VAT, plus 10 pounds P&P. Educational establishments may, however, get it at a discount. Suppliers are Corporate Software Ltd Corporate House Horseshoe Park Pangbourne Reading RG8 7JW Despatch is very quick. Ruth Glynn From: JANSON@brandeis.bitnet Subject: conference announcements Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 10:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 739 (431) Centre for Low Countries Studies "The Low Countries and the World" An International and Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at University College London 12-15 April 1989. Keynote Speakers: Christopher Brown (N.Gallery,London) W.P. Gerritsen (Dutch Lit., Utrecht) Jozef IJsewijn (Neo-Latin Studies,Leuven) E.H. Kossman (History,Groningen) Simon Schama (history,Harvard) J.W. de Vries (Dutch Studies, Leiden) Parallel Workshops on Middle Ages, Renaissance, Golden Age, Enlightenment & Romanticism, Modern Period Further Information: Centre for Low Countries Studies, Foster Court Room 35, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT "Emblem Books and the Telling Image" First Minnesota Conference on Cultural Emblematics April 27-28, 1989 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota This conference presents research on cultural emblematics in Western traditions, using both temporal and structural perspectives. The program is particularly relevant to the fields of European and American literature, history, art history, costume history, education, and related curriculum development. Further information: Professor Ayers Bagley Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota or the Emblems Study Group University of Minnesota 466 Wilson Library Minneapolis, MN 55455 I am also willing to give what information I have about the programs to inquirers. Carol Janson Dept of Fine Arts Brandeis University Waltham Mass 02254 From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: Oxford Electronic Shakespeare, etc., cont. (84) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 22:37:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 272 (432) Ivy Anderson's comments on the price and usefulness of the electronic Shakespeare raise some interesting questions about the role of computers in the library, and also some interesting questions about the role of the library in scholarship. I believe the crux of the matter is the function of the library in research. Is the library a place where one can actually *do* research, or is it only a place where one can look up the research that others have done? Library acuisitions in the computer hardware and software area seem to be directed largely, perhaps even entirely, towards the latter function. Thus indexes, abstracts and information files (rather than data files) seem to be the order of the day. These products permit the scholar to find out very quickly what hypothesis other scholars have pursued or are pursuing. Products like the electronic Shakespeare, on the other hand, might actually be used to *do* research, not merely the high powered statistical approach to literary stylistics, but also less technical question like "Do the words RIGHT and BLOOD ever occur in the same speech in any of Shakespeare's history plays?" This question of the function of the library may have a geographic flavour. Some universities are blessed with libraries rich in manuscripts and first editions. I suspect that at those universities professors and students alike go to the library to do research with the original documents. Those of us not fortunate to be at one of those ancient intitutions may be tempted (or obliged?) to use our libraries differently: students look up what has been written about Hamlet in order to crib material for their essays; professors look up what has been written about Hamlet, one hopes, not to crib material but in order to make the best use of a week or a whole sabbatical at the distant library that has the early primary documents. In other words, in some places students, faculty and librarians are accustomed to seeing the library as a place to look things up, largely because there is not much else one can do in those libraries. So, if the electronic Shakespeare is not an instrument for looking up what research others have done, but rather an instrument for doing research, then the question is "Where does one do research?" If students, professors and librarians are all agreed that people do research in the library, then surely all university libraries and most metropolitan reference libraries will buy the electronic Shakespeare, and Ivy Anderson assures us that the price is quite reasonable by library standards. If, on the other hand, the library is merely a place to look up what others have done, then those wishing to use the electronic Shakespeare will have to buy their own copies, at a price that is steep for a professor and prohibitive for a student. I am glad that Ms. Anderson has raised this question for discussion. I expect that most librarians will hesitate over acquiring the electronic Shakespeare for the same reasons she has expressed. However, I fear that most librarians will draw their own conlusions rather than consulting the users as she has done. Brian Whittaker Department of English Atkinson College, York University BRIANW@YORKVM2 From: Brad Inwood (416) 978-3178 INWOOD at UTOREPAS Subject: Date: 15 March 1989, 14:18:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 273 (433) SUBJECT: Shakespearian clarification It does sound splendid, to run shakespeare from your CD-ROM, in any format; if you have a CD-ROM drive and the DOS-extensions to run it. And so forth. The point about being a "non-starter" is simple enough. Most scholars I know are still grinding along on XT-s or AT-s. They don't as a rule have affordable access to the hardware and expertise needed (or the money to buy them) to go the route that scholars at well furnished research centres can go. Even without CD-ROM technology one can make good use of electronic texts -- and we all have floppy drives on our computers. That is why it makes sense, for all the merits of CD-ROM, to publish major texts on floppy disc in the first instance. Archives etc. can always have their CD-ROM version; but the average humanist scholar is ill-equipped and probably a bit of a techno-klutz. It is this "mass" scholarly market which needs to be served first. But on reflection, is CD-ROM storage the ideal route to go now? Even with the cash to buy into it, many people might want to wait just a bit longer for a technology with read-write capability and faster access times -- I am not the first person to notice that CD-ROM has not had the market acceptance so widely predicted when it was first introduced. There are reasons for that, after all. My last plaint is trivial. If we are going to off-load the text to magnetic media whenever we need to modify it for our own purposes, then why should we care what medium we off-load from, floppies or CD-ROM? This kind of consideration hardly argues for primary distribution on CD-ROM. My original crack about CD-ROM distribution being a non-starter was part of a complaint about Sebastian Rahtz's carping at OUP, no more than that But Bob Kraft has made me think a bit more about the issue of storage media, distribution, etc. Are the issues significantly affected by the texts we are distributing and storing? The TLG corpus *needs* a CD-ROM. But Plato and Aristotle alone do not. Neither would Locke, if we could get him. Neither would Shakespeare. Big compound corpora needed for non-dynamic reference need one sort of medium. Single-author text-bases designed for intensive research and manipulation need another. Let us not get stuck on the CD-ROM juggernaut by going over to it for primary distribution except in cases of real need. Brad Inwood Classics, Univeristy of Toronto From: THEALLDF@TrentU.CA Subject: censorship at Stanford and elsewhere Date: Sun, 19 Mar 89 13:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 274 (434) I share Joe Giampapa's suprise at the virtual absence of comment on the article which he circulated on March 2d concerning an incident at Stanford University. It is even more suprising following the one comment contributed by Stephen Clausing on March 13th. His observation that Stanford as a private institution has the right to control publication cuts right to the heart of the issue of whether or not one can distinguish between publication and access to information, particularly with the growing importance of telecommunications for academic discussion and research. While a bulletin board or discussion line is a means of publication, it is also a source of data. Since those in control of publication have not allowed me to see the joke in question, I cannot comment specifically on that joke -- but notwithstanding the content, I believe it ought to be available once it has been posted and certainly after it has appeared in print in the San Jose newspapers. There are three reasons for this: first, jokes, like graffiti, are symptoms and it is unhealthy for us not to have the early warnings provided by such symptoms. The problem is not the repetition of the joke, especially in the neutral context of a database of jokes; it is the partially hidden situation to which the joke is alluding. This should hardly be esoteric to humanists after Freud -- in fact, after Aristophanic comedy. Second, there is the question of the role of university administration, or even bodies of academic overseers, in the determination of what is or is not appropriate for researchers in the humanities and social sciences to access. Is the morality of university senates or university administration any less susceptible to error or corruption than that of other forms of government? As a professor and a former president of a small university, I am uneasy with the suggestion that senior administrations or academic senates make such decisions, even if it were proper, wise or prudent to do so, since these are decisions which it ought not be necessary to make in the context of an academic community. Even though we are discussing electronic communication, it is prudent to remember that as recently as the Second World War period, some libraries felt quite free to limit access to books considered to be obscene, such as Joyce's Ulysses, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, or Henry Miller's Tropics. In fact, access to de Sade was difficult in many areas in the 50's. Less than one hundred years ago in some jurisdictions there were arguments in favour of prohibiting the reading of Darwin. It is not that long ago that many Latin texts were only readily available in expurgated editions. While the censorship of a single, probably quite trivial joke (How can I be sure it is trivial when I do not know the text?), may seem irrelevant by comparison, the principle involved, that anyone should decide what another can read or see or hear, is problematic. It is doubly critical when it occurs in an academic environment where the protection of academic freedom is so essential. If I were using the Stanford bulletin board to study jokes in relation to immediately contemporary texts, as an index to contemporary community problems or in some other way, should an official in computer studies or the senior administration be able to determine the propriety of that which I have access to? Particularly at the present moment these are critical questions. It is always difficult to have to argue for specific cases, since very frequently they involve utterances with which we are in fundamental disagreement. Finally, there is the fact that in the United States where this discussion began, there are guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press, which ought to extend to electronic discussions and electronic transfer of information within the academic community, if that community is to be genuinely free. I appreciate the fact that in the history of court decisions on telecommunications the exercising of this right has been treated as a complex issue, but certainly the privilege of freedom of communication should extend to all who want to think, speak, and communicate. In fact, the Canadian Charter of Rights, enacted in 1982, guarantees freedom of communication, though subject to a criterion of reasonableness. Ought not humanists argue that this criterion of reasonableness ought cover only the most flagrant misuses of communication such as the crying of "Fire!" in a crowded building? If we cannot consider the electronic networks as open and uncensored, can they be used with full effectiveness? Is it not essential we all permit (not tolerate) expressions of what we dislike and disapprove in order to carry out a mutually informed discourse. If we cannot treat such questions with understanding, how can we pursue our various vocations which require the interpretation of texts and the human experience. Certainly publishers as corporate institutions have owned the publication facilities and they have had the right of what to print or not to print. Yet has that always proved desirable? Demands for and acts of censorship of texts of value and importance still occur more frequently than we would like to admit. Electronic communication may represent an important alternative in publication. On this broader issue, I would mention that as recently as last May Channel 4 in the UK refused to show a film (scheduled to be shown after midnight) made in 1968 which won the annual award of the World Council of Churches when it first appeared, even though it was relevant to the discussion of 1968 to which the channel had devoted the entire week. In making these remarks I appreciate the need for the "owners" of discussion lines to exercise editorial discretion and to intervene to spare most of us from purely personal issues and bickering. But the question of how this editorial activity needs to be exercised is one which needs continuous ongoing consideration. The joke in question would I am sure be inappropriate as a submission to HUMANIST, just as our speculations on the cost of "electronic Shakespeare" would be inappropriate to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. But once the joke is a matter of discussion, quoted in the public press, protected by guarantees of freedom of publication, perhaps it ought to be quoted when the rest of the text is quoted. (I am not criticizing Willard's decision; I probably would have made the same decision in his position given the guidelines within which HUMANIST works. We must, however, constantly review our guidelines.) Controversial texts for discussion should be available in a correct and complete version. Stanford was clearly threatening freedom of expression in an academic environment by exercising censorship, for it had permitted a bulletin board on jokes. Nor would the answer be to prohibit bulletin boards of such a nature. Perhaps they need, like films and late night shows, disclaimers and warnings. The underside of our society which they expose (often unconsciously) requires sustained discussion and debate which are not enhanced by supression. By calling our attention to this article Joe Giampapa has made a valuable contribution to HUMANIST. Donald Theall "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties." - Milton PS - some definitions requested in a previous message: censor ....2. one who exercises official or officious supervision over morals or conduct; 2b. an official in some countries who...." (Oxford English Dictionary) censor 1. An authorized examiner of literature, plays or other material, who may prohibit what he [sic!] considers morally or otherwise objectionable.... 3. Any person who condemns and censures. (American Heritage Dictionary) From: Willard McCarty Subject: unlicensed publishing Date: 18 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 275 (435) Donald Theall's note is a welcome attempt to expose to view once again the difficult problem of censorship and the related one of editorial control on Humanist. It is valuable precisely because it does not proceed from the assumption that censorship is itself the only problem. Nevertheless, I think it tends to underestimate the craft of the worm. Theall quotes Milton on censorship, as an educated person can almost be expected to do, but he does not note that in the Areopagitica, where Milton argues most eloquently for "unlicensed printing", a line is drawn between what can and cannot be printed. For a 17th century Puritan, very much involved in defending the new state against its enemies, Milton found certain writings intolerable: in his words, those arguing for "popery and all open superstition, which, as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate... that also which is impious or evil absolutely, either against faith or manners, no law can possibly permit, that intends not to unlaw itself". So also in the U.S., where matters of religion are not linked to civil and military authority, we find the doctrine of "clear and present danger"; the example usually given is, as Theall notes, shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. The danger comes when the doctrine is extended to less obvious cases. Sometimes we seem to get this right, and sometimes we very clearly don't. My point is that the problem of censorship is never simple. I agree with Theall that vigilance is always necessary. Editorial control is a related issue, not the same issue. The editor of a journal or newsletter can be expected to include material relevant to the aim of the publication and to exclude other things as irrelevant. He or she may reject poorly written articles, and must sometimes for the sake of the publication exclude things likely to result in serious trouble, such as insults or other libelous matter. Now Humanist is not a publication in the usual sense, but it has always tended in that direction, away from the verbal free-for- all so often characteristic of newsgroups towards a forum for mindful discussion and useful exchange of information. Those who want the electronic free-for-all are certainly free to have it, providing they put in the work required to set up and maintain the discussion group, but as editor of Humanist I continue to think that this is not the place. My role, as I interpret it, is to facilitate the best possible forum for computing humanists wherever e-mail reaches. Sometimes this means not publishing material that might needlessly derail a particular discussion, insult some of the membership, or even lead to the disintegration of the group. With a group of this size and diversity of nationalities, such threats are not imaginary; indeed, all three have materialized at various times in the last two years. The joke to which Theall refers I eliminated because I saw no purpose in publishing it, other than to insult two of our constituent groups. Matters of principle are important, I agree, but citing a principle can falsely elevate a cheap joke. Is it not true that all of us censor our remarks every day, figuring that to speak the "truth" may not be worth the consequences -- which may include obscuring a greater truth? Let someone show that the areopagitic Milton is not in principle a good example for us all to follow. Willard McCarty From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: The Bard and cd-rom Date: 20 Mar 89 11:53:30 gmt X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 276 (436) On Shakespeare why not consult the thesis by Tom B. Horton done at Edinburgh University using machine readable texts. The latter should still be around somewhere on our mainframe. Horton worked on stylometric comparisons, and is now in Florida. On cd-rom I can't comment on Shakespeare but fellow Ibycus users will know that large chunks of Milton are on the PHI rom. Using Ibycus with Greek literature is a great asset. David M. From: Ruth Glynn (RGLYNN@UK.AC.VAX.OX) Subject: CD-ROMs and floppy-disk publications Date: 20 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 277 (437) Brad Inwood's comments of 15 March ('Shakespeare Clarification') raise several issues on electronic distribution media. At the end of 1988 the installed base of CD drives was approx. 50,000 -- about half the anticipated figure for 1988, which was supposed to be the 'Year of the CD'. There are several reasons for this and they are not all related: (i) there remains too much vapourware -- even large software houses have had difficulty in meeting publication deadlines because the editorial and data-prep burdens proved far greater than envisaged both in time and expense; (ii) much of what comes out is little better than straight textual material with unexciting retrieval software wrapped around it (there is the odd exception); (iii) the hardware remains *very* expensive -- in the UK you won't get much change from 650 pounds even if you bulk buy (say 5 units at a time); (iv) the market is confused by the variety of optical media available and, particularly, is deterred from purchasing kit for the existing technology because it has been seduced by expectations of something better 'coming soon' -- usually erasables. The last point is important, and you do have to distinguish between the different optical and magnetic media and examine what each has to offer. Brad Inwood is quite right in stressing the need for and usefulness of floppy disk as the appropriate medium for non-dynamic reference material for suitably sized publications. But I do not think that erasables are necessarily right where CD-ROMs may be wrong. Erasables do not pose the greatest threat to CD-ROMs, but rather to magnetic storage media. The markets for these two optical media are different: it seems that erasables will (should) take off in the PC consumer market, superseding magnetic disks; CDs, on the other hand, should trade on their advantage as a static medium and this needs to be emphasized as a selling-point. (Incidentally, erasable drives are even more expensive than CD drives -- the figure I have seen quoted for the Maxtor drive is in the order of 4000 pounds, with the cartridges retailing at around 100 pounds each.) Floppy-disk publications and CD publications can be regarded as fulfilling different functions -- as different in their own way as a printed text is from an electronic. For the CD to succeed, however, it must enjoy 'added value' -- i.e. make the most of advantages not offered by printed or isolated electronic documents. (Of course this is in the context of the academic market: major financial, medical and government institutions and industrial manufacturers find CD-ROMs with purely 'functional' retrieval software ideal vehicles to replace massive and frequent in-house paper publications.) CDs must also begin to offer publications that have been well planned so that the most useful paths, cross-references and links are built in. To do this CD publishers need to exploit the potential of Hypertext (I don't particularly like this term either, but we seem to be stuck with it), which can be made to work to advantage in the context of multi-edition texts, critical apparatus etc., just as well as it can in, say, the context of molecular biology. The editorial effort, planning and presentation that would go into such an electronic publication is comparable to that devoted to an author's typescript by the copy-editor, the designer and the printer. But the publisher needs to consult with state-of-the-art software houses and bring in expertise not traditionally associated with his business for such an electronic publication to succeed. He also needs to listen to the market -- it will be feedback from the users that will ultimately shape successful future publications. Most of what has been published to date on CD has been mundane and unexciting in exploiting what the medium has to offer. The reasons for this cannot be attributed wholly either to the publishers or to the software houses who have written the retrieval software -- both are feeling their way in a new environment. It is only a matter of time before the blend of these two areas of expertise acting on market response, delivers the goods properly packaged, easy of access, and at an attractive price. For CD to to become more popular as a publishing medium, this 'added value' element must be fully exploited so that CD-ROMs become less an interesting side-line and more of a necessity. Ruth Glynn From: David.A.Bantz@mac.Dartmouth.EDU Subject: Re: the cost of Shakespeare, cont. (18) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 12:30:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 278 (438) --- Ruth Glynn (RGLYNN@UK.AC.OX.VAX) wrote: [Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 735] Friday, 17 Mar 1989. "Twenty favorite plays" for $175...around $350 for the lot... which is more than the OUP electronic edition.... --- end of quoted material --- But the original posting indicated the "Stratford Town" version specifically allowed multiple copies; the $300 price for OUP version is single user; site license is listed at $1000/five year license. That may still be a reasonable price, depending on the reliability/thoroughness/appropriateness of the editorial decisions. I'm a little disapointed there doesn't seem to be indication of variants, or other comments, etc. and that the format is straight ASCII with in-line mark-up. I would like to put a "front end" on the texts with nicer formatting, but wonder if the text encoding and indexes are sufficiently documented. From: "DOV - DR. ART ST. GEORGE" Subject: Translation Program Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 08:19 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 279 (439) I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has knowledge of a Spanish to English translation program. Thanks. From: Peter D. Junger Subject: Query re: "artificial intelligensia" Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 12:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 280 (440) As I recall Seymour Papert uses the phrase "artificial intelligentsia" in one of his books and credits that happy construction to another author. Can someone either correct my recollection or--better-- give me the citation to where this appears in Papert or the other author? Thank you. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Peter D. Junger Subject: A List Taken from Borges Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 15:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 281 (441) The following message was posted in PHILRELSOC ISSUE #33 _________________________COPIED MESSAGE____________________________________ FROM: AL ESSA SUBJECT: ONTOLOGY My suggestion of what there is (following Borges): (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.' The point is this: it's one thing to enumerate a list of categories, it's quite another to show how they derive and how they cohere. Take Aristotle: he doesn't simply give a list in arbitrary fashion, but suggests a principle according to which his categories are to be derived. He also has an elaborate theory of how the various senses of being are to be related. ______________________END OF COPIED MESSAGE__________________________________ I asked Al Essa, but he did not know where in the works of Borges this story can be found, saying 'I found it in the preface of *The Order of Things* by Michel Foucault...it begins "This book first arose out of a passage in Borges..." Foucault goes on to say that "This passage quotes a 'certain Chinese encylopaedia' in which it is written that 'animals are divided into.." The list that I wrote matches exactly the one given by Foucault.' I would be most grateful if anyone could point me toward the place in Borges's works where this passage occurs. I have seen references to it before. Since any computer program that can deal with "legal reasoning"-- or with the recognition of allusions, to mention a topic discussed on this list--will have to deal with problems of categorization, I suspect that it raises, in a backhanded way, one of the critical problems in humanities computing: How can .... or, better: Can a computer recognize when a human being would say that a certain instance belongs to a certain category? Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: Discussion Group for Journal Editors Date: 20 Mar 89 14:09:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 744 (442) I intend to start a list called EDITOR for those directly concerned with the editing and publishing of scholarly journals. While anyone is certainly welcome to join, the main audience of the list will be editors of scholarly journals in the humanities. The primary purpose will be to exchange information on computer use in editing, journal management, and production. In addition, the list will allow the timely display of information on such topics as special numbers and the exchange of advertisements, and, of course, discussion of such topics as may arise, from library policies to copyrights to blind reviews. At this point I intend EDITOR to be a moderated list appearing once a week. I am assuming not much traffic at first. If circumstances change, I will adjust. For starters, if you are interested in joining such a list, drop me a line with your name, Netmail address, and, if you are connected with a journal, the name of the journal. The first thing I will do is make a mailing list. Next, if you have any questions or concerns or comments to start the ball rolling, send those along too. Mail should be sent to MHAYWARD@IUP. From: G.R.Hart@durham.ac.uk Subject: Re: CALL survey (54) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 11:49:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 745 (443) Languages: Ancient Greek and Latin Name of package -none: home produced materials Latin exercises run on mainframe, and are written in IPS authoring language: still used occasionally, though course and teachers have changed since they were written, mainly in 1982-3. Greek: home-produced again. Early version written in MSBASIC, running on Apricot PC: later version (currently in use with classes) in RM BASIC on Nimbus (some with pictures). More of an ongoing experiment than a finished product: level, elementary. From: Mark Olsen Subject: Jokes and censorship Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 00:17:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 282 (444) May I suggest that we store all material "censored" from HUMANIST in a file on the server? Truly objectional material could be packaged with morally uplifting citations, since we cannot supply the 'presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and two other trustees' until recently required by the British Museum for consultations of material like certain manuscripts by M de Sade. A dispensation perhaps? Mark From: "Tom Benson 814-238-5277" Subject: censorship and principles Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 08:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 283 (445) In HUMANIST 2:741 (19 March 1989), Willard McCarty, defending the exercise of editorial prerogative that had the same result as what, in the setting of the Stanford BBS, amounted to censorship, writes: [deleted quotation] No, I don't think so, Willard. We may exercise restraint in our remarks, but it is censorship when some OTHER person imposes that restraint upon us. I think, with respect, that your use of "censor" in this sentence equivocates. [deleted quotation] Milton's "principles" are what we should be following; not his sometimes regrettable "example." Many of the stoutest defenders of liberty have, in practice, sometimes failed to live up to the principles they advocated. It is for us to do the best we can to apply those principles with courage and evenhandedness. I have very seldom written to HUMANIST, and I hesitate to send something that may seem critical of our respected editor, whose services to the community have been so great. In this case (though admittedly I have not seen the offending joke), it seems to me that the presumption ought to favor publication, followed perhaps by condemnation of the joke--but not condemnation of its publication. Tom Benson Penn State University From: Peter D. Junger Subject: censorship and editorial control Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 10:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 284 (446) One reason that there has been so little reaction to the Stanford censorship issue is that this is--for many of us--a busy time of the year. Another reason for the lack of silence is the fact that this issue was fairly extensively discussed on other lists, such as ETHICS-L. The major reason for the absence of discussion is probably, however, the fact that Stanford seems to have banned the joke, or the list containing the joke, almost by accident. From what I have read on the other lists, it appears the the computer science faculty roundly denounced the ban and, as I recall, the Stanford faculty senate also denounced it. The joke remained available from listservers, it (or the bulletin board that contained it) was no longer given a physical home on a Stanford machine. On balance, it appears that free speach is alive and well in Palo Alto. Since the academic community at Stanford has behaved so well in this matter, there is little reason for anyone to get upset. I think that we should, however, be grateful to the Stanford computer science department for their vigilance in the defense of our liberties. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: AYI004@IBM.SOUTHAMPTON.AC.UK Subject: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 14:59:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 285 (447) Censorship - An Open? Letter to Humanists You give us fine words about editorial responsibility, Willard, but I wonder if other Humanists know that you have blocked all comment on the Rushdie affair because of your opinion that it is not relevant to Humanists. To conduct this small-minded censorship in secrecy is shameful. The least we can expect from you is a mature statement of principle on what is indeed a painful and dangerous issue. Brian Molyneaux From: FFAAE01@BLEKUL11.bitnet Subject: Re: Belgian medieval data? (33) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 10:50:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 747 (448) I suggest to ask : JACKA at PENNDRLN, who must know the electronic address of the center. I believe it must be either at Louvain-la-Neuve (the other Leuven University) or at Maredsous, and it must be Father Poswick who gathers that information (probably at both addresses). Jose Lambert From: Daniel Ridings Subject: No. 656 and Micro-OCP Date: 20 Mar 89 11:39:54 EDT (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 748 (449) With reference to Sebastian Rahtz's complaints about my lengthy notes on problems with OCP, I would like to point out that I have addressed the problem with Micro-OCP directly to OUP without receiving a response. The bug is there as anyone can confirm by running the example in Humanist Vol. 2 no. 652. OUP has placed an expensive price tag on OCP. I interpreted this as a signal that they intend to support the product and I expect they will. The only responses from OUP thus far have followed inquiries to Humanist, however. Sebatian wondered why anyone would use OCP. There are certainly many answers and any humanist would be able to give quite a few, most of which can be gleaned from the index of the OCP-manual. But probably the most important aspect is that the program is designed to be used even by the computer novice. The command language is simple and describes what one wishes to do in plain English. This spares us from having to have too much contact with the techie-types down at the computing center. In daily life I am quite used to the contempt shown for the humanities and the attitudes which question one's choice of study. I really had not expected in a forum for humanists that the Greek I used would be called "martian". I apologize for the late response. Sweden has been cut off from the BITNET world until just recently. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 286 (450) test - please ignore From: Robert Kirsner (213)825-3955 Subject: Re: Africaans? Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 23:02 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 287 (451) There is someone who has developed IBM software for elementary Afrikaans at Brigham Young University. J. du Plessis. Depending on your machine, it works either vry fst ooorrr vvveeerrryyy slllooowwly. but Jacques probably has the bugs out of it by now. From: Subject: Borges' List Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 12:29 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 288 (452) The list "from a Chinese Encyclopedia" is given in "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", in *Other Inquisitions 1927-52* (Univ of Texas Press 1964), pp.101-5. Borges gives a reference via "Dr.Franz Kuhn" to the *Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge*. Lists like this are discussed (I think: I haven't been able to check my memory) in Jack Goody's Domestication of the Savage Mind, and perhaps in Walter Ong. Regards, Stephen Clark From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 10:35:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 289 (453) I am puzzled by Daniel Ridings comments on Micro-OCP and his not getting any response from OUP. I have just checked our sales records and our files: no one of that name has either purchased a copy of the PC version from us nor written to us with any queries about the same. It occurs to me that Mr Ridings may have confused the PC version of the software with the mainframe version. If he is a user of the mainframe version he will have written to OUCS who distribute and support it, and not to us. All queries on the PC version should be addressed in the first instance to Mrs Anne Yates, Customer Support, Oxford Electronic Publishing, OUP, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP (or via email AYATES@uk.ac.ox.vax). I would appreciate it then if Mr Ridings could supply details of when and to whom he addressed his enquiry, and from whom he purchased his copy of the software. We aim to answer all user queries as promptly as possible, but can't really be held responsible for material not reaching us in the first place! Ruth Glynn P.S. I have only recently joined Humanist, hence why I have not previously been able to contribute to discussions. I missed therefore the correspondence and discussion of OCP. From: Peter D. Junger Subject: Address of Jon Bing and/or Norwegian Research Center for Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 16:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 750 (454) Computers and Law Does anyone know if there is an E-mail address for either Jon Bing or the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law? Bing and the Center appear to be the leading experts on text retrieval from legal archives. Thank you. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Joe Giampapa Subject: concerning the Association of Research Libraries Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 07:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 290 (455) I haven't studied all of this, but I thought that HUMANISTs might be interested in it. Follows: 1. ARL press release 2. ARL action needed alert to library directors 3. ARL letter to OMB 4. ARL letter to Congress (Conyers,Wise,Bingaman) ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES 1527 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 202-232-2466 ARL@UMDC ALA0180 FAX 202-462-7849 February 28, 1989 ARL CALLS FOR FULL REVIEW OF OMB INFORMATION POLICIES (Washington, D.C.) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) called on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to initiate a full-scale public review of OMB Circular A-130. OMB Circular A-130 is a key information policy statement adopted in 1985. ARL also called on Congress to make this review part of the upcoming reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act, scheduled for 1989. ARL urged OMB to complete the review of A-130 prior to initiating new information policy regulations. ARL described OMB's information policies as a major obstacle to federal agencies in their efforts to comply with congressional mandates to disseminate government information. These policies have led to severe restrictions on public access to government information. Duane E. Webster, ARL Executive Director, writing to OMB on behalf of the Association, cites three overall objections to Circular A-130: Role of government in the delivery of information to the public: Circular A-130 supports a role for the private sector IN LIEU of a government role. ARL and others support a role for the private sector IN ADDITION to a government role. Availability and format of information: Circular A-130 makes a policy distinction about HOW information is to be made available based on the format of the information (paper or electronic). ARL and others contend that format should not dictate policy. Cost recovery: A-130 has been interpreted as REQUIRING agencies to recover costs from information users. ARL and others argue that it is the nature of the information itself, and circumstances specific to the agency and the information product, that should dictate if, and the extent to which, user fees should be assessed. Mr. Webster emphasized that research library opposition to A-130 does not diminish research library support for private sector entrepreneurship. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. US-INFO POLICIES. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Willard McCarty Subject: unlocking the filelist Date: 21 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 291 (456) I just discovered that Humanist's list of files, HUMANIST FILELIST, has been "locked" for the last several days. I must have been trying to update it and somehow failed. In any case, it is now unlocked. My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced. Let me hasten to assure you all that "locking" the filelist has nothing whatsoever to do with editorial control or censorship. ListServ protects updating operations by making the crucial file temporarily unavailable; its chosen verb is "lock". Willard McCarty From: STAIRS@vm.epas.utoronto.ca Subject: Texpert Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 11:10:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 752 (457) I have tracked down the distributors of Texpert in both the U.S and Canada. In the U.S call CTA Inc at (212) 759-6201. In Canada call Uppercase Tech., at 1-800-387-4244. The price is $995 U.S. minus 30% educational discount. There is a new release out that is supposed to be hot. It runs on a Mac, can scan over 600 fonts and is trainable. They claim it can scan all Indo-European languages. Apparently it can do Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, etc. It is far less expensive than Calera's TrueScan, and with its multi-lingual abilities seems perfect for Humanists. The new version should be out now. P.S. I just heard about a new scanner by Hewett-Packard that offers 600 DPI and more gray scale called (what else?) the ScanJet+. HP offer an educational discount (at least here in Canada) and their price is quite good. I will post an update when I find out more. Mike Stairs Site Coordinator Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto 416-978-6391 STAIRS@UTOREPAS From: J. K. McDonald Subject: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 10:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 753 (458) Language: Italian Program: Q'VINCI used at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, by my colleague D.L. Bastianutti and myself between 1980 and 1987. Support: IBM mainframe, on APL (4.0) through 100 terminals around campus. Still in mainframe memory though unused since my retirement in 1987. Demos: at ICCH in 1985 (Provo), various Ontario locales, Warwick in 1986 (v. Noemi Messora). Description: Home-grown generative program to accompany primary and secondary levels of LL ancillary to classes; any textbook, any lexical range and frequency as instructors determine. All input controlled by instructors, lexical and syntactic exercises usually in question and answer format, restrained diagnostics, score and time kept. Machine randomly produces, e.g., "Puoi dargli il quaderno?/ Si', posso darglielo." Ratio of preparation time to student user time: about 2 or 3 to 1; no programmer standby needed. Comment: Restricted to Queen's mainframe, APL not favoured for future development of program, part of database locked in code and not transferable to other languages. THEREFORE, back to drawing board. Now called just VINCI, micro version is being readied. The program is rewritten in C, and language-specific databases (lexicon, morphology, syntax) are outside code. Interdepartmental cooperation has led to beginning of French version. Italian is being reborn. Spanish is a live gleam in the eyes of its genitori. Jim McDonald (MCDOJK@QUCDN.BITNET) From: Andrew Gilmartin Subject: Question about filters. Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 09:48:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 754 (459) Hypertext provides a directed approach to information access but who is going to provide the directed links? A hypertext is not an end in itself but is a system for expressing implicit and explicit relations, and for handling version and presentation control. Hypertext is the desirable frontend to something much more powerful. What we need are filtering schemes for information. The encumbrance of print material has forced us to develop codification and condensation schemes that hide this overwhelming weight of information. Unfortunately, there is no such encumbrance to assessing online information and it is this coupled with the one dimensional representation of online texts that makes the whole online experience overwhelming. Indices, tables of contents, concordances, etc, are all forms of filtering. These can and have been adapted for online use. But these schemes were originally developed for very small texts--a book, a series of essays, an encyclopedia. They wont work to manage the mass of information rapidly collecting in the world's archives (which range from the Oxford Text Archive copy of Cicero to your credit line at TRW.) There are a number of newer filters available today. The two that seem to have the most promise are searches based on criteria of terms organized hierarchically into "topics" and retrieval based on relevance ordering. Has anyone on the list used these types of filters (available in Personal Librarian, Topic, Sires)? -- Andrew Gilmartin Computing & Information Services Brown University andrew@brownvm.brown.edu From: "James H. Coombs" Subject: Categorization; allusion Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 14:58:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 755 (460) Peter Junger (20 Mar 89) asks about "A List Taken from Borges" Peter quotes that the following message was posted in PHILRELSOC ISSUE #33 My suggestion of what there is (following Borges): (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.' The point is this: it's one thing to enumerate a list of categories, it's quite another to show how they derive and how they cohere. Take Aristotle: he doesn't simply give a list in arbitrary fashion, but suggests a principle according to which his categories are to be derived. He also has an elaborate theory of how the various senses of being are to be related. But see Eleanor Rosch. 1978. "Principles of Categorization." In Rosch, Eleanor, and Barbara B. Lloyd. Cognition and Categorization. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 27-48. Rosch disagrees somewhat on the quotation, so I give her version (which has a more literary style and is more satisfying to read). Of central importance, Rosch uses the passage to illustrate a very different point. According to Rosch, it is not that we need justification for this categorization; it is that this categorization will not occur in non-literary information processing. The following is a taxonomy of the animal kingdom. It has been attributed to an ancient Chinese encyclopedia entitled the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge: On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance (Borges, 1966, p. 108). Certain types of categorizations may appear in the imagination of poets, but they are never found in the practical or linguistic classes of organisms or of man-made objects used by any of the cultures of the world. For some years, I have argued that human categorization should not be considered the arbitrary product of historical accident or of whimsy but rather the result of psychological principles of categorization, which are subject to investigation. This chapter is a summary and discussion of those principles. I suspect that this passage will seem sadly naive to many readers. Rosch's work is among the most sophisticated that I have seen. She knows Wittgenstein and has a paper (with Mervis) on family resemblances in human categorization (fuzzy sets). Basically, she introduced fuzzy set theory into (cognitive) psychology. (Zadeh 1966 was in information theory.) No one is more aware of the influences of language and culture on cognition and categorization. Her work is supported by experiments. The experiments of the last 15 years have refined her work. (This quick, awkward summary seeks to help those of us with contemporary literary theoretical training---to help keep us from dismissing Rosch's work without investigating it for ourselves.) I would guess that the quickest way to get an overview of categorization theory would be to read George Lakoff's *Women, Fire, and Other Dangerous Things*, which Lakoff represents as a summary of the work of the last 15 years, beginning with about 60 pages on the Roschian work of the mid-70s. I don't vouch for it because I haven't been able to get my hands on it yet. I doubt very much that it is worth attempting to discuss these theories here. Harnad already tried in psychnet, and things quickly blew up---not because Harnad and Lakoff could not discuss the theory with equanimity but because Harnad and most of the potential participants simply did not know the relevant theory. (Harnad recently published a book on categorical perception, but the line of inquiry is not quite the same.) In the end, the issue was there as it is everywhere: should one spend one's time in open discussion of topics about which one knows little, or should one become expert in a field and restrict discussion to informal discussion with experts and indirect (via publications) discussion with others. And how much of our attention should we direct toward metadiscussion? Harnad says "I have time to talk"; Lakoff says "I have work to do; let me know when you have done your homework." Harnad says "I don't insist that you read *my* book." (These are paraphrases.) In part, those few issues of psychnet (starting around 28?) will be interesting to people who think about electronic communications. In part, let's not repeat that discussion here. Back to Peter's note: Since any computer program that can deal with "legal reasoning"-- or with the recognition of allusions, to mention a topic discussed on this list--will have to deal with problems of categorization, I suspect that it raises, in a backhanded way, one of the critical problems in humanities computing: How can .... or, better: Can a computer recognize when a human being would say that a certain instance belongs to a certain category? Our discussion of allusion began with a mention of fuzzy-set theory. According to my understanding of allusion, an utterance is allusive to degree 0 or 1, with no in betweens. I have read nothing in categorization theory to shake my theory of allusion. I promised someone that I would elaborate on my maxim of non-repetition: "Avoid repetition (of your own or of anyone's discourse or any features thereof)." As I recall it, the point of confusion was focused on the idea of avoidance. Allusions rely on repetition, so how would a maxim against repetition explain allusions? Briefly and loosely, if I repeat recognizable features of an utterance and you recognize that repetition, your attention is going to be diverted to some extent away from my utterance and toward that other utterance. But, you think to yourself, why would he want me to think about that other utterance? He knows that I know that utterance. And he knows that I will recognize the repetition. By all appearances, he hasn't stopped making sense; I want to continue this conversation; he is usually cooperative and seems to be attempting to cooperate with me now in an interchange of information. So that other utterance must be somehow relevant to the current utterance. ALLUSION: Aha! I see. Wordsworth means to convey that his poem (The Prelude) is in some way a continuation, a going-beyond, of Milton's (Paradise Lost). *That* is why he said "the earth is all before me." Also, like Adam and Eve,.... NOT AN ALLUSION: Blast Wordsworth! Everytime I read this passage, I think of Samson Agonistes, but I can't find any reason for Wordsworth to direct my attention to SA here. I have been over it and over it. Maybe he just likes the words. Maybe I am missing something. Whatever it is, I am tired of being distracted by this repetition, and it never has been anything more than a distraction. That's the basic idea. If I repeat recognizable features, I have been uncooperative unless I intend that repetition to convey further information. (Or unless our mutual contextual beliefs are such that you will not be tempted to take the repetition as another of those instances of conveying information by repeating.) So, to allude, violate the maxim; otherwise, don't violate it. Just as to convey something ironically, violate the maxim of quality (say only that which you believe to be true); otherwise, don't violate it. Back to Peter's question. I don't know whether or not a computer could be programmed to recognize allusions. I do know that it would not be worth the effort. The problem is not important enough to solve all of the sub-problems. I could not easily enumerate the repeatable features of an utterance. There are many levels to an utterance, and all of them have repeatable features. Beyond repetition, we have a problem of recognition. I regularly say, "And that's true too." I have yet to hear someone respond, "That's from King Lear." For the Wordsworth allusion, we would have to have not only both texts on line and some pattern matcher but also something to filter out the "unrecognizable" repetitions or, more properly, the similarities that are not repetitions at all. Also, some module has to make judgments of intentionality and of implication. And we have to be able to recognize repetitions of rhythms and situations and themes and character types and combinations of character types ad indefinitum. When we solve non-allusive natural language processing, we will have most of what we need for allusion. Such processing will have to cover mutual contextual beliefs (MCBs). It will probably have to have some minimal ability to process conversational implicature. Then we can worry about repetition and the like. Unfortunately?, MCBs can be very specific. There are MCB sets that I share with individuals. All of us have participated in English conversations that were completely opaque to acquaintances that could hear every word that was exchanged. There would not be much reason to make these MCBs available to a computer, and few of us would want to give up our rights to privacy. Every group has its MCBs, and new comers learn them gradually, are only gradually allowed to help shape them. We are going to have to restrict our processing of MCBs and, consequently, our processing of natural language to relatively public utterances. (I mean utterances intended to be understood by large and "important" groups.) The practice will be similar to the practice of selecting words for general dictionaries: it goes in iff it occurs in a range of publications over at least 3-5 years (details determined by editor). Can a computer recognize when a human being would say that a certain instance belongs to a certain category? Which human being? Which day of the week? What sort of category? Is it a relatively typical instance? Is it typical for that category-context pair? A variety of experiments have found that the most typical bird is the robin. Turkey is much lower on the scale of typicality. Unless it's Thanksgiving. Then "cooking up a bird" makes people think of turkeys. We have a lot of evidence for categorization into superordinate, basic level, and subordinate. Basic level shifts with context and with expertise. "I saw John in a sedan the other day." More likely that I saw him in a "car." Most of us would wonder what was so special about John's sedanity. What, is he a convertible nut or something? If so, and I know it and all of that, then it would be strange to say that I saw him in a "car." Is this just a matter of discourse strategies? Did we also categorize at the car level? My guess is that we did not. Researchers are trying to distinguish representation from retrieval. They are finding a lot of evidence against "static" semantics. I might well create a representation at the sedan level only. I certainly could later infer that he was in a car, but I have insufficient evidence at this point for believing that I activate a node in a semantic network and that I can, therefore, be said to have categorized at a number of levels at the time of perception and representation. (Not just semantic networks: any static structure.) Computers certainly can perform some kinds of categorization very accurately. Parsers can categorize words into classes. Most of the time, a person who disagrees with the program will be wrong. (Most people don't know a verb from a noun anyway---well, they know, but they can't attach those labels.) Lotus Agenda has a category editor and a rules system. I can gradually construct rules so that it will not only know that "Meeting with Norm" should be categorized as: event_type=meeting, people=norm, priority=high, etc. We believe that a system of this sort would not be of much value for a large, shared database, however, and have elected not to pursue that direction in our work on Intermedia. According to the reports, most people want something that is more structured than Agenda anyway. People just don't have time to train a program to recognize instances of categories by enumerating them. The rules that do a little more work---such as categorizing a meeting as high priority if...---such formalisms are more complicated than most people want to work with. I hope that I have given some sense of the range of possibilities. Have to go. --Jim Dr. James H. Coombs Software Engineer, Research Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) Brown University jazbo@brownvm.bitnet From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Item for Release on HUMANIST Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 17:31:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 292 (461) HUMANIST KEVIN L. COPE INVITES ALL HUMANISTS TO MAJOR CONVENTION KEVIN L. COPE would like to invite all members of the HUMANIST grammo network to attend the forthcoming international convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, scheduled for the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel (500 Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130) next week, March 29-April 2, 1989. Event organizers, of which HUMANIST Kevin L. Cope is one, expect over 1,200 registrants from hundreds of nations. 500 papers from famous scholars will cover every aspect of eighteenth-century studies. HUMANISTS are especially urged to attend the session chaired by HUMANIST Kevin L. Cope, entitled "Locke, Leibniz, Shaftesbury, and Berkeley." Seven major scholars of the empiricists will express their views. HUMANIST Kevin L. Cope will also be delivering a paper on didactic and didacticism in eighteenth-century literature in which numerous references to information processing, information theory, computers, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology will dismiss all past errors in this area! Please do attend. For more information, fire a grammo to HUMANIST Kevin L. Cope, at ENCOPE@LSUVM. From: Subject: Philosophy Jobs in UK Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 09:40 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 293 (462) I've been asked to pass this on to interested persons. Stephen Clark, Vanderbilt (but soon to be back in Liverpool) ---------------------------------------------------------- King's College London Department of Philosophy Appointment of Two Permanent Lecturers in Philosophy Applications are invited for the above posts, tenable from 1 October 1989 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary will be on the Lecturer A scale (#9,620 - #14,500, plus London Allowance of #1,650). Candidates should have achievement or potential in research, and should be willing to teach a range of philosophical topics. Applications (ten copies), which should include the names of three referees, should reach The Personnel Officer, King's College, London WC2R 2LS (from whom further particulars may be obtained) not later than 14 April 1989. Further particulars One of the two posts arises from the promotion of Mark Sainsbury to the Susan Stebbing Chair in Philosophy. The other is funded under the NAAS scheme, in anticipation of the retirement of Brian O'Shaughnessy in September 1990. Both posts are full time and permanent. The Philosophy Department at King's forms part of the KCL Centre for Philosophical Studies, the largest group of philosophers in London. The Department was star-rated for research in the University Grant Committee's report in 1986, and the recent (February 1989) UGC Review of Philosophy recommends an expansion of the Department from the current level of 10 to 11. The Department expects to make a further appointment, in addition to the two currently advertised, to start in October 1990. At present there are about 100 undergraduate and 20 graduate students in the Department. The Department has close links with the other philosophy departments in London (especially those at UC, Birkbeck and the LSE). The main undergraduate degree, and many lectures and seminars, are federal. The Department is looking for philosophers who are strong both in research and teaching. The positions are not tied to specific areas, but the overall teaching needs of the Department (which can be discerned from the enclosed Guide) will be taken into consideration in making the appointments. Your application (ten copies, except for overseas applicants, who need send only one copy) should include the following: (a) A curriculum vitae (b) A list of publications. [We anticipate reading samples of the work of some candidates, so in listing your publications, it would be helpful if you would indicate one item (an article, or about 20 pages of a book) which you feel it would be appropriate for us to read in the first instance. Unpublished work may also be cited for this purpose, but should not be included with your application.] (c) A brief account of your recent and projected research. (d) A statement of teaching experience. [We would find it helpful to know which of the undergraduate courses listed in the Guide you would be prepared to teach.] (e) The names and, if possible, telephone numbers of two or three persons who are acquainted with your research or teaching. The closing date for applications is 14 April, and we hope to hold interviews between 1st and 3rd May. If you would like to discuss the posts informally, please telephone Mark Sainsbury on 01 873 2231. If necessary, applications or enquiries may be sent by FAX (01 836 1799) or E-mail (janet%.uk.ac.kcl.cc.elm::UDTY035). From: Ron Zweig Subject: address request Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 23:00:08 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 294 (463) Does anyone know the e-mail or regular mail address of Alan Corre, author of soon-to-be-published book on Icon? Thanks Ron Zweig From: Maurizio Lana Subject: technical documentation for SONY CDROM board Date: 22 marzo 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 295 (464) Some months ago I bought from Sony Italia a CDU 5002 CDROM drive with CDB 200 board. They sold that hardware to me when it still wasn't sold to end-users but only to OEM. As a consequence I didn't get any technical documentation for the board, but a fax of the Japanese version. Now I have some minor problems that seem related to improper setup of the interface board. Does anyone have that documentation? Would then she or he send me a photocopy? It would be unvaluably useful. Thank you in advance. Maurizio (u245@itocsip) From: Maurizio Lana Subject: is Ibycus currently sold ?? Date: 22 marzo 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 296 (465) Every time I hear of Ibycus (the computer conceived to make use of TLG CDROM) I wonder if one (end, single user, or academic institution) can buy it from Ibycus Systems, or not. My previous questions addressed directly to Ibycus Systems didn't receive any answer. Now, after reading the HUMANIST file greek.software the question another time arise. Could anyone help? Thank you. Maurizio (u245@itocsip) From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 07:20:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 297 (466) David Bantz's queries on encoding of the OUP Shakespeare: This electronic edition is specifically the '86 modern-spelling edition -- i.e. a single edition -- hence why variants etc. are not present. The coding scheme used in fully documented in the accompanying manual. The texts are not indexed. Ruth Glynn From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: Re: pardon, more Electronic Shakespeare Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 15:38:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 298 (467) to add to Bob Kraft's posting of last Wednesday, it would hard to put the full contents of 1 CD ROM onto either a pack of floppies or onto a hard disk. The advantage of the CD ROM is that it lets you store up to 500 MB on one disk, no swapping or anything. Even with HD floppies, that is over 350 floppies!! --elli mylonas (elli@wjh12.harvard.edu) From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: publication and censorship Date: 21 March 1989 17:25:48 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 299 (468) Can we please get serious here? "Freedom of the press" does not mean my right to be published -- it means my right to publish what I choose to publish. Stanford University has every right, it seems to me, to decide, on the basis of their contents, that certain news groups or lists do not contain material of a kind that Stanford wishes to devote its disk space and CPU cycles to. Or conversely that they contain material Stanford wishes specifically not to have anything to do with. I don't recall reading that Stanford was going to forbid its students in search of amusement, let alone its anthropologists studying contemporary mores, to use bulletin boards or joke lists. So frankly I can't see what in Stanford's decision can be interpreted as an attempt to determine "what is or is not appropriate for researchers in the humanities and social sciences to access", in Donald Theall's phrase. It *is* an attempt to determine what is or is not appropriate for a university computer center to assist in disseminating. One might argue that Stanford made the wrong decision, that it really is appropriate, after all, to disseminate the material. One can't, it seems to me, usefully argue that Stanford had no decision to make. We *always* are responsible for our actions, and for our inactions. Computer centers and universities *always* are deciding what is and is not appropriate for a university computer center to do: without such decisions we cannot possibly fulfill our responsibilities to the university communities whose teaching and research we support, or to those taxpayers or donors whose funds go to support our activities. Is it an appropriate use of our funds to buy this new software package, or should we use the money to buy more disk packs instead? Can we afford to upgrade VM? Can we afford not to? We are given stewardship of finite resources, sometimes at the very direct expense of others who could have used the money, -- can anyone seriously suggest that we have no responsibility for what happens to those resources? There is a fairly significant difference, worth keeping in mind, between declining to support some exercise of free speech with money, resources, or prestige, and seeking judicial or vigilante reprisals against the speaker. The latter, it seems to me, is censorship, because it not only bars a given arena to some speech or activity but attempts to bar all possible arenas to it. The former is a daily affair in any institution with finite resources (so far, in my experience, that's all of them), as well as in any individual's life. It seems to me to be not "censorship" but simple moral responsibility, as well as inalienable right. (Otherwise, how will we all plead to the charge that we are censoring the words of everyone in the world whom we do *not* quote in extenso in our postings to Humanist?) (Or more seriously, the grocers whose Israeli produce we buy or do not buy?) Stanford has been given stewardship of a substantial endowment by donors who hoped their gifts would be used for education and the cultivation of learning. The administrators of that trust have both the right and the duty to use it for its intended purposes, and not to pay for the propagation of racist jokes or other uncivil discourse. Yes, that means they are in the uncomfortable position of having to judge whether jokes are racist or not, whether discourse is civil or not. It does not mean their judgement is infallible, only that they must use it. So what else is new? Welcome to the real world. Stanford does have certain responsibilities to its students, including the responsibility to attempt to provide an environment in which they do not feel their intrinsic worth constantly under attack. On the whole, I think that responsibility outweighs their responsibility to provide disk space for jokes submitted by anyone on the net. ----- Similarly, Willard has been given the stewardship of a resource of great potential for humanistic scholarship, and I would like to thank him publicly for the work he does to preserve that resource. That includes his efforts to enforce certain minimal standards of civility. Fortunately, he does not often need to do much in that line, since our members appear on the whole a fairly civil lot, more prone to rambunctiousness than to serious offense-giving. When he does face the hard choices we sometimes confront him with, I think he does it better than anyone dare hope: with humility, and honesty, and good cheer. And (what may be more important) with good judgement. I haven't seen the joke in question, and I don't want to. Can people be serious in suggesting they want it published here? If we start publishing off-color jokes in Humanist on the grounds that they are germane to this issue, I'm going to find a lot less pleasure in this forum. My vote is with Willard on this one: anyone who wants to see the joke can write for back copies of the San Jose Mercury or subscribe to the joke list whence it emerged. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen University of Illinois at Chicago P.S. The opinions expressed are my own, not those of the University of Illinois, which would no doubt have preferred that I spend the afternoon working on the library automation system. From: Willard McCarty Subject: editorial policy Date: 22 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 300 (469) Dear Colleagues: In the light of recent events on Humanist, I have been asked for a statement of editorial policy. I plan to respond to this quite reasonable request within the next few days. Meanwhile, please be assured that as editor I do nothing in secret. I make a distinction, however, between secretly deleting a message, without informing the contributor, and privately telling him or her that I do not intend to publish it. The aspersion of shame, therefore, I think to be entirely inappropriate. It may be that Humanist has become too small for the range of topics that certain of its members wish to discuss. I would like to suggest that those Humanists who find this group intellectually or emotionally claustrophobic start up another discussion group more suitable to their predilections. It seems inevitable that the rapidly growing interest in electronic communication among humanists should result in the proliferation of groups. I will be happy to lend a hand to anyone who wishes to begin a ListServ discussion. Willard McCarty From: "Pier Raimondo Baldini (602) 965-7783" Subject: Announcement Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 13:24:02 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 301 (470) An important news that should be of interest to HUMANISTS around the globe: the Istituto Studi Rinascimentali (Center for Renaissance Studies) of Ferrara, Italy, is now linked to bitnet. Their electronic address is: G2MFEV42@ICINECA. The Istituto welcomes inquiries from other Centers as well as individuals interested in Renaissance Studies in all areas. The Istituto will host an international Conference (Renaissance Meeting '89) in Ferrara on May 27-29, 1989, for the purpose of mapping the various Renaissance research groups in the world. From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: see you in Toronto? Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 13:56 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 302 (471) I will be chairing an informal session at the ALLC/ICCH conference in June in Toronto, for those who support humanities computing at their institutions, somewhat along the lines of the one George Brett did at the last ICCH and which resulted in the creation of HUMANIST. I hope to see many of you there, and for those who want some input ahead of time, and for those who may not be able to attend but would like some input also, please send me a note about what kinds of things would be helpful to you, e.g. support from ACH, what kind of support, etc. I will also be contacting some of you who I know are 'official' humanities support persons for more info about your institutional setup. If you have reason to think I may not know about you PLEASE drop me a note with your name, institution, and e-mail address. Thanks so much. Vicky Walsh From: Paul Delany Subject: biography database Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 00:03:52 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 303 (472) [The following has been submitted on behalf of a colleague. Answers may be posted publically, since they would likely interest others. Thank you.] "I wish to transform several filing cabinets worth of biographical and bibliographical information on some 500 early Canadian women writers into a database that will eventually house three to four thousand authors. Included will be details concerning each person's family background and structure, places and dates of residence, education, literary and other careers, club and association memberships, and publications (book and periodical), as well as secondary and archival resources. The database should take into account the variability of information about each person and will cope with different magnitudes of fields and records. I would like to be able to make fairly sophisticated queries, such as identifying all authors who published poetry with a particular press during a particular decade, all authors who were librarians in a particular region, or all authors who published only before marriage. A micro program (PC or Mac) would be preferable to a mainframe, so long as capacity is not a limit. I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has developed a similar database, for sharing information and advice." From: dgraham@leif.mun.ca Subject: Emblem conference at Glasgow Date: 23 Mar 89 17:01 -0330 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 304 (473) Do any Humanists have an address for the organizers of the conference on emblem books which will take place in Glasgow next year? Having prepared an abstract, I find that my source of information is entirely mute on the topic of where to send it... I tried mailing to the Glasgow Humanists but have not yet had an answer, so it may be that my mail never got through. I would be most grateful for any help with this (the abstracts have to be in by March 31|). David Graham dgraham@kean.mun.ca.bitnet From: Marshall Gilliland Subject: Censorship: read other LISTS, too (35 lines) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 08:40 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 305 (474) Any organization or individual with responsibility to someone MUST exercise restraint on occasion, whether the restraint be in the spending of funds for purchase or support, in the giving of permission to use facilities, or in giving moral support. We do not live in a utopia (thank goodness) or have the serenely moral nature postulated for us by some past visionaries. We may err in the particular restraint we place on others, certainly, but the forgiveness of error by those aggrieved by an action is itself an action that acknowledges human beings' imperfections. The roiling bubbles of controversy about censorship at Stanford and the gently (thus far) simmering bubbles of censorship in HUMANIST, highlight our imperfections. They are highlighted elsewhere, with bright spotlights, and I suggest those locations are the proper, primary places. It is true that some members of HUMANIST may not see into these places: the private bulletin boards such as THE SOURCE and COMPUSERVE, or the gigantic bulletin board of USENET that exists primarily for the academic community. I see the special interest group BOOKS and occasionally look in on other groups, and the number of messages about Rushdie's book and its ramifications is staggering. If readers of HUMANIST wish to see what is being said about or contribute to the discussions about censorship and tasteful jokes and administrative action then I suggest you try to get access to USENET or subscribe to ETHICS-L. The subjects are covered at exhausting length already, and I support Willard's decision to let them stay in other groups and not repeated in HUMANIST. No one group can provide each member of HUMANIST all that any person wishes to see; let us not pretend that it can do so. If you think that something vital is missing in this LIST then by all means subscribe to additional LISTS, and if you cannot do so then find a colleague who will forward messages to and from you. Marshall Gilliland GILLILAND@SASK (U of Saskatchewan) From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: editing and censoring, cont. (138) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 13:31:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 306 (475) I have nothing to add to Sperberg-McQueen's and McCarty's statements, but I wish to endorse them. In my twenty years as editor of COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES, I encountered numerous decisions which could have been called censorship but which I attempted to resolve on reasonably objective cri- teria of relevance, adeqacy of presentation, and soundness of methodology. Fortunately, questions of good taste almost never arose. But as Michael points out, every act or refusal to act is ultimately a moral action. The only relevant question is what set of moral standards we apply. From: "John Harwood, 3-3605/359-3192" Subject: Rhetoric Scholars in the USSR Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 05:36:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 307 (476) For an international conference in the next year or so, I would like to know the names (and userids, if possible) of Soviet scholars in the areas of rhetoric and written communication (both theory and pedagogy). Any strong candidates? And is their English sufficiently good that an Anglo-phone audience would benefit from their presentation? Translation is possible, but ... Thanks. From: N.J.Morgan@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK Subject: Help with medieval data Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 11:55:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 308 (477) I'm currently trying to run and evaluate a review copy of the Medieval data bank. I have restored the supplied discs onto a IBM ps/2 80 running DOS 4.00. When I run the supplied batch file i get two error messages W502 Unable to attach to volume MEMDB2 201 BP is not attached I'm then returned to the DOS prompt. I have no mail address for Rutgers. Is anyone there listening, or can any other HUMANIST who has this product offer advice. Hurry please, my review deadline has nearly expired !!!! Nicholas Morgan Scottish History University of Glasgow JANET N J Morgan@Glasgow.vme EARN N J Morgan@vme.Glasgow.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: history rather than policy Date: 25 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 764 (478) Dear Colleagues: Rather than try to articulate a more comprehensive statement of editorial policy than is already in your Guide to Humanist, I prefer first to tell the story of how Humanist has evolved since its inception in May 1987, then to make some general observations. A very few of you will know this story already, but most will not. My apologies to the few for the rehashing. I should make clear from the outset that my experience with electronic `newsgroups' has been confined to Humanist. Though increasingly well known internationally, Humanist is neither the largest nor possibly the most important of such services. So I hope those of you with greater insight into the medium will forgive the limitations of my outlook and be kind enough to correct them. In a recent note, Vicky Walsh recalled how Humanist came about as a result of a spontaneous meeting at the 9th ICCH conference in Columbia, South Carolina. The meeting was attended by approximately two dozen people who supported humanities computing either professionally or informally. They discovered many common concerns -- in particular, the lack of proper academic recognition -- and feeling a strong sense of unanimity, decided to form the Special Interest Group for Humanities Computing Resources. Humanist was created shortly afterwards in order to keep this interest group intact. The original Humanists hoped that others like them -- non-academic staff, Ph.D.s without academic employment, and untenured faculty -- would join and that together they could change the world. Thus were our original intentions, naive to be sure but honest for all that. Soon, however, tenured faculty, directors of computing centres, and other well established academics asked to join Humanist. For me, though it may be silly to say so, this was a crisis of identity for the new group, which was planned to be a voice representing a minority to those in power. With good advice from friends, and a very strong intuition that I have never regretted, I decided not to constrain Humanist to its original purpose but to let it find its own identity. Had I kept it "on track" it would, I think, have died of exhaustion. At the same time, I had strong convictions that an electronic seminar would gain respect and attract thoughtful humanists only if it were to embody traditional humanistic values. I was very dissatisfied with some existing sources of information and debate, which seemed to have no notion of quality or mindfulness, and in which the language of discussion was frequently careless of spelling, grammar, style, and accuracy of expression. (No criticism here is intended of those whose native tongue is not English; on the contrary, non-native speakers, even if they do not always succeed in being idiomatic, frequently use the language with such intelligence as to put native speakers to shame.) So, I took every opportunity to suggest by example what level of discourse was to be assumed, without (I hope) in any way stifling truly creative expression. Not that I really had much to do in this department, our membership being for the most part uncommonly able. Eventually problems with electronic junk mail -- automatically produced by software reacting to network errors -- and with the volume of contributions, forced Humanist to become a moderated group. Thus I found myself as editor, interposed between incoming messages and outgoing mail. (To this day the junk mail continues and would doubtless drive many members away were it automatically distributed as before.) With the help of Michael Sperberg- McQueen, il miglior fabbro where software is concerned, I have been able since last August to group messages together conveniently and so to keep the number of pieces of daily mail to a reasonable and easily digestible minimum. Other improvements and services have been added gradually. All this time I have continued to take delight and interest in discovering what sort of thing Humanist is. As best I can determine, it lies somewhere between an oral conversation on the one hand and a printed journal or newsletter on the other. The exchange of information as such has proven important, but Humanist has been especially good at argumentation over basic and often unresolvable issues. I do not think that this kind of discourse, combining rapid dissemination of news with thoughtful discussion of fundamental ideas, would take place otherwise. One of its most salient features is the way that valuable insights arise out of informal but intelligent conversation -- the babble of the tribal educators, if you will. The medium itself dictates license but simultaneously allows for scholarly care. It is a medium with almost no history, so what we do with its potential may be particularly influential. The crucially positive consequences of having let Humanist find itself have guided me in a policy of non-intervention whenever that has been possible. To some members, this apparent lack of presence has been a defect; to others my occasional intrusions have seemed violations of a state of innocence. The former have questioned why I ever publish the comments of certain other members; the latter have sharply criticized, for example, my imposition of prejudicial categories by grouping contributions according to subject. As Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Joe Raben have recently pointed out, editors make choices, whether they act or not. I cannot claim unbroken mindfulness -- sometimes I too am distracted by more urgent matters -- but mostly I have acted, or not, out of conviction and after some thought. The first moral crisis on Humanist occurred over the issue of going to Israel for the ALLC conference last June. I will not rehearse what happened on Humanist then, since almost everything was recorded in the logbooks. Suffice it to say that I resisted limiting the largely political discussion until forced to realize the inflammable -- and anti-intellectual -- potential of political discussions. Perhaps I was slow to learn the lesson that in a large group self-control sometimes breaks down, and someone in authority must call a halt. Milton and others have schooled me to think that self-control is the only kind worthy of human beings, but history teaches (does it not?) that humanity is something we aim at, not something that comes naturally. I think we have to be very clear about the state of things and of people as they actually are, and about what state we want to make for ourselves. We are apt both to underestimate our own inhumanity (so much so that the word "evil" is now difficult to use) and to dismiss as an impossible and foolish dream any vision of a better world. We are bedeviled by bottom lines. Let me again quote from the end of the Areopagitica, where Milton concludes that "if all cannot be of one mind -- as who looks they should be? -- this doubtless is more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than all compelled." Nevertheless, he excepts what he regards as dangerous superstition, declaring that "as it extirpates all religions and civil supremacies, so itself should be extirpate, provided first that all charitable and compassionate means be used to win and regain the weak and misled; that also which is impious or evil absolutely, either against faith or manners, no law can possibly permit, that intends not to unlaw itself." Yet above all, though differences be many, they "need not interrupt `the unity of spirit', if we could but find among us the `bond of peace'." The issues and the rhetoric were sharper for Milton than they have been on Humanist -- I recommend that you read his exchange with Salmasius -- but our community is in some ways considerably more diverse. Creative harmony has not and will not happen by itself. Maintaining it will mean striving simultaneously to increase understanding and toleration, and to eliminate irrelevant or offensive topics whenever self-control fails. The Guide to Humanist for the last year or so has stated explicitly that Humanist is "an international electronic discussion group for computing humanists and for those who support the application of computers to scholarship in the humanities.... Its scope is broadly defined to include all matters of professional concern to its members." It was never intended as a unregulated forum where any issue at all could be raised, rather as a electronic seminar for topics of professional concern to its members in their role as computing humanists. As such, we are very much involved with broad issues, like the nature of the humanities and their place in technological society. Our central purpose, however, defines a periphery and must continue to exert a centripetal force on the discussions. The Guide to Humanist also says that "when in [the editor's] judgment a contribution is incompetent, offensive, or clearly outside the scope of Humanist, he reserves the right not to publish it." Doubtless I will sometimes make mistakes in deciding what is beyond the pale. So far, on the rare occasion when it has been necessary, I have made my decision in private, informing or consulting with the author. In almost every case, the author has graciously withdrawn the contribution. I have never silently deleted something I did not approve of. I think, however, that a change may be necessary in order to reflect the much greater diversity of our membership and to attempt to draw on its collective wisdom. Therefore, following the practice of colleagues who edit printed journals, I am now forming a small editorial board of Humanists whom I can consult when need be. I expect that they will rarely be called upon, but they will certainly be encouraged to give me unsolicited advice. In addition, I think that the popularity of electronic communication among humanists may indicate the need for additional discussion groups. Humanist itself, though not the only forum, has again grown to the point at which the volume of mail is becoming oppressive for some. I see only two ways of alleviating this difficulty: first, to make sure our topics are relevant to Humanist; second, to form additional groups. These should, I hasten to add, be moderated by someone other than myself! I very much hope that discussion about what Humanist should be will never cease, though its going into abeyance periodically is perhaps not a bad thing. Anyone who has paid close attention will have noticed that I occasionally try to provoke such talk. More so than printed forums, we need to "renew ourselves daily", according to the motto Confucius supposedly had engraved on his bathtub. Despite all attempts to keep our electronic conversations archived, the essence of Humanist is in the moment -- and for that very reason requires periodic exercises in recollection, like this one. Michel Foucault somewhere noted that all conversation is a form of affection; only countries near or at war cease to maintain diplomatic ties. So let the friendly conversations continue in mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem: And in their motions harmony Divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted...." (Milton, PL 5.622-7) Willard McCarty From: Greg Goode Subject: Bio/bibliographical database Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 09:50:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 309 (479) As a possible idea for Paul Delany and his search on behalf of a friend for a good microcomputer database -- for the IBM world, one idea would be Pro-Cite. It's probably the top shelf bibliographical database out there for IBM's/compatibles. It will automatically format your entries into any one of a variety of accepted styles, including MLA. And I believe you can design and define your own styles, such that any bibliographical information you enter will print in that style. It has the capability of very large comment fields, which is where the body of *biographical* data could go. I believe it's upwards of $350 retail, and available from the original vendor, Pro-Cite bibliographical database management system Personal Software Systems 412 Longshore Drive. Ann Arbor, MI 48105 U.S.A. Phone: (313) 996-1580 --Greg Goode From: ROBERT E. SINKEWICZ (416) 926-7128 ROBERTS at UTOREPAS Subject: Database Advice Date: 24 March 1989, 20:42:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 310 (480) A recent posting from Paul Delany asking for advice on databases reminded me of the sort of questions I have often been asked by colleagues. There must be many advisors, consultants, local gurus, experienced database users on HUMANIST who frequently get this sort of question. I have therefore collected some of my own thoughts on the matter. If this sort of summary seems useful to anyone, I would be happy to receive further additions, corrections, suggestions on my brief summary and will try to incorporate them and post the results as a file available on the LISTSERV. Bob Sinkewicz Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Toronto ROBERTS@UTOREPAS ROBERTS@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHOOSING A DATABASE =================== BASIC QUESTIONS 1. What kind or kinds of data do you want to store? - primarily numerical (financial, economic, demographic) - primarily character (texts, brief biographies, bibliographies, lists of places, names, etc.) - a mix of the above two 2. How much data do you or will you have? - Will the database be small, medium or large? small = less than 5,000 records medium = between 5,000-30,000 records large = more than 30,000 records 3. What do you want to do with the data you have stored? - mathematical statistics - collation and manipulation of data in more general ways (that may include some mathematical functions) - linguistic, semantic, stylistic analysis of text data - What are your requirements for character string manipulation functions? - What sorts of mathematical functions do you require? 4. How are you going to get the data into the database? - Is the data already available in some electronic form? - How much sophistication do you require at the data entry stage? creation of data entry forms different types of data validation only numeric data in numeric columns valid date format in date columns unique and/or NOT NULL values in certain columns automated triggers (data accessed automatically from other tables under certain conditions) - If there is a lot of text data, what sort of SGML do you require? 5. How do you want to get the data out of the database? - graphs and charts - table oriented reports (columns, sub-columns, groups, etc.) - line oriented data (non-tabular: e.g., bibliographic citations) - special formatting requirements on output (e.g., flexible bibliographic style sheet formats) 6. What is your religious affiliation? Apple MS-DOS UNIX 7. What can you afford? - a basic XT clone / MAC Plus - a good AT class machine at 10mhz / MAC SE - an 80386 class DOS machine / MAC II - SUN Workstation 8. How much time do you want to invest? - in learning the basic operations of the software - in learning the accompanying tools that may require programming skills - in data entry (Do the potential results really merit the time or cost involved?) DATABASE TYPES 1. Statistical Analysis e.g. LOTUS 1-2-3 (not to be forgotten) SAS SPSSX 2. Text Oriented A. Static Text MTAS (UTORONTO-CCH) TACT (UTORONTO-CCH) WordCruncher OCP B. Dynamic Text HyperCard LOTUS Agenda 3. Relational (pseudo-/semi-/fully) e.g. dBase III/IV Ingres Oracle Advanced Revelation BASIC CONSIDERATIONS Relational databases are good for handling small items of information about several distinct subjects stored in a number of separate tables. The basic idea is that of a table divided into rows and columns. Only small data items can be manipulated effectively. However, larger data items can usually be stored and retrieved in some fashion. The normal limitation on character data is between 240-254 characters per field or column. Many software packages make provision for storing much larger chunks of alphanumeric data but there are usually some awkward restrictions regarding inputing the data (e.g., only through a customized C language utility which you must write yourself), on manipulating the data (very little or none at all), or on displaying or retrieving the data. Although there may sometimes be good reasons for storing larger chunks of data like this, the relational model was really not designed with this in mind. The amount of data you have and the internal storage technique of the software are often important considerations. A DOS machine will have difficulties with a database of more than 30,000 records. Much of this has to do with the lack of memory management capabilities in DOS. Some software tries to get around this by using expanded (Ingres) or extended (Oracle) memory. Even so, 30,000 records is pretty much the maximum a DOS machine can handle. If your database approaches that size, anything less than a 386 machine with a very fast hard disk (under 20ms) will be excruciatingly slow. If you have more than 1,000 records, an AT class machine at 10mhz and a 28ms hard disk is practically a must. There may indeed be someone out there who has succeeded in stuffing 100,000 records onto a 6mhz AT running dBase III. I am not saying that it is impossible, but I don't think it can be recommended. Storage capacity is also a big feature if you have a large database with a lot of variable length character fields. Some software uses very inefficient storage techniques. If you define a character field (column) as 254 bytes, some software will use up 254 bytes of your hard disk even if you only put 5 characters in that field in a given record (row). Even a large hard disk can be filled up very fast. It is important to realize that most relational database software is designed for the environment of the business world. The output formatting capabilities are no exception. If you require tabular formatted reports, even very sophisticated ones, the software is certainly adequate and sometimes excellent (though not always easy to use). However, if you require some form of line oriented output, then you may encounter difficulties, since many standard software packages either do not provide for this at all or do so with varying degrees of difficulty. It is possible to maintain a bibliography with a relational database and some formatters or report writers will handle output in an acceptable format. However, it is often better either to use dedicated bibliography management software for large databases (e.g., Pro-Cite), or to rely on a good word processor for smaller bibliographies (e.g., WordPerfect or NotaBene). In some situations it might be best to consider two software tools rather than trying to force an RDBMS to do something it does not do well. Your might for example use dBase III/IV in combination with a good word processor or a simple text database tool like MTAS. There are ways of tagging the data in a text database so that they will correspond to data elements in your RDBMS. Relational databases are measured against a standard of perfection known as THE TWELVE COMMANDMENTS OF CODD. The degree of conformity to this standard may have some bearing on your choice of database. If your database will have more than one table, you should learn more about relational databases and consider how many of the 12 rules would affect the functional operation of your database. Beware of the benchmarks that you may see in the trade literature. A lot depends on the mix of your data and the design of your database. Software that performs less than best on these "standard benchmarks" may well be more suited to your specific needs and perform better with your data sets than the top ranked software. If you are planning to do any kind of statistical analysis on your data, you must decide just how sophisticated your requirements are. Most relational databases offer a good range of mathematical functions that will meet the needs of many projects. However, if your work requires more advanced types of statistical modelling, you will have to look at some of the specialized packages such as SAS and SPSS. You can probably find some local experts in this sort of thing in your Economics and Social Sciences departments. In practical terms (philosophical questions aside) text databases can be divided into two types, namely, static and dynamic. If you have a dozen files in a directory on your hard disk, you could consider the files in that directory as a database of texts. You then need some software to consult your database. If you are using UNIX or have a DOS version of the basic UNIX text manipulation tools, you then have a simple and inexpensive way of querying a set of texts in a flexible way. This toolbox approach has many advantages that you may wish to explore. If you have a lengthy text (or texts) that you wish to have access to on an ad hoc basis (where in the text does x or y occur) or that you wish to analyze stylistically or morphologically, you may want to look at other software. Some of these packages work on text that requires no sort of preparation or preprocessing (e.g., MTAS), but most software requires that you insert markup codes in the text and then either index it (as with WordCruncher or the Textbase in NotaBene) or run programmes on it to generate concordances, word lists, etc. (e.g., Micro-OCP). These text databases so far discussed I would call "static". The "dynamic" type is perhaps best represented by Apple's HyperCard. This combines some of the capabilities of the static text database with those of the relational database. The basic model is that of the filecard containing a variety of data items, including medium size chunks of text. [deleted quotation]detailed data on the same subject. Other types of hypertext software function somewhat differently but the basic feature is the ability to follow dynamic links (often ordered hierarchically) between elements of text. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Archives List Supplement Date: Friday, 24 March 1989 1053-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 766 (481) The following list of (possible) archive type endeavors has been garnered from HUMANIST responses and other sources (I did more homework!) since the initial list appeared. Any further information (corrections, deletions, additions, etc.) relevant to the list is welcome! With regard to commercial publishers such as OUP, and also software distributors who package materials otherwise also available from an archive (e.g. Linguists Software for Mac), your advice is needed. I am tempted to include the publishers and other commercial entities if they contribute items to the pool of relevant data -- thus OUP qualifies, and probably several others for which I do not yet have reliable information (e.g. Zondervan, Collins). Similarly, the CD-ROM collections from Ellis, FABS, Microsoft, and elsewhere would seem to me to deserve mention. But developers who rely on material from elsewhere, and do not contribute data to the pool, would not be listed. Reactions? Suggestions? Bob Kraft (CCAT) Additions to the list of 3/17/89, as of 3/24/89 (R. Kraft) +/Quebec (Laval Univ)/ Bibliographical Information Bank in Patristics +/Toronto (Univ)/ RIM = Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project +/Toronto (Univ)/ REED = Records of Early English Drama +/Vancouver (Simon Fraser Univ)/ RDL = SFU Research Data Library +/Odense (Univ)/ DDA = Danish Data Archives +/Helsinki (Univ)/ CNA = Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project +/Montpellier (Univ Prot, CNRS)/ CDMB = Centre de Documentation sur les Manuscrits de la Bible +/Ferrara (Univ)/ Instituto Studi Rinascimentali (Renaissance) +/??? (??)/ Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law +/Go%teberg (Univ)/ Logotheque +/Stellenbosch (Univ)/ Stellenbosch Data Base +/Leeds (Univ)/ Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and Speech +/London (Univ)/ School of Oriental and African Studies +/London (Univ College)/ Survey of English Usage +/Southampton (Univ)/ AIE = Archaeological Information Exchange +/?? ??? (??)/ LEXIS and NEXIS [commercial law archives] +/?? ??? (??)/ Westlaw on-line [commercial law archive] +/CA Malibu (Udena Publ)/ CAM = Computer-Aided Analysis of Mesopamian Materials +/NC ChapelHill (UNC)/ DBAGI = Data Bank for Ancient Greek Inscriptions from Athens +/NC Durham (Duke Univ)/ DHDB = Duke Humanities Data Base +/NY Buffalo (SUNY)/ WNY-ARCH = Western New York Archaeology +/TX Dallas (Theol Seminary)/ Biblical Data Bank (CD-ROM) From: Willard McCarty Subject: use of the membership list Date: 25 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 767 (482) Dear Colleagues: I have made a slight alteration in the Guide to Humanist to declare that the membership list and associated information, such as names and addresses, are not to be used by any of us without general consent. (In practice, I suppose, this would involve a prior notice or, if you'll allow it, permission of the editor.) The change has been provoked by two events, a request by someone not in Humanist for names and addresses so that he could do a mass-mailing, and the recent distribution by a member of something I had excluded from Humanist. As Humanist gets larger and better known, the former will become more likely. As it is, anyone can send something to me for distribution, but I don't think we want others to bypass our only filter. In the latter case, whether or not I was right to exclude the message is beside the point. I have been specifically requested by two Humanists to say that this distribution is an abuse. Anyone with thoughts on the matter is welcome to send them to me; I will eventually publish a summary. Willard McCarty From: "John Harwood, 3-3605/359-3192" Subject: Penn State Rhetoric Conference (July 12-15) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 05:28:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 768 (483) Many of you will be interested in the Penn State Rhetoric Conference, which will be held at University Park, PA. from July 12-15. There will be lots of sessions associated with computers, composition, communication, and social and political dimensions of rhetoric. If you'd like more information, please let me know. The cost is very reasonable -- special rates for graduate students -- and the social and intellectual experience is quite rich. John T. Harwood Department of English 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA. 16802 O:814-863-3066 From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert A Amsler) Subject: Re: Subsets of Humanists Date: Sat, 25 Mar 89 21:21:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 769 (484) [The following was a prive message to me that I am publishing with permission. Bob Amsler has stated very clearly something I have been attempting to get across, though with less success. We had been discussing possible subdivisions of Humanist and the creation of new groups; I had commented that matters of religion and politics in the humanities could well form one or more new groups. --W.M.] There are OTHER lists for those things, so I see no point in making that subdivision. The LIST-OF-LISTS kept at SRI-NIC lists more than enough other lists and it doesn't even deal with the netnews junk. You are reacting as though Humanist were the only avenue for communications open to these people. I think Humanist is basically operated because someone, the moderator, wants to keep it operating. As such, it is just like a journal. If one submits articles not relevant to a journal, that journal won't print them. It may suggest other appropriate journals that would consider them. `relevant' to the journal is really just a matter for the moderator (journal editor) and, now the committee (journal editorial board) to decide. The point of electronic communication is that we `can' all become moderators of mailing lists, if the spirit moves us. This differs from the past in which the resources to do so were prohibitatively expensive. The spirit to do so, however, doesn't possess too many. It is a lot of work and when someone is doing a good job of it, others will be satisfied. If there are legions of dissatisfied members of the community, a new moderator for a new list will come about. (The evidence from the moderated lists I've seen is that very often splitting them is in reality just a method of discarding some of the material--since the off-shoot list rarely survives). So... in summary. Why all this guilt? You are NOT preventing communication by selecting material, there is no censorship in an information era in which everyone can be the editor of their own electronic publication. [By the way, I deny the guilt in this particular case, though I am a great respecter of guilt as a tool for getting things done in the imperfect world we all inhabit. My concern, again, is to help forge a community and assist it to some self-understanding. --W.M.] From: GILES R. HOYT Subject: Databases Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1989 16:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 770 (485) I would agree with the very good discussion of databases given by Robert Sinkewicz as a response to a question by Paul Delany. Under "dynamic" databases I would add AskSam, a very fast text-based database program that is relatively easy to program to do a wide variety of tasks. I use it on extensive mixed bibliography/notes databases with considerable success. -grh From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: Latin texts Date: Mon, 27 Mar 89 12:00:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 771 (486) The problem with Latin seems to be not so much lack of activity in the field-- I refer to computer activity here, the scholarly aspect is going strong--but lack of centralization. Bob Kraft mentions PHI and the Latin version of the TLG. I have the PHI disk with the Latin texts on it, and am very grateful for it. But there is not yet a standardized, (more or less) all encompassing corpus of Latin out there for the asking, like the TLG. Bob also points out that life is easier for Ibycus users. That is true, but many of us are not Ibycus users, so the problem is to find systems that will work for us as well, without having to write them from scratch. The DeLatte Latin morphological analysis package sounds great, for example. One has to find a mainframe to run it on... but even that is possible. What does one have to do to get it? This discussion of the availablity of Latin and attendant programs online has actually produced some very fruitful answers. Please keep them coming--the Latinists out here want to know more. I still wonder why the Latinists got left in the dust by the Hellenists... --elli mylonas (elli@wjh12.harvard.edu) From: Joe Giampapa Subject: on "censorship" Date: Sun, 26 Mar 89 20:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 311 (487) I am amazed and pleased with the dialogues which have resulted from my "Stanford posting". The posting and the joke are insignificant, and perhaps should never have been posted to HUMANIST in the first place -- given the appropriateness constraint. Rather than add to the censorship-noncensorhip debate, I would like to suggest an alternate tack. Unlike a journal, HUMANIST is a dynamic medium of information exchange. Nobody has explicitly acknowledged that part of this information is in "meeting" people of like-minded interests. Whether a HUMANIST wants to submit related, but "inappropriate" material is not the question to me. It is more the issue of *FINDING* that person. If the editor kindly asks me to "step outside the room" to further that conversation, I will gladly comply. I do not want the editor to prevent me from entering the room because I have the "wrong" question. The "Stanford posting" was passed to me from a group devoted to discussing such an issue. However, the most interesting and valuable response to it has been from the group which was not supposed to have such concerns. The policy I propose is that the editor will not prohibit a HUMANIST from posting anything. However, if the material is not "appropriate-enough" to justify expending HUMANIST resources, then the editor shall not post the item, but instead, distribute a notice of its attempted posting, the subject matter, and address of the author. The assumptions are that the contributor will exercise judgment in what is submitted, that the process of "compromise posting" is conducted with fairness to the contributor, and (the pervasive) HUMANIST peer pressure. On the issue of individual access to the rest of the group: I would like to shift emphasis from Amsler's remark that "the editor creates the list" to "the contributors and the editor create the list". I do not want any authority to inhibit my access to other HUMANISTs. Groups outside of HUMANIST should be screened access -- perhaps by the same policy as suggested above. If an honest try at this does not succeed, then I may reconsider my opinion. Until then, my vote is on no further restriction. One final remark. I admire Willard for his contributions and thoughtfulness as editor. None of my comments -- in private or public -- should be interpreted as dissatisfaction with his efforts. -Joe Giampapa giampapa@brandeis.bitnet From: Willard McCarty Subject: Giampapa's suggestion Date: 27 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 312 (488) Joe Giampapa's suggestion is quite close to something already recognized in the Guide to Humanist -- that public discussions in some cases should shift to private conversations. I agree that we have room for announcements of topics to be taken up somewhere else, but I think we have to consider exactly how peripheral discussions would be initiated, and what might happen as a result. If a topic seems peripheral or irrelevant to Humanist, then I would want the person responsible for raising it to send in a very brief announcement giving the information Giampapa suggests. Because of the way that many mailers work, however, replies to such a posting are very likely to be returned to Humanist rather than to the person originating the message. Were this to happen, as I think it would in a significant number of cases, then I would have the choice either of forwarding the message to the originator or of deleting it. I fear that the amount of attention Humanist already requires is great enough that I could not be counted on to do the former. Consider, please, that a reply to such an announcement might arrive several days after the original posting. I would then have to recognize it as a reply to the posting rather than an independent contribution, search for and find the original, discover the originating address, and forward the message. Once again, we seem to be dealing with the limitations of ListServ, or less prejudicially, with its characteristics. I have received many good ideas from fellow Humanists that have fallen on precisely these rocks. Suggestions for improving Humanist are always welcome, but if they involve more work for me, they haven't got much of a chance, alas. Willard McCarty From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: labels in Nota Bene Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 16:53:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 773 (489) Often when I write long papers using Nota Bene, revisions leave many stranded labels and references to labels. I wrote a small program that outputs a list of stranded labels (labels without any references to them) and stranded references (references pointing to a label that doesn't exist). The program is written in Icon. Since e-mail doesn't permit me to send 8-bit codes, you'll need to change every instance of % into a right-hand European quotation mark, and every instance of @ ("at" sign) into a left-hand European quotation mark. Cut the junk off up to the dotted line. The program does about 100k of text per minute on an old 8088 PC compatible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ procedure main() lbtbl := table() while line := !&input do { line ? { while tab(find("%LB")+3) do { label := map(tab(find("@"))) /lbtbl[label] := set() insert(lbtbl[label],"lb") } } line ? { while value := (tab(find("%RE")+1), ="RE" || tab(any('FCP'))) do { label := map(tab(find("@"))) /lbtbl[label] := set() insert(lbtbl[label],map(value)) } } } lblst := sort(lbtbl,3) every i := 1 to *lblst by 2 do { ("lb" == !lblst[i+1], match("re",!lblst[i+1])) & next writes(lblst[i]," ") every writes(!lblst[i+1]," ") write("\n") } write("execution time = ", &time / 1000) end From: N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Re: editing and censoring, cont. (55) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 07:45:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 313 (490) I have been in agreement with Willard McCarty on the subject of moderating HUMANIST. However I'm a little concerned that suddenly we are being asked to follow the model of a scholarly journal: As such, it is just like a journal. [Amsler] HUMANIST can and should be scholarly, but as an "electronic seminar" [McCarty] it should not be tied down by the discipline that journals and their editors (often, I suspect power crazed) tend to wield. I neither think nor suspect that Willard is power crazed. I'm just anxious that we don't lose our to now obvious and delightful spontaniety of thought and wit. And why, as an endnote, all these Milton quotations ? If we HUMANISTS really want cogent thought from the 17th century on the tensions between discipline and the freedom of the spirit I suggest they take a look at Friends' literature, which is often obsessed with the same concerns. Nicholas Morgan Scottish History University of Glasgow From: Peter D. Junger Subject: Giampapa's suggestion Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 11:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 314 (491) I believe that Giampapa's suggestion can be implemented with little or no extract work. Anyone proposing a topic deemed not to fall within the domain of HUMANIST should be allowed to post a notice on HUMANIST briefly describing the topic and the _sender's_ e-mail address. All requests to receive the material would have to be sent to the sender of the notice. This would not involve the HUMANIST listserver in any way. Peter Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH 44106--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU [A comment. If someone replies to such a notice, as is probable, by hitting the "reply" key, then the new note will be sent to me. Since I'm not (contra Sebastian) blessed or cursed with divine powers, I may not recognize this misdirected reply as such. I will be puzzled. If I'm feeling bloody-minded, I may just delete the note summarily -- may it not be so! If I'm feeling kindly towards the world, as I very much hope is always the case, I will root around to discover the original posting, then forward the message, thus spending time I don't have. In either case, the likely result in the long term is that Humanist suffers. Perhaps, however, I'm just being melancholic. We could always try this and see what happens. --W.M.] From: Subject: French_dictionary Date: Mon, 27 Mar 89 18:05 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 775 (492) Bonjour. un ami me demande une reference pour un dictionaire francais, en format ASCII, pour etre lu sur un systeme DOS ou UNIX. Pas d'encryption ni de caracteres controles. Existe-t-il une telle creature? Merci. Jacques JULIEN@SASK From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: on databases and on god Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 07:47:15 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 315 (493) Databases --------- I liked Bob Sinkewicz' article on how to choose a database, but there are bits I would take issue with. As an example, his statement that ... 'if you have more than 1000 records, an AT class machine at 10mhz and a 28ms hard disk is practically a must' I've been accused on here of being elitist about technology, but this is giving in to magazine hype. I have had a database around for some years to do with gravestones with (inter alia? are tables M or F or N?) a table of 2500 gravestones, 4000 people and 20,000 lines of text; it was incarnated in dBaseIII on an IBM PC XT (yes a real one) very happily and very useably for some time, and I recently reconstructed it on my slow-disk Zenith clone. OK, to reindex all the tables takes 40 minutes, but an interactive multi-table query is as fast as one would want. On our Suns, it goes a lot faster, but not with much greater usefulness. I know this sort of example-giving is sometimes counter-productives, and I don't really mean to argue that dBase can conquer the world (god forbid), but don't let the punter who only has his poor maligned XT clone feel that he/she can only expect to deal with toy databases. God --- Since its inception, HUMANIST has consistently contemplated its navel. Willard's recent erudite editorial prompts us to scan it again for assorted fluff and old skin; I think he's wrong, and that the Salman Rushdie messages should all have been published. I think HUMANIST should return to being unmoderated. Can I consider my vote cast? Sebastian Rahtz, Computer Science, Southampton PS who IS this Milton person Willard goes on about so much? PPS to the man whose Greek I accused of being Martian - it was a joke, see. Curiously enough, I think you will find that the idea of `humanism' extends beyond the bounds of literature, and Western classical culture. I understand (well..., I did) Greek, but I don't expect most of my acquaintance to. From: N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Re: database management systems, cont. (19) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 07:45:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 316 (494) Isn't Lou Burnard preparing a detailed report on databases ? Perhaps those with queries should hold their fire until this arrives. With apologies over possibly offensive anti-pacifist allusion, Nicholas Morgan. From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: Is Ibycus Currently Sold ?? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 15:42:03 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 317 (495) Yes, Ibycus is available in Europe through me. Anyone interested, please send me a postal address and I shall send you full details. Dr. Douglas de Lacey, 9 Woodlands Park, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0QB, England. From: Harold Wilson Subject: Re: Soviet rhetoricians? medieval data? (59) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 20:42:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 318 (496) The word in our current Computer Shopper is that DOS 4.0, like much recent software was rushed to market and has flaws. RE: N.J.Morgan. From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: correction Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 22:31:45 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 319 (497) Correction on the Icon program I posted. Change % to a left-hand European quotation mark, @ to right. The program reads the standard input, so you gotta type "ficonx progname < filename." -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer From: Norman Zacour Subject: Whose that knocking? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 22:19:50 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 320 (498) Joe Giampapa says: I do not want the editor to prevent me from entering the room... I do not want any authority to inhibit my access to other Humanists. On the other hand, there are some Humanists who depend on someone preventing you from entering their rooms on your terms alone. You seem to be claiming some kind of right. You have no such right. The terms under which you enter my room must be part of our joint agreement on this List, however expressed by the owner and others and tacitly accepted by the rest of us, or you may find our doors locked. From: Alan Rudrum Subject: how to handle peripheral topics (101) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 14:51:08 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 321 (499) [The following has been extracted from a personal note to me. W.M.] The question of what is peripheral happens to be of immediate concern to me, so here I am again. Before the MLA conference, a question was printed concerning a problem someone had in finding accommodation for that conference. Supposing I were trying to find accommodation in a place, such as Oxford, of general interest to Humanists, would my attempt be considered peripheral or sendable? Suppose I knew of accommodation in such a place that might be of interest to other Humanists about to go on leave, would my knowledge be appropriately distributed on Humanist? [It seems to me that Humanist certainly can make room for such messages, which are unlikely to provoke much of a response; besides, they are matters for professional concern. Topics that are not and are likely to provoke a volume of mail are another matter. See below. --W.M.] From: "Rosanne G. Potter" Subject: editing and censoring, cont. (74) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 15:08:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 322 (500) REPLY TO 03/28/89 23:03 FROM MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA: editing and censoring, cont. (74) I think we have all learned that we cannot reply to the original sender using our normal mail utilities, i.e., that all replies will go back to Humanist. That problem could also be minimized by pasting a one-sentence reminder on all postings which ask responders to reply personally rather than to HUMANIST (somewhat like the one about using LISTSERV). My problem is not censorship, but wasting my precious writing and re- search time dealing with HUMANIST. There are way too many postings on Latin texts, hardware comparisons, requests for texts of this or that. Why can't things like this be put on a bulletin board some where instead of cluttering up my box? I am unfortunately getting to the same place I was a year and a half ago, i.e., ready to withdraw my name from HUMANIST. I know I would miss a lot, but now I am missing too much of my own time while I watch what Grace Logan once described as "boys and their toys" mail scrolls across my screen. Is a bulletin board addition to HUMANIST possible? Can some of the hardware talk be relegated to a sub-list, so some people could **not subscribe** to that part of HUMANIST. What I'd really like is a stop list of topics, acronyms, and senders. A constantly updatable one, so that I could add subjects at will to the list of subjects that I did not want to see. Sorry if this sounds irritable. I wonder whether I represent any percent of the membership. I invite comments on how the overload can be controlled, that is if others are also considering dropping out for their own sanity's sake. Rosanne G. Potter Private responses to S1.RGP English. Iowa State Univ. Ames, Iowa To: MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: Gunhild Viden Subject: Re Sebastian's complaints Date: 29 Mar 89 17:54:24 EST (Wed) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 323 (501) Sebastian Rahtz has complained recently about having his mail clogged by questions about OCP. But, dear Sebastian, your messages are filling our mailboxes as well! If you took the trouble to think before you wrote we would not have to read all your explanations of why you wrote what you did, and what it was / was not supposed to mean (not to mention your friends and relatives' knowledge of Greek and Martian, which to me at least seems rather irrelevant to HUMANIST discussion). If you cannot be bothered to read anything that is not of immediate interest to you and your next of kin, why not just leave HUMANIST? That would leave all our mailboxes less burdened. Gunhild Viden, University of Gothenburg From: Willard McCarty Subject: overload Date: 29 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 324 (502) This is directly in response to Rosanne Potter's message concerning the volume of mail on Humanist, but it is related to the problems of defining the purpose of Humanist. As far as I know, there are no technical solutions within the scope of ListServ to the problem that Potter identifies. ListServ has no "bulletin-board" function and allows for no selection of topics. What it provides is somewhat analogous to a seminar; though within a ListServ group members can carry on several discussions at once with greater ease, everyone must perforce "hear" everything everyone else says. You may prefer to think of ListServ as being defective, but I think of it has having certain characteristics that make for a particular kind of interaction. ListServ is very good for cross-disciplinary meandering, thus very well suited to computing in the humanities. I would hate to see Humanist subdivide for that reason, even if it were technically possible. As Humanist grows the volume of mail is bound to increase and become more various. We could simply allow this to happen and thus indirectly force out those who like Potter cannot cope with a huge volume. Natural selection of this kind would not, I think, tend always to favour the kind of electronic colleagues we want to have. Presumably we all have other things to do, the very pursuit of which makes us valuable to each other in a forum such as this one. We don't want Humanist to become a ghetto for e-mail junkies, do we? The only solution I see is for Humanist to become disciplined to its area. The increasing volume of mail puts the onus on all of us, which means also on me, to see that we do not engage ourselves with irrelevant topics, and especially with topics that are both inflammatory and irrelevant. We have an important job to do, and in order to do it we must avoid doing some other things. Still, I admit to being puzzled why some people cannot seem to find the delete key. Perhaps expectations are so high for Humanist's mail that individual pieces which do not meet them lead to frustration. In any case, there seems not only to be a problem for some but almost certainly a problem for many in the near future. Draconian measures can be imposed, but respect for one's fellow members is the only real solution. Willard McCarty From: David Sitman Subject: LISTSERV and lists Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 11:27:23 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 779 (503) This is the first of what I hope will be a series of messages on "what HUMANISTs should know about LISTSERV." LISTSERV and lists 1. Background There are currently over 150 computers on Bitnet/Netnorth/EARN running LISTSERV, and these machines are managing close to 1000 lists like HUMANIST, some unmoderated, some moderated, some which appear periodically as "digests." The person who runs a list need not have an account on the same computer as the LISTSERV software (note that Willard's account is not on UTORONTO). LISTSERV runs only under the VM/CMS operating system of IBM, but a list "owner" can be on any machine. 2. List of lists To ask a LISTSERV what lists it manages, send the command: LIST I sent the command LIST to LISTSERV@UTORONTO and got the following results: [deleted quotation]. . . [deleted quotation] Over 100 of the 150 LISTSERVs are part of the "LISTSERV backbone". Every backbone LISTSERV has a list of ALL the lists on ALL the LISTSERVs. To get a copy of this global list, send the command: LIST GLOBAL to any backbone LISTSERV. Since this list is rather large, you can ask LISTSERV to perform a string search on the list and send the results: LIST GLOBAL /string I sent the command: LIST GLOBAL /PHILO and got the following results: [deleted quotation] 3. Joining and leaving lists You can send a SUBSCRIBE command for any list to any backbone LISTSERV. For example, I can send the command: SUB HUMANIST David Sitman to LISTSERV@TAUNIVM, and it will automatically be forwarded to UTORONTO. Similarly, the UNSUBSCRIBE command to leave a list can be sent to any backbone LISTSERV. 4. Getting information about a list The REVIEW command gives a list's parameters and a blurb, and a list of members if you are permitted. Use the command REVIEW SHORT to get just the parameters and blurb, REVIEW NOHEADER to get just the list of members. If you do not want your name to appear in the list of members, send the command: SET HUMANIST CONCEAL Note that all commands must be sent to LISTSERV and not to the list. David Sitman Computation Centre Tel Aviv University From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: OFFLINE 23 Date: Thursday, 23 March 1989 2338-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 780 (504) ---------------------------------- by Robert A. Kraft ---------------------------------- I'm a bit frustrated in preparing this issue of OFFLINE. I had intended to provide a relatively complete, topically organized list of computer archives as a followup to OFFLINE 22. It would have made my job easier, since I am committed to helping prepare such a list for circulation at the Toronto conference in June in any event. But all of the desired information is not yet in hand, so the list will have to wait. Meanwhile, the index of miscellaneous pieces of information that cross my desk and are identified as possible items to mention in OFFLINE has grown rather large. Thus it makes sense for me to use this occasion to do some housecleaning on that score. Please forgive me if the column seems to be more lacking in cohesion and/or inspiration than usual. Perhaps this scattershot approach will at least make occasional hits among the readership. New terms are constantly surfacing in the discussions of computer research. In the first couple of OFFLINE columns, I even began to construct a glossary of relevant terms, although that never became as consistent a feature of the column as I originally envisioned. Nevertheless, readers will have been tripping across such terms as "CD-ROM" and "hypertext" and "shareware" in subsequent columns. I have made an attempt to define them -- "CD-ROM" stands for Compact Disk with Read Only Memory, which means that masses of electronic material can be stored on this "optical" or "laser disk" medium (not a magnetic device like the normal diskettes), but that the user cannot modify or add to what is already fixed on the disk (it is "read only," not read/write). A similar, but slightly more flexible storage medium is called "WORM," for Write Once but Read Many times. The main practical difference is that special equipment is needed to "master" (fix the data on) a CD-ROM so that it is not usually done inhouse, while the WORM drive permits the user to store the material on the WORM disk and add to it (but not change it) periodically as desired. Now entering the picture are disks with similarly large storage capacity that have the read/write capability. You will be hearing more about them. But you knew most of that (see OFFLINE 6, already). And you also knew that "hypertext" refers to the electronic coordination of various types of available information (e.g. text, dictionary, pictures, even sound) so that the user can move back and forth (often by using multiple windows that can coexist simultaneously on the computer screen) between the various interrelated elements (see OFFLINE 15 and 19). Similarly, you have been exposed to "shareware" or computer software made available to whomever asks, with the expectation that if you find it useful, you will pay a modest fee to the author (OFFLINE 16). Such neologisms as "vaporware" and "airware" are largely selfexplanatory, referring somewhat playfully or cynically to unfulfilled promises. Some other relevant terms in vogue that have not been discussed here include "expert system" and "authoring system." Both of these refer to a special type of computer software that stands between the user (who operates through a "user interface" that hopefully is "friendly" or even "transparent" at the "front end" of the process) and the more technical computer languages (which can be either "high level" like C or Pascal with simple commands that can trigger complex chains of responses in the machine, or "low level" like Assembly, which stands relatively closer to "machine language" and the most basic yes/no alternatives that ultimately operate the computer). Incidentally, to become more familiar with just how it all works, there is a "friendly" if not painless section at the beginning of John Hughes' BITS, BYTES & BIBLICAL STUDIES (Zondervan, 1987) that I would highly recommend. Hughes also has an extensive glossary of terms. But I digress. An "expert system," if I understand how the term is usually used, refers to a specially constructed software system (program or package) that attempts to emulate the "logic" of a particular perspective or approach, such as for making medical diagnoses or anticipating stock market trends or correctly interpreting human language. It is created for a certain type of user in a specifically defined context in which inferences are drawn by applying rules to relevant data in order to produce recommendations. My optical scanner identifies the first item in the sequence 1989 as a number, not as a lower case letter "l" or an upper case letter "I" (which could also be a roman numeral), because it stands next to numbers. That identification is an inference drawn and acted upon by the scanner's expert system. An "authoring system" permits the user to create, within specified limits, an intermediate set of software commands to deal with "user-defined" problems. An authoring system could be built on an expert system, giving the user more freedom to specify the context and goals. It might also work in close connection with "query language" by which various options/selections are presented for the user's choice (an "interactive" approach). The main point is that an authoring system provides the basis from which a user who may not be adept at "computer programming" can accomplish a certain range of programming tasks in a particular context -- can produce user-defined results. Packages such as HyperTalk/HyperCard (for the Mac) come to mind in this connection, providing a high degree of user flexibility and power. To some extent, but perhaps closer to "query language" than to a highly developed "authoring system," are programs such as DBase or Lotus 1-2-3 or the Oxford Concordance Program. These are general programs that permit the user to fine tune the performance for particular needs. The greater the flexibility available to the user, and the ability to generate non-trivial instructions, the closer we come to a clear "authoring system." Computer assisted instruction is an area in which authoring systems offer great potential. I am encouraged to report that Scholars Press has now joined the electronic network, with the BITNET address SCHOLARS@EMORYU1. For e-mail addicts like myself, this will greatly facilitate contact, exchange of information, etc. In a similar vein, as of March 1989, the HUMANIST group (contact MCCARTY@UTOREPAS) on the international university networks had grown to more than 400 members, a fact that helps illustrate the speed with which revolutions in modes of communication are taking place (the FAX machine is another illustration, about which I know very little at present). Various other electronic groups with special interests have also sprung up, as I mentioned in OFFLINE 22, one of the most recent of which is editors of scholarly journals. Specific groups with which I try to keep in touch in this way, for various reasons, include archaeologists, anglo-saxon scholars, Jewish studies people, and IBYCUS users. It is not surprising, then, to find that conventional forms of publication and distribution are being challenged by the new media. OFFLINE itself is circulated as a "pre-publication" service to members of the (free) HUMANIST group as soon as the ink is dry -- I mean, the electrons have settled -- thus several weeks before it appears in "hardcopy." There are now some journals that circulate entirely in electronic form, such as PHILOSOPHY & THEOLOGY QUARTERLY (1986- ), from Marquette University. Oxford University Press has just announced the availability of the NEW OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY on CD-ROM, and of the works of SHAKESPEARE on 20 diskettes (IBM/DOS). I have myself sought and received permission from Mohr/Siebeck in Tuebingen to reissue in electronic form the English edition of Walter Bauer's ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY, which is now out of print in hardcopy. And I hope to do the same with other publications with which I have been associated. Notices concerning various computer products constantly come to my attention, and I try to take note of any that seem especially relevant to OFFLINE readers. But the procedure is rather haphazard (you should see my office!), so the serious reader should refer to more systematic sources such as John Hughes' BITS & BYTES REVIEW. A second CD-ROM has now been issued by PHI (Packard Humanities Institute, 300 Second St, Palo Alto CA 94022), containing the Duke Documentary Papyri. As with the PHI[/CCAT] #1 disk and the TLG C disk, this can be accessed from the IBYCUS SC without any additional software, and from other machines as well. For Apple Macintosh users, the PANDORA software from the Harvard based PERSEUS Project is now available -- contact Elli Mylonas, Classics, Boylston Hall 319, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138. For IBM/DOS type computers, the options include: (1) CCAT's OFFLOAD and associated software being produced here at Penn by Alan Humm and his staff; (2) the GREEKUT program by Tony Smith (University of Manchester; available through CCAT/OFFLINE), especially for the Greek; (3) John Baima's "LBase" software (constantly being upgraded) which can now search directly from the CD-ROMs and display in Greek, Hebrew, Latin/English, etc. (5415 North East 47th St, Vancouver WA 98611); (4) and a newly announced shareware program by Randall M. Smith (Classics, U CA at Santa Barbara 93106) geared especially for the Greek and Latin materials. At the level of data distribution, it was already noted in OFFLINE 20 that CCAT is now making available in diskette format the Latin Vulgate, certain Aramaic Targumic texts, and Newman's concise Lexicon of the Greek New Testament (UBS). To this list can be added sections of the Sahidic Coptic Bible, the morphologically analyzed New Testament, and the indices to the Journal of Biblical Literature (vols 61-100) and the Westminster Theological Journal (1938-88). Standard orders will be referred to secondary distributors such as DOVE Booksellers, 3165 West 12 Mile Road, Berkley MI 48072; tel 313 547-9659. Hopefully, this will help eliminate the long waits some of you have experienced in getting orders filled by CCAT. Please accept our apologies! I have little time for reviewing software products that are sent to me (sometimes at my request), although I have every intention of doing some selective reviews in the future. Fortunately, John Hughes has covered many of them in his 1987 book and in his review journal. For the moment let me quickly mention the wide range that is represented. Biblical materials with accessing software on diskette (e.g. CompuBible, WORDsearch, the Bible Word Program, ThePerfectWord for Mac) and on CD-ROM (FABS, Ellis Enterprises; see OFFLINE 19) constitute one end of the spectrum. Programs for multilingual text manipulation also abound (e.g. LBase, MultiLingual Scholar, NotaBene, Oxford Concordance Program, CATSSBase for the Mac from Galen Marquis in Jerusalem). There is software aimed mainly at pastoral use (e.g. a program called Lexegete), at basic language instruction (NT Greek tutorial), at complex linguistic analysis (MacKinnon/McGill program). Surely I have forgotten some that are physically present here, and I have not even attempted to speak of others concerning which reports have been heard (e.g. the PhiloLogic search and retrieval system for the Mac, from the ARTFL project in Chicago). But it is clear that much activity is taking place at a variety of levels! I am mercifully nearing the end of the accumulation of "things to mention" on OFFLINE. The slate will soon be clear, at least for the moment. The CAL (Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon) Project has issued a Newsletter and requests information about encoded Aramaic texts that could be incorporated into the Project (contact Delbert Hillers, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore MD). This is a major language archive for ancient studies. The AIBI (Association Internationale: Bible et Informatique) issues a regular newsletter called INTERFACE (in French), which is an excellent resource for information of various sorts (reports, announcements, notes, etc.). AIBI also holds conferences (see OFFLINE 19), publishes conference volumes, and sponsors an electronic interest group (oh yes, I'm on that one too!). Contact PROBI, CIB-Maredsous, B-5198 Denee, Belgium. <-----> Please send information, suggestions or queries concerning OFFLINE to Robert A. Kraft, Box 36 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6303. Telephone (215) 898-5827. BITNET address: KRAFT at PENNDRLS (no longer PENNDRLN). To request information or materials from OFFLINE (or from CCAT), please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label. From: Lamar Hill Subject: Big Blue and printer blues Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 00:26:47 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 325 (505) I am soliciting the advice of any of you who can be of help. I have been using an IBM proprietary word processing program. I have also used an IBM printer thus I have not had to deal with the question of how to get around Big Blue's obdurate refusal to make its software work with printers not their own. This has not been a problem up until now as I have worked at home but, suddenly, I have a PC in my office and a printer has been promised that is not compatible with my word processing software. Had I purchased this new equipment I would have assured compatibility, but that was not the case. My question, in short, is whether there is any software available that will permit the office printer to emulate one of the acceptable printers and thus allow me to get on with my work. Environment: IBM\PC\XT clone using DiplayWrite4. A Citizen daisy wheel printer is mine if I can make it work with my clone. Possible alternatives: Change to WordPerfect (although I have a large investment in the docs I have created with DW4); make an ASCII conversion and then reformat in another compatible format; employ a shotgun at short-range. Question: Is there any software that will interface with DW4 and incompatible printers so that the printer (not of Blue pedigree)will emulate a Blue printer and thus give me the opportunity to use my present software. NB--I know that there is a HP laser printer that Blue has deigned to make compatible with DW$. But this is a Testarosa when I am in the VW Bug league. Thanks for your help, Lamar M. Hill LMHILL@UCI.BITNET From: Leslie Subject: Concordance for VAX Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 07:52:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 326 (506) I have been following all the discussions and information on HUMANIST with great interest. Perhaps my own interest is a little different, since I have seen no one discussing Concordance programs, pro and con. I shall be moving in June from an IBM mainframe running under CMS to a VAX running with VM and would like a generally accepted program and format, rather than an idiosyncratic local program. Does the Oxford program run on VAX? Is there some other one generally available (i.e., not too expensive)? I sent a message to Susan Hockey at Oxford (at the address on the list of Humanist members) but have not received a response, though I also did not receive a "bad mail" notice. I know that many use the Oxford program and that it has a good reputation. Do you know anything about this, or could you suggest someone who might? (I looked through much of the material you sent at my initial subscription, but did not see anything relating to concordance packages.) I'd like to know in the next month or so, in order to have the program ordered and up before my arrival at the new address. Many thanks for any help you can give me. Leslie Morgan (LZMORGAN@sbccvm) SUNY, Stony Brook, NY From: Charles Ess Subject: humanities computing Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 13:19:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 327 (507) I would like to seek my fellow HUMANISTs' wisdom in developing plans for academic, and especially humanities computing in a relatively small (1100 day students), competitive (ACT of 23+ and rising), liberal arts college with strong preprofessional programs. The current computing environment is composed of: (non-networked) PC labs for wordprocessing, spreadsheet analysis, etc.; (non-networked) PCs and Radio Shack micros for data collection and processing in the sciences; library PCs using both CD-ROM players and on-line services (Dialogue; Knowledge Index/BSR After Dark) for database and OCLC searches; a Macintosh hypermedia lab running A/UX, Ethernet, and designed for _Intermedia_; an architecture lab of IBM RTs; and mini- and mainframe computers which are either for administrative use or otherwise restricted (e.g., the Prime for architecture applications). Faculty are pursuing projects independently (e.g., translation programs; tutorials in economics; etc.) While we enjoy the services of an academic computing director (who is largely tied down by support issues), there is currently no formal body for coordinating academic computing. We have apparently reached a point of critical mass, however, in which more resources are becoming available for academic computing (witness the hypermedia lab) and more faculty are interested in such things as acquiring machine-readable texts, hypermedia resources such as _Perseus_, etc. What suggestions would my computer-literate colleagues make regarding the direction(s) of humanities computing in this environment, and within the financial limitations faced by an institution with a comfortable endowment, but which is still very much enrollment-driven? I hope to respond to any suggestions and comments -- though I also anticipate a deluge of mail from helpful HUMANISTS. Proleptic thanks -- Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Department Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 (417) 865-8731 From: Jim Cahalan Subject: Posting for Irish contacts Date: 30 Mar 89 16:43:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 328 (508) Dear Irish HUMANISTists, Could any Irish subscribers to HUMANIST please send me a message? I'm particularly interested in contacting people in Ireland--and most particularly interested in reaching anyone at Trinity College, Dublin (where I direct a summer study-abroad program). (The accommodations dean there, Desmond O'Connell, is on FAX but not BITNET; I'm on BITNET but not FAX, so we both have quickie electronic access but can easily communicate only by hard copy that takes 2-3 weeks between sending it out and getting a reply!) If anyone in Ireland is able to send me a message, please include any advice you may have about how to send messages via BITNET to Ireland (to you). I had to use a special window to get through to a HUMANIST member in Scotland, and assume that the window through to Ireland (if there is such a window) is a different one. As you can see, I'm still a novice at this. I also welcome messages from anyone anywhere else in the world who is interested in any aspect of Irish Studies, my chief field of interest. Thanks! (My hard-copy address is 110B Leonard Hall English Department Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 U.S.A. (412) 357-2264.) Jim Cahalan, Graduate Literature From: Charles Ess Subject: myth and Shakespeare Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 16:57:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 329 (509) Following Rosemary Radford Reuther (_New Woman, New Earth_) I use in my classes the notion of a *reversal myth* defined as: (a) portraying behaviors, characteristics, features -- which in an earlier tradition appear as positive (or negative) -- now in negative (or positive) terms; (b) portraying powers and abilities which in an earlier tradition "belonged" to the feminine (or masculine) as now belonging to the masculine (or feminine). For example, on Reuther's view, the second Genesis creation story accords the power of reproduction or generation, held in earlier traditions to belong to the feminine, to both "the man" and God, insofar as the man (passively) "births" the woman by way of God (who is predominantly imaged in "masculine" terms). Or, in Hesiod's _Theogony_, the reproductive power belonging to Gaia and then Zeus (in his production of Athena), is also held by Night. Night, however, is portrayed as generating only negative entities -- unlike Mother Earth, who accepts Zeus' lordship. Insofar as this definition works to help describe some motifs in religious story -- it also appears to describe other kinds of story. In particular, a student here wants to do an analysis of Shakespeare's _Midsummer Night's Dream_ based on this definition of reversal myth. Can my HUMANIST colleagues suggest: (a) improvements on the definition and/or (b) scholarly resources pertinent to the student's project? Many thanks -- Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: A quick review of the Mac IIcx Date: Thursday, 30 March 1989 1134-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 330 (510) Macintosh users that I know have been pretty excited by the release of the Mac IIcx, Apple's newest machine. It's still pretty rare--the University consortiums in this area won't be getting theirs for another month or two. I've been lucky enough to get hold of one, and I thought that perhaps some subscribers to humanist@utoronto might be interested... The box. The first thing that you notice is the reduced size--the CPU is about five or six inches shorter than the Mac II. It's a little "boxier" in appearence than the Mac II, but it looks nice standing on its side (nice touch: the rubber feet on the bottom of the box can be moved to the side). The inside is well-designed: all modular construction, which makes it easy to disassemble the thing into five pieces in a couple of minutes. It's much easier to get to the slots or add memory to the IIcx than it is for the II or IIx. Speed: You get the speed benefits of the 68030, about 15-20% faster than the 68020 Mac II--same processor speed, 16mz, however. The SuperDrive seems quicker than the older 800K drives (the SuperDrive reads 1.4 meg floppies, reads and writes MS-DOS, PRODOS and OS/2 formats, with translator software included with the IIcx), but not by a lot. It's difficult for me to judge speed, because I'm using the 80 meg Cirrus drive supplied by Apple, which has an average seek time of about 15ms--a lot faster than the hard drives I'm accustomed to. Overall, I get the feeling that the IIcx is somewhere between 25% to as much as 50% faster for common tasks, at least with the hardware configuration I'm using. It's quiet. Really quiet. I was annoyed by the loudness of the Mac II's fan; the IIcx is remarkably quiet by comparison. Overall benefits of the IIcx: Some increase in speed over the II--very substantial over any 68000-based Mac. (I forgot to mention the 68882 co-processor, which seems to run faster than the 68881 that comes with the Mac II). You get the advantages of the 68030--a built-in PMMU, for example, which will let you run the true multi-tasking operating system that Apple is promising in the next year or so. You'd have to buy a separate chip for the Mac II to do this. The SuperDrive floppy drive: 1.4 meg floppies, running faster than the old 800K drives, and the ability to read/write MS-DOS, PRODOS and OS/2 floppies (on a 3 1/2 inch format). The look and feel of the thing is lean, clean--it looks neater than a Mac II. A small detail, perhaps, but noteworthy. Tradeoffs: You can only have one internal flopy drive, though you can add an external floppy (you can't add an external floppy to the Mac II or Mac IIx). Internal drives can only be of 3 1/2 inch half-height format, limiting the capacity somewhat--you won't find too many 300 meg drives for this box. You have only three slots--or two, as you must devote one slot to the video card. That's two fewer slots than the Mac II or IIx, though the great majority of users won't need five slots. The price for a fully-configured Mac IIcx is about the price for a similarly-configured Mac II. If you're looking to move up from a 68000 machine, the Mac IIcx is a better choice than the Mac II. If you already have a Mac II, and you could add the SuperDrive and a PMMU for about $1000, probably less than the difference between what you'll get for the old machine, and what you'd pay for the Mac IIcx. You wouldn't get the speed increase of the 68030, but you would get the functionality. If you need the five slots, you need the Mac II or IIx. If you need true portability in a 68030 (the IIcx is light, weighing less than a Mac Plus, but it isn't really portable), you need to get an SE/30, which has the SuperDrive, 68030, Color QuickDraw (you can attach an external color monitor), but not the NuBus slots, though I'm sure that third-party developers will be releasing expansion housings soon. In brief, I like this machine a lot--overall, it's more satisfying than any other Mac I've used. From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:45:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 331 (511) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First International Workshop on Lexical Acquisition IJCAI-89 21 August 1989 Detroit, Michigan Organized by Roy Byrd - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Nicoletta Calzolari - University of Pisa Paul Jacobs - General Electric Research and Development Center James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University Uri Zernik - General Electric Research and Development Center This is a call for papers for a one-day workshop on Lexical Acquisition to be held at IJCAI-89. We will accommodate 30 participants, 15 of whom will be invited to give talks. Position papers will be collected and published in an edited volume. For Natural Language systems to become more robust they require huge lexicons, providing both syntax and semantics. Existing on-line lexicons are small in size and cannot satisfy all the requirements of diverse Natural Language systems. Lexical acquisition and computational lexicology have emerged as major research areas addressing these problems. We will investigate in the workshop the following issues: * What are the uses of lexicons? (e.g., parsing, text processing, generation, translation) * What should be the contents of a lexicon (e.g., syntax, semantics, morphology), and how should these components be integrated? phonology, etc. * How is a lexicon organized? (e.g., hierarchy, subcategorization, indexing) * What are possible acquisition resources? (e.g., text, corpus, context, machine-readable dictionaries) * How can a lexicon be used? (e.g., customizing a lexicon to a domain by learning) * What are the necessary utilities? (e.g., tool kits for computational lexicography) To participate, please submit a 3-page position paper (4 copies) by May 15 highlighting: (a) the specific problem addressed; (b) the approach; (c) the application; (d) references to more detailed publications. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION: Dr. Uri Zernik General Electric - Research and Development Center PO Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 For further details, please call or email: (518) 387-5370 zernik@crd.ge.com From: Ivy Anderson Subject: ELECTRONIC SHAKESPEARE (ETC.) AND LIBRARIES, CONT. Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 12:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 332 (512) Thanks to Brian Whittaker for his thoughtful response to my posting about electronic publication and libraries. To answer my implied question whether libraries should purchase the electronic Shakespeare, Brian (if I may use the familiar) poses the question: "Is the library a place where one can actually *do* research, or is it only a place where one can look up the research that others have done?" He goes on to draw a distinction between primary research material, secondary literature, and access tools. It is to the latter categories, especially indexing and abstracting sources, that Brian refers when he talks about what one does in libraries. But even those libraries not fortunate enough to be the Bodleian Library at Oxford or the Capella Sistina collect and provide access to primary literature in numerous forms: critical editions of the world's major literatures, microform and print facsimiles of manuscripts and incunabulae, and so forth. The distinction which Brian Whittaker makes has more to do with the locus of use than with acquisition. In fact, most of the print resources we buy are intended to be checked out of the library ("issued," for my British colleagues) and used in the primary research environment, be it home, office, etc. Why not electronic media? We can certainly circulate the electronic Shakespeare to you just as we would the print edition. (Well, we would prudently archive the original and circulate a copy -- a practice generally considered by libraries to be within copyright, at least in the U.S., though Oxford may care to comment on this). In the case of CD-ROM, recent discussions on HUMANIST make clear that equipment availability is an inhibiting factor. But whereas few of you own CD-ROM players, libraries are now buying them in significant numbers. This is analogous to the case of microform materials, for which few scholars own the special readers necessary to use the material outside the library and perforce must *do* their research within our walls. But computer networks now offer the promise of having one's cake and eating it too. Why not have us (1) purchase the material (as the academy's resource for shared scholarly resources); (2) mount it on local area networks both inside and outside the library (appropriately licensed, of course); (3) from which you can download the texts or portions thereof as needed to support individual research activity. Isn't this the electronic equivalent of buying a book, placing it on the shelf, and having you charge it out? CD-ROM versus floppy disk then becomes an issue for the "host," not the user. It's true, as Brian says, that libraries thus far have inclined toward the purchase of electronic access tools (indexes and abstracts) rather than primary research material. There are a number of perfectly good reasons for this, ranging from availability to ease of use as compared with existing print versions of the same resources. Numerous forays in other directions are springing up, however. The point is that, assuming that an electronic delivery mechanism is in place to make material available where it can best be used, (a rather big IF at the moment perhaps), it would appear natural for the library to collect electronic media of every type, just as we have both the MLA Bibliography and the Oxford Shakespeare edition in print. It becomes then a normal matter of collection appropriateness, i.e. is a particular resource appropriate for the collection and scholarly activity at university X? Of course the matter is not quite so simple, because information delivery systems require (1) considerable money and expertise to build, (2) institutional commitment, and often (3) close cooperation between libraries and computing centers. Neither is the technology all there yet -- at the Brandeis library we have a network of CD-ROM workstations which (1) hangs several times a day, (2) does not talk to our campus network, and (3) doesn't talk to our other library systems, e.g. the ones which know whether we own the journals that the CD-ROM has indexed. (Yes, our network consists solely of bibliographic tools now, but it is this very question of adding data files with which we are grappling). But the impetus is there, as evidenced by a trend toward converging roles for libraries and computing centers in many academic institutions. (Many of you may know that EDUCOM sponsored a series of conferences on this subject in the spring of 1987). It is the experience of many of us in libraries that, while we are very cognizant of the challenge that electronic publication poses for our collections and services, many of our scholar-patrons are quite ignorant of our concern with this issue. It is for this reason that I have raised the matter on HUMANIST. I would venture to say that most librarians view the electronic delivery of scholarly information as both desirable and inevitable, and see a natural role for libraries in building and providing access to these collections. Bob Kraft's recent issue of *Offline* offers more evidence of this proliferation. But many of us are still taking our first steps in this arena, and at the moment few scholars are asking us to acquire these materials on their behalf. The input of scholars (and developers) can help shape our activities in useful ways. From: Ruth Glynn Subject: French Dictionary Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 05:16:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 333 (513) Don't know of an ASCII one, but ... Il y a un CD-ROM, *Zyzomys 1989: le dictionnaire electronique de notre temps*. C'est un coedition Act et Hachette -- constitue a partir des informations contenues dans le *Dictionnaire de notre temps*, le *Dictionnaire des synonymes de M. Benac*, et *l'Atlas pratique* -- tous ces ouvrages edites par Hachette en version papier. Config. mater.: IBM PC (ou de type compatible); 640K RAM; disque dur recommande; MS-DOS 3.00 ou plus; lecteur de CD-ROM; extensions CD-ROM MSCDEX 2.01 Options: souris de type Microsoft ou Logitech; carte graphique couleur de type EGA Zyzomys (Act/Hachette) 12 rue de la Montagne Sainte Genevieve 75005 Paris ISBN 2 86 58 50196 Ruth Glynn From: 6500rms@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 07:47:36 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 784 (514) I have been away for a while and have come in on the tail end of the discussion about Latin texts, so please forgive me if I am rehashing ground that has already been covered. While I certainly would not claim that there is as much Latin material available as there is Greek, there is a nice collection of Latin texts available on the PHI/CCAT CD-ROM. These texts are in a "standard" format, i.e., that used by the TLG on their CD-ROM #C, and some programs will work on both these CD's. Tony Smith's CD-ROM Explorer program seems to work on the PHI/CCAT CD just as well as on the TLG CD-ROM #C. Also, my own SEARCHER program, which I have described in a previous message to HUMANIST, works on at least the Latin texts of the PHI/CCAT disc. I must admit that our funding and development has been aimed toward the Greek CD, but that is because the project was started several years ago when the TLG was pretty much the only game in town. Now, however, we have several Latinists in our Department using SEARCHER on the Latin texts, and they are constantly suggesting changes and improvements which will apply to texts of both languages. Also, we hope to include features for the English, Hebrew, and Coptic texts of the PHI/CCAT CD sometime in the future. So far it is a simple matter of economics; no one has wanted to use these texts badly enough to obtain funding to get the software going. Once funding is available, I believe we have the basic tools ready to be adapted. Randall Smith UCSB Department of Classics 6500rms@ucsbuxa.bitnet From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: censoring, editing, and volume of mail (179) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 02:03:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 334 (515) Boys and their toys? Roseanne, I don't think you're being irritable; I think you're being sexist. Volume of mail we don't care to read can certainly be a problem, but I daresay that it's less related to gender than to the likelihood that humanist with their language-centered interests are all very verbal. From: Donald Spaeth (0532) 33 3573 Subject: Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 09:39:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 335 (516) Re: Editing, censorship and peripheral topics Rosanne Potter is recommending the removal (albeit to a b-board) of the very subjects that I subscribe to HUMANIST in order to read, namely hardware and software comparisons, evaluations and queries! As someone who supports (in both senses of the word) the use of computers by humanists, I find such notes an invaluable means of finding out about products which meet special needs, a task which would be far more time-consuming done in other ways, and of gaining the benefits of others' experiences, both good and bad, with particular products. I can then pass this information on to those I serve and use it to make decisions about what we should be putting in computers which humanists will use. My only complaint in this area is that it interesting questions are sometimes asked to which I never see the answers, because these are sent privately. I'd like to see the answers on HUMANIST, even if it adds to the flood of mail. I'm sure we all have subjects which we would like excised from HUMANIST. My own personal bugbear is just the sort of philosophical exchange that I suspect the founders wanted to encourage, on such subjects as hypertext, do "the humanities exist", etc., including the current debate! If just keeping up with HUMANIST is a major task, it is largely because of such exchanges. I therefore would not like to see such debates extended to other issues which have nothing to do with computing in the humanities (and which have other forums for expression). But I've learned to skim or skip items which I can't apply to my job (as interesting as they sometimes are); I just don't have the time. In sum, although I am somewhat concerned about the amount of HUMANIST which arrives in my reader each day, I'd like to keep it as it is. I like the breadth of subject area, I like the informal exchanges, I like the detailed information on software and hardware, and I like the fact that irrelevant and/or offensive contributions are occasionally omitted. Hats off to Willard for doing such a good (and, I'm sure, time-consuming) job! Donald Spaeth Arts Computing Development Officer University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom Janet: ecl6das at leeds.cms1 Bitnet: cms1.leeds.ac.uk From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: the content of humanist Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 08:00:29 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 336 (517) Rosanne Potter wants to take out all the questions about hardware, Latin, requests for text etc; Willard wants to take out anything that does not relate to computing (maybe if Salman Rushdie had used OCP on the Koran it would count?); Joe Giampapa wants all the good stuff stashed on a LISTSERV server; I want the proportion of HUMANISTs who are into dead languages cut to a maximum of 50%\footnote¤FLAME ON why doesn't HUMANIST come out into the open and call itself LITLANG? how much of the discussion relates to anything except textual material? FLAME OFF‡. Doesn't leave much, does it? People consistently compare HUMANIST to a journal; I would say that the differences are that HUMANIST is much more difficult to read (no typography, and a nasty screen) but that it comes out MUCH faster. It suggests to me that the appropriate contents of HUMANIST are items which are a) timely and b) short. I have received frequent criticism for writing items which do not not show mature consideration and are (gasp!) flippant; but if I wanted to publish a long, considered, reflection on censorship of computer networks, or the problems of quantification of literature, I would write the piece, get colleagues to read it, rewrite it (cutting out silly jokes, apologizing to all known Danes in the word), then publish it somewhere where lots of people could read it in comfort. Lets stick to immediacy in HUMANIST. Sebastian From: Mark Olsen Subject: Rosanne Potter Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 07:28:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 337 (518) [deleted quotation] There are a number of good reasons why general distribution of Humanist messages is important. What good is requesting text xxx if the message is not read by a wide range of people. I am impressed by the restraint Humanists exercise in comparison to other e-mail groups. (Ever look at the csnet discussions?) [deleted quotation] Fine. If Rosanne can't figure out how to delete messages she does not want to read, then she should withdraw. I manage to get through the "waves" of Humanist messages in a couple of minutes a day, while I'm sitting at home in the morning with my coffee and newspaper. Hardly an onerous effort. Willard spends too much of *his* time collecting our responses in single files for our convenience. In fact, the only time I waste with Humanist is when I respond to dumb comments...and that *is* meant to sound irritated. Mark From: Subject: mail filters, ListServers comment (8 lines) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 09:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 338 (519) It seems to me that, as we all become more sophisticated uses of E-mail, the problems of "power users" in a grown-up system loom larger. There are indeed MUCH nicer systems, technically, which do the things one hopes for. IBM and others are doing extensive research on intelligent filters and prioritizers for mail. Compuserve has a delightful method of both filtering to your choice of about 12-15 broad areas per forum, and then further being able to just follow notes and replies that branch downstream from a given item. CONFER-II, at the University of Michigan, provides extensive ways to establish new forums, new topic areas within forums, and just pick and choose what one wants to see, read, or reply to. I've heard good things about Minitel (cheaper than Compuserve) and some new Minitel spinoff just started in the US. I'd propose that we all think about ways to get "someone" to subsidize such forums, in (from my point of view), the National interest, since they are not incrementally free to use. Note, for instance, that in Tokyo almost EVERYTHING costs 5-10 times what it does in the US, EXCEPT for a local phone call, which is something like 0.1 cents. The Japanese appreciate the economic value of encouraging interpersonal communication. Why don't we, and, more to the point, who has a deep pocket that we can lobby to make such a new value system come to pass? How about some activism, Humanists? Wade Schuette (WADE@CRNLGSM) Johnson Graduate School of Management Cornell U., Ithaca NY USA From: Subject: HUMANIST Self-Definition Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 09:36 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 339 (520) Part of the problem is that we are working with machines of very different standards. Some allow swift perusal of the mail, and swift deletion of stuff that is of no personal interest or lasting value. Others are painfully slow, and the accumulation of nit-picking, irrelevant and distorted quotation (*especially* of William Blake), and flamboyant ego-tripping becomes maddening after a very short while. I don't want not to be informed of things outside my own immediate specialism - anything may come in useful some day, and if I've seen a vague reference I can usually backtrack to discover more when I happen to ned to. I even quite enjoy being exasperated by some of our fellow-HUMANISTS, as long as they don't take too long or display too much ignorant conceit. I'm quite happy to leave serious demarcation disputes to be settled by Willard, and to go to other lists for whatever rambling discussion I feel the need of today. As others have said, part of the value of HUMANIST is the provision of addresses and identities of others with the same interests and relevant experience: that's why we go on going to conferences - and it's also why we learn to avoid conference-bores, and try not to become them. Not every conversation needs to be public. Not every conversation is worth continuing even in private: people who will keep talking at us when we don't feel like it have to be dodged or gently discouraged - not because we will *never* want to continue the conversation, but because there are other things to do here-now. As indeed there are right now! Regards, Stephen Clark (Vanderbilt & Liverpool) From: ROBERT E. SINKEWICZ (416) 926-7128 ROBERTS at UTOREPAS Subject: Databases Date: 30 March 1989, 09:06:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 786 (521) Sebastian makes a good point regarding what can be done with an XT. We inevitably have to make do with whatever hardware and software we have immediately available. In many cases an XT will work quite nicely even for some larger databases. But -- I still think some caution, caveats, etc. are needed. In such a case the database would probably have to be very well designed, if the performance is to be acceptable. Designing a database is not horrendously difficult, but it does require some understanding of the potential problems, and some hands-on experience is to be recommended before attacking a research project. I have worked myself with a project that came into my hands with the `physical data' arranged in such a way that the only effecient way of doing the data entry was to adopt a database design that is rather less than perfect. This has created a variety of problems that will eventually be solved only when the data entry is complete and the database can then be redesigned. I was also working on the assumption that an AT class machine is now readily affordable by most academics. In Canada and the US this is true, I think, but in Europe I understand that the cost would be more prohibitive. A fast hard disk is still a little expensive but not hopelessly so (ca. $1000 Canadian). The performance that an AT can provide might be essential in some circumstances. Imagine a project where the research required constant querying of the database. If each query takes even 3 minutes, the work would proceed very slowly. This has actually happened to me in the past year and I was paying my research assistants $15 per hour, 8 hours per day. Even smaller time losses can grow to be significant. Bob Sinkewicz ROBERTS@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA ROBERTS@UTOREPAS From: Willard McCarty Subject: HUMANIST desubscription Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 08:01:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 787 (522) Could you remove my subscription to HUMANIST, please? I feel a bit bad about this, since I have been faithfully reading it and writing to it since it started, but I find that it simply occupies too much time these days to think about whats on there, and 99% of it is irrelevant to what I do - I'd hate to become `one of the quiet ones'! If my job ever changes so that I am supposed to know about humanities computing, I'll resubscribe. No doubt if you publicise this on HUMANIST, there will be much waving of hats! Sebastian From: Marshall Gilliland Subject: A scheme for HUMANIST (48 lines) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 20:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 340 (523) Several recent messages ask about the possibility of bulletin boards, sub-lists, and some way to know what a message is about before you ar onto your third screen of text. Willard has explained that LISTSERV cannot handle such functions or that he simply is unable to handle any more traffic. Could we try this scheme awhile and see how well it works: Suppose you see a message that is labelled "special" and being about a quite particular topic, such as OCP, Arabic, or scanners; or being about a controversial topic that you want extended discussion of, such as Rushdie's book or the best markup system: SPECIAL My view supporting Iran's position on Rushdie Send me mail for further discussion: My Name: QUIXOTE@EARTHSEA (These SPECIAL messages might be bundled together occasionally by the Editor and sent to HUMANIST.) When My Name gets a reply, he creates a small mail distribution list, that his mailer can handle, and circulates his views to those people who respond to the message. The responders could, in turn, duplicate this distribution list on their mailers. Such a scheme as the above one has the effect of any member creating a sub-list for what is likely to be a short period of time. We all on HUMANIST would know of postings sent to HUMANIST and we can join in or ignore discussions. After the discussion seems to have run its course, My Name might consider sending a summary of the discussion to HUMANIST or might announce the availability of a summary to those who write him for one. Marshall From: Daniel Ridings Subject: Topics for humanist / LaTeX Date: 2 Apr 89 09:10:12 EDT (Sun) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 341 (524) Sebastian is right of course. This media does not really lend itself to long articles --- not that I mind if they appear since even the longest scroll off the screen in a matter of seconds. I suppose I have the same attitude as many university librarians who are satisfied if one single person reads a purchased book since the vast majority are never even opened. If there is someone out there who appreciates a long article, fine. I do like to see the clips from other lists such as OFFLINE or the like. I don't have time for other lists and appreciate the glimpses of what is out there. Cute little jokes from Sebastian? Why not? If I want to get bored I know right where to go and without his irritating comments Humanist might become one of those places. By the way, does anyone know how I can get LaTeX's footnote macro to refrain from assigning catcodes to the tokens of an argument until the argument is plugged into the body of the macro? Silvio Levy's greekmode-macro juggles around the codes so that if Greek appears in a footnote and TeX assigns catcodes to the tokens as it reads them, the Greek text has the wrong codes assigned when one switches over to Tgreekmode. Sorry about that ... but if we can discuss maggots on bow-ties or ducks on a wall or what ever we were to have as a sign of recognition ... From: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Date: Sat, 1 APR 89 18:14:12 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 789 (525) The title of Lakoff's book to which JAZBO recently alluded (ha!) is in fact "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things" rather than "women fire and *other* dangerous things" (which has quite different implications). It is published by U of Chicago Press so I'm surprised Jim couldnt find it. I have held it in my hands long enough to know that it contains very much more than a discussion of 'category theory'. In particular it contains a fairly devastating put down of current AI dogmata. On the other hand it costs almost as much as an electronic shakespeare... Lou From: Ruth Glynn Subject: Correction to OFFLINE 23 Date: 31 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 342 (526) Please note that is not the *NEW* (i.e. second edition) OED that is available on compact disc, but the original 12-volume (1933) set. Ruth Glynn From: Ruth Glynn Subject: Electronic Shakespeare etc. and Libraries Date: 31 March 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 343 (527) With reference to Ivy Anderson's aside to Oxford on the distribution of electronic media: The site licensing scheme offered by Oxford Electronic Publishing on the electronic edition of Shakespeare allows this sort of distribution within certain limitations. The general scheme of the licence is outlined in the copy of the general notice as below, and the relevant particulars as below (this is not the full licence that a participating institution would sign, only the statements relevant to the limitations of the licence; the wording of both and is subject to minor changes and amendments from time to time). ______ Site Licence Charges for Recognized Educational Establishments Shakespeare: The Complete Works - Electronic Edition Oxford University Press offers some of its educational software packages on a site licence, for instructional use in recognized educational establishments. Institutions which arrange a site licence may purchase additional sets of documentation. The charge for a site licence for Shakespeare: The Complete Works - Electronic Edition is 500 pounds (plus VAT) in the EEC, or 1,000 US dollars in the rest of the World. The terms of the site licence permit users to install the program on an unlimited number of computers within the institution or on a local area network for a period of five years. The licence is renewable thereafter. The site licences are valid only on the campus which has arranged the site licence. Those educational establishments which cover more than one campus must purchase a separate licence for each. Site licensees may purchase additional sets of documentation for 7.50 pounds in the EEC, and 15 US dollars in the rest of the World. This price may be reviewed and changed without notice. The terms of this site licence replace those of any previous site licence agreement. February 1989 ______ ... NOW the parties record their agreement to an increase in the number of computers covered by the Licence granted in the Agreement. FOLLOWING receipt of the additional fee recorded below, the Owner will grant to the User permission to reproduce the Software for use on computers and networks at the User's Institution for a period of five years. The User will be supplied with additional copies of the documentation at a special price for site licence holders. All prices may be reviewed and changed without notice. Site licensees will be informed of any price change. The documentation may not be copied by the User or members of the User's Institution. The Software will only be used on computers which are located on the Institution's premises. The User will ensure that the staff and students at the Institution are notified of the terms of this Agreement. The User agrees to designate one person as the official support person for the Institution. All support calls and correspondence from the Institution shall come from this person. ... _____ Ruth Glynn From: Alan Rudrum Subject: Grading cooperative work Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 11:35:26 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 344 (528) I seem to recall a recent message in which someone wrote of a course in which students worked co-operatively on certain projects. In the course I'm planning for this Fall, on humanity's relationship with the natural world, I should like students to work co-operatively (say three to a project) on the "practical" twentieth century part of the course. They might want, e.g. to undertake a history of Greenpeace or some similar organization, analyzing its objectives, success and so on. I have a very simple-minded question, which is, how does one assign grades to individual students for work undertaken co-operatively? Please reply personally to Alan Rudrum (useranth@sfu.bitnet) From: Alan Rudrum Subject: Turbofonts Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 11:50:48 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 345 (529) The character-generating software called Turbofonts, which is supposed to work with MS_Word and enable one to print Greek and Hebrew etc, comes in two versions, one for dot-matrix and the other for laser printers. Does anybody know if the more expensive version, that for laser printers, includes the capacity to print on dot-matrix. Seems to me one needs copies for proofing, to send to colleagues etc, which one would like to print on dot-matrix, then final copy which one would like to print on laser. Word-processors support a vast variety of printers, so am puzzled by this situation. I could phone Turbofonts and may end up having to; but my university billed me for $160.00 worth of research-related phone calls recently, so if anybody knows the answer I should be grateful. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Quo vadis, Sebastian? Date: Friday, 31 March 1989 0939-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 346 (530) I hope Sebastian Rahtz will reconsider his decision to withdraw from HUMANIST! I am mostly (ok, maybe even moreso) a text person who qualifies for many of his playful barbs, and maybe a masochist or something, but I really and honestly ENJOY having him aboard to rock the boat occasionally. I also am on the archaeology list that he coordinates, but he is not the same unbridled gadfly there. And will the rest of sarcastic Southampton depart with him? A grim prospect! No, no, Sebastian, don't go!! Bob Kraft (the opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of many of my close friends and acquaintances, with whom I have not consulted) From: dgraham@leif.mun.ca Subject: Departure of Humanists Date: 31 Mar 89 13:29 -0330 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 347 (531) I for one will very much miss Sebastian's irreverent, pithy and sometimes rude comments. While I frequently disagreed with his views and with his way of expressing them, they almost always made me examine my own a little more carefully. One of Sebastian's virtues as a Humanist was that he refused to let us take ourselves too seriously, which I fear we have a tendency to do. It will be a pity if that happens now that he has left. I too find Humanist both useful (in the hardware/software posting and in the queries) and pleasant (in the debates, many of which I alas have not time to follow). I hope that we will not let considerations of sheer volume drive us to sift out some postings. If the cost in time begins to outweigh the benefits of use and enjoyment, I shall resign too, but until then I'm happy to delete some postings without reading them just on the strength of their subject headers. David Graham dgraham@kean.mun.ca From: Joe Giampapa Subject: LIPADIT Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 15:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 348 (532) 1. WHAT IS LIPADIT? LInguistic PApers DIstribution Tilburg is a student initiative to distribute papers on generative linguistics on the electronic network. It is a pure pre-publication service. All available papers are final drafts as submitted, or ready to be submitted, for publication on paper. Papers are deleted from the database as soon as they appear in a journal or book. The papers will be distributed "as received", i.e., in the original (word processor) formats, though we will try to provide an additional ASCII version and/or a device-independent (POSTSCRIPT) printfile wherever possible. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. LIPADIT DESCR. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Judith Rowe Subject: a recommendation Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 10:38:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 349 (533) I recently received a letter of application and supporting documents from a man with excellent credentials in Music and good computer experience as well, particularly in the area of instructional computing. I have no vacancy and although I do not know this man personally I would suggest that someone with an appropriate vacancy might wish to contact him. His name is Gary Greenberg, 2503 Crawford, Evanston, IL 60201, Phone: (H)312/ 475-8405 and (O)312/491 5431. Although he is currently employed as an Assistant Professor, Music Composition and Theory, at Northwestern I have no electronic address. From: Subject: OCR: sorting it out Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 17:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 794 (534) Jamie Hubbard (Smith College) I too have been worrying about "what to do about OCR." There are many new products being introduced in the OCR market. I need to evaluate several options and make a recomendation in the next month or so for the purchase of several (as many as five) units to begin a major data input project. The main considerations (as I see them) are: 1) Speed: target = 250,000 pages. 2) Trainable recognition. The material uses roman characters except that some of them have unusual diacritics (romanized Pali), so the software must be trainable. Accuracy is of course a sub-set of this consideration. 3) Column handling. The pages are relatively simple, no columns, but it does have superscripted footnote numbers, the notes gathered at the bottom of each page. It would be nice to automatically handle this, though a simple separation of text/notes into two files that could later be hand/semi- automatically put into the text (following the recent suggestions on Humanist) is probably the limit at this stage (maybe even beyond the limit). The following represents a summary of the comments and reviews I have read to date. I have for the most part just paraphrased the originals, my apologies in advance if I have misrepresented anything. 1) TEXTPERT INFOWORLD, 9/20/88: CTA of Barcelona released TEXTPERT for the Mac, claiming 99.5% accuracy. It uses matrix recognition, topological, and feature-based technologies. "The program is capable of reading any Macintosh font and typeface and any Indo- European language." It reads 1500 characters per minute and takes 1 to 2 minutes for a full page typewritten document. Cost is $995.00. It is marketed n Europe under the name Textscan. CTA Inc., 747 3rd Avenue, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10017; 800-252-1442. A phone rep said (4/3/89) that TextPert was trainable; new version, 3.0, enhances training operation; includes four different character sets: roman, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic; has a "dictionary" of 32,000 characters (640 fonts) plus user-defined, trainable character sets (in other words, once you have trained special characters they can be "added" to the pre-trained sets, similar to the way a spell-checker searches user-defined dictionaries as well as main dictionaries; you can also eliminate characters that you don't need from the "template" set, such as trademark symbols, alpha, etc. For example, if your material had no numbers you could eliminate the numbers in all 640 fonts (i.e., 6400 less characters to check against, no "one vs. el" problems); supports output in ASCII, MacWrite, and Microsoft Word, including font info; supports most major scanners (HP has sheet-feeder and TextPert can use it). Product has been on the market in Europe for a number of years, proven in the field, has support and documentation in some nine different languages. Will run a Mac Plus with one meg of memory, will run on saved files (in TIFF??) so that one machine could scan and save images, another do the recognition, and another format and verify, etc. 2) TRUESCAN INFOWORLD, 9/20/88: Calera Recognition Systems Inc. (formerly The Palantir Corp.) said that its TRUESCAN boards give "complete document recognition" capabilities, including automatic decolumnizing and the recognition and preservation of tables, lists, and other formats within documents." A board that will plug into a variety of scanners (most major brands are listed) the board outputs to a number of major word processor formats (MS Word, Word Perfect, Xywrite, etc.) and graphics formats. Two models are listed: Model S, $2495, and Model E, $3495, which is faster and supports rotating pages. INFOWORLD, 2/27/89: TrueScan is very easy to use, but lacks any options to scan only parts of a page; scans both image and text at the same time, storing results in separate files; seems to take longer than Omnipage (app. 90-150 seconds per page-- note: the reviewer used Model E, the faster of the two); very accurate: 3 errors in a 700 word PC WORLD article (99.6%), 32 errors in a 2500 word Forbes article (98.7%). Both Truescan and Omnipage work with TIFF (meaning you could scan on a number of different scanners, save the files, and then use the Truescan just for OCR??); does a very good job of preserving formatting codes intact in whatever output structure you choose (38 different text applications, including common word processors and spreadsheets), such as putting proper characters for underlining and boldface into the output files. HUMANIST, 11/16/88, FROM ERDT@VUVAXCOM (Terrence Erdt): TRUESCAN handled the PC Week that choked the KDM 5000 (see below) "without a mistake." PC MAGAZINE, 3/28/89: Accuracy rates higher than even the Kurzweil 5000; does some context and spell checking for difficult characters; doesn't do so well on xeroxes and small point sizes. 3) KURZWEIL 5000 Interesting features from sales brochure: book edge scanning, 50 page auto document feeder, 50,000 word lexicon and user-defined lexicons up to 10,000 words (would seem to allow for semi-auto "verification" at time of entry), background operation. HUMANIST, 11/16/88, FROM ERDT@VUVAXCOM (Terrence Erdt): "a part of a page taken from PC Week, consisting of relatively large type (English text, about 10 points, I would imagine; proportionally spaced, typeset, of course). The 5000 was as slow and bungling as the Kurzweil [Discover] 7320, which I had tested more thoroughly sometime ago: after about five minutes of processing it produced nothing more than gibberish." WOW! PC MAGAZINE, 3/28/89: In an extensive report on "scanners" and their OCR capabilities, PC MAGAZINE picked the Kurzweil 5000 as the best of the lot (100% accuracy with Courier, 99.4% with Times Roman, and 99.8% with Helvitica). It (and the Kurzweil 7320) was the only system that achieved over 84% accuracy (unacceptably low) with a Times Roman font (serifed, non-proportional). Although a number of other machines matched the Kurzweil in speed, their unacceptable accuracy renders this measure of little value. The 7320 apparantly doesn't recognize columns. The article also spoke highly of its 50,000 word lexicon and "modicum of artificial intelligence," which recognizes "virtually any font" and attempts to pick difficult characters based on the text as a whole. The sheet feeder allows unattended scanning, and the background operation allows other tasks (such as verification) to procede while the scanner works. 4) OMNIPAGE HUMANIST, 10/20/88, FROM mmb@jessica.Stanford.EDU Gives very low marks to OMNIPAGE: can't read diacritics, can't be trained, no more accurate than KDM 4000 and often much worse ("possibly because scanner is lower resolution than KDM"); slower overall throughput. Good point is its excellent ability to recognize columns. PC MAGAZINE First Looks, 3/28/89: Omnipage can retain formatting in the output document, including bold, italic, and even columns. A phone rep (4/3/89) told me that Omnipage, while not trainable, will stop and show a character it doesn't recognize, allowing the operator to input whatever they want. She also said that while Omnipage would probably see the footnotes as a separate "column," they would simply be added to the text after the "first column," i.e., the body of the page. That wouldn't help much. INFOWORLD, 2/27/89: Omnipage will scan either whole pages or let you specify blocks, columns, or rectangular areas of the page, and you can "let Omnipage determine the proper order for recognizing text." (Does this mean that Omnipage will auto- determine the columns, i.e., could it be easily set up for distinguishing footnotes at the bottom of the page and saving them to another file?); slightly less accurate than the Truescan reviewed in the same article (32 errors in 2500 words, 5 in 700 word article) SUMMARY: According to various reviewers, Kurzweil, Omnipage, and Truescan all seem to have good accuracy rates; all handle columns, and all output (more or less) to a variety of file formats. The Kurzweil appears to retain the edge due to its accuracy, speed, sheet feeder, and background operation. With the exception of TextPert, NONE of these systems are trainable-- I have heard rumours for about six months that the K5000 will soon be trainable, but the folks at Kurzweil have (usually) refused to even discuss the possiblity. At the moment it looks like TextPert is the best choice, except that at present it only runs on the MAC (MS-DOS version is planned). I haven't seen any reviews or comparisons of it-- does anybody have any experience with this system?? Any further info would be appreciated. Jamie From: Subject: Request directed to humanist archaeologists. Date: Sun, 2 Apr 89 10:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 350 (535) I am trying to construct a reading list for a student who has an interest (and plans for graduate school) in Medieval archaeology. The student intends to begin reading in that area while still a BA student in anthropology (with Latin and French as minors). If any archaeological colleagues have syllabi in this discipline (especially those that could be sent as a BITNET file or via anonymous FTP) I would be most grateful of they would either send them or let me know how I could copy them over the Net. With Thanks Chris Peebles (PEEBLES@IUBACS) Glenn Black Laboratory Indiana University From: connie crosby Subject: Language Studies Date: Mon, 03 Apr 89 02:11:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 351 (536) Can someone please tell me: how many languages (approximately) can computers now work with ? (not necessarily at once) Thank you - you can send the reply to me privately at CROSBY@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Connie Crosby University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: ACL Annual Meeting, 26-29 June, Vancouver; program & registration info Date: Sun, 2 Apr 89 18:59:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 796 (537) ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 27th Annual Meeting 26-29 June 1989 Instructional Resources Centre (IRC) University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [complete program] -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. ACL CONFRNCE. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Daniel Ridings Subject: Tipping of hats // Sebastian R. Date: 3 Apr 89 20:14:10 EDT (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 352 (538) There have been times when I would have gladly tipped my hat to Sebastian's exit. But I have to admit that this is not one of them. I hope he does reconsider. From: Gunhild Viden Subject: Sebastian's exit Date: 4 Apr 89 10:51:22 EDT (Tue) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 353 (539) When I wrote that Sebastian had better leave if he could not be bothered to read what other HUMANISTs write, my intention was not to persuade him to leave but to suggest that he give some more thought to what he writes himself. If the words I chose have any part in his decision to leave, I am sorry. Gunhild Viden, University of Gothenburg From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: Re: obit (45) Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 14:43 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 354 (540) Oh No! Let's hope Sebastian will remain with us. I so look forward to hearing from him and I don't want to be the only archaeologist left on Humanist! (that ought to get somebody going.) Vicky From: robin@utafll (Robin Cover) Subject: DOS File Conversion Programs Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 18:57:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 355 (541) Last month there was brief discussion of file conversion programs for MS-DOS word processing files. Three were mentioned: R-DOC/X, Word for Word, XWORD (2.24). Can anyone recommend other programs or a recent review article which evaluated this genre? My most important translation need is for WordPerfect 5.0 and Nota Bene 3.0. I know...both probably import/export DCA. I want a one-step program that will handle batch jobs. Thanks. Robin C. Cover zrcc1001@smuvm1.BITNET 3909 Swiss Avenue convex!txsil!robin.UUCP Dallas, TX 75204 killer!dtseap!cover.UUCP (214) 296-1783(h) 824-3094(w) killer!utafll!robin.UUCP From: Charles Ess Subject: hypertext; IBM Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 12:52:45 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 356 (542) Does anyone have a contact and/or other information on the ARTFL project at the University of Chicago, and something called CNRS? These are described in a recent article in _American Libraries_ (Feb. 1989: p. 162) as providing "the text of over 1,700 works in literature, philosophy and science from the 17th century to the present," followed by a further reference to: Hogan, Ed, "Electronic Information Sources for Western European Studies," _WESS Newsletter_ XI:4 (April 1988). Also -- has anyone discovered that IBM does _not_ "support" internal modems in their PS/2 models 25 and 30? We have had trouble getting third party internal modems to work in these -- and found out recently this apparent position of nonsupport on the part of IBM. This seems a little strange to me -- at least if one if serious about introducing the next generation of standards in personal computing. Chalk one up for marketing strategies? Charles Ess [NB: This note has been forwarded to Dr. Mark Olsen of the ARTFL Project; it is published here to alert you to the existence of ARTFL, a description of which appears in The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988, pp. 217f, and which will be demonstrated at the software fair, Tools for Humanists, in Toronto, 6-9 June 1989. --W.M.] From: Donald Spaeth (0532) 33 3573 Subject: Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 09:36:30 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 799 (543) In response to Charles Ess's question about terminal emulators, Kermit provides a satisfactory solution for IBM PCs and Macs, allowing you to redefine the keys so that pressing a key sends the appropriate codes to a mainframe. On the assumption that many HUMANISTs know about Kermit already, I will not clog the netwaves with a fuller description. Am I wrong? Do people want to hear more? Donald Spaeth Bitnet: ecl6das at cms1.leeds.ac.uk Janet: ecl6das at leeds.cms1 From: "Robin C. Cover" Subject: BOOK ON UNIX Date: Mon, 03 Apr 89 16:59:29 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 357 (544) HUMANISTS who are faced with UNIX as a new computing environment (by choice or by institutional decree) may benefit from a new book. I wish I'd had access to it a couple years ago when I first took the UNIX plunge. Have a look at _Life With UNIX. A Guide Book for Everyone_ by Don Libes & Sandy Ressler (NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989; ISBN 0-13-536657-7). It's not a UNIX primer, nor a book about shell script programming, but an "everything you'd like to know about UNIX" book. Section I is on UNIX history (past, present future); Section II tells where we find information about UNIX (printed & non-printed resources); Section III contains more traditional introductory information about the UNIX computing environment, from user, programmer and system administrator perspectives. Section IV contains four chapters of diverse nature on (a) "UNIX Underground" -- the public domain sources for information & programs; (b) UNIX Services; (c) UNIX Applications; (d) "UNIX Meets the Real World." So long as we are forced to be aware of operating systems, and to conquer them, and so long as UNIX promises to be a major player, this is a fine book. I've grown to love (and hate!) UNIX without it, but I'd feel guilty not recommending the book to others, veteran or newcomer to UNIX. Robin C. Cover zrcc1001@smuvm1.BITNET 3909 Swiss Avenue convex!txsil!robin.UUCP Dallas, TX 75204 killer!dtseap!robin.UUCP 214/296-1783(h), 824-3094(w) killer!utafll!robin.UUCP ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Donald E Walker) Subject: COLING-90 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 11:58:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 358 (545) The Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING 90 COLING 90 will be arranged on August 20-25, 1990, at the University of Helsinki. Pre-Coling tutorials take place on August 16-18, 1990. YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT - a topical paper on some critical issue in computational linguistics, - a project note with software demonstration The written part of your presentation should not exceed 6 pages in A4 format or 12,000 characters for a topical paper, and half that length for a project note. The final version of the paper should follow the COLING 88 style sheet. Send your text NOT LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1989, as electronic mail or as five paper copies to the Coling 90 Program Committee. The Program Committee will respond by February 1, 1990. All prospective participants are kindly requested to indicate their interest to the Conference Bureau by January 15, 1990. Detailed information (on e.g. accommodation) will be sent to all participants by February 1, 1990. Deadline for preregistration will be May 1, 1990. The registration fee will be 750 FIM (certified students 400 FIM). The late registration fee is 1100 FIM. Inquiries concerning papers should be directed to the Program Committee and concerning accommodation to the Conference Bureau. Other inquiries are handled by the local organizers. COLING 90 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hans Karlgren KVAL Skeppsbron 26 S-111 30 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: +46 8 7896683 Fax: +46 8 7969639 Telex: 15440 kval s E-mail: COLING@COM.QZ.SE or: COLING@QZCOM.BITNET COLING 90 CONFERENCE BUREAU Riitta Ojanen Kaleva Travel Agency Ltd Congress Service Box 312 SF-00121 HELSINKI Finland Phone: +358 0 602711 Fax: +358 0 629019 Telex: 122475 kleva sf LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Fred Karlsson Dept of General Linguistics University of Helsinki Hallituskatu 11 SF-00100 HELSINKI Finland Phone: +358 0 1911 Fax: +358 0 656591 Telex: 124690 unih sf E-mail: COLING@FINUH (in BITNET) From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 15:00:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 801 (546) Regarding recent mailings concerning HUMANIST's e-mail volume, I also would prefer not to see a UUCP (UNIX)-styled "READNEWS" service to which one "subscribes," a system which automatically screens out the undesired topics. At least, not yet. If self-discipline can do the trick, I'm for the current system. --Joel D. Goldfield (J_GOLDFI@unhh.bitnet) From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 00:39:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 359 (547) Would our Edinburgh HUMANISTs please let me know how David Mealand can be contacted? Sorry to have to go through the network, but no address supplied by our local BITNET gurus has been successful in helping me respond to his recent query about literary computing on the UNIX system. His original message came from the Edinburgh "humanist" group. Thanks. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@unhh.bitnet From: Lou Burnard Subject: Parsed Old Testament Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 18:37 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 360 (548) Mike Davison( AGBG1787 @UK.AC.QUEENS-BELFAST.CENTRE.VAX1 ) is looking for a Hebrew OT with every word parsed (either printed or m/c readable) and might also be interested in a parsed Septuagint text. He has been using the Analytical Greek NT in which every word is parsed ( eg for a verb a tag gives the mood, tense, voice, number and person) and hopes to find something similar. Surely one of the many Biblical scholars in Humanist could answer this one hanging upside down from a tree? (not that any of them would of course) Lou From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: SPQR (Society for Preventing the Quitting of Rahtz) Date: 04 Apr 89 21:34:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 361 (549) He is gone. We mourn the loss of Rahtz. Now *is* the time for tipping the hahtz. [deleted quotation]Who will give us tits for tahtz? Who will say "this is this, that's thahtz" When we have no Rahtz. No Rahtz? Rats! From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 15:08:40 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 362 (550) Subject: Recommendations I, too, find Sebastian's comments useful for provoking, if not always paternally encouraging, examination of id'ees fixes and idiosyncratic opinion. His contributions might be valued especially for this aspect. Regarding Judith Rowe's recent recommendation of a candidate for a position at her institution, we should welcome the possibility of posting queries concerning sabbatical and job openings involving humanities computing. At the same time, I hope that Prof. Greenberg is aware that his name, address, phone number and professional status are being discussed or at least read of by colleagues all over the world. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@unhh From: J. K. McDonald Subject: spqr Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 09:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 363 (551) Sono popolari questi archeologi! From: "A. Ralph Papakhian" Subject: Mail distribution list for the Music Library Association Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 22:08:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 364 (552) MLA-L, a mail distribution for the Music Library Association and music library related topics, has been established at IUBVM (Indiana University, Bloomington). Initially, MLA-L will serve as a mail distribution service only (no archiving or file serving will be provided). The focus for MLA-L will be the activities of the Association and any other topics that would be of interest to the music library community. MLA-L is operated as a LISTSERV list. Interested parties can subscribe by sending the appropiate command (SUBSCRIBE MLA-L ) to LISTSERV@IUBVM, or by sending me (PAPAKHI@IUBVM) a message requesting subscription. Any other questions about MLA-L can also be directed to me. A. Ralph Papakhian Exec. Sec., Music Library Association Indiana University Music Library Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855-2970 From: AEB_BEVAN@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: book on language automation and keyboard standards Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 08:04:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 365 (553) Note: I haven't seen a copy of this book yet, but the authors previous work has been most interesting. So I am passing on the publication information for HUMANIST interest. John Clews. Language Automation worldwide: the development of character set standards. Harrogate, England. Sesame Computer Projects. 1988 British Library Research and Development report No. 5962. ISBN 1 870095 01 4 165 pages. 19.95 pounds sterling postfree in the UK. 5.00 sterling handling for orders outside the UK. 5.00 sterling additional if remittance not in sterling. Surcharge for orders without prepayment. Sesame Computer Projects, 8, Avenue road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire,HG2 7PG United Kingdom. summary of publishers information: No text processing can take place unless a character set is defined. But despite being central to the use of computers for any language this area is largely ignored in the literature of computers or languages. " language automation Worldwide" gives an overview of the development of scripts for specific languages. It describes international, national and de facto character set standards for a wide variety of languages and scripts used in many different applications around the world. Four chapters deal with existing Roman character sets and the attempts to standardise them through the ISO and other bodies. There are also chapters on the following topics: Other European scripts (Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian) Middle eastern scripts ( Hebrew, Arabic) South Asian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, Oriya, tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinnhalese, Tibetan ). Southeast Asian Scripts (Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Lao) East Asian Scripts ( Chinese, Japanese, Korean ) author is member of BSI (British Standards Institute) technical committee on character set standards, and of an ISO working group on a multiple octet character set standard. From: GUEDON@CC.UMONTREAL.CA Subject: ARTFL; CNRS Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 08:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 366 (554) With regard to Artfl (Tresor de la langue francaise), one should contact American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language University of Chicago, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures 1050 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois. With regard to CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), it is a small French outfit of about 35 000 scholars spread over a few hundred laboratories ranging from pure science to humanities. It only publishes a few dozen learned journals, etc. etc. (smile) [Write to the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 15 Quai Anatole France, F-75700 Paris. Perhaps some of our French colleagues will respond with further information. --W.M.] From: Ruth Glynn Subject: Telecommunications packages Date: 4 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 367 (555) Re Charles Ess's query I sympathize -- we don't have a node either and have suffered similar frustrations in communicating via modem. We first tried something called SpeakEasy, which was truly dreadful (and I don't think it's available any more), and now use *Datatalk* (from Datasoft, Ilminster, Somerset, UK, tel. 0460-57001; don't know if there is a US distributor), which is much, much better. We run it through a Miracle WS3000. A programmer colleague has it set up to autodial our JANET node and log directly in to one or other of our usernames according to which batchfile we fire off. Of course getting a line in is still a bit hit and miss. *Datatalk*'s main facilities are Electronic mail/telex Remote database access Viewdata/Prestel terminal File transfer between computers Text editor Command lang. for auto communication sessions Data encryption/decryption I haven't delved into many of its facilities, but what I have used works well and I've no reason to suppose the rest of it doesn't. It runs on IBM PCs or Apricots. Ruth Glynn From: mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU Subject: OCR: sorting it out Date: Tue, 04 Apr 89 14:47:04 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 806 (556) Jamie Hubbard did a nice job of collecting bits of information on the current state of OCR. I have only a few points to add: [deleted quotation] have a trainable system under development. This would be the replacement for the Model 4000, which they phased out this year. But I'd guess that Terry Erdt has the inside scoop on this. [deleted quotation] Many tests in reviews are done with clean, typeset material. That's fine, but when I look at the stuff the folks at Stanford want to scan, it's anything but clean! ! 99% accuracy, I think, is almost a minimum! Consider that a typical printed page holds 2,000 characters: at 99% accuracy this still means 20 errors per page! Spell checking is still a pretty tedious exercise. Hence if an OCR system doesn't score nearly 100% on clean originals, one can imagine its performance on, say, a 19th century newspaper, which is full of letters with punctured counters, broken hairline strokes, and letters that do not sit accurately on the baseline. In general, I think it would be useful if we could agree on some standard benchmark tests that would measure the performance of an OCR system relative to humanist needs. This is one of the items I'm proposing be discussed during the panel discussion on scanning at the Toronto conference. Perhaps at the conference we can do something ad hoc to set up such a slate of benchmarks. If anyone is interested, send me mail (gx.mbb@stanford.bitnet) and I'll sneak up on you at the conference. [deleted quotation] OCR programs running on microcomputers and utilizing desktop scanners. From what I've seen, they are too slow, especially for such a tremendous volume. (And I thought that the works of Nietzsche, which I'm scanning now, was a big undertaking...) [deleted quotation] feature. Most every company that sells an OCR system has business use, and not academic use, in mind. An example of this is Calera, whose system, last time I checked, couldn't even recognize latin characters with diacritics. Malcolm Brown Stanford [Editorial footnote: if you don't know what conference Malcolm is referring to, take notice: it is The Dynamic Text, the first joint conference of the ACH and ALLC in Toronto, 5-10 June 1989. Associated events are the Toronto-Oxford Summer School in Humanities Computing, 29 May - 2 June and 12 - 16 June, and the software and hardware fair, Tools for Humanists, 6-9 June. Several scanning systems will be exhibited at the fair, together with approximately 50 other interesting items. A schedule of events in the fair will be published soon on Humanist. Further information is contained in the file DYNAMTXT CONFRNCE, available on the file-server; see your Guide to Humanist for instructions on how to download this file. For a conference booklet, containing the registration materials, send a request to cch@vm.epas.utoronto.ca OR to cch@utorepas. --W.M.] From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: Women, androgynes .. Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 13:14 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 368 (557) The wrong title "Women, Fire and Other Dangerous Things" might be a conflation of "Women, Fire and Dangerous Things" with "Women, Androgynes and other Mythical Beasts" by Wendy O'Flaherty, an Indologist at U. Chicago! What *is* going on at Chicago? Dominik From: Subject: ocr Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 10:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 369 (558) Has anyone had any luck scanning musical scores--not only sheet music, etc., but musical examples within a printed text? Also, has anyone had any success with telefaxing music; and investigated copyright problems in this area? --David Riley, Indiana University From: Willard McCarty Subject: how to build a centre for humanities computing? Date: 6 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 370 (559) A Humanist who prudently wishes to remain anonymous has asked me how one goes about creating a centre for humanities computing. This person asks, ...do you know any literature covering the material aspects of a computing centre for humanities (budgets, equipment, etc.)? I am exploring the possibility of creating such a centre at [name of a well known university] and would like to know more about this as I am a real neophyte ... Also, do you know any computing centres for the humanities that work exclusively or almost exclusively with Macintoshes? If so, where are they and who is in charge? Would anyone in a position to know these things either set forth his or her answers on Humanist or declare willingness to correspond with our shrouded colleague? The resulting discussion could be an interesting one. Yours, Willard McCarty From: Alan Rudrum Subject: Grading; Turbofonts Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 19:52:20 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 371 (560) I should like to thank the many people who wrote about their experience of grading assignments cooperatively done;some messages came at a time when, our system just having been upgraded, it was having teething troubles, and so not all were replied to personally. Your letters were very welcome and useful. Since nobody replied to my query about Turbofonts, I telephoned and the answer is, that Turbofonts Plus for laser printers does work with (some) dot-matrix printers (it should be o.k. for my NecP2 but not for my M-Tally 160); that this situation may not obtain for much longer; and that it will work with only two or three laser printers (I forget the details but Hewltt-Packard was the first mentioned); that it is licensed to only one machine, not to one user (so one has to make a choice of whether to buy it on 3.5" or 5.25" disks). As Turbofonts was the software most frequently recommended when I put out my original query, others may wish to follow this up. There is a 20% discount for cheque with order; a 17% discount for credit-card order. I have no financial connection with Image Processing Systems, if that's what they're called. Alan Rudrum, English Dept, SFU, Burnaby,B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 (useranth@sfu.bitnet). From: Hans Joergen Marker Subject: languages? (46) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 05:10:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 372 (561) Answer to Connie Crosby I believe that computers works fairly decently with one language (English) or perhaps two (American English and English English). To quite a number of other languages computers do peculiar things. But perhaps this was not the answer you had in mind? Hans J|rgen Marker From: P.Burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Re: David Mealand? parsed Hebrew and LXX Bibles? (45) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 11:10:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 373 (562) David Mealand can be found at D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk or D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@bitnet or some such ordering Peter Burnhill From: Ruth Glynn Subject: PS/2 micros and internal modems Date: 6 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 374 (563) Can't recall reading anything on internal modems for the PS/2 25 or 30, but you can certainly get them for models 50 to 80. See *PCWorld* December 1988, 'Everything you need to upgrade your PS/2', esp. pp. 200-202; and *PCWorld* March 1989, features evaluation 'Full-featured 2400-bhps Modems: Two Winners', pp. 136-46. Ruth From: Steve Dill Subject: 18C, Bitnet report Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 10:09:36 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 809 (564) To those of you who have expressed an intesest in the progress of Bitnet and eighteenth century studies, I have a report to make about the New Orleans conference of ASECS. It is, in fact, a non- report in the sense that not much "active" interest was expressed, although there seemed to be plenty of passive interest. A demonstration to be conducted by the Tulane University computer center was cancelled because only six participants appeared. However, Bitnet was called to the attention of the membership in a number of ways. I placed notices everywhere I could find a place and Bitnet and electronic journals were strongly recommended at a session on journal publishing. If nothing else, Bitnet got some good press. I believe that a session on electronic journals is now called for at a future ASECS meeting. I have requested a session at the next annual meeting, again to demonstrate Bitnet. Regards to all, From: jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) Subject: Observations on OCR Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 22:36:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 810 (565) This discussion on OCR, I probably should note, was the one which finally caused me to decide to join this mailing list. My experiences with OCR lead me to believe that I might have something to add about the proposal set forth by Malcolm Brown for benchmarks of OCR packages, as well as the general discussion of OCR. I should probably note now that the Dante Project has currently scanned or had scanned for us over 150 MB of text to this point, and that I have worked on this scanning from being an operator to being the machine supervisor. I had the responsibility in the summer of 1987 of finding a new text-scanning alternative to Dartmouth College's old, ailing Kurzweil model 2, and the main alternative was the Kurzweil 4000. As an aside, I should note that these alternatives did NOT include pc-based scanners/software. The heart of this, however, is that in coming up with an evaluative measure of how much better the Model 4000 was than the Model 2, I did exactly what Malcolm Brown suggested: came up with a set of benchmarks. I chose packets of text that our Project had or planned to scan, and chose them to test individual criteria. I got lucky on my hunches about criteria. My samples were: 1. I chose a sample of our highest quality material. Highest quality for us was a xeroxed copy of a brand new book published in 1982 which we had sawed the binding off of to eliminate text warping from the binding. This sample was designed to test the absolute ceiling speed of the Kurzweil's scanning-how fast would it go with the best set of conditions available? I hate to say, the results were not overwhelming. The 4000 offered almost no speedup over the model 2 given best quality text with me scanning, nor much improvement in accuracy. I include this info because my second test was 2. I chose a sample of material we had started scanning on our model 2 and which we pulled off because the 2 was too slow at scanning it. This sample on the 4000 scanned at a significantly faster rate. Had we had the 4000 earlier, the material in question would have been quite acceptable to scan. These first two benchmarks have led me to the following opinion about the merits of optical text scanning. The area in which advances in ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) appear is in the ability to move the margin of readability of material farther towards unintelligible characters, not primarily in the speed with which clean text can be read. 3. I brought an example of text with illustrations. I wanted to test the 4000's ability to handle complex formatting (for example, columns) using its tablet. I blew it on this one. The tablet seemed much more useful than it's turned out to be. That's my benchmark. Not very complex, but perhaps a good starting point for discussion of one. What would be more useful would be to include more of a continuum on quality. I actually had a wider range of quality available to me, but saw no need as soon as my worst text was read more than adequately to try middle-quality material. Last, in this very long message, is the experiences I have seen with trainability and handling of non-English character sets. I know that Bob Kraft at the Center for the Computational Analysis of Text has successfully gotten his Kurzweil model III to read Arabic and Russian. He is on this list, and so might better explain how he's done his work. His office and my project have both stumbled along ways to handle various non-English character sets. For accents, the Dante Project has developed a simple set of escape codes which we can teach the Kurzweil to put in correctly. These include, for example, representing an "a" with accent grave as "@a." A good scanner when it sees the accented "a" should be able to substitute the "@a." I believe Bob Kraft read Arabic by letting the Kurzweil decide what characters it saw, and then made sure that the scanner was consistent in its choices, but again, check with him. Last, I should probably note, is that I do not like the concept of unattending scanning. This might be acceptable for scanning a very recently printed book original, but not very useful otherwise. A good scanner-operator can correct a scanner at the rate at which the machine reads, i.e. the computer cannot scan ahead of the operator. Jonathan Altman From: Jude Wang Subject: word-processing in devanagari Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 15:41:49 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 375 (566) A colleague of mine in the Religious Studies Department is looking for a way to do word-processing in Marathi on an IBM PC-type system. We've heard that both Multilingual Scholar and Scholar's Edition offer devanagari fonts, but haven't seen either program in action. Are there any Humanists out there who have experience using either of these programs for devanagari word-processing? What has your experience been? Does anyone know of any other software for this purpose? My colleague and I would greatly appreciate any advice you can offer -- although we would prefer not to be told to buy a Macintosh. In view of the volume of not-always relevant e-mail that we all get every day, I think Willard and most of the rest of the Humanist readership would appreciate it if people would reply directly to me: Jude Wang . I would be glad to summarize any information I get; interested parties should also communicate directly with me. Thank you all. Jude Wang Humanities Computing Facility Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 (602) 965-2679 From: Mathieu Boisvert Subject: SANSKRIT AND PALI (assigning ASCII numbers for) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 00:20:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 376 (567) Here is a scheme assigning ASCII numbers to Sanskrit and Pali Diacritics. I would welcome any comments or suggestions regarding this scheme since it (or an alternate version of it) will be used for entering the whole Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist Canon on computer. Because of the immensity of the project, this scheme is likely to become the "standard" ASCII scheme for transliterated Sanskrit and Pali. It was designed in such a way that all French, German, Sanskrit and Pali diacritics are available. Here are the ASCII numbers assigned to Sanskrit and Pali diacritics: Capital letters: A long 175 I long 176 U long 177 T with dot under (retroflex) 181 D with dot under (retro) 182 N with dot under (retro) 163 N with dot on top (velar) 207 N with tilde (palatal) 198 S with dot under (retro) 179 S with slash above (palatal) 199 H with dot under 161 R with dot under (short) 178 Sanskrit and Pali do not have capital long R Lower case a long 164 i long 165 u long 166 t with dot under (retro) 170 d with dot under (retro) 171 n with dot under (retro) 172 n with dot above (velar) 208 n with tilde (palatal) 197 s with dot under (retro) 173 s with slash above (palatal) 200 h with dot under 174 r with dot under (retro) 167 r with dot under and slash above 168 m with dot above (anusvara) 180 this is the long r l with dot under 169 this letter is different from the semi-vowel "la"; it is not found in Sanskrit, but is in Pali and Prakrit languages Vowels with circumflex accent: a with circumflex 202 i with circumflex 204 u with circumflex 206 These are used by certain editors of the Pali Text Society to indicate that a word as been compounded. They never appear at the beginning of a word, therefore upper-case is not needed. If you feel concerned, analyse this scheme and send me your impressions. Thank you, Mathieu Boisvert From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: electronic bible 3 line Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 09:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 377 (568) Am blind and looking for electronic Bible for IBM PC. Prefer RSV version but glad to hear about any version. nrcgsh@ritvax From: Richard Giordano Subject: Databases on file servers Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 15:22:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 378 (569) Does anyone know of any universities that provide access to commercially available CD-ROM products (such as the Grolier Encyclopedia) through a file server? There are a lot of CD-ROM products that run on a single machine--for instance, many libraries provide access to Dissertations Abstracts on CD-ROM running on a single micro. We are interested in knowing if anyone provides access to these CD-ROM products through a file server, thereby allowing multiple access to the single CD. If you do provide access through a file server, to whom is this service available? Do you charge for this service? You can respond to me directly at RICH@PUCC or you can call me at 609-452-6009. Thanks in advance. Richard Giordano Computing and Information technology Princeton University From: Subject: St. Jerome Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 13:19:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 379 (570) I don't now if this is an appropriate query for this list but all help would be appreciated. Has anyone got any information/references on St Jerome - 5th Century, Father of the Church and translator of the Vulgate Bible. A listing of any introductory texts would be gratefully received. The area of particular interest is his letters to women about the virtues of being celibate - any texts (or online references that I might access) relating to these women is also of interest. Does anyone have online copies of his letters or know where I might have access to same? Thanks in anticipation. Mary O'Riordan CSEORIORDAN@CS8700.UCG.IE (Bitnet/Earn - address) University College, Galway, Ireland. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Scanning on KDEM 3 Date: Thursday, 6 April 1989 2251-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 380 (571) Since Jonathan Altman has made reference to our work at CCAT (Center for Computer Analysis of Texts) on the KDEM 3 scanner, let me clarify a thing or two and promise to add more later, if anyone cares. Once Willard and Ian tell me that I've done my duty regarding the Toronto Conference Booklets material, and the Yearbook, I will return to more leisurely discussions of various sorts! We found that the KDEM 3 was probably slightly better than the KDEM 4000 for our multilingual needs -- certainly no worse, if perhaps slightly less streamlined in operation. We have not scanned Arabic or Syriac or similar ligatured scripts, although we have played around with them. We have had very good success with Hebrew (even some pointed), Aramaic, Yiddish, Coptic, Greek, Russian, and modern European typefaces -- depending, of course, on the quality of the material being scanned. The strategy that Jonathan alludes to, which we have used to great advantage, is letting the KDEM guess what it is "seeing" (e.g. Hebrew "B" looks like a "2" and Hebrew "R" looks like a "7"), forcing it to clarify any ambiguities, and working from there. A post-scanning tailor is used to convert the jibberish to what you want. When there is time, I will quibble with Jonathan's preference for online correction/editing of what is being scanned. For many large jobs, our experience is the opposite -- the operator will take much more time than is practical to correct as the machine scans. So we use a battery of post-scanning tailors, formcheckers, etc., to deal with this situation. Uninterrupted, the KDEM will scan between 30 to 60 pages per hour of most printed or typed materials. I would guess that online editing would take at least 3-5 times as long with most of the materials we have scanned. (And the operator would need to know the language quite well.) Enough for now. Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Lelio Camilleri Subject: RE: ocr for music Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 10:29 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 381 (572) To answer a query on music encoding by ocr, I enclosed an excerpt of an article of mine about computer applications to musicology in which I report information on this subject. Useful information can be found in the 1986, 1987, 1988, and the forthcoming 1989 issues of the Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology, published by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, 525 Middlefield Road, Suite 120, Menlo Park CA 94025, (415) 322-7050. * * Lelio Camilleri Conservatory of Music L. Cherubini Musicological Division of CNUCE-C.N.R. Florence, Italy. * ........ * As to the research in optical character recognition for music, we are in the initial stage even some studies dated back to 70s. At present time, two Japanese teams are working on optical scanning for music with some successes. The team of Prof. Ohteru at Watseda University has been developing a strong competence in automatic recognition of printed music and its translation to and from Braille. The reading of score is one of the task they are pursuing in their research in robotics. Prof. Inokuchi's research group, Osaka University, has worked out, as a part of a more complex expert system for music, a recognition system for printed piano music. It is carried out into two phases, pattern recognition and semantic analysis phase. The rate of accuracy is 94.2% for Beethoven's "Fuer Elise", and 89.3 for Chopin's Etude No.3. The average processing time is 90 minutes a page. Another current research in this subject is the one carried out by Alistair Clarke, B. Brown, and M. Thorne (University of Cardiff, UK) on an inexpensive optical character recognition for music notation. Their system currently identifies a stave of a single melodic line. The symbols the system recognizes are accidentals, clefs, key, and rests. Further developments concern with the identification of the other musical symbols as well as overlapping symbols and spurious characters to be ignored in the recognition process. The system runs on an IBM PC, demonstrating that is possible to use OCR techniques on a personal computer. Nicholas Carter thesis (University of Surrey, Guildford) completed a thesis on optical scanning of music, one of several similar efforts in 1989. The system converts the captured musical information to one of the code used by a commercial program for printing music. Other works on automatic transcription have been developed by Andranick Tanguiane of the Soviet Academy of Science, and Neil Martin (Thames Polytechnic, London). From: bobh@phoenix (Robert Hollander) Subject: Re: optical scanners, cont. (94) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 17:07:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 382 (573) To add a note to Jonathan Altman's useful communication, I should first of all say that Jonathan has done a *very* great deal to bring the DDP, of which I am the director, into its present condition. He is a tremendous resource. I want to emphasize what he said in his last remark: unattended scanning (unless one happens to hit a perfectly "easy" text--and even then there are problems) is *not* a good idea. Further, our project spends its most expensive dollars on editing, which involves people who have to be trained dantists. Most KDEM (or other scanners) can be operated by people with less in the way of qualification. Paying them to do more work, thus creating cleaner text, saves considerable money at the editing end. Robert Hollander bobh@phoenix.princeton.edu From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Creating a Humanities Computing Centre Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 20:28:29 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 383 (574) In Ontario the demand for intelligent, technologically well-trained graduates far outstrips the number who proceed through (for instance) programmes in computer science and engineering. The one hundred graduates of Toronto's department of computer science may almost write their own ticket in the private sector, and competition is intense for their services. Many positions remain unfilled. One of the best arguments for a humanities computing centre is its role in giving our students the confidence to move into such positions. Industry has gradually come to recognize that, to meet its needs, it has to widen the pool of potential candidates for its jobs to include students from the liberal arts. In a word, the "recruitment" needs of an information society can be better met if universities give technology to the humanities **on its own terms**. The anonymous colleague who wonders how to create a humanities computing centre should start here, with the university's (still) most obvious role, producing workers for society. If a college has two or three faculty committed to humanities computing, for whatever reasons, it has what's needed to get started. From that point on, centres of quite different characters take root. Several models operate successfully throughout North America. They develop according to the professional goals of those faculty and so any one cannot easily be taken as "the best way" to found a centre. To administrators who think in the long term, who develop strategies to increase the influence and so the budget of their universities, however, the argument that computing humanists will better enable their institutions to meet society's needs will be almost universally admitted. This is especially true now that the novelty of seeing humanities faculty using computers has been exhausted and it is no longer "innovative" (in a national or an international community) to set up humanities computing centres. The argument now has to be that it is **essential** to create them. Ian Lancashire Director Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Starting a Center Date: Thursday, 6 April 1989 2309-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 384 (575) At some point -- but not until at least after 15 April! -- I would be willing to contribute to a discussion of what is involved in starting and maintaining a Center/Centre. If the mysterious inquirer is at the Toronto conference, he/she might wish to attend the panel discussion on Archives (Thurs evening), at which many of the relevant issues are sure to surface in one form or another! Ah, Toronto; the needs of its publicity packets call. In parting, and again for openers, consider the presence of Macintoshes at Drexel Univ. (without a proper "humanities center"), at Brown Univ. (IRIS and all that, at least at one level), and at Harvard Classics (Perseus Project). Later. Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: UDAA270@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK Subject: Computing Centres for Humanities Date: 7-APR-1989 11:33:39 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 385 (576) King's College, London has a Humanities Division within its Computing Centre. We have recently set up a Humanities Computing Room, with software we believe to be of use primarily for humanities computing users. Since the Computing Centre as a whole has standardised on IBM PS/2 and Mac computers, and humanities users within the College generally reflect this mix, the Humanities Computing Room has both types, with 3 Mac SEs, 1 Mac II, 3 IBM PS/2s, and 1 Opus which is connected to a desktop Kurzweil (7320). A CD-Rom player is attached to the Mac II. We also have an older Kurzweil 4000 which is primarily used by humanities users. The choices of software and hardware were made in the light of a number of factors, including: hardware and software primarily used by the Computing Centre and college, future plans within the college for humanities computing terminal rooms, recommendations from certain users members of the humanities division of the Computing Centre (which at present has nine individuals). The funding of the room was complicated, and subject to intense lobbying on the part of some academics within the College. In my position (as simply an adviser/analyst within the division) I don't know much more of the ins and outs of the budgeting, but could refer anyone interested to relevant people here. Susan Kruse King's College London, UK (udaa270 @ uk.ac.kcl.cc.elm) From: Chuck Bush Subject: shrouded colleague Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 15:58:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 386 (577) Perhaps we do not meet all of "shrouded colleague"'s criteria, but we would be willing to correspond with him/her and offer such help and advice as we can. I am the one to talk to about Macintosh issues (ECHUCK@BYUADMIN). Our director, Randy Jones, (JONES@BYUADMIN) is the one that handles budget problems. I could forward questions to him, but he may well volunteer to correspond directly as soon as he gets back from a trip and caught up on HUMANIST. Chuck Bush From: Charles Ess Subject: humanities computing centres Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 14:36:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 387 (578) Regarding the inquiry for humanities computing centre -- similar to my own (so far, unanswered) request -- I can recommend to your shrouded humanist the following: 1) The new Watson Computing Center at Brown University (which also works cooperatively with the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship [I.R.I.S.], the organization responsible for Intermedia) uses Macintoshes -- though as the name might suggest to those familiar with IBM history, not exclusively. If your shrouded humanist is not already aware of IRIS, s/he may wish to contact: Julie L. Ryden, Area Associate, I.R.I.S., Brown University, Box 1946, Providence, RI 02192 USA: tel. 401-863-2001. Julie (whom I know from my involvement with the Continents of Knowledge project) also may be reached by e-mail at: jlr@iris.brown.edu. 2) Robert Jones at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is in charge of a hypermedia lab of some 15 Macintoshes. (He, too, is a part of the Continents project). He's as knowledgable as anyone I know about these sorts of things -- though he's also hard to get hold of. In any case, his e-mail address is rajones@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu or rajones@uiucvmd.bit net. Finally, it may be that your shrouded humanist is interested in much the sorts of things I am facing as I attempt to build up an Honors computing lab, using Macintoshes, for developing hypermedia tutorials by way of Intermedia. If so, I would be happy to correspond. There is certainly much that I have to learn about all this. While the notions of being shrouded are not overly attractive -- please keep this response shrouded. Yours, Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Department Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 USA (417) 865-8731 From: bobh@phoenix (Robert Hollander) Subject: Re: Chicago? musical scanning? centres? (68) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 16:59:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 388 (579) Centers? Marianne Gaunt (Rutgers) and I (Princeton) have been talking for a year, first between ourselves and now with a small universe of the interested and competent, about trying to develop a national (Canadians *do* apply) center for machine-readable texts in the humanities. A group of 18-20 people are gathering early in May to discuss the next steps. Our hope is to be funded for a year of feasibility study. We are already setting up a group of non-Rutgers/Princeton Humanities-computing people to serve as an "external" board. We would hope to give this center a physical home in New Jersey. It is too early to be sanguine about our ability to bring all this into being. The principal tasks which we currently envision for such a center are as follows: 1) Reinvigorate the project initially developed by Marianne: the inventory of m-r texts. 2) Collect and disseminate m-r texts. 3) Produce when asked to do so m-r texts. 4) (eventually) Edit and make available materials which do not exist in easily usable form (e.g., manuscripts). This is a tall order. As we begin to learn about needs and possibilities, we will attempt to keep interested parties informed, especially since we will want to have as much information about what is really needed as we can find. Robert Hollander bobh@phoenix.princeton.edu From: JACKA@PENNDRLS Subject: BITNET may become 'BITE-THE-DUST-NET' --> DEADNET! Date: Friday, 7 April 1989 1541-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 389 (580) Oh No! Sebastian left! I don't read all the mail either, but perhaps I won't have to! We, North Americans, may not be aware that BITNET is slowly dying of junk mail. BITNET offices have been moved from Princeton to Washington. All the senior staff of BITNET resigned. BITNET is overloaded with mail and may soon die because of over use. Check it out with your EDUCOM representative. We at Penn- and let me add we [this University] are guilty too since we constitute one sixth of all east coast BITNET use- are investigating other networks and may soon disappear off BITNET to be resurrected on a newer NET. Stay tune and keep sending junk mail out and see what happens. You too may be left without a network, and not by choice. Questions for the Europeans: Is EARN dying too? How long before we all start paying for the Atlantic connection? JACK From: kl88a@electronics-and-computer-science.southampton.ac.uk Subject: southampton, archaeology and humanist Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 17:58:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 390 (581) There are other archaeologists at Southampton who subscribe to Humanist! I must admit, however, that I regret SQPR leaving the list. I find that although there are some general topics which are of interest to me, most aren't. I am, however, blessed with a very easy to use delete key and have just managed to get through over three weeks of humanist in 45 mins! Is there another list which may be more use to me other than the aie based in Soton? I apologise to those who may accuse me of clogging up their mailboxes with trivial enquiries. Kris Lockyear. kl88a@uk.ac.soton.ibm ps has anyone tried using [canonical] correspondence analysis on 4th century roman coin data? From: janus@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu Subject: request for map making software Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 10:56:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 391 (582) A colleague of mine in the German Department would like to be able to draw a map of the US, with the states distorted in size relative to the number of German immigrants they received. He says that USA Today frequently produces such maps. Are there any map producing software packages that have this capability. MAC, IBM, or UNIX is acceptable. Thanks! -Louis Janus St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057 USA. From: Willard McCarty Subject: more on classical languages Date: 10 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 392 (583) A new Humanist, Tommaso Del Vecchio (Classics, Bologna), has sent me a biography with the following query embedded in it. Since some time may elapse until his biography is published, I thought it wise to circulate his question immediately. Those of you who have already contributed to the discussion on Latin electronic texts and textual analysis need not repeat yourselves, since I will send him the appropriate topical collection. Here is the question. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My interest is concerned with the utilisation of automatic systems for classical text-analysis on the one hand, and with the systems themselves on the other. I have in mind to make a critical survey on these systems, so I'm asking around to let me know who has got such an automatic system, whether this system is on sale, and at what price. My interest is naturally concerned with classical texts on tape too. Also in this case I would like to know whether these texts are on sale, and at what price.... Thank you for all, yours Tommaso Del Vecchio. From: JACKA@PENNDRLS Subject: Date: Monday, 10 April 1989 1714-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 393 (584) Subject: I am collecting information on the types of non-Apple printers being used by colleagues either an AppleTalk network or stand-alone Macintosh. Please let me know directly what type of printer you are using and any comments you are willing to share. Thank you. From: Gunhild Viden Subject: electronic communication among human beings Date: 10 Apr 89 18:15:38 EDT (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 816 (585) May I be forgiven for throwing in some general reflections on the nature of E-mail? I will try to keep it short. E-mail is a very handy, somewhat anonymous way of getting in contact with people. Within a discussion like this one we know very little about each other, in fact only the short report on our professional activities included in the biography (if we care to look it up, which we usually don't). Most people are very concise, most people avoid references to their private life, except the odd joke. Yet I am amazed at how soon a personality begins to emerge from these few lines on the screen. I have had a couple of private conversations with people I have never met and will perhaps never meet; no personal information has been included; I don't know their age, faith, number of kids (if any) or preferences as to this or that; yet somehow I know them and have some general idea of their personality, and a kind of electronic friendship has been established. It seems that we are revealing more about ourselves through the language we use than we are perhaps aware of; I also have the idea that the relative anonymity of electronic communication makes us care less about how we say things, thereby perhaps revealing more of our personalities than we would in more formal contexts. Does anyone know of studies of the language in electronic communication, e.g. how conventions arise, or of theories of reception within E-mail? From: Willard McCarty Subject: software fair: progress report Date: 10 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 817 (586) Tools for Humanists, 1989 a software and hardware fair 6-9 June 1989 10 April 1989 `Tools for Humanists, 1989' is a comprehensive software and hardware fair to be held in conjunction with `The Dynamic Text'. It will feature more than 50 innovative public-domain and commercial products of interest to computing humanists and to others concerned with the computerized processing of natural languages. Many of the programs will be demonstrated by their developers. The fair will contain software for IBM, Apple, and Sun equipment, online databases, and specialized hardware -- such as the NeXT workstation. The fair will run for four days, from 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday 6 June to 5:30 p.m. on Friday 9 June. Each day except the first and last consists of 3 periods, morning (10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.), afternoon (2:30 - 5:30 p.m.), and evening (7:30 - 10:30). Admission is free of charge to the general public. Exhibitors will be encouraged to distribute public-domain software, and several commercial developers will sell their products at discount. A complete guidebook to the fair, given to conference attendees, will also be available at a reasonable cost to others. It will consist of extensive descriptions of all exhibited products and sufficient technical information to answer most elementary questions. In addition to the scheduled exhibits, a small number of IBM and Macintosh machines will be available in `The Hacker's Corner' on a first-come first-served basis for informal demonstrations. Descriptions of software exhibited in The Hacker's Corner will not appear in the guidebook, however. The following is a current list of the exhibitors and their various products. A schedule will be published shortly. This list is subject to change without notice. Corrections are welcome. Omissions are unintentional. Additions are to be expected. -------------------- Dr. Giovanni Adamo, Dr. Ada Russo, Dr. Giacinta Spinosa, Dr. Marco Veneziani (Rome); software: Lessico Intellectuale Europeo (Latin database) John Baima (Silver Mountain Software); LBase (linguistic analysis and retrieval) Barbara Bolton (SoftQuad, Inc.); software: SoftQuad Publishing Software; SoftQuad Author/Editor John Bradley (Computing Services, Toronto); software: TACT (text- retrieval and analysis) Prof. Samuel D. Cioran (Humanities Computing Centre, McMaster); software: mcBOOKmaster (authoring system, CAI and publication) George Clarke (Computer Shop, Toronto); hardware: NeXT Dr. Jozef Colpaert, Dr. Wim Uyttersprot (DIDASCALIA, Antwerp); software: Vocapuces, Verbapuces, Textapuces (CALL) Dr. R. F. Colson (Southampton); software: Historical Documents Expert System (HIDES) Francois Daoust, Luc Dupuy (Centre d'ATO, Universite' du Que'bec a` Montre'al); software: SATO (text analysis) Prof. Elan Dresher (Dept. of Linguistics, Toronto); software: Youpie (linguistic stress) Prof. Heyward Ehrlich (English, Rutgers); software: PC-Write Documentation Engine Prof. Charles Faulhaber (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley); software: Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (textbase) Prof. R. Glickman (Spanish and Portuguese, Toronto); software: (? name, lexical construction) Prof. Hans van Halteren (TOSCA, Nijmegen); software: LDB, Linguistic DataBase (LDB); Computer Library of Utterances for Exercises in Syntax (CLUES) Prof. Robert Hollander, Jonathan Altman (Dartmouth Dante Project); software: Dartmouth Dante Project Database Prof. David C. Hunter (Computer Science, Muskingum); Prof. Donald Ross (English, Minnesota); software: micro-Eyeball (stylistic statistics) Prof. Louis Janus (Norwegian, St. Olaf); software: Norwegian courseware James Johnston (Electronic Text Corporation); software: WordCruncher (interactive concordance) Prof. Robert Kraft (Religious Studies, Pennsylvania); hardware: Ibycus; software: TLG, PHI texts, hypertext, etc. Prof. Pierre Maranda (Anthropologie, Laval); software: Discourse Analysis (DISCAN) Prof. Dr. Francisco Marcos-Marin (Madrid); software: UNITE (editing and publishing) Prof. Philippe Martin (Experimental Phonetics Laboratory, Toronto); hardware: phonetic analysis Dr. Roger Martlew (Leicester); software: Prof. Alastair McKinnon (Philosophy, McGill); software: TextMap (content analysis) Prof. Alan Melby (LinguaTech International); software: Mercury/Termex (lexical data management) Prof. Michael Mepham (Laval); software: Lemmatiseur, DAT, SYREX (textual enrichment and analysis, segmentation, lexical construction and tagging) Dr. Elli Mylonas (Perseus Project, Harvard); software: Perseus (hypermedia for classical culture); Pandora (TLG text retrieval) Prof. Hiroshi Nara (East Asian, Pittsburgh); software: Understanding Written, Spoken Japanese Project (CALL) Royalynn O'Connor (Oxford University Press, NY); software: OED on CD-ROM; Micro-OCP; Shakespeare (textbases, concordance software) Dr. Mark Olsen (ARTFL, Chicago); software: ARTFL (online database of French texts) Espen Ore (Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen); software: various (CALL, hypermedia, etc.) Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott (Datenverarbeitung, Tuebingen); software: microTUSTEP (editing and publishing) Frederic Portoraro (Philosophy, Toronto); software: SymLog (symbolic logic CAI) Br. R-Ferdinand Poswick (Informatique et Bible - Maredsous); software: (1) Compucord; (2) Te'le'bible; (3) Findit CD-ROM; (4) Laservision Bible Geoffrey Rockwell (Apple Research Partnership Program, Toronto); software: Bib, KanjiCard, etc. (personal information management, Japanese CAI) Prof. Irwin Rovner (Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State); software: Computer Expert Vision System in Archaeology Prof. Richard D. Rust (English, North Carolina); software: LiTerms (literary glossary) Prof. John E. Semonche (History, North Carolina); software: Simulations in U.S. History Steve Siebert (Dragonfly Software); software: Nota Bene (scholarly wordprocessing and text-retrieval) Prof. Randall M. Smith (Classics, UC Santa Barbara); software: Searcher (TLG and PHI Latin text-retrieval) Dr. Theresa Snelgrove (English, Toronto); software: Structural Analysis Program (STRAP) Prof. Donald F. Sola' (Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell); software: Interlex (second-language learning) Craig Sweat (Envos Corp.); software: NoteCards (personal information management) Prof. Frank Tompa, Darrell Raymond (New OED, Waterloo); software: PAT, GODEL, FAT (text-retrieval, online OED) Joan Wesolowski (Calera Systems); hardware and software: Calera (optical character recognition and scanning) Dr. Eve Wilson (Computing Laboratory, Kent at Canterbury); software: JUSTUS (hypertext information retrieval for law) Ruth Wong (Innotech); software: Brushwriter (Chinese wordprocessing) Prof. Tzvee Zahavy; Dr. Tzvika Goldenberg; Ms. Carol Weist (Project Woksape, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Minnesota); software: MILIM (Hebrew language drill) *****END***** From: Curtis Rice Subject: parsed Hebrew and LXX Bibles? (45) Date: Sun, 9 Apr 89 18:38:12 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 394 (587) To Lou Burnard [deleted quotation]A printed Hebrew OT with every word parsed is Davidson's Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, gency Reference Library, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. This was originally published in 1848 - in dictionaries, even with computers, we don't do as well as the 19th century without them! Curtis Rice From: connie crosby Subject: languages Date: Sat, 08 Apr 89 14:39:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 395 (588) Hans Joergen Marker makes a good point...my message wasn't worded very well. I should perhaps mention that I had been learning about how the computer has been adapted to work with the various languages. The reference material that I had in hand was not absolutely up to date. All I had read about was other languages using the Roman alphabet besides English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Japanes and Chinese. I was, in essence, wondering if other languages had been tried. The book that was mentioned not too long ago, John Clews' , was an excellent answer to my question. Thank you for all the responses. Connie Crosby From: Subject: response for Gunhild Viden (on the nature of electronic Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 19:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 396 (589) communications) Two students here at Indiana University are working on just such a project, if you like I will contact them initially; they have access to bitnet and interbit as well and can respond directly to you and anyone else who is interested. From: Joseph Raben Subject: electronic journals Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 12:18:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 397 (590) Anyone interested in the future of electronic journals should look up the 1981 volume of a journal called transaction/SOCIETY. In it Lauren Seiler and I published the results of a study funded by the Sloan Foundation on whether deans and chairs would consider electronic publications as a basis for tenure and promotion. In all divisions -- not only science and social science, but humanities as well -- the majority of responders voiced their approval. Considering how primitive computers were at that time, how vague the idea of an electronic journal was, and how little experience anyone had had in trying to realize the concept, this response was very encouraging. By now, the atmosphere should be even more nurturing for this innovative mode of scholarly communication. From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) Subject: Sanskrit coding scheme Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 14:11 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 820 (591) Mathieu Boisvert has raised the very important issue of standardization of character sets--in this case, for Indian languages in scholarly transliteration. Mathieu sent an almost identical note to me, and to Humanist. Here is my reply; as I say at the end of the letter, I think this discussion would benefit from being carried out on HUMANIST. I am perfectly prepared to be shouted down, though. ---------------------------- Dear Mathieu, Thank you for writing to me about the problem of Sanskrit/Pali character set encoding. Here, following your layout, is the scheme I have been using: First for Capital letters: N with a dot under (retroflex) char(225) N with tilde (Palatal) char(165) (ASCII) N with a dot above (Velar) char(227) S with a dot under (retroflex) char(234) S with a slash above (palatal) char(242) R with a dot under (short r) char(230) A long char(228) I long char(235) U long char(231) T with a dot under (retro) char(233) D with a dot under (retro) char(237) H with a dot under char(253) Lower case letters a long char(224) i long char(229) u long char(245) t with a dot under (retro) char(244) d with a dot under (retro) char(238) n with a dot under (retro) char(232) s with a dot under (retro) char(241) n with tilde (palatal) char(164) (ASCII) s with slash above (palatal) char(239) n with dot above (velar) char(243) r with dot under (short) char(240) r with dot under and dash above (long) char(246) h with dot under char(247) l with dot under char(157) (the retroflex liquid vowel) m with dot above (anusvara) char(236) a with circumflex char(131) (ASCII) i with circumflex char(140) (ASCII) u with circumflex char(150) (ASCII) The entries flagged "(ASCII)" are, of course, unchanged from the layout of the IBM Extended ASCII scheme, i.e., code page 437. I am curious about your reasons for creating a second set of lower case circumflexed vowels, and nasals with a tilde. I would like to hear your reasons for choosing the codings you have. Here are the reasons, such as they are, for the scheme I use: 1/ When I was setting up my character set, I was working with a Toshiba P321SL printer, which has a limited number of characters available above 127 for downloaded fonts. So I decided not to try to implement the full range of accented characters needed, for example, for Hindi or accented Vedic texts. Gary Tubb has done a much fuller set that includes these extra characters (email: gat@harvunxw.bitnet). 2/ I decided to avoid, if possible, usurping the graphic characters, i.e., chars 176--223. A growing number of software packages use these characters to provide character based graphical and windowing interfaces, and I thought that it would be wise to avoid them. 3/ I was also very keen to keep the French and German characters, and in general all the characters from 128--156. 4/ Finally, I took a look at the IBM code page swapping system that was released with DOS version 3.3. I have not read any technical documentation about this, and I would like to. But I have had a hard look at the code page layouts 863 (Canada- French), 865 (Norway), 850 (Multilingual) and 860 (Portugal), and have tried to divine what they are doing. It seems to me that IBM feels free to change anything they want, above 127. But they seem to prefer to change chars 128--175 first, and only then 176--254. Code page 850 is the one with the most radical changes, and even here the majority of the graphics characters in the range 176--223 are left alone. The ones that are changed are 181--184, 189--190, 198--199, 208--216, 221--222. This set, you will at once see, covers all of the graphical characters consisting of a single line intersecting at right angles with with two lines. All the plain single line characters, and the plain double line characters are left alone. These reasons account for the character positions I decided to use. As for the actual ordering of characters that I have used, I simply have no recollection whatsoever of the reasons I had. It all looks completely wacky to me now. If I were starting again, I think I would at least put them in Sanskrit alphabetical order. I do remember wondering if I could somehow place the Sanskrit characters at positions that were 64 or 128 positions displaced from their unaccented counterparts; this might have helped with automatic sorting in the latin order, and to make the text legible when the high bit was stripped, i.e., when reduced to a 7 bit code. But I gave up on this. What we *really* want is to set up an Indological code page. Software that has built in support for code page swapping (like PC-Write 3.0, which supports 437 and 850) can make the use of a code page much nicer, and can adjust such features as upper/lower case conversion, searching, and sorting. But it is unlikely that any software manufacturer would provide support for anything unofficial. And it is impossible for an outsider to communicate in any intelligent manner with IBM. So the situation is probably that such code page would be of use mainly for document exchange. As you say, it is perfectly easy, if tedious, to convert the character set scheme of a document simply by using some form of search and replace facility in a word processor. One can also use a text filter, such as Ronald Gans's excellent Xword, to perform a batch conversion, or even write a simple text filter in Icon or any language (Corre's forthcoming book, "Icon Programming for Humanists" has an example of exactly this). To be honest, I think it is unlikely that an Indological code page can be made to stick, unless it is backed by an influential body such as the AOS, the RAS, or the DMG. There are many Indologists who have already invested a lot of time and energy in databases, text banks, and programs that rely on a particular coding scheme. Gary Tubb, Ronald Emmerick, Paul Griffiths, Peter Schreiner, Paul Kuepferle, K. R. Norman, yourself, myself, to mention just a few. And these people will see little reason to change unless there are substantial, guaranteed advantages. Maybe I am being unduly pessimistic; I hope so. If only these people were all available on the network, we might get somewhere. But most of them are not, and there is little chance of them all meeting in one place to thrash out the issues. Wait a minute. What about the next World Sanskrit Conference in Vienna? Perhaps that is the answer. A workshop could be held in order to establish a code page, and an agreement (if reached) coming from such a meeting would carry the requisite weight. I'll give it some thought. On another matter, since you are converting lots of Pali texts into digital form, I should like to make sure that you know of the Kern Institute's plans for the same project. And are you also aware that the job has already been done in Bangkok? Are you entering text from the PTS editions? If so, you probably shouldn't be, since it is my understanding that the PTS is at present opposed to the conversion of their publications into machine readable form. They are frightened--wrongly, I am convinced--that their sales revenue from the books will drop if the texts are available in electronic form. I have remonstrated with individual members of the PTS committee about this. But if you have gained their agreement, then the second issue is whether the texts could not be more efficiently entered using a Kurzweil data entry machine (KDEM). A KDEM would be perfectly able to read the PTS editions. In fact a three-volume PTS text (I'm afraid I can't remember which) was successfully scanned by the Oxford KDEM only last year. Finally, as long as you are on the network, I should like to carry out this discussion through HUMANIST. I think that there are several points here of general interest, and we might pick up some helpful points from our Humanist colleagues. Is this all right with you? Yours, Dominik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dominik Wujastyk, | Janet: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid Wellcome Institute for | Bitnet/Earn/Ean/Uucp: wujastyk@euclid.ucl.ac.uk the History of Medicine, | Internet/Arpa/Csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu 183 Euston Road, | or: wujastyk%euclid@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk London NW1 2BP, England. | Phone: London 387-4477 ext.3013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MLAOD@CUVMB.bitnet Subject: Ian Lancashire's Brave New World Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 08:41:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 821 (592) Like Ian Lancashire, I too am involved in providing computer access, technology, and training to humanities scholars, but I do so in the service of humanities scholarship. I never felt that my labors were, or should be, directed toward giving humanists the confidence to "write their own ticket in the private sector" as programmers. Is such training truly the purpose of a humanities computer center, as Ian states? I would argue that it is not, and further that, to me, the most obvious role of the university is not vocational education. I am willing, however, to stand corrected and be made sadder but wiser by other humanists who share Ian Lancashire's thesis. Daniel Uchitelle Special Services, Modern Language Association From: Brian Whittaker Subject: St. Jerome Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 00:36:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 398 (593) Mary O'Riordan inquired about St. Jerome's writings on female celibacy. Jerome's "Epistola Adversus Jovinianum" is primarily about priestly celibacy, but also touches (if memory serves me aright) on the value of female celibacy as well. From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: Mapmaking--a Macintosh solution Date: Monday, 10 April 1989 2342-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 399 (594) This is in reply to a query by Louis Janus, who asked for suggestions for a client who wants to produce a map of the US, with individual states enlarged or reduced to reflect population characteristics. USA Today (and other Gannett publications) use Macintosh software to produce their maps. They used to use MacDraw to produce PICT (a Mac file format) maps (I've got a couple of old maps like this on file somewhere); now I suspect that they use PostScript drawing programs (Illustrator 88 or FreeHand), as these give finer results, and finer control for image manipulation. I'm sure that there are a number of PostScript art clip art packages that include the kind of US map with states as individual elements that you need. If your colleague has access to a program like Illustrator 88 (my favorite), she can easily modify the elements in all kinds of ways--the sort of distortion you described is pretty much a click or two to set up. The place to look for PostScript clip art packages of this kind is in one of the larger Mac publications--MacWorld, MacUser--or in one of the quarterly summaries of Mac software--MacGuide (though I think that the latter has gone to monthly). I would bet that there are PostScript maps of the US lurking on the major communications networks (CompuServe, GEnie)--in which case, she could get the maps for the price of the downloads. (I'll check on this the next time I log on to these networks--if you don't have access to them, drop me a message; maybe I can get the files for you.) TH From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: any NeXT news Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 19:30:22 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 823 (595) As I begin to think about buying a new computer some time in the next year or so, I wonder whether anyone in this newsgroup has gone through the same process, and has any more to say about the relative merits of various operating systems for multilingual purposes. We have heard from Bob Kraft and Jack Abercrombie on OS/2 facilities, and the news is sad. I have personally investigated the Mac II, but it has a nonstandard operating system, and the Unix they are putting out doesn't even include the source. Any new news on the NeXT? Do we have new IBYCUS machines com- ing up (do I hear Unix for the IBYCUS?)? -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer [NB: The NeXT and Ibycus workstations will be demonstrated at the software fair in Toronto, 6-9 June, by imported talent, and Sun Microsystems will have appropriate hardware at the disposal of Norm Meyrowitz and Ronald Weissman, who are teaching the Advanced Function Workstations course in the Summer School. Stay tuned for more information. --W.M.] From: Brad Inwood (416) 978-3178 INWOOD at UTOREPAS Subject: Coding for Sanskrit, Greek, etc. Date: 12 April 1989, 15:31:15 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 824 (596) I for one am happy to see HUMANIST as a whole deal with the Sanskrit coding discussion. Most of what Dominik Wujastyk says about the prospects for standardization there goes just as well for Ancient Greek. There have been a few idiosyncratic formats in use: users of Lettrix have been transliterating in their own private ways; Academicfont coding looked as though it might approach being *a* not *the* standard, but then it died the death of all niche products; Notabene's far superior approach is (as far as I can see now) of limited use outside that programme's environment. There are other word processors with Ancient Greek capability, but I don't know anything about them. The TLG uses upper case lower ASCII to represent Greek in its massive text base, but you have to interpret it through specialized software to get it to look or print like Greek. In the age of EGA, VGA and the HERC+, what are the prospects for a standard representation of exotic alphabets? Probably very poor, unless some central scholarly body throws its weight around, and even then ... What is the effect on standardization of the competing approaches represented by the PC world and the Mac? And what is the relevance of word-processing vs text-base, text-retrieval, or database applications? This may be no more than end-of-term melancholy, but I would guess that the chances of standardization are very low... And while I am at it, what would my HUMANIST colleagues do with 10 megabytes of Ancient Greek text in Academicfont coding when my word-processing has changed over to Nota Bene? Ah well, maybe I should be working on Latin texts anyway. From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Sanskrit coding Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 08:42:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 825 (597) A quick response to the comments about Devanagari, Sanskrit and Pali: The first one (Devanagari on a PC): There is a WP program called ChiWriter which specialises in scientific, mathematical and `foreign' text; Nagari is available on it and the results (24-pin dot matrix, LaserJet-compatible and PostScript all supported) are very acceptable. Write to Swabian Technology Ltd., P.O. Box 153, Oxford OX4 4BP, U.K. The second one (standard character codes for Sanskrit and Pali): (a) there is surely no reason to assume that this or any other scheme can or will become standard: a lot depends on the machine used, the underlying character representation (e.g. some computers use EBCDIC not ASCII), etc.; anyway translation between schemes can easily be automated; (b) if the scheme really is intended for universal use it ought to contain lots more: Vedic accented vowels, vowel+macron+breve, nasalised vowels written with tilde, etc. And it is not safe to assume that upper case versions of some characters will not be needed. Douglas de Lacey (DEL2@UK.AC.CAM.PHX) From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: printers Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 14:36:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 400 (598) Re: printers At the University of Toronto Computing Services we have QMS PS 800+ PostScript printers. "We" are happy with them. We have them attached to AppleTalk and to Unix (which is in turn attached to AppleTalk.) Yours Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Re: Has anyone seen the future, and does it work? (35) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 15:26:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 401 (599) R. Goerwitz writes that the Mac "has a nonstandard operating system..." What is "nonstandard" about it? It is the standard for the Mac family. The Mac interface and font handling is becoming the standard against which other interfaces are compared. If the Mac system is suitable for multilingual work why not use it? Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca From: Ezra Zubrow Subject: RE: map making? Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 00:40 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 402 (600) REGARDING MAP MAKING SOFTWARE 1. THERE ARE NUMEROUS MAP MAKING PROGRAMS WHICH CAN HANDLE A VARIETY OF TYPES OF DATA, DISTORTION, PROJECTIONS ETC. 2. A FREE PROGRAM IS PC-MAP DEVELOPED BY TOMILNSON PREVIOUSLY AT HARVARD NOW AT OHIO-STATE. IT IS A GRID BASED GIS SYSTEM. 3. A MORE SOPHISTICATED COMMERCIAL PACKAGE WHICH IS VERY GOOD BUT TAKES AWHILE TO LEARN IS PC- ARC-INFO WHICH CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE ESRI CORPORATION IN REDLANDS CALIFORNIA. THE ADDRESS IS 380 NY. STREET, REDLANDS CALIF, CA. 92373, TEL 714 793-2853. REGIONAL OFFICES CAN BE FOUND IN CHARLOTTE, NC, OLYMPIA WASHINGTON, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA, AS WELL AS WEST PERTH , AUSTRALIA; DON MILLS, ONTARIO, CANADA, AND MUNICH, WEST GERMANY. IT HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING ABLE TO BE UPLOADED AND DOWNLOADED TO MAINFRAME VERSIONS OF ARC-INFO. 4. A SUN WORKSTATION SUPPORTED SYSTEM IS CALLED SYSTEM 9 WHICH USES OBJECT LANGUAGE SYNTAX. 5. THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER SYSTEMS. ONE MIGHT WISH TO NOTE THAT IN THE UNITED STATES THERE IS THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ANALYSIS WHICH IS DEDDICATED TO SPATIAL AND MAP MAKING PROBLEMS. 6. ITS OFFICIAL OFFICES CAN BE CONTACTED THROUGH NCGIA@UBVMS. 7. I HOPE THIS IS USEFUL. EZRA ZUBROW NATIONAL CENTER FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ANALYSIS & DEPT. OF ANTHRO. From: Subject: cartograms Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 10:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 403 (601) Another comment on software to produce maps with areas scaled proportional to a set of data values (e.g. German immigrants). These are what cartographers usually call cartograms. There are two basic types: (1) contiguous, in which you try to fit all the areas together, sacrificing shape and contiguity relationships as necessary, and (2) non-contiguous, in which you let the areas float apart, but in their approximate correct spatial relationships to each other, with shape preserved in as much detail as you wish. The Macintosh program called MapMaker (3.0) allows production of non-contiguous cartograms. MapMaker is produced by Select Micro Systems, Inc., 40 Triangle Center, Suite 211, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598. While non-contiguous cartograms could be produced, as suggested, with something like Adobe Illustrator, it would require calculation of the percentage linear enlargement or reduction of each map unit in advance to get the desired areas, relative to some selected "anchor" area. I think it would be very difficult to produce satisfactory contiguous cartograms with such general software. I know contiguous cartogram programs have been written, but I have yet to discover any ported to the Macintosh. Jim Cerny, University Computing, University of New Hampshire From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Re: map making? Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 14:30:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 404 (602) Re: Map Making USA is supposed to use Macs for their graphics but I suspect they have other systems too. The way I would create the map in question would be to use either MacDraw or Illustrator and create each of the states as separate objects. Then each state could be scaled as needed. Before creating such a map you should look at some PICT or PostScript image collections - I would be surprised if you could not find such a map for a fee. Yours Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Message to JANET Date: Wednesday, 12 April 1989 0035-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 405 (603) I apologize for using HUMANIST this way, but because of some quirk in a recent rerouting of our electronic mail, all my attempts to reach people at .AC.UK addresses have been rejected. "Our people" are working on it. Meanwhile, forgive my involuntary silence (Lou, Susan, Ruth, Sebastian, Tony, et alia et alii). Bob Kraft (CCAT) From: Leslie Subject: Re: Has anyone seen the future, and does it work? (35) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 08:04:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 406 (604) The NeXT machine will also be demonstrated today (April 12) at the NEACH meeting in New York City. I cannot go because of teaching obligations, but perhaps someone else in the group will have a chance to see it in action and answer questions about viability. From: Martin Ryle Subject: RE: humanities computing centres, cont. (32) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 01:11:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 829 (605) Thank you, Daniel Uchtielle, for affirming that the emphasis in humanities computing ought properly be placed on humanities, and not on job training or vocational education. Martin Ryle Ryle@urvax From: Walter McCutchan Subject: The departure of Sebastian Rahtz. Date: Sun, 9 Apr 89 11:35:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 407 (606) I am amused by the furor that I see in HUMANIST because one reader, albeit a vocal one, has decided to withdraw from our readership. While I take no particular pleasure from seeing Sebastian Rahtz depart (any man's death diminishes me) I also feel no particular discomfort from his leaving us, perhaps in peace. Further, I am amused to see so many HUMANISTS lament that they will miss Mr Rahtz's 'thought-provoking' comments. I would have thought that his self-admitted "bad taste", and his "trivial" and "ignorant" postings would provoke little, if any thought. How much thought they actually did provoke, I have no way to discern, but for my part, the man who talks to his cats (and tells all of us about it), who dismisses OCP with an imperious wave of his hand, who suggests that the way to solve a small software problem with a NAMES file is to "throw away your IBM mainframe and buy a real computer" provoked only the thought "why is this person wasting my time?" I don't even feel bad suggesting that Mr Rahtz wasted my time, he certainly was not above suggesting what was and was not worthy material for HUMANIST, and complained of others "clogging my mail". So let us all in our own way bid farewell to Mr Rahtz and wish him all the success he deserves. walter mccutchan p.s. Flames to me, no sense clogging up peoples' mail :-) walter@watdcs.UWaterloo.ca From: Sean O'Cathasaigh, FRI001@UK.AC.SOTON.IBM Subject: Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 10:38:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 408 (607) Department of French, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH In an impressive (if eerie) ceremony in Southampton last week I was inducted as Chief Mallard of the Southampton Lodge. The secret nature of the ceremony was considerably reinforced by the fact that it was conducted over local network links: I didn't see the other participants. My first task is to solicit material from fellow Humanists about Sebastian Rahtz. It seems appropriate to commemorate the passing of the first Humanist to expire on active service. The trouble is that so few (if any) people have met him that first-person reports are difficult, not to say impossible to come by. There have even been suggestions that he is/was a figment of Willard's imagination, simply because Willard referred to him as "my alter ego". But our sainted editor wouldn't act like that, would he? And besides, I have met people who know people who they think actually met Sebastian. Mind you, when I went to Oxford last week, I didn't meet anybody who had met him there, although at one stage (and for all I know still), Sebastian had an e-mail address on the Oxford VAX cluster. I admit that there *are* some puzzling aspects about the whole business - for instance, it's strange that Southampton, which had six Humanists, now only has three. The suspicion has been voiced that the other two (Brendan O'Flaherty and the mysterious AYI004, whose biography doen't appear in the appropriate list) may have been alteri nos - but for whom? Again, if anyone has actually met these people, could they please let me know directly? I hope in time to collate all the relevant info and make it available in the form of a solemn obituary to all Humanists who wish to record their respects. Perhaps the material could be placed on a file-server accessible to those who key in the Mallard song... Sean O'Cathasaigh (aka Dr V.D.U. MacHine) fri001@uk.ac.soton.ibm From: Peter D. Junger Subject: Information about online databases in the Humanities. Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 13:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 831 (608) There is a publication called Computer-Readable Databases, A Directory and Data Source Book, issued by the American Library Association and edited by Martha E. Williams. Vol. II covers: business, law, humanities and social science. The most recent edition that I know of was in 1985. I have not seen this work, but Pat Harris, the Law Librarian at the University of Missouri at Kansas City has told me that it is very comprehensive and helpful. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Peter D. Junger Subject: Leicester Polytechnic School of Law Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 12:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 409 (609) Can anyone supply the address of the Resource Center for Computer Assisted Instruction in Law at the Leicester Polytechnic School of Law? The address of the School of Law itself would also be useful to have. Please, if possible, reply to me directly, rather than to HUMANIST. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Peter D. Junger Subject: British and Irish Legal Education Technology Association Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 13:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 410 (610) Could someone send me the address of the British and Irish Legal Education Technology Association? If possible, please send responses directly to me, rather than to HUMANIST. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) Subject: coding for sanskrit, greek, etc. Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 21:45:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 411 (611) There seems to be much discussion about the inability to agree on standards and the problems with incompatible data formats that results. I have a question which may sound stupid or oversimplistic, but I believe is not. Who cares about formats, exactly? I do not, for one. Since the hope of standardizing on one format seems to be very low, I would rather discuss the issue of how best to convert between formats. Given the correct computer tools, I can convert most formats into any other format. Most standard Unix OS versions, and especially those derived from the Berkeley Standard distribution, provide me the tools to do lots of different kinds of character manipulation. For example, the issue of using different parts of the high ascii set (129- 256 codes) to hold accented characters is relatively easy to convert. I can even, using the "od" program (octal dump) reverse engineer the ascii-codes from a comparison with printed copy. The large hitch is in "proprietary formats." As long as you can understand the design of the format (and any ascii-character file should fit the description), you can just do translations. Our Dante database is housed on a VAX running Unix, and I have yet to be sent data in a format that we couldn't handle (including IBM disks which had text in all upper case, and used different accenting symbols), although there are some things that are harder than others. This on a mainframe that doesn't even HAVE the 256 character ascii. We only have 128. In addition, we have created data that has correct encoding for Macs, pc's, DEC Rainbows, IBM mainframes. What could be improved would be the tools to do this, mostly in making them easier to use. Having said all that, I'm impressed at how much of a Unix snob I've managed to become in just a few short years. Jonathan Altman From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: coding "strange" languages (37) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 01:48:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 412 (612) I would hope that the Text Encoding Initiative would be looking at funny character set as they set about their endeavors. And what is the ISO doing? This looks like a good candidate for a session in Toronto. Charles Faulhaber From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: Pali text archive Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 10:17 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 413 (613) Dear Mathieu, I did not altogether realize that what you have in mind is the creation of a large Pali text archive, not just a couple of volumes for your own private study. This changes things a bit. If you are to undertake such a task, it is important that you should work as far as possible in the full knowledge of the current developments affecting text archive creation. You are not alone in doing this kind of work: many scholars in different fields are busy creating data banks of material in different languages. I wonder if you are aware of the recent formation of the Text Encoding Initiative? If not, you *should* find out about this. Join the Association for Computing and the Humanities, etc. Talk to the other HUMANISTS at Toronto. You probably have already, but some of what you say makes me think that you are about to undertake a large project with some important sources of help and advice perhaps still unexplored. The Text Encoding Initiative has yet to make its recommendations, but some elements of what will be said are at least adumbrated. You should definitely try to use a coding scheme that is compatible with SGML, for instance. I know that an SGML "header" can be written to accommodate the coding scheme used, but I am not certain whether an SGML document can legitimately contain characters from an 8 bit character set. If not, then (since the TEI has not reported yet, and an SGML scheme is hard to implement from scratch) you would probably not go far wrong if you used the coding scheme of Plain TeX for the accented characters of your text (see chapter 9 of The TeXbook, by Don Knuth). This scheme is unambiguous, clearly documented, and 7-bit: three strong advantages. It would also allow you easily to format and print your text extremely clearly, for optimal ease in proofreading. (Of course you could use any coding you like for your own private data input.) On a more personal note, if you are working for a doctorate, I would not recommend that you spend a lot of time typing Pali texts. If, as you say, you have done three volumes already, that is quite enough to begin to get substantial results from linguistic computing. Stop typing! Learn Icon (or get MicroOCP or Wordcruncher, or whatever), and produce some concrete results concerning the linguistic nature of the texts. If you spend two years typing more texts in, a) no one will thank you, b) someone else will do it again, faster and better, ignoring what you have already done, c) you will be no closer to your academic goals, d) you will be a good typist, granted. If the Pali texts are to become available on disk, then I am convinced that it must be as a result of an initiative of some weight, with serious money and institutional backing. And a well-operated KDEM would be far more efficient than you alone typing. There are few enough South Asian texts printed in roman transliteration in good clear editions; it seems obtuse not to take full advantage of modern scanning methods for those texts that lend themselves to this approach. I have long thought of the PTS edition of the Pali canon as a perfect candidate for KDEM scanning. It's just that the PTS committee has so far lacked the will to initiate the job, or to license others to do it. If the Bangkok digital version of the canon is not of a high standard (I have no knowledge whatever of the results of this project), then perhaps a more fruitful approach would be to scan the PTS editions by KDEM, and then run them through collating software against the Bangkok data files. I don't know how different the recensions are, but this might show up as an interesting aspect of such a comparison. It would also be instructive to find out why, exactly, the Bangkok data bank is inadequate. After all, they did the task in a manner identical to the one you propose to use. If the data is to be typed, then (as with the TLG project) everything must be typed twice, by independent typists. Then parsing software must be written to compare the two versions, and to spot gross errors. This sort of project is not to be undertaken lightly, if it is to be of long term value. I am sorry if I sound a bit stern, but I am worried that you are about to spend a lot of your time doing something that will not serve your own, or others, long term aims. Dominik From: elli@harvunxw.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: coding for strange languages (21) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 12:39:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 414 (614) I come late to this discussion, but the comment about standards in general got me interested. I work extensively with beta code and (even worse) its precursor, alpha code, when working with Greek texts. The goal in developing a standard is not so much in creating something that will work on any machine at any time; so that a character set can be read by all word processors. The goal is to create a standard that all (ha!) software can translate into and out of. If you ask the software builders, you will see that they each have their proprietary format, which allows them to do whatever they do as well as they do it. And they are extremely unwilling to switch. What has to happen is that people have to create products that acknowledge the existence of a) some standard and b) other products. Beta code, ugly though it may be, *is* a de facto standard. It is also capable of handling a lot of strange cases, and of being expended. So what we need is systems that can read in , and when moving to some other system, write out beta code (in the case of Greek). This will enable not only CGA and VGA compatible machines to read Greek, but also Macs, Unix boxes, and whatever comes up in the future that will be bigger and better than what we have now. From: "Michael E. Walsh" Subject: Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 09:05:50 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 834 (615) re Mapmaking with the MAC. The following are entries from the Bitnet/EARN MAC software server relating to map data. They can be downloaded from the server at Princeton (PUCC), or from Dublin (IRLEARN). Michael Walsh. MACDRAW-MAP-CANADA.HQX.1 MACDRAW-MAP-WORLD.HQX.1 MACDRAW-MAPS-CONTINENTS1.HQX.1 MACDRAW-MAPS-CONTINENTS2.HQX.1 MACDRAW-MAPS-USA.HQX.1 MACDRAW-MAPS-USA-TIMEZONES.HQX.1 From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: nonstandard operating system Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 20:43:06 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 415 (616) Gads, let's not get into petty wars about whose computer is better. I need a standard, multitasking programming environment, preferably one with source code included, and preferably one that is commonly used in mid-size computer systems. The Mac doesn't have this. MPW is cute, but it has a pretty grainy implementation of multitasking, and, I believe, no virtual memory capability. It is also hardly a standard. HOWEVER, this is not to say that the Mac is a "bad" machine. It displays foreign fonts quite nicely, or at least better than IBM type machines. Not that it is alone in this class, though. The IBYCUS has a very slick overstrike mechanism that makes it good at displaying non-western fonts with diacritics. The NeXT box, with display postscript is also pretty nice. Actually, though, I didn't have much trouble getting unusual fonts into my PC, with a little hacking. The problem there is that the operating system doesn't support this kind of funny business. One final point: We should strive to avoid brand loyalty. It is pretty hard to avoid feeling devoted to a machine that one has just labored for several months to understand fully - one that has per- haps sucked down a good bit of money to get fully configured. But for the sake of a healthy market, it's better to remain as aloof as possible. From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: The Mac's (non?) Standard interface Date: Thursday, 13 April 1989 0939-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 416 (617) This follows G. Rockwell's reply to R. Goerwitz's comment on the Macintosh's "non-standard operating system"... I, too, was puzzled by Goerwitz's comment, as it seems to me that the other major PC and workstation operating systems (say, Windows on the PC, OS/2--if it ever really happens--the interfaces to UNIX recently announced by every major player in the workstation market, the NeXT) seem to be moving closer to the look and feel of the Mac (there's a can of worms)... There can be really no question that the windowing, icon-oriented, point-and-click interface a la the Mac has become the standard against which other OS are measured these days (go to a commercial trade show some time, and listen to how many times a saleperson describing an non-Mac OS will mention the Mac--"it's as easy to use as the Mac", "training times are comparable to those on the Mac", "graphic capabilities rival those on the Mac", etc.) That's not to say that the Mac interface doesn't need some twiddling--which twiddling it will get, it seems, in the next major System release, due this fall. NOW, there are some difficulties in getting Macs to talk to other PCs, or to mainframes (if, for example, like the nasty Bitnet node I'm using at Penn only supports file transfer protocols for the PC, and the support staff just looks blankly at you when you ask about Macintosh stuff--though this should be considered primarily a local support problem--?) These problems are not unique to the Mac--you get them when you try anytime to talk between different computers. Arguably, many of them are easier to solve with the Mac, which comes out of the box with hardware and software provisions for networking and file translation--the latter of which promises to be included in the next operating system as a basic function. "Connectivity" is a buzzword these days, and there is no shortage of solutions to communications and file translation matters. Since R. Goerwitz didn't say exactly what he was planning to do with his workstations, I can't speak to restrictions that have more to do with a lack of software for a specific task than with operating system limitations. A postscript: I'd like to hear comments from other HUMANIST users re. Macs in humanities computing--hardware configurations, software, advantages, disadvantages, etc. I'm in the process of preparing a survey on these matters that I will post to HUMANIST in the next few weeks. T. Harpold. Bitnet: tharpold@penndrls From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Humanities computing centres Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 23:00:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 417 (618) Daniel Uchitelle and Martin Ryle miss my point, which is to help faculty members obtain funds to create a new humanities computing centre, not to advocate that universities become technical vocational schools. Faculty will choose, as I said before, different models for their humanities computing centres. One group may decide to assist editors of scholarly editions, a second computational linguists, a third those who might favour computer-assisted composition labs. **Whatever that model is**, it better prepares humanities undergraduate students for a career in an information-processing society. You needn't give up reading poetry to students to introduce them to natural language computing. I did not suggest that humanists become programmers, only that the existing pool of graduates suited for professional careers in technology is too narrow. Our undergraduates, by virtue of their skills in reading, thinking, and writing, can have a formidable impact in business and government if they had the confidence to apply for jobs which, until recently, programmers could fill and leave no room for liberal arts students. Humanities computing centres help give humanities students that confidence. Such centres do not undermine what our departments teach. They apply technology in service of traditional humanities goals and **in the process of doing so** serve the students who must afterwards leave universities to earn a living, as well as serve a society that looks to universities for the workers who can help it survive and, if possible, thrive. This argument is one I believe anyone will listen to. If we humanists want funds never before available to us to build laboratories, to finance text archives, databases, and software development, we must persuade society that we deserve the **extra** support. We may well be doing a good job now in convincing society that humanities faculty are good to have around, but we will have to resort to new arguments to obtain expensive equipment. This is so because any resources we may get will be at the expense of some scientific or engineering project. This `wise' opinion doesn't make me `sad'. On the contrary, I am glad at the prospect of seeing what we already teach valued more highly in society. If I recall correctly, "Brave new world" is a quotation from Shakespeare's Tempest. Miranda, the innocent daughter who has seen little of men, says this without irony as she views her future husband Ferdinand. The union of these two virtuous youngsters ends a long period of war and gives real hope for the future. From: David.A.Bantz@mac.Dartmouth.EDU Subject: Re: Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 05:17:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 418 (619) One more contribution to the postings describing humanities computing centers: Humanities Computing at Dartmouth is administered through the Academic (faculty) side of the institution rather than the computer center. The Director of Computing in the Humanities reports to the Dean, and meets with the teaching department chairs in the Humanities Council. Humanities Computing was instituted by the Humanities faculty to provide broad support for computing activities by and for humanist teachers and scholars. Humanities Computing has conterparts in the Social Sciences and in Math/Computer Science Department. All three Directors are PhD's with experience in their disciplines and occasionally teach in their Divisions. Humanities Computing serves 13 Departments in languages (including English and Classics), Art History, Philosophy, Religion, and three fine arts departments. We also administer the Langauge Resource Center which includes traditional (audio) language lab and newer video and computer facilities. We aim to be the first point of contact for faculty with either problems or ideas for projects involving computing (or interactive video, ...). We have Macs, laser printer, scanner and some other tools available for faculty, and we run the Kurzweil Data Entry Machine. We have approximately a dozen software development projects underway, with much of the coding done by part-time undergarduates; we share with the other Directors in the Arts and Sciences two full time project manangers who coordinate projects, and ensure a certain level of quality control. An important component of our work is providing a voice for the needs of the humanities at the campus level; we work with the computer center and other administrative bodies to help shape campus computer planning and policies, and secure resources for the humanities. Lately we have spent an awful lot of time demonstrating some of the software developed at Dartmouth or running workshops in HyperCard at other institutions. Much of the software development is supported by "soft" funds from a variety of foundation grants. Dartmouth relies largely on the Macintosh for micro-computing and we have come to be advocates of the sort of graphics based, consistent model of interaction embodied in the best Macintosh applications. The fact the Mac was designed from the lowest levels to be cognizant of different fonts, scripts, and languages has been enormously helpful to us and to our faculty. In Humanities Compouting and the Language Resource Center we have 14 Macintoshes of various stripes and one IBM PC (also one NeXT computer); we occasionally have all our Mac's in use, but never have had a backlog on the PC. We would be glad to host visits by readers of Humanist. From: PROF NORM COOMBS Subject: Humanities Computing 3 lines Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 09:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 419 (620) Are any schools offering degree programs in something like humanities computing? If so please post info here or write . nrcgsh@ritvax From: Willard McCarty Subject: 18th supplement to the biographies Date: 13 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 837 (621) Dear Colleagues: Here follows the 19th biographical file, a fat one because I have been too busy to attend to the growing collection and because Humanist has been busy collecting new members. As always, I am glad to have finished the task of editing but enormously interested by the varied talents, enthusiasms, and preoccupations that I find in the individual biographies. Impressionistically speaking -- I have not Lou Burnard's facility for generating accurate statistics with database software -- I sense a marked increase in the number of new members from various European countries. Let me take this opportunity to encourage my European colleagues to extend Humanist's invitation to those whom they think might enjoy participating in the discussions, or simply listening in. For obvious reasons, Humanist requires a lingua franca, which happens (fortunately for me) to be English. I know from experience that holding forth in a language not one's own can be daunting, but I very much hope that no one will let a fear of making mistakes prevent intelligent remarks from reaching the rest of us. Nor should the desire simply to listen, and perhaps to learn, stop a person from joining or provoke guilt. In any case, here are the biographies, and may you enjoy reading them as much as I did! Yours, Willard McCarty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Autobiographies of Humanists Eighteenth Supplement Following are 34 additional entries to the collection of autobiographical statements by members of the Humanist discussion group. Humanists on IBM VM/CMS systems will want a copy of Jim Coombs' exec for searching and retrieving biographical entries. It is kept on Humanist's file-server; for more information, see the Guide to Humanist. Further additions, corrections, and updates are welcome. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto mccarty@utorepas 13 April 1989 ================================================================= *Altman, Jonathan M. Database Administrator, Dartmouth Dante Project, 301 Bartlett Hall, Hanover, NH 03755; voice: 603-646-2633 In my various capacities working for the Dante Project I have gained first-hand experience in large-scale data entry both via typing and various scanning products (especially Kurzweil Model 2 and 4000), computer manipulation of text, and database design. As such my interests lie in issues of handling large scale data entry (so far the Dante Project has amassed over 200 megabytes-or 2 million characters-of text), and the merits of various ICR (intelligent character recognition) products. Among my activities as administrator, I had to evaluate optical scanning devices to find a replacement for our original Kurzweil machine. I am also interested in (and I hope familiar with) the uses of computer utilities (especially UNIX tools) to manipulate text, and in the general application of computing power to ease humanities work. My work with the Dante Project in creating a searchable database of commentaries to the _Divina Commedia_ has also brought me experience in easing the process of interacting with computers, both through working with and helping computer neophytes and in helping to design our database's user interface, and has given me some knowledge of the nuts-and-bolts of computer hardware and software. I should also clarify that my capapcity as a humanist is related primarily to my work. I am interested in helping bring computing to the humanities, an area in which as I learn more, I find many tools available to ease humanities work, but little general dissemination of information about these tools. Efforts such as this mailing list seem to be ideal vehicles for dissemination. I am not, however, strictly a humanist myself. I currently have only a Bachelor's Degree, and no immediate plans for further work. My expertise comes primarily from my role in bringing the Dante Project database into existence. ================================================================= *Bantz, David A. (preferred) Director of Computing in the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755-1870 U.S.A.; 603-646-2712 Applelink: A0192; FAX: 603-646-3520 As Director of Humanties Computing, David Bantz provides computing support for humanities faculty, represents the humanities (including fine arts) on various campus computing bodies, and administers the Language Resource Center and the Kurzweil Data Entry Machine. David Bantz is also a Co-Director of the Dartmouth Dante Project, which is producing a electronic data base of Dante's Divine Comedy and some 60 commentaries. Among the development projects underway are foreign language aids such as a speaking dictionary and other reference tools, and the use of Apple's HyperCard for managing video images and sequences. A theme of much of the work underway is the construction of rich computer-based environments (i.e., hypertext and hypermedia) with maximal control in the hands of users. He has served on the National Review Panel of the EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL software awards program and is a member of Editorial Board of the EDUCOM Software Initiative. He is the Principal Investigator of a collaborative project of faculty at Brown, Dartmouth and Harvard Universities to define a Language Workstation for scholars, teachers and students of languages. He is the prospective Editor-In-Chief of a interdisciplinary refereed journal devoted to the use of hypermedia in scholarship and higher education. Potential funders are encouraged to correspond. David Bantz has a Ph.D. in the Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago and has held Fellowships from the NEH and the ACLS for work in the philosophy of science; he teaches philosophy of science at Dartmouth. Professional interests include the philosophy of natural sciences and philosophy of technology, particularly the conceptual, ideological and metaphysical presuppositions of scientific practice and particular theories of science. ================================================================= *Boisvert, Mathieu PhD. Student, 163 Walmer road, Toronto, Ontario. CANADA M5R 2X3 Phone: (416) 921-3646 PhD. Student at the Centre for Religious Studies, University of Toronto. Major field of research is Theravada Buddhism, Sanskrit and Pali languages. The subject of my doctoral thesis is "The Role of the Five Aggregates (the Pancakkhandha) in Early Buddhist Psychology. I am presently working on a project (in association with the Vipassana Research Institute of India) aiming at entering the entire Pali Canon (the whole of the Theravada Buddhist Scriptures) onto computer; a lenghty task!! I would be willing to share Buddhist texts in Sanskrit or Pali. ================================================================= *Cahalan, James Michael Director of Graduate Studies in Literature and Associate Professor, English Department 110B Leonard Hall Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705 (412) 357-2262 Ever since I ran off to Dublin for four months of independent study as a 20-year-old undergraduate from New College in Sarasota, Florida, my chief field of interest has been Irish Studies--particularly modern Irish literature in both English and Irish, as well as the country's history, folklore, music, dancing, politics, and culture in general. I earned an M.A. in "Anglo-Irish Studies" in 1976 from University College, Dublin, on a Fulbright/ITT Fellowship, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Cincinnati with major fields in Irish Literature, Modern American Literature, Romanticism, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama. I have published two books on the Irish novel--GREAT HATRED, LITTLE ROOM: THE IRISH HISTORICAL NOVEL (Syracuse UP, 1983/Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1984) and THE IRISH NOVEL: A CRITICAL HISTORY (Boston: G.K. Hall/Twayne, 1988 / Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989)--as well as a number of articles and reviews on Irish Literature as well as one on Hemingway and one on teaching writing. At IUP I direct our growing doctoral program in Literature and Criticism, which especially caters to established teachers of English who often avail themselves of our "summers-only" program that allows them to complete coursework without leaving academic- year jobs; and also a summer study-abroad program at Trinity College, Dublin, that is one of the most inexpensive available and in four years has attracted as many as 53 students in a single three-week session, from all over the USA and Canada. I am interested in hearing from people in Irish Studies and in Literature in general and in finding out more about other related newsgroups or special interest groups available through BITNET. I look forward to hearing from people! ================================================================= *Caskey, Elizabeth Reference Librarian, Library-Humanities/Social Sciences Division, 1956 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Y3 (604)228-5923 I would like to apply for membeship in Humanist not on my own behalf but on behalf of my entire reference Division. I have seen many of the discusssions which take place in this forum through Laine Ruus, formerly Head of our Data Library here, and now at U. of T. as head of their Data Library. I have made use of many of the things I have learned through Humanist in our reference work here and my colleagues have expressed an interest in participating in this forum. My hope is that we can become full participants in HUMANIST and contribute to the discussions as well as learn from them. ================================================================= *Emison, Patricia (P_emison@unhh.bitnet) Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities, Paul Creative Arts Center, Dept. of the Arts, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. 03820 603-862-2190 A recent convert to the use of computers, trying to master bitnet has nearly made me an apostate. Still, one of the reasons I agreed to fight with computers was in order to have instant access to minds across the world via computer mail. Let's hope its worth it. Here in the backwoods desperation takes many forms. My primary focus of study is Italian Renaissance prints, particularly those whose interpretation I can argue does not hinge on the task of finding the magic key of a text. Last week, for example, I gave a paper at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society on Giulio Campagnola's Reclining Nude, explicating it as a tongue-in-cheek treatment of pastoral themes rather than as derivative from Giorgione. This week I am giving a paper at a conference here at UNH on Pollaiuolo's Battling Nudes, trying to debunk its standard interpretation as an early example of the heroic male nude. There will be a session at this conference on the use of computers for art historical purposes. It's true, I have been raking over dissertation material, working it up for publication. The thesis was on Italian printmaking from Mantegna to Parmigianino. I am also working on a series of articles which attempt to construct broad conceptual frameworks for reassessing Renaissance art---one of these is on grazia, one on rusticitas, and there will be others. The point is to reinterpret works, both major and minor ones, ones they are seen as pieces of issues only secondarily aesthetic ones. For example, how does pastoral in the visual arts refer to and from real peasants? The Humanities courses I teach, which were set up with seed money from NEH, are interdisciplinary and team-taught. Recently I led a discussion session on quantum mechanics---seeking, moreover, to make connections with Mrs. Dalloway and Kierkegaard. Oh yes, and Surrealism. It was perhaps not one of the tighter teaching units. The fine arts list seems pretty dormant. I hope for lots of action among the humanists. Vale. ================================================================= *Ess, Charles Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College 900 N. Benton Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 (417) 865-8731 Ph.D. from Penn State (1983) for dissertation on analogical predication in Kant as circumventing the infamous charge of contradiction in Kant's doctrine of the thing in itself. Teach in a small, church-related, liberal arts institution -- which supports my interest in an interdisciplinary emphasis on teaching, somewhat at the expense of scholarship. I teach the usual introductory courses in philosophy (intro, logic, ethics), history of philosophy (including Plato, Kant, and Nietzsche), and philosophy of science -- as well as courses in Religious Studies (intro, Eastern and Middle-eastern Religions, Women in Religion). Lived in West Germany, Switzerland (for dissertation research), and France. Fluent in German. Very rusty in French and ancient Greek. Some minor publications, including reviews of both texts (Fichte, Hellenistic philosophy, and a commentary on Nietzsche) and software (Nota Bene, Indexx, logic tutorials). Additional publications on technology and computers; presentations on interdisciplinary courses and appropriate computer use at conferences (National Association for Humanities Education; Small College Computing Symposium). Currently involved with hypermedia development project utilizing software from IRIS/Brown University and running on a Mac II-Apple UNIX network; my focus is on philosophy of science -- an interdisciplinary approach to the origins of modern science in the high and late middle ages, especially with regards to the influence of religious assumptions in the development of methodological principles (e.g., doctrine of two-fold truth, God as geometer, etc.) ================================================================= *Flannagan, Roy English, Ohio U., Athens OH 45701 Editor, *Milton Quarterly* and current president, Milton Society of America. Professor of English, Ohio University. Interested in Renaissance epic literature, humanist databases, editing and mark-up problems (TEI, etc.), "desk-top publishing" of scholarship, editing and preserving electronic texts of major literary works from *Faerie Queene* through Johnson's *Dictionary*. Enjoy discussing Shakespeare, Chaucer, Swift, Johnson, Yeats, Joyce, racquetball (or playing it, rather), tennis, dogs, fruit trees, good food, unstressful travel, music of many sorts. Married, with a total of five children. Editing a complete poetry and selected prose of Milton for the next x years. ================================================================= *Fortin, Christine A. 715 W. 4th St., Bloomington, Ind. 47401 [U.S.A.] PHONE: (812)334-2915 As for my life--I'm what's referred to here on campus as a "returning woman student" (i.e., someone who started school at a later age than the usual 17 years old, or started only to return at some later age). Reason I started later is (1) I am French and, in France, people are often "tracked" into vocational (versus scholarly) educational paths if they come from working class backgrounds (and, are female too). This was my case. Coming to the states, it was less stigmatic to reenter higher education so I find myself in school again. Well, I don't really have a (2). (I haven't quite figured how to edit email, so I'll leave it at that). I've worked as a secretary (corporate level), and spent 3 + years as an international volunteer in Israel. ================================================================= *Gilmartin, Andrew Brown University, Computing & Information Services, User Services Specialist, Box 1885, Providence, RI 02912, USA; (401) 863-7305 Interests: The design of online information systems (with an accompanying interest in offline information systems), general European history, and aiding those involved with online projects (especially collaborative efforts). ================================================================= *Glynn, Ruth (Dr); Oxford Electronic Publishing, Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, U.K.; (0865) 56767 ext. 4651; Fax 0865- 56646; Telex OXPRES Further Education: B.A. Hons. in Latin (Southampton Univ.) Master of Philosophy (Oxon) Doctor of Philosophy (Oxon): Thesis title, 'A Study of the Style and Iconography of Etruscan Engraved Gems'. Various scholarships and awards. Started adult life as an academic and published several articles in scholarly journals whilst doing research; co-author of Beazley Addenda (OUP 1982). Employment: Part-time tutor of Classics undergraduates at Oxford University; Research Assistant at the Beazley Archive (things to do with Greek pots), Ashmolean Museum; part-time freelance typesetter; Adviser for Computing in the Humanities at Oxford University Computing Service; Customer Support Specialist at Miles33 (company selling computer typesetting h/w and s/w); Editor, Oxford Electronic Publishing. Present post: management of computer s/w publications (s/w tools, databases, CD-ROMs, etc.) with special reference to the user interface and documentation. Continue to dabble in typesetting and dtp. ================================================================= *Hall, Douglas Lee Asst. Professor of Computer Science Advisor, Graduate CIS Program, St. Mary's University, One Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, Texas 78284-0400 (512)436-3317 work (512)344-0822 home PhD Computer Science (AI), North Texas State; MEd Bilingual Education, Pan American University; BA Spanish, University of Texas at Austin. Currently working on an MA in theology at St. Mary's University I taught elementary school (usually inner city) for 12 years, CS in college for 3. Have been connected with education in some way most of my life. Have studied Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Latin...shall start Chinese or Japanese. Born and raised in San Antonio, from a long line of Texans on my father's side, Southerners on my mother's. My interests have ranged from astronomy to paleontology. Was raised a CHristian Scientist, but went through many religious variations growing up. Extra- curricularly I am involved with the Bexar County Mediation Center, working with an autistic child on computers, director of a German dance group (der deutsche Volkstanzverein von San Antonio). I am particularly interested in breaking down the barriers I see between the humanities and the technologies. ================================================================= *Harwood, John Dept. of English, 117 Burrowes, Penn State University Park, PA. 16802 USA I hold a joint appointment in the Department of English and the Center for Academic Computing, meaning that I have specialized interests not just in instructional computing (esp. writing) but in research applications of interest to scholars in the humanities. I work daily with IBM, Mac, and mainframe applications; I have a growing interest in CD-ROM technologies and desktop publishing; and I am directing a conference this summer that has a strong "computer" flavor (Cyndi Selfe, Bill Wresch, Hugh Burns). ================================================================= *Hasenfratz, Robert Joseph Instructor of English; home: 1140 S. Atherton St., State College, PA 16801 (USA), (814) 234-4950; office: 103 Burrowes Bldg., English Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 (USA), (814) 863-2931. My princple research interest is medieval literature and culture, with a focus on Old English (hell materials and Beowulf). My dissertation deals with the use of the repulsive (grotesque) in both Old and Middle English literature but also includes sections on Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio. I've written (or am writing) articles on textual issues in AElfric's "Grammar" and "Christ and Satan," Grendel as a type of the "penitent damned" from the OE homiletic tradition, writing and speaking in Chaucer's "House of Fame," etc. I'm now starting a book project, "The Lore [Lure?!] of Hell in Anglo-Saxon England," which will cover homiletic, literary, and art historical sources. I recently completed my PhD in English at PSU and will be starting as an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Connecticut this fall. ================================================================= *Hinton, Norman Professor of English, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois U.S.A. 62794-9243; (217) 786-6778 Main scholarly field: Old and Middle English languge and literature. I have been involved with computer applications in the Humanities since 1972: I have written a number of computer assisted lessons in my field and other areas in the Humanities, and I use computer data bases (which I program) in my literary and historical linguistic research. At the moment, I am working on the vocabulary of Middle English and the development of Middle English poetic diction, using what I call the Middle English Database, programmed and developed on the PLATO computer system. I am giving a paper on the language of the Alliterative Revival at this year's Medieval Congress. My most recent article, on Cynewulf, will be appearing in Neophilologus. I am interested all areas of the Humanities, and have taught courses in modern British lit as well as my medieval classes, and in the past I have taught Aesthetics also. I am extremely interested in Humanist, and I am delighted that my University has finally made Bitnet available to its faculty. ================================================================= *Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, G2MFEV42@ICINECA via Scienze, 17 44100 Ferrara, Italy Telephone: (...) 39.532.760002; Director: Amedeo Quondam The ISR has been active in Ferrara since the winter of 1983. Its principal objectives are the organization of research in various disciplines; the construction of coherent bodies of documantation using the resources of computer technology; the organization of study sessions and conferences; the publication of the fruits of its research and documentation. The ISR is supported by the city and provincial administrations of Ferrara, the regional administration of Emilia-Romagna, the Ministry of Culture (Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Prime target of the ISR's research is the culture of the Renaissance in Ferrara and Northern Italy in general, examined in a national and European context. The ISR's principal means of operation is through "archives": groups of scholars who work on the collection and examination of materials concerning projects which are defined as needs arise. The following archives are currently active: Archivio della tradizione cavalleresca, [coordinators: Guido Baldassari (Univ. of Cagliari); Riccardo Bruscagli (Univ. of Florence)]; Archivio della tradizione lirica [coordinators: Bruno Bentivogli (Univ. of Bologna); Guglielmo Gorni (Univ. of Geneva)]; Archivio del madrigale [coordinator: Thomas Walker (Univ. of Ferrara); Archivio della linguistica del Rinascimento [coordinator: Mirko Tavoni (Univ. of Pisa)]; Archivio del sacro [coordinators: Albano Biondi (Univ. of Bologna); Giorgio Chittolini (Univ. of Milan)]; Archivio del teatro e della scena nel Rinascimento [coordinators: Franco Ruffini (Univ. of Bologna) Daniele Seragnoli (Univ. of Ferrara)]; Archivio della cartografia estense [coordinator: Claudio Greppi (Univ. of Ferrara)]; Archivio della miniatura [coordinators: Giordana Mariani Canova (Univ. of Padua) Ranieri Varese (Univ. of Urbino)]. Among the principal active projects of the ISR may be mentioned: Books of letters of the Cinquecento [coordinator: Guido Baldassari (Univ. of Cagliari)]; Schifanoia Atlas [coordinator: Ranieri Varese (Univ. of Urbino); Typology of Renaissance "studioli" [coordinators: Claudia Cieri Via (Univ. of Rome); Alessandra Mottola Molfino, Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan; Reordering of the ecclesiastical archives of Ferrara [coordinator: Luciano Chiappini, Deputazione ferrarese di storia patria]. The ISR publishes the periodical Schifanoia (Edizioni Panini Modena), which includes both scholarly essays and accounts of the Institute's activities. Hope this is adequate for purposes of introducing ourselves. We very much look forward to inclusion in the HUMANIST circle! All best wishes, Thomas Walker. ================================================================= *Janson, Carol Visiting Lecturer Dept. of Fine Arts Brandeis University Waltham Mass. 02254 Dept phone 617-736-2655 office -2666 Professional activities- 1989 Low Countries Conference University of London Paper on Animal Fables and Popular Culture in Dutch 16thc. prints; Tyrannicide in the Emblems of Alciati and Paradin Emblem Conference University of Minnesota in April 1989; The Church as Theatre of War During the Dutch Revolt C.I.H.A. Conference Strassbourg France September 1989; Professional Memberships- Historians of Netherlandish Art, A.A.N.S., Sixteenth Century Society, Renaissance Society of America. Interests- art & iconoclasm (working on stained glass from post Reformation conversion in Gouda, Nl); patronage and audience in relation to political prints about the Dutch revolt; mannerist art, relationships with theatre, contemporary art esp. in relation to women's art, issues concerning popular culture in the 16th and 17thc, developing course material enabling individual study of images, glossaries and terms via computers ================================================================= *Johnson, David E. Professor of Philosophy, Sampson Hall, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402-5044; Office (301) 267-3102 (-3803); Home (301) 269-0075 Areas of interest: philosophy of mind (the nature of the human mind and how it compares to artificial intelligence); military ethics; peace research (peace as an ethical concept and practical steps to increasing and insuring peace); computer aided instruction in logic (especially tutorial programs); Gandhi and King; the philosophy of Bertrand Russell. I teach courses in logic, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science. I am chair of the Philosopher's Committee of the Bertrand Russell Society and am interested in receiving papers (by April 1 of each year) on some aspect of Russell's philosophy for inclusion in a program in December of that year. Details available upon request. ================================================================= *Keizer, Donna Dept. of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario. I am presently a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. My interest in computers is limited to their use in discussing philosophy and as a teaching mechanism. The topics of the computer field are of interest to my husband. I am also new to networking and am interested in what is available, thus my subscription. ================================================================= *Kutish, Gerald Associate Director, UNL Computing, 326 Administration, U. Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588; 402-472-5220 Direct academic computing, including a 'humanities research facility' containing pc's, mac's, text scanners, laser printers. Interest in linquistic analysis. ================================================================= *Lasocki, David (LASOCKI@IUBACS) Music Library, School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-5972 (work) I came to the United States from England in 1969 and have been here ever since, except for five years back in England in the late 1970s. I have a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of London and graduate degrees in musicology and library science from The University of Iowa. I make my living as a music cataloger in one of the largest music libraries in the country (world?). Beyond the daily round of cataloging, I am interested in the larger implications of bibliographic control of music materials and how it will be changed by computers. I am also a musicologist and have been doing research into the history of woodwind instruments for over twenty years. I am less concerned with the instruments themselves (which field I leave to instrument makers and the like) than with their repertory, performance practices, and social history, particularly in the 16th-18th centuries. My 1983 Ph.D. dissertation, Professional Recorder Players in England, 1540-1740 (The University of Iowa), was concerned with how these three areas come together. That is, I began with performers (rather the composers or compositions, the usual starting points for musicologists) and studied how they interacted with composers, audiences, patrons, publishers, and instrument makers. At the moment I am (still) making two books from this (updated) material, one on the Bassano family (performers, instrument makers, and composers from Venice who worked at the English court from 1540-1665), and one on the professional recorder players in England from 1660-1740. I wrote my dissertation on a mainframe computer using WYLBUR and (sign of the times) am reworking it on a PC in my office using WordPerfect. In addition to the writing, I have edited about 100 pieces of 18th-century woodwind music, although I gave up that activity several years ago as a result of my bad experiences with dishonest publishers. Besides, I believe that there are dozens of good music editors around but far fewer good researchers and writers. For several years I have been interested in writing as a craft. Last year I encapsulated my experience in an article entitled "How To Write Well When You Have No Time: Advice For Music Librarians and Other Busy Persons." I could send this as a text file to anyone interested. I have dozens of research projects going at the moment. The most pressing is a research and information guide to the recorder -- a kind of research and reference tool that is relatively new in the humanities. It will consist of an annotated bibliography of writings about the instrument accompanied by introductory and linking essays on various aspects of the subject. I'm writing it with another music librarian, Richard Griscom of the University of Louisville. We have several data files set up on WordPerfect and share letters and files through BITNET. ================================================================= *Masereeuw, Pieter University of Amsterdam, Vakgroep Alfa-informatica, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; +31 20 525-2072 I studied Latin and Greek but became a professional computer programmer. I work at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Amsterdam. It is my job to assist scolars in their use of computers. This ranges from assistance to word processing to the development of parser-generators and formal grammars. My special interest is parsing: one of my more ambitious projects resulted in a formal grammar that is able to link any Latin word to its dictionary lemma(ta) and morphological code(s). The lemmata and codes are (nearly) the same as those used in the Liege corpus (Belgium). Disambiguation of the generated lemmata and codes is performed by an interactive computer program that also adds syntactic tags to the morphological information. ================================================================= *Morgan, Leslie Z. My primary interest is Franco-Italian language and literature, a fourteenth and fifteenth century Northern Italian phenomenon. I use concording and statistical analyses to examine the linguistic formations. I have worked particularly with Ms. Marc. XIII, the first "chansons de geste" written in Italy. The vocabulary introduced with the "chansons de geste" is an integral part of the Italian literary language, which I am tracing from Ms. XIII through Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso". I plan to eventually have an archive of machine- readable Italian and Franco-Italian epic poems for linguistic and stylistic analysis. My knowledge of computer use in linguistic analysis led to using it also my teaching activities. I have written some exercises using authoring programs, and am examining programs on the market for further use. There is very little available in Italian, so possibilities for inventive computer use in teaching Italian exist. CAI is a growing field and certainly appealing to students who have grown up using computers for games. I will soon be switching from an IBM environment to a VAX environment, and would like to know more about what is available for concording and textual analysis on the VAX. ================================================================= *Niska, Helge Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden; +46 8 16 20 00 or CompuServe: 72410,132 or (less frequently) BIX: hniska. I am the Assistant Director of the Sweden Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies at Stockholm University. The main objective of our institute is to educate interpreters and translators. But since we are the only institute of its kind in Sweden, we have a special responsibility to initiate research and development and keep abreast with what is happening world- wide in the fields of translating and interpreting. Needless to say, computers are becoming indispensable to translators. Several companies have launched software packages aimed at helping the translator at work. Some are good, some are not. Machine translation at large is of course of great interest to translators, and many people feel that it could be a threat to their very existence as professionals. Our institute has to be well informed about these issues to be able to give an objective and realistic picture of what is happening. We are only at the beginning of building up computer networks for humanists, and translators and interpreters are groups which would benefit immensely by such networks. They are after all a rather lonely lot, often working all by themselves with little contact with colleagues. In my own work, I use international computer networks to keep in touch with translators, linguists, communication scholars etc around the world. I even started an international mailing-list on interpreting and translation, LANTRA-L. I also use online databases a great deal to locate literature and to get facts and information otherwise not available. I also use the computer for regular office work: word processing, budgets, registers and databases. I use desktop publishing quite a lot, since our reports series, magazine and newsletters are produced more or less on our own equipment. ================================================================= *Nyberg, Rainer Project Researcher, Faculty of Education, ]bo Akademi University P.O. Box 311, SF-65101 VASA, Finland; +358 61 247251 My interest is limited to learning strategies, approaches to learning and anxiety & self-experienced efficacy when you learn a computer application. The application could be a word processor or Hypercard on Macintosh or something like that. Just now I am doing research only this year. Finished a doctoral dissertation last year on teacher work motivation. Have now turned more to research on students and their learning processes and motivation. I want to get in touch with researchers who have an interest in -approaches to learning, -learning- strategies, motivation/self-efficacy/anxiety in connection with learning to use microcomputing skills. ================================================================= *Ott, Wilhelm Prof. Dr., Universitaet Tuebingen, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung, Brunnenstrasse 27, D-7400 Tuebingen, Germany Born 1938, studied philosophy, theology, classical philology in Roma, Wuerzburg, Tuebingen, Muenchen. Since 1966 at the Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen, since 1970 head of the department "Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung", founded in order "to develop and support methods and programs for the processing of textual data of all kinds". Since then, TUSTEP, the "TUebingen Systen of TExt processing Programs" has been developped, numerous projects have been supported and have published their results in several hundred printed volumes. Since 1974 the Tuebingen Colloquia (cf the reports in "Literary and Linguistic Computing") are a forum for humanities scholars working with computers. ================================================================= *Papakhian, A. Ralph (papakhi@iubvm.bitnet, papakhi@iubvm.bacs.indiana.edu) Music Technical Services Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington Executive Secretary, Music Library Association (U.S.) Music Library Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405 812-855- 2970 Professional activities and interests: My work has focused on computer applications in the cataloging of music materials particularly in a cooperative environment. This includes bibliographic description as well as authority control for names and titles. I am currently Coordinator of the NACO-Music Project sponsored by the Music OCLC Users Group (the project is a cooperative undertaking to create and contribute music related name and title authority information to the Library of Congress Name Authority File). Further interests include computer applications in library automation, music and bibliography. My responsibilities as Executive Secretary of the Music Library Association include establishing and maintaining communication with related organizations in the humanities and library fields. I am also interested the use of computer networking in professional organizations such as the MLA. Other interests include radical politics, twentieth-century art music, and Armenian studies. ================================================================= *Riley, David L. (RILEYD@IUBACS or RILEYD@GOLD.BACS.INDIANA.EDU) Music Reference Librarian (Visiting Assistant Librarian), Indiana University Bus: 0005 Sycamore Hall, Music Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401 (812)855-2970 Home: 324 S. Highland Ave. #3, Bloomington, IN 47401 (812)332- 1496 Born in Louisville, Kentucky, received B.A. in Music History from the University of Louisville in 1979; began work toward a M.M. in Music History from the same institution in 1981. Received M.L.S. with a specialization in Music Librarianship from Indiana University in 1986. Music Public Services Librarian, New York University, from 1986-1988. Currently serves on Information Sharing Subcommittee and Bibliographic Instruction Subcommittee of the Reference and Public Services Committee of the Music Library Association. Member, Music Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries and International Association of Music Libraries, American Musicological Society. Interests include contemporary music, particularly that of the composer Hans Werner Henze; comparative literature (XIXth century and interdisciplinary research between literature and the performing arts); Habsburg Vienna (especially fin-de-siecle); Weimar German history, and application of new technology (CD - ROM, scanner, telefax, etc.) to music. ================================================================= *Stump, Eleonore. Professor of philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Ph.D. 1975 Cornell University. Areas of specialization: medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion . Representative publications: Boethius's De differentiis topicis, Cornell University Press, 1978. Boethius's In Ciceronis Topica, Cornell University Press, 1988. Dialectic and Its Place in the Medieval Development of Logic, Cornell University Press, 1989. "Petitionary Prayer", American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1979) 81-91. "Eternity" (with Norman Kretzmann), Journal of Philosophy 8 (1981) 429-458. "The Problem of Evil", Faith and Philosophy 2 (1985) 392-423. "Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Theory of Morality, and the Love of God", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1986) 181-198. "Sanctification, Hardening of the Heart, and Frankfurt's Concept of Free Will", Journal of PHilosophy 85 (1988) 395-420. Current Research Interests: the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas; the role of free will in traditional Christian doctrine; providence and the problem of evil. I look forward to joining Humanist. If there is anything further required, please let me know. ================================================================= *Svennerstam, Bjorn I am a psychologist and a psychotherapist. I am connected to the Institution of Applied Psychology, University of Umea Sweden as a supervisor for the becoming psychotherapist students. My interest in this area and computing is just some ideas on trying to make psychodynamic diagnosis with the help from computer-based expertsystems ? Is this interesting for HUMANIST? ================================================================= *Swanson, Michael Teaching Fellow, Dept Of Phil, Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN 37235, (615) 3222637; PHD Candidate, Philosophy Vanderbilt; MA Philosophy, Vanderbilt; BS Engineering Duke. Interests: Philosophy Mind, Animal Rights, Logic ================================================================= *Thorman, Christopher Futurist, Apple Computer, MS: 60Y, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino CA 95014 Phone: (408) 974-0593 I am a recent graduate of MIT. I majored in Visual Arts there for two years before switching to Computer Science and graduating with the CS degree. I worked for Professor Patrick Purcell first in the Architecture Machine Group, then at the Architecture Department Computer Resource Laboratory, the Rotch Visual Collections, and the Media Laboratory. Have worked in Interactive video (ArcMac Gaudi Project, and Rotch Visual Collections Boston Project), taught a course in computer graphics for designers, done extensive LISP programming and user-interface design, and written a thesis at the Media Lab Film/Video section on using textural information from video to create realistic rendernings of real 3D scenes. Currently I work at the HyperMedia Research Group at Apple Computer, prototyping new approaches to spatial Hypermedia navigation. We're combining new user interface metaphors with three-dimensional graphical environments and HyperMedia capabilities. ================================================================= *Woods, Marjorie (Jorie) Curry Associate Professor, Department of English, Morey Hall, University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627; (716) 275-2694 (office); (716) 275-4091 (dept. office) (716) 659-2533 (home) B.A., Stanford, English, 1969 M.A. and Ph.D., Toronto, Medieval Studies, 1977 Taught at Oberlin (1974-76) and Rochester (1976- ) My major research interests are medieval literary theory and teaching methods. My research is carried out at both an archival and a theoretical level. I work on unpublished manuscripts that contain commentaries, or teaching notes, usually in the margins of an influential medieval treatise on the composition of poetry (the POETRIA NOVA of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, which was written in about 1215). I use somewhat specific details in these manuscripts to develop hypotheses about the ways that medieval teachers, students, and poets worked. My book was published from camera-ready copy that was printed on our XEROX 9700 laser printer and formatted in SCRIPT on the CMS mainframe here at Rochester. (AN EARLY COMMENTARY ON THE 'POETRIA NOVA' OF GEOFFREY OF VINSAUF [New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.) My own use of computers has, so far, been limited to text editing (SCRIPT and WordPerfect) and electronic mail; although I have a large collection of manuscript descriptions in ASCII (or EBCDIC) files, I have used our VM machine primarily as a place to store information about them. I'm interested in finding an effective textbase for these manuscript files on my PC, a Zenith 286 laptop with 20MB fixed disk. I'm going to be evaluating the ASKSam textbase this Spring. I am in correspondence with Marianne Alenius of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen (Njalsgade 94, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark; not on BITNET yet), where an ASKSam textbase is being used for the Database of Nordic Neo- Latin Literature. Yvan Bosrup of the Royal Library in Copenhagen has also sent me prototype of a Microtutor program for teaching students Latin in Latin; the program contains the text and exercizes which are also available in book form. Where I may be of some use to others is in my knowledge of theories of authorship and text production and how these have been evaluated in the western academic tradition. Many of the collaborative computer efforts being developed now and in terms of which untenured academics are being judged are similar to methods of continuously revised scribal production in the pre- print medium of manuscripts. This tradition has always been dismissed by the academic establishment because of its confustion and hesitation in front of texts for which single authorship cannot be postulated. The University of Rochester has negotiated a very competitive price on HP LaserJet Series II printers---with a "free" 3 year service warranty. My printer is due to arrive next week, which should complete my home office. My husband (Robert Taylor) is a computer consultant who is helping to establish the Faculty Computing Resource Center at the University of Rochester. ================================================================= *Zeitlyn, David I'm a social anthropologist here at Oxford (research fellow at Wolfson college). I work in Cameroon with a group called the Mambila, I'm very interested in any waork that's been done on free text searches and indexing/concordance work - especially if versions are available for the MAC! The other(developing) interest is trying to use computers (MAC for preference) to analyse/facilitate analysis of genealogical data. Hence I'd be very keen to hear of what work is beeing done on these subjects, if you have any background information. *****END***** From: Mathieu Boisvert Subject: Discussion on Sanskrit Diacritics Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 01:26:50 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 420 (622) Here is a memo that I just received from Bart van Nooten, and I thought it might beneficial to the current discussion on ASCII codes for Sanskrit (if he has not yet send you a copy of this file). Here it is: Sanskrit alphabetization. I suppose many of us realize that standardization of the alphabet would lead to more interchangeability of programs. Changing a text is rather trivial, if it is a one-to-one substitution. You can do 25000 changes in 12 seconds, as I found out. But changing filters and alphabetization programs is more time consuming and one hesitates to do it, if there is no other standard. POSTSCRIPT: I just got the most informative letter to you from Dominik Wujastek. His arguments about the organization of the Upper ASCII set are well taken. However, I would argue: 1) the printer should not really enter into the matter. Many Toshibas, in fact, have two downloadable fonts, nos. 4 and 5. In one of these I keep all my diacritics and their relationship to the screenfont can be arbitrary. 2) I admit that the graphic characters lead to strange patterns on the screen, but I have learned to live with them. In a program where graphics are important, you can usually unload the Sanskrit screen font. 3) I agree that French and German characters should be retained. I do not agree about the need for monetary units. 4) I am not familiar with IBM's code page swapping system. But on the other hand, they have left us such a messy Upper ASCII set (devised, according to rumors, in a bar by people who were told to come up with something in a hurry) that we can feel free to introduce changes as we see fit. 5) I fully support a plan to come up with a standardized system during the next World Sanskrit Conference. Their announcement already calls for a section on computers. Perhaps that could be decided then. From: Mathieu Boisvert Subject: Another addition to Sanskrit Diacritics Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 02:14:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 421 (623) I would like to thank Dominik and all of you who send their comments regarding this discussion: it has proved extremely helpful to me. In reply to Dominik's, I would to add a few clarifying coments that may give more information on the undertaking. First of all, I don't think I made myself clear: I do not want to establish a standard coding scheme for those who use Sanskrit diacritics. I am very much aware that all of us use different codes and that we are quite attach to it. By introducing this discussion on HUMANIST, I wanted to have feedbacks from Sanskritists about the "ideal" scheme (if such a thing exists) for encoding diacritics. By no means do I want to impose this scheme, but it is to be used for entering an immensely large text: the whole Buddhist Canon, both in Pali and Sanskrit (that is more than 100 volumes!!). I want feedbacks in order to avoid mistakes that a neophyte would be inclined to make. Yet, if such a scheme becomes standard, it will be extremely useful to all of us (although this is not my aim). Moreover, Dominik alluded to the copyright problem with the Pali Text Society. I am in the process of receiving formal authorization from the P.T.S. In fact, K.R. Norman (President of the P.T.S.) recently wrote to me saying that we "may proceed on the assumtion that permission will be forthcoming". If it so happens that it does not come through, then we will have to alter the project. The KDEM system will also be used. I got a sample of Pali text scanned by the Oxford Computing Centre and the accuracy is more than 99%, which is extremely good. Of course, we will be conscientious and make either two scannings of the text, or compare our scanning of the P.T.S. with the Thai data-bank of the Pali Canon. The first alternative seems much simpler, since the Thai data-bank has been done from the Thai Edition of the Pali Canon, which considerably from the P.T.S., hence rendering comparison of the two difficult. [Here, it must be understood that the Thai Edition is not inferior to the P.T.S.; it has used different manuscripts which, according to Dr. A.K. Warder, are more "authentic" then the one used by the P.T.S.. Please, there is no need of spreading this bracketed comment up to the P.T.S. door...] Also, I want to reassure those concerned with the success of my doctoral program that I have stopped entering text manually. The three volumes that have been entered were commentaries (not entered by the Thais) and many friends helped me for this task. I wanted to have such an amount of text to try certain programs (in SNOBOL4+) that I had written and that needed to be tested on larger portions of text. Again, I want to express my gratitude to Dominik and others, and I still welcome any comment at my personal E-Mail address. Yet, these would need to arrive before April 25th since I must leave Toronto: I will be teaching a Pali course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Mathieu BOISVER@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Sanskrit coding (201) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 03:52:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 422 (624) I've studied Sanskrit long enough to know that you cannot really handle Devanagari in ASCII unless you ignore the ligatures. Why don't you use a Mac with a Davanagari font (yes, Virginia, there are Devanagari fonts--check any MacUser) and write a routine on Espen Aarsleth's Paradigma to convert the file into an unreadable, but portable ASCII with the ligature equivalents made up of the phonemic components in ASCII representation linked with a plus sign or some such thing? Meanwhile, I've lost my Perry Primer. Is the thing still in print? Pat Conner From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Standards Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 15:19:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 839 (625) Richard L. Goerwitz has drawn our attention to the fact that the Mac system is not multitasking. If one wants a true multitasking multilingual system (with the source code) one should not consider a Mac. While there are rumors about a future operating system with Unix under the hood I doubt Apple will ever surrender the source code. I also doubt NeXT will make theirs available to anyone who is not willing to surrender children as hostages. That leaves other brands of Unix or OS/2. The question of the future of multitasking environments is not the same as the question of the future of multilingual computing. Do we need true multitasking? I'm not opposed to it if it is affordable, but I don't see it as essential to multilingual work. Nor do I think possession of source code the most important criterion for choosing a system. I suspect there are exceptional applications where multitasking, multiprocessing and available source code are necessary and I look forward to seeing them. Richard reminds us to try to be objective. He is right about the temptation to consider only what one knows important. There are, however, users whose enthusiasm for a particular system is based on experience with others. Enthusiasts are also likely to think their enthusiasm is backed by understanding. While I had hoped to keep my enthusiasms in check I have yet to be convinced that the Mac is not the most promising platform for multilingual computing. Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoron From: N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Re: humanities computing centres, cont. (32) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 09:43:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 423 (626) At Glasgow we teach students history, using the computer as one of a number of tools. We don't (normally) teach programming, and although most of our students probably know that Basic is a language, they still all think that C is something they c by the cside. We use computers because it allows our students to use materials that they could otherwise never hope to make sense of; they can think in more detail about the nature and structure of sources containing information about the past, and from this cogitation obtain a better understanding of arguments about, and interpretations of, the past that historians have produced using the same or different materials. So, as will be clear to any historians reading this, we are teaching our students nothing new. We are simply adjusting our methods of teaching in order to take advanatge of the potential of technological change. And so our end product is no different; a historian trained to deal with large ammounts of information, to analyse problems, and suggest answers based on the information available. What is different is that this historian will have the skills to hold her or his own in a contemporary working environment; as a consequence the discipline we teach (and research !!!) in universities will not be deemed to be irrelevant because we produce graduates ill-equiped to meet the needs of the modern world. Does this help in the debate on humanities computing centres ? Nicholas Morgan Scottish History University of Glasgow Janet N.J.Morgan@Glasgow.vme Bitnet N.J.Morgan@vme.Glasgow.ac.uk From: Donald J. Mabry Subject: Humanities computing Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 09:53:28 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 424 (627) Regarding humanities computing programs. The University of Glasgow has a fine master's program in History and Computers. For information, write: E.Mawdsley@vme.Glasgow.ac.uk L.M.Richmond@vme.Glasgow.ac.uk N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: Stephen Clausing Subject: electronic journals and tenure(18 lines) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 16:57:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 425 (628) I am glad to hear that Joseph Raben's 1981 survey determined that a majority of chairs and deans would be willing to count publications in electronic journals towards tenure. I would be more interested to know how people have actually gotten tenure since then because of (or perhaps in spite of) this work. And what about computer applications? Did the survey ask deans whether these would count as well in the Humanities? At a recent conference I heard about a survey done in English departments. Faculty were asked to rank appropriate tasks for an English professor. Out of 50 topics listed, the writing of computer applications came in dead last. My impression is that universities are very interested in acquiring computer applications and in administering their use, along with the necessary hardware, but these same universities do not consider the development of such applications an appropriate activity for true scholars, and only scholars get tenure. From: Willard McCarty Subject: distinguished, undistinguished, or tainted? Date: 14 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 426 (629) I suspect there will be not a few amongst us who suspect (who can know for certain?) that association with computing has not done their academic careers any good. Stephen Clausing's report that computing finished dead last in a list of many professionally valued activities is not the first I've heard, and my own experience during the last many years has been that computing tends to taint humanists, not distinguish them. Computing in the humanities is a practical pursuit, something having to do with experiments carried on in laboratories, not in libraries until quite recently. (Would anyone be surprised to hear that a theoritician or critic fears putting his or her work to the test?) Even today, when otherwise academically distinguished novices approach computing, they not infrequently speak as if from a very high horse to the technological servant down below, as if (if not actually) to give commands. Such scorn may be born of fear, prejudice, and rank ignorance, but it is nevertheless damaging to the recipient. Dismissing all such things for the moment, one is left with the fact that work in computing inevitably takes time away from work elsewhere. Even if it is true that in principle computers increase "productivity", we are still of the generation that must invest heavily of our time in the hope or belief that such increases will be realized someday. (I don't think that an increase in productivity, as this phrase is usually meant, is what humanities computing is about, but never mind.) Since we seem to have fallen rather crudely to measuring academic worth by quantity and rapidity of publication, involvement with computing would seem not to be the path to academic success. In many cases, I suspect, the committee that does not devalue the candidate-who-computes charitably overlooks his or her waywardness and proceeds to measure this person against those who have meanwhile been busy grinding out the articles and books in the conventional mode. "A second string to your bow" is a often used phrase, but it is based on a sadly inaccurate metaphor. Rarely, if ever, does any string count but the first. "Pardon me, onrishing tiger, while I restring my bow with this second string, assuredly a great asset." Can such a committee be blamed, however, for not valuing experience and achievements that clearly lie outside the job description it is attempting to satisfy? Isn't the real problem, then, with the rather ill defined nature of humanities computing? Aren't we still at the stage of trying to figure out what precisely this activity or bundle of activities is? For me, a literary critic, such questions always turn into other questions concerning the nature of my craft and how I practice it. Use of the computer, that is, raises for me tough and interesting questions about methodology. If humanities computing were as professionally rewarding as many of us wish it were, there might be people to pursue these questions, but perhaps recognition must wait on clear and abundant evidence that computing humanists produce good scholarship unobtainable by other means, or otherwise not as good. In 1981, I suspect, deans could feel quite safe about electronic publications. My experience with Humanist suggests, however, that a great deal of hard work and clear thinking are still required before we understand what we've got here and what place it has in our world. McLuhan repeated to a large crowd what students of poetry have always known, that style and content are utterly inseparable aspects of each other. The electronicity of this medium has a great influence on the message it carries, but it doesn't seem to me at all obvious what is given and what can be made of it. I would very much like to know if in the history of technology any generalizations can be made about what happens when new technologies arise. In the case of the electronic medium, I suspect that it will augment printed texts, and that we will gradually come to understand much better what printing is especially good for. Hypertext, for example, seems especially good as a reference mechanism for collections of information, and not nearly as effective as an ordinary book for reading or writing literature. Humanist seems very good for arguing about issues like this one, very good for exchanging timely information, but not as good, say, as CHum, LLC, or any other respected journal for distributing the less ephemeral results of our work. Am I wrong about this? In sum, I agree with Clausing that optimism about our place in the world doesn't hold up in the face of experience, especially untenured experience, but I say that we must look to ourselves for the answer. No one else knows enough; we hardly do. As far as electronic publication goes, I also say that we have here, in Humanist, an excellent means of exploring some of what is possible. So, again, let us look to ourselves. Yours, Willard McCarty From: Malcolm Brown Subject: remarks on the NeXT machine Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 08:55:19 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 842 (630) Prodded by Richard Goerwitz' recent contribution, I'm passing along some remarks on the NeXT box. I have penned a brief review of the machine for the ACH newsletter, which I assume should appear Real Soon Now. I have assumed all along that the feature of primary interest for humanists is the digital librarian, a text retrieval program that is native to the NeXT operating system. In this current form (release .8) there's not much you can do with the librarian, other than search some predefined "targets," such as the on-line documentation, the Shaekspeare files and the Oxford quotations. In the next release (.9), as I understand it, the librarian will be more functional, allowing us to actually work with it using our own files. From what I gather, a user will be able to generate his/her own stop list for indexing purposes. There's also going to be a "look harder" feature, whereby one can request the librarian to perform a "brute force" search (one in which it actually scans through the text files instead of relying on the index). What the .9 release will provide with respect to boolean operators and wild cards, I don't know. I've have conversations with NeXT representatives and have stressed the need to support grep regular expressions, but who knows. Most critically, I think we must look past the glitz and the well-designed interface to see if the machine will do the work we require. It's very nice to include the complete works of shakespeare, but if the librarian only performs simple searches then there's not that much that differentiates the next machine from a sun or a Vax (at least from the standpoint of text analysis). Nor is there much to induce one to abandon the machines running programs such as WordCruncher, MOCP, TACT, etc. Based on conversations I've had with NeXT folks, my impression is that they view the librarian as a very general text retrieval system, somewhat like a Gopher DA text fetcher on a Mac. I find this attitude puzzling, especially given NeXT's stated policy of NOT releasing source code. I see no logic in building a machine, ostensibly for the needs of higher education, that has a lame text retrieval program. This would make sense only if the intent was to provide a foundation upon which end users could build by adding their own extensions and enhancements. But since NeXT won't release source code, the prospects for such embellishment are not good, unless the Librarian is extraordinarily well-documented. The coming months, culminating in late June with the release of 1.0, will tell a great deal, I think, about NeXT's priorities. I myself am rather pessimistic with respect to the librarian. We have received word that in release 1.0, NeXT won't even be able to provide support for characters with diacritics! Good grief: what kind of text manipulation environment would that be, that doesn't even support accents???? Although I am skeptical about the NeXT machine's text manipulation abilities in the short term, I have not given up hope for the longer term. I like the machine very much, and I think NeXT has done lots of good things in the design of the machine. Who knows, perhaps NeXT will change its mind and let us tinker with the librarian. Malcolm Brown Stanford From: Willard McCarty Subject: more topical collections Date: 15 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 843 (631) Now available for your pleasure and edification: FORUM TOPIC-2 and FORUM TOPIC-3 dealing with the nature of Humanist, the humanities, and so forth. I think the title AGORA would much more accurately capture the tone of the contents, but agora is not an English word, unfortunately. For those of you new to Humanist, these files are on the file-server and may be obtained at your convenience by following the instructions in your Guide to Humanist. Yours, Willard McCarty From: Donald J. Mabry Subject: map files Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 20:03:25 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 844 (632) Within the last few days, someone on HUMANIST sent information on map making files which can be downloaded. I erred in not downloading the file. Would the sender please send me the information? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Ess Subject: future // computing centers Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 16:02:28 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 845 (633) Regarding the machine of the future and humanities computing centers... I too was surprised to see a reference to the Macintosh as a nonstandard operating system. As someone who entered the computer world by way of IBM, Nota Bene, and UNIX -- I understand that shifting to the Macintosh is bothersome: indeed, there are times on the Mac when I feel like someone has stuck me in a rubber room (too many layers of insulation between me and what's going on -- all in the name of user friendliness, of course). Nonetheless, it is a powerful platform that has been around long enough for people to have actually written some useful software for it -- such as Intermedia at Brown (to be released this month after a scant three years of development...) Those of us concerned about being ready to meet the future when it gets here (!) need to keep in mind that the technology is absurdly far ahead of the software (anyone know of anything for the 80386 that actually makes use of all its powers?) -- but the chips are not much use without the software. (Speaking of nonstandard operating systems, whither OS/2?) And my suspicion is that however impressive the NeXT machine may be, fully functional software packages that take advantage of its capabilities will not be here for quite some time. My point is that at least for my interests -- using computers as hypermedia platforms -- the Macintosh will certainly do for now and for the next few years. I have found the responses on starting a humanities computing center/centre (warum denn nicht Zentrum?) to be helpful in sharpening my focus on the goals of such a center. At least as located in the small college setting, a humanities center might include hardware, software, and support staff for: 1) wordprocessing and other usual applications 2) scholarly research -- e.g., on-line searches and work with machine-readable texts 3) tutorials -- of the more usual CAI and more experimental hypermedia sort 4) communications -- most obviously, by way of BITNET... Somehow I find myself resisting the idea that such a center would include facilities, such as those described by Bob Hollander and Marianne Gaunt, for pursuing major projects such as the creation of, say, an indexed and annotated m-r version of Emily Dickenson's poems. Perhaps I'm too pedestrian or not sufficiently ambitious -- but such facilities seem the equivalent of national supercomputer centers: they are facilities we certainly need, profit from, and want to communicate with -- but not everyone needs one on campus for their undergraduates. (I'd be curious about the Humanities Division of the Computing Centre described by Susan Kruse at King's College: who uses the scanners, and to what purpose?) With hopes that the discussion will continue -- and that others are profiting as much from this as I am -- Charles Ess From: Willard McCarty Subject: GulfNet Date: 16 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 846 (634) Rumour has it that electronic mail can now reach more places in the Near East (e.g., Egypt and Saudi Arabia) because of the recent introduction of GulfNet. Just today I received a note from a young student of computer science in Turkey, on a branch of EARN called TREARN, but I do not know how extensive network links are in that country. If anyone does have information about such matters, please let me know. I would like to extend Humanist's reach into those countries, but at the moment I have no idea how to circulate the necessary information to those who might be interested. Suggestions are welcome. Yours, Willard McCarty From: "James H. Coombs" Subject: NeXT interface Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 14:37:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 847 (635) I have played with the NeXT machine for a few hours. I found the interface difficult compared to the Mac interface. I got lost easily. Perhaps it's a matter of familiarity. I'm sure that I had seen people use the Mac interface before I tried it out. I walked up to the NeXT machine with no introduction and with nearly useless documentation. Still, I believe that the NeXT interface is relatively complicated without offering substantial benefits over the Mac interface. I'm sure that my opinion will change if I start working with the machine. I'm also sure that the NeXT machine will require more training. Note that I base my judgment on a comparison not only with Mac OS but also with Mac A/UX running Intermedia. I stress that this is a FIRST IMPRESSION, very subjective, all of that. Worth stating only because I think it will be a common first impression and because many people are wondering about the machine. I would like to criticize the three-dimensional aspect of the interface. The third-dimension does not provide useful information. It simply gives me more to process and, ultimately, to discard. I believe that this impression will be lasting. I think the developers are clinging to the past, that they do not recognize our capabilities to outgrow our familiarity with physical controls. The people that I have discussed this with disagree with me, but then they haven't had their hands on the machine. A lot of people are excited about the graphics potentials and are happy to see the interface experimentation. I would be happy with an option that let me remove the 3d from the interface; give me 2d scroll bars. Let's use 3d where the third dimension represents information not already represented in 2d. --Jim Dr. James H. Coombs Senior Software Engineer, Research Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) Brown University jazbo@brownvm.bitnet From: THARPOLD@PENNDRLS Subject: No petty wars about OS... Date: Sunday, 16 April 1989 1420-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 427 (636) After reading Richard Goerwitz's second message re. the "nonstandard" operating system thread--the Mac's OS in particular--I would agree with his conclusions that the Mac is likely not, in its present incarnation, what he requires. As a weak defense to my own contribution to this thread, I will interject that those requirements weren't completely clear (to me) from his first message. What interests me most about the messages (mine included) defending the Mac "standard" is the tendency--even now, when the machine has clearly proven its capabilities equal to or greater than its Big Blue competition in nearly every arena--of Mac users to read disparagement into comments that may simply be skeptical. Despite the growing acceptance of the OS characteristics that make the Mac "Mac-ish"--ROM toolbox routines, menus, windows, icons, etc.--it remains too easy for discussions of the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different OS's to lapse into what Goerwitz called "petty wars about whose computer is better." I suspect that this sort of thing will grow even more heated when the promised OS's--the fabled "major revision" to the Mac OS, OS/2 in promised full uniform, NeXT, etc.--begin to battle one another. From: "James H. Coombs" Subject: Multitasking on Macs Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 14:18:37 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 428 (637) Richard L. Goerwitz has drawn our attention to the fact that the Mac system is not multitasking. If one wants a true multitasking multilingual system (with the source code) one should not consider a Mac. While there are rumors about a future operating system with Unix under the hood I doubt Apple will ever surrender the source code. I also doubt NeXT will make theirs available to anyone who is not willing to surrender children as hostages. That leaves other brands of Unix or OS/2. What about A/UX? It's System V Unix with Berkeley 4.3 sockets. I don't know about the availability of source code. We have source for 4.2 and 4.3. It's not fun. In fact, we never built a sufficient 4.3 (with X---we have only so much time to give to OS hacking). We also have SUNs with no source for the OS. No one that I know of gets source for IBM PC OSs. This seems like a red herring to me. Before dismissing platforms on the basis of speculations about the availability of source code, we should hear exactly what one needs the source for. We should also consider whether or not the same things can be accomplished without hacking at the kernel. --Jim Dr. James H. Coombs Senior Software Engineer, Research Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) Brown University jazbo@brownvm.bitnet From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert A Amsler) Subject: Credit for Computing Skills Date: Sat, 15 Apr 89 20:27:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 849 (638) The issue of how to give credit for promotion to those who spend a considerable portion of their time engaged in computing activities is not only a problem in the humanities. I have seen instances of faculty in COMPUTER SCIENCES discriminated against because their only output was computer software. Likewise, I can imagine problems for many disciplines in which someone's productive work appears as a work of practical, rather than theoretical advance. For example, suppose a music professor created an instrumental work which became a hit on the popular music charts--but did not break any new ground in music? Apart from the ever present possibility of envy, distrust of the new, or fear of setting precedents--there is probably a genuine issue of why any advance in technology should itself constitute the basis for adding to the promotional merit of someone who becomes adept at that technology. It would be interesting to know how advances such as printing and most recently the recording of sound and images were themselves greeted in the scholarly worlds at the times of their introductions. That is, we know what has developed BECAUSE of these technological advances--but what were the perceptions of these techniques and those trained in traditional scholarship who were first proficient in their use? From: mike@tome.media.mit.edu (Michael Hawley) Subject: NeXT comments Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 04:51:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 429 (639) A brief reply to comments offered by Malcolm Brown and James Coombs. Keep in mind that release .9 of the software is intended for "aggressive early users." Now, nobody in the real world has even seen .9 yet; people have seen release .8, which was for hard-core *developers*. Suffice it to say, the machine is just a little baby computer at the beginning of its life, and by the time a polished release 1.0 rolls out (expected late June/July) the novice perception will be quite different... Regarding Malcolm's comments -- I have assumed all along that the feature of primary interest for humanists is the digital librarian, a text retrieval program that is native to the NeXT operating system. In this current form (release .8) there's not much you can do with the librarian, other than search some predefined "targets," such as the on-line documentation, the Shaekspeare files and the Oxford quotations.... Most critically, I think we must look past the glitz and the well-designed interface to see if the machine will do the work we require. It's very nice to include the complete works of shakespeare, but if the librarian only performs simple searches then there's not that much that differentiates the next machine from a sun or a Vax (at least from the standpoint of text analysis). Nor is there much to induce one to abandon the machines running programs such as WordCruncher, MOCP, TACT, etc.... Hm, I should think that many features of the machine will excite humanists, especially if they care at all about anything besides textual analysis. TeX and LaTex, Mathematica, bundled word processors and graphics tools, multimedia mailers, audio capability, and unprecedented integration and ease of implementation of applications all add up to something pretty synergistic. The fact that we went to the trouble of bundling more than 50Mb of text (about 1/4 of the disk) right out of the gate says something very profound about what NeXT intends to do over time. It's an amazing thing for a computer company to do. The Librarian application per se is, as Malcolm points out, relatively simple minded: it is a channel for searching through large areas in a content-oriented way. Yes, the .9 version supports grep-style searching as well as index building, however it does not support things like tagged file formats, nor does it yet have adequate support for multilingual character sets (although diacritics are coming) or a number of the other things that will be required in the fullness of time. It goes without saying that, to paraphrase Varese, just because you've invented the automobile, doesn't mean I should go and shoot my horse. But many of those other programs will port trivially to the NeXT (and probably run a lot faster). As far as tinkering with code is concerned, this can probably be made to happen. One of the trickiest problems with delivering systems solutions is that as soon as we release a spec, it tends to freeze hard. Well, if the searching and text format specifications were released, and spawned a cadre of great third party applications, but didn't scale up to Kanji and Turkish, there would be great backward-compatibility problems. The other problem I think Malcom and others indirectly sense is that a great text application is necessarily a synthesis of a lot of key technology -- O.S., graphics, searching, doc. display and interchage, etc, etc. When you build a new computer from the ground up, synthesizing full and mature applications takes time due to the multitude of labor pains. This is not an excuse at all, merely a fact. It is also the reason that every scholar who ever uses a NeXT will at any time be able to select a word, push a button, and see a Webster's definition of it (say). Bringing this kind of synergy to people is something we thought was terribly important. My personal goal is, in 10 years, to put a box on the shelf of every scholar that contains 100Gb (that's 100,000 books) that can be combed and analyzed in a variety of ways. This is well within the realm of technology. To help the world get there, hopefully lots of humanists and others will chip in and evolve standards, and short term, I'm sure this will include collaborative efforts between NeXT and scholars who want to write code... Please, keep beating up NeXT to help us cultivate the field. And remember, it really is just a baby computer whose formative years are only beginning. Your input is incredibly important! cheers, Michael Hawley mike@media-lab.mit.edu mjh@next.com [I asked Mike Hawley to describe his connection to the NeXT, and the following is what he said. --W.M.] I am a software engineer and head of the Digital Library group. I implemented most of the digital books on the NeXT machine and helped Steve negotiate all the arrangements. I do maintain a dual citizenship -- doctoral work at MIT as well. From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Re: more on the NeXT (48) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 11:29:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 430 (640) One interesting feature of the NeXT interface is its scroll bar. The size of the scroll box in relation to the scroll bar depends on what proportion of the text you are seeing. In other words, if you are seeing one of two pages the scoll box will be larger than if you see one of ten. The result is an approximate sense of the size of the document opened which Mac scoll bars do not give unless you start scrolling. This feature was borrowed from GEM I am told. NeXT is supposed to become more Mac-like. Both buttons will do the same thing unless you go into a "control panel" and reset the second button. The main problem now is that the NeXT interface does not seem complete. There is no tool for adding and removing fonts despite the advantage of using display PostScript. To find files among the thousands around you have to open up a VT100 emulation and use the traditional commands like "find..." You cannot, yet, be ignorant of UNIX when using the NeXT. That is not to say that access to the traditional tools is not usefull. The NeXT promises to give us the best of both but does not yet deliver. It is an experiment in the cohabitation of command and point-and-click interfaces which will probably shape the interfaces to come. Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca From: ARONSA@HBUNOS Subject: XT DATA BASE Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 22:08:49 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 431 (641) Has anybody heard of a data processing program named xt,about which I have just read in the Israeli press? It is supposed to have been developed in West-Germany (Heidelberg if I am not mistaken) for the use of ancient historians,to process a very large quantity of documents carrying various Latin inscriptions. It allowed the users to follow the development of the language,and in fact correct wrong historical dates and the like. I am interested in any program which could handle various documents,partially typed in several different modes,inscribed on the verges and the like,when combined with optical scanning technique,and than use NB to process the data. Any ideas? Thank you. Shlomo Aronson,Department of Political Science,Hebrew University Jerusalem (ARONSA@HBUNOS). From: Willard McCarty Subject: scanning strange alphabets Date: 17 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 432 (642) In the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, we operate a Kurzweil 4000 optical scanner. We have occasionally tried to scan languages that use a non-roman alphabet and those, like Sanskrit, which in transliteration employ unusual diacritics. So far, we have had only limited success. For example, with Greek we have not been able to capture accents and breathings with the letters to which they are applied. Has anyone who uses a Kurzweil 4000 discovered how to scan these languages with the absolute minimum of intervention and editing? Suggestions and comments will be most welcome. Yours, Willard McCarty From: NZ101@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: St.Jerome Date: Sat, 15 Apr 89 17:39:22 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 852 (643) With respect to Mary O'Riordan's enquiry about St.Jerome on the subject of female celibacy and all that, she will find almost all he has to say on the subject in some of his letters. The best edition is that of I.Hilberg (ed) Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi epistulae, 3 vols (Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, vols. 54-56, 1910). The first 22 letters are in English translation by C.C. Mierow in The Letters of Jerome (Ancient Christian Writers, vol.33, Westminster, Md., 1963) - I don't think any more of the collection was translated after this first volume. Then there is the old but still very useful edition by F.A. Wright, Select Letters, in the Loeb Classical Library. It too has letter 22, Ad Eustochium de custodienda virginitate (Latin and English), most important. As for secondary works, she might find useful Elizabeth A. Clark, Jerome, Chrysostom and Friends: Essays and Translations (Studies in Women and Religion, vol.2, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York and Toronto, 1979), especially part 2, pp.35-106; and for a general biography J.N.D. Kelly, Jerome, New York, Harper and Row, 1975. From: Steve Dill Subject: Electronic Journals Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 08:47:52 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 433 (644) To All: At a recent meeting of ASECS, I heard that the cost of printed journals will be so great that many libraries will refuse to subscribe except to the most "prominent." While science journals are much more expensive than others, journals are journals to most librarians. Consider the following chain of events. 1. I tried to organize a demonstration of Bitnet. It received sufficient but not overwhelming publicity. Six participants out of a possible 900 appeared. 2. At a seminar on journal editing, an editor of a printed journal suggested that e-journals might be part of the answer to the costs of academic publishing. So, if it were a matter of tenure or something, would I qualify for developing "computer applications?" And how do we get humanists to take electronic solutions seriously? For a start, could we develop a set of standards for electronic journals; take the bull by the horns, as it were; and see how our positive response to an old and tired system is greeted by those deans? Regards, From: Natalie Maynor Subject: The Language of E-Mail Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 08:45:09 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 434 (645) I was especially interested in Gunhild Viden's observations about the language of e-mail since I have just started a short research project on this subject -- a good excuse to combine my addiction to e-mail with my need to be productive! So far all I've done is download an hour of so of "conversation" from relay. My plan is to look first at language simplification. The spelling simplification is, of course, obvious, but I think that morphological and syntactical simplification might be of more interest. I hope to reach some conclusions about what this kind of simplification says about the essential and non-essential for communication and perhaps about the direction of language-change as electronic communication begins to replace hard copy in some areas. As I said, I have just started this project -- haven't even checked with the office for "permission to do research on human subjects" yet. My short research project on language simplification may grow into something much larger or may change directions totally. So obviously I am also interested in whether anybody knows of work already published on this subject. I have been assuming that there is none. I would also be interested in any other comments or advice. Natalie Maynor, English Dept., Mississippi State Univ., USA From: Harry Gaylord Subject: devanagri Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 14:56 B X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 854 (646) The International Standards Organization ISO is working on a standard for multi-lingual information processing. It includes a proposal for Devanagri. The document is ISO/IEC DP 10646. In it they distinguish characters and presentation. It might be helpful if one of our Sanskrit experts had a look at it. Harry From: Mathieu Boisvert Subject: Sanskrit Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 15:28:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 435 (647) Here is a query in regard to Sanskrit ASCII coding: I've been told that some Indologists are using a "keyboard layout based on **TIME INDIAN**", which was supposedly developed at Berkeley. Does anyone have more info about TIME INDIAN? I would appreciate if you could forward it to my personal E-Mail address. Thank you, Mathieu BOISVERT@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 436 (648) [deleted quotation] Yes, I agree that conversion can be a relatively simple matter, especially if you have a nice OS like Unix. But there is a specific situation obtaining in the Sanskrit world. About a dozen or so Sanskritists (probably a lot more) are pretty computer literate, and use the PC. We have all got hold of the Duke University Language toolkit, or some equivalent, and created dandy downloadable Sanskrit screen fonts for our EGAs and VGAs. We then input masses of text using our particular character coding scheme, and write software to manipulate our text bases. The only trouble is, we all use different systems. For example, in the 87/88 academic year I was a visiting scholar at Harvard. I lived *next door* to my friend and colleague, Gary Tubb. He and I had done identical work in inventing screen fonts, with different coding schemes. It was a real nuisance exchanging texts, to such an extent that we didn't bother much. And in a whole year as neighbors neither of us adopted the other's scheme, because we had quite an investment of programs that supported our own system, and it was not clear that either of our schemes was better. Now if an outside body made a recommendation on this very simple matter, it would be *worth* changing. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 437 (649) [deleted quotation] Yes to everything. I am sorry that I shall not be able to attend the Toronto meeting. But I would add this: Sanskritists are not going to take any notice of what a bunch of computer scientists say, even Humanists. They have to hear it from fellow Sanskritists, preferably with a good track record in Sanskrit. So any such scheme for character coding has to be thrashed out at a Sanskrit conference, to stand any chance of being adopted. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 438 (650) [deleted quotation] ... [deleted quotation] I agree wholeheartedly with your basic point, of course. But for the reasons given above, I still think that some guidelines for the assignment of character codes 128--255 would be a good idea, and would actually be *used* by Sanskritists. I hasten to add that I am not thinking of such a scheme as *the* coding scheme for Sanskrit, by any means. I firmly believe that *the* coding scheme should be a 7-bit one, and this will mean digraphs and trigraphs. This scheme should fall within the SGML scheme, and be used for any big projects, or text archives, etc., just as you suggest. All that I have in mind in the present discussion about coding schemes is really an agreement about the use of the high bit codes for some characters with diacritical marks, to be used for data entry and by some of the simpler sorting and editing programs, since so many of us have already developed our home-grown versions of such a scheme. The advantage of such a scheme is that bog-standard software can then be used to deal with Sanskrit data (e.g., I use ProCite, TeX and XyWrite all the time for Sanskrit, with complete ease). I think that a very important feature of any scheme that is to be adopted as a serious standard for large scale work is that it should be extendible, and clearly the one-to-one assignment of character codes in an 8-bit grid is not extendible. And *any* such scheme should be implemented only after taking on board the recommendations of the relevant Text Encoding Initiative committee. Dominik PS I don't like the above format of replying to mail in a bitty, pseudo- conversational manner. I won't do it again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dominik Wujastyk, | Janet: wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl.euclid Wellcome Institute for | Bitnet/Earn/Ean/Uucp: wujastyk@euclid.ucl.ac.uk the History of Medicine, | Internet/Arpa/Csnet: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu 183 Euston Road, | London NW1 2BP, England. | Phone: London 387-4477 ext.3013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Terrence Erdt Subject: Scanning (25 lines) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 13:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 439 (651) ANOTHER HUMANIST SCOOP KURZWEIL TO ANNOUNCE Model 5100 Sources close to Kurzweil report that within 15 to 30 days, the company will announce a new scanner, the Model 5100. The 5100 reportedly will be trainable and four times faster than the Model 5000 with "clean" text and twice as fast with less than ideal type. It will resemble the 4000 in "trainability" and be particularly powerful in managing dot matrix output. The sources indicated, too, that the new model will make the work of transcription easier. The Model 5100 apparently will assign special characters, such as Greek letters, to inscription that it cannot recognize but which it encounters with some frequency. Users will then be able to assign ASCII code for each of the special characters. from the desk of Terry Erdt From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: KDEM Scanning; e-texts, etc. Date: Tuesday, 18 April 1989 0934-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 440 (652) As you know, CCAT has lots of experience reading Greek and other "strange" character sets on its KDEM 3 (as do other places like Oxford, Cornell, the old Duke center, etc.). There are some tricks that would probably work on the KDEM 4000 too, and I'm happy to share them if there is an interested subgroup of HUMANISTs who are interested. The recent communications from Jonathan Altman and Bob Hollander regarding the Dante Commentary project experience deserve further attention as well -- e.g. in what circumstances is unattended scanning more efficient than the edit-while-you-scan approach? What tools exist for semi-automatic verification (e.g. lists of impossible or unlikely letter combinations in the target language that can be safely changed automatically in most instances -- e.g. in English, "cd" is usually a KDEM misreading of "ed" [but could also be "od" or even "nd"], etc.)? Indeed, such tools would help in any editing, I would think, but the KDEM makes many typical errors that can be caught this way (e.g. "j" at the end of a word is usually "]"). Well, Willard, originally I meant to be dashing off a note to you alone, but maybe it's really for the HUMANIST gang. And really, what is all this about a different style in BITNET communications? Seems to me that its the same mixture of styles that are typical of the "memo" hardcopy circuit that we all experience daily! At least, speaking for myself, I'm not conscious of writing any differently here, or of seeing others write characteristically differently, from the world of ordinary mail and memos. But then, I've been using the computer for my writing pad for nearly a decade. Apropos the useful contribution from Geoff Rockwell of the NeXT staff, if they really hope to get massive amounts of significant books ready to use on such machines, we really need to pay serious attention to the issues of encoding and archiving. I've tried my hand at this on a very small scale, with the CCAT portion of the PHI/CCAT CD-ROM, with its variety of languages and formats represented. It's a lot of work, and takes more coordination and forethought than most individuals working in only one or two languages or formats would realize. One of the reasons for issuing those materials on the PHI/CCAT CD-ROM was to provide programmers and users with texts that would help expose the problems. I hope that NeXT and others are taking advantage of the opportunity offered there! As I have said before, and will doubtless say again: encoding and formatting data is in many ways an extremely dull task, but it is also extremely crucial and basic to all the other exciting things that students of texts (in the widest definition of "text") may want to do with the computer. The examples of such pioneering projects as TLG, the French Literature material (ARTFL and its French counterpart), the Global Jewish Database/bank, etc., stand tall, but we need to be vigilant to support such efforts, and to pay attention to the needs of coordination and compatibility (at least in a general sense). The Librarians are a key element here! (And it was going to be a short note!) Bob From: George Brett Subject: humanities computing centers - a perspective Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 19:38:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 857 (653) I have observed a number of different "cultures" within academic computing. In some respects these "cultures" represent levels of commitment from the local college or university. The "levels" provide one way of looking at support. I would be most interested in hearing/reading about other models. Level I: At the lowest level we find a faculty member as 'de facto' computer support agent for a department or school. This person may or may not be supported by a formal computing center on campus. Even if there is a computing center, the center staff may not "officially" support hardware or software used by the humanities faculty. (In some cases I have heard of a graduate student, undergraduate student, or staff member in this role. However, most often the "champion" is a faculty member.) Level II: The campus computing center often offers the next level of support. This is a case when the center has user support staff who are assigned clientele either by hardware or software. A major difficulty here is that the staff rarely have any knowledge of specific disciplines beyond computer science. NOTE: It has been my experience that in most cases the first two levels exist simultaneously. This happens for many reasons: politics, expediency, personality conflicts, economics, familiarity with content, or preference of non-supported hardware and/or software. Level III: At this level of support there would be full time computing consultant(s) / programmer(s) assigned to the department or school. Following a library paradigm where the support person is both an expert in the field within the humanities as well as an expert at reference librarianship for the humanities. The same should apply for computing. The consultant/programmer should be a humanist as well as a computing expert. This person or persons should be supported with higher level experts at the university or campus level. Level IV: The fourth level is a computing center that is dedicated to the humanities. This may have a staff as few as two or as many as budgets permit. The emphasis here is that this model is a centralized form of Level Three that serves more than one department or school. Level V: The fifth level is the humanities computing research "institute" or "center" such as the one at the University of Toronto. I have not visited one of these sites. However, from reading and comments I would imagine this center would provide resources for research into the application of computing technology to the humanities. Such an institute would also promote or support such research by other faculty. The humanities computing research center would not necessarily perform direct support for end users as would a campus computing center. My vison of this center is an extension of the library model: Here you have a major Research Library and a Research & Design Institute with multiple resources including diverse personnel and latest technology. In-house staff would include technicians and scholars who not only provide solutions to existing problems, but also develop answers to problems that most people do not even know of. The reader will notice that as the levels go higher the support center administration becomes more centralized. This fact might support the case that a Level V Center should be a regional, state-wide, or national center. From: Subject: Hebrew and/or biblical texts on CD ROM Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 18:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 858 (654) I seem to recall a CD ROM (perhaps from Brown?) that contained a number of biblical texts. Is this available for the Macintosh? Any information would be appreciated. Robert Cole Indiana University cole@iubacs From: MIKE@cisco.nosc.mil Subject: New mailing list Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 16:16 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 441 (655) In case anyone is interested, I'm trying to start a new interest list. If not, sorry to bother you and hit the 'd' key now! [No, wait, other messages follow! --W.M.] ------------------ INFOCD@CISCO.NOSC.MIL The INFOCD mailing list is for the exchange of subjective comments about the Compact Audio Disc medium and related hardware. 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FINEART FORUM. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Malcolm Brown Subject: tricks of the trade for the kurzweil Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 16:29:55 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 860 (657) I for one would love to hear any tidbits and tips from Bob Kraft or anyone else with extensive Kurzweil experience. Perhaps we could organize a "birds-of-a-feather" kind of session in Toronto. In the meantime, we are attempting to scan a Russian/English dictionary on a Kurzweil 4000 and are encountering difficulties. The key- or headwords are set in boldface cyrillic; defintions are typset in roman and italic using the latin alphabet. In addition, cyrillic appears occasionally in the definitions typset in roman. has anyone attempted this? (I assume so). the problem is not just the mix of alphabets (cyrillic and latin) but the mix of typefaces as well (cyrillic in bold and roman; latin letters in roman and italic). I'd appreciate any hints and/or strategies anyone could suggest. You can reply to me (gx.mbb@stanford.bitnet) and I'll summarize the responses back to HUMANIST. thanks very much in advance, Malcolm Brown Stanford From: J. K. McDonald Subject: Career recognition for computer literacy (23) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 22:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 443 (658) Colleague Amsler's contribution to the subject of career recognition for computer skills leads to the reflection that in Gutenberg's day, Florence was in the forefront of book production following the old technology of calligraphic copywork (though scriptores were not auctores) and would never have allowed a Gutenberg to develop in the city. It was a marginated German and the commercially minded seaport of Venice that swiftly occupied the new moveable type business, leaving us the now priceless Aldine editions, etc. No great early library prided itself on holdings of which other copies existed elsewhere. The outstanding collectionists (of obelisks, busts, books) wanted what others couldn't have. Humanistic cultivation of the best led also to the diffusion of cultivation by emulation, and quickly to its inflation (also because some new printers moved to portable or "pocket"-sized books). Gutenberg led to editions as fixed inspiration (as though authors somehow knew when they had their books just right); tribal respect followed; ultimately positivist philosophy led to scholarship with thousands of note cards and concordances, which in turn made data processing conceivable. The computer was made necessary by the 19th century. Technologies are a by-product of human culture; they are all absorbed into humanity; and they all help make humanity (were we human before we spoke?). Dixit Jim McDonald (MCDOJK@QUCDN) From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: Humanities Computing Centers Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 13:51 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 444 (659) Just a short note to remind you that the course I am doing for the summer school before ALLC/ICCH in June will deal with exactly that subject: setting up and running a facility to support humanities computing. I will be drawing on my own experience at UCLA but also on what information I can gather from some of the rest of you who doing similar things. See you there! Vicky Walsh From: Hanna Kassis Subject: CD-ROM of biblical texts for Mac? (21) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 06:17:32 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 445 (660) The entire text of the Hebrew Bible (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia) is available for the McIntosh. I have never used it (I am not a Mac user). A descriptive blurb, MacHebrew Scriptures (US$ 99.95) and McHebrew Scriptures Converter ($US 79.95) art available from Linguist's Software, PO Box 580, Edmonds WA 98020-0580, Tel. (206) 775-1130. From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL) Subject: Sanskrit word processors for the PC Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 13:23 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 446 (661) Dear Jude, I saw your query on HUMANIST about your colleague's need for a word processor for Marathi under DOS. Multilingual Scholar and ChiWriter are both possibilities. In both, you see the Devanagari on the screen. This is usually a necessity for speakers of the languages. I have not used either, so I am afraid I can't really advise. But my understanding is that both are good. There are others too, such as Duan Huang (sp?), which similarly drive the screen in graphics mode. See JJ Hughes, Bits, Bytes & Biblical Studies, for references and critiques. Scholars trained in the West would often prefer to type a standard transliteration, and have the PC turn it into Devanagari for them. This is *much* easier and faster than typing Devanagari itself, which requires tons of SHIFTed, ALTed and CTRLed keys. The only satisfactory system I know of for the transliteration approach is TeX. TeX is available free for the PC (I am thinking of SBTeX, with a Beebe driver and the DVIEW previewer), but the Devanagari fonts have to be bought for $119 (see my article in TUGboat 9.2). You will also need help from another TeX user to get started: the learning curve is steep. But the results one gets from TeX in terms of quality and flexibility of output are unbeatable by any other system today, and I include Monotype. Dominik [A humorous aside. To the question, "Can it be done with TeX?" the answer is invariably "Yes!" To the question, "Is it easy?" the answer is invariably, "No!" As Dominik says, however, the results are quite good. --W.M.] From: "RAINER NYBERG. BITNET: /ABO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY, Subject: learning strategies and motivations Date: Wed, 19 Apr 89 07:32:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 863 (662) I am working on a three year educational psychology research project "Motivation, Self-Efficacy and Learning". My special interest is in how we learn to use computer applications. - What learning strategies and approaches to learning do we use? - What increases or lowers our motivation and self perceived efficacy? If you (know anybody who) have published or is doing research in this field, please let me know. If you want to tell about you personal experiences in this area I would prefer to get them to my Bitnet address. Rainer Nyberg Faculty of Education, Abo Akademi University, P O Box 311, SF-65101 VASA, Finland Bitnet: From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: new list for text encoding discussions Date: 20 April 1989 10:52:52 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 447 (663) Those Humanists interested in text markup, text encoding, and the like will I hope be glad to learn that a new Listserv list devoted to those topics has now been set up at UICVM with the name TEI-L. The purpose of TEI-L is to discuss the work of the Text Encoding Initiative and problems of text encoding generally. Subscription is public and anyone interested in the subject is welcome to subscribe by the usual method of sending to LISTSERV at UICVM a message (mail or dynamic) with the command SUBSCRIBE TEI-L If you try and can't get it to work, contact me and I'll see what I can do. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago From: Jim Cahalan Subject: P.S. on MLA BITNET idea Date: 20 Apr 89 19:24:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 448 (664) Re: Bc: Jim Gray, Malcolm Hayward Acknowledged 04/12 09:04 by NetMail @IUP Acknowledged 04/12 10:52 by Malcolm Hayward @IUP Acknowledged 04/12 15:47 by MaryJane Piccolini @IUP Dear Daniel Uchitelle, Here's an improved version of my idea for sharing MLA BITNET addresses: MLA could print a notice in its newsletter inviting members on BITNET to send to your BITNET address (or any other appropriate MLA central BITNET address) by a stated deadline a listing on themselves in a specified simple format--say, Last Name, First Name Mid. In., Affiliation, full address, one All such submissions could be dumped into a central file at MLA, then sent out to all the members' BITNET addresses after the deadline--and each of the recipients could print out their own copies, and the pages of the MLA newsletter would not have to be cluttered up. An annual update could be subsequently sent out. What do you think?\ Jim Cahalan, Graduate Literature English Dept., 111 Leonard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Phone: (412) 357-2264 From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) Subject: Devanagari, Sanskrit primers Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 12:47 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 449 (665) Patrick W. Conner noted that he has studied Sanskrit long enough to know that you cannot really handle Devanagari in ASCII unless you ignore the ligatures. Absolutely--that's not under discussion. What is being debated is a coding scheme for Sanskrit in *roman transliteration*. And yes, I believe Perry's Primer is still in print. I keep seeing it in bookshops, although I cannot give you a specific shop from memory. Get the full book reference and send it to the biggest shop you know, or try South Asia Books, P. O. Box 502, Columbia, Missouri 65205, USA. Phone (314) 449-1359 You never really get away from your first primer, I know. But many people feel that Perry has been superseded by M. Coulson's, Teach Yourself Sanskrit, which is also still in print. Dominik From: "Michael Sperberg-McQueen 312 996-2477 -2981" Subject: Sanskrit and the TEI Date: 20 April 1989 09:56:10 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 450 (666) During the recent discussion of Mathieu Boisvert's proposal for the encoding of Sanskrit and Pali, Charles Faulhaber asked what the Text Encoding Initiative and the International Organization for Standardization are doing about the subject. I apologize for the belated reply, but I was out of town when the question was asked. He is right, of course. The Text Encoding Initiative should and will look at Sanskrit and Pali as well as other languages, both in their conventional alphabets and in Latin transcription. We hope to be able to include guidance for encoding texts in such languages which (a) reflects consensus among the practitioners of a field (so agreement among Sanskritists is important to us), (b) accords as well as possible with relevant national and international standards, and (c) does not conflict with other schemes and alphabets (since the mixing of alphabets is a clear desideratum for many of us). For obvious economic reasons, ISO and its member organizations focus more on living languages and their alphabets than on dead ones. I don't know of any ISO recommendations for Devanagari character sets, and don't expect to see any soon. ISO character sets for all alphabets consistently omit characters needed for older texts but not now in use. So there probably won't be much resistance from ISO if academics develop their own practice for such older characters. There are some standards, however, which are worth looking at, since libraries have been struggling with standardization and automation for some time, and face an extreme version of the challenge which faces us all, since their printed catalogs must handle languages of all descriptions. ANSI Z39.47, for example, ("Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use") has all the characters needed to print romainzed Pali and Sanskrit, as well as eighty or so other languages. Its primary drawback is that so few industry people have heard of it or implement it. It seems unlikely that one method will work for all environments, so the TEI might well conclude by documenting several practices, aimed severally at interchange, use on 7-bit devices, use on 8-bit devices with overstrike, and use of 8-bit devices without overstrike. Can we do that without complicating the matter unreasonably? We are eager to hear your opinions, and I invite you to share them with us. In order not to overburden Humanist with such technical discussion, however, I suggest we move the topic over to the new public list for discussion of the Text Encoding Initiative and text encoding problems generally, namely TEI-L@UICVM (see separate announcement). -Michael Sperberg-McQueen ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: Tagged Hebrew Texts Date: 20 Apr 89 17:26:36 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 451 (667) There are about 7 or 8 different morphologically tagged texts of the Hebrew Bible completed or in production in some 6 different countries. Some are available at very different costs. Details are in J.J.Hughes,Bits Bytes and Biblical Studies, Zondervan 1987 or 1988. David M. From: "CHARLES W. TUCKER" Subject: A STRANGE REQUEST; I THINK Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 19:01:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 866 (668) DEAR COLLEAGUES, WE ARE TRYING TO HAVE A COURSE THAT IS ORDINARILY THOUGHT OF AS SOCIAL SCIENCE ACCEPTED FOR CREDIT IN OUR UNIVERSITY AS A LABORATORY SCIENCE. IT IS A GEOGRAPHY COURSE. I WONDERED IF THERE ARE ANY COURSES OUT THERE IN WHAT IS CONVENTIONALLY CONSIDERED AS SOCIAL SCIENCE THAT ARE ACCEPTED AS LABORATORY SCIENCE IN YOUR UNIVERSITY. RESPOND BY TELLING ME THE NUMBER AND TITLE OF THE COURSE THANKS, CHUCK From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 40 01 51 20 EISINGER at FRIBM11 Subject: Date: 20 April 89, 09:46:36 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 452 (669) Gulfnet and other expansions. Egypt is going to join EARN very shortly, the line between Cairo and Montpellier (France) has been ordered and is expected within a month from now. One machine will be first connected. To my knowledge, one machine from Saudia Ariabia has been connected directly to BITNET. I don't know if Gulfnet, a regional network with some ten machines in Saudia Arabia and Koweit, will be reachable through that first saudian machine. TREARN is not a local network but the entry point for Turkey (as BEARN for Belgium, GREARN for Greece and so on). If I remember well TREARN is the Izmir University (but anyone can cheek in the BITEARN NODES file available in various locations) Finally, Jordan applied as well as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Jugoslavia. Marc From: Hank Nussbacher Subject: Egyptian node Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 12:39:45 O X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 453 (670) Last month we had Saudi Arabia and this month we have EGFRCUVX - The Foreign Relations Unit in Cairo University that now has a nodename and will be establishing it's connection later this month. Hank :node.SAKACS00 :alias.GULFNET :nodenum.2749 :via.GWUVM :net.GULFNET :aliasnum.2750 :site.King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology GULFNET :abbr.King Abdulaziz City for Sci & Tech :system.VM/SP :machine.IBM 4361 :netsoft.RSCSV2 :msgs.YES :cmds.YES :files.YES :country.SA :longitude.046E 042 :latitude.024N 023 :connect.89/02/01 :postmast.(Mohammed Al-Tasan) AAIB01@SAKACS00 ((966) 147-7937) :mformat.PUNCH :mclass.M :fformat.NETDATA :fclass.N :tformat.NETDATA :tclass.A :contact.(Fahad Al-Hweimany) AAIC26@SAKACS00 ((966) 147-8800) :inform1.(Mohammed Al-Tasan) AAIB01@SAKACS00 :info1.RSCS :linkfail.(Mohammed Al-Tasan) AAIB01@SAKACS00 ((966) 147-7937) :planet.EARTH :linkspeed.9600 :linktype.SATELLITE :addr.GULFNET;Riyadh, 11442 SA :lastup.89/01/30 :node.EGFRCUVX :nodenum.2767 :net.EARN :lastup.89/02/18 :abbr.FRCU :site.Foreign Relations Coordination Unit :addr.Supreme Council of Universities;Cairo University Campus;GIZA;CAIRO - Egypt :country.EG :gmtoff.+02.00 :planet.EARTH :director.(Mr Elkotb) (+20 2 728 174) :contact.(Mr Elkotb) (+20 2 728 174) :system.VMS :netsoft.NJE :msgs.YES :cmds.YES :files.YES :fformat.NETDATA :fclass.N :machine.VAX 11/780 :connect.89/03/01 :via.FRMOP22 :linkspeed.9600 :linktype.LEASED :adjnodes1.FRMOP22 :adjtypes1.9L Regards, David From: Alain Auroux Subject: Connection of Egypt Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 11:13:29 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 454 (671) This just arrived: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This is to inform you that the connection of Egypt to EARN is now operational. The EARN Director for Egypt is Dr M. Elkotb (ELKOTB@EGFRCUVX). The international line goes from Cairo to Montpellier. Alain Auroux From: Natalie Maynor Subject: Possibly Lost Mail Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 17:47:46 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 868 (672) I want to thank everybody who responded to the description of my proposed project on e-language. The reason for this public thank- you is to say that if anybody sent me a note and did not receive a personal reply, it is because I never received what you sent. As some of you may know, a system crash at the Univeristy of Tennessee earlier this week cut much of the southeastern U.S. off from the rest of the bitnet world for several days. The UTK link is now up again, but it may be that bitnet mail enroute at the time of the crash got lost. (I am speculating -- not speaking from any technical knowledge.) In addition, our system has some kind of problem that occasionally leads to misboxed mail when a link suddenly comes up and there is a big influx. Regular bitnet-users here know about the problem and kindly forward the misboxed mail to the intended recipient. I'm worried, however, that mail intended for me may be sitting in the bitnet queues of people who rarely or never use bitnet. So the purpose of this note is to say that if you sent me anything that I did not reply to, please resend it if you can. If you can't or don't want to resend it, please accept my apologies for seeming to ignore the first sending. Thanks! Natalie Maynor maynor@msstate.bitnet From: UDAA270@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK Subject: humanities computing centres Date: 21-APR-1989 13:25:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 869 (673) Charles Ess asks who uses our scanners and to what purpose. The use is varied, especially the desktop scanner. The Kurzweil 4000 tends to be used by staff who need large amounts of text from (out of copyright) books and newspapers put on-line for further analysis. However, in some cases it has been used by people undertaking editing of books/journals, where it is still easier to get hardcopy from contributors, or re-editing an older volume. The desktop scanner is used to some degree for these uses, but also includes smaller jobs, such as taking old papers and getting them on-line (mainly staff), getting teaching materials on disk, and even students who have had their disks corrupted, and need to reconstitute a thesis from hardcopy printouts. In short it is used in a large number of ways for a large number of purposes, and we have found both Kurzweil's much in demand (and not simply by Humanists). In the same way, the general use of the Humanities Computing room is varied, ranging from simple word processing (e.g. a short essay), through complicated applications. I don't think we should leave out the major projects; certainly no supercomputer facilities cater for the humanities user, nor are they likely to in this funding climate. However, again in this funding climate, we are unlikely to be able to set up a Centre with enough hardware, so that one user can monopolise a machine and software all the time. As a result we try to encourage major projects for which outside funding is sought, to include hardware and software. Otherwise we try to thread a middle ground: offering the more commonplace (and in total time, most-used) facilities, such as word processing, but providing these facilities also elsewhere, and encouraging individual departments to set up similar ones. At the same time we try and purchase software which perhaps might be outside the budget of individual departments, and might be used for special projects in a shorter time frame; e.g. a textual database program, a D.T.P. package, etc. It is admittedly trying to be both ends of the spectrum, but is the best we can do with limited means. Susan Kruse King's College London From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: RE: St. Jerome Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 12:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 455 (674) In addition to the various references furnished in the April 17 response to Mary O'Riordan's request for material concerning Jerome's attitudes, one might add another publication by Elizabeth A. Clark: ASCETIC PIETY AND WOMEN'S FAITH: ESSAYS ON LATE ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY (Studies in Women and Religion, vol. 20; Lewiston/Queenston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986). This set of collected articles contains (obviously) a lot of material on female asceticism, the social matrix, theological/religious views, etc. Jerome makes frequent "appearances". Grover Zinn Oberlin College FZINN@OBERLIN (Note: Willard, please disregard the previous truncated message!) From: Alain Auroux Subject: Yugoslavia is now connected Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 18:31:05 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 456 (675) [For the following I am grateful to David Sitman, who as he said could not resist this bit of electronic esoterica. What Jerome is doing next door to Yugoslavia I will leave as a puzzle to those who delight in such things. More seriously, let me again encourage Humanists at large to discover electronically accessible parts of the globe to which Humanist itself might someday reach. --W.M.] Yugoslavia is now connected to EARN through Austria. However, they do not have yet a mailer, and only one EARN address is used today (SYSTEM3@YUBGSS21). It is expected that the first node will be fully opeational in early May. Alain From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Date: 21 April 1989, 13:38:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 871 (676) A query for various experts on Humanist, perhaps those interested in the history of medicine. Are there especially good books on the use of women in the practice of medicine, as midwives, doctors, or nurses? I am especially interested in the period 1450-1700, and I would be interested to know how misogynistic lore of witchcraft, Eve as Evil, etc., fit together with woman as nurse or healer, in fact, folklore and even in poetic imagery, with woman as snare or woman as nest-builder. Obviously a big subject, but has anyone seen it effectively defined or narrowed? Roy Flannagan From: Subject: Music Research Digest: a sample issue Date: Sat, 22 Apr 89 12:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 872 (677) Music-Research Digest Thu, 20 Apr 89 Volume 4 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: 1988 directory of computer assisted research in musicology Address change for UK relay Music/AI conference Music and Information Theory *** Send contributions to Music-Research@uk.ac.oxford.prg *** Send administrative requests to Music-Research-Request *** Overseas users should reverse UK addresses and give gateway if necessary *** e.g. Music-Research@prg.oxford.ac.uk *** or Music-Research%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. MISIC DIGEST. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: GUEDON@CC.UMONTREAL.CA Subject: RE: women in medicine? (21) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 89 10:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 873 (678) Although not a specialist in the history of medicine (history of chemistry is closer to my heart), I could point three possible trails to follow to Roy Flannagan: 1. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971). 2. Michel de Certeau has written about women witches. I do not recall the exact title although I believe it was something like "Les sorcieres de Loudun". 3. On Renaissance Medicine, one of the best approaches is to look at Allen Debus' Science, Medicine and Society in the Renaissance" (London, Heinemann, 1972), 2 vols. However, it does not say anything about women. Several bibliographies could be of help, including the one onthe history of medicine published by the NIH. Isis has an annual bibliography that is very helpful too and the CNRS carries a special bibliography on the history of science that will include things about medicine as well. That is all that comes to my mind onshort notice. Hope it helps a little, Jean-Claude Guedon From: Natalie Maynor Subject: Coinages and E-Style Date: Sat, 22 Apr 89 12:51:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 457 (679) I hope you are not getting tired of my frequent postings, but I just got a note from a fellow HUMANIST that made me interested in finding out what some of the others of you think about the use of the word (or non-word) "resend" in my previous posting. She said that she thought that there was no such verb as "resend" and that the correct usage would be "send again." (The context here is resending -- or sending again -- bitnet mail that might have gotten lost.) Did anybody else find "resend" a strange word? I agree that it probably doesn't exist as an English verb, and I can see that it might cause confusion in spoken English because of the existence of the word "rescind." I'm asking your opinions out of curiosity about reactions to coinages, what kinds of coinages seem acceptable and what kinds offensive, etc. Could my use of "resend" be an example of e-style? I disagree, by the way, with the recent HUMANIST comment that there is no such thing as electronic style. I'm not saying that everybody who uses electronic mail changes writing style, and I do not think that there is much evidence of an electronic style on HUMANIST. But try looking at the language on some other lists, not to mention the language in interactive situations like Relay (if you can stand the e-screaming on Relay very long). Forgive me for turning HUMANIST into a forum on linguistics. Then again, the versatility of this list is one of its virtues in my opinion. Natalie Maynor (maynor@msstate.bitnet) From: Willard McCarty Subject: electronic communications and scientific research Date: 22 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 458 (680) Page A10 of my local paper, The Globe and Mail, for Saturday 22 April, is almost completely dominated by articles about the so-called "cold nuclear fusion experiment." Many of you will know that some scientists at the University of Utah, in the western U.S., have reported a successful attempt to produce nuclear fusion under controlled conditions in the laboratory -- and at low temperatures. For obvious reasons their claim has generated a storm of interest. Nobel laureate John Polanyi has expressed considerable distress that the "due process" of science was circumvented when the Utah scientists took their findings to the press before they had been verified. In one article, republished from the San Francisco Chronicle, the author comments that "The episode has turned the usually well-controlled, measured pace of academic science into a stew of claim, counterclaim, and rumor. Results have been distributed worldwide on fax machines rather than in carefully edited journals." Willard McCarty From: Subject: Scanning Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 875 (681) UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN ZENTRUM FUER DATENVERARBEITUNG BRUNNENSTRASSE 27 D-7400 TUEBINGEN [The following from Wilhelm Ott, rightly instructing me to look to my own software fair for the answers to scanning questions. I am grateful to Prof. Dr. Ott for raising the issue. Many of you may not realize the attention being paid to optical scanning here in June, not only in the fair (where Makrolog's Optopus, Calera, Texpert, and Kurzweil are scheduled to exhibit) but also in a special session on optical scanning, organized by Malcolm Brown of Stanford, in the conference itself. --W.M.] Dear Dr. McCarty, I reply to your question with one of your favourite comments to similar enquiries: have a look at the Tornto Fair in June 1989. It is worthwhile to have a closer look to the Makrolog "Optopus" exhibited there. One of its advantages over the Kurzweil is that it has no preoccupation at all what letters or characters are looking like or how they should be interpreted. Experience shows that it scans texts with good results where the KDEM did not succeed at all. Yours, Wilhelm Ott From: CAMERON@EXETER.AC.UK Subject: Conference Update Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 12:26:03 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 876 (682) University of Exeter Conference EVALUATION OF CALL PROGRAMS September 20-22 1989 This is the third conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. The cost, with residence in Mardon Hall, centrally placed on the University campus, for full board and Conference fee is 75 pounds. THE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME is now AVAILABLE - please contact : Keith Cameron Telephone : 0392 264222 /+44 392 264222 Or write for further information to : Miss Sarah Moore, CALL'89 Conference, Department of French, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK). From: Subject: pim Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 17:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 459 (683) I am writing a review essay for Journal of Interdisciplinary History on Personal Information Managers, and would appreciate hearing from anyone who has some experience or comments. PIMs are a new class of software, invented in the last years. They enable ordinary users to keep track of lots of data. For example, the humanist who takes notes on a PC will, after a while, have hundreds of files. One who uses the new library computer resources--electronic card catalogs and CD-ROM indexes, to download bibliographies and abstracts--will discover the volume of material soon escalates. The data base managers, like dBASE, are designed for highly structured information. For the quantifiers, the information may include spreadsheets, SPSS files, and all sorts of things that don't look like text. The PIMS variously include hard disk searches, indexing, outlining, unstructured data base manager and editor. Some of the more powerful word processors include some PIM features. NOTA BENE, for example, includes FYI3000, an indexing program. Word Perfect has a rudimentary word search routine. The PIMs I have seen include Grandview and PC-Outline, Instant Recall (shareware--still alive?), Agenda and Magellan from Lotus, IZE, AskSam, and Gofer. Are there others of interest? From: Willard McCarty Subject: personal information managers Date: 23 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 460 (684) Personal information management systems happen to be a preoccupation of mine, although I cannot claim to have investigated all such systems. I'll summarize here what I do know in the hopes that someone else who knows more -- and better yet, who has a clearer vision of what they should be like -- will respond. Flat-file database programs are a kind of PIM but are really far too primitive to be considered, unless the objective is to find something that can be used somehow without any development work getting in the way. I am thinking, for example, of Notebook II, AskSam, and the like. These and some others like them are good in kind, but they are based on a grossly inadequate model of what scholars do with information. Anyone doubting this should compare what he or she actually does when conducting research to what the program in question will allow to be done. I have no doubt that programs such as Notebook are useful; my claim is that they are far from adequate. Likely the best thing commonly accessible is HyperCard. Although I know nothing about the history of its development, I am familiar with a system that would appear to be its original: NoteCards. To my mind, NoteCards is by far the best PIM so far, but hardly anyone knows about it because it was developed at Xerox-PARC for Xerox workstations and has only recently been ported to something halfway accessible, i.e., Suns. (The company that has done the porting is Envos Corp., which is now in serious financial trouble, so the future of NoteCards may be in doubt.) NoteCards is a brilliant piece of work, although its design is not completely satisfactory, at least not to me. Anyone interested in PIMs should spend some time with NoteCards, for there is no use reinventing what Randy Trigg, Thomas Moran, and Frank Halasz have already done so well. HyperCard, having been (as it were) shrunk to such a small compass, is not nearly as exciting, but it is better that such a thing should have been released to the world than kept back for want of improvement. A local graduate student here, Geoffrey Rockwell, has done some interesting work with HyperCard to make a decent prototype of a PIM. I hope Geoffrey, who is a Humanist, will discuss his work briefly in response to this note. (Geoffrey's program, BIB, will be exhibited at our software fair here in June, and there is a very good chance that NoteCards will be also. In addition, there may be other such programs demonstrated at the fair. NoteCards is described at length in The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988, pp. 364f.) I have given papers on the subject of PIMs, most recently at the ALLC conference in Jerusalem. After the conference and fair this June, when I will have more time, I would be happy to discuss such software in detail with anyone interested. Development of an adequate PIM for PCs is a big project, but it is not impossible, and potentially thousands of scholars would benefit. Again, think of what mechanical operations you perform when you do research, and imagine what a computer could do to help you collect, record, and arrange your notes -- in whatever languages you may use. Willard McCarty From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Not a word? Fie! Date: Sunday, 23 Apr 1989 04:22:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 461 (685) Natalie-- You used a signifier, 'resend", and someone criticized you for it, saying that 'resend' is not a word. Of course, it's a word. When you make an utterance by which you intend to convey some message, and a person hearing/reading that utterance understands fundamentally what you intended to convey, then surely we can call that utterance a word. Of course there's a word 'resend'. We may argue about its stylistic domain, that is, whether it is acceptable in formal/professional writing, etc., but anyone who thinks that a word which many people use and understand can be declared not a word has an exceedingly limited notion of how English works. Even Fowler (even he!) doesn't condemn the use of the morpheme re- to modify verbs. Your correspondent needs to reread some basic college texts on linguistics and language, to rethink her position, and to repent her linguistic snobbishness. (What would she say about the army verb, to re-up meaning to enlist for a second--or any subsequent-- tour of duty? A structuralist might say it proves that up can be a verb, as every poker player knows it is). From: Philippa Matheson Subject: Re: women in medicine? (21) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 12:58:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 462 (686) [deleted quotation] I have no useful bibliography for Mr. Flannagan, but some advice on his use of words. "Use of words," yes; "use of horses," yes; "use of machines," yes; "use of women," no. I suppose in his terms I might say that I was interested in the use of men in the practice of dish-washing, but my respect for the opposite sex is sufficient to prevent me from thinking of expressing it that way. From: Peter D. Junger Subject: resend Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 13:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 463 (687) I have no trouble with "resend". Perhaps that is the result of knowing some German. In English we seem to use "re-" the way Germans use "wieder". I know that we don't say "Until resee(ing)", but that probably has more to do with the fact that we can't use the infinitive as a noun the way Germans do in "Auf wiedersehen". But we do reread, rewrite, remodel, return, review, and, I believe, remail. Why shouldn't we resend? In the Army, of course, "repeat" is transformed into "say again", but I have always assumed that that ugly neologism is necessitated by the fact that the command "repeat" is likely to start another salvo of artillary on its way. And surely resend is preferable to using "cc" as a verb. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: Data Bases in Mechanical Engineering Date: 22 Apr 89 20:39:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 464 (688) A netmail connection to Egypt is like the Panama canal must have been to shippers. 4 weeks return mail reduced to 4 hours! Dr. Elkotb, the Executive Director of FRCU at the Supreme Council of Universities, asked for information on Data Bases in Mechanical Engineering and in Law. Any likely addresses that could help him? Dr. Elkotb's address is ELKOTB@EGFRCUVX. From: "Thomas W. Stuart" Subject: Two questions & e-style Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 14:04:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 465 (689) 1) Can anyone provide information about an apparently new journal entitled *Serials* or the "UK Serials Group" which I gather publishes or sponsors publication of *Serials*. I would like info about the group and the publication generally; but also have someone desperately needing to locate an article "Online versus print versus CD-ROM: costs and benefits" by Lynne Brindley , which appeared in a recent number of *Serials*. 2) Does anyone happen to know of a Bitnet accessible e-address for F.W. Lancaster (of paperless society fame)? 3) I certainly am convinced there is an e-style and all sorts of new arrangements of what we say, how we structure it, to whom we are ready/willing/able to say it, how we evaluate it, and all. I think it is important to look explicitly at those patterns and attempt to figure out what it all means for knowledge transfer processes. Besides, it is fun stuff to research the e-ssence of e-commo. Thomas Stuart From: Willard McCarty Subject: a reminding request Date: 23 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 880 (690) Please, my fellow Humanists, keep your contributions to a single subject. If you want to speak on more than one, take the trouble to make separate notes. I seldom have time to separate a polysemous note into components and distribute them into the notebooks appropriate to the day's categories. I suspect that many Humanists depend on me to make reasonable sortings, and although I don't always succeed (what is Jerome doing next to Yugoslavia?), I always try -- except when a note-of-many-colours outfoxes my roughandreadiness. Don't call me Ishmael, but please give me a helping hand! Yours, Willard McCarty From: Sean O'Cathasaigh, FRI001@UK.AC.SOTON.IBM Subject: Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 05:01:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 466 (691) Department of French, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH Hey! The cold-fusion in a test-tube experiments were originally done in Utah, but the leader of the first team to claim success is Prof M. Fleischmann of Southampton (unless it's SPQR in disguise). Sean O'Casey, FRI001@uk.ac.soton.ibm From: Hanna Kassis Subject: queries; e-style (51) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 08:13:38 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 467 (692) The following information about *Serials* may be of use to your correspondent. The British Library Lending Division (British Library, London, UK) publishes DOTIC (Directory of title pages, indexes and contents pages) on behalf of the UK Serials Group (Boston Spa, UK). Unless mistaken, I think the earliest issue appeared in 1981. DOTIC appears irregularly. Hanna Kassis From: "stephen r.l.clark" Subject: Re: Jerome; Yugoslavia (53) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 05:16:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 468 (693) Further on Jerome: Anne Yarbrough, in Church History 45.1976, pp.149ff (reference courtesy of my wife). Stephen Clark From: Leslie Subject: Re: women in medicine, cont. (40) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 07:34:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 469 (694) Perhaps this is obvious, but the New York Times Index should also be consulted; I remember reading a review in the Book Review section (I don't know how long ago) on women in medicine, the history of midwifery, etc. Sorry I can't be more specific; but I remember it only because I thought it might be interesting to look up someday. Leslie Morgan From: Subject: Women, medicine, "USING" Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 470 (695) Add more more name to the list of those somewhat offended by use of the phrase "use of women in medicine..."; however, with E-mail, one can't repent at the first sign of trouble, so more than one complaint is probably unfair. My wife has been heavily involved with the administrative/policy side of health care in the US for many years, so I have some bias on the subject. This may be somewhat tangential to the original request (1500-1700?), but I have observed (in a completely unscientific sample) that women, or those heavily involved with raising children, seem to be more personally concerned about the long-term issues which come back to affect the "health" of their children and grandchildren than many of today's single, childless males who dominate much of the political process, and perhaps did in 1600 as well. I'm only proposing that Mr. Flannigan explore a retrospective look in light of the increasingly wholistic view of "health" and "health care" that recognizes the long-term impact of everything from bonding, nurturing, stability, economic realities, environmental pollution, and other ways of passing off the problems of today on the children of tomorrow. There was (1976?) a fascinating article in the Journal of Philosophy and Medicine (by a Stanford professor, B......, it escapes me now, it was the issue on ethical issues of use of computers in diagnostic medicine) on the hierarchical nature of actual medical problems: to overstate, this patient has an acid/base imbalance due to kidney malfunction due to overdrinking brought on by family troubles related to unemployment caused by the national import ban resulting from US trade policy on etc. The point of that is that, in any serious discussion of reducing the cost of health care in the country, one has to be realistic about the bounds of the problem: saving money on pollution control and then spending it on resultant cancer treatment downstream (literally) 5 years later is a stupid (but not unheard of) way to proceed. I'll just state a highly controversial hypothesis that many of our "health care" problems are brought about by short-sighted, effectively childless, white males who are into confrontational politics, and that some measure of remedy might be found in the longer perspective of those (male or female) who have been deeply involved in raising children and who care, on a primal level, what the world will look like for their own offspring 100 years from now. Well, there. That should generate some response! Wade Schuette @ Cornell. From: Gunhild Viden Subject: Re "women in medicine" Date: 24 Apr 89 18:01:54 EDT (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 471 (696) Re Roy Flannagan's request: There may be something of interest in Margaret Hallissy, Venomous Woman: Fear of the Female in Literature (Contributions in Women's Studies 87, 1987). Gunhild Viden From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: BITNET to Turkey Date: 24 Apr 89 12:00:50 EDT (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 472 (697) As far as I know Turkey has been connected for some years now. The EARN board member is Oguz Manas, manas@trearn.bitnet, and his deputy is Sitki Aytac, aytac@trearn.bitnet. A very active systems programmer who could probably also help you, is Turgut Kalfaoglu, turgut@trearn.bitnet. Jan-Gunnar. From: SUSAN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Kurzweil scanning Date: Mon, 24 APR 89 18:02:01 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 473 (698) I have been forwarding the recent discussion of optical scanners to our Kurzweil staff, two of whom have been operating the machines for almost 9 years and can thus claim to have had longer experience of the machine for academic use than anybody else - Kurzweil assured us that we were their first academic customers. Here are their comments. Susan Hockey Oxford University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We, the KDEM Service in Oxford, have been following with great interest the Humanist discussion on OCR (Optical Character Readers), primarily Kurzweil 4000. We have been running a Kurzweil service for 9 years now and have just recently switched from MAX to 4000. We were rather disappointed to discover that the 4000 is almost twice as slow as its MAX predecessor. The most important aspect of the work, we believe, is well trained and reliable staff as well as provision of comprehensive service for the users. We are very strict about what we accept for scanning. As long as the quality of the print is reasonably good, regardless of whether it is English, Russian, Hebrew, Greek or any other language with all its idiosyncracies, we will take it on. In order to produce best results we devote a great deal of time to coding, accents and diacritics, as well as testing and experimenting with black and white threshold levels, point sizes, font changes etc. which often involves photocopying, enlarging or reducing the print. Once the scanning is complete, we do a general tidy up for the user, using wherever possible global edits. When this is done the user proofreads the text, which comes back to us for a final edit which is free of charge. Here are some of our general comments: 1. The machine should not be run unattended. Correction of interventions, at the very least, during scanning time saves a great deal of subsequent editing. We find that with the 4000 we can keep up with the scanner quite comfortably. In any case the machine can read ahead if necessary. 2. We found the 4000 better on typescript than printed books. It is not as good on ligatures and quotes and has problems with m, rn, i, l, f, S etc. The list is endless. 3. We recommend making lists during scanning of typical misreads, and then running global edits on the mainframe. 4. We frequently photocopy material and guillotine (though very reluctantly) books. 5. The tolerance level of different point sizes within the same text is quite poor. 6. We have been quite successful with scanning unusual scripts like Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic, Hebrew and Greek. If Greek is printed in italic, then it's almost impossible to pick up diacritics. Some of our users were quite happy without them though. 7. It is not essential for the operator to be familiar with the language that is being scanned, as long as he or she is familiar with the alphabet. We have succesfully scanned a great number of texts in foreign languages. Only Grazyna Cooper of the KDEM staff here in Oxford has knowledge of other languages. 8. We disagree on the whole with the statement that minimum intervention is better. Only by giving a great deal of attention at scanning stage is the most efficient and economic way of doing the job properly. 9. We haven't experimented with allowing the machine to make up its own mind as to the coding (for example of Russian characters). It is an interesting idea and we will try it when the opportunity arises. We are always amused by the lack of understanding from a great number of users of what the machine is capable of reading. It will not perform miracles. It will only read as well as the quality of the print it is presented with, combined with the skill and expertise of the operator. NOTE TO MATHIEU: We did use 4000 to do a test on the Pali text. We were pleasantly surprised by your comments about it. We do not edit test samples on the mainframe. The user needs to be familiar with all the problems before any decision is made on whether the text is worth scanning. Your text mainly requires good photocopies!!! Grazyna Cooper, Andreana Holl, Anita Sabin. ARTSDATA@VAX.OX.AC.UK From: Malcolm Brown Subject: panel discussion on scanning at the Toronto conference Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 15:35:14 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 474 (699) Willard suggested I offer a few words concerning the discussion panel I've organized for the Toronto conference. I'll start with a negative definition: the panel discussion is not "on OCR", in the sense of being merely a report on the current state of OCR technology. Instead, I've asked the panelists to debate the overall value of OCR as a means of text entry (as opposed to contracting a typist or a keyboarding firm). Obviously the panelists will need to address the capabilities of current OCR technology, but the goal of the discussion is to evaluate the technology over against the alternatives. I organized the discussion entirely for selfish reasons. Having encountered the limitations of the Kurzweil4000 all too often, I'd like to know how the alternatives look. Indeed, Ted Brunner of the TLG project reports that their keyboarding firm guarantees an error rate of not greater than one error per 25000 characters. That would save a tremendous amount of post-scan cleanup work, allowing us to devote more resources to the research at hand. The discussion panel I've organized brings together those among us who have been dealing with the "challenges" of text entry for some time: Lou Burnard (Oxford), Mark Olsen (ARTFL), Terry Erdt (CHum/Villanova), Mel Smith (BYU), Bill Holmes (US National Archives). In addition, several OCR vendors will be participating in the software fair. These include Kurzweil, Calera Recognition Systems (TrueScan), CTA (textpert), and Makrolog (Optopus). This last system is the one mentioned by Dr. Ott in his recent submission. Fair attendees should bring samples of your most difficult texts to challenge these systems! Malcolm Brown Stanford From: Subject: more Sanskrit Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 16:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 883 (700) FROM: JHUBBARD@SMITH [The following is from an earlier message that got lost somewhere in the network. I have added some comments at the end, and removed the actual coding scheme (which is available if anybody should have any reason whatsoever for wanting it. . .)] Mathieu, Regarding your ASCII scheme for Sanskrit/Pali (which I assume you put out to get just this kind of feedback): 1) There are no doubt numerous schemes already devised, and the problem of choosing which one, before any project, as you say, "sets the standard" by sheer magnitude, is a matter of investigation (whether the project actually sets any standards or if such is desirable being another matter entirely). For example, what about the Indian ASCII standard, and what are the folks at the Library of Congress doing, and etc., etc. These other schemes should be "discovered" and evaluated. 2) Even though no words in Sanskrit/Pali begin with a particular letter, it should be in the coding scheme in both lower and upper-case. The very first thing that happened to me after creating a set of laser fonts w/ Sanskrit diacritics, leaving out such "unneeded capitals," was that I had to print the title page of a text, with the title all in caps!! So I needed 'em. Ditto with "l with dot under and macron over," which, while rare, does occur in dictionaries, grammars, and the like, so better to have it from the start, in caps as well. I am _not_ a Sanskritist or Pali scholar, so . . . --> 3) Having said that, I offer my coding scheme, which OMITS the capital-long-vocalic l, the capital-long-vocalic r, and even the capital vocalic l!! Oh well, I have yet to print a dictionary with obscure characters! The only advantage I can claim in the whole wide world for this scheme is that I have a corresponding set of laser fonts, Times Roman in 8 to 12 pt, with 10 and 12 pt italics and bold, and 14, 18, and 24 pt bold. To make up for my sins of omission, I have also added the necessary Japanese vowels. I would like, however, to have the German, French, etc. that your scheme retains. By the way, *where* are they retained? Since the upper ASCII is anybody's ball game (e.g., Hewlett-Packard ain't the same as IBM). . . If anybody is interested, I would be happy to pass along my coding scheme, though I would prefer to redo the fonts after some agreement has been reached. 4) Regarding TeX, it seems to me that it is not a good answer, unless somebody needs all of the typesetting power for which it was devised. It will be much simpler to use upper ASCII, which needs to be done for the display anyways. This, plus effective and shared printer drivers, screen fonts, etc. will facilitate the easy exchange of files and building up of text archives. Dominik, if I remember correctly, translates his text before and after editing/printing so that he can use TeX for printing but edit with the characters on screen. Not only is this tedious, but it tends to the proliferation of different "recensions." If you don't translate back from TeX for screen editing, you have to look at Mah\=ay\=ana and other strange things, which will surely make verification more problematic. While we all realize that it is not difficult at all to translate from one scheme to another, the *vast* majority of users/scholars can't handle it. It seems to me better to give them tools (mainly screen fonts, printer fonts, and application-specific printer drivers, if needed, and input macros) that will let them continue to work in whatever environment they already feel happy. 5) Regarding ligatures and the like, this particular project is for a text project consisting of romanized text (with accents). Many of the texts to be included in the future are also from romanized editions. The ligatures of the originals are already history (that is, lost). I realize that this is not any sort of an answer, but the point is simply to get the texts into the machine. 6) Is the IBM "code page" scheme simply different "standardized" sets of 256 characters? If so, then Dominik's idea for an Indological code page is exactly where we started-- an upper-ASCII coding scheme for roman characters with the accents needed for Sanskrit, Pali, ???, plugged into appropriate spots. 7) I agree that SGML should be investigated and, if possible, adhered to. 8) By the way, the Pali project that Mathieu speaks of is "a result of an initiative of some weight, with serious money and institutional backing." Well, maybe the money isn't as serious as it might be, but it is starting. It is a group effort, bringing together most of the Buddhological world in Europe, America, China, Taiwan, and, hopefully, mainland China and Korea, and aiming ultimately at Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Western language materials as well as Pali. I know it sounds vast, but what the heck! We are working with the various other initiatives, though some are harder to get in touch with. What does anybody know of the Kern Institute? 9) We have now identified a number of different coding schemes used by individuals. What about the ISO standard mentioned? And other large groups, especially in South Asia, among the librarians, etc.? Jamie. From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert A Amsler) Subject: resend Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 22:32:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 475 (701) My Webster's Ninth Collegiate says: ``resend - to send again or back'' An interesting note is that the past tense is `resent', which shouldn't be confused with the verb `to resent' (did you mispronounce that?) meaning ``to feel or express annoyance or ill will at'' A quick check shows that the Seventh Collegiate and the Macquarie also have these verb. From: S200@CPC865.EAST-ANGLIA.AC.UK Subject: Date: 24-APR-1989 09:22:36 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 476 (702) I believe that the verb 'to resend' has been used ever since computer communications developed in the 1950s if not earlier. 'Say again' has been used in ham radio communications for much longer as it is easy to understand over static and by non-natural English speakers. Possible ambiguities arise in the past tense. 'I resent the message you resent'. Who did not like the message? John Roper, J.ROPER@CPC865.UEA.AC.UK From: lang@PRC.Unisys.COM Subject: resend Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 08:18:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 477 (703) [deleted quotation] This is just further proof that in English you can verb anything! From: Greg Goode Subject: Re "resend" Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 11:40:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 478 (704) It was interesting to see two separate defenses of the legitimacy of the word "resend" invoke examples of military speech. I didn't see the original message about the curmudgeon who objected to "resend." But no matter how curmudgeonly, a person who pretends to know language ought to admit the possiblity of "resend" being technical jargon. Isn't it the relative hospitality of the English language to words like these that makes it (one of ?) the language with the largest lexicon? Similarly, isn't one of the criteria of inclusion to the lexicon mere usage? Isn't that what Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary all about? About the military examples. As a former member of the Army and a present Field Artillery officer in the National Guard, I can substantiate both Patrick Conner's comments about "re-up" and Peter Junger's mention or "repeat." Specifically, Peter Junger's comments about "repeat" are right. [deleted quotation] "Say again" is an ugly neologism. It's because in radio or telephone talk in the Army, artillery shells are directed via a sort of shorthand. Polar coordinates are given, in terms of elevation from horizontal and left/right from the way the tube of the howizter is pointing. "REPEAT" means to fire once again using the exact same coordinates as last time. It's shorter and less confusing than saying "Left 50, up 10." And since the military is in essence its own culture, that locution, "REPEAT," has worked its way into regions of the Army far removed from Artillery -- some crusty old sergeant will drill you for saying "repeat" in the normal context. Those are commonly accepted as words within the military; there should be no reason to disdain "resend" as a word in slightly technical, computer-oriented usage. --Greg Goode From: "Nancy J. Frishberg" Subject: Electronic style Date: 24 Apr 89 11:15:42 ET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 479 (705) Two comments on the continuing saga of electronic style: 1) Denise Murray (Linguistics Program, San Jose State U.) has been working on comparisons of oral-written & electronic discourse in a specific milieu (IBM Research). Don't have an electronic address for her (external to IBM), sorry. Several recent MLA presentations and related publications: Language in Society, ACH newsletter.... 2) Of course, "resend" is a word, and don't let "rescind" confuse you. Notice, the two pronunciations for the sequence "resign", depending on the derivation. If it's the productive use of re-, then the meaning is to sign again (E.g. When all the invitation packets were inadvertently thrown out, I had to resign the cover letters.) If it's the fixed (presumably older) form, then it means to give up a position (both literal and figurative) and the -s- is voiced. (E.g. When I realized I had taken on too many responsibilities, I resigned as committee chair.) From: Robert Kirsner (213)825-3955 Subject: resend em to siberia Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 22:32 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 480 (706) If I were Czar, I would make EVERYONE take at least one year of linguistics. Not philology but linguistics, linguistics itself. Then we would not have to waste our retinas on questions like whether *resend* is English. Is oxygen a gas? Are grey elephants grey? The letter didn't have the right account number on it, so the university mail service returned it, but I'll resend it right away. Perfectly normal. The more interesting question is not whether RE- prefixation is productive but whether all RE- forms are analysable. Bush gurgitated a lot of platitudes during his press conference.... From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: REVIEW OF LOTUS "AGENDA" Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 885 (707) DRAFT Agenda Review by R Jensen; COMMENTS WELCOME Agenda 1.0 Lotus Development Corp., 1988, $395. The historian's research file cabinet is a vast trove of dross and gold, of vital documents and irrelevant glosses. Whole nations, whole centuries are squirreled away, stored for that moment in chapter 17 when decisive evidence is needed, or at least an apt quotation. There is no art to the management of this materRecall, that find specific information by searching all the files on a hard disk. Boolean criteria (all files with words A and (B or C) but not D) allow for complicated searches of the original texts. Outliners, like GrandView and PC-Outline, allow an author to write a chapter section by section, collapsing and expanding an overarching outline that keeps the larger structure in view at all times. While data base programs, like dBASE and Paradox, are ideal for handling large bibliographies, they are too limited and too structured to handle free-form textual information like notes and documents. Agenda (for IBM compatible personal computers with 640K RAM and a hard disk) is the most ingenious of the new PIMs. Essentially it is a free-form database system. Agenda'a basic unit is the item, which may be up to 50 words long. A much longer note, up to 1400 words, can be attached to each item. The user assigns each item to multiple categories. The categories are relationships, so that if a particular item abstracts a longer note, the item and therefore the note can be categorized by dates, by topics covered, author, actors, places, events, etc. Additional categories can always be added later, and more important items can be assigned higher priorities. Artificial intelligence features allow the use of synonyms and automatic assignment of notes into categories. Assign "Brest-Litovsk" to the category "treaty" once, and each subsequent item that mentions Brest-Litovsk will automatically be categorized under "treaty." Like the outliners, Agenda allows easy manipulation of the categories, and thus of the underlying items and notes. The result of the manipulation is a view, which is essentially a report on a Boolean selection of categories. The views are much more flexible than the text excerpts that are found by the search/index programs. They are live reports because as items and categories are edited, the view immediately changes. Agenda would be superfluous for dealing with a few hundred note cards. Deal with a few thousand, or better, tens of thousands, and the computer's ability to keep track simultaneously of large numbers of simple relationships becomes apparent. Agenda has multiple problems. Its power, flexibility and customizability make it hard to learn despite the tutorial and third-party guides (like Mary Campbell, Using Agenda [Berkeley, 1988]). Agenda gobbles up 450K of available RAM, crowding out useful memory resident programs. It will run with Sidekick, so it is possible to overlay the Agenda screen with Sidekick's notebook. No one wants to rekey a disk full of documents, so Agenda's appeal will depend on how well it handles files already created by a word processor or other program. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly difficult to coax Agenda into importing information from structured databases like 1-2-3 or dBASE, or, for that matter, from the plain text files it prefers. An adequate import/export routine would make it a much more useful program. Agenda can deal with one data base at a time, so a document that touches on three different research interests has to be three times entered as notes to items in three separate Agenda data bases. Agenda 1.0 and History 2.0 are not quite ready for each other. For the moment, access to the world of PIMs should be through simpler programs. Richard J. Jensen University of Illinois, Chicago From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Subject: Building a computer center...... Date: 24 Apr 89 14:04:42 EDT (Mon) X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 886 (708) The major problem in building a computer center for the humanities is to build in enough flexibility in the organisation. The needs from research and the rapid technological development change quicker than it is possible to change an organisation with its investigations and other economical realities. I think that a computer service organisation ought to run some powerful computer network, but no mainframes or minis. Not because of the shortage of these machines, but for their huge cost and inflexibility over time. The best way to support research and higher education in the humanities is to supply know how, computer programs, information and to give courses in basic handling of computers and programs. Of course the center can operate minis or mainframes, too, to do effective backups, technical service, system implementations and so on, but not to own them. The ownership ought to belong to a department, a research group or a consortium of departments or research projects. Otherwise the center is so involved in paying off loans, it cannot meet new needs from research. Jan-Gunnar. From: Joe Giampapa Subject: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 887 (709) Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) is a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational organization of computer professionals concerned about society's use of computer technology. The organization, based in Palo Alto, California, has a membership of 3000, comprised of chapters throughout the US. It also works with like-minded organizations in other countries. Anybody who is interested in receiving more information and news about the organization may contact me at: giampapa@cogito.mit.edu. (Please note the difference in address.) Current topics include: Call for Papers: DIRECTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED COMPUTING (DIAC-90) Boston, Massachusetts July 28, 1990 Review of the National Security Agency's role in the Computer Security Act From: D.Mealand@EDINBURGH.AC.UK Subject: Personal Info Managers Date: 25 Apr 89 10:09:00 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 481 (710) On programs for managing info and for text retrieval see reviews in recent issues of Bits and Bytes Review. David M. From: Subject: PIMS Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 21:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 482 (711) RE the debate on PIMs, may I put a word in for Memory Mate? It is inexpensive (especially from a mail order house) and not too hard to learn. Its power is very limited; I would not want to try to keep extensive research notes on it, but it is very useful for keeping track of information that is extraneous to one's immediate heavy-duty purposes. It is also serves well as a diary, a commonplace book, etc. As a TSR programme it occasionally shows its teeth (it gets into a real hair pull with Procomm) but on the whole I find it useful. John Sandys-Wunsch From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: software/hardware for the deaf Date: Sun, 23 Apr 89 23:52:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 483 (712) Can someone help me out with information on software and hardware to help the deaf or hard-of-hearing, including commercially available or amateur interactive audio & video, interactive audio and computer-based products? We are looking for materials that aid users in learning to lip-read German or English, understand American or German sign language, and produce sounds intelligible to hearing persons. On the latter subject, applications of hardware from Kay Elemetrics (Visipitch, etc.) or the like would be appropriate. Do we have any HUMANISTs from Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C. with this type of information? Thanks for your help. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@UNHH From: David Megginson Subject: For Humanist: Is there a good parser for text bases? Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 08:30:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 484 (713) I was fascinated by the work of Tompa et alii at Waterloo in building a database (the new OED) based on grammars and parsing rather than fields and values. Does anyone know of a text analysis program for micros which approaches text in this way? I am not interested in word-counting or simple concordances. Thanks. From: J.A.MacColl@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK Subject: Humanist-reading librarians Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 11:49:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 485 (714) Any Humanist readers among the US academic library community? I'd be interested to know how much use you make of Humanist, and whether there are bulletin boards or electronic journals more suited to your needs. Does ALANET serve the academic library community? In the UK, JANET is beginning to be used by academic librarians, albeit slowly, and not for a great amount of mail. Anybody find the use of e-mail absolutely indispensable in the performance of their library work? Do any services run exclusively across it? I am currently working on a Project involving libraries and JANET here, and would be very interested to hear. Please reply to J.A.MacColl@uk.ac.glasgow.vme John MacColl From: Charles Ess Subject: Graduate programs in comp lit Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 09:44:36 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 486 (715) At the risk of sparking the electronic version of internecine warfare -- do any of you have some suggestions regarding graduate programs in comparative literature? We have an exceptional student (French and Literature double major; she has won a national competition in French language and literature, and she has received a Fulbright teaching fellowship for France for next year) who is considering her options. Of course, our literature folk have their suggestions to make -- but they omitted one program I was aware of as having a good reputation in the mid-'70's. My thanks in advance -- and continuing thanks, by the way, for the many comments, some of them quite detailed, on humanities computing centers: they have been extraordinarily helpful. --Charles Ess From: HANLY@UOFMCC Subject: TWEP tests etc. Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 17:51 cdt X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 487 (716) I would appreciate information from other universities which require TWEP tests or similar literacy tests as a condition of graduation. (TWEP = Test of Written English Proficiency). The purpose of the TWEP test is to try to ensure that any graduate in any area must be at least minimally literate-in English. How do other institutions deal with this problem? Opinion here seems to be divided as to whether TWEP or similar tests are of any real value Ken Hanly Brandon University From: Ian Mitchell Lambert Subject: Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 15:29:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 488 (717) [The following is extracted from the AIBI Network newsletter. For more information, contact the contributor at the above address. --W.M.] AIBI NETWORK Association Internationale Bible et Informatique NEWSLETTER #3 APRIL 1989 EDITORIAL 1.0 NEW MEMBERS It is good to welcome a number of new members to the AIBI Network, and to learn something of their expectations from us. Some of the following items will reveal their wishes. It has been good to learn that more biblical scholars wish to be linked, or to know what we have to offer, and we are grateful to Sterling Bjorndas who has opened his list of members to AIBI Network, since it is largely through him that our work has spread since October's Newsletter #2. Our primary purpose is to act as a link between biblical scholars who are working with computers in their studies and research, and therefore the bulk of this, as all our Newsletters, is to present firstly those needs which we hope you are in a position to help individuals satisfy, and secondly, to list the variety of computer software, hardware and tools which colleagues are willing to make available to you. From: "stephen r.l.clark" Subject: Philosophy Job Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 14:00:54 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 489 (718) Applications are invited for a three-year lectureship in the Philosophy Department at Liverpool University, tenable from 1 Oct 1989 to 30 June 1992. No particular specialism is required, but applicants should be prepared to teach a suitable range of courses from those offered by the Department. Applications to the Director of Staffing Services, University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK, by 31st May. Further details from me stephen r.l.clark BITNET/EARN/NETNORTH Address: AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Internet (First choice) Address: AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Internet (Second choice) Address: AP01%LIVERPOOL.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU JANET Address: AP01@UK.AC.LIVERPOOL UUCP Address: ....!mcvax!ukc!liv!ap01 From: Lou Burnard Subject: Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 15:50 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 490 (719) Subject: OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICE TEXT ARCHIVE RESEARCH ASSISTANT Grade: Research Scale IB (#8675 - #13365 per annum, under review) Annual Holiday entitlement: 38 days including Public Holidays and Christmas closure period Membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme *Closing date for applications: 19 May 1989* The Oxford Text Archive is one of the specialist facilities supported by Oxford University Computing Service for the use of scholars working in the field of Humanities Computing. Its primary purpose is to offer scholars a means of preserving their databases and machine-readable text files. It also encourages and facilitates the non-commercial re- distribution of such materials, for use in academic research and, increasingly, in teaching. The Research Assistant will report to the Archive's Director, Lou Burnard, who is a senior computing officer in the User Services Group of the Computing Service. His or her responsibilities will be (a) Expansion of the Archive short List The Archive maintains a short list of its holdings and those of other centres. It is now planned to expand this catalogue to include bibliographic details of the source texts, documentation of the encoding used, copyright status and accuracy... Advice and assistance with computing tools will be provided as far as possible, but this task will also require experience of traditional research methods and tools. (b) Day to day running of the Archive The Archive receives about a dozen enquiries a week of various sorts, mainly for copies of machine readable texts or for information about their availability. The Archive Assistant will be expected to take responsibility for these. Experience of word processing software and database systems would be an advantage as would some knowledge of VAX/VMS or MS-DOS. An awareness of and enthusiasm for applications of computing tools in the context of traditional literary or linguistic research is however of more importance. ---------------------------------------------------- For further details contact Mrs Ann Kirk OUCS, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6RB tel (0865) 73230 or ANNEK @ UK.AC.OX.VAX ----------------------------------------------------- From: "David Owen, Philosophy, University of Arizona" Subject: Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 10:41 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 491 (720) SUBJECT: APA Electronic Texts in Philosophy Initiative In response to the increasing interest and activity in the creation, distribution and use of electronic texts in philosophy, the APA Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy, at its December, 1988 meeting, formed a subcommittee on Electronic Texts in Philosophy. Co-chaired by Richard Lineback, of the Philosophy Documentation Center, and David Norton of McGill University, the committee aims to encourage and co-ordinate the creation and use of electronic texts in philosophy. The subcommittee to hopes to minimize wasteful duplication of projects and incompatibilities of markup, while maximizing accessibility of electronic texts to all bona fide users. As a start, it is creating an up to date list of all major philosophical texts that already exist in electronic form, as well as a list of all current and proposed projects. It will be working with the Association for Computers and the Humanities joint initiative with the National Endowment for the Humanities on standardized markup procedures. The subcommittee hopes that the information thus obtained will enable it to advise those engaged in current and future projects so as to avoid unnecessary overlap between projects and maximize compatibility between them. Any member of the subcommittee listed below would be glad to hear from all those interested in this project. And could all those who are currently engaged in the creation of an electronic version of a philosophical text please send details of their project to Leslie Burkholder? Richard Lineback, Co-chair, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 42403 David Norton, Co-Chair, Dept of Philosophy, 855 Sherbrooke St. West, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7 Leslie Burkholder LB0Q+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU CDEC, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213 Lois Frankel, Dept of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 80933 David Owen OWEN@ARIZRVAX Dept of Philosophy, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721 Allen Renear ALLEN@BROWNVM Computer Center, Box 1885, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 Charles Young YOUNGC@CLARGRAD Dept of Philosophy, Claremont Graduate School, 736 N. College Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711-6199 -------------------- [This announcement has simultaneously been posted on the file-server, s.v. APA_PHIL ETEXTS. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) Subject: Re: optical scanning, cont. (150) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 11:22:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 492 (721) Well, I'll add another two cents to the scanning discussion, having just seen Oxford's set of rules on scanning. The first is that Oxford's rules and experiences are nearly identical to the Dante Projects, and probably the best summarized explanation of how to scan material effectively. The only change I have to add is that I find the model 4000 relatively tolerant of type size (I find it deals with about 9-14 point sizes of a typeface passably well). Jonathan From: Malcolm Brown Subject: comments on the Kurzweil 4000 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 09:30:59 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 493 (722) I read the comments of the Oxford Kurzweil staff with great interest. I agree with them on every point; my experience with the K4000 has lead me to the same conclusions. I have the clear and distinct impression that the hardware used in the K4000 is of the same vintage as the original IBM XT. I think that accounts to some extent for how slow it is. I certainly hope that any future trainable machines will not be stand-alone. This forces Kurzweil to write its own disk operating system for the unit, a tremendous amount of overhead for both them and us (and we pay for their overhead, don't we?). My impression of the KDOS that runs on the K4000 is not a good one. When our hard disk has less than 1.5 megabytes of free space, the K4000 tends to freeze, necessitating a restart. There are no user programs to rebuild, reorganize or otherwise optimize the hard disk. I can just imagine how fragmented the files must be after a year of coming and going. (yes, I know one could back up to floppies and then rebuild the hard disk. Anyone who has suffered through the snail's pace with which the K4000 performs a backup will know that this is not an appetizing option, particularly if it has to be done on a regular basis) I'd be interested to hear from Oxford how reliable the machines have been. In the year we've had our K4000, we've had to have our terminal, hard disk and power supply replaced. And the price for the maintenance contract is very high. We have also come the conclusion that it is better to photocopy and dismember books than to try to scan books directly. We have the graphics tablet, but its use is so awkward that we hardly ever use it. Still, the K4000 can do the job, provided the quality of the original is good. If not, performance rapidly goes downhill. From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: "resend" and e-style (181) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 00:17:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 494 (723) Robert Kirsner thinks that the opposition to *resend* must have come from a*litnik*. As one of the first defenders of the use of *resend*, I feel compelled to say that I'm a *litnik*, too. My Ph.D. is in Old English literature, and I teach philology, linguistics, British literature, and now paleography/codicology. No literature teacher trained since 1965, and not many trained earlier, would attempt to define what can and cannot be a part of the English vocabulary. It's fascinating that that's what Mr. Kirsner THINKS we do. Perhaps, he had a bad poetry teacher in high school who told him Robert Frost's poetry was all about death, or perhaps he's measuring us all against some silly colleague in the English department at UCLA (mais non!) who runs about *correcting* folks' spoken English (Alas, those people are the mad scientists of the English department, and they've led to more misunderstanding about what we do than Mary Shelley caused to be visited upon biology professors.), but in any case he's wrong. *Litniks* and *langniks* are of two cultures because each thinks the other over-complicates an obvious phenomenon, and neither will take the trouble to find out what the other is really doing. There is a great deal more to *Hamlet* than -oedipal problems- (Kirsner's phrase) and more to Goethe than a -concept of the eardrum- (ibid.), and the successful analysis of Shakespeare and Goethe is not written by people who want to declare*resend* a linguistic atrocity. On the other hand, *litniks* who want to ignore advances in linguistic theory like to think that the only good *langnik* is a polyglot, and thus they overlook the whole saussurean foundation of language theory which has, while they weren't looking, become the basis of modern literary critical theory ever since the advent of structuralism. That there are two cultures is undoubtedly true, but we should work to integrate these two cultures as we have tried to integrate others. They have too much to offer each other to be allowed to stand in a mutually exclusive relationship. To paraphrase Kirsner, reality is a crutch for those unable to cope with language or fiction. It's a pity, really. I like to imagine that Shakespeare and Goethe knew how to walk WITH language and fiction. --Pat Conner --Litnik, Langnik, etcnik --West Virginia University From: Grace Logan Subject: Resend Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 12:44:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 495 (724) I noted with interest the discussion of the word 'resend' in recent HUMANIST postings. Curiosity sent me to my copy of the micro-OED (bless the Book-of-the-Month Club). I found the following: resend,v.trans., To send back or again. Quotations: 1554. Bradford Lett. Wks. (Parker Soc) II.116. My book . . I I did give unto you; howbeit, if you be weary of it, you may re-send it again. 1575. G.Harvey Letter-Bk. (Camden) 90, I resende you a furlonge of salutations. . . . 1894. Gladstone. Sp. Ho. Com. 1 Mar., This operation of sending and resending . . between the two Houses, this particular Bill, . . has continued long enough. The last example at the very least seems to me to use the verb in almost the very same sense in which it was used in the original posting. Grace Logan Arts Computing Office University of Waterloo From: Subject: HUMANIST discussion: Healers and witchcraft Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 00:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 496 (725) Somebody, I forget who, inquired about books about women as healers and witchcraft. I just got in my mail today a flyer from Rutgers University Press which that person would be interested in. They have just published a collection of essays on that subject _Women as Healers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives_ edited by Carol Shepherd McClain. From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: subconsciousness-raising and the "use of women" Date: 25 April 1989, 11:19:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 497 (726) Having one's unconscious verbal mannerisms analysed in public is like being hit by a rock in a snowball. You don't know where it came from or why, you don't know who the person is who threw it, you don't know why you are being punished or for what, but the rock still hurts. The rock in this case was an accusation of unconscious sexism for my use of the phrase "the use of women in the practice of medicine, as midwives, doctors, or nurses." I have already made my peace with Ms. Matheson, but I do want to address the issue of being accused and convicted of using sexist language. The deep irony of the situation was that I had made my query on behalf of my wife, who is a nurse interested in the history of women in medicine, and for myself as a professor of English interested in the conflicting Renaissance images of woman as nurse and poisoner, healer and witch (see Keith Thomas's great book), or help-meet and snare (Milton's images). My wife helped me draft the note to Humanist, and she found nothing offensive in the wording of it. Both of us are quite conscious of the fact that society *has* "used" women, but neither of us had any intentions of implying that women should be "used." When one is accused of an unconsious mannerism in style, in order to have one's consciousness raised, there is no way to avoid being found guilty. I do plead innocent, however, and I stand on my record as a journal editor who has published the work of women scholars consistently and constantly since 1966 (when there wern't that many women scholars in the liberal arts) and allowed my journal often to be used as a forum for feminist criticism; and I stand on my teaching as well. Ms. Matheson cannot know that I normally give a fifteen-minute tirade towards the beginning of the term in writing courses on the use of the phrase "the little woman" to illustrate sexist language, or that I discuss oppression of women extensively in courses on Renaissance literature. I often will include an author like Ariosto because he is a delightful exception to the patriarchal rule (in varying senses of that phrase). I just plain *dislike* sexism in the home, the workplace, or in the professional interpretation of history or literature. So for me (and for my wife in this case), to be accused even of unconscious sexism is especially painful. Sexism is a charged issue that divides what Milton called "the two great sexes." Arguing it often causes mutual male and female distrust and suspicion, dividing humans from humanism. I am sorry that accusations have arisen in such an open-minded forum as Humanist. I and my wife do appreciate all the helpful responses to my query. From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: Mapmaking Date: 25 Apr 89 10:56:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 894 (727) This may be too late, but my geography colleague tells me that the best person to contact on cartograms is Nick Chrisman at the University of Washington. He has designed software for such things. His address: CHRISMAN@UWAMAX. From: ipl cms Subject: Re: Sanskrit coding, cont. (112) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 23:15:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 895 (728) In reply to Jamie's query on how librairies usuelly deal with ASCII character set when it comes down to Indian languages, I would like to remind him of a message from Dominik (I think...) where he mentioned a standard character set built by the American National Standard for Information Sciences: Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use. I just got a copy of this yesterday and it seems quite comprehensive and does not jeopardize the use of French, German, Chinese,...(almost all language one [or should I say "I"] can think of... This scheme is the standard coding system used by all the librairies in North America (I don't know whether European librairies have adopted it as well?), and it was designed both for a 8-bit coding sheme and for a 7-bit. No matter what scheme is adopted for this large project, many people will be dissatisfied for it won't be compatible with their own. What we are aiming for, however, is not to create "dukkha", but to build up the most convenient coding system. Your own personal texts (mines included!) will need to be altered if we want to adopt the eventual scheme, yet this can be easily be done by running our texts through a transformation filter (that can easily be written in SNOBOL4+). Another question coming to mind is whether to use a 8-bit or 7-bit coding scheme. It seems that the 8-bit would be the most convenient for the entering of data, yet for sending data through E-mail, the 7-bit is required. We could use an 8-bit system, and have a special filter that converts the text into a 7-bit for electronic exchanges. Once the scheme is elaborated, I will write this filter (i.e. that would transform the text from 8-bit to 7-bit and vice and versa) and make it available to whoever might find it useful (SNOBOL4+ also has a public domain version called SNORUN; we cannot write any program with SNORUN, but it is possible to run them. The filter I am talking about could be run with SNORUN). I think we should seriously consider adapting the ANSI (American National Standard Information Sciences) 's scheme since it is has been carefully elaborated. Yet, no Sanskrists (or not many) have heard of it. What do you think?? I am leaving Toronto early on Thursday morning to go to Massachusetts where I will be teaching a Pali language course. Unfortunately, it seems I won't have access to E-Mail there. So if you wish to contact me during the summer, please do so at the following address: Mathieu Boisvert c/o Diana Allen 16 Main Street Shelburne Falls MA. 01370 U.S.A. (413) 625-2546 Thanks, Mathieu From: "James H. Coombs" Subject: IRIS Intermedia announcement Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 15:01:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 498 (729) Brown University and Apple Computer Announce New Multiuser Hypermedia Development System WASHINGTON, DC. April 25, 1989 Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), in conjunction with Apple Computer, Inc., today announced the availability of IRIS Intermedia, a multiuser hypermedia development system that allows individuals and groups to create and navigate through interconnected bodies of information across a network. Intermedia is a tool that allows users to build "webs" of information--consisting of text, graphics, timelines and scanned images. With Intermedia, users can easily browse through trails of information, link together materials in the same intuitive way they associate ideas, and organize concepts in an orderly, yet non-linear way. Intermedia webs help the user explore vast quantities of information, discern connections between ideas and easily understand where they are, what they've seen and what they can explore next. Intermedia provides yet another point in the Macintosh(R) multimedia spectrum that started with Apple's own HyperCard(R) software. Intermedia allows multiple overlapping windows, the facility to handle lengthy documents, navigation aids, and most importantly, a truly multiuser environment that allows groups of users to simultaneously create and annotate shared hypermedia "ideabases." Intermedia runs under A/UX(R), Apple's version of the UNIX(R)-based operating system, an important operating system in higher education and government. It is available through the Apple Programmers and Developers Association (APDA tm). The Intermedia user interface is built on top of the Macintosh Toolbox interface that is provided as part of A/UX, so while Intermedia makes full use of the powerful capabilities provided by A/UX, such as virtual memory, multitasking and networking, it also offers the ease of use of the Macintosh interface. Documents are shared using Network File System (NFS). "Our goal was to provide a seamless environment where people can create documents and link together important concepts in much the same way the human mind creates associations," said Norman Meyrowitz, associate directory of IRIS and manager of the team that created the system. "We want to empower individuals and groups with tools that allow them to create webs of multimedia information according to their own needs and interests." For the end user, Intermedia is a set of powerful, integrated applications--InterWord, a word processing program; InterDraw, a structured graphics editor that with InterPix, a scanned image viewer, allows users to create and display diagrams and bitmap images; and InterVal, a timeline editor that helps manage temporal events by displaying them in chronological order--and the capability to link together materials created by those applications into an exploratory web of ideas. The web is the structure in which a user collects and navigates the links associated with a set of documents. Intermedia's multiple window support lets the user display over 100 documents on the screen at the same time and visualize the connections between them. For example, a history instructor could create an environment for exploring the world of Thomas Jefferson. The web could include original writings of Thomas Jefferson that are linked to analytical articles about each work, a biography of Jefferson, a timeline which outlines all the significant historical events that occurred before, during and after Jefferson's life, a collection of drawings that depict Jefferson's inventions and architectural designs, a collection of bitmap photographs of Monticello and its grounds and an annotated bibliography of related reading material. In a sample IRIS Intermedia web, "Exploring the Moon," students interested in lunar exploration can browse through a collection of materials about the Apollo Missions, including details of the scientific objectives and goals of each mission. Students can then "join" the astronauts in their explorations--seeing vivid scanned photographs of the sites the astronauts saw, studying maps and timelines, and reading transcripts of what they were saying as they took photographs, conducted experiments and walked on the moon. Students can customize the web by creating new documents and adding their own links. The sample is available directly from IRIS at Brown University. "It's a provocative way to learn because it lets students explore information from different vantage points," said Katie Povejsil, Apple's marketing manager of academic solutions for higher education. "We believe that it promotes critical thinking and hones research skills. Since it can be used by non-programmers and delivered over a network, we expect Intermedia to accelerate the creation of multimedia instruction and research materials for higher education. It also has great potential for use in training and reference systems applications within higher education as well as in business and government where UNIX operating systems and networks are commonly used." Intermedia is currently undergoing its third year of testing in several Brown University courses. The results of these field trials have shown that students who used Intermedia materials demonstrated substantial improvements in their ability to think critically and analyze the subject matter in an integrated, holistic manner compared to students in control groups who did not use the materials. At several other universities, it has been used for such disparate projects as an online medical textbook and an experimental web on the life and notes of famous philosophers. The IRIS Intermedia System The IRIS Intermedia system has two parts: the IRIS Intermedia Server, which runs on a Macintosh system on a network and manages both the document file system and a network-accessible database that contains the information about interdocument links; and the Intermedia Client, which runs on individual workstations and includes the four applications--InterWord, InterDraw, InterPix and InterVal. The IRIS InterLex Server is an optional Intermedia component which provides network-wide access to a full version of Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary from any of the other applications. The IRIS Intermedia system is available through APDA for $150.00 per machine or through IRIS at the same price. When purchased through APDA, customers in the U.S. will be eligible for up to two hours of free A/UX hotline support for the first 90 days. The $150 price includes the Intermedia Server and Intermedia Client software, tutorials, and documentation. Available directly from IRIS at Brown are "Exploring the Moon" for $25 and IRIS InterLex Server for $250. InterLex is available on a variety of tape media--Apple computer-compatible DC 2000 mini data cartridge, DC-600 data cartridge, eight millimeter helical scan video tape or 1/2-inch 9-track reel. The price of InterLex includes the license to provide the information over a multiuser network. In a stand-alone installation, Intermedia requires one dedicated Macintosh(R) II, IIx, or IIcx system running A/UX 1.1, with at least 4 megabytes of RAM to act as both the server and client. In a networked installation, Intermedia requires one dedicated Macintosh II, IIx or IIcx running A/UX 1.1, with at least 4 megabytes of RAM to act as the server and any number of similarly-configured Macintosh systems to run as clients. An additional 40 to 80 megabyte hard disk is recommended for storing documents and data of any significant size. IRIS was established by Brown University in 1983 to investigate ways in which computing technology can help individuals in their research, teaching and learning. Its goals are to create experimental tools that empower individuals with new capabilities for harnessing information, to enhance group interaction and communication, and to develop a deeper understanding of the ways people work. Brown University is a member of the apple University Consortium, a council of 32 leading universities formed in 1984 that explores innovative uses of the Macintosh, develops courseware and advises Apple about future technological directions. Apple's Macintosh personal computers have found growing popularity among college students and faculty because of its easy-to-use graphical interface. Phone Contacts: IRIS 401-863-3438 APDA 800-282-2732 From: MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK Subject: Instructions for using HUMBUL, in case anyone is unclear. Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 10:06:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 499 (730) Dear Colleagues Welcome to the HUMBUL distribution list. This is based on the HUMBUL data base on the use of computers in the humanities and is accessible from EARN, BITNET and JANET. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. HUMBUL HOWTO. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: MAY@LEICESTER.AC.UK Subject: List of current HUMBUL files. Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 18:00:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 500 (731) SECTION T - HUMBUL CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Sections/subsections marked with TWO asterisks (**) contain items input during the CURRENT CALENDAR MONTH. Sections/subsections marked with ONE asterisk contain items input during the previous calendar month. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. HUMBUL CONTENTS. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: COMPARATIVE LITERATURE PROGRAMS Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 14:08:56 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 501 (732) In reply to Charles Ess's recent query concerning comparative literature programs, I'd like to recommend our brand new program here at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Our program offers a broad range of courses in virtually all areas of comparative literature. The program, moreover, would be particularly attractive to a person competent or interested in French and Francophone studies. Our director, Professor Michelle Gellrich, who may be reached in care of our English department, would be more than happy to provide Mr. Ess's student (or any other student) with a lovely brochure describing the many possibilities available within our program. Yours cordially, KEVIN L. COPE (ENCOPE@LSUVM) From: "Nancy J. Frishberg" Subject: Software for deaf/hearing impaired Date: 26 Apr 89 09:56:40 ET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 502 (733) Joel Goldfield's query touches on several specialties of interest to me. First, are you aware of IBM's National Support Center for Persons with Disabilities? They try to maintain good databases of hardware and software (compatible with IBM's equipment) for all disabilities. They can be reached by phone 800/IBM-2133 (both voice & TDD) (or 404/238-3521 for the TDD line only;"Telecommunication Device for the Deaf"=TDD). That will provide a first answer to the "produce sounds intelligibly" requirement, because IBM has a new product aimed at several dimensions of voice/speech training. For something to help with "understanding American Sign Language or German sign language" (paraphrase mine), you're asking for a tall order. The closest approximation would be Vicki Hanson (IBM Research) & Carol Padden (UCSan Diego)'s research project on teaching English through ASL via videodisk & text. (Hanson: VRL at IBM.COM or Padden: wp207@sdcc12.ucsd.edu) Or, coming from a different direction, Emerson & Stearn's software (for the Mac) to notate ASL (phonemic - if you'll allow the use of the term at its abstract rather than literal level). Talk to Don Newkirk there (619/457-2526). Do you have a clear idea of what you mean by German sign language? I don't. There is someone who is creating a visual dictionary of signs (i.e. animation, not digitization) based at University of Hamburg, about whose work I have heard good things, but cannot personally attest to it. I'm forwarding the query to contacts at NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf- part of RIT) (if Norm Coombs doesn't beat me to it) and at Gallaudet for more elaboration. From: Charles Ess Subject: Library intermedia Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 14:48:06 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 898 (734) Following a recent visit by Peter Heywood (Biology, Brown University) who spoke to us about his experiences with Intermedia -- one of our library staff, who is responsible for organizing a program next fall on our campus for regional librarians, asked about the possibility bringing in resource persons such as Peter to address her conference. While it is possible that Peter may be able to do so... any recommendations from the HUMANIST readers for a possible resource person who is knowledgeable especially in library applications of hypermedia? (We have two additional candidates, one from California, and the other from New York: budget is a factor here, so recommendations for folk closer to Missouri would be especially welcome.) Our great thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 11:07:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 503 (735) Replying re: resend Recently reactionary readers, resenting recondite "resend" replied resolutely rebuking respondent. Really! Refrain recrimination, reenter reality, reaffirm real regard re reuse regular reasonable referents; remove redundancy, recoup restricted records. Recap: recklessly recommend reuse; reaffirm researchers' revolutionary references! Respectfully, Douglas de Lacey From: DONWEBB@CALSTATE.BITNET (Donald Webb) Subject: "Resend" > "resent"? Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 11:14:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 504 (736) As I noted in an aside to the gracious originator of the "resend" discussion (sorry, Natalie, but we may get a transfusion from this turnip yet!), there is a problem with the verb "to resend." It has nothing to do with derivation or meaning but morphology: the past tense and past participle of "to resend" would seem to be "resent" (unless somebody wants to coin "resended"--include me out, thanks). Those forms overlap, unfortunately, I think, with the infinitive and present tense of the verb "to resent." While the distinction may be obvious from context, the word "resent" doesn't look pretty. Solution: hyphenate it: "re-sent." The "solution" may in itself create a problem by being a spelling exception, but at least it's shorter than /wiedergesandt/ (sorry, Prof. Junger!). Perhaps we could abbreviate it in all forms as "Res." Example: "The message was interrupted in medias Res. Please try again." From: Subject: Repeat query on C.A.L.L. usage. Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 12:01:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 505 (737) Dear Humanists, On March 17th I broadcast a request for details of C.A.L.L. usage at your respective Universities/Colleges. To date, I have received EIGHT replies. Four were queries ! ! ! Please flood my mailbox ! ! ! Tell me if your site USES NONE ! I'll even threaten to " SAY AGAIN " ! ! ! ( Being ex-Navy, I recognize the merits of the "neologism". ) Thanks in advance for your help. Bill Oleske CLL6WFO at uk.ac.Leeds [That's CLL6WFO@LEEDS.AC.UK for those on Bitnet/NetNorth/Earn.] From: Joe Giampapa Subject: request for e-mail assistance Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 13:37 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 506 (738) I have a favor to ask of HUMANIST e-mail hackers. For the past 1-2 months, I have been having trouble contacting three addresses. The irony is that I HAD successfully exchanged e-mail w/ these people, and that these addresses are the only connections between us. Perhaps some people can tell me what is wrong, and if there is now alternate routing for these addresses: West Germany: @ztivax.siemens.com California: @cel.fmc.com Japan and/or New Jersey: [upshowa|upheisei]!{userid}@attunix.sf.att.com Thanks to all who can/do help! -Joe giampapa@brandeis.bitnet From: "David Owen, Philosophy, University of Arizona" Subject: Locke Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 11:06 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 507 (739) In the 1982 issue of The Locke Newsletter, an article by Nidditch appeared concerning the creation of a concordance of Locke's Essay. Unfortunately, Nidditch has since died, to the great sorrow of the scholarly world. Does anyone know whether the project of creating the concordance went on after his death? David Owen OWEN@ARIZRVAX From: GUEDON@CC.UMONTREAL.CA Subject: RE: queries (110) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 20:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 508 (740) I do not have a direct answer to Joel D. Goldfield's question, but let me point to two possible trails: 1. Dr. Marshall Wicks from Gallaudet University in Washington DC will have answers, I am sure. I do ot have his bitnet address but you can contact him via CTL on Accunet (Minitel format) under the pseudonym "Goofie", or you can write to him. 2. Again on CTL (minitel format, but also available through Alex in Montreal), there is a hidden forum called Surdi, organized by French deaf people. You would find a lot of information there. One engineer can be reached there (she is deaf too) and she could tell you a lot about a videodisk thatwas designed in CNET for teaching lip reading (French lip reading that is, but I understand that it is very close to the American standard, unlike the British equicvalent, strangely enough). She can be reached under the pseudo "Josefina". Hope this helps. Jean-Claude Guedon From: Curtis Rice Subject: queries (110) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 22:03:36 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 509 (741) Software for the Deaf: The Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada has developed some interesting software for "visible speech" - the deaf student sees the waveform of model speech and can aim to produce a waveform to match it, substituting visible feedback for the audio feedback he/she cannot receive. The software is used in teaching deaf children to speak. Curtis Rice From: Subject: Sanskrit and Librarians Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 00:15 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 902 (742) I am not sure which system Mathieu is referring to (American National Standard for Information Sciences: Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use), but all else being equal it sounds like a likely candidate for the system to go with-- I am appreciate librarians and their impact as well as their usually broad-minded attitude. Having to deal with many different systems, languages, eccentric scholars, wierd manuscripts, and the like, they often seem to have a "larger" frame of reference (Sanskritists often don't care about Pali, for example). This is definately true for the Chinese Japanese Korean language groups (my real area of concern), where they, in conjunction with other research groups, have come up with a system that transcends the nationalism of the various national standards (the Japanese will never worry about Korean, the Taiwanese and mainland China don't have much interest in making their respective "standards" standard, etc.). Can you describe this system for us? How does it relate to the ISO standard mentioned in an earlier message? Jamie From: "Thomas W. Stuart" Subject: Re: "resend", cont. (53) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 20:45:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 510 (743) Sometimes I can't even keep straight to whom I be resending. The fromer or the reply-toer or the resent-fromer. From: Subject: thanks Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 23:07:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 511 (744) I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleague in the English department here at Mississippi State and those who have responded to her query about "resend" for enlivening HUMANIST. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: Subject: humanist RE: Comp Lit Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 19:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 904 (745) As a member of a Comp Lit department I would strongly advise any student to follow the principle of WYSISYG. Check out the catalogs of the schools you're interested in. From the faculty list go to the *Directory of American Scholars* and the *MLA Bibliographies* to find out about what these faculty do (have done), and whether it is in fields that interest you. Finally, visit those schools and talk to faculty and especially to the ultimate consumers, the graduate students. This is much better than depending on the dated views of old Siwash (or wherever) held by your professors. Jim Halporn Indiana University From: David Megginson Subject: Re: academic WYSIWYG (23) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 21:08:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 512 (746) I agree with Jim Halporn, when he suggests checking the MLA bibliographies before choosing a school. I would like to add the caution, though, that there is no necessary correlation between academic work and teaching ability. Even at the graduate level, professors need teaching skills which, unfortunately, too many lack. I'm sure that everyone reading this has, at some point, had a professor who was spectacular in print or even on the podium, but dead weight in the seminar or across a desk. How do the members of HUMANIST feel about 3 or 4 compulsary courses on teaching for all graduate students? Good professors may be an act of g/God(s), but competent professors need not be. David Megginson From: "Kevin L. Cope" Subject: Rules for the Selection of Cmparative Literature Programs Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 21:24:09 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 513 (747) While I agree with Mr. Halporn's general principles for the selection of graduate programs, I would like to suggest that the sources he recommends are often inaccurate or inadequate. The Directory of American Scholars is not much good when it comes to well-known but younger scholars. Likewise, the MLA Directory is wildly inaccurate and incomplete in certain fields. The chief professional organizations in my field (the eighteenth century) have, for very good reasons, disconnected themselves from the MLA. Hence, the MLA doesn't do much to keep track of work in this field. It's a better strategy to look into the directories and bibliographies of professional organizations dedicated to the student's specific area of interest. Mr. Halporn's suggestion that would- be students consult present graduate students--the consumers--is an excellent one. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Wysiwya Date: 27 April 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 514 (748) Here we are again, avoiding work to talk about things that matter: in this case, choosing a graduate school, which may amount to nothing, but because so much eros is involved, even nothing has a steep price. Studying with the right person or people is crucial, but so much depends on what the student is after. The skills that lead to the most rapid progress up the academic ladder may not be those that result in the best scholars. The best scholars are not necessarily those who publish the most. Ok, so we all know about this, yet as Venus' son says to the triumphant Phoebus in the Metamorphoses, you may be superior to the serpent, but I rule you and can make you play the fool any day. One test I can suggest from experience (in addition to the others) is to write to the person with whom one wants to study. If he or she replies, then you know something about that person. Most important of all, again, is to be clear about what you want, because you may get it. This is, of course, the irony of living in an affluent world. An Aladin's lamp on every person's shelf. The MLA bibliography is a guide (perhaps inaccurate in some fields) to what's popular, the conventions even more so. I am happy to see that computing in the humanities, thanks to the ACH, is gaining a stronger presence in those conventions, and I was delighted at how much genuine enjoyment was to be felt in the session in which I was involved last December. Good work well and clearly presented. I don't think we can be as sanguine about the older, traditional subjects and about using any such academic barometer to determine where to study them. Willard McCarty From: Peter D. Junger Subject: In re 're'; noch wieder 'wieder' Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 17:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 906 (749) I feel a morsel of agenbite that I did not make clear when I analogized 're' to 'wieder' that I was not suggesting that anyone would ever say, "Ich habe wiedergesandt." "Wiedergeschickt" ist gechickter. Peter D. Junger--CWRU Law School--Cleveland, OH--bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU From: Abigail Ann Young Subject: new electronic discussion list Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 12:58:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 515 (750) Dear Friends, This is to ask you to announce a new electronic discussion list, REED-L@UTORONTO, on your own lists. REED-L is intended to serve as a forum for the discussion of the myriad activities which are documented by volumes in the Malone Society and Records of Early English Drama series: drama, folk drama, semi-dramatic folk activities, early music, etc. It is only just now getting underway, and I look forward to seeing the directions the discussion will take. At least to start with, REED-L will be more similar to ENGLISH and FOLKLORE than to HUMANIST: that is, we hope to proceed by direct transmission and logging of submissions without needing any editorial intervention. Those interested in theatre history, mediaeval drama, early modern drama, folk practices, morris dancing, mediaeval and renaissance music will find a place to discuss research and theories on these topics in REED-L Thank you very much for posting this: enquiries may be directed to me at REED@UTOREPAS or REED@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA. The interactive message TELL LISTSERV AT UTORONTO SUB REED-L subscriber's-name will cause me to add that subscriber to the list. Abigail Ann Young Research Associate Records of Early English Drama 150 Charles Street W./ Victoria College / University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario / M5S 1K9 / Canada 1-416-585-4504 REED@UTOREPAS or REED@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: Jim Cahalan Subject: Another Graduate Program to consider Date: 27 Apr 89 18:00:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 516 (751) I responded directly to Charles Ess' inquiry about graduate programs, but let me repeat throughout HUMANIST to anyone who may be looking for a graduate program in Literature and Criticism or to anyone who may have a student looking, that I would be glad to send information to anyone who writes me if you indicate the area and nature of the interest. Let me emphasize that our M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Literature and Criticism are particularly designed for established teachers of English, with a summers residency option that allows such persons to complete coursework and residency requirements without leaving an academic-year job. (We also offer an academic-year program, of course.) Students may follow specific interests (such as comp lit or any other areas in Literature and Criticism) within our generalist program. We have specialists on our faculty in comp lit. Four journals are edited by members of our faculty (three of those published here at IUP). Drop me a line on BITNET or through the mail if you're interested or know anyone who might be. Regards, Jim Cahalan, Graduate Literature English Dept., 111 Leonard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Phone: (412) 357-2264 From: "Nancy J. Frishberg" Subject: Deaf/Hearing impaired addenda/corrigenda Date: 27 Apr 89 09:56:42 ET X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 908 (752) [deleted quotation] "We have people here working on interactive videodisk applications for both sign language and speechreading. The people to contact are Don Sims (speechreading), (DGSNCP@RITVAX.bitnet) and Bill Newell (sign)(wjnncd@ritvax.bitnet)." Correcting some addresses: Vicki Hanson: VLH at IBM.COM and Carol Padden: CPADDEN at UCSD.EDU From: Hanna Kassis Subject: REvolution Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 20:46:20 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 909 (753) I shall appreciate reading the views of fellow HUMANISTS regarding a historical question that was put to me and to which, as a "mediaevilist", I cannot respond with clarity and assurance. Which revolution made a greater contribution to the betterment of humanity: the French Revolution (whose bi-centennial is to be celebrated next July 14) or the American Revolution? "Ishmael" P.S. Defeatist suggestions that I could read a book (or books) on the subject would run against the "grain" of e-writing. From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: academic wysiwyg, cont. (93) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 19:28:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 910 (754) Like all advice, recomendations on how to choose a graduate school are easy to make, if only because those giving the advice don't have to live with the consequences. Moreover, the candidate would do well to remember that the theme of appearance and reality operates as profoundly in the world of graduate school as it does in renaissance literature. I did my undergraduate work in one of the older universities on this continent, with its full share of grand old scholars whose names are still spoken with respect, and I did my graduate work at one of the newer universities which still had its reputation to make. Nonetheless, I found some similarities. First of all, I found in both schools that among the generation of academics now over sixty, most of the really big names only had MAs, whereas the less illustrious were more likely to have doctorates. Once upon a time the real hot shots were hired before completing their degrees and prefered to get on with writing a real book rather than a thesis. This paradox characterizes an older, almost mythic age of the university that current doctoral candidates think of not without a touch of the cardinal sin of envy. The present age has its own paradoxes as well, not the least of which is the wandering wood of the annual bibliographies. Every school, alas, has a larger contingent than it would like to admit of professors who neither learn nor teach, at least not as far as anyone can tell, and the latter incapacity may embrace inability to teach students in the classroom or peers in the scholarly press; incapacity can be very versatile indeed. Scanning the bibliographies can be a useful way of determining if a department is totally inert, but such a determination would require very thorough searching indeed. (Proving that NOTHING is happening requires a more exhaustive methodology than proving that something is happening.) The real paradox of publication, however, is that some of the very best scholars publish at long intervals because of the time required for profound research, whereas some of the less impressive scholars have had to earn their job security by maintaining a constant flow of mediocrity. I am not suggesting that all (or even most) prolific academics are churning out mediocrity, but I am suggesting that quantitative impressions gained from a quick scan of an annual bibliography may be misleading. Finally, a cautionary tale. Some years ago, I knew some people in a field remote from my own who had the misfortune to work with a professor who was prolific almost beyond belief, producing at least one article a month and sometimes more. Each paper, moreover, was of the highest quality in a particularly difficult field. One reason for his output was that he never appeared in the classroom, although he was assigned a full teaching load. Nor did he plan his evasions in advance. When it was time for one of his classes he would look into the labs and order one of his graduate students off to give the lecture for that hour. Of course, he didn't bother meeting with or supervising his graduate students, beyond insisting that they put in full attendance in his lab (for obvious reasons). Their general consensus was that that they learned absolutely nothing from him, and the constant threat of being dispatched on five minutes' notice to give lectures (sometimes in subjects they had not studied themselves) made it difficult for them to teach themselves much of anything. However, his influence in his field was such that he would get their theses published somewhere, no matter how bad, and his reference would guarantee them jobs somewhere. While this was an extreme case, I doubt that many have gone through graduate school without encountering at least one professor whose scholarly output was built on the exploitation of graduate students. Brian Whittaker. From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: which revolution? (25) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 02:37:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 517 (755) The American Revolution, because it inspired the French Revolution. From: David Megginson Subject: Re: which revolution? (25) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 07:58:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 518 (756) Which revolution did more good for mankind? If we go by original aims and ideals, it's a difficult choice. If we go by the meanness and violation of those ideals which followed, we can eliminate both. Perhaps the abstract intellectual ideas floating around England at the time did more good than either the French or American Revolutions. -- David Megginson From: Subject: WYSIWYG clarification Date: Mon, 1 May 89 12:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 912 (757) I find it hard to believe, but I think that many of my fellow humanists can't stop to read what they see written. I never said that students should read bibliographies to determine who the hotshot scholars/teachers are. I *said* they should look at bibliographies to find out the *fields* in which the scholars at their possible choices were working. The main point about WYSIWYG was to advise the potential graduate students to *visit* the campus and talk to members of the department, faculty *and especially* graduate students. If you want to discuss publish/perish and the fabled teachers without Ph.D.s and without publications, fine -- but that's a different agenda. Jim Halporn From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Software & hardware for the deaf & hearing-impaired Date: Mon, 1 May 89 10:36:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 913 (758) Thank you to all who have and are still contributing information on this important topic. All HUMANISTs are welcome to contact me directly about additional findings as I track down the various references. I'd be glad to give you an account of how the U. of Kiel (W. Germany) scientists (engineers, speech pathologists, audiologists, et al.) work with these materials once we've meet on pedagogical design and implementation of hardware & software materials this summer. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@UNHH From: CATHERINE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Oxford Catalogue of Fonts Date: Fri, 28 APR 89 11:17:02 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 519 (759) I am trying to compile a catalogue of exotic fonts here at Oxford, which would bee available for anyone to consult. The catalogue would be sorted first by script, then by printer (eg Postscript, HP etc), then method (TeX, Duke Tool Kit, etc), if nec. by computer (Mac, IBM). I have already consulted a few people over here, and will shortly write a more extensive note to Humanist. But before doing this I would like to ask you whether you have - knowledge of existing fonts - addresses of people or firms who might know of fonts - ideas as to organisation of catalogue, or ways that this could be made most helpful I'd be very grateful for any help you could give me. Many thanks, Catherine Griffin Janet address: CATHERINE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6UP, England From: iwml@UKC.AC.UK Subject: Bible aids Date: Mon, 01 May 89 17:57:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 520 (760) I have been asked to locate any "decent adult Bible study" aids on disk. Any ideas? suggestions? Ian (Mitchell Lambert) Department of Theology University of Kent at Canterbury From: Willard McCarty Subject: fair schedule Date: 1 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 915 (761) Tools for Humanists, 1989 a software and hardware fair held in conjunction with The Dynamic Text 6-9 June 1989 Schedule (1 May 1989) `Tools for Humanists, 1989' is a large software and hardware fair for scholars in the humanities. It is being held in concert with `The Dynamic Text' conference at the University of Toronto, from 2:30 p.m., Tuesday 6 June, to 5:30 p.m., Friday 9 June. It will feature slightly over 50 scheduled demonstrations on approximately 40 workstations of various kinds (IBM, Macintosh, Sun, NeXT). In addition 2 IBMs and 2 Macintoshes will be kept available throughout the duration of the fair for unscheduled demonstrations. Special talks are also planned. Each day of the fair is divided into three periods: (1) morning, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; (2) afternoon, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.; and (3) evening, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Note, however, that the first day of the fair will have no morning period, and the last day no evening period. During the evenings, the fair will be open to the general public as well as to conference attendees. For those not attending the conference, admission to the fair will cost $5 on each occasion. As part of the registration materials, attendees will receive a copy of the comprehensive guidebook to the fair. This guidebook will contain accurate descriptions of the software and hardware on display. It will be available to non-registrants at a reasonable cost. The exhibition room is situated in a prominent place, between the main lecture theatre and the rooms where the breakout sessions are to be held. A rough diagram of the room will be found below. Please note that the schedule is subject to change without notice. Comments and corrections are welcome. May errors be greeted with forgiveness. Willard McCarty Local Organizer Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto voice: (416) 978-3974 fax: (416) 978-6519 e-mail: mccarty@utorepas ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 6 June W configuration morning afternoon evening -- -------------------- ------------ ------------ ----------- 1 AT (c) (none) Rust Portoraro 2 AT (m,H+,HPLJ,#11) Ott Ott 3 PS2 (c) Daoust 4 PS2 (c,p24,#5) Colpaert Cioran 5 PS2 (c,#4) Colson Colson 6 PS2 (m) Maranda Maranda 7 PS2 (m,mse,vd,#18) Ore Ore 8 AT (m,H+,cd,EMS) Baima Baima 9 PS2 (m) Melby Melby 10 PS2z (m,#17) Faulhaber Bradley 11 PS2 (m,#2,12,HPLJ); Ib. Kraft Kraft 12 PS2 (m,HPLJ,#11) Siebert Siebert 13 PS2 (m) Mohler Morgan 14 (dem) Wong Wong 15 (dem, t2) Sola' Sola' 16 (dem) O'Connor O'Connor 17 (dem: MacII,cd,#10,22) Rockwell 18 MacII Ore Ore 19 MacSE (mt, #20) Olsen Olsen 20 M+;VT200 (mt,#19,26) Hollander Hollander 21 PS2 Hurd Hurd 22 MacII (2Mb RAM,c,cd,vd,#17) Nara Mylonas 23 Sun 3/60 *1 Marin Wilson 24 (dem: IBM 5550) Oikawa Oikawa 25 Sun 3/60 *2 Tompa 26 term (mt, #20) Adamo Adamo 27 (dem) Voorhis Voorhis 28 (dem) Martin Martin 29 (dem) Bolton Bolton 30 (dem) Johnston Johnston 31 (dem: NeXT) (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 (dem) Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 (dem) O'Brien O'Brien 34 (dem) Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 (dem) Makrolog Makrolog 36 (dem) Texpert Texpert 37 (dem) Picchi 38 PS2 (3270,mt,p) Schumacher Schumacher 39 (dem) Lamb Lamb H1 PS2 (NA) (NA) H2 PS2 (NA) (NA) H3 MacSE (NA) (NA) H4 MacSE (NA) (NA) ________________________ *1 OS4.0; 16Mb RAM (Wilson) or 4Mb (Marin); mono; 100Mb disk; 1/4-inch tape unit. *2 OS4.0; X.11 release 3; 8Mb RAM; 100Mb disk space; tape. Wednesday June 7 W morning afternoon evening -- ------------ ------------ ----------- 1 Portoraro Rust Zettersten 2 Hunter Ott Hunter 3 Daoust Zahavy Zahavy 4 Colpaert Cioran 5 Ehrlich Ehrlich Portoraro 6 Snelgrove Snelgrove Mepham 7 Ore Ore 8 Baima Baima Baima 9 Melby Halteren Melby 10 Faulhaber Bradley Bradley 11 Kraft Kraft Kraft 12 Siebert Siebert Siebert 13 Morgan Mohler Mohler 14 Wong Wong Wong 15 Sola' Sola' Sola' 16 O'Connor O'Connor O'Connor 17 Rockwell Chapman Brunet (tk) 18 Janus Janus Janus 19 Kraft Kraft Olsen 20 Hollander Hollander Hollander 21 Hurd Hurd Hurd 22 Mylonas Nara Mylonas 23 Marin Wilson Marin 24 Oikawa Oikawa Oikawa 25 Tompa Tompa 26 Adamo Adamo 27 Voorhis Voorhis Voorhis 28 Martin Martin 29 Bolton Bolton Bolton 30 Johnston Johnston Johnston 31 (Clarke) (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 Wesolowski Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 O'Brien O'Brien O'Brien 34 Kurzweil Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 Makrolog Makrolog Makrolog 36 Texpert Texpert Texpert 37 Picchi Picchi 38 Schumacher Schumacher Schumacher 39 Lamb Lamb Lamb H1 (NA) (NA) (NA) H2 (NA) (NA) (NA) H3 (NA) (NA) (NA) H4 (NA) (NA) (NA) Thursday June 8 W morning afternoon evening -- ------------ ------------ ----------- 1 McKinnon Rust Zettersten 2 Ott Dresher 3 Zahavy Daoust 4 Cioran Colpaert 5 Colson Semonche Colson 6 Mepham Mepham Mepham 7 Ore Ore 8 Baima 9 Melby Halteren Melby 10 Bradley Faulhaber Faulhaber 11 Kraft 12 Siebert Siebert Siebert 13 Morgan Mohler Morgan 14 Wong Wong Wong 15 Sola' Sola' Sola' 16 O'Connor O'Connor O'Connor 17 Chapman Rockwell Rockwell 18 Ore Ore Janus 19 Olsen Kraft 20 Hollander Hollander Hollander 21 Hurd Hurd Hurd 22 Nara Mylonas 23 Wilson 24 Oikawa Oikawa Oikawa 25 26 Adamo Adamo 27 Voorhis Voorhis Voorhis 28 Martin Martin 29 Bolton Bolton Bolton 30 Johnston Johnston Johnston 31 (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 Wesolowski Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 O'Brien O'Brien O'Brien 34 Kurzweil Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 Makrolog Makrolog Makrolog 36 Texpert Texpert Texpert 37 Picchi Picchi 38 Schumacher Schumacher Schumacher 39 Lamb Lamb Lamb H1 (NA) (NA) (NA) H2 (NA) (NA) (NA) H3 (NA) (NA) (NA) H4 (NA) (NA) (NA) Friday June 9 W morning afternoon -- ------------ ------------ 1 Portoraro McKinnon 2 Ott Dresher 3 Daoust Zahavy 4 Colpaert Cioran 5 Semonche Ehrlich 6 Maranda Maranda 7 Snelgrove Snelgrove 8 Baima 9 Halteren Melby 10 Faulhaber Faulhaber 11 Kraft Kraft 12 Siebert Siebert 13 Morgan Mohler 14 Wong Wong 15 Sola' Sola' 16 O'Connor O'Connor 17 Rockwell Chapman 18 Ore Ore 19 Kraft Olsen 20 Hollander Hollander 21 Hurd Hurd 22 Nara Mylonas 23 Marin Marcos-Marin 24 Oikawa Oikawa 25 Tompa Tompa 26 Adamo Adamo 27 Voorhis Voorhis 28 Martin Martin 29 Bolton Bolton 30 Johnston Johnston 31 (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 O'Brien O'Brien 34 Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 Makrolog Makrolog 36 Texpert Texpert 37 38 Schumacher Schumacher 39 Lamb Lamb H1 (NA) (NA) H2 (NA) (NA) H3 (NA) (NA) H4 (NA) (NA) Directory of names [* denotes commercial developer] Adamo: Dr. Giovanni Adamo, Dr. Ada Russo, Dr. Giacinta Spinosa, Dr. Marco Veneziani (Rome); software: Lessico Intellectuale Europeo (Latin database) *Baima: John Baima (Silver Mountain Software); LBase (linguistic analysis and retrieval) *Bolton: Barbara Bolton (SoftQuad, Inc.); software: SoftQuad Publishing Software; SoftQuad Author/Editor Bradley: John Bradley (Computing Services, Toronto); software: TACT (text-retrieval and analysis) Brunet: Professor Etienne Brunet (Institut national de la langue Franc,aise, CNRS, Nice); software: HyperBase *Chapman: Chris Chapman (Cultural Resources, Inc.); software: Culture (database of Western civilization) Cioran: Prof. Samuel D. Cioran (Humanities Computing Centre, McMaster); software: mcBOOKmaster (authoring system, CAI and publication) Clarke: George Clarke (Computer Shop, Toronto); hardware: NeXT Colpaert: Dr. Jozef Colpaert, Dr. Wim Uyttersprot (DIDASCALIA, Antwerp); software: Vocapuces, Verbapuces, Textapuces (CALL) Colson: Dr. R. F. Colson (Southampton); software: Historical Documents Expert System (HIDES) Daoust: Francois Daoust, Luc Dupuy (Centre d'ATO, Universite' du Que'bec a` Montre'al); software: SATO (text analysis) Dresher: Prof. Elan Dresher (Dept. of Linguistics, Toronto); software: Youpie (linguistic stress) Ehrlich: Prof. Heyward Ehrlich (English, Rutgers); software: PC- Write Documentation Engine Faulhaber: Prof. Charles Faulhaber (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley); software: Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (textbase) Halteren: Prof. Hans van Halteren (TOSCA, Nijmegen); software: LDB, Linguistic DataBase (LDB); Computer Library of Utterances for Exercises in Syntax (CLUES) Hollander: Prof. Robert Hollander, Jonathan Altman (Dartmouth Dante Project); software: Dartmouth Dante Project Database Hunter: Prof. David C. Hunter (Computer Science, Muskingum); Prof. Donald Ross (English, Minnesota); software: micro-Eyeball (stylistic statistics) Hurd: Prof. John Hurd (Religious Studies, Toronto); software: Greek Tutor Janus: Prof. Louis Janus (Norwegian, St. Olaf); software: Norwegian courseware *Johnston: James Johnston (Electronic Text Corporation); software: WordCruncher (interactive concordance) Kraft: Prof. Robert Kraft (Religious Studies, Pennsylvania); hardware: Ibycus; software: TLG, PHI texts, hypertext, etc. *Kurzweil: Kurzweil Data Entry; hardware: optical character recognition systems Lamb: Professor Martin Lamb (Faculty of Library and Information Science, Toronto); software: Menulay (hypermedia) *Makrolog: Makrolog Gesellschaft fuer Logik- und Computeranwendungen; software: OPTOPUS (optical character recognition) Maranda: Prof. Pierre Maranda (Anthropologie, Laval); software: Discourse Analysis (DISCAN) Marin: Prof. Dr. Francisco Marcos-Marin (Madrid); software: UNITE (textual editing and publishing) Martin: Prof. Philippe Martin (Experimental Phonetics Laboratory, Toronto); hardware: phonetic analysis McKinnon: Prof. Alastair McKinnon (Philosophy, McGill); software: TextMap (content analysis) *Melby: Prof. Alan Melby (LinguaTech International, Utah); software: Mercury/Termex (lexical data management) Mepham: Prof. Michael Mepham (Laval, Que'bec); software: Lemmatiseur, DAT, SYREX (textual enrichment and analysis, segmentation, lexical construction and tagging) Mohler: Dr. Peter Ph. Mohler (Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden, und Analysen, Mannheim); software: Textpack (textual analysis) Morgan: Dr. Nicholas Morgan (History, Glasgow); software: DISH (historical dbms) Mylonas: Elli Mylonas (Perseus Project, Harvard); software: Perseus (hypermedia for classical culture); Pandora (TLG text retrieval) Nara: Prof. Hiroshi Nara (East Asian, Pittsburgh); software: Understanding Written, Spoken Japanese Project (CALL) *O'Brien: Shiera O'Brien (Multiscript/La Langagerie, Montre'al, for ALPNET); software: Translation Support System *O'Connor: Royalynn O'Connor (Oxford University Press, NY); software: OED on CD-ROM; Micro-OCP; Shakespeare (textbases, concordance software) Oikawa: Dr. A. Oikawa (National Institute for Educational Research, Japan); software: educational materials support system Olsen: Dr. Mark Olsen (ARTFL, Chicago); software: ARTFL (online database of French texts) Ore: Espen Ore (Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen); software: various (CALL, hypermedia, etc.) Ott: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott (Datenverarbeitung, Tuebingen); software: microTUSTEP (scholarly information processing) Picchi: Dr. Eugenio Picchi, Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa); software: lexical database Portoraro: Frederic Portoraro (Philosophy, Toronto); software: SymLog (symbolic logic CAI) Rockwell: Geoffrey Rockwell (Apple Research Partnership Program and Univ. of Toronto Computing Services, Toronto); software: Bib, etc. (personal information management) Rust: Prof. Richard D. Rust (English, North Carolina); software: LitTerms (literary glossary) Schumacher: Dr. Jean Schumacher (Centre de Traitement Electroniques des Documents, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium); software: Logiciel d'Interrogation Interactive de Textes Semonche: Prof. John E. Semonche (History, North Carolina); software: Simulations in U.S. History *Siebert: Steve Siebert (Dragonfly Software); software: Nota Bene (scholarly wordprocessing and text-retrieval) Snelgrove: Dr. Theresa Snelgrove (English, Toronto); software: Structural Analysis Program (STRAP) *Sola': Prof. Donald F. Sola' (Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell); software: Interlex (second-language learning) *Texpert: Texpert software (optical character recognition) Tompa: Prof. Frank Tompa, Darrell Raymond (New OED, Waterloo); software: PAT, GODEL, FAT (text-retrieval, online OED) *Voorhis: David Voorhis (Armchair Airlines Computer Services, Brandon, Manitoba); software: LOGOS (emotional tone) *Wesolowski: Joan Wesolowski (Calera Systems); hardware and software: Calera (optical character recognition and scanning) Wilson: Dr. Eve Wilson (Computing Laboratory, Kent at Canterbury); software: JUSTUS (hypertext information retrieval for law) *Wong: Ruth Wong (Innotech); software: Brushwriter (Chinese wordprocessing) Zahavy: Prof. Tzvee Zahavy; Dr. Tzvika Goldenberg; Ms. Carol Weist (Project Woksape, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Minnesota); software: MILIM (Hebrew language drill) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition room, 2nd floor, Medical Sciences (Alumni Hall) (The room measures approximately 61 feet by 31 feet; the diagram is not to scale.) <----East/West-----> | V North to lecture theatre (windows with curtains along this side) (wall) |-----------------------------------------------.D D---------| |.............workstations....................... ..workst.| | |w | |i w........................... .............................|n a workstations . . workstations |d l........................... .............................|o l workstations . . workstations |w |........................... .............................|s | | | | | | |......... ..................................................| | workst.. . workstations | |---------D D-------------------------------------------------| (wall) (wall) to breakout sessions Legend. Abbreviation Meaning c colour display cd external CD-ROM drive dem demonstrator supplies equipment e direct link to mainframe EMS EMS memory fs file-server HPLJ Hewlett Packard LaserJet Plus H Hacker's Corner (machines for impromptu demonstrations) H+ Hercules Graphics Plus Ib. Ibycus microcomputer m monochrome display (EGA for AT, VGA for PS/2) Mac Macintosh mt external modem and telephone line mse mouse NA not to be assigned p printer p24 24-pin printer PS/2 IBM PS/2-50, 20 Mb fixed disk PS/2z IBM PS/2-50Z, 60Mb fixed disk t tables term terminal tk special talk vd video-disk player ws workstation # physically contiguous to workstation number 3270 IBM 3270 emulation software *****END***** From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: fonts? Date: Tue, 2 May 89 15:58:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 521 (762) In re fonts: For MS-DOS machines: Multi-Lingual Scholar Gamma Productions, Inc. 710 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 609 Santa Monica, CA 90401 From: ZEITLYN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: RE: personal information managers (108) Date: Tue, 2 May 89 12:08 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 522 (763) There is a shareware Macintosh programme that may be of interest to HUMANISTS. It is called Texas (or Tex in its new, revised form) and it is a Hypercard stack that will make a text-in-context index of any text-only file, and then permit very fast, neat access to the relevant parts of the document(s). I'm using to handle transcripts and their translations and I find it invaluable. Amazingly it actually does what it claims to do! My only complaint is that there's no stop list to weed out 'small words' but this may come with time... I assume North Americans will have no problem findingf copies on bulletin boards. In UK it is available from the Macintosh User Group UK based in Oxford. all the best david From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Dynamic Text May 15 Deadline Date: Tue, 02 May 89 11:10:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 917 (764) This is a reminder that early registration at the 16th ALLC Conference and 9th ICCH conference at the University of Toronto June 5--10 ends on May 15th. ALLC-ICCH89 (The Dynamic Text) has a truly exceptional group of participants from all over the world. There are eleven keynote addresses, over 125 speakers in 40 parallel sessions and 4 panels, 4 free workshops, and a large concurrent software-hardware fair with about 50 exhibitors. The final programme is found on the Humanist file-server, s.v. DYNAMTXT CONFRNCE. This is an updated file that supercedes the one you may already have. As always, to get this file, follow the instructions contained in your Guide to Humanist. The price of registration includes two large books of conference and software-hardware fair extended abstracts, a complimentary copy of TACT (a text-retrieval system) courtesy of IBM Canada and the University of Toronto, a reception hosted by IBM Canada at Stop-33 (the top of the Sutton Place Hotel), a lunch courtesy of the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto, and an excursion to Niagara Falls. Over twenty 10-hour courses in the Toronto-Oxford Summer School are also planned in the weeks before (May 29--June 2) and after (June 12--16 the conference. _________________________________________________________________ SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES May 29--June 2 Course Name Instructor Interactive Video L. Kowal WordPerfect 5.0 Martha Parrott CALL Robert Ariew CJK Humanities Computing Liu Yongquan & others Desktop Publishing: Pagemaker Patricia Hood Writing Theory into Practice Helen Schwartz Meeting Campus Needs Vicky A. Walsh HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell Meeting School Needs Ronald Ragsdale Writing with Computer Support Earl Woodruff & others June 12--16 WordPerfect 5.0 Martha Parrott Scholarly Publishing Catherine Griffin Desktop Publishing: PageMaker Patricia Hood Relational Database Paul Salotti Programming in SNOBOL4 Susan Hockey Reader Response Elaine Nardocchio Computer Tools in Translation Alan Melby Nota Bene Willard McCarty Literary & Linguistic Computing Susan Hockey HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell Discourse Dynamics Pierre Maranda _________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION Registration fees for the four-day conference and software fair, payable (in Canadian dollars) at registration. ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH member/speaker $ 225.00 Non-member $ 255.00 Student $ 125.00 Late registration $ 295.00 (after May 15) Summer School course fees are as follows. Those attending the Summer School will be encouraged to take more than one course. Rates for the second and third course will be progressively lower than that for the first course. A lower fee has been set for the one-day Advanced Function Workstation (AFW) course. FULL COURSES 1st 2nd 3rd-8th AFW course course courses course Member of ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH 175.00 125.00 100.00 75.00 Non-member 200.00 175.00 150.00 100.00 Student 125.00 100.00 75.00 50.00 You may request information for both conference and summer school or register immediately by telephone on a 24-hour basis. Using a touch-tone telephone, call North American area code (416) 978--2400. Your call will take about 15 minutes. Press button 1 if you wish to request detailed information mailed to you. Ask for The Dynamic Text brochure. Press button 5 to register immediately or pay by VISA, MasterCard or cheque. When prompted, enter the appropriate course number and section code for association members, non-members, or students. 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A portion of the tuition fee may be refunded only if the School of Continuing Studies receives from the registrant a written notice of withdrawal, faxed or post-marked prior to the applicable deadline. By Mail, you may request information by writing to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies 158 St. George St. Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 2V8 By FAX, you may request information by transmitting to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (416) 978--5673 By E-mail, send requests to: The Dynamic Text Conference CCH @ VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA or CCH @ UTOREPAS _________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION Conference accommodation has been reserved in the Park Plaza and Westbury Hotels and in University of Toronto student residences. The Westbury Hotel, 475 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. M4Y 1X7. Special group rates are $89 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Westbury Hotel is located in Toronto's busy downtown entertainment and shopping area and is a pleasant 10-15 minutes' walk from the university. Telephone: (416) 924--0611. Canada and USA: (800) 387--0647. FAX: (416) 924-5061. Reservations are required no fewer than 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel, 4 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ont. M5R 2E8. Special group rates are $125 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel is located about 10 minutes' walk north of the university in the fashionable Yorkville shopping area off Bloor St. West near the Royal Ontario Museum. Telephone: (416) 924-5471. FAX: (416) 924-4933. Telex: 0622295. Reservations must be received no later than May 13, 1989. University of Toronto residences: Whitney Hall (co-ed), University College, 85 St. George St., Wilson Hall, New College (women only), and Wetmore Hall, New College (men only). Rates, including breakfast, are $35 per room, per day (single), or $23 per person, per day (twin: two single beds), in Canadian dollars. These rates do not include provincial sales tax. Washrooms are communal; bedding, towels, and soap are provided. Accommodation cannot be provided for children under age 5. Residences are about 5 minutes' walk from the conference and summer school locations. Telephone: (416) 978-8735. Reservations must be received by April 28, 1989 (to allow time for a confirmation to be mailed out), together with a non-refundable deposit of one night's stay per person by certified cheque, money order, or Visa/Mastercard number. Mail to ALLC-ICCH89 Joint Meeting, Conference Services, University of Toronto, Room 240, Simcoe Hall, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1. _________________________________________________________________ TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS Air Canada is the official carrier for this event. Call this toll-free number, 1-800-361-7585, to book through Convention Central, quoting event number 89-0768, and your reservation will be confirmed at the lowest possible price. By booking Air Canada you can bypass construction at Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1. From: LAUZZANA@ECS.UMASS.EDU Subject: RE: French or American revolution, cont. (36) Date: Mon, 1 May 89 23:55:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 523 (765) Which french revolution? 1830 or 1790? Remmember, The French abolished slavery & serfdom in their first revolution! -Ray Lauzzana P.S. I think that before you can ask the question which revolution did the most for mankind, you must ask what is good for mankind. It is very myopic to think that the American Revolution was a precursor to the French. The Americans fought a colonial war of independence; they did not overthrow a monarch. From: Subject: Re: which revolution? (25) Date: Tue, 2 May 89 10:17:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 524 (766) Certainly most historians would agree that the French Revolution had a more dramatic and long-lasting effect upon the history of the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: commercial e-mail Date: Tue, 2 May 89 08:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 919 (767) Business Week, May 8, 1989, pp 135-9 reports on status of commercial e- mail. After sputtering along for a decade, the major players finally have agreed on a standard. Western Union's EASYLINE, GTE's Telenet, British Telecom's Dialcom, MCI Mail, and AT&T Mail, will all use standard X.400 for interchanging mail between systems. Combined they have about 700,000 mailboxes. Corporate systems (IBM and Digital) have 3 million more. Pressure for uniformity came from users who demand the capability of interconnections (as did telephone users a century ago). 3 billion messages were sent last year, nearly all inside their respective systems. With easy interchange, there may be 16 billion messages by 1992, and ?? 60 billion by 2000. Cost runs about $1/page, which (taking phone bills into account) is comparable to FAX. Can e-mail catch up with FAX? Troubles; it will be 4 years before a common phone book (X.500) is available (why so long?) Worse, there are 600,000 local PC networks in US (LANs), 10% with their own e-mail. None connect with X.400. ---Query: where does Bitnet fit into this? Is/will Bitnet be compatible with X.400 so that we can communicate outside the academic community? (Note that right now any two fax users can easily contact each other.) Will e-mail catch on outside professional/business world? Is BITNET the poor academic's Fax? If Fax prices fall much further will we just give up on Bitnet and e-mail? (That seems unlikely: we would compose on computer, print on printer, then run the output through a fax? Has anybody tried using a PC-fax board?) And if e- mail does catch on widely, will the commercial outfits squeeze out "free lunch" Bitnet? (Note how commercial software has largely squeezed out shareware.) From: jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) Subject: Request for data entry keyboarding firms Date: Tue, 2 May 89 0:21:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 920 (768) I have a general request for assistance. I am looking for a firm to do manual data entry on some texts which cannot be entered by OCR. What I would like is the name, address, and phone number of any firms that you know of that offer this service, and any comments you may have on your dealings with them. I have dealt with such firms before, but I am looking to do some comparison shopping on this current batch of material. If you have any specific firms that you know of, it would probably be most appropriate to send me e-mail with the information. Here is a list of possible addresses to use: jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (please try this first) jonathan.altman@dartmouth.edu (equivalent to above, but BITNET sometimes likes this one better) and, if you're on BITNET and absolutely MUST, try jonathan@dartcms1 Thanks in advance for any leads you give me. I think that it would be a worthwhile endeavor to compile a listing of this sort anyway (kind of a sourcebook for data entry). So, I will compile all information received, including evaluations (whose contents I will disclaim any responsibility for in advance) to be available when I'm finished collecting information. Jonathan Altman Dartmouth Dante Project From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: EDITOR, Number 5 (187 records) Date: 01 May 89 21:48:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 921 (769) [I pass along for your interest a sample issue from a new discussion group devoted to scholarly publishing. It was announced on Humanist once before, but this sample may do a somewhat better job of alerting you to the possibilities. --W.M.] EDITOR: A moderated discussion group for those interested in the publishing of Scholarly Journals. Please address all mail for the group to MHayward@IUP. In Issue 2, Roy Flannagan raised the question of typesetting via computer and desktop publishing--a question also raised by the controller of my budget. Two comments on this topic follow. ***************************************************************** The following was written in response to your request for information on the suitability of DTP in publishing scholarly journals. . . . To my great regret, I have just reached the conclusion that DTP in its current form - or at least Ventura 1.1 and 2.0 - is *not* a viable production option for the journal I have edited since 1983 ("Studies in Zionism" - deals with the history of Zionism, Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and more.) The journal is written and edited in Tel Aviv University, and printed and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore. We send JHUP camera-ready copy - typeset bromides with page-layout. Since 1983 we have been interfacing with a phototypesetter via disk. For a while, we experimented with inserting a lot of the typesetting codes via a wordprocessor, but gave that up as too complicated and not sufficiently cost effective. In response to constantly increasing typesetting costs, and also (mea culpa) because of my fascination with DTP and with book production, I decided that we would produce camera-ready copy using Ventura. The program can produce Postscript files for a Linotronic 300, and bromides produced directly from our Postscript disks cost only $2.50/page, as opposed to $2.00/1,000 chars when the typesetter gets normal ascii w/p files. Theoretically, that would have saved us circa $3,500 annually. I tried it twice. The cost-savings were real. But nothing else promised ›word lost in transmission--"worked"?| I had some experience with Ventura previously, and knew enough to realize that the production of a style sheet incorporating my journal's exact design was a job for a professional Ventura service bureau. I paid $300 for a style sheet. The same bureau produced the postscript files. But Ventura couldnt handle the complicated layout of the annual bibliography in our field that the journal publishes. Neither could footnotes (as opposed to endnotes) be generated automatically. So they were moved around "manually," a very time-consuming process that also created large gaps between the end of text and the start of the footnotes on many pages. By then, we had compromised our layout a number of times, were weeks late in the production schedule (for the first time in 6 years) and were no longer on speaking terms with the service bureau. The appearance of Ventura v 2.0 encouraged me to try again, this time with a much bigger and more experienced service bureau. Version 2.0 of Ventura can generate footnotes, but it does so with (a) an irregular gap between text and notes (which isnt too bad), and (b) flexible bottom margins. In other words, no two pages were the same length. That is totally unacceptable, and we ended up cutting up the bromides and pasteing them by hand. That left us with gaps of up to 3.5 cms between text and notes. We were, again, six weeks late when we mailed the copy off. Conclusion: DTP is only worth it if you are willing to make numerous compromises on the quality of the copy (layout, design) and if cost considerations are the most important factor. I would love to cut costs, but life is too short to spend so much time fiddling with DTP. I am going back to editing and leaving production to the typesetting professionals. Ron Zweig Tel Aviv University H27@TAUNIVM ****************************************************************** ›On the subject of DTP, I extract from a reply I gave my Dean who asked if I was using DTP "to save typesetting costs." I would not bet my life on the direct relation between numbers of pages and printing costs, but it seems to me accurate.| I suspect, however, that you would like the long answer. The long answer is that the savings by desktop publishing (DTP) are illusory. What you save in typesetting cost you lose in printing cost. Let me give an example: ›a colleague's journal| has a page that is 60 characters wide and 32 lines deep. He gets 1,920 characters per page. Studies in the Humanities has a page that is 72 characters wide and 39 lines deep for a total of 2,808 characters per page. In other words, our journal gets 41% more text per page than ›his|. Since printing costs are based on the number of pages, if we were to typeset by DTP, we would have to increase printing costs by 41%. The printing costs for the last issue was bid at $1,593. A 41% increase would increase the cost by $653.00. Since the typesetting costs for the last issue were $575.00, desktop publishing would result in a net loss of $75.00. The reason that a DTP manuscript cannot print as much text per line is because of the quality of printing. If you examine very carefully the printing of ›my colleague's journal| in comparison to the printing of Studies in the Humanities, you will see that the letters of Studies are much sharper and clearer, easier to read, and more well-defined. This allows Studies to achieve a greater line length. . . . ›Thus| different approaches to typesetting and printing would seem on the surface to offer substantial savings, might in the long run not be so very attractive. The cost analysis that I have provided does not, indeed, take account of the time involved in setting type via a DTP package such as Ventura. I would estimate conservatively that 20 hours would be required to set type by Ventura for a journal the size of Studies in the Humanities. If I were to do the work myself, with my time being worth approximately $35.00 an hour, the labor cost of $700.00 would make DTP even less attractive. At Studies in the Humanities we are always on the look-out to save money. I think you will find that our costs for producing the journal have actually decreased over the past few years. I wish that DTP were a way by which we could save additional funds, but from a detailed cost analysis, I think you will agree, that it really does not at this time promise much in the way of savings. --Malcolm Hayward From: Willard McCarty Subject: a slight innovation Date: 2 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 922 (770) At the suggestion of Jim Coombs (IRIS, Brown), I have this evening begun formatting the subject lines of messages from Humanist slightly differently, as you will have already noticed, thus: volno.issueno: subject (nlines) Coombs' innovation will help with the sorting of mail from Humanist for those who want to keep track of numbers received and numbers missed. Any comments about the new format should be directed to me. My thanks, as before, to Jim. Willard McCarty From: Ken Steele Subject: Inquiry for Humanist Discussion Group Date: Wed, 03 May 89 09:28:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 525 (771) Dear Fellow Humanists; As a relatively new member of this discussion group, I am concerned that this question may have been exhaustively treated previously -- if so, please direct me to the appropriate source of information. I am a doctoral student, engaged in thesis research on the text of Shakespeare's early plays. In reading the introductory materials to Humanist, I was intrigued by the existence of a BBS devoted entirely to _Finnegan's Wake_, and naturally I began to wonder about similar electronic resources for scholars of Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Textual Criticism, or Scholarly Editing. Is anyone aware of e-mail discussion groups, on-line databases, BBS's, etc. which would be useful to those who share my interests? (Besides the more general "Humanist", "English", "Reed-l", and "Editor", of course.) Many thanks in advance for any information you might have. From: Subject: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN THE HUMANITIES Date: Wed, 3 May 89 10:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 526 (772) I would like to get some information on scholarly publishing in the humanities in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, outside of the university presses (largely, I think a 20th century phenomenon). What made me curious is that we don't in this country seem to have presses like Methuen in England, like Klincksieck in France, or Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Germany, just to mention a representative sample. In the 19th century many classical scholars published with textbook publishers like Ginn, and so their work was hardly known abroad. Does anyone know of books/articles discussing scholarly publishing in the US? Jim Halporn From: Oleske Subject: C.A.L.L. ( C.A.I.) Modern languages Date: Wed, 3 May 89 08:08:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 527 (773) Dear Humanists, Pardon the intrusion but after suggestions from respondants to my previous requests, I offer the following survey form: C.A.L.L. ( C.A.I.) packages IN REGULAR USE AT: Institution: Dept: Address: Address: Address: Address: Contact: e-mail/Bitnet: 1.PACKAGE(S): 2.Modern Languages: 3.Application type: 4.Tutor: 5.Computer: 6.Critique: 7.Other comments: I would also be grateful for any information about the presence at your institution of " traditional " language- laboratory environments, e.g., audio-visual sites and suggestions of whom to contact to discuss orientations, equipment,etc. of non-academic nature. Thank you for your assistance. Bill Oleske footnote: 1.Name of package(s) please 2.Name of languages taught 3.Type of program,e.g., wp,drill,etc. 4.Tutor: organized class or private study ? 5.Machine or operating system 6.Opinions,suggestions,criticisms,limitations,etc. From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: "Women in Medicine": Date: 3 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 528 (774) [The following arrived with truncated lines, but since the missing words are not crucial for finding the items listed, I am passing on this very useful bibliography without further fuss. --W.M.] I have forwarded the enquiries about women in medicine to the Director of the Institut fuer Geschichte der Medizin of our university, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fichtner. Here is a bibliography he supplied. Wilhelm Ott ------------------------------------------------- Literature: "Women in Medicine": Alic, M.: Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity to th Chaff, Sandra L.; Haimbach, Ruth; Fenichel, Carol; Woodside, Nina B.: Women in m Review: Med. Hist. 22(1978), S. 461. Review: Isis 70(1979), S. 295f. (Mandelbaum, Dorothy Rosenthal) Review: Clio Med. 16(1981), S. 155. Davis, Audrey B.: Bibliography on Women: with special emphasis on their roles in Review: J. Hist. Med. 31(1976), S. 237 (Overmier, Judith). Davis, N. Z.; Conway, J. K.: Society and the sexes: a bibliography of women's hi Donegan, Jane B.: Women and Men Midwives. Medicine, Morality, and Misogyny in Ea Review: Med. Hist. 24(1980), S. 118. Review: Clio Med. 14(1980), S. 149f. (Morantz, Regina Markell). Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 55(1981), S. 297f. (Leavitt, Judith Walzer). Donnison, Jean: Midwives and medical men. A history of inter-professional rivalr Review: Med. Hist. 22(1978), S. 98. Review: Clio Med. 16(1981), S. 162f. (Donegan, Jane B.). Ehrenreich, B.; English, D.: Witches, Midwives and Nurses. A History of Woman He Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre: Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History o Review: Med. Educ. 11(1977), S. 358-359 (Maclean, Una). Herzenberg, Caroline L.: Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Inde Review: Isis 78(1987), S. 315f. (Koblitz, Ann Hibner). In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Woman Physicians. Ed. by }Regina Markell Mor Review: J. Hist. Med. 38(1983), S. 472f. (Olch, Peter D.). Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 57(1983), S. 638f. (Cangi, Ellen C.). Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell: Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in Ameri Review: Isis 77(1986), S. 175f. (Leavitt, Judith W.). Review: J. Hist. Med. 41(1986), S. 352-355 (Cayleff, Susan E.). Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 60(1986), S. 602f. (Reverby, Susan). Review: Hist. Philos. Life Sc. 10(1988), S. 401-403 (Duffin, Jacalyn). Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey: Women in Science, Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Cent Review: Isis 78(1987), S. 315f. (Koblitz, Ann Hibner). Walsh, Mary Roth: Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Me Review: J. Hist. Med. 33(1978), S. 104f. (Leavitt, Judith Walzer). Review: Med. Hist. 22(1978), S. 217. Review: Isis 69(1978), S. 105f. (Bullough, Vern L.). Review: Clio Med. 13(1978), S. 84 (Ackerknecht, Erwin H›einz!). Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine. Ed. by }Elizabeth Fee{. Farmi Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 58(1984), S. 613f. (Golden, Janet). Women and Health in America: Historical Readings. Ed. by }Judith Walzer Leavitt{ Review: Isis 76(1985), S. 112f. (Jones, Daniel P.). Review: Med. Hist. 29(1985), S. 113. Review: J. Hist. Med. 40(1985), S. 495f. (Dwork, Deborah). Women Physicians of the World. Autobiographies of Medical Pioneers. Ed. by }Leon Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 53(1979), S. 632 (Thibodeau, Doris). From: Martin Ryle Subject: RE: 2.918: revolutions, cont. (50) Date: Tue, 2 May 89 23:16:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 529 (775) Re the great debate over whose revolution was best for all: Perhaps we should take another look at the work of RR Palmer, who argued that the events of the lat18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and the Americas should be considered an Atlantic revolution, generally resulting in the transition to less profoundly feudal societies in the affected countries. Martin Ryle Prof. of History University of Richmond, Virginia Ryle@urvax.bitnet From: Philippa Matheson Subject: Re: fonts? Date: Wed, 03 May 89 15:53:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 530 (776) A Greek font from Allotype Typographics (the Times Roman Adobe Font, with full diacriticals for ancient Greek) is being used by _Phoenix_ (the journal of the Classical Association of Canada) as of 1989, and I know they also have Cyrillic and modern Greek fonts: Marc Cogan Allotype Typographics 1600 Packard Road Suite 5 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 (313) 663-1989 I think they are all MacIntosh fonts, but they "broke" the Kadmos Greek font out of the Mac programming and sold it to me on an IBM disk (same price) to use with TeX. I did the .TFM file from the PostScript definitions, but have no .PK files for screen viewing yet... --- Philippa Matheson, Humanities Computing 43 McKenzie Avenue, M4W 1K1, Toronto From: Mary Hasbrouck Subject: Re: Bible aids Date: Tue, 2 May 89 16:34:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 531 (777) I just came across a Macintosh program called HyperBible, a HyperCard Bible study program. It's put out by Beacon Technology, 3550 Stevens Creek Blvd., P.O. Box 9872, San Jose, CA 95157 (phone: 408-296-4884). There is a short review of it in the May 1989 MacUser magazine (p.201). The cost is $230 for King James or $280 for New International, and the program (including HyperCard) takes up 15 megabytes (!) of disk space. The review didn't go into much detail or offer any evaluation of the program's quality. Mary Hasbrouck Swarthmore College Computing Center HASBROUCK@SWARTHMR or HASBROUCK@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU From: Sterling G. Bjorndahl Subject: Biblical Scholars List Date: Tues, 2 May 1989 15:10 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 532 (778) Here is the latest version of the complete "Biblical (and related) Scholars E-Mail Address Book." Electronic addresses are for BITNET/ NETNORTH/EARN unless otherwise indicated. Addresses from other nets are given in a form my mailer can understand. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. BIBLICAL SCHOLARS. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Steve Dill Subject: Position Announcements Date: Wed, 03 May 89 08:41:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 533 (779) The University of South Dakota has an opening as described below: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, Area of Specialization: British Literature, sub-specialization: Renaissance and/or Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. Ability to teach both periods desirable. Responsibilities: Teach 3 courses each semester, including courses in advanced expository writing and in Freshman literature. Interest in teaching expository writing necessary. Qualifications: PhD. in hand. College-level teaching experience desirable; publications helpful. Closing Date: When suitable candidate is found; preference given to applications received by May 31, 1989. How to Apply: Cover letter and vitae, including including names and telephone numbers of at least 3 references to Professor Gervase Hittle, Department of English, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The University of South Dakota has an opening as described below: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, Area of Specialization: Creative Writing, Subspecialization: Fiction emphasis strongly preferred. Responsibilities: Teach 3 courses each semester, including creative writing courses at lower-division, upper-division, and graduate levels. Willingness to teach advanced expository writing and/or Freshman literature needed. Qualifications: Ph.D or M.F.A. in Creative Writing required. Publications desirable; college-level teaching experience helpful. Closing Date: When suitable candidate is found; preference given to applications received by May 31, 1989. How to Apply: Send cover letter and vitae, including names and telephone numbers of at least 3 references to: Professor Gervase Hittle, English Department, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069. From: Lou Burnard Subject: address correction Date: Wed, 3 May 89 17:51 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 534 (780) Anyone who's having problems contacting Ann Kirk about the Oxford Text Archive research assistantship please note: I cant't spell for toffee. Not only that, i can't spell Ann's name which is Ann and not Anne. So the email address I gave should have read ANNK@Uk.Ac.OXFORD.VAX apologies. closing date for applications is still may 19th. Lou From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: Transcribing Sanskrit Date: 3 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 927 (781) Though I am not a Sanskritist, I can not resist any longer the temptation to add a comment to the respective discussion. What about an encoding scheme relying on "floating diacritics" which may be added to any character? At Tuebingen, we have begun early enough with scholarly text data processing to have had from the very beginning some difficulties with character sets. It was the time of 6-bit BCD characters, allowing 64 different characters of which 48 only were supported on some key punches. Nevertheless we coded everything we needed (including Greek characters with breathings and accents and Hebrew characters with vowels) on these machines, using printable characters only. The situation has not changed in principle since then, though 8 bit character code allows something above 200 different characters (only). Therefore, also the encoding scheme we adopt has not changed in principle: we rely on the common subset of printable characters available in all of the different national versions of ASCII and EBCDIC for transcribing and encoding everything we need. Perhaps you discover that using your keyboard you adopt a similar procedure: in addition to two or three keys like CTRL and ALT, you press the keys for printable ASCII characters only. Replacing, while transcribing, also the ESC, CTRL, ALT etc. keys by printable characters allows you to have all the necessary codes in your file. Escaping to an other font may be coded e.g. as #g+ for greek, #h+ for hebrew, #r+ for cyrillic (r = "russisch"), #p+ for phonetics, #s+ for syriac, #/+ for slanted, #f+ for bold ("fett") etc.; the shift back to latin is done by terminating the respective font (#g- or #h- ...). Diacritics are coded by a different escape character, %, and a subsequent character which looks similar to the diacritic to be used: %.a for "dot over a", %..a for "dot under a", %-a for "dash over a", "%--a" for "dash under a", %?a for "tilde over a", %??a for "tilde under a", %/%-%..a for "acute over dash over a and dot under it", etc. This avoids some of the problems: - there is (almost) no limitation for combining diacritics and letters, - there are no problems with data transfer and exchange, - the text remains readable also on terminals with limited character set or without graphics capabilities. For Sanskrit, Peter Schreiner and Renate Soehnen have used this approach for producing their "Sanskrit Indexes and Text of Brahmapur-a.na" (published 1987 by Harassowitz, Wiesbaden), transcribing the text as shown in the last word of the title just quoted, on plain ASCII terminals, and transforming these codes to the required %-sequences by simple search-and-replace just before printing. Those interested in this approach may find it worthwhile to have a look to the TUSTEP demonstration at the Toronto fair in June. Wilhelm Ott, Tuebingen (ZRSZOT1 at DTUZDV2) From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Notes on Grad Program Discussions Date: Wednesday, 3 May 1989 0039-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 928 (782) If noone has mentioned it, the University of Pennsylvania has a Comparative Literature Graduate Program worth a close look. It has been getting some excellent students, and draws on the faculties of a number of humanities departments here. On those older teachers who "only" had MA degrees, my impression is that many (most/all) of them did not forgo getting PhDs for the reason suggested in the HUMANIST communique (to get on with significant writing, etc.), but rather, that the PhD is a relative innovation in (especially British) higher educational systems, and that it simply was not an option. In the English speaking world, the PhD was basically an American (US ?) degree in the early part of this century, but gradually made its inroads into the British system(s). I never did get clear about how this all developed on the continent; did the US PhD development come from Germany? When? (And without the privilege of the Habilitationsschrift!) I don't remember if anyone already mentioned it, but choosing a school for a program such as Comparative Literature should probably also involve questions of the school's Library facilities. It may be easier to survive inadequate teaching and even advising than to do without the wider range of desirable sources for enlightenment and research. (Penn's Library is good, on the whole, and very accessible [open stacks, etc.].) Bob Kraft (Religious Studies) From: Subject: Re: 2.928: grad schools, cont. (39) Date: Thu, 4 May 89 09:51:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 535 (783) In re Ph.D. degrees, the US Ph.D. degree came from Germany. Hopkins was a pioneer. Woodrow Wilson, the historian and US President, obtained one of the earliest Ph.D.'s. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: TODD PERRY Subject: Revolution Date: Mon, 1 May 89 17:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 536 (784) Dear Sirs and Madams: In regards to the question of revolution....... Does death ever advance mankind? In the obvious context of the question, though, leaving the sardonic comments behind, I would have to say the American Revolution was of greater intellectual value to the world. The American Revolution was the first "great experiment in society". It was the first indication that Locke, Rousseau (particuarly), and (to a lesser extent) Hobbes actually could be thought about in concrete terms. It also gave a voice to the rational anarchism of Thomas Jefferson, and the federalism of people like Madison. I would go so far as to wonder if there would have been a French Revolution without a American one. Firstly, the French economy would not have been pushed as far without its involvement in the American Revolution, and secondly, the radical thinkers that "fathered" the intellectual ideas of the French revolution were highly cheered by the success of the American revolution. Feel free to comment, in any way. I wear asbestos underclothing, and am not afraid of "flames". :) Yours, R. Todd Perry perry_R@wabash From: IDE@VASSAR Subject: Date: Wed, 3 May 89 23:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 537 (785) THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE History of the TEI In the fall of 1987, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), under the directorship of Nancy M. Ide, organized a conference at Vassar College from which emerged a set of resolutions upon the necessity and feasibility of defining a set of guidelines to facilitate both the interchange of existing encoded texts and the creation of newly encoded texts. The resolutions stated that the guidelines would specify both what features should be encoded and also how they should be encoded, as well as suggesting ways of describing the resulting encoding scheme and its relationship with pre-existing schemes. Compatibility with existing schemes would be sought where possible, and in particular, ISO standard 8879, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), would provide the basic syntax for the guidelines if feasible. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. TXT_ENCD INITIATV. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Sean O'Cathasaigh, FRI001@UK.AC.SOTON.IBM Subject: Eighteenth-century studies. Date: Wed, 3 May 89 07:10:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 538 (786) Department of French, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH From: Niko Besnier Subject: Laser printers Date: Thu, 04 May 89 09:49:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 931 (787) I was recently awarded a small local grant to buy a laser printer to churn out a camera-ready copy of the grammar of a Polynesian language, to be published by Routledge next year. I am having enormous difficulties getting some simple information about what this and that model can do and cannot do. I am planning to get a LaserJet Series II, which I will interface with a Zenith Supersport 286 and WordPerfect. Can I hear from anyone who has any experience with this printer? Please reply directly: UTTANU@YALEVM. Many thanks and apologies for taking up HUMANIST space with a trivial request. (Thank god Soton's S.R. won't see this!!!) Niko Besnier Department of Anthropology Yale University From: Leslie Subject: Re: 2.920: keyboarding firms? (35) Date: Thu, 4 May 89 07:58:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 932 (788) A sourcebook of keyboarding firms would be extremely useful, as would a soucebook of places with OCR which outsiders (i.e., other academicians) could arrange to use through personal or grant money to enter text. Since many sites cannot afford the equipment, this would be a worthwhile under- taking. I have been trying to find out whether certain texts are available in machine-readable format for a project of mine, and will sub- sequently wish to read in those which are not, and will certainly use such a sourcebook if it is in existence! Leslie Morgan, SUNY at Stony Brook LZMORGAN@SBCCVM From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Choosing a graduate school Date: Thu, 4 May 89 21:30:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 539 (789) I agree with Willard and other colleagues who have focused on checking with graduate students about their program as well as with exploring the writings and teaching ability of the principle faculty with whom one is likely to study. Probably the most important four hours of my academic career were the ones I spent soon after consulting with my thesis advisor, internationally recognized as a comparatist and expert in the subject area of my dissertation, but who advised me at a somewhat late date of his inability and lack of desire to deal with the lexicometric and stylo-statistical elements of my thesis at the Universit'e de Montpellier III. He was adamant that I find a "guarantor" of the quality of these components. Fortunately, I had been devouring the work of another French professor eminently qualified in just this area. My advisor knew of him as well. I had previously arranged for an interview, and in a tight train schedule in southern France before my flight back to the U.S. where I would soon finish the two-tome thesis, I met with him at his home. In four hours of intensive discussion we worked out the structure, type and role of the stylo-statistical elements for this thesis on French fiction. To have had this individual on the same graduate faculty would have been a great advantage (he later served as president of the jury), hence my support of all my colleagues in support of humanities computing and the "interface" with more traditional graduate studies. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@UNHH From: Subject: Women in Medieval Medicine - another reference Date: Fri, 5 May 89 10:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 540 (790) The following would seem to be of interest: Anne Llewellyn Barstow, "On studying witchcraft as Women's History: A Historiography of the European Witch Persecutions." _Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion_ , Vol 4 # 2, (Fall 1988) pp. 7-19. Phil Yevics Theology/Religious Studies University of Scranton (PA - USA) PEY365@SCRANTON From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Greek fonts Date: Fri, 5 May 89 09:59:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 541 (791) Following is information on Greek fonts mostly culled from AppleLink. I have not tested these fonts, so do not hold me responsible for the contents of this list. Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca ******************************************************************** DEMOTIKI ISPN: 90338-160 VENDOR: ALLOTYPE TYPOGRAPHICS (USA) 1600 PACKARD ROAD SUITE 5 ANN ARBOR, MI 48104 (313)663-1989 Limited Warranty, Updates Available, Backups Available. DESCRIPTION: A complete character set for typesetting in modern Greek. Available with both the traditional forms of the accents, and with the new "monotoniko" accents. SUBJECTS: 123 PRODUCTIVITY/FONTS/IMAGES SYSTEM MIN MEM MEDIUM PRICE RELEASED APPLE MACINTOSH 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 APPLE MACINTOSH PLUS 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 APPLE MACINTOSH SE 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 APPLE MACINTOSH II 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 You may order this product through your usual distributor. Apple is not responsible for the contents of this article. [The remaining 550 lines have been deleted.] -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. GREEK MACFONTS. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Subject: East-Central American Soc. for 18th-C. Studies Date: Fri, 5 May 89 18:27:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 542 (792) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE EC/ASECS CONFERENCE AT BETHANY COLLEGE (West Virginia) 2-5 November, 1989... Please send papers or abstracts to the appropriate session chairs by 15 June 19 89. Proposed sessions include: 1) "Teaching the 'Unapproachable' Text" (Beth Lambert, Dept. of English, G ettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325-1486) 2) "Current Research" (Mary Margaret Stewart, Dept. of English, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325-1486) 3) "In Praise of Work: The Farmer and the Merchant in 18th-Century Literatu re" (Beverly Schneller, Dept. of English, Fontaine 216, Marist College, Poughk eepsie, NY 12601-1381) 4) "From Writer to Reader in the 18th Century: Recent Textual Studies" (Lu is Gamez, Dept. of English, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458-5158) 5) "Teaching the 18th Century" (Brijraj Singh, Box 51 Station C, Flushing, NY 11367) 6) "Minor Poets" (Jim May, Dept. of English, Penn State - DuBois, College Place, DuBois, PA 15801) 7) "Anglo-Irish Literature" (Kevin Berland, Dept. of English, Penn State - Shenango, Sharon, PA 16146 or BITNET BCJ@PSU.VM) 8) "Images of the Female in the 18th-Century European Novel" (Anne Widnell , 232 Lytton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213) 9) "Tragic Vision in 18th-Century France?" (Philip Koch, Dept. of French & Italian Languages & Literature, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ) 10) "On Completion of the Yale Edition of Boswell's Journals: A Look Backwa rd" (Irma Lustig, 2302 Hopkinson House, Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19 106) 11) "The Scriblerians and the Kit-Kats" (Calhoun Winton, Department of Eng lish, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742) 12) "18th-Century American Literature" (Doreen Alvarez Saar, Department of English, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104) 13) "A New Way to Read Old Plays" (Linda Troost, Department of English, Wa shington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA 15301) 14) "New Light on the Scottish Enlightenment" (Steve Smith, Department of English, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141) 15) "The Pursuit of Happiness" (Russ McDonald, Department of English, West Virginia University, 230 Stansbury Hall, Morgantown, WV 26506) 16) "The First Federal Congress" (Jack Fruchtman, Jr., Department of Polit ical Science, Towson State University, Towson, MD 21204-7097) 17) "The Modernization of 18th-Century Village Life" (Peter Petschauer, De partment of History, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608) 18) "18th-Century Children's Literature" (Mary Anne Schofield, 138 Kynlyn Rd., Radnor, PA 19807) 19) "Reading 18th-Century Biography in the 20th Century" (Peter Perreten, Department of English, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA 19426) The location is bucolic, the company clubbable, the talk stimulating. For f urther information, contact the program chair, Linda E. Merians, Box 174, La Sa lle University, 20th and Olney Aves., Philadelphia, PA 19141. From: Subject: Query: Tartars & Elizabethan England Date: Thu, 4 May 89 22:56:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 543 (793) What did the Elizabethans know (or believe) about the Tartars, especially as st rategists and warriors? [This is not a riddle; I'd like to know if any HUMANIST out there has come across a useful reference.] -- Kevin Berland From: Espen S. Ore + 47 5 21 29 59 FAFEO at NOBERGEN Subject: Date: 5 May 89, 14:38:46 EMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 544 (794) Re: Dhimotiki databases Does any HUMANIST know of modern Greek texts (or collections of texts) in machine readable form? I am asking this question for Eva Hedin at the University of Stockholm, and as far as I understand she is interested in any kind of text. Espen S. Ore From: Rosanne G. Potter Subject: Concordance users Date: Fri, 5 May 89 12:11:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 545 (795) I am interested in corresponding with other people who have used concordances in attempting to describe the literary vocabulary of an English-speaking writer. I would also be interested in suggestions about the best citations on the uses of concordances, especially exemplary essays on specific English writers. Please send the citations to HUMANIST, as I imagine others would be glad to collect good bibliographic items; send notes about willingness to correspond to me directly. Thanks, Rosanne G. Potter Department of English Iowa State University (515) 232-4473 (home) and (515) 294-4617 (office) To: MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: David Megginson Subject: Re: 2.931: laser printers? (27) Date: Fri, 05 May 89 07:46:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 936 (796) A vague response: As far as I know, the LaserJet is extremely slow, so allow a few days to print out your grammar. My laser printer manages about 6 pages/minute with Compugraphic outline fonts, but it runs only with the Atari mega. Your main question should be how difficult it will be to create your own special characters for the laser printer. It took me about 20 minutes to add Old English characters to ours. David Megginson From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Software & hardware for the deaf & hearing-impaired Date: Mon, 1 May 89 10:36:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 913 (797) Thank you to all who have and are still contributing information on this important topic. All HUMANISTs are welcome to contact me directly about additional findings as I track down the various references. I'd be glad to give you an account of how the U. of Kiel (W. Germany) scientists (engineers, speech pathologists, audiologists, et al.) work with these materials once we've meet on pedagogical design and implementation of hardware & software materials this summer. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@UNHH From: CATHERINE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Oxford Catalogue of Fonts Date: Fri, 28 APR 89 11:17:02 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 546 (798) I am trying to compile a catalogue of exotic fonts here at Oxford, which would bee available for anyone to consult. The catalogue would be sorted first by script, then by printer (eg Postscript, HP etc), then method (TeX, Duke Tool Kit, etc), if nec. by computer (Mac, IBM). I have already consulted a few people over here, and will shortly write a more extensive note to Humanist. But before doing this I would like to ask you whether you have - knowledge of existing fonts - addresses of people or firms who might know of fonts - ideas as to organisation of catalogue, or ways that this could be made most helpful I'd be very grateful for any help you could give me. Many thanks, Catherine Griffin Janet address: CATHERINE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6UP, England From: iwml@UKC.AC.UK Subject: Bible aids Date: Mon, 01 May 89 17:57:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 547 (799) I have been asked to locate any "decent adult Bible study" aids on disk. Any ideas? suggestions? Ian (Mitchell Lambert) Department of Theology University of Kent at Canterbury From: Willard McCarty Subject: fair schedule Date: 1 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 915 (800) Tools for Humanists, 1989 a software and hardware fair held in conjunction with The Dynamic Text 6-9 June 1989 Schedule (1 May 1989) `Tools for Humanists, 1989' is a large software and hardware fair for scholars in the humanities. It is being held in concert with `The Dynamic Text' conference at the University of Toronto, from 2:30 p.m., Tuesday 6 June, to 5:30 p.m., Friday 9 June. It will feature slightly over 50 scheduled demonstrations on approximately 40 workstations of various kinds (IBM, Macintosh, Sun, NeXT). In addition 2 IBMs and 2 Macintoshes will be kept available throughout the duration of the fair for unscheduled demonstrations. Special talks are also planned. Each day of the fair is divided into three periods: (1) morning, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; (2) afternoon, 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.; and (3) evening, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Note, however, that the first day of the fair will have no morning period, and the last day no evening period. During the evenings, the fair will be open to the general public as well as to conference attendees. For those not attending the conference, admission to the fair will cost $5 on each occasion. As part of the registration materials, attendees will receive a copy of the comprehensive guidebook to the fair. This guidebook will contain accurate descriptions of the software and hardware on display. It will be available to non-registrants at a reasonable cost. The exhibition room is situated in a prominent place, between the main lecture theatre and the rooms where the breakout sessions are to be held. A rough diagram of the room will be found below. Please note that the schedule is subject to change without notice. Comments and corrections are welcome. May errors be greeted with forgiveness. Willard McCarty Local Organizer Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto voice: (416) 978-3974 fax: (416) 978-6519 e-mail: mccarty@utorepas ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 6 June W configuration morning afternoon evening -- -------------------- ------------ ------------ ----------- 1 AT (c) (none) Rust Portoraro 2 AT (m,H+,HPLJ,#11) Ott Ott 3 PS2 (c) Daoust 4 PS2 (c,p24,#5) Colpaert Cioran 5 PS2 (c,#4) Colson Colson 6 PS2 (m) Maranda Maranda 7 PS2 (m,mse,vd,#18) Ore Ore 8 AT (m,H+,cd,EMS) Baima Baima 9 PS2 (m) Melby Melby 10 PS2z (m,#17) Faulhaber Bradley 11 PS2 (m,#2,12,HPLJ); Ib. Kraft Kraft 12 PS2 (m,HPLJ,#11) Siebert Siebert 13 PS2 (m) Mohler Morgan 14 (dem) Wong Wong 15 (dem, t2) Sola' Sola' 16 (dem) O'Connor O'Connor 17 (dem: MacII,cd,#10,22) Rockwell 18 MacII Ore Ore 19 MacSE (mt, #20) Olsen Olsen 20 M+;VT200 (mt,#19,26) Hollander Hollander 21 PS2 Hurd Hurd 22 MacII (2Mb RAM,c,cd,vd,#17) Nara Mylonas 23 Sun 3/60 *1 Marin Wilson 24 (dem: IBM 5550) Oikawa Oikawa 25 Sun 3/60 *2 Tompa 26 term (mt, #20) Adamo Adamo 27 (dem) Voorhis Voorhis 28 (dem) Martin Martin 29 (dem) Bolton Bolton 30 (dem) Johnston Johnston 31 (dem: NeXT) (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 (dem) Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 (dem) O'Brien O'Brien 34 (dem) Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 (dem) Makrolog Makrolog 36 (dem) Texpert Texpert 37 (dem) Picchi 38 PS2 (3270,mt,p) Schumacher Schumacher 39 (dem) Lamb Lamb H1 PS2 (NA) (NA) H2 PS2 (NA) (NA) H3 MacSE (NA) (NA) H4 MacSE (NA) (NA) ________________________ *1 OS4.0; 16Mb RAM (Wilson) or 4Mb (Marin); mono; 100Mb disk; 1/4-inch tape unit. *2 OS4.0; X.11 release 3; 8Mb RAM; 100Mb disk space; tape. Wednesday June 7 W morning afternoon evening -- ------------ ------------ ----------- 1 Portoraro Rust Zettersten 2 Hunter Ott Hunter 3 Daoust Zahavy Zahavy 4 Colpaert Cioran 5 Ehrlich Ehrlich Portoraro 6 Snelgrove Snelgrove Mepham 7 Ore Ore 8 Baima Baima Baima 9 Melby Halteren Melby 10 Faulhaber Bradley Bradley 11 Kraft Kraft Kraft 12 Siebert Siebert Siebert 13 Morgan Mohler Mohler 14 Wong Wong Wong 15 Sola' Sola' Sola' 16 O'Connor O'Connor O'Connor 17 Rockwell Chapman Brunet (tk) 18 Janus Janus Janus 19 Kraft Kraft Olsen 20 Hollander Hollander Hollander 21 Hurd Hurd Hurd 22 Mylonas Nara Mylonas 23 Marin Wilson Marin 24 Oikawa Oikawa Oikawa 25 Tompa Tompa 26 Adamo Adamo 27 Voorhis Voorhis Voorhis 28 Martin Martin 29 Bolton Bolton Bolton 30 Johnston Johnston Johnston 31 (Clarke) (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 Wesolowski Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 O'Brien O'Brien O'Brien 34 Kurzweil Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 Makrolog Makrolog Makrolog 36 Texpert Texpert Texpert 37 Picchi Picchi 38 Schumacher Schumacher Schumacher 39 Lamb Lamb Lamb H1 (NA) (NA) (NA) H2 (NA) (NA) (NA) H3 (NA) (NA) (NA) H4 (NA) (NA) (NA) Thursday June 8 W morning afternoon evening -- ------------ ------------ ----------- 1 McKinnon Rust Zettersten 2 Ott Dresher 3 Zahavy Daoust 4 Cioran Colpaert 5 Colson Semonche Colson 6 Mepham Mepham Mepham 7 Ore Ore 8 Baima 9 Melby Halteren Melby 10 Bradley Faulhaber Faulhaber 11 Kraft 12 Siebert Siebert Siebert 13 Morgan Mohler Morgan 14 Wong Wong Wong 15 Sola' Sola' Sola' 16 O'Connor O'Connor O'Connor 17 Chapman Rockwell Rockwell 18 Ore Ore Janus 19 Olsen Kraft 20 Hollander Hollander Hollander 21 Hurd Hurd Hurd 22 Nara Mylonas 23 Wilson 24 Oikawa Oikawa Oikawa 25 26 Adamo Adamo 27 Voorhis Voorhis Voorhis 28 Martin Martin 29 Bolton Bolton Bolton 30 Johnston Johnston Johnston 31 (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 Wesolowski Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 O'Brien O'Brien O'Brien 34 Kurzweil Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 Makrolog Makrolog Makrolog 36 Texpert Texpert Texpert 37 Picchi Picchi 38 Schumacher Schumacher Schumacher 39 Lamb Lamb Lamb H1 (NA) (NA) (NA) H2 (NA) (NA) (NA) H3 (NA) (NA) (NA) H4 (NA) (NA) (NA) Friday June 9 W morning afternoon -- ------------ ------------ 1 Portoraro McKinnon 2 Ott Dresher 3 Daoust Zahavy 4 Colpaert Cioran 5 Semonche Ehrlich 6 Maranda Maranda 7 Snelgrove Snelgrove 8 Baima 9 Halteren Melby 10 Faulhaber Faulhaber 11 Kraft Kraft 12 Siebert Siebert 13 Morgan Mohler 14 Wong Wong 15 Sola' Sola' 16 O'Connor O'Connor 17 Rockwell Chapman 18 Ore Ore 19 Kraft Olsen 20 Hollander Hollander 21 Hurd Hurd 22 Nara Mylonas 23 Marin Marcos-Marin 24 Oikawa Oikawa 25 Tompa Tompa 26 Adamo Adamo 27 Voorhis Voorhis 28 Martin Martin 29 Bolton Bolton 30 Johnston Johnston 31 (Clarke) (Clarke) 32 Wesolowski Wesolowski 33 O'Brien O'Brien 34 Kurzweil Kurzweil 35 Makrolog Makrolog 36 Texpert Texpert 37 38 Schumacher Schumacher 39 Lamb Lamb H1 (NA) (NA) H2 (NA) (NA) H3 (NA) (NA) H4 (NA) (NA) Directory of names [* denotes commercial developer] Adamo: Dr. Giovanni Adamo, Dr. Ada Russo, Dr. Giacinta Spinosa, Dr. Marco Veneziani (Rome); software: Lessico Intellectuale Europeo (Latin database) *Baima: John Baima (Silver Mountain Software); LBase (linguistic analysis and retrieval) *Bolton: Barbara Bolton (SoftQuad, Inc.); software: SoftQuad Publishing Software; SoftQuad Author/Editor Bradley: John Bradley (Computing Services, Toronto); software: TACT (text-retrieval and analysis) Brunet: Professor Etienne Brunet (Institut national de la langue Franc,aise, CNRS, Nice); software: HyperBase *Chapman: Chris Chapman (Cultural Resources, Inc.); software: Culture (database of Western civilization) Cioran: Prof. Samuel D. Cioran (Humanities Computing Centre, McMaster); software: mcBOOKmaster (authoring system, CAI and publication) Clarke: George Clarke (Computer Shop, Toronto); hardware: NeXT Colpaert: Dr. Jozef Colpaert, Dr. Wim Uyttersprot (DIDASCALIA, Antwerp); software: Vocapuces, Verbapuces, Textapuces (CALL) Colson: Dr. R. F. Colson (Southampton); software: Historical Documents Expert System (HIDES) Daoust: Francois Daoust, Luc Dupuy (Centre d'ATO, Universite' du Que'bec a` Montre'al); software: SATO (text analysis) Dresher: Prof. Elan Dresher (Dept. of Linguistics, Toronto); software: Youpie (linguistic stress) Ehrlich: Prof. Heyward Ehrlich (English, Rutgers); software: PC- Write Documentation Engine Faulhaber: Prof. Charles Faulhaber (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley); software: Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts (textbase) Halteren: Prof. Hans van Halteren (TOSCA, Nijmegen); software: LDB, Linguistic DataBase (LDB); Computer Library of Utterances for Exercises in Syntax (CLUES) Hollander: Prof. Robert Hollander, Jonathan Altman (Dartmouth Dante Project); software: Dartmouth Dante Project Database Hunter: Prof. David C. Hunter (Computer Science, Muskingum); Prof. Donald Ross (English, Minnesota); software: micro-Eyeball (stylistic statistics) Hurd: Prof. John Hurd (Religious Studies, Toronto); software: Greek Tutor Janus: Prof. Louis Janus (Norwegian, St. Olaf); software: Norwegian courseware *Johnston: James Johnston (Electronic Text Corporation); software: WordCruncher (interactive concordance) Kraft: Prof. Robert Kraft (Religious Studies, Pennsylvania); hardware: Ibycus; software: TLG, PHI texts, hypertext, etc. *Kurzweil: Kurzweil Data Entry; hardware: optical character recognition systems Lamb: Professor Martin Lamb (Faculty of Library and Information Science, Toronto); software: Menulay (hypermedia) *Makrolog: Makrolog Gesellschaft fuer Logik- und Computeranwendungen; software: OPTOPUS (optical character recognition) Maranda: Prof. Pierre Maranda (Anthropologie, Laval); software: Discourse Analysis (DISCAN) Marin: Prof. Dr. Francisco Marcos-Marin (Madrid); software: UNITE (textual editing and publishing) Martin: Prof. Philippe Martin (Experimental Phonetics Laboratory, Toronto); hardware: phonetic analysis McKinnon: Prof. Alastair McKinnon (Philosophy, McGill); software: TextMap (content analysis) *Melby: Prof. Alan Melby (LinguaTech International, Utah); software: Mercury/Termex (lexical data management) Mepham: Prof. Michael Mepham (Laval, Que'bec); software: Lemmatiseur, DAT, SYREX (textual enrichment and analysis, segmentation, lexical construction and tagging) Mohler: Dr. Peter Ph. Mohler (Zentrum fuer Umfragen, Methoden, und Analysen, Mannheim); software: Textpack (textual analysis) Morgan: Dr. Nicholas Morgan (History, Glasgow); software: DISH (historical dbms) Mylonas: Elli Mylonas (Perseus Project, Harvard); software: Perseus (hypermedia for classical culture); Pandora (TLG text retrieval) Nara: Prof. Hiroshi Nara (East Asian, Pittsburgh); software: Understanding Written, Spoken Japanese Project (CALL) *O'Brien: Shiera O'Brien (Multiscript/La Langagerie, Montre'al, for ALPNET); software: Translation Support System *O'Connor: Royalynn O'Connor (Oxford University Press, NY); software: OED on CD-ROM; Micro-OCP; Shakespeare (textbases, concordance software) Oikawa: Dr. A. Oikawa (National Institute for Educational Research, Japan); software: educational materials support system Olsen: Dr. Mark Olsen (ARTFL, Chicago); software: ARTFL (online database of French texts) Ore: Espen Ore (Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Bergen); software: various (CALL, hypermedia, etc.) Ott: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott (Datenverarbeitung, Tuebingen); software: microTUSTEP (scholarly information processing) Picchi: Dr. Eugenio Picchi, Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa); software: lexical database Portoraro: Frederic Portoraro (Philosophy, Toronto); software: SymLog (symbolic logic CAI) Rockwell: Geoffrey Rockwell (Apple Research Partnership Program and Univ. of Toronto Computing Services, Toronto); software: Bib, etc. (personal information management) Rust: Prof. Richard D. Rust (English, North Carolina); software: LitTerms (literary glossary) Schumacher: Dr. Jean Schumacher (Centre de Traitement Electroniques des Documents, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium); software: Logiciel d'Interrogation Interactive de Textes Semonche: Prof. John E. Semonche (History, North Carolina); software: Simulations in U.S. History *Siebert: Steve Siebert (Dragonfly Software); software: Nota Bene (scholarly wordprocessing and text-retrieval) Snelgrove: Dr. Theresa Snelgrove (English, Toronto); software: Structural Analysis Program (STRAP) *Sola': Prof. Donald F. Sola' (Modern Languages and Linguistics, Cornell); software: Interlex (second-language learning) *Texpert: Texpert software (optical character recognition) Tompa: Prof. Frank Tompa, Darrell Raymond (New OED, Waterloo); software: PAT, GODEL, FAT (text-retrieval, online OED) *Voorhis: David Voorhis (Armchair Airlines Computer Services, Brandon, Manitoba); software: LOGOS (emotional tone) *Wesolowski: Joan Wesolowski (Calera Systems); hardware and software: Calera (optical character recognition and scanning) Wilson: Dr. Eve Wilson (Computing Laboratory, Kent at Canterbury); software: JUSTUS (hypertext information retrieval for law) *Wong: Ruth Wong (Innotech); software: Brushwriter (Chinese wordprocessing) Zahavy: Prof. Tzvee Zahavy; Dr. Tzvika Goldenberg; Ms. Carol Weist (Project Woksape, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Minnesota); software: MILIM (Hebrew language drill) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition room, 2nd floor, Medical Sciences (Alumni Hall) (The room measures approximately 61 feet by 31 feet; the diagram is not to scale.) <----East/West-----> | V North to lecture theatre (windows with curtains along this side) (wall) |-----------------------------------------------.D D---------| |.............workstations....................... ..workst.| | |w | |i w........................... .............................|n a workstations . . workstations |d l........................... .............................|o l workstations . . workstations |w |........................... .............................|s | | | | | | |......... ..................................................| | workst.. . workstations | |---------D D-------------------------------------------------| (wall) (wall) to breakout sessions Legend. Abbreviation Meaning c colour display cd external CD-ROM drive dem demonstrator supplies equipment e direct link to mainframe EMS EMS memory fs file-server HPLJ Hewlett Packard LaserJet Plus H Hacker's Corner (machines for impromptu demonstrations) H+ Hercules Graphics Plus Ib. Ibycus microcomputer m monochrome display (EGA for AT, VGA for PS/2) Mac Macintosh mt external modem and telephone line mse mouse NA not to be assigned p printer p24 24-pin printer PS/2 IBM PS/2-50, 20 Mb fixed disk PS/2z IBM PS/2-50Z, 60Mb fixed disk t tables term terminal tk special talk vd video-disk player ws workstation # physically contiguous to workstation number 3270 IBM 3270 emulation software *****END***** From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: fonts? Date: Tue, 2 May 89 15:58:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 548 (801) In re fonts: For MS-DOS machines: Multi-Lingual Scholar Gamma Productions, Inc. 710 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 609 Santa Monica, CA 90401 From: ZEITLYN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: RE: personal information managers (108) Date: Tue, 2 May 89 12:08 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 549 (802) There is a shareware Macintosh programme that may be of interest to HUMANISTS. It is called Texas (or Tex in its new, revised form) and it is a Hypercard stack that will make a text-in-context index of any text-only file, and then permit very fast, neat access to the relevant parts of the document(s). I'm using to handle transcripts and their translations and I find it invaluable. Amazingly it actually does what it claims to do! My only complaint is that there's no stop list to weed out 'small words' but this may come with time... I assume North Americans will have no problem findingf copies on bulletin boards. In UK it is available from the Macintosh User Group UK based in Oxford. all the best david From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Dynamic Text May 15 Deadline Date: Tue, 02 May 89 11:10:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 917 (803) This is a reminder that early registration at the 16th ALLC Conference and 9th ICCH conference at the University of Toronto June 5--10 ends on May 15th. ALLC-ICCH89 (The Dynamic Text) has a truly exceptional group of participants from all over the world. There are eleven keynote addresses, over 125 speakers in 40 parallel sessions and 4 panels, 4 free workshops, and a large concurrent software-hardware fair with about 50 exhibitors. The final programme is found on the Humanist file-server, s.v. DYNAMTXT CONFRNCE. This is an updated file that supercedes the one you may already have. As always, to get this file, follow the instructions contained in your Guide to Humanist. The price of registration includes two large books of conference and software-hardware fair extended abstracts, a complimentary copy of TACT (a text-retrieval system) courtesy of IBM Canada and the University of Toronto, a reception hosted by IBM Canada at Stop-33 (the top of the Sutton Place Hotel), a lunch courtesy of the Government of Ontario and the City of Toronto, and an excursion to Niagara Falls. Over twenty 10-hour courses in the Toronto-Oxford Summer School are also planned in the weeks before (May 29--June 2) and after (June 12--16 the conference. _________________________________________________________________ SUMMER SCHOOL COURSES May 29--June 2 Course Name Instructor Interactive Video L. Kowal WordPerfect 5.0 Martha Parrott CALL Robert Ariew CJK Humanities Computing Liu Yongquan & others Desktop Publishing: Pagemaker Patricia Hood Writing Theory into Practice Helen Schwartz Meeting Campus Needs Vicky A. Walsh HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell Meeting School Needs Ronald Ragsdale Writing with Computer Support Earl Woodruff & others June 12--16 WordPerfect 5.0 Martha Parrott Scholarly Publishing Catherine Griffin Desktop Publishing: PageMaker Patricia Hood Relational Database Paul Salotti Programming in SNOBOL4 Susan Hockey Reader Response Elaine Nardocchio Computer Tools in Translation Alan Melby Nota Bene Willard McCarty Literary & Linguistic Computing Susan Hockey HyperCard Geoffrey Rockwell Discourse Dynamics Pierre Maranda _________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION Registration fees for the four-day conference and software fair, payable (in Canadian dollars) at registration. ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH member/speaker $ 225.00 Non-member $ 255.00 Student $ 125.00 Late registration $ 295.00 (after May 15) Summer School course fees are as follows. Those attending the Summer School will be encouraged to take more than one course. Rates for the second and third course will be progressively lower than that for the first course. A lower fee has been set for the one-day Advanced Function Workstation (AFW) course. FULL COURSES 1st 2nd 3rd-8th AFW course course courses course Member of ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH 175.00 125.00 100.00 75.00 Non-member 200.00 175.00 150.00 100.00 Student 125.00 100.00 75.00 50.00 You may request information for both conference and summer school or register immediately by telephone on a 24-hour basis. Using a touch-tone telephone, call North American area code (416) 978--2400. Your call will take about 15 minutes. Press button 1 if you wish to request detailed information mailed to you. Ask for The Dynamic Text brochure. Press button 5 to register immediately or pay by VISA, MasterCard or cheque. When prompted, enter the appropriate course number and section code for association members, non-members, or students. SCS 3700: Conference and Software Fair Section 01A ACH, ALLC, COCH/COSH members Section 02B Non-members Section 03C Students SCS 3701: Conference Banquet Section 01A One person Section 02B Two persons If you do not have a touchtone telephone, you may call a Registration Officer between the hours of 9 am to 5 pm (Toronto time) at (416) 978--5527. Information about accommodation, conference schedule, Tools for Humanists, and the Summer School will be mailed to you immediately following your registration. Adults (18 years of age or older) may register in courses of the School. The registration form must be accompanied by the applicable fees. Payment may be made by VISA, MasterCard, money order, cash or cheque made payable to the University of Toronto in Canadian funds. The organizers of the event reserve the right to withdraw courses listed in their publications. Should a course be withdrawn, registrants will receive a full refund of the fees paid. A portion of the tuition fee may be refunded only if the School of Continuing Studies receives from the registrant a written notice of withdrawal, faxed or post-marked prior to the applicable deadline. By Mail, you may request information by writing to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies 158 St. George St. Toronto, Ont., Canada M5S 2V8 By FAX, you may request information by transmitting to: Registration Officer The Dynamic Text Conference University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (416) 978--5673 By E-mail, send requests to: The Dynamic Text Conference CCH @ VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA or CCH @ UTOREPAS _________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION Conference accommodation has been reserved in the Park Plaza and Westbury Hotels and in University of Toronto student residences. The Westbury Hotel, 475 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont. M4Y 1X7. Special group rates are $89 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Westbury Hotel is located in Toronto's busy downtown entertainment and shopping area and is a pleasant 10-15 minutes' walk from the university. Telephone: (416) 924--0611. Canada and USA: (800) 387--0647. FAX: (416) 924-5061. Reservations are required no fewer than 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel, 4 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ont. M5R 2E8. Special group rates are $125 per room, per day, single or double occupancy (Canadian dollars), plus sales tax of 5%. Reservations must be made 30 days prior to arrival. The Park Plaza Hotel is located about 10 minutes' walk north of the university in the fashionable Yorkville shopping area off Bloor St. West near the Royal Ontario Museum. Telephone: (416) 924-5471. FAX: (416) 924-4933. Telex: 0622295. Reservations must be received no later than May 13, 1989. University of Toronto residences: Whitney Hall (co-ed), University College, 85 St. George St., Wilson Hall, New College (women only), and Wetmore Hall, New College (men only). Rates, including breakfast, are $35 per room, per day (single), or $23 per person, per day (twin: two single beds), in Canadian dollars. These rates do not include provincial sales tax. Washrooms are communal; bedding, towels, and soap are provided. Accommodation cannot be provided for children under age 5. Residences are about 5 minutes' walk from the conference and summer school locations. Telephone: (416) 978-8735. Reservations must be received by April 28, 1989 (to allow time for a confirmation to be mailed out), together with a non-refundable deposit of one night's stay per person by certified cheque, money order, or Visa/Mastercard number. Mail to ALLC-ICCH89 Joint Meeting, Conference Services, University of Toronto, Room 240, Simcoe Hall, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1. _________________________________________________________________ TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS Air Canada is the official carrier for this event. Call this toll-free number, 1-800-361-7585, to book through Convention Central, quoting event number 89-0768, and your reservation will be confirmed at the lowest possible price. By booking Air Canada you can bypass construction at Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1. From: LAUZZANA@ECS.UMASS.EDU Subject: RE: French or American revolution, cont. (36) Date: Mon, 1 May 89 23:55:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 550 (804) Which french revolution? 1830 or 1790? Remmember, The French abolished slavery & serfdom in their first revolution! -Ray Lauzzana P.S. I think that before you can ask the question which revolution did the most for mankind, you must ask what is good for mankind. It is very myopic to think that the American Revolution was a precursor to the French. The Americans fought a colonial war of independence; they did not overthrow a monarch. From: Subject: Re: which revolution? (25) Date: Tue, 2 May 89 10:17:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 551 (805) Certainly most historians would agree that the French Revolution had a more dramatic and long-lasting effect upon the history of the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: commercial e-mail Date: Tue, 2 May 89 08:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 919 (806) Business Week, May 8, 1989, pp 135-9 reports on status of commercial e- mail. After sputtering along for a decade, the major players finally have agreed on a standard. Western Union's EASYLINE, GTE's Telenet, British Telecom's Dialcom, MCI Mail, and AT&T Mail, will all use standard X.400 for interchanging mail between systems. Combined they have about 700,000 mailboxes. Corporate systems (IBM and Digital) have 3 million more. Pressure for uniformity came from users who demand the capability of interconnections (as did telephone users a century ago). 3 billion messages were sent last year, nearly all inside their respective systems. With easy interchange, there may be 16 billion messages by 1992, and ?? 60 billion by 2000. Cost runs about $1/page, which (taking phone bills into account) is comparable to FAX. Can e-mail catch up with FAX? Troubles; it will be 4 years before a common phone book (X.500) is available (why so long?) Worse, there are 600,000 local PC networks in US (LANs), 10% with their own e-mail. None connect with X.400. ---Query: where does Bitnet fit into this? Is/will Bitnet be compatible with X.400 so that we can communicate outside the academic community? (Note that right now any two fax users can easily contact each other.) Will e-mail catch on outside professional/business world? Is BITNET the poor academic's Fax? If Fax prices fall much further will we just give up on Bitnet and e-mail? (That seems unlikely: we would compose on computer, print on printer, then run the output through a fax? Has anybody tried using a PC-fax board?) And if e- mail does catch on widely, will the commercial outfits squeeze out "free lunch" Bitnet? (Note how commercial software has largely squeezed out shareware.) From: jonathan@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Jonathan Altman) Subject: Request for data entry keyboarding firms Date: Tue, 2 May 89 0:21:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 920 (807) I have a general request for assistance. I am looking for a firm to do manual data entry on some texts which cannot be entered by OCR. What I would like is the name, address, and phone number of any firms that you know of that offer this service, and any comments you may have on your dealings with them. I have dealt with such firms before, but I am looking to do some comparison shopping on this current batch of material. If you have any specific firms that you know of, it would probably be most appropriate to send me e-mail with the information. Here is a list of possible addresses to use: jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (please try this first) jonathan.altman@dartmouth.edu (equivalent to above, but BITNET sometimes likes this one better) and, if you're on BITNET and absolutely MUST, try jonathan@dartcms1 Thanks in advance for any leads you give me. I think that it would be a worthwhile endeavor to compile a listing of this sort anyway (kind of a sourcebook for data entry). So, I will compile all information received, including evaluations (whose contents I will disclaim any responsibility for in advance) to be available when I'm finished collecting information. Jonathan Altman Dartmouth Dante Project From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: EDITOR, Number 5 (187 records) Date: 01 May 89 21:48:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 921 (808) [I pass along for your interest a sample issue from a new discussion group devoted to scholarly publishing. It was announced on Humanist once before, but this sample may do a somewhat better job of alerting you to the possibilities. --W.M.] EDITOR: A moderated discussion group for those interested in the publishing of Scholarly Journals. Please address all mail for the group to MHayward@IUP. In Issue 2, Roy Flannagan raised the question of typesetting via computer and desktop publishing--a question also raised by the controller of my budget. Two comments on this topic follow. ***************************************************************** The following was written in response to your request for information on the suitability of DTP in publishing scholarly journals. . . . To my great regret, I have just reached the conclusion that DTP in its current form - or at least Ventura 1.1 and 2.0 - is *not* a viable production option for the journal I have edited since 1983 ("Studies in Zionism" - deals with the history of Zionism, Jewish settlement in Palestine/Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and more.) The journal is written and edited in Tel Aviv University, and printed and distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore. We send JHUP camera-ready copy - typeset bromides with page-layout. Since 1983 we have been interfacing with a phototypesetter via disk. For a while, we experimented with inserting a lot of the typesetting codes via a wordprocessor, but gave that up as too complicated and not sufficiently cost effective. In response to constantly increasing typesetting costs, and also (mea culpa) because of my fascination with DTP and with book production, I decided that we would produce camera-ready copy using Ventura. The program can produce Postscript files for a Linotronic 300, and bromides produced directly from our Postscript disks cost only $2.50/page, as opposed to $2.00/1,000 chars when the typesetter gets normal ascii w/p files. Theoretically, that would have saved us circa $3,500 annually. I tried it twice. The cost-savings were real. But nothing else promised ›word lost in transmission--"worked"?| I had some experience with Ventura previously, and knew enough to realize that the production of a style sheet incorporating my journal's exact design was a job for a professional Ventura service bureau. I paid $300 for a style sheet. The same bureau produced the postscript files. But Ventura couldnt handle the complicated layout of the annual bibliography in our field that the journal publishes. Neither could footnotes (as opposed to endnotes) be generated automatically. So they were moved around "manually," a very time-consuming process that also created large gaps between the end of text and the start of the footnotes on many pages. By then, we had compromised our layout a number of times, were weeks late in the production schedule (for the first time in 6 years) and were no longer on speaking terms with the service bureau. The appearance of Ventura v 2.0 encouraged me to try again, this time with a much bigger and more experienced service bureau. Version 2.0 of Ventura can generate footnotes, but it does so with (a) an irregular gap between text and notes (which isnt too bad), and (b) flexible bottom margins. In other words, no two pages were the same length. That is totally unacceptable, and we ended up cutting up the bromides and pasteing them by hand. That left us with gaps of up to 3.5 cms between text and notes. We were, again, six weeks late when we mailed the copy off. Conclusion: DTP is only worth it if you are willing to make numerous compromises on the quality of the copy (layout, design) and if cost considerations are the most important factor. I would love to cut costs, but life is too short to spend so much time fiddling with DTP. I am going back to editing and leaving production to the typesetting professionals. Ron Zweig Tel Aviv University H27@TAUNIVM ****************************************************************** ›On the subject of DTP, I extract from a reply I gave my Dean who asked if I was using DTP "to save typesetting costs." I would not bet my life on the direct relation between numbers of pages and printing costs, but it seems to me accurate.| I suspect, however, that you would like the long answer. The long answer is that the savings by desktop publishing (DTP) are illusory. What you save in typesetting cost you lose in printing cost. Let me give an example: ›a colleague's journal| has a page that is 60 characters wide and 32 lines deep. He gets 1,920 characters per page. Studies in the Humanities has a page that is 72 characters wide and 39 lines deep for a total of 2,808 characters per page. In other words, our journal gets 41% more text per page than ›his|. Since printing costs are based on the number of pages, if we were to typeset by DTP, we would have to increase printing costs by 41%. The printing costs for the last issue was bid at $1,593. A 41% increase would increase the cost by $653.00. Since the typesetting costs for the last issue were $575.00, desktop publishing would result in a net loss of $75.00. The reason that a DTP manuscript cannot print as much text per line is because of the quality of printing. If you examine very carefully the printing of ›my colleague's journal| in comparison to the printing of Studies in the Humanities, you will see that the letters of Studies are much sharper and clearer, easier to read, and more well-defined. This allows Studies to achieve a greater line length. . . . ›Thus| different approaches to typesetting and printing would seem on the surface to offer substantial savings, might in the long run not be so very attractive. The cost analysis that I have provided does not, indeed, take account of the time involved in setting type via a DTP package such as Ventura. I would estimate conservatively that 20 hours would be required to set type by Ventura for a journal the size of Studies in the Humanities. If I were to do the work myself, with my time being worth approximately $35.00 an hour, the labor cost of $700.00 would make DTP even less attractive. At Studies in the Humanities we are always on the look-out to save money. I think you will find that our costs for producing the journal have actually decreased over the past few years. I wish that DTP were a way by which we could save additional funds, but from a detailed cost analysis, I think you will agree, that it really does not at this time promise much in the way of savings. --Malcolm Hayward From: Willard McCarty Subject: a slight innovation Date: 2 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 922 (809) At the suggestion of Jim Coombs (IRIS, Brown), I have this evening begun formatting the subject lines of messages from Humanist slightly differently, as you will have already noticed, thus: volno.issueno: subject (nlines) Coombs' innovation will help with the sorting of mail from Humanist for those who want to keep track of numbers received and numbers missed. Any comments about the new format should be directed to me. My thanks, as before, to Jim. Willard McCarty From: Ken Steele Subject: Inquiry for Humanist Discussion Group Date: Wed, 03 May 89 09:28:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 552 (810) Dear Fellow Humanists; As a relatively new member of this discussion group, I am concerned that this question may have been exhaustively treated previously -- if so, please direct me to the appropriate source of information. I am a doctoral student, engaged in thesis research on the text of Shakespeare's early plays. In reading the introductory materials to Humanist, I was intrigued by the existence of a BBS devoted entirely to _Finnegan's Wake_, and naturally I began to wonder about similar electronic resources for scholars of Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Textual Criticism, or Scholarly Editing. Is anyone aware of e-mail discussion groups, on-line databases, BBS's, etc. which would be useful to those who share my interests? (Besides the more general "Humanist", "English", "Reed-l", and "Editor", of course.) Many thanks in advance for any information you might have. From: Subject: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN THE HUMANITIES Date: Wed, 3 May 89 10:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 553 (811) I would like to get some information on scholarly publishing in the humanities in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, outside of the university presses (largely, I think a 20th century phenomenon). What made me curious is that we don't in this country seem to have presses like Methuen in England, like Klincksieck in France, or Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Germany, just to mention a representative sample. In the 19th century many classical scholars published with textbook publishers like Ginn, and so their work was hardly known abroad. Does anyone know of books/articles discussing scholarly publishing in the US? Jim Halporn From: Oleske Subject: C.A.L.L. ( C.A.I.) Modern languages Date: Wed, 3 May 89 08:08:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 554 (812) Dear Humanists, Pardon the intrusion but after suggestions from respondants to my previous requests, I offer the following survey form: C.A.L.L. ( C.A.I.) packages IN REGULAR USE AT: Institution: Dept: Address: Address: Address: Address: Contact: e-mail/Bitnet: 1.PACKAGE(S): 2.Modern Languages: 3.Application type: 4.Tutor: 5.Computer: 6.Critique: 7.Other comments: I would also be grateful for any information about the presence at your institution of " traditional " language- laboratory environments, e.g., audio-visual sites and suggestions of whom to contact to discuss orientations, equipment,etc. of non-academic nature. Thank you for your assistance. Bill Oleske footnote: 1.Name of package(s) please 2.Name of languages taught 3.Type of program,e.g., wp,drill,etc. 4.Tutor: organized class or private study ? 5.Machine or operating system 6.Opinions,suggestions,criticisms,limitations,etc. From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: "Women in Medicine": Date: 3 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 555 (813) [The following arrived with truncated lines, but since the missing words are not crucial for finding the items listed, I am passing on this very useful bibliography without further fuss. --W.M.] I have forwarded the enquiries about women in medicine to the Director of the Institut fuer Geschichte der Medizin of our university, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fichtner. Here is a bibliography he supplied. Wilhelm Ott ------------------------------------------------- Literature: "Women in Medicine": Alic, M.: Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity to th Chaff, Sandra L.; Haimbach, Ruth; Fenichel, Carol; Woodside, Nina B.: Women in m Review: Med. Hist. 22(1978), S. 461. Review: Isis 70(1979), S. 295f. (Mandelbaum, Dorothy Rosenthal) Review: Clio Med. 16(1981), S. 155. Davis, Audrey B.: Bibliography on Women: with special emphasis on their roles in Review: J. Hist. Med. 31(1976), S. 237 (Overmier, Judith). Davis, N. Z.; Conway, J. K.: Society and the sexes: a bibliography of women's hi Donegan, Jane B.: Women and Men Midwives. Medicine, Morality, and Misogyny in Ea Review: Med. Hist. 24(1980), S. 118. Review: Clio Med. 14(1980), S. 149f. (Morantz, Regina Markell). Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 55(1981), S. 297f. (Leavitt, Judith Walzer). Donnison, Jean: Midwives and medical men. A history of inter-professional rivalr Review: Med. Hist. 22(1978), S. 98. Review: Clio Med. 16(1981), S. 162f. (Donegan, Jane B.). Ehrenreich, B.; English, D.: Witches, Midwives and Nurses. A History of Woman He Ehrenreich, Barbara; English, Deirdre: Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History o Review: Med. Educ. 11(1977), S. 358-359 (Maclean, Una). Herzenberg, Caroline L.: Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Inde Review: Isis 78(1987), S. 315f. (Koblitz, Ann Hibner). In Her Own Words: Oral Histories of Woman Physicians. Ed. by }Regina Markell Mor Review: J. Hist. Med. 38(1983), S. 472f. (Olch, Peter D.). Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 57(1983), S. 638f. (Cangi, Ellen C.). Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell: Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in Ameri Review: Isis 77(1986), S. 175f. (Leavitt, Judith W.). Review: J. Hist. Med. 41(1986), S. 352-355 (Cayleff, Susan E.). Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 60(1986), S. 602f. (Reverby, Susan). Review: Hist. Philos. Life Sc. 10(1988), S. 401-403 (Duffin, Jacalyn). Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey: Women in Science, Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Cent Review: Isis 78(1987), S. 315f. (Koblitz, Ann Hibner). Walsh, Mary Roth: Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply: Sexual Barriers in the Me Review: J. Hist. Med. 33(1978), S. 104f. (Leavitt, Judith Walzer). Review: Med. Hist. 22(1978), S. 217. Review: Isis 69(1978), S. 105f. (Bullough, Vern L.). Review: Clio Med. 13(1978), S. 84 (Ackerknecht, Erwin H›einz!). Women and Health: The Politics of Sex in Medicine. Ed. by }Elizabeth Fee{. Farmi Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 58(1984), S. 613f. (Golden, Janet). Women and Health in America: Historical Readings. Ed. by }Judith Walzer Leavitt{ Review: Isis 76(1985), S. 112f. (Jones, Daniel P.). Review: Med. Hist. 29(1985), S. 113. Review: J. Hist. Med. 40(1985), S. 495f. (Dwork, Deborah). Women Physicians of the World. Autobiographies of Medical Pioneers. Ed. by }Leon Review: Bull. Hist. Med. 53(1979), S. 632 (Thibodeau, Doris). From: Martin Ryle Subject: RE: 2.918: revolutions, cont. (50) Date: Tue, 2 May 89 23:16:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 556 (814) Re the great debate over whose revolution was best for all: Perhaps we should take another look at the work of RR Palmer, who argued that the events of the lat18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and the Americas should be considered an Atlantic revolution, generally resulting in the transition to less profoundly feudal societies in the affected countries. Martin Ryle Prof. of History University of Richmond, Virginia Ryle@urvax.bitnet From: Philippa Matheson Subject: Re: fonts? Date: Wed, 03 May 89 15:53:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 557 (815) A Greek font from Allotype Typographics (the Times Roman Adobe Font, with full diacriticals for ancient Greek) is being used by _Phoenix_ (the journal of the Classical Association of Canada) as of 1989, and I know they also have Cyrillic and modern Greek fonts: Marc Cogan Allotype Typographics 1600 Packard Road Suite 5 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 (313) 663-1989 I think they are all MacIntosh fonts, but they "broke" the Kadmos Greek font out of the Mac programming and sold it to me on an IBM disk (same price) to use with TeX. I did the .TFM file from the PostScript definitions, but have no .PK files for screen viewing yet... --- Philippa Matheson, Humanities Computing 43 McKenzie Avenue, M4W 1K1, Toronto From: Mary Hasbrouck Subject: Re: Bible aids Date: Tue, 2 May 89 16:34:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 558 (816) I just came across a Macintosh program called HyperBible, a HyperCard Bible study program. It's put out by Beacon Technology, 3550 Stevens Creek Blvd., P.O. Box 9872, San Jose, CA 95157 (phone: 408-296-4884). There is a short review of it in the May 1989 MacUser magazine (p.201). The cost is $230 for King James or $280 for New International, and the program (including HyperCard) takes up 15 megabytes (!) of disk space. The review didn't go into much detail or offer any evaluation of the program's quality. Mary Hasbrouck Swarthmore College Computing Center HASBROUCK@SWARTHMR or HASBROUCK@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU From: Sterling G. Bjorndahl Subject: Biblical Scholars List Date: Tues, 2 May 1989 15:10 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 559 (817) Here is the latest version of the complete "Biblical (and related) Scholars E-Mail Address Book." Electronic addresses are for BITNET/ NETNORTH/EARN unless otherwise indicated. Addresses from other nets are given in a form my mailer can understand. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. BIBLICAL SCHOLARS. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Steve Dill Subject: Position Announcements Date: Wed, 03 May 89 08:41:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 560 (818) The University of South Dakota has an opening as described below: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, Area of Specialization: British Literature, sub-specialization: Renaissance and/or Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. Ability to teach both periods desirable. Responsibilities: Teach 3 courses each semester, including courses in advanced expository writing and in Freshman literature. Interest in teaching expository writing necessary. Qualifications: PhD. in hand. College-level teaching experience desirable; publications helpful. Closing Date: When suitable candidate is found; preference given to applications received by May 31, 1989. How to Apply: Cover letter and vitae, including including names and telephone numbers of at least 3 references to Professor Gervase Hittle, Department of English, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The University of South Dakota has an opening as described below: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, Area of Specialization: Creative Writing, Subspecialization: Fiction emphasis strongly preferred. Responsibilities: Teach 3 courses each semester, including creative writing courses at lower-division, upper-division, and graduate levels. Willingness to teach advanced expository writing and/or Freshman literature needed. Qualifications: Ph.D or M.F.A. in Creative Writing required. Publications desirable; college-level teaching experience helpful. Closing Date: When suitable candidate is found; preference given to applications received by May 31, 1989. How to Apply: Send cover letter and vitae, including names and telephone numbers of at least 3 references to: Professor Gervase Hittle, English Department, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark, Vermillion, SD 57069. From: Lou Burnard Subject: address correction Date: Wed, 3 May 89 17:51 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 561 (819) Anyone who's having problems contacting Ann Kirk about the Oxford Text Archive research assistantship please note: I cant't spell for toffee. Not only that, i can't spell Ann's name which is Ann and not Anne. So the email address I gave should have read ANNK@Uk.Ac.OXFORD.VAX apologies. closing date for applications is still may 19th. Lou From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: Transcribing Sanskrit Date: 3 May 1989 X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 927 (820) Though I am not a Sanskritist, I can not resist any longer the temptation to add a comment to the respective discussion. What about an encoding scheme relying on "floating diacritics" which may be added to any character? At Tuebingen, we have begun early enough with scholarly text data processing to have had from the very beginning some difficulties with character sets. It was the time of 6-bit BCD characters, allowing 64 different characters of which 48 only were supported on some key punches. Nevertheless we coded everything we needed (including Greek characters with breathings and accents and Hebrew characters with vowels) on these machines, using printable characters only. The situation has not changed in principle since then, though 8 bit character code allows something above 200 different characters (only). Therefore, also the encoding scheme we adopt has not changed in principle: we rely on the common subset of printable characters available in all of the different national versions of ASCII and EBCDIC for transcribing and encoding everything we need. Perhaps you discover that using your keyboard you adopt a similar procedure: in addition to two or three keys like CTRL and ALT, you press the keys for printable ASCII characters only. Replacing, while transcribing, also the ESC, CTRL, ALT etc. keys by printable characters allows you to have all the necessary codes in your file. Escaping to an other font may be coded e.g. as #g+ for greek, #h+ for hebrew, #r+ for cyrillic (r = "russisch"), #p+ for phonetics, #s+ for syriac, #/+ for slanted, #f+ for bold ("fett") etc.; the shift back to latin is done by terminating the respective font (#g- or #h- ...). Diacritics are coded by a different escape character, %, and a subsequent character which looks similar to the diacritic to be used: %.a for "dot over a", %..a for "dot under a", %-a for "dash over a", "%--a" for "dash under a", %?a for "tilde over a", %??a for "tilde under a", %/%-%..a for "acute over dash over a and dot under it", etc. This avoids some of the problems: - there is (almost) no limitation for combining diacritics and letters, - there are no problems with data transfer and exchange, - the text remains readable also on terminals with limited character set or without graphics capabilities. For Sanskrit, Peter Schreiner and Renate Soehnen have used this approach for producing their "Sanskrit Indexes and Text of Brahmapur-a.na" (published 1987 by Harassowitz, Wiesbaden), transcribing the text as shown in the last word of the title just quoted, on plain ASCII terminals, and transforming these codes to the required %-sequences by simple search-and-replace just before printing. Those interested in this approach may find it worthwhile to have a look to the TUSTEP demonstration at the Toronto fair in June. Wilhelm Ott, Tuebingen (ZRSZOT1 at DTUZDV2) From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Notes on Grad Program Discussions Date: Wednesday, 3 May 1989 0039-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 928 (821) If noone has mentioned it, the University of Pennsylvania has a Comparative Literature Graduate Program worth a close look. It has been getting some excellent students, and draws on the faculties of a number of humanities departments here. On those older teachers who "only" had MA degrees, my impression is that many (most/all) of them did not forgo getting PhDs for the reason suggested in the HUMANIST communique (to get on with significant writing, etc.), but rather, that the PhD is a relative innovation in (especially British) higher educational systems, and that it simply was not an option. In the English speaking world, the PhD was basically an American (US ?) degree in the early part of this century, but gradually made its inroads into the British system(s). I never did get clear about how this all developed on the continent; did the US PhD development come from Germany? When? (And without the privilege of the Habilitationsschrift!) I don't remember if anyone already mentioned it, but choosing a school for a program such as Comparative Literature should probably also involve questions of the school's Library facilities. It may be easier to survive inadequate teaching and even advising than to do without the wider range of desirable sources for enlightenment and research. (Penn's Library is good, on the whole, and very accessible [open stacks, etc.].) Bob Kraft (Religious Studies) From: Subject: Re: 2.928: grad schools, cont. (39) Date: Thu, 4 May 89 09:51:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 562 (822) In re Ph.D. degrees, the US Ph.D. degree came from Germany. Hopkins was a pioneer. Woodrow Wilson, the historian and US President, obtained one of the earliest Ph.D.'s. ---------------------------------------------------------------- !Donald J. Mabry !DJMABRY@MSSTATE ! !Professor ! ! !History Department !P.O. Box 1096 ! !Mississippi State University !Mississippi State, MS 39762 ! !Mississippi State, MS 39762 !Tel: (601) 325-7084 ! ! ! ! ! Senior Fellow, CISS ! ! !Miss State Univ. !Home Phone: (601) 323-6852 ! !Research Interests: Latin American narcotics diplomacy; ! !20th Century Mexico; origins of rock'n'roll ! From: TODD PERRY Subject: Revolution Date: Mon, 1 May 89 17:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 563 (823) Dear Sirs and Madams: In regards to the question of revolution....... Does death ever advance mankind? In the obvious context of the question, though, leaving the sardonic comments behind, I would have to say the American Revolution was of greater intellectual value to the world. The American Revolution was the first "great experiment in society". It was the first indication that Locke, Rousseau (particuarly), and (to a lesser extent) Hobbes actually could be thought about in concrete terms. It also gave a voice to the rational anarchism of Thomas Jefferson, and the federalism of people like Madison. I would go so far as to wonder if there would have been a French Revolution without a American one. Firstly, the French economy would not have been pushed as far without its involvement in the American Revolution, and secondly, the radical thinkers that "fathered" the intellectual ideas of the French revolution were highly cheered by the success of the American revolution. Feel free to comment, in any way. I wear asbestos underclothing, and am not afraid of "flames". :) Yours, R. Todd Perry perry_R@wabash From: IDE@VASSAR Subject: Date: Wed, 3 May 89 23:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 564 (824) THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE History of the TEI In the fall of 1987, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), under the directorship of Nancy M. Ide, organized a conference at Vassar College from which emerged a set of resolutions upon the necessity and feasibility of defining a set of guidelines to facilitate both the interchange of existing encoded texts and the creation of newly encoded texts. The resolutions stated that the guidelines would specify both what features should be encoded and also how they should be encoded, as well as suggesting ways of describing the resulting encoding scheme and its relationship with pre-existing schemes. Compatibility with existing schemes would be sought where possible, and in particular, ISO standard 8879, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), would provide the basic syntax for the guidelines if feasible. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. TXT_ENCD INITIATV. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Sean O'Cathasaigh, FRI001@UK.AC.SOTON.IBM Subject: Eighteenth-century studies. Date: Wed, 3 May 89 07:10:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 565 (825) Department of French, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH From: Niko Besnier Subject: Laser printers Date: Thu, 04 May 89 09:49:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 931 (826) I was recently awarded a small local grant to buy a laser printer to churn out a camera-ready copy of the grammar of a Polynesian language, to be published by Routledge next year. I am having enormous difficulties getting some simple information about what this and that model can do and cannot do. I am planning to get a LaserJet Series II, which I will interface with a Zenith Supersport 286 and WordPerfect. Can I hear from anyone who has any experience with this printer? Please reply directly: UTTANU@YALEVM. Many thanks and apologies for taking up HUMANIST space with a trivial request. (Thank god Soton's S.R. won't see this!!!) Niko Besnier Department of Anthropology Yale University From: Leslie Subject: Re: 2.920: keyboarding firms? (35) Date: Thu, 4 May 89 07:58:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 932 (827) A sourcebook of keyboarding firms would be extremely useful, as would a soucebook of places with OCR which outsiders (i.e., other academicians) could arrange to use through personal or grant money to enter text. Since many sites cannot afford the equipment, this would be a worthwhile under- taking. I have been trying to find out whether certain texts are available in machine-readable format for a project of mine, and will sub- sequently wish to read in those which are not, and will certainly use such a sourcebook if it is in existence! Leslie Morgan, SUNY at Stony Brook LZMORGAN@SBCCVM From: unh!psc90!jdg@uunet.UU.NET (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Choosing a graduate school Date: Thu, 4 May 89 21:30:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 566 (828) I agree with Willard and other colleagues who have focused on checking with graduate students about their program as well as with exploring the writings and teaching ability of the principle faculty with whom one is likely to study. Probably the most important four hours of my academic career were the ones I spent soon after consulting with my thesis advisor, internationally recognized as a comparatist and expert in the subject area of my dissertation, but who advised me at a somewhat late date of his inability and lack of desire to deal with the lexicometric and stylo-statistical elements of my thesis at the Universit'e de Montpellier III. He was adamant that I find a "guarantor" of the quality of these components. Fortunately, I had been devouring the work of another French professor eminently qualified in just this area. My advisor knew of him as well. I had previously arranged for an interview, and in a tight train schedule in southern France before my flight back to the U.S. where I would soon finish the two-tome thesis, I met with him at his home. In four hours of intensive discussion we worked out the structure, type and role of the stylo-statistical elements for this thesis on French fiction. To have had this individual on the same graduate faculty would have been a great advantage (he later served as president of the jury), hence my support of all my colleagues in support of humanities computing and the "interface" with more traditional graduate studies. --Joel D. Goldfield J_GOLDFI@UNHH From: Subject: Women in Medieval Medicine - another reference Date: Fri, 5 May 89 10:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 567 (829) The following would seem to be of interest: Anne Llewellyn Barstow, "On studying witchcraft as Women's History: A Historiography of the European Witch Persecutions." _Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion_ , Vol 4 # 2, (Fall 1988) pp. 7-19. Phil Yevics Theology/Religious Studies University of Scranton (PA - USA) PEY365@SCRANTON From: Geoff Rockwell Subject: Greek fonts Date: Fri, 5 May 89 09:59:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 568 (830) Following is information on Greek fonts mostly culled from AppleLink. I have not tested these fonts, so do not hold me responsible for the contents of this list. Geoffrey Rockwell rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca ******************************************************************** DEMOTIKI ISPN: 90338-160 VENDOR: ALLOTYPE TYPOGRAPHICS (USA) 1600 PACKARD ROAD SUITE 5 ANN ARBOR, MI 48104 (313)663-1989 Limited Warranty, Updates Available, Backups Available. DESCRIPTION: A complete character set for typesetting in modern Greek. Available with both the traditional forms of the accents, and with the new "monotoniko" accents. SUBJECTS: 123 PRODUCTIVITY/FONTS/IMAGES SYSTEM MIN MEM MEDIUM PRICE RELEASED APPLE MACINTOSH 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 APPLE MACINTOSH PLUS 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 APPLE MACINTOSH SE 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 APPLE MACINTOSH II 512 3-1/2-inch disk 85.00 03/01/87 You may order this product through your usual distributor. Apple is not responsible for the contents of this article. [The remaining 550 lines have been deleted.] -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available on the file-server, s.v. GREEK MACFONTS. A copy may be obtained by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST for information about how to issue such a command. Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Subject: East-Central American Soc. for 18th-C. Studies Date: Fri, 5 May 89 18:27:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 569 (831) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE EC/ASECS CONFERENCE AT BETHANY COLLEGE (West Virginia) 2-5 November, 1989... Please send papers or abstracts to the appropriate session chairs by 15 June 19 89. Proposed sessions include: 1) "Teaching the 'Unapproachable' Text" (Beth Lambert, Dept. of English, G ettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325-1486) 2) "Current Research" (Mary Margaret Stewart, Dept. of English, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325-1486) 3) "In Praise of Work: The Farmer and the Merchant in 18th-Century Literatu re" (Beverly Schneller, Dept. of English, Fontaine 216, Marist College, Poughk eepsie, NY 12601-1381) 4) "From Writer to Reader in the 18th Century: Recent Textual Studies" (Lu is Gamez, Dept. of English, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458-5158) 5) "Teaching the 18th Century" (Brijraj Singh, Box 51 Station C, Flushing, NY 11367) 6) "Minor Poets" (Jim May, Dept. of English, Penn State - DuBois, College Place, DuBois, PA 15801) 7) "Anglo-Irish Literature" (Kevin Berland, Dept. of English, Penn State - Shenango, Sharon, PA 16146 or BITNET BCJ@PSU.VM) 8) "Images of the Female in the 18th-Century European Novel" (Anne Widnell , 232 Lytton Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213) 9) "Tragic Vision in 18th-Century France?" (Philip Koch, Dept. of French & Italian Languages & Literature, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ) 10) "On Completion of the Yale Edition of Boswell's Journals: A Look Backwa rd" (Irma Lustig, 2302 Hopkinson House, Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19 106) 11) "The Scriblerians and the Kit-Kats" (Calhoun Winton, Department of Eng lish, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742) 12) "18th-Century American Literature" (Doreen Alvarez Saar, Department of English, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104) 13) "A New Way to Read Old Plays" (Linda Troost, Department of English, Wa shington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA 15301) 14) "New Light on the Scottish Enlightenment" (Steve Smith, Department of English, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141) 15) "The Pursuit of Happiness" (Russ McDonald, Department of English, West Virginia University, 230 Stansbury Hall, Morgantown, WV 26506) 16) "The First Federal Congress" (Jack Fruchtman, Jr., Department of Polit ical Science, Towson State University, Towson, MD 21204-7097) 17) "The Modernization of 18th-Century Village Life" (Peter Petschauer, De partment of History, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608) 18) "18th-Century Children's Literature" (Mary Anne Schofield, 138 Kynlyn Rd., Radnor, PA 19807) 19) "Reading 18th-Century Biography in the 20th Century" (Peter Perreten, Department of English, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA 19426) The location is bucolic, the company clubbable, the talk stimulating. For f urther information, contact the program chair, Linda E. Merians, Box 174, La Sa lle University, 20th and Olney Aves., Philadelphia, PA 19141. From: Subject: Query: Tartars & Elizabethan England Date: Thu, 4 May 89 22:56:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 570 (832) What did the Elizabethans know (or believe) about the Tartars, especially as st rategists and warriors? [This is not a riddle; I'd like to know if any HUMANIST out there has come across a useful reference.] -- Kevin Berland From: Espen S. Ore + 47 5 21 29 59 FAFEO at NOBERGEN Subject: Date: 5 May 89, 14:38:46 EMT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 571 (833) Re: Dhimotiki databases Does any HUMANIST know of modern Greek texts (or collections of texts) in machine readable form? I am asking this question for Eva Hedin at the University of Stockholm, and as far as I understand she is interested in any kind of text. Espen S. Ore From: Rosanne G. Potter Subject: Concordance users Date: Fri, 5 May 89 12:11:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 572 (834) I am interested in corresponding with other people who have used concordances in attempting to describe the literary vocabulary of an English-speaking writer. I would also be interested in suggestions about the best citations on the uses of concordances, especially exemplary essays on specific English writers. Please send the citations to HUMANIST, as I imagine others would be glad to collect good bibliographic items; send notes about willingness to correspond to me directly. Thanks, Rosanne G. Potter Department of English Iowa State University (515) 232-4473 (home) and (515) 294-4617 (office) To: MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: David Megginson Subject: Re: 2.931: laser printers? (27) Date: Fri, 05 May 89 07:46:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 2 Num. 936 (835) A vague response: As far as I know, the LaserJet is extremely slow, so allow a few days to print out your grammar. My laser printer manages about 6 pages/minute with Compugraphic outline fonts, but it runs only with the Atari mega. Your main question should be how difficult it will be to create your own special characters for the laser printer. It took me about 20 minutes to add Old English characters to ours. David Megginson