From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Volume 5, Number 1 Date: Tue, 07 May 91 23:08:29 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1 (1) Looking forward to the new year... From: Michael Ossar Subject: scholar's tools Date: Mon, 6 May 91 09:09 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 2 (2) The tools David Stuehler asks for are, in all essentials, already available in Nota Bene. NB's textbase component (which no other wordprocessor has, to my knowledge) allows one to take notes, search them via Boolean logic for keywords, and integrate the results in various ways into one's text without leaving the wordprocessor. The bibliographical supplement, Ibid, allows one to enter each item one time into a master bibiographical database and then, via various kinds of searching (e.g. by keyword, by publication date, by author, by subject, by publisher) construct any kind of subset desired. These can then be formatted in MLA style, APA style, Chicago A or B style, etc. New versions of NB itself, the textbase, and Ibid are about to be released. The new Ibid, for example, will allow easy conversion of bibiographical data into footnotes and vice versa. The program will come with add-on utilities that convert between NB files and those of other popular programs like MS Word, WordPerfect. There will also be optional spell-checkers available for several European languages. The special "Lingua" version of NB will handle Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, etc. From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Syntactic Parser for Greek Date: Fri, 3 May 91 11:47:27 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1 (3) An Automatic Parser for New Testament Greek Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar(GPSG) is a way of analysing natural language in terms of feature-value pairs. Six years ago a partial GPSG analysis of classical Greek was written as a PhD thesis by Ronnie Cann. I attempted to implement this analysis on a sun3 using the Grammar Development Environment(GDE), a Lisp tool developed by the Alvey project. AIM: The original motivation came from the New Testament Department at Edinburgh University, who suggested an automatic parser for teaching purposes. The emphasis of the project was on syntactic analysis. The Fribergs' tagged text was used to provide morphological information about each word. RESULT: Given a sentence of NT Greek a parse tree is produced showing the structure of the sentence ie what is the direct or indirect object of the verb, which adjective agrees with which noun etc. The work was done as a 5-month MSc project and so is incomplete. Only basic grammatical constructions can be coped with and the display needs improving to be comprehensible to any but linguists. If anyone is interested in hearing more about this work, please contact me on raw%uk.ac.edinburgh.aipna@ukacrl (or D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@ukacrl) or write to: Rachel Weiss Department of Artificial Intelligence 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH15 1LP Scotland UK From: Thomas B. Ridgeway Subject: Re: 4.1316 IPA font for TeX Date: Mon, 6 May 91 17:02:50 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 2 (4) In issue 4.1316 J"org Knappen kindly credits me with authorship of the IPA font for TeX which is available at ymir.claremont.edu The font actually originates from Washington State University; I believe we are to credit Janene Winter for the font (I may be mistaken, and would be pleased to be corrected). For a complex of reasons others, myself included, *have* undertaken versions of IPA-like fonts for TeX; ours has never been `officially released', though a first-stage release of our font is included in the ITF Interlinear Text Formatter devised by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. For the technically adept and TeX-experienced: The current version of our IPA font is still not `released' but it may be examined by any interested parties. Since the test-release in 1989 we have added an italic face and some additional characters. The metafont source code is available at blackbox.hacc.washington.edu [128.95.200.1] in directory pub/wnipa/wnipa91 You will of course have to be able to run wnipa10 and wnipai10 through metafont to be able to see anything :). If you do take copies of wnipa91 please be advised that this font will certainly be changed in the course of this year, and the layout of characters within the font is likely to be affected. cheers, Tom -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas Ridgeway, Director, Humanities and Arts Computing Center/NorthWest Computing Support Center 35 Thomson Hall, University of Washington, DR-10 Seattle, WA 98195 phone: (206)-543-4218 * Ask me about * Internet: ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu * Unix TeX * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: Programming for the Humanities via BITNET Date: Mon, 06 May 91 12:22:11 CDT (52 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 4 (5) Following is a description of a three-credit graduate course in programming for the humanities offered by Dakota State University via BITNET this summer. If you are interested in enrolling, please respond with a brief message sent to me as ERIC@SDNET.BITNET, and I will send you an electronic registration form. CHUM 650 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FOR THE HUMANITIES. An introduction to programming using SNOBOL4 for applications in the humanities such as analysis of texts, arranging data from research, and formatting for printing and desktop publishing. Prerequisites: a baccalaureate degree in the humanities or a baccalaureate degree in another field and a minimum of 24 semester hours course work in the humanities, access to and familiarity with BITNET, and an understanding of MS-DOS commands. Three semester hours credit. The course will start approximately June 1, and it will end approximately August 1. The total cost of the course is $228.45. No textbook is required. Students will be sent a disk containing a public- domain SNOBOL4 compiler and a text editor. Students may audit the course or enroll for credit and receive a grade of Pass or Fail. The cost to audit the course is the same as enrolling for credit. The course will teach academic humanists to write useful computer programs to produce word frequency listings, concordances, and indexes. The language of choice for this course is SNOBOL4 because it is a powerful language designed for non-numeric computing; humanists can write useful programs in SNOBOL4 almost from the start. The course will begin with an introduction to programming, then cover techniques of structuring SNOBOL4 programs, and it will finish with students completing individual projects of their own creation. The programming assignments will be designed for MS-DOS microcomputers. Although most assignments can be modified for Macintosh users, the Mac users would have to purchase MaxSPITBOL, and they would need some understanding of Macintosh file structure. Students must have the ability to upload and download programs from the mainframe that runs BITNET mail to the microcomputer used for the programming assignments. -- Eric Johnson ERIC@SDNET.BITNET From: ussjt@unix.cc.emory.edu (Steve Taylor) Subject: Moliere E-texts Date: Tue, 7 May 91 17:06:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 3 (6) I'm looking for works of Moliere in electronic form. I understand that the ARTFL people sort of have some, but can't make them available. Does anyone know of any other source? Steve Taylor Emory University From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Patristic Latin on CD-ROM Date: Sun, 05 May 91 20:16:06 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 4 (7) I am told that before I signed up on HUMANIST there were announcements about Latin patristic authors available on CD-ROM or other machine- readable forms. Can somone enlighten me? Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: Greek font software Date: Mon, 06 May 91 13:36 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 6 (8) Responding to Tom Benson's query re: Greek fonts & to Charles Ess's comments in reply, list-users may wish to learn of SCRIPTUREFONTS, an add-on software package designed to fun with Wordperfect (5.0 and 5.1) and on MS-DOS machines. It is installed easily within the Wordperfect directory on your machine and is loaded when you load Wordperfect. It allows you to toggle back & forth among English, Greek (fully accented) and Hebrew (fully pointed) keyboards within the same document. Contact: Zondervan Electronic Publishing, 1415 Lake Dr. S.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49506 USA. Phone: (800) 727-7759. Cost=$79.95 U.S. Requires an EGA, VGA, or Hercules graphics ccard. ( From a satisfied user. Larry Hurtado, Institute for the Humanities, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2. Canada) From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: Allen, part 3 Date: Fri, 3 May 91 15:57:58 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 7 (9) I have suggested that the Free Software Foundation (GNU) 'copyleft' scheme may supply a model for a legal instrument that encourages free distribution, unrestricted global communication and democratic access to published humanistic research. I have also argued that competition for access to knowledge is not in the best interest of researchers. What justification can be given for traditional "copyright" of these same electronic academic resources? Copyright has traditionally been used to ensure that the creator received proper recognition and respect for an intellectual contribution: both can be accomplished just as easily through 'copyleft.' Copyright is used to ensure that one party does not appropriate intellectual property of another, establish ownership and then commercially benefit from the sale and distribution: 'copyleft' will work just as well. Copyright may be useful, we are sometimes told, in conjunction with centralized distribution, to ensure that the doctrinal or technical purity of the resource: if electronic data can be legally obtained only through a single source or through legally-approved sources, and if it cannot legally be changed, the public interest in purity is protected. And copyright is used to ensure that the creator ALONE may collect net revenues from production and distribution of the resource. I should now like to briefly address these latter two justifications. Using copyright to protect electronic data against conscious but undesirable changes--changes "undesirable" in the view of the copyright holder--is highly questionable in our modern age. Even if this authoritarian measure be necessary to protect the dogmas of religious fundamentalism, it is neither intellectually nor technically necessary in the domain of humanistic research. Within the domain of literary texts, for example, there may be "standard" critical editions which compete for authority, but textually variant (via unintentional corruption) representations and editorially/recensionally variant representations are extant for all literature, forming the basis of the most interesting research. To be sure, some groups of "textual fundamentalists" masquerading as scholars would press into service medieval arguments about textual standards ("necessary for dialogue and necessary for coordinated textual research"), and would attempt to defend promulgation of these "standardized" texts ostensibly for the purposes of text linguistics. We recognize such agendas for what they are. The electronic age permits and even encourages the researcher to alter texts according to individual text critical theory and literary critical theory without adversely affecting the archival copies or anyone else's research. We should welcome the conscious enhancement (alias "alteration") of electronic text for scientific purposes. What about accidental changes or corruptions in data? On one level, we can never prevent humans from mis-copying or mis-labelling data. We cannot guarantee that a quotation of the Loeb edition of a Latin text--taken from paper or electronic medium--is in fact faithful to the Loeb edition. In the electronic environment, however, with proper authoring tools, it is possible to programmatically and automatically check the author's quotation against an archival copy of the Loeb edition in Cambridge, MA. But neither copyright nor central distribution have anything to do with technical purity of (electronic) data any longer. The computer virus craze has popularized many public domain schemes for wrapping data within an electronic "security envelope" which guarantees beyond any reasonable doubt that the copying, transmission and receipt of the data is has produced an exact replica. The same technical points should be understood by scholars who worry about the role of copyright in traditional paper publishing as guaranteeing an indelible and permanent copy of scholarly research. We occasionally hear fears that the ephemeral electronic world of electrostatic charges is insufficient to guarantee robustness and permanence required for the historical record of scholarship. Ironically, the "ephemeral" electronic world of "ones and zeros" is vastly superior to paper: paper deteriorates and the typesetter's lead plates deteriorate; any replication from lead plates of from photography necessarily involve a loss of information in the replicated copy. With electronic media, we may theoretically guarantee copying with 100 percent fidelity for millions of years. It is precisely BECAUSE the fidelity of copying can be checked at a level of the discrete electronic bit (check summed) that it is a far more reliable means of perpetuating an historical record than paper. Purity of data is a critical issue in textual research, but it has nothing to do with copyright. A final argument is that copyright allows the creator of intellectual property to merchandise writing or research without unapproved competition. Even if a re-shaping of values leads to diminished privatization and commercialization of academic research, there will be a long transition period, and some scholars (with respect to some predictable genres) will not, and perhaps should not, be asked to relinquish private commercial claims upon their writings. An infrastructure for university- based and global electronic publishing will emerge, we hope; see Jerome Yavarkovsky et al., "Coalition for Networked Information: A University-Based Electronic Publishing Network," EDUCOM Review 25/3 (Fall 1990) 14-20. In the interim period, suppose scholars want to receive royalties for copies of their personal electronic books? How shall distribution and payment be handled? New models will have to be designed and tested. "Publishers" may not be necessary at all, though scholarly editors will be. We are in transition period when the production and use of electronic books is problematic for many reasons (see below). But for the interim, why not adopt the "shareware" concept which has worked for software, and continues in a very strong vein within the academic community. I know of no precedent, but why not? This is experimental thinking. The first step is to make sure the publisher of the paper copy does not demand exclusive copyright on the electronic version (politely tell such a thief to go to hell, and find another publisher for the hardcopy). Then work out a simple shareware (suggested) royalty structure for library use, individual use, and classroom use. Prepare never to be paid by some predictable percentage of people -- those who (also) use shareware-software without paying anything for it. Scholarship should not be held up by these petty offenders, and we should spend no energy trying to catch them unless there is flagrant violation like open commercial marketing of shareware. I think the network-access and shareware model could work for electronic books, at least for now: *Software software is indeed placed on public file servers in huge quantities under this quasi-legal arrangement, and does not violate rules governing non-commercial use of networks (e.g., the BITNET/CREN charter). *The burden is placed upon the author to nominate a fair suggested price for use of data: the public judges whether the price is fair or not. *The shareware fees (royalty structure) should be kept low so that it is clear that the scholarly public benefits most from the shareware arrangement. *Network access is preferable to copying and mailing diskettes for many reasons. Standards for "media cost" should apply to data sent via post. *One may encourage remote printing of the "book" at low cost if paper print copy is critical (e.g., a course textbook in e-copy). In the long run, university-owned (not-for-profit) on-demand print shops will arise. Finally, we wish to show awareness of some of the obstacles to electronic publishing. Opponents of 'openness' will rehearse these difficulties as a means of convincing scholars that nothing is at stake *yet*, and that electronic publishing is impractical. As we identify the challenges, we may perhaps increase the resolve to take active steps to solve the problems. In truth, neither electronic writing nor electronic "reading" are well-supported with current software. Nor are political structures. But the challenges can be met if scholars in sufficient numbers will move beyond the "let-others think-about-it-I'm-too-busy-writing" stage to support data collection and program development initiatives aimed at creating a pleasant electronic scholarly research environment. The conceptual models for software tools and telecommunications delivery are available, it would seem: what we need now is simply the will to overcome traditional inefficient (even destructive) ways of working. In this transition period (of unknown duration), we face numerous challenges: *Many scholars are not "actively" networked, so putting an electronic book on a file server is not, by itself, an adequate means of distribution. On the other hand, low-cost access to pubic networks is feasible even via public carriers. We should promote the advantages of using academic networks. *Many scholars won't know what to do with an electronic book, nor understand why one would want to publish in electronic format, nor perceive what is at stake in blithely surrendering an (electronic) copyright a traditional publisher. Scholars need more basic orientation to electronic methods of research and writing before they will support efforts to promote electronic publishing and democratic access. We must ensure that writers and editorial boards understand the jeopardy into which electronic research comes through traditional publishing practices. *Most software for browsing electronic books (e.g., hypertext links to footnotes and cross-references) is still too primitive to make reading an electronic book convincing. The value of an e-book, for the time being, must lie in accessibility, reduced cost, convenience and in the additional information access through electronic searchability, of variable importance *The policies and facilities for electronic distribution and royalty collection are ill-defined, or non-existent. *Scholarly recognition for electronic publication (e.g., of linguistic databases or other data which cannot be represented in paper format) is very slim. Administrative and peer-review policies must be modernized. *New mechanisms for refereeing electronic books must be established. In any case, communication between editor and referee should be electronic. *Successful electronic books will also have to be available in paper, with two important consequences (a) scholarly publishing will move toward publishers willing to respect the rights of the authors to disseminate books in electronic format; (b) coordination with the "paper" publisher must be arranged to ensure commensurate citation systems. *Graphical data presents a special problem for online reading at this time. PostScript or other graphics-based copy involves consequent loss of searchability. Schemes which limit readability to graphical data should be opposed: they constitute encryption & restrict access to knowledge in text. *Textual markup is jeopardy: visible structure is necessary (one should by all means use structural/descriptive markup in the volume preparation), but today's generic software does not know how to address explicit markup, which reduces readabiity. The (TEI) should provide clear guidelines for authors in this respect, and PC-based software should be designed to allow authors to reduce explicit markup in copies distributed for popular use. The following submissions represent an attempt to encourage/provoke everyone to think, discuss, and resolve to do something. HUMANISTS: please contribute alternate opinions and proposals on these issues. (End Part III) Robin Cover zrcc1001@smuvm1.BITNET robin@utafll.uta.edu Tel: 214/296-1783 From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Missing postings Date: Tue, 07 May 91 23:36:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 8 (10) A digest of copyright postings was lost last night. Please resend any copyright contributions seem to be missing. -- Allen From: kkm7m@Virginia Subject: quod rerum Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 12:48:40 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 5 (11) Can someone give me an attribution for the following quotation used in a letter written by Matthew Arnold in the context of health: QUOD RERUM OMNIUM EST PRIMUM. A translation would be welcome, too. Thanks. Karen Kates Marshall University of Virginia kkm7m@virginia.edu From: David Sewell Subject: Quoting the name of G-d Date: Wed, 1 May 91 10:52:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 6 (12) I thought I'd turn to the collective knowledge of Humanist on this one. I frequently have Jewish students who do not wish to spell the name of the Deity and use a form like "G-d" not merely in their own text but in quoted text as well, thereby breaking a cardinal rule of academic documentation that sources should be quoted exactly. In the context of student papers it would seem not only petty but a violation of religious freedom to object to this practice. But I was wondering what happens out there in the real world when publishers' house styles come into conflict with an author's religious beliefs. Is this a frequent area of contention for orthodox Jewish academics? Are there other similar conflicts people have run into? David Sewell, English Dept, University of Rochester From: Joseph Jones Subject: Thesis citation Date: Wed, 1 May 91 08:36:02 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 7 (13) A compiler of a bibliography on Janet Frame has an incomplete citation to a recent Australian thesis, too recent to be covered by our latest issue of Union list of higher degree theses in Australian libraries. Subject was Janet Frame's novels. Author: Gina Mercer. Done at University of Sydney in 1989. Wanted are complete title, degree, and pagination. Can anyone help? From: "Joseph (Yossi) Galron" Subject: Looking for Dr. Joseph Abinun Date: Wed, 01 May 91 18:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 8 (14) Dear Editors, I would appreciate it very much if you could post my message at the HUMANIST list: Could someone find out the E-Mail address of Dr. Joseph ABINUN (born in Yugoslavia in 1946, in Israel since 1948, since 1976 lecturer in philosophy of education at Tel Aviv University, Seminar ha-Kibutsim and The Center for Technological education in Holon). Thank you very much, Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger The Ohio State University Libraries TS4132@OHSTMVSA.BITNET jgalron@magnus.asc.ohio-state.edu (Internet) From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: Address Query Date: Thu, 02 May 91 20:22:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 9 (15) I would like to get in touch with Roma Arellano, of the Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico. Does anyone have an e-mail address for her or for the Institute? Michael Strangelove University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> From: BAROCAS@cs.umass.EDU Subject: help with research paper Date: Fri, 3 May 91 10:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 10 (16) My name is Margaret Barocas. I am in tenth grade and I am attemptingto resear To research a term paper for my world history class. The paper is on the Ultra Secret which was a decoding machine used by the Allies to intercept and read To research a term paper for my world history class. The paper is on the Ultra Secret which was a decoding machine used by the Allies to intercept and read A Axis communications during World War II. I want to focus on the effect it had on Allied strategy. Thanks very much for your time an any help you can giveme. Pleas send responses to Barocas@cs.umass.edu From: greerzo <76200.62@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Sic Semper Tyrannis Date: 03 May 91 23:12:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 11 (17) I am very interested in the etymology of the inscription on the Great Seal of Virginia "Sic Semper Tyrannis" I am unaware of any use prior to John Wilkes Booth. I would be most appreciative of any leads. Thanks - STEVE GREER [A [A From: "Leslie Z. Morgan" Subject: RE: 4.1314 Wedding Rings (3/51) Date: Fri, 3 May 91 09:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 12 (18) Sorry to continue the subject after the original problem was solved! However, I just wanted to mention that the rings in *Beowulf* were, if I am not mistaken, ARM rings, not finger rings, classic rewards for Germanic warriors. Please correct me if I am wrong! Leslie Morgan MORGAN@LOYVAX1.BITNET From: "L. Dale Patterson" Subject: 4.1297 Primus Inter Pares (2/29) Date: Thu, 2 May 91 08:35:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 13 (19) There is discussion around this issue in Jaroslav Pelikan's *The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700)* which is the 2 volume of his *The Christian Tradition*. The whole of chapter 4 deals with the issue (set in the context of the widening gulf between East and West), but pp 165-67 touches on the issue. Pelikan doesn't used the term but does quote from several sources which use analogousterms (5 senses of the body are necessary, but sight (i.e. Rome) is the most important. -- Dale Patterson University of Louisville BITNET: ldpatt01 @ ulkyvm From: DAVID BARRY Subject: RE:4.1277 Primus inter pares Date: Thu, 2 May 91 16:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 14 (20) I was amused by David Schaps mailing as I must say that my understanding that the Pope was precisely an example of someone NOT primus inter pares. In the Anglican church the senior Bishop of each church is often referred to as the Primate (ie Canterbury is Primate of the English Church ) One Archbishop of Canterbury is said to have begun an anglican meetin with the phrase "Fellow primates"....... The Anglican church in Scotland call its presiding Bishop "The Primus" is this an abbreviation? The Catholic Archbishop of Armagh has the title Primate of All Ireland Does any of this help? (possibly the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh is Primus inter Pares for Irish Bishops, with the Pope then having no equal.) David Barry From: Sally Webster Subject: [Computer Ethics Problems?] Date: Wed, 8 May 1991 10:07:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 11 (21) To those of you who get more than one copy of this, excuse the mutiple postings. I want wide dissemination. If you know of other lists to which this request should be sent, please send mail directly to ACDSPW@SUVM. Thank you. HELP NEEDED FOR EDUCOM PROJECT!! --------------------------------- The Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT) group of EDUCOM has begun a new project, called colloquially "Ethics War Stories." The product of this project will be a collection of case studies of how colleges and universities handle breaches of their computer policies, state & federal laws, network guidelines, and the computer portions of their student and faculty handbooks. We would like contributions from academic computing staff members, faculty, deans, and other administrators who have been responsible for formulating, interpreting, and enforcing computing policies, state & federal laws, network guidelines, and student codes of conduct. The contributions should be in the form of a case study: * introduce the institution and the faculty or staff who were involved, * explain the offense or breach and state which policies or laws were breached, * explain how the situation was handled (including final outcomes for the student, staff, or faculty member), and * point to any change in policy, educational effort, or enforcement strategies if any occurred. * give us the benefit of your experience, and advise your colleagues who haven't had a baptism of fire Please include the name, telephone number, and network address of a contact person (possibly you?), so that details can be checked and final permission sought before anything is published or otherwise disseminated. If you know of such instances which could be made into case studies, but you were not directly involved, please send the names of people we can talk to, and we'll take it from there. We anticipate that while scenarios might not differ much across institutions, outcomes at public institutions will likely differ from those at private institutions. Beyond that, at this stage, we cannot predict what other categories might emerge. We expect to use this collection in one or more of these ways: * as general background to inform government bodies of the types of situations which we deal with * as a "workbook" from which people can take specific ideas for handling certain kinds of situations * as a body of knowledge from which to draw conclusions which might help institutions formulate or reformulate policy and structure educational and enforcement strategies We expect that some people will be willing to share their war stories on condition that we not identify either them or their institution, and we will be happy to do that. Send your stories (or the names of people we can contact) to Project Leader: Sally Webster, Asst. Professor of Computer Applications, SUNY/CESF Syracuse, NY, acdspw@suvm, 13 Moon Library, SUNY/CESF, Syracuse, N.Y. 13210 From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: Copyright: CNI Supports University-Based Electronic Publishing Date: Sun, 5 May 91 08:47:44 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 12 (22) In Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1317. Saturday, 4 May 1991, Skip Knox (DUSKNOX@IDBSU.BITNET) highlighted the importance of support from professional societies as humanities scholars attempt to take control of their own destinies in the domain of electronic publishing: [deleted quotation] Joel Goldfield's posting left open the specific question of the delivery system(s) for disseminating scholarly e-texts archived and shared by various individuals, research coalitions and archive centers. While CDROM and similar media may continue to play an important role in delivery for some corpora, I feel sure the high-speed, high-capacity networks must be targeted as the ideal system. The Coalition for Networked Information is one group which has made significant commitments to helping the academic community move toward a university-based electronic publishing network. CNI was founded by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), CAUSE and EDUCOM in 1990 to address concerns of the library and larger academic community within the national NREN initiative (National Research and Education Network). The coalition now has more than 120 institutional members. A partial description of the CNI's commitment to networked electronic publishing may be found in "Coalition for Networked Information: A University-Based Electronic Publishing Network," by Jerome Yavarkovsky et al., in EDUCOM Review 25/3 (Fall 1990) 14-20. A summary of CNI's mission statement is printed in NYSERNet User 2/1 (Spring 1991) 6, or may be obtained in full from the CNI: Coalition for Networked Information; Attention: Joan Lippencott; 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20036; Tel: (1 202) 232-2466. The commitment of CNI to helping create a "scholarly publishing component within the proposed NREN" is most encouraging. Its efforts alone will be insufficient to realize the vision of an academic "Xanadu," but together with the cooperation of the member institutions and full support from professional societies on a global scale, many positive developments can be imagined. CNI is carefully tuned in to the problems of "copyright, ownership, intellectual property, commercial monopolies on scholarly writing" and so forth. The problems of ownership in academic writing will have to be redressed in the new global publishing system, as is evident in this summary of Ann Okerson's presentation at a CNI meeting. HUMANISTS not in the US may pardon the nationalistic flavor in the first segment -- just translate and apply to national initiatives in your respective countries: "Incentives and Disincentives in Research and Educational Communication" Printed in association with "Coalition for Networked Information: A University-Based Electronic Publishing Network," by Jerome Yavarkovsky et al. in EDUCOM Review 25/3 (Fall 1990) 14-20 [15]. by Ann Okerson Director, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries In initiating the National Research and Education Network (NREN), the United States is investing heavily in the future of the nation. The network is a tangible expression of the government philosophy that innovation and national distribution of knowledge are essential for the success of our society in the next century: for personal standards of living, for national advancement, and for expansion and competition internationally. The NREN purposefully and knowingly gives great gifts directly to two segments: the computer and telecommunications industry and innovative, bright people engaged in research. The facts that follow constitute the main incentives for the Coalition for Networked Information to actively create and support a scholarly publishing component within the proposed NREN: * Prices for the printed products of scholarly publishing through the private sector are increasing dramatically. * The concentration of scholarly publication in the hands of a small group of publishers is growing. * In the current system--both commercial and non-profit--publishers ask the authors of scholarly articles to assign copyright to the publisher as part of the publication process. Thus articles based on work created largely in universities and laboratories and paid for--and value added--largely at public expense become the property of organizations that own the rights, with the result that it is increasingly difficult for the public to own and read publicly supported research. * Foreign ownership of many publications is contributing to the rise in cost of many publications because of the relatively weak U.S. currency. * Copyright restrictions, inevitable delays, and evolving pay-for-use strategies make document delivery through interlibrary loan only a partial solution to access. * Journals are becoming less important as the source in which research is first reported. Some of the things the Coalition can do to build a scholarly publishing component into the network: * Formulate a statement of principles, including a commitment to availability, affordability, directories, friendly access. * Take an active role in deliberations about privatization and commercialization of the network. * Formulate guidelines on intellectual property and economic issues. * Develop ownership and copyright policies. * Review academic incentives to give needed recognition to electronic publication. Reprinted with permission from EDUCOM Review 25/3 (Fall 1990) 14. ISSN 1045-9146. EDUCOM; 1112 16th Street, Suite 600; Washington, DC 20036; Tel: (1 202) 872-4200; FAX (1 202) 872-4318. Author address: Ann Okerson Director, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries (ARL) 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Email (BITNET): okerson@umdc Tel: (1 202) 232-2466 FAX: (1 202) 462-7849 --------- Robin Cover BITNET: zrcc1001@smuvm1 ("one-zero-zero-one) 6634 Sarah Drive Internet: zrcc1001@vm.cis.smu.edu Dallas, TX 75236 USA Internet: robin@utafll.uta.edu ("uta-ef-el-el") Tel: (1 214) 296-1783 Internet: robin@ling.uta.edu FAX: (1 214) 841-3642 Internet: robin@txsil.lonestar.org From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Re: 5.0009 Queries Date: Wed, 8 May 91 00:49:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 15 (23) I can't speak to conflicts with publishers about writing the name of God, but I can relate the orthodox Jewish position, namely that God's personal name (the Tetragrammaton from which is derived the English "Jahweh" and "Jehovah") and, by extension, the very word God (which, of course, is a collective noun in Hebrew) are numinous. The former is considered so holy that it may *never* be spoken, hence the difficulty in knowing how to pronounce it today. The latter may be used in prayers but not in casual discourse. Of course, Hebrew dictionaries (not to mention other texts) do have the Hebrew equivalent of God written out. However, the problem is that, to the orthodox, those physical writings have a special status and, if the book is to be disposed of, must be taken from the book (yes, tear the page from the dictionary) and given a special burial. As one of my orthodox students explained to me when, in teaching *A Canticle for Leibowitz* (which has the Tetragrammaton in an earlier edition but substitutes a traditional euphemism in the current edition), I wrote the two on the board for the benefit of those who weren't familiar with Hebrew characters, he (the orthodox student) was filled with fear because he realized that he had no way to bury the name and, sooner or later, some janitor would come along and casually erase it. The existence of the word God in the Hebrew dictionary, and even the utterance of the Tetragrammaton, are clearly allowed by the Jewish exception made for the sake of study. This exception, I presume, would extend to most academic texts. But a paper handed in to a teacher might, following the practice of some teachers, not be returned but rather saved for a while and then destroyed. To prevent that desecration, an orthodox student would always find it safer to change the word, even in the context of study. BTW, I have checked this explanation with a couple of rabbis and believe it to be correct. I have also checked and found that none of my students, including the one who felt fear, believes that any actual harm would come to God, me, the janitor, or the fabric of the universe by these acts; but many do believe that the symbolic significance is morally functional, and therein lies the modern problem. (Of course, for certain mystics, including many Hassidim, the fear would be of a physical desecration.) It is extraordinary, isn't it, that some people who may have much less training in literary study take symbolic value so much more seriously than those with the training? I think we all have much to learn from each other. From: "Marc M. Epstein" Subject: Re: 5.0009 Queries (7/92) Date: Wed, 08 May 91 08:43:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 16 (24) In reply to David Sewall's query regarding the Divine Name, I would like to suggest that academics who are Orthodox Jews (I include myself) need not avoid the full spelling of an English (pro)noun which derives from a Middle English antecedant whose Old English roots are akin to the German Gott, deriving from the Gothic Guth, whose probable Indo-European root was something like Ghau- to call out or invoke, whence the Sanskrit 'havate' 'he calls upon.' This word has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the Ineffible Names in Hebrew, or with any of their substitutions (Ado*shem* [nay] -'My Lord', or Elo*kim* [him]- 'God- plural of majesty'), which have traditionally been altered as I have done in the previous line. One might conceivably argue that it is not even neccessary to alter these names in English. As it is, all such names are tertiary substitutions (at best) for the Ineffible Names, only one of which was the Name itself, in any case, and whose pronunciation has been completely (and deliberately) lost. I myself would be careful when invoking any of the authentic Names (or their traditional substitutions) in the original Though I can understand colleagues' discomfort with the 'o' in God, I really fell that a lot of good dashes are being wasted, and should, perhaps be reserved for those times we must write out the name A----k, whose name we are explicitly enjoined to "blot out" (Deuteronomy 25:19).-Marc Epstein Subject: Composite novels Date: Wed, 01 May 91 17:16:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 17 (25) My office-mate, Melynda Huskey, suggests two more 19th-century novels written by more than two authors--I don't think these were on the initial list: Charlotte Yonge, Cristobel Coleridge, et al., _Gleanings_ (not absolutely sure about the title) Isabel Alden et al., _Pansy and Friends_ Hope this helps-- John Unsworth From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Re: 4.1306 Rs: NAS; Casey; Sleep; Composite Novels (4/40) Date: Wed, 1 May 91 19:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 18 (26) Plagiarism is a kind of composite novel so that conclusions drown from the analysis of composite novels shoul/could be also valid for plagiarism? or isn't it? Michel Lenoble lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca From: TB0WPW1@NIU.BITNET Subject: sleep Date: Thu, 02 May 91 09:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 19 (27) Sleep and its good effects can be found in +Henry V+ in the +Upon the king+ speech on the night before Agincourt. Also believe it comes up in +1 and 2 Henry IV+ William Proctor Williams TB0wpw1@NIU From: fcotter Subject: Re: 4.1310 EURALEX 1991 Verbatim Award (1/59) Date: Sat, 04 May 91 04:06:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 20 (28) I have little knowledge of Eurolex. Have reams of etymoligcol material, who do e not?) from numpire to sub rosa From: "Mary Dee (faculty" Subject: WordNet Date: 8 May 91 15:34:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 21 (29) Can anyone give me any information about WordNet, which is described as an on-line lexical database? Is it a commercial product? research? who developed it? for what application? Any help will be appreciated. Mary Dee Harris Language Technology From: microsoft!marcosi@uunet.UU.NET Subject: Mac Cyrillic fonts Date: Mon May 06 19:06:43 1991 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 22 (30) [...] I'm looking for Cyrillic postscript fonts for the Macintosh. I'm ready to spend some bucks on this, but I'd really like to know that they are available as free or shareware... Please reply to me directly if you already posted replies about this in the past. Thanks. Marco Simionato From: "Howell, Joel" Subject: RE: 5.0005 Qs: Moliere E-Texts; Patristic Latin/CD-ROM (2/22) Date: 8 May 91 07:07:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 23 (31) Looking for the source of the phrase "Worlds Apart." It seems that this would be easy to find, but several textx and numerous learned colleagues have been unable to help. Thanks. From: FARGHALY@AUC.EG Subject: Re: 5.0002 Scholar's Tools (1/15) Date: Wed, 8 May 91 14:14 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 24 (32) Hi: Could you please provide me with ordering information of NB with ibid for IBM machines and Macintosh. Regards. Ali Farghaly From: "Jeffrey Kittay, Lingua Franca" <76200.414@CompuServe.COM> Subject: on writing for E Mail Date: 08 May 91 14:45:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 25 (33) I am interested in how language use between people on EMAIL differs from the way they talk to each other or write to each other in other venues. What is the sociolinguistics of EMail? Topics such as: how certain taboos fall; increased informality, not to say bluntness; managing tone, jokes, irony (I know a little something about emoticons). What about the fact that a writer dashes off messages quickly,k sends them out, and then realizes that something was said that should not have been: there is no way to take it back. In other words, how does the technology (plus the communicative needs people have today that are currently unmet) affect relationships on EMAIL? I publish a magazine for professors called LINGUA FRANCA. Only a year old and it has 15,000 subscribers and was just named one of the ten best magazines of the year. My inquiry is with a view to either 1) getting information that will help a writer do a story; 2)getting some tips on what may already have been written or published on this stuff, or 3) finding a writer who can report on all this stuff with a certain authority. My Address: 76200.414@compuserve.com......... ... ...-....1200 N81N ......................... ... ...-....1200 N81N .................... From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Bibliography of CD-ROM Titles Date: Saturday, 4 May 1991 1318-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 16 (34) Prof. James Marchand (U. Illinois) has given permission for his bibliography of CD-ROM titles and projects to be added to the HUMANIST FileServer (it is also available on a private BBS called TRANSNET by calling 217-384-5101 and telling the SYSOP that you heard of it on BITNET). I have reformatted the line lengths of what I received (some word divisions were not preserved, unfortunately) and have added a small amount of information (introduced with "+"). I have not attempted to include the rapidly growing body of genealogical CD-ROMs beyond listing those of the Automated Genealogical Research System; obviously there are other areas in which such a bibliography will be outdated immediately, but Prof. Marchand's generous contribution provides an excellent starting point and cross section for this burgeoning technology. His electronic address is in the header of the bibliography file. Corrections, additions, etc., should be sent directly to him. Bob Kraft, UPenn -------------------- This bibliography is available on the fileserver. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET CDROM PROJECTS HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET CDROM PROJECTS HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives. From: WONNEBERGER REINHAR Subject: RE: 5.0003 SYNTACTIC PARSER FOR GREEK Date: 05/09/91 10:57:51 GMT+1 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 26 (35) It might be useful to consider the Greek phrase structure grammar contained in \cite{Won79}, cf. also the short English version in \cite{Won87a}. Dr. Reinhard Wonneberger ...... | qzdmgn @ ruipc1e . BITNET EDS +49-6142-80-3115. Fax -3030 | Home +49-6131-57 27 85 .. ... Eisenstr.56 ......... | .... Weichselstr. 56 .... ... D 6090 Ruesselsheim ....... | .... D 6500 Mainz 1 ..... ----------------- cut here -------------------------------------------- @book ( Won79 ,author = {Wonneberger, Reinhard} ,title = {Syntax und Exegese. Eine generative Theorie der griechischen Syntax und ihr Beitrag zur Auslegung des Neuen Testamentes, dargestellt an 2.Korinther 5,2f und R{\"o}mer 3,21-26.} ,publisher = {Peter Lang} ,address = {Frankfurt~/ Bern~/ Las Vegas} ,year = 1979 ,series = {Beitr{\"a}ge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie (BET)} ,volume = 13 ,!note = {384 Seiten, Beilage, Preis: 53~Sfr.} ,intnote = {BET: J.~Becker~/ H.~Graf Reventlow (eds.)} ) @article ( Won87a ,author = {Wonneberger, Reinhard} ,title = {Greek Syntax. {A} New Approach} ,journal = {Literary and Linguistic Computing. Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ({Gordon Dixon} ed.)} ,address = {Oxford UP} ,volume=2,year=1987,number=2,pages={71--79} ,note = {English Version of the Greek Syntax in \cite{Won79}} ) From: KROVETZ@cs.umass.EDU Subject: Wordnet Date: Wed, 8 May 91 22:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 27 (36) Wordnet is a research project that's under the direction of Professor George Miller at Princeton University. For more information see The International Journal of Lexicography, Vol. 3(4), 1990. It contains several papers about the project. Bob krovetz@cs.umass.edu From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Cyrillic Date: Thu, 9 May 91 09:24:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 28 (37) Ecological Linguistics PO Box 15156 Washington, D.C. 20003 probably carries Russian Laser Fonts, since they offer "All Alphabets of the World." The catalog costs $5. For general information about Cyrillic fonts, one might try to subscribe to the RUSTEX-L list. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Humanities Computing Yrbook 89/90 Date: Thu, 9 MAY 91 13:56:28 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 29 (38) To all those who asked me for the ISBN for the Humanities Computing Yearbook 89/90 ... The ISBN is 0 19 824253 0. Ruth Glynn Oxford University Press From: Subject: IJCAI workshop on non-lit. lang. submission deadline now May 30 Date: 9 May 91 10:05 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 30 (39) CALL FOR PAPERS IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO NON-LITERAL LANGUAGE: METAPHOR, METONYMY, IDIOM, SPEECH ACTS, IMPLICATURE Dan Fass, James Martin, Elizabeth Hinkelman Sydney, Australia, 24th August 1991 o New deadline for submissions Thursday May 30th o New notification of acceptance/rejection Friday June 7th 1. Focus of the Workshop The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate exchange and discussion of theoretical issues and practical problems of artificial intelligence (AI) models of non-literal language. Non-literal language includes metaphor, idiom, "indirect" speech acts, implicature, hyperbole, metonymy, irony, simile, sarcasm, and other devices whose meaning cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent words. Non-literal language is increasingly acknowledged as pervasive in natural language and is important to subfields of natural language processing like machine translation and parsing ill-formed input. Non-literal language has also attracted interest from researchers in knowledge representation, planning and plan recognition, learning, belief modeling, and other subfields of AI. Researchers are invited to submit papers on topics including (but not limited to) the computer recognition, interpretation, acquisition, generation, and robust parsing of non-literal language. Issues of interest include: o the relationship of non-literal to literal language, o the adequacy of various forms of knowledge representation (symbolic vs connectionist vs statistical), o static vs dynamic mechanisms, o general vs idiosyncratic treatment of instances, o instances as novel vs conventional forms, o comparison and contrast of models of the various forms of non-literal language, o broader implications for AI. 2. Organizing Committee Dan Fass James Martin Centre for Systems Science, Computer Science Department and Simon Fraser University, Institute of Cognitive Science, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. University of Colorado at Boulder, Tel: (604) 291-3208 Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, USA. Fax: (604) 291-4951 Tel: (303) 492-3552 E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca Fax: (303) 492-2844 E-mail: martin@boulder.colorado.edu Elizabeth Hinkelman Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Tel: (312) 702-8887 Fax: (312) 702-0775 E-mail: eliz@tira.uchicago.edu 3. Submission Details Authors should mail three (3) copies of a submission in hard copy form. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (excluding title page); have 1 inch margins on the top, sides and bottom; and use no smaller than 10 point type. The title page, separate from the body of the paper, should contain title, names of authors, their affiliation, address, phone, e-mail address, and an abstract of 100-200 words. Papers that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to Dan Fass at his address, given above. Please do not send submissions to James Martin or Elizabeth Hinkelman. 4. Workshop Details Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 30 participants. Only one invitation will be issued per accepted submission. To cover costs, it will be necessary to charge a fee of $US65 for each participant. Participants will be given further instructions on preparation of camera ready copy and session format when they receive notification of acceptance. Final papers will be collected into a set of proceedings and circulated to participants at the workshop. Arrangements (yet to be confirmed) are being made for a Special Edition of Computational Intelligence journal, edited by Fass, Martin and Hinkelman, in which selected papers from the workshop will appear. From: Jon Shultis Subject: FYI - Informal Computing Workshop Program Date: Thu, 09 May 91 11:45:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 31 (40) Workshop on Informal Computing 29-31 May 1991 Santa Cruz, California Program Wednesday 29 May Conversational Computing and Adaptive Languages 8:15 Opening Remarks, Jon Shultis, Incremental Systems 8:30 Natural Language Techniques in Formal Languages, David Mundie, Incremental Systems 9:30 Building and Exploiting a User Model In Natural Language Information Systems, Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware 10:30 Break 10:45 Informalism in Interfaces, Larry Reeker, Institutes for Defense Analyses 11:45 Natural Language Programming in Solving Problems of Search, Alan Biermann, Duke University 12:30 Lunch 13:45 Linguistic Structure from a Cognitive Grammar Perspective, Karen van Hoek, University of California at San Diego 14:45 Notational Formalisms, Computational Mechanisms: Models or Metaphors? A Linguistic Perspective, Catherine Harris, University of California at San Diego 15:45 Break 16:00 Discussion 18:00 Break for dinner Thursday 30 May Informal Knowledge and Reasoning 8:15 What is Informalism?, David Fisher, Incremental Systems 9:15 Reaction in Real-Time Decision Making, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State University 10:15 Break 10:30 Decision Making with Informal, Plausible Reasoning, David Littman, George Mason University 11:15 Title to be announced, Tim Standish, University of California at Irvine 12:15 Lunch 13:30 Intensional Logic and the Metaphysics of Intensionality, Edward Zalta, Stanford University 14:30 Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition, Stevan Harnad, Princeton University 15:30 Break 15:45 Discussion 17:45 Break 19:00 Banquet Friday 31 May Modeling and Interpretation 8:15 A Model of Modeling Based on Reference, Purpose and Cost-effectiveness, Jeff Rothenberg, RAND 9:15 Mathematical Modeling of Digital Systems, Donald Good, Computational Logic, Inc. 10:15 Break 10:30 Ideographs, Epistemic Types, and Interpretive Semantics, Jon Shultis, Incremental Systems 11:30 Discussion 12:30 Lunch and End of the Workshop 13:45 Steering Committee Meeting for Informalism '92 Conference, all interested participants are invited. Jon Shultis Incremental Systems Corp. 319 S. Craig St. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 621-8888 (412) 621-0259 (FAX) From: nghi001@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: job Date: Thu, 9 May 91 09:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 19 (41) The Seminar fuer natuerlich-sprachliche Systeme (SNS) of the University of Tuebingen (Federal Republic of Germany) invites appli- cations for a five-year position at the level of Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the areas of computational morphology, lexical knowledge bases, and lexical semantics, starting in the fall of 1991. An important selection criterion will be the candidate's potential to con- tribute to the interdisciplinary mission of the SNS that includes research and teaching in the areas of computational linguistics, cognitive science and computer science. Candidates with research experience in morphological parsing and in the design and construction of lexical knowledge bases are especially encouraged to apply. Additional expertise in one or more of the following areas is desirable: semantics, psycholinguistics and/or connectionist modelling of language. Interested persons should send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of 3 referees, and one representative publication to: Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs Seminar fuer natuerlich-sprachliche Systeme Universitaet Tuebingen Biesingerstr. 10 W-7400 Tuebingen Federal Republic of Germany For full consideration, applications should be received by May 30, 1991. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 32 (42) The Seminar fuer natuerlich-sprachliche Systeme (SNS) of the University of Tuebingen (Federal Republic of Germany) invites appli- cations for a two-year position in the area of phonetics at the level of an Akademischer Rat starting in the fall of 1991 (contract possibly renewable beyond two years). An important selection criterion will be the candidate's potential to contribute to the interdisciplinary mission of the SNS that includes research and teaching in the areas of computational linguistics, cogni- tive science and computer science. Candidates with research and teaching experience in computational aspects of phonetics and phonolo- gy (e.g. speech recognition and speech synthesis) are, therefore, espe- cially encouraged to apply. Additional expertise in one or more of the following areas is desirable: connectionist modelling of language, mor- phology or psycholinguistics. Interested persons should send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of 3 referees, and one representative publication to: Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs Seminar fuer natuerlich-sprachliche Systeme Universitaet Tuebingen Biesingerstr. 10 W-7400 Tuebingen Federal Republic of Germany For full consideration, applications should be received by May 30, 1991. From: Adam Engst Subject: Re:5.0012 Copyright & CNI Date: Thu, May 9, 1991 12:30:44 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 33 (43) Not being an academic, I haven't been following this copyright discussion as closely as I should be. However, I have seen no mention of the copyright/royalty ideas embodied in Ted Nelson's Xanadu system. The basic idea is that there are two types of documents, public and private. Private documents are just that, private, and no one else can see them. Public documents are available for anyone on the Xanadu network to read and include in their own writings or research. The trick is that the system keeps close track of who "owns" what documents (you own what you create, but not what you quote from someone else) and how much those documents have been used by others (read and included in other texts via links). So if I write a paper on Oedipal tragicomedy and make that a public document, and you write a refutal of everything I say using quotes from my paper, the system will assign very small royalties from your account to mine. If the argument then becomes a big issue in Classics and all the Classics professors and students read both papers, the system assigns small royalties from all of their accounts to both your account (for the amount you wrote) and to my account (for the amount I wrote). The basic idea is that you earn money based on what you create that is useful to others, and you pay money based on what is useful to you. The amounts are miniscule with the idea that people who wish to earn money will produce significant and useful work, whereas those who aren't concerned about earning money will merely use the work of others and not worry about creating documents for others to use. Everything is done on a completely individual basis - there is no need for publishers or anything of the like, although information providers will spring up. They will gather information and maintain it and make it easily available in useful formats. However, there's little that an information provider can do that an individual can't - the scale is the only limiting factor on the individual. I see this system as the most equitable method of handling copyright and royalties. After all, it handles the money issue in that you are always paid for what you do, and it handles the ownership issue by making sure that you own what you create. It's theoretically possible for someone to completely copy something you write and publish it as their own, but (a) you will earn money from when they copied it, and (b) the system will make it clear that your version is the original, so it's up to readers to be judicious about choosing versions in such instances. Of course the main problem with Xanadu is that it doesn't exist yet, but the next release date to miss is 1993 in Palo Alto. If you want more information from Xanadu themselves, their net address is xanadu@xanadu.uucp. It's fairly likely that something will come of Xanadu eventually since AutoDesk is pouring money into the Xanadu Operating Company these days. The question is when they'll finish. Cheers .... -Adam Adam C. Engst Editor of TidBITS, the weekly electronic Macintosh journal ace@tidbits.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us The best way to predict the future pv9y@crnlvax5, pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu is to invent it. -Alan Kay From: George Aichele <73760.1176@CompuServe.COM> Subject: replaced message re copyright Date: 08 May 91 23:53:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 34 (44) Resubmitted at the editors' request: I read with great interest Robin Cover's recent postings regarding copyright, and I am very sympathetic to his point of view. However, as one who DOES live in "plainstown.midwest.usa (population 20,000)"--or very near there, anyway--I note one small difficulty in his proposal. Most of you on this list, I assume, work at large universities, where access to the networks goes without saying (and at no direct cost to you personally?). Here in "plainstown," believe it or not, there is no public-access node of the Internet or one of its affiliates. My school does not have access, because it can't afford it. And CompuServe is definitely not free. Electronic networking is indeed exciting, but if you want REAL excitement, try paying for it by the minute. And given all that, the CIS gate to the Internet is email only--no ftp. So as it stands now (as I understand it) Robin's revolution may reach Bergen or Hong Kong, but it won't touch those of us here in plainstown. Sorry. George Aichele 73760.1176@compuserve.com From: "Robin C. Cover" Subject: COPYRIGHT: METAPHORS FOR INEQUITY AND DYSFUNCTION Date: Tue, 07 May 91 22:42:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 35 (45) Several people have objected to the metaphors used in my copyright postings to portray the bizarre situation academia has found itself in with respect to commercial publishers (viz, has created through thoughtlessness and tolerated through complacency). For those who prefer the language of economics to political language (revolution) or legal language (extortion), consider a parallel description by a recognized authority of ARL: ". . .Okerson reviewed the growing dysfunction in scholarly communication resulting from the imbalance of academe's supply and demand situation: scholars are both producers and consumers of information, publishers are primary sellers of information, and universities are both subsidizers and purchasers of information." It does not take any advanced training in algebra to see what's imbalanced in this equation. Throwing property language back into the matrix along with the publishers' claims to "value-add" the scholar's creation through refereeing, we have: SCHOLAR: creator (producer) and user (consumer) PUBLISHER: authenticator, packager, legal owner, marketeer UNIVERSITY: subsidizer, purchaser What? Is this what we want? Neel Smith rightly questions the propriety of "authenticator" (which is supposed to sweeten the rotten deal). How did this happen? I could (but won't) expand upon the statement I made that the publishers are not themselves responsible for this strange state of affairs. They just exploit it. Academia must shoulder the responsibility for the dysfunction, and fix the underlying problem. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to speculate on the irresponsible attitudes and habits of scholarship which have allowed this situation to lead research libraries to the brink of financial disaster. Someone tenured and older than I should do that, if it needs to be done. Here is the fuller context of Ann Okerson's statement on the crisis of scholarly communication: ". . .Okerson reviewed the growing dysfunction in scholarly communication resulting from the imbalance of academe's supply and demand situation: scholars are both producers and consumers of information, publishers are primary sellers of information, and universities are both subsidizers and purchasers of information." That the researcher's reward is usually publication of the research rather than payment for it, further complicates the relationship. Okerson supported the continued pressure on publishers for responsible pricing and the encouragement of alternatives such as electronic publishing but warned that neither strategy is likely to break the existing cycle. More fruitful, although more challenging, is a renewal of the values of the academic community: responsible collaboration in support of open access to information. Mechanisms could involve co-ownership of copyright by scholar and university, refocusing academic reward systems on quality rather than quantity, more awareness of the dynamics of scholarly publishing on the part of scholars who are referees and editors, or increased investment in university presses enabling them to publish much more than their present 10-15% [percent] of scholarly output." Excerpted from "Crisis in Scholarly Communication Topic of State-Wide Discussions," by Suzanne Striedieck in _ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter for Research Library Issues and Actions_ 155 (March 22, 1991) 8-9. It is heartening that the ARL has taken aggressive steps to address the scholarly information/communication crisis precipitated by the economic and legal realities. For example, the leading "challenge statement" formulated by the ARL, expressed by from Duane Webster (ARL executive director) in "Challenges Facing Research Libraries Today," _ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter for Research Library Issues and Actions_ 156 (May 8, 1991), 1: "1. Dramatic increases in the cost, volume and formats of scholarly information promise to alter radically the traditional structures for creating, disseminating, and using this fundamental academic resource. This calls for developing a university-based electronic publishing system; establishing new partnerships among authors, not-for-profit publishers, and librarians to ensure the free flow and ready availability of scholarly information; informing faculty of the causes and the destructive impact of the continuing price spiral for serial subscriptions; and rethinking the nature of local investment in information resources." From: Yiddish Literature and Language Subject: A new Yiddish list Date: Thu, 9 May 91 15:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 36 (46) Announcing the creation of MENDELE, a list for Yiddish language and literature. While the list is dedicated to Yiddish, the language used should be that with which one can work best. Most list members will probably choose to write in English. The list is not (yet) available through listserv. For more information please write to: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Norman (Noyekh) Miller Trinity College From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: Address Query Date: Thu, 09 May 91 20:02:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 37 (47) Does anyone have the e-mail address for Gregory Truex (Dept. of Anthropology, California State University Northridge)? I believe he is the editor of the e-journal _World Cultures._ Any information on this e-serial would also be welcomed. Please reply to: Michael Strangelove University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: email query Date: Thu, 9 May 91 11:33:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 22 (48) [deleted quotation]from the way [deleted quotation] Here are some references Murray, "Computer mediated communication", English for Specific Purposes, 7 (1988) Murray, "The context of oral and written language", Lang Soc 17 (1988) Sproull and Kiesler, "Reducing social context cues", Management Science 32 (1986) Finholt and Sproull, "Electronic groups at work", Organization Science 1 (1990) Forman, "Computer-mediated group writing in the workplace", Computers and Composition 5 Zuboff, The Age of the Smart Machine (1988) Sproull and Kiesler, Connections (1991). Leslie Burkholder Carnegie Mellon University From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: philo-logy Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 09:00:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 23 (49) Eric Rabkin, in Humanist 5.0013, observes the fact that some people without professional literary training react more immediately to the significance of words than those who have this training. Immediate reactions to literature can of course be tangential, trivial, or worse, but not necessarily. Experts often miss the point. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," a teacher of mine once wrote, "in the expert's there are few." Computing humanists tend to stand outside the disciplines in which they were trained and so, perhaps, have more of an opportunity to be intelligent lovers of words and the wisdom in them than those who neatly fit into the prescribed academic pigeonholes. In any case, those who do love stories tend in my experience to be exiles from their own professional groups, or at least inhabitants of the fringe, where we may be able to enjoy what Rabin recommended: that we learn from each other. I found myself the other morning planning a book whose title was to be _In Praise of Mediocrity_ (with apologies to Erasmus and a nod to Delphic wisdom). No doubt the world will not suffer if this remains unwritten. What I meant by this title was precisely the opposite of what "mediocrity" usually indicates, but the anxious striving for "excellence" is merely the opposite, and so in some ways identical to, the path of least resistance. Universities have no short supply of clever experts. Perhaps, as we think about computing in the humanities, we might consider the alternatives to producing yet another cadre of the same. Willard McCarty From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: Copyright: major initiatives for liberalizing public access Date: Wed, 8 May 91 00:04:47 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 24 (50) Many thanks to Bob Hollander, Richard Goerwitz, Norman Coombs and Neel Smith and (HUMANIST 4.1323) for responses on the copyright issue. Other HUMANIST readers may wish to muse over all three parts (Parts I-III) as a whole before responding to any one part; the division was artificial, necessitated by some brain-dead mailers. I am grateful now at least for thoughtful interaction. The HUMANIST record will show that there was no public response to a specific list of queries on copyright posted over a month ago. I would now like to re-post this query (appended below), in hopes of gleaning information about initiatives within publishing consortia, scholarly societies, funding agencies and other bodies to liberalize access to electronic text through relaxing restrictions allowed under current copyright law. The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has made a slight concession, but most efforts by the publishing industry appear aimed at tightening up the Copyright Clearance Center's ability to collect revenues on a per-usage basis. I would specifically like to know what goals the CITED Project has in liberalizing access -- or whether the primary participants are once again publishers seeking technical solutions for the enforcement of copyright and generation of a revenue stream for themselves. "BRITISH LIBRARY REVIEWING COPYRIGHT ON ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY," ONLINE NEWSLETTER, MAY 1991 The British Library Document Supply Centre (DSC) has recently become a member of two groups which are looking at the issues of copyright and standardization for electronic document delivery. . . "These new technological advances all raise serious questions of the copyright in these materials. Few publishers wish to prevent access: rather they want to control it and receive payment for it. . . The British Library is taking part in a project called CITED (Copyright in Transmitted Electronic Documents) to identify the requirements of users of copyright materials, examine the problems which copyright raises and develop mechanisms for control, monitoring, and access in this field. The project is being funded by the European Commission and will last for two years. Other partners in the project are from Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, and The Netherlands." (the full copy of this announcement can be posted if there's interest) Now, RE-POSTING of my specific query (slightly revised/augmented) follows: I have several questions on a perennial topic: copyright of electronic text. These are questions to which I did not find adequate answers by examining the HUMANIST topical collections (RIGHTS TOPIC-1 ... RIGHTS TOPIC-5) from 1988-1989, or by examining the database output of HUMANIST discussions during 1990-1991. (1) Does anyone know of specific actions taken by professional societies to help shape constituencies' awareness, attitudes, scholarly expectations and professional ethics policies in the matter of "(non-) ownership" of electronic literary texts? I missed the recent ACH/ALLC forum in Tempe chaired by Mike Neuman (a summary to HUMANIST would be most appreciated) which may bear on this question. I am most interested in MLA, APA and similar societies where committees for 'Research and Publication' may have taken steps formulate ethical standards which reflect the needs and values of textual scholarship within its purview -- independent of what the currently restrictive copyright laws and interpretations might be. (2) Similarly, does anyone know of publishers or publishing consortia which have formulated and publicized policy statements on their willingness to support textual scholarship by releasing electronic texts from traditional copyright restrictions -- e.g., declaring a commitment to place primary texts -- pre-modern texts for which they has also sponsored paper publication -- in public access, and on public networks? (3) Can anyone summarize the current policies (publicized or induced) of NEH or other granting agencies in decidedly favoring research and publication efforts which commit to placing electronic texts in public domain? By "public domain" I mean placed in areas of unrestricted public access, accompanied by "copyleft" kinds of legal instruments to protect the texts from becoming owned, sold or in other ways proprietarily controlled. Would it violate antitrust laws for granting agencies to explicitly publicize such policies? (4) Among the many variations on Ted Nelson's (Xanaduvian) "pay-by-the-bit" chargeback scheme to reward personal authors, have there been detailed proposals by to differentiate between the primary texts themselves and scholarly work in editorial comment and exposition (e.g., a transcription of an ancient text as opposed to critical apparatus, textual commentary, philological notes)? Royalties awarded on a "per byte" basis would seem to involve several kinds of inequity. On the other hand, factoring in the professional stature of the writer, the density and 'intellectual difficulty' of the subject matter (e.g., a brilliant mathematical proof in four lines, within a two-page article), etc. would seem to pose difficulties for a Xanaduvian system applied to textual scholarship. (5) Can anyone supply an analytical outline of all the relevant issues surrounding the matter of copyright and intellectual property in electronic text? A nice outline would emerge from re-reading the HUMANIST discussions, but I don't wish to duplicate an effort that more competent participants may have already done. Does anyone have a selected reading list for distribution? Thanks in advance for any assistance forwarded to me personally or to the HUMANIST discussion. ------------ Robin Cover BITNET: zrcc1001@smuvm1 6634 Sarah Drive Internet: zrcc1001@vm.cis.smu.edu Dallas, TX 75236 USA Internet: robin@utafll.uta.edu ("uta-ef-el-el") Tel: (1 214) 296-1783 Internet: robin@ling.uta.edu FAX: (1 214) 841-3642 Internet: robin@txsil.lonestar.org From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: E-Journals & Newsletters Directory Date: Sat, 11 May 91 20:22:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 26 (51) Please feel free to post this announcement to any other appropriate lists and individuals. Ann Okerson/Association of Research Libraries 11 May 1991 ARL to Produce Directory of Electronic Publications As part of its keen commitment to promote networked academic journals and other serials, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) plans to publish a directory of electronic journals, newsletters, and scholarly discussion lists/interest groups. These represent publications which are created and distributed principally for Bitnet, Internet, and any affiliated academic networks, largely for free. The directory will be available at the end of June. It will contain some 30 journal listings, about twice that number of newsletters, and over 1000 scholarly lists. Its length is anticipated to be close to 200 pages. Preliminary pricing estimates are approximately $10 - $12 to members and double that for non-members. A final price and release date will be advertised in early June. Editor of the journals/newsletters section is Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa. Strangelove's list will be available through the Ottawa University node sometime in June. Editor of the scholarly discussion lists/interest groups section is Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Libraries. For some months, she has maintained such listings as adjunct files to networked lists such as HUMANIST, ARACHNET, Lstown, and Libref-L. Each electronic "serial" will be described and clear directions about how to subscribe, send submissions, and access retrospectively will be provided. To ensure that the reader is given accurate and up-to-date information, entries have been supplied or verified by the editors themselves. The listings are compiled with the intention of providing the uninitiated networker with clear directions on how to navigate the sometimes puzzling world of electronic scholarship. ARL is producing the printed directory because of calls virtually daily requesting such information. If there is indeed sufficient demand for the work, the directories will be updated and sold regularly. For those who prefer to retrieve electronically, the directory will point to the free and continuously up-to-date networked sources for this information, with complete access instructions. The ARL is tentatively exploring options for funding to catalog/classify these materials, both to facilitate networked and paper access by subject and to "institutionalize" and "legitimize" new types of "serials." This effort would relate to activities of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in identifying and maintaining directories of networked access and resources and to the work of individuals and institutions concerned with standards development for networked products and publications. For further information, to indicate your interest, or to place an order, contact: ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet (e-mail) Ann Okerson or Christine Klein Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 202-232-2466 (phone) 202-462-7849 (fax) From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: E-Journals & Newsletters Directory Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 22:46:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 38 (52) I am compiling a Directory of E-Journals, Newsletters and Digests which will be available on the network in appox. six weeks and will also be available in paper through the Association of Research Libraries. The Directory so far covers the following serials. If you are aware of any not mentioned in this list please inform me of them. I have only just started to include Digests. JOURNALS Bryn Mawr Classical Review CRTNet - Communication and Research Theory DargonZine EJournal Electronic Journal of Communication Intertext Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research New Horizons in Adult Education NetWeaver NetWork Audio Bits Offline Online Journal of Distance Education and Communication PACS-L Review Pigulki Postmodern Culture PSYCOLOQUY Quanta NEWSLETTERS: Automatome Big Byte Biosphere Bulletin irregulomadaire du RQSS CCNEWS CERFnet News Currents Digit Erofile Impact Online Laboratory Primate Newsletter Mednews (Health Infocom Newsletter) Merit Network News MichNet News Micro Byte NEARnet Newsletter Old English Computer-Assisted Language Learning Newsletter (OE-CALL) Online Notes (IS THIS STILL ACTIVE?) PACS-L News Research and Educational Applications of Computers in Humanities (REACH) Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Bitnet News TRANSST - An International Newsletter of Translation Studies DIGEST: Info-Kermit Info-Mac IRLIST Digest NB - I am seeking information on the following: LinkLetter Merit Network News NYSERNet News UIUCNet News ARTSNET REVIEW (the address suephil@peg.pegasus.oz.au does not reply to me) College of Electronic Theory EFF NEWS Journal of Interactive Fiction and Creative Hypertext Chilean News Math Review ARTCOM The Chicago Journal of Computer Science (ACTIVE YET?) Electronic Science Journal (ACTIVE YET?) ALCTS NEWSLETTER (E-TEXT?) NFAIS Newsletter (E-TEXT?) NEWSE-D (is this a newsletter? if so, contact?) NETMONTH (no answer from editor) AIR (ACTIVE? - no answer from editor) AMALGAM (is there a newsletter behind this list?) Class Four (no address for editor) XCULT-L (need info on newsletter from editor) Any information on the above or about e-journals, newsletters and digests not listed is wanted (desperately, as deadline approaches). Please feel free to forward this query to appropriate persons and lists. Michael Strangelove University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> <441495@UOTTAWA> From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: Update: E-Journals & Newsletters Directory Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 13:18:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 39 (53) The following is a list of the e-serials that I am aware of thus far. To complete the Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters I need your help in tracking some of these down. Please inform me of any that are still missing. This project would also move forward quickly if this list is widely circulated and forwarded to editors from whom I have not yet heard from or have been unable to contact. I greatly appreciated all the help given by the many individuals who have sent me information thus far. The Directory will be freely available in e-text throughout the Net and in print from the Association of Research Libraries shortly. Note that it is focused on e-journals and newsletters - at this point I do not have the time to pursue digests. [deleted quotation] The following are either defunct or are simply no longer available in e-text form. ATHENE FSFNET MAGAZINE NORTHWESTNET NEWS NSF Network News OTHER REALMS (as of next issue?) RITA-L (ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE) SOCIAL WORK NEWSLETTER From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 40 (54) NB - $ indicates subscription is not free % indicates journal is peer refereed ART COM Alternatives Journal (NO INFO NO REPLY FROM ED.) Bryn Mawr Classical Review CRTNet - Communication and Research Theory DargonZine % EJournal The Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic % Electronic Journal of Communication FineArt Forum Interactive Journal of Creative Hypertext (NO REPLY FROM ED.) Intertext $% Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research % New Horizons in Adult Education (NO INFO YET) NetWeaver Offline Online Journal of Distance Education and Communication Public-Access Computer Systems News Public-Access Computer Systems Review Pigulki % Postmodern Culture % PSYCOLOQUY Quanta Synapse (NEED E-MAIL ADDRESS OF CONTACT) $% Tetrahedron Computing Methodology TeXmag (TeX Typesetting System) TeX Publication Distribution List [deleted quotation] Activist Times Inc. (NO INFO NEED EMAIL ADDRESS) AIBI Newsletter (Association International Bible et Informatique) (NO INFO - IS THIS STILL ACTIVE?) AIR Bitnet Newsletter ALIYA in Science Newsletter (NO INFO YET) AMALGAM (NO REPLY FROM ED.) ArtCrit (NO INFO NEED EMAIL ADDRESS) ArtsNet Review (NO INFO YET) Automatome Big Byte Biosphere Bitnet News (NO INFO YET) Buffer Canopus Magazine (NO REPLY YET) CCNEWS CERFnet News ChE Electronic Newsletter (Chemical Engineering) Class Four Relay Magazine Comp.Archives Computer Graphics Education Newsletter (NO INFO) Computing and Telecommunications Newsletter Comserve News Current Cites Currents CSNet (NO INFO NEED EMAIL ADDRES) DevelopNet News (NO INFO YET) Digit Disaster Research Donosy (NO REPLY FROM ED.) Drosophila Information Newsletter (NO REPLY FROM ED.) Erofile EFF News (The Electronic Frontier Foundation News) Ethnomusicology Research Digest Fine Art, Science and Technology News (F.A.S.T. News) foNETiks (NO INFO NEED EMAIL ADDRESS) GNU's Bulletin (Newsletter of the Free Software Foundation) The Hebrew Users Group Occassional Electronic Newsletter History and Analysis of Disabilities Newsletter Hot Off the Tree (HOTT) Impact Online India News (NO REPLY FROM ED.) Instuctional Computing Newsletter (NO INFO) Internation House Newsletter Prototype List (NO INFO) IS P.O.B. Bulletin YSSTI (Yugoslav System for Scientific and Techology Informations) Laboratory Primate Newsletter LIBRES (Library and Information Science Research Electronic Conference) Link Letter Market Mednews (Health Infocom Newsletter) MichNet News Micro Byte Microelectronics in Israel (NO REPLY FROM ED.) NEARnet Newsletter Netmonth (NO REPLY FROM ED.) Network Audio Bits and Audio Software Review NewsBytes (The Northern Arizona University Computer Services' newsletter) NewsBrief NewsE-D (NO REPLY YET) Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues Neuron (NO REPLY YET) NLS Newsletter (NO REPLY YET) Nss News (NO REPLY YET) NYSERNet News Old English Computer-Assisted Language Learning Newsletter (OE -CALL) Online Notes (NO REPLY FROM ED.) Optics Newsletter (NO REPLY FROM THE ED.) ORDA Funding Resource Newsletter Arts and Humanities List (NO REPLY FROM THE ED.) ORDA Funding Resource Newsletter Physical and Life Sciences List (NO REPLY FROM THE ED.) ORDA Funding Resource Newsletter Social Science List (NO RELY FROM ED.) Prompt PURPS (NEED EMAIL ADDRESS) Polyglot (NO INFO - NEED CONTACT ADDRESS) Research and Educational Applications of Computers in Humanities (REACH) Rezo, bulletin irregulomaidre du RQSS Sense of Place Simulations Online Magazine (NO INFO YET) Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Bitnet News South Florida Environmental Reader (NO REPLY FROM ED.) TRANSST - An International Newsletter of Translation Studies VapourWare Newsletter (NEED EMAIL CONTACT ADDRESS) [deleted quotation] ACQNET Chile News Database (NEED CONTACT ADDRESS) Electronic College of Theory GayNet Digest Hebrew Studies Listserver Info-Atari16 (Info-A16) Info-Micro Info-Kermit Info-Mac IRList (Information Retreival List Digest) Neuron Digest (NO INFO YET) Risks-Forum Digest TidBITS (NEED CONTACT ADDRESS) ------------------------------------------- (To Editors: the information must be sent in the following format) (USE AS MUCH SPACE AS NECESSARY) Title, ISSN #, if any, Description: To Subscribe: Submissions: Related List: Back Issues: Contact: Please send this information IN THE ABOVE FORMAT. Also, PLEASE SEND ME THE LATEST COPY OF YOUR JOURNAL/NEWSLETTER or DIGEST - (but DO NOT subscribe me) this is extremely important. Michael Stangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Network Research Facilitator University of Ottawa NB - Please note that the above information must be received before May 26, 1991 if your journal/newsletter is to be included in the print version of the directory. Please feel free to forward this query to relevant persons and lists. From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Library of the Future Date: Sun 28 Apr 1991 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 28 (55) The attached is a review of a fine CD-ROM collection. I have seen this in packages of CD-ROMs at a more reasonable cost. Many Humanist subscribers may wish to consider resources like this for themselves or their libraries. CD-ROM Review Library of the Future (c) Series by Tzvee Zahavy Are you short on space in your bookshelves but still want to own 300 great works of Western culture? Would you like instant access to any word or phrase in Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, the Koran or the Canterbury Tales? With Library of the Future you can bring a general library into the home or school on a single compact disc. You will also get a practical search program allowing you quick access to the text of these varied works. To use Library of the Future one must have as a minimum configuration an IBM-PC, AT or PS/2 (or compatible) with 640K of memory and a CD-ROM drive installed. I tested these programs on a Toshiba 3201A drive attached to a PS/2 model 60. Library of the Future permits you to browse and read through the books in its library-base by title or to select authors from a list and peruse those works. You can also search for words and phrases in all the books on the disc or you may set criteria for the exploration. You may select a time epoch by centuries, e.g., 1869 to the present, or eras, e.g., the Renaissance (1313-1576). You may explore works by place, either by country or by continent, and by category, such as literature, biology/medicine, or drama. A successful search retrieves "hits" that one may access by entering the "Title" area of the program and look through book-by- book. After opening a book, you may press the plus-key to proceed through to each successive occurrence of the word or phrase you sought. If you wish, you may print or save to a disk file a citation and twenty or so lines of surrounding text. Each saved reference has a three-line header indicating that it comes from the Library of the Future, giving the title and author of the source and providing the screen number of the e-text edition for future reference. Page numbers are of little relevance in these e-texts. Students will feel justified in using the native reference system of these materials. Accordingly, as a professor, I wondered what I will do when I receive a term paper that indicates a citation comes from, for instance, Epictetus, Discourses, screen 78. An average teacher probably will find it confusing and hard to accept the style of a reference as it appears in the periodic notations within these texts, as for example to the "Koran {CHAPTER_II|THE_HEIFER ^paragraph 15}," or "{BOOK_I ^line 100}" of the Aeneid. The books included here form more of a general sampler of materials than a single definitive inventory of great books. In fact, the propriety of defining the canon is one of the most heated debates in the contemporary academic world. The appearance of new fixed collections of literature, such as Library of the Future, will undoubtedly contribute to another round in the scholarly debate. I spoke to Bill Hustwit at the publisher, the World Library about this. He explained that the aim of the package was to provide a consumer with a general library. He acknowledged that one criterion for inclusion of works was that they be in the public domain. I told him I could understand selection of the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Kant, Darwin, Dickens, Marx, Milton, Tolstoy and Cervantes. When I asked about the inclusion in this austere assembly of the complete Sherlock Holmes, he admitted it was there because of a partiality he personally had to the work. This release clearly is a first edition and a good one. Features will surely be added in subsequent releases. One example of this is the presence at various points in several books of the notice, "Press V for illustration." Unfortunately when you dutifully press V the screen displays the remark, "Graphics function is not implemented in this version. Please send in your registration card to be notified of future availability of graphics." In our conversation, World Library's Hustwit promised a second edition soon with illustrations and a third edition in the near future with 1000 works in the library-base. Review Data Version: First Edition Company: World Library Inc. 12894 Haster Street Garden Grove, CA 92640 List Price: $695.00 Hardware/ system requirements: IBM PC, AT or PS/2 or compatible with 640K memory. Positive features: Extensive general library of classic works. Simple and straightforward to install and use. Accurate and error- free. Easy to print or save to disk individual references. Negative features: Rudimentary search engine with few advanced features. Incomplete bibliography of references to original editions. Search criteria cannot be saved. Complete set of hits can be saved or printed only one-at-a-time. Summary: Library of the Future is a valuable asset especially for the general household or elementary and secondary schools. It allows searches of over 300 classic works of literature, philosophy, religion and science. The disc is a great introduction to CD-ROM technology and its capabilities for students and for the general public. Advanced scholars may prefer more capabilities in a search program and better documentation of sources. This collection lacks a bibliography specifying the original editions on which the e-texts are based. Nevertheless academic experts too will find much of utility here. Textbase and Capacity (nearly 200 megabytes) 450 titles from 300 works of literature. Authors from Aeschylus and Augustine to Voltaire and Whitman. Titles, from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the Metaphysics of Aristotle. Dates of the works, from 2500 B.C. to the present. Places represented, from Carthage and China to Spain and the U.S.A. Compatibility of Output Each hit or screen can be dumped to a printer or to an ascii file. Most word processors can import such files. Once you open a file, the program asks if you wish to append subsequent saves to the same file. Search/ retrieval abilities The search engine is rudimentary. Boolean operators AND and OR can be used. You cannot exclude words from the search with a NOT option. That would be a valuable addition to the next release of the program. Exact phrase searches and proximity searches of words can be done. Wild cards for single letters or for unspecified suffixes are permitted. The entry screen for search strings has quirks. You can backspace to correct errors in entries but you cannot use the delete or back arrow key. Pressing F3 allows you to go back and retype or delete a line on the screen. Once you complete the search screen information you must exit that screen and go back to the Title screen to initiate the search. This is hardly intuitive. I would prefer here enabling use of a hot-key, such as one of the function keys, to initiate the search immediately. Through separate screens you can designate fields to be searched. Thus in one screen you can limit the search by author. In another screen you can delimit the time period, the place, and the category of the works to be searched. The hits are returned in context allowing you to scroll through the text as you examine the results. The drawback of this method is that it takes more time to wade through extraneous retrievals, than if the program merely returned an index of hits. The text screen lines up the works in which there are items retrieved and tells you how many works it has called up. It does not tell you how many hits it called up leaving you with a possibly big job of leafing through ("screening through"?) many dozens of occurrences in a single work. You cannot save or print all occurrences at once. It is rather tedious to go through and save or print each one. After exiting the retrieval screen you lose all criteria you set and must start over. Another valuable hot-key to be considered for adding to the next version would allow you to jump back and reset criteria after looking cursorily at the results or to save your search criteria for another time. Documentation/ Help facilities The manual that accompanies the program has two sections. The first 19 pages is a user guide to the functions of the program. The second section gives 35 pages of synopses of the library-base entries. These are not the most helpful summaries, viz., Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) English novelist who drew on his experiences as a poor child to produce extremely realistic stories. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel showing London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Simple on-line help is available in the program through a function key. Learning curve It should not take the average high school student long to learn how to use the program to browse through books or how to perform simple searches. Addition of an overview guide on a card or a simple tutorial might help orient new users to the overall strategies and contents of the program. Efficiency for users I would be confident to make this disc available to the public on a library work-station. It is friendly enough to users of various levels. Errors: fallibility and consequences The program traps errors well. I could not make it hang-up or crash, nor could I accidentally exit the program without calling up a warning screen. Product support The product comes with a toll-free number. When I called, the company answered on the first ring and promptly connected me to a knowledgeable party to answer all my questions. The warranty is 90 days, replace or refund. Update policy is not specified. Value Should you wait for a future release or buy this package now? This currently is a smooth and attractive product. By all means buy this, if you can afford the steep initial investment and want or need the library and the search capabilities it affords. I see Library of the Future as a wonderful tool for literate homes and a highly desirable item for secondary school and even college libraries. In the final analysis I am tempted to say don't wait for the future to get this compact electronic library of masterpieces. ----------- Tzvee Zahavy is professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is author of numerous books and articles on the Talmud and on History of Judaism. He also is primary author of the instructional language software, "Milim: Vocabulary Drill for Foreign Language Instruction," published by IBM's Wiscware, of "MILIM-Windows" and "Verbs" published by Exceller Software, and he is co-author of the Windows multi- language shell system, "Sentences," also published by Exceller Software (1-800-426-0444). *************************************************************** Bitnet: MAIC@UMINN1 Internet: MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU Land-Mail: University of Minnesota, Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, 316 Folwell Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455 From: "Steven J. DeRose" Subject: Study of article citation Date: Fri, 10 May 91 17:29:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 29 (56) I just ran across an odd and troubling set of statistics in the May 1991 Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, in the Editorial. The discussion centered around a study based on the citation indices (or indexes, for the modernists among us). A few extracts: * There are 108,600 scholarly journals in all fields. * Of papers published in the 4,500 most prominent journals 1981-1985: 55% were never cited 60% were never cited except by their own author(s) Breaking this down somewhat by fields, the study claims: 14% were never cited, among "virology" articles 37% were never cited, among "physics" articles 56% were never cited, among "mathematics" articles 66% were never cited, among "electrical engineering" articles and most troubling: 98% were never cited, among "arts and humanities" articles. * There were, in 4-year institutions in the US, about 100,000 "researchers" in 1968 about 200,000 "researchers" in 1988 (this makes for about a ballpark 3.5% growth rate, right?) ACM failed to point out that this means each researcher has over half a journal to her/himself. I certainly should work harder; I must admit I haven't published a half-journal's-worth of articles every year! Where are these all coming from, esp. since the count appears not to include conference proceedings or monographs? * A *Newsweek* reporter concluded from this that "nearly half the scientific work in this country is worthless" -- ergo, 98% of our work as humanists must also be worthless. I tend not to agree with this (though I suppose we could each nominate particularly useless publications, such as, perhaps, this posting). * Naturally, the editor goes on to list many reasons why the citation index is a worthless measure of an article's usefulness (along with several gratuitous comments about sociology, teaching, and even the medieval church). Does this figure of 98% tell us anything? If so, what, and what should we do about it? It would be interesting to do a similar study for an earlier period and compare; or to check the number of citations for several highly- respected articles; perhaps 98% of them also have gone uncited? Do tenure committees weigh citations heavily, and if so, does that make much sense? Related to current topics, what does this tell us about our relationship to publishers? The number of journals is climbing fast, and the increase of specialization has led to relevant articles being scattered throughout many journals, at the same time that the percentage of useful articles in any subscription I take is lower. That means we are paying more and more for the same amount of relevant information (this could be a direct cause of a decrease in citation, if such there is). I would like to raise directly the question: Can we design a better publication system, which will provide more useful measures of usefulness, and cheaper access to specifically relevant information? Steve DeRose From: Steve DeRose Subject: Humanist Biographies are Here! Date: Mon, 13 May 91 19:51:40 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 41 (57) At last, the long-anticipated Humanist Biographies are here! Those of you who have submitted biographical sketches before the end of 1990 are included in a set of biography files now available from the Humanist Listserv fileserver. The earliest bios did not follow any formal conventions for content or layout, and were painstakingly edited by myself and several other Humanists including Ivy Anderson, Lou Burnard, Lyle Eslinger, Harry Gaylord, David Graham, Ray Harder, Dave Hibler, Grace Logan, Martin Ryle, Robin Smith, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Ken Tompkins, Bill Winder, Philip Yevics, Abigail Ann Young, and Ron Zweig (extreme apologies if I've omitted anyone). Sometime in 1990 I managed to write an actual SGML DTD and build various tools to get more recent bios (of which there have been a LOT) into SGML. I then re-edited everything to fit the exact document structure and tagging rules. At this point I also added the several hundred newer biographies (this has been the main locus of delay). The final task was loading the whole collection into a database, and reviewing each field for consistency. One can't make very useful demographic statements until the data is fairly well normalized. For example, a school such as UCLA has at least a dozen reasonable abbreviations. A long time was spent normalizing spellings, abbreviations, and so on. However, prose content (as opposed to demographic information) has not been intentionally changed. The end product is now available on the file server, in 25 files: one for each initial letter of a last name -- no "Q"s though. There are 905 biographies all together. If you sent in a biography BEFORE Dec. 31, 1990, and it is not included please contact me by e-mail and we'll figure out what happened. NOTE: Many more biographies have come in the early part of this calendar year, and I'm working on them. The infrastructure is now in reasonable shape, so I anticipate putting the more complete set on the file server fairly soon. If you have not sent in a biography at all, please do so. This is especially encouraged for those who read Humanist via bulletin boards or similar mechanisms. But please be sure you have a recent copy of the biography template. You can request one from the fileserver by sending mail to LISTSERV@BROWNVM or @BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU with the line GET BIO TEMPLATE HUMANIST Please download at least your own file and check your biography. If there is an outright error in your name or address information, please copy your biography, edit it to correct the error, and mail it to me for inclusion in the next round. If the problem is not an outright error, please wait for seconds until everyone has had firsts. One note: I've done a lot of hand-editing to make the resulting database usable; updates will not be favorably received if the tags are gone, necessitating much additional work. Tools are available for Macintosh (HyperCard 2) and CMS (REXX) for scanning the biographies. Unix users can use grep and/or sed fairly easily, given the explicit and consistent tagging; so can DOS users who have grep or sed equivalents. I would welcome tools for the more general DOS user, but because I don't have a DOS machine someone else will need to build them (obviously, you can still use any text editor and it's "find" command). Yours belatedly and tiredly, Steve DeRose Humanist biographer EL406011@BROWNVM or EL406011@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Getting the Biographies Date: Mon, 13 May 91 19:38:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 42 (58) The Basic Listserv Procedure To retrieve the biographies from the fileserver send mail to listserv@brownvm or listserv@brownvm.brown.edu with the following line as the text of the body get biografy package This will cause all the biography files to be send to you. You may also request individual files using the usual procedure. For instance, to retrieve the files with the B's and C's send mail to listserv with the following lines get bios-b sgml humanist get bios-c sgml humanist We are leaving the old biography files on the fileserver for reference for a few months. They are named BIOGRAFY 1, BIOGRAFY 2, etc. The new files are BIOS-A SGML, BIOS-B SGML, etc. Be careful not to confuse them. Anonymous FTP Alternatively, if your site supports FTP to Internet nodes you can download the biography files using anonymous ftp. We are not sure just how we are going to support FTP to HUMANIST in the long term, so this should be considered an experiment. Thanks to David Sitman, Steve, Elli, and others for their continuing advice on these things. Here are Steve's instructions... (--Allen) [deleted quotation] Those with direct access to the Internet may obtain the files by "anonymous FTP". Follow this procedure: Use your local Internet access mechanism to open an FTP connection to Internet address 128.148.128.40, otherwise known as brownvm.brown.edu. Log on as userid "anonymous", and give something like your initials as the "password". Use the change-directory command ("cd") to access "EDITORS.203". Use the "dir" command to list the available files. The bios them selves are in files BIOS-x SGML, where the "x" varies across the Latin alphabet. Use the "get" command to retrieve whatever files you want. Note that although the "dir" command may report filenames and filetypes (=extensions) separated by a space, the get command generally requires that you separate them with a period. Example: (the "*" in the margin indicates what _you_ enter) * ftp 128.148.128.40 VM TCP/IP FTP R1.2.1 Connecting to 128.148.128.40, port 21 220-FTPSERVE at brownvm.brown.edu, 12:42:40 EDT THURSDAY 04/11/91 220 Connection will close if idle for more than 15 minutes. USER (identify yourself to the host): * anonymous * >>>USER anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: * >>>PASS ******** 230 ANONYMOU logged in; working directory = ANONYMOU 191 Command: * cd el406011.195 [deleted quotation] 250 Working directory is EL406011 195 Command: * dir [deleted quotation] 200 Port request OK [deleted quotation] 125 List started OK BIOS-A SGML V 844 689 .... 250 List completed successfully Command: * get bios-a.sgml [deleted quotation] 200 Port request OK * >>>RETR bios-a.sgml 150 Sending file 'bios-a.sgml' 250 Transfer completed successfully 30567 bytes transferred. Transfer rate 28.95 Kbytes/sec. Command: * quit [deleted quotation] 221 Quit command received. Goodbye From: "John D. Turner" Subject: Date: Thu, 9 May 91 09:49:29 cdt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 43 (59) It seems to me that Robin Cover's HUMANIST 4.1315 posting "Copyright I" is an eloquent justification for convenient and unrestricted access to the products of text-based creative scholarship. I would like to support his plea for the promotion of the electronic exchange and distribution of scholarly resources and creations from a slightly different angle. From recent discussions at my University with Ann Okerson, Director of the Association of Research Libraries, it emerges that not only our own, but all 94 ARL libraries are due for serious financial trouble in the very near future. According to Okerson, in the last four years, serial subscriptions for these libraries rose 51%; in 1990 ARL libraries paid 52% more than in 1986 but were able to acquire 1% fewer subscriptions. Including scientific publications, only 20% of total serial subscriptions accounted for 72% of library serials expenditures in 1988). Even though monograph prices rose only 41% during the same period, the serials increase allowed only a 19% increase in monograph expenditures, a 16% decline in four years, which works out to a drop of about 5300 monographs per ARL library for the period. The Berkeley libraries report that monographic purchases of 83,000 books in 1981 will decline to 42,000 in 1991. The point of all this is that the research library community is alarmed, and university administrators responsible for allocating university budgets are also beginning to get the picture. To judge from my own experience, the only group that does not seem particularly worried about these developments is faculty who take libraries for granted and often have little sense for the economics of their profession except when it comes to salaries, benefits, outside consulting income and textbook royalties. As one respondent to Cover's plea indicated, hardcopy publication of our scholarship by prestigious presses is partly a matter of our own vanity, not to mention the demands of our current publish-or-perish philosophy. The difficulty is that the increasing concentration of the means of hardcopy publication in the hands of increasingly fewer commercial houses who assess research libraries staggering annual subscription increases will soon deprive scholars of the major market for the serial and monographic publication of own their work. The combination of our vanity and publish-or-perish philosophy together with our traditional commitment to the widespread dissemination of knowledge and scholarship are currently leading to an increase in published output in excess of six percent per year across all fields. Such an increase coupled with the concentration of the means of publication in the hands of a very few will ultimately lead to disaster; publish-or-perish will tend to become "publish-and-perish." What can be done? Drawing attention to the federal government's new National Research and Education Network, she has appealed to the Coalition for Networked Information to create a Corporation for Networked Scholarly Publishing with initial leadership taken from such institutions as Case Western, Johns Hopkins, Virginia Tech and OCLC, who have shown initiative in electronic book and journal-like projects, for the purpose of: 1) Drafting a statement of principles guiding scholarly publishing on the network (stressing quick and wide availability, affordable user costs, comprehensive directories of material available and friendly user access). 2) Investigate the options for the eventual transfer of the Network to commercial telecommunication carriers, which is inevitable as federal government subsidies to academic enterprises such as the Network dwindle over the course of time. 3) Define guidelines pertaining to such issues as "fair and honest" use, classified and proprietary information, integrity and privacy; full/partial cost recovery, collection and distribution of revenues, and marketing activity on the network by commercial firms. 4) Develop ownership and copyright policies; possibilities include joint ownership of published material between authors, universities and/or professional societies, allowing remuneration without giving away a copyright to a third party; a statement in the copyright notice of an article or book giving unlimited copying rights to libraries and scholars. Okerson points out that if such an electronic publishing venture were inaugurated by a handful of major universities and professional societies with projects characterized by integrity, unassailable review practices and top-flight editors, acceptance might come rather quickly, given the advantage of comprehensive access to the scholarly community and the possibility of immediate and wide access to recent material. With the prices for scholarly publishing escalating at a rate, on average, of twice the Consumer Price Index (the situation is of course better in the humanities), and the trend toward monopoly ownership of publication resources (the European market is now controlled by only five major publishing conglomerates), and increasing litigation from publishers against library consortiums who try to distribute acquisitions among themselves, the situation is getting worse each year. The realization of some of these suggestions will take years, even if the scholarly world is committed to them (which I am reluctant to believe). But practical steps to move toward an alleviation of this problem can be taken by anyone of us now. As a starter, the more secure (tenured) among our ranks can refuse publishers exclusive rights to their creations, refuse to publish with or serve on the editorial boards of overpriced journals and monograph series, or publishers who will not allow electronic access to scholarly material within a reasonable amount of time following hardcopy publication. Especially in the sciences, faculty might act to retrieve control over the distribution of journals from commercial presses whose escalation of journal subscription prices exceeds inflation by a significant amount. Universities have to share some of this burden. Many university presses, who are mostly required to operate on a self-supporting basis apart from their university budget, are reluctant to take on the publication of potentially unprofitable scholarship. Faculty might consider demanding that their university presses put more emphasis on the business of publishing basic scholarly research, and a bit less on trade publications. With regard to electronic scholarly publishing, there will have to be some reduction in the sheer number of refereed journals currently available if the networks are ever to handle the load. There are arguably too many of these now, and hard-pressed libraries are beginning to cancel subscriptions to them, forcing upon faculty the time-consuming task of weeding out the less from the more valuable. Of course, unrestricted network access will also result in the appearance of a great deal of unrefereed publication, but much of this, often of quite high quality and significance, is available already. There may even be instances in which certain highly significant scholarship can become available only in the absence of refereed acceptance, which can in some cases be cliquish or faddish and bound up with the struggle for political dominance within professional societies. The arrival of electronic publishing on a large scale will entail big changes in the publish-or-perish oriented tenure, promotion and merit reward systems as has been noted in previous HUMANIST discussions. Colleagues and administrators might even be forced into having to read faculty output for quality rather than quantity, and resort more frequently to extra-institutional peer evaluation (done electronically, of course). Since so much of university curricula is dictated by professional societies and their accreditation committees nowadays, I think such societies need to take the lead in this discussion, and in the case of humanists in concert with the American Council of Learned Societies. Universities and colleges will eventually have to go with the flow, given the faculty sense of prior commitment to profession rather than institution. Of course, as Cover points out, much of this depends on the development, availability and use of intelligent authoring software, versatile electronic book browsers, high capacity academic networks and creative electronic-communication schemes for editing/refereeing (and, I might add, for _purchasing_, since all this won't come for free BITNET-style). Probably federal support will be required to get all this off the ground, and as Okerson has indicated, as federal support inevitably dwindles, the entire enterprise may eventually have to be partially operated by commercial telecommunications enterprises. There are a host of problems: should there be any royalties, and if so, what will be the accounting scheme, and how will authorial integrity be protected while perhaps allowing material to be circulated along with a limited amount of reader response? Perhaps here the use of indelible public-key encrypted electronic signatures might be a way of tracing the distribution of material in such a way as to avoid too many parasitical middlemen. Probably the job of maintaining a fine-grained enough index to the vast amount of material available will be sufficiently vast and complex that the scholarly community will have to resort to a commercial enterprise (but in that case, _we_ own our creations and pay royalties to _them_, rather than the reverse, as it is now). Again, how accomplish distribution to scholars without immediate access to the network? Quite possibly floppies or some other removable media. But this would have to be coupled with a program that virtually guarantees that all have access to a computer and appropriate communications links; perhaps a massive volume-purchasing program through professional societies would work here. When Scholar's Press was started at the University of Montana, we considered, but did not implement, the idea of supplementing hardcopy distribution with microform distribution coupled with volume purchasing of microform readers at a vast discount to subscribers, as well as the possibility of making journals available in a "loose-leaf" form that would enable purchase of desired materials only. One huge problem is -- who does all this work, promotes it, sets it up, oversees it, etc.? Faculty are busy creatures (usually), and don't have the time to do it, do they? But if they don't, you-know-who will step in to fill the void. We are historically a rather naive bunch when it comes to serving our own interests collectively. Maybe that's the worst problem of all, and the major reason many of these ideas will remain pipe dreams; otherwise, most of them would have been implemented and being used already. The battle Robin Cover, Ann Okerson and others are fighting now is perhaps the one that must be won first -- overcoming faculty complacency. John Turner jdt@hoss.unl.edu jturner@unlcdc2.BITNET From: nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu (Neel Smith) Subject: Xanadu and copyright Date: Sat, 11 May 91 05:18:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 44 (60) The 'Xanadu' royalty scheme should frighten any academic who sees it presented as a model of compensation for electronically published work. If I understand it correctly, it proposes a simple equation: reward (royalties, and so presumbably credit towards tenure, prestige generally?) is a direct function of frequency of citation. The naivete of such a scheme should be immediately apparent. I content myself with two examples: -- Citation of one's own works. A familiar phenomenon in all academic publishing, authors tend to cite themselves more frequently than anyone else does. There may be good reasons for this (obviously, authors tend to work on the same or related problems), but rewards for citing yourself are clearly problematic. -- Citation to refute a work. In classical antiquity, this constitutes perhaps the largest category of attributed citation-- many academic continue this tradition. Do we want to reward someone for publishing a work that is notoriously bad rather than merely mediocre? Automated methods for evaluating work are utopian-- and utopia is where they should stay. Neel Smith nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: parasites (aka publishers) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 45 (61) Richard mentions an incertainty concerning his ability to post electronic copies of his articles which have been accepted. On several occasions in the past year I have had discussion on this matter with various publisher representatives, and while each of them initially asked that the acticles in question not be published elsewhere, it was easy to get them to check, and the result was always that unless I meant publishing them in *another journal* that it really didn't make any difference to them, though it was a condition that any self publishing not be before their publication date which didn't seem too much of an objection. They, like Bob Hollander, don't perceive much interest in the etext/email methods of publishing and don't view it as a threat. Hopefully when time has changed this opinion, precedent will already have been settled. It also doesn't hurt to tell them you have already copyrighted materials. Then their publication must included both their copyright statement, your copyright statement, and whatever else. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg INTERNET: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu BITNET: hart@uiucvmd.bitnet The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. From: Robert Hollander Subject: Re: 4.1315 Copyright I: Publishers' Ownership... (1/171) Date: Mon, 06 May 91 10:19:21 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 46 (62) Bob says he has considered putting some of his works (re: Dante, I think) on the Internet and asking a couple dollars from anyone who grabs a copy. However, he says he won't do this because he is sure no one will want it. I would like to propose an experimental posting of such works by authors, scholars, etc. who have enough access to the Internet to receive messages such as this one. I would be especially happy to post Bob's article/s on the GUTNBERG server and to forward any income from this directly to Bob. I get notes all the time from people who have received etexts posted from the GUTNBERG server to all over the world, sometimes so far that email to me cannot get here and they end up writing letters. Etexts should be sent to this email address or disks to me at: Project Gutenberg Attn Michael Hart P. O. Box 2782 Champaign, IL USA 61825-2782 If you would like a written response, please include a SASLE or donation. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg INTERNET: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu BITNET: hart@uiucvmd.bitnet The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. "NOTICE: Due to the shortage of ROBOTS and COMPUTERS some of our workers are HUMAN and therefore will act unpredictably when abused." From: "Mary Dee (faculty" Subject: "Short Citedness" Date: 13 May 91 16:00:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 47 (63) In Peter Denning's article, as well as Steve DeRose's commentary on it, there is not a clear explanation of what is meant by "cited". Does it mean that these journals under consideration were cross-indexed in order to determine whether other articles in this set of journals referenced original articles in the set? Or does it mean than of all printed material anywhere, only these percentages of the articles in this set of journals wer cited? There's a big difference. I would guess that one should count citations from textbooks in the field as well as citations from journals. Another fallacy in counting citations has to do with how the importance of an article is to judged? If many folks read an article but no one cites, does that make it unimportant? I also suspect that there certain articles, oft cited, that few have read, such as Jay Earley's "An Efficient Context-free Parsing Algorithm," in _CommACM_13(2), 1970, 94-102, which seems to be in every disucssion on parsing I've seen (almost). Mary Dee From: amsler@starbase.MITRE.ORG (Robert A. Amsler) Subject: 98% uncited Arts and Humanities literature Date: Mon, 13 May 91 14:14:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 48 (64) Probably the meaning is cultural rather than reflecting any underlying flaw. What citations mean in the arts and humanities and the sciences are somewhat different. In the sciences one cites works to first establish that one is aware of the relevant literature, i.e. knows who else has been working in the area. One could be completely discredited if one proposed something what someone else had proposed beforehand and didn't cite them for it. One only secondarily cites works to indicate that one agrees with them. Agreement is in fact not a big factor in citations--one cites works to indicate that their contents are being assumed to be true, regardless of whether one likes the conclusions or not. In the humanities, I'd assume one cites "classics" but by and large tries NOT to cite works of rival schools at all, so as to not give them any further publicity? Given a large amount of "subjective" judgements one also would avoid citing works with which one didn't agree, so as to not taint oneself with what in one's mind are incorrect views. Finally, if one is attempting to establish one's OWN reputation, one would be careful to deliberately only cite those from whom one was trying to align oneself. Only more powerful people than oneself and probably only people one had met so as to be assured of their politically correct views. Thus, citation in the humanities is a bit more like endorsement (or attack); rather than "observation". However, the problem is what should we be doing, sciences or humanities, to improve this situation. Citation itself is an artifact of a 19th century printing technology. It is clearly a system in need of a 20th century equivalent (so when we get to 2001 we'll then only be a century behind again :-). Minimally, I suppose I'd suggest the practice of citation-equalling-direct-communication ought to be adopted; that is, if one cites someone, the practice of that citation resulting in a communication to the person cited ought to be achieved. In an electronic text this would merely mean that publication would result in electronic copies of the text itself going to the cited person. Why should YOU have to track down who is citing your work? What an inefficient system for the cross-fertilization of knowledge and work. Second, I'd suppose citations ought to be accompanied by a reserved spot for a response from the cited party. Thus, papers once published would establish a set of openings for further comments back from the cited parties and the whole should become "the literature". Thus, when one came across a paper some years after its publication, one would be able to find out what the cited parties thought of the use, etc. being made of their work. Most probably wouldn't have responded, but some of the replies might have been at least as valuable as the orginal paper (or more so?). Finally, the original author ought to have the option of post-commentary on their own paper. Thus, if they publish more material later, and their earlier paper becomes obsolete, they ought to be able to annotate the earlier paper with comments. This should be an ongoing thing, such that in effect an author could throughout their life add future thoughts to their earlier works. This message is long anough now, so I won't speculate about the electronic means of achieving all this. Xanadu could probably handle it all, but the existing on-line databases ought to be able to do most of it without that much difficulty. What is clear though is that the paper medium is poor at this. One could I suppose create a looseleaf journal, for which one would receive new update pages to insert into the text; but in a bound publication there seems no timely way to handle these back-references from the future. Robert A. Amsler MITRE Corp. Washington, DC From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Re: 5.0029 Troubling Citation Study (1/60) Date: Mon, 13 May 91 08:25:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 49 (65) Signal, Noise and the Net The low citation rate probably correctly reflects the high forgettability of most published work (and the fact that most work eventually gets published somewhere, despite peer review). Does this mean standards are too low? Probably, but probably also that all areas of human endeavor -- from height and weight to athletic and intellectual performance -- conform to the familiar gaussian distribution (bell curve), with the majority of it straddling the average. In scholarship a certain fixed and unflattering wheat-to-chaff ratio is inevitable, and the only way to reduce the absolute quantity of chaff may be to (China-like) hold down the entire enterprise. So what we really need is a way of filtering out the quality at the absolute level we happen to require. In my view, the electronic medium (with suitable "gating" software, calibrated to the topics, authors, institutions and levels in the "prestige" hierarchy that each of us personally elects to hew to) will turn out to be the most rational and efficient (if not the optimal) way of monitoring, filtering as well as searching this gaussian sea of noise for the pearls of signal we each seek. Stevan Harnad Editor, PSYCOLOQUY Department of Psychology Princeton University harnad@princeton.edu From: garof@sixcom.sixcom.it Subject: Re: Study of article citation Date: Mon, 13 May 91 11:34:53 +0200 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 50 (66) cf. Humanist Vol, 5, No. 0029. Sunday, 12 May 1991. Steven J. DeRose asks [in paraphrase]: Does the large percentage of uncited articles tell us anything? Do tenure committees weigh citations heavily? etc. ---- I can only respond anecdotally. When I worked for an Italian AI (artificial intelligence) research lab, I can remember the lab head (who was Italian) imploring his researchers to cite as much as possible in their works. He claimed that Italians work in a vacuum, each trying to take shared ideas and presenting them as if they were their own, and was thus trying to break this tendency so as to create more attention for the articles of his lab. I believe that his idea was that other people in the field prefer to read articles which either reference their work directly, or reference their school of thought. His justification for this was to, "look at the typical American article --- it consists mostly of citations!" Hypothesis 1: There may be a cultural/institutional reason why articles are not cited. A possible independent reinforcement of this opinion, with considerations for the tenure question, comes from a US political science professor/researcher I know. He was submitting an article for publication, which had to pass an anonymous peer review. He contended that the "anonimity" was theoretical, as any committee interested or knowledgeable in that select a research topic had to be among a very select group of peers, members of which he could guess their identity. Thus, he was very careful to "judiciously add" the "correct" citations in his submission paper. Considering that tenure at this university was closely linked to the number of articles published, there was a very strong reinforcement of the need to cite references in this case. Hypothesis 2: Citations may be indirectly necessary to the securing of tenure positions in highly specialized and select fields of study. (Is "virology" more specific than "electrical engineering" or "arts and humanities"?) In Usenet comp.ai, there had been a discussion (two months ago) based on a Brown University graduate student project to create an artificial intelligence geneology. They would like to trace the history of ideas and the evolution of their field by following article citations, research group demographies, and publication citations. The discussions concentrated on the problems of tracing ideas, as often the advisors and students were not sure who were the originators of the ideas they were developing. Often, the professors and lab heads admitted, they cited from their students' works. Hypothesis 3: In some areas of study, there could be a "chicken and egg" problem of tracing origins of ideas. In such situations, it is difficult to clearly cite other articles or works of other research groups. Finally, there could be "marketable considerations" for not citing articles. Looking at the field which ACM classified as "electrical engineering", there is a type of research which many research groups are content to name differently, although there is great similarity. Connectionism, complex dynamics, parallel distributed processing, neural networks, and perceptrons. One research lab head in Belgium refused to have his work classified as "connectionism" because he did not want the name association with Thinking Machines' "Connection Machine", and the research under study there. A few European and American research labs I know classify their work as "neural networks", although much is based on the work from the research lab of Rummelhart and McClelland at Carnegie Mellon, classified as "parallel distributed processing". Finally, practically nobody wanted to call any of their work "perceptrons" for fear of confusion with a criticism leveled by Minsky and Papert in their 1972 book, "Perceptrons", which had been unjustly accused of, "causing the death of that research field in '70s." Maybe the fine distinctions are justified and therefore do not merit the citations. Maybe, instead, the distinctions are too fine, non-existent, or confusing, and the work gets published anyway for its own particular merits, and not for the field of study. Hypothesis 4: A motivation for not citing other similar work could be for preserving distinction of work classification, in the interest of preserving funding interest, particularly in a field where the distinctions are not clear. Ie. It is better to not invite the conclusion of similarity in the case of indistinct research. I hope that this will be useful. -Joe Giampapa garof@sixcom.sixcom.it garof%sixcom.sixcom.it@uunet.uu.net From: "Pierre Hamel" Subject: Date: MON, 13 May 91 11:19:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 51 (67) A comment on: Subject 5.0029 Troubling Citation Study (1/60) Date Fri, 10 May 91 17:29:49 EDT [deleted quotation] [...] [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation][...] [deleted quotation] Would I point out to Steve DeRose that he might fail to realize that still few "researchers", as well as some human beings incidentally, are not U.S. Americans: it helps to lower the ratio "scholarly journal per capita of 'researcher'". C'est sans doute sans rapport mais quand meme, ne serait-ce que pour le plaisir ... A Marseille on entend parfois l'expression suivante: prendre la raie de ses fesses pour le meridien d'origine. Je ne saurais traduire. Ni vous non plus n'est-ce pas: soyons charitables ! Pierre J. Hamel HAMEL@INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA Institut national de la recherche scientifique INRS-Urbanisation Montreal, Quebec From: F5400000@LAUVAX01.BITNET Subject: Electronic storage Date: Mon, 13 May 91 16:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 52 (68) I would like some information or perhaps bibliography re the durability of elctronic data storage. In other words, how long can one reasonably expect floppy disks, tape, etc. to retain an accurate record of what one put on it? John Sandys-Wunsch @LAUVAX01.BITNET From: John.Slatter@durham.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0017 Rs: Greek Parser; HCY89/90; WordNet;... (4/83) Date: Mon, 13 May 91 16:09:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 53 (69) In a recent submission Michael Kessler suggests that HUMANISTs might like to subscribe to the RUSTEX-L list. What is this? From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Russian concordance package for Mac. Date: Mon, 13 May 91 19:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 54 (70) In fact the title of the message is a little imprecise. A colleague here in Montreal has developped a concordance package that can deal with roman alphabet based languages and Russian. I just saw a demo of the beta version of it. My question is: is there a standardized character table for the cyrillic alphabet? Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" MONTREAL (Quebec) Canada - H3C 3J7 E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca Tel.: (514) 288-3916 From: al649@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Martin J. Homan) Subject: Coptic Fonts for WordPerfect 5.1 Date: Mon, 13 May 91 14:29:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 55 (71) Does anyone know of a source for Coptic Fonts for WordPerfect 5.1? This request comes from a graduate student who contacted me the other day, and wanted to find out what was available in the area of coptic and IBM Compatible wordprocessors. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Marty Martin Homan God's Word To The Nations Bible Society Cleveland, OH al649@cleveland.freenet.edu From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0023 Philo-logy Date: Fri, 10 May 91 10:47 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 36 (72) for Willard McC., Is it a striving for "excellence"that makes for the constrict ion of intellectual freedom of imagination, or is it a pseudo-excellence that v aunts its "professionalism," that is, its refusal to contemplate the uncertain and the vague, the penumbral, which you call "mediocrity," and which I think wo uld be an unfortunate term for what you are suggesting. There is the old French term,"deformation professionelle," that perhaps describes those who make a fet ish of their skills or craft, or competence. You are right to suggest anxiety, I think; we all know the tremendous anxiety in the face of words that the typic al engineering student, or professional engineer too, exhibits, and that may be a whole psychic type, for engineering is very exacting, and they do tend to co nform their psyches to their metier, in which the safety of precise measurement s lie. You see my drift? Some types of philosophers are like that in their con tempt for the layperson. I was on a committee once for an appointment and there was ayoung philosopher, which at UCLA, means language and analytical logic, Ca rnap & Co., and little to no history of philosophy, and when I complained that the book in question had 150 pages of utter miscontrual of what the Bergsonian idea of elan vital was saying, he dismissed the issue with a curt remark that B ergson was no philosopher at all, so we should move on in the discussion... He had never read him, because that was metaphysics, and nonsense. When I asked if he had read through the hsitory of philosophy, he dismissed that as all nonsen se anyway, and there was no time or usefulness in such reading. And he was a te nured young hotshot! Oh well...you see what the mediocre humanist is up against when confronting the professional? Jascha Kessler From: LINDYK@Vax2.Concordia.CA Subject: Re: 4.1314 Wedding Rings (3/51) Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 16:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 56 (73) Hello, As an addendum to the Wedding Ring discussion, is there any reason that North Americans wear their wedding bands on their left hand. I ask because I remember an anecdote told to me by my mother after she had gone back to visit her family in Poland after the war. Several people asked her if she had only recently been widowed and what her husband had died of. She was quite taken aback by the question since her husband was still quite alive back in Canada. Only later was it explained to her that a window transfers her wedding band to her left hand, the right hand being the customary dding band. Is this a custom that is particular to Poland or is it a more general European custom? Is there an North American equivalent, namely, moving the wedding band from the left to the right upon the death of a spouse? Why is it customary for North Americans to wear the band on the left hand? Thanks, Bogdan KARASEK lindyk@vax2.concordia.ca From: WIEBEM@QUCDN Subject: Composite novels Date: Wed, 8 May 91 22:55-0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 57 (74) A nineteenth-century composite novel is the one by Benjamin Disraeli and his sister Sarah called _A Year at Hartlebury, or The Election_, published under the pseudonyms Cherry and Fair Star. From: Dennis Baron Subject: Happy Birthday Gender Date: Wed, 8 May 91 10:17:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 58 (75) I was interested to see that in the Happy Birthday message the HUMANIST list is referred to as _she_. Here is a fine example of metaphorical gender at work in English (even if it was a conscious nod to the gender discussion of recent weeks). This brings up an issue, though: English has no gender-neutral way to refer to an infant or child except _it_, which in most other instances is marked (-human). Indeed the use of _it_ was common practice for a long time and still occurs today, especially in British varieties of English, though I think it is less common in present-day English in the US. Thus it sounds passing strange to my ear when I read the following statement by the Nebraska Attorney General in the case of _Meyer v. Nebraska_ (1923): "The hours which a child is able to devote to study in the confinemnet of school are limited. _It_ must have ample time for exercise or play. _Its_ daily capacity for learning is comparatively small" (emphasis added). Forced to pick a gender for an unnamed or generic child today there is a tendency to avoid _it_ in favor of _he_, _she_, or _he or she_, the last option frequently being classed as "wordy" or "ugly." Yet it seems to me that in the discussion of gender reform in language there is no mention of this particular problem. Can anyone provide cites I may have missed? Most discussion seems to be of the "Everyone . . . his/her/his or her" variety, where _it_ has seldom been a popular option. Yet in the past many people clearly were more comfortable applying _it_ to a child. Comments, ideas, counterexamples are all welcome. Thanks. debaron@uiuc.edu (\ 217-333-2392 \'\ fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron \'\ __________ Department of English / '| ()_________) Univ. of Illinois \ '/ \ ~~~~~~~~ \ 608 S. Wright St. \ \ ~~~~~~ \ Urbana IL 61801 ==). \__________\ (__) ()__________) From: Karl Van Ausdal Subject: Sic semper tyrannis Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 13:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 59 (76) According to George E. Shankle, *American Mottoes and Slogans* (1941), "Sic semper tyrannis" is the original motto recommended for the seal of Virginia by George Mason to the Virginia convention in 1776. *The Papers of George Mason* (U. of North Carolina Press, 1970), v. 1, p. 313-314, reprints the "Report of the Committee appointed to Devise a Great Seal for the Commonwealth of Virginia", dated 5 July 1776. Mason was the chairman of the committee; the other members were R.H. Lee, George Wythe, and R.C. Nicholas. The commentary to the report notes that "the patriots were still smarting from George III's rebuff of the Olive Branch petition," and that the phrase "carried important connotations for patriots who exalted Brutus and Cato as ancient heroes." Karl Van Ausdal Music Librarian Appalachian State University Boone, NC From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: primus inter pares Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 17:26 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 60 (77) My colleague who is quite an expert in tracking down such expressions could not supply a ready answer for the source of primus inter pares off the top of his head but recommended that inquirers check into the (massive) index to the complete works of Thomas Acquinas, to ssee if he used the expression. If he did, the source will probably be cited there. Larry Hurtado, Religion, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, R3T 2N2, Canada. From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0026 ARL Directory of Electronic Pubs (1/67) Date: Mon, 13 May 91 08:37:52 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 61 (78) I love it: a guide to alternative and free publishing. Available in print and for money! Am I the only one that sees an irony here? Perhaps the posting was ambiguous; the guide is available free on the Internet, but the address is printed in the guide? Which costs $10? ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: DJBPITT@pittvms Subject: Re: 5.0013 Writing the Name of God Date: Thu, 9 May 91 07:46 EDT (24 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 39 (79) The original inquiry about students who are unwilling to reproduce the English word "God" in citations pointed out that altering a citation violates a basic scholarly principle. I have no insights into the religious issues that my colleagues have already illuminated, but perhaps a comment on citation procedure is appropriate. It is standard practice in some scholarly traditions, particularly law, to mark non-substantive editorial changes in cited text with square brackets. Thus, writing "G[-]d" would seem an acceptable and accepted compromise. Additionally, it is standard practice in my discipline (Slavic linguistics and, often, Russian or Slavic studies in general) to introduce certain orthographic changes in cited text without any explicit indication that this has been done. Specifically, Russian orthography was reformed after the revolution; certain letters were eliminated and other spellings were changed. It is common (not universal, but very common) in scholarly writing to convert pre-revolutionary citations to modern orthography without comment. (Of course, this is not done where the original orthography is materially relevant.) --David Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] The Royal York Apartments, #802 djbpitt@pittvms.bitnet [Bitnet] 3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714 From: Steve Mason Subject: NeXT and humanists Date: Fri, 10 May 91 16:42:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 40 (80) I have just spent an entertaining hour or so reading through the digests of earlier HUMANIST discussion of the NeXT (1988-1989 mainly). The general impression I received was that, back in those days, the machine was admired for some of its features but not recommended for general humanities computing. A big drawback was its lack of applications (such as a sophisticated word-processor and the ability to handle non-Roman characters), not to mention a prohibitive cost. Now that the NeXT has appeared in my campus computer store, with a very attractive price tag (even in Canadian currency!) and sporting a customized WordPerfect, I wonder how those of you who know something about the machine regard it. From the digests, it appears that several HUMANISTs had quite a stake in the development of various programmes; several others attended presentations in the mysterious pre-release days. My computing needs are basically four: (a) word processing in English, Greek, and Hebrew; (b) text retrieval and analysis, especially the TLG and related materials via CD-ROM; (c) electronic communication; and (d) high-quality printed output (what some are willing to call "camera ready"). Clearly, DOS and Mac (and some others) will do the job one way or another, and each has its advocates. What I'd really like to know is whether other ordinary HUMANISTs like me (not the programming genii, with all respect) have purchased the NeXT and are using it to good effect. In particular: (1) Is there a way for this machine to read the TLG? I gather that there isn't, since John Baima reported back then that the development atmosphere was not conducive. (2) Does it yet handle non-Roman characters and diacritics? Are there aesthetically pleasing fonts for the 400 dpi PostScript printer? (3) How is WordPerfect for the NeXT working out? Is it much like 5.1 for DOS? More limited? More capable? (4) Does the ethernet interface built in afford any advantages for communication with mainframes and internet, or is it only for local networks? If someone can report on the general utility of the NeXT in 1991, I'd greatly appreciate it. Perhaps others would be interested too. Steve Mason, Humanities, York U. From: Allen Renear Subject: Bios -- correction & more Date: Mon, 13 May 91 20:17:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 41 (81) ------------ Correction: the ftp directory for the biographies is EDITORS.203, as it says in the text, not EL406011.195 as shown in the example ------------ Please do send us a biography if we don't have one for you. Those of you reading this on a bulletin board for instance -- we know we are missing quite of few of you. When this next round of additions is finished Steve is going to post a profile of the Humanist readership -- countries represented, institutions, fields, etc. From the preliminary results I've seen it is going to be quite an impressive picture; don't be left out of it. But no updates at this time please, excepting important factual corrections of addresses &c. There will be a round of updates later. -- Allen From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: FTP Fixed Date: Tue, 14 May 91 21:16:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 42 (82) As quite a few of you discovered I didn't have the access privileges quite right on EDITORS.203, the directory with the Humanist biography files for ftp'ing. It should work now though. Note that these services are implemented in an IBM/VM environment, not a unix environment, so some of the ftp commands you are familiar with will not work or will work differently. In particular you cannot see the directory structure with 'dir' -- you must remember that you wish to 'cd EDITORS.203; you can't just poke about, at least not very effectively. Sorry for the confusion. From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Delayed Postings Date: Tue, 14 May 91 21:27:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 43 (83) As I prepared to turn the watch over to my co-editor I discovered several files that had been lost in the shuffle. I'm posting them now, with apologies to the authors and the readership. -- Allen From: Frada Mozenter Subject: anthropology files Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 20:32:53 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 62 (84) I am working with a faculty member whose is interested in creating an anthropology database. Is anyone familiar with such a file already in existence (besides SilverPlatter's HRAF)? Thanks. From: GDROLET@LAVALVM1 Subject: Re: anthropology files Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 12:29 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 63 (85) The server Questel offers access to a bibliographic file named FRANCIS which includes a subfile Ethnology (350 anthropological journals are indexed) From: Claudia Lynch Subject: Reply to Topic 7, Vol 4 No 1237 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 12:45:35 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 64 (86) I sent the following replies to Dan Greenstein (digger@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk) but it occurred to me that they could be of interest to the entire group. [ ... ] From: Claudia Lynch Subject: On-line Library Catalogues Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 10:20:50 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 65 (87) I read your request in Humanist for more info on above subject. To get a fairly complete list of worldwide library systems, ftp to: vaxb.acs.unt.edu username: anonymous password: anything you want for ascii version type: get libraries. txt for Postscript version type: get libraries.ps for WordPerfect 5.1 version type: binary get libraries.wp5 Hope this helps. I'll send you info on bulletin boards if I can find it. Claudia Lynch ------- Claudia Lynch | | | Documentation Services Manager | | ^ () | Academic Computing Services | | - | University of North Texas Computing Center | | O | UNT Box 13495 | |›---------/| Denton, Texas 76203 | Voice: 817-565-2324 FAX: 817-565-4060 | Standard disclaimer ------- From: Claudia Lynch Subject: More BBS info. etc. Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 12:31:14 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 66 (88) Here are a few more articles that might be of interest from CCNEWS: NLM SYLLABUS This article is reprinted from "Syllabus" July/August 1990. It is about the National Library of Medicine. NETBIB LYNCH_C This is a bibliography of networking documents. It appeared in our newsletter Benchmarks in October 1990. INTBBS BARRON_B This is about BBSs available on the Internet. It also appeared in our newsletter in October 1990. If you are interested in scanning the CCNEWS articles archives, send a message as described before with the text: GET ARTICLES INDEX Good luck, Claudia Lynch From: Claudia Lynch Subject: Bulletin Boards etc. Date: Tue, 16 Apr 91 10:42:22 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 67 (89) More info that I promised: You can retrieve some articles from the CCNEWS Articles archives covering the topics you are interested in. To get an article send an interactive message or mail to: LISTSERV@BITNIC containing GET Filename Filetype. The articles (files) you might be interested in are: DIALING LIPSCO_E This is an article called "Dialing for Data" that appeared in our Computing Center Newslettter, Benchmarks April/May 1990. It contains information about some government bulletin boards. INTDBASE BARRON_B This is an article called "Internet Databases" that appeared in that same issue of Benchmarks. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: citations, counted & uncountable Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 15:34:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 68 (90) As I think some of my colleagues have pointed out, there is something terribly wrong with the model that measures the importance or singificance of published work by the number of times it is cited. For an anecdotal fact, the secondary literature that has influenced me most would surely rank low in a list of citations ordered by frequency. Some material I do not cite because it is badly done; some because the debt is simply too great. Occasionally publications are cited because they are bad, sometimes in spite of their incompetence. Citations can be enormously helpful to a reader. One thing I like to do is to construct fat footnotes that summarize work in a particular area -- a way of passing on the benefits of a convention from which I have profited enormously. Citations can also, however, be merely a kind of posturing, a sign of insecurity, or worse, as I think has been noted. Surely citations play different roles in different fields. Within a given field (at least in the humanities) scholars cite their colleagues to varying degrees. Some of this depends on the stature of the scholar (a senior person may not have any citations at all to secondary literature and be able to get away with such conscious poverty), some on the kind of thing being written. All that having been said, it remains quite clear that too much is being published before its time. I plead with those who have the power to take this as a fact and to take it into account before making major decisions on how to deploy electronic resources to academic publishing. As Roger Noll (Economics, Stanford) pointed out at a recent conference I attended, the crisis in scholarly publishing is a systemic crisis, not simply a monetary one. "I'm sorry, Professor Smith, the significance of your work is 2% below the minimum required for a promotion." Willard McCarty From: Christian Boissonnas Subject: Citations, periodical prices Date: Tue, 14 May 91 16:20:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 69 (91) Humanists who are following the current discussion on citations and periodical prices may be interested in knowing about the _Newsletter on Serial Pricing Issues_. This electronic newsletter is edited by Marcia Tuttle, Serials Librarian at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. From its creation a few years ago it has documented the growing crisis in libraries pertaining to the acquisition of scholarly periodicals. It deals with the economic issues involved, but also with the role of journals in the scholarly community as well as the needs of scholars for current information regardless of format. Anyone interested in receiving the _newsletter_ should write to Marcia Tuttle (TUTTLE@UNC.BITNET). From: Adam Engst Subject: Re:5.0031 Copyright (2/18 Date: Tue, May 14, 1991 9:16:21 AM X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 70 (92) RE>5.0031 Copyright (2/189) In regard to the Xanadu scheme for publishing royalties, I certainly admit the surface problems with the 4-line mathematical theorem from the genius and in citing mediocre works (the problem of citing yourself is moot because if you wrote it once, nothing changes if you cite yourself - it's still your work and you don't pay yourself for inclusion, though you are rewarded in the same way if someone reads the citation or the original). I do think the problems are less of a problem than it may seem. Take the mathematical genius. If that 4 line theorem is truly genius-level work, then **everyone** in that field will have to read it. The longer and less impressive theorem will not provoke the same level of readership, ideally so that the short theorem still earns more on the per-byte level. Even still, the short theorem, being work of genius, will be around forever, continually generating royalties, whereas the longer theorem will fade into obscurity quickly and cease to generate money. So you have to consider the factor of longevity - a joke that you think up about a temporal event would earn you less money than a joke that could be funny for a hundred years, if such a thing is possible. The time factor will handle the mediocre citations as well. It is true that they will be cited for refutation, but without other redeeming value they will soon be ignored, just as mediocre work is ignored quickly now. If your work is good, it will continue to be cited; if your work is lousy, people will slam on it briefly and then move on to more productive tasks. One aspect I think some are missing here is that a mere citation does little for one. It is included work, quotations, graphics, charts, etc, that will earn secondary and tertiary and so on royalties. What the citation does do is make it easy for the reader of your work to traverse the link to the work you've cited and read that in its entirety (and pay that author royalties as well). If you include selected text as well, the reader may not want to traverse the link, particularly in the case of the refutation, at which point the original author gets a little money from your quoted text, but not as much as if the reader read the entire included paper. So the Xanadu scheme works both on per-byte and popularity methods, which should remove the iniquities mentioned above. Of course, I'm merely working from what I've read and what Ted Nelson has said about Xanadu, so I have no idea what will really show up. One thing Humanists might also be interested in is Xanadu's integrated version control system. There is no way to get rid of previous versions and corrections (or at least none that I've seen), so it is always possible to traverse the temporal links back to previous versions of the work, something which can be of interest at times. I've heard that the address I gave last time might not work, so if you wish to get in touch with Xanadu via email, try these addresses instead. xanadu@xanadu.com (general info) joel@xanadu.com (Joel Voelz, marketing & business info) sue@xanadu.com (Sue Schumaker, general & developer info) cheers ... -adam Adam C. Engst Editor of TidBITS, the weekly electronic Macintosh journal ace@tidbits.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us The best way to predict the future pv9y@crnlvax5, pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu is to invent it. -Alan Kay From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0034 Citation in the Humanities (2nd Batch) (2/126) Date: Tue, 14 May 91 16:46:01 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 71 (93) My colleague Ranon Katzoff points out what is certainly the reason for the alarming (98%) rate of "non-citation" of articles in the "arts and humanities": the survey in question was compiled from citation-lists. Such lists, routine in the exact sciences (and often a more influential determinant of professional advancement than volume of publication), are pretty much non-existent in the arts and humanities; there is simply no list that catalogues all the references in the Classical Quarterly, Journal of Hellenic Studies, etc. Thus the 98% rate means that only two per cent of articles on "arts and humanities" are cited in SCIENTIFIC, as opposed to humanistic journals and books -- which is not so surprising at all. It might be pointed out, however, that this "non-fact" was quoted from an editorial -- a fact which should warn us that we may see it used against us again! David Schaps Department of Classics Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel From: dgd@cs.bu.edu Subject: 5.0031 Copyright (2/189) Date: Tue, 14 May 91 13:22:07 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 72 (94) I read Neel Smith's comments on the Xanadu scheme with a little distress, since the comment was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the mechanisms proposed by Nelson. The Xanadu proposal is that authors are paid for that portion of their work that others read (or at least that they download from the server). This seems a reasonable approach. Citing yourself a lot will only help if people are moved to follow the citations and read the text at the other end of the link. This means that people will be rewarded to the extent that they are read. Only that bad work that is important (or controversial enough) to merit lots of refutation and exposure create a fiscal reward for their authors. (And this is how it should be -- such work sometimes turns out to be right). I don't expect Xanadu Electronic Publishing to take off, but that has to do with my appraisal of its business chances. I expect that it would be far better (even though it lacks content markup) than the publisher-devised solution we will most likely end up with. From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: Humanities citations Date: Tue, 14 May 91 13:37 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 73 (95) In respone to the recent posting of statistics about citations in various fields, I wonder at the basis on which the stats were arrived at. For example, in my field (Religious Studies), I know of no index of citations. I have assurrances from others in other Humanities fields of similar situations. What "index" could have been used to determine the percentage of articles cited? And what good is citation frequency anyway. For example, within the last few years, there was a certain "discovery" of "cold fusion" announced by a couple of chemists (who shall, for mercy's sake, remain unnamed here), and I suspect that their names were among the most frequently cited in natural sciences within the year or so of their "discovery". But surely no scientist would regard their work as the more significant on account of their notoriety. Or again, here in Canada there is a certain psychologist who recently announced "evidence" to the effect that the various major racial groups have inherent differences in native intelligence and values formation. He has generated quite a firestorm of controversy, and surely must be among the most frequently mentioned social scientists in Canada at least, but I suspect that most social scientists would not on that account regard his work as terribly important. Sufficient for now on what is called in some quarters as "bibliometrics" in "measuring" worth of scholarship. Surely, the only measure that counts is the value, the carefulness, the thoroughness, the innovation, the perceived methodological clarity and the impact of work. And this may all take some time to make itself felt. Larry Hurtado, Institute for the Humanities, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. R3T 2N2 From: DJBPITT@pittvms Subject: Re: 5.0035 [What is RusTeX-L?] Date: Tue, 14 May 91 07:14 EDT (18 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 48 (96) John Slatter writes: [deleted quotation] RusTeX-L was originally established as a forum for discussing a Russian implementation of TeX. It has since expanded its focus to general Cyrillic text-processing, ranging from software reviews to quite technical discussions of issues like character set architecture or hyphenation routines. Political discussions and "please send a greeting to my friend with a modem in Vladivostok" messages are _not_ welcome. The moderator is Dimitri Vulis (dlv@cunyvms1). The list's address is rustex-l@ubvm. Subscribe by sending the appropriate message to listserv@ubvm. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] The Royal York Apartments, #802 djbpitt@pittvms.bitnet [Bitnet] 3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714 From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: NeXT Date: Mon, 13 May 91 23:08:57 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 49 (97) Steve Mason asks some questions about the NeXT. We've been back and forth on this one together, but it wouldn't hurt to move some of our discussion out into this forum. I'm especially interested in the NeXT myself since version 2.0 of the OS has come out. It's faster and more reliable. The NeXT is not for people doing number crunching. But for people writing text search and retrieval software, typesetting, and just generally exercizing their Unix environment, it's a great little box. SM says: [deleted quotation] The NeXT comes with a readable/writable CD unit. It's pretty slick. But to read the TLG you'd need to interface an old-style CD unit to the NeXT. I don't know if anyone's written the drivers to do this. Licensing agree- ments once again prevent you from just moving the data to a NeXT CD. [deleted quotation] Anything you can do with PostScript you can do with the NeXT. In fact, one of the great things about the NeXT is that it has intrinsic PostScript support. The screen is essentially a PostScript device! Also, the NeXT hooks into dumb, cheap laser printers. Why? Because the NeXT does all the work internally. No need for expensive PostScript hardware. [deleted quotation] I have no idea whether WP on the NeXT is any good, but if other Unix WP im- plementations are any guide, it should be fine. The real problem here is that WP is more of an office WP than a true multilingual environment. [deleted quotation] Interfacing with the internet is not difficult, since the software is readily available for all Unix (or Mach-emulating-Unix) boxes. It's really a matter of how well your university supports such connections. [deleted quotation] The NeXT is a terrific development environment, since it runs most off- the-shelf Unix applications. It also has a nice windowing system, and is fairly inexpensive. I and my son often go over to our local NeXT cluster and hang out with the Computer Science students. While I write my text retrieval and analysis software, read news, reply to mail, etc., my son plays the wonderful poker, flight-simulation, fractal, and music- playing software that comes in one or another of the demo directories. The NeXT is easy enough to use that my five year-old has no trouble navigating around the machine. I've installed most of the GNU software on the NeXT. I've also built the Icon compiler and interpreter, and lots of other software. The other day, I installed the (in)famous nethack game on one (a huge 600-800k executable, with various auxiliary library files). Everything seems to go in with only minimal tweaking. I love the things. If I were a rich man, I'd go down tomorrow to our campus computer store and purchase one. Virtually all my Semitic text search and retrieval software would fare well under the extremely flexible NeXT visual interface. I really can't wait until I can get my hands on one. -Richard From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Library of the Future Date: Sun 28 Apr 1991 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 74 (98) I have talked to Bill, Bob and Valerie Hustwit at LOTF several times and am of the definite impression that the works contained on the LOTF are ~NOT~ in the Public Domain (at least in the form in which they are presented in most cases, and in particular in the specific case of A. Conan Doyle as mentioned by the author. I have already received a call back from them confirming their etexts were NOT intended to be Public Domain, and were not to be considered as such. Michael S. Hart ------------ | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg Please excuse typos, most writing done at a terminal, written fast w/o spellchecker (margins are for fun!). Emphases are *bolded*, ~italicized~ and _underlined_. INTERNET: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu BITNET: hart@uiucvmd.bitnet The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. From: Roy Flannagan Subject: "Brittanica" discs, *caveat emptor*! Date: ???, ?? Apr 91 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 75 (99) For anyone tempted to pay over $800 for the Pioneer Laser Disc Player plus three undesignated discs, the *New York Times* for the last several Sundays has had ads for the Pioneer CLD1080 laser player for $356. Roy Flannagan From: DJBPITT@pittvms Subject: Re: 5.0035 Qs: CD-ROM life; Cyrillic Coding; Coptic Fonts (4/47) Date: Tue, 14 May 91 07:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 76 (100) Michel Lenoble writes: [deleted quotation] There is no standardized character table for Cyrillic in general (including non-Slavic languages and pre-modern writing). There are several standards for modern Slavic languages. There is a discussion, with code tables, in John Clews's "Language automation worldwide: the development of character set standards," (British Library R&D reports: 5962), Harrogate: Sesame, 1988. Order from the publisher: Sesame Computer Projects, 8 Avenue Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 7PG; ISBN 1-870095-01-4. Clews's book refers to ISO DIS 8859/5 (for those new to these acronyms: "International Standards Organization," "Draft International Standard"). This has now been approved as a real International Standard with slight changes from the mapping Clews provides. The ISO 8859 character sets are 8-bit sets with identical Latin alphabet (ISO 646 IRV (="International Reference Version," which is more or less the same as ASCII) characters in the lower 128 cells and varying upper halves. ISO 8859/5 combines Latin and Cyrillic. (The lower 32 cells of each half of the set, plus cell 127, are reserved for control, rather than graphic, codes). ISO 8859/5 is equivalent to ECMA-113 ("European Computer Manufacturers Association"). ECMA standards are available from ECMA, 114 rue du Rho^ne (that's a circumflex over the 'o'), CH 1204 Geneva. The Cyrillic portion of ISO 8859/5 contains no guillemets (European quotes), which makes it inadequate for basic Russian text processing. It also contains no provisions for accent marks, which are used in a limited number of places in standard Russian typography and widely in specialized publications. There is no Ukrainian hard 'g' letter, despite the wide use of this letter outside the Soviet Union and its increasingly frequent use within the Soviet Ukraine. Those interested in Cyrillic character set design should subscribe to the RusTeX-L ListServ (rustex-l@ubvm; subscribe by sending the usual request to listserv@ubvm) and browse through the archives. To summarize: there is no general Cyrillic standard, there are several Russian (and modern Slavic Cyrillic) standards, and the newest and most popular is flawed, fatally for Ukrainian and inconveniently for Russian. --David ------------ Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] The Royal York Apartments, #802 djbpitt@pittvms.bitnet [Bitnet] 3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714 ------------ From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Standardized Cyrillic character table Date: Tue, 14 May 91 08:32:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 77 (101) I believe that there is a standardized Cyrillic character table that has just been established. Here is what I experienced: a Cyrillic text generated with PC-Lite can be checked by a spell checker developed in the Soviet Union, but that is not the case with a text generated by Academic Fonts. From further discussions I have had with Quicksoft, it appears that they based their character table on a recently established standard. The characters start at location 128 through 175, and then 224 through 247. From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: Opinions on INfoselect Date: Tue, 14 May 91 14:57 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 78 (102) Hello, I have received a note from someone now in Nigeria about a PC based freetext database called Info-Select. Any and all information about this would be gratefully received. Commnets from uses particularly welcome. Many thanks david zeitlyn Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford From: Manfred Kammer Subject: CALL Date: Tue, 14 May 91 11:46+0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 79 (103) A collegue who is not a member of humanist asked me on behalf of CALL programs. He is planning a tutorial program for students who are going to french or english speaking countries and the other way round for students who are coming from french or english speaking countries to study here in germany. Has anyone of the fellows experiences with those CALL programs - target language german - target languages english and french Concerning the hardware facilities: At the moment there are only MS DOS machines available but we are interested in other software too. You can contact me directly KAMMER@hrz.uni-siegen.dbp.de Thanks in advance M. Kammer P. S. Most of the students are coming from technical faculties. Are there specialised CALL programs? From: "Jouko Lindstedt, University of Helsinki" Subject: teaching a classical language Date: Sat, 4 May 1991 21:45 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 53 (104) Next academic year I will be teaching a course of Old Church Slavonic to students of different Slavic languages. This course has a long tradition at our Department -- and it is sincerely detested by most students, who think that it requires a lot of work but gives no gratification. I have begun to wonder if I will be able to put together anything better than the previous teachers. I know that only very few people reading HUMANIST have any experience of teaching OCS, but many more must have taught _some_ classical language -- Latin, Greek, perhaps Sanskrit. The question is, what would be the most practicable method of teaching a classical language to a student who doesn't have the slightest interest in it yet, but who should be made to see that it can be fun and it has a great bearing on the modern language and culture he/she is actually interested in? In particular, I'd like to hear your opinion on the relative merits of the "deductive" and "inductive" methods. The "deductive" method is the traditional one: first you must learn all the declinations and conjugations, with some historical linguistics perhaps, and only then are you allowed to begin to read texts with a dictionary, stopping at every word in order thoroughly to analyse it. The "inductive" method would begin with the texts: you would be allowed to guess on the basis of the languages you know already, and there would be just the minimum of grammar needed for that passage. In this case, the texts should obviously be carefully selected and graded -- and simplified? When would the time come to learn all the conjugations in this method? Jouko Lindstedt Dept. of Slavonic Languages University of Helsinki From: "Marc A. Smith" Subject: References to Gatlin Gun? Date: Fri, 10 May 91 21:17:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 80 (105) I have been doing research on military conflicts between Europeans and the Bugandan kindgom in the early 1900's. It would be helpful for my research if I could find a reference that I half remember. I believe that there was a British poem (Kipling?) that ends with a reference to the gatlin gun. The poem's point was that, no matter what the challenge native peoples might offer, the British had the gatlin gun. I have been trying to figure out where I read this and have had no sucess at all. I wonder if any HUMANISTS might know what I read? Thank you, Marc A. Smith UCLA Sociology From: mpb8s@Virginia Subject: Research problem... Date: Thu, 09 May 91 22:56:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 81 (106) I'm looking for any mentions of Sojourner Truth, the mid-19th c. feminist/abolitionist, in current critical/theoretical texts. I'm surveying how she's been situated in recent works on gender, psychoanalysis, race, film, anything that seems a part of what's called postmodern theory. If anyone recalls Truth's appearance in recent reading(s), could you send references (or suggestions) on to this address?: mpb8s@prime.acc.virginia.edu Thanks. --Matt Brown From: crisp@engr.uark.edu (Crisp Group) Subject: Australia & New Zealand contacts Date: Mon, 13 May 91 14:02 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 82 (107) We are looking for contacts at Universities in either Australia or New Zealand. If there is somewhere we can go to get a list of the hosts at elther of the above, that would be helpful. Does anyone have afriend/or colleague who wouldn't mind spending a few minutes of e-mail time? The areas of Computer Science & Computer Systems Engineering would be best. Thanx in advance to the list. cws@ for crisp@engr.uark.edu From: DAVID BARRY Subject: Request for information re users of Email at London University Date: Mon, 13 May 91 14:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 83 (108) I am carrying out a study with the aim of identifying areas in the University of London (England) which might be able to use electronic mail and/or computer conferencing for tuition. It would be very useful for me if it were possible to obtain, or otherwise reach, academic colleagues in the University who were:- a. Not computer Scientists b. Users of email already I would be very grateful if you could either 1. Post this message on the list OR Recognizing that this might seem a bit parochial to non U of L people on the list- 2. Provide me with a list of U of L users on this list OR 3. A list of all current users leaving me to sort out who the London users are. The background to this request is that we use the CoSy conferencing system on our college (Birkbeck, London) computer and we would wish to share our experience of using this with colleagues. We should also be able to offer trial use of this system to interested U of L people. I do hope you will be able to help in whatever way, you, as editor(s) of this list see fit. Replies should be sent direct to me, David Barry Dept. of Occupational Psychology Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX JANET UBJV649@UK.AC.BBK.CU From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: citation indexing Date: Wed, 15 May 91 14:11:32 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 84 (109) No citation index in the humanities? Balderdash. The Institute of (for?) Scientific Information in Philadelphia has been publishing an Arts and Humanities Citation Index since 1976. Their coverage in many fields is apt to be incomplete, but when I looked at their lists I found at least half of what I considered the central journals in my narrower specialty of Germanic philology; it's at the least a very respectable sample of the fields involved. If Peter Denning's statistics are derived from AHCI (as I suspect, though I haven't read his piece yet), then the figure of 98% is unlikely to be the number of humanistic papers not cited in the natural science literature (the notion that natural scientists might cite as many as 2% of what their literary colleagues write is perhaps the funniest joke made recently on Humanist). The founder and longtime head of ISI, Eugene Garfield, has discussed the strengths and weaknesses of citation indexing and bibliometric study many times over the years and should probably be read by anyone seriously interested in the subject; certainly, anyone interested in saying anything either cogent or new. I think he makes a much better case for the interest of bibliometrics as a tool for the analysis of scholarship than anyone has made against it, as well as a stronger, because better informed, case against its abuse in tenure decisions. Certainly, his speculations on what citation rates do and don't mean are worth reading for anyone interested in the subject. Try his Essays of an Information Scientist if you want an informal treatment, his book on citation indexing if you want a more systematic discussion. I append the relevant records from our catalog. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago ---- Garfield, Eugene. Citation indexing - its theory and application in science, technology, and humanities / Eugene Garfield. -- New York : Wiley, c1979. xxi, 274 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. -- (Information sciences series) "A Wiley-Interscience publication." Bibliography: p. 235-239. Includes indexes. ISBN 0-471-02559-3 SUBJECT HEADINGS (Library of Congress; use s= ): Science--Abstracting and indexing. Technology--Abstracting and indexing. Humanities--Abstracting and indexing. Garfield, Eugene. Essays of an information scientist / by Eugene Garfield. -- Philadelphia : ISI Press, 1977- v. : ill. ; 24 cm. Originally published in Current contents under the title: Current comments. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. 1. 1962-1973 -- v. 2. 1974-1976 -- v. 3. 1977-1978 -- v. 4. 1979- 1980 -- v. 5. 1981-1982. ISBN 0-89495-001-0 (v. 1) : SUBJECT HEADINGS (Library of Congress; use s= ): Communication in science. Science--Abstracting and indexing. From: Robin Smith Subject: Citation statistics Date: Wed, 15 May 91 06:17 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 85 (110) I agree with others that our reaction to the alleged "facts" about the frequency with which humanistic scholarship is cited should be to challenge those facts. The assertion that 98% of published articles are *never* cited by anyone is simply absurd on its face; we should not be bullied because it has appeared in print. My own experience with *Arts and Humanities Citation Index* suggests that it is hardly a reliable indicator. Another point: in the humanities, monographic publication is much more important than in the sciences. Many scientific fields consider book publication of no significance as far as research is concerned, whereas in many humanistic fields the book is the primary medium of communication. Citation indices designed to fit the practice of the sciences will not transfer well to other fields. One final point about the plausibility of the statistics: it is a lot harder to get an article published in many humanistic fields than in the sciences. In my own field (philosophy), major journals typically accept less than 10% of articles submitted (the prestigious ones are closer to 5%). A journal that accepted 50% or more of submissions would be viewed as very lax. By contrast, in many scientific fields the presence of journals rejecting 50% or more of submissions would be taken as evidence of the need for new journals. I'm sure that similar stories can be told about other humanistic areas. The general point is that the number of humanistic articles printed is bound to be much smaller than the number of scientific articles printed (if you want to get the same point, compare a chemist's CV and a humanist's). It is therefore prima facie implausible that the scientific literature is more heavily read, studied, and cited. Robin Smith Philosophy Kansas State University From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0047 Citations (more) Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 14:42:45 GMT+0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 86 (111) I was stunned by Robert A. Amsler's comments on how Humanists use citations: "In the Humanities I'd assume one...by and large tries NOT to cite works of rival schools at all...one also would avoid citing works with which one didn't agree, so as to not taint oneself with what in one's mind are incorrect views. Finally, if one is attempting to establish one's own reputation, one would be careful to deliberately cite only those from [sic] whom one was trying to align oneself. Only more powerful people than oneself and probably only people one had met... Thus citation in the humanities is a bit more like endorsement (or attack) rather than 'observation'." This sounds almost the exact opposite of the way I and those I work with use citation, which is about 30% to support our own views and 70% to present the theories of others which we are trying to refute. Of course we're trying to upset an applecart (which others are also rocking, but the cart so far is trundling on its way regardless), and I agree it's more common to try to add apples to the existing cart that to propose another. Nonetheless, if all of you out there agree with Amsler (and nobody's shouted yet!) -- how do you disagree with someone if citing/quoting/referring to their views is considered as possibly "tainting oneself" with incorrectness? I also fail to see the close link between "trying to align oneself" with The Established, and "attempting to establish one's own reputation". Is it accepted in your universities that a young scholar can only Establish a Reputation by getting "in" with those who already have? I can think of several cases where a scholar established a reputation overnight by being provocative -- PROVIDED he/she was brilliantly provocative. Or is Amsler implicitly talking about those who can't establish a reputation the way I thought it was supposed to be done, by being good at their field, because they're inherently mediocre, and therefore turn to patronage and currying favour as alternative means of getting tenure? ("only more powerful people than oneself...") Amsler comes from the MITRE corp.; I and those I work with either are past worrying about tenure or don't have to because they're "independent" scholars. Perhaps neither of us knows quite what goes on in the minds of those struggling on the university tenure track. But if I'm over-naive, surely he's over-cynical? Is the academic world so overwhelmed by questions, first of tenure and then of stature, that there's no room to quote someone just because you want to say something about what s/he said? Go on, all of you, either reassure or disillusion me! Incidentally, the REAL reason I enjoy meeting people is so that I can argue with them, not agree with them... Judy Koren From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Citor what's a dean to do?) Date: 15 May 1991, 18:24:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 87 (112) We used to have a dean whose previous employer had been the FBI who was rumored to grant promotions on the grounds of citation indices. As Willard and Adam Engst and others have pointed out, citation can mean infamy, quantity is not quality, and almost no one cites the one they love. In compiling major bibliographies about an author, for instance, the compiler often forgets the author of the definitive biography; familiarity breeds neglect. Ted Nelson's scheme of users paying for quotations seems too simple and good to be true, but it would lead to various perversions of the truth as well. "I wouldn't give that bugger my nickle for anthing he wrote," we might say, as we avoid quoting the author of a standard source who once gave our book a bad review. I knew of one case in which the editor of a "variorum" edition did not once cite the major book written about the work he was editing--out of spite, I reckon. So now any sinister dean might use the citation index as grounds for not following a department's recommendation that Instructor X become Assistant Professor X, but he might also be seriously misled by a notoriously stupid book that was often cited only to be refuted, or he might be misled again by the neglect of a spiteful editor. Oh, what happened to our dean? He's a college president now, and quite possibly still reading citation indices. Roy Flannagan From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 5.0047 Citations (more) (3/75) Date: Wed, 15 May 91 11:55:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 88 (113) Re:Surely, the only measure that counts is the value, the carefulness, the thoroughness, the innovation, the perceived methodological clarity and the impact of work. And this may all take some time to make itself felt. Larry Hurtado, Institute for the Humanities, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. R3T 2N2 *************************** My response is, and must be, to point out that many, perhaps even most of our most "value"-able "innovations" are quite contradictory to many of the other criteria used to describe "what counts:" "The thoroughness/the carefulness/the perceived methodological clarity and the impact of work" included. Consider Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Feynman. Each must be seriously considered as making their contributions in a manner much different from that described by certain of the above characteristics. Not just different, and not ~in spite of~ these characteristics, but a major portion must be accounted for by the fact that these me ignored, in a flagrant manner, some or all of these characteristics at the time of their discoveries. I love Feynman's description of how he split the quantum number, which was previously thought of as "atomic" in the undivisable sense, in one of the campus "food fights" in which he noticed that a blob of ketchup on a plate flying over his head was rotating at half the rate the dish was wobbling on its axis (or just the opposite) and thus conceived the idea of one half unit of electron "spin." ("What Do You Care What Other People Think, Mr. Feynman?" and "Adventures [and Further Adventures] of a Curious Character.") You might also remember Prof. Feynman from the shuttle O-rings. Enough for now. I hope I haven't offended tooo much. ----------------------------------------------------- | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg Please excuse typos, most writing done at a terminal, written fast w/o spellchecker (margins are for fun!). Emphases are *bolded*, ~italicized~ and _underlined_. INTERNET: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu BITNET: hart@uiucvmd.bitnet The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. "NOTICE: Due to the shortage of ROBOTS and COMPUTERS some of our workers are HUMAN and therefore will act unpredictably when abused." From: Oliver Phillips Subject: RE: Citation lists Date: Wed, 15 May 91 09:21:17 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 89 (114) ... Good news! there is just such a list, has been for a decade. My use of it, however, inclines me to think that the 98% non-citation figure for humanities is inaccurate. I have uploaded two screens from the on-line library catalog here at the University of Kansas: LOCATION: Watson Reference CALL NUMBER: Ref. Z 5931 .A78 HOLDINGS: 1975/1979 1980 - 1988 HOLDINGS: 1989, 1st semiannual, vol. 1 - 1990, 1st semiannual, vol. 3 GENERAL NOTES: Composed of: Citation index ; Source index ; and, Permuterm subject index. TITLE: Arts & humanities citation index. NUMBERS/DATES: 1976- PUBLISHER: Philadelphia, Institute for Scientific Information. SUBJECTS: 1) Periodicals--Indexes. 2) Humanities--Periodicals--Indexes. 3) Arts--Periodicals--Indexes. OTHER ENTRIES: Institute for Scientific Information. DESCRIPTION: v. 29 cm. NOTES: Vols. for 1976- issued in 3 vols.: Citation index; Source index; Corporate index; Permuterm subject index, and Guide & journal lists. Oliver Phillips Classics, University of Kansas PHILLIS@UKANVM From: gto@scotty.neoucom.EDU (Thomas Osterfield) Subject: Citation Lists Date: Wed, 15 May 91 09:14:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 90 (115) I don't particularly like citation lists and studies, and my place of employment understandably does not spend huge amounts of money on indexes (can these still be called indices?) on subjects tangential to medicine. However, from my limited use of the source and from minimal documentation, I believe that the _Arts and Humanities Citation Index_ does indeed do a thorough job of indexing citations in numerous "humanities" fields. At least the "basic" journals in classics and religious studies (the fields mentioned above) _are_ covered. For institutions that don't find the levels of use adequate to subscribe to the printed version, this index is available online through several vendors as _Arts and Humanities Search_. The publisher (ISI) is the same as for the social science and most of the science citation indexes. Did anyone think to check with a reference librarian about the availability or non-availability of such an index? Having said all that, I have no idea what sources were used for the citation study referred to, and I'm not interested enough to bother finding out. Tom G. Thomas Osterfield (216)325-2511 x531 Archives, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine gto@scotty.neoucom.EDU 74106.1153@compuserve.com uunet!aablue!neoucom!gto af192@cleveland.freenet.edu From: eugene cotter Subject: Re: 5.0053 Q: Teaching a Classical Language Date: Wed, 15 May 91 02:09:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 91 (116) you might look at the Cambridge Latin Course for a recent attempt at presenting latin. 40 years ago Schoder and horrigan, Loyola Un Press, wrote "A Reading C ourse in Homeric Greek" which was far ahead of its time, and combined the two m ethods you mention. We use both texts here. Seton hall University South Orang e N.J. 07079 USA From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0053 Q: Teaching a Classical Language Date: Wed, 15 May 91 10:23:17 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 92 (117) What little help I can offer to Jouko Lindstedt from my experience (18 years) teaching Greek to native Hebrew speakers: (a) The most important part of generating enthusiasm is the enthusiasm of the teacher -- as in most subjects. A teacher who enjoys what he is teaching and tries to communicate what he likes about it will usually have a certain amount of success. Classroom games are helpful: dolls, teddy bears, etc. that can act (in the nominative) or be acted upon (in the accusative); questions that students can ask each other and answer; etc. (b) The inductive and deductive methods have to be balanced. Just teaching conjugations bores them to tears, but teaching a lot of text that they only vaguely comprehend and slyly refusing to tell them the grammatical rules at which they are trying to guess can have the same effect. I think the best plan is to compose a rational plan for teaching grammar, then disguise it behind a well-chosen series of texts that use the grammatical information being taught. I found the choosing of the texts to be the hardest part, because of course no native speaker ever writes a text all of whose nouns are in the first declension. (c) An important part -- and you will have a number of surprises here when you actually teach the course -- is to try to identify what peculiarities of the language will be strange to the students. This depends, of course, on the students' native language. Compound nouns frighten English speakers, but should present no problem to Finns. I knew that Hebrew speakers would have trouble with verbal aspect, and prepared myself well for that. But here was one that took me entirely by surprise: English-language Greek textbooks have to explain the use of ho sophos ("the wise" in masculine) to mean the wise man and he sophe ("the wise" in feminine) to mean the wise woman. Israelis, as I expected, needed no explanation -- not even a footnote -- because Hebrew does the same thing. But they were utterly stymied by to sophon ("the wise" in neuter) meaning the wise thing (or wisdom), and repeated ex- planations were needed to get it through to them. Why? Hebrew has no neuter. Another example: English speakers always groan over the genitive (or in Latin, ablative) absolute; normal participles give them no problems. Israelis are already thrown for a loop by the participle itself: modern Hebrew uses the participle for the present tense of the verb, and so a Greek participle does not necessarily translate directly to a Hebrew participle. Once they have conquered that, the genitive absolute is taught in about ten minutes. Only after a few years of teaching that did I real- ize that what was so hard to teach about the genitive absolute was that English speakers only learn the participle at that stage, because it is only at that stage that they encounter a participle that cannot simply be replaced by an English participle (whose grammar they don't understand, but they can understand its meaning). This means that a course in Old Church Slavonic for speakers of Finnish and Swedish will not necessarily be organized -- should not be organized -- the way the same course would be organized for speakers of Russian. (d) The best, most thorough, and most efficient method for language instruction is undoubtedly the "ulpan" method that was used in Israel for teaching the vast number of new immigrants who arrived with the founding of the state. (It is usually called the "total immersion" method). The teacher speaks only the language being taught: he uses pantomime, picture, vocal and facial expression, writing, but NOT translation to put across the information he is transmitting. The student experiences a profound dismay and discomfort, which is usually replaced around the end of the year with an appreciation of how much control of the language he has accomplished. Unfortunately, although the method has been tried with classical languages, it has not generally succeeded: it puts on the student the extra burden of having to speak the language, a skill which he knows he will never need. Carl Ruck's course for the first year of Greek was originally built on this method; I taught from it once, and it was the most exciting year of Greek I ever taught (and the two or three students who made up the whole course made careers in the classics). By the next year, however, a new edition of the book had come out, in which Ruck himself had given up on the method. David Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: deductive/inductive language learning Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 07:57:06 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 93 (118) To my Finnish colleague about to teach Old Church Slavonic to a group of unwilling students. Speaking only as a learner of classical languages who has been exposed both to deductive and inductive methods, I recommend a middle ground. Presumably we all know the difficulties of the former method; although without doubt good for strengthening the character, it keeps the student away from the language far too long. In its pure form, however, the latter can be both frustrating and silly to student and teacher alike, and I suppose with a bad teacher it can result in a poorer grasp of the language than the old method. Genuine examples of the literature can be thrilling to a novice, if they do not overwhelm him or her, but so can the structures of grammar. On a related point, what is current thinking amongst experts in CALL as to the balance between deductive and inductive methods? Does the use of a computer influence this balance? Willard McCarty From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Re: [5.0053 Q: Teaching a Classical Language] Date: Wed, 15 May 91 12:36:11 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 94 (119) Re Jouko Lindstedt's cri de cour about teaching Old Church Slavonic. I think anyone who has ever had the task of teaching prospective ordinands Greek will deeply empathise. My own surveys of CALL suggest that they concentrate largely on precisely the most boring aspects of language learning: drills on conjugations, declensions, parsings &c. This could all equally well be done from a book, and for students who aren't even computer literate, probably even better. Does anyone have either CALL software or just bright ideas not yet programmed which could make gaining such language skills *fun*? Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge. From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Copyright again. "Parasitical" publishers and mooching authors. Date: 15 May 1991, 17:55:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 95 (120) I find myself on all three sides of this fence. I am editor, publisher, sometimes compositor, sometimes author for money, sometimes author for no money, sometimes cited, sometimes neglected, sometimes refuted. I sympathize with the publishers because they are pestered by the slimy types that slither around academic hallways buying back review copies to sell to college bookstore conglomerates. They are also pestered by Kinkos, who in our university town moved in to the corner right across from both college bookstores and began to peddle course packets. They have mixed relations with the bookstore conglomerates that buy back the used books from the slimy types and the students who cash in their texts for ten percent back after using them ten weeks. The publishers have Robert Maxwell breathing down their necks (doesn't he own all of them now?), forcing them to squeeze every bit of profit out of every text, lowering the royalty percentage and forcing authors to pay for their own ads. And here are we self-righteous academics calling *them* parasites. We have tenure; they have to flounder in the marketplace or become amalgamated in order to buy into job security. There are reasons for us to be mad at them. If you wrote a Cliff Note as a graduate student twenty years ago, you got paid $700 and signed away the rights; today Cliff is collecting fully on every word you wrote, perhaps $3.00 on each one of the 10,000 copies he sells a year in almost every college bookstore in the country. But a good publisher and editor will help an author with scrupulous and sometimes quite unselfish copy-editing, with production, design, sometimes even with indexing, and then work out a decent percentage of sales as royalty. There are academics who have struck it rich off textbooks and drive around in Mercedes that they paid cash for: who is parasitical there? Where am I leading? I just don't think we should throw stones or protest too much that the words that we labor over should be free of copyright restrictions that would divide the profits fairly between labor and production. The author is entitled to royalties if the book makes money for the publisher, but much of academic publishing is not profitable: the author therefore should not bitch or become resentful if he or she gets nothing out of a book the general public thinks worthless. Roy Flannagan From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: Copyright: liberal permissions policies are irrelevant Date: Tue, 14 May 91 23:53:54 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 96 (121) Goerwitz, Hollander, Hart have referred to the apparently reasonable and liberal policy of publishers in allowing a journal article to be re-published elsewhere or to be circulated electronically after the article's appearance in a scholarly journal. Hollander and Hart both suggest that publishers are not much threatened by electronic copy because no one is interested in it. In "HUMANIST 5.0032 Copyright (2nd batch)" Hart wrote: [deleted quotation] These observations may be correct as far as they go, but we should not be fooled into thinking nothing is therefore at stake in surrendering copyright (ownership) to publishers. What you surrender is theirs to keep for 50 years - until after you are dead, probably. So long as nothing economic is at stake, of course they are not interested, are not threatened, and will grant such permission. The relevant fact is that they have total control: to say "yes" today and "no" tomorrow. So, Hart and Hollander slightly miss the point. There is not much at stake in the "electronic journal" market now, but the AAP and similar publishing consortia are not stupid. They are pouring creative energy and substantial finances into policy positions which assure that the **MODEL** of print publishing (copyright assignment >> publisher = owner) gets carried over into the arena of electronic publishing. THAT is the relevant issue, not prevailing policies on "granting permission" for this or that request by the author. It's maneuvering to control the economics of the future: "In today's tomorrow, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) proposes in the "Report of the IFRRO Working Group on Electronic Copying" that the definition of electrocopying include storage, display, manipulation, dissemination, and reproduction" -- as rich a scenario as one could imagine. Not only would one pay by the drink but one would be charged for walking up to the bar and leaning on it." -- Ann Okerson, "Scholarly Publishing in the NREN," ARL 151 (July 1990) 2. We are dreaming (or deliberately blind) if we fail to think the electronic vendors will NOT charge just as much as the market will bear once full-text articles in electronic media become marketable. Now we pay fifty cents or seventy-five cents "per record" to display the full bibliographic information on items retrieved in an online database search, and it takes only a few seconds of search or online time. Does anyone want to guess the magnitude of the gouge when you say that you want to READ or COPY the full text of the article from these vendors - who have to kick back heavy royalties to the publishers? In this world, the rich will be able to pay, and the other three-fourths of legitimately interested students and scholars will be cut out. A great deal is at stake in the surrender of copyright/ownership, even if we do not perceive the economic realities now. We should linger over these contracts a little longer and more thoughtfully, realizing what we are forfeiting for the rest of our lives. More critically, we need to reflect on the significance of this decision, cumulatively, for the entire body of published academic writing, as ownership of the corpus is given away: "Copyright Assignment: Whereas The University of Chicago, acting through its Press, is undertaking to publish the Contribution in its journal, named above, and whereas you desire to have the Contribution so published, now therefore you grant and assign the entire copyright for the Contribution to the University for its exclusive use. The copyright consists of any and all rights of whatever kind or nature now or hereafter protected by the copyright laws of the United States and of all foreign countries, in all languages and forms of communication, and the University shall be the sole proprietor thereof. The University, in turn, grants to you the right to reprint the Contribution in any book of which you are the author or editor, subject to your giving proper credit in the book to the original publication of the Contribution in the Journal. To protect the copyright in the Contribution, the original copyright notice as it appears in the Journal should be included in the credit." (grabbed from somewhere, 1990 I think, probably typical of most publishers in broad outlines; corrections, updates or parallel examples solicited) At the risk of belaboring the point, it seems well that we see the "Manifesto of the Status Quo" as proclaiming very poor economic and political models for managing our intellectual property, and an even poorer ethical model if we wish to guarantee for "electronic citizens" democratic public access to our written scholarly creations: SCHOLAR: creator (producer) and user (consumer) PUBLISHER: validator, arbiter, packager, legal owner, marketeer UNIVERSITY: subsidizer, purchaser Robin Cover From: "John D. Jones" <6563JONESJ@MUCSD.BITNET> Subject: GENDER Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 23:46 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 97 (122) Regarding gender Dennis Baron raises the problem of referring to children in ways that avoid the use of "it" and the more inclusive but cumbersome "he/she" -- especially when such constructions are constantly repeated. It seems to me that often the easiest way to refer to "generic children" or "generic persons" for that matter is to use plural constructions such as "children," "people," "indviduals," "persons," etc. Such constructions allow us to correctly use the plural pronoun "they" (instead of what frequently happens: e.g, "a child will cry when they are sick"). Moreover, such plural constructions do not typically prevent us from talking about individuals in an abstract or generic sense. We can write "people themselves," "individuals themselves," etc. For example, compare "each individual must assume responsibility for his or her actions" with "individuals themselves must assume responsibility for their own actions." It seems to me that the basic meaning of both assertions is identical. Of coure, such equivalences will not always work. "The winner of this race can obtain his or her prize at the end of the day" is not equivalently expressed as "the winners of this race can obtain their prizes at the end of the day." John D. Jones Philosopy Department Marquette University 6563JONESJ@MUCSD From: "Don W." Subject: Gender of child Date: Tue, 14 May 91 01:54:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 98 (123) In Humanist 5.0037 (Mon 13 May) Dennis Baron points out that the pronoun "it" referring to a child may be falling into disuse. In some Gmc languages, the word for 'child' is neuter; perhaps the use of 'it' in English to refer to a child, especially a baby, has roots in the history of the language. However, since "natural" has replaced "grammatical" gender in English, you can call a baby 'he' or 'she' and it's a toss-up whether you're right or not. If you call a baby 'it', you're darn near certain to be wrong. Unless somebody's out perambulating a doll lifelike enough to fool you. The point is that 'it' refers to anything that has no "natural" gender. If we want a gender-unspecific 3rd-person singular pronoun, somebody will have to invent one. Or else start using 'they', 'them' and 'their' in the singular. Worse things could happen. Like trying to pronounce 's/he'. / = hiccup?? Don Webb (also DonWebb@CSUS.EDU) From: "Chaim Milikowsky" Subject: methods of noting ages Date: Tue, 14 May 91 11:24 O X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 99 (124) I remember a passing reference several years ago by someone in HUMANIST who mentioned that some rent cultures call someone ten years old when he is in his tenth year and some when he is in his eleventh year. Does anyone have references to this for me? Thanks. Chaim Milikowsky Bar Ilan Talmud Department From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE Subject: 5.0054 Gatling Gun Date: Wed, 15 May 91 10:11:01 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 100 (125) The poem wanted is not by Kipling but by Henry Newbolt, and has a rather different moral. The lines are (quoting from memory, though it's awful to confess that this stuff has stuck in the memory since school 25 years ago!) The sands of the desert are sodden red Red with the blood of a broken square ... And the Gatling's jammed, and the colonel's dead [possibly another line here ] But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: "Play up! Play up! and play the game!" thus applying what he had learned on the cricket field at school to the Egyptian/Sudanese campaigns of the 1880s and 1890s. Evidently the Right Stuff was more important than High Tech, even then. Timothy Reuter From: Stephen Spangehl Subject: 5.0054 Qs: Gatlin Gun Date: Wed, 15 May 91 10:38:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 101 (126) Re: Gatlin Gun It is the Gatling gun, invented by Richard J. Gatling (1818-1903), an American. With its many barrels and ability to fire repeatedly, it must have given the British an overwhelming advantage. Incidentally, the gangster term comes from Gatling's name also. Stephen D. Spangehl +---------------+ University of Louisville | SDSPAN01 @ | Louisville, Kentucky 40292 | ULKYVM.BITNET | (502) 588-7289 or (502) 245-0319 +---------------+ From: Robin Smith Subject: Kessler's comments on philosophy Date: Tue, 14 May 91 07:02 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 102 (127) Though I am sympathetic with Kessler's complaints about excessive profes- sionalization among academic humanists, his picture of philosophy at his own institution (or in the US generally) is unrecognizably deformed. At almost any school in the US, the basic undergraduate degree in philosophy includes some sort of requirement for a course in ancient Greek philosophy and a course in modern (i.e. 17th-18th century) philosophy; usually, this is the largest single required component of the degree. The same is true at the level of Ph. D. general exams (history of philosophy is often 40% of the whole). And Kessler might like to find out what Marilyn Adams, Robert Adams, and Monty Furth at his own institution do for a living. Some would say that the one thing that unifies the very diverse collection of people who identify themselves as academic philosophers is the notion that what they do is continuous in some way with what Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant (or some such list) did. I doubt this will change Kessler's opinion, but some of the rest of you might wnat to know that it's not to be trusted. Robin Smith Philosophy (what else?) Kansas State U. From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: NeXT Date: Wed, 15 May 91 10:04:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 103 (128) In order to reduce the amount of hate mail :-) [NeXT people are a rather zealous bunch], I'd like to respond to one point Steve Mason raised about the NeXT: [deleted quotation] [Did I ever say that?] I doubt that there is a good program to read the TLG on the NeXT, but perhaps someone has ported Searcher to it. Heck, if someone gave me one, I'd port it over ;-). The major problem I see with both the interface and the programming environment for the NeXT is that they are both idiosyncratic. IBM licensed Next Step 1.0 for $10 million. There was the hope that Next Step would not just be NeXT only. Alas, IBM decided not to use it. In the UNIX world, Motif is clearly the new GUI. When there was a UNIX trade show here in Dallas recently, Motif was seen at every corner. NeXT did not even show up, I believe. The primary programming language for the NeXT is Objective C. I have said here before that I like Objective C. It is a hybrid between Smalltalk and C. However, with the exception of NeXT, Objective C does not have a measurable market share. C++ is the clear winner. Objective C is only available from one vendor and is quite expensive. My worry about the NeXT, if I were to buy one (and I won't), is the long term viability of NeXT. Without Canon's $200 million and Dallas' Ross Perot, NeXT would now be history. The educational price is quite good, but it has to sell to business to survive. It did get a good review in a recent InfoWorld, so who knows? Maybe it will survive with a third look-and-feel. (One being Windows/OS2/Motif/IBM CUA, the other the Mac). And I was serious about the NeXT people being a rather zealous bunch. Clearly, NeXT owners really love their machine. Not many IBM'ers love their machine, but many get good work done with them. John Baima Silver Mountain Software From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 5.0049 NeXT Date: Wed, 15 May 91 11:41:19 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 104 (129) I would suggest anyone interested in a NeXT machine do their homework. The optical drive is ~not~ a cd, and is not even the standard optical drive for the kind of cartridges it uses. NeXT disks cost at least a $149 now for their 200M, but the same style cartridges are available, both for Ricoh and H-P optical drives which yield about 600M. Local, I stress ~local~ authorities on the NeXT have told me the opticial is on the way out for NeXT, and support is harder to get, as are drives, disk cartridges, etc. The NeXT is a fine desktop mini/mainframe, esp if you like UNIX, but! do your homework and get it in writing, as with any major purchase. We use a NeXT machine, as many of our users are aware. ----------------------------------------------------- | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg Please excuse typos, most writing done at a terminal, written fast w/o spellchecker (margins are for fun!). Emphases are *bolded*, ~italicized~ and _underlined_. INTERNET: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu BITNET: hart@uiucvmd.bitnet The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. "NOTICE: Due to the shortage of ROBOTS and COMPUTERS some of our workers are HUMAN and therefore will act unpredictably when abused." From: ari@well.sf.ca.us (Ari Davidow) Subject: Foreign fonts Date: Mon, 6 May 91 22:12:59 pdt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 105 (130) For Sanskrit, as well as an amazing selection of other languages, there are two good sources for fonts on the Mac: Linguists Software, PO Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580 (206) 775-1130 Ecological Linguistics, PO Box 15156, Washington, DC 20003 (202) 546-5862; Internet: ECOLING@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM Both specialize in fonts that serve the academic community. This means that both companies provide fonts with all possible imaginable characters, but that neither company produces fonts that are necessarily exciting. Of the two, Philip Payne at Linguists Software tends to be more thorough about creating a complete set of characters, but has a smaller catalog of languages, whereas Lloyd Anderson of Ecological Linguistics has a broader range of selections and, has spent a lot more time creating customized systems with multiple foreign languages. I have had nothing but good experiences with both vendors. There is also a company called Snow Lion that does the most beautiful Tibetan (related to Devanagari). They are in Toronto, but I have misplaced the particulars. (If memory serves me correctly, both EL and LS also make IPA fonts modeled on the Linotype Times Roman 12pt master built into most postscript printers. Another source for IPA, I believe, is NeoScribe International, although I don't recall if it is likwise based on Times. Neoscribe can be reached as (of course) neoscribe@applelink.apple.com. You can also send mail to: NeoScribe International Inc., PO Bo 469, Middletown, CT 06457. [Michael Ross, an excellent colleague & reader of this digest, is the proprietor of NeoScribe, by the way. - - gf] * * * * * * I second the recommendation of FontMonger. It did, indeed, ship last month. I was a beta tester for the program. It is sort of a cross between ParaFont (in that it can create small caps, small shilling and nut fractions, and some composite characters) and Metamorphosis (in that it can convert fonts, in single or batch mode, from just about all formats to just about all formats). The interface can be confusing (although I don't know of a better one), but the basic metaphor is an actual keyboard that you see on your screen, which makes placing the characters where you want them (and finding the ones you want) incredibly simple and straightforward. Given a choice, I would have to recommend FontMonger over Metamorphosis, if only because it is a more useful all-around tool. On the other hand, if all you want to do is to convert between type 1, type 3, true type, etc., Metamorphosis is easier to use. As Dave Martin noted, FontMonger is available from Ares (Foster City, Calif. (415) 578-9090). It retails for $99, with street prices around $60-$65. Ares is also the company that does Font Studio for LetraSet, and the long-delayed version 2.0 of that product is also about to ship (it's now finished and moving through the Letraset release bureaucracy). Font Studio is a font design program competing with Fontographer and the new ATF product. I find Fontographer's user interface easier to use until I get to the actual character shaping tools, where Font Studio is several orders of magnitude (imho) much easier and saner. I should also note that in my specialty (non-Latin alphabets) Font Studio actually supports FOND IDs outside the range for English, whereas Fontographer does not (leading to some tedious workarounds). In short, it's easier to set up a font with Fontographer, but far, far easier to actually design or modify the font with Font Studio (imho). * * * * * * Those interested in Hebrew may be interested to know that my own e-mail newsletter (which focuses on all aspects of using Hebrew on micros) is now based at a listserv @ Dartmouth. To subscribe, send e-mail to LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 with the one-line message, SUB E-HUG Your_first_name Your_last_name For more information, send me e-mail, or send a message to the listserv with the message: REVIEW E-HUG (E-HUG stands for "Electronic Hebrew Users Group".) * * * * * * People interested in Russian may be interested in the following blurb: The Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union at Columbia University publishes an annual report entitled: "Teaching Your Computer Russian: A Guide to Cyrillic Software." It costs $8.00 postpaid and covers mainly word processors and add-ons for IBMs, but also has a small Mac section. It can be obtained from: Publications Office Harriman Institute 420 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027 (212) 854-6218. * * * * * * And now, I have a question. I am talking with a textbook manufacturer about ways to facilitate the typesetting of math. We are looking for ways that will let us take advantage of desktop publishing, and let the authors use their own word processing tools to produce copy that we can actually typeset without rekeying. As those who have dealt with math already know, this is not a simple problem. Many technical word processors are based on the assumption that characters are monospaced, and with each stacked equation or matrix we end up with stuff that simply doesn't translate sanely. Other people use tools such as TeX, which is wonderful, but doesn't have the typographic control or ease-of-use, of, say, XPress. The problem is that mathematics is a complex language. Instead of a zillion ligatures or accents or compound characters, we have complex equations that are best input as descriptions, rather than as diagrams. The dtp programs that I have seen to handle complex math conceptualize math as a series of graphic elements. Aside from the editing problems created by trying to work with a manuscript composed of EPS files, (not to mention the conceptual problems) there are some very basic, practical, import and export problems to and from authors' word processing programs. Remember that authors use everything from Chi-Writer on the PC to MS Word to TeX. If we can figure out a reasonable typesetting back end, we can work forward, I hope, to figuring out which of a set of programs we can recommend to authors and commit ourselves to supporting over the next few years. I'm open to any suggestion, and certainly won't mind being shown wrong about any of what I think I know in the preceding paragraphs. * * * * * * ari davidow ari@well.sf.ca.us "If there were a computer for the rest of us, it would know how to work in the languages other than English that the rest of us speak." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | /+++++++++++› Claudia Lynch | | | Documentation Services Manager | | ^ () | Academic Computing Services | | - | University of North Texas Computing Center | | O | UNT Box 13495 | |›---------/| Denton, Texas 76203 | Voice: 817-565-2324 FAX: 817-565-4060 | Standard disclaimer | graffito From: John.Slatter@durham.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0035 Qs: ... Cyrillic Coding; Coptic Fonts Date: Wed, 15 May 91 17:04:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 106 (131) re standard Cyrillic character table. If by this is meant a table to correspond to the ASCII character table, then I am unaware of one. There is, however, a standard Soviet (not Cyrillic as used elsewhere) keyboard layout. It is documented in an issue of the Slavic and East European Journal of a few years (fewer than 10) back. It should be possible to remap this onto the ASCII table by substitution of less used characters for the Cyrillic ones. It is high time that Cyrillic characters were placed officially in the ASCII table: computing is more anglophone, less international than it ought to be! From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Cyrillic Date: Tue, 14 May 91 10:54:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 107 (132) [deleted quotation] Rustex-L is a list to which one can subscribe by sending the SUB RUSTEX- L [YOUR NAME] message to UBVM.CC.Buffalo.EDU. It is a Russian TeX and Cyrillic text processing list. [deleted quotation] My previous answer about Cyrillic character location is obviously useless, since I did not notice those three little letters (Mac) which rule out references to DOS systems. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMOR STUDIES Date: Tue, 14 May 91 08:28:30 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 108 (133) WHIMSY VII is now available for $10.00 from Victor Raskin, English Department, Heavilon Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. The list of presenters is now available for the NINTH INTERNATIONAL HUMOR CONFERENCE to be held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Announcements regarding upcoming humor-related events should be relayed to Don Nilsen six months in advance of the event for inclusion in the HUMOR NEWSLETTER. Membership in ISHS and subscription to the journal HUMOR: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMOR RESEARCH is $45.00. Send membership/subscription fees to Don Nilsen If you are genuinely interested in joining, but would like to see a copy of the journal first, please contact Don Nilsen and he will send you a free copy of Volume 1, Number 4. Library subscriptions are $104.20. If your library is considering subscribing and would like to see a copy of the journal--free--again notify Don Nilsen. =-) :-) ;-> Don L. F. Nilsen, (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: Subject: ARMENIAN COMPUTING Date: Thu, 16 May 91 0:21 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 109 (134) The Association International des Etudes Armeniennes has had for some years now a particular interest in Armenian computing. It regularly publishes a Bulletin of Armenian Computing in its NEWSLETTER. Concerns have been in the realm of 7- and 8-bit standards, keyboard layouts, etc. The AIEA cooperates in these matters with the Computing Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Should anyone wish to communicate about these issues, such communication may go to the above or to Jos Weitenberg (LETTJW@HLERUL2.EARN/BITNET). Public communication about issues of general interest would be welcomed by this writer. Michael E. Stone Hebrew University of Jerusalem From: crisp@engr.uark.edu (Crisp Group) Subject: LISTSERV Directory? Date: Wed, 15 May 91 11:47 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 110 (135) Does there exist anywhere a directory of LISTSERV sites and their topics? Please post to HUMANIST. Thanx. Chris W. Syphers cws@ for crisp@engr.uark.edu (Internet) From: Ed Haupt Subject: InfoSelect Date: Wed, 15 May 91 14:46:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 111 (136) InfoSelect basically seems like a note-taking environment which very rapid search features and some very clunky hypertext links. I found the stacks set up for learning insufficient. I was able to learn it well by printing out the help screens. It is generally very fast since most commands are 2-3 characters, and mnemonic (sort of) once you learn them. I prepared a paper using it. It was easy to cut pieces of text as cards using vi, but IS has the annoying habit of only letting you import at the top of the stack and not giving you a directory of your cards to be imported. I solved that by making a card of the directory I wanted to use. I would be interested to hear about alternative not/hypertext systems. Edward J. Haupt voice: (201) 893-4327 Department of Psychology internet: haupt@pilot.njin.net Montclair State College bitnet: haupt@njin Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 USA From: "Allen Renear, Brown Univ/CIS, 401-863-7312" Subject: Corrected FTP Instructions Date: Wed, 15 May 91 10:02:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 65 (137) Here are the corrected instructions for getting the Humanist biographies. ------------ The Basic Listserv Procedure To retrieve the biographies from the fileserver send mail to listserv@brownvm or listserv@brownvm.brown.edu with the following line as the text of the body get biografy package This will cause all the biography files to be send to you. You may also request individual files using the usual procedure. For instance, to retrieve the files with the B's and C's send mail to listserv with the following lines get bios-b sgml humanist get bios-c sgml humanist We are leaving the old biography files on the fileserver for reference for a few months. They are named BIOGRAFY 1, BIOGRAFY 2, etc. The new files are BIOS-A SGML, BIOS-B SGML, etc. Be careful not to confuse them. Anonymous FTP Alternatively, if your site supports FTP to Internet nodes you can download the biography files using anonymous ftp. We are not sure just how we are going to support FTP to HUMANIST in the long term, so this should be considered an experiment. Thanks to David Sitman, Steve, Elli, and others for their continuing advice on these things. Here are Steve's instructions... (--Allen) [deleted quotation] Those with direct access to the Internet may obtain the files by "anonymous FTP". Follow this procedure: Use your local Internet access mechanism to open an FTP connection to Internet address 128.148.128.40, otherwise known as brownvm.brown.edu. Log on as userid "anonymous", and give something like your initials as the "password". Use the change-directory command ("cd") to access "EDITORS.203". Use the "dir" command to list the available files. The bios them selves are in files BIOS-x SGML, where the "x" varies across the Latin alphabet. Use the "get" command to retrieve whatever files you want. Note that although the "dir" command may report filenames and filetypes (=extensions) separated by a space, the get command generally requires that you separate them with a period. Example: (the "*" in the margin indicates what _you_ enter) * ftp 128.148.128.40 VM TCP/IP FTP R1.2.1 Connecting to 128.148.128.40, port 21 220-FTPSERVE at brownvm.brown.edu, 12:42:40 EDT THURSDAY 04/11/91 220 Connection will close if idle for more than 15 minutes. USER (identify yourself to the host): * anonymous * >>>USER anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: * >>>PASS ******** 230 ANONYMOU logged in; working directory = ANONYMOU 191 Command: * cd EDITORS.203 [deleted quotation] 250 Working directory is EDITORS.203 Command: * dir [deleted quotation] 200 Port request OK [deleted quotation] 125 List started OK BIOS-A SGML V 844 689 .... 250 List completed successfully Command: * get bios-a.sgml [deleted quotation] 200 Port request OK * >>>RETR bios-a.sgml 150 Sending file 'bios-a.sgml' 250 Transfer completed successfully 30567 bytes transferred. Transfer rate 28.95 Kbytes/sec. Command: * quit [deleted quotation] 221 Quit command received. Goodbye From: Subject: wedding band on left hand Date: Tue, 14 May 91 08:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 112 (138) I always heard that the wedding band was worn on the left because it is closer to your heart. I've never heard of US widows moving their rings to the right,but occasionally I see someone wearing an old engagement ring (after a divorce or if the wedding doesn't happen) on some other finger or on the right hand. Kasey Briggs From: Len Bliss Subject: Wedding rings on left hand Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 11:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 113 (139) I don't have the answer to the Bogdan Karasek's question on why North American's wear their wedding rings on the left hand, but I suspect we may, indeed be dealing with a North American, or at least an Anglo Saxon, tradition. An autobiographical case in point: When Linda and I were married in an orthodox Jewish ceremony 24 years ago, the rabbi conducting the ceremony directed me to place the ring on the index finger of her right hand. His explanation was that this was so that when she pointed at me and said, "This is my husband," the ring would be seen. An interesting, perhaps somewhat chauvanistic, aside is that this was a double ring ceremony and his directed Linda to place my ring on my left ring finger. I've seen this tradition at numerous Jewish weddings. Oh yes, immediately after the ceremony, Linda switched the ring to her left hand, where she continues to wear it. From: Kimberlee Pietrzak-Smith Subject: REVISED IJCAI-91 Programme Schedule: 05/15/91 Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 11:25:06 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 67 (140) REVISED IJCAI-91 Programme Schedule, May 15, 1991. Please destroy all previous versions. Monday, August 26, 1991 9-10am: Invited Speaker 1 - Takeo Kanade ... 10:30-12:30pm: ML: Explanation Based Learning ... NL: NL Processing ... KR: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Modal Logics ... AR: Theorem Proving I ... Arch: Knowledge Base Management ... 2-3:30pm: Panel 1: AI in Telecommunications ... 4-5:30pm: AI On Line ... 7:30pm: Computers & Thought Award: Martha Pollack and Rodney Brooks Announcement of IJCAI Best Paper Award Tuesday, August 27, 1991 9-10am: Invited Speaker 2- Shigeru Sato ... 10:30-12:30pm: ML: Inductive Learning II ... AR: Planning I ... ... NL: Pragmatics ... QR: Diagnosis ... Vis: Object Recognition 2-3:30pm: Panel 2: Multiple Approaches to Multiple Agent Problem Solving ML: Inductive Logic Programming ... KR: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Conditional Logics ... AR: Search II ... CM: Cognitive Modelling 1 ... 4-5:30pm: AI On Line ML: Concept Formation ... KR: Concept Languages ... AR: Theorem Proving II ... Phil: Philosophical Foundations II ... QR: Qualitative Modelling ... Wednesday, August 28, 1991 9-10am: Distinguished Scientist Award & Lecture: Marvin Minsky ... 10:30-12:30 KR: Topics in Knowledge Representation ... AR: Planning II ... NL: NL Systems ... QR: Qualitative Modelling, Temporal Reasoning ... Vis: Interpretation ... 2-5:30pm: Computer & Chess Afternoon Panel and Chess Match ... Thursday, August 29, 1991 9-10am: Invited Speaker 3 - Robert Kowalski ... 10:30-12:30pm: ML: Inductive Learning III ... AR: Reason Maintenance ... NL: Representation and Semantics ... LP: Logic Programming III ... AI Apps: Intelligent Tutoring Systems ... 2-3:30pm: Panel 3: AI and Design ML: Case Based Learning ... KR: Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Circumscription ... AR: Theorem Proving III ... Arch: Distributed AI I ... 4-5:30pm: AI On Line ML: Classification & Generalization ... KR: Concept Languages, Inheritance Reasoning ... AR: Constraint Satisfaction ... QR: Reasoning under Uncertainty I ... Rob: Navigation ... 5:30pm: General Meeting Friday, August 30, 1991 9-10am: Invited Speaker 4 - J. R. Quinlan ... 10:30-12:30: AR: Planning III NL: Parsing and Morphology ... Arch: Connectionist & Parallel Rule Systems ... Summary Session: IJCAI-91, Learning and Knowledge Acquisition Summary Session: KR'91, International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning ... 2-3:30pm: Panel 4: Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence ML: Knowledge Acquisition ... CM: Cognitive Modelling 2 ... Summary Session: IJCAI-91, Automated Reasoning Summary Session: International Symposium on AI and Mathematics ... 4-5:30pm: ML: Connectionist Models ... Arch: Distributed AI II ... QR: Reasoning under Uncertainty II ... Summary Session: IJCAI-91, Natural Language Summary Session: International Conference on Automated Deduction LEGEND: AI Apps: Principles of AI Applications AR: Automated Reasoning Arch: Architectures & Languages CM: Cognitive Modelling KR: Knowledge Representation LP: Logic Programming ML: Machine Learning NL: Natural Language QR: Qualitative Reasoning Rob: Robotics Vis: Vision -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. ICJAI91 CONFRNCE. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: stephen clark Subject: Re: 5.0055 Citation Statistics ... Date: Thu, 16 May 91 09:27:59 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 114 (141) I agree with Judy Koren's surprise and horror at the suggestion that we humanists only cite what we agree with. Of course we cite people from other schools and with other opinions. Unless we're literary critics, I suppose :-). One other factor - apart from the ones mentioned - in the low citation rate is that a good many journals don't care for lengthy bibliographies and footnotes. In my own discipline (philosophy) there was even a fashion for pretending that every article was a new beginning, owing nothing much to the past, or else a contribution to a face-to-face conversation where every reader already knew who was being attacked. Personally, I like citing people, and even quoting them - but I've found that reviewers of that kind then complain that there are too many quotations.... Stephen Clark Liverpool University UK From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0056: Citation and Scholarship Date: Thu, 16 May 91 14:50:07 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 115 (142) Michael Hart replying to Larry Hurtado moves our discussion on citations and scholarship towards an assessment of methodology. Paul Feyerabend argues vehemently that there is *no* algorithm/ methodology for productive research; and produces (like Michael) a string of key examples (not including Feynman, though) to back up his assertion. But is the case comparable in the humanities? Where a primary objective seems to be assessing all the arguments then probably reading (and citing) a large volume of other works, whether thorough, clear, careful usw or not, is probably inevitable. Or do we challenge that objective? Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge. From: Michael Sperberg-McQueen Subject: citation rates in the humanities and sciences Date: Thu, 16 May 91 09:53:59 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 116 (143) Some readers of this list may be interested to know what was actually claimed and measured in the studies cited at third-hand by Peter Denning in CACM. Denning refers to two 'News & Comment' pieces in Science by David P. Hamilton, who summarizes yet-unpublished work done at the Institute for Scientific Information by David Pendlebury. The figures given by ISI to Hamilton and Science are for the percentage of source items published in 1984 and indexed by ISI remained uncited by other items in ISI's indexed journals during the first five years after publication. So the 'uncitedness' rate quoted is indeed based on the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) database, and not upon the Science Citation Index data, as has been suggested here. In a letter to Science (22 March 1991) Pendlebury points out that much of the discussion of these observations ignores several basic facts. First, since ISI indexes everything in the publications covered, the source items counted include letters, meeting abstracts, editorials, obituaries, and reviews; in natural-scientific journals these make up about a quarter of the items; in the AHCI journals they make up about 70% of the items. It may be unsurprising to most of us that reviews of books and of theatrical performances are only rarely cited in later literature. Ditto for letters to the editor (with the notable exception of Edsger Dijkstra's famous 'GOTO considered harmful.' Citation rates for journal articles only are naturally somewhat higher than for all 'source items'. (Preliminary figures show that only 93%, not 98%, of articles in the AHCI database were still uncited after five years.) Two other factors also complicate the direct comparison of figures for natural science and humanities, as well as the interpretation of the absolute figures: books are more important in the humanities (70-80% of the citations in AHCI are to books, not to other articles, according to Pendlebury), and humanities citations do not share the age pattern of natural-science citations. In the natural sciences, the median age of a citation is (if I remember aright) between 1 and 4 years; in the humanities, the median age of citations is more apt to be measured in decades, even if one dates cited works according to the date given in the citation (which will give us linguists citing articles by Kant written in the 1970s). Pendlebury does not observe, but I will, that many of the journals in AHCI are not in fact as clearly academic and research-oriented as are their counterparts in SCI. C.M. Sperberg-McQueen From: James O'Donnell Subject: teaching a classical language Date: 15 May 91 23:05:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 117 (144) My own recipe is to find students who want to learn the language. The notion that persons who do not want to learn a language *should* learn it is clearly the problem. [deleted quotation]points. Willard admits that the deductive method is character-building, but wishes for a middle ground: clearly `character-building' (a culturally constructed notion, to be sure) is no longer an unalloyed good. Another correspondent deplores the tedious deductiveness of CALL programs and wishes they would be written to show that language learning should be *fun*. Taken together, these points suggest the sea-change that higher education has gone through in the last half-century. We no longer admit that we are authority figures telling people what to do and building character by making them do it (but n.b. that *is* what we actually do a lot of the time); rather, we believe that the student is a free, adult agent who chooses rationally and is therefore to be wooed: `oh, come on, learn Old Church Slavonic with us! It's fun! You'll like it!' I grow weary of the cajoling posture, I must admit. Never doubting for a moment that the old, unabashedly authoritarian model was rife with contradictions and less than optimally effective, I would only point out that the implicit new model is no less contradiction-rife and no more optimally effective. The form of the original query from Finland is now apparent: how can we take an authoritarian situation (you *must* take OCS) and sugar-coat it to make it resemble our ideal libertarian model of teaching? I think the answer is that you can try, and you can make any number of compromises; but if you don't get them to like it, they're still going to have to take it and you're still going to flunk them for doing poorly, and that's the name of that tune. Authority figures who use their authority fitfully, bashfully, and arbitrarily are not entirely worthy of respect. J.J. O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. From: SVAF524@UTXVM.BITNET Subject: CALL and Inductive/Deductive Date: Wednesday, 15 May 1991 10:42pm CT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 118 (145) In a recent series of messages, several HUMANIST members have considered the relative merits of inductive and deductive language learning approaches. Willard McCarty then asked the question about CALL and these two approaches, a question also posed by Douglas de Lacey. Many inductive/problem-solving tasks are possible in on-line environments. Tim Johns (working in the UK) has labeled these "generative activities", not because the learner necessarily generates unique utterances, but rather because he/she generates his or her own path through language materials. The computer "game" Storyboard is a case in point. A text is presented and then blacked out; the computer user types in words or letter strings, and lexical items in the text are uncovered if they contain these entries. In short, the learner reconstructs the text through hypothesis. He/she could type in endings, roots, prefixes, whatever, in this exploration of the text. Other ideas include use, by language learners, of concordance programs (see recent series of articles in the journal System) as a means to examine target language texts. Word processors offer another environment in which students might manipulate and work with language materials. I can supply a short bibiliography on concordancing in language instruction, if there is an interest. Pete Smith, PSMITH@UTXVM Univ. of Texas (Austin) From: Aldabra Stoddart Subject: Re: [5.0057 Teaching a Classical Language (4/135)] Date: Thu, 16 May 91 04:48:19 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 119 (146) I am a philosophy postgrad, who isn't meant to have anything to do with languages at all, and I love classical languages. I have never learnt Old Church Slavonic, but I would love to. This probably makes me singularly unqualified to comment on how to teach it to people who aren't interested. However, what I love about classical languages isn't coming through in this discussion. It is the evolution of the language, the development of meanings of words of the modern languages (which they are interested in), and the links between languages. For instance, [taking Old Norse as the example, since it is the most recent course I've been to] the linkage of the English "fellow" with the Latin "pecus" ("flock") and the Old Norse cognates "fe" ("sheep", "money") and "felaga" ("business associate"). Connections like that are instantly memorable, and you can introduce them from the first lesson. They also underline from the start the reasons why you're learning the older language, and let you introduce patterns of linguistic development easily. From: LNGDANAP@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Subject: 5.0057 Teaching a Classical Language (4/135) Date: Thu, 16 May 91 02:13:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 120 (147) I hope that fellow HUMANISTS Randy Jones, John Higgins, Carol Chapelle and Joel Goldfield enter the fray with their much greater knowledge of CALL programs, but in the meantime... There is a vast field of literature dealing with the deductive/ inductive language learning controversy. 98% of it, however, deals with "modern" languages and approaches are generally geared to what is referred to in the current jargon as "communicative" methods, crudely resumed as "listen, do, say". Hopefully, some time later, "read and write". As for CALL, it has the strengths and defects of the ideologies of its designers. There are, of course, lots of those programs that Douglas De Lacey refers to as "drill", but they may not all be that dull. There was a study not too long ago in England which surveyed student preferences in CALL programs, and the drill packages came out on top. But there *are* a lot of CALL programs not limited to drill. They range from simulation (also unfairly called "games") in which users have to use the language to achieve some goal; text reconstruction (cf. Higgins' Quadtext); to AI-based free-form dialogue (John Underwood's adaptation of ELIZA for Spanish; William Smeds' "Herr Kommissar" for German, to mention only a few). Much of CALL is heading into hypermedia/videodisc, including annotated, supplemented, illustrated classic novels and less classic documentaries... this branch is, however, dependent on the availability of higher technology, not always attainable by your average institution/instructor. Hypermedia can also facilitate the use of "authentic" texts giving the student all the necessary tools (a context-oriented dictionary, cultural notes, etc) to arrive at something approaching a meaning which is accurate, relatively speaking! Let's say "virtually" accurate, in the sense that *if* the student uses all the tools, he/she will comprehend enough for a reasonably instructive give-and-take discussion with the teacher. For Latin, I would suggest contacting Gerald Culley at Delaware (sorry, I don't have his e-address). Prof. Culley has been in the field from the beginning, and has designed not only the much maligned drill-type programs, but also a very innovative "game" in which students must use the language to explore a fictional world, their answers being parsed and grammatical feedback given to them on request. That'll do for starters, I hope. May many more CALL contributions come pouring in. Dana Paramskas Lngdanap@vm.uoguelph.ca French Studies DanaP@CoSy.uoguelph.ca University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 From: RKENNER@Vax2.Concordia.CA Subject: Response to Kammer Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 08:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 121 (148) My detailed response to M. Kammer's request for information on CALL materials could not get through to his/her e-mail address. Kammer@hrz.ini-siegen.dbp.de He/She should forward his/her regular address to me at RKENNER@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA or at Roger Kenner/Concordia University/1455 deMaisonneuve West/Montreal, Quebec/H3G-1M8/Canada. Perhaps if I was given an alternative e-mail address to which to send it. I receive two error messages 1)Vax2.Concordia.CA does not exist (really?) and 2) dbp.de service not available My being such an expert on this e-mail system which I use, these two messages mean nothing to me. R. Kenner From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: NeXT Date: Wed, 15 May 91 22:36:41 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 122 (149) [deleted quotation] I'm not a NeXT person, but I couldn't disagree more. Let me offer an opposing view! The programming environment is not at all idiosyncratic. As I noted in a previous posting, I've managed to get virtually everything I've wanted in the way of Unix software up and running on the NeXT. As for the win- dowing environment, there IS no standard Unix GUI that I'm aware of, ex- cept perhaps the X11R4 base that many vendors customize as they see fit. If you really want X, you can get it. X, though, is a bloated compromise between C and the message-passing paradigm. Tell me, do you fully under- stand it? (If so, you're a better man than I.) [deleted quotation] I find this analysis very skewed. C++ has only stabilized in very, very recent years. And right now very few houses use it. In point of fact, most programmers are still writing FORTRAN and COBOL code. Many now use C. C++ is way, way down on the list. You might say it's up and coming, but don't hold your breath. In point of fact, the NeXT supports standard C as well as objective C. It also supports C++. With the 2.1 software release you get both Objective C and C/C++ compilers, so if you really want C++, you can have it on the NeXT. In my opinion, it's not idiosyncratic at all. I certainly wouldn't recommend a NeXT for the naive user who just wants an application base. But if you're using it as you'd use any other Unix- based research workstation, I really don't think it's any worse than any- thing else on the market, and better than most. I find I'm quite produc- tive on one. -Richard From: Technically Correct Subject: The role of the NeXT Date: Thu, 16 May 91 08:09 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 123 (150) I agree with those who say that the NeXT will never be a mainstream machine. Its role in the history of computing will be that of influencer of the great ones. Right before the NeXT came out, Apple suddenly released a not-ready-for-Mac-users flavor of Unix. After the NeXT appeared on the scene, we saw a host of "floptical" drives hit the market. Now we hear of Apple's rumored 040 Mac with built-in ethernet and a similar laser printer. All of these advances, I feel, would not have been so soon in coming if it had not been for the NeXT. -abh From: John.Slatter@durham.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0051 R: Cyrillic Character Standards Date: Thu, 16 May 91 10:20:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 124 (151) I tried contacting RUSTEX-L at the address given by DJBPITT in his recent submission to HUMANIST. The address listserv@ubvm appears to be incomplete - at least, our e-mail here assumes ubvm is an address in Durham and refuses to deliver to it! Are there some bits which DJBPITT omitted? From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: RE: 5.0067 IJCAI '91 Program Schedule (1/317) Date: Thu, 16 May 91 13:05 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 125 (152) If no more is heard from me and my computer then it is because I am taking literally the instruction to REVISED IJCAI-91 Programme Schedule, May 15, 1991. Please destroy all previous versions. From: crisp@engr.uark.edu (Crisp Group) Subject: Ultraviolet/Infra red document treatment Date: Thu, 16 May 91 08:30 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 126 (153) Is there anyone on humanist who has experience in using Ultraviolet or Infra red light in the enhancement/restoration of historical documents? From: LNGDANAP@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Subject: gender/children Date: Thu, 16 May 91 02:18:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 127 (154) Re: gender of children I am not an expert in historical English linguistics, and would welcome corrections on the following observations. In Middle English, the word "girl" was used for a child of either sex (a variant of which persisted until the 19th century in the expression: green girl), which leads one to suppose that the correct pronoun might well have been "it" for children under the age of reason, or, alternatively, under the age of puberty. At either of these "ages", children became adults, therefore of social importance; before that time, their social importance was merely potential (and given the mortality rate of children then, this was sadly rational); referring to them by gender would then seem to be unnecessary except in unusual circumstances... From: Marcus Smith Subject: Re: 5.0060 Responses: Gatling Gun; Philosophy (3/64) Date: Wed, 15 May 91 20:38:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 128 (155) There is a nifty book called THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MACHINE GUN which has some fascinating information on the role of MGs in shaping the world. My copy was swiped (it's that sort of a book), but I think it was published in the 1970s and I recall (but would not bet any money on it) that the author's name is OWEN. From: OCRAMER%CCNODE@VAXF.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0054 Qs: Gatlin Gun; Sojourner Truth; ... (4/96) Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 11:15 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 129 (156) I bet Marc Smith means Noel Coward's song about the Maxim Gun: the oper- ative line (quoted from memory) is "Whatever happens, we have got/ The Maxim Gun, and they have not." Owen Cramer From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0060 Responses: ... Philosophy Date: Wed, 15 May 91 22:05 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 130 (157) I know what Monty does for a living; I know Monty quite well in fact. But try t aking courses at UCLA, and look at most of their roster. If and when they teach at all...JK. And Foot, and etc. Though Phillippa retires this year. But most o f the department is not interested int he Humanities at all. After 30 years, I am apprised of this rather well, I think. Their main enterprise(s), I mean. From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 5.0058 More on Copyright (2/138) Date: Thu, 16 May 91 12:24:01 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 131 (158) I am not sure Robin Cover realized that I not only received permission to publish my articles via etext, but that I did not surrender a right or rights and that the copyright was posted locally, not by publishers or anyone else. Michael S. Hart No official connection with UIUC.EDU. Total disclaimer. From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Long Signatures Date: 16 May 91 13:00:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 73 (159) I know the subject came up before, but I want to repeat it. There are many of us who read Humanist over a modem and really do not need the extensive addresses, quips, disclaimers, etc., that some feel are necessary. If you have written something contraversial, a disclaimer is fine, but if you've just asked a question, it's trash. Quips, pictures, etc. that appear time after time after time get annoying. Sorry for the protest but I waste enough time on Humanist without everyone helping me out! Mary Dee Harris From: "Bill Ball" Subject: the importance of citation--building on previous work Date: Thu, 16 May 91 18:26:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 132 (160) At a couple of points in the recent discussion over citation indexes the point has been made that (humanist) academic discourse builds upon previous work in the field by referring to it. I would find it useful if someone could direct me to a source or two that fully develops this argument--in other words, that argues at some length for relatively heavy referencing and summarizing of previous work in a manuscript. Bill Ball c476721@umcvmb From: Robin Smith Subject: Citations Date: Thu, 16 May 91 18:40 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 133 (161) May I add another thought to the discussion of alleged citation statistics? The lag between the submission of an article and its acceptance is typically several months to a year; the time before it actually appears in print is often a year or two. And journals sometimes lag behind their nominal publication dates. Therefore, an article published (nominally) in 1984 might not actually have been available for many scholars to read until 1985; allow another year and a half to get accepted and two more to get in print, and we've virtually used up five years. By the way, the nature of citation indexes leads to a useful, though a bit co- mical, feature. Anyone writing about Descares is bound to cite Descartes; so, a quick way to find a few articles on Meditation III is to look up people who cite it. I would imagine the same thing goes for Shakespeare, or for Homer. As I sit here in front of a terminal, it occurs to me that there might be some curious citations around for Biblical scholars. Robin Smith Philosophy Kansas State University From: John Lavagnino Subject: An argument for the abolition of scholarly journals Date: Thu, 16 May 91 15:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 134 (162) Just out---a good article by N. David Mermin that calls for the abolition of scholarly journals: ``Publishing in Computopia,'' Physics Today, May 1991, pages 9 and 11. A few of its arguments depend in detail on the working conditions of physicists; nevertheless, it's a brief and very well written presentation of a point of view that's familiar to all of us here, but to too few beyond. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University From: George Aichele <73760.1176@CompuServe.COM> Subject: citation Date: 18 May 91 17:46:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 135 (163) I also would like to support Judy Koren against Robert Amsler on how humanists use citations. I do have a psychologist friend or two (behaviorists) who would never cite Freud. But my more humanistic colleagues--even the literary critics!--tend to relish the give and take, and to cite accordingly. The thought of citing a work merely because I approved of it or wanted to jump on some bandwagon seems quite strange to me, but then I don't live in a "publish or perish" environment ... is it really that bad? George Aichele 73760.1176@compuserve.com From: John Wall Subject: Re: 5.0068 Citations (cont.) Date: Mon, 20 May 91 12:06:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 136 (164) Another factor ignored in the discussion of citation rates for articles in the humanities is that the figures given are for citations during the first five years after publication. Considering the time necessary for a new article to appear, be read, be used and cited in someone's work, to have that work submitted for publication, to be sent out to readers, to be revised and resubmitted, to be accepted, to be typeset, to be proofed, and finally to appear in a journal that is often years behind in its more years elapse before a citiation of a "new" article might appear. I suspect that if the time frame for the search were the period 5 to 10 years after publication, a much higher citation figure would appear. From: ziegler@bs1.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernhard Ziegler) Subject: ArabTeX announcement Date: 17 May 91 14:41:41 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 75 (165) Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, W. Germany Prof. Klaus Lagally, who is at the Institut f"ur Informatik of the Universit"at Stuttgart, announces his TeX addendum ArabTeX, which is a PD macro package adapted to the specific needs of typesetting Arabic. The distribution version will include the Metafont sources for the Arabic letters (plus Parsi). The package is intended to be compatible with LaTeX (a subject still under testing). It will be made available in the fairly near future on the Institute's server ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.211.1) If anyone out there knows of a listserver / mailserver more easily accessible to the Arab world (and hence better suited to ArabTeX's distribution), he/she should e-mail to one of the following: Klaus Lagally, Bernd Raichle, Bernhard Ziegler Institut f"ur Informatik lagally@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Universit"at Stuttgart raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de D-7000 Stuttgart 80 ziegler@bs1.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de From: well!moritz@apple.com (Elan Moritz) Subject: J. of Ideas - New Journal Announcement & Call for Papers Date: Thu, 16 May 91 18:18:36 pdt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 76 (166) Last year the Institute for Memetic Research [IMR] launched a [print] journal dealing with idea creation and propagation and related aspects. Attached are some files containing information and abstracts of articles published in the J. of Ideas. The IMR believes that a systematic study of "idea-science" is in order. Individuals dealing with information & knowledge systems, concept and meaning representation, cognitive sciences, computer sciences, information and knowledge dissemenation [print & electronic] and related areas may be * very interested * in this area. We are sending this posting to acquaint you with the Journal, both as potential readers and possible authors of contributed research and discussion. The Journal currently appears in print form. [Subscription information is provided below]. At a future point in time, we plan to establish an e-mail distributed "Ideas, Memetics and Ideonomy" or IMI-L newsletter/journal which will include relevant research community announcements, abstracts, some of the shorter articles appearing in J of Ideas, critical discussions, and reader interaction. We are interested in hearing from folks interested in participating as Associate Editors, and in Sites interested in acting as distribution nodes for IMI-L. We would very much appreciate your [e-mail] comments, and your assistance in making folks at your institution aware of the Journal of Ideas and the upcoming IMI-L e-newsletter/journal. Elan Moritz, Editor, Journal of Ideas Editor, IMI-L [Planned] e-mail: moritz@well.sf.ca.us ----------------------------- * Journal of Ideas * published by The Institute for Memetic Research PO Box 16327, Panama City, Florida 32406-1327 USA Editors Editorial Advisory Board Elan Moritz R. Wilburn Clouse, Vanderbilt U. Patricia S. Smith Peter Kiss, Sentar Inc. Huntsville The Institute for Memetic Research, Matthew Witten, U. Texas System, Panama City Austin ------------------------------------------------------------ manuscripts and information requests should be directed to Elan Moritz (E-mail: moritz@well.sf.ca.us) ------------------------------------------------------------ ** AIMS & SCOPE ** The Journal of Ideas is an archival (print) forum dedicated to the dissemination of research results and discussion relating to the formation and spread of ideas in human and machine systems. Areas covered include: 1) dynamical and structural theories of idea and meme generation, mutation, combination, spread and dissolution, 2) knowledge generation, representation, and storage in living and artificial systems, 3) cognition and self-awareness in living and artificial systems 4) generalized theories of life, evolution, and ecology in biological, mechanical and electronic systems, 5) classical and quantum mechanical theories of brain/mind interactions, 6) human and machine creativity and, 7) results of experiments in the preceding areas. The Journal publishes research communications, critical reviews, short notes, book reviews, and relevant historical material. The Journal is geared to a diverse audience coming from classical disciplines such as physics, biology, evolutionary and ecological studies, psychology, anthropology, computer science, mathematics, and philosophy. Abstracts of Papers Published in Volume 1 MEMETIC SCIENCE: I - Introduction E. Moritz - The Institute for Memetic Research, FL Memetic Science is the name of a new field that deals with the quantitative analysis of cultural transfer. The units of cultural transfer are entities called "memes". In a nutshell, memes are to cultural and mental constructs as genes are to biological organisms. Examples of memes are ideas, tunes, fashions, and virtually any cultural and behavioral unit that gets copied with a certain degree of fidelity. It is argued that the understanding of memes is of similar importance and consequence as the understanding of processes involving DNA and RNA in molecular biology. This paper presents a rigorous foundation for discussion of memes and approaches to quantifying relevant aspects of meme genesis, interaction, mutation, growth, death and spreading processes. It is also argued in this paper that recombinant memetics is possible in complete analogy to recombinant DNA / genetic engineering. Special attention is paid to memes in written modern English. CULTURAL EVOLUTION: A BIOLOGIST'S VIEW J. T. Bonner - Princeton University, NJ Culture is defined here as information transmitted from one individual to another by behavioral means. The evolution of culture is discussed in terms of selection of units of behavioral information defined as memes. The relationships of genes, memes, behavior and the role of individual and collective memory in cultural evolution are explored. Changes obtained via human cultural evolution are comparable in magnitude to changes resulting from millions of years of genetical evolution. ... GENERAL THEORY OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION D. R. Brooks and D. A. McLennan - University of Toronto One approach to finding a unified theory of biology stems from perceptions that (1) the direction of time and history are important aspects of biological systems, (2) biological systems are highly non-linear, (3) biological systems are far from equilibrium, and that the historically-constrained nonequilibrium behavior of biological systems produces (4) hierarchical organization and (5) steady states that may act as local equilibria to such an extent that natural selection is expected to play an important role in explaining much of their short-term (micro-) evolutionary behavior. Internal production rules in biological systems require outside energy but are also highly insensitive to the conditions of the external environment from which the energy comes. This leads to the production of historically constrained, spontaneously stable, complex structure. Because the production rules are physically encoded in the structure of the system, biological systems are physical information systems, and their expected behavior over time follows a general entropic dynamic. The autonomy of the production rules leads to an explanation for the reality of natural selection that does not rely on analogy with human economic theory. The historical nature of the elements of diversity at any given time leads to an expectation that the details of responses to external evolutionary forces (such as natural selection, competition, geological changes) will be highly individualized. Hence, evolutionary regularities will tend to be highly generalized (macroevolutionary) or statistical in nature. THE METABOLIC ROOTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS R. A. Wiley - BioBalance Services, FL Clinical research dealing with metabolic dysfunctions indicates that the evolution of disorders commonly referred to as psychogenic, mental, behavioral and stress-related is governed predominantly by intermediary metabolic activity. These dysfunctions, characterized by weak or poorly coupled interactions within Kreb's cycle and the Embden-Meyerhoff pathways, can be nutritionally countereffected thereby limiting and often eliminating the extent to which they are cognitively, affectively and behaviorally articulated. This research suggests that genetic factors and nutritional input are primary determinants of psychometabolic pathology. The implications of this research are profound, extend far beyond the domains of clinical psychology and medicine, and may go on to impact disciplines as diverse as psycholinguistics, sociobiology, criminology, cultural anthropology and zoology to mention only a few. The status of clinical research regarding the role of intermediary metabolism in shaping cognitive performance is reviewed in this article. A generic mathematical formalism of metabolic activity is developed, and a metric mapping metabolic activity into cognitive activity is proposed and discussed. ... THE GLOBAL INFORMATION CAPACITY OF A MACROSCOPIC SYSTEM ... S. N. Salthe - Brooklyn College, CUNY, NY This paper attempts to sketch out in what way macroscopic information must be entropic. If this can be shown, a larger science, of infodynamics - the study of uncertainties, can subsume thermodynamics and information theory. It is crucial for these purposes that a finite observer be stipulated for all informational exchanges, and, in order to achieve the desired result, that observer must be located inside the supersystem that contains the object systems it interprets. MEMES AND CREATIONISM H. K. Henson and A. L. - San Jose, CA This paper discusses the question of creationism and evolution theory in the context of memes. Several key questions are raised including the questions of why humans have beliefs at all, and why does belief in evolution excite substantial opposition. The authors address the competition of memes in the meme pool and propose the existence of meme 'receptor sites' responsible for strong maintenance of religious beliefs. Volume 2 #1 Abstracts ---------------------- THOUGHT CONTAGION AS ABSTRACT EVOLUTION -- Aaron Lynch Abstract: Memory abstractions, or mnemons, form the basis of a memetic evolution theory where generalized self-replicating ideas give rise to thought contagion. A framework is presented for describing mnemon propagation, combination, and competition. It is observed that the transition from individual level considerations to population level considerations can act to cancel individual variations and may result in population behaviors. Equations for population memetics are presented for the case of two-idea interactions. It is argued that creativity via innovation of ideas is a population phenomena. Keywords: mnemon, meme, evolution, replication, idea, psychology, equation. CULTURE AS A SEMANTIC FRACTAL: Sociobiology and Thick Description -- Charles J. Lumsden Department of Medicine, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A8 Abstract: This report considers the problem of modeling culture as a thick symbolic system: a system of reference and association possessing multiple levels of meaning and interpretation. I suggest that thickness, in the sense intended by symbolic anthropologists like Geertz, can be treated mathematically by bringing together two lines of formal development, that of semantic networks, and that of fractal mathematics. The resulting semantic fractals offer many advantages for modeling human culture. The properties of semantic fractals as a class are described, and their role within sociobiology and symbolic anthropology considered. Provisional empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a semantic fractal organization for culture is discussed, together with the prospects for further testing of the fractal hypothesis. Keywords: culture, culturgen, meme, fractal, semantic network. MODELING THE DISTRIBUTION OF A "MEME" IN A SIMPLE AGE DISTRIBUTION POPULATION: I. A KINETICS APPROACH AND SOME ALTERNATIVE MODELS Matthew Witten Center for High Performance Computing University of Texas System, Austin, TX 78758-4497 Abstract. Although there is a growing historical body of literature relating to the mathematical modeling of social and historical processes, little effort has been placed upon modeling the spread of an idea element "meme" in such a population. In this paper we review some of the literature and we then consider a simple kinetics approach, drawn from demography, to model the distribution of a hypothetical "meme" in a population consisting of three major age groups. KEYWORDS: Meme, idea, age-structure, compartment, sociobiology, kinetics model. THE PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA PROJECT Francis Heylighen, Cliff Joslyn, and Valentin Turchin The Principia Cybernetica Project[dagger] Abstract: This note describes an effort underway by a group of researchers to build a complete and consistent system of philosophy. The system will address, issues of general philosophical concern, including epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics, or the supreme human values. The aim of the project is to move towards conceptual unification of the relatively fragmented fields of Systems and Cybernetics through consensually-based philosophical development. Keywords: cybernetics, culture, evolution, system transition, networks, hypermedia, ethics, epistemology. Brain and Mind: The Ultimate Grand Challenge -- Elan Moritz The Institute for Memetic Research P. O. Box 16327, Panama City, Florida 32406 Abstract: Questions about the nature of brain and mind are raised. It is argued that the fundamental understanding of the functions and operation of the brain and its relationship to mind must be regarded as the Ultimate Grand Challenge problem of science. National research initiatives such as the Decade of the Brain are discussed. Keywords: brain, mind, awareness, consciousness, computers, artificial intelligence, meme, evolution, mental health, virtual reality, cyberspace, supercomputers. The Journal of Ides an archival forum for discussion of 1) evolution and spread of ideas, 2) the creative process, and 3) biological and electronic implementations of idea/knowledge generation and processing. The Journal of Ideas, ISSN 1049-6335, is published quarterly by the Institute for Memetic Research, Inc. P. O. Box 16327, Panama City Florida 32406-1327. From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: Reposting from PACS-L@UHUPVM1 Date: Mon, 20 May 91 21:31:06 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 77 (167) The following may be worth re-posting on HUMANIST ... It's germane to the discussion of publishing and related matters. . . Robin Cover ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Mermin, N. David. May 1991. "Publishing in Computopia." Physics Today 44(5); 9, 11. This short, but very thought provoking, and only partially tongue in cheek, article suggests that physicists, at least, with their already strong dependence on the preprint as a means of communication, might well be better off dispensing with printed journals altogether. Statements like "The fact is that journals are obsolete except as archival repositories...." provoke readers to consider just how much longer printed publications will be viable in fast moving fields like computer science, molecular biology and physics where the publication delay for printed materials is simply no longer acceptable. One very interesting suggestion he presents is an alternative means of validating scientific articles which does away with most referees and with peer-reviewed journals. He suggests that virtually all manuscripts be published (as they probably are already - eventually), but for those researchers who desire to, for those that need evaluation for tenure or granting agencies, a paper could first be submitted to a panel that would give it a grade of from A+ to F, in the same way school papers are graded. To receive a grade an author would have to agree to post a paper regardless of the grade it received, but he or she would be given at least one chance to improve a bad grade before it was sent to the network. Ungraded papers would have to be evaluated by the readers. Considering the increasing scrutiny the peer review process has been receiving of late (e.g. in the recent book "Peerless Science: Peer Review and U.S. Science Policy" by D.E. Chubin and E.J. Hackett, 1990) it is likely that some adjustments to the current peer review process will be made and this suggestion is only one (although a fairly radical one) of the many that will be proposed for bringing about such changes. He concludes: "Our failure to recognize the obsolescence of journals has restricted effective scientific communication to in-groups and cliques and is destroying our libraries. The sooner we get rid of journals, the better." While this is not something he may entirely believe, and is certainly not universally accepted even within the scientific community - much less the library community - I'm sure there are many out there who will find the idea attractive, even with all of the current drawbacks and unsolved problems of electronic publication. It is past time to consider just what impact the implementation of such a system will have on libraries. How their mission, their structure and their staffing might be modified to allow them to continue to play a role in such a purely electronic environment. By taking over the role of depository and purveyor of such electronic journals libraries may have their only (slim) chance for long term relevance and survivability. The first problem is deciding where we want to go, and then how we are going to get there. [Physics Today describes David Mermin as being "on leave from the Cornell Physical Sciences Library Committee, where he wastes innumerable hours each year helping to decide what journals to drop."] ------------------- Lloyd Davidson Northwestern University LDAVIDS@Casbah.bitnet From: /G=S/S=LAWALL/@COMPLIT.umass.edu Subject: teaching a classical language. Date: Fri, 17 May 91 01:49:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 137 (168) Maurice Balme and I have just published a new textbook for Clas- sical Greek that combines the deductive and inductive methods (ATHENAZE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANCIENT GREEK, Books I and II, Oxford University Press, 1990-1991). It is being used with con- siderable success at schools, colleges, and universities here in the U.S.A. You might also want to examine Stephen W. Paine's BEGINNING GREEK: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (Oxford University Press, 1961), which I have used many times for teaching New Testament Greek. It is a strictly inductive approach, using the first six chapters of the Gospel of John as its basic reading text. The important thing is to choose a basic reading text that your stu- dents will take a real interest in. That's the best way to motivate them and keep their interest in studying the language. You might also want to examine LATIN FOR READING: A BEGINNER'S TEXTBOOKS WITH EXERCISES, by Glenn M. Knudsvig, Revised Edition, 1990), which uses a readily comprehensible structural approach to the grammar and genuine Latin sententiae, "sayings," "proverbs," etc. as examples. Gilbert Lawall Department of Classics University of Massachusetts at Amherst From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Re: [5.0069 Teaching Classical Languages; CALL (5/149)] Date: Fri, 17 May 91 13:03:24 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 138 (169) Thank you, fellow-HUMANISTs for some very useful material on teaching languages. James O'Donnell's strictures are in part taken, but it seems to me he ignores one factor of significance. For better or worse, my students *need* to be able to handle Greek texts. Maybe they can even see that. But the language learning is seen as a huge hurdle; by many of them it is seen as an *impossible* task. We don't exactly encourage them by saying, in Lesson 1, "Here are 24 [22, or whatever] strange squiggles called the Greek [Hebrew, Cyrillic,...] alphabet. You have 3 days to learn them". I'm currently teaching a rescue course for second-year stragglers, and it's quite clear that several of them *still* do not know the alphabet. Partly they hadn't time to master it before they were pushed onto Lesson 2; partly they hadn't the personal incentive (they were convcinced they couldn't do it anyway); partly I'd say the teaching method was bad. Result: they scraped trhough the language requirement; if I don't succeed they'll *think* they can (more or less) handle texts when in fact they cannot. They will make terrible mistakes (as ministers in churches, giving sermons) where there's no-one round to correct them. All I was asking for was confidence-building measures; means of gaining student co-operation rather than grudging minimal labour. CS Lewis somewhere pointed out that you cannot reward a schoolboy with visions of luxuriating in Homer (ah, the days when primary schools taught Greek!) so you reward him by other means for learning his declensions. The *real* reward (and it *is* real) can only be appreciated later. I don't think that is to be "...Authority figures who use their authority fitfully, bashfully, and arbitrarily [and] ... not entirely worthy of respect." But he's right to say "if you don't get them to like it, they're still going to have to take it and you're still going to flunk them for doing poorly, and that's the name of that tune". That's why I'd like it to be as much fun as possible. From: James Marchand Subject: Re: 5.0071 Notes and Queries Date: Thu, 16 May 91 19:26:35 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 139 (170) I have had extensive experience, mostly with ultraviolet and other mono- chromatic light sources. By ultraviolet one usually means fluorescence photography, in which the ink (one hopes) fluoresces under ultraviolet light, and one simply photographs the result in the normal manner. Infra-red requires a particular film and is more of a problem. Nowadays it is possible to digitize directly into the computer (e.g. with Xap-Shot or a video camera and a capture board), but it is best to obtain a good photograph (do not put all your eggs in the ultra-violet basket) and to scan it into the computer using a scanner which can do at least 32 gray levels (256 with an 8-bit chip). The resulting "photograph" can then be treated almost in real time as opposed to the enormous amounts of time spent in the darkroom. Thus, one can use the computer as a darkroom. Photography nowadays is a snap. You do not have to worry about grain, you develop for a gamma of seven (you have to do your own development; none of the professionals does good black and white any more); if, like me, your eyes are going bad, you can have the camera focus for you; you go through the lens, so there is no parallax, etc. etc. Everything is miniaturized and made user-friendly. If I can help, contact me. From: WIEBEM@QUCDN Subject: 5.0071 Notes and Queries Date: Thu, 16 May 91 21:47-0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 140 (171) Re: ultraviolet and infra-red techniques: Professor Norman H. Mackenzie, Professor Emeritus of English, Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 is an expert in these techniques, which he used for his Oxford Standard Authors edition of Hopkins. I'm sure he would be happy to share his expertise. M.G. Wiebe, Queen's U. From: Christopher Currie Subject: infrared/uv and documents Date: Thu, 16 May 91 08:30 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 141 (172) [deleted quotation] What is meant by 'enhancement' here? I'm sure many of us have experience of using ultraviolet to read early documents, but is some permanent improve- meant of the text, as read subsequently under normal light, meant? I certainly hadn't heard of such techniques and would be interested in any replies to Crisp Group's query. Christopher From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: Programming for the Humanities Date: Sat, 18 May 91 08:17:49 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 80 (173) The description of my graduate course in programming for the humanities offered via BITNET this summer has generated enormous interest. If you want to enroll, now is the time. I would like to receive registration forms by May 25 (or, at least, tell me by Saturday, May 25, that you will be enrolling by June 1). If you do not have an electronic registration form, please contact me as ERIC@SDNET.BITNET, and I will send you one. Following is a description of my course and answers to commonly asked questions. CHUM 650 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FOR THE HUMANITIES. An introduction to programming using SNOBOL4 for applications in the humanities such as analysis of texts, arranging data from research, and formatting for printing and desktop publishing. Prerequisites: a baccalaureate degree in the humanities or a baccalaureate degree in another field and a minimum of 24 semester hours course work in the humanities, access to and familiarity with BITNET, and an understanding of MS-DOS commands. Three semester hours credit. The course will start approximately June 1, and it will end approximately August 1. Students may work at their own pace, but students enrolled for credit will be expected to finish assignments and projects by August 1. No textbook is required for the course. Students will be sent a disk containing a public-domain SNOBOL4 compiler and a text editor. Students may audit the course or enroll for credit and receive a grade of Pass or Fail. The cost to audit the course is the same as enrolling for credit. The course will teach academic humanists to write useful computer programs to produce word frequency listings, concordances, and indexes. The language of choice for this course is SNOBOL4 because it is a powerful language designed for non-numeric computing; humanists can write useful programs in SNOBOL4 almost from the start. The course will begin with an introduction to programming, then cover techniques of structuring SNOBOL4 programs, and it will finish with students completing individual projects of their own creation. The programming assignments will be designed for MS-DOS microcomputers. Although most assignments can be modified for Macintosh users, the Mac users would have to purchase MaxSPITBOL, and they would need some understanding of Macintosh file structure. Students must have the ability to upload and download programs from the mainframe that runs BITNET mail to the microcomputer used for the programming assignments. Graduate credit for the course will be granted by Dakota State University which is authorized by North Central to teach graduate courses. Students who wish to transfer the credit to another university should consult the receiving university about its policy of accepting courses. For more information and electronic registration forms, contact Eric Johnson ERIC@SDNET.BITNET From: Diane Kovacs Subject: Updates for Directories of Academic e-conferences Date: Thu, 16 May 91 16:28:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 81 (174) Updated and more extensive directories of academic e-conferences are now available from Humanist's fileserver. Send a message addressed to listserv@brownvm with the command get filename filetype. The files are also available via anonymous ftp from ksuvxa.kent.edu. Directories 1&2 are Social Sciences and Humanities. Directory 3 is Biological Sciences. Directory 4 is Physical Sciences. Directory 5 is Business and miscellaneous academia (e.g. grants). On Humanist the files are called: filename filetype -------------------- ACADEMIC LIST1 ACADEMIC LIST2 ACADEMIC LIST3 ACADEMIC LIST4 ACADEMIC LIST5 To ftp the files from ksuvxa.kent.edu: logon as anonymous. The password will be your userid. Type 'dir' to see the files on the server. Type 'GET filename filetype' to retrieve each directory that you want. They are named ACADLIST FILE1 .... ACADLIST FILE5. Type quit to leave ftp. These directories will also be available in print through the Association of Research Libraries in June. A hypertext version will also be available soon. Cordially, Diane ***************************************************************** Diane K. Kovacs - One of the Moderators of LIBREF-L Instructor, Reference Librarian for the Humanities Kent State University Libraries Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: (216)672-3045 Bitnet: DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms Internet: DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu The opinions I express are my own and no one elses. ***************************************************************** From: Bill Kupersmith Subject: Gatling Guns Date: Fri, 17 May 91 11:56 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 142 (175) In answer to Marc Smith's query about a poem featuring the Gatling gun, I'd say that three different poems have been confused. Marc Smith is probably reacalling a couplet, not by Kipling, but by Hilaire Belloc, from *The Modern Traveller* "'Whatever happens we have got / The Maxim Gun, and they have not.'" Sorry I cannot supply the line numbers--the text before me isn't numbered--but it's in sec. VII. And I can't guess from where Marc Smith remembered it--it's often quoted by authors on technicology and imperialism (e.g., John Ellis, *The Social History of the Machine Gun* [New York: Pantheon, 1975], p. 94). Of course a Maxim gun isn't a Gatling gun, but an example of the first successful modern machine gun, which fires automatically rather than by turning a crank. For the Gatling gun in poetry I think Timothy Reuter is right to credit Henry Newbolt. The poem remembered is from *Clifton Chapel and Other Poems* and is entitled "Vitai Lampada" (the funny looking spelling of "vitae" is Lucretian [2.79]). The crucial stanza reads: The sand of the desert is sodden red,-- Red with the wreck of a square that broke;-- The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!' The reference to the jammed Gatling probably was inspired by the Zulu War of 1879: "The jamming of the Gatling Guns, mentioned by Lord Chelmsford, undoubtedly was due to the use of ordinary service rifle cartridges . . . With the solid-drawn cartridge cases, recommended for Gatling Gun use, no such difficulty was enountered (Paul Wahl and Donald R. Toppel, *The Gatling Gun* [New York: ARCO, 1965], p. 89). There is, however, a poem by Kipling that deals with the same theme of superior military technology--not machine guns but light artillery--"Screw-Guns" in *Barrack-Room Ballads*: The refrain goes: For you all love the screw-guns--the screw guns they all love you! So when we call round with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do--hoo! hoo! Jest send in your Chief an' surrender--it's worse if you fights or you runs: You can go where you please, you can skid up the trees, but you don't get away from the guns! As a schoolboy I recall that a friend had a recording of a British Army chorus (probably Royal Horse Artillery or Royal Artillery) singing "Screw-Guns" to the tune of the "Eaton Boating Song"--it was awesome. --Bill Kupersmith University of Iowa From: Stephen Miller Subject: Social History of the Machine Gun Date: Fri, 17 May 91 11:03 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 143 (176) The author of this book is John Ellis and the most recent edition is that of 1987 published by the Cresset Library (at least in the UK). It is an excellent book and well worth a read. stephen miller oxford university computing service From: Editors of PMC Subject: 3rd issue of _Postmodern Culture_ Date: Sat, 18 May 91 16:03:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 144 (177) POSTMODERN CULTURE is a peer-reviewed Editors: electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism on contemporary literature, Eyal Amiran theory, and culture. It has over 1,000 John Unsworth subscribers around the world and is distributed free of charge as electronic mail; it is also available on disk and Book Review Editor: microfiche for a fee. The third issue of PMC will appear at the end of this month, Elaine Orr and will contain the following: *"Self-Consuming Fictions: The Dialectics Editorial Board: of Cannibalism in Modern Caribbean Narratives," by Eugenio D. Matibag Kathy Acker Sharon Bassett *"Of AIDS, Cyborgs, and Other Michael Berube Indiscretions: Resurfacing the Body Marc Chenetier in the Postmodern," by Allison Greg Dawes Fraiberg R. Serge Denisoff Robert Detweiler *"Postmodernism, Ethnicity and Underground Jim English Revisionism in Ishmael Reed," by Henry L. Gates, Jr. David Mikics Joe Gomez Robert Hodge *"You Say You Want a Revolution? bell hooks Hypertext and the Laws of Media," by Susan Howe Stuart Moulthrop E. Ann Kaplan Arthur Kroker *"Two Moroccan Storytellers in Paul Neil Larsen Bowles' _Five Eyes_: Larbi Layachi Jerome J. McGann and Ahmed Yacoubi," by John R. Maier Larysa Mykyta Chimalum Nwankwo *"Bulldozing the Subject," by Elizabeth A. Phil Novak Wheeler Patrick O'Donnell Susan Ohmer *"From Abject to Object," a popular John Paine culture column on women's body- Marjorie Perloff building, by Marcia Ian David Porush Mark Poster *Three poems by Steven B. Katz Carl Raschke Mike Reynolds *Reviews of: Avital Ronell _Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and Andrew Ross Representation in North American Jorge Ruffinelli Indian Texts_, ed. David Murray. Susan M. Schultz _Literature and politics in the Central William Spanos American revolutions_, by John Tony Stewart Beverley and Marc Zimmerman. Gary Lee Stonum and other recent books . . . Chris Straayer Paul Trembath *Notices of events and publications Greg Ulmer *Editors' Postface Back issues are always available on request. To subscribe, send an electronic-mail message to PMC@NCSUVM (Bitnet) or PMC@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU (Internet) PMC invites submission of works in progress, book reviews, scripts, poetry, fiction, and essays. Send submissions by electronic mail to either of the addresses above; hard copy and disk submissions are also welcome and should be mailed to: Postmodern Culture Box 8105 NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695 Disk submissions should be in ASCII text or in WordPerfect; if this is not possible, please indicate the operating system and word-processing program used. From: txsil!evan@txsil@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: new linguistics directory on SIMTEL20 Date: Mon, 20 May 91 8:55:52 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 145 (178) There is a new directory on SIMTEL20 called PD1:. Two programs that previously were in the education subdirectory have now been moved to this new linguistics subdirectory; these are fonol400.zip and pckimmo.zip. The directory also contains a couple new programs related to PC-KIMMO. I hope that others will submit programs useful to linguists to this new directory. (File can be downloaded from SIMTEL20 by anonymous FTP from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20]). Evan Antworth evan@txsil.sil.org <------- new address as of May 1991 From: 6160LACYA@MUCSD.BITNET Subject: GeoNet Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 13:01 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 146 (179) For those who might have been interested in "Deutschland Nachrichten", aka "The Week in Germany" (the two are not totally identical): As I suspected, these are available only on commercial BBS's. For those of you who might be interested in pursuing it further here are the informational phone numbers (i.e. you actually get to talk to people): NewsNet - 800-345-1301 (Canada and Pennsylvania 215-527-1301) This net does not offer the German version. GeoNet - 415-952-1100 Alan F. Lacy Marquette University 6160lacya@vms.csd.mu.edu From: Robert O'Hara Subject: Electronic privacy/free speech Date: Sun, 19 May 91 12:23:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 147 (180) Those who are interested in copyright and other legal issues surrounding electronic communication might have some interest in the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group established by Mitch Kapor and others to examine First Amendment aspects of the 'electronic frontier'. The EFF newsletter is available by sending a request to eff-news-request@eff.org, or to their postmaster, Christopher Davis, at cdk@eff.org. For those with access to anonymous ftp, back issues and related files are available from eff.org (192.88.144.3). I subscribe to their newsletter, but have no other connection with EFF. Bob O'Hara, MNHVZ028@SIVM.bitnet National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution From: txsil!evan@txsil@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: PC-KIMMO News Date: Mon, 20 May 91 8:28:56 CDT (204 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 84 (181) PC-KIMMO News May 20, 1991 This announcement describes recent developments related to PC-KIMMO (an implementation for personal computers of Kimmo Koskenniemi's two-level model of word production and recognition). (1) PC-KIMMO version 1.0.5 update (2) KGEN - a rule compiler (table generator) for PC-KIMMO (3) KTEXT - a text-processing application using the PC-KIMMO parser (4) recent articles related to PC-KIMMO The software described below is made freely available to the academic community for non-commercial use and redistribution. We invite your feedback on these programs. Please note that the software is packaged in compressed archives: Zip files for MS-DOS and Stuffit files for Macintosh. In addition, if you obtain the files by e-mail, they will arrive in encoded form: uu-encoding for MS-DOS and Binhex format for Macintosh. Utility programs for handling archives and encoded files are available from computer bulletin boards or from your university computing center. (Hint for MS-DOS users: when you unzip a file, use the -d option to preserve the subdirectories.) Finally, it is possible that the files may not yet be available in some of the places listed below. Just wait a few days and try again. (1) PC-KIMMO 1.0.5 update PC-KIMMO version 1.0.5 has been available since the end of February. It fixes a problem with loading very large lexicons (more than 100 sublexicons). Thanks to Elizabeth Hinkelman and her colleagues for finding this bug. This version also fixes a couple things that caused crashes on the Macintosh. There are no functional changes in version 1.0.5. If you want to upgrade to version 1.0.5, you can obtain it as follows: 1. Obtain it via anonymous FTP from the following sources. (I am advised that it is best to use the symbolic names rather than the numeric addresses. Also, the directory structure is subject to change.) MS-DOS version: msdos.archive.umich.edu [141.211.165.34] msdos/linguistics/pckim105.zip Macintosh version: mac.archive.umich.edu [141.211.165.34] mac/etc/linguistics/pckim105.sit 2. Request it from us via e-mail. Be *sure* to specify which version you want (DOS, Mac, UNIX). 3. Send a diskette and a self-addressed, stamped diskette mailer to the address below. Be *sure* to specify which version you want (DOS, Mac, UNIX) and the disk format. (2) KGEN KGEN, a rule compiler for PC-KIMMO, is now available for beta testing. KGEN was written by Nathan Miles of Ohio State University. All rights and responsibilities pertaining to the program presently belong to Nathan Miles (not to the Summer Institute of Linguistics). He can be reached by e-mail at miles@cis.ohio-state.edu. Nathan has done a great job at developing this program and he deserves our thanks. KGEN takes a two-level rule like this: y:i => @:C___+:0 and translates it into a finite state table like this: @ y + @ C i 0 @ 1: 2 0 1 1 2: 2 3 2 1 3. 0 0 1 0 KGEN accepts as input a file of two-level rules and produces as output a file of state tables that is identical in format to PC-KIMMO's rules file. Anything that KGEN does not correctly handle can be easily fixed by hand in its output file. Everyone who uses PC-KIMMO (or who doesn't use it because they don't want to write tables by hand) is welcome to try out KGEN. But what we really need are some beta testers who can compare KGEN's output to tables they have written by hand. Let us know if you are willing to beta test KGEN for us. Presently KGEN runs only under MS-DOS and UNIX, but we hope to get it compiled for the Macintosh soon (any Think C experts out there?). You can obtain KGEN as follows. 1. The MS-DOS version of KGEN is available via anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20: wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [192.88.110.20] pd1:kgen02.zip SIMTEL20 can also be accessed using LISTSERV commands from BITNET via LISTSERV@NDSUVM1, LISTSERV@RPIECS and in Europe from EARN TRICKLE servers (for example, FRMOP11 in France). You can also obtain files from SIMTEL20 by e-mail. Send this line as the only message to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu (1 = one) (this may not work outside the U.S.): /PDGET MAIL PD1:KGEN02.ZIP UUENCODE The MS-DOS version of KGEN is also available by anonymous FTP from: msdos.archive.umich.edu [141.211.165.34] (symbolic name recommended) msdos/linguistics/kgen02.zip 2. The UNIX version (consisting of the source files which you must compile on your own machine) is available by anonymous FTP from the machine TUT: cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.60] pub/kgen/kgen03.tar.Z 3. Request KGEN from us via e-mail. Be *sure* to specify which version you want (DOS, UNIX). 4. If all else fails, send a diskette and a self-addressed, stamped diskette mailer to the address below. Be *sure* to specify which version you want (DOS, UNIX) and the disk format. (3) KTEXT KTEXT is a new text-processing application that uses the PC-KIMMO parser. It accepts as input a text in orthographic form, tokenizes it into words, strips off and saves punctuation, capitalization, white space, and formatting codes, parses each word, and outputs the result to a quasi-database file with a record for each word. Its output data structures are suitable for further processing by other programs, such as a text interlinearizer, a syntactic parser, or a machine translation system. KTEXT is a beta test release that is distributed and supported by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. It is available for MS-DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX. You can obtain it as follows. 1. The MS-DOS version of KTEXT is available from SIMTEL20 as (see above on how to access SIMTEL20 by FTP or e-mail): pd1:ktext093.zip It is also available via anonymous FTP from: msdos.archive.umich.edu [141.211.165.34] (symbolic name recommended) msdos/linguistics/kgen02.zip 2. The Macintosh version of KTEXT is available via anonymous FTP from: mac.archive.umich.edu [141.211.165.34] (symbolic name recommended) mac/etc/linguistics/ktext094.sit It is also available via anonymous FTP from: sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6] /info-mac/app/ktext094.hqx You can also obtain files from SUMEX-AIM by e-mail. Send this line as the only message to listserv@ricevm1.rice.edu (1 = one) (this may not work outside the U.S.): $MACARCH GET /info-mac/app/ktext094.hqx 3. Request KTEXT from us via e-mail. Be *sure* to specify which version you want (DOS, UNIX). 4. If all else fails, send a diskette and a self-addressed, stamped diskette mailer to the address below. Be *sure* to specify which version you want (DOS, UNIX) and the disk format. 5. To obtain the UNIX sources, please contact us at the address below. (4) Recent articles related to PC-KIMMO: Antworth, Evan L. 1991. Introduction to two-level phonology. Notes on Linguistics, 53:4P18. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Antworth, Evan L. 1991. Glossing text with the PC-KIMMO morphological parser. (Manuscript submitted for publication) Simons, Gary F. 1991. A two-level processor for morphological analysis. Notes on Linguistics, 53:19P27. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Vanni, Michelle. 1990. Abstract of "PC-KIMMO: a two-level processor for morphological analysis." Georgetown Journal of Languages & Linguistics 1.4:498-500. Special requests for any of the software or articles described above and/or requests for more information should be sent to: Evan Antworth Academic Computing Department Summer Institute of Linguistics 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. Internet: evan@txsil.sil.org <-------- new address as of May 1991 UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan phone: 214/709-2418 fax: 214/709-3387 From: James O'Donnell Subject: Electronic BMCR: a change Date: 21 May 91 13:16:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 85 (182) A Change for e-BMCR *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* has now published four issues, comprising 70 reviews in 198 pages; 60 of the seventy titles reviewed were published since 1 Jan. 1990, i.e., within the last sixteen months, a record of timeliness that we hope to maintain as a hallmark of the journal. The first four issues were `published' twice each: once in hard copy (copies mailed gratis for the first year to every classics department we know of in North America, subscriptions available for $10 the year) and once on Bitnet/Internet (subscriptions gratis). The electronic publication is, we think, an exciting harbinger of things to come; but it is still very much an experimental medium. The principal surprise has been the difficulty caused, both for us and for many of our subscribers, by squeezing a 150-200K pig through the Bitnet and Internet pythons. Discovering that difficulty has had the serendipitous effect, however, of rubbing our editorial nose in the realization that `publication' in hard copy and e-form need not be so slavishly similar to one another. Traditional publication takes the form it does for material and economic reasons related to the physics of printing and distributing the hard copy artifact. The physics of e-world are vastly different and allow a different form of `publication': thus we begin now a new experiment. Beginning in a few days, we will distribute reviews as they become available: that is, as soon as they have been submitted and gone through the minimal editorial massaging (inserting missing commas, removing libelous assertions) that we do. This means that e-subscribers will see periodic mail messages with a subject line something like: `BMCR: Nietzsche reviews Wilamowitz' -- you get the idea. Subscribers will be able to collect and download these as they come; at regular intervals (every couple of months), reviews already e-published will be gathered together, printed, and published in hard copy form. But e-BMCR will not be limited to reviews. From the outset, we had hoped that readers of BMCR would be stimulated to contribute a variety of other novelties: `Seen Elsewhere' (news items, reports of publications in other fields of interest to classicists), `Definite Articles' (reports of recent or not-so-recent scholarly articles that seem to be of particular merit, especially those that for reason of place of publication might escape wide notice), and the occasional quotation from Ennodius. Submissions in that vein have been disappointingly few; but for the electronic medium, we think and hope it will be easier to stimulate discussion. Reactions to reviews, for example, will be eagerly received (and we note with approval the favorable reaction to our incipient habit of publishing two or more reviews of the same book: let a hundred flowers bloom!). Subject to limitations of space in the hard copy publication, the `Best of e-BMCR' will appear in print in due time. It should be emphasized, however, that we do not envision e-BMCR becoming yet another electronic chat-line. If you are familiar with unmoderated lists (like IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1, which classicists should know about and many should listen to) or moderated lists (like HUMANIST@BROWNVM: ditto), you will regard e-BMCR as a `heavily-moderated list'. All submissions other than reviews will go to the electronic editor (O'Donnell), who will collect them, do minimal editing, perhaps write back to contributors and suggest enhancements, and then distribute them in collected and readable form. Thus you will be spared not only the random queries (`Does anybody know how to do Greek in WordPerfect?') but also the flurry of fourteen different answers cascading into your e-mail box, several of which may actually be germane to the query. Queries will be welcome, but they will be relayed by the editor, and responses will be collected, winnowed, checked against each other, and `published' in a compact and usable form. In all, then, we would expect that e-BMCR would trespass on your e-mail box no more than three or four times a week with a single message; the total quantity of distribution will not be markedly greater than what is now the case with `old' BMCR, but instead of sending out 200K pigs bimonthly, we will send out convenient packs of pork rinds as the craving dictates. We hope that this relatively heavy editorial hand will maintain a level of quality and interest that will encourage subscribers to read the relatively small number of items they receive from us, not zap them unread along with binsful of other e-mail, as many of us do so much of the time already. Some technical details: If you are already a subscriber, you need do nothing: your status will remain unchanged. 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To submit material for e-BMCR, to propose books you might review, or to complain about editorial heavy-handedness, send ordinary e- mail to any of the following addresses (Bitnet form first, then Internet): BMCR@BRYNMAWR -- BMCR@BRYNMAWR.EDU HAM@BRYNMAWR -- HAM@BRYNMAWR.EDU JODONNEL@PENNSAS -- JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU Snailmail address (esp. for hardcopy subscription requests containing checks!): *Bryn Mawr Classical Review* Thomas Library Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010 Finally, a word about responsibilities. The founding co-editors are Richard Hamilton of Bryn Mawr College and James J. O'Donnell of the University of Pennsylvania. The two of us have been arguing amicably about the future of computers in humanistic scholarship for fully a decade now, O'Donnell weaving visionary dreams of e- ecstasy, Hamilton pooh-poohing with all the magisterial dignity appropriate to one holding the Paul Shorey Professorship of Greek; the terrain of that debate has shifted over time, and it now tends to take place in a room where Hamilton may be found operating three different computers at once while making the emphatic, and very credible, point that computers are *not* the wave of the future. To our credit, O'Donnell knows that he is something of a crank, and Hamilton is aware of the ironies of his position. All decisions affecting BMCR are consensual (Bryn Mawr is a Quaker foundation) and collegial; but day-to-day responsibility for the hard copy production will tend to devolve upon Hamilton, and on-line editorial responsibility will be mainly that of O'Donnell (hence the occasional quotations from Ennodius). We have materially benefitted and will continue to rely upon the selfless assistance of an editorial board including the following worthies; prospective reviewers should make preliminary contact either with Hamilton or O'Donnell or with one of the following. (Again, where two addresses are given, Bitnet appears first, then Internet.) Joseph A. Farell (Penn) jfarrell@pennsas -- jfarrell@pennsas.upenn.edu Ralph M. Rosen (Penn) rrosen@pennsas -- rrosen@pennsas.upenn.edu Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell) jsr@crnlvax5 -- jsr@crux1.cit.cornell.edu David Sider (Fordham) sider@fordmurh David S. Potter (Michigan) gdeg@ub.cc.umich.edu Mary Whitlock Blundell (Washington) mwb@u.washington.edu Alain Gowing (Washington) alain@u.washington.edu Michael Halleran (Washington) mrh@u.washington.edu Martin Cropp (Calgary) 1131@ucdasvm1 William Scott (Dartmouth College) william.c.scott@mac.dartmouth.edu Daniel Tompkins (Temple University) For all BMCR purposes, e-mail submission of material is the fastest, most accurate, and easiest for us to handle; second-best is disk-submission (Macintosh: MSWORD with SMK Greekkeys; IBM: WordPerfect, NotaBene, or any all-ASCII form); third-best is anything involving paper. We prefer that electrons, not trees, be sacrificed in the service of philology. Postings for e-bmcr will usually end with this blurb: Bryn Mawr Classical Review BMCR-L is a moderated list published electronically at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania. Electronic subscriptions are free; to subscribe, send mail to mailserv@brynmawr.bitnet or mailserv@brynmawr.edu with the text SUBSCRIBE BMCR-L. Inquiries and submissions for the list should be sent to bmcr@brynmawr.bitnet or bmcr@brynmawr.edu. Electronic publication is irregular and continual, with individual items published as available; the published material is collected and published in traditional form five times a year. Subscriptions to the hard copy publication cost $10 per year; to subscribe, write Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010 From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: "Man" -liness Date: 16 May 91 18:05:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 148 (183) I am not a Unix user nor do I consider myself knowledgeable about X and the Unix GUI. But if I were to understand these better than Richard Goeritz, why would that make me a "man" of any sort? Mary Dee Harris From: Maurizio Lana Subject: e-mail: under UNIX or under VMS? Date: Fri, 17 May 91 13:10:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 149 (184) Our Center, aimed to provide computing services to social sciences and humaniti es departments, is on the way to update his main hardware (at present an IBM 43 41 running VM). The most important use of this hardware (from the point of view of the number of people using it) is e-mail through Bitnet. The updating could be done with an IBM RISC machine running Unix, or with a VAX running VMS. Provided that we want to be able to: - connect to Internet and became an Internet node; - do interactive remote logins (telnet, ftp, and so on) on hosts of any type (running VM, VMS, TSO, and so on); - manage a local Ethernet network (connecting the Departments located in the buildings of Via S. Ottavio 20) composed by Mac and DOS pc's; - connect host-to-host (or something like) to remote computing facilities locat ed about 60 Km. far; which is the best choice? Thank you to anyone will help| Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: E-Journals Date: Sun, 19 May 91 23:56:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 150 (185) I am seeking information on the following e-serials. Please feel free to forward this query to other relevant lists and persons. ArtsNet Review - unable to contact ed. - no reply NetWeaver - have no e-mail address for the editor for Internet access SwiftCurrent - no info, no e-mail address World Cultures - no info, no e-mail address Activist Times Inc. - no info, no effective e-mail address AIBI Newsletter - still exists? TRANSST - still active? VapourWare Newsletter - no contact address Online Notes - still active? Any information on these publications would be most helpful. The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters will be available from the COMSERVE (@RPIECS) and HUMANIST (@BROWNVM) fileservers in approx. four weeks. Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> From: DAVID BARRY Subject: Re:On writing for email (query from Jeffrey Kittay, Lingua Franc Date: Mon, 20 May 91 14:30 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 151 (186) I would be interested in doing something about this but I have no idea how to get a message to the address he uses (ie on compuserve). I would be grateful therefore if Jeffrey could get in contact with me direct Or post a route on Humanist for getting messages from JANET (via Bitnet?) to compuserve. David Barry UBJV649@ UK.AC.BBK.CU (on JANET) From: TIBBO.ILS@mhs.unc.edu (TIBBO) Subject: REACH Date: Tue, 21 May 91 10:44 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 152 (187) I have cited the REACH newsletter from Santa Barbara as an example of the growing number of humanities computing newsletters in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology Chapter that I am writing. Can anyone tell me the year in which this newsletter was begun? Thanks to all those who sent me information regarding my inquiries last November and December for this chapter. -Helen Tibbo School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill TIBBO@ILS.UNC.EDU From: TONY@FRPERP51 Subject: Baudelaire translations Date: 17 MAY 91 08:08:10.24-GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 153 (188) I have a colleague working on Baudelaire who needs bibliographical details concerning the existence of translations of Baudelaire's poetic works in the following languages: English (Enid Starkey?) Spanish Italian Dutch German Catalan As I live in northern Catalonia, I should be able to get information on the last case, but have no knowledge of the others. Can any humanists help? Obviously, it would be nice to know if there are machine-readable versions of the above translations, should they exist. As this is probably not of general interest, perhaps potential advisors could contact me at my email address. Thanks, Tony Jappy University of Perpignan France TONY@FRPERP51 From: STFR8011@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE Subject: information on Ste Waudru Date: Mon, 20 May 91 14:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 154 (189) Dear Humanists,, I am looking for information on two female saints, Sainte Waudru (Belgium) and St Margit (HUngary). I should like to read up on the historical background to each of these saints, specifically the social conditions of their time. Can any Humanists help? Dr Angela Ryan Department of French University College, Cork, Ireland Email: STFR8011@vax1.ucc.ie From: Ben Salemans Subject: Query for character encoding standards Date: Fri, 17 May 91 16:33:43 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 155 (190) Hi there, fellow humanists! Nowadays a lot of people are concerned with the development of an international standard for the encoding of characters. I heard there is 1. an initiative to encode characters on the basis of 16 bits per byte and 2. an encoding initiative on the basis of 2 bytes of each 8 bits. Furthermore there is the SGML-base of encoding in a uniform way special characters. Can somebody tell me how these ways of encoding are connected with each other en how I can get more information on the matter? Thanking you in advance, yours truly, Ben Salemans From: 2l4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Sally Ross) Subject: The OED online -- ? Date: Thu, 16 May 91 15:46:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 156 (191) Does anyone know of a service that offers the Oxford English Dictionary online? Thanks! From: "DAVID STUEHLER" Subject: Scholar's Tools Summary Date: 21 May 91 12:04:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 157 (192) In answer to my question about what software scholars find most helpful, I received two responses. One suggested that since no single product does everything well, a combination is required. The other was a vote for Nota Bene and provided much the same information as the single posting to the list. Since my idea of the ideal scholar's workstation is a fast 386 running Windows on a large, high resolution monitor, I am going to attempt to create my own application. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has ideas about what features such an application should include. David Stuehler Montclair State stuehler@apollo.montclair.edu From: ken@vax002.stockton.edu (Kenneth Tompkins) Subject: "Steambath" video? Date: Mon, 20 May 91 20:03:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 158 (193) Can anyone point me to a video-copy of Bruce Jay Friedman's play _Steambath_ shown on PBS some years ago? I would like to use it in a class and, while three libraries report having it, none will loan it or copy it. Ken Tompkins Stockton State From: "Tze-wan KWAN, Philosophy Dept., CUHK, Hongkong" Subject: InfoSelect and other PIM applications Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 10:46 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 159 (194) Ed Haupt's brief note on InfoSelect gave me some good ideas on how InfoSelect works. After browsing through some previous issues of PC Magazine I come to know that Info-Select is a further development of another application called TORNADO. Are there anyone out there who have tried both applications and can make a brief comparison between them? Furthermore, it seems to me that InfoSelect belongs to a new class of application now known as PIM (Personal information manager) which is obviously very important for humanities computing. I was also told that AGENDA (ver.2) of Lotus Corporation is a leading product of this sort. I once came across it in a friend's office but couldn't get much of it as I had on that occasion only half an hour at my disposal. Can any frequent user of AGENDA shares his experience on this list? In addition to all this , I have also heard of a product called SQUARENOTE which is less memory comsuming and much less sophisticated than AGENDA. Any other inforamation on PIM would be very much appreciated! Tze-wan Kwan Philosophy Department, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong. EMail: B071767@CUCSC.bitnet or B071767@CUCSC.CUHK.HK From: LINDYK@Vax2.Concordia.CA Subject: Re: 5.0073 Signatures (1/13) Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 18:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 160 (195) Hello, I quite agree with Mary Dee Harris. The name and e-mail address are quite enough. Bogdan KARASEK lindyk@vax2.concordia.ca From: koontz@alpha (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 5.0064 Queries: Listserv Directory; InfoSelect (2/38) Date: Mon, 20 May 91 16:14:41 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 161 (196) In regard to Chris W. Syphers' request: [deleted quotation] To get a list of listserv's send to listserv@wherever (i.e., the listserv of your choice) a subjectless letter with the command text: list global Then duck. The result should be a very long list. I also recommend adding to this letter the command help, if one is interested in finding out about listservs. From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Citation, from the scholar's perspective Date: 22 May 1991, 07:04:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 162 (197) I wrote about some of the problems of using citation indices to establish the prominence of scholars, but now I would like to turn the other face and say that citations are an ugly necessity for scholars themselves. Footnotes are ugly on the page and distracting. Even the first editor of the MLA Style Sheet admitted that they pull the eyes of the reader to the bottom of the page. Some patrician (or matriarchal) scholars disdained the use of references or citations in literary criticism, at least, because each reference was considered to be distracting. There is in lit. crit., at least, a British school (and I hope I am not being chauvinistic, because I have subscribed to the practices of that school in scholarly articles I have written in the last several years) that believes in the bare minimum of apparatus, say five *essential* books or articles on a subject written in the last fifty years, when 500 books and articles have been written. But there are several problems with providing slim citations or none at all: the reader in an information age does not know where the writer is coming from, what his or her critical lineage is, what precedent is being followed. We are, after all, building on everything we have read. To neglect mention of where we come from is to neglect heritage or to neglect an accumulated body of "truth." I once was jumped on ferociously by an anonymous reader for not citing a book I half wrote (!), so to neglect to mention even the obvious may be considered reprehensible. The style sheets that recommend parenthetical citation and a list of works cited may at least solve part of the problem of ugliness, but we do owe it to our forebears to give them credit for what we have read. Roy Flannagan From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0074 Citations (5/81) Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 16:40:02 GMT+0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 163 (198) It's interesting that George Aichele, who agrees with me about the use of citation, also shares with me two other characteristics: 1) he "relishes the give and take" of arguing a point and "cites accordingly" 2) he doesn't live in a "publish or perish" environment. I'm starting to wonder if the academic world doesn't divide into two halves: those of us (like George and myself) who don't have to worry about academic politics and can therefore argue a point of view for its own sake (but pay for it, often at least, with a lack of academic standing), and those of us who can't afford to say what they might like the way they might like, because they have to be constantly looking over their shoulder. OK, OK, I'm trying to be provocative. But isn't there something in it? The recent flurry of discussion about the peer-review process points in the same direction. (For what it's worth, I think the peer review process is a classic example of the misuse by imperfect human beings of a basically good and necessary idea, and the problem is how to replace it with something that's less open to misuse. No scientist/humanist is impartial, and the more he cares about his subject the less impartial he's likely to be, and yes, I too have seen books rejected because they argued against the reviewer's views, and articles held up for 6 months because the reviewer didn't want them published but couldn't find anything to say against them, or rejected for reasons little weightier than a misplaced punctuation point...in both the sciences and the humanities. I wonder what would happen if a rejected article were made available electronically, together with the reviewer's comments that caused its rejection, so that the academic community in general could judge both the article and the reviewer?) Judy Koren From: KESSLER Subject: RE CITATIONS Date: Fri, 17 May 91 17:51 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 164 (199) May I offer a peep of skepticism about the measurement of citations, which is a tool used extensively, I gather, in university management of promotions and sa lary increases and the like, as well as a measurement, in a way, of the value o f certain researchers' work. Viz., many professors in the medical areas, for ex ample have secretaries and computers, and they incorporate bibliographies and c itations that lengthen and lengthen, almost geometrically, importing them whole sale via their computers from article to article and re-exporting them. It is a cause of certain immense citations and reputations. And who reads all those bi bliographic entries? They are like tails that lengthen and lengthen, but mean v ery little too often. So people cite and re-cite the same lists, and the measur ers make their measurements, and lo! a person has ten thousand citations: has t hat person been read and studied? Figure that out. Let alone in the humanities, where mastering the literature is not something a sane person would undertake, as it is as vast as the pebbled shore and spreading... Kessler From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: OED online Date: Wed, 22 MAY 91 14:03:58 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 165 (200) The OED database is not offered as an online facility by Oxford University Press. Various institutions have, however, purchased the magnetic tape of the Second Edition and would have it available as a resource for their university/college. Details of the mag tape version can be obtained from my colleague Mrs Janet Caldwell (email OUPJSC at same address as mine). Ruth Glynn Electronic Publishing Oxford University Press Oxford OX2 6DP, UK From: Dennis Baron Subject: OED online Date: Wed, 22 May 91 11:19:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 166 (201) In reply to Sally Ross's query, I know that we have the 2nd ed. of the _OED_ installed on our mainframe but I don't know if it can be used by people on other campuses. Perhaps our Computing Services Office (CSO) can be of help. Try contacting Caroly Gedney at c-gedney@uiuc.edu I find the on-line _OED_ extremely useful. Dennis Baron Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign debaron@uiuc.edu From: Oystein Reigem Subject: SIG for optical storage tech. in research, teaching, etc. Date: Wed, 22 May 91 10:53:59 EMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 91 (202) Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities The aim of the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (NCCH) is to encourage and help individual researchers and academic institutions to a sensible use of computers. Not only do we develop computing methods and programs for application in humanistic research - we also provide information and teaching services in order to demonstrate how computer technology can be utilized in the field. This work is carried out in cooperation with humanities research institutions and the Norwegian universities' computing departments for the humanities. The Council for Research in the Humanities finances NCCH. The budget for 1990 amounted to 4.225 mill NOK, which includes funding for a new research program and remodelling/expansion of NCCH's premises. Income from paid services and sales amounted to 896,000 NOK. In 1990 NCCH is staffed by 15 regular employees, as well as two temporary workers. OLUFF [deleted quotation]storage technology and its applications in teaching, research and dissemination. The name of the group is OLUFF, an abbreviation for Optiske Lagringsmedier i Undervisning, Forskning og Formidling (optical storage media in teaching, research and dissemination). A special interest group within OLUFF for interactive video in foreign language teaching has also been formed. OLUFF covers the whole range of optical storage media, i.e both interactive video and other videodisc applications, distribution on various CD-media, document/image and large volume data storage on writable digital optical disks, and also writeable videodiscs. OLUFF was aimed at researchers within the arts and humanities, but has received a lot of interest outside the humanities and outside the academic circles, so that the original target group now is a definite minority. Even though OLUFF started as a national organization, we also now have many members from the other Scandinavian countries. Among our members are both researchers, teachers, employees of private companies, etc; there are those who sell products and services, those working on projects, and those with merely an interest in the technology. OLUFF publishes a newsletter, which is issued three times a year. It is in Norwegian, so you will have to be able to read Norwegian in order to benefit from it. However project dokumentation, presentations etc. are most welcome even if in English. The membership fee (per year) is NOK 125 (approx GBP 11) for public or non-profit institutions and NOK 400 (approx GBP 36.00) for companies and other commercial ventures. At the moment, OLUFF enjoys some 250 members but we think that with a more aggressive and goal-directed marketing, there is a potential for still more members. The market for information on optical storage technology is also obviously growing fast now. Humanistiske Data NCCH also publishes the journal Humanistiske Data (HD), which covers the whole field of computing within the humanities. Interest in the journal ~ among both readers and contributors ~ is steadily increasing, not only in Scandinavia, but also in the rest of Europe and the U.S. HD has a circulation number of about 1100. HD also runs articles on the application of optical storage media in the humanities. HD thus is a "companion" journal for a lot of OLUFF members. Most issues of Humanistiske Data contain some articles in English, and English summaries of the rest of the contents are always provided (which is not the case with OLUFF). The journal is free of charge to subscribers outside Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. ------------------------ cut here ------------------------------------ Application for OLUFF membership form: Name (S,C) ............................................................ Title ........................... Company/Organisation ................................................... Department ............................................................ Address ............................................................ Address ............................................................ Phone/Fax ............................................................ E-Mail addr ............................................................ Type of membership: a). Non-commercial (NOK 125) .... b). Commercial (NOK 400) .... Mark here if you wish to be registerd as spesially interested in Interactive Video in Foreign Language Education. (IVIF) ..... 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Be allowed a presentation of their company/products/projects in the newsletter (free of further charge). 4. Labels with the names and post addresses of all members can be made available (extra fee|) Send the Form to: (use e-mail, Fax or paper.) Oystein Reigem OLUFF Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities PO Box 53 University N-5027 BERGEN NORWAY tel: int + 47 - 5 - 21 29 54/55/56 fax: int + 47 - 5 - 32 26 56 e-mail addr: FAFOR\NOBERGEN.EARN From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) Subject: UNIX/VMS and E-Mail to CompuServe Date: Tue, 21 May 91 20:47:44 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 167 (203) Two quick answers to recent queries: (1) Maurizio Lana has asked about UNIX vs VMS. I cannot speak for VMS, but I can say that UNIX (at least on a Sun SPARCserver/490) will serve all of the purposes mentioned in his note. (2) David Barry has asked how to send e-mail to CompuServe. If the CompuServe user number is 72377,1113, send mail to this address: 72377.1113@compuserve.com Be sure to change the comma to a period. --Natalie (nm1@ra.msstate.edu) From: d-bantz@uchicago.edu Subject: Re: 5.0086 NQs: "Man"liness; E-Mail; E-Journals; REACH (5/104) Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 12:56:08 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 168 (204) ---Maurizio Lana wrote in Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0086. Tuesday, 21 May 1991: we want to be able to: - connect to Internet and became an Internet node; - do interactive remote logins (telnet, ftp, and so on) on hosts of any type (running VM, VMS, TSO, and so on); - manage a local Ethernet network (connecting the Departments located in the buildings of Via S. Ottavio 20) composed by Mac and DOS pc's; - connect host-to-host (or something like) to remote computing facilities locat ed about 60 Km. far; The communications functions listed place relatively little demand on the cpu; even the small unix boxes (e.g., a Sun sparcstation, NeXT machine, others) can provide e-mail and ftp for quite a few users (assuming not everyone at once is using these services). Using POP mail or other client/server mail systems will reduce the connection time for most users while providing a better interface and off-load display and composing tasks to desktop (i.e., Macs and DOS) machines, further reducing the need for a powerful central machine. If you have an ethernet network reaching to desktops, users can telnet or FTP directly (using your central machine as a domain name server perhaps) without logging in to the central machine at all. This route may allow a better interface and multiple remote sessions. Even if your users do log on to your central machine for these internet services, there isn't that much being done by the box passing through communications between the desktop session and a remote service. So for the communications needs you outline, and assuming a few dozen users, you should be concerned with reliability, comfortable UNIX system management environment, disk space, and network connections, and not that concerned with the "performance" in terms of mips or megaflops. For these communications services you obviously do not need expensive graphics systems either. One person's off-the-cuff opinion based only on the limited information provided! I have presumed your central machine will be a UNIX box. From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Re: 5.0087 Qs: Ste Waudru Date: Tue, 21 May 91 19:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 169 (205) SAINTE WAUDRU Waudru est la fille du comte de Hainaut. Elle a fonde une abbaye pres du chateau dans la bonne ville de Mons en Belgique. La collegiale qui est appelee Sainte Waudru a ete batie entre 1450 et 1621. Le Syndicat d'initiative de Mons est situe a: 20, Grand-Place MONS Province de Hainaut Si vous avez besoin de plus de renseignements, contactez-moi directement. Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" MONTREAL (Quebec) Canada - H3C 3J7 E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca Tel.: (514) 288-3916 From: crisp@engr.uark.edu (Crisp Group) Subject: Date: Wed, 22 May 91 13:41 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 170 (206) Our query should have said enhancement of electronic copies of historic documents. Our purpose is to obtain and file elec. images or copies (e-copies) of historic documents. Image bases provide access to a larger audience. The readability of e-copies of difficult-to-read originals presents the problem; thus,the motivation to enhance the e-image to access the information. This is a dangerous process! We are very aware (and have intentionally produced altered copies with different information) that an enhanced e-copy may give different info. from the original. Disclaimers and warnings should be attached to an e-copy. The value of an image base of historic documents may (a question open to debate) counter the danger of enhancement. We have no interest in modification to original documents. Our interest in UV/IR is to obtain a UV/IR photograph of the document and then scan the photograph. An alternative is to use UV/IR directly in the scanning process. We continue our request for info. and regret our incorrect phrasing. From: OCRAMER%CCNODE@VAXF.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0078 Teaching Classical Languages Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 17:28 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 171 (207) What is being called "inductive" (pioneered in late 19th cent. in USA by Wm. Rainey Harper with biblical languages) would now be affiliated in the ed. biz. with language "acquisition"; whereas what is being called "deduction" must be traditional language "learning". I think the pedagogical literature with modern languages indicates that the former is the only way toward really using the "target" language, though it can be enhanced and speeded up by a judicious application of paradigms and rules once students are conscious of the ways the new rules and paradigms contrast with the working of their mother tongue. The beauty of Knudsvig's program (inherited by him from Waldo Sweet's _Latin A Structural Approach_, Ann Arbor 1957, 1966; and carried on from them by John Randall's _Learning Latin_, Liverpool/Leeds 1986, *computerized* by Francis Cairns (The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT) as the Learning Latin Computer Package, version 2.0 1990) is its syntactic base ("kernelling" and "metaphrase")allowing students to read from the start in target-language patterns, rather than beginning with acres of noun and verb charts. The beauty of the noun and verb charts for students who enjoy them is undeniable, and a wise teacher will find out and employ as many learning styles as possible. From: Morgan Tamplin Subject: Re: Responses: 5.0082 Gatling/Machine Guns Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 11:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 172 (208) I quite appreciated Bill Kupersmith's definitive response to the Gatling Gun discussion. I had quickly reviewed a number of Kipling's poems in the hope of finding the (as we now know) non-existant reference. Although the search was in vain, it did revive a former interest in this now quaint but sometimes powerful Victorian style. Some of his verses from the Afghan campaign seem more immediately relevant and perhaps should be translated into Russian, if anyone on Humanist is interested. [deleted quotation]search also left me hoping for a machine-readable Kipling corpus; does any exist? Speaking of irony, I turned first to the current Enycyclopedia Britannica to learn about the Gatling gun, and finding nothing, reverted to the venerable 11th, where I learned that Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903) had been an inventor of some note before turning his ingenuity to a rapid fire gun during the Civil War. He developed the weapon by 1862 but the war ended before the Federal authorities officially approved it. "From that time, however, the success of the invention was assured and within 10 years it had been adopted by every civilized nation." Morgan Tamplin Trent University From: david j reimer f Subject: TN3270 for Sys V Unix Date: Tue, 21 May 91 22:23:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 94 (209) It is amazing what "humanities computing" will drive one to. Sigh. I am looking for the TN3270 emulation software written for the AT&T System V implementation of Unix. I have seen DOS versions, OODLES of Unix versions for Berkeley systems, even a MAC version (!), but trying to find one for AT&T Sys V Unix is like looking for a needle in a haystack. So: anybody out there cozying up to the "needle" I'm looking for?? Any advice or suggestions gladly and gratefully received. David Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier University dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca From: Chuck Bush Subject: Randall Jones Named Dean of Humanities at BYU Date: Thu, 23 May 91 13:29:51 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 173 (210) HUMANIST readers will be interested to know that Randall Jones has been appointed Dean of the College of Humanites at Brigham Young University. The announcement was made this morning; the appointment is effective July 1st. Randy was the founding director of the BYU Humanities Research Center. He was a board member of the Association for Computers in the Humanities for several years and is now the Executive Secretary of that organization. Messages of congratulation could be sent to HRCJONES@BYUVM.BITNET Chuck Bush BYU Humanities Research Center From: CALLEGRE@umtlvr.bitnet Subject: LIBRARY OF AMERICA ? Date: Thu, 23 May 91 09:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 174 (211) Just recently, during a weekend on the lovely island of Martha's Vineyard, I found in a bookstore the "Complete poetry and complete prose" of Walt Whitman in a fine edition named "The Library of America". The volume contains : Leaves of Grass (1855), Leaves of Grass (1891-1892), Complete Prose Works (1892). The back-cover says that The Library of America is "the only definitive collection of America's greatest writers". I am not a specialist of American literature and I wonder if this claim is true. Before I continue to purchase more books in this collection, could someone tell me whether the Library of America provides really authoritative editions? The books themselves are fine. The thin high quality paper, the fine type remind me of our french "Bibliotheque de la Pleiade" without the notes and variants (which often occupy one third of a typical volume). I wonder if American publishers offer other such "complete" works of American authors. Thanks for any feedback. Christian Allegre Departement d'etudes francaises Universite de Montreal Callegre@UMTLVR.bitnet From: Editors of PMC Subject: Invitation to Post Date: Thu, 23 May 91 11:35:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 175 (212) _Postmodern Culture_ invites announcements of conferences, calls for papers, special issues, or other events, for inclusion in the NOTICES section of PMC 1.3, which will appear at the end of this month. If you have something you'd like us to include, please send your text (up to 250 words, up to 65 characters per line) to PMC@NCSUVM or PMC@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU The following is a list of the notices we have already received-- Journal Announcements: 1) Denver Quarterly 2) DisClosure 3) _REACH_ 4) SubStance 5) Contention 6) ARL/OSAP Electronic Journals Directory 7) Netweaver Notebook 8) Journal of Ideas Symposia, Discussion Groups, Calls for Papers: 9) Hungarian Discussion Group 10) MLA 1991: Session on "The Use of Electronic Communications for Research in Literature and Language." 11) Call for Papers: Women & Technology 12) Call for Papers: Jerome Charyn John Unsworth Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_ From: WONNEBERGER REINHAR Subject: Transcription for Biblical Hebrew Date: 05/23/91 09:06:28 GMT+1 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 176 (213) I am looking for a transcription for Biblical Hebrew which can be realized entirely with a normal European font, i.e. latin letters and some of them with accents. I also would appreciate bibiliographic hints concerning the question of transcription. Regards Reinhard Wonneberger Dr. Reinhard Wonneberger ...... | qzdmgn @ ruipc1e . BITNET EDS +49-6142-80-3115. Fax -3030 | Home +49-6131-57 27 85 .. .. Eisenstr.56 ......... | .... Weichselstr. 56 .... .. D 6090 Ruesselsheim ....... | .... D 6500 Mainz 1 ..... From: "JAMES W. HALPORN" Subject: CITATIONS Date: 23 May 91 08:41:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 177 (214) I was taken by Roy Flannagan's observation that there is a group out there that believes one should cite only five books written in the last fifty years. It begins to explain to me why, in my field of classical studies, in recent work in literary criticism of classical texts, authors think nothing of consequence was done in the field before 1950. This in a field in which the scholarly discipline as we know it today began in the late 18th century (taking F.A. Wolf as the "inventor" of modern classical scholarship). The motto, as I have expressed elsewhere, for modern classical scholars is a revision of a statement by St. Jerome: perierunt qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. J.W. Halporn (Indiana University) From: James Marchand Subject: Re: 5.0079 Responses: Ultraviolet and Infrared Light (3/57) Date: Wed, 22 May 91 19:19:38 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 178 (215) On the question of enhancement. The use of monochromatic light and subsequent development (e.g. high-contrast development as used by Bennett for the Gothic Skeireins) represents enhancement. All reproduction has the problem that it has the potential to distort the original, but alas that is what time, acci- dents and man do. One can scan the photograph into the computer and use such techniques as contrast stretching, density slicing, histogram manipula- tion, darkening, lightening and the like. The important thing is to be scru- pulously honest, even with oneself, and to label the techniques used. It would be easy to falsify a document. One of my assistants typed a k instead of an r in a reconstitution of a Gothic document we were doing; the result was beautiful, but false. Documents preserved on CD-ROM would be, I should imagine, better preserved than if they were photographed onto microfilm, for example. Whatever, documents of historic importance ought to be "pre- served" on multiple media and "enhanced" if possible. Recently, I have been working on computer programs to recover the subscript in palimpsests, where the computer is our only hope. From: klempere@baker.dartmouth.edu (Katharina Klemperer listserv) Subject: OED online Date: Thu, 23 May 91 16:24:36 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 179 (216) It is true that a number of institutions have purchased and mounted the electronic version of OED2. However, the license agreement restricts its use to members of the institution that licensed it. So you should not expect to be able to search the OED over the internet at another institution. Katharina Klemperer Dartmouth College Library From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: Linguistic Projects Listing Date: Wed, 22 May 91 16:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 97 (217) Dear Humanists and Linguists, The following posting is a list of electronic text projects from around the world which have devoted their resources to linguistic studies. The information contained within this posting was retrieved from the on-line catalogue of electronic text projects from Georgetown University's Center for Text and Technology. This on-line catalogue will be open for TELNET and modem logins later this month, so watch HUMANIST for details. Sincerely, James A. Wilderotter II Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" -------------------- [Complete versions of these lists are now available through the fileserver, s.v. LNGUISTC LIST1, LNGUISTC LIST2, and LNGUISTC LIST3. You may obtain copies by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "L. Dale Patterson" Subject: 5.0095 Notes and Queries Date: Fri, 24 May 91 08:01:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 180 (218) The Library of America series has been in publication for at least 7 or more years (probably 10). You are right that the material is of good quality. The paper is acid-free and archival quality (meaning it won't yellow or turn brittle with age) and the bindings, as you may have noticed allow the book to be opened flat without damage to the spine or binding. One can subscribe to the series, coming at most once a month. If you dont' want a volume you can send it back. I subscribed for several years and was pleased with the product. There is a distinction between authoritative and critical edition, of course. These are not critical editions in the sense of containing extensive notes and references to variants of the text. If that is important then you won't find it here. There are notes about the text and notes about the author. The other impressive aspect about the series is the breadth, in time and space. Authors from the colonial to mid-twentieth century are involved and even some lesser known authors are getting into the series, which is great (e.g. when the series was started Sarah Orne Jewett was probably not as popular as she is today, but the decision was made to include her-though I don't think her volume is out yet) I believe the publisher's mean definitive in the sense of the scope of the entire series, not the authoritative text, though according to the prospectus there was the attempt to arrive at a good textual reading. -- Dale Patterson University of Louisville BITNET: ldpatt01 @ ulkyvm From: John Lavagnino Subject: Library of America Date: Mon, 27 May 91 10:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 181 (219) In response to Christian Allegre's inquiry about the Library of America: these editions are generally quite reliable, though they aren't in every instance the best around. The Whitman volume, for example, is an accurate reprint of the texts, and it's the only one-volume edition with both the 1855 and 1891--1892 Leaves of Grass and with some of the prose. But the Norton edition of the poetry is a more scholarly edition: it includes many fragments that don't appear in the Library of America edition, and the notes are much more extensive. Many other Library of America volumes---notably their Hawthorne, Howells, and Melville---take their texts from the definitive scholarly editions of their writers, and in those instances are usually the best editions you can obtain for a reasonable cost. Every volume has a detailed "Note on the Text" at the end which will tell you everything you need to know to judge the origin of the texts they're using. In short, these are always pretty good editions, and sometimes are the best. As far as its claim to be a definitive *collection*, this is perhaps more open to question. The Pleiade comparison is apt, because that was one model for this series. And it is a unique series because it often offers comprehensive collections of its authors---you can get a whole lot of Hawthorne, not just the Greatest Hits---but there are lots of gaps in its roster of authors, in part because they've only been at it for a decade. For example, the coverage of black and women writers is still very poor. There are many paperback series that cover more authors, but usually without covering more than the Greatest Hits; in fact the Library of America itself has started a paperback series of that sort. I can't resist mentioning one problem with the Whitman volume: it omits a poem from the 1891--1892 Leaves of Grass, ``Come, said my Soul,'' which appeared on the title page. It's a rather common mistake in reprints of this work. I wrote to the Library of America about it last fall but to date have received no response. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University From: Gordon Dohle Subject: Re: 5.0094 Query: TN3270 for UNIX ? Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 16:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 182 (220) You could try the archie archive searcher. ARCHIE ? TELNET 132.206.2.3 (quiche.cs.mcgill.ca) To login into ARCHIE, at the prompt for login (quiche) type archie then prog your search target Gordon Dohle@Vax2.Concordia.ca Dohle@Conu2.Bitnet From: Ed Haupt Subject: vms vs. unix Date: Tue, 21 May 91 17:56:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 183 (221) I have had a chance to use both a vax and a unix machine. The vax is a upgraded 780 running vms with a Wollagong (WINS) mail system. The vax help files are generally hateful, and for a unix user, full of bizarre codes or names, and the wollagong mailer makes absurd demands on your patience. The unix system is pilot, which is set up by the state of new Jersey for communication among academic users. Anyone who works at a college in NJ, public or private can get an account. The system people are generally good, so my comparison is a little biased. I regard the unix help files (man ....) as obscure to the uninitiated, but basically comprehensible. mail is not the friendliest, but knowing it is much more portable than the vax equivalent. I use mm, which is a columbia product, which still has emacs as an incomprehensible sort of editor, since I haven't switched to the generally useful, but difficult for first-timers, vi. I keep my adress aliases in a .mailrc file, I can set forwards easily, (don't even try to ask me how it's done in Wollagong), etc. etc. A newly converted unix partisan. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ed Haupt | | OFFICE (201) 893-4327 Dept. of Psychology | the | HOME (201) 783-0561 Montclair State College | electronic | INTERNET:haupt@pilot. Montclair, NJ 07043 | PAINE | njin.net USA | | BITNET:Haupt@njin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "Stephen McCluskey" Subject: Re: 5.0079 Responses: Ultraviolet and Infrared Light Date: Thursday, 23 May 1991 21:01:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 184 (222) . I'm new to HUMANIST and got in the middle of this discussion. I have no expertese but have often thought that the remote sensing community has a good approach using multi-spectral scanners with as many as 256 spectral bands rather than the three of the naked eye plus UV and IR that we're limited to. That, plus some number crunching (factor analysis I think) and they can identify various kinds of plants, etc. from aircraft and satellite images. Couldn't that be used to identify different inks, remnants in palimpsests, etc. Besides reflectance bands, people working with mss also would have an equal number of flourescence bands to play with that the aerial photographers lack. It's certainly not something I could follow up but those in the field might find it possible -- although it may have been tried and found wanting already. -- Steve McCluskey From: Lou Burnard Subject: ICAME Conference Report Date: Fri, 24 May 91 10:16 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 100 (223) ICAME Conference Report: Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorks 6-12 May 1991 ICAME is the annual get together of corpus linguists. This year's, (the twelfth) was hosted by Leeds University at a rather nice decayed Victorian hotel on the edge of Ilkley Moor and enjoyed excellent weather, the usual relaxed atmosphere and the usual extraordinary array of research reports, which can only be very briefly noticed in this report. As usual, there were about 50 invited delegates, most of whom knew each other well, and a few rather bemused looking non-Europeans, notably Mitch Marcus (Penn State) and Louise Guthrie (New Mexico SU). The social programme included an outing to historic Haworth by steam train which, alas, your correspondent had to forgo in order to attend to other TEI business, and large amounts of good Yorkshire cooking, which he did not. For the first time, the organising committee had included a so- called open day, to which a number of interested parties, supposedly keen to find out what this corpus-linguistics racket was all about, had been invited. As curtain raiser to this event, I was invited to present a TEI status report, which I did at break neck speed, and Jeremy Clear (OUP) to describe the British National Corpus project, which he did at a more relaxed pace. The open day itself included brief presentations from Stig Johansson (Oslo), on the history of ICAME since its foundation in 1973, from Antoinette Renouf (Birmingham) on the basic design problems of corpus building, from Sid Greenbaum (London) on the design and implementation of the new co-operative International Corpus of English project, from Eric Atwell (Leeds) on the kinds of parsing systems which corpus linguistics made possible, from Jan van Aarts (Nijmegen) on the Nijmegen approach to computational linguistics, from John Sinclair (Birmingham) on the revolutionary effect of corpus linguistics on lexicography and on language teaching, from Gerry Knowles (Lancaster) on the particular problems of representing spoken language in a corpus and from Knut Hofland (Bergen) on the technical services provided for ICAME at Bergen. While none of these speakers said anything particularly new, several of them (notably van Aarts, Renouf and Sinclair) managed to convey very well what is distinctive and important about the field. As far as I could tell, most of the ICAME community was a bit dubious about the usefulness of the Open Day. For outsiders wishing to get up to speed on why corpus linguistics is interesting and why it matters however, I would judge it a notable success. Corpus linguistics is, of course, all about analysing large corpora of real world texts. To do this properly, you probably need a good lexicon, and you will certainly finish up with one, if you do the job properly. Not surprisingly therefore, the conference proper began with a series of papers about electronic lexica of various flavours, ranging from the CELEX database (Richard Piepenbrock, Nijmegen) in which a vast array of information about three languages (Dutch, English and German) is stored in a relational database, to the experimental word-sense lattices traced by Willem Meijs' Amsterdam research teams from the LDOCE definitions. Work based on this, surely by now the most analysed of all mrds, was also described by Jacques Noel (Liege) and by Louise Guthrie (NMSU). The former had been comparing word-senses in Cobuild and LDOCE, while the latter had been trying to distinguish word senses by collocative evidence from the LDOCE definition texts: although well presented and argued, her conclusions were rather unsurprising (highly domain specific texts are easier to disambiguate than the other sort), and to base any conclusions about language in general on the very artificial language of the LDOCE definition texts seems rather dubious. The traditional ICAME researcher first quantifies some unsuspected pattern of variation in linguistic usage and then speculates as to its causes. Karin Aijmer (Lund), for example, reported on various kinds of `opener's in the 100 or so telephone conversations in the London-Lund Corpus, in an attempt to identify what she called routinisation patterns. In a rather more sophisticated analysis, Bent Altenberg (Lund) reported on a frequency analysis of recurrent word class combinations in the same corpus, and Pieter de Haan (Nijmegen) on patterns of sentence length occurrences within various kinds of written texts. Although attendance at ICAME is by invitation only, an honourable tradition is to extend that invitation to anyone who is doing something at all related to corpus work, even a mere computer scientist like Jim Cowie (Stirling) who began his very interesting paper on automatic indexing with the heretical assertion that restructing the type of text analysed was essential if you wanted to do anything at all in NLP. The object of his research was to identify birds, plants etc. by means of descriptive fragments of text and his method, which relied on identifying roles for parts of the text as objects, parts, properties and values, both highly suggestive for other lines of research and eminently pragmatic. A similarly esoteric, but only potentially fruitful, line of enquiry was suggested by Eric Atwell's report on some attempts to apply neural networks to the task of linguistic parsing. Another nice ICAME tradition is the encouragement of young turks and research assistants, who, when not acutely terrified, are often very good at presenting new approaches and techniques. This year's initiates included Simon Botley (Lancaster), who presented a rather dodgy formalism for the representation of anaphoric chains, Paul Gorman (Aberystwyth) who had translated CLAWS2 into ADA and almost persuaded me that this was a good idea, Christine Johansson (Uppsala) who had been comparing `of which' with `whose' - almost certainly not a good idea and Paul Rayson & Andrew Wilson (also Lancaster) who had souped up General Enquirer to do some rather more sophisticated content analysis of market research survey results by using Claws2 to parse it. Two immaculately designed and presented papers concerned work at the boundary between spoken speech as recorded by an acoustic trace and by transcription: Anne Wichmann (IBM) presented an analysis of `falls' in the London-Lund corpus, a notorious area of disagreement between transcribers. Her elicitation experiment tended to show that there was a perceived continuity between high and low falls which transcribers could not therefore categorise. Gerry Knowles (Lancaster) proposed a model for speech transcription, in which perceived phonemic categories formed an intermediate mapping between text and acoustic data. Speech transcriptions require a compromise between patterns that can be computed from text and interpretations derived from acoustic data. High spots of the conference for me were the presentations from O'Donoghue (Leeds) and Marcus. If there is anyone around who still doesn't believe in systemic functional grammar, Tim O'Donoghue's presentation should have converted him or her. He reported the results of comparing statistical properties of a set of parse- trees randomly generated from the systemic grammar developed by Fawcett and Tucker for the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus with the parse trees found in the same (hand-)parsed corpus itself. The high degree of semantic knowledge in the grammar was cited to explain some very close correlations while some equally large disparities were attributed to the specialised nature of the texts in the corpus. Mitch Marcus (Penn State) gave a whirlwind tour of the new burgeoning of corpus linguistics (they call it `stochastic methods') in the US, and made no bones about its opportunistic nature or or funding priorities. Incidentally providing the conference with one of its best jokes, when remarking of the ACL/DCI, the Linguistics Data Consortium etc. "People want to do this work extremely badly, and they need syntactic corpora to do it", he described the methods and design goals of the Penn Treebank project, stressing its engineering aspects and providing some very impressive statistics about its performance. Several presentations and one evening discussion session concerned the new `International Corpus of English' or ICE project. Laurie Bauer (Victoria University) described its New Zealand component in one presentation, while Chuck Meyer (UMass) described some software developed to tag it (using Interleaf) in another. The most interesting of these however was from And Rosta (London) who is largely responsible for ICE's original and, for my taste, rather baroque encoding scheme: itvtook the form of a detailed point by point comparison between this and the TEI scheme with a view to assessing the possibility of converting between them. The verdict was largely positive, though he identified several points where TEI was lacking, some of which (notably the inability to tag uncertainty of tag assignment and a whole raft of problems in tagging spoken material) should certainly be addressed and all of which provided vey useful and constructive criticisms. There was a general feeling that standardisation of linguistic annotation (which corpus linguists confusingly insist on calling `tagging') was long overdue. Marcus pointed out that the LOB corpus had used 87 different tags for part of speech, LOB had upped this to 135, the new UCREL set had 166 and the London Lund Corpus 197. In Nijmegen, the TOSCA group has an entirely different tagset of around 200 items which has been adopted and, inevitably, increased by the ICE project. It seems to me that someone should at least try to see whether these various tagsets can in fact be harmonised using the TEI recommendations, or at least compared with the draft TEI starter set described in TEI AI1 W2. I also think that someone should at least try to see how successful the feature-structure mechanisms are at dealing with systemic networks of the POW kind. LB, 14 May 91 From: Prof Norm Coombs Subject: EASI Electronic Document Service Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 12:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 101 (224) Equal access to Software for Instruction, EASI, is a project of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology, (EUIT), Program. EASI is devoted to encouraging and stimulating educational institutions and computer and software providers with the challenge of reducing barriers to information technology for persons with a wide variety of disabilities. One of the methods EASI is using to reach this goal is by providing online help for students with disabilities and for institutions wanting to know more about how to improve computer access to such students. At present, May 1991, EASI has begun this online venture by having several helpful documents available in electronic format. These can easily be retrieved from bitnet or internet by following the instructions below. Here is a list of documents presently accessible: (Documents produced by EASI personnel and about EASI activities) README - an introduction to the EASI ftp library 2940 bytes EASI.SIGNUP - Flier introducing EASI and providing a form to use for signing up with EASI and one of its interest activities. 4732 bytes EASIBROCHURE - Computers and Students with Disabilities: New Challenges for Higher Education, Developed by Project EASI, (Equal Access to Software for Instruction), A Project of the EDUCOM Educational Uses of Information Technology, (EUIT), Program. This brochure is EASI's major publication. 63719 bytes EASI.HISTORY - Paper delivered at the CSUN Conference in 1991 provides good overview of EASI and its development. 12878 bytes PHONE.BULLTN - Flier providing brief answers to standard questions about EASI: "What it is and what it does." Useful for EASI members to use in responding to concerns of interested people. 8820 bYtes LIBRARYLIST - List of available EASI on-line documents 1611 bytes MEMBERSHIPLIST - List of EASI members 18391 bytes (Information related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and related legal matters.) ADA.FACTS.1 - Department of Justice Fact Sheet #1 Index Number: 11112 This is the first of two fact sheets on ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act, that are distributed by the Department of Justice. 9877 bytes ADA.FACTS.2 - Department of Justice Fact Sheet #2 Index Number: 11113 This is the second of two fact sheets on ADA that are being distributed by the Department of Justice. 8703 bytes ADA.TEXT - The Americans With Disabilities Act PUBLIC LAW 101-336 JULY 26, 1990 104 STAT. 327 An Act: To establish a clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability. Short Title. This Act may be cited as the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990". 152218 bytes (The next 5 documents are the ADA law split into sections for easier handling.) ADA-TITL.CON - Table of Contents for all TITLE files 8615 bytes ADA-TITL.I - Employment 20658 bytes ADA-TITL.II - Public Services Act 49565 bytes ADA-TITL.III - Public Accommodations and Services 55919 bytes ADA-TITL.IV - Telecommunications Act 10606 bytes ADA-TITL.V - Miscellaneous Provisions 26015 bytes (Other documents related to EASI activities and concerns.) ACCESS.LIB - "Electronic Access to Library Systems For Users with Physical Disabilities" - Norman Coombs Public-Access Computer Systems Review 1, no. 1 (1990) 9272 bytes COMPU.ACCESS - "Considerations in the Design of Computers to Increase Their Accessibility by Persons with Disabilities" Industry/Government Computer Accessibility Task Force Trace Center, Madison, WI. 75113 bytes How to obtain any of these electronic documents: Internet and bitnet users will follow different directions. The internet directions use ftp, (file transfer protocol), which sounds complicated, but the instructions are rather simple. (Bitnet directions will be after the internet explanation.) Here are the ftp instructions. At your system prompt, enter: ftp UM.CC.UMICH.EDU or ftp 35.1.1.43 and when you receive the Name prompt, (you may have to issue the command, 'user' or 'login', first) enter: anonymous and When you receive the password prompt, enter your Internet address. At this point you want to access the EASI subdirrectory, so give the command 'cd easi'. To see a list of the existing materials, type 'ls'. The document librarylist will contain a listing of documents with a brief description. To retrieve that document, for example, type 'get librarylist' and then you'll need to provide your own file name for your system. When you are finished, type 'quit'. Users with access only to BITNET should send a mail message to BITFTP@PUCC with HELP at the first and only line of the message. The response will give you instructions on using the Princeton BITFTP server, which provides a mail interface to the FTP portion of the TCP/IP protocol suite. Here is a sample of the commands you would send in mail to get the document, librarylist, as was described above for internet users: Send mail via bitnet to: bitftp@pucc and included the following lines as the text of that message: ftp UM.CC.UMICH.EDU USER anonymous cd easi get librarylist quit Later, you would receive mail from the Princeton interface containing the document librarylist which you had requested. EASI intends to expand the available electronic documents and to develop other online services. If you are interested in seeing other information posted here, or would like to find out more about the EASI Online Resources Work Group, contact: EASI Online working Group Coordinator: Norman Coombs, MailName=NRCGSH@RITVAX Business phone: (716) 475-2462 Business address: Rochester Institute of Technology One Lomb Memorial Drive P.O. Box 9887 Rochester, NY 14623-0087 Easi FTP Librarian: Ray Farha, Ray_Farha@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Business phone: (313) 936-1808 Business address: Institute for Social Research Room 4245 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mi 48106 EASI Membership Coordinator: Jim Knox, MailName=Jim_Knox@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU Business phone: (313) 998-7634, 936-1614, Fax 998-7718 Business address: University of Michigan Information Technology Division 611 Church Street, 2nd Floor Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3056 If you would like to find out more about Project EASI, or get involved in EASI activities, contact: Project EASI Chair Danny Hilton-Chalfen, MailName=CSMIDHC@OAC.UCLA.EDU Business phone: (213) 206-4839 (Fax 213-206-1700) Business address: UCLA Office of Academic Computing 5628 MSA 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1557 Project Editor: Carmela Castorina, MailName=CSMICLC@OAC.UCLA.EDU Business phone: (213) 206-4839 (Fax 213-206-1700) Business address: UCLA 5628 MSA 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1557 This announcement may be copied and/or distributed. From: JOHNSTON@brandeis.bitnet Subject: RE: 5.0053 Q: Teaching a Classical Language Date: Fri, 24 May 91 11:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 185 (225) On the question of teaching Old Church Slavonic, a required language for students who "sincerely detest" it, I should think it would be wise to expose those students to some of the GLORIOUS hymns in OCS. I may be a hard-nosed Latin grammarian, but I do think students find it easier to pin themselves down to the hard work of learning all those paradigms when they have had a glimpse of the beauty that they will one day be better able to appreciate. Simply by playing some recordings of the music, while the students follow it with copies of the words (and translation) can make a big difference. I find that this sort of thing can be done intermittently over the school term; going over the translation with the students, lingering on those passages and/or words/forms that the students have already learned should be helpful. (It certainly helps when teaching Latin.) Pat Johnston From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: OED2 on-line (licence restrictions) Date: Fri, 24 MAY 91 12:25:02 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 186 (226) I was on the point of sending a message about the licence restrictions on the OED2 mag tape when I ready Katharina Klemperer's message advising of this. I should have made this point clearer in my original message -- sorry! The Agreement that the purchasing site makes with OUP explicitly states that the licence is not transferable and that the data may not be accessed by terminals other than those of the purchasing site. In the actual agreement these terms are of course couched in strict legal language, but I think you'll all get the general gist. Ruth Glynn Electronic Publishing, OUP Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP, UK From: Walter Maner Subject: 2ND CALL, COMPUTING & VALUES CONFERENCE, AUG 12-16 Date: Fri, 24 May 91 02:23:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 187 (227) The National Conference on Computing and Values will convene August 12-16, 1991, in New Haven, CT. N C C V / 91 is a project of the National Science Foundation and the Research Center on Computing and Society. Specific themes (tracks) include - Computer Privacy & Confidentiality - Computer Security & Crime - Ownership of Software & Intellectual Property - Equity & Access to Computing Resources - Teaching Computing & Values - Policy Issues in the Campus Computing Environment The workshop structure of the conference limits participation to approximately 400 registrants, but space *IS* still available at this time (mid-May). Confirmed speakers include Ronald E. Anderson, Daniel Appleman, John Perry Barlow, Tora Bikson, Della Bonnette, Leslie Burkholder, Terrell Ward Bynum, David Carey, Jacques N. Catudal, Gary Chapman, Marvin Croy, Charles E. M. Dunlop, Batya Friedman, Donald Gotterbarn, Barbara Heinisch, Deborah Johnson, Mitch Kapor, John Ladd, Marianne LaFrance, Ann-Marie Lancaster, Doris Lidtke, Walter Maner, Diane Martin, Keith Miller, James H. Moor, William Hugh Murray, Peter Neumann, George Nicholson, Helen Nissenbaum, Judith Perolle, Amy Rubin, Sanford Sherizen, John Snapper, Richard Stallman, T. C. Ting, Willis Ware, Terry Winograd, and Richard A. Wright. The registration fee is low ($175) and deeply discounted air fares are available into New Haven. To request a registration packet, please send your name, your email AND paper mail addresses to ... BITNet MANER@BGSUOPIE.BITNET InterNet maner@andy.bgsu.edu (129.1.1.2) or, by fax ... (419) 372-8061 or, by phone ... (419) 372-8719 (answering machine) (419) 372-2337 (secretary) or, by regular mail ... Professor Walter Maner Dept. of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA With best wishes, Terrell Ward Bynum and Walter Maner, Conference Co-chairs From: "DONALD E. HARDY" Subject: special issue Date: Mon, 27 May 91 12:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 188 (228) CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY THEORY: CROSSCURRENTS OF INFLUENCE A 1992 special issue of LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE will be devoted to crosscurrents of influence between linguistic theory and literary theory/criticism. Ideal papers would critically explore one particular interface between linguistics and literary theory or criticism, such as orality/literacy, ordinary/literary language, translation, stylistics, narratology, dialogue, discourse analysis, pragmatics, etc. Papers which are accepted for publication must be in final form and to the guest editor by December 15, 1991. Please send inquiries, abstracts or completed papers for review to the address below: Professor Donald E. Hardy English Department University of North Texas P.O. Box 13827 Denton, Texas 76203-3827 From: "David C. Wright" Subject: Mormon bulletin boards Date: Fri, 24 May 91 18:13:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 189 (229) For some time now I have been vaguely aware of the existence somewhere of one or more electronic bulletin boards relating to Mormonism and issues discussed by the "liberal" Mormon community (women and the priesthood, Mark Hoffman, the Church's stance on homosexuality and abortion, the continuing practice of plural marriage by fundamentalists, Mormon attitudes toward war and peace, the New Mormon History, etc.). I called the Sunstone people in Salt Lake City today, but they knew even less about these bulletin boards than I do. Does anyone know where such bulletin boards are and how I can gain access to them? I am really more interested in discussing Mormonism with intelligent and informed people than I am in entering into a dialogue with Mormon-bashers or other evangelical anti-"cult" crusaders. I will appreciate any information anyone can give me. --David C. Wright From: Dave Graber Subject: Self-Immolation? Date: Sat, 25 May 91 13:39:53 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 190 (230) I am interested in investigating behavior as text, and how this is adapted by different cultures. (Byronic posturing in early 19th century Russia is a prime example). Can anyone point me toward religious or literary precedents for the practice of self-immolation-- as statement? David Graber (my apologies to those who find this unpleasant subject material for HUMANIST). David S. Graber Humanities and Arts Computing Center DR-10 University of Washington GRABER@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU graber@milton.u.washington.edu (206) 543-4218 From: Subject: query:Jean Comoroff Date: Mon, 27 May 91 14:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 191 (231) I am up against a grant deadline and do not have access to my library because of the holiday. Can anyone helpme identify work by Jean Comoroff ?? I am working on the metaphor of the "body politic" especially in the Middle Ages and was told Comoroff might be helpful.... Many thanks. Kate Forhan, Siena College, Loudonville, New York. From: Dave Graber Subject: Self-Immolation? Date: Sat, 25 May 91 13:39:53 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 192 (232) I am interested in investigating behavior as text, and how this is adapted by different cultures. (Byronic posturing in early 19th century Russia is a prime example). Can anyone point me toward religious or literary precedents for the practice of self-immolation-- as statement? David Graber (my apologies to those who find this unpleasant subject material for HUMANIST). David S. Graber Humanities and Arts Computing Center DR-10 University of Washington GRABER@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU graber@milton.u.washington.edu (206) 543-4218 From: Subject: query:Jean Comoroff Date: Mon, 27 May 91 14:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 193 (233) I am up against a grant deadline and do not have access to my library because of the holiday. Can anyone helpme identify work by Jean Comoroff ?? I am working on the metaphor of the "body politic" especially in the Middle Ages and was told Comoroff might be helpful.... Many thanks. Kate Forhan, Siena College, Loudonville, New York. From: "David C. Wright" Subject: Mormon bulletin boards Date: Fri, 24 May 91 18:13:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 194 (234) For some time now I have been vaguely aware of the existence somewhere of one or more electronic bulletin boards relating to Mormonism and issues discussed by the "liberal" Mormon community (women and the priesthood, Mark Hoffman, the Church's stance on homosexuality and abortion, the continuing practice of plural marriage by fundamentalists, Mormon attitudes toward war and peace, the New Mormon History, etc.). I called the Sunstone people in Salt Lake City today, but they knew even less about these bulletin boards than I do. Does anyone know where such bulletin boards are and how I can gain access to them? I am really more interested in discussing Mormonism with intelligent and informed people than I am in entering into a dialogue with Mormon-bashers or other evangelical anti-"cult" crusaders. I will appreciate any information anyone can give me. --David C. Wright From: Dave Graber Subject: Self-Immolation? Date: Sat, 25 May 91 13:39:53 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 195 (235) I am interested in investigating behavior as text, and how this is adapted by different cultures. (Byronic posturing in early 19th century Russia is a prime example). Can anyone point me toward religious or literary precedents for the practice of self-immolation-- as statement? David Graber (my apologies to those who find this unpleasant subject material for HUMANIST). David S. Graber Humanities and Arts Computing Center DR-10 University of Washington GRABER@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU graber@milton.u.washington.edu (206) 543-4218 From: Subject: query:Jean Comoroff Date: Mon, 27 May 91 14:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 196 (236) I am up against a grant deadline and do not have access to my library because of the holiday. Can anyone helpme identify work by Jean Comoroff ?? I am working on the metaphor of the "body politic" especially in the Middle Ages and was told Comoroff might be helpful.... Many thanks. Kate Forhan, Siena College, Loudonville, New York. From: Subject: Query: African Alphabetisation Standards Date: Mon, 27 May 91 21:57 N X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 197 (237) Dear list(en)ers, I'm looking for refences on standardisation of African orthographies. In special I'm looking for a document on the ``Rejaf Language Conference'' (1928). I'm also looking for a document of the UNESCO (about 1969) for the standardisation of several West African alphebatisations. Any help is greatly appreciated. J"org Knappen knappen@dmznat51.bitnet From: "Dr. Joan Korenman; WMST" Subject: WMST-L (Women's Studies List) Date: 27 May 91 23:29:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 198 (238) WMST-L, a Women's Studies list, has just been established. Its purpose is to facilitate discussion of Women's Studies issues, especially those concerned with research, teaching, and program administration, and to publicize relevant conferences, job announcements, calls for papers, publications, and the like. It is hoped that WMST-L will also serve as a central repository for course materials, curriculum proposals and projects, bibliographies, and other files related to Women's Studies. To subscribe to WMST-L, send the following command via e-mail or interactive message to LISTSERV@UMDD (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet): Subscribe WMST-L Your full name. For example: Subscribe WMST-L Jane Doe Messages for distribution on the list (questions, replies, announcements, etc.) should be sent to WMST-L@UMDD (Bitnet) or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet). Please note: only messages for distribution should be sent to WMST-L; all commands (subscribe, signoff, review, etc.) should go to LISTSERV. If you have questions or would like more information about WMST-L, or if you have materials that you would be willing to put on file, please contact Joan Korenman, Women's Studies Program, U. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 USA. E-mail: KORENMAN@UMBC (Bitnet) or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU (Internet). From: Subject: Association for the History of the Language Sciences Date: 29 May 1991 09:54:33 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 199 (239) NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences was founded in December 1987 to promote, encourage, and support the study of the history of the sciences concerned with language, such as linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines, both theoretical and applied, from the earliest beginnings to the present, including non-European traditions. In addition to the critical presentation of the origin and development of particular ideas, theoretical concepts, terms, schools of thought or particular trends, the Association is interested in the discussion of the methodological, philosophical, and epistemological foundations of a historiography of the language sciences. The Association promotes these aims by publishing (twice annually) a newsletter, by sponsoring an annual meeting and by serving as a liaison with European societies interested in related topics. The newsletter keeps members in touch and informed about upcoming meetings, including those of other societies, ongoing research projects, and recent publications in the field. The annual meeting is held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting; the next meeting will be January 10-12 in Philadelphia. The Association particpates in the planning for the triennial International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (last held in Galway, Sept. 1990; next meeting in Washington, DC, in August, 1993) and maintains regular contact with such European societies as the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic ideas and the Societe d'Histoire et d'Epistemologie des Sciences du Langage. Annual dues are $10 (American) and 12$ (Canadian). Checks drawn on US banks should be made payable to NAAHOLS, those from Canadian banks to Talbot Taylor. Send checks to: Professor Talbot Taylor Treasurer, NAAHOLS Department of English College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA 23185 For other information or a copy of the newsletter, contact: Professor Douglas A. Kibbee Department of French University of Illinois 2090 Foreign Languages Building 707 South Mathews Avenue Urbana IL 61801 email: dkibbee@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu FAX: (217) 244-2223 Telephone: (217) 333-2020 From: DJBPITT@pittvms Subject: Re: 5.0071 Notes and Queries: RUSTEX-L Date: Tue, 28 May 91 08:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 200 (240) John Slatter writes: [deleted quotation] According to the moderator of rustex-l, listserv@ubvm is the correct address. If you are unable to subscribe directly, you might want to contact said moderator (Dimitri Vulis, dlv@cunyvms1) and ask him to add you to the list directly. --David Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt@vms.cis.pitt.edu [Internet] The Royal York Apartments, #802 djbpitt@pittvms.bitnet [Bitnet] 3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714 From: "W. Felscher" Subject: spelling checker Date: Mon, 27 May 91 21:46:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 201 (241) To: Multiple recipients Some time ago Mr.Haupt asked for a spellchecker for German words. An ASCII word list of size 137591 is available at ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de 131.159.0.110 as /pub/doc/dict/germanl.Z Walter Felscher, Tuebingen From: "Van Doren, Frederick L." Subject: 5.0100 ICAME Conference Report Date: Tue, 28 May 91 10:28:53 edt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 202 (242) As a researcher in Russian conversational and colloquial speech, I found the ICAME report a fascinating look at a related field I know nothing about. A few basic questions: What is ICAME? What is TEI? Are conference reports available? Where does one turn for a general orientation into corpus linguistics? From: David E Newton Subject: Hindi Loanwords Date: Tue, 28 May 91 19:17 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 203 (243) I am intending to do some work on the borrowing of Hindi words into the English language. This would be done in a historical perspective, and taken specifically from the viewpoint of the history of the English language, though some work on the borrowing of English words into Hindi might also be relevant. If anyone can give me any information on this topic, or knows of any useful reading matter on the subject, I would be very grateful. Thanks! David E Newton Department of Language and Linguistic Science University of York Heslington York YO1 5DD den1@uk.ac.york.vaxa den1@uk.ac.york.vaxb den1@uk.ac.york.worda den1@uk.ac.york.wordb From: Tony.Hancock@cc.utas.edu.au (Tony Hancock) Subject: Bibliographic databases Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 10:44:49 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 204 (244) A colleague of mine in the English dept at the University of Tasmania, Australia is looking for bibliographic material for 19th & 20th century literature. The editors of PMC sent me the following response to an enquiry: [deleted quotation] Could you recommend which databases would be appropriate and how one goes about registering & getting userids & passwords etc in order to gain access to them. Many thanks -Tony Hancock- Tony Hancock E-mail: Tony.Hancock@cc.utas.edu.au Computing Centre AppleLink: AUST0221 University of Tasmania Phone: (002) 20-2811 Fax: (002) 23-1772 GPO Box 252C, Hobart Note: internationally, dial (+61-02) Tasmania 7001, AUSTRALIA instead of (002) From: 1ECHAD@UTSA86.UTSA.EDU (Helen Aristar-Dry) Subject: Contacts in Barcelona Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 21:36:33 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 205 (245) I have a friend who is going to the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has a Fulbright there next year, and would really like some contacts if anyone knows of any in that city. She's in Jewish American Literature, and her e-mail address is: 1ecbkl@utsa86.utsa.edu Her name is Bonnie Lyons, by the way. Please reply directly to her. My thanks! From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: Library of America Electronic Editions Date: Tue, 28 May 91 10:48 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 206 (246) In the recent debate regarding the Library of America noone has mentioned their electronic editions. The Text Archive now holds a couple of machine readable texts supplied by those good people at TLOA, one of only a few publishers who deposit texts directly into the Archive. The texts are Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It and five novels by Henry James 1871-1880. They also promise to provide " a sizable amount" of machine-readable texts in the future. From: gxs11@po.CWRU.Edu (Gary Stonum) Subject: library of america Date: Mon, 27 May 91 16:04:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 207 (247) With the Library of America volumes at least, you can trust the dust-jacket promotional copy. The series is directly modeled on the Pleiade edition--thin paper, uniform size, High-Academic imprimatur,and so on--and the texts in most cases derive from scholarly editions, especially ones in the otherwise much-maligned MLA-sponsored series. Gary Lee Stonum, English, Case Western Reserve U From: "David R. Chesnutt" Subject: Re: 5.0071 Queries: U/V Light Date: Tue, 28 May 91 16:18:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 208 (248) RE: Ultraviolet Document Treatment Having been away for a week, I make a belated reply to the Crisp Group's query about ultraviolet light. My staff and I (Henry Laurens edition) routinely use ultraviolet light in reading 18th century documents to bring out faded ink. I don't know much about the technical aspects but my understanding is that it works well only with certain types of ink. I recently learned that there is a respectable community of private consultants known as "Forensic Document Examiners" in the States. These folk apparently use very sophisticated techniques on both modern and early documents--most often to determine the authenticity of the same. If you'd like to pursue that avenue, I can furnish you with the surface mail address of a very nice fellow in Chicago. He might be able to suggest techniques that would solve the problem. From: Christopher Currie Subject: st. Waudru Date: Tue, 28 May 91 12:41:29 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 209 (249) If the original enquirer wishes to follow up M. Lenoble's reference to the collegiate church of St. Waudru, there is a detailed architectural account in *Bulletin de la Commission Royale des Monuments et des Sites*, vol. for 1949 (vol. n.s. i I think). The tower was to have carried the tallest spire in Europe, but was never completed. Christopher From: Tim Bryson Subject: Re: 5.0104 Qs: Comoroff; Date: Tue, 28 May 91 10:48:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 210 (250) On Jean Comaroff, is the work "Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People" what you are looking for? From: "Robin C. Cover" Subject: COPYRIGHT: _EJOURNAL_ MAKES MY DAY Date: Wed, 29 May 91 14:35:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 110 (251) Never before, I suppose, has the legal jargon accompanying an electronic document "made my day." A most delightful exception, appended here, from the header of _EJournal_ v.1 #2, May 1991 (ISSN 1054-1055): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This electronic publication and its contents are (c) copyright 1991 by _EJournal_. Permission is hereby granted to give away the journal and its contents, but no one may "own" it. Any and all financial interest is hereby assigned to the acknowledged authors of individual texts. This notification must accompany all distribution of _EJournal_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hats off to the editors (Ted Jennings and Ron Bangel, University of Albany), board of advisors and consulting editors of _EJournal_ for helping set such a high standard of "openness" for scholarly writing. We may only dream about the proportion of global electronic information which may be publicly accessible under such terms in the 21st century. _EJournal_ moves decisively in the direction of democratizing access to knowledge rather than restricting it. Congratulations. _Ejournal_ contains thoughtful essays in each of the first two issues (1/1 and 1/2), and may be recommended as a superb model for electronic publication on several counts. I forget whether these two issues are archived on a BITNET listserv or not, but if not, perhaps BROWNVM would provide such an assist for HUMANIST readers. The contact address is ejournal@albnyvms on BITNET. Robin Cover From: Owen Cramer Subject: Re: 5.0104 Qs: ...Self-Immolation Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 09:53 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 211 (252) Re : Self-immolation Right, it's a rather off-putting topic. Still, for people whose religious convictions are secure, immolation=sacrifice, and particularly *self*-immola- tion might often enough be a valid statement. Ancient types of self-sacrifice that occur to me as a classicist are these: 1. Voluntary self-effacement by mutilation etc. to guarantee ~bona fides~ of a statement which is then made verbally by the self-victimized person. Odysseus in Odyssey 4.244 "mastering himself with unseemly blows" to let him talk to the Trojans, compare Zopyrus mutilating himself(Herodotus 3.154ff) to get to the Babylonians for Darius's benefit. 2. Self-chosen death to mark the end of useful life, usually also to make a further implication about others who remain alive. Prexaspes in Herodotus 3.75, the assassin of the true Smerdis, called on to speak for the false Smerdis and his Magian supporters, ascending a tall tower, telling the truth and jumping to his death. Dido at the end of Aeneid 4 ascending the funeral pyre ostensibly made for the relics of her faithless lover Aeneas. 3. Explicit religious ~devotio~, self-sacrifice to guarantee divine favor on a battle, say; most famously the father and son P. Decimus Mus who immolated themselves in two separate battles during the middle Roman Republic because omens indicated the death of the consul would guarantee victory. I don't know what the cats of Egypt meant (Herodotus 2.66) by immolating themselves in fires. 4. This all inevitably leads to the executions, by the two states people tend to value out of the political history of the ancient world, Athens and Rome, of the willing victims, each with divine guidance, Socrates and Jesus. 5. And, in modern times the whole pattern has been put together by, notably, Hoelderlin in a series of poems and the tragedy-fragments of "Empedocles" (there's a case of biographical tradition taking off: Diogenes Laertius collects the stories of his death including the famous leap into the crater of Mt. Aetna (8.67ff)), and offered, via the Stefan George group, to the German World War I generation as a model, analogous to the British Gospel-and- Pilgrim's-Progress model noted by Paul Fussel (~The Great War and Modern Memory~), for modern military self-sacrifice. That's enough Memorial Day meditation for now. From: CALLEGRE@umtlvr.bitnet Subject: Re: 5.0098 Library of America Date: Wed, 29 May 91 22:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 212 (253) I thank Joseph Jones, L. Dale Patterson and John Lavagnino for their wxplanations about the *Library of America*. I am glad to see that the Pleiade comparison was apt, but in the past ten to fifteen years, the volumes in the pleiade collection have become very close to critical editions, so that they are not only authoritative, but also definitive, inasmuch of course as the edition of works by authors passed away can be definitive... Anyway thanks again. Being a specialist of french 20th century literature does not mean that I read only that. I will buy the Hawthornes next. Christian Allegre Callegre@UMTLVR.bitnet From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Sentence length Date: 30 May 91 11:51:18 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 213 (254) Back in March Jean Veronis asked about the non-normal distribution pattern of sentence length data. The only useful comment I have seen on this so far is in Kenny A., _The Computation of Style_ Pergamon 1982 p.147 who argues that while the sentence length DATA are not normally distributed the SAMPLING distribution is normal. He cites the central limit theorem in this regard. The point is that the means of the repeated samples will be normally distributed around the population mean' he says. Anyone have any further useful comments on this ? Does anyone have a note of recent literary work using the stats of sentence length distributions please ? Kenny has a brief discussion in his Stylometric Study of the NT. I can't remember if K.J.Neumann looks at them in his 1990 Authenticity of the Pauline Epistles which uses MVA on several criteria. **************************************************************************** David Mealand * Bitnet: D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@ukacrl University of Edinburgh * Office Fax: (+44)-31-220-0952 Scotland,U.K. EH1 2LX * Office tel.:(+44)-31-225-8400 ext.221/217 **************************************************************************** From: hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy M. Cook) Subject: RE: Library of America Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 11:40:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 214 (255) It may be of interest to some of you that many of the Library of America editions are available on disk and CDROM from the Electronic Text Corporation for use with their WordCruncher program. Hardy M. Cook HMCook@BOE00.MINC.UMD.EDU From: hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy M. Cook) Subject: FTPing Using VMS on a VAX Host Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 10:06:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 215 (256) Is there anyone who has experience using FTP on a VAX with VMS. I discovered only a few weeks ago that I had access to FTP, but I have not been able to use it correctly. I can logon to the remote host from our VAX with VMS. However, once connected the only command I seem to be able to use is DIR. I cannot use CD to get into any of the subdirectories. Neither can I use the GET command to retrieve files. The "computer" people at my institution don't seem to know a thing about FTP, and I would appreciate any help about retreiving files, both text and binary, and downloading them to my PC. Thanks to anyone who can give me any assistance. Hardy M. Cook HMCook@BOE00.MINC.UMD.EDU From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 5.0108 ...Library of America Date: Thu, 30 May 91 16:49:34 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 216 (257) I would appreciate it if I could collect contacts at the Library of America: names, addresses, phones, email.... Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. From: Edward Shreeves 319-335-5867 Subject: Interactive Learning Center at Univ. of Iowa Date: Thu, 30 May 91 13:47 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 113 (258) University of Iowa Libraries establish Interactive Information Learning Center. The University of Iowa Libraries has received a grant of $752,432 from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to establish an Interactive Information Learning Center (an early task will be to come up with a better name). The Center, to be located in the Main Library on the Iowa City campus, will provide members of the university community with services and technological resources to acquire sophisticated information skills and obtain access to a wide range of information in a variety of electronic formats. The facility will have a classroom equipped with 26 workstations, and another 56 workstations for individual and group activities for a total of 80 state-of-the-art workstations. There will be access to bibliographic and full-text databases as well as a variety of software to support computer assisted instruction and access to communication networks for classroom teaching and individual projects. It is expected that one of the major functions of this facility will be to make available a number of full-text databases in the humanities as well as software to be used in their manipulation. The proposal for the Interactive Information Learning Center was developed as a collaborative effort by librarians, faculty and technologists on campus. This collaborative approach will be sustained in the development of services for the Center and in the evaluation of services and programs over the next three years. The Center will provide a place where faculty and students can gain assistance from librarians and computer specialists in the use of an array of information technology. The emphasis on the Center will be service--people helping people to use information technology in creative and innovative ways to support undergraduate teaching, independent learning and research. The Carver Trust was established in 1982 by industrialist Roy J. Carver to support medical and scientific research, scholarships for disadvantaged students and other university programs. The grant from Carver Trust provides support for three years after which The University of Iowa will provide full financial support for the Center. Further information about the Interactive Information Learning Center can be obtained from Larry Woods, Director Information Systems and Technology, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. Bitnet address: LWOODSTS@UIAMVS. If you have advice or information to offer from experience with similar efforts, get in touch with Larry directly. From: Alan David Bulley <458507@UOTTAWA> Subject: Address Query -- Sheffield Date: Fri, 31 May 91 16:56:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 217 (259) To one and all, Is there anyone out there who happens to know the node name at Sheffield University in the UK? I'm particularly interested in reaching a contact in the Religious Studies or Theology faculties but, failing those, I'll be glad of almost any information. Thanks in advance for your help, Alan Bulley St-Paul University, Ottawa Bitnet: 458507@UOTTAWA From: Bronwen Heuer Subject: Intergrating computers into English and Writing classes Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 15:29:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 218 (260) I am writing on behalf of a colleague who is interested in giving a presentation to the Department of English here at Stony Brook. She would like information or advice on: 1) how to integrate the use of computers (Macs in particular) in teaching writing and literature 2) what software is out there 3) who else is interested in communicating about instructional computing concerns? is there a more appropriate LISTSERV for this topic? Please send responses to LLIPSICK@SBCCMAIL Thank you. bronwen heuer ECC-117 phone(516)632-8054 user services/computing srv, state university of ny bronwen@sbccvm stony brook, ny 11794-2640 bronwen@ccvm.sunysb.edu From: matsuba@writer.yorku.ca Subject: Electronic Thesauri Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 20:55:29 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 219 (261) I am affiliated with the Computer Assisted Writing Centre here at York University, and we are looking for an electronic Canadian/English thesaurus for the UNIX environment. Is such a beast available? Who do we contact for a license? Stephen Matsuba York University, Canada matsuba@writer.yorku.ca From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Software to check TEI/SGML markup? Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 11:00:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 220 (262) With other people I'm working to create a corpus on english and american romant ic poetry. It will be employed to test the possibilities offered by hypertext a nd text retrieval software to the teachers (for study and research) and to the students. The corpus will be tagged in a TEI conformant way. Is there any software tool that can be used to check the internal coherence of such a markup? Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: e-journal query Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 17:12 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 221 (263) I'me interested in knowing whether there are any plans anywhere in N. America for a conf. to promote e-journals as a preferred medium of publication of scholarly articles. I'm making some local queries wiht univ. of manitoba people here, but would like to know that we're not duplicating some other plan farther along in development. My e-mail address appears with this query, and my traditional mail address is Institute for the Humanities, 108 Isbister Bldg., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2. Larry W. Hurtado, Director. From: rogers@epas.utoronto.ca (Henry Rogers) Subject: Phonology Position -- Toronto Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 12:33:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 222 (264) The Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto invites applications for a one-year leave replacement position beginning August 15, 1991. Applicants should have completed the Ph.D. in linguistics with a specialization in phonology. The position involves undergraduate and graduate teaching, with the possibility of supervision at the MA level. Applicants should submit a cover letter and CV to: Chair Department of Linguistics University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1 e-mail: rice@epas.utoronto.ca telephone: (416) 978-4029 fax: (416) 978-8821 Applicants should arrange for two letters of reference to be sent as well. In accordance with Canadian Immigration Regulations, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Deadline for applications: June 28, 1991. From: Paul J. Donnelly Subject: Jobs at Glasgow: Multimedia Authoring Skills Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 11:14:30 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 223 (265) RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (2 POSTS) Establishing Multimedia Authoring Skills in Higher Education JOB DESCRIPTIONS This project is funded by the Information Systems Committee of the U.K. Universities' Funding Council, as one of about twenty under the Information Technology Training Initiative. It requires two Research assistants. The project will take place between 1st August 1991 and 31st July 1994, although fixed-term contracts will be offered for 2 years initially - the first commencing 1.8.91, the other shortly after. The appointments will be made on the Academic-related research grades at levels suitable to experience (probably #11969 (sterling) to #16216 (sterling). The project needs two people who will be able to work together, and collaborate with staff from the departments of the Project Management Team - Hispanic Studies, Public Health, Oral Medicine and Pathology, Audio-Visual Services, Enterprise in Higher Education, and the Engineering Faculty. We intend to appoint one person first, to start on 1st August 1991, who will play a key role in the management of the project. The second appointment will follow shortly after. Because the skills that the two staff bring to the project are expected to be complementary, as well as overlapping to some extent, we do not wish to specify each one precisely. The following lists the combined skills and experience required. The work could perhaps be further subdivided by jobsharing. 1 design of learning material for a wide range of subject areas in higher education 2 design of computer assisted learning material 3 design of open learning material 4 authoring hypermedia and hypertext material using software application packages 5 integration of text, graphics, video and sound 6 writing software code for linking application packages and external devices 7 the interconnection and use of microcomputer hardware - Macintosh and IBM computers, boards for video input, manipulation and file compression, CD-ROM, Videodisc, scanners 8 skills in entering rapidly and accurately large amounts of data as text and pictures The work will be based at one or more sites within Glasgow University, and the holder of the senior position will travel sometimes to other UK sites working on related ITTI projects. The two postholders will be responsible to the Project Management Team. The project will be administered by the Dept of Electronics & Electrical Engineering, to whom the two postholders will be formally attached. For further details of these posts, contact: Dr Gordon Doughty Robert Clark Centre for Technological Education, 66 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LS Tel: 041-330-4976 e-mail G.Doughty@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME Applications, along with CV and details of referees should be sent to Dr. Gordon Doughty at the above address by 17 June. Interviews are expected to be held on 27th June 1991. From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: CANADA HUMOR CONFERENCE AUTHORS Date: Mon, 03 Jun 91 07:01:32 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 116 (266) There will be at least seventeed authors of humor-related scholarly books at the Ninth International Humor Conference at Brock University in the Niagara Falls area of Canada. These authors, and the books they have written include: Richard Cracroft, BYU, WASHINGTON IRVING: THE WESTERN WORKS Christie Davies, Univ of Reading, ETHNIC HUMOR AROUND THE WORLD Seymour and Rhoda Fisher, SUNY-Syracuse, PRETEND THE WORLD IS FUNNY AND FOREVER: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COMEDIANS, CLOWNS, AND ACTORS William Fry, Stanford Univ, SWEET MADNESS: A STUDY OF HUMOR William Fry and Melanie Allen, MAKE 'EM LAUGH: LIFE STUDIES OF COMEDY WRITERS William Fry and Waleed Salameh, HANDBOOK OF HUMOR AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: ADVANCES IN THE CLINICAL USE OF HUMOR Wes Gehring, Ball State Univ, THE MARX BROTHERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY Wes Gehring, SCREWBALL COMEDY: A GENRE OF MADCAP ROMANCE Jeffrey Goldstein, Temple Univ, and Paul McGhee, Eds. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMOR: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES Paul Grawe, Winona State Univ, COMEDY IN SPACE, TIME AND THE IMAGINATION Charles Gruner, Univ of Georgia, UNDERSTANDING LAUGHTER: THE WORKINGS OF WIT AND HUMOR Deborah Hill, Renaissance, HUMOR IN THE CLASSROOM: A HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS AND OTHER ENTERTAINERS Richard Lederer, St. Paul's High School, ANGUISHED ENGLISH, CRAZY ENGLISH, and GET THEE TO A PUNNERY Paul McGhee, and Jeffrey Goldstein, Eds. HANDBOOK OF HUMOR RESEARCH, 2 Vols John Morreall, Univ of Rochester, THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAUGHTER AND HUMOR John Morreall, TAKING LAUGHTER SERIOUSLY Don and Alleen Nilsen, ASU, LANGUAGE PLAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS Victor Raskin, Purdue Univ, SEMANTIC MECHANISMS OF HUMOR Elaine Safer, Univ of Delaware, THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN COMIC EPIC: THE NOVELS OF BARTH, PYNCHON, GADDIS, AND KESEY Charles Schutz, Albion College, POLITICAL HUMOR FROM ARISTOPHANES TO SAM ERVIN Helen and Jerry Weiss, Bantam Publishers, THE AMERICAN WAY OF LAUGHING and MORE TALES OUT OF SCHOOL ---------------------- TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE, CONTACT: Ann Marie Guilmette, Dept of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1. =-) :-) ;-> Don L. F. Nilsen, (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: "John Baima" Subject: Last NeXT Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 09:03:45 cdt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 117 (267) I'd like to try to make my statements about the NeXT at little more clear since Richard Goerwitz and I are grappling with a different parts of the elephant. When Richard was attempting to defend the NeXT, one point is whether or not the programming environment is idiosyncratic. Yes, of course, it has GNU GCC and G++. Yes, of course, you can compile and run character based programs. So? That is not what I was talking about when I was comparing the NeXT Step environment to Motif. Most all new commercial development is now done for a GUI (X is not a really a GUI, btw). As I tried to communicate, the defacto standard in the UNIX world is Motif. Second place would be Open Look. Way down the line is NeXT Step. I'm not saying it *should* be, just that it *is*. When a commercial developer looks at the current UNIX situation, a Motif program will be able to run on over 90% of the UNIX boxes. NeXT Step? Maybe 2%. The lifeblood of a computer is general purpose application software. Yes there are lots of financial programs in COBOL. Yes there are lots of scientific programs in FORTRAN. However, for new, general purpose UNIX application programs, C is far and away the most common language and people are moving to C++ at great speed. The race between C++ and Objective C is not even close. It is over. Will people use C++ on the NeXT to develop commercial NeXT Step applications? (I really don't know the answer to this.) For new applications, the portion of the code devoted to the GUI is very substantial. Some, like Frame and WordPerfect, will port to just about anything. However, many will not. Most do not have the extra money. Changing a program from Motif to NeXT Step is nontrivial. And if you develop a NeXT Step program, how easy will it be to share it with the rest of the UNIX world? The point of all this, and the reason I am bothering to reply, is that I see the NeXT as a prime candidate to be an orphan. I have used and programmed for more than one system that was truly superior, but for some reason or another failed to attract new software developers. They are all orphans. Maybe that won't happen with the NeXT, who knows? But don't be surprised if does. NeXT looks like a good deal, but I would not risk my money on it. -- John Baima Telephone: 1-214-709-6364 Silver Mountain Software email: silver@utafll.uta.edu or D024JKB@UTARLG.BITNET From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: a mid-life crisis? Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 22:36:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 118 (268) Recently I attended a meeting of a small organization devoted to humanities computing at which a member suggested that we would likely disappear professionally in the near future. His reasoning was that those whom we had started out to support were rapidly becoming independent. Putting aside the question of whether the organization in question is doing right by its members, I began to wonder if we had not reached one of those stages in life at which existential questions become urgent questions. Perhaps I'm merely projecting a mid-life crisis onto the profession (in which case throw me in the creek), but after some reflection I still think that we have come far enough to have some evidence on which to base searching questions. For years some of our most experienced members have looked forward to the day when the computer will cease to be an object of interest, humanities computing will wither away, and we will simply get on with scholarship, or find some new benighted group to assist, depending on our job descriptions at the time. Is that day arriving? The future's of course all shiny murk, in which we tend to see our present fantasies darkly. That's a given. A great part of the difficulty, however, is social, and it just happens to be the difficulty that Humanist began with back in the Spring of 1987. It remains largely true that those who manage to remain active both in the humanities and in computing are few, and nothing our traditional professions are doing, as far as I can tell, even promises to remedy the situation. The pressures on young computing humanists either to hide the computing and turn the traditional crank, or to become computer scientists as best they can, are almost irresistible. So, I would imagine, few remain precisely at the crossroads, from which vantage point, I suspect, humanities computing as a genuine subject is uniquely visible. Hand-wringing of this sort can get boring very quickly, so I dispense with it at once, though the cause will not go away for all that. In the organizations of which I have some knowledge (including the one mentioned above), there are healthy signs. Perhaps a brief enumeration of these will suggest some lines of inquiry. 1. Concentration on courses, particularly on those that emphasize the methodologies of humanities computing rather than the tools as such. Collection and comparison of syllabi are an important step in understanding how various people understand these methodologies. These should be in circulation, yes? 2. Shift, in demonstrations and the like, from a focus on the tools as abstract instruments to actual scholarly problems in which imaginative exercise of these tools is demonstrated. The software fair of the future will have to be very different from those of the past. 3. Emergence of instructional software that is not just an electronic analogue of some textbook exercise but a medium for a kind of learning that is genuinely new. 4. Emergence of what I call "fully realized" electronic editions of texts. So much of what we have seen and heard about so far is, again, merely at the stage of the analogue to old technology. Signs are, however, that we will soon have editions that are not frozen monuments to scholarship but carefully thought out, though open ended, experiments in which the user is invited to participate. 5. Partial though significant dissolution of the wall between staff and faculty, particularly in the process of software development. Perhaps it's the role of the "humanities computing support" person and the kind of organization designed around him or her that's bound for extinction. Anything else? Comments on the above? Willard McCarty From: Maurizio Lana Subject: FTPing using VMS... Date: Sat, 01 Jun 91 11:22:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 224 (269) I experienced similar problems in my first attempts: commands like CD, or GET, didn't work from my VAX. The reason was that one must start FTP with Ultrix (Un ix-like) interface. Then those commands function. Sometimes there's another problem: you issue DIR, you get the message "port com mand successful", and then an error message about 'data connection nor working? , or something like. Any help about this? Thank you. Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: CLINARDJ@MCMASTER Subject: lillabulero Date: Sat, 1 Jun 91 22:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 225 (270) A journal with this name was published in 1967 in Chapel Hill, NC. A score is printed on the back cover. For copies, send me a fax/mail address. From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Re: Sentence Length Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 00:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 226 (271) for those interested in sentence lenght studies should read several studies by Etienne Brunet. One of his articles might be of interest for those whishing to have a closer look at sentence lenght structure and evolution in the works of Zola compared to other french writers. "La phrase de Zola" dans La critique litteraire et l'ordinateur / literary criticism and the computer, Bernard Derval & Michel Lenoble, eds., Montreal: Derval&Lenoble, 111-157. Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" MONTREAL (Quebec) Canada - H3C 3J7 E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca Tel.: (514) 288-3916 From: Jorg Kanppen Subject: RE: 5.0112 Queries: FTP from VMS/VAX; Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 18:51 N X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 227 (272) VMS-ftp defines the commands in VMS-style, thus cd will be SET DEF etc. There is a help available which is also in a good VMS style. Note that you need to enclose everything which you want to save from being uppercased in "quotes". Happy ftp'ing, J"org Knappen From: koontz@alpha (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 5.0106 Language Issues: RUSTEX-L Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 09:29:50 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 228 (273) John Slatter writes: [deleted quotation] Concerning John Slatter's problems with listserv.ubvm as an address for the RUSTEX-L list, I think that the problem is that this is a Bitnet address. An Internet (or JANET in this instance?) mailer given a single host name like this will attempt to resolve it in the local domain (e.g., Durham). What it needs is addition "stuff" after ubvm to tell it to look further afield. One common form would be listserv@ubvm.bitnet, for example. Contact your local postmaster or consultants and ask how to reach a host in the Bitnet network. For an example of alternative Internet and Bitnet addresses under the .bitnet scheme, see David Birnbaum's signature in his reply to this query: [deleted quotation] From: gary forsythe Subject: Self-Immolation Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 12:02:34 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 229 (274) Concerning the notion and practice of self immolation, Sir James George Frazer in his *Golden Bough* long ago pointed out that it was an ancient Near Eastern tradition for kings to immolate themselves in a conflagration. I may have some of the details incorrect since I am recalling this from memory, but here is what I recall at the present time. In the Book of Kings in the Old Testament, Zimri, a king of Israel, perished in his palace in a conflagration. Shamash Shumukin, ruler of Babylonia, when his revolt from Assyria was in collapse, immolated himself in a similar fashion. The famous story of the Lydian King Croesus (Herodotus I. ca.80-95 or so) is probably to be understood in similar terms, especially since a vase painting and a poem of Bacchyleides tend to suggest that Croesus may have actually perished during the Persian capture of Sardes, rather than being miraculously saved by the god Apollo in Herodotus' version of the story. Herodotus (VII. 107 or so) tells a story involving a Persian noble named Boges who defended the town of Eion at the mouth of the Strymon River in Thrace against the attack of the Athenians under the leadership of Cimon, following Xerxes' invasion of Greece. When it was evident that the town would fall to the Athenians, Boges immolated himself and his family. In discussing these various stories, Frazer attempted to connect them with ideas of a king's immortality. As pointed out in an earlier reply, there are the Roman cases of the Decii Mures, although one of them is probably fictitious. Both are described in Livy's history of Rome. The first case (probably not historical) is supposed to have occurred in 340 B.C. (Livy VIII.11 or so). In this passage Livy actually discusses the religious ceremony in some detail. The Roman form of self immolation was termed devotio, in which a commander of a Roman army devoted both himself and the opposing enemy forces to the gods of the underworld in return for Roman victory. In 295 P. Decius Mus devoted himself to death in the great battle of Sentinum, which was crucial in securing Rome's dominance over Italy (Livy X.23 or so). This incident seems to have been historical and was the basis for the fictitious devotio of this man's father in 340 B.C. From: "Peg Kershenbaum" Subject: teaching a required language course Date: Fri, 17 May 91 21:49:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 120 (275) You have already gotten many good responses (especially David Schaps') to your question about teaching Old Church Slavic. Fortunately you are dealing with bright college students even if they don't have the taste required to love learning "useless" required languages. Experiences that I have had with two courses may help you. On one end of the rainbow is the Latin for Reading Knowledge course. This is offered to graduate students whose doctoral programs demand that they show some proficiency in reading classical texts. Most students are just about at the point of writing a dissertation and are more than a little resentful of yet another requirement. But they know how to learn and they really do enjoy an intellectual challenge. They are usually disarmed within the first few minutes. The goal of the course, I tell them, is to get them to pass their reading exam and, secondarily, to have them leave rather liking Latin. I say this in a way that is a cross between candor and a conspiratorial tone. By respecting their plight I gain their cooperation and trust. I also put in so much energy and treat them with such great kindness that they work harder than they ever thought possible. Before they realize it, they are learning, sweating and conquering the language and liking it. They don't like getting grades lower than 90%. Most of them haven't seen Bs in a very long time. Those who are just plain weak get more attention even if I have to meet them before class in the cafeteria. If you want a horse to jump an impossible hurdle, throw your heart over first. Now, these are special people. They learn a year of Latin in 6 weeks. We have no time for games and state-of-the-art methods (although my large chalk cartoon of Pericula Paulinae for teaching fear clauses does elicit cheers and there are many slightly off-color remarks and puns). Most of them learn in spite of old methods, as I know they will. The other end of the rainbow is the class of students who failed their basic skills assessment exams. They have failed many times in many classes. None has ever failed Latin. We offer a simplified course to help them with vocabulary building, grammatical skills, language awareness, etc. These are people who REALLY don't want to be taking Latin. For them, the work is explained very simply and clearly as many times as it takes for it to sink in. Each time I answer their questions, it is as if it were the first time anyone ever asked. There are no stupid questions (oh, yes there are, but they'll never hear it from me!) These students cannot defer the pleasure of using the language as the graduate students can. Simple useful phrases help.Constant reminders of why Latin is useful are important. Using collaborative learning groups works for these students. They learn from one another and see that they are all in the same boat. Computerized instruction is also fine--even just drilling (We use my program SCIO). Combining the groups and the computer is even better. One thing you ought to consider is the use of a peer tutor. Better than a graduate assistant is a real live person who has survived your course. This person helps with drill-and-practice or anything you feel comfortable assigning. The students usually feel free to blow off steam to a peer and the peer can listen sympathetically, even acting as a go-between in some cases. (We really don't know it all.) Write your own material and get the class to help. You'll never find a book that does exactly what you want anyhow. Keep your ears and eyes open. Often students who complain about language or do poorly have mild-to-serious learning disabilities and cannot yet cope with a new language and alphabet. Having students read their answers aloud often reveals what writing may not. Have surly students get their vision and hearing tested. Find out what psychological counseling your school offers and don't feel shy about suggesting that a student speak with a counselor. Many undergraduates are under terrible stress. Your course may be the last straw. It doesn't matter much whether you use an old fashioned approach or a new-fangled one. Love your subject and your students. Balance the deductive, the inductive, the real text with the made-up text, the fun with the boring, the practical with the necessary. Let any enthusiasm they may have dictate some of the topics covered. Don't be afraid of following interesting side paths. Not all the students will do well. But if you nurture their love of learning even in a required course, you may be paid the ultimate compliment "Hey, this wasn't as boring as I thought it would be." Good luck. Always make them think they are the brightest and most promising of students even if they aren't. They may surprise you. ---Peg Kershenbaum Brooklyn College Dept of Classics & Foreign Language Institute, CUNY Graduate Center From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? (1/72) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 18:50:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 230 (276) In repsonse, briefly, to McCarty's laments on the demise of humanities computing...the last point struck a nerve. If you can figure out how to remove the wall between faculty and staff, you'll become famous or infamous or both. I think more humanities people should seek information, instruction, whatever, in the field of Information Science, and adapt things learned there to humanities. I hold the MA in history, am asst. editor at our university press, copy editor for a history journal, and make back-of-the- book indexes. (Crazy combination, I know.) I'm completing my MLS at Univ. of Iowa this year, and have been fascinated by the Information Science components of the coursework...gives one encouragement to adapt what's being taught to other areas .. especially instructional ... On the indexing front, the use of computing for index creators and users is fascinating. No, I don't think humanities and computing SHOULD be having a mid-life crisis. But, if so, maybe a counselor is in order! I'll check my AARP magazine! Paula Presley AD15@NEMOMUS bitnet From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? (1/72) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 20:18:53 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 231 (277) A brief comment, perhaps only tangentially related to Willard's thoughtful and articulate discussion of humanities computing -- but one which may be helpful to the discussion he would have us pursue. A few months back, our Faculty Development Committee began preparations for a faculty summer seminar (HUMANIST readers may remember seeing postings about this over the years). As we struggled to settle on a theme of study for the two-week seminar, we decided that "creativity" might be fun. But: one group of us (including, gentle reader, the author of this missive) wanted to explore especially computer-mediated creativity and related issues (can computers be creative?) -- while a second group became excited about creativity in an especially poetic direction. While these two directions are by no means exclusive -- we came down to a choice between (a) seminar facilitators known for their expertise in humanities computing, including an author of both a significant book on the impact of computing on the humanities and an important hypermedia program, and (b) a poet who is also an editor, a frequent speaker at humanities conferences, etc. The committee (narrowly) chose the latter. When I communicated the results to group (a) -- the described author sent back a note containing his observation that humanities folk were moving _away_ from computing altogether. He, in turn, was leaving his position (as a classics professor at a state university) to accept a position at a technical institution. My comment/query: is this anecdote and observation echoed by anyone else's observations and experience? If so, then perhaps Willard's largely positive comments on the disappearance of "humanities computing" as the result of several evolutionary developments must be, alas, counterbalanced by this (in my view, terrifyingly negative) development. I don't mean to invite the sort of handwringing Willard rightly castigates -- but if many of our colleagues are "moving away" from computing (and just, as Willard notes, some dimensions of humanities computing are achieving useful and impressive maturity), those of us currently invested in humanities computing ought to take notice and perhaps take stock as to why. Sorry to sound like Eeyore, Charles Ess Drury College From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? (1/72) Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 01:24:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 232 (278) I will seriously entertain Willard's hypothesis of the immanent extinction of humanities computing people when the most frequently asked computer question from colleagues is no longer "Why can't I get French accents on my computer", the most frequent answer from academic computing advisors is no longer "You must be doing something really weird like storing text files" and the hardest things to do on a University computer are no longer uploading and downloading files. If the Universtiy of Toronto has evolved beyond this state of affairs, then Willard has no one to blame but himself. I will consider seriously one of his predictions: Emergence of instructional software that is not just an electronic analogue of some textbook exercise but a medium for a kind of learning that is genuinely new. Of course, the great majority of teaching programs are either electronic reference books or electronic flash cards. The HyperCard environment lends itself all too readily to both possibilities. A more interesting application of computer resources is the simulation of complex situations. We are familiar with such simulations in training programs for pilots and in the games based on such programs. Let's consider the possibility of simulating for the undergraduate the complex situation of a scholar analysing a literary text. The scholar may have spread out on the desk a photographic facsimile of the author's manuscript (or, for many classical and medieval texts, facsimiles of several competing manuscripts), and several authoritative editions. At least some of these materials will be out of print and likely available in only a few libraries hundreds or thousands of miles from the places where the majority of undergraduates study. These materials could be packaged on a single compact disk and displayed side by side on one or more large (double-page) monitors. The issue of side by side display is essential if we are to simulate for the student the way a scholar really works... you do not close or quit the quarto of Measure for Measure before openning the folio, you spread them out side by side. (NOTE: Hardware requirements--compact disk player --large and or multiple monitors OBSERVATION: Hardware requirements are often more complex and more expensive in the Humanities than in business, mathematics and computer science. PARENESIS: We are unlikely to make significant progress in the use of computers for learning in the Humanities until we accept this observation and work out strategies for presenting it to university administrators. So far we have dealt with *primary* texts. The essential *secondary* texts will include relevant research dictionaries like the Oxford English Dictionary. The scholar would also have at hand a variety of history books for the period: literary, art, architectural, political, institutional, social, and so on. As a start we can begin to simulate these resources with appropriate timelines, with possibilities for juxtaposing and merging these lines in various combinations, as well as doing proper searches, including GREP searches. The secondary sources should include maps, photographs of terrain (how many students of The Battle of Maldon know what the causeway looked like?) and of relevant art and architecture, as well as music and recorded readings with appropriate dialect (north country for Wordsworth, Irish for Swift). This material need not all appear side by side, but should be isolated from the primary texts on a separate screen to simulate the scholar's clear distinction between the text under analysis and contextual materials. Linking between primary and secondary texts should be as easy as possible -- select a word in the primary text and issue one command to bring up a dictionary entry, another to bring up a map, and so on. From here we could move on to articles and monographs about the primary text. The process of simulation involves not merely giving the student a scholar's library but also leading the student seamlessly into some of the scholar's habitual research tactics. (NOTE: Hardware requirements--screen and software for high resolution graphics if the art reproductions are to be more than cartoons --high fidelity sound OBSERVATIONS AND PARENESIS--see above) This much is basic. Beyond this it gets interesting. One of the commands available when a word or reference item is selected might branch to an appropriate on-line data base or an appropriate list, like Humanist, Ansaxnet, Ficino, History, and so on, using an automatic logon script rather than expecting the student to close files, quit the program, start Kermit, call the university computer, and so on. Leaving the mail reader or news reader would invoke another script that would deliver the student back to where he or she left off in the primary text. The goal would be to simulate the way the scholar works, but in a manner accessible to the undergraduate who doesn't have an office full of reference books, travel grants and a year's sabatical to produce a term paper. Those personal expenses would be replaced by the institutional expense of providing the necessary hardware and software, which could be used by many students, year after year. Of course, a part of the price of admission for the student would be some sort of obligation, either moral or practical, to add to the fabric of texts and intertextual links in the simulation. Brian. From: Prof Norm Coombs Subject: Re: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 07:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 233 (279) Willard asks whether computing humanists are a vanishing breed. In his discussion, as usual, he raises several thought-provoking questions. In short, my answer would be "no". Computing humanists stand at the intersecting point of two disciplines. Many academic fields have explored such territory previously. It is always a "no man's land". There is sniping from both sides. That is the unavoidable price to be paid. However, it also carries its benefits. Such a person can bring innovative and creative insights into the cross-discipline and more can bring new ideas into either of the two disciplines. Being in a position to have unique insights is , for met at least, exciting. I find it a way to keep a youthful viewpoint on both academics and life. If I remember my sociology, such persons are referred to as "the marginal man". This term must have been adapted by now to compensate for gender, probably marginal persons. Sociology talked about the peculiar stresses such persons face, but it also explained that, while they feel at home no where, they also feel at home, in part at least, in many places. My impression is that other such marginal fields have come and gone in popularity and that is normal. A previous dean of mine knew nothing about computers and felt extremely ashamed and guilty. I was always in an advantageous relationship with her. I guess I should have been cynical enough to have exploited it, but I didn't. It did mean she never hassled me, however. I think that the computing humanist needs to prepare for a change in roles. Computing is changing. Two years ago, at the EDUCOM conference, all the speakers, including the CEOs of several major computer corporations agreed that no big discovery in computers was on the horizon but that the big shift was coming in networking and its role in computing. This fall the EDUCOM conference is being structured around high speed networking as a major theme. Those of us using Humanist and other network facilities are already living in the network world of the future. Many computer users are tied tightly either to the university mainframe or their desktop. Network access to global information on almost an instantaneous basis is going to be a driving force in the computer world for the rest of this decade. How can that impact computing and the humanities? I have a bundle of ideas but may well be off the mark. Research in many fields will increasingly happen with the desktop connected to a network and utilizing databases anywhere from Toronto, to Oxford, to ....... well who knows? This research will be accessible to both faculty and students. Classrooms will become connected via local nets to the same system. I can see a teacher being a kind of guide to information rather than being a god on the mount speaking forth informational truths. This will not make us into high tech librarians. Research is always much more about what question to ask and what to do with the answers you get than it has been about how to find a book in the stacks. Instead of spending our time rehearsing the past or describing a classic novel, we'll talk about underlying analytical questions and tools. We'll then show hands-on uses of these intellectual tools by probing networked information and analyzing what comes back. The next step in humanities computing is not how to do quantitative work on a text or do desktop publishing of your own research. It will be finding how to explore such a quantity of global information that we run the risk of drowning if we cannot approach it with sharpened intellectual tools. Yes, computing in the humanities may be less sexy today. Everyone has their word processor and everyone thinks they too are a computing humanist which is to say the term has no meaning or value. If I am correct, however, someone is going to have to break ground in connecting our handy personal research assistant, (desktop computer) to a world of information which is only now being born. Norman Coombs Rochester INstitute of Technology From: Maurizio Lana Subject: Re: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 10:12:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 234 (280) Any time I read messages from Willard McCarty, I think that he has something ve ry clever to say, very interesting. I strongly agree with his statements 3 (completely new 'products' are coming, n ot simply mimicking their traditional, paper form) and 5 (vanishing barriers be tween faculty and staff). I think, anyway, that people like Willard and we HUMANISTs won't disappear: in the same way one need at every step more RAM to be able to do what he wants. In other words: there will always be more experienced people helping and advicing the ones less experienced. Perhaps, it will be more interesting: you won't hav e to explain that one must use KEYB IT to actually get an italian keyboard layo ut working, and will discuss about the best method to focus onto some literary problem. Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Humanities Computing Disappearing? Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 11:36:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 235 (281) As usual, Willard gave an insightful accounting of the current state of Humanities Computing. Yes, I think this field is disappearing, but I also agree that the hand wringing can get very tiresome, therefore let me propose some concrete action to remedy the situation. First, a little more complaining: I just spent the last year applying to 53 positions in foreign languages without any positive results. To be sure, I came close to one job, but that university ended up hiring a person with no programming skills. The person did, however, have an extensive background in education and administration. It is clear that few universities are interested in Humanities Computing as a faculty position and the exceptions are looking for "traditional" people to manage the existing software. In my case, I have already been appointed to a lecturer position in the CS dept. here at Yale to help develop a program of Humanities Computing, but note that such a position is low-payed, without any prestige, and worst of all, liable to be cut at any time. Without wishing to sound arrogant, if this can happen to me, given my record, there is little hope for employment in this area. In fact, I couldn't bring myself to look at the April MLA job list. Basically, I just gave up. So much for my own hand wringing. What should be done? I believe Humanist needs to take a more active role in the fate of its untenured members. Part of the problem of Humanities Computing is that it is invisible to most members of Academia. Our colleagues do not read Humanist and do not concern themselves with computers beyond simple word processing. Quite simply, candidates applying for jobs need letters of support from the Humanist community. They need phone calls to chairman on their behalf. They need people at the local university lobbying for their cause. What I am saying is that we have to make ourselves heard. We have to become "political". We have to make our colleagues understand that we exist and our field is important. The alternative is that we will not exist, and we will not be important. Thus ends today's tirade. From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 09:08:25 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 236 (282) I don't think there is any such thing as Humanities Computing (capitals added), any more than there is any such thing as Humanities Pencils. Computers are tools. Sure, they get put to different uses in different areas, but so does any tool - why should computers be viewed as qualitatively different? Shall we then have Art Computing and Science Computing and Physical Education Computing and so on? Most humanists at my campus know how to do basic word processing and little else. We are trying very hard to move them into the world of electronic communications to supplement the word processing. But very few of them have any intrinsic interest in computers - they never did, and they are unlikely to change. So I don't see any historical movement from a pre-occupation with the technology to indifference. Sorry, Willard; I just don't see anything significant here. ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: MILTONQ at OUACCVMB Subject: Query on The World of Poetry Date: 4 June, 1991, 22:50:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 237 (283) A friend who is an aspiring poet has recently received notices of winning awards for submitted poems from The World of Poetry, a California-based organization. Further, this week he was invited as a "Golden Poet" award recipient to the Seventh Annual Convention of the World of Poetry to be held September 1-3 in New York at the Mariott Marquis at Times Square. Names that are associated with the World of Poetry include John Campbell, editor and publisher, and Eddie-Lou Cole, reader of poems submitted in their upcoming contest to be held in conjunction with the convention. The registration fee is about $500. Are there any Humanists who have any knowledge of the World of Poetry and its goings-on; more directly, is this enterprise legitimate? Thanks in advance for any information you can give me. Answer directly to my e-mail address, and I will summarize any postings I receive. Margaret E. Cheney Ohio University Athens, OH e-mail: miltonq@ouaccvmb.bitnet From: DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK Subject: request for help (font) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 19:35:23 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 238 (284) Help! Does anyone know of a PD Macintosh font (preferably PostScript, but bitmapped would do) in Old English or Black Letter Gothic? Many thanks, Douglas de Lacey. From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 5.0114 TEI-aware Software? Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 17:21:39 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 114 (285) Maurizio Lana asks for existing software to verify TEI-format texts Any SGML-conformant software can be used to check almost all aspects of TEI conformance (all except those which require human judgement to check); existing SGML products include parsers from (in alphabetical order, and off the top of my head): Datalogics Electronic Book Technologies SEMA Group Softquad Software Exoterica There is an extensive literature on the current SGML marketplace which I won't attempt to summarize here. At the moment, the only off-the-shelf software to verify TEI texts is such SGML-conformant software; it is possible that in the future, software may be developed specifically for TEI verification, rather than for SGML in general. That, of course, depends on the developers. -Michael Sperberg-McQueen ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 5.0114 Mail to Sheffield? Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 17:44:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 239 (286) In response to Alan Bulley's query, there is a node at Sheffield named PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK You should be able to reach the postmaster there by writing to: POSTMASTER@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK John Unsworth Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_ PMC@NCSUVM From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: NeXT Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 16:27:52 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 240 (287) It seems the amicable dispute between John Baima and me over the NeXT comes down to one issue: Are you planning on using it as a personal workstation, or are you planning on using it for teaching/applications/ commercial development? I'd guess that most users here aren't going to be developing their own applications, and so I'd have to acquiesce to John: Don't buy a NeXT until you see more commercial software ap- pear. The machine certainly has potential, though. For what I do, they are as good as any other medium-range workstation. -Richard From: DAVID BARRY Subject: Amstrads revisited Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 15:47 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 241 (288) With reference to both Timothy Reuter and Graham white. I was very interested to read Timothy Reuter's response which I came across at the same time as Graham White's enquiry. (backlog of mail-you know how it is) There is a large userbase of amstrad PCW machines in the UK but I do not think many are used for comms. What I can tell you is 1. You must have an rs232 interface fitted and they do cost about fifty pound sterling here. 2. You need comms software Sage Software market a package called chit chat which we have used; this is available in a CPM version. Actually we can supply copies of this at low price (good news) but this is because people have found pcw's difficult to use for comms (bad news) If anyone is interested this department can supply sage chit chat for PCW machines at 25 pounds a copy. Email me if you want more info. David Barry Department of Occupational Psychology Birkbeck College Malet st LONDON WC1E 7HX England Email on JANET is:UBJV649@UK.AC.BBK.CU From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: FTP for the VMS Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 11:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 242 (289) The problems with FTP for the VAX/VMS that you are experiencing may be due to one of the following: GET doesn't work sometimes in the lower case because FTP is case sensitive. If the filename if FredDDy then you have to say: GET FredDDy CD doesn't work. To move UP in the directory structure, you will have to issue the command cd .. including the space between the cd and the .. Jim Wilderotter Georgetown University From: Robert Dale Subject: Call for Papers: International NLG Workshop 1992 Date: Thu, 06 Jun 91 14:43:47 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 125 (290) Call for Papers The Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy, 5th--7th April 1992 PURPOSE AND SCOPE: Following on from the five previous International Workshops on Natural Language Generation, this workshop aims to bring together researchers in a rapidly consolidating field. We intend to structure the workshop around a number of emerging topic areas: Multi-modality: the practical and theoretical issues underlying the development of systems that integrate language generation with other media (such as graphics, maps, and forms). The representation and use of syntactic knowledge: we particularly welcome papers which attempt to bridge the gap between earlier phrase structure grammar based approaches, systemic approaches, and newer constraint-based approaches, and discussions of how these approaches address the motivation of syntactic choice. Approaches to text planning: a number of approaches to discourse structure (such as RST, DRT and schemas) have relevance to text planning. What are their respective strengths and, especially, weaknesses? In what areas do we need additional theories? Applications of NLG: the use of language generation techniques in, for example, expert system explanation, machine translation, dialogue systems, and report generation; their implications for more theoretical issues. Multi-linguality: the effects upon system architecture and underlying representation of building systems which generate text in more than one language. To what extent is it possible to build plug-and-play realization components for different languages for use with generic text planners? SUBMISSIONS: It is our intention to publish a book consisting of the workshop papers in time for the workshop itself; contributors interested in participating in this workshop are initially requested to submit A PAPER OF BETWEEN 10 AND 20 PAGES in length. Accepted papers will be returned for final polishing and revision into full length papers before inclusion into the workshop proceedings. The cover page of the draft paper should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including email address and fax number if available), a short (10 line) summary, and a specification of the topic area. Send to: Mail: Robert Dale Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland Tel: (+44) 31 650 4416 Fax: (+44) 31 662 4912 Email: R.Dale@uk.ac.edinburgh SCHEDULE: Submissions are due at the above address NO LATER THAN 15TH SEPTEMBER 1991, either by paper mail, email (in LaTeX form), or fax; notifications of acceptance should be received by authors BY 1ST DECEMBER 1991; camera ready versions of the final papers are due 15TH JANUARY 1992. Approximately 15 papers will be accepted for presentation at the workshop and inclusion in the book. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance at the workshop will be limited to around 50 people. The workshop has been timed to follow the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, being held in Trento, Italy from 1st--3rd April 1991. Details of this conference can be obtained from Oliviero Stock, IRST, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy; Tel: (+39) 461 81444, email: stock@irst.it. The cost of the workshop, including accommodation and meals, is expected to be in the region of $300 per person. Financial support for the workshop is being sought. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Esprit Basic Research Actions and the Special Interest Group on Generation of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Organising Committee: Robert Dale, Eduard Hovy, Dietmar R\"osner and Oliviero Stock. From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: Humanities Related Services via Internet Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 14:07:55 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 243 (291) I have a compratatively simple question: What online resources are available to Internet users interested in the Humanities? By way of background to this question I want to say that I have been working for some time now on an on-line depository of information and datafiles on the Internet and its services (Reed College just joined the Internet a few months ago). So far, I have the following material: Internet Resource Manual On-Line Library catalogues Bitnet and Internet Discussion groups FTP sites Bibliographies Mail Guides and Help Clearly, the major source of information is in the Internet Resource Manual, which lists the MEMDB and DANTE databases and so forth. I have also subscribed to a few relevant discussion groups, such as NETSCOUT and plan to post this question there as well. So, am I missing anything important? many thanks in advance, Arno Bosse Reed College abosse@reed.edu From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: e-address for U. Manchester Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 17:12 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 244 (292) Can anyone supply the e-address for the Univ. of Manchester? I'd like to know if a colleague there has an e-account, and thought I'd contact the postmaster. Thanks much. Larry Hurtado, Univ. of Manitoba. From: Ed Haupt Subject: german-wordlist Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 21:28:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 245 (293) Thanks to 'archie', which is telnet to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca and login as 'archie', I found a better German wordlist than I mentioned before. ftp (anonymous) to mojo.eng.umd.edu, and in /incoming, you will find german-wordlist.Z--only 751k. It uncompresesses to 2060k. It has -e spellings for the Umlaeute and all the forms, including genetive, so it works nicely with ispell. Does anyone know of german/french/spanish/italian, etc. versions of ispell so that you could use a shorter list? Pardon the unixisms. Questions about them will be answered. I assume that it would be worth looking on 'archie' for french, spanish, etc. Edward J. Haupt voice: (201) 893-4327 Department of Psychology internet: haupt@pilot.njin.net Montclair State College bitnet: haupt@njin Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 USA From: Skip Knox Subject: Need an address Date: Thu, 06 Jun 91 13:07:17 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 246 (294) I've seen a number of people here who use Nota Bene. I colleague would like an address and phone number (is it still Dragonfly Software?). He's not on Bitnet yet, so I said I'd post the request for him. Thanks in advance. ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: Alan D Corre Subject: Modern Hebrew Software Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 13:57:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 247 (295) I am currently working on a piece of software for Modern Hebrew which will, I believe, address a problem in a uniquely computational way. The Hebrew script has limited used of vowels (thy rnt rlly ncssry r thy?) and modern Hebrew rarely uses the archaic add-on vowel-pointing system which no longer represents the reality. This creates a problem for foreign students. Either you teach them a complicated and eventually useless vowel system, or they can't read simple words without substantial help. In my system, the student will learn words in a vowelled English transcription. When she types this into one window, another window will produce the unvowelled Hebrew script equivalent. Type in *melex* ("king") and the other window produces mem--lamed--final-kaf as you type. The notion is that the student should be able to read back the Hebrew because he knew what he typed in! Is this a kind of ITA? A psychologist friend says no, because the student already knows the Latin alphabet. Moreover, later, the student will be able to "write" Hebrew by typing in the transcription, and "real" Hebrew will appear on paper. One other thing. Any time the student wants, she can switch off the Latin script echoing, so she is mentally typing in *melex* but seeing only mem--lamed--final-kaf. Could this make the student hooked on the computer such that he cannot write Hebrew save through this medium? Maybe. But I am hooked on my spectacles and thyroid pills (hi there, Barbara and George) and don't worry about it. And can kids today do mental arithmetic when five bucks buys a calculator? Only the computer makes such a procedure possible. I tried such a thing years ago using programmed instruction and a tape, but it was too clumsy. It should be done neatly in the Mac lab. Incidentally, I originally intended to do this using HyperCard. But I found that I detested the language, and it was terribly slow. So I am using the Mac version of the Icon programming language, called ProIcon, and that is doing fine. In the event, this was fortunate, because the lab seems to have problems in downloading HyperCard, but not ProIcon stuff. PS In order to learn HyperCard, I plugged in some Jewish kids' stories I wrote years ago, and got a student to illustrate them for me. Then I animated the illustrations. This came out real nice (unlike the language thing) and it was published last week by Davka Corp of Chicago. But no more on that in case you think I'm advertising or something. From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0121 Disappearance of Humanities Computing Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 16:03 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 248 (296) Dear Willard, apart from all else, there is over the coming few years, the ques tion of...$$$! Investment in the hardware is the last thing administrators may want to hear about until 2000. Right now in California the ruin is spreading, t o quote Auden, like a gradual stain. teaching slots are disappearing like slash and burn forests in Amazonia, and classes are getting to be huger and huger, a nd support is going going...go...aaaah....! Meanwhile, the machinery, such as b rian describes is getting to be more and more available and cheaper, etc. this is also a question to be addressed, i surmise. Jascha Kessler From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: Re: 5.0118 Humanities Computing Disappearing? Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 22:13 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 249 (297) Reply to Willard: A trend that seems to be occuring in many universities, especially larger ones, is to a collaboration between central and distributed computing. The need has been recognized and is being acted on, finally!, to put the service as close as possible to the user. Therefore, the need for Humanities (and others) computing support should remain strong for some time to come. That doesn't mean it won't change in various ways, but until faculty really want to do it all themselves, I don't see us disappearing quite yet. The need for computing support should only grow as people start doing the really innovative stuff for instruction and research that we have only talked about so far. Optimistically (??) yours, Vicky Walsh, UCLA From: Alan D Corre Subject: Historical Lucubration Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 12:54:16 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 250 (298) The changes that have taken place in the world of computing in a period appreciably less than my lifetime I find truly awesome. It is contemplating such casual miracles that makes me religious. Here are some quotes from the early literature of computing that point up the changes. "The most important...assurance of efficient operation is to have intelligent operators... "The actual coding of a problem is very much an individual effort. A good notation would be a real help here, but we have unfortunately inherited...a set of machine orders which are probably as complex as any in existence...we have minimized the disadvantages by providing convenient cards with the order code and notation precisely summarized... "All is not as dismal as might seem from the long list of difficulties." ---C.C. Gotlieb, JACM 1 p. 124, (1954) There were no higher languages at that time. Each computer had its own assembly language which dealt with the computer procedure, rather than the human problem. In fact, people did not even know whether a higher language was feasible. A "letter to the Editor" in 1959 read: "It is extremely desirable to have a language for stating problems. Existing programming languages are procedure-statement languages in which a problem to be solved cannot be stated---only the procedure for solving it can be stated...Could a usable language of this sort exist? We are not certain." Nowadays, the US government does not permit assembly language to be used in software it commissions. Yet thirty years ago, this writer was wondering if the other kind could even exist. The eruption of FORTRAN and LISP right at that time showed that there was not only "a usable language" but potentially many. Around the same time the Share committee on universal languages dismissed the possibility that a universal language could exist: "...any attempt at universality of problem-oriented languages will result either in inadequacy...or such extensiveness as to become useless." Computing in the fifties was a little bit sexist despite the existence of that remarkable lady Grace Hopper, who claims that the original "bug" was a moth that got into her computer: "Computer conferences are becoming a family affair...An extensive program of scheduled activities has been planned for ladies attending the Western Joint Computer conference May 6-8 [1958] in Los Angeles...shopping...visiting Disneyland..." (Comm.ACM 1.3 (1958) p. 22) The word "ladies" is italicized. In 1958 the Science Education Newsletter declared: "Computers are here to stay." True. About the same time the financial statement of the Association for Computing Machinery declared its 1957 income from the sale of publications. The amount---one dollar and fifty cents. I was buying ten rides on the Philadelphia subway for that at the time, but it still wasn't much money. The U.S. civil service was advertising for electronic engineers then to work on computers at annual salaries ranging from $4,000 to $11,000. The last quote is my favorite. You can barely manage on 640K in your laptop? Read this from 1954. It refers to the IBM 702, which you would not have wanted to have on your lap: "The high speed could not be very effective, were it not supported by a large internal storage capacity...the main storage device is the electrostatic memory with a capacity equivalent to 125 punched-cards, and it can be supplemented by one or more magnetic drums each storing 750 cards worth." (JACM 1, p. 149) Let's see, 125 x 80 = 10,000. WordPerfect, anybody? From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 19:16 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 251 (299) It's not exactly about humanities computing, but David Brin's recent sci-fi (but _not_ "cyberpunk") novel *EARTH* presents a thought-provoking (and, I think, credible) image of computer networks in the near future. The networks play both an important part in Brin's story, and in the way the story is told. George Aichele 470-5237@MCIMail.com From: Stig Johansson Subject: What is ICAME? Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 11:33:16 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 252 (300) ICAME started in 1977 with a small group of people working on English machine-readable corpora. The name is short for: International Computer Archive of Modern English. The aim of ICAME is to collect and distribute information on English language material available for computer processing and on linguistic research completed or in progress on the material, to compile an archive of English text corpora in machine-readable form, and to make material available to research institutions. The archive mentioned in the name resides at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities in Bergen, Norway. This acts as a distribution centre for computerized English-language corpora and corpus-related software. ICAME publishes the ICAME Journal which appears once a year, with articles and information about English computer corpora. Conferences, usually in May/June each year, have been arranged since 1979. Proceedings from some of the conferences have been published by Rodopi, Amsterdam. For more information, write to: ICAME, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, P.O. Box 53, N-5027 Bergen, Norway. You can also get information through the ICAME network servers: FAFSRV@NOBERGEN.BITNET or NAVFSERV@NORA.NAVF-EDB-H.UIB.NO. Stig Johansson, Oslo Co-ordinating secretary, ICAME From: Paul Jones Subject: world of poultry and other scams Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 16:53:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 253 (301) This is a very well known scam. It was listed along with International Authors and Writers Who's Who (not associated with the real Who's Who), American Poetry Association (the old anthology scam), Great Lakes Poetry Press (anthology again $40 to be in) in the "rip offs" file at the North Carolina Writers' Network. This particular scam has several steps to it. First a very high "reading" fee. Next a "publication" fee. Then an anthology for sale (I forget the price of theirs but most are over $40 US). These folks have added a convention to their "services." Paul Jones Office for Information Technology University of North Carolina From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: OE Font (Mac) Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 15:29 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 254 (302) OE to de Lacey: just to speed things up, I downloaded two OE fonts, or one fo t hem about three months ago, and if the sender, from New York State, if I recall , doesnt reply to you soon, perhaps I can retrieve it from diskette in its binh ex form and upload it to you. I havent looked at it, since I have been too busy to do so till now. Yours, Kessler From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: "World of Poetry" Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 22:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 255 (303) WORLD OF POETRY I remember seing a documentary on one of the two anglophone networks we have in Montreal about a convention of poets. They were contacted by mail and invited to attend a poetry "competition" for which they had to pay a substantial amount of money!!! If I remember correctly the conclusion, the whole thing was another original way of robbing people. I do NOT say that the organisation you mentioned is the one accused of "extortion". But as we say in french, un homme averti en vaut deux. Check with CTV (W5) or CBC (Fifth Estate). Michel. Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" MONTREAL (Quebec) Canada - H3C 3J7 E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca Tel.: (514) 288-3916 From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0123 Queries: OE Font (Mac) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 23:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 256 (304) There is an excellent Old English font by Brian Whittaker of York U. It is bitmapped and works on the Deskwriter as well as the Imagewriter. There is also a PostScript font, Aelfric, as well. Both are on the server for the list Ansax-L at WVNVM. I have Whittaker's font, called NY OE, and could send it to you in binhex form, if you do not have access to Ansax-L. Please note: I tried to respond directly, but my mailer will not accept the address on your note (i.e. "DEL2@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK"). Grover Zinn FZINN@OBERLIN From: Richard Giordano Subject: Software to check TEI SGML Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 09:53:15 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 257 (305) I'm directing a project at the Computer Science Department at the University of Manchester that aims, in part, to check TEI conformant coding. Your question is fortuitous because I am looking for a European partner who might supply us with sample data. Are you interested? If so, contact me directly at rich@cs.man.ac.uk or by phone at (+44 61)-275-6266 Richard Giordano Lecturer, Information Systems From: Phyllis Wright Subject: GRAMMAR TEXT Date: 7 Jun 91 11:07 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 258 (306) I need to verify the bibliographic information for a grammar text published in England probably pre-1840 called 'The Compendious British Grammarian, or an Easy Introduction to the Study of the English Tongue'. Has anyone ever heard of this particular book? Thanks Phyllis Wright Brock University Library From: Ed Battistella Subject: FAILED MAIL Date: Fri, 07 Jun 91 11:52:24 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 259 (307) I've been trying to reach an address as Cambridge University Press via Internet but unsuccessful. The address I was given by the intended recipient is NAME@cam.phx.uk.ac I've tried various combinations of this, but with no success. Does anyone know what they problem might be? From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: OBI (Online Book Initiative) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 11:31:01 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 260 (308) Has anyone heard anything about the Online Book Initiative? I have a reference to an ftp site, world.std.com (192.74.137.5) which I have tried to reach at various times of the day, to no avail. sincerely, Arno Bosse Reed College abosse@reed.edu From: hcf1dahl@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: Milton's prose Date: Sun, 9 Jun 91 08:27:36 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 261 (309) Does anyone know of a source of machine readable versions of Milton's prose works? Eric Dahlin HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet From: Madge Brochet Subject: Software for Learning Disabilities? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 16:01:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 262 (310) I have received a request from somone who is not yet reading Humanist -- she is a learning disabled student attending this university -- and she would very much like to know any leads she could follow up in terms of software developed with learning disabilities in mind. I realize that there are all sorts of learning disabilities and that the question is very broad -- any tips, suggestions on who to ask -- any leads would be appreciated -- if more suitable, e-mail directly to me and I will summarize and send a note off to Humanist -- thanks From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: free 9 track tape offer Date: Friday, 7 June 1991 1028-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 263 (311) Thanks to a contact initiated by Alex Di Lella of the Catholic University in Washington DC, the following opportunity is available to users of 9 track tapes: Al Di Lella (nephew of the aforenamed) has been assigned the task of dispensing with 15,000 2400' 9 track tapes by his company, Automatic Data Processing of Baltimore. ADP is changing to a more compact format, and if the tapes cannot be recycled to other users they will be discarded. If you are interested, telephone Al Di Lella at 301-821-0600 extension 408 (if necessary, leave a message on his voice mail system; he will get back to you). We at the Center for Computer Analysis of Text at UPenn can use some of the tapes, but 15,000 is a bit much! [Feel free to distribute this information to other individuals and lists; Al has agreed to this procedure.] Bob Kraft From: Dennis Baron Subject: Hopper's bug Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 10:32:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 264 (312) A correspondent mentions the old saw about Grace Hopper finding a bug (literal) in a computer and generating the computer bug (figurative) from that. Writing in _American Speech_ 62 (1987): 376-78 Fred Shapiro of Yale looks into this bit of etymological folklore. Hopper et al apparently did find a moth in the Mark II computer at Harvard in 1945; the moth is taped to Hopper's computer log and preserved in the Naval Museum. However as Shapiro notes, _bug_ had the sense `defect or fault in a machine' as early as 1889, when it was used by Thomas Edison (_OED_); Edison used the term as early as 1878, and Shapiro suggests the term was a general one in engineering in the 1800s. What amused Hopper and her colleagues was that here was a real bug causing a mechanical defect that was already called a bug. Hopper's log entry reads "First actual case of bug being found." There are many instances of etymological folklore. The word _quiz_ was not invented by an Irish theater owner who spread it across Dublin overnight. _Woman_ does not derive from _womb-man_ or _woe to man_, as was (and often still is) popularly supposed by those not up on their historical linguistics. And William Kruck, in his monograph _Looking for Dr. Condom_ (1981) convincingly demonstrates there was no such gent. We don't know who Kilroy was, if anyone, and the claim of some fraternity brothers at the Univ. of Kansas that they invented _humongous_ in the 1970s remains not proved. Nor did German fail by one vote to become the official language of the US in 1776 or even in 1795. And Eskimo (more properly, Inuit) does not have zillions of words for snow. So there. From: Brian Whittaker Subject: OE Font Date: Fri, 07 Jun 91 01:00:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 265 (313) A few years ago I prepared a bit-mapped (Imagewriter) font called NY OE. Basically, this is the standard New York font with additional characters (thorn, eth, yogh, macron for vowels, short macron for i, all in upper and lower case, as well as a few useful symbols, like a sans-serif x for unstressed syllables, an arrow and a full height vertical bar for dividing rhythmic feet, grammatical units, or whatever). I also developed full character sets in several sizes not provided for New York, such as 28 pt, to permit "Best" quality printing in 14 pt. I chose to do an enhancement of the existing New York font rather than starting from scratch because many people were already using it for their word processing and converting to NY OE would involve a minimum of change in lineation, pagination, and so on. I can send the file in binhexed and stuffed via e-mail to anyone who is interested. If that presents technical problems, I can send a disk by conventional mail. The file also contains some notes on criteria for typographic design of new characters for existing fonts, so that the new characters don't stand out like sore thumbs. There is no shareware fee, but I do appreciate feedbback, basically a note telling me who is using the font and how it is working out. I can foresee trying to explain to a promotion and tenure committee that making yoghs out of dots is a worthwhile service to the scholarly community. Anyone interested in Anglo-Saxon England from any disciplinary perspective should investigate ANSAXNET, a list run by Pat Conner. Roughly half the big names in the field are on this list and the overall quality and spirit of intellectual gererosity are quite remarkable. ANSAXNET features a file server that has a laser font in addition to NY OE, some useful utilities, and Pat Conner's own _Beowulf Workstation_, a model of what an educationl HyperCard stack should be. To join, contact Pat at the following address: U47C2@WVMVM Brian Whittaker Atkinson College, York University BrianW@YorkVM2 (Please don't omit the W) From: Peter Ian Kuniholm Subject: Re: 5.0089 Citations Date: Sat, 08 Jun 91 10:02:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 266 (314) TO: Humanist family in general. RE: comments that were circulating last month about footnotes. Two comments: 1. Footnotes/citations that are inserted to lard up a text and impress (?) the reader with one's erudition are a curse, both to the typesetter and the rea der. It is the sort of thing that students are expected to do to prove that they have done their homework. 2. ON THE OTHER HAND, having done research in third-world countries where lib rary facilities were less than totally satisfactory,...with gaps in the periodi cal files and with no hope whatever of getting all quoted documents, I found my self grateful for whatever bibliographic information was provided, no matter how seemingly arcane or inane or repetitious or superfluous. (And I should ima gine that this applies as well to people in colleges/universities on this conti nent whose libraries are in a bind and whose inter-library loan resources (if extant) are severely limited.) Accordingly, I tend to quote chapter and verse at all times. Readers with well-endowed libraries can pass some of the footnotes by, having already seen them. Others may find them useful, or so I like to delude myself. Peter Ian Kuniholm From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0126 Hebrew Software Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1991 11:33:05 GMT+0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 131 (315) Re: Allan Corre's Modern Hebrew Software: When I read Allan's posting, my initial reaction was "boy, what a neat idea!" The more I thought about it, however, the more dubious it seemed. The first problem that occurred to me was technical: you're teaching them to "type" Hebrew via a very strange interface. Once they know some Hebrew, they won't be able to use any other programs (such as a dual-language word processor) without relearning typing. Then I wondered about how the transliteration system would handle pronunciation -- if "king" is mlx, is "like a king" xmlx? Or kmlx in deference to pronunciation? If the former, how much help is this to the student learning the language? Which brought up the question, what problem is a transliteration system trying to solve? Is Alan trying to teach the students Hebrew, or how to TYPE Hebrew, or how to SPELL Hebrew, or what? Then I started to think that if the reason for a transliteration system is the intricacies of the vowel system, I suspect he's trying to solve the wrong problem. When I was a kid in England, Hebrew in transliteration was a great help, because the letters were so strange that it took for ever to read anything otherwise (when you're just starting). BUT the problem was NOT the vowel system, with which neither I nor anyone else I ever spoke to ever had any problems (as long as you're only required to READ it, not to WRITE it as the poor school students in Israel are. There's a big difference between knowing what the sign for hataf-patah sounds like and knowing whether to point with a patah or hataf-patah in any particular case...). Nor do the six year olds who learn to read Hebrew in Israel via the vowel system have any trouble with it (and once they can read, you unobtrusively drop the vowels and they don't even realise, except for the feeling of surprise and achievement that arrives sometime early in Grade 2: "gee, I can read this even though it hasn't got vowels!") In short, I'm not sure this is the right problem. Transliteration is a help to beginning foreign students, but it's because the alphabet itself is so unfamiliar, NOT because the vowel system is too unwieldy to be taught. But then if you're going to transliterate, it's a lot easier to disregard the vowels, because otherwise your transliteration system obscures the Hebrew spelling. So disregarding the vowels is a strategy forced on you by the solution (trans- literation) you adopt, not the reason for it. If the problem is that the alphabet is unfamiliar, isn't the solution to make the students more familiar with the alphabet rather than distancing them from it? Returning to my childhood experiences, transliteration was a solution because the problem was to learn songs to sing round the campfire at youth group meetings, NOT to learn Hebrew. If you want to learn to read Hebrew, then once you've learnt the letters the only way is to practice reading them. If you put the transliteration on the screen with them, you seduce the student (because it IS so much easier to read the transliteration) into looking only at that, rather than at the Hebrew which she's supposed to be trying to learn. On the other hand, it would be nice to give the student some feedback as to the pronunciation of what she's just typed, or whether the letter just typed was the one she intended. But the Hebrew letters should be the "main" display, and the transliteration an "optional" addition for those who want to check themselves. And since the only thing this tells you is whether you've learnt the letters, surely it isn't useful for more than the first week? (OK, month?) I look forward to seeing what others think of this problem. Judy Koren From: gary forsythe Subject: computing and equality Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 21:06:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 267 (316) I have been a subscriber to Humanist for about two months and have finally decided to send this message, which is at least in part in response to the earlier discussion on copyright and the current one concerning the disappearance of humanist computing, but it is also a clear departure in a new direction which, I hope, readers of Humanist will find interesting. The word 'equality' in the subject line of this message refers to the great potential that computing networking has for placing blind people on an equal footing with the rest of the world. I have been blind since the age of eleven. I am now 38 years old and am a member in the classics department at the University of Chicago. The story of my college education is a rather typical one in terms of what a blind person must undergo in order to obtain such an education. Since virtually all academic writing is in a medium unusable for a blind person (i.e., the printed word), blind people must spend extra time, money, and effort to make these materials avaiflable for their use. Braille is very bulky to store and is usually much more expensive to purchase than conventional print books. For example, in the late 1970's I purchased a braille text of the Greek New Testament for $180, and the book was in 40 volumes. Recording agencies for the blind often require that the student send them two copies of a book to be recorded. In addition to the extra expense of buying two books in place of one, the blind person must use his own time in coordinating this recording service. Articles from journals pose even greater problems. Generally speaking, a blind person makes these available for his or her use by having a sighted person (a friend or someone for hire) read these materials orally in the person's presence and/or on a tape recorder. All this imposes burdens upon a blind person who is wanting to obtain a decent education in order to become part of normal society. We wish to become responsible tax-paying citizens just like everyone else. Computers are beginning to help level the playing field for us, but there is still very much to be done. You should know that I am typing this message at my own computer at home. The computer is fitted with a voice synthesizer, so that it produces audible speech as well as displaying information on a screen. I purchased a modem a few months ago with the explicit purpose of making new sources of information available to me without the nasty inconveniences which I have just outlined. You can see where this leading. Making information available in an electronic medium will have the potential of empowering blind people. Quite frankly, the current system of education is intolerably ludicrous from a blind person's point of view. If it were imposed upon the population at large, it would not be endured. There is some government support, but much of the government's policy toward the blind consists of the antiquated mentality, according to which blind persons are given a form of social security, which in essence makes them government sponsored mendicants. Different policies could, I think, produce very different and positive results. For example, if the congress of the United States passed a law obligating all book publishers to make computer readable books available whenever they published a print book, I could walk into a bookstore and buy a book on disk, bring it home, put it in my computer, and read it myself without the going through some elaborate process of making it available to me in braille or on recorded tape, etc. Over the past few years the computer and computer readable texts have begun to change the way that I work as a scholar. Hitherto there were only a very small number of ancient texts available to me in braille. I have begun to produce my own Latin braille texts by having access to the Latin texts on the Packard Humanities Institute cd-roms. I am also now receiving the Bryn Mawr Classical Review as an e-journal. I can therefore read book reviews without having to rely on someone else or to waste their time. All these innovations have occurred just within the past few years, and I am hopeful that things will get better, as electronic networking and informational exchange increase. This is just the very beginning. Blind people are just now beginning to realize the great potential that computing networks can have. At this very early stage I am still in many ways my own Gutenberg in that I have to produce my own Latin and other texts, which requires time, money, and effort, but other things are becoming readily accessible. In fact, there is a small outfit in Missoula, Montana called Computer Books for the Blind. They are building up a library of computer readable texts which they sell to blind people. At the present time almost all of what they have are computer manuals and related material, but they are interested in acquiring anything of use. In my own case humanist computing is just beginning and has already begun to ease the burdens created by blindness and academia. I welcome any responses to this too long message. Sincerely, Gary Forsythe gfgf@midway.uchicago.edu From: MJENSEN@CHARLIE.USD.EDU (Mary Brandt Jensen) Subject: RE: 5.0127 Humanities Computing Pasts and Futures Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 17:04:08 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 268 (317) I am not a member of this list, but some of the messages get forwarded to me. I am here to tell you that computer support will never disappear. We have been distributing computing out to the departments on this campus for a couple of years now. What it means is that we the departments get to come up with the money to buy what we need. They don't give us any extra and no more comes down from computing services. In the meantime, support is killing me. We grew from 4 PCs to over 60 in about 4 years. We went from 2 applications to so many I can't count them. I can't remember the last day everything worked, and the day will never come when the users all know how to do what they want to do. We will always have new users and old users will always think up new applications. Its just getting harder to answer them because as the users get more educated they think of harder questions to ask of computer support. Since we are a law school, I guess we are more humanities than science. And our users are not all that educated, but they are heavy on communications. We'll see more and more complex computing in our future and I'm willing to bet that in a hundred years or more we will be in a network environment that looks something like the one in the science fiction novel "Psion." We will be augmented physically so we can absorb the mass amount of information coming over the daily feed. Mary Brandt Jensen Director of the Law Library University of South Dakota MJENSEN@CHARLIE.USD.EDU (605) 677 6363 Fax (605) 677 5417 From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: New Oxford Text Archive Catalogue Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 12:48 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 269 (318) A new improved Oxford Text Archive catalogue is now available ! The printed Catalogue -now up to 60 pages- is available by post from the address below. It is also available in electronic form, either as a formatted file for display at a terminal or in a tagged form using SGML. These files are available from a number of different places under various names. For EARN or INTERNET users, the most convenient source is probably LISTSERV@BROWNVM which makes the files available under the names OTALIST FORMAT and OTALIST SGML. If you are a JANET user you can consult the list interactively on HUMBUL, or request a copy from OXFORD.VAX (the filenames are OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.LIST and OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.SGML respectively). Wherever you are, you can send a note to ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK specifying which form you want. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Oxford Text Archive Tel. +44 (0865) 273238 Oxford University Computing Service FAX 273275 13 Banbury Road email ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mostow@cs.rutgers.edu Subject: CHEAP IJCAI91 AIRFARES AVAILABLE BUT NOT FOR LONG Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 18:00:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 270 (319) For those of you planning to attend IJCAI-91 in Sydney, Australia, it may be important to know that there are extremely discounted round-trip airfares to/from the US and Sydney available right now. Both Continental and Northwest are offering $685 (+ tax = $703) round-trip fares from JFK and Newark. Both these fares *expire soon* (Continental on June 7th and Northwest the following week) so, if you're interested in taking advantage of the savings, call your travel agent immediately! Your local travel agent should have further details and be able to make the arrangements for you. I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER INFORMATION, SO PLEASE DO ***NOT*** CONTACT ME. From: hcf1dahl@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: REACH on FTP Date: Sat, 8 Jun 91 11:59:14 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 271 (320) The May & June issue of _REACH_, Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities, the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California at Santa Barbara, is now available through anonymous FTP. The addresses are: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or 128.111.122.50 Log on as "anonymous" and use your e-mail address as a password. Then give the command "cd hcf" to change to the appropriate directory. The command "get reach.9105" will retrieve the current issue. Eric Dahlin Humanities Computing Facility University of California, Santa Barbara HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet From: Michael Ossar Subject: computers and equality Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 19:43 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 272 (321) I want to thank Gary Forsythe for his fascinating message. But how does a voice synthesizer function for someone who presumably receives files and needs to deal with texts in several modern and classical languages? How does it handle, for example, a Greek quote embedded in an English context? From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: humanities computing Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 00:44:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 273 (322) My thanks to all those who contributed to the discussion on (as it came to be called) the disappearance of humanities computing, including Eeyore, Chicken Little, and others. I admit to a few wild statements, but then an utterly sober, reasonable approach, I feared, might not stir anyone to reply. People were stirred, so perhaps Blake's aphorism about the road of excess leading to the palace of wisdom held for us in this case. My serious purpose was to ask, "What is happening in humanities computing? What needs to happen?" With the benefit of the replies, let me revise and restate these questions. [deleted quotation]computing has the following 5 functions: 1. service, to respond to users on demand, e.g. to run labs, answer questions, demonstrate software, find texts. 2. evangelical, to promote the uses of computing by demonstrating its value, e.g. in workshops and fairs. 3. pedagogical, to teach courses ranging from the exclusively tool-oriented (e.g. on WordPerfect or HyperCard) to those which focus on methods of teaching and research in the humanities. 4. infrastructural, to build largely out of existing pieces an institutional structure whereby those who wish to pursue computing in teaching and research can do so without penalty, perhaps even with encouragement. 5. research, to conduct computer-aided research in the humanities: primarily to observe at first hand the computer as a perceptual agent (note that research as information-gathering, so as to be better at 1, above, is a different matter). My previous note attempted to argue, or at least to assert, that the first function -- which seems to be all that many folks think of when "humanities computing" is mentioned -- is not where the academic action is, however necessary it may remain. When I spoke of hopeful signs, I was referring to the second through fifth activities, and I would now like to invite more comments on these, or on others I have inadvertently overlooked. Willard McCarty From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Milton's prose on-line Date: 10 June 1991, 19:53:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 274 (323) There is no current source of Milton's prose, though *Areopagitica* I think is included on The Library of the Future CD. Eva Thury has been entering the Latin prose at Drexel University, but I am not sure at which stage she is at the moment. I am planning a prospectus for a Milton CD which should include both the Yale and the Columbia editions, plus a number of reference works. If anyone on Humanist has suggestions of "essential" reference works, from 1680 or so on up to the very present, I would appreciate hearing from them, or hearing discussion of what might be included. Lou Burnard, Tom Corns and I have also been working on a system of encoding the Milton texts for retrieval of various kinds of information, as with genres, divisions of poetic forms, speakers, in addition to encoding planned to be helpful to editors or even in some cases to bibliographers. To date, I do not think there has been a CD devoted to one literary figure and including primary texts plus reference materials such as annotations, bibliographies or concordances. Again, I would like to hear ideas about how the material might be arranged, how it might be hyper-related, how it might be most conveniently encoded, keeping in mind that Milton wrote not only in English but in Latin, Greek and Italian, and quoted in Hebrew. Meanwhile, if anyone out there has been keyboarding Milton's prose secretly for years, please let me and Eric Dahlin know. Roy Flannagan (Department of English, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701; 614-593-2829 or 2831 [office] or 614-592-2450 [home]). From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Milton's prose on-line Date: 10 June 1991, 19:53:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 275 (324) There is no current source of Milton's prose, though *Areopagitica* I think is included on The Library of the Future CD. Eva Thury has been entering the Latin prose at Drexel University, but I am not sure at which stage she is at the moment. I am planning a prospectus for a Milton CD which should include both the Yale and the Columbia editions, plus a number of reference works. If anyone on Humanist has suggestions of "essential" reference works, from 1680 or so on up to the very present, I would appreciate hearing from them, or hearing discussion of what might be included. Lou Burnard, Tom Corns and I have also been working on a system of encoding the Milton texts for retrieval of various kinds of information, as with genres, divisions of poetic forms, speakers, in addition to encoding planned to be helpful to editors or even in some cases to bibliographers. To date, I do not think there has been a CD devoted to one literary figure and including primary texts plus reference materials such as annotations, bibliographies or concordances. Again, I would like to hear ideas about how the material might be arranged, how it might be hyper-related, how it might be most conveniently encoded, keeping in mind that Milton wrote not only in English but in Latin, Greek and Italian, and quoted in Hebrew. Meanwhile, if anyone out there has been keyboarding Milton's prose secretly for years, please let me and Eric Dahlin know. Roy Flannagan (Department of English, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701; 614-593-2829 or 2831 [office] or 614-592-2450 [home]). From: GRAHAM@EGFRCUVX Subject: mail to cambridge Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 14:23 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 276 (325) For mail to Cambridge, I think you almost certainly want NAME@cambridge.phoenix.ac.uk; this is what works from EARN (and probably BITNET as well). Within Britain (i.e. on JANET), it would be NAME@uk.ac.cam.phx, so what you have is wrong either way round. Good luck, Graham White American University in Cairo From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: info on e-encyclopedias Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 18:11 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 277 (326) Does anyone out there have any experience with electronic encyclopedias- on disks or CD-ROM (I don't mean here the ones on on-line services)? I have heard of Random House and Grolliers; are there any others and could you recommend any? These are for student use, not faculty, if that helps to focus the question. Thanks. Vicky Walsh UCLA Humanities Computing From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com Subject: Frequency list for Arabic/Persian/Urdu/Pashto? Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 19:09:29 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 278 (327) One of my coworkers here at Xerox is making enhancements to our Arabic/Persian/Urdu/Pashto word-processing software and has need of a list (for any of those four languages) of the relative frequency of occurrence of the letters in the alphabet -- something like the "ETAONRISHRDLU..." list for English. Does anyone know where she might find such a list? Please send replies to iwoo.osbu_north@xerox.com, not to me. Thanks in advance! Diane L. Olsen Multilingual Development Xerox Corporation From: "Tze-wan KWAN, Philosophy Dept., CUHK, Hongkong" Subject: Double Articulation Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 02:06 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 279 (328) I am currently working on a paper that handles the relation between speech sounds and meaning. In the course of formulating my thesis, I came across the concept of "double articulation" which is in fact a semiotic distinction between the meaning determining function on the one hand (1st articulation: morphemes, words, sentences...rituals, cultural tradition) and the meaning discriminative function on the other (2nd articulation: distinctive features, phonemes, syllables, may be sound clusters). This differentiation is supposedly important as it allows a symbolic system to function with the greatest efficiency and abstraction. Some cognitive scientists takes this feature of differentiation in symbolic activity as peculiar to and characteristic of human intelligence at large. As this issue is quite new to me I would like to hear some more opinions from the outside world. The only relevant sources I have found so far are works by Roman Jakobson and Andre Martinet. Some works of Elmar Holenstein (Bochum, Germany) also touch upon this issue. Can anyone out there give me some enlightenment in regard of the history of this notion? Further bibliographical information will also be appreciated! Tze-wan Kwan Dept. of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hongkong E-Mail: B071767@CUCSC (Bitnet) or B071767@CUCSC.CUHK.HK From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 14:36:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 137 (329) Conference 22-23 June 1992 near Stockholm on TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES New scale, New problems, New challenges, New openings - and first and last: Changes! The deeper integration and the wider geographical scope of the European Communities are rapidly creating a very different Europe. Not least, the language situation is being radically remodeled. The first to be affected are the professional translators, along with those who buy or organize translation or provide tools and services for the purpose. Also, the translators are among the few who can immediately affect the galloping development - and give early warnings. There are some worries. Thus, "old" members of the communities report that the convergence has given rise to new linguistic barriers: bureaucrats and politicians have in many domains developed a "Eurospeak", with different versions claimed to be English, French, German etc, which are just barely intelligible to unspoilt native readers and writers of thenational languages of Europe. What are the effects of these converging and diverging tendencies on the political, economic and social life in Europe? And on the national languages? No European country will escape the consequences of this bureaucracy-based revolution. Thus, Sweden, not yet a member country, is translating a set of community documents tantamount to ten years' yield of statutory law in the country. Can the Swedish language with impunity assimilate this influx of new texts, concepts and words? Without - as is the case now in Sweden and in most "new" member countries - a co-ordinated planned terminological effort? The peaceful amalgamation of autonomous countries into a unified albeit pluralingual entity without Herrenvolk and lingua franca seems to be unique in history. Will it remain so? Is it an experiment worth observing for other regions which contemplate becoming more of one region than a multitude of neighbours? When is multilingualism a recommendable proposal? To address questions like these, the Swedish Association of Authorized Translators, FAT, in conjunction with the Committee for Linguistics (FID/LD) within the International Federation for Information and Documentation, FID, is organizing a conference, 22-23 June 1992, at Biskops Arnoe, just outside Stockholm, Sweden. Papers focussing on some specific aspect of this theme are invited. In particular, we welcome comments on the following issues: * A pluralingual community and its impact on the national languages * Terminological support and language control * The translation market after 1992 * Translation aids in a multilingual environment The spoken language at the conference will be English: we regret that we shall not have the resources to provide interpretation. Accepted papers will be discussed at the conference and included in revised form in a book summarizing the findings and results of the conference meetings. Papers may be submitted in any official language of the Communities and a summary in some other language of the Communities should be appended. Whether presenting a paper or not, participants with experience of translating and translation-related problems are welcome. To warrant an atmosphere promoting interaction rather than soliloquies attendance is restricted to about 70 persons from all countries, so please indicate your interest at your earliest convenience. TRANSLATION AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE 22-23 June 1992 Biskops Arnoe Manor near Stockholm, Sweden DATES: * Submission of draft of papers: before January 15, 1992. * Decision by Programme Committee: before March 1, 1992. * Delivery of camera-ready text of paper: before May 15, 1992. * Payment of subscription dues: before April 15, 1992. * Arrival at conference venue: Sunday evening, June 21, 1992. * Working sessions: Monday and Tuesday, June 22 and 23, 1992. * Departure: Wednesday, June 24, 1992. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Friday & Saturday June 19-20: Pre-conference Social Programme Sunday June 21: From 1 p.m. Arrival & Registration From 7 p.m. Informal Gathering Monday June 22: Presentation of papers; discussions Evening: Panel discussion Tuesday June 23: Presentation of papers; discussions Evening: Banquet. Wednesday June 24: Breakfast & Departure Thursday June 25: Study visits to translation companies and documentation departments in Sweden THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Papers to be considered for inclusion in the conference programme should be sent to the Programme Committee. Please send a draft of the full text - not more than 12,000 characters - as a plain ASCII text to e-mail COLING@COM.QZ.SE or on paper in quintuplicate. The Programme Committee, after reviewal, will make its decision not later than 1 March and notify the author(s) by e-mail, fax or telex at the address indicated for that paper in the heading of the paper. Each paper should focus on some specific issue of translation in the new Europe. It should report about a recent or expected change in the organization, conditions and market for translation, describe, suggest or criticize tools and methodware for translation or debate crucial problems of language policy and planning influencing or influenced by translation activities. We shall not have space on this occasion for papers, whatever their merits, on translation theory or practice in general. Accepted papers will be reproduced and distributed to the partipants on arrival and discussed at the conference. The papers, after revision, together with the results emerging from the conference will be published in the form of a book which is expected to become a work of reference for everybody interested in translation and language problems in Europe. Resources will be available for software demonstrations during the meeting. Proposals for demonstrations should be submitted to the programme committee in the manner described for papers. Please indicate what computational environment your demonstration will require. All participants as well as non-participating persons or organizations are invited to exhibit relevant literature and reports at a book show during the conference. If possible, bring copies for participants to pick up. One copy of each item presented will be retained by the organizers for future reference. For possible commercial exhibition and demonstration of products or services, please contact the organizers about terms and conditions. CONFERENCE TIMES AND VENUE The conference will be held at an old manor, Biskops Arnoe, built on the site of anancient castle - the Bishop's Eagle Isle, to translate the name - some 14th century vaults ofwhich are still, as we shall see, extant. It belongs today to "Norden", an Intra-Scandinavian cultural association which organizes training courses and meetings on topics of mutual interest to the whole Scandinavian area (and which finds the topic of this conference on the linguistic situation in Europe, including Scandinavia, highly pertinent). For the purpose of such activities, a building for meetings and a number of bungalows for accommodation have been added. The facilities are modest but modern, with a bathroom in each room or in every 4-roomed bungalow. Biskops Arnoe is situated in a rural environment, on a small island of its own in the large lake Maelaren, about an hour's drive from Stockholm City and about the same distance from Arlanda International Airport. The dates for the conference were chosen because Scandinavia is very bright and attractive at that time, so that the business visit can be combined with a tourist trip in Sweden. Accompanying persons can be accommodated on the conference site at a moderate extra charge, and they will be given ample opportunity to explore the surroundings, fraught with historical memories. Within a few miles of friendly land- and seascape visitors will find runic stones, medieval churches, castles, and Sweden's oldest city; within less than 70 km they will also find Sweden's oldest university as well as its present capital. The conference begins on the Monday following Midsummer, which is celebrated during two intense days and nights in Scandinavia. The participants are expected to drop in during the Sunday, and enjoy an informal gathering in the evening. Pre-Conference Registration To warrant an intimate atmosphere for open-minded constructive discussion, attendance is restricted to about 70 persons. Place will be reserved on a first-order-first-served basis. To be valid, registration must be followed by payment for the full conference documentation not later than April 15. One set of the documentation must be purchased and paid for by each participant. No additional participation fee is required. If for any reason a subscriber cannot attend the meeting, the documentation will be mailed to his address. The payment will not be refunded. Active participants will be provided with accommodation, meals and transportation on a complimentary basis. They are expected to pay for their own transportation to Biskops Arnoe, for beverages and for telephone and similar personal expenses. For accompanying persons a minor charge, 250 ecu, for meals will be made. The price for all relevant documentation, including the printed after-conference report on "Translation in the New Europe", is 500 ecu for subscribers paying before April 15. Otherwise the price is 750 ecu. The final report will be distributed through a commercial publisher. All payments should be credited to Eurofat AB, Account number 333 14 31, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Stockholm, clearing number 5244. For subscribers in Sweden, VAT must be added. If you wish to be billed for the amount, please instruct us on the appropriate receiver and address of such a bill. ADDRESSES All correspondence concerning the conference prior to the meeting should be addressed to Eurofat AB, which is a company formed by FAT for this particular purpose. Its addresses are: EUROFAT AB: e-mail: COLING@COM.QZ.SE, telex: 15 440 KVAL S fax: +46 8 796 96 39 voice: +46 8789 66 83 paper mail: Skeppsbron 26, S-111 30 Stockholm, Sweden ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: President of FAT: Leif Oestling Coordinator: Hans Karlgren Liaison Officers: Joachim Wesseloh, David Knight, Jean Heyum Press Officer: Kerstin Ingmansson Conference Treasurer: Bo Widegren Conference Secretary: Katrin Sundius-Nordin Post-Conference Study Visit Manager: Matti Jaernare Travel and Pre- & Post-conference Tours Advisor: Heidemarie Nyrn Cultural Programme: Adolf Dahl Registration: Gerd Mller-Nordin During the conference, participants can be reached using the following address: Folkhogskolan Biskops Arnoe S-198 00 Baalsta, Sweden Phone: +46-171-522 60 From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0132 Humanities Computing Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 03:21 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 280 (330) In my short time on The Humanist, I've been informed, amused, exasperated. I haven't been inspired till now. Gary's post reminds us, I hope, of the true meaning of our board's designation. Jack Kolb. From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0134 Computing in the Humanities Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 08:23:16 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 281 (331) Willard, the fate of humanities computing on any one campus is going to depend in part on organizational issues. On my campus, for example, the humanities do not exist save anonymously as Core Area III. We have Social Sciences here, and Arts & Sciences, but not a humanity to be found. I work in our Center for Data Processing providing PC support to the entire campus. My PhD is in Early Modern European history. When I provide support, is it humanistic? I still can't make heads or tails out of what you mean by your term. It's true that people in the humanities tend to analyze words more than numbers, but further than that we tread into values not methodologies, and computers don't do value systems. The various departments usually tossed in a humanities salad bowl are often more different than alike - their common ground again being words. Most of our colleges now have a local support tech working for them, but the impetus for this was the need for a supervisor for their student lab, and that continues to be the main justification for the position. We meet as a group regularly, and I have yet to discern any difference in how they treat their users (they do, of course, deal with a slightly different software suite though the differences in hardware are even more pronounced). A final point: last spring I gave a presentation on Bitnet for the Humanities. I extended the invitation to all academic departments. Humanists were in a distinct minority. I spoke only about lists like this one, yet the people from the other disciplines still found the information both interesting and useful. Could you elaborate a bit? ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: Sheizaf Rafaeli Subject: humans and computing, humanities computing Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 16:52:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 282 (332) To Willard's restated question: You framed the five areas of service, evangelical, pedagogical, infrastructural and research. And it seems to me that you left out the one area within which you, I, and many others on this list would locate ourselves at least part of the time. In fact your note itself is part of this, sixth but no less important area: Introspection. I believe that this area number six, charged as it is with studying the role of computing in expression, understanding, and thought, is to your area number five (research) as that (research) is to area number one (service). Sheizaf From: Robin Smith Subject: Etaoinshrdlu Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 18:54 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 283 (333) Diane L. Olsen asks for a frequency-list for Persian, etc. This reply will be of absolutely no use to her at all, but as one who used to frequent a print shop as a child I have to correct a widespread myth: the sequence etaoinshrdlu is not a list of letters according to decreasing frequency in English, but rather what one gets by running one's finger along the top row of a linotype (or at any rate what one used to get by so doing: I gather they're all gone now). There was at one time a stock of in-jokes among those connected with the printing business using that particular 'pi' line (names like Eta Oin, for in- stance). I think some sources in the computer world are responsible for the claim about English letter frequency (Hofstadter repeats it, for instance). It isn't true. Does anyone have a less useful bit of information than this? From: BMENK@ccr2.bbn.com Subject: Reactions to Groliers CD Encyclopedia Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 17:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 284 (334) [deleted quotation] I've been using the Groliers here in our library for several months and find it to be: 1) adequate as a general use encyclopedia. The overall level of the articles is pitched at the high school/undergraduate level. It is certainly adequate for our principal usage, which has been to get a quick synopsis of unfamiliar topics in an electronic format which can be e-mailed to patrons. One of it's nicer features are the color illustrations avaiable if you're using a color VGA adapter. They can be brought up while you're reading an article by means of a "hot key". They cannot be downloaded however. Only the text can be exported to a file. 2) It's search interface is appropriate to a general usage CD-ROM. It's essentially menu-driven, though not obnoxiously so. It allows you to pull up an outline for longer articles, which can be very useful at times. It also allows searching by Boolean logic. The text window is unalterable however, and is a bit small for my own reading patterns. It's about 12-15 lines long in the center of the screen, well set in at the margins. This means you're looking at a pretty small bit of the text at any given time. Printing or exporting to an ASCII file are both quite easy, and can be done from within the search. 3) It's fairly reasonably priced I believe, somewhere in the low $100s, as I recall. All in all it's a good general use product. Bobb Menk Senior Technical Librarian Bolt Beranek and Newman Internet: BMENK@BBN.COM From: N_EITELJORG@cc.brynmawr.edu Subject: Re: 5.0136 Qs: E-Encyclopedias Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 05:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 285 (335) I have the Grollier encyclopedia on CD ROM. It's fair, at best. All the illustrations are drawings; they are generally poor. I could recommend it as one might any encyclopedia for youngsters - a place to *begin* a study. Nick Eiteljorg Center for the Study of Architecture From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0126 N/Q: Nota Bene Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 04:22 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 286 (336) I'm sure Skip has received numerous private responses with this info. But Nota Bene is alive and well and about to release new programs. The address is Dragonfly Software, 285 W. Broadway, Suite 600, N.Y., N.Y. 10013-2204. Telephone: 212-334-0445. FAX: 212-334-0845. From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Cambridge address Date: 13 Jun 91 18:53:04 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 287 (337) Addresses at Cambridge should go from within uk as NAME@uk.ac.cam.phx But from elsewhere you probably need to reverse the sequence to end phx.cam.ac.uk but then you need to slot in the network identifier in the appropriate place. Another factor is that you can mail via rl as in the address below. **************************************************************************** David Mealand * Bitnet: D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@ukacrl University of Edinburgh * Office Fax: (+44)-31-220-0952 Scotland,U.K. EH1 2LX * Office tel.:(+44)-31-225-8400 ext.221/217 **************************************************************************** From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0129 N/Q: Grammar Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 04:16 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 288 (338) Phyllis: a routine check of UCLA's system offered the following: Joseph Bosworth (1789-1876), A compendious grammar of the primitive English or Anglo-Saxon language (1826). I doubt that's what you're seeking. Jack. From: Helge Steenweg Subject: New list for Archaeologists Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 14:15:44 MSZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 140 (339) ARCH-L Archaeology List ARCH-L has been formed to facilitate discussions of archaeological problems, especially those concerned with research, excavations, etc. Also relevant conferences, job announcements, calls for papers, publications, bibliographies and the like should be publicized. It is hoped that the list will also serve as a central repository for public domain or shareware software related to archaeological studies. If you have materials that you'd be willing to put on file, please contact one of the owners of the list. If you're interested in joining the list, please send e-mail or interactive message to LISTSERV@DGOGWDG1: SUBScribe ARCH-L Your_full_name For example SUBScribe ARCH-L Heinrich Schliemann At present the list is unmoderated and will immediately distribute any incoming message to the list. Please note: only messages for distribution should be sent to ARCH-L; all commands (subscribe, signoff, review, etc.) should go to LISTSERV. Owners are: s.p.q.rahtz@ecs.southampton.ac.uk Sebastian Rahtz fsiegmu@dgogwdg1 Frank Siegmund hsteenw1@dgogwdg1 Helge Steenweg From: Dennis Baron Subject: the pc dictionary Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 09:29:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 141 (340) The political correctness debate has spilled over into lexicography once again. Thirty years ago it was _Webster's Third New International Dictionary_ which provoked the wrath of the right. Now it's the Random House Webster's College Dictionary (what a name) that's provoking the press. A NY Times article, which I have yet to see, dated 6/11, apparently described the dictionary. Yesterday, our local paper, the _Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette_, ran an editorial against the dictionary. I'm probably one of the few people in town who has actually looked at the dictionary (the writer of the editorial took all his info from the Times), though I don't have a copy, because we are considering it for adoption in our freshman writing program (I also like to read dictionaries). While this budding controversy may not be anything like the Salman Rushdie affair or even the flap over Webster's Third, it promises to make the early summer interesting for humanists. It seems the dictionary will now be attacked by many who have never seen it, indeed who use dictionaries only for pressing flowers or propping up table legs. But dictionary production is one of the few areas where scholarship and popular opinion seem to intersect on a regular basis. Any interest in discussing this dictionary war? Let me know. Dennis debaron@uiuc.edu (\ 217-333-2392 \'\ fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron \'\ __________ Department of English / '| ()_________) Univ. of Illinois \ '/ \ ~~~~~~~~ \ 608 S. Wright St. \ \ ~~~~~~ \ Urbana IL 61801 ==). \__________\ (__) ()__________) From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk Subject: ICONS Date: Tue,11 Jun 91 18:10:00 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 289 (341) A colleague of mine is investigating the use of ICONS in international communication and he would like to contact others who would like to explore this research area. I enclose a copy of his project description for those interested. Keith Cameron The Iconic Communication Project The dream of being able to understand and communicate in any language has not yet been satisfied. However, there are existing signs and symbols (icons) which are understood internationaly. This project proposes a computer-based iconic communication language and how it could be developed to a level that might interest telephone companies, offering a service to specific groups in niche customer bases. Icons offer a rich potential for communication across natural language barriers. If confined to the European arena, the many shared conventions make their design much simpler and their sure interpretation more certain. The computer provides an ideal device for the implementation of a flexible iconic communication system. The need for such a system is made more urgent by the increasingly international nature of commercial, educational and social communication. Examples such as booking a hotel room abroad, ordering machine parts from a foreign subsidary all provide occasions for such a system to prove its worth. There is a short journal article and a longer technical report which cover our progress so far. Please contact me for more detail. Masoud Yazdani Department of Computer Science University of Exeter Fax 44-392-264067 Email masoud@dcs.exeter.ac.uk From: nsmith@polar.bowdoin.edu (Neel Smith) Subject: Czech, Croatian Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 09:47:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 290 (342) A colleague in Slavic, new to computers, asks if there is a standard character set for Czech or Croatian-- specifically, where are the characters with hacek placed? If there is a widely used standard, are there Macintosh fonts for these character sets? Thanks for any help. Neel Smith From: "Edwin S. Segal" Subject: Volunteer Opportunity Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 11:29:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 291 (343) The Center for Applied Research in African Languages, a nonprofit organization dedicated to African development, seeks VOLUNTEERS to help develop electronic materials in orthography, text analysis, database compilation and linguistic geography. Contact: Stanley Lewis Cushingham, Director, 162 West Rock Avenue, New Haven, CT 06515-2223; (203) 389-8650. From: Maurizio Lana Subject: HUMANISTs in Houston? Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 13:21:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 292 (344) A friend of mine, who's taking a PhD in Latin Literature, will be in Houston st arting from October. She would be interested in meeting fellow HUMANISTs and like - if possible - to improve his knowledge in humanities computing. I think it's better if the answers come directly to me rather than to the list. Thank you. Maurizio Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: Maurizio Lana Subject: address for RLIN Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:18:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 293 (345) Does anyone know how to reach RLIN (The Research Library Group Inc.) at Stanford? I'd like a snail mail address, as well a FTP address. (By the way: many Oxford Text Archive texts are <>). Thank you. Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: DAVID BARRY Subject: QUERY RE: Showing accents in (ASCII) email Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 294 (346) Is there a recognised convention for showing accents in email? (so for example, e acute might be represented as e followed by a forward quote) David Barry Department of Occupational Psychology Birkbeck College Malet st LONDON WC1E 7HX England Email on JANET is:UBJV649@UK.AC.BBK.CU From: Alan D Corre Subject: Letter to Virginia Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 11:36:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 143 (347) Dear Virginia: You asked me if the original "bug" was really a moth, now deceased and lying in a glass tomb in Washington D.C. Well, let me answer you by telling you how I heard that story from the lips of the bug lady herself. I had read that she was going to speak at Marquette University, and decided that I would go to hear her, first because as the inventor of COBOL she just had to be talkative, and second, because a few years before, the university authorities had refused to allow Allen Ginsberg to speak on campus even though the students had invited him, so they had to have great taste. I got to the hall just as a black, shiny, US Navy limousine pulled up outside. A young seaman jumped out, opened the door and Commodore Grace Hopper got out. She appeared to be in her eighties, the oldest officer on active duty in the Navy, but was very upright and agile. She smiled graciously to the crowd of students milling around outside, and briskly walked in. I followed, and was surprised to find the large theater packed. There was not a seat to be had, and people were standing in the aisles. The commodore mounted the stage right on time, and began to poke fun at our wonderful navy! She told us how difficult it was to be a woman in the navy in the forties, and how outrageous she had been in trying to get her way with the old fuddy-duddies who had never wanted to see women in the navy in the first place. And no one walked in and arrested her for lese-majeste. What a wonderful country we live in, Virginia, where you can make fun of the most cherished institutions with the full support of the Supreme Court! Why, you can even make fun of the Vice-President just because he has been through our educational system and so believes that Minneapolis is the capital of Wisconsin! She told us wonderful stories of the old days. How they did calculations by connecting up wires. How they hired students to run up and down inside the computer (that's right, Virginia, inside) with a basket of tubes under their arms, changing them as they burned out. And then there was the story of the check book. Commodore Grace was a very organized person, and balanced her check book religiously each month as soon as she received her statement. One day it just wouldn't balance. Frustrated she gave up, and asked her brother (who happened to be an accountant) to find out what was wrong. He came up with the answer. At one point in the month she had started to keep her balance using octal arithmetic! (I guess she hadn't bought any 99-cent items that month.) Octal arithmetic for computer scientists is a bit like Old Church Slavonic for slavicists; you have to learn it although everyone has forgotten the reason why. Octal numbers had become second nature to her, but unfortunately they don't mix well with decimal numbers. She explained to us that clocks don't *have* to go clockwise; just an arbitrary decision like all those navy rules. I knew about this, because the clock on the ancient Altneu synagogue in Prague has Hebrew numerals on it, and so goes counterclockwise. Maybe the creator of the Golem was really a computer scientist; I have often thought that the Zohar reads like a computer manual. And finally she told us of the moth. We knew about it of course, and were on the edge of our seats waiting for the great moment. She explained how one day the computer started to produce garbage. People were very careful in those days to get the program and data right, because you normally had to wait three weeks to get on to solve a little problem like 4+4=10. Something had to be wrong. She took off that smart commodore's cap she was wearing (I guess she wasn't a commodore then, but never mind) and put on her thinking cap. Something must have got into the machine, she concluded, and commenced a search. And there it was, a moth that had given up its life in the interest of adding a new concept to computer science. "Here's the bug!" she exclaimed, and the admiring onlookers confirmed her finding. Looking at that transparently honest face, could you imagine she was making the story up? As a souvenir of her visit, she gave each of us a little piece of colored wire, of the same kind as she had used when in the old days she would fix her ailing computer or REMOVE BUGS. Those students (and I too) walked out of the hall proudly carrying the sacred relics which had been entrusted to them. Yes, Virginia, there really is a bug. One day I shall take you to our nation's capital, and you can see it for yourself. Your loving uncle, Alan From: ian@epas.utoronto.ca (Ian Lancashire) Subject: Humanities Computing Yearbook '89-90 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 09:36:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 144 (348) I am pleased to report that `The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90: A Comprehensive Guide to Software and other Resources' is published today, June 13, in the United Kingdom by Clarendon Press for 60 pounds. Oxford University Press (New York) will be publish it shortly in the United States. The book, about 720 pp., has contributions from an Advisory Board of 31 members worldwide and is divided into 29 sections under Disciplines, Methods and Tools, and Resources. A table of contents appears at the end of this note. I would like to express special thanks to Angela Blackburn and her assistant Frances Morphy at Oxford for their faith in this volume and for seeing it through the Press without delay once it was completed. Plans are now being made for future volumes, as well as for possible supplementary collections of essays. Ian Lancashire, Editor Dept. of English University of Toronto **************************************************************** The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90: A Comprehensive Guide to Software and other Resources. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xviii, 701. DISCIPLINES 1. Archaeology (Sebastian Rahtz & Editor) 2. Art History (Michael Greenhalgh & Editor) 3. Biblical Studies (Editor, with Robert Kraft) 4. Computational Linguistics (Editor and Nancy Ide) Grammar Development Systems Machine Translation Morphological and Syntactic Analysis Question-Answering Systems Semantic Analysis and World Knowledge Text and Discourse Analysis Text Generation (comp. Gordon Tucker) 5. Creative Writing Artificial Conversation Fiction Generators Interactive Fiction and Film Poetry Generators 6. Dance 7. Drama 8. English Language Instruction (Donald Ross, Jr., & Editor English as a Second Language (ESL) Tools for Composition Word Processing and the Teaching of Composition Style, Grammar and Usage Checkers and Tutors 9. Folklore Studies 10. Historical Studies (Daniel Greenstein & Editor) The Ancient World Australia Austria Canada Denmark France Germany Italy Japan Medieval History The Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States USSR 11. Law (Patricia Harris and Peter D. Junger) General Legal Databases and Retrieval Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Legal Expert Systems Other Computational Applications Law as Constraint on Humanities Computing 12. Lexicography (Editor, assisted by Nicoletta Calzolari) 13. Linguistics Corpus Linguistics Dialectology and Dialectometry Modelling Phonemic and Phonetic Transcription Speech Analysis Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech 14. Musicology (Lelio Camilleri and Eleanor Selfridge-Field) Music Analysis and Theory Music Perception, Cognition and Performance Studies 15. Natural Languages and Literatures African Languages Altaic Mongolian Turkish Amerindian Languages Armenian Austronesian Languages Malayo-Polynesian Baltic Latvian Celtic Languages (Andrew Hawke) Breton Cornish Irish Scottish Gaelic Welsh Classical Languages (Editor, assisted by Andrea Bozzi, Anna Paci & Brad Inwood) Greek Latin Dutch East Asian Languages Chinese (Tien Chi Chen, Paul C. Kwong, Tze-wan Kwan & Editor) Japanese (Mari Nagase & Editor) Korean Tibetan English Old English Medieval Renaissance 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century Esperanto Etruscan (Ephraim Nissan) Finno-Ugric Estonian Finnish Hungarian Lappish French (Editor, assisted by Robert Gauthier) German (intro. by Randall L. Jones) Greek (Modern) Iranian Kurdish Pahlavi Persian Italian (intro. by Nicoletta Calzolari) Medieval Literature Provencal Rumanian Scandinavian Languages (Kristin Natvig and Espen Ore) Danish Frisian Icelandic Norwegian Swedish Semitic Akkadian/Sumerian Amorite Ancient Egyptian Arabic (Everhard Ditters & Editor) Coptic Hebrew (Editor and Ephraim Nissan) Slavic Languages (David Birnbaum and Harry Gaylord) Sources General Bulgarian Early Slavic Languages East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian) Languages of Czechoslovakia Languages of Yugoslavia Polish Software South Asian Languages Hindi Pali Sanskrit Urdu Spanish and Portuguese (Estelle Irizarry) 16. Philosophy (Leslie Burkholder) Instructional Computing Research Uses of Computing Online Resources Machine-Readable Texts Computing as a Subject of Study METHODS AND TOOLS 17. Bibliographic Databases: Online and CD-ROM (Anita Lowry) Database Directories Bibliography Vendors Online Databases CD-ROM Databases Front-End Software 18. Editing and Publishing (Editor and John J. Hughes) Bibliographies Character Sets and Fonts Collation, Stemmatics and Textual Editing Desktop Publishing and Typesetting Systems Indexing Text Restoration Word Processing Tools and Utilities 19. Information Management (Lou Burnard & Editor) Database Design Single Flatfile DBMS Checklist of Relational Database Facilities SQL Database Management Systems Other Multi-File DBMS Textbase Managers Object-Oriented DBMS The Notecard Metaphor The Hypertext Metaphor 20. Programming Languages APL BASIC C FORTRAN IBYX Icon LISP Modula-2 Pascal PROLOG SNOBOL4 21. Second-Language Instruction (Editor, assisted by Frank Otto) 22. Statistics (Barron Brainerd and Editor) 23. Text Analysis (Barron Brainerd, Stephen R. Reimer & Editor) Authorship Studies Concordance Systems Content Analysis Lexical Counts Prosodic Analysis Protocol Analysis Stylistic Analysis Text Encoding and Enrichment (C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen) 24. Text Processing Techniques Data Compression Encryption Filters and Transduction Hashing Keystroke Capture N-gram Generators Readability Indexes Searching and Pattern Matching Sorting Spell-Checking Text Comparison Typescript Analysis Word Games RESOURCES 25. Bibliographies General Serials Lists of Hardware and Software Software Repositories 26. Electronic Texts Reference Works Termbanks Text and Data Archives 27. General Guides and History History of Humanities Computing Terminology and Jargon 28. OCR 29. People and Places Associations Computer-using Scholars in the Humanities Computing Centres and Offices General Conferences Networking Teaching Humanities Computing Reference Bibliography Index ~Z From: Susan Hockey Subject: ALLCACH92 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 10:16 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 145 (349) Here is the call for papers for next year's ALLCACH conference. HUMANISTs may also like to look at it in the context of the current discussion on humanities computing. This conference is the major annual event in humanities computing and the topics and requirements for the submissions show that humanities computing has a flourishing range of subjects and issues to address. Susan Hockey ------------------------------------------------------------------ ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES 1992 JOINT CONFERENCE ALLC-ACH92 5-9 April 1992 Christ Church, Oxford, England CALL FOR PAPERS This conference is the major annual forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. Its focus is on the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, on the development of significant new materials and tools for humanities research, and on the application and evaluation of computing techniques in humanities subjects. TOPICS: Submissions are invited on all areas of literary, linguistic and humanities computing, including, but not limited to: text encoding; hypertext; text corpora; computational lexicography; statistical models; syntactic, semantic and other forms of text analysis; also computer applications in history, philosophy, music and other humanities disciplines. The deadline for submissions is 1 OCTOBER 1991. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. REQUIREMENTS: Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those which concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those which concentrate on a particular application in the humanities (e.g. a study of the style of an author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important previous related work. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Abstracts for individual papers should be 1500-2000 words in length. Thirty minutes will normally be allowed for the presentation of each paper including questions. SESSIONS: Proposals for sessions (90 minutes) are also invited. These should take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The proposer of the session should submit a statement of approximately 500 words describing the topic of the session. Abstracts of 1000-1500 words should be submitted for each of the papers, together with an indication that the author of each paper is willing to participate in the session. or (b) A panel of up to 6 speakers. The proposer of the panel should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the topic of the panel and how it will be organized, together with the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each of the speakers is willing to participate in the session. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions should begin with the following information: TITLE: title of paper AUTHOR(S): names of authors AFFILIATION: of author(s) CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address E-MAIL: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) FAX NUMBER: of main author PHONE NUMBER: of main author (1) Electronic submissions These should be plain ASCII files, not wordprocessor files, and should not contain TAB characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Footnotes should not be included and endnotes only where absolutely necessary. References should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters which cannot be transmitted by electronic mail and include an explanation of the scheme after the title information and before the start of the text. Electronic submissions should be sent to ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH92". If diagrams are necessary for the evaluation of electronic submissions, they should be faxed to 44-865-273275 (international, or 0865-273275 (from within UK) and a note to indicate the presence of diagrams put at the beginning of the abstract. (2) Paper submissions Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to ALLC-ACH92 (Paper submission) Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England DEADLINES Proposals for papers and sessions 1 October 1991 Notification of acceptance 15 December 1991 Advance registration 8 February 1992 There will be a substantial increase in the registration fee for registrations received after 8 February 1992. PUBLICATION A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in the series Research in Humanities Computing edited by Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide and published by Oxford University Press. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Programme Committee which consists of: Chair: Thomas Corns, University of Wales (ALLC) Gordon Dixon, Manchester Polytechnic (ALLC) Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (ACH) Jacqueline Hamesse, Universite Catholique Louvain-la-Neuve (ALLC) Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ACH) Randall Jones, Brigham Young University (ACH) Donald Ross, University of Minnesota (ACH) Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa (ALLC) Local organiser: Susan Hockey, Oxford University (ALLC) ACCOMMODATION Accommodation has been reserved for the conference in Christ Church which is one of Oxford University's oldest and best-known colleges. It is situated in the centre of the city, but overlooks Christ Church Meadow and the River Thames. The conference will run from dinner on Sunday 5 April until lunch on Thursday 9 April. There will be a banquet in Christ Church's Tudor hall on the evening of 8 April. LOCATION Oxford is an hour from London and from Heathrow Airport and is also close to Stratford-on-Avon and the Cotswolds, a beautiful area of English countryside. There is a frequent bus service from Heathrow to Oxford and good transport arrangements from Gatwick airport. ENQUIRIES Please address all enquiries to ALLC-ACH92 Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England Telephone: 44-865-273200 or (from within UK) 0865-273200 Fax: 44-865-273275 or (from within UK) 0865-273275 E-mail: ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK Please make sure that you give your name, full mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address with any enquiry. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: where next? continued Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 21:28:46 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 295 (350) Sheizaf Rafaeli reminds me in his response to my enumerated list of activities that introspection is characteristic of our field. I had intended my fifth point, "research", to cover such professional self-examination, but it seems that the degree of emphasis does not correspond to what an observant sociologist can detect from reading Humanist, for example. In fact, as I have thought more about my rash reduction of the whole gamut to five headings, much remains to be said. The building of resources such as software and archives of data (text, graphics, music) and the devising of standards for them (TEI, most prominently) are primary activities that don't fit easily anywhere in my tentative scheme. What other things have I not caught? My Torontonian colleague Eva Swenson, in a private message, raises a very interesting point related to what I called "research". She notes that demonstrations of software (e.g. at fairs) seems to indicate promise and potential in what we do -- my "evangelical" category -- but wants to know how the often asserted value or benefit of computing to the humanities can be documented. Again, an occasion for introspection. Perhaps the case for research (at least research of certain kinds) is clear, but in any case much of it can proceed without having to prove anything to anyone, except (as usual) the quality of one's written work. Where teaching is concerned, however, large capital outlays are required, e.g. for teaching labs, and some major changes to the infrastructure. My question is this: if it's fundamentally impossible to measure the true effectiveness of instruction, how can we possibly hope to prove that computers do it better? Willard McCarty From: SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: re: computers and equality Date: Fri, 14 JUN 91 10:36:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 296 (351) I passed on a copy of the recent 'computers and equality' mailing to a colleague at the Open University here in the UK ... I thought the list might be interested in his response (a UK perspective). Subj: PC's and the blind Hi Simon Many thanks for passing on the article. I noticed with interest that there was no mention of optical character readers. I would find it hard to survive without one! Their reading ability is really very good - certainly no problem with laser output documents or text books. These days the price is not too bad - about 2,500 pounds for a system to "plug" into your PC. Before too long the price should reduce to a point where some blind people can have one at home. I too use a CD rom drive on my PC. I have just been given a copy of "The Times" and "Sunday Times" for 1990 on CD rom. The inside articles make fascinating reading for someone who hasn't read a newspaper for 20 years. Other CD's that I use are the MS Bookshelf (mainly for the dictionary) and a super demo disk from Nimbus - it contains all manner of Shareware and Public Domain packages. (Nimbus - Research Machines Ltd. IBM compatible micro made in UK.) I have had first hand experience of copyright problems. Back in the bad old days of BBC computers I asked a magazine publisher if they would supply their magazine on disk. The reply was "with pleasure" and it was super to be able to read the publication on my own. However I only received the one edition because the publisher was frightened that the disk would be copied N times thereby reducing sales. Obviously they had never heard of photocopiers! I have ordered a couple of computer books from the Montana Disk Library but as yet not received them. They are a little expensive (about $10 a disk I seem to recall) but things do look promising. My concern is that with a Mb of memory costing what a Kb used to cost everyone will go for graphics displays of text. Graphical User Interfaces like Windows are so popular. I have just discovered a text packaging which allows all the features of Windows which is very pleasing (it is called Desqview and is produced by Quarterdeck). I must say that I find it difficult to understand why an adult should want to move a pointer around the screen using a mouse when a single key stroke does the same thing! Sorry for going on for so long - I have been playing with computers and speech output for over ten years now so it is a hobby horse of mine. Thanks for putting PC's and the blind on the agenda. David Calderwood. Simon Rae SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK(BITNET) Research Adviser, Academic Computing Service SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom fax: (0908) 653744 From: Malcolm Hayward Subject: Humanities Computing Date: 14 Jun 91 13:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 297 (352) Willard's five areas (six with Sheizaf's Introspection) are a useful way to think about Humanities Computing in abstract terms, but it seems to me that in practice they collapse into a single principle (with, perhaps, the exception of research). Over the past two weeks I have taught a workshop in Humanities Computing, helped the dean index a bibliography of renaissance drama, advised a colleague on computerized typesetting for a journal, helped another download info from a CD-ROM, and failed to get a modem working for a friend. So I was serving, teaching, and so on. The principle behind those was having some amount of expertise (not enough in the case of the modem) in the hardware and software and some understanding of what the people wanted as a final product from the computer (knowing how to use TACT, the bibliography, the citations from MLA, the journal itself in final form, a working modem). That's a fairly basic principle, of course, but I think it is the one that will keep Humanities Computing going, for there will always be a lag of a few years between the advances in the field and their wide acceptance by those who can use them. I am a little bit afraid that fixing Humanities Computing at some static point would leave the field behind. Malcolm Hayward MHayward@IUP Department of English Phone: 412-357-2322 or IUP 412-357-2261 Indiana, PA 15705 From: Jouko Lindstedt, University of Helsinki Subject: Teachng a classical language: a summary Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 09:57 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 147 (353) A month ago, HUMANIST (5.0053) distributed my query about "the most practicable method of teaching a classical language to a student who doesn't have the slightest interest in it yet [...]". Although my problem primarily concerned Old Church Slavonic (OCS), I asked for advice from all teachers of classical languages, such as Latin and Greek. I have received lots of valuable answers, both on HUMANIST and privately. Nobody really defended the old "deductive" method of first learning all paradigms and then proceeding to authentic texts. Even at the end of the course, the student need not necessarily know such paradigms the frequency of which in actual texts is low (Mike MacMahon, writing about Old Icelandic). But somehow the inductive and deductive methods should be balanced (David Schaps), a "middle ground" has to be found (Willard McCarty). One of the most important things is to choose carefully graded texts which introduce grammatical structures in an orderly way. (Donald Webb wrote that such graded readings are important even in teaching modern languages, despite fashionable "communicative" approaches.) David A. Hanson told about a course of OCS in which the "theoretical norm" was introduced to the students, because the main thing is to help them to see the diachronic links. (To appreciate this recommendation, you must know that OCS texts have usually been taught as they appear in manuscripts, with all scribal errors and local traits, not in a normalized form as is customary with classical Greek and Latin authors.) Interesting diachronic connections "underline from the start the reason why you're learning the older language" (Aldabra Stoddart). Of course the texts should also be interesting in their own right. Pat Johnston proposed "to expose [the] students to some of the GLORIOUS hymns in OCS"; unfortunately, what she must have in mind are really hymns in Russian Church Slavonic -- they are very beautiful, but the language is too "modern" to be useful for a philologist (sigh). Even though students are not supposed to speak a "dead language", they should be made to READ ALOUD the texts, so that visual and aural material reinforce each other -- this fine theoretical phrase I coined by myself, but I think this is more or less what several contributors seem to think, and I agree. This is also something very traditional, both in learning texts and paradigms, which does not mean it's something bad: from my Latin I still remember "fero, tuli, latum, ferre" and "Odi et amo..." (with a STRONG scansion). A related question is how a classical language should be pronounced. I assume the classics teachers in different countries are more and more going over to the "classical" and "original" pronunciation, with the Latin "c" pronounced [k] in every position, for instance. This is very fine for linguistic purposes, but it should be kept in mind that classical languages still have different ritual uses where other norms prevail. OCS with an "original" pronunciation -- if such a thing exists -- sounds very different from the Russian Church Slavonic my students can here in orthodox churches at Helsinki. As for myself, being a Roman Catholic I have two pronunciations for Latin: I've learned the classical "hard" one for pieces such as "Odi et amo...", with all the vowel lengths, but I couldn't recite the Credo in it. There was also some discussion on CALL; it was interesting (once I guessed what CALL means), but I don't think I am competent to summarize it here. James O'Donnell (5.0069) mildly accused me of a insincere attitude as I seemed to want to know "how can we take an authoritarian situation (you *must* take OCS) and sugar-coat it to make it resemble our ideal libertarian model of teaching?" [in his wording]. His "own recipe is to find students who want to learn the language". I think "DEL2" already answered to this (in 5.0078). I'd like to add that even in O'Donnell's university, the football team (in Europe we believe that every U.S. university has one) certainly cannot train in such a way that for each exercise which the coach proposes, every team member decides whether he or she wants to participate in it or not. Nobody is compelled to take Slavonic Philology, but if somebody takes it, the teachers are supposed to know better what the students need to master the subject, that's what teachers are paid for. I don't want to say that course requirements cannot be discussed with the students; our requirements have recently changed a lot owing to student proposals (and protests). But as for OCS, they just have to believe they need it... The goal is making them see it during the course, not four years afterwards. As several HUMANIST readers suggested, I acquainted myself with some newer textbooks of Latin and Greek. Unfortunately I couldn't find all of the books suggested in our faculty library, and I was too lazy to go to other libraries, but I found, to mention one of the best, _Reading_Greek_, by the Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course (Cambridge University Press 1978). There is even a Finnish edition, and presumably other national editions, too. The first chapter ("The insurance fraud") begins with a real-looking text, but actually it only makes use of some very basic grammatical forms and structures; and the student is supposed to read and understand the text with the help of the vocabulary _before_ the grammatical explanations are given. Needless to say, there is nothing comparable in Old Church Slavonic; perhaps I will be able to normalize and simplify passages from the Vita Constantini in a similar manner, or write even some short texts of my own. Finally, several contributors emphasized the teacher's role, the importance of his or her enthusiasm (and humour). Peg Kershenbaum wrote a fine contribution (in 5.0120) about how the teacher should love the subjects and the students, be ready to answer silly questions without showing they are silly, be able to present the subject matter as an intellectual challenge, organize system of peer tutors, and still have time to write own material for the course. It sounds very idealistic, but I think it's the kind of idealism academic teachers really need. I think this kind of attitude is something we in Europe should learn from the universities of English-speaking countries (but I admit I've never been to an English-speaking country, let alone their universities). It's also a question of general mentality: few Finnish university teachers show any kind of enthusiasm before their students (there are bright exceptions, of course); few Finnish students ask any questions, silly or not. But this is changing, I hope. Jouko Lindstedt Dept. of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki lindstedt@cc.helsinki.fi jslindst@waltari.helsinki.fi lindsted@finuh.bitnet From: PARKINSON@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: New list Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 16:55 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 298 (354) Announcing the creation of VASCO, a new list for the study of the Portuguese Discoveries. VASCO will be administered by the Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries, which has been established at Linacre College Oxford under the aegis of the Portuguese National Commission for the Commemoration of the Discoveries. Its aim is to promote research and publication into all aspects of the Portuguese Discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; its membership includes scholars in the fields of history, history of science, art history, shipbuilding and navigation, linguistics, literature and anthropology. The proceedings of the Centre's first colloquium will be published at the end of the year. A computer-readable text of the Decadas da Asia of Joao de Barros is in the final stages of preparation, and will be released to interested scholars for media costs. Other fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts have been selected for computerisation. VASCO is seen as a forum for the exchange of information in this field, amd for the discussion of research projects and strategies. Anyone interested in participating in VASCO or in the activities of the Centre should contact: Stephen Parkinson, Linacre College, Oxford, vasco@uk.ac.ox.vax From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: archeology online Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 17:09:59 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 299 (355) Regarding the new LISTSERV-based archology group: There is already an archeology group on Usenet. I just have to wonder whether a Bitnet-based server is really the best way to get an inter- national archeology discussion group going. The LISTSERV mechanism is somewhat klunky, and there no sophisticated distribution hierarchy in place. Also, what distribution there is comes in the form of mail, which creates a lot of duplication at various sites (from everyone get- ting LISTSERV mail), and can't be read by the terriffic "news-reading" software that Usenetters are now quite accustomed to. I don't want to discourage people from setting up lists. I'm just a bit alarmed at the proliferation of LISTSERV-based systems. It seems a step backward for international electronic cooperation in the hum- anities. Why not look into a Usenet group? If you want more control, then create a new, moderated group. Mail and ftp archives can be set up. Every- thing can then be centralized as part of the standard news distribu- tions that most universities get (and which many archive on a single server to save space). -Richard From: 6500jdw@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: _Erofile_ Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 12:11:23 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 300 (356) ************************* ***************************** **___ ___ ___ ___ __ ** ** I__ I__I I I I__ I I I_ ** ** I__ I \ I__I I I I__ I__ ** ** ** ******************************** *** *** *** ************************** ********************** ELECTRONIC REVIEWS OF FRENCH & ITALIAN LITERARY ESSAYS ______________________________________________________ Announcing EROFILE, a new research tool for French and Italian studies distributed electronically (via the BITNET and INTERNET networks). EROFILE provides timely reviews of the latest essays in the following areas associated with French and Italian studies: - Literary Criticism - Cultural Studies - Film Studies - Pedagogy - Linguistics If you are interested in subscribing or submitting to EROFILE, or want to know more about our editorial policy, please send a message to the editors: erofile@ucsbuxa.bitnet erofile@ucsb.edu or write to: Erofile Department of French and Italian University of California Santa Barbara, 93106 From: "Paul N. Banks" Subject: Useless information Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 0:31:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 301 (357) Robin Smith asks if there is a more useless bit of information than the origin of etaoin shrdlu. Yes! For whatever reason, the Linotype's keyboard (and those of Intertypes and similar machines) was oriented vertically rather than (as a typewriter or computer keyboard) vertically. The equivalent of the spacebar was on the left, operated with the left little finger, and etaoin was the first vertical row of keys, shrdlu the second, and so forth. So in fact these were the left-most rather than the top two rows of the keyboard as Smith states. There was no such thing as touch typing, in the sense of a "home row" on which one rests fingers for orientation for the rest of the keyboard. Keyboarding on these machines was more like playing the piano--totally kinesthetic. Paul N. Banks | Conservation Education Programs Research Scholar | School of Library Service pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu | 516 Butler Library 212 854-4445 | Columbia University 212 865-1304 | New York NY 10027 From: koontz@alpha (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 5.0139 Rs: Letter Freq.; E-Enc.; Mail; Nota Bene; Grammar Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 08:37:57 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 302 (358) Robin Smith reports that etaoinshrdlu is the not the frequency list for letters in English, but rather a string derived from the keyboard of the linotype. As far as I can recall from reading elementary books on cypher when I was a kind, it is also the start of (a) frequency list. From: James O'Donnell Subject: ETAOINSHRDLU Date: 13 Jun 91 21:44:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 303 (359) Now funny that Robin Smith took up the, strictly irrelevant, point about English letter frequency. When I saw the original query, I got to wondering whether ETAOINSHRDLU was a myth or not and set about testing it on some of my own prose with the help of the computer. Simple matter to insert blank spaces between every letter in a sample of English prose (my own), alpha-sort, then count. The results were *very* close (given that the sample was only about 30,000 char.) to the conventional list: N was quite a bit lower, H a bit lower, and F rather higher, but ETAOIS was definitely the top six. Someone must have a larger database and more accurate (and more recent) information, but this is all of great use for any of us who wind up as contestants on *Wheel of Fortune*. As to the linotype arrangement, my guess is that this represented somebody's guess a hundred years ago as to order of frequency. QWERTYUIOP, on the other hand, is famous as the end-result of a very non-scientific fiddle to try to put the most common letters in the most convenient places, complicated by having no accurate idea as to the most common letters and no consistent idea as to the most convenient places. The right index finger, arguably the strongest and most coordinated, has little work to do on ETAOINSHRDLU, at any rate, and the left hand is uncommonly busy. From: "Dana Cartwright, Syracuse Univ, 315-443-4504" Subject: ETAOINSHRDLU Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 19:36:52 LCL X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 304 (360) The story I was told to explain the sequence etaoinshrdlu (and in my mind this is no more than a story, I have no direct way of verifying it) is that it is rooted in the Linotype machine and some of its peculiarities of operation. As I understand it, as an operator "types" at a keyboard, small molds for the corresponding letters are assembled into a single line of text. At the end of the line, the operator presses what would be equivalent to what we call "return," whereupon the machine pours molten typemetal over the row of molds, forming a solid bar (slug) of typemetal for a single line of text. The molds are broken free and recirculated into the machine. Now, as each key on the keyboard is pressed, the mold literally *drops* into position. Once in place, a mold cannot be individually retrieved. And the assembly place is buried inside a maze of hot metal. In short: there is no "backspace" or "oops" key. Once you hit a key on a Linotype, that character is going to be typeset in the slug. Of course, real Linotype operators make mistakes. I believe a standard way of handling errors was to mark the offending slug. The method used at the New York Times (and doubtless elsewhere) was simply to run one's fingers down the upper row of keys, thus setting the character sequence etaoinshrdlu into the slug. The operator then re-did the line, this time avoiding the error. So now this single line of text has been translated into two slugs, one correct and one with an error, marked by containing the sequence. At a later stage in handling, someone was supposed to pick out and throw away all the slugs containing the sequence etaoinshrdlu. And of course they were overlooked. So readers of the Times would be treated to an odd line of text containing the sequence. And thus it became widely known. This story was told to me by a computer scientist who named a robot of his "Shrdlu." So not all computer scientists think the sequence is the letter frequency of the English language. From: Richard Giordano Subject: Grace Hopper Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 11:13:43 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 305 (361) Alan's note to Virginia reminds me of my interview with Grace Hopper in Washington back in 1985, in support of my research on, well, believe it or not, the history of the development of the COBOL programming language. Her story about the moth was the same. The only difference involves the colored wire. She gave *me* a wire a few inches long and called it a 'Grace Hopper Nanosecond'--that is, the distance light travels in one billionth of a second. She also gave me a packet that looked like it was filled with ground pepper. These were the 'Grace Hopper Picoseconds', that is, the distance light travels in one trillionth of a second. Richard Giordano Department of Computer Science University of Manchester From: James Marchand Subject: Re: 5.0143 Bug and etymology & frequency Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 20:17:38 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 306 (362) I am sure that Grace Hopper was not lying. As a personal friend of her former roomie, Pauline Schwalbe, I can vouch for her. However, it is true that the word "bug", meaning "gremlin", glitch in the system, etc. was in use long before she found the moth, which is why she said "bug" and not moth. But why spoil a good story with "truth"? In answer to Dennis Baron, I am sure that the etymology of woman is "woe unto man"; I heard it from my grandmother; I know also that avis "bird" comes from a + via "no path" because it doth fly the untrammeled paths of space. As to letter frequency: perhaps it is just because etaoinshrdlump represents what was thought to be the frequency of the letters that the linotype machine was so constructed. I remember that we used to end a slug by running our fingers in just the manner described, so that newspapers used to be full of etaoinshrdlump, because careless mocker uppers forgot to break it off, whence Pogo's bookworm's name is Shrdlump, Etaoin Shrdlump. There are truths which transcend truth. Jim Marchand From: d-bantz@uchicago.edu Subject: Re: 5.0141 Politically Correct Dictionary? Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 16:07:14 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 307 (363) [deleted quotation] Good topic. What struck me in the NYT piece was creshendo of complaints culminating in the charge of "political correctness" on the basis of, for example, including gay in the sense of homsexual (as a less common useage than 'happy') and including the spelling "womyn" as a sometimes-used alternative to "woman." In suggesting this was evidence of "political correctness," the NYT article seemed to regard it as roughly equivalent to ignorant, pandering to extremists, lacking in quality and/or dishonest work. The article did include a bit of rejoinder from the editors toward the end. From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0141 Politically Correct Dictionary? Date: Sun, 16 Jun 91 08:35 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 308 (364) Having not seen either periodicals or dictionaries you mention, could you briefly describe the grounds of the controversy? Jack. From: BANKS@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Re: pc dictionaries (5.0141) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 10:01 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 309 (365) I was interested to read about the pc dictionary with the long name. Here in hicksville UK, however, pc-ness has yet to take hold. I would be interested therefore to know exactly what the dictionary problem is - is it the entries themselves, for example, or their definitions? With many thanks. Marcus Banks ISCA, Oxford (BANKS@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX) From: Dennis Baron Subject: PC Dictionary Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 10:26:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 310 (366) In response to some comments and queries, here is a summary of the PC Dictionary debate as it begins to unfold. This will be a fairly longish entry: The NY Times (6/11/91, pp. B1; B3) carried an article by Richard Bernstein entitled "Dictionary Gives New Meaning to Sensitivity," a description of the _Random House Webster's College Dictionary_ published May 15. The article focuses on the dictionary's "claim to have eliminated sexist language from its definitions . . . and the scrupulous attention it pays to the potential of words to give offense." For example, under the entry for _girl_ Bernstein quotes the usage note advising "many women today resent being called girls" and that the phrase "my girl," referring to one's secretary, "has decreased but not disappeared." RHWCD also notes _Eskimo_ as a (potentially) derogatory term, recommending _Inuit_ instead. There is an appendix on how to avoid sexist language. The Times reports that _womyn_ is given as an alternative spelling of _women_, as the usage note says, "to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n." Bernstein reports that Sol Steinmetz, executive editor of the dictionary, emphasizes the descriptive rather than prescriptive nature of the dictionary. Bernstein turns to Jacques Barzun for a response. Barzun's view goes something like this: since _man_ means `human being' as well as `adult male human being,' it is not a sexist term. John Simpson, editor of the _OED_, had not seen the dictionary but told the Times in a telephone interview, "It seems a pity that some of the old meanings are being, as it were, blacklisted" (his reference is to _gay_; the assertion, a common one now, is that the meaning `homosexual' has all but submerged the earlier sense of the word). In response to the NY Times article, the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette ran an editorial title "Your guide to the politically correct," which concludes, "The dictionary ... does not represent a complete victory for those who advocate diversity through conformity." It was a slow news day. I am still waiting to receive my copy of the dictionary from Random House, but I have looked at it briefly in a local bookstore. Bernstein says critics of the dictionary charge "the very stress on the offensive meanings of words seems to some people to be at least in part a kind of political decision, a bending before a powerful trend" and that "feminist views of usage have outweighed other views." Random House is not only responding to a language trend, it is responding to some heavy criticism of sexist bias in the first edition of the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language, a bias that was silently corrected to a great extent in the second edition, edited by the late Stuart Flexner. Though it is likely to receive the most attention, the Random House Webster's uses sex-neutrality and insult-sensitive usage notes as only part of its hype. Steinmetz acknowledges in the Times article that the addition of Webster's name to RH's college dictionary line is solely for the purpose of selling more dictionaries. The dictionary also stresses number of items (180,000) and a hi- tech data base as selling points, and calls itself "the living dictionary project," which sounds to me like a combination of recombinant DNA and evangelism. I myself am reluctant to get into the discussion further until I have my own copy of the dictionary to read, though I liked what I read in the bookstore. I can note the following: 1. Responding to John Simpson: while the shift of _gay_ is often asserted to be virtually complete, according to _Webster's Dictionary of English Usage_ (Merriam-Webster), _gay_ has not lost its early meaning at all. Perhaps the situation is different in the UK. I'd like to see data rather than just anecdotal evidence. 2. The Random House Webster's entry for _Ms._ does not report the use of this title by single women as a substitute for _Miss_ (no other dictionary reports this either, though it is clearly common), nor does it date the term as early as the 1930s, when it was first noted in the NY Times. 3. I fear that what may indeed prove to be a strong and useful new dictionary will become mired in a pc slugfest, diverting attention away from the real merits or failings of the text. A similar slugfest occurred 30 years ago when Webster's Third was published. Out of that came, in response, the _American Heritage Dictionary_ with its so-called usage panel. The main criticism of W3 was that it was not prescriptive enough. Opponents of the Random House Webster's seem to suggest it is too prescriptive. The question about RHWCD may well be whether it is descriptive or prescriptive. But that is too complex to be debated in the popular press. Enough for now. Dennis Baron, a harmful drudge University of Illinois From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Computers and Language Conference Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 13:58 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 152 (367) COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE 2 TOWARDS 1992 25-27 September 1991 Sheffield City Polytechnic Sponsored by the CTI Centres for Modern Languages and Textual Studies Computers and Language 2 follows on the highly successful conference of September 1989. As previously, we are interested in language as studied at all levels of education: primary, secondary, higher and further. Plenary sessions will be of general interest and workshops/papers will be given in parallel sessions focussing on the classroom or the higher education sectors. Clearly the teaching and learning of modern European languages will be of particular significance as we approach 1991, the year of the single European market. Sessions will also be concerned with non-European languages, computers and literary topics, linguistics and writing. Concerns to be addressed: * What provisions are we making for IT? * Does IT have any effect on the language capabilities of our pupils/students? * Do we have to alter our teaching methods if we use IT? * Are computer applications for first and second language acquisition and development necessarily separate? * How do we keep up with the latest developments of IT? Keynote speakers include: HMI Peter Seaborne, Staff Inspector: Learning resources Professor Steve Heppell, Anglia Polytechnic Professor Graham Chesters, University of Hull Dr Diana Laurilard, Open University Fee: Full cost #120 sterling (residential). Daily registration available. UK academics should note that they may be eligible for financial support from their institution's Staff Training and Development Office. Deadline for registration: 5 September 1991 For further details contact: Moira Monteith Sheffield City Polytechnic 36 Collegiate Crescent Sheffield S10 2BP UK From: paul wagner g Subject: doctoral lists Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 17:10:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 311 (368) I am wondering if there is such a thing as a list which includes the names of persons who are awarded honorary doctorates in N. America. I am trying to track down an institution which awarded a certain individual an honorary doctorate early in this century, but no one has ever been able to track down the the university. He is (Dr.) Albert Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination. I doubt if such a list exists, but thought I'd toss it out. Thanks, Paul Wagner. Paul Wagner Trinity College, Toronto, Canada Email: pwagner5@mach1.wlu.ca (519) 747-4025 From: James O'Donnell Subject: 5.0144 Humanities Computing Yearbook Date: 13 Jun 91 21:51:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 312 (369) When will the e-version be available for ftp? From: D.Mealand@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Speech recognition Date: 14 Jun 91 09:57:00 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 313 (370) Does anyone know where the long quest for speech recognition leading to voice input has reached ? Given that we don't yet have a scanner that can read print or typescript with much more than 90% accuracy I suppose it isn't surprising that voice input is many years behind schedule. Some years ago I once saw a system that after several (about 8) trial shots could recognize my speech on simple words like up, down, left, right. Amazingly it moved the cursor in the correct manner after this feat ! :-) Yet I hear vague talk of projects which would allow say a lecture to be transferred to text and then searched for key words. Is there the remotest chance that anyone anywhere has something far simpler than this? Is there yet a system for instance that would even allow dos commands to be entered by voice, let alone the contents of a lecture ? Presumably the kind of institution that would be most likely to acquire such a thing once invented would be some inter-governmental body, and humanities scholars would not afford such a thing for years thereafter. So does someone know if voice input is still a pipe dream ? David M. From: sn01peri@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: E-mail for U. of Palermo, Italy Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 11:10:09 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 314 (371) Would anyone out there have an e/mail address for Prof. Marcello Cappuzzo Facolta di Letteratura e Lingue Universita degli Studi, Palermo, Italy A generic address for the University would be fine. Please answer directly to: Giorgio Perissinotto University of California, Santa Barbara e-mail sn01peri@ucsbuxa.bitnet sn01peri@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or to moconnel@ucsbuxa.bitnet Thank you Giorgio Perissinotto Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Pagans and Christians Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 15:43:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 315 (372) I would be interested in receiving some impressions from readers of Robin Lane Fox's _Pagans and Christians_. Oliver Phillips Classics University of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM From: Howard Spivak Subject: Inquiry: Wm. Wordsworth Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 12:36:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 316 (373) A colleague of mine seeks the works of Wm. Wordsworth in electronic form (ASCII files,CDROM, Etc.). Any Suggestions? Please send responses to me and I will summarize for the lists. Howard Spivak (HOSBC@CUNYVM) Brooklyn College, CUNY From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" Subject: RE: 5.0143 Bug Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 09:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 317 (374) I too heard the great Grace Murray Hopper speak -- at Loyola University in New Orleans when she addressed the student ACM chapter. The wires she passed out were her way of explaining the notion of a nanosecond -- the wire is the distance that electricity can travel in one nanosecond (about 11 inches). I have two "nanoseconds" which I tied in a bow and keep in my office. The significance of the 2 nanoseconds for me at that time was that most of our computer science students worked on the Apple II computer (a 2 nanosecond machine). Another thing I remember vividly about Ms. Hopper was that she chain- smoked Lucky Strikes during the entire reception we had for her. I wonder if she can still get them? Mary Dee Harris From: David E Newton Subject: Kilroy - *was* he really there?! Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 1:53 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 318 (375) Dennis Baron writes: "We don't know who Kilroy was, if anyone...". Well, provided my sources are correct, then this is not true, and while it is true to say that Kilroy was certainly an elusive character, it seems that he did, in fact, exist. James Kilroy was a senior shipyard inspector at the US forces shipping depot at Quincy, Massachusetts, and was required to check all equipment and work completed. This included checking the welds made on the hulls of the ships, and it was his custom to actually sign his name on the weld. Where this was in areas of high traffic, these soon disappeared, but others in less accessible places stayed there for some time. It was then the case that GIs saw his name appear on nearly everything they used, so that, even though they had not met him, he was a very familiar character to all crews who used ships inspected by him. This led to their copying this, and so the chalk-marked phrase "Kilroy was here" spread around the world. This information is edited and taken from _Notes_And_Queries_, a book published by The Guardian in Britain, and compiled by Brian Whitaker, so don't get back to me if any of this is incorrect!!! Thanks for listening Dave +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David E Newton den1@uk.ac.york.vaxa | | Department Of Language And Linguistic Science den1@uk.ac.york.vaxb | | University Of York den1@uk.ac.york.worda | | Heslington den1@uk.ac.york.wordb | | York YO1 5DD +-----------------------------------------------------+ | UK | |> /-\ \/ | |> <- |\| <- \/\/ ~|~ <> |\| | +----------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 5.0142 Qs: E-Accents Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 19:27:53 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 319 (376) Two queries from Humanist 5.0142: [deleted quotation] Try ISO 8859 part 2 and ISO 6937. The latter is widely used in teletype and similar services, though not in computing. It uses floating diacritics, which makes it hard to implement on some devices. [deleted quotation] Not really, though a number of people have developed ad hoc conventions and there are a few proposals which have actually been thought through. Three have recently been discussed extensively on the ISO10646 list at JHUVM, to which you should refer if you are really interested in the subject. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen From: BANKS@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Re: accents (Re: 5.0142) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 10:11 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 320 (377) I'm not sure if an accent convention exists for European languages (presumably one must) but one is certainly developing for the transcription and e-sending of Sanskrit (and hence most S Asian languages). I enclose a recent posting from the INDOLOGY list, which may be interesting because it deals with the potential problem of using inverted commas: "SANSKRIT SYNTAX DISCUSSANTS: This message has the dual purpose of a) seeing whether I have correctly recorded the addresses of those who wish to participate in the discussions on Sanskrit syntax, and b) making a proposal about standardizing the way we send Sanskrit by e-mail. Sending diacrtically marked romanized Sanskrit by e-mail is difficult, and sending devanagari is (as far as I know) impossible. May I suggest that for the purposes of these discussions we adopt the set of conventions being used on the Indological Forum (Indology@liverpool.ac.uk). These conventions are in fact the commands used to print Devanagari in the fonts designed by Frans Velthuis for TeX typesetting software. I find them simple and intuitive. Velthuis's conventions are as follows: 1) LONG VOWELS ARE DOUBLED. (This also happens to be phonetically correct.) The vowels of Sanskrit, then, are a, aa, i, ii, u ,uu etc. 2) CONSONANTAL DIACRITICS PRECEDE THE CONSONANTS MARKED BY THEM. Thus the retroflex class of vowels and consonants is written: .r .t .th .d .dh .n .s Visarga is written: .h The palatals that take diacritics are: ^n and "s The guttural nasal is written: "n 3) DA.N.DA IS WRITTEN | Since quotation mark (") has been appropriated as a diacritic, one can use doubled open and close quote marks to indicate quotation: ``This is within quotation marks.'' Since all of us can distinguish Sanskrit from English and can probably make a good guess at distinguishing between words that are being used and words that are being mentioned, I propose that we minimize the use of quotation marks. That is, instead of writing: The word ``"sabda'' means word. one could just as well write: The word "sabda means word. [...] Like any new set of conventions, these may seem a bit awkward at first, but I have found it easy to adapt. If any of you have principled (or even unprincipled) preferences for some other set of conventions, please state them fo us to consider. Richard Hayes Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University" Marcus Banks ISCA, Oxford (BANKS@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX) From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0142 Qs: ... RLIN ... Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 15:03:04 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 321 (378) Research Library Group 1200 Villa Street Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 Leslie Hume is a staff member at RLG and a member of Humanist. Her e-mail address is BL.LPH@RLG.bitnet Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: MILTONQ at OUACCVMB Subject: Summary on World of Poetry Query Date: 16 June 1991, 12:28:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 322 (379) The verdict is unanimous on the "legitimacy" of the World of Poetry. All responding said that the awards and the convention constitute a scam, no more than vanity publishing at best. To Joe Lucia and Paul Jones (with whose addresses my software has not cooperated), thank you very much for your responses; they, like the others, were appreciated. Margaret E. Cheney English Department Ellis Hall Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 e-mail: miltonq@ouaccvmb.bitnet From: /G=S/S=LAWALL/@COMPLIT.umass.edu Subject: 5:0139, E-Encyclopedia Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 23:00:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 323 (380) There are some reviews of the various CD-ROM encyclopedias in CD-ROM magazines, I think. I looked over a number of them before getting Grolier's, which has been useful for bits and pieces of needed information. I checked over the printed versions of the encyclopedias first, especially after I found that the much-advertised Encyclopedia Britannica was the Academic American and not the EB as I knew it. The Grolier's seemed to have the most up-to-date bibliography, at least where I looked. Occasional surprising typo's, including spelling Ngugi wa Thiong'o as Thoingo throughout the article. One other oddity: I don't know about the retrieval-category systems for the other encyclopedias, but I'm getting curious after noting the following: Grolier's has thousands of pictures that can be shown on screen, and they fall into twenty-seven categories. Aircraft, frontiersmen and Indians, fruit and nuts, invertebrates, mammals, military leaders, political leaders, dogs, cats, fish, presidents of the United states, reptiles, ships, writers and dramatists....etc. But not one single work of art or architecture as such, and no category to suggest their existence. Better call this to the attention of Humanities Computing. Sarah Lawall Comparative Literature UMASS/Amherst From: Alan David Bulley <458507@UOTTAWA> Subject: Node Addresses in U.K. Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 20:05:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 324 (381) To one and all, I've noticed several queries recently on HUMANIST for node addresses in the U.K. Just recently I fell across a couple of files which might be of use to those trying to send e-mail to JANET nodes in Britain. The two files are available from the NetNorth Administration (Bitnet's Canadian sister), although I suppose they are probably from other NETSERVs as well. Retrieving the two files goes as follows: tell netserv at canada01 get janet helpfile AND tell netserv at canada01 get janet sitelist Hope this will be of use to someone! Alan Bulley Saint Paul University, Ottawa Bitnet: 458507@UOTTAWA From: Bruce_Mannheim@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: Double articulation Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 23:42:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 325 (382) Tze-wan Kwan asked about the history of the idea of "double articulation." The following thumbnail sketch is taken from chapter 8 of my book, *The Language of the Inka Since the European Invasion* (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991). "Double articulation" was first observed by Aristotle, who wrote in the _Poetics_ (section20) that "The Letter is an indivisible sound of a particular kind, one that may become a factor in an intelligible sound." Language is structured (or _articulated_ or _patterned_) in terms of two relatively autonomous sets of conventions: (1) a set of conventions for meaningful elements (intonation contours, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, interactional routines, and so forth), in which form and meaning co-vary directly; and (2) a set of conventions for elements that are meaningless in themselves (phonological features) but serve to distinguish the meaningful elements (Hockett 1960: 152; Martinet 1964 [1960]: 22-24; Jakobson and Waugh 1979: 43-44, 177; Shapiro 1983: 13). Duality of patterning (or "double articulation") allows a small number of meaningless phonological elements to be combined to distinguish an infinite set of meaningful utterances. The relationship between levels of patterning is very specific: the second (nonmeaningful) level is made up of those aspects of phonology that can distinguish meaningful elements (segmental features and certain prosodic features); it does not consist of sound in general, nor of form in general. This formulation of "duality of patterning" correctly accounts for the scope of exceptionless sound changes [in the neogrammarian sense]. Changes are regular and independent of meaning only insofar as they occur within the second, nonmeaningful level of patterning. The expressions "duality of patterning" and "double articulation" are used within different intellectual traditions to refer to the same phenomenon. Americans are most familiar with "duality of patterning," the phrase used in a series of well-known articles by Charles Hockett (e.g., 1960). "Double articulation" is the expression used in European traditions as early as the medieval scholastic grammarians and the notion of _articulatio prima et secunda_ (Jakobson 1985 [1975]: 189; see Martinet 1957; Jakobson 1971 [1970]: 673). The fact that the two levels of patterning are relatively autonomous does not prevent speech sounds from being motivated by (or _iconic_ of) meaning. One point to add is that the expression "double articulation" is rarely used by North American linguists today (perhaps because it is too easily mistaken for an articulatory phonetic phenomenon). Its North American counterpart "duality of patterning" also is rarely discussed outside the context of animal communication studies. Bibliography Hockett, Charles F. 1960. "Logical Considerations in the Study of Animal Communication." In W.E. Lanyon and W.N. Tavolga (eds.), _Animal Sounds and Communications._ Washington: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 392-430. Jakobson, Roman. 1970. "Linguistics in Relation to Other Sciences." In 1971. _Selected Writings, Volume 2: Word and Language._ The Hague: Mouton, 655-696. Jakobson, Roman. 1975. "Glosses on the Medieval Insight into the Science of Language." In 1985. _Selected Writings, Volume 7: Contributions to Comparative Mythology, Studies in Linguistics and Philology, 1972-1982._ The Hague: Mouton, 185-198. Jakobson, Roman and Linda R. Waugh. 1979. _The Sound Shape of Language._ Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Martinet, Andre. 1957. "Arbitraire linguistique et double articulation." _Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure_ 15: 105-116. Reprinted in Eric Hamp et al. (eds.) 1966. _Readings in Linguistics II._ Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 371-378. ------. 1960. _Elements de linguistique generale._ Paris: Colin. English translation. 1964. (tr. Elisabeth Palmer.) _Elements of General Linguistics._ Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Shapiro, Michael. 1983. _The Sense of Grammar: Language as Semeiotic._ Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Woodbury, Anthony C. 1987. "Meaningful Phonological Processes." _Language_ 63: 685-740. From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Re: [5.0130 OE Font] Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:47:12 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 326 (383) My thanks to all who responded to my appeal for help on OE fonts. All the useful info has I think already been posted on HUMANIST, but shortly after my posting I discovered that thorn and eth are alredy available in the standard Adobe fonts on the Mac -- that is, those resident in the LaserWriter -- but you have to do quite a bit of hacking into the charstrings dict to find them! (Or get your software to use the ISOLatin1 encoding.) As far as I can see, there are no wyn or yogh forms defined. Gratefully, Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge. From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: ACH newsletter Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 14:09 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 327 (384) The time has come again to ask for input for the ACH Newsletter. I will be preparing it during July (as soon as I return from vacation, so hang on if you don't hear back from me right away). Any contribution will be welcomed. Please let me know if you are considering sending something. I would be particularly interested in notes on work in progress. As an aside, I would be interested in hearing if those who currently receive the ACH newsletter in print, would be interested in getting in via e-mail? and if so, instead of the paper copy or in addition to? Please let me know also, if any of you WOULD subscribe if it was avail- able via e-mail. Thanks, Vicky Walsh Editor From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM> Subject: Online writing contest Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 19:42:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 328 (385) This is reposted from The WELL BBS: NEWS RELEASE For Information Contact: John Coate WELL Publicity Director FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 415/332-4335 THE WELL ANNOUNCES THE 1991 ONLINE WRITING AWARDS Sausalito (JUNE 10) -- The WELL invites all participants of all online systems to submit entries to the first annual Online Writing Awards. The award was created to honor and encourage the emerging genre of electronic written communication. There are three categories, each with a $200 cash prize to the winner. The categories are: Review and Commentary, Narrative, and Freeform. Any piece of writing with a length of fifty lines or less that was first posted on an online system is eligible to enter. This could be anything from a tiny BBS to CompuServe or GEnie. Entries may be sent by email to tex@well.sf.ca.us or printed out and mailed to: Online Writing Award, 27 Gate Five Road, Sausalito CA 94965. Printed entries need to show the headings of the system from which it was taken. Entires must have the address and phone number of the author. Prizes are awarded to the author of the entry. Entries are due September 30. Winners will be announced December 1. Electronic written conversation or "computer conferencing" is spreading as an important method for both professional and personal communication. Online conferencing systems are like electronic meeting places where people share information, discuss issues, tell stories, and just chat back and forth. Scattered among the daily megabytes of words posted on the various nets and systems are gems of clarity or emotion that drive home the power of this new kind of writing. It's a casual medium that works best with economy of word. To encourage things in the direction of eloquent brevity, the contest limits each entry to fifty lines, which is about two screens worth of text on a computer screen. The contest will be judged by a distinguished panel of writers familiar with both the electronic and the printed medium. Judges include columnist Jon Carroll, authors Ramon Sender and Howard Rheingold, poets Jane Hirshfield and Sarah Randolph, writer Sonia Simone and Gerard Van der Leun. RULES ...text deleted. eds. Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: eparker@well.sf.ca.us Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. WELL91 CONTEST. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Book Sale, UPenn Press Date: Wednesday, 19 June 1991 0908-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 329 (386) I apologize for the lateness of this posting, since the sale ends on 28 June 1991. It covers about 400 books in a wide variety of fields, often at spectacular prices (this from a real cheap-skate!). And an additional 20% off on orders of $45 or more. Telephone 1-800-445-9880. Examples of items that interest me, or that I think might interest people on IOUDAIOS, ANSAX-L or HUMANIST: #1-2 Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregoviski, by Mark Slobin. 1982. 640pp, illus. Cloth was $62.95 now $6.30 (item #1); Paper was $27.95 now $2.80 (item #2) [told you I was cheap]. #15-16 Irish Folk History: Texts from the North, by Henry Glassie. 1982. Cloth ($28.95) now $5.79 (#15); Paper (15.95) now 4.79 (#16). --and three other Glassie books, with less reduction in prices. #41 Greek Folk Religion, by Martin P. Nilsson. 1972. Paper (14.95) now 11.96. #54 Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 BC[E], by Randall W. Garr. 1985. Cloth (54.95) now 14.84. #128 A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, by Craig Williamson. 1982. Paper (17.95) now 3.95. #136 Tours of Hell: An Apocalyptic Form in Jewish and Christian Literature, by Martha Himmelfarb. 1983. Cloth (34.94) now 17.48. #194 Let this Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury, by Margaret Hope Bacon. 1987. Cloth (37.95) now 4.93. ##211-219 [William Penn Papers, etc. in Cloth at about 25%-40% of the original prices] #273 The World of Piers Plowman, ed J.Krochalis and Edward Peters. 1975. Paper (15.95) now 6.86. [and lots of other of the Middle Ages series at various prices -- e.g. Peters on The Magician, the Witch, and the Law. 1982. Paper (13.95) now 8.37] #410 Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism, ed by Jeffrey Tigay. 1985. Paper (20.95) now 4.82. And lots and lots more, of good quality scholarship. I didn't even try to list the Literature and LitCrit stuff, for example. Call quickly for a catalogue and there may still be time. I'm ordering a few items for overseas friends who can't do the 1-800 thing, etc. Soon. Frugally yours, Bob Kraft, UPenn From: OCRAMER%CCNODE@VAXF.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0139 Rs: Letter Frequency Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 13:16 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 330 (387) Of course, the top line of the linotype was set up that way because the letters occurred in that order of frequency in English, linotypists (if that's the rightword for them) and cryptanalysts being, in the old days, the people who had practical and theoretical need for such data. Owen Cramer From: DAVID BARRY Subject: RE:ETAOINSHRDLU (Humanist discussion group Vol 5 no 0139 item 1) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 15:15 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 331 (388) Robin Smith says that ETAOINSHRDLU represents the first two keyboard lines of a linotype and NOT letter distribution in English. He then challenges us to provide a less useful bit of information. Here goes: qwertyuiop is the first line of the standard typewriter keyboard. The "querty" layout originates from the fact that if you typed too fast on the first typewriter it jammed. As a result we are all using a keyboard designed to be sub optimum in english!!!! ie to SLOW people down so we dont jam the machine needless to say the technical restraint has long since evapourated but the investment in the standard key board is just so immmense. David Barry From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0149 Responses: etaoinshrdlu Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 11:19:33 GMT+0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 332 (389) "QWERTYUIOP...is famous as the end-result of a very non-scientific fiddle to try to put the most common letters in the most convenient places" - ?? On the contrary, the QWERTY keyboard is famous as the end-result of an attempt to SLOW DOWN the typist by putting the most common letters and letter combinations in difficult places, since early typewriter keys would jam if you typed too fast. That, after all, is why the DVORAK keyboard was conceived: to rid the world of the cycle whereby the sins of the fathers were visited upon the children unto the nth generation even though technology now allows you to type much faster than the QWERTY keyboard does. (I have to admit I'm still sinning, though; the trauma of relearning to touch type seems greater than the promised gains). Judy Koren From: "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" Subject: Re: 5.0149 Responses: etaoinshrdlu Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 333 (390) I see the Humanities bulletin board is capable of transmitting folk myths as well as scholarship. 1) The etaioin shrdlu sequence was indeed based on a conception of letter frequency, precisely to locate the keys on the linotype in order of frequency to keep the most used under the hands at all times. I have operated a linotype and worked in a print shop. It is correct that one does not rest one's hands on the keys (or the matrices fall down in a cascade). The left hand, held at an angle, handled ETAOIN; the right hand handled *all* other keys; and the division of labor was approximately equal. 2) One can correct a linotype line by removing a matrix from the line of matrices before sending it in for the slug to be case; it is somewhat timeconsuming, but it could be done. 3) The folk myth about the typewriter keyboard I've heard is that it was specifically designed (QWERTY etc.) to keep frequently used keys *away* from each other because early typewriters jammed easily and speed was a detriment. Is there an *authority* out there? --Peter Graham, Rutgers University. From: 6160LACYA@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU Subject: QWERTYUIOP Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:10 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 334 (391) As I understand it, the arrangement QWERTYUIOP was arrived at for precisely the opposite reasons that James O'Donnell gives. That is, in the earliest typewriters, the users soon became proficient enough that the typewriters were continually jamming. Consequently the keyboard was arranged in order to _slow down_ the typists, and prevent jamming. Now I'm not claiming the status of revealed truth for this, but if you've ever seen some of the real early typewriters, you can certainly see how they could easily jam. (I'm tempted to forward this whole thread to the FOLKLORE people, and see what they come up with.) Alan F. Lacy Marquette University 6160lacya@vms.csd.mu.edu From: Bill Kupersmith Subject: Hanging judges Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 11:35 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 335 (392) Does anyone have a source or a parallel for the anecdote about the English judge who is supposed to have pronounced sentence on a malefactor named Bacon by informing the culprit that pork does not become bacon till it has been "well hanged"? It may have been ascribed to the notorious Stuart judge Lord Jeffreys. --Bill Kupersmith Univ. of Iowa From: Alan David Bulley <458507@UOTTAWA> Subject: Rhetorica ad Herennium Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 15:26:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 336 (393) Dear Group, Is there anyone who is aware of any material on _Rhetorica ad Herennium_? I would be happy to get any information on commentaries, monographs, or articles which deal with this work. I have now searched three libraries under the main title, as well as under the names Cicero, Ps. Cicero, and Cornificius, and found next to nothing. Any leads would be *greatly* appreciated. Thanks in advance, Alan Bulley Saint Paul University, Ottawa Bitnet: 458507@UOTTAWA From: TONY@FRPERP51 Subject: unusual request Date: 19 JUN 91 14:06:06.16-GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 337 (394) I have an urgent, and perhaps impertinent, request to send to the HUMANIST server. I have just been awarded a Fulbright grant to complete research on C.S. Peirce in Harvard. I now need lodgings for two in the Boston area, preferably independent (i.e. not bed and breakfast), from mid-July to mid-August. Tony Jappy tony@frperp51 Dept of English and American Studies, University of Perpignan, France From: SAA9517@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: Query RE: Shakespeare Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 13:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 338 (395) I am currently seeking help in identifying essays (or excerpts from longer works) on HAMLET, KING LEAR, and OTHELLO that 1. would be interesting, useful, accessible, and challenging to undergraduates 2. and that draw on more recent approaches in literary theory (e.g. feminism, cultural materialism, deconstruction, hermeneutics, etc). But basically I would be interested in locating the "best" essays written on each of these plays in the last ten or twenty years (from your perspective) that could reasonably be assigned to undergraduates who are new to the plays. Please send any suggestions to: Anthony Arnove saa9517@oberlin.bitnet I greatly appreciate your help. aka From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu Subject: Re: 5.0150 Grace Hopper and the 'Bug' Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 11:05:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 339 (396) On "truths which transcend truth" (Jim Marchand's recent comments): Pogo did NOT say, "We have met the enemy, and they are us." I have a letter dated June 9, 1969 from Walt Kelly. "The quotation to which you refer is in the last paragraph of the foreword to THE POGO PAPERS, which reads as follows: 'There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.' "It has been erroneously quoted over the years and attributed to the strip. I've come to suspect that someone may have picked it up and take a few liberties in the process. Far too many people recall it as you do to account for that long arm of curious coincidence." Serious POGO schollars may write for photocopies of this letter. Don Weinshank Computer Science Department Michigan State University East Lansing MI 48824 USA From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Keyboards Date: 18 Jun 91 14:53:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 340 (397) More trivia about keyboards -- The way I heard the story about the qwerty keyboard was just the opposite of an earlier response. When typers proficiency exceeded the speed of the typewriter, the typewriter makers redesigned the keyboard to slow typists down -- rather than the other way around. The most famous shrdlu I know about was the (imaginary) robot in Terry winograd's blocks world -- one of the first sucessful natural language systems (from about 1970). Mary Dee Harris From: EIEB360@UTXVM.BITNET Subject: 5.0146 Humanities Computing; Co Date: Tuesday, 18 June 1991 3:08pm CT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 341 (398) Willard, it seems to me that humanities computing also includes, somewhere, the invention of new fields of inquiry ("invention" being perhaps the wrong word) having to do with the emergence of new media. John Slatin, U of Texas at Austin From: TFGREEN@SUVM Subject: More on What Next -- Research Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 23:41:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 342 (399) Willard's recent note on "What next?" prompts me to wonder when the sorts of things he calls 'research' began to be described in such terminology. Having a PhD in philosophy, I have always found it awkward, pretentious, or just plain wrong headed to suggest that anything I do in writing philosophy could be called research. On the other hand, it seems to me reasonable to say that those engaged in writing the history of ideas do do research. I can't imagine a novelist ever speaking of the actual writing of a novel as "doing research," but it seems fitting to say that in preparing to write a great deal of research is done. I wonder if Johan Huizinga thought he was doing research in doing Homo Ludens, or Fustel in writing The Ancient City. Is the spread of the term "research" to describe the activities of scholars a clue to the penetration of R&D standards to fields of scholarship where such standards don't fit? Are there changing limits to the context within which talk of "research" is taken to make sense? Tom Green From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Hypercitation Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 11:46:37 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 343 (400) [deleted quotation] Jerry, actually, your accessibility/citation objections are already contained in the current list of 14, but I'll highlight them further. They are easily answered. (It has also been suggested that I separate the prima facie objections into objections in principle and objections in practice. Accessibility would be a temporary problem, soon to be completely solved by technology; citability sounds like a problem in principle, but in reality it is a nonproblem, based on old papyrocentric thinking.) Full text searchability and retrievability of all electronic journal articles (by a more powerful version of anonymous ftp) from every modem-connected computer and every public terminal (of which there will be many in every library and institution once this becomes the preferred form for addressing the literature) will actually give you infinitely more powerful, efficient, and global accessibility than anything that could possibly be done in paper. (And supplementing full-text search with electronic tables of contents, likewise searchable, is also trivially easy). Citing electronic articles (recently discussed among PSYCOLOQUY editors) is not only possible already, but with hypertext links between documents one is reading/writing and the full literature it will become like an all-powerful virtual "hand" that can search, find, and retrieve any item in the literature. Reference lists will come "alive" instantly as one reads the work of others, and writing will incorporate an interactive search not only of one's own frail memory of the literature, and one's bulky and distributed paper memory aids, but, through "hypercitation," the virtual hand will be free to roam intelligently (through memory-jogging word-searches) across the entire body of existing (electronic) knowledge (not to mention the "live" knowledge of its authors, via email) at all times, from all places! The reason I think this exercise (and the article laying to rest these prima facie objections) is so worthwhile is that these prima facie objections -- so easily refuted in most cases in already existing practice, and all the rest readily refutable in principle, by appreciating technological developments that are already within our reach and merely a matter of mustering the will to find the way -- are actually "soft" obstacles to the evolution of the medium. Mere failures of imagination arising from a long scholarly history of slavery to the habits of paper, if they can be laid to rest once and for all then there is still time for the inevitable revolutionary effects of the new medium to occur within our own scholarly lifetimes (thereby extending those very lives by an order of magnitude, in my judgment)! Stevan Harnad From: "Van Doren, Frederick L." Subject: 5.0147 Summary: Teaching Classical Languages Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 20:02:53 edt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 344 (401) Regarding the teaching of Old Church Slavic, As a Russianist, I suffered through a year of OCS, and eventually learned to orient myself and even take some pleasure in prayers against lice, tales of frozen martyrs, etc. Despite what I have learned about language teaching in other areas, I was forced to learn OCS by brute force: repeated readings, prepared translations, in-class parsing. Along the way, I discovered a slim volume by David Gardner (if I'm not mistaken) that presented the grammar of OCS as a synchronic system, that is, with a regularized morphology. One set of paradigms. The problem is that there were few texts in his book, and virtually no others in a regularized grammar. Part of the excitement (and frustration) of dealing with OCS is the challenge of untangling the mess of scribal errors, competing dialects, etc. I do not think, however, that it is wise to force a student through all this before s/ he has firmly learned the "regularized" grammar through gradual exposure. Perhaps someone out there would like to take on the task of writing a book of short stories in "regular" OCS. Fred VanDoren Dept. of Russian Dickinson College Carlisle, PA VANDOREN@DICKINSN From: GRAHAM@EGFRCUVX Subject: listserv vs. ftp Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 13:51 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 345 (402) One of your contributors describes LISTSERV as "clunky", bemoans the fact, & suggests a change to FTP. All well & good, but there are many places (such as Cairo, where I am) which have BITNET but not INTERNET, & thus don't have (direct) access to FTP. There might be theoretical advantages to transferring to FTP, but if you do you will deprive a good number of people in the non-Western world of useful -- if not vital -- facilities; the more so since email and fax are practically the only reliable ways to communicate from here -- you can forget about the mail, & the telephone is complicated and expensive. Incidentally, I have been conducting a job search from here, with the following interesting results. I included on each application letter a paragraph saying "please don't reply by mail, it will never get here, use fax or (better) email". I applied to over 20 places in the States, only one took ANY NOTICE AT ALL OF THIS. By contrast, places in Canada and Britain were much more aware of email. I thought you guys were supposed to be up to the minute? Or is it just that you can't imagine living in a part of the world where the mail doesn't function? Graham White American University in Cairo From: James Crump Subject: newsreader for mail folders Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 13:27:58 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 346 (403) Just a small discovery which might be of interest to listserv subscribers. With reference to: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 347 (404) [deleted quotation] The UNIX based system here at the U. of Washington has, in addition to the usual "rn", a newsreader called "nn" which _can_ be used to read mail folders. One cannot respond to postings from within nn, but I have found it very useful for previewing postings, sorting and filing them. the format is very much more congenial for reading though you must still use your usual mailing program to reply or post. Jon Crump jjcrump@milton.u.washington.edu From: OCRAMER%CCNODE@VAXF.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0159 Qs: Rhetorica Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 17:43 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 348 (405) The places to start on an ancient rhetoric are George Kennedy's big history (_Rhetoric in the Roman World_ is I think the title of the relevant vol., 1972) and then in _L'Annee philologique_ under the text in question. From: James Marchand Subject: Re: 5.0159 Qs: Rhetorica Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 19:19:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 349 (406) On ad Herrenium to Alan David Bulley. I don't know what you are looking for. I am sure that you have Harry Caplan's Loeb Classic volume from 1954. JJ Murphy's Bibliography of Medieval Rhetoric (now 2d ed, Toronto series) treats it in passing. Martin R. P. McGuire's two guides, Introduction to Classical Studies and Introduction to Mediaeval Latin Studies are always good places to start. Jim Marchand From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Rhetorica ad Herennium Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 00:17:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 350 (407) On the influence of the Rhetorica ad Herennium on Shakespeare, see T.W.Baldwin, Shakespeare's small Latine and lesse Greeke, a detailed study of Shakespeare's classical learning. Baldwin argues that the Ad Herennium was a standard part of the grammar school curriculum in Tudor England and that Shakespeare knew the book virtually by heart, as evidenced by the many quotations from it in his plays. You might also look at: G.M.A. Grube, The Greek and Roman Critics; Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition; Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages. Renaissance writers assumed the book was by Cicero, and most often referred to it as "Cicero on rhetoric" (as opposed to "Cicero on invention"). Brian Whittaker Atkinson College, York University From: inwood@epas.utoronto.ca (B. Inwood) Subject: rhetorica ad herrenium Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 06:54:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 351 (408) The Rhetorica ad Herrenium is widely available in the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard UP). The edition is by Caplan; it is an exemplary work on ancient rhetoric in its own right. From: Ton.vanderWouden@let.ruu.nl Subject: Re: 5.0159 Qs: Rhetorica Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 11:09:27 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 352 (409) On Tue, 18 Jun 91 15:26:57 EDT, Alan David Bulley <458507@UOTTAWA>, asked for material on _Rhetorica ad Herennium_. He might take Heinrich Lausberg's _Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik_ as a starting point. Hope this helps Ton van der Wouden From: Robin Smith Subject: Rhetorica ad Herennium Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 08:02 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 353 (410) In response to Alan Bulley's request for literature concerning the Rhetorica ad Herennium, there are discussions of the memory-technique it contains in a variety of sources: Frances Yates, *The Art of Memory*, is a standard source. More recently, Mary Carruthers, *The Book of Memory*. Each of these contains further bibliography. From: James Marchand Subject: Re: Ad Herennium (5.0159) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 9:51:16 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 354 (411) Your question on the ad Herennium piqued my curiosity and added to my examples of coincidences. Last week's mail brought: Rhetorique a Herennius, texte etabli et traduit par Guy Achard. Collection des Universites de France (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1989). It contains a new edition, a French translation, introduction and notes. It also contains a bibliography. There is also a good deal of work done by Gualtiero Calboli, whom you could look up in a library. One of the problems is that the work is frequently cited as Rhetorica ad Herennium and even, in Der kleine Pauly (unverstaendlicherweise) as Rhetorik ad Herennium. I should point out that the Lustrum article by Matthes, cited in the kleiner Pauly, is actally on Hermagoras of Temnos, who is often thought of as a major source for the ad Herennium. What are you going to do with the ad Herennium? From: ooi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jim Porter) Subject: rhetorica ad herennium Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 10:13:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 355 (412) Alan David Bulley ... I can suggest a couple of leads for tracking down material on RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM. -for a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, try Richard Enos' essay on the classical period in THE PRESENT STATE OF SCHOLARSHIP IN HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC, ed. Winifred Bryan Horner (Missouri, 1983). -for critical analyses of RaH, try James J. Murphy, RHETORIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES (California, 1974); and Murphy's essay on RaH in his collection A SYNOPTIC HISTORY OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC (Hermagoras, 1983). (You could also try contacting Murphy at, I think, UC- Davis: he or Rich Enos, at Carnegie Mellon, would I am sure be able to suggest further leads.) Good luck with your search--I'd be interested to hear what you uncover. Jim Porter Purdue University ooi@mace.cc.purdue.edu From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Re: 5.0159 Rhetorica ad Herennium Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 11:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 356 (413) Alan David Bulley asks about recent scholarship on the RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM; I was surprised to find on looking at R. Matlon, INDEX TO JOURNALS IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES (1987) only one entry on the RHETORICA -- Ray Nadeau's August 1949 translation and commentary on Book 1 in SPEECH MONOGRAPHS. Matlon does not index the journal RHETORICA, and I don't offhand remember if there has been anything there. I assume you've got Harry Caplan's Loeb Library edition/translation. Tom Benson Penn State From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0159 Qs: Rhetorica Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 13:58:30 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 357 (414) Try Rhetorica ad C. Herennium C.B. Faulhaber From: David Sewell Subject: Etaoin Shrdlu Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 21:27:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 358 (415) The whole linotype discussion provokes me to share this story. When I was a graduate student at UC San Diego in the early '80s, in the course of learning the Unix nroff/troff typesetting package I played around with typesetting various invitations and announcements. When my wife was expecting a baby I designed a birth announcement that read, in the mock-up, "Meg and David Sewell are pleased to annouce the birth of Etaoin Shrdlu"--with the journalist's practice of using that as a dummy for a name yet to be filled in. I took the mock-up to a local printer's to ask about whether they could copy it onto card stock. The woman at the desk looked it over and said, without batting an eyelash, "What an interesting name! Is it a boy or a girl?" In her defense, any La Jolla printer has probably set stranger baby names... David Sewell, U of Rochester From: James O'Donnell Subject: 5.0160 Rs: POGO; QWERTY (again); What Next? (4/79) Date: 19 Jun 91 23:10:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 359 (416) I stand corrected on the history of QWERTY (and know no place other than HUMANIST where I could be sure of being corrected so deftly and swiftly on so many subjects), but remain curious about ETAOINSHRDLU. The consensus seems to be that it is a frequency table: but who thunk it up? how accurate? has anyone done studies recently on a large scale to evaluate? From: Paul Brians Subject: QWERTY vs. Dvorak Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 22:20:21 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 360 (417) Dvorak advocates have claimed for years that their keyboard could over- come the obstacles created by the traditional QWERTY layout, but there have been few attempts to test the thesis scientifically. I was interested recently to read the results of one such study which found that novice typists trained in Dvorak did no better, and sometimes even a little worse, than novice typists with the same amount of training in QWERTY. I regret that I don't remember where I read this, but it may provide some consolation for those who regret not being willing to retrain themselves. From: Ivy Anderson Subject: Hebrew MS-DOS Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 09:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 361 (418) Do any fellow Humanists have experience installing and using Microsoft Hebrew MS-DOS Supplement (version 3.3)? We have installed this software on a Zenith 286 workstation but are unable to print from either DOS or WordPerfect on our Epson LX810 printer. The printer was fitted with proms for the Hebrew character set by the supplier of our MS-DOS software (Ariana Software of W. Hartford, CT) and is supposed to be supported. Neither our supplier, WordPerfect, nor Zenith have been able to help us resolve the problem thus far, although there are 1 or 2 ideas we are still investigating. Except for the printer problem the software seems to work fine. Please send replies directly to me. Thanks in advance for any help. Ivy Anderson Tel. (617) 736-4671 Brandeis University Libraries Bitnet anderson@brandeis Waltham, MA 02254 Internet anderson@binah.cc. brandeis.edu From: Alan D Corre Subject: Medial s Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 12:54:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 362 (419) Until early in the nineteenth century, languages using the Roman script, such as English, had a medial s which looks like an f with the front half of the crossbar missing. In its handwritten form it looks like an f with the lower loop on the left, rather than the right, side. This character disappeared, apparently quite suddenly and universally. I should like to know 1) in which language did the change start, and why? 2) is there any contemporary discussion of the change? 3) was it purely a matter of fashion, or is it connected with technological changes such as stereotyping and lithography? 4) which is the last published book (other than reprints or deliberate archaisms) that used the medial s throughout? I have consulted books by Colin Clair and Sigfried Steinberg on the history of printing without finding reference to this. Of course the Gothic script never abandonned the medial s. I was interested to find in Steinberg the item that in 1941 Adolf Hitler decreed that the Gothic script was a "Jewish invention" and hence it was banned. So I suppose he must be credited with giving the coup de grace to this character, in that one area where it survived. From: LNGDANAP@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Subject: Humanities Computing Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 23:07:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 166 (420) Re: Vol. 5, No. 0146. Tuesday, 18 Jun 1991 from Willard McCarty [deleted quotation] I have never exactly understood why it is that we need to prove that computers do it better. Aside from the question of better than what.... In spite of realms of prose concerning teaching evaluations, which suggest building up dossiers including course outlines, comments from students, peer-review, comments from alumni, etc., no one has, to my knowledge, managed to evaluate *human* instruction effectively. Textbook evaluation is quite sensibly done not by statistical studies but by fairly subjective commentary solicited from practitioners: i.e. is it likely to be effective or not? Technology such as language labs and video, to mention only two, has somehow managed to avoid the Evaluation Question. Why then this intense interest in somehow proving "objectively" that computers are "better"...?? Good teachers need many supplemental tools, ranging from the blackboard to a clear speaking voice, all of which tools are acquired through differing means and used with differing effects. The use of computers in teaching, at least in language teaching, has been compared, darkly, to the supposedly defunct language lab... both being fads which blew up out of clear blue skies and promptly expired from lack of adequate software. In reality, the language lab is still alive and well and calling itself something ressembling "Language Learning Media Centre", offering a panoply of useful tools to those instructors who take the time and trouble to familiarize themselves with the possibilities. Somewhere along the line, the usefulness of these technologies became self-evident, and nobody now feels the need to evaluate them. Now why on earth can't computers, which have been quietly integrated into the former language lab as "computer-assisted language learning" (CALL), be accepted in the same way as other technologies? Why do we feel we constantly have to prove, in all learning fields which use or hope to use computers, that the little machines are not only useful but are "better" than anything else?? Dana Paramskas Lngdanap@vm.uoguelph.ca French Studies DanaP@CoSy.uoguelph.ca University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 From: 6160LACYA@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU Subject: Journal Searching Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 00:27 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 363 (421) With reference to Stevan Harnad's posting of 14 June: The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) runs a data base called UnCover. This db contains the tables of contents from some 10,000 journals received by their libraries, and presently has some 600,000+ entries dating from 1988 on. Searching is fairly straight-forward. The Internet address for TELNET is PAC.CARL.ORG (192.54.81.128) MAJOR CAVEAT: You have to have a password to enter the journal searching area. Speak to your computer or library personnel if you don't have one for your institution. Alan F. Lacy Marquette University 6160lacya@vms.csd.mu.edu From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) Subject: Re: 5.0162 Rs: Mail Readers Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 16:56:51 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 364 (422) [deleted quotation] I always use nn (rather than rn) to read the news groups. And I always respond from within nn. I enter 'f' to post a reply to the group, 'r' to mail a reply to the individual poster, 'm' to mail to somebody else, :post to post a new article, etc. --Natalie (nm1@ra.msstate.edu) From: "Dana Cartwright, Syracuse Univ" Subject: E-mail for Job Searches Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 17:43:53 LCL X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 365 (423) Graham White recounted his experiences trying to use e-mail in lieu of the postal service for job-search correspondence, and expressed surprise at how few institutions took him up on his request. As a person who does a fair number of job searches each year, I would simply comment that I would be very reluctant to use e-mail for anything other than routine chit-chat. You have to assume that anything you send through the e-mail networks is being read by many people other than the designated recipient: a) E-mail goes astray. I have twice gotten e-mail which (I think) was sent from one student to another at Penn State University (in the State of Pennsylvania in the United States)--never mind that I'm at a university several hundred miles away (and a number of network nodes away)...at any rate, the e-mail wasn't addressed to me, or even to someone with a similar "id".... b) There are systems programmers at every node who have complete access to all e-mail messages. And lots of e-mail winds up written onto magnetic tapes (typically if a node accumulates too much mail it will spin some of it off, temporary, to a tape, for transmittal later when they may be less load).....and this can happen to your e-mail at some intermediate node you've never even heard of..... c) E-mail is unreliable. It gets lost. Or delayed. d) E-mail can be faked. Easily. Therefore, it is best used only for correspondence in which the motives and/or consequences for errors (deliberate or accidental) are low. In many cases (my own, for example), a job search committee has to keep copies of all correspondence related to the search. E-mail is difficult to incorporate into what is essentially a paper-based record. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Pogoisms Date: Wednesday, 19 June 1991 2140-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 366 (424) As a longstanding Pogophile, I am shocked by the Walt Kelly letter, since I also could have sworn -- nay, would have sworn -- that Pogo uttered those immortal words about meeting us, the enemy. Did some brilliant but unscrupulous editor put those thoughts on Pogo's lips on the cover of one or another of the collections, or perhaps named a Pogo anthology with that title? In any event, if you have a letter denying what is probably my favoritist Pogoism, please do not share it with me: in one of the many treatments of McCarthyism and its effects, Pogo and his friends launch into a discussion of academic freedom. The punch line (from Pogo, or maybe Churchy), is something to the effect that "our freedoms is as academic as could be!" I could look up the exact wording, but its the thought that counts. Bob Kraft, Pogo addict circa 1955 and onwards. From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0151 PC Dictionary Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 04:30 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 367 (425) Indeed, an interesting discussion. Excluding politically incorrect terms seems rather pointless, as some have suggested: to pretend that racial epithets, for example, didn't exist does not serve those victimized by them. And those stil l victims of them. Academians have very little control over the language, or w hat it represents. From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE Subject: Hanging judges Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 08:41:17 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 368 (426) A parallel is Hugh Kingsmill's A E Housman parody: Like enough you won't be glad When they come to hang you, lad But bacon's not the only thing That's cured by hanging from a string I have no reference to hand, but could find one at home. Timothy Reuter MGH Munich From: John_M._Lawler@ub.cc.umich.edu Subject: LSA: Call for Software at Annual Meeting Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 12:20:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 169 (427) * CALL FOR SOFTWARE * The LSA Committee on Information and Communication Technology (i.e, the Computer Committee) is aiming to sponsor a Software Exhibit at the LSA annual meeting in Philadelphia, Jan. 1992. Therefore, we need software to exhibit. And help in staging the exhibit. The size and structure of the exhibit depend on the response to this call, so we can't provide details right now, but we tentatively plan on a schedule of individual dem- onstrations lasting a half hour each. If time and the amount of software permits, we would like to allow each participant who is willing to give their demonstration twice (once each day), in order to allow our colleagues to plan their meeting schedule as flexibly as possible. Our intention is to make this a professional event, suitable for the usual institutional support for participant's travel. To this end, we will try to get the schedule printed and dis- tributed in advance of the meeting, so participants will have something in hand to show their institutions. Software dev- elopment has not been a traditional scholarly activity, but if there is to be software for linguists to use, it will have to be linguists that develop it. Preliminary reports of the LSA membership survey indicate that there are plenty of ling- uists who have been doing just that; it's time for us to stop reinventing the wheel, to get together and see just what al- ready exists. All software should meet the following criteria: 1) Only software developed by or for linguists should be submitted to this exhibit. We are attempting to represent software linguists should know about and would have trouble finding out about without this. While not intending to discourage commercial exhib- itors, we are targeting user-developed programs in this event. I.e, the model is more like a poster session than a book exhibit. This means that more general-purpose programs, like wordprocessors, are inappropriate, unless they have been specifically designed with linguistic (and NOT merely polyglot) uses in mind. Add-ons to general software, like fonts, wordpro- cessor style sheets, example numbering programs, spreadsheet templates, and so on, ARE appropriate; however, the submitter must take responsibility for providing whatever software is necessary for demonstrating them. Commercial software developers with programs they wish to demonstrate at LSA are urged to contact the Committee. Ideally, we'd like to have a good commercial exhibit along the lines of the Book Ex- hibit, but that will have to wait. 2) For practical purposes, we are limited to DOS and Macintosh software this year. Any non-standard hardware needs are the responsibility of the sub- mitter. Next year we hope to do better. 3) Software must be submitted for review. Submitters may suggest reviewers. Reviews will be displayed along with the software at the exhibit and will be available at the copy service. Submission is not a guarantee of acceptance, though the first time a new event is organized, it is reasonable to expect that most software submitted will be accepted, un- less we see an unanticipated flood of submissions. 4) Prototypically, the software author (or copyright holder) should be the submitter. However, anyone willing to perform a demonstration of the software at LSA may submit it for review. In the event of multiple submissions of the same software, the au- thor or copyright holder has precedence unless the software is commercial. The Committee may request a joint demonstration by all parties. The submitter is responsible for providing a copy of the software and documentation to the reviewer in a timely manner. "Commercial Software" is defined for the purpose of of this exhibit as any program for which payment is requested, beyond media charges. This includes shareware. 5) Like the privilege of presenting papers at the an- nual meeting, the privilege of exhibiting software is reserved for LSA members. Therefore, at least one of: the author of the software, OR its copyright holder, OR its submitter MUST be a member of the LSA. ... materials deleted -- eds. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement (including submission information) is now available through the fileserver, s.v. LSA92 SOFTWARE. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: DAVID BARRY Subject: RE:5.0158 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 15:31 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 369 (428) fURTHER TO THE CORRESPOMDENCE ABOUT QWERTY There are some keyboards that are optimised for use on computers. They are all CHORD typers. That is you press more than one key at a time (like playing the piano) One I have heard of is the Philips Velotyper another is the Moulton keyboard. The last is claimed to avoid Repetitive strain injury. You can type on these things VERY fast if expert (ie equivilent to touch typing in QWERTY) Yours with two fingers.... David Barry JANET ubjv649@uk.ac.bbk.cu From: James Marchand Subject: Re: 5.0164 Rs: Etaoin Shrdlu Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 16:25:01 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 370 (429) I think it may have been Morse who thought up the etaoin shrdlump frequency, based on the number of letters in the box in a typesetting shop, though he may have had the devil (pun intended) of a time doing it. At any rate, there are several counts in existence, based on any number of words. You can validate the etaion shrdlump count by playing the Vanna White game on TV (or on your computer). A good place to look for letter frequencies is in cryptography manuals. Those which come to hand: Laurence Dwight Smith, Cryptography (NY: Dover, 1943), reveals himself to be an adherent of Ohaver: p. 153: etoanirshdlcwumfygpbvkxqjz, as does: Helen Fouche Gaines, Elementary Cryptanalysis (Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co., 1942), p. 218. Another book of the same vintage: Fletcher Pratt, Secret and Urgent (Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1942). At any rate, we cryptanalists were always admonished to remember Etaion (or oin) Shrdlump, and I pronounced his first name as if it were Irish (thick with thick and thin with thin). The various counts differ but little. For those interested in phoneme counts, patriotic pride leads me to mention: Tables of Transitional Frequencies of English Phonemes, ed. Lee S. Hultzen, Joseph H. D. Allen Jr., Murray S. Miron (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964). With a discussion of other counts. From: James Marchand Subject: Re: 5.0164 Rs: Etaoin Shrdlu Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 19:10:56 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 371 (430) A rare trip home and away from my computer allows me to confirm my previous report on the origin of Etaion Shrdlu. It is indeed from Morse, who derived it from counting the pieces of type in a print-shop. I quote from Colin Cherry, On Human Communication, 2d ed (MIT, 1957), 36: "Morse realized that the various letters of the English language are not used equally often; a visit to a printer's office and a count of the quantities of type used gave him an estimate of the relative frequencies of the letters." On p. 37 he cites Morse's original code, which is in the order etainoshrdlu, but note that a, i, n, o, and s have the same frequency. P. 37: "The first table of letter frequencies was probably that of Sicco Simonetta of Milan in the year 1380; another, used by Porta in 1658, included digrams also (letter pairs, such as ed, st, tr)." Cherry's is a splendid book and when he says something, "You can book it, Dano." He recommends another splendid book, G. K. Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort (Cambridge: Addison-Wesley, 1949). Zipf's book is a must for anybody interested in language statistics. Jim Marchand From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0164 Rs: Etaoin Shrdlu; Qwerty; Dvorak Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 11:32:58 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 372 (431) James O'Donnell is still wondering about the frequency table. The one I remember, having memorized it in my childhood, runs like this: etaonrishdlfcmugyp (I never bothered with the rest) I got this list from a book on cryptography. It has served me well over the years, mostly when I play hangman. ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: JKOHI@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu Subject: grammar checking Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 20:10:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 373 (432) In the past I have avoided using PC based grammar checkers but of late have heard that they have progressed in terms of their accuracy and flexibility. I had been thinking of getting one for my students to use on their writing before submitting it to me and wanted to solicit some opinions from both those who are users and those who have may have a professional interest in the computing and linguistic analysis questions raised by this software. Thanks in advance. Jonathan Ocko Dept. History NC State University jkohi@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu From: Maurizio Lana Subject: MARK format: what is it? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 11:00:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 374 (433) A friend of mine asked for info about UNIMARK format: it should be a database f ormat. The OCLC record should be in that format. I myself I wonder if it is a v ariant of MARC format. This should be useful for databases interchange. Thank you to anyone will help. Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: Richard Giordano Subject: Wittgenstein Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 16:44:21 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 375 (434) A colleague at the University Library would like to know if there are any machine readable versions of any of Wittgenstein's work anywhere outside of the United Kingdom. Richard Giordano Department of Computer Science University of Manchester From: "Joel Elliott (jeliot@unc)" Subject: works of john adams Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 14:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 376 (435) Hello, I am posting this request for a friend of mine engaged in dissertation research on Adams. Does anyone know if e-texts are available for any of John Adams works? Send your replies directly to me and I will post a summary. Joel Elliott UNC-Chapel Hill From: Dennis Baron Subject: pc dictionary Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 13:06:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 172 (436) FYI to Humanists: this is a longish entry Well, my Random House Webster's College Dictionary is finally here. I understand it has been flogged on CNN and NPR and that the publishers are cleaving to the label "the first politically correct dictionary" rather than trying to live it down. And Humanist colleagues may be interested to know that McGraw-Hill, which handles Random House's textbook line, will sell students the dictionary for $8 or $9 US (w or w/o thumb index) rather than the $20 trade price. So I thought I'd offer a few choice examples of its politically correct stance: under _waiter_ we are told "a person, esp. a man, who waits on tables." further down the page (1497) we find the rest of the _wait_ paradigm: besides the unsurprising _waitress_ there's _waitron_, "a person of either sex who waits on tables," which the eds. claim derives from a "b[lend] of _waitress_ and _neutron_ (for _neuter_)." Now my etymological sense is a lot weaker than, say, my esteemed colleague Jim Marchand's (lucus a non lucendo, Jim), but I know a bug from a bug and a hawk from a handsaw, and I'd bet my _Second Barnhart Dictionary of New Words Since 1973_ that _waitron_ is a derivative of the phrase _waiter on_. In any case, it's not likely to come from a neutered feminine (do they honestly think _waitress_ + _neutron_ is nonsexist?) but from an attempt to neutralize the waiter/waitress pair. I'm surprised there's no mention of the pseudo-classical plural _waitri_, which I've seen on menus and in want ads. Though we do find an entry for _waitperson_, there is no entry for _wait_ as a noun meaning `waiter/waitress,' another form I have seen many times (its plural is either _waits_ or _waitpersons_). While the verb _serve_ has as its 2nd meaning "to wait on table, as a waiter" (why use the masculine?), there is no definition under _server_ as a noun meaning `waiter/waitress,' perhaps the most common alternative to the sex-specific words in the restaurant trade (except for the vague "1. a person who serves"). We are told to refer to the entry for _-person_ for a usage note. Okay, turning to _-person_ we find "the _-person_ compounds are used, esp. by the media and in government and business communications, to avoid the -man compounds." The entry goes on with some examples and some further cross references. Turning to another item, while executive editor Sol Steinmetz claimed in the NYTimes that _Webster's_ is a generic for dictionaries like on the order of, say, cellophane or zipper (both orig. trademarks that have passed into the public domain), the Random House Webster's does not show that meaning for _Webster_. Indeed, no dictionary seems to record it, not even _OED_, which comes close but limits its def. to lineal descendants of Noah's _American Dictionary of the English Language_ (1828), ie, by implication, only the products of Merriam-Webster. As far as I know, Merriam hasn't sued anybody lately for trademark infringement, though perhaps lexicographers are still suit- shy. So my second impression, now that I own my very own, is that while it may contain some fighting words, the Random House Webster is not as radical as its opponents claim, or as it might like to claim, but is at best trendy and chic, another typical market-driven Random House product. Dennis Baron, lexicotaster From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Pogoisms Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 00:24:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 377 (437) Disturbed to read that Walt Kelly had denied what I thought to be the most famous quotation from Pogo, I queried several colleagues from a variety of disciplines (so this is an interdisciplinary and not merely humanities investigation). Given the quotation, which I had remembered as "We have met the enemy and he is us" they all responded with exactly the same context I had attached to the quotation: an episode in the colour weekend version of the strip (as opposed to the daily, black and white, more overtly political version) in which Pogo and his friends are searching the swamp for the enemy (no one could remember who) and, as they move in a circle, their leader encounters the last member of the group. After the conventional gestures of surprise, one of the group (none of us could remember who) uttered the famous line. Could we all be suffering from mass hermeneutic hysteria in order to supply exactly the same context for a non-utterance? Interestingly, a couple of people, to whom I had not mentioned the letter of denial, observed that in view of the changes in Kelly's political views in his later years he would probably not have admitted to this and other witty comments on political paranoia in his earlier strips. These comments seemed to undercut the authority of the letter, but I could not verify their accuracy. At last a hermeneutic and (a)textual problem worthy of the scholars of HUMANIST. Surely we have not stumbled on the spurious epigrams of Pseudo-Kelly. Does anyone have a Pogo database, perhaps on Hypercard, that would let us do a search, cross referencing words and pictures? My colleagues and I are in general agreement that the gang were circling a tree when they met themselves... FIND _ENEMY_ AND _US_ NEAR TREE Brian Whittaker Atkinson College, York University From: Paul Brians Subject: Re: Pogoisms Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 09:00:30 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 378 (438) "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us," is the title of a collection of strips focussing on pollution,with a 1972 publication date. The first chapter also uses the famous line as its title, and the volume contains a more than usually forthright editorial introduction by Kelly denouncing environmental pollution. Pogo doesn't utter the words in this volume, but I also believe he did at some point. I remember a scene with Pogo and Churchy (?) looking out over a wasted landscape while Pogo uttered the classic phrase (a variation on "We have met the enemy and he is ours"). It was either a splash panel in the Sunday strip or a special drawing done by Kelly for the environmental movement. Kelly, a life-long liberal, would probably have been appalled at some of the uses to which the line has been put, since he fought enemies of other sorts, from McCarthy to Spiro Agnew. He always used it in reference to environmental problems. From: Paul Brians Subject: Re: Pogoisms Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 09:28:37 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 379 (439) I am coming in in the middle of this discussion, so perhaps this has already been covered. But a little more research indicates that "We have met the enemy and he is us," was first uttered in the Pogo strip August 8, 1970, and is the last line in the collection Impollutable Pogo. But it was not spoken BY Pogo. Here is the dialogue from the last page (128). Albert says, "I resolve we'll go right on with our fight against pollution!" The bats: "Woof, Yow!, Right on! Immediately!" Albert: Bravely! Right after lunch at Pogo's Place, kee-rect, Pog'?" (They assemble around a picnic table, toasting with lemonade.) The Deacon: "Here's to each and all; Bless 'em!" Churchy: "Hear! Hear!" Bun Rabbit: "C'mon Albert, toast up!" Albert: "I'm still broodin' about pollution!" Then, while throwing his cigar into the tub of lemonade: "All them characters what dumps anything anywhere... They is enemies of the people!" Pogo, shocked at the cigar in the lemonade, cries, !Albert!" and Porky--not Pogo--raises his cup and says "We have met the enemy and He is US." I think Kelly later gave the line to Pogo in stand-alone cartoons he did for the environmental movement. But he definitely originated the phrase, though not in the mouth of Pogo himself. From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0165 Qs: MS-DOS Hebrew Supplement; Medial S Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 13:51:49 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 380 (440) The medial s, which those of us in Spanish generally call the "tall s", is found well into the 18th century, but I would hesitate to say how long. I just checked a pamphlet printed by the royal printer Joaqui'n Ibarra en 1782 which does not use it. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin) Subject: Re: 5.0165 Medial S Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 12:49:02 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 381 (441) Alan D Corre writes: [deleted quotation] According to D.B. Updike: Printing Types, ed 2, vol. 2, p. 229: The abolition of the long s, it is popularly thought, we owe to the London publisher John Bell, who in hos _British Theatre_, issued about 1775, discarded it. Franklin, writing in 1786, says that ``the Round s begins to be the Mode and in nice printing the Long f is rejected entirely.'' An 1860 type specimen from Miller & Richard for their Old Style typeface shows the long s. Some of the type faces shown in Christian Axel-Nilsson: Type Studies - The Norstedt Collection of Matrices ... (Stockholm 1983) show some fonts from the first part of the 18th century that have long s only in the ss, si, and ssi ligatures. A typeface (NS 112) showing the long s only in the st ligature is said to be cut c. 1660! Rather curious - could it be a misprint for 1760? William Morris appears to have done without the long forms altogether. [deleted quotation]technological changes such as stereotyping and lithography? Lithography was invented 1796, which is a bit too late. It is likely that having only one form of s would increase the speed of the typesetter. Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Telesoft AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden From: ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin) Subject: Re: 5.0165 Medial S (Revisited) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 13:27:06 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 382 (442) In my previous note on the medial s I overlooked a note that D.B.Updike added to his Printing Types. He adds: A statement that John Bell abolished the long s in his _British Theatre_ of 1775 is incorrect and should read, ``in his edition of Shakespeare of 1785,'' as pointed out in Morison's _John Bell_, pages 105 and 118. Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Telesoft AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden From: James Crump Subject: Re: Mail Readers Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 0:09:47 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 383 (443) [deleted quotation] There seems to have been some confusion concerning my last posting. While it is of course true that it is possible to respond to postings on a usenet newsgroup from within nn (that is what it was designed for after all), I simply wanted to share my discovery that it could also be used to read folders containing only e-mail such as that received from a listserv subscription. The header of an e-mail message is different from that of a newsgroup posting and nn will not allow you to respond to it, but I have found it useful for reading and filing messages from listserv based groups such as humanist, ansax-l and the like. If anyone knows a way to force nn to respond to ordinary e-mail correctly without editing the header, I would like to hear about it. Jon Crump jjcrump@milton.u.washington.edu From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) Subject: Apology for Non Sequitur Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 06:59:41 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 384 (444) When I saw my recent posting re nn and actually read the comments I had quoted in it, I realized that my reply was a non sequitur. So much for high-tech quoting. At least in the old days of manual quoting, one tended to read what was being quoted. I save moderated lists that arrive in clumps to read last and thus often read them with a brain fried from just having made my way through hundreds of pieces of mail. I thought I should post this explanation so that the person who first mentioned nn won't sit there pondering the relationship of my stupid answer to the original point. --Natalie (nm1@ra.msstate.edu) From: Diane Kovacs Subject: RE: 5.0167 E-Job Searching Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 18:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 385 (445) Re: e-Job Searching. I see no reason why E-mail cannot function in the same way that the telephone does in the job search process. I had several queries via e-mail to ask if I was interested in the job...and to establish a date and time for interview. I also don't think that the computer services people that see my e-mail will violate confidentiality in this matter anymore than they would in the matter of all the financial data that they see. Furthermore, they do not monitor mail....where on earth would they get the time? Diane K. Kovacs Kent State University librk329@kentvms librk329@ksuvxa.kent.edu From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0166 Why Prove Computers Do It Better? Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 13:55:11 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 386 (446) The reason that people are interested in proving that CAI is better is because computers are EXPENSIVE, and supporting them in the fashion to which we would all like to become accustomed is even (I originally slipped and wrote "ever", which is also true) more expensive. Deans and provosts tend to look askance at requests to pour more and more money into a bottomless pit. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: chit-chat Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 19:59:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 387 (447) Dana Cartwright's response to Graham White's note about use of e-mail declares that it is best used for "chit-chat", not for things of importance. While in paranoid moments I agree with Norman Z. Shapiro and Robert H. Anderson that one should never write anything by e-mail one would not be comfortable with seeing on the front page of the New York Times (_Towards an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail_), I think we may be in danger of confusing what is IMPORTANT with what is politically sensitive. Who here would argue openly that the value of dialogue is proportional to its political sensitivity? Doesn't such an argument measure the degree of tyranny under which one is forced to live or which one constructs for oneself? On the other hand, our cultural traditions teach us that those who are closest to the truth are the most offensive to those who maintain the settled order of things. Willard McCarty From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: why prove computers do it better? Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 20:06:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 388 (448) Dana Paramskas sensibly asks, in response to my note, why we have to prove that computers demonstrably improve instruction. The simple answer is that the people who have to pay for the installation, support, and maintenance of computerized labs are worried about justifying the not inconsiderable expense. Personally I don't think there is any proof. There are, however, good arguments. Let them commence, here on Humanist. Willard McCarty From: "Steven J. DeRose" Subject: The new bios Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 16:48:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 177 (449) 250 new biographies have been added to the file server. They are in addition to the prvious ones, and are found in files named BIOS91-A through BIOS91-Z, according to the initials of the members' surnames. A combined set of files, including the older bios and the new, will be supplied shortly. As before, if your biography entry is in outright error, please send a (tagged) update, which will be included in a future collection. If you have not submitted a biography at all, please request the template, fill it out, and send it in. There are now over 1200 biographies in the collection. Steve DeRose Humanist biographer From: Stevan Harnad Subject: More prima facie objections to ejournals Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 19:58:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 178 (450) More Objections, with annotations. -- SH --- [deleted quotation] Are not now, or never can/will be? It seems to me that as soon as the electronic journals succeed in demonstrating their revolutionary potential in scholarly communication, that will constitute for the abstracting services (and many others) an offer they cannot refuse. Of course I agree that the services could hasten that day by indexing electronic journals already, thereby increasing their exposure and impact. I'm sure some can be persuaded to do this already, and others will follow suit sooner or later. -- Stevan Harnad [deleted quotation] The "virtual" world of the papyrophile, with all of its arbitrary correlates (dust and all), can be duplicated in principle as closely as one might wish, in conjunction with paper-thin electronic simulation of the printed page. My guess, however, is that, like the dead metaphors of a language, these incidental fetishes will fade out after a while and we will all converge on the only real object of interest in scholarly communication: the Platanic bare-bones of the text itself. [deleted quotation] The question is not primarily whether we need more scholarly journals, but whether the net is a more effective medium for disseminating knowledge. Not only do I think it is, but the revolutionary possibilities of refereed rapid, global, interactive peer feedback make it no contest at all. And, as mentioned, powerful software filters together with search tools on the net make it the optimal medium for rationally managing and monitoring the growing information glut. [deleted quotation] C'est une condition que est carrement alleatoire! Stevan Harnad [deleted quotation] I certainly hope that's changing; electronic communication should be a very high priority for 3rd World subsidy from the West, right after food and medicine, and on a par with education and technological help. Third world scholars and scientists cannot afford to get and follow the paper literature. That's why they are the biggest senders of reprint requests. Imagine what a boon anonymous ftp would be for them! [deleted quotation] There is the implicit belief here that dollars will forever decide what gets published, even on the net, and that that might commercialize or skew intellectual productivity toward applicability even more. I, on the other hand, believe that the net will FREE THE WRITTEN WORD FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE DOLLAR and the market, even as the spoken word (if only anyone will listen, Hyde-park style) has always been free of it (except in political campaigns and advertising). It's the economics of paper that makes Ann think dollar-votes will call the tune on the net. I envision the net as virtually free, with scholars vying for one another's EYES and minds, not for their pocketbooks. And THAT kind of peer accountability may not be such a bad thing (especially since an unrefereed electronic "vanity press," archived and accessible in perpetuum in principle, but in practice ignored by almost everyone) can continue to preserve unsung masterpieces for future generations that might at last hew to their tune. [deleted quotation] All of these are important questions, but surely not prima facie objections to scholarly e-journals! Any objection that is just as applicable to paper, phone and TV is not a prima facie objection against the net. Dictators can and will control and abuse anything and everything. Perhaps the bright side of the ubiquitous mischief that computer viruses and their concocters have made is that 3rd world hackers will be able to break out of the government's control of information as easily as Western hackers have been able to break into it... Let's develop the net first and worry about freeing it from all possible political and economic constraints afterward. [deleted quotation] Let's make them an offer they cannot refuse (see above on the same point). And standardization is crucial in practice, but trivial in principle. [deleted quotation] The net is no more responsible for the blinkered use clinicians make of information than paper is... [deleted quotation] Backups, backups, backups. Trivial. [deleted quotation] Answered earlier: The net can free scholarship from the arbitrary financial constraints associated with paper publication. [deleted quotation] Problems that are equally applicable to paper are not prima facie objections to the new medium. Nor do they need to be raised or solved before we can begin to exploit the revolutionary potential of the net. -- Stevan Harnad [deleted quotation] I assure you that scholars have plenty of $$-independent motivation to disseminate their ideas and to communicate with one another. Peer review is the only "control" this motivation and productivity needs. This is not the popular or trade paper press: This is Plato's Academy. The dollar was always an interloper there, an unfortunate byproduct of the older means-of-production of knowledge: Paper, printing, mail, bookstores, libraries, and their associated expenses -- all incidental to the production and sharing of knowledge. There's no need for any of that any more in order to allow scholars to communicate their ideas and findings. (Besides, if, like psychotherapy, net communication will have to have a price tag in order to make people value it, so be it: it is certainly not a problem in principle to find someone who is willing to accept money for it...)` -- Stevan Harnad From: "Van Doren, Frederick L." Subject: Men's Speech - Women's Speech Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 8:21:02 edt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 389 (451) I am putting together a reading list for a Freshman Seminar on Men's and Women's Speech. I've already selected a number of sociolinguistic texts, both scholarly and popular (Tannen's "You just don't understand"). I need suggestions for short, *literary* works appropriate for Freshman. What I'm looking for are texts that include a) typical "feminine" speech, b) typical "masculine" speech, or something that can be construed as masculine or feminine "style". From: hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy M. Cook) Subject: Grammar Checkers, CAW, and CAI Question Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 22:32:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 390 (452) I have spent the past two years investigating, writing specifications, soliciting bids, supervising the construction, and working out the bugs for a computer-supported writing center. Throughout, my primary interest has been in computer-assisted writing (CAW) rather than computer-assisted instruction (CAI). In the fall our center will be fully operational; we're giving it trial run this summer. My philosophy from the start has been a democratic one: I wanted a network with ALL the software available to all students. To that end, we purchased a 20-station network of IBM compatible workstations with a 386 fileserver, and a teacher's station. The network was designed from the beginning to run Novell 386. For word processing, we chose WordPerfect 5.1 (even though I'm still a loyal WordStar user). I have never been much of a fan of RightWriter, but I did work in my office with Grammatik IV with students as did many of my colleagues; however, we simple gave up on Grammatik--there were far too many false-positives. Also Grammatik IV is a pattern checking program. I have found Correct Grammar 3.0 much more to my liking. Correct Grammar was designed by computational linguists and works by sentence parsing rather than by pattern matching. I've had wonderful experiences with students' using it, and after several demonstrations my colleagues agreed with me. Correct Grammar, like Grammatik, can be set up to use a hot key to leave a WordPerfect document, go directly to Correct Grammar, and return to WordPerfect. One of its features that most appeals to me is that it has built in tutorials students can refer to if they want more information than what is provide with the suggestion. We also purchased Writer's Helper, Stage II. Writer's Helper is an umbrella program for 39 other prewriting and revising programs--it has won several awards and conceptually looks interesting, but I have not used it with students yet. Our final and most sophisticated program is Editor, now being marketed through the MLA. One begins Editor by running a utility program that numbers the lines in the text, either by creating another file on disk or by sending a copy of the file with line numbers to the printer. One next invokes the Usage program to generate a list of suggestions keyed to the numbered lines, again with the option of creating a file on disk or sending the output to a printer. The Usage program's dictionaries analyze diction, punctuation, mechanics, wordiness, trite expressions, cliches, slang, jargon, colloquialisms, awkward expressions, and commonly misused words. The writer then goes through the list making appropriate changes on the line-numbered draft before transferring those changes to the original draft. The authors of Editor firmly believe editing is done more accurately on paper than on a computer screen, and their program encourages that approach. Writer's Helper and Editor have the additional advantage of being modifiable. I also purchased LANSchool, a program that allows the instructor to take over the network to do demonstrations for the students at the workstations. When the wrokstation is returned to the student, the instructor can use a PEEK command to see what is going on at any of the workstations. I'm very excited about the fall to see what difference this writing-center will make. Students in the courses in all our composition sequence will be required to work one hour a week at the center, but my hunch is that once we get fully operational students will be lining up outside the door. As I mentioned at the beginning, my principal interest has been in CAW; however, some of my colleagues also wish to include CAI for our developmental students. Are there any commercial software packages that any of you know of that drill students in grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and so on? Hardy M. Cook Bowie State University HMCook@BOE00.MINC.UMD.EDU From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE Subject: Law and order topos Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 10:03:14 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 391 (453) I am currently working on medieval highway robbery, and have become interested in the topos "the king's strong rule creates such peace that ..." a merchant may travel unarmed with a bag of gold at his belt/a woman may travel with her baby etc. etc., and none of these kinds of persons particularly at risk from malefactors comes to any harm. I have a number of medieval examples, mostly drawn from historiographical sources, particularly English ones (Bede, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle), but have begun to wonder whether the topos has its origins in classical panegyric, or whether it has parallels in other cultures (Islam, China, etc.). Any parallels or precedents (or medieval European examples, especially from literary rather than historical sources) would be gratefully received and duly acknowledged. Timothy Reuter MGH Munich From: (James Marchand) Subject: Wittgenstein Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 09:38:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 392 (454) A quick look through Neuman's Georgetown Projects in Electronic Texts shows that two projects exist to put Wittgenstein into electronic form. Perhaps you could contact them. 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An inspection of the American Philosophical Assn's list of etexts (date = Dec 1990) reveals the following entries for Wittgenstein, excluding those in the UK. Leslie Burkholder Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bemerkungen ber die Grundlagen der Mathematik, 3rd ed. (Schriften, vol 6, Franfurt, 1974). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. "Bemerkungen ber Frazers The Golden Bough". (Synthese, vol 17, 1967). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bemerkungen ber die Farben. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bemerkungen ber die Philosophie der Psychologie, vols 1 and 2. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Blue and Brown Books. In English. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1961). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Eine philosophische Betrachtung (The Brown Book). In German. (Schriften, vol 5, Franfurt, 1970). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. ber Gewissheit. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. "A lecture on ethcis". In English. (Philosophical Review, vol 74, 1965). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Letzte Schriften. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Notebooks 1914-1916, 2nd ed. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Notes dictated to G E Moore in Norway (Appendix II, Notebooks 1914-1916, 2nd ed). In English. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Notes on Logic (Appendix I, Notebooks 1914-1916, 2nd ed). In English. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. "Notes for lectures on 'Private Experience' and 'Sense Data'". In English. (Philosophical Review, vol 77, 1968). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophiche Bemerkungen, excluding 2nd appendix. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophiche Grammatik. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophiche Untersuchungen, 2nd ed. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1967). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. "[Review of Coffey, The Science of Logic]". In English. (Cambridge Review, vol ?, 6 March 1913). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. "Some remarks on logical form". In English. (Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl vol 9, 1929). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Vermischte Bemerkungen, 2nd ed. In German. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980). For information contact: Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ph22@musica.mcgill. In Japan contact: Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Ludwig Wittgenstein. [Unpublished works]. For information contact: Claus Huitfeldt, The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities, Harald Harfagresgt. 31, Boks 53, 5014 Bergen-Universitetet, Norway; huitfeldt@cc.uib.no. From: Peter Zaas Subject: Pogo Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 17:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 394 (456) My recollection, which is perfectly clear, but just as possibly faulty, is that "We have met the enemy, and he is us," occurs as the punchline of a Pogo parody of "Chicken Little" that was reprinted in the venerable collection, Bennett Cerf's Household of Laughter. I read this volume maybe 10,000 times when I was young, and remember the reprinted Pogo strip very vividly. I can't locate a copy to verify, but I think I'm right. Peter Zaas ZAAS@SIENA From: "Jean Pfleiderer, UMS Publications, 492-9892" Subject: Re: 5.0173 Further Pogoisms Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 16:07 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 395 (457) All right, I'll buy all that. But I distinctly remember having the phrase "we have met the enemy and he is us" on a poster in my dorm room while I was an undergraduate. I graduated in 1969. I think the poster may have been locally crafted, but the attribution was definitely to "Pogo". So let us by all means continue the search for the Ur "enemy" which, inasmuch as he may turn out to be a figment of our collective imagininations, is, indeed,"us". Jean Pfleiderer From: Sigrid Peterson Subject: Pogo--same line, two forms Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 17:33 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 396 (458) On the question of whether a Walt Kelly character ever said, "We have met the enemy and he is us!" Paul Brians has specifics that ring no bell whatsoever in my poor memory. Brian Whittaker is vague, but I agree with his description. The scene rather resembled one from Winnie the Pooh, and I would guess that it dates from the late fifties/early sixties, before the demise of the _New York Herald Tribune_. No doubt Paul Brians's description of a scene also happened; I just wasn't watching. I was either tending an infant or out at the barricades, or both. Sigrid Peterson Sigpeter@cc.utah.edu From: ath@linkoping.telesoft.se (Anders Thulin) Subject: Re: 5.0173 Further Pogoisms (3/91) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 20:06:33 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 397 (459) Paul Brains writes: [deleted quotation] It was a special drawing done for Earth Day 1971, with Pogo and Porky. Judging from `The best of Pogo', the words first appeared in the introduction to `Pogo Papers' 1952-53. According to `Zeroing in on those polluters: we have met the enemy and he is us', a short piece (date ?) by W. Kelley, they are also said to have formed the title and the theme of a Pogo motion picture `currently in the works'. Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Telesoft AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden From: Ray Craig Subject: Re: 5.0173 Further Pogoisms Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 10:13:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 398 (460) Coincidently, the latest issue of Audobon Magazine reprints a Pogo strip with the denied quotation in tact. Page 132, I believe. From: "Tze-wan KWAN, Philosophy, CUHK, Hongkong" Subject: Re: 5.0174 Rs: The Long Tall Medial S Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 05:17 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 399 (461) A dilettantish question! Does the differentiation of the S into a long and a round form have anything to do with the two forms of the "Sigma" in Greek? (s in glossa is different from the s in physis or in thanatos). The most interesting thing is that: the first form of "Sigma" occurs only in the middle of a word whereas the second form only at the end. This principle seems to hold for older German text as well. From: Len Bliss Subject: Final "t" Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 13:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 400 (462) The discussion of the long s brings to mind another "archaic" form of a Roman letter which I have encountered. My mother used to use a form of a final "t" which was uncrossed and had a curved line rising up from its base at the end. Mom (may she rest in peace) was born in 1915. Interestingly, my father, approximately the same age and schooled in the same school system as my mother, never uses this form. As a third grader, learning to write cursively, I distinctly recall the final "t" form appearing on a chart of letters our teacher had hanging above the blackboard in front of the room. However, we were never taught to use this form. This chart, as a lot of things in our school, was probably quite old. I have noticed this form used in 18th and 19th century manuscripts, but it apparently, went out of style by the early 1950's, at least in the eastern United States. Can anyone out there shed some light on this subject? Len Bliss Appalachian State University Boone, NC From: Martin Wynne Subject: ETAOIN SHRDLU Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 19:53:18 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 401 (463) I've just collated a few statistics that should enlighten the debate on the frequency of occurence of letters in English. The following list is of letter frequencies in the Lancaster- Oslo/Bergen corpus of modern British English (approximately 1 million words of 'real' text). Total number of letters sampled = 4553156 e - 577230 t - 418668 a - 364302 o - 345419 i - 330074 n - 323360 s - 293976 r - 281270 h - 255365 l - 188647 d - 181973 c - 133292 u - 125487 m - 112287 f - 106172 g - 89612 w - 88413 p - 85086 y - 81787 b - 70994 v - 45186 k - 30182 x - 10081 j - 6462 q - 5079 z - 2752 Not surprisingly, the results for a dictionary (counting just the headwords) were very different. I obtained the following list from the computer-usable versoin of the Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary: ENTSRL AIDOPM UKCBGH FYUWZJ XQ (compare to the above list: ETAOIN SRHLDC UMFGWP YBVKXJ QZ ) I've got the breakdown of the stats for the different text categories in LOB, and the stats for the dictionary. I'm also going to check the Brown corpus of American English to see if it yields the same list. I'd be happy to pass these stats on if anyone's interested. From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Letter frequency Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 15:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 402 (464) Letter frequency in english. It is very strange that a group of people devoting their research time to "humanistic computing" would indulge in such long subjective debates about the frequency of letters in the english language without trying to come with a "real bit of evidence" in support of their assertions. I was pleased that at least one had the idea to run a simple program to have the frequency of the letters within his corpus counted. I can give you, with the help of my colleague Bernard Derval a table of letter frequency sorted both by alphabetical and frequencial order for the well known and entire Brown Corpus. Alphabetique | Frequence -------------+----------- 378602 a | 588441 e 72257 b | 435707 t 145711 c | 378602 a 186853 d | 357304 o 588441 e | 342873 i 108816 f | 333890 n 91690 g | 307900 s 255817 h | 288319 r 342873 i | 255817 h 7549 j | 194577 l 30946 k | 186853 d 194577 l | 145711 c 119566 m | 127675 u 333890 n | 119566 m 357304 o | 108816 f 94928 p | 94928 p 5039 q | 91690 g 288319 r | 88639 w 307900 s | 81175 y 435707 t | 72257 b 127675 u | 46948 v 46948 v | 30946 k 88639 w | 9320 x 9320 x | 7549 j 81175 y | 5039 q 4466 z | 4466 z -- Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" MONTREAL (Quebec) Canada - H3C 3J7 E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca -- Bernard DERVAL pavillon principal Dept I.R.O. bureau S-160-3 Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succ. A tel : (514) 343-6111 poste 3497 Montreal, Quebec fax : (514) 343-5834 H3C 3J7 e-mail : derval@iro.umontreal.ca From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: yet more comments on etaoinshrdlu. Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 16:39:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 403 (465) The on-going commentary on 'etaoinshrdlu' prompted me to dig into some 15-year old material I'd saved involving letter frequenceies -- I hope someone else is aware of newer work and will give us some pointers to it. R.L. Solso and J.F. King published "Frequency and Versatility of Letters in the English Language," Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 1976, v.8, n. 3, pp. 283-286. They reported the frequency order as 'ETOAINSRHLDCUMFPGWYBVKXJQZ'. The analysis was based on frequency count of about one million words in Kucera and Francis, Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English, 1967, Brown University Press [which I have not seen]. Solso and King published a paper on bigram and trigram letter frequencies, based on the same source of words. Earlier, in the seminal book by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1969, Univ. Illinois Press, letter probabilities are based frequencies given in the book F. Pratt, Secret and Urgent, 1939, Blue Ribbon Books. There are some thought-provoking examples and discussions of letter probabilties in the textbook by William R. Bennett, Jr., Introduction to Computer Applications for Non-Science Students (BASIC), 1976, Prentice-Hall. [I have no idea how long the market-life of this book has been.] For example, Bennett discusses the letter frequencies presented by Edgar Allan Poe in "The Gold Bug" and wonders where Poe got the idea that the English letter frequency list should be 'EAOIDHNRSTUYCFGLMWBKPQXZ' and notes that putting 'T' tenth on the list makes solving the cipher much more obscure, that even in Poe's own writing 'T' is the second most frequent! Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H. j_cerny@unhh.unh.edu From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: etaoin shrdlu Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 10:35:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 404 (466) A good summary is the chapter "In Memoriam Etaoin Shrdlu" in Hugh Kenner's The Mechanical Muse, Oxford UP, 1987, pp. 3-16. It is slug of a rejected but perhaps not ejected line of type and consists of the letters of the two leftmost columns. However my favorite is a photo I saw in a 1920s newspaper of an artists ball in New York or Paris in which a young woman had this written down her side as part of her costume. Kenner's book, by the way is wonderful. Lorne Hammond Department of History University of Ottawa canada K1N 6n5 From: (James Marchand) Subject: etaoin Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 11:02:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 405 (467) David Kahn, The Codebreakers (NY: Macmillan, 1967), 741 ff. repeats the Morse story (about 1838), but adds that it was Mergenthaler himself who decided that "the letter matrices in his Linotype should be arranged in order of the demand for each letter." The keyboard for a Linotype machine, for those of you who have not used one, is depicted on p. 742, with the first line: etaoin and the second shrdlu, the third cmfwyp, the fourth vbgkqj, and the last xz,fi, fl, ff, ffi. Jim Marchand. Jim Marchand From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0176 Computing: $$ and Sense; Privacy Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 13:56 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 406 (468) Dear Willard, Should the question be, why do people question it for the humanities, and not for the social sciences or sciences? Expense is scarcely the issue for a lab. We cannot hire a chemist or biologist or physicist or whatever in midcampus without providing first a million dollars for the lab that person demands as a condition of coming to exalt us, for grants, and research. But someone who doesnt do that sort of "research"? Well, now it seems very expensive... is that not the issue in this conversation? Kessler From: Malcolm Brown Subject: Do computers *really* improve instruction? A prolegomena. Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 14:20:56 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 407 (469) Once again, I think Willard has touched a nerve, as well as a very vital question: do computers really, actually, and demonstrably improve instruction? Currently, if I had to guess, I'd agree with Willard: I don't think there's proof -- although I'm eager to listen to good arguments. Before the flames begin, I think we all need to make some distinctions, since there are many many facets to this question. First, obviously, one needs to address what is meant by 'improve'. Clearly computers can take the place of human instructors in some very limited circumstances (such as self-paced introductions to logic, for example). But this is indeed quite limited and I don't think that automating areas of instruction is what anyone would mean by 'improvement' --- or is it? 'Improvement' could mean either (1) something rather quantative, e.g., that students learn "more" in the same period of time or learn the "same" amount more quickly; (2) something qualitative, such as enriching or augmenting the learning or teaching experience. The quantative approach seems rather boring and bypasses all the important philosophical questions (is "more" better? is "faster" the same as "better"?); but it would seem to be difficult to approach (2) objectively. A second clarification that will be important for any ensuing discussion concerns the level or type of instruction. Computers are used from kindergarten through graduate programs, and for "normal" instruction as well as for those with personal handicaps or disabilities. I agree with Willard that this is a very important and interesting subject. I too am looking forward to the debate. Malcolm Brown Stanford From: "Dana Cartwright, Syracuse Univ, 315-443-4504" Subject: The Cost of Computing Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 18:02:46 LCL X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 408 (470) The reason university administrators are asking pointed questions about the cost of computing is simply that it's expensive and getting more so. Some facts from my institution (Syracuse University): a) Consider the "obvious" expenditures we make on computing each year. By that I mean hardware, software, and network purchases, those made centrally and those made by researchers on grants and those made by departments. Add in the cost of people hired to work strictly on computing (the Director of computing, for example). Call that amount the "obvious" cost of computing. At Syracuse, that obvious amount is TWICE our annual electricity bill. In other words, for every $1 we spend on electricity, we spend $2 on computing. People sometimes say, for example, that "computing should be as readily available as is electricity. We provide electrical outlets in each office, and we provide as much electricity as faculty members need, so why not do the same with computing?" But that's a foolish argument, because computing is much more expensive than is electricity. And we are not a highly computing-aggressive university! If you start looking at non-obvious costs of computing, things get worse. Just to carry on with the electricity comparison: fully 1/4 of our electric bill is for computers (and the air conditioners they sometimes demand). To put it in more personal terms: the annual electricity bill at my university for just computing equals the total annual salary of 22 faculty members (at the average faculty salary). Remember, that's just for the electric bill for computing! b) Depending on which surveys you read, computing is the second-fastest rising component of costs in higher education in the United States-- the first being health-care and workman's compensation costs. So here's the summary: A. Computing is darn expensive already. B. It's growing rapidly more expensive. Frankly, I think that spending on computing is going to slow down, even if people come up with all kinds of wonderful explanations for why it's useful, even vital. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that computing could bankrupt higher education, at least in the United States. From: prof Norm Coombs Subject: Objections to paper journals! Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 19:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 409 (471) The recent discussion about objections to electronic journals has been quite titillating. Maybe, confusing. In any case a bit incomprehensible from my vantage point. Like Gary, in his comments a few days ago, I am thankful for electronic access to information. It has put some of us handicapped scholars on a more equal footing. In general, handicaps aside, computers and networking are decentralizing power, and I wonder if that is the rub. I have been sitting here, as a historian, with a marvelous picture in my mind. I envision these ancient scholars having a discussion about the drawbacks of paper publication. "It doesn't feel as hefty and substantial in your hand as a clay tablet. "Words sitting on the surface of a page fail to burn their way into your hearts like the indentations on clay or stone." Well, I'll stop my imagining there, and let the reader's creativity take over. Norman Coombs Rochester Institute of Technology. From: LNGDANAP@VM.UOGUELPH.CA Subject: Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 00:28:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 410 (472) Re: No. 0176. Friday, 21 Jun 1991. [deleted quotation] Should that not be amended to read: Deans and Provosts of Humanities faculties? CAI labs are standard equipment in the science faculties, aided and abetted by the respective higherups. [deleted quotation] I have the feeling that we're all missing something here. Funds there are to equip secretarial staff with appropriate computers; many libraries or similar centres have open clusters for data base consultation and word processing. Audio-video based language laboratories are just as expensive as CAI labs, and need as much maintenance, but seem to be funded on as regular a basis as the budget will allow. The sticking point is the use of computing in the humanities (where have we heard this before?). And why do we all accept so readily the arguments that humanities computing is "too expensive" because/or its usefulness has not been "proven"? Dana Paramskas Lngdanap@vm.uoguelph.ca French Studies DanaP@CoSy.uoguelph.ca University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 From: Sigrid Peterson Subject: Humanist computers: Quantifying the difference they make Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 00:02 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 411 (473) The sleeping dog of a psychologist/statistician in me is waking up, growling and pacing around. I vividly remember learning, twenty years ago, that the "soft" science of Educational Psychology could identify independent variables [instructional strategies] that were regularly associated with the dependent variable of measured learning. The variance accounted for at that time was generally on the order of 20%, which is not too shabby. Certainly the traditional guinea pig, the college sophomore, who as subject has taught us so much about learned helplessness, and snake phobias, could be prevailed upon to demonstrate the effectiveness of computers as instructional tools for the humanities. This has probably already been done, but the report(s) lie buried in the pages of the Journal of Educational Psychology, never to be read by Humanists. Instead, we will continue to believe that there is no way to demonstrate that certain things work well as ways of teaching humanities. True, IMHO anyone is right to resist quantification efforts by tenure committees, who deal with the anxiety of judgment by wanting to count things, whether or not such counts have predictive value. There are teaching methods that have developed in the Humanities that may well be more effective that current methods in other fields. I hope that we find ways to make the case, even adopting scientific methods, for the effective teaching of thinking and insight in the humanities. Then my poor dog can lie down and sleep once more. Sigrid Peterson Sigpeter@cc.utah.edu From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0176 Computing: $$ and Sense; Privacy Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 03:19 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 412 (474) I disagree, Charles. Despite their initial costs, machines of whatever "intell igence" are far cheaper than human instructors. That's why administrators love them--the computers. From: P_EMISON@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: Budget cuts Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 14:48:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 413 (475) I have heard on quite good authority that faculty are soon to be cut back to 1000 blocks of memory on the mainframe, plus 1000 blocks of scratch. Does anyone have a horror story to match this? Trisha Emison From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0178 Objections to E-Journals, Annotated Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 18:17 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 414 (476) Yes, but what is the price tag for "free" communication? who pays for the time ont he machine? tax dollars, in my case, at ucla. the administration provides t he grant to each user of the e-mail network each year, but that money comes fro m the general budget, from the legislators. Whereas journals and newspapers are purchased with advertising $$$ and the subscribers' $$$. It would be nice, but without a phone line to the big brain, and tax dollars supporting the big brain ...where are we? the arts are not easily supported; why scholars? It is a prob lem to get a cultural assumption grounded for good, our assumption that we work with culture. Kessler at UCLA. PS: I am simply asking about the basis of our t alk here, which is of course tax dollars. From: slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sarah L. Higley) Subject: Re: 5.0179 Qs: Male/Female Speech Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 22:23:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 415 (477) In response to Frederick Van Doren's query about male/female speech: Have you thought of using Robin Lakoff's (now fairly dated) _Language and Woman's Place_? I think that's the correct title. The book is back at my office and I tried using it in my HEL course only to find that it was pitched at a sixties' audience. She talks about "color" words and modifiers and rising inflections, most of which seems to me fairly dated. Shouldn't this issue of male/female speech and its distinctions be challenged? I think it's a myth. There are all registers of language: those expressing aggression, education, social status, propitiation, linguistic background, privilege, non-privilege; connecting all of these nuances to gender seems dangerous to me. Sarah L. Higley slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu The University of Rochester From: Chris Ann Matthews Subject: E-mail recommendations, Dana Cartwrigt Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 09:12:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 416 (478) In response to Professor Cartwright's objections to using electronic mail for job recommendations: My boss has used electronic mail to send job recommendations for his students on at least three occasions this year. All were cases of overseas applications. I know that in at least one case, the information was urgently needed to be discussed in a meeting. On each occasion, the e-mail was gratefully received by the recipient and it was greatly appreciated by the applicant, for whom time was of the essence. On another occasion, our department was hiring a senior statistician from the industry sector, and e-mail communications enabled my boss (the director), our chairman, and the busy applicant in touch and negotiating throughout their busy schedules. As for the confidentiality end of it, any intermediate secretaries or systems programmers understand that confidentiality is part of their job -- I regularly actually compose the letters myself, and my boss signs them. Really, what is a secretary or computer programmer going to do with that letter? Finally, understanding that hiring dossiers remain a paper medium, we've always sent the letter by post or by fax (sometimes both) to back it up with a signature, for the record. But I do know that timely receipt of e-mail has helped at least a few of our applicants. Chris Ann Matthews From: viden@logos.class.gu.se (Gunhild Viden) Subject: Re: 5.0179 Qs: ... Law&Order Topos Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 10:37:29 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 417 (479) Timothy Reuter's topos question: To me this looks like a continuation of the classical rhetorical tradition. What comes to my mind are the Leges novellae ad Theodosianum pertinentes (vol. 2 of the Cod. Theod.), where the emperors often refer to their clementia, pietas, cura etc. concerning their subjects. Gunhild Viden University of Goteborg, Classical dept. From: Alain Gowing Subject: Re: Law and order topos Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 10:32:04 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 418 (480) One classical parellel that comes to mind is found in the Roman Oration of the second century AD rhetor Aelius Aristides, a panegyric of both Rome and the emperor Antoninus Pius: It is you [Pius] again who have best proved the general assertion, that Earth is mother of all and common fatherland. Now indeed it is possible for Hellene or non-Hellene, with or without his property, to travel wherever he will, easily, just as if passing from fatherland to fatherland. Neither Cilician Gates nor narrow sandy approaches to Egypt through Arab country, nor inaccessible mountains, nor immense strecthes of river, nor inhospitable tribes of barbarians cause terror, but for security it suffices to be a Roman citizen, or rather to be one of those united under your hegemony. Or. 26.100 Keil (trans. J.H. Oliver) Banditry and piracy were of course serious concerns in antiquity, and it is not surprising that a professional rhetor like Aristides -- who spent a good part of his life travelling from one city to another -- should frequently allude to and praise the increased security afforded a voyager by the imperial administration. Tourism in general increased significantly in the second century AD (hence the need for and popularity of Pausanias' guidebooks), and in large part this must have resulted from a sense that traveling was now a relatively safe occupation. Whether or not the passage quoted above constitutes a "topos", I cannot say. It may have *become* a topos, but one might look to the later panegyrics for confirmation; and I cannot think of anything earlier than Aristides. Alain M. Gowing alain@u.washington.edu Dept. of Classics Univ. of Washington From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Re: 5.0166 Why Prove Computers Do It Better? Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 11:23:22 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 419 (481) Dana Paramskas asks why we have to prove that computers can do it better. I can think of two reasons. (1) computer-based instruction is expensive, in terms of equipment and time devoted to preparing materials, not to mention student time in learning to use computers (computer-based teaching means more than just CALL). In other words, there is an opportunity cost to teaching with computers. (2) If it's not broken, why mend it? Teaching has proceeded quite happily for a long time without computers. Donald Spaeth Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History (CTICH) University of Glasgow gkha13 at cms.glasgow.ac.uk (US order) From: Christopher Currie (IHR) Subject: Cost of Computing Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 11:10:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 420 (482) There is one sure way in which computing can reduce costs in the humanities: the use of wordprocessors, direct typesetting and DTP in compiling and publishing our work. Given the price of scholarly books this is not a trivial issue, even if it's not trendy in computing circles. The department for which I work produces reference books. Their real cost per page fell by 55 per cent between 1979 and 1989. The cash price per volume rose by about 20 to 25 per cent, which was considerably less than the UK retail price index and far less than the average price of academic books published in the UK. This price reduction was achieved by using computer technology. In addition, there have been savings in typing costs and the checking of typescripts. We have been gradually moving towards DTP, which we have been using for small jobs for about two years, and we expect to make some further savings. Those made so far greatly exceed the capital and running costs of the equipment. If we could find a reliable way of publishing online, without undermining the market for the printed volumes, I am convinced that distribution costs, and the price to the individual scholar, could be reduced still further, even if the network users had to pay the real cost of transmission (excluding monopoly profits, of course). And of course the micros which we use for this purpose can also be used as research tools and ways of producing more illustrations at a lower price. Here the problems are mainly those of staff conservatism and working out cost-effective ways of doing certain tasks using the computer. It is not cost-effective for everything. You would be surprised at the number of scholars who still do not use wordprocessing effectively, or who are prevented by their publishers from supplying text on disk to save printing and editing costs. Christopher From: Hans Joergen Marker Subject: Preliminary Programme for AHC'91 Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 421 (483) Preliminary Programme for the AHC'91 ASSOCIATION FOR HISTORY AND COMPUTING 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ODENSE, DENMARK, AUGUST 28-30, 1991 The Association for History and Computing is an international organisation which aims to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. The 6th international conference of the AHC in 1991 will be held in Odense, Denmark, with the Danish Data Archives as the organizing institution. The conference will be held at the congress center Hotel H.C. Andersen, Claus Bergs Gade 7, DK-5000 Odense. Hotel accommodation will be provided by Odense Kongress Bureau, and on the registration form you will find the prices for single bedrooms in three categories. It goes without saying that if you want a double bedroom, this can be arranged by the bureau. Odense lies on the island of Funen, which is known for its lovely countryside and many castles and manor houses. On the second day of the conference we have arranged a guided tour to start at 3 p.m. The trip will take us across southern Funen and the island of Taasinge. On the way we will pay a visit to Egeskov Castle, which was built on a complex construction of rammed down oak piles and is rising directly from a lake. It was built in 1550 by the Lord High Constable, Frands Brockenhuus. If you want further information about the conference, please contact Hans Jºrgen Marker Danish Data Archives Munkebjergv{nget 48 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark Phone +45 66 15 79 20 Fax +45 66 15 83 20 E-Mail (EARN): DDAHM ø NEUVM1 From: "Van Doren, Frederick L." Subject: 5.0185 Rs: Male/Female Speech Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 8:44:31 edt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 422 (484) I've been considering Lakoff's 1975 book, but I haven't read it in a couple of years. YOu may be right that some aspects of marked "feminine" speech may be gone in this generation. Certainly I don't hear a whole lot of finely nuanced color word. But her remarks about rising intonation being perceived as an uncertainty signal (when in fact it may signal cooperation, a kind of invitation to the listener) seem valid. The status of "feminine speech", if there is such a thing, is a good question. It it, or has it historically been, a social dialect? Is it a register, one of many speech styles that range from babytalk to academic discourse? Or is it a fiction created by the listener? There is some research to suggest we hear what we expect to hear. Lakoff has, by the way, a new book, but I haven't read it yet. From: Dennis Baron Subject: male/female language Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 12:52:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 423 (485) The request for teachable male/female stereotypes makes me a bit uncomfortable. Sarah Higley's suggestion of Lakoff's book is certainly appropriate, though it is clear, as she suggests, that it is way out of date. There is always Deborah Tannen's recent book, _You Just Don't Understand_, which is available in paperback. While Tannen does qualify her contention that (many) men and women use language differently because they have been socialized differently, the reaction to the work too quickly lapses into stereotypes: men do this, women, that; men are competitive, women collaborative, men are ice people, women are people of the sun (to allude to another insidious stereotype). The cognitive psychologist Bill Brewer once told me that after much effort he was able to isolate only two sex-linked language differences: men (ie, undergrads at the University of Illinois) knew more tool names than women and, if I remember aright, knew more about different types (or maybe it was different parts) of airplanes. Clearly something learned and socialized, not something programmed into the human genome. However what seems interesting and pertinent is the article Tannen wrote in last week's _Chronicle of Higher Education_ (June 19, 1991, pp. B1; B3) on different language-linked learning styles of the sexes, and how this affects pedagogy. While it has the ring of stereotype, it also has the ring of truth (mustn't there always be a hint of truth beneath a stereotype?). Perhaps this is what we ought to explore with our students, not how literary characters talk like men or women or fail to do so. By the way, Tannen's claims in that article don't always ring true, either. She says males approach most activities with "adversativeness" or "agonism," "consider, for example, the little boy who shows he likes a little girl by pulling her braids and shoving her." Maybe so. In my experience, however, this behavior occurs in the young of both sexes who are shy or immature or not well socialized in terms of making friends. Thus my then 7 year old daughter last year was being pushed, shoved, even punched by a girl in her class (a girl the other girls didn't like because she was so aggressive, had tantrums, didn't play by rules, indeed exhibited the very immature behaviors my daughter had been exhibiting only months earlier). After a couple of weeks of parent and teacher intervention it transpired that Katie was trying to get Rachel's attention, and was jealous if Rachel talked to anyone else. They wound up best friends for the year. The other girls continued to shun Katie, however, which doesn't say much for the collaborative stereotype always being a positive thing. Tannen also contends that men do not use language to show grief. Specifically, she asserts that it is women, not men, in cultures around the world, who engage in ritual laments, producing spontaneous rhymed couplets to express their pain. This sounds like she is coming close to asserting a universal sex difference. Clearly this claim identifies her as a linguist, not a literary type, else _Lycidas_ and _In Memoriam_ would immediately have sprung to mind. From: Alan David Bulley <458507@UOTTAWA> Subject: Rhetorica ad Herennium Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 17:36:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 190 (486) Thanks to the following people for their help in running down material on Ps. Cicero, _Rhetorica ad Herennium_. Several of those who replied (including those who wrote to me, rather than the list) asked if I would post the responses which I received. The list is not in any kind of orderly format, but the works should still be identifiable. The comments on the works are not mine, but those of the people who brought them to my attention. THANKS TO: OCRAMER%CCNODE@VAXF.Colorado.EDU James Marchand Brian Whittaker inwood@epas.utoronto.ca (B. Inwood) Ton.vanderWouden@let.ruu.nl Robin Smith James Marchand ooi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jim Porter) "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) REFERENCES RECEIVED: 1) George KENNEDY, _Rhetoric in the Roman World_ 2) _L'Annee philologique_ 3) Harry CAPLAN, Loeb Classic volume, 1954. 4) JJ MURPHY, _Bibliography of Medieval Rhetoric_(now 2d ed, Toronto) 5) Martin R. P. McGUIRE, _Introduction to Classical Studies_ _Introduction to Mediaeval Latin Studies_ 6) T.W. BALDWIN, _Shakespeare's small Latine and lesse Greeke_ 7) G.M.A. GRUBE, _The Greek and Roman Critics_ 8) Gilbert HIGHET, _The Classical Tradition_ 9) E. R. CURTIUS, _European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages_ 10) Heinrich LAUSBERG, _Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik_ 11) Frances YATES, _The Art of Memory_ 12) Mary CARRUTHERS, _The Book of Memory_ (these last two items are discussions of the memory-technique outlined in the Rhetorica ad Herennium. Each of these contains further bibliography) 13) _Rhetorique a Herennius_, texte etabli et traduit par Guy ACHARD. Collection des Universites de France (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1989). (It contains a new edition, a French translation, introduction and notes. It also contains a bibliography. There is also a good deal of work done by Gualtiero CALBOLI.) 14) Richard ENOS' essay on the classical period in _The Present State Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric_ Winnifred Bryan Horner, ed. (Missouri, 1983) [for a bibliography of primary and secondary sources] 15) James J. MURPHY, _Rhetoric in the Middle Ages_ (California, 1974); and his essay on RaH in his collection, _A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric_ (Hermagoras, 1983) 16) Ray NADEAU's August 1949 translation and commentary on Book 1 in SPEECH MONOGRAPHS Alan Bulley Saint Paul University, Ottawa Bitnet: 458507@UOTTAWA From: gary forsythe Subject: law and order Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 23:18:35 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 424 (487) Timothy Reuter asks whether the idea of law and order from a strong ruler has a classical precedent. Indeed it does. As he surmises, it can be found in the panegyric literature of the Roman empire. Perhaps the most famous such panegyric is that of Aelius Aristeides, delivered in praise of the Roman imperial rule. An edition of this speech with ample commentary was done years ago by James H. Oliver and was published as part of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Gary Forsythe From: Don Fowler Subject: RE: 5.0186 Rs: Law and Order (2/49) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 9:40 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 425 (488) There is a slightly deviant version of the law and order topos earlier than Aelius Aristides in the pseudo-Vergilian Elegiae in Maecenatem. It is a common topos that lovers are immune to danger as they wander at night: the author of the Elegiae uses this topos when arguing that although Maecenas led a life of ease and luxury, he was also a great success when in charge of the city of Rome as custos urbis (the historical background to all this is difficult, and we don't know when or by whom the Elegiae were written: but certainly not by Vergil!): livide, quid tandem tunicae nocuere solutae aut tibi ventosi quid nocuere sinus? num minus Urbis erat custos et Caesaris obses, num tibi non tutas fecit in Urbe vias? nocte sub obscura quis te spoliavit amantem, quis tetigit ferro durior ipse latus? That is, when Maecenas was in charge, lovers could go about their business without being mugged (lines 25-30). But can I ask about that famous phrase Laura Norder so beloved by conservative politicians? What is its history? Classicists will think of the injunction to the Roman in Aeneid 6. 852 pacique imponere morem, to impose a settled pattern upon peace. In a celebrated note on this the German scholar Norden showed that morem corresponded to kosmos and taxis in the Greek panegyric tradition, but when exactly do we first find law and order as a set phrase? Don Fowler From: JPARMER@BGSUOPIE Subject: RE: 5.0179 Qs: Law&Order Topos Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 10:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 426 (489) "To T. Reuter, Law&Order Topos, ancient versions: Juvenal 3.306-314: Umbricius laments the middle class's subjection to violence in the streets of Rome, up to and including murder. Duff's remark, in his commentary ed. M. Coffey (Cambridge, 1970), that the Pomptine marsh and the Gallinarian forest were, because sparsely populated, favorite hang- outs of *grassatores*, probably needs to be checked. F. Cairns, *Generic Compositi* 38-40 classifies Juvenal 3 as a *syntaktikon*, or poem in praise (blame) of one's home town. Dio Chrysostom 7 (I haven't checked this number) speaks at length of the migration from Rome to the country in the early 2nd century, and may have materials on the topos of law and order. You can be sure that the Romans were, as a matter of daily life, up to date on the performance of the *custodes reorum*, who were Rome's Imperial jail- ers and thus responsible for defendants who, if they escaped, often left Rome for the countryside; and on the performance of the *cohortes urbanae* under the *praefectus urbi(s)*--and office restored by Augustus to stand in for the Emperor when he was out of Rome. According to A. Berger, *Encyclo- pedic Dictionary of Roman Law*, 644, Diocletian gave the praef. urb. great power by abolishing the *quaestiones perpetuae*, or permanent criminal courts. If you search Berger, you may find more than you ever wanted on your topos. I'd be interested to hear how your work proceeds. Jess Parmer JPARMER@BGSUOPIE From: Gregory Bloomquist Subject: TACS Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 16:58:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 427 (490) Does anyone have info. on a programme of text analysis from TACS? Greetings. L. Gregory Bloomquist Saint Paul University BITNET: GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA Voice: (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393 FAX: (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005 From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: HELP! Advice on Computers in Rome Date: Wednesday, 26 June 1991 1048-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 428 (491) I have agreed to attempt to display various ways in which computers are useful for (teaching and) research at the forthcoming International Society of Biblical Literature meetings in Rome, from 14-17 July. I will bring along my well traveled IBYCUS Scholarly Computer, but would also like to have on hand both an IBM/DOS type machine and an Apple Mac. The ideal configurations would include a CD-ROM reader and printer, but I can live with less than the ideal. Attempts thus far to locate borrowable machines in the Rome area have been unproductive. I am trying to work through both the IBM and the Apple representatives for my University, but am not optimistic that anything will happen there. The conference is at the Pontifical Gregorian University, but they do not seem to have such equipment available. Thus this plea for advice. Are any HUMANISTs aware of other options I could pursue at this late date? People or institutions in the Rome area who might be willing to cooperate. Any and all assistance is welcome! Indeed, a backup plan would be to do a video tape of the things I want to show, but it occurs to me that the VCR systems in Rome are probably different from mine. True? Any way to work around that (e.g. from my 8mm Sony Camera Recorder into a local VCR)? Appreciatively, Bob Kraft, UPenn.edu From: Lamar Hill Subject: PC, canons, etc. Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 14:39:22 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 429 (492) This is a general enquiry regarding the present debate regarding privileged speech/political correctness/ canonicism/non-canonicism/the meaning of a liberal education, and so forth. In the Fall I shall be conducting a seminar for honors students in the humanities in which they will be encouraged to develop critiques of their educations in the larger context of the present debate in the academy. As I look through the literature I am finding that the subject is so new (in its present form) that it is difficult to find in databases, bibliographies, and other finding aids. Several colleagues tell me that they don't know where to look either. Thus, I have an idea. Would any of you who are interested send me your thoughts on the subject and citations of books and/or articles. I, in turn, will assemble them over the next several months and e-mail the results to any who would be interested. Thanks for your help. Lamar Hill Department of History lmhill@uci.bitnet UC,Irvine From: Lamar Hill Subject: STC databases? Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 14:41:47 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 430 (493) Does there exist a database containing the Pollard and Redgrave and/or Wing Short Title Catalogues (i.e English printed books from c.1485 until 1700)? It would be wonderful to access these catalgues by computer. I would also like to know whether there is any English language textual database that can be searched as can ARTFL in French? I am especially interested in accessing STC titles and texts in this way. Cheers, Lamar Hill Department of History lmhill@uci.bitnet UCIrvine Irvine, CA 92717 From: Dr. Gerd Will©e 0228 - 73 56 20 UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1 Subject: Plural forms of Latin/Greek Date: 26 June 91, 10:44:30 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 431 (494) I really am NOT a purist, but I do have problems with the use of plural forms of Latin or Greek word forms as singular forms (e.g. the visa, the data and the like). Maybe, this is an American speciality, but when I read in HUMANIST 'a prolegomena' instead of 'prolegomenon', I think that this is simply incorrect, as people belonging to the HUMANIST community should know at least a tiny bit about morphology of technical terms being taken from the so-called classical languages - if not: avoid such terms, there are lots of possibilities to replace them (and often enough they are better because better to be understood). I'm writing these remarks after having read today's HUMANIST mailing 5.0184. Yours Gerd Willee University of Bonn, Germany UPK000 @ DBNRHRZ1.bitnet From: (James Marchand) Subject: Wittgenstein Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 21:01:09 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 432 (495) I seem not to be able to get this piece of information sent. I notice from a previous posting that I forgot to give the addresses of the Wittgenstein projects, though you scarcely need them now: Montreal McGill (Univ)/Kierkegaard-Wittgenstein Project Alastair McKinnon Philosophy Department McGill University 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal PQ Canada H3A 2T7 tel. (514) 398-6060 Bergen (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities and Norway's Four Universities)/Norwegian Wittgenstein Project Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Harald Haarfagres gt. 31 Postboks 53 - Universitetet N-5027 Bergen Norway tel. (05) 21-29-54; (05) 21-29-55; (05) 21-29-56 fax (05) 322656 e-mail: navfkh@nobergen.bitnet Jim Marchand From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: lipogrammatic literature Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 12:52:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 433 (496) The recent discussions on letter frequency, linotypes, and qwerty brought to mind works never using the letter "e". Such a work, as I found out in a TLS article some time back about some (quirky?) French writers, is referred to as lipogrammatic. I have forgotten both the name of the novel and of the author who managed to get by without "e". Can anyone give me any information? This shows you what oddities surface in the summer doldrums.Thanks for any help. Dirk Held, Connecticut College. From: TFGREEN@SUVM Subject: "We have met the enemy.." Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 12:03:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 434 (497) I have a clear recollection (no doubt eroneous, does that mean I don't remember?) that "We have met the enemy and he is us" is a line that was used by Adlai Stevenson in his second Presidential campaign -- which would place it in the fifties. TGreen From: DAVID BARRY Subject: RE Email for job searches (vol 5 no 0167 Dana Cartwright Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 13:37 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 435 (498) It is useful to point out that confidentiality of email is limited in the same way that the phone is (and you get fax wrong numbers too), however I would point out that the sheer volume of mail is liable to protect against the nosiness of the systems programmer! David Barry, Birkbeck College. From: James O'Donnell Subject: e-boom? Date: 25 Jun 91 23:21:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 436 (499) I have the purely subjective impression that the accession of new names to e-world is taking a marked upward turn. Old friends keep turning up at a faster rate than in the past couple of years: as though this was the year we got to the end of the year and a *lot* of people thought, well, about time I got an e-mail account. Are there hard figures for academic e-mail usage, BITNET or INTERNET or whatever? Do Ellen and Allen keep a chart of accessions to HUMANIST? Is this the millennium already? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn From: Elaine M Brennan Subject: Jim O'Donnell's Query Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 09:01:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 437 (500) I checked the Humanist count this morning: it stood at 1,058 -- with 28 of those being redistribution sites, accounting for something more than 28 readers among them. (At Brown the list is generally subscribed to by somewhere between 15 and 35 people, for example). Elaine From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0187 Computing: CAI Expenses Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 14:23:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 195 (501) With respect to the argument that no one cares when the sciences move to CAI, but complain about the price for humanities: If the humanities followed the model that the sciences did in their use of instructional computing, the cases would be comparable. In fact what happened in the sciences was that computing became indispensable to research and then was "downsized," first to graduate student instruction, then to undergraduate instruction. Nothing like that has happened in the humanities. While word processing has become universal, humanities research computing remains a fairly small and arcane specialty, quite far removed from the concerns of most humanists, or at least of most students of literature. Since it has never become a major factor in humanists' intellectual life, there is no pressing reason to introduce it to students. Therefore,the question of CAI becomes one of sheer practicality, not necessity. Does it help the student to learn better, however you want to define better? In terms of language instruction, there are fairly precise guidelines as to what constitutes proficiency. I would like to see some comparative studies. Until we have them, it is very difficult to convince the deans to invest the money. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: Sharri Heath Subject: Minority Admissions Counselor Position Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 09:37 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 438 (502) * * * ------------------------------------------------------ * * * Position Announcement MINORITY ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR ------------------------------------ Central Washington University is seeking an energetic and capable person who will be responsible for assisting the Director of Admissions in the implementation of a comprehensive Minority Recruitment Plan, as well as presenting the University's programs, philosophies, and procedures to all prospective students, both on campus and throughout the state. Bachelor's degree and excellent communication skills are required, experience in admissions or financial aid and dealing with culturally diverse and special populations are preferred, on-line computer experience helpful. Submit: 1) Letter of application; 2) Current resume'; 3) List of three references (names, addresses and phone #'s); To: Chairperson Search Committee/Minority Admissions Counselor Office of Admissions and Records Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 98926 From: Sharri Heath Subject: Japanese Language Faculty Openings Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 09:38 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 439 (503) Position Announcement CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ----------------------------------------- The Department of Foreign Languages encourages applications for two positions of Assistant Professor in the Japanese language. To qualify you must have a Ph.D or ABD in Japanese or related area with native or near-native proficiency. Teaching experience is preferred. The university has a strong commitment to increasing the diversity of both its faculty and its student body. Central Washington University operates under an approved Affirmative Action Program and is especially interested in receiving applications from female and minority candidates. Applications must be received by December 2, 1991. To apply, send a letter of appplication, vita, transcripts and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. Eva-Marie Carne, Chair Department of Foreign Languages Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 98926 (509) 963-1218 From: Sharri Heath Subject: Russian/Spanish Language Faculty Openings Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 09:40 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 440 (504) CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Department of Foreign Languages ----------------------------------- The Department of Foreign Languages encourages applications for the position of Assistant Professor in the Russian and Spanish languages. To qualify you must have a Ph.D or ABD in Russian or related area, and an M.A. in Spanish. Teaching experience is preferred. The university has a strong commitment to increasing the diversity of both its faculty and its student body. Central Washington University operates under an approved Affirmative Action Program and is especially interested in receiving applications from female and minority candidates. Applications must be received by December 2, 1991. To apply, send a letter of appplication, vita, transcripts and three letters of recommendation to: Dr. Eva-Marie Carne, Chair Department of Foreign Languages Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 98926 (509) 963-1218 From: gerson@epas.utoronto.ca (Lloyd Gerson) Subject: Re: 5.0192 Qs: Rome Computers Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 13:13:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 441 (505) Regarding computers in Rome, it is a long shot but you might try my former colleague Leonard Boyle, O.P. Prefect of the Vatican Library who brought computers to the library several years ago. He might just be able to help you. Lloyd Gerson, U. of Toronto From: Fritz Levy Subject: Re: E-STC? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 9:44:17 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 442 (506) Concerning Lamar Hill's request about the STC: The eighteenth century STC (ESTC) is on-line (available through RLIN, and from UC Riverside). The same people have negotiated with the Bibliographical Society to put "Pollard and Redgrave" on-line, and BibSoc (as I recollect) agreed. But I've not heard that the project has come anywhere near fruition. It would be a big help. I know less about Wing. However, that project (at Yale) may actually be on a computer, so that there's greater hope. You'd have to write them directly to get more details. Let us know if you find machine-readable versions! Fritz Levy From: "Bill Ball" Subject: re: network traffic; also unicode; idiot politicians ...... Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 21:44:17 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 443 (507) Y'all might want to take a look at the current (July 1991) issue of _BYTE_ (a computer magazine). It has a special section on wide area networks which includes an article on NREN (National Research and Education Network). This article has a figure which show the dramatic increase in traffic on the Internet (Bitnet is a member). For example, the number of packets of data transmitted over the net went from 2.84 billion in March 1990 to 7.03 billion in March 1991 ! --clearly e-mail among other things is catching on. The NREN article also includes an embarrassingly incoherent piece by Senator Al Gore (primary legislative sponsor of NREN). Apparently America's creative future is represented by "America's Funniest Home Videos", and this has something to do with the need to turn the network over to commercial interests. This issue of _BYTE_ also contains an article on Unicode vs. ISO 10646. Bill Ball Dept. Pol Sci U. Missouri-Columbia c476721@UMCVMB From: O MH KATA MHXANHN Subject: lipogrammatica Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 23:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 444 (508) Georges Perec's _La Disparition_ is the lipogrammatic novel which escaped Dirk Held's memory; a similar feat (?) was accomplished by Ernest Wright in _Gadsby_ (subtitled: A Story of over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter E). For reasons which I need not go into here, I have a few tidbits of lipogram- matica gleaned from a few common sources which some may find interesting: -Tryphonius (5th BCE) supposedly composed an epic poem in 24 books in which each book omitted one of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet. -Gottlob Burmann, a German poet of the late 18th century, wrote 130 poems (approximately 20,000 words) wholly omitting the letter 'r'; moreover, during the last 17 years of his life he omitted from his daily conversation words which contained the letter 'r.' W. McCarthy Wash., D.C. From: Dusko Vitas 38-11-639-544 Subject: Re: 5.0193 Lipogrammatic Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 15:03 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 445 (509) Dirk Held asked for information about lipogrammatic. Relevant sources are R. Queneau - Battons, chifres et letters, coll. Idees, nrf, Gallimard R. Queneau (ed.) - La Literature potentielle, (ibid) Dusko Vitas From: (James Marchand) Subject: lipograms Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 10:49:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 446 (510) The book which is e-less is by Ernest Vincent White, Gadsby, A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter E (Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Company, 1939); it has 267 pages. Since I am a medievalist, my favorite lipogrammatic tour de force is Peter Riga's Recapitulationes, a series of poems, each without a letter of the alphabet. The only really easy one was "sine K", since many grammarians thought the Latin alphabet to lack that letter, whence the practice of not naming a quire "K" (answer to a previous question). The Middle Ages are full of these and other "Verskuensteleien", as P. Meyer used to call them, including the tmesis of the first line of the Chanson de Roland and the frequently unnoticed versus rapportati. Jim Marchand From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: PC Discussions Date: Thursday, 27 June 1991 0125-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 447 (511) One place to stalk recent discussions of "PC" and related issues would be commencement addresses by various personages this past graduation. It was a topic here at Penn (Sheldon Hackney, building on the marvelous Doonesbury strip depicting a University president reduced to silence by attempting to conform to PC demands/expectations), and also at Yale, I'm told, and doubtless in numerous other such situations. Now, exactly how to get at those speeches may be quite another problem -- campus newspapers often have ceased functioning by graduation time, etc. Bob Kraft, UPenn.edu From: koontz@alpha (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 5.0194 ... E-Mail; ... Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 08:54:09 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 448 (512) David Barry comments: [deleted quotation] Note necessarily. There are available now applications that search a text stream and extract textual units that contain certain words or collocations of words. They are used to search documentation and on-line news feeds, and could easily be used to search email feeds, too, I think. One that I'm thinking of, called TOPIC, published by Verity, allows users to collect libraries of such search patterns (called `topics') and assemble them into a personal interest profile. While definitely not marketed as a tool for spying, TOPIC could be applied to the task quite nicely. I wish to emphasize that TOPIC is simply the example I recall, and is not sold as spying tool. It is one of a number of competing products (not so far removed in concept from the humble Unix utility grep), all quite innocently targeted at reducing large bodies of text to the parts that interest particular persons. In the long run I am sure that it will be possible to do the same sort of thing to audio transmissions, too. Big brother is quite possible, and fully automated! From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: research to instruction Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 23:28:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 449 (513) Charles Faulhaber suggests, in his note about imitation of the model for instructional computing in the sciences, that one long-range approach for computing humanists begins with their research. Interesting, and once said fairly obvious. I suggest that if computer-assisted research in the humanities is to trickle down into undergraduate instruction, two things need to happen: (1) researchers need to undertake long-range projects dealing with major works of art, literature, and music; and (2) they be particularly self-observant about what is happening to their research as a result of applying the computer to it. Simply put, curious students and doubting deans need to see that computers deepen our understanding of and appreciation for our most important cultural artifacts, and those of us doing the research need to have some idea about what is happening to our perceptual equipment as a result. Evangelism is ok, a necessary lubricant, but the motive power comes from cogent results in the mainstream of the humanities. Some of these results will come because some of us are quite stubborn, but we'd get considerably further with less waste of talent if there were more of us humanists in humanities computing who actually had the opportunity to do what we were trained to do and in fact live for. So much good work to be done, so few to do it, so little time. One can imagine worse situations, or witness them, however. Willard McCarty From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0195 Humanities Computing (1/26) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 08:29:05 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 450 (514) I completely agree with Charles Faulhaber (and others) about the value of humanities computing. I am fond of arguing that the reason why so few humanists use computers (for other than word processing) is because computers just aren't sophisticated enough yet. The problems of scientists, by comparison, are relatively straightforward. Humanists study words, which are far slippier than numbers, and when we want to supplement the words we most frequently turn to pictures - an even slippier medium. Until computers can aid us in the _evaluation_ of these objects, their utility will be severely restricted. We're simply too advanced for computers: only the human brain is up to the task. (OK, it's inflammatory, but it's still fun to see the looks I get) ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Humanist Distribution Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 21:57:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 201 (515) Before Humanists start worrying over the weekend that they are missing important Humanist mailings, I'd like to warn you that there will probably be at least a brief hiatus during the next several days. Allen's on vacation, and I am about to head out of town, not for any well-deserved rest, but for immense amounts of work at the behest of slave-driving conference organizers (you know who you are ...). Elaine From: "Connie Gould" Subject: Research Libraries Group Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 15:04:53 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 202 (516) This is a condensed version of a recent Research Libraries Group press release that may be of interest to Humanists. The complete release and a background paper on "RLG92" are available via U.S. mail from Jennifer Hartzell, 415-691-2207 or bl.jlh@rlg.bitnet. [--ahr] RLG ANNOUNCES NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; CREATES COMMISSION TO EXPLORE LIBRARY PROCESSING IN THE 1990S RLIN to Remain Fully Supported; Negotiations with OCLC Terminated June 24, 1991 -- Following the June meeting of the Research Libraries Group's Board of Governors, RLG president James Michalko announced a series of actions that inaugurate the corporation's transition into "RLG92." Restructuring RLG Effective September 1, 1991, RLG will have only two categories of membership -- "general" and "special" -- open to not-for-profit institutions with an educational, cultural, or scientific mission. All current and prospective members are eligible for general membership; smaller institutions can opt for special membership. All members will have unrestricted access to the corporation's projects and cooperative activities as their needs and interests dictate. This summer, all members will elect a new, 15-member Board of Directors to take office on September 1. RLG's standing program committees will be disbanded on August 31, to give way to electronic conferencing and small task forces addressing specific projects. The corporation's business and collaborative activities will be conducted through these means as well as quarterly board meetings, an annual membership meeting, and central staff operations. The board also set annual membership dues for RLG92, effective September 1, 1992, at $25,000 for general members and $3,000 for special members. With a balanced budget for the transitional year beginning on September 1, 1991, RLG management expects to accomplish other changes needed in fee and cost structure, plus new revenue sources, by the beginning of the following fiscal year. New commission formed In conjunction with this initial restructuring, Michalko has created a special commission to consider how RLIN can be improved to meet the current and future technical processing needs of RLG member libraries. "Part of transforming RLG into RLG92 requires restructuring the way in which RLIN provides processing suppport," Michalko said. "Universities and other research institutions have invested in local information management systems and communication networks. RLG will develop RLIN to acknowledge and leverage these significant institutional investments." The commission will report to Michalko at the end of September. RLG program officer Linda West chairs the group, whose members include: Emily G. Fayen, assistant director of libraries - systems, University of Pennsylvania; Tia Gozzi, director of technical services, Stanford University Libraries; Gerald R. Lowell, associate university librarian for technical services, Yale University; Carol Mandel, director, technical services group, Columbia University Libraries; Lucia Rather, former director for cataloging, Library of Congress; and Jennifer A. Younger, assistant director for technical services, Ohio State University Libraries. Working with the commission will be: Kathleen Bales, RLG software development manager, Ed Glazier, RLG bibliographic quality assurance officer, and Lennie Stovel, RLG intersystems applications manager. Continued support for current RLIN uses As he made his other announcements, Michalko assured present RLIN users that RLG will continue to maintain the system as a full, current resource for processing, shared resources, preservation, and other cooperative activities. "In mapping out RLG's future course, we looked hard at the real nature of RLIN features and the needs they meet," Michalko said. "Two facts are quite clear: a resource like RLIN is essential to the collaborative activities of RLG members, and RLIN can provide needed support for bibliographic processing. RLIN's present functionality will be modified only as superior alternatives are found." RLG Board rejects OCLC proposals for linking systems and transfer of support For many months, RLG and OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) have been discussing an intersystems link between the OCLC and RLIN databases. RLG's initial proposal was to implement a fully functioning link in about a year. The transparent connection RLG proposed would have enabled users to refer searches done in their customary system environment to a file in the other system, and to pay for this usage as part of normal, single-system invoicing. RLG's Board of Governors voted unanimously at their June meeting that the final features, administration, and three-year development time table for the link offered by OCLC would not serve the users of either system as desired and would not be pursued further. Other negotiations to transfer RLG members' current cataloging activity from RLIN to OCLC also fell short of early expectations, and OCLC's offering was unanimously rejected. "OCLC's declared inability to accommodate the business of a group of RLIN-using libraries in less than 'two to three years' -- together with their unwillingness to commit to the kind of intersystems link we needed to take this step -- left us with nothing further to discuss," said Donald W. Koepp, university librarian of Princeton and a member of the negotiating team representing RLG's largest RLIN-using members. To: EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET From: Diane Kovacs Subject: List Rebirth: ARACHNET: Confederation of E-Conferences and E-Journals Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 04:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 203 (517) ARACHNET was originally established by Willard McCarty as a discussion list for listowners of Humanities and Social Sciences related e-mail based conferences. Michael Strangelove and Diane Kovacs have re-formed ARACHNET on the LISTSERV@UOTTAWA with an expanded focus: ************** ARACHNET@UOTTAWA ARACHNET@acadvm1.uottawa.CA --------------- A Loose Association of Electronic Discussion Groups and Electronic Journals of Interest to Scholars. There are more than 600 discussion groups, newsletters, digests and electronic journals devoted to topics of scholarly interest. As more scholars come on-line, the size of these groups, the diversity of material they have to offer, and their total number are all bound to increase. 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(100-500 words). *List of files/Resources available from your List's Fileserver or FTP site: From: SHELLRIC@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU Subject: Name of Computer Program Date: Friday, 28 June 1991 0118-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 451 (518) The program acts as a kind of mediator for disputants and negotiators by guiding them through some input steps, permitting communication through a network, and finally suggesting agreements that may be better for all parties. I am looking for a name from mythology (east or west) but will entertain any ideas that suggest the value of cooperation. Some ideas so far: Solomon, Mesites, Peraklete. Suggestions? Thanks for your help! Rich Shell From: DAN MANDELL (219)284-4610 Subject: Good Bibliographic Software Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 08:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 452 (519) Our faculty have started using various bibliographic citation software, without having the advantage of reviews from those with experience with such things. I would be interested in collecting recommendations and/or cautions regarding this type of software. The Word Processor most commonly found is Word Perfect running under Dos, but we also have a number of Mac Microsoft Word/Word Perfect users. Dan Mandell Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, In mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0192 Qs: TACS; Rome Computers; Canons; E-STC? (4/97) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 12:23:40 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 453 (520) For Lamar Hill: Check with Henry Snyder at Irvine, who has been leading the 18th-c. STC for some time and probably knows all there is to know about similar data base efforts. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: A10PRR1@NIU.BITNET Subject: Electronic STC Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 09:22 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 454 (521) Pantzer's revision of the Pollard and Redgrave STC is not currently available on-line. I don't know if there are plans to make it available in this form; that would be a substantial project. Volume 3 (just out) should solve some of the searching problems since it contains a printer/publisher index and a chronological index. Philip Rider Northern Illinois University From: Gustav Bayerle Subject: RE: 5.0192 Qs: TACS; Rome Computers; Canons; Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 13:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 455 (522) Tact version 1.2 is a text-retrieval program available on a shareware basis. For details contact John Bradley, University of Toronto, Computing Services, Toront o, Ont Canada M5S 1A1, BITNET:BRADLEY@UTORVM. It delivers. Virtually, Gustav Bayerle From: Don Fowler Subject: RE: 5.0193 Notes: Plurals; E-Witt; Lipogrammatic; Pogo (4/73) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 9:41 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 456 (523) I can't help with the French lipogrammatist, but one of the early heroes of the genre deserves a mention, L. Septimius Nestor (2/3 C AD), who rewrote the Iliad so that book one contained no alpha, book two no beta, and so on. Acc. to the Souda, Tryphiodorus did the same for the Odyssey. We have no fragments, but a few years ago a papyrus fragment of a satyr play turned up which was observed to entirely avoid the letter sigma. Eleanor Bron, I think it was, used to do a sketch about the Short Words Club (a parallel institution to the Sesquipedalian Society) who just made use of words with one bit in them. What if we had a week on the net when we all did the same? Don Fowler. From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: Re: 5.0193 Notes: Plurals; E-Witt; Lipogrammatic; Pogo (4/73) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 13:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 457 (524) On lipogramms: It is a translation of ``La dispartition'': Anton Voyls Fortgang, 2001, Frankfurt am Main, 1986. (Translator was Eugen Heml'e) J"org K. From: Michael Ossar Subject: lipograms Date: Sun, 30 Jun 91 14:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 458 (525) The following information is from Warren Motte of the University of Colorado: Michael- Thanks for the lipogram stuff. The seminal study is Georges Perec's "Histoire du lipogramme," translated as "History of the Lipogram" in my Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 97-108. Would you pass that information along to the lipoaficionados? From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Lipograms Date: 29 Jun 91 11:19:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 459 (526) Quoting from O.B. Hardison's book _Disappearing Through the Skylight_: "The lipogram--a composition that elects to omit one or more letters-- is another literary game. A famous ancient example cited by Georges Perec in his "History of the lipogram" is the translation of the _Iliad_ by Nestor of Laranda with "A" omitted from Book I, "B" from Book II, "C" from Book III, and so on. Perec cites English lipograms that banish all vowels but one: Iding I sit in this mild twilight dim Whilst birds, in wild swift vigils, circling skim. and Lucullus snuffs up musk, Mundungus shuns." (p. 198) According to Hardison, two novels that never use the letter "e" are: Ernest V. Wright's _Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter E_ (1939) and Georges Perec's _La Disparition_ (The Disappearance, 1969, reissued 1981). Hardison has several paragraphs describing some of the effects of leaving out the letter "e" in La Disparition. From: Richard Ristow Subject: Re: More prima facie objections to ejournals Date: Mon, 01 Jul 91 18:02:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 207 (527) In Humanist 5.0178, Stevan Harnad wrote on Thu, 20 Jun 91 19:58:23 EDT, ( ... ) [deleted quotation] OUCH! I agree that this is a situational rather than a *prima facie* objection, but it is NOT a trivial one. Is Harnad falling into the old trap of equating "there are no conceptual problems" with "trivial"? Perhaps some librarians would like to post about how well their collections would be preserved if preservation required inserting each book, once every ten years, into a machine costing a few thousand dollars and taking 5 to 10 minutes to 'preserve' each book. Now, what if each such operation required also supplying enough paper for a new copy of the book; and the 'copy' came out bound, but with the cover and spine of the book blank? What if the machine itself had to be replaced every ten years by a new model; deciding *WHICH* new model took a review by technical specialists; and the old model had to be retained for ten more years, because preservation required inserting each book into the model machine in which it had last been 'preserved', but the 'copy' came out of the new model? Finally (here's the real trap), what if putting off 'preserving' a book caused no harm except a chance of, say, 0.5% per month that all pages in the book would become completely blank? A ten-year lifetime is considered long for machine-readable media; a 100-year life is considered minimal for archival preservation. It can can become impossible to find a machine that will read an old medium (has anybody seen a 7-track half-inch magnetic tape drive recently?). We should not give up on e-journals because archiving is a problem, but if we wave off archiving with words like 'trivial', scholars in fifty years will be cursing the day our networks went on line. I'm open to correction, but I suggest that the best present machine- readable archive is a clean printout on acid-free paper stored using standard preservation techniques. Preservation of paper is far better understood than preservation of the machine-readable media will be for quite a while yet; and since print will continue to be used for human- readable information, scanners that can read it are not likely to become obsolete soon. Tagged text is a better archival medium than is formatted text, because structure is preserved; and all text, including tags, must be restricted to an agreed-upon displayable archival character set. (By the way, the machine-internal representation of this set -- ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, ISO10646, or whatever -- does NOT need to be agreed upon or fixed.) Details of the printed representation must be established thoughtfully; for example, if it is desired to distinguish between an umlaut and a diaresis on the letter 'o', both must be represented by entity references. Preservation is easy to do badly, because the penalty for bad work comes long after the crucial omission or mistake. As the primary representation of more text, and more important text, becomes computer-based, archiving becomes correspondingly more important. Habits based on print (where text is embodied in physical objects) will not be sufficient. Scorning the necessary careful work as 'trivial' or otherwise guarantees a bad job. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Ristow AP430001@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Bitnet: AP430001@BROWNVM From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CTI Introductory Seminar, Oxford Date: Friday 5th July. Payment will be accepted on the day, X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 208 (528) Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies ****************************************************************************** CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN ******************************* INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR ******************************* Wednesday 10 July 1991, 10.30am to 4.00pm The CTI Centre is holding an introductory seminar to enable lecturers in higher education institutions to learn about our work. In the morning there will be a series of talks and discussion sessions about various aspects of the use of computers in higher education teaching: practical, pedagogic, political, institutional, etc. In the afternoon we will demonstrate some of the hardware, software, and courseware available for higher education teaching. There will be opportunity for participants to try out some of the packages for themselves. No previous knowledge of computing will be assumed. PROGRAMME 10.30am Coffee and Registration 11.00am Introduction to the CTI Programme Susan Hockey, Director 11.30am Computers in the teaching of textual subjects: an overview of the resources and major issues Marilyn Deegan, Research Officer 12.00 Some practical and institutional blockages Christine Mullings, Research Officer 12.45pm Lunch 2.00pm Practical demonstrations and opportunity for hands-on experience 3.30pm to 4.00pm Wind-up discussion and tea The cost of the open day will be 30 pounds, which includes coffee, lunch, and tea. Participants may be able to obtain funding from their staff development officer. Cheques should be made payable to Oxford University Computing Service. If accommodation is required for the Tuesday or Wednesday evening please contact us. From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CTI Introductory Seminar, Oxford Date: Friday 5th July. Payment will be accepted on the day, X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 208 (529) Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies ****************************************************************************** CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN ******************************* INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR ******************************* Wednesday 10 July 1991, 10.30am to 4.00pm The CTI Centre is holding an introductory seminar to enable lecturers in higher education institutions to learn about our work. In the morning there will be a series of talks and discussion sessions about various aspects of the use of computers in higher education teaching: practical, pedagogic, political, institutional, etc. In the afternoon we will demonstrate some of the hardware, software, and courseware available for higher education teaching. There will be opportunity for participants to try out some of the packages for themselves. No previous knowledge of computing will be assumed. PROGRAMME 10.30am Coffee and Registration 11.00am Introduction to the CTI Programme Susan Hockey, Director 11.30am Computers in the teaching of textual subjects: an overview of the resources and major issues Marilyn Deegan, Research Officer 12.00 Some practical and institutional blockages Christine Mullings, Research Officer 12.45pm Lunch 2.00pm Practical demonstrations and opportunity for hands-on experience 3.30pm to 4.00pm Wind-up discussion and tea The cost of the open day will be 30 pounds, which includes coffee, lunch, and tea. Participants may be able to obtain funding from their staff development officer. Cheques should be made payable to Oxford University Computing Service. If accommodation is required for the Tuesday or Wednesday evening please contact us. From: "S.A.Davnall" Subject: Bibliographic Software for PCs Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 15:30:56 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 460 (530) Bibliographic Software for PCs In 1990, the University of Manchester, England, set up a bibliographic software working party to find out what was on the market, examine the most promising packages, and recommend one for University use. I have hesitated to send our conclusions to Humanist, partly because they were interim, partly because we did not have time for detailed evaluations, but mainly because I felt that the comments, being directed at all the Faculties of an English University, would be of limited interest to a group with a wider geographical extent and a narrower discipline range. (In addition, Manchester is a PC rather than a MAC based computing community.) I still hesitate, but after the intermittent queries which have appeared over the past few months, I feel I ought to contribute something. So here follows a summary of the most relevant points from our brief interim report and a subsequent comments paper. After identifying about 20 products (including AskSam and Nota Bene but not Citation, which we didn't hear about, or EndNote, which did not then have a PC version), we decided on a short list of the following: ideaList (British product, Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EL, UK, price 225 pounds plus VAT, 20% academic discount) Library Master (Canadian product, Balboa Software, 61 Lorraine Drive, Willowdale, Ontario M2N 2E3, Canada, price $US200, student discounts etc available) Papyrus (USA product, Research Software Design, 2718 Kelly St, Suite 181, Portland, OR 97201, USA, price $99) Pro-Cite (USA product, British Agent PBS Europe, Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK, British price 335pounds plus VAT plus bibliolinks (approx 135 pounds +VAT each) academic discounts neg.) Subsequently, we added: Reference Manager (USA product, British Agent Silver Platter Information Ltd, 10 Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick, London W4 4PH, UK, British price (full product) 440 pounds plus VAT, bulk purchase discounts available) Other products missed the shortlist for a variety of reasons: lack of facilities, lack of UK based support, cost, ... We recommended that _Papyrus_ should be adopted as the University's initial response to its bibliographic software requirement, as it represented very good value for money. Although it has a major disadvantage in that its user interface is old-fashioned and line-mode, lacking pull-down menus or online help, it satisfactorily met our other requirements: it has flexible and versatile bulk-import and bibliography-formatting facilities, acceptable searching and sorting capabilities, and a good interface to word-processors, which includes generation of bibliographies from citations in a text, and an interface allowing references to be viewed from the database while word- processing. We felt that the price, together with the range of facilities offered, meant that the University could benefit from negotiating a site licence deal now for this, even if a further licence were required later for an additional package. (A site-licence arrangement is in process of being set up) We see Papyrus as an acceptable package for personal bibliographic use by most students and staff, especially those in the science, medical and social science faculties. However, it does have limitations that make it unsuitable for all uses. The limitation of particular concern to humanities users is that Papyrus can only handle six reference types (books, book chapters, journal articles, theses, patents and maps), all with pre-defined contents. It would be difficult, therefore, to store references to manuscript collections or some types of editions of texts. For users with these requirements, Library Master, which was designed with the humanities user in mind and can handle up to 50 user-defined reference types, would be much more satisfactory. It can also be used for note taking, which makes it attractive as a more general research tool. The bulk-import utility is somewhat inflexible in that it expects the data to conform to a one-field- per-line format, so some cleaning up of the references may be necessary either before or after importing (Library Master's macro facility can be employed to make this relatively easy). Papyrus, by contrast, can cope with almost any format which is not actually ambiguous. In addition, when we explored it the import utility proved not to be particularly robust, although a new release has now fixed the bugs which we found. Bibliography creation facilities were fairly versatile. However, Library Master cannot yet generate bibliographies from citations in a text, although this feature is promised, as is the ability to handle non-roman character sets. With these two features added, Library Master would be very attractive indeed for Humanities users. The package has plenty of on-line help and a screen based user interface, although this has some idiosyncracies. One evaluator found these charming, one loathed them, and I scarcely noticed them! The other main limitation of Papyrus has already been mentioned: the old- fashioned line-mode user interface, which makes manual data entry and updating rather tedious, and the absence of pull-down menus. Two users, satisfied with the copies which they have bought for themselves, said that we made too much of this - they find it easy to use - but I would guess that many computer users nowadays expect to use forms-based data- entry and to have pull-down menus, and would feel uncomfortable with less. For these users, _ideaList_, which has the increasingly familiar Microsoft- style screen and menu layout, might be an attractive alternative, although we found its importing and bibliography creating capability much less flexible. Specifically, it is less rigorous than the other products towards the format of records. Although this makes it easier to use at the casual level, it means that it is not likely to produce accurate bibliographies without considerably more effort than would be required for other, less user-friendly but more rigorous packages. (A new version, recently received, may address this. I haven't had time to explore it yet.) Two users who are planning to set up departmental reference sources commented that the absence of on-line help would make Papyrus unsatisfactory for open access by unsupervised students and researchers. As these, and the majority of other enquirers, were from biomedical departments, it seemed sensible to look into a package aimed at their particular disciplines, which was why _Reference Manager_ was added to the list of products. This package has a very attractive interface, so straightforward to use that users might not need the on-line help which is provided. The software had all the desired features, including the ability to run concurrently with a word-processor. However, as in Papyrus, the number of reference types handled is limited and pre-defined, which would reduce its usefulness for humanities users. In addition, its bulk-import facility is more inflexible than that of Library Master, and fussy too, which means that a user would probably have to spend time formatting references before they could be imported. (We have heard of one person who uses Papyrus' import/export facilities as an interface between his on-line citations source and Reference Manager, a most interesting approach which might be applicable elsewhere too.) Our librarians were concerned that although Papyrus' bulk-loading capability is very versatile, they could not be sure that it would be completely problem-free. For this reason they liked the BiblioLink approach of Pro-Cite (considered to be the market leader in the library world). They envisaged that departments and individuals could install copies of Pro-Cite, while the Libraries held the BiblioLinks, thus enabling them to provide the user with a ready-formatted file which could be guaranteed to load into a Pro-Cite database without giving any trouble. However, no BiblioLink is yet available for DataStar, the main on-line host used at this University. Moreover, unlike the other products, Pro-Cite does not use indexing, so searching can be very slow when the database gets large. Both indexing and DataStar are promised for 1991, but neither has appeared in Great Britain yet, as far as I know. Pro-Cite provided most of the other desired features, including comprehensive reference type definitions. I found the huge number of fields rather confusing, although I understand that the definitions can be tailored to remove unwanted fields. I suspect that most British academics would consider Pro-Cite too expensive, but it might be an appropriate product for departmental reference sources where importing of down-loaded citations is a major part of the maintenance. The bibliographic working-party concluded that it should remain in existence and re-evaluate the products when anticipated enhancements were available. In addition, we would add to the list any new products which came to our notice and looked promising. The PC version of Endnote might be such an addition, although I have been told that it is not very robust. If we do get to repeat our exercise, I will endeavour to report again on our findings. -------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Sarah Davnall (S.Davnall@Manchester.ac.uk) Manchester Computing Centre, University of Manchester, England -------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: RE: 5.0204 Qs: Naming a mediator; Biblio SW (2/38) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 12:18 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 461 (531) The institute of social and culturl anthropology, university of oxford, UK now has been using both IBM (Wordperfect compatable) and MAC versions of niles and Associates Endnote program - generally we're VERY pleased. The programs look and feel the same on both machines and the same datafiles can be used... Wonderful 0 we've quickly accumulated a large-ish] central file of frequently used references which all can use... Grouses - the output formats cannot yet be shared, - searching for Author last name is fine, but author-plus-initial is ridicuously more complicated. The MAc version exists in upgraded form Endnote-Plus which has beeter searching I hope the IM version of this will soon be available. I have seen and breifly used Porcite which is far clumsier to use (on the MAC) but is more powerful - in particular you can save your search criteris - if endnote could do this it would be very very good,. Also the import from Refer format isnt foolproof - problems with articles in editted books - I bodged it in the end - and can let you have details if needed. Hope this helps I am in no way connected to Niles and would definietly recommend endnote. Cheers david zeitlyn From: R12040 at UQAM Subject: Date: 3 July 91, 02:37:16 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 462 (532) Richard Ristow's comments on archiving are, in my opinion, right on- target. The preservation of scholarly work, irrespective of the medium in which it appears, seems to be worthwhile. I've often heard it said that 50% of what is being published today is, or will be, wrong or worthless, later on. The problem is, we don't know which 50% it is, until we have the advantage of historical perspective. Electronic media have created (at least) two problems. One is the archiving problem which Ristow refers to; the second is the apparent exponential increase is the physical amount of text-information. Among other things, this implies to me that the archiving problem needs to be carefully addressed very soon, where, by "archiving", I mean as does Ristow, /permanent/ archiving. And finally, when all else is said and done, I rather like the tactile and the visual sensibilities of a well-bound hardback book (hopefully on acid-free paper, etc.) Whit (Harry Whitaker) From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 5.0207 Archiving Etexts (1/72) Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 21:53:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 463 (533) In response to Richard Ristow's very reasonable observations about the archiving of electronic text, I'd like to make two points, using PMC as an example: --the real problem with electronic journals comes, as Richard says, when the journals cease to publish. The files that make up PMC's back issues exist on a mainframe owned by NC State, and it seems reasonable to assume that as long as the journal is extant, the media on which its files are stored will be kept up to date. However, if PMC stops publishing, what will happen to back issues? --the answer to this, and to the question of how to make PMC available to libraries that don't have the resources to deliver e-text directly to their patrons, has been microfiche. It's very easy and very inexpensive to dump electronic text from mainframe storage onto tape or cassette, and then to have that cassette made into microfiche. Microfiche is widely used, lasts a reasonably long time, and is easy to reproduce. I'm not suggesting that e-journals ought to be distributed on fiche rather than on the nets, but I do think that making a microfiche version of e-journals available is a good idea, specifically because of concerns about archiving. John Unsworth Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_ From: Alain Gowing Subject: Re:Naming Suggestions Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 10:57:19 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 464 (534) For Rich Shell's program, I'd recommend NESTOR, the mediator and advisor of Homer's *Iliad* (and *Odyssey*). Never mind that he is garrulous and essentially ineffective: the name still has a nice ring to it. Alain Gowing Dept. of Classics Univ. of Washington From: Mary Lewis Subject: Name of computer program Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 21:40:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 465 (535) How about 1) Paris, who was asked by Zeus to mediate in the dispute of the three goddesses over the golden apple thrown into the wedding party of Thetis and Peleus by Eris who wasn't invited; or 2) Nestor, the king of Pylos who frequently tried to mediate in the disputes among the Greek heroes at Troy; or 3) Tiresias, who was asked by Zeus and Hera to settle their dispute abouth whether the male or female enjoyed sex the most. It seems that Tiresias had been forced to spend some time as a woman as a "punishment" and thus was the only one they knew who could judge from firsthand experience. He claimed that women had the better of it -- whereupon Hera struck him blind and Zeus gave him the gift of prophesy. From: David Shaw Subject: Electronic STC and Wing Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 212 (536) From: D.A.Bank@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0205 Rs: E-STC; TACT (3/33) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 17:48:19 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 466 (537) *Re* STC, for Lamar Hill, Philip Rider and others: The Pollard and Redgrave Revised STC 1475-1640 was converted to machine-readable text at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1989. The resulting records (i.e. each STC numbered entry, with cross- reference records also) were processed into database field-format. The results were sent via the British Library to RLIN. Henry Snyder should be consulted for further details of the next phase, which will amplify the Pollard and Redgrave information by fully transcribing the title pages of all the books listed in the catalogue. This will bring STC into conformity with ESTC, and there are plans to do the same for the Wing books covering the period 1641 to 1700. The great result of all this will of course be an online catalogue of the whole corpus of British books published between 1475 and 1800. When completed, it will be indispensable for many purposes and a landmark in the history of scholarship. The University of Glasgow has been glad to contribute to the 1475-1800 project, but our interests are mainly in the 1475 to 1640 period. We have a 10-year old project called DEBORAH (Database of English Books of the Renaissance, and their Authors and Histories) which gives highly detailed subject and author access to these books. The database provides abstracts, subject headings, polemical standpoints, author affiliations, translation history, whether illustrated, the year of first publication, and so on. There are over thirty fields in total; the information has been built up from reading in the original texts (including microfilms of them), with a view to (a) covering every main edition of the period - excluding Bibles, Prayer Books etc. - with a subject and author description which is (b) as full and systematic as possible. "Main edition" here = main edition of *every* book. Our interest in these books is historical and cultural rather than (primarily) bibliographical. The main aim is to open up the period to kinds of research which only computer-coordinated searching on *all* the books to 1640 will support. I will be happy to answer queries and provide samples by EM if there's enough interest. Just over 75% of the database is completed up to, but not including, the final editing stage. David Bank Humanities Reference Systems University of Glasgow Glasgow, U.K. From: David Shaw Subject: Electronic STC and Wing Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 13:58:12 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 467 (538) I understand that the Bibliographical Society has given permission for the conversion of the text of the Short-Title Catalogue of English Books to 1640 and that a similar permission is being obtained for Wing (1641-1700). Further information could be obtained from the ESTC office at the British Library, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, G.B. I can also confirm how useful the index volume (vol. 3) is for STC. David Shaw, Univ. of Kent at Canterbury. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: student looking for school Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1991 14:12:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 468 (539) A young friend of mine, currently living in Budapest, is looking for a suitable graduate school at which he might continue his studies. He will graduate in June 1992, with a double-major in Hungarian & English languages and literatures. He would like to undertake an M.A. programme in humanities computing, with an emphasis on literature. His objective is to complete a dissertation that would serve as a handbook or guide to the common problems. He has asked me for advice. How closely can his desires be approximated? At the moment I am prepared to write back to him suggesting that he consider a Ph.D. programme in English literature with concentration on computing. I don't see that his notion of a topic would fit anyone's idea of a Ph.D. dissertation, and I doubt a master's thesis would be right either. In any case, he needs to know to what institutions he might usefully apply. He is very bright, highly motivated, and I suspect very well instructed so far. His English is excellent, his German also. Any ideas? Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: "Stephen McCluskey" Subject: Texts for the Electronic Library? Date: Friday, 28 Jun 1991 09:14:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 469 (540) David Megginson wrote on ANSAX-L: < The times are gradually changing for academics. Most of the work that we < do in the libraries is trained monkey work--mechanically counting words, < skimming obscure 19th-century German monographs for relevant quotations, < etc.--and within a couple of decades we should be able to do most of it < by computer, in the comfort of our homes. Every time I read statements like this I get a bit worried. Who, pray tell, is going to transfer those obscure 19th-century German monographs into machine readable form, when so few texts were considered worth making available in the form of reprints. Reprinting is a simple photographic process, machine encoding is much more labor intensive, since even the best scanners make numerous errors and their copy must be edited. David might be closer to target when it comes to the texts themselves; as a newcomer to the computer networks I'm surprised at how many little-known collections of primary texts are available, especially for medievalists and classicists where the total body of texts is manageable. As an example, I was looking through Lapidge & Sharpe's _Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature, 400-1200_ and read in the preface that the RIA was sponsoring a corpus of Latin texts by Celtic writers (including that Breton, Peter Abelard) at Queens University, Belfast. Serendipitous discoveries like this suggest we need a finding aid. Does anyone know of an index (printed or computerized) of machine-readable collections of primary sources? It seems like an obvious reference tool; when we can pass such a guide on to our students, the demand for at least parts of Megginson's computerized library will begin to build. -- Steve McCluskey Department of History West Virginia University From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Etaoin Shrdlu Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 17:41:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 470 (541) I have discussed the general problem of letter frequencies in a CS class I teach and was particularly interested in Lorne Hammond's remark about the woman who had Etaoin Shrdlu written on her dress. This would make a great visual for my class. Can Lorne give an exact reference where this is available? From: "David R. Chesnutt" Subject: Qs: N.C. School for the Arts Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 08:43:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 471 (542) A colleague wants to know the general reputation and strengths of the N.C. School for the Arts at Winston-Salem. His neice (a flautist) is looking for graduate programs in the performing arts. Please reply directly. Thanks. David Chesnutt (N330004@UNIVSCVM.BITNET) From: Dudley Irish Subject: Latin Vocabulary Software Date: Wed, 3 Jul 91 08:27:30 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 472 (543) This is not a very sophisticated question, but this seems an ideal forum for getting an answer. For her sins (:-), my daughter is studying Latin in high school. She is struggling a long and is doing O.K. but her vocabulary is not the best. So my question is whether anybody knows of software for almost any hardware platform that will drill a beginning student on Latin vocabulary. I am pursuing the question with our own Languages Department, but I thought the more information the better. Dudley Irish / dirish@math.utah.edu / Manager Computer Operations Center for Scientific Computing, Dept of Mathematics, University of Utah The views expressed in this message do not reflect the views of the Dept of Mathematics, the University of Utah, or the State of Utah. From: Dennis Baron Subject: pc dictionary Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1991 13:49:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 473 (544) _Time Magazine_ reviewed the Random House Webster's College Dictionary in its June 24 issue, with predictable opinions, ie, the reviewer is agin it. I'd appreciate receiving info on any reviews you may come across of this new dictionary, or even copies of the reviews. To this end, I provide my full range of addresses: debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Intonation Date: 28 Jun 91 16:28:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 474 (545) With regard to the notion that the rising tone of the end of an utterance expressing uncertainty, I have noticed in recent years that many young people of both genders do that. I notice it when women do it as well, but that's partly because it is no longer very common among women (if it ever was). With regard to Tannen's book, I was recently in conversation with a male friend of mine (who is a physicist, by the way) discussing Tannen's book when I realized that, according to her observations, I speak more like a man and he speaks more like a woman. I agree with much of Tannen's premise, but one must remember that she is a socio-linguist and not a psychologist. Her research is done by observation and then generalization about the observations. I think it's important to remember that any generalization will distort the "facts" -- by definition. That doesn't challenge the validity of the generalization, though. (I also think that one should keep this notion in mind when using statistical techniques of any kind. Too often I hear people say that something is valid because it's based on statistics -- how naive can people be???) All of us are exceptions to generalizations -- just try buying clothes. How many of us fit perfectly into those generalized sizes? Mary Dee From: "Don W." Subject: Spy programs Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 15:04:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 475 (546) In 5.0911 on Thu 27 June John E. Koontz mentions "Topic" as a program for scanning e-mail text streams and speculates that similar tools may make it possible sooner or later to do the same with audio transmissions. It's my understanding that U.S. intelligence agencies have been doing precisely that for years now, in monitoring telephone communications. Equipment also exists to monitor conversations at a distance as well as what you type on your computer. Apparently, the conversation- and computer-monitoring equipment is very complex and expensive, and it's also relatively easy to foil if you suspect electronic eavesdropping. Are platform-independent encryption programs available for those who are concerned about e-mail privacy? Don Webb (also DonWebb@CSUS.EDU) From: Dennis Baron Subject: foreign plurals Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 14:10:26 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 476 (547) The phrase "I am no purist but..." starts many a linguistic complaint that must indeed be purist because there is no other word to adequately (sic) describe it. For some very sensible information on foreign plurals see _Webster's Dictionary of English Usage_ (esp. the entries for data, prolegomena, Latin plurals). Usage in English varies. _Data_ as a sg. is the equivalent of the mass noun _information_ (the politically correct _Random House Webster's_ agrees). _Prolegomena_ frequently occurs in an unmarked or in a singular context (here Random House is silent). And what about _vitae_ instead of _vita_, influenced no doubt by _curriculum vitae_? I've seen many job application letters from Humanists with the phrase "My vitae is enclosed...." And how many accents in the English version of _resume_ (as in vita)--RHWCD gives: resume, re'sume', and resume' (by the way, what is the e-mail convention for indicating accents?). When a word is borrowed all sorts of liberties are taken not just with morphology but with spelling, pronunciation, and, of course, meaning. Americans find this out quickly when they try to order from the entree section of a menu in Paris and get not a main course but an appetizer (you may wonder how I know). But all borrowing languages do this with all target languages. It's virtually impossible to attach strings to linguistic borrowing. It's hard enough to regulate how native speakers use unborrowed forms! Maybe Polonius was right. Dennis Baron, usageaster From: Alan D Corre Subject: Hebrew Software Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 22:26:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 215 (548) Judy Koren's thoughtful response to my posting about my modern Hebrew software impels me to give more detail. Let me say first that the reason I wrote the posting originally was to indicate one little place where computers can do what no other method can do. What I am trying to achieve here can only be done with the help of the machine. When I began to learn Russian a while ago, I found the Apple II programs available at our university of immense help. Basic Russian words are hard for English speakers, and just being able to drill vocabulary with a machine of infinite patience was wonderful. I need no convincing that computers can materially aid progress in language study. Each language has its own area of difficulty for the student. In Hebrew, students tend to be very nonplussed at the thought that they have to reach a point where they can read Hebrew without vowels. Moreover they are aware that although they can read (and be slowed up by) the vowel points that are used only for beginners and in poetry, the system is so complex, and so unrelated to the phonemics of modern Hebrew if truth be told, that they cannot hope to learn to use it accurately. So they learn in a half-baked way a system which they cling to for dear life, knowing that they are supposed to abandon it as soon as possible, if not sooner. Not a very satisfactory arrange- ment. The issues faced by a Hebrew-speaking five year old are different, and I am not addressing them here. My system works as follows. The transcription system defers to pronunciation, but takes into account peculiarities of Hebrew spelling. So he learns "king" as "melex" "like a king" as "kemelex" and "he wept" as "baxah". (If the stress is not on the last syllable, an accent mark will indicate it, but the student does not have to insert that when writing.) The machine echoes these words as is, but also types them out in Hebrew being smart enough to represent the x of "melex" as a final kaf, the k of "kemelex" as a medial kaf and the x of "baxah" as a medial kaf. The Hebrew appears simultaneously in a different window. Since she typed in the phonetic Roman with vowels, she must be able to read the vowelless Hebrew. Any time the student wants, he can switch off that Roman echoing, and so be mentally writing "sefer" and seeing RPS emerge. The Hebrew is then indeed the "main" display. Roman comes back on demand. Please note, the student is given options here. Imagine, an American student being given options. If he wants to be lazy, he can use the Roman side and hardly bother with the Hebrew screen. So, he'll learn some oral Hebrew but maybe be illiterate. If that happens, he probably is already illiterate in English, so why expect more in Hebrew? If she wants to learn the language, she can switch off real early and school herself to get familiar with that glorious unvowelled script. In English we distinguish "cite" and "site", "cession" and "session". I require students to do a similar thing in my transcription; the word for "drug" is "sam" but the word for "put" is "|am" where | stands for an s-symbol which I don't have in ascii, but can use on the Mac. Both "|" and "$" (which I use for the esh sound--it's a single consonant) will generate a single letter on the Hebrew side. On the other hand "ken" "yes" will generate a different k symbol from "qen" "nest" altho they are homophones. A separate utility enables printout in mixed Hebrew and English. An arbitrary sign "~" toggles the machine between English and Hebrew script, the Hebrew being entered in left to right transcription and appearing right to left and properly formatted relative to the English, so "The Hebrew word for queen is ~malkah" will appear as "The Hebrew word for queen is HKLM". (Last word Hebrew letters, of course.) When the Hebrew-English (or Hebrew only) window is complete, the laser prints it out as is. I'm not worried about students having to learn something new when they come to a different word processor--there are many things one has to relearn in this volatile computer world. Let's regard it as a challenge rather than a chore. Always available is a log which records everything the student does and every score the student gets with date and time stamp. The log is optional (!) If the student wants it, he inserts a disk and it is recorded there. A vocabulary is always available, and I'm working on getting it to say the words out loud. (Version 2 of ProIcon makes that possible.) I'd like to add one point that I think is crucial. In Monday's Chicago Tribune there is an article by Tom Peters headed "For success try putting a little love in your work." He says "...Kriegel went so far as to invent a passion index...[they] also comment on passion's contagious nature...40 to 60 percent of all therapeutic benefits can be attributed to a combination of the placebo and Hawthorne effects, two code words for caring and concern..." I think when students realise that the teacher is trying to address their problems, they respond. The fact that a "neat idea" is being tried out helps no matter what. What problem am I trying to solve? I'm trying to solve the problem that foreign language learning is tough, and a fresh approach is always welcome. If and when I get the chance to try it out, I'll find out soon enough if my "passion" is requited. To end on a lighter note, I should like to take the opportunity to tell a mildly off-color true story about Hebrew spelling. If you feel that the tongue the prophets spake should not be mixed with offe-coloure stories, please press control-whatever right now, and blow me away before I corrupt you. Anyway, here goes. A friend of mine who teaches Hebrew in the south of the US told me that he received a paper from a student who had apparently decided to beg him for a good grade. The student wanted to write "ani carix ciyun tov" which means "I need a good grade" but unfortunately got one letter wrong and wrote "ani carix ziyun tov" which means "I need a good f---." I said: "How did you react to this astonishing confession?" He replied: "I wrote on the paper 'ani gam-ken'" ("Me too.") From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: preservation? Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1991 22:06:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 216 (549) Richard Ristow's comments about the difficulties of preserving electronic information struck me also as cogent and thoughtful. In some of the discussion that has followed, however, the real problem has been clouded by what may well be the most common fallacy concerning electronic information. Forgive me for plucking once again this by now badly worn string, but its sound is still inaudible, or badly misconstrued, by many. The fallacy to which I refer is that electronic information is essentially the same as printed information; the false conclusion so often drawn is that we must in all cases do with the former the same as we have always done with the latter. In the present case, PRESERVE IT. I sincerely hope that in many instances the e-info can be left to take its speedy journey into the void. Please note: I am as anxious as most, perhaps more so, that certain kinds of e-info do not disappear. We are in danger, however, of forgetting that the new medium is most excellent for allowing serious conversations, and seriously playful conversations, to enlighten the lives of many in the swiftly fleeting moment and then gracefully vanish. Print is very bad for that purpose, very wasteful. The e-medium is also good for allowing us to try out our ideas on our colleagues, without subjecting already overburdened library budgets to pick up the tab for our tenure-and-promotion driven flounderings. In brief, and at the risk of being a big bore: the new medium is NEW. I'm still looking for a study in the history of science and technology that documents how difficult the new is to perceive as such. I suspect we're only the latest to struggle with the problem. Willard McCarty From: STFR8011@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE Subject: lilliburlero Date: Thu, 4 Jul 91 15:30 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 477 (550) dear humanists I don't know if the Lilliburlero query has yet receiveed the following answer or indeed an answer from Ireland, but as far as I know "Lilliburlero" is a corruption of the following: "An lile ba leir e, ba linne an la". There should be an acute accent on the e of "leir", on "e" and on the a of "la", in Irish. This phrase means roughly "The lily triumphed, we won the day" and refers to the war between Prote stant and Catholics British monarchs which was carried on in Ireland in the seventeenth century (another example of great powers exprting their conflicts to somebody else's territory so they don't have to live with the slaughter and suffering, the wreckage and the debased currency) I hope this helps. Dr Angela Ryan Department of French University College, Cork, Ireland. email Stfr8011@vax1.ucc.ie tel 353 21 276871 fax 353 21 272836 From: LHAMPLYONS@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Subject: Re: 5.0189 Rs: Male/Female Speech/Language (2/85) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1991 22:55 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 478 (551) My undergrad linguistics class last year carried out an emprirical study inot gender differences in color terms and found some but non-significant differences; recent research in the e-mail equivalent of fall/rise intonation patterns and hesitation phenomena suggest that there are soem gender differences. We can, though expect that as/if gender differences in other spheres are blurred differences in langauge-using behavior will also fade away. In data I recently collected there was a clear male/female difference in celebratory behavior resulting from a birth within a community whwre with a few exceptions males and females knew each other equally well (I mean *language* behavior, above) As for the issue of universal differences, surely this is impossible to tease out since culture is so interwoven with individual behaior/speech? Liz H-L From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" Subject: RE: 5.0214 Intonation; Foreign Plurals; Spy Programs Date: Fri, 5 Jul 91 10:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 479 (552) With regard to the comments about "spy programs," I suspect that the U.S. intelligence agencies are not as far along with monitoring telephone conversations as the earlier message implies. The reason is not that they wouldn't like to do that, but speech understanding technology is not advanced enough to be used adequately. My (limited) knowledge of the problem includes a recollection that, while using "spy programs" to monitor drug activities, the biggest obstacle is the dealers use of code words and slang to refer to drugs and deals. Understanding that type of language is difficult for humans and certainly beyond any language understanding software that's available today. Mary Dee From: Espen Ore Subject: MacSpeech Lab Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1991 08:55:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 480 (553) I am asking on behalf of a friend if there are any humanists out there who know this program. In particular she has problems with the plotting of basic frequencies in spoken words. Replies might be sent by direct e-mail to me: espeno@navf-edb-h.uib.no or Espen.Ore@uib.no or fafeo@nobergen.bitnet Espen Ore Bergen, Norway From: Carol Bloomquist Traxler Subject: Searching for German language software Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1991 11:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 481 (554) I am looking for two kinds of software to use with an IBM 386 compatible: German-English/English-German dictionary/thesaurus/translation software to aid in personal and professional writing and in translation of general and technical writing, especially in psychology, educational research, and statistics. Instructional software for learning and reviewing German grammar, vocabulary, and/or idioms for native English speakers at beginning and advanced levels in German. Please provide ordering and price information available to you. Please respond privately (addresses below); I will summarize the responses for HUMANIST. Software users' reviews, tips, and pointers will also be gratefully received. Many thanks. -- Carol ------------------------------------------------------------------- Carol Bloomquist Traxler Email: catraxler@galluj.bitnet Research Scientist Center for Assessment & Telephone: 301-577-3503 home Demographic Studies 202-651-5575 office Gallaudet University 202-651-5295 fax 800 Florida Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002-3625 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Kovacs Subject: international keyboard switching on the Mac (from Info-Mac) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 91 22:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 219 (555) I was told that this might be of interest to the readers of Humanist. The programs and files described should be available via anonymous FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu. [deleted quotation] From: James O'Donnell Subject: 5.0213 Qs: Etext lists; Grad School for HC; ... (6/122) Date: 04 Jul 91 16:22:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 482 (556) ETAOIN SHRDLU one more time: Now does anybody have any idea why we find this subject collectively so interesting that somebody would even put the letter sequence on a dress? What obscure grammatological magic do we think we are exercising by knowing these unpronounceable graphemes? Jim O'Donnell Classics, Penn From: Jack Kolb Subject: Re: 5.0213 Qs: Etext lists; Grad School for HC; ... (6/122) Date: Sat, 06 Jul 91 04:49 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 483 (557) In my dim high school memory, I think I remember a rather ironic (remember my s cale of irony then) story by Frederic Brown called, or dealing with, "Etaoin Sh lrdu." Not sure this is relevant, to say nothing of purposeful. From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: 5.0216 Preservation (was Archiving) (1/31) Date: Sun, 07 Jul 91 16:48:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 484 (558) In reply to Willard McCarty: Hooray! Amen! Whatever other term is used to say I essentially agree with you. My first love is history (well, maybe publishing,THEN history THEN library science...or equal weight to all 3). The historian in me says yes, save everything; the publisher part of me says that if it's worth saving it's worth printing...on acid-free paper; the librarian in me says _where_ will we store these bits and bytes (microfiche is best answer I think)...and more importantly, who has the money to pay somebody to archive all this? Try as one might to compare/contrast the electronic publishing world with the print publishing world in the same manner as comparing the printing press to scribal duplication of information...it just won't work. The electronic medium spans print and those movin' pictures...and so much more The raillery against copyright law could continue whether scholarly discourse is print-bound or not (and I have my feet firmly planted on both sides of the fence on the copyright issue). Again, hooray for Willard! Paula Presley Thomas Jefferson Univ. Press Northeast Missouri State University AD15@NEMOMUS From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0210 Archiving Etexts (2/48) Date: Tue, 09 Jul 91 16:29:58 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 485 (559) On Thu, 4 Jul 91 15:48:30 EDT you said: [deleted quotation] This brings to mind a story I was told in library school in 1966-67. A professor who had a PhD in history said that Alfred North Whitehead had said that "You could burn half of the books in the British Museum and no one would know the difference between now and the end of time. The only problem is which half." This, of course, amounts to a different expression of the ideas quoted above. I happen to agree with either version of the statement. My REAL question for the humanists on the list is: "Did Whitehead [or anybody else] actually say what has been said above?" I have done some digging in Whitehead materials; so have some colleagues with better knowledge of the literature of philosophy. We have struck out so far. Any responses regarding the apocryphal or real source of the above will be appreciated. Discussion on the substance of it would also be of secondary interest. Thanks dan ************************************************************************ * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * Boise State University * Boise, Idaho 83725 You can be sure these ideas are my * 208-385-1234 own; no one else would have them. ************************************************************************ From: WONNEBERGER REINHAR Subject: RE: 5.0209 BIBLIOGRAPHY SOFTWARE 2/189 Date: 07/05/91 15:12:13 GMT+1 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 222 (560) [...] I feel that any such list not containing BibTeX is incomplete. For details, please rf. @INPROCEEDINGS{inproc:WM90a, crossref = "proc:MGu90", author = "Wonneberger, Reinhard and Mittelbach, Frank", title = "{\BibTeX} reconsidered", pages = {111-124}, } @PROCEEDINGS{proc:MGu90, organization = TUG, editor = "Mary Gunther", title = "{\TeX}90 Conference Proceedings; University College; Cork, Ireland, September 10--13, 1990", address = "Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.", year = 1991, month = mar, booktitle = "{\TeX}90 Conference Proceedings", note={TUGboat~12 (March 1991) Number~1}, } From: LMC6@PSUADMIN (CONRAD.MARK) Subject: Position Available Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1991 09:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 223 (561) Penn State University Libraries Data Archivist Penn State University Libraries invites applications for the position of Data Archivist at the University Park campus. This twelve month NHPRC funded faculty position will play a key role in the appraisal of computer datasets in the University's administrative computing center. The Data Archivist will also conduct an extensive study of research use of confidential data, work with administrative computing staff in examining online database archival issues, and work closely with University departments whose datasets are being evaluated. QUALIFICATIONS: Master's degree in history, social science, library or information science, or a related field required. Experience with main frame computers and tape use and/or extensive experience with microcomputer programming, system design, maintenance, or networking required. Experience in archival appraisal and/or records management preferred. Excellent oral and written communication skills required. COMPENSATION: Salary and rank dependent on qualifications. Benefits include liberal vacation, excellent insurances, State or TIAA/CREF retirement options and educational privilege. To apply, send letter of application, current resume and names of three references to Nancy Slaybaugh, Manager, Libraries Human Resources, Box DA- 21, E-1 Pattee Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802. Applications will be reviewed beginning 15 August 1991 and continuing until the position is filled. Questions can be directed to Nancy Slaybaugh at nls@psulias (BITNET). PENN STATE IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. WOMEN AND MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. From: RKENNER@Vax2.Concordia.CA Subject: German Dictionary Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1991 08:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 224 (562) Carol Bloomquist Traxler might want to check out a product called LEXIKON, a memory-resident German-English/English-German dictionary for second language learners. Information can be gotten from: Tools-of-the-Trade 129 Sherwood Place Lethbridge, Alberta T1K-6G6, CANADA I have no stock in this company. I did, however, see this demonstrated at the Canadian CALL Conference at York & Guelph Universities a couple of years back and it looked quite decent. As for helping beginners with vocabulary, I have a modest suggestion. At first glance, though, it might seem a bit corny. We've used it with Spanish for some years, however, and it is quite effective. Find some old APPLE II computers and get your hands on a package called BASIC VOCABULARY BUILDER FOR GERMAN from the National Textbook Company, at 4255 W. Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood, Illinois, 60646-1975. As CALL software goes, this stuff is pretty ancient. Students react well to it, though. It can provide a good vocabulary boost during the first couple of months of a first-year course. After that the learners out grow it. Roger Kenner Concordia University From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: query for Humanist Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 22:57:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 486 (563) [...] I need a database that will run with the Macintosh Chinese operating system, preferably the latest versions, e.g. TAI 6.0.4 or later. It must be able to search Chinese characters properly, which means it must be Script Manager Compatible and recognize the two-byte code. It must also do 'contains' searches, i.e. be able to find all occurrences of 'x' in strings like abx, cdx, efx, or axb, cxd, exf.... Between these two demands, I seem to have eliminated nearly all the databases that are available for the Macintosh. FileMaker by Claris, a subsidiary of Apple, does neither. The international version of 4th Dimension by ACI does both but it costs CAN$1800!! If you know of any database that will meet these requirements (even for IBM machines), please let me know. W. Schlepp East Asian Studies University of Toronto Toronto, Canada M5S 1A5 schlepp@epas.utoronto.ca From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: Latin e-dictionary or electronic word list Date: Tue, 9 Jul 91 14:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 487 (564) Dear Professors and Scholars of Latin, I apologise for the cross-postings. I am in search of a freeware or public domain electronic dictionary or wordlist of Latin. If anyone might know how I could obtain a copy of one of these, I would appreciate it if you could contact me as soon as possible. Sincerely, James A. Wilderotter II Georgetown University Wilder@Guvax Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Russian WordPerfect Date: 7 Jul 91 20:43:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 488 (565) Would someone who knows about the Russian extension for Wordperfect 5.1, contact me directly? I have some questions for a friend. Mary Dee Harris mdharris@guvax.bitnet mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu From: Maurizio Lana Subject: e-mail address Date: Tue, 04 Jun 91 11:09:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 489 (566) I need the e-mail address for the Computing Laboratory at the UNiversity of Kent at Canterbury, or for any people working there. Thank you to anyone will help. Maurizio Lana CISI - University of Turin - Via S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino - Italy Strada del Lauro 47 - 10132 Torino - Italy e-mail: LANA at ITOCISI.BITNET From: ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Subject: Re: 5.0211 Names for Mediators (2/26) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 91 12:22:53 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 226 (567) Janus seems to be a possibility: the roman god of doorways, usually represented with two faces, one looking inwards, the other outwards. Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.telesoft.se Telesoft AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Report on first European TEI workshop Date: Sat, 13 Jul 91 15:49:18 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 227 (568) LIVING WITH THE GUIDELINES The first TEI European Workshop Oxford University Computing Service 1-2 July 1991 The first European workshop of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) was held in Oxford on 1-2 July 1991. The TEI is an international effort to develop and disseminate guidelines for encoding and exchanging machine-readable texts. The first phase of the TEI was completed by the publication of the Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine- Readable Texts (1990), and several Working Committees, Working Groups and Affiliated Projects are now expanding and refining these guidelines. The two-day workshop was attended by fifty people from fourteen countries, of whom the largest number were from Britain. Not surprisingly, linguistics and language studies were the best-represented subject areas, but by no means the only ones. The workshop was taught by the TEI Co-Editors, Lou Burnard and Michael Sperberg-McQueen, and by Elaine Brennan (Brown), Harry Gaylord (Groningen) and Terry Langendoen (Arizona). The speakers had obviously worked very hard, and the two days went without hitch. The workshop included a neatly-balanced mixture of group discussions, lectures on technical issues and software demonstrations and practicals. It opened with a warm-up session, Why Tag Texts. The group looked at the workshop's core text, portions from Mary Robinson's 'Thoughts on the Condition of Women' (1799), both in its original printed format and as keyed in by the Brown Women's Writers Project and marked up by Michael Sperberg-McQueen. The task was to identify textual elements which should be marked up, and this raised a number of issues. There was some disagreement between those who believed every descriptive variation should be encoded, including the breadth of vertical lines and whether left or right quotes were used, and those who did not. Joy Jenkyns (Oxford) pointed out that typography could hold clues to interpretation, for example, the similarity between a long 's' and an 'f' might point to a sight-rhyme between 'wise' and 'wife'. Jeremy Clear (OUP), tongue firmly in cheek, deployed the 'reductio ad absurdum' argument that we should mark-up an upper-case 'I' as 'a vertical line with two serifs'. (In the closing session on Tuesday, John Dawson (Cambridge) suggested that only elements which were to be processed by computer needed tagging, and there was general agreement that it would be desirable to accompany documents with digital images of the original). We returned to group discussion of tagging after lunch, in a session entitled Textual Anarchy: The Challenge for the TEI. Lou Burnard had chosen examples of texts from those held in the Oxford Text Archive and had attempted to replace the tagging scheme used in the original with TEI tags; the examples came from the Paston Letters, a blues lyric and Beowulf. Our task was to match the features tagged in the two versions; extra points were awarded for observing elements which had been marked up incorrectly or which the TEI could not mark up The session did an excellent job of pointing out why the TEI is necessary, since each example used its own idiosyncratic scheme, although everyone was too embarrassed too admit to having scored the most points! The TEI technical presentations included reviews of basic SGML and TEI concepts and an exposition of advanced TEI features. The reviews were overly brief and schematic, containing nothing that was new for readers of Draft 1 of the TEI Guidelines (TEI P1) while offering insufficient guidance for novices; the mixed experience of the audience made it difficult to judge the right level for these sessions. Terry Langendoen's paper on advanced features explored techniques for encoding linguistic feature structures and for abbreviating verbose coding by defining thousands of entities. I found particularly useful the analogy he drew between feature structures and relational database tables, since as an historian I need techniques for marking up record structures in text, and the techniques he was describing (and still developing) clearly had applications outside the field of linguistics. The practical sessions answered the common complaint that there is little software for preparing and analysing TEI- conformant texts. Lou Burnard briefly outlined the software choices and the issues to be considered in choosing software, distinguishing between Parsers, Editors, Filters, Formatters and Retrieval Systems. Two sessions, Uses for Tagged Texts and a TEI Users' Forum, demonstrated examples of several of these types of software. Filters or transducers provide a means of converting other systems of tags into SGML or vice versa. Examples included a Nota Bene program which converted SGML tags into NB formatting; KEDIT macros converting SGML tags into COCOA tags for analysis with micro-OCP; and the B- Transducer. Filters are useful for converting already-tagged text into TEI-conformant text but for new texts SGML editors have the advantage of validating texts automatically as they are tagged. Two hands-on practicals gave us the opportunity to try out two editor/parsers, Mark-It (DOS) and Author Editor (Macintosh), and we saw how the latter enabled SGML tags to be used as stylesheets to produced formatted.output. On the retrieval side, we saw a simple SPITBOL program produce a list of all proper names in the core Robinson text as well as a prototype of the Oxford Textual Analysis System under development by OUP. Also on show were: Collate, a program for collating variant versions of manuscripts, which now takes TEI-tagged text as input or output; and RUTH, an editor which allows the user to tag texts using a KWIC concordance. The Users' Forum included reports on the forthcoming Chadwyck- Healy CD-ROM database of English poetry, to be distributed with TEI-markup; and the Wittgenstein Archives, who are developing their own distinctly non-TEI markup and analysis software. The workshop closed with a talk by Michael Sperberg-McQueen on TEI-conformance and a general discussion on the TEI and the workshop itself. Michael Sperberg-McQueen drew a distinction between the different formats in which textual data might be held: at data capture, for a specific application, as stored on a local computer, and for interchange. Ideally, text should be held in a single format which can be understood by many applications rather than in a different format for each application. In a change from the Guidelines, he announced THAT TEI WOULD IN FUTURE DISTINGUISH BETWEEN TEI-CONFORMANCE -- RESTRICTED TO SGML BUT ALLOWING ALL LOCAL CHARACTERS -- AND TEI-interchange format -- using the subset of ASCII defined in the Guidelines. He outlined several desiderata for software, including minimal tag redundancy, allowing attributes to be used to differentiate variants of a tag, and selective display, so that the user can turn off selected tags or elements for viewing. In the final session, participants expressed concern about the cost and complexity of marking up text with SGML. It was claimed that the costs of data definition, data entry (including training), and storage, particularly given the verbosity of SGML, put it beyond the reach of many publishers and projects, and perhaps all but large government-funded projects. In expressing concern about complexity, it was clear that a number of participants were daunted by the prospect of wading through the Guidelines and SGML manuals. Several participants argued that compendia were needed which identified tags relevant to each subject area, although Michael Sperberg-McQueen said that it was too early to prepare these since the TEI was still under development. These anxieties about TEI markup suggest that future workshops must devote more time to the practical issues of developing Data Type Definitions (DTDs) and marking up texts from participants' own research. One person observed that we had not examined Data Type Definitions (DTDs), although we had been told that that they were a crucial part of a TEI- conformant text, not least because they document the tags used. In fact, the booklet 'An Introduction to TEI Tagging' which was given to all those attending provides a suitably gentle introduction, as well as a sample DTD used to mark up the Robinson core text. Even this DTD, described as 'a simplified TEI document type description', is eight pages long and includes 85 element tags. Perhaps future workshops should use this more explicitly as a workbook in a practical session replacing one or more of the software sessions. Training of this sort is crucial if TEI recommendations are to be follow widely. Running a workshop for an audience mixed both in discipline and experience is difficult. The use of Robinson as a core text was an effective device, but there was always the risk (particularly in the opening session) that people would think that this laid down what must be marked up for TEI-conformance. On the contrary, each scholar will only mark up the elements which he or she wishes to study. This is why IT IS IMPORTANT FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS TO BE ABLE TO TAG THEIR OWN TEXTS UNDER SUPERVISION. This raises the broader question of how prescriptive the TEI should be. While some participants expressed concern that the TEI was too prescriptive, others pointed out that users could develop their own idiosyncratic attributes, once again creating an obstacle to free interchange of data. Should the TEI (with help from subject-specific working parties) develop increasingly detailed descriptions of document types and tags (including even subject-specific DTDs) which all scholars will use? Or should scholars be left free to develop their own tags and DTDs based upon their research needs, with SGML- conformance providing a mechanism for documentation and therefore easing exchange? The latter approach is of particular relevance for subjects relatively new to text-based analysis, such as history, but TEI compendia and training will be needed. I found the TEI Workshop both enjoyable and stimulating. It is hard to see how much more could have been packed into two rich days, which included a reception given by the CTI Centre for Textual Studies and an evening punting on the River Cherwell! I was pleased to see that the SGML and TEI communities are so healthy, and hope that this will be only the first of many TEI workshops in Europe. Donald Spaeth University of Glasgow TEI History Working Group 13 July 1991 From: Susan Hockey Subject: Medieval Studies issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 16:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 228 (569) The Computers and Medieval Studies special issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing (Volume 6 Number 1) is now available. Edited by Marilyn Deegan (Oxford University) with Andrew Armour (Keio University) and Mark Infusino (UCLA), it includes papers from the twenty-fifth International Medieval Congress held at Kalamazoo, Michigan in May 1990. Contents Marilyn Deegan, Computers and Medieval Studies: Points of Convergence Mark Infusino, The Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI) Project and the Origins of the Kalamazoo Session on 'The Use of Computer Databases to Access Medieval Pictures and Diagrams' Sarah Brown, Describing Stained Glass: The Corpus Vitrearum Archive in the National Buildings Record Brendan Cassidy, The Index of Christian Art: Present Situation and Prospects Gerhard Jaritz, Medieval Image Databases: Aspects of Cooperation and Exchange Kevin S Kiernan, Digital Image Processing and the Beowulf Manuscript Leslie Zarker Morgan, Computational Analysis of Franco-Italian: St Mark's French Manuscript 13 C M Sperberg-McQueen, Text in the Electronic Age: Textual Study and Text Encoding, with Examples from Medieval Texts Roger H Leech, The Computerized National Archaeological Record for England - its Development and Future Potential for Medieval Studies Patrick W Conner, The Beowulf Workstation: One Model of Computer-Assisted Literary Pedagogy Suzanne Sheldon Parnell and Lea T Olsen, The Index of Charms: Purpose, Design, and Implementation Literary and Linguistic Computing is the journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and appears four times a year. Subscription for individuals: 18.50 pounds (UK and Europe), $35 (Rest of the World). Send to Journals Marketing Oxford University Press Pinkhill House Southfield Road Eynsham Oxford OX8 1JJ UK or Journals Marketing Oxford University Press 2001 Evans Road Cary North Carolina 27513 USA Payment by credit card is accepted. Susan Hockey ALLC Chairman From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: OFFLINE 34 Date: Friday, 12 July 1991 1428-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 229 (570) ---------------------- <> coordinated by Robert Kraft [11 July 1991 Draft, copyright Robert Kraft] [HUMANIST 12 December 1991] [Religious Studies News 6.4 (August 1991)] [CSSR Bulletin 20.4 (September 1991)] ---------------------- This column will be brief. It almost was not written at all, due to my inability to find sufficient time. And why was time so scarce? Largely because of the snowballing success of the emerging new forms of scholarly communication and interaction on the electronic networks. The good news is that exciting things are happening through electronic conferencing (discussion lists, information posting, review of publications, etc.). The bad news is that if one has wide interests and tries to keep up with them by using the electronic resources, it eats up huge amounts of time. All those dire warnings about the "information explosion" are being fulfilled even at the level of academic discussions! We are in a pioneering situation. Old interests and techniques are being adapted to the new technologies, and new things are being tried. Some will work effectively, some will have to be abandoned. There is excitement in taking part in these explorations, but frustration at not being able to keep up with everything at once. There is an air of immediacy -- topics get stale in a day or two, and if you blink, you might miss something really important and/or interesting. The ability to retrieve messages posted in the past is at best spotty, depending on the sort of system being used and the software installed on it. Some electronic groups keep archives of past communications, some do not. And the ability to work effectively with those archives varies greatly from system to system and user to user. Necessity will require that suitable solutions be explored, and the effective ones exploited. "Spy" software may do the trick, where the user identifies the subjects of interest and the software automatically chooses pertinent items from the available materials. Or service centers may be established where actual people (another job for graduate students?!) scan the incoming information and filter it into appropriate channels according to the expressed interests of the ultimate users. Somehow it will be brought more effectively under control, but how and how soon are still quite open questions. What could possibly be so interesting and time consuming, you ask? That will vary from person to person. Unfortunately for me, I am rather nosy, and like to know what is going on in a wide range of fields/areas. Thus I belong to such electronic discussion groups as HUMANIST, in my experience the grandparent of this type of interchange and the most diverse in coverage; IOUDAIOS, with its specific focus on Judaism (including earliest Christianity) in the Greco-Roman world; ANSAX-L, centering on matters Anglo-Saxon in the medieval period but ranging into many associated areas including the transmission of early traditions and literatures in the west; FICINIO, dealing with early modern western literatures; RELIGION, which hasn't really formed a distinct personality yet but is avowedly comparative in its orientation; and ROOTS-L, for genealogy research (everyone should have a hobby, no?). I subscribe to other groups as well, but you get the picture (see OFFLINE 31 for a fuller, if now quite outdated, general listing). As more people join the groups, with more interests and issues to be discussed, the networks and mailboxes bloat with messages of all sorts to be read, some of which themselves call for a response. But what has one learned? What possible value can it all have, especially in relation to the time needed to keep up? Does it really have an effect on one's scholarship, other than keeping one from having time to pursue it? Fair questions, and hard to answer adequately at this juncture. I certainly have gained lots of information that I would not have encountered otherwise, both about how other scholars in adjacent fields think and work and about what other people know or think they know. What textbooks are valuable for teaching which subjects? What effect has "deconstructionism" had outside of modern English literature departments? Were there many female scribes in the middle ages and what difference would it make to us if there were? How were palimpsest manuscripts produced, and how can we exploit technology to recover their original contents? How did the traditions about finding solace in the wounds of Jesus develop? What constituted "patronage" in the Greco-Roman world and how did that institution affect the development of Judaism and early Christianity? What is the best source for detailed information on the convential designations, contents, etc., of the Dead Sea Scrolls? These are actual matters discussed during late spring and early summer of 1991, all of which have direct significance for my own teaching and scholarship. And many others like them have passed across my screen. New groups and endeavors have also started up, calling for even more of one's immediate attention. The Bryn Mawr Classical Review is fully active electronically in producing prompt and thorough reviews of publications in classical studies. These will also appear in print somewhat later. IOUDAIOS has started a similar review project for publications in its areas of interest; some older groundbreaking works such as Robin Lane Fox on Pagans and Christians (1987) have received extensive discussion already, in response to readers' queries. There are also refereed electronic journals, such as "Postmodern Culture." The RELIGION list has started collecting class syllabi and related materials, and there has been some discussion of suitable textbooks for various religion courses. Many different types of material have been deposited on "ListServers" from which any subscriber can obtain specific items at will -- texts, bibliographies, drafts of articles, special collections of data, and the like. And there is much more: Announcements and reports of conferences, job postings, product announcements and reviews (what is the best footnoting software available for the Mac?), obituaries, requests for exchange of housing during sabbaticals, locating addresses, getting advice about graduate programs. The list goes on an on. A credit course on computer programming for the humanities was offered recently over the BITNET network. An electronic Hebrew Users Group newsletter is being produced, and may or may not be listed in the new electronic directory of academic e-conferences available from the HUMANIST ListServer. The new archaeology list (ARCH-L@DGOGWDG1) will certainly appear there, and perhaps also "Egypt-net," about which I know very little. Our world is rapidly changing. Some of us will be caught up more than others in the process, but one way or another we will all be affected by it. Active engagement in the electronic networks is not for everyone, even if everyone had the same opportunity to be involved. But the potential is tremendous, at a wide variety of levels -- information gathering, testing ideas, interactive discussion, review and publication, distribution and revision. And our personal worlds will move more and more in these directions, along with the worlds of our colleagues and students and children. Get involved if you are so inclined, and in any event stay informed. As was emphasized in OFFLINE 33, these and related issues will be the theme of the CARG sessions at Kansas City in November. Meanwhile, if I don't answer your mail immediately, please be patient. I may be floundering in a glut of newly released information! <-----> 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. INTERNET address: KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU. To request printed information or materials from OFFLINE, please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label. A complete electronic file of OFFLINE columns is available upon request (for IBM/DOS, Mac, or IBYCUS), or from the HUMANIST discussion group FileServer (BROWNVM.BITNET). From: Eric Rabkin Subject: "Teen" query Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 09:06:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 490 (571) I have a simple question that I've asked of a number of linguists, including experts in Romance philology, so far to no avail. So, I throw my question out to my fellow HUMANISTS. It concerns the numbers between 10 and 20. In English, we tend to refer to these as the "teens" because they all end with "teen," except, of course, that they don't. Only the numbers 13 through 19 end in teen. As we all know, with the exception of French French (as opposed to Swiss or Belgian French), the numbers from 20 to 99 proceed via simple forms, the decade usually marked by a variant on the corresponding single-digit number (two, twenty; three, thirty) and then the next nine numbers formed by adding one each (thirty-one, etc.). But in the decade of the teens, we have this interesting marker of "teenness," which obviously come from "tenness," a fact even more obvious in German than in English. Now French and Spanish, just like English and German, have teen-markers, but, at least on the surface, they don't seem to come into play right after 12, as in English and German, but rather after 15 and 16 respectively. Now, I'm perfectly willing to believe that the z of quatorze and the second c of catorce are z markers, perhaps related to the z of zehn, so I'm open for a good historical account of how there are really TWO teen markers in Romance languages, a z and a dix/diez. But what I'm most interested in learning is why French and Spanish, with such similar histories, change from one teen marker to another at *different* points in their numbering systems. (So far as I've been able to discover, this oddity is nowhere noted in print much less explained. If that's so, and if this prompts someone to solve the problem, it would be a kick for me if my posing of this question were acknowledged in the resulting paper.) English German French Spanish ------- ------- ------- --------- ten zehn dix diez eleven elf onze once twelve zwolf douze doce thirteen dreizehn treize trece fourteen vierzehn quatorze catorce fifteen funfzehn quinze quince sixteen sechzehn seize dieciseis (diez y seis) seventeen siebzehn dix-sept diecisiete (diez y siete) eighteen achtzehn dix-huit dieciocho (diez y ocho) nineteen neunzehn dix-neuf diecinueve (diecinueve) twenty zwanzig vingt veinte Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: dfreeman%mizar.usc.edu@usc.edu (Donald Freeman) Subject: Old English Characters Date: Tue, 9 Jul 91 21:14:11 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 491 (572) I wonder if there is an philologist-cum-computer-jockey out there who might help with the following problem. I have a Ph. D. student who probably is going to do a dissertation involving some examples from Old English. I now and again write stuff in which it would be nice to be able to use the full range of Old English characters using the standard Magoun normalization. Both my student and I are Mac users. We would like to be able to manufacture and insert on our keyboards what is missing from all the fonts we have looked at: the so-called "runic" OE characters:-- the eth, the thorn, the yogh, etc. Ideally, we'd like to be able to use these characters in more than one font (say, Geneva, Helvetica, Times, New York, and Palatino, for starters). Neither of us is a computer wizard, as must be painfully obvious from the foregoing. I would appreciate whatever help I can get from fellow humanists on this point. Donald C. Freeman, Department of English, University of Southern California From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Ethnograph Date: Thu, 11 Jul 91 13:38 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 492 (573) Dear All, I have recieved a query concerning a textual analysis program called ETHNOGRAPH (Qualis Research Associates). Does anyone have experience of this package? If so I would appreciate any comments/suggestions. Thanks in advance Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273275 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: Query: e-Dumezil Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 16:13 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 493 (574) A request for a colleague - and I realise it must be a very long shot - does anyone know of electronic versions of any of the work of Dumezil (Firstname George if I remember correctly)? Relpy to me and I will forward them and tell the list if anything comes up. Thanks for your help Daviod Zeitlyn Inst Of Social Anthropology From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: E-mail address Date: Wed, 10 Jul 91 14:34:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 494 (575) Can anyone give me an e-mail address for the Union of Concerned Scientists? Than From: Martin Wynne Subject: re: Texts for electronic library Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 14:19:10 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 495 (576) Steve McCluskey asks if there are any surveys of machine-readable corpora available. I know of one such, compiled last year by Steve Fligelstone at the University of Lancaster for ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English). It's available from the ICAME server, by sending the following to nafserv@nora.navf-edb-h.iub.no : send icame survey.corpora The Oxford Text Archive catalogue is also an invaluable source of information on all sorts of machine-readable texts. This is available on janet from archive@uk.ac.oxford.vax . I've also heard of a project at the Centre for Text and Technology at Georgetown University to create a database about archives of MR text. The address for that is: Michael Neuman, Ph.D., Georgetown Centre for Text and TEchnology, Reiss Science Building, Room 238, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA. (Sorry - I haven't got the email address) -Martin Wynne -Dept. of Lnguistics & Phonetics -University of Leeds From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk Subject: RE: 5.0213 Qs: Etext lists; Grad School for HC; ... (6/122) Date: Wed, 10 JUL 91 14:59:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 496 (577) Dudley Irish enquires about 'Latin Vocabulary Software': [deleted quotation] Having just received a copy of "The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90" I thought "now here's a useful little test" - turn to index ... K, L, Lac, Latin America ... Latin Vocab Drill (call) 214. Turn to page 214: Ars Grammatica - interactive tutorial on elem. Latin for Macs devel: William M. Porter, Classics, Syracuse University. Latin Flash Drill - drill & practice on Latin forms + endings for Macs vendor: Centaur Systems, POBox 3220, Madison, WI 53704 USA. Latin Vocab Drill - drill & practice Latin <> English words for Mac + PC vendor: Centaur Systems, POBox 3220, Madison, WI 53704 USA. Tutrix - tutorial on Latin texts for PC vendor: Centaur Systems, POBox 3220, Madison, WI 53704 USA. plus loads more ... (Price quoted for 3 Centaur systems is $95 US.) Book seems to work well. Good. Simon Rae SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (BITNET) Research Adviser, Academic Computing Service SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom fax: (0908) 653744 From: kos@CUNYVMS1 Subject: Intro to Bibliography Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1991 08:13:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 497 (578) I just picked up a wonderful document: The syllabus to G. Thomas Tanselle's course "Introduction to Bibliography" which he teaches at Columbia. If you are familiar with Tanselle's work, then you know that this is not merely technical listings, but also a path to various others disciplines, such as textual editing. It's 100 pages long, single-spaced, double-sided (imagine giving that to your one-semester class!), and filled with all sorts of information. It is available for $15 (postpaid) from: Book Arts Press Columbia University School of Library Service 516 Butler Library New York, NY 10027 Enjoy. Bob Kosovsky Graduate Center (Ph.D. Program in Music)/City University of New York New York Public Library--Music Division bitnet: kos@cunyvms1.bitnet internet: kos@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu From: "Keith Nightenhelser, Depauw University" Subject: texts for women and language course Date: Thu, 11 Jul 91 16:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 498 (579) A while back there was some discussion of texts to use in courses about women's language. Could whoever received the suggestions summarize them for us? Also, may I add to the suggestions some books by Deborah Cameron: (as editor) _The Feminist Critique of Language_ Routledge 1990 [this just received a rave review in the Spring 1991 _Verbatim_; it's apparently a wide-ranging collection of readings] _Feminism and Linguistic Theory_ St Martin 1987 [a very clear summary of the work people have been doing, I am told; a second edition may be out now] (with J. Coates) _Women in Their Speech Communities_ Longman 1989. Keith Nightenhelser From: ALAN COOPER Subject: Re: 5.0209 Bibliography Software (2/189) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1991 17:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 499 (580) I've just gotten around to reading this very informative posting, and was a bit disappointed to see that Citation was excluded from consideration. I would appreciate information from anyone who has used it, as well as information on how to reach the manufacturer (name, address, 800-number). With thanks. (No need to post replies to the network, unless you think they'd be of general interest.) Alan Cooper, Hebrew Union Colleget( From: Oliver Phillips Subject: electronic Vulgate Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 17:09:54 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 500 (581) Does anyone know of a machine readable Latin Vulgate? Something on CD-ROM disk would be preferable. We have the Latin CD-ROM disk on order here at the University of Kansas from the Packard Institute for the Humanities, in fact, have had it on order for more than a year without getting it, and I suppose it might be on that. Does anyone with access to that disk know? Other suggestions? Oliver Phillips Classics University of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: Mary WhitlockBlundell Subject: BCE/CE Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 22:00:44 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 501 (582) Does anyone know who started substituting the abbreviations BCE and CE for BC and AD, what the grounds for these choices were, and when? Mary Whitlock Blundell mwb@u.washington.edu From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu Subject: Designing a Swing Set Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 14:50:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 502 (583) DESIGNING A SWING SET: CARTOON We probably have all seen the cartoon on designing a swing set. There are six panels showing a tree and swing. What the user wanted (last panel) was a tire hung from a tree limb, but the rest of the panels show *As proposed by the project sponsor *As specified in the project request *As designed by the senior systems analyst etc. I am trying to track down the original source in order to get copyright permission to use in a new textbook. Do you have a source for this? While it has been widely reprinted, one colleague here cited it as "First (?) seen in University of London Computer Centre Newsletter." From: kproddy@ucdavis.BITNET Subject: Medieval Study & Computing Graduate Study Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 10:19:34 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 503 (584) Humanists all-- One of my Medieval Studies majors is interested in graduate work in the field, and has a strong bent towards computers (he did brilliantly in my Computers and Humanities class, and had been a biological science major hithertofore), so he's looking for a program either here in the States or in Europe that might emphasize both. He has Latin and German, and I believe that his computer skills in UNIX are sufficiently great to make him marketable. I'd appreciate any help. Kevin Roddy Medieval Studies Program kproddy@ucdavis.BITNET From: ekj@rsch.oclc.org (Erik Jul) Subject: Research & Education Networking Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 10:08:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 234 (585) "Research & Education Networking" CALL FOR PAPERS "Research & Education Networking" solicits articles for publication. This monthly newsletter features subjects related to the development, use, and impact of computer networking for research and educational purposes. Each issue analyzes recent developments with the proposed National Research and Education Network (NREN); the Internet; electronic networking, publishing, and scholarly communication; and other emerging issues of interest to the academic, library, government, computer, and communications communities. Suggested topics for articles include, but are not limited to: - Concepts of global, high-speed networking; the roles of various government, not-for-profit, and commercial organizations - The roles of libraries and information providers in a networked environment; the "electronic" library; access to electronic information; case histories - The practical and theoretical problems associated with cataloging or otherwise organizing, describing, and providing access to network resources; emerging standards - The impact of networking and electronic publication on the conduct of research and the dissemination of knowledge; tools for collaboration; scholarly communities, the "invisible" college - Educational applications of networking and networked resources; networking K-12; ubiquitous access; costs and subsidies; program descriptions - Conference announcements and reports, research findings and applications, book reviews, product descriptions, and announcements of new network resources Interested authors should contact: Erik Jul, Editor c/o OCLC Office of Research 6565 Frantz Road Dublin OH 43017-0702 Phone: (614) 764-4364 FAX: (614) 764-6096 Internet: ekj@rsch.oclc.org Please circulate this call for papers among your colleagues, or post to other networks, lists, or bulletin boards. Articles and proposals are welcome at all times. "Research & Education Networking" is published by Meckler Corporation. From: Subject: Program: 6th International CAP Conference Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 07:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 504 (586) PROGRAM DETAILS 6th COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE The program has now been set for the 6th International Computing & Philosophy Conference (6th CAP) to be held in New Haven, CT at Southern Connecticut State University on August 10 to 12, 1991. The conference is sponsored by the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Computing and Philosophy and hosted by the Research Center on Computing and Society. Presenters at the 6th CAP will consider o the impact of computing upon basic philosophical concepts like "knowledge', "truth", "decision making", "reasoning", "logic", "responsibility", "thinking", "consciousness", "awareness", and so on. o the present and future impact of electronic bulletin boards and electronic seminars upon philosophical research and publication o the potential advantages and pitfalls of electronic texts and text analysis in philosophy o artificial intelligence o teaching logic using computer assisted instruction o logic theorem proving by means of a computer Two Keynote Speakers: o Professor Frederick I. Dretske of Stanford University will speak on the topic of "Extrinsic Properties and Artificial Intelligence". o Michael S. Hart, Director of Project Gutenberg, will speak on the topic "Project Gutenberg: Giving Away One Trillion Electronic Books" Facilities and living quarters will be air conditioned. This sixth CAP conference will occur back-to-back with the National Conference on Computing and Values (NCCV) to be held on the same campus August 12 to 16. Those attending the CAP conference, who are UNABLE to stay for the entire five-day NCCV, can remain one extra day for a special one-day "short track for philosophers" (a separate announcement will be posted on this list). [Those who do NOT wish to read the detailed program or the travel and registration information can STOP READING here.] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PROGRAM: 6TH INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING & PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE Friday, August 9, 1991 Noon to 11 p.m. Registration Open --Engleman Hall Rotunda 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Dinner --Connecticut Hall 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception Saturday, August 10, 1991 7:00 to 8:15 a.m. Breakfast 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. Session 1: Artificial Intelligence --EN 135 Session Chair: Steven J. Gold, Southern Connecticut State U. Don Sievert, University of Missouri--Columbia "Searle and Descartes: Nonthinking Speakers and Nonspeaking Thinkers" George Teschner, Christopher Newport College "A Theory of Cognition for a Hypertext Generator" Peter H. Barnett, John Jay College of Criminal Justice "Timekeeping and Identity in a Distributed Computing Environment" 11:00 to 12 noon Keynote Address Frederick I. Dretske, "Extrinsic Properties and Artificial Intelligence" 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Lunch --Connecticut Hall 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Software Demonstrations (bring your box lunch) Rob Brady (Stetson University) will demonstrate "The LogicWorks" and "The CourseWorks" Robert Cavelier (Carnegie-Mellon University) will demonstrate use of the American Philosophical Association's Electronic Bulletin Board Wojiech Suchon (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) will Demonstrate "LOGIKA1" (others to be announced) 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Session 2: Logic I Session Chair: Ken W. Gatzke, Southern Connecticut Stat U. Herbert E. Hendry and Joseph F. Hanna, Michigan State U. "A Recursive Algorithm for Constructing Deductions" Andrew S. McCafferty, Louisiana State University "Theorem Proving in Fitch's Natural Deduction" Frederic D. Portoraro, University of Toronto "Symlog's Natural Deduction Theorem Prover" Raymond D. Gumb, University of Lowell "Logic and Computer Science Practice" 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Software Demonstrations (room to be announced) 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Dinner --Connecticut Hall 7:30 to 10:00 p.m. Session 3: Artificial Intelligence II --EN 135 Chair: (to be announced) Paul A. Luker and Dennis Rothermel, California State-Chico "The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: An Interdisciplinary, Team-Taught Course" Sabine Thuermel, Munich, Germany "Philosophical Aspects of Machine Learning" Leslie Burkholder, Carnegie-Mellon University "Artificial Rationality" Catherine A. Womack, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Philosophical Challenges to Church's Thesis as a Model for Computation" Sunday, August 11, 1991 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Breakfast 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Session 4: Logic II --EN 135 Panel Discussion: "The Use of Logic Programs in the Undergraduate Curriculum" Chair: Robert Cavelier, Carnegie-Mellon U. Panelists: Rob Brady, Stetson U. Richard Schein, Carnegie-Mellon U. James H. Moor, Dartmouth College Frederic D. Portoraro, U. of Toronto Marvin Croy, U. of North Carolina, Charlotte 11:00 a.m. to Noon Keynote Address --EN 135 Michael S. Hart, Director, The Gutenberg Project "Project Gutenberg: Giving Away One Trillion Electronic Books" 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Lunch --Connecticut Hall 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Software Demonstrations (bring your box lunch) 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Session 5: "The Electronic Philosopher" Part I - Electronic Searching of Philosophical Texts Gavin T. Colvert, University of Toronto "Computer Analysis of Philosophical Texts: a 'TACTful' Approach" Tze-wan Kwan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "A Multi-Lingual Concordances and Flexible Search/Query System for Philosophical Classics" Part II - Panel Discussion: "The Impact on Philosophy of Electronic Texts and Bulletin Boards" Chair: Terrell Ward Bynum, Southern Connecticut State U. Panelists: Peter Danielson, Co-Moderator, PHILOSOP Barry Floyd, Moderator, NSP-L Gavin T. Colvert, University of Toronto (others to be announced) 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Software Demonstrations (room to be announced) 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Conference Barbeque and Frozen Yogurt Social 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Film Showing: "Forbidden Planet" Discussion Afterwards lead by: Ken W. Gatzke, Southern Connecticut State U. Daniel P. Ort, Southern Connecticut State U. Monday, August 12, 1991 7:00 to 8:15 a.m. Breakfast --Connecticut Hall 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. Session 6: Computing and Philosophical Concepts --EN 135 Jacques N. Catudal, Drexel University "Expert Systems and the Concept of Knowledge" Donald Keefer, Rhode Island School of Design "Post-Modern Anxieties Over Hypermedia" Chris Riesbeck, Northwestern University Maxine Morphis, MetaMorphis Associates "Getting Down to Cases" 11:15 to 12 Noon -- Business Meeting 12 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Lunch --Connecticut Hall END OF CONFERENCE ************************************************* TRAVEL AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION Those traveling to the conference by air can take advantage of a special arrangement with US Air. You or your travel agent can call 1-800-334-8644 (in USA) or 1-800-428-4322 ext.7702 (in Canada) and mention "Gold File #36470000" to get 5% off the lowest economy fare or 40% off the standard round trip day coach fare. HIGHWAYS: New Haven is convenient to Interstate Routes I-95 and I-91. Also to the Hutchinson River/Merritt/Wilber Cross Parkway. Southern Connecticut State University is at Fitch Street and Crescent Street (a few blocks off of Whalley Avenue). TRAINS: New Haven is served by Amtrak from Boston or New York, and by Metro North Railroad from New York. Take a taxi to Southern Connecticut State University (10 minutes). HOUSING: Conference housing will be in an air-conditioned residence hall on campus (see below). Those wishing, instead, to stay at the nearby Quality Inn Motel should call them directly: (203) 387-6651. The Quality Inn offers a special conference price: $50.00 per room per night (sleeps up to four people comfortably, good for families). To register, fill out the following form and e-mail it Professor Steven Gold at GOLD@CTSTATEU.BITNET. (Be sure to follow-up with a check or money order to the address indicated.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6th CAP -- REGISTRATION FORM NAME: ____________________________________________________________ INSTITUTION/COMPANY: _____________________________________________ SURFACE ADDRESS: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ E-MAIL ADDRESS(S): _______________________________________________ Registration ($90, student $35) _______ Single Dorm Room (Fri, Sat, Sun; $120 total) _______ Shared Dorm Room (Fri, Sat, Sun; $75 total) _______ Child's Room Supplement (Fri, Sat, Sun; $40 per child) _______ Meals (Friday dinner through Monday lunch; $60 total) _______ Child's Meals (Fri dinner to Monday lunch; $30 per child) _______ TOTAL COST _________ Send a check or money order payable to "CAP Conference", mailed to Prof. Steven J. Gold, Department of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 USA. (Phone: (203) 397-4423) Refund Policy: 100% if request postmarked before August 1st, 1991. From: Subject: Special "Philosopher's Day" at NCCV Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 07:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 505 (587) ONE-DAY PROGRAM ESPECIALLY FOR PHILOSOPHERS AT THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING AND HUMAN VALUES Tuesday, August 13th, 1991 A number of philosophers have expressed regret that they cannot attend ALL FIVE DAYS of the National Conference on Computing and Human Values (Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT; August 12th to 16th). They would like to come to the conference, but are unable to commit themselves to so long a time period. To accommodate these colleagues, arrangements have been made to offer a special one-day program for philosophers: THE "PHILOSOPHER'S DAY" PROGRAM INCLUDES: A Workshop on Applied and Professional Ethics A Major Speech on Teaching Computer Ethics A Panel Discussion on Teaching Computer Ethics The Philosophy Keynote Address And ALL of the Following: * Set of Syllabi on Computer Ethics (compiled by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) * One-Year Membership in the Research Center on Computing & Society * Machine-Searchable Bibliography on Computing and Human Values * Computer Art Exhibit by World Famous Artists * Computer Music by Nationally Known Composer * A Film Festival Session (a film with computer ethics implications, followed by audience discussion) * Computing & Values Exhibits: Books, Government Documents, Organizations, Hardware, Software, Computing for the Disabled, etc. Plus Your Choice of One "Enrichment Event" Presentation: * "Computer Ethics Through 'Thick' and 'Thin'": The Effects of Knowledge Filters on Electronic Seminars" --Peter Danielson * "A 'Capstone' Course in Professional Computer Ethics" --Don Gotterbarn * "NSF Grant Opportunities in Computer Ethics" -- Vivian Weil or Rachelle Hollander * "EDUCOM's Campus Computer Ethics 'War Stories' Project" --Sally Webster * "Education and Research in Computing: the Impact of Computing upon the Nature of a University" --Peter Denning Registration Fee (for ALL of the above): $100. For further information or registration, contact Walter Maner, NCCV Co-Chair, Computer Science Dept., Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA Phone: (419) 372-8719 (answering machine) (419) 372-2337 (secretary) FAX: (419) 372-8061 E-Mail: BITNet: MANER@BGSUOPIE.BITNET InterNet: maner@andy.bgsu.edu (129.1.1.2) CompuServe: [73157,247] From: "Keith Nightenhelser, Depauw University" Subject: Electronic Vulgate from PHI Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 11:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 506 (588) My institution received a letter from the Packard Humanities Institute a few weeks ago which says that their Latin CD ROM #5 is now ready for shipment. It contains "several versions of the Bible (the Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, Coptic New Testament, Latin Vulgate Bible, King James and RSV Bibles)." The license fee is $40/yr., $100/3 yrs. The letter notes that some earlier releases of software to use the cdroms wll not work with this disk because of a new file structure. The Packard Humanities Institute's bitnet address is xb.m07@stanford. Keith Nightenhelser From: (James Marchand) Subject: vulgate Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 06:07:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 507 (589) There are lots of Vulgates wandering around. The PHI is one of them. On CD-ROM there is also the FABS Reference Bible (FABS International, De Funiak Springs, FL 32433). I have used and demonstrated this one and found it satisfactory. There is also a review of it in Offline (about 29 or 30), but not of the Vulgate. It is also available from Hermeneutika (PO Box 98563, Seattle, WA 98198). Hermeneutika also has the CCAT (now out of print) Vulgate available. Perhaps Bob Kraft will tell us more when he returns. Jim Marchand From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: the teens &c. Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 10:51:13 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 508 (590) In response to Eric Rabkin's query about words for numbers between 11 and 19, presumed not to have been written about: see Karl Menninger, _Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers_ , trans. Paul Broneer (MIT Press, 1969): pp. 84-6. An interesting book throughout. Willard McCarty From: Tom Rusk Vickery Subject: WP Citation Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 09:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 509 (591) I bought Citation for WordPerfect and was really quite impressed with its features until I tried to use it. As a trial run of a dozen or so entries, I asked it to put them in one of the formats it "supports," and it began to churn away at its task. After about fifteen minutes of churning, I decided I wanted my computer back and cancelled the operation. My machine--a 386SX 16mHz--is no speed burner but it is faster than most machines in use today. And if Citation takes that long to reformat a dozen or so entries on my machine, it would take all night on a PC or XT or the equivalent. Have other had comparable experience? T. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom Rusk Vickery, 265 Huntington Hall * * Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-2340 * * 315-443-3450 TVICKERY@SUNRISE.ACS.SYR.EDU * * TVICKERY@SUNRISE.BITNET FAX 315-443-5732 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * End of returned message From: "Allen Renear, Brown Univ/CIS, 401-863-7312" Subject: Mac Archives SW Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 15:29:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 238 (592) Orginally Posted on Archives & Archivists list Tue, 16 Jul 1991 13:53:48 WST by Pam Mathews The attention of recipients is drawn to Professional Archivist - Hypercard interface software from MacResource. This software is not yet available, but will enter Beta code testing in October 1991 with release in December 1991. PA is based on the data set of Keeping Archives (edited by A. Pederson) and the Australian CRS method for describing archives and manuscripts. The following description is drawn from a promo leaflet issued by MacResource at the Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists Inc. in June 1991 (when Minaret and Professional Archivist were demonstrated in a workshop setting to delegates). Description: Professional Archivist is an Apple Macintosh based information retrieval system for managing small archives or special collections comprising archives, manuscripts and photographs. Features include keyword and boolean searching, popUp indexes, pull down menus, windowing and intuitive design. Through the PICT XCMND and HyperScan, PA supports on-line access to scanned images of described or catalogued documents. Linked images can be displayed in either an external window to HyperCard or as HyperCard information. Images may also be programmed for slide show presentation using PA's presentation functionality. The presentation of bit mapped information can be enhanced by additional editing and scripting (i.e. via the full range of HyperCard editing tools) or through the addition of sound resources. Select List of Features: String, Keyword and Exact (Whole term) searching based on titles, desciptors, physical formats and control symbols. Full boolean (AND/Or) based logic searching operable to a maximum of two fields. Variable length scrollable notes fields (theoretically up to 32K). System supervisor for index management/password control etc. On-line help for novice cataloguers via the hot text function describing syntax and other input data parameters. PopUp scrollable index fields Authority control for subject descriptors and physical formats. Professional Archivist is a single user purpose designed program authored by an Archivist in conjunction with MacResource/NADSOFT. Further information can be obtained from Pam Mathews. -- ************************************************************* Pam Mathews Internet: mathews@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au ************************************************************* From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Classical Clip Art Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 11:50:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 510 (593) My colleague Stanley Lombardo asks me to inquire about Mac-compatible clip art with Classical motifs: vase paintings, borders, etc. Is there a vendor? Oliver Phillips Classics, University of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM From: DAVID BARRY Subject: George Berkeley Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 17:24 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 511 (594) information requested re: MS letters by or to George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685-1753) This request is posted on behalf of David Berman, Philosophy Dept. Trinity College, Dublin. Reply to me and I will forward David Barry UBJV649@uk.ac.bbk.cu (This is a JANET address) From: EEFI4458@VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK Subject: Mac Grammar Checkers Date: Thu, 18 Jul 91 15:44 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 512 (595) Could any recommend one of the Grammar Checker Software Packages for the Mac? One of our Korean postgraduates has become convinced that this is what she needs to help her finish the draft of her PhD thesis. Anyone any suggestions? With thanks, JOHN KIRK School of English The Queen's University of Belfast E-mail EEFI4458@VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK From: jdg@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joel D. Goldfield) Subject: "Query about crosswords" Date: Thu, 18 Jul 91 19:27:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 513 (596) Can anyone recommend software which will automatically construct crossword puzzle configurations from lists of words? Thanks, Joel D. Goldfield From: "Dr. Ruth Mazo Karras" Subject: query: gender & anthropology Date: 19 Jul 91 10:31:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 514 (597) I am currently revising an article on "Servitude and Sexuality in Medieval Iceland." The comparative material I am using is all historical: mainly New World slavery. The editor has suggested that I also make use of non-European, contemporary comparative material, and suggested Henrietta Moore, _Feminism and Anthropology_. Does anyone else have any suggestions? What I am looking for is anything that deals with sexual access to subordinate women, whatever their legal status. You can respond to me at RKARRAS@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU or to the list. Thanks. Ruth Karras From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: e-addresses Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 00:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 515 (598) I am trying to contact the following people, all active in the field of literary criticism and the computer. I would be glad to get their e-address. - Alain Vuillemin (Comparative literature research center - Sorbonne) - Bernard Gicquel (??University of Maine??) - J.-P. Balpe Thanks. Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" MONTREAL (Quebec) Canada - H3C 3J7 E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca Tel.: (514) 288-3916 From: Paul Brians Subject: BCE/CE Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 10:30:46 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 516 (599) I'm no expert, but I believe Jewish scholars, particularly Biblical ones, invented the BCE/CE designation, which many of us prefer because it avoids the Christian bias in the BC/AD label, which is inaccurate anyway, because it hinges on an incorrectly calculated date for the birth of Jesus. I don't know when it was first developed. From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: BCE/BC Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 21:30 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 517 (600) I don't know the who or when, but the why of the change (from BC to BCE and from AD to CE) was to "de-Christianize" the calendar terminology -- at least, that's what I was told. BCE and CE are widely used in biblical studies -- I don't know about other fields. George Aichele From: Eric Rabkin Subject: BCE/CE v BC/AD Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 22:36:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 518 (601) I don't know who or when BCE and CE were introduced, but, as I understand it, the point is to de-Christianize the historical timeline. Before the Common Era (BCE) accepts the historical reality that the era we in the West share dates itself according to the birth of Jesus but avoids using the notion of Christ, the Annointed One, since not all people who share that calendar share that belief. Similarly, Common Era says nothing about Anno Domini, the Year of Our Lord. Personally, I prefer BCE and CE and use them. Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: 5.0233 Qs: Vulgate etext; Citation; BCE/CE ... (5/74) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 22:40:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 519 (602) In re: BCE/CE usage. I recall seeing these abbreviations when I was a child (circa WWII) in a neighbor's Jehovah Witness literature. It was explained that they meant Before the Common Era and Common Era; the neighbor, a lay person, explained that they were used so as not to give prominence to any individual (Jesus Christ), but that they were the same dates as the "Common" calender we used. (So, this is not reall an answer to the question; I don't know when and where the abbrevs. came into "popular" or "scholarly" use...does anybody else know? Paula Presley Northeast Missouri State University AD15@nemomus.bitnet From: "Allen Renear, Brown Univ/CIS, 401-863-7312" Subject: Humanist Pause Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 09:08:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 241 (603) Sorry for the unannounced pause in Humanist mail -- the North American TEI Workshop now at Brown has kept me away from my list duties. -- Allen From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 14:55:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 242 (604) To the Editor: The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is now ready to be placed on the Humanist fileserver. A copy of it has also been sent to you. Please place the following announcement on Humanist once you have the Directory (two files) in place (if you are willing to have it). Please note that its name must remain EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY and EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY. 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This Directory, along with Diane Kovacs compilation, _Directories of Academic E-Mail Conferences_ is also now available in print and on diskette (Dos WordPerfect and MacWord) from: Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 USA ARLHQ@UMDC.Bitnet (202) 232-2466 (voice) (202) 462-7849 (fax) The publication is available to ARL members for $10 and to non-members for $20 (add $5 postage per directory for foreign addressses). Orders of 6 or more copies receive a 10% discount. All orders must be PREPAID and sent to the Association of Research Libraries. Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> <441495@UOTTAWA> From: Subject: Why Is Computer Ethics Important?--Forwarded Message Date: Sat, 20 Jul 91 21:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 520 (605) 20 July 91 The following message is forwarded from list NSP-L ************************************************ In a recent posting on this list, Barry Floyd said: [deleted quotation] I'm always intrigued when people ask whether computing poses "unique" ethical questions. Probably it does, and with a little effort and some careful defining of key terms, we can come up with some. But the importance (or even the EXISTENCE, some people would say) of computer ethics as a research subject DOES NOT DEPEND UPON WHETHER COMPUTING GENERATES *UNIQUE* ETHICAL DILEMMAS. Computer technology is changing the world--including the research, publication and teaching world of the professional philosopher. It is having a profound impact upon human values of all kinds: privacy, security, peace, health, ownership, freedom, democracy, knowledge, truth, logic, reasoning, art, music, literature, government, and on and on! Isn't this enough to make computer ethics a vitally important subject? If nearly all the things we value will eventually be radically changed by computer technology, shouldn't we study-- and attempt to direct and control--the impact of such technology? We would be fools NOT to do so! As I understand the field, Computer Ethics studies the impact of computer technology upon human values. Whether such technology generates UNIQUE dilemmas is an interesting, but NOT a central or definitive question of computer ethics. Terrell Ward Bynum, Director Research Center on Computing & Society Southern Connecticut State University New Haven, CT 06515 USA E-Mail: BYNUM@CTSTATEU.BITNET From: Subject: RE: Why Is Computer Ethics Important? Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 07:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 521 (606) Forwarded from ETHIC-L: [deleted quotation] Tom Lapp makes an interesting and useful suggestion about the nature of computer ethics. Ultimately, though, I don't think his interesting suggestion is correct (for the reasons that I offer below). Here is my original definition and Tom's reply: [deleted quotation] Tom's suggestion might hold if computers were used just in the workplace or just when one is working. Computers are indeed incredibly flexible "tools" that can be used to do all sorts of "jobs"; but they are far more than mere TOOLS. These days computing technology can be found in all walks of life, affecting or being used for home activities, play and recreation, government interaction with citizens (in voting, for example), and so on. Indeed, some of the human values affected (even radically transformed) by computing technology are play and recreation, art and music, for example, which--for MOST people, anyway--are not associated with their work or workplace. Computer technology is dramatically altering the WHOLE world, even "the third world", not just the work world. The "computer revolution" will be as big as, or bigger than, the "industrial revolution" a hundred and fifty years ago. It will change almost EVERYTHING in our society--and in every society on earth--and eventually on the moon, mars, wherever humans venture. This is why the study of computer ethics is important. We should strive to make computer technology ADVANCE AND ENHANCE HUMAN VALUES, rather than damage them. From: "L. Dale Patterson" Subject: Notes and Bibliography Data Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 14:45:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 244 (607) I don't have an answer for T.R. Vicker about WP Citation, but I do have a further question about bibliographic software. I am not terribly interested in a package which can take the citation data and format it 120 different ways. What I would prefer is a package which once the citation to the work is entered would then allow me to enter multiple 'screens' of citations. To describe it another way I should be able to enter the bibliographic data once and then enter notes, quotations, etc. each with its own page reference and have each related to the bibliographic record. I don't want to have to enter the bibliographic data for each citation and I want a separate record for each citation (or note or thought I have about the work). This way I can export individual citations to my word processor in any order I choose. If each citation could be keyword indexed that would be even better. I have been attempting to create such a package, but am too slow at the process and wonder what is now available on the market. Thanks for any and all hints. -- Dale Patterson University of Louisville BITNET: ldpatt01 @ ulkyvm From: ALAN COOPER Subject: Re: 5.0239 Qs: Classical Clip Art; Berkeley; ... (6/82) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1991 12:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 522 (608) Re Joel Goldfield's request for information about crossword puzzle generators. Three programs that do it were reviewed in PC Magazine, May 28, 1991, pp. 478f. I bought Mickey's Crossword Puzzle Maker for my kids, and they love it. The other two programs might be more suitable for use by grownups: Crossword Magic pub. by Mindscape Inc., 60 Leveroni Ct, Novato, CA 94949, 800-231-3088; Crossword Power, pub. by Wisco Computing, POB 8, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495, 715-423-8189. I have not used either of these latter two programs myself. All three programs are in the $40-50 list price range, so price will not be the determining factor. With good wishes, Alan Cooper, Hebrew Union College From: (James Marchand) Subject: crossword puzzle software Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 20:36:30 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 523 (609) Offhand, I can think of only one, though I am sure there are many: Puzzler, by Publishing Technologies, Nederlands, Postbus 61, 3700 AB Zeist. Their American phone no. is (303) 680-9778. There is a nice, undoubtedly out-of- print book I have used with pleasure and profit: Ernest E. Mau, Word Puzzles with Your Microcomputer (Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden, 1982). It teaches you to program puzzles, using BASIC. Jim Marchand From: Tom Rusk Vickery Subject: Crossword maker Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 13:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 524 (610) Joel Goldfield requested information on software that will create crossword puzzles from a list of words supplied by the user. There are a number of puzzle makers, inclulding some for crosswords, in the Software Labs catalog. They supply shareware and public domain software at very low cost and guarantee their disks to be virus free. I have not used their stuff so I cannot comment on its quality. Their toll-free number is 1-800-359-9998. T. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Tom Rusk Vickery, 265 Huntington Hall * * Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-2340 * * 315-443-3450 TVICKERY@SUNRISE.ACS.SYR.EDU * * TVICKERY@SUNRISE.BITNET FAX 315-443-5732 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0239 Qs: Classical Clip Art; Berkeley; ... (6/82) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 11:30:06 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 525 (611) Although I can not at this moment supply any specific titles, there are several "crossword puzzle makers" in the public domain for pc compatibles. Try a local micro bbs system or the msdos archives at simtel20 or other net sites. dan ************************************************************************ * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * Boise State University * Boise, Idaho 83725 You can be sure these ideas are my * 208-385-1234 own; no one else would have them. ************************************************************************ From: David Stampe Subject: the teens &c. Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 12:05:27 -1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 526 (612) In response to Eric Rabkin's query about teens, they are discussed in my paper "Cardinal Number Systems", in the 1976 Chicago Linguistic Society volume. My aim there was to explain univerals of number systems (their math, prosody, syntax, and phonology) in terms of their uses, of which the primary one is counting. Here's a brief outline, regrettably long: A. Counting requires consecutive integers, i.e. addition. There are (or were) languages with only addition, e.g. "two and one" = 3, "two and two and one" = 5. The order is smallest additive last: "one and two" would not be a number. Why? In language new information comes last, and in counting what's new is always the lower "digits". (See your digital watch.) B. The units (simple words for consecutive integers) often referred originally to handy counters such as fingers (4 or 5, or 8 or 10), joints of the fingers (12), or fingers and toes (20). The highest unit, which is used as a base for combining numbers (see B), refers to these counters collectively. "Ten", "-teen", and "-ty" may have derived from proto-Indo-European (and earlier) words for hand(s). C. To count higher our limited memories require some "clumping", so we use multiples of the base: "one HAND and one", "one HAND and two", ... "two HANDS and one", etc. For consecutiveness, these have the structure "(UNIT x BASE) + UNIT", with the base a simple word, never a complex as in *"UNIT x (BASE + UNIT)". Higher bases are nouns for its multiples (twenty, thirty) or powers (hundred, thousand). D. If additives have the order higher...lower (see A), then by ordering multiplicatives lower...higher, any numeric expression can be parsed and interpreted without explicit "times" or "plus" words, simply by their orders and magnitudes. So we say "two hundred" for 2 x 100, to reserve "hundred two" for 100 + 2, and therefore "one hundred two" is unambigously interpretable as (1 100) + 2 = 102. The same rule of "LARGE + SMALL, SMALL x LARGE" handles even "recursive" expressions like "one hundred two thousand one hundred two", i.e. (((1 100) + 2) 1000) + (1 100) + 2 = 102,102 E. BUT counting is talking, and talking takes time. So we abbreviate in familiar contexts: "three ninety-five", "ten sixty-six", etc. And we elide familiar numbers: "se'm" (7), "'le'm" (8). Systematically, in number systems, "one" can often be left out where it's deducible, as in "(one) hundred", and it's normally left out in "[one] ten", and in the teens: "fourteen" in effect stands for "one-ty four". Further, we shorten familiar phrases by eliminating rests between words, thus making phrases into compounds: "twenty [rest] seven" -> "twenty-seven" (contrast the unshortened "twenty [rest] thousand"). And we shorten familar compounds by making them simple words: German "vi'erze`hn" (with two accents) -> Yiddish "fi'rtsn" (with one accent), Latin "quattuor-decim" (with two accents) -> French "quatorze" (with one). Shortening typically affects the most familiar elements, and in counting those are the lower numbers. So it is most likely to affect the teens, and then the higher decades. F. There is another rule for new information: it is always accented. In counting we say twenty-ONE, twenty-TWO, twenty-THREE. Note how the accent shifts to the new information in counting (abnormally) by tens from five: FIVE, FIFteen, TWENTY-five, THIRTY-five. And the teens, which take the normal English "hind" word-accent in isolation, in counting are accented on the new information: THIRteen, FOURteen. New information changes the accent, but the grammar doesn't allow it to change the order of the parts of phrases or compounds. But the grammar can change... G. English used to say "four-and-twenty", like German "vierundzwanzig"; and also like "fourteen", German "vierzehn", Latin "quattordecim". In all these the rule Large + Small is violated. The reason is that they are compounds, and compounds act more like words than phrases, and words may have rules for accent different from phrases. In Old English, German, and prehistoric Latin word accent was initial. And so, in compound number words, the natural place for the small number, which is accented as new information in normal counting, was initial. H. In Classical Latin and early modern English, accent shifted to (relatively) word-final. In the higher compounds in both languages, the small number eventually shifted with it: twenty-four, viginti- quattuor, and likewise in Romance: vingt-quatre. But the teens, being more frequent, and thus more likely learned by rote, resisted change -- just as frequent irregular forms, like forms of "be", resist change. Nonetheless, in Romance, some higher (less frequent) teens were rebuilt: after seize (a one-syllable shortening from Latin sexdecim), new forms like dix-sept were substituted with the small number under the final word accent. In English, word accent shifted in the teens (fo'urte`en -> fo`urte'en) as pronounced in isolation, but the word order didn't. Maybe we should be saying "one-ty four". Besides conservatism, the the reason why "fourteen", with its non-match of accent with new information, is tolerated may be that in context our English "rhythm rule" happens to make it right: "fo'urte`en do'llars". I. To keep this over-long posting shorter, I've skipped suppletive numbers, like eleven and twelve, where the "system" would lead us to expect "oneteen" and "twoteen". Or subtractive (really anticipatory) numbers like Latin "duodeviginti" (2 from 20 = 18), which didn't make it into Romance. Usually we learn such numbers before we learn the system, just as we learn "was" before we know enough of the English verb tense system to produce "is-ed". For their origins, any good dictionary will give etymologies, but who knows the deeper reasons for their existence, persistence, and even productivity? There is one system, that of Sora (a Munda language of India) which, though derived historically from a purely decimal system, counts by twelves and twenties, so that 56 is two-twenties twelve-and-four. Go figure. David Stampe , Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Hawaii/Manoa, Honolulu HI 96822 From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 17:46:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 527 (613) In response to my "Teen Query" asking if anyone knew why French starts teens with "dix" beginning with seventeen while Spanish starts teens with "diez" beginning with sixteen, I received four replies. The first three served to show that the "teens" are even more complicated than I had mentioned, pointing out, for example, that Latin (at least in some forms) forms 18 and 19 by subtracting from 20. Willard McCarty directed my attention to Karl Menninger's excellent *Number Words and Number Symbols* where, on pp. 84-86, the teens are examined. The book as a whole, and that section, are enlightening, but I must report that the variation between Spanish and French is, according to Menninger, "unexplained." Anyone out there looking for a dissertation topic? Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: (James Marchand) Subject: ce Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 20:42:30 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 528 (614) I also do not have any idea as to the originator of this abbreviation, but I suspect 18th century, when a great deal of PC work went on. I have seen it called the Christian era, so that removing Christ did not work for some. It is also called in English "the vulgar era," "our era." In German, one avoids mention of Christ for whatever reason by saying "Vor unserer Zeitrechnung," for example. In French, one can say "l'e&graveaccent;re commun" or "notre e&graveaccent;re." I would hate to see AD, AM and PM go down the drain. I was raised in a monolingual community where no language was taught even in the high-school; the expansions of these abbreviations were practically my only confrontation with Latin (maybe also i.e. and e.g.). Jim Marchand From: Dennis Baron Subject: C.E./B.C.E. Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 13:11:29 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 529 (615) Interestingly, perhaps predictably, the standard dictionaries are of no help on the dating of these abbreviations. The _OED_ defines C.E. (or C. AE.) as Common Era, sometimes Christian Era. _Christian Era_ was first used in English ca. 1657; the synonymous _Vulgar Era_ is dated 1716. There are no dates or cites for _Common Era_ (s.v. CE, Common, Era, Common Era). Webster's 3rd defines Common Era as `Christian Era.' Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary defines C.E. as `common era,' but does not define _Common Era_. The _Random House Dictionary of English_ 2nd ed defines _Common Era_ as `Christian Era.' And the politically aberrant _Random House Webster's College Dictionary_ does the same. Only Rosten's _Joys of Yiddish_ comments on these abbreviations that they have long been popular with Jewish scholars who were uncomfortable with a christological dating system. This I know from personal experience to be true. Unfortunately I can find no information to hand on just how long this has been a common practice, or if it indeed originated with Jewish scholars. I have made some inquiries and will let you know if I find anything more definite. However the assumption by the common dictionaries that common = Christian suggests that this attempt to unbias the reference system with respect to religion fares no better than attempts to reduce sex discrimination (wherein _chairperson_ is often the signal that the _chair_ is a woman, and _Ms._ is often treated as a synonym for _Miss_). Not that dictionaries are universally fair to Christians (check out some definitions of _jesuitical_ and _pontificate_). -- debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Robert Hollander Subject: North American Center for Machine Readable Texts Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 11:33:40 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 248 (616) First, Marianne and I regret that it has taken so long to get the various pieces of this announcement assembled, certified by all the parties concerned, and made official. What has happened may be described as follows: 1) In May the NEH offered the North American Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities $65,000 toward the continuance of work on the Inventory, declining at that time to fund the rest of a large proposal, but encouraging the Center to come back with its application once it had a Director and a more developed sense of its programs. We plan to apply again a year from this autumn (September 1992). 2) Early in June we learned that the Mellon Foundation had granted $225,000 to the Center for its varied projects and expenses over the next three years. 3) Last week we were delighted to hear that Susan Hockey has accepted our offer. She will serve a three-year term as the Center's Director. We hardly need say how very pleased we are with this result. Susan will take up her duties as soon as she can relocate, probably early this autumn. A clarification is necessary: While both funding and Susan Hockey's appointment are stated in terms of the next three years, all parties to all our negotiations have understood from the beginning that this is a formal limitation, that what is envisioned is a permanent position in an ongoing institution. It is up to those who are entrusted with the management of the Center's financial health to raise the funds that will make that permanence a reality, just as it is up to the new Director, her staff, and those whom it will serve, to develop its programs in such a way as to make its function indispensable. Marianne and I want to express publicly our gratitude to our two institutions, Rutgers and Princeton, for the cooperative effort on their part which has made the Center possible. Each institution has made a heavy financial contribution to the Center for the next three years. It goes without saying that we are also deeply grateful to the Mellon Foundation and the NEH for the trust which they have lodged in our enterprise. Again, we thank you for your patience and look forward to working with you in the years ahead. From: Robert Hollander Subject: Date: Fri, 26 Jul 91 16:02:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 249 (617) GAUNT@zodiac.rutgers.edu Fri Jul 26 15:00:31 1991 News Release National Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities Susan Hockey, Oxford University Computing Service, has been named Director of the National Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities. The Center is a joint effort of Rutgers and Princeton Universities. Most recently Director of the Computers in Teaching Initiative at the Centre for Textual Studies, Hockey has been a leading figure in humanities computing for many years. A founding member of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) and the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), she has been a member of the Executive Council of the ACH, and Chairman of the ALLC since 1984. She is currently Chair of the Steering Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). An active lecturer, Susan has made more than 50 presentations in over 8 countries in the last 15 years and written several books and numerous articles. She is a grants reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Australian Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, and Economic and Social Science Research Council and has written numerous successful grant proposals for awards totalling over $1 million. Susan will begin as Director following her relocation to New Jersey. The staff of the Center is also pleased to announce that it has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs in the amount of $65,000 to support the ongoing inventory activities, and $225,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the general activities of the Center. From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0237 Rs: Biblio SW (Citation); Number Words (2/38) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 13:10:45 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 530 (618) We've had the same experience with WP Citation here, too. The problem is that this product is really just a huge patchwork of WP macros, and anything that operates at that high of a level is not going to be terribly speedy. OTOH, for other approaches you have to factor in the time it would take to boot your database, run a report and route it to a disk file, then import the file into WP and format it. Turns out that for genuinely useful databases (i.e., involving hundreds of citations or more), the database route is still the faster. We rejected WP Citation on the grounds of performance. ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: Dale Subject: Re: 5.0244 Note and Bibliography SW (1/19) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 08:17:08 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 531 (619) What Dale Patterson wants is two databases: one that will list the bibliographic citation, and the other that will hold the notes on that citation. Any database that is relational will do this trick. The problem with most relational databases is that they don't handle long, free-form notes very well. Here are two suggestions: askSam, which will let you link records between databases; and Q&A, which in version 4.0 will let you do the same. askSam gives you more flexibility but is harder to learn (though not to use), while Q&A is amazingly easy to use, more powerful than you would have expected at first glance, and even has its own respectable word processor built in. They both cost around the same -- in the $300s. ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0244 Note and Bibliography SW (1/19) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 09:33:21 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 532 (620) Basically what you are describing is Nota Bene, which combines precisely this combination of note-taking/bibliographic citation. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley Subj: 5.0237 Rs: Biblio SW (Citation); Number Words (2/38) Tom Rusk Vickery says, "I bought Citation for WordPerfect and was really quite impressed features until I tried to use it. As a trial run of a dozen or so entries, I asked it to put them in one of the formats it "supports," and it began to churn away at its task. After about fifteen minutes of churning, I decided I wanted my computer back and cancelled the operation. My machine--a 386SX 16mHz--is no speed burner but it is faster than most machines in use today. And if Citation takes that long to reformat a dozen or so entries on my machine, it would take all night on a PC or XT or the equivalent." I've been using Citation with a PS/2; the final format is slow, but the "draft" format is much faster, and makes few errors. Do you have the most recent version? It is faster than the original. I find the program most helpful, since I always forget or miss formatting details which it takes care of. I could use an "intelligent" program though, which says, "THIS is a book? You forgot the date [or whatever], idiot!" Though learning the merge-file format is not a pleasure, using "Citation" has cut down on returns for incorrect bibliographical format. Word Perfect is a standard here, so using tools that work with it is the simplest thing to do. Leslie Morgan (morgan@loyvax1) From: Jan Eveleth Subject: BilioStax Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 13:32:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 533 (621) Did I miss something? I just called ProTem to get information about BiblioStax software for the Mac and was told that it is "no longer available". The person I spoke with couldn't give anymore details. Does anyone else know what the story is? What about the health of Pro/Tem Software? --Jan Eveleth Yale University eveleth@yalevm From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Electronic Vulgate(s) Date: Friday, 26 July 1991 0005-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 251 (622) To the best of my knowledge, all the electronic Vulgate texts derive from a single source, Wilhelm Ott at the University of Tuebingen (as the computer wizard for the Beuron Vulgate project of B. Fischer et al.). Certain distributors have received permission to make this material more widely available, most notably the Oxford Text Archive (with specific permission from the originators) and the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts here at Penn. Since I am associated with CCAT, I can describe more accurately what has happened on the CCAT side of things. We received permission to distribute the text under our normal conditions (non-commercial, signed user agreement) about 5 years ago, and reformatted its "locator IDs" (book, chap., verse, etc.) and general format to conform to the TLG and PHI texts. We actually produced two forms, one with variants and the other without, and included them on the PHI[/CCAT] CD-ROM #1. We also modified our CCAT utilities software to make it possible to circulate the "Vulgate with Variants" material on diskette and permit the user to exclude the variants if so desired. CCAT also provided the electronic Vulgate to a number of "secondary distributors" with which CCAT has cooperative relationships. When the PHI[/CCAT] CD-ROM #1 became unavailable (sold out) a year or so ago, this Vulgate material could still be obtained easily on diskette or tape. Now with the appearance of the PHI [Latin] CD-ROM #5, the Vulgate is once again available in that form as well, although the software for non-IBYCUS access will need some (hopefully minor) modification. Other CD-ROM sources also have or will have this material, such as the announced ABS/UBS biblical CD-ROM. UBS (United Bible Societies) is the international copyright holder on the Vulgate and much other biblical material. Costs are nominal: CCAT Text Distributors and other secondary distributors of CCAT materials on diskette charge about $45 US. The PHI Latin CD-ROM (#5) is $40 per year subscription, with reduced prices for longer periods or for multiple CD-ROMs (e.g. the Latin and the Greek Documentary Papyri together). The ABS/UBS CD-ROM (including search/retrieval software) is promised at under $200 for a variety of biblical texts. Contact me for further information (list of vendors, etc.) Bob Kraft, Kraft@penndrls.UPenn.edu From: Knut Hofland +47 5 212954/55/56 FAFKH at NOBERGEN Subject: Re: Survey of Corpora (5.0231) Date: 25 July 91, 10:14:11 EMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 252 (623) In the article by Martin Wynne, there are some misprints. The address of the file server at the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities (NCCH) in Bergen, which have information about ICAME (International Archive of Modern English) is: navfserv@nora.navf-edb-h.uib.no To get the file give this line in the body: send icame survey.corpora To get an index of material at the file server give these commands: index index icame index info index ncch The file SURVEY CORPORA is also available at the Humanist file server. E-mail addresses to the Georgetown Centre for text and tech.: neuman@guvax.bitnet wilder@guvax.bitnet (James Wilderotter) On the Humanist file server there are several files from this database: PROJECTS ETEXTS, LNGUISTC LIST1, LIST2, LIST3. Knut Hofland The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Street adr: Harald Haarfagres gt. 31 Post adr: P.O. Box 53, University, N-5027 Bergen, Norway Tel: +47 5 212954/5/6 Fax: +47 5 322656 From: Stephen Clausing Subject: machine readable texts by FTP Date: Fri, 26 Jul 91 12:45:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 534 (624) I need of number of machine readable texts in a variety of languages to use in a research project. Is there a source where these are stored and available through FTP? I don't care who the authors are or what the content, I simply need large amounts of real language in ASCII format. From: "M. R. Sperberg-McQueen " Subject: Mainframe computing at Univ. of Tx at San Antonio Date: 21 July 1991 17:46:48 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 535 (625) A colleague of mine is taking a position at the Univ. of Tx at San Antonio. Does anyone know about computing resources (for faculty, specifically humanists) there? Can faculty get (free) mainframe accounts? What operating system do they use? Is it easy to use Bitnet? Is their library catalogue (or any part of the UT system) available on line? (Please send any responses directly to me. Thanks!) Marian Sperberg-McQueen U15440@UICVM From: GGW10@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: availability of email. Date: Sat, 20 Jul 91 14:13:46 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 536 (626) A few dumb questions. (I) Is there email in Delhi (India)? If so, who runs it and who would be a good person to get in touch with? (II) Is there email in Ghana? I have in mind the University of Legon. (III) Who should one get in touch with at the University of Valencia to find out about email there? Thanks a lot Graham White Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. From: Subject: RE: 5.0243 Computer Ethics (Cross-posting) (2/105) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 09:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 254 (627) I am afraid that I am somewhat confused by the question of *computer* ethics, much as I often find myself to be in discussions of *X* ethics. It seems to me that to phrase the question in this way is to misdirect our attention. Computers present people with opportunites to behave in some certain kinds of ways that they could not act in the absence of computers' existence. The same can be said of kitchen knives, but we do not therefore discuss questions of *kitchen knife* ethics. We recognize the fact that people who have certain ethical sensibilites will not do certain things with kitchen knives. Likewise, it seems to me, the question of *computer* ethics takes the focus away from the question of the operator. The reason we are so concerned, rightly, with the potential for mis-use of computers is that we have not paid much attention to ethical issues in general, being more concerned for the last generation or so with clarification of values instead of the teaching of virtues. As a consequence, we have people who will misuse whatever technology (or other opportunity) to their own advantage if they think they can get away with it. Hence, the CEO of EXXON sees the EXXON Valdiz "incident" as part of "the cost of doing business," and a congressman was interviewed talking about a "new standard of ethics" meaning that they now should not behave in ways they would be ashamed ot see publicly reported. The question for humanists ought to be, rather, how can we get poeple to think, talk, and act ethicsally? And to care about the ethics of their behavior? I suspect that if people framed questions as ethical questions to themselves, and judged their own behvaior by those standards, that the answers to ethical computer use would become more nearly clear, and much less complicated. In the meantime, it seems likely that efforts to generate a "Code of Ethical Computer Use" will result in people asking themselves, "Now, the Code says I can't do X, but if I interpret the code thus-and-so, I can justify doing Y, which will gain me the same advantage." As we hear people so often justify that which they know to be wrong with the claim, "But it's not illegal -- there' s no law against it!" The question is not "What will a code of ethical Computer use allow and/or prohibit?" but "How should I live my life, a life that includes computers and many other opportunities to do harm to others or to take some sort of unfair advantage for myself?" John F. Covaleskie Cultural Foundations of Education and Curriculum Syracuse University From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Book: Quantitative Methods for Historians Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 22:05:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 255 (628) Now available: QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR HISTORIANS: A GUIDE TO RESEARCH, DATA, AND STATISTICS, by Konrad H. Jarausch and Kenneth A. Hardy. Pub- lished by the University of North Carolina Press. A theoretical and practical guide that discusses quantitative procedures and techniques and the use of the statistical packages SAS and SPSS. Available from UNC Press, P.O. Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288. Toll- free orders: 1-800-848-6224. Info: carlos@ecsvax.bitnet; carlos@uncecs.edu. From: BANKS@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Re: Gender and Anthropology (5.0239) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 91 12:57 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 537 (629) Henrietta Moore's _Feminism and Anthropology_ (Polity 1988 in the UK) is certainly worth looking at, partly because it's a summary of most of the relevant literature up to that date and so the bibliography should contain lots of helpful other readings. You might also like to look at her earlier ethnography of gender relations among a group in Kenya: _Space, Text and Gender_ (Cambridge U Press 1986). Similarly, Shirley Ardener, head of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies of Women here in Oxford, has edited numerous collections of essays over the last 10-15 years (eg. Percieving Women London (Dent) 1975), which I uwould imagine should be easily available in the US. Marcus Banks Oxford (BANKS@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX) From: RUBIN@UCBEH Subject: gender & language Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1991 11:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 538 (630) SUBJECT: Gender & Language With regard to the recent HUMANIST discussions of gender differences in language, my reading of the empirical research literature (also consistent with my own findings) is that no simple set of features distinguishes men's *ORAL* language from women's *ORAL* language. On the other hand, people typically harbor stereotypes of men's and women's speech. It just happens that these stereotypes are only shallowly rooted in the realities of language behavior. It surely is the case, however, that men's typical oral *INTERACTION PATTERNS* (e.g., topic switching, interruption, style of conflict resolution) differ from women's. In the last couple of years I have been inquiring about gender- linked differences in *WRITTEN* language. It's an intriguing question on a number of counts. For example, to what degree is language style constitutive of a body of literature we might want to call "women's literature?" Or perhaps language style is entirely besides the point in demarcating women's literature. My own data consist of nonliterary writing produced by college students. Given the usual caveats about nongeneralizable (and maybe uninteresting) samples and so on, I think we have identified some gender-typical differences in written language. For example, in our corpus, women really do use more punctuation of emotional involvement (underlining and exclamation points). Women in our sample really do produce more "egocentric sequences" (probably a poor name for this category) like I GUESS and I THINK. Don Rubin Universities of Georgia & Cincinnati (rubin@ucbeh) From: Gordon Dohle Subject: Re: 5.0246 Number Words -- The Teens (2/133) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1991 23:29 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 539 (631) The very informative notes on the teens made interesting reading - but raises other questions. For example, why does French abandon the rational progression of numbering at 69 and move first to '60 plus ten, plus eleven, etc, and then confusingly jumps to four times twenty, and then four times twenty plus ten, plus eleven, etc. Gordon Dohle@Vax2.Concordia.ca Dohle@Conu2.Bitnet From: Robin Smith Subject: C.E./B.C.E Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 07:45 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 540 (632) I have nothing to add about the origins of the abbreviations C.E./B.C.E, but I have heard more than one person claim that 'C.E.' is preferable because it fits syntactically with centuries. The point may seem pedantic, but strictly spea- king 'A.D.' ought to precede (not follow) a year number: 'A.D. 1991' means 'in the year of the lord 1991,' whereas '1991 A.D.' would be nonsense, as would '5th century A.D.' (= '5th century in the year of the lord'). I don't know whether this actually motivated the introduction of the term at all, since the Latin meaning of 'A.D.' has little to do with actual use and pretty much every- one is happy saying '1991 A.D.' From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: What does avera, or averia, or averum, mean? Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 17:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 541 (633) In volume 7 of Holdsworth's A History of English Law at page 489 there appears the following statement: "It is possible that there was a time when the only animals in which property was recognized were those which were useful for draught or food." Then in a footnote Holdsworth adds: Thus Eliot argued, Y.B. 12 Hy. VIII. Trin. pl. 3 (f.4), that there could be no property in a dog, "car chien est un vermin, et sauvage car in Latin il est appell _fera_ et nemy _jumentum nec averium_: car averia sont proprement tiels bestes qui sont _ferae nauturae_ et sauvages, mes sont pliables, et sont aptes pur sustenance de home come brebis boeuffs et autres, et pur eux on aura action." Now my question has to do with the word _averia_, which I take it is the same as the English word `avera', which the OED defines as meaning "beasts of burden". Since in the quote from the Year Book _jumentum_ quite clearly means a beast of burden--the meaning given by the Oxford Latin Dictionary--and _averia_ is defined as meaning `wild but pliable and apt for sustenance', I wonder if the definition was wrong, or if the OED has missed something. Peter D. Junger CWRU Law School Bitnet: JUNGER@CWRU Internet: JUNGER@CWRU.CWRU.EDU From: Gerhard Obenhaus Subject: Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1991 22:34:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 542 (634) RE: Directory of Courses/Programs for Translation/Interpretation and Terminology This message is for those of you who are associated with a degree/diploma program in translation/interpretation. I'm in the process of compiling an international directory of such programs. I don't have the time and the resources to contact each school individually, but with a little help from the network I may be able to put together a pretty good list. If you would like for your program to be listed, please drop me a note. By the way, the program doesn't have to be dedicated to translation. I will also include degree programs which offer a specialization in translation or programs which offer a few courses in the subject. Terminology programs are also welcome. The program profile should be as extensive as possible. It may include everything, from application procedures to final examinations. Try to get all this information into a file no larger than 20k. You may send this file to my e-mail address indicated below, mail a disk, or (only as a last resort) send a booklet. If you send printed material, it must be in clearly readable print. Otherwise it will not scan easily. If you send printed material, I cannot promise that I will be able to include it right away. Scanning and proofreading takes some time. What is the directory for? The completed listing will be posted on TRANSNET, a private online network for translators, to provide a good overview of what programs are available for translator training. TRANSNET is accessible by modem at 217-384-5101. The listing will also be posted on Lantra-L and on HUMANIST, provided there is interest. I look forward to receiving your contributions. Gerhard Obenaus E-Mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Phone: 217-333-1288 3072 FLB Fax: 217-244-0190 707 S. Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 USA From: Amanda Roe Subject: Poem Glad I Touched Shoulders With You Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 18:27:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 543 (635) I am desperately trying to find a copy of the poem "Glad I Touched Shoulders With You." I don't know the author, origin, etc. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can give in locating it. It is very important. Thank you, Amanda Roe Virginia Tech 703-953-3174 Blacksburg, VA 24060 From: Michael Ossar Subject: query on vampires Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 20:43 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 544 (636) Anybody have some good hints on literature on vampires--on their pscyhological function and their role in Western folklore? They live only by extracting nourishment from others. We all kill in order to live, but not other human beings. Vampirism is evidently related to cannibalism, but also to parasitism. As a non-anthropogist/pschologist, I'd be grateful for any help. From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: Transcripts with contexts Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 14:35 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 545 (637) Speech transcripts with contextual information. I have recently been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to be held at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. Part of the project that this will be funding entails the following request. I wish to locate transcripts of naturally occuring speech which also have contextual information about the speakers (in particular the genealogical relationships between some or all of the speakers). I shall be undertaking a detailed analysis of the patterns of usage of pronouns, names, kin terms and other referring expressions among the Mambila (in Cameroon) with whom I have been working since 1985. I would also like to be able to expand the research and make it cross-cultural by using existing sources - if such exist. From: Mark Olsen Subject: Gustave Aimard Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 15:24:50 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 546 (638) For a doctoral candidate's dissertation proposal, I am wondering if anyone has come across discussions of the popular 19th century author of "westerns" Gustave Aimard. In my work on book circulation in Montreal, he is the second most heavily read author (1860s and 70s) after Dumas, and I have record of some 35 novels that he wrote. The student here is interested in Aimard, but has not found any writings concerning Aimard. Pointers to critical or historical works would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Mark Olsen University of Chicago From: VILLERS@OUACCVMB Subject: Odyssey of the Mind query. Date: 27 Jul 1991 , 14:31:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 547 (639) Can anyone tell me where to get in touch to get information for OM? We're trying to start a team here at the Athens High School but we don't know who is in charge. Any leads would be welcome. Thank you. Anne Villers. Villers@ouaccvmb.bitnet From: Julian_Randolph.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: San Francisco Sepharad '92: Call for Papers Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 16:18:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 548 (640) A Call for Scholarly Papers for an Academic Conference: San Francisco Sepharad '92: The Cultural and Historical Impact of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain 500th Anniversary 1492-1992 Sunday May 3, 1992 San Francisco State University on the following topics: I. The impact of Jews on the history, economy, government, intellectual life, and culture of pre-1492 Spain. II. The history, culture, intellectual life, and social development of Sephardic Jews in the lands of their dispersion and in Israel: literature and language; philosophy and intellectual life; music and the arts; medicine and other sciences; impact on Jewish life, thought, and culture; contemporary developments. III. The impact of Sephardic Jews on other cultures. IV. Conversos and Crypto-Jews: their history and impact on Jewish life and on the societies in which they lived. V. Contemporary relations between Spain and the Hispanic World and Jews, Judaism, and Israel; images of Jews and Judaism in Spanish and Hispanic culture; changes in attitudes and public policy in present-day Spain; tracing Jewish roots in Spain. One-page abstracts should be sent to: Professor Julian Randolph, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway, San Francisco, CA 94132. Submissions should be in English. Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 1, 1991. _San Francisco Sepharad'92_ is sponsored and organized by San Francisco Hillel, the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and the School of Humanities, San Francisco State University. Julian Randolph:Hum:SFSU From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Paris Humor Conference Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 07:41:38 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 549 (641) The 1992 Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies will be held in Paris France from July 6-9, 1992. October 31, 1991 is the deadline for the call for papers. Submit your abstract in a 6" x 9" box, with the following information at the top: NAME: UNIVERSITY OR INSTITUTION: TITLE OF YOUR PAPER: Your proposal must be accompanied by a $100 registration fee ($80 if you are a member is ISHS). Your registration fee will be refunded if your paper is not accepted. Send the proposal and the registration fee to: Alleen Pace Nilsen President, ISHS Asst VP for Personnel Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2803 =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen, (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Crossword software Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 22:08:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 550 (642) Thanks to all who contributed information on the crossword-making software. My previous lead had fizzled out as Mindscape in Northbrook, IL, had apparently disappeared. Directory information could find no regular or toll-free number for them. So thanks again for the updated as well as the additional information. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College/USNH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNH-CH From: Julie Falsetti Subject: Crossword programs Date: Thu, 25 Jul 91 01:25:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 551 (643) I purchased Crossword Magic about 5 years ago. Although I liked the program very much, I had a lot of difficulty getting it to work with my printer (IBM). The worst thing was that it was copy protected and I couldn't install it on my hard drive. Eventually I bought a new computer with only a 3.5 drive. I continued using the CWM 5.25 at work. The copy protection even prohibited backups. The inevitable happened and the floppy became unusable. When I wrote to the company, they said to remit $15 for another copy protected 5.25 disk. I have to admit I have an ax to grind. I am now using a shareware program from PC HELP-LINE (Crossword Creator) (714) 797-3091. It is not quite as user friendly as Crossword Magic, but it provides the same features and the support is wonderful. From: Sharri Heath Subject: Computer Science Faculty Opening Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 09:21 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 261 (644) ANNOUNCEMENT OF A TEMPORARY POSITION OPENING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE The Central Washington University Department of Computer Science invites applications for a TEMPORARY FACULTY POSITION for the academic year beginning September 15, 1991. Requirements include extensive graduate training in computer science; considerable computing experience; an ability to teach upper-level, undergraduate, computer science courses (e.g. data structures, data communications, systems analysis, operating systems). Preference will be given to those candidates having a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field. Salary and rank are negotiable. Application procedure: send resume and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: Prof. George G. Town Computer Science Department Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA 98926 Telephone: (509) 963-1495 Closing Date August 7, 1991 (may be extended until position is filled). It is the policy of Central Washington University not to discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status or the presence of any handicap. The University operates under an Affirmative Action Program and encourages minorities, women, and handicapped, Viet Nam era veterans and persons over 40 to apply. * * * ----------------------------- * * * AA/EOE/TITLE IX INSTITUTION From: PETERR@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Textual Criticism Challenge 1991 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 15:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 262 (645) *********************************************************************** The Textual Criticism Challenge 1991 "A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets; he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas. If a dog hunted for fleas on mathematical principles, basing his researches on statistics of area and population, he would never catch a flea except by accident." -- A.E. Housman Housman (and others) believed that statistics and mathematics have no place in the study of textual traditions, such as those of Biblical, Classical or Medieval texts. A scholar's only weapons when trying to determine how an author's single long-lost original descended into hundreds ( even thousands) of surviving copies are a trained mind and intuition. The Challenge: Prove Housman Wrong The Old Norse narrative sequence "Svipdagsmal", comprising two poems "Grougaldr" and "Fjolsvinnsmal" together about 1500 words long, survives in 47 manuscripts known to me. These manuscripts were written in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden between 1650 and 1830. Because of this late date much is known about how these manuscripts are related. From this evidence and from database analysis of a complete computer collation I have made a table of relationships of the manuscripts, showing how they are divided into groups and how these groups and the individual manuscripts within them are descended one from another. The challenge is this: to construct by Housman's "mathematical principles" alone, and not using any external evidence, a table of relationships of the manuscripts (a "stemma") like that I have already made. Only the raw data of manuscript agreements and disagreements in individual readings generated direct from the computer collation may be used. As far as I know, while attempts at exploring manuscript traditions have been made using statistical analysis of small samples of data this will be the first time all the data for a complete manuscript tradition has been so analysed. It will also be the first time results of such analysis can be so thoroughly checked against external evidence. How Success might Appear In approximately ascending order of difficulty, a successful attempt would: 1. Divide the manuscripts into groups reflecting the most consistent patterns of agreements and disagreements within the manuscripts. These groups might constitute "genetic groups": that is, manuscripts presumably related by direct copying one from another or from a common parent manuscript. 2. Identify just what readings in what manuscripts are characteristic of the groups identified in (1) above. 3. Show the groups identified in (1) which are themselves descended from other groups and identify the groups they descend from; show the individual manuscripts within the groups descended from other manuscripts and identify the manuscripts they descend from. 4. Identify particular groups and manuscripts which contain readings which have not descended to them by direct copying from their parent manuscript but by deliberate importation from an alien group ("contamination"). Identify just what readings in what manuscripts seem to have spread by contamination as well as by direct copying: compare 2 above. 5. Identify just what readings in what manuscripts appear distributed at random: that is, readings which have spread by virtue of the common descent of all these manuscripts from a single parent manuscript, or readings independently conceived by different scribes. The Data I have computer files of every agreement and disagreement on every reading of 44 of the 47 manuscripts (the other three are not important), generated direct from my computer collation of these manuscripts in my doctoral work (see my articles in *Literary and Linguistic Computing* 4 (1989) 99-105, 174-81). This data is available in two ASCII files, one containing all the data for "Grougaldr", the other for "Fjolsvinnsmal". These files are available in two formats. In format A, each line begins with the variant number, followed by numbers identifying which mss have this variant and with the numbers separated by a single space. Thus the line "6 1 2 7" indicates that variant no 6 occurs only in manuscript numbers 1 2 and 7. In format B, each line again begins with the variant number, followed by a space and then a sequence of 0s and 1s for each of the 44 manuscripts. A "1" indicates the reading is in the manuscript corresponding to that column of the table, a "0" indicates it is not. Thus the line 6 11000010000000000000000000000000000000000000 indicates that variant no 6 occurs only in manuscript numbers 1 2 and 7. The two files have about 3500 lines between them. I alone have the key to the variant and manuscript numbers. How to Attempt the Challenge Any method, any computer, any software may be used. Attempts at the challenge should be submitted by 1 December 1991. I will collate (manually) all contributions and send a report to all participants by 1 January 1992. The results of the challenge will be available at next year's ACH/ALLC conference in Oxford in April. I would be happy to discuss some form of joint authorship or presentation of these results (e.g. at Kalamazoo 1992). You are free to use the data I provide in your own work, subject to the usual courtesies. If you are interested please write to me, Dr. Peter Robinson, at the Computers and Manuscripts Project, Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Or, phone me on Oxford (0865) 273200 or send a fax, 0865 273275, or contact me by EMAIL, PETERR@UK.AC.OX.VAX. (@VAX.OX.AC.UK from outside the UK). I can provide the data on three and a half inch PC or Macintosh discs: state which you want. There is no charge for participation and I will buy the author of the best attempt lunch at a suitable establishent. The Computers and Manuscripts Project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust with aid from Apple Computer. From: Leslie Z. Morgan Subject: Foreign Language Teaching Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 263 (646) The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola College in Maryland 4501 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21210-2699 in conjunction with The Maryland Foreign Language Association announces a conference, Bridging Theory and Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom, October 18-20, 1991 SESSIONS INCLUDE. . Discourse analysis Japanese Uncommonly-taught languages Testing TV Magazines Oral performance I, II Strategies in language learning Methodological approaches ESOL (English as a Second Language) Elementary education Grammar and language Minitel Cross-cultural communication Performing arts and language learning Brain schemata and personality Listening skills CAI I, II (Computer-Assisted Instruction) Critical thinking Cross-curricular communication I-IV Literature I-III Language for specialized purposes I, II Multilingual and multicultural studies Cooperative Learning Travel Telecommunications and technology Motivation and attitude Reading skills Transition from High School to College New approaches to old problems Grammatical competence Writing strategies I, II Video technology Texts I, II Interdisciplinary Connections Performing Arts Immersion All participants must register! PLEASE POST. Conference schedule Friday, October 18, 1991 9:00 - 12:00 pm Workshop 12:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 - 3:30 pm Session I 3:30 - 3:45 pm Coffee Break 3:45 - 5:15 pm Session II Saturday, October 19, 1991 8:30 - 10:00 am Session III 10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee Break 10:30 - 12:00 pm Session IV 12:15 - 12:45 pm Vicki Galloway, Keynote Address 1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch/MFLA Awards 2:00 - 3:30 pm Session V 3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break 4:00 - 5:30 pm Session VI 6:00 - 7:00 pm Social Hour with cash bar Sunday, October 20, 1991 9:00 - 10:30 am Session VII 10:30 - 10:45 am Coffee Break 10:45 - 12:00 pm Session VIII Directions to Loyola College Loyola College in Maryland is located at the corner of Cold Spring Lane and North Charles Street in Baltimore City. When using I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway), take exit 25 (Charles Street). Proceed south on Charles Street approximately six miles to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, where parking is available. Shuttle service will be provided from this location to the College. Travel and lodging arrangements can be made through Baltimore County Travel, 1-800-542-3328, 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, Mon-Fri., Eastern Time (ET). Rooms are available at four hotels; rates range from $40-$95 (not. incl. 12% room tax). See map at left for college location. For additional information, please call: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Phone: (301) 323-1010, x2926 or x2780 E-Mail: MORGAN@LOYVAX1.BITNET WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1991 Proficiency-oriented Teaching of Language and Literature Dr. Dorothy James, Dept. of German, Hunter College In this workshop, we shall discuss ways of reading, discussing and enjoying literature while systematically improving students' language proficiency, and helping them to make progress through the proficiency levels as defined in the ACTFL guidelines. Specific assignments for various levels will be demonstrated, as well as ways of giving individual guidance and individual assignments to student of various levels who are being taught in one class. Participants in the workshop will work with literary texts, and try devising for themselves and for the group some of the suggested teaching procedures. Rediscovering Learning: Strategies for the Foreign Language Classroom Dr. Roberta Z. Lavine, Dept. of Spanish and Portugese, University of Maryland at College Park This workshop will acquaint participants with various learning strategies for use in the foreign language classroom. Strategies and activities for both particular skills and integrated tasks will be explored. Participants will also work with selected techniques which address affective concerns. [deleted quotation] Dr. Marilyn Migiel, Romance Studies/Medieval Studies, Cornell University The transition from language to literature courses is difficult for many students; their initial attempts at literary analysis are seldom more than plot summaries or character descriptions. However, even the beginner can learn to appreciate nuances and begin to love reading. This workshop will utilize actual success- ful classroom materials from an introductory Italian literature course; English translations will be provided and the workshop will be conducted in English. It is suggested that participants bring, if they can, some of their own reading assignments; they will work to develop similar specific materials for their own courses. REGISTRATION FORM: PLEASE DETACH AND SEND Preregistration $42.00 ___ Late Registration (after Sept. 15, 1991) $47.00 ___ Graduate Registration $20.00 ___ (ONLY with copy of valid I.D.) Coffee, Tea, Snacks INCLUDED Saturday Luncheon INCLUDED Saturday Social Hour (cash bar) INCLUDED Workshop Friday morning* $45.00 ___ Please specify: James ____ Levine____ Migiel____ Bus service from hotels for weekend $5.00 ___ (no parking on campus) Total Enclosed $_______ *Workshops are limited to 20 participants, first come, first served. In the event that your choice(s) is/are filled, your fee will be refunded. NAME__________________________________________________________ PHONE (______)_________________________________ INSTITUTION____________________________________________________ ADDRESS________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ BITNET ADDRESS (if applicable) _________________________________ Would you be interested in child care? YES____ NO ____ Number of Children _____ We will contact you to make further arrangements. Please return with check payable to Loyola College for Registra- tion, Workshops, etc. to: Committee for the Conference on Language Learning c/o Margaret Haggstrom, Leslie Z. Morgan, Joseph Wieczorek Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND 4501 No. Charles St. / Baltimore, MD 21210-2699 From: Charles Robinson Subject: Catalist--for accessing libraries' catalogues Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 16:13:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 264 (647) At the request of Richard Duggan, I submit the following announcement: ********************************** * ATTENTION MS WINDOWS 3.0 USERS * ********************************** The University of Delaware Department of English presents: CCCC AAAA TTTTT AAAA L IIIII SSSS TTTTT C A A T A A L I S T C AAAA T AAAA L I SSSS T C A A T A A L I S T CCCC A A T A A LLLL IIIII SSSS T CATALIST is a hypertext version of Billy Barron's "UNT's Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases" for Microsoft Windows 3.0. CATALIST is available FREE via anonymous FTP. As you may know, many university libraries make their bibliographic databases available as On-Line Public Access Catalogs (OPACs). Anyone who has access to the Internet may log into these systems and search them free of charge. CATALIST is a hypertext catalog of OPAC addresses and access instructions. CATALIST has the ability to search for OPACs by either geographical location or alphabetical list. The user simply starts CATALIST by double-clicking its icon, then uses intuitive hypertext principles to locate instructions for logging into a specific catalog. Because it is a Windows application it will run alongside any Windows compatible communications software, you can simply start CATALIST in one window and log into your mainframe in another. This gives you the ability to look up library after library without leaving CATALIST or your mainframe session. Once you have found a library and got connected, CATALIST provides information to help you search the database. CATALIST has a notebook function which will allow you to take notes and keep the notes associated with that particular library. You can even copy whole entries or screens from the library's catalog to CATALIST's notebook using the Windows Clipboard. CATALIST is available free from the following two anonymous FTP sites: ZEBRA.ACS.UDEL.EDU in the directory pub/library and VAXB.ACS.UNT.EDU in the directory library/catalist The following is a sample FTP session showing how to get the file README.TXT from ZEBRA. ==> represents your system prompt. ==> ftp zebra.acs.udel.edu Connected to zebra.acs.udel.edu. 220 zebra FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. Name (zebra.acs.udel.edu:duggan): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub/library 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get readme.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 ASCII data connection for readme.txt (128.175.13.16,2004) (3951 bytes). 226 ASCII Transfer complete. local: readme.txt remote: readme.txt 3951 bytes received in 0.01 seconds (1.8e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. ==> The README.TXT file contains detailed information about how to get and extract the CATALIST program. We hope you will give CATALIST a try. If you need further information, or if you do not have FTP access, contact the author, Rich Duggan, at the following e-mail address: duggan@brahms.udel.edu Thank you. Charles E. Robinson robinson@brahms.udel.edu From: Christopher Currie (IHR) Subject: Re: 5.0258 avera, etc. Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 11:08:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 552 (648) Averium ( manoy variant forms) means a draught animal (see Latham, Revised Medieval Latin Word-List). It can also mean, more specfically, a draught horse (as opposed to an ox or a riding horse). Christopher From: "Stephen McCluskey" Subject: Re: 5.0258 Qs: avera & averia Date: Tuesday, 30 Jul 1991 09:22:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 553 (649) R. E, Latham's _Revised Medieval Latin Word-List from British and Irish Sources_ indicates many instances of "averium" (with a wide range of spellings) from 1185 to 1583 with the meaning draught animal. Since the resulting dictionary of Medieval Latin (sorry I don't have the exact title) is through the "A"'s, you should be able to find more precise citations there. Large academic libraries are buying individual fascicules as they appear. Steve McCluskey From: (James Marchand) Subject: Re: 5.0258 Qs: vampires ... (7/135) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 91 17:50:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 554 (650) There's been so much written on vampires. You ought to start with Montague Summers' two books, The Vampire and The Vampire in Europe, both available in reprint. There are two bibliographies (which I have seen, there may be more): Martin V. Riccardo, Vampires Unearthed: the Complete Multi-Media Vampire and Dracula Bibliography (1983) and Margaret L. Carter, The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography (1989). Bonne chance! Jim Marchand From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" Subject: RE: 5.0258 Qs: avera & averia; ... (7/135) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 09:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 555 (651) In reply to the question about vampires, the obvious quick answer is to check out Anne Rice's books on vampires: _Interview with a Vampire_, _The Vampire Lastat_ and _Queen of the Damned_. They may not be the best source for traditional information about vampires (she admits that she takes liberties with the traditional views), but they're really good stories. Mary Dee Harris From: Christopher Currie (IHR) Subject: Re: 5.0257 Number Words - The Teens Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 11:03:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 556 (652) The real question is why Standard French goes mad after 69. In eastern dialects (Walloon, Swiss French) they sensibly have septante, octante and nonante. Christopher From: Eric Rabkin Subject: French counting Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 09:45:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 557 (653) Re Gordon Dohle's inquiry about counting in French from 70 to 99, my understanding is that French French uses 60+17 for 77 and (4x20)+11 for 91 but this is a vestige of an older system that echoes in the English word "score," counting by twenties. Belgian French uses septante in place of soixante-dix and nonante in place of quatre-vingt-dix and I've heard some Swiss French speakers follow the Belgian model. I gather that the Revolutionaries tried to rationalize the numbering system but had no longer-lasting luck than they did with the month names. On the other hand, they did get the metric system going. (I can't really vouch for the history, never having really studied it formally. I can vouch for the current practices of native speakers, having heard them.) Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: Eric Rabkin Subject: More of French counting 70-99 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 10:30:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 558 (654) Karl Menninger's *Number Words and Number Symbols* (thanks again, Willard!) discusses counting by twenties in numerous places. Of most interest probably are pp. 66-68 wherein he explains the counting-by-twenties in French as arising in the 11th c. with the Normans, they already having had such a system in common use, including the word 'skor'. Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: Michel LENOBLE Subject: Re: 5.0257 Number Words; BC/BCE (2/25) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 14:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 559 (655) As far as french numerals are concerned (70 and 90) one should keep in mind that french, as other languages in fact, had a vigesimal numerical system (base 20). One trace of it is the old parisian hospital containing 300 beds and called "L'hopital des qinze vingt". More over not every francophone uses soixante et onze; septante and nonante are currently sed in Belgium and in some parts of France. Michel Lenoble. From: UTAD005@MVS.ULCC.AC.UK Subject: 5.0246 Number Words -- The Teens Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 13:27:58 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 560 (656) Gordon Dohle asks why French abandons "rational progression of numbering at 69 and move first to 60 plus ten, plus eleven, etc and then confusingly jumps to four times twenty, and then four times twenty plus ten, plus eleven, etc." I've always understood this to be a remnant of Gaulish influence on French - the system of counting in units of 20 is a feature of the Celtic languages. In Welsh, for example, 30 is ten-on-twenty, 31 is eleven-on-twenty, 40 is two-twenties, 60 is three-twenties, 80 is four-twenties (pedwar ugain, cf. French quatre-vingts). BTW, Welsh teens are fairly complicated: 11 is one-on-ten, 12 is two-ten, 13 is three-on-ten, 14 is four-on-ten, 15 is five-ten, 16 is one-on-five-ten, 17 is two-on-five-ten, 18 is two-nines, 19 is four-on-five-ten. These numbers combine with the units of twenties mentioned above, so that a number like 97 for example, is: dau ar bymtheg ar bedwar ugain (two-on-five-ten-on-four- twenties). Simple really, and I can't understand why this system hasn't been more widely adopted. There is, though, another system of counting in Welsh intended to "simplify" the above method. But I think its only complicated matters by giving people two systems to learn instead of one. Michael Morgan Heythrop College University of London From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Repeated Mailings to New Members Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 19:14:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 267 (657) Apologies to the recent members who have gotten several sets of introductory files over the last few weeks. The system of utility programs that do that sort of thing for us stopped working properly last month. -- Allen From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Pandora Date: Thu, 01 Aug 91 11:11:04 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 561 (658) In my efforts to find an electronic Vulgate, I eventually got hold of the updated PHI #5 Latin (& Coptic) disk. When I tried to run it with our Pandora 2.0 on a MAC SE, I found it would not work. Elli Mylonas informs me that I need a Pandora 2.3 upgrade disk. This is no longer obtained from Harvard but from Intellimation, P. O. Box 1530, Santa Barbara, CA 931167-1533, phone 800 325 7550. The cost is $49.95 + $4.00 shipping. Ask for Eric. We have our disk on order and will report how it works with PHI # 5 when we get it--and how it works with the TLG disk we have been running for some time. Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2139 PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: Michael Ossar Subject: challenge Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 20:45 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 562 (659) I'm afraid that Peter Robinson's textual criticism challenge is doomed to failure, at least if you believe Franz Kafka. Cf. his _Forschungen eines Hundes_. From: Dan Brink Subject: Re: 5.0264 Hypertext of Online Library Catalogs (1/83) Date: Thu, 01 Aug 91 12:04:34 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 563 (660) CATALIST looks like a winner! Thanks! Daniel Brink, Associate Dean for Technology Integration College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1701 602/965-7748/1441 fax -1093 ATDXB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU From: Robin Smith Subject: Address of Salford Archive Centre Date: Mon, 5 Aug 91 15:52 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 564 (661) Does anyone have an address of the Salford Archive Centre (in the UK)? Thanks, Robin Smith Philosophy/Kansas State U. From: "Vicky A. Walsh" Subject: uses of humanist Date: Tue, 06 Aug 91 16:04 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 565 (662) Does anyone know of any uses of HUMANIST itself in an educational setting? Either students on-line or searching past archives? There is a new project under Educom's Educ. uses of Inform. Tech. (EUIT) to investigate uses of electronic communication in undergraduate (to start) education. Anyone with projects, classes, ideas, can contact me if they like. Thanks. Vicky Walsh Director, Humanities Computing UCLA From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Literacy software? Date: Wed, 7 Aug 91 15:36 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 566 (663) Dear All, does anyone know of, or had experience with, software to measure literacy levels of students? I would appreciate any comments, suggestions on the subject, Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273275 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: vampires Date: Wed, 7 Aug 91 12:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 567 (664) For those of you interested in vampires, there is a discussion list dedicated to the discussion of vampiric fact, fiction, and lore. VAMPYRES@GUVM Subsciptions are publically open through the Listserv (Listserv@Guvm). Discussions on this list range from vampiric myths, to origins, to new and old vampire novels, to original stories written by the subscribers. Jim Wilderotter From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Ethnograph Date: Wed, 7 Aug 91 15:37 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 270 (665) Dear HUMANIST users, re my recent request concerning the program ETHNOGRAPH and other related software. Many thanks for the overwhelming amount of replies I received on the subject and I felt that it would be useful if I attempted to summarise the information and circulate it accordingly. I have structured the replies as follows: 1) Information on packages 2) References 3) Further questions/comments 4) Acknowledgements 1) Information on Packages ************************** The Ethnograph - (IBM and compats) A program for fieldnote and interview data storage, management, coding, and analysis. Described as one of the "most substantial of the programs in terms of its procedures" (Tesch, 1990, p.11). Available from Qualitative Research Management, 73-425 Hilltop Road, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240; (619) 329-7026 ($150, +p&p). Tally 3.0 -Displays many (all?) of the functions of Ethnograph, allowing for the counting of codes aswell. $19.95, contact JBOWYER@UNOMA1. HyperQual -(Macintosh Plus and up) Runs under HyperCard on the Mac. Consequently, sorting, coding, exporting is comparatively easy using the HyperCard interface. (see Padilla, 1989, p.70; and Tesch, 1990, p. 11). ($150 + p&p, available Qualitative Research Management, see above) Text Analaysis Package (TAP) - (IBM and compats) Strength lies behind its ability to allow access to coding straight away (see Tesch, 1990, pp.10-11). ($150 from Qualitative Research Management). Textbase Alpha - (IBM and compats) Allows contruction of a data matrix which can then be imported in SPSS. (Again $150 from QRM). Qualpro - (IBM and compats) See Tesch (1990, p.10). Available from QRM $125 + p&p. HyperResearch - (Macintosh). No information in particular, but contact Researchware, 20 Soren Street, Randolph, MA 02368-1945, USA; (617) 961-3909. See relevant article in _Qualitative Studies in Education_ 3.2 by S Hesse-Biber et al (no title given I'm afraid). Other packages which were mentioned include Anthropac, Simpak, Structure, Aquad (German based), Qualog and Nudist. However, there was no subsidiary information given and HUMANIST users may be able to provide further details. M Lonkila (Lonkila@cc.helsinki.fi) referred to a Finnish project entitled "Computers and Qualitative Data Analysis", and project ATLAS in Berlin. 2) References ************* The best discussions I have come across are the following: R V Padilla's "HyperQual: a qualitative data analysis with the Macintosh", _Qualitative Studies in Education_ 2.1 (1989), 70-3. D W Read's "Anthropology and Computers: Promise and Potential", _Social Science Computer Review_ 8.4 (Winter, 1990). R Tesch's "Software for the computer-assisted analysis of text", _Network_ 47 (May, 1990), 10-11. _Qualitative Research: Analysis Types and Software Tools_ by R Tesch (Falmer Press, 1990). For general information see also the _Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90_, ed. I Lancashire (Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 1, 7,187, 371, 393, 567. 3) Further Questions/Comments ***************************** "I was fortunate enough to secure a laboratory equipment grant from NSF, which has allowed us to establish an ethnographic data processing laboratory here at the Northern Arizoan U. The lab consists of micr-computer stations, which will soon be networked. Each station includes a computer, interview transcription equipment...Some of the stations also have digitizers and we have one optical character reader, for inputting maps and secondary source material into ethnographic data bases...We are in the process of testing different kinds of software that will assist ethnographic data management and analysis. I'd be happy to share some of the results and would be very interested in hearing about other people's experiences." ( Robert T Trotter CMSRTT01@EARN.NAUVM) "Personally I am very interested in exploring the possibilities of Hypertext in Qualitative Data Analysis (Xerox has very interesting advanced Hypertext systems called the Analyst and NoteCard). I am also interested in studying the methodological background of so called "Grounded Theory" style of analysis developed by Strauss & Glaser..." ( Markku Lonkila, University of Helsinki, LONKILA@CC.HELSINKI.FI) People interested in this area should also get in touch with the Anthropological list ANTHRO-L@EARN.UBVM, and the CTI Centre for Sociology and Social Policy who have their own Software Directory, and plan to be holding two workshops on Qualitative Software in the "early part of next year". Contact: Millsom Henry CTI Centre for Sociology and Social Policy (and Politics) Dept of Sociology and Social Policy University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA 0786-67703 CTISOC@UK.AC.STIRLING 4) Acknowledgements ******************* Thanks to the following for their help in compiling the above: Marcus Banks, ISCA; David Zetlyn, ISCA; Diane Burton, Applelink; Millsom Henry, CTI Centre for Sociology and Social Policy; Sarah Davnall, Manchester Computing Centre. Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273275 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: Bert Nelson Subject: Optical Disk Technology Date: Tuesday, 6 August 1991 2153-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 271 (666) Since optical disk technology has permeated the genealogy scene I thought it appropriate to post this article that tells a little about the technology in a way that's not confusing or overly technical. Much of the discussion during the article is how it applies to the military, however the examples still give insight on how much space the technology saves vs. other popular magnetic media. Optical Disk Technology By LCDR David J. Lind What makes optical systems so special? Unlike magnetic products, the optical laser system stores data as submicroscopic pits or spots in the reflective surface of a disc. In order to read the disc, a low-power laser, shining a pinpoint of light less than one millionth of a meter wide, bounces off the pattern of shiny and dull patches, which is, in turn, converted into a digital signal of ones and zeros and read by the optical head of an optical disc drive. This new technology has promise throughout DoD, but a little education will make your selection of which type of product is best for your command much easier. Presently there are three distinct categories of optical-record- ing products: prerecorded, write-once and erasable. Of the three, prerecorded has made a significant impact on the public market, while write-once and erasable have only made a minor impact. Optical-recording uses a high-power laser, which forms small pits in the reflective surface of an optical disc. A typical pit is approximately the size of a bacterium: 0.5 by 2.0 microns (millionths of a meter). A pit represents data from two to many bits depending on the length, or run, of the pit. The raised and reflective surface between two adjacent, nonreflective pits is called a land and can also vary in its representation of data from two to many bits. In CD-ROM coding, the transition from pit to land or land to pit, is used to signify the change of the binary digit from zero to one, or one to zero. Two or more like bits are represented by the distance, or run, between transitions. The series of lands and grooves is ultimately interpreted as ones and zeros and thus a wide variety of digitally encoded information can be stored on a disc. When reading an optical disc, a low-power laser senses the presence or absence of the lands and grooves by means of reflected light energy. The small laser beam used to read back data is reflected from the lands and scattered by the pits. Of the prerecorded discs, the CD Audio is by far the most common and is widely accepted. The other variety of prerecorded discs is the CD-ROM which draws heavily on its predecessor, the CD-Audio disc, for format, acceptance and established production and manufacturing facilities. In fact, CD-ROM is currently the only form of optical-recording that has an established standard. The CD-ROM, like the CD-Audio disc, is 4.72 inches (120 mm) in diame- ter and contains digital information only on one side. Its uses are primarily in the area of document and database distribution and permanent archiving of vast amounts of information. The recording format is a spiral groove approximately three miles long with a capacity of 650 MB. The tracking is maintained via the constant linear velocity (CLV) technique which requires variation of the disc rotation speed based on the distance of the read head from the center of the disc. In order to accomplish this, the rotational speed of the disc must vary, decreasing as the head moves from the inner tracks toward the outer perimeter. The range is approximately 500 to 200 rpm for a CD-ROM disc drive. The other type of recording format is the constant angular velocity (CAV) technique, which allows for faster access times. Constant angular velocity is a technique that spins a disc at a constant speed, resulting in the inner disc tracks passing the read/write head more slowly than the outer tracks. This results in numerous tracks forming concentric circles, with the storage density being the greatest on the inner track. The WORM (Write Once Read Many) optical disc uses this technique, while the erasable disc, often called the WMRM (Write Many Read Many) disc is still experimenting with both techniques without a clear winner yet identified. CD-ROM (Compact Disc - Read Only Memory). Some call the union of optical storage devices and microcomputers the marriage of the century. If so, CD-ROM is the marriage partner that promises an effective means of storing and retrieving vast amounts of digital information, as well as preserving material and information. The immense storage capacity and the ease and speed with which it can be accessed and retrieved, also make it the perfect distribution medium. The CD-ROM disc often contains a very large and sophisti- cated index which permits access to the information via Boolean logic statements and other means. This, combined with the power and capabilities of today's microcomputer, allows retrieval of a requested word or phrase, in literally hundreds of thousands of pages of textual information, - all in less than one second. Once retrieved, the manipulation of the data and the rapid transfer to other mediums is a simple task. WORM (Write Once Read Many). Optical laser technology has also branched into the write once technology. Discs in this area come in a variety of sizes and an even broader variety of formats. The lack of standards has caused the market, or application, to falter in all but a few specific areas. The systems are usually sold as entire packages, and are often not capable of being integrated with other hardware or networks. The discs, most often, are 5 1/4 inch and are contained in a plastic case, with a slide window, very similar to the 3.5 inch floppy disks. The disc drives come either as separate units or as built-in drives fitting into one of the standard floppy drive slots on an IBM or compatible computer. The discs are two sided and can contain from 200-650 MB of data per side. The blank discs cost from $20-$100 each and generally use the constant angular velocity (CAV) tracking technique. The drives range in cost from $2,000-$6,000 and are only able to read one side of the disc, forcing the operator to manually flip the disc to read the oppo- site side. The discs are most often preformatted so, unlike magnetic media, there is no formatting or initialization process prior to writing to the disc. The acceptability of this technology is limited because no single standard exists. Even if discs are the same form factor (e.g. 5 1/4") they are nearly always unable to be read in a different optical drive. The future of the write once technology appears to be limited. Much of the demand for write once will be redirected to a more effective and reusable (erasable) media when it becomes widely available. Write once technology may continue to serve fields of law, accounting and other areas where an unalterable audit trail is mandatory. Magnetic media hasn't suited this purpose well and hasn't been accepted as evidence in the courts of law because of the ability to change the data without any trace of having al- tered the information. WMRM (Write Many Read Many), or Erasable Discs. Today there are three main types of erasable optical media being developed: Magneto-Optic (MO) (occasionally referred to as Thermo-Magneto- Optic (TMO)), Phase Change (PC) and Dye/Polymer (DP). Of the three erasable technologies, only the magneto-optic is mature enough to warrant discussion. The Magneto-Optic (MO) recording system stores information on the disc in the form of vertically oriented magnetic domains. Like most other optical drives, recording is a thermal process. In this case, an intense laser beam heats a small region of the magneto-optical active layer in the presence of a magnetic field. The heating decreases the coercivity of the active layer so that the external magnetic field can reorient the field of the heated region. Upon cooling, a stable magnetic domain is formed. The recorded domains are read back by a low-power scanning laser beam and an optical system capable of sensing small changes in the polarization of the scanning beam caused by the magnetic domains. This media has no true overwrite capability. Therefore, it must complete an erase cycle before a write cycle is possible. There is, however, some possibility that a disc can be erased as a whole by subjecting it to a large magnetic field while it's heated. One of the main benefits of the optical laser technology is that it's unaffected by magnetic fields of any size or by electromagnetic pulses (EMP). This benefit is at least partially lost in any erasable media that involves magnetic fields. There- fore, certain applications may be forced to continue to use CD- ROM and WORM technology which is purely optical and remains unaffected by any magnetic interference. Where do we go from here? It was less than a decade ago that Philips invented the compact audio disc and only two years ago that it truly became a product of wide consumer use. The ultimate answer for the future seems to be the perfect erasable optical disc, although in today's marketplace, erasable discs are still too few and too expensive. The quest for the perfect erasable medium - with all the benefits of huge amounts of data storage, combined with unlimited erasability, is being pursued by numerous companies. Maybe the video camera of tomorrow will use an optical disc. The future, I am sure, will contain optical discs of all three types, loaded with text and images, graphics and sound, and even color video. The world of the multi- media optical disc is exciting. However, it's a giant step from the prima donna world of the prototypes and demos, to the user's home or office. Even with such a huge storage capacity, there are still some applications where even the optical laser disc is too restric- tive. In such cases, the difficulty can be overcome by using a device which can store many terabytes of data. This device is very similar to the familiar jukeboxes in the cafes of years ago. It's capable of storing multiple CD-ROMs and accessing them quickly by mechanical means. Once retrieved, either single or multiple disc drives read the data. These devices are called optical jukeboxes. Similar options are available today, by buying a stack of 7 or 14 CD-ROM drives where each drive can access a single CD-ROM, and the entire stack can be connected to a single microcomputer or a network server. There are even disc jockeys or CD-ROM changers that allow six discs, storing a total of more than three giga- bytes, to be accessed from a single drive. Currently CD-ROM is the only type of non-audio optical laser technology that has an established standard - ISO 9660. This ensures that the physical media itself, and the directory and file structure format of a disc, is standardized. This means that all CD-ROM drive manufacturers have agreed on what a sector is and how to address it. With CD-ROMs, as with CD-Audio discs, sectors and files are located using a time sequencing technique. An example of this would be a specific piece of information located on the disc at minute 47, second 13, sector 4 (47:13:4). With this information, you can read the data. At this level discs are interchangeable from the one drive to another. With such an established standard, we can safely press ahead into areas previously unfamiliar or unstable. This preserves, and indeed ensures, that our procurements can be competitive. Prior to the acceptance of the standard, a CD-ROM mastered by one company couldn't necessarily be expected to work with another company's hardware or software. With careful system specifications calling out the established standards, sometimes even the defacto ones, you can reasonably expect to purchase a single CD-ROM disc drive that will read numerous discs from a wide variety of sources, or the inverse, where any disc can be read on any disc drive. Also, production, and use, of a generic variety of retrieval software is possible in the optical laser disc arena much as it is in the DOS arena. One key factor in choosing CD-ROM as the media of choice is its ability to reduce costs associated with information storage and retrieval. CD-ROM discs often cost less than $2 each. Another reason for using CD-ROM is its extremely reliable error correc- tion, accomplished by means of the error detection code (EDC) and the error correction code (ECC). Error detection codes used in CD-ROM have non-detection probabilities below 10 to the 25th power. This means you can expect a single undetected wrong bit in two quadrillion CD-ROM discs. In optical storage and retrieval, the nature of the information and the frequency of update, must be evaluated to ensure the correct medium for the task is chosen. Certainly the capabilities of CD-ROM or other optical laser media are impressive, yet, they aren't necessarily the panacea for all information problems. Today's information distribution focuses on the use of paper, micrographics, microfiche, aperture cards or telecommunications - all of which are expensive compared to CD-ROM. Optical storage densities are significant when one considers a CD-ROM's ability to find the proverbial needle in a haystack almost instantaneous- ly. Given an average page of textual information, a single CD-ROM weighing approximately one ounce can hold over 650 megabytes of information, the equivalent of 270,000 paper pages whose total weight equals 1.42 tons! These statistics get even more stagger- ing when you consider that one personal computer with a stack of eight networked CD-ROM drives can access up to two million text pages (over five billion bytes of information) of data, consti- tuting a potential weight in paper of 11.34 tons! Herein may lie the most significant benefit for DoD - space and weight. CD-ROM can store vast quantities of information with significantly reduced space and weight requirements. An example would be the space required for the documentation associated with the F-16 aircraft, - 250 feet of documentation for a 47 foot aircraft! Another example is the large volume of paper involved with the production of the Naval Ships' Technical Manuals which are used by nearly every Navy command. There's over 30 million pages out there somewhere, with more changes in the mail. In addition to space and weight savings, the relative cost per MB is lower in nearly all cases. The optical laser disc in the CD-ROM format can be introduced in nearly all DoD areas with only minimal additional hardware. With the Desktop III Contract, they are now available for only $363. This ease of introduction can be accomplished primarily due to the extensive purchase of IBM PCs or compatibles by the government - approximately 400,000 Zenith 248s. Even dual CD-ROM drives cost as little as $834. Drives can be used as a stand alone external unit or as an internal drive that fits into one of the 5 1/4" drive slots in a PC. There are even some half-height models available. The opportunities of the technology are quickly being experi- mented with and often realized. According to William J. Hooton, Director of Optical Digital Storage Systems for the National Archives and Records Administration, "Federal agencies are lead- ing the way in the innovative use of optical storage techniques. Interest (in optical systems) in the federal market is very, very high. Most agencies have some type of project." The IRS has a project called Files Archival Image Storage and Retrieval which is estimated to result in annual storage cost savings of approximately $36 million. Although CD-ROM appears to be an ideal medium for information storage, not everyone is ready to jump on the CD-ROM bandwagon. There are some who are reluctant to commit themselves to optical discs for permanent storage of historical documents. According to the National Research Council's report, Preservation of Histori- cal Records, "the rapid pace of change in hardware and software technology suggests that it may be impossible to read the histor- ical records in the centuries to come. Although present advan- tages appear to be overwhelming, such long term archives could potentially be forced to commit themselves to an expensive file conversion process every 10 to 20 years." The technology works, and almost any kind of digital information is a candidate for conversion to optical disc. However, a couple of questions remain that only you can answer: - "Does it work in our environment?" and "Will it meet our needs?" Armed with the facts about this new technology, we can now make the appropriate choices for the Department of Defense, today and tomorrow. About the Author: LCDR Lind is the Head of the Base Communica- tions Systems Branch at the new Naval Computer and Telecommunica- tions Command in Washington, DC. His telephone number is (202) 282-2503. = Bert Nelson Weber State University bnelson@cc.weber.edu From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Draft program for Sheffield Conference: Computers and Language 2, 1992 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 91 17:11 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 272 (667) COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE 2: TOWARDS 1992 Conference to be held at Sheffield City Polytechnic 25th-27th September 1991 DRAFT PROGRAMME Wednesday September 25th 2.00-3.30 Opening Session Implications of the new technologies Peter Seaborne, Staff Inspector, Learning Resources, DES. Title to be provided Diana Laurillard, Open University. 3.30-4.00 tea 4.00-5.30 Parallel paper session 1 Higher Education The business dimension. The Business of Language, Dr Catherine Greensmith and Mr Rupert Cutler, The LIFTCALL project, University of Hull. Deciding about Information Technology: The Case of UK University Modern Language Departments, Diane E Whitehouse, London Business School. Parlez-Vous Banque 2: An Approach to LSP Course Design and CALL, Francoise Blin, Dublin City University. Schools (session title to be provided) Using Hypercard for Language Work: Textual Change Based on Chaucer Project, Moira and Richard Monteith, Sheffield City Polytechnic. Language Work in Scotland, Rosetta McLeod 6.30 dinner 7.30-9.30 SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS Thursday September 26th 9.00-10.30 Parallel Paper session 2 Higher Education CALL CALL for Beginners, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull. Schools (session title to be provided) What the Papers Say! An Action Research Project Involving Five London Schools, Christina Preston, ILECC Education Computing Service. 10.30-11.00 coffee 11.00-12.30 Parallel Paper Session 3 Higher Education Text Analysis Tools Using Hypertext as an Interface to the Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary, Eve Wilson, University of Kent. Teaching First Year Students Micro-OCP On a Network, Hugh Robertson, Huddersfield Polytechnic. Title to be provided Frank Knowles, University of Aston. Schools (session title to be provided) European Language Newsdays, Brian Robinson, Cleveland Educational Computing Centre for IT and Business Education. Writing Competence across the School Curriculum, Erica McAteer PROTEUS, Teaching Pronominalization Strategies to 7-Year Old Children, Stephanie Cookson, London School of Economics and Political Science. 12.30-2.00 lunch 2.00-3.30 Plenary session Educational Issues: The Work Of The National Council for Educational Technology and the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centres. Representatives from CTI Centres and NCET. 3.30-4.00 tea 4.00-5.30 Parallel Paper session 4 Higher Education Hypertext As A Tool For Language Learning France Interactive: A Hypermedia Approach to Language Learning, Bruce Ingraham, Teeside Polytechnic. Repurposing Videodisks, Douglas Jamieson, Hull University. Improving HE Writing Skills Through Hypertext, Noel Williams, CIRG, SCP. Schools (session title to be provided) Friends Around the World Project, Developments With E-Mail, Alison Tyldesley and Joan Craven Beyond Wordprocessing, Trevor Millum 6.30 dinner 7.30-8.30 Keynote speaker Multimedia and Education, Professor Stephen Heppell Friday September 27th 9.00-10.30 Parallel Paper Session 5 Higher Education Classical and Medieval Languages Learning Latin, John Randall, University of Leeds. Title to be provided Dr Judith Jesch and Dr Janette Dillon, Wulf Project, University of Nottingham. Teaching the Language of the Text: A Medieval French Software Package for Beginners, Brian Levy and Alan Hindley, University of Hull. Schools (session title to be provided) Project Eautun, The Potential Role of The Computer in the Special Needs/ML Area, James Milton and Jayne Jakeman, Hereford and Worcester LEA. 10.30-11.00 coffee 11.00-12.30 Plenary panel session Towards 1992: What Has Technology to Offer Language Teaching and Learning? Graham Chesters Diana Laurillard Frank Knowles Rosetta McLeod 12.30-2.00 lunch 2-00-4.00 Software Demonstrations by CTI Centres and Other Exhibitors (tea will be available during this period) The cost for the full conference (including accommodation and meals) is 120 pounds. Other rates are available. For further information and a registration form please contact: Moira Monteith Sheffield City Polytechnic 36 Collegiate Crescent Sheffield S10 2BP Telephone: 0742 532319 From: Michael Barton Subject: Re: 5.0253 Qs: (Computer Related) (3/36) Date: Thu, 08 Aug 91 11:40:01 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 568 (668) Sorry I couldn't reply sooner--I was out sick, and subsequently swamped. The general address for postmaster at Valencia is: MAINT @ EVALUN11 I have corresponded with Fernando Dura via this address. His direct EMail address is: DURA @ EVALUN11 He gave another address of someone responsible for the BITNET node at Valencia: MAONTANAN @ EVALUN11 I hope this is helpful. Michael Barton, Curator BITNET: ATCMB@ASUACAD Department of Anthropology INTERNET: ATCMB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2402 From: (James Marchand) Subject: Cladistics & manuscripts Date: Tue, 6 Aug 91 19:26:19 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 569 (669) Interestingly enough, the same discussion is going on on Medtextl and Humanist, name what I have called "dendrology," the tendency to think in trees. I think it is hard-wired into the human brain. In answer to Bob O'Hara's call for information on trees etc.: We usually think of Lachmann as the father of stemmatics, but the first stemma was probably drawn by Carl Johan Schlyter in his edition of Swedish laws, cf. Goesta Holm, "Carl Johan Schlyter and Textual Scholarship," Saga och Sed. Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademiens Aarsbok, 1972, 50-80. The best books on drawing stemmata and editing are still Paul Maas, Textual Criticism, tr. Barbara Flower (Oxford, 1958) and O. Staehlin, Editionstechnik, 2d ed. (1914), but you undoubtedly know them. A good book on the sort of things linguists draw is: Ann Harleman Stewart, Graphic Representation of Models in Linguistic Theory (Indiana U. Press, 1976). We linguists do not go very far back, and she is no exception. The "decision trees" of Chomsky and his followers look suspiciously like Trees of Porphyry, and though the air is sometimes purple at LSA meetings, no one seems to have noticed this. Arthur Watson's excellent book, The Early Iconography of the Tree of Jesse (London: OUP, 1934), does a fine job with early examples of trees. Just in passing, let me mention Mathematical Graph Theory, with its trees and its impossibilities (Jordan Curve Theorem; I am sure I misspelled the name). It is good to look at mathematics at times; the 18th century would not have doodled away its time if it had read Euler on the Seven Bridges to Koenigsberg. In fact, I just remembered. Kroeber (the anthropologist) wrote something in Language in the early fifties on the use of numerical taxonomy (a la Sokal & Sneath) in linguistics. Jim Marchand From: Susan Hockey Subject: ALLCACH92 - arrangements Date: Fri, 9 Aug 91 11:58 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 274 (670) Since my move to the USA has been announced, HUMANISTs may be wondering about the ALLCACH conference which will be held at Oxford on 5-9 April 1992. The arrangements for the conference will now be as follows. Lou Burnard is joining the Programme Committee as joint local organiser responsible for liaising with the Programme Committee. Another ACH representative will also be added to the Programme Committee. Otherwise everything will proceed as before. I expect to be in Oxford until October, but it would be much appreciated by everyone here if not all paper submissions arrived on or just before the deadline day which is 1 OCTOBER 1991. If your submission is almost ready, please be helpful and get it to us well before the deadline day. We plan to do as much of the conference organisation as possible by electronic mail. Please send any conference e-mail of any kind to ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK, not to any of our personal addresses. And - please take note of the format for electronic submissions, which is reproduced below. Several of the ones received so far have had to be returned to their authors for reformatting. Susan Hockey FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions should begin with the following information: TITLE: title of paper AUTHOR(S): names of authors AFFILIATION: of author(s) CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address E-MAIL: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) FAX NUMBER: of main author PHONE NUMBER: of main author (1) Electronic submissions These should be plain ASCII files, not wordprocessor files, and should not contain TAB characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Footnotes should not be included and endnotes only where absolutely necessary. References should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters which cannot be transmitted by electronic mail and include an explanation of the scheme after the title information and before the start of the text. Electronic submissions should be sent to ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH92". If diagrams are necessary for the evaluation of electronic submissions, they should be faxed to 44-865-273275 (international, or 0865-273275 (from within UK) and a note to indicate the presence of diagrams put at the beginning of the abstract. From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Emily PostNews Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1991 11:26:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 570 (671) Can anyone point me to a copy of Emily PostNews? It is supposed to be a humorous intro to net etiquette. Thanks, Leslie Burkholder CMU From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: Language Learning Programs Date: Fri, 9 Aug 91 14:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 571 (672) Recently, a member of the Georgetown community approached me searching for any on-going projects working on developing language learning programs (computer-aided language learning). He's not as interested in any specific language as he is in the development process. If anyone might be able to help me locate any such projects for him, I would be very grateful. Sincerely, James A. Wilderotter II Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" From: "Kevin J.T. Creamer" Subject: NEW LIST: Milton-L Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1991 13:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 572 (673) Milton-L@URVAX - John Milton List Milton-L@URVAX.URICH.EDU (Internet address) Milton-L is a moderated electronic digest for scholars, students, and others interested in the life and work of John Milton. As participation grows Milton-L will also serve as a repository for information on the current state of Milton scholarship (proposals and projects, bibliographies, and conferences). To subscribe, please send a brief note to Milton-request@URVAX (or to Milton-request@urvax.urich.edu for Internet addresses). Any questions regarding Milton-L may be sent to the list moderator, Kevin Creamer at Milton-request@URVAX. List Owner: Kevin J.T. Creamer (CREAMER@URVAX) (Creamer@urvax.urich.edu) From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: flat-file dbms? Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1991 16:58:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 573 (674) I am seeking recommendations for an MS-DOS flat-file database manager in the public domain. I need something that is easily obtainable (preferably by network) and easily learned by novices. Any help will be most welcome. Thanks very much. Willard McCarty From: Robert Dale Subject: REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS---INTERNATIONAL NLG WORKSHOP 1992 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 91 19:47:15 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 276 (675) Call for Papers The Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy, 5th--7th April 1992 *** NOTE---REVISED SUBMISSION DATE AND OTHER DETAILS **** PURPOSE AND SCOPE: Following on from the five previous International Workshops on Natural Language Generation, this workshop aims to bring together researchers in a rapidly consolidating field. We intend to structure the workshop around a number of emerging topic areas: Multi-modality: the practical and theoretical issues underlying the development of systems that integrate language generation with other media (such as graphics, maps, and forms). The representation and use of syntactic knowledge: we particularly welcome papers which attempt to bridge the gap between earlier phrase structure grammar based approaches, systemic approaches, and newer constraint-based approaches, and discussions of how these approaches address the motivation of syntactic choice. Approaches to text planning: a number of approaches to discourse structure (such as RST, DRT and schemas) have relevance to text planning. What are their respective strengths and, especially, weaknesses? In what areas do we need additional theories? Applications of NLG: the use of language generation techniques in, for example, expert system explanation, machine translation, dialogue systems, and report generation; their implications for more theoretical issues. Multi-linguality: the effects upon system architecture and underlying representation of building systems which generate text in more than one language. To what extent is it possible to build plug-and-play realization components for different languages for use with generic text planners? SUBMISSIONS: Contributors interested in participating in this workshop are initially requested to submit A PAPER OF 10 PAGES in length. Papers will be reviewed by an international programme committee. Accepted papers will be returned for polishing and revision into full length papers before inclusion into the workshop proceedings, which will be published as a book. The cover page of the draft paper should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including email address and fax number if available), a short (10 line) summary, and a specification of the topic area. Send to: Mail: Robert Dale Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland Tel: (+44) 31 650 4416 Fax: (+44) 31 662 4912 Email: R.Dale@uk.ac.ed SCHEDULE: Submissions are due at the above address NO LATER THAN 4TH NOVEMBER 1991, either by paper mail, email (in LaTeX form), or fax; notifications of acceptance should be received by authors BY 6TH JANUARY 1992; camera ready versions of the final papers are due 17TH FEBRUARY 1992. Approximately 15 papers will be accepted for presentation at the workshop and subsequent inclusion in the book. Note the change of submission date and change in length of paper required. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance at the workshop will be limited to around 50 people. The workshop has been timed to follow the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, being held in Trento, Italy from 1st--3rd April 1991. Details of this conference can be obtained from Oliviero Stock, IRST, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy; Tel: (+39) 461 81444, email: stock@irst.it The cost of the workshop, including accommodation and meals, is expected to be in the region of $300 per person. Financial support for the workshop is being sought. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Esprit Basic Research Actions and the Special Interest Group on Generation of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Organising Committee: Robert Dale, Eduard Hovy, Dietmar Rosner and Oliviero Stock. From: (James Marchand) Subject: westerns Date: Sun, 11 Aug 91 18:51:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 574 (676) I have wiped my slate clean, so I do not have a record of what was posted, but someone was searching for an author of Westerns, and I haven't seen an answer. As someone who cut his teeth on Zane Gray and those other Writers of the Purple Sage, an avid reader of and researcher on Westerns, I do not want to leave a fellow in the lurch. Westerns are well-bibliographied and discussed. You cannot beat The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, ed. Howard R. Lamar (NY: Harper & Row, 1977), over 1300 pages of info. The granddaddy of them all is J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, rev. and enl. in both knowledge and wisdom (Dallas: Southern Methodist Press, 1952). This can be brought closer with Richard W. Etulain, A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature, 2d ed., 1982. This can be brought then up-to-date by consulting the yearly bibs in Western American Literature, a great journal published in Logan. I should also mention a number of bibliographies from the hand of Ramon Frederick Adams, also one of the good ones, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Jim Marchand From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: dendrology Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 15:55:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 575 (677) In regard to James Marchand's comment that the tendence to think in "trees" may be hard-wired into our brains, we can contrast the opinion of Martin Bernal in§ Black Athena. He says on p. 226 that this is a tendency of Romanticism that assumes an essentialist and progressivist view, and occasionally a teleological one to boot. According to him it fed the belief that languages have an inherent nature that persists through its later ramifications. This by his thesis was the influence of non-Indo-European factors on Western culture. Specifically of cours classical Greek, but that the tree metaphor, as well as the family metaphor, was used by philologists to preserve the purity of classical Greek from such external influnces.Bernal acknowledges that his is a polemical argument, but it might be worth discussing here both the history of the metaphor and whether it is beign unfairly castigated. Dirk Held, Classics, Connecticut College.. From: Robert O'Hara Subject: Textual Criticism Challenge Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1991 15:40:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 576 (678) I found Peter Robinson's "Textual Criticism Challenge 1991" (to reconstruct a stemma for a collection of Old Norse MSS) very exciting for a number of reasons, and I hardly know where to begin. I had been considering bringing up this general topic on HUMANIST for a while, but didn't feel I had the time at this particular moment. I still don't have the time, but I'm going to do it now anyway. :-) My training is in evolutionary biology, and I am much interested in the relationships between the humanities and the sciences; in particular, between history and the "historical sciences" of cosmology, geology, and evolution. One of the most active areas of theoretical research in evolutionary biology in the last 25 years has been the study of phylogeny, the evolutionary history of life. If we accept that evolution has occurred, then all of the millions of species of organisms we see around us today are related to one another in a great tree of life, an evolutionary genealogy that we can, in principle, reconstruct. The reconstruction of this great tree of life, the reconstruction of evolutionary history, is the concern of the field known as _systematics_, or more specifically _cladistics_, and these are my particular specialties. (Systematics is to cladistics about as philology is to stemmatics.) The reconstruction of evolutionary trees is an inferential discipline. We do not directly observe sequences of past events; we use the pattern of similarities and differences that can be observed among organisms in the present to infer the sequence of steps by which these current morpho- logies arose, and the sequence of splitting events (speciations) that led to the presently observed diversity. Now as you may be able to see already, there are many parallels, some nearly exact, between the reconstruction of phylogeny (evolutionary trees), and the reconstruction of both linguistic trees and stemmata of manuscripts. Peter Robinson suggests a variety of conclusions anyone taking up his challenge might be able to arrive at, and many of these are the very same conclusions a systematist trying to estimate a phylogeny would try to reach. Peter's "genetic groups" are what we would call _clades_ (Gr. clados, "branch"). Rather than speaking of a word or phrase that exhibits a variety of readings, we speak of a _character_ that exhibits several _states_; characters are the raw data, the observed differences, from which we infer past events. The "readings characteristic of particular groups" are what we would call the "apomorphies" or "derived character states" of a clade. "Contamination" in stemmatics is what systematists would call "horizontal transmission" or hybridization. It is very much a nuisance in systematics just as it is in stemmatics. "Readings independently conceived by different scribes" are what we call convergences or "homoplasies" (Gr. "molded the same"). And "readings that have spread by virtue of the common descent of all these manuscripts from a single parent manuscript" are what we would call "plesiomorphies" or "primitive character states." Primitive character states/readings do not define clades/genetic groups: if you have two sets of organisms/MSS, one with state/reading "A" and the other with state/reading "B", you have to know which of these is the primitive state and which is the derived state in order to tell which set of organisms/MSS is the clade/genetic group, derived from somewhere within the other group. In systematics the determination of the direction of change between two or more character states is called "polarity determination", and is ordinarily done according to a method called "outgroup comparison". I don't think stemmatics has an exact parallel to outgroup comparison; instead, "reading polarity" is judged according to various principles like "lectio difficilior", etc. Systematists have also developed a variety of computer programs for analysing character data and reconstructing evolutionary trees, but I won't say too much about them because that's the approach I'm going to use when I take a crack at Peter's challenge, and I don't want to give all my secrets away. :-) I have followed as an amateur the recent popular literature in linguistics on the "Nostratic" and "proto-World" questions, and there are many additional parallels to be found there between systematics and historical linguistics. The technique advocated by Greenberg called "mass comparison" is very like the systematic method, now largely discredited, called "phenetics". Further, the linguistic school called "glottochronology", popular I believe in the 1960s, made assumptions similar to those made by systematists who use biochemical data and argue for the existence of a "molecular clock" that can be used to date past evolutionary events. The literature on phylogeny estimation in systematics has increased enormously in the last few years, and it has from time to time gotten very rancorous. Many of the detailed debates on these issues have taken place in the journals _Systematic Zoology_ and _Cladistics_. Unfortunately there are relatively few general or introductory treatments available, since most of these methods are still fairly new. One of the best analyses of the theoretical foundations of phylogeny estimation is: Sober, E. 1988. Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference. Cambridge: MIT Press. Sober is a philosopher, and he does a very good job of explaining how many of the theoretical problems of phylogeny estimation are special cases of general problems that have been discussed in the philosophical literature for some time. I'm quite sure that anyone interested in the theoretical aspects of either historical linguistics or stemmatics would find much of interest in his book. A couple shorter papers that discuss the general nature of contemporary systematics are: de Queiroz, K. 1988. Systematics and the Darwinian revolution. Philosophy of Science, 55:238-259. O'Hara, R. J. 1988. Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology. Systematic Zoology, 37:142-155. These do not examine particular methods of reconstructing evolutionary trees, but rather describe the nature of the systematic enterprise, and its recent history. The parallels between systematics and both historical linguistics and stemmatics have not gone unnoticed, but I think that up to now it's been like two groups of people speaking different languages -- there are a few people interested in learning the other language, but there really aren't any bilingual people yet who can help the others along. One fascinating pioneering volume has appeared, but much more work of this sort is needed: Hoenigswald, H. M., & L. F. Wiener, eds. 1987. Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification: an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennnsylvania Press. Another interest of mine in this context has been the history of the diagrams that have been drawn to represent evolutionary history, and natural diversity more generally. We now draw evolutionary trees of course, but in the pre-evolutionary period (early 19th C. and before) natural diversity was not necessarily visualized as tree-like, and circles, stars, maps, and other metaphors were used to represent what was called "the Natural System" (whence the name "systematics"). If anyone knows of historical studies in linguistics or stemmatics that have particularly examined the development of linguistic or stemmatic tree diagrams I would be very interested to hear of them. A reference to my own work on this topic is: O'Hara, R. J. 1991. Representations of the Natural System in the Nineteenth Century. Biology and Philosophy, 6:255-274. [I would be happy to provide anyone who is interested with reprints of either of my papers; just send me a snail-mail address.] Indeed, the rise of historical linguistics in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries was happening at precisely the same time as the rise of historical thinking in geology, zoology, and botany. The best two references on this "historical revolution" from the perspective of the sciences are: Greene, J. C. 1959. The Death of Adam: Evolution and its Impact on Western Thought. Ames: Iowa State University Press. Toulmin, S., & J. Goodfield. 1965. The Discovery of Time. New York: Harper & Row. ["In the whole history of thought no transformation in in men's attitude to Nature -- in their 'common sense' -- has been more profound than the change in perspective brought about by the discovery of the past." p.17] I will be moving to the University of Wisconsin in a few weeks, so this month is rather hectic for me, but I hope that any of you who find these issues interesting will give some thought to them, and if I can't respond completely at the moment I will be sure to bring up the subject again in a month or two. At Wisconsin I will be working with Elliott Sober, the author of the first book mentioned above, on an NSF postdoc to examine the theoretical foundations of the idea of "a character" in systematics, so if anyone happens to know of any similar discussions in the textual analysis literature on what the concept of "a reading" means I would be glad to hear of them. My thanks to Peter Robinson for putting forth such an interesting challenge. I hope that many more people will take it up. Bob O'Hara, MNHVZ028@SIVM.bitnet National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution From: Robert O'Hara Subject: Linguistics, stemmatics, cladistics Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1991 12:16:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 577 (679) After posting my response to Peter Robinson's "Textual Criticism Challenge" I went back through the Hoenigswald & Wiener volume I mentioned, and it really is quite excellent. Since the title might not particularly catch the eye of a linguist or philologist, I reproduce here the table of contents. I highly recommend the volume to anyone interested in the theoretical aspects of historical reconstruction in language and manuscript studies. Hoenigswald, H.M., & L. F. Weiner, eds. 1987. Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification: an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Part One: Historical Perspectives 1. Biological analogy in the study of languages before the advent of comparative grammar. (W. Keith Percival) 2. The life and growth of language: metaphors in biology and linguistics. (Rulon S. Wells) 3. "Organic" and "organicism" in Franz Bopp. (Anna Morpurgo Davies) 4. On Schleicher and trees. (Konrad Koerner) 5. A legal point. (Boyd H. Davies) 6. Haeckel's variations on Darwin. (Jane M. Oppenheimer) Part Two: Methodology 7. Cladistic and paleobotanical approaches to plant phylogeny. (Peter R. Crane & Christopher R. Hill) 8. Pattern and process: phylogenetic reconstruction in botany. (Peter F. Stevens) 9. Characters and cladograms: examples from zoological systematics. (Michael J. Novacek) 10. Reconstructing genetic and linguistic trees: phenetic and cladistic approaches. (Maryellen Ruvolo) 11. Of phonetics and genetics: a comparison of classification in linguistic and organic systems. (Linda F. Weiner) 12. The upside-down cladogram: problems in manuscript affiliation. (H. Don Cameron) 13. Representing language relationships. (William S.-Y. Wang) 14. Language family trees: topological and metrical. (Henry M. Hoenigswald) 15. Computational complexity and cladistics. (David Sankoff) Bob O'Hara, MNHVZ028@SIVM.bitnet National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution From: (James Marchand) Subject: dendrology Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 18:50:50 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 578 (680) When I made the statement about dendrological thinking being hard-wired into humans, I did not even think about it being controversial. I am opposed to dendrological thinking just because it is so pervasive. I really know of no culture in which the members do not draw "trees" to illustrate relationships. The ready acceptance of Darwinianism in the 19th century, though the seedbed had been prepared by Herder and Goethe and historicism in general, shows that this sort of thinking was widespread at least. As to the "family" metaphor, I have no idea when it arose as applied to languages; it goes back at least to the 17th century. The tree metaphor as applied to languages, particularly in the form given it by Schleicher, brought about a counter- theory, the wave theory (Schmidt), but we still draw (leafless) trees to illustrate kinship, manuscript stemmata, language relationships, etc., without thinking that this requires an either/or but never both (exclusive or) kind of thinking, which I think led to the Darwinian rejection of speciation by convergence. As humanists, we very seldom have to deal with things which are discrete, easily lumped. As the case of Yiddish and German shows, it is often even hard to tell when is a language. At any rate, dendrology is an ever present danger for the humanist, be it hard-wired into us or not. As Gottfried put it: si bernt uns mit dem stocke schate, und nicht mit dem gruenen meienblate "They offer us shade with the (bare) branches, and not with the green leaf of May." Jim Marchand From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: dendrology-addendum Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 15:39:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 579 (681) The network transmission of my comment on "dendrology" somehow lost an important line. The omission concerned Martin Bernal's asertion that the tree metaphor applied to languages provided a powerful paradigm that excluded the possibility of allowing the influence first, of non-IE languages on the IE family; this preserved the purity of the "Sprache", and sewrved as the foundation of what he calls the Aryan model. And second, the tree metaphor for languages was extended to culture as well, excluding here too the influence of non-IE cultural factors (he has in mind specifically Semitic and African factors).Thus Bernal asserts in his book Black Athena that racism and anti-Semitism were sustained by and promoted the adoption of the tree metaphor as well as the family metaphor. I wonder how many agree with his ideological thesis, which at the very least asserts that rather than being hard-wired as Marchand suggested the metaphor is the child of extra-rational forces. Dirk Held, Classics, Connecticut College. From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: CALL projects Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 22:32:24 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 580 (682) Regarding Jim Wilderotter's recent request for information on CALL projects, I suggest contacting CALICO, now located at Duke University (frankbor@dukevm.ac.duke.edu or frankbor@dukevm.bitnet; tel. 919-684-3637), Jim Noblitt at the Institute for Academic Technology (jim.iat@mhs.unc.edu; tel. 919-560-5031) and any number of people listed in recent program guides for CALICO Symposia and contributors to the _CALICO Journal_ and _Computers and the Humanities_. You might like writing to the CALICO staff still operating at Brigham Young University: calico@byuvax.bitnet. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill From: BURTON@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Burton, Diane,VCA) Subject: re: language learning Date: 13 Aug 91 18:19 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 581 (683) A good source of information about computer-aided language learning is CALICO, the Computer Assisted Language Learning and Instruction Consortium. CALICO is a consortium of academic, business, research, manufacturing and government members involved in the field of computer-assisted language instruction. Special interest groups are maintained in the following fields: Artificial Intelligence, Computers in the Classroom, Foreign Character Fonts/Asian Languages, CD-ROM, Courseware Development, and Interactive Audio/Video. Members include 216 companies and 730 individuals. They host an annual conference in the spring each year and publish the CALICO journal, a refereed quarterly professional journal. The contact information is: Frank Otto, Director 3078 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 (801) 378-6533 calico@byuvax Another source of information is the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning which is a consortium of 11 East Coast schools (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale, U of Chicago, Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Penn) involved in the study and development of foreign language software. They have several innovative projects underway. The contact information is: Peter Patrikis, Executive Director Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning 111 Grove Street P.O. Box 2497, Yale Station New Haven, CT 06520-2497 (203) 432-0590 x1738@applelink Brown and Dartmouth both have a large number of projects underway. For more information contact: Language Resource Center Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 (401) 863 -7013 Listen@brownvm or Nancy Davis Humanities Computing Bartlett Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 Finally, there is a large multimedia language learning project taking place at MIT. They are working with interactive video and creating simulations for language learning. They recently decided to publish their development software called "Toolkit" so that others could create their own simulations. The contact is: Dr. Janet Murray Athena Language Learning Project Building 20B, Room 231 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA (617) 253-2094 jhmurray@athena.mit.edu jhmurray%athena..bitnet@mitvma From: "Knut Hofland" Subject: Conference: "The digital image" Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 15:22:45 EMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 280 (684) This file can be fetched by sending mail to NAVFSERV@NORA.NAVF-EDB-H.UIB.NO with the line send konferanser digital.image as the single line in the body. "The Digital Image" Conference on Pictorial Arts and Information Technology Bergen, 17-19 October 1991 ARRANGED BY: Department of Art History, University of Bergen The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities IBM Bergen Scientific Centre "The Digital Image" Conference on Pictorial Arts and Information Technology Digital images represent new possibilities for storage, analysis and presentation of still pictures and video, and recent developments in computer technology yield high quality reproductions. This technology may be applied in a number of disciplines, such as art and cultural history, film studies, theatre and drama, pedagogy, museum work, library and documentation sciences and in the graphics industry. The purpose of the conference is to present the state of the art in digital image technology. Some of the world's leading experts will show, through presentations and demonstrations, how this technology may be applied in various disciplines, while some of the presentations will deal with ongoing research in advanced digital image processing. The projects to be presented will mainly deal with art and cultural history and museum work, but projects in film analysis, pedagogical applications and pictorial data bases will also be demonstrated. Some of the projects to be presented are the results of joint national and international efforts involving several disciplines. Systems in use in Norwegian collections and museums will also be demonstrated. In addition to the series of presentations listed here, there will be a number of demonstrations. The program for the demonstrations will be presented later. During the conference the participants will have access to a fully equipped demonstration room, to allow demonstrations for smaller audiences. Agenda Thursday 17 October: 09.00 - 12.30 Registration - 12.30 LUNCH 12.30 - 12.45 Director Jostein H. Hauge, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities: Opening Adress 12.45 - 13.15 Professor Gunnar Danbolt, Department of Art History, University of Bergen: Art and Dissemination and New Technology 13.15 - 14.15 Professor Ching-chih Chen, Simmons College, Boston: Multimedia Developments of PROJECT EMPEROR-I: From Interactive Videodisc to Interactive Multimedia, from Analog to Digital - Talking from Experience - 14.45 COFFEE BREAK 14.45 - 15.30 Dr. Kirk Martinez, History of Art Department, Birkbeck College, London University: The VASARI Project: High Quality Imaging Directly From Painting 15.30 - 16.15 Professor Bjorn Sorenssen, Department of Drama, Film and Theatre, University of Trondheim: "Interactive Video as an Educational Tool for Film and Media Studies" 16.30 - 18.30 DEMONSTRATIONS Friday 18 October: 09.00 - 09.30 Researcher-NAVF Britt Kroepelien, Department of Art History, University of Bergen: Stylistic Analysis through Computer Technology 09.30 - 10.00 Departmental Manager Rune Espelid, IBM Bergen Scientific Centre: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition as Aids to Stylistic Analysis - 10.30 COFFEE BREAK 10.30 - 11.15 Drs. Carlo Bui, Mario Milazzo, Cristina Sironi, Istituto di Fisica, Milano: Image Processing Applied to Infrared Reflectographies of Paintings 11.15 - 12.00 Dr. Ying L. Yao, IBM Research, New York: A TDI-CCD Colorimetric Scanner and its Applications - 13.30 LUNCH 13.30 - 14.15 Senior Consultant Espen S. Ore, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities: Digital Images from Photographs and Video 14.15 - 15.00 Dr. Wim Jansen, The Dutch Open University: Towards a Flexible Learning Environment in Art History Education - 15.30 COFFEE BREAK 15.30 - 16.15 Electrotechnical Engineer Dag Bergman, Department of Egyptology, University of Uppsala: Hypermedia Projects in Egyptian and Peruvian Culture History 16.30 - 18.00 DEMONSTRATIONS Saturday 19 October: 09.00 - 09.45 Director Christian Lahanier, Direction des Musees de France: NARCISSE - Network of Art Research Computer Image SystemS in Europe - 10.15 COFFEE BREAK 10.15 - 11.00 Founding Director Susan Stedman, Museum Education Consortium, New York: Interactive Multimedia for Museum Education in the United States 11.00 - 12.00 PANEL DEBATE (PANEL TO BE ADVISED). CONCLUDING REMARKS. About the conference: The conference starts on Thursday 17 October 1:00 pm., and ends on Saturday 19 October 1:00 pm. It will take place at Bergen Airport Hotel, Kokstadveien 3 - five minutes by car from Bergen Airport, Flesland, and 20 minutes by bus from the Centre of Bergen. Conference fee: NOK 900 for faculty of academic organisations NOK 500 for students NOK 1500 for others Included in the conference fee is a dinner at the medieval assembly halls of Schtstuene in Bergen, on 18 October. Hotell rates: NOK 1780 (single room, full pension) NOK 1500 (double room, full pension) NOK 170 (extra lunch on arrival) Reservation is not valid until conference fee is paid to Bank Account no. 3625.88.53657. Final registration date is 2 September. With cancellations before 1 October we refund 50% of the registration fee. Cancellations after 1 October are not entitled to any refund. Information about the conference can be obtained from: EITHER: The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities P.O. Box 53, Universitetet, N-5027 Bergen, Norway Tel. + 47 5 21 29 54/55/56. Fax + 47 5 32 26 56. E-mail: imageconf-91@navf-edb-h.uib.no (attn.: Kari Sorstrommen or Kjell Morland) OR: Britt Kroepelien, Hoyteknologisenteret in Bergen. Tel. + 47 5 54 42 28. From: Karl Signell Subject: E-classroom VMS software Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 14:19:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 582 (685) Anyone know of a VAX/VMS software program for running a Distance Education class? Please reply directly to: Karl Signell SIGNELL@UMDD (Bitnet) SIGNELL@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet) From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Upper ASCII and UUENCODE Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 15:00:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 583 (686) Some readers may be interested in knowing that under certain circumstances it is possible to send upper ASCII characters, i.e. accented characters, Macintosh documents, graphic characters, etc., through E-Mail. I accidentally discovered that our mail system on the VAX automatically UUENCODEs attachments containing at least one upper ASCII character sent with E-Mail from our 3Com (DOS based) 3+Mail server. The largest file sent and then UUDECODEd to check it integrity has been 130K. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: "Bill Ball" Subject: Scientific American Issue Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 20:52:28 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 584 (687) I received this morning the September 1991 issue of Scientific American. It is a special issue devoted to "Communications, Computers, and Networks", subtitled "How to Work, Play and Thrive in Cyperspace". Less technical than their usual stuff and from an initial examination definitely a must read for anyone interested in the net. Bill Ball c476721@umcmvb From: Dennis Baron Subject: C.E./B.C.E. Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 13:01:04 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 585 (688) I have received several responses from lexicographers on the history and definition of these abbreviations. Having promised earlier to pass these along, here goes: [deleted quotation]era' has escaped explicit definition in the _OED_" (does this mean the definition is so obvious only a fool would ask for it? if so, why do dictionaries bother to define the cardinal and ordinal numbers so extensively?) In any case, _OED_ goes on to cite an 1881 instance of BCE and an 1886 instance of CE, as well as an 1825 use of C.AE. for `Christian Era.' Dr. J.H. Marshall, Senior Assistant Editor of the New Shorter OED, adds, "It is notable that all the sources are works of Jewish history, and I suspect that CE for Christian Era was an initial move away from the more overtly `partisan' AD. In fact, we have very few examples of `common era' or of the abbreviations CE and BCE, all from recent books on the history of non-Christian religions or cultures (including Judaism and Sikhism). They seem still to be used only in contexts where AD and BC would be particularly incongruous, or by authors particularly reluctant to use the Christian term." Kathleen M. Doherty of Merriam-Webster Inc. writes there is very little definitive information about these abbreviations. Both Christian Era and Common Era are available expansions of C.E. and have been since at least the 1909 _Webster's New International Dictionary_. "C.E. common era seems to have become more widespread especially in books dealing with theology over the last ten to fifteen years." It's disappointing not to find a smoking lexicographical gun, a text (early 19c seems likely) where the author says "I'm going to coin CE/BCE because . . . " (where the reasons are something like a) I'm not a Christian, or b) I don't believe in using Latin when native words will do, or c) A.D. just presents too many usage problems--does it go before or after, how do you use it with a century or a range of dates? or d) I know how hard it is to deal with abbreviations in dictionaries. Anyway, this is probably all more than the initial poser of this query wanted to know, and less. -- debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: TEXTCRIT@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: TEI Textual Criticism Working Group: help and comments invited Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 16:01 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 283 (689) The Text Encoding Initiative Working Group on Textual Criticism Call for Comments and Information; Invitation to Join an E-Mail Discussion Group The TEI Working Group on Textual Criticism is responsible for the preparation of the section relating to Textual Criticism to appear in the final report of the Text Encoding Initiative, due for publication in June 1992. The working group consists at the moment of Robin Cover (formerly of the Dallas Theological Seminary), Bob Kraft (Pennsylvania), Peter Shillingsburg (Mississippi) and myself, Peter Robinson (Oxford);I am the group chair. Other members will be appointed to the group later. The group will be reviewing the recommendations concerning encoding of Critical Apparatus offered in Version 1.1 of the "The Guidelines for the Encoding and Interchange of Machine-Readable Texts", published in October 1990, reprinted Jun 1991 (Section 5.10, pages 108-22). These recommendations have already been subject to some comment, from members of the working group itself and others: more comment and more discussion of these is now invited. To facilitate this, on behalf of the working group I will moderate an informal electronic discussion of the recommendations on Textual Criticism in Version 1.1. Anyone may join this discussion by sending a message to me at the address at the end of this document. If you have read these recommendations please send your thoughts on them, for posting in the discussion. Possible topics include: do the recommendations seem comprehensive? what looks most useful? how could they be improved and extended? how well do they fit in with the work you and your colleagues do in textual criticism? Even if you do not feel you have anything to say now but would like to join to hear what others say, and possibly say something yourself later, please join the discussion. If you have not got a copy of 1.1, one can be sent to you. Everyone who joins the discussion will be sent a collection of all the comments made since publication of 1.1 relating to these recommendations; comments on these can also form part of the discussion. All members of the Working Group will be taking part in the discussion, and the discussion should itself become the base for the final report. The working group is also interested in obtaining samples of machine- readable encoding of textual apparatus. If you are working with such an encoding, no matter how simple or complex, we would like to see a specimen of it. Please send the sample and any explanatory matter you feel appropriate to the address below. A digest of all the systems of encoding of textual apparatus notified to the working group will be posted to the discussion. Time is short: the working group will be meeting to draft the final recommendations in late September/early October. Your contribution now could make a real difference. Peter Robinson, Chair of the TEI Working Group on Textual Criticism (TR2) EMAIL: (janet) TEXTCRIT@UK.AC.OX.VAX, (Bitnet/Earn) TEXTCRIT@VAX.OX.AC.UK Phone Oxford (0865) 273200, fax 273275 The Computers and Manuscripts Project Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: Symposium on SGML, ODA, and Information Retrieval Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 12:58:25 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 284 (690) SYMPOSIUM APPLYING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TO MARKED-UP OR STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS Rockfeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399 9am to 5:15pm, 18 October 1991 Organized by the Center for Advanced Study of Information Systems Inc. (CASIS) under the sponsorship of Dr. F. Seitz, President Emeritus, Rockfeller University PROGRAM Chaired by Pierre Aigrain, Former French Minister General Introduction: Bruce Merrifield [deleted quotation] Norbert Paquel, CANOPE The Text Encoding Initiative Don Walker, Bellcore Linguistic analysis: exploiting structure and extracting structure Lisa Rau, General Electric R&D Semantic extension to text retrieval James Driscoll, University of Central Florida Utilization of a text algebra for retrieval of information from a hierarchical database, incorporating heterogeneous structured documents F. Burkowski, University of Waterloo Incorporating human aspects in human computer interaction in information retrieval Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University Exploiting SGML information for document retrieval Yuri Rubinsky, SoftQuad, Inc. SGML, distinguishing Intelligence from formating Sam Wilmott, Software Exoterica Corporation Interaction with ODA structure Mark Bramhall, Digital Equipment Corp. PANEL SESSION: Practical evolution of retrieval techniques in enterprise-wide document databases Chaired by Joshua Lederberg, Past President, Rockfeller University and Nobel Prize Winner For more information and to register, contact: CASIS, Attention: Mrs M.T. Maurice 220 East 72nd Street New York, NY 10021, USA Phone: (+1-212) 879 4019 Fax: (+1-212) 879 4552 From: Susan Hockey Subject: Publication of Research in Humanities Computing I Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 10:41 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 285 (691) Announcing a new publication ..... Research in Humanities Computing I, the first in the new series of papers from the ALLC-ACH conferences published by Oxford University Press, will be available in the UK and Europe from 12 September and a little later in the USA. Publication details: Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide (series editors), Ian Lancashire (guest editor), 'Research in Humanities Computing I: Papers from the 1989 ACH-ALLC Conference', Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-19-824251-4, 352pp. Susan Hockey ------------------------------------------------------------- Contents Preface by Ian Lancashire Introduction Northrop Frye, Literary and Mechanical Models Part One: Statistical Methods Karin Flikeid, Techniques of Textual and Quantitative Analysis in a Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Study of Acadian French G. Lessard and A. Whitfield, The Study of Oral Elements in Some Modern Quebecois Novels: Some Applications of Text Analysis Software Thomas B. Horton, Frequent Words, Authorship and Characterization in Jacobean Drama Etienne Brunet, What do Statistics Tell Us? Part Two: Text Analysis Tools Hans Van Halteren, The Scholar's Workdesk, a STRIDER Case Study Susan Hockey, Jo Freedman and John Cooper, The Oxford Text Searching System Part Three: Linguistics Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, Automatic Lemmatization of Classical Armenian Texts Arne Jonsson and Lars Ahrenberg, Extensions of a Descriptor-Based Tagging System into a Tool for the Generation of Unification-Based Grammars B. Elan Dresher, YOUPIE: A Parameter-Based Learning Model for Metrical Phonology Part Four: Artificial Intelligence and Computational Linguistics Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis, An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Literary Narrative Christian Koch, Metaphorical and Analogical Understanding in Reader-Text Interaction Igor A. Melcuk and Alain Polguere, Aspects of the Implementation of the Meaning-Text Model for English Text Generation Nick Cercone, Paul McFetridge, Gary Hall and Chris Groeneboer, An Unnatural Language Interface Jim Kippen and Bernard Bel, From Wordprocessing to Automatic Knowledge Acquisition; a Pragmatic Application for Computers in Experimental Ethnomusicology Part Five: Databases Frank Wm, Tompa and Darrell R. Raymond, Database Design for a Dynamic Dictionary Nicoletta Calzolari and Antonio Zampolli, Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: a Trend of Convergence between Computational Linguistics and Liteary and Linguistic Computing Jacques Dendien, Access to Information in a Textual Database: Access Functions and Optimal Indexes Patricia Galloway and Clara Sue Kidwell, Choctaw Land Claims in Mississippi: Management and Analysis of Heterogeneous Data Conclusion Jean-Claude Gardin, On the Way we Think and Write in the Humanities: A Computational Perspective From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0279 Language Learning Projects Date: Fri,16 Aug 91 15:26:09 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 586 (692) I seem to have missed the original request: for information on CALL projects in the UK, contact the CTI Centre for Modern Languages at the University of Hull, HU6 7RX JANET email: CTI.Lang@uk.ac.hull. From: Christopher Currie (IHR) Subject: Re: vol5.0281 Upper ASCII Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 10:58:37 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 587 (693) Michael Kessler points out that some machines automatically uuencode upper ASCII characters before mailing them. Whether your mailer does this or not, you can always do it yourself on a micro before sending the document to the mailer. In this way, word processor control codes etc. can be preserved. It's also a useful technique for sending ASCII documents with long lines (e.g. some PostScript files). It may be safer to XXENCODE rather than UUENCODE, and you should always use an encoder with a table option set. This puts a table of characters at the beginning of the file, so that the recpipient can see if any have been corrupted and correct them with an ASCII text editor before decoding. There are other codeforms which do the same job (e.g. .BOO encoding and atob encoding) but they are less widely used than UUENCODE/XXENCODE and you can't be sure that the recipient will be able to get a decoder for his machine. Christopher From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U" Subject: Uuencoding email through gateways Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 09:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 588 (694) MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU wrote: [deleted quotation] Uuencoding also allows the transmission of executable files. I _think_ (I used to know this, but no longer remember) that it's used to send regular text files from IBM mainframes which encode text using ebcdic to machines which code text with ascii. This is how email moves between the internet (ascii) and bitnet (ebcdic). As noted above, many machines make the conversion automatically. Not ours. I run it on a clone and have successfully decoded files of close to a meg; the resulting decoded files are smaller. You can download a version of uuen/decode in basic--straight ascii--which, when run once, creates an executable file (A file which you couldn't have downloaded without already having! Huh? Have computers solved the chicken and egg question?) I got mine from one of the simtel20 lookalikes. Ed Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-7076 From: Christopher Currie (IHR) Subject: Dendrology Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 12:37:34 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 589 (695) A small spanner in the works. The discussion has referred to trees of kinship, evolution, stemmata etc. as if they were analogous. But in fairness to genealogists, a well-constructed family tree cannot present a single stemma, since everyone has two natural parents. There is thus 'contamination' in every generation. How far is the penchant for uniradical trees the result of the dominance of patrilinear thinking (particularly in Europe since the High Middle Ages)? Tree-structures are also used to analyse, for example, the development of artifact typology. But the use of the device doesn't commit one to a particular interpretation. For example, the study of timber roofs in Europe has been conducted mainly on a national or regional basis, so that the 'trees' show development from some supposed original folktype. It is curious that the earliest type of roof known in northern Europe is very widespread and remarkably little differentiated wherever it occurs (from Northern France to Poland and from the Alps to England and Sweden). It has almost universally been regarded as 'foreign' by national typologists, except in north Germany and Poland, each of which (for ideological reasons) has claimed it as authentically German or Slavonic. An alternative approach could be to posit a tree showing regional differentiation from this early form; but this 'tree' has a quite different ideological content from the national folkloristic ones. Christopher From: (James Marchand) Subject: BCE Date: Thu, 15 Aug 91 18:52:34 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 590 (696) Thanks to Dennis Baron, we are moving closer to my 18th century suspicion. It might be of interest to HUMANIST subscribers to see the exchange on the subject which is going on in the Biblical Archaeology Review. One reader even cancelled his subscription, feeling that this abbreviation and the editors had an anti-Christian bias. Since many people (over half of the students I asked who had even a clue as to what it meant) still think it means "Before the Christian Era," it's not working. Jim Marchand From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: CCH Graduate Programme Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1991 11:12:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 287 (697) Dear Colleague: The Centre for Computing in the Humanities is pleased to announce its Graduate Programme in Humanities Computing for 1991-92, a description of which follows here. This description is also being circulated as a leaflet to all graduate departments, centres, and institutes for distribution to students, as some of you will already know. The CCH has taken this somewhat unusual step because the courses of the programme, though sponsored by SGS, are still being offered on an experimental basis and so do not appear in the graduate Calendar. I very much appreciate your assistance in drawing the attention of your students, or fellow students, to the Programme. Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information. Yours, Willard McCarty _________________________________________________________________ Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto Graduate Programme 1991-92 Robarts Library 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 Computing in the humanities Computing now plays an increasingly significant role in the academic and intellectual activities of scholars in the humanities. Its practical benefits for the researcher, and more recently for the university teacher, are widely recognized: greater and more rapid access to basic materials, accuracy and flexibility of recall, and reduction of purely mechanical labour. As a tool for helping us understand our cultural artifacts, the computer also provides a fresh point of view on familiar objects of study. It raises challenging questions about our methods and materials, but at the same time it gives us powerful new tools with which to carry forth our ancient praxis. As these tools become more common, they are bound to change the ways in which basic research is done. In addition, the profound though often hidden influence of the computer on everyday life suggests its importance as a cognitive model, which arguably modern teachers and scholars need explicitly to understand. Thus the Graduate Programme of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH). Description of the Programme The Programme is intended for students interested in the application of computers to research and teaching inthe humanities. It addresses the ways in which computer-assisted methods affect and in many cases improve upon the practical work of scholarship and instruction. The approach is fundamentally methodological, concentrating on how this work is actually done. Students in the Programme are introduced to a range of software tools and given the opportunity to gain practical experience in applying them to relevant materials. The Programme is currently in its second year. It has already drawn the interest of several institutions throughout North America and Europe, where similar programmes are now being established. The Programme consists of two sequential half-courses, the first introductory, the second more advanced. These are described below. They form a logical sequence, but either can be taken separately. Note the prerequisites for the second course, however. During 1991-92 the Programme is being offered by the CCH with the sponsorship of the School of Graduate Studies. There is no fee for either course. Although neither of these courses will result in graduate credit, successful completion will be recognized by an official entry on the student's graduate transcript. Assigned work consists in the first term of short, practical exercises and in the second of longer-term projects. Wherever possible the selection of projects will allow the student to chose something relevant to his or her graduate work. Most topics will be concerned with textual data, but projects in music and fine art, for example, are possible. Students in the Programme will have free access to the facilities of the CCH on the 14th floor of Robarts Library, including the assistance of its staff. The CCH has its own growing library of printed and electronic materials and is committed to acquiring others of interest to its community. Registration Students should register directly with the instructor, Dr. Willard McCarty, at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, (416) 978-3974, mccarty@epas, not with SGS. No other arrangements are required. Students must be currently registered in either an M.A. or Ph.D. programme. Enrollment in either course is limited to a maximum of 20 students. The Courses CCH1001H. `Introduction to Humanities Computing'. W. McCarty. A survey of applications to research and teaching; topics will include the following: electronic texts, electronic mail, online resources, and data capture; representing textual phenomena by encoding; collecting and managing research notes and bibliographies; designing and writing a computer-assisted lesson; textual analysis; datastructures and database management; publishing. Assigned work will consist of several short exercises. Additional brief sessions will be organized for instruction in the use of electronic mail and other networked resources. Prerequisites: experience with MS-DOS or Macintosh OS and with WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, or Nota Bene. (Students who lack these prerequisites may satisfy them by taking the WordPerfect course offered by Computing Services or its equivalent elsewhere.) Meeting time and place: Thursday evenings, 7-9 p.m., 3 October to 5 December 1991, at the CCH, 14th floor, Robarts Library (take an elevator from the 4th floor). CCH1002H. `Topics in Humanities Computing'. W. McCarty, with invited lecturers. A more detailed examination of four major topics introduced in the first term: (1) exploration and analysis of textual corpora: concording, counting, and beyond; (2) constructing and using an electronic `edition': how a text may be interpretively enriched and its features made accessible through encoding; (3) from scattered notes to coherent database: building an electronic resource of research materials; and (4) research into teaching: designing and writing `courseware' without programming. Topics will be supplemented by talks from individuals actively engaged in computer-assisted research and teaching. Assigned work will consist of one or more projects to be chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor. Prerequisites: CCH1001H or permission of the instructor. Meeting time and place: as above, 16 January to 26 March 1992 (Reading Week excluded). A Note about the CCH The CCH was founded in 1986 to serve the needs of researchers and teachers in the various disciplines of the humanities at Toronto. Since then it has become known as one of the preeminent centres for humanities computing world-wide. As such the CCH has been able to facilitate connections with the international community and so to benefit local members of faculty and graduate students. In addition to operating several microcomputing laboratories, the CCH develops software, gathers and disseminates information, publishes newsletters, technical reports, and books of various kinds, and assists university departments with a wide range of infrastructural support. In collaboration with the EPAS Consortium, the CCH also provides mainframe computing to all members of faculty and graduate students in the humanities, including free access to electronic mail and other networked resources. In addition, the Director and Assistant Director of the CCH conduct computer-assisted research and participate in a variety of international organizations and conferences. Instructional software developed by the CCH programmer is currently in use in undergraduate courses taught by the departments of linguistics and history. The CCH has also been instrumental in discovering or sponsoring the development of software of benefit to researchers and teachers in several other departments. The two software packages central to the courses in the Graduate Programme have been developed at the University of Toronto by members of Computing Services in collaboration with the CCH. The interactive textual analysis program TACT, written by John Bradley and Lidio Presutti, is widely recognized as the best such tool currently available. The other program, Annota, has been developed by Geoffrey Rockwell and Lidio Presutti both for scholarly note-taking and for the production of instructional software. Staff of the CCH Prof. Ian Lancashire (English), Director 978-4238; ian@epas.utoronto.ca Dr. Willard McCarty, Assistant Director 978-3974; mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca Ms. Sharine Leung, Site Advisor 978-3991; leung@epas.utoronto.ca Mr. Mark Maguire, Site Coordinator 978-6391; maguire@epas.utoronto.ca Ms. Claire Smith, Archive Clerk 978-8656; csmith@epas.utoronto.ca Mr. Michael Stairs, CCH Programmer 978-6391; stairs@epas.utoronto.ca Ms. Arlyss Ponchuk, Budget Officer 978-4481; ponchuk@epas.utoronto.ca Ms. Elke Rudman, Secretary 978-4238; cch@epas.utoronto.ca *****END***** From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Mac text analysis Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1991 16:47:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 591 (698) My thanks to those who responded to my query about flat-file database programs. Now I am looking for text-analysis software for Macintosh that is entirely in the public-domain or is distributed as shareware or is VERY cheap. I know about MacCord and The Concordance Generator (alias GConc) but little else. Neither MacCord nor GConc can handle collocations, so in comparison with what's available for MS-DOS they seem very elementary indeed. Specifically the problem I have is this: I am now putting together a graduate course, the first term of which will cover a variety of topics in humanities computing; I would like to illustrate ideas by showing software written for both the major hardware platforms. Textual analysis in various forms is the subject of several sessions in this course. Is there (hope beyond hope) the equivalent of TACT or WordCruncher for the Mac? I prefer software in the public domain or VERY cheap because I would like to offer it to my students. Something I could download from a networked resource would be ideal. I should add to my Macintosh-sophisticated colleagues that I know very little of the Mac world, although I use one (an SE/30) daily, even now as I write on it. So, no prejudice, just plain ignorance. Thanks very much. Willard McCarty From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Humanist and Russia Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 20:44:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 592 (699) I just heard on the news that the pro-democracy forces in Russia are communicating by fax, presumably also by modem. Is there any way we in Humanist, and in the West in general, can contribute to this process? From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: Large files and slow disks Date: Wed, 21 Aug 91 08:49:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 593 (700) I have a somewhat technical problem which I suspect is shared by others who work with large manuscripts on computers. When working in WordPerfect on a large file it can take up to ten minutes to move from the beginning to the end of a file. This is beginning to annoy. I have seen programs such as QUICKDSK that are designed to speed up the operation of a hard drive but I do not know if they would make much difference for such a problem. Has anyone had a similar problem and found an inexpensive solution (note that my PC is an IBM Clone, XT, 8088, supposedly 12MHz, 30mg with no room for another internal card). Is there any recommended software that will enhance the speed of WordPerfect operations? Note also that I do make use of the Norton utility SPEEDISK. Waiting and waiting, Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> <441495@UOTTAWA> From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: Views on OS/2 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 91 09:33:29 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 594 (701) During this relatively quite period for HUMANIST, I'd like to ask a question. I am interested to know what people think about OS/2 as a platform for computing and the humanities. I have been using OS/2 some lately, and I would like your opinion even if you have never seen or used OS/2, or even if you do not have a DOS machine. Please send your responses directly to me. I really do not want to start or participate in a childish "my OS is better than your OS" debate. I have had to listen to an enormous amount of this on other lists. If there is interest, I will post a summary. Thanks! John Baima john@ling.uta.edu From: "Lynn H. Nelson" Subject: Modern Japanese Historian Advertisement. Date: Sun, 18 Aug 91 12:51:04 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 595 (702) ASSISTANT/ ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY The University of Kansas seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in Modern Japanese History at the assistant or associate (with tenure) level to be effective August 1992. The appointee will join a History department of thirty-six full-time faculty with strong international interests. Three East Asian historians (two in China and one in early Japan) are already members of the faculty, and over twenty other faculty in various departments are in East Asian Studies. A Modern Japanese research interest is required, with a PhD in hand by August 1992. The position requires evidence of a strong commitment to scholarship as demonstrated by publications and/or the potential to publish. Teaching includes both undergraduate and graduate courses in East Asian History. Teaching experience preferred. Minority and women candidates especially urged to apply. Files will begin to be reviewed November 15 1991 until the position is filled or May 15 1992. Letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of recommendation should be sent to Chair, Japan Search Committee, Department of History, 3000 Wescoe, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2130. The University of Kansas is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Submitted for the Chairman of the Department of History by Lynn H. Nelson From: Janet H. Murray Subject: Request for Comments on a Proposed MultiMedia System for Humanists Date: Wed, 21 Aug 91 17:27:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 289 (703) Environment for MultiMedia Authoring (EMMA) Request for Comments Athena Language Learning Project Massachusetts Institute of Technology My group at MIT (the Athena Language Learning Project) is considering developing a hypermedia authoring system that will allow users with no programming experience to create, annotate, browse, and search large multimedia documents. Before we begin, we are trying to find out if there are other programs, either finished or in development on any platform, that we should investigate or that would make our work unnecessary. We are also interested in feedback from potential users of such a program about whether our system would meet their needs. We're calling it an Environment for MultiMedia Authoring (EMMA). Initial development will be done on the Macintosh, using MacApp and C++. The user interface will allow various "frames" of information to be created in a single document, with each top-level frame appearing in its own window. There will be text, graphics, audio, and video frames. A frame or selection within a frame can be either pasted into or linked to a selection in any other frame, even between different types of frames. Thus, a video selection can be pasted into an essay to illustrate a point, or an audio selection can be linked to related textual commentary. In addition to browsing through a document, users will be able to search for frames containing a particular word, sound, or image. More powerful search commands will also allow users to search for particular relationships, such as all video frames linked to text containing a specific word. Additional frame types, like outlines and tables, will be provided to organize information more uniformly than links can, and the more powerful search commands will be able to search for particular relationships within these structures. Users can define different kinds of links for different purposes, so that "glossary" links can be distinct from "commentary" links, and searches can be restricted to include only certain kinds of links. Users browsing through an EMMA document can also specify which kinds of links they are interested in -- all other links will be made invisible. Other later enhancements to EMMA may include conditional links that allow users to create interactive stories and lessons, support for links across EMMA documents, and special tools to track and organize the contributions of multiple users. Ultimately, we hope to port EMMA to other platforms, such as Unix workstations running X-Windows or IBM-compatibles running Microsoft Windows. We hope that EMMA will appeal to people in many disciplines: * in foreign language teaching, to provide students with video immersion in a foreign culture, while providing them with the comprehension aids and cultural notes they need to fully understand difficult material * in the study of film, where scripts, shot breakdowns, and expert commentary can be combined with precise control of the video to provide an ideal research environment * in literary studies, where the integrity of a text such as a novel or play must be maintained while linking it to commentary or auxiliary materials such as photographs or videos of stage productions * in writing courses, to study the variety of hypertext structures available for technical education or the creation of non-linear narratives * in any discipline where complex information, particularly information in mixed media, needs to be stored, organized, and retrieved without violating its natural format EMMA will be distributed with several "template" documents to simplify the creation of common hypermedia documents like glossaries, video transcriptions, and textual annotations. Initial development of EMMA will focus on several interactive video projects that are currently in progress at MIT, including interactive videos for learning French, Spanish, German, and Japanese, and the creation of an interactive Shakespeare archive consisting of quarto and folio texts and multiple performances of the plays on videodisc. For these projects, we will concentrate on making EMMA work with industrial videodisc players, but we eventually hope to support QuickTime video and audio, and CD-ROM audio. All comments are welcome. Please send replies to: snail mail: Stuart A. Malone MIT, room 20B-231 18 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 internet: samalone@athena.mit.edu bitnet: samalone%athena.bitnet@mitvma ------- End of Forwarded Message From: Elaine M Brennan Subject: Lost Reader Files Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 18:41:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 596 (704) Brownvm had an extended period of downtime over the weekend, and a simultaneous disk drive failure caused the loss of a large number of reader files. If you've sent something to Humanist since last Thursday and have neither seen it nor any action taken in response to it, please resend your mail. Thanks. Elaine From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: mailing by devious mistake Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1991 19:37:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 597 (705) My apologies to the members of Humanist for what was intended to be an internal announcement within the Univ. of Toronto of our graduate programme. I used a clever mass-mailer, constructed for such internal mailings; it in turn used a list that for unknown reasons still contained "HUMANIST" amongst its account names -- from the days, long ago, when Humanist lived here. My Unix mailer, not to be outdone for cleverness, not finding "HUMANIST" amongst its active accounts, resorted to my list of aliases, on which it found "humanist@brownvm.brown.edu". Hence the escape of my message into the outer world, members of which must be a bit bewildered at the advert. I invite you to add some version of this event to your list of humorous stories about misadventures in e-mail land. Just this afternoon I was playing with the Latin verb "mollescere" ("to become soft, mild, gentle"), and now I have cause to wish its effects on you. Yours, Willard McCarty From: Lamar Hill Subject: Our differing responses... Date: Sun, 25 Aug 91 23:28:24 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 598 (706) As I was reading through messages on HUMANIST I was struck by the virtually total absence of traffic on the subject of the coup in the SU and the subsequent events of this past week. As I recall, we were so heavily invested in Desert Shield/Storm that some members of Humanist were questioning the propriety of our devoting so much space to it. Without being judgmental, I am interested in knowing how any of us who wish to reply would analyze our differing responses to these two events. Cheers, Lamar Hill UC,Irvine From: Michael Ossar Subject: Freud and death Date: Wed, 21 Aug 91 19:22 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 599 (707) I recall reading once a case study by Freud involving a man who thought he was dead. When Freud pricked his finger, causing him to bleed, the man simply asserted that this just showed that dead men bled too. Does anyone happen to know where I can find this? From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: U.Nairobi connection Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 01:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 600 (708) Does anyone here know of an e-network connection to the University of Nairobi? Any relevant information would be appreciated. George Aichele Adrian College From: KROVETZ@cs.umass.EDU Subject: BCE/CE Date: Sat, 24 Aug 91 21:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 601 (709) James Marchand mentions that he suspects the notation BCE/CE arose as an attempt to provide a neutral form for dates. I think this is probably true, but that doesn't imply there was any desire that it be adopted by Christians. I think it probably was developed by Jewish writers as a way for Jews to express dates without reference to Christianity. Is there any evidence that it was intended to be used by non-Jewish writers? As far as it's interpretation, I had always heard of it as "[Before] Common Era"; the interpretation "[Before] Christian Era" might be folk-etymology. I also don't see any anti-Christian bias in the notation. I think it's more a desire to avoid *pro*-Christian bias. Bob Krovetz@cs.umass.edu From: Robert O'Hara Subject: Trees and ideology Date: Sat, 24 Aug 91 18:27:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 602 (710) A further observation on the tree metaphor in stemmatics, systematics, and linguistics: In evolutionary biology, the tree metaphor has often (though not always) been linked to some notion of evolutionary progress, and evolutionary trees have traditionally been drawn extending up to a crown of some kind, occupied by us. This stands in interesting contrast to the use of the tree metaphor in stemmatics, where the downward-pointing trees are used to represent the "decay" of an archetypal text. Can any of the linguists here tell us whether (historically speaking) trees of language relationships have had either of these notions - progress or decay - attached to them? If so, have such notions been commonly accepted, or have they been look at askance? Bob O'Hara, MNHVZ028@SIVM.bitnet National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Announcement of a new series Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1991 12:10:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 293 (711) PLEASE POST OR FORWARD CCH Working Papers: An Occasional Series for Computer-Assisted Textual Studies Volume 1: A TACT Exemplar T. Russon Wooldridge, ed. with papers by John Bradley, Willard McCarty, Kenneth B. Steele, and T. Russon Wooldridge $18.50 (CAN), $16 (US) from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto The Series. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, takes pleasure in announcing a new series, CCH Working Papers (CCHWP). CCHWP is intended as a vehicle for the discussion of computer methodology in the context of research whose focus is primarily on texts rather than on the machine or its software. Whether the computer is itself an object of study or chiefly a tool for it, CCHWP addresses its capabilities for affecting our understanding of texts. The initial volume, described below, illustrates the intentions of the series. CCHWP is an occasional publication, not tied to any fixed schedule. Each volume contains several related papers or a single monograph, written in either English or French with a summary in the other language. Inquiries from potential editors and authors are welcome; these should be addressed to T. Russon Wooldridge, Series Editor, CCHWP, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, at the address given below, or by e-mail to cchwp@epas.utoronto.ca. Volume 1: A TACT Exemplar. The papers constituting volume 1 were first given at a TACT workshop held at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, in May 1991. As many will know, TACT is a microcomputer text retrieval program developed at the University of Toronto. Growing out of its author's experience of writing a mainframe concordance program, COGS, it has been influenced by such software as ARRAS, MTAS, OCP and WordCruncher, but very much determined in its capabilities by the desiderata of its scholarly users. John Bradley discusses the evolution of TACT in the first paper of vol. 1, "TACT Design". The ability of TACT to take into account highly complex, often independent, textual structures is discussed in two papers. Kenneth Steele, in "`The Whole Wealth of thy Wit in an Instant': TACT and the Explicit Structures of Shakespeare's Plays", examines the multiple levels of the text of the original quarto and folio editions of Shakespeare's plays and shows how TACT can be used to study motifs and vocabulary within or across these divisions. In "Finding Implicit Patterns in Ovid's Metamorphoses with TACT", Willard McCarty considers the usefulness of the program in discovering patterns, based on stories, characters, themes, images, phrases, sounds and wordplay, in Ovid's poem. The last paper, "A CALL Application in Vocabulary and Grammar", presents an application of TACT to computer-assisted language learning. Russon Wooldridge describes ways in which he uses a TACT database of a Georges Simenon novel to help students learn contextual vocabulary and grammar. Ordering information. All orders for A TACT Exemplar must be prepaid by cheque or money-order, $18.50 (CAN) or $16 (US), payable to the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, at the following address: Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto Robarts Library 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 Canada voice: (416) 978-4238; fax: (416) 978-6519 e-mail: cch@epas.utoronto.ca Canadian residents should add $1.30 GST (Univ. of Toronto number R108162330). Editorial Board of CCHWP. Series Editor: T. Russon Wooldridge (French, Toronto) Associate Editor: Willard McCarty (CCH, Toronto) Members: Brad Inwood (Classics, University of Toronto) Ian Lancashire (English, University of Toronto) Stephen R. Reimer (English, University of Alberta) William G. Winder (French, University of British Columbia) *****END***** From: (James Marchand) Subject: Emily postnews Date: Mon, 26 Aug 91 19:00:37 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 603 (712) In answer to the question as to where to obtain Emily Post News, you might try spaf@cs.purdue.edu. That is where I got mine, but some time ago. Jim Marchand From: Donald MacRae Subject: Thanks for assistance Date: 27 Aug 91 14:11 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 604 (713) Some months ago I requested help from the HUMANIST to locate books which dealt with the problems of minority groups in a society determined to keep them in their place. I had a number of responses and have recently managed to work my way through most of this material. It occurs to me that my colleagues in HUMANIST might be interested in the list I have compiled, even though it is of rather specific interest. My thanks to all those who sent me the following information. Griffin, J. H. *Black like me* Wallraff, G. *Ganz Unten* (Lowest of the Low) Benur, Y. *My Enemy, Myself* Linhart, R. *The Assembly Line* Kamata, S. *Japan in the Passing Lane* Cailie, R. *Travels Through Central Africa* Conover, Ted *Coyotes: A Journey through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens* Don MacRae, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada. From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0292 Responses: BCE/CE; Trees (2/42) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 12:11:11 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 605 (714) Yet again on BCE/CE: from the point of view of Jewish scholars, the reason for using these abbreviations is not to "get away from" the Christian dating, but to avoid making statements that contradict our religion; some might prefer "Common Era" to "Christian Era", but I, for one, find it no more objectionable than (for example) the "Seleucid Era" (dating from 312 BCE). The Christian Era is simply the era by which the Christians count, and I make no religious statement by using it. I would, however, make a religious statement by using the term "B.C." (= "before the messiah", if one pays attention to the meaning of the words; but I think that we are still before the messiah) or "A.D." (= "the year of the Lord"; but I do not consider him my lord). I use "CE" and "BCE" not because, in the mode that has become popular in other contexts, I wish to remove "culturally loaded" terms from the language, but because using the common expressions would require violation of religious principle. When the publisher of my book on women's property rights in ancient Greece objected to "BCE", I simply wrote out longhand the statement that all dates were before the Christian era, and expunged all the abbreviations. People dealing with broader or more borderline periods may not have that option. From: Judith Schrier Subject: Re: 5.0291 Qs: USSR; Freud; Nairobi (3/33 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 09:31:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 606 (715) [deleted quotation]I heard it as a joke, from one of the Yiddish comedians, the punchline being, "Ah-HA! Dead men *DO* bleed!" judith From: Diane Kovacs Subject: Query: Kildare Manuscripts Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1991 22:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 607 (716) Does anyone know where I might find the Kildare Manuscripts also known as the Kildare Poems in machine readable form anywhere on the networks? Diane Kovacs, librk329@kentvms librk329@ksuvxa.kent.edu From: Peter Lafford Subject: Two items Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 15:58:52 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 608 (717) Two notes from the desert: 1>>> I have a colleague looking for an etext of _The Damnation of Theron Ware_, by Harold Frederic. I haven't located it yet, but if anyone knows about one, let us know. You know how appreciative we'll all be. 2>>> In preparing for the new semester, I determined that we still have available a limited number of Conference Handbooks full of abstracts from the ACH/ALLC '91 conference last March. Cost including postage is US $20. If you would like one, send a request and check (payable to Arizona State University) to Peter Lafford, Humanities Computing Facility, DEN-0302, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. MasterCard, VISA, or American Express are also accepted. Just send your signed request with credit card number, name, and expiration date to the above address, or FAX it to 602/965-1093. These 500-page guides provide an exciting overview of the papers and sessions for those who were not able to attend. Don't miss this last chance to get your own copy! Peter Lafford, Manager Humanities Computing Facility Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 602/965-2679 From: Michael O'Kelly Subject: Willard's escaped syllabus Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 08:36:39 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 609 (718) I for one have already filed away Willard's announcement about a graduate program in case we ever start such a program here in Dublin. I'd be interested to hear of other such programs. Yours, Michael O'Kelly MOKELLY@IRLEARN.UCD.IE From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Scientific American for September Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1991 08:33:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 610 (719) One of our fellow Humanists was kind enough to draw our attention to the latest issue of Scientific American (September 1991), a special issue entitled "Communications, Computers and Networks". Having just secured a copy, I would like to repeat the kindness. There are several articles of interest to Humanists. Let me draw your attention specifically to the following: Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler, "Computers, Networks and Work", pp. 116-23. Many of you will know Sproull and Kiesler's many articles on this subject, but for those who don't it's a good introduction to how electronic mail affects interaction amongst people. The authors take an essentially sociological approach, reporting on experiments they have made in various professional organizations. The history of Humanist itself backs up their conclusions. Alan C. Kay, "Computers, Networks and Education", pp. 138-48. The intelligence and humanity of this piece are a delight to the mind, e.g.: "Networked computer media will initially substitute convenience for verisimilitude, and quantity and speed for exposition and thoughtfulness. Yet well-designed systems can also retain and expand on the profound ideas of the past, making available revolutionary ways to think about the world. As Postman has pointed out, what is required is a kind of guerilla warfare, not to stamp out new media (or old) but to create a parallel consciousness about media -- one that gently whispers the debits and credits of any representation and points the way to the `food'." Worth the price of admission. Anne W. Branscomb, "Common Law for the Electronic Frontier", pp. 154-8. A look at the struggle for territorial rights in the frontier of what we call cyberspace, a consideration of lawmaking as a complex human process that depends on community standards, consensual observance, legislatures, and courts. Fascinating to this lawless mind. There's other good stuff too. I would liked to have seen an article by Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, who have written most intelligently on the subject; a sociolinguistic study would have been very good; a philosophical, phenomenological study of networking as dialogic thinking.... no doubt others will find this an incomplete collection. And why, you may well ask, was Humanist not discussed? Editors should return their telephone calls! Willard McCarty From: Subject: Greek and Hebrew for Windows Date: Sat, 31 Aug 91 16:51 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 611 (720) HUMANISTS may be interested in knowing that a Greek and Hebrew package for Windows 3.0 is now available. WinGreek 1.1 contains 10 and 12 point Greek and Hebrew screen fonts for Hercules, EGA, VGA, and 8514 displays; printer fonts for Epson 9 pin (120x144 dpi), and Epson 24 pin (180x180 dpi; also 360x180 dpi in Hebrew), and softfonts for HP Laser Jet Series II; a utility for entering accents; some useful Word for Windows macros; and a utility to convert to and from CCAT format. The Greek font has a full complement of diacritical marks and is attractive and easy to use; I assume the same is true of the Hebrew font. The package is produced by WinGreek, 555 Ambercroft Blvd., Scarborough, Ontario, Canada M1W 2Z6. Shareware, $35 (US or Canadian). The authors are Andrew Fountain and Peter Gentry; at least one of them (I assume it's Mr. Gentry) is on the net: peter@atrsci.toronto.edu or peter@artsi.utoronto.ca. The package is also available (or soon will be) from Compuserve's MSAPP forum, dl 1 or 12. Best wishes, Charles Young youngc@clargrad.bitnet youngc@cgsvax.claremont.edu From: R1AMF@AKRONVM.BITNET Subject: Keep the Round Reading Room Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1991 12:12:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 612 (721) Those among us who use the British Library regularly, or even occasionally, might be interested in assisting the Regular Readers Group's campaign to have the Round Reading Room retained as a British Library reading room when the move to St. Pancras takes place. Some of you may have seen Felicity Baker's piece in the TLS and her follow-up; there has also been recent coverage in the Observer, the Sunday Times and the Times. As matters now stand, soon after the move to St. Pancras has been completed (whenever that may be; the movable shelving is malfunctioning in the tests, now that the library has discovered -- surprise, surprise! -- that when shelves are not full, books fall over) the part-library, not now to be completed, will be full, and outhousing will have to start. Thus the one big argument for the new library -- that readers would no longer have to wait a day or two to receive outhoused books -- has weakened to the point of invisibility. The grand new increase in seating has also gone; there will be more readers, as the admission age is to be lowered to 18, but there will be only 73 additional seats. The computerization too looks set for disaster, with inadequate numbers of terminals, a not-very-efficient or user-friendly system, and inadequate manual backup. With these and many other points in mind (anyone interested can obtain a copy of the report sent by the Regular Readers Group to the Minister of Arts -- send 5 pounds to British Library Regular Readers Group, 46 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PA), not least the beauty of the library and the pleasure of working there, the RRG is urging the retention of the Round Reading Room as a reading room for pre-1850 books. It is the post-1850 books, with their crumbling acid paper, that are most in need of the supposedly splendid conservation conditions of the new St. Pancras building. The current British Library/ British Museum building has good storage, much of it purpose-built (e.g. the magnificent King's Library), for the pre-1850 books. The group urges you to write NOW to the Minister of Arts to add your voice to this proposal. Write to: The Right Hon. Timothy Renton, MP, Secretary of State for the Office of Arts and Libraries Horseguards Road London SW1P 3AL England Antonia Forster (R1AMF@AKRONVM) William Williams (TB0WPW1@NIU) From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA Subject: The libraries of the future Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 1:23:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 613 (722) We have had in the recent past (last 2 years) several messages on HUMANIST concerning the evolution of national and research libraries such as, for example, the Nouvelle Bibliotheque de France. Are some of you aware of the existence of papers, books or working papers on the very subject of the libraries of the future. Could those who know of such projects in their own country mention to us the name of these projects or libraries in question, their situation and even the name and references of those in charge of public relations for these projects. Are some members of HUMANIST on advisory committees of projects of this type? Are there planification or orientation papers that could be obtained from them on the subject? A preliminary list of such projects would include: - La Bibliotheque de France (formerly named TGB) - The New British Library - The "paperless" library in California (?) Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal NOUVEAU / NEW E-MAIL: lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca <-------------!!!! From: FISKE%UMDC.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Proposed regulations Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 614 (723) I am reposting this message at the request of Dr. Shirley Fiske, President of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA). It would appear to me that this is the type of restriction of the freedom of expression that might be of concern to members of this list. Bob Trotter, Northern Arizona University. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I would like to alert you to some proposed federal regulations that would severely restrict professional activities of federal employees. Most importantly, they would change the course of our discipline and nature of our professional meetings and organizations. I urge you all to submit comments during the public comment period -- open until September 20, 1991. The Office of Government Ethics (an independent federal agency, which I had never heard of before this) has proposed a set of "Standards of Conduct Regulations," which are comprehensive rules that would apply to all agencies. The proposed regulations would prohibit federal employees from holding office in professional organizations, participating on committees, and if interpreted literally, from participating in annual meetings or serving on editorial boards. Currently, each agency has its own set of standards that govern participation in professional organizations. My agency, for example, encourages proessional leadership and participation. I do not have a copy of the proposed regulations yet (I've ordered them). But I do have a copy of an editorial which appeared in EOS, the publication of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU is a professional organization much like AAA and SfAA, with members from earth and life sciences. It was brought to the attention of my office by a colleague who is a chemist. If you would like a FAX of the editorial, let me know. As I see it, these regulations are detrimental to the discipline of anthropology, and the federal organizations that rely on the expertise of scientists and professionals as employees. Results of the proposed regulations would undermine the efforts of our discipline to develop links between practice and academic pursuits, would destroy the possibility of maintaining a highly qualified, technically competent staff of scientific federal employees, would lead to problems recruiting good people in the federal sector, would undermine the efforts of the executive branch agencies to develop a workforce of leaders in science. As the editorial points out, it would lead to the development of an underclass of government scientists who are out of touch with theory and advances in their professional disciplines. We have worked so hard as a profession to get where we are, it is frightening to see our progress jeopardized. The public is invited to comment until September 20th. I intend to let the Office of Government Ethics (an independent federal agency!) know my opinions, and I urge you to do the same. Comments from individuals are important as well as responses from organizations. Please pass the word. Comments or requests for information should be sent by September 20 to: Office of Government Ethics, Attn: Leslie Wilcox 1201 New York Ave., NW -- Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20005-3917 Phone: (202) 523-5757 FAX: (202) 523-6325 From: 6500erpa@UCSBUXA.BITNET Subject: Looking for a French grammar/style checker. Date: Wed, 28 Aug 91 18:02:33 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 615 (724) I am looking for a shareware or cheap commercial program to check the grammar and/or the style of documents written in French. The ideal program would have similar features to "MLA Editor" or "Correct Grammar", and would be compatible with MS Word5 (on a DOS machine). If possible, I would prefer something available directly in the US. If you know of such a program you can email your answers to: Eric Palacio Department of French and Italian UC Santa Barbara 6500erpa@ucsbuxa.bitnet 6500erpa@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Thank you in advance. From: Oliver Berghof Subject: query: program for notes Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 23:26:47 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 616 (725) Does anyone have recommendations as to programs or the specific use of a program for the taking, organizing and incorporating of notes ? What I have in mind are either techniques to organize notes "around" a main document, or ways in which permanent notes can be retrieved and searched for specific topics. With the prices of large-screen monitors decreasing and the change to a multitasking environment becoming an affordable option it should be possible, e.g., to display a main document and have several small windows of notes open around it. On the other hand, one of the crucial advantages of a paper-based writing environment (books, notecards etc.) seems to be the multitude of information available at the same time. Though probably few of us pack more than five sources of information into a sentence each time they undertake to construct one the advantage seems to me to be one that will not be overcome for quite some time by a computer-based environment. I'd be happy if this query would spark contributions in different directions, so that it does not narrow down due to the dynamics of _now this has become a discussion of so and so and I can's contribute what I associated with it initially_ into an exclusively philosophical or technical discussion. Recommendations for TSR-programs will be as welcome as deep, searching speculations on the future of the bookshelf. Oliver Berghof University of California, Irvine oberghof@orion.oac.uci.edu From: Subject: QUALICO - Invitation Program Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 10:18:12 MSZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 299 (726) QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO Q U A L I C O First Quantitative Linguistics Conference (Invitation Program) University of Trier, Germany September 23-27, 1991 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Burghard B. Rieger, University of Trier Moisei Boroda, Tbilisy State Conservatory Baron Brainerd, University of Toronto Sheila Embleton, University of Calgary Daffyd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld Ruediger Grotjahn, University of Bochum Hans Haller, University of Saarbruecken Peter Hellwig, University of Heidelberg Edward Hopkins, University of Bochum Joerg Kindermann, GMD Bonn-St.Augustin Ursula Klenk, University of Goettingen Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier Jens-Peter Koester, University of Trier Juergen Krause, University of Regensburg Werner Lehfeldt, University of Konstanz Christoph Lischka, GMD Bonn-St. Augustin Wolfhart Matthaeus, University of Bochum Raimund G. Piotrovskij, University of Leningrad Dietmar Roesner, FAW Ulm Gerda Ruge, Siemens AG, Munich Burkhard Schaeder, University of Siegen Helmut Schnelle, University of Bochum Jadwiga Sambor, University of Warsaw ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Chair: Reinhard Koehler, University of Trier Juergen Schrepp, University of Trier OVERVIEW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Monday, | Tuesday, | Wednesday, | Thursday, | Friday, | September 23| September 24| September 25| September 26| September 27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.00 | Registration| Invited | Invited | Invited | GLDV-Session | (all day) | Speaker: | Speaker: | Speaker: | Papers: Uni- | | John S. Ni- | Michail V. | Hans Goebl, | fication ------| | colis, Uni- | Arapov, So- | University | based Gram- 9.30 | Opening | versity of | viet Academy| of Salzburg,| mars and | | Patras, | of Sciences,| Austria | Models | | Greece | Moscow, So- | | | | | viet Union | | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| 10.00 | Invited | Models and | Process | Dialecto- | | Speaker: | Explanation | Dynamics and| metrics | | Gabriel Alt-| I | Semiotics I | | ------| mann, Uni- |-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 10.30 | vers ty of | Coffee Break| Coffee Break| Coffee Break| Coffee Break | Bochum, | | | | | Germany | | | | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 11.00 | Coffee Break| Models and | Process | Textual | GLDV-Session ------|-------------| Explanation | Dynamics | Structures | Papers: Na- 11.30 | Quantifi- | II | and | and Pro- | tural Lan- | cation and | | Semiotics II| cessing III | guage Pro- | Measurement | |*************|*************| cessing and ------| | | Reports, | Reports, | Tools 12.00 | | | Projects | Projects | | | | and Results | and Results | | | | I | II | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 12.30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch ------| | | | | 13.00 | | | | | ------| | | | | 13.30 | | | | | ------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|------------- 14.00 | Textual | Textual | | 14.00: | GLDV Working ------| Structures | Structures | | GLDV | Group 14.30 | and Pro- | and Pro- | | Executive | Meeting ------| cessing I | cessing II | | Board | 15.00 | | | | Meeting | ------|-------------|-------------| | | 15.30 | Coffee Break| Coffee Break| | 15.00: | ------|-------------|-------------| | GLDV General| 16.00 | Phonetics | Statistical | | Assembly | ------| and | Studies | Excursion |*************| 16.30 | Phonemics | | afternoon: | 16.00: | ------|-------------|-------------| Boat Trip | Guided City |------------- 17.00 | Invited | Invited | to the City | Tour through| | Speaker: | Speaker: | of Saarburg | ancient and | | Mildred L.G.| Kenneth W. | and Dinner | historical | | Shaw, Uni- | Church, Uni-| | Trier ("2000| ------| versity of | versity of | | Years by | 17.30 | Calgary, | Southern | | 2000 Steps")| | Canada | California, | | | | | United | | | | | States of | | | | | America | | | ------|-------------|-------------| | | 20.00 | Reception | Visit of | | | | by the City | Winery with | | | | of Trier | Wine Tasting| | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Monday, September 23rd 9:30-10:00 Opening 10:00-11:00 Invited Speaker: Gabriel Altmann, University of Bochum,Germany: "Science and Linguistics". 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Quantification and Measurement: Chair: Reinhard Koehler Ruediger Grotjahn: "Messen und statistische Datenanalyse in der Linguistik" Peter Schmidt: "The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A first Attempt" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Textual Structures and Processing I: Chair: Burghard Rieger E. Dermatas, G. Kokkinakis: "An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition" Jan Kralik: "Probabilistic Scaling of Texts" Christa Womser-Hacker: "Tests of Hypotheses Concerning Phenomena of 'Computer Talk'" 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Phonemics and Phonetics: Chair: Jens-Peter Koester Walter F. Sendlmeier: "Phonetisch/phonologische Ausbalanciertheit von Testmaterialien zur Sprachguetebeurteilung" P. Rentzpopoulos, A. Tsopanoglou, G. Kokkinakis: "A Statistical Approach for Phoneme to Grapheme Conversion" 17:00-18:00 Invited Speaker: Mildred L.G. Shaw, University of Calgary, Canada: "A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities" 20:00 Reception by the City of Trier Tuesday, September 24th 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: John S. Nicolis, University of Patras, Greece: "Chaotic Dynamics of the Linguistic Processes: At the Syntactical, Semantic and Pragmatic Levels" 10:00-10:30 Models and Explanation I: Chair: Gabriel Altmann Ludek Hrebicek: "Text as a Construct of Aggregations" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Models and Explanation II: Chair: Gabriel Altmann Reinhard Koehler: "Synergetic Linguistics" Rolf Hammerl: "Ein Modell zur Beschreibung multivariater Relationen lexikalischer Einheiten" August Fenk, Gertrud Fenk-Oczlon: "Das Menzerathsche Gesetz und das Prinzip des konstanten Informationsflusses" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Textual Structures and Processing II: Chair: Burghard Rieger M. Refice, M. Savino: "Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models" Reinhard Kneser, Hermann Ney: "Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling" Ute Essen, Hermann Ney: "Statistical Language Modelling using Cache Memory" 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Statistical Studies: Chair: Ruediger Grotjahn Mark Olsen: "Quantitative Linguistics and 'Histoire des mentalites': Gender Representation in the 'Tresor de la langue francaise'" 17:00-18:00 Invited Speaker: Kenneth W. Church, University of Southern California, United States of America:"Using Statistics in Lexical Analysis" 20:00 Visiting Winery and Wine Tasting Wednesday, September 25th 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Michail V. Arapov, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Soviet Union: "Word Values" 10:00-10:30 Process Dynamics and Semiotics I: Chair: Reinhard Koehler Burghard Rieger, Constantin Thiopoulos: "A self-organizing lexical system in hypertext" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Process Dynamics and Semiotics II: Chair: Reinhard Koehler Robert B. Allen: "Knowledge Representation with Simple Recurrent Neural Networks" Jurij K. Krylov: "Wave Theory of Coherent Text Generation and Prospects for its Development" A.A. Polikarpov: "On the hypothesis of world life cycle" Reports, Projects and Results I: Chair: Jadwiga Sambor Wolf Paprott: "SEMDAC - Semantic Disambiguation of Verbs and Automatic Classification of Nouns in a Large Corpus of German Texts" Qian Feng: "About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG)" Marek Swidzinski: "Verb patterns in the Polish vocabulary and texts" George Silnitzky: "Correlational Analysis and Clusterization of Verbal Features in English and German" 12:30-14:00 Lunch Excursion Thursday, September 26th 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker: Hans Goebl, University of Salzburg, Austria: "Computational Dialectometrics" 10:00-10:30 Dialectometrics: Chair: Ludek Hrebicek Sheila Embleton: "Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Textual Structures and Processing III: Chair: Sheila Embleton Koichi Ejiri, Adolph E. Smith: "Proposal 'Constraint Measure' for Various Kinds of Texts" Fernande Depuis, Daniel Gosselin: "Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)" Chao-Huang Chang, Gilbert K. Krulee: "Paraphrasing before Translation: On Machine Translatability and Sentence Complexity" Reports, Projects and Results II: Chair: Jadwiga Sambor Jadwiga Sambor, Rolf Hammerl: "Polnische Arbeiten im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes 'Sprachliche Synergetik': Materialien und Ergebnisse" Pauli Saukkonen: "Main trends and results of quantitative linguistics in Finland" Jogchum Reitsma: "A parallel approach in statistical analysis of unrestricted corpora of human language" Stefan Schierholz, Eric Windisch: "Quantitative Analysen von Bedeutungswoerterbuechern" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00 Guided City Tour through ancient and historical Trier ("2000 Years by 2000 Steps") 14:00-15:00 GLDV Executive Board Meeting 15:00-18:00 GLDV General Assembly Friday, September 27th 9:00-10:30 GLDV-Session Papers: "Unification Based Grammars and Models" 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 GLDV-Session Papers: "Natural Language Processing and Tools" 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-17:00 GLDV Working Group Meetings: Arbeitskreise: AK Ausbildung und Berufsperspektiven AK LDV und Nachbarn AK LDV/CL-Studiengaenge AK Lexikographie AK Maschinelle Uebersetzung AK Spracherkennung, Sprachgenerierung und phonetische Datenbanken AK Textanalyse AK Forensische Linguistik AK Quantitative Linguistik GENERAL INFORMATION The oldest city in Germany, founded 16 b.C., by the Romans as Augusta Treverorum in the Mosel valley is situated in the most Western region of Germany near both the French and Luxembourgian borders. In the center of Europe this ancient city will host the participants of QUALICO at the University of Trier, surrounded by the vineyards of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer wine district at vintage beginning. The site of the conference will be the Campus of the University of Trier, situated on the South-Eastern slopes of the valley mountains overlooking the city. Conference languages will be English and German. All conference sessions will be held in the lecture halls and seminar rooms of Building C, with the conference information desk located in its lobby where coffee will be served during session breaks. Meals during lunch time will be offered by the Mensa Academica under special arrangement for conference participants in the mensa building next door. TRAVEL When planning your flight to Germany it might be advisable to consider the possibility to fly to Luxemburg Airport which is only about 40 miles from Trier. Although there is a bus transfer from the Airport to the City of Trier (Airport Liner: approx. 50 minutes; frequency: every 20-40 minutes; price: DM 17.- per person), it might be necessary to take a taxi (approx. DM 85.- or equivalent Lux.-Frs.). The more common alternative will be to fly to Frankfurt/Main and take the fast Airport train from the airport underground railway station to Koblenz where to change train to Trier along the scenic valley of the river Mosel. Timetable: Frankfurt/M. -> via Koblenz -> Trier Ffm Train Trier Annotations Ffm Train Trier Annotations A 3.34 D 202 7.21 C Koblenz 13.03 IC 620 15.37 C Koblenz W 3.34 D 202 8.26 C Koblenz 14.03 EC 128 16.37 C Koblenz 3.34 D 202 8.37 C Koblenz 15.03 IC 520 17.37 C Koblenz F 7.03 IC 639 9.37 C Koblenz 16.03 EC 28 18.37 C Koblenz 8.03 IC 826 10.37 C Koblenz 17.03 IC 724 19.37 C Koblenz 9.03 IC 526 11.37 C Koblenz 18.03 EC 26 20.37 C Koblenz 10.03 IC 822 12.37 C Koblenz 19.03 IC 726 21.37 C Koblenz 11.03 IC 524 13.37 C Koblenz 20.03 EC 24 22.37 C Koblenz 12.03 IC 522 14.37 C Koblenz B 21.03 IC 722 23.37 C Koblenz A: workdaily (except Sat.) B: daily (except Sat.) F: daily (except Sun.) W: workdaily C: change trains REGISTRATION Please fill in the registration form, make sure that your way of payment is correctly marked and mail it to: QUALICO University of Trier P.O.Box 3825 W-5500 Trier Germany e-mail: qualico@utrurt.uucp.de Tel. 049-651-201-2270 When you choose Bank Order we require a copy which should be enclosed. CONFERENCE FEES Conference fees include: proceedings (to be published after the conference), social program, luncheons, and coffee during session breaks Members of supporting organizations: DM 250.- Non-Members: DM 300.- Students (without proceedings): DM 150.- ACCOMODATION As students' hostels and dormatories on Campus will not be available for conference participants, immediate hotel reservation is highly recommended as the month of September is vintage beginning and high season for tourists visiting Trier. TRANSPORT The University Campus can easily be reached from the Center of Trier by public transport within 15 to 20 minutes. Buses leave from Porta Nigra Bus Station all day frequently (Line 1: every 7 minutes; Line 6: every 20 minutes) and will take you to the University Bus Stops either on "Kohlen-Str." or on "Gustav-Heinemann-Str.". SOCIAL PROGRAM Due to the limited number of seats available for some of the following events, participants will be registered on a "first-come-first-serve" basis: - On Monday evening the Mayor of the City of Trier will give a reception for conference participants. - On Tuesday evening there will be a visit to the wine cellars of one of the well-known wineries in town. - On Wednesday afternoon the excursion will take the participants by boat from Trier (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Bridge) up the rivers Mosel and Saar to the picturesque City of Saarburg. There will be time for a stroll before the dinner after which buses will be waiting to take the party back to Trier. - On Thursday afternoon, there will be the opportunity to join several small groups for a guided City Tour "2000 Years by 2000 Steps" around the ancient Roman, medieval, and historic points of interest in the city of Trier. o / --------------------------- 8 ------------------------------------------- o \ FIRST QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE QUALICO - September 23-27, 1991 - University of Trier, Germany REGISTRATION FORM Mr.-Ms.-Dr.-Prof. Family Name: ............................................................... First Name: ................................................................ Affiliation: ............................................................... Address: ................................................................... City: ...................................................................... Country/State: ............................................................. Postal/Zip Code: __| __| __| __| __| __| __| E-mail: .................................................................... Telephone: ................................................................. Social Program: Events are free of charge and covered by the conference fee. However, due to limited numbers of seats available for some events, we are forced to register participants on a 'first-come-first-serve' basis. Please tick the activities you plan to join: __| Guided tour __| Excursion __| Winery Notice: ! Registration is necessary also for participants who have submitted a paper. ! Remember that Trier has a shortage of hotelrooms! Payment: Conference fees: Before August 15, 1991: DM 250,- Members of supporting organizations DM 200,- Students DM 100,- After August 15, 1991: DM 300,- Members of supporting organizations DM 250,- Students DM 150,- Payment should be made in DM (Deutsche Mark), payable to Universitaet Trier, FB II - LDV (QUALICO) __| by International Bank Order to account No. 794 347, Stadtsparkasse Trier, BLZ 585 500 80. Total DM ............................ Please, make sure to indicate your name and "QUALICO 91". __| by Credit Card. Please charge my card no. .......................... Expiring date ................ Total DM ............................ __| American Express Card __| Diners Club __| Eurocard/Mastercard __| Visa Date......................... Signature..................................... -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- Q Q U THE ORGANIZING COMMITEE U A University of Trier A L P.O.Box 3825 L I W-5500 Trier Tel. 049-651-201-2270 I C Germany qualico@utrurt.uucp.de C O O -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- QUALICO -- From: MFPRF@BOGECNVE.BITNET Subject: RE: works on Mauthner Date: Tue, 3 Sep 91 10:37:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 617 (727) In response to Professor Berkeley's question regarding English works on Fritz Mauthner, I have found the following reference quite informative: Gershon Weiler, *Mauthner's Critique of Language* (Cambridge: Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1970). Also, I would suggest Rudolf Haller's *Questions on Wittgenstein* (Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988) for additional background on Wittthe t influences of Austrian thinkers on Wittgenstein's conception of language and philosophy. I hope these references prove helpful. Sincerely yours, Paul R. Falzer, bitnet mfprf@bogecnve From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0298 Qs: French Grammar Checker; Note Program (2/59) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 91 12:02:51 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 618 (728) French Grammar & Style Checker: Grammatik IV is available in a French version at 150 pounds sterling. The US supplier is Reference Software International, 330 Townsend Street, Suite 123, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, tel 415 541 0222. Regards, June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, UK. From: (James Marchand) Subject: Franklin Vulgate Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 18:29:18 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 619 (729) This is, I hope, not a commercial, but I have been using for sometime the Franklin hand-held Holy Bible, King James Version, and it is a godsend. I can instantly look up any passage or any wording, for example: "bowels" "compassion" and get immediate response, and I can use any number of search criteria. The point to this posting is: I would like to try to persuade them to put out a Vulgate in this form, which would really be a godsend (pun intended second time also). Write me if you think this is a good idea, and I will contact them. If we get this and Migne too, Medieval Studies will be smoking. Jim Marchand From: Diane Kovacs Subject: New E-Conference for Mystery Literature Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1991 20:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 620 (730) DOROTHYL@KENTVM DOROTHYL@KENTVM.KENT.EDU DOROTHYL is a discussion and idea list for lovers of the mystery genre. It was concocted by a group of women librarians at a July 1991 Washington, D.C. meeting of the Association of Research Libraries and named in in honor of one of the great women mystery writers of the century. Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey were strong contenders, but Dorothy L. Sayers had a LISTSERV-blessed middle initial. Although there was serious discussion about limiting DOROTHY to women particpants and it would be entertaining to identify impostors (no doubt men would sneak on with anonymous ID@node, to join in DOROTHY's energizing discussion), the organizers opted for the widest possible number of serious participants. Tenets of DOROTHYL: -Everyone is welcome. -Those who wish to adopt the name of a mystery character, may use that name in postings. -The participants WILL have fun. Some suitable subjects for posting are: -Announcements of forthcoming books and previews. -Reviews, criticisms, comments, and appreciations of mysteries (books, plays, films). -Great mystery bookshops. -Awards. It can take a long time to learn which are the annual prizewinners. DOROTHYL may consider posting these as files. -Mysterious events. Mystery travels, mystery walks in cities, mysteries of life. -Ideas for happenings, perhaps an evening of mystery readings at ALA or ARL or MLA? -An electronic mystery, with clues (apples, perhaps red ones of the Macintosh variety?), villains (the mailer-Daemon?), red herrings (byte-marks?), heroines, detectives -- the potential is as unlimited as the world of networking. At the outset, the list will be un-moderated (self-monitored). Everyone who joins ought to consider contacting her (his) favorite mystery author and inviting her (him) to join this list. Since many mystery writers are academics, this could be a very fruitful and exciting chase. Yours for networked thrills, the Owners Harriet Vane (HarrietV@e-math.ams.com) Kinky X.Y.Z Friedman (Kinky@e-math.ams.com) Subscription Instructions: To subscribe from a Bitnet account send an interactive or e-mail message addressed to Listserv@kentvm If you send e-mail leave the subject line blank. The text of the message must be: Sub DOROTHYL Yourfirstname Yourlastname To subscribe from an Internet account send e-mail addressed to Listserv@kentvm.kent.edu Leave the subject line blank. The text of the message must be: Sub DOROTHYL Yourfirstname Yourlastname If you have questions please contact the owners. If you need to know how to send e-mail or interactive messages contact your local computer services people for assistance with your local system. From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: New Macintosh publication for linguists Date: Tue, 3 Sep 91 15:31:46 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 621 (731) HUMANIST readers may be interested in a new publication for Macintosh users called Notes on Apple Macintosh, or NOAM for short (no connection whatsoever with that other Noam). NOAM is intended for field linguists of SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics), but should be of considerable use to anyone using a Mac to do linguistic and anthropological work. NOAM will be particularly focused on techniques for management and analysis of multilingual data. NOAM is edited by Randy Valentine, whose stated goal is "to present you with ideas and instruction that will help you to do a better job in your anthropology, linguistics, education and translation work." Randy is a top-notch linguist and teacher, as well as the author of some of the most creative and useful Hypercard stacks I have ever seen. Randy's special area of interest is Native North American cultures. The first issue of NOAM just appeared this summer. In format it is 5.5" by 8.5", 54 pages long, and profusely illustrated. The content includes the following: an overview of system 7.0; formatting text for syntax and discourse study using Hypercard and Word; Macintosh news; software squibs. NOAM is published quarterly. The subscription price for one year is U.S. $14.00. For overseas airmail delivery, add U.S. $12.00 per year. You may obtain a trial copy of the first issue for $3.00. Send subscription requests and trial copy requests to: NOAM Box 248 Waxhaw, NC 28173 U.S.A. ------------------------------------------ Evan Antworth Academic Computing Department Summer Institute of Linguistics 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. Internet: evan@txsil.sil.org <------- new address as of May 1991 UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan phone: 214/709-2418 fax: 214/709-3387 From: FRN373B@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Computer readable French texts Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 00:40 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 622 (732) Computer Readable French Texts Does anyone know of the existence of any substantial collection of French texts in computer-readable form? I'm particularly interested in compilations from the French press. I'm aware of the INALF (Tresor de la langue francaise) data bank, a copy of which I understand is held at the University of Chicago. This, however, is largely literary in nature. Access, moreover, is very restricted, as is any subsequent exploitation of the material. Given the fact that French newspapers have been produced for many years with word processing equipment, there must be a mountain of articles stashed away on computer tapes/disks which would make excellent fodder for linguistic analysis. Undoubtedly, this data base would need to be standardized to some accessible format in order to be used in a (IBM/MAC) computer environment. I'd be happy to join forces with others in an attempt to bring such an electronic text data base into existence. Jack Burston -- Department of Romance languages Monash University (Victoria, Australia) E-Mail: FRN373B@VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU From: Charles Ess Subject: grad programs in English/Philosophy Date: Tue, 03 Sep 91 20:01:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 623 (733) On behalf of a student -- who already has a M.A. in English, as well as B.A. in English -- I wish to request information on doctoral programs which allow for combining philosophical studies with literary studies. In particular, she is _not_ interested in analytic philosophical approaches, but approaches which are, directly or indirectly, supportive of cultural criticism, PLUS literary studies emphasizing recent theories which also involve cultural critique. She's excited about people such as Foucault, LaTour, some of the French feminists, etc. -- but she also sees the need for grounding cultural critique in philosophical analyses. (I would commend to her critical theory, among others, but I'm not sure of a graduate program which includes such a topic.) Suggestions and recommendations would be appreciated. Greetings to all who find themselves starting up yet one more semester... Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 From: Susan Hockey Subject: Reminder - call for papers for ALLCACH92 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 16:39 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 303 (734) This is to remind everyone that the deadline for paper submissions for ALLCACH92 is 1 OCTOBER 1991, that is less than four weeks away. As I shall be leaving OUCS just after that date, I would like to make life as easy as possible for everyone else here by trying to encourage the arrival of plenty of abstracts WELL BEFORE the deadline day. If your abstract is nearly ready, please help us and send it as soon as you can. The full call for papers follows. Please note carefully the instructions for electronic submissions and address all conference enquiries to ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK. Bursaries The ALLC is offering up to four bursaries of 200 pounds each to the authors of the best papers submitted by scholars who are under 30 years of age on 31 December 1991. If you are eligible and would like to apply for a bursary, please add a note to your paper submission. Susan Hockey ---------------------------------------------------------------- ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES 1992 JOINT CONFERENCE ALLC-ACH92 5-9 April 1992 Christ Church, Oxford, England CALL FOR PAPERS This conference is the major annual forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. Its focus is on the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, on the development of significant new materials and tools for humanities research, and on the application and evaluation of computing techniques in humanities subjects. TOPICS: Submissions are invited on all areas of literary, linguistic and humanities computing, including, but not limited to: text encoding; hypertext; text corpora; computational lexicography; statistical models; syntactic, semantic and other forms of text analysis; also computer applications in history, philosophy, music and other humanities disciplines. The deadline for submissions is 1 OCTOBER 1991. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. REQUIREMENTS: Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those which concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those which concentrate on a particular application in the humanities (e.g. a study of the style of an author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important previous related work. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Abstracts for individual papers should be 1500-2000 words in length. Thirty minutes will normally be allowed for the presentation of each paper including questions. SESSIONS: Proposals for sessions (90 minutes) are also invited. These should take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The proposer of the session should submit a statement of approximately 500 words describing the topic of the session. Abstracts of 1000-1500 words should be submitted for each of the papers, together with an indication that the author of each paper is willing to participate in the session. or (b) A panel of up to 6 speakers. The proposer of the panel should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the topic of the panel and how it will be organized, together with the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each of the speakers is willing to participate in the session. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions should begin with the following information: TITLE: title of paper AUTHOR(S): names of authors AFFILIATION: of author(s) CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address E-MAIL: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) FAX NUMBER: of main author PHONE NUMBER: of main author (1) Electronic submissions These should be plain ASCII files, not wordprocessor files, and should not contain TAB characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Footnotes should not be included and endnotes only where absolutely necessary. References should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters which cannot be transmitted by electronic mail and include an explanation of the scheme after the title information and before the start of the text. Electronic submissions should be sent to ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH92". If diagrams are necessary for the evaluation of electronic submissions, they should be faxed to 44-865-273275 (international, or 0865-273275 (from within UK) and a note to indicate the presence of diagrams put at the beginning of the abstract. (2) Paper submissions Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to ALLC-ACH92 (Paper submission) Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England DEADLINES Proposals for papers and sessions 1 October 1991 Notification of acceptance 15 December 1991 Advance registration 8 February 1992 There will be a substantial increase in the registration fee for registrations received after 8 February 1992. PUBLICATION A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in the series Research in Humanities Computing edited by Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide and published by Oxford University Press. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Programme Committee which consists of: Chair: Thomas Corns, University of Wales (ALLC) Dan Brink, Arizona State University (ACH) Gordon Dixon, Manchester Polytechnic (ALLC) Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (ACH) Jacqueline Hamesse, Universite Catholique Louvain-la-Neuve (ALLC) Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ACH) Randall Jones, Brigham Young University (ACH) Donald Ross, University of Minnesota (ACH) Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa (ALLC) Local organisers: Susan Hockey, Oxford University (ALLC) Lou Burnard, Oxford University (ALLC, Programme Liaison) ACCOMMODATION Accommodation has been reserved for the conference in Christ Church which is one of Oxford University's oldest and best-known colleges. It is situated in the centre of the city, but overlooks Christ Church Meadow and the River Thames. The conference will run from dinner on Sunday 5 April until lunch on Thursday 9 April. There will be a banquet in Christ Church's Tudor hall on the evening of 8 April. LOCATION Oxford is an hour from London and from Heathrow Airport and is also close to Stratford-on-Avon and the Cotswolds, a beautiful area of English countryside. There is a frequent bus service from Heathrow to Oxford and good transport arrangements from Gatwick airport. ENQUIRIES Please address all enquiries to ALLC-ACH92 Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England Telephone: 44-865-273200 or (from within UK) 0865-273200 Fax: 44-865-273275 or (from within UK) 0865-273275 E-mail: ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK Please make sure that you give your name, full mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address with any enquiry. From: "Dr. Ross Alan Stapleton" Subject: Here's a copy of the CQ article, by Marc Blecher. Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1991 14:27 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 304 (735) To: ga1034@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Electronic Mail on China, Vol. 1 (18 February-3 June 1989) and Electronic Mail on China, Vol 2 (4 June-4July 1989). Edited by Esbjorn Stahle and Terho Uimonen. [Stockholm: Skifter utgivna av Foreningen for Orientaliska Studier, 1989. 394 pp. and 424 pp.] Andy Warhol predicted that "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." These volumes demonstrate his prescience and surprising relevance even to China studies. They immortalize in print the words, activities and transcriptions of many Chinese students and scholars abroad who contributed to two of the major electronic mail networks that we active in 1989. And they present an eerie, dialectical twist on Warhol's aphorism, for many of those made "famous" here also remain anonymous. The Electronic Newsletter for Chinese Students (ENCS) and Social Culture China (SCC) e-mail networks, and others like them, have been lively and interesting repositories of news, documentary information, rumours, debate, and expressions of emotions and angst. Their scholarly value is, accordingly, a mixed bag with its own particular set of possibilities and pitfalls for the researcher that remain to be explored. At their best, they have faithfully reported and transcribed news and key texts, publicized information (e.g., from personal letters received from China) that would otherwise have remained adumbrated, reviewed important books and articles, and served to publicize and mobilize political action concerning the spring 1989 events in China. At their worst, they have repeated unsubstantiated rumours, given voice to anonymous and insubstantial if furious or depressed outbursts, and carried silly or specious commentary ("I am so glad when I saw the students have their own Rack-n-Roll [sic] context in TAM [Tiananmen] square..." [I,268]). Perhaps even such useless or reliable items will some day provide the "texts" that discourse analysts will use to deconstruct (and reconstruct) the events of 1989. Whatever the case may be, the volumes present a fascinating tapestry and record of the best and worst from a particular set of human experiences of an extraordinary time. The editors have selected for publication only around one-fifth of the material that came over the wires of ENCS and SCC during six months of 1989. Yet these alone occupy 800 pages! If computer memory can be likened to an attic -- the larger it is, the more junk one depositis there -- then the editors have performed an heroic clean-up. They have chosen to keep "most articles dealing with democracy, freedom and human rights in China" [I, xxxiv] but omitted transcribed press reports (on the grounds that they appeared elesewhere, and also that they raise copyright problems). Accounts of local political demonstrations and other activities have been deleted, but national-level ones included. "[O]pen letters, telegrams and statements from different sources directed to the Chinese leadership, certain Western leaders or the general public" [I, xxxv] have been included, but articles and debates concerning the relationship of Hong Kong and Taiwan to the 1989 events omitted. The texts are presented in temporal order with the titles provided in the original e-mail transmissions, and each volume is preceded by a useful chronology of major events and followed by For scholars who have been reading the e-mail networks regularly, and particularly for those who have been retaining texts of importance to themselves in printed or downloaded form, these volumes will be redundant. But for those who have not, and for libraries with significant collections of primary materials on contemporary China, they comprise a scholarly resource quite unlike any other, and one whose value can only grow with time. MARC BLECHER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: eparker@well.sf.ca.us Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Re: 5.0302 Qs: English/Philosophy Programs Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 08:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 624 (736) Charles Ess asks on behalf of a student about programs allowing combination of English (with theory) and Philosophy. It might be worth checking out the programs at Penn State University, where there are strong programs in both fields; try contacting Prof. Wendell Harris, Dept. of English, Penn State, Burrowes Bldg., University Park, PA 16802; in Philosophy, try Prof. Irene Harvey, Dept. of Philosophy, Penn State Univ., Sparks Bldg, University Park, PA 16802. Penn State also offers an excellent interdisciplinary PhD program well adapted to such students; for this, contact Prof. Joseph Kocklelmans, Dept. of Philosophy, Sparks Bldg, Univ. Park, PA 16802. Tom Benson Penn State From: stephen clark Subject: Re: English/Philosophy Programs Date: Wed, 04 Sep 91 11:23:07 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 625 (737) If UK graduate programs are acceptable, try Warwick University. ALternatively, Essex University, or perhaps Kent. Stephen Clark Liverpool From: "Paul J. Constantine, Yale Univ. Library" Subject: Re: 5.0300 Rs: Mauthner; French Grammar; Vulgate (3/42) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1991 08:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 626 (738) Regarding Jim Marchand's plea for an e-text of Migne, Chadwyck-Healey is advertising a cd-rom and tape version of the Patrologia Latina. It is not cheap--the cd-rom version, on 4 disks, is ca. $60,000. I imagine that Chadwyck-Healey can provide brochures to interested parties. Paul J. Constantine Yale University Library From: ROBEY@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: TEI Verse Work Group Seeks Input Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 12:02 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 306 (739) TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE: VERSE WORK GROUP REQUEST FOR INFORMATION The Text Encoding Initiative has set up a number of Work Groups to recommend SGML mark-up systems, for inclusion in the TEI Guidelines as an international standard. The Verse Work Group comprises Elaine Brennan, David Chisolm, Willard McCarty, and myself as Chair. We therefore warmly invite colleagues who have encoded verse texts in any language please to send us information about the mark-up systems they have used. It will be very helpful (not to say essential) to us to know as much as possible both about the kinds of textual feature that have been tagged, and about the tagging language employed. We would like to base our recommendations as much as possible on what colleagues in the field have actually done and what they have felt to be important. Any other relevant comments or information would be most welcome. Please send material either by e-mail to ROBEY@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX or by surface mail to me at Department of Italian Studies The University Manchester M13 9PL England DAVID ROBEY From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Migne on CD-ROM Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1991 20:48:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 627 (740) Migne on CD-ROM sounds at first like a godsend to medievalists and others, but I wonder. How reliable are the texts Migne used? Why did the CD-ROM publisher not go to those texts rather than copy Migne, who presumably introduced errors? Is there any evidence that small libraries may prefer the CD-ROM, however expensive, to the requisite books? Our scholarship once rested on the sometimes faulty memories or incomplete knowledge of memorious giants. In the near future will it rest on large, flawed electronic corpora? Willard McCarty From: Subject: RE: 5.0292 Responses: BCE/CE; Trees (2/42) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 12:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 628 (741) Concerning BCE: I once heard from a Jewish historian that some authori- tative body of Rabbis (I don't have the faintest idea now which Rabbis they might have been.) decided that Christian worship had for its object the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, no matter the differences between Christian theology and that of Judaism. Hence the expression, "common era" to denote a time when Jews and Gentiles worship "God" in common. Yours sincerely, Don Coleman (dacoleman@fair1) From: raskin@j.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Re: 5.0302 English/Philosophy Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 9:35:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 629 (742) In connection with Charles Ess' question on graduate programs in English and Philosophy I must plug my own institution, especially since it is not my program and the colleagues involved are not netters. Purdue's English and Philosophy is a high-powered Ph.D. program operated jointly by the Departments of English and Philosophy. The admissions are quite competitive. On the English side, it's a bunch of theorists led by Vincent Leitch and the philosophy side is dominated (in the good sense) by Calvin Schrag. Write to either of them in the Departments of English or Philosophy, respectively, at Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907, USA, Tels.: (317) 494-3740 ENGL or (317) 494-4276 PHIL. Fax: (317) 494-3780 (ENGL). I would be happy to relay e-mail to either Vince or Cal as well. -- Victor Raskin raskin@j.cc.purdue.edu Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: e-mail contact with Rome Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1991 21:16:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 630 (743) I would very much appreciate hearing from anyone who has recently communicated by e-mail with someone at the Universita di Roma (La Sapienza) who once used the nodename IRMUNISA. Specifically I am attempting to contact the Canadian Academic Centre in Rome, once caci@irmunisa, and Professore Tito Orlandi, at the University. I've reason to think both addresses have changed. Thanks very much. Willard McCarty From: nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (H. Borchers) Subject: Search for Email address Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 16:31:58 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 631 (744) I accidentally deleted a message sent to me by Professor Robert C. Allen, Dept. of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Could anybody supply me with his email address? Hans Borchers, University of Tuebingen, Germany nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: "Philip A. Alperson, Chair" Subject: Call for Papers: The Philosophy of Music Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1991 16:41:34 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 309 (745) CALL FOR PAPERS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM announces a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal on "The Philosophy of Music." The topic is construed very broadly to include not only questions about the ontology of music and representation, expression and other varieties of meaning in music, but also philosophical reflections on the standard delineations of music disciplines and approaches to music (musical aesthetics, music history, musicology, ethnomusicology, music analysis, etc.), and on the social and political aspects of musical production and appreciation (performing, listening, analyzing, criticizing, etc.). Papers on facets of musical practice which have received less philosophical attention (conducting, improvisation, engineering, etc.) are welcome, as are papers on the philosophical understanding of other aspects of music. Papers may be retrospective or interpretive of current developments. Send manuscripts and inquiries to the Editor of the special issue: Philip Alperson Department of Philosophy University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292 U.S.A. Inquiries may also be sent by electronic mail to: PAALPE01@ULKYVM.BITNET. Articles will be refereed anonymously. The deadline for submissions is 1 September 1992. From: Mary Massirer Subject: Medical Writing Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 11:17:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 632 (746) I have a technical writing student who is interested in a career in medical writing. What suggestions do you have about journals, prof. organizations, etc. for her? What should she read to see whether this is what she really wants to do? Reply to MASSIRERM@BAYLOR Thanks, Mary Massirer. From: J_WARD@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU Subject: Q electronic grade book programs Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 18:28 AST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 633 (747) The College of Arts and Sciences is at present evaluating grade management programs (or electronic gradebooks) for IBM and compatibles. We wish to include as many programs as possible in our survey but those programs which allow importing from our VAX/VMS mainframe system are of particular interest. We would appreciate very much recieving any information that HUMANISTs might have about such programs; at least names and address for requesting more information. If there is sufficient response, I will compile a list and pass it on for distribution. Thanks in advance for those who choose to help us. James H. Ward, Ph.D. Humanities Department University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez J_Ward@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: computer-assisted writing Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1991 08:13:28 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 634 (748) I'd very much like to know of any annotated, evaluative survey of computer-assisted writing systems, the more comprehensive the better. What we have to work with are MS-DOS machines, but systems for Mac would be relevant to my interests as well. Thanks very much. Willard McCarty From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: PIM programs for the Mac? Date: Mon, 09 Sep 91 11:08:42 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 635 (749) I would like to know which PIM's (Personal Information Products) exist for the Macintosh environment and what their main features are. If a demo version of the program you recommend exists, please let me know. Thanks, Marco Simionato From: FARGHALY@AUC.EG Subject: Allegro Common LISP and Foreign Characters Date: Mon, 9 Sep 91 13:14 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 636 (750) I have been trying to get Allegro Common LISP to process Arabic texts on the Macintosh without much success. Is it impossible for Allegro Common LISP to process non Roman characters? has anybody tried that? Does anyone have suggestions that might help? Please send replies to Farghaly@AUC.EG Thanks. Ali Farghaly, The American University in Cairo From: Randall Jones Subject: What Computer to Buy? Date: Mon, 09 Sep 91 14:32:44 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 637 (751) We need some advice on a decision about purchasing a laptop computer for doing word processing and various kinds of text work away from the office. We want a 386SX processor and at least a 60MB hard disk. The two that seem most attractive now are the IBM L40SX and the COMPAQ LTE 386s. Has anyone done any comparison studies to see which of these, or another brand, is best suited for typical humanities needs? I should also point out that much of the use will be in Europe. Thanks for any suggestions. Randall Jones Brigham Young University R.L. Jones From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 5.0307 Rs: Migne; BCE; English/Philosophy Date: Thu, 05 Sep 91 16:52:51 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 638 (752) On Thu, 5 Sep 1991 17:29:46 EDT Willard McCarty said: [deleted quotation] Migne's great publishing enterprise was a cultural event of the first magnitude, and has deeply affected the way subsequent readers have approached the authors he printed. One reason for reproducing Migne, and not Migne's sources, is that for the last 100 years and more people have been reading Migne's editions, and not his copy texts. If we care about the life of texts within a culture, Migne is important flaws and all, and somewhat more important, probably, than most of his copy texts (which actually, as I'm sure Willard knows full well, are a very mixed bag as viewed by today's scholarship). If one is interested in the best modern critical editions of the authors in PL, one should be reading newer critical editions, where they exist. The catch is that last phrase, since mostly newer critical editions do *not* exist. The Migne CD ROM will be irremediably 'flawed' if one judges it as an attempt to provide access to the newest scholarly opinion about patristics, just as Migne is flawed if judged by that standard. (Oddly, though, no one seems to be unhappy that Kraus or whoever is still reprinting Migne, the way some are unhappy about the CD-ROM.) But it is in fact merely an attempt to put onto CD-ROM a collection which is both (a) an important cultural event in its own right and (b) still an indispensable tool -- albeit a dangerous one, I am told -- for many areas of study. Let me raise my hand and say right out that when the Chadwyck-Healey project was merely a gleam in Eric Calaluca's eye, I told him that Migne could be regarded either as defining a genre or collection of texts (in which case his editions are immaterial and a 'new Migne' of exactly the same texts in different editions would be appropriate), *or* as a publishing event which took place in the 19th century and which produced a particular collection. As a medievalist with a long-standing interest in problems of text criticism, I said it would be crazy to take the first view in a CD-ROM of Migne's PL. If you want a CD-ROM of patristic texts, then take the best editions you can. But if you say you are making a CD-ROM of *Migne*, then you damn well better be reproducing Migne, because otherwise how the hell am I going to prove that X or Y or Z was quoting from Migne's edition rather than from Watenpuhl's edition of 1544 (as his footnote claims). A CD-ROM that purported to be 'Migne' but actually reproduced some other set of editions would be, to my way of thinking, far more flawed, because far less clear about what it was doing, than the simple and straightforward project undertaken by Chadwyck-Healey, which will do what it purports to do. So if you want to know what idiots are responsible for C-H's decision, here I am. I did not make the decision, it not being mine to make, but I think it is the right decision. I'm made more comfortable by the knowledge that the rest of the editorial board, who know a lot more about patristics than I do, all agree with it as well. But I won't hide behind the skirts of patristic scholars; what I say is that to reproduce an important source is a good deed, not a flawed one. Charlton Hinman did more for Shakespearean text criticism than most critical editors, and Chadwyck-Healey will do more for patristics, as well as all the other fields where PL is used, by reproducing Migne than by waiting another fifty years for better editions. Michael Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: Migne Date: Fri, 6 Sep 91 16:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 639 (753) With regard to the availability of patristic and medieval Latin texts on CD-ROM, there is much to be said about the CETEDOC "Electronic Data Library" with the Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts on CD-ROM. One of the benefits of the International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford, England, was the demonstration of this disk and associated software by Paul Tombeur of CETEDOC and several representatives from Brepols. I plan to post more information on this over the weekend. Just let me say now that for me at least the software and CD-ROM offer "everything you always wanted" and perhaps a bit more. This is it. As the CETEDOC/Brepols brochure says-- "Providing a future for the past." (There is perhaps one thing better than the CD-ROM-----hearing Paul Tombeur's enthusiasm as he gives a demonstration!) More to come on this topic. Grover A. Zinn, Jr. FZINN@OBERLIN From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: CCH Working Papers Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1991 11:33:04 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 640 (754) Some days ago Humanist circulated an announcement about our new publication series, CCH Working Papers, the first volume of which, A TACT Exemplar, has just appeared. Ordering information was supplied. Unfortunately the workers in Canada Post went on strike about that time, which means that orders have not reached us yet. A probably temporary return-to-work has begun to get the mail flowing again, but we will not be sending out copies of CCHWP 1 until we are certain that the disruption of service has ended. Our apologies, on behalf of Canada Post, for the delays. Please remember that e-mail inquiries about A TACT Exemplar should be sent to cch@epas.utoronto.ca. Potential editors and contributors to future volumes should write to cchwp@epas.utoronto.ca. Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA Subject: NEW PUBLICATION ON QUEBEC LITERATURE Date: Sun, 8 Sep 91 6:58:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 641 (755) The Centre d'etudes quebecoises (Centre for Quebec Studies) of the Universite de Montreal has recently published a *Bibliographie descriptive du roman montrealais* (Descriptive Bibliography of the Montreal Novel; May 1991, 230 p.) by Jean-Francois Chassay (Departement d'etudes litteraires, Universite du Quebec a Montreal). This bibliography lists all French Language narratives published in Quebec from 1846 until the end of 1989. The author scrutinized 650 narratives and divided the resulting data into 12 categories (periods, places, people, intercultural relations, etc.). This publication will allow its readers to find scores of factual information about the Montreal novel. This bibliography costs 15,00 $ CDN (handling and postage included). It can be ordered from : Jean Cleo Godin CETUQ Departement d'etudes francaises Universite de Montreal C.P. 6218, succ. A Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7 (514) 343-6106. Checks should be made to the Universite de Montreal. From: CHUCK TAYLOR Subject: Call for Papers Date: Mon, 9 Sep 91 16:10 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 642 (756) Call for Papers Mad River, A Journal of Essays published by Wright State University invites contributions for a special issue on the theme of parents. More precisely we are looking for essays (biographical or autobiographical) which examine the relation one has to oneUs own parents. This issue will appear in conjunction with a special photography exhibition, Parents at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Wright State. The show presents photographersU work in which their own parents and their relation to their parents is the central concern. The special issue of the journal will develop this theme in its broader context. Submissions will also be considered for publication in the catalog for the show published by the museum. Deadline for submissions: 15 January, 1992 Manuscripts shpuld follow The MLA Handbook. Please share this call with colleagues. Manuscripts should be sent to: Prof. Charles Senn Taylor Editor, Mad River Department of Philosophy Wright State University Dayton, Oh 45435 email: ctaylor@WSU (BITNET) ctaylor@desire.wright (INTERNET) Phone: 513-873-2173 From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: Educational price for grammar software Date: Fri, 6 Sep 91 14:38:15 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 643 (757) Some HUMANIST's may be interested in reading about the 15 writer's tools reviewed in the current PC Magazine (Sept 24, Vol 10 Num 16). I have had some experience with what they considered the best grammar checker: Power Edit. I have a friend (Ph.D. linguist) who works for the company and I was one of their beta testers. It is an impressive program, but the list price is quite high: $299. However, they do have an educational price of $109.00 which they do not advertise a lot. If you are interested in grammar checkers and you have a 286 or 386 with at least 2 MB RAM, and *12* MB of hard disk space, you really ought to give it a look. John Baima john@utafll.uta.edu From: iwml@ukc.ac.uk Subject: AFTER TUBINGEN Date: Fri, 06 Sep 91 14:59:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 313 (758) This is a general mailing to all AIBI members on email following the highly successful conference in Tubingen last week. Concentrating on the contribution which the computer can make to hermeneutics a suprisingly wide range of papers was presented, and I hope to produce a conference report before the end of the month. I have been asked to continue co-ordinating the email work, and hope to have some good news about developments in the near future. The next Conference in 1994 will be held in Amsterdam on the theme of the effect and changes to biblical studies caused by the use of the computer. I would like to update the information we hold on members, and the major purpose of this message is to invite you to complete the questionnaire again, on which we based our earlier published information. I will then produce a email and hard copy version of the results. With good wishes to everyone, and Shanah Tovah to our Jewish colleagues for tomorrow and the coming week..... B'shalom Ian Mitchell Lambert PhD research student Tangnefedd Department of Theology Windmill Road University of Kent at Canterbury Weald United Kingdom Sevenoaks Kent Co-ordinator TN14 6PJ AIBI Network (Association Internationale Director (UK), Centre for Bible et Informatique, Maredsous, the Study of Early Belgium) Christianity (HQ: Jerusalem) Telephone (UK): 0732 463460 (international): +44 732 463 460 Email JANET: iwml@uk.ac.ukc EARN/BITNET: iwml@ukc.ac.uk or iwml%uk.ac.ukc@ukacrl Fax 0732 741475 (overseas +44 732 741475) CompuServ 100014,577 ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE BIBLE ET INFORMATIQUE ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ / / Q U E S T I O N N A I R E / / ------------------------------- In order to update our network of biblical scholars please complete the information requested below and reply as indicated at the end. _______________________________________________________________________________ Name> Address> Email address(es)> RESEARCH What research(es) are you presently engaged in? What research(es) have you been involved in in the past? NEEDS What are your needs for your research in terms of (i) software? (ii) applications? (iii) databases? (iv) tools? (v) hardware/firmware? (vi) other? RESOURCES YOU CAN OFFER ** Please give details of any charge/cost you would make under this head, if any and detail any copyright restrictions/problems that may be involved *** I can offer the following to colleagues: (i) software (ii) applications (iii) databases (iv) tools (v) hardware/firmware (vi) other _______________________________________________________________________________ ***NOW PLEASE SEND THIS QUESTIONNAIRE TO Ian Mitchell Lambert Tangnefedd Department of Theology Windmill Road University of Kent at Canterbury Weald United Kingdom Sevenoaks Kent Co-ordinator TN14 6PJ AIBI Network (Association Internationale Director (UK), Centre for Bible et Informatique, Maredsous, the Study of Early Belgium) Christianity (HQ: Jerusalem) Email JANET: iwml@uk.ac.ukc EARN/BITNET: iwml@ukc.ac.uk or iwml%uk.ac.ukc@ukacrl Fax 0732 741475 (overseas +44 732 741475) CompuServ 100014,577 From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Directory of Liturgical Sources Date: Friday, 6 September 1991 0038-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 314 (759) The following is self explanatory. Sarah has asked that it be posted on the various relevant lists, and I am happy to do so. Sorry if you have already seen it! Bob Kraft, UPenn ===== DIRECTORY OF INDIVIDUAL LITURGICAL SOURCES (D.I.L.S.) SARAH LARRATT KEEFER Box 314, Otonabee College Trent University Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8 Telephone 705-742-1649 Fax 705-748-0203 e-mail SKEEFER@TRENTU.CA IF YOU WORK IN THE AREA OF GOSPEL BOOKS, GOSPEL LECTIONARIES OR BIBLES, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING, OR SAVE IT UNTIL YOU CAN GIVE IT THE TIME TO GO THROUGH CAREFULLY. I NEED YOUR HELP FOR THE PRELIMINARY "LITMSS" DATABASE AND FOR ITS ULTIMATE OFFSPRING, THE DIRECTORY OF INDIVIDUAL LITURGICAL SOURCES. I list below what I have collected from Gneuss _Handlist_, Gneuss _Liturgical Book_ list, Ker _Catalogue_, Temple, Collins, and various private compilations. In the Gospel Books and Lectionaries, I am looking for manuscripts with Matt.6: 9-13 and Luke, chapters 1 & 2, and 11:2-4 intact, from the Anglo-Saxon period, in either Latin or Old English. These of course contain the scriptural 'originals' of the New Testament 'cantica' used in the Daily Office, and consisting of the Pater Noster (Matt. 6: 9-13, and the briefer Lucan version in 11: 2-4), the Magnificat (Luke 1: 46-55), Benedictus (Luke 1: 68-79), first verse of Gloria in excelsis (Luke 2:14) and Nunc Dimittis (Luke 2: 29-32). In bibles proper I am looking for complete texts of these New Testament cantica and of the Old Testament cantica that might have been used in pre-Conquest England (I am casting wide here, and including cantica from the Spanish/Mozarabic tradition [marked below with a #] as well as from the post-Charlemagne Gallican, as the Spanish attitude towards hymns seems to have something in common with the Irish). These O.T. cantica are to be found in Exodus 15 (Cantemus Domino), Deuteronomy 32 (Audite Caeli), Habakkuk 3 (Domine Audivi), 1 Samuel 2 (Exultavit Cor Meum), Isaiah 12 (Confitebor tibi), #Isaiah 26 (De Mane Vigilabo Te), Isaiah 38 (Ego Dixi In Dimidio), #Isaiah 60 (Surge illuminare), #Lamentations 5 (Memento Domine), Daniel 3:57 (Benedicite Opera), and Daniel 3:52 (Benedictus Es) (my source is Mearns). Because I will clearly not be able to go through each gospel book, gospel lectionary or bible to ascertain that these pieces of text are in fact present, I am appealing to anyone working with these texts, to help me include/rule out the mss listed below as containing/omitting the scriptural cantica that I've identified above. Please let me know, at the addresses or by phone as listed above, if you can categorically identify a ms as containing these cantica or as being imperfect and leaving some or all of those text sections out. Gospel lectionaries are especially complicated, as I do not know whether these sections will automatically be included (because of their cantica importance) or not. You can further assist me by sending me the text of what cantica versions ARE there in a given manuscript, but even for the moment, a simple 'sheep and goats' separation of mss is what I'm after. Can anyone add to what I have collected? I've tried to track down every bible and gospel version in Latin or OE from the pre-Conquest period so far, but am sure that I've missed a few along the way. I have optimistically included single-leaf gospel fragments but left out (sensibly, I hope) single-leaf bible fragments, and would appreciate any corrections I should make in this regard. There is no time limit on this request. I will be very grateful for any help you can give me. Thank you. Sarah * = OE text; otherwise text is in Latin; (F) indicates a fragmentary book GOSPEL BOOKS Great Britain Libraries *Cambridge University Library Ii.2.11 + Exeter Cathedral Library 3501, fols 0-7 Cambridge University Library Ii.6.32 Cambridge University Library Kk.i.24 + B.L. Cotton Tiberius B.v. fols 74 & 76 + Sloane 1044, fol. 2 *Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 140 (+ 111) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 286 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum Bradfer-Lawrence BL.i (on loan) (F)Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepys 2981 (2) + B.L. Sloane 1086, fol 119 Cambridge, Pembroke College 301 Cambridge, St John's College 73 (C.23) Cambridge, Trinity College B.10.4 Dublin, Trinity College 57 (A.4.5) Dublin, Trinity College 58 (A.1.6) (F)Durham Cathedral Library A.II.10, fols 2-5, 338 & 339 + C.III. 13, fols 192-5 + C.III.20, fol 1 & 2 Durham Cathedral Library A.II.16 + Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepys 2981 (18) Durham Cathedral Library A.II.17, fols 2-102 + Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepys 2981 (19) (F)Durham Cathedral Library A.II.17, fols 103-11: THIS IS A FRAGMENTARY GOSPEL OF LUKE Hereford Cathedral Library P.i.2 Lichfield Cathedral Library Lich 1 (F)Lincoln Cathedral Library 298 (1) London, B.L. Additional 9381 London, B.L. Additional 34890 London, B.L. Additional 40000 London, B.L. Additional 40618 London, B.L. Cotton Nero D.iv: LINDISFARNE GOSPELS London, B.L. Cotton Otho B.ix *London, B.L. Cotton C.i, vol. i + Otho B.x, fol 51 London, B.L. Cotton Tiberius A.ii + Claudius A.iii, fols 2-7 & 9 + Faustina B.vi, fols 95 & 98-100 London, B.L. Cotton Tiberius B.iv, fol 87 + Lambeth Palace 1370 (F)London, B.L. Cotton Tiberius B.v, fol 75 London, B.L. Harley 76 London, B.L. Royal 1.A.xviii London, B.L. Royal 1.B.vii London, B.L. Royal 1.D.iii London, B.L. Royal 1.D.ix London, B.L. Royal 1.E.vi + Canterbury Cathedral Library Add. 16 + Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. bibl. b.2 (F)London, B.L. Royal 7.C.xii, fols 2 & 3 Oxford, Bodleian Auct. D.2.14 Oxford, Bodleian Auct. D.2.16 Oxford, Bodleian Auct. D.2.19: glossed Oxford, Bodleian Auct. D.5.3 Oxford, Bodleian Bodley 155 *Oxford, Bodleian Bodley 441 (F)Oxford, Lincoln College 92, fols 165 & 166 Oxford, St John's College 194 Oxford, Wadham College 2 (A.10.22) (F)Worcester Cathedral Additional 1 York Minster Cathedral Library Additional 1 Continental and North America Libraries Avranches Bibl. Municipale 48, fols i/ii + 66, fols i/ii + 71, fols A/B + Leningrad Publ. Lib. O.v.I.i Bern, Stadtbibl. 671 Besancon Bibl. Municipale 14 Boulogne Bibl. Municipale 10 Boulogne Bibl. Municipale 11 Coburg Landesbibl. 1 Copenhagen Kongelige Bibl. G.K.S. 10 Hannover-Kestner Museum W.M. XXIa, 36 (F)Leipzig, Universitatsbibl. Rep I 58a + Rep II 35a Leningrad Public Library F.v.i.8 Monte Cassino, Archivio della Badia BB.437 + 439 (F)Munchen, Bayerische Staatsbibl. clm 29155d (F)Munchen, Bayerische Staatsbibl. clm 29155e New York, Pierpont Morgan Library 708 New York, Pierpont Morgan Library 709 New York, Pierpont Morgan Library 827 New York, Pierpont Morgan Library 869 New York, Pierpont Morgan M.333 Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 272 Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 281 + 298 Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 9389 Paris, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 14782 Prague, Univ. Knihovna Roudnice VI.Fe.50 Rheims, Bibl. Municipale 9 Rome, Vatican City Bibl. Apost. Vat. Barberini Lat. 570 St. Lo, Archives de la Manche 1 (F)St Omer, Bibl. Municipale 257, fols. 1-7 Stockholm, Kunglinga Bibl. A.135 (F)Utrecht, Universiteitsbib. 32 (script. eccl. 484), fols. 94-105 Wurzburg, Universitatsbib. M.p.th.f.68 GOSPEL LECTIONARIES Great Britain Libraries Cambridge, Pembroke College 302 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum 88-1972 (218) London, B.L. Stowe 944 (F)London, College of Arms Arundel 22, fols. 84 & 85 Oxford, Bodleian Lat. lit. f.5 Continental and North American Libraries (F)Damme, Musee van Maerlant s.n. Florence, Bibl. Med. Laur. Plut. xii. 17 (called Plut. xvii.20 in Gneuss' Handlist: I've written to him on this) Warsaw, Bibl. Nar. I.3311 BIBLES, INCLUDING HEXATEUCH/PENTATEUCH TEXTS Great Britain Libraries Cambridge, Trinity College B.5.2 (F)Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 820 (h) (F)Cambridge, Magdalene College Pepys 2981 (4) Durham Cathedral Library A.II.4 Lincoln Cathedral Library 1 (A.1.2) *(F)Lincoln Cathedral 298 (2) (Hexateuch) (F)London, B.L. Additional 37777 + 45025 *London, B.L. Cotton Claudius B.iv (Hexateuch) *London, B.L. Cotton Vespasian D.xxi, fols 18-40 + Oxford, Bodleian Laud Misc. 509 (Hexateuch) London, B.L. Royal 1.E.vii + 1.E.viii Oxford, Bodleian Kennicott 13: (Genesis-Judges) (F)Oxford, Bodleian Lat. bib. c.8 + Salisbury Cathedral Library 117, fols. 163/4 + Geneva Bibl. Bodmeriana s.n. Continental and North American Libraries Florence, Bibl. Med. Laur. Amiatino 1 *(F)New York, Pierpont Morgan Glazier G.63 (Hexateuch) San Marino, California Huntingdon HM 62 From: Harry Gaylord Subject: On Migne Date: Wed, 11 Sep 91 17:09:28 METDST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 644 (760) The question about Migne is complicated. It was an important publishing event which has influenced scholarship ever since, and not all to the good. Pere Migne made a list for a publishing project both for Latin and Greek. Then he got a copy of an edition for each work and handed it over to printers to reprint. The criteria which he used in deciding which edition to copy would be an interesting research paper. In any case the text in PL and PG is only an inferior version of the edition which Migne's printers copied. Many new and improved editions of works have appeared since PL. The largest collects of these are those of CC in Belgium and CSEL in Vienna. There are many others spread out among other publishers. It would not be a paltry thing to draw up the list of editions which should be included in a similar project today, though there are modern bibliographies from which one could start. This is in fact what scholars most need as a tool. Yet having drawn up such a list, one would have to obtain the permission from authors and publishers to put them on CD-ROM. It should not be called Migne, but it should include all the works which are included in Migne as well as those published for the first time since PL appeared. I understand that Chadwyck-Healey tried to get permission from the Belgian and Austrian publishers of the series mentioned and well as Edition de Cerf for Sources Chre´tiennes, but were apparently unsuccessful. Chadwyck-Healey has now decided to publish Migne on CD-ROM sec. This is a far less interesting project mentioned above and by Willard. In the meantime CETEDOC has announced its plan to publish its collection of Latin texts on CD-ROM, see the announcement on Humanist, Vol 5, No. 0664, dated 31 Oct 1990. One difference between the two projects is that Chadwyck-Healey has announced it will be using the TEI tags for coding. We do not know what method of encoding is being used by CETEDOC. The thing that worries me as a scholar is that my university librarian may get the Chadwyck-Healey advert and think, Ah, I need that because it is the standard work in the Medieval reading-room. The librarian hasn't noticed that all the scholars who know what they are doing order up other editions from the stacks when they are doing their study. The librarian will pay the high price for this obselete instrumentarium and will not have the funds when scholars come requesting the better product when it comes available. It is a sad thing that not everyone working in medieval studies keeps up to date with text editions. Those who do not are the ones who always and only consult Migne. Of course, in many cases it doesn't matter. But in many it does. Having Migne on CD-ROM and the better editions not will only perpetuate the wrong use of Migne. If I want to see what the readings are for a passage are, I need in the following rank: 1. the best edition whether it be modern or pre-Migne 2. the pre-modern editions 3. Migne's edition. If I am studying the history of the use of Migne or how mistakes live on even after they are corrected, a not uninteresting subject, I need all 3 of the above. Harry From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET Subject: Forthcoming Brepols CD-ROM Date: Wed, 11 Sep 91 15:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 645 (761) [This is being posted on HUMANIST and ANSAX-L as a contribution to inform members of those lists about the Brepols/CETEDOC CD-ROM of Latin patristic and medieval authors. I have no intention of starting a discussion concerning the relative merits of this collection of texts vs. the collection being presented in the Chadwyck-Healey CD-ROM of Migne. Michael Sperberg-McQueen has posted a very good note on HUMANIST concerning the Migne CD---his point about doing Migne and not Migne's sources is excellent. There is a place for both of these CD-ROMs in our world. I should also supply the standard disclaimer that I have no vested interest in the Brepols/CETEDOC CD-ROM. I just hope to be a user!] At the recent International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford, England, representatives from Brepols and CETEDOC demonstrated the CD-ROM of the CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts. According to the brochure at the conference, this CD-ROM (which contains about 21 million words of text) includes: (1) "almost all" of the 250 volumes now available in the _Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina_, and _Continuatio Mediaevalis_.; (2) the complete _corpora_ of Augustine, Jerome and Gregory the Great, with works not yet edited in CC being taken from the "best editions available in other collections" and destined to be replaced by CC texts when available; (3) some texts not yet published in the CC, for example the _Etymologiae_ of Isidore of Seville. The demonstration of the CD-ROM and associated software by Paul Tombeur of CETEDOC was convincing, to say the least. The program (which runs on an MS-DOS machine) makes extensive use of windows to provide an elegant, easy-to-use, and convenient interface. Searches are defined through a combination of "fill in the blanks" and "check on the list" moves. Searches are very fast, due to the fact that the texts are already indexed on the CD-ROM. Pop-up windows provide a complete list of authors in the database for selecting "authors" for search (or you can enter authors individually); the same is true for titles to be searched. For specifying words for searching, truncation and wild cards are provided, as well as searching by word ending (e.g. -aliter). Boolean operators are provided for searches. (These apparently work for occurrences _within sentences_, but not for simultaneous occurrences that are not within the same sentence. Sentence generally means what we mean today, but in the case of a very short sentence, the context searched is a bit "broader", so I was told.) The results of the search (i.e. references, words in their contexts, etc.) can be saved on a diskette or directed to a printer. The program runs on IBM PC/XT/AT machines or compatibles (hard disc not required but recommended). An IBM AT is recommended, with a CD-ROM drive with controller card and MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions 2.0 or higher. Although I have not been a heavy user of CD-ROM search and retrieval programs, I must say that the interface designed for this application and the various help/information windows make this an elegant and easy-to- use program in comparison with the other programs that I have used. (The screen presentation uses English, French or German as the language, with switching between them possible. The color display is rather nice, too.) The announced date for "publication" is November 1, 1991. Now for the expensive part of the news: This CD-ROM is not inexpensive, but then we all know that Brepols publications are not inexpensive either! There are several categories of pricing. The cheapest is for those who place a standing order for future updates of the CD-ROM (every 2 years, with a minimum of 25% new material) and who also subscribe to the TPL---the price is 75,000 BEF; for "CD-ROM standing order" folks who don't subscribe to the TPL the price is 94,000 BEF. IF you do not subscribe to future updates of the CD-ROM the prices are 100,000 BEF and 125,000 BEF for the two categories described above. Second copies to the same institution are half-price, as are CD-ROMs purchased by persons whose institutions have purchased the CD-ROM. All in all, this looks like a superb tool for scholars in all areas of patristic and medieval studies. The various microfiche thesauri published by Brepols make searching the works of authors possible, but the range and convenience of searching (especially with Boolean operators) are both expanded with the CD-ROM. I certainly look forward to searching the works of Gregory the Great right now and the works of various twelfth-century authors as they are added to the data base. It certainly would have been easier to locate the source of a passage from Augustine quoted by Hugh of St. Victor if this database had existed last spring (or if I had access to the microfiche thesaurus for Augustine)! In Oxford, as I looked at the results of one search, I had the momentary feeling that one could be overwhelmed by the data. However, I would rather deal with the flood than not have it available! This has been rather long. I hope it proves useful to some, if not all. Again I provide the standard disclaimer---I have no relationship to Brepols, the project, etc. If you want a brochure or further information I assume you could request one from Brepols. The address is Baron Fr. du Fourstraat 8, B-2300 Turnhout, Belgium. Tel: 32-14-41.54.63. Fax: 32- 14-42.89.19. Grover A. Zinn, Jr. Oberlin College FZINN@OBERLIN From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Libraries of the future. Date: Tue, 10 Sep 91 12:44:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 646 (762) LIBRARIES OF THE FUTURE I sent a message last week on HUMANIST concerning the libraries of the future. My main interest in this matter is to get an idea of the extend to wich new libraries will be computerized: will it be only computerized bibliographical reference searches or fully automated reference room and loan services? Which librairies plan to go as far as using only full-text retrieval systems (also called on-line exploitation of e-texts and e-books) instead of paper books? Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee NOUVEAU / NEW E-MAIL: lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca Tel.: (514) 288-3916 From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Tagged texts Date: Mon, 09 Sep 91 18:58:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 647 (763) I would be grateful for some bibliography on tagged texts and in knowing if there is ready-made software for producing them. You may anticipate my gratitude. Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: Christian Koch Subject: Hypertext development systems Date: Mon, 9 Sep 91 22:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 648 (764) I'm looking for hypertext development/research systems that may be available free or for a minimal fee. Ideally, I would love to find something that would run on unix/x-windows (Sun4 or Dec station 5000/200), but would also be happy to find something interesting for a Mac II or an MS-DOS machine. I am aware of HyperCard's potential as a hypertext development system, and I have looked at something called Black Magic for MS-DOS. I am hoping to find something more sophisticated than either of these. Many thanks for any help you may have time to give me! Christian Koch Computer Science Oberlin College Internet: chk@occs.cs.oberlin.edu Bitnet: fkoch@oberlin From: Matthew Wall Subject: Query on "Norwich U.S." Cyrillic font for the Macintosh Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 10:17:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 649 (765) I'm trying to find out whether a font called "Norwich U.S.", a cyrillic font for the Macintosh, is in the public domain or not. Some students here wanted it added to our public machines, but I can't find the font in any of the obvious public domain archives, and of course they were oblivious to the question of copyright. Please send info directly to me. Thanks.... - Matt ----- Matthew Wall Swarthmore College Academic Computing wall@cc.swarthmore.edu 215-328-8506 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Piero Boitano? Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 19:36:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 650 (766) The Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University, University of Toronto, would like to make contact with Piero Boitano. Would anyone knowing of Professore Boitano's whereabouts please let me know? Thanks very much. Humanist as Bureau for Persons Who Don't Know They are Missing..... Willard McCarty From: Roger Macfarlane Subject: Date: Wed, 11 Sep 91 11:29:05 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 651 (767) Re: Replacing an Ibycus? We are looking for information pertaining to the PC software for accessing the Packard Humanities Institute Greek and Latin CD-ROMs. We are making plans to replace our Ibycus. Please send any information you have to Roger Macfarlane HRCRTM@BYUVM.bitnet. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Electronic English Qur`an (Koran) Date: Wednesday, 11 September 1991 0103-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 652 (768) Some of you will be interested to learn that an electronic text of M. H. Shakir's English version of the Qur`an (still available in hardcopy from Tahrike Tarsile Qur`an Inc, PO Box 1115, Elmhurst NY 11373) has become available on the networks from Project Gutenberg via "Almanac" in Oregon. The text was scanned and may still contain some errors, but appears to be quite servicable. I obtained it by sending the note send guten koran to almanac at oes.orst.edu (this produced 14 files, which together are about 900K in length). Other texts are also available -- for information, send to the same address the request send guide. Transfer by anonymous ftp is also possible. Good luck! (It worked for me.) Bob Kraft, UPenn From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: conference announcement Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 19:31:46 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 653 (769) A conference entitled "Calcolatori e Scienze Umane" will be held in Rome, Italy, 7-8 October 1991, co-sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Fondazione IBM Italia. The two days of the conference are divided into 4 sections: Archaeology and Arts, Sociology and Law, Linguistics, and Literature. All the papers, as far as I can tell from the titles, will be given in Italian. The programme looks good. More information is, I presume, available from the secretary of the convention, Fondazione IBM Italia, via Giorgione 159, 00147 Roma, voice: 06/54864568, fax: 06/54864964. Willard McCarty From: % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % Subject: Project IDEALS Date: Tue, 10 Sep 91 11:02:55 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 654 (770) % David Crookall % Editor: Simulation & Gaming: An International % % MA-TESOL Prgrm % Journal (Sage); Dir: Project IDEALS (FIPSE, DoE). % % English/Morgan, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244, USA. % % Phones: 205-348-9494 (w), 205-752-0690 (h); (44) 305-889-352 (UK). % % E-mail: crookall @ ua1vm.bitnet / ua1vm.ua.edu. Fax: 205-348-5298. % % For Pr IDEALS: Catherine Schreiber-Jones, Asst Dir: cschreib @ ua1vm % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % From: N_EITELJORG@BRYNMAWR.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0310 Qs: ... What to Buy Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 07:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 318 (771) In reply to Randall Jones' question about laptops, I would point out that one pays a good deal extra for the capacity to operate for a *very* few hours on a battery. If one really wants a portable computer to be used at electric outlets in various places, then there are much less expensive options. They are a bit heavier and larger, but the have better screens, and the cost is much more nearly that of a standard desktop machine. These are to old lunchbox type portables, and they can be put together by a competent computer store to your specs. Nick Eiteljorg From: tleonhardt@MADVAX.UOP.EDU Subject: RE: 5.0316 Qs: Libraries Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1991 14:20:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 655 (772) Concerning libraries of the future I would like to draw to your attention the upcoming (that is, the December 1991) issue of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES. As a special section we will publish three talks given at the June 1991 OCLC Users Council. Ken Dowlin, Library Director of the San Francisco Public Library talks about public libraries in 2001. In fact, much of what he foresees is to be part of the new library he is building for the city of San Francisco. Joseph J. Branin, Associate University Librarian for Public Services at the University of Minnesota Libraries talks about "Delivering on Promises: The Intersection of Print and Electronic Information Systems in Libraries." This paper gets to the heart of the question posed on HUMANIST. Finally, Ann J. Wolpert, Cambridge Information Center, Arthur D. Little, Inc. addresses "Libraries in the Year 2001" from the prospective of the special librarian offering library services to the professional and managerial business community. We in higher education could profit by heeding some of the things she has to say about our final products, the college graduate. Tom Leonhardt Editor, Information Technology and Libraries INTERNET: tleonhardt@madvax.uop.edu From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 656 (773) [deleted quotation]Well, since I am giving a talk about this at a conference in a couple of weeks, I will make a few brief comments here. Libraries will continue to develop online catalogs of their holdings. Within a decade all academic libraries will have online catalogs, and most major public libraries will as well. So will many public school libraries. Some of the largest libraries will not yet have had the funds or time to convert all of their retrospective records, so there will still be a card catalog for the oldest and least used works. I think these records will all be converted in the next 25 years. All future, and all present, indexing services will be automated and searchable on mainframe/micro/cdrom forms. Many of them will continue to be published in paper for the next couple of decades, although this will decrease over time. Within ten years essentially all libraries will have automated systems to check books in and out, handle interlibrary loans, and related administrative matters. Networking of library catalogs and related databases will continue to expand. I imagine you are aware that you can already search several hundred library catalogs on the internet. I do not expect that libraries will become strictly electronic in our lifetimes (even if we are only 21 years old). This is because of the millions of paper texts extant which it will not be economically feasible to convert to electronic format. Also, until "laptops" become even smaller and disk, cdrom, and "sugar cube" storage cheaper and denser than they are now, we will not have a reading device that is comfortable and "cuddly" like a book is. But these things will happen. By the middle of the next century it is likely that few books will be published. No, I don't know what the devices will be like, but at least half a dozen generations of "new things" beyond cdrom and laptops will have come and gone, like it or not. The problems to librarians and archivists, however, will be even greater than they are now. Not only will we have to deal with decaying paper and 78 rpm phono records, but also decaying cdroms, hardware to play them for which we can't get parts, etc., but also those added generations of storage devices and equipment. And all of this will be compounded by the exponential increase in "publication" in present and future forms. I don't mean this to sound dismal. I personally find it exciting and challenging, if scary at times. I welcome further discussion of these issues, either through this forum or off of the list. dan ************************************************************************ * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * Boise State University * Boise, Idaho 83725 You can be sure these ideas are my * 208-385-1234 own; no one else would have them. ************************************************************************ From: ELIASON@GACVAX1.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0315 E-Patristics Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1991 14:07 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 657 (774) The question of the value of Migne is even more complicated than the discussion of E-patristics has let on so far. Scholars use the texts in Migne for different purposes and for different reasons. If you are studying Augustine's thought, you obviously want the edition which best represents "what Augustine actually wrote." If you are studying how a Bernard uses Augustine, you want the edition which represents "what Bernard actually read." These are two different "best" editions. Neither is likely to be Migne. My point is only that ranking the relative authority of editions is a tricky business, that an editor's trash is sometimes a scholar's treasure. Those who have to make decisions about allocating thin resources for expensive electronic editions face a genuinely difficult dilemma. Eric Eliason ELIASON@GAC.EDU From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0315 E-Patristics (2/156) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 91 12:14:54 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 658 (775) On Thu, 12 Sep 1991 13:59:45 EDT you said: [deleted quotation] As a librarian, I hope that you will GO TODAY to your liaison librarian, or the acquisitions librarian if you don't have a departmental liaison, and let him/her know your feelings. Hopefully the library would not make such a major commitment of funds without consulting the appropriate faculty, anyway, but we all know the dangers of assuming! So, all who have strong feelings on these or related library matters (of which I personally know next-to nothing), talk to your librarians so that they will make the best expenditures of their limited dollars... the expenditures which will most benefit you and your students. dan ************************************************************************ * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * Boise State University * Boise, Idaho 83725 You can be sure these ideas are my * 208-385-1234 own; no one else would have them. ************************************************************************ From: BURTON@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Burton, Diane,VCA) Subject: multilingual word processing Date: 13 Sep 91 00:03 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 659 (776) Does anyone have experience incorporating both English and foreign language texts in the same document on a Macintosh. I am particularly interested in incorporating multiple languages where there are differences beyond character set such as English with Arabic or Hebrew. I've had several recent conversations where people claim this functionality can only be accomplished on a DOS machine using Nota Bene or MLS. Is this true? Are there any known work-arounds for Macintosh users? Thank you very much. Diane Burton From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: al-Tawfiq Printing Press Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 07:35:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 660 (777) Does anybody know the mailing address of the al-Tawfiq Printing Press in Amman, Jordan? Also, where can I get addresses for publishers in LIberia (I've checked Publishers International Directory and the ones I need aren't listed). Has anyone heard of Motivational Publishers of Austin, Texas; they aren't in the latest Austin telephone directory I have (1987). Thanks in advance for any help you folks might have. Paula Presley, Thos.Jefferson Univ.Press at Northeast Missouri State University AD15@NEMOMUS.BITNET From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: Email address of Peter Scott. Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 17:04:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 661 (778) I'm looking for the email address of Peter Scott. Thanks in advance, Marco Simionato From: Subject: Position announcements Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 16:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 662 (779) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: PHILOSOPHY St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas Position: The Philosophy Department has one full-time, tenure- track position beginning August 15, 1992. We would prefer a philosopher engaged with the work of Bernard Lonergan and committed to the Roman Catholic educational tradition and to undergraduate education (Candidate need not be of Catholic faith). Duties: Four courses (12 hours) undergraduate teaching each fall and spring semester: Introduction, Ethics, upper level course(s). Summer teaching possible. Qualifications: Ph.D. preferred. Successful undergraduate teaching experience. AOS: open; ethics preferred. AOC: Critical Realism (Bernard Lonergan); phenomenology. Institution: Largest Catholic University in the Southwest (4000 students, five schools including Business and Law). Staffed by lay men and women and members of the Society of Mary (Marianists). Co-ed, multi-cultural, religiously diverse (80% Catholic) student body and faculty. Department: Philosophy Department provides a three-course, nine-hour sequence in the Core Curriculum to all undergraduate students. Engages students in all disciplines. Undergraduate major offered. Rank & Salary: Assistant Professor. Salary competitive, commensurate with rank and experience. Deadline: Initial screening begins December 1, 1991, and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Starting date is August 15, 1992. Applications: Application, curriculum vitae, and supporting documentation should be addressed to: Dr. Glenn Hughes Chair, Search Committee Philosophy Department St. Mary's University San Antonio, Texas 78228-8566 Inquiries: HSSDEAN@stmarytx or hssdean@vax.stmarytx.edu FAX: (512) 436-3500 Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity Employer From: Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 16:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 663 (780) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: FRENCH/SPANISH Department of Languages, Modern & Classical St. Mary's University San Antonio, Texas St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Texas seeks Assistant Professor of French and Spanish in tenure-track position beginning August 15, 1992. AOS: French/Spanish languages, literature, culture and civilization. Ph.D. in French with 18 graduate hours of Spanish required. Should have successful teaching experience, preferably with teacher certification. Supportive of Roman Catholic educational tradition (need not be of Catholic faith). Will teach twelve hours (four courses) per semester: French at all levels. Elementary/Intermediate Spanish. Salary competitive. Initial screening begins February 15, 1991. Applications accepted until position filled. AA/EEOE. Contact: Dr. Ruben Candia, Chairman Languages, Modern and Classical St. Mary's University San Antonio, Texas 78228-8553 Tel: (512) 436-3738 FAX: (512) 436-3500 Inquiries: hssdean@stmarytx or hssdean@vax.stmarytx.edu From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Information Exchange Database Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 14:15:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 664 (781) This may interest participants of Humanist. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU --------------------- Forwarded Message Body ---------------------- [deleted quotation] I'm sending( and typing myself!) a press release concerning the Manuscript Society Information Exchange Database here at Arizona State University. I'd like this to receive wide distribution so if anyone has suggestions on appropriate lists, please let me know or feel free to pass it on. Also I'd be interested in any questions or comments people might have. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Department of Archives and Manuscripts at Arizona State University and the Manuscript Society announce the official opening of the Manuscript Society Information Exchange Database listing manuscripts, documents and letters held by private individuals throughout the United States. For the first time, it is possible for researchers to have access to primary source materials held by private collectors. Through an agreement between ASU Libraries and the Manuscript Society, an international association of manuscript collectors, the Department of Archives & Manuscripts will enter information about rare documents into a searchable database. For a fee, researchers can request a search for materials relating to their interests. In addition, ASU is often able to supply photoduplication of original documents. The database contains thousands of items, both national and international in scope. Many documents are authored by historical figures such as Edwin Booth, Queen Isabella I, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Brahms, Puccini, Catherine de Medicis, Aldous Huxley, Florence Nightingale, Virginia Wolf and Mark Twain. Also most U.S. presidents and their wives are represented. Searches can retrieve documents authored by an individual, written to an individual, or written about an individual. In addition, subject searches are also available. For example, the American Revolution and Civil War are heavily represented. |9th and 20th century authors, artists and musicians appear in abundance. Other subject matter includes: polar exploration; California Gold Rush; Indians of North America; slavery; Colonial History; World War II; Western Americana; and more. For additional information and search request forms, please contact: Patricia A. Etter Assistant Archivist for Information Services Archives & Manuscripts Hayden Library Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 602/965-3145 FAX: 602/965-9169 BITNET: iacpae@ASUACAD -- Edward Oetting (5-3145) From: "Hey Joe, You got Chewing Gum?" Subject: Halio pops up in Aldus Magazine Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1991 17:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 665 (782) Marcia Halio is back. To refresh those who don't give a damn: Halio was the writing instructor who wrote an article in *Academic Computing* suggesting that college students wrote better papers on MS-Dos computers and fluffier papers on Macs; she thought that the graphical nature of the Mac caused this. There was some uproar (and not just from Mac people) in the academic computer world, mostly criticizing Halio's semi-scientific presentation of data she acquired without proper scientific controls. The new article is in *Aldus Magazine*, Volume 2, Number 6, Sept/Oct 1991, page 64. It is titled "Writing Verbally, A writing teacher looks at how graphics can interfere with critical thinking." The magazine is published by Aldus, the software company that makes Pagemaker and Freehand. I think that the magazine is free for six months or so after you buy an Aldus product, the subscription rate is $18 US. The best chance of finding one to read is probably your academic computer center. The information about the author is: Marcia Peoples Halio is assistant director of the University of Delaware Writing Program in Newark, Del. She is currently at work on a textbook called *Computer Writing: Using the Power of the Computer to Express Yourself in Print*, to be published in spring 1992 by Kendall/Hunt. Here are a few sentences from the article: When we want to provoke emotions--pleasant or sad, wrenching or restful--we use pictures, not words, to reach an audience. Visuals are visceral, and words are cerebral. The written editorial makes you think; the editorial cartoon makes you feel. Writing on an IBM, Keith Handley, Amherst College Academic Computer Center kehandley@amherst, kehandley@amherst.edu P.S. The last word of the article is "softthink," no *sic*, as in "But I also remember a correspondent telling me about the horrors her students created with the Next computer, when they added sound and graphics to documents full of softthink." Has anyone heard this before, and how little do you think it adds to English? And pardon the length of the posting. From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE Subject: Migne Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 11:12:23 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 666 (783) The Migne debate so far has been very interesting, but in my view a bit hard on old JPM and his practical uses. One might note first the reversal for editions of the old tag about manuscripts: it's not recentiores non deteriores but for editions vetustiores non deteriores. In other words, there are some none-too-wonderful editions in CSEL, CC and CCCM as well. Besides which, what is available in these newer series is, except perhaps for one or two (admittedly major) authors, only a fraction of what is in Migne. All that doesn't deal with the question of accurate texts; but I think this is being overplayed. It`s true that occasionally JPM got hold of an earlier edition which was lousy, and also that sometimes his printers made things worse (though if the first edition is the basis that should not be too much of a problem). Nevertheless, what is there is by and large what should be there; my experience is that modern critical editions give you a greater feeling of security, not a different text. I may get some wrong information (either as suppressio veri or as suggestio falsi) by running a search program on a CD-ROM of Migne; but that is trivial compared with the wrong information I will inevitably get, since I do not possess a photographic memory, if I do not have access of this kind to the Migne corpus at all. As a corpus, the choice of Migne makes good sense; it is very substantial, reasonably coherent and uniform, and widely available. This last is an important point: once you've used CD-ROM to locate interesting points you can then go to the texts themselves easily and read the contexts, using Migne. If the precise wording of a passage is really critical to your argument you might then want to look it up in a reliable critical edition (if you're lucky and there is one), as you should no doubt do in any case later, when preparing for publication; if it's really of crucial importance you might decide not even to put your trust in recent editions, but to go back to the mss. instead - accuracy and reliability are always relative to what you happen to be doing. But you don't normally need to be held up by edition snobbery while doing your thinking! No one has yet asked the really critical question, which is: how accurate is the CD-ROM of Migne going to be as an electronic transcription of Migne? The risks there seem to me to be much higher than the risk that JPM doesn't give you Augustine or Jerome quite accurately; and it's perhaps here that BREPOLS/CETEDOC have the edge, since they can use their own typesetting tapes. We are after all talking about 216 volumes at an average of about 1200 columns, each containing rather more text than a page of a modern edition - say 1000 MB at the least for "pure ASCII", with only line feeds and form feeds and spaces and no other mark-up. If that is done within a reasonable time with no more errors being introduced than were introduced at the stages of (a) the pre-Migne edition and (b) the Migne reprint it will still be a remarkable and worth-while achievement - and it will make the later creation of richer and more accurate e-texts easier, just as Migne and early critical editions have made later critical editions possible. Timothy Reuter MGH Munich From: Skip Subject: Re: 5.0320 Rs: More on Migne (2/55) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 09:34:35 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 667 (784) Having Migne is a hundred times better than having nothing. As another person pointed out, there are a score of different uses to which such a collection could be put, including providing an invaluable resource for students of language. I did my master's thesis from the MGH and was delighted and overwhelmed at having such a resource. Working scholars know, or should know, the limitations of whatever critical edition they use. I'd hate to see librarians put off by overly narrow, needlessly negative comments. ELLIS 'SKIP' KNOX Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University DUSKNOX@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Address correction needed Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 19:50:44 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 668 (785) I have been trying to send a file to Jeremy.Gibbons@prg.oxford.ac.uk, but the file server rejects it as an invalid address. The address above is exactly as it came on Gibbons message. I know there is sometimes a trick to British addresses, but I can't recall it. Can anyone help? Oliver Phillips PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: Bronwen Heuer Subject: Inverted Question Mark Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 09:28:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 669 (786) Can anyone tell me the origins of the inverted question mark and exclamation point in Spanish? bronwen heuer ECC-117 phone(516)632-8054 user services/computing srv, state university of ny bronwen@sbccvm stony brook, ny 11794-2640 bronwen@ccvm.sunysb.edu From: WHEATLJS@ibm3090.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk Subject: Steve Mcdonough Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 14:34:37 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 670 (787) Does ayone know a postal or e-mal address for Steve Mcdonough - of psycholinguistics fame and recently of Essex university? Oh one more thing Is there a good group out there for discussion of small group interaction -especially in a business seting with or without a linguistic bias? Thankyou John From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 5.0321 Language W/P Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 11:57:46 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 671 (788) I realize there's a good possibility the posting asking about multilingual texts on Mac and DOS is a plant to generate some outlandish and intolerant statements. If so, I guess I've been stung. DOS solutions to multilanguage texts are almost invariably application- and hardware-specific. That is, a given application may support a specific list of alternative languages on a limited subset of hardware. - You obviously will not get Cyrillic or Arabic looking text on unmodified low-end non-graphics monitors, or on a printer with built-in extended ASCII. Since different graphics monitors and printers have entirely different interfaces for forming characters, the hardware supported by a particular multi-language application will depend on what the application developer chooses to support. - A word processor's support for additional languages obviously cannot by itself extend to other applications or utilities. So having a single application (a word processor say) support Arabic doesn't mean that you will be able to create tables in your spreadsheet, or use your desktop publishing or indexing or database software with that text. You may, as with Note Bene, find that the application has sufficient fuctionality to substitute for these other applications. You are still limited, now and in the future, to what that single developer provides or supports: both in terms of functions and languages. - A more general and flexible solution would be for applications not to be directly cognizant of languages per se, but to rely on general operating system support. Then you could choose your favorite editor, spreadsheet, database and utility programs. You could also hope that when you upgrade your printer or buy a larger monitor you don't need a new suite of software to support the different hardware. The Macintosh OS doesn't quite live up to that standard, but it comes pretty close! -- To use right to left scripts you can use Arabic or Hebrew versions of the operating system (which also supports left to right roman script). [Alternatively, there are a few commercial applications that provide a utility for swithching back and forth between Hebrew or Arabic and English within an application using the english versions of the OS; in my limited experience these have been a bit pesky, but adequate for occasional use.] --For Japanese or Chinese (with two-byte codes for each displayed character) the Japanese or Chinese versions of the OS are even more essential (they too, support roman script along with Japanese or Chinese). Several means of entering characters are provided for the Asian scripts. --The other versions of the OS are available from APDA and on many campuses. The Asian versions, because of the large number of characters, require, I believe, more than the minimum 1 MB memory. - Many (I can't say most because I haven't tried that many) commercial applications will in fact support multiple languages with only the additional font and OS support from the Mac. By the way, the OS level support also means that date formats, text string matching, and 'alphanetical order' also change when you switch between scripts. From: "Van Doren, Frederick L." Subject: 5.0321 Qs: Language W/P; al-Tawfiq; Peter Scott? (3/41) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 22:49:00 edt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 672 (789) Russian word processing is no more difficult than English. All you need is a Cyrillic font. You select it just as you do "Elite" or "Geneva". Letters are mapped to the keyboard in various configurations, depending on the author. If you get confused, use "KEYCAPS". Having used both DOS and MAC systems, believe me, the MAC is a much better choice for non-standard letter-based alphabets. I am looking for a good Hebrew font that includes the vowel points. We have a generic Hebrew font here, but I still need the points. I am sure it can be done on a MAC. There is or was a Hebrew Users Group in San Francisco run by Ari Davidow, but I can't reach him from here. From: Ingo Broer Subject: hebrew user group Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 13:15+0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 673 (790) some weeks ago there was an E-mail message about a hebrew user group. I deleted the message, but now there is an colleague who is very interested in this group. If it is possible to get the adress? thanks I.B. From: rogers@epas.utoronto.ca (Henry Rogers) Subject: Burton: multilingual wordprocessing Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 08:52:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 674 (791) Diane Burton enquired about multilingual word-processing on a Mac for English and Hebrew. Linguist's Software, P.O. Box 580, Edmonds, Wash. advertises a Hebrew System which allows bi-directional printing. They have Hebrew and Arabic fonts. I believe that Davka Corporation, 845 N. Michigan, Chicago, Ill. also has a bi-directional word processor. They have a number of Hebrew fonts. Henry Rogers Dept. of Linguistics University of Toronto rogers@epas.utoronto.ca From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL needs information on graduate programs in computational linguistics Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 11:16:26 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 327 (792) DIRECTORY OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS URGENT NEED FOR INFORMATION This fall the Association for Computational Linguistics will publish a new edition of the Directory of Graduate Programs in Computational Linguistics. We are eager to include any program awarding a graduate degree with courses or research involving computers and language. Our listing includes the name and address of the University and Departments awarding relevant graduate degrees, along with their telephone numbers. We also include a list of faculty working in this area, with their departmental affiliations, and a brief mention of their research areas. If there are formal courses involving computational linguistics we will list them too. Finally we put in a brief indication of equipment and other resources. Please request guidelines as to content and format from and send information to: Professor Martha Evens Computer Science Department Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL 60616, USA (+1-312)567-5153 csevens@iitvax.bitnet mwe@schur.math.nwu.edu From: Elaine M Brennan Subject: Humanist's Mailer Has Been Over-Eating Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 22:13:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 328 (793) I am both somewhat shame-faced, and also now, relieved, to report that a hitherto unsuspected mailer bug, for the last month quietly eating 162 names off the Humanist mailing list every time we've sent mail, has been retired. This particular bug never gave us any overt indication that anything was wrong, presumably in retaliation to me for trying to make it send mail to an improper address. My thanks go out to all the Humanist members who checked in to wonder why we'd disappeared, not least for their patience as we attempted to track this problem. For those who'd like to see what they missed, the appropriate logs to ask listserv for are: Humanist LOG9108D Humanist LOG9109A Humanist LOG9109B Humanist LOG9109C (this log currently contains only today's postings). As always, consult your guide to Humanist if you need more information on how to retrieve logs. Elaine From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: many languages; hostile PCs Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 18:37:33 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 329 (794) In answer to a recent query about multilingual texts, let me just state up front that I don't know of any platform, other than a proprietary one by Xerox, that fully integrates languages as diverse as, say, Hebrew or Arabic, Chinese, English, etc. The Mac has a tool called a Script Manager, which functions as an internationalized tool for script display. Trouble is that there just isn't any high-power academic software for the Mac of the NotaBene sort. Regarding MS-DOS software, I don't think I can say it any better than Henry Rogers did: DOS solutions to multilanguage texts are almost invariably application- and hardware-specific. That is, a given application may support a specific list of alternative languages on a limited subset of hardware. This means that if you can get multilingual software for the PC, the files produced won't be compatible with anything else, and the program itself will be heavily dependent on the hardware you have installed. PC programmers have a multitude of display standards, and you have to write separate code modules for each of the possible standards. It's a mess, especially when it comes to drawing anything but ROM-encoded ASCII codes. And of course there are memory restrictions. Unless the program knows about various memory-extending protocols (all kludges), you are hemmed into 640k. What you need is an OS that supports an object-oriented display interface that knows that languages kern, wrap, and overstrike in markedly different ways. You also need an OS that was developed in an environment where 256k wasn't felt to be a helluva lot of memory, and where the display was set up with an eye towards unitary standards across a large range of hardware. Sorry, but nothing of this sort exists. The NeXT is moving in this direction. But so far they have not announced any explicit plans. The Mac does some of what we need, but I couldn't recommend doing business with Apple. You'll have to live either with a dedicated multilingual word-processor (like Multilingual Scholar for the PC), or with font-manipulation using a general utility like Word for the Mac, or worse yet WordPerfect for the PC (I've heard of add-ons that help WordPerfect understand that we don't all write in one language at a time, but have not tried any out). NotaBene tries hard, but how much can you really do on a PC-type machine (with a segmented architecture, and absurd memory limitations)? -Richard From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: Re: Mac text analysis software Date: Thu, 19 Sep 91 10:49:37 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 675 (795) In a recent posting, Willard McCarty asked for information on textual analysis software for the Macintosh. Here is some information on a commercial program called AnyText published by Linguist's Software of Edmonds, WA. (Disclaimer: The following is for your information only; it is not an endorsement or recommendation. I have no connection to Linguist's Software or to this program, though Linguist's Software does market one SIL program [which is how I happened to find out about AnyText].) Evan Antworth evan@sil.org _______________________________________________________ The following is taken directly from promotional material provided by Linguist's Software. AnyText is a full proximity Boolean search engine and index generator. It is a Hypercard-based program that allows you to create concordances and do fast word searches on ordinary text files in English, Greek, Russian, Hebrew, Aramaic, and several other Semitic and Cyrillic languages. AnyText provides: Two indexed word lists for fast proximity word searches. Boolean AND and OR functions for operations between the two indexed word lists. Wild card string searches. Book, chapter, and verse references available for properly-formatted text files. Two files of different languages can be open for searching. Concordances with the key words in context aligned in the center of the screen. Full context easily retrieved for any concordance entry. Creates text files containing complete concordances and word lists or the partial word list and concordances resulting from proximity searches. Includes AnyText, AnyText on-line Help, Hypercard 2.0v2, screen fonts for Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and phonetics, and User's Manual. Price: $99.95 Order from: Linguist's Software P.O. Box 580 Edmonds, WA 98020 U.S.A. phone (206) 775-1130 fax (206) 771-5911 From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Guide to Software for Historians Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 15:07:48 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 676 (796) The CTI Centre for History announces the publication of A GUIDE TO SOFTWARE FOR HISTORIANS Compiled by Donald Spaeth *A Guide to Software for Historians* lists information on over 300 software programs which historians (and to a lesser extent archaeologists and art historians) can use in their teaching and research. The Guide was written for lecturers with little computing experience, although others will also find it useful. Chapters are included on computer-based learning packages, databases, numerical analysis, text handling and data. Each chapter begins with an introduction which explains how the software might be used and what features should be considered when choosing a product. There is a select bibliography suggesting other sources of information on computer-based history teaching. The software listings provide brief descriptions of package features, as well as technical requirements and UK contact addresses and prices. The Guide was prepared and is published by the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History, one of twenty national advice centres established by the UK's Computer Board to give advice to lecturers on how to use computers in their teaching. The Centre seeks to encourage the use of computers in the teaching of history and to promote links between research and teaching by serving as a clearinghouse for information about software and teaching methods. It serves UK lecturers in history, economic and social history, archaeology, art history, church history and ancient history. Publication details: -------------------- A Guide to Software for Historians. Compiled by Donald Spaeth. Glasgow. Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History. 1991. ISBN 0 9517514 0 9 (paperback) Cost: L8.00 UK, L10 overseas, including postage and packing. Order from: CTICH University of Glasgow 1 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom Submitted to Humanist by: Donald Spaeth Centre Manager CTI Centre for History ctich at glasgow.ac.uk From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: Interlinear Text Processor on SIMTEL Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 12:30:26 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 677 (797) I have uploaded the following file to the LINGUISTICS directory on SIMTEL20: pd1: IT11C.ZIP Interlinear Text Processor, version 1.1c IT ('eye-tee') is a software package for producing annotated interlinear texts. It performs two main tasks: (1) it maintains the vertical alignment of the interlinear annotations, and (2) it stores all word and morpheme annotations in a lexical database thus enabling semi-automatic glossing. IT supports up to 14 levels of aligning text annotations and up to 8 different freeform (nonaligning) annotations. The interlinear text file produced by IT is a plain ASCII text file that is accessible to other text-processing software. This version of IT is offered as 'freeware'. How to get IT ------------- The file IT11C.ZIP is available via anonymous FTP from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [192.88.110.20]. It is also available from various mirror sites such as wuarchive.wustl.edu. SIMTEL20 can also be accessed using LISTSERV commands from BITNET via LISTSERV@NDSUVM1, LISTSERV@RPIECS and in Europe from EARN TRICKLE servers (for example, FRMOP11 in France). If you do not have FTP access to SIMTEL20, files may be ordered by e-mail from LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU. If you are on BITNET: LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 LISTSERV@RPIECS If your mailer knows domains: listserv@vm1.nodak.edu listserv@vm.ecs.rpi.edu Send this command as the only line of the message body: /PDGET MAIL PD1:IT11C.ZIP UUENCODE If you have xxdecode, you may wish to specify XXENCODE instead of UUENCODE to avoid character translation problems. Evan Antworth | Internet: evan@sil.org Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387 Dallas, TX 75236 | U.S.A. | From: Subject: Milton List Date: Tue, 17 Sep 91 18:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 678 (798) Could someone please post the address of the Milton List or provide information about where this and other list addresses may be obtained? Thanks, Bill Watts Butler University From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: DOS CD-ROM access from NeXT? Date: Tuesday, 17 September 1991 2315-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 679 (799) The possibility of obtaining a NeXT workstation has arisen, but for it to be suitable for my purposes I must be able to access CD-ROMs that carry their own DOS-specific software as well as CD-ROMs (such as TLG) that are software independent. I am told that DOS software can be run under programs such as SoftPC, and that if necessary, a separate CD-ROM reader could be connected to the SCSI port on the NeXT. Will a combination of these approaches solve my problem? Has anyone out there actually used DOS-specific CD-ROMs on a NeXT? (Can the same thing be done for Mac oriented CD-ROMs??) Thanks! Bob Kraft (kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu) From: Hedy McGarrell Subject: Origin of surname Date: 18 Sep 91 15:03 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 680 (800) This message is from a colleague who is not on HUMANIST: I am looking for the origin of the surname ISSALY, a surname from the South-Western part of France. Suggestions have been made that it stems (via Moorish settlers in Spain?) from the North African name ASSALY. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. Please send suggestions to HUMANIST or Subject: lab design Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 16:18:45 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 681 (801) I remember that in the distant past there has been some discussion on lab design for computer-based taeching and learning. I would appreciate any information on recent literature on this subject or individual contributions on the matter. We have teaching labs that have sprung up without any clear thought given to the problems partly because space is so scarce. I would like to address the problem before we proceed any further. Keith W. Whitelam Dept. of Religious Studies University of Stirling Stirling Scotland kww1@uk.ac.stirling.forth From: BURTON@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Burton, Diane,VCA) Subject: WordCruncher? Date: 19 Sep 91 18:00 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 682 (802) Does anyone know what happened to the the company that makes WordCruncher? The information that I have: Electronic Text Corporation 241 West 1700 South Salt Lake City, UT 84115 (801) 328-3341 is apparantly incorrect. The phone has been disconnected and directory assistance has never heard of them. How can I (legally) get a copy of WordCruncher? I tried MicroWarehouse as well as some local computer stores but had no luck. Any ideas? Thank you, Diane Burton From: ny@iris.brown.edu (Nicole Yankelovich) Subject: Hypertext '91 Advanced Program Date: Thu, 19 Sep 91 15:38:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 332 (803) ************************************************************* ** ** ** H Y P E R T E X T '9 1 ** ** ** ** 15 - 18 December 1991 ** ** ** ** San Antonio, Texas ** ** ** ** A D V A N C E P R O G R A M ** ** ** ************************************************************* BIENVENIDOS A SAN ANTONIO Y HYPERTEXT '91! Welcome to San Antonio and the third ACM conference on Hypertext! The conference and program committees have been hard at work over the last year and a half to bring you this outstanding conference. The technical program has been expanded to allow more participation and interaction by all attendees and La Fiesta de las Luminarias (Festival of Lights) provides a magical atmosphere along the Paseo del Rio (River walk) in San Antonio. We have arranged the conference schedule to allow ample time for attendees to enjoy this historic city on the banks of the San Antonio River. Hypertext '91 provides a blend of traditional and innovative programs. Papers and Panels will explore recent advances in hypertext technologies. Courses allow leading practitioners to share their knowledge with the hypertext community. Posters provide attendees an opportunity to talk one-on-one with researchers about recent results and on-going work, and Demonstrations are a forum for first-hand experience with new systems. The Hypertext '91 Video program will be a compilation of refereed videos which will be shown continuously throughout the conference. For 1991, this traditional core is augmented by Technical Briefings which will provide in-depth presentations on interesting hypertext systems. In addition to this outstanding technical program, the Hypertext '91 conference will provide several social events and a unique opportunity to experience beautiful San Antonio in its holiday splendor. Bienvenidos a San Antonio! Bienvenidos a Hypertext '91! John J. Leggett Conference Chair WHO SHOULD ATTEND Hypertext '91 is an international research conference on hypertext. The ACM Hypertext Conference occurs in the United States every second year in alternation with ECHT, the European Conference on Hypertext. Hypertext systems provide computer support for locating, gathering, annotating and organizing information. Hypertext systems are being designed for information collections of diverse material in heterogeneous media, hence the alternate name, hypermedia. Hypertext is by nature multi-disciplinary, involving researchers in many fields, including computer science, cognitive science, rhetoric and education, as well as many application domains. This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals in these fields ranging from theoreticians through behavioral researchers to systems researchers and applications developers. The conference will offer technical events in a variety of formats as well as guest speakers and opportunities for informal special interest groups. HYPERTEXT '91 OVERVIEW Courses: Hypertext '91 courses are intended to enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of their attendees. This year, the conference offers a selection of intensive half-day and full-day courses taught by a range of hypertext experts. To help attendees select instruction that matches their level of interest and expertise, courses are categorized in three levels: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced. Papers: The Hypertext Conference is the preeminent international forum for scholarly papers on hypertext, hypermedia, and related technologies. Papers for Hypertext '91 were selected from 117 submissions and represent an intriguing array of reports on recent theoretical, empirical, and system developments in the field. Papers are presented concurrently with Panel sessions and Technical Briefings. Panels: Panels provide an interactive forum for involving both panelists and audience in lively discussions of issues in the subject area of the panel. Panels for Hypertext '91 will not take the traditional symposium form in which the speakers present a short talk on their own research. Rather, Hypertext '91 panels will address fundamental issues, methods, questions, and approaches in all areas of hypertext research and products in a round-table discussion format. Technical Briefings: With Technical Briefings, Hypertext '91 introduces a new forum for presenting details about a concrete design rather than empirical or theoretical results. A Briefing consists of a 30-minute, in-depth presentation of the interesting contributions made by the system, accompanied by live interaction with the system. Technical Briefings will allow designers to communicate valuable insights and experience to other implementors and designers. Posters: Hypertext '91 Poster presentations will enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated in conversation. Poster sessions allow conference attendees to exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the same topic. Demonstrations: The Demonstrations program at Hypertext '91 will provide attendees an opportunity for first-hand and hands-on experience with hypertext systems and databases. Here, conference attendees can interact directly with the developers of systems that embody unique or interesting ideas. Videos: The Hypertext '91 Video program will be a compilation of refereed videos which will be shown continuously throughout the conference. Videos will present demonstrations that would be difficult to show live, illustrate concepts that are hard to describe verbally, or present prototypes or work in progress. In addition to refereed submissions, the Video program will include a compendium of classic hypertext system demonstrations. Plenary Sessions: Hypertext '91 will feature two plenary sessions. The Opening Plenary Sunday evening will feature a keynote address by Patricia Wright. Hypertext '91 will conclude with a Closing Plenary featuring a keynote address by Frank Halasz. Social Events: To assure ample opportunity for informal interchange with your hypertext friends and colleagues, Hypertext '91 offers a schedule of evening relaxation and entertainment along with the extra ingredients that only San Antonio can provide. To begin, a Mexican Fiesta Dinner (complete with strolling mariachis!) will precede Sunday night's Opening Plenary. In addition, evening receptions are scheduled Monday and Tuesday and informal (on your own) "afterglows" occur each night of the conference. Lunches and other dinners throughout Hypertext '91 will provide attendees an opportunity to experience San Antonio's fine restaurants and shops along El Paseo del Rio. materials deleted ... eds. GENERAL INFORMATION Dates to Remember: Early registration discount deadline: Postmarked by 1 November Advance registraton deadline: Received by 6 December Refund deadline: Postmarked by 6 December (Cancellation fee: $50.00) Discounts: MEMBERS: To qualify for member discounts, you must be a current ACM, SIGIR, SIGOIS, SIGCHI, or SIGLINK member. Your membership number must appear on the registration form. STUDENTS: To qualify for student discounts, you must attach either a copy of your current ACM student membership card or a copy of your student identification card to the registration form. On-Site Registration: On-site registration for Hypertext '91 will take place at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel during the following times: Saturday, 14 December 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm Sunday, 15 December 7:30 am - 11:00 pm Monday, 16 December 7:30 am - 11:00 pm Tuesday, 17 December 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Wednesday, 18 December 7:30 am - 1:00 pm Travel Arrangements: The Travel Company in College Station, Texas, USA, is the travel coordinator for Hypertext '91. The Travel Co. has negotiated special discounted round-trip airfares with Continental Airlines, the official carrier for Hypertext '91. In order to guarantee air arrangements at negotiated rates, contact The Travel Co.'s Hypertext '91 Reservation Department or Continental Airlines' toll-free number directly: The Travel Company: 800-733-4484 or 409-696-9774 Continental Airlines: 800-468-7022 (Refer to: EZ12P58) Local Transportation: Transportation is available to downtown San Antonio from San Antonio International Airport via taxi, rental car, or Super Van Shuttle. Cab fare plus tip averages about $12. Super Van Shuttles depart frequently and cost $6. All conference activities will take place in the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel. Most sights of interest in the downtown area are near the conference hotel. An inexpensive shuttle bus service operates in downtown San Antonio. Shipping Desk: A shipping desk will be located in the registration area of the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel and will be open throughout the conference. This desk will provide next-day air and second-day air service to the United States, Canada, and overseas as well as regular ground service. Additional Course Notes: Additional course notes for all Hypertext '91 courses may be ordered in advance by providing the appropriate information on the Advance Registration Form. Course notes may also be ordered at the conference. Course notes will not be available for purchase after the conference. Additional Proceedings: Additional Hypertext '91 Proceedings may be ordered in advance by providing the appropriate information on the Advance Registration Form. Proceedings may also be purchased during the conference. Proceedings may be purchased directly from ACM after the conference for an additional fee. San Antonio Climate: San Antonio enjoys fair weather and sunshine throughout the year. In December, the average high temperature during the day is around 65 F (18 C) with nighttime lows around 42 F (6 C). While anything is possible in Texas in December, we anticipate spectacularly beautiful weather during Hypertext '91! Special Needs: We will attempt to accommodate attendees who have special needs whenever possible. Please contact the Hypertext '91 Conference Management office in the Marriott Rivercenter for further information. Hypertext '93: We invite proposals for Hypertext '93 host sites. Proposals will be presented at Hypertext '91. Deadline for submission is 15 November. For information on submission guidelines, contact: John J. Leggett Hypertext '91 Conference Hypertext Research Lab Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 voice: 409 845-0298 fax: 409 847-8578 email: leggett@bush.tamu.edu ADVANCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration Form: Complete the enclosed registration form to register in advance for Hypertext '91. Complete all sections of the form including personal data, membership status, courses, additional proceedings purchases, and payment. Courses: You can register for no more than one full-day or two half-day courses. Seating is limited in all courses, so early registration is encouraged. Please indicate your first two choices in order of preference. Technical Program: You may attend paper, panel, technical briefing, demonstration, poster, and video sessions for the registration fee. Social Events: Registered attendees may attend Sunday's opening Mexican Fiesta Dinner and the evening receptions on Monday and Tuesday. Additional Mexican Fiesta Banquent tickets may be purchased for non-registered guests. Payment: A check or money order in U.S. funds, made payable to Hypertext '91, or credit card information, must be included with the advance registration form. Space will not be held without full payment. 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SPONSORING SIGS SIGIR, SIGOIS, SIGCHI, SIGLINK CORPORATE AND UNIVERSITY SPONSORS Hypermedia eXchange Corporation Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University International Business Machines COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS Hypertext '91 also recognizes the support of the following organizations: Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (GMD-IPSI), SIG "Hypertext Systems" of the German Society for Computer Science (GI), and Innstitut National de Recherhe en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). INFORMATION For additional information, send email to: ht91@bush.tamu.edu or contact: John J. Leggett, General Chair Hypertext '91 Conference Hypertext Research Lab Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 USA voice: 409 845-0298 fax: 409 847-8578 email: leggett@bush.tamu.edu -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, in three files, hyptxt91 announce, hyptxt91 schedule, and hyptxt91 regstrtn. You may obtain copies by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: albloch@concour.cs.concordia.ca Subject: conference query Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 01:48:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 683 (804) Where, in all this embarrassment of riches which is choking my overwrought mail server, did I notice in passing within the past few months the mention of a promising conference in Washington, D. C., scheduled for Monday, the 14th of October (Columbus Day, or Thanksgiving this far north)? It runs in my mind that it was concerning Bible text analysis, Hypertext, or some equally fascinating topic; now that I've found out that I'll be in town that day, I cannot locate the details. (I really must develop the habit of taking thorough notes on all the abundant input the first time around, before squirreling the goodies away; the opportunity to peruse them at leisure seems never to arrive. May others profit from my consternation!) Alan N. Bloch, MPH, MS -- -- albloch@cenparmi.concordia.ca albloch@concour.cs.concordia.ca Center for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Department of Computer Science, Concordia University; Montreal, Quebec From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: Iliad as etext: free in USA? Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 17:32:43 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 684 (805) Somebody asked me today whether they could access a etext copy of Homer's ILIAD over the Internet. I searched around a bit and found that the Oxford Archive has a 'free' copy of the Iliad (code: U-263-B, sounds almost radioactive!) but that they charge 15 pounds, ie. $30 for it. (Shipped on diskette) I can't imagine that this text is not available somewhere in the USA for a cheaper sum (or for free). Unfortunately, I can't access the ftp archive at world.std.com to search their listing. If any reader knows of such a copy, would they please get back in touch with me? many thanks in advance, Arno Bosse Reed College abosse@reed.edu From: "Richard C. Taylor" <6297TAYLORR@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Electronic texts and access Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1991 14:04 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 685 (806) In the areas of philosophy, theology, et alia here at Marquette we are moving toward establishing some sort of facility for text storage and retrieval on a modest to large scale over the coming years. We just ordered a copy of the CETEDOC Electronic Data Library which is the Louvain-la-neuve and Brepols index of the whole CORPUS PATURM LATINORUM (CCSL and CONTINUATION MEDIAEVALIS). The first copy goes into the Library but we might be interested one day in somehow making it available via the mainframe system here. (The license, though, is for a single user at a time.) And we are pursuing the possibility of purchasing the Chadwick-Healey electonic PL. The price is ca. $65,000-75,000 for CDROM or tape and presently out of our reach. (The license in this case is for an entire campus regardless of number of users. We are pursuing the possibility of sharing this with another institution via the INTERNET but don't know whether the vender will go for this.) This electonic PL we would prefer to have on the mainframe so that any PC with a modem could become a workstation of sorts. My question is whether anyone out there has any experience in setting up these sorts of things and whether s/he or anyone else has any sage suggestions or thoughts on juke-boxes, tapes, etc. and what is the best way to go. Comments and thoughts on any or all of this are most welcome. We are trying to take a good look before we leap, lest we commit ourselves to a future we will later regret. Thanks. Dick Taylor Philosophy Dept. Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 53233 INTERNET:"6297taylorr@vms.csd.mu.edu" From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: 5.0329 Multilingual Text Processing Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 19:19 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 686 (807) Regarding multi-lingual wordprocessing, I'm not so glum as a recent posting from "Richard". Let's move from the global to the specif. What do you want? English & european languages, plus Greek & Hebrew for example? Well, to cite only one package for DOS machines (I use a Toshiba T1600), Wordperfect 5.1 obviously gives English, plus in its extended character sets virtually all characters for other european languages which can be installed in optional keyboards you can create, fairly simply. Once created, you can then have all the special charac ters accessible with a simple keystroke while composing in English-- e.g., alt-a could produce an a with umlaut, etc. The characters largely display on screen, and are certainly viewable in the print preview mode. For Greek & Hebrew with WP I recommend the new ScriptureFonts program available from Zondervan Electronic Publishing: costs $79.95, installs in your WP directory, and allows you to toggle back & forth twixt English, Greek, Hebrew with a single keystroke. Now Chinese, well I have no such experience--or no such need. So, in the words of those great philosophers of our time (the Rolling Stones), "You can't always get what you want--but if you try try try, you just might get what you need." P.S. Other options include Multi-Lingual Scholar which promises virtually the world (though I haven't tried it), and Chi-Writer (Horstmann Software), which likewise can do European languages, Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Arabic as standard options, and they promise further developments. Larry Hurtado, Univ. of Manitoba. From: K.P.Donnelly@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Design of computer labs Date: 20 Sep 91 13:21:56 bst X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 687 (808) Re the query on the design of computer labs for teaching. I attended a Macintosh course last year, run by a school teacher in conjunction with Edinburgh University Extra-mural Department. I was very impressed by how well the layout of the computer lab in the school worked. There were tables running continuously round three walls of the room with 12 Macintosh computers and a swivel chair in front of each one. The teacher alternated periods of "lecturing" with periods of regimented exercises on the computers and periods of free experimentation. During the lecturing periods the students faced the centre of the room. During the periods of regimented excercises, the students faced towards their machines, away from the centre and went through task sheets as instructed by the teacher. The teacher stood in the centre like a ringmaster and could see instantly from the screens when one of the students was having difficulties and needed a few words of advice to bring them into step with the rest of the class. It all worked very well. I don't know whether it would work so well teaching software which was not so graphics based. Kevin Donnelly From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: 5.331 Wordcruncher Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 10:44:10 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 688 (809) The latest details I have on Wordcruncher are: ETC, 778 South, 400 East, Oram, Utah 84058, (801) 226-0616. However, I have also heard a rumour that they have stopped trading. Unless you are committed to Wordcruncher, you might try TACT, which performs many of the same functions (plus a few more) and reads Wordcruncher files; it's also essentially free, at $30 Canadian for a multiple-use copy. Details from Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto. I don't have the mail address ready to hand, but I'm sure one of Humanists other many readers will supply it post-haste! Donald Spaeth Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History University of Glasgow gkha13 at cms.glasgow.ac.uk From: "J.J.Higgins - Education" Subject: Re: 5.0331 Qs: WordCruncher Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 14:15:23 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 689 (810) I have the following address for the publishers of WordCruncher, at which I corresponded with them until mid 1990. As far as I know they are still in business: Electronic Text Corporation 778 South 400 East, Orem, UT 84058 From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" Subject: RE: 5.0331 Qs: S/W Date: Fri, 20 Sep 91 11:43 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 690 (811) I think the parent company of WordCruncher is in Provo, Utah. Hoke Robinson From: Sigrid Peterson Subject: Re: Electronic Hebrew Users Group (E-HUG)/Ari Davidow Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1991 20:46 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 691 (812) The Electronic Hebrew Users Group is now on LISTSERV at Dartmouth. To subscribe, send the one-line message SUB E-HUG to LISTSERV@DARTCMS1.BITNET, unless your system is BITNET only, in which case that word can be eliminated. In contrast, Ari Davidow, the editor of E-HUG, is ari@well.sf.ca.us Sigrid Peterson Sigpeter@cc.utah.edu From: Subject: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Thu, 19 Sep 91 21:43 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 692 (813) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant Professor of Speech Communication St. Mary's University School of Humanities & Social Sciences San Antonio, Texas The Communication Arts program seeks Assistant Professor of Speech Communication for tenure track position. Forensics interest and experience a plus. Research potential. Candidate should be supportive of Roman Catholic educational traditions (need not be of Catholic faith). To teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including areas of interest. Summer employment possible. Salary competitive. St. Mary's University is largely Catholic (80%), Hispanic (65%); three undergraduate schools, law school, graduate school. 4,000 students, including 1,300 residents. Staffed by lay men and women of all faiths and religious of Society of Mary (Marianists) and other orders. AA/EOE. Review begins January 25, 1992, until position is filled. Send vita, graduate transcripts, letters of recommendation, CASSETTE TAPE OF CLASS LECTURE/DISCUSSION, and supporting evidence of teaching excellence and scholarly performance or potential to: Dr. Alan Cirlin, Search Committee, Department of English and Communication Studies, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas 78228. Inquiries: HSSdean@stmarytx or HSSdean@vax.stmarytx.edu. FAX: (512) 436-3500. From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Riding the Growth Curve Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 09:30:32 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 336 (814) As most of you are aware, Project Gutenberg has been doubling its output every year for twenty years since we first produced a small file with an electronic copy of the Declaration of Independence back in 1971. This year we are releasing much larger files each month, planning on two files a month in 1992, four a month in 1993, etc, until we have produced and released 10,000 titles in our target year of 2001. So far hardware, software and volunteers have all kept pace with our plans, and we are on the right place in our growth curve as planned for the thirty year space between 1971 and 2001. So far our plans for hardware advances meshing with our needs have been right on target. What we didn't plan for was the need for so much administrivia, accounting, legal, etc. Anyone you could send our way in any of these areas would be greatly appreciated. Those of you who have watched the development of Project Gutenberg over the years have been aware that it has basically been paid for out of pocket and operated in a very unofficial manner, without an official relationship with the University of Illinois, or even one with Illinois Benedictine College until a little over a year ago. This year we have already distribed more etexts, and to more users than in our entire previous history. Thus you may also be aware I am not going to be able to continue to keep things running in this manner for much longer. Many of our categories are running as smoothly as possible, a true reflection of the support and planning which has gone into Project Gutenberg over the two previous decades. Etexts are coming in and the present time is undoubtedly the last in which I could ever say I have been directly involved in the creation of half the etext we have posted. From now on, until we can find someone else who will shoulder admistrative responsbilities, I will be more adminstrator than etext producer, a situation I would love to see remedied. In the current batch of etexts we are sending out this year, I have a direct role in only half of them, though of course I have to edit, proofread and send each etext to other editors and proofreaders. I enjoy the creation and distribution of etext much more than this admistrative position, in which I fear sinking without much trace, into the quagmire of legalese and accounting. If anyone adopted a portion of all of Project Gutenberg into an organization that is a present doer of all the legal and accounting stuff, then perhaps I could return to concentrating on the creation and the distribution of etext, as oppposed to. . . . Surely there must be a library, college or corporation out there-- one who could put us under their wing, protect us from the heebie- jeebies, and just let us continue distributing what we hope should be a total of ten thousand titles to one hundred million users for a total of one trillion dollars' worth if we value each at $1. All suggestions are welcome. As some of you are aware the project is taking all my time and energy these days, and I am invited to a conference to speak about Project Gutenberg about every six weeks, which has been fun and worthwhile, and perhaps helped me keep this small grasp on sanity, but nevertheless is a little exhausting and of course the email and work piles up when I am gone. I hope you realize the doubling the output of Project Gutenberg is a growth curve no individual could ride for more than just another year or so, without massive support to stay in the saddle; that is really all I have to do, as support in the creation of etexts, our hardware and software, and all other areas, is doing quite well. For those of you who for whom I have not yet made this clear, both my apologies for not doing so, and also not to worry, as it should become clear in the next few months before our 21st anniversary on March 21, 1992. ----------------------------------------------------- | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois. From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Re: 5.0334 Rs: Multilingual Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 18:35:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 337 (815) Larry Hurtado makes some statements about multilingual computing with which I strongly disagree (here I pretend that such issues are of earth-shaking proportions :-)). Regarding multi-lingual wordprocessing, I'm not so glum as a recent posting from "Richard". Let's move from the global to the specif. What do you want? English & european languages, plus Greek & Hebrew for example? Well, to cite only one package for DOS machines (I use a Toshiba T1600), Word Perfect 5.1 obviously gives English, plus in its extended character sets virtually all characters for other european languages which can be installed in optional keyboards you can create, fairly simply. Why do I disagree with these assertions (and the others he makes)? Basically because it reduces the problem of the multilingual display to the problem of fonts. My quarrel with the PC is over its entire approach to text display. It's a crusty old remnant of bygone days, and really doesn't belong in a modern system. While I can't dis- agree with LH over the fact that it can be made to work, I think it would be wise to think of the PC (and DOS in general) as a dead end road which that still has a few blocks left, but which ultimatly will not get you anywhere you want to be. First of all, the PC system is ROM based. That is, characters are essentially hard-coded into the video card, and you don't get any control over their pitch, font, or anything else. You can obtain an EGA or VGA (or even a Herc Plus), and this will let you load in some fonts. Still, you're stuck with whatever you've loaded in - the pitch, font, etc. And the kerning relationships can't be altered (or even specified in the first place). What's worse, you can't even display diacritics or do overstrikes. This is a positively antiquated way of doing things. A user should be able to utilize any font of any size he or she wants, and use it any time it seems useful to do so. The Mac allows you to do this. NeXT, too. Any real interface for the 90s ought to. Windows will help with some of these problems. It's not a good, basic solution to the problem, though. A Mac is a good, basic solution to the problem :-). Fonts, kerning relationships, overstrike, and what not aren't the only issue, though. There is also the problem of wordwrap, ligatures, and other problems inherent in the display of things like Chinese, Arabic, etc. Do you really want to have to enter your Hebrew or Arabic in "backwards"? And remember, if I get to the end of a line in English, and then want to write in a right-left script, the words will do a most peculiar thing. Essentially, word1 of the sequence will end up on the right top, while the last word will end up on the left: 1drow 3drow 2drow. People operating in these languages, as well as English, will have a major headache if they don't have a machine with a good interface. The reason is that every time they rewrite a paragraph, the software (unless it's been heavily, heavily reworked) will wrap the wrong way. I.e. above we'd get 1drow 3drow 2drow, instead of the correct sequence: 3drow 2drow 1drow. Can you imagine doing multilingual work with these kinds of headaches? One good thing about the NeXT is that its object-oriented design lets you create text objects which know about all the niceties of multi- lingual display. This is, in fact, what they are working for at NeXT, and the architecture of their platform will make success easier there than for other platforms. Its object-oriented organization will also make their solution more portable, and more easily integratable into a broad range of applications. Even if we get DOS software that knows about all the different scripts, and can handle all the necessary fonts, ligatures, alternate character forms, and overstrikes, then we still run into the biggest problem of them all: Portability. If you have an interface that does indeed know how to handle various languages, knows how they wrap, etc., then a great burden suddenly shifts off of the application program itself, and onto the system software that underlies the applications. What this means is that you could share files much more easily, and shift and move text around from package to package, without having to worry so much about whether each one will understand the format and be able to display/manipulate it. On a system which lacks such an internationalized script display interface, every program would be an island unto itself. A kludge. I hope I'm making myself clear to people who are designing the systems of today and tomorrow. The problem isn't just one of "fonts." That's the typical American engineer's viewpoint on a problem that actually possesses a far wider scope. A modern operating system simply cannot freeze a limited number of characters into very limited video ROM/RAM. It should allow us to specify our own fonts (as many as core memory and disk can hold), and let us scale and kern them as we please. It should also know about wordwrap, ligatures, and have the capacity to overstrike. And it should do this on a level which takes most of the burdens off of the applications programs (for portability's sake). Surely, you can get by with an operating system that doesn't do these things. My point is that you shouldn't have to. The Mac already has many of these features, and so does the NeXT. Most of the X-based display tools have made a start. The PC is really more in a class with the old, klunky toy computers of the late 70s and early 80s. It's an operating system that's gone on well beyond its time, and humanists who make pretenses of multilingual work really shouldn't pour too much of their precious (and usually skimpy) resources into it. Like a notice in the CS department at the U of Chicago says - MS-DOS: Just say "no." Incidentally, I am not sending everyone off to Apple (as if people are hanging on my every word, anyway :-)). Apple is a nasty, litigious firm. And as the CS students here say, the Mac is "user friendly; programmer hostile." There will never be as much cheap, good software for the Mac as there is for those blasted old PCs. The NeXT is a nice machine. It's great for development. DOS emulators are available for it, and also (I understand) Mac emulators. You can get WordPerfect for it, and also Lotus Improv (or whatever it's called). Still, it's relatively new, and I can't legitimately recommend diving into one without checking it out to be *absolutely sure* it has what you want. There are also many questions about how NeXT is about the mechanics of delivery and service. This I don't know about firsthand. There are no easy answers right now. But if anyone is considering a major investment at this point, I'd definitely say "wait." Wait for the NeXT. See if a Mac will suit your needs (and isn't too expensive; they have a terrible price/performance ratio, unless you can get substantial academic discounts, and even then...). The PC should be last on the list, unless you like driving antiques :-). -Richard From: Randall Jones Subject: WordCruncher Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 10:42:33 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 338 (816) The subject of WordCruncher has been discussed several times on HUMANIST during the past week. Please allow me to give the definitive information from the source. I am no longer part of the company that originally marketed WordCruncher and accompanying texts, but I am in direct contact with the software authors and the current distributor. Electronic Text Corporation exists in name only. They have no real structure, no mailing address, no phone or FAX number, and no way to market products. HOWEVER, an non-exclusive marketing license has been granted to: Johnston & Company P.O. Box 446 American Fork, Utah 84003-0446 801-756-1111 (voice) 801-756-0242 (FAX) They are selling WordCruncher 4.4 for $299 or $249 for educational discount. They also have the Library of American texts, the Riverside Shakespeare texts, and the King James Bible and Constitution Papers. A call or FAX to the above numbers can provide you with a brochure and any additional information you may wish. Randall Jones College of Humanities Brigham Young University R.L. Jones From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk Subject: Re: [5.0337 Multilingual WP, OSs, characters, fonts (1/121)] Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 12:40:00 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 693 (817) Richard Goerwitz doth protest too much, methinks, in the DOS versus Apple debate (I know NeXT to nothing about the other machine). The Apple approach, which is essentially WYSIWYG, is certainly not the last word. It isn't quite true to say that "A user should be able to utilize any font of any size he or she wants, and use it any time it seems useful to do so. The Mac allows you to do this. ... A Mac is a good, basic solution to the problem :-)." The problem is that the Mac does *not* allow you the sort of control that I for one want; its text processors have a nasty habit of accommodating extra- large characters by suddenly increasing linedepth, for instance and leaving a very unsightly page. And the only text processors I have tried whihc include right-to-left fonts, while you can *enter* the text fine, are a pig when it comes to extensive *editing*. There is an alternative to the What-you-see-is-all-you-can-get(-if-you're- lucky) approach. It's called TeX. Its increased sophistication may be seen by the fact that it is now marketed *for the Mac*. It certainly has Hebrew, Arabic and Nagari fonts, I cannot speak for Chinese. And there's a l-to-r and r-to-l form called XeT-Tex (I think). I don't wish to spark off an extensive debate (again! :-( ) on the rival merits of CLI verus GUI approaches to computing; but we certainly cannot just write the one off. Ultimately, until the perfect system arrives, I think that Larry is right. You decide just how much you want, and find an adequate compromise. For me, CLI text processors are a better compromise than GUIs. Regards, Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge. From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: 5.0337 Multilingual WP, OSs, characters, fonts (1/121) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 16:59 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 694 (818) In response to Richard Goerwitz's recent posting about multi-lingual wordprocessing & MSDOS, etc., in which he states that he "strongly disagrees" with my earlier remarks about what is possible with current MSDOS machines and appropriate software, I beg the list's indulgence to make a last (for me, I hope) comment or two. First, no question--Richard knows a lot about hardware that I don't understand. I'm not in any way able to comment on MAC's Next's or how any of the damn things work. Second, I don't know about the problems connected with Chinese or Arabic display (don't use the languages). But, third, I do know what I can do with my machine, using my software, and Richard doesn't seem to be fully familiar with these matters. He says he "disagrees" with me, but I can't find his disagreement. He prefers better machinery than we presently have, and I support such preferences, hopes, aspirations--whatever. But nothing he said refutes what I said--which is simply that (a) you CAN get fully functional multi-lingual wordprocessing on various present day machines (such as my MSSDOS Toshiba) using readily available, easy to use software. On the latter especially, let me note that with the ScriptureFonts add-on to Wordperfect 5.0 or 5.1 you CAN get Greek and Hebrew (in scalable fonts) with Hebrew insertable either left to right or right to left, and in either Israeli or classical script. Likewise, with CHi-Writer you can do the same, and they allow you to do Arabic apparently. Now the Hebrew and Greek are fully displayed, but some special characters in the extended Wordperfect sets display only in print preview mode. With something fabulous called Publisher's Powerpak (Atech Software), installed in Wordperfect or Microsoft Word (and a couple other word- processor packages) you can get fully scalable fonts (2 to 72 pt) on any printer (including simple 9 pin dot matrix ones), for only $79.95. This add-on package can be souped up also with a host of extra fonts from the same firm (I'm merely a happy customer, no commission on sales!). Now, I know all this involves having to sniff out add-on software, and making sure you have a machine with a hard-disk and a good graphics card--and maybe someday all machines will come out fully equipped with everyone we would ever need. But, for now, I CAN do what I say I can, and Richard hasn't shown otherwise. Moreover, I can do what I say with an investment considerably less than the cost of a Next or even a MAc. U.S. readers will easily find out what a IBM clone with a 386 processor, vga card, and hard disk will cost. that's all the hardware I need to do what I say. Maybe future machines will make life even easier, but compared to what I had to settle for even three years ago, I feel great! So, Richard, I see the glass as "half full" not "half empty." Regards, Larry Hurtado, Univ. of Manitoba. From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: Re: 5.0337 Multilingual WP, OSs, characters, fonts (1/121) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1991 19:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 695 (819) On multilingual word processing If you do want multilingual document preparation I highly recommend TeX as the appropriate formatter. Together with an suitable macro package (LaTeX or EDMACS) it is also fairly comfortable to use. TeX can now (Version 3.0 and higher) switch between several languages in one document and hyphenate according to the rules for each language. There are now fonts available (dcfonts), which contain the characters needed for nearly all european languages. Fonts for non-latin writing are available, too, for example cyrillic, greek, tamil, devanagri, hebrew and arabic. Documents prepared in TeX are perfectly portable, since TeX runs on a huge range of machines including mainframes, worstations, pcs (MS-Dos), Ataris, Macs, Amigas and even the Archimedes. You can send them by mail, since only printable ASCII characters are used in input. TeX is highly standardised, so that the output should not differe on different machines. This wonder system does not cost $1000, it is available free! (Commercial versions with more or less support by the vendors exist in addition). Extensions to TeX are able to handle right to left text processing and switching between the two directions. At last, the output is of high quality and can submitted as camera-ready copy to the printer. For more information, you can contact: TeX Users Group, P.O.Box 9506 Providence RI 02940-9506, USA The following listserv lists might be of interest: tex-l@ubvm texmag-l@uicvm info-tex@shsu ivritex@taunivm % dedicated to bidirectional text processing ftp-sites with large collections of TeX material: ymir.clarmeont.edu 129.69.1.12 % dante-server at stuttgart/germany Yours sincerly, J"org Knappen From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Multilingual WP Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 07:10:56 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 340 (820) SUBJECT: Multilingual Word Processing, Etc. Although I have not read all of the exchanges in the current HUMANIST "series" on multilingual word processing, I'd like to voice some opinions and mention (in a noncommercial way, of course) a couple of "genuinely interesting" products. As Richard Goerwitz points out, it is true that graphics-based systems like Macintoshes and NeXTs make multilingual word processing and other forms of text manipulation easier than these tasks are on text-mode systems (e.g., DOS). However, it is my conviction that it is still possible to do nice, acceptable, and fairly painless multilingual word processing in text mode on DOS machines, depending on what alphabets and scripts you need to work with. The following numbered items are responses to several inaccuracies in Richard Goerwitz's recent critique of text-mode DOS systems. I'll limit my remarks on the IBM side of life to text-mode DOS programs. My purpose is not to be unduly critical but to try and sharpen the discussion and clarify some muddy issues. (1) QUOTE: "First of all, the PC system is ROM based. That is, characters are essentially hard-coded into the video card, and you don't get any control over their pitch, font, or anything else. You can obtain an EGA or VGA (or even a Herc Plus), and this will let you load in some fonts. Still, you're stuck with whatever you've loaded in - the pitch, font, etc. And the kerning relationships can't be altered (or even specified in the first place). What's worse, you can't even display diacritics or do overstrikes." (a) I assume that Richard is _not_ thinking in terms of WYSIWYG, since no text-mode program could ever be 100% WYSIWYG, due to the monospacing of text-mode characters on-screen, the fixed character cell height, and the (relatively) finite number of possible ROM-based characters on EGA and VGA cards (the HGC+ and InColor cards allow for more downloaded characters). (b) Control over character size, attributes, kerning, overstrike, and font family/type on any system--graphics-based or text-mode--depends on the application, not the system, software. In windows-type operating environments (e.g., Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, NeXT), the system software facilitates the system-wide availability of installed fonts. Application and/or system software controls scripts (e.g., right to left, left to right). (c) On text-mode systems, it certainly _is possible_ to control all the font characteristics Richard says are impossible to control. On my PC, for example, using Borland's Sprint (a powerful but not very popular word processor), I can _print_ Greek, complete with all diacritics and user-specified kerning, in any size my PostScript printer will support. True, I cannot see Greek on-screen, but I do not find that so terrible, considering the minute control Sprint gives me over character size, attributes, spacing, kerning, and so forth. If I were clever enough, I could design a Greek screen font and a set of Greek "combination characters" (i.e., any letter+diacritic(s)), download them to a Hercules Graphics Card Plus or to a Hercules InColor Card (or to an EGA or VGA card), map the characters to keys, and then be able to display Greek with accents and diacritics on-screen. If being able to see Greek on-screen really were that important to me, I would attempt to do this or find someone to do it for me or see if a commercial Greek screen font existed for one of my video cards. Nota Bene is an example of a text-mode DOS program that allows users to see proper Greek, complete with all diacritical marks, on-screen. Nota Bene also supports many other nonroman alphabets. (d) David Packard's Ibycus Scholarly Computer is an example of a text-mode machine that has _several thousand_ nonroman characters, including fully pointed Hebrew and completely accented Greek, stored in EPROMS. Anyone who has seen this computer displaying Greek and Hebrew (at a horizontal resolution of something like 1400) will attest to the beauty of the fonts, the fast screen redrawing, and to the fact that Hebrew and Greek are displayed just as they look in their printed counterparts, that is, with all accents and diacritical marks in their proper positions for Greek and with all vowels in their proper positions for Hebrew. (e) Finally, if all I am interested in doing multilingually is Hebrew and Greek (substitute your nonroman and/or multilingual needs here), and if I am meeting or know that I can meet my needs on a DOS-based machine using a text-mode program, why should I rush out and by a Macintosh or a NeXT, when I can get more hardware "bang for the buck" in the IBM-compatible world (will Apple ever be able to compete with ZEOS, for example)? Lest I sound provincial, I have several IBM-compatible computers, a Mac II, and would like a NeXT. And, yes, I use the Mac a good deal, though I prefer the command-driven, text-mode DOS machines. (After using the Mac intensely for a week, my right wrist feels like I'm a candidate for carpal tunnel surgery; I hate mousing!) (2) QUOTE: "A user should be able to utilize any font of any size he or she wants, and use it any time it seems useful to do so. The Mac allows you to do this." (a) Contrary to this statement, although on a Macintosh all installed fonts are available to all applications that allow users to select fonts, not all installed sizes of a font are available in all Macintosh applications, much less "any size" of any installed font. Available font sizes are determined by the application. (b) Consider three popular Macintosh word processors, MacWrite, Microsoft Word, and Nisus, for example. My (old) copy of MacWrite (4.6, July 1987) limits me to the following sizes for all installed fonts: 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, though I have installed Greek and Hebrew fonts in sizes larger than these. Lest a 1987 copy of MacWrite seem too antiquarian to serve as a credible counter example, my copy of Microsoft Word 4.0 (April 1989) also limits me to 9-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 18-, and 24-point fonts. But Nisus allows 9-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 18-, 24-, 28-, 36-, 48-, 72-, and "other"-size fonts (I just made a 200-point Geneva letter with Nisus). But even "other" is limited to 255 points in Nisus and to 250 points in Ventura Publisher 3.0.1 for the Mac. (c) Perhaps the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) would allow me to work with any reasonable size of any font, but I cannot find a menu selection on my copies of MacWrite or Word that would allow me to select font sizes other than the listed sizes. Furthermore, if ATM is the solution, then it still is not correct to imply that the Macintosh _inherently_ by virtue of being a graphics-mode machine supports any size of any installed font. (3) QUOTE: "There is also the problem of wordwrap, ligatures, and other problems inherent in the display of things like Chinese, Arabic, etc. Do you really want to have to enter your Hebrew or Arabic in "backwards"? And remember, if I get to the end of a line in English, and then want to write in a right-left script, the words will do a most peculiar thing. Essentially, word1 of the sequence will end up on the right top, while the last word will end up on the left: 1drow 3drow 2drow." (a) I work with Hebrew, and I have a PostScript Hebrew font. Hebrew is more complicated than Greek for three reasons: (a) the script is right-to-left, (b) Hebrew vowels and accents (cantillation) are placed within, above, and under letters, and (c) there are _far_ more Hebrew combination characters (consonant+vowel or consonant+vowel+accent) than in Greek. Just for fun, I've mapped a few of the PostScript Hebrew characters and vowels to tagged English equivalents and printed them successfully, for example "@Heb(AaSeR)" might print the Hebrew word "asher" in Hebrew, complete with vowels. (b) What about the right-to-left script? Nota Bene allows you to type Hebrew right-to-left, as does ScriptureFonts, a WordPerfect add-on utility (see below). Sprint comes with a strong LISP-like macro language. Although I have not taken the time to write a Sprint macro that would flip lines or paragraphs of text, this would not be such a difficult task. Such a macro would allow me to enter Hebrew left-to-right without typing backwards. For example, instead of typing "doG" to get "God," I would type "God" and then use the macro to flip each word on each selected line into its proper right-to-left order, so that in Hebrew the "G" printed rightmost, followed on its left by the "o," followed on its left by the "d." In other words, to get "asher" to print out in Hebrew, I would enter "asher" in tagged English and then use the macro to flip the letters. Although that is not as easy as typing right-to-left in the first place, it's better than having to type Hebrew left to right _and backwards!_ Programs like Nota Bene and ScriptureFonts, however, allow users to enter Hebrew right-to-left. (c) What about right-to-left word wrap? Contrary to the quotation above, at least two text-mode DOS multilingual word processing programs--Nota Bene and ScriptureFonts--support proper right-to-left Hebrew word wrap. (d) What about ligatures? Like so many issues that have to do with fonts, scripts, and alphabets, ligatures is an application-specific issue. Whether you can print a ligature is a function of two things: whether your application knows how to handle these characters and whether the font you wish to use has the ligatures you want to use. This week I was "shocked" to learn that although the "fi" and "fl" ligatures are available from within most Macintosh applications, they are not available from within Ventura Publisher 3.0.1 (the latest version). (To see these ligatures on a Mac, pop up the Key Caps DA, select the Times font, hold down the SHIFT+OPTION keys, and look at the "5" and "6" keys on the top row of the Key Caps keyboard on-screen.) More generally speaking, any application can produce ligatures if the ligatures exist in the fonts the application accesses. For example, with Sprint, I can print any ligatures that exist in any of the fonts I use. And the nice thing about Sprint in this regard is that I can define a table of ligatures and every time the program goes to print, it will consult this table and automatically print the proper ligature. For example, every time my copy of Sprint sees "fi" it prints the "fi" ligature _with no additional information in the input file_, if the selected font includes the "fi" ligature. If the selected font does not include the selected ligature, Sprint just prints an ordinary "f" and "i." (4) QUOTE: "Even if we get DOS software that knows about all the different scripts, and can handle all the necessary fonts, ligatures, alternate character forms, and overstrikes, then we still run into the biggest problem of them all: Portability. If you have an interface that does indeed know how to handle various languages, knows how they wrap, etc., then a great burden suddenly shifts off of the application program itself, and onto the system software that underlies the applications. What this means is that you could share files much more easily, and shift and move text around from package to package, without having to worry so much about whether each one will understand the format and be able to display/manipulate it. On a system which lacks such an internationalized script display interface, every program would be an island unto itself." (a) Excuse me for wondering how many scholars who do multilingual word processing and other forms of text manipulation sit up nights worrying about portability. Once you have your multilingual needs figured out in your application program(s) of choice, do you worry about being able to port your files to other applications? If Sprint is my word processor of choice, and if I have solved all my Greek and Hebrew multilingual word processing needs in Sprint, I'm not the least bit worried if my Sprint files can be imported into Nota Bene, WordPerfect, or 101 other DOS programs. Once I have mastered Word and PageMaker on my Mac, to select another example, so that I can create, edit, and print Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and what not in a way that meets my needs, why should I worry if my files will be compatible with Nisus and Ventura Publisher, for example, unless I plan to switch my text manipulation activities to these programs? (b) Most users cannot afford the time or money required to application hop. If program X is meeting my needs, why switch to program Y? (c) More importantly, the ability to preserve font and formatting information from application to application is a function of the applications, not of the operating system or platform. True, the Macintosh OS makes it easy to preserve font information among applications, but it does not make this automatic. I have Macintosh programs that use but that cannot export nonroman fonts in such a way that the font type and size is preserved (you have to select the exported text and its proper font to display the text in its proper alphabet). And I have a whole slew of Macintosh programs that cannot read one another's files. Nisus 2.03, for example, cannot import a Microsoft 4.0 Word file consisting of simple English in a Times font. Most likely more recent versions of Nisus can do this successfully, but they can do so only if the Nisus programmers created a filter that allows Nisus to import Word 4.0 files. Even the ability of a program to import a file does not guarantee that the file's formatting will be preserved. (5) QUOTE: "My quarrel with the PC is over its entire approach to text display. It's a crusty old remnant of bygone days, and really doesn't belong in a modern system....I think it would be wise to think of the PC (and DOS in general) as a dead end road which that still has a few blocks left, but which ultimately will not get you anywhere you want to be....Windows will help with some of these problems. It's not a good, basic solution to the problem, though. A Mac is a good, basic solution to the problem :-)....The PC is really more in a class with the old, klunky toy computers of the late 70s and early 80s. It's an operating system that's gone on well beyond its time, and humanists who make pretenses of multilingual work really shouldn't pour too much of their precious (and usually skimpy) resources into it." (a) The main confusion in quotation (5) above is between operating systems and hardware platforms. A given hardware platform can be operated by as many operating systems as have been designed for the platform, and each operating system will have its own distinct interface. For example, I can run my Macintosh under System 6.0.x, under System 7.x, or under A/UX (Apple Unix). The first two operating systems are quite similar and require me to use icons and a mouse. A/UX is much more command driven. Many Mac addicts would call it ugly. I also can turn my Macintosh into a PC by using SoftPC or II-in-a-Mac or by using an IBM emulator board, such as Orange Micro's Mac 386 (or their 286). In the first two cases (software emulation of a PC), the Macintosh hardware platform is playing host to a purely software-based PC operating system. In the third case, the Macintosh platform has been invaded by a board with a PC processor and operating system on it. In all three cases, one platform is being operated under an operating system most Macintosh users disavow (some more strongly than others...). It's one thing to dislike DOS; its another to dislike the hardware DOS typically runs on. If you saw a NeXT workstation running a DOS program by using a DOS emulator, would you say: "I hate NeXTs"? (b) It's not the case that the PC--the hardware--is klunky or a toy or has outlived its usefulness. Maybe DOS has. I believe that part (not all) of the truth here lies in the fact that picture-oriented (right-brained?) computer users find command-driven interfaces ugly, primitive, and intimidating. Personally, I strongly dislike icons and mice. I'm so left-brained I wonder if I have a right half. On my Macintosh, all folders and files are displayed by name, not by icon. If I can use a hot-key shortcut to perform an action and so avoid the mouse, I do. I dislike programs (e.g., Ventura Publisher) that do not provide a hot-key shortcut for each major action. All of which is to say that none of us should confuse our personal preferences--Fords or Chevys, Winchesters or Remingtons, antelope or beef, Macintoshes or IBMs--with what is best for everyone or even with what is "best" in some absolute sense. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an ethical relativist, but which computer or operating system a person prefers is hardly an ethical issue. As far as I'm concerned, it's purely a pragmatic issue. If you can write faster and be more productive with a #2 wooden lead pencil, who am I to say you should use a Parker ball point pen? (c) Perhaps preferring the Macintosh to Windows 3.0 is like preferring Fords to Chevys. Perhaps not. Windows 3.0 _does_ help with many of the problems mentioned by Dr. Goerwitz, including accessibility of installed fonts to all Windows programs, portability of files (to the extent provided for by the applications designers, as is true on the Mac also and also under DOS), and so forth. I wish Dr. Goerwitz would elaborate on: "Windows will help with some of these problems. It's not a good, basic solution to the problem, though." (6) QUOTE: "But if anyone is considering a major investment at this point, I'd definitely say "wait." Wait for the NeXT. See if a Mac will suit your needs (and isn't too expensive; they have a terrible price/performance ratio, unless you can get substantial academic discounts, and even then...). The PC should be last on the list, unless you like driving antiques :-)." (a) Now I'll get REALLY OPINIONATED, to ape John Dvorak's use of bold text, since I believe that there are easy answers to the question: "What computer should I buy for my multilingual word processing needs?" (b) If you don't have a computer, DO NOT WAIT, for you are in the dark ages! If you are computerless, buy any model of any of the three machines mentioned above (Mac, NeXT, IBM), and you will soon wonder how you ever got along without your new computer. That is to say, any car is better than no car. (c) If you have a computer (Mac or IBM) with no hard drive, sell it or buy a hard drive. You're not in the dark ages. You're in the twilight zone. And don't pay more than $3 to $5 a megabyte for the hard drive! (d) If you have an 8086 or 8088 PC or PC XT or an 8-MHz AT or a Macintosh Plus or an earlier model Macintosh, find a computerless colleague (preferably in another college or university) that you don't like and offer him or her a "good deal on a starter machine" or give the hardware to your favorite school, church, or child. You're neither in the dark ages nor the twilight zone. You're in the slow lane--very slow if you are working on a PC or PC-XT or Macintosh Plus. (e) If you have an 80286 machine and yearn for something better, buy an 80386 or an 80486 machine from one of the reputable mail order houses, such as ZEOS. Use PC Magazine and the Computer Shopper as your buying guides. Do comparisons. Get sound advice from knowledgeable persons with no vested financial interest in what you purchase. Be sure these people know what they are talking about and that they are not card-carrying members of one hardware camp or another. For example, currently for $3,000 and change you can get a 33-MHz, 80386 computer with 8 MB of RAM and a 210-MB hard drive from ZEOS, complete with a SuperVGA color monitor and card, keyboard, several ports, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, a mouse, Lotus 123 for Windows and AmiPro for Windows. For $300 more, you can have the same machine and software with a 33-MHz 80486 processor. Either of these machines will knock your socks off in terms of speed, power, and storage capacity. Apple can't come close to giving you this much hardware or software bang for the buck and neither can NeXT, unless I am happily mistaken. Why ZEOS? Year after year, machine after machine, and review after review, ZEOS models win either the PC Magazine's "Editors Choice" or are one of the Editors Choices. Whatever you get, buy as fast a processor, as much memory, and as large a hard drive as you can afford. (f) Finally, if your multilingual word processing and text manipulation needs are no more complicated than working with Western European languages that use a latin alphabet, you really do not need a Macintosh or a NeXT machine. Buy a PC and WordPerfect 5.1 or WordPerfect for Windows or Nota Bene. If your multilingual needs are limited to Greek and Hebrew, buy a PC and Nota Bene or WordPerfect 5.1 and ScriptureFonts. If your needs include Arabic, I believe that Nota Bene is available with an Arabic alphabet. If you need to work with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or a similar Oriental language, plan to buy a Macintosh _after_ you have found an application (e.g., word processing program) that can work with your Oriental language and handle its script in a way that suites your needs. (g) I don't see any reason to wait to buy, unless you want "the best," in which case you will be waiting forever, since new models of computers are on the drawing boards months or years before the latest models hit the shelves. For example, just as 80486 models are starting to catch on, computers are being designed around the 80586 chip. (7) Here is some brief and incomplete information on some of the programs mentioned above. (a) WordPerfect 5.1 is the industry standard word processor for PCs. WP51 can print, but not necessarily display, a broad range of nonroman characters, including Hebrew and Greek. According to my records, the Word Perfect Corporation's phone number is 1-800-321-4566. (b) WordPerfect for Windows. If this is commercially available, it is news to me. This product is _long_ overdue. (c) Nota Bene from Dragonfly Software in New York is one of, if not the, most powerful word processing programs for PCs. It includes a textbase management program/component and is available with multilingual add-on modules for Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, and other alphabets and scripts. According to my records, Dragonfly Software's phone number is 1-212-334-0445. (d) Sprint is available from Borland. Sprint is a "dressed-up" version of FinalWordII, which descended from two mainframe university programs: EMACS from MIT and Scribe from Carnegie Mellon. According to my records, Borland's phone number is 1-408-438-5300. (e) ScriptureFonts from Zondervan Electronic Publishing is a WordPerfect add-on that allows users to enter, edit, and print properly accented Greek and properly pointed Hebrew on a wide range of printers. I believe the price is $99, which includes various sizes of bitmapped and laser fonts (including fonts for HPs and PostScript printers). The program comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee. According to my records, Zondervan's phone number is 1-800-727-7759. (f) Nisus, from Paragon Concepts, is to word processing on the Macintosh what Nota Bene is on the PC: a powerhouse. According to my records, Paragon's phone number is (619) 481-1477. John From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: tree-diagram drawing program wanted Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 16:58:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 696 (821) I'm looking for a program - preferably for the Macintosh - which would draw the tree structure of a given sentence, where constituents had already been marked with, for example, the square-bracket notation. I'm sure there must be one! Thanks, Marco Simionato From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA> Subject: Genealogy Software Query Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 16:46:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 697 (822) I am trying to locate a reasonably useful genealogy program on behalf of a colleague. What are some of the recommended programs for an IBM environment? Michael Strangelove University of Ottawa <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> <441495@UOTTAWA> From: vyc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Alan T. McKenzie) Subject: british library Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 16:44:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 698 (823) Anyone out there had any luck logging into the British Library over JANET? I can get through to UK.BL.BLAISE, but I get stumped by the "PLEASE ENTER /LOGIN" prompt. I and several colleagues would be grateful for any help. Alan McKenzie English, Purdue From: Matthew Wall Subject: Q: Shakespeare on Mac CD Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 11:50:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 699 (824) We are interested in obtaining an electronic version of Shakespeare (complete works) for a Shakespeare seminar and several classes. There are a number of different editions for the Mac, and I am requesting input from anyone who's seen/used any of them. We have both stand-alone and networked CD drives available, and disk space and reasonable cost are not issues. We *would* like to have something that was legally network-accessible and that had both good search software and, very important, the ability to export text, preferably through a live cut and paste. I also have a couple of more specific questions: 1 - what is COCOA encoding, and are their Mac readers (or a description of the format) for COCOA-encoded texts? 2 - does anyone have specific information about a Hypercard-based Shakespeare from Stanford? If I get a good volume of responses, I would be happy to report back to the list or make an ftp-able summary. thanks in advance... - Matt ----- Matthew Wall Swarthmore College Academic Computing wall@cc.swarthmore.edu 215-328-8506 From: "Robin C. Cover" Subject: IMAGE PROCESSING AND CD-ROM Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 19:57:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 700 (825) I have been asked by another party to inquire about image processing technologies as they pertain to delivering a digitized library (yes, a book collection) on CD-ROM. Personally, I see limited value in digitized page images of books which offer browsing but no searching; in certain environments, I suppose this would be useful. I understand that IEEE at one point proposed delivering back issues of the journal in this format, but I don't know if it materialized. The RLG's ARIEL project supports something similar for document delivery as alternative to FAX, but to my knowledge they don't support the creation of indexed, static media with browsing software. The objective would be to create a full 660 megabyte CD-ROM library of compressed page images (belonging to books), supported by browsing software that could lead the reader to book sections or pages based upon high-level indexing. Rather like electronic fiche, it sounds. I suppose the software would decompress the first target page on the fly, then use free CPU cycles to decompress and write to (virtual) memory the successive pages that are likely to be requested the following moments. What good off-the-shelf or OEM software supports this for PCs? What is the maximum compression that can be used for an average text page (I hear quotes of 15:1 and better) if decompression is to take place on demand? Thanks for your help. Robin Cover ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Cover BITNET: zrcc1001@smuvm1 ("one-zero-zero-one") 6634 Sarah Drive Internet: robin@utafll.uta.edu ("uta-ef-el-el") Dallas, TX 75236 USA Internet: zrcc1001@vm.cis.smu.edu Tel: (1 214) 296-1783 Internet: robin@ling.uta.edu FAX: (1 214) 841-3642 Internet: robin@txsil.sil.org From: Subject: Job Announcement Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 13:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 701 (826) FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY FAIRFIELD CONNECTICUT Assistant Professor of Philosophy, tenure track, beginning fall semester 1992. Three courses each semester. Undergraduate level: Ethics, History of Philosophy Core, plus upperdivision courses in area of specialization. Ph.D. required. Salary: competitive. AOS: Aesthetics & Ethics AOC: History of philosophy. Women and minority applicants are encouraged. Candidates must supply the Search Committee by December 1, 1991 with: 1. A current vita or resume; 2. At least three letters of reference or the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three to five individuals who are willing to act as references; 3. A sample of the candidate's writing; 4. An official transcript noting the candidate's completion of the Ph.D. The University expects to complete the search before May 30, 1992. Send Complete dossier to: Professor Donald Coleman Search Committee Department of Philosophy Fairfield University Fairfield CT 06430. From: Subject: African American and/or Native American religions Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1991 08:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 702 (827) TENURE TRACK POSITION IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES AFRICAN AMERICAN AND/OR NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION SIENA COLLEGE LOUDONVILLE, NEW YORK A tenure track position in American religious traditions with expertise in African American and/or Native American traditions is available in the Siena College Religious Studies Department. Siena is a private college in the Franciscan tradition with an enrollment of 2600. It is a comprehensive college which emphasizes the liberal arts. Applicants should have a Ph.D. and be committed to teaching undergraduates. Send resumes by December 1 to Mary Walsh Meany, Chair, Religious Studies Department-4A, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, New York 12211. Preliminary interviews may be arranged by the department at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Kansas City. Qualified applicants, especially women and minorities, are encouraged to apply. Siena is an Equal Opportunity Employer. From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Melancon Benoit) Subject: SOCIOCRITICISM Date: Wed, 25 Sep 91 11:37:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 703 (828) ETUDES FRANCAISES (Presses de l'Universite de Montreal) has recently published an issue entitled "Sociocritique de la poesie" (vol. 27, no 1). This issue is an important moment in the history of sociocriticism because poetry, traditionally excluded from this kind of approach, is specifically studied here from a social point of view. All the articles, in spite of their diversity, have a common theoretical basis : Rimbaud and Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, Jules Laforgue and Claude Gauvreau, XVIIIth century and the contemporary period are examples that illustrate the intersection of poetry and society. ETUDES FRANCAISES, 27 : 1, printemps 1991, 134 p. SOCIOCRITIQUE DE LA POESIE Table des matieres : "Presentation" (Michel Biron et Pierre Popovic, Universite de Montreal); "Sociocritique et poesie : perspectives theoriques" (Michel Biron); "Note sur la poesie francaise au XVIIIe siecle" (Michel Conde, Liege, Belgique); "Une ville appelee Rimbaud" (Gilles Marcotte, Universite de Montreal); "Enjeux et figurations de la coupe chez Laforgue" (Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Universite de Liege, Belgique); "Du <> au <> : l'entrecroisement de l'histoire et de la fiction" (Micheline Cambron, Universite de Montreal); "Retours d'Amerique" (Pierre Popovic); "La poesie morte ou vive" (Jean-Marie Gleize, Universite de Provence); "Le statut de la langue populaire dans l'oeuvre d'Andre Belleau ou La reine et la guidoune" (Benoit Melancon, Universite de Montreal); "Centre interuniversitaire d'analyse du discours et de sociocritique des textes. Inter-University Centre for Discourse Analysis and Text Sociocriticism" (Marc Angenot, McGill University). This issue of ETUDES FRANCAISES costs 9,00$ CDN and can be ordered from : PERIODICA C.P. 444 Outremont (Quebec) Canada H2V 4R6 From: "J. Michael Allen" Subject: Mormonism Discussion Group Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 11:56:31 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 704 (829) ANNOUNCING CREATION OF MORMON STUDIES ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP We would like to announce the creation of MORMON-L, an electronic discussion group for Mormon Studies on the BITNET network. This group has been created with the intention of providing an open forum for serious discussion of topics relating to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("the Mormons"). Topics might include (but are not limited to) Mormon history, literature, fine arts, theology, and church life. The primary purpose of this list is to provide a forum for serious academic discussion. It is, however, open to all persons inside and outside academia who wish to engage in substantial discussion of topics relating to Mormonism. We welcome input from Mormons and non-Mormons alike. The discussion on the list will be minimally moderated. This is necessary because of the very heavy traffic on open Mormon forums (such as LDS-L), which often amounts to little more than casual chit-chat. Our purpose in moderation is not to suppress discussion of controversial or volatile topics, but rather to limit casual chatter and flames. Moderation will be strictly limited to screening out blatant personal attacks or vendettas. MORMON-L is not to be used for active evangelism, whether pro- or anti-Mormon. Content or style will never be altered by the editors. It is the hope of the moderators that our only responsibility will be to forward all postings to the list, and that any other function will be completely unnecessary. TO SUBSCRIBE TO MORMON-L, send the following message to LISTSERV@BYUVM: "Subscribe Mormon-L ," leaving the subject header blank. Your name will then be added to the list. If you wish to communicate directly with the list editors without having your communication posted to the list itself, contact the following: --J. Michael Allen --William J. Hamblin From: raskin@j.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Hebrew List Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 12:22:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 344 (830) In connection with a recent announcement of the subscription address for the Hebrew Electronic List, which was LISTSERV@DARTSMC1, there is an INTERNET address which is much easier to use for INTERNET customers. It is, of course, listserv@dartsmc1.dartmouth.edu. In general, the BITNET <--> INTERNET formula is: BITNET INTERNET LOGIN@MACHINE login@machine.site.edu, provided, of course, that the site is a university and that you know or can guess the site name and often abbreviation (for instance, tamu for Texas A & M University). Also, obviously, the site must be on both networks, but I have yet to run into a host listserv which is not. -- Victor Raskin raskin@j.cc.purdue.edu Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 494-3780 fax Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory Purdue University W. Lafayette, IN 47907 U.S.A. From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Oxford University Computing Services Positions Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 10:12 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 345 (831) The following positions may be of interest to HUMANIST users. The CTI Centre for Textual Studies is part of a nationwide government-funded initiative to enhance the use of computers in the teaching of certain humanities subjects at University level. We provide several publications, conduct visits to Higher Education establishments throughout the UK, run our own workshops, and attend conferences whenever appropriate. The Centre covers several humanities subjects including: literature, linguistics, classics, theology, philosophy, and theatre arts & drama. Should you require any further details please contact me at the following address: Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273275 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX ************************************************************************* OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES RESEARCH OFFICER (Grade RSIA) (11,969 - 19,073) Applications are invited for a Research Officer who will be responsible for academic liaison and presenting seminars and workshops for the Computers in Teaching Centre for Textual Studies. Applicants should be graduates in a humanities subject and have experience in text-based computing and computer assisted learning. The appointment will be for a fixed period terminating in July 1993. RESEARCH OFFICER (Grade RSIA) (11,969 - 19,073) Applications are invited for a Research Officer to work on the newly-funded IT Training Initiative project, Hypermedia in Languages and Literature. Applicants must be graduates and have experience of computer programming in a hypermedia and graphics environment (preferably using Guide for the PC). This post is for two years in the first instance. Further details and application forms can be obtained from Judith Thompson, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN (Tel: 0865-273230, e-mail JUDITH@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX). The closing date for the submission of application forms is 16 October 1991. Interviews will be held on Friday 25 October 1991. From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Tree diagram software Date: 30 Sep 91 14:32:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 705 (832) In response to Marco Simionato's question about tree-diagram packages, I would recommend that he look into the SYNTAX WORKBENCH demonstrated at the ACL conference in June. It's available from CSLI (Center for the Study of Langauge and Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, CA 94305) and was advertised as available for course adoption in the Fall of 1991. The program seems to have been designed for use with a syntax course, but we played around with using it to draw parse trees and it worked pretty well, even without reading the manual. It runs on the Macintosh. It is also advertised as useful as a word processor. To quote the flyer: SWB can also be used simply for drawing trees on the Macintosh. Trees and subtrees can be saved, cut and pasted as required. The program will contain a structure lexicon, complex symbols, and a provision for island constraints. The accompanying book will include full documentation, a tutorial on how to use the program, and a topical outline of the kind of syntax course it can be used in. Mary Dee Harris From: Subject: Image Processing Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 11:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 706 (833) In a recent note Robin Cover asks about approaches to image processing of texts. A project of interest is the Cornell/Xerox Commission on Preservation and Access Joint Study in Digital Preservation. Images are scanned at 600 dpi and stored in TIFF format with CCITT Group 4 compression. At the moment the project is preparing 500 works in mathematics (for which an ASCII version wouldn't be feasible), and the Math department is keying in an extensive table of contents to facilitate searching of images. A Documents Structure File is stored with the images to describe them and link the images into a document. Clearly, the extent to which the index permits searching will determine whether access is sacrificed to preservation. For more details, contact Lynn Personius (technical director) or Anne Kenney of the Conservation Department of the Olin Library at (607) 255-4144. Mike Neuman Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Georgetown University From: Christopher Currie Subject: re: 5.0341 (BL/JANET) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 12:08:50 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 707 (834) To get access from the net you need a registered account, for which your institution is charged. I believe there are time charges as well. This even affects people with BL readers' tickets; I can go across the road, queue up for 20 minutes to use a terminal gratis, and hold other people up while I'm using it, but I can't save my time and others' by consulting it from my office. I doubt whether lobbying would change this; free access from JANET for registered readers or bona-fide academics would be regarded as a discriminatory privilege and loss of potential revenue, not as a way of making life easier for staff and readers in the Reading Room. It's more likely that they'd start charging readers for consulting the catalogues within the library. Meanwhile UK and US university libraries provide OPACS for which BL staff are not charged if they use them. By all means write and complain; nothing is done about complaints at the moment, but they are useful to the hard-pressed BL staff as a stick to beat Government meanness. Christopher From: "Paul J. Constantine, Yale Univ. Library" Subject: Re: 5.0341 Qs: tree-diagrams; BL/Janet; Shakespeare;... (5/108) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1991 13:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 708 (835) BlaiseLine is not a free service. An account and password are required. If you are interested, I can provide the appropriate address. Paul J. Constantine Yale University Library From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: FC font encoding scheme (for TeX) -- 2nd draft Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 17:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 349 (836) Second Draft for the African Font Encoding Scheme FC This is the second draft for the FC font encoding scheme. I want to fix this scheme at 1-nov-1991 and change it no more. If you see any flaw in it, complain now, before it is too late. I'm nearly ready with a METAFONT fount according to the fc scheme, and I want to make it accesible to the public in the beginning of 1992. It will be copyrighted, but free according to the GNU licence. Send any suggestions to: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de or to: J"org Knappen Institut f"ur Kernphysik Postfach 39 80 D-W 6500 Mainz Allemagne The TUG (TeX User Group) conference of Cork 1990 has proposed a 256 character font encoding scheme well suited for european languages. This scheme does not fit for the various african languages with latin writing. So I want to propose a scheme suited for the so called critical languages of africa. It should be named FC or FCM for aFrican Computer. The coding is arbitrary besides the following rules: * The lower 128 codes are identical to the Cork scheme * A glyph also occurring in the Cork scheme is placed on the same code point as in the Cork scheme * Each letter from the 128-char cm-font is saved (Thus !', \L,\O etc. will work) * The uppercase/lowercase mechanism holds The following languages are covered: Akan, Bamileke, Basa (Kru), Bemba, Bete, Ciokwe, Dinka, Efik, Ewe-Fon, Fulani (Fulful), G\~a, Ganda, Gbaya, Hausa, Igbo, Kamba, Kanuri, Kikuyu, Kikongo, Kpelle, Krio, Luba, Mandekan (Bambara), Mende, More, Ngala, Nyanja, Oromo, Rundi, Kinya Rwanda, Sango, Shona, Somali, Songhai, Sotho (two different writing systems), Suaheli, Tiv, Tsonga, Yao, Yoruba, Xhosa and Zulu. Also covered are: Maltese and Sami (European languages not covered by the Cork scheme). Not included are: Tamasheq (Berber): The UNESCO suggests an alphabet with hooktop t, s, and z. Since I have not seen this in real print, I'm not sure about the relevance of this alphabet, I don't even know if it was adopted by one coutry in which Tamasheq is spoken. Nama: The symbols for the click sounds in Nama are not included. They can, however, be created by macro calls. Serer: I have a secondary reference that Serer uses hooktop p. If I had a primary reference, this character is a candidat for inclusion. \.Igb\.o: The catholic orthography includes an horizontal crossed o, which is not included in the fc scheme, since this system is considered obsolete. I tried to consult the most recent dictionaries. A good part of the mentioned languages has not yet a standardised writing system. I considered accents which are only tonal marks and optional in writing not to be a part of a letter. These should be created by using floating accents. (Even double accenting is possible, e.g. Open e with tilde and acute.) Accented letters, where the accent is a part of the letter, are included. Here are first the changes since the first draft: I newly included: A with trema Ezh T with tail Latin letter Iota Double universal accent I moved to other code points: Open E with Tilde O with macron I removed: A with circumflex A with grave U with circumflex W with breve small raised w Only by typo, in some versions an A with acute occured. This was never really in and is not included now. Support is weak for the following characters: E with acute C with cedilla G with dot above A with trema Enj These are the most likely ones to dissappear for new insertions. If you know facts supporting them, let me know. The table: octal code description 200 Capital letter hooktop B 201 Capital letter hooktop D 202 Capital letter open E (\varepsilon-like) 203 Capital letter reversed E (like \exists) 204 Capital letter long F 205 Capital letter E with ha\v{c}ek 206 Capital letter ipa Gamma 207 Capital letter double barred H 210 Capital letter hooktop K 211 Capital letter Enj 212 Capital letter open O (reversed C) 213 Capital letter N with acute 214 Capital letter Esh 215 Capital letter Eng 216 Capital letter Round V 217 Capital letter hooktop Y 220 Capital letter G with dot above 221 Capital letter M with acute 222 Capital letter S with ha\v{c}ek 223 Capital letter N with dot above 224 Capital letter N with line below 225 Capital letter S with dot below 226 Capital letter Ezh 227 Capital letter crossed T 230 Capital letter E with dot above 231 Capital letter E with dot below 232 Capital letter I with tilde 233 Capital letter T with tail 234 ligature t-esh 235 ligature fj 236 Lowercase letter crossed d 237 double grave accent 240 Lowercase letter hooktop b 241 Lowercase letter hooktop d 242 Lowercase letter open e 243 Lowercase letter inverted e 244 Lowercase letter long f 245 Lowercase letter e with ha\v{c]ek 246 Lowercase letter ipa gamma 247 Lowercase letter crossed h 250 Lowercase letter hooktop k 251 Lowercase letter enj 252 Lowercase letter open O 253 Lowercase letter n with acute 254 Lowercase letter esh 255 Lowercase letter eng 256 Lowercase letter round v (\upsilon) 257 Lowercase letter hooktop y 260 Lowercase letter g with dot above 261 Lowercase letter m with acute 262 Lowercase letter s with ha\v{c}ek 263 Lowercase letter n with dot above 264 Lowercase letter n with line below 265 Lowercase letter s with dot below 266 Lowercase letter ezh 267 Lowercase letter crossed t 270 Lowercase letter e with dot above 271 Lowercase letter e with dot below 272 Lowercase letter i tilde 273 Lowercase letter t with tail 274 double universal accent 275 inverted exclamation mark 276 inverted question mark 277 universal accent 300 Capital letter Iota 301 Capital letter I with dot below 302 Capital letter Open E with tilde 303 Capital letter A with tilde 304 Capital letter A with trema 305 Capital letter Open O with tilde 306 Capital letter ligature AE 307 Capital letter C with cedilla 310 Capital letter E with grave 311 Capital letter E with acute 312 Capital letter E with circumflex 313 Capital letter E with trema 314 Capital letter E with line below 315 Capital letter E with macron 316 Capital letter E with tilde 317 Capital letter I with diaresis 320 Capital letter crossed D (Edh) 321 Capital letter N with tilde 322 Capital letter O with grave 323 Capital letter O with dot above 324 Capital letter O with circumflex 325 Capital letter O with tilde 326 Capital letter O with trema 327 Capital letter ligature OE 330 Capital letter crossed O (\O) 331 Capital letter O with dot below 332 Capital letter O with line below 333 Capital letter O with macron 334 Capital letter O with ha\v{c}ek 335 Capital letter U with dot below 336 Capital letter U with tilde 337 cross piece for polish L and l (and maybe other letters, like I and J) 340 Lowercase letter iota 341 Lowercase letter i with dot below 342 Lowercase letter open e with tilde 343 Lowercase letter a with tilde 344 Lowercase letter a with trema 345 Lowercase letter open o with tilde 346 Lowercase letter ligature ae 347 Lowercase letter c with cedilla 350 Lowercase letter e with grave 351 Lowercase letter e with acute 352 Lowercase letter e with circumflex 353 Lowercase letter e with trema 354 Lowercase letter e with line below 355 Lowercase letter e with macron 356 Lowercase letter e with tilde 357 Lowercase letter i with diaresis 360 Lowercase letter d with tail (note: not edh!) 361 Lowercase letter n with tilde 362 Lowercase letter o with grave 363 Lowercase letter o with dot above 364 Lowercase letter o with circumflex 365 Lowercase letter o with tilde 366 Lowercase letter o with trema 367 Lowercase letter ligature oe 370 Lowercase letter crossed o (\o) 371 Lowercase letter o with dot below 372 Lowercase letter o with line below 373 Lowercase letter o with macron 374 Lowercase letter o with ha\v{c}ek 375 Lowercase letter u with dot below 376 Lowercase letter u with tilde 377 Lowercase letter scharfes s (\ss) J"org Knappen email: knappen@vkpmzd.physik.uni-mainz.de Institut f"ur Kernphysik Postfach 3980 D-W6500 Mainz Allemagne From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com Subject: Multilingual WP Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 11:17:58 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 709 (837) Many thanks to John Hughes for information on what little multilingual word processing software is available for personal computers. I know of a few others, particularly for Arabic WP, and will dig up my information if people are interested. The company that seems to offer the widest variety of non-Latin-based scripts (Hindi, Arabic, Thai, etc.) so far is: Linguist's Software P.O. Box 580 Edmonds, WA 98020 By the way, as a software developer for the "Xerox proprietary system" that someone mentioned a while back, I feel compelled to add that WYSIWYG WP of mixed-language, mixed-directional text with automatic ligature insertion and floating diacritics is a (mostly) solved problem. Unfortunately, Xerox's elegant solution to this problem is not available for the Mac. It is available for the PC and the Sun workstation, but only at great pain and expense. (Needless to say, all but one or two of our customers are government agencies.) Whether Xerox, or any company, will soon offer a truly WYSIWYG, truly multilingual (i.e., not just Latin-based characters) WP system for the Mac or PC that any scholar or university can afford is an open question. I certainly hope that someone will do so. Diane L. Olsen dolsen.osbu_north@xerox.com olsen@csli.stanford.edu From: Alan David Bulley <458507@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 5.0340 Multilingual WP (More) (1/394) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1991 19:24:47 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 710 (838) Re: John J. Hughes' reply to Richard Goerwitz on multi-lingual WP. At first I thought that my response to John Hughes might be seen as borderline pickiness -- but now I realise that I have crossed the border and am headed for the heartland. In his points 2 b) and c), Hughes claims that Microsoft Word 4.0 on the Mac makes no provision for type-sizes beyond 24 pt. This is not the case: the selection "Character" under the Format menu allows the use of characters ranging in size from 4 pt. to 127 pt. For those who love key- stroking, the same selection may be made by typing "Command D". Sure, this isn't exactly the 3,000 pt. type that Hughes is after, but then, I've only got a lowly Mac Plus and I haven't found anyone I dislike enough to unload it on. Ah well, back to life in the slow lane, Alan Bulley Saint Paul University, Ottawa 458507@UOTTAWA 458507@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA From: David Owen Subject: NEASECS Date: Wed, 25 Sep 91 19:57 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 711 (839) Is anybody in the New York area, especially Manhattan, thinking of going to the NEASECS conference in Burlington, Vermont, Oct 31 to Nov 2? I'm thinking of driving up on Wed morning, returning Sunday morning, and could use the company, share expenses etc. Please reply to owen@ccit.arizona.edu Yes, I know it is an odd address for someone in Manhattan. David Owen From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz) Subject: Emily Dickinson Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 08:49:39 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 712 (840) On behalf of a friend, Kenneth Sewel, without a network connection, are the works of Emily Dickinson available as e-texts, and from what source(s)? I have found one earlier inquiry on the subject in the archives, but no replies were posted and the inquirer's address is apparently defunct. Thank you for your assistance! From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: bilingual dictionaries Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 08:56:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 713 (841) Are bilingual dictionaries available for the Macintosh? Ideally, these would work in some way with a word-processing program. Thanks, Leslie Burkholder From: JPARMER@BGSUOPIE.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0339 Multilingual WP (3/144) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 09:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 714 (842) Does J. Knappen or anyone else know the protocols for contacting the TeX groups which he has kindly listed? From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: art history query Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 18:58 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 715 (843) My wife is researching material on women artists of 18th century UK, and would appreciate any help anyone can give re: bibliographical refs. and/or people also working the same topic. Reply direct via e-mail to "hurtado@ccm.umanitoba.ca". Regular mail=S. L. Hurtado, 11 Rutgers Bay, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 3C9. Larry Hurtado, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Canada. From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0341 Qs: tree-diagrams; BL/Janet; Shakespeare;... (5/108) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 91 13:10:20 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 716 (844) I have been very pleased with Family Tree Maker for genealogy. It is inexpensive, about $49 if I remember correctly, and does all of the things that I need. It will make ancestor trees or descendant trees. It allows you to add notes about individuals. It handles my strange family, complete with multiple marriages and divorces, step children, marrying a first cousin who was really adopted into the family, and so on. Oh, yes, it also allows you to print ALL descendants or ancestors, or to limit it in various ways. For the LDS members it will also print things in "LDS Format" as well as "normal format". I have no connection with them. I am just a satisfied user of the program. dan ************************************************************************ * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * Boise State University * Boise, Idaho 83725 You can be sure these ideas are my * 208-385-1234 own; no one else would have them. ************************************************************************ From: DAVID BARRY Subject: E-Classroom VMS software (RE:Vol 5 no 0281) query one, Karl Signel Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 15:01 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 717 (845) I know of five different programs that could be used for this VAX notes CoSy VMS version CAUCUS VMS version OPECCS A traing program written in DCL VMSSERVE (which I have not used unlike the others but which is, I believe, a VMS listserv. To advise you further I would need to know more about your application and whether you have a Budget constraint!!!! Hope this is helpful David Barry UBJV649 @uk.ac.bbk.cu From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Gutenberg Newsletter: September 30, 1991 Date: Sat, 28 Sep 91 20:08:59 CDT (245 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 353 (846) The Project Gutenberg Newsletter__September 30, 1991__Our 21st Year This month's release___The Song of Hiawatha___[hisong.txt or .zip]. Search for ** to indicate new or important issues. If you log into the "mainout" directory on mrcnext, and it freezes, please type "cd .." to move up to the etext directory. If you stay in that directory it will take longer to reset the error. The Federalist Papers have been updated with the first 40% and last 40% having been cleaned up and marginated (by a non-scholar, namely myself, but they are all there, and 80% are easily readable. Still needs margins worked out for the middle 20%. A new copy of Peter Pan is on the way, but. . . Our new edition of Peter Pan was deleted along with its entire dir, with the advent of the new "incoming" login. 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Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois, SIMTEL20 or TRW. "NOTICE: Due to the shortage of ROBOTS and COMPUTERS some of our workers are HUMAN and therefore will act unpredictably when abused." From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: RE: 5.0350 Multilingual WP (2/58) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 12:01 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 718 (847) In discussion of multi-lingual wordprocessors, particularly for PC but also other operating systems mention really should be made of the programs distributed for cost by S.I.L. (Summer Institute of Lnguistics) Although clumsy to set up once these do offer a wide range of phonetic charactors (or other graphemes) which may be used in wordprocessoing or database work. I dont use them myself since I use my own standard + few phonetic chars on mac BUT I have seen both the results and the programs running on solar powered portables in relatively deep bush in Cameroon. best wishes david zeitlyn From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0321 Qs: Language W/P; al-Tawfiq; Peter Scott? (3/41) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 91 14:36:30 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 719 (848) An Israeli company called Micro-Macro produces a word processor called Rav-Ktav which writes both Hebrew and English on a Mac; I believe it can write Arabic as well (the problems of Arabic are almost identical with those of Hebrew with the added fillip of initial, median, and final forms of each letter; I remember being shown a program that would deal with Arabic correctly, but I do not remember whether or not the program in question was Rav-Ktav). Rav Ktav is a relatively primitive word-processor in that it does not have automatic footnoting, etc.-- at least not in the version with which I have been dealing. It does deal with fonts and page layouts in an acceptable way, and would surely beat buying a DOS computer just for the Hebrew and Arabic. A more advanced word processor is Nisus, which is now available in a version that supports Hebrew. I have not tried it but am told that it can do a number of things that Rav-Ktav cannot. I do not know who distributes it, or whether it is an Israeli product or an international one, but I can get the information without trouble if necessary. A nuisance with both of them is security -- the Israeli market is not large enough to support unprotected software. Rav-Ktav will not work without a key diskette, and if you lose the diskette, Micro-Macro will not replace it -- you have to buy the whole program again, for a few hundred dollars. Nisus comes with a "dangle" that attaches, I believe, to the printer port -- also a nuisance but perhaps less likely to get lost. I understand that Rav-Ktav is considering changing its security method, but that is as much as I know. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0337 Multilingual WP, OSs, characters, fonts (1/121) Date: Wed, 02 Oct 91 14:58:39 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 720 (849) With regard to Richard Goerwitz's comments about wordwrap in right-to- left languages: this problem has been solved in all Israeli word proces- sors since about 1984; any product made for Israel with wrap right-to- left text properly as a matter of course, in DOS or any other system. This is one example of a general fact that is not well known to every- one: the problems of scholars who may occasionally cite a word or two in a foreign language and of those who work regularly in that language are not necessarily the same. No Israeli secretary could have used a word-processor that required her to write every word backwards -- could you? -- so the Israelis solved this years ago while many American scholars continue to use solutions that are bearable as long as you don't need them too much (on the other side, Israelis make virtually no use of the Hebrew vowel points, which are usually vital to foreign scholars). Moral: before you buy, make sure that the program addresses your needs -- preferably by hands-on use. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 08:28:52 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 721 (850) SUBJECT: Thanks for Correction Alan, Thanks for correcting my incorrect statement about not being able to choose font sizes other than the listed ones in Microsoft Word. I completely forgot about the "Character" menu choice. John John J. Hughes P.S. I'm not after "3,000-point" fonts! 127-points is large enough for me. From: Tom Crone Subject: Re: Multilingual Word Processing, Etc. Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 12:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 722 (851) As a user consultant at a university, I read the message from John J Hughes with mixed feelings. One of the points that he stated very strongly is the one I most disagreed with: [deleted quotation] Until you meet someone at a conference and decide to collaborate with him. If he uses Nota Bene, then converting back and forth between Sprint and Nota Bene is suddenly very important. Or perhaps the journal you want to publish your article accepts manuscripts in WordPerfect or TeX format. These conversion problems often find their way to me as user consultant. Another point of disagreement: [deleted quotation] One of the biggest problems IBM has left us with the PC is the lack of a standard video interface. You can find PCs with CGA, Hercules, EGA, VGA, and extended VGA video (and soon XGA?). The only thing common to all those is the 80 column text screen, which is a left over from the punched cards of 20 years ago. The problem is there is no consistant "hardware platform" to write systems for. Tom Crone CRONE@CUA or CRONE@CUAVAX.DNET.CUA.EDU Sr User Consultant/Programmer The Catholic University of America From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: Multilingual WP Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 21:17:17 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 723 (852) I think that the discussion about multilingual computing (not just word processing) is an important topic for HUMANISTS. Even after Richard's long note and John Hughes' extraordinary note, I'd like to throw in my two cents. I must say that I have had my differences with Richard over the best solution to various problems, but I do agree with his concern about portability and his statement: "On a system which lacks such an internationalized script display interface, every program would be an island unto itself. A kludge." Now I'm sure that John Hughes, as Product Manager for Zondervan Electronic Publishing, was excited by this and stated, "Excuse me for wondering how many scholars who do multilingual word processing and other forms of text manipulation sit up nights worrying about portability." Many, I would think. And it is not just 101 DOS apps, John, it is over 10,001 apps. Now don't get me wrong, I recommend John's Scripture Fonts program for people who want to do Hebrew in Word Perfect. But honestly, if the contortions that were necessary to make Word Perfect do right to left input and print Hebrew with vowels is not an idiosyncratic kludge, I've never seen one. By necessity Scripture Fonts is not compatible with any other Word Perfect add on, let alone products outside Word Perfect in a seamless way. Yes, maybe my program and a few others can output to Scripture Fonts, but no DOS solution for Hebrew or any other "difficult" language is anything but idiosyncratic. There have been many times that I have wished for multilingual support in DOS programs that are not "multilingual". As Richard has tried to point out, the solution is at the operating system level not the application level. If each application has to work out a new solution, we will never have a good situation. It simply costs too much to reinvent the wheel for each app. Ask John how long it took to get his product out. We need not just portability between apps, but between operating systems so that Richard can use NeXT, I can use OS/2, others Macs. Then we can all communicate well and quit wasting time fooling around with short term and local "solutions." I could not disagree more with John's statement, "More importantly, the ability to preserve font and formatting information from application to application is a function of the applications, not of the operating system or platform." Changing languages is not just changing "fonts" or "formatting". Languages are much more complicated than that and the attitude that the solution is just fonts and formatting will keep us from seeking and reaching good solutions. Well, this is already too long. I think that the only good long term solution on the horizon is Unicode. All the major US OS companies as well as several of the biggest application vendors are part of the Unicode Consortium. All will implement it in time. The first implementations will probably not be for at least 12-18 months. There will then be a lag as apps are retrofited to take advantage of the OS. Then and only then, we will begin to have truly nice, affordable (sorry Xerox), multilingual environments. As a final aside, I would like to state that I think proper ethics demand that when we discuss products with which we have a direct and unambiguous financial connection, we need to make that connection clear. Trying to be evenhanded is not enough. Including misleading statements such as, "I believe the price is . . . According to my records, Zondervan's phone number is . . ." is unacceptable. John Baima Silver Mountain Software (Lbase, Bible Windows) From: Charles Robinson Subject: IDENTIFYING THREE QUOTATIONS Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 14:13:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 724 (853) Anticipating a 2d printing of my "Mary Shelley Reader" (Oxford 1990), I ask if anyone hears or sees anything recognizable in the three quotations below. I have in vain consulted dozens of concordances as well as about a dozen dictionaries of quotations. Each quote would predate 1830. (1) "a sylvan Huntress by his side" (before 1820); (2) "Better have loved despair, and safer kissed her" (before 1820); (3) the giants' rocks are "the naked bones of the world waiting to be clothed" (before 1830--could this be somewhere in Burnet's "Sacred Theory of the Earth"? I would appreciate any leads--a similar query to exlibris about 2 weeks ago was not too productive. Charles E. Robinson Please address me at robinson@brahms.udel.edu From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: query Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 21:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 725 (854) My wife is developing research on early 19th century women artists in Great Britain, but is finding there to be dearth of material to help. If anyone either has some leads to sources, or to scholars also working on the same or similar areas, please let me know. Direct e-mail to "hurtado@ccm.umanitoba.ca". Many thanks. Larry Hurtado, Dept. of Religion, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, R3T 2N2. From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Re: 5.0354 Multilingual WP (6/207) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 02:57:29 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 726 (855) It's nice to see the flurry of interest that's arisen in multilingual word processing. For a while I was largely content to see my statements blasted, defended, skewed and what not. It's time, though, to make a few more thrusts. I dearly hope that there are techies out there reading this, busily designing the systems of tomorrow. This is a very useful debate, and I hope something comes of it other than hot air. What I see essentially here is a barrage of half-solutions to a problem that has never really been solved. One person, for instance, states (quite correctly) that an Israeli company called Micro-Macro produces a word processor called Rav-Ktav which writes both Hebrew and English on a Mac; I believe it can write Arabic as well (the problems of Arabic are almost identical with those of Hebrew with the added fillip of initial, median, and final forms of each letter; I remember being shown a program that would deal with Arabic correctly, but I do not remember whether or not the program in question was Rav-Ktav). Rav Ktav is a relatively primitive word-processor.... It's a helluva lot of overhead trying to get a PC to understand non-English wordwrap and character sets (whether drawn via the ROM, or drawn manually). It takes a very complex system to do these things, since the programmer must essentially create unique a video interface for him or herself. And even then, the solution is normally not truly language independent, but rather restricted to a few specific scripts, fonts, and directions. In sum, it takes time and effort, and the result is something of an environment unto itself. "So what?" John Hughes, in effect, says: If (X) is my word processor of choice, and if I have solved all my Greek and Hebrew multilingual word processing needs in (X), I'm not the least bit worried if my (X) files can be imported into Nota Bene, WordPerfect, or 101 other DOS programs. John, while you're right that (X) will solve the problems of the lonely, bleary eyed, computer-naive user who sits alone at a console, you're not taking into account the rest of us who actually use the machine as more than a typesetter. Search and retrieval software is important to many of us, as are notepads, databases, and our own applications which we write (yes, a sizeable number of us program our own machines). And what about sharing information with colleagues? All the work that your "X" wordprocessor does now has to be repeated for every single piece of software that needs to view X files, to manipulate them, search and index them, cut and paste them. People in the DOS world don't understand this level of integration because it doesn't exist for them. Although we've had many lively disagreements here, I cannot agree more with John Baima's assessment of the situation: Now I'm sure that John Hughes, as Product Manager for Zondervan Electronic Publishing, was excited by [Goerwitz's disparaging comments about portability and PCs] and stated, "Excuse me for wondering how many scholars who do multilingual word processing and other forms of text manipulation sit up nights worrying about portability." Many, I would think. And it is not just 101 DOS apps, John, it is over 10,001 apps. In fact, John (Baima) should know. He's actually written the software for a flexible linguistic database package that runs under DOS, and which provides compatibility with a number of existing applications programs. It is from very personal experience that he points out the problems that developers generally face when adding multilingual display capability to DOS packages, and, in specific, those that are involved with a WordPerfect add-on: Don't get me wrong, I recommend John [Hughes'] Scripture Fonts program for people who want to do Hebrew in Word Perfect. But honestly, if the contortions that were necessary to make Word Perfect do right to left input and print Hebrew with vowels is not an idiosyncratic kludge, I've never seen one. By necessity Scripture Fonts is not compatible with any other Word Perfect add on, let alone products outside Word Perfect in a seamless way. Yes, maybe my program and a few others can output to Scripture Fonts, but no DOS solution for Hebrew or any other "difficult" language is anything but idiosyncratic. John Hughes berates me, as I perhaps deserve, for confusing the OS and the hardware issues, but in fact his objections amount to something of a red herring. The OS is hard to work with, and so is the hardware. As Tom Crone points out: One of the biggest problems IBM has left us with the PC is the lack of a standard video interface. You can find PCs with CGA, Hercules, EGA, VGA, and extended VGA video (and soon XGA?). The only thing common to all those is the 80 column text screen, which is a left over from the punched cards of 20 years ago. The problem is there is no consistent "hardware platform" to write systems for. Whether we talk hardware or software, the problem is essentially that the multilingual solutions for all DOS packages come on the wrong level. The solution should be on the operating system and interface level, and not on the application level. John Baima makes this point nicely when he says: If each application has to work out a new solution, we will never have a good situation. It simply costs too much to reinvent the wheel for each app. Ask John how long it took to get his product out... He continues, I could not disagree more with John's statement, "More importantly, the ability to preserve font and formatting information from application to application is a function of the applications, not of the operating system or platform." In sum (for those still with us), I am impressed with my own ignorance about the features and availability of various individual software packages and tack-ons that John Hughes discussed. I simply cannot understand, though, how someone who has cut a line of display interface code could argue that font and formatting information should be a property of each application. Nor do I see how any developer with this sort of plan can actively advocate, or take advantage of, new developments in interface design, such as the NeXT's truly object-oriented system (not a fake one like X, coded on top of traditional C). While I appreciate your reply and your extensive expansions and commentary on my posting, I cannot help but conclude that you have missed the point, John (Hughes). I'd invite you to reply, and any others who want to join the fray. And, incidentally, I wonder whether there are any people from NeXT, Apple, etc. reading this. -Richard From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0354 Multilingual WP (6/207) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 9:49:39 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 727 (856) Just a postscript to the current discussion: the best Israeli WP I know about is Wordmill, which comes in different versions: one version can handle Hebrew + Arabic + English, with correct forms of the Arabic letters of course and correct wordwrap, plus footnotes etc. I've never used it myself but have seen it at work at a friend's. Since it's an Israeli program, I doubt very much whether it bothers with Hebrew vowels :-) -- and of course it's also copy protected :-( On the other hand it's one of the biggest WP around over here, so it's got the support that some others don't (in the Hebrew-English version it's very popular for business wordprocessing). Warning: Israeli computers come with the Hebrew in a chip (the companies routinely replace the original chip with one including Hebrew in all computers and printers sold here) so anyone thinking of an Israeli program has to check whether the Hebrew is in the software or expected to be in the hardware. Judging from what I know of my friend's hardware setup, I'd say Wordmill has the Arabic in the software but expects to find the Hebrew character set provided. Of course you can always get someone to buy you an Israeli chip and ask your friendly dealer's technician to put it in your computer for you (if you're not the type who does such things alone) -- I once bought a video card in the States and got the chip replaced when I got back here, no problem :=) Again, if you want vowels and cantillation marks, you have no choice but a software solution, the Israeli market is business-oriented and has no patience with academics, Bible scholare and similar weirdos :-!! Judy Koren, Haifa From: Peter Bryder Subject: Re: 5.0337 Multilingual WP, OSs, characters, fonts (1/121) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 23:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 728 (857) Richard did not speak of Chinese which was debated earlier. I have made a system on thje Mac that writes Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean at the same time. You can even write Hebrew and Arabic "corrrectly" not backwards if you use the wordprocessor Nisus which have a Hebrew version (which nationally also work with Chinese, my speciallity). If people out there are interested you may contact me personally on e-mail or any other way. I might not answer straigt away as I just returned from Athens where it was 45 degree centigrates and a lot of pollution, but I will recover Dr. Peter Bryder Lund University Department of History of Religions Allhelgona Kyrkogata 8 S-223 62 Lund Sweden Fax:+464647277 e-mail:weng@gemini.ldc.lu.se From: Erwin Welsch Subject: Call for Papers--Text Management Software Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 16:11:28 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 357 (858) Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A frequently asked question by faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, based on messages on various listservers, elsewhere as well, is which bibliographic formatting or text management program is most appropriate for a specific task or how they compare with each other. The increasing volume of information from CD-ROM products and networking has seemed to accelerate the number of questions being asked. After trying to answer this frequently asked question and ending up by usually suggesting my favorites, I made a proposal to Meckler for a book on the topic which was accepted. It is scheduled to appear in fall, 1992. The book's intent is to concentrate on some of the most discussed and popular text management programs for both Macintosh and DOS platforms. Each section, or chapter for more important programs, will describe the features of specific formatting or bibliographic program, discuss its use in a specific library or other text management situation and include an appraisal of how the program worked out in practice. The focus will be on applications and practical experiences, rather than on a comparison of program features. Contributors for askSam, Pro-Cite on a Macintosh (another on the DOS version is still needed), WordCruncher, and a custom formatting program have been identified and agreed to submit sections or chapters. Additional contributions for others such as Inmagic, Papyrus, Library Master, EndNote (both Macintosh and PC), IZE, Notebook II, Nota Bene, or whichever program you think has worked well, or poorly, in a specific situation to help manage information are being sought. If you think that you might be interested in contributing or discussing the possibilities of contributing a section or chapter, please contact me by EMail, SnailMail, or voice. Please excuse multiple postings. Erwin K. Welsch Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 EWelsch@WISCMACC.Bitnet EWelsch@vms.macc.wisc.edu (608) 262-9585 From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Genealogy Software Date: Wednesday, 2 October 1991 0139-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 729 (859) An excellent source of information on genealogy software for all widely used machines is the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file from the ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1.bitnet (or @VM1.NODAK.EDU on the Internet). This ListServer offers lots of other valuable items for genealogical research, and the list itself is very active. Probably the most widely used DOS program is PAF (Personal Ancestral File) from the Church of the Latter-day Saints, 50 East North Temple St., Salt Lake City UT 84150. The program costs about $35, is well supported and quite bug-free, and its files can be ported to many other genealogical programs (and vice versa, GEDCOM format). PAF is also available for the Mac. And there are lots of other alternatives, ranging from freeware to about $300. Bob Kraft (Pierpont genealogist) From: Subject: Hypercard Shakespeare at Stanford Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 11:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 730 (860) Matthew Wall requested information about a Hypercard-based Shakespeare at Stanford. In the late 80s, Larry Friedlander of Stanford's English Department created a group of multimedia tools for teaching Shakespeare, known collectively as "The Shakespeare Project." The following references might be of use: Friedlander, Larry. "The Shakespeare Project." *Learning Tomorrow* 3 (Spring 1987): 123-152. ERIC ED 302 185. Friedlander, Larry. "The Shakespeare Project: Experiments in Multimedia Education." *Academic Computing* 2.7 (May/June 1988): 26-68. Kim Ball (KSBALL@IUBACS) English Dept., Indiana University From: Subject: computer-aided teaching of literature Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 12:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 359 (861) I am a graduate student in the English Department at Indiana University. I am writing a dissertation on the use of computer- aided instruction in literature classes at the college level. I would like to hear from anyone who knows of computer applications (other than tools such as word processors, idea generators and organizers, concordance programs, etc.) that are being used in college or university literature classes. Though I welcome new references on Intermedia, The Shakespeare Project, Havholm and Stewart's work at Wooster, and Moulthrop's Hypercard and Story Space applications, I am looking particularly for leads on programs other than these. I appreciate your help. Thank you. Kim Ball (KSBALL@IUBACS) From: ALAN COOPER Subject: Re: 5.0356 Multilingual WP (3/190) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 20:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 731 (862) n/j John Hughes is one of the gurus of computer applications to biblical studies, and I found his lengthy response to Richard Goerwitz's screed to be both informative and illuminating. I possess none of the technical expertise of these two gentlemen, but I do have some practical experience with English/Greek/Hebrew word processing on the IBM-PC and compatibles. Like Hughes, I missed the previous discussion of multilingual word processing on Humanist. Like him, too, I am concerned only with what *works*, and not at all with the matter of whether or not it is theoretically elegant, or whether it is the "latest thing" in computer technology. I would like to comment on a few of Hughes's specific observations and recommendations: (1) Unlike Hughes, I have found ScriptureFonts (a Greek/Hebrew WordPerfect add-in) to be eccentric and unreliable, especially when it comes to printing. I had high hopes for this program, since WordPerfect 5.1 is my general word processor of choice, and I was delighted by the prospect of being able to add serious Hebrew and Greek capability to it. Now I am resigned to waiting for WP's own long-promised "Hebrew language module," which the company describes as "under development," and which supposedly will include "full screen font and right-to-left editing capabilities" (ditto for Arabic; see _WordPerfect Report_ 5/3, Fall, 1991, p. 10). Perhaps ScriptureFonts performs well if you're printing on an HP III with Postscript (I wouldn't know), but on my more modest Epson FX-850, which is supposedly supported also, I have experienced all sorts of irregularities, including one character (shva) that doesn't print out at all--not to mention the ugliness of the Hebrew font (a matter of taste, I know, and WP's own Hebrew font is monstrous by any standard). Zondervan's support people have been friendly but unhelpful, basically saying that the problems are inherent in the printer (then why claim to support it?). As I recall, Hughes was demonstrating ScriptureFonts on behalf of Zondervan when I purchased it at a scholarly conference. Is there an affiliation? (I ask this solely for the sake of information, without the slightest intention of impugning Hughes's integrity or objectivity.) (2) I also have used the Linguist's Software Hebrew fonts for Atech's Publisher's Powerpak, which operates within WordPerfect. The output is very nice (even on an FX-850), but there are significant drawbacks. First of all, one must contend with decidedly non-WYSIWYG screen display (even using WP's View Document feature). And then printing is S-L-O-W: six passes per line is what makes the output so nice, but imagine printing out a book manuscript that way! It is not possible to mix Powerpak fonts and resident printer fonts within the same document, so the English prints out as slowly as the Hebrew. (3) Hughes praises Nota Bene several times, without mentioning that the program seems to be caught in an update-warp at the moment. I had never been attracted to Nota Bene because of its high cost and its exceeding complexity. A prototype of the forthcoming multilingual upgrade, however, called N.B. Lingua, was demonstrated at a conference that I attended, and I was terrifically impressed. When I received a promotional flyer from a dealer offering this new program for $350, I took the advice of some friends who are N.B. devotees and ordered it. [N.B. has "devotees"; WordPerfect merely "users" :-)] I was supposed to receive it in March, 1991. In June, the dealer called me to say that he had no idea when Lingua would actually be appearing, but that (at the manufacturer's request) he was going to put my charge order through anyway, supplying me with the old version of Notabene and the promise of a free upgrade. I was not inclined to subsidize development of the dilatory upgrade in order to receive a program that I didn't want, so I instructed him not to put the charge through for anything but the advertised product that I had ordered. And that's where we stand as of this writing. (4) Hughes does not mention a multilingual word processor that I have found to be highly functional, namely Megawriter. There have been development and support problems, to be sure, but it is easy to use, offers Russian and Arabic in addition to English, Hebrew, and Greek, and it works very nicely with my FX- 850. There is also a TSR utility called Megawriter Retriever that converts CCAT Greek and Hebrew Bible texts directly to Megawriter format and inserts them in a document (ScriptureFonts does this conversion for WordPerfecu)too, but by a clumsy process that requires several steps and does not operate from within WP). Not too long ago, copies of Megawriter v. 3.11 were being sold for $99.95 by a dealer called Bible House in Searcy, Arkansas, phone 800-342-4253 or 501-268-9885. This price supposedly included a free upgrade to v. 4.0, which has never appeared (and perhaps never will). If it's still available at that price, and if "portability" is not an issue (for me, as for Hughes, it is essentially irrelevant), I frankly don't see how anyone could go wrong with it. (5) I appreciated Hughes's advice concerning hardware, but would not be so sanguine about buying Zeos (or any other) products just because they have the PC Magazine seal of approval. Even if you're less cynical than I am about the number of advertising pages taken by the editors' perennial favorites, you still should see if the business-oriented and speed-crazed evaluative criteria of PC Magazine are in fact relevant to your own needs. I have purchased three IBM-clones from local business people whose equipment and references I checked out, saving hundreds of dollars over the cheapest mail-order clone manufacturers in the process, and getting *exactly* what I wanted. These local businesses have provided loyal support and service (for 7 years in the case of my first machine--not that it's needed much). On the other hand, one of my best friends just bought a Zeos 386/33 which arrived with a defective motherboard and had to be shipped right back. Now everyone will have their own strong views on this subject. What I'm suggesting is that one ought to shy away from recommending specific brands of hardware, and address the more general issue of what *kind* of hardware is best suited to particular user needs. Probably few people are better qualified to do that than John Hughes. Well, there's more, but this is too long already. With good wishes, Alan Cooper, Hebrew Union College From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Re: 5.0356 Multilingual WP (3/190) Date: Fri, 04 Oct 91 10:55:06 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 732 (863) This debate has made much so far of what can and cannot be done with different platforms/OSs. I think more has to be said about the ease of installation. I use an IBM all the time; in fact, I'm using one to compose this message. I am happy to believe that the IBM can be made to do anything (well, perhaps almost anything) that a Mac can do in the way of multi-lingual wordprocessing. But even the IBM's fans have to admit that it is hard work which requires considerable computing expertise. There are too many separate components which have to be located and chosen and which then have to fit together precisely correctly: graphics card, software, printer, printer driver, screen fonts, printer fonts, etc. How many HUMANISTs have had no problems with any of these items? I suspect John Hughes has had trouble, but then he is better placed than most to know how to resolve such problems. Some of my colleagues are still having trouble getting pound signs to print instead of hashes or u-acutes; the complexities of setting up a multilingual system on an IBM compatible are simply beyond them. Donald Spaeth University of Glasgow From: "John J Hughes" Subject: More on Multilingual Issues Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 08:50:09 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 733 (864) In his recent HUMANIAST message, Tom Crone takes issue with my lack of concern for portability--being able to transfer (multilingual) files among different DOS applications. I concede what I believe the idealized version of the point to be: in the best of all possible computing worlds, all programs on all platforms running under any number of ^?^?operating systems should be able to read one another's files in a way that recognizes and preserves all characters--roman and nonroman--scripts, formatting and mark up. Unfortunately, we don't live in such a world, and I don't believe we will for quite some time, if ever. Thus persons who need files in one format translated into another format and who do not know how to do this themselves will continue to need Tom and other consultants. Or they will need to do some research and find a file conversion program that can meet their needs. I'm not sure there is anything to agree or disagree with concerning Tom's second point: there is no single video standard in the DOS world but a multitude of "standards"--CGA, EGA, VGA, HGC+--and this multitude makes it difficult for developers to develop applications, since each program has to have a separate video driver to be able to communicate with each of these video "standards." But Tom's point raises a more general issue that I find interesting. There is a blessing and a curse in IBM's approach to the PC platform. The blessing is that when IBM created the PC in the early 1980s, they deliberately created an "open platform" and published the specifications for all (or most) of the components. In fact, the team that designed and built the first IBM PC used, I believe, all off-the-shelf components, including the operating system, which they licensed from Microsoft, having decided not to use Digital's. Thus IBM made it easy for second- and third-party vendors to develop add-on, add-in, and workalike components and systems. They did this to try and make their machine as inexpensive and easy to mass produce, as popular, and hence as financially successful as possible. Their policy also made it possible for companies to develop clones and to create new video "standards," for example, Hercules' HGC+ and IBM's VGA. And by inviting competition--deliberately or not--IBM's approach drove the price of microcomputers and their components down, down, down. In fact, I think it's fair to say that if IBM had not adopted the "open approach" it did, there might not be a microcomputer-centered HUMANIST discussion group because there might not have been a microcomputer revolution. Would microcomputers have taken the business world and then the academic world by storm if the sole commercially successful member of the species had remained the Apple II, which in the early 1980s was produced by a company run be two eccentric (to say the least) guys? I doubt it. The curse is that the openness of the IBM platform resulted in many (video) standards, not one. But now you have to ask yourself: "Is Apple's more closed approach preferable?" To the best of my knowledge, no one but Apple manufactures Macintosh-compatible ROMS. For example, a few days ago I got somewhat excited when I read a press release about an add-in card for DOS machines that would allow them to run Macintosh ^?^?^programs and read and write Macintosh files. The only drawback (not counting the $900 price) was that users have to _provide their own Macintosh ROMs_ either by cannibalizing an old Macintosh or by buying the ROMs from dealers who have! Apple's "closed approach" means that Apple has no competition in the Macintosh arena the way IBM does in the DOS arena. And this means that you can get far more "bang for the buck" by buying an IBM-compatible machine than by buying a Macintosh, since competition in the DOS world functions to drive the prices down. From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 08:58:30 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 734 (865) SUBJECT: Still More on Multilingual Issues In his recent HUMANIST message, John Baima takes me to task on several matters to which I would like to respond. First, although it is true that I am the Product Manager for Zondervan Electronic Publishing, the company that developed ScriptureFonts, I am not a Zondervan employee. I am an independent, self-employed consultant to the company. Second, ScriptureFonts is not my program. Zondervan and Jeff Gillette jointly hold the copyright. Jeff, who while at Duke created the Duke Humanities Toolkit and MicroCALIS, designed and programmed ScriptureFonts. Third, I have no financial interest in ScriptureFonts. Certainly, I hope it continues to be successful. But its success does not profit me, and its failure would not harm me. Fourth, if in Richard's and John's terminology a "kludge" is an application-specific solution to a problem (in this context, the problem of multilingual text display and right-to-left scripts), then certainly ScriptureFonts is a kludge. And so is NotaBene's SLS. And so is WordPerfect's own Hebrew version of WordPerfect, which I have a prototype of. And so, to an extent, is Nisus-Hebrew for the Macintosh, since it requires a dongle (hardware key). And so forth. My reply--provincial and short-sighted, I'm sure--is to shrug my shoulders and say: "So what! If you have a solution that meets your needs, rejoice and compute away." Fifth, I remain convinced that _most_ scholars with multilingual word-processing and text-manipulation interests are more concerned about solving their own needs than they are in being able to export their files to other applications and import files from other applications. I have no statistical evidence to back up my belief, which is based on conversations at conferences, phone calls from persons seeking help, and introspection! Certainly, some, perhaps many, scholars are interested in portability, but is this really a burning issue for most? I doubt it. Sixth, John's remark "...no DOS solution for Hebrew or any other difficult' language is anything but idiosyncratic" made me wonder if there has been a thorough discussion of Microsoft Hebrew DOS on HUMAIST. [Andrew Rippin at the University of Calgary could do a good job of educating us on this...] Seventh, John says: "Changing languages is not just changing `fonts' or `formatting.' Languages are much more complicated than that and the attitude that the solution is just fonts and formatting will keep us from seeking and reaching good solutions." In my original message I believe that I portrayed a language (in this context, characters on a computer screen) as consisting of two things: a script (right-to-left, left-to-right) and an alphabet (including diacritical marks). Formatting--e.g., 10-point Times bold--is an incidental. I'd like to know two things: (1) what is the "much more" that John has in mind, and (2) what does John mean by "changing languages"? Finally, I think that before we question one another's ethics (here I refer to John's closing paragraph), it might be nice to get the facts straight and not pronounce sentence on the basis of assumptions or appearances. John says that my statement "I believe the price is..." concerning ScriptureFonts is misleading. Well, I am not involved in pricing Zondervan's products, and from time to time, Zondervan changes its prices. I don't keep up with these changes, since they have nothing to do with my consulting responsibilities and have no bearing on my work. John also says that my statement "According to my records Zondervan's phone number is..." is "unacceptable" (ethically, I assume)! The number I provided was an 800 order number that I have never called and that I got off a product brochure, just as I got the phone numbers for the other products off their brochures or manuals. I'm not sure what is unacceptable about this! From: CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX Subject: Job Announcement Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 14:30 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 362 (866) Faculty Position Vanderbilt University The Department of French & Italian at Vanderbilt University has an opening for a SPECIALIST IN FRENCH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE. This position is either for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with Ph.D. and demonstrated research potential, or for an established scholar with tenure. This person will teach French 18th-century literature at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as other language and literature courses. NATIVE-QUALITY FRENCH IS INDISPENSABLE since faculty in this department teach all levels of French language. Preferred starting date: August 1992. Please direct enquiries and applications to: Professor Barbara C. Bowen Department of French & Italian Vanderbilt University Box 6312, Station B Nashville, TN 37235 Preferred deadline: November 15, 1991. Candidates will NOT be interviewed at the MLA convention. All communications will be acknowledged. Vanderbilt is an Affirmative Action/Equal Oppor- tunity Employer, and welcomes applications from women and minority candidates. From: Erwin Welsch Subject: Call for Papers--Text Management Software Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 16:11:28 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 363 (867) Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum A frequently asked question by faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, based on messages on various listservers, elsewhere as well, is which bibliographic formatting or text management program is most appropriate for a specific task or how they compare with each other. The increasing volume of information from CD-ROM products and networking has seemed to accelerate the number of questions being asked. After trying to answer this frequently asked question and ending up by usually suggesting my favorites, I made a proposal to Meckler for a book on the topic which was accepted. It is scheduled to appear in fall, 1992. The book's intent is to concentrate on some of the most discussed and popular text management programs for both Macintosh and DOS platforms. Each section, or chapter for more important programs, will describe the features of specific formatting or bibliographic program, discuss its use in a specific library or other text management situation and include an appraisal of how the program worked out in practice. The focus will be on applications and practical experiences, rather than on a comparison of program features. Contributors for askSam, Pro-Cite on a Macintosh (another on the DOS version is still needed), WordCruncher, and a custom formatting program have been identified and agreed to submit sections or chapters. Additional contributions for others such as Inmagic, Papyrus, Library Master, EndNote (both Macintosh and PC), IZE, Notebook II, Nota Bene, or whichever program you think has worked well, or poorly, in a specific situation to help manage information are being sought. If you think that you might be interested in contributing or discussing the possibilities of contributing a section or chapter, please contact me by EMail, SnailMail, or voice. Please excuse multiple postings. Erwin K. Welsch Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison 728 State Street Madison, WI 53706 EWelsch@WISCMACC.Bitnet EWelsch@vms.macc.wisc.edu (608) 262-9585 From: "Michel (mgrimaud@lucy.wellesley.edu\") GRIMAUD" Subject: Orthographic to Phonetic French Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1991 20:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 735 (868) I am planning to transcribe about 4,000 lines of French poetry -- the text of Victor Hugo's masterpiece _Dieu_ (note modest title) -- into phonetics... and would like the computer to do much of the work for me. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A MACHINE READABLE GLOSSARY OF FRENCH WORDS WITH THEIR PHONETIC EQUIVALENT? If not I suppose I will have to create it myself. Here is how I imagine doing it. Please criticize! Step 1: Scan the text into WordPerfect and proofread Step 2: run a frequency list so that repeated words do not need to be transcribed phonetically twice Up to here things are clear. The next steps are where I would like suggestions. Step 3: Find in the linguistic literature... WHERE???... if there are robust (not fail-safe but useful) sets of correspondences between spelling and pronunciation in French. (Beyond the obvious.) Step 4: Find out whether there are robust rules for SYLLABIFICATION (I remember reading about problems with this... in an article published 15-20 years ago and read 10 years ago at least...) Does there exist a DICTIONARY OF ALL POSSIBLE SYLLABLES? Would it be of any use? Step 5: Deal with liaison and enchainement One solution I envisage is to search for all PAIRS of words and try to create rules for those pairs that do occur. Step 6: Deal with the phonetics of end of line to beginning of next line... Which would be considered performance under ordinary circumstances but which has to be dealt with here Step 7: Put all this together Step 8: Establish links in a database between the text and its transcription Any help on any of the steps would be most welcome. I would, of course, be most curious to know if anyone has already done this kind of work. Michel Grimaud Dept of French Wellesley College Wellesley MA 02181 Tel. 617/235-0320 (extension 2404) From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: wordperfect keyboard Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 08:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 736 (869) Does anyone know where I might find alternate keyboard maps for WordPerfect? I am especially interested in both Russian (any of the dialects) and Czechoslovakian. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, James A. Wilderotter II Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" From: rogers@epas.utoronto.ca (Henry Rogers) Subject: Mongolian query Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 09:18:18 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 737 (870) Is anyone familiar with writing Mongolian on a Macintosh? I would be interested in fonts and a suitable operating system. There is a small group of people here at Toronto working on Mongolian, and we would appreciate any help. Mongolian is written with a cursive alphabet in lines running from top to bottom with the first line starting at the top left and subsequent lines moving to the right. The best solution so far seems to be a Hebrew/Arabic word processor with the letters entered on their side. Naturally Mongolian speakers/writers find writing sideways odd.The output must be turned 90 degrees to be read. The right-to-left input puts the lines in the correct order. A Chinese/Japanese system with vertical input puts the lines in the wrong order. Further,it is mono-spaced, not suitable for a cursive writing system. Does anyone know of a suitable operating system runing from top to bottom starting at the top left and allowing proportional spacing? Also, does anyone have a Mongolian font? The only one we have is bit-mapped and has a rather heavy old-fashioned 19th-century look? I realise that this problem may seem a touch recherche, but it is comforting to think that technology is allowing us to think about such things nowadays. Thanks, Henry Rogers Department of Linguistics University of Toronto rogers@epas.utoronto.ca rogers@epas.toronto.edu From: Jean Veronis Subject: Q: Relational DBMS for Suns Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 11:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 738 (871) Who knows a cheap relational database management system for Sun workstations? I am not looking for something very sophisticated. Just basic functionalities. Thanks, Jean Veronis From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 739 (872) SUBJECT: Complexities of Multilingual Work om IBMs Donald Spaeth's recent note regarding the complexities of setting up a successful multilingual word processing IBM/DOS-based system reminded me of the fits I had a year and a half ago trying to get a PostScript Greek font that started life on a Macintosh to work with FinalWord II and Sprint, two DOS programs. With assistance and suggestions from several kind HUMANISTs (Paul Bradley, Paul Bacsich, Douglas de Lacey, and Roland Hutchinson), I finally got this marriage to work. It took a lot of counseling, but it was worth it! Alan Coopers message about the frustrations he has had with his Epson FX-850 and ScriptureFonts illustrates how difficult it can be to get DOS applications to communicate with output devices the way they are supposed to. This can be true even when not using an add-on product like ScriptureFonts. If its ease of installation and use you want, buy a Macintosh! If it's more "bang for the buck," buy an IBM clone. Maybe a case can be made that bang for the buck is offset by ease of installation and use... John Hughes From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Sat, 5 Oct 91 17:01:51 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 740 (873) SUBJECT: Multilingual Again... Alan Cooper rightly notes that ScriptureFonts behaves in a temperamental fashion with some printers. Alan's frustrations are unfortunate, and I hope that I can find a way to help him get the program working properly. The following remarks are not an attempt to excuse ScriptureFonts' errant behavior on Alan's Epson FX-850. They are an attempt to explain why sometimes (in the DOS world) it can be difficult to get an application to print successfully. Because no two printers "speak the same language," software developers (e.g., Word Perfect Corporation, Zondervan Electronic Publishing, Dragonfly Software) have to develop "printer drivers" for each output device they wish their program to be able to communicate with. A "printer driver" is nothing more than a little translation program that takes the characters the application (e.g., WordPerfect, ScriptureFonts, Nota Bene) sends to the printer and translations them into the appropriate printer-specific codes to cause the printer to print the proper characters. Unfortunately, because the printer world is like the Tower of Babel, software developers must develop a separate printer driver for _every_ different output device they wish to support. The Word Perfect Corporation, for example, has developed over 500 printer drivers for WordPerfect, and they continue to develop new drivers as new printers or new models of printers are released or as existing printer models have their ROMs modified. Every time a new printer comes out and every time a new model of an existing printer is released and every time a change is made to the ROMs of an existing printer model, WordPerfect either has to write a new driver or modify an old one or do nothing. To create a printer driver, software developers must obtain a model of each printer for which they wish to write a driver and all the technical information about each printer they can get their hands on. Developers obtain printers and technical literature from the printer manufacturers. After obtaining printers and information, developers have to write the drivers and test them. Here is one of the many pitfalls that can cause printer drivers to misbehave. If the printer (e.g., Epson FX-850) used to develop a driver has older or newer ROMs from the ROMs in the _same model_ a user has, the application may not be able to print correctly. Two printers can have the same name and model number and look exactly alike and yet be different at the level of their ROMs. All printers have ROMs (Read Only Memory chips; in printers, ROMs sometimes are referred to as "firmware"). These chips store the programs that the printer uses to take the stream of characters the computer sends it and print them properly. From time to time, printer developers change the ROMs in their printers to fix a bug, to make an improvement, or for some other reason. Recently, for example, I requested and received a firmware upgrade (i.e., new ROMs) for my NewGen Turbo PS/480 PostScript/HP II printer. This upgrade fixed a host of small errors the printer could make under certain conditions when run in its PostScript mode. Before I could install this upgrade, I was notified that a second, even-more-recent, firmware upgrade was being shipped to me. Among other things, this second upgrade fixed a bug in a Greek PostScript font that I had been having trouble with. Now imagine that you are a software developer and that you have just received a NewGen Turbo PS/480 with the latest firmware and that you are going to develop a driver for this printer so that your software can print on it. You develop your printer driver, test it, and assure yourself that it is free of bugs. You then advertise that your program is compatible with the NewGen Turbo PS/480. I rush out and buy your program, completely unaware (as you, the developer, also are) that you developed the printer driver around the newer firmware in the NewGen Turbo PS/480 the factory sent you and that this driver will not work properly with the older firmware that I have in my NewGen Turbo PS/480 but which was unavailable to you, the developer. When I try to print from your program on my NewGen Turbo PS/480 with the older firmware, I discover that it will not print correctly, and I become a frustrated customer. You, the developer, have trouble understanding my problem because you know that your program prints correctly on the NewGen Turbo PS/480 you have sitting in front of you. Of course, the inverse of what I just described also can (and does) happen: a printer driver developed around a 1991 model of the NewGen Turbo PS/480, for example, may prove incompatible with the firmware in the 1992 model of the NewGen Turbo PS/480 so that when your program tries to print on the 1992 model, it is unsuccessful. The 1991 driver will not work properly with the 1992 firmware. The only 100% foolproof solution to these firmware woes is for software developers to get _all_ the old versions of the firmware for _each_ printer they wish to support and make their initial printers backwards compatible for each supported printer and then to get all the new firmware revisions for each supported printer and continually issue upgraded printer drivers that take account of each new firmware revision. Neither of these courses is practical. Printer manufacturers will not give software developers old firmware and old technical documentation. As far as printer manufacturers are concerned, what is old is gone and forgotten. And printer manufacturers only loan developers printers for a limited period of time at the end of which the printer must be returned. Thus receiving new firmware upgrades would not be meaningful, unless you had a printer in which to place the upgrade. Finally, one of the most cost-intensive aspects of software development for multilingual DOS applications is creating the printer drivers. Theoretically, continually upgrading and/or creating printer drivers could cost a developer more than he made on the program. Unfortunately, the person who suffers the most in this process is the end user, in this case, Alan. From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 741 (874) Alan mentions MegaWriter as a "highly functional" and affordable multilingual word processor. I agree. I'm not too clear, however, if this program still is being sold by its original distributor or not or if it is still available from the original distributor (Paraclete Software). In the most recent edition of Byte magazine, I saw an add for ChiWriter, which was/is the basis for MegaWriter (my understanding is that MegaWriter was/is ChiWriter with Greek and Hebrew and other fonts From: Harry Gaylord Subject: multilingual text processing Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 17:07:50 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 742 (875) I am surpised that there is such a dearth of multilingual users who need several applications working on the same texts and who are exchanging these files with each other. I am sure we are out here. I did not react to this discussion when it was about word processing, but this is only one field of applications, i.e. how I get something on paper. I spend much more time with the analysis of texts in machine readable form and extracting the material I want to include in my work. The best solution to the problem is for manufacturers to produce products which incorporate internationally recognised standards for non-English alphabets. Instead of doing this manufacturers seem to opt out for reinventing the wheel each time they put another language module in their software or operating system. If they followed the ISO standards, we could import and export files to a large extent, at least in modern languages. The ISO 8859 series covers the repertoires of nearly every European language, plus Hebrew and Arabic. Parts of it have been officially available from ECMA since 1985. DEC is the only company which has taken this seriously as far as I know. Their 330 model terminals can communicate with the 8859 series. The KERMIT project has taken very seriously the problem of character sets and provided good facilities in translating between character sets. Xwindows has standard 8859-1 and there was some discussion that they would also add other char sets from 8859 in later versions. This situation will be improved when the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) becomes available as an international standard next year. Final decisions on the draft will be made next week at an ISO subcommittee meeting in Rennes, France. This new 10646 will be the result of the merger of ISO and Unicode work in this field. Then it is up to the hardware, software and networking manufacturers to put away their proprietary solutions and implement a common solution once and for all. Organisations such as IBM, Microsoft, and Apple have not shown much inclination to do this so far, but they do have repesentatives on the ISO committee. Yet even without this much is already in place. Not only are the coded character sets available, but within the SGML standard there are extensive sets of character entities and the possibility of creating new character entities. One can export through tables from one application into entities and import to another application from the entities. Each side (human or computer) need only have reversible tables for a specific application. The TEI Guidelines provide useful information for these sorts of issues as well and when we have readily available software which can use the facilities of using different character sets and entities in SGML it will be a lot easier. In the meantime, I use internally the NotaBene system internally and can export multilingual files with other characters in entities for import elsewhere. A word on Megawriter. Bob Kraft can say more on this. I think there were troubles with its license on ChiWriter, produced by Horstmann Software in California. ChiWriter was first designed for producing texts with mathe- matical formulas. There are a number of character sets available from them and a font designer is included. There are some difficulties in converting files in its format into other ones, though it can be done. This was especially true of the Greek and Hebrew of Megawriter. A more recent version of ChiWriter is available. From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 10:03:17 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 743 (876) SUBJECT: Multilingual Word Processing, Continued In a recent HUMANIST note, Richard Goerwitz invites me to respond to his response to my response to his previous note. Here goes! As I've reread the correspondence, it seems that Richard and I are approaching the topic of multilingual word processing and text manipulation from significantly different perspectives. Richard is coming at the topic more from the direction of a programmer and developer. I'm approaching it more from the direction of an "end user." Richard addresses a host of problems in the DOS world that make it difficult for programmers to program multilingual applications. My responses have primarily tried to mention available DOS applications for multilingual uses. Richard bashes DOS and PCs as dead ends for the development of multilingual programs. I've tried to argue that from an end-user's perspective, PCs still have a lot of life left in them. Richard has argued for the need for portability and indicated how difficult this is on DOS-based machines. I agree that portability is an important concept and that in an ideal world (see below) it is a desideratum. But I've responded by asking how many multilingual PC users really care about this issue if they have solved their own multilingual needs. In previous messages, I've agreed that "in the best of all possible computing worlds, all programs on all platforms running under any number of operating systems should be able to read one another's files in a way that recognizes and preserves all characters--roman and nonroman--scripts, formatting and mark up." Ideally, as Richard indicates, fonts, scripts, and other language-related items should be handled by the operating system and interface. The Macintosh does this (more or less). But look at the practical side--the financial and business side--of the sort of operating system and interface we are asking for. Writing operating systems is a very expensive process that takes far longer and that is far more complex than writing an application. Practically speaking, would Microsoft or Apple or NeXT recoup their costs if they decided to provide HUMANISTS with the kind of operating system and interface we want? At the risk of sounding really provincial, will most of the PC-buying world--the business community--really care if Microsoft develops a new operating system that supports nonroman fonts and right-to-left scripts and all the other multilingual-related things it would be lovely to be able to have and use? I suspect that if Microsoft thought there was enough of a need to make such an operating system financially viable, they would develop one. As Judy Koren (from Haifa) said in her recent HUMANIST note: "Again, if you want vowels and cantillation marks, you have no choice but a software solution [as opposed to Hebrew DOS], the Israeli market is business-oriented and has no patience with academics, Bible scholare and similar weirdos :-!!" I'm afraid all major software development is business-driven, including the development of any future operating systems. All I'm saying is that we can wish for the moon, but getting there costs a lot of money. Who is going to pay for the trip, and how will they justify the expense? Is this whole discussion of the kind of operating system and interface it would be nice to have just so much wishful thinking? If there is little or no hope of getting Microsoft or Digital or Apple or NeXT or someone to develop it, is there any practical point to continuing to dream about it and to continuing to bash current operating systems? Richard seems to think I use computers primarily or only as typesetters! Yes, I use computers for typesetting, but I use them in many other ways as well. For example, I use multilingual text retrieval programs on my PC and Macintosh to search Greek and Hebrew texts. True, if I wish to take the results of a search done with the PC application and import it into Sprint or WordPerfect or what have you, I'll have to do some work to make the files compatible and to translate the codes used to represent Greek and Hebrew in the source program into those used by the recipient program. This may be seen as an inelegant and "clunky" procedure, but it is a workable one. Finally, I'd like to clarify one statement in my original HUMANIST note that I believe Richard and John Baima have significantly misunderstood. I said: "More importantly, the ability to preserve font and formatting information from application to application is a function of the applications, not of the operating system or platform." This statement is a reference to how DOS applications currently work, not a statement about what should be the case in an ideal computing environment. I think my statement has been misunderstood as a formula for future development, instead as a simple description of what currently is the case in the DOS world. So, Richard, have I missed the point about what _should_ be the case in an _ideal_ computing world, or have we been speaking at cross purposes--you with an eye on programming and development and better operating systems and me with an eye on present solutions for end users under existing operating systems? Your turn! John From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Re: NEACH Date: Sat, 5 Oct 91 9:49:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 744 (877) NOTE this late schedule change: the next NEACH meeting will take place on WEDNESDAY, October 9, 1991. Elaine Brennan of Brown will speak on HUMANIST and on the WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT at 1:30 pm in room 25C of the IBM building at 590 Madison Avenue, New York City. The date previously announced ("Thursday the 10th") is no longer valid. The correct date is WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9. Please spread the word by forwarding this message or telephoning interested colleages and friends of HUMANIST, WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT, Elaine Brennan, and NEACH. I hope to see as many of us as possible on WEDNESDAY! -- Heyward Ehrlich, President, NEACH From: vicky@humnet.ucla.edu Subject: ach newsletter Date: 8 Oct 1991 14:14:02 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 745 (878) The time has come the walrus said... to begin work on the fall issue of the ACH newsletter. All contributions should be sent to Vicky Walsh (vicky@humnet.ucla.edu) by the 20th of October, 1991. Notes on upcoming conferences, works in progress, books and articles of note, and anything you think would interest the computing and humanities crowd. Thanks for your input. Vicky From: Philip Harriman Subject: Job posting Date: Fri, 04 Oct 91 16:50 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 368 (879) Arts & Humanities research organization has opening for an Automated Systems Manager. Works closely with the Center's technical group, staff, & Information Resources to manage the specialized automated systems. Manages daily operations for in-house systems, including the Resource Collections' circulation & cataloging systems. Analyzes & manages resources, space, administrative support, & planning for Center systems, including RLIN, Orion, STAR, and Dynix. Manages ongoing relationships with hardware & software vendors of Center systems. Manages technical aspects of data exchange among Center systems & between other research collections & Center systems. Manages evaluation & acquisition of unique Center systems workstations. Prepares annual automated systems budget submittal. MLS degree from an American Library Association accredited graduate school in Information Systems Management required; knowledge of US-MARC record structure for bibliographic applications required; 3 to 4 yrs. hands-on systems support experience in a library within an academic environment preferred. Salary range starts at $39,000 - $46,300. Please send letter of intent, resume, and salary history to: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Personnel Coordinator, 401 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 400, Santa Monica, CA 90401. No phone or email inquires please. From: rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu Subject: Pharos (PC program for TLG and PHI CD-ROM's) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 91 08:17:28 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 369 (880) I would like to announce the availability of a *preliminary* version of Pharos, a new Microsoft Windows program for searching and browsing Greek and Latin texts on the TLG and PHI CD-ROM's. Pharos is the successor to Searcher, from the UCSB Classics Department, and has similar search and browse capabilities. This is a preliminary version only, which we are releasing now via FTP in order to allow interested parties to use the latest CD's from the PHI, which do not work with Searcher. Upgrades will also be available via FTP as work progresses toward an "official" release version. I have attached a copy of the letter which is being sent to current owners of Searcher; it describes Pharos in more detail and explains how to obtain a copy. Randall M. Smith rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - October 4, 1991 Dear Searcher User: As you are doubtless aware by now, Searcher 2.x does not work with the newest CD-ROM's (#5 and #6) from the Packard Humanities Institute. We have been working on a new program for Microsoft Windows, called Pharos, which will provide the same functions as Searcher along with many new features. Although this new program is not yet ready for an official release, we realize that many of you need to work with the new CD-ROM's as soon as possible. Therefore we are making available a "pre-release" version of Pharos via anonymous FTP. The first version (0.0) is available now, and subsequent upgrades will be posted as they are produced. When the "official" release version is ready for distribution, we will distribute it as Searcher was distributed: a nominal license fee (in the range of $25-$50) will be charged which will cover mailing a diskette containing the latest version of Pharos with a printed copy of the instructions and inclusion on our mailing list for information on future upgrades. We are working as quickly as possible to produce the release version of Pharos, but we hope that in the meantime this incomplete version will still be useful; we also hope to get feedback concerning bugs and problems as well as suggestions for enhancements and new features. The completed version of Pharos will include the following enhancements over Searcher 2.x: Works with CD-ROM's #5 and #6 from the Packard Humanites Institute. Smoother user interface which will allow access to more types of information simulatneously. Makes use of Windows environment to provide more fonts for better text display. Uses Windows clipboard to paste text from CD-ROM's directly into other applications. User-configurable driver tables to convert Beta Code to other formats. More search options and better batch and global search capabilities. Since Pharos is a Windows program it requires a higher level of hardware than Searcher 2.x. Microsoft Windows version 3.0 must be installed on your computer system; it is not included with Pharos and is not available from us. Pharos requires Windows to be running in the standard or Enhanced 386 mode. Thus it requires an 80286 or higher processor with 2MB of RAM minimum (we recommend a 386 system). Pharos will work with any video display that Windows supports which has a resolution at least as high as an EGA (640x350); the only major display type this eliminates is the CGA. This preliminary version requires a mouse since the keyboard interface is not fully debugged. The same CD-ROM drives and device drivers used with Searcher 2.x should work with Pharos, provided that Windows works with them. (If the File Manager sees your CD-ROM drive it should work with Pharos.) The following items are missing from the current pre-release version of Pharos but will be added as quickly as possible (Searcher 2.x can still provide some of these services): TLG index usage. Offloading of text from the CD-ROM's. Batch running of searches. User-configurable Beta Code conversion tables. PHI CD-ROM #6 - Files on this disc may be searched and viewed, but passages must be located manually since the new locator system is still causing us problems. To obtain a copy of Pharos, use your local FTP program to contact ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (128.111.122.50). Log in as "anonymous" and give your E-mail address as the password. After you have logged in change to the "classics" directory by typing "cd /classics". The file will be named PHAROSxx.EXE, where xx represents the latest version number. The first version will be PHAROS00.EXE. The version number will be changed any time a new version is posted, so you can check back at any time to see if a new version has been posted. You can get a listing of the files by typing "ls". Since this is a binary file, be sure to set the transfer type to "binary" before FTP'ing the file to your location; usually this is done by giving the command "binary", to which the system responds "Type set to I". Use the command "get pharosxx.exe" to get a copy of the file, then type "bye" to logout and break the FTP connection. If you have problems with FTP, please contact your local FTP expert to get more information about using FTP on your computer system. The file thus obtained is a self-extracting archive, so once you have moved the file to your PC, you need to execute PHAROSxx.EXE to extract the following files: PHAROS.EXE, GREEK.FON, and MANUAL.TXT. MANUAL.TXT is a DOS text file which contains instructions for installing and using Pharos. We welcome all types of feedback: reports of problems, suggestions for improvements, etc. Comments should be directed to: Randall M. Smith rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu or: Dan Thibodeau Department of Classics University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 805-893-3556 6500dan@ucsbuxa.bitnet 6500dan@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Sincerely, Randall M. Smith Dan Thibodeau From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: E-mail address for Syntax Workbench Date: 4 Oct 91 11:08:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 746 (881) To follow up on my notice about the Syntax Workbench, I have determined that the person to contact about it is Peter Sells, whose e-mail address is sells@csli.stanford.edu. He's the author of _Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories_, a well-known introductory book on the subject. I don't have any information about price. Mary Dee Harris From: Randall Jones Subject: Date: Fri, 04 Oct 91 10:18:03 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 747 (882) Bob Kraft as already mentioned PAF as one possible program for genealogy. I picked up some brochures on it when I was in Salt Lake yesterday and would be happy to mail one to interetsted parties. It also incoudes an order form. The price is $35, as Bob stated, and it is available for both DOS and Mac. HUMANIST genealogy afficionados may also be interested in some of the facilities available at many local LDS (Mormon) genealogy libraries, located in most larger cities. Look in the phone book under Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and there may be a listing for a library. If not, call the "Stake" number. Evenings and Sundays are the best times to try. Randall Jones College of Humanities Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-3513 HRCJONES@BYUVM R.L. Jones From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: Re: 5.0351 Queries (5/49) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 16:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 748 (883) TeX The lists I mentioned in my posting are LISTSERV based and open to automatic subscription. To subscribe them, send a one-line mail or message to LISTSERV@XYZ, containing the line subscribe LISTNAME your full name -- J"org Knappen From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Re: 5.0359 Computers & Literature Teaching (1/15) Date: Fri, 04 Oct 91 07:49:18 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 749 (884) Teddi Baer (P.O. Box 4335, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502) has just written a dissertation at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) on the use of humor in Computer Aided Instruction. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen, (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: (Jason Pociask, ITS - (73)1-8835) Subject: Electronic Conferencing software (Karl Signel's request) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1991 09:58:07.11 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 750 (885) I missed the original request, but perhaps someone asked about conferencing software that would work in an academic setting? In addition to VAX-Notes, CoSy, and the other tools suggested by David Barry, the Maricopa Community College District has developed a tool, know locally as the Electronic Forum, which blends the best features of the older and more widely known tools into a single program which is used extensively in support of classroom instruction. It runs only under VAX/VMS, is programmed in PASCAL to Digital software standards, and is currently in use at over nine institutions. For more information from a functional (end-user) perspective, contact: Karen Schwalm, English Faculty, Glendale Community College Schwalm@GC (BITNET) Schwalm@GC.Maricopa.Edu (Internet) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | /\ /\ Jason A. Pociask VMS/RMS/4GL/RDBMS Support | | / \ / \ Maricopa Community Colleges BITNET: pociask@maricopa | | / // \ Tempe, Arizona 85281 USA Phone: 602-731-8835 Fax-8850 | | / /\// /\ / | | \/ \/ \/ $ SET DISCLAIMER/STANDARD | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: Subject: Bilingual dictionaries Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1991 11:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 751 (886) There was a request for bilingual dictionaries for the Macintosh. I know of Word Perfect's Thesaurus function -- it works with the dictionary. The thesaurus seems not to exist for all languages, but for those where it does exist, it is accessible from within the word processor. Leslie Morgan (MORGAN@LOYVAX) From: Carolyn M. Kotlas Subject: bibliog. formatting software info. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 8:46:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 371 (887) Another source of information to check out: _Bibliography Formatting Software_ by Sue Stigleman (1991, 49p.) Includes information on 35 bibliography formatters; a detailed comparison of Papyrus, Pro-Cite, and Reference Manager; and a 9-page bibliography formatting software evaluation checklist. It is published by the UNC-CH Institute for Academic Technology as one in their "Technology in Higher Education: Hands-on Technical Reports" series. Copies can be obtained free of charge by contacting: Institute for Academic Technology P. O. Box 12017 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 BITNET: IAT@UNC Tel.: (919) 560-5031 Fax: (919) 560-5047 -- Carolyn M. Kotlas Librarian & Manager of Information Resources UNC Chapel Hill Institute for Academic Technology 919/560-5031 carolynk.iat@mhs.unc.edu -- kotlas@uncecs.edu -- kotlas@ecsvax.bitnet From: Subject: reply Date: 7 Oct 1991 21:33:19 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 752 (888) Michel Grimaud may want to get in touch with Fernand Marty of the Dept of French, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801. Professor Marty has now retired, but is still quite active. Several years ago he developed a program to switch written French to artificially produced speech. It must have involved an intermediate step of phonetic representation such as Grimaud desires. From: David Graham Subject: Grapheme to Phoneme in French Date: Sat, 5 Oct 91 09:36:09 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 753 (889) At the conference on CALL/CALA held last spring at the University of Alberta, Norris Weimer of that institution presented a demonstration of a system (for Macintosh) which will do at least some of what Michel Grimaud wants. Weimer has developed what seem like robust algorithms to convert text to phonetic script, but there is no provision for automatic conversion of a large text such as Grimaud describes. I don't have Weimer's e-address to hand, but perhaps someone else can supply it. David Graham, Dept of French & Spanish ** dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca Memorial University of Newfoundland ** dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca From: John Lavagnino Subject: Announcement of Thomas Middleton project Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1991 15:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 373 (890) The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton will be published in 1994 by Oxford University Press in a one-volume modernized annotated format comparable to contemporary undergraduate editions of Shakespeare, and simultaneously in electronic form. This will be the first edition of Middleton's complete works to be published in more than a century, and the only edition of his works provided with a scholarly and critical apparatus. The purpose of the edition is canonical: to establish a new Middleton canon and to secure for Middleton a more prominent position in the literary canon, to make Middleton more widely available, more accessible, more read, more taught, to insist upon his importance in English drama and the English Renaissance. The edition will be prepared by an international team of thirty-nine scholars; the General Editor is Gary Taylor. We invite questions, comments, and suggestions. They may be sent by electronic mail to John Lavagnino at middleton@binah.cc.brandeis.edu on the Internet or middleton@brandeis on the Bitnet; or by post to John Lavagnino or Gary Taylor at: Department of English, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 USA. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University -------------------- A longer description of the edition is available as file MIDDLETN EDITION on the fileserver. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: John Lavagnino Subject: Middleton project description (long) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1991 15:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 374 (891) The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton General Editor, Gary Taylor (Brandeis) Electronics Editor, John Lavagnino (Brandeis) Associate General Editor, John Jowett (Waikato) David Bergeron (Kansas), civic pageants Julia Briggs (Hertford College, Oxford), The Second Maiden's Tragedy Douglas Bruster (Chicago), The Changeling Ralph Cohen (James Madison), Your Five Gallants Anne Coiro (Rutgers), The Ant and the Nightingale; occasional poems Lawrence Danson (Princeton), The Phoenix Michael Dobson (Indiana), Wit at Several Weapons Marjorie Garber (Harvard), The Changeling Suzanne Gossett (Loyola Chicago), A Fair Quarrel Donna Hamilton (Maryland), The Puritan Roger Holdsworth (Manchester), Timon of Athens Grace Ioppolo (UCLA), Hengist, King of Kent MacD. P. Jackson (Auckland), The Revenger's Tragedy; ``Canon and Chronology'' John Jowett (Waikato), Women Beware Women; No Wit/Help like a Woman's; More Dissemblers Besides Women Coppelia Kahn (Brown), The Roaring Girl Ivo Kamps (Mississippi), The Phoenix Theodore Leinwand (Maryland), Michaelmas Term Jerzy Limon (Gdansk), The Masque of Heroes; Sir Robert Sherley Jeffrey Masten (Harvard), The Old Law Ted McGee (Waterloo), The World Tossed at Tennis Scott McMillin (Cornell), ``The Theatres of Middleton'' Paul Mulholland (Guelph), The Honest Whore Part 1; The Family of Love; The Two Gates of Salvation; The Peacemaker Marion O'Connor (Kent), The Witch Tony Parr (King's College, London), Honourable Entertainments; An Invention Andrew Sabol (Brown), music Peter Saccio (Dartmouth), A Mad World, My Masters Paul S. Seaver (Stanford), ``Middleton's London'' G. B. Shand (Glendon College, York), The Black Book; The Ghost of Lucrece; The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased Debora Shuger (UCLA), The Wisdom of Solomon Paraphrased Malcolm Smuts (Massachusetts at Boston), The Magnificent Entertainment Gary Taylor (Brandeis), The Widow; A Game at Chess; ``Middleton's Life, Works, and Reputation'' Leslie Thomson (Toronto), Anything for a Quiet Life Wendy Wall (Northwestern), Microcynicon Valerie Wayne (Hawaii), A Trick to Catch the Old One Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Institute), A Yorkshire Tragedy Sue J. Wiseman (Kent), The Nice Valour Linda Woodbridge (Alberta), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Paul Yachnin (British Columbia), Plato's Cap; The Meeting of Gallants at an Ordinary General Description of the Edition, by Gary Taylor The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton will be published in 1994 by Oxford University Press in a one-volume modernized annotated format comparable to contemporary undergraduate editions of Shakespeare. This will be the first edition of Middleton's complete works to be published in more than a century, and the only edition of his works provided with a scholarly and critical apparatus. The purpose of the edition is canonical: to establish a new Middleton canon and to secure for Middleton a more prominent position in the literary canon, to make Middleton more widely available, more accessible, more read, more taught, to insist upon his importance in English drama and the English Renaissance. In format, the edition will have the same typeface, binding, and (award-winning) design as the Oxford Shakespeare; however, it will be less heavy, and more portable. The Complete Works will begin with a general introduction to Middleton's life, works, and reputation (by Gary Taylor), followed by two essays which establish the historical context for Middleton's writing. Middleton, unlike Shakespeare, was a freelance dramatist; accordingly, ``The Theatres of Thomas Middleton'' (by Scott McMillin) will describe all the varied playing spaces of Jacobean London. Middleton was born, lived, and died in London, wrote city comedies and civic pageants, and was eventually appointed Chronologer of London; accordingly, ``Middleton's London'' (by Paul S. Seaver) will describe the urban context and subject of Middleton's work. All three introductory essays will be illustrated by visual materials from the period (as will several of the Introductions to individual works), as part of the edition's general emphasis upon the optics of text. Because Middleton's writings were not gathered in an authoritative collection in the seventeenth century, any definition of his corpus must be speculative, and based upon a varied combination of historical testimony and internal evidence. The Oxford edition will include all the works attributed to Middleton by responsible current scholarship, arranged in the best chronological order the editors can establish. Although the dating of some works will remain conjectural, even an imperfect historical arrangement seems preferable to an imperfect formalist division by genres. It makes possible a clearer appreciation of Middleton's artistic development and of his engagement with the continually changing present tense of his own social world. Moreover, because Middleton's pamphlets, entertainments, and masques are less familiar to modern readers than his plays, any formalist division would run the risk of relegating those works to a critical ghetto. The Oxford edition aims, instead, to give equal weight to the many kinds of Middleton's writing, and to encourage perception of the interrelationships between kinds. Because a primary purpose of the edition is to make Middleton more accessible, the text itself will be printed in modern spelling; moreover, by carefully attending to matters of staging, editors will make every effort to render the plays (which constitute the bulk of the canon) intelligible as scripts for the theatre. Textually, the edition aims to be responsible, accountable, and scholarly, but not definitive. It will not pretend to solve all textual, bibliographical, and hermeneutical problems; instead, it will summarize, synthesize, and extend current research, providing a standard of reference and a solid basis for future scholarship, criticism, and editing of Middleton. Each text will be accompanied by a commentary (chiefly glossarial), at the foot of the page, and by a concise historical and critical Introduction, written by the editor of the work. Oxford University Press will also publish, with the Complete Works, a complementary Companion to Middleton, similar but not identical to the Textual Companion to the Oxford Shakespeare. This will include, among other things, the Textual Introduction and textual notes for each work in the Complete Works, prepared by the relevant editor; it will be prefaced by an extended essay (by MacD. P. Jackson) on the canon and chronology of Middleton's works. As with the Oxford Shakespeare, this companion volume will make it possible to provide a detailed and comprehensive apparatus (for scholarly scrutiny and reference), while at the same time freeing the Complete Works itself from material which most readers would find distracting and superfluous, and which would inevitably increase the price (and decrease the readership) of the main volume. Both the Complete Works and the Companion will be prepared and typeset electronically; moreover, in addition to these printed volumes, the project will also produce a separate electronic edition, prepared in accordance with the guidelines of the international Text Encoding Initiative, and a complete concordance to Middleton's works. The Oxford Middleton will be the first edition of a major Renaissance author---and perhaps the first edition of any English author---to exploit fully the possibilities opened up by the ongoing electronic revolution in editing and publishing. Although the Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works was computerized, that project depended upon circumstances unlikely to repeat themselves (the availability of machine-readable texts of the early editions, and the financial and infrastructural support of a special research department by an academic publisher); moreover, the Oxford Shakespeare was from the outset envisaged as a printed book. By contrast, the Oxford Middleton will operate in the conditions which will be normal for most future editorial enterprises: a cottage industry of dispersed scholars working on personal computers, supported only by their home universities and occasional grants, whose texts are eventually sent to a single university mainframe computer, where they are archived, prepared for electronic typesetting, concorded, and converted into various machine-readable forms. From the ground up, the Oxford Middleton has been designed to be produced and distributed in the new dual book/disc culture. The edition will be prepared by an international team of thirty-nine scholars. This distribution of labour, by drawing upon the resources of so many individuals and institutions, reduces the burden on any single scholar and increases the prospects for expeditious completion. Moreover, the number and range of contributors is itself a testimony to the contemporary critical assessment of Middleton's importance, and thus reinforces the canonical claims of the edition. Accordingly, the editors represent a wide range of critical specializations, from feminism to philology, from historicism to histrionicism. They are equally (and as deliberately) varied in their academic and generational status, from already established scholars with international reputations to new voices who promise to become leaders of the next generation of the profession (and every stage in-between). Also remarkable is the mix of gender: editing, particularly of Renaissance texts, has in the past been an almost entirely male activity. Middleton's writing has attracted so many women scholars in part because of the unusual number and interest of his female protagonists. The composition of this team reflects and promotes a revised conception of the nature and function of editing. Some works---like A Game at Chess, or Hengist, King of Kent---have complicated textual histories, which demand of an editor certain highly-specialized kinds of technical expertise and theoretical sophistication. But most works in the Middleton canon survive in only a single, early, generally-reliable, substantive text; in such cases the editorial task is much more easily mastered by anyone with intelligence, accuracy, and a strong knowledge of the period. The Middleton team has been constructed to break down old barriers between editors and critics, and to demonstrate that editing is an interdisciplinary art, which cannot be divorced from issues of interpretation and theory, which demands and rewards critical sensitivity, which can profitably learn from and contribute to every kind of critical discourse. Questions, comments, and suggestions may be sent by electronic mail to John Lavagnino at middleton@binah.cc.brandeis.edu on the Internet or middleton@brandeis on the Bitnet; or by post to John Lavagnino or Gary Taylor at: Department of English, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 USA. From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk Subject: info re: database software for text and images Date: Tue, 8 OCT 91 17:25:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 754 (892) A researcher here at the Open University is looking to buy a computer system to help with his work on the history and development of musical instruments. He wants to set up a database to help trace this development. He envisages about 2000 items/records in the database covering visual references to instruments (in pictures, friezes, sculptures etc) over the period from late 15th C to 18th C. The information will cover the usual stuff: date, artist, size, whereabouts, references etc about the source of the visual reference and then a whole lot more about the actual instrument covering shape and design etc. If the record could include an image as well he would be well pleased. He hasn't yet committed himself to either the DOS platform or the Mac platform, although he 'feels' more at home with the Mac interface he's aware of the fact that here in the UK, money buys processing power and that you tend to get more power for your money from an IBM clone than from a Mac. My request is an open-ended one ... has anyone any views on database software that can handle text and images and/or any pointers to people/groups that may be able to help. Thanking you in anticipation, Simon Rae | SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (World) Research Adviser, Academic Computing Service | SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom | fax: (0908) 653744 From: David Sewell Subject: Front-end file/text manipulator for UNIX? Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 11:06:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 755 (893) I'm wondering if anyone on HUMANIST is aware of any Unix program, preferably public-domain, that would have some of the functionality of, say, DOS Lotus Magellan in allowing file and directory manipulation and text searching, and that does NOT require X-windows capability (curses capability would be ok). Basically, what I'd have in mind would be a full-screen program that would have built-in access to commands like ls, grep, vi, rm, and so on. (Apology to non-Unix people for the jargon. Operating systems of the world, please unite!) From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (Willard McCarty) Subject: Monte Python Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1991 11:33:36 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 756 (894) This is a serious request, really. I have heard that Monte Python scripts are available in electronic form in the public domain. Is such wonderful news true, or merely a fatuous fire? And if true, how do I find this text that is awaiting the sharp instrument of computer-assisted analysis? Willard McCarty From: Prof Norm Coombs Subject: Value of liberal Arts in Tech setting?? Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1991 09:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 376 (895) My friend asked me to post this request on Humanist for him. Thanks for any help you can provide. N. coombs I am interested in references to any empirical research into the value of a liberal arts education, especially in a technological setting. I would be particularly interested in research that might seek to separate the value of the liberal arts education from (a) The general maturation process that would occur in the adolescent in any case, and (b) Aspects that are unique from attributes that might develop regardless of the liberal arts component from the technological education. Thank you for your assistance. Dr. Morton Isaacs, Rochester Institute of Technology Send email to: mjigss@ritvax or mjigss@ritvax.isc.rit.edu From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Announcement for CRTNET Date: Mon, 7 Oct 91 17:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 377 (896) ***************************************************************** * PLEASE POST PLEASE DISTRIBUTE PLEASE POST * ***************************************************************** CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS MAINSTREAM(S) AND MARGINS: CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 90'S The Center for the Study of Communication of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is organizing a conference on "Mainstream(s) and Margins" to be held on APRIL 3, 1992. The purpose of the conference is to link academic case studies and center-margin theoretical debates from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Research and session topics will include (but are not limited to): * Post-Colonial Theories * Marginalization in the global context * Critical Ethnographies * Nationalism/New Social Movements * Feminist Studies * Pedagogy * North-South/East-West controversies * Methodological issues related to the study of marginalization * New Technologies * Cinema Studies * Cultural Industries The deadline for submission of abstracts (150-300 words) is DECEMBER 1, 1991. Final papers for selected participants will be due in February 1992. Along with the abstract, please indicate your institutional affiliation and status (e.g., faculty or graduate student) and whether you will require audio-visual equipment for your presentation. The day-long conference will be organized as a series of seminars involving scholars, students and researchers from a variety of social disciplines. An edited volume of selected research papers demonstrating the interdisciplinary possibilities of the center- margin discourse is planned. Conference Organizers: * Shakuntala Rao and Susan Leggett Sponsors: * The Center for the Study of Communication, UMass/Amherst - Michael Morgan, Director * The Department of Communication, UMass/Amherst - Jarice Hanson, Chair * Dreamworlds, Inc.: The Foundation for Media Education and Research - Sut Jhally, Director PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS AND INQUIRIES TO: Mainstream(s) and Margins The Center for the Study of Communication Department of Communication, Machmer Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 USA Internet : CSC@COMM.UMass.EDU Fax : (413) 545-6399 VoiceMail : (413) 545-2341 (E-mail submissions are encouraged but not required.) From: jdg@coos.dartmouth.edu (Joel Goldfield) Subject: "Software for e-mailing diacriticals" Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 16:46:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 378 (897) Should any HUMANIST colleagues need vt100 emulation software which can handle diacriticals over unfriendly (7-bit) networks, I attach information about recently created, public-domain communications software. Similar information appeared recently in _IAT Briefings_ (Institute for Academic Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill). Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Associate Prof. of French Plymouth State College (Univ. Sys. of NH); Fellow in Foreign Languages Institute for Academic Technology (UNC-CH) INFORMATION ABOUT REAL ACCENTS! Real Accents! is public domain communications software which allows the real-time translation of double-byte (double-character), foreign-language char- acter representations into single-byte representations in the IBM (ASCII) ex- tended character set. For example, if a remote computer is sending the sequence "cha^teau", your computer can display this word with the circumflex above the "a" on your screen. Real Accents! can be run inside a Windows 3.0 DOS window. We assume that the user has some familiarity with Microsoft's DOS. Real Accents! has an interactively modifiable interface for adjusting: 1) communications/modem speed; 2) screen appearance, such as foreground and background colors; 3) keyboard operation, such as setting the backspace character function; 4) vt100 terminal emulation, such as insert/replace mode, automatic line wrapping, visible or invisible cursor, etc.; 5) session logging and default, such as logging (saving) for future reference the commands and incoming signals that appear on your screen, saving your setup options to a file as the default characteristics, and changing the Setup File name. Real Accents! is available with documentation via anonymous FTP from ftp.oit.unc.edu. For more elegant, hardcopy documention, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope ($.52) to Prof. Joel D. Goldfield at the Dept. of Foreign Languages, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 03264. The files you need to request in the FTP session are in the directory 'accents' (for REAL ACCENTS! version 1.0). It contains: accents.exe - the main program; accents.trn - the file specifying the default ARTFL character trans- lations; frger.trn - the file containing French/German character translations; artfl.trn - another copy of accents.trn, for naming consistency; cvt100.doc - the original documentation for the vt100 terminal emulation program. *** PLEASE CONTACT US AT ONE OF THE E-MAIL ADDRESSES GIVEN BELOW TO *** *** CONFIRM SUCCESSFUL DOWNLOADING OF THE FILES NAMED ABOVE. *** Please feel free to contact us with your observations and suggestions. Tel. 603-535-2277. E-mail: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu or joel@rhumba.oit.unc.edu . Please specify at the beginning of your correspondence that you are inquiring about Real Accents!. COPYRIGHT NOTICE (C)opyright 1991. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Institute for Academic Technology (Authors: Dr. Joel D. Goldfield and James M. Fullton). All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted to any individual or institution to use, copy and/or redistribute this program and its documentation as long as: 1) neither the program nor the documentation is sold for profit; 2) the names of the Copyright holder and authors are displayed in the same form as they appear in this Copyright Notice; and 3) proper attribution is given regarding any changes made to the program and/or the documentation. From: Charles Ess Subject: graduate programs in U.K. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 91 13:13:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 757 (898) On behalf of a student interested in studying American and English literature next year in the United Kingdom, I'm requesting information and recommendations for suitable programs -- especially with regard to the following institutions: Leeds University of East Anglia -- Norwich Leicester (Recommendations and/or comments about other institutions heartily welcome!) Thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College / Springfield, MO / 65802 USA From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Light rhyme Date: Thu, 3 Oct 91 11:53:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 758 (899) Does anyone know the proper term in French corresponding to "light rhyme" in English? This is the preference for non-function-word, often, non-pronoun rhyme in some English poetry. This would thus not be the same as the French "rime pauvre." H. Morier does not seem to treat this phenomenon, at least not under "rime" in his well-known reference book on poetry & rhetoric. Thanks in advance, Joel Goldfield From: rherman@cmps.umd.edu (Richard Herman) Subject: ice-cream Date: Fri, 4 Oct 91 11:56:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 759 (900) I would appreciate receiving references to poems which mention ice-cream. I already am aware of the Wallace Stevens poem. Many thanks. Richard Herman From: Ed Haupt Subject: Making the irregular, regular Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 7:41:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 760 (901) I had a bright idea--use RLIN as a source for bibliographies that might be more complete than encyclopedia entries for a data base on people who are relevant to psychology. I thought I could just log the screen and perhaps simply edit the text file into a useful, comma-delimited form for input to a data base. I tried it for V (and other spellings) Bekhterev (57 entries) and Lou (once Lois, several times Frau) Andreas-Salome'. Some of the difficulties seem daunting, including lack of places, publishers for B., diverse spellings for the same publisher for Lou, etc. Has anyone else tried something like this? Does anyone have a sed script, a WordPerfect macro, or a shareware program? Edward J. Haupt voice: (201) 893-4327 Department of Psychology internet: haupt@pilot.njin.net Montclair State College bitnet: haupt@njin Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 USA From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: email address for OUP Date: Wed, 09 Oct 91 16:37:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 761 (902) I would like to know if Oxford University Press in England have an email address. I know that quite a few subscribers to Humanist have some kind of connection with OUP, so I would really appreciate a reply. Thanks, Marco Simionato From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: DATABASE journal address Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 11:37:34 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 762 (903) A day or two ago P. Hane, the editor of the journal Database, send this list a message about a review of bibliographic formatting programs in the Dec. issue of the journal. Does anyone have her Bitnet address? The address on her message was: well!phane@apple.com I've tried every which way I (and the "Directory of Electronic Mail" Ch.1 on addresses) know to convert this into Bitnetese, and my mailer throws them all out. (To be fair, the Columbia mailer throws them all out.) Anyone able to help? Bitnet or Internet, I don't mind which, but I can't manage those ---- exclamation marks!!!!!! Judy Koren, Haifa (LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL) From: "Michel (mgrimaud@lucy.wellesley.edu\") GRIMAUD" Subject: Light Rhyme Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 22:18 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 763 (904) I am still not clear what "light rhyme" means exactly but it sounds like it does not exist in French. At least I've never seen it in any of the many reference books on French poetry I own. It does sound a little like "rime non grammaticale", one of the ways one refers to rhymes that belong to two different grammatical categories -- an allegedly desirable trait. The standard book on French versification still remains an old one written in English: L. E. Kastner A History of French Versification Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903 but it has nothing to say about "light rhymes" although it spends many useful pages on rhymes in general. Michel Grimaud From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: RE:5.0375 Qs: DBMS/Images; Unix File Mngr; M. Python (3/61) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 21:23:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 764 (905) There is a forum for DBASE which treats such questions. Dbase has the advantage to be widely used, so if there is every a need to export the data or the share the data with someone else, Dbase would be a good choice to consider. Images can be viewed in DBASE, although the program itself does not come with a built-in function do to so. There was some discussion on DBASE-L a little while ago, and someone out there has a C-program which is very easy to interface with DBASE that will pull in graphics files. All one really needs to do is log on to a C-programmers forum. There will most certainly be the code to read in graphics files. Another option is to use Paper Tamer, a program which allows you to combine graphics and text in an interlinear fashion. It may not be the optimal choice if you are looking for strong database capabilities, but it may be something to consider for graphics. Hope this was of some help. Regards Gerhard Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: Use of humor in CAI Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1991 12:14:28 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 765 (906) "Teddi Baer has just written a dissertation on the use of humor in Computer Aided Instruction..." Teddi Baer isn't his real name, is it? (Go on, now pull the other one!) Judy Koren, Haifa. From: CSS Conference92 Subject: CSS92 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1991 13:23:56 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 766 (907) CALL FOR PAPERS 1992 Conference on Computing for the Social Sciences May 4-7, 1992 // University of Michigan // Ann Arbor Sponsored by the Social Science Computing Association in cooperation with the Bureau of the Census and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory You are invited to submit an abstract of a paper for possible presentation at the third annual conference on Computing for the Social Sciences. The conference theme -- Gateways to the Future -- focuses on the revolutionary capabilities for the management and analysis of social, economic, political, and demographic data brought about by the technological changes of recent years. The conference will offer a forum for an expected 300 users, and potential users, on the computing power, storage of mass data, electronic networks, graphics systems, and applications made possible by this new technology. The program will follow five major tracks, with several sub-themes featured in each track. Selected papers will be photocopied for all registrants. Presenters will be have 30 minutes for presenta- tion and Q&A. Papers will be reviewed for possible publication in the Social Science Computer Review. The conference will also include opening and closing general sessions (with keynote speakers); opening panel discussions introducing each of the tracks; hands-on tutorials and special demonstrations for direct experience with tools, applications, and data; an on-site contest using census and survey data; and several food/social events. The conference registration fee will be $200. Registration, accommodation, and travel fees will be the responsibility of each presenter. The deadline for submitting abstracts is December 1, 1991. The deadline for sending full text of selected papers is April 1, 1992. MAJOR TRACKS: 1. DATA ACQUISITION, MANAGEMENT, AND DISTRIBUTION Creating, managing, or accessing local and remote data archives; acquiring census/survey data; networking to remote archives -- including CATI/CAPI. 2. RESEARCH STRATEGIES AND ANALYTIC METHODS Innovative applications of computing and information technology to the management and analysis of social data -- including Artificial Intelligence and simulation. 3. GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION Graphics and visualization as tools for the analysis of data and the presentation of findings -- including graphical techniques for exploratory data analysis and geographic information systems. 4. INFRASTRUCTURE Facilities, administrative and technical support, and funding required to create and maintain computer environments for social science instruction, research, and planning. This track will also discuss resources for the physically and mentally challenged. 5. NETWORKS Resources available via local, national, and international networks; access to the networks; and electronic communication -- including file transfers, e-mail, and electronic conferences. Any of these tracks may include special topics such as teaching methods; international collaboration; ethics and values; PCs/Macs; supercomputing; operating systems, user interfaces; or other topics that you may suggest. If you have questions or suggestions about the program, contact: Al Anderson, Program Chairman University of Michigan Phone: 313-998-7140 Fax: 313-998-7415 Internet: albert_f._anderson@um.cc.umich.edu BITNET: UserLD52@umichum If you would like to submit an abstract, send a fax or e-mail message to the Program Chairman with the following information: - Your Name - Job Title - Organization Name - Address - Phone - Fax - E-mail Address - Preferred Track 1 2 3 4 5 - Abstract and outline of your paper in 300-800 words DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS IS DECEMBER 1, 1991 If you are not submitting an abstract, but would like to receive registration material in January, send your name and address to: Internet: css92@um.cc.umich.edu BITNET: UserCS92@umichum From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Diacriticals with WordPerfect Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 11:19:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 767 (908) For those interested in diacriticals on WordPerfect, I just received an excellent macro (DEADKEY.WPK) that uses the two bracket keys, the hyphen key and the equal key to create the foreign language characters available as part of the extended ASCII code. The system is simple and logical. It may be a good alternative to other keystroke combinations or learning a different keyboard. To obtain the macro, connect to the following anomymous FTP site: VACS.UWP.EDU directory /PUB/WP file WPUTIL36.ZIP To unzip the file, make sure that the file has been downloaded in BINARY mode. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Real Accents! documentation Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 17:04:23 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 768 (909) To answer in one "fell swoop" the questions about ASCII documentation for Real Accents!, there is a documentation file which I've added to the accents files in pub/accents: accents.doc. All of these text files should be accessible in this subdirectory (pub/accents) at ftp.oit.unc.edu. I hope this software helps to clear up those unsightly two-byte representations in some foreign-language databases we know. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ From: "David Zeitlyn, ISCA, University of Oxford, UK" Subject: Multilingual wp - little known prog Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 15:03 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 769 (910) A programme which appears little known here in UK and even less so it seems in US is Protextmade by a firm called ARNOR in Peterborough (UK) I use Macs so I dont have personal experience of using it but I have a friend who is haopopy with it a) It supports all European Languages and can do Old english thorns &c (So no good to l-r writers and people with more interesting alphabets) b) The manual says it allows the creation of your own screen/printer charactors c) It reads and writes RTF so is compatible with the heavyweights d) It is VERY easy to use - excellent as a basic wp for students &c e) It's relatively cheap even in UK available for less than #80 ARNOR's phone number is 0733 68909 I know no more than this so dont ask me! cheers David Z From: Subject: Last call for conference! Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1991 17:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 385 (911) This is the last e-mail call for the conference, "Bridging Theory and Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom," to be held at Loyola College in Md., October 18-20. One workshop is closed (Lavine's); there are still a few places in the other two. Please contact me immediately if you are interested in coming and do not have a registration form or need further information. Leslie Morgan, Dept. of Modern Langs. and Lits., Loyola College in Md. 301-323-1010 X 2926 ---------------------- The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola College in Maryland 4501 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21210-2699 in conjunction with The Maryland Foreign Language Association announces a conference, Bridging Theory and Practice in the Foreign Language Classroom, October 18-20, 1991 SESSIONS INCLUDE. . Discourse analysis Japanese Uncommonly-taught languages Testing TV Magazines Oral performance I, II Strategies in language learning Methodological approaches ESOL (English as a Second Language) Elementary education Grammar and language Minitel Cross-cultural communication Performing arts and language learning Brain schemata and personality Listening skills CAI I, II (Computer-Assisted Instruction) Critical thinking Cross-curricular communication I-IV Literature I-III Language for specialized purposes I, II Multilingual and multicultural studies Cooperative Learning Travel Telecommunications and technology Motivation and attitude Reading skills Transition from High School to College New approaches to old problems Grammatical competence Writing strategies I, II Video technology Texts I, II Interdisciplinary Connections Performing Arts Immersion All participants must register! PLEASE POST. Directions to Loyola College Loyola College in Maryland is located at the corner of Cold Spring Lane and North Charles Street in Baltimore City. When using I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway), take exit 25 (Charles Street). Proceed south on Charles Street approximately six miles to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, where parking is available. Shuttle service will be provided from this location to the College. Travel and lodging arrangements can be made through Baltimore County Travel, 1-800-542-3328, 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, Mon-Fri., Eastern Time (ET). Rooms are available at four hotels; rates range from $40-$95 (not. incl. 12% room tax). See map at left for college location. For additional information, please call: Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Phone: (301) 323-1010, x2926 or x2780 E-Mail: MORGAN@LOYVAX1.BITNET REGISTRATION FORM: PLEASE DETACH AND SEND Preregistration $42.00 ___ Late Registration (after Sept. 15, 1991) $47.00 ___ Graduate Registration $20.00 ___ (ONLY with copy of valid I.D.) Coffee, Tea, Snacks INCLUDED Saturday Luncheon INCLUDED Saturday Social Hour (cash bar) INCLUDED Workshop Friday morning* $45.00 ___ Please specify: James ____ Levine____ Migiel____ Bus service from hotels for weekend $5.00 ___ (no parking on campus) Total Enclosed $_______ *Workshops are limited to 20 participants, first come, first served. In the event that your choice(s) is/are filled, your fee will be refunded. NAME__________________________________________________________ PHONE (______)_________________________________ INSTITUTION____________________________________________________ ADDRESS________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ BITNET ADDRESS (if applicable) _________________________________ Would you be interested in child care? YES____ NO ____ Number of Children _____ We will contact you to make further arrangements. Please return with check payable to Loyola College for Registra- tion, Workshops, etc. to: Committee for the Conference on Language Learning c/o Margaret Haggstrom, Leslie Z. Morgan, Joseph Wieczorek Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND 4501 No. Charles St. / Baltimore, MD 21210-2699 From: RJOLIVET@ulys.unil.ch Subject: Job Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 386 (912) The University of Lausanne (Switzerland) is looking for a PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Candidates should preferably have an interest in one or more of the following fields: contrastive linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, English as an international or second language (other kinds of linguists welcome). Part of the work is responsibility for (advanced) English language training, but the bulk of the (6) teaching hours is devoted to the linguistics of English. Teaching is done in English, but a good knowledge of French is desirable. The post includes administrative tasks within the Department of English. REQUIREMENTS: A Ph.D. and a good list of publications. SALARY RANGE: Sfr.130,683 p.a. (minimum) Sfr.156,057 p.a. (maximum, after 10 years) Deductions are as follows: contributions to pension fund, state pension scheme and about 15-20% income tax. Benefits include 13th month salary and family allowances (Sfr.1,680 per child under 16, Sfr. 2,340 per child aged 16 to 25 who is still at school). STARTING DATE: September 1, 1992 or other date to be agreed on. Winter semester classes begin on about October 20. PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Teachers at the University of Lausanne are required to reside in the canton of Vaud. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applications, returnable by November 1, 1991, must include seven copies of each of the following documents: - covering letter - CV - list of publications (please do not include publications themselves for the moment). They must be sent to: Doyen de la Facult'e des Lettres, Universtie'e de Lausanne, BFSH 2, CH-1015 Lausanne. Candidates who are shortlisted may be invited to deliver a 45 minute lecture, followed by a discussion and an interview with members of the committee. From: RJOLIVET@ulys.unil.ch Subject: Cancel! Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 18:44:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 770 (913) Please cancel my previous message about job in Lausanne: problem with the 'e in the address due to transfer from mac to vax. New version follows. Sorry! From: RJOLIVET@ulys.unil.ch Subject: Job Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 17:45:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 771 (914) The University of Lausanne (Switzerland) is looking for a PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Candidates should preferably have an interest in one or more of the following fields: contrastive linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, English as an international or second language (other kinds of linguists welcome). Part of the work is responsibility for (advanced) English language training, but the bulk of the (6) teaching hours is devoted to the linguistics of English. Teaching is done in English, but a good knowledge of French is desirable. The post includes administrative tasks within the Department of English. REQUIREMENTS: A Ph.D. and a good list of publications. SALARY RANGE: Sfr.130,683 p.a. (minimum) Sfr.156,057 p.a. (maximum, after 10 years) Deductions are as follows: contributions to pension fund, state pension scheme and about 15-20% income tax. Benefits include 13th month salary and family allowances (Sfr.1,680 per child under 16, Sfr. 2,340 per child aged 16 to 25 who is still at school). STARTING DATE: September 1, 1992 or other date to be agreed on. Winter semester classes begin on about October 20. PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Teachers at the University of Lausanne are required to reside in the canton of Vaud. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applications, returnable by November 1, 1991, must include seven copies of each of the following documents: - covering letter - CV - list of publications (please do not include publications themselves for the moment). They must be sent to: Doyen de la Facult'e des Lettres, Universit'e de Lausanne, BFSH2, CH-1015 Lausanne. Candidates who are shortlisted may be invited to deliver a 45 minute lecture, followed by a discussion and an interview with members of the committee. From: Christian Boissonnas Subject: Re: 5.0380 Qs: Using RLIN; OUP email; DATABASE address (3/53) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 20:59:29 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 772 (915) Re: Ed Haupt, Making the irregular regular. I have written software to prepare lists from downloaded NOTIS bibliographic records. The data elements included are the author, title (up to 130 chars.), edition statement, imprint, series (1st two listed in the 4xx series of fields) ISBN, and the first two subjects. The data are extracted from the downloaded file reformatted (i.e. subfield codes are removed) and stored in a dBase file which can be indexed on any field or combination thereof. The whole thing assumes that you are capturing screen images and dumping them to an ASCII file on your pc. It is not terribly elegant but it works. Modifying the code for RLIN records would be trivial. The only problem that I can see is if you are working in line rather than full-face mode. The same field could appear more than once in a given screen dump, which would be confusing. I forgot. The code is in Clipper and anyone is welcome to it as long as Cornell University receives due acknowledgment. From: "Paul J. Constantine, Yale Univ. Library" Subject: Re: 5.0380 Qs: Using RLIN; OUP email; DATABASE address (3/53) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1991 20:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 773 (916) Paula Hane's (Database Magazine) Internet address is Phane@Well.SF.CA.US Hope this helps! Paul J. Constantine Yale University Library From: Laura Dankner Subject: Re: 5.0375 Qs: DBMS/Images; Unix File Mngr; M. Python Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 09:52:32 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 774 (917) My colleague at Loyola University, Marcus Smith, sent me a copy of the message in which a question was asked about data bases suitable for musical instrument information. Suggest he forward this request to MLA-L, the EMail network for the Music Library Association. This list is via Indiana University; contact Listserv at that institution for more information, or have the person contact me directly and I'll provide it to MLA-L. Sincerely, Laura Dankner, Associate Professor/Music Librarian, Loyola University, New Orleans From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Re: 5.0381 Rs: Light Rhyme in Fr.; Image DBMSs; CAI Humor Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 07:55:13 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 775 (918) An excellent example of light rhyme in French is Ormond de Kay's N'HEURES SOURIS RAMES: THE COUCY CASTLE MANUSCRIPT. de Kay's name is probably a "nom de plume." The publisher of this book of verse parodies is Clarkson N. Potter; the date of publication is 1980. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen, (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: "scott richard fletcher" Subject: Databases for historical research Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 14:13:54 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 776 (919) I am deciding about a computer platform and part of this decision will be based on available database software suitable for note-taking for historical research. As I suspect this topic may well have been addressed on HUMANIST, to which I've just recently subscribed, I wonder if you can direct me to previous discussions of this topic. If that isn't practical, please post my query for comments from users of databases for note-taking purposes. Specifically, I would be curious to know what issues users consider most important in picking a program, and whether anyone has used the program History Database, which was written up last spring in Perspectives, the newsletter of the American Historical Assn. Thanks. From: Randall Jones Subject: Contacts in Northern Germany Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 16:18:36 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 777 (920) HUMANIST was a great help last year when I needed to make contact with colleagues in Germany. I am in the last phase of a 2-year project to compile a corpus of spoken German and need to record interviews in the following cities: Emden Hamburg Hannover Itzehoe Luebeck If anyone can provide me with names of people in these cities who could provide assistance (1-2 hours of time) when I visit there in late October/early November I would appreciate it greatly. e-mail addresses and FAX numbers are especially helpful. Thanks Randall Jones College of Humanities Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84604` HRCJONES@BYUVM R.L. Jones From: andre%aot.computerland.kiev.ua@relay.USSR.EU.net Subject: Help for a colleague in Ukraine Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 23:03:23 +0300 (MSD) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 778 (921) To: VERONIS@vaxsar.bitnet Cc: l@fuug.fi Message-id: Organization: International Centre of Information Technologies Monsieur Jean Vernois, je vous pris d'indiquer un network adresse pour que je puisse me renseigner sur les problemes d'informatique. Merci, Andre Tsiboulsky. 1991.X.10 Kiev. From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: OFFLINE 34 Date: Thursday, 10 October 1991 1759-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 389 (922) ---------------------- <> coordinated by Robert Kraft, guest columnist Richard Jensen [09 October 1991 Draft, copyright Robert Kraft] [HUMANIST and IOUDAIOS and RELIGION, 10 October 1991] [Religious Studies News 6.5 (November 1991)] [CSSR Bulletin 21.1 (February 1992)] ---------------------- Over the years, OFFLINE has had little to say about "database management" approaches to manipulating data on the computer. This is largely because the editor himself has had little experience with databases, and indeed, harbors some prejudices based on the early years of development in which transfer of materials in and out of databases, and between databases, was often rather difficult. Furthermore, since databases atomize the material and store it in various compartments for easy retrieval, they can restrict the user's ability to be flexible and open ended in manipulating the material. For my work, standard text files with sophisticated search and retrieve software seemed preferable in most instances. But over the years, things have improved enormously in the development of database technology, and few of the old reservations remain valid today. Thus I was elated to encounter on "the networks" (where else?) the following material on database (and other) programs for historical research. It has been excerpted, with the author's permission, from a draft of an article on "Text Management" by Richard Jensen (CAMPBELD@IUBACS, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago), which is scheduled to appear in full form in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22.4 (Spring 1992). Catalyst for the article was provided by the anthology entitled _History and Computing III: Historians, Computers and Data, Applications in Research and Teaching_, edited by Evan Mawsley, Nicholas Morgan, Lesley Richmond and Richard Trainor (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990). Where it seemed useful, I have inserted explanatory comments between square brackets in the text of Professor Jensen's treatment. ----- ... The British historians who gathered at the 1988 Glasgow conference had their metamorphosis a decade ago, transfixed by the PCs provided by the productivity-minded Thatcher government. The conference papers display no ideological bias, save a firm commitment never to squeeze historical reality into the codes demanded by SPSS [a widely used computer program in the social sciences]. In a quest for purity through empiricism so extreme that David Hume would have gasped, the conferees congratulate themselves on how far they have come from the "bad old days" (p. 156) of the "number crunching self-styled 'social science historians' of the late 1960s and 1970s" (p. 180). For this report I will both review the book, and examine some software that allows for text management more advanced than word processing. ... [ ahr ] -------------------- [A complete version of this article is now available through the fileserver, s.v. OFFLINE 34. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET OFFLINE 34 HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET OFFLINE HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Leslie Morgan Subject: Kalamazoo Call Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 21:54:50 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 390 (923) I have been asked to post this call for papers for the Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo. The session, "Languages in Contact in the Middle Ages (1)" is seeking submissions. Please contact Paul Johnston, Western Michigan University, Dept. of English, Kalamazoo, MI, 49008. You can also send me a message (MORGAN@LOYVAX) and I will contact him if you wish. (He is not yet using electronic mail.) Thank you! From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: From the Editors Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 20:46:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 391 (924) Correction: In the recent announcement of OFFLINE 35 the internal subject line and the directions for retrieving the full version both say OFFLINE 34 where they should say OFFLINE 35. The good news: those of you who mistakenly requested OFFLINE 34 instead of OFFLINE 35 brought it to my attention that OFFLINE 34 was missing from the server. It's there now. That is, both 34 and 35 are now available on the server. Also: I think I accidently deleted several contributions last week. If you haven't seen yours posted please resend. (btw: Humanist subscribers now number 1100. And as 30 of these are bulletin boards or mail exploders so the number of readers is even higher.) -- Allen Renear, Editor-on-Watch From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: The Humanities Bulletin Board (HUMBUL) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 9:58 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 392 (925) Dear All, The majority of you are probably well aware of the existence of HUMBUL (The HUManities BULletin Board), which used to reside at Leicester University, but has recently moved to Oxford University Computing Services. For those of you, however, who are not familiar with the service I am releasing the following introductory paragraphs, plus details of the new logging on procedures. HUMBUL is a long-running service aimed at providing academics and interested parties with news and information on Humanities Computing. The service is an on-line bulletin board, subdivided into numerous sections, for which subscription is free. Information is collected from all the applicable electronic networks, plus periodicals, leaflets, and also direct requests to the editor. Interaction with the board itself is fairly easy and new users should read about HUMBUL under section A. To facilitate using some of the longer sections there is a Search facility inherent in the program. Users can send mail directly to the editor via the command MAIL or ask for specific sections to be sent to them via POST. At regular intervals Section S (the Stop Press) will be forwarded on to all users to remind them of the most recent additions. Should you require any further help then please contact me as indicated in the section below, Stuart Lee HUMBUL Editor CTI Centre for Textual Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford University Computing Services ******************************************************************************* HOW TO ACCESS HUMBUL -------------------- THE HUMBUL NETWORK ADDRESS...................... page 2 DIAL-UP LINE (PSTN) ............................ page 3 TELEPHONE ...................................... page 3 TERMINAL ACCESS TO HUMBUL FROM OUTSIDE JANET ... page 4 HOW TO DOWNLOAD HUMBUL FILES ................... page 6 LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION LIST ..................... page 8 ... [ material deleted -- ahr ] 8. Comments, queries or problems If you have any comments or problems please send them to PEB@MAIL.RL.AC.UK or STUART@VAX.OX.AC.UK (BITNET/EARN users), PEB@UK.AC.RL.MAIL or STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX (JANET users). I hope that you find using HUMBUL interesting and informative. Stuart Lee, HUMBUL editor -------------------- [A complete version of this HUMBUL ACCESS is now available through the fileserver, s.v. HUMBUL ACCESS. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Subject: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE special issue on non-literal language Date: 16 Oct 91 20:10 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 393 (926) Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Special Issue CALL FOR PAPERS You are invited to submit a paper to a Special Issue of COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Journal on Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language, edited by Dan Fass, James Martin and Elizabeth Hinkelman. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE has been publishing regularly four issues a year since 1984 with an international editorial board of 48 distinguished researchers covering all areas of AI. The executive editors are Nick Cercone and Gord McCalla. [deleted quotation]Inc. The Special Issue is to appear in August 1992. Submission deadline is February 6th 1991. Please let Dan Fass know by e-mail or letter by November 15th if you intend to submit, giving a tentative title and brief description of the contents of your paper. 1. Focus of the Special Issue Non-literal language includes metaphor, idiom, "indirect" speech acts, implicature, hyperbole, metonymy, irony, simile, sarcasm, and other devices whose meaning cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent words. Papers are invited on topics including (but not limited to) the computer recognition, interpretation, acquisition, generation, and robust parsing of non-literal language. Issues of interest include: o the relationship of non-literal to literal language, o the adequacy of various forms of knowledge representation (symbolic vs connectionist vs statistical), o static vs dynamic mechanisms, o general vs idiosyncratic treatment of instances, o instances as novel vs conventional forms, o comparison and contrast of models of the various forms of non-literal language, o broader implications for AI. 2. Impetus for the Special Issue The editors of the Special Issue recently organized a workshop on non-literal language at IJCAI-91. Attendees, besides the organizers, were John Barnden, Ted Briscoe, Jerry Hobbs, Eric van der Linden, Hiroshi Motoda, Yamagami Matsumoto, David Powers, Lisa Rau, Cameron Shelley, Raoul Smith, Susan Weber, Sylvia Weber Russell, and Janet Wiles. The 169 page workshop proceedings will be available shortly as a technical report from the University of Colorado at Boulder. There will be a charge, to be determined. Please contact James Martin for further details. 3. Schedule for the Special Issue Date Stage Thurs Nov 14 1991 Notification of intention to submit. Thurs Feb 6 1992 Submission deadline. Thurs Mar 19 1992 Reviews returned. Thurs Apr 23 1992 Revised, accepted papers received. 4. Manuscript Preparation and Review Typical submissions should be 25-50 pages in manuscript form, though exceptions may be made. The manuscript should be double spaced and typed on one side of the page only. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, beginning with the title page. The title page should include the title, authors' names, institution of origin, and its address (including postal code). Please include telephone number(s) and e-mail address. An abstract should be not more than 200 words, and on a separate page. References should not be cited in the manuscript. More detailed Instructions to Authors will be sent to those intending to submit a paper. Please note that for an author's submission to be reviewed, the author must review three other submissions to the Special Issue. 5. The Editors Dan Fass James Martin Centre for Systems Science, Computer Science Department and Simon Fraser University, Institute of Cognitive Science, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. University of Colorado at Boulder, Tel: (604) 291-3208 Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, USA. Fax: (604) 291-4951 Tel: (303) 492-3552 E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca Fax: (303) 492-2844 E-mail: martin@boulder.colorado.edu Elizabeth Hinkelman Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Tel: (312) 702-8887 Fax: (312) 702-0775 E-mail: eliz@tira.uchicago.edu From: Robert Dale Subject: Call for Papers---INLGWS#6---Reposting for Clarification Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 20:51:56 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 394 (927) Apparently there has been some confusion about the submission dates for this workshop; the following message is being reposted to set the record straight. -------- Call for Papers The Sixth International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy, 5th--7th April 1992 *** NOTE---REVISED SUBMISSION DATE AND OTHER DETAILS **** PURPOSE AND SCOPE: Following on from the five previous International Workshops on Natural Language Generation, this workshop aims to bring together researchers in a rapidly consolidating field. We intend to structure the workshop around a number of emerging topic areas: Multi-modality: the practical and theoretical issues underlying the development of systems that integrate language generation with other media (such as graphics, maps, and forms). The representation and use of syntactic knowledge: we particularly welcome papers which attempt to bridge the gap between earlier phrase structure grammar based approaches, systemic approaches, and newer constraint-based approaches, and discussions of how these approaches address the motivation of syntactic choice. Approaches to text planning: a number of approaches to discourse structure (such as RST, DRT and schemas) have relevance to text planning. What are their respective strengths and, especially, weaknesses? In what areas do we need additional theories? Applications of NLG: the use of language generation techniques in, for example, expert system explanation, machine translation, dialogue systems, and report generation; their implications for more theoretical issues. Multi-linguality: the effects upon system architecture and underlying representation of building systems which generate text in more than one language. To what extent is it possible to build plug-and-play realization components for different languages for use with generic text planners? SUBMISSIONS: Contributors interested in participating in this workshop are initially requested to submit A PAPER OF 10 PAGES in length. Papers will be reviewed by an international programme committee. Accepted papers will be returned for polishing and revision into full length papers before inclusion into the workshop proceedings, which will be published as a book. The cover page of the draft paper should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including email address and fax number if available), a short (10 line) summary, and a specification of the topic area. Send to: Mail: Robert Dale Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, Scotland Tel: (+44) 31 650 4416 Fax: (+44) 31 662 4912 Email: R.Dale@uk.ac.ed SCHEDULE: Submissions are due at the above address NO LATER THAN 4TH NOVEMBER 1991, either by paper mail, email (in LaTeX form), or fax; notifications of acceptance should be received by authors BY 6TH JANUARY 1992; camera ready versions of the final papers are due 17TH FEBRUARY 1992. Approximately 15 papers will be accepted for presentation at the workshop and subsequent inclusion in the book. Note the change of submission date and change in length of paper required. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance at the workshop will be limited to around 50 people. The workshop has been timed to follow the Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, being held in Trento, Italy from 1st--3rd April 1991. Details of this conference can be obtained from Oliviero Stock, IRST, 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy; Tel: (+39) 461 81444, email: stock@irst.it The cost of the workshop, including accommodation and meals, is expected to be in the region of $300 per person. Financial support for the workshop is being sought. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Esprit Basic Research Actions and the Special Interest Group on Generation of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Organising Committee: Robert Dale, Eduard Hovy, Dietmar Rosner and Oliviero Stock. From: Subject: Holocaust DataBase Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 13:38 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 395 (928) This is to announce the forthcoming availability of a database of literature on the Holocaust and Genocide. The study of the Holocaust and Genocide in general has emerged in the last 10 years as an independent field of academic research, with much learnt for its future prevention. A leader in spreading this knowledge is the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem which has published 2 printed bibliographies (Facts on File - 1988 and 1991 (Vol,2)) and has just completed the first stage in the production of a computerized database thanks to a research grant from the United States Institute of Peace. The initial database comprises literature from 1980-1990 , and has been compiled from a multitude of sources including the Institute's own published bibliographies , a distinguished panel of scholars and various online databases. The disciplines covered include religion, psychology, sociology, law, medicine and history, and the database currently contains some 9000 unique bibliographic citations. We would like to hear from anyone interested in accessing the database, either online or in a PC disk-based version, and we welcome comments and suggestions from anyone who has access to sources which could help enrich the database. We will be seeking funding to broaden the scope and availability of the database, and seek fund- raising ideas and contacts. Looking forward to hearing from you, David Lisbona 71307.2020@compuserve.com Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Project Director From: TIF@NIHCU Subject: Position in Archives/Electronic Records Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 16:06:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 396 (929) The Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives is recruiting an archives specialist to work with electronic records containing data and text information on military matters or international relations. Because the recruitment is for an archives specialist, the position does not require the academic course work in American history which is needed for an archivist position. The recruitment is at a GS-9 (salary: $25,717), GS-11 (salary: $31,116), or GS-12 (salary: $37,294) grade level. Our personnel office will evaluate each application to determine the highest grade level for which each applicant qualifies. (Regardless of entry level, the position has promotion potential without further competition to the GS-12 level.) Hence the recruitment allows a great latitude for different ranges of experience. However, all qualified candidates must have a knowledge of archival principles and techniques as they relate to electronic records. Archival principles and techniques include: (1) appraisal (determining whether records have long term value), (2) accessioning (the process of acquiring physical custody of the records), (3) description (cataloguing the acquisitions), (4) reference (providing access to electronic information), and (5) preservation (migrating information from older systems to technologically current media). We have maintained a list of people who have previously inquired about other announcements or our postings of our intent to announcement this position. Yesterday, we mailed copies of the announcement to all of those who had previously indicated an interest. To apply for a position, an applicant should submit the following items: (1) SF-171, Application for Federal Employment. (2) College transcripts -- Xerox copies or unofficial copies are okay. (3) Supplemental statement showing how the experience related to the five rating factors which are: (a) knowledge of archival principles and techniques as they relate to electronic records ¤see above for the five archival principles and techniques‡; (b) knowledge of technical properties of electronic records; (c) ability to write program for mainframe computers; (d) knowledge of research methodologies using electronic records; and (e) ability to communicate orally and in writing. The closing date is November 1. Hence the above should be postmarked by that date. To obtain a copy of the announcement, please contact Tom Brown (202) 501-5565 e-mail: TE3@NIHCU.BITNET Or Lee Gladwin (202) 501-5579 Or Ted Hull e-mail: TIF@NIHCU.BITNET If you want to discuss the position or application procedures, you should contact Tom Brown at the above telephone number or e-mail address. From: Sheizaf Rafaeli 02-827676 (Israel) KBUSR at HUJIVM1 Subject: Multilingual wp - my two bits Date: 17 October 91, 11:40:11 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 779 (930) Adding my two bits to the multilingual wordprocessing exchange: My preference is for a small and neat package (MS-DOS based) made here in Israel, called QTEXT. QTEXT is made in kibbutz Dvir. Its original incarnations were released to the public domain, (not even Shareware, really free). The current version (about 4.5) is able to deal with 14 different european alphabets and keyboard arrangements, in addition to its native Hebrew and English. I am not sure when the Arabic version will be out, but am told its in the works. ALso not sure how diacriticals are treated. But this is a small, transportable, very competent and compatible tool. We chose it as the lingua franca around here. The reason I like Qtext is that it is the most respectful of ASCII of all the packages I use. The files it saves have a minimum of mangling, reversing and other forms of torment common to multilingual monstrosities. Disclaimer: I am just a satisfied customer. Promise: I can dig up the address if anyone is interested. Sheizaf Rafaeli Social Sciences Hebrew University of Jerusalem KBUSR@HUJIVM1 From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Downloading detail for Real Accents Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 21:46:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 780 (931) Some correspondents may need to distinguish between text & binary file formats when downloading Real Accents. Only the file 'accents.exe' is in binary format. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill From: Morgan Tamplin Subject: Phonetic Transcription Programs Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1991 23:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 781 (932) Someone recently asked about programs which created a phonetic transcription of a text but unfortunately I deleted the question and the reply. I recently received some public domain DOS speech synthesis programs which, although somwhat primitive, may point the questioner to similar studies. I shall transmit the documentation for the programs as separate files and let the editors decide whether they should be distributed to the list or archived for retrieval. The programs are TRAN.EXE and a TSR pair called SPEECH.COM and SAY.COM. They can be found on public domain bulletin boards in compressed ZIP files called VOICE OR PCVOICE (for TRAN) and SPEECH or VSPSYN (for SPEECH/SAY). I have copies but am not confident they would survive my attempt at a binary file transmission and I do not have any source code. The programs are designed for English using only the standard upper or lower case 26-letter ASCII alphabet and punctuation to create an intermediate phonetic file for input to a speech synthesis program. The latter produces poor quality sound as it predates the voice synthesizer chips and runs through a PC/XT speaker. The intermediate phonetic transcription rules may be of some interest as they are derived from what appears to be a fundamental paper published in one of the IEEE (a computer society) transactions. Morgan Tamplin, Department of Anthropology/Computer Studies Programme Trent University, Peterbough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8 MTAMPLIN@TRENTU.CA Phone: (705) 748-1321, -1325, -1495, FAX: (705) 748-1246 From: Morgan Tamplin Subject: TRAN Program Documentation Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1991 23:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 782 (933) This documentation is in two parts. The first is TRAN.DOC suppied with TRAN.EXE and the second is a "rule list" file extracted from the program itself. Morgan Tamplin, Department of Anthropology/Computer Studies Programme Trent University, Peterbough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8 MTAMPLIN@TRENTU.CA Phone: (705) 748-1321, -1325, -1495, FAX: (705) 748-1246 ***************************************************************************** TRAN TRAN is a text-to-speech program for the IBM-PC. It can read ASCII text files, translate normal English spelling to phonemes, and sound out each phoneme through the speaker of the IBM-PC. usage: tran [+/-flags] [-options] [filename] The filename is an ASCII text file (with no word processor formatting codes). If no filename is given TRAN reads input from the keyboard. The flags and options control various features of the program. A '+' turns the flag on and a '-' turns the flag off. Options can use either '+' or '-'. flags: + = on, - = off p type output of phoneme translation [off] r add rule no. to phoneme translation [off] s say output [on] t echo input to console [off] T do phoneme translation [on] v type other internal information [off] options: c say the time of day [once] C say the time of day [every 10 seconds] d1 N use N for space rate timing [5] d2 N use N for voice rate timing [1] R print all pronunciation rules ? type usage The following are example of ways to use the TRAN program. You can have tran type out and read this file with the command: tran +t tran.doc If you also want to see the phoneme translation add the +p flag: tran +p +t tran.doc You can save the phoneme translation in a file by typing: tran -s +p tran.doc > tran.phn and listen to the phoneme at some other time file by typing: tran -T tran.phn The TRAN program will say the time once if you type: tran +t +c or will continue to say the time every 10 seconds if you type: tran +t +C There are two timing parameters, d1 and d2, that control the rate that TRAN speaks. Making d1 larger increases the pauses between words and making d2 larger lowers the pitch of the voice phonemes. Both d1 and d2 must have a value of 1 or greater. On an IBM-PC/XT, good values for the timing parameters are d1=2 and d2=1. If these parameters are not set explicitly, the program will try to determine acceptable values automatically. Setting these values, will let TRAN by-pass the automatic setting, which save a second or two starting the program. These values can be set on the command line: tran -d1 2 -d2 1 ... or by using the environment variable TRAN to pass these values as d1,d2: set TRAN=2,1 On a 10 MHz IBM-PC/AT the timing prarameters need to be larger, d1=4 d2=13. Most of the speech-to-text rules used in the tran program come from an article in an IEEE journal: Elovitz, H.S., Johnson, R., McHugh, A., and Shore, J.E. (1976). "Letter-to-Sound Rules for Automatic Translation of English Text to Phonetics," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-24(6), 446-458. The program contains a set of 35 phonemes, each encoded as a sequence of bits controlling the position (in or out) of the PC speaker. The phoneme codes come from the public domain program SPEECH by Andy McGuire. Send your comments and suggestions to: Stephen Neely 11230 Ohio St. Omaha, NE 68131 ************************************************************************* ... [ material deleted -- ahr ] -------------------- [A complete version of this document is now available through the fileserver, s.v. TRAN DOC. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: Center for Text and Technology Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1991 12:45 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 399 (934) Since April 1989, the Center for Text and Technology of the Academic Computer Center at Georgetown University has been compiling information about projects in electronic text in the humanities. Currently we have details on over 300 projects in 27 countries. Because this information is constantly being updated, any printing would be obsolescent. Consequently, we have created an on-line Catalogue that is searchable through Internet and dial-in access. Thus far, response has been gratifying; last month we logged over 100 inquiries. An illustrated User's Guide to the Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text is available free of charge through surface mail. In addition, a public-domain version of KERMIT and a keyboard- mapping program can be obtained through file transfer protocol (ftp). For further information, please contact me personally at the address below. James A. Wilderotter II Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: Reading DOS CD-ROMs on NeXT Date: Thursday, 17 October 1991 2149-EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 783 (935) Today we tried to test the capability of NeXT running SoftPC (which permits NeXT to run DOS programs) to access CD-ROMs that are set up to work with DOS software. We tried two relatively easy cases, both of which resulted in the same impasse: the DOS software ran fine in SoftPC, but was unable to recognize the CD-ROM drive as a CD-ROM drive -- that is, it seemed to treat the CD-ROM reader as another hard disk, thus frustrating the program code that looked for a CD-ROM reader. Our guess is that since on a DOS machine, the CD-ROM reader is connected through a special card interface, while on the NeXT is is through a SCSI interface, there is no communication. (My screen just went bonkers, so I'm flying blind at this point!) Question: if our analysis is correct, does anyone know of a fix for it? Or a direction in which to seek a (hopefully simple) solution? Thanks, Bob Kraft, UPenn (no screen!) From: Jean Veronis Subject: Teaching LISP to Humanists Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 18:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 784 (936) Who has any experience in teaching LISP to Humanists? Is there a nice LISP (and cheap!) for Macintosh (Allegro CommonLisp seems too complicated--and expensive)? Any suggestion of a textbook? Thanks, Jean Veronis From: "john p. jacob" Subject: german dictionary Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 08:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 785 (937) My apologies is this is a topic already covered here... Can anyone tell me if there is a german/english dictionary, preferably PD, and preferably downloadably by ftp, available anywhere? Many thanks. JPJacob@iubacs.bitnet From: Harry Gaylord Subject: iso 10646 and unicode Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 20:33:03 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 401 (938) JTC1/SC2 met in Rennes, France last week and approved a motion that a new DIS 10646 be sent out to national bodies. This means that UNICODE and ISO 10646 are integrated, i.e. that for the most part UNICODE will be distributed in a cover of ISO. The DIS will be sent to national bodies in January and the voting will take place within 4 months. It is to be expected that ISO IS 10646 will be official at the end of 1992. I will place a more extensive discussion of the implications of this on the listservers of humanist and tei-l at the end of this week. Harry Gaylord From: BITNET%"R0MILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET"Robert Royar (C&CD Moderator) Subject: Call for papers: NYIT Fifth-Annual Computer Conference Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 07:15:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 402 (939) Organization: Department of English, New York Institute of Technology Please Post and Circulate _____________________________________________________________________________ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | | | LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND WRITING: | | | | FORGING CONNECTIONS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL | | | | AND COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOMS | | | | April 3, 1992 | |_____________________________________________________________________________| The fifth annual Computers and English Conference for high school and college teachers of writing. Sponsored by the Program in English New York Institute of Technology The conference has two primary themes: o how computers and specifically computer networks can be used to ally high school and college teachers of English, and o how computers are changing the way literature is created, taught, understood and written about. You are invited to propose presentations and panel discussions that stimulate thinking about the many ways literature, computers and writing can be related in and between high school and college English classrooms. Please forward a brief abstract of either a demonstration of exercises (no longer than five minutes) or an argument (ten to fifteen minutes long). Along with your name, school affiliation, address, and daytime phone number, be sure to specify any equipment your presentation requires (number and kind of computers, type of software, etc.) Possible Topics o Computer access in a muliticultural environment o Computers and the changing definitions of literacy o Growing interest in desktop publishing for students and faculty o Teleconferencing and distance learning o Classroom uses of on-line databases and searches o Classroom uses of hypertext and hypermedia o Computer discussion groups for students and/or teachers o Varied features of personal contact in an electronic environment o Computers and the learning-disabled student o Continuing teacher education and telecommunications o Demonstrations of software programs you have designed o Effects of computers on testing and assessing individually or collaboratively composed writing The submission deadline is January 15, 1992. Notification of acceptance is February 7, 1992. 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Hotel accomodations available near campus at East Norwich Inn (East Norwich, NY). _____________________________________________________________________________ |Pre-Registration Form | | | | Please register me for the Fifth-Annual NYIT Computers and Writing | | Conference: | | | | Name: ______________________________________________________________ | | Address: ______________________________________________________________ | | ______________________________________________________________ | | ______________________________________________________________ | | E-Mail: ______________________________________________________________ | | School: ______________________________________________________________ | | Amount Enclosed: $ ___.___ | | Mail completed form to | | Department of English | | New York Institute of Technology | | Old Westbury, New York 11568 | | Att: Ann McLaughlin (516) 686-7557. | |_____________________________________________________________________________| ------------------------------ From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: Multilingual Apps Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 12:07:39 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 403 (940) Sorry for the long delay in picking up this thread, but I would like to offer a somewhat different perspective. John Hughes writes, "Practically speaking, would Microsoft or Apple or NeXT recoup their costs if they decided to provide HUMANISTS with the kind of operating system and interface we want?". John goes on to give a very gloomy assessment about the prospects of such an OS. However, Microsoft is committed to providing a full Unicode implementation in Windows/NT. Apple's "Pink OS" is designed around Unicode. NeXT will provide Unicode support in a future OS as well. I do not know what other plans IBM and Apple have, although I have some hope that both will provide Unicode before Windows/NT or Pink. Mac and OS/2 2.0 support 16 bit character sets. Unicode will will come along with time. With the recent decisions in the ISO community, it seems very likely that ISO will endorse the Unicode way of doing things next year. Whenever ISO 10646 becomes an official standard, it will then eventually become a purchasing requirement for many European nations. I must also note that I read John's description of how one must go about developing multilingual DOS apps and printer drivers with some horror, "The only 100% foolproof solution to these firmware woes is for software developers to get _all_ the old versions of the firmware for _each_ printer they wish to support and make their initial printers backwards compatible for each supported printer and then to get all the new firmware revisions for each supported printer and continually issue upgraded printer drivers that take account of each new firmware revision. Neither of these courses is practical. . . . Finally, one of the most cost-intensive aspects of software development for multilingual DOS applications is creating the printer drivers." This sounds like a good reason to call DOS a dinosaur to me :-). I would like to suggest that a much less expensive alternative would be to use an OS/Windowing environment that uses Type 1 fonts (maybe TrueType in the future). On PC's, this includes Windows 3.0 (+ATM), Mac (+ATM, soon to be built in) or OS/2 (built in). Here, if someone wants to build an app, they only need to design one font. This same font can be used to display and print. If one does not have the ideal of a unified imaging model (and all the NeXT people said, "Amen!"), one should at least have a unified font model for screen display and printing. This seems to me to be the only rational, low cost way to do things. Bitmapped fonts and writing printer drivers should be avoided at all cost. Or rather it will cost you plenty in time and money to do it "the old fashioned way" of bitmaps and device drivers. John Baima john@utafll.uta.edu From: Charles Ess Subject: Spanish translation programs Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 22:54:20 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 786 (941) "We" may have covered this topic lately, in which case I will be happy to be pointed to the appropriate log. If not -- on behalf of a colleague who thinks there _must_ exist such a thing, does anyone experience with/knowledge of/recommendations for translation software -- in particular, a program which can take, in this case, a Spanish text, and develop a reasonably reliable translation? Coupled with this request -- recommendations for OCR software and/or scanners which can handle Spanish text? In case this helps: the colleague in question is neither ethnocentric nor linguaphobic (?). On the contrary. But he would like to be able to demonstrate to recalcitrant superiors that such things exist _now_ as aids to scholars who want to read pertinent materials which are published in languages other than English/American. Not a bad thought, I think. In any case, respondants are asked to reply to me directly. If there's interest, I'll be happy to post a summary of comments on HUMANIST. Thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College From: LANJH1@VAXA.HERIOT-WATT.AC.UK Subject: Multilingual wp - Russian PC-Write Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 12:20 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 787 (942) I wonder whether any Humanist out there can help with a problem? I have a student who typed out a dissertation in Russian while on a study placement in Novosibirsk, USSR, using a version of PC-Write which has a 'standard' Russian typewriter keyboard. He now needs to edit and print it out here, where we have a different version of PC-Write which uses a 'nearest English equivalent' layout for those characters which are akin to Latin, and assigns the remainder in what can only be assumed to be a random fashion. I don't use this version of PC-Write myself because I find it confusing and prefer a different word-processor. We are obliged, however, to stick with PC-Write for students, because of its low cost. We are trying to obtain a copy of the Novosibirsk version, but for various reasons this is likely to be a long job, and my student needs to get on with the work now. He could, in the last resort, re-type the whole thing, but this seems like a major waste of time. If anyone can supply a version of PC-Write akin to the Novosibirsk one I would be interested to try it. Naturally we would take all necessary steps to ensure that no copyright regulations are broken. I'm not sure if there is a problem over this with shareware, but we would check this out in any case. Incidentally, I have just been sent details of a Russian spelling checker called 'Orfo' which is compatible with the major word-processors which can handle Russian (not mine, alas) and of a pop-up dictionary which looks very promising. If anyone cares to get in touch with me I would be glad to forward the details. Jim Halliday Department of Languages Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland [not to be confused with Edinburgh University, which is a separate institution!] From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: Training Programs in Translation Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 17:24:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 788 (943) I have posted this message before but not received a very good response. Therefore, I'll give it a second try. I'm interested in getting information on degree programs for translators in the USA and abroad. It doesn't have to be a university program. Professional schools, and private training centers are welcome as well. If you are involved in any of these programs, please send as much info to me on the program as possible. I'm in the process of compiling a directory and compare different programs. The directory will be posted on Humanist if there is enough interest and if I get enough responses to compile a directory. If possible, the program description should be sent to my e-mail address. If not, send a brochure via snail mail. The directory will also be posted on TRANSNET, a private online service for translators/interpreters. As yet, 10 different programs are posted on Transnet. For those interested, Transnet may be reached by dialing 217-384-5101 with your modem. Thanks. Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: olsen@csli.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Teaching Lisp to Humanists Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 18:13:22 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 789 (944) Jean Veronis asks if anyone has taught Lisp to humanists. I haven't done so yet, but as a humanist who has studied Lisp and artificial intelligence, I heartily recommend as a homework exercise having people tinker with some variant of the Eliza program. In addition to being fun, it can help students to overcome some of their awe of the computer. (Which for some reason reminds me of the scene in "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy and friends discover the man behind the curtain...) --Diane L. Olsen (olsen@csli.stanford.edu) From: William Adelman Subject: Dos Cdroms on the next Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 22:43 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 790 (945) Re B. Kraft's attempt to run dos cdroms on the Next -- I know that Access PC is the software used to mount dos disks on mac machines that that don't have supe rdrives. Perhaps they have a version for the NextNext that would mount the cdrom drive. W. Adelman (Izzycx9@oac.ucla.edu) From: Stephen Clausing Subject: LISP for Humanists Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 10:16:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 791 (946) A good text for teaching Lisp to Humanists is "Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" by David Touretzky, Benjamin Cummings Publisher. A cheap Lisp for the Macintosh that we use here at Yale is MacScheme, though I am not sure what the exact price is. However, MacScheme doesn't go with the Touretzky text obviously. MacScheme is available from Semantic Microsystems, 4470 S.W.Hall, Suite 340, Beaverton, Oregon, 97005. I have no personal connection to the book or the program. From: allegre@ere.umontreal.ca (Allegre Christian) Subject: Re: 5.0400 Qs: DOS CDROMs on NexT; LISP; Germand dict. (3/39) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 15:28:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 792 (947) Following Jean Veronis' query about books on LISP, I want to mention that for the PC I used a few years back a very good subset of Common Lisp called PC SCHEME the last version of which is 3.0. Along with the software (which was used at MIT for teaching LISP) a few good books were published. I will dig them out if you like. I remember the title of one: The little Lisper. Really well made. Excellent. For those of us of course who are not afraid of nested parentheses... Christian Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705" Subject: Graduate Level Humanities Computing Courses Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1991 10:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 793 (948) I am seeking information on graduate level Humanities Computing courses--catalog descriptions would be great--to bolster my case that such a course should exist here at IUP. [This repeats a call from last Spring--to those who responded previously, many thanks.] Info can be sent directly to me: Malcolm Hayward Department of English IUP Indiana, PA 15705 MHayward@IUP or MHayward@grove.iup.edu From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Methodology Courses and Computing Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 20:43:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 794 (949) May I suggest also sending Malcolm any descriptions of graduate level methodology courses that have a significant computing component? (He'll be summarizing to the list of course!) -- Allen From: Sigrid Peterson Subject: Re:5.0405 LISPing and SCHEMEing as Humanists Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1991 23:02 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 795 (950) Computer Sciences, here, offers a course called Programming Language Concepts, on the graduate level, and Software Fundamentals: Programming Language Structure, on the undergraduate level -- same course, except that the graduate level course "May only be taken by graduate students from other departments," who have some experience in programming. The text is by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman, _Structure and Interpreta- tion of Computer Programs_, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1985. This is probably one of the books that Christian Allegre would have had to dig out. Anyone who has read D. R. Hofstadter, _Go%del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_, Basic Books, 1979, will be delighted (or some other word) to know that SCHEME and presumably LISP are recursive computer languages; that is, a routine can call itself. Sigrid Peterson sigpeter@cc.utah.edu From: dirish@math.utah.edu Subject: RE: LISP and Scheme Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 08:17:19 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 796 (951) Just to avoid confusion on the part of people who are investigating LISP and SCHEME I would like to point out that SCHEME is not LISP. So if you get a book that is going to teach you LISP be sure to get a LISP system and vice versa. For those who care, LISP is dynamically scoped and SCHEME is lexically scoped. This means that in LISP the value of a variable (I am speaking loosely here) is determined by the context in which a function is called, and in SCHEME it is determined by the context in which it is defined. This is not as trivial a difference as it may seem and for someone just learning it would be a baffling difference. Dudley Irish ________________________________________________________________________ Dudley Irish / dirish@math.utah.edu / Manager Computer Operations Center for Scientific Computing, Dept of Mathematics, University of Utah The views expressed in this message do not reflect the views of the Dept of Mathematics, the University of Utah, or the State of Utah. From: Ron W. P. Brasington Subject: LISP for Humanists Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 13:14:38 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 797 (952) Why not use LOGO instead? I have been using this for some years now with both humanist students generally and linguistics students in particular. The transfer from LOGO to LISP is extremely straightforward for those who need to make it and the initial stages are considerably easier (even if deep down LISP is actually simpler). There are versions of LOGO for the Mac. I am currently using Terrapin LOGO, which has a good set of primitives (including provision for property lists). Ron Brasington Department of Linguistic Science University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 2AA UK ron.brasington@reading.ac.uk From: "J. Denooz" Subject: CD-ROM Information Project Request (Liege) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 10:27:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 408 (953) Cher Monsieur Kraft, Un grand merci pour l'accueil que vous avez reserve a ma lettre et pour les encouragements que vous m'apportez. Je vous serai tres reconnaissant de la proposition que vous me faites de diffuser mon texte aupres de collegues et de societes ayant realise des CD-ROM. Vous trouverez ci-dessous une copie de ma lettre. En attendant le plaisir de vous lire, je vous prie d'agreer, Cher Monsieur Kraft, l'expression de mes sentiments les meilleurs From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 13:48:04 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 409 (954) SUBJECT: Unicode and ISO 10646 John Baima's and Harry Gaylord's recent HUMANIST notes about ISO 10646 and Unicode raise some interesting questions, which in my case arise from ignorance about ISO 10646 and Unicode. (1) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for or some protocol for distinguishing between left-to-right and right-to-left scripts? (2) How do ISO 10646 and Unicode specify that compound characters be coded? For example, does ISO 10646 or Unicode support floating diacritics? That is, does either standard specify that compound characters (letter+diacritic[s]) be coded as two or more parts, for example, "e/" for "e" with acute accent. Or do both (or either) standards specify that each compound character be represented by a single character or a single numerical value, just as "e" with acute is ASCII 130 in the extended-ASCII scheme? If the latter is the case, then languages like Hebrew (when written with accents as well as vowels) will be a nightmare, since there are over 8,000 unique consonant+vowel+accent combinations in Hebrew. (3) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for variable width characters (e.g., "m" is wider than "i")? (4) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for combining variable width characters with diacritics so that the positioning of the diacritic is relative to the width of the character. (5) Generally, for those of us not familiar with ISO 10646 and Unicode, how will these standards affect future operating systems and applications in ways that are beneficial to persons involved in multilingual word processing and related tasks? How specifically do you envision them making our tasks easier. (6) Finally, I have no quibbles with John Baima's unhappiness about DOS. However, I fail to see how Unicode, ISO 10646, Windows, Type 1 fonts, TrueType fonts, or ATM will solve the problem I described earlier on HUMANIST about printer drivers, changes to printer ROMs, and resulting incompatibilities between existing drivers and upgraded/enhanced/changed versions of printers. As long as printer companies put different ROMs in x-number of versions of the same name and model of a printer, someone--application designer or OS engineer or the printer manufacturer--has to take account of these changes and modify the printer driver(s) accordingly. John John J. Hughes XB.J24@@Stanford From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Foreign Lang. software on TV Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 13:19:31 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 410 (955) Although the actual broadcast times will undoubtedly vary from region to region, _Computer Chronicles_, I just heard, will be doing a special broadcast on foreign language software next week. From what I can see in my TV schedule, PBS channels are the main disseminators of this program. From: vyc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Alan T. McKenzie) Subject: Russian Dictionary/ Computers and the Blind Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 15:30:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 798 (956) Does anyone out there know of an electronic version of a Russian Dictionary, on line, disk, or CD-Rom? The Paperno & Leed dictionary, supposed to be available from Exceller Software for OS/2, is not available yet, and the "ORFO" spell-checker, available from the same source, won't serve our purposes. We have a blind graduate student who wants to meet her language requirement by demonstrating proficiency in Russian, and to use the computer to look up words. So the Dictionary will have to be port- able to "Screen Reader," or something like it. I would also be glad to hear from anyone who has experience with putting the riches of the Internet at the disposal of handicapped students. How does someone who has to "scan" by ear keep up with E-mail? And which voicing system works best? Do any of them, in fact, work at all? Many thanks, Alan McKenzie English, Purdue From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: E-text of Renaut de Beaujeu Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 16:11+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 799 (957) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A colleague of mine desperately needs an e-text of Renaut de Beaujeu (12th c.). Any information would be greatly appreciated! Fritz Heberlein From: Dan Greenstein Subject: speeches of minority civil rights in the US from 1865 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 16:08:58 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 800 (958) A postgraduate student is interested in analysing the form and content of speeches given by civil rights leaders in the US from the post-civil war period. Particular interest in Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X has been expressed, and there is a possilibity of comparison with transcripts of dissenter or evangelical sermons or speeches, and with other political diatribes. Any information about relevant speeches already in machine-readable form which might be made available for the research would be greatly appreciated. Daniel Greenstein Modern History Department Glasgow University From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: Unicode Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 09:06:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 801 (959) I'd like to answer John Hughes's questions by referring to Unicode rather than ISO 10646 which will go through at least one more DIS (Draft International Standard) and could flip-flop yet again. (1) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for or some protocol for distinguishing between left-to-right and right-to-left scripts? [stuff deleted] A: Yes. Unicode is designed to handle both left to right and right to left languages. (2) How do ISO 10646 and Unicode specify that compound characters be coded? For example, does ISO 10646 or Unicode support floating diacritics? A: Unicode supports (and is the prime advocate of) floating diacritical marks. The Unicode philosophy is to make productive use of accents and diacritical marks. They do, however, have all of the precomposed characters in all of the ISO 8859 standards (and several other ISO standards as well). (3) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for variable width characters (e.g., "m" is wider than "i")? A: This is a function of rendering and not encoding. It is not discussed in Unicode. It is assumed that both fixed width and variable width characters will be used. (4) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for combining variable width characters with diacritics so that the positioning of the diacritic is relative to the width of the character. A: Same as (3) (5) Generally, for those of us not familiar with ISO 10646 and Unicode, how will these standards affect future operating systems and applications in ways that are beneficial to persons involved in multilingual word processing and related tasks? How specifically do you envision them making our tasks easier. A: Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NeXT, Lotus, Word Perfect, Claris, Sun Microsystems, Metaphor and others comprise the Unicode Consortium. Unicode will allow us to share "plain Unicode files" like we share "plain ASCII" today. However, Unicode 1.1 can handle virtually all of the known languages, excepting some archaic scripts. This includes literally thousands of languages. General purpose applications (word processing, presentation software, communications software, databases, etc.) will be able to handle Hebrew and Arabic as well as English or whatever. (6) Finally, I have no quibbles with John Baima's unhappiness about DOS. However, I fail to see how Unicode, ISO 10646, Windows, Type 1 fonts, TrueType fonts, or ATM will solve the problem I described earlier on HUMANIST about printer drivers, changes to printer ROMs, [stuff deleted] A: The BIG difference is that when a font fails to print on a given printer, whose job is it to correct the problem? With DOS solutions, it is each software application. However, if I use Adobe Type 1 fonts and ATM under Windows and that font does not print on a Brand X printer, it is the responsibility of the printer manufacturer and Adobe. Not only is it not my responsibility as a application developer, I *cannot* solve the problem. The problem gets fixed once, not N times for N different DOS applications. These ROM problems are more often than not only related to downloading characters to the printer. However, ATM does not use downloaded fonts but prints the text in graphics mode. All Toshiba dot matrix printers, for example, use the same graphics standard but widely different character downloading (if you include the old Toshiba printers). Finally, I would like to encourage HUMANIST's to think about Unicode. If it sounds like a "good thing", please post why (or why not). I would like to make a collection of these responses and pass them on to the ISO and Unicode lists. I have been told by one of the computer OS manufactures that a good requirement definition as to why Unicode would be a "good thing" (and help sell computers) may help push them to insert this feature sooner rather than later. John Baima john@utafll.uta.edu From: Harry Gaylord Subject: Unicode and ISO10646 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 17:10:02 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 802 (960) Let me answer briefly the questions which John Hughes raised in Vol. 5, No. 0409. Control codes do not form a part of the required sections of 10646. Reference is made to the Control codes of ISO 6429:1988. Until now control functions have been encoded in positions 0 - 31 (C0) and 128 - 159 (C1) or are introduced by an escape sequence in ISO standards. In the recent ISO discussion documents it has become apparent that UNICODE contains control/ formatting codes in places where a graphic character would be expected. These have now been placed in an appendix which means devices can conform to the requirements of 10646 without using them. If this sounds confusing, the result is simple. There are going to be two sets of control codes which are not mutually interchangable. 1. Your question about bidi (bidirectionality) can illustrate the problem well. UNICODE offers a relatively brutal way of handling this. (a) The bracket and parenthesis marks are right or left in shape relative to the direction of the language. (b) There are codes for starting and overriding left to right and right to left directions. ISO 6429 offers two ways of changing directionality. (i) Select Presentation Directions (SPD) There are 7 possible parameters for this to indicate the character and line progression. For Hebrew this is 3 "the direction of the character path is from right to left; the direction of the line progression is from top to bottom. (ii) Start Reversed String (SRS) can have two paramenters. They indicate the start and end of reversing the current direction. A technical committee of ECMA is currently working on making this ISO control function more powerful. An example of what they are working on as far as I understand it is to have a parameter in which the Arabic or Hebrew text is presented right to left, but numbers from left to right. So the answer to your first question is that 10646 in itself does not have any protocol for bidi, but it can be used with two different sets of protocols which can achieve this. This is certainly going to cause some problems. 2. Let me break this questions into its parts: a. There will be 4 levels of code extension. In one floating accents will not be included, in two floating accents will be available with the ISO mechanism only, in three the combining method of UNICODE but not the ISO can be used, in four both UNICODE and ISO methods can be used. I assume that a file will have to have a header indicating the level. There is provision for what you call floating accents. There are also a large number of preformed compound characters. Thus your é can be coded as [00E9] or [0065]+[0301], i.e. LATIN SMALL LETTER E + COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT and in one other way with the ISO SGCI. Software designers will have to decide how they will this. The basic question for them is to design tables which multiencodings are possible and to perhaps normalize them in some way. b. Your Hebrew question is another question entirely. This is a problem of imaging, not character encoding. It would be absurd to include your 1000s of possible combinations. A program will have to read the stream of characters and produce a readable image of them on screen or printer. 3. Variable width in presentation is only marginally provided for in both 10646 and UNICODE. This also is a question of imaging, not character encoding. 4. Ibid. 5. I cannot predict what will happen in the future, but if 10646 takes off it will mean that character sets are provided for at the system level where they should be, not on application level. Everyone who has a 10646 system will have access to the necessary characters for multilingual processing in an enormous number of languages. That can only be an improvement. There will be some hickups with sorting out which extension level and control function wins out. There will also be some revision of what characters are included within the short term, I think. It will mean that your word processor, full text data retrieval system, and SGML application (if compliant) will use the same multilingual character set. With networks supporting it we can exchange these files anywhere without corruption. If machines running EBCDIC move up to 10646, other major compatibility problems will be solved. 6. The problem of printing as you can see from the above is not dealt with by a character coding standard. The whole issue of presentation forms will have to be handled outside of this standard. This will be done by using Postscript download fonts etc. The number of glyphs which can be place on paper and screen is considerably larger than 2^16 which is the maximum number of characters in this standard. Apologies for the length of this answer. I will send the more lengthy and informative information to the listservers soon. [some reformatting by the editor. -- ahr] From: webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU Subject: George of Trebizond query Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1991 08:04:34 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 803 (961) This is a long-shot request, I realize, but does anyone know of a machine-readable copy of George of Trebizond's _Comparison of Plato and Aristotle_? Personal replies appreciated, thanks... Don Webb DonWebb@CSUS.EDU From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Bengali texts? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1991 16:34:26 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 804 (962) A student of mine would like to find electronic texts in Bengali. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. Please send them directly to the student, Kathleen O'Connell, koconnel@epas.utoronto.ca, as well as to Humanist itself. Thanks very much. Yours, Willard McCarty From: PKEITH@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0407 LISP, Scheme, Logo, Humanists (3/65) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1991 22:04 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 805 (963) INRE Ron Brasington's mention of logo: I have been somewhat desultorily looking for a PC version of LOGO. We had an old Commodore version from back in 1980-1 for our kids, but seem to be losing that system. Any advice? Phil Keith English//St. Cloud State U St. Cloud, MN INTERNET: PKEITH@MSUS1.EDU From: Randall Jones Subject: Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 12:15:45 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 806 (964) I recently received a phone call asking about CALL software for teaching English. If there is anyone out there who can provide information, please direct it to: Professor Constantine Kontogenis Department of Humanities Polytechnic University 333 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY 11201 Sorry, he has no e-mail access. Randall Jones Brigham Young University R.L. Jones From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" Subject: RE: 5.0392 The HUMBUL Humanities Bulletin Board (1/69) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 22:27 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 807 (965) Subj: E-mail connection to Univ. of Bucharest I am trying to establish e-mail contact between the North American Kant Society and our opposite number, the Rumanian Kant Society. Does anyone on HUMANIST have e-mail contact with anyone at the University of Bucharest (or anybody in Bucharest) That I might approach to develop this contact? Many thanks, Hoke Robinson Dept. of Philosophy Memphis State University Memphis TN 38152 USA (ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET) From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: Info on CELEX and Hypermedia & Literary Studies Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 09:28:11 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 808 (966) Some time ago I saw a reference to these two periodicals: any more specific info? Thanks, Marco Simionato From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: info on Apple Higher Education Syllabus Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 09:32:33 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 809 (967) Any more specific info on Apple Higher Education publication "Syllabus"? Thanks, Marco Simionato From: david j reimer f Subject: KJV and Kings... Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 15:05:50 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 810 (968) Given the range of disciplines/fields/interests represented by this LARGE group of computing humanists, some may be able to help with the following question. I am interested in doing some reading on the impact of the King James Version of the Bible on theories of kingship/political theory at the time of its original publication. It seems likely that the stories of mighty kings (and queens) with feet of clay (adulterers, apostates) *in the vernacular* may have done little to enhance the profile of royalty, or perhaps would have given grounds for more actively challenging royalty and the "divine right of kings". This *must* have been written on, but it is way outside my sphere of competence. Any pointers/bibliography would be greatly appreciated. David. -- David J. Reimer, Religion & Culture Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2680 Wilfrid Laurier University Fax: (519) 886-9351 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Internet: dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca From: david j reimer f Subject: Identify quote Date: Sat, 19 Oct 91 15:00:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 811 (969) Is anyone able to identify the source of the quote that appears on the title page of C.S. Lewis's _Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold_? The quote runs: "Love is too young to know what conscience is". Any leads received with gratitude! David. -- David J. Reimer, Religion & Culture Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2680 Wilfrid Laurier University Fax: (519) 886-9351 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Internet: dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Re: 5.0387 Rs: NOTIS; Musical Instrument DBMSs;... (4/62) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 07:16:41 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 812 (970) Douglas De Lacey has just pointed out to me that Ormond de Kay's parody, N'HEURES SOURIS RAMES: THE COUCY CASTLE MANUSCRIPT (NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980) is probably an example of plagiarism. Such a poem as UN PETIT D'UN PETIT S'ETTONNE AUX HALLES... was probably originally published in MOTS D'HEURES: GOUSSES, RAMES: THE D'ANTIN MANUSCRIPT (NY: Penguin, 1967). Wasn't it Professor Anonymous who defined "creativity" as "undetected plagiarism?" Well, now it has been detected. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen, (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Melancon Benoit) Subject: Short or long letter ? Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 13:32:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 813 (971) On entend souvent, du moins en francais, la phrase <> J'ai entendu recemment des gens l'attribuer a Blaise Pascal, a Woodrow Wilson, a Oscar Wilde, a Victor Hugo et j'en passe. Quelqu'un connaitrait-il la source exacte de cette phrase ? Benoit Melancon melancon@ere.umontreal.ca Departement d'etudes francaises (514) 485-2127 Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succ. "A" Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3C 3J7 From: "Tom.Tomlinson" <19910TOM@MSU> Subject: Taped readings of PHL texts Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 13:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 814 (972) I am serving on the guidance committee for a blind doctoral student in philosophy at MSU, and we have begun to struggle with what to do about the foreign language requirement normally applied to all doctoral students. The student would like the requirement waived, for two reasons: first, it will be inordinately (and unfairly) difficult for him to undertake study of a foreign language given the resources available on campus; and second, he will never be able to put the foreign language to use in his philo- sophical career, because there are no taped readings available in this country of philosophical works in any language but English. The first rationale will have to be investigated locally on our campus. But the second raises the question of whether such taped philosopical works might be available through organizations in other countries. E.g., are there organizations in France that provide taped readings of French philosophical works? If so, how could blind persons in the US get access to these resources? If anyone out there has any answers for these questions, I'd be grateful for your reply. Thanks very much for any help. Tom Tomlinson Center for Ethics and Humanities Michigan State University 19910tom@msu.bitnet, or @msu.edu.internet From: Aaron Kershenbaum T/L-863-7320 KERSH at YKTVMH Subject: Two by two Date: 22 October 1991, 20:16:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 815 (973) I have a colleague who is researching the number two in all its forms, including idioms (the better half; double or nothing; it takes two to tango, etc., etc.) I know there was a long-lived discussion on other numbers recently, but if anyone has info on two, too, to send her, please let me know. ---Peg Kershenbaum From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Russian, Spanish Date: Tue, 22 Oct 91 08:26:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 816 (974) The version of PC-Write that accepts the standard Russian keyboard is probably PC-Lite 1.02, which is shareware in the U.K. distributed by Folio Shareware in West Yorkshire, while the full version is not. The issue is not the keyboard layout (PC-Lite can use either the standard Russian keyboard or the "phonics" keyboard) but the allocation of the Russian characters in the upper ASCII table. I happen to have tested a Russian spellchecker, i.e. made in Russia, which worked with a PC-Lite generated text, which leads me to believe that this is the word processing program that was used in Russia. There is a translation program available for Spanish called Tranlate. It is available through Finalsoft Corporation (305) 477-2703. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: Espen Ore Subject: 5.0400 Qs: DOS CDROMs on NexT; LISP; Germand dict. (3/39) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1991 15:00:55 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 817 (975) I have some experience in reading DOS CD-ROMS with SoftPC on a Mac. The only ones I have managed to get up and running are the ones that use the Microsoft CD-ROM extensions which, in fact, are used to make a CD-ROM available as just another harddisk for DOS programs. With SoftPC for the Mac the CD-ROM can basically only be assigned the drive letter E:. There is a workaround by using the DOS command ASSIGN (this can be necessary with programs that suppose that the CD-ROM has a special drive letter, e.g. L:). In my version of the SoftPC programs the ASSIGN command does not exist in the AT-version, only in the XT-version. Espen Ore Bergen, Norway From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Re: 5.0411 Qs: Etexts (3/53) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 9:22:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 818 (976) ABC Television has an interactive videodisk for sale with Martin Luther King speeches. It is multimedia an duses as I recall a Macintosh for controller. From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: humor conference in Paris, France Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 819 (977) Don't forget that October 31 is the deadline for abstracts for the humor conference in Paris, France. We will accept abstracts up to a couple of weeks late. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. 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Name:__________________________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ City:_________________________________ Province/State:________________ Country:______________________________ Postal/Zip Code:________________ Cheque enclosed $________________________________ Bill me:____________ From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: Unicode Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 09:06:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 822 (980) I'd like to answer John Hughes's questions by referring to Unicode rather than ISO 10646 which will go through at least one more DIS (Draft International Standard) and could flip-flop yet again. (1) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for or some protocol for distinguishing between left-to-right and right-to-left scripts? [stuff deleted] A: Yes. Unicode is designed to handle both left to right and right to left languages. (2) How do ISO 10646 and Unicode specify that compound characters be coded? For example, does ISO 10646 or Unicode support floating diacritics? A: Unicode supports (and is the prime advocate of) floating diacritical marks. The Unicode philosophy is to make productive use of accents and diacritical marks. They do, however, have all of the precomposed characters in all of the ISO 8859 standards (and several other ISO standards as well). (3) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for variable width characters (e.g., "m" is wider than "i")? A: This is a function of rendering and not encoding. It is not discussed in Unicode. It is assumed that both fixed width and variable width characters will be used. (4) Do either ISO 10646 or Unicode provide support for combining variable width characters with diacritics so that the positioning of the diacritic is relative to the width of the character. A: Same as (3) (5) Generally, for those of us not familiar with ISO 10646 and Unicode, how will these standards affect future operating systems and applications in ways that are beneficial to persons involved in multilingual word processing and related tasks? How specifically do you envision them making our tasks easier. A: Apple, IBM, Microsoft, NeXT, Lotus, Word Perfect, Claris, Sun Microsystems, Metaphor and others comprise the Unicode Consortium. Unicode will allow us to share "plain Unicode files" like we share "plain ASCII" today. However, Unicode 1.1 can handle virtually all of the known languages, excepting some archaic scripts. This includes literally thousands of languages. General purpose applications (word processing, presentation software, communications software, databases, etc.) will be able to handle Hebrew and Arabic as well as English or whatever. (6) Finally, I have no quibbles with John Baima's unhappiness about DOS. However, I fail to see how Unicode, ISO 10646, Windows, Type 1 fonts, TrueType fonts, or ATM will solve the problem I described earlier on HUMANIST about printer drivers, changes to printer ROMs, [stuff deleted] A: The BIG difference is that when a font fails to print on a given printer, whose job is it to correct the problem? With DOS solutions, it is each software application. However, if I use Adobe Type 1 fonts and ATM under Windows and that font does not print on a Brand X printer, it is the responsibility of the printer manufacturer and Adobe. Not only is it not my responsibility as a application developer, I *cannot* solve the problem. The problem gets fixed once, not N times for N different DOS applications. These ROM problems are more often than not only related to downloading characters to the printer. However, ATM does not use downloaded fonts but prints the text in graphics mode. All Toshiba dot matrix printers, for example, use the same graphics standard but widely different character downloading (if you include the old Toshiba printers). Finally, I would like to encourage HUMANIST's to think about Unicode. If it sounds like a "good thing", please post why (or why not). I would like to make a collection of these responses and pass them on to the ISO and Unicode lists. I have been told by one of the computer OS manufactures that a good requirement definition as to why Unicode would be a "good thing" (and help sell computers) may help push them to insert this feature sooner rather than later. John Baima john@utafll.uta.edu From: Harry Gaylord Subject: no subject (file transmission) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 17:10:02 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 823 (981) Let me answer briefly the questions which John Hughes raised in Vol. 5, No. 0409. Control codes do not form a part of the required sections of 10646. Reference is made to the Control codes of ISO 6429:1988. Until now control functions have been encoded in positions 0 - 31 (C0) and 128 - 159 (C1) or are introduced by an escape sequence in ISO standards. In the recent ISO discussion documents it has become apparent that UNICODE contains control/ formatting codes in places where a graphic character would be expected. These have now been placed in an appendix which means devices can conform to the requirements of 10646 without using them. If this sounds confusing, the result is simple. There are going to be two sets of control codes which are not mutually interchangable. 1. Your question about bidi (bidirectionality) can illustrate the problem well. UNICODE offers a relatively brutal way of handling this. (a) The bracket and parenthesis marks are right or left in shape relative to the direction of the language. (b) There are codes for starting and overriding left to right and right to left directions. ISO 6429 offers two ways of changing directionality. (i) Select Presentation Directions (SPD) There are 7 possible parameters for this to indicate the character and line progression. For Hebrew this is 3 "the direction of the character path is from right to left; the direction of the line progression is from top to bottom. (ii) Start Reversed String (SRS) can have two paramenters. They indicate the start and end of reversing the current direction. A technical committee of ECMA is currently working on making this ISO control function more powerful. An example of what they are working on as far as I understand it is to have a parameter in which the Arabic or Hebrew text is presented right to left, but numbers from left to right. So the answer to your first question is that 10646 in itself does not have any protocol for bidi, but it can be used with two different sets of protocols which can achieve this. This is certainly going to cause some problems. 2. Let me break this questions into its parts: a. There will be 4 levels of code extension. In one floating accents will not be included, in two floating accents will be available with the ISO mechanism only, in three the combining method of UNICODE but not the ISO can be used, in four both UNICODE and ISO methods can be used. I assume that a file will have to have a header indicating the level. There is provision for what you call floating accents. There are also a large number of preformed compound characters. Thus your é can be coded as [00E9] or [0065]+[0301], i.e. LATIN SMALL LETTER E + COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT and in one other way with the ISO SGCI. Software designers will have to decide how they will this. The basic question for them is to design tables which multiencodings are possible and to perhaps normalize them in some way. b. Your Hebrew question is another question entirely. This is a problem of imaging, not character encoding. It would be absurd to include your 1000s of possible combinations. A program will have to read the stream of characters and produce a readable image of them on screen or printer. 3. Variable width in presentation is only marginally provided for in both 10646 and UNICODE. This also is a question of imaging, not character encoding. 4. Ibid. 5. I cannot predict what will happen in the future, but if 10646 takes off it will mean that character sets are provided for at the system level where they should be, not on application level. Everyone who has a 10646 system will have access to the necessary characters for multilingual processing in an enormous number of languages. That can only be an improvement. There will be some hickups with sorting out which extension level and control function wins out. There will also be some revision of what characters are included within the short term, I think. It will mean that your word processor, full text data retrieval system, and SGML application (if compliant) will use the same multilingual character set. With networks supporting it we can exchange these files anywhere without corruption. If machines running EBCDIC move up to 10646, other major compatibility problems will be solved. 6. The problem of printing as you can see from the above is not dealt with by a character coding standard. The whole issue of presentation forms will have to be handled outside of this standard. This will be done by using Postscript download fonts etc. The number of glyphs which can be place on paper and screen is considerably larger than 2^16 which is the maximum number of characters in this standard. Apologies for the length of this answer. I will send the more lengthy and informative information to the listservers soon. [some reformatting by the editor. -- ahr] From: "Paul F. Schaffner" Subject: What's wrong with a unicode Date: Sat, 26 Oct 91 17:30:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 824 (982) We have been asked to suggest what might be good or bad about the inclusion of unicode in future systems. I have only an end-user's sentiments to offer, generally negative. My concern is simply this: that no uniform coding scheme could possibly accommodate all the characters or character sets individual users might want; and that by including a wide range of languages, any such inclusive system would greatly decrease the market for, and hence the availability of, methods by which those individualist individuals who found the scheme inadequate might circumvent it. Would Unicode allow for exceptions? I have, for example, found occasion to use the following characters: the 6-shaped w used in medieval Welsh; various standard & peculiar Latin and Old/Middle English abbreviations (back loop for -er or -es, crossed p, hooked h, &c.), punctuation, and letter forms (sideways m, etc.); Old Norse characters such as a-a digraph with double acute, a-v digraph, a-u digraph, &c.; and a whole range of editorial marks. In the present situation, the standard 8-bit character sets are so obviously limited that a whole range of affordable bit-map editors, downloaders, screen-font editors, &c., is readily available. I make characters easily & at will. If I need to convert to another app, a few search-and-replaces may be tedious, but easy enough and well worth the flexibility I have gained. No doubt this offends the tidy-minded, but the first thing I ask of any app. program is "how easy is it to customize?" "how easily can I impose *my* standards?"--especially my character sets. It's easy to see why I do not warm to the idea of burying this kind of information in the environment or (worse) operating system, where it can't be got at. With the advent of Windows, ATM & co., & scale-on-the fly, with their obvious convenience but extreme limitations as regards user-customized characters and character sets (yes, I know it's possible to edit Type 1 outlines, but is it possible for the humble user to add the hinting necessary for small sizes?), bitmaps are already coming to be regarded as obsolete. One would not be surprised to see them fade away altogether. Increasing the range of the character set included in this closed system would only make the problem worse: a closed system that includes a lot more people is still just as closed to those outside it. What I want is an open system, as completely open as possible. Is this reasonably to be expected if movements toward more inclusive standardization proceed? If not, I prefer anarchy. Paul Schaffner Middle English Dictionary From: Joanna Johnson Subject: I.S.U. 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From: "Paul F. Schaffner" Subject: What's wrong with a unicode Date: Sat, 26 Oct 91 17:30:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 420 (984) We have been asked to suggest what might be good or bad about the inclusion of unicode in future systems. I have only an end-user's sentiments to offer, generally negative. My concern is simply this: that no uniform coding scheme could possibly accommodate all the characters or character sets individual users might want; and that by including a wide range of languages, any such inclusive system would greatly decrease the market for, and hence the availability of, methods by which those individualist individuals who found the scheme inadequate might circumvent it. Would Unicode allow for exceptions? I have, for example, found occasion to use the following characters: the 6-shaped w used in medieval Welsh; various standard & peculiar Latin and Old/Middle English abbreviations (back loop for -er or -es, crossed p, hooked h, &c.), punctuation, and letter forms (sideways m, etc.); Old Norse characters such as a-a digraph with double acute, a-v digraph, a-u digraph, &c.; and a whole range of editorial marks. In the present situation, the standard 8-bit character sets are so obviously limited that a whole range of affordable bit-map editors, downloaders, screen-font editors, &c., is readily available. I make characters easily & at will. If I need to convert to another app, a few search-and-replaces may be tedious, but easy enough and well worth the flexibility I have gained. No doubt this offends the tidy-minded, but the first thing I ask of any app. program is "how easy is it to customize?" "how easily can I impose *my* standards?"--especially my character sets. It's easy to see why I do not warm to the idea of burying this kind of information in the environment or (worse) operating system, where it can't be got at. With the advent of Windows, ATM & co., & scale-on-the fly, with their obvious convenience but extreme limitations as regards user-customized characters and character sets (yes, I know it's possible to edit Type 1 outlines, but is it possible for the humble user to add the hinting necessary for small sizes?), bitmaps are already coming to be regarded as obsolete. One would not be surprised to see them fade away altogether. Increasing the range of the character set included in this closed system would only make the problem worse: a closed system that includes a lot more people is still just as closed to those outside it. What I want is an open system, as completely open as possible. Is this reasonably to be expected if movements toward more inclusive standardization proceed? If not, I prefer anarchy. Paul Schaffner Middle English Dictionary From: David S. Miall Department of English Subject: Quotes Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 19:43:36 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 825 (985) University of Alberta Here are a couple of quotations I'm trying to identify: the first is for a colleague. In _As For Me and My House_ (p. 159) Sinclair Ross cites the following: Once the raven, too, had a croak in his name, and there was a time when all pens scratched. Ross himself confirmed it was quoted, but was unable to recall its source. Anyone out there know?? The other (for me) is a phrase used by Coleridge in aletter (C_Collected Letters_, ed. Griggs, Vol. II, p. 666): that the affections walk in silence and in a veil. Any thoughts on either of these to: dmiall @ ualtavm -- will be much appreciated! Regards, David Miall From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Spanish wp & thesaurus Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 14:17:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 826 (986) Can anyone recommend a DOS-based word processor for English speakers writing in Spanish? I'm looking for one with very good spell-checking and possibly thesaurus capabilities as well which would run on a Netware-compatible network. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Foreign lang. grammar checkers Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 14:34:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 827 (987) Does anyone know of grammar checkers for French, German and Spanish? Are any particularly suitable for English-language users of common word-processors (e.g., PFS, Word Perfect, Word for Windows)? Thanks in advance, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College (Univ. System of NH) From: JONATHAN KANDELL Subject: Re: 5.0326 Rs: Multi-Lingual W/P; Fonts (4/103) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 18:37 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 828 (988) Does anyone have any experience with the Video Toaster? It's an Amiga hooked up in a way that it functions as a video editing machine. From: "Hey Joe, You got Chewing Gum?" Subject: Knuth, _Bible_Texts_Illuminated_ Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1991 09:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 829 (989) The new issue of _Computing_Reviews_, the review journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, contains a review of a new book by Donald E. Knuth (Mr. TeX, and, according to the review, "one of the half-dozen leading computer scientists in the world") called _Bible_Texts_Illuminated_. The reviewer is Eric A. Weiss from Kailua, HI. The book is published by A-R Editions, Madison, WI, is $29.95 US, has 268 pages, and the ISBN is 0-89579-252-4. According to the review, Knuth selected 59 verses of the Bible, translated them into modern English, wrote a justification for including each verse, and "commissioned 59 calligraphers to do full-page four-color illuminations of the verses." The Bible types out here in Humanist land might take a look at this, but the review makes it clear that this is for laypeople. Keith Handley, Amherst College Academic Computer Center kehandley@amherst, kehandley@amherst.edu From: "Joel Elliott (jeliot@unc)" Subject: sources for museum science Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 830 (990) Hello, I have a friend trying to find sources of info on musuem science (e-lists, newsgroups, etc.). I seem to remember a query like this on Humanist, but have not been able to turn up anything. Any ideas? Joel Elliott UNC-Chapel Hill jeliot@unc.bitnet From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: online info Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:12 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 831 (991) Readers of this list may want to consult an interesting study on bibliographic databases in the Humanities available on-line. The authors also provide info and references to other studies of how Humanities scholars go about their info accessing work and how it differs from scientists and social scientists' practices. See Geraldene Walker & Steven D. Atkinson, "Information Access in the Humanities: Perils and Pitfalls," LIBRARY HI TECH, issue 33--9:1 (1991), pp. 23-34. The authors conduct a controlled experiment in using on-line bibliog. databases in the Humanities to see how (well) they work, whether they overlap one another, and other interesting questions too. Larry Hurtado, Institute for the Humanities, 108 Isbister Bldg., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2 Canada. From: WHEATLJS@ibm3090.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk Subject: Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 16:29:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 832 (992) The Canada cheapwordcruncher clone Can anyone tell me theprice and address for the canada word cruncher concordance lookalike? Thanks John From: nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (H. Borchers) Subject: Wordperfect List Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 16:05:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 833 (993) Does anyone know of a discussion list devoted to the exchange of information about WORDPERFECT? If so, how does one join it? Hans Borchers University of Tuebingen Department of American Studies Wilhelmstrasse 50 Voice: +7071-29-2910/4833 7400 Tuebingen Fax: +7071-29-4282 Germany Email: nubo001@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: "Edwin S. Segal" Subject: Query Date: Sat, 2 Nov 91 16:23:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 834 (994) I've heard a rumor that Jack Mapanje, the Malawian poet, is currently in York, England. Can anyone substantiate this? Does anyone have an address? Does anyone know of a possible E-mail contact? If you have an answer and would prefer to respond off the net, please do so: ESSEGA01@ULKYVM.BITNET. Thanks. Edwin S. Segal. From: Richard Philip Hayes Subject: Vietnamese e-mail Date: Sun, 03 Nov 91 10:20:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 835 (995) A Vietnamese Buddhist monk who is a student at McGill is interested in communicating with other Vietnamese people through e-mail. When Vietnamese is stripped of its diacritical marks and tonal indicators, it is difficult to decipher; it would therefore be useful to have a set of conventions for indicating diacritical marks by for e-mail transmission. Do any of you know whether such conventions have already been established? Any information sent to me directly or posted on this forum will be forwarded to the student in question. Richard Hayes From: Steve.Cavrak@UVM.EDU Subject: CSAC Call for Papers Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 12:12:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 836 (996) Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum ---------------------------------------------------------------- University of Vermont April 3 and 4, 1992 Call for Proposals Last April, The University of Vermont hosted its second annual Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum conference exploring strategies to enhance the collegiate curriculum through the use of computers, networks, and media. This conference drew over 350 participants from the Eastern United States and Canada. This year's conference will coincide with the Calculated Image, an art exhibit at the University of Vermont's Fleming Museum featuring computer generated images produced by artists as well as engineers. Therefore topics on art, imaging, and design are welcome, as well as topics including networking, hypermedia and courseware authoring, libraries and media services, user support and training, integration of academic and administrative systems, and research and teaching in all academic areas. The program committee is soliciting proposals for presentations and workshops that fit into a lecture/demonstration format. Introductory, advanced, and innovative applications are encouraged. Presentations should be about 40 minutes in length, with longer blocks possible for workshops. The presentations will be held in small lecture halls that seat 50 to 60 attendees. Both Macintosh and MS-DOS systems with projection devices will be available to lecturers. Smaller computing labs seating 10 to 20 people are available for workshops using MS-DOS, Macintosh, or Silicon Graphics equipment. Proposals requiring other systems (Apple II, Amiga, etc.) are not discouraged, but in these cases on site equipment cannot be guaranteed. Presenters should submit proposals to the program committee listed below by December 10th, 1991 for consideration. Proposals should include a title, short abstract (50-75 words), and equipment needs. Notifications of acceptance and instructions to authors will be provided by January 10, 1992. Presenters with successful proposals will be expected to provide a 4-5 page paper summarizing their session no later than February 10, 1992 for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Papers must be submitted in electronic form. Presenters are also invited to include any relevant software on floppy disks for distribution with the proceedings. All presenters will be provided full conference registration; travel and lodging are the responsibility of the presenter. For more information, contact : CSAC Program Committee University Computing Services 238 Waterman Building University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont 05405 Phone: 802-656-3316 Fax: 802-656-8429 Bitnet: csac@uvmvm Internet: csac@uvmvm.uvm.edu From: P.Burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: Social Science Information Service and Technology Conference Date: 29 Oct 91 18:04:32 gmt X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 837 (997) please insert on Humanist 18th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Data, Networks, and Cooperation: Linking Resources in a Distributed World Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin, USA May 26-29, 1992 IASSIST is a profesional association which brings together individuals engaged in the acquisition, processing, maintenance, distribution and service access of computer-readable text and numeric social science data. Founded in 1974, the membership includes data archivists, librarians, information specialists, social scientists, researchers, planners, and government agency administrators from around the world. The conference theme expresses IASSIST members' profesional concern to manage and share computer-readable data during a time of increasing demand and decreasing budgets. The theme highlights the need for institutional cooperation as well as for careful planning to meet the future needs. The annual conference features workshops, contributed papers, roundtable discussions, and poster sessions reflecting international viewpoints on these concerns. The Programme Committee is soliciting proposals for presentation. Suggested topics include: New cooperative data ventures through network technology Coping with budgetary restraint Management of data library collections Hypertext Government efforts to archive data collections Producers of data Development of data collections Major comparative data sources Data library hardware and software issues Utilization of new technologies Moving to UNIX Text encoding Copyright and computer files Integrating data services with traditional library services Developing data centers Disaster management Proposals for presentations should be accompanied by a brief abstract (circa 200 words and typed in English) and sent to arrive before December 15, 1991, by airmail or email to the Programme Committee Chair: or the European Secretariat Ilona Einowski Peter Burnhill Data Archivist Data Library (Computing Services) UC DATA University of Edinburgh University of California, Berkeley Main Library Building 2538 Channing Way George Square Berkeley, CA 94720 EDINBURGH EH8 9LJ U.S.A. Scotland, UK tel: (international + 01) 510 642 6571 (int + 44) 31 650 3301 email: CENSUS85@UCBCMSA.BITNET p.burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: CARG Program: Summary and Invitations Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 18:40:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 425 (998) The Computer Assisted Research Group (CARG) will sponsor its customary range of activities at the upcoming AAR/SBL Conference in Kansas City (November 23-26). The annual theme is "Academic Networks and the Exchange of Electronic Information." The following feature summaries and invitations may be of interest or direct relevance to members of AAR (American Academy of Religion), SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) and affiliate societies which will convene at this Annual Meeting. (1) TEXT ENCODING ISSUES EXPLORED AND EXPLAINED CARG's feature presentation will be an invited lecture given by TEI editor Michael Sperberg-McQueen (University of Illinois, Chicago) on text encoding issues as they apply to biblical and religious studies. His title is "Particularism and Ecumenism in Electronic Text: The Text Encoding Initiative and the Creation of Shareable Scholarly Resources" (S142, Saturday, November 23, 1:00 - 2:15 PM, Bartle Hall 211). The lecture will explain how standardized descriptive-structural markup offers strategic advantages over procedural document markup by separating text structure and content from textual appearance. It will explain further how such generic encoding forms the basis for a wide range of document interchange and text processing operations common to scholarly publishing, database management, and office automation. This general session will be valuable for textual scholars, database developers, editors, publishers and society officers who desire to understand the rationale, principal objectives and methods used in text encoding. The lecture will highlight standard formalisms for descriptive markup, but especially the text encoding standards under formulation by the internationally-sponsored Text Encoding Initiative. In a second session, Michael Sperberg-McQueen will be joined by TEI editor Lou Burnard (Oxford University) to present a hands-on demonstration of TEI/SGML encoding schemes using biblical text materials and SGML software. The session is "Illustrating Descriptive Text Encoding for Literary Texts from Antiquity -- A Working Session." Program item is S55, Sunday, November 24, 9:00 - 11:30 AM, Bartle Hall 211. In this working session, the TEI editors will demonstrate the fundamental principles and advantages of TEI markup using several SGML-compliant software packages. TEI encoding uses SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879) encoding implemented for humanities texts. The demonstrations will show how TEI/SGML descriptive-structural markup offers important advantages over procedural and presentational markup. Prepared examples will illustrate how TEI/SGML encoding thus renders textual data accessible both to traditional (paper) printing demands and to electronic search and retrieval--across an arbitrarily wide range of computing architectures and applications packages. Text samples will be taken from textual databases familiar to biblical and classical scholars. Special attention will be paid to the multilingual dimension of research documents and databases, showing how TEI encoding supports language-specific text processing within multilingual text. Attendees are invited to submit marked up (or untagged) textual materials prior to this session, with the goal of seeing these "real texts" worked on from a (TEI/SGML) descriptive markup perspective. An attempt will be made to deal with the special encoding problems faced by textual scholarship within the SBL/AAR/AOS/ASOR orbit. Bring such texts (Plain ASCII: DOS or Mac diskettes) to the conference or, preferably, submit them via email in advance to Robin Cover, Internet robin@utafll.uta.edu (or BITNET zrcc1001@smuvm1 given linkfail). (2) OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT OF ELECTRONIC TEXT A second major session sponsored by CARG addresses the complex issues in providing public access to scholarly writing (especially primary textual materials). The session title is: "Ownership, Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Control in the Domain of Electronic Texts from Antiquity." Program item is S142 (Monday, Nov 25, 3:45 - 6:15, Bartle Hall 211). The session will be moderated by David Lull (Executive Director, Society of Biblical Literature), and will feature an opening presentation by Ann Okerson (Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries). Fourteen seminar participants selected from diverse academic domains will contribute to a definition of the problems, and will be invited to suggest strategies for obviating the institutional and legal obstacles based upon models of "paper publication tradition" which may be inadequate models for electronic scholarly publishing and communication based upon emerging technologies. Participants: Lou Burnard, Director, Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University; Jerry D. Campbell, Vice-Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University; James Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary; Robin C. Cover, Co-Chair, Computer Assisted Research Group; James E. Eisenbraun, Eisenbrauns Publishing; Marianne Gaunt, Project Director, National Center for Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities; Harry W. Gilmer, Director, Scholars Press; Robert A. Kraft, Center for the Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT), University of Pennsylvania; Lewis Lancaster, University of California, Berkeley; Ann Okerson, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries; David Orton, Religion Editor, E. J. Brill Publishing; James M. Robinson, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School; Harold P. Scanlin, United Bible Societies; Gene M. Tucker, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; James C. VanderKam, North Carolina State University; Arthur O. Van Eck, National Council of Churches. Session description: This session of the Computer Assisted Research Group will be conducted in a seminar format, will explore the philosophical, ethical, computational, legal and economic issues involved in (1) the production of reliable electronic editions of ancient texts derived from the standard text publication process, and (2) public access by scholars to machine-readable editions of primary texts from antiquity. The special features of electronic representation of literary texts, and assumptions and expectations about editing, publishing, and distributing machine-readable texts will be examined. Primary (literary) texts in transcription and translation are of greatest interest, but attention will be paid to other genres and forms of written scholarship. Panelists are representatives from the following domains: authors/editors of primary texts, directors of electronic text archives, library science authorities, commercial and non-profit publishers, humanities computing specialists. Papers circulated in advance will be summarized. Two primary articles are recommended in preparation for this session: Okerson, Ann. "With Feathers: Effects of Copyright and Ownership on Scholarly Publishing." College and Research Libraries 52/5 (September 1991) 425-438. (first presented to an AMIGOS Session, October 21, 1990, "Electronic Publishing: Who Owns What, When?"). Okerson, Ann. "Back to Academia? The Case for American Universities to Publish Their Own Research." LOGOS 2/3 (1991) 106-112. (3) REPORTS FROM INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCH CENTERS Opportunity will be made for institutional representatives to report briefly on current software and database projects at their respective institutions. Anyone not already listed in the Annual Meeting Program (pages 41, 43) who wishes to prepare an oral report should contact Robin Cover via email or phone before November 12th. Use: Email Internet address robin@utafll.uta.edu (or BITNET zrcc1001@smuvm1 given linkfail); Phone 214/296-1783 any hours. (4) SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATIONS Opportunity will be made for software developers (academic-institutional, commercial, non-profit) to demonstrate software supporting multi-lingual or generic text processing if it is of significant interest to religious/biblical studies. Time slots are 30 minutes. Software applications must be "standard" DOS, Mac, Micro-IBYCUS or bring-your-own-machine (NeXT, etc.). To schedule a demo session, contact Raymond Harder via phone or email before November 18th. A full schedule of such demonstrations will be printed and made available in Bartle Hall 211 at the beginning of the conference. Use: Email addresses (in this order of preference): Internet, rharder@atl.calState.EDU; BITNET, harderr@clargrad; Prodigy, FKPF15A; Compuserve, 72160,1373; Phone: 714/983-4713 (best 8-10 AM pacific time or 7-11 PM). Postal mail: Raymond Harder, 5614 Cambridge St., Montclair, CA 91763. (5) OTHER CARG SESSIONS. Other CARG sessions deal with general issues in academic networks, as summarized in two session titles: (a) "Global Electronic Workspace: Academic Network Resources for Religious Studies" -- Online Public Access Systems and Bulletin Boards on the Internet: The Global Card Catalogue and Beyond; Electronic Discussion Groups and Technical Support Groups for Humanities; Network Access to Machine-Readable Texts, Electronic Journals and Specialized Research Databases; Academic Networking for Un(der)supported or Institutionally Unaffiliated Scholars: Making the Electronic Connection Electronic Communication in Real Time: Live Demonstration of BITNET and Internet Networking Session (b) "Practical Issues in Academic Networking" -- The use of standard encoding utilities for network-safe transmission of textual, graphical or other binary data; The use of SGML entities as a standard interchange format for accented characters, mathematical and publishing symbols, digraphs and other special characters; The use of standard compression and archive utilities for micro- mini- and mainframe computers; The use of archive servers, "knowbots" and other online search facilities for locating electronic information on academic networks; Practical help in accessing mail-based and interactive online databases; Bibliographic list of resources for academic networking. Full descriptions of these program activities are printed in the Annual Meeting Program ad S16 (pages 41, 43), S55 (page 61), S142 (page 101) and S163 (page 113) and in the Abstracts volume. Details of the 1991 program are also given in OFFLINE 33 (posted to HUMANIST, IOUDAIOS and RELIGION, available on the respective LISTSERVers) and in print format, RSN 6/3 (May/June 1991) 13-17 = CSSR Bulletin 20.3 (September 1991). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Cover BITNET: zrcc1001@smuvm1 ("one-zero-zero-one") 6634 Sarah Drive Internet: zrcc1001@vm.cis.smu.edu Dallas, TX 75236 USA Internet: robin@utafll.uta.edu ("uta-ef-el-el") Tel: (1 214) 296-1783 Internet: robin@ling.uta.edu FAX: (1 214) 709-3387 Internet: robin@txsil.lonestar.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL-92 Call for Papers, 28 June - 2 July 1992, Newark, Delaware, USA Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 15:56:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 426 (999) ACL-92 CALL FOR PAPERS 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 28 June - 2 July 1992 University of Delaware Newark, Delaware, USA TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modelling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces; message understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented at another conference. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit six copies of preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). The title page should include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, and a specification of the topic area. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send to: Henry S. Thompson University of Edinburgh Human Communication Research Centre 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND UK (+44-31)650-4440; (+44-31)650-4587 fax acl92@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk (Internet) acl92@uk.ac.edinburgh.cogsci (Janet) SCHEDULE: Preliminary papers are due by 6 January 1992. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 28 February 1992. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 20 April 1992, along with a signed copyright release statement. STUDENT SESSIONS: Following last year's success, there will again be a special Student Session organized by a committee of ACL graduate student members. ACL student members are invited to submit short papers describing innovative work in progress in any of the topics listed above. The papers will again be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members for presentation in a workshop-syle session. A separate call for papers will be issued; to get one or for other information contact David Traum, University of Rochester, Computer Science, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; (+1-716)275-7230; traum@cs.rochester.edu. OTHER ACTIVITIES: The meeting will include a program of tutorials coordinated by Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania, Computer & Information Science, Philadelphia, PA 19104; (+1-215)898-7745; bonnie@central.cis.upenn.edu. Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may arrange workshops or other activities. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Local arrangements are being chaired by Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, Computer & Information Science, Newark, DE 19716, USA; (+1-302)451-1954; carberry@dewey.udel.edu. CoChairs are Daniel Chester, (+1-302)451-1955; chester@dewey.udel.edu; and Kathleen McCoy, (+1-302)451-1956; mccoy@dewey.udel.edu. Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration should send a brief description together with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, tables, etc.) to Chester. ACL INFORMATION: For other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1 201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com or bellcore!walker. From: "Charles Bailey, University of Houston" Subject: The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 09:48:01 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 427 (1000) + Page 1 + ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review Volume 2, Number 2 (1991) ISSN 1048-6542 Editor-In-Chief: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. University of Houston Associate Editors: Columns: Leslie Pearse, OCLC Communications: Dana Rooks, University of Houston Reviews: Mike Ridley, University of Waterloo Editorial Board: Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group Nancy Evans, Library and Information Technology Association David R. McDonald, Tufts University R. 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All commercial use requires permission. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0414 Queries (6/115) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 15:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 838 (1001) The "answer" to query number 4, the quote in French about writing long letters because of not having the time to write short ones: that is a misquote, or adaptation from one of Blaise Pascal's more famous "pense'es" and the exact citation can easily be looked up. --Bob Dawson UTx-Austin From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: Request for LOGO program Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 12:36:29 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 839 (1002) Someone whose I.D. is "pkeith@msus1.edu" recently asked via Humanist about getting hold of LOGO for the PC. My message to him was dumped by the mailer: his address looks "normal" so perhaps I copied the node-name wrong before deleting the Humanist mail file :-( If he hasn't had offers of help from someone nearer at hand, and is interested in mine, he (or anyone who knows how to contact him) should send me his correct email address (to LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL) -- I have an old but working and free version I can give him. Thanks, Judy Koren, Haifa, Israel From: Oddvar Johan Jensen Subject: 5.0321 Qs: Language W/P; al-Tawfiq; Peter Scott? (3/41) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1991 16:12:35 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 840 (1003) Loddet er falt, vi reiser. Kommer til USA 29. januar og reiser igjen 16. januar.Finansene er bare delvis i orden. Forsoker aa faa litt studiepenger. Kan du underse om det er noe i min gate ved UTEXAS? Jeg har ikke faatt noe fast fisk i Dallas heller, om du har kontakter? I all hast! Oddvar From: Subject: Source of Lewis quote Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 15:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 841 (1004) Somebody asked the other day about the source of the line "Love is too young to know what conscience is," in C.S. Lewis's TILL WE HAVE FACES. My colleague, Lewis scholar P.J. Schakel, tells me it's from Shakespeare's sonnet 151. From: Harry Gaylord Subject: character sets Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 16:36:49 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 842 (1005) Paul Schaffner properly warned of the danger that it may become more difficult for the user to change coded characters in the future. A closed character set that does not provide for the needs of everyone is going to make for an unworkable situation for those not catered for. UNICODE and 10646 as presently formulated do have a space in them for 6,000 user defined characters. There is also the possibility of using entities for them in SGML. On the other hand what we do need is a safe way of coding them so that we can exchange files with others. At this point if I understand him correctly, he needs these critters to print them only for the dictionary entry citations of manuscripts. There will be others who may want to use the corpus of files he created for linguistic or bibliographical study and they will need to process the critters for analysis, not only for printing. We need mechanisms to make this possible. I disagree with him about the value of anarchy. This morning a 3 inch thick package of A4 paper arrived for me of the current register of ECMA of officially registered character sets. That is a small collection compared to the character sets which individuals are working with. I am in favour of having standardized character sets which do serve the users. Harry Gaylord From: Jonathan Ocko Subject: multilingual wp Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 22:43:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 843 (1006) Re. the conversations on multilingual word processing, people may want to consult the article and list of vendors in the Oct. 21 issue of _PC Week_ (p. 198). The articles do not provide that much additional information other than news that Word Perfect is planning versions in Russian and Japanese, but the list of vendors provides in one place names, addresses, telephone numbes, and descriptions of capabilities. Jonathan Ocko Dept. of History, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Bitnet: jkohi@ncsuvm Internet: jkohi@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu From: SLATIN@UTXVM.BITNET Subject: Job at UT Austin Date: Thursday, 31 October 1991 8:22am CT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 429 (1007) The English Department's Budget Council has approved the following copy, to appear in the December issue of the MLA _Job List._ U of Texas at Austin E English Austin TX 78712 Possible tenure-track assistant professorship in English and Computers, in addition to positions already announced. Applicants should have strong background in instructional/research applications of computing in literary, rhetorical, or linguistic study. Minority candidates are especially encouraged. Ph.D. candidates must have degree by 8/20/92. Enclose self-addre. _postcard_ for acknowledgment. Address applications (letter, c.v., and dossier) to Recruitment Committee. Letter and c.v. must arrive by Nov. 29. AA/EO employer. [End of ad copy] The English Department's Computer Research Lab occupies three rooms in the basement of the Flawn Academic Center, which also houses the Undergraduate Library: an IBM-based classroom with 24 IBM PS/2 model 70's; a Mac-based classroom with 24 Mac IIsi's, and a development lab with additional IBM and Mac equipment, a Kurzweil scanner, a NeXTstation, and some multimedia development facilities. We teach a range of courses, from first-semester writing through graduate seminars in literature and rhetoric. John Slatin Director Computer Research Lab Department of English University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 slatin@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu (internet) eieb360@utxvm (bitnet) 512-471-9293 From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: MS-Word 4.0 (Mac) diacritical marks Date: Sun, 3 Nov 91 18:49:33 GMT-0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 844 (1008) Has anyone had any experience with diacritics on MS-Word 4.0? A colleague at Reed has written formulas that can be accessed via the Glossary in Word which generate overstrikes and so on (esp. latinized Arabic names)...but there are some problems with this approach in certain instances, eg. overstrikes over capital letters. Do anyone of you know of an EASY way to include diacritics in MS-Word files? (I don't want to have to show the person I'm working for YET another complicated techno solution...). Another problem to consider is that these (diacritical marks) have to work on MS-DOS based machines as well, either via a conversion utility (say, Mac-Link Plus) or Word's own DOS Save As... command. We're still exploring the formula route, and I'll post again if we come up with any answers by ourselves at Reed. Many thanks in advance, Arno Bosse Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 abosse@reed.edu From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Query/American Civil War texts Date: Mon, 04 Nov 91 14:06:08 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 845 (1009) I have a request from an historian who is looking for machine-readable textual sources on the American Civil War, for use in teaching. Can anyone suggest any? Thanks, Donald Spaeth Computers in Teachning Initiative Centre for History From: Timothy.Reuter@mgh.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE Subject: Keyboarding of texts Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 15:15+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 846 (1010) Does anyone out there have reasonably current information and experience about having texts keyed in (as opposed to scanned)? I have read postings in the past about this, but nothing recently. Are there still firms offering this service, and what sort of rates do they charge and standards do they work to? Please reply direct; I'll summarise to the list. Apologies to those of you on more than one of the lists this is being sent to for the cross-posting. And thanks in advance for all contributions. Timothy Reuter, MGH Munich From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: E_SERIAL SURVEY Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 431 (1011) The following survey is designed to gather information regarding *user* preferences towards electronic journals and newsletters. By answering and returning this survey you will help e-serial editors and producers/coordinators design networked publications that reflect network user preferences. This survey should not take more than five minutes of your time. The results will be archived on the fileserver ARACHNET@UOTTAWA (Bitnet), ARACHNET@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA. All personal information will be deleted from your mail header. 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Michael Strangelove Editor of the _Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters_ University of Ottawa 441495@UOTTAWA 441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA Please note that this survey has not been conducted on behalf of any commercial publisher, organization or company. From: Joseph Galron Subject: Re: 5.0423 NQ: ... W/Ps, etc. (11/159) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 91 21:46:00 EST(5) (13 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 847 (1012) There is a list on internet's Newsnet: bit.listserv.wp50-l I believe this list is also available on bitnet. -- jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Internet) ts4132@ohstmvsa.bitnet (\ tel: 614-292-8114 \'\ fax: 614-231-1862 Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger\'\ __________ Hebraica Librarian / '| ()_________) Ohio State University \ '/ \ ~~~~~~~~ \ 1858 Neil Ave. Mall \ \ ~~~~~~ \ Columbus, OH 43210 ==). \__________\ (__) ()__________) From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Spanish word processing Date: Mon, 4 Nov 91 08:53:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 848 (1013) WordPerfect and PC-Write can both handle the accents with ease. WordPerfect has a macro previously mentioned that allows the creation of any accented character found in extended ASCII with one of four keys, and PC-Write has a dead key system and permits the mapping of any key by the user. Spellchecking: Jet:Spell is (I believe) a stand-alone program that offers French, Spanish and German dictionaries. My impression is that PC-Write will not work with a built-in French spellchecker because it refuses to recognize a word beginning with a vowel without its preceding single letter article or pronoun. Thus "orage" would not be recognized when written as "l'orage" and "aime" would not be recognized when written as "je n'aime pas". On the other hand, PC-Write allows the creation of a German spellchecker from any list one can find. The problem is in finding a list that represents an appropriate word frequency. I downloaded one from the University of Konstanz which obviously was appropriate for technical users, but inappropriate for literary studies. Grammar checkers: I have come across _GramR_ for French, but was not impressed by its capabilities (agreement between the past participle and the preceding direct object pronoun was not recognized, for example). However, that was six months ago, which can be a long time in software development. WordPerfect list: There are several lists devoted to WordPerfect, one of them based in Holland. The listing can be found by using the LIST GLOBAL command sent to any LISTSERV. From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0423 Word Perfect List Date: Mon, 04 Nov 91 14:01:47 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 849 (1014) A recent inquirer asked about Word Perfect lists. There is a list called wp50-L that covers the WP versions 5.0 and 5.1. I lasted two days on it and do NOT recommend it, although I am a very heavy email and WP user. The list carries over 100 messages on a typical day. At least half of the traffic is about things for which the proper answer is RTFM. At least a quarter of them are so esoteric that they should go to the WP help line in Utah (I am running version 4.2 on a DEC Rainbow with a 4 color PaintJet, under DOS 2.1, and the green stuff comes out red instead....how come?). Try it at your own risk, but be sure you have lots of mail room to handle the traffic. dan ***************************************************************************** * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * * Boise State University * * Boise, Idaho 83725 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak * * 208-385-1234 for them and they don't speak for me. * ***************************************************************************** From: "Tze-wan KWAN, Philosophy Dept., CUHK, Hongkong" Subject: WordPerfect List Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 08:17 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 850 (1015) [deleted quotation] Yes indeed! I located three such lists which might be one and the same. Tze-wan Kwan Department of Philosophy The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT Email: B071767@CUCSC From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 851 (1016) MULTI-SEARCH PROGRAM, (All rights reserved) 1988 by Dr. Tze-wan Kwan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Searching Path = lists Search argument = "WordPerfect" WP50-L WP50-L@HEARN (Peered) WordPerfect Corporation Products Dis WP50-L@UBVM (Peered) WordPerfect Corporation Products Dis WP50-L@YORKVM1 (Peered) WordPerfect Corporation Products Dis (information dated June 1991) ________________________________ End of List ________________________________ From: TB0WPW1@NIU.BITNET Subject: Raven's Quill Date: Mon, 04 Nov 91 10:21 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 852 (1017) This doesn't identify the quotation about the raven's quill, but a student of mine, Steven Killings has discovered that the raven's quill was that used for making the best copies of medieval manuscripts. I don't know if this of any help, but those interested can contact Mr. Killings at this BITNET address, though I don't know his LOGONID William Proctor Williams TB0wpw1 From: Paul Hyland Subject: Re: 5.0415 Rs: Russian & Spanish & PC-Write; SoftPC; ... (3/43) Date: Mon, 04 Nov 91 17:02:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 853 (1018) [deleted quotation] This videodisk program uses Hypercard on a Mac as its control program, and was produced by the ABC News division. There is at least one other title, on AIDS. I know the programmer who worked on it, but joined the list after the initial question, so I don't know what info was sought. Paul Hyland phyland@gwuvm.gwu.edu From: "Tze-wan KWAN, Philosophy Dept., CUHK, Hongkong" Subject: Museum-List Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 08:41 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 854 (1019) [deleted quotation] The only list of this sort I can find is the following one. MUSEUM-L@UNMVM Museum Discussion List (University of New Mexico) Tze-wan Kwan, Department of Philosophy The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT Hong Kong EMail: B071767@CUCSC From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: TACT, the "Cheap Canadian WordCruncher" Date: Sun, 3 Nov 91 23:03:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 855 (1020) In reply to the query about the "cheap Canadian WordCruncher": TACT is a free shareware program from the University of Toronto. Contact John Bradley (Bradley@VM.UTCS.UTORONTO.CA) The author of the query was WHEATLJS@IBM3090.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: An Invitation from NEACH Date: Sun, 3 Nov 91 22:40:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 434 (1021) An Invitation from NEACH NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities--a regional affilate of ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities--invites you to attend its monthly meetings in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue. Meetings take place at 1:30 p.m. alternately on the second Wednesday or second Tuesday of the month throughout the academic year. All meetings are free and open to the public. Programs for 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Project Elaine Brennan [deleted quotation] Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, Director Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Text Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Lib. Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry and NLP Mary Dee Harris Programs to be announced: Wed., Apr 8, and Tues., May 12, 1992. You need not be a member to participate in NEACH. To enter the IBM building you will need to ask at the desk for a pass to "NEACH" or to "Humanities." Should you wish to join, annual memberships are $15, or, if you already belong to ACH, only $5 additional when you add NEACH when you renew ACH. --Heyward Ehrlich, President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: MLA session announcement Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 23:39:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 435 (1022) Session announcement Modern Language Association 1991 convention San Francisco, California Sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities Session 289. `How We Do What We Do: Modelling Literary Research by Computer'. Saturday, 28 December, 1:45 - 3 p.m., Potrero Hill/Telegraph Hill, Marriott. This session addresses the mimetic role of the computer in literary research and what we learn about methods and objects of study as a result. It treats the computer as an imitative device that follows an explicit model of scholarly research. The four papers of the session variously address the idea that the primary benefits of the computer to scholarship come from the light it throws on our cognitive models, the tools it gives us to play with them, and the new things it thus allows us to see. 1. In `Non-Verbal Aspects of Language and the Implication for Computer Modeling', Charles Henry offers an hypothesis of how words -- all parts of speech, not just descriptive or rhetorical language -- conjure non-verbal images in the mind; he illustrates the phenomenon by examples from various languages and periods, then describes the characteristics of a computer-model adequate to this phenomenon. 2. In `The Quantitative Study of Style in Traditional Japanese Poetry: Putting the Problem in Terms even Computers can Understand', Jon LaCure describes how the computer assists a methodological and descriptive approach to the study of two structural elements in the `waka', a traditional poetic form. He hypothesizes that these elements are constituted by topical reference; he describes a simple algorithmic procedure for detecting relevant examples, on the basis of which further ideas about poetic structure may be formed. He argues that modeling such literary phenomena is itself more interesting than the specific results it yields. 3. In `What Can and Cannot be Done with Electronic Text in Historical and Literary Research', Mark Olsen argues that the computer has not had significant influence on literary studies because old models remain dominant. He emphasizes that the primary benefits of the new tool come from asking new questions with it, but that first we must construct an appropriate model of computer-assisted literary research based on what the machine is particularly good for. He notes that there has been little interaction between critical theorizing and computer programming, to the detriment of both, and recommends concentrating on specific theoretical and methodological issues. 4. In `Hypertext and the Humanist Tradition of Literary Scholarship', Arnold Sanders describes the popular technique of software design as a close model for the practice of literary scholarship and a logical development of much older practices for acquiring, organizing, and representing knowledge. He considers briefly the roots of hypertext in the information technology of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. As an ancient principle for textual organization, he contrasts it with the isolated or `stand-alone' model and shows how in many cases modern software is based on an imperfect grasp of this principle. *****END***** From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: Etext file corruption Date: Sat, 09 Nov 91 16:50:39 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 436 (1023) Does anyone know of something akin to 'cheksum' file structure checks for text files? I am thinking of a formula that would take account of various characteristics of a text file's structure such as number of words, number of lines..and so on, to generate a unique numerical 'signature.' This value could then be 'checked' everytime the file is loaded to ensure the data's 'integrity.' The reason I ask is that a growing number of etexts are being made available on read AND write media, eg. from ftp sites based on hard disks rather than read only cd-roms. I imagine that errors included in text based files, incorporated in them for whatever reason (transcription errors, bad sectors, fragmentation, (de)compression...etc) will be more difficult to spot than those of, say program files, in which the damaged application would simply not run. Etexts, which are often valuable precisely because they offer different versions of the same text for study (eg. different translations of the bible) do not have this kind of built-in 'self-check.' Again, I am thinking of a future in which various versions of, say, the Canterbury Tales will be floating around on the net, none of them quite accurate, brought into a state very similar to that bemoaned by William Caxton in the Prologue to his own 'corrected and complete' edition. None of this even addresses the possibility of someone 'maliciously' changing the ending to their favourite book...I can imagine that the thrill of hacking Homer would be far more enticing to certain individuals than adjusting a phone bill. Talk about re-writing the Canon... Arno Bosse Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 abosse@reed.edu From: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Subject: Mac WORD diacriticals Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 12:33 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 856 (1024) Arno Bosse raises an issue I have been struggling with for a while and I have to say at the start that I know no way of converting my `solutions' into MS-DOS-speak. I started by using Word's formula/glossary commands to overstrike sub- and superscripted characters such as dash, full stop etc. My own need is for diacriticals to transliterate North Indian languages. I set up a new file, worked out the basic formula command to overstrike, say, a superscripted dash (as a macron), then copied and pasted all the relevant vowels into the formula. I did this for each kind of mark and then saved all the entries as glossary entries. The whole thing was then automated using a macro (QuicKeys or Apple's own Macro recorder). After all this was done I could then drop the whole package onto colleagues machines, together with a printed list of what keys to press to get what results, which meant that non-technical users did not have to worry about the processes involved. The drawbacks are that method scews up line-spacing to an extent and that it is largely font- dependent. More recently, however, I have been using two Times-like fonts written by K R Norman, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. These are PostScript (tm) fonts and look _very_ good. The corresponding screen fonts are a bit murky, but could be cleaned up with Fontographer. The advantage, theoretically, is that because Norman has based his fonts on an ASCII set, although the diacritics will be lost in DOS translation, their ASCII code should be retained (I don't know, having never tried it and not really understanding either ACSII or Mac->DOS translation). It should, therefore, be possible to use a line editor to replace the translated ASCII codes wit diacritic characters created (by what process, who knows?) for the relevant DOS word processor. Norman is making his fonts freely available (they do diacritics for all N Indian and Tibeto-Burman transliteration standards) and perhaps someone who knew about fonts would know how to convert them into DOS readable fonts. Marcus Banks ISCA, University of Oxford From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 5.0430 Qs: Diacriticals; E-Texts; Keyboarding (3/53) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1991 11:28:19 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 857 (1025) [deleted quotation] Type them in with the rest of the text. Or did you mean you want to create special combinations like an umlaut on a g that aren't supported directly by the Mac because they aren't used in current W. European languages? Use PopChar or KeyFinder to locate accented characters if you don't know where they are on the keyboard (you can work it out with Keycaps, but you have to remember to explore the dead keys). Use a laser font (Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook,...) if you'd like the largest selection: capitals with diacritics were not included in some of the oldest fonts (Geneva, New York,...). The locations are standard across nearly all fonts - just empty bitmaps in some locations of the older fonts. You're going to have to work to transfer such information between Mac and DOS; all the easy ways of trasferring files I've tried drop the diacriticals or turn them to nonsense. Dumb but sure way is to find and replace non-ASCII characters on the send side (-> &eaccute, etc) then reverse the process on the transferred document in the new environment. I know there must be a better way; I'll look forward to learning it from a subsequent posting. It's not hard, by the way, to remap the keyboard strokes to enter any character, if, for example you'd like to replace a bracket with s-zet, or have an azerty keyboard. You can do so without touching the font or the encoding per se, so your rearrangement will have no effect on other users of your files. If you want characters not supported by the standard fonts (W. European languages), first look for special fonts developed by others. There are hundreds. Only then consider inventing your own. From: SIMION@IVEUNCC Subject: address for Prentice-Hall UK wanted Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 14:55:23 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 858 (1026) I'm looking for the address (email if possible) of Prentice-Hall International (UK) Ltd., London. Thanks Marco SImionato From: A10PRR1@NIU.BITNET Subject: PC Script Date: Wed, 06 Nov 91 10:26 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 859 (1027) I've heard that there is now a PC version of the Waterloo Script text formatter. Does anyone know anything about this? Alternatively, does anyone have a phone number for someone at Waterloo who might know about this? Thanks. Philip Rider Northern Illinois University From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Archetypes, Prototypes, and/or Stereotypes Date: Thu, 07 Nov 91 07:52:53 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 860 (1028) Hi: Is anyone out there doing work on Archetypes, Prototypes, and/or Stereotypes? How about Master Tropes--Metaphor, Irony, Metonymy, Synesthesia? =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu Subject: Quotes on Errors Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 11:03:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 861 (1029) Quotation: Mistakes/errors are not moral failings I am looking for a quotation for which I cannot remember either the exact wording or the person. The substance of the quote is that mistakes/errors are not failures (moral or otherwise) but instead the raw materials upon which we base our exploration of the universe. The intent here is to reassure students that the errors they make in designing computer programs or experiments are simply stepping stones in the process of design. Here are some of the quotes we have turned up from standard sources, but none of them matches the one I half remember. "A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." --- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) p. 375 "To make mistakes as we are on the way to knowledge is far more honorable than to escape making them through never having set out to seek knowledge." --- Richard Chemevix Trench "It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose." --- Joseph Conrad "Mistakes are often the best teachers." --- Froude, Short Studies on great subjects "Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself." --- Vilfredo Pareto, 1848-1923 commenting on Kepler ----------------------------------------------- Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cps.msu.edu Computer Science Dept. weinshank@msuegr.bitnet A-732 Wells Hall weinshankdj@clvax1.cl.msu.edu Michigan State University COMPUSERVE 76154,704 East Lansing MI 48824 USA GEnie XTX90068 Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 336-1061 From: WARMCN@AC.DAL.CA Subject: Computer-Assisted-Instruction (CAI) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 14:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 862 (1030) Sorry to raise an old subject, but I need to learn something about what is available in Computer-Assisted-Instruction (CAI) to cover the basics of grammar and composition. Perhaps somebody can direct me to the appropriate log if this has already been discussed in detail. David McNeil (WARMCN@DALAC) From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Query: "Where the hare layed" Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1991 16:59:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 863 (1031) Here is a query for my friends on Humanist and C18-L: in the text (ca. 1669) of his fourth voyage, the "Lake Superior Voyage," the explorer Pierre Esprit Radisson observes of a particular location, "this rapid was formerly the dwelling of those with whome we weare, and consequently we must not aske them if they knew where the hare layed." I have been annotating this text, and find that this is the only passage which baffles me completely. Radisson's text is a controversial one. Most scholars think that he wrote it in French, and that the text was then translated, but there are good arguments to suggest that he may have written or dictated it in English. There is no question that the manuscript reads precisely as above; I have checked the reading. Is it possible that "where the hare layed" refers to an English proverb of some sort? Or possibly a French one, rendered into English? I would be grateful for any help offered. Germaine Warkentin From: "Chris Edwards" Subject: Russian Language Aids Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 22:58:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 864 (1032) I am interested in locating software for Russian including a Russian thesaurus and a Russian spellchecker. A colleague of mine has an interest in working on a Russian thesaurus if one does not exist. From: kish@jove.rutgers.edu (Kish) Subject: TLG (Thesaurs Linguae Graecae) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 11:58:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 865 (1033) Is there a version of this which is accessible via the internet ? If not, is it possible to acquire this in HSFS CD format ? Thanks, Bill Kish kish@jove.rutgers.edu From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: TACT Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 20:39:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 866 (1034) The phrase "cheap Canadian WordCruncher", applied to TACT in a recent message from Humanist, makes 3 assertions, two of which are true. It is indeed cheap, being only $30 in Canadian dollars for manual and software. It is also Canadian, having been developed in Canada by a citizen of that country with the advice and help of other Canadians. TACT is not, however, a "WordCruncher", i.e. a text-retrieval package similar in design and functionality to the famous program of that name. It is (being very Canadian) quietly and unassertively much more. There are two good, and mutually complementary, ways of finding out about TACT: ordering the program, and ordering vol. 1 of the new journal, _CCH Working Papers_, which is devoted to applications of TACT and is called _A TACT Exemplar_. For ordering information you may send an e-mail inquiry to cch@epas.utoronto.ca. Willard McCarty From: Nicholas Heer Subject: Arabic transliteration for the Mac Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 16:58:30 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 867 (1035) Several years ago an announcement appeared about a program called METimes, a transliteration system for Arabic, Hebrew, Ottoman, and Persian for the Apple Macintosh. It was claimed that the program would work with any Mac word processor. At that time it was available for $70 from: Gurel/Sayed P.O. Box 2255 Cambridge, MA 02238 Telephone: (617) 576-7675 Since I have a PC, I have never tried it. For the IBM PC I think the best program by far for transliteration and diacritics is Multi-Lingual Scholar. Two versions are available, 3.26 and 4.0, which is still a beta version. I much prefer the earlier version. Version 4.0 is partially wysiwyg, full of pull-down menus and much slower. A free program that also has all the diacritics necesssary for transliteration is, of course, plain TeX. There are at least three versions for the PC. There may now be versions of TeX for the Mac as well. ----------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Heer, Professor Emeritus Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization University of Washington, DH-20 Seattle, WA 98195 Internet: heer@milton.u.washington.edu ----------------------------------------------------- From: Antonio-Paulo Ubieto Subject: RE: Spanish wp & thesaurus Date: 7 Nov 91 11:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 868 (1036) Dr. Goldfield asked in a recent HUMANIST issue about wp software with Spanish spell-checker and thesaurus. Here go my first hand experiences as Spanish wp software user. I would suggest you to take a look at WordPerfect 5.1. Obviously I use it to write mostly in Spanish, so I use the spell-checker frequently, also the thesaurus. Naturally, you would need the spanish versions of WP's spell-checker and thesaurus, I guess you could get them easily from WP corporation in USA, surely much cheaper than here in Spain. About running WP 5.1 off a Novell lan: I have been teaching WP 5.1 for a two-months period doing so with almost no problem, and this in a 20-station lan. You should have also no problem. They are also other DOS-based wordprocessing programs, like MS-WORD, Word for Windows, Displaywriter ...and some other major contenders that have a Spanish version, all with them with spell-checker and thesaurus. Unfortunately, I had only minor experiences with them, none of them off a Lan. Probably other HUMANIST members could enlighten us all about this subject. Hope that helps. Greetings from Antonio-Paulo Ubieto Biblioteconomia y Documentacion / Librarianship and Documentation Facultad de: / School of: "Filosofia y Letras" Zaragoza University (Spain-Europe) hiscont@cc.unizar.es "Books and Computers: two perfect companions." From: Tom Crone Subject: Apple's 'Syllabus' Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 16:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 869 (1037) [deleted quotation] Syllabus, Sept 91 (#18) had 24 pages, 4 articles on 'Simulations in Education', other articles: 'Course Technology: Integrating Software into the Higher Education Curriculum', 'Campus Computing: a Ten-Year Prospectus', and 'Accessing Information via the Internet'. Also several pages of short 'News' and 'Resources' items. [deleted quotation]Subscriptions are free in North America: Send your request via AppleLink or US mail on your institution or company letterhead to: Syllabus Office AppleLink: SYLLABUS POBox 2716 Internet: syllabus@applelink.apple.com Sunnyvale CA 94087-0716 Phone: (408)773-0670 Fax: (408)746-2711 International Subscriptions: Yearly subscription costs $35 US Tom Crone CRONE@CUA or CRONE@CUAVAX.DNET.CUA.EDU From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: Re: 5.0437 Diacritics in Word (2/81) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 21:23:04 GMT-0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 870 (1038) Thank you for all your responses to my question on Diacritics. The sticking point is, as several people pointed out, transferring the modified files (via MS-Word 4.00 formulas) or special fonts (like the ones developed by K R Norman) into a MS-DOS format. Fortunately, we have both Mac and DOS machines here, and a variety of file-translation programs. I will post to the group as soon as I am able to figure out a reliable method. I am also going to take a close look at Paragon Software's NISUS word-processer. I believe there is a kind of Hebrew 'module' that can be used in conjunction with the main program. Arno Bosse Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 abosse@reed.edu From: "Lynn H. Nelson" Subject: New Lists Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 20:52:56 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 871 (1039) I am sending this announcement of a new list, together with another to follow, in the hopes that they might be of interest to some of your members. Lynn H. Nelson ESPORA-L@UKANVM We are pleased to announce the establishment of a list for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Subscriptions should be made to LISTSERV AT UKANVM with the command SUB ESPORA-L USERID@NODE, adding your full name; LISTSERV will accept both BITNET and INTERNET addresses. Postings should be made to ESPORA-L@UKANVM. The owners would appreciate it if subscribers would send them BY E-MAIL a short biographical resume for inclusion in a directory of members: send to either LHNELSON- @UKANVM or RCLEMENT@UKANVM. Our FTP directory is presently empty. If subscribers have materials they believe worth including, please contact either of the list owners. This site will operate in co-operation with ra.msstate.edu and the contents of its directories will form part of a union catalogue with ra.msstate and other co-operating sites. The following is a formal statement of purpose. We would like to welcome our colleagues to ESPORA-L and express our hope that it will prove a benefit to us all. Richard Clement Lynn H. Nelson The University of Kansas STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ESPORA-L is a forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of the Iberian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present. Although the command language of ESPORA-L is English, postings in Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan are welcome, and list members are encouraged to communicate in whichever language they are most comfortable. ESPORA-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest. The lists maintains a directory at the FTP site kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (CD DUA9 [malin.espora]), for the collection and preservation of materials of use for its members. ESPORA-L is associated with the general discussion list HISTORY, and co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated. From: "Lynn H. Nelson" Subject: New Lists Date: Sun, 10 Nov 91 20:55:43 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 872 (1040) HISTEC-L@UKANVM I am pleased to be able to announce the establishment of HISTEC- L@UKANVM, a list for the study of the History of Evangelical Christianity. Subscription requests should be sent to BAYS@UKANVM. I will attempt to act upon them as quickly as possible. Postings should be made to HISTEC-L@UKANVM. LISTSERV@UKANVM will accept both BITNET and INTERNET mailings. I would appreciate subscribers' sending me by e-mail (at BAYS@UKANVM) a short biographical resume for inclusion in a members' directory. Our FTP directory is presently empty. Subscribers who have materials they believe worth including should contact me by e-mail. This site will operate in co-operation with ra.msstate.edu and the contents of its directories will form part of a union catalogue with ra.msstate and other co-operating sites. The following is a formal statement of purpose. I would like to welcome the members to HISTEC-L and express my hope that it will prove a benefit to us all. Daniel H. Bays The University of Kansas HISTEC-L is a non-sectarian forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of evangelical Christianity. It is not a medium for proselytizing, and the advocacy or disparagement of any faith or sect are not welcome. Requests for SUBscription pass through the list owner, and SEND and REVIEW commands are restricted to list members. The command language of HISTEC-L is English, but postings in other languages are accepted. HISTEC-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest. HISTEC-L maintains a directory at the FTP site kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (CD DUA9 [malin.histec]), for the collection and preservation of materials of use to its members. HISTEC-L is associated with the general discussion list HISTORY, and co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated. From: Paula Backscheider Subject: NEH Summer Seminar Date: Fri, 08 Nov 91 09:23:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 873 (1041) This summer I'll be offering an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London. The subject is "Biography and the Uses of Biographical Evidence (England, 1630-1830). The seminar will run from 29 June - 15 August, and the stipend is $3600. Those interested in more information and an application form (due 2 March) can e-mail me or write me at the English Department, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. NEH has cut the publicity budget, so I'd appreciate your spreading the word. Description: This seminar will be devoted to the exploration of theoretical issues and practical problems inherent in writing biography and using biographical evidence. Readings and discussion topics will be shaped to some extent by the interests and projects of the seminar members, and some attention will be given to the relationship between current critical practices and biographical decisions. THose I hope to involve in the seminar will come from several groups of seventeenth and eighteenth-century specialists: those who have decided and perhaps even embarked on writing biographies; those who use extensively the kinds of social, political, religious, and historical evidence that biographers do; those engaged in writing theoretical books and articles on the art of biography; those who regularly teach biography. In fact, I would be happy to consider anyone who believes the seminar would be useful and interesting to him/her. From: Subject: SBL Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 874 (1042) If you will be attending the SBL meeting in Kansas City this month and would like a copy of our UMN software please let me know. I am providing "examination" copies for any serious party. Available: MILIM - Hebrew vocabulary drill for IBM (DOS version) VERB - Hebrew verb drill for IBM (DOS version) MILIM FOR WINDOWS - Hebrew vocabulary for IBM (WINDOWS version) SENTENCES - Hebrew language instruction, drills, tutorials, variable styles of q/a, modifiable for other languages too. (WINDOWS version only) *************************************************************** Bitnet: MAIC@UMINN1 Internet: MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU Land-Mail: University of Minnesota, Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, 316 Folwell Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455 *************************************************************** From: hcf1dahl@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Eric M Dahlin) Subject: REACH Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 11:47:31 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 875 (1043) The Fall 1991 edition of REACH, Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities, the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is now available through anonymous ftp. The address is: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or 128.111.122.50 Use the command "cd hcf" to get to the appropriate directory. Eric Dahlin Humanities Computing Facility University of California, Santa Barbara HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet From: Nicholas Heer Subject: Bitnet list for Arabic computing Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 22:43:21 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 876 (1044) Humanists in the field of Arabic language and literature may be interested in subscribing to PCARAB-L, a list which I believe originates at King Faisal University in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia. Here is the information which I recently received: Your subscription to list PCARAB-L (Discussion Forum on Personal Computers Arabization) has been accepted. This list concentrates on various researches of Personal Computers(PC) arabization.It discusses problems of the Arabic packages and tools found in the market.Also any suggestions in the field of standardization of the Arabic set . Any ideas about the arabization techniques and fonts are also welcome. You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF PCARAB-L" command to LISTSERV@SAKFU00. Please note that this command must NOT be sent to the list address (PCARAB-L@SAKFU00) but to the LISTSERV address (LISTSERV@SAKFU00). From: Editors of PMC Subject: announcing: PMC Electronic Text Award Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1991 01:25:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 877 (1045) Please post, if you haven't already. Thanks-- John Unsworth ***********************PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE*********************** ______________________________________________________________ | | | PMC ELECTRONIC TEXT AWARD | | | | $500 | | | | _Postmodern Culture_ is happy to announce the first annual | | PMC Electronic Text Award. Each year the editorial board | | of _Postmodern Culture_ will choose an outstanding critical | | and/or creative work published in the journal. The author | | of this work will receive $500. | | | | _Postmodern Culture_ offers this prize to encourage | | new work in the field of postmodernism and to promote the | | use of electronic media in scholarly and literary | | publishing. | | | | Essays and creative work may be submitted to the journal | | in print, on disk, or by electronic mail. Submissions | | sent by postal mail should be addressed to: | | | | The Editors | | _Postmodern Culture_ | | Box 8105 | | NCSU | | Raleigh, NC 27695-8105 | | | | Submissions by electronic mail should be addressed to: | | | | PMC@NCSUVM (Bitnet) | | PMC@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU (Internet) | | | | If you know writers who are doing interesting critical or | | creative work in the area of postmodernism but who do not | | subscribe to _Postmodern Culture_ and/or do not use | | electronic mail, please encourage them to send work for | | consideration in whatever format is most convenient. | | | -------------------------------------------------------------- From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: 3rd Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 11:51:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 443 (1046) ANLP-92 3RD CONFERENCE ON APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Trento, Italy, 1-3 April 1992 sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics The conference is also supported by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), and Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Trento. PURPOSE: The focus of this conference is on the application of natural language processing techniques to real world problems. It will include invited and contributed papers, tutorials, an industrial exhibition, and demonstrations. A special video session is also being organised. The organizers want the conference to be as international as possible, and to feature the best applied natural language work presently available in the world. This conference follows on from ones held in Santa Monica, California in 1983 and in Austin, Texas in 1988. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM: The program will be sent out early in December (and will include the application form and the hotel reservation form). There were about one hundred papers submitted from four continents. The scientific program will include original papers solicited in all areas of applied natural language processing, including: dialog systems; integrated speech and natural language systems; machine translation; explanation and generation; database interface systems; tool development; text and message processing; grammar and style checking; corpus development; knowledge acquisition; lexicons; language teaching aids; evaluation; adaptive systems; multilanguage systems; multimedia systems; help systems; and other applications. Papers will also discuss applications, evaluations, limitations, and general tools and techniques. The program committee is co-chaired by Oliviero Stock (IRST) and Madeleine Bates (BBN Systems & Technologies) and also includes: Robert Amsler (MITRE) Kathy McKeown (Columbia U) Giacomo Ferrari (U Pisa) Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie Mellon U) Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI) Makoto Nagao (Kyoto U) Paul Jacobs (General Electric) Remko Scha (U Amsterdam) Martin Kay (Xerox PARC) Karen Sparck Jones (U Cambridge) Mark Liberman (U Pennsylvania) Henry Thompson (U Edinburgh) Paul Martin (IBM) Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI) INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION: The industrial exhibition will feature products in the usual one-booth-per-company format. For further information contact: Gianpietro Carlevaro phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 I-38050 Povo (Trento) ITALY email: carleva@irst.it To ensure that your requirements are met, you are advised to apply early. Prices for stands are as follows: Stand type 1: 9 sqm - Lit. 1800000 + VAT 19% (approx. US$1400) Stand type 2: 14 sqm - Lit. 2400000 + VAT 19% (approx. US$1900) DEMONSTRATIONS: One area of the exhibition will be equipped with SUNs, MACs, and possibly other hardware, and will be available for informal demonstrations of various applied NL systems. A prize will be given for the best non-commercial demonstration. Anyone wishing to present a demo should send a one-page description of the demo and a specification of the system requirements by 1 December 1991 to: Carlo Strapparava phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 I-38050 Povo (Trento) ITALY email: strappa@irst.it TUTORIALS: The meeting will be preceded by one day of tutorials on 31 March 1992 by noted contributors to the field. The program is being currently defined and will be mailed with the general conference program. Responsible for tutorials: Jon Slack phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 38050 I-38050 Povo (Trento) ITALY email: slack@irst.it FEES: The early registration fee (before February 29, 1992) for the conference is Lit. 400.000 (approx. US$300). Early student registration is Lit. 130.000 (approx. US$100). After 29 February 1992 the regular registration fee will be Lit. 500.000 (approx. US$400), and student registration will be Lit. 200.000 (approx. US$150). The application form and the hotel reservation form will be sent out with the program early in December. WORKSHOPS: The conference will also be preceded by two conference special workshops, to be held on March 30th. The call for papers for the two workshops follows. Workshops will admit only a limited number of participants (about 30 people each) and will cost an additional fee of Lit. 50.000 (approx. US$40). Please note that workshop participation is restricted to those registered to the conference. Requests for information and applications for the workshops should be directed to the workshop organizers. GENERAL INFORMATION: Local arrangements are being handled by: Tullio Grazioli and Oliviero Stock phone: +39-461-814444 I.R.S.T. fax: +39-461-810851 I-38050 Povo (Trento) ITALY email: interne@irst.it For information on the ACL, contact: Donald E. Walker (ACL) phone: +1-201-8294312 Bellcore MRE 2A379 fax: +1-201-8295981 445 South Street Box 1910 email: walker@flash.bellcore.com Morristown, NJ 07960 USA From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: Workshop on Natural Language Dialogue Systems Date: Wed, 6 Nov 91 11:52:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 444 (1047) ANLP-92 Workshop CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Trento, Italy, 30 March 1992 EMPIRICAL MODELS AND METHODOLOGY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS jointly organized by Lars Ahrenberg Nils Dahlback Arne Jonsson Department of Computer and Information Science Linkoping University There is an increasing recognition of the need to put theories and systems within the field of Natural Language Processing on a firm empirical ground (cf. the views of the panel on Language Engineering: The Real Bottleneck of Natural Language Processing at COLING-88). Researchers on various aspects of discourse, especially, take pains to base, or at least illustrate, their theoretical developments with some kind of corpus data. There is quite often a problem, however, in determining what data are relevant for a specific domain or application and in deciding what conclusions the data warrant. In this workshop we want to focus on data used for the design of natural language interfaces and other dialogue systems accepting natural language input. In this area we know of three basic sources for the corpora used: (i) interactions with computers using existing NLIs, (ii) interactions with computers using simulated NLIs (Wizard of Oz-studies), and (iii) human-human dialogues collected and/or analyzed with the purpose of developing computational theories of discourse. Several studies of this kind have been published in recent years. However, the use of these different kinds of corpus data raises a number of issues in need of clarification, theoretical as well as methodological: e.g. what are the advantages and disadvantages of corpora collected with these different methods; what is the generalizability of the results obtained; what methodological pitfallss have been found, what means to avoid them, and so on. Behind many of these questions lies the issue of the extent to which natural language as used in human-computer interaction is to be seen as a distinct sublanguage, and to what extent there are aspects common to all kinds of dialogue. The workshop will adress both the methodological and the theoretical issues raised above, but with the focus on the methodological ones. Its aim is to give active researchers in the field an opportunity to exchange experiences of and opinions on different practical/methodological topics such as those mentioned above, and others. If possible, demonstrations of software for the collection and analysis of these kind of data will be demonstrated. Those interested in making a presentation should submit an abstract of 500-1000 words. The abstract should include a description of the participant's current research in the area and point to longer papers on the subject (if available). Those interested only in participating should submit a statement of their research interests together with a list of related publications. Submissions, by e-mail or surface mail, should arrive no later than 20 January 1991 to the address below. Nils Dahlback Department of Computer and Information Science Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping, SWEDEN email: nda@ida.liu.se Notification of acceptance will be mailed by the end of January 1992. From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) Subject: Re: Wordperfect Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 18:24:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 878 (1048) [deleted quotation] If your system gets the bit hierarchy, you can read the list on usenet as bit.listserv.words-l. Using a reader like nn, you can glance at the topics and read a few or none of the many postings. Having tried it both ways, I can highly recommend reading it via usenet instead of subscribing. [deleted quotation] They are one and the same. The list is peered. --Natalie (nm1@ra.msstate.edu) From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 5.0432 Responses: Word Perfect; Spanish W/P (4/97) Date: Tue, 05 Nov 91 20:53:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 879 (1049) Re Wordperfect List. I have been on the WP lists for a good year or more. Yes, it is a high volume list. I would say 40-60 messages a typical day. But I find it does tend to limit itself to the subject of the list and almost all the messages are technical, although at various levels. The list is monitored by Wordperfect (Barb) and they do send the odd message out. I have seen discussions on Dutch and other versions of WP take place on the lists. One last point. A member(from Hong Kong I think) mentioned there were several lists. I forget the technical term, but this is a list which has several nodes, all working from the same composite subscribers list. You get on to all by joining any one. Lorne hammond Department of History University of Ottawa Canada From: Julie Falsetti Subject: WP List Date: Thu, 07 Nov 91 00:15:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 880 (1050) I read WP50-l via Netnews on Bitnet, and I find it neither voluminous nor esoteric. Through the list I have been able to avail myself of several very useful macros and was apprised of how to obtain 6 free typeface soft fonts. In addition, an employee of WP Corporation (Barb) monitors the list and is a frequent contributor. I highly recommend it to WP users. From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Contact in Greece Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 16:52:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 881 (1051) I am looking for a correspondent with an e-mail address in Greece. Could anyone among Humanist members give me a hint as I am trying to gather information about the lawsuit for plagiarism involving Umberto Eco. May be Italian colleagues could have valuable information too. -- From: (James Marchand) Subject: long letter Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 19:44:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 882 (1052) We had a posting in French some time back on the question of the sentence: I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one. As is usual with such quotations, attribution is a problem, because of what Merton called "the palimpsesting syndrome." In Der grosse Duden, vol. 2 "Stilwoerterbuch," 1963, p. 14 one reads: "Der junge Goethe schreibt ein- mal an seine Schwester: 'Da ich keine Zeit habe, Dir einen kurzen Brief zu schreiben, schreibe ich Dir einen langen,' ein Gedanke, den er uebri- gens bei Cicero aufgelesen hat." So the saying goes back at least as far as Cicero, definitely earlier than Pascal. Where Cicero got it nemo scit. In a previous posting, which somehow got lost, I mentioned that Adlai Stevenson is often credited with "If you will stop lying about my friends, I will stop telling the truth about you." I have this from a 19th century Swede, but I am sure it goes back further. Does anybody know? Jim Marchand From: Gregory Bloomquist Subject: e-Mail Address for Inst. of Classical Studies Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 09:32:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 883 (1053) I am looking for an e-mail address for the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London. Greetings. L. Gregory Bloomquist Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa BITNET: GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA Voice: (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393 FAX: (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005 From: Richard Giordano Subject: Education help Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 18:42:44 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 884 (1054) I have the following request from a colleague. Can anyone steer him in the right direction? I haven't a clue. What follows is an edited note that my colleague sent to me. Thanks, Richard Giordano Unfortunately, the paper is not on my technical specialist subject (parallel processor architecture) but on what I suppose is supposed to be everyone's professional specialist subject (teaching). Consequently, I haven't the faintest idea how to find out about forthcoming conferences, journals, etc where I could try submitting the paper. Your name was suggested as someone who I could ask. The paper reports on a Plagiarism Detector for student Pascal programs. In fact, it has been written to be usable on C, Fortran, etc programs too with minimal modification. Not only does it successfully detect suspected instances of plagiarism, but it offers the human examiner advise on marks for the non-plagiarised programs too (it offers a mark (out of 25%) for quantity of comments, length of user names, consistent use of indentation, etc). So, I assume I am looking for a conference or journal on automatic course work marking. With all the studies on multiple choice examinations, there must be such conferences and journals around. From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Metaphor, etc. Date: 12 Nov 91 08:55:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 885 (1055) In response to Don Nilssen's question: There are a number of people in computational linguistics working on various types of non-literal language, such as metaphor, metonymy, etc. In fact, I organized a session for last spring's ACH/ALLC titled "AI Approaches to Metaphor," the abstracts of which can be found in the proceedings. Two of the speakers, Dan Fass and James Martin, were among the organizers for a Workshop on Non-literal Language held in Australia recently. The proceedings of that workshop are available from James Martin (martin@cs.colorado.edu) for $5. The same group are planning another workshop within the next year. Dan Fass's address is Computer Science at Simon Fraser (fass@cs.sfu.edu). Mary Dee Harris 202/387-0626 (voice) Language Technology 202/387-0625 (FAX) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@guvax.bitnet From: Michel Pierssens Subject: Stereotypes Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 09:28:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 886 (1056) AN excellent book just out on the subject of stereotype is LES IDEES RECUES. SEMIOLOGIE DU STEREOTYPE, by Ruth Amossy, published in Paris by Nathan in their "Le texte a l'oeuvre" series. R. AMossy had previously co-authored another book on the subject with Elisheva Rosen: "Les discours du cliche, Paris, CDU-SEDES, 1982. Both authors teach at Tel Aviv University. From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) Subject: CORRECTION! Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 18:23:50 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 887 (1057) [deleted quotation] OOPS! That was supposed to say bit.listserv.wp50-l! --Natalie (nm1@ra.msstate.edu) From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" Subject: RE: 5.0446 Qs: E-Mail Addresses; Letter; Education (4/90) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 08:31 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 888 (1058) Can anybody give me an e-mail address at the University of Bucarest, Romania? Thanks, Hoke Robinson, ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET From: Lisa Cziffra Subject: Machine-readable Afro-Americans 1740 - 1820 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 11:15:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 889 (1059) One of our users is tracing various Afro-American families from 1740 through 1820 who lived in the New England area, especially Rhode Island. He needs the individual names. Most of this data is available in printed form. Does anyone know of a source for machine-readable data? Please respond directly to me: BITNET: LISAC@PUCC INTERNET: LISAC@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (VOICE) PHONE: 609-258-4716 FAX: 609-258-3943 Lisa Cziffra, Data Librarian Princeton University From: PSDMSPIN@BRUSP.ANSP.BR Subject: Some help, if possible! Date: 11/13/91 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 890 (1060) Hi people! I have a little problem, and maybe you're able to help me to solve it. One of my chiefs want to know about Hipertext. Is there any e-literature about it on the network? Or printed matter, what could if search for? I am looking for some introductory text on the subject, for someone who does not know almost nothing about it. Thanks in advance for any help, suggestion or comment. And please, answer right to me. I'm not joined to the list (yet). Mario Baldini Center for the Study of Violence University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Bitnet: PSDMSPIN@BRUSP FAX: (00 55 11) 815-4272 From: scott richard fletcher Subject: e-mail address, American School in Athens Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 16:45:28 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 891 (1061) Does there exist an e-mail address for the American School in Athens (the classical studies center)? From: Marc Bregman Subject: Methodology as Metaphor Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 06:09 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 892 (1062) For a conference paper I am preparing, I am wondering if there is any bibliography on what I am thinking of as the issue of Methodology as Metaphor. What I mean is the way in which methodological approaches to the study of one field are often metaphors taken from another field. An example -- not drawn from the particular area of my research --would be the way in which Freud referred to his psychoanalytical approach to the human mind as an adaptation of Archaeological method. Any thoughts on the subject would be appreciated, I don't know whether to expect a deluge or a trickle as I'm just beginning to think about this matter, for admittedly ulterior motives. Marc Bregman, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem From: Dennis Baron Subject: smelly grant Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 9:10:17 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 893 (1063) Our Research Services Office regularly sends around a list of grants to apply for, most of which do not concern HUMANISTS. But one listed in today's issue I think bears repeating: FRAGRANCE RESEARCH FUND The purpose of these grants is to encourage research into the sense of smell and human reaction to odors. The Fund is especially interested in research which seeks to integrate the study of olfaction with current issues in developmental, social, and cognitive psychology. I'm placing this announcement in the folder with the want ad for the TACO BELL DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP. Definitely postmodern. -- debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Tze-wan KWAN, Philosophy Dept., CUHK, Hongkong" Subject: Museum-List Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1991 08:36 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 894 (1064) [deleted quotation] The only list of this sort I can find is the following one. MUSEUM-L@UNMVM Museum Discussion List (University of New Mexico) Tze-wan Kwan, Department of Philosophy The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT Hong Kong EMail: B071767@CUCSC From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0436 Etext Integrity (1/31) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 11:07:57 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 895 (1065) There are a few anti-virus programs around that give you the option of "protecting" all files, not just .exe files. The way they "protect" or "immunize" is to calculate some sort of CRC on the file and warn you if it's changed since you last accessed it. Would this be enough? I'm talking of PCs of course. Judy Koren, Haifa. From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: ed help Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 08:22:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 896 (1066) [deleted quotation]The Association for Computing Machinery has a special interest group on computer science education (ACM SIGSCE). It holds conferences. Past conferences have included presentations on plagiarism detectors. Try Communications of the ACM for information about the SIG. There's also a journal, Computer Science Education. A librarian should be able to locate the editor's location. Leslie Burkholder CMU From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Re: 5.0446 Qs: E-Mail Addresses; Letter; Education (4/90) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 16:51:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 897 (1067) There was a company exhibiting at the 1990 MLA in Chicago specifically on their combined computer & human team approach to solving plagiarism cases for universities, etc. There have been a few newspaper articles about them, such as in the _Chronicle..._. This may be worth following up. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0438 Qs: CAI; Addresses; Quotes; Archetypes; TLG... Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 16:16:08 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 898 (1068) TLG is not available for copying, or even for purchase. It is available only on CD-ROM, by leasing from the TLG Project University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 Tel. (714) 856-7031 FAX (714) 856-8434 The current price for leasing is 300 dollars for an individual, 500 dollars for an institutional license; the license is good for five years. HOWEVER, their latest newsletter notifies me that they are raising their prices, so that orders postmarked after December 1st will cost 500 dollars for an individual, 850 for an institutional license. Licensing period will still be five years. All licensees must sign a contract not to copy it or make it available on a net- work, a policy only reasonable for a project that has involved two decades of pioneering and non-profit work. From: "Ian M. Richmond" <42100_1156@uwovax.uwo.ca> Subject: Long letter citation Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 10:03:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 899 (1069) I can't recall who first inquired about the source of the quotation writing a long letter because the author didn't have time to make it shorter. Whoever it was suggested it might be attributed to Pascal. A later reply said it was from Pascal's famous "Pensees". In fact, the quotation is from Pascal's "Lettres Provinciales", Letter XVI and reads as follows: "Mes Reverends Peres, mes lettres n'avaient pas accoutume de se suivre de si pres, ni d'etre si etendues. Le peu de temps que j'ai eu a ete cause de l'un et de l'autre. Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." Ian M. Richmond, Department of French, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 3K7. 519-661-2163 Ext 5703 also IMR@UWOVAX.BITNET From: Gregory Bloomquist Subject: Where the Hare layed Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 11:59:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 900 (1070) I'm not sure that the following is of any help to Germaine Warkentin in her attempt to track down the phrase "where the Hare layed", but for whatever it's worthhere you have one perspective. My colleague, David Mawer, says that he is ashamed to admit that he knows the expression as a hunting expression, since, as he told me, he was "bloodied as a child in a hare hunt". David told me, ignorant new worlder that I am, that unlike rabbits who dig burrows, the hare cannot: it can only lie on top of the ground, hidden by the grass. So, the expression used by hunters when hunting hare is the one Germanine has found in Radisson's text; the expression used for hunting rabbits is "go to earth" (as in, the rabbit has gone to earth and now we shall have to wait till he comes out). This is probably not scholarly enough but I was tickled to see my colleague recall his misspent youth! Greetings. L. Gregory Bloomquist Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa BITNET: GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA Voice: (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393 FAX: (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005 From: Clarence Brown Subject: quotes on errors Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 08:22:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 901 (1071) May the Baker Street Irregulars forgive me, for this is from memory and therefore doubtless erroneous, but Holmes somewhere says to Watson, "When I said that you aided me, Watson, I meant that by your errors I was now and again directed toward the truth." Clarence Brown / Comp Lit / Princeton From: SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: News of London's Rose Theatre. Date: Wed, 13 NOV 91 12:59:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 451 (1072) There was a flurry of activity in London on Monday by the Rose Theatre Trust, set up to work to 'save' the remains of the 16th C. ROSE THEATRE in London. I thought that people might find this copy of the press release that they issued interesting: PRESS RELEASE MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER l99l at 7.30pm CAMPAIGNERS GATHER FOR REUNION AT ROSE THEATRE WORK UNDER WAY TO RETURN ROSE TO PUBLIC AGAIN Campaigners for the preservation and re-opening to the public of the Rose Theatre, came together for an historic reunion tonight - returning for the first time to the site of the world famous theatre they fought to save some two and a half years ago. Although tonight's event was not held in the original site of the Rose Theatre - it was held immediately above it, in Rose Court, the Imry Merchant Developers building which was redesigned to house the theatre after the protestors, led by Dame Peggy Ashcroft, won their battle not to damage the l6th century site. At tonight's Rose Theatre Trust gathering - a briefing organised with the co-operation of Imry - the Trust announced: - that the (British) Government is at last now considering scheduling the Rose as an historic monument - that the Government has, however, so far refused a request for funding the work of restoring the Rose - and that the South Thames Training & Enterprise Council has contributed #15,000 pounds towards the costs of the working party. The working party, comprising representatives from all the interested parties (English Heritage, Imry Merchant Developers, The Museum of London, The London Borough of Southwark and the Rose Theatre Trust), is currently preparing agreed plans and costings for the theatre's restoration and reopening. The Trust needs a further #60,00 0pounds to complete this work. Simon Hughes, MP for Southwark and Bermondsey and a Trustee of The Rose, said: "After two and a half years of enforced absence, friends and supporters are delighted today to be back at the Rose. Everybody concerned is now unitedly working together to find the best archaeological and technical method of preserving and presenting this most important of British cultural sites. The sooner the working party can finish its job and come up with its recommendations, the sooner the Rose can be open to the public again." For further information, please contact Jennifer Jones at the Rose Theatre Trust, P O Box 1587, London SE15 4PW Tel:071-732 4067 Fax:071-732 5573 END OF PRESS RELEASE My feelings when I saw the very short TV news item on the gathering was that the Trust could perhaps do with some messages of support (at the very least! - if you have, or could raise, the money they need ...). If you feel like responding then the Trust's address is in the Press Release - or you could send e-mail to me and I will send it on. Subscribers to the REED-L list may remember the fuss and bother when the remains of the Rose Theatre were dug up in 1989 - that eternal triangle (GOVERNMENT [public purse] vs DEVELOPERS [private purse] vs CONCERNED-PERSON-IN-THE-STREET [academics]) had a fine old stand-up fight (questions in the House of Commons, sit-ins by casts of actors, petitions etc) leading to a passable solution/compromise to 'carefully' adapt the remains into the foundations of the builing that was scheduled for the site. Plans to open these up to people are now foundering (it would seem) for lack of money. Simon Rae | SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (World) Research Adviser, Academic Computing Service | SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom | fax: (0908) 653744 From: Jean Veronis Subject: Q: Word lists and Copyright Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1991 10:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 452 (1073) I have a concrete copyright problem, and I wonder if Humanists have some thoughts about it. Years ago I typed in a list of words from a published book, the "Echelle Dubois-Buyse d'Orthographe Usuelle Francaise" (2nd edition, 1977, OCDL). In its printed form, the list gives a DIFFICULTY INDEX for spelling for each of 3730 frequent words in French. As I said, I typed in that list, and added information for each word, such as PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION, PART-OF-SPEECH, etc. It occurs to me that this information could be of some value to other colleagues, but there is obviously a copyright problem. My assumption is that what specifically belongs to the "Echelle Dubois-Buyse" is the association between words and a difficulty index. This is the only reason why people would want to buy the book, I think. Therefore, I have the feeling that if I remove the DIFFICULTY INDEX from my data, and I distribute a file containing for example WORD FORM PHONETIC PART-OF-SPEECH I would be safe as far copyright is concerned. However, I have a slight doubt: people might argue that the SELECTION of those particular 3730 words has by itself some intellectual value, and is protected by a copyright... Of course, I could ask the publishers what they think about it, but I think the problem is more general. It occurs all the time when word lists are concerned. For example: - Is the list of words in a given dictionary protected by copyright (I mean just the headwords, with no other information) - If I start with a corpus (e.g. the Brown Corpus) and I compute some data (for example, the frequency list of lemmas), can I distribute this result freely? etc. I am sure that this problem has been discussed in appropriate circles, but I am unaware of any concrete rules governing copyright of materials such as these. Thanks, Jean Veronis From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) Subject: NEH Summer Seminars Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 09:16:48 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 453 (1074) I apologize for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting this announcement on several lists. The purpose of the posting is two-fold: (1) to announce the NEH Summer Seminars for 1992, and (2) to help NEH test the efficacy of making such announcements via e-mail. Natalie Maynor, English Department, Mississippi State University (nm1@ra.msstate.edu) _______________________________________________________________________ ELECTRONIC MAIL USERS: So that the Endowment may evaluate this method of publicity, please indicate whether you have seen this announcement through electronic mail when requesting seminar information. ________________________________________________________________________ National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers 1992 (Seminars last from five to eight weeks. Participants receive a stipend between $2,825 and $4,000, depending on the length of the seminar.) Application deadline: March 2, 1992 ANTHROPOLOGY AND FOLKLORE LAWRENCE ROSEN Department of Anthropology Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Anthropological Approaches to Law Interactions between law and society in various cultures, with frequent references to American legal thought June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) See also: Foreign and Comparative Literature--Foley, Slater ARTS ALISTAIR DUCKWORTH Department of English University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 The Picturesque Movement The history and resonances of the debate over the cultural role of the picturesque in literature, painting, and landscape June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) WILLIAM FERRIS Center for the Study of Southern Culture University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677 Blues as History, Literature, and Culture Origin and development of the blues, and its relation to other music and literature June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) MARCIA HALL Art History Department Retter Annex 8 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 Roman Painting, 1480-1550 High Renaissance paintings examined with the aid of recent restoration campaigns and new approaches to color and technique Location: Rome June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) JOHN PINTO Department of Art and Archaeology Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Architecture and Urbanism in Rome, 1500-1750 Renaissance and baroque architecture in the historical and physical context of Rome's urban fabric Location: American Academy in Rome June 8 to July 24, 1992 (seven weeks) RICHARD WENDORF The Houghton Library Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Portraiture: Biography, Portrait Painting, and the Representation of Historical Character Parallel transformations in writing and painting as seen in Boswell, Strachey, Rembrandt, Hogarth, and Reynolds June 29 to August 21, 1992 (eight weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Stein Foreign and Comparative Literature--Kaes ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE HANS AARSLEFF Department of English Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 The Problem of Language and Human Nature: Locke through Romanticism Roles of new conceptions of language in artistic and cultural developments June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) PAULA BACKSCHEIDER English Department University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627 Biography and the Uses of Biographical Evidence: The Restoration through the Eighteenth Century Relationship between critical theories of biography and the practices of locating, interpreting, and using evidence Location: Public Records Office, London June 8 to July 24, 1992 (seven weeks) JEROME CHRISTENSEN English Department The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 British Romanticism and the Triumph of Liberalism Canonical texts of the post-Napoleonic era in which liberalism emerged, read against present-day political commentary June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) MARK KRUPNICK Divinity School University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60637 Jewish-American Literature since 1925 The shift from ethnic to religious concerns in novels, stories, and essays June 15 to July 31, 1992 (seven weeks) MASON I. LOWANCE, Jr. Department of English University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ante-Bellum American Culture: The Puritan Sermon, the Slave Narrative, and the Captivity Narrative How several American literary traditions culminate in the rhetorical strategies of Stowe's novel Location: Newberry Library, Chicago June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) STEVEN MULLANEY c/o E. Karen Clark Department of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Inventing the New World: Texts, Contexts, Approaches Narrative and pictorial constructions of the New World, in light of 16th- and 17th-century politics and culture July 7 to August 14, 1992 (six weeks) KAREN NEWMAN Department of Comparative Literature Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 City Scenes: Culture and Society in Seventeenth-Century London and Paris Impact of urban development on verbal and visual texts in the two cities June 8 to July 17, 1992 (six weeks) MICHAEL SEIDEL Department of English c/o Summer Session Office 419 Lewisohn Hall Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Narrative Theory and Narrative Practice: Reading, Interpreting, and Teaching James Joyce's Ulysses Intensive reading and discussion, examining the conception and design of Joyce's novel June 22 to July 24, 1992 (five weeks) HOWARD STEIN Theater Division: School of the Arts c/o Summer Session Office 419 Lewisohn Hall Columbia University New York, New York 10027 The American Playwright, 1920-80 Values and concepts of reality: From O'Neill and Odets, through Miller, to Gelber and Rabe June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) MARTHA VICINUS Department of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1045 The Construction of the "New Woman" and the "New Man" in the 1890s Public discussions and literary representations of masculinity and femininity in late Victorian England June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) See also: Arts--Duckworth, Wendorf Foreign and Comparative Literature--Furst FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ERNST BEHLER Comparative Literature, GN-32 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 Romantic Literary Theory and Literary Modernity Romantic theory through 18th-century debates, its 19th-century reception, and its postmodern reformulation June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) HOWARD BLOCH French Department University of California Berkeley, California 94720 Old French Fabliaux and the Medieval Sense of the Comic The cultural context of some 170 tales, and their effect on European comic traditions June 22 to July 31, 1992 (six weeks) JOHN FOLEY Center for Study in Oral Tradition 301 Read Hall University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65211 The Oral Tradition in Literature The Bible, Homer, Beowulf, and the Cid alongside living oral literature (Yugoslav, American Indian, and African) June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) LILIAN FURST c/o Karen Rezendes Comparative Literature Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-2087 Rereading Realist Fiction: Balzac, Eliot, Mann Critical approaches to the means, devices, and artifices of the 19th-century realist novel June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) BENJAMIN HARSHAV c/o Yale Summer Programs/NEH Box 2145--Yale Station New Haven, Connecticut 06520 The Modern Jewish Revolution: Literature, Culture, and History Modernity expressed in Jewish literature and in assimilated writers like Kafka and Freud June 14 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) ANTON KAES Department of German University of California Berkeley, California 94720 Modernity and the City: Film, Literature, and Urban Culture in the Weimar Republic Responses of German filmmakers, writers, and intellectuals to urbanization and modernization Location: Berlin June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) JOHN KRONIK Department of Romance Studies Cornell University Goldwin Smith Hall Ithaca, New York 14853 Hispanic Metafiction Critical examination of texts (Galdos, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Galdo, Cela) that deploy self-consciously literary strategies June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) ENRICO MARIO SANTI Department of Spanish Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 Poetry and Poetics in Latin America, 1880-1980 Methodological and critical issues grounded in the works of Dario, Mistral, Neruda, Paz, et al. June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) CANDACE SLATER Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 Images of Amazonia The symbolic transformation of historic and geographic realities into works of the imagination June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Aarsleff, Newman HISTORY LOIS BANNER Program for the Study of Women and Men Social Sciences B15 University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089-0036 The New Gender Scholarship: Women and Men in U.S. History Rethinking historical texts and issues in terms of gender and other human differences June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) RICHARD HERR Department of History University of California Berkeley, California 94720 Group Identity and Loyalty in Europe and the Americas from 1700 Nationalism compared with class, ethnic, racial, and gender bases for group identification June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) DAVID KATZMAN Hall Center for the Humanities Watkins Home University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2967 The Growth of Urban African-American Communities Influences on urbanization, from the era of slave communities to the rise of urban black enclaves in the 1920s June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) KAREN OFFEN Institute for Research on Women and Gender Serra House Stanford University Stanford, California 94305-8640 The Woman Question in Western Thought, 1750-1950 The controversy over women's status in relation to political and intellectual developments June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks) CARROLL PURSELL History Department Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106 [Seminar designed for, but not limited to, two-year college teachers] The Role of Technology in American Culture Interactions between technologies and social settings explored in recent research June 15 to July 24, 1992 (six weeks) ERIC VAN YOUNG Department of History, 0104 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093-0104 Resistance, Rebellion, and Adaptation in Rural Latin America, 1500-1900 Examines the traditional moral economy of the peasantry, and the impact of millenarianism and collective action June 29 to August 14, 1992 (seven weeks) CHARLES WILSON Center for the Study of Southern Culture University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677 Religious Traditions and the History of the South Southern religious pluralism and its influences on secular life June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) ROBIN WINKS c/o Yale Summer Programs/NEH Box 2145--Yale Station New Haven, Connecticut 06520 The Historian as Detective Affinities among the historian, the fictional detective, and the real and the fictional intelligence agentJune 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) OLIVIER ZUNZ History Department Randall Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 American Urban History: Places and Process Investigates the reciprocal relation between knowledge of particular places and broader historical forces June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks) See also: Arts--Ferris English and American Literature--Mullaney, Vicinus Politics and Society--Gordon Religious Studies--Feldman, Hillerbrand PHILOSOPHY PETER ACHINSTEIN Department of Philosophy The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Methodological Debates in Nineteenth-Century Physics Philosophical issues pertaining to the wave-particle debate, kinetic theory, and the discovery of the electron June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) EDWIN CURLEY Department of Philosophy Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 Religion and Politics in Hobbes and Spinoza How theology and Biblical hermeneutics have interacted with political philosophy June 29 to August 21, 1992 (eight weeks) JERRY FODOR and ERNEST LEPORE Philosophy Department Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 Meaning Holism Examination of the claim that the smallest units of meaning are not words but whole languages June 29 to August 14, 1992 (seven weeks) PETER FRENCH Department of Philosophy Trinity University San Antonio, Texas 78212 Responsibility in the Real World: Theory and its Application Competing philosophical analyses of individual and corporate moral responsibility June 15 to July 24, 1992 (six weeks) MICHAEL RESNIK Department of Philosophy CB# 3125 Caldwell Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3125 Frege and the Philosophy of Mathematics Historical and contemporary readings will connect mathematics to the philosophy of mind, science, and language June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks) AMELIE RORTY c/o Maggie Collins Conference Coordinator Humanities Division University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95067 Virtues and their Vicissitudes: A History of Philosophical Conceptions of Virtue Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and contemporary philosophers on the relation of reason, happiness, and citizenship to virtue June 29 to August 7, 1992 (six weeks) J.B. SCHNEEWIND Department of Philosophy The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21218 History of Modern Moral Philosophy Major writers from Montaigne and Hobbes through Kant, illuminated by readings of their contemporaries June 22 to August 7, 1992 (seven weeks) MICHAEL WILLIAMS Department of Philosophy Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 Knowledge, Realism, and Reflection: Examining the New Skeptics (Cavell, Nagel, Strawson, et al.) 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During the summer, the twelve scholars selected to participate in each of the seminars will work together on a topic of mutual interest under the direction of a distinguished scholar and teacher. Seminar participants, who will have access to the collections of a major library or museum, will discuss a body of common readings with their colleagues in the program, prepare written work, and, outside the seminar, pursue individual research or study projects of their own choosing and design. Through research, reflection, and frequent formal and informal discussions with the seminar director and with other scholars from across the country, seminar participants will increase their knowledge of the subjects they teach and enhance their ability to impart to others an understanding of their disciplines and of the humanities in general. 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Applicants must have completed their professional training by March 2, 1992. Although an applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify, neither candidates for degrees nor persons seeking support for work leading toward a degree are eligible. Individuals should not apply to seminars directed by either their dissertation advisers or faculty at their own institutions. An individual may apply to no more than two seminars in any one year. Persons found to have applied to more than two will not be awarded a place in any seminar. College teachers who participated in NEH Summer Seminars in 1989 or earlier are eligible to apply for 1992, but those who attended seminars in 1990 or 1991 are not eligible. How to Apply For detailed information about the requirements and subject matter of individual seminars, the availability of housing, and for application instructions and forms, please write to the seminar directors at the addresses indicated below their names. The application deadline is March 2, 1992, and the announcement of awards will take place on March 26, 1992. Equal Opportunity Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, or age. For further information, write to the director, Office of Equal Opportunity, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. From: arb1@ukc.ac.uk Subject: PALA Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 17:34:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 902 (1075) CALL FOR PAPERS LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE is a new international journal to be published by Longman U.K. in June. It brings together the work of those interested in the field of stylistic analysis, the elucidation of literary and non- literary texts and related areas. It explores the connections between stylistics, critical theory, linguistics, literary criticism and their pedagogical applications. Interested contributors should write to: M.H.Short, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, University of Lancaster, LANCASTER LA1 4YT U.K. e-mail enquiries to Tony Bex, University of Kent at Canterbury: arb1@ukc.ac.uk From: "Robert T. Trotter, II" Subject: Position Announcement -- Northern Arizona University -- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 91 08:58:00 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 903 (1076) Northern Arizon University seeks an archaeologist for a tenure track assistant professor appointment starting fall 1992. Specialization in Southwestern Archaeology --- time period, subarea and material focus open. Experience in applied archaeology and cultural resource management and a Ph.D. required. The successful candidate will have assistant professor duties and will direct the Anthropology Laboratories and the contract archaeology program. 12 month contract possible. Send letter of interest, vitae, and names of three referees by Jan. 15, 1992 to: Chair, Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 15200, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. EEO/AAE. From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: METHODOLOGY AS METAPHOR Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 14:23:17 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 904 (1077) I am intrigued by Mark Bergman's inquiry about "Methodology as Metaphor." I believe that this phenomenon is much more prevalent than we are aware of. I don't think it's a coincidence, for example, that Einstein developed his concept of Relativity (E = mc2), and that later Benjamin Whorf developed his concept of "Linguistic Relativity." I also don't think it's a coincidence that Darwin developed his tree diagrams to explain the theory of evolution and that later Noam Chomsky used similar looking trees to describe phrase structure rules. Actually, these trees, don't look like trees at all. Perhaps the word ROOTS should have been used in both cases, but then maybe this would have made our perceptions more BASIC, or more BASE. Maybe we could call the Einstein and the Darwin metaphors ROOT METAPHORS, since other metaphors grow from them. This would be especially apt in the Darwin case. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0448 N&Q: E-Addresses; Methodology; Grant; etc. (6/93) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1991 11:52 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 905 (1078) Re: Marc Bregman's question about method and metaphor: the notion itself of method, Greek met-hodos, a road from here to there, must have started in Plato (Sophist 218d etc. moving toward Phaedrus 270c etc.; citations just from Liddell-Scott, this isn't very learned) as a metaphor (meta-phora, a carrying from here to there). Maybe any linguistic coinage is always at the start metaphor, and it would be good to look at the rhetorics, including Hayden White's _Tropics of Discourse_ for discussion of the way this trope works in general. Maybe any new method in any science is always transferred metaphorically (Latin _transferre_ = Greek _metapherein_) from some other science or area. Kuhn on paradigms, Holton on thematic basis of sciences? Owen Cramer, Colorado College From: John_E_JOSEPH@umail.umd.edu (jj36) Subject: re: 5.0448(5): Methodology as metaphor Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 21:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 906 (1079) [deleted quotation]developed a series of methodologies-as-metaphor based on the [deleted quotation] From: corder@ted.cs.uidaho.edu Subject: Re: 5.0452 Query: Word Lists and Copyright (1/44) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 91 18:47:41 est X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 907 (1080) an excellent question and i haven't read of a case that deals specifically with copyright of a list of words, so i don't know if it has been tested. i would very much like to know if you receive a difinitive answer. my guess is that the list is copyrighted, because i beleive i have read that telephone directory lists are copyrighted. linda corder corder@ted.cs.uidaho.edu university of idaho computer science dept. moscow,idaho 83843 From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0452 Query: Word Lists and Copyright (1/44) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1991 15:00:03 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 908 (1081) This question has recently been discussed in library circles (I think it was on the discussion group PACS-L though am not sure). There has recently been a U.S. court ruling that collections of information in random or alphabetical order, such as telephone directories ("white pages") are NOT copyrightable and anyone can use the data and massage it for whatever purpose they choose. This caused a flurry of speculation that you could take a dictionary, phone book, etc., rearrange the information, sort it by various criteria, and so on, and remarket it without having to pay anything to the original producer, because the only copyrightable material in it is the "added value" you have given it. As the U.S. law stands at present, this is apparently the case. Since the English language has several times as many words in it as the ca. 100-130,000 included in most dictionaries, every dictionary is a "selection". If you remove the "added value" given it by the original producer (in this case, the arrangement by difficulty of spelling), it would seem that you have removed any claim that the contents are copyrightable. There are a few other librarians on Humanist apart from me: perhaps they remember more details about this whole discussion, and what list's archives can provide more information? Judy Koren, Haifa From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 5.0452 Query: Word Lists and Copyright (1/44) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 91 13:47:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 909 (1082) I also have a copyright question. If I build and distribute an electronic index to a journal is that public domain? My intellectual property? The journals? If you go with the argument that it is the author's property, given that no funding clouds the issue, what happens if the file was built out of scanned title pages? These are the property of the journal. If the argument is that they are the journals, then that what is the difference between a scanned file and a hand done index card system? Taken far enough then an historian does not own their notes? The issue reminds me of a legal tussle over audio sampling. One group who have never been taken to court argue that by combining an original with a second source they create something which has never existed before. So, if I scan and then edit journal title pages into an WP file by author, article title, journal, issue, page numbers, have I breached copyright? Lorne Hammond History University of Ottawa From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Electronic Publishing Date: Sat,16 Nov 91 19:13:08 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 910 (1083) ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS I am interested in hearing from persons who have publishable work in machine-readable form which fits one of the following categories: a) theses which are recommended but not accepted for publication because of the esoteric nature of the content. b) monographs which have attested `imprimaturs' but which have not been published because the market has been judged economically unviable. Keith Cameron Queen's Building The University EXETER, EX4 4QH UK cameron@uk.ac.exeter or cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Self-actualizing prophecies Date: Sat, 16 Nov 91 18:40:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 911 (1084) Oedipus believes the oracle when he is told that he will kill his father and marry his mother. To avoid that fate, he leaves Corinth. But, of course, because he leaves Corinth, he winds up killing his father and marrying his mother. In other words, the prophecy comes true *because* it is believed and because the character seeks to avoid it. The prophecy is self-actualizing. I am looking for other literary examples of self-actualizing prophecies. Any suggestions? Many thanks. Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: Michel Pierssens Subject: HARE Date: Sat, 16 Nov 91 11:26:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 912 (1085) I believe the origin of the expression about which G. Warkentin has queried HUMANIST lays in the medieval latin "hic jacet lepus" meaning: "here's the crux of the problem". It might have been borrowedfrom earlier Latin sources of course. It was used in erudite disputations and, I think, in juridical debates. It was adapted in french as "ici git le lievre", which can be found in a number of texts. One example is in Marivaux' Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, where Arlequin replies to Lisette who is beginning to suspect that he is not what he claims to be: "Eh! voila ou git le lievre!" (III,VI) Michel Pierssens Etudes francaises Universite de Montreal From: Lawrence Stepelevich Subject: Re: Quotes on Errors Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 18:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 913 (1086) Hegel, in his criticism of epistemology found in his Introduction to _The Phenomenology of Mind_ remarks: "Meanwhile, if the fear of falling into error introduces an element of distrust into science, which without any scruples of that sort goes to work and actually does know, it is not easy to understand why, conversely, a distrust should not be placed in this very distrust, and why we should not take care lest the fear of error is not just the initial error." Larry Stepelevich From: Simon Rakov Subject: Johnson E-Texts?; OE Fonts? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1991 22:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 914 (1087) Does anyone out there have an Old English font or know of one? Does anyone have or know of an electronic version of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia? Yours, Simon Rakov From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Spanish grammar checkers Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 10:39:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 915 (1088) Anyone know of Spanish grammar checkers available for use on the Apple Macintosh? Thanks, Leslie Burkholder CMU From: Elizabeth Cardman Subject: Cawdrey: A Table Alphabeticall Date: Tue, 19 Nov 91 09:03:57 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 916 (1089) If anyone is aware of a machine-readable format for: Robert Cawdrey: A Table Alphabeticall Published in 1604. Please let me know directly. If anyone else is interested, I will forward them the information. Thanks. ecardman@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU Subject: keyboarding firms Date: 19 Nov 91 10:08:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 917 (1090) I'm on the market for keyboarding services. One name I was given was the Input Center, based in Chicago. Does anyone have any other firms that you would recommend? many thanks in advance Malcolm Brown Dartmouth From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: ``International Arabic'' Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 22:30 GMT +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 918 (1091) International vocabulary is quite often misunderstood as romance based vocabulary, because this is the kind of vocabulary we are most used two. But there are many, many arabic borrowings in the languages of Afrika (Hausa, Suaheli) and Asia (Turkish, Hindi/Urdu, Malay, Indonesian). My question is: Which arabic words were borrowed? Is the stock of ,,international arabic'' described somewhere? Is it electronically available? I'm interested in that part of arabic vocabulary, which became international at least in the islamic influenced part of the world. J"org Knappen From: Michel Pierssens Subject: Methodology and Metaphor Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 19:53:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 919 (1092) The very type of question Marc Bregman raises is addressed specifically in a collection of essays edited by Isabelle Stengers (who wrote a famous book with I. Prigogine). But you have to read french! The title: "D'une science a l'autre. Des concepts nomades". Paris: Seuil, coll. "science ouverte", 1987, 400p. This is a path-breaking work on the notion of conceptual transfer and dissemination. Michel Serres has based most of his books on that same principle as it applies between sciences, between sciences and literary works, between literary works, etc. This kind of research I labeled "epistemocritique" (If I may quote my own work) in: Versions du savoirs, essais d'epistemocritique, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1990. There is a great deal of interest in those matters among French researchers. A colloquium on "epistemocritique et cognition" will take place in Paris in march 1992 precisely to discuss ways to apprehend such phenomena and to set new methods of linking the study of scientific discourse to literary analytical methodology. M. Pierssens etudes francaises Universite de Montreal e-mail: PIERSENS@ere.umontreal.ca From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Method as metaphor Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 08:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 920 (1093) As I tell my introductory linguistics students, both the goals and the processes of science are metaphor. We seek to explain natural phenomena by constructing models that predict them. We test and construct those models by examining the degree to which and ways in which they predict falsely or fail to predict. (One of the traps linguists most easily fall into is that of interpreting model-theoretic constructs as having psychological reality, a term that gets tossed around as if we know what it means.) A philosopher might challenge this statement, but it is in the nature of dialectic as method that science proceeds by successive approximation and as highly predictive as the models become, they remain models and not the reality they describe. Herb Stahlke Ball State University From: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Re: 5.0455 Rs: Methodology as Metaphor (3/67) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 20:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 921 (1094) Regarding "method as metaphor", the tree metaphor in the historical sciences (natural history, linguistics, stemmatics) is an old one, and predates even Darwin. The tree was used as a model for "the natural system" - the abstract notion of the order in living diversity - by systematists in the late 1700s, and was very much a mainstream notion when it was given an evolutionary interpretation somewhat later. The excellent volume edited by Hoenigswald and Wiener, _Biological Metaphor and Cladistic Classification_ (U. Pennsylvania Press, ca. 1988) was already recommended, and I second that recommendation; it's a really excellent collection of papers. Interestingly, among pre- evolutionary systematists (students of natural diversity), the tree was only one of a number of models or metaphors in use: circles, maps, stars, and chains were also used to represent the natural system. I have written a couple of papers on such diagrams myself, and would be happy to supply reprints to anyone who is interested. Beyond the question of particular visual metaphors, one of the strongest comparisons one finds in the development of the historical sciences is the comparison of those sciences (particularly geology) with human history itself. Buffon in the 1700's says: "Just as in civil history one refers to titles, looks for medals, or deciphers ancient inscriptions, in order to work out the epochs of human revolutions and establish the dates of intellectual events, so also in natural history is it necessary to rummage through the archives of the world." de Luc in 1794 refers to geological strata, "where it is as easy to read the history of the Sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation." The greatest of the historical geologists, Charles Lyell, declares in 1830: "As we explore this magnificent field of inquiry [geology], the sentiment of a great historian of our time may continually be present to our minds, that 'he who calls what is vanished back again into being, enjoys a bliss like that of creating.'" Hensleigh Wedgwood, author of _A Dictonary of English Etymology_ wrote to Darwin in 1857: "I have often thought that there is much resemblance between language & geology in another way. We all consider English a very mixed language because we can trace the elements into Latin, German, &c. but I see much the same thing in Latin itself & I believe that if we were but acquainted with the previous state of things we should find all languages made up of the debris of former tongues just as every geological formation is the grinding down of former continents." Examples like these can be multiplied endlessly. Species, for example, are often compared to human individuals, in that they are born, live out a life span, and then die. One particularly good source on historical analogies in geology is: Rudwick, M.J.S. 1977. Historical analogies in the geological work of Charles Lyell. _Janus_, 64:89-107. The opportunities for work on these topics, in history of science, history of ideas, rhetoric, and half a dozen other areas, are great. Bob O'Hara --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert J. O'Hara, Department of Philosophy and The Zoological Museum, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, U. S. A. --------------------------------------------------------------------- RJO@WISCMACC.bitnet RJO@macc.wisc.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Hares Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 08:08:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 922 (1095) Many thanks to all those who sent me information about "where the hare layed." Another triumph for the e-lists in the footnote department! Germaine. From: David Shaw Subject: Hare Date: Tue, 19 Nov 91 12:17:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 923 (1096) is echoed in the 1542 text of Rabelais's Gargantua. In his ridiculous speech to ask for the return of the bells of Notre Dame (stolen for use on Gargantua's horse), the university orator Janotus de Bragmardo (Johnny Cutlass) terminates a list of silly arguments with 'Ibi jacet lepus'. Screech's edition of the text refers also to Rabelais's Tiers Livre chapter XLI, 83 'Ce n'est la que gist le lievre'. He also cites Cotgrave's dictionary (published 1611) as giving the meaning 'voila le noeud de la question' (That's the heart of the matter). David Shaw, Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. From: Mikeal Parsons Subject: quotes on errors Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 09:46 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 924 (1097) I am not sure of the context for the recent quote from Hegel on errors (I have missed recent humanist discussion on this subject apparently), but if someone is looking for quotations on the function of errors (which the heading tag leads me to believe), I should mention Frank Kermode's "The Uses of Error" a sermon first preached in King's Chapel at Cambridge I think, and now published in his most recent collection of essays (the title eludes me). It was also published in a theological journal recently (Journal of Theological Studies). Sorry to be so vague on sources; I'll look up the reference is someone is really interested. Mikeal Parsons Baylor University PARSONSM@BAYLOR From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: Re: Johnson E-Texts? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 11:40:47 GMT-0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 925 (1098) The text is available from the Oxford archive: U-77-A | Rasselas Prince of Abissinia. [On RLIN] For a further explanation of these codes and of how to access the Text Archive, contact ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX. (Incidently, I have put a number of references to etexts on the public ftp folder of our machine here at Reed. You may want to take a look. Anonymous ftp to reed.edu, /pub/etexts). regards, Arno Bosse Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 abosse@reed.edu From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: origins of method as metaphor Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 17:13:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 926 (1099) A footnote to Owen Cramer's surmise that the notion of metaphor began with Plato: in fact, the notion of moving along a road (met'hodos) goes back to Plato's great predecessor Parmenides. This founder of rigorous metaphysics, the version known as Eleaticism, explicitly lays out the "road of inquiry" that has to be followed if the inquirer is to arrive at the truth. He also specifies the way of inquiry that must be eschewed since it will produce only falsehood. Dirk t.D.Held, Connecticut College From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" Subject: Tree Metaphor Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 13:02 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 927 (1100) On Trees: The tree metaphor goes far back beyond Darwin. The logical tradition speaks of the Porphyrean Tree in the _Isagoge_ of Porphyry the Phoenician, around 300 AD, which was a commentary on Aristotle's _Categories_ (c. 340 BC). Porphyry does not (I think) himself use the word "tree", but his discussion of the genus-species relationship is in terms of branching, as noted by Boethius in his first commentary on the _Isagoge_ (c. 510 AD). Since Porphyry's Tree was long a staple of biology, one suspects that Darwin was familiar with this tradition and did not consider his use of the tree metaphor particularly original. Hoke Robinson Philosophy Memphis State University Memphis TN 38152 USA ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET From: Nancy.M.Davies@Dartmouth.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0459 Qs: E-Texts; OE Fonts; Keyboarding; Arabic (5/68) Date: 20 Nov 91 09:05:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 928 (1101) Regarding OE fonts, this info received fromFZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET last March: An Apple Macintosh font that has Old English characters is one available on the Ansax-L listserv. It is the NY_OE font produced by Brian Whitaker, Atkinson College, York University. The font is excellent and is freeware. You can obtain it from the listserv at WVNVM as NY_OE SOFTMAC. -I obtained this font, and the professor who had requested it seems to like it. Nancy Millichap Davies Humanities Computing, Dartmouth College From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0457 Qs: E-Publishing; Self-Actualizing Prophecies (2/42) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 15:52 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 929 (1102) Eric Rabkin has the Oedipus story mostly right with Sophocles; the further details are that O's father Laius got the self-actualizing prophecy that his son would kill him (leading him to try to kill his son more than once, knowing and unknowingly), and that the oracle came to O. himself at Delphi, so that he was trying to avoid _returning_ to Corinth when he killed Laius. It has been pointed out that the third road at the juncture where the killing happened went to Daulis, where no known father or mother would have been found. Is it possible that prophecy (in the sense of fore-telling rather than of speaking-for fate or a god) is always of the self-fulfilling type? or always when memorable and succesful? The witches in Macbeth, all sorts of other Delphic oracles, the Sibylline Books at Rome. The Book of Daniel is an example of prophecy in both senses: Daniel is some kind of prophet but what the book says looks like foretelling--until you realize that it was written after the events it mostly foretells, pushing narrative about Hellenistic times back into the Chaldaean and Achaemenid period. Owen Cramer From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: self-fulfilling prophecies Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 9:54:46 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 930 (1103) Re. Eric Rabkin's request for examples. This isn't exactly literature (!) but there's an old story or joke from these parts which goes something like this (from memory of something heard 20 years ago...) A man was hurrying through the market of his home town of Aleppo when he saw Death coming to meet him. Frightened out of his wits, he dashed down a side alley and escaped. "If Death is looking for me here," he thought, "I must get out! I'll go to Hims." He went to Hims and was strolling through the market there, at his ease, when Death came up and tapped him on the shoulder. "I've been sent for you," Death said. "That can't be!" The man replied. "Only yesterday you were looking for me at Aleppo." "I don't know where you got that idea from," Death replied. "I was at Aleppo yesterday, but I was told to look for *you* today at Hims." Judy Koren, Haifa. From: "Donna J. Spindel" Subject: HISTORY POSITION Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1991 20:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 931 (1104) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT MARSHALL UNIVERSITY EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY. Marshall University invites applications for a tenure track position in early European history, beginning August 1992. Primary responsibility will be teaching two sections of the first third of a three semester World Civilization survey (Great Civilizations to 1300) and upper division courses in early European history. Ph.D., teaching experience and scholarship preferred. Ability to offer additional field in non-western area essential. Ability to offer course(s) in 18th and 19th-century Europe helpful. Salary commensurate with qualifications. Send letter of interest, c.v., and 3 letters of support to Dr. William Palmer, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of History, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25705-2666. Applications from women and minorities are especially welcome. Application deadline: March 1, 1992, or until position is filled. From: fred horton Subject: Membership Date: 20NOV91 1425Z X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 932 (1105) _________________________________________________________________ Please send me information about joining the HUMANIST. Thanks 73 /flh From: Joseph Galron Subject: I am looking for an emulator! Is there someone who can HELP? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 91 23:35:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 933 (1106) I need an emulation programm for VT220 or VT420 that supports softfonts. I was told that there is a programm of the name REFELECTION. Did someone hear about it? Its an emulator for PC. Can someone help with information? Thank you, -- jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Internet) ts4132@ohstmvsa.bitnet (\ tel: 614-292-8114 \'\ fax: 614-231-1862 Joseph (Yossi) Galron \'\ __________ University Libraries / '| ()_________) Ohio State University \ '/ \ ~~~~~~~~ \ 1858 Neil Ave. Mall \ \ ~~~~~~ \ Columbus, OH 43210 ==). \__________\ (__) ()__________) From: Martin Wynne Subject: re: PC Script Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 11:12:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 934 (1107) [deleted quotation] I'm interested in the answer to this as well, and what's more, does anyone know of a UNIX version? Presumably the PC version can be tweaked to run under UNIX. From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0456 Word Lists and Copyright Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 9:41:53 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 464 (1108) Lorne Hammond's question is interesting. 1) "If I scan and then edit journal title pages into a WP file by author, article title, journal, issue, page numbers, have I breached copyright?" In this form the answer must be "no", because this is what every library that catalogs books, journals, journal articles (which some business and industrial libraries routinely catalog) etc. does all the time. LC even sells the fruit of their labours, in the form of microfiche and computer tapes. I am no lawyer but doubt that even lawyers could maintain that it's copyright material if you scan it in but not if you type it in :-) 2) But the form "to whom does the information on the title page belong? To the author? The journal?" etc. sounds different. Database producers (Dialog, BRS etc.) routinely get this information from journal publishers, along with the article abstracts, and compile a product from it that they sell for thousands of dollars per copy or tens of dollars per remote use. But they pay the journal publishers for the tapes, don't they? Are they paying for the information, or for the work of making the tape? As far as I know, copyright law does not cover KNOWLEDGE or INFORMATION, but only the FORM OF PRESENTATION of that information. So you cannot quote an enclyclopedia entry without permission, but you can take the information in it and present it in your own words, and you then yourself have copyright on THAT PRESENTATION of it. We all do it all the time. I think this is the key to the whole question. The database producers are paying, not for the information, but to avoid the larger costs of getting hold of all copies of a few thousand journals and typing (or scanning :-) ) the information manually, one by one. The journal or author does not have copyright on the information that John Smith wrote an article called "More About Widgets" in such-and-such an issue of Gadgets Today; they do have copyright on the layout of the title page that gives this information -- but then that's not what you're transferring to your manual or computer database, is it? Similarly, I do not have copyright on the information that my name is such-and-such and my address is so-and-so; the phone companies and mail-order firms can put it in their directories and databases without asking me (they ought to ask me before giving it to any old Tom, Dick or Harry, but that's a privacy issue, not a copyright one). And similarly, the court decision I quoted a few days ago says that anyone else can take it out of those directories without paying the phone company -- and put it in their computer addresses file, or database, or whatever. I would therefore conclude that building a database of bibliographic information is OK. If you include verbatim the abstract published with the article, you're skating on thinner ice. Comments, anyone? Judy Koren, Haifa. From: CSHUNTER@vm.uoguelph.ca Subject: file comparison query Date: 20 November 91, 18:58:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 935 (1109) A colleage of mine in Consumer Studies has a problem that I thought someone out there in HUMANIST country might be able to solve. My guess is that there's a collating package available somewhere that could answer the needs expressed in the note below: With 600 plus students taking 26 202 (Information Management) each year, and with a case report required in the course, I face a difficulty with plagarism identification. We require the case reports to be submitted on hard copy and on disk. There are three case studies based on three data bases. We change some of the data and the details of the assignment problems each semester, which helps us identify reports which are copies of reports submitted in prior semesters. We use file names, dates, and bytes to try to identify cases of plagarims with the 250 to 350 reports submitted each semester but clearly its easy for students to alter report files a little which changes their bytes, dates and time records. Does anyone know of DOS software which would allow comparison of pairs of files for DEGREE of SIMILARITY. Clearly this would be rather unique software, because many algorithms could be developed to compare text files. Suitable to our needs would be something which would compare two files for similarity for phrases (not sentences its too easy to alter a word here or there in a sentence) with similar content. If we had a file comparison system for which could handle pairs of files at a time, we could then write a batch system which would automate the comparison of all possible pairs of files for 200 or so all located in the same directory. In any event, if anyone knows of file comparison software, please let me hear about it?? Please address replies via e-mail to pliefeld@cosy.uoguelph.ca From: Skip Knox Subject: Information about Ethnograph Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 09:48:08 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 936 (1110) A colleague of saw a program called Ethnograph that lets a person keep and order anthropological field notes. Does anyone have the name and address or phone number of the company that makes this product? Anyone actually using it? Ellis 'Skip' Knox Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University dusknox@idbsu.idbsu.edu From: John Unsworth Subject: Is Tremso on the net? Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 08:51:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 937 (1111) Can anyone tell me whether Norway's University of Tremso is on the internet? It doesn't appear to be on Bitnet. Thanks-- John Unsworth From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: Forwarded message... Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 10:16:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 938 (1112) I'm posting this message for someone on Linguistl who is looking for info on the Brown Corpus. Please reply to me directly or to Mark Sanderson in Glasgow. Thanks Gerhard [deleted quotation] Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: Suzanne Noffke Subject: Citation sources: Caterina da Siena Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 12:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 939 (1113) I am working on the _Epistolario_ of Caterina da Siena (translating it), and have collected a few expressions for which I suspect there are more antecedents (i.e., prior to about 1370) than I have found so far. I'd appreciate any leads anyone may be able to give me. 1) ``Open your soul's eyes and see how great is the fire of his charity, that he has put up with you and hasn't COMMANDED THE EARTH TO OPEN AND SWALLOW YOU, OR THE WILD BEASTS TO DEVOUR YOU.... Ah, let our hearts burst; LET THE EARTH SPLIT OPEN; LET THE ROCKS ROLL DOWN UPON US AND THE WOLVES DEVOUR US!'' (Cf. Nm. 16, 28-30; Lk. 23, 30; Hos. 10, 8.) DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY NON-BIBLICAL USES OF THIS? 2) Any uses of the contrast (or complementarity) of _corpo mistico della chiesa_ and _corpo universale della religione cristiana_. IN FACT, ANY USES OF EITHER OF THOSE EXPRESSIONS SEPARATELY. From: Charles Elliott Subject: Brown Corpus Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 15:11:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 940 (1114) I subscribed to HUMANIST briefly a while back and found it a lively and illuminating experience. I do not need to subscribe now, but I do need to post an inquiry for a client in our Modern Languages Dept. As follows: "Can someone direct me to a source where I can download a work of Nelson Francis called the Brown University Corpus. It is apparently 5-600 passages of about 2k words in length. If you have knowledge of other corpora of normal American English which can be obtained easily, I would appreciate knowing of that as well. Please respond direct to me: Charles Elliott -- CEE@cornella Thanks !" ----------------------------------------------------------------| Charles Elliott | cee @ cornella | cee@cornella.cit.cornell.edu | ----------------------------------------------------------------| From: Peter Lafford Subject: Microcard Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 15:16:30 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 941 (1115) Dan Brink has asked me to post this to Humanist for input: Faculty at ASU are significantly interested in the vast amount of material stored on microcard (Readex Corp.), especially the Early American Imprints. We have no reader/printer at ASU, however, and only two readers still work. The solution is to convert to another medium. I am aware of a conversion being undertaken to microfilm, but our library isn't "buying that," and besides, electronic form would be so much better. I have heard anecdotally that Toronto undertook a solution about 6 years ago, but that the project stalled. Is anyone aware of another solution in the works? Humanities Computing at ASU will seriously consider addressing and solving the technical and legal problems, if there is no solution already out there or being developed. The solution would involve providing print-on-demand of both a high-quality hard copy and an electronic copy of items from our collection. I haven't talked to anyone yet about copyright, etc., hoping to get input from Humanist and others as to the state of affairs, the usefulness of the enterprise, etc., etc. Daniel Brink, Associate Dean for Technology Integration College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1701 602/965-1441 fax -1093 ATDXB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU From: WARMCN@AC.DAL.CA Subject: Position Available Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 09:30 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 942 (1116) Could you please bring the following position to the attention of all graduate students and interested persons. Thank you. David McNeil (WARMCN@DALAC) PS: If you have any questions about the Department, the University, or Halifax, please feel free to contact me. D.Mc. Applications are invited for a probationary tenure- track position in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor. Completed Ph.D. required. Salary is dependent upon qualifications. The appointment will begin on July 1, 1992; closing date for applications is Dec. 6, 1991. Letters of application, c.v., transcripts, and three letters of reference should be sent to: Dr. Melissa Furrow, Chair, Dept. of English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA B3H 3J5. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action Employer. The University encourages applications from qualified women, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. From: "Crovo, Bob" Subject: Manager Job Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 12:08:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 943 (1117) Please share the following job posting and related information with colleagues and others who might be interested. Questions may be directed to me, Dr. Robert S. Tannenbaum, RST@UKCC.UKY.EDU. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Kentucky Faculty Academic Computing and Technology Support Center Position title: ACADEMIC COMPUTING CENTER MANAGER Requirements: Applicants with experience in academic computing management, and university teaching/research should respond. Minimum requirements are a Bachelor's degree (Master's or Doctorate preferred) and eight years of related professional experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Responsibilities: A state-of-the-art desktop computing facility, the Faculty Academic Computing and Technology Support (FACTS) Center provides consulting, seminars, and other services under the direction of a Manager who will supervise 10 staff and interns, and assist the Director of Academic Computing in planning, managing, and implementing daily Center activities. Application Procedure: Send a letter of application, a complete vita, three references (with address and phone), writing samples, and minimum acceptable salary to this address: Employment Services Job #310404 University of Kentucky E. Maxwell Street Lexington, KY 40506-0314 Application Deadline: Deadline for receipt of materials listed above is December 3, 1991, but may be extended if additional applicants are necessary. Equal Opportunity Employer From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com Subject: Icelandic Query Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 15:21:40 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 944 (1118) Does anyone happen to know where I could find language tapes or other instructional materials or realia for Icelandic? So far, all I know is that Audio-Forum carries a 5-cassette course in intermediate Icelandic for about $150. Also, if any speakers of Icelandic are reading this, could you recommend one or two Icelandic writers whose style is simple enough for a novice student to understand? One last question: Does anyone know of a school in Iceland offering summer language courses for foreigners? Thanks! Diane L. Olsen (olsen@csli.stanford.edu OR dolsen.osbu_north@xerox.com) From: F.LANGLEY@hull.ac.uk Subject: Cigar Store Indians Date: Fri,22 Nov 91 12:08:43 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 945 (1119) This may seem a trivial query, but I have good reasons for wanting an answer: paternal prestige! In a tobacconist's (cigar-store to Americans) near where I live there is a wooden Indian. This is the only place in the UK where I have seen one of these. My small son asked me why it was there and I replied that it was common to find a wooden Indian in cigar-stores in the US. He of course asked me why and I didn't know. Could someone tell me why? From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0465 Qs: Plagiarism; Corpi; Microcard; Tromso; Cites Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 18:04:39 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 946 (1120) On Thu, 21 Nov 1991 17:51:42 EST you said: [deleted quotation] Whether or not the software exists doesn't really matter. If you had 200 files, the batch system would have to handle some 20,000 comparisons. If you only had 2% that exceeded some threshhold value on the similarity scale the algorithm produced, you would still have 400 papers to look at carefully. Even then, you probably still would not know who stole from whom. Just as bad is the problem of machine time. If the comparison program could do its matching in one minute per file pair, doing them all would take it 333 hours, or just under 14 days of nonstop elapsed time. And, one minute per comparison seems pretty quick if the matching is very thorough at all and the papers are more than a few pages long, even if you are running it on a 386 with lots of memory to reduce disk accesses. The two weeks of processing would probably require the papers be turned in REALLY early, or else to get the Registrar to delay the date for accepting final grades. 8-) Of course if you were lucky and had a really wonderful supercomputer and LOTS of free time on it..... dan ***************************************************************************** * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * * Boise State University * * Boise, Idaho 83725 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak * * 208-385-1234 for them and they don't speak for me. * ***************************************************************************** From: Sheizaf Rafaeli 02-827676 (Israel) KBUSR at HUJIVM1 Subject: Comparison Programs Date: 22 November 91, 16:56:56 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 947 (1121) Joining the request for any information on comparison of texts. My interest is not so much from the plagiarism side. I am interested in natural language parsing for identification and password uses. I assume some of the work on identifyiing authors would be relevant? Is there a good lit review of this topic (as in computerized identification of Isaiah I and Isaiah II, or Shakesp. authentication? Thanks in advance, Sheizaf Rafaeli KBUSR@HUJIVM1 From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: the history of metaphors Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 07:36:34 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 948 (1122) There's a particular kind of extended metaphor that very much intrigues me. It's called the CONTEMPORARY URBAN LEGEND. I've recently discovered that it is neither CONTEMPORARY, nor is it URBAN. But at least it is a legend, which I regard as a kind of extended metaphor. In tracing the history of the METAPHOR, I think we need to look for ARCHETYPES or RECURRING THEMES, and this will give some insight into what Jung called the COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS, related not only to MENTAL EVOLUTION but to THE HISTORY OF METAPHOR as well. In terms of the genre itself, I think that there are important ties between the URBAN LEGEND, and the NON-URBAN TALL TALE. There are also ties to LEGENDARY HEROES, some of which are real people--PAUL BUNYAN, MIKE FINK, DAVEY CROCKETT, SANTA CLAUS, THE TOOTH FAIRY, UNICORNS.... I think there is also an important relationship between the URBAN LEGEND and the GOTHIC TRADITION--It was a dark and stormy night. Not only is the genre itself architypical, but it also contains many architypical elements. A partial list of features that are common to many urban legends and related genres include at least the following: Antithesis, Closure (Explanation), Drama, Embarrassment, Fear, Grossness, Grounding, Hyperbole, Irony, Mystery, Poetic Justice, Stereotyping, Symbolism, Testimony (Friend of a Friend), and Titillation. In looking at this list, I can't tell which are Archetypes, and which are not. Anyone interested in Urban or Contemporary Legends, and/or related genres, please, let's start a dialogue. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: Subject: RE: 5.0459 Qs: E-Texts; OE Fonts; Keyboarding; Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 00:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 949 (1123) Response to message (1). There is an imitation of Guttemberg's Bible typeface at he Font library in Compuserve's DTP forum. It is not exactly Old English but might do the job. Javier Mancera From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: Re: HARE Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 10:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 950 (1124) There is also the German phrase "und da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer," which I think means: "and there's the rub." Peter D. Junger CWRU Law School From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 951 (1125) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 952 (1126) [deleted quotation] From: Oliver Phillips Subject: cigar store Indians Date: Sat, 23 Nov 91 10:25:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 953 (1127) F. Langley asks: [deleted quotation] My father, in inveterate cigar smoker (it killed him at age ninety) explained t o me that the wooden Indian was for the patron to use for striking matches on the way out of the store. The proprietor would roll the image, mounted on casters, out the door to the edge o f the sidewalk in the morning and retrieve it in the evening. I never saw father or anyone else strike a match on one. They may have really been for advertising since the ones I know hold a bu nch of wooden cigars in their hands. There is one in situ here Lawrence, Ks., at a tobacconi st's. It is regarded as a fine antique. Striking a match on it would be as much an aesthet ic offence to the general public as it would be a moral one to the students at the local Haskell American Indian Junior College here. Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM From: Stig Johansson Subject: Questions on the Brown and LOB corpora Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1991 09:44:51 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 954 (1128) The corpora are available through: ICAME, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, P.O. Box 53, N-5027 Bergen, Norway. For more information, contact Knut Hofland: FAFKH@NOBERGEN.BITNET. Note that the grammatically tagged version of the Brown Corpus is NOT available from Bergen. Stig Johansson Oslo From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0461 Rs: ... Metaphors ... Prophecies Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 13:54:13 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 955 (1129) Judy Koren gave no source for her joke about Death in Hims, but she can find the same story (here it is Death in Teheran) in a book by the psychiatrist Victor Frenkl (inventor of a method called "logotherapy") in which he describes the entire experience of life in the Nazi con- centration camps with that joke as a parable: whenever there was a choice of alternatives, one never knew which effort to save your life might be the very one that would bring you to your death. In his version, a rich man's servant meets Death while walking in the garden. He runs to his master and pleads with him to give him his fastest horse, so that he can run away and get to Teheran by nightfall. The rich man accedes and continues walking; eventually he meets Death and asks him, "Why did you frighten my servant that way?" Death answers: "I didn't mean to frighten him. I merely expressed surprise at seeing him here, when I have an appointment with him tonight in Teheran." David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: Marc Bregman Subject: Methodology as Metaphor Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 06:07 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 956 (1130) I just wanted to thank all of those who responded to my original query about Methodology as Metaphor. I am just about to set off for a 3-4 week trip to the States, during which time I will be giving the paper in which I have incorporated what I learned from the very useful discussion (most of it hidden away in a "footnote" that I shall open up only if someone questions my basic suggestion that much of "methodology" is "metaphorical"). However, I do hope to return more fully to this theme in the Methodological Introduction to a monograph on which I am working in the area of Midrash. For those that might be interested -- the title of the paper is: "Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Midrashic Texts" and what I needed the Methodology as Metaphor material for is my attempt to develop what I call an Archaeological Model for the study of Midrashic Literature. I hope that by revealing this I have not "blown the punch-line" for any fellow Humanist who may be going to the Association of Jewish Studies Conference in Boston in December. Marc Bregman, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem From: UMIH@UOFMCC Subject: 5.0467 Qs: Icelandic; Cigar Store Indians (2/34) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 20:18 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 957 (1131) For those interested in Icelandic stuff, know that the second largest population of Icelandic people in the world is in Manitoba. The Univ. of Manitoba has a chair of Icelandic, Dr. Kristin Wolff, and she will be happy to supply information on all things Icelandic and can give help re: language materials. I don't think she's on the NET, but regular mail can get to here as follows: Dr. Kristin Wolff, Icelandic Studies Dept., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2. Larry Hurtado, Religion, Univ. of Manitoba. From: Subject: Icelandic Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 07:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 958 (1132) For information on Icelandic, a good person to contact would be Prof. George Schoolfield at Yale, in the Dept. of Germanic Langs. and Lits. Address: Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520. As far as I know, he does not use e-mail. Leslie Morgan, Modern Langs. & Lits., Loyola College, Md. From: Morgan Tamplin Subject: Re: 5.0467 Qs: Icelandic; Cigar Store Indians (2/34) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 14:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 959 (1133) Regarding the question on Icelandic courses. I have no specific information but suggest that queries be directed to the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada. U of M probably has the most comprehensive Icelandic Studies programme and Manitoba has the largest ex-Icelandic community outside Iceland. Hope this helps. Morgan Tamplin, Department of Anthropology/Computer Studies Programme Trent University, Peterbough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8 MTAMPLIN@TRENTU.CA Phone: (705) 748-1321, -1325, -1495, FAX: (705) 748-1246 From: piersens@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Pierssens Michel) Subject: new Date: Sun, 24 Nov 91 20:43:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 472 (1134) BALZAC est une nouvelle liste de distribution electronique (discussion group) exclusivement consacree aux echanges d'idees, d'information, de referen- ces, etc. touchant aux litteratures francaise et francophones. Installee sur un serveur informatique situe a l'Universite de Montreal, BALZAC est une liste ouverte a tous ceux qui souhaitent entrer en communication avec des enseignants, des chercheurs ou des etudiants travaillant dans le meme domaine: l'etude de la litterature ecrite en francais, quelque soit le point de vue theorique ou methodologique. BALZAC souhaite devenir un lien entre les chercheurs, ou qu'ils soient dans le monde. On s'abonne en en faisant la demande (en quelques mots) a: BALZAC-L-REQUEST@cc.umontreal.ca. La demande est enregistree automatiquement et le nom de l'abonne ajoute a la liste. Pour envoyer un message a l'ensemble des abonnes, il suffit alors de l'adresser a BALZAC-L@cc.umontreal.ca. Le message est automatiquement reexpedie a chacun des participants au groupe. Il s'agit de la premiere experience de groupe electronique dans notre domaine. Nous souhaitons lui donner rapidement la plus grande extension possible, de facon a pouvoir organiser au plus tot des echanges thematiques. C'est ainsi que nous proposerons a tous les participants la tenue d'un colloque electronique des le printemps prochain. La premiere langue d'usage de BALZAC est evidemment le francais, mais sans exclusive a l'egard de l'anglais ou de toute langue dans laquelle les membres pourront souhaiter communiquer avec l'ensemble du groupe. Toutes les suggestions portant sur l'organisation et les usages possibles de ce nouvel outil seront les bienvenues. Merci! Michel Pierssens Departement d'Etudes francaises Universite de Montreal e-mail (adresse personnelle): PIERSENS@ere.umontreal.ca From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu Subject: Mac software query Date: Sat, 23 Nov 91 18:04:27 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 960 (1135) I need some advice on software for my research. I've collected a large amount of data on some constructions involving dis- continuous constituents (e.g. various extrapositions) and am looking at the relevance of various factors such as grammatical relation (GR) of the head, its position, +/-def, +/-pl, and other things, which I am entering with each example. I would like to use my Mac to figure out the statistics on these factors, but don't know what (type of) software would be the best for my needs. I've been told a spreadsheet or database should do the trick, but don't know which one. Suggestions have included Excel, Filemaker Pro, Double Helix/Data Desk, Fourth Dimension, and Foxbase. I'd like to be able to ask questions such as the following about examples with extraposition (E): o what's the total number of examples & how many have E? o how frequent is extraposition from various positions? o how frequent is extraposition if the head is either the Subj or PObj? o if the head's position = 1, how often is its GR Subj, Obj etc.? o if the head's position = medial, how often is it +def? o what's the average number of elements following the head? o what's the maximum number of elements following the head? My requirements are the following. The application must: o run on Mac SE with 4MB RAM; o be easy to use (I don't program!!), especially in querying; o allow queries on multiple factors (with &, or, etc.); o allow me to enter multiple lines of text in a field; o be able to import (& export) data from MS Word; o be able to print out examples with all related information; o accommodate 1,000-3,000 examples with 10-20 categories; o it'd be nice if the data could also be transferred to an IBM. I would appreciate any suggestions which colleagues may have. Respondents should reply to me directly (tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu), so as not to clutter up this discussion group. I'd be happy to summarize the recommendations I receive, if there's interest. Thanks. tom shannon tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu PS: I'm posting this on both Linguist & Humanist. Apologies for repeats! From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Re: 5.0459 Keyboarding firms Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 10:38:15 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 961 (1136) Following up on Malcolm Brown's recent query, I would be interested in hearing reports on experience with Input Center and other keyboarding firms. Were you generally satisfied? Did you have them enter markup and how well did they cope with this, particularly if your requirements were complicated? How did overall cost compare with OCR? Thanks in advance, Donald Spaeth CTI Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History University of Glasgow From: leggett@bush.tamu.edu (John Leggett) Subject: Hypertext'91 Advance Program Date: Wed, 18 Sep 91 08:37:33 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 474 (1137) Status: RO ************************************************************* ************************************************************* ** ** ** ** ** H Y P E R T E X T '9 1 ** ** ** ** ** ** 15 - 18 December 1991 ** ** ** ** San Antonio, Texas ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** A D V A N C E P R O G R A M ** ** ** ** ** ************************************************************* ************************************************************* BIENVENIDOS A SAN ANTONIO Y HYPERTEXT '91! Welcome to San Antonio and the third ACM conference on Hypertext! The conference and program committees have been hard at work over the last year and a half to bring you this outstanding conference. The technical program has been expanded to allow more participation and interaction by all attendees and La Fiesta de las Luminarias (Festival of Lights) provides a magical atmosphere along the Paseo del Rio (River walk) in San Antonio. We have arranged the conference schedule to allow ample time for attendees to enjoy this historic city on the banks of the San Antonio River. Hypertext '91 provides a blend of traditional and innovative programs. Papers and Panels will explore recent advances in hypertext technologies. Courses allow leading practitioners to share their knowledge with the hypertext community. Posters provide attendees an opportunity to talk one-on-one with researchers about recent results and on-going work, and Demonstrations are a forum for first-hand experience with new systems. The Hypertext '91 Video program will be a compilation of refereed videos which will be shown continuously throughout the conference. For 1991, this traditional core is augmented by Technical Briefings which will provide in-depth presentations on interesting hypertext systems. In addition to this outstanding technical program, the Hypertext '91 conference will provide several social events and a unique opportunity to experience beautiful San Antonio in its holiday splendor. Bienvenidos a San Antonio! Bienvenidos a Hypertext '91! John J. Leggett Conference Chair WHO SHOULD ATTEND Hypertext '91 is an international research conference on hypertext. The ACM Hypertext Conference occurs in the United States every second year in alternation with ECHT, the European Conference on Hypertext. Hypertext systems provide computer support for locating, gathering, annotating and organizing information. Hypertext systems are being designed for information collections of diverse material in heterogeneous media, hence the alternate name, hypermedia. Hypertext is by nature multi-disciplinary, involving researchers in many fields, including computer science, cognitive science, rhetoric and education, as well as many application domains. This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals in these fields ranging from theoreticians through behavioral researchers to systems researchers and applications developers. The conference will offer technical events in a variety of formats as well as guest speakers and opportunities for informal special interest groups. HYPERTEXT '91 OVERVIEW Courses: Hypertext '91 courses are intended to enhance the skills and broaden the perspective of their attendees. This year, the conference offers a selection of intensive half-day and full-day courses taught by a range of hypertext experts. To help attendees select instruction that matches their level of interest and expertise, courses are categorized in three levels: Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced. Papers: The Hypertext Conference is the preeminent international forum for scholarly papers on hypertext, hypermedia, and related technologies. Papers for Hypertext '91 were selected from 117 submissions and represent an intriguing array of reports on recent theoretical, empirical, and system developments in the field. Papers are presented concurrently with Panel sessions and Technical Briefings. Panels: Panels provide an interactive forum for involving both panelists and audience in lively discussions of issues in the subject area of the panel. Panels for Hypertext '91 will not take the traditional symposium form in which the speakers present a short talk on their own research. Rather, Hypertext '91 panels will address fundamental issues, methods, questions, and approaches in all areas of hypertext research and products in a round-table discussion format. Technical Briefings: With Technical Briefings, Hypertext '91 introduces a new forum for presenting details about a concrete design rather than empirical or theoretical results. A Briefing consists of a 30-minute, in-depth presentation of the interesting contributions made by the system, accompanied by live interaction with the system. Technical Briefings will allow designers to communicate valuable insights and experience to other implementors and designers. Posters: Hypertext '91 Poster presentations will enable researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best communicated in conversation. Poster sessions allow conference attendees to exchange ideas one-on-one with authors, and let authors discuss their work in detail with those attendees most deeply interested in the same topic. Demonstrations: The Demonstrations program at Hypertext '91 will provide attendees an opportunity for first-hand and hands-on experience with hypertext systems and databases. Here, conference attendees can interact directly with the developers of systems that embody unique or interesting ideas. Videos: The Hypertext '91 Video program will be a compilation of refereed videos which will be shown continuously throughout the conference. Videos will present demonstrations that would be difficult to show live, illustrate concepts that are hard to describe verbally, or present prototypes or work in progress. In addition to refereed submissions, the Video program will include a compendium of classic hypertext system demonstrations. Plenary Sessions: Hypertext '91 will feature two plenary sessions. The Opening Plenary Sunday evening will feature a keynote address by Patricia Wright. Hypertext '91 will conclude with a Closing Plenary featuring a keynote address by Frank Halasz. Social Events: To assure ample opportunity for informal interchange with your hypertext friends and colleagues, Hypertext '91 offers a schedule of evening relaxation and entertainment along with the extra ingredients that only San Antonio can provide. To begin, a Mexican Fiesta Dinner (complete with strolling mariachis!) will precede Sunday night's Opening Plenary. In addition, evening receptions are scheduled Monday and Tuesday and informal (on your own) "afterglows" occur each night of the conference. Lunches and other dinners throughout Hypertext '91 will provide attendees an opportunity to experience San Antonio's fine restaurants and shops along El Paseo del Rio. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. HYPTXT91 PROGRAM. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % Subject: Conference: Emerging Computer Technologies in Education Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 18:42:09 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 475 (1138) % David Crookall % Editor: Simulation & Gaming: An International % % MA-TESOL Prgrm % Journal (Sage); Dir: Project IDEALS (FIPSE, DoE) % % English/Morgan, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244, USA. % % 205-348-9494 -9173 (w), 205-752-0690 (h), (44) 305-889-352 (UK) % % crookall @ ua1vm.bitnet, ua1vm.ua.edu, igc.org fax: 205-348-5298 % % For Pr.IDEALS: Chet Farmer, Frannie Goubet, Catherine Screiber-Jones % % ------------- cfarmer1 @ fgoubet3 @ cschreib @ ua1vm.bitnet % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % From: Subject: prophecies Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 17:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 962 (1139) For what it's worth, the same story about meeting death is the source for the title of John O'Hara's novel "Appointment in Samarra." The story is told in a frontespiece, as I recall. From: Subject: Prophecies Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 17:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 963 (1140) Death in Hims or Teheran, etc., recalls of course what may be one of the best known literary versions--that which is appended to as an explanation of the title of John O'Hara's *Appointment in Samara.* From: abosse@reed.edu (Arno Bosse) Subject: Re: 5.0470 Rs: Corpora; Metaphors; Prophecies (3/60) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 18:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 964 (1141) David Schaps mentioned the story of the rich man's servant meeting death. I recall reading a very similar version in a collection of Sufi tales by Idries Shah. There are many variations on this theme in Sufi stories, which were studied by initiates to impress on them new ways of thinking. Arno Bosse Reed College abosse@reed.edu From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0468 Rs: File Comparison; Metaphors; Hare; Fonts (5/108) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 16:16:29 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 965 (1142) I hope that those interested in urban legends have already read Jan Harold Brunvand's four books on the topic, and that they are aware of the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban. In addition, they are occasionally discussed on the LORE and FOLKLORE lists on Bitnet. Although I am very interested in urban legends, I don't happen to think that this is particularly the place to discuss them (HUMANIST, I mean). I would be glad to give further leads to those needing them. dan ***************************************************************************** * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * * Boise State University * * Boise, Idaho 83725 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak * * 208-385-1234 for them and they don't speak for me. * ***************************************************************************** From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU Subject: keyboarding Date: 25 Nov 91 17:53:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 966 (1143) I have corresponded with folks both in Europe and the US. It seems that most roads do in fact lead to the Input Center. I know that they have done work for Elli Mylonas at Harvard, keyboarding Greek. Perhaps she can comment on whether the Input Center truly delivers as advertised. The price quoted to me was $1500 per megabyte at the 99.95% accuracy level. Ted Brunner told me that such a price is competitive. The question is whether this represents an advantage over OCR. If the source text is anything but pristine regarding the quality of its print, then OCR, in my experience is no longer an option. For anything but the very best texts, accuracy quickly plummets. If my math is correct, at 99.95% accuracy, this means 500 errors per megabyte. At 99% accuracy -- and most OCR runs don't scan at this level of accuracy for typeset texts -- it becomes 10 thousand errors per megabyte. And at 95% accuracy, it becomes a staggering 50 thousand errors per megabyte. So the question is which is more cost effective: to pay for keyboarding and its cleanup or to pay for OCR operators and its cleanup. While $1500 buys a fair amount of student labor, the expertise needed to clean up a text often requires something more that undergraduate-level assistance. I recall Mark Olsen, at the 1989 Toronto conference, presented a paper that effectively argued against OCR. I am doubtful that OCR performance has improved much since then, but it may. The key factor, it seems, is the source material. If you're using new and/or well printed editions, then OCR may be viable. Otherwise one should think carefully. My own approach is: if there isn't a company like InteLex selling the etext at a reasonable price, I'm going to try to do fund raising in order to purchase as much keyboarding as I can. From: Subject: Icelandic Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 14:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 967 (1144) Diane Olsen recently asked about instructional materials in Icelandic. I'm told that various Icelandic texts -- including Laxness, the Poetic Edda, and the Bible -- are available in electronic form from the following source: Dr. Baldur Jonsson Facultas Philosophica Haskoli Islands Sudurgata Reykjavik, Iceland Mike Neuman Georgetown Center for Text and Technology From: Christian Koch Subject: Seeking HyperText Software Information Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 19:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 968 (1145) A friend is about to begin work on a Ph.D. dissertation which he would like to structure in some sort of hypertext format. He plans a Latin text, an English translation, commentary, and a few other related items which slip my mind now (provision for a full-blown critical edition of the Latin text should be allowed for). He is currently an MS-DOS person, working with an XT clone. He is wondering if hypertext software for the Mac is such that it would warrant buying a Mac or if hypertext software for MS-DOS machines is available that would serve his purposes. I am, in general, a Mac person, so I am inclined to tell everyone to get a Mac. However, I am not all that familiar with what hypertext software is available for the Mac and what it costs, and I am even less aware of what is available in the MS-DOS world. While this person is good with computers and uses one a lot, he is not a programmer and would not care to take the time to learn, not even to the extent of being able to use HyperTalk. I think, however, that he is looking for more hypertext sophistication than is possible with HyperTalk. Money is an object for him. Would any of you be able to give me some suggestions as to what I might advise this person? Many thanks! Christian Koch Computer Science Oberlin College Internet: chk@occs.cs.oberlin.edu Bitnet: fkoch@oberlin From: Martin Raish Subject: Spanish quotation Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 17:25:17 ECT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 969 (1146) Can anyone help me with the source (and actual wording) of this quotation? It is something like French is the language of love. German is the language of scholarship. Italian is the language of [I forgot]. Spanish is the language to speak to God. Thanks. Martin Raish SUNY Binghamton From: ENG0997@vax2.queens-belfast.ac.uk Subject: Concordancing in UNIX Date: Mon, 25 Nov 91 18:07 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 970 (1147) Can anyone advise on a package which will run in UNIX (including the AUX 3.0 environments of the new Mac Quadra 900) and do concordances which have CONTEXTS SORTED BY RIGHT OR LEFT OF KEYS, just like OCP; and also, like OCP, select from only certain parts of a text and give COCOA-defined references in the concordance output? Am I right in thinking that, for all its merits, PAT does NOT do this? Perhaps what we need now is a UNIX version of OCP: any plans out there?? With many thanks, JOHN KIRK The Queen's University of Belfast E-mail: ENG0997@QUB.AC.UK From: WATTS@BUTLERU.BITNET Subject: Q: Newport News Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1991 14:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 971 (1148) Can someone tell me, and other members of the list eager to know, how the city of Newport News in Virginia got its name? What does the "News" signify? Bill Watts Bulter University (watts@butleru) From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 5.0477 Qs: Hypertext S/W Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1991 16:25:31 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 477 (1149) [deleted quotation] For generic hypertext-like applications or simple information management, ToolBook from Asymmetrix is the equal of HyperCard for Windows-over-DOS users. For massive amounts of information, or special needs, you may need to look at more eleaborate development environments with particular requirements clearly in mind. But then you say the prospective hypertext author needs greater sophistication than HyperCard with less investment than it takes to learn HyperCard! I suppose the compromise will have to be willingness to adapt to the design decisions of others. There is a wealth of tools in both environments for displaying a primary text with hypertext links to other materials. Here a couple: Guide (available for both Mac and DOS) textra (still under development at Dartmouth - uses HyperCard) Abulaffia (still under development at Brown - uses HyperCard) ... From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: Hypertext Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 17:27:37 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 972 (1150) Christian, I'm afraid you're asking a little much if you want the highest degree of sophistication without even a modest programming effort. Also, your friend will probably have to buy a new machine, no matter which platform he decides to use. If you want to stay on the MS-DOS platform, a variety of programs are available. Toolbook is one of them. It runs under Windows, costs about $ 150.00 (again I'm guessing) and is very similar to Hypercard/Hypertalk. It is offered by Asymetrix , (206)-637-1500. It will allow very sophisticated applications to be generated, although it will require some programming for the more sophisticated stuff, as will Hypercard for the matter. I have used both Toolbook and Hypercard and find them to be equivalent, although there are some advantages and drawbacks to both which I will not go into now. Windows and Toolbook require at the very minimum a 286 machine, which is one step above XT. But even with a 286, Windows can only be run in standard mode and will be extremely slow. Realistically speaking, you'll need a 386 to run Windows. Gateway 2000 has pretty good deals on those for around $ 1600 with 80Mg harddrive, and VGA. Check their ads in the ComputerShopper. I'm not associated with Gateway, just a happy customer. A program which can be run on the XT is HyperTies. I requires no programming at all and is very good for linking text files with graphics, etc. If all you want to do is to be able to highlight a word and then get a translation of it or look at it in a different context, HyperTies is probably fine. I dont' have the address handy, but will be happy to look for it if you are interested. Another program is BlackMagic. It has more capabilities than HyperTies and will also run on an XT. Again, no programming is required. BlackMagic, like HyperTies, is designed for interlineary writing/reading. It lets you exit to DOS and perform various operations at the DOS level and then you may resume in BlackMagic where you left off. This is a very hand feature and may just be what your friend is looking for. It is available from NTERGAID, 2490 Black Rock Turnpike, Suite 337, Fairfield CT 06439. Phone (203)-368-2174. I'm not sure what it costs, but as far as I can remember it is affordable. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. There are also some shareware hypertext programs available (check PC-SIG) catalogue, but they'll probably not fit the bill. But it may be worth a try. If you don't have local access to PC-SIG, you may ftp into UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU The files are stored in the /pub/pc/pc-sic directory. I didn't check this, so do a directory listing if you can't find it. The advantage of the MAC is that Hypercard and Hypertalk come with it. As I understand it, the newer models come with a crippled version because Apple wants to sell Hypercard separately, but I'm not sure if that has been implemented yet or if I just heard a rumor. I don't think you'll need much programming to do the things you indicated above. Whatever needs to be done can probably be learned on a weekend. A MAC classic with hypercard and hypertalk on it will probably amount to $ 1300 or so. This is only a guess, but I think I'm about right. Basically, all the above applications should allow your friend to do what he wants. If he can be more specific, I can probably offer more specific advice. Good luck. Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Re: 5.0477 Qs: Hypertext S/W Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 14:28:36 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 973 (1151) There is hypertext software suitable for preparing critical editions of the sort Christian Koch mentions, most notably Guide, which runs both under MS DOS and the Mac. (Conversion between the two formats is also possible.) I know several hypertext enthusiasts who would claim that Guide provides *true* hypertext, whereas Hypercard is more an applications toolkit with painting and hypermedia features. Guide users include the STELLA Project (Director Des O'Brien) at the University of Glasgow and Joy Jenkyns (University of Oxford). Donald Spaeth CTI Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History University of Glasgow D.A.Spaeth at glasgow.ac.uk From: David S. Miall Department of English Subject: Spanish quotation Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 19:32:21 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 974 (1152) University of Alberta The lines that Martin Raish quoted the other day seem to be a version of the quote attributed to Charles V: "Je parle espagnol a Dieu, italien aux femmes, francais aux hommes at allemand a mon cheval." How he spoke to his cat is not recorded. Regards, David Miall From: Shirley Arora Subject: Re: 5.0477 Qs: Hypertext S/W; Quote; Unix; Newport News (4/74) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 23:08 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 975 (1153) Charles V is supposed to have said: "If I were to speak to the ladies, I would speak Italian; to men, French; to my horse, High Dutch; to God, Spanish." Another version is: "German for soldiers, French for women, Italian for princes, Spanish for God" (attributed to Gaspar A. Reiss). There are probably other variants in circulation as well. In one of his letters Lord Chesterfield alludes to the Charles V quotation but with a variation: the language used to one's horse is English. (See _The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases_, ed. Burton Stevenson, New York, 1948, p. 1345:6. Shirley Arora Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese UCLA From: Karl Van Ausdal Subject: Response: Nov. 25 quote query Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 15:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 976 (1154) According to the *Oxford Dictionary of Quotations*, 2nd and 3rd eds., the quotation "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse," has been attributed to Emperor Charles V, 1550-1558 (King Charles I of Spain). ("Je parle espagnol a Dieu, italien aux femmes, francais aus hommes et allemand a mon cheval.") Bartlett's *Familiar Quotations*, 14th and 15th eds., attributes the same statement to Charles V (Charles the Wise) of France, 1337-1380. H.L. Mencken, in his *A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles*, cites a related Spanish proverb: "Spanish is the language for lovers, Italian for singers, French for diplomats, German for horses, and English for geese." He does not provide a source. Karl Van Ausdal Appalachian State University From: "N.O." Monaghan Subject: Re: 5.0477 Qs: Hypertext S/W; Quote; Unix; Newport News (4/74) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 20:34:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 977 (1155) I believe that a similar quartet of sayings was attributed to the Emperor Charles V, except that it was more on the lines of that he remarked that he spoke Spanish to his officials; French to men; German to his horse; and Italian to women. Nils. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- N.O. Monaghan Scottish HCI Centre monaghan@hci.hw.ac.uk Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh *** So much to do, so little time: Cecil Rhodes *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: SUSAN HOCKEY--December NEACH Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 18:24:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 978 (1156) An Invitation from NEACH NEACH is pleased to invite you to hear a talk by SUSAN HOCKEY on the new CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES. It will take place on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1991 at 1:30 P.M. in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue. The meeting is free and open to the public. Susan Hockey, formerly at Oxford University, recently became director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, a new project formed by Rutgers and Princeton Universities with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will describe plans for the development of the Center during its initial stages, including the inventory of machine- readable texts and the Center's role in archiving texts and providing educational programs. The talk will also examine some current issues in humanities computing which need to be addressed for the long-term development of the center. There will an opportunity for the audience to comment on the center's objectives and priorities. To attend Susan Hockey's talk, please ask at the ground floor of the IBM building for a pass to "NEACH" or "Humanities." The meeting is scheduled for room 25A. NEACH PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Project Elaine Brennan Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WED. DEC. 11 CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS SUSAN HOCKEY, DIRECTOR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Lib. Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry and NLP Mary Dee Harris Wed., Apr 8 TBA Tues., May 12 TBA NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities is a regional affilate of ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities. Its monthly meetings alternate between the second Wednesday and the second Tuesday of the month and take place from October through May. Should you wish to join NEACH, annual memberships are $15, or, if you already belong to ACH, are only $5 additional when you join or renew NEACH and ACH at the same time. For membership information, contact Nan Hahn, NEACH Treasurer, 322 Second St., Dunellen, N.J. 08812, USA. Phone: (908) 752-5841. --Heyward Ehrlich, President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: "Joe T. Coohill" Subject: The History and Macintosh Society Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 14:45:55 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 979 (1157) To: Historians who use Macintoshes should take note of the History and Macintosh Society, an Apple-registered user group. The group publishes a quarterly newsletter and distributes shareware to its members. The purpose of the group is to discuss Macintosh software and hardware that might be of interest to historians and academics in related fields. As it goes into its second year, HMS will be discussing databases as note-taking and note-organizing devices, portable Macs and their place in libraries and archives, and recently advances in software aimed at the academic market. HMS was founded as a SIG (special interest group) becasue it was felt that the major Mac publications were too concerned with graphics and business applications, and that there were a lot of Mac-using historians out there who don't have the time or the patience to wade through MacUser and Macworld. The HMS newsletter and shareware are not available electronically. If you are interested in joining ($10/year; $30/lifetime - and dues will be going up next summer!), contact: The History and Macintosh Society 734 Elkus Walk #201 Goleta CA 93117 From: garof@helios.sixcom.it (Joe Giampapa) Subject: Database on European Federalism 1776-1984 @Torino Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 15:15:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 482 (1158) This is from one of my colleagues, Massimo Fusaro. I can help with translations if anyone has need. -Joe Giampapa Sixcom, Olivetti Group Milano, Italia garof@sixcom.sixcom.it garof%sixcom.sixcom.it@uunet.uu.net Oggetto: banca dati sul Federalismo Europeo ------- Si comunica che presso l'IDG e' ora disponibile una banca dati sul Federalismo Europeo, prodotta dall'Universita' di Torino e denomi- nata "EURO". La banca dati contiene circa 10.000 schede bibliografiche relative alla letteratura internazionale su detto argomento dal 1776 al 1984. Si allega una scheda descrittiva dell'archivio nella quale e' ripor- tata la struttura dell'unita' documentaria. Il software di ricerca e' STAIRS; l'archivio sara' presto disponibile anche attraverso ASTRA. Con l'occasione si ricorda che presso l'IDG sono inoltre consultabili le seguenti banche dati: STOP contributi di rilevanza giuridica pubblicati sulla stampa di opinione (dal 1975, circa 63.000 documenti); DARC stato d'attuazione in Italia delle direttive CEE in materia ambientale (70 documenti); CLAS classificazione giuridica utilizzata dall'IDG e dal Senato. Saranno presto disponibili anche: DOGI dottrina giuridica pubblicata sulle riviste italiane (dal 1970, circa 127.000 documenti); BIGA bibliografia giuridica dell'ambiente (volumi e riviste dal 1975). Si ricorda infine che tramite l'IDG sono consultabili i sistemi informativi della Camera, del Senato e della Cassazione. Per ulteriori informazioni rivolgersi a: Ing. Pierluigi Spinosa / Dott. Mario Ragona Istituto per la Documentazione Giuridica / CNR Via Panciatichi, 56/16 - 50127 Firenze Tel. 055/410977-431722 Fax 055/4221637 E-Mail: SPINOSA@IFIIDG.FI.CNR.IT RAGONA@IFIIDG.FI.CNR.IT Si pregano i responsabili dei nodi di dare a questo avviso la massima diffusione presso gli utenti. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 1.1 ARCHIVIO EURO ------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | NOME SIMBOLICO: EURO | | | | DISTRIBUTORE: IDG | | | | PRODUTTORE: Polo coordinamento delle biblioteche | | universitarie e Biblioteca Istituto | | giuridico dell'Universita' di Torino - | | Biblioteca nazionale universitaria di | | Torino | | | | CONTENUTO: Bibliografia del federalismo europeo | | | | FONTI: Letteratura ufficiale, grigia e | | militante, a livello internazionale | | | | DIMENSIONI: circa 10.000 documenti | | | | PERIODO: dal 1776 al 1984 | | | | UNITA' DOCUMENTARIA: scheda bibliografica | | | | SOFTWARE DI RICERCA: STAIRS/CMS | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTA: l'archivio contiene inoltre i seguenti documenti: - due saggi introduttivi: 1) "Il quadro di riferimento del federalismo europeo" di R. Marena, A. Butteri e V. Conso- le; 2) "Le radici storiche e culturali del federalismo europeo" di M. Albertini; - l'elenco dei periodici consultati; - lo schema di classificazione adottato per il materiale bibliografico. Questi documenti si selezionano, nella funzione ..search, rispettivamente con i comandi: "doc=saggi", "doc=per", "doc=class". La banca dati, in una versione ridotta di poco piu' di 8000 schede bibliografiche, e' stata pubblicata a stampa: R. Marena, A. Butteri, V. Console, Bibliografia del federalismo ____________________________ europeo. Bibliography of European Federalism (1776-1984), 2 _________________________________________________________ voll., Milano, Franco Angeli, 1987/1989, pp. 409+205. 1.1.1 Struttura del documento _______________________ CAMPI FORMATTATI ________________ DOC (5 cifre) numero identificativo del documento CLA (max 5 cifre) codice numerico con cui e' stato classificato il documento. Lo schema di classificazione e' consultabile in linea con l'istruzione "doc=class", nella funzione ..search ANNO (4 cifre) anno di pubblicazione del documento RIV (4 cifre) codice del periodico. L'elenco dei periodici con i relativi codici e' consultabile in linea con l'istruzione "doc=per", nella funzione ..search PARAGRAFI _________ DOC visualizza per ogni documento, oltre alla denominazione dell'ente produttore di Euro, il numero identificativo di 5 cifre. Per la ricerca con la funzione ..search si deve utilizzare lo standard "doc=nnnnn". AUT contiene i nominativi degli autori, dei curatori e di coloro che hanno altre responsabilita' ("Prefazione di:", "Introdu- zione di:", "Traduzione di:"). (*) Ai fini della ricerca, ogni nominativo (cognome e nome) costituisce una frase del paragrafo RESP contiene i soli nominativi degli autori e/o curatori (*) TIT titolo del contributo seguito dall'eventuale sottotitolo, nella lingua originale del contributo stesso (*) NTP note tipografiche del contributo. A seconda del tipo, contiene tutte o in parte le seguenti informazioni: opera o periodico in cui e' contenuto il contributo, luogo di edi- zione, casa editrice, anno di pubblicazione, paginazione, collana e altre eventuali notizie bibliografiche. (*) Per alcuni dati si puo' utilizzare, nella funzione ..search, i seguenti standard: ANNO=aaaa RIV=nnnn dove per "aaaa" si intende l'anno di pubblicazione e per "nnnn" si intende il codice del periodico. L'elenco dei periodici con i relativi codici si puo' consul- tare in linea, nella funzione ..search, con l'istruzione "doc=per". CLA contiene il codice di classificazione, la descrizione corri- spondente e quella del superiore gerarchico. La classifi- cazione e'in lingua italiana e inglese. Nella funzione ..search, si puo' utilizzare lo standard CLA=nnnnn dove a "nnnnn" si deve sostituire il codice numerico di classificazione. Lo schema di classificazione e' consultabile in linea digitando nella funzione ..search l'istruzione "doc=class". DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD (*) I segni diacritici (cediglia, tilde, dieresi, accento acuto o grave, ecc.), che possono trovarsi sia nel corpo che in fine di parola, sono stati tralasciati. Quindi ad esempio il carattere "a" con dieresi va indicato semplicemente con "a". 1.1.2 Esempi ______ DOC = 03915 CLA = 0321 ANNO = 1945 RIV = 0308 DOC 03915 --------------------------- Dip. Scienze Sociali / Univ. Torino AUT Calamandrei, Piero TIT Il federalismo non e' un'utopia. Discorso inaugurale pronunciato all'assemblea inaugurale dell'associazione dei Federalisti europei, Firenze, 27 gennaio 1945. NTP In: Idea (L') federalista, Firenze, s.e., 1945, 13-17 pp. CLA 0321 FEDERALISMO EUROPEO: Seconda guerra mondiale e Resistenza Europea (1939-1945) EUROPEAN FEDERALISM: Second World War and European Resistence (1939-1945) END OF DOCUMENT DOC = 15133 CLA = 092 ANNO = 1964 RIV = 0000 DOC 15133 --------------------------- Dip. Scienze Sociali / Univ. Torino AUT Rockefeller, Nelson A. Prefazione di: Marc, Alexandre. Traduzione di: Voyenne, Bernard; Voyenne, S.. TIT L' avenir du federalisme. NTP Paris, Presses d' Europe, 1964, 97 pp., Realites du present, 4. CLA 092 STUDI SULL' UNIFICAZIONE EUROPEA NEL RESTO DEL MONDO: Periodo della lotta politica (1939-1984) STUDIES ON EUROPEAN UNIFICATION IN THE REMAINDER WORLD: Political struggle period (1939-1984) END OF DOCUMENT PierLuigi Spinosa phone: +39-55-410977 Istituto per la Documentazione fax: +39-55-4221637 Giuridica del CNR - SED telex: 574593 IDG FI I Via Panciatichi 56/16 e-mail: spinosa@ifiidg.fi.cnr.it 50127 Firenze - Italy spinosa@ifiidg.earn -- ----End Forwarded Text--------------------------------------------------------- From: Harry Gaylord Subject: Unix OCP Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 9:56:51 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 980 (1159) Re: Vol. 5 No. 0477 There is a Unix version of OCP available at Oxford. We implimented it here at Groningen. Harry Gaylord From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Plagiarism "service" Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 12:35:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 981 (1160) Several colleagues have requested information concerning the organization I referenced in an earlier HUMANIST posting. The exhibitor at the 1990 MLA convention was: Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc., 175 E. Delaware #7711, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel. 312-337-4504. Glatt also has a collection of various articles from journals, newspapers, etc., about their human + computer-assisted process fo "disambiguating" plagiarism cases which might be helpful to those who wrote in originally about this general matter. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: death Date: Tue, 26 Nov 91 16:47:12 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 982 (1161) Does the frequent recurrence of David Schaps' Death story mean that this is an "Archetype?" Can anyone give me a definition of "Archetype?" =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: "John T. Harwood 814-865-4764" Subject: Re: 5.0477 Qs: ...Newport News Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 14:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 983 (1162) Newport News got its name from Captain Christopher Newport, who led early expeditions to the Jamestown area. That much is certain. Early maps indicate "Newports Newes" -- but whether the referent means "news of Newport" or "Newport's news" is unknown. Used to live there myself: a lovely area. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: hypertextual doctoral scholarly edition Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1991 08:38:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 484 (1163) The question just raised on Humanist about tools for a hypertextual edition of a Latin text with English translation raises in my mind some broader issues. Perhaps some members of this group would care to comment on my deliberately heterodox, mischevious, but honestly intended observations. Recently I had the opportunity of putting together some thoughts on the future of the electronic book for a lecture. One of the issues I wished to raise was the extent to which hypertextual techniques represented something not just new but also significantly better than what can be achieved on paper (or parchment, vellum, wax, etc.). Rummaging around in my library at home, I came up with a number of examples ranging from modern critical texts & scholarly editions to medieval mss. in a variety of languages and traditions. Examining these closely, I catalogued the "proto-hypertextual" techniques commonly employed in them. I was not surprised to find that these techniques were numerous, subtle, and effective, often well beyond what could be achieved on very expensive equipment with many hours of programming invested in the effort. I wondered, and still wonder, if our joy in hypertext isn't due to a combination of our ignorance of these techniques and the poverty of the medium with which the computer provides us. Observing contemporary hypertextual systems, albeit only the few that I happen to know about, I also wondered if the state of the art isn't rather less than impressive in yet another way -- and needlessly so. Although it is true that systems such as Intermedia present a wealth of choices to the student, say in the area of Victoriana as developed in Context32, does the student really gain from having it all laid out like that, in a manner that can be freely explored but that provides for this exploration within a fixed iconic panoply of objects? Have we really advanced the state of the art of the "book" by allowing it, for example, to play a concerto or show some animation? In broader terms, I wonder if we are still stuck in the "horseless carriage" stage of computing technology, i.e. the imitative stage before the nature of the new medium itself becomes clear to its users. So, I look at the request for software to do an e-edition of a Latin text and wonder what's wrong with doing same on paper, in the oldfashioned way. This is not to say it shouldn't, only to raise questions about what we're doing and why we're doing it -- so that it and other things can be done more effectively. Comments? Willard McCarty From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Cecil Rhodes qutoation Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 20:43:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 984 (1164) In his reply about Emperor Charles V, Nils Monaghan includes in his closing a quotation attributed to Cecil Rhodes: "So much to do, so little time." Doesn't this quotation itself have a long history of permutations dating back at least to Hippocrates' famous saying from his _Aphorisms_, Sec. 1, No. 1? [Sorry. Can't get the Greek characters on this system.] "Life is short, the art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult"? A nice, succinct Latin proverb permutation is: "Ars longa, vita brevis". Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ From: Shirley Arora Subject: Re: 5.0480 Rs: Quotation Cite (4/67) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 23:31 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 985 (1165) An addendum to yesterday's posting: I should have pointed out that in the passage from Lord Chesterfield's _Letters_ in which he supposedly refers to English as the language to use to one's horse, he does not mention the language by name. The passage reads as follows (as given in the _Macmillan Book of Proverbs_): "What progress so you make in that language in which Charles the Fifth said that he would choose to speak to his mistress? . . . You already possess, and, I hope, take care not to forget, that language which he reserved for his horse. You are absolutely master, too, of that language in which he said he would converse with men" (letter of Jan. 25, 1750). The editor supplies the identification of the three languages--Italian, English, and French, respectively--but it seems to me that the second could as easily be German (more probably, in fact, in view of Chesterfield's specific attribution of the quotation to Charles V). From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk Subject: RE: 5.0477 Qs: Hypertext S/W; Quote; Unix; Newport News (4/74) Date: Thu, 28 NOV 91 09:35:02 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 986 (1166) Martin Raish asked for help with a "Spanish quotation" It reminded me too closely of a quotation I remembered in an article on 'Programming Languages' by Lawrence G. Tesler (source not remembered - date in the 80s). Right at the end of the article Tesler quotes Charles V as saying (presumably in French) "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse" Tesler end with (in a piece on the great variety and differences in the many programming languages available) ... 'A programming language too must be chosen according to the purpose intended.' Simon Rae | SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (World) Research Adviser, Academic Computing Service | SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom | fax: (0908) 653744 From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" Subject: RE: 5.0480 Rs: Quotation Cite (4/67) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 91 21:27 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 987 (1167) I was interested to see the quote concerning the use of the various languages attriuted to Charles V. The variant I know is attributed to Frederick the Great of Prussia, and went, if memory serves, "I speak French to my ambassadors, English to my accountant, Italian to my mistress, Latin to my God and German to my horse," perhaps most interesting as German was the language of the country he ruled (and which still reveres and despises him, as the recent controversy over whether and how to return his remains to his palace Sans Souci -- not "Ohne Sorge" -- amply demonstrates). Maybe Frederick stole it from Charles V. (Were they related? Charles must have been a Hapsburg.) Hoke Robinson, Philosophy, Memphis State U. Memphis TN 38152 USA From: DAVID BARRY Subject: costel Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 16:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 988 (1168) ONLINE EDUCATION AND TRAINING How to Design and Present Courses Using Computer Networks This part-time course starts on March 7th, 1992, and lasts 16 weeks. It will involve a total of around 60 hours' study time, and will be taught at a distance through electronic mail and computer conferencing, combined with 2 one day workshops in London. Participants who successfully complete the assessed course work will receive a certificate in online education and training . The course will contain 5 principal modules: % Design of online teaching and training programmes % Electronic mail and computer conferencing systems and functions % Teaching and moderating skills % Computer-supported cooperative learning % Evaluation methodologies This course is part of the COSTEL Comett programme. It will be conducted under the auspices of the Institute of Education, University of London, in collaboration with the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology. Participants will require access to: - either a personal computer (MS DOS or Macintosh) with a hard disk, 1MB memory, and a modem with communications software - or a terminal with access to JANET. Standard course fee: #420 Reduced fee for educational institutions: #250 (All fees expressed in pounds sterling) For further information and enrolment, contact: Dr. Harvey Mellar, Institute of Education University of London 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL tel : +44 71 612 6664 fax: +44 71 612 6126 Electronic mail: hgm@uk.ac.lon.ioe CAMPUS 2000 : YNS036 From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: INTRODUCING ARC !!!! Date: Thu, 28 Nov 91 22:00:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 989 (1169) ARC is the Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. It is a refereed, annual publication which addresses critical issues in religion from a variety of hermeneutical perspectives. In addition to devoting space to articles and book reviews ARC 1992 will introduce a "Computer Assisted Research Forum". This section will present news and reviews of products and resources, and discussions of theoretical issues in academic computing. ARC is now accepting contributions for its 1992 edition. Articles may be submitted in hard copy or on disk (ASCII or WP50/51 format) to: Bruce Guenther ARC Editor Faculty of Religious Studies McGill University 3520 University Street Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 2A7 Material relating to computer assisted research (news items or articles) may be submitted in hard copy, on disk (ASCII or WP50/51 format) or via Email to: Todd Blayone (BFW6@MUSICB.McGill.CA) ARC Book Review/Computer Forum Editor Faculty of Religious Studies McGill University 3520 University Street Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 2A7 The deadline for submissions is January 15. To receive a COMPLIMENTARY COPY of ARC 1992 (due out in March 1992) leave your mailing address with Todd Blayone. Todd Blayone From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: NEW LIST: CANADA-L Canadian Issues Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1991 22:01:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 990 (1170) Dear Editors: It's possible that you already posted notice of this new list when I was off Humanist this summer. If so, just delete. However, if not, please post. Germaine [deleted quotation] From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: Library Lookup, Please !!! Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1991 07:34:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 991 (1171) SUBJECT: Quote lookup DATE: 28 Nov. 1991 I'm trying to finish an article but need one passage looked up. I wonder if someone could help me. Inter Library Loan will take weeks. The passage concerns Rev. RICHARD JAMES, the Cottonian Librarian, who was in 1622 in Newfoundland. He is quoted in THE COURT AND TIMES OF CHARLES THE FIRST, ed. by Thomas Birch, 2 vols. (London: H. Colbourn, 1848), Vol. 2, page 53. Could someone please send me this quote by James about Newfoundland, also any reference regarding James's stay in Newfoundland. [deleted quotation]locations in North America. I'll be happy to reciprocate with any Newfoundlandia question you may have. Thank you very much. HANS ROLLMANN From: tony@FRPERP51.BITNET Subject: bibliography Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1991 14:54:56 UTC+2 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 992 (1172) I have a colleague who is currently registering for a French doctorate. Her brief is to research the reasons why people have been emigrating from Britain to France since 1945. The current enthusiasm for Provence can probably be attributed to a sort of Peter Mayle effect and relatively low property prices. But even our part of the world, the Roussillon, has attracted considerable numbers of Britons, myself and herself included. Her task is to find out why. There are all sorts of sources of information in France, but these obviously neglect the reasons for the departure from Britain. Does any humanist, either in Britain or elsewhere, know of any relevant bibliographical sources, or of a list that might be more appropriate? The colleague in question is not on the net, so any information should be sent to my address. Thanks in advance, Tony Jappy tony@frperp51 From: raskin@j.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: HyperText Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 21:11:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 993 (1173) In connection and in agreement with W. McCarty's thoughts on HyperText in 5-0484 on November 27, 1991, I also think that HyperText is a convenience but not a major advance in human thought. I respect and use HyperCard on the Macintosh, most recently to develop a tutorial on semantics and pracgmatics for introductory and advanced courses (it will be demonstrated at LSA in Philadelphia in January), but in my article "Naturalizing the computer: English online" in Myron Tuman (ed.), LITERACY ONLINE: THE PROMISE (AND PERIL) OF READING AND WRITING WITH COMPUTERS, about to come out with University of Pittsburgh Press, I also refer to the perennial complexity and inherent non-linearity of human thought and narrative, both predating HyperText by milennia. It is, of course, true that HyperCard makes the linkages explicit. It is, however, the writer who has to think them up and formulate them first, before HyperText is implemented. I suspect, and so apparently does Dr. McCarty, that some naive people believe that HyperText is capable of doing all that by itself. Alevay, as they say in Hebrew, or I wish it were so! I am also saying there, heretically for some, that there is nothing qualitatively new in either promise or peril brought about by the advent of the computer. I characterize my own position as "party pooping" (still not censored out in the page proofs), and I am a very enthusiastic, active, and reasonably proficient and versatile computer user, but if you'd rather share in the excitement of the new tool just ignore my article in the volume and read all the others. Incidentally, they are superb. -- Victor Raskin raskin@j.cc.purdue.edu Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 494-3780 fax Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory Purdue University W. Lafayette, IN 47907 U.S.A. From: "DAVID STUEHLER" Subject: Philosophy of Hypertext Date: 28 Nov 91 23:20:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 994 (1174) Willard, can you supply us with your catalog of subtle and effective proto-hypertextual techniques so that we can evaluate your interesting hypothesis? Dave Stuehler From: Algernon Subject: Greek and Computers Date: 2-DEC-1991 09:35:59.23 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 995 (1175) I am currently taking an intro Greek course, and in the course of conversation with my professor, he mentioned that there really was no Computerized dictionary of Greek available. This struck me as strange. So can anyone offer an address, telephone number or any other means of getting a computerized dictionary. Please respond in email as I am not on the Humanist list. -Thomas Riemer ***************************************************************** Nobody lives for ever. So why not do what needs to be done today? The value of life is a measurement of the product you produce for being alive for a single day. -Triemer@eagle.wesleyan.edu, @wesleyan.bitnet From: HURTADO@UOFMCC Subject: job listing Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 20:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 996 (1176) On behalf of a colleague at the Univ. of Winnipeg, our sister univ., I post the following listing of a job in Religious Studies. Pass the word to any qualified. ..................................................................... The Univ. of Winniepg, Dept. of Religious STudies, seeks a scholar whose teaching and research interests address gender-nuanced theoretical and interpretive issues in the cross-cultural study of religion. Specialization in a non-western culture is preferred, esp. East Asian/South Asian/Islamic traditions. The position (subject to budgetary approval) is tenure-track and will probably be filled at the Assist. Prof level Apps. aat the Assoc. rank will, however, be considered. The starting date is Sept. 1, 1992 or a mutually agreed-upon date. Primary teaching responsibilities are at the undergraduate level with opportunities for occasional teaching and thesis supervision at the M.A. level. Candidates with a completed Ph.D. who can demonstrate both excellence in teaching and a commitment to research are preferred, though ABDs will be considered. The Univ. of Winnipeg is a small liberal arts and sciences univ. located in the ethnically diverse core of the city. The Dept. of Religious Studies operates internally on the principles of collegiality and cooperative decision-making, and offers both the advantages and disadvantages typical of a small dept. The application deadline is Feb. 28, 1992, though earlier application is strongly encouraged. Apps. should include a covering letter, curriculum vitae, 3 letters of reference, student evaluations of teaching (if possible) and one sample of the applicant's written work, and should be addressed to: Prof. Peggy Day, Chair, Search Committee, Dept. of Religious STudies, Univ. of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9, Canada. ...................................................................... This notice courtesy of Larry Hurtado, Dept. of Religion, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg. From: Thom Parkhill Subject: hypertext Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 22:29:13 AST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 997 (1177) Following on Will McCarty's musings on Hypertext as a teaching tool, I have a hunch edging toward a prejudice that constructing a Hypertexted piece of writing would be far more conducive to learning than using the same piece of writing. I am reflecting now on how to engage students in Hypertext construction. I'm especially wondering how to make the task relevant. My question, more con- cretely, is why should they create such a text? Who is their audience? How will they use it? And so on. I have some tentative responses to these questions, but I'm interested in hearing from Humanists with "classroom" experience with Hypertext. From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 5.0484 Philosophy of Hypertext? (1/47) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 91 20:01:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 998 (1178) Well, having seen a reply to Willard's query regarding hypertext, and then the query itself (mailer randomizing as a hypertext technique?) -- I rise confusedly to Willard's query and at least one reply which echoes his reservation(s) about the novelty and/or effectiveness of hypertext. My first comment is: what is the question? Are we attempting to assess hypertext as an imitation of cross-references in printed media, in terms of effectiveness regarding ___? Hypertextual programs as creative environ- ments for traditional scholarly tasks? Hypermedia as a pedagogical environment? I'm just a humble philosopher teaching in a small college -- but, as much as I welcome Willard's raising important questions for HUMANIST readers, I believe some greater precision in defining the questions would be helpful. My second comment: having had the great good fortune to use Intermedia in the classroom, I can point to a large number of traditional pedagogical goals which Intermedia allowed me and my students to achieve more fully and more completely -- including greater use of _traditional_ printed media (the experience of hypermedia links seems to teach and/or reinforce the importance of following out cross-references in texts). As well, I can point to a number of impacts on the learning experience of my students brought about by Intermedia and the networked environment which I have only rarely, if ever, seen in the "traditional" classroom: much greater communication on the part of those less likely to find voice; communication which more fully reflects and demonstrates the importance of diversity and pluralism; and absolutely astonishing levels of student participation in creating materials for seminar and subsequent student use. My point here is not to pound the drum for hypermedia. Nor is it to mindlessly sing the praises of new technology, out of what I believe to be an entirely unjustified faith that newer is always better -- or that technology follows some inexorable path of "progress" which will eventually sweep us all within its currents, will(iard)-he,nil-he. Rather, I simply want to point to some concrete results within a specified niche of hypermedia application which may be helpful starting points in a discussion of the efficacy of hypermedia and its future. (At the risk of self-advertising, _my_ summary report of these and other classroom impacts of Intermedia are in a paper to be presented at Hypertext '91, and thus available in the Proceedings.) I suspect that Williard, as usual, is pretty much correct in his suggestion that we are still very much in the early days, where imitation of familiar forms defines the new technology much more than development of its genuinely new possibilities. I will also attest that these Model A computers and software systems often present the analogue to the starter backfire that sprains a wrist or breaks an arm: try explaining to the Dean why you have to have high-end computing equipment -- try explaining to a student why two months' worth of work is entirely gone, thanks to a major disk crash and a faulty back-up disk. Indeed, if only to stir up a few more comments, let me criticize Willard's analogy as too optimistic. Perhaps if a few more people had their wrists broken -- we'd still be using horses? (And, given the impact of the automobile on especially U.S. cities, the world environment, etc. -- is it entirely clear that the automobile in fact represents a social advance?) Enthusiastic, but not ecstatic -- Charles Ess Drury College From: abosse@reed.edu Subject: Bits & Bytes Review, Transcribe & Paradigma Date: Sat, 30 Nov 91 12:40:47 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 999 (1179) I apologize if this is something that has been mentioned before, but I just discovered a resource (an academic computer journal) and some software (Transcribe & Paradigma) which may be of some interest to this group. I had been struggling in the last few weeks searching for Mac fonts with suitable diacritics (or a means of easily converting/modifying postscript fonts), and then with the added headache of converting these special fonts to DOS... A U.S. academic computer review journal called Bits & Bytes Review (BITNET: XB.J24@Stanford; Phone: 406-862-7280, FAX: 406-862-1124, 623 Iowa Avenue, Whitefish, MT 59937, USA) evaluates several software packages that approached these issues in a variety of ways. The reviews were succint, informative and what was most impressive, written for and by academic users. Most impressive. I was looking at B&B Vol. 2, Num. 6-7, Summer 1991. What I learned... I was aware that Fontograher (Altsys) let you modify/create postscipt fonts (Type 1 or 3), but I had no idea that it could also save these in bitmap, MS-DOS, EPS and BDF formats! (The later lets you use them on, say, a NeXT). A companion program, called Metamorphosis Professional has an even wider array of conversion options (but it is limited to conversions...you cannot use it to modify/create fonts). A review of two utilities for transforming text on the Mac (say, a Word file). This review was the clincher. The two programs discussed, Paradigma and Transcribe, promise to perform complicated, global (even recursive) changes on a text (everything from stripping character returns to reversing the order of letters in a word, to replacing one ascii code set with another....) and best of all, they are both FREE. I haven't yet had the opportunity to try them out myself, but you can bet I will. If these perform as 'reviewed' they will be a godsend. They are available from: Paradigma, PRussell@Oberlin (Bitnet) and Transcribe, Treat@PennDRLS (Bitnet). In addition, an excellent article on Non-Latin Optical Character Recognition, with reviews of various new and forthcoming products (the commercial products were all DOS based). Arno Bosse Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 abosse@reed.edu From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: 5.0485 More Rs: Charles I Quote (4/76) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 15:40:29 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1000 (1180) Concerning the quote about the use of various languages with different interlocutors attributed by Hoke Robinson to Frederick the Great, I am not familiar with that claim. However, histories of the German language frequently point out Frederick's love of French, as shown by Voltaire's stay at his court and his use of the language which prompoted the French philosopher to write in a letter to Marquirs de Thibouville (1750): "Je me trouve ici en France. On ne parle que notre langue. L'allemand est pour les soldats et pour les chevaux; il n'est necessaire que pour la route." The quote, together with a brief introductory discussion, can be found e.g. in R.E. Keller, _The German Language_, p. 486f.; C.J. Wells, _German: A Linguistic History to 1945, p. 268; and Adolph Bach, _Geschichte der deutschen Sprache_, p. 313. I'd be interested to know whether this quote is the one intended or whether Frederick also made the statement attributed to him. Any experts out there know for sure? tom shannon german department, uc berkeley From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Hypertext system Date: Wed, 27 Nov 91 20:36:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1001 (1181) I agree with recent recommendations made to Christian Koch by three knowledgeable colleagues. One additional package I'm testing out now that looks very good is Ntergaid's DOS-based _Hyperwriter_. Address: Ntergaid, Inc., 2490 Black Rock Tpke., Suite 337, Fairfield, CT 06430. Tel. 203-368-0632. _Hyperwriter_ received the Editor's Choice in _PC Magazine_ over 8 other hypertext products (see 5/28/91 issue). Ntergaid does a little "nickel & diming" regarding evaluation copies, demo versions, etc., but the product looks worthwhile. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: SOFTWARE ADDRESS Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 0:00:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1002 (1182) Could members of HUMANIST tell me whether the software producer of VOLKSWRITER still exist? I think it was marketed by LIFETREE SOFTWARE. Could our californian members check in their phone directory if there is a phone number where they could be reached? Thanks. Michel. -- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Internet proposals Date: Tue, 03 Dec 91 10:12:27 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1003 (1183) This is a request for proposals any of you may have prepared to get your institutions connected to internet. If you have them as etext or paper, please send us a copy. I have been trying to get Illinois Benedictine a connection for 17 months now, and they have finally agreed. . .if I give them some previous proposals as guidelines. Copies may be ftp'd to hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu or emailed to any addresses posted at the bottom of this note or snail mailed to: MICHAEL S. HART 405 WEST ELM ST. URBANA, IL 61801 Any expenses will be reimbursed on request. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------ | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois. BITNET: HART@UIUCVMD INTERNET: HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU Also available as the Usenet group bit.listserv.gutnberg CompuServe: >INTERNET:hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Attmail: internet!vmd.cso.uiuc.edu!HART From: nearo01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Rodemer) Subject: motif of computer in American literature and art Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 22:31:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1004 (1184) I am interested in doing a dissertation project on the motif of the computer in American literature and art, but am having trouble finding primary sources; I would prefer to exclude robots and science fiction, limiting the study to works which include more-or-less "real world" computers. John Updike's "Roger's Version" has been brought to my attention already, as have John Barth's "Giles Goat Boy" and Andrew Greeley's "God Game."y?3 Laurie Anderson mentions computers in her performance "United States." But this is about all I have. I would be grateful for any assistance Humanist networkers can give. Thanks! Michael Rodemer Rodemer@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: nearo01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Rodemer) Subject: modem/mail software for Macintosh Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 22:35:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1005 (1185) Does anyone know of software for the Mac which enables automation of mail use? I'd like something that will allow me to write mails offline, then do an automatic log-on, download any available mail, then send all the messages I have written prior to logging off. Although I have managed to implement parts of this in HyperCard, it is rather clunky, and I suspect I may be reinventing the wheel. Thanks! Michael Rodemer From: Louie.Crew@andromeda.rutgers.edu, Subject: A survey Date: Mon, 2 Dec 91 22:59:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 493 (1186) Please send me private email completing this Faculty Survey. Do not post to the list. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Louie Crew Faculty Survey [In this query, 'out' means 'anyone who has revealed lesgay sexual orientation at the institution.' -lc] My Institutions:________________ City/State..__________________ Approximate no. of full-time students at all levels:____________ My Department:__________________ Approximate no. of majors_____ My rank/position:_______________________________________________ W/i my department, I estimate: (Please fill in blanks with numbers.) Re: female colleagues ____ 'out' lesbians among the ____ female full professors ____ 'out' lesbians among the ____ female associate professors ____ 'out' lesbians among the ____ female assistant professors ____ 'out' lesbians among the ____ female full-time faculty below assist. Re: male colleagues ____ 'out' gay males among the ____ male full professors ____ 'out' gay males among the ____ male associate professors ____ 'out' gay males among the ____ male assistant professors ____ 'out' lesbians/gays among the ____ full-time faculty below assist. I consider myself: (Please check) ____ less likely than most other colleagues to know the sexual orientation of lesgay colleagues. ____ about as likely as most other colleagues to know the sexual orientation of lesgay colleagues. ____ more likely than most other colleagues to know the sexual orientation of lesgay colleagues. Please send me a copy of the results of this study. ___Yes ___ No ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you in advance for your response. I would appreciate your posting this query on other forums. Louie Crew, Assoc. Prof., Academic Foundations Dept., Rutgers U./NWK 07102 lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: Conference Date: Tue, 03 Dec 91 06:21:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 494 (1187) SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on SYMBOLIC and LOGICAL COMPUTING DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA OCTOBER 15 - 16, 1992 ICEBOL6, the Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, is designed for teachers, scholars, and programmers who want to meet to exchange ideas about computer programming for non-numeric applications -- especially those in the humanities. In addition to a focus on SNOBOL4, SPITBOL, and Icon, ICEBOL6 invites presentations on textual and logical processing in a variety of programming languages such as Prolog and C. Topics of discussion will include artificial intelligence and expert systems, and a wide range of analyses of texts in English and other natural languages. Parallel tracks of concurrent sessions are planned. ICEBOL's coffee breaks, social hours, lunches, and banquet will provide a series of opportunities for participants to meet and informally exchange information. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts (250-750 words) of proposed papers to be read at ICEBOL6 are invited in any area of non-numeric programming. Planned sessions include the following: analysis of texts (including bibliography, concordance, and index generation) artificial intelligence and expert systems computational linguistics computer languages and compilers designed for non-numeric processing electronic texts and encoding grammar and style checkers linguistic and lexical analysis (including parsing and machine translation) music analysis preparation of texts for publishing Papers must be in English and may not exceed twenty minutes reading time. Abstracts should be received by March 1, 1992. Notification of acceptance (based on recommendations of readers) will follow promptly. Papers will be published in ICEBOL6 Proceedings. Presentations at previous ICEBOL conferences were made by Paul Abrahams (ACM President), Gene Amdahl (Andor Systems), Robert Dewar (New York University), Mark Emmer (Catspaw, Inc.), James Gimpel (Lehigh), Ralph Griswold (Arizona), Susan Hockey (Oxford), Nancy Ide (Vassar) and many others. Copies of the ICEBOL5 Proceedings are available. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION All correspondence including abstracts of proposed papers as well as requests for registration materials may be sent to: Eric Johnson ICEBOL Director 114 Beadle Hall Dakota State University Madison, SD 57042 U.S.A. Inquiries, abstracts, and correspondence are encouraged via electronic mail, and they may be sent to Eric Johnson at: ERIC@SDNET.BITNET From: Patrick Saint-Dizier Subject: conferenc3e Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1991 08:10 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 495 (1188) Second Seminar on Computational Lexical Semantics Toulouse, France, January 23-25 January 23 9h00 - 9h30 Registration, coffee. 9h30 - 9h40 Presentation of the seminar 9h40 - 10h25 Mental Lexicon and Lexicon in a Machine J.F. LeNY (France) 10h25 - 11h10 Polysemy and Related Phenomena from a Cognitive Semantics Viewpoint, A. CRUSE (UK) 11h10 - 11h55 The Concept of Contrary and its Correlates in the Lexicon C. VANDERHOEFT (Belgium) Lunch 14h15 - 15h00 Lexical and Syntactic Properties in the Lexicon : the Case of Predicative Nouns, A. BORILLO (France) 15h00 - 15h30 How Lexical is Argument Structure ? A. Van HOUT (The Netherlands) Coffee Break 15h45 - 16h30 From Lexical Semantics to Text Analysis S. BERGLER (USA) 16h30 - 17h15 Term Description Languages in Lexical Semantics G. BURKERT (Germany) 17h15 - 18h00 The Semantics-Pragmatics of Lexicalization E. VIEGAS (France) January 24 9h00 - 9h45 A Non-Monotonic Approach to Lexical Semantics D. KAYSER, H. ABIR (France) 9h45 - 10h15 Lexical Functions and Knowledge Representation D. HEYLEN (The Netherlands) Coffee Break 10h30 - 11h15 The Representation of Group Denoting Nouns in a Lexical Base, A. COPESTAKE (UK) 11h15 - 12h00 Introducing Lexlog J. JAYEZ (France) Lunch 14h00 - 14h45 Word Meaning between Lexical and Conceptual Structure P. GERSTL (Germany) 14h45 - 15h30 A Computational Perspective on a Lexical Analysis of TbreakU M. PALMER, A. POLGUERE (Singapore) Coffee break 15h45 - 16h30 Use of Explanatory and Combinatory Lexical Functions in a Dictionary for Lexicalization in Natural Languag A. TUTIN, G. LAPALME, A. RAMOS (Canada) 16h30 - 17h00 Machine Translation Divergences : A Lexical Semantics Perspectiv B. DORR (USA) January 25 9h30 - 10h15 Constraint Propagation Techniques for Lexical Semantics P. SAINT-DIZIER (France) 10h15 - 10h45 Inheriting Polysemy A. KILGARIFF (UK) 10h45 - 11h15 Lexical Semantics : Dictionary or Encyclopedia ? M. CAVAZZA, P. ZWEIGENBAUM (France) 11h15 - 11h45 Semantic Features in a Generic Lexicon G. BES, A. LECOMTE (France). General Information for Authors and Participants Texts : Final texts should be in Toulouse by January 10th, to the very last. They should be about 12 pages long, single-space typed. The first page should indicate the name, full address, telephone number and e-mail of author(s). Authors are invited to use preferably a Times 12 pts font (like the one used for this letter). Please do not number pages (use black pen, easy to erase). Publishers have been contacted for publication of the proceedings in a book. Authors will probably be given a second chance to revise their texts after the seminar before final publication. Presentation : You have been allocated 45 minutes (invited) and 30 minutes (submitted papers) for presentation. Please include in this slot 5-10 mn for questions, longer discussions can take place at the end of the day or during breaks. An overhead projector will be available. Participants : Besides speakers, participants are very welcome. We however want to keep the total number of participants and speakers below 45 people to allow fruitful exchanges. Anyone willing to attend the seminar and who is not presenting a paper is requested to send us a letter ASAP. Acceptance to the seminar will be based on a first come first served basis. Colleagues having submitted papers that we have not been able to accept will also be given priority. Accomodation : 30 rooms have been pre-reserved at hotel ARCADE at the cost of 215F single and 275F double, breakfast included (buffet). Our option expires December 20, so we need to know before that date if you need a room and for how many days. Please be very precise and give arrival and departure dates and hours. Use email (stdizier@irit.fr, viegas@irit.fr), fax (61 55 62 58) or phone (61 55 63 44) to inform us ASAP, please. Those who have already given us their visiting dates recently need not do it again. The hotel ARCADE is located in a very quiet small street, very close to Toulouse historical center. Its address is : rue Claire Pauilhac, it is shown on the enclosed map.It is about 800meters far from the railway station and the bus station (where the bus Arocar coming from the airport stops). It is 400m far from Place du Capitole which is the center of Toulouse. Hotel phone number (in case of late arrival) : 61 63 61 63. Upon reception of your hotel request, confirmation of reservation is implicit unless you get a letter from us saying the contrary or allocating you another hotel (speakers will be given priority at hotel ARCADE, unless they respond too late). Transports : Toulouse has very good daily connections with major European cities. It also has 18 daily return flights to Paris. Train is much longer and less convenient. There are very cheap fares on Air Inter between Paris and Toulouse, which are sometimes cheaper than the train (especially for students). From the airport, take the bus `Arocar' to the bus station (20 minutes, 21Francs) and then walk to the hotel (800 meters) or take a taxi (30F). You can also take a taxi from the airport (20mn, 100 F about). If you come by train, from the railway station, walk to the hotel (800 meter) or take a taxi (30F). To get to the university, take bus number 2 (about 6F, pay when getting on the bus, or buy bunches of 10 tickets), from a bus stop very close to the hotel. Bus must be bound to `Campus Scientifique' (and not CHR-Rangueil, this is a hospital, but close to the university). It takes about 45 mns during peak hours to get to the university. Get down at the terminus, on the campus. Someone will be waiting for you here. If you're late, ask for IRIT, the conference will be held there. Seminar Location : The seminar will be held in the main amphitheater of the IRIT. Lunches will take place in a university restaurant nearby (with good meals, wine and coffee). It is about 200m far from the bus 2 stop on the Campus. Costs : The seminar is funded by the GDR-PRC Communication Homme-machine, a national research group supported by the French Ministry of Research and Technology and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. However, we have to ask participants a small participation fee concerning the attendance of the seminar, lunches and banquet. - for invited speakers, it is all free. - for members of the GDR-PRC Communication Homme-Machine, we need a participation for the banquet (about 130F, if you want to attend it). - for other participants (submitted papers and attendees), there is a fee for participation to the seminar itself (i.e. for breaks, infrastructure and proceedings) of 100F, plus a participation of 160 F for the two lunches and, as an option, an amount of about 130F for the banquet on Thursday evening. Payment must be made upon arrival, preferably in cash. Refunds for invited speakers : Invited speakers will be refunded as indicated in their invitation letter, or as arranged directly with us. They will be refunded in cash (our administration does not make any cheques) on the first day, probably after lunch. Please, prepare an ID, your transporation ticket and a photocopy of each of these for our records. Thanks. So, we look forward to seeing you soon in Toulouse ! Patrick Saint-Dizier and Evelyne Viegas IRIT Universit Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse Cedex France fax (61 55 62 58) or phone (61 55 63 44) or e-mail (stdizier@irit.fr, viegas@irit.fr) Second Seminar on Computational Lexical Semantics, January 23-25. REGISTRATION FORM NAME: ........................................................................ ADDRESS: ................................................................ ........................................................................ PHONE: ........................................................................ FAX: ........................................................................ e-mail: ........................................................................ ACCOMODATION at Hotel ARCADE: O YES : arrival date and hour: ................................ departure date and hour: .................................. O NO SEMINAR ATTENDANCE: O Thursday a. m. O Thursday p. m. O Friday a. m. O Friday p. m. O Saturday a. m. LUNCH ATTENDANCE: O Thursday 23 O Friday 24J BANQUET ATTENDANCE on Thursday evening: O YES O NO From: Steve.Cavrak@UVM.EDU Subject: Final CSAC Call for Papers Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 07:31:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 496 (1189) Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum ---------------------------------------------------------------- University of Vermont April 3 and 4, 1992 +----------------------------------------------+ | PROPOSALS DUE ON DECEMBER 10th, 1991 | +----------------------------------------------+ Call for Proposals Last April, The University of Vermont hosted its second annual Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum conference exploring strategies to enhance the collegiate curriculum through the use of computers, networks, and media. This conference drew over 350 participants from the Eastern United States and Canada. This year's conference will coincide with the Calculated Image, an art exhibit at the University of Vermont's Fleming Museum featuring computer generated images produced by artists as well as engineers. Therefore topics on art, imaging, and design are welcome, as well as topics including networking, hypermedia and courseware authoring, libraries and media services, user support and training, integration of academic and administrative systems, and research and teaching in all academic areas. The program committee is soliciting proposals for presentations and workshops that fit into a lecture / demonstration format. Introductory, advanced, and innovative applications are encouraged. Presentations should be about 40 minutes in length, with longer blocks possible for workshops. The presentations will be held in small lecture halls that seat 50 to 60 attendees. Both Macintosh and MS-DOS systems with projection devices will be available to lecturers. Smaller computing labs seating 10 to 20 people are available for workshops using MS-DOS, Macintosh, or Silicon Graphics equipment. Proposals requiring other systems (Apple II, Amiga, etc.) are not discouraged, but in these cases on site equipment cannot be guaranteed. Rules for proposals Presenters should submit proposals to the program committee listed below by December 10th, 1991 for consideration. Proposals should include a title, short abstract (50-75 words), and equipment needs. Notifications of acceptance and instructions to authors will be provided by January 10, 1992. Presenters with successful proposals will be expected to provide a 4-5 page paper summarizing their session no later than February 10, 1992 for inclusion in the conference proceedings. Papers must be submitted in electronic form. Presenters are also invited to include any relevant software on floppy disks for distribution with the proceedings. All presenters will be provided full conference registration; travel and lodging are the responsibility of the presenter. For more information, contact : CSAC Program Committee University Computing Services 238 Waterman Building University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont 05405 Phone: 802-656-3316 Fax: 802-656-8429 Bitnet: csac@uvmvm Internet: csac@uvmvm.uvm.edu From: Subject: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE special issue on non-literal language Date: 4 Dec 91 13:16 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 497 (1190) CALL FOR PAPERS Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Special Journal Issue August 1992 Not too late to send intention to submit Submissions are invited to a Special Issue of COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Journal on Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language. Guest editors are Dan Fass, James Martin and Elizabeth Hinkelman. Response to earlier calls for papers, asking people to notify of us of an intention to submit a paper, has been good. Intended papers cover a wide variety of topics related to processing non-literal language. There is a possibility that a research monograph may be published containing papers from the special issue. Please inform Dan Fass if you intend to submit a paper but have not yet done so, giving a tentative title and brief description of your intended paper. 1. Focus of the Special Issue Non-literal language includes metaphor, idiom, "indirect" speech acts, implicature, hyperbole, metonymy, irony, simile, sarcasm, and other devices whose meaning cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent words. Papers are invited on topics including (but not limited to) the computer recognition, interpretation, acquisition, generation, and robust parsing of non-literal language. Issues of interest include: o the relationship of non-literal to literal language, o the adequacy of various forms of knowledge representation (symbolic vs connectionist vs statistical), o static vs dynamic mechanisms, o general vs idiosyncratic treatment of instances, o instances as novel vs conventional forms, o comparison and contrast of models of the various forms of non-literal language, o broader implications for AI. 2. Impetus for the Special Issue The editors of the Special Issue recently organized a workshop on non-literal language at IJCAI-91. Attendees, besides the organizers, were John Barnden, Ted Briscoe, Jerry Hobbs, Eric van der Linden, Hiroshi Motoda, Yamagami Matsumoto, David Powers, Lisa Rau, Cameron Shelley, Raoul Smith, Susan Weber, Sylvia Weber Russell, and Janet Wiles. The 169 page workshop proceedings is available as technical report CU-CS-550-91 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. It costs $5 per copy (including postage). Please contact James Martin for further details. 3. Schedule for the Special Issue Date Stage Thurs Feb 6 1992 Submission deadline. Thurs Mar 19 1992 Reviews returned. Thurs Apr 23 1992 Revised, accepted papers received. 4. Manuscript Preparation and Review Typical submissions should be 25-50 pages in manuscript form, though exceptions may be made. The manuscript should be double spaced and typed on one side of the page only. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, beginning with the title page. The title page should include the title, authors' names, institution of origin, and its address (including postal code). Please include telephone number(s) and e-mail address. An abstract should be not more than 200 words, and on a separate page. References should not be cited in the abstract. Please note that for an author's submission to be reviewed, the author must review three other submissions to the Special Issue. More detailed Instructions to Authors will be sent to those intending to submit a paper. 5. The Guest Editors Dan Fass James Martin Centre for Systems Science, Computer Science Department and Simon Fraser University, Institute of Cognitive Science, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. University of Colorado at Boulder, Tel: (604) 291-3208 Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, USA. Fax: (604) 291-4951 Tel: (303) 492-3552 E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca Fax: (303) 492-2844 E-mail: martin@boulder.colorado.edu Elizabeth Hinkelman Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Tel: (312) 702-8887 Fax: (312) 702-0775 E-mail: eliz@tira.uchicago.edu From: rsiemens@epas.utoronto.ca (Ray Siemens) Subject: Re: 5.0492 N&Q: Volkswriter; Internet; Mac Mail S/W ... (4/96) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1991 08:00:04 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1006 (1191) In response to Michael Rodemar's inquiry regarding computers in literature, an interesting figure to look into might be Kurt Vonnegut who, according to information in his biography and, I believe, in _Palm Sunday_, worked with or had contact with an early project to use computers to analyse literary texts. I also think he wrote a story or two in which a computer wishes to emote (the basis, as I recall, for a movie called _Electric Dreams_). Hope this helps, Ray Siemens. From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Re: 5.0492 N&Q: Volkswriter; Internet; Mac Mail S/W ... (4/96) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1991 08:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1007 (1192) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1008 (1193) [deleted quotation] The scope of Michael Rodemer's request isn't clear. By including Andrew Greeley, he seems to be including popular culture, but by excluding robots and science fiction he is excluding some of the major influences on the computer motif in American culture. Asimov's (and can you get more popular culture than that) laws of robotics have become something of a cultural assumption in literature that deals with robots and, tangentially, with computer behavior. The idea of the all-knowing computer run amok shows up particularly in novel/films like _The Forbin Project_ and an Alan Arkin film, whose title escapes me for the moment, dealing with a city whose computer controls and makes miserable the character Arkin plays. One can't ignore such sf delights as John Boyd's _The Rakehells of Heaven_ in which the god of a world of loosely confederated underground universities is a computer referred to as "dean" and operated by a janitor named Bobo. Another major influence on the popular concept of intelligent automata Lem's writing, including _The Cyberiad_. Granted his work is read in America in translation from Polish, but the influence crosses such borders, as is also, and even more obviously, the case with Karl Capek's work. Once popular culture is admitted to the scope of the study, and I don't see how it can be left out, sf and robots are inextricable from the topic. Herb Stahlke Professor of English Associate Director University Computing Services Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306 From: Sheizaf Rafaeli 02-827676 (Israel) Subject: Hypertext, nonlinearity, and innovation Date: 4 December 91, 14:17:34 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1009 (1194) Picking up Willard's gauntlet on hypertext's innovation: Of course hypertext doesn't invent nonlinearity. Such existed long before. But even earlier examples, which precede hypertext, have worries of form and technique. For example, all multilingual texts are nonlinear, almost by definition. I find, for an example of this example, when teaching programming to people who write notes in Hebrew, that they deal much better with incorporating (right- to-left) notes and documentation in (left-to-right) code. Documenting code in more 'linear', same-direction language, is tougher. A much more ancient example is Jewish religious commentary. Here, too, the FORM of publishing ongoing commentary, becomes an issue. The Hebrew expression "EHAD MIKRA USHNAYIM TARGUM" ("one original, and two translations") is actually shorthand for a boilerplate, nonlinear, very popular form of publishing. I, too, would love to see the list Willard teases us with. I submit that the two examples above, as well as what he may have on his list, are single occasions of deviation from linearity. Hypertext, on the other hand, is a framework that removes the shackles of linearity. Hypertext exposes and proposes, while the examples only dispose. I wish to repeat a point I made two years ago, as part of a different discussion on HUMANIST. I believe one of the strongest promises made by hypertext, yet unfulfilled, is a democratizing of the expression process. The challenge in using hypertext should emphasize the authoring aspect. I use a simple authoring tool to let my students restructure hypertexts. The purpose is to experience the richness involved in structure, even when the text itself is fixed. The definition of nodes, overlaps, and links turns into an enriching exercise in the structure of content, and its dynamics. Who says the standard can't be EHAD MIKRA USHLOSHA TARGUM ("one origin, and three translations")? From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: Mac Mail S/W ... (4/96) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 20:13:34 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1010 (1195) [deleted quotation] Michael, you can use EUDORA, an excellent program written by Steve Dorner at the University of Illinois. I believe it is available for anonymous ftp at one of our sites, most likely UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU Look in the pub/pc directory. There should be a few subdirectories within that for the MAC. Just type ls eud* to see if there is a listing. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll track it down for you. Regards, Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0492 N&Q: Volkswriter; Internet; Mac Mail S/W ... (4/96) Date: Tue, 03 Dec 91 18:17 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1011 (1196) If you want to do this via email, we at ucla use Yale U's Tin Can, which is the access to BEN the mail system on the IBM 3036. It is free; the IBM folks use Y something Y-term. Kessler@ucla From: dene grigarFINED Subject: Re: 5.0489 N&Q: Greek Dictionary Date: Wed, 04 Dec 91 15:34:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1012 (1197) I too would like information concerning an electronic Greek dictionary. If you are able to locate one, please let me know. Dene aca102@UTDallas.bitnet From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0491 Rs: Fonts; Quote; Hypertext Software (3/94) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1991 14:29 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1013 (1198) Re Frederick II, Voltaire and German: The most fun "statement" about what Voltaire thought about German is his use of the language (or misuse, certainly NOT abuse!) in {Candide}. Also when one reads the French of various German princesses (and sundry) which they seem largely to have written phonetically (in their letters), one can see [hear] that their French sounded -- not so strangely -- like German! Anyway, which would a horse prefer: French or German? Bob Dawson UTx-Austin From: Sean_M_CARTON@umail.umd.edu (sc90) Subject: Hypertext and Literary Production Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 09:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1014 (1199) I'm not sure if this is the format for sending Humanist requests for information, but I'll give it a try... I am currently working on a master's thesis which examines poststructuralist thought, hypermedia, and the production of new texts. While I find the discussion of using hypermedia for teaching and research interesting, I am mainly concerned with the uses of hypermedia technology for the production of art rather than the exploration/criticism/interpretation of it. What I would like to know is if anyone knows of any works of "hyperpoetry" or "hyperliterature" that exist, and, if so, where I can find them. I do not want to limit my inquiry to simply "textual" based pieces, but, as anyone who has examined this tack knows, we really don't have a vocabulary for dealing with these art(ifact)s yet. Is anyone out there dealing with these same issues? If so, I'd be interested in any works-in-progress (or finished pieces, for that matter) that I could read. Sean Carton University of Maryland, at College Park Rm 3118 College Park, MD 20742 sc90@umail.umd.edu From: slatin@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0499 Rs: Hypertext Date: 05 Dec 91 11:11:46 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1015 (1200) About hypertext: it seems to me a red herring to worry abou;whether or not hypertext invented linearity-- of course it didn't. But so what? There's surely a difference between a medium that makes multiple lines of thought more or less immediately visible, and a medium which requires that readers construct such lines in the privacy of their own minds, offering no place to put them or display them. I come more and more to agree with Stuart Moulthrop, who says that hypertext isn't non-linear or non-sequential, but rather multi-sequential. From: Jacques Julien Subject: Hypertexte Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 14:11:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1016 (1201) concept, pour le moment. Aussi seduisante que soit l'idee, il nous manque les instruments de base pour la mettre en pratique. L'achat des equipements et des la gestion des ressources sont de premiere importance. Malheureusement, les decisions dans ce domaine sont souvent prises par des administrateurs qui n'ont pas en vue l'usage pratique que les utilisateurs pourront en faire. J'en donne deux exemples. L'an dernier, je me suis interesse a creer une banque de donnees multimediatique sur la culture canadienne-francaise. Mes references etaient CULTURE 1.0 de Walter Reinhold et le projet canadien JEAN-TALON. Celui-ci etait tres ambitieux et devait permettre aux utilisateurs de puiser dans les ressources phenomenales accumules par les ministeres du gouvernement fed- eral. Apres quelques echanges epistolaires avec les responsables, il m'est apparu: 1) que le projet s'embourbait dans les meandres de la bureaucratie. On en etait alors au troisieme niveau d'etude de faisabilite et rien n'etait encore assure a propos de la realisa- tion effective du projet; 2) les questions de format des donnees a acquerir et du support a mettre en marche paraissaient quasi insurmontables. A mon universite, on annonce recemment l'acces sur au systeme CLARINET, qui offre aussi une foule d'information. Cet acces est toutefois reserve (pour le moment, je suppose) aux utilisateurs d'UNIX, alors que la majorite des clients sont sur VAX/VMS. En- fin, pour la conception pratique de didacticiels, les concepteurs doivent travailler avec des micro-ordinateurs (MAC ou IBM) aux- quels les etudiants on acces. L'information disponible sur le systeme centrale est donc inutilisable, a toute fin pratique, sur les micro-ordinateurs. L'achat de disques compacts (CD ROM) alors ne serait-il pas pr©f©rable? Oui, mais ë la condition que des produits soient disponibles sur le marche... Dernier point: l'etablissement d'une certaine koine, une langue de communication commune qui permette une transition de la recherche aux applications pedagogiques. TACT est un bon exemple, puisqu'il est disponible pour les etudiants aussi bien que pour la recherche. NOTA BENE, par contre, merveilleux pour la recher- che et l'ecriture, doit ceder la place a l'infame WORD PERFECT quand il s'agit des installations de reseaux. Bref (et je m'excuse d'avoir ete si long) comment vaincre con- cretement les barrieres de materiel et de logiciel qui permet- tront des realisations pratiques du concept si seduisant d'hypertexte? Jacques Julien From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB Subject: Computers and literature, continued. Date: 4 December 1991, 18:38:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1017 (1202) One shouldn't forget the obvious, Arthur Clarke, in {2001}. Way back beyond that was a sci-fi/horror book called {Donovan's Brain} by Curt Siodmak, which gave a horrifying picture of what might happen if one fed a disembodied, not-quite-artificial intelligence. Roy Flannagan From: Marcus Smith Subject: Re: 5.0498 Rs: Computers in Literature Date: Wed, 04 Dec 91 19:20:49 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1018 (1203) An interesting and possible useful essay is Thomas Pynchon's "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?" NY Times Book Review, October 28, 1984, 1, 40-41. Pynchon's fiction is also conscious of computers and their impact on late twentieth c. life. Sounds like an interesting project. Good luck. From: Joseph Raben Subject: Vonnegut's experience with computers Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 09:40:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1019 (1204) Rather than analyzing literature, the computer that Vonnegut writes about was supposed to record on tape the operations of a mechanic running a lathe. He actually saw this while working in a plant in upstate New York (Westinghouse? GE?). That experience is the kernel of _Player Piano_, which develops into a general attack on corporate America, corporate academia, and American society in general. From: jsgor@conncoll.bitnet Subject: Computers in Literature Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 10:07:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1020 (1205) Computers in literature: Michael Rodemer might want to take a look at Russell Hoban's "Riddley Walker" and its memories of a "Puter Leat." I don't know whether a post-nuclear-holocaust novel counts as science fiction or not. Best, John Gordon From: "DAVID STUEHLER" Subject: Director of Instructional and Research Computing Date: November 12, 1991 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 502 (1206) Title/Rank: Director of Instructional and Research Computing Department: Academic Affairs; Reporting to the Provost Description: Reporting to the Provost, the Director will lead the Instructional and Research Computing Group within the campus computing organization; manage all academic computing laboratories on campus; direct instructional development/curriculum planning support activities; provide consultation and programming support for research activities. The College currently has a networked environment including PCs, Macintoshes, and workstations, connected to a VAX cluster and the Internet. Qualifications: Doctorate or equivalent in an academic field preferred. Firm grounding in computing software and hardware in an academic environment required. Familiarity with several of the platforms currently installed at the College required. Demonstrated leadership experience highly desirable. Salary Range: $49,000 $71,000Negotiable to: $56,790 Starting Date: April 1st (Negotiable) Send letter, Resume to Dr. Richard Wolfson, Chairperson Search Committee for Director of Instructional and Research Computing, Montclair State College Box C316 V-76 Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Apply by January 14th, 1992 In addition to a cover letter and resume please include the names of three references. _____________________________________________________________________ ______ Job Description Title: DIRECTOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL AND RESEARCH COMPUTING Description: Reporting to the Provost, the Director will lead the Instructional and Research Computing Group within the campus computing organization; manage all academic computing laboratories on campus; direct instructional development/curriculum planning support activities; provide consultation and programming support for research activities. The College currently has a networked environment including PCs, Macintoshes, and workstations, connected to a VAX cluster and the Internet. Duties: 1. Organize, plan and direct the activities of the Instructional and Research Computing group; establish goals, plans and work programs; develop unit policies and procedures in accordance with academic priorities and college policies. 2. Supervise the staff of the Instructional and Research Computing group and the support personnel in the academic laboratories. 3. Participate in the development of college short and long term plans as it relates to instructional and research computing. 4. Serve as an advocate for academic computing by stimulating and facilitating the use of computers by faculty and students across disciplines. 5. Provide leadership for the academic community in the identification and purchase of mainframe and microcomputer software. 6. Provide support for the integration of the computer into the curriculum and the development of curricula which make more effective use of the computer by arranging for the demonstration of innovative hardware and software options to appropriate constituencies and coordinating on-campus training classes, seminars or meetings. 7. Provide consultation/programming support for the application of mainframe and microcomputer techniques to research activities such as data collection and analysis and interfacing with laboratory equipment. 8. Disseminate relevant information, plans, and recommendations to appropriate academic constituencies on workshops, seminars and conferences as well as information on general campus computing concerns. 9. Provide for the representation of the college at computing related conferences, seminars or meetings relating to the integration of the computer into the curriculum, the productivity of the professorate or the use of computers as a research tool. 10. Establish and maintain effective communication and cooperative relationships with college administrators, faculty, staff, government and private agency representatives and vendors in order to accomplish the objectives of the Instructional and Research Computing group. This includes the coordination of hardware and software direct purchase plans and site licences. 11. Serve on ad hoc and standing committees related to the use of computers in the curriculum and research as required including the Academic Computing Committee of the College Senate. 12. Interpret applicable Federal and State laws and advise on steps necessary for compliance. 13. Conduct and prepare appropriate studies and reports. 14. Provide for system maintenance of academic software on shared VAX and Sun facilities. 15. Coordinate the maintenance/repair program as it relates to academic equipment. 16. Serve as an advocate for academic computing in discussions with the Assistant Vice-President for Information Services during administrative planning sessions and meetings. 17. Coordinate and facilitate faculty connections to MSCnet. 18. Other duties as assigned. From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169) Subject: Icons Date: Wed, 04 Dec 91 20:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1021 (1207) A colleague who works in Byzantine art history is interested in all uses of the word icon. She would like to know exactly who started using it for computer "icons", and when and precisely why (is it just a cute word for "picture," or is there more to it?). Can anyone help? From: Gina Greco Subject: Renaut de Beaujeu electronic texts Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 14:06:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1022 (1208) A few weeks (or months) back someone inquired about machine-readable versions of texts by Renaut de Beaujeu. I have just learned of one such text: a friend has keyed in Le Bel Inconnu in WordPerfect. It has typos, but she is willing to share it. She has no Email address, but can be contacted at: Debora Schwartz 955 East Southern Ave., Apt. 257 Tempe, AZ 85202 (602)752-1721 I hope that this can still be of help. Gina L. Greco From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0493 Survey re Lesbian and Gay Faculty (1/54) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1991 16:12:10 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1023 (1209) I suspect you're going to get a lot of flak over this one! (if anyone still remembers what flak is...) Personally I can't think of many reasons why anyone should want to do a survey like this, or why they should expect any of us to be the "informants", and I think they owe us at least the courtesy of giving some indication of why they want the information and to what use it'll be put. That's quite apart from the problem of how reliable any of it is going to be: to me it looks like an invitation to rumor-monger. If someone is doing a piece of academic research, that's one thing (though you can't tell much from the information requested); if it's going to somewhere that intends to turn down requests for funding from any university department, one of whose members thinks that over 30% of his/her peers are gay, that's another. Etc. etc: I'm sure everyone gets the idea. I shall now sit back and enjoy watching the other sparks fly... Judy Koren, Haifa From: Skip Knox Subject: Re: 5.0493 Survey re Lesbian and Gay Faculty (1/54) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 08:17:24 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1024 (1210) I can hardly believe that you are asking me to gossip about my colleagues in the flimsy disguise of a survey. A person's sexual habits are his or her own; they are none of your damned business nor mine. Moreover, this pseudo-survey will tell you nothing more than the respondents' _perceptions_ about their co-workers. Ellis 'Skip' Knox Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University dusknox@idbsu.idbsu.edu From: Mark Olsen Subject: ARTFL News Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 15:22:43 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 505 (1211) The ARTFL Project Newsletter Volume 7, Number 1 - Winter 1991-92 American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language ARTFL is a cooperative project between: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique The University of Chicago ARTFL Preparing CD-Rom of Database: Consortium Members to Receive Copies With the completion of a new compact disk version of the Tre'sor de la Langue Franc+aise database, ARTFL will soon become available to run locally at any of our subscrib- ing institutions. With support from the Scaler Foundation, ARTFL is developing a CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory) which combines a copy of the database and access software. All members of the ARTFL consortium will be eligible to receive the CD-ROM, which can run on any computer with UNIX capabilities. The CD-ROM will allow ARTFL subscribers to conduct sim- ple database queries locally, eliminating the need to use Internet or a long-distance phone link. The ARTFL Project in Chicago will continue to provide institutional support, as well as more sophisticated text analysis capabilities. The ARTFL CD-ROM will contain all of the texts in the database that are exempt from copyright restrictions (gen- erally pre-1925), along with complete indices. The search engine and interface software will run on a variety of UNIX workstations, including SUN SPARCStations and NeXT comput- ers. The CD version of the data base has required modifica- tions to the existing system: a new index structure appropriate to the compact disc; compression of both the indices and the data to fit the CD; and the development of a high speed decoder. The texts alone take up 750 megabytes with the current indices taking about 300 megabytes. We have been able to compress the texts to about 225 megabytes using a new data compression technology developed by Drs. Book- stein and Klein at the Center for Information and Language (CILS) of the University of Chicago. The ARTFL CD-ROM will be provided as part of institu- tional subscriptions under a license agreement. ARTFL is not able to sell the CD to institutions or individual users. Release of the disc is planned for early 1992. December 5, 1991 - 2 - French Ambassador Visits ARTFL In November 1990, M. Jacques Andreani, French Ambassa- dor to the United States, visited the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. M. Andreani and his wife received a tour of the ARTFL facilities from Professor Robert Mor- rissey, who described the Project's continuing expansion of research services. Professor Morrissey also demonstrated the PhiloLogic system, showing how he is using the Tre'sor de la Langue Franc+aise in his current work on the image of Charlemagne in French literature. ARTFL also wishes to acknowledge a generous gift from M. Daniel Ollivier, attache' culturel at the Consulate Gen- eral of France in Chicago, to support ARTFL's efforts to stimulate interest in French culture and language. As the result of collaboration between the University of Chicago and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, ARTFL has received invaluable moral and financial backing from the French government. We deeply appreciate these contributions. NEH Grant Supports Corpus Revision What? The first chapter of L'Etranger has no para- graphs? Oh! The ARTFL people just didn't put them in! At some time or another, most ARTFL subscribers have probably been frustrated by the formatting limitations of the texts on the database: no indication of paragraph breaks, obvious spelling errors, at times no differentiation between speech and stage directions in theatrical texts...in the first years after the database was released for use by American universities, users gradually identified numerous formatting and accuracy problems. Since the database was originally collected for the creation of a dictionary in the 1960's, many of the formatting and coding conventions used for full text retrieval were not included. Now, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, ARTFL has begun to systematically correct many of these problems, and will continue making corrections until the entire data- base has been reviewed for errors. The Corpus Revision project is a process of re-viewing each text on the database for a number of possible correc- tions and additions. Areas being addressed include: 1.) spelling, typographic, and other lexical errors; 2.) addition of markers for breaks between sentences and paragraphs; December 5, 1991 - 3 - 3.) for theatrical texts, markers to distinguish speaker shifts and stage directions from spoken text; 4.) for verse texts, markers to distinguish individual poems within large poetry collections. While the database endeavors to supply researchers with completely accurate textual and linguistic samples, ARTFL has been hindered by deficiencies stemming from the initial stages of the database's development. We needed a large grant in order to make corrections consistently across the entire database, and in May 1990 we received that support in the form of a $180,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. With the assistance and close collaboration of the Institut Nationale de la Langue Franc+aise in Nancy and Paris, ARTFL has begun correcting the spelling and for- mat of all 1760 texts in the Tre'sor de la Langue Franc+aise corpus. The support from the NEH will result in signifi- cantly more accurate and useful data for researchers in North America and in Europe. In the summer of 1990, the projected three-year project began with a three-month preparation period, during which software was developed to perform automatic revisions, a computer based revision, control, and back-up system was implemented, and finally a local administration was esta- blished which oversees procedures, training, and text acquisition. When the preparation period was completed, ARTFL staff members were trained in using the revision pro- grams, and their preliminary editing experimentation led to several improvements in the software. At the same time, the editing software as originally conceived for prose texts was adapted for theater and verse texts. Staff members have resolved the areas of difficulty outlined above, as well as other less apparent problems specific to certain texts, using computerized revision software along with a systematic procedure of manual review. In order to verify that the format of each computerized text accurately reflects the format of the text in its printed- book manifestation, staff members have made the effort to check the computerized text against the same printed edition that was originally used to enter the text into the data- base. In this way, we ensure that the texts' formats are consistent with each other and with an identifiable printed edition. ARTFL staff members have now begun editing in earnest, starting with the simplest material (20th century prose works), and working back to earlier, more problematic texts. So far in 1991, ARTFL editors have completed revision of over 300 texts, including the majority of 20th century prose works and a good portion of 20th century theater. It is expected that the revision project will be completed within December 5, 1991 - 4 - three years. Subscribers should note that ARTFL's research availa- bility will not be affected by the database upgrade project. In addition, the texts currently accessible to ARTFL sub- scribers will reflect no revisions until later in the pro- ject, when the corrected copies of the texts can replace the current versions of the texts in large, systematically determined groups. Besanc+on Corpus Added to Database They entered thousands of French texts, and no Racine?! Some of the specific authors and works that are still not represented on the database cause just as much amazement among users as the number of texts to which the database does allow access. But now many of these obvious lacunae in the database will be filled with the addition of the Besanc+on corpus, a group of 147 texts featuring, among oth- ers, the complete works of Racine, Corneille and Molie`re. This new corpus will vastly expand our holdings from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as adding a few impor- tant works from the 19th and 20th centuries. The majority of this material has been included in the ARTFL CD-ROM, to be released this winter, and will be incorporated in the Chicago database in the Spring. After reformatting and extensive editing, they are now ready to be added to the database. Scholars of the 17th century will be delighted to have access to the complete plays of Corneille, Racine and Molie`re, as well as works by De Viau, Mairet, Schelandre, Tristan L'Hermite, Rotrou, and Madame de Lafayette. Those interested in the 16th century will now have access to a selection of texts by Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Ron- sard, Garnier, Des Massures, Sce`ve and d'Aubigne'. The Besanc+on corpus also contains texts that round out present holdings in 19th and 20th century poetry and prose. These include works by Hugo, Gautier, Nerval, Mallarme', Baudelaire, Verlaine, Apollinare, and Camus, among others. Preparing usable versions of the texts demanded a major effort from the ARTFL staff. The Besanc+on corpus was developed independently from the rest of the database, and so its format was different in many respects, and thus not immediately compatible with our searching software. In 1988, work began in Chicago to restructure the data so that it would conform to the format of the rest of the texts on the database. Each of the 147 works required individual December 5, 1991 - 5 - treatment; depending on the state of the individual text, the ARTFL staff would have to add page numbers, chapter headings, scene breaks, and/or capitalization for proper nouns. At present, 129 texts have been treated and are found on the ARTFL CD-ROM; we expect to have the remaining texts completed within a few months. MOPS: ARTFL by E-Mail Good news for those of you who are having problems reaching ARTFL due to incompatible network hook-ups: the ARTFL database is now accessible over Bitnet and other major computer networks through the Mail Order Philis Server (MOPS) . The system will give consortium members free access to ARTFL by electronic mail, supplementing our Philo- Logic and MacPhilo user interfaces. MOPS provides a major addition to ARTFL capabilities: unlike PhiloLogic, which runs interactively, MOPS lets users submit search requests to ARTFL by electronic mail. This eliminates the need for a link to Internet, or for expensive long-distance phone charges: thus making ARTFL available to a much wider community of users. Users can send either one or several requests at a time, following a simple procedure. (See sidebar) MOPS automatically translates each query to the ARTFL database, and the results are mailed back to the electronic address from which the original query was sent. Turn around time varies depending on network load and the number of users on the ARTFL computers, but results can typically be expected within a few hours. We have tested the system extensively during the Spring and Summer of 1991, and have been able to provide results to clients world-wide. Use of MOPS is free of charge, but you must first register with ARTFL in order to gain access to the system. There are certain limitations on searches that may be con- ducted with MOPS. It cannot handle queries producing results too large to mail as a single message; also, copy- right restrictions limit the searches that can be performed on some portions of the database. For additional information, contact ARTFL by e-mail at artfl@artfl.uchicago.edu, or by phone at (312) 702-8488. A Quick Tour of MOPS Database queries to MOPS must be written in a precise nota- tion, but we have tried to keep the format as straightfor- ward as possible. Each query must provide four pieces of December 5, 1991 - 6 - information, each listed on a separate line: (1) The name of the databaseQgenerally tlf (Tre'sor de la Langue Franc+aise). (2) The subcorpus of works you want to search. This is specified by date, author, or title. (3) The wordlist construction. This may be a single word, a range of words containing a common root, or instances where two or more words cooccur within a specified range of text. Alternatively, the user may construct a larger or more varied wordlist, according to the demands of his or her own research. (4) The output format. You can list the results as a keyword-in-context, which identifies the locations of all the word's occurrences, and displays a single line of text around the word, or in the complete sentences or paragraphs in which they appear, or by count, which simply displays the number of occurrences of the target word in your subcorpus. Here are a few examples of queries: tlf date 1820 find ami context 80 This command produces a keyword-in-context (80 characters in length) listing of all occurrences of ami in the database for the year 1820. We could also ask about the feminine and plural forms, for the whole first half of the century: tlf date (1800:1849) find (ami, amie, amis, amies) count Here we have also asked only for the number of such occurrences, rather than to see the actual text. Finally, for a more interesting example, here's how you would ask to see the text of sentences that Gide wrote containing both the words socie'te'S and franc+ais[e[s]] (in this case, the results would be returned with 5 lines of context around each occurrence): tlf author gide find societe consider sentences find (expand francais*) concordance 2 The features of MOPS are too extensive to be fully illus- trated here. In fact, they offer somewhat more flexibility than PhiloLogic itself (though not the advantage of December 5, 1991 - 7 - immediate results in an interactive format). Scaler Foundation Funds Addition of Encyclope'die In ARTFL's continuing effort to expand the holdings of the database, the latest development is a major five year grant from the Scaler Foundation that will allow us to have the entire 18th century text of Diderot's Encyclope'die ren- dered into computer-readable form and added to the database. This vast work will be an important addition to our 18th century corpus, as it is of interest to scholars of literature, history and the social sciences. Furthermore, we intend to provide access not only to the text of the Encyclope'die, but also to the illustrations (planches) that accompanied the text in the original edition. This project will therefore provide an opportunity for ARTFL to take advantage of new developments in the field of computer graphics, exploring techniques in digitized images that may also prove useful in preparing computerized versions of other French texts with a strong graphic element. The Encyclope'die project will get underway in the next year, with selection of a supervisory board and preliminary research into text encoding and image manipulation. Database Usage Up Use of the ARTFL database continued to grow in 1991. The following tables show the number of logins per month during 1990 and to September of 1991. Month Philologic Sessions Jan. 90 116 Feb. 90 133 Mar. 90 126 Apr. 90 274 May 90 195 June 90 148 July 90 126 Aug 90 130 Sep. 90 282 Oct. 90 244 Nov. 90 187 Dec. 90 112 Jan. 91 230 Feb. 91 168 Mar. 91 216 Apr. 91 288 December 5, 1991 - 8 - May. 91 249 Jun. 91 204 Jul. 91 141 Aug. 91 194 Sep. 91 163 The majority of these users are accessing ARTFL via Internet rather than long distance telephone connection. We expect to see continuing increases in usage, as access to to the database becomes easier in coming months. MOPS, the Mail Order Philis Server, will provide an electronic mail inter- face for scholars with BITNET accounts. The number of academic institutions with computers providing Internet access to humanities faculty and students continues to expand. ARTFL at the MLA Mark Olsen, Assistant Director, will be at the Modern Language Association to present a paper titled "What Can and Cannot be Done with Electronic Text in Historical and Literary Research" as part of the session "How We Do What We Do: Modeling Literary Research by Computer" (Saturday, December 28, 1:45-3:00, Potrero Hill-Telegraph Hill, Mar- riott). Mark will also be happy to give ARTFL demonstra- tions by appointment. Anyone interested in an ARTFL demons- tration should contact Mark to make an appointment: by e- mail to: mark@gide.uchicago.edu, or by phone at : 312-702- 8687. The ARTFL Project Department of Romance Languages University of Chicago 1050 East 59th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 (312) 702-8488 electronic mail: artfl@artfl.uchicago.edu December 5, 1991 From: Tom Maddox Subject: Re: 5.0501 Rs: Computers and Literature (4/44) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 16:57:53 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1025 (1212) Seeking to study computers and literature without taking science fiction into account seems to me by turns preposterous and perverse. Even given the constraint that the computers in question should be more-or-less "real world," one would have to look at sf because sf writers have consistently been more interested in actual computers and the issues surrounding them than their non-sf writer brethren. Hence I conclude that the original query was not well thought out, and I would encourage its author to rethink his position. However, if I'm wrong, and the query fairly represents a research proposal, I'd like to hear more about it because it does seem so wrong-headed. (Disclaimer: I'm a science fiction writer who's done a fair amount of writing about computers.) From: WATTS@BUTLERU.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0501 Rs: Computers and Literature (4/44) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1991 21:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1026 (1213) P.D. James's most recent mystery novel, _Devices and Desires_, gives a fairly prominent place to computers. The computer system at the local nuclear power station is under attack by a virus apparently launched by anti-nuclear activists. Bill Watts Butler University (watts@butleru) From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Computers and Literature Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 00:18:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1027 (1214) If we're on to Vonnegut and *Player Piano*, we're into SF and the field is suddenly enormous. The story about the thinking computer that is most succinctly poignant from Vonnegut is "EPICAC" in *Welcome to the Monkey House*, a story in which a poetry writing computer falls in love. One of the classics is Heinlein's *The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress* in which a computer awakens to consciousness and effectively runs a space opera version of the American Revolution. But the machine is ultimately by its own existence a threat to the party it supports and it disappears (whether voluntarily or not is left inexplicit). The computers often turn out nowadays to be gods of sorts, as in Varley's *Millennium*, although, as in Pohl's *Man Plus*, the god is not necessarily benevolent. Michael Rodemer, is this the sort of material you're after? Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: slatin@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0501 Rs: Computers and Literature (4/44) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 08:39:21 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1028 (1215) I've missed the initial round of messages on this one, but you might want to look at William Gibson & Bruce Sterling, The Difference Engine (1991), a novel whose premise is that Babbage's Difference Engine was a huge success and made an enormous, um, difference in the world. Pardon if I'm repeating an earlier suggestion. From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: computers in literature Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 11:25:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1029 (1216) In response to Michael Roedemer question about computers in literary works, I am sure he remembers Umberto Eco's IL PENDOLO DI FOUCAULT. Godd luck in this groundbreaking research. Christian Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: nearo01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Rodemer) Subject: macMail s/w for modems Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 02:39:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1030 (1217) many thanks for the helpful replies to my queries about computers in literature and e-mail software for the Mac. Re: the latter, I have been informed by a friend who has tried it out that the EUDORA software works only on ethernet hook-ups. Could anyone suggest s/w with which to automate e-mail use via a modem? Thanks! Michael Rodemer rodemer@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: dpatterson@Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA (DIANA PATTERSON) Subject: Software for Drills in Grammar Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 08:36:23 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1031 (1218) We at Mt Royal College have been trying to use computers as part of composition courses. We end up being Word Processing teachers. Most of us would like to put the computers to better use: viz, using them to make up for the last of drilling in grammar so frequent in the modern student. Can anyone recommend a _good_ grammar drill program: preferably for IBM PC or VAX (VMS), although Macintosh is possible, but less available to the non-graphic composition courses ???? We have put into practice a policy of correctness, and now hand out Ds to any student with five of these errors (hence these are the ones we want to drill): 1. sentence fragments 2. comma splices 3. run-on sentences 4. pronoun disagreement 5. subject/verb disagreement. So far noe of the programs we have looked at deal with with these in long sentences, especially with clauses in apposition. Many thanks for any help! Diana Patterson DPatterson@Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA From: kevin harrigan f Subject: collaborator Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 11:19:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1032 (1219) I am trying to locate the following software package. I have the promotional literature from the vendor which I received about a year or more ago but the company no longer exists at the given address or telephone number. Does anyone know anything about this company or software package? Here is what I have: The package is an expert system called "Collaborator". It is an expert system based on Aristotle's Six Elements of Drama. It was to be available in late 1989. The company is called POP and is a subsiduary of Frankie Corporation Phone: (213) 398-3771 Fax: (213) 398-0174 Address: 3021 Airport Ave #112, Santa Monica, California, 90405 The company developes other packages including: Director DocuComp The Production Manager PostCard Edit Lister MacMovie Forms ----------------------------------------------- Kevin Harrigan Assistant Professor Dept. of Physics and Computing Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5 From: Subject: Hispanic Culture Conference, please post. Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1991 22:01 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1033 (1220) CALL FOR PAPERS RIO GRANDE RESEARCH GROUP FOR LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS VI ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPANISH TOPIC: HISPANIC CULTURE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN EDINBURG, TEXAS APRIL 16-18, 1992 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: PROFESSOR DJELAL KADIR "CULTURE: HISPANIC, HERPANIC, THEIRPANIC" PAPERS ARE INVITED ON TOPICS RELATED TO ANY ASPECTS OF HISPANIC CULTURE AND INCLUDE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: -HISTORY OF SPAIN -SPANISH-AMERICA -THE CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD -CIVILIZATION DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD IN NEW SPAIN: ART, MUSIC, LITERATURE -THE EARLY SETTLERS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES -EARLY RANCHOS AND HACIENDAS IN TEJANO COMMUNITIES -THE SEPHARDIC JEWISH CULTURAL CONTRIBUTION AND PRESENCE -CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY THE INDIANS, SPANIARDS, AND PRESENT DAY MEXICAN-AMERICANS PAPERS MUST ADDRESS THE MAIN TOPIC OF HISPANIC CULTURE IN ITS DIVERS MANIFESTATIONS. PERSONS INTERESTED IN PRESENTING A PAPER SHOULD SUBMIT A ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT BEFORE MARCH 10,1992 TO: Dr. Lino Garcia Jr. 1992 RGRGLL Symposium Chairman Department of Modern Languages and Literatures The University of Texas - Pan American Edinburgh, Texas 78539-2999 Tel:(512) 381-3441 Fax:(512) 381-2177 E-mail: DG3890@PANAM.BITNET From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Software for Examination by FTP Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 10:16:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1034 (1221) Our four packages for Hebrew Instruction on the IBM are now available via anonymous FTP to all teachers who wish to examine them. If you obtain the software and decide to use it for your students please contact me to arrange a license. The four are as follows: SENTENCES for Windows (for constructing various types of drills) MILIM for Windows (vocabulary drill) MILIM for DOS HEBREW VERB for DOS (verb drill) Instructions for obtaining the files from our computer are: -- FTP to vm1.spcs.umn.edu -- use userid ANONYMOUS at the appropriate prompt (a password will not be requested) -- do the command CD MAIC.192 (at this point users will have a read-only link) -- use the DIR command to get a list of files on the disk (this may be the command LS) -- use the BINARY or TYPE I command to change the transfer mode -- use the GET command to retrieve the files The syntax is GET filename.filetype (note that they are separated by a period instead of the usual space) -- use the QUIT command when done The four main files are "zipped". Two are self extracting EXE files. Two are plain zipped files. PKUNZIP.EXE is on the disk and may be obtained the same way if you need it. Instructions are in a separate file on the disk. There is no support for examination copies of the software or for FTP transfer assistance. We hope this proves useful to the language instruction community. Tzvee Zahavy *************************************************************** Bitnet: MAIC@UMINN1 Internet: MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU Land-Mail: University of Minnesota, Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, 316 Folwell Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455 ÿÿ: From: Tom Maddox Subject: Re: 5.0500 On Hypertext (3/96) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 91 16:52:06 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1035 (1222) As I got some very helpful replies to my own questions about existing hypertext, let me offer the following: for poetry, William Dickey has some extremely interesting work done in Hypercard--he used to be on this list, I believe; if he does not pop up, send me e-mail, and I'll tell you how to get in touch with him; for fiction, Michael Joyce's "Afternoon" is available as a self-contained Storyspace reader from Eastgate in Cambridge, Mass--damn, I thought I had their address and phone number here, but I don't--they also publish some other hyperfiction and non-fiction; also, a journal called _Writing on the Edge_ did a special issue that includes hypertexts and hypercritical (if you see what I mean) responses--very much worth looking at, if you're interested in literary issues surrounding hypertext (in which case you should also look at Delany and Landow, _Hypermedia and Literary Studies_, MIT Press, 1990). If anyone is interested, I'll follow up with some addresses; unless, that is, someone else picks up this particular ball and does something with it. From: slatin@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0500 On Hypertext (3/96) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 08:53:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1036 (1223) Sean Carton asks about hypertext/hypermedia fiction, poetry, etc.: Eastgate Systems, in Cambridge (Mass.), publishers of StorySpace (the Mac hypertext package), also publishes hypertext fictions, including, e.g., Michael Joyce's _Afternoon_. You might contact Joyce directly-- he's at the Center for Narrative and Technology, Jackson Community College, Jackson MI; Stuart Moulthrop, now at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, has been doing some interesting work on hypertext in both theory and practice, as has Jay David Bolter, author of _Writing Space_ (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991); Bolter is also at Georgia Tech. John McDaid at NYIT has been working for years on a hypermedia fiction. The Spring 1991 issue of Writing on the Edge includes a section on hypertext (guest-edited by Moulthrop) and including a couple of hypertext fictions. From: CC017106@BROWNVM Subject: The Questionable Survey Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 10:01:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1037 (1224) Regarding the survey on gays and lesbians in academia, I too had serious misgivings, which I shared personal with Lcrew@andromeda, and those misgivings are not laid to rest. As I read the survey, and memory may be failing me, since I don't have it in front of me, it didn't ask for how many gays/lesbians are there in academia, rather how many so-called 'outs' were. These would be individuals who are presumably completely public about their sexual preferences . (And I agree with the criticism, "so what--what is the relevance to one's teaching,etc.?") Thus, it was with surprise that questions concerning the likelihood of ones knowledge being accurate followed. What could be the bearing of such a question in this case? Don Keefer Rhode Island School of Design From: Eric Rabkin Subject: 5.0503 N&Qs: Icons; Renaut de Beaujeu e-texts (2/24) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 00:29:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1038 (1225) [deleted quotation]In "Sophist" 235b et seq Plato has Socrates distinguish between the making of copies exact in all proportions, colors, etc., which are called icons, and semblances which *appear* to be the things represented but are not actually identical to them and are called phantasms. This couple of pp I find a fascinating introduction to the difficulties underlying so many discussions of representation and imitation. I presume the worship of icons (Russian Orthodox, for example, not Silicon Valley Low Church) rests on the notion that the icon is somehow perfect and not fantasmagorical--or even metaphorical. In that usage, then, computer icons are misnamed. A cute picture of an ashcan is not a memory wipe. ESRABKIN@UMICHUMEric Rabkin From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: "Icon" Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1991 15:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1039 (1226) According to _The_Roots_of_English_ by Robert Claiborne (p. 257), the term "Icon" is derived from the root "Weik" (in see root: Weik-3). The exact entry reads: WEIK-3, to be like, whence Gk eikon, image, whence the religious IKON and ICONOCLAST who is an "image breaker" (see: Loose Cannons and Red Herrings: A Book of Lost Metaphors. New York: Norton [1988]) Hope this is what you're looking for. Jim Wilderotter Georgetown University P.S.: For those of you who are interested: Claiborne, Robert. The Roots of English. New York: Time Books (Random House Books) [1989] From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: Greek Dictionary Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 14:49:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1040 (1227) Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but to my knowledge the only e-version of a dictionary for ancient Greek is the one that is part of the Perseus project being developed at Harvard. As many Humanist subscribers are no doubt aware this is a hypetext project comprising texts of Greek works, translations of these works, archaeological drawings, photogaphs of sites, and so on. The intermediate Liddell-Scott lexicon, which has no copyright restrictions, is also included. Whether it would save any time over flipping pages is not something I can answer. Dirk t.D.Held, Connecticut College. From: Rex Clark Subject: Re: Mac Mail S/W Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1991 12:39:17 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1041 (1228) Just to set the record straight, Eudora does work with modems and other serial connections, as well as with network connections. It is a well-implemented program with lots of features for using email on the Mac. It is better than many commercial programs I've seen. Rex Clark University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program in Comparative Literature ----------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] System Requirements: Macintosh System 6.0.4 or later. (7.0 is fine.) MacTCP (or the Communications Toolbox & Communications Tools) POP3 and SMTP servers. Copies of Eudora may be obtained by anonymous ftp to ftp.cso.uiuc.edu, in the mac/eudora subdirectory. Copies are also available from the CSO Resource Center, 1420 DCL MC 256, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801, (217) 244-6261. The disks and manual may also be ordered by mail; just send a check for $15. If you have suggestions or comments regarding Eudora, please send them by electronic mail to the author of Eudora, Steve Dorner, s-dorner@uiuc.edu. Your suggestions are valuable, so don't be reticent. If you have questions about Eudora, do try the manual and Q&A stacks first; if they fail you, let me know. I *always* answer my mail; if you send me mail and don't hear from me, it's because I couldn't get mail back to you. Eudora is free for you to use. From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: RE:5.0507 Qs: MacMail; Date: Sat, 7 Dec 91 13:35:03 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1042 (1229) Michael, any standard communications software package on the MAC which allows you to write scripts (little programs within the communications program) will let you automate your email. You can customize those programs to do just about anything you like, although a little work on your part will be required. Regards Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: bobt@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bob Taylor) Subject: Re: mac s/w fpr email Date: Sun, 8 Dec 91 22:38:09 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1043 (1230) On Fri, 6 Dec 91 02:39:33 +0100, Michael Rodemer writes [deleted quotation] Actually, Eudora may be configured to be used over a network (using MacTCP) OR with a modem (using the Apple Communications Toolbox). And it is easy to switch Eudora back and forth between these two communications protocols if, for instance, you are travelling with your Mac. Potential Eudora users need to consider two demands that the program will place upon their setup, though. For one, Eudora works best on a Mac with a hard disk; it won't fit at all on a Mac with a single 800k drive; and it works only marginally well on a Mac with only a 1.4Mb floppy drive. Second, to get your mail delivered to you, Eudora needs to communicate with a UNIX machine that is running a POP (post office protocol) mailer. If your university is already running a POP mailer, it will be easy for you to follow the instructions in the Eudora help files and get Eudora working. If your university doesn't have a POP mailer running right now, but is interested in installing one, they can get a POP server for free by anonymous ftp from lilac.berkely.edu (in the pub directory). Northwestern's guru for network applications, John Norstad, wrote a "white paper" on desktop mail in a university environment last February that was circulated widely among Usenet discussion groups. Some of John's criticisms of commercial email programs are now out-of-date, but I believe that Eudora remains an excellent choice for the "standard" at many universities. If you'd like an e-mail copy of Norstad's article, drop me a note. Bob Taylor Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University bobt@nwu.edu From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 5.0507 Qs: MacMail Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1991 23:43:23 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1044 (1231) [deleted quotation] That is incorrect. Eudora works reaonably well with serial modem connection as well as network connections via ethernet boards or appletalk. Eudora is POP client software meaning that you have to have a POP server to talk to (for example on a departmental or computer center unix machine, for which public domain software is available). [POP = Post Office Protocol] Modem use does requires that you create an appropriate script to dial the number, and possibly navigate through other devices to get to the apporpriate mail server. Once set up, however, the entire process and interface is exactly the same as being on the net. For example, when I double-click on my in-box icon on the Mac at home, the software dials in, navigates a gandalf switch, a tip, the network, and logs in to our server; any new mail in my mailbox is downloaded to my Mac (& optionally deleted from from the mailbox on the server); the connection then shuts down; reading and composing is done on the Mac; when I'm ready to send off mail, a similar dial-in and navigation takes place, and outgoing messages are dropped off to be routed on the internet (outbound mail uses SMTP). The interface is fully Mac-ish, and the total connection time is very small (unless you receive a truly vast quantity of mail). A version of Eudora with a convenient scripting language added (making modem use simpler) has been developed by [Simon Fraser Univeristy, I think]. We use Eudora for both network and dial-in here routinely and find it highly satisfactory; in fact, we are giving Eudora to some campus administrators without network connections as their basic e-mail package. We provide slightly different versions customized for network or dial-in access. Eudora was developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana by Steve Dorner; it is freeware. David Bantz < d-bantz@UChicago.edu > Director, Academic & Public Computing University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745 voice: 312-702-0822 fax: 312-702-9885 From: bush@husc.harvard.edu (David Bush) Subject: National Register of Archives Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 22:56:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1045 (1232) Does anybody know whether it is possible to access the archive-report search system of the National Register of Archives, Quality Court, London, over JANET? Thanks in advance for your help. David Bush(bush@husc.harvard.edu) From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169) Subject: Sic semper tyrannis Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 22:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1046 (1233) This is the motto of the state of Virginia, and was quoted by John Wilkes Booth. Can anyone trace it back any earlier for me? Thanks, Mary Whitlock Blundell mb169@umail.umd.edu From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0509 Rs: Hypertext Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1991 12:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1047 (1234) To show my ignorance: what IS hypertext? Bob Dawson UTx From: Bill Kupersmith Subject: Goya's Naked Maja Date: Sun, 08 Dec 91 10:29 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1048 (1235) The following item appeared in THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH [London]: NAKED MAJA BANNED: A copy of Goya's painting was removed from the Penn State university, US, after a woman professor said the nude amounted to sexual harassment. (week ending Sunday, December 1, p. 12) This is the entire item, except for a photograph of the offending painting. Can anyone provide further details? --Bill Kupersmith Univ. of Iowa From: "Robert J. O'Hara" Subject: Star Trek & Gilgamesh Date: Sun, 8 Dec 91 12:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1049 (1236) TO GATHER FROM THE AIR A LIVE TRADITION What is the desire of every teacher of classical literature? Not simply to have students read ancient texts, but rather to make the texts _come alive_ in the present -- to have them fill the students' minds with language, imagery, and meaning. Anyone who shares this desire must beg, borrow, or steal a videotape of the _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ episode called "Darmok", first aired two or three months ago, and just rerun last night. I don't want to give the whole story away to those of you who may not have seen it, but it's based in part on the Epic of Gilgamesh, and is all about metaphor, narrative, and tradition. (It is also probably the first time the Great Bull of Heaven has ever appeared on television.) If you are looking for a motivational tool for beginning students of literature of any age, I doubt you could find anything better. I venture to guess that today, as you are reading this message, the cuneiform literature of ancient Sumer is alive in the minds of more people around the world than it has been since 2000 B.C., thanks to "Darmok and Gelad at Tenagra." Bob O'Hara, RJO@WISCMACC.bitnet Department of Philosophy and The Zoological Museum University of Wisconsin - Madison From: Subject: Fire and Ice Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1991 07:20 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1050 (1237) Can anyone out there give me a rather quick response as to the origin of the "fire and ice" renaissance cliche (or thus it became, so it would seem). Petrarch? Dante? Probably before. Also needed are some references among the Italian Renaissance poets. Much appreciated J. C. Maloney, University of Texas - Pan American From: battiste@cis.uab.edu (Ed Battistella) Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 15:19:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 512 (1238) COSWL ANNOUNCEMENTS At this year's Annual Meeting of the LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA (Jan. 9-12, 1992) the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics will once again sponsor a breakfast meeting to update LSA members on its current and planned activities. The COSWL breakfast will be held on the morning of January 11, from 7:30 to 9:00 AM. All LSA members--women and men--are invited to join us. Preregistration is required and the cost of the breakfast is $10 for regular members and $5 for student members. Preregistration must be received by the LSA by December 20. You can send your preregistration for the breakfast along with your LSA preregistration by checking the appropriate box on the preregistration form. This year's COSWL breakfast will be supported in part by contributions from Kluwer Academic Publishers and from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Our thanks especially to Martin Scrivener of Kluwer and to Judith Amsel of LEA. On Friday, January 10, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM, COSWL will also sponsor an open discussion on "Language Guidelines and Other Usage Issues," at which we will present proposals for usage guidelines for scholarly communication in linguistics and will invite suggestions, comments, and ideas. If you would like to obtain a copy of our current draft version, contact any COSWL member. The members of COSWL would also like to recognize and thank the current members whose terms of expiring, Ellen Broselow of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Penny Eckert of the Institute for Research on Learning, and Cari Spring of Ohio State University. We would also like to welcome our three new members: Victoria Bergvall, Lynne Murphy and Susan Steele. Coswl Members Email addresses: 1991 Chair Penny Eckert Penny_Eckert@IRL.com 1992 Co-chairs Sally McConnell-Ginet smg@cornella.cit.cornell.edu Craige Roberts croberts@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Dawn Bates atdeb@asuacad.bitnet Ed Battistella battiste@cis.uab.edu Victoria Bergvall vbergval@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu Ellen Broselow broselow@sbccvm.BITNET Lynne Murphy lynne@boas.cogsci.uiuc.edu Cari Spring spring@shs.ohio-state.edu Susan Steele steele@ccit.arizona.edu From: Dennis Baron Subject: grammar drill Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 9:20:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1051 (1239) Diana Patterson asks for a computer program in grammar drill practice, giving a list of errors which will result in Ds for her students. I myself (and I have reason to believe I am not alone) am troubled by both of these situations: a) Computers may be used as electronic workbooks, but I think this is both a wasteful expense and a way of saying you are using computers without really using them. You can't trick students into thinking that just because a fill in the blanks exercise, or whatever, is electronic it is more like Nintendo and less like the busy work tear sheets they've been getting since kindergarten. b) Grammar drill is not an effective way of elminating surface errors (agreement, punctuation, sentence faults). Electrifying and digitizing grammar drill will be similarly ineffective. c) If success in composition continues to be measured in terms of such politeness criteria as spelling and proper use of that and which (over which there is much disagreement, by the way), then student writers will continue to regard writing courses as obstacles rather than aids. Fifteen to thirty weeks of don't do this, don't do that will not improve anybody's writing. And there is a great deal of literature to support this view. d) Composition teachers have been using computers with some degree of success for almost a decade now, and there is a great deal of literature on how computer conversations among writers and audiences and instructors sets a positive tone and makes writing exciting and interactive (a byproduct of a positive attitude toward writing is often a decrease in surface structure "errors"; furthermore, it is often profitable to think of error as experimentation, chance- taking, development itself, without which good writing does not occur, electronically or with paper and pen). Our own experience is that teaching wordprocessing is a very minor thing that gets handled the first week or so and then it's on to bigger and better things. More and more of our students come to college with keyboarding skills, wordprocessing, and even their own computers, given to them when they graduate from high school the way doting relatives used to give out desk dictionaries. Sorry to fume for so long. It's been building up as I've been watching the discussion over the last few months. It's no wonder some educationist call worksheets, whether in books or on-line, drill and kill. -- debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0506 More on Computers and LIterature (5/82) Date: Fri, 06 Dec 91 15:58 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1052 (1240) I am probably one of the few who actually read through Eco's FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM, so overblown and repetitive a work is it. What was the computer theme in it? I cannot recall any of any importance. I am in correspondence with him, and wrote all about his theories of kabbalah and secret maconerries, but we dont discuss computers. the pendulum itself is scarcely a computer. Remind me/ Kessler From: Debra A. Castillo Subject: Latinos and the Environment Date: Sun, 08 Dec 91 11:43:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 514 (1241) Conference announcement Cornell University will host a conference on "Environment and the Latino Imagination" that will involve the participation of environmentalists, artists, poets, activists, and other invited speakers who will address one of the holes in mainstream environmental research--the persectives of U.S. Latinos and their ways of imagining their relationship to their environment. The conference will take place April 30-May 2, l992. Please direct inquiries to: Debra A. Castillo or Barbara Lynch Dept. Romance Studies Environmental Toxicology Goldwin Smith Hall Fernow Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 or bitnet to bgcy@cornella From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: 5.0513 Rs: Grammar; Eco, Computers and Literature (2/71) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 19:25:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1053 (1242) In his Pendule de Foucault, Eco decribes a computer named Aboulafia, at least in the french version. Michel. -- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | From: "Andrew J. Bourgeois" Subject: Re: Computer in Eco's FP Date: Mon, 09 Dec 91 19:27:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1054 (1243) "Foucault's Pendulum" (which I thoroughly enjoyed) employed a PC, nicknamed Abulafia which Diotalevi (or was it Belbo? - it's been awhile since I read it) used to generate possible conspiracy scenarios based on all the data the three characters input from a variety of sources. It was hilarious, but then I'm partially brain damaged from working with the bloody things for so long myself. -Andy From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: Foucault's Pendulum Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 08:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1055 (1244) KESSLER asked about the computer theme in Foucault's Pendulum. It's been a while since I have read the book (I read it while still in hardback), but I believe the computer was used to gather all the data that the characters could find and helped them to create all the permutations from the data as to what might have been / still was going on. The computer helped them to pinpoint all the locations of activity (in time and space) and to locate when (in the present) that the next activity was to occur. Jim Wilderotter From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0513 Rs: Grammar; Eco, Computers and Literature (2/71) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 09:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1056 (1245) RE: *Foucault's Pendulum* The computer is essential to the plot! The "author" figure deciphers his friend's discoveries on computer diskette, having had to find the password (light into his friend's mind) first. The friend's discovery of computer writing, and subsequent mania with it, is similar to that of many who become obsessed with the technology and a possible new way to express themselves. I think the computer aspect is extremely important. Leslie Morgan (MORGAN@LOYVAX) From: LS973@ALBNYVMS.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0513 Rs: Grammar; Eco, Computers and Literature (2/71) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 11:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1057 (1246) To: Kessler Re: Eco In your reading of Foucault's Pendulum you may have come across a character named Abulafia. Lorre Smith SUNY Albany "Eco Schmeco" From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: More on computers and literature Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 11:39:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1058 (1247) There is no computer theme per se in Umberto Eco's Pendulum. But there is Belbo's computer, and from the point of view of the history of ideas, this is almost a better evidence of the presence of computers in literature than a theme. Remember the first "Filename". It shows Belbo playing with his word processor which represents for him the "ars combinatoria". Page 34-35 in the original italian edition, there is a program in BASIC,; page 37-38 a rando- mization of the word "iahveh". The presence of the computer in Eco's Pendolo shows that the word processor is a not completely neutralized but standardized tool near the end of the 80s, and it may well be the start of a discussion of the _personal_ uses of computers. Christian Allegre From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: Foucault's Pendulum Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 20:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1059 (1248) As I recall, the computer in Eco's novel is named "Abulafia" and is a micro used by the three hero-conspirators for word processing as well as to create and/or organize random words or syllables as part of their Templar/Rosicrucian "scam" (which eventually becomes quite serious and destroys them). One of the disappointments of *FP* is that this subplot remains quite peripheral, unlike the library in *Name of the Rose* -- I expected otherwise from Eco! George Aichele From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Lacunology and Knut Kleve's e-address. Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 20:11:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1060 (1249) ----------------------------------------------- Knut Kleve has at least written two texts on text reconstruction in the 80's. As I can't find either of them, could any HUMANIST member who has a copy of them get in touch with me directly. Kleve Knut's texts are: - Text reconstruction, in Delatte Louis Actes du congres international Informatique et sciences humaines, Universite de Liege, 1983, 517-524. - Lacunology: on the use of computer methods in papyrology, in Symbolae Osloenses, 56, 157-170. (written with Ivar Fonnes). Would any member know Knut Kleve's e-address so that I might get into contact with him directly. Michel. -- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Academic movies Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 08:50:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1061 (1250) A bit of fluff: I have been trying to remember the title of an English (?) film concerning an English professor who did his Ph.D. on a class analysis of the novels of Beatrix Potter and spent his career hiding from graduate students, drinking, etc. This was not D.O.A. or Reuben, Reuben. Might have been a stage play first and could have starred a Tom Conti (definetely Reuben, Reuben) or an Albert Finney. It had, as I recall, a short title that might have been the character's name. Ring any bells? lorne Hammond History University of Ottawa P.S. Yes, I do think Maragret Atwood mentioned something like this in one of her early novels, but that is not the source. From: LEFORE@ZODIAC.BITNET Subject: New Holism Conference Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1991 21:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 517 (1251) MEANING HOLISM NEW SUMMER SEMINAR Directors: JERRY FODOR & ERNIE LEPORE Location: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Dates: June 29 - August 14, 1992 (seven weeks) Holism about meaning and intention content has shaped much of what is most characteristic of contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. The seminar is devoted to the question whether the individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. For example, we will discuss arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends on the entire theory that entails it, or that the content of a concept depends on the entire belief system of which it is a part. Implications of holistic semantics for other philosophical issues (intentional explanation, translation Realism, skepticism, connectionism, etc.) will also be explored. Authors to be read include Quine, Davidson, Lewis, Block, Field, Dummett, Dennett, Churchland and others. In addition, we will use Holism: a Shopper's Guide, Fodor, J. and E. LePore, 1992, Basil Blackwell. The National Endowment for the Humanities will provide a summer stipend of $3,600 for travel, book and living expenses, to those selected as participants in this seminar. Applications must be postmarked not later than 2 March, 1992. For further information and for application forms, please write to: Meaning Holism Seminar Philosophy Department Davidson Hall Douglass Campus, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (USA) From: (James Marchand) Subject: Icy Fire Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 19:13:48 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1062 (1252) You might look at Leonard Forster, The Icy Fire. Five Studies in European Petrarchism (Cambridge: University Press, 1969). ISBN 521 07495 9. He is a little too generous with his attributions to Petrarch, since he, of all people, knows better, but he writes well and offers many examples. If you are interested in Romance acyrologia, you might like my "Acyrologia as a Rhetorical Device and Mode of Thought in the Poems of Ausias March," in Estudis de llengua, literatura i cultura catalanes. Actes del Primer Col. loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-America, ed. A. Porqueras-Mayo, S.Baldwin and Jaume Marti-Olivella (Abadia de Montserrat, 1979), 183-194. The various adynata often attributed to Petrarch are for the most part ancient. Jim Marchand From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Fire and Ice Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1991 21:32:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1063 (1253) J.C. Maloney asks for a quick run-down on "fire and ice." He calls it a "cliche'," but it would be better to term it a "topos." Whenever it's invoked, the poet is attempting to describe the alternation of sensations resulting from erotic attraction. The specific contrast between fire and ice may have originated in the romance vernaculars, especially Provencal (I haven't got my sources right at hand). But the idea that love involves sharply contrasting feelings which are in constant conflict with each other is very old; see for example the famous poem of Sappho quoted by Longinus in _On the Sublime_. The ancients considered erotic mania a specifically medical problem. Much good recent work has been done on love malady as a cultural factor. Quite apart from Foucault, Vols. II and III of the _History of Sexuality_, which deal with the ethical factors surrounding love malady, see Massimo Ciavolella's fundamental study _La malattia d'amore dall'antichita` al medioevo_ (1976), his recent edition with Don Beecher of Jacques Ferrand, and especially Mary Wack's _Love-Sickness in the Middle Ages_ (1990, I think.) Both Dante and Petrarch were well acquainted with the standard view of love malady and its effects, as indeed were all the other poets of the period. Sometimes their knowledge takes the form of "cliche`s," but you can see the same material in absolutely transcendant form in a line like Dante's "cognosco i segni de l'antica fiamma" (Purg. XXX, 48), uttered to Virgil at the approach of Beatrice. Germaine Warkentin From: Dennis Baron Subject: maja eco Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 8:35:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1064 (1254) The naked maja story as reported in the _Chronicle of Higher Education_ a couple of weeks ago referred to a picture of a female nude in a classroom which the instructor found was distracting the students. She asked that it be moved to a more suitable location. As I remember the computer in Foucault's Pendulum was a PC and there was some fiddling or hacking to find the password to unlock a disk with some secret files. I read the book in a febrile state last year, which is probably the only way I can read Eco's fiction, and retained very little of it, which was also probably "a good thing." -- debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Moscow email Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 08:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1065 (1255) I will be traveling to Moscow December 14-20th under the sponsorship of IREX to consult on setting up further email contacts with scholars from the [Soviet?] Academy of Sciences. I expect to be meeting with academicians from a variety of institutes in humanities and social sciences, and trying to expedite their connection to international electronic mail. If any HUMANIST readers have suggestions of Moscow scholars/institutes with whom I should try to schedule an appointment, I'd be grateful. Thanks. Please send suggestions to me with a copy to our principal Moscow contact, Dr. Alexandra Belyaeva (abelyaeva@home.vega.msk.su). ______________________________________________________________________ Tom Benson | INTERNET: t3b@psuvm.psu.edu Dept. of Speech Communication | BITNET: T3B@PSUVM Penn State University | 227 Sparks Building | FAX: 814-863-7986 University Park, PA 16802 USA 814-238-5277 (home); 814-865-4201 (office); 814-865-3461 (secretary) ______________________________________________________________________ From: Randall Jones Subject: IPA Characters in WordPerfect? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 21:18:07 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1066 (1256) Does anyone have information about using IPA characters with WordPerfect? I am teaching a German phonetics class next semester and I need to make some handouts using special characters I do not now have available to me. Randall Jones Brigham Young University R.L. Jones From: Larry W. Hurtado Subject: indexing software query Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 10:35:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1067 (1257) On behalf of a colleague at a small college not (yet?) networked, I request any suggestions about software to use in creating a machine-readable index of periodical literature in a specific field where the literature is not already indexed. He would like to be able to search the bibliographical database by author, title, key word subject (preferably w/ boolean logic). Please send any suggestions via e-mail to the Humanist list or privately via e-mail to me, and I will pass on the info. Larry Hurtado, Religion, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3T 2N2. e-mail=hurtado@ccu.umanitoba.ca From: "_NAME MICHAEL B. PATE" <9566PATEM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Dorothy Day Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1991 13:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1068 (1258) Marquette University is preparing an electronic database of the writings of Dorothy Day (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, including her books, -Catholic Worker- newspaper articles and editorials in the period 1933-1980 and contributions to other periodicals. Day is a major figure in the history of social radicalism and advocacyvacy journalism and one of the most significant American Catholics of the twentieth century. Day's papers and other records of the Cathlic Worker movement are held by the Marquette Department of Special Collections and University Archives. We would like to hear from any individuals or groups who have and interest in Dorothy Day, her writings or the Catholic Worker movement. I would also appreciate referral to other Lists where these interests might be discussed. Respond directly to: Michael Pate Marquette University Internet: 9566PATEM@vms.csd.mu.edu Memorial Library Phone: (414) 288-7214 1415 W. Wiscsonsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53233 From: LEWIS@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU Subject: computational intelligence and non-literal language Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 14:31 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1069 (1259) Like many others, perhaps, I'm of two or three minds, at least, about artificial intelligence. I don't doubt that the intelligence of our machines will in time be brought to approximate more and more closely to our own, but I do doubt we can get there from here. Our ideas about intelligence seem paltry, our disagreements vast and profound. Stupidity, its opposite, is even more mysterious and is commonly ignored. I have never seen a clear, operational distinction between these two, apparently symbiotic aspects of mind; yet, as is now being said, how can we claim to understand artificial intelligence if we don't understand natural stupidity? Similar reflections are aroused by the recent call for papers on the use of 'computational intelligence' to elucidate relations between literal and non-literal language. I wish them well, at the journal COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, but I doubt their project will get very far. The distinction between literal and non-literal language is not clear and begins to look as if it may never be cleared up. The process, whatever it is, by which literal language is transformed into non-literal language seems not be rational or susceptible to any general formulation. I watch my students tying themselves up in knots trying to unpack or deconstruct even simple metaphors, ironies, jokes, and I know that their difficulties are not caused by a lack of method, logic or theoretical knowledge and have no technological fix. In time, if they persist, they may get the hang of it; or they may not. Some otherwise intelligent people never learn how to unpack a metaphor. Take, for example, the well known poem, "Epitaph" by Timothy Steele: "Here lies Sir Tact, a diplomatic fellow,/ Whose silence was not golden, but just yellow." The wit of these lines is not very complicated but believe it or not most of my students missed it completely, either because they had never heard of the phrase 'silence is golden' or did not remember that yellow is a metaphor for cowardice. Others failed to notice that gold and yellow are similar colors or that the connection between diplomacy cowardice is enforced by the fact that 'yellow' rhymes with 'fellow.' Some understood all the words but missed the joke. I predict that it will be a very long time before our computers outperform our students in this regard; not, it may be, until they have the capacity to learn about the world and language as we do: painfully, over time, by making stupid mistakes and being corrected. Piers Lewis From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 49 05 72 27 EISINGER at FRIBM11 Subject: Date: 11 December 91, 09:33:44 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1070 (1260) Subject : Naked Maja On the 100 french francs note, there is the "Liberte conduisant le peuple" with an open breast. This note is not accepted for change neither in Saudi Arabia nor in Iran ... Conclusion is yours. Marc From: Mikeal Parsons Subject: Computers in literature Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1991 08:11 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1071 (1261) Sorry, I missed the original posting of this topic, but I take it from subsequent responses that someone is interested in references to computers in (non-scifi?) literature. How about Updike's _Roger's Version_ which has as one of its four main characters a computer whiz religious fundamentalist who is seeking a research grant to prove the existence of God via computer Mikeal Parsons Baylor University From: jsgor@conncoll.bitnet Subject: Abulafia, movie Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 13:32:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1072 (1262) Abulafia: I haven't read "Foucault's Pendulum" and don't know whether Eco mentions this or not, but it may be of interest that the original Abulafia was Abraham Ben Samuel Abulafia, a thirteenth century Spanish Jew who proclaimed himself the Messiah. He went to Rome with this message and barely escaped being killed for it. The name appears in "Ulysses," where Eco, an ardent Joycean, may well have encountered it. Academic movie: I don't remember the Beatrix Potter detail, but otherwise this sounds a lot like "Butley," an early seventies movie (quite good, as I recall) directed by Harold Pinter and starring Alan Bates. John Gordon From: dene grigar Subject: Re: 5.0515 Rs: Foucault's Pendulum (7/97) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 17:10:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1073 (1263) I have always thought that one of the major concepts coming out of Foucault's Pendulum is "associative thinking run amok--" in other words, the idea that one cannot rely on artificial intelligence to arrive at some or any level of a truth. For this reason I thought the book extremely interesting, part- icularly since I am so attached to my Mac. From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Eco again Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 19:44:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1074 (1264) If Kessler is indeed in correspondence with Umberto Eco, I wonder if he would be kind enough to ask what Eco's reasons were for putting Lia's explanation of the real meaning of "magic numbers" in chapter 63 of _Foucalut's Pendulum_. Perhaps others on the list have thought about this, and would like an answer to the same question. Or indeed have answers themselves! Germaine Warkentin From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0515 Rs: Foucault's Pendulum (7/97) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 17:47 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1075 (1265) Yes, anjd that is why it all slipped my mind: because it is instrumental merely , whereas the substantial interest (for me) was the collocation of conspiracy t heory. How could I have forgot Ab oulafia?Gee whiz! I sure did. Spongebrain, t hat is me. But it tells us a little about the superficiality of the idea of the computer in this novel, which is no more than a search and find mechanism, mu ch like ours at UCLA's library, ORION, by name. Kessler From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 5.0515 Rs: Foucault's Pendulum (7/97) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 10:38:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1076 (1266) I found that Eco's introduction of the computer-assisted quest for the names of God rang a bell. In 1953 Arthur C. Clarke published a short story called "The Nine Billion Names of God", in which a computer (bought by a monastery in Tibet?) is assigned the task of compiling and finding all permutations of the name of God. The result of the quest was the end of everything. This puts the BASIC program in Eco in perspective as a minor exercise but the references to Judaism elsewhere in the novel do link back to the Clarke story. You might want to look at the entry for "COMPUTERS" in Peter Nicholls (wonderful) THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA. Lorne Hammond History University of Ottawa From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" Subject: conference announcement Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1991 13:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 521 (1267) Originally From: Marc Nossin Journees "LE TRAITEMENT DU LANGAGE NATUREL ET SES APPLICATIONS" associees a la conference AVIGNON 92 Longtemps reste un sujet de recherche theorique, le traitement par ordinateur du langage naturel attire depuis peu l'interet du monde des entreprises ; des techniques et outils, rassembles sous le terme de genie linguistique, se sont fait jour et des produits d'utilisation pratiques sont aujourd'hui proposes et utilises. Inaugurees en 1990, les journees specialisees dediees au traitement du langage naturel se tiendront pour la troisieme fois dans le cadre des Journees d'Avignon ; leur ambition est de reunir utilisateurs, actuels et potentiels, et promoteurs d'outils et de techniques. Les communications proposees dans ce cadre porteront soit sur des applications, soit sur des techniques. Pour les applications (TAO, interfaces avec des bases de donnees, indexation automatique,...) les auteurs devront en preciser la nature specialisee ou generique ainsi que le niveau de maturite du point de vue de l'utilisation. Pour les exposes relatifs aux outils et aux techniques, on distinguera clairement les modeles linguistiques (dialogue, representation lexicale, etc...) des techniques informatiques utilisees (automates et strategies de resolution des problemes d'analyse ou de generation). Les themes specifiques de la terminologie seront traites dans le cadre du symposium TAMA 92 (Applications Terminologiques et Microordinateurs). INSTRUCTIONS AUX AUTEURS Les propositions de communications (n'excedant pas 5000 mots, soit environ 12 pages au format 21 x 29,7) devront etre adressees en 7 exemplaires au President des Journees avant le 20 decembre 1991 a l'adresse suivante : Douziemes Journees Internationales Avignon 92, EC2, 269 rue de la Garenne, 92024 Nanterre Cedex, France. Elles devront etre accompagnees d'une fiche de renseignements comportant : - le titre de la communication et les nom et prenom de l'auteur, - son adresse, son numero de telephone et de poste, ses numeros de telex et de telecopie ou adresse "reseau" eventuels, - un resume (10 lignes environ) en francais et en anglais accompagne d'une liste de mots cles, - l'indication de l'une des categories suivantes dont releve la communication proposee : outils, techniques et methodes ou applications pour la conference scientifique, ou l'une des journees specialisees : (defense et securite civile, telecommunications et informatique, transports, materiaux, productique, banque et assurance,) traitement du langage naturel, (terminologie.) Toutes les communications recues seront soumises a la critique d'un comite scientifique international (au minimum trois lecteurs independants). Les auteurs seront prevenus de la decision de ce comite a partir du 28 fevrier 1992. Les communications retenues seront reunies dans les actes remis aux participants lors des journees. From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" Subject: conference Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 11:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 522 (1268) 5th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Keynote Speaker : Erik Sandewall, Linkoping University, Sweden 10-11th September 1992 University of Limerick, Ireland. Aims The conference brings together Irish and overseas researchers and practitioners from all areas of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The aim is to provide a forum where researchers can present their current work and where industrial and commercial users can relate this research to their own practical experience and needs. Submissions from abroad are particularly welcome and assistance with travel costs may be available for a small number of participants. Topics of Interest Papers are invited which describe substantial, original and unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, including, but not limited to: Application and Theory of Expert Systems Human-Computer Interaction Learning Natural Language Knowledge Representation Principles and Applications of Connectionism User Modelling Decision Support and Strategic Planning Robotics Speech Image Processing Format for Submission Authors should submit three copies of a complete paper, not to exceed 5000 words. The first page should comprise the title, author(s), address, phone, fax and e-mail, together with a 200 word abstract. The text of the paper should then start on the second page Schedule Papers Due: 24 April, 1992 Notification of Acceptance: 12 June 1992 Publication of Proceedings The abstracts of accepted papers will be distributed at the conference. The proceedings of previous AICS conferences have been published in the British Computer Society Workshop Series with Springer Verlag, and it is expected that those of AICS'92 will b Conference Information The University campus is situated in rolling parkland beside the river Shannon. The conference will take place in the newly built Robert Schuman building which has fully equipped lecture theatres so that workstation or PC software can easily be demonstrated, The University is easily reached by road, rail or by air - Shannon international airport is only 20kms away. Further information and registration details can be obtained by email from aics92@ul.ie or by contacting : Kevin Ryan - Conference Chairperson AICS'92 Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick Plassey Technological Park Limerick, Ireland Phone (353)-61-333644 Fax (353)-61-330316 Programme Committee Roddy Cowie, Queen's University Belfast Mark Keane, Trinity College Dublin Gabriel McDermott, University College Dublin Michael McTear, University of Ulster Abdur Rahman, University of Limerick Kevin Ryan, University of Limerick Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University Humphrey Sorensen, University College Cork Richard Sutcliffe, University of Limerick From: Subject: RE: 5.0516 Qs: Knut Kleve; Academic Movies (2/51) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 18:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1077 (1269) Could Lorne Hammond's British film be Educating Rita, with Peter O'Toole? Definitely one of my all-time favorites. Melinda Swenson, Indiana University From: green3@husc.harvard.edu Subject: movie ID Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 22:08:26 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1078 (1270) I once saw half of a movie called Educating Rita (I think it's that one) where Michael Caine plays a boozing English professor who is more or less saved for a fruitful academic life by his working-class-accented student -- sort of a Pgmalian in reverse. Could that be the one you're looking for? The only thing I remember about the computer in Foucault's Pendulum was that when the narrator turns it on the screen demands "do you know the password?", and the only to get into the files is to type "no". Maria Green From: harryfox@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Fox) Subject: Re: 5.0520 Rs: AI; Maja; Abulafia; Eco; Computers in Lit (8/137) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1991 22:47:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1079 (1271) Re the backswing of the Pendulum: But have we mentioned the Ecos of David Niven in 4 star theater (playhouse) who invented zweinstein, a kind of mammoth thinking machine which was twice as smart as einstein and after running for years was about to produce the thought which was beyond human ability to think-- the 10 commandments. H. Basser Harryfox@epas.utoronto.ca From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: 5.0520 Rs: ... Computers in Lit Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 16:37:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1080 (1272) People interested in the topic of computers in literature should look at Patricia S. Warrick, _The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction_ (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980). In 282 pp. (= 9 chaps, biblio, index) she pretty well covers the field up to the date of publication. Certainly anyone doing a serious study must consult her before going on. From: "Roald A. Zellweger" Subject: More on Abulafia Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 15:32:10 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1081 (1273) Wed, 11 Dec 91 John Gordon said, that Abraham b. Samuel Abulafia proclaimed himself the Messiah. It is not known whether he he really did but he was accused of proclaiming to be by Abraham Adret of Barcelona. In a lot of mystical tracts Abulafia tried to combine the intellectualism and rationalism of Maimonides with mysticism of Kabbalah. He was a protagonist of a prophetic Kabbalah believing that man was enabled to receive higher enlightenment by contemplating the holy names and letters, but firmly opposed to the abuse many Kabbalists made of the divine names. (see G.Scholem: A. Abulafia and the Doctrine of Prophetic Kabbalism) When Eco called a computer running a program for the Kabbalistic permutation of the Tetragrammaton Abulafia this is, of course, a pun. Roald Zellweger, Goettingen From: "Gilbert Smith" Subject: Naked Maja Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 18:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1082 (1274) In response to Marc Eisenger's note about the exposed breast, I have a related story. At North Carolina State University, a colleague in French recently created an exhibit in a showcase outside the office of the dean of Humanities, in which was included a blow-up of the 100 francs note bearing the "Liberte conduisant le peuple." A female student began to wage a campaign to have it taken down, claiming (in response to the Clarence Thomas hearings) that the exhibit consituted sexual harrassment of her person because she had to walk by it every day to get to class. The young woman was neither Saudi nor Iranian, but a down-home southern "female person." I am not sure what the outcome of this was, but I think that French culture won out and the exhibit is still there. . Gilbert Smith From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Roman seminar report Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 08:14:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 524 (1275) The following I pass on with pleasure to Humanist from Tito Orlandi, Accademia dei Lincei & University of Rome "La Sapienza" (research group IDU). 28 October 1991 a) Report on Seminar of 5 October 1991 b) Call for a group of interest ----------------------------------------------------- a) The Seminar "Strumenti informatici nelle discipline umanistiche: il Problema dell'integrazione" ("Computer applications in the humanities: the Problem of reciprocal interaction and integration") was held in Rome on 5 Oct. 1991. The Seminar was organized by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare) as part of a research project entitled "The Humanities challenged by the methods and technologies of computer science: Continuity of tradition and change of structure". This project will study such problems as the changes in methods, the redefinition of some goals, the special requirements of computer environment, programs, and languages for the humanities, from a theoretical point of view. The exchange of texts (be they literary or archaeological, etc.) is also taken into consideration as a primary concern, instead of (or at least together with) the communication of results obtained by applying computer processing to those texts. Here follows an abstract of the papers read. The papers themselves will be published soon by the Accademia dei Lincei. * Luigi CEROFOLINI stressed the technological trend towards networks of workstations that are sufficiently powerful to support graphic display, laser printer, CDRom, etc., but do not rely upon their own isolated packages and data, but upon an "open" operating system and packages and data shared in the network. * Wilhelm OTT described the well-known TUSTEP system for analysis and edition of texts, a series of tools to be used for whatever type of machine-readable texts. * Manfred THALLER described the functions of a DBMS (e.g. the Goettingen Kleio) as an intermediary between data in its natural form and that which the user has encoded with tags to qualify the type of information and so provide the DBMS with sufficient "knowledge" to evaluate its individual form. * Francois DJINDJIAN considered first the problem of the identity of archaeology, confronted by the new technologies, which tend to widen the gap between the "individualist" (historicist) approach, and the "natural science" approach. The solution comes probably from the correct assessment of the formalization (encoding) of the sources and of the dynamics of the procedures. In this sense, some problems of the cognitive process and their epistemological solutions have been proposed. * Anne-Marie GUIMIER-SORBETS analyzed the difficulties in organizing archaeological databases in the past, which often became "closed" systems, little suitable for extended and cooperative research. The solution for this and other problems should consist in some "intelligent" software, capable of processing sources of different kind, as images, data from databases, texts, and especially texts written in plain natural language. * Amilcare BIETTI reported on the problem of proper typological classification of archaeological artifacts and the statistical methods to evaluate their significance. * Mirella CASINI SCHAERF explained some of the problems of parsing the Italian language, especially when semantics are involved. In my opinion, what is emerged from the Seminar is the opportunity to consider the encoding of sources (1) as a "per se" problem, that is, to be founded theoretically, before any concern for the software which will analyze it; (2) as a constantly improving process, where the input of an analysis is to be modified later by the results of the analysis applied. ------------------------------------------------------- b) Those receiving this message, who are really interested in the theory of what is mentioned above, please contact me, and I shall try to arrange an electronic discussion group. Tito Orlandi: TRTIDU2 at ITCASPUR or: ORLANDIT at IMICILEA *****END***** From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0511 Qs: Archives; Latin; Gilgamesh; Hypertext ... (6/82) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1991 16:53 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1083 (1276) re: (2) Mary Blundell's query about _sic semper_: the (more or less) ultimate source is Odyssey 1.47, where Athena says of Aegisthus (who killed Agamemnon and was killed by Agamemnon's son) "Thus perish also [any] other who would do such things!" Scipio Africanus the Younger (Aemilianus) quoted the Odyssey linea propos the assassination of his cousin, the radical Tribune Tiberius Gracchus,in Rome, 129 BCE. Exactly how the Virginians picked it up from Plutarch's _Life_ of Tiberius (a very popular book in the colonies, Plutarch's _Lives_) I don't know. Owen Cramer, Colorado College From: "S.A.Davnall" Subject: Bibliographic Software for PCs Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 15:30:56 BST (162 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1084 (1277) ******************************** The following message was also posted on Humanist, but I forgot the sender. I just saved the text: _Bibliography Formatting Software_ by Sue Stigleman (1991, 49p.) Includes information on 35 bibliography formatters; a detailed comparison of Papyrus, Pro-Cite, and Reference Manager; and a 9-page bibliography formatting software evaluation checklist. It is published by the UNC-CH Institute for Academic Technology as one in their "Technology in Higher Education: Hands-on Technical Reports" series. Copies can be obtained free of charge by contacting: Institute for Academic Technology P. O. Box 12017 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 BITNET: IAT@UNC Tel.: (919) 560-5031 Fax: (919) 560-5047 ************************************************* Of course, any database program like Dbase, Rbase etc. would also do the job. Toolbook is another option if you want a more userfriendly interface. These options all require some programming but can be customized better than the other options. Good luck, Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: crice@whistler.sfu.ca (Curtis Rice) Subject: Re: 5.0519 Qs: ... IPA Chars Date: Wed, 11 Dec 91 21:53:25 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1085 (1278) Multi-Lingual Scholar put out by Gamma Productions, 710 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 609, Santa Monica, CA 90401 has a complete IPA font set. Tel 213-394-8622; FAX 213-395-4214 Hope this helps, Curtis Rice From: hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy M. Cook) Subject: WP Macro Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 13:41:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 526 (1279) Has anyone who is more proficient than I with WordPerfect developed a macro that strips carriage returns that you would share with me? Thanks. Hardy M. Cook Bowie State University Bowie, Maryland 20715 HMCook@BOE00.MINC.UMD.EDU From: ZABCIA@PLEARN Subject: Computers in African textology and linguistics Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 18:02:51 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 527 (1280) CATALYSIS 1992 COMPUTERS IN AFRICAN TEXTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS - SUMMER INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, WARSAW, JUNE 1992 Polish Association of African Studies, jointly with the Department of African Languages and Cultures, Warsaw Universi- ty intends to organise in June 1992 an international workshop "Computers in African Textology and Linguistics - Summer International School" - hence CATALYSIS 92. Its general aim is to catalyze research and West-East-South cooperation of researchers working in various fields of human sciences rela- ted to Africa - by popularizing the use of computer aided research methods and computerized communication networks. In particular, the tasks for CATALYSIS 92 are: i) training of academic staff, graduate and postgraduate students (primarily but not exclusively from Poland and from other Central/East European countries) in using computer aided research methods in the study and/or in the processing of African texts (literature, oral tradition, history etc.) as well as in the study of African languages; demonstration of different types of software and of its concrete applications ii) collecting/acquiring relevant software and written documentation; elaboration of an inventory of the most interesting software products and of current projects which illustrate its application iii) elaboration of teaching materials for future CATALYSIS sessions. iv) setting up joint research projects and/or coordination of existing ones of similar nature. CATALYSIS 92 sessions will cover a wide range of applications for computer sciences which can be carried out on IBM PC and/or Apple McIntosh machines and compatibles, such as (exam- ples): - font designing (concrete illustrations of software for phonetic, Arabic, Ethiopian, Egyptian, etc. scripts), - lexicography (O:oebox) - lexicostatistics ( WordNXrv, LexiNtat) - text analysis (TA) - morphological (AINI for Swahili), and syntactic parsing - language data banks (e.g. ite deN Lan7XeN dX Monde project) - linguistic cartography - text concordances & interlinear text glossing (O:oebox) - kinship systems charts, familly genealogies, prosopography, etc. Demonstrations of software products related to computer aided language teaching (including literacy work) may also be inclu- ded. The content, time distribution and duration of CATALYSIS 1992, as well as the number of moderators and trainees to be envol- ved in this workshop (up to 25 people) will depend on the support in staff, finance, soft- and hardware which the orga- nizers expect to get from national and foreign institutions. Preliminary plan foresees two variants: A - intensive workshop, programme condensed in 40-48 hours (5- 6 days, 8 hours per day) mainly devoted to software demonstra- tion and discussion, with practical learning much reduced B - regular course, 60 hours (i.e. 6 hours x 10 working days) in the span of 12-14 days. In both cases the workshop/course will take place in the second half of June 92 and the venue will be the Warsaw Uni- versity. Costs of travel, accommodation, food, will not be covered by the organizers and there will be conference fees (amount to be determined). The organizers will approach various institutions for subventions which would enable reducing the costs for invited contributors and, possibly, for other participants. At this preliminary stage and by this announcement, we intend to test the interest for such an idea among potential partici- pants and potential sponsors, define the approximative number of participants (contributors and trainees), register their names and addresses, apply for funds, gather your suggestions concerning the programme. We will keep you informed about the progress in preparation of the workshop. Contact: dr Eugeniusz Rzewuski (linguistics) dr Janusz Krzywicki (other human sc.) Warsaw University Institute of Oriental Studies Department of African Languages and Cultures 00-927 Warszawa 64, Poland e-mail: ORIENTUW@PLEARN.BITNET phone: (48-22) 263683; home: (48-22) 177812 fax: (48-22) 267520 telex: 815439 uw pl From: Vera Horvath <00V0HORVATH@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: query Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1991 16:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1086 (1281) I would like to ask you about your experiences using the Brown or the LOB corpus. If you used the pure text format, what programs did you use with it? If you used the KWIC or the WordCruncher formats, how did you like it? Do you know of any program available on VAX which can be used with the corpora? We are trying to figure out which version could we use the best. Vera Horvath From: "L. Dale Patterson" Subject: win100 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 12:44:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1087 (1282) I have been experimenting with windows the past few weeks and have been using win100 in lieu of mskermit 2.32. However I cannot seem to find an insert or backtab key? I am using version 2.3 of Win100. Does anyone know how I can get these functions to operate? Is there a later version? Thanks. Dale Patterson_________________University of Louisville Bitnet : ldpatt01@ulkyvm Internet: ldpatt01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Korean desktop publishing software Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1991 11:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1088 (1283) A colleague of mine is looking for a DOS-based desktop publishing package that for Korean. It should have both Han gul and Han moon capabilities and drivers for HPII series laser printers. Support for Katakana would be useful but not essential. I'd appreciate any suggestions, and I'll be happy to put them together for anyone else who might be interested. I am sending this out to both Linguist and Humanist listservers. Thanks. Herb Stahlke Ball State University 00hfstahlke@bsuvax1 From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" Subject: job Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1991 09:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 529 (1284) ****************************************************************************** Job Opening ****************************************************************************** VASSAR COLLEGE LIBRARIES Coordinator for Library Systems Responsibilities: Vassar College will soon embark on a historic program of library expansion. We seek someone with both the imaginative vision and the technical background to develop new programs, and to maintain, analyze, and coordinate library-related services and automated systems, including an integrated online system (INNOPAC), OCLC, and computer stations and micro-computers in a Macintosh environment with limited DOS-based applications; to work closely with the Academic Computing Center; to participate in campus-wide technical planning; to support hardware and software needs of library staff and to provide information on software resources and new computer applications; and to maintain and develop data archives and assist users. Reports to Director of the Library. Qualifications: Required: ALA accredited MLS, or equivalent experience; knowledge of computing hardware and software, library information delivery, research stategies, and networks; interest in exploring new applications; excellent communication skills; an ability to train staff and users. Desirable but not essential: programming and/or prior professional experience in an academic library. Salary: Commensurate with experience and qualifications. Applications: Submit letter of application, resume, and names of 3 references to Dr. Charles Henry Director of the Library Box 20 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601. AA/EOE Application deadline: February 7, 1991. Vassar is a private, four year liberal arts college that ranks among the most competitive in the nation. It is located in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in the beautiful Hudson River Valley. New York City lies two hours to the south by direct train. For those attending ALA Midwinter: Please contact Esther Williams, the Vassar representative, for further information about this position. From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: RE:5.0526 Query: Word Perfect Macro (1/9) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 19:50:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 526 (1285) In Message Thu, 12 Dec 1991 19:10:02 EST, Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: wp macro Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 11:03 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1089 (1286) If all you want to do is delete the hard returns, you can use the replace function to do that without a macro. (You might still want a macro to save you the steps, but you can do a "do as I do" macro without having to do a lot of programming.) Kasey Briggs The Citadel From: Jim Campbell Subject: Re: 5.0526 Query: Word Perfect Macro (1/9) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 11:27:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1090 (1287) There is an excellent shareware program called TEXTCON for converting ASCII texts to WordPerfect. It analyzes line lengths and strips hard returns selectively and also inserts a tab if a paragraph begins with multiple spaces. I believe it also works with some other word processors. The address on my two or three year old copy is Cross Court Systems 1521 Greenview Avenue East Lansing, MI 48823 Tel: 517-332-4353 The requested registration fee was $15. From: Peter Lafford Subject: Re: 5.0526 Query: Word Perfect Macro (1/9) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 09:06:45 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1091 (1288) If Hardy Cook's goal in stripping out carriage returns in WordPerfect is to allow word wrap to reformat lines automatically, he might first try retrieving the document as a text file using the Ctrl-F5 Text-in/Text-out key, 1) dos Text, 3) rEtrieve changing Hard Return to Soft Return in the hyphenation zone. That third option will usually take most of the carriage returns out sucessfully. If that is not the goal, or it does not work well due to other formatting or margin problems, simpler than a macro is to use the ALT-F2 Search and Replace. First of all, be sure to work with a COPY of the document, in case something goes wrong. Second, move the cursor to the top of the document, press ALT-F2, N (No confirmation for each replacement), ENTER to get the HRt code on the screen for search text, F2 to be prompted for the text to change it to, then SPACE to specify that you want the HRt replaced with a SPACE, so the words won't run together, then F2 again to send it off changing ALL HRt to SPACE. As I said before, since the computer often does what you tell it to do rather than what you want it to do, be sure the new one is good before erasing the old one. Hope this helps. Peter Lafford Tel.(602) 965-2679 Manager, Humanities Computing Facility Lang. & Lit. Bldg. Arizona State University (DEN-0302) Room LL-B 325 Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 IDPAL@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU From: Skip Knox Subject: Re: 5.0526 Query: Word Perfect Macro (1/9) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 08:53:05 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1092 (1289) Hardy Cook is looking for a macro to strip carriage returns, but such is not needed. WP will do the job automatically. Retrieve your ASCII document using [Ctrl-F5] {Text In/Out}. Choose the option that converts [HRt] to [SRt] in the hyphenation zone. If you still have your hard returns, clear the document, narrow your right margin, and try it again. If you have lots of such conversions to make, there is an excellent shareware program from Chris Wolf (I think) called TextCon that not only strips out hard returns but can preserve indented text, strip out headers and footers and do a variety of other useful chores. Ellis 'Skip' Knox Historian, Data Center Associate Boise State University dusknox@idbsu.idbsu.edu From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: IPA Fonts Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 20:03:24 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 531 (1290) There are several options open if you want to use IPA symbols in WordPerfect. The easiest is to buy a softfont and an installer program. There are several vendors who have these products available. One of them is Softcraft in Madison, WI. Softcraft also markets a font editor which allows you to design any character you like. Another package is Publisher's Powerpak. I don't have the address handy but would be happy to find it for you if you are interested. The latter font cannot be changed and you are stuck with whatever symbols are provided. Someone made up an IPA font using, I believe, the Softcraft font editor. You may want to get this font first to see if it has the symbols you need. The guy's name is Timothy Montler, and his address is montler@vaxb.acs.unt.edu. He uploaded the fonts to some ftp site and will be happy to tell you where they are available. I can't find the info right now, so you'll have to contact him. If you need to change symbols frequently and need characters not available in the WordPerfect character set, I'd recommend you get the Softcraft editor. I'm not involved with Softcraft, just a satisfied user. If you'd like to see the extra symbols on the screen, you may get the screen font editor offered by WordPerfect for $ 49.00. It will allow you to display any characters on the screen. The ones included in the WordPerfect character set simply need to be reassigned. Other characters can be designed for the screen rather easily from scratch. Regards, Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: "Sic semper tyrannis" Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 20:30:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 532 (1291) Owen Cramer suggests that Plutarch's _Lives_ may not have been much read in the colonies. Quite the contrary, I suspect; anyone who got a grammar-school education in the 17th and 18th centuries got a classical education, and Plutarch was gentlemen's reading for sure. In addition, the life of Tiberius was of special interest to the "classical republicans" of the 17th century. I can't imagine they were without influence in pre-revolutionary America. Germaine Warkentin From: "NAME \"Jim_Cahalan\"" Subject: "unpublishing"/"depublishing" Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1991 19:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 533 (1292) I just had a weird experience perhaps worth sharing with colleagues. I wanted to include one of my book chapters in a packet of readings for graduate students in my course next semester, but in the wake of the Kinko's ruling, my own publisher (which I won't name but will identify as owned by the late Robert Maxwell) informed me that the fee for reproducing this and one other chapter (in another book of mine they also published) would be $250. This was not their opening gambit, but came a week AFTER I beseeched them to be reasonable since it was my own work and I didn't want to see my students (to whom the copy service would immediately pass the fee) charged in this way. The best they could tell me was that if I waived MY part of the fee, then it would drop to $125. I replied that instead I'd copy my own typescript, avoiding extra fees for students. So today I "unpublished" or "depublished" the chapter, printing it out single-spaced in a microfront that is indeed small, but clear and readable, again the intent being to save my students money (I managed to print a dozen book pages onto five pages, notes included). What a weird experience: I had to "unpublish" my work in order to make it more easily accessible to students! How do you like that? Truly a postmodern, postlegal experience... Jim Cahalan, English Department BITNET: JCAHALAN@IUP 110B Leonard Hall, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Tel: (412) 357-2262 From: "Randall Jones" Subject: ACH Membership Renewal Date: 17 Dec 91 19:34:28 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 534 (1293) I recently sent renewal notices to everyone currently listed as members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (sponsoring organization of HUMANIST). If you did not receive a renewal notice and would like to become a member of ACH (or renew a lapsed membership) please send me an e-mail message and I will mail you a form. ACH members receive six issues of _Computers and the Humanities_ and four issues of the _Ach Newsletter_ each year. They also receive a reduction in the registration fee of the annual ACH/ALLC meeting (1992 in Oxford, 1993 in Washington, D.C.), and a reduction in the cost of ACH and ALLC publications. Randall L. Jones College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL-92 Student Session Call for Papers Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 15:27:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 535 (1294) CALL FOR PAPERS Student Session at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 28 June - 2 July 1992 University of Delaware Newark, Delaware, USA PURPOSE: This session provides a forum in which student members can present work in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community, particularly senior researchers. The session will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations and discussion. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. All authors must have ACL Student Membership at the time of the conference. For membership information contact Don Walker at the address below. Papers submitted to the main conference will not be considered for the student session. Students may of course submit papers to both. Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in NO way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' ``work in progress'' rather than completed work. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of an extended abstract up to 3 pages long (including title, authors, references, etc). Submissions should be laid out in the conventional double-column conference format, with 1 inch margins on all sides, and a typeface no smaller than 10 pt. In addition, a SEPARATE ``topic area'' page should include the title, name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including e-mail), and one or more keywords identifying the topic area. Send to: Lenhart Schubert (ACL Student Session) University of Rochester Computer Science Department Rochester, NY, 14627-0226 USA schubert@cs.rochester.edu EMAIL SUBMISSION: As an experiment, authors are encouraged to submit an additional copy of their paper via email. LaTeX, Postscript, or ASCII formats are acceptable. Also, please note the SCHEDULE information below. Email submissions should be directed to: traum@cs.rochester.edu (David Traum (+1-716) 275-7230) SCHEDULE: Submissions must be RECEIVED by 10 FEBRUARY 1992. Authors submitting email versions must have email versions arrive by this date and hardcopy versions postmarked by this date; authors not submitting email versions must have the hardcopy arrive by this date. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 20 MARCH 1992. Camera ready copies of final papers must be received by 20 APRIL 1992. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Programs and registration forms will be mailed in March to ACL members. Nonmembers interested in receiving copies, dues statements, and other information about the conference or concerning the ACL generally, should contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1-201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. From: Mark Olsen Subject: Negative results Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 09:17:17 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 532 (1295) [deleted quotation] I am currently coding the circulation records for Harvard College Library, 1773-1800. So far, we have entered about 2000 cases of borrowings by Harvard overseers, tutors, etc. and have not had a single instance of Plutarch. This, of course, does not mean that the _students_ were not reading P. (since we are coding their records later) or that the tutors etc. did not own the volume. I am, from this preliminary sample, surprised at the degree to which classical authors were not borrowed. This does not mean they were not read, and may well have been the kind of works that scholars purchased. Mark Olsen University of Chicago From: Peter Conn Subject: 5.0533 Unpublishing: A Copyright Story (1/24) Date: 17 Dec 91 09:09:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1093 (1296) RE: Jim Cahalan's tale of "unpublishing" his own published work to avoid permission fees. His experience may be post-modern, and even post-Maxwell, but I doubt if it was in fact "post-legal." I would be surprised to learn that a copyright holder can be deprived of those rights merely through a change in the format of reproduction. The copyright covers the *content* of the text, not merely one particular published version. So, if Professor Cahalan's (unnamed) publishers wanted to pursue this matter -- which I assume they will not, given the modest size of the dispute -- presumably they could. Any comments, from the lawyers and/or clubhouse lawyers out there? (And what is the source of the term "clubhouse lawyer" anyhow?) Peter Conn University of Pennsylvania From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: 5.0533 Unpublishing: A Copyright Story (1/24) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 09:26:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 533 (1297) I appreciated Jim Cahalan's tale of woe. It gives us yet another example of why universities need to support the publication of their own facultys' research. Nobody gets rich publishing with academic presses... but neither do they get gouged (especially for using their own stuff!!!) I applaud Jim for doing what he did; the alternative would have been to gouge the student. Paula Presley, Asst. Editor Thomas Jefferson University Press Northeast Missouri State Univ. AD15@NEMOMUS.BITNET [deleted quotation] From: ldavids@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Lloyd Davidson) Subject: Re: 5.0533 Unpublishing: A Copyright Story (1/24) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 14:23:28 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1094 (1298) I am not sure she can do that legally. I think the publisher can still claim copyright infringement. L. From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 5.0533 Unpublishing: A Copyright Story (1/24) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1991 14:56:14 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1095 (1299) Jim Cahalan wrote: [deleted quotation] I don't understand. If you gave away copyright for this material to the publisher, I should think you have no more right to copy the typescript than the printed version. If you did not assign the copyright to the publisher, you should be able to copy either, and the request for payment to the publisher is inappropriate. From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Computers in literature Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 20:23:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1096 (1300) I can't check this because my daughter has moved to England and taken my copy, but SURELY there must be a computer somewhere in Douglas Adams' _A Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_. I distinctly remember that in that book the answer to the meaning of the universe was "42". The problem was, what was the question! Germaine Warkentin From: stephen clark Subject: Re: Computers in Lit Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 09:40:21 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1097 (1301) There is an article by Ellen M.Pedersen on 'Joseph the Golem - the limits of synthetic humanity' in FOUNDATION 40.1987, 36-44 and FOUNDATION 41.1987, 52-64. FOUNDATION is probably the best review of science fiction, published by the SF Foundation, Polytechnic of East London, Longbridge Rd, Dagenham, RM8 2AS, UK. I agree with an earlier remark that it is ridiculous to exclude SF from a study of computers in literature. If anyone is interested, I wrote a critical piece myself about Asimov's absurd three laws of robotics (it appeared in Cogito 2.1988, and in Italian in Prometeo 30.1990). Stephen Clark Liverpool University UK From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: Query Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 16:51 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1098 (1302) A friend has asked my opinion of *When God Was a Woman*, by Merlin Stone (a pseudonym??), Dial Press, 1976. A quick glance indicates that the book argues that ancient Near Eastern religions featured powerful female deities. But this is pretty far removed from my own work, and I'd appreciate any evaluations of it, or suggestions of other (better?) works on this and related topics. Thanks. George Aichele From: "Ed Harris, Academic Affairs, So Ct State U" Subject: The f word Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 11:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1099 (1303) My 13-year old came to me yesterday, brandishing his brother's Van Halen album titled, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge," and asked if that was what the 'f word' stood for. He didn't ask the meaning of carnal knowledge, though.) I, the political scientist, never heard of this; my wife, the student of victorian literature, thought she had read somewhere that this was a sign over the entrance to some sort of prison. Adulter's prison? So I had Matt bring out the OED. Although he normally resists dictionary work pretty strongly, he took to this task with the same intensity with which he watched the Thomas confirmation hearings after hearing the phrase 'long dong silver' on the TV. The OED supplement (it is not in the _actual_, if that is how one says it, OED) says that fuck, which it dates to 1508, appears to be formed regularly from a ME fuken which, however, doesn't appear anywhere. It is not related to the G ficken (ah, those false friends), and its ulterior etymology (what is ulterior etymology?) is unknown. Can anyone help me tell my son where fuck comes from? Now that this, too, is just a word, there is an opportunity here the conscientious parent doesn't want to let pass. Thanks in advance. Ed Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-7076 From: "J. Schumacher" Subject: CLCLT-1 CD-Rom Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 14:07:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 541 (1304) May I ask you to post the following on HUMANIST: The CETEDOC LIBRARY of CHRISTIAN LATIN TEXTS CD-Rom (CLCLT-1) is now AVAILABLE. It contains 21,6 million words representing 211 different authors and 945 works (within all the texts of Augustinus,Hieronymus,Gregorius Magnus,a.s.o.). It will be send to the subscribers by special mail December 23th and 24th. A special text about it will be send later. For further information contact CETEDOC by email: THOMDOC@TEDM.UCL.AC.BE or BREPOLS Publishers. Jean Schumacher CETEDOC Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Plutarch again Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1991 07:26:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1100 (1305) Mark Olsen's research sounds fascinating; if he is on ExLibris, I urge him to share his project and results with the old book and library history enthusiasts who use that list! But in truth, I was thinking about an earlier period: late 17th and early 18th century. Certainly what I know about 17th century library catalogues (I'm editing one, so I'm beginning to know more than I want to) suggests that book collectors certainly _bought_ Plutarch. It would be interesting to know how much they _read_ him; I am firmly of the belief that an awful lot of people bought books and then read only the beginnings, or the first volume of three . . . Germaine Warkentin From: Brian Whittaker Subject: Re: 5.0536 Plutarch in the Colonies (1/20) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 19:55:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1101 (1306) If the quotation were well known, I suspect it might not be from editions of Plutarch, whether purchased, inherited or borrowed, but rather from inclusion in a commonly used primer, grammar, reader or anthology of the day. Only the more scholarly memorize at length, but until quite recently everyone memorized the examples from the textbooks. I expect there are many members of Humanist who know the first sentence from Caesar's Gallic Wars without having purchased, borrowed or read the whole book. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Whittaker BRIANW@VM2.YorkU.CA Atkinson College, York University (Please do not omit the W) -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 5.0540 Qs: *When God was Woman*; F Word Etymology (2/39) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 23:53:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1102 (1307) In re: the f word I've heard that account of the word _fuck_ (as acronymn of For Unlawful Carnal Knowlege), but it the account I heard, it was a motto over the stocks. I believe I also heard, subsequently, that the whole tale was apocryphal. If not, perhaps this is what was actually emblazoned on Hester Prynne's front? --John Unsworth From: "M. Pierssens" Subject: F word Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 08:40:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1103 (1308) Surely there must be some etymological connection between "fuck" and the latin "futuere" (same meaning in Catullus). At least, that is the origin of the french "foutre" (again, same meaning). According to J. Cellard and A. Rey in the _Dictionnaire du francais non conventionnel_, there might be a link with the greek "phutein" ("to plant trees"). Liddle and Scott seem to agree as they point to a metaphorical use of "phuteo" in Hesiod and Heredotus, "to beget children"! From: Len Bliss Subject: Computer in HITCHHIKER'S Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1991 11:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1104 (1309) The computer in HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY was "Deep Thought" Len Bliss From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: computers in literature Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1991 10:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1105 (1310) To answer the question about the computer in the _Hitchhiker's_Guide_To_The_Galaxy_, yes there were several computers. The first one encountered is the _Hitchhiker's_Guide_To_The_Galaxy_ that Ford Prefect carried everywhere with him until he passed along to Arthur Dent when they materialized on the Vogon ship. The second computer was asked to determine what the answer to the question of "Life, the Universe, and Everything" was. It determined that the answer is actually "42". However, the computer could not tell the people what the question was, but it could help them design another computer which could devise this answer. This "other computer" was designed and built. This computer was so large that some ape-like, carbon-based lifeforms (humans) decided to make it their home (Earth). However, only seconds before it could announce what the question to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is, it was destroyed by the Vogon Construction crew to make way for a new super-space highway. Jim Wilderotter Georgetown University ---------------------- P.S..FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ THE SERIES YET: For anyone who has not read this series yet, do not fear, this material is not a spoiler, for the information about is not actually what happened in the book, but prior to it, and is given as part of the background in the story. From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: Hitch-hiker's Guide Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 16:49 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1106 (1311) The question was, "What is 9 times 5?" The answer came (as I recall) from an "organic computer" composed of all life on Earth. (How does it feel to be a transistor?) Other computers in HHG: the intelligent spaceship (the Heart of Gold?), the sarcastic robot. What a great series! Regards, George Aichele From: OKERSON@UMDC Subject: Unpublishing Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 10:57:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 545 (1312) The unpublishing maneuver was ingenious but flawed in that copyright transfer covers the *expression* of an idea, not the idea itself (which continues to belong to the creator). In the print artifact, changing the font or format doesn't usually alter the wording or expression of the idea, so our creative colleague's new version is likely still owned by the publisher, who will keep an eye on the instituion and like institutions to track on the level of copyright "infringement." One of our ARL deans suggested an alternative for faculty in this situation: put the chapter or article on reserve in the library, and leave the issue of copying (or not) to the students in the course. Use the services your library offers, wherever possible, if possible. If they don't seem serviceable enough, see if policies are changeable or negotiable. Ann Okerson/Association of Research Libraries From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Plutarch et al. Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 09:38:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 546 (1313) Brian Whittaker's interesting observation, that knowledge of Plutarch would in many cases have come through intermediate sources, raises the question of the relationship between knowledge and the external media in which it is stored -- hence the question of memory and its relationship to knowledge. As computing humanists, who are essentially concerned with the mnemonic function of the computer, we have much to consider. A better educated Humanist may know the standard term for that kind of memory which preserves things in themselves rather than as parts of larger patterns. I don't, so let me call it "surface-memory". My question is, then, to the degree that surface-memory becomes externalized, what happens to the relationship between human and machine? What happens to the way people think? Willard McCarty From: abosse@reed.edu (Arno Bosse) Subject: Re: 5.0546 Memory, Media, Knowledge, and Thought (1/17) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 18:31:16 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1107 (1314) [deleted quotation] It's a fascinating question... I'm not sure about how there ever could be a kind of 'surface-memory' of the kind you describe Willard. Perhaps if you take it in an Aristotelian sense of the kind described by him 'On Memory' in which case the temporally unconnedted visual memory would be a case of 'recollection' rather than 'remembering.' The play on words in these two instances, of (re)collect and (re)member is delightful, since it illustrates the membering of the 'body' of the populated memory palace, rather than the collection of a series of unrelated images. One could begin a psychoanalytic reading at 'member' as well... But to return from the digression, I think that if we propose the computer as a new site of information (analogous to a 'world' of experiences) then even a remembering of that information can only be as 'rich' as the links in which it was orginally stored. This kind of remembering becomes little more like a recollection. Further, if we rely on the computer to provide the, lets call it the metaphoric axis of the remembering (and we know that they excell at this beyond any human capacity) we lose track of how this information should be organized in relation to ist parts...and if the metonymic side is left to the computer too..well, we all know the frustrations of hypercard stacks with pre-determined links. The danger is that if the database (say, because of differeces in formats) had not been designed to make a connection, then it cannot, and the connection is somehow 'not there.' Along these lines, I wonder if one of the kind of aphasias described by Jakobson are not more prevalent amongst habitual computer information 'consumers' today. (I mean in a more limted sense of course!) Why for instance, do I have far less patience with a long email message (such as this one!) than I would with a similarly 'long' message in writing, say in a magazine? Why is it, for instance, that there is a tendency to reduce writing to short, incomplete discourse, especially in news groups and radically so on forums such as IRC (Internet Relay Chat)? Finally, have you noticed the tendency of people who write on the 'net' frequently to supplement the paucity of their own brief, postings, with 'smileys' to let the other person know how they 'really' feel? These all seem to be symptoms of writing/interpretation that is short on the metonymic, on the "larger patterns" of memory. I have no doubt that the computer changes the way we think, but before I get my nose tweaked :~) I think I'm going to stop, right here. (Happy Holidays, people) Arno Bosse Reed College abosse@reed.edu From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 5.0546 Memory, Media, Knowledge, and Thought (1/17) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 20:40:21 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1108 (1315) As usual, Willard raises for us the _interesting_ questions....I look forward to others' responses. Let me suggest that at least one direction of Willard's question -- what happens to the way people think as they use the computer as a memory storage device -- has been problematicized within the hypermedia community using such terms as "cognitive prostheses," "knowledge extensions," etc. This work, so far as I'm aware of it, however, is focused not only on the impact of relying on machine memory -- but more precisely on the impacts of utilizing the computer as mimicking the mind in its development of often complex, associative "webs" of conceptual relationships. If this is what people are interested in, perhaps some of the other attendees of Hypertext '91 would care to make more precise comments? So far as my own experience with hypermedia goes -- I find that it does for my conceptualization of relationships very much what using the wordprocessor as an editor and using a database as an information storage device do: namely, remind, reinforce, and extend these cognitive developments in my own mind -- in part as they provide an editable "mirror" of the mind -- one which, unlike the evanescent slipstreams of thought, can be stored, retrieved, and edited in light of new insight and information. Charles Ess Drury College From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 5.0546 Memory, Media, Knowledge, and Thought (1/17) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 20:49:21 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1109 (1316) A query to couple to Willard's: I've become interested in applying a Habermasian (?) notion of a discourse ethic to the environment established in a networked/hypermedia computing facility. There is already some literature (first and foremost, by the venerable George Landow from Brown) which approaches hypermedia from the standpoint of Post-structuralism (so as to focus on democritizing by way of decentering and fragmentation, etc.) Is anyone aware of similar work which takes up Critical Theory (in the sense of the Frankfurt School) as its theoretical beginning point? Thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College From: "DAVID STUEHLER" Subject: RE: 5.0546 Memory, Media, Knowledge, and Thought (1/17) Date: 20 Dec 91 22:38:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1110 (1317) There is no evidence that any knowledge is stored in the mind as "surface knowledge" but some that it is stored as patterns or relationships--integrated into some larger structure. Dave Stuehler From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Re: 5.0546 Memory, Media, Knowledge, and Thought (1/17) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 91 07:37:49 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1111 (1318) Much of the function of ritual, ceremony, and superstition is mnemonic in nature. A good example is the making of Samurai swords in Japan. There is an elaborate ceremony connected with this process, and no steps in the ceremony are ever left out. The end result is a Samurai sword of excellent quality, and the quality of the sword would not be possible without following the elaborate ceremony. It is interesting that some aspects of the ceremony actually help in assuring the quality of the sword, and other aspects of the ceremony are irrelevant, but the sword maker doesn't know which are which, so he faithfully follows ALL aspects of the sword maker. Much of epistemology is affected by history. On early e-mail the routing of messages was always given, and the routing had a perfect correlation with the earlier history of e-mail. The message had to be sent to each of the stations that had played a significant role in the history of the concept. To me, this is very much like the making of Samurai swords. =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0546 Memory, Media, Knowledge, and Thought (1/17) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1991 10:31 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1112 (1319) As usual, it has happened before. Jules Labarbe in a very useful 1948 study of "L'Homere de Platon" points out that the early and middle Platonic dialogues use Homer in an oral form, including four extra lines of Iliad bk. 8 reported nowhere else but in the Platonic Alcibiades II and conceivably improvised by Plato in a Homeric way; whereas the late dialogues use Homer sparingly and in exact quotation from MS representing much the same text the Alexandrians trans- mitted to us. The relation of the teaching about oral poetry in, esp., the Republic and Ion, to the practice of external memory Plato later developed, would be interesting to pursue. Owen Cramer Colorado College From: HARRISON@RPIECS Subject: Society for Literature and Science invites proposals Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 12:08:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1113 (1320) Would you please post the following conference announcement on Humanist? Thanks very much --Teri Harrison =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--= CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 8-11, 1992, ATLANTA. International, interdisciplinary organization invites proposals for papers and sessions on any aspect of the conference theme: "Nature and Culture" Possible topics might include: The Discovery of the New World, Biology and Cybernetics, Ecology and Politics, Orderly Disorder, Constructs of the Natural and the Artificial in the Production of Science and Literature, Artificial Phenomena in Literature and Science, Virtual Reality, Representation of Nature and Science in Popular Culture/Film, Primitive and Post-Modern, The Garden and the Wilderness, God and Nature, New Jersey versus Buffalo Commons SLS standard paper time: 10-12 minutes, 3-4 participants per session. For additional information or to submit proposals, contact: Pamela Gossin, History of Science Department, 601 Elm, Room 622, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019. Deadline February 1, 1992. From: Subject: call for papers Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1991 13:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1114 (1321) From: Subject: Date: ________________ Signature: _____________________________ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1115 (1322) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Brad Westbrook Subject: Position Posting Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 09:37:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1116 (1323) Kent State University Libraries and Media Services Notice of Professional Vacancy Kent State University Libraries and Media Services seeks an energetic, highly-m otivated, and service-oriented associate curator to coordinate technical servic es in the Department of Special Collections and Archives. BACKGROUND: Kent State University is a residential university in northeastern Ohio with an enrollment of more than 24,000 students and with a faculty of 700 . University Libraries and Media Services holds memberships in the Association for Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, and NEOMARL, a regi onal consortium of ten academic and research libraries. Libraries and Media Se rvices has a collection of more than 1.7 million volumes and 8,000 active seria l subscriptions. RESPONSIBILITIES: This position oversees and performs activities related to th e acquisition, cataloging, and servicing of research materials in the Departmen t of Special Collections and Archives, with an emphasis on rare book and manusc ript cataloging, and management of the department's automation program. The po sition also assists in the day-to-day operation of the Department of Special Co llections and Archives. QUALIFICATIONS: 1) Required: ALA-accredited M.L.S.; effective interpersonal an d communications skills; background in special collections or archives administ ration; background in cataloging; knowledge of library automation as it applies to technical services operations. SALARY, RANK, AND BENEFITS: Reports to the Curator of Special Collections and Archives. This is a twelve-month tenure-track faculty position. Academic rank and salary are commensurate with education and experience. Minimum salary: $ 25,000. Benefits include generous vacation and sick leave; life, dental, and h ealth insurance; and tuition waiver for self, spouse, and children. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Letter of application, resume, and the names and addres ses of three references should be sent to: Mark W. Weber Director of Staff Services Kent State University Libraries and Media Services Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 DEADLINE: Application materials must be postmarked not later than 1 March 1992 . Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employee From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: TESL/LING POSITION AT ARIZ STATE UNIV Date: Mon, 23 Dec 91 12:57:42 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1117 (1324) APPLIED LINGUISTICS/TESL. Associate Professor. Position begins August, 1992. Initial two courses/semester: some TESl program administration. Competi tive salary. Teaching opportunities at both graduate and undergraduate level. Specialization open. Ph.D. in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, TESL or other relevant discipline. Research and teaching qualifications commensurate with rank. Interest and expertise in psycholinguistics, language acquisition, testing/statistics, or reading theory desired. Application deadline February 15, 1992, or the first of each month thereafter until filled. Send letter of application, current CV, and names of at least three references to Don L. F. Nilsen, Search Committee Chair, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302. All applications acknowledged. EO/AA =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: "Hans Uszkoreit" Subject: grants Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1991 13:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1118 (1325) Grants for Pre- and Postdoctoral Studies in Saarbrucken The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association) has approved funding for an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program (Graduiertenkolleg) in Cognitive Science. The funding includes a number of stipends for predoctoral studies and a few postdoctoral grants. Further information may be obtained by writing to the chair of the program Prof. Dr. Werner Tack (EMAIL: werner@gandalf.cops.uni-sb.de). Attached please find the official call for applications: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITAET DES SAARLANDES GRADUIERTENKOLLEG KOGNITIONSWISSENSCHAFT --- Empirie, Modellbildung, Implementation --- An der Universitaet des Saarlandes besteht ab 1992 ein Graduiertenkolleg zur Kognitionswissenschaft, das von Professoren der Analytischen Philosophie, der Kuenstlichen Intelligenz, der Computerlinguistik und der Kognitiven Psychologie getragen wird, und an dem das Deutsche Forschungszentrum fur Kuenstliche Intelligenz beteiligt ist. Voraussetzung fuer eine Zulassung zum Kolleg als Doktorand oder Postdoktorand ist neben einem ersten Studienabschluss in einem einschlaegigen Studienfach die ueberdurchschnittliche Qualifikation der Bewerberinnen und Bewerber. Doktoranden sollen hoechstens 28 Jahre und Postdoktoranden hoechstens 35 Jahre alt sein. Den Kollegiaten werden Wissen und Fertigkeiten vermittelt, die sowohl fuer wissenschaftliche und berufspraktische Arbeit an Fragen intelligenten Verhaltens im Rahmen der Kognitionswissenschaft als auch fuer Aufgaben in den jeweiligen Ausgangsdisziplinen qualifizieren. Fuer einen Teil der Kollegiaten stehen Stipendien fuer die Dauer von hoechstens 3 Jahren zur Verfuegung. Bewerbungen fuer die Aufnahme zu Beginn des Sommersemesters 1992 sind moeglichst sofort, jedoch spaetestens bis zum 13. Maerz 1992 moeglich, Bewerbungen fuer eine Aufnahme zum Wintersemester 1992/93 bis zum 15. August 1992. Naehere Informationen beim Sprecher des Graduiertenkollegs Kognitionswissenschaft, Prof. Dr. Werner H. Tack, Universitaet, Bau 1, D-6600 Saarbruecken 11. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Uszkoreit, Comput.Ling., Univ.of Saarbruecken, 66 Saarbruecken 11, FRG uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de - phone: +49(681)302-4115 - fax: +49(681)302-4351 From: P.E.Perkins@VME.GLASGOW.AC.UK Subject: CFP -- History and Computing Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 16:55:25 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 551 (1326) I've been asked to bring the following to the notice of the archaeological community - that means you! The Association for History and Computing is calling for papers for its next UK conference. The theme is 'The Integration of the disciplines' and the purpose is to draw together common issues from disciplines related history. The organisers are particularly keen to see a high level of input from archaeology. Two areas of particular interest are GIS and visual databases - particularly those which are a part of interdisciplinary projects. If possible emphasis should be on systems which up and running rather than theory. Demonstrations would also be welcomed. PLEASE REPLY TO Dr DEIAN HOPKIN. DRH@UK.AC.ABER NOT TO ARCH-L OR ME. Phil Perkins CTI Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History Association for History and Computing, 5th Annual British Conference, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. 2-4 April 1992 The general theme of this year's conference will be 'The Integration of the Disciplines'. Apart from plenary papers by internationally distinguished speakers, it is proposed to organise specialist sections on a variety of cognate disciplines including Archaeology, Art History, Archive and Records Managements, Demography, Spatial Geography and Psephology. In addition there will be the usual group sessions on the latest developments and implementations of database management, graphics, simulation and text handling, while the Education and Teaching section will involve the collaboration of a number of official agencies and local authorities. Finally there will be a range of demonstrations and poster sessions. In addition to the Annual dinner there will also be an official reception hosted by the University authorities. Submissions are invited on all areas of historical computing, including text handling, databases, quantitative analysis, simulation and modelling, but we are particularly interested in submissions which relate to the main themes. The deadline for submissions is 30th December 1991 Submissions should contain brief abstracts, around 1000 words in length (although longer abstracts up to 2000 can be accepted). Papers will normally be allowed 30 minutes, but fuller abstracts will be invited from authors who have been included in the programme and these will be distributed beforehand. Please send with absrtracts the title of the paper, names of author(s), name of affiliated institution or organisation, address where authors may be contacted, Fax number, Email address and phone number of each main author. Submissions may be sent, in ASCII, format to : DRH @ UK.AC.Aber or on paper. Send submissions and all enquiries to:- Dr Deian R.Hopkin, Department of History, Hugh Owen Building, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY Tel. 0970 622662, Fax 0970 617172, Email: DRH @ UK.AC.Aber. From: margaret@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: job Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1991 13:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 552 (1327) POSITIONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING R&D The HCRC Language Technology Group and the Centre for Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh are looking to hire one or possibly two new people to carry out research and development work in natural language processing of text or transcribed spoken input. Ideal candidates should have experience in the development and implementation of state-of-the-art natural language processing algorithms, and the delivery of application systems. People with an interest in theoretical and practical work on parsing and/or generation, the development of broad coverage grammars, statistical modeling, or the implementation of innovative systems and the fine-tuning of emerging products, are all encouraged to apply. Programming expertise in one or more computer languages, with a preference for Lisp, Prolog and C, and experience of X-windows and Unix will be an advantage. Experience in working with SPARCStations and Macintoshes, the computing infrastructure used in the HCRC and the Centre for Cognitive Science, will also be a considerable advantage. In the case where two appointments are made, one will include a component of computing support activity, so background in this area is also relevant. Researchers holding an M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or related disciplines are preferred. Successful candidates will be hired on the A1 or A2 researcher scale (12,000--21,400 pounds/annum), depending on age and experience. They will be employed initially for a period of one to three years, starting in January or as soon as possible thereafter. They may be employed on a number of different projects, and will become members of the active natural language processing group in Edinburgh engaged in research and teaching. Candidates should send a copy of their CV, a statement of past and present research interests and work experience, and the names of two referees before December 13 to Margaret Rennex Human Communication Research Centre The University of Edinburgh 2, Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW email: margaret@cogsci.ed.ac.uk From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Subject: computers in literature Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 08:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1119 (1328) Some of the other computers Douglas Adams' _Hitchhikers_Guide_To_The_Galaxy_ were: Marvin, the manically-depressed robot. Eddie, the computer on the Heart of Gold ship. Improbability Drive, the drive which ran the Heart of Gold, and which was powered by a cup of hot tea. Eddie's alter-ego, the backup program for Eddie's personality. Nutrimat, the nutrition machine about the Heart of Gold, which tied up all the ships circuits when it was trying to figure out how to make a cup of tea for Arthur Dent. (You want me to pour some hot water over some leaves and then squeeze some juice from a cow into it?) The automatic surface-to-space and surface defense systems on the legendary planet. The policemen and their ship on the legendary planet. Marvin talked to the ship and depressed it so much that it committed suicide and killed the robot policemen with it. Deep Thought, the computer which discovered that the answer to the question of "Life, the Universe, and Everything" was "42". From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: RE: 5.0544 Computers in Literature (3/54) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 18:13 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1120 (1329) Am I the only person to have read and been impressed by Julian Barnes' History of the world in 10 ½ chapters? That has quite the scariest computer I've read in recent fiction. It runs the information retrieval system in the dystopic library of the future and helps its users decide whether or not to go on living. Lou From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: 5.0544 Computers in Lit Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 16:49 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1121 (1330) Before you get deluged with corrections, allow me to apologise for giving the wrong title for the Julian Barnes book featuring the computer advising on First and Last things. The book title was of course Staring at the sun or something like that; the computer was called the General Purpose Computer or GPC and the program I had in mind was called TAT, for The Absolute Truth. I had a quick glance this morning, so I know. It's a very good read, as are all his books (except for the utterly unreadable Flauberts Parrot). Right. Back to the Xmas Shopping. Lou From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: RE: 5.0543 F Word Etymology (2/24) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 18:34:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1122 (1331) I heard, but have not verified it from the original sources, that the F-Word is juridical language standing for "FOUND UNDER CARNAL KNOWLEDGE." It is supposed to be quite common in the eighteenth-century British newspapers and refers to sex with minors. Whether this is indeed a juridical term or a folk etymology could be checked easily by one of our OED experts on Humanist. My 1933 Shorter OED is too proper to list the word. HANS ROLLMANN. From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 5.0543 F Word Etymology (2/24) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 11:26:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1123 (1332) In a very good undergraduate Victorian England course I think I was taught that it is based on latin and is a technical term from the Scottish legal system, refering to say the single man who has intercourse with someone's wife. Her charge would be say, adultery, but being single he is not being adulterous because he has no spouse. I think that is what I recall, but no source on it. As an 8:30 Monday lecture it woke us all up. We need someone with a background in gender & law, or an old law dictionary. Lorne Hammond History University of Ottawa From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0542 Plutarch in the Colonies (2/35) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 17:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1124 (1333) I would like to know what library cat. Germain Warkentin is editing, and why. About reading only the beginning of books (18th C.), or the first vol., etc. That has also been my experience. First volumes of sets tend to be much more worn that the rest; likewise bits that would have had a more general appeal (or at least be more amusing). --Bob Dawson UTx-Austin From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: 5.0545 Copyright / Unpublishing (1/15) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 08:43:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1125 (1334) Oops! How embarrassing! One should think before replying. Yes, there IS a copyright problem here; yes, the placement of the work on reserve is the best answer. Again, however, I applaud the INTENT -- and I would like to see scholarly publishing taken back under the wing of academe--who theoretically would be more liberal in granting such From: "Robert S. Kirsner" Subject: help with Eagleton citation Date: Sun, 22 Dec 91 14:52 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1126 (1335) I would appreciate HELP WITH AN EAGLETON CITATION. I am a linguist who is presently editing a volume on Dutch Studies, one covering a multitude of disciplines. One author, whom it is difficult to contact, cites an essay by Terry Eagleton, 1979, entitled "Ideology, Fiction, Narrative" and covering pages 62-80 in an unnamed volume. Can anyone out their in the Void provide me with a complete citation? Thank you. Robert Kirsner. idt1rsk@mvs.oac.ucla.edu From: "Randall Jones" Subject: Date: 23 Dec 91 17:10:57 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1127 (1336) Subject: A few years ago I was the recipient of an IBM PS/2-30 with an 8086 processor (a gift from IBM for a special project I was working on). The problem is that it is now old technology and I can't find any add- on hardware to bring it up to speed. Does anyone out there in the HUMANIST world know where I can buy something that will bring up the speed to at least 286 technology, but preferably 386? I would appreciate hearing from you. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: New List Announcement Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 10:57:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 557 (1337) Announcing the _Library Master Bibliographic Database List_ Libmastr@Uottawa (Bitnet) Libmastr@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca (Internet) This Listserv list is designed to provide an informal forum for users of the _Library Master_ bibliographic and textual database management system. Libmastr will facilitate the exchange of user tips, index frequently asked questions and maintain a fileserver for archiving databases of academic interest, as well as customized database structures, style sheets, format files, sort order files, and import parameter files. The list is open to automatic subscription by sending the following e-mail message to Listserv@Uottawa or Listserv@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca : Sub Libmastr your name This service is provided free of charge to the virtual community in cooperation with Balboa Software and Harry Hahne, the author of _Library Master_. Contact the list owner, Michael Strangelove, for more information or if you experience difficulties in attempting to subscribe. Michael Strangelove University of Ottawa <441495@Uottawa> <441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca> ----------------------- From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Holidays Date: Sat, 28 Dec 91 15:27:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 560 (1338) Humanist may be a little sporadic until the end of the week. And there is a backlog of special requests and address changes. Please be patient. -- Allen From: Howard Spivak Subject: Source of quote Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 17:42:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1128 (1339) A colleague is seeking the source of: Philosophers more grave than wise Hunt science down in butterflies Does this quote sound familiar to anyone? Howard Spivak Brooklyn College, CUNY HOSBC@CUNYVM 718-780-5342 From: "Randall Jones" Subject: Date: 30 Dec 91 16:52:20 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1129 (1340) Subject: Does anyone know how I can reach the Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, Germany by e-mail or FAX? I already have a postal address and telephone number. Thanks. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: "Randall Jones" Subject: Date: 31 Dec 91 11:55:08 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1130 (1341) Subject: We are looking for native speakers of Bemba and Zulu who are currently residing in the U.S. or Canada, have had some experience in editing in their native language, and have good facility with English. If anyone can provide names, addresses, telephone numbers and a little background information we would appreciate it. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Query: Anothotheus Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1991 15:17:06 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1131 (1342) Last fall, I posted the following message on FICINO, and had one very good reply, suggesting that "Anothotheus" might be "Anathotheus", that is, he who was born at Anathoth, i.e., Jeremiah. This certainly seems like a possibility, but I wonder if there are any other ideas out there? Your assistance will be acknowledged with gratitude! Germaine Warkentin [deleted quotation] From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: HyperCard Poetry Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 24:09:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1132 (1343) About a month ago, someone requested information or contacts concerning creative writing using HyperCard or similar means. I replied directly, but did not have William Dickey's E-Mail address. If the person is still interested, William Dickey's E-Mail address is WDICKEY@SFSUVAX.SFSU.EDU. From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Request for contacts: Institute of State and Law, Moscow Date: Wed, 1 Jan 92 16:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1133 (1344) On a recent trip to Moscow, Peter Olenick (Princeton) and I visited the Institute of State and Law, whose computer has recently been connected to the network being organized by Alexandra Belyaeva. The Institute is seeking contact with researchers using computers to do legal scholarship. For example, the Institute is currently compiling a full text database for statutes of the former Soviet Union. There are approximately a million statutes. If you are aware of similar research on large databases, especially those compiling statutes, please help the Institute for State and Law establish e-mail contact. The director of the project is Marina M. Karelina, Department Chief, Institute of State and Law, Academy of Science, Moscow . Please copy initial correspondence to Tom Benson . Tom Benson Penn State University (814-865-3461) From: SBeeler@UNCAMULT.BITNET Subject: Icon Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 11:04 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1134 (1345) While reading through this month's copy of Byte magazine I came upon an article about the SNOBOL language that I found quite interesting. It reminded me of a HUMANIST discussion of a few years back about the ICON language. At the time I was working with C and trying to finish my dissertation so I did not feel that I had the time to experiment with any new languages. Right now I still have not got a lot of free time but I am working primarily with the Clipper database language and would like to try something else for a change. Can anyone tell me how I could obtain a low cost version of ICON for a MS-DOS platform? Stan Beeler Dept. of English The University of Calgary UNCAMULT From: David Bantz Subject: Position Notice - Please Post Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 14:38:29 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 563 (1346) The University of Chicago Academic & Public Computing 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, Illinois 60637-2745 6 January, 1991 Research Project Professional in Academic Computing We are seeking a person to carry out various research, information-gathering, and writing tasks to assist the director in developing plans and priorities for academic computing, and in disseminating information about academic computing to faculty and students. The person will be actively involved in the process of applying information technology to support research and instruction in the university and will have an opportunity to work with individuals from many parts of the institution. The position demands demonstrated analytical and critical skills, experience conducting independent research, effective expository writing skills, and familiarity with a research university environment. Specific requirements include an advanced degree or at least 2-3 years research or writing experience relevant to the position; familiarity with computing in support of research and instruction; maturity to deal professionally with faculty and other adminsitrators. Experience in multiple academic disciplines, professional publication record, management of computing projects, and success in securing grants or contracts are all definite pluses. Full description and requirements available on request. The position is available immediately; applications received by 1 February are assured of full consideration. The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from women and minority group members. Starting salary in the low 30's. To apply or request further information, contact: Deborah Cooper, Director of Human Resources Management University of Chicago Computing Organizations 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745 312-702-7618 (voice) 312-702-9885 (fax) internet: d-cooper@uchicago.edu To discuss the position or academic computing at U of C, contact: David Bantz < D-Bantz@UChicago.edu > Director, Academic & Public Computing University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745 voice: 312-702-0822 fax: 312-702-7661 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: call for papers Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 08:30:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 564 (1347) [The following from Paul Fortier (French, Manitoba), fortier@uofmcc.bitnet.] CALL FOR PAPERS The Modern Language Association's Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature, will be organising a session with the topic "How the Computer has improved literary research: Case studies" at the 1992 Convention to be held in New York City, December 27-30, 1992. People presenting papers at the MLA Convention MUST be members of the Association. Please send full papers or abstracts including references no later than March 20, 1992 to Professor Robert Ponterio, Department of French, New York S.U.C. Cortland, Cortland, N.Y. 13045, U.S.A. From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0545 Copyright / Unpublishing (1/15) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 17:57:34 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1135 (1348) On Thu, 19 Dec 1991 17:27:57 EST you said: [deleted quotation]As a librarian, I believe that MANY faculty are doing exactly that type of thing. Our reserve usage has tripled this past semester, both in the number of items placed on reserve, and in number of circulations. The reserve people are frazzled, but happy. We know that MANY of the students copy the material, probably illegally, but the library is legally protected by the copyright statements on the documents and the signs over the copiers. It is indeed nice to be able to say "not my problem" about it. dan ***************************************************************************** * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * * Boise State University * * Boise, Idaho 83725 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak * * 208-385-1234 for them and they don't speak for me. * ***************************************************************************** From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705" Subject: Re: 5.0545 Copyright / Unpublishing (1/15) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1992 10:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1136 (1349) Here's an addendum to the Copyright/Unpublishing problem: reserve policies at libraries. Our library has several policies which seem what shall we say overly moralistic? For example: only one journal article (xeroxed) from any one issue of a journal may be put on reserve, even when our library owns that particular issue of the journal. Same with books: only one chapter from a book, whether the book comes through ILL or off our own shelves. The first is a particularly troublesome problem when you might want to use several articles from a special number of a journal devoted, let's say, to the topic you're teaching that week (and the classes are large and the students all want the article RIGHT NOW). Are such policies general? Are there libraries with policies that work pretty well and yet remain in compliance with copyright law? Malcolm Hayward IUP From: david j reimer f Subject: "Production" vs. "Publication" Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 14:37:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1137 (1350) I wonder if others would be willing to think aloud about this question: what distinguishes *production* of texts/documents vs. *publication* of same? This may appear harmless and facile. Perhaps it is! What lies behind the question are the stimulating and (intentionally) provocative postings of Robin Cover in past months on e-publishing vs. traditional publishing, as well as more local prods. The question is relevant to those of us who study ancient texts too: what marked the *publication* of a text in ancient times as apart from its *production*? In the electronic context, my concern is that the push for scholars to circumvent traditional publication leads directly to a line of *production*. What of significance, if anything, does the traditional publication route bring to a scholarly work? Or is this simply and cynically a way of pleasing adminstrators? Does this question flog a dead horse? or does anyone care to speak to my concern? -- David J. Reimer, Religion & Culture Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2680 Wilfrid Laurier University Fax: (519) 886-9351 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Internet: dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca From: David Owen Subject: Electronic Texts in Philosophy Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 08:49 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 566 (1351) Dear Interested parties, Here is the most recent version of our list of Electronic Texts in philosophy, updated as usual by Leslie Burkholder. Please replace older versions on bulletin boards, file servers etc. If appropriate, you might announce the new list is available in Newsletters you publish, etc. Please let Leslie and me know of any new projects (ongoing or completed) that we have left out. David Owen Electronic Texts in Philosophy Compiled by Leslie Burkholder, CDEC, Carnegie Mellon University, for the APA Subcommittee on Electronic Texts in Philosophy. Date of this version = Dec 1991. Thanks for contributions to: Mike Neuman, Stephen Clark, Hansje Braam, Bob Kraft, Malcolm Brown, Alastair McKinnon, Raymundo Morado, Peter Batke. Text-analysis Software For information on text-analysis software see The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1988 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), chapters 25-27, or The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), chapter 23. Contains descriptions of various programs and references to articles about computer-aided text-analysis. Example Uses of Etexts Barron Brainerd. "Textual analysis and synthesis". Abacus 4 (Winter 1987), 8-18. [Includes Kierkegaard example.] Gerard R. Ledger. Re-Counting Plato: A Computer Analysis of Plato's Style. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Alistair McKinnon. "Mapping the dimensions of a literary corpus". Literary and Linguistic Computing 4 (1989), 73-84. [Kierkegaard example.] Michael Neuman. "An introduction to the analysis of electronic text in philosophy". The Computers & Philosophy Newsletter 5 (March 1990), 1-5. [Hegel example.] Alistair McKinnon. "Kierkegaard's presentation of the good". Philosophy & Computing (forthcoming). Claus Huitfeld. "The Wittgenstein archives at the University of Bergen". Philosophy & Computing (forthcoming). Ronald Suter. "The Wittgenstein archives at the University of Bergen (comment on Huitfeld)." Philosophy & Computing (forthcoming). Etexts (Note: This includes the Intelex listing as of August 1991.) Abbreviations: ARTFL = ARTFL Project, Dept. Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 1050 East 59th Street, Chicago IL 60637 USA InteLex = InteLex Corporation, Route 2 Box 383, Pittsboro NC 27312 USA Inter Editions = Inter Editions, 3005 Barat Road, Montreal Canada H3Y 2H4; ina7@musicb.mcgill.ca Okita Denshi Giken = Okita Denshi Giken, Suginami-corp 101, Kamiogi 4-4-5, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167, Japan. Oxford Text Archive = Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, England Peter Abelard. [Works]. In Latin. For information contact Literary & Linguistic Computing Center, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Ave., Cambridge CB3 9DA, England. Anselm of Canterbury (Saint Anselm). Opera Omnia. In Latin. For information contact Literary & Linguistic Computing Center, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Ave., Cambridge CB3 9DA, England. St Thomas Aquinas. [Complete works]. For information contact Index Thomisticus, Aloisianum, I-21013 Gallarte, France. St Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Trans. by ? Benziger. For information contact InteLex. Aristotle. [Complete works]. In Greek. For information contact Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, University of California at Irvine, Irvine CA 92717, USA; tlg@uci.bitnet. Aristotle. [Various works]. For information contact InteLex. Antoine Arnauld (and Claude Lancelot). Grammaire Gnerale et Raisonne de Port-Royal. (Paris: P. le Petit, 1660). For information contact ARTFL. Antoine Arnauld (and Pierre Nicole). La Logique, ou, L'Art de Penser. (Paris: Ch. Savreux, 1662). For information contact ARTFL. Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine). [Selections]. In Latin. For information contact APA Repository of Greek and Latin Texts, Packard Humanities Institute, 300 Second Street, Los Altos CA, USA. Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine). [Various works]. In Latin. For information contact Fr. Allan Fitzgerald OSA, Dept. of Religious Studies, Villanova University, Villanova PA 19805 USA; fitzgeral@villvm.bitnet. [Those are the A's. The entire list is available on the server. ] -------------------- [A complete version of this list is now available through the fileserver, s.v. PHILOSFY ETEXTS. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Editing 17th C. Library Catalogue Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1991 22:39:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1138 (1352) Bob Dawson asked (on the list) what library catalogue I was editing. It's the manuscript of the catalogue of the library of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent. The manuscript is on deposit in the Kent Archives Office, Maidstone, and dates from approximately 1665. The library it records is that of the 17th-century Sidneys, not Sir Philip Sidney the poet (1554-1586). However, the books at Penshurst were a long time accumulating, and in my view it is very likely that a small number of them once belonged to Sir Philip. The total number of titles entered in the catalogue is just under 4000 -- a substantial family library for the period. Some of the books may have been those of Sir Henry Sidney and Sir Philip his son, many of them were those of Sir Philip's brother Robert, first Earl of Leicester of the second creation, and a LOT of them were accumulated by Robert's son the second Earl, who was not nearly as famous as the rest of the Sidneys, probably because he seems to have spent most of his time buying books! May I use this opportunity to ask members of Humanist to let me know if they ever come across a book with a Sidney family provenance? A message on ExLibris and C-18L last spring led to several reports of volumes with the bookplate of Philip the _fifth_ -- a generation too late for my catalogue, but still of great interest for the history of the library itself, which goes on until 1743, when the books were dispersed by that interesting 18th century bookseller Thomas Osborne (yes, the one at whom Dr. Johnson threw the folio Greek bible). In particular, I would be grateful for any leads to a copy of the sale catalogue itself, which unremitting effort has failed to uncover. Osborne advertised his auction as "Library of John, late Earl of Leicester," and the sale, with W. Shropshire as auctioneer, was held in January-February 1742/3. All assistance will be gratefully acknowledged, and in return I'm always happy to answer questions about titles in the catalogue. Germaine Warkentin From: Jess Parmer Subject: Urban Legends Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 23:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1139 (1353) Don: I am very much intrigued by your suggestion that an extended literary metaphor might constitute an urban legend. I have explored some of the materials which you have suggested might be components of such a legend. Probably the single most comprehensive literary source, comprising every feature which you listed in your Nov. 22/91 posting in HUMANIST, is that of Juvenal's third Satire (imitated by Boileau & Samuel Johnson & perhaps John Le Carre). It stood at the end of a long tradition of humorous poetry on the city, starting with Aristophanes's Archrnians, and running from Theocritus 15, probably through Lucilius, to Horace (sorry, it's Aristophanes's Acharnians!). I've noticed in those works which precede Juvenal 3 that the archetypical narrative viewpoint was that of a naif, and that this device lent itself to the fable (Country Mouse & City Mouse) format. Juvenal incorporated this format in the lines on the _opici mures_ (lines 197-211), or "The Mice Who Speak No Greek." But Juvenal's picture of Rome is much darker than that of the cities of hi s predecessors, or even than that of his imitators: his spirit is far better comprehended in Le Carre's _A Small Town in Germany_ in which Bonn comes to stand, in its layout and its denizens, for much that was immoral in post-WWII Europe and America. STIG indeed has a Gothis feel to it, in so far as it resembles Third Reich Gothic. This darkness, along with some details, seem to me to have been derived from Juvenal and to represent an extension of this metaphor into an age of mass destruction roughly comparable to Juvenal's vision of the destruction of native Roman stock under a deluge of foreign immigrants. This is all that time permits for now, but, please, let's continue. Jess Parmer Department of Romance Languages Bowling Green State University JPARMER@BGSUOPIE From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0561 Misc. Queries and Responses (5/88) Date: Sun, 05 Jan 92 14:06:07 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1140 (1354) I am not sure that I would have caught "Anothotheus vates" who sang "lugubria" as being Jeremiah, but I would surely have been annoyed at myself if I hadn't. There is no doubt that that is correct. A _vates_ is a prophet, and a poet only by (usually poetic) extension; there was no Greek or Roman poet named "Anothotheus" (the name would be impos- sible in Latin and ridiculous in Greek); Jeremiah identifies himself as being "one of the _Kohanim_ from Anathoth" at the very beginning of his book. An epigrammist of a more biblically literate age could have reasonably expected his readers -- readers literate in Latin, after all, so not totally unschooled -- to catch the reference; and of course, this recherche' method of referring to ancient figures was very much beloved of the classicists (who took it from Vergil and Horace, who took it from the Hellenistic poets). David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Anathotheus Date: Fri, 03 Jan 92 10:44:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1141 (1355) I doubt Germaine Warkentin needs to look further than Jeremiah for for "Anathotheus . . . vates." And the word "lugubria" pretty much clinches it. The reference is specifically to _The Lamentations of Jeremiah." Happy New Year Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKIANVM From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) Subject: Re: 5.0562 Qs: Legal DBMS; Icon (2/44) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 14:30:53 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1142 (1356) If you're on the internet, you can obtain icon by anonymous ftp from cs.arizona.edu (192.12.69.5). (The DOS executables are in /icon/interpr/binaries/msdos.) If you're not, you can contact Icon Project Department of Computer Science Gould-Simpson Building The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 U.S.A. (602) 621-8448 icon-project@cs.arizona.edu (Internet) ... {uunet, allegra, noao}!arizona!icon-project (uucp) Yesterday Donald S. Klett (dsk@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) posted a message to comp.sys.mac.apps announcing his willingness to share his port of icon to the Macintosh. Contact him for more information. -Mac Pigman gwp@dido.caltech.edu pigman@caltech.bitnet From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: Stan Beeler's query about Icon. Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 9:11:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1143 (1357) Stan Beeler, prompted by an article in BYTE Magazine, asked about the availability of the Icon language for DOS (ugh!). Looking at the October 1990 Icon Newsletter (I don't have the 1991 issues at my fingertips), it lists versions for MS-DOS, MS-DOS/386, and OS/2. They are available for under $50. You can contact the Icon Project via e-mail at: icon-project@cs.arizona.edu Some versions of Icon are available via anonymous FTP, but on a quick look I did not see the DOS versions there. That address is: cs.arizona.edu and look in the icon directory. The postal address is Icon Project, Department of Computer Science, Gould-SImpson Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721. Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H. From: (James Marchand) Subject: Icon Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 09:33:43 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1144 (1358) To answer Stan Beeler's question on Icon. It is available on many BBS's and is in the public domain. I have been out of things for a while and am sadly out of date, but one used to obtain it and all kinds of useful in- formation from: Icon Project, Department of Computer Science, The Univer- sity of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721. The Byte article was a very weak one. I think the British use Snobol more than we do. Susan Hockey has a very good introduction to Snobol Programming in the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 1985), and the examples in Christopher Butler's Computers in Linguistics (Blackwell, 1985) are good. There used to be a SNOBOL BBS at 303-359-4830, 8-bit, no parity, one stop bit. Byte's articles used to be a bit more informative and authoritative. The October, 1986 issue had "An Icon Tutorial," by Ralph E. and Madge T. Griswold, pp. 167-178. These two are the authors of the Icon bibles, of which the best is: The Implement- ation of the Icon Programming Language (Princeton University Press, 1986). It is an excellent language for string manipulation, the source code is in the public domain, it is implemented in C; I have used it for literally everything, but particularly for concordance making. Mutant tempora et certain grammatici, but SNOBOL, SPITBOL and ICON are great languages for the humanities. Get in touch with the people at Arizona, with Mark Emmer and Robert Dewar (one of the original developers), mentioned in the Byte article of this month. Jim Marchand From: Harry Gaylord Subject: ICON Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 16:23:22 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1145 (1359) Public domain versions of ICON for MS-DOS, Mac, unix, and amiga are available by ftp from cs.arizona.edu. Log in as anonymous and use your userid-address as password. It is in subdirectories under the icon directory. Harry Gaylord From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Icon for MS-DOS Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 14:54:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1146 (1360) Stan Beeler mentions that he'd like to try the Icon programming language as a diversion from his work in C and Clipper database language. He asks, though, whether Icon is available for MS-DOS at a fairly low cost. The answer here is fairly complex, but I'll gladly offer him (and anyone else who's interested) what information I have. First of all, I wonder: Why are you using MS-DOS as a development en- vironment? Its memory limitations and inability to multitask make it a bit difficult for many of us to stomach (although its small size and relative simplicity make it fine for applications). Icon is a very high level, OS-independent language, and its implementation was geared for machines with medium or large address spaces and high-level memory management facilities (i.e. UNIX, VMS, etc.). There is a DOS version available from cs.arizona.edu (which you can obtain via anonymous ftp), and it's very popular. I found it klunky, though, and the inherent limitations of DOS memory management facilities forced me quickly to move "up." I still do most of my programming in Icon. Just not on a DOS machine. Emacs has an Icon mode, so I use it as my Icon development base on var- ious UNIX machines here at the U of Chicago. I'd have to wonder whether you'd be better off with Pascal or something, if you want to stay within the DOS world, but are tired of pushing pointers around in C. Below is a blurb I send to people who are interested in learning more about Icon. Perhaps you (or someone else) will find it useful. -Richard Goerwitz ----- Icon (1976) - A combination of Prolog-like evaluation mechanisms with an Algol-based syntax and SNOBOL-derived string processing facilities. Icon offers automatic storage allocation and garbage collection, as well as built in associative arrays, lists, "real" strings (i.e. not just char arrays), and a data type resembling mathematical sets. Icon is a strongly, though not statically, typed language offering transparent automatic type conversions (i.e. 10, depending on its context, may be converted to "10" or 10.0) and an elegant string processing mechanism known as "scanning." Central to Icon is the concept of the generator, i.e. the inherent capacity on the part of expressions to produce multiple results. Central also is the notion of goal-directed evaluation - a form of backtracking in which the components of an expression are resumed until some result is achieved, or else the expression as a whole fails. Icon was originally designed by Ralph Griswold, Dave Hanson, and Tim Korb. It was first implemented in C by Steve Wampler. Definitive references: Ralph E. and Madge T. Griswold, _The Icon Programming Language_ (2nd ed.; Prentice Hall, 1989); _The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language_ (Princeton Univ. Pr., 1986). IDOL (1988) - Acronym for "Icon-derived object language." IDOL is an object-oriented preprocessor to Icon designed by Clinton Jeffery, documented in University of Arizona Technical Report 90-10. Available from the U of Arizona CS Dept., Tuscon AZ, 85721 USA (ftp cs.arizona.edu ~ftp/icon/docs). Distributed as a standard part of the Icon Program Library. From: David Bantz Subject: corrected phone number Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 08:48:44 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 570 (1361) My original notice contained an incorrect phone number; the correct voice phone number for Deborah Cooper is 312-702-3225. With my apology, here is the corrected notice. The University of Chicago Academic & Public Computing 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, Illinois 60637-2745 2 January, 1991 Research Project Professional in Academic Computing We are seeking a person to carry out various research, information-gathering, and writing tasks to assist the director in developing plans and priorities for academic computing, and in disseminating information about academic computing to faculty and students. The person will be actively involved in the process of applying information technology to support research and instruction in the university and will have an opportunity to work with individuals from many parts of the institution. The position demands demonstrated analytical and critical skills, experience conducting independent research, effective expository writing skills, and familiarity with a research university environment. Specific requirements include an advanced degree or at least 2-3 years research or writing experience relevant to the position; familiarity with computing in support of research and instruction; maturity to deal professionally with faculty and other adminsitrators. Experience in multiple academic disciplines, professional publication record, management of computing projects, and success in securing grants or contracts are all definite pluses. Full description and requirements available on request. The position is available immediately; applications received by 1 February are assured of full consideration. The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from women and minority group members. To apply or request additional information, contact: Deborah Cooper, Director of Human Resources Management University of Chicago Computing Organizations 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745 312-702-3225 (voice) 312-702-9885 (fax) internet: d-cooper@uchicago.edu To discuss the position or academic computing at U of C, contact: David Bantz < D-Bantz@UChicago.edu > Director, Academic & Public Computing University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745 voice: 312-702-0822 fax: 312-702-7661 From: "J. 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It offers a generous mixture of plenary and special-interest sessions in a relaxed atmosphere; a chance for learning, leisure, and reflection on composition and rhetoric; and an extended opportunity to discuss professional concerns with nationally known speakers and interested colleagues. Each year the conference features plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, workshops, and roundtable discussions on topics of current interest. This year, the conference will run concurrently with the Association of Departments of English (ADE) regional summer meeting of department heads; several joint activities are planned. In addition, three special sessions will be offered on Saturday morning: (a) New Ideas for Integrating Critical Writing and Critical Reading, (b) Designing Effective Programs with Peer Tutoring and Peer Review and (c) Program Assessment in English (sponsored by ADE). Call for Papers The program committee invites one-page proposals for papers and workshops. Multiple submissions are encouraged. Please identify each proposal as a paper whole session workshop On each proposal, please include (for each speaker) the presentation title your name your professional affiliation your home address (current and after June 1) your home phone number (current and after June 1) your electronic mail (e-mail) address (if you have one) If you are willing to chair a session, please let us know that, too. Send your proposals by April 6 to Davida H. Charney, 117 Burrowes Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802; phone (814) 865-9703 or (secretary) 863-3066; e-mail to IRJ at PSUVM.PSU.EDU or fax to (814) 863-7285. Although we receive a great many proposals, we can accept only about one hundred papers. We will announce this year's program in early May. Papers You may propose a single 20-minute paper or an entire session (typically consisting of three related papers) on subjects involving rhetoric and composition. Especially welcome are extensions, applications, and critiques of the work of our featured speakers. Other possible topics include rhetorical theory; the composing process; technical or business writing; advanced composition; ESL; writing across the curriculum; the history of rhetoric; teaching methods; collaborative learning; tutoring and writing labs; connections among reading, writing, and speaking; computers and writing; legal, political, or religious rhetoric; literacy; language and stylistics; basic writing; social implications of writing; writing in the workplace; rhetorical criticism; rhetoric and literature; testing and assessment; and the administration of writing programs. Preference will be given to proposals that not only motivate the issue, but also indicate a substantive scholarly or research approach and point to interesting conclusions and implications. Workshops You may propose a 90- or 120-minute workshop on any of the topics listed above. We especially welcome workshops on innovative pedagogical techniques and on state-of-the-art applications of educational computing. Strong preference will be given to workshop proposals that clearly incorporate hands-on, interactive involvement of the participants. Saturday Morning Sessions On Saturday morning, participants will have a special opportunity to concentrate for an extended period on one of three important areas: New Ideas for Integrating Critical Writing and Critical Reading, Peer Tutoring and Reviewing, and Program Assessment in English. New Ideas for Integrating Critical Writing and Critical Reading Recognizing the intrinsic connections between reading and writing-- not only as socially constructive/interpretive acts but also as cognitive skills--this session will examine productive ways to integrate critical reading and writing in the classroom. The session will include presentations from featured speakers and participants, as well as opportunities for extended critique and discussion of both theoretical and pedagogical issues. To propose a short presentation for this session, follow the guidelines given under Call for Papers. Be sure to give your proposal a title and add the label: Saturday Morning--Writing/Reading. Designing Effective Programs with Peer Tutoring and Peer Review One of the most important advances in writing pedagogy of the last decade has undoubtedly been the use of student peers to help other students improve their writing. This session will include both presentations and interactive workshops that examine the practice of peer support from a variety of perspectives, from practical concerns such as effective peer training and supervision to studies of the effects (positive and negative) of various peer activities. To propose a short presentation for this session, follow the guidelines given under Call for Papers. Be sure to give your proposal a title and add the label: Saturday Morning--Peer Tutoring/Review. Program Assessment in English Like other academic disciplines, English departments are under increasing pressure to account for the effectiveness of their programs. This panel will explore how English departments can work to satisfy administrative needs for evaluation without compromising academic integrity. Conference participants are invited to attend this session, sponsored by the Association of Departments of English, which will feature talks from university administrators, experts in educational assessment, and leaders of English departments. Plenary Session Speakers Donald McCloskey, our keynote speaker, is professor of history and of economics at the University of Iowa, where he directs the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI). POROI grew out of the Iowa Rhetoric Seminar, which he co-founded in 1980 to promote scholarly study of rhetoric and collaborative approaches to writing among faculty in diverse disciplines. His work on the rhetoric of inquiry has appeared in numerous articles and books. He coedited The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (1987) and authored Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (forthcoming), If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise (1990), The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric (1988), and The Rhetoric of Economics (1986), which has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. Anne Ruggles Gere, professor of English and of education at the University of Michigan, is well known for fostering substantive work in composition at the national level, as a series editor of the MLA Series on Research and Scholarship in Composition, as Trustee and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the NCTE Research Foundation, and most recently, as the 1992 Program Chair for CCCC. Her own research encompasses both the theory and pragmatics of composition, as demonstrated by her articles and books on collaborative writing, such asWriting Groups (1987), and by her textbook, The Active Reader (1990). Her latest volume, Into the Field: the Site of Composition Studies, a collection of essays describing the interaction of disciplines within composition studies, is forthcoming from MLA. Steven Mailloux is professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine. His work examines the relationships among rhetoric, literary theory, cultural studies, and hermeneutics. His book, Rhetorical Power (1989), defines and demonstrates the productivity of rhetorical histories of specific interpretive acts. It builds upon his earlier works, Interpreting Law and Literature (1988) and Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (1982). Recent essays include 'The Turns of Reader-Response Criticism' (1990), 'The Rhetorical Politics of Editing' (1991), and the forthcoming "Misreading as an Historical Act: Cultural Rhetoric, Bible Politics and Fuller's 1845 Review of Douglass' Narrative." Featured Speakers Jeanne Fahnestock is associate professor at the University of Maryland, where she has served with distinction as director of the Professional Writing Program. Author of many essays on coherence, argument, and scientific rhetoric, she is also co-author of A Rhetoric of Argument and Readings in Argument. She and Marie Secor of Penn State are currently at work on A Rhetoric of Style. Gerard A. Hauser is professor of Speech Communications at Penn State, director of the University Scholars Program, and co-editor of Philosophy and Rhetoric. He has published numerous articles and reviews on rhetorical theory and criticism and is the author of Introduction to Rhetorical Theory (1986). His present research focuses on political rhetoric. Richard Larson, professor of English at the Herbert H. Lehman College of the City University of New York, served as editor of College Composition and Communication from 1980 to 1986. His early work analyzed discourse structure at the sentence and paragraph levels. His most recent work (sponsored in part by the Ford Foundation) has focused on writing curricula and assessment. Carolyn Miller, professor of English at North Carolina State University, is well-known for her work on the rhetoric of science and technology. Her essay "A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing" (1981) and her edited collection, New Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication (1984) both received awards from NCTE as outstanding contributions to scientific and technical communication. Her most recent work focuses on rhetoric and community. Christine Neuwirth, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, develops computer aids for writing and researches the effects of such tools on individual writers, on collaborative learning, and on classroom interaction. Her article, "The Role of External Representation in the Writing Process: Implications for the Design of Hypertext-Based Writing Tools' (1989), won the Ellen Nold Award for best article on computers and composition. Sondra Perl is associate professor of English at the City University of New York. Her long-standing interest in the writing process led her from case studies of unskilled writers to ethnographic studies of the writing classroom. This work has appeared in numerous essays and a coauthored book, Through Teachers' Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work (1986). Her current work focuses on feminist pedagogy and the discovery of voice in student writing. Gary Schumacher, professor of psychology at Ohio University, has researched both reading and writing processes. In recent articles in Written Communication and Research in the Teaching of English, he has explored how justified we are to proclaim that "writing is learning." Other recent articles include "Writing in Constrained Genres" (1987) and "The Relationship Between Content Knowledge and Topic Choice in Writing" (1989). William L. Smith, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, likes to test current practices in basic writing, writing assessment, and sentence-combining. Recent publications include "Editing Strategies and Error Correction in Basic Writing" (1987), 'Computers in the Basic Writing Classroom' (1990) and the forthcoming "Assessing the Adequacy of Holistic Scoring as A Writing Placement Technique." For More Information About program content Davida Charney 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 phone (814) 865-9703 secretary (814) 863-3066 FAX (814) 863-7285 E-mail to IRJ at PSUVM.PSU.EDU About registration and housing Chuck Herd 409 Keller Conference Center The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 phone (814) 863-3550 FAX (814) 865-3749 From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: From the Editors: Apologies Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 21:26:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 573 (1364) Apologies for the unannounced hiatus in Humanist digests. And a few other things while I'm at it... -- if any of you receive new introductory kits and biography templates because changed your address or rejoined, you may ignore them. -- pending a style sheet for Humanist submission (we've had one in draft for a year) here are a few things to make our lives easier. * LISTSERV commands must be sent to LISTSERV@BROWNVM or LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.HUMANIST. Do not send them to HUMANIST@BROWNVM * Include a standard subject line in the header if your mailer supports that; otherwise include a subject line in the body. Don't do both. * Include your full name, preferably as part of the mail header. * Indicate paragraphing by blank lines, not indentations only. * Do not use tabs. * Do not include lines of "="s in the body of your mail. * Do not include the text of the message you are replying to unless you really mean to. * Do not include more than one subject in a submission. Thanks. And a belated Happy New Year! -- Allen From: "John J Hughes" Subject: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 16:22:08 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1147 (1365) SUBJECT: English-to-Italian Translation Programs Fellow HUMANISTS: A friend of mine called today inquiring about English-to-Italian translation programs. Does anyone know of any such program for any platform? If so, I would appreciate receiving particulars. Thanks in advance. John John J. Hughes XB.J24@Stanford From: Nick Hidden Subject: Word Perfect file format conversion Date: Tue, 3 Dec 91 15:02:25 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1148 (1366) I'm anxious to get hold of a program that will convert files in Unix nroff/troff format to Word Perfect format. I'm sure that someone must have done this. Do you know of any program which will do this, or could you suggest where to find out ? Ann Sharrock From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: D.J.Birnbaum's e-address? Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 0:49:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1149 (1367) Could someone tell me the new e-mail address of D.J. Birnbaum (presently at Pittsburgh) whom I wish to contact? Michel. -- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | From: Subject: CD-ROM Longevity Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 15:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1150 (1368) One of our Learning Resource Center staff members has claimed that text CD-ROMs have been "de-laminating" and thus being destroyed in only 3-5 years. Is this true, or has it been reported at all as a problem? Thanks for any help on this. Ted Hansen (612) 255-3061 Associate Professor English Department St. Cloud State University Riverview Bldg. 106 St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 G00050@MSUS1.BITNET or TEDH@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU From: Lynn Cameron Subject: Holocaust Database Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 16:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1151 (1369) Dear Editors, I am not a member of your discussion list, but I would like information on accessing the Holocaust Database online. I a librarian who works with the English Department on campus, and one of the faculty members thinks the database would be helpful for his research. I will share any information you send with him. Will the database be available through INTERNET or DIALOG? Thank you. Lynn Cameron Reference Librarian James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22801 From: Brenda Danet Subject: Query about smiley icons Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 18:47 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1152 (1370) I've just joined Humanist, and would like to open with a query. I am a sociologist and communications researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I've recently gotten very involved in work on the language of electronic communication. I am working on a paper on smiley icons (such as :-) for a smile and ;-) for a wink). I would like to know: (1) Have you seen them in various modes of CMC (computer-mediated communication)? (2) Do you use them yourself? (3) Do you have any files or collections of them which you could share with me? (4) How do you feel about their use? I'll look forward to hearing from you on this, and to sharing other postings on Humanist. Thanks. :-) of course, Brenda Danet. From: david j reimer f Subject: "B.C.E." again Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 13:54:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1153 (1371) A little while ago we had some discussion on the origin of the designations "B.C.E./C.E." (Before the Common Era/Common Era), used as value-free replacements for the traditional B.C./A.D. My question has to do not with origins, but with current opinions and use of these designations. A colleague of mine informs me that in the Arab world -- or at least in some parts -- these "value-free" replacements are regarded as Israeli/American. Do others have experience of this? How is this innovation regarded by our European members? Thanks for your thoughts on this question. David. -- David J. Reimer, Religion & Culture Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2680 Wilfrid Laurier University Fax: (519) 886-9351 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Internet: dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca From: "Randall Jones" Subject: Date: 6 Jan 92 16:03:02 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1154 (1372) Subject: I have a very bright bright student who just completed an M.A. in German and is looking for a Ph.D. program in the U.S. or Canada that will allow her to combine an interest in German linguisitics/philology with second language acquisition. She realizes that the application deadline for 1992 is fast approaching, and as a matter of fact she has already made application to a couple of schools, but she is concerned that there are other good programs out there that she is not aware of. If anyone has recommendations I would appreciate hearing about them. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Florida State University e-address Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 0:59:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1155 (1373) I am trying to contact Laurin A. Wollan, Jr, Associate Professor of Criminology at Florida State University. Does any HUMANIST have his e-mail address at hand? Michel. -- From: Rainer Henrich Subject: Question: empty-handed more Parthorum Date: Thu, 09 Jan 92 10:19:31 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1156 (1374) In a German letter written in 1536 a South German town-clerk says: "in order to approach you not empty handed more Parthorum (I send a gift)". I suppose that this might be an allusion to a historical event, but I could not find the source. Can you help? Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. Bullinger-Briefwechsel-Edition Institut fuer Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte Theologisches Seminar der Universitaet Zuerich Kirchgasse 9 8001 Zuerich K145310@CZHRZU1A From: "David R. Chesnutt" Subject: Re: 5.0532 Plutarch in the Colonies (1/9) Date: Mon, 06 Jan 92 10:38:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1157 (1375) "The Libraries of Colonial South Carolina" by Walter B. Edgar, PhD diss., Univ of South Carolina, 1969, notes on p. 33: "Homer, Virgil and Plutarch occurred with greater frequency in the original and in translation than any other ancient's writings." Of the 2200 estate inventories Edgar analyzed, only about 400 listed secular titles. His appendix (p. 230) shows 18 copies of Plutarch's "Lives". Our experience in editing the papers of Henry Laurens, active Charleston, S.C., merchant-planter-politician from 1747 to 1792, certainly indicates a culture familiar with the classical writers. Classical allusions abound in the correspondence. David Chesnutt University of South Carolina From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: RE: 5.0561 Misc. Queries and Responses (5/88) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1992 21:39:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1158 (1376) RE: Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim I don't have a FAX number for this institute in my German FAX telephone book, but the number for the BIBLIOGRAPHISCHES INSTITUT (DUDEN) is 621-3901-389. They may have your number or relay your message. HANS ROLLMANN. From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Where the hare lays (summary) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 12:47:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1159 (1377) Deborah Leslie asked some time ago if I would give a summary of the answers I received to my query of last fall re the (possibly proverbial) "where the hare lays." Sorry for the delay, but here it is at last. I owe my first real lead to Dana Paramskas, who suggested "ou le lievre cuvait," meaning "where the object of the chase could be hidden," i.e., where the pot of gold was. Giles Hoyt then sent a message saying that a proverb of the same sort existed in German: "wo der Hasse liegt" = the discovery of information hitherto unknown, as in a plot or cabal; he observed that Gryphius and Lessing used it in several plays. Thomas Austenfeld (as well as -- off-line -- my colleague Erika Rummel) both told me about another German saying, "Da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer" = "that's where the problem is; if we could only solve this we'd know." Gregory Bloomquist contributed the information that one of his colleagues who knew something about hunting lore told him that "unlike rabbits, who dig burrow, the hare cannot; it can only lie on top of the ground, hidden by the grass." David Shaw pointed out the phrase "hic jacet lepus" in Rabelais, and sent me to Cotgrave's dictionary (1611) which defines the phrase much as above. It was Michel Pierssens who traced the phrase closer to its origin: in the medieval Latin "his jacet lepus" meaning, he writes, "here's the crux of the problem. It might have been borrowed from earlier Latin sources of course. It was used in erudite disputations and, I think, in juridical debates." Pierssens cites a reference in Marivaux. I am immensely grateful to the participants in HUMANIST and C18-L who shared their knowledge with me on this small, but to me very illuminating point. Germaine Warkentin From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169) Subject: Tyrants and icons Date: Sat, 21 Dec 91 16:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1160 (1378) Thanks to all who answered my queries on these subjects, especially those who sent me private messages to which I was (for some reason) unable to respond. Mary Whitlock Blundell mb169@umail.umd.edu From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends (2/79) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 23:31:55 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1161 (1379) For Germaine Warkenton Have you checked with the Grolier Club in New York for your sale catalog? it has the largest collection of book auction and sales catalogues in the U.S., possibly in the world. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: P.R.Williams@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: African Brotherhood League Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 14:17:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1162 (1380) africa-l@earn.brufpb, amerstdy@earn.miamiu, history@earn.irlearn, humanist@earn.brownvm Message-ID: <_7_Jan_92_14:17:04_A108E3@UK.AC.GLA.VME> Could anyone tell me where I could get primary source material: speeches, essays, etc. given by the leaders of this early twentieth century nationalist movement. Furthermore, could someone, if possible, give me a book that deals with the history, ideology, and composition of this organisation. Any help at all will be gratefully received. Yours, Paul R. Williams From: "Linda Lopez McAlister/Hypatia" Subject: Announcing feminist philo. list Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 15:33:27 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1163 (1381) To: Announcing the formation of a new e-mail list called the SWIP-L, an information and discussion list for members of the Society for Women in Philosophy and others who are interested in feminist philosophy. To subscribe to this list send the following one-line message to LISTSERV@CFRVM or LISTSERV@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Subscribe SWIP-L To post messages to the list send them to SWIP-L@CFRVM or to SWIP-L@ CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU The idea of the list is to have a place to share information about SWIP meetings and other feminist philosophy meetings, calls for papers, jobs for feminist philosophers, as well as to engage in more substantive discussion of issues related to feminist philosophy. While it is open to people who are not SWIP members, this is a list meant for feminist philosophers; please don't subscribe unless that is a description you are comfortable applying to yourself. LINDA LOPEZ McALISTER DLLAFAA@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (Internet) Women's Studies Dept. DLLAFAA@CFRVM_(Bitnet) University of South Florida, Tampa 33620 (813)974-5531 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# From: "Don W." Subject: Buddha-L Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1991 15:16:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1164 (1382) Jim Cocks has asked me to cross-post the following new list announcement. [...] Don W. DonWebb@CSUS.EDU This may be of some interest to those interested in the historical aspects of Buddhism. BUDDHA-L on LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU or LISTSERV@ULKYVM.BITNET An electronic discussion group called BUDDHA-L has recently been formed towards the end of providing a means for those interested in Buddhist Studies to exchange information and views. It is hoped that the group will function as an open forum for scholarly discussion of topics relating to the history, literature and languages, fine arts, philosophy, and institutions of all forms of Buddhism. It may also serve as a forum for discussion of issues connected to the teaching of Buddhist studies at the university level, and as a place for posting notices of employment opportunities. The primary purpose of this list is to provide a forum for serious academic discussion. It is open to all persons inside and outside the academic context who wish to engage in substantial discussion of topics relating to Buddhism and Buddhist studies. BUDDHA-L is not to be used for proselytizing for or against Buddhism in general, any particular form of Buddhism, or any other religion or philosophy, nor is it to be used as a forum for making unsubstantiable confessions of personal conviction. The discussion on the list is to be moderated, not in order to suppress or censor controversies on any topic, but rather to limit irrelevant discussions and idle chatter, and to redirect or return messages sent to the list by accident. Content or style will never be altered by the moderator, whose only responsibility will be to forward all appropriate postings to the list. If you wish to subscribe to BUDDHA-L, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU, or BITNET nodes can send to LISTSERV@ULKYVM. The message should contain only the following command (ie. in the body of the mail): SUBSCRIBE BUDDHA-L Owner: James A. Cocks Senior Consultant Research/Instruction University of Louisville Internet: JACOCK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU Bitnet: JACOCK01@ULKYVM From: Thomas Zielke <113355@DOLUNI1.BITNET> Subject: new list Date: Fri, 03 Jan 92 19:09:21 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1165 (1383) NEW LIST ANNOUNCEMENT As of today, January 3, 1992, a new discussion forum has opened for the discussion of Early Modern History. EMHIST-L will discuss everything that is of interest for scholars and students of the period from ca. 1500 up to 1800, no matter what special region or topic is brought up. To subscribe, send the command SUB EMHIST-L to LISTSERV@RUTVM1. If you have any questions or problems, please notify the list owner, 113355@DOLUNI1. Sincerely yours, Thomas Zielke Historisches Seminar Universit{t Oldenburg Postfach 2503 D-W-2900 Oldenburg From: KROVETZ@cs.umass.EDU Subject: F word Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 18:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1166 (1384) There is a good discussion of the etymology of `fuck' in `An Obscenity Symbol', Allen Walker Read, American Speech, Vol. 9(4), 1934. He mentions that the original meaning was `to knock', and that there is a psychological parallel in the expression `knocked up'. He also mentions that `pungo' (to prick or puncture) and `pugil' (a boxer) might be Latin cognates. They come from the root `pug-' (to thrust or strike). Bob From: "George Fowler h(317)571-9471 o(812)855-2829" Subject: RE: 5.0543 F Word Etymology (2/24) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 91 20:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1167 (1385) The problem with finding the etymology of "fuck" is that it was always a taboo word, and people were much more restricted in the sorts of things they put in print hundreds of years ago, since printing was so much harder. As a result, there are no attestations of this word as recently as a thousand years ago in Old English. If there's no paper trail, then it is hard to be sure of the etymology. Latin futuere can't be the direct predecessor of fuck, since it doesn't work out formally. After all, Germanic "f" corresponds to Latin "p", e.g., Eng. "father" vs. Latin "pater", etc. Nevertheless, both words start with "fu-", and it is tantalizing to look for some sort of borrowing. Perhaps the coincidence of "fu" represents something less than a borrowing, some sort of ephemeral influence; perhaps there is some non-obvious sound symbolism involved. Maybe it's just an accident. I worked for a while doing etymologies for the Random House Dictionary, and there are lots of problems we had with words whose etymologies are unsatisfactory, but can't be improved due to lack of pertinent evidence. This is why historical linguistics is so hard to do: if nobody wrote it down, you have to guess about it. Often you can guess with a high degree of certainty, but just as often you can't. Now if somebody would just invent a time machine, we could solve important philological problems like this one. George Fowler Indiana University Dept. of Slavic Languages From: Christy Cousineau Subject: the computer term "to spool" Date: Sat, 28 Dec 91 20:22:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1168 (1386) I am interested in learning more about the use of the word "spool" in computer terminology. My former employer tells me that to spool means "to store . . . for later use" in order to "free up the system." Does anyone know anything about the origin of the use of the term among computer users? About the various electronic contexts in which it was once used and/or continues to be used? I noticed, for example, that when a bitnet message I have sent arrives at its addressee, a line appears on my screen telling me that a file has been spooled to the addressee's account (e.g. "File (xxxx) spooled to USERNAME"). I would appreciate any help that any humanist subscriber could offer. Thanks. Christy Cousineau BITNET: ccousino@iubacs Internet: ccousino@ucs.indiana.edu From: rsiemens@epas.utoronto.ca (Ray Siemens) Subject: A tangent on the F word Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1992 17:22:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1169 (1387) Having just checked on my backlog of pre-Holiday Email, I just tuned in to the discussion of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Did the instigator of the discussion say his son was asking about it? When I asked a younger friend of mine, and undergraduate with Victorian interests, he told me nothing of prisons and the like but, rather, that _For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge_ was the title of the Rock & Roll band Van Halen's new album. Hope this is of at least tangential interest. R Siemens. From: pdk@iris.brown.edu (Paul D. Kahn) Subject: Book Announcement Date: Fri, 3 Jan 92 12:43:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 579 (1388) I wanted to notify HUMANIST readers of the publication of a new book that should be of interest to many of you. The title is From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine, edited by James M. Nyce and myself and published by Academic Press. The book should be of interest to people involved in hypertext and hypermedia research, history of science, and information science. I attach an excerpt from the Preface and the table of contents. The cost is $39.95. Paul Kahn pdk@iris.brown.edu [deleted quotation]Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine Academic Press, 1991 Preface This book focuses on one early and important figure in the history of computing--Vannevar Bush. Bush's contributions to engineering, higher education and science are well known. Bush was also one of the first Americans to design and use computing machines to solve mathematical and engineering problems. This book looks at these machines and particularly at Memex, a machine that was never built. While Memex was a visionary design, the documents and papers brought together here show how much Memex reflected the intellectual currents and the technology of the time. At the same time in writing about Memex, Bush argued that computing machines and machine intelligence would come to have an important place in man's intellectual life. Much of the story about Memex concerns analogy computers. While Bush and his contemporaries thought analog machines had great promise, today this technology has been for the most part ignored or forgotten. We hope that through this book readers will gain a better understanding the place analog machines have in the history of modern computing. In particular, we hope they will learn, as we have, something of the transitions and disjunctions that have characterized this history. The seed for this book was planted at the 1987 Hypertext conference at Chapel Hill. The influence of Bush's essay "As We May Think" on the emerging field of hypertext was widely acknowledged. The year before Bush had been discovered by the personal computing world at the first Microsoft CD ROM conference. However, we were struck by a discontinuity. People interested in hypertext, electronic libraries, and information retrieval, the very audience influenced by Memex, knew little or nothing about Bush as an engineer and pioneer of computing machines. People who knew Bush as an engineer and statesman had written little about Memex. We set out to determine what was known about Bush's Memex, to better understand the context from which it emerged, the ideas it represented, and to evaluate the impact it has had on the computer and information sciences. The essays in part one take us back to when the greatest technological innovations in machine calculation were occurring in the field of analog computing. In the first part of the book, The Creation of Memex, Larry Owens provides a history of the several of Bush's analog computers--machines that set the stage for Memex. Our own essay describes Bush's speculative writings up through the publication of "As We May Think" in 1945 and tells the story of how this essay made its way into print. The balance of part one is three essays by Bush, ending with a text of "As We May Think" that shows the variations between the versions published in the Atlantic and LIFE magazine. Bush's interest in Memex did not end with the publication of "As We May Think." The essays in part two show how Memex faired as digital machines and theory became the dominant technology. In part two, The Extension of Memex, our piece describes the essays Bush wrote in which he extended the Memex design and addressed questions of machine intelligence. Colin Burke sketches out the history of the Rapid Selector, a little-known machine whose technology helped inform the Memex design. "Memex II," in which Bush revisits the ideas and issues of the first Memex design, is published here for the first time. The remaining three essays, Bush's last published work about Memex, are taken from his collection of essays, Science Is Not Enough, and his autobiography, Pieces of the Action. Part three looks at the influence Bush's ideas have had on modern digital computing, particularly in the area of hypertext. We begin the third part of the book, The Legacy of Memex, by reprinting pieces by two pioneers in the field, Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson. In their papers, Engelbart and Nelson discuss the continuity they recognized between their current work and Bush's ideas. Over a decade ago, Linda Smith examined through citation analysis the influence Bush's "As We May Think" has had--here she updates her research and findings. For many readers, Bush's essay "As We May Think" and his description of Memex there prefigures current research in several areas of computer and information science. The rest of part three traces out the relationship that exists between Memex and today's research in workstations, hypertext, and information retrieval. Norm Meyrowitz, the chief architect of Intermedia, uses Bush's ideas as a benchmark to assess today's technology and development efforts. Tim Oren of Apple surveys the current state of the art in information retrieval research and looks at how today's ideas relate to what Bush proposed. Randy Trigg, who helped develop NoteCards at Xerox, compares the idea of trails in Memex with guided tours and directed paths in current hypertext systems. Greg Crane, of Harvard's Perseus Project, looks at the research library, its history and importance, and relates this to today's projects in hypertext and information retrieval. Contents Part 1: The Creation of Memex Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Context of an Early Computer Larry Owens A Machine for the Mind: Vannevar Bush's Memex James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn The Inscrutable 'Thirties Vannevar Bush Memorandum Regarding Memex Vannevar Bush As We May Think Vannevar Bush Part 2: The Extension of Memex The Idea of a Machine: The Later Memex Essays Paul Kahn and James M. Nyce The Rapid Selector: The Machine Without A Purpose Colin Burke Memex II Vannevar Bush Science Pauses Vannevar Bush Memex Revisited Vannevar Bush from "Of Inventions and Inventors" Vannevar Bush Part 3: The Legacy of Memex Letter to Vannevar Bush and Program On Human Effectiveness Douglas C. Engelbart As We Will Think Theodor H. Nelson Memex as an Image of Potentiality Revisited Linda C. Smith Hypertext--Does It Reduce Cholesterol, Too? Norman K. Meyrowitz Memex: Getting Back on the Trail Tim Oren Aristotle's Library: Memex as Vision and Hypertext as Reality Gregory Crane [deleted quotation]The Legacy of Vannevar Bush's Vision of Hypertext Use Randall H. Trigg From: FRAE141@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends (2/79) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 17:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1170 (1389) Could you treat us to a brief description of the Sidney bookplate, or other library marks? It is probably not worth following up, but both the Arsenal (a branch of the BN) and the BN (Paris) have special cats. (card form) of sales catalogues. (Correction: I THINK the BN has one; the fonds Q-10 [I think it is] has little pre-1800, or at least the person who compiled the ledger -- in this case -- only lists a few pre-1800, and mostly post-1800). I write probably not worth following up because I think there would be not very much non-French material. But who knows... --Bob Dawson UTx-Austin From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: "Deconstructing Europe" Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 19:41:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1171 (1390) Has anyone read J.G.A. Pocock's "Deconstructing Europe" in the mid-December _London Review of Books_? A long, arduous, and totally brilliant analysis, from the point of view of one of New Zealand's most distinguished intellectuals, of the effect of the globalization of the market economy on our concepts of self and society. Worth every minute you'll spend reading it -- that is, if you are concerned about the problem of moral agency in a post-modern world which finds such concepts somewhat inconvenient. Unlike many of the extreme conservative critics of post-modernism, Pocock is not motivated by nostalgia or institutional jealousy; he simply feels himself at the end of a historical era whose values and concerns he prizes deeply (his central image is that of Hegel's Owl of Minerva, which flies only when civilizations have come to their end), and his essay contemplates, in an elegaic mode, what a future with quite different values and concerns may bring. He is not optimistic. Germaine Warkentin From: Scott Stebelman Subject: Re: 5.0498 Rs: Computers in Literature (2/69) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 14:49:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1172 (1391) Sorry I'm so late in responding--I just returned from vacation. Two reference books that have many computer citations are Fiction Index and Fiction Catalog. These will refer you to works having computers as a major theme. Be aware that you will have to go through several editions of each work to get all the relevant citations. A database search should yield relevant citations. Specific databases that come to mind are: (1) MLA Bibliography (you may find a bibliography of primary literature (2) RILA (art bibliography) (3) Dissertation Abstracts (4) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (5) EPIC or RLIN (book databases) Print bibliographies: Art Index, Humanities Index, Bibliographic Index . I know MLA has published a bibliography on Science and Literature--I suggest you look at your catalog or ask a librarian. Speaking of a librarian, I hope you talk with the librarians for literature and art--they know about these databases and print bibliographies. I bet they can even do a computer search for you. If some of these databases (such as the MLA Bibliography) are available as compact disks in your library, all the better. Do not be frustrated that many of the tools refer to secondary criticism. They often will have bibliographies citing the primary literature. Scott Stebelman George Washington University Gelman Library Washington, D. C. 20052 BITNET: SCOTTLIB@GWUVM From: WCONDEE at OUACCVMB Subject: Date: 7 January 1992, 11:37:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1173 (1392) Concerning an earlier querry concerning plagiarism-detection software: Today's New York Times science section mentions a Dr. Ned Feder and Mr. Walter Stewart with (I think) the National Institute of Health as having created a detection program that compares huge amounts of material almost instantly. Mr. Stewart claims "he knew of a person who had spent an entire month comparing a book chapter with the material from which it was supposedly plagiarised. 'With this system, the comparison itself would take about 20 seconds.'" Not a great article -- too vague on the programming techniques, too alarmist with the implications. The only address reference given was "a subbasement room at the campus in Bethesda, Md. They have two narrow rooms once filled wiht thousands of bottles of snails." How hard could that be to track down? Phillip J. Hilts wrote the article. Respectfully Barry Rountree From: Peter Ian Kuniholm Subject: Re: 5.0565 Copyright (3/75) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 00:12:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1174 (1393) Re. the matter of copying books/articles which are going to get heavy use on the Reserve Shelf: 1. Suppose your university library has done its bit for both author and publis her by buying the book. Hooray for the library! Hooray for royalties! 2. Suppose the use and mis-use of the book by a large class is going to leave it fairly shredded, spine broken, dog-eared, generally a mess for the next user . Even "careful" users mess up. I dropped a book only today. 3. Is it not an act of mercy (from the point of view of the book as well as fu ture users) to copy it, let the copy be handed around, mangled, whatever, and then discarded when the course is over? This may not be good law, but it is the same reason we put on our old clothes when doing dirty work. If they get damaged, who cares? Peter Ian Kuniholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ian Kuniholm, Dept. of the History of Art and Archaeology, G-35 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3201 Telephone: 1 (607) 255-8650 or 255-9732. FAX= 1 (607) 255-1454. If you are writing from an INTERNET address, my address is MCG@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Matthew Wall Subject: Re: 5.0565 Copyright (3/75) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 10:23:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1175 (1394) I found two disparate postings on the copyright issue intersting: In 5.0565, Malcolm Hayward posits one of the many practical problems in teaching with existing copyright law: [deleted quotation] David Reimer writes: [deleted quotation][text omitted] [deleted quotation] It seems to me that electronic publication offers scholars a way to *reclaim* the 'line of production' from the middlemen (publishers). The problem Malcolm Hayward refers to is essentially that the cycle of research/publication/teaching-learning has been made more difficult by the commercial laws, which everybody tacitly supports by submitting work to journals which insist on copyright. Publishers even of non-profit journals have to cover their paper production and distribution costs. Libraries have to follow the laws. There's really no way around it - either scholars and publishers insist on royalties and you (or the library or the students) are forced to pay higher costs to "supply" your students with instructional material, or you abandon the notion that intellectual property lies in the copyright and not in the value of the ideas themselves. To me, the logical solution is to simply bypass the real sticking point - the paper-based publication system - and go electronic. Yes, this raises all the aforementioned problems with standards, cataloging, indexing, and availability, and the oh-so-important professional credit. I'm not so sure the solutions to these problems are so difficult to deal with given some general agreement to go forward with electronic publishing. It certainly seems to be in the best interests of everybody except the publishers. - matt From: ooi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jim Porter) Subject: Re: 5.0565 Copyright (3/75) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 1:49:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1176 (1395) David Reimer asks: [deleted quotation] I am very interested in this question, as a person in rhetoric/professional writing, with a keen interest in desktop publishing and issues involving theology/ethics (perhaps an uncommon combination). Obviously the terms "production" and "publication" vary widely: the meanings for and implications of "publication" within scholarly forums vary from the meanings within professional/technical communication. Within the latter forum, "publication" suggests distribution to the public. Within the former, "publication" suggests that some specific disciplinary criteria has been met; there's a much stronger evaluative, even competitive component. I'm not aware of any "push for scholars to circumvent traditional publication" (by this you mean paper journals?). I am aware of the rapid growth of electronic publication (e.g., online journals), which I regard as a medium which covers the weaknesses of "traditional publication": electronic publication has the advantage of immediacy and spontaneity (which, usually, traditional print publication lacks); traditional publication may have the advantage in terms of its ability to exercise greater editorial care ... but even that depends on the exact nature of the electronic publication (for some, the editorial process is equal to that of the more traditional print publication). How tenure/promotion committees do/should regard electronic publications is an issue that has been much discussed. The conclusion seems to be that generally they don't regard electronic publication very highly ... but the medium is unfamiliar to them and maybe we can hope for change. As for "production," one meaning for that within rhetoric/composition is process: the entire dynamic by which one produces a text (including things like invention, planning, drafting, editing, etc.). This differs somewhat from production in the technical sense as the physical/mechanical means by which one produces a text (printing press, computer with page layout software and laser printer), and from production in the neo-Marxist sense as the economic matrix in which a text is situated (which influences its reception). Jim Porter Purdue University ooi@mace.cc.purdue.edu From: Stig Johansson Subject: Reading palimpsests Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1992 03:33:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1177 (1396) A colleague of mine read an article in Time (September 9, 1991) called "The Palimpsest Man". It is about the use of computer techniques to read Gothic manuscripts, as developed by James Marchand, Center for Advanced Studies, Champaign, University of Illinois. A search in databases failed to reveal further references on this topic (though my colleague found references to other publications by James Marchand). Can humanists help? Stig Johansson, University of Oslo From: P.R.Williams@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME Subject: Afro-American Nationalism Date: 7 Jan 92 11:06:25 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1178 (1397) To: afam-l@earn.umcvmb Msg ID: < 7 Jan 92 11:06:25 GMT A10746@UK.AC.GLA.VME> To anyone out there who can help me, I'm looking to do a little piece of research into afro-american nationalism between 1900 and 1930, and am attempting to find etexts (that is electronic texts that are machine readable) of any of the major leaders in this period If this is not possible could any supply me with possible sources of primary source material for this period, for example speeches, essays etc. My research is an attempt to analyse such materials using textual analysis programs like Wordcruncher, OCP, TACT. Any help in finding texts, whether computerised, or bound, would be most gratefully recieved. Thanks for any help you are able to offer, Paul R. Williams, Postgraduate, c/o Denis Brogan Centre, Department of Modern History, University of Glasgow, 2, University Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland. G12 8QQ From: SBeeler@UNCAMULT.BITNET Subject: Icon Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 11:40 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1179 (1398) January 8, 1992 I would like to thank all who responded both privately and on the HUMANIST to my request for information about Icon. I have used Internet to obtain a copy of the interpreter and will be experimenting with the language as time allows. I was interested to note that a request for information on Icon prompted a critique of the MS-DOS operating system. I have always considered an OS to be like a human language in that one uses what most people understand. When in Germany I speak German, in North America English. I have been asked to collaborate on a project in the MS-Windows environment so I have begun to work with Windows. I do not like it very much so far as it eats up disk and memory resources, but it is a requirement of the project. In the best of all possible worlds I would be able to work with the OS of my choice and hand the results over for conversion; however things never seem to work out that way. Stan Beeler Dept. of English University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 acs.ucalgary.ca From: Stephen Clausing Subject: public domain Lisp Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 19:48:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1180 (1399) The recent discussion on ICON prompted me to ask whether there is a public domain version of Common Lisp for the Macintosh. Please note: this query in no way implies that I am interested in discussing the relative merits of Lisp with respect to other programming languages. Please post all responses to Humanist, not to me. I will ignore all personal messages sent to me in this matter. From: "don l. f. nilsen" Subject: Re: 5.0567 Sidney (Family) Books; Metaphors & Legends (2/79) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 92 08:24:20 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1181 (1400) Jess: I feel that the tradition you describe in your last posting continues not only in the tradition of the Gothic novel, but also in the tradition twentieth century American black humor. The authors I'm thinking of include Pynchon, Heller, Vonnegut, Gaddis, Kesey, Irving (John, not Washington), and even Hunter S. Thompson. If this is true, then the black humor of contemporary American literature has much more of a basis in history than is often suspected, going back through Twain all the way to Juvenal, and the influence of the "BOMB" on contemporary black humor may not have been as important as was the influence of Juvenal. What do you think? =-) ;-> 8*) {^_^} Don L. F. Nilsen , (602) 965-7592 Executive Secretary International Society for Humor Studies English Department Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 From: Virginia Subject: maja Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 13:28:58 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1182 (1401) It is interesting and a little ironic that it was this particular painting which caused offence, since it caused a similar controversy when it was first exhibited. Unlike most nudes of the period, the subject is not passively looking into the distance or at something else in the painting, but is challenging the viewer by looking them in the eye. This made people so uncomfortable that they complained to the artist; he then did another painting of the same model in the same posture, but clothed. The second painting had the same disturbing effect, demonstrating that it was not the nudity of the subject but her challenge to the viewer which was causing the effect. From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: MARY SPROULE: JANUARY NEACH MEETING Date: Fri, 10 Jan 92 9:00:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 586 (1402) An Invitation from NEACH NEACH is pleased to invite you to hear a talk by MARY SPROULE of Princeton University on GLOBAL NETWORK RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH. It will take place on TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1992 at 1:30 P.M. in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue. The meeting is free and open to the public. Mary Sproule of Princeton University will discuss the rapidly expanding field of research opportunities using national and other networks to access libraries, databases, newsgroups, and listservs to access bibliographies, full texts, and specialist information in the humanities. She will go "live" and do an on-line demonstration using resources at Princeton University, Dartmouth, and elsewhere that are typical of local and national resources available through academic computer accounts. In the last year the face of research has been changed by new working relations between local computer centers and libraries at many universities. To attend Mary Sproule's talk, please ask at the ground floor of the IBM building for a pass to the "NEACH" or "Humanities" meeting. NEACH PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Project Elaine Brennan Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, CETH Dir. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUES. JAN. 21 GLOBAL NETWORK RESOURCES MARY SPROULE, PRINCETON --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Lib. Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry and NLP Mary Dee Harris Wed., Apr 8 TBA Tues., May 12 TBA NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities is a regional affilate of ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities. Its monthly meetings alternate between the second Wednesday and the second Tuesday of the month each year from October through May. Should you wish to join NEACH, annual memberships are $15, or, if you already belong to ACH, are only $5 additional when you join or renew NEACH and ACH at the same time. (NOTE: Some recent ACH mailings have mentioned both $5 and $10 as the additional price for ACH members who also wish NEACH membership. The correct added price is $5 a year.) --Heyward Ehrlich, President, NEACH (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CTI Centre for Textual Studies _Resources Guide_ Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 13:44 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 587 (1403) Dear All, The Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Textual Studies is one of twenty subject-specific centres which exist to promote and support the use of computers in higher education teaching. The CTI Centre at Oxford is aimed at aiding academics in the subjects of Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Logic, Theology, and Theatre Arts and Drama. We are currently updating our Resources Guide which lists and describes available software. We would appreciate any information about further software which should be included in this Guide, available sources of electronic text, and any relevant articles published in 1991 for inclusion in the bibliography. The list of software covered in the March 1991 guide is as follows: AskSam 4.1a The Beowulf Workstation CCAT-PHI CD-ROM CDWord Cognate Language Tutor Collate Construe GOfer Guide Hypercard Hyperdoc 2.10 Ibycus Scholarly Computer Intermedia Lbase 5.0 LogicWorks MacLogic OED on CD Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) and Micro-OCP The Oxford Text Archive Oxford Text Searching System Pandora Past Masters Perseus STELLA TACT Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) WordCruncher 4.3 Please contact Caroline Davis at the following address with any suggestions. Many thanks in advance. Caroline Davis Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies University of Oxford Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 0865 273221 E-Mail: CAROLINE@UK.AC.VAX From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0564 CFP: MLA Computers Studies Session (1/17) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 23:18:38 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 588 (1404) Taking a cue from Paul Fortier's note, let me also mention the following: CALL FOR PAPERS The Modern Language Association's Division on Medieval Spanish Language and Literature will be organising three sessions at the 1992 Convention to be held in New York City, December 27-30, 1992: (1) General session, any topic; (2) Pilgrimage, Travel, and Exploration; (3) The Nature of Evil. People presenting papers at the MLA Convention MUST be members of the Association. Please send full papers or abstracts no later than March 15, 1992 to Professor Barbara Kurtz, Department of Modern Languages, Illinois State University Normal, IL 61761 ----- End Included Message ----- From: Sigdoc92 (S.) Sigdoc92 Subject: SIGDOC'92 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 13:12:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 589 (1405) ****************************************************** Going Online: The New World of Multimedia Documentation CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SIGDOC'92 The 10th Annual International Conference October 13 to 16, 1992 The Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada ****************************************************** Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Documentation in cooperation with Northern Telecom and Bell-Northern Research Call for papers --------------- While words will always be important to technical documentation, increasingly they are recognized as only the beginning. New options, in the form of online and multimedia information, are redefining technical documentation. Technical documents are no longer just "read". By means of hypertext, animation, links to databases, illustrations, and video sequences, documents are "explored". Their "readers" learn from text, graphics, video images, and sound and are guided by their own interests, expertise, and need for information. Readers of multimedia documents become, in effect, co-authors of personally tailored documents that are experienced differently by every reader. Online capabilities are growing to meet our imaginative drive to develop multimedia documents that make complex systems accessible to users. But we must bring to bear on these new forms our experience-- in document management, quality control, and presentation techniques-- gained through working with printed documentation. We must build on this knowledge and modify it to successfully create the multi-media documents that not only challenge our notions of information presentation, but also of document form and use. At our 10th annual conference, SIGDOC'92, we want to hear your ideas, experiences, research results, and theories about going online. We welcome proposals for conference sessions or workshops on the following suggested topics or related issues. Suggested topics --------------- The new documentation set --striking the right balance between online and printed documentation Planning and design --matching document types to multimedia technologies Quality assurance --methodology for online editing and usability testing --defining and controlling quality in multi-source, multi- media documents Hardware platforms --hardware requirements for multimedia documents --backward compatibility New applications --database searching as an online document capability --optimizing network resources Tools --automated testing and information building The bottom line --affordability of multimedia documents Presentation Types ------------------ Papers --30-minute presentation of a paper by one or more authors Panels --20- to 30-minute presentations of 2 to 3 related papers Roundtable discussions --discussion involving a moderator and a number of prepared speakers and audience members Pre-conference workshops --half day or full day workshop Presentation Proposals ---------------------- Presentation proposals must include: --a 500- to 1000-word description of the session topic, outlining the thesis, main points and implications for the field. Also, describe the methods used to develop your thesis and conclusions. --the name, title, organization, address and telephone number of each participant in the presentation. Please indicate which participant is the principal contact. Please send your proposal to: Roy MacLean, SIGDOC'92 Chairman Bell-Northern Research, Stop 92 P.O. Box 3511, Station C Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA , K1Y 4H7 telephone: (613)763-2134 fax:(613) 763-2626 INTERNET address: SIGDOC92@BNR.CA All proposals must be received by April 3, 1992. You will be notified if your proposal is accepted by May 29, 1992. All accepted papers (including those that comprise a panel discussion) will be published in the conference proceedings (copyright ACM). Camera-ready copy for the proceedings is due August 28, 1992. Pre-conference workshops ------------------------ Full and half-day workshops will be run prior to the start of the conference. Conference fees do not include the workshop fees. More information on the workshops will be available in a later conference brochure. Hotel Accommodation ------------------- Join us at the Westin Hotel, located near restaurants, museums, galleries, shopping, and all the sites of Canada's capital city. Special rates are available to SIGDOC'92 conference participants who register by September 10, 1992. Single or double accommodation is $140.00 (Cdn.) plus tax. To reserve your accommodation, call 1-800-228-3000. For more information contact: ----------------------------- SIGDOC'92 Bell-Northern Research, Stop 92 P. O. Box 3511, Station C Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA , K1Y 4H7 telephone: (613)763-2134 fax:(613) 763-2626 INTERNET address: SIGDOC92@BNR.CA From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0571 CETEDOC CDROM of Christian Latin Texts (1/88) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 92 04:16:24 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 590 (1406) While I am delighted to see the CETEDOC texts available in CD-ROM versions, I urge the publishers to come up with some pricing scheme which will allow individual scholars to acquire the disks. I understand the necessity of at least making enough money to keep the series going, but I think that there are enough of us out here willing and able to spend $400-$500 for a single disk who would find it very difficult to spend $1000 or more, which is what the half-price offer amounts to. Other publishers, of course, are even worse. Chadwick-Healey is asking $45,000 for the Patrologia Latina with no provision for individual users while MLA apparently sees the annual bibliography only as a cash cow to support other--infinitely less useful--programs. It effectively prices individuals and even academic departments out of the market with a $1500 annual charge. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: From the Editors: Corrections &c. Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 19:18:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 591 (1407) Thanks to Joan Korenman and Jim Cerny (and maybe others) for pointing out my typo. I'll try again: LISTSERV messages go to LISTSERV@BROWNVM or LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU Not to HUMANIST or EDITORS. Please do not to use your mailer's REPLY feature to send mail to the originator of a posting -- that will usually send it to Humanist. We usually catch these and send them back undistributed; in some cases saving the sender from embarrassment and civil litigation. There is still a backlog of questions for the Editors and special requests; please bear with us. There is also a backlog of introductory kits -- that should be finished by the end of the week. -- Allen From: dfreeman%mizar.usc.edu@usc.edu (Donald Freeman) Subject: MLA Session Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 17:07:48 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 592 (1408) Professor Patricia Hunt of Loyola Marymount University, who is not on the HUMANIST (or any) net, has asked me to submit the following posting, which may be of interest to MLA members: The following is a proposal for a special session at the 1992 MLA convention. "Embodied Minds: Rehumanizing the Humanities" Addressing Mark Turner's notion, presented in READING MINDS: THE STUDY OF ENGLISH IN THE AGE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Princeton, 1991), that "Culture, society, and language are patterns in the human brain," papers which will discuss the humanities as the investigation of "human thought, human language, and human literature." Inquiries, abstracts, or papers by 15 March to: Patricia Hunt 6734 West 86th Place Los Angeles, CA 90045-3713 From: "Joe T. Coohill" Subject: History and Macintosh Society Date: Thu, 09 Jan 92 09:22:29 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 593 (1409) Humanists and Social Scientists who use Macintosh computers should take note of the History and Macintosh Society, an Apple-registered user group. "History" is very broadly defined, and HMS welcomes Art Historians, Literary Scholars, Philosophers, Political Scientists, etc. Members receive a quarterly newsletter and software disk. Currently HMS is exploring research programs, databases, and organization tools. Other activities include reviewing computer/academic books, teaching and grading programs, and discussing the place of computers in humanistic and social research. The HMS newsletter package is not available on-line. For more information, write: HMS 734 Elkus Walk #201 Goleta CA 93117-4151 USA PS - HMS is always looking for contributors to its newsletter. If you've found an interesting and productive way to use the Mac, let us know! From: Mark Ritchie Subject: CD-ROM longevity Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 09:11:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1183 (1410) CD's (Both Audio and ROM) have been failing due to several reasons. A few years ago the main problem was during the manufacturing process when the adhesive reacted hydroscopically with changes in the humidity in the pressing plant. This rarely still occurs. The main problem now is degradation of the polymers from which it is made. This, again, is related primarily to humidity, this time of the storage area. The testing that has been done in the UK and France by the archival community indicates that you should be able to expect a CD to last about 25 years when stored in a cool 10 C and dry 30% RH environment. Stored in a regular office with changing cycles of RH and temperature expect a shorter lifespan. Generally you should consider CDs as ephemeral materials. One good piece of news was that the French tests indicated that you could play a CD for 2000+ years with out the laser effecting the disk. Now all you need is the ability to preserve a player and disk for the next couple of millenia. W. Mark Ritchie | Tel: (519) 888-4070 Media Librarian | Fax: (519) 888-6197 Audio-Visual Centre | University of Waterloo | Net: avfilm2@watdcs.Uwaterloo.ca ******** From: James O'Donnell Subject: 5.0590 CDROM Prices & Scholars (1/19) Date: 14 Jan 92 21:31:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1184 (1411) The solution to the CD price problem is not always to reduce the price to fit the pocketbook of the individual user (though that *might* be a strategy for the MLA bibliography: could they sell 10,000 copies to individuals at $400?), but to push our libraries and institutions to work the technology, and then press the distributors of the CD's to allow, for making the database available on a network from a work station. Inter alia, this would allow the database to be mounted once in a setting facilitating high-speed access. As it happens, the CETEDOC CD is well-indexed and works very fast, but using standard software on the PHI disk of classical Latin authors for a search can run to 2 hours on a fast, but ordinary, desktop machine; even on the purpose-built Ibycus, a colleague tells me that a full search of a not-ubiquitous word on the TLG disk runs 45 minutes. Better to have a dedicated machine running the search; and better then to make one CD serve the needs of a larger group. From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: SPOOLing Date: 14 Jan 92 01:25:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1185 (1412) Spool was originally an acronym for a program on IBM mainframes (as late as the mid-1970's); I don't remember for certain, but it stood for (something like) System Peripheral Output Off-Line. It was designed to send print files to a disk file rather than straight to the printer. Then the accumulated disk files could be printed in priority order. That methodology only arose when computers become fast enough and had large enough memories for multi- processing -- having more than one program sharing processor time and memory. Some of you 'youngsters' don't have any idea what you missed in those days. I remember when the SPOOLing program was installed at the university where I taught and turnaround time dropped from three days to 6-8 hours. Serious progress! (btw -- 'turnaround time' applied to the amount of time that elapsed from when you submitted a job until you got a listing back showing your results.) I'm sure I'm not the only one that remembers those days. Ye Olde Computer Historian, Mary Dee Harris From: koontz@bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 5.0578 Spooling Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 09:13:27 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1186 (1413) Origin of computer term `to spool'. I looked in: 1976. Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Anthony Ralston, Ed., Chester L. Meek, Asst. Ed. New York: Petrocelli/Charter. p. 1318: "Spooling (simultaneous peripheral operations on line) is a method of handling low-speed input / output devices commonly implemented in operating systems to increase throughput. ... (details follow)" (Article by R.W. Taylor, Univ. of Mass.) This suggests an origin in an acronym, but since things are ordinarily spooled to disk (or, originally, to a predecessor of the disk called a drum), I wonder if the acronym wasn't suited to an appropriate sounding word, cf., e.g., spooling thread. Some sort of deliberate coinage seems to be involved. It would probably be possible to discover who and when. The individual in question might even still be living. From: Marc Eisinger Subject: SPOOL Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 10:10:50 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1187 (1414) To my knowledge, SPOOL is an acronym for "Silmultaneous Peripherical Operation On-Line". The original idea was to have the system running the printer, the card reader and the card punch during the "waiting" time of the main program(s). In VM systems, each user has (virtual) reader, punch and printer handled (spooled) by the system (the so-called CP). The virtual reader is used to store the incoming file explaining the "xxxx spooled to user". Would you need more, ask me directly. Marc From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: RE:5.0578 F Word Etymology &c. (4/76) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 11:18:46 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1188 (1415) ----------------------------------------------29---- [deleted quotation]SPOOL is an abbreviation which stands for _simultaneous peripheral operations online_ It is a way to use peripherals more effectively. This refers especially to printers. If you have several programs running at the same time, for example, all of which want to send data to the printer, then you'd have to provide a printer for every program. Since this is too expensive, the data to be printed by the various programs are not sent to the printer directly, but are stored in a spooling buffer. Once the data are complete they are then sent to the printer in the order which they have been received. This technique can also be used for other purposes. Printing is just one of them. It is common on systems designed for multi-tasking, as are all mainframes, etc. You'll also see the term come up in Windows, OS2, etc. where several programs may send their data to the buffer, before they are printed. I hope this helps. Regards, Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" Subject: Re: 5.0578 F Word Etymology &c. (4/76) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 13:23:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1189 (1416) On Mon, 13 Jan 1992 22:12:55 EST Christy Cousineau (ccousino@iubacs) said: [deleted quotation] 'spool' is a standard term in the VM/CMS operating system, where it has been given the pseudo-expansion 'Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line' (or is it 'Off-Line'?). It is used as a verb ('to spool a file to tape', meaning 'write it on a tape'; 'to spool a file' or 'to spool some data' meaning 'copy it to the special disk area used to store temporary files'; and 'to spool a temporary file'), noun ('the spool is full', meaning the operating system disk storage area for these temporary files is out of space), and denominative adjective (the files in the spool are 'spool files'). Since it is deeply rooted in VM, my guess is that it originated no later than the mid-1960s, most likely in a metonymic usage of 'spool' for 'spool of tape'. The specific link to spools of tape, however, is no longer present for most VM systems programmers I have spoken to. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago From: Thomas Zielke <113355%DOLUNI1.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu> Subject: new lists Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 14:34:29 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1190 (1417) Comments: To: HistOwnr To: Multiple recipients of list HISTORY Dear friends, I am forwarding these two "new list" announcements on behalf of Prof. Lynn Nelson. Please feel free to distribute it to other groups... -----------Forwarded mail follows--------------------------------------- HISTEC-L@UKANVM I am pleased to be able to announce the establishment of HISTEC- L@UKANVM, a list for the study of the History of Evangelical Christianity. Subscription requests should be sent to BAYS@UKANVM. I will attempt to act upon them as quickly as possible. Postings should be made to HISTEC-L@UKANVM. LISTSERV@UKANVM will accept both BITNET and INTERNET mailings. I would appreciate subscribers' sending me by e-mail (at BAYS@UKANVM) a short biographical resume for inclusion in a members' directory. Our FTP directory is presently empty. Subscribers who have materials they believe worth including should contact me by e-mail. This site will operate in co-operation with ra.msstate.edu and the contents of its directories will form part of a union catalogue with ra.msstate and other co-operating sites. The following is a formal statement of purpose. I would like to welcome the members to HISTEC-L and express my hope that it will prove a benefit to us all. Daniel H. Bays The University of Kansas HISTEC-L is a non-sectarian forum for discussion, debate, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of evangelical Christianity. It is not a medium for proselytizing, and the advocacy or disparagement of any faith or sect are not welcome. Requests for SUBscription pass through the list owner, and SEND and REVIEW commands are restricted to list members. The command language of HISTEC-L is English, but postings in other languages are accepted. HISTEC-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest. HISTEC-L maintains a directory at the FTP site kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (CD DUA9 [malin.histec]), for the collection and preservation of materials of use to its members. HISTEC-L is associated with the general discussion list HISTORY, and co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated. ESPORA-L@UKANVM We are pleased to announce the establishment of a list for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. Subscriptions should be made to LISTSERV AT UKANVM with the command SUB ESPORA-L USERID@NODE, adding your full name; LISTSERV will accept both BITNET and INTERNET addresses. Postings should be made to ESPORA-L@UKANVM. The owners would appreciate it if subscribers would send them BY E-MAIL a short biographical resume for inclusion in a directory of members: send to either LHNELSON- @UKANVM or RCLEMENT@UKANVM. Our FTP directory is presently empty. If subscribers have materials they believe worth including, please contact either of the list owners. This site will operate in co-operation with ra.msstate.edu and the contents of its directories will form part of a union catalogue with ra.msstate and other co-operating sites. The following is a formal statement of purpose. We would like to welcome our colleagues to ESPORA-L and express our hope that it will prove a benefit to us all. Richard Clement Lynn H. Nelson The University of Kansas STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ESPORA-L is a forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of the Iberian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present. Although the command language of ESPORA-L is English, postings in Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan are welcome, and list members are encouraged to communicate in whichever language they are most comfortable. ESPORA-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest. The lists maintains a directory at the FTP site kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (CD DUA9 [malin.espora]), for the collection and preservation of materials of use for its members. ESPORA-L is associated with the general discussion list HISTORY, and co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated. From: BROWNH%CTSTATEU.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu Subject: New list announcement Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1992 15:05:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1191 (1418) To: Multiple recipients of list HISTORY I would like to announce the formation of a new list, WORLD-L@UBVM. This list will serve as a forum for the discussion of the teaching, methodology, and theory of a scientific and non-Eurocentric world history. It aims to hold regular electronic conferences related to the purpose of the list. Your suggestions for suitable electronic conference topics would be much appreciated. To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@UBVM, with the first line in the body of the message being: SUB WORLD-L your name Do not put this command on the "Subject:" line. The LISTSERV Internet address is: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu. Haines Brown BROWNH@CTSTATEU.BITNET (brownh@ccsu.ctstateu.edu) WORLD-L Owner From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0564 CFP: MLA Computers Studies Session (1/17) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 23:18:38 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1192 (1419) Taking a cue from Paul Fortier's note, let me also mention the following: CALL FOR PAPERS The Modern Language Association's Division on Medieval Spanish Language and Literature will be organising three sessions at the 1992 Convention to be held in New York City, December 27-30, 1992: (1) General session, any topic; (2) Pilgrimage, Travel, and Exploration; (3) The Nature of Evil. People presenting papers at the MLA Convention MUST be members of the Association. Please send full papers or abstracts no later than March 15, 1992 to Professor Barbara Kurtz, Department of Modern Languages, Illinois State University Normal, IL 61761 From: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 213-458-9811 Subject: American Folklore Society Date: Mon, 06 Jan 92 22:30 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1193 (1420) AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY Founded in 1888, the American Folklore Society is the American learned and professional society for folklorists. It offers an intellectual and social forum for the field of folklore through an annual meeting, publications, specialized activities of interest-group sections, various prizes and awards, and other services to its membership. The JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE is a lively forum for recent work in this field. Recent issues have treated such topics as Gospel quartets, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, the zombi, cowboy poetry gatherings, Latinismo and heritage politics, nocturnal death syndrome among the Hmong, folklore in Richard Wright's "Black Boy", and reviews of a wide range of books, exhibitions, films, and records. The Annual Meeting will be held October 15-18, 1992 in Jacksonville, Florida. The call for papers will appear in the February Newsletter. MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO THE FIELD The DIRECTORY has been compiled from members' responses and submissions from folklore programs and organizations throughout North America. The DIRECTORY contains: * alphabetized name and address entries for 1200 folklorists, most of which also contain telephone and E-mail information and areas of interest * detailed descriptive entries for academic and public programs in folklore * indexes to the member directory entries by interest area and place of residence The Directory is available for $10 to members of the American Folklore Society, and for $15 to nonmembers, with a 10% discount on orders of 10 copies or more. To order the Directory: Send a check made payable to the American Folklore Society and marked "1992 AFS Directory" to Book Orders Department (EM) American Folklore Society, 1703 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009. -----------------------MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION-------------------- Membership in the American Folklore Society brings the following benefits: * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE (quarterly) * NEWSLETTER (bimonthly) * reduced registration rates for the Annual Meeting * discounted prices on volumes in the PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY series; the Society's MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY AND GUIDE TO THE FIELD; and the "Folklore" volume of the annual MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY * right to vote in Society's elections and to hold Society office * right to be considered for Society prizes and awards * access to various kinds of low-cost insurance offered to Society members by outside insurers To become a member of the American Folklore Society: regular member $50 student member $20 partner member $20 (partners of members do not receive publications) sustaining $75 patron $100 life member $800. Send a check made payable to the American Folklore Society to Membership Department (EM) American Folklore Society, 1703 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009. -----------------------------END OF AFS MESSAGE----------------- From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: Memex and Analog Machines Date: 14 Jan 92 01:42:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 598 (1421) With regard to the book about Memex and Hypertext, the comment was made that computers do not use the analog technology. I just read recently (but can't remember where) that two or three neural network architectures have been developed which are analog devices. The attempt was to emulate the human brain (which after all is what neural devices are supposed to be doing). Mary Dee Harris From: Charles Ess Subject: electronic communication Date: Sun, 12 Jan 92 17:49:19 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1194 (1422) As part of a study I'm doing on communication theory and electronic environments (including hypermedia and e-mail through networked environments, etc.), I'm looking for information regarding the impacts of access to such environments. Some work indicates, specifically, that such environments seem to facilitate communication which would otherwise not take place -- e.g., the shy student who "speaks" first only in an electronic environment, but who then "comes out" to speak in class, etc. I am particularly interested in work that indicates whether or not such environments appear to enhance communication skills in these ways, whether such environments appear to encourage _diversity_ of "voices" in groups that have access to such environments -- and whether such environments can be said (and in what sense) to contribute to a _democratic_ form of community. In general, I'm attempting to see how far computer environments fulfill an old promise of "democritizing" access to information, contributing to a more democratic community, etc. I anticipate that this study will eventually reach the light of print; HUMANIST folk who provide useful references will be gratefully acknowledged. Replies should be addressed to me directly; if there's sufficient interest in this topic, I will be happy to post a compilation of references for the benefit of all. My thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: WATTS@BUTLERU.BITNET Subject: Bibliography Software Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 21:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1195 (1423) Can anyone give me information about the new bibliography software, EndNote? I would be particularly interested in how the program compares to ProCite, and whether it would be a good choice for someone working Microsoft Word, release no. 5. Also, I believe that there was a review of various bibliography programs on this list sometime back, but I do not have the means to search the logs. Can someone tell me when that discussion occurred? Thank you, Bill Watts (watts@butleru) From: WCONDEE at OUACCVMB Subject: Date: 13 January 1992, 20:31:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1196 (1424) Greetings: I am the dramaturg for Marilyn Dereggi's "Patterns of Progress", opening at Ohio University in late Febuary. Due to the nature of the production, I feel a great deal of research may be accomplished through computer lists. If anyone knows of a good (or not so good) list concerned with any of the topics below, I would really appreciate an address and review. On hand I have the INTEREST PACKAGE from the listserv at NDSUVM1. I am especially interested in lists that are not in that compilation, though letting me know what you think of ANY relevant list would be very valuable. Below is the course description. Science and engineering students will collaborate with arts and humanities students to find creative applications of new technologies in art. Focus of the class will be on creating and producing an original version of "Patterns of Process," a post-modern visual-aural-movement theatre piece, in which various media interact and are interdependent. Thematically, "Patterns" explores order and chaos in nature, with references to ancient Chinese culture. Students interested in music composition or performance, digital sound and video processing, MIDI systems, computer graphics and animation, computer programming, systems design, chaos theory, engineering, light and shadow, I CHING, Chinese poetry and philosophy, cycles and patterns in nature, art photography, biology, microphotography, high altitude or satellite photography, film, video, theatre tech and design, theatre direction or performance, dance/mime choreography or performance, sculpture, lasers, holography, writing, history, architectural disign, materials research and other related subjects are encouraged to register. Class takes place winter quarter at Ohio University, Athens OH, 1992. Of course, I would also be interested in hearing from anyone who has expertise in any of the above. Thanks Barry Rountree Ohio University Athens Ohio Cross-posted to: HUMANIST at BROWNVM.BITNET Stagecraft%jaguar@cs.utah.edu From: D Mealand Subject: Herdan (Zipf) & Stats Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 14:12:45 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1197 (1425) Is there someone on Humanist who has worked through the 3 hefty volumes on literary statistics by G. Herdan ? If so I would be grateful for some info about the response these volumes has received. I remember seeing a query about Zipf here in the past and Herdan gives him short shrift in his book Calculus..... of 1962 see p.59. If someone can send me info on the response Herdans volumes received please send it to me as Edinburgh seems unable or unwilling to mount Humanist on its current machine and I no longer use the old machine which has it. David M. **************************************************************************** David L. Mealand * Bitnet: D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@ukacrl University of Edinburgh * Office Fax: (+44)-31-220-0952 Scotland,U.K. EH1 2LX * Office tel.:(+44)-31-225-8400 ext.221/217 **************************************************************************** From: Subject: Mac HYPERCARD language programs Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 07:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1198 (1426) I and a colleague are working on language/literature programs for HYPERCARD. Are there any example programs involving few peripherals but exciting ideas (i.e., beyond drills)? We'd like any suggestions you have. We do have the long bibliography which Terence Harpold kindly made available last year, and also a bibliography from an *Eric* search. We are familiar with the large projects- Brown's *Context32*, etc. Any suggestions are welcome, preferably with an address or name which we can contact. Please send all answers directly to me; if desired I can collate and summarize for the list. Thank you one and all. Leslie Morgan (MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNE From: TB0WPW1@NIU.BITNET Subject: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 18:42 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1199 (1427) In a partial answer to Ted Hansen's question about CD-ROMs going bad on EXLIBRIS bulletin board early last autumn, I think. Many of us are members of both; can someone give chapter and verse on this? As I recall there were a number of very long and detailed messages. William Proctor Williams From: ALAN COOPER Subject: Re: 5.0594 CDROMs -- Prices; Longevity (2/44) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 20:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1200 (1428) Perhaps one solution to the exorbitant cost of CD-ROMs is to share them. Although I recognize that there probably are legal/licensing ramifications, for such massive enterprises as Cetedoc sharing seems to me to make sense. The technology for sharing access to CD-ROMs apparently has taken great strides recently, and is discussed in detail in PC Magazine, December 31, 1991, pp. 333ff. This technology seems well suited to research libraries, which then could provide access to stupendous amounts of text to many users at once. On the other hand, it would be lovely to have my very own Patrologia right here at my fingertips in my very own study.... Alan Cooper, Hebrew Union College From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Subject: spool Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 09:21:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1201 (1429) Yet another entry for the etymology of spool. This comes from the ASCII/FTP version of The Jargon File: spool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt. To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later. The spooler usually understood is the `print spooler' controlling output of jobs to a printer, but the term has been used in connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics devices). See also {demon}. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: 3zlufur@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA From: "Mary Dee Harris" Subject: SPOOLing Date: 16 Jan 92 16:00:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1202 (1430) So I didn't remember the acronym correctly. My guess is that the computer usage of the verb 'to spool' came from the acronym for "Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line" which was chosen because it was reminiscent of storage on a spool of thread/cable/wire/etc. I never heard a tape referred to as a spool of tape; it was always a tape reel. And I do remember when tape storage was better than card deck storage (before disks). I also remember when the engineers first told me about disk storage (drums were around much earlier). The first multiple platter disk systems only had one read/write mechanism which had to move vertically to the right platter and then horizontally to the right track. In those days, head crash meant a serious catastrophe that put the entire disk system out of commission. It didn't take too long for them to figure out that multiple read/write arms would be less costly overall that destroying disks on a regular basis. Mary Dee Harris From: RKENNER@Vax2.Concordia.CA Subject: 'to spool' meaning 'to store' Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 09:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1203 (1431) In among the messages about the derivation of the infamous f-word was an unrelated question about how the word 'spool' in computer jargon has come to mean 'store', as in print spoolers, etc. I have not done an exhaustive study of the word, but I think an educated guess can be made. Watching any documentary on computers made in the 50's or 60's, or any science fiction movie of the same period, one sees images of huge tape drives with spools of tape moving back and forth. So, in those days, when the computer wanted to store something, where was it put? Onto SPOOLS of magnetic tape. Thus is my guess as to the background of this word Roger Kenner Concordia University From: Sarah Davnall Subject: Re: 5.0595 Etymology of "SPOOL" (5/131) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 16:51:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1204 (1432) Mary Dee Harris's note has brought back memories! In one job I had, my computing (called "program runs" I seem to recall) had to be sent from Manchester by van to a collection point in the Midlands, and from there by another van to a computer in London. Turnround time was, in consequence, a full week. And if, as happened when programs were newly written, the runs all failed because of compilation errors, I could have the entire set ready for resubmission inside an hour. How today's networking would have relieved the tedium of so much waiting and so little work! Continuing in moist-eyed vein, do folks remember when 256K was considered a huge amount of memory, and when the advent of the 8Mbyte exchangeable disk revolutionised our tape-bound lives? And when the EDS8s were superceded by EDS60s (60Mbytes), did not the horizons seem boundless? Sarah Davnall Manchester Computing Centre, University of Manchester, England. From: P.R.Williams@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: African Brotherhood League Date: Mon,13 Jan 92 14:45:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1205 (1433) africa-l@earn.brufpb, amerstdy@earn.miamiu, history@earn.irlearn, humanist@earn.brownvm Message-ID: <13_Jan_92_14:45:32_A105DC@UK.AC.GLA.VME> Could anyone tell me where I could get primary source material: speeches, essays, etc. given by the leaders of this early twentieth century nationalist movement. Furthermore, could someone, if possible, give me a book that deals with the history, ideology, and composition of this organisation. Any help at all will be gratefully received. Yours, Paul R. Williams From: P.R.Williams@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME Subject: Afro-American Nationalism Date: 7 Jan 92 11:06:25 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1206 (1434) To: afam-l@earn.umcvmb Msg ID: < 7 Jan 92 11:06:25 GMT A10746@UK.AC.GLA.VME> To anyone out there who can help me, I'm looking to do a little piece of research into afro-american nationalism between 1900 and 1930, and am attempting to find etexts (that is electronic texts that are machine readable) of any of the major leaders in this period If this is not possible could any supply me with possible sources of primary source material for this period, for example speeches, essays etc. My research is an attempt to analyse such materials using textual analysis programs like Wordcruncher, OCP, TACT. Any help in finding texts, whether computerised, or bound, would be most gratefully recieved. Thanks for any help you are able to offer, Paul R. Williams, Postgraduate, c/o Denis Brogan Centre, Department of Modern History, University of Glasgow, 2, University Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland. G12 8QQ From: Mark Ritchie Subject: E. Kennedy's Apology to Mass. Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 08:40:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1207 (1435) I am looking for a videotape of Senator Edward Kennedy's apology to the people of Mass. for use in a course on rhetoric. We have the printed transcript but want to be able to show the students the presentation as well. I would also be interested in any videotapes of corporate leaders giving public speeches. The course requires visual materials covering the various types of public speeches. W. Mark Ritchie | Tel: (519) 888-4070 Media Librarian | Fax: (519) 888-6197 Audio-Visual Centre | University of Waterloo | Net: avfilm2@watdcs.Uwaterloo.ca ******** From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: origin of latin motto? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 8:57:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1208 (1436) I wonder if any erudite Humanist would know whose motto was the following: HIC JACET PULVIS CINIS ET NIHIL This is used by a friend of mine, a writer, but he can't remember where he got it first. The only thing he knows is that it was the motto of a "roman cardinal" !! If indeed it is so the "et nihil" is very interesting, is it not! I would bet it then would be an 18th century cardinal! Thanks for any clue. Christian Allegre U. de Montreal allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Sidney Bookplate Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 14:04:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1209 (1437) Bob Dawson asks for a description of the "Sidney bookplate." Actually, it's the bookplate of Philip, 5th earl. One of the aggravating things about the earlier Sidneys is that they seem not to have put very many marks of ownership in their books. Robert Sidney (d. 1626) signed some of his books at an early date, but his son Robert the second earl (the great collector) seems not to have. There are no library or shelf-marks that I have been able to detect on the few copies of Sidney family books which I have been able to see. The bookplate of the 5th earl (which I cannot describe in proper heraldic terms) displays a shield with the Sidney arrow-head on it, with a coronet and helm above, and two beasts, rampant, flanking it on either side. The motto is "Quo fata vocant," and the cartouche below contains the following: "The Righ Honble. Philip Sydney / Earle of Leicester Viscount Lisle and / Baron Sydney of Penshurst 1704" It is illustrated on p. 262 of the _Bulletin_ of the Printing Historical Society (# 20, January, 1987). Germaine Warkentin From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Goya's majas Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 08:39:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1210 (1438) According to Luca de Tena & Mena's catalog to the Prado, Goya's clothed and nude maja pictures caused controversy for a number of reasons besides their steady regard of the spectator (a device, after all, that is used in a number of striking ways in Velazquez's "Las Meninas" which was done nearly 150 years earlier and which many Spaniards consider their greatest paintingÙ). For one, there is the supposed connection between the subject of the painting and the Duchess of Alba, one of Spain's most influential women (who did not actually look all that much like the face of the maja if we can judge by attributed portraits) and the rumored intimacy between Goya and the duchess. Second, there is the belief that the paintings were originally done for a double-frame in which one would cover the other (a speculation supported by the conflict these works had with the Inquisition). As a critique of spectatorial appropriation, is seems to me marvelous that any direct observation of the paintings shows that the handling of the clothing, with its conspicuous sheen and flowing folds, is much more sensuous and caressing--that is, the male artist is taking greater liberties here--than the handling of the flesh of the nude. (I can't help but note the metaphor "handling" itself in this "regard"--in two senses of *that* word, too.) I am suggesting that the mere regard by the model of the spectator is not so surprising as it is a sign that we are to consider the issue of spectating and then see this enacted in the more sensuous regard of the artist for the vagaries of light and texture in the cloth than in the woman's flesh. (But perhaps these comments, although motivated by a posting on HUMANIST, belong elsewhere? Are we to stick to print and ASCII forms? My preference would be to be more capacious.) Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umichum.bitnet Department of English esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu University of Michigan office: 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CTI Centre for Textual Studies Newsletter: Call for papers Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 16:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 605 (1439) Dear All, The next issue of the CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative) Centre for Textual Studies newsletter _Computers & Texts_ will be centred on the use of computing in the areas of Philosophy/Logic. This is a preliminary call for submissions by anyone interested in this subject. Format and deadline details are available upon request. The areas we are hoping to cover in the issue are: An overview of the use of computers and Philosophy Electronic Texts: their availability and usefulness Simulation packages Review of Ethics software Review of Logic Software Bulleting Boards, Electronic mail, and other computer-based resources of use to Philosophers Please feel free to suggest other areas which you think should be included. Thanks in advance, Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273275 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: (James Marchand) Subject: spool Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 20:39:43 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1211 (1440) The acronym was formed on the basis of the common term for "reels" of paper, later mag tape. One used to even call the huge rolls of wire the TVA used "spools", and we used to take the wooden cores left over and turn them on their sides and use them as picnic tables. I remember working on the old MIDAC machine at Michigan in the early 50s as a peon. We Germans called the process of putting things on spools for storage instead of cards "abspuelen", I have no idea why, but why anything? As for the word spool itself, which Skeat defines as "a reel ...", it seems to have come into English from Dutch back during the days of the Industrial Revolution. Why we began to call spools reels is another question. I have an old wire recording "reel" from ca. 1948, and it is called spool. I should point out that the German word spulen (no umlaut) means "to roll up on a spool, reel"; in German a take-up reel abspult. Jim Marchand From: Subject: RE: 5.0602 SPOOL and other Memories (4/78) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 08:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1212 (1441) Micro-note: and yes, a reel of tape can too be called a spool--especially when the analogy is made between tape and earlier wire recording contrivances. Don Coleman From: Ralf Thiede Subject: SPOOL Date: Sat, 18 Jan 92 11:36:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1213 (1442) Mary Dee Harris () pointed out quite cor- rectly in HUMANIST vol. 5 No. 0602 that _spool_ as a computer term would probably not refer to a physical storage device since that is a _reel_-- or, at that time, a stack of cards. My speculation is that _spool_ made a good acronym because of its meaning as a verb, not as a noun. If you think of a file as a thread of information to be fed to a holding device and then again to a peripheral device, then one may imagine that thread to be "spooled" (similar to German _spulen_ / _abspulen_). Anyway, the acronym (_Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line_) looks to me as if it was designed to fit the word _spool_. Ralf Thiede UNCC Dept. of English From: "Randall Jones" Subject: ACH Executive Council News Date: 18 Jan 92 18:41:01 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 607 (1443) Two items of news and interest: 1. The winners of the recent ACH Executive Council election were: Christain Delcourt Mary Dee Harris Anita Lowry Congratulations to them! 2. There will be an Executive Council meeting as part of the Oxford ALLC/ACH92 Conference. It will be on Sunday, April 5th at 2:30 p.m. The exact place will be announced as soon as we can find our from our colleagues in Oxford. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Email in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 09:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 608 (1444) The following report is from CRTNET (CRTNET@PSUVM); it is an account of a visit to Moscow to consult on development of computer communications for scholars in the ex-Soviet states. Requests to HUMANIST in early December 1991 yielded some important leads, which are being pursued through the networks in continuing discussions. Thanks to HUMANISTs for your own continuing support of these initiatives. | | | CRTNET | | January 13, 1992 | | Number 525 | | COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND THEORY NETWORK | Last month I promised to send CRTNET readers a report of my trip to Moscow. There's a lot to tell, but I'll try to keep this fairly brief and invite questions and commentary. This is an account of a trip on December 13-20, 1991, to Moscow, Russia, at the request of IREX (the International Research and Exchanges Board), sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation, and through the good offices of Mike Cole, University of California at San Diego. Mike is an authority on Soviet psychology, has long been a leading figure in international discussions of computer use in the (former) Soviet Union, and in fact wrote a highly interesting account of "Computerization in Soviet Education" for CRTNET (CRTNET 16 [26 November 1985]). I traveled with Peter Olenick, a senior networking specialist from Princeton University. Our assignment was to assess the current state of computer communications among social scientists and humanists in Moscow, with special reference to the Soviet Academy of Sciences (which transformed itself into the Russian Academy of Sciences the week we were in Moscow). We were also invited to make recommendations about priorities for future development. Our host in Moscow was Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Belyaeva, a senior research psychologist at the Institute of Psychology and a principal developer of electronic mail among academicians in Moscow (in addition to a long running experiment in international e-mail for schoolchildren). We were accompanied on most of our site visits, as well, by one of Alexandra Belyaeva's assistants, Dmitry Mozhaev (Jim). The research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences operate under the authority of the ministry of science of the central government, and comprise by far the largest network of research scientists (outside of systems of higher education, which is the U.S. model) in the world, encompassing disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Despite the years of work of Alexandra Belyaeva and others, general development of computer communications is still in an early phase, owing to technical, economic, political, and cultural considerations. The current arrangement for the institutes with which Alexandra Belyaeva is working is that the institute has a microcomputer and a modem; electronic mail is composed in local mode on the microcomputer, which then dials RELCOM, a telecommunications agency gradually evolving from a project based in another institute. The mail is transferred to RELCOM and any new incoming mail is then sent from RELCOM to the microcomputer; the connection is then broken. RELCOM periodically dials up a host computer in Europe and exchanges incoming and outgoing mail with worldwide networks such as BITNET and the Internet. RELCOM assesses a user fee for each transmission. At the Vega Laboratory at the Institute of Psychology, Alexandra Belyaeva has established a general address -- psy- pub@comlab.msk.su -- to which electronic mail may be sent to anyone in the Institute (the addressee's name is used on the "Subject:" line of the mail. Similar projects are underway, through Alexandra Belyaeva's initiatives, at a number of other institutes. Here is a short list of recently connected institutes compiled by Alexandra Belyaeva and Dmitry Mozhaev: Institute : The State Historical Public Library Address : Moscow, 101000, Starosadsky 9 Phone : +7 (095)-928-4341; +7 (095)-921-1707 Postmaster: Galina Zinina Email : postmaster@shpl.msk.su Connected : 09.03.91 Institute : Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Address : Moscow, 117334, Leninsky pr, 32 A Phone : +7 (095)-938-1747 Postmaster: Irina Dakhnovskaya Email : postmaster@iea.msk.su Connected : 09.22.91 Institute : Institute of State and Law Address : Moscow, 121019, Znamenka st. 10 Phone : +7 (095)-219-1229 Postmaster: Marina Karelina Email : postmaster@isl.msk.su Connected : 11.19.91 Institute : Intstitute of History, Science and Technology Address : Moscow, 103012, Starobansky st, 1/5 Phone : +7 (095)-928-1029 Postmaster: Dmitry Bayuk Email : postmaster@ihst.msk.su Connected : 12.04.91 Institute : Institute of Latin America Address : Moscow, 113184, Bolshaya Ordynka st, 21 Phone : +7 (095)-231-1322; +7 (095)-231-5127 Postmaster: Igor Arteminkov Email : postmaster@ila.msk.su Connected : 12.12.91 Institute : Institute of Slavic and Balkan studies Address : Moscow, 117334, Leninsky prospect, 32-A Phone : +7 (095)-938-1780 Postmaster: Andrej Edemsky Email : postmaster@isb.msk.su Connected : (registered, but not installed) Institute : Institute of Psychology Address : Moscow, 129366, Yaroslavskaya st, 13 Phone : +7 (095)-283-5140 Postmaster: Roman Tolochkov Email : psy-pub@comlab.vega.msk.su Connected : september 1991. Alexandra Belyaeva has been in contact with 39 Institutes of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences that operate in human sciences and humanities--some changes in structure and number of these Institutes may be expected with the transfer from the Soviet Academy to the Russian Academy. Also in Vega's "zone of attention" are other institutions not directly connected with the Academy of Sciences--such as libraries, archives, research programs of humanities complexes, and new educational organizations. We visited, for example, with Dean Yassen Zassoursky of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, and plans are underway to connect the Institute. The service connections through RELCOM are a tremendous breakthrough, as more and more institutes get connected and the international conversation begins. But there are considerable limitations, still. Using the e-mail-only dialup system now employed, Russian scholars are denied access to many online services that depend on synchronous, online, interactive messaging (or can use such services only by a comparatively cumbersome e-mail equivalent). The requirement of paying for each message has a potentially discouraging effect on the sort of exploration that is required to use e-mail for maximum effect. The use of a single, centralized microcomputer in a large institute as the sole machine in communication with the outside world takes advantage of the rapidity of transmission of e-mail but is very different from the experience of a scholar who has a microcomputer at home and office, both with direct and instant access to the international networks. Projects are underway to develop Bitnet-style online communications using mainframes connected by leased lines. Andrej Mendkovich, of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, is director of SUEARN (the Soviet Union version of EARN--European Academic Research Network). SUEARN does have a leased line into EARN, and plans to connect mainframes at scientific institutes throughout Russia, but problems with the Russian phone system and limited financial resources, among other things, have impeded rapid progress. In addition, there seems to be some tendency within the Soviet academic community to repeat the pattern familiar in the United States academic community some years ago: the scientists and engineers who owned the mainframes did not always see the point of including social scientists and humanists in their plans. Whatever the limitations of the current situation, the urgencies of social and political development make computer communication a potentially important tool for international conversation and cooperation. A new democracy is struggling to be born and many believe that Russian intellectuals, freed from the restraints of past times and in communication with each other and the West, can play an important role in the process. Under these circumstances, very rapid connection of institutes, universities, and similar agencies could have significant benefits for the peaceful evolution of Russian society. Tom Benson Penn State t3b@psuvm From: "L.LITVACK" Subject: Announcement of British Assn. of Canadian Studies Conference Date: Thu, 9 Jan 92 17:38 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1214 (1445) CALL FOR PAPERS The British Association of Canadian Studies and the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland announce their first joint conference, which will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 9-12 April, 1992. Papers or workshops (in either English or French) are invited on the theme "CANADA: A NATION DIVIDING?" Suggested subject areas include literature, language and culture, history, politics, economics, Canada/US relations, regionalism, social policy and Canadian/Irish links. The keynote speaker will be Mordecai Richler, who will address the topic "LAMENT FOR A DIVIDED NATION". Some of Mr. Richler's thoughts on this subject have recently appeared in an article in the New Yorker (23 Sept. 1991). He is also publishing his views on Quebec in a book entitled Oh Canada, Oh Quebec, already published by Knopf in North America, and soon to be issued by Chatto & Windus in the U.K. For further information, or to submit papers (in either hard copy, or via electronic mail) contact Dr. Leon Litvack School of English Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland, U.K. FAX 0232-247895 E-mail: ENG1787@uk.ac.qub.v2 From: lessard@francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard) Subject: Graduate students: call for articles Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 11:46:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1215 (1446) TO ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS: CALL FOR PAPERS The Frontenac Review Dept. of French Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 Telephone: (613) 545-2090 Fax: (613) 545-6300 Email: warderh@qucdn.queensu.ca January 1992 The Frontenac Review invites you to submit articles on The 'Nouveau Roman' for its winter 1991 edition (number 8) and on Acadian literature for its Fall 1992 edition (number 9). Initial submissions should follow the guidelines established by the M.L.A. If your article is accepted we will ask you to submit the same article on diskette (IBM compatible), in Wordperfect 5.1 format. The committee will not be responsible for returning articles. All candidates will be informed of the committee's decision within a reasonable time limit. The Frontenac Review is searched annually by the Bibliographie der Franzoesischen Literaturwissenschaft and by the MLA International Bibliography. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: ** The Nouveau Roman (no. 8) -- January 30, 1992 ** Acadian Literature (no. 9) -- September 1, 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION ETUDIANT(E)S DE 2e ET 3e CYCLES: APPEL D'ARTICLES La Revue Frontenac Etudes Francaises Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6 (613) 545-2090 Fax: (613) 545-6300 Email: warderh@qucdn.queensu.ca Janvier 1992 La Revue Frontenac vous invite a lui communiquer vos articles sur Le Nouveau Roman pour la publication de son huitieme numero et sur La Litterature acadienne pour le neuvieme numero. Une fois votre article accepte, il vous sera demande de nous expedier le meme article sur disquette (IBM PC ou compatible) avec le traitement de texte 'Wordperfect' 5.1. Nous pouvons dorenavant vous recommander de vous conformer aux criteres etablis par le M.L.A. Quelle que soit la decision du comite, vous en serez informe en temps utile. Aucun article cependant ne sera reexpedie. Nous vous informons que La Revue Frontenac est depouillee annuellement par la Bibliographie der Franzoesischen Literaturwissenschaft et par la MLA International Bibliography. DATES LIMITES D'ENVOI DES ARTICLES: ** Le Nouveau Roman (no. 8) -- le 30 janvier 1992 ** La Litterature acadienne (no. 9) -- le 1 septembre 1992 From: "R. V. SCHNUCKER" Subject: 16th Century Studies Conference Annual Meeting Atlanta 1992 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 92 12:07:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1216 (1447) TO ALL HISTORY _ ENGLISH _ ART HISTORY DEPTS. FROM R.V.SCHNUCKER _ SECRETARY SCSC (member of ACLS) ABOUT: Annual meeting of the SCSC. This year the SCSC will meet in Atlanta Georgia on October 22-24. We are eager to have members from your departments participate in the meeting; thus we ask that you consider this note an invitation to take part in the meeting. Please pass the information on to appropriate scholars. The SCSC is an "open" paper meeting. which means that almost any paper dealing with subjects between ca. 1450-1660 will be accepted or any session that is organized will be accepted. The President of the Conference does reserve the right to turn down thos proposals that do not seem to conform to the usual standards of the meeting. Over 500 people attend the annual meeting; over 350 papers are presented; this year three top scholars will give plenary session addresses: one in the History of Science; an art historian; and an expert in Literature. The registration fee is modest and included an annual subscription to _The Sixteenth Century Journal_; membership in the Conference; subscription to _Scholars of Early Modern Studies_; and whatever free monographs the Journal publishes in 1993. Usually the fee is ca. $50.00 If you have any questions about the SCSC; please contact either president Susan Karant-Nunn or the secretary R.V. Schnucker at NMSU LB 115 Kirksville MO 63501 Phone: 816-785-4665 FAX: 816-785-4131 Bitnet SS18@NEMOMUS.BITNET From: John T. Harwood Subject: Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique Date: Friday, 10 Jan 1992 15:00:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 610 (1448) PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR SERIES ISSUES IN CRITICISM Summer Seminar Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique June 25-30, 1992 State College, Pennsylvania WAI-CHEE DIMOCK, Department of English, University of California, San Diego. Author of Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989) and Symbolic Equality: Political Theory, Law, and American Literature (forthcoming); co-editor of the forthcoming Class and Literary Studies. Professor Dimock will focus on the shifting configurations of gender and history. MARJORIE LEVINSON, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. Editor of Rethinking Historicism (1989) and author of Keats's life of Allegory: the Origins of Style (1988) and other monographs treating Romantic poetry. Professor Levinson will concentrate on cultural materialism. BROOK THOMAS, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine. Author of Cross-Examination of Law and Literature (1987) and The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics (1991). Professor Thomas's central topic will be the crisis of representation. The Penn State Seminar on Historicisms and Cultural Critique offers faculty members in departments of English and modern languages the opportunity to survey the major issues in and freshen their knowledge of approaches to literature that emphasize the relations between text and culture, including those presently identified under the broad label of the New Historicism. Seminar participants will hear presentations by three well-known scholar-critics--Wai Chee Dimock, Marjorie Levinson, and Brook Thomas--and engage in seminar-type discussions organized by these leaders. Registrants are asked to indicate their first and second choices for morning seminar groups. The schedule and atmosphere are intended to encourage informal discussions among participants. For further information contact: Wendell Harris Department of English Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Telephone: 814-863-2343 or 814-865-9243 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Spools of tape Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 11:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 612 (1449) Surely all humanists have recognized the learned allusion made by the engineers at IBM to the greatest literary work on the subject of recording technology, ``Krapp's Last Tape'' by Samuel Beckett. No ``reels'' of tape here---Beckett makes it quite clear that the proper word is spool, in the very first words of dialogue: KRAPP: [Briskly.] Ah! [He bends over ledger, turns the pages, finds the entry he wants, reads.] Box ... thrree ... spool ... five. [He raises his head and stares front. With relish.] Spool! [Pause.] Spooool! [Happy smile. Pause.] ... And Beckett emphasizes the point again near the end of the play: Revelled in the word spool. [With relish.] Spooool! Happiest moment of the past half million. Let's have no more impudent talk of ``reels'' of tape, then. The term should be regarded as an embarrassing solecism, to be met with hoots or restrained snorts of laughter whenever uttered by the ignorant. John Lavagnino, Brandeis University From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 5.0601 CDROMs -- Prices; Longevity (2/23) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 92 21:50:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1217 (1450) Re: Use of Cd-Roms My first exposure to this technology was during a visit to the University of Houston's library and I was very impressed. They maintain an Electronic Publications Centre with a tandem system of jukeboxes. In a backroom, safe from hackers, viruses and users accidents there are two pc clones, each running a 10 CD "jukebox". Each duplicates the other and both are controlled by a third Pc which switches between them if there are technical problems. The whole idea of tandem is that both are running and when the one doing all the work "crashes" the other steps in. The pc that controls the two jukebox systems links them out to the lan in the public area. They had a dozen terminals with software to switch among the CDs in the backroom. Each terminal had both a printer and a floppy disk. I downloaded the results of my bibliographic searches, sorted in alphabetic order, to a floppy. When I got back to Ottawa I had no problem calling them into Wordperfect. An evening searching and learning how to download got me 500+ new citations and a sample map. They also allow downloads from the regional card catalogue (a different system) which has several universities, medical schools, and the city library system. (It gets updated every 6 months.) Folks were very nice there and I got the tour. They did it on a special grant and the next stage is to connect the lan to faculty offices. You can save your search patterns so that, say once a week/month you can quickly update your specialty. The beauty is that it checks journals that would never occur to you. I have no doubts that this is the future of literature searches and it is a future where the user conducts the search. Searches and downloads were free. Printouts were .07 cents/page. They had: ABI/Inform, Art Index, Biological and Agricultural Index, Business Dateline, Compact Disclosure, Compendex Plus, Computer Library, Electromap World Atlas, ERIC, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Microsoft Bookshelf, Periodical Abstracts, PsycLit, Social Sciences Index, sociofile, Statistical Masterfile, & Supermap. (MLA & Medline were dealt with as sign-out but use in library material.) Over the summer I also did a search at the main library at the University of Toronto. They had 2 standalone pc machines with cd-rom drives. You signed up for 15 minute time blocks and took a cd off the table. As the cd-rom drive is now around $400 for an individual, they should begin to have a security problem as the cds walk off. The time bottleneck puts a ritual and constraint to what is actually a very simple matter of fact operation. Not the way to go. I recommend Cd-rom networks on a university wide system, just like the mainframe. Our university, like many others are just making decisions as to which way to go. Go talk to your library staff because it will effect how you get information on your profession in future. Ask them to think about dial-up access from off-campus. Lorne Hammond History University of Ottawa P.S. What interests me are the possibilities of publishing in CD format. Anyone out there with experience in that area willing to comment? From: maurizio lana Subject: Re: 5.0590 CDROM Prices & Scholars (1/19) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 18:02:15 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1218 (1451) I completely agree with what C. Faulhaber wrote about the high prices of those CDROM, and the fact that their price makes it impossible to single scholars to buy them. I appreciate very much the policy of TLG and PHI, whose prices are even too red uced (hope this will not mean thet UCI and PHI will raise their prices...!)\ Maurizio ------------------------------------------------- Maurizio Lana | e-mail: LANA@ITOCISI.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------ From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0603 Queries (4/102) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 05:40:27 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1219 (1452) HIC JACET PULVIS CINIS ET NIHIL reminds me of the last line of the famous sonnet "Mientras por competir con tu cabello" of the 17th-c. Spanish poet Luis de Gongora: "en tierra, en humo, en polvo, en sombra, en nada" i.e., the fate of all human beings as well as human and earthly beauty, is to turn 'into earth, smoke, dust, shadow, nothing.' In turn it was imitated by, among others, the late 17th-c. colonial Mexican poet, Sor Juana Ine's de la Cruz in her "Este que ves, engan~o colorido": "es cadaver, es polvo, es sombra, es nada" This which you see before you `is a cadaver, dust, a shadow, nothing." My own speculation is that the Latin is earlier and that Gongora, who was very erudite, is playing on it. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: gary forsythe Subject: Hic iacet lepus Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 4:44:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1220 (1453) I just finished reading the summary of responses on the saying "here the hare lies', and I would like to point out one more aspect of this saying which may contribute to its understanding and origin. It seems likely from the responses that this expression has its origin in Medieval Latin. Since my area of expertise is ancient history, perhaps others can follow up on this suggestion. At any rate, it seems to me that there was initially a double meaning implicit in this expression, and that Medieval writers of Latin often reveled in such word play. The relevant fact is that classical Latin has two words that are very similar, if not identical, in form: lepos (or lepor), leporis = charm, wit; and lepus, leporis = hare. It should be noted that these two words differ only in the spelling of the nominative singular form. I know for a fact that the Roman imperial poet Martial wrote a few short epigrams in which the humor of the lines turned on the ambiguity of lepos/lepus. I would therefore like to suggest that at some point (either Roman imperial, late antique, or Medieval) some wag coined the phrase 'hic iacet lepus' with this double meaning clearly in mind and alluding to something where wit or cleverness would be needed to appreciate or unravle some puzzle. Does anyone out there have any further reflections on this saying? Gary Forsythe University of Chicago gfgf@midway.uchicago.edu From: "Gilbert Smith" Subject: Goya's Majas Date: Thu, 16 Jan 92 20:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1221 (1454) In response to Eric Rabkin's comments on Goya and Velazquez: I have frequently heard the story that the painting of the naked maja is in fact of the Duchess of Alba, but that Goya finally substituted another woman's head on the painting to avoid scandal.... I have always wondered if that is true??? The story becomes more delicious because of the other story -- which is true, I believe.... that in the tomb of Goya in the Church of San Antonio de la Florida in Madrid, lies his body, but not his head, which was stolen at some point. In which church, BTW, are the marvelous paintings of the Goya angels on the ceiling. Worth a visit, for it is one of the more interesting sights in a city which is strangely devoid of tourist sites (after the Prado and the National Palace, there is not much to SEE, in the tourist sense). I join the Spaniards in believing tht Velazquez' is their greatest painting. The most extraordinary painting ever, I think. . Gilbert Smith North Carolina State University From: elliot@nowalls.ucsd.edu (Elliot Kanter) Subject: E. Kennedy's message on videotape Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 08:32:21 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1222 (1455) I am almost certain I saw the speech by Edward Kennedy on C-Span. Purdue University maintains the "Public Affairs Video Archives", reportedly a complete collection ongoing of C-Span programming. They will search for and sell tapes at relatively low rates for educational purposes. They can be reached at BITNET: pava@purccvm PHONE: 317-494-9630 Elliot Kanter University of Calif., San Diego ekanter@ucsd.edu From: Peter Evans Subject: qualitative analysis software for the macintosh Date: Mon, 20 Jan 92 12:13:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 615 (1456) I am looking for information on Macintosh based packages for assisting in qualitative analysis of text. The three packages I have heard about are: Nudist, HyperResearch and HyperQual. The data I will be working with will be interviews, questionnaires, and diaries. I am particularly interested in the ability of the package to support multiple and overlapping coding of the data, easy of revising the codes, speed of retrieval, ability to generate other codes based on existing codes and provision of basic descriptive statistics eg crosstabs and frequencies etc. Also, once the data has been coded can it be manipulated using other tools (eg word processor) and these manipulations added to the database? If you have used any of these packages (or others that might be relevant) I would be very interested in your comments on them. How much do they cost? Where are they available from? If people reply directly to me I can post a summary to the net. If you do not want your name included on the summary mention this in the email. Peter Evans pevans@umd5.umd.edu (301) 4052033 | from _--_|\ Rm. 4105 Hornbake Library Building | / \ College of Library and Information Services | \_,--._/ University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742--------| v From: MANYMAN@FINUHA.BITNET Subject: F word: ProtoIE *peug-/*peuk- 'prick' Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 21:05 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 616 (1457) Bob Krovetz (5.0578) brought forward a good reference: Allen Walker Read's paper in American Speech 9:4 (1934). This is something to begin with. According to Read, _fuck_ is cognate with Latin _pungere_ 'to knock, strike'. Formally & semantically, this is more probable than not. For semantic parallels, see e.g. J.N.Adams (1982) The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. London: Duckworth. P.245-249. Cf. also _prick_ in all its acceptations. The formal side is somewhat messy, but not hopelessly so. Latin _pungere_ involves the _n_-infixed root _pug_, which can be analyzed as a zero-grade variant of the proto-Indo-European (PIE) root *_peug_ 'to prick, jab, sting, stick'. There are a few PIE roots having consonantal variation. *_peug_ is one of that ilk: besides PIE *_peug_, there is PIE *_peuk_ (the same meaning), which is reflected in Greek _peuke_ 'spruce'. There can be no doubt that originally _peuke_ designated 'the pricking, prickly (tree)' (needles! -- needless to say); cf. e.g. Greek _ekhe-peukes_ 'sharp, piercing' (= 'having a piercing point'; said of a spear or an arrow) and _peuk-almos_ 'sharp' (of intelligence), &c. Given PIE *_p(e)ug_ (> Lat. _pu(n)g-_) alternating with PIE *_p(e)uk_ (> Gk _peuk-_), let's consider the Germanic side of the problem. Engl. _fuck_ is _ficken_ in German. It is true, that it is impossible to show conclusively that these words are etymologically related; but it would be unethical not to try the possibility. Semantics creates no problems, but it seems impossible to relate the _u_ in _fuck_ and the _i_ in _ficken_ formally. But also this kind of incompatibility has a close parallel: there can be no doubt that German _Fichte_ 'spruce' and Greek _peuke_ 'spruce' are etymologically related. Given PIE *_peuk_, the Proto-Germanic reflex must be *_feuh-_ or *_fiuh_, and indeed Old High German has _fiuhta_. How OHG _fiuhta_ evolved to _Fichte_, I do not know; the change _iu_ > _i_ is unpredictable, BUT it did happen. Now, there is reason to think that _Fichte_ reflects the PIE root variant *_peuk_. It MAY be the case that German _ficken_ reflects the root variant *_peug_, but this is very speculative. But it's not a bad idea to trace _fuck_ back to Middle English *_fuken_, as is suggested in the 2nd ed. of OED. This form can be looked upon as reflecting Proto Germanic *_fuk-_, which can be mapped onto PIE *_pug_ (> Latin pu(n)g-), and this goes all lautgesetzlich. The semantics of the PIE ancestors of the English "F word" seems as messy as its contemporary acceptations. Or almost. A friend of mine (from the USA) once saw a guy who was desperately trying to start his car. But without much success: "Fuck, this fucking fuck won't fuck!!!" Well, maybe this is common folklore? Se non e` vero e` ben trovato, eh? :-) ;-) :-) Martti Nyman (University of Helsinki, Dept of General Linguistics, Hallituskatu 11-13, SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland) From: FORTIER@ccm.UManitoba.CA Subject: ACH Call for Papers, MLA 1992 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 21:05:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 617 (1458) CALL FOR PAPERS The ACH will be organising two sessions at the 1992 MLA Convention, to be held December 27-30, 1992, in New York City, around Mark Olsen's position paper proposing a new direction for computer-aided studies of literature (summary below). Please contact Paul Fortier -- FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET . Deadline for submission of paper or abstract March 1, 1992 to FORTIER@UOFMCC.BITNET. People presenting papers at the the MLA Convention MUST be members of the MLA. Announcement of acceptance April 1, 1992. --------------- Signs, Symbols and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-aided Literature Studies. Mark Olsen* University of Chicago mark@gide.uchicago.edu Abstract Computer-aided Literature Studies have failed to have a significant impact on the field as a whole. This failure is traced to a concentration on how a text achieves its literary effect by the examination of subtle semantic or grammatical structures in single texts or the works of indi- vidual authors. Computer systems have proven to be very poorly suited to such refined analysis of complex language. Adopting such traditional objects of study has tended to discourage researchers from using the tool to ask questions to which it is better adapted, the examination of large amounts of simple linguistic features. Theoreticians such as Barthes, Foucault and Halliday show the importance of determining the lingusitic and semantic characteristics of the language used by the author and her/his audience. Current technology, and databases like the TLG or ARTFL, facilitate such wide-spectrum analyses. Computer-aided methods are thus capable of opening up new areas of study, which can potentially transform the way in which literature is studied. [ ... ] -------------------- [A complete version of this paper is now available through the fileserver, s.v. OLSEN MLA92. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET OLSEN MLA92 HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "PHILIP E. YEVICS UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON PA 18510" Subject: Query on converting Worperfect greek Codes to TLG Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 15:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1223 (1459) CONVERTING BETWEEN WORPERFECT 5.1 GREEK CODES AND TLG (BETA) ASCII CODES I have been experimenting with the Greek3 Keyboard from Wordperfect andhave found it quite adequate for my needs and easy to use. Before committing to a purchase of the module, I would like to be sure I can convert back and forth between the Wordperfect codes and the TLG (Beta) ASCII Codes. Has anyone already solved this problem? Phil Yevics University of Scranton (PA - USA) PEY365@Scranton.Bitnet From: "Randall Jones" Subject: IBYCUS System Sought Date: 22 Jan 92 16:01:26 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1224 (1460) We are interested in purchasing a used IBYCUS system. If anyone can send me information about availability and price I would appreciate it. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: Dennis Baron Subject: spool Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 9:02:30 CST(3) (1 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1225 (1461) I think the case for spool has been clearly established, but you may be interested in the following gleaned from OED2: Spool, sense d., is defined as any cylinder on which cord, wire, tape, etc. is wound. Examples include: 1864, spools of wire (we call them coils now) for electric induction; 1883, fishing line; 1889, 1936, 1955, spools of film (photog) 1967, 1977, spools of audiotape. OED2 misses the computer use of spool in both n. and vb.; perh. it is not used in British computer usage. By the way, as John Algeo points out, OED2 grandly expands its outlook including Americanisms, Australianisms, Candianisms, and other -isms from varieties of World English. But it does not include Briticisms, assuming them to be unmarked, normal forms of English whose exclusively British marking does not need to be recorded. -- debaron@uiuc.edu ____________ 217-333-2392 |:~~~~~~~~~~:| fax: 217-333-4321 Dennis Baron |: :| Dept. of English |: db :| Univ. of Illinois |: :| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| 608 S. Wright St. |:==========:| Urbana IL 61801 \\ """""""" \ \\ """""""" \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)(5) (2 lines) Subject: Re: 5.0595 Etymology of "SPOOL" (5/131) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 3:13:27 EST(4) (7 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1226 (1462) After all I just wanted to add that spoel and spoelen are two dutch words, pronounced in exactly the same way as their english counterparts; these by the way mean respectively "a wheel" (as used on old tape recorders) and "to wind". Does then spool refer to the fact that onme may have recorded information on tape for later use? Michel. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Odysseus in need of directions Date: Saturday, 11 Jan 1992 01:34:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1227 (1463) Can anyone give me an e-mail (INTERNET, I hope) address for Aristotle University at Thessalonika? A colleague headed there on a Fullbright wants to find a path by which his wife can write him while he's there. Many thanks. --Pat Conner From: slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sarah L. Higley) Subject: Re: 5.0605 CFP: CTI -- Philosophy & Computers (1/37) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1992 13:57:16 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1228 (1464) [...] I'm desperately looking for an essay by Ranier Maria Rilke entitled "On Dolls." The person who loaned me his book has gone on leave and I can't remember the volume it was in. Yours sincerely, Sarah Higley slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu From: "Roald A. Zellweger" Subject: e-mail address of Houghton Library Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 14:58:27 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1229 (1465) A colleague is needing the e-mail address of Houghton Library at Harvard (Manuscript Dpt.). Could someone help us? Roald A. Zellweger Institut fuer Spezialforschungen Platz der Goettinger Sieben 2 D-3400 Goettingen phone : 0551-39 7127 fax : 0551-39 9612 bitnet: RZELLWE@DGOGWDG1.bitnet From: "PETER JUST, ANTHROPOLOGY, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILLIAMSTOWN MA 01267" Subject: source of an aphorism about translations Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1992 16:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1230 (1466) Can anyone provide me with a source of an apochryphal (not to say male chauvanist) French aphorism to the effect that "Translations are like women: the ones that are beautiful are not faithful and the ones that are faithful are not beautiful"? I recall seeing it somewhere in an essay on ethnographic authority, but can't recall where. From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0613 CDROMS -- Pricing, Library Use Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 11:04:25 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 621 (1467) Lorne Hammond's comments on library supply of CD databases were very interesting. Lorne (I'm repeating the name because I don't know if it should be "he" or "she" and it's not a mistake one can allow oneself to make these days :-) ) saw a "jukebox" arrangement where a PC supplies 10 CDs, though only one at a time, and is linked to the library LAN. Libraries are rushing to put CDs on the library/campus network these days the way they were rushing to computerize the catalog 10-15 years ago. But I'm surprised Houston opted for a jukebox arrangement. Most "professional" opinion holds that it's too slow for efficient service on a LAN, i.e. when several people are likely to want a disk from the same jukebox at the same time, and they'll have to wait because the jukebox PC must physically switch CDs for each one. I could understand it better if the "tandem" arrangement Lorne mentioned meant that both PCs were supplying data at the same time, but s/he says one only steps in when the other crashes. Most libraries prefer a "tower" arrangement -- a PC with room for multiple CDs (currently up to around 28 per tower) in multiple drives, all available at the same time. You can put that on the campus-wide LAN (as a matter of fact you can put as many of them as you like on the campus-wide LAN) and let 100 faculty members loose on them with relative impunity. I'm sending this to Humanist because Lorne said "talk to your friendly librarians about it". Being one myself, I'm all for it; but don't, please, suggest a jukebox... suggest a tower. The other point was a smile at the words "in a back room, safe from hackers, viruses etc..." Ah dear, those days are over. Back rooms don't guarantee security any more, 'cos the PC is, after all, on the LAN, and anyone with a terminal or PC attached to the LAN has access to that PC. It's enough to download your search to a diskette with a virus on it, and you've infected the LAN CD-ROM fileserver. About all the back room does is ensure people don't walk off with the CD-ROM disks (which at several thousand $ apiece for some of the databases Lorne saw, is a good enough reason for locking up your CD server!) NB if you're going to talk to your friendly librarians, and even more if you're going to talk to the folks who provide the LARGE budgets for all this, you may be surprised to find out that keeping a dozen databases with attendant hardware and software available on the campus LAN also costs around a 50% job position. Since the university administration sometimes prefers to forget this fact, an awful lot of us are turning into computer technicians/system managers these days. The whole business is going to get easier -- because it can't get more complicated than it already is! Of course, speaking now from the other side of the fence (user, not librarian), I know we aren't going to be satisfied until all the material -- books, articles, maps and other visuals etc. -- is on CD along with the citations to it. Only it probably won't be CD but some central computer with many many gigabytes of storage on ultra-fast magnetic disks (average access time of a CD these days: 350 ms, down from 600 when they first came out but a far cry from the 19 or 28 of cheap hard disks). Our computer universe started off with one central machine and everyone queuing up for terminals; expanded to a PC on every desk; is now contracting to a central machine with access via a LAN... like the model of the continuously expanding/contracting universe. Wonder what's coming next! Of course, if I were Big Brother, I'd definitely prefer the back room arrangement: all of human knowledge in one place and only I and my representatives have the key... Just a few stray thoughts on a cold morning. Judy Koren, Haifa. From: "Stephen D. Spangehl, Associate Director" Subject: Bibliography software for MacIntosh Date: 22 January 1992 22:00:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 622 (1468) Can anyone recommend Mac software for the maintenance and bibliographical indexing of a professional library shared by several people? Either an independent program or something that would work under an existing program (hypercard, Word4, Fourth Dimension) would be good. Something that's easy to learn to use would be ideal, even if it were necessary to sacrifice other features. From: David E. Latane Subject: Victorians Institute Conference Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 15:42:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 623 (1469) The 1992 Meeting of the Victorians Institute will be held 2-3 October at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. The Institute is a friendly gathering of Victorianists; the annual meeting features a plenary session on a selected topic, with a keynote address by an eminent scholar. The Institute also publishes the "Victorians Institute Journal." The 1992 topic will be "TENNYSON 2000: Rethinking and Reappraisal." Papers employing new critical theory, interdisciplinary approaches, and comparative literature treatments will receive special attention. Papers should be submitted by July 1st, 1992. Address proposed papers, sessions, and other inquiries to the program chair: Dennis Goldsberry Department of English College of Charleston Charleston, SC 29424 803-792-5664 ***** For other inquiries about the Victorians Institute (membership, etc.) contact dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu. (David Latane). From: "NAME MICHEL (MGRIMAUD@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU) GRIMAUD" Subject: Re: 5.0622 Q: Mac Bibio SW for Libraries (1/6) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 12:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1231 (1470) Bibliographic Software... for IBM compatibles In response to the query on bibliographic programs, I want to mention one outstanding program called PAPYRUS. It's on mainframes and PCs... not yet MACs, but it may come by the end of this year. PAPYRUS, from RESEARCH SOFTWARE DESIGN, 2718 SW Kelly Street, Suite 181 Portland, OR 97201 (phone = 503/796-1368) is everything I had been looking for for 3 years -- AND MORE. 1. It's cheap (under $100) 2. It's intelligently put together (SO rare!) saves on space by having a dictionary of index words, one of journals, etc.; and it helps you avoid repeating index words or have wrong journal names or inconsisten one. 3. In it's new version it will have AN OUTSTANDING *NOTECARD* FEATURE (thus solving the cross-referencing problems we all have shen we are using paper index cards and want to put one card in several boxes...) 4. I'm not paid by the owner, Dave Goldman, to rave about this product. I'm just delighted about it and want people to share the joy!!! Note, however, that I'm using a Beta copy of version 7.0 -- i.e., a copy which is not out yet. The commercial version is 6.0 still. If you do not enter large numbers of bibliographic entries, you might still want to use the NOTECARD feature instead of paper index cards, e.g., if you have a laptop and work in libraries. Michel Grimaud French, Wellesley College 617/235-0320 (X 2404) From: ssrdi@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au (Iseman) Subject: Re: 5.0622 Q: Mac Bibio SW for Libraries (1/6) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 15:58:11 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1232 (1471) The best biblio programme I have seen for the Mac. is Pro-Cite. Contact arg@pbsinc.com (Argyl Houser) for information. You will be amazed. Cheers Robert Iseman University of South Australia From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: more on multilingual software Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 11:02:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1233 (1472) This is yet another query about multilingual software for biblical scholars. I just want to know if there is anything new out there - or anything old I've missed. For those who have been killing this subject line in the past, but who happen to be reading this note, we're talking about a range of software that can 1) print (and one would hope display) Greek and Hebrew characters 2) write bidirectionally (for Hebrew) 3) wordwrap bidirectionally (for Hebrew again) 4) transliterate most languages likely to be cited by biblical scholars 5) offer something in the way of footnoting, style sheets, auto-indexing There are several software packages that can do these things, but all that I have examined have significant drawbacks. Typical examples of such draw- backs include: 1) can't correctly align Hebrew vowels and accents (or can't even do accents at all) I can't imagine using a system that couldn't even draw, say, a zaqef, revia, tifxa, or zarqa on the screen. Good grammatical work has always taken the accents into account. At a very minimum, software should be able to indi- cate dagesh, general stress, pausal stress, and metheg (the typical assort- ment available in introductory Hebrew textbooks like Lambdin and in the lexica). 2) no adequate transliteration system for Hebrew Typically, software makers beat their chests about how they have a trans- literation alphabet as well as a native Hebrew font. When you examine the characters used, though, they turn out to be archaic and naive. The phon- ology of Tiberian Hebrew is a hotly disputed topic. Many scholars have recently argued that length was not even phonemic in that dialect, and that the qametz, for instance, should be transcribed as a simple low/back rounded vowel (a backwards c in IPA). Most transliteration systems I've seen still force the scholar to use an a + macron for qametz. Obviously they have not been keeping up with the last twenty years of so of scholarship on such mat- ters :-). Software needs to be current, and to offer the necessary *trans- criptional* options. 3) no adequate transliteration system for other NE languages A transliteration alphabet should include Ugaritic, Arabic, and Akkadian (as well as Hebrew) - as a minimum. Transliterations suitable for Egyp- tian, Ethiopic, and South Arabic are nice, but especially the S. Arabic should not be necessary for most biblical work. 4) lack of portability A good biblical scholars' word processing system should be portable, in the sense of being easily convertable into other formats. In general, it is also good to be able to import CCAT betacoded texts, since these have become a kind of de facto standard for people working in this area. One problem that really isn't the software manufacturers' fault is that they run under operating systems like MS-DOS. It is exceedingly difficult to cram all that is needed into the small memory space of a DOS-based com- puter. DOS-based computers also tend not to have very sophisticated dis- play capabilities, so in most cases you can't get good WYSIWYG output. I think, though, that I could live with almost anything, as long as the basic capabilities outlined above were available on some system. Can somebody tell me if anything - anything even close to the mark - exists? I've been searching for seven years now. My finger is definitely *not* on the pulse of the software industry, though, and I wouldn't be at all shocked if someone told me I'd overlooked an important product. Did I miss a product that would meet some of the above basic needs? -Richard Goerwitz From: "Paul F. Schaffner" Subject: Does RAMFONT have a future? (or, computing with odd characters) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 22:28:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1234 (1473) RAMFONT, for those who don't know, is the name of a feature found on the Hercules Graphics Plus Card (Herc +) which enables text-mode software like Nota Bene and WordPerfect/DOS, to display up to 3072 different characters on screen, any and all of which may easily be created or modified at the whim of the user. It has thus been very handy for those who need to do multilingual wordprocessing, phonetics, and so on. Users of the Herc+ who love its features, but have grown weary of the monochrome world -- and VGA-users who find that glorious color does nothing towards supplying needed non-standard characters -- may be interested to learn that Hercules is considering producing a VGA card with the RAMFONT feature. The sales rep I spoke too indicated that Hercules is not yet sure whether there is a market for such a product, and suggested that if I wanted to see a RAM-VGA on the market I should write them a letter conveying my interest. I fall into the category of those that find RAMFONT invaluable (especially with NotaBene), but would occasionally like to see some color graphics as well, so I intend to write; I urge like-minded people to do likewise. The address is: Hercules Computer Technology 921 Parker Street Berkeley, California 94710 I have posted this to NOTABENE, ANSAX-L, MEDTEXTL, and HUMANIST. My apologies to those who receive multiple copies. (Feel free to forward this.) Paul Schaffner usergfnk@umichum.bitnet Middle English Dictionary usergfnk@um.cc.umich.edu From: stigle@CS.UNCA.EDU (Sue Stigleman) Subject: Bibliography software for Macintosh Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 21:51:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1235 (1474) I recently wrote an overview of bibliography software which appeared in the journal Database in the February 1992 issue. (Didn't know it was February yet, did you?) The article discusses the features in bibliography software and has a table with general information about 35 or so programs. Thirteen programs run on the Macintosh. Addresses and phone numbers for the producers are given in the article. The article also has 8 questions for you to answer to help you narrow down the possible programs to a more manageable number. The complete citation: Stigleman, Sue. Bibliography Formatting Software: A Buying Guide. Database 15(1):15-27, February 1992. I use MS-DOS software more myself, but I will try to respond to Macintosh software questions, if there are specific questions I could answer. Oh -- another comment. The journal above is Database, all one word, not Data Base, which is a computer science journal. Database is an online/CD-ROM/librarianship journal. Sue Stigleman stigle@cs.unca.edu Asheville, NC Librarian currently working as writer/consultant/student. From: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 213-458-9811 Subject: Bibliographic Databases, Pros and Cons Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 00:27 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1236 (1475) I am currently using Notebook Citation as a bibliographic and text database. I would like to hear from others who can judge its merits in comparison with Endnote, Pro-Cite, Library Master, or other highly recommended software package of this kind. Is anyone running their database program and wordprocessor at the same time under an application switcher such as Deskview. I would be interested in how this is working--the possibilities and limitations. I am specially interested in downloading from on-line databases (specially university libraries) directly into the bibliographic database. Some programs do this better that others--and without buying special software supplements. Thank you, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett enq8bkg@mvs.oac.ucla.edu From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Open Day Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 17:31 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 627 (1476) CTI Centre for Textual Studies OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN Introductory Seminar Friday 20 March 1992, 10.30am to 4.00pm The CTI Centre is holding an introductory seminar to enable lecturers in higher education institutions to learn about our work. In the morning there will be a series of talks and discussion sessions about various aspects of the use of computers in higher education teaching: practical, pedagogic, political, institutional, etc. In the afternoon we will demonstrate some of the hardware, software, and courseware available for higher education teaching. There will be opportunity for participants to try out some of the packages for themselves. No previous knowlede of computing will be assumed and the open day will be aimed at people unfamiliar with the CTI. Programme 10.30am Coffee and Registration 11.00am Introduction to the CTI Programme Marilyn Deegan, Director 11.30 Computers in the teaching of textual subjects: an overview of the resources and major issues Stuart Lee, Research Officer 12.00pm Some practical and institutional difficulties Christine Mullings, Research Officer 12.45pm Lunch 2.00pm Practical demonstrations and opportunities for hands-on experience 3.30 to 4.00pm Wind-up discussion and tea The cost of the open day will be #35.00 (pounds), which includes coffee, lunch, and tea. Participants may be able to obtain funding from their staff development office. Cheques should be made payable to Oxford University Computer Services. If accommodation is required for the Thursday or Friday evening, please contact us. Please reply to the address below by 6th March 1992. Michele Palmer Administrative Secretary CTI Centre for Textual Studies and Office for Humanities Communication 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 0865 273221 Fax: 0865 273275 E-mail: MICHELE@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: mlbizer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Subject: Bibliography databases for the Mac Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1992 19:42:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1237 (1477) Dear Humanist participants, Someone recently recommended ProCite as the best available bibliography database manager for the Mac. I would be interested in hearing from someone who is familiar with both ProCite and EndNote Plus, since I have been using EndNote Plus (and simple EndNote) with considerable satisfaction for over two years. MacUser recently rated EndNote Plus best of three bibliography programs (although ProCite was not among them). I do know that EndNote Plus can export records in ProCite format. As far as EndNote Plus is concerned, it is a significant improvement over EndNote, since it offers much better search and formatting capabilities and adds sorting which was absent from EndNote. Apparently neither EndNote Plus nor EndNote are directly compatibile with Nisus (the most powerful word processor available for the Mac), but they do work well with WordPerfect, Word, MacWrite, WriteNow, etc. Sincerely, Marc Bizer (mlbizer@phoenix.princeton.edu) Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Princeton University From: stigle@CS.UNCA.EDU (Sue Stigleman) Subject: Bibliography software (clarification about Database) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 12:21:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1238 (1478) I think I need to clarify something from my post of a few days ago which described an article I wrote for the journal Database. I described the journal as "online/CDROM/librarianship", which several people (understandably enough!) have taken as the format of the journal. Instead, it is the subject coverage of the journal -- Database covers the fields of online searching and CD-ROM searching and related topics, and is aimed at information professionals (i.e. librarians, intermediary computer searchers, consultants in computer searching). It also includes information about related topics like bibliography and text management software. Database is available in many libraries, but it often seems to be kept in the back, for use by the librarians. You may have to ask to see if your library subscribes. It not, you can get a copy of my article through normal interlibrary loan channels at your academic or public library. By the way, if you are interested in the area of computer searching, Database and its companions, Online and CD-ROM Professional, are excellent journals. You might find them useful, despite the slant toward librarians. Sue Stigleman stigle@cs.unca.edu From: mlbizer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Subject: multilingual software Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1992 21:33:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1239 (1479) I'm not completely familiar with the problems of biblical scholars since I only have to work in French, but I would first like to point out to DOS users who complain of memory problems associated with using different fonts and difficulties in displaying odd characters on low-resolution displays that these problems simply do not exist for Macintosh computers which handle fonts and memory in much more carefully thought-out ways. Even the Plus/SE/Classic handle up to 4 MB of memory (forget those archaic 640KB constraints!). It is easy to install and remove fonts (this has been made even easier under the new System 7, where you just drop them into the system file), and being part of the system, fonts are available to all programs, not just to WordPerfect or Nota Bene. There are numerous software packages which allow you to design your own fonts. Of course, any font installed in a Macintosh can be displayed thanks to the bit-mapped video. So where is the problem? Macs can not only read DOS disks, but also run DOS programs thanks to SoftPC, a software DOS emulator. Finally, WordPerfect (2.0.4) is available for the Mac. As far as Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic characters are concerned, I think the Mac handles them nicely. "Greekkeys" from Scholars' Press makes typing Ancient Greek very easy. With regards to Hebrew and Arabic, I would recommend the most powerful (and least well-known) word processor for the Mac, Nisus. According to the brochure I have in front of me, "Nisus is available in Hebrew, Japanese, and Arabic versions." These languages may not be mutually exclusive. In addition, Nisus has incredibly powerful search and replace features, non-contiguous text selection (not offered by any other word processor!), automatic indexing, unlimited undos back to "open file," macros, a graphics module ... the list goes on and on. It is sold by Paragon Concepts in Solana Beach, CA which offers a free demo disk if you call them at (800) 922-2993 ext. 2000. I hope this information will be of use. Sincerely, Marc Bizer (mlbizer@phoenix.princeton.edu) Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Princeton University From: pilgrim at ukanvm Subject: Re: 5.0625 Multilingual Software (2/108) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 00:06:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1240 (1480) Write to: Gamma Productions -- 710 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 609 -- Santa Monica, California, 90401 Phone (213) 394-8622 or, Techware -- P.OO. Box 10545 -- Eugene, Oregon 97440 (503) 484-0520 Phone (503) 484-0520 These companies make or market linguistic software. For further infor-ati on mation, your library probably has a book entitled "Bits, Bytes, and the Bible." It is huge, and lists resources until your eyes water. good luck, Pilgrim From: Ted Hansen Subject: Oxford UP OED-1 & OED-2 CD-ROMS Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 00:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 630 (1481) I see by the recent Oxford UP Literature catalog that the OED 2nd ed. CD-ROM is due out April 1992. Does anyone know: 1) if it will be more user-friendly than OED1 for figuring out abbreviations/codes for searches, and 2) if some has prepared a helpful "user's guide" for OED1 that is downloadable or available via snail-mail? Thank you. Ted Hansen (612) 255-3061 English Department St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498 G00050@MSUS1.BITNET From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Odysseus in need of directions Date: Saturday, 11 Jan 1992 01:34:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1241 (1482) Can anyone give me an e-mail (INTERNET, I hope) address for Aristotle University at Thessalonika? A colleague headed there on a Fullbright wants to find a path by which his wife can write him while he's there. Many thanks. --Pat Conner From: slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sarah L. Higley) Subject: Re: 5.0605 CFP: CTI -- Philosophy & Computers (1/37) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1992 13:57:16 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1242 (1483) [...] I'm desperately looking for an essay by Ranier Maria Rilke entitled "On Dolls." The person who loaned me his book has gone on leave and I can't remember the volume it was in. Yours sincerely, Sarah Higley slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu From: "Roald A. Zellweger" Subject: e-mail address of Houghton Library Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 14:58:27 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1243 (1484) A colleague is needing the e-mail address of Houghton Library at Harvard (Manuscript Dpt.). Could someone help us? Roald A. Zellweger Institut fuer Spezialforschungen Platz der Goettinger Sieben 2 D-3400 Goettingen phone : 0551-39 7127 fax : 0551-39 9612 bitnet: RZELLWE@DGOGWDG1.bitnet From: "PETER JUST, ANTHROPOLOGY, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILLIAMSTOWN MA 01267" Subject: source of an aphorism about translations Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1992 16:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1244 (1485) Can anyone provide me with a source of an apochryphal (not to say male chauvanist) French aphorism to the effect that "Translations are like women: the ones that are beautiful are not faithful and the ones that are faithful are not beautiful"? I recall seeing it somewhere in an essay on ethnographic authority, but can't recall where. From: maurizio lana Subject: address query Date: Wed, 22 Jan 92 15:56:07 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1245 (1486) The last Humanities Computing Yearbook gives (page 409) the following email add ress for R. Cannon and R. Oakman (Dept of Comp. Science, Univ. of South Caroli na): CANNON at USCEAST.UUNET But the message I sent come back to me as undeliverable. Does anyone know if th e email address of those people has changed? If someone know a correct address, could I get it at my own address? Thank you. Maurizio ------------------------------------------------- Maurizio Lana | e-mail: LANA@ITOCISI.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------ From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: Rilke's "dolls" Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 11:17:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1246 (1487) RE: Sarah Higley's question about Rilke's "Dolls". "Dolls" is not considered an essay. It is an 7 or 8 pages fragment in prose written before the first world war about Lotte Pritzel's wax dolls. It will be easily found in Rilke: Auswahl in zwei bande, vol.II, Prose, Leipzig: Insel-Verlag; I have not checked but it is supposed to be in Ernst Zinn edition (Samtliche Werke, Insel, 1959), volume V. Christian Allegre U. de Montreal From: John_E_JOSEPH@umail.umd.edu (jj36) Subject: Query: Night wanderers Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 23:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1247 (1488) In Plato's _Cratylus_ (433 A) the following reference is made by Socrates: "Let us, then, grant this, my friend, or we shall get into trouble, like the belated night wanderers in the road at Aegina, and in very truth we shall be found to have arrived too late" (Fowler trans., LCL ed.). Fowler says, "This seems to refer to some story unknown to us". Does anyone have a clue as to who "hoi en Aigine nyktor periiontes opse hodou" might be? From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705" Subject: Querry on Memorization Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1992 09:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1248 (1489) A medievalist colleague is looking for examples of people engaged in memorizing or talking about memorizing such things as the Pater Noster, Creed, Psalter, or Bible, in the Middle Ages, any country. If you write directly to me, Malcolm Hayward, MHayward@IUP.Bitnet or MHayward@grove.iup.edu I'll pass the message to her. Thanks. From: Susan Hockey Subject: CETH Inaugural Seminar Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 12:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 632 (1490) Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities sponsored by Princeton University and Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey Inaugural Seminar Professor Robert Hollander, Princeton University 'The Dartmouth Dante Project: Building a Humanities Database' Thursday 6 February 1992, 4.30 pm Room G, Prospect House, Princeton University All are welcome to attend this seminar. If you would like to come, it would be helpful if you could let us know beforehand, by sending a message to ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu. Susan Hockey Director From: "Wendy Plotkin (312) 413-0331" Subject: New TEI Character Set and WSD Document (TR1W4) Date: 31 January 1992 15:28:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 633 (1491) Announcement: New Character Set and Writing System Declaration Documents (TR1W4) [deleted quotation]------------------------------- At the present time, character sets are woefully inadequate for the needs of humanities scholars encoding texts. Though this will be remedied by the creation of new character sets in the future, it will be some time before these sets are widely supported in many computers and across networks. It is not yet certain whether a single universal character set will be agreed upon by all parties. Even if this occurs, variants of that character set may exist. I do not hope that this happens, but it is possible. In the SGML standard, the entity mechanism was introduced, in part to provide an alternative for the existing character sets' limitations. A number of public entity sets were included in an appendix. In a new ISO technical report (being issued in parts), work is being done by the ISO central secretariat to expand these entity sets. The TEI TR1 work group is also working on public entity sets for scholarly purposes, and sharing its efforts with ISO. We intend to make available public entity sets in TEI, and submit them for inclusion in the ISO technical report. If anyone would like to help with this work, please contact Harry Gaylord (galiard@let.rug.nl). Currently, we are working on Hebrew and Early Slavic sets. It is a chance to set standard use throughout the computing scholarly community and make it universally available. Also, if you have any corrections on the material already prepared (available from TEI-L, as described below), I would appreciate hearing from you. The preliminary fruits of this effort are now available as TEI TR1W4. TEI TR1W4 is available in marked-up form electronically from the TEI-L file-server and in hard copy from the Chicago TEI office. This 70-page document includes a general discussion of entities, entity sets and writing system declarations; also, Appendices incorporating the ISO and TEI entity sets and the TEI writing system declarations. Because of the length of the document, TR1W4 is available in parts on the file-server. The general discussion is in the file "TR1W4 TEI1", while the entity sets and writing system declarations are included as individual files, as shown below (the TEI-L filename and filetype are in parentheses): TR1W4 Files on TEI-L File-server -------------------------------- General Discussion: Character entities and public entity sets (TR1W4 TEI1) 1. ISO public entity sets from 8879 ISOlat1 for western European languages (ISOlat1 Entities) ISOlat2 for other Latin based languages (ISOlat2 Entities) ISOdia for diacritics (ISOdia Entities) ISOgrk1 for basic modern Greek (ISOgrk1 Entities) ISOgrk2 for accented letters in modern Greek (ISOgrk2 Entities) ISOcyr1 for modern Russian Cyrillic (ISOcyr1 Entities) ISOcyr2 for modern non Russian Cyrillic (ISOcyr2 Entities) ISOnum for numeric and special graphic characters (ISOnum Entities) ISOpub for publishing (ISOpub Entities) 2. new TEI public entity sets TEIarb basic Arabic (TEIarb Entities) TEIcop Coptic (TEIcop Entities) TEIgrk Classic Greek supplement (TEIgrk Entities) TEIipa for IPA phonetic characters for interchange (TEIipa Entities) 3. two TEI writing system declarations (wsd) TEIgreek wsd (TEIgreek wsd) TEIphon wsd (TEIphon wsd) These declarations include a) entity names and b) the hexidecimal values of the characters in the latest version of the draft ISO standard 10646. This draft standard is currently being voted upon. The Greek writing system declaration also includes the Thesaurus Linguae Grecae (TLG) codings. To obtain a file from the TEI-L fileserver, send a note to Listserv@UICVM with no subject, and the following message: Get (Filename) (Filetype) For example, to obtain the general discussion of TR1W4, send a note to Listserv@UICVM with the message (and no subject): Get TR1W4 TEI1 To obtain the list of all files available on the TEI-L file-server, send a note to Listserv@UICVM with the message (and no subject): Get TEI-L Filelist To obtain the hard copy version from the TEI Chicago office, contact Wendy Plotkin Computer Center (M/C 135) P.O. Box 6998 Chicago, IL 60680 USA E-Mail: U49127@uicvm.bitnet U49127@uicvm.uic.edu Phone: (312) 413-0331 Fax: (312) 996-6834 Harry Gaylord Chair TEI TR1 (Work Group on Character Sets) From: P.Burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: IASSIST in Madison, May 26 - 29 **PLAN TO COME** Date: 31 Jan 92 18:25:10 gmt(2) (109 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 634 (1492) [From Peter Burnhill, Edinburgh University Data Library] The 18th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) will be held at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. from TUESDAY, MAY 26 through FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1992. The conference theme expresses IASSIST members' concern for managing and sharing computer-readable data during a time of increasing demand coupled with decreasing fiscal resources. The conference program features workshops, contributed papers, roundtable discussions, and poster sessions reflecting international viewpoints on these concerns. IASSIST brings together individuals engaged in the acquisition, processing, maintenance, and distribution of computer-readable text and numeric social science data. Founded in 1974, the membership includes data archivists, librarians, information specialists, social scientists, researchers, and government agency administrators from around the world. IASSIST '92 CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS Conference Workshops, Tuesday, May 26, 1992 9:00 Introduction to Unix Coordinator: Jim Jacobs, UC - San Diego or Introduction to Data Archives and DataLibraries Coordinator: Jean Stratford, UC - Davis 2-5:00 Navigating Unix: Resources and Applications Coordinator: Juri Stratford, UC - Davis or Software Access to 1990 Census CD-ROMS, Coordinator: Jack Beresford, Bureau of the Census Preliminary Summary of Conference Sessions Wednesday, May 27, 1992 a.m. Concurrent Sessions Text and Tools: Resources for the Humanities Chair: John Price-Wilkins, University of Michigan Vietnam Data in the National Archives Chair: Peggy Adams, National Archives & Records Administration p.m. Concurrent Sessions Archiving Electronic Records Chair: Karsten Rasmussen, Danish Data Archives Quantitative Analysis & Stylistics: When the Letters Meet the Numbers Chair: Laura Bartolo, Kent State University Thursday, May 28, 1992 a.m. Concurrent Sessions Standards Chair: TBA Migrating Between Systems Chair: Pat Hildebrand, University of Pennsylvania p.m. Poster Sessions Friday, May 29, 1992 a.m. Plenary Session a.m. Concurrent Sessions Integrating the Use of Numeric Data in the Academic Environment Chair: Wendy Treadwell, University of Minnesota Principal Investigators Speakers: Jim Sweet, Larry Bumpass, Robert M. Hauser,Erik Wright, University of Wisconsin MARC Meets NASA Chair: Laine Ruus, University of Toronto p.m. Concurrent Sessions Panel of Professional Associations Chairs: Tom Brown, National Archives & Records Administration Diane Geraci, SUNY Binghamton Issues in Health Data Research and Management Chair: TBA Entertaining activities have been planned for the evenings. Registration fees received by April 20, 1992 are as follows: $175 Conference and Workshop $125 Conference only $ 75 Workshop only or One-Day Conferance Attendance Program Committee Chair: Ilona Einowski, Data Archivist, UC Data, University of California - Berkeley 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720 U.S.A., phone: 510-642-6571 CENSUS85@UCBCMSA.BITNET To receive final program and registration materials, please contact the local arrangements coordinator: CINDY LEW, Associate Data Librarian, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. phone: 608-262-9827 fax: 608-262-8400 LEW@WISCSSC.BITNET or LEW@SSC.WISC.EDU By air, Madison is served by Northwest, United, Trans World Express, US Air, Midwest Express, and 3-hour $12.00 shuttle bus from O'Hare to Madison. Rooms have been reserved at the Concourse Hotel May 25 - May 30, 1992 at the special conference rate of $65 per room (single or double). Reservations must be made by April 25, 1992 to ensure this rate. Please contact the hotel directly using the following toll free numbers: 1-800- 356-8293 (in Wisconsin, 1-800-362- 8270). Be sure to identify yourself as an IASSIST '92 attendee. Information on alternative accommodations may be obtained from the local Arrangements Coordinator. From: Anne Falke Erlebach Subject: Pro-Cite vs. EndNote Plus for the Mac Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 12:42:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1249 (1493) As someone who is in the midst of switching bibliographic database management programs from EndNote Plus to Pro-Cite (version 2.0), I'm in a position to comment on the difference between the two. First, if you are happy with EndNote Plus, stay with it. Pro-Cite is a powerful program--far more powerful that EndNote Plus--but the tradeoff is a loss of simplicity. My chief criticism lies in the docu- mentation: a huge loose-leaf manual, crammed with information, but tough to use if you don't know how already. On-line help is clearer and easier to follow than the manual. (I've never had as much trouble figuring out how to use an application before. Normally, I find starting out on a new one an enjoyable challenge.) That said, once you figure out how to use this baby, you'll find EndNote Plus wanting. Some of ProCite's benefits include: increased record capacity (up to 100,000 records per db), variable-length fields (to save wasted disk space), storage of up to 32,000 characters per record, 20 pre-defined and 6 user-defined document workforms (docu- ment types), authority lists to standardize author names, journal titles, descriptor terms, or data. Search capability is faster than EndNote Plus; character formatting, page-view, indexing features are superior. Bibliographic output is both more flexible and more accurate. The reason EndNote Plus made me unhappy in the first place was that the bibliographic formatting for MLA style was (how can I put this?) inaccurate. The EndNote Plus version of MLA bibliography style was wrong, and the style for MLA note-type bibliographies was like something one of my freshman English students made up on a bad day. Pro-Cite eliminates the need to reformat. Pro-Cite also makes customizing your own format easier than it is with EndNote Plus. My biggest worry was converting all my old EndNote Plus files, since I'm a bit concerned about trusting a straight import-conversion. Importing from text is tedious, but going better than I expected. I could, of course, follow directions and give it a try, but the Pro-Cite workforms are long and importing would of course require arranging the EndNote files so that they had the same number of fields. Text-conversion is slow, but sure. I always found the lack of a call-number field in EndNote Plus to be a drawback. Pro-Cite not only has such a field, but sorts call numbers accurately in both Library of Congress and Dewey Dec- imal classifications. This makes it easy to work in the library from a notebook computer. I wanted to go to Pro-Cite for a long time, but was discouraged by its cost. If you buy it from the manufacturer, you pay the full price of $395. MacWarehouse, however, sells it for $199, and gives you next-day air delivery for $3. MacWarehouse's number is 800-255-6227. Pro-Cite 2.0 requires Macintosh 512KE or later. Macintosh System 6.0 or higher. Hard disk recommended. Pro-Cite 2.0 is made by Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc. P.O. Box 4250 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (313) 996-1580 FAX (313) 996-4672 PBS is good about sending brochures to interested parties, but I recommend you save money and buy from someone who discounts, like MacWarehouse. Anne Falke Erlebach (AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu) Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 (906) 487-2066 From: "Heather L. Nadelman" Subject: Re: 5.0626 Bibliography SW (2/55) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 15:00:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1250 (1494) There is nothing out there as useful for scholars to keep track of bibliography citations as Nota Bene's Ibid. Ibid works within NB as a database for articles. When you cite something in a document, you simply hit control-F6. a window pops up, and you type the author you have just cited. Ibid searches the database and offers you all choices by that author (you can also search by title and keyword). You select the one you want and hit the insert key to stick the reference in your paper. If you haven't entered the database information, you can do it on the spot and then insert it. Although it is a big commitment to switch word processors, there is no reason why any academic working in the humanities should overlook NB. The soon-to-be-released version 4 will have even more features. From: Erhard Hinrichs Subject: Job: Research position, Univ. Tuebingen Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1992 17:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 636 (1495) The Dept. of Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen, Federal Republic of Germany, invites applications for a three-year research position in computational linguistics at the level of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (German payscale BAT IIa) starting in the spring of 1992. Candidates should have research experience in the creation and analysis of text copora and/or the acquisition of lexical knowledge from machine readable dictionaries and should be capable of contributing to the development of related software tools. Additional expertise in the fields of morphology, syntax, and/or lexical semantics is desirable; good command of German is absolutely necessary. Interested persons should send their application and arrange for at least one confidential letter of reference to be sent to: Prof. Erhard Hinrichs Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstr. 113 D-W-7400 Tuebingen For full consideration, applications must be received by March 1, 1992. From: "Dana Paramskas : DanaP@CSUS.edu" Subject: Conference announcement Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 03:10:54 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 637 (1496) FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS AND LEARNING ICCAL'92 Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada June 17-20, 1992 From June 17 to June 20, 1992, Acadia University will host the Fourth International Conference on Computers and Learning, ICCAL'92. The program includes 45 full papers presented in three parallel streams, 29 posters and short papers, five workshops/tutorials, four panels, and six invited speakers. A separate two-day workshop on computers in science education sponsored by APICS precedes the conference, and a social program complements the technical presentations. Invited speakers include Dr. H. Maurer from Austria, the creator of the Hyper-G hypermedia project; Dr. L. Moore from the University of North Carolina, the Co-Director of the acclaimed CALC three-semester calculus program; Dr. J. Murray, Director of the MIT Athena language learning project; Dr. M. Petruk, the Executive Director of the Apple Canada Foundation and a leading authority on authoring systems; Dr. B. Shneiderman, the head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland and well known for his work on hypertext and user interface design; and Dr. B. Woolf, a leading expert on AI applications in education from the University of Massachusetts. Full papers will be presented in 15 sessions covering areas such as authoring systems, intelligent and knowledge based systems, computer assisted language learning, applications, computers in distance education, and others. An open session on work in progress will also be included. Panels include a manufacturers' panel with anticipated participation of representatives from Apple, Commodore, DEC, IBM, Microsoft, NeXT Computers, and SUN; and panels on artificial intelligence in education, authoring environments, computer assisted language learning, and computers in distance education. Tutorials and workshops cover authoring systems (lecture and hands-on lab), artificial intelligence in education, computer assisted language learning, and principles and applications of semantic networks. The full registration fee for ICCAL is $240 (includes proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science) until May 1, 1992 and $280 after, the student fee is $120 (does not include proceedings) before May 1 and $140 after. Tutorial fees are $140 per tutorial. ICCAL'92 will be preceded by a two-day workshop on Computers in Science Education on June 15-16. The fee is $20 before May 1 and $30 after. Special transportation fees for the conference have been arranged with Canadian Airlines and Air Atlantic and accommodation in hotels and university residences at a wide range of prices has been secured. A social program and tours of Atlantic Canada complement the technical program. For more information about ICCAL'92 contact Dr. Ivan Tomek, ICCAL'92 chair, Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1X0. Phone: (902) 542-2201, extension 467, Fax: (902) 542-7224, E-mail: iccal@AcadiaU.ca For information about the preconference workshop or to propose a presentation contact Dr. Tomasz Muldner, Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1X0. Phone: (902) 542-2201, extension 331, Fax: (902) 542-7224, E-mail: iccal@AcadiaU.ca From: A. Ralph Papakhian, Music Library (Co-Listowner for MLA-L@IUBVM) Subject: Clearinghouse for unpublished documents Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1992 11:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 638 (1497) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 855-2970 papakhi@iubvm.bitnet papakhi@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu *********************************************** Music Library Association Clearinghouse (MLAC) GUIDELINES Purpose: The MLAC will distribute information related to music librarianship. The principle means of distribution will be in electronic form via the MLA-L filelist stored at Indiana University, Bloomington at the BITNET node known as IUBVM. Print distribution (charged at a cost to recover costs of printing and postage) will also be available. Scope: Any information of relevance to music librarianship will be considered for distribution. Such information may include, but is not limited to: a. reports, studies, bibliographies, analyses, etc. by any MLA committee, subcommittee, roundtable, task force, etc. b. reports, studies, bibliographies, analyses, etc. of any problems or topics related to music librarianship. Disclaimer: Unless OTHERWISE stated, NO material distributed by the MLAC is a. endorsed by the Music Library Association b. subject to editorial scrutiny c. subject to peer review A disclaimer will be included in each document distributed, except for those which have been previously published, in which case the source of the document will be cited. Procedures for submitting documents to MLAC: a. Preferred procedure. Send the document in ASCII (DOS, TEXT) format to the MLAC coordinator either via BITNET as a file, or as as an e-mail message. b. Secondary procedure. Send the document in ACSII (DOS, TEXT) format to the MLAC coordinator on diskette. c. Tertiary procedure. Send the document in printed form to the MLAC coordinator. Such documents will only be available for redistribution in photocopy form, and not via electronic distribution. Procedures for retrieving documents: a. All electronically stored documents can be retrieved from the MLA-L FILELIST utilising the regular LISTSERV commands. b. Printed copies of documents can be obtained at costs covering at least printing and mailing (requests, with checks made out to MLA, should be submitted to the MLAC coordinator). These costs will be noted in announcements, and will be based on average printing and postage costs for documents within certain page parameters. Listing of documents: Documents available via the MLAC will be recorded in the MLA-L FILELIST. This list will, of course, be available via regular LISTSERV commands. Versions of the list will also periodically be published in the MLA Newsletter as needed. Discussion: MLAC is intended to serve, minimally, as means for distributing information of relevance to music librarianship that is not otherwise being distributed currently. This can include a variety of MLA committee and roundtable activity as well as informal studies conducted by music librarians that will not otherwise be polished for publication--studies could also include papers prepared by librarianship students. Basically, anything of relevance to music librarianship will be considered with the disclaimer noted above. Maximally, MLAC could also be considered as a means for storing and distributing all information of relevance to music librarianship. This maximalist possibility is potentially beyond the resources available currently. But that would only become a question should MLAC move in the maximalist direction. Right now, I think it will be interesting if we can even get the minimalist possibility operating. In the maximalist scenario, published documentation could also be transferred in electronic form for MLAC re-distribution. As you all know, the problems of electronic distribution of referreed material is now in a state of flux, and solutions are yet to be found. But they will have to be found soon. From: cettico@fi.upm.es Subject: Appel: 5th Int. Symp. on Knowledge Engineering Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1992 09:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 639 (1498) Forwarded by: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" Originally posted on: Langage Naturel ******************* * CALL FOR PAPERS * ******************* FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING ====================================================== Seville, Spain October 1992 There is a Spanish saying which goes "the fifth one never turns out bad", and the organizers of the 5th Symposium on Knowledge Engineering hope to live up to this proverb. Of course, the success of the previous ones means that they will be very difficult to surpass, but, at all events, it is worth a try. This having been said, "heuretics", in the sense of discovery, would seem to be an appropriate leitmotiv for this Symposium, since this falls in the year of the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of America. Of course, all the traditional subjects and those of previous symposiums on this field will be included. They are listed below. But, the serendipitous aspects of any discovery and intelligent behaviour should be stressed as being the most original subject of this event: - Causal, spatial and temporal modelling - Deep modelling knowledge engineering - Common sense reasoning - Knowledge acquisition and machine learning - Knowledge representation - Natural language - Knowledge engineering and education - Philosophical basis and impact of the technology - Cooperating expert systems - Computer integrated manufacturing, robotics computer vision - Neural networks - Hybrid reasoning Authors should submit four (4) complete copies of their papers. Submissions should be limited to ten (10) double-spaced pages, and the total text should not exceed 6,000 words. Papers will be evaluated with respect to their relevance, clarity, correctness, originality and significance. It is important to include specific results, outlines of their derivation and comparisons with previous work. The following information must be submitted along with each paper: 1.Author's name, address, telephone number and netmail address (if possible). 2.The subject area (plus a set of 6 key words for further classification). 3.An abstract of 100 to 200 words. 4.The length of the paper (number of words). Important dates: March 30th, 1992: Limit. May 1992: Trial programme. July 1992: Camera ready copies. September 1992: Final programme. October 5th, 1992: Symposium begins. Papers should be submitted to: Prof. Dr. Juan Castellanos. FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING. Facultad de Informatica - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo 28660 Boadilla del Monte Madrid, Spain Fax: (341) 3524645 Email: CETTICO@FI.UPM.ES Additional information may be obtained from: Mr Jose Chelala FIFTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING Almagro, 38-1 izda. 28010 Madrid, Spain FAX: (341) 4100121 From: David Sewell Subject: Huck Finn e-text? Date: Sun, 26 Jan 92 11:32:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1251 (1499) Does anyone have a public-domain e-text of _Huckleberry Finn_? I know it has been available in packages like WordCruncher and the Library of the Future, but for the moment I only need the one text. (I gather that it's in the works for Project Gutenberg but it's not in the archive yet.) Thanks, David Sewell, University of Rochester dsew@cc.rochester.edu From: Jan Eveleth Subject: Is BIALIK@Brandeis operating? Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 09:45:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1252 (1500) A message last May indicated that English poetry could be accessed via interactive mail with the BIALIK server at Brandeis. I've been unsuccessful in getting a response from the system. Does anyone know its status? --Jan Eveleth (Eveleth@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.edu) Academic Computing Services Yale University From: James O'Donnell Subject: papyrus photography Date: 24 Jan 92 13:01:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1253 (1501) For possible public display in a major museum exhibition, a colleague would like to locate computer-assisted photographic analysis of Greek papyri; viz., would like to show how photography can be tweaked/enhanced to make script more legible, differentiate scripts, etc. Must be Greek; I would put you in touch with the museological colleague to work out permissions and details, etc. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Eliza for the Macintosh Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 18:28:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1254 (1502) Does anyone have or know of an Eliza program for the Macintosh? I am referring to any program of the type made popular by J. Weizenbaum's original Eliza, which simulated a conversation between the computer, a psychologist, and the user as the patient. From: Subject: CETEDOC Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 17:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1255 (1503) A colleague of mine, Prof. Penn Szittya in the Medieval Studies program at Georgetown, would like to speak to any scholars or librarians who have used the CETEDOC compact discs on patristic and medieval Latin sources. Please send your surface-mail addresses or phone numbers to me, and I will forward them to him. Thanks. Mike Neuman Georgetown University From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: Help needed - Quotations including 'electronic publishing' Date: Tue, 28 JAN 92 10:20:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 641 (1504) Does anyone know of any attestations of 'electronic publishing' used in the sense of publishing material on magnetic or optical media earlier than 1979? The attestations must have appeared in a printed publication, which can be book, magazine, journal ... My dictionary colleagues are updating the entry for the Shorter Oxford Dictionary for 'electronic publishing' and would like further supporting quotations than they already have. Replies direct to me please. Many thanks. Ruth Glynn CD-ROM Project Manager Oxford University Press From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: (Last) Call for Papers for ICEBOL6 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 06:35:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 642 (1505) SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on SYMBOLIC and LOGICAL COMPUTING DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA OCTOBER 15 - 16, 1992 ICEBOL6, the Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, is designed for teachers, scholars, and programmers who want to meet to exchange ideas about computer programming for non-numeric applications -- especially those in the humanities. In addition to a focus on SNOBOL4, SPITBOL, and Icon, ICEBOL6 invites presentations on textual and logical processing in a variety of programming languages such as Prolog and C. Topics of discussion will include artificial intelligence and expert systems, and a wide range of analyses of texts in English and other natural languages. Parallel tracks of concurrent sessions are planned. ICEBOL's coffee breaks, social hours, lunches, and banquet will provide a series of opportunities for participants to meet and informally exchange information. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts (250-750 words) of proposed papers to be read at ICEBOL6 are invited in any area of non-numeric programming. Planned sessions include the following: analysis of texts (including bibliography, concordance, and index generation) artificial intelligence and expert systems computational linguistics computer languages and compilers designed for non-numeric processing electronic texts and encoding grammar and style checkers linguistic and lexical analysis (including parsing and machine translation) music analysis preparation of texts for publishing Papers must be in English and may not exceed twenty minutes reading time. Abstracts should be received by March 1, 1992. Notification of acceptance (based on recommendations of readers) will follow promptly. Papers will be published in ICEBOL6 Proceedings. Presentations at previous ICEBOL conferences were made by Paul Abrahams (ACM President), Gene Amdahl (Andor Systems), Robert Dewar (New York University), Mark Emmer (Catspaw, Inc.), James Gimpel (Lehigh), Ralph Griswold (Arizona), Susan Hockey (Oxford), Nancy Ide (Vassar) and many others. Copies of the ICEBOL5 Proceedings are available. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION All correspondence including abstracts of proposed papers as well as requests for registration materials may be sent to: Eric Johnson ICEBOL Director 114 Beadle Hall Dakota State University Madison, SD 57042 U.S.A. Inquiries, abstracts, and correspondence are encouraged via electronic mail, and they may be sent to Eric Johnson at: ERIC@SDNET.BITNET or johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: DAN MANDELL (219)284-4610 Subject: Rank and Tenure Criteria Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 10:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 643 (1506) Our Information Technology Task Force is interested in submitting some formulations of guidelines that might be useful to the College Rank and Tenure Committee in evaluating the work of faculty involved with instructional technology. A recurrent theme we hear from faculty is that they suspect that tenure and promotion decisions are made in such a way as to "discount" the use of computer modules in teaching. The Dean claims that such claims are bogus, but conversations with Rank and Tenure indicate that they could use some thoughful criteria in this new area of evaluation - flexible enough to recognize the role of both new software development and the more common "repurposing" of existing software for instructional use. I would like to see criteria that others have formulated. Dan Mandell Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, In 46556 From: Michael Metzger Subject: Biblio SW Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 10:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 644 (1507) I've been using Pro-Cite 1.4 and agree that it's a powerful database/sorting tool; DOS KEYB* commands give me the foreign language characters that I need. The problems start when I want to import a bibliography to Word Perfect. There's some interference between the way ProCite writes umlauts etc. and the WP underlining codes, so that the transfer utility is useless; the only cure is item-by-item editing, which defeats much of the purpose of such a program for me. Has that problem been eliminated in later versions of ProCite? In the meantime, I'm working with WPCitation by Oberon Resources. This works within Word Perfect 5.1 and uses the Sort programs to handle files created from data fields, feeding them to a wide selection of bibliography formats. Sorting the files is excruciatingly slow on a PC, but this shouldn't be a problem for a 286 or 386. I don't know about availability for Macs. Not a really serious pro- gram for large databases, I suppose, but it serves well for writing papers, etc. I recommend it! Michael Metzger - Univ at Buffalo - (MLLMIKEM@UBVMS) From: Martin Raish Subject: Story source Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 11:47:28 ECT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 645 (1508) A friend asked me if I could locate the source of the following story. I do not recognize it. Does anyone else? [Just because I'm a reference librarian he thinks I know everything. Let's not disappoint him! :-) ] Please respond directly to me. I have paraphrased his version of what he remembered, so there are likely many details missing or misunderstood. With apologies, here it is as he and I remember it. Years ago there was a one-room school house in the mountains of Virginia where the boys were so rough that no teacher had been able to handle them. A young inexperienced teacher applied, and the old director scanned him and asked: "Young fellow, do you know that you are asking for an awful beating? Every teacher that we have had here for years has had to take one." "I will risk it," he reply. On the first day of school Tom, one of the bigger boys, whispered: "I won't need any help with this one. I can lick him myself." "Good morning boys, we have come to conduct school." They yelled and made fun. "Now I want a good school, but I confess that I do not know how unless you help me. Suppose we have a few rules. You tell me and I will write them on the blackboard." After some time ten rules appeared, including one to the effect that a law is not good unless there is a penalty attached. "What shall we do with one who breaks the rules?" "Beat him across the back ten times without his coat on." In a day or so, "Big Tom" found that his lunch had been stolen. The thief was located -- a hungry little fellow, about ten years old. When it was time for the punishment to be inflicted the little boy, trembling, came up slowly with a big coat fastened up to his neck and pleaded, "Teacher, you can lick me as hard as you like, but please, don't take my coat off!" "Take the coat off, you helped make the rules!" "Oh, teacher, don't make me!" He began to unbutton, and what did the teacher behold? The little boy had no shirt on and a bony little crippled body was revealed. "How can I whip this child?" he thought, "but I must. I must do something if I am to keep this school." Everything was quiet as death. "How come you aren't wearing a shirt, Jim?" "My father died and my mother is very poor. I have only one shirt to my name and she is washing it today, and I wore my brother's big coat to keep me warm." The teacher, with rod in hand, hesitated. Just then "Big Tom" jumped to his feet and said, "Teacher, if you don't object, I will take Jim's licking for him." "Very well, there is a law that says one can become a substitute for another. Are you all agreed?" Off came Tom's coat, and after 5 hard strokes the rod broke! The teacher bowed his head in his hands and thought "How can I finish this awful task?" Then he heard the class sobbing, and what did he see? Little Jim had reached up and caught Tom with both arms around his neck. "Tom, I am sorry that I stole your lunch, but I was awful hungry. Tom, I will love you till I die for taking my licking for me! Yes, I will love you forever!" That's as much as he remembers. Thanks for any leads you can offer. Martin Raish Main Library, Box 6012 State University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton NY 13902-6012 (607) 777-4385 BITNET: mraish@bingvmb.bitnet INTERNET: mraish@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Thought for the week (or until I remember to change it): + + + + "Wenn ein Buch und ein Kopf zusammenstossen, und es klingt hohl, + + kommt es vom Buch?" + + -- Georg C. Lichtenberg + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne) Subject: Re: 5.0644 Biblio SW (1/15) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1992 09:31:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1256 (1509) Regarding Procite, Michael Metzger says: [deleted quotation] is [deleted quotation] LIBRARY MASTER is a PC bibliographic database manager that produces bibliographies and other reports in the native file formats of a variety of word processors, including Word Perfect, Microsoft Word, Nota Bene, Wordstar, etc.... It properly includes all of the foreign language characters along with fonts such as underlining, italics, boldface, superscripts, subscripts, and control codes such as tabs, margins, hanging paragraphs, headers, footers, etc. It is also much faster than Procite or WPCitation in searching. You also have a great deal more control over database structure and report format. Harry Hahne From: ksalzber@hamline.edu (Kenneth Salzberg) Subject: Re: 5.0644 Biblio SW (1/15) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 10:24:06 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1257 (1510) In responce to Metzger's comments about Pro-Cite and KEYB* - and to reiterate a previous posters comments: none of the shortcomings of transferring or sorting that crop up in the Pro-Cite, etc., to Word processing program interface exist in the Nota Bene context. (Boy, what a wordy sentence - if I wasn't using this old fashioned mailer program, I'd go back and edit that within an inch of its life!) All of the bib. generation, sorting, and special multi-lingual characters are avaliable in ibid (Nota Bene's Bib. add-on), and work "seamlessley" - and very quickly, even on a PC. "I recommend it!" Ken Salzberg - Hamline University (ksalzber@hamline.edu) From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: FEB 12 NEACH: Managing Textual Variants Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 23:14:56 EST (28 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 647 (1511) An Invitation from NEACH NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities--a regional affilate of ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities--invites you to attend its monthly meetings in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue. Frederic Woodridge Wilson of the Morgan Library will speak on MANAGING TEXUAL VARIANTS on Wednesday, February 12, 1991 at 1:30 p.m. His work is based on the analysis of the texts of the Victorian librettist W. S. Gilbert. Mr. Wilson is the data processing supervisor and a curator of the Pierpont Morgan Library; he is a former president of NEACH. All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Ask at the desk when you enter the IBM Building for a pass to "NEACH" or "HUMANITIES." NEACH Programs for 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Project Elaine Brennan, Humanist Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman, ex-Wolff Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, CETH Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Lib. -- Heyward Ehrlich, President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) -- From: Subject: RE: 5.0640 Qs: Huck etext; papyrus photos; CETEDOC... Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 10:04 N X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1258 (1512) Une version Macintosh d'ELIZA eliza.pit.hqx.Z est accessible en ftp a puffin.doc.ic.ac.uk dans le dossier /micros/mac/umich/etc/compsci ainsi qu'a f.ms.uky.edu dans le dossier /working/ai From: John Lavagnino Subject: Bialik server at Brandeis Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1992 12:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1259 (1513) The Bialik server is still up and running. You just have to send an interactive message over the Bitnet, and not mail. If you don't know what an interactive message is, the people at your computer center can tell you how to send them. John Lavagnino, Brandeis From: "Peter D. Junger" Subject: re: BIALIK Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 14:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1260 (1514) Jan Eveleth asks: "A message last May indicated that English poetry could be accessed via interactive mail with the BIALIK server at Brandeis. I've been unsuccessful in getting a response from the system. Does anyone know its status?" I have just sent BIALIK an interactive message (not mail) over bitnet giving the command "POEM" and it has responded. BIALIK will respond only to interactive messages from bitnet nodes. I don't know how such a message should be sent from a VM machine (which is what I assume Yale VM is), but my guess is that the message TELL BIALIK AT BRANDEIS "HELP" will produce the help file. Peter D. Junger CWRU Law School From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Re: Eliza on the Macintosh Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1992 11:15:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1261 (1515) Educorp carries a public domain (or perhaps shareware) Eliza for the Apple Macintosh. It's on disk #3401 (education, volume 1). Call 1 800 843 9497. Some textbooks on Lisp, Logo, and Prolog carry code for a version of Eliza. Leslie Burkholder CMU From: "David R. Chesnutt" Subject: Cannon/Oakman E-mail Address Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 11:01:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 649 (1516) The new address for Bob Cannon and Bob Oakman is CANNON@CS.SCAROLINA.EDU From: Richard Giordano Subject: Non-sexist language Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 15:43:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1262 (1517) Anyone know of a good manual that can be used for non-sexist writing--something like a politically correct Strunk&White? Rich Giordano rich@uk.ac.man.cs From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Education / Libraries in medieval Spain Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 12:10:03 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1263 (1518) For a couple of encyclopedia articles and sections of a collaborative history of Spanish literature, I am looking for recent work on medieval Spanish libraries and education. In both cases I am primarily interested in the period 1200-1500, but in the entire Iberian peninsula excluding present-day Portugal. 1) Libraries. By recent I mean primarily post 1985. I think I got most of the earlier stuff in my Libros y bibliotecas en la Espanna medieval (London: Grant & Cutler, 1987) (Might as well get in a plug. 2) Education. Here I am decidedly less au courant. Anything in the last twenty years or so would be useful. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley cbf@athena.berkeley.edu ked@ucbgarne.bitnet PS. I am sending this to multiple lists. Please forgive the proliferation of copies From: Werneburg 310-458 9811 x 6011 Subject: misogynist Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 12:26 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1264 (1519) I am looking for the term, comparable to misogynist, for women who hate men. The dictionary was of no use, as women obviously are not expected to hate men. I am reviewing , art exhibition in L.A. and need this word. Thank you for your help, Brigitte Werneburg Fellow, Getty Center for the History of Art and the Huamnities enq8bqw@mvs.oac.ucla.edu From: Marc Bregman Subject: The Divine Devilishness of DETAIL Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1992 18:21 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1265 (1520) I have long been enamoured of a quote I think is usually attributed to the historian of Art and Civilization, Aby Warburg: "The Living God lives in Detail" [I think the German is: "Der leiber Gott lebt im Detail" -- but please forgive any errors resulting from quoting from memory by a non-native speaker who got a C in College German!]. I recently was struck by a highly learned literary friend's use of the expression "The Devil is in the Details". This has led me begin pondering what I am calling (for the time being) THE DIVINE DEVILISHNESS OF DETAIL. I'm wondering if any fellow Humanists have any thoughts on this subject. I would also be most grateful if anyone could tell me more about either of the two expressions quoted above, original sources or specific references would be most highly appreciated. Marc Bregman, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem [HPUBM@HUJIVM1] From: Karl Van Ausdal Subject: Source (?) of quotation on translation Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 16:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1266 (1521) Although this is not a French aphorism, Karl Peltzer's *Das treffende Zitat* (Thun und Munchen: Ott Verlag, 1957) p. 684 cites a German version, and a source. Ubersetzungen gleichen den Frauen: sind sie treu, so sind sie nicht schon, und sind sie schon, und sind sie schon, so sind sie nicht treu. [Umlauts over 1st "U" in Ubersetzungen, and "o" in both schons] The citation is to Carl Bertrand, "Vorrede zu seiner Danteubersetzung" [umlaut over 1st U in last word] The British Library catalogue and the National Union Catalog both list Bertrand's three-volume metrical translation of the Divine Comedy, published in Heidelberg, 1887-94. Several dictionaries of "modern quotations" include a similar quotation by the South African poet Roy Campbell (1901-1957): Translations (like wives) are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive. *Poetry Review*, June/July 1949 J.M. and M.J. Cohen's *The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations* (1971) is the earliest collection (among the modest library holdings I've been able to consult) to cite that version. Karl Van Ausdal Appalachian State University vanausdalk@appstate.bitnet From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0631 Qs: (Various) (8/105) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 23:53:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1267 (1522) I'll not be the only respondent to remind M. Hayward, whose friend seeks examples "of people engaged in memorizing. . . in the Middle Ages") to bring up the "litel child" of Chaucer's Prioresse's Tale: "This litel child, his litel book lernynge, As he sat in the scole at his prymer, He *Alma Redemptoris" herde synge, As children lerned hire antiphoner; And as he dorste, he drough hym ner and ner, And herkned ay the wordes and the note, Til he the firste vers koude al by rote." But the boy's memorization was parrot-like, as the Narrator goes on to explain: He could RECITE, but "Noght wiste he what this Latyn was to seye...." FNRobinson's edn, lines 516 ff. From: (James Marchand) Subject: translations like women Date: Sat, 1 Feb 92 10:08:24 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1268 (1523) I have no answer to Peter Just's question as to the origin of the aphorism: "Translations are like women: The ones that are beautiful are not faithful, and the ones that are faithful are not beautiful," a beautiful chiasm. The question does, however, provoke comment. As a member of several lists, I note that this question is one of the most common. For some reason, we are interested in who said what first. This interest does not surprise me, but the palimpsesting syndrome, as Merton calls it, which invariably fol- lows does. That is, scholars frequently shoot from the hip in such mat- ters and attribute the origin of the quotation to the first person or source they heard it from. In the case of Peter Just's quotation, I am positive that it is not French, but German, and that it is turn of the century or a little later, maybe Karl Kraus. Of interest is a facile at- tribution of it I encountered: Trevor J. Saunders, "The Penguinification of Plato," The Translator's Art (Betty Radice Festschrift) (Penguin Books, 1987), attributes it to Roy Campbell (Poetry Review, June/July 1949), in the form "Translations (like wives) are seldom faithful if they are in the least attractive," certainly not his invention (perhaps the "wives" for "women" bespeaks a German origin). One expects better of scholars, but I note from guesting on librarians' lists they are no better; facile athetization and attribution have always been one of our shames. Jim Marchand From: JOHNBOY@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: GERMAN TEXTS Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 11:39:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1269 (1524) Does anyone out there in the big bad world have an on-line version of the following Goethe texts? (i) Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (ii) Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (iii) Wilhelm Meisters Theatralische Sendung The same request applies to the following Spanish texts (i) Guzman de Alfarade by Mateo Aleman (ii) La Picara Justina by Francisco Lopez de Ubeda If anyone can help please contact me a.s.a.p. With anticipatory thanks JB From: D Mealand Subject: Kaypro battery ? Date: Sat, 1 Feb 92 16:26:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1270 (1525) Can any member of humanist help get me details of the replacement battery I need for my Kaypro 2000+ portable. After 3 years faithful service my portable is now l;ifeless due to battery failure. The battery is a hefty tube. Can any other user tell me what the correct voltage would be for a replacement battery or any other technical specs. and if the battery is available in the US. I can't seem to be able to get one here in the UK but can probably get a suitable substitute if I have the data on what I need. I know the mains charger puts out 7.3 volts but at present the dying battery can only manage 5 volts and that won't run the computer. Please don't clog up humanist with replies but e-mail me as below, esp. if you live next door to Solana beach. Thanks David M. **************************************************************************** David L. Mealand * Bitnet: D.Mealand%uk.ac.edinburgh@ukacrl University of Edinburgh * Office Fax: (+44)-31-220-0952 Scotland,U.K. EH1 2LX * Office tel.:(+44)-31-225-8400 ext.221/217 **************************************************************************** From: LHNELSON%UKANVM.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu Subject: FRANCEHS: new list ann't (from HISTORY) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1992 00:57:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1271 (1526) To: Multiple recipients of list HISTORY ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW LIST: FRANCEHS@UWAVM France: Historical Studies Please note that the purview of FRANCEHS extends to former French colonies, Belgium, Quebec, and other French-speaking areas FRANCEHS (France: Historical Studies) exists as a service to those engaged in the historical study of France. It serves as a forum for the discussion of scholarly or professional topics of interest to French historians and scholars in allied fields (such as Art History, Anthropology, Architecture, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, among others) whose research and teaching relate to France and its past. FRANCEHS may also serve to distribute calls for papers, job listings, questions about archives and other research resources, announcements of conferences or any other information of general interest to scholars pursuing historical perspectives of France. How does a person subscribe? Address an email message to: LISTSERV@UWAVM.BITNET The contents of the message should consist of a single line, reading as follows: SUBSCRIBE FRANCEHS FirstName LastName (For example: SUBSCRIBE FRANCEHS@UWAVM.BITNET Edith Cresson or SUBSCRIBE FRANCEHS@UWAVM.BITNET Georges J. Danton) You will receive electronic confirmation of your subscription. How does a person post a message? Compose your email message. Address the message to: FRANCEHS@UWAVM.BITNET A copy of your message will be sent to every subscriber to the list. How does a person get help? If you need help talk to your local computing support staff or send email to help@cac.washington.edu From: LHNELSON --UKANVM Subject: SUB FRANCEHS Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 00:57:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1272 (1527) To: Multiple recipients of list HISTORY I just checked the announcement I sent out for FRANCEHS. The instructions are correct, but the examples are not. To subscribe to FRANCEHS, MAIL LISTSERV AT UWAVM. Place nothing in the header lines. In the message space, write SUB FRANCEHS Firstname Lastname, and mail. My apologies for the error. Lynn Lynn_Nelson Department of History University of Kansas From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> Subject: New List: Southeast Asian Studies Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 08:15:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1273 (1528) SEASIA-L on LISTSERV@MSU or LISTSERV@MSU.EDU SEASIA-L is designed to facilitate communication between researchers, scholars, students, teachers, and other people interested in Southeast Asian studies with an emphasis on current events. For this list, Southeast Asia is loosely defined as Burma/Myanmar across to Hong Kong and down through Australia and New Zealand. To subscribe to SEASIA-L, send the following command to LISTSERV@MSU via mail text or interactive message: SUBSCRIBE SEASIA-L your-full-name. For example: SUBSCRIBE SEASIA-L Joan Fu Owner: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: 3zlufur@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 USA From: Thomas Zielke <113355@DOLUNI1.BITNET> Subject: new list annoncement Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 12:37:57 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1274 (1529) Dear friends and colleagues, I am glad to be able the opening of a new list. GRMNHIST is a forum that is dedicated to the discussion of German History from 800 to 1992. This forum is running on two servers, USCVM and DGOGWDG1; subscription is open for everybody who is interested in the discussion of this special field of history. To subscribe to this list, just send a mail file or an interactive message with SUB GRMNHIST to either LISTSERV@DGOGWDG1 or LISTSERV@USCVM. If you have any questions regarding this list, please contact the list owners, Thomas Zielke (113355@DOLUNI1) and Gary Lease (rehbock@cats.uscs.edu). With best regards, Thomas Zielke Historisches Seminar Universit{t Oldenburg Postfach 2503 D-W-2900 Oldenburg From: Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear Subject: Long File Coming... Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 22:56:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 656 (1530) Normally we do not post mail files longer than 200 lines. In the case of a long report or announcement we post an abbreviated version and place the full version on the fileserver. Many of you are can manage large pieces of mail just as easily as small pieces and would prefer to skip the inconvenience of requesting the full version from the fileserver. However quite a few HUMANIST subscribers have disk storage limitations or awkward mail management software and so have requested that we avoid large digests. And so we do. For the most part. But we make an exception, this year as we did last year, for program of the annual joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Humanities Computing. The next file, and the only one we will send out until Sunday night. is this year's ALLCACH program; it is about 450 lines long. It may also be retrieved from the fileserver as ALLCACH CONF92. -- Allen From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: ALLC/ACH Conference, 5-9 April 1992, Oxford Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 10:29 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 655 (1531) ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES 1992 JOINT CONFERENCE ALLC-ACH92 5-9 April 1992, Christ Church, Oxford, England This conference is the major annual forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. Its focus is on the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, on the development of significant new materials and tools for humanities research, and on the application and evaluation of computing techniques in humanities subjects. Recent conferences have been held in Toronto, Canada (1989), Siegen, Germany (1990) and Tempe, Arizona (1991). The 1992 conference features keynote papers by Bernard Que/mada, Director of the Tre/sor de la Langue Francaise and Yorick Wilks, Director of the Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Over sixty papers and panel sessions have been selected for presentation on all areas of literary, linguistic and humanities computing. Multidisciplinary approaches such as text encoding, image analysis and hypermedia feature in a number of presentations. All papers have been evaluated by a panel of reviewers, on the basis of both the computing methodology and the relevance and application of that methodology to research and teaching in the humanities. Accommodation and meals have been reserved for the conference in Christ Church which is one of Oxford University's oldest and best-known colleges. It is situated in the centre of the city, but overlooks Christ Church Meadow and the River Thames. The conference will run from dinner on Sunday 5 April until lunch on Thursday 9 April. There will be a reception in St Cross College, Oxford on the evening of 5 April and a banquet in Christ Church's magnificent Tudor hall on the evening of 8 April. Most rooms in Christ Church are single study bedrooms, all of which are modernized. A limited number of 'double sets' comprising two bedrooms and a sitting room are also available. Oxford is an hour from London and from Heathrow Airport and is also close to Stratford-on-Avon and the Cotswolds, a beautiful area of English countryside. There is a frequent bus service from Heathrow to Oxford and good transport from Gatwick airport, which is about two hours away. Car parking is generally difficult in Oxford and it is regretted that none will be available at Christ Church. There is a multi-storey car park nearby, but delegates are strongly encouraged to travel to Oxford by train or bus. The city centre is compact with colleges, tourist attractions, bookstores etc all within easy walking distance of each other and Christ Church. Conference fees ALLC/ACH member Non-member Registration fee & full board #295/$590 #325/$650 Registration fee & meals #225/$450 #255/$510 Full board for partners #250/$500 #280/$560 Unwaged Registration only #35/$70 #65/$130 Registration fee & full board #155/$310 #185/$370 Registrations after 15th February will be surcharged #30/$60 #185/$370 Full board includes bed & all meals from 5-9 April. All prices except for 'Registration fee only' include the Conference Banquet. Please note that no registrations will be accepted after March 23rd 1992. Please address all enquiries to Katy Cubitt ALLC-ACH92 Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN England Telephone: 44-865-273221 or (from within UK) 0865-273221 Fax: 44-865-273275 or (from within UK) 0865-273275 E-mail: ALLCACH@VAX.OX.AC.UK Please make sure that you give your name, full mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address with any enquiry. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chair: Thomas Corns, University of Wales (ALLC) Daniel Brink, Arizona State University (ACH) Gordon Dixon, Manchester Polytechnic (ALLC) Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (ACH) Jacqueline Hamesse, Universite Catholique Louvain-la-Neuve (ALLC) Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ACH) Randall Jones, Brigham Young University (ACH) Donald Ross, University of Minnesota (ACH) Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa (ALLC) Local organisers: Susan Hockey, St Cross College, Oxford and Princeton-Rutgers Universities (ALLC) Lou Burnard, Oxford University (ALLC, Programme Liaison) Conference Administrator: Katy Cubitt PROVISIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME The conference will open with dinner at Christ Church on the evening of Sunday 5 April, followed by a reception at St Cross College, Oxford. It will be divided into three parallel streams of meetings with two plenary seesions addressed by Bernard Quemada (Director of the Tresor de langue francais) and Yorick Wilkes (Direcotr of the Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University) The Conference banquet will be on the evening of Wednesday 9th April --------------------MONDAY APRIL 6TH---------------------------------- 09.15 Plenary Session Welcome (Susan Hockey, Nancy Ides, Antonio Zampoli) Plenary Lecture: Bernard Quemada 10.45 Coffee 11.15 --- Session 1--------- A : Panel: 'The Computers in Teaching Initiative: A Critical Assessment', organised by Christine Mullings (University of Bath) B : 'A History of New Words in OED2', Harry M. Logan (University of Waterloo) B : 'Towards Bilingual Terminology', Eric Gaussier (IBM France Science Center), Jean-Marc Lange (IBM France Science Center), Frederic Meunier (ENSAE Toulouse) B : 'Automating Drudgery - Computerizing the Dictionary of the Welsh Language', Andrew Hawke (University of Wales) C : 'Application of a Connectionist Model of Poetic Meter to Problems in Generative Metrics', Malcolm Hayward (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) C : 'Cladistic Analysis of an Old Norse Manuscript Tradition', Peter M. W. Robinson (Oxford University Computing Service); Dr Robert J. O'Hara (University of Wisconsin- Madison) C : 'Scanning Dante's Divine Comedy. A Computer-Based Approach', David Robey (University of Manchester) 12.45 Lunch 2.15 --- Session 2--------- A : 'Ordering Chaos in a Surrealist Poet-Painter with the Aid of a Computer', Estelle Irizarry (Georgetown University) A : 'Phrasal Repetends in Literary Stylistics', Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) A : 'Chaos, Fractals, and the Semantics of Paradox', Gary Mar (SUNY at Stony Brook), Patrick Grim (SUNY at Stony Brook) B : 'A Grammar for Greek Verse', Jan R. de Jong (University of Amsterdam) B : 'Automatic Word Classification', John Hughes (University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies) B : 'A Latin Morphological Analyser', J.J. Iso (University of Zaragoza), C. Floren (University of Zaragoza) C : 'Hypermedia in the Teaching of Italian', Signe Marie Sanne (Universitetet i Bergen) C : 'Combining Connectionist and HyperText Techniques in the Study of Texts: A HyperNet Approach to Literary Scholarship', Christian Koch (Oberlin College) C : 'The Challenge of Hypermedia Authoring in the 1990's', Wendy Hall (University of Southampton), Frank Colson (University of Southampton) 3.45pm Tea 4.15pm --- Session 3--------- A : 'A Method for the Analysis of the Narrative of the Cognitive Behaviours of Speakers of Narrative Texts', Teresa Snelgrove (University of Western Ontario) A : 'A Multi-dimensional Analysis of Style in Beckett's Prose Works', Lisa Lena Opas (University of Joensuu) A : 'The Application of Computer Technology to the Examination of the Semantic Fields of Love, Hate, Sex and Marriage', Julie Coleman (King's College, London) B : 'Quantifiers in Discourse', Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice), Dario Bianchi (University of Parma) B : 'Practical Automated Phonemic Transcription Systems', Michal Jankowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) B : 'Kanji Retrieval by Recursive Location of Elements Using Hypertext', Anil Bhatia (Tokyo Institute of Technology) C : 'A Literary Apprentice', Elli Mylonas (Harvard University), Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems Inc.) C : 'The Henrik Ibsen Project', Knut Hofland (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities), Kjell Morland (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities) C : 'Hypermedia Narration: Providing Social Contexts for Methodology', Lynnette Hunter (University of Leeds) 5.45 ACH AGM -------------------TUESDAY--------------------------------------------- 9.15am --- Session 4--------- A : Panel: 'Patterns on the Pages. The Analysis and Differentiation of Repeated Structures in Literary Texts', Contributors: Joel D. Goldfield (Plymouth State College), John Burrows (University of Newcastle, Australia), Greg Lessard, Jean-Jacques Hamm (Queen's University) B : Panel 'ADMYTE: Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espanoles: A CD-ROM Library (Texts and Images) of Medieval Spanish Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions', Contributors: Francisco Marcos-Marian (Universidad Autoanoma de Madrid), Charles B. Faulhaber (University of California, Berkeley), Gerardo Meiro (MICRONET, S.A. (Madrid)) John Bradley (University of Toronto) C : 'Computing Iconicity Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan) C : 'Water become Bone. Riddles and Computer Modelling of Knowledge Structures', Charles J. Henry (Vassar College) C : 'Computational Modelling of Linguistic Humour', Tom Swifties, Greg Lessard (Queen's University), Michael Levison (Queen's University) 10.45am Coffee 11.15am --- Session 5--------- A : 'Multimedia Dictionary of American Sign Language', Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, Linstok Press), William C. Stokoe (University of New Mexico, Linstok Press) A : 'A Statistical Comparison of Medieval Gothic Cathedral Elevations', Glenn Peter Luft (University of California, Davis), Kevin Padraic Roddy (University of California, Davis) A : 'Documenting Dances: an Application of Computer-Aided-Design for the Implementation and Analysis of Labanotation Score', Andy Adamson (University of Birmingham) B : Panel: 'Aspects of Computerised Lexicography', Contributors: D.M. O'Brien (STELLA Project, University of Glasgow), Irene A. W.Wotherspoon (University of Glasgow) C : 'A Study in Style: Oral Rhetoric, Rhetoric, and Literature', James Benjamin (University of Toledo), Barbaranne J. Benjamin (University of Toledo) C : 'A Prototype Semi-Automatic Laboratory for Indexing, Classification, and Analysis of Texts', Hillel Weiss (Bar Ilan University) C : 'Text-Editing Software: a Homonym Checker', Elaine C. Thiesmeyer (Rochester Institute of Technology) 12.45 Lunch A: Panel: New methods in historical computing. Contributors: Donald A. Spaeth (University of Glasgow), Gerard Bouchard Bouchard (SOREP Inter-University Research Center, Quebec), Ingo H. Kropac (Karl-Franzens-Universitaet), Susanne Botzem (Karl-Franzens-Uni versitaet Graz) B : Panel: 'Tact, Textual Analysis, and the Electronic Edition', organised by Willard McCarty (University of Toronto) C : 'The Rhetoric of Hypertext, the Hypertext of Rhetoric', Lee Baker (High Point College) C : 'The Routledge Encyclopaedia Project: Indexing Tools and Management Techniques for Large Documents', Eugene Benson (University of Guelph), Les R. Dunn (University of Guelph) 3.45pm Tea 4.15pm --- Session 7--------- A : 'Questionable Attribution in the Canon of Daniel Defoe: A Study of Techniques', David L. Banks (Carnegie Mellon University), Joseph Rudman (Carnegie Mellon University) A : 'Intention, Interpretation, Intelligibility: Computerized Research in Canonical Texts', Douglas A. Kibbee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Robert Alun Jones (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) A : 'Author Identification by an Objective Verbal Analysis Procedure', John L. Hilton (Brigham Young University) B : Panel: 'The ICE Project', Contributors: And Rosta (University College London), Hans van Halteren (University of Nijmegen) C : 'On the Design of Textbase Environments', Kip Canfield (University of Maryland), Robert Scott (University of Maryland), Clay Slate (Navajo Community College) C : 'Modularity, Professionality, Integration: a Conception Revisited', Wilhelm Ott (Universitat Tubingen) C : 'Encoding and Editing', John Lavagnino (Brandeis University) 5.45pm close 8.30pm TEI Status Report --------------WEDNESDAY APRIL 8TH------------------------------------ 09.15 --- Session 8--------- A : 'Thomas Hobbes and Authorship of the Horae Subsecivae', Noel B. Reynolds (Brigham Young University), John L. Hilton (Brigham Young University) A : 'Authorship Attribution', L.A. Thirkell (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh A : 'The Laughter of the Lion: a Stylometric Study of Thucydides', Richard A.G.Williams (King's College, London) B : Panel: 'The British National Corpus', organised by Jeremy Clear (Oxford University Press) C : 'Cultural Contact and Chiming: Building an Online Community', Boyd H. Davis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223), Jeutonne P. Brewer (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412) C : 'Research tools for Modern Greek', John B Burke (University of Melbourne) C : 'Un "Turbo-Analyseur" du Francais', Christian Delcourt (Universite de Liege) 10.45am Coffee 11.15am --- Session 9--------- A : 'Reading in Revolutionary Times: Book Borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1800', Mark Olsen (University of Chicago), Louis-Georges Harvey (Bishop's University) A : 'The Alumni Cantabrigienses Project: Methods and Preliminary Results', John L. Dawson (University of Cambridge) A : 'Norwegian Diachronic Database of Administrative Units', Espen S. Ore (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities) B : 'Using a Relational Database for Research on the "Real Time" Dimension in Acadian French', Karin Flikeid (Saint Mary's University, Halifax) B : 'Outline of a Model for Lexical Databases', Jean Veronis (CNRS, Marseilles), Nancy Ide (Vassar College) B : 'BELTEXT : Une Base de Donnees sur le Francais en Belgique', Janine Delcourt-Angelique (Universite de Liege) C : 'A General-Purpose Hierarchical Coding Engine', Paul Craven (York University (Canada)) C : 'The Text Encoding Initiative and German and English Lyric Verse', David Chisholm (University of Arizona) C : 'Extending SGML Concurrent Structures: towards a Document Type Definition for Meta-Dictionaries', John Fought (University of Pennsylvania), Carol Van Ess-Dykema, Marcia Wesler, Heather Davenport 12.45pm Lunch 2.15pm --- Session 10--------- A : 'Towards the Automatic Identification of Cognitive Clusters in Free-Formed Student Databases', Lawrence G. Hopperton (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Patricia J. Probert (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) A : 'Automated Developmental Sentence Scoring: a Method for Evaluating Syntactic Complexity In Written Language', Laura Barnett (University of Dundee), Ian Ricketts (University of Dundee), Corinne Morris (University of Dundee) A : 'Specialized Computing for Linguistic Geography', William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia), Jay Lee (University of Georgia) B : 'Data Description Rule and Full-text Database for Japanese Classical Literature', Hisashi Yasunaga (National Institute of Japanese Literature) B : 'A Retrospective Database of the Annee philologique', Dee L. Clayman (Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, City University of New York) B : 'A Corpus of Italian Newspaper Language', Elisabeth Burr (Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Duisburg) C : 'Overlapping Hierarchies of Text Objects: Refining our Notion of what Text really is', Allen H. Renear (Brown University), David G. Durand (Boston University), Elli Mylonas (Harvard University) C : 'New Character-Sets and Entities: their Use in Non-Modern English Text Files', Harry E. Gaylord (Alfa Informatica, University of Groningen) C : 'TEI still stunts Scholarship', Gordon Neal (University of Manchester) 3.45pm Tea 4.15pm Plenary Session Plenary lecture: Yorick Wilks 5.45 ALLC AGM 7.30 Banquet ------------------THURSDAY APRIL 9TH-------------------------------------- 9.15am --- Session 11--------- A : Panel: 'Electronic Publishing', organised by Roy C Flannagan (Ohio University) B : Panel: 'The Pilot Project of the Electronic Peirce Consortium', Contributors: Michael Neuman (Georgetown University), Mary Keeler (George Washington University), Christian Kloesel 10.45am Coffee 11.15am --- Session 12--------- A : Panel: 'Electronic Texts: Policy, Acceptability, and Control', Contributors: Malcolm Brown (Dartmouth College), Susan Hockey (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities), Anita Lowry (Columbia University) B : Panel: 'Image Databases and Image Processing: Problems and Solutions' Contributors: Marilyn Deegan (Oxford University Computing Services), Gerhard Jaritz (Institut fuer Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der Fruehen Neuzeit), ICONCLASS Research and Development Group (Vakgroep Computer and Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht) 12.45 Formal close (Susan Hockey, Nancy Ide, Mike Neuman) From: Sean_M_CARTON@umail.umd.edu (sc90) Subject: Prelude Text Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 13:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1275 (1532) I don't know if this message would count as an advertisement or not be accepted on the network, but here goes: I am nearing completion of a Hypercard adaptation of William Wordsworth's _Prelude_ of 1805. There are a few bugs to be worked out but in the mean time I wanted to offer the text in Microsoft Word 4.0 (Mac) format as a shareware item. If you are interested, please e-mail me at sc90@umail.umd.edu for my home address. I am asking just $5 for shipping and 2 disks (dsdd) for the text.The Hypercard version should be ready for release shortly. Sean Carton University of Maryland College Park sc90@umail.umd.edu From: Michael Metzger Subject: Re: Goethe e-texts Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 09:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1276 (1533) The entire "Hamburger Ausgabe" of Goethes works, including Wilhelm Meister s avavailable on 80 diskettes from the Max Niemeyer Verlag Tuebingen in the series Elektronische Bibliothek zur deutschen Literatur. It costs about 2000 DM incl. WordCruncher, etc. for access. This from an older brochure. Michael Metzger - mllmikem@ubvms From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: WPCitation Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 14:49:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1277 (1534) Cc: mllmikem@ubvms.bitnet Michael Metzger's mention of WPCitation from Oberon Resources supports my impressions: it works very well in formatting according to a bewildering variety of formats within WP. But it must be the most spectacularly user-hostile program or utility I have ever encountered. In entering data you must follow detailed and counterintuitive instructions to get the data into the right merge field, and it is extremely easy to get things misplaced, end record commands in the wrong place, etc. etc. It feels a bit like playing checkers with your eyes closed. Moreover, the program requires you to store the *.exe files in the same directory as WP and its many macros in the regular WP macro directory, violating every principle of software design for easy maintenance, updating, and troubleshooting. I have complained about these things to their support line, and the individuals I spoke to have been helpful in suggesting ways around the program's quirks and limitations. And it is glacially slow even on a 386 (like half an hour to format a couple dozen cites). --David Hoekema / American Philosophical Assn / Philosophy, U of Delaware From: "Her lips spoke tender words... `Hey Joe, you Subject: Biblio SW Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 16:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 646 (1535) [deleted quotation] In 1952 EC Comics published a story in one of their comics which swiped from two Ray Bradbury stories. EC not long after got a letter, which I will partially type in below: Just a note to remind you of an oversight. You have not as yet sent on the check for $50.00 to cover the use of secondary rights on my two stories THE ROCKET MAN and KALEIDOSCOPE which appeared in your WEIRD-FANTASY May-June '52 #13, with the cover-all title of HOME TO STAY. I feel this was probably overlooked in the general confusion of office-work, and look forward to your payment in the near future. My very best wishes to you. Yours cordially, Ray Bradbury I mention the above because Hahne probably overlooked in the general confusion of office-work the need to mention that he at one time marketed (through BITNET and the Internet) and sold Library master. Perhaps he still does. I hope the Editors of Humanist, if they had known, would not have sent Hahne's message out without that caveat. Keith Handley, Amherst College Academic Computer Center kehandley@amherst, kehandley@amherst.edu From: David Graham Subject: Computer Skills Courses Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 10:15:39 -0330 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 659 (1536) I know this topic has been discussed many times before, and so invite responses by e-mail rather than by posting to HUMANIST. [ The editors, however, hope that the discussion takes place on the list, as this is a topic central to HUMANIST interests -- Allen ] A committee has recently been struck at Memorial University to propose a course in computer skills for new first-year students. On behalf of the committee, and in the interests of profiting from experiences elsewhere, I have been asked to request from readers of HUMANIST their accounts of the implementation and success (or lack of success) of such courses in other post-secondary institutions (especially in North America). Answers to the following questions would be particularly useful to us, though I would welcome any useful comments anyone may have on this topic, and will forward all replies I receive to the committee for discussion: o are such courses offered for credit in your institution? o what subjects are typically included (i.e. basics of computer operation, typing skills, basics of typical applications, basics of programming, computers and society and so forth)? o who teaches the courses, and who provides technical support for the hard ware and software? o is the course of one or two semesters duration? o is the course a prerequisite for other courses which rely on certain computer skills? All information will be received with gratitude! -- David Graham, Dept of French & Spanish ** dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Memorial University of Newfoundland *-/-* dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca From: THIX@cornella.cit.cornell.edu Subject: Re: Conference Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 21:15:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1278 (1537) SOCRATIC STUDIES A CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF GREGORY VLASTOS A conference on the theme 'Socratic Studies', in honour of Gregory Vlastos, will be held at the University of California, Berkeley on 1-3 May, 1992. During the weekend there will also be a memorial service, further details of which will be available later. The conference is organized around some of the themes in Gregory Vlastos's book, SOCRATES; IRONIST AND MORAL PHILOSOPHER, and his other recent work. While it will focus centrally on Socrates and Plato, some of the papers will also discuss broader issues in moral and social philosophy. A provisional list of speakers and topics: (1) SOCRATIC METHOD. Mary Whitlock Blundell, 'Self-Censorship in Plato's Republic'. Terence Irwin, 'Say what you believe'. (2) VIRTUE AND HAPPINESS. Gerasimos Santas, 'Socratic goods and Socratic happiness'. Julia Annas, 'Virtue as the use of other goods'. (3) POLITICAL THEORY. Richard Kraut, 'Vlastos on justice and equality'. Robert Meister, 'Is moderation a virtue?'. Bernard Williams, to be announced (on justice). Jonathan Lear, 'The politics of narcissism' (4) METAPHYSICS. Alan Code, 'Vlastos on "A Metaphysical Paradox"'. Gail Fine, 'From forms to Forms?' (5) LOVE AND SEXUALITY. Martha Nussbaum, 'Beatrice's "Dante": loving the individual?' David Halperin, 'The queer politics of Michel Foucault'. Participants will also include David Furley, Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim, Julius Moravcsik, Aryeh Kosman, Terry Penner, Jerome Neu, Alexander Mourelatos, Paul Woodruff, Sandra Peterson, Amelie Rorty, Ronald de Sousa. The conference is being supported by generous financial contributions from the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, and the Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley. Everyone is welcome to attend. Those interested in attending should contact Karen Pilkington, Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Phone: 510 642 2270 or 510 845 4508. Fax: 510 642 4164 From: piersens@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Pierssens Michel) Subject: COLLOQUE Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 21:12:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1279 (1538) LES VOIES DE L'INVENTION La genese du Texte (1548-1658) COlloque sur l'apport des etudes de genetique textuelle aux recherches sur la litterature francaise de la Renaissance et de la periode classique. Jeudi 20 fevrier. Communications de: Gerard Defaux (Johns Hopkins); Eva Kushner (Toronto); Michel Simonin (Tours); G. Declercq (Paris-IV); Georges Forestier (Paris III); Bernard Beugnot (U. de Montreal); Roger Zuber (Paris IV); Bernard Bray (Sarrebruck) Vendredi 21 fevrier. Communications de: J.-Cl. Morisot (McGill); John McClelland (Toronto) Jean Ceard (Paris XII); Robert Melancon (U de Montreal); Brenda Dunn-Lardeau (UQAM); Emmanuel Bury (Reims) Samedi 22 fevrier. COmmunications de: Almuth Gresillon (ITEM); Alain Viala (Paris III) Normand DOiron (McGill); Gisele Mathieu-Castellani (Paris-VIII) Au Departement d'Etudes Francaises de l'Universite de Montreal Pavillon Lionel-Groulx 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, salle 9019 Renseignements: Mme Lucie Rondeau Tel: 514-343-6213 Fax: 514-343-2256 From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Conference: Mainstream and Margins Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 13:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 664 (1539) *--------------------------------------* * * * MAINSTREAM(S) AND MARGINS: * * CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 90'S * * * *--------------------------------------* _____________________ * CONFERENCE UPDATE * * AND * * REGISTRATION INFO * --------------------- This conference, organized by The Center for the Study of Communication of the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, will be held on April 3, 1992. 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PANELS: * Hegemony and resistance * Social movements: New perspectives * Language/texts/intertextuality * Spectrum of the margins * Mass media and cultural criticism * Spectacle and (re)presentation * Centers, margins, boundaries: Theoretical advances * Development/expression of identity * Trading in the flesh: The culture of postcoloniality * Invention and challenge: The politics of feminist voices * Postcolonial discourses: Domination and the other * Cultural production and cultural power LOCATION: Campus Center, University of Massachusetts/Amherst DATE: April 3, 1992 8:00am - 6:00pm REGISTRATION: Before March 2, 1992 -- *FREE* After March 2, 1992 -- $10.00 At the conference -- $20.00 Please clip the following Registration Form and send via: E-mail : CSC@COMM.UMass.EDU Fax : (413) 549-6399 USMail : Mainstream(s) and Margins The Center for the Study of Communication Department of Communication, Machmer Hall University of Massachusetts/Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 Registrations received after March 2, 1992 will require a $10.00 (US) check payable to "Communication Service Trust Fund". --------------------------> cut here <--------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- MAINSTREAM(S) AND MARGINS: CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 90'S REGISTRATION FORM Name __________________________________________________________ Affiliation ___________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________ Daytime phone _________________________________________________ E-mail address ________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Again, registration is FREE UNTIL MARCH 2, 1992. For a complete conference program, (about 10K bytes, or 330 lines) send a request to: - CSC@Comm.UMass.EDU or - Michael.Morgan@Saturn.UCC.UMass.EDU or - Foola@UMASS From: Shirley Arora Subject: Query from Peter Just on 22 Jan Date: Tue, 04 Feb 92 00:05 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1280 (1540) Since no e-mail address for Peter Just was given in his query, I'm replying to the list. I assume that by now someone has located a source for the French aphorism on translations, but I recently came across this variation, which might be of interest. It's attributed to Roy Campbell: "Translations (like wives) are seldom strictly faithful if they are in the least attractive." (Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, ed. Tony Augarde, Oxford UP, 1991, p. 45:13). From: Michael Metzger Subject: Bregman - "details" Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 06:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1281 (1541) The German expression, practically a part of everyday idiomatic speech, is "Der Teufel steckt im Detail" (der toyfel shteckt im day- tie) "The devil is (hiding) in the details": There might well be a literary source for this, Ill check it out and get back. Buechmann's (the German semi-Bartlett) "Gefluegelte Worte" might have it. Thanks too for the advice on biblio sw - Michael Metzger (MLLMIKEM@UBVMS) From: Ed Haupt Subject: miscellaneous Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 8:08:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1282 (1542) The German quote, as I've seen it, seems like "Der Herr Gott/Teufel steckt in Detail"--steckt seems to have been translated as "lives in" "is in", etc. About translations--Die, die schoen sind, sind untreu; Die, die treu sind, sind unschoen. Sort of liberally adapted from a perhaps french original. Could a woman hater be a misandrist? Ed Haupt From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Re: 5.0650 Qs: Nonsexist Language Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 12:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1283 (1543) [deleted quotation] Try Casey Miller and Kate Swift, THE HANDBOOK OF NONSEXIST WRITING, 2d ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1988). This book is available in paperback ($6.95 U.S.); it is said to be recommended by the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE. Tom Benson Penn State University t3b@psuvm.bitnet From: Jerry McCoy Subject: non-sexist writing manual Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 15:02:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1284 (1544) Rich Giordano was asing about a manual for non-sexist writing. I have found _The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing_ by Casey Miller & Kate Swift very helpful. I have the second edition (Harper & Row, 1990); there may be a later edition. Jerry McCoy aajmccoy@heartland.bradley.edu -- Jerry McCoy (aajmccoy@heartland.bradley.edu) From: PAULA PRESLEY Subject: 5.0650 non-sexist; misanthrope Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 16:29:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1285 (1545) For Richard Girodano. _ You might find useful: _The Nonsexist WordFinder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage_ by Rosalie Maggio (1987) Oryx Press, 2214 N.Central at Encanto Phoenix, AZ 85004-1483 I'm not in total agreement with author's focus, but the book has been helpful in convincing some authors that there are words that can convey one's meaning without being sexist. For Bridgette Werneburg: In the same book I find under "man-hater"" "man-hater/woman-hater misanthrope/misogynist. These sex-specific terms are acceptable as long as they are used equally frequently and in gender-fair ways" Paula Presley Thomas Jefferson Univ. Press at Northeast Missouri State Univ. From: pilgrim Subject: Re: 5.0650 Qs: (various) (4/72 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 23:48:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1286 (1546) msanthrop? misanthropess? msanthropess? fe-malehater? fe-man-indignation? just a few thoughts; hope they don's ms the mark. Pilgrim5 From: Leslie Morgan Subject: Re: 5.0650 Qs: (various) (4/72 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 08:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1287 (1547) Re: male misogynist There was a long discussion on *Humanist* about an appropriate term a couple (or three?) years ago. It might we worthwhile checking older files before further discussion. Leslie Morgan, Loyola College in MD. From: "NAME MICHEL (MGRIMAUD@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU) GRIMAUD" Subject: Re: 5.0650 Qs: (various) (4/72 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 10:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1288 (1548) Responses (and an addendum) to queries about "femmes" 1. Androphobe: Although a neologism, perhaps, seems like a natural for people who dislike (hate may be too strong here) males. 2. P.C. books on how to avoid sexist language: Francine Wattman Frank & Paula A. Treichler Language, Gender, and Professional Writing MLA, 1989 Rosalie Maggio The Nonsexist wordfinder. Beacon Press, 1988 Both books are thoughtful and reason out their recommendations. 3. "Femmes" is a new issue of the VICTOR HUGO journal I edit: REVUE DES LETTRES MODERNES: SERIE VICTOR HUGO, volume 3 Minard, Lettres Modernes, Paris, 1991 The issue is entirely written by women on women in Hugo's life and works. My only participation was to initiate the issue and deal with the material aspects of the text (i.e., the boring editorial work). Michel Grimaud Dept of French Wellesley College Wellesley MA 02181 From: "John D. Jones" <6563JONESJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Re: 5.0650 Qs: (various) (4/72 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 09:24 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1289 (1549) This is in response to Brigitte Werneburg's request for a term comarable to misogynist. In consulting my smaller Liddel and Scott Greek Lexicon, I could only find "misogunes" (final e=eta; does this refer to hatred of women in general or only hatred of women by men?) and "misantrhopos". Presumably the latter will not do, since that refers to hatred of humankind in general. You might try a neologism. "andros" is the attic form of "aner" (final e=eta) which is the term for male or man contrasted with female or woman. How about "misandrost" for someone who hates men. Perhaps "misandrosia" might do for hatred of men (comparable to misanthropia). However, if andros works, perhaps others could suggest more appropriate endings. John D. Jones Philosophy Department Marquette University From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Hating men Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 14:54:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1290 (1550) Brigitte Werneburg asks: [deleted quotation] My Liddell and Scott Unabridged Greek English Dictionary offers a citation from the scholia to Euripides _Andromache_ "misandria," hatred of men. Thus we can have a noun "misandry." These scholia would be late-ancient or Byzantine, I suspect. A grammarian Pollux of the second century C.E. has "misandros," hating men, thus we should on the anology of "misogynist" and "misanthropist" say "misandrist." Surprisingly my older _Oxford English Dictionary_ does not list anyone ever having used such words. "Misanthropy" and "misanthropist" won't do because that entails hating everybody. Oliver Phillips Department of Classics University of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: jacqueline knegt Subject: multilingual keyboard Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 16:33:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1291 (1551) Quite some time ago someone posted the name of the ftp site where one could get a multilingual foreign language keyboard file called deadkey. My files have been deleted, and I was looking to replace them. Does anyone know where I could find this again? From: "Aaron Kershenbaum" Subject: e-mail address and source (?) of quote Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 13:56:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1292 (1552) Hi-- I am hoping to find the e-mail address for J J Iso and/or C Floren from the University of Zaragoza. They will be speaking at the upcoming joint conference of ALLC-ACH. If you know the address(es) please send the info to kersh@watson.ibm.com. (As to the translation-like-women quote: I had always thought it came from Samuel Johnson.) ---Peg Kershenbaum From: Subject: MLA Session on Computing Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 14:30:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1293 (1553) Someone mentionned to me that there was a session being planned for one of the MLA conferences this year that was discussing the future of computer applications in literary study, and that the call for papers was posted on HUMANIST. If anyone has that notice, could they send a copy to me at the address below? Thank you very much in advance. Regards Stephen N.Matsuba matsuba@writer.yorku.ca From: Charles Ess Subject: e-mail address, St. Andrews Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 19:52:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1294 (1554) A colleague is seeking an e-mail address for St. Andrews University, Scotland. His colleague there does not have an e-mail account -- so we're looking for a willing cohort at St. Andrews with an e-mail account who would serve as a go-between. (On this side of the water, I'm the go-between for my colleague who also has no e-mail account. The beauty of symmetry.) Suggestions for contacts at St. Andrews should be sent directly to me. Many thanks in advance. Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO USA From: jwf3885@usl.edu (Ferstel John W) Subject: Announcemne the CANADIAN STUDIES DIRECTORY Project Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 20:39:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 669 (1555) ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE FIRST *** Canadian Studies Electronic Mail Directory *** John W. Ferstel (University of Southwestern Louisiana) and Robert Beckett (Southwest Missouri State University) announce the formation of an electronic mail directory for scholars and teachers in the field of Canadian Studies. The Canadian Studies Directory (CSD) will include the names of all interested academics and will be accessible by Internet users through FTP and by BITNET users through requests using e-mail. The CSD will consist of two files that will be updated monthly: 1) An alphabetical list 2) List organized by Canadian Studies area Both files will include the name, institution, specialty, and e-mail address for each entry. Canadianists worldwide may apply for inclusion in the CSD by sending the form below in an e-mail message to: jwf3885@usl.edu You will receive confirmation that your application has been received. The CSD will be operating NOT LATER than June 15, 1992. All participants in the directory will receive updates on the CSD project during Spring 1992 and will be sent a notice when the project is operational. Interested persons should fill out the form below and e-mail to the above address. ----------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION FOR THE "Canadian Studies Directory" NAME: INSTITUTION: CANADIAN STUDIES SPECIALTIES(1-3 areas): E-MAIL ADDRESS ADDRESSES OF OTHER SCHOLARS YOU THINK MIGHT WISH TO JOIN THE DIRECTORY: ---------------------------------------------------- The CSD charges no fees and restricts use of the list to the academic community for Canadian Studies. No for-profit use of the list is permitted. Queries and suggestions should be sent to the above address in care of John W. Ferstel, Chair, Canadian Studies Committee, University of Southwestern Louisiana. From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: Internet Access to the Oxford Text Archive Date: Sat, 8 Feb 92 18:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 670 (1556) INTERNET ACCESS TO THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE As of this month, it is now possible to access machines here on JANET directly from the InterNet. As of today, it is also (ipso facto) possible directly to transfer files from a machine here to any other machine on the InterNet, without specifying a password, filling in a form, or any of that other stuff that some people find so difficult. We'd like to start making some -- not all -- of the Oxford Text Archive's materials available in this way. There are two constraints. Firstly, we cannot distribute material that does not belong to us. But there is a small quantity of material we can distribute, which we believe to be in the public domain. Secondly, we want to begin as we intend to go on: by distributing materials in TEI SGML only. But there is a small number of (mostly very large) files which we will make available 'as is' to test the procedure immediately. We'd appreciate your comments as to how useful/reliable you've found the procedure. Here's what you need to know: [deleted quotation] FTP ox.ac.uk << N.B. this is *not* VAX.OX.AC.UK! or, since we're not in many people's official name tables yet, FTP 129.67.1.165 When connected, give username anonymous and supply your name as a password. Unless otherwise stated, all files contain plain uncompressed character data The following files are currently available in the directory ota: textarchive.sgml List of OTA Holdings as of 1 November in SGML textarchive.list Same list, no SGML tags textarchive.form Text Archive Order form The following are currently available in the directory ota/dicts 710 Directory containing the three files making up the 'computer-usable' dictionary derived from OALDCE by Roger Mitton 1054 Directory containing the MRC Psycholinguistic Database, complete with manuals and simple C programs for accessing the database info File containing brief descriptive details of all machine readable dictionaries currently held in the Archive, with illustrative examples from each The following files are currently available in the directory ota/tei vm2tar.Z The public domain ARC SGML parser: complete source code and documentation for UNIX systems. (This version has been modified to support TEI dtds; it is in compressed TAR format) So, for example, to get the plain shortlist, you'd type ftp 129.67.1.165 anonymous myname cd ota get textarchive.list bye Internet access is regarded here as a privilege, not a right. Please don't overuse it! And please remember that this is an experimental facility, which may be withdrawn or substantially modified at any time without notice. Lou Burnard Alan Morrison Oxford Text Archive 5 Feb 92 From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 11:18:55 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 671 (1557) 11 de febrero de 1992 I am seeking volunteers to proof-read transcriptions of the attached list of medieval texts, prepared for the _Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espan\*~oles_ (_ADMYTE_), a CD-ROM disk to be published this summer by the Sociedad Estatal QuintoCentenario. In addition to several hundred medieval texts transcribed according to the norms of _A Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language_, 4th ed. (Madison, 1986), the disk will also contain a special version of TACT, the text analysis and retrieval program of the U. of Toronto, the _Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts_, and UNITE, a program for computer-assisted textual criticism. The available texts represent an interesting cross-section of medieval Spanish literary culture--from histories in the Alfonsine tradition to medical and legal works to translations from the classics and other medieval literatures. I will provide: - a photocopy of the original MS or printed edition - a printout of the transcription - an electronic version of the transcription - a copy of the Madison _Manual_ mentioned above - a copy of the special version of TACT and its 200-page manual - electronic versions of any of the texts listed below, all of which are suitable for study and analysis with TACT Participants in the project will also receive full credit for their work in _ADMYTE_--not to mention the satisfaction of having helped bring to fruition one of the most important scholarly projects of the Quincentenary. Lista de los textos castellanos que se han transcrito expresamente para ADMYTE. Indico los que actualmente obran en mi poder y esta/*'n listos para corregir. Espero recibir la transcripcio\*'n de los otros dentro de poco. Abreviaturas ADMYTE = Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espan\*~oles BOOST = Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts. 3 ed. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1984 CNUM = nu\*'mero de identificacio\*'n de un texto determinado en BOOST BL = Londres. British Library BNM = Madrid. Biblioteca Nacional BNP = Pari\*'s. Bibliothe\*`que Nationale BU = Biblioteca Universitaria Esc. = Escorial. Monasterio HSA = New York. Hispanic Society of America Cuando se trata de varios textos dentro de un mismo MS o edicio\*'n, se han agrupado bajo la signatura del volumen que los contiene. Al final de cada texto se indica su taman\*~o o en "bytes" o en folios. CNUM 3868: Alfonso Marti\*'nez de Toledo. Invencionario. BNM 9219. 126 ff. (transcr. P. Gericke) CNUM 963: Cicero\*'n. De inventione. Esc. T.II.12, ff. 1r-45r (transcr. R. Diman) CNUM 676: Cro\*'nica de 1344 (parte I). Madrid: Zaba/*'lburu 11-109, ff. 1r-107 (1.33 Mb) (listo para corregir) (transcr. J. da Cruz) CNUM 2995: Diego de San Pedro. Arnalte y Lucenda. Milano: Trivulziana, 940, ff. 133v-222v (transc. D. Wright) CNUM 4809: Domingo Marcos Dura/*'n. Lux bella. Impreso Sevilla, 1492. BNM I 21653. 6 ff. (mu\*'sica) (transcr. D. Burton) CNUM 2307: Domingo Marcos Dura/*'n. Glosa sobre Lux bella. Impreso Salamanca, 1498-6-17. BNM I 21654. 38 ff. (mu\*'sica) (transcr. D. Burton) BNM 829 (transcr. P. Rodgers): CNUM 302: Ferna/*'n Sa/*'nchez de Valladolid. Cro\*'nica de Alfonso X, ff. 9r-61v (listo para corregir) CNUM 350: Ferna/*'n Sa/*'nchez de Valladolid. Cro\*'nica de Sancho IV, ff. 61v-79v (listo para corregir) CNUM 6468: Francesc Eiximenis. Libro de las donas (transcr. Lozano) CNUM 1757: Francesco Petrarca. Reprensiones y denuestos de un me/*'dico parlero. BNM 9815. 84 ff. (transcr. E. Stone) CNUM 4456: Fuero de Briviesca. BNM 9199, ff. 51r-150v (transcr. F. Marti\*') CNUM 219: Fuero general de Navarra (versio\*'n C). BNM 707, ff. 9-104 (transcr. G. Sikora & F. Waltman) CNUM 480: Fuero general de Navarra (Versio\*'n B). BNM 279. 324 ff. (transcr. F. Waltman) CNUM 448: Fuero general de Navarra (Versio\*'n C). Salamanca BU 1947. 147 ff. (transcr. F. Waltman) Salamanca BU 2652: CNUM 3552: Fuero general de Navarra (Versio\*'n D), ff. 3r-92v (transcr. F. Waltman) CNUM 3553: Fueros de la Novenera, ff. 140r-156v (transcr. F. Waltman) CNUM 439: Fuero real. Esc. Z.III.16. 132 ff. (listo para corregir) (transcr. I. Corfis) CNUM 3572: Fuero viejo. Salamanca. BU 2205. 58 ff. (transcr. P. Rodgers) CNUM 1188: Gianozzo Manetti. Oracio\*'n. BL Egerton 1868, ff. 146r-189v (transcr. J. Lawrance) CNUM 6496: Giovanni Boccaccio. De casibus virorum illustrium. Trad. Pero Lo/*'pez de Ayala. HSA B1196. 275 ff. (transcr. E. Naylor) CNUM 485: Gran conquista de ultramar. BNM 2454, 231 ff. (listo para corregir) (transcr. A. Hanson) CNUM 711: Guido de Columna. Historia troyana. Impreso Pamplona, 1499? BNM I 733. 142 ff. (listo para corregir) (transcr. D. Prince) BNM I 51: Impreso Zaragoza: Pablo Hurus, 1494-815 (transcr. M. Ward): CNUM 2178: Johannes de Ketham. Fasciculus medicinae, ff. 1-39 CNUM 2788: Vasco de Taranta. Tratado de la peste, ff. 39v-48r. CNUM 6542: Anon. Tratado de la fisonomi\*'a en breve suma contenida, ff. 48v-63v. BNM 9055 (transcr. N. Marino): CNUM 2573: Libro del conocimiento de todos los reinos. (106 Kb) (listo para corregir) CNUM 492: Historia de la doncella Teodor. (9 Kb) (listo para corregir) CNUM 2592: Historia de los godos. (9 Kb) (listo para corregir) CNUM 6342: Historia de las amazonas. BNM 7553 (247 Kb) (listo para corregir) (transcr. L. de la Fuente) BNM I 2157. Impreso Zaragoza, ca. 1490 (H. Torres): CNUM 2174: Thomas a Kempis. Imitatio Christi, ff. a2r-o2r CNUM 3158: Jean Gerson. De meditatione cordis, ff. o3r-o9v CNUM 1121: Juan de Flores. Grimalte y Gradissa. Impreso Le/*'rida, ca. 1495. BNM I 382. 58 ff. (transcr. L. Mirrer & M. Piera) CNUM 1184: Julia/*'n Gutie/*'rrez de Toledo. Cura de la piedra. Impreso Toledo: Pedro Hagenbach, 1498. BNM I 1344. 75 ff. (transcr. L. Lefkowitz) CNUM 980: Pablo de Santa Mari\*'a. Suma de las cro\*'nicas de Espan\*~a. Esc. h.II.22, ff. 52r-98v (transcr. J. Krieger) CNUM 3385: Pierre Bersuire. Ovidio moralizado. BNM 10.144. 227 ff. (transcr. D. Carr) CNUM 6280: Pierres y Magalona. Impreso Sevilla: Jacobo Cromberger, 1519. BL C.7.a.18. 30 ff. (ca. 125 Kb) (transcr. C. Gonza/*'lez) CNUM 1740: Sancho IV. Castigos y documentos. BNM 6603 (494 Kb) (listo para corregir) (transcr. M. Bailey) CNUM 1737: Sancho IV. Castigos y documentos. BNM 6559. 242 ff. (transcr. Palmer) CNUM 2158: Seudo-San Bernardo. Infancia del Salvador. Impreso Burgos: Juan de Burgos, ca. 1495. BNM I 1424 (279 Kb) (listo para corregir) (es realmente una traduccio\*'n de las Meditationes de Seudo-Agusti\*'n) (transcr. F. Waltman) From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: Course in computer skills Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 9:08:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1295 (1558) I beg David Graham of Memorial University of NFL to share with the Humanists any sources, references and experience about courses in computer skills for new first-year students. Here at the Universite de Montreal we are planning to start a workgroup to study possible curriculi for both undergraduate and graduate studies. Therefore, indeed, all information will be received with gratitude. Christian Allegre U. de Montreal allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: 5.0660 Computer Skill Courses (1/30) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 15:02:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1296 (1559) An interesting question, which is loaded since the committee seems to assume that the university needs a course in computer skills for new first-year students. Rather than have a computer skills requirement which frankly will tend to create a new bailiwick of self-interests that will try to maintain itself possibly beyond its useful existence, why not require that every department offer one course at a relatively low level incorporating the computer skills deemed necessary to that discipline? Thus the introductory literature course offered by almost every literature department could be designed as a computer-based course, involving word processing, database management, library research and whatever else comes to mind as appropriate to the computer. If the department is committed to offering such a course, there may be a continued use of the computer skills in the courses for which this one is a prerequisite. If the course is a general university course, the continuation is not as likely to occur. Such a system also allows existing courses to be identified as fulfilling the requirement if students in the department cannot escape the use of computers, as in Accounting, Computer Science, Engineering etc. Why add a requirement where none is needed? Aside from the academic issues, there are a few others that need to be resolved: 1. What is the platform of choice (which brings us back to the differing needs of the different disciplines)? Is every student expected to own a computer? If not, can the university offer sufficient computer time to each student? How many hours per week? 2. Is the university prepared to invest in a sufficient number of networked licenced software packages to allow students access to the software, or is there the expectation that each student purchase the software individually? How does that influence the choice of software (shareware, freeware or commercial ware)? 3. Are there sufficient computer classrooms to offer a multitude of computer courses? The final question: Should there be such a thing as required computer literacy courses, when for the average user the software requires less and less knowledge of the computer? My observation has been that students who want to use computers do, and those who do not don't. My suspicion is that generally required courses will not change the pattern all that much. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: Computer Skills Courses Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 06:58:07 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1297 (1560) In reply to Prof. Graham's question, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota, requires that students in all programs complete at least two courses in computing. The first course is an introduction to computer hardware and software. Students are taught skills needed to use DOS commands, word processing, spread sheets, and a data base -- plus a few additional skills needed for our LAN and some other programs created on campus. This is a one-semester course offered for two credits. The course is most often taught by faculty in computer science, but it has been taught by faculty in liberal arts. The skills taught in this course are used in other courses (for example, teachers of writing courses expect students to know how to use our LAN and to use word processing). Second, a programming course is required. Students who will major in computer science (or related areas) complete a course covering the principles of programming using PL/I. Other students take a course in BASIC using QuickBASIC or QBASIC (packaged with DOS 5.0). In addition, students in most majors are required to complete courses in computer applications in their areas, and students in English take a course that teaches them to program in SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL. Technical support for hardware and software is provided by a central technical staff, but often teaching faculty will make minor repairs or install software. -- Eric Johnson ERIC@SDNET.BITNET johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: "Clark D Richey" Subject: Re: 5.0660 Computer Skill Courses (1/30) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 23:56:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1298 (1561) I currently attend Syracuse University and I previously attended Colgate University. Both offered introductions to certain types of academic computing services. Neither, hwoever, required such a course to be taken nor were the course overviews. Rather they were basic how to's for certain systems.I am of the opinion that computing skills should be mandatory, similar to many university's policies concerning writting workshops. From: Jonathan Rodgers Subject: Summary Program American Oriental Society, 1992 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 22:43:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 674 (1562) Here follows a summary of the Program of the Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Cambridge, Mass., 29 March--1 April, 1992. I shall send in a few minutes a BITNET file transfer of the entire Program in ascii format for distribution via the fileserver. Many thanks for your assistance in distributing our Program. The program will reach many of our members who are subscribers to the HUMANIST well before receipt of the printed Program. Jonathan Rodgers, Secretary, AOS. 202nd MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY 29 MARCH--1 APRIL, 1992 HYATT REGENCY CAMBRIDGE, MASS OUTLINE OF THE PROGRAM Saturday, March, 28th 2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Meeting, Editorial Board, JAOS. 5:00 p.m.--10:00 p.m. American Institute of Iranian Studies Annual Trustees Meeting. 8:00 p.m.--10:00 p.m. Meeting, ASOR Baghdad Committee. Sunday, March 29th 9:30 a.m.--12:00 p.m. Meeting, Board of Directors. 1:00 p.m.--5:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit. 2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon Sectional Meetings A. Ancient Near East I: Historical and Historiographic Documents. B. East Asia I: Chinese History. C. Islam I: Islamic History I. D. South & Southeast Asia I: A Vedic Miscellany. 7:30 p.m.--10:30 p.m. Sunday Evening Sectional Meetings A. Ancient Near East II: Social and Legal Institutions. B. Islam II: Islamic History II. Monday, March 30th 8:30 a.m.--5:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit. 9:00 a.m.--12:30 p.m. Monday Morning Sectional Meetings A. Ancient Near East III: Literature. B. East Asia II: Approaches to Textual History and Textual Criticism. C. Inner Asia I: Antiquities. D. Inner Asia II.: Antiquities II. Meeting of the Mongolia Society. (following Inner Asia II) E. Islam III: Islamic Religion. F. South & Southeast Asia II: Philosophy and Religion. 2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Monday Afternoon Sectional Meetings A. Ancient Near East IV: Cult and Ritual Activities. B. East Asia III: Chinese Poetry. C. Inner Asia III: Religion. D. Inner Asia IV: History. (following Inner Asia III) E. Islam IV: Literature I. F. South & Southeast Asia III: Literature and Art History. G. Islam V: Islamic Law. 6:00 p.m.--8:00 p.m. Reception. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Tuesday, March 31st 8:30 a.m.--5:00 p.m. Registration and Book Exhibit. 8:30 a.m.--10:45 a.m. Plenary Session: The Self and the Other. 11:00 a.m.--12:00 p.m. Business Meeting. 2:00 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Tuesday Afternoon Sectional Meetings A. Ancient Near East V: Art and Archeology. B. East Asia IV: Topics in Chinese Literature. C. Inner Asia II: Linguistics. D. Islam VI: Literature II. E. South & Southeast Asia IV: Various Sastras; Himalayan Culture. F. Ancient Near East VI: AOS-NACAL I: Hebrew Literature and Linguistics. 3:30 p.m.--5:30 p.m. Book Sale. 6:45 p.m.--7:45 p.m. Social Hour (Cash Bar). 8:00 p.m.--10:00 p.m. Annual Subscription Dinner and Presidential Address. Wednesday, April 1st 9:00 p.m.--12:00 p.m. Book Sale. 9:00 a.m.--12:30 p.m. Wednesday Morning Sectional Meetings A. Ancient Near East VII: AOS-NACAL: Linguistics. B. East Asia V: Japan and Korea. C. Islam VII: Islamic Philosophy & Thought. D. South & Southeast Asia V: Linguistics and Music. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. AMORIENT CONFRNCE. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "Robert T. Trotter, II" Subject: Adv. Ethnographic Workshop: 2nd Announcement -- Reg. Form and Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 09:28:03 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 675 (1563) This is the second announcement for the Advanced Ethnographic Methods Workshop, and includes a registration form. Anyone wanting a tentative outline of the topics covered, should contact me directly. NAPA and Northern Arizona University Announce Second Summer Workshop for Advanced Ethnographic Research Methods. The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) will be co-sponsoring a summer workshop on Advanced Ethnographic Research Methods at Northern Arizona University the week of June 2nd to June 5th. The workshop will be open to professional anthropologists, university faculty, and graduate students. It will require an average level of computer literacy. Potential participants should be able to do basic word processing and have some knowledge of DOS commands. At this time, software for the advanced ethnographic methods is only available on IBM compatible computers. The advanced methods workshop will introduce a series of computer programs that assist in ethnographic data collection, data management, and analysis. These programs concentrate on three areas of research assistance: 1) ethnographic fieldnote and interview storage, coding, retrieval, and analysis; 2) advanced cognitive research techniques (consensus models, pile sorts, etc.) and 3) network analysis. The primary computer programs that will be used to demonstrate these techniques include TALLY 3.0, ANTHROPAC 3.24, and CATIJ. The training will include hands-on opportunities, using Northern Arizona University's Ethnographic Data Management Laboratory. All participants will have the opportunity to practice using the software that is presented during the workshop. Logistical Details: The workshop will begin on the morning of June 2nd, at 8:30 am, and will finish mid-afternoon on the 5th. Participants can take advantage of on-campus housing (dorm style) at a cost of $41.60 per night per person, including 3 meals per day. The rate is based on double occupancy. A single room can be reserved for an additional $10.00 fee, or participants can make their own arrangements at local motels. This is the high season in Flagstaff, so reservations should be made very early. Registration costs for the workshop are $75.00 per person,. Software purchase is not included in the registration fee. Pre and post-conference purchase of the workshop software is also possible (ANTHROPAC $25, TALLY $50). Enrollment limited to 25 persons. Requests for further information should be directed to Robert T. Trotter, II, Dept. of Anthropology, Campus Box 15200 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Ph: 602-523-4521. (BITNET: CMSRTT01@NAUVM). Registration Form Name _________________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone _______________________________________________________ e-mail _______________________________________________________ 1. Housing (on-campus, $41.60 per night, double occupancy, includes 3 meals per day) Do you want on campus housing? YES _____ NO _____ (please check one) If YES, date of arrival: _________________________ If YES, date of departure _________________________ If you want single occupancy, check here _____. (cost: additional $10.00 per night) Fees: 1. workshop registration fee @ $75.00 per person _________ 2. pre-conference purchase of software ANTHROPAC @ $25.00 _________ 3. pre-payment of food/housing (double occupancy) @ 41.60 per night --------- @ 51.60 per night (single occupancy) --------- Total enclosed _________ Make checks payable to: Anthropology Department, NAU DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS MAY 15TH, 1991. Mail Registration to: Robert T. Trotter, II, Dept. of Anthropology, Campus Box 15200, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 86011. From: Marc Bregman Subject: Setup for TI286 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 17:10 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1299 (1564) We desparately are looking for a SETUP program (and diagnostics) for a Texas Instruments Business Pro 286 Computer that we have had for about 5 years and now needs to be setup again, after our disks have all disappeared. No one in Israel seems to be able to supply new disks. Anybody out there able to supply such an animal (and hopefully send it by e-mail to me, uuencoding would be fine) will receive our eternal gratitude. Marc Bregman Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion 13 King David Street Jerusalem 94101 Israel Voice E-Mail (02)203-234 (office) Bitnet: HPUBM@HUJIVM1 203-333 (messages) FAX 972-2-251478 724-049 (home) From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: vvoice - cards Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 13:43+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1300 (1565) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A colleague of mine has lost almost all his seeing ability due to an accident; now he hopes that he can continue his work by ussing computing tools for blind as braille lines and a voice card. The latter seems a rather serious problem, since all types of themhe has tried can handle only one language. But he needs something which can produce at least english, german, french an spanish (most of his work deals with latin-american literature). Can anyone recommend an appropriate system? Thanks, Fritz Heberlein From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Non-academic e-mail to UK Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 08:08:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1301 (1566) My daughter married and moved to London, England, last November. She and I would like to be able to communicate via e-mail (she has a Mac but I am IBM -- hope that's not a problem). But she is not an academic and thus does not have a link-up with the nets I am familiar with. I would appreciate advice from English colleagues (or others with useful information) about commercial networks she might use to reach the Internet. The systems people here at U. of T. tell me that Compuserve has a gateway to the Internet, but I don't know if Compuserve is available in the UK, nor have I had any experience with it myself. If anyone has information of interest to the list, by all means reply to Humanist; otherwise, I would welcome a personal message. Germaine Warkentin From: Harry Gaylord Subject: mac scanner software Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 19:41:37 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1302 (1567) A colleague who uses Macs has asked about software for scanning non-Latin based texts. If anyone has current information, please send it to me galiard@let.rug.nl. Thank you very much. Harry Gaylord From: ocramer@ACADEMIC Subject: e-address query Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 14:41:39 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1303 (1568) Can anyone tell me an e-mail address for Francis Cairns at the University of Leeds? Owen Cramer "ocramer@cc.colorado.edu" Colorado College From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: RE: 5.0668 Qs: Multilinqual Keyboard; MLA Session;... (4/53) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 07:09:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1304 (1569) SUBJECT: E-Mail address for St. Andrews I found very helpful the Library's Secretary, Jennifer H Lambie. Here electronic address is: JHL@ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK Hope this helps, HANS ROLLMANN. From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: Bibliography SW Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 8:54:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1305 (1570) RE: Library Master I have heard much good about LIBRARY MASTER bibliography software. I am told that besides being easy to use, it is useable with latin languages. Has anyone tried it? Information can be got from Harry Hahne (Hahne@epas.utoronto.ca) Thanks in advance. Christian Allegre U. de Montreal allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: carron Subject: 50660 Computer skills Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 00:29 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1306 (1571) In the French Department at UCLA, computer skills are taught as part of the introductory course to literature for first year graduate students. It involves general information on selecting and using wordprocessing programs, basic DOS commands, participation in introductory courses needed to use the on-line library catalog (taught by library staff), registration with the office of academic computing and access to e-mail services, introduction to ARTFL (U of Chicago French textual data base) and basic search via e-mail (using ARTFL's MOPS commands) or modem (using ARTFL's PHILOLOGIC program). From: David Graham Subject: Re: 5.0672 Courses in computer skills (4/114) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 17:08:59 -0330 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1307 (1572) Christian Allegre asks me to post a summary to HUMANIST of responses to my request for information about courses in computer skills. I will of course be happy to do so, though the editors' suggestion of a public airing of this topic may diminish the requirement. I will at least try to pass on useful information not otherwise posted to HUMANIST. Michael Kessler writes that my question is loaded, [deleted quotation] The committee was struck to advise the Dean of Science on whether such a course is needed, and if it is, what it should be like. So far, there has been no suggestion that the course should be compulsory; on the other hand, there's a fairly strong feeling on the committee that a great many students may wish to register for it. [deleted quotation] I suppose the obvious answer to this question is that those skills might well turn out to be duplicated, at least to some extent, from one discipline to the next, and that most departments (if mine is any example) do not in and of themselves have the resources (in personnel or equipment) to offer such a course. Kessler asks a number of other pertinent questions, some of which have already arisen in the committee, and others of which have not yet been addressed. The question of financing, it has been suggested, may perhaps be solved if the course is to be a credit course, since the tuition fees should pay for much of the capital cost (assuming that the course is as popular as we suspect it will be). Our university certainly does not yet have the requisite lab space, and indeed space may yet prove to be the most intractable element of all. I'm grateful for answers already received, and hopeful I shall receive more! Many thanks. -- David Graham, Dept of French & Spanish ** dgraham@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Memorial University of Newfoundland *-/-* dgraham@kean.ucs.mun.ca From: maurizio lana Subject: any e-texts in ASCII formatted 'pali' language? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 15:11:45 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1308 (1573) A student of mine is searching for e-texts in pali language. She already knows of Mahanidesa (OTA holdings), and would like to know which exactly is the stand ard dor ASCII transcription of pali. Thank you. Maurizio ----------------------------------------------------------- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------------ From: maurizio lana Subject: e-mail address for Wilhelm Ott (TUSTEP) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 15:18:01 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1309 (1574) I wrote to Wilhelm Ott,to get information about TUSTEP, at the e-mail address g iven by Hum. Comp. Yearbook 89-90: ZRSZOT1 at DTUZDV2, but my mail come back fr om POSTMAN at DKAUNI2 because of incorrect address. I tried also ZRSZ0T1, but n othing changed. So, does anyone know if W. Ott e-mail address changed? Thank you. Maurizio. ----------------------------------------------------------- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Marc Bregman Subject: Bergen Libraries Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 16:15 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1310 (1575) I have a student who will be spending a year as a visting graduate student in the Religious Studies Department at University of Bergen (Norway) next year and would like to find out what sort of Judaic Studies collection they have so she can get an idea what she can and cannot do there and what books to take with her. Can anyone tell me how to log into the University of Bergen Library system? If the cataloging is in Norwegian, as I expect it is, we do have the services of a "native speaker" who can help us from this end. Marc Bregman Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion 13 King David Street Jerusalem 94101 Israel Voice E-Mail (02)203-234 (office) Bitnet: HPUBM@HUJIVM1 203-333 (messages) FAX 972-2-251478 724-049 (home) From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: COMPress Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 16:50:13 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1311 (1576) Can anyone help? I have before one photocopied page from a U.S. educational software catalogue. The only identifying information is what I take to be the name of the 'publisher': COMPress. The software on the page includes Lessons in American History, by Vernon Burton and John Lynn, English Grammer Drills by Peter Bien, and Improving your Writing by Priscilla Sears and Shelby Grantham. Can anyone provide more details about COMPress, e.g. contact address, phone number, email? Thanks in advance, Donald Spaeth CTI Centre for History From: RACHEL FORD-VANARSDALL Subject: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 13:51:21 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1312 (1577) To: ALL Subj: MSDS'S FOR CANADA Does anyone know if there is a standard form for French-language material safety data sheets for Canada? A company I work for does business in Canada, and we send English MSDS's to various translators for translation into French. Since the translators often translate the same standard terms or phrases (i.e. "Common name," "Exposure limits," "Work Practices and Engineering Controls") differently, I wonder if the Canadian or American government has ever put out a list of standard translations for these terms. I called the Canadian Terminology and Linguistics Services Directorate, but the person I spoke to could only translate term by term, and didn't know about a standard form or list of terms for MSDS's. I would appreciate any information anyone has on this subject. Thanks. *************************************************************************** Gerhard Obenaus Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Urbana, IL 61801 phone: (217)333-1288 ************************************************************************** From: Charles Robinson Subject: A Practical One: Car Rentals/Purchases in England Date: Thu, 23 Jan 92 12:57:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1313 (1578) Those on sabbaticals and/or research trips to England who have need for a short-term used-car rental or for a used-car purchase/repurchase agreement (with insurance also arranged) may wish to know about a private dealer who treated me very fairly during 6-month sabbaticals to Oxford and to London in 1972, 1978, and 1985. He is located in Sunningwell, near Abingdon, near Oxford, but he is available to meet you at other places. Another University of Delaware professor (Ralph Exline in psychology) will also attest to his fairness. If interested, inquire of Reginald D. Druce 23 Sunningwell Road Sunningwell Nr. Abingdon, OXON OX13 6BJ England Telephone: 0235-523506 If you wish, use my name as a recommender: Charles E. Robinson Prof. of English Univ. of Delaware Newark DE 19716 robinson@brahms.udel.edu From: Michel Chaouli Subject: Qui Parle, Vol. 5, No. 1 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 17:36:14 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1314 (1579) Dear Editors, would you kindly post the following notice, as it may be of interest to many members of the group. Thank you. Michel Chaouli Introducing _Qui Parle_ to Members of the Humanist _Qui Parle_ is a journal of critical studies in literature, philosophy, the visual arts, and history edited at the University of California, Berkeley. Now in its fifth year, the journal publishes original work by notable scholars (such as Samuel Weber, Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf, David Lloyd, and Jean-Luc Nancy) along with outstanding essays by graduate students. The Fall-Winter issue (Vol. 5, No. 1) includes: Jean-Joseph Goux Banking on Painting Rochelle Tobias Death's Poetic Property w/Ann Smock, trans. _Poemes de Samuel Wood_ by des Forets Derek Attridge Arche-Jargon Blakey Vermeule Is There a Sedgwick School for Girls? Slavoj Zizek The Totalitarian Invitation to Enjoyment Adam Bresnick Dialectic of Genius: _Rameau's Nephew_ _Qui Parle_ is currently accepting submissions for the next two issues: "Disgust" (Deadline March 1, 1992) "Autobiographical Acts" (Deadline September 1, 1992) Submissions should be sent to the address listed below. Please include your name only in a cover letter, as all articles are refereed anonymously. Individual subscriptions are $10 for one year (2 issues) and $17 for two years (4 issues). Orders and payments as well as papers should be sent to _Qui Parle_, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 460 Stephens Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or to chaouli@ocf.berkeley.EDU (Internet). From: ussjt@unix.cc.emory.edu (Steve Taylor) Subject: Non-roman OCR Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 08:42:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1315 (1580) Harry Gaylord asks about a Macintosh OCR package for scanning non-Roman alphabet materials. Although I don't know of any that expressly recognizes non-Roman characters, you can accomplish this feat with a trainable OCR program. The idea is to "fool" the program into thinking that a particular character is an "A," another particular character is a "B," etc. As long as you're consistent, you've got something to work with. And if the character you're "misnaming" has an ASCII value that is the same as the code assigned to your non-Roman character in the Macintosh font you will be using, no further conversion will be needed. I've not yet done it myself, but I've been told that people have used Olduvai's "Read-it" to scan Hebrew and Cyrillic texts and that the current version of Omnipage Pro has a trainable mode. Steve Taylor Emory University From: Ed Haupt Subject: non-academic e-mail Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 8:44:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1316 (1581) There is a list of unix adresses on uunet.uu.net. It requires an ftp, and some looking around, but I expect there is probably something like the 5 files and 100k of addresses for Germany. Of course the address files will have the extension .UK somewhere, so searching with a filemask of *.UK will simplify things. I have a son who works part time for a company in new york city on which he set up a unix mail system. I have had difficulty using this address, since the computer is sometimes not running/on internet, and even the best address resolvers don't know where it is. Something about the complete description of the network is not known in any one place; or any one time; or any one universe ... Good Luck Ed Haupt From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: England Email Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 22:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1317 (1582) I'm quite sure that CompuServe and GEnie both offer service in England. I strongly suspect that MCIMail does too. Based on my (USA only) experience, I'd guess that MCI is the cheapest, but they all figure their rates in different ways. I don't have their inquiry/subscription 800 numbers at hand but can dig them up if you want. George Aichele From: JHUBBARD@SMITH.earn Subject: Re: 5.0679 Qs: Pali E-Texts... Date: Sun, 16 Feb 92 17:22:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1318 (1583) Many Pali texts exist in electronic form. The entire Pali canon, Thai version, has been available for a number of years from Mahidol University, for app. $4,000 US. Recently the PTS canon has been input with a combination of Dhammakaya Foundation and UC-Berkeley, and mostly awaits various massaging, and no doubt intense copyright, distribution, etc. discussions. Many individuals have input texts as well (I used to have a number of Dhammapada on disk). Perhaps those who have input texts could let us all know? Jamie Hubbard From: cb@xis.xerox.com (Christopher Bader) Subject: Voice card (5.0676) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 08:48:53 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1319 (1584) The Kurzweil Personal Reader (KPR) is a reading machine for the blind that can read and speak English, German, Spanish, French, and several other languages. The KPR is a standalone unit. There is also a PC/KPR that works with a PC. Contact: Xerox Imaging Systems 9 Centennial Drive Peabody MA 01960 USA (508) 977-2000 (XIS is my employer.) -- Christopher Bader From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: COMPress Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:01:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1320 (1585) The catalog from QUEUE indicates that they are now the publishers of COMPress materials. Address: 338 Commerce Drive Fairfield, CT 06430 tel: 800-232-224 From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: voice cards Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 12:53:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1321 (1586) I recall reading a newspaper article last year about a company in Newton, Massachusetts, called "Dragon Software" which got fine reviews on its scanning & voice-reproduction quality. I also recall that it was somewhat expensive for individual users, in the neighborhood of $15,000. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: 5.0679 Qs: Pali E-Texts; COMPress; Bergen Libraries... Date: Sat, 15 Feb 92 16:05:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1322 (1587) I have recently communicated with Wilhelm Ott at zrszot1@cpx.sdv. uni-tuebingen.de. The last I heard of COMPress, they were operating in New Hampshire. A query to directory service in the 603 area should locate them if they are still there. Joseph Raben From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) Subject: SESAME Bulletin on South Asian Scripts Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1992 13:44:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 684 (1588) I had a note from John Clews today, asking me to pass on the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 5 of SESAME Bulletin will have a major focus on South Asian scripts in most issues. Also, he is advertising a book: Ian Tresman, _The Multilingual PC Directory_ (Harrogate: SESAME Computer Projects, 1992). 254 pp. ISBN 1-873091-01-X. 20 pounds. [deleted quotation]foreign language products for IBM PCs and compatibles. It includes details of nearly 300 products, supporting as many languages, which are available in over 70 countries from over 1000 manufacturers, publishers and affiliates. ... For more information, contact John Clews, SESAME Computer Projects, 8 Avenue Road, Harrogate, North Yourkshire, HG2 7PG, United Kingdom. Telephone orders: +44 423 888432 FAX: +44 423 883918 [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My experience of SESAME publications in the past is that they are very informative. Best wishes, Dominik From: ach@aberystwyth.ac.uk Subject: Double-column footnotes in Ventura Publisher Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 17:18:00 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1323 (1589) Does anyone know of a way to produce footnotes in two columns to a single- column text using VP (version 3 or 4) for Windows? I am trying to emulate some already published volumes in a series that has to change to DTP. If the above is not possible, does anyone know of a package which could manage it (apart from TeX which I imagine could do the job with a lot of tweaking)? (The footnotes in question are really variant readings to a verse text.) Any suggestions, however laborious, gratefully received! Thanks, Andrew Hawke +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Andrew Hawke, Golygydd Cynorthwyol (Assistant Editor) | | Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales Dictionary), | | Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales), | | Aberystwyth, Dyfed SY23 3BU, UK. | | Ffon/Phone (DU/UK) 0970 623816 (est./ext. 264) Ffacs/Fax 0970 615709 | | (tramor/int'l) (+44)970 623816 (est./ext. 264) (+44)970 615709 | | JANET: ach@uk.ac.aberystwyth | | BITNET: ach%uk.ac.aberystwyth@ac.uk | | INTERNET: ach%uk.ac.aberystwyth@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | | UUCP: {mcsun,ukc,uunet}!aberystwyth.ac.uk!ach | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ From: Steve Mason Subject: Tamil and Sanskrit Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 15:45:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1324 (1590) A colleague of mine is looking for downloadable Sanskrit and Tamil fonts for use with WordPerfect 5.1 (tm) and the Hewlett Packard LaserJet III (tm). Can anyone recommend a commercial package, or has someone developed their own? If the question has been discussed before, I apologize for not paying attention. In that case, please contact me rather than HUMANIST. Steve Mason Humanities, York U. From: Subject: austrian architecture Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 21:59:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1325 (1591) I would appreciate help with the following, admittedly arcane, problem in information retrieval... An architecture student is attempting to track down a "grossly over- proportioned" Christ/crucifix, a sculpture by J. Abelhard, in an interior hall in St. Benedicts College, in Salzburg, Austria. He believes the architect responsible for the building in which the sculpture is housed is Peter Behrens. The sculpture is impressive because of its oversized character -- it fills the room it is in, and almost appears to rush the viewer like a crouching lion. (Spooky!) For all the exact details he recalls -- we can find no references to this sculpture in any of our (considerable) architectural references. Can anyone out there help -- perhaps with an e-mail contact in Salzburg, or a surface mail address for St. Benedicts, or other suggestions? Many thanks in advance, Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: "Keith Nightenhelser, Depauw University" Subject: CAI to accompany _Reading Greek_? Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1992 19:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1326 (1592) Does anyone know of MacIntosh-based drills to accompany the JACT first-year Ancient Greek Course based on their _Reading Greek_ text? --Keith Nightenhelser (k_night@depauw.bitnet) From: "DOV - DR. ART ST. GEORGE" Subject: New Release of Internet Library Catalog Available Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 11:01 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 686 (1593) This note announces a new release of the Internet-Accessible Catalogs and Databases. NEW IN THIS RELEASE New (n) and revised (r) in this release are the following entries and sections: Section 1: University of Texas, Austin (r) Arizona State University (n) Colby College Library (n) Georgetown University Medical Center (n) Mississippi State University (r) Indiana University Libraries (n) Boise State University (r) University of Kansas (r) Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo (r) New York Public Library (n) Oregon State University (n) University of Maryland System (r) San Francisco State University (n) University of Virginia Library (n) University of Nevada, Reno (n) Section 3: University of Western Australia (r) Murdock University (n) InterUniversity Computerized Catalog System--ALEPH (r) Finnish National Bibliography (n) University of London Library (n) University of Queensland (n) Switzerland (n) Section 6: California State University (n) Clemson University (n) Northwestern University (n) Pennsylvania State University (n) Syracuse University (n) University of Maryland (n) University of Michigan (n) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (n) University of Texas at Austin (n) Yale ENTERPRISE (n) Tri-State Online (n) North Carolina State University Happenings! (r) San Diego State University (r) University of Colorado at Boulder (r) University of New Mexico (r) University of Northern Iowa (r) University of Pennsylvania (r) Section 7: All entries (n) The Catalog is accessible by using FTP and will shortly be available as a package for Bitnet users. Two versions of the Catalog may be retrieved using FTP: ascii and Postscript. A WAIS version will appear shortly on those hosts with WAIS servers. To retrieve either of the two versions, FTP to ariel.unm.edu, login as anonymous and "cd" to the directory "library" There you'll find the files "internet library" (ascii) and "library ps" (Postscript). Marke Resmer's LIBTEL script also reflects this most recent release of the Catalog. As always, I would appreciate hearing from you if your library catalog or related database is now available to the Internet. Art St. George From: alufml@fnma.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) Subject: misogynist Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 11:27:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1327 (1594) Brigitte Werneburg wonders about the a term similar to misogynist, but denoting a man-hater. The term she seeks, if I remember my Greek aright, would be "misandrist", but I've never seen it in any dictionary. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Francois-Michel Lang (202) 752-6067 FAX: (202) 752-4463 uunet!almserv!alufml ........ Fannie Mae; Asset/Liability Strategy lang@linc.cis.upenn.edu ..... Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA From: (James Marchand) Subject: misogyny/misandry Date: Sat, 8 Feb 92 11:04:31 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1328 (1595) Brigitte Werneburg is looking for a word comparable to misogynist, meaning "male hater." The OED registers under miso- the term misandry "hatred of males", so that there must be a word misandrist. I should have thought that misanthropist might do, though it is usually taken in a wider sense. I suppose one needs to discuss male dislike of females and female dislike of males, along with male dislike of males (also misandry) and female dislike of females (also misogyny), but I am not sure I know why. Maybe philandry sounds too much like philandering, and philogyny sounds too much like what I make my living doing. Jim Marchand From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: misogynist Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 14:11+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1329 (1596) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A parallel word-formation should deliver "misandrist", since misogynist is formed of greek miso (hate) + direct object gyne (woman) + suffix -istes (like sophos - > sophistes) Greetings, Fritz Heberlein From: Rainer Henrich Subject: Re: 5.0667 Rs: Terms for Dislike of Males (5/106) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 09:20:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1330 (1597) The correct noun is "misandry" ("the hatred of males"), see The Oxford English Dictionary. In German: "Misandrie", in French: "misandrie". From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Misogynist Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 08:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1331 (1598) I've lost Bridgitte Werneburg's e-mail address, so I'll post this response to her query directly. The fact that there is no male-oriented counterpart to "misogynist" in English is another reflection, through a lexical gap, or cultural bias against women, like the fact that there is no term corresponding to "guy" that isn't loaded in some other way. "Gal" certainly won't do the job. "Misanthrope" has a more general meaning, as its etymology might suggest. Greek "anthropos" means "human being," not "male human," which would be "aneer (gen. andros)." The two dictionaries I checked, Webster's Seventh and the Random House American College Dictionary (neither current but the one's I had handy), define "misanthrope" as "hater of mankind." To make that gender-specific would, by a common application of Gresham's Law to language, result in losing the more general meaning, just as has happened with words like "gay" and historically early cases like "prevent" and "wife." I might suggest the formation "misandrist," which would be etymologically more precise and would plug that lexical gap without creating a new one. By the way, wouldn't the assumed gender of misogynist default to male? I've never seen it used to describe a woman. Herb Stahlke Ball State University From: "Edwin S. Segal" Subject: Neologisms Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:10:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1332 (1599) FROM: Edwin S. Segal Department of Anthropology PHONE: 502-588-6864 How about "misandrogyny" which yields "misandrogynist?" From: mlbizer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marc L. Bizer) Subject: Re: misandrist/misanthrope Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 14:33:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1333 (1600) It is strange that the English language does not seem to have a word that describes someone who hates men; there is certainly nothing as commonly as accepted as "misogynist" for someone who hates woman. "Misanthrope" will not do, since it applies to someone who hates "anthropoi", i.e. human beings; Moliere's misanthrope does not hate men in particular, but rather the human race. "Misandrist" as someone has just suggested is a very good choice, being constructed in the same way as "misogynist". --Marc Bizer From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 5.0667 Rs: Terms for Dislike of Males (5/106) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 18:27:00 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1334 (1601) I must object to John Jones' statement that "andros" is the Attic form of "aner". "Andros" is the _genitive_ (that is, in English terms, possessive) of "aner", and the neologism, if it is not to be illiterate, should be "misandrist", without the "-os" ("andr-" being the root stem of all forms of "aner"). "Misanthrope" does not mean a hater of males, but a hater of human beings, regardless of sex. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: MANYMAN@FINUHA.BITNET Subject: Misandrist Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 03:15 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1335 (1602) Of the five responses [5.0667] to Brigitte Werneburg's request for a term comparable to misogynist, Oliver Phillips's proposal hits the mark: the right mot savant is MISANDRIST. (And the "embarrass de richesses" of possibilities was only apparent.) Martti Nyman (Dept of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland) From: Paul Pascal Subject: Re: 5.0651 Rs: Translating; Memorizing (3/75) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1992 14:05:07 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1336 (1603) With reference to the origin of the simile likening translations to beautiful but unfaithful women (or vice versa), what I have to offer is so vague that I had planned to sit this one out, but in view of what has emerged in recent discussion, I am now inclined to go public with the following, imprecise as it is. I apologize for the vagueness. A notebook in which over the years I had jotted down, among other treasures, aphorisms about translations last year became the victim of office-cleaning incidental to retirement. (By way of advance warning to you all--I have already had occasion to regret almost every scrap of paper I parted with at that time.) Among these aphorisms was the one about translations and women, beautiful chiasmus and all, in French, explicitly ascribed to some author of the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Of all of this I am virtually positive. I regret that I am now unable to recover my source--it was almost fifty years ago when I noted this down. However, I am in a position to provide the following, from Amparo Hurtado Albir, La Notion de Fidelite en Traduction (Paris, 1990), p. 14: "Le XVIIeme siecle francais est considere comme l'age d'or des 'belles infideles'; l'expression date precisement de cette epoque et on la doit a Menage qui dit a propos des traductions de Perrot d' Ablancourt: "Elles me rappellent une femme que j'ai beaucoup aimee a Tours, et qui etait belle mais infidele." Hurtado Albir cites this from E. Cary, Les grands traducteurs francais (Geneva, 1963). Note also the study of translation by the French philologian, G. Mounin, which he entitled Les belles infideles. Perhaps further details could be tracked down from these references. While I am at it, I recall some other memorable French nuggets from my notebook: one comparing a translation to a tapestry viewed from the wrong side; and one (which I seem to recall was by a woman--Mme Dacier, de Stael, de Sevigne?--but I couldn't swear to it) that likens translators to servants carrying messages. Not only do they garble the messages, but they share another fault with domestics--that is, they consider themselves as grand as their masters--especially if their masters are very old. The most arresting item of my collection--how could I ever have thrown these out!--I suppose I must leave in its native French, not guaranteed verbatim, but virtually so: "Une traduction est comme une belle femme qui me montre son cul au lieu de son visage." From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: divine devilishness Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 14:00+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1337 (1604) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In german there is a very common proverb "Der Teufel steckt im Detail" (i never heared of M. Bregmanns version 'der liebe Gott stekt im Detail'). Since Buechmann, gefluegelte Worte does'nt mention it, there seems to be of non-literary origin. Fritz Heberlein From: Mark Glazer Subject: Computer classes Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 15:01 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 689 (1605) Here at the University of Texas - Pan American we have had a compulsory course in computing which has been part of our general education requirements since the Fall of 1984. The course teaches basic computing skills which includes DOS, Word Perfect, Lotus 123 and dBase. We have student labs which are open late into the evenings. Students use these facilities to write and print e.g. term papers as well as for other computing classes. The class and the microcomputing labs have been a great success for us. Student fees collected for this purposes go into the operation and mainatence of these labs. The labs are also used for classes in English, French, History, Political Science and Sociology. Mark Glazer From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Re: Rick's question Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 23:50:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 690 (1606) Comments-on: Friday, 14 Feb 1992 09:53:39 EST Comments-of: "Patrick W. Conner" I posted this response to a suggestion on ANSAXNET that we make sure that humanities faculty, computing humanists, quodlibet, serve on our institution's computing committees to insure that humanists get the equipment they need for their work. A couple people who are members of both ANSAXNET and HUMANIST have asked me to post it here so that we can extend the discussion, including more computing services staff, etc. than reside on ANSAXNET. So, treat it as a valentine. Read it, smile, kiss someone, and throw it away. --Pat ***----------------------> Original Mail From <----------------------*** "Patrick W. Conner" ***------------------------------------------------------------------*** The way you get equipment here at WVU (and, apparently, at Illinois) is to make use of equipment. Actually, that's how scientists and engineers get it, too. Once the Beowulf Workstation began rolling along and I was invited by Apple to show it off at a corporate conference for academics, my dean began to provide me with equipment. Now, he's equipped a lab for me. Wish I had time to invest in it the way he wishes I would. But I have Exeter and Abingdon and you folks to keep me occupied. But the point is, you can't get equipment by merely asking (or having a designated asker on a committee) unless you've already proven you can use it. That sound's like a catch-22, but it's the way it works. No one can commandeer computing money for humanists unless the humanists are demonstrating that they REALLY have a use for it. Too many word processors have been purchased which have not been mastered by humanities faculty for that to happen again. I have also found that the folks in the sciences are much more helpful than they used to be. I think they know that, although I use computers for weird things, we now share some of the same problems. And finally, I should add that you must never suggest that Humanists have just recently jumped onto a computing bandwagon. In point of fact, computers weren't sophisticated enough to handle significant humanities problems until recently. Mainframes were never meant to be text processors, and still don't do it well. Personal Computers actually address some of our problems pretty well, but only the big workstations based on mini-computers like Sun and the Next are really appropriate. We've just begun to get enough memory, and the monitor real estate is still a bit expensive. It's not that we just learned about computers; it's that they weren't worth our learning about before 1985 or so. Tell this to your engineering friends: the simplest sort of literary problem is more difficult to address with a computer than the most complex statistical analysis on data derived from a controlled experiment. The proof of that pudding is that not a single computer analysis in the humanities has established a "general acceptance" in the profession of whatever question it addressed. (I must be wrong about that, but I can't think of any, so I'm creating a place for you to point out how ignorant I am.) That's not because we're all so cantankerous; it's because the nature of proof required for the general acceptance of a point in our field is simply more complex be- cause the problems are more complex. You should all educate your deans, chancellors, headmasters, etc., on a couple of points: I. Don't ever sit quietly when someone says, "well, you Anglo-Saxonists can get by without computers, albeit with a modicum of difficulty; the physicists simply can't." Why should we retreat to outmoded methods of doing OUR jobs when the physicists don't have to? Get 'em an apple tree. It was sufficient for Newton. II. Ditto on networking; the power in the university is aligned with those who are on the university net (not necessarily the same as e-mail). Can you get access to all files which should be open to you (e.g. registration for your students, online memos on travel grants, etc.); if not, find out from math or computer science what they've got working for them. That's where you need your liaison on the computing committee. --Pat From: PMDF Mail Server Subject: European contacts in social science computing Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 12:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1338 (1607) A very knowledgeable person in social science computing is Jean-Claude Gardin at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, 23 rue du Maroc, F-75940 Paris Cedex 19, France. I do not have an e-mail address for him, but you can phone him at 40.34.86.01 or 42.77.64.68 (he speaks fluent English). He is very much concerned about the broader and deeper implications of computing in the "sciences humaines," and should be a useful resource for you. Joseph Raben, City University of New York From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU Subject: Melbourne (July) Congress Participation Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 01:38:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1339 (1608) I would like to make contact with persons who plan to attend the SBL(etc.) International Congress in Melbourne Australia on 12-17 July 1992, for various reasons: (1) to determine who might also attend the Sydney conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls scheduled a few days earlier; (2) to identify local contacts in Australia who might be able to provide advice on setting up an exhibit of computer resources at the Melbourne (and perhaps also the Sydney) meetings -- I need to find out local contacts with vendors (e.g. IBM, Apple, NeXT) and/or with University Centers and similar points of potential cooperation; (3) to explore the possibility of some shared sight-seeing after the Melbourne congress. In addition, I invite contact with persons who might have wares that could appropriately be displayed or otherwise made known in the computer exhibitions. The audiences will include a wide array of religionists (whatever that may mean), not only biblical and textual types. Whether I will have time, energy, equipment, or expertise to show everything off is problematic, but I would rather be in a position to do so than to fail to have such an opportunity. And advice from the (esp. Australian) participants as to what things they would be especially interested in seeing demonstrated (or even distributed, with respect to shareware and public domain items) would also be most welcome. I hope some people in Australia are listening; I understand that this is a between-term break time, so please pass the request along .... AND PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY TO ME -- KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU -- AND NOT TO THE DISCUSSION GROUPS, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. Bob Kraft, UPenn From: mike@inti.lbl.gov (Michael Helm) Subject: Re: 5.0670 Internet Access to Oxford Text Archive (1/82) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 12:42:53 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1340 (1609) [deleted quotation] ox.ac.uk doesn't work (at least not for me), but the above address seems to be tied to the name "black.ox.ac.uk" which does work. Very good file transfer performance too. From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Anonymous FTP Date: Wed, 29 Jan 92 12:12:13 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1341 (1610) [this mail was mislaid by the editors -- Allen] My Madrid colleague Francisco Marcos Marin has just discovered the wonders of FTP and is interested in finding out what sorts of goodies are available. He is a general linguist and is currently directing a large-scale project in setting up a corpus of modern Spanish as well as the ADMYTE (Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espannoles) project. Any data bases (bibliographical or text) or analytic programs would be of interest. Charles Faulhaber From: Michel Pierssens Subject: e-mail address request Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:27:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1342 (1611) Could anyone tell me if there is an e-mail address where I could reach prof. Clara Gallini, at the Cultural Anthropology section of the Oriental Institute in Naples? Thanks! Michel Piersens piersens@ere.umontreal.ca From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: COMPress Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 22:38:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1343 (1612) COMPress sold its language-oriented holdings to a CALL company called "QUEUE" in Connecticut (USA). Here's the last address I have available: Queue, Inc. 338 Commerce Drive Fairfield, CT 06432 Tel. 800-232-2224 (Good in North America) Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Re: 5.0631 Qs: (Various) (8/105) Date: Thursday, 30 Jan 1992 01:03:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1344 (1613) [mislaid by the editors -- ahr] Thanks to all of you who sent me the address of the Aristotelian University at Thessalonika. Thanks to you my colleague has bought a modem, hooked up to the INTERNET, and is well on his way to becoming one of us. Gaudeamus! --Pat From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Religious Studies Publications Journal Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 20:53:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 694 (1614) Project Overview Version 1.0 THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL - CONTENTS Project Description The Religious Studies Publications Journal (CONTENTS) is a networked electronic journal that brings together academic publishers and online scholars in Religious Studies and related fields. This list will provide a free information service to academic publishers and the more than 1,000 scholars in religious studies and related fields who are online with BITNET, Internet, and other international computer networks. CONTENTS' primary function is the posting of table of contents, standard bibliographic, pricing and ordering information and, when available, abstracts of new books and journal issues of interest to academics in the broad field of Religious Studies. 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Smith.................................................... 73 Reconstructing History from the Book of Ezra Lester L. Grabbe..................................................... 98 LITERATURE AND SOCIETY Textual Strategies and Ideology in the Second Temple Period - Robert P. Carroll................................................. 108 The Temple in Persian Period Prophetic Texts - David L. Petersen................................................. 125 CRITIQUE Nehemiah 5: By way of a Response to Hoglund and Smith - John H. Halligan.................................................. 146 On Models and Texts: A Response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen - Peter Ross Bedford................................................ 154 Empire, Temple and Community - But no Bourgeoisie! A Response to Blenkinsopp and Petersen - Richard A. Horsley................................................ 163 Texts and the World - An Unbridgeable Gap? 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His analysis uncovers, among other things, female subversiveness' as a fundamental characteristic of biblical women. David Petersen's essay, "The Temple in Persian Period Prophetic Texts" looks at the significance of the temple within Persian period texts and investigates the supposed incorporation of prophecy into the cult at this time. These essays are critique in four following essays by various authors. For ordering information please contact Philip Davies, , Sheffield Academic Press. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information about CONTENTS: Contact the project director, Michael Strangelove 441495@Uottawa Department of Religious Studies 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA University of Ottawa FAX: (613) 564-6641 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario Voice: (613) 564-2300 CANADA K1N 6N5 From: (Dennis Baron) Subject: manhater Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 09:36:01 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1345 (1615) It seems that more times than not, when we are challenged to come up with a new word (neologism) we resort to Latin and Greek. What else could you expect a bunch of humanists (florilegium) to do? Scientists, esp. in this century, have occasionally broken away from the classical yoke, to coin quarks and barns, but even they are drawn to nano- for small things and mega- for big. From time to time since the 16th century English has experienced periods of isolationism, during which times it has been suggested that all words of "foreign" origin be purged and old, native words be revived, or new words coined on native models. Of course, other languages have had purification drives as well. I have called such movements in the history of English "Saxonism." They have resulted in such oddities as cellar-thane for butler, push-wainling for pram (perambulator), and upgangflow for escalator. But they have also resulted in more permanent revivals/coinages, for example handbook (manual) and foreword (preface). Most of the Saxonists have been a bit eccentric (nutty) but almost every handbook (enchiridion) of English style in this century has advised writers to choose native over borrowed, and short over long, words. The influence is there. So, my question is this: are there no "native" candidates for the new word you seek, or must male-haters be clothed in the etymologically opaque fabric of the word players? The term _man-hater_ has been around for some time. The OED traces it to 1579-80 (s.v.), and though its earliest uses are generic (=misanthrope, which it occasionally translates [or should I say traduces?]), its late 19th century sense is clearly male-hater and it is applied to women. I think it is this sense that prevails today when it is used, and it is still used, although OED2 does not have any later cites. Misandry, by the way, is listed as current (dating from mid 1940s!) in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary. Of course English doesn't just borrow from its saxon and its classical past, as honcho, kosher, and pajama attest. Any thoughts from the less-well-tapped tongues? Dennis Baron debaron@uiuc.edu Dept. of English office: 217-244-0568 University of Illinois messages: 217-333-2392 608 S. Wright St fax: 217-333-4321 Urbana IL 61801 From: Anne Erlebach Subject: Misandrist Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 08:03:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1346 (1616) Does it occur to anybody that English has a perfectly good term for a man-hater: i.e., "man-hater"? This discussion is but another exam- ple of academics' need to complicate things. When in doubt, simplify, and stick with your English roots. Anne Erlebach Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton,MI 49931-1295 From: Anthony Arnove Subject: Teachers for Democratic Culture Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 13:12:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1347 (1617) [...] A group of graduate students and teaching assistants at Brown University is interested in starting a branch of Teachers for Democratic Culture. Can anyone tell me who to contact? Thanks. Anthony Arnove ST403389@brownvm.brown.edu From: Alan D Corre Subject: Scooter Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 14:17:59 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1348 (1618) When I was a child in England, there was a popular toy, often home-made from boxwood, called "scooter." The child stood on a narrow footboard and steered with an upright. Propulsion was achieved with one foot. It is not especially popular in the U.S. In Israel such toys are called "korkinet". What is the origin of this word? Is it a corruption of the French "trottinette"? The word is given in Alkalay as the translation of "scooter", but does not occur in the Hebrew-English volume, and is unnoticed by Even-Shoshan. Have korkinet and trottinette been borrowed by other languages? From: neabo01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (H. Borchers) Subject: Exchange request Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 15:04:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1349 (1619) A colleague of mine without access to email has asked me to announce this on the Humanist network. He is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Tuebingen, and he is looking for an exchange partner for his 16-year-old daughter ANNEGRET KORFF, who is a highschool student here in Tuebingen. The Korffs are searching for a compatible family with a daughter of Annegret's age who would like to spend some time in Germany. Annegret's mother is a teacher of English at a Tuebingen highschool. The family also includes Annegret's brother who is 14 years old. As for the place, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Tuebingen's twin city in the U.S., would be ideal, but other locations, pre- ferably in the Eastern part of the U.S., would also be welcome. The Korffs are proposing that Annegret spends a three-month period, from September through November/December of 1992, with her American host family. They would be willing to host Annegret's exchange partner either during or else before or after this period. The goal would be to expose the exchangees to highschool and family life in the United States and in Germany, respectively. Professor Hans Borchers University of Tuebingen Department of American Studies Wilhelmstrasse 50 Voice: +7071-29-2910/4833 7400 Tuebingen Fax: +7071-29-4282 Germany Email: neabo01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: Ronald de Rooy Subject: preference model Date: Sat, 8 Feb 92 01:04 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1350 (1620) Could someone please indicate to me studies or articles dealing with the application of Ray Jackendoff's "preference rule system" in the field of literary studies? A while ago I became interested in this subject after reading a stimulating book by a theoretical linguist, Ellen Schauber, and a literary theorist, Ellen Spolsky, entitled "The Bounds of Interpretation. Linguistic Theory and Literary Text" (Stanford UP 1986). In this study a preference model is used to describe a reader's competence to interpret literary texts. I would like to know if there have been any further developments. You can respond directly to me. Many thanks, Ronald de Rooy [DEROOY@ALF.LET.UVA.NL] From: Michael Hancher Subject: query re monkeys at typewriters Date: Sat, 8 Feb 92 10:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1351 (1621) "If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it _might_ happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they _might_ write all the books in the British Museum." A. S. Eddington called this "a rather classical illustration" when he introduced it into his discussion of entropy in _The Nature of the Physical World_, Gifford Lectures 1927 (New York: Macmillan; Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1931), 72. The general concept of generating a text by randomly scattering letters is as old as Cicero (_De Natura Deorum_ 2.37). But was the monkeys-at- typewriters example a "classical" one by 1927? Or did Eddington invent it? Michael Hancher / English / University of Minnesota From: "GILES R. HOYT" Subject: Query Date: Sat, 08 Feb 92 15:18:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1352 (1622) For posting on HUMANIST: Does anyone know of a late medieval doctor who was executed (burnt at the stake) for alleviating the pain of a woman in childbirth. Location of said event was presumably Central Europe. The event was referred to by Dr. Kavorkian (sp?), the suicide specialist, during a TV interview. I would appreciate any reference. From: elli%ikaros@husc6.BITNET (Elli Mylonas) Subject: Pandora revision Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 15:18:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 698 (1623) We are in the process of making a new version of Pandora, the Mac search program for the TLG. It is to be released in the next month. If there are Pandora users out there who have not already made their problems and suggestions known to us (many have, and we thank them) we are soliciting suggestions for improvements and bug fixes for the next version. Some things we have already found and fixed are: Correct handling of the PHI disks (recognizing the volume, and alphabetizing the authors correctly) Correct handling of dates in the TLG author index Better notification if an author is not present on the TLG disk Better handling of Greek fonts in Pandora and for export. Please send e-mail to me (elli@ikaros.harvard.edu) and not to the list. --Elli Mylonas From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) Subject: Re: 5.0685 Qs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP; Greek;... (4/72) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 10:07:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1353 (1624) \begin{quotation} [deleted quotation]\end{quotation} Andrew, you need EDMAC. This is a plain TeX format specifically for dealing with critical editions. It does two- and three-column footnotes, as well as run-on paragraph notes. It allows up to five layers of footnotes (formats separately controllable), and automatically deals with line numbering and footnote referencing by line number. There is nothing in the commercial world that can do any of this. EDMAC is written up in _TUGboat: The communications of the TeX Users Group_, volume 11(4), 1990, pp.623-643. It's free, of course. Get in touch if you want to know more. Dominik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Dominik Wujastyk, | Janet: D.Wujastyk@uk.ac.ucl Wellcome Institute for | Bitnet/Earn/Ean/Uucp/Internet: D.Wujastyk@ucl.ac.uk the History of Medicine,| or: dow@harvunxw.bitnet or: dow@wjh12.harvard.edu 183 Euston Road, | last resort: D.Wujastyk%uk.ac.ucl@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk London NW1 2BN, England. | Phone no.: +44 71 383-4252 ext.24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) Subject: Re: 5.0685 Qs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 10:18:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1354 (1625) [...] Downloadable Tamil and Sanskrit fonts would not be any use for WordPerfect, since both fonts have upwards of 200 ligatures. You need an intelligent, context-sensitive input system, or some equivalent, to deal with these scripts. There are really only two choices. Multilingual Scholar (by Gamma Productions) can do Sanskrit and Tamil with a WYSIWYG display, and its best output is on laser printers. TeX has support for Sanskrit and Tamil, has WYSIWYG preview (but not data entry), and prints on anything up to a phototypesetter. It is free, and so are the fonts. Dominik From: Christopher Currie Subject: Double-column footnotes in Ventura Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 10:57:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1355 (1626) I haven't used Ventura for Windows, but I have spent much of the last month making up text with double-column footnotes in Ventura 2. The solution is to put the text into the main page frame, and to store the footnotes in a different file, which is then imported into a separate frame on the bottom of the page. That frame is defined as double-column and is full page width, with outer margins the same width as the main frame. You simply paste the frame onto the next page after making up the first page, and use the mouse to move the boundaries between the frames to get the right number of footnotes on each page. You may have to fiddle with the margins in the footnote frame as well. It's tedious, but it works. Christopher c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: CD-ROMs in libraries Date: Mon, 27 JAN 92 16:57:14 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1356 (1627) I've been reading the messages about CD-ROMs and networks, towers etc. with more than a little interest, and I wondered whether any of you knew of an up-to-date source of information on what both university and public libraries have available for running CDs? It would be most useful for me to know what libraries have at the moment, or are planning to get, and what their users expect in the way of network facilities for CDs. Please reply directly to me. Many thanks. Ruth Glynn CD-ROM Project Manager, Electronic Publishing Oxford University Press UK From: "Thomas C. Wilson" Subject: CD-ROM Networking at Univ. of Houston Libraries Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 08:15 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 621 (1628) I am responding to an item forwarded to me by a friend. I am not a member of this list. My apologies for not responding sooner. Judy Koren writes: [deleted quotation] Not true! As usual, in technical discussions, terminology is *extremely* important, and frequently words are used that convey something different than what may have been intended. I cannot speak to the exact description of our network that Lorne was given, since it was not I who gave that description. While it is true that we built our CD-ROM network to be redundant in terms of equipment to avoid disasterous failure implications, we did not use "jukebox" technology, and each drive/product is available to every user all the time. We have two Meridian Data CD-ROM towers (redundancy), one NetWare fileserver, and ten workstations in the library. We will be expanding this arrangement significantly in the next six months. [deleted quotation] Agreed! There are, however, some applications in which a jukebox arrangement on a network is appropriate (e.g., large numbers of discs that are rarely or less often accessed, but still important). [deleted quotation] Current CD-ROM networking products do not support this type of automatic fail-safe operation. Each of them requires a human to change physical or logical mapping of the software and hardware. We decided to purchase redundant equipment so that we could make these changes if necessary at any point of failure. Fortunately, we have never had major failure. [deleted quotation] In theory, yes. But the technical details will in some cases limit the number of servers one can implement on a given segment of a network and the level of access one can provide. [deleted quotation] CD-ROM technology is somewhat unique in that it hit libraries long before any interest was expressed in the general computing industry. That has changed to some degree now. Nonetheless, your local librarian may be an excellent source of information on this topic. If you or your institution are looking to network CD-ROM, please focus on the access issues (i.e., what you want to gain by doing this, what your environment is like currently, who you want to reach, how much you can afford, etc.), rather than the exact technology implemented. The technology changes, sometimes rapidly, but the access issues are more constant. That is not to say that the two sets of issues are unrelated. They are! But what something is and what people call it are frequently not related. The best evaluation of any project of this sort is based on whether or not it, when fully implemented, improves your access to information. Whether it is CD-ROM, jukebox, tower, network, UNIX, VMS, VM, Mac OS, OS/2, or DOS is almost irrelevant. If you have other questions about our implementation of CD-ROM, please e-mail me directly. Thanks for your interest! Tom Wilson (a librarian) Head of Systems University of Houston Libraries LIB4@jetson.uh.edu From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Call for Submissions Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 10:31:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 701 (1629) Announcing NOTES A Supplement to the Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS CONTENTS will begin publishing brief notes on recent (within the past five years) publications, software and audio-visual aids of interest to Religious Studies. NOTES is intended to provide short abstracts of any items of interest to this field. Submissions should be written in the style of the Religious Studies Review's _Notes on Recent Publications_ - descriptive, concise and with criticism keep to a minimum. The subject range of NOTES is considerably wider than RSR and includes anything that has relevance to Religious Studies research and teaching. If an item has proved useful to you then it is of interest to this community. CONTENTS also welcomes short abstracts of individual journal articles. Both subscribers and non-subscribers to CONTENTS are encouraged to submit 150 to 300 word abstracts for electronic publication in NOTES. Submissions should be in electronic text and may be edited for length and clarity. Authors will retain the right to republish submissions elsewhere in any other medium. Unsolicited full length reviews will also be considered. Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to participate. Send submissions to the CONTENTS project director: Michael Strangelove 441495@Uottawa Department of Religious Studies 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA University of Ottawa FAX: (613) 564-6641 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario Voice: (613) 564-2300 CANADA K1N 6N5 ---------------- The _Religious Studies Publications Journal_ (CONTENTS) is an electronic journal that disseminates table of contents, abstracts, reviews and ordering information on new and recent print and electronic publications of relevance to Religious Studies. There are presently five participating publishers: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Catholic University of America Press, Sheffield Academic Press (JSOT Press), University of Scranton Press, and Blackwell Publishers (Oxford). Electronic subscriptions are free; to subscribe, send a mail message to Listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca with the text: SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name. From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0696 Man-hater v. Misandrist (2/60) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 22:01:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1357 (1630) To Dennis Baron and Anne Erlebach: Yes and of course it HAS "occurred to anybody" that *man-hater* is a perfectly OK term for a hater of males. But to me it seems that the groping for Greek and Latin "sanction" doesn't exactly exemplify a "need to complicate things." The more probable need is to aggrandize sense of self -- a project for the sake of which clarity and economy and forthrightness are a small price, zealously-ignorantly paid. From: Oliver Phillips Subject: RE: misandrist Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 09:50:17 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1358 (1631) From: (James Marchand) Subject: misandrist Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 10:19:49 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1359 (1632) It is interest that language is one of the most flamable of objects. We attribute all kinds of attitudes to it, request people to use it in our way, and it is in general that about which we argue most, one way or another. Man-hater sounds ok to me, as does woman-hater; one hears all kinds of new coinages, which one can scarcely discuss without being accused of being parti-pris in some way, e.g. feminazi. It has always been thus. Interestingly enough, our taboo words have now moved out of the bathroom and into group designations. There are even countries which have censored (removed from shelves, confiscated) dictionaries which were simply registering usage. To register usage is to recommend it, one feels. It is not true that misandrist is a new coinage, and I asked several people of my acquaintance (non-academics) what misogynist meant, and they did not know. I remember being on a doctoral committee where a full professor confessed not to know the difference between misogamy and misogyny. I suppose if we had used Anglo-Saxon, marriage-hating and woman-hating would have been clear, but all words change their meanings, and the PCers among us tell us that we must forego our native English in many ways. An aside: Looking at Dennis Baron's note on the use of Anglo-Saxon, I should think that off- center might be better for excentric than nutty. As an observer of language and a whilom (quondam) linguist, I applaud all discussions of language. As an idealist, I wish it could be carried on without motive- mongering, but I doubt that will happen. Jim Marchand e-mail: j-marchand@uiuc.edu From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" Subject: Miscellaneous Sexual Biases Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1992 16:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1360 (1633) I noticed last night on the latest episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" that the two sexually active women on the crew are both aliens. I wonder if there's a word for that... Matt +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: KESSLER Subject: Re: 5.0687 Terms for Dislike of Males (9/121) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 18:26 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1361 (1634) We need the term, since today thereis,it seems, in the West, at least, a prepod nerance of MISANDRISTS. Oh, us poor guys, us lovers of gals. Kessler From: Subject: feminist interpretations of _Odyssey_ Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1992 15:46:16 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1362 (1635) A colleague is interested in help identifying feminist critiques of Homer's _Odyssey._ Can anyone on this list help? Thanks. Please address postings to: ************************************************************* Ross B. Emmett Augustana University College Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 CANADA (403) 679-1517 VOICE Emmett@Augustana.AB.CA (403) 679-1129 FAX OR emmett@camrose.uucp ************************************************************* From: Pierce@hf.uib.no Subject: Latin Broadcast Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 13:47:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1363 (1636) We have learned that the Finnish Broadcasting Company broadcasts regular news bulletins in Latin (The European Sept. 27-29, 1991), and would much appreciate details on transmission times and wave length. We have also seen it mentioned in a recent Newsweek. Richard Holton Pierce Department of Classics University of Bergen Sydnesplass 9 N-5007 Bergen, NORWAY From: "John M. Unsworth" Subject: Bukowski Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 19:16:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1364 (1637) On behalf of a graduate student I'm working with, I'd like to ask whether anyone out there can suggest secondary sources on Charles Bukowski. At first glance, there doesn't seem to be a lot of Bukowski criticism. Thanks in advance, and feel free to reply directly to me. John Unsworth From: qxkemppai@SAMPO.HUT.FI Subject: Ervand Manarjan Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 05:15:54 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1365 (1638) Dear Humanists, I would be very happy if someone could inform me on the origin of a play performed by "The Kukko & K{{rme Theatre" in Finland. The title is "The Invincible Rooster" and the script is adapted from a text in Polish with the title "Niezwyciezony Kogut". The name of the author given in the Polish text is Ervand Manarjan. This writer is not well known in Finland or Poland, could possibly be Armenian, judging from the name. The Polish text is a translation from another language, we do not know which. If anyone knows more about the author or the play, please enlighten me, and other humanists as well if there is enough substance in the subject. Regards Seppo Kemppainen From: Ronald de Rooy Subject: preference model Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 09:12 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1366 (1639) Could someone please indicate to me studies or articles dealing with the application of Ray Jackendoff's "preference rule system" in the field of literary studies? A while ago I became interested in this subject after reading a stimulating book by a theoretical linguist, Ellen Schauber, and a literary theorist, Ellen Spolsky, entitled "The Bounds of Interpretation. Linguistic Theory and Literary Text" (Stanford UP 1986). In this study a preference model is used to describe a reader's competence to interpret literary texts. I would like to know if there have been any further developments. (If you wish, you can respond directly to me) Many thanks, Ronald de Rooy Department of Italian, University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam The Netherlands [DEROOY@ALF.LET.UVA.NL] From: Michael Hancher Subject: query re monkeys at typewriters Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 20:34 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1367 (1640) "If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it _might_ happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they _might_ write all the books in the British Museum." A. S. Eddington called this "a rather classical illustration" when he introduced it into his discussion of entropy in _The Nature of the Physical World_, Gifford Lectures 1927 (New York: Macmillan; Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1931), 72. The general concept of generating a text by randomly scattering letters is as old as Cicero (_De Natura Deorum_ 2.37). But was the monkeys-at- typewriters example a "classical" one by 1927? Or did Eddington invent it? Michael Hancher / English / University of Minnesota From: Tom Davis Subject: Computer Skills in the Humanities Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 12:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 704 (1641) Computer skills develop quickly when used as a "natural" tool within the class environment. Here at Appalachian State we have access to class VAX accounts--faculty subdirectory with x subsubs for students. Class assignments are posted as an automatically displayed Message of the Day. The editor is used for written work. A homework collection program picks up the work and writes new files in the faculty account. Mail is used for questions and individual communication with the instructor or fellow students. The work collected is usually sent to a printer; graded and returned in class manually for hardcopy record. This approach generates confidence and fosters interest for students who have no previous interest in the computer. Charles "Tom" Davis DAVISCT@APPSTATE.EDU From: N_EITELJORG@CC.BRYNMAWR.EDU Subject: new archaeology list Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 10:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1368 (1642) The Committee on Computer Applications and Electronic Data of the Archaeological Institute of America is pleased to announce the formation of a new moderated discussion list for archaeology. The AIA LIST will be *open to all*, whether members of the Institute or not, and it will be moderated. That is, the committee will organize, distribute, index, and store the messages which are received. Messages will not be edited, but messages which are inappropriate for the forum will be returned to the senders. The AIA LIST is intended to provide information to its members on any and all archaeolgical questions, but its principal focus will be on the application of technology to the work of field archaeologists. Therefore, discussion of data base management programs, computer- assisted drafting and design software, statistical packages, computer hardware, and other matters relating to computer technology for the particular needs of archaeologists will be especially welcome. Messages will be indexed and archived for future reference. There will also be ftp access to information which the Committee on Computer Applications and Electronic Data will collect. In particular, the committee expects to collect reviews of software and hardware, discussions of specific applications of software in the field, and short discussions about the utility of specific software for solving problems. The list will carry periodic notices of the availability of these items. To subscribe to the AIA LIST, send mail to: MAILSERV@CC.BRYNMAWR.EDU with the single command, SUBSCRIBE AIA-L. To communicate with the owner of the list, send mail to: AIA-REQUEST@CC.BRYNMAWR.EDU. February 18, 1992 From: Laura Davis-Clapper Subject: New E-conference announcement: ModBrits Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 10:15:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1369 (1643) ModBrits@KentVM ModBrits@KentVM.kent.edu "Modern British and Irish Literature (1895-1955)" ModBrits, is the international computer discussion group for scholars, teachers, and students of Modern British and Irish literature (1895-1955) and those who share their interests. ModBrits offers a medium for announcements and bulletins, notes and queries, scholarly papers. But ModBrits also offers spontaneous and informal conversation on its subject(s). Members can submit formal newsletters and announcements, calls for papers, employment announcements, and notices of work in progress and of public events for electronic distribution. They can also send short reviews of scholarly books, remarks about videotape and film resources, abstracts of news reports, and even draft articles for comment by other members. Reports from Britain and Ireland about developments related to the subject matter of ModBrits are welcome. Queries and notes about fine or grand points are expected to generate some of the conversation on ModBrits. Lengthier electronic texts such as conference papers, articles, or theses submitted by ModBrits members may be made available for on-line retrieval on an individual basis. Quite possibly, computerized (electronic) texts of works by Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and others will also be archived. Other forms of electronic information may also become available, such as concordances, sample journals, publishers' catalogues, and bibliographical resources. An e-mail directory of ModBritians will be accessible to all members, to facilitate the electronic distribution of seminar papers prior to a conference (for example) and to encourage private correspondence and collaboration. E-mail inquiries about the discussion group should be sent directly to ModBrits@KentVM.Kent.Edu. (The appended `.Kent.Edu' is necessary only for those desiring access through INTERNET; BITNET users may omit this part of the `address' or `domain'.) Failing that, contact Editing@KentVM (the e-mail address of the Center for Conrad Studies, Institute for Bibliography & Editing, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA). From: Alan D Corre Subject: Date Rape Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 14:17:27 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 707 (1644) Another notorious case of date rape is now before the courts. I wonder if it has been noticed that Stendhal in his diaries gives detailed instructions for perpetrating this kind of violence -- his involves choking. Here is the quote from his journal for Thermidor 13, year IX (=1 August 1801): "Je suis ainsi que beaucoup d'autres embarrasse lorsqu'il s'agit d'[e]nf[i]ler pour la premiere fois une femme honnete. Voici un moyen tres simple. Lorsqu'elle est couchee vous la baisotez, vous la br[a]nl[e]z etc.; elle commence a y prendre gout. Cependant le costume fait qu'elle se defend toujours. Il faut alors, sans qu'elle s'en apercoive, lui mettre l'avant- bras gauche sur le cou, dessous le menton, de maniere a l'etouffer; le premier mouvement est d'y porter la main. Pendant ce temps, il faut prendre le v[i]t entre l'index de la main droite et le grand doigt tous deux tendus, et le mettre tranquillement dans la machine. Pour peu qu'on y mette de sang-froid, cela est immanquable. Il faut cacher le mouvement decisif de l'avant-bras gauche par des giries. C'est Percheron qui m'a donne ce moyen, et il y est expert." I would assume that when this appeared in Henri Martineau's edition of the Journal in 1937 (and in Robert Sage's translation of 1954) it raised few eyebrows. Maybe it is a measure of our progress in this area that the reaction to it today would not be so casual. From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Rank and Tenure Criteria Date: Thu, 6 Feb 92 09:35:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1370 (1645) I had several talks with colleagues at Mount Holyoke College who were pleased with the policy they formulated on CAI-related materials in the rank & tenure debate. That was back in '89 or so. -Joel Goldfield From: Harry Gaylord Subject: one last fword Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 14:27:59 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1371 (1646) I waited to submit only after consulting our old Germanic etymologist and he has confirmed my suspicions. The closest word to the Anglo Saxon is the root fok- in Dutch. The verb is fokken. It means to breed in modern Dutch. I had a very mild woman student to bred cats on the side. She came to dinner soon after Alexandra moved here and when she was struggling with Dutch. This student proclaimed to A "ik fok katten". We had to pick A off the floor. Harry From: Stuart Lee Subject: New list: HumGrad -Humanities Post Graduates Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 12:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1372 (1647) Dear All, Please pass on this information to any humanities postgraduates you know. H U M G R A D HUMGRAD is a new UK-based electronic mailing list for postgraduates working in the humanities. It's a forum for the exchange of ideas, information and comment on any humanities subject and the work and problems of postgraduates. Subscribing to it will put you in touch with people across the UK and beyond who have interests and difficulties similar to your own. A big advantage of a list for postgraduates is that it provides the opportunity to ask questions away from the minefield of the academic high ground. As well as being a place for general humanities discussion, HUMGRAD might be able to help you discover the potential of computers in humanities research, even if your computing skills and interests are currently minimal. To join the list, send this command in a mail message: SUBSCRIBE HUMGRAD YOUR NAME to one of the following addresses as appropriate: MAILBASE@NEWCASTLE.AC.UK (everywhere outside the UK) MAILBASE@UK.AC.NEWCASTLE (within the UK) MAILBASE is more or less equivalent to the LISTSERVs to be found on EARN and BITNET -- but don't expect the commands to be exactly the same! When you subscribe, a Mailbase User's Guide is sent to you automatically (unless you're a mailbase user already). To find out more about the use of mailbase before subscribing, email the command HELP or SEND MAILBASE USERHELP to one of the mailbase addresses above. If you want to deal with a mailbase human rather than the mailbase computer, send a message to MAILBASE-REQUEST@NEWCASTLE.AC.UK (outside the UK) or MAILBASE-REQUEST@UK.AC.NEWCASTLE (within the UK). The HUMGRAD list owners, Stuart Lee and Gavin Burnage, will be be able to help with queries related specifically to the list. Gavin Burnage Stuart Lee British National Corpus CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road OXFORD OX2 6NN 0865-273280 0865-273221 GBURNAGE@UK.AC.OX.NATCORP STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: "Jacqueline Brown" Subject: Re: 5.0700 CD-ROMS -- Networked in Libraries (2/125) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 15:57:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1373 (1648) It would be most useful if Ruth Glynn would summarize the responses she gets to her query. Many of us are still wondering about what works and what doesn't. Jacqueline Brown, Princeton From: Harry Gaylord Subject: Tamil/Sanskrit Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 8:30:23 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1374 (1649) Dominik gave only a partial answer to Andrew. If he wants to serve the public good, he should encode his texts in TEI for others to use and use TeX for his formater to print it. Harry From: ST0115@primea.ealing-college.ac.uk Subject: 5.0684 Multilingual Computing; SE Asian Scripts (1/38) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 12:07:31 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1375 (1650) Re: The multilingual PC dictionary This is a most useful publication. It will answer a lot of queries regarding unusual fonts, on-line dictionaries, CALL software, etc. It's our bible! Graham Davies Director of the Language Centre Polytechnic of West London gdavies@uk.ac.ealing.pa From: ALLCACH@vax.oxford.ac.uk Subject: ALLCACH '92 update Date: Sat, 22 Feb 92 14:38 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 710 (1651) A brief note about the forthcoming ALLC/ACH '92 conference, which we would appreciate your posting as soon as possible. * early registration period extended Early-bird registrations for the April ALLC/ACH '92 conference here in Oxford are already well into three digits, so we are confident that this will indeed turn out to be *the* event of the humanities computing year. Nevertheless, because we were a bit slow in getting registration packs out to everyone who wanted them, we've decided to extend the deadline for early registration by a further fortnight. If your registration is postmarked before midnight (in your timezone!) on St Perpetua's Day (7 March) then you should *not* include the additional Late Registration Surcharge with the payment. If you've already sent in a registration fee which includes the surcharge, we'll refund it (in the local currency) when you arrive. * computer access during the conference Christ Church is quite a long walk from the main University computing facilities, and no computing facilities will be available during the formal sessions, for reasons both logistical and intellectual. However, we have now arranged for a more-or-less permananent exhibition space at the Chaplaincy (the building opposite Christ Church where all plenary sessions will be held). Here you will find manufacturers' and publishers' demonstrations and also a small number of PCs and Macs connected to the University data network (and hence the world). We will be providing temporary accounts on the University VAX for anyone wishing to send or receive e-mail here (more details on arrival). * computer demonstrations during the conference If you have a system you'd like to demonstrate to others, either in connexion with a formal paper or independently, then you can ask for time on one of these machines. We will be running a booking system for them throughout the conference (details on arrival), and there will be daily updates on who is demonstrating what when. If you want to bring your own equipment to demonstrate, then *please ask us first* Space is very limited and we will not be able to offer you any logistical support or assistance. These computing facilities are being provided and supervised by the CTI Centre for Textual Studies, whose assistance we gratefully acknowledge. * programme changes The programme circulated with the registration materials included all proposals accepted at that time by the programme committee in the best order that we could arrange at the time. There will of course be quite a few amendments to the programme before it is finalised, maybe even before it happens (a few additional presentations have already been accepted; and a few have had to be withdrawn). Consequently, the only sure way of attending the session that interests you is being here for the duration of the conference. We think you won't regret it. Lou Burnard Katy Cubitt for ALLCACH '92 ------------------------------ End of forwarded message 1 From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0709 Networed CD-ROMs; Multilingual Computing (3/34) Date: Mon,24 Feb 92 09:41:44 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1376 (1652) The Multilingual PC dictionary We agree about the value of the Multilingual PC Directory. It is available from June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, Fax 0482 465991, email CTI.Lang@uk.ac.hull. The price is 19 pounds 95 pence plus postage. For one copy this works out at an additional 6 pounds in Europe, 10 pounds USA, 15 pounds World, 4 pounds UK. Cheques to be made payable to Knowledge Computing Ltd, or payment accepted by credit card, banker's draft or international money order in pounds sterling drawn on a UK bank. June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages From: Dan Lester Subject: Re: 5.0709 Networed CD-ROMs; Multilingual Computing (3/34) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 15:25:33 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1377 (1653) On Fri, 21 Feb 1992 17:00:41 EST you said: [deleted quotation]For those interested, there is a list devoted to CDROM Networking, and most applications discussed are in libraries. Interested parties may wish to join CDROMLAN@IDBSU (or cdromlan@idbsu.idbsu.edu) Usual listserv procedures work fine. List carries 4 to 10 msgs on a typical day. It is also available as bit.listserv.cdromlan on Usenet. Many of the questions and answers are relatively "techie" regarding the hardware and software involved, but some are more general. dan (listowner of cdromlan, advanc-l, circplus, all at idbsu.idbsu.edu) ***************************************************************************** * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * * Boise State University * * Boise, Idaho 83725 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak * * 208-385-1234 for them and they don't speak for me. * ***************************************************************************** From: Gordon Dixon Subject: e-mail address for Wilhelm Ott (TUSTEP) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 08:29:16 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1378 (1654) In response to your enquiry about Wilhelm Ott's correct e-mail address, my last successful message was sent to: zrszot1%dtuzdv2@uk.ac.earn-relay If you still have difficulties in contacting him by e-mail, his postal address is: Professor Dr. Wilhelm Ott, Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung, Abteilung Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung Universitaet Tuebingen, Brunnenstrasse 27, D - 7400, Tuebingen 1, Germany. Gordon. From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Compuserve Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 14:54:43 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1379 (1655) I seem to recall that someone asked a few days ago whether CompuServe was available in Britain/Europe. As it happens, I received publicity for CompuServe earlier this month and kept it (pack rat that I am) because I thought it might come in handy! The details to subscribe are: CompuServe Information Services 15/16 Lower Park Row PO Box 676 Bristol BS99 1YN United Kingdom tel. 0272 255111 UK freephone 0900 289378 FAX 0272 252210 CIS Mail: 70006,101 Donald Spaeth CTI Centre for History University of Glasgow D.A.Spaeth at glasgow.ac.uk From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: CALL FOR REVIEWER Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 21:11:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1380 (1656) Call for Book Reviewer: The Religious Studies Publications Journal will frequently call for reviewers of new books in religious studies that have been sent to the CONTENTS project by participating publishers. Self-nominated reviewers interested in reviewing the volume described below should contact the project director at 441495@Uottawa (BITNET) or 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA (Internet). Please indicate your qualifications as a reviewer of the volume in question. Note that the selected reviewer will be asked to return a review of this 122 page volume within six weeks. Graduate students are encouraged to apply. Volume for Review: The New Republic: A Commentary on Book 1 of More's UTOPIA Showing Its Relation to Plato's REPUBLIC. By Colin Starnes Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990 ISBN 0-88920-978-2 Reviewers will maintain the right to republish their review in any other medium. Please contact the CONTENTS project director for more information. From: Graham Davies, Polytechnic of West London Subject: News on CALL Conference 1993 and Publications on CALL Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 13:36:21 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1381 (1657) Recent Publications of CALL Conference Proceedings Eurocall 1991 (Helsinki, Aug 1991) ed. by Savolainen, H. & Telenius, J. (1991). Available from Helsinki School of economics, Runeberginkatu, Helsinki (e-mail Helena Savolainen on Internet or Bitnet: savolain@hkkk.fi). Man and the Media IV (Vienna, Aug 1991) Special edition of CALL Austria (No. 15) ed. by Holzmann, C. & Peters, K., Verein CALL Austria, Althanstrasse 47/Tuer 10, 1090 Wien, Austria. Guenter Schmid is the head of CALL Austria. Man and the Media III (London, Sep 1989) Entitled: New technology in language learning ed. by Davies, G. & Hussey, M. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main The Eurocall 1993 Conference will be held at Hull University, UK, in September 1993. E-mail June Thompson on cti.lang@uk.ac.hull for details. Graham Davies, Language Centre Director Polytechnic of West London Eurocall Coordinator From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" Subject: Italian Sarcophagi in the Ukraine Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 11:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 713 (1658) I happened to be seated at dinner the other evening next to a foundation director who allots tens of thousands of dollars a year to projects advancing telecommunications in the humanities. I mentioned how useful it is to practicing scholars to be able to locate, with the help of sister/brother scholars on the networks, help on all sorts of projects and interests. He thereupon set me a test case: he has been asked to help track down information on Italian Sarcophagi in the Ukraine; could a message from me to the networks turn up anything useful? So, I am appealing to HUMANIST readers for help: please send directly to me (and to HUMANIST if you think it of general interest) any leads you can turn up on Italian Sarcophagi in the Ukraine, and forward this note to other relevant lists. Thanks. Tom Benson ______________________________________________________________________ Tom Benson | INTERNET: t3b@psuvm.psu.edu Dept. of Speech Communication | BITNET: T3B@PSUVM Penn State University | 227 Sparks Building | FAX: 814-863-7986 University Park, PA 16802 USA 814-238-5277 (home); 814-865-4201 (office); 814-865-3461 (secretary) ______________________________________________________________________ From: Hobohm@iz-bonn.gesis.dbp.DE (49-228-2281-139) Subject: Re: 5.0691 Soc Sci Computing Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 16:54-0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 714 (1659) Another valuable contact in Social Science Computing would be the german "Gesellschaft sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen" (GESIS) (Association of Social Science Infrastructure Institutes) with its three organisms: Prof. Heinrich Best Social Science Information Centre Lenneestr. 30 D 5300 Bonn +228 2281-145 Best at IZ-Bonn.GESIS.dbp.de with a focus on information technology and artificial intelligence of retrieval software etc. Eckehardt Mochmann Central Archive for Empirical Social Research Bachemer Str. 40 D 5000 Koeln 41 +221 4769412 ZA at DK0ZA1.Bitnet focus on statistical analysis and data-archiving PD Peter Mohler ZUMA: Centre for surveys, methods and analysis Postbox 12 21 55 D 6800 Mannheim +621 180 04-0 O05 at DHDURZ2.Bitnet focus on statistical method, text analysis and further developpments in social science computing. Don't hesitate to contact me: Hans-Christoph Hobohm InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften Hobohm at IZ-Bonn.GESIS.dbp.de From: Henry Leyenhorst <524830@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1382 (1660) Greetings: I am presently working on a HYPERTEXT address book for online scholars of religion. I have worked out the following template, and was wondering if you would post it on the list: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1383 (1661) In response to repeated suggestions concerning the development of effective "networking tools", "DOORS"- a hypertext electronic "address-book" for scholars of religion, is now registering addresses of on-line scholars of religion. HYPERTEXT "DOORS" is very easy to use and includes multi-level search capabilities which will facilitate specific, relevant, and scholarly networking. The attached template reflects the search options. IF YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THE SCHOLARLY STUDY OF RELIGION - it will be to your benefit to fill in the DOORS registration form. DOORS, which will be freely available, is created for a specific scholarly community, and will require cooperation from the members of the community. As such, we would hope that scholars of religion overcome the traditional reluctance connected with the filling out of e-mail templates. The potential usefulness of such an addressing system is significant-but entirely dependent on a collective effort. Participation is crucial, coveted, and highly appreciated. Thank-you for your cooperation: Henry Leyenhorst 524830@UOTTAWA Project Coordinator * Any inquiries regarding DOORS are welcome. Please post them directly to the Project Coordinator. INSTRUCTIONS: The following template has two parts. PART ONE contains lines for your name, addresses etc. Please enter the information on the same line as the relevant tag. eg Jones, Bob PART TWO is made up of four research categories; for each research category there is a list of KEYWORDS. In the space provided, enter the KEYWORD(S) (from the KEYWORD list) which apply to you. If the KEYWORD list does not refer to your area of study, please specify (as concisely as possible) your own appropriate KEYWORD(s). Enter your selection immediately following the # symbol. eg.# EXPERIENTIAL Please remember to leave the tags intact. =====PART ONE===== =====PART TWO===== # If you are studying the "INCA" religion, you would use the LATIN AMERICAN/ CARIBBEAN KEYWORD option. If necessary, use "OTHER", but specify. CENTRAL/NORTH/EAST ASIA, SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ASIA MIDDLE EAST/WEST ASIA NORTH AFRICA/EGYPT EAST/WEST/SOUTH AFRICA EUROPE NORTH AMERICA LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA OTHER(specify) ===== # Select appropriate KEYWORD(s) If "OTHER", please specify. BUDDHISM CHRISTIAN CONFUCIAN HINDU ISLAMIC JUDAIC SHINTO TAOIST AFRO-AMERICAN NATIVE AMERICAN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ZOROASTRIAN, SIKH ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN GNOSTIC SECULAR MODERN OTHER (specify) ===== # Select appropriate KEYWORD(s) .If "OTHER", please specify SOCIOLOGICAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ARCHEOLOGICAL PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTAL OTHER (specify) TEXTUAL HISTORICAL COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHICAL, THEOLOGICAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY OTHER (specify) ===== # Select appropriate KEYWORD(s) . If "OTHER", please specify. RELIGION AND LITERATURE WOMAN'S STUDIES RELIGION AND ART NEW RELIGIONS WOMEN'S STUDIES MYTH STUDIES POPULAR AND FOLK RELIGIONS SACRED SCRIPTURES (+ specialty) RELIGIOUS THOUGHT RELIGION AND SOCIETY (+ specialty) SPIRITUAL CULTIVATION (+ specialty) PASTORAL TRAINING ===== # # If you would like to add more detail concerning your study you may do so here. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated, Please return the completed template to the following address: Bitnet: 524830@UOTTAWA Internet: 524830@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA Henry R. Leyenhorst Anthropology of Religion Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa BITNET: 524830@Uottawa Internet: 524830@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA S-Mail: 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 CANADA Voice: (613) 258-4266 FAX: (613) 564-6641 From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" Subject: Re: ACH Member Discount on ALLC-ACH '92 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 13:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 717 (1662) Dear HUMANIST subscribers, Those of you who were ACH members in 1991 will have recently received your registration forms for the 1992 ALLC/ACH joint international conference, to be held at Christ Church, Oxford, April 5-9. We apologize for the late mailing of the materials, which was caused by unavoidable delays in transferring materials from Europe to North America. A recent posting on HUMANIST announced that the late registration deadline has been extended, partly as a result of this problem. Please note that if you have not renewed your ACH membership, or if you are not an ACH member at all, the cost of registration for the conference is $60 greater than for ACH members. $60 is exactly the cost of ACH membership, and for that $60 you receive 6 issues of Cmmputers and the Humanities, 4 issues of the ACH Newsletter, and various other mailings to ACH members. Therefore I urge you to spend the extra $60 registration fee more wisely! You can join ACH by filling out the attached form and sending it to the indicated address. I look forward to seeing many of you in Oxford. Best wishes, Nancy Ide ACH President --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership information ACH MEMBERSHIP Individual: $60 (US) Includes subscription to ACH Newsletter (4 issues/year) and Computers and the Humanities (6 issues/year). NOTE: all issues of both publications for the current year will be sent. OPTIONAL NORTHEAST (REGIONAL) ACH MEMBERSHIP * add $5.00 per year for ACH members Send application to : Joseph Rudman, Treasurer Association for Computers and the Humanities Department of English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 **Contact Joe Rudman at RUDMAN@CMPHYS.bitnet for additional information. From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Brigham Young contacts Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 08:57:01 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1384 (1663) All of my addresses for Brigham Young have gone dead. Specifically, I am trying to reach Jeffrey Turley at TURLEY@jkhbhrc.byu.edu. I tried to get to him through Randy Jones (jones@byuadmin.bitnet), which didn't work either. Can some kind soul set me straight? Many thanks, Charles B. Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: "Aaron Kershenbaum" Subject: requests for e-mail address and info on Pharos Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 18:02:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1385 (1664) Hi-- Does anyone know of an e-mail (or more complete surface mail) address for Francois Charpin of the University of Paris? Has Pharos progressed beyond version 1? Please spare the hard-working editors and respond to me directly: Kersh@watson.ibm.comm ---Peg From: Subject: Query: e-mail address for Centre National De La Recherche Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 15:13 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1386 (1665) Does anyone know if the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique-- Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire Des Textes in Paris is accessible via e-mail? If so, please let me know, as a snail mail enquiry sent there over three months ago has yet to be acknowledged. Please send the reply to me privately. Thanks. Ruth E. Sternglantz New York University IN%"strnglntz@acfcluster.nyu.edu" BITNET%"strnglntz@nyuacf" From: Kurt De Belder Subject: National Library in Firenze Date: 21 Feb 92 10:41:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1387 (1666) Could anyone tell me whether the online catalog of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Firenze, Italy is accessible through the Internet? Please send me the internet address or the dial-in telephone number. Thank you very much. Kurt De Belder Western European Literature & Languages Librarian Elmer Holmes Bobst Library New York University Tel.: (212) 998-2515 E-mail: debelder@acf1.nyu.edu From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com Subject: E-Mail list for Women Writers to 1850? Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 12:40:22 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1388 (1667) Thanks to Ellen Moers, Dale Spender, and others, I have recently discovered the "lost" works (novels, mostly) of over 100 women writers who were published in Britain, the U.S., and elsewhere in the 14th through early 19th centuries. In my limited spare time, I am slowly beginning to read my way through these works, and I am eager to discuss them with others. Does anybody know of an e-mail list devoted to discussion of early women writers? I have tried various forums for "feminist studies," but the few that I have found seem to be devoted to contemporary politics rather than literature. I would appreciate pointers to relevant "hardcopy" journals as well. Diane L. Olsen dolsen.osbu_north@xerox.com OR olsen@csli.stanford.edu From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Conference program Date: Thu, 27 Feb 92 12:42:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 719 (1668) For your information: Une histoire du Canada ouverte aux diverses cultures COLLOQUE * COLLOQUIUM Land of Many Cultures: A New Canadian History March 5-6 mars 1992 135 Pavillon Simard / 135 Simard Hall Departement d'histoire/ Department of History Universite d'Ottawa/ University of Ottawa 155 Seraphin Marion Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1N 6N5 (613) 564-2485 Il se veut un hommage au professeur Cornelius J. Jaenen, a l'occasion de sa derniere annee d'enseignement. En liason avec les themes d'enseignement et de recherche de professor Jaenen, le colloque presente des communications sur des questions actuelles de l'histoire du Canada, l'environnement, les Amerindiens, le colonisation, les communautes culturelles et l'education. The colloquium is being held in honour of Professor Cornelius J. Jaenen, who will retire from his teaching duties after the 1991-1992 academic year. In keeping with Professor Jaenen's teaching and research fields, this colloquium focusses on aspects of Canadian history which are of particular interest today: the environment, Amerindians, colonization, cultural communities, and education. PROGRAMME Jeudi 5 mars / Thursday March 5 13:00 Inscription / Registration 13:30 Ouverture / Welcome Carlos BAZAN doyen de la Faculte des arts / Dean of Arts Universite d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa Pe-sentation / Programme Outline Pierre SAVARD (Ottawa) responsable du colloque / Colloquium Co-Ordinator 14:00 Premiere seance / First Session De l'environnement - l'education / From Environment to Education President-animateur / Moderator Chad GAFFIELD (Ottawa) Communications / Papers Donald WORSTER (Kansas) "Putting Nature into History." Serge COURVILLE (Laval) "Carte ancienne et cartographie historique." H. Vince RUTHERFORD (University of Winnipeg) "The Winthrop Fleet." J. Donald WILSON (University of British Columbia) "Education on the Frontier: Schools, Teachers and Community Influence in North-Central British Columbia." Vendredi 6 mars / Friday March 6 10:00 Deuxieme seance / Second Session Les communautes culturelles / The Ethnocultural Groups President-animatuer / Moderator Michel BEHIELS (Ottawa) Communications / Papers Myron MOMRYK (National Archives) "Patriots, Progressives and Politics: the Writing of Ukranian Canadian History 1891-1991." Goran RYSTAD (University of Lund, Sweden) "Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups and American Foreign Policy." Dejeuner / Lunch 14:00 Troisieme seance / Third Session The Amerindians President-animateur / Moderator Micheline D'ALLAIRE (Ottawa) Communications / Papers Marcel TRUDEL (Ottawa) "Une nouvelle verdette dans l'historiographie de la Nouvelle-France: l'Amerindien." Peter MacLEOD (Ottawa) "New Friends and Allies: the Seven Nations of Canada and the beginning of the British Regime, 1759-1763." Olive Patricia DICKASON (University of Alberta) "World View of Amerindians." 16:30 Cloture du colloque / Closing remarks (Please note: French accents and the o/umlaut in Goran were lost in software translations. Lorne Hammond.) From: Susan Hockey Subject: ALLC Member Discount for ALLCACH92 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 11:10 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1389 (1669) There is of course also a 60 dollar or 30 pound discount for members of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) at ALLCACH92. Membership of the ALLC is by personal subscription to the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing. Subscription rates for 1992 are 22 pounds for the United Kingdom or $42 for the rest of the world. Send subscriptions to Oxford Journals, Pinkhill House, Southfield Road, Eynsham, Oxford OX8 1JJ, England. You can pay by Visa or Mastercharge. Members of both organizations do not, unfortunately, get double discount at the conference. Susan Hockey ALLC Chair From: Gavin Burnage Subject: HUMGRAD list: change of address Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 10:33 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1390 (1670) HUMGRAD, the UK-based list recently set up for Humanities postgraduates, will shortly be changing its address. This is due to a re-organization at Mailbase in Newcastle (the role of Mailbase in the UK is more or less equivalent to that of Listserv elsewhere). [deleted quotation]MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK. The difference is that Newcastle is no longer mentioned in the address. In future to subscribe to HUMGRAD please send the message SUBSCRIBE HUMGRAD Your Name to MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK Messages for broadcasting should be sent to HUMGRAD@MAILBASE.AC.UK. The listowners, Gavin Burnage and Stuart Lee, can be contacted at GBURNAGE@VAX.OX.AC.UK or STUART@VAX.OX.AC.UK, or via the MAILBASE machine with the address HUMGRAD-REQUEST@MAILBASE.AC.UK. Mailbase technical staff can be contacted at MAILBASE-REQUEST@MAILBASE.AC.UK. Note too that while Mailbase is busy implementing these changes at the end of February (they're plumbing in all their lists on a new computer), there will be no Mailbase service. This means that you should wait until March 1st before trying to subscribe to HUMGRAD or writing to it. We're sorry this change should have to be made so soon after setting up and advertising HUMGRAD, but we hope that users old and new will quickly get used to it. The response to the list so far has been good: there are well in excess of 100 subscribers already, and on average 10--15 messages are posted each day on a reasonably broad range of topics. A few have found the volume of traffic excessive, but most have stayed around and seem to be enjoying it. So if you haven't done so already, please could we ask you to tell postgraduates working in the humanities about the existence of the list. Stuart Lee & Gavin Burnage (Listowners, HUMGRAD) [With apologies for any irritation caused by cross-posting this note] From: (Gerhard Obenaus) Subject: New Journal Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 09:49:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 721 (1671) ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW JOURNAL CALL FOR PAPERS The JOURNAL OF INTERPRETATION, a quarterly journal of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc., publishes articles, research reports, commentaries and squibs, review articles, and book reviews. The journal reflects a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the interpretation and translation of languages. The journal expressly desires to serve as a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse theoretical and applied fields, examining signed or spoken language interpretation and translation. Articles addressing interpretation and translation theory and practice, interpreter and translator education, and related topics are especially welcome. In addition, research and commentaries examining the interpretation and translation of signed and spoken languages from the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, applied linguistics, cognitive science, machine translation, discourse analysis, conversational analysis, anthropology, semiotics, and communication are appropriate for submission. Any standard format for style, notes, and references is suitable for editorial consideration. Authors of accepted articles will be required to submit copy which conforms to the editorial standards of the journal. Manuscripts may be submitted to the editor-in-chief at the address below. One copy on 8 1/2" X 11" paper is requested. Manuscripts also will be accepted in several electronic formats. Acceptable Macintosh formats are Microsoft Word, MacWrite, WordPerfect, Nisus, PageMaker, and FrameMaker; MS-DOS files may be submitted in WordPerfect 5.x, PageMaker, and Microsoft Word. Only files on 3 1/2" disks (Macintosh and MS-DOS) are acceptable. Electronic submissions should be accompanied by hard copy of the manuscript. Manuscripts should be submitted to: Sherman Wilcox, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Interpretation Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 The Internet address for the journal is wilcox@carina.unm.edu Subscription and membership information, advertisements, and all other communication should be addressed to: Sylvia Straub Executive Director Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. 8719 Colesville Road Suite #310 Silver Spring, MD 20901-3919 Gerhard Obenaus e-mail: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Department of Germanic Languages Internet: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu 3072 FLB Bitnet:gobenaus@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu 707 S. Mathews CompuServe: 71660,3545 Urbana, IL 61801 From: T3B%PSUVM.BITNET@acadvm1.uottawa.ca Subject: call for papers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 14:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 722 (1672) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *PLEASE POST* *PLEASE DISTRIBUTE* *PLEASE POST* =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- SPECIAL ISSUE THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION/ LA REVUE ELECTRONIQUE DE COMMUNICATION Topic: "COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION" Issue Editor: Thomas W. Benson Department of Speech Communication Penn State University =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION/LA REVUE ELECTRONIQUE DE COMMUNICATION is seeking original, unpublished manuscripts on the topic of "Computer-Mediated Communication." Papers addressing any issues related to the general topic, based on any conceptual framework and any methodological approach, are welcome, though we are interested in approaches that include the human and social aspects of communication and are not exclusively technical or technological in content. Examples might include critical, discourse analytic, or content analytic studies of computer networks; historical accounts; considerations of theoretical, political, or economic issues; user surveys; analyses of policies about access and use; reviews of literature; and so on. Book reviews are solicited; contact the editor with your suggestions. International perspectives are encouraged. The major criterion is that papers should make a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature, roles, effects, or functions of computer mediated communication. Papers will be reviewed anonymously. The final DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is September 15, 1992; manuscripts are now (February 1992) being accepted for review and the issue will be closed to further manuscripts when the issue is complete--which may be before September 15, 1992. Publication is expected in late Fall, 1992. INQUIRIES: ______________________________________________________________________ Tom Benson | INTERNET: t3b@psuvm.psu.edu Dept. of Speech Communication | BITNET: T3B@PSUVM Penn State University | 227 Sparks Building | FAX: 814-863-7986 University Park, PA 16802 USA 814-238-5277 (home); 814-865-4201 (office); 814-865-3461 (secretary) ______________________________________________________________________ -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement, including instructions to authors, is now available through the fileserver, s.v. COMP-MED COMUNCTN. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: tgmcfadden@ucdavis.BITNET Subject: Ukrainian sarcophagi Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 17:35:22 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1391 (1673) Here are two books which might help: Catalog des bois et stucs grecs et romains provenant de Kertch. Paris: Ministere de la culture et de la communcations...1986. [Looks like a catalog of Louvre objects; is owned by UC Berkeley, Brown University, Michigan, Princeton, and Penn State, as well as others] Romische Sarkophage. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1979. [Looks like a catalog of Hermitage objects; is owned by UC Berkeley, Brown University, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and others] This information is from the RLIN database. From: Peter Ian Kuniholm Subject: Re: 5.0713 Italian Sarcophagi in Ukraine? (1/26) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 15:19:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1392 (1674) Re sarcophagi: depends of what you mean by Italian,...does late Roman count as early Italian? And do you mean the newly-(re)constituted frontiers of [no long er "the"] Ukraine? Anyway: one basic reference is Maria Vaulina and Aleksandra Wasowicz, Bois Grecs et Roman de l'Ermitage, Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich - Wydawnict wo Wroclaw 1974. There were 600 printed of which I have one, so that leaves 599 somewhere else. Good luck! Peter Kuniholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ian Kuniholm, Dept. of the History of Art and Archaeology, G-35 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3201 Telephone: 1 (607) 255-8650 or 255-9732. FAX= 1 (607) 255-1454. If you are writing from an INTERNET address, my address is PETER@DENDRO.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: rowland Subject: Re: 5.0713 Italian Sarcophagi in Ukraine? (1/26) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 92 08:53:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1393 (1675) By Italian sarcophagi, do you mean modern/early modern or ancient Roman & Etrus can? If the latter, I might be able to provide some leads. R. Rowland From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: concordance program for Macintosh Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 9:35:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1394 (1676) Conc is a program for the Macintosh that produces keyword in context concordances. It can handle both ordinary flat text and multiple-line interlinear text. In the case of interlinear text, it can concord correspondences between two annotation lines. It can also do letter concordances to facilitate phonological analysis. Conc permits the user to limit the concordance to just those words that match a specified pattern (GREP expression). Concordances can be saved to disk, printed, and exported to a plain text file. As for performance, producing a concordance of Moby Dick (1,177KB) on a Mac IIci takes about 13 minutes and requires about 2,500KB of memory. Documentation is included on-line in a Microsoft Word file. Conc was written by John Thomson of SIL. Conc version 1.70 is a beta test version offered as 'freeware'. If you use it, we only ask that you send us your comments, complaints, and wishlist. You can affect the shape of the final product! Conc is available in either of two way: 1. Conc can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from the Consortium for Lexical Research at clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.11]. In the directory pub/tools/concordances/conc you will find the file conc170.hqx, which is a binhexed, Stuffed archive. Send e-mail inquiries to lexical@nmsu.edu. (While you are connected, I recommend downloading the file catalog-short from the top directory.) 2. Conc can be ordered on disk from: International Academic Bookstore 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. phone: (214)709-2404 Cost for media and shipping is $4 to North America and $6 overseas. (Checks *must* be drawn on a U.S. bank. They do not accept credit cards, but will bill by invoice.) Evan Antworth | Internet: evan@sil.org Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387 Dallas, TX 75236 | From: Knut Hofland Subject: ICAME text corpora available on CD-ROM Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 19:52:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1395 (1677) The ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora on CD-ROM is now available. The CD-ROM is ISO 9660 formatted and have directories for MS-DOS, Macintosh and Unix. The CD-ROM contains the following text corpora in the original formats: Brown Corpus, untagged version, 1 million running words LOB Corpus, tagged and untagged versions, 1 million running words London-Lund Corpus, 0.5 million words (spoken) Helsinki Corpus, diacronic part, 1.5 million running words Kolhapur Corpus, 1 million running words (Indian English) All the corpara are also indexed with WordCruncher 4.4 for MS-DOS. The retrieval part of WordCruncher, WCView, is included. All the corpora, except Kolhapur, are also indexed with TACT for MS-DOS. Brown, LOB and London-Lund corpora are indexed with "Free Text Browser" for Macintosh. The CD-ROM also has information about network resources like discussion lists, FTP sites, Netnews lists, text projects and archives, on-line services and contain some linguistic freeware/shareware programs. The CD-ROM is available to bona fide researchers for non-commercial research, the buyer has to state this on the order form. The price of the disc is 3000 NOK (about 470$). It is possible to see the disc at the ALLC-ACH conference in Oxford. Since there are no general sessions for demonstrations, this will be more or less informal, either on our own equipment or on available equipment at the conference site. Contact Knut Hofland, either before or under the conference. More information about the CD-ROM can be fetched from our file servers, either by mail to the automatic mail responder FILESERV@HD.UIB.NO with the following line in the BODY: send icame info.cd or by anonymous FTP to NORA.HD.UIB.NO (129.177.24.42), and retrieving the file info.cd in the directory pub/icame. Knut Hofland E-mail. knut@hd.uib.no / fafkh@nobergen.bitnet / knut@x400.hd.uib.no Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, P.O. Box 53 Universitetet, N-5027 Bergen, Norway Tel. +47 5 212954, Fax. +47 5 322656 From: txsil!evan@utafll.uta.edu (Evan Antworth) Subject: English lexicon available Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 10:08:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1396 (1678) Englex is a morphological parsing lexicon of English intended for use with PC-KIMMO and/or KTEXT. It's 20,000 entries consist of affixes, roots, and indivisible stems. Both inflectional and derivational morphology are analyzed. Englex will run under Unix, Macintosh, or MS-DOS (the files are plain ascii and are identical for all three versions). Because of memory requirements, to run Englex under MS-DOS you will need a 386 cpu and the new 386 versions of PC-KIMMO and KTEXT. These 386 versions will use all available extended/expanded memory and virtual memory. They support VCPI-compliant memory managers such as DOS 5.0's EMM386 and Quarterdeck's QEMM. They do not support (or need) Windows. All of this software can by downloaded by anonymous FTP from the Consortium for Lexical Research at clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.11]. Send e-mail inquiries to lexical@nmsu.edu. (For a listing of their holdings, get the file catalog-short in the top directory.) Here are the subdirectories and file names: Directory: pub/tools/ling-analysis/englex_pckimmo englex10.zip Zipped MS-DOS file of englex10 englex10.tar.Z Compressed UNIX tar file of englex10 englex10.hqx Stuffed, binhexed Mac file of englex10 Directory: pub/tools/ling-analysis/morphology/pc-kimmo pckim108.zip Zipped MS-DOS file of pc-kimmo108 (inc. 386 version) pckim108.tar.Z Compressed UNIX tar file of pc-kimmo108 sources pckimmo108.hqx Stuffed, binhexed Mac file of pc-kimmo108 Directory: pub/tools/ling-analysis/morphology/ktext ktext103.zip Zipped MS-DOS fiel of ktext103 (inc. 386 version ktext103.tar.Z Compressed UNIX tar file of ktext103 sources ktext103.hqx Stuffed, binhexed Mac file of ktext103 Englex, PC-KIMMO, and KTEXT are offered as 'freeware' to the academic community; your feedback is welcomed. Evan Antworth | Internet: evan@sil.org Academic Computing Department | UUCP: ...!uunet!convex!txsil!evan Summer Institute of Linguistics | phone: 214/709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road | fax: 214/709-3387 Dallas, TX 75236 | U.S.A. | From: NIC@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: fonts question for humanist Date: Wed, 26 Feb 92 10:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1397 (1679) Forgive me if this is a FAQ but I am a newcomer to Humanist. I am working on a hypermedia project and require the following fonts for Windows 3.0 Old English Old Icelandic/Runic The phonetics character set Ideally these must be copyright free or have a low licence fee. Any ideas folks? Nicola Timbrell ITTI Project: Hypermedia in Language and Literature Subjects Reply to HILLS@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: WordCruncher address and modern literature e-texts Date: Thu, 27 FEB 92 17:51:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1398 (1680) A staff researcher at the OU is after WordCruncher to do some analysis on modern texts and I'm trying to find a phone number (or e-mail address) for the WordCruncher vendor (I tried the number listed in the Humanities Year Book 89/90 and got an apologetic answering message saying I'd mis-dialled or the number was wrong!). I'm also looking for e-text versions of modern books (1900-1992) other than the usual sources(: Oxford, Georgetown, Gutenberg) - if anyone has any ideas could they please let me know. Thanks in anticipation, Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (World) Academic Computing Service, | SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom | fax: (0908) 653744 From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU Subject: Korean for WordPerfect 5.1 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 92 16:17:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1399 (1681) I confess that I haven't been paying close attention. One of my students asked today whether I knew of any DOS products to produce (or permit preparation of) Korean in WordPerfect 5.1. Was this covered in the recent discussions? Repetition of the answer (privately, unless it hasn't been publicly noted) would be appreciated! Bob KRAFT@PENNDRLS.upenn.edu From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Mac arabic Date: Thu, 27 Feb 92 15:51:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1400 (1682) One of my students needs an Arabic font for the Macintosh for an important project and he is even desperate enough to pay $100 for a commercial font he found. Does anyone out there have a public domain Arabic font they could send me over the network? Yes, I know you can create your own with ResEdit, but this is beyond the expertise of the student. By the way, does Apple have an Arabic system that handles right to left typing automatically? From: rkallet@epas.utoronto.ca (Robert Kallet-Marx) Subject: Rs: Latin Broadcast Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 19:06:35 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1401 (1683) Richard Pierce asked about the Finnish new bulletin in Latin, i.e. Nuntii internationales Latini Radiophoniae Finnicae Generalis. The information card posted in our department gives the following times and frequencies: Europe Sat. 7.40 GMT: kHz 11755, 6120, 9560, 963, 558, 252 (558 and 252 kHz to North Europe). Sat. 15.25 GMT: kHz 11755, 6120, 963, 558, 252 (21550, 15440, 9730 for Middle East and Eastern Europe). Sun. 19.50 GMT: kHz 11755, 9730, 6120, 963, 558, 252. Sun. 22.45 GMT: kHz 9730, 6120, 963, 558, 252. North America Sat. & Sun. 14.55 GMT: kHz 21550, 15400. Sun. 2.45 GMT: kHz 11755, 9560. If you're lucky enough to be in Finland, you can pick it up on FM on Fri. 9.55 GMT (YLE Radio 1) or Sun. 16.55 GMT (national network). From: MANYMAN@FINUHA.BITNET Subject: Nuntii Latini Radiophonici Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1992 18:26 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1402 (1684) The Finnish Broadcasting Company broacasts regular news bulletins in Latin. Richard Holton Pierce asks for details on transmission time and wave length. I'm enclosing these details for anyone interested in brushing up their Latin. (Though you can't _learn_ a language by listening to it, you can improve your old pieces of knowledge if you have them in spare. :-) . Martti Nyman, Dept of General Linguistics, Univ of Helsinki, Finland -------- NUNTII LATINI 29 September 1991 - 28 March 1992 GMT/UTC kHz EUROPE Saturday 0740 11755, 6120, 9560, 963, 558, 252 (558 and 252 to North Europe) 1525 21550*, 15440*, 9730*, 11755, 6120, 963, 558, 252 Sunday 1950 11755, 9730, 6120, 963, 558, 252 2245 9730, 6120, 963, 558, 232 * The Middle East, Eastern Europe NORTH AMERICA Sat & Sun 1455 21550, 15400 Sun 0245 11755, 9560 AUSTRALIA, ASIA Sat & Sun 0955 17800, 15245 Sun 2245 11755 FINLAND FM Fri 0955 YLE Radio 1 Sun 1655 national network For more details, please, write to: Radio Finland, P.O.Box 10, SF-00241 Helsinki, Finland From: Rainer Henrich Subject: Re: 5.0703 Qs: (various) (6/104) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 10:02:47 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1403 (1685) Re: Latin News from Radio Finland A short bulletin of Latin news is produced once a week and broadcast on short- medium- and longwaves from Helsinki. Here is the latest schedule from World Radio TV Handbook. All times in UTC (Universal Time/Greenwich Mean Time), all frequencies in kHz. Time UTC Day (UTC!) Target Frequencies in kHz -------- --- ------ ------------------ 02.45-02.50 Mon NAm 11755, 9560 07.40-07.45* Sat Eu/ME/Af 11755, 9560, 6120 09.20-09.25 Sun (?) Aus/Pac 21550, 17800 09.55-10.00 Sun (?) EAs 17800, 15245 14.55-15.00 Sat/Sun NAm 21550, 15400 15.20-15.25* Sat Eu/ME/Af 21550, 15440, 11755, 9730, 6120 19.50-19.55* Sun Eu/ME/Af 11755, 9730, 6120 22.45-22.50* Sun Eu/ME/Af 9730 * also on mediumwave 963, 558 and and longwave 252 kHz for Northern Europe I don't know if all details are correct, but I heard several of these transmissions last weekend (best: Saturday at 07.40 on 11755). For more informations, write to: Radio Finland or: Box 10 Box 462 SF-00241 Helsinki Windsor CT 06095 Telephone: (+3580) 14801. Audience service in the US 1-203-688-5540 or (toll free) 1-800-221-9539. Fax: (+3580) 1481169. Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. ************************* Kalktarrenstrasse 1 ********** ********** CH-8952 Schlieren ********** ********** Switzerland ****** ****** ****** ****** ********** ********** Tel. 01 / 730 21 02 ********** ********** Telefax 01 / 262 14 12 ************************* From: Oliver Phillips Subject: Again misandrist Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 09:16:41 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1404 (1686) To return to a topic I may be worrying to death, let me comment again on these two responses on the "misandrist? question: Anne Erlebach [deleted quotation] Dennis Baron [deleted quotation] If "misandrist" is a formation comparable to "misanthrope," and if Timon of Athens says "I am a misanthrope, and hate mankind," then was Shakespeare (or whatever contemporary of his wrote this play) "one of the "academics" writing in the "etymologically opaque fabric of the word players"? The great glory of English has been its unparalleled openness to borrowings from other languages. Shakespeare, whether he wrote the lines in question, certainly provides a magnificent example of a vocabulary enriched this way. Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNETº From: MANYMAN@FINUHA.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0696 Man-hater vs. Misandrist Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 04:07 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1405 (1687) Although I'm a non-native (mis)user of English, I see the point made by Dennis Baron and Anne Erlebach: Even well-educated persons may fail to know the meaning (or even pronunciation) of the word _misogynist_, let alone _misandrist_. (As one of those who have acquired their English in the wrong way, so to speak, I find it next to impossible to grasp the meanings of, say, English phrasal verbs: That _John can take off many politicians_ may mean 'John can imitate many politicians' is unbelievable at the first blush, but of course the polysemy (many-meaningness) becomes understandable when you have a closer look at the uses.) Yes. _Man-hater_ is certainly the appropriate word to use in most situations, whereas _misandrist_ would probably require a very specific context. I leave that to Brigitte Werneburg. Anne Erlebach writes: [deleted quotation] I'm afraid the target is misplaced. What Brigitte Werneburg was looking for was a term comparable to _misogynist_, with the meaning 'man-hater'. Given the stated task, _misandrist_ is precisely the right answer. _Man-hater_ would have been the right answer to a question like "Could somebody out there suggest a term comparable to _woman-hater_, signifying one who hates men?" But do we need a discussion group for problems of that ilk? Martti Nyman (Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Finland) From: R12040 at UQAM Subject: austrian architecture xx Date: 21 February 92, 15:38:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1406 (1688) Whit: this is today's bounty regarding Chas. Ess's inquiry: The sculpture was handicrafted by JAKOB ADLHART (sic) and stands inside the main entrance to the KOLLEG ST. BENEDIKT, on the left side of the entrance. Address of Kolleg St. Benedikt: St. Peter Bezirk 8-9 A - 5020 SALZBURG A u s t r i a Tel. (+ 43662) 841-619 contact person: Pater Rektor Nikolaus ZACHERL The librarian of the ERZABTEI St. Peter, Dr. Adolf HAHNL, has written a monogram about Adlhart: (Kolleg St.Ben. is under auspices of Erzabtei!) HAHNL, Adolf (1980) Der Bildhauer Jakob Adlhart. Salzburg: Otto Mueller Verlag, Ernst-Thun-Strasse 11, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria. Tel. (+?43662?) 881-9740 and ask for approp. connexion) FAX: (+?43662?) 723-87. The monogram was sent upon request to the Library of Congress, and as far as Dr. Hahnl knows, it is still available to buy. He was unable to give me the ISBN on the spur of the moment, for simple reasons (no microfiche, etc. at his library and copy presently on loan). But that should suffice for further search, the correction of artist's name and the addresses in Salzburg. If Dr. Ess wants to contact Dr. Hahnl, address "Erzabtei St. Peter, Library Director, A-5020 Salzburg" would be adequate. Telephone book doesn't even have that much! Hahnl's Tel.: (Salzburg) 844-57658. ("Salzburg" prob'ly is my assumption '+43662', but that is an educ'd guess!) From: Rainer Henrich Subject: Re: 5.0685 Qs: Tamil/Sanskrit in WP; Greek;... (4/72) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 17:35:03 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1407 (1689) Re: Austrian architecture The sculpture you are talking about is a crucifix carved by the expressionist sculptor Jakob Adlhart in 1925. I hope that the correct spelling will help you to find references, otherwise please let me know. The address is: Kolleg St. Benedikt Sankt-Peter-Bezirk 8-9 A-5020 Salzburg Austria Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. ************************* Kalktarrenstrasse 1 ********** ********** CH-8952 Schlieren ********** ********** Switzerland ****** ****** ****** ****** ********** ********** Tel. 01 / 730 21 02 ********** ********** Telefax 01 / 262 14 12 ************************* From: maurizio lana Subject: book about a statistical study of Plato epistles authorship Date: Tue, 18 Feb 92 18:18:16 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1408 (1690) I remember of a study (in the '60, if I'm not wrong) about the authorship of disputed Plato's epistel, carried out investigating particles frequencies. Unfortunately I'm not able to recall the exact bibliographical reference, not to find that reference among my papering. Anyone could help me and send that reference directly to me? Many thanks. Maurizio ----------------------------------------------------------- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Duro Ladipo's Oba ko So (corrected) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 14:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1409 (1691) I've been trying to find a VHS video cassette of Oba ko So ("The King did not Hang") by the late Nigerian (Yoruba) playwright Duro Ladipo. I know it was available on film in the '70's, but I don't know where from. It's not in the standard video catalogs. Does anyone know how I can get a copy, preferably as a rental to Ball State University? I'd even accept the 16mm film version. Herb Stahlke Ball State University From: Eugene Cotter Subject: numeral memo Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 10:17:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1410 (1692) Does anyone know of any medieval or ancient erratic use of Roman numerals, v.g. , xlxi for "51". Gene Cotter Seton Hall, Classics From: STRNGLNTZ@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Subject: Query: Schedule of British Library Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1992 16:33 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1411 (1693) Can someone please send me the closing schedule of the British Library, both the main reading room and the students' room. I am particularly interested in the schedule for the summer, as I have a dim recollection of something being closed for a week around August bank holiday. Please respond to me directly, as that's faster than the list, and time is of the essence here. Thanks. Ruth Sternglantz New York University IN%"strnglntz@acfcluster.nyu.edu" BITNET%"strnglntz@nyuacf" From: YOUNGC@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: Alien Sex Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 14:35 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1412 (1694) Recently someone (I regret that I inadvertantly deleted the message and so can't say who it was) asked about "alien sex." The science fiction writer Larry Niven coined the term "rishathra" for "sex outside of one's species, but within the hominids" (sometimes just intelligent ones) in his novel _The Ringworld Engineers_. He also discusses it in an illustrated letter to _Science Fiction Review_, November 1978, reprinted in his recent _N-Space_. Charles Young youngc@cgsvax.claremont.edu From: YOUNGC@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU Subject: Re: Feminist criticism of the Odyssey Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1992 09:42 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1413 (1695) Samuel Butler's _The Authoress of the Odyssey_ may count. From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: 5.0703 Qs: (various) (6/104) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 11:25:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1414 (1696) I'm not sure how "feminist" it would be considered today, but as a youth I read a satiric retelling of the Odyssey called _Penelope's Man_, by an author called (John?) Erskine. He may have been a pro- fessor at Columbia. It might be worth digging out. From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Non-sexist language Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 17:41:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1415 (1697) The American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of Women prepared a brief "set of Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language" a few years ago (sometimes inadvertently referred to as "Guide to Avoiding Non-Sexist Language" by our members). It is not an official policy document but has been adopted by all three of our divisions for distribution to members preparing papers for presentation at the meetings. Its main virtues, in comparison to other guides that I have seen, are its brevity and its tone--it points out the reasons why certain locutions may be offensive and suggests various ways around them. The principal author was Virginia Warren of Chapman College. Single copies are available free from our office. Since I am at the moment the only person connected to e-mail, please send a postcard or phone, rather than reply via e-mail, if you wish to request a copy. --David Hoekema Executive Director, American Philosophical Association Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Delaware || Phone: 302 831-1112 Newark, DE 19716 || FAX: 302 831-8690 From: Rainer Henrich Subject: Re: 5.0697 Qs: (Various) (6/113) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 18:52:43 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1416 (1698) Re: Scooter Swiss German dialect has the French word "Trottinett". In Germany this toy is called a "Roller". It was popular when I was a child (20 years ago), but today it seems to be out-of-date. Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. ************************* Kalktarrenstrasse 1 ********** ********** CH-8952 Schlieren ********** ********** Switzerland ****** ****** ****** ****** ********** ********** Tel. 01 / 730 21 02 ********** ********** Telefax 01 / 262 14 12 ************************* From: Subject: RE: 5.0697 Qs: (Various) (6/113) Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 12:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1417 (1699) I'm shocked to hear that scooters aren't very popular in the US these days. Rip Van Winkle From: Stephen Clausing Subject: monkeys at typewriter Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 22:03:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1418 (1700) As far as I know, Eddington invented the idea of monkeys pounding away at random at the typewriter. For a more detailed discussion of this, see William Bennett's book "Scientific and engineering problem-solving with the Computer". I have an article pending with CHum on this very subject which takes Bennett 's work one step further, so, with luck, we may be hearing more about this subject soon. From: Ed Haupt Subject: Bukowski Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 23:21:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1419 (1701) Bukowski is not exactly mainstream. Finding him in any place closer to the Booboisie than the 8th Street Bookstore in East Greenwich Village would surprise me. Secondary stuff might focus on "Barfly," the putative celebration of a typical Bukowski ramble. Likely, too, that more stuff will be found in Europe. I remember vaguely a New York Times Magazine article which seemed to be scolding the French for liking Mickey Rourke and Mickey Mouse better than Americans do. Last trivia. When I was in Germany in 1988, you could scarcely avoid the near continuous presentation of Barfly in the *Alternativen Kinos*. Ed Haupt From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0708 Rank; one last Fword; HumGrad (3/77) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 06:08:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1420 (1702) The discovery of Dutch *fokken* by Harry Gaylord's Germanic etymologist does not exactly afford a "closest word to the Anglo-Saxon," insomuch as MnE *fuck* is without known Old- OR Middle-English antecedents (as Allen Walker Read and Sherman McAllister Kuhn ascertained decades ago). If the brave makers of *The American Heritage Dictionary* were first among American makers of desk dictionaries to give space to THE Mn E taboo, their etymologist was himself [*sic*] brave to invent an etymon -- and to call it "Middle English." Yes, Virginia, like Santa Claus -- who is also Dutch. From: "Daniel Traister" Subject: Invitation to Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 15:20:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1421 (1703) This message has been sent to ExLibris and several other bulletin boards; I apologize to those for whom it is a duplicate. The 1992 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography will be presented at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center of the University of Pennsylvania on March 17, 19, and 24. Wolfgang Milde, manuscripts librarian at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel, Germany, will speak on "The Gospel of Henry the Lion." This remarkable illuminated manuscript, auctioned in 1983, was re- trieved as a national treasure for Germany at that time and is now housed at the Herzog August Bibliothek. The Rosenbach Lectures are open to the public without charge. Readers, art historians, medievalists, Germanists--any and all are welcome to attend who can make it to Penn. Receptions start at 5 P.M. each evening, the lectures themselves at 5:30. Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center is located at 3420 Walnut Street in Philadelphia; its entrance is on Locust Walk (south of Walnut Street) and marked by an unmistakable Claes Oldenburg statue of a broken button. (Nearby parking is available.) Presentation of a photo id as you enter the building, while not required, will please the Library's doorguards. Elevators in the entrance lobby take you to the 6th floor; turn left on 6. Receptions are held in the Henry Charles Lea Library; lectures are presented in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gallery. Daniel Traister, Curator of Special Collections (traister@a1.relay.upenn.edu) From: PSDMSPIN@BRUSP.ANSP.BR Subject: Announcing a new list Date: 02/18/92 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1422 (1704) Dear friends, We would like to announce you the creation of VIOLEN-L, a discussion group for those devoted to the study of the problem of violence, the Human Rights and the public policies on these and related subjects. VIOLEN-L is managed by the Nucleo de Estudos da Violencia da Universidade de Sao Paulo (Center for the Study of Violence of the University of Sao Paulo). Those ones that want to subscribe them must send the following comand: TELL LISTSERV AT BRUSPVM SUB VIOLEN-L "your true name" Everybody that would like to discuss about it will be welcomed! Sincerely yours, Mario Baldini (PSDMSPIN@BRUSP.BITNET) From: Mark Glazer Subject: Conference: The Sociology and Anthropology of Performance Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1992 20:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 733 (1705) AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE August 14-16, 1992 Ottawa, Canada CALL FOR PAPERS: Submissions are invited for an international symposium which explores "performance" with reference to both public and private domains as well as the links between the two. Scholars with an interest in the performing arts (e.g. dance, music, media etc.) as well as those with interest in private performance (e.g. ritual, meditation, shamanism etc.) are invited to attend a two-day symposium at Carleton University. OVERVIEW: Apart from the public performance of demonstrative acts involving skills such as speeches, song, dance and public drama, human beings enact private performances which include worship, meditation and ritual-drama. There is an element of the public in private performance, as when rehearsing for a public performance context and there is an element of the private in public performance when the performer has recourse to concepts of personal growth or fulfilment. In both cases, sociological and anthropological analysis yields valuable insights. TOPICS: The conference will include presentations dealing with the sociology and anthropology of the performing arts and/or the presentation of short performances including: - Dance choreography as a special language of communication - Theatre as social comment or social instrument - Music and musicology as social expression or hegemonic discourse - Media and the performing arts - The sacred and the secular in the performing arts - Public ritual performance Presentations dealing with the sociology and anthropology of private performance might include: - Meditation, and personal ritual-drama - Physical and mental yogas - The ritual control of experience - Ritually mediated transformation and rites of passage - Ritual or transpersonal epistemologies and esoteric epistemologies These categories are neither mutually exclusive or exhaustive. Scholars and performers are welcome to suggest other topics. Please send an outline a.s.a.p. by email or regular mail to the organizers before March 30, 1992. Your response should include a short C.V. along with the title and a short abstract of your presentation. As this information will form a part of our funding requests we are enclosing a standard S.S.H.R.C.C. form (with our hardcopy notice) to use for responses. FUNDING: In today's financial climate our funding package is unlikely to be generous. We would ask participants to explore the possibilities for travel grants from their own institutions. We hope to offer accommodation in student residences at $27.00 (Can.) for bed and breakfast and to provide your lunch and dinners with registration fees. With luck we may be able to provide local hospitality and a part of your travel expenses. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: Friday Aug. 14 6:00 PM Registration followed by reception Saturday Aug. 15 9:00 AM Public Performance I 1:00 PM Private Performance I 7:00 PM Evening performance Sunday, Aug. 16 9:00 AM Private Performance II 1:00 PM Public Performance II SUBMISSIONS: The conference organizers are: V. Subramaniam and B. Given. Please send all submissions to Professor Given. Brian J. Given Sociology and Anthropology Carleton University Ottawa, Ont. Canada (email = BRIAN_GIVEN@CARLETON.CA) APPLICATION FORM The following information is requested and will form the basis for our conference funding applications (hardcopy is included with regular mail calls for papers). 1/ Name of participant 2/ Role of participant (presenter, attender) 3/ Degrees (or other formal qualifications) 4/ Relevant professional position(s) 5/ Important and recent publications (or performances) BRIAN J. GIVEN (BRIAN_GIVEN@CARLETON.CA) From: sylvie dangeville Subject: proust quote Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 10:08:48 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1423 (1706) If you know a bulletin board that might be more appropriate for this kind of message, please let me know. I have heard of a list called "Balzac" but I do not know at which node it is located. Sylvie Dangeville From: GROVES@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU Subject: Electronic version of Calvin's writings Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 11:22:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1424 (1707) A colleague inquired of me about the existence of any of Calvin's works in electronic format, especially the Institutes. The primary concern is for machine-readable material that is in English. Along the same lines, what other reformation are available in either translation or in the original? Thanks, Alan Groves Westminster Seminary POB 27009 Philadelphia, PA 19118 groves@penndrls.upenn.edu (215)887-5511 From: "John T. Harwood 814-865-4764" Subject: A Revivalist Story Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 12:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1425 (1708) A colleague mentioned recently the case of an English woman who was hanged in the mid 17th-century. As she was about to become an anatomy lesson, she revived, creating an interesting set of problems (could she be hanged again?). My colleague could not recall the convict's name or other particulars of the case. Does anyone recall the person's name? Are there discussions of the episode already in print? From: John F Huntley Subject: E-mail links for students Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 15:27:40 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1426 (1709) I am teaching (at the Univ. of Iowa, Dept. of English) a course called "Computer Applications for Teaching and Research in the Humanities." Nine undergraduates and 2 graduates are enrolled. They are English majors and very bright kids. We're using the INternet and e-mail, and the thought struck me of getting students talking together about what they're doing, campus to campus, via e-mail. Electronic Pen-Pals, I guess. Anybody out there with students who would like to correspond with students here? Send me some names and addresses, and we'll be in touch. Thanks, John Huntley. From: W Schipper Subject: 18th century lists Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 15:38:57 GMT-3:30 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1427 (1710) Can someone supply me with the listserve address(es) for discussion groups devoted to 18th century studies? Thanks very much. Bill Schipper From: P.R.Williams@UK.AC.GLASGOW.VME Subject: QUERY: M.Garvey & UNIA Date: 1 Mar 92 19:39:46 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1428 (1711) To: elspaula@edu.missouri.umcvmb, African-American Research , amerstdy@earn.miamiu, history@earn.irlearn Msg ID: < 1 Mar 92 19:39:46 GMT A10234@UK.AC.GLA.VME> To all, Could anyone out there please help me with a query I have regarding Marcus Garvey and the UNIA? I am wanting to look at the records of this organisation and wonder how much information there is regarding membership, and if so how detailed the records are. Do they, for instance, contain personal information on each member? If there are records could anyone tell me where I can find them and in what form - microfilm, microcard etc.? Furthermore, does anyone know if this organisation is still going, and its address if it is? Thank you in advance for any help you are able to offer me. Yours sincerely, Paul R. Williams c/o Denis Brogan Centre, Dept. Modern History, University of Glasgow, 2, University Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland. G12 8QQ --- End of forwarded message From: UFRUSS@NERVM Subject: Computer Assisted Methods (Anthropology, etc.) Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 20:32:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 735 (1712) CAM is a newsletter devoted to pushing the frontiers on qualitative research methods, as well as the quantitative/qualitative interface. I thought that readers of the list might be interested in seeing this information. CAM = Computer Assisted Methods, in part. Bob Trotter. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A MESSAGE FROM CAM NEWSLETTER This is to let you know about CAM, the cultural anthropology methods newsletter. CAM has been funded by the National Science Foundation for the past several years, as part of the annual SNF Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology. NSF support for CAM will this coming summer after we hold the 6th (and last) summer institute. There are now eight issues of CAM, chock full of information that is useful not only to anthropologists, but to all scholars who use modern anthropological methods - that is, a sensible mix of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis procedures applied to the scientific study of human phenomena. This means that CAM should be read by sociologists and by colleagues in nursing research, social work research, management and marketing research, education, and many other fields. CAM has articles on how to manage field notes and other texts; how to draw random samples under improbable conditions; how to interpret the qualitative output of multidimensional scaling programs; how to use the various routines in ANTHROPAC to analyze cognitive data; how to choose key ethnographic informants using consensus analysis. CAM also has reviews of useful software and articles on how to use popular programs like Word Perfect to handle tasks that you thought required specialized software. The most recent issue of CAM has the first in a series of articles by Fred Hay of Harvard's Tozzer Library on how to use on-line library systems. In the same issue, Stuart Plattner, program director for cultural anthropology at the National Science Foundation, describes in detail how to write grant proposals and where to look for funding for anthropological research. EARLIER ISSUES OF CAM FEATURED ARTICLES BY BARRY WELLMAN (SOCIOLOGY, Totronto) on managing text; by Douglas White (Social Networks Program, UC-Irvine) on using hypertext; by John Gatewood (Social Relations, Lehigh) on field sampling. The editors of CAM contribute articles regularly: Oswald Werner (Anthropology, Northwestern) does a column for CAM on innovative uses of the Mac in handling field notes, genealogies, dictionaries, etc. Pertti Pelto and Russell Bernard contribute articles on doing systematic data collection and on coding and managing qualitative data. Steven Borgatti writes regularly about how to use ANTHROPAC for consensus modeling, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and more. CAM carries reviews of software that social researchers find useful. Coming: reviews of BIB (a program that handles all your bibliographies), and GOFER (an inexpensive text management program, available for both the Mac and IBM-compatible machines). There are over 1200 subscribers to CAM - people who have written in and asked to be put on our mailing list for free copies. This is evidence that there is substantial interest in a publication devoted to clear, short articles on how to do things. But now is the moment of truth. For CAM to survive, it must become self-supporting. We need articles and paying subscribers. CAM costs $15.00 for three issues per year (same price for individuals and for libraries). There is a special rate of $35.00 for 10 copies of CAM mailed to one address. This makes it easy for professors to give CAM to students. If you do not now subscribe to CAM, just let us know and we'll have an issue sent to you at no charge, while supplies last. Also while supplies last, new subscribers to CAM will get all the back issues at no extra charge. If you already subscribe, you know what we're trying to do. The motto of CAM is "methods belong to all of us" ... to materialists and ideationalists, positivists and humanists, anthropologists and sociologists alike. Whatever our disagreements about how to explain things, all research methods belong to all researchers. CAM is the place to publish and to read about the real "how to" of research methods. To subscribe to CAM, send your check for $15.00 to ECS-CAM, 2815 NW 38th Drive, Gainesville, FL 32605. Or send $35.00 for 10 issues to the same address. For more information, or for enquiries about submitting an article, contact the editors of CAM: Russ Bernard, Dept of Anthropology, University of Florida UFRUSS@NERVM.BITNET Fax:904-376-8617 Bert Pelto, Dept of Anthropology, University of Connecticut PJPELTO@UCONNVM Steven Borgatti, Dept of Sociology, University of South Carolina N040016@UNIVSCVM. Oswald Werner, Dept of Anthropology, Northwestern University. Fax:708-467-1778 From: "NYIT Conference Coordinator, Robert Royar" Subject: Conference Announcement Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1992 06:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 736 (1713) Conference Announcement, Please Post LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND WRITING Forging Connections In The High School And College English Classroom April 3, 1992 The fifth-annual Computers and English Conference for high school and college teachers of writing Sponsored by the Program in English New York Institute of Technology and The Assembly on Computers in English (ACE) an NCTE Assembly The 1992 conference on Literature, Computers and Writing explores the shared challenges facing high school and college teachers of English in the electronic classroom. There are two primary themes: o how computers and specifically networks can be used to ally high school and college teachers of English, and o how computers are stimulating new ways of thinking about communication, critical literacy, and writing. The conference features panel discussions led by high school and college teachers offering insight and pedagogical techniques for the English classroom as well as access to and training in electronic messaging via NYIT's computer system. Conference Setting The NYIT conference's morning sessions will be held at the beautiful de Seversky Conference Center, a Georgian mansion next to the college's Old Westbury campus. Included in the conference's price are a pre-conference and post-conference account on NYIT's networked computer system, coffee breaks, and a gourmet, buffet luncheon prepared by the professional de Seversky staff. Afternoon sessions will convene on the campus of the college at Harry Schure Hall, which offers computerized classrooms. The quiet Long Island setting is less than one hour from both the LaGuardia and Islip airports and just minutes from two Long Island Railroad stations. Contact the English Department (see registration form) for information about housing. NYIT CONFERENCE SCHEDULE De Seversky Conference Center 8:30 Coffee and Danish Keynote Address 9:00 Keynote Address (Ballroom) by Dr. Fred Kemp, Texas Technological University, "Changing Teaching, Changing Writing" Morning Sessions (running concurrently) 10:30 Developing Electronic Communities (Ballroom) Linda Myers, Lehigh University, "Electronic Conferencing: Bridging Communities" Barbara Hall and Sandra Walsh, Port Jefferson High School, "Assessing The Impact Of Teleconferencing Upon The Writing Process" 10:30 New Ways Of Seeing Text (Library) Bonnie Duncan, Millersville University, "On-line Publication And The Collaborative Potential in Medieval Scholarship" Steven Hale, DeKalb College, "All The News: Teaching Writing With USENET" Lunch 11:45 Lunch in the Dining Room of the de Seversky Conference Center Harry Schure Hall Afternoon Sessions (running concurrently) 1:15 An On-Line School-College Project (Distance Learning Center) Marilyn Jody, Western Carolina University, and Marianne Saccardi, Fairfield-Westchester Reading Project, "Among School Children and Authors: Project Bookread" 1:15 Long-Distance Learning: East Meets West, North Meets South (Macintosh Linked Classroom) Jim Greenlaw, University of British Columbia, "Pacific Rim E-Mail and Multicultural Literature" Mark Harris, Jackson Community College, and Jeff Hooks, St. Petersburg Junior College, "Using Interchange: The Long-Distance Literary Classroom" 1:15 Software That Works With Writers (IBM Linked Classroom) Franklin Cacciutto, East Meadow High School, "The Computer And Lyric Form" David Sewell, University of Rochester, "TACTfully Reading: Text Analysis Tools For Literature And Writing Classes" 2:30 Coffee/Soft Drinks (Harry Schure Lobby) 2:45 Overview and open discussion of the day's topics led by Dr. Fred Kemp ---------------------------- cut -- here --------------------------------------- Registration for NYIT's Computers and Writing Conference (April 3, 1992) Mail completed form with remittance ($35.00 for matriculated graduate students, $50.00 all others or $65.00 at the door) to English Department New York Institute of Technology Old Westbury, NY 11568 (516) 686-7557 Make checks payable to English Department, NYIT Name: _____________________________________________________________ School: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ E-mail: _____________________________________________________________ Registration packets will be mailed to verified registrants before March 15 From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Mary Dee Harris: March 10 NEACH Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 16:05:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1429 (1714) An Invitation from NEACH NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities--a regional affilate of ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities--invites you to attend its monthly meetings in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue. On Tuesday, March 10, 1992, MARY DEE HARRIS will talk on "Poetry and Natural Language Processing," an investigation of significant recent work in the fields of philosophy, metaphor, cognition, and computer processing. Don't miss this exciting event. Dr. Harris is the author of _Introduction to Natural Language Processing_, has taught computer science for a decade and in the English department at Georgetown University, and is a consultant to government and industry in the Washington, D.C., area for Language Technology. She was President of ACH from 1982 to 1985 and has been a contributor to NEH, NSF, and many professional computer organizations. She may be reached by e-mail at mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu or mdharris@guvax.bitnet. All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Ask at the desk when you enter the IBM Building for a pass to "NEACH" or "HUMANITIES." NEACH Program Calendar for 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Project Elaine Brennan, Humanist Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman, ex-Wolff Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, CETH Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Lib. -----*----- Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry & Natural Lang. Proc. Mary Dee Harris, Lang. Tech. -----*----- Wed., Apr 8 TBA Tues., May 12 TBA -- Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) -- From: "Zane Berge, Ph.D." Subject: IPCT-L@GUVM Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 10:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1430 (1715) IPCT-L on LISTSERV@GUVM or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU The Interpersonal Computing and Technology List (IPCT-L) was From: James P Love Subject: WINDO - the Bill Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 10:28:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 738 (1716) Members of this list might find the GPO WINDO legislation of interest. It would set up low cost one-stop-shopping online access to federal databases through the Government Printing Office. This service would be free to 1400 federal depository libraries, and available at the incremental cost of dissemination to everyone else. Let me know if you want a fact sheet on the bill. At present there are about ten sponors for the bill, including Rep. Rose (D-NC), who is the chair of the house committee the bill must pass. Organizational endorsements and personal letters to congress are needed for this important legislation to pass. jamie love. ----------------------------------------------------------------- H.R. 2772 A BILL To establish in the Government Printing Office a single point of online public access to a wide range of federal databases containing public information stored electronically. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 26, 1991 Section 1. This act may be cited as the "GPO Wide Information Network for Data Online Act of 1991." Sec. 2. Findings. The Congress finds that -- (a) Federal agencies increasingly receive, generate, and handle public information in electronic form; (b) agency possession of public information in electronic form has stimulated interest in public accessibility of that information through electronic networks; (c) for substantial numbers of federal electronic databases, public access is limited by difficulties in locating and accessing the data or by high prices imposed by private vendors; (d) public access to public electronic information will be greatly enhanced by a single point of online public access; (e) the Government Printing Office is the appropriate federal office to establish, coordinate, and maintain a federal program to provide online access to electronic public information for the federal government; and (f) information available through the Government Printing Office's online access program should be provided without charge to depository libraries, as designated under chapter 19 of title 44, United States Code, and priced at the incremental cost of dissemination for other subscribers. Sec. 3. Title 44, United States Code, is amended by adding a new chapter 40 as follows: "Chapter 40 -- Government Printing Office: Online Access to Government Electronic Information "Sec. 4001. The Superintendent of Documents, under the direction of the Public Printer, shall establish a program for providing to the public access to public electronic information. Such program (hereafter referred to as the "GPO WINDO") shall provide the public single-point access to a wide range of government electronic databases in accordance with section 4002 of this chapter and shall be established and maintained after consultation with and consideration of comments from potential users and others likely to be affected by the program. "Sec. 4002. In establishing and maintaining the GPO WINDO, the Superintendent of Documents, under the direction of the Public Printer, shall -- "(a) include such databases as are reasonably appropriate, based upon input from database users, libraries and federal agencies; "(b) rely upon agency data storage and retrieval software for accessing agency databases to the maximum extent feasible; "(c) provide for access to GPO WINDO databases through a wide a range of electronic networks, to allow broad, reasonable access to the data; and "(d) permit depository libraries to connect to, access, and query GPO WINDO databases without charge. "Sec. 4003. The Public Printer may, except as provided in section 4002(e) of this chapter, charge reasonable fees for providing access to databases through GPO WINDO. Such fees shall be limited as follows: "(a) for databases maintained by the Government Printing Office, the fee should approximate the Government Printing Office's incremental cost of dissemination of the data, without regard to section 1708 of title 44, United States Code; and "(b) for databases maintained by agencies and accessed through the GPO WINDO, the fee should approximate the incremental cost of dissemination of the data; "Sec. 4004. The Public Printer shall each year publish a notice in the Federal Register requesting public comment on the services, prices and policies related to the GPO WINDO and on such other issues as the Public Printer shall determine. On or before March 1 of each calendar year the Public Printer shall publish an annual report on GPO WINDO describing the program, summarizing public comment thereon, and stating the steps it has taken to address the comments received. Such report shall be submitted to the Committee on House Administration, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and the Joint Committee on Printing.". ------------------------------------------------------------------- James Love, Director Voice: 609-683-0534 Taxpayer Assets Project Fax: 202-234-5176 7-Z Magie, Faculty Road bitnet: Love@pucc.bitnet Princeton, NJ 08540 internet: Love@pucc.princeton.edu From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Mary Dee Harris: March 10 NEACH Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 16:05:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1431 (1717) An Invitation from NEACH NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities--a regional affilate of ACH: Association for Computers and the Humanities--invites you to attend its monthly meetings in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue. On Tuesday, March 10, 1992, MARY DEE HARRIS will talk on "Poetry and Natural Language Processing," an investigation of significant recent work in the fields of philosophy, metaphor, cognition, and computer processing. Don't miss this exciting event. Dr. Harris is the author of _Introduction to Natural Language Processing_, has taught computer science for a decade and in the English department at Georgetown University, and is a consultant to government and industry in the Washington, D.C., area for Language Technology. She was President of ACH from 1982 to 1985 and has been a contributor to NEH, NSF, and many professional computer organizations. She may be reached by e-mail at mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu or mdharris@guvax.bitnet. All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Ask at the desk when you enter the IBM Building for a pass to "NEACH" or "HUMANITIES." NEACH Program Calendar for 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Project Elaine Brennan, Humanist Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman, ex-Wolff Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, CETH Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Lib. -----*----- Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry & Natural Lang. Proc. Mary Dee Harris, Lang. Tech. -----*----- Wed., Apr 8 TBA Tues., May 12 TBA -- Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) -- From: "Zane Berge, Ph.D." Subject: IPCT-L@GUVM Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 10:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1432 (1718) IPCT-L on LISTSERV@GUVM or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU The Interpersonal Computing and Technology List (IPCT-L) was created February 1992 by the Center for Teaching and Technology (CTT) at the Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University. A special effort will be made to promote an international forum for pedagogical issues important to higher education involving teaching with technology, and especially with connectivity and networking. A goal is to create a forum for the discussion of computing and other technology that can be used to promote learning. Topics for discussion may involve teaching and training; collaboration; partnerships among learners, faculty or teachers, and other interested persons in the educational community; and research that reflect these interests. The decade of the 1980s was characterized by the _personal_ computer, and development of individual product- ivity. The focus of the IPCT-L, as we move toward the 21st century, is that _interpersonal_ computing and technology will tie persons together throughout the world -- to share ideas and solve problems. Besides creating a forum for the topics of interest noted above, another interest of the CTT is to publish a scholarly, refereed international journal. To that end, the IPCT-L will develop a subscription list and act as a resource to develop the community necessary to review articles and recommend editorial policies as these publishing goals move forward. To subscribe send the following in an interactive command (TELL or SEND) or in the BODY of mail (NOT the Subject:) to LISTSERV@GUVM on Bitnet or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU on Internet: SUBSCRIBE IPCT-L yourfirstname yourlastname Example: SUBSCRIBE IPCT-L Mary Doe Owner: Zane Berge or From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Concordance publication Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 21:01:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1433 (1719) Concordances have been for several centuries THE tool for literary and linguistic research. What form of concordance is preferable to publish? - complete KWIC - partial KWIC - partial KWOC - lemmatized - non-lemmatized - with frequency added - other supplementary goodies? Any advise for someone thinking about publishing the concordance of a german text? Are some forms better suited for some languages than others (latin, french, german, english) and why? Are concordances still worth publishing on paper? on microfilms? on floppy? Thanks. Michel. -- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | From: pjd@language-centre.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: E-mail address Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 09:44:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1434 (1720) Can anyone please help by supplying me with an e-mail address for the CALIS project within Duke University. I don't seem to be getting through to the Postmaster there. Many thanks. Paul J. Donnelly Department of Hispanic Studies, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom e-mail: pjd@intelsat.lang.gla.ac.uk fax: 041-330-4808 telex: 777070 UNIGLA From: WEST@UNCA.BITNET Subject: Cultural Diversity Cites Wanted Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 09:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1435 (1721) I would like to ask the collective wisdom of HUMANIST for some citations. Here at UNC-Asheville, we have a comprehensive Humanities program which culminates with a senior-level seminar course focusing on the human condition since 1945. We have been using a topical structure for this course, but in the next year plan to move to a cultural literacy / great works format. Could you please suggest the items written since 1945 that you think all educated individuals should have read? In particular, we're looking for readings which would increase the cultural / national / ethnic diversity of our core materials. Please send your thoughts to Mark West WEST@UNCA.BITNET WEST@UNCA.EDU Many thanks. If you'd like a summary of the most frequently mentioned items, please say so in your note. From: Diane_L._Olsen.osbu_north@xerox.com Subject: Re: E-Mail list for Women Writers to 1850? Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 17:53:06 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1436 (1722) Sometimes you find what you're looking for right in your own back yard. It turns out that the very list I hoped to find not only exists but is owned by HUMANIST editor Elaine Brennan of Brown University! It is called WWP-L, and you sign up by sending the message "sub WWP-L your-full-name" to LISTSERV@brownvm.brown.edu (that's LISTSERV@brownvm if you speak BITNET). Here are two paragraphs lifted from the WWP-L welcome message [Forwarded with permission]: The list, as I see it, has a two-fold purpose: to discuss specific activities of the Women Writers Project and to keep you informed about the particular texts that we have available, and to focus more generally on issues of teaching and research with respect to texts by women in English during the period from approximately 1350 through approximately 1850. The WWP was conceived of, in part, as a resource for scholars and teachers and students interested in women's writings. Please help us make it a reality. [Note: I don't know if it's clear from the excerpts I chose to include above, but WWP-L is intended as a forum for *discussion* as well as dissemination of information.] Hope to see you on WWP-L! Diane L. Olsen Xerox Corporation Palo Alto, CA dolsen.osbu_north@xerox.com OR olsen@csli.stanford.edu From: Mary_Whitlock_BLUNDELL@umail.umd.edu (mb169) Subject: Re: 5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex; Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey (3/30) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 18:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1437 (1723) For feminist criticism of the Odyssey, try: J.J. Winkler, Penelope's Cunning and Homer's, in The Constraints of Desire (Routledge 1990) This will get you started and has plenty of further refs in the bibliography. From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex; Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey (3/30) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 16:39 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1438 (1724) _The Authoress of the Odyssey_ was in fact by Samuel Butler, who is reported by that authentic feminist Jane Ellen Harrison to have tried its thesis out on her at tiresome length in the GB Hotel in Athens just after the turn of the century; she remained unconvinced. For more recent discussions by femin- ist and female critics one might turn to Marilyn Arthur Katz, _Penelope's Renown: Meaning and Indeterminacy in the Odyssey_, Princeton 1991, or to Jenny Strauss Clay's slightly older _Anger of Athena_; and there is a brand new masculinist-Jungian book by Thomas van Nortwick, _Somewhere I Have Never Been_, which must be From: "Edwin S. Segal" Subject: 5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex; Feminist Criticism of the Odyssey (3/30) Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 07:38:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1439 (1725) FROM: Edwin S. Segal Department of Anthropology PHONE: 502-588-6864 Probably the most extensive discussion of alien sex can be found in the book, "Alien Sex," edited by Ellen Datlow, published by Dutton in 1990 (ISBN: 0-525-2 4863-3). The 19 stories range from 1968 to 1990. From: slhi@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sarah L. Higley) Subject: 5.0730 Rs: Alien Sex Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1992 22:53:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1440 (1726) Re: Alien Sex Perhaps the person who posted the original query about "alien sex" was referring to the anthology by Helen Datlow by the same title which features recent f and sf writers on the subject not only of interspecial sexuality but "transgressive" sexuality-- as well as fabulistic stories about sex and desire. Sarah Higley The University of Rochester From: Marc Bregman Subject: Re: Alien Sex Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 08:55 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1441 (1727) For those Humanists interesting in sex with Humanoids, see: Moshe Idel, Golem -- Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (SUNY series in Judaica, 1990), especially Chapter 15 "Golem and Sex", pp. 232-241. I am wondering if the Golem Legend could be considered an early manifestation of what we now call "Science Fiction". I'm afraid that my copy of Charles Young's posting on "Alien Sex" on Feb. 21 has become corrupted. Could I ask that someone repost the term coined by Larry Niven for "sex outside of one's species"; and perhaps explain the etymology of the term. Marc Bregman Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion 13 King David Street Jerusalem 94101 Israel Voice E-Mail (02)203-234 (office) Bitnet: HPUBM@HUJIVM1 203-333 (messages) FAX 972-2-251478 724-049 (home) From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 5.0725 Arabic System Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 10:29:57 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1442 (1728) Stephen Clausing wrote: [deleted quotation] Yes; it handles Arabic and Roman scripts in the same documents (or the same line) with a single click switch. It (with a score of other localized systems including both traditional and simplified Chinese, Hebrew, Kanji, Turkish, ) is on the Developer CD, updated periodically; the February 1992 CD has Arabic System version 6.1. Perhaps also relevant: Arabic Dates DA translates between Arabic and Western dates, down to the day (available through Intellimation). David Bantz Director, Academic & Public Computing University of Chicago 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, Il 60637-2745 312-702-0822 (voice) 312-702-7661 (fax) From: rogers@epas.utoronto.ca (Henry Rogers) Subject: phonetic fonts Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 09:37:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1443 (1729) I have delveloped PalPhon, an extension of the Palatino typeface to include phonetic symbols. There are two fonts: the basic one is PalPhon, and a secondary font PalPiRoman contains additional symbols. PalPhon is arranged so that you can type ordinary prose and phonetic symbols without changing fonts. It includes all symbols from the 1989 IPA revision plus others that linguists often use. A wide variety of diacritics is available-- in three sizes actually, to centre over characters of varying widths. A number of symbols and diacritics used in speech pathology are also included. PalPhon is available by anonymous ftp from the Michigan archives (mac.archive.umich.edu). Look for the linguistics/fonts/macintosh folder. At present only the Macintosh version is available (PostScript and Truetype), but we hope to have the IBM and NeXT versions available soon. Three text files are included to help you locate what where symbols are found on the keyboard. PalPhon is free. I am still working on it in odd moments of spare time. If you have problems or thoughts on improvement, please send me a message. rogers@epas.utoronto.ca Henry Rogers 6072 Robarts Library Department of Linguistics University of Toronto Toronto, Ont. M5S 1A1 Canada From: "Randall Jones" Subject: WordCruncher Date: 2 Mar 92 16:02:48 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1444 (1730) WordCruncher is still alive and well, although the company that originally marketed it (Electronic Text Corporation) is no longer in existence. WordCruncher is now available in three versions: A shareware version that has most but not all of the features of the original product. It can be obtained for a $5.00 postage and handling fee. All documentation is on-line. It is intended principally for student use and for someone who simply wants to try it out. It is possible that this version will soon be available through a listserve at BYU An upgraded shareware version which has more but still not all features of the original version. It is available for a $40 registration fee. A complete version which has everything including printed documentation. It is available for $299. For additional information or to order one of the versions, write or call: Johnston & Company P.O. Box 446 American Fork, UT 84003-0446 801-756-1111 (voice) 801-756-0242 (Fax) (I am just a carrier of information. I have no interest in the company.) Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: SCHNEIDB@LAWRENCE.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0658 Bibliography SW (2/83) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 12:55 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1445 (1731) I suggest WP macros for putting bibl items in proper WPCitation fields. Bold the item, call the appropriate macro. If you want the macros, get in touch wit h me. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: hanged again Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 09:45:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1446 (1732) The case of a near re-hanging, cited in a recent note to Humanist, cannot be unique. One such occurred in Oxford, as I recall, in the 17th century, or perhaps earlier. The closest I can come to a reference -- hardly helpful, I realise, is a book in the library of Jesus College, Oxford, from the period. But I would guess that some digging would unearth many such cases. Observing the ferocity of our ancestors over such acts as extra-marital lovemaking one wonders about the world they lived in, what they were afraid of, lustful for? Not that ours is any better in that regard, just different. Willard McCarty From: FREE0927@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Proust Quote Found Date: Tue, 03 Mar 92 15:21:25 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1447 (1733) Thanks for your help in finding my "proust quote" I finally found it in Jean Cocteau. La Danse de Sophocle. Paris Mercure de France 1912. Le soir - Le jet d'eau- p133 ed 1912 Sylvie Dangeville From: Ed Haupt Subject: misandrist and man-hater. Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 11:14:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1448 (1734) Last word, I hope. There are two (at least) meanings of synonymy--one based on equivalent denotation, the other on use in text. By the test of equivalent denotation, I would argue that man-hater and mysandrist are close equivalents, although I think man-hater has a connotation which I can't quite describe that makes it different. By the test of substitutibility in text, they seem to me barely equivalent. I would expect to find man-hater in detective novels (sorry for stereotyping, I just don't read them) which have working-class characters and use only anglo-saxon root words. "Mysandrist" on the other hand, seems very much at home on HUMANIST and suitable for other educated venues. Ed Haupt From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Fword etymology Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1992 17:34:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1449 (1735) Bernard Van't Hul's posting on the alleged etymology of "fuck" as documented in The American Heritage Dictionary brought to mind the story related to me in about 1971, when I was a student at Calvin College and a friend was a grad student in musicology at Univ. of Michigan but working, as I recall, part-time with some English grad students doing piecework etymologies for that very dictionary. (Coincidentally, Prof. Van't Hul was then a prof at Calvin: I doubt that I ever then discussed with him the etymology of "fuck," though I seem to recall that the word was familiar to a few of my contemporaries.) This friend (whom I ought probably not to name) reported that he and several fellow workers had spent a marvellous evening consuming a few bottles of wine and inventing an authentic-sounding but wholly fictitious etymology, complete with a bogus Old English equivalent, for the word "fuck." They were delighted to find that their fabrication made it past the various editorial committees into the published dictionary. Perhaps there are other readers of this list who can corroborate the story--or persuade me that the fabrication was my friend's story itself, a possibility I would not dismiss entirely. --David Hoekema Executive Director, American Philosophical Association Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Delaware || Phone: 302 831-1112 Newark, DE 19716 || FAX: 302 831-8690 From: Manon Ress Subject: NEW LIST: CAUSERIE pour discuter de choses et d'autres Date: Tue, 03 Mar 92 19:55:10 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1450 (1736) Causerie on ListServ@UQuebec.BitNet or ListServ@UQuebec.CA "Causerie" means talk or chat. And that is what this list is all about. Just for the fun of it. Everyone is welcome though you should be aware of the fact that all the communication is in *** French ***. The rest of this announcement is in French. Deben saber que la totalidad de los mensajes estan redactados en *** frances ***. Pour jaser, parloter, palabrer: Causerie @ UQuebec En francais, un "Cafe Campus" pour discuter de choses et d'autres. Causerie [kozri]. n.f. (1555; de causer). Causerie @ UQuebec 1 Entretien familier. V. Conversation Causeries a batons rompus. "La lecon degenerait en causerie" (Gide). 2 Discours, conference sans pretention. Une causerie litteraire, scientifique. (Le Petit Robert 1) Demarrage en fevrier 1992. concierge= UQPSGEN@UQSS.UQUEBEC.CA (Pierre Chenard) concierge= UQPSGEN@UQUEBEC (Pierre Chenard) concierge= HAMEL@UQUEBEC (Pierre J. Hamel) concierge= HAMEL@INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA (Pierre J. Hamel) Pour s'abonner a ce nouveau repertoire comme pour tout autre, il suffit d'envoyer a l'adresse: ListServ@UQuebec la commande: Sub Repertoire Prenom Nom par exemple: Sub Causerie Emile Durkheim * RQSS * Regroupement quebecois des sciences sociales ** RQSS *** / **** _____ _____ _______ _____ ACSALF (socio) ***** | | | / | | ADQ (demo) ****** | | | / | | SCSE (econo) ***** |_____| |____ / | | SQSP (sc.po.) *** |\ | / | | ** ** | \ | / | | COMMUNIK * ** | \ | / | | EDUC **** | \ |_____ /______ |_____| LANGUES ** METHO *** URBAREG CAUSERIE Pour avoir une idee des possibilites du REZO, vous etes invites a prendre connaissance des divers fichiers disponibles en envoyant a l'adresse: ListServ@UQuebec la commande : INDEX RQSS our une introduction plus substantielle/verbeuse (rayer la mention inutile), envoyer a l'adresse: ListServ@UQuebec la commande: Get Intro Package RQSS Pierre J. Hamel, concierge-deneigeur du Rezo Institut national de la recherche scientifique INRS-Urbanisation HAMEL@INRS-URB.UQUEBEC.CA From: Gregory Bloomquist Subject: AIBI-L announcement Date: Wed, 04 Mar 92 14:08:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1451 (1737) AIBI-L Announcing a new list: AIBI-L (the LISTSERV discussion forum of l'Association internationale bible et informatique). AIBI-L is an on-going forum and meeting place for AIBI members and others who wish to join the discussion of issues related to the computerised-analysis of Biblical and related texts. Possible subjects for discussion include (but are not limited to) computer-based interpretation of specific texts, methodological questions, preparation of the text for computerised analysis, software-design and programming, computer-based hermeneutics. Of particular interest will be a discussion of a new edition of the Biblia Hebraica, incorporating insights from computer-based analysis. No formal membership in AIBI is necessary for participation in AIBI-L. The language of exchange will be English . To subscribe to AIBI-L: for BITNET users send an interactive message: TELL LISTSERV AT UOTTAWA SUB AIBI-L or send a mail message to LISTSERV@UOTTAWA in which the only line of the mail text is: SUB AIBI-L ; for INTERNET users send a mail message to LISTSERV@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA in which the only line of the mail text is: SUB AIBI-L Moderator of AIBI-L: L. G. Bloomquist GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA (Internet) @UOTTAWA (Bitnet) Editor of AIBI Newsletter: R. F. Poswick CIBMARE@BUCLLN11 (Bitnet/Earn) Postmaster at Ottawa: Tram Nguyen TRAMNG@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA (Internet) @UOTTAWA (Bitnet) Greetings. L. Gregory Bloomquist Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa BITNET: GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA Voice: (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393 FAX: (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005 From: Lucia Ruedenberg Subject: Re: 5.0736 Conf: Literature, Computers and Writing Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1992 17:03 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1452 (1738) I am interested in your recent announcement of the NYIT Conf on April 3, on Writing and computers in highschool and college. Since I will not be able to attend this conference, I was wondering if any of the presentations will be available in electronic form, following the conference. thanks. Lucia. *=--=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--=* | Lucia Ruedenberg Snail Mail: Korazin 20 | | Jerusalem 94553 Israel | | Dept. of Performance Studies Bitnet: soulr@hujivm1 | | New York University Internet: soulr@vm1.huji.ac.il | | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem lucia@noga.huji.ac.il | | Inter-University Fellow Voice: (972-2) 243745 | *=--=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=--=* From: Don Fowler Subject: RE: 5.0734 Qs: Misc. E-Queries; Proust; Revival Story (6/103) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 9:15 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1453 (1739) There are doubtless many stories of revivals after hanging, but two are mentioned in Plot's _Natural History of Oxfordshire_ as happening to women in the 17th century in Oxford. We have a copy in our college library, but it is not to hand, so this is from memory. Both relate to infanticide, and may relate to new laws on this in England. In the first, a woman has a miscarriage, and the baby is found in the privy. She is hanged for infanticide: she is seen to be still breathing, and is struck by a soldier with a musket etc as "acts of charity". But when taken to be dissected by the university doctors, she is found still to be alive: is bled, put into bed with another girl to warm her up, and revives. The city authorities want to have another go, but are prevented by the university: eventually she is pardoned, and lives a number of years later. Plot relates her "near death" experiences of the other world. He then relates another case, where a girl accused of infanticide revives when taken down. But she had no friends to appear for her, and so was dragged from the house where she was reviving and hanged again at Gloucester Green (where the Oxford Bus Station now is). I've often thought she deserves a plaque. Don Fowler, Jesus College Oxford. From: Sarah L. Higley Subject: Golems and Science Fiction Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 23:49:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1454 (1740) Regarding Mark Bregman's recent query about genre, I'd say that the golem legend certainly contributes to the countless sf stories about androids, robots, cyborgs and other unhappy creatures of human making-- and it may even have directly contributed to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-- but it is not science fiction, or even an "early manifestation" of it except in the most general sense. The learned man calls upon the mystic power of God to breathe life into the golem-- in turn calling upon the countless COUNTLESS stories about the _statue animee_ which have been with us since the first creation myths. Moving statues, clay forms that come to life, even animated tripods and metal servants certainly are precursors to the robot but they are usually moved by a demon or a spirit or some divine agency, or called into being by a priest. You get "science fiction" (that broad term) when the agency is specifically seen as NOT divine, but capable of human production. In this sense, which might be a narrow one but one I insist upon in my classes, _The Kingdom of Roma_ in the _Lokapannati_ is a science fiction story because it calls the makers of the spirited moving statues "technicians" and their technology is transmissible, even jealously guarded. In fact, the whole story is about technology. Why does Rome have it and Burma not? How can Burma get it? What are the consequences? Death. Very science fictiony. To come at my point from another angle, I think that science fiction is the post-cursor to tales of magic and wonder, the story of the android but an extension of the story of the golem-- only with the pseudoscience injected. After all, what is Edison in Villier L'Isle-Adam's _L'Eve Future_ but a late nineteenth-century necromancer? instead of the wand and the cloak with stars and the pointy hat and all the traditional hermetic paraphanalia, he has electricity and the phonograph and the slide projector. Science fiction with all its "techno-babble" (a term used by the writers of Star Trek for what Geordi says) is the new scientific "hermeticism." Sarah Higley The University of Rochester NY From: John Lavagnino Subject: Samuel Butler on the Odyssey Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 21:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1455 (1741) After Butler published *The Authoress of the Odyssey*, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, the novelist, said to him that she'd come up with a new theory: that Shakespeare's sonnets were really written by Anne Hathaway. Butler managed not to see the joke; he went around telling people about this incident and commenting on what a silly thing it was to say. John Lavagnino, Brandeis From: John Lavagnino Subject: Concordancing Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1992 21:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1456 (1742) I recommend taking a look at the standard work on the subject: T. H. Howard-Hill, *Literary Concordances* (Oxford: Pergamon, 1979). It goes into most of the questions that you can imagine having about concordances. Perhaps the only one that's left out is the question of whether you should still bother with this when an electronic text does all a concordance does and more. It does remain true, though, that if you create a good electronic text the preparation of a concordance derived from it is no great task. John Lavagnino, Brandeis University From: GORGO@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: 5.0743 Rs: Mis-whatever Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1992 12:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1457 (1743) Mr. Haupt has unintentionally I hope inserted a new word into this discussion, "mysandrist," which must be taken to mean "mouse-man." From: "David H. Hesla" Subject: HUMANIST'S TOOLKIT Date: Wed, 04 Mar 92 23:57:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1458 (1744) When I started graduate study at the Univ. of Chicago in the late 50's I learned early on that there were some tools I needed to know how to use. The list included the card catalog, the OED, the DNB, the MANUAL OF STYLE, specialized reference works, the MLA bibliography, and much else. Forty years later, what do I absolutely need to know--and *need to teach to my graduate students*? How to use a computer and a word processing program, of course. But what about a memory manager (QEMM, e.g.), a multitasking utility (Desqview, Windows)? Do I need to know the difference between Extended and Ex- panded memory? I am quite sure that I need to know how to use RLIN and BITNET, but must I know ftp? Should I be able to manipulate VAX/CMS and PROFS? Do I need to know how to search ARTFL and the TLG? What posture should I adopt toward the TEI and the Oxford Text Archive? I recognize the obvious: that it depends on what you need to know. If one is interested in French, ARTFL is imperative; if in Classics, the TLG. But is there a core curriculum, an es- sential body of knowledge, required of all humanists working in the age of the computer and electronic communication? What do we require in our toolkit? DAVID H. HESLA ILA EMORY UNIVERSITY ATLANTA GA 30322 From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and Technology Subject: Merchant of Venice and the Bible Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 13:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1459 (1745) A colleague of mine is looking for the following texts in electronic format: Merchant of Venice, Geneva Bible, and the Bishop's Bible. He hopes to be able to use the two Bibles to locate occurances in "The Merchant of Venice" where Shakespeare quoted from the bibles readily available at the time. He would be most grateful if you could contact me at the e-mail address supplied below if you know of any of these texts being available in electronic format, or if you know of any software that he might use to search the texts for direct quotes. Thank you very much, Sincerely, James A. Wilderotter II Project Consultant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center Reiss Science Building, Room 238 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Tel. (202) 687-6096 BITNET: Wilder@Guvax Internet: Edu%"Wilder@Guvax.Georgetown.Edu" From: Graham Davies Subject: Chinese WP for the Apple Mac Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 14:21:54 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1460 (1746) Polytechnic of West London London UK gdavies@uk.ac.ealing.pa Does anyone know of a Chinese word-processor for the Apple Mac? From: "J.C." Baker Subject: IPA fonts for the PC. Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 9:17:53 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1461 (1747) Does anyone know of any IPA fonts (screen and printer) for the PC? I'm aware of "Mac the Linguist II" for the Mac, but I suspect there's no easy equivalent for the PC. How do people get round this? Use a different word processor? (The user in question has MS Word for DOS.) Use a Mac?! Is there any hope with Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows 2? All suggestions gratefully received. Judy Baker University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. From: "Wendy Plotkin (312) 413-0331" Subject: Computer-Aided Historical Research Date: 6 March 1992 08:58:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1462 (1748) I am preparing a paper for proposed American Historical Association and Social Science Historical Association panels (as well as a Ph.D. independent study) on computer-aided textual analysis in history, especially U.S. history. I would be interested in receiving references and/or descriptions of work in progress--as ambitious as a full-fledged published work, or as simple as graduate students using electronic versions of documents and/or secondary works in preparing papers. In addition to the type of analysis -- e.g. content, linguistic -- I am interested in the source of the electronic text -- obtained from a third party, or scanned by the analyst. I have found many references to such analysis in the fields of philosophy and literature, but much fewer in history. [I am already familiar with Founding Fathers CD-ROM project and American Memory...] Thank you. From: JCHE@UCS.umass.edu Subject: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 6 Mar 92 09:22:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1463 (1749) CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF COMPUTING IN HIGHER EDUCATION The Journal of Computing in Higher Education (JCHE) is an international journal dedicated to the publication of scholarly articles that contribute to our understanding of issues, problems, and research associated with information technologies and their application in education. Some topics for articles include, but are not limited to the following: -Development of Novel Applications -Hypermedia Design Strategies -Authoring Tools for Hypermedia -Evaluation of Hypermedia -Intelligent Interfaces -Expert Systems -Use of Knowledge Bases -User Interface Methodology -Impact of Cognitive Psychology on Instructional Technology -User Models -Formal Models of Interactive Systems -Information Management -Publishing -Business Papers will be professionally reviewed. All papers should include a 150-200 word abstract, list of keywords, references, and paragraph about the author. JCHE follows the stylistic guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Submit FIVE manuscript copies to: Carol B. MacKnight, JCHE Executive Editor, Office of Instructional Technology, A115 Lederle Graduate Research Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. Tel.: (413) 545-4232; Fax: (413) 545-3203, and E-mail: jche@ucs.umass.edu. From: EJOURNAL@ALBNYVMS.BITNET Subject: _EJournal_ Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1992 12:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1464 (1750) Announcing an Electronic Journal March 1992 _EJournal_ is a peer-reviewed, all-electronic, network distributed, serial publication. We are particularly interested in theory and practice surrounding the creation, transmission, storage, interpretation, alteration and replication of electronic "text," broadly defined. We are also interested in the social, psychological, literary, economic, pedagogical, philosophical and other ramifications of computer-mediated networks. Our review process is anonymous, all-electronic, and consensual. We prefer brief, authentic, lively essays to exhaustive technical reports. Single-essay issues appear as often as submissions are affirmatively reviewed; there were four (free) distributions to subscribers in 1991. There are two dozen consulting editors, in several disciplines, who review submissions. Members of _EJournal_'s advisory board are: Stevan Harnad, Princeton University Dick Lanham, University of California at Los Angeles Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries Joe Raben, City University of New York Bob Scholes, Brown University Harry Whitaker, University of Quebec at Montreal To subscribe to _EJournal_, send a mail message to listserv@albnyvm1.bitnet containing as its only line the command: subscribe ejrnl your_first_name your_last_name Information about getting back issues will accompany the "Welcome" message sent to people who subscribe. Please send submissions for editorial consideration to our "office" at: ejournal@albnyvms.bitnet Ted Jennings, Editor, Department of English, University at Albany/SUNY From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Textual criticism for medieval Romance literatures Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 15:07:34 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1465 (1751) I am very pleased to announce that the mythical issue of Romance Philology on the current state of textual criticism in the medieval Romance literatures (vol. 45, no. 1, August 1991; 249 pp.), has finally appeared. In addition to reviews and review articles it contains the following: Mary Speer: Editing Old French Texts in the Eighties: Theory & Practice Cesare Segre & Gian Battista Speroni: Filologia testuale e letteratura italiana del Medioevo Alberto Blecua: Los textos medievales castellanos y sus ediciones Germa'n Orduna: Ecdo'tica hispa'nica y el valor estema'tico de la historia del texto Francisco Marcos Mari'n: Computers and Text Editing: A Review of Tools, an Introduction to UNITE and Some Observations Concerning its Application to Old Spanish Texts Charles B. Faulhaber: Textual Criticism in the 21st Century [on hypereditions] The issue costs $7.50 individual or $14 institution (annual subscription e ordered from: Romance Philology U. of California Press Journals 2120 Berkeley Way Berkeley, CA 94720 Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: Martti Arnold Nyman Subject: Fword noch einmal Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1992 19:48 EET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1466 (1752) Bernard van't Hul (5.0731) and David Hoekema (5.0743) suggest that the Old/Middle English etymon for ModE _fuck_, in The American Heritage Dictionary, has been taken out of the blue. It's immaterial whether the entry is a piece of student humour, or whether it has been found by looking through the wine bottle. What matters is whether the etymon is formally correct as a reconstructed item. I haven't The AHD here right now, so I can't check it out. But I find nothing objectionable to the idea of reconstructing an Old or Middle English etymon for ModE _fuck_. After all, the activity denoted by this verb is not a ModE invention! :-) In the new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary it is stated that the ModE verb corresponds to the MiddleE type *_fuken_. This induction meshes with what can be deduced as the Proto- Germanic reflex of the ProtoIE root variant *_pug_ 'to prick (&c)' (see my explication in 5.0616). So, at least the OED etymologist was both right and brave. Dutch _fokken_ (Harry Gaylord) will be a moot point, until somebody explicates its semantic evolution. But I bet on _fokken_: the semantics of "such" words tends to be rather prolific. An unequivocal cognate of the ModE fword can be found in West-Swedish dialects, namely _focka_ 'to fuck'. In common colloquial Swedish _focka_ means 'to get fired'. (For documen- tation, see E.Hellqvist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok, s.v. focka.) In general, if one wishes to find more Germanic cognates for the ModE fword, one has to (1) dig in dialectal data (I'd recommend Swiss dialects); and (2) be prepared to do some semantic weeding. Navigare necesse est, etymologizare non est necesse. But most laypersons, in contradistinction to professional linguists, find etymology quite interesting. But there are also depreciatory attitudes toward the art of etymology. Well-educated people like to quote Voltaire's dictum according to which, roughly, etymology is something where vowels count nothing and consonants very little. But Voltaire -- if it was him -- couldn't know the enormous progress which was to take place in historical linguistics; and this progress still continues ... Martti Nyman Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Hallituskatu 11-13, SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland From: Harry Gaylord Subject: Fword, earliest known occurence in Britain Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 14:14:06 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1467 (1753) I must correct some misunderstandings in the remarks of Bernard van 't Hul in 5.0708. Firstly the idea of the association is something I and Alexandra have held for some years, not that of our colleagues. It was confirmed by Dr T. Hofstra, senior lecturer in Old Germanic, and reinforced by Dr. A. MacDonald, professor of Older English and Scots Language and Literature. I am surprised that van 't Hul's remark comes from the University of Michigan where the dictionary of Middle English is being produced. Certainly they must be aware of the evidence. No Old English or Middle English has turned up for the English. This is not surprising about such a subliterary word. How often does one find it in print between 1600 - 1900? The earliest attestation on the British Isles we are aware of is in Scots (not to be confused with Gaelic). It is in a poem of William Dunbar, 15th/16th century. It is in the penultimate line of the second stanza of In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht, which is attached below. People should not be so parochial about the languages used in Great Britain, ancient and modern. Other cognates in related languages have already been discussed exhaustively here. It is true that the Netherlands and Scotland had close relations at this time and there are some Dutch loanwords in Scots but I make no claim that it is one of these. If anyone is interested about the Middle Dutch usage, I will get the material from the Instituut voor Nederlands Lexiocologie in Leiden. I have used the edition of W. Mackay Mackenzie, The Poems of William Dunbar, Faber and Faber, London 1932 (1970 paperback reissue with corrections). The notes in the back of this edition are helpful. In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht <st>In secreit place this hyndir nycht, I hard ane beyrne say till ane bricht, <q>My huny, my hart, my hoip, my heill, I have bene lang your luifar leill, And can of yow get confort nane; How lang will ye with danger deill? Ye brek my hart, my bony ane!</q> <st>His bony beird was kemmit and croppit, Bot all with cale it was bedroppit, And he wes townysche, peirt, and gukit; He clappit fast, he kist and chukkit, As with the glaikis he wer ouirgane; Yit he his feirris he wald have fukkit; Ye brek my hart, my bony ane! <st>Quod he, <q>My hairt, sweit as the hunye, Sen that I borne wes of my mynnye, I nevir wowit weycht bot yow; My wambe is of your lufe sa fow, That as ane gaist I glour and grane, I trymble sa, ye will not trow; Ye brek my hart, my bony ane!</q> <st><q>Tehe!</q> quod scho and gaif ane gawfe, <q>Be still my tuchan and my calfe, My new spanit howffing fra the sowk, And all the blythnes of my bowk; My sweit swanking, saif yow allane Na leyd I luiffit all this owk; Fow leis me that graceles gane.</q> <st>Quod he, <q>My claver, and my curdodie, My huny soppis, my sweit possodie, Be not oure bosteous to your billie, Be warme hairtit and not ewill willie; Your heylis, quhyt as quhalis bane, Garris ryis on loft my quhillelillie; Ye brek my hart, my bony ane!</q> <st>Quod scho, <q>My clype, my unspaynit gyane, With moderis mylk yit in your mychane, My belly huddrun, my swete hurle bawsy, My huny gukkis, my slawsy gawsy, Your musing waild perse ane harte of stane, Tak gud confort, my grit heidit slawsy, Fow leis me that graceles gane.</q> <st>Quod he, <q>My kyd, my capirculyoun, My bony baib with the ruch brylyoun, My tendir gyrle, my wallie gowdye, My tyrlie myrlie, my crowdie mowdie; Quhone that oure mouthis dois meit at ane, My stang dois storkyn with your towdie; Ye brek my hairt, my bony ane!</q> <st>Quod scho, <q>Now tak me be the hand, Welcum! my golk of Marie land, My chirrie and my maikles munyoun, My sowklar sweit as ony unyoun, My strumill stirk, yit new to spane, I am applyit to your opunyoun; I luif rycht weill your graceles gane.</q> <st>He gaiff to hir ane apill rubye; Quod scho, <q>Gramercye! my sweit cowhubye.</q> And that twa to ane play began, Quhilk men dois call the dery dan; Quhill that thair myrthis met baythe in ane, <q>Wo is me!</q> quod scho, <q>quhair will ye, man? Bot now I luif that graceles gane.</q> </poem> From: Steve.Cavrak@UVM.EDU Subject: CSAC Conference: April 3rd, 4th. Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 17:14:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 750 (1754) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Register now ! Early registration discount expires March 15 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum April 3 and 4,1992 The University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont ----------------------------------------------------------------------- About the conference The University of Vermont invites you to attend its third annual Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum conference exploring strategies to enhance the collegiate curriculum through the use of computers, networks, and media. It includes sessions on art, imaging, and design, as well as topics including networking, hypermedia and courseware authoring, libraries and media services, user support and training, and research and teaching in all academic areas. This year's conference coincides with Calculated Images: Art and Computer Technology, an exhibit at the University of Vermont's Fleming Museum and provides an opportunity to explore the interdependency of art, science, engineering, and education. The conference will be held on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont, on Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4, 1992. The activities on Friday will include workshops, gallery talks, a keynote speaker, and a gala reception. Saturday's program will consist of approximately 35 sessions and workshops presented in 5 separate tracks. 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Call (802) 656-3316 or send electronic mail to csac@uvmvm.bitnet or csac@uvmvm.uvm.edu. From: stephen clark <AP01@liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 5.0741 More Rs: Alien Sex (3/50) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 10:30:46 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1468 (1755) Niven's term was rishathra - in The Ringworld Engineers: I doubt if it has an etymology. There are several stories by James Tiptree (a woman), including one that imagines (very implausibly) that we would be sexually excited by aliens in much the way that plovers are excited by #supernormal# eggs. And there are stories by P.J.Farmer, including The Lovers (sex with an insect evolved to look like a woman). Philosophical papers in Regis, ed., Extraterrestrial Life. Stephen Clark Liverpool From: LHT@CORNELLA Subject: Golem, Prometheus, Adam, Frankenstein Date: Wed, 04 Mar 92 23:46:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1469 (1756) A thorough, interesting, and insightful treatment of autogenesis as a recurring theme in myth can be found in Hans Blumenberg's _Work On Myth_. As I recall, Blumenberg traces versions of the myth from Hesiod through Genesis and _Frankenstein_ into the 20th century (it's a very long, densely writtenbook). Blumenberg, who is seriously underrated and under-read, uses the myth as a framework for a discussion of the major philosophical transformations in western history. His thesis (again, working from fairly distant memory) is that myth itself is the enactment of the autogenesis thematized in the various manifestations of the Prometheus myth. All myth and theory of myth, including Blumenberg's own (and this discussion on HUMANIST, for that matter) contributes to the creation and modification of the conditions of human existence, although never on the same level as the myth's superficial narrative. Autogenesis is both entirely impossible, in the sense of literal _completion_ and absolutely inevitable, as culture produces its unending "Work On Myth." Virtually, Nate Johnson From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: Golems ... forward and backward in time. Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 9:31:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1470 (1757) For anyone interested in any aspect of the golem, I recommend the museum exhibition catalog by Emily Bilski: *Golem! Danger, Deliverance and Art*, 1988, The Jewish Museum, ISBN 0-87334-049-3. It brings the legend both forward and backward in time from the probably best known version that tells of the golem that saved the Jews of Prague in the 1500s (told in book form by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gutstav Meyrink, Elie Wiesel, and others). The Bilski catalog includes appearances of the golem in film and a bibliography that includes a couple of science fiction/fantasy titles: Piers Anthony's *Golem in the Gears* and Alfred Bester's (I think) *Golem 100*. I'd be interested in comments on whether a golem is actually referenced in the Bible. In the Bilski catalog, Psalms 139:16 is cited as a reference to a golem: "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect;". What does it actually say before translation into English? Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H. j_cerny@unhh.unh.edu From: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu Subject: Transgendering Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 12:44:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1471 (1758) A Humanist colleague in Canada has just responded to my transgendering posting (for which I'm grateful and send my thanks), and has also called attention to my use of the word "silly". I should have explained in my posting that I'm a medievalist working on a Middle English work (14th century). In the realms of medieval scholarship, my idea may seem perfectly silly. To make a serious case, I'll have to come up with both medieval data and plausible literary, and inevitably post-modern, theory. For medieval data, I do have Thomas Laqueur's _Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud_(Harvard, l990); for the post-modern theory, I have a few articles on language but nothing more. I don't think Lacan, for example, brings up this subject in his psychological theorizing --or does he? Anyway, I will appreciate any leads anyone can send. Edward Vasta 203 Decio Faculty Hall University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46656 Voice: (219) 239-6330 FAX: (219) 239-8209 INTERNET: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Psychology, Imagery, Language of Transgendering Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 08:26:26 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1472 (1759) This doesn't really deal with the original query, but I was reminded of Bron Helstrom, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany's classic science fiction novel Triton. He is a lonely macho-type in an egalitarian culture which recognizes no such role who becomes so desperate for a woman a misogynist can love that he decides to become the kind of woman he wants, but fails because his sex-change is merely physical. Anybody interested in gender roles should read Triton--it's a brilliant book by SF's greatest gender satirist. Delany is a one-man affirmative action project: gay, black, dyslexic; but the reason to read his work is that he is one of the most subtle thinkers around. My students have had trouble with Triton because they tried to identify with the hero instead of viewing him as the target of Delany's satire. A modern classic, so of course it's out of print. From: CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX Subject: CALIS E-Address Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 10:27 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1473 (1760) I think the e-mail address for the Duke Humanities Computing Project, which produces CALIS, is DUCALL@DUKECVM1 At any rate, I do know that they have set up a bulletin board for CALIS users. You can reach it at 1-919-684-3169. Dan M. Church Vanderbilt University From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0746 Rs: Revival; Golems; Odyssey; Concording; Mis- (5/91) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 9:24:19 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1474 (1761) Question from one who has no Greek: if "mysandrist" means "mouse-man", what is a suitable term for "Bat-man"? From: Anne Erlebach <AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu> Subject: Subgenre query Date: Thu, 05 Mar 92 09:34:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1475 (1762) Is there a name for a particular subgenre of novel in which the author pretends to be editing the writings (usually an autobiography) of another? The best known example is probably _Gulliver's Travels_. Usually the purported "editor" has an introduction wherein he describes what changes he was forced to make, often noting that the author misses the true point of his subject, etc. Often there is a conclusion, and frequently notes. As a sometime editor myself, I find this fascinating. No more troublesome authors! Anne Falke Erlebach <AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu> Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 From: Lawrence Stepelevich <STEPELEVI@VUVAXCOM> Subject: Query Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 18:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1476 (1763) Hegel, in the Preface to his PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT, makes reference to "the Owl of Minerva." Could anyone tell me the basis for this reference? I've had some difficulty tracking it down. -- Larry Stepelevich, Philosophy, Villanova University <Stepelevi@vuvaxcom.bitnet> From: "Paul J. Constantine, Yale Univ. Library" <CONSTAN@YALEVM> Subject: Query: Books v. Computers Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 13:26:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1477 (1764) Can anyone provide citations for studies which claim that scholars or students ultimately prefer to read works in printed form rather than on a computer screen? I have often heard this stated anecdotally, but need to see something "in print." Paul J. Constantine Yale University Library From: SA_RAE@vax.acs.open.ac.uk Subject: Help re: History of Education in Saudi Arabia Date: Fri, 6 MAR 92 11:44:28 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1478 (1765) While extolling the virtues of e-mail networks as a way of finding out information to a group of OU staff, one of them came up with a request: Could I find out anything about the History of Education in Saudi Arabia? I have taken the 'anything' to include: people or addresses of people or institutions that might know or references to published material. If any readers of HUMANIST could supply information could they please e-mail me? Thanking you in anticipation. Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | SA_RAE@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK (World) Academic Computing Service, | SA_RAE@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom | fax: (0908) 653744 From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Medieval Latin medical abbreviations Date: Sun, 8 Mar 92 14:57:17 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1479 (1766) In a Spanish translation of John of Ketham's Fasciculus medicinae a number of recipes are left in Latin, e.g.: Recipe puluueris trisandali: pulueris dyadraganti frigidi. pulueris diapapaueris an~. dragmas duas: conserue buglosse: conserue ros~. an~. vnciam semis ... Recipe succi buglosse / succi pomorum rubeorum siue dulcium purgatorum. an~. quantu<m> sufficit. succi acetose libr~. s~. aque rosate quantum sufficit: succi citri/ vel loco eius succi limonis. o~z. j. et s~. florum nenufaris: omnium sandalorum: camphore an~. z. s~. aceti albi ... On the basis of Cappelli I am fairly sure that the "z." stands for 'dracma' and that what I have transcribed as "s~" (actually a long s with a cross loop, which normally would be transcribed s<er>) is 'half', i.e., semis. I think that "o~p" (the standard abbreviation for op<ortet>) is "unciam" but am not sure. I am totally stumped by "ros~" and "an~." Can any historians of medicine help? Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber From: "John D. Jones" <6563JONESJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: quotation/source Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 14:15 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1480 (1767) One of my colleagues has tried, unsuccessfully, to find a source for the following quote: "Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance" Can any one on HUMNANIST be of help? Thanks, John D. Jones Philosophy Department Marquette University From: "Richard L. Warms" <RW04@SWTEXAS> Subject: Students and reading Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1992 13:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1481 (1768) A friend of mine who is not a member of this discussion has asked me to forward the following request for information. He is a PH.D. student in linguistics, and, as I understand it, is doing research for a journal article on the reading abilities of college students. [deleted quotation] Thanks very much for your help in this matter. Richard Warms RW04@SWTSU From: Diane Kovacs <LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu> Subject: 4th Revision of the Directory of Scholarly E-conferences. Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 23:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 754 (1769) The 4th Revision of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences is now available on the LISTSERV@KENTVM and via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU (in the Library directory) The files available are: filename filetype ------------------- ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory with an index) ACADLIST FILE1 (Anthropology-Education) ACADLIST FILE2 (Futurology-Latin American Studies) ACADLIST FILE3 (Library and Information Science-Music) ACADLIST FILE4 (Political Science-Writing) ACADLIST FILE5 (biological sciences) ACADLIST FILE6 (physical sciences) ACADLIST FILE7 (business and general academia) ACADWHOL HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of all 6 directories) ACADSOCH HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of the Social Science and Humanities files 1-3) ACADLIST CHANGES (all the major additions, deletions and alterations) Please let me know about any corrections or updates. Also please get and read the ACADLIST README file if you want to know what the guidelines for inclusion were. The 5th revision won't be until Summer Break. Directions for retrieving the files from Listserv@kentvm or FTPing them from ksuvxa.kent.edu are appended to this note following my sig file. Cordially, Diane ***************************************************************** Diane K. Kovacs - One of the Moderators of LIBREF-L Instructor, Reference Librarian for the Humanities Kent State University Libraries Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: (216)672-3045 Bitnet: DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms Internet: DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu ***************************************************************** How to retrieve files from the LISTSERV@KENTVM or via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU To retrieve files from the LISTSERV send the message GET <filename> <filetype> to the LISTSERV@KENTVM via interactive messaging or e-mail message (leave the subject line *BLANK*) (e.g., GET ACADLIST FILE1) To retrieve files via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU you must have an e-mail account linked to the Internet and a system running the TCP/IP. Ask your computer services people about your local situation. Type: FTP KSUVXA.KENT.EDU (at your dollar sign prompt (VAX) or ready screen (IBM). If you are on another kind of system consult with your computer services people to find out the proper procedure for FTPing. When prompted for 'USERID' type ANONYMOUS your password will be your actual userid on your local machine. e.g. my address is LIBRK329@KSUVXA.KENT.EDU....so my password when FTPing is LIBRK329 Type: cd library You may type 'dir' to review the files in that directory to get the files just type GET <filename>.<filetype> (e.g., GET ACADLIST.FILE2) FTPing causes files to be directly sent to your filelist or directory so their is no need to 'receive' them into your account space. --------- How to receive files sent to you by the LISTSERV into your e-mail reader: --------- If your e-mail address is on a VAX VMS machine, when you get a message that a file has arrived at your e-mail address....type "RECE *". This command will put the file into your directory. You can then type "TYPE file_name" to read the file. If your e-mail address is on an IBM VM CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or some other kind of similar mailing system....go ahead and try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES OFFICE. The people there should be able to help you and/or hopefully give you a manual for your mailing system commands. From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Minerva's owls Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 09:59:12 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1482 (1770) Larry Stepelevich is looking for the origin of Hegel's expression: The Owl of Minerva. Minerva was early equated with Athena; cf. F. Altheim, "Athe- na und Minerva", in his Roemische Religionsgeschichte, I (Berlin-Leipzig, 1931), 190-220. Athena (cf. name) was the matron goddess of Athens, and Athens was the city of the owl. In German (we get it from Aristophanes), one says for "carrying coals to Newcastle," or "gloves to Grenoble", "Eulen nach Athen tragen" (to carry owls to Athens), since the Acropolis was full of them. Since Minerva then became the goddess of wisdom, we associate wisdom with owls, etc. On all this, see A. B. Cook, "The Owl of Athens" in his Zeus. A Study in Ancient Religion, vol. 3 (Cambridge, 1940), 776- 836. In my youth I read a lot of Hegel, but I am not familiar with this particular passage. Since the owl in Germany is often equated with sneering at other birds, Minervas Eule for some romantics had a negative connotation of dry book-learning, Philistinism and the like, in spite of its usual good connotation. Everything can be taken either in bonam or in malam partem, e.g. the lion can be Christ (Lion of Juda) or Satan (goes roaring about seeking whom he may devour). Jim Marchand From: Oliver Phillips <PHILLIPS@UKANVM> Subject: Re: Minerva's owl Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 20:28:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1483 (1771) Lawrence Stepelevich asks about Hegel's use of the term "Minerva's Owl." Following an older practice, Hegel uses the Roman name. Now we'd say "Athena's owl." The owl was the emblem of the goddess at Athens, probably from the little rock owls nesting in chinks on the Acropolis. The little animal appears charmingly on the fine coinage of the ancient city and the modern bird gets its reputation for wisdom entirely from its association with Athena. Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0753 Misc. Queries (8/133) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 18:22 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1484 (1772) Nykteridandrist or nycteridandrist would be a Bat-man; Minerva's owl is at least as old as the Homeric epithet _glaukopis_ for Athena, meaning both owl-faced and grey-eyed, since the adj. _glaukos_ could be "gray" but the _glaux_ is an owl. Athenian coins commonly carried Athena's face on one side and an owl on the other, along with an olive branch and the letters Alpha Theta E, presumably various signs of her presence. The owl, along with the night heron which appears in Iliad book 10 as a sign of Athena, do fly and hunt at night, a sign of perspicacity perhaps but also in Hegel's aphorism of the kind of wisdom that comes from full experience of the day's creativity etc. From: J%org Knappen <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de> Subject: Re: 5.0753 Misc. Queries (8/133) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 02:18 GMT +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1485 (1773) Re: ,,Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail'' This aphorism goes back to Aby Warburg, at least this was stated in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) one week ago. -- JK From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Batman in Greek Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 20:30:37 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1486 (1774) In keeping with mysandrist, which cannot mean mouse-man, and in answer to 5.0753, the Greek for batman is ropaloandrist. Jim Marchand From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: Bat-man Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 15:39:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1487 (1775) It's a sure sign of the need for spring break when (a) the question is asked and (b) I answer it. To wit, a suitable term for "Bat-man" would be the beastly sounding "nykteridandrist", at least by my best guess. Or like Chaerephon in Aristophanes' Clouds, one could be straight-away called simply "the bat" (nykteris).Perhaps he is the one to whom Thomas Nagel should have addressed his well known essay "What is it like to be a bat?" (Philosophical Rev.1974).Dirk Held, Connecticut College. From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 16:43:41 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1488 (1776) Re: IPA fonts for the PC (Judy Baker's request) There'll probably be a lot of responses to this (it's starting to be a FAQ -- Frequently Asked Question) but here's my 2 cents' worth. There are several companies that sell screen and/or printer fonts for the PC; there are also printer font editors, some expensive and some shareware. I know there are 2-3 or more versions of the IPA 'cos companies kept throwing it at me when I was shopping for a printer font for transliterated characters NOT included in the IPA (I finally made my own with a shareware program). That was a while and I've forgotten the companies' names, but if Judy Baker or anyone else wants to send me private email I can dig them out; also the name of the shareware program I ended up with (all this is at home and I'm at work right now). It depends of course on what printer you have. If it's an HP or compatible laser, life is fairly simple; printer fonts, and font editors, for 24 pin dot matrix printers seem much harder to find, or were when I was looking for them. That leaves screen fonts. Here the DLT (Duke Language Toolkit) is the answer (it also does printer fonts but is very limited in the printers it supports) -- make your own. Also either free or shareware, I forget which (I have an old version but since in the end I didn't bother with a screen font, having got used to seeing graphics characters instead of letters with macrons etc., I don't remember if I should have paid had I used it.) NB I use Word for Dos (5.0) and the fonts work fine within it, though I had a bit of a hassle defining the one I created to WORD at the start. Judy Koren, Haifa judyk@lib.technion.ac.il or lbjudy@vmsa.technion.ac.il From: J%org Knappen <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de> Subject: Re: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 02:08 GMT +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1489 (1777) Re: IPA fonts for PC If you are using TeX (or a macro paket above it like LaTeX) there are the wsuipa fonts. They are not confined to a special kind of machine, they are available on macs, pcs, ataris, amigas, even acorn archimedes', and, of course mainframes. They are available via anonymous ftp eg. from ymir.claremont.edu. You can exchange documents written in TeX (or LaTeX ...) from one computer to another via e-mail or ftp, because the input uses only printable ASCII. Yours, JK From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl> Subject: IPA fonts Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 2:38:16 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1490 (1778) Adobe has produced two IPA fonts which will be available soon. They are in their Stone typeface. They have both a serif and sans. This has been done in cooperation with the IPA itself or several of its leading members. The fonts are very attractive. Harry From: Nicholas Heer <heer@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:06:39 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1491 (1779) Graham Davies inquires about a Chinese word processor for the Mac. Linguist's Software, Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020, USA, (206) 775-1130, offers a program called MacChinese for $99.95. Nicholas Heer From: Chuck Bush <HRCCHUCK@BYUVM> Subject: Job Opening at BYU Humanities Research Center Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 16:11:04 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1492 (1780) If anyone on the list is interested, the Humanities Research Center at BYU has just posted the following job announcement: Operations, Research & Development Assistant Humanities Research Center Brigham Young University Qualifications: Candidate should have experience with audio and video equipment and a good understanding of computer hardware, software, and programming (in particular C, HyperCard, Toolbook). M.A. degree in Instructional Science and/or Language Acquisition preferred. Responsibilities: Will assist in the operations of the Humanities Research Center, including the Learning Resource Center, the TICCIT, IBM, and Macintosh computer labs. Will be responsible for coordinating and providing instructional design and technical direction for faculty research and courseware development projects, supervising student programmers and research assistants, and consulting with faculty on computer hardware, software, courseware, and network use. Contact: Jerry W. Larson, Director Humanities Research Center 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602 Phone: 801-378-6529 E-mail: LARSON@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Conference: Editing Exploration Texts Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 20:14:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1493 (1781) The 28th Annual CONFERENCE ON EDITORIAL PROBLEMS will take place at University College, University of Toronto, November 6 and 7, 1992. This year's session will be devoted to the subject "Editing Exploration Texts." There will be six major invited papers, plus the usual genial and intense discussion. The banquet speaker on Friday evening will be the eminent historian of exploration, D. B. Quinn. Papers begin at 3.00 pm. on Friday, November 6, and are as follows: 1) David Henige (Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Editing Columbian Texts: Past Strategies, Future Prospects." 2) D.B. Quinn (Emeritus, History, Liverpool): "Hakluyt's `Discourse of Western Planting.' 3) Helen Wallis (Hon. Vice-President, Royal Geographical Society), "`Thy Voyages Attend, Industrious Hakluyt': the Great Publication Societies." 4) James Lockhart (History, UCLA), "Editing Indigenous Sources: Nahuatl Accounts of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico." 5) Ian MacLaren (English, University of Alberta) "Paul Kane's Metamorphosis from Traveller into Published Author." 6) Luciano Formisano (Romance Philology, Bologna), "Editing Italian Sources for the History of Exploration." Chairing sessions will be George Lang (Comparative Literature, Alberta), Theodore Cachey (Romance Languages, Notre Dame), Bruce Greenfield (English, Dalhousie), Francess Halpenny (Editor Emerita, Dictionary of Canadian Biography), Edward Dahl (National Map Library of Canada) and Joan Winearls (Map Librarian, University of Toronto). Conference registration is limited to 100. If you would like to be placed on the mailing list to receive a registration package in early September, please send an e-mail message to Germaine Warkentin <warkent@epas.utoronto.ca> or, if you like, a request by ordinary mail to me at Victoria College, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7, Canada. From: EPSMARM@YALEVM Subject: Re: 5.0751 It Must Be Spring: Aliens and Golems (3/58) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 92 20:35:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1494 (1782) RE; Golems and Psalm 139:16. The Hebrew has it "Your eyes have seen my *golem*- literally, my unformed shape, or at least, my form before the spirit of life was breathed into it- they were all recorded in your book." The book here is understood to be Sefer Yetsirah- the Book of Formation, in which the secrets of creation are revealed (or encrypted). For a very comprehensive treatment of the Golem, see Idel, Moshe, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (SUNY Press 1990), and Aryeh Kaplan's edition of Sefer Yetzirah (Weiser, 1990) subtitled "in theory and practice." Note also that Israel's first computer was named "Golem", and that Gershom Scholem has a lovely essay for all virtual humanists in his "Messianic Idea in Judaism" entitled "The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot" (pp. 355-340). I have for some time considered giving a course on the Golem. It would, of course, be a practicum. B'EMET, Marc M. Epstein, Yale University. From: Marc Bregman <HPUBM@HUJIVM1> Subject: Re: 5.0751: Aliens and Golems (3/58) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 00:11 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1495 (1783) Many thanks for all the replies on Golem. At least on the question of "golem" in Psalms 139:16 I can be of some help. The Hebrew has the Psalmist ("David") saying to God: "Your eyes saw my *golem*" which here probably means something like "unfinished form" -- in Modern Hebrew *Xomer Gelem* is "raw material". In the Hebrew Bible the word "Golem" is a *hapax legomenon* (i.e. it only occurs this one time) so it is a bit difficult to determine its precise meaning. The Midrash puts this verse in the mouth of Adam and while Adam was in this "pre-formed" state, God showed him all of future human history (see for example, Tanhuma Buber Bereshit 28). Marc Bregman, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem From: LHAMPLYONS@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu Subject: Re: 5.0752 Rs: Transgendering; CALIS (3/51) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 13:46 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1496 (1784) Samuel Delaney's _Triton_ is not out-of-print, if you're prepared to buy 3 novels in one. It is the third story in _Radical Utopias_, a current Book of the Month Club offering (and I believe also available at bookstores). The other 2 novels are Suzy McKee Charnas' horrific _Walk to the End of the World_, and Joanna Russ' _The Female Man_. Liz Hamp-Lyons From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Computer generated literary texts Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 23:16:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1497 (1785) Computer generation of literary texts seems to be far more active in Europe and especially in France. European colleagues have asked me about computer generation in north-america. - Are there active groups or individuals (programmer-writer)? - Are there published or distributed computer generated texts, journals or anthologies? - Are there short stories, novels and poems produced? - Is there literature on the subject or journals devoted to it? Are there bibliographic databanks? - Are there different schools, literary mouvments in the field? - Are there general or introductory surveys of that discipline? - Names of persons or organizations to contact? Thanks. Michel. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hansje Braam <Hansje.Braam@let.ruu.nl> Subject: turkish e texts Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 11:42:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1498 (1786) Who knows more about available e-texts / e-samples of (modern) Turkish & related languages besides those in the Oxford Text Archive? If I get enough response I shal put the completed list on Humanist again. hansje braam Please send mail to braam@let.ruu.nl From: Krzywicki Janusz <JKRZYWIC@PLEARN> Subject: Qu:Hebrew Electronic List Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 20:24:04 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1499 (1787) There was a signal on Humanist, last September, that there is a Hebrew Electronic List at DARTSMC1. When I try to contact this node, I get a message, that there is no such a location. Does anybody know if this list still exists, and if it does, at what address? Janusz Krzywicki jkrzywic@plearn.binet From: "Van Doren, Frederick L." <VANDOREN@DICKINSN.Bitnet> Subject: RLIN access Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 16:43:09 est X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1500 (1788) Does anybody have the e-mail address for RLIN? I came across it in a list of text files stored at the Oxford Text Archive. It is apparently not an FTP site, at least one in the index on our VAX. Fred VanDoren Dept. of Russian Dickinson College From: Lamar Hill <LMHILL@UCI> Subject: "stylometrics" Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 16:17:26 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1501 (1789) A former graduate student who is working on her first book is interested in using a technique similar to that described by J.A.Kenny in THE COMPUTATION OF STYLE to determine authorship in a problematic manuscript. I suggested that there may be software that would be useful to her in accomplishing such an analysis and that I would ask HUMANIST for advice. Your comments and suggestions would be most welcome. Cheers, Lamar Hill Department of History UC,Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 From: rkallet@epas.utoronto.ca (Robert Kallet-Marx) Subject: Q: Date of pyramids? Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 17:33:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1502 (1790) A colleague of mine remembers reading in various places recently, neither of which he can recall precisely, that an American scientist, using a kind of stone analysis, proposes a date for the earliest pyramids towards 8-7000 BC. Can anyone refer us to a good discussion of this theory? Many thanks, Robert Kallet-Marx Classics, Toronto RKALLET@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: Jonathan "R." Partington <JRP1@phx.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Quote Identifications ? Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 09:34:48 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1503 (1791) The following quotations have been supplied by various different people. Some are unidentified, others fragmentary, some perhaps plain wrong. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. 1) "Neither snow nor rain Nor Gloom of night Shall stay these couriers From the swift completion Of their appointed rounds." 2) From some sort of comic poem (about a shipwreck, I think): "If I've got to go down I want to go down with you." 3) This one is the end of a piece of music (sounds like a symphony or opera) with the brass section playing. If it was in C major it would go 6 | E C (5 beats) . . . . CC (2 half beats)| C 8 | A??? and then repeats the same rhythm in F major. The piece ends with a lot of chords, one to a bar. 4) JG Ballard is supposed to have said "The only truly alien planet is Earth". When and where? 5) I'd like to know what, if anything, is the source of the following passage: "Dusk. Out they come, shyly at first. Dusk deepens to dark and they grow bolder. No longer winking, unblinking. Constant." 6) I learnt the following poem at school, but can't remember the author's name, nor can I find it anywhere. Any ideas? "I wonder if, in Norfolk now, The woodland traveller knows how Exiles in Africa desire The sight of snow upon the bough. At homes the fields are thick with mire; The grey leaves form a sodden pyre And, after tramping through the snow, Men warm their bodies by the fire. But only those who lack them know What beauty cold dark evenings show To those who when the North winds blow Through Norfolk's winter woodlands go." 7) I'm trying to identify a song I heard several years ago. It was sung by an American and was about one of the funeral parlours in America which does things rather over-the-top. The only lines I can remember are: "I want to go simply when I go. They'll give me a simple funeral there, I know; With the casket lined with fleece, And the fireworks spelling out 'REST IN PEACE'. Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn." (Forest Lawn being the Funeral Parlour in question) 8) "Theorems are perhaps like poems. The profundity of the thought cannot be judged by the length of the result." This doesn't seem to be from Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology" but ought to be. 9) "Lord, forgive those who {some heinous thing or other}. And Lord, forgive me, for I cannot forgive them." 10) "Nobody believed him, so out of politeness to his listeners he pretended to be joking." 11) Where does "Hand me down my silver trumpet, Gabriel" come from? It carries on, "Hand it down, send it down, any old way just get it down, hand me down my silver trumpet Lord." To a nice catchy tune. 12) I'm trying to track down the song "Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones" (loosely based on Ezekiel, chapter 37). Can anyone supply the words, or a reference where they can be found? Presumably it's a negro spiritual. Thanks. 13) I'm trying to remember the rest of a short poem which is called, I think "Epitaph - Tuppence Coloured, Penny Plain" and goes something like this: "He worshipped at the altar of romance (Tried to seduce a woman half his age) And dared to stake his fortune on a chance (Gambled away his children's heritage). ..... missing lines ..... ..... ..... Dreams were his refuge and he longed for sleep (He failed in business, took to drink and died)." 14) "le dernier fils d'une race epuisee" occurs in "Sons and Lovers" but has never been traced. It is known not to be by any of the obvious people such as Racine and Chateaubriand. 15) Where does "Hark, yon tree hath no leaves but they will out" come from? 16) A friend of mine used the following quotation in an advertisement, and attributed it to Ruskin. Some Professor of Ruskinology wrote to him and said "no, it isn't." I have seen it before, but cannot remember where. "There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper; people who consider price alone are this man's lawful prey." From: Annick Deakin <42162_1242@uwovax.uwo.ca> Subject: Movie Query Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 11:41:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1504 (1792) A friend of mine who is not a member of this list is asking me to forward a query : "Would any one know the exact title of a French film (about 5-6 years old?) depicting a healing woman accused of sorcery while or because a priest falls in love with her. There is also in this film the episode of another woman who keeps her imprisoned and starving husband alive by actually nursing him". I hope that this rings a bell to those who have seen this film. Thank you very much in advance. Annick _____________________ Annick Deakin,<deakin@uwo.ca>, (519) 661 2104, FAX:(519) 661 3540 Language Learning Centre, The University of Western Ontario From: "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1> Subject: Caldecott Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 14:19:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1505 (1793) I'd be grateful if someone would tell the date of the first publication of Randolph Caldecott's RIDE A COCK HORSE. This is a children's book, and such books were not always provided with a date of publication. Mange tak, DAVID H. HESLA ILA EMORY UNIVERSITY ATLANTA GA 30322 From: Paul R. Falzer <mfprf@ECNUXA.BITNET> Subject: Humanist's Toolkit Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 12:40:59 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 761 (1794) I was struck by Professor Hesla's thoughts regarding the humanist's electronic toolkit. He asks, "Is there a core curriculum, an essential body of knowledge, [that should be] required of all humanists working in the age of the computer and electronic communication?" I believe the answer is "yes," and would like to offer a couple of suggestions. Perhaps we are most likely to accumulate our gear and attain the knowledge to use it by incremental means rather than by making a bold leap into state of the art. But there are times in which it may be wise to begin with a blank slate, if only to envision what eventually can become a premium toolkit. Were I to start from scratch, I would want the following gear: _Hardware_ 1. at least 40 Mh 386-class personal computer with at least a 200 MB caching har drive, 2 HD floppy drives, a tape drive for backup, a CD-ROM drive, and a minimum of 8 MB of memory, preferably 16 MB. 2. at least a 16 inch non-interlaced color monitor with at least 1 MB of memory and an accelator board. 3. a laser printer with at least 2 MB of memory that operates at least at 6 ppm. 4. a V32.bis 9600 baud modem that includes Z-modem and Kermit transfer protocols _System Software_ 1. MS- or PC-DOS 5 or DR-DOS 6, together with Microsoft Windows 3.1 and/or Desqview _or_ OS-2 (which includes DOS and MS Windows). 2. an extended/expanded memory manager, possibility Microsoft's Himem, but more likely QEMM version 6 because it has the ability to copy ROMs into RAM. 3. a software cache such as PC-KWIK that includes advanced support for floppy- a hard-disk transfers and integrates disk caching with a ram disk. 4. diagnostic and maintenance software such as Norton version 6 or PCTools 7.1. 5. a first-rate file manager. 6. a scalable font program such as Adobe Type Manager. _Application Software_ 1. a graphical word processor such as Ami Pro 2.0 or MS Word 2.0. 2. a first-rate text editor such as V Edit Plus. 3. a gradebook. 4. communications software that enables full and efficient utilization of e-mail BBS, ftp, and internet services, and the ability to upload and download in the background. 5. information storage, indexing, and retrieval software such as ZYIndex, Magellan, or Folio Views. _Why this?_ The deceptively innocent question, "why" raises several matters; among these are why _all_ of this gear? (e.g., why a 386 rather than an 8088?), and why _this specifically_ ? (e.g., why a graphical rather than character-based word processor?). In the interests of precious time and space, I'll confine myself to one piece of application software--a graphical word processor. Someone writing in a letters to the editor column of a PC magazine recently made a curious remark: he said that he didn't know what all the fuss is about when it comes to graphical word processors, since word processing is inherently a character-based activity. Really. Remember the freedom and flexibility you lost when you moved from pen to typewriter, and worse, to an electronic typewriter or elementary word-processor? The most advanced character-based word processing programs (such as Word Perfect 5.1) are no less constraining than the old horses and buggies--they just have more features. But with a graphical program, you recover the ability to express yourself; you can see what you are actually doing; you are looking at the product as you are producing it. Moreover, you can work with words, graphics, tables, charts, and drawings. By embedding and linking, you move seamlessly between one application and another. In short, you can work much like you _used_ to work before you made that fateful decision (which you may have regretted ever since) to trade-off creativity and flexilibity. But you can work with all the power and efficiency that father technology has bestowed on us. But even the best graphical word processors are notoriously slow. Teamed with low-end hardware, they can be more trouble than they're worth. To run them effectively, you need high-end, powerful, hardware: something like the configuration suggested above. So the answer to the question, why _all_ of this? comes down to, what is it that you need in order to run what enables you to do what you want to be doing? If you want to do graphical word processing, you've got to have the hardware that will do your work justice. The question initially posed by Professor Hesla is: "is there a core _curriculum_, an essential _body of knowledge_? (em. added) By focusing on the tools in the tookbox, I have sidestepped his question about the knowledge and expertise needed to use them properly, if not expertly. I'll leave this question to others, and I'm looking forward to reading what you have to say. From: JLANCASTER@amherst Subject: RLIN e-mail address Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 09:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1506 (1795) According to the RLIN Searching Guide (October 1990), the RLIN Information Center can be reached at: bl.ric@rlg.bitnet For direct conversation, they list a toll-free number: 800-537-7546 John Lancaster (Internet: jlancaster@amherst.edu) Amherst College (Bitnet: jlancaster@amherst) From: Alan D Corre <corre@convex.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Stylometrics Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 10:03:30 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1507 (1796) In response to Lamar Hill's query about stylometrics, I should like to mention that my book Icon Programming for Humanists follows the general outline of Kenny's book. On p. 2 I comment "...We emphasize the writing of programs which manipulate or study texts, and follow largely the kind of procedures which are mapped out for manual use in Kenny...Many of the programs developed here are in fact automations of procedures suggested by Kenny." Since the book is accompanied by a disk, the student concerned may be able to adapt the programs to her own needs, or have someone adapt them for her. The ISBN of the book is 0-13-450180-2. From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET Subject: Re: 5.0759 E-Qs: Texts; Lists; RLIN; Stylometrics (5/83) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 14:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1508 (1797) What is meant by "computer-generated literary texts"? When I was at the State University of Stony Brook (NY, Long Is.) there was an active undergrad-grad group writing texts together on the computer (not part of course work!). Is this the sort of thing you mean? Leslie Morgan (MORGAN@LOYVAX) From: KWINKLER@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU Subject: List Server in Early Modern Philosophy Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 22:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1509 (1798) To the editors of the HUMANIST: Several historians of modern philosophy in the Boston area have been discussing the possibility of a list server in early modern philosophy. The list would be used to distribute drafts of essays. Leslie Burkholder suggested that I write to ask whether you are aware of any list (existing or projected) in the same field. He also thought that I might be able to use your list (with which I am unfamiliar) to determine whether there is interest in the list we have in mind. We would also be grateful for any advice you might have. Our group includes Paul Hoffman (of MIT) and John Carriero (of Harvard). Thank you for your help. Yours, Ken Winkler From: Peter Lafford <IDPAL@ASUACAD> Subject: Subscripted Dots Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 22:54:40 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1510 (1799) This probably is not the first time someone has asked, but what is a good way to get WordPerfect 5.1 and an HP LaserJet II to print a period under a d, n, h, etc. (upper and lower case), to arrive at camera-ready hard copy representing retroflexed consonants from India. Peter Lafford Tel.(602) 965-2679 Manager, Humanities Computing Facility Lang. & Lit. Bldg. Arizona State University (DEN-0302) Room LL-B 325 Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 IDPAL@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU From: andrewo@epas.utoronto.ca (A. Oliver) Subject: CALL FOR ARTICLES ON LITERARY HISTORY Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 10:12:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1511 (1800) TEXTE The journal of literary theory and criticism, TEXTE, will be devoting its next annual volume to the theme: "Text and Literary History". The editors invite submission of articles, in English or in French, on the (re)conceptualisation of literary history or articles which constitute practical contributions to the theory and practise of literary history. Submissions should reach the editors by September 1, 1992 and be addressed to TEXTE, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 6, Hoskin Ave., Toronto, Canada M5S 1H8 or EMAIL: ANDREWO@UTOREPAS.bitnet From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: Goethe complete works in english Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 8:16:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1512 (1801) I wonder if anyone could recommend a scholarly translation, fairly recent too, of the complete works of Goethe in English. Thanks. Christian Allegre U. de Montreal (Et. francaises)allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: Voice Rrecognition system? Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 8:20:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1513 (1802) Does anyone know whether there exists systems where you can transfer an audio tape cassette to your hard disk in word processing format ? I mean an audio equivalent of Omnipage? Thanks. Christian Allegre U. de Montreal (Et. francaises) allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: Marco Simionato <SIMION@IVEUNCC> Subject: Looking for online dictionary on Computing Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 17:11:19 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1514 (1803) I would appreciate any pointers to an online dictionary on Computing or on a multilingual vocabulary of computing terms. Both MS DOS and Mac welcome, share-/payware. Thanks, Marco Simionato From: ecotter <FCOTTER@SETONVM> Subject: Re: 5.0760 Non-Electronic Queries (4/165) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 20:44:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1515 (1804) The first is from Herodotus, I believe. Isn't Forest Lawn the cemetery of the Stars? Cotter From: Michael Morse <MMORSE@VM1.YorkU.CA> Subject: Re: 5.0760 Non-Electronic Queries (4/165) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 21:33:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1516 (1805) Dear J. Partington, Your musical quote sounds like it might be _Les Preludes_ by Liszt. Cordially, Michael From: MILTONQ@OUACCVMB Subject: Quote ID No. 7 Date: 10 Mar 1992 , 21:40:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1517 (1806) Your number 7 quotation comes from the song "Forest Lawn" written by Tom Paxton (1969) and sung most popularly (as far as I know) by John Denver. Forest Lawn is a cemetery, not a funeral parlor. You can find the song on John Denver's "An Evening with John Denver" album (1975). Peggy Cheney miltonq@ouaccvmb.bitnet From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0760 Non-Electronic Queries (4/165) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 18:52:35 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1518 (1807) No. 6 "I wonder if, in Norfolk now" sounds like A.E. Housman. C. Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: "C. David Frankel" <D7BAIAD@CFRVM> Subject: 5.0760 quotes Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 23:59:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1519 (1808) 1. Forest Lawn is earlyish Tom Paxton 2.Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones Now hear the word of the Lord Oh the foot bones connected to the ankle bone Ankle bone connected to the leg bone. . . Of course, some people sing "jumpin' bones" Hope it helps. | C. David Frankel_________Phone: 904-588-8395 Asst. Prof. of Theatre BITNET: D7DBAIAD@CFRVM Saint Leo College________INTERNET: D7BAIAD@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU From: "David A. Hoekema" <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu> Subject: Partington's miscellaneity Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 09:11:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1520 (1809) Richard Partington posted a long list of quote queries, to which I can offer a few possibly helpful responses: The song about Forest Lawn (#7) is a Randy Newman song, I believe. I'm not able to supply album and date--call your college radio station disc jockeys. The quotation to the effect that "there is nothing that someone cannot make less well and sell cheaper" (#7) was on the wall of the hardware store where I worked 25 years ago, attributed, if memory serves me, to Harry Truman. That attribution strikes me as even more implausible than Ruskin. I've seen it any number of times on store walls, but usually without attribution. "Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, hear the word of the Lord" (#12) iis, I believe, from the black folk spiritual whose chorus runs: Ezekiel saw the wheel, way up in the middle of the air, Ezekiel saw the wheel, way in the middle of the air. The big wheel runs on faith, the little wheel runs on the grace of god-- a wheel in a wheel in a wheel, ] way in the middle of the air. That's approximate, and from memory. I may have the text on one of the New World/Library of Congress historical recordings of black and white folk spirituals. A personal favorite parallel, from what is probably a white spiritual, is recorded on Lisa Neustadt and the Angel Band's record, "Anywhere is Home" (? or maybe another of their albums), and runs in part: Dry bones in the valley got up and took a little walk, And the deaf could hear, and the dumb in the valley could talk-- I saw the light come shining, come shining on the ground, I saw the light come shining, come shining all around. As for the musical quotation (#3): if nobody recognizes it you might look for a reference book that is a dictionary of musical themes. I don't recall the title, but a music librarian would know what I mean: a large book in which thousands of melodies are arranged in diatonic "alphabetical" order and identified with the pieces from the classical repertoire in which they occur. I stand in awe of anyone whose imaginative life is so rich as to generate such a long and miscellaneous list of interesting fragments! --David Hoekema <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu> Executive Director, American Philosophical Association Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Delaware || Phone: 302 831-1112 Newark, DE 19716 || FAX: 302 831-8690 From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 5.0760 Non-Electronic Queries (4/165) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 17:03:26 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1521 (1810) "Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night ..." (isn't it _dark_ of night?): the motto of the late U. S. Post, adapted, apparently, from the words with which Herodotus 8.98.1 describes the pony-express riders of the Persian Royal Road from Susa to Sardis. I don't know whether the new privatized U. S. Postal Service retains the motto. From: Oliver Phillips <PHILLIPS@UKANVM> Subject: RE: Courier query Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 09:39:17 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1522 (1811) Jonathan "R." Partington asks for the source of the quotation beginning "Neither snow nor rain . . . " It comes from Herodotus' _Histories_ 8.89.1 and refers to the royal Persian post. Oliver Phillips Classics, U. of Kansas PHILLIPS@UKANVM.BITNET From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: (R) Cemetery song Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 10:23:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1523 (1812) Item no. 7 of the query was written either by Phil Ochs or Tom Paxton, the former more likely than the latter. MKessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" <MDHARRIS@guvax.georgetown.edu> Subject: An answer and a question Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1992 16:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1524 (1813) In response to #2 of the list of queries, I was immediately reminded of the A. A. Milne poem, "Disobedience" in _When We Were Very Young_, which has a similar refrain: James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree Took great care Of his Mother, Though he was only three. James James Said to his Mother, "Mother," he said, said he; "You must never go down to the end of the twon, if you don't go down with me." James James Morrison's Mother Put on a golden gown, James James Morrison's Mother Drove to the end of the town. James James Morrison's Mother Said to herself, said she: "I can get right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea." King John Put up a notice, "LOST or STOLEN or STRAYED! JAMES JAMES MORRISON'S MOTHER SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN MISLAID. LAST SEEN WANDERING VAGUELY: QUITE OF HER OWN ACCORD, SHE TRIED TO GET DOWN TO THE END OF THE TOWN-- FORTY SHILIINGS REWARD!" James James Morrison Morrison (Commonly known as Jim) Told his Other relations Not to go blaming <ital>him</ital> James James <ital>Said</ital> to his Mother, "Mother," he said, said he; "You must <ital>never</ital> go down to the end of the town without consulting me." James James Morrison's mother Hasn't been heard of since. King John Said he was sorry, So did the Queen and Prince. King John (Somebody told me) Said to a man be knew: "If people go down to the end of the town, well, what can <ital>anyone </ital> do?" <ital>(Now then, very softly)</ital> J. J. M. M. W. G. DuP. Took great C/o his M***** Though he was only 3. J. J. Said to his M***** "M*****," he said, said he: "You-must-never-go-down-to-the-end-of-the-town-if-don't-go-down-with ME!" That was one of my favorite poems (and my son's, as well). I rather enjoyed typing it in for the rest of you. Mary Dee Harris From: Robert Goldman <rpg@cs.tulane.edu> Subject: AAAI Symposium Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1992 14:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 765 (1814) Call for Participation AAAI Fall Symposium on PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES TO NATURAL LANGUAGE AAAI Fall Symposium Series October 23, 24, & 25, 1992 Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, Massachusetts Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415) 328-3123 fss@aaai.org Introduction The American Association for Artificial Intelligence presents the 1992 Fall Symposium Series, to be held Friday through Sunday, October 23--25, 1992, at the Royal Sonesta, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The topics of the five symposia in the 1992 Fall Symposium Series are: Applications of AI to Real-World Autonomous Mobile Robots; Design from Physical Principles; Intelligent Scientific Computation; Issues in Description Logics: Users Meet Developers; and Probablistic Approaches to Natural Language. Most symposia will be limited to approximately 60 participants. Each participant will be expected to attend a single symposium. Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium. A general plenary session will be scheduled in which the highlights of each symposium will be presented and an informal reception will be held on Friday evening, October 23. In addition to invited participants, a limited number of other interested parties will be allowed to register in each symposium. Registration information will be available in July 1992. To obtain registration information write to the address above. Submission Requirements Submission requirements vary with each symposium, and are listed in the descriptions of the symposia. Please send your submissions directly to the address given in the description. DO NOT SEND submissions to AAAI. All submissions must arrive by May 11, 1992. Acceptances will be mailed by June 8, 1992. Material for inclusion in the working notes of the symposia will be required by August 10, 1992. Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in probabilistic methods in AI, spurred by technical developments which have made these methods more practical. Bayesian and decision-theoretic approaches have been facilitated by the development of graphical representations such as belief (or Bayesian) networks, and influence diagrams. Learning approaches have been promoted by new developments in statistical learning (particularly Hidden Markov Models). These methods all offer hopes to address problems of brittleness and knowledge representation in Natural Language Processing. Each has its own special strengths, however. Bayesian approaches have a clear conceptual framework and powerful representations, but must still be knowledge-engineered, rather than trained. Hidden Markov Models have a clear conceptual framework and the ability to learn, but structure must be given, and the model is weak. This symposium which will bring together researchers applying both of these probabilistic methods in order to share perspectives. We intend that the discussion will emphasize reviews of the current state of the art and views of the most promising lines of research. Of particular interest are novel applications of statistical and Bayesian techniques, systems which add more complicated knowledge representations to statistical methods or adaptive Bayesian methods. We are also interested in research where Bayesian and statistical methods are use to solve foundational issues in knowledge representation, natural language semantics and acquisition of semantic representations. Some examples of such research are: 1. The use of statistical methods to extract information from text. 2. Combining primary source evidence from large corpora with dictionary knowledge for various applications, including part of speech tagging, sense discrimination/disambiguation, and bilingual word/phrase matching. 3. Using Bayesian methods to implement abductive approaches to NL interpretation. 4. Probabilistic approaches to Machine Translation. 5. Combining high-level knowledge with low-level speech recognition. 6. Indexing and retrieval of concepts from text. Those wishing to attend the symposium should submit a 1-page statement of research interests and accomplishments, and a bibliography of selected publications. Those wishing to present their work for discussion should submit, in addition, an extended abstract of no more than 4 pages. Potential participants should submit these materials by electronic mail to rpg@cs.tulane.edu. If this is for some reason impossible, four copies of a printed document may be submitted to Robert Goldman Computer Science Department 301 Stanley Thomas Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118-5698 U.S.A. All submissions must be received by May 11, 1992. Program Committee: Robert Goldman, Peter Norvig, Eugene Charniak, Bill Gale. From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR> Subject: call for papers Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1992 14:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 766 (1815) [**NOTE CORRECTION** In some versions of this Call, the number of copies to be submitted for review was not specified. The required number of copies is five (5). ] KR'92 - CALL FOR PAPERS THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA with support from AAAI, ECCAI, and CSCSI in cooperation with IJCAII October 26-29, 1992 (KR'92 follows the AAAI Fall Symposium Series at the same location October 23-25) The idea of explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms provides an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence, from natural language to expert systems. A growing number of researchers are interested in the principles governing systems based on this idea. This conference will bring together these researchers in a more intimate setting than that of the general AI conferences. In particular, authors will have the opportunity to give presentations of adequate length to present substantial results. The theme of this year's conference is the relationship between the principles of knowledge representation and reasoning and their embodiment in working systems. Authors are encouraged to relate their work to one of the following important questions: (1) What issues arise in applying knowledge representation systems to real problems, and how can they be addressed? (2) What are the theoretical principles in knowledge representation and reasoning? (3) How can these principles be embodied in knowledge representation systems? Submissions are encouraged in (but are not limited to) the following topic areas: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FORMALISMS REASONING METHODS - logics of knowledge and belief - deduction - nonmonotonic logics - abduction - temporal logics - induction - spatial logics - learning - taxonomic logics - planning and plan analysis - logics of uncertainty - constraint solving and evidence - diagnosis - classification - inheritance - belief management and revision - analogical reasoning GENERIC ONTOLOGIES FOR DESCRIBING ISSUES IN IMPLEMENTED KR&R SYSTEMS - time - comparative evaluation - space - empirical results - causality - benchmarking and testing - resources - reasoning architectures - constraints - efficiency/completeness tradeoffs - applications classes - complexity such as medicine - algorithms SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The Program Committee will review EXTENDED ABSTRACTS rather than complete papers. Abstracts must be at most twelve (12) pages with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt), excluding the title page and the bibliography. Overlength submissions will be returned. All abstracts must be submitted on 8 1/2" x 11" or A4 paper, and printed or typed in 12-point font (10 characters/inch on a typewriter). Dot matrix printout, FAX, or electronic submission will not be accepted. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the questions and/or topic areas listed above best describes their paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). Five (5) copies of the abstract must be received by one of the program co-chairs no later than April 21, 1992. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by June 15, 1992. REVIEW OF PAPERS Submissions will be judged on clarity, significance, and originality. An important criterion for acceptance is that the paper clearly contributes to principles of representation and reasoning that are likely to influence current and future AI practice. Extended abstracts should contain enough information to enable the Program Committee to identify and evaluate the principal contribution of the research and its importance. It should also be clear from the extended abstract how the work compares to related work in the field. Submitted papers must be unpublished. Submissions must also be substantively different from papers currently under review and must not be submitted elsewhere before the author notification date (June 15, 1992). FINAL PAPERS Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Final camera-ready copies of the full papers will be due August 3, 1992. Final papers will be allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference proceedings (corresponding to approx. 28 article-style LaTeX pages; a style file will be provided by the publisher). CONFERENCE CHAIR Charles Rich Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories 201 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Voice: +1 (617) 621-7507 Fax: +1 (617) 621-7550 Email: rich@merl.com PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Bernhard Nebel William Swartout DFKI USC/Information Sciences Institute Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 4676 Admiralty Way D-W-6600 Saarbrucken Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 Germany USA Voice: +49 (681) 302-5254 Voice: +1 (213) 822-1511 Fax: +49 (681) 302-5341 Fax: +1 (213) 823-6714 Email: nebel@dfki.uni-sb.de Email: swartout@isi.edu LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR James Schmolze Dept.of Computer Science Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 USA Voice: +1 (617) 627-3681 Fax: +1 (617) 627-3443 Email: schmolze@cs.tufts.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Allen (Univ of Rochester), Guiseppe Attardi (Univ of Pisa), Daniel Bobrow (Xerox PARC), Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs), Gerd Brewka (GMD, Bonn), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine), Johan de Kleer (Xerox PARC), Jon Doyle (MIT), David Etherington (AT&T Bell Labs), Richard Fikes (Stanford Univ), Alan Frisch (Univ of Illinois), Dov Gabbay (Imperial College), Michael Georgeff (AAII), Pat Hayes (Stanford Univ), Maurizio Lenzerini (Univ of Roma), Robert MacGregor (USC/ISI), Alan Mackworth (UBC), David Makinson (Paris), David McAllester (MIT), Fumio Mizoguchi (Science Univ of Tokyo), Wolfgang Nejdl (TU Vienna), Hans-Juergen Ohlbach (MPI, Saarbruecken), Peter Patel-Schneider (AT&T Bell Labs), Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Martha Pollack (Univ of Pittsburgh), Henri Prade (Univ Paul Sabatier), Erik Sandewall (Univ of Linkoeping), Len Schubert (Univ of Rochester), Stu Shapiro (SUNY Buffalo), Gert Smolka (Univ of Saarland, DFKI Saarbruecken), Peter Szolovits (MIT), Mike Wellman (USAF Wright Lab) IMPORTANT DATES Submission receipt deadline: April 21, 1992 Author notification date: June 15, 1992 Camera-ready copy due to publisher: August 3, 1992 Conference: October 26-29, 1992 From: Mark Glazer <MG6BE8@PANAM> Subject: VIth International Congress of Traditional and Folk Medicine Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1992 10:02 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 767 (1816) The Sixth International Congress on Traditional and Folk Medicine will meet on the Texas A&I University campus in Kingsville, Texas, on Dec. 6-11, 1992. Sponsored by the Academia Mexicana de Medicina Tradicional (Mexican Academy of Traditional Medicine) and Texas A&I University, this will be the first time for the Congress to meet in the United States. One of the objectives of meeting at Texas A&I University is to get scholars and others from the United States who are interested in the traditional approaches to medicine to meet with their counterparts from Mexico and the rest of Latin America, as well as scholars from other third-world countries whose people, of necessity, rely extensively on traditional forms of medicine. This International Congress attracts scholars from about thirty different countries and from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, ethnobotany, sociology, chemistry, history, pharmacology, ethnology, ecology, and a broad variety of health care specializations. This interdisciplinary approach to the study of traditional medicine is unique in its breadth and helps foster a much better understanding of what the various disciplines can bring to the study of traditional approaches to health care. The Academia Mexicana de Medicina Tradicional is the third largest such academy in the world, second only to those in China and North Korea. The annual meetings normally attract over a thousand participants and observers, all who share an interest in the subject of traditional medicine. Much of the work done on the study of medicinal herbs in Mexico and Latin America -- both the identification of the plants -- is done by participants in this International Congress. There are four official languages at the Congress: Spanish, English, French and German. Translations will be available for the various sessions. The Congress will also present Native American dancers from Mexico and the U.S., including an Aztec shaman and a group of his followers whose dances are part of the ancient healing rituals of this people. They will participate in the opening ceremonies of the Congress, along with two groups of Matachin dancers from Laredo, and will address the subject of ritual and dance in the Aztec health system. The Congress will also feature NAPRALERT (Natural Products ALERT), a dynamic database funded by the NIH and managed by the Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences within the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy of the University of the University of Illinois at Chicago. This database contains a synthesis of well over 90,000 scientific journals, books, abstracts and patents from global literature since 1975. It is updated from current literature at the rate of approximately 700 articles per month. A number of prominent book publishers and university presses, as well as distributors of herbs and other products, will have displays throughout the Congress. In addition, a number of public and private health agencies and organizations will be represented on campus during the meetings. For further information, please contact Dr. Eliseo Torres (512- 595-3612) or Dr. Joe S. Graham (512-595-2702) at Texas A&I University, Kingsville, Texas, 78363. Should you wish to submit a paper for presentation at the conference, contact Dr. Oscar Hutterer Ariza at the Academic Mexicana de Medicina Tradicional, A.C., in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, at this telephone no.: 911 52(73) 14-12-40 or mail a completed form to this address: Dr. Oscar Hutterer Ariza, Salazar No. 215-A (Centro) C.P.622000, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Topics of the Congress: 1. History 2. Ethnobiology 3. Chemistry of Natural Products 4. Ecology and Health 5. Medical Anthropology 6. Ethnology 7. The Use and the Ops in Programs and Applications of Traditional Medicine 8. Traditional Medicine and Legislation 9. Evolution and Perspectives of Traditional Medicine 10. Galenian and Traditional Pharmacy 11. Other ACADEMIA MEXICANA DE MEDICINE TRADICIONAL, A.C. "SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF TRADITIONAL AND FOLK MEDICINE" I am interested in attending the "SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF TRADITIONAL AND FOLK MEDICINE" that will be held in Kingsville, Texas, U.S.A. I wish to present a paper on the following topic: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (circle appropriate number) The title of my paper will be: __________________________________ I propose to coordinate the symposium on: _______________________ It will be presented in Spanish, English, French, German. (circle one) Completed form, along with corresponding abstract not exceeding one typed page, should be sent to the Organizing Committee before September 30, 1992. Completed paper should be submitted before October 31, 1992. _________________________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________ Specialty:__________________ Institutional Affiliation: ______________________________________ Country: ___________________ Address: __________________________ _______________________ Telephone: _____________________________ Home Address: ___________________________ Country: ______________ Telephone: ____________________ City: __________________________ State: ________________________ Zip Code: _____________________ I will be accompanied by: _______________________________________ THESE RATES ARE VALID ONLY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30, 1992. AFTER THAT, A SURCHARGE OF 25% WILL BE MADE AND OFFICIAL RECEIPT WILL BE IMMEDIATELY MAILED TO EVERYBODY SENDING THE REGISTRATION FEE. AT THAT TIME, WE WILL ALSO INCLUDE DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING THE PROGRAM, HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS, MEALS, AND TOURISM. Participants: $100 Dis. Students: 90 Dis. Companions: 60 Dis. From: rogers@epas.utoronto.ca (Henry Rogers) Subject: Re: 5.0761 Humanist Toolkit Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 17:54:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1525 (1817) Paul Falzer recently wrote making recommendations for a basic computer system for humanists. Like other computer users, I have a fair amount of brand loyalty, and I was somewhat perplexed that only one platform was considered. I have worked quite a lot with fonts, and I notice that almost every day or so, some font question is raised with Humanist. Many of these problems are unfortunate since they seem to have resulted from people having purchased a machine unsuited to their needs. Some computers handle these requirements much more simply and elegantly than others. Fonts are not, of course, the only concern: ease of setup, ease of use, compatibility with colleagues, use of graphics and sound are all matters of importance to some users. Different machines may be more suited for one person than another. I would suggest that potential purchasers consider their own needs, habits, and pleasures before buying a computer. Henry Rogers Department of Linguistics University of Toronto From: "Mary A. Sproule" <MSPROULE@PUCC> Subject: Humanist's Toolkit Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1992 10:34:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1526 (1818) I agree with Mr. Falzer's positive answer to the question proposed by Mr. Hesla. It would be difficult, I believe, to find any computing humanist to disagree that there exists an essential body of knowledge required for working in the computer age, although just what is contained in that essential body is a matter open to dispute. His desiderata, however, neatly broken down into hardware and software, seem to fairly specifically address only his particular needs. I would be very uncomfortable recommending, for example, that humanists necessarily invest in a DOS pc. There are numerous hardware solutions available to and used by the academic community. On our own campus, humanities faculty are using not only the PC with DOS, but the PC with Windows, Macintosh, and a variety of Unix machines such as NeXT, Sun, and SGI, not to mention the IBM mainframe and the public Unix server. We have been working with the Romance Languages and Literatures department here on just this problem of what to add to the toolkit. This summer we are conducting an internship for graduate students in the department, and have compiled our own desiderata. The following list was cooperatively created between Humanities Computing and the department, and represents which tools we will stress for graduate students, and therefore future scholars, as they embark on intensive research. Broad topics are listed. I believe that the most successful tools are skills; concepts are transferable across platforms. Therefore you will not see specific software or hardware listed: Communications Skills - electronic mail, electronic forums, electronic journals Using Network Resources - catalogs, databases, wide area information servers Research Organization Skills - bibliography/database creation Electronic Text Manipulation - creating or finding, tagging, text analysis At the VERY least, I would recommend that anyone active in their field who prefers to use a "mini" toolkit, use a word processor and get access to the internet. From: Skip Knox <DUSKNOX@IDBSU> Subject: Re: 5.0761 Humanist Toolkit (1/80) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 13:26:34 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1527 (1819) One revision to Paul's recitation of equipment (for which I would gladly give up two fingers and my dog): Throw out the modem and get on the network. The modem belongs on your portable which, since we're being wildly improbably anyway, ought also to be part of the Serious Scholar's Toolkit. Ellis "Skip" Knox dusknox@idbsu.idbsu.edu PC Coordinator & Faculty Computer Lab Supervisor Professor of History Boise State University Boise, Idaho From: LARRY INNES <GULF@MCMASTER> Subject: Re: 5.0761 Humanist Toolkit (1/80) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1992 13:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1528 (1820) Paul R. Falzer <mfprf@ECNUXA.BITNET> writes the following: 1. at least 40 Mh 386-class personal computer with at least a 200 MB caching har drive, 2 HD floppy drives, a tape drive for backup, a CD-ROM drive, and a minimum of 8 MB of memory, preferably 16 MB. 2. at least a 16 inch non-interlaced color monitor with at least 1 MB of memory anrates at least at 6 ppm. 4. a V32.bis 9600 baud modem that includes Z-modem and Kermit transfer protocols _System Software_ 1. MS- or PC-DOS 5 or DR-DOS 6, together with Microsoft Windows 3.1 and/or Desqview _or_ OS-2 (which includes DOS and MS Windows). 2. an extended/expanded memory manager, possibility Microsoft's Himem, but RO Ms into RAM. 3. a software cache such as PC-KWIK that includes advanced support for floppy- a hard-disk transfers and integrates disk caching with a ram disk. 4. diagnostic and maintenance software such as Norton version 6 or PCTools 7.1. 5. a first-rate file manager. 6. a scalable font program such as Adobe Type Manager. _Application Software_ 1. a graphical word processor such as Ami Pro 2.0 or MS Word 2.0. 2. a first-rate text editor such as V Edit Plus. 3. a gradebook. 4. communications software that enables full and efficient utilization of e-mail BBS, ftp, and internet services, and the ability to upload and download in the background. 5. information storage, indexing, and retrieval software such as ZYIndex, Magellan, or Folio Views. Perhaps such a machine is what is required for people using p-word boxes, but for the Macintosh inclined, the following setup would be more appropriate: _hardware_ - a 68030 based machine, with the Classic II at the low end to the IIci for those with the need for speed. I use a IIsi myself and am very happy with it. - at least 5 meg of memory and 80 meg of hard disk storage. - a v.32 9600 baud modem with send/receive fax ability - a good quality (read: 300 dpi) printer, either inkjet or laser depending on your needs--printing straight text doesn't really require a laser... _software_ - all software on th mac is graphical, thus you can choose between a variety of packages to achieve the flexibility that Paul Falzer speaks so well of. My question is why try to be graphical on a box that wasn't designed with a graphical interface in mind? :-> - anyway, my personal recommendation for mac software is as follows: - a good word processor like nidus or word 5. Nidus seems to shine, especially if you use several typefaces or equations. - the ever-essential spreadsheet (excel 3) - a communications package like white knight or microphone ii. (uploads & download in the background, automate many procedures) - a painting program like canvass 3 or a vector drawing program like Illustrator or Freehand. - of course, System 7 with all its excellent features is included with the hardware. The great thing about macintosh is that the hardware is virtually transparent. Applications are written according to a consistent look-feel standard, so learning to use one package is the basis for learning every package. Data is easily transferred between applications, and with new developments in the system software, is becoming even easier. Macs can read and translate ibm files into friendlier formats, and with software or hardware additions, can even run ms-dos software (although I don't know why one would want to ;-) ) anyway...good humanists have more on their minds than learning to read computer manuals. For power, flexibility and ease of use, go macintosh! Larry Innes mac evangelist - not associated in any way with apple, just a contented mac user - From: "L.LITVACK" <ENG1787@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK> Subject: Query re: criteria for distributing PCs and MACs to staff Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 9:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1529 (1821) Dear Humanist List members, In my department we are currently in a position where we think we will have sufficient funds in our equipment budget to engage in a long-term plan for purchasing PCs and MACs for all members of our dept. who want them. Because we can only purchase a certain number of machines each year, we need to draw up a list of criteria for developing a priority list, which will dictate the order in which the machines ought to be bought. We currently have 21 members of staff, and should be able to purchase three machines a year; the project will, therefore, take seven years to complete, given present financial circumstances. Has anyone out there ever done this? How did you develop criteria? Many thanks for your help. Leon Litvack School of English Queen's University of Belfast Northern Ireland ENG1787@uk.ac.qub.v2 From: "_NAME MICHAEL B. PATE" <9566PATEM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Lakota Language Collections Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 10:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1530 (1822) Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a repository for information on the Lakota (Sioux) language and religion. For language, there are the grammar and vocabulary notes of Eugene Buechel,S.J. and the language education material produced by Reyez Hernandez and William Stolzman, S.J. Both bodies of material are part of the Holy Rosary/Red Cloud Indian School Records. These include the records of medicine men and clergy meetings chaired by Stolzman which are found in the St. Francis Mission Records held in the Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives Department. The resident expert at Marquette is Mark Thiel. A recent deposit to the records from the Holy Rosary Mission includes 60 audio tapes with descriptive literature made at Pine Ridge Reservation for the purpose of assisting Jesuits in the work with the native peoples. Michael B. Pate 9566PATEM@vms.csd.mu.edu Marquette University Library 1415 W. Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee, WI. 53233 (414) 288-7214 From: wilm@Calvin.EDU (Mark Williams) Subject: Black Orpheus query Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 21:15:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1531 (1823) Greetings. In the film "Black Orpheus" one of the little boys gives Eurydice a home-made charm of some sort on a necklace. Does anybody know what sort of charm it is? Reply privately, if you wish. Thanks. -- Mark Williams Internet: WILM@calvin.edu Classics Department Voice: (616) 957-6293 Calvin College Fax: (616) 957-8551 Grand Rapids, MI USA 49546 From: "Joseph B. Monda" <monda@seattleu.edu> Subject: Re: The Wild Man in Literature Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1992 14:19:05 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1532 (1824) I have a colleague who has written a study of the Wild Man in literature, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Would any of the members have an idea of where he might submit it for publication? He sent it to one publisher who said it was being read when, in fact, it was lying under a stack somewhere. So he lost ten months. O tempora! O mores! Please reply to me. Joseph B. Monda email: monda@sumax.seattleu.edu smail: English Department Seattle University Seattle WA 98122 (206) 296-5425 From: Ronald de Rooy <DEROOY@ALF.LET.UVA.NL> Subject: Benedetto Croce in machine readable form? Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 20:52 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1533 (1825) A colleague of mine is doing research on the philosophical, critical, and esthetical works of Benedetto Croce. An electronic version of these texts would be of great value to her. Does anyone of the HUMANIST members know whether these works are available in machine readable form? Ronald de Rooy Department of Italian, University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam DEROOY@alf.let.uva.nl From: Lucia Ruedenberg <soulr@hujivm1> Subject: Re: 5.0750 Computing Strategies Across Curriculum (X-Posted) (1/23 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1992 14:15 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1534 (1826) I am interested in the conference in Vermont on April 3 and 4. However, since I will not be able to attend, I was wondering if any of the papers will be available in electronic form. If enough people are interested, perhaps someone could post to this list after the conference, where papers would be found, individually, or as a group. Thanks. Lucia. From: "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1> Subject: HOKUSAI PRINT Date: Sun, 15 Mar 92 12:50:44 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1535 (1827) Many thanks to anyone who can help me locate a print or book illustration by the Japanese artist Hokusai. The design shows a man whose eyeballs are at the end of stalks protruding from the man's head. I need the name of the picture (if there is one), the title of the book where it is found, and the year of publication. DAVID H. HESLA GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS EMORY UNIVERSITY ATLANTA GA 30322 ILADHH@EMUVM1 From: Michelle_Vanni@NL.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Italian corpora Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 01:25:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1536 (1828) Does anyone out there know of the existence and/or availability of on-line corpora in Italian? Preferably, the corpus would represent text from vary- ing sources, similar to the Brown corpus in English, usinfg currrent standard Italian. However, any leads to any type of corpus in Italian would be welcome. Many thanks. From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: War as the locomotive of history. Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1992 12:19:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1537 (1829) I'm trying to locate a quote supposedly made by Karl Marx, about war as the locomotive of history. Does anyone have a specific citation for this? -- Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H. j_cerny@unhh.unh.edu From: Michel Chaouli <chaouli@ocf.Berkeley.EDU> Subject: electronic dictionary Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 22:49:41 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1538 (1830) Can anyone recommend a good electronic dictionary? I have a Mac Classic (2 MB RAM) and use Microsoft Word. A few days ago I received a brochure for the _American Heritage Dictionary_, which sounded fine, but can anyone speak from experience? Is it perhaps best to stick to the printed kind? Michel Chaouli From: "Randall Jones" <JONESR@jkhbhrc.byu.edu> Subject: Printing a period under a character Date: 12 Mar 92 17:33:36 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1539 (1831) A clumsy but otherwise not bad method of printing a period under a character in WordPerfect 5.1 is to combine the Overstrike and Subscript features. Get into Overstrike (Shift F8, 4, 5, 1) and type the character, e.g. n. The get into Subscript (CTRL F8, 1, 2) and type the period. Depending on the font and the printer, it doesn't look bad. Randall L. Jones, Dean College of Humanities 2054 JKHB Brigham Young Univerity Provo, Utah 84602 801-378-2779 Bitnet: hrcjones@byuvm Internet: jonesr@jkhbhrc.byu.edu From: Jim Campbell <jmc@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU> Subject: Works of Goethe in English Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 13:43:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1540 (1832) It's unlikely that there will ever be a _complete_ Goethe in English. The standard German edtion fills 133 volumes. There is however a very well-edited recent 12-volume set with the title Collected Works. It's published by the German publisher Suhrkamp, but distributed in North America from their office in Boston and available through the regular book trade. From: dthel@conncoll.bitnet Subject: homonymous batmen Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 16:45:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1541 (1833) Jim Marchand suggested that the Greek for batman would be ropaloandrist, whereas I and Owen Cramer offer nykteridandrist. Jim Marchand's offering would seem to be correct only if one takes "bat" in the sense of cudgel or club. The English homonymy doesn't carry over to the Greek. Maybe Batman carried one under his cloak... Dirk Held. From: Susan_Latham@vme.glasgow.ac.uk Subject: Revival Story Date: Mon,16 Mar 92 09:16:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1542 (1834) According to the Dictionary of National Biography, the lady of interest seems to be Anne Greene who was hanged for murdering her illegitimate child, revived and pardoned in 1650. We have additional information on the case - additional, that is, to DNB - which we will fax on request. David Bank <D.A.Bank@uk.ac.glasgow.vme> Susan Latham <Susan_Latham@uk.ac.glasgow.vme> From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0762 Rs: RLIN; Stylometrics; Computer Generated Texts (3/39) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1992 11:12:02 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1543 (1835) Re. Leslie Morgan's question: what is meant by "computer-generated literary texts"? -- I always thought that what was meant was what the Gang of Three (Bilbo, Casaubon and Diotalevi, if I remember the names correctly) were doing with the PC in "Foucault's Pendulum" -- feed in random slices of text, get the computer to generate "poems" or "stories" from them, and draw far-ranging conclusions from these about the nature of the universe (the latter being, of course, Literary Criticism if done by academics; but since it was done by people out in the real world, in the book it simply got them into trouble instead of into a professorial chair or at least tenure :-) ). What else do people understand by the term? Judy Koren, Haifa. From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Stylometrics and computer generated literary texts Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 17:36:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1544 (1836) Stylometrics ------------------------------------------------- An integrated stylometric package for MacIntosh has been on the market for about a year now. It does very basic stylometric calculations as well as very sophisticated ones and can process large textual corpora in several european languages. It is a fully integrated, fully developped, hypercard based system realized by Prof. Etienne Brunet and called HYPERBASE. Please contact me if you want more information about it. Precisions about computer generated literary texts -------------------------------------------------- In my mind, computer generated literary texts do not include texts written by human authors directly on computers. One might debate whether interactive fiction and multi-authored literary texts are computer generated literature (CGL) or not but CGL is fully automated literary text generation or , in other words, literary texts produced by computer programms. Michel. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PARKINSON@vax.oxford.ac.uk Subject: RE: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 11:47 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1545 (1837) IPA fonts For those who cannot afford Adobe fonts, I have information on two useful packages. For PC's attched to a 24-pin dot-matrix printer, there is LQMATRIX, a font creation package which comes with a ready/made IPA font. This is produced by J. David Sapir, 906 Old Farm Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A tel 804 295-5496. It is shareware with a registration fee of $24. It can be used with a variety of wordprocessors, but only provides printer fonts. For PC's running WordPerfect 5.1 with a HP Laserjet or compatible, there is a full set of screen and printer fonts produced by Tim Montler of the University of North Texas, which has been made available for ftp by Michel Eytan (me@suzuka.u-strasbg.fr) from various sites. The one I know to be operational is Lund Institute of technology (lth.se) where the files are found in the directory pub/pc/fonts/IPA.fonts (there are three of them, drivers.exe, fonts.exe and readme.1st, of whicgh the .exe files need to be transferred in binary mode. I suspect these fonts have already been downloaded by a number of individuals and departments (my copy came via some friendly psychologists) since they were publicised on the Linguist List, where this is an evem more FAQ. Stephen Parkinson, Taylor Institution, Oxford University. From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 5.0764 Quote Identifications (10/220) Date: 12 Mar 92 17:25:32 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1546 (1838) The interesting thing about the Post Office quote, though, is why it sounds so like immortality? _Ou niphetos, out' ombros_ of Hdt. 8.98.1 modulates into _ou niphetos . . . oute pot' ombros_ of Odyssey 4.566, where it's life in the Elysian fields. Now the Persian King's Post is called, in the passage in question _angare^ion_, and that word of uncertain etymology nevertheless relates semantically and otherwise to the Greek _angelos_ or even _euangelion_, so angels and messengers are no doubt related at the oldest levels, but still . . . Plus, the message here delivered is of Xerxes' great _symphora^_ disasterWhile I'm on this spring-break topic, how did they get from Xerxes' once-in- a-lifetime disaster to the daily mail (probably twice a day when national postal services would have been adopting the motto)? Owen Cramer, Colo. College From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0764 Quote Identifications (10/220) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 10:12:42 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1547 (1839) No. 6 "I wonder if, in Norfolk, now" is NOT Housman (at least not in his collected works. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Francis Heylighen) Subject: Principia Cybernetica Symposium-CFP Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 09:50:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 771 (1840) Call For Papers ********************************************************* * SYMPOSIUM: THE PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA PROJECT * * computer-supported cooperative development * * of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy * ********************************************************* as part of the 13th International Congress on Cybernetics NAMUR (Belgium), August 24-28, 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Principia Cybernetica Project _______________________________________ The Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP) is a collaborative attempt to develop a complete and consistent cybernetic philosophy. Such a philosophical system should arise from a transdisciplinary unification and foundation of the domain of Systems Theory and Cybernetics. Similar to the metamathematical character of Whitehead and Russell's "Principia Mathematica", PCP is meta-cybernetical in that we intend to use cybernetic tools and methods to analyze and develop cybernetic theory. These include the computer-based tools of hypertext, electronic mail, and knowledge structuring software. They are meant to support the process of collaborative theory-building by a variety of contributors, with different backgrounds and living in different parts of the world. As its name implies, PCP will focus on the clarification of fundamental concepts and principles of the cybernetics and systems domain. Concepts include: Complexity, Information, System, Freedom, Control, Self-organization, Emergence, etc. Principles include the Laws of Requisite Variety, of Requisite Hierarchy, and of Regulatory Models. The PCP philosophical system is seen as a clearly thought out and well-formulated, global "world view", integrating the different domains of knowledge and experience. It should provide an answer to the basic questions: "Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going to?". The PCP philosophy is systemic and evolutionary, based on the spontaneous emergence of higher levels of organization or control (metasystem transitions) through blind variation and natural selection. It includes: a) a metaphysics, based on processes or actions as ontological primitives, b) an epistemology, which understands knowledge as constructed by the subject, but undergoing selection by the environment; c) an ethics, with survival and the continuance of the process of evolution as supreme values. PCP is to be developed as a dynamic, multi-dimensional conceptual network. The basic architecture consists of nodes, containing expositions and definitions of concepts, connected by links, representing the associations that exist between the concepts. Both nodes and links can belong to different types, expressing different semantic and practical categories. Philosophy and implementation of PCP are united by their common framework based on cybernetical and evolutionary principles: the computer-support system is intended to amplify the spontaneous development of knowledge which forms the main theme of the philosophy. PCP is managed by a board of editors (presently V. Turchin [CUNY, New York], C. Joslyn [NASA and SUNY Binghamton] and F. Heylighen [Free Univ. of Brussels]). Contributors are kept informed through the Principia Cybernetica Newsletter, distributed in print and by email, and the PRNCYB-L electronic discussion group, administered by C. Joslyn (for subscription, contact him at cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu). Further activities of PCP are publications in journals or books, and the organization of meetings or symposia. For more information, contact F. Heylighen at the address below. About the Symposium ___________________ After the succesful organization of a symposium on "Cybernetics and Human Values" at the 8th World Congress of Systems and Cybernetics (New York, June 1990), and of the "1st Workshop of the Principia Cybernetica Project" (Brussels, July 1991), the third official activity of the Principia Cybernetica Project will be a Symposium held at the 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics. The informal symposium will allow researchers potentially interested in contributing the Project to meet. The emphasis will be on discussion, rather than on formal presentation. Contributors are encouraged to read some of the available texts on the PCP in order to get acquainted with the main issues (Newsletter available on request from the Symposium Chairman). Papers can be submitted on one or several of the following topics: The Principia Cybernetica Project Cybernetic Concepts and Principles Evolutionary Philosophy Knowledge Development Computer-Support Systems for Collaborative Theory Building About the Congress __________________ The International Congresses on Cybernetics are organized triannually (since 1956) by the Intern. Association of Cybernetics (IAC), whose founding members include W.R. Ashby, S. Beer and G. Pask. The 13th Congress takes place in the "Institut d'Informatique, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, 21 rue Grandgagnage, B-5000 Namur, Belgium". The official congress languages are English and French. Namur is a quiet little city on the confluence of the Meuse and Sambre rivers, at the foot of a hill supporting impressive medieval fortifications. The congress atmosphere is relaxed and informal, with a lot of small symposia going on in parallel in adjacent rooms. There will be a welcome cocktail, a congress dinner, and a meeting room available for coffee breaks. Participants will receive a list of nearby hotels after sending in the registration form. They can also reserve inexpensive accommodation in student rooms. Registration fee : members of the IAC and authors of papers: 6000 BF (about $180) other participants: 10000 BF (about $300) Young researchers under 30 years 2000 BF (about $60) (with certificate of their university) The fee covers congress attendance, conference abstracts and coffee-breaks. Partial Congress Programme __________________________ The Congress will feature over 30 symposia, including the following: (CHAIRPERSON Subject) ACALUGARITEI G. (Roumania) Evolutions and Metaevolutions from the Point of View of the Invariants Associated to the Transformation Groups BAHG C. (China) Complex Systems and their Evolution COLLOT F-C. (France) Les notions de temps et d' e'volution en Cyberne'tique FRANCOIS C. (Argentina) Les syst`emes humains home'ostatiques ou e'mergents HEYLIGHEN F. (Belgium) The Principia Cybernetica Project : Computer-supported Cooperative Development of an Evolutionary-systemic Philosophy JDANKO A. (Israel) - Cybernetic Systems Approach to History - Cybernetic Systems Interpretation of the Religious Idea : From the Primitive to the Monotheist GASPARSKI W. (Poland) Cybernetics and Human Behaviour GELEPITHIS P.(United Kingdom) Invariants of Cognitive Science : Scope, Limits, Implications STEG D. (USA) Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Complex Systems VANDAMME F. (Belgium) Cognitive Modelling for Knowledge and Information Technology : Manual and Automatic Tools Submission of papers ____________________ People wishing to present a paper in the Principia Cybernetica symposium should quickly send the filled-in application form below, together with an abstract of max. 1 page, to the addresses of the Symposium chairman (Francis Heylighen) and of the Congress secretariat (IAC) below. Submissions or requests to the chairman can be done directly by email, but for the secretariat it is advisable to also send an application in paper form. All applications should be received by March 31, 1992. People wishing to present a paper in a different symposium can directly submit their abstract to the secretariat. You will be notified about acceptance not later than 1 month after receipt of the abstract, and will receive instructions for the preparation of the final text. Final papers (max. 5 pages) should be ready by the end of the congress. Abstracts will be published in Symposium booklets available at the Congress. The Proceedings will be published by the IAC about 1 year after the congress. ==Deadlines== * for abstract submission: March 31, 1992 * for final texts (max 5 pages): August 28, 1992 ...................................................................... For submissions of papers or further information about the Principia Cybernetica project, contact the symposium chairman: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dr. Francis Heylighen PO-PESP, Free Univ. Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone +32 - 2 - 641 25 25 Email fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be Fax +32 - 2 - 641 24 89 Telex 61051 VUBCO B * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For congress registration or further information about the congress contact the secretariat: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * International Association for Cybernetics Palais des Expositions, Place Ryckmans, B-5000 Namur, Belgium Phone +32 - 81 - 73 52 09 Email cyb@info.fundp.ac.be Fax +32 - 81 - 23 09 45 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ____________________________________________________________________ Application Form Symposium "The Principia Cybernetica Project" in the framework of the 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Namur, 24-28 August, 1992) Name : ....................................................... First name(s) :............................................... Profession and titles:........................................ Institution: ................................................. .............................................................. Address : .................................................... .............................................................. .............................................................. Nationality:.................................................. Phone : (office)..................... (home).................. Fax:.......................................................... E-mail :...................................................... o I would like to receive more information about the Congress o I would like to attend the Congress o I would like to receive more information about the Principia Cybernetica Project (Newsletter) o I submit a paper for presentation at the Symposium "The Principia Cybernetica Project" (abstract sent to the Symposium chairman AND to the congress secretariat) Title of Paper :............................................. .............................................................. Date : Signature: ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Francis Heylighen Systems Researcher PO, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B -1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone:+32-2-6412525; Fax:+32-2-6412489; Email: fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be _______________________________________________________________________ From: Ann Lillian Okerson <OKERSON@UMDC> Subject: Networked reviews, abstracts, and "filters" Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 19:09:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1548 (1841) You might be interested in this extract from the Foreword to the next edition of the ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion lists. Note the emergence on the Net of "publications" that are created specifically to be guides to the literature of an academic field. It will be interesting to see if such pointers act as powerful advertisements for current scholarly output on paper -- and to observe the entwined nature of scholarly communications on various media. The ARL printed Directory, 2nd edition, is expected to be avilable at the end of March. We will post an announcement soon. Ann Okerson Association of Research Libraries Secondary and "Filtering" Publications on the Net: In editing this edition, we noted that there are emerging a number of reviewing or filtering publications on the networks, a trend that is sure to continue as the number of networked "serials" increases. These publications are "user-friendly" towards books and journals, in assuring that they are noticed and read in a timely fashion. The most helpful ones contain abstracts or reviews. The following appear in the directory: Strangelove Compilation/Section 1: Journals (1) Bryn Mawr Classical Review. In-depth reviews of books related to Classical Studies. Article-length, several hundred reviews per year. (U of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College) (2) Religious Studies Publications Journal -- CONTENTS. While initially posting contents of books and journals, the publication is expanding to add detailed reviews. (University of Ottawa) Section 2: Newsletters (3) Citations for Serial Literature. This is an index/table of contents to journals that carry articles about the "serials industry." (MIT) (4) Current Cites. Citations and annotations from over 30 journals in librarianship and computer technology. (UC Berkeley) (5) Erofile. Reviews of the latest books associated with French and Italian Studies. (UC Santa Barbara) (6) Law and Politics Book Review. Reviews of books of interest to political scientists studying law, the courts, and the judicial process. (Northwestern) (7) Network Audio Bits and Audio Software Review. Devoted primarily to compact disk and vinyl LP record reviews. (Maine) Kovacs Compilation: e-Conferences (8) NEWBOOKS@RPIECS. (Communications) Distributes information about recent, new, and forthcoming books relevant to communications studies. (Rensselaer) (9) TECHNICAL REPORTS REDISTRIBUTION. (Library and Information Science) Lists of technical reports from universities and R & D labs. (10) THPHYSIO@FRMOP11. (Medical Sciences/Research) Will display tables of contents of journals relevant to thermal physiology. (North Dakota) From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Software Reviewers Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 16:18:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1549 (1842) CONTENTS, the religious studies on-line service, is preparing to launch a new component, namely, on-line software review. CONTENTS is now looking for sub-editors and reviewers for the following areas of software relevant to religious studies: - Modeling - Bibliographical Packages - Text Analysis - Text Retrieval - Data base - Multi-Language Word Processing - Computer assisted Language Learning - Computer assisted Instruction - Hypertext - Machine readable texts - Bible packages (KJV, NIV, NRSV, etc.) There may be other areas as well, but we have identified these. (If you would like to suggest other areas, please feel free to do so.) Reviews will be posted on CONTENTS and discussion of the software and/or reviews will take place on AIBI-L (both LISTSERV groups are found at UOTTAWA (BITNET) or ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA (Internet). If you would like to offer your services as a sub-editor or as a reviewer or if you would like to offer suggestions, please contact me. L. Gregory Bloomquist Associate Director and Managing Software Review Editor, CONTENTS Moderator, AIBI-L GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA (bitnet) GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA (internet) Greetings. L. Gregory Bloomquist Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa BITNET: GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA Voice: (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393 FAX: (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS is an electronic journal that disseminates table of contents, abstracts, reviews and ordering information on new and recent print and electronic publications of relevance to Religious Studies. There are presently nine participating publishers: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Catholic University of America Press, Sheffield Academic Press (JSOT Press), University of Scranton Press, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford), Jewish Bible Association, Columban Enterprises, Penn State Press and the State University of New York Press. Electronic subscriptions are free; to subscribe, send a mail message to Listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca with the text: SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name. Inquires regarding the CONTENTS project should be sent to the project director: Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa 177 Waller, Ottawa K1N 6N5 (FAX 613-564-6641) <441495@Uottawa> or <441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA> From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Stylometric software for the Mac Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 09:24:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1550 (1843) I also have a copy of Hyperbase (version 1.1, r'eduite, by Etienne Brunet, U. of Nice), and it looks quite useful though this is apparently either a beta or an evaluation copy (because "reduced"). The package I have provides directions exclusively in French. I do not know if there is an English version of the documentation (hardcopy & system-wide). Prof. Brunet's e-mail address is provided on each diskette label: BRUNET@FRMOP11.BITNET . Postal address: Institut National de la langue fran,caise URL 9 (CNRS) 98 bd Herriot 03007 NICE FRANCE Tel. 93 37 54 44 Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu From: ksalzber@hamline.edu (Kenneth Salzberg) Subject: Humanist Toolkit Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 17:51:51 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1551 (1844) Larry Innes, the mac evangelist, says: For power, For power, flexibility and ease of use, go macintosh! To which I would like to humbly disagree. I've used Mac, set them up, run wordprocessing programs (3 different ones), database programs (2), etc. on macs, and used Dos based programs (5 major wordprocessors, various databases and spreadsheets, etc.) for years. If all you are looking for is ease of use (you infrequently use any given program, arn't too picky, etc.) macs are ok - but then so are some DOS based programs. What I'm looking for is power, speed, and transparency - that is I want a program that lets me know what it is doing, and enough of the how to allow me to use the tools flexably, and to change the things the program is doing in ways I want to personalize my work. (Here I'm not talking about fonts, for heavens sake - one can (should be able to) change the fonts in one's work any time - and I don't do desktop publishing, or anything much like it) I didn't find any of that in any of the Mac programs I've used, and few of the DOS ones either. Most are inflexible - you have to do it their way, or try to write a macro to go around it - with rather limited options in the macro languages. This issue of flexibility has come up before, and I don't want to go over it all again. I've finally landed on one wordprocessor that I can use as I want, and it's got enough built in features that I don't need to change too much, and when I do, it's easy: Nota Bene. If any of you out there want a longer, or more specific essay on NB, send me a personal note - I' ll respond. I don't want to get back into the "my program is better than yours" - only to point out that mac's arn't for everyone, particularly not for every academic. --Ken Salzberg ksalzber@hamline.edu From: hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy M. Cook) Subject: RE: Electronic Dictionaries Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 07:39:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1552 (1845) Michel Chaouli asks about electronic dictionaries: "Can anyone recommend a good electronic dictionary? I have a Mac Classic (2 MB RAM) and use Microsoft Word. A few days ago I received a brochure for the _American Heritage Dictionary_, which sounded fine, but can anyone speak from experience? Is it perhaps best to stick to the printed kind?" I would encourage anyone to explore the world of electronic dictionaries. I've been using electronic dictionaries on CD ROM myself. Although I've used the Microsoft Bookshelf, I prefer The Software Toolworks' Reference Library because I can load it as a TSR and hotkey out of my applications directly to it and back again with ease. (Microsoft Bookshelf can also be used as a TSR but it requires far more precious memory). I also use the OED on CD ROM. To me the greatest benefit of electronic dictionaries is speed. With a minimal interruption to the flow of my work, I can use the dictionary. Because the time involved is slight, I am simply more likely to look something up than let it pass. I also easily keep definitions lists for myself, my students, and my daughter by pasting my findings directly into a file. I recently received an electronic _American Heritage Dictionary_, but I have not installed it because of my hard disks are pushing their upper limits, but it appears to be a sound program with good searching options. Hope this helps. Hardy M. Cook HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: 5.0769 Dictionaries Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 17:17 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1553 (1846) The brochure is going out generally. 160,000 words. Very little vocabulary, in short. Cheaper and better to use the big Heritage Dictionary, I think. Of cours e there is the OED on CD ROM, but not the supplements, yet, I think? Kessler From: Eric Rabkin <USERGDFD@UMICHUM.BITNET> Subject: 5.0760 Caldecott Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 00:50:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1554 (1847) [deleted quotation] According to *The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature*, 1884. Cheers, Eric Rabkin From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: Italian Text Corpora Date: Tue,17 Mar 92 16:32:37 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1555 (1848) Re Italian Text Corpora: Elena Tognini Bonelli at the Dept of Italian, University of Birmingham, is working with a corpus of 3.5 million words, which she obtained from the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale in Pisa. However, I'm not sure whether this is freely available. Elena's address is Dept of Italian, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK, tel 021 414 5930, fax 021 414 3971. June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull. From: G.R.Hart@durham.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0760 Quote IDs Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 16:12:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1556 (1849) To JRP's question about quotations: the first one looks like a translation or adaptation of the description of the Persian imperial couriers in the histo ries of Herodotus -I'm sorry, but I don't have the precise reference within reach. I'm puzzled that it is apparently meant to be in verse - that is what makes me think it's adaptation rather than translation, but it's very close to the original. Jill Hart, Durham, UK. From: James P Love <LOVE@PUCC> Subject: NJ WINDO EDITORIAL Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 10:24:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 775 (1850) The following is the lead editorial from _The TIMES_ of Trenton, New Jersey, on March 16, 1992. It is excellent. This type of support at the grass roots is extremely helpful. jamie. Open this WINDO We taxpayers pay for a vast amount of information that our federal government complies. For the ordinary person, though, gaining access to that information is a slow and difficult process. It often requires shelling out large amounts of additional money to commercial vendors of electronic data. Even government agencies themselves are forced to buy back this government information from the vendors so their staffs can use it. Rep. Charlie Rose, D-N.C., has introduced a bill in Congress that would change that situation. He wants to make it much easier and less costly to obtain government data. His proposal would open varied and exciting possibilities. Rep. Rose's bill, HR 2772, would create something called the Wide Information Network for Data Online (WINDO). This proposal would have the Government Printing Office (GPO) establish a one- stop-shopping window for federal databases. Through a single business account, citizens would be able to obtain - at cost - dial-in access to hundreds of these databases, including the Federal Register and Congressional Record, economic statistics, scientific research abstracts, federal court cases, U.S. and foreign patents, Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure documents, White House and agency press releases, State Department press briefings, federal campaign contributions, the Food and Drug Administration bulletin board and congressional testimonies. The service would be provided free to 1,400 federal depository libraries, just as the GPO provides printed documents free to those institutions today. The GPO would be required to receive suggestions for the WINDO "product line" every year. Not everybody will be happy with this prospective vast expansion of the public's ability to know what it has a right to know. The commercial data vendors that have sprung up in a decade of Reagan-Bush efforts to privatize public information can be expected to oppose HR 2772. It should be noted, though, that WINDO wouldn't necessarily put them out of business; the would be free to buy the underlying databases and sell them to the public, with or without value-added enhancements. The public, however, would no longer be forced to pay commercial firms as citizens for data they already paid for as taxpayers. Congress should pass this bill, fast. ------------------------------------------------------------------ James Love, Director VOICE: 609-683-0534 Taxpayer Assets Project FAX: 202-234-5176 7-Z Magie, Faculty Road bitnet: Love@pucc.bitnet Princeton, NJ 08540 internet: Love@pucc.princeton.edu From: George E. Munro <gmunro@cabell.vcu.edu> Subject: Virginia Woolf Essay Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 8:55:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1557 (1851) Can anyone tell me in which volume of Virginia Woolf's essays to find "How Russian Is Russian Literature?" George Munro, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University gmunro@cabell.vcu.edu From: Karl Van Ausdal <VANAUSDALK@APPSTATE.BITNET> Subject: Locomotives of history Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 12:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1558 (1852) In reply to Jim Cerny's query: Daniel Baker, in his *Political quotations: a collection of notable sayings on politics from antiquity through 1989* (Detroit: Gale Research, 1990) p. 197, includes the following quotation and attribution: Item 3267. "Revolutions are the locomotives of history." --Nikita S. Khrushchev, speech to the Supreme Soviet, *Pravda*, May 8, 1957 Karl Van Ausdal Appalachian State University vanausdalk@appstate.bitnet From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: E-text of James Merrill poetry? Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 17:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1559 (1853) Are there any helpful HUMANISTS out there who have or know of any works of the contemporary American poet James Merrill in machine readable form? A post-grad student here in Oxford is on the verge of scanning some of Merrill's work, can anyone save him some of the effort? Please reply directly to me if you prefer. Thanks. Alan Morrison Oxford Text Archive archive@uk.ac.oxford.vax From: AU100@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: [5.0775 Editorial: On Information Availability (1/52)] Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 16:35:21 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 777 (1854) The Documentation Unit at The Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies University of Durham announces 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing (Arabic and Roman Script) 10-12 December 1992 I. Call for papers: Papers for the themes listed below are invited. The deadline for ABSTRACTS is 15 May 1992 and CAMERA-READY COPY for papers to be presented at the conference must be submitted by 11 September 1992. There will be a limit of 10 PAGES PER PAPER. Conference proceedings will be available at registration. The main language of the conference will be English, but papers in Arabic will be considered. It may be possible for these to be used together with English abstracts or full translations. The conference will take place on the 10th and 12th of December 1992, leaving the 11th reserved for the exhibition. This arrangement will enable the exhibitors to attend the conference sessions and give enough time for the participants to have access to the latest hardware and software in the exhibition. THEMES (1) Editing Arabic manuscripts using computers. (2) Multi-lingual data bases: compiling classical Arabic sources, contemporary data banks, medical data bases. (3) Multi-lingual maps. (4) Computer based lexicography and machine translation. (5) Teaching of Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages by computer. (6) Notation of Oriental music on computers. (7) Archaeology and Computing. (8) Multi-lingual computers for the handicapped. (9) The hardware and the software industry in the Arab World. (10) Other Semitic languages and computing. II. A ONE-DAY HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE EXHIBITION It is intended that the exhibition will be held for one day, the 11th of December, 1992. The conference sessions will stop and the participants will be free to have access to machines and software on display. Exhibitors on the other hand are free to decide how long they would like to stay: it will be possible to exhibit for three days if they wish, or for one day only without extra charge. They would be able to attend the conference or have constructive meetings with the participants. This change has been made following the suggestion of some exhibitors who attended the 2nd conference in 1990. III. INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE FOR JOURNALISTS: 30th Nov-8th Dec. 1992. This seven-day course is designed for journalists writing about computing in the business world and computing for individual users. It covers the issues of computing in general and bilingual computing in particular. It is mainly tailored to meet the demand which has arisen in the Arab media for more writers who are capable of writing about computing in the increasing number of Arab computer journals, magazines or the relevant sections in each independent paper. The participants will attend lectures and discussion groups in which they will listen to professional journalists and academics who are specialists in the field. Overnight Accommodation in Durham: Accommodation is available at modest rates at Trevelyan College and payments should be made not later than 19 November 1992. Late bookings cannot be accepted. If hotel accommodation is required, a list of hotels in or near Durham can be supplied. It is not possible for our staff to make bookings in hotels on behalf of participants. You are advised to book well in advance as Durham hotels are in great demand. Accommodation charges will be in addition to the conference registration fee. Conference Registration Fees (in Pounds Sterling): Paid before 16 June 1992 #60 Paid after 16 June 1992 #75 Students Rates: Paid before 16 June 1992 #25 Paid after 16 June 1992 #40 Exhibitors' Fees: Paid before 16 June 1992 #200 (per 5 square metres) Paid after 16 June 1992 #300 Journalists' Intensive Course Fees: Paid before 16 June 1992 #200 Paid after 16 June 1992 #300 Please request refunds in writing no later than 13 Nov. 1992. A #20 (Pounds Sterling) cancellation fee will apply. After this date, refunds will not be issued. (Cheques payable to UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM in pounds sterling drawn on a British Bank or Eurocheques in pounds sterling). To: Ahmad Ubaydli, Documentation and Computing Officer I wish to contribute a paper: Yes No on theme no. (see list of themes): (PLEASE ENCLOSE A 100 WORD ABSTRACT) Deadline for ABSTRACTS: 15 May 1992 Deadline for submission of CAMERA-READY COPY: 11 September 1992 I wish to participate in the Exhibition. Send me further information about the Journalists' Intensive Training Course Name and address to appear in the list of participants: Surname: Title and other names: Affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: Telex: E-mail: Documentation Unit, CMEIS, University of Durham South End House, South Road, DURHAM, DH1 3TG, UK Telephone: +44 (91) 3742838 Telex: 537351 DURLIBG Fax: +44 (91) 3742830 EMail: A.Y.UBAYDLI@UK.AC.DURHAM [JANET] A.Y.UBAYDLI@DURHAM.AC.UK [EARN/BITNET] From: (Dennis Baron) <baron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: texts without e Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 09:11:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1560 (1855) A month or two ago there was a brief discussion on either Linguist or Humanist about a kind of word play in which texts are composed without the letter e. Unfortunately I didn't pay all that much attention to it, but now it turns out I need to find out the name of this activity. I'm sorry but I still haven't learned to retrieve archive indexes of old discussions (why do I keep putting this off?). Can anyone supply that name? Thanks. Dennis Baron debaron@uiuc.edu Dept. of English office: 217-244-0568 University of Illinois messages: 217-333-2392 608 S. Wright St fax: 217-333-4321 Urbana IL 61801 From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Scriptorium of San Pedro de Carden~a Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 22:32:27 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1561 (1856) Does anyone remember seeing recently (last five years?) an article on the scriptorium of San Pedro de Carden~a, possibly by Barbara Shailor, if I remember correctly? Please send replies directly to me. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley cbf@athena.berkeley.edu From: DEL2@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Quiet Keyboards Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 22:31:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1562 (1857) A colleague is looking for a laptop for use in libraries. High on the list of desiderata, therefore, is a *quiet* keyboard. I suggested the Cambridge Z88 which is what I always use, but he wants PC compatibility. This is presumably an issue many HUMANISTs must have considered, so I'd be grateful to know of any particularly quiet (or especially noisy!) keyboards you have met. Responses to me personally, and I'll summarise them later. Regards, Douglas de Lacey <del2@phx.cam.ac.uk> From: "John D. Jones" <6563JONESJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Rudyard Kipling's JUST SO STORIES Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1992 19:30 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1563 (1858) I am using Scribner's 1907 edition of Kipling's Just So Stories to read to my children. The volume contains Kipling's original illustrations for the stories. In the comments which accompany several of the drawings, Kipling remarks that he is not allowed to use colors. For example, in one of the drawings which accompanies OLD MAN KANGAROO, Kipling writes that: "Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black, because I am not allowed to paint these pictures with real colors out of the paint box." The volume contains only the stories, with no information supplied by Kipling or the publisher. Can anyone explain Kipling's remark? Did the publisher of the original version of the stories simply choose not to use color plates or is there some other reason? (One other drawing, I can't remember which one right now, does contain a thin red line within a map.) Thanks John Jones Philosophy Department Marquette University From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu> Subject: Useful Tool for Humanist-Reading Mac Users Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 14:54:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1564 (1859) Or is that Mac-using Humanists? By serendipitous accident, I recently discovered that the "Digest Browser" by Manuel A. Pere'z, designed to quickly browse text-only copies of the Info-Mac electronic digest works very nicely, thank you, on _Humanist_ postings. If you're like me and tend to fall several days behind Humanist, you may find it useful. If you can save one or more Humanist postings to Mac disk, the Digest Browser will give you a nice little table of contents sortable by Subject, Sender, and date. To view an individual article, simply click on the item in the table of contents, and the item appears in a nice scrolling Mac box below. Again, this will probably be most useful to those who tend to read several messages at once and who can easily download posting to their Mac (my mailer sends mail directly to my Mac.) The browser does NOT have search, sort, or find features. The Digest Browser is available via anonymous ftp from the info-mac archive (and presumably shadow sites): ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu, and download the file /info-mac/app/digest-browser-12.hqx. You'll need Binhex 4.0 or an equivalent utility to convert the file to a Mac application. Incidentally, the browser ought also to work on any electronic digest that has the standard dashed line as a delimiter between articles. - matt --------------------------------------+---------------------- Matthew Wall * wall@cc.swarthmore.edu | 7-word SF story: Swarthmore College Academic Computing | Red Sox world champs Swarthmore, PA 19081 <-> 215-328-8506 | and President Brown. From: PARKINSN@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA Subject: re:toolkit Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 10:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1565 (1860) I am replying to Paul R. Falzer's statements partially reproduced below: "Someone writing in a letters to the editor column of a PC magazine recently made a curious remark: he said that he didn't know what all the fuss is about when it comes to graphical word processors, since word processing is inherently a character-based activity. Really. Remember the freedom and flexibility you lost when you moved from pen to typewriter, and worse, to an elec- tronic typewriter or elementary word-processor? The most advanced character-based word processing programs (such as Word Perfect 5.1) are no less constraining than the old horses and buggies--they just have more features. But with a graphical program, you recover the ability to express yourself; you can see what you are actually doing; you are looking at the product as you are producing it. Moreover, you can work with words, graphics, tables, charts, and drawings. By embedding and linking, you move seamlessly between one application and another. In short, you can work much like you _used_ to work before you made that fateful decision (which you may have regretted ever since) to trade-off creativity and flexilibity. But you can work with all the power and efficiency that father technology has bestowed on us." I must admit to being baffled by the above statements. When I moved from a pen to a typewriter (an electronic one, anyway), I _gained_ a lot of speed and clarity of thought. And when I moved to a word-processor, I gained a lot more flexibility (mostly, that of always already revising). I hardly use a pen anymore, and when I do it's difficult to make out what I've written. It _is_ sometimes fun to use it when revising a printed copy, as a sort of lever or hinge into the textual process. Ultimately, I think I work much more creatively now because I am free to revise and to write stuff down that I will soon delete or change. "But with a graphical program, you recover the ability to express yourself; you can see what you are actually doing; you are looking at the product as you are producing it." Does this mean that because the tilted letters on the screen sloppily resemble italics, I am somehow "closer" to the process? Writing is a code, and different technological devices represent this code differently. The one we like the most has more to do with taste than with some "truth" of representation. My courier font an a vga screen is clearer than the Times Roman on a Macintosh. I prefer clarity, but someone else may prefer verisimilitude or simply variety. Someone else may argue phenomenology and say that just because my letters are thicker, they are not "clearer." And so on. I think the mega computer Paul R. Falzer mentions which is required to run the graphical word-processing is simply too big and expensive for the majority of "humanists." Most grad students I know can't possibly afford more than $1000 to $1500 for equipment. I use Nota Bene because it finds and manipulates lots of text very quickly and its command structure is _very_ flexible. It also runs well on "low end" systems. Other people prefer other systems and "looks." I think the important thing is to show friends (and relatives?) the possibilities of the systems we use. Many people just don't know the options available and how they can help perform research. From: DILELLA <DILELLA@CUA> Subject: RE: 5.0774 Rs: E-Dicts.; Caldecott; E-Italian; Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 15:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1566 (1861) I have used the electronic _American Heritage Dictionary_ and found it very useful as well as easy to use, as usual with a Macintosh. It also enables you to find words with same endings, etc., to do anagrams, and other goodies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Alexander A. Di Lella, O.F.M. |Bitnet: DILELLA@CUA | |Catholic University of America |Internet: DILELLA@CUAVAX.DNET.CUA.EDU | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Henry "S." Thompson <ht@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: European Corpus Initiative: Call for Contributions Date: Sat, 21 Mar 92 10:13:34 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 780 (1862) European Corpus Initiative Call For Contributions March, 1992 The European Corpus Initiative was founded to oversee the acquisition and preparation of a large multi-lingual corpus to be made available in digital form for scientific research at cost and without royalties. We believe that widespread easy access to such material would be a great stimulus to scientific research and technology development as regards language and language technology. We support existing and projected national and international efforts to carefully design, collect and publish large-scale multi-lingual written and spoken corpora, but also believe it will be some time before the scientific and material resources necessary to bring these projects to fruition will be found. In the interim, a small and rapid effort to collect and distribute existing material can serve to show the way. No amount of abstract argument as to the value of corpus material is as powerful as the experience of actually having access to some in one's laboratory. We aim to make that experience possible very soon, at a very low cost. The ECI is carrying out the first phase of this activity on a purely voluntary basis, under the guidance of an ad-hoc steering committee, using facilities donated by the Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh and a small sum for expenses and production costs provided by the European Network for Language and Speech under its Linguistic Resources programme together with the Network of European Reference Corpora. Our present goal is to produce in short order (we're currently aiming for October 1992) a multi-lingual corpus covering as many as possible of the major European languages, in a consistent format, with standardised (TEI-conformant) markup, insofar as resources allow. Our primary focus in this first effort is on textual material of all kinds, including transcriptions of spoken material, but if space and resources permit we may be able to include some sampled speech data as well. If in doubt as to the appropriateness of a contribution, please contact us before assuming we won't want it. As our main method of distribution for this corpus, we will produce a CD-ROM, possibly two if enough material can be collected and prepared in time. We estimate that we should be able to make the results available for around 25 ECU. Because of the low level of resource available for this effort, we are entirely dependent on the goodwill of those members of the research community who have appropriate corpus material, to make it available to us for wide distribution. PLEASE SEND US YOUR DATA. We have promises of material for many, but by no means all, of the languages we would like to cover, and in only one or two cases do we have as much as we would like. We can't guarantee to use everything which is offered, but please, let us judge whether it would be useful. If you know of someone with material which might be appropriate, who may not have received this notice, please pass it on to them. To contribute data, please send electronic or paper mail to one of the addresses given below, describing the data, its current format and the medium it is stored in, and the restrictions on its use, if any, which you would have to impose in making it available to us. 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Under this agreement, the user will receive a machine-readable copy of the material specified below. The user agrees that the material received under this agreement will be used only for research purposes within the user's own research group. The user further agrees not to re-distribute the material to others outside of the user's research group, and that all members of the group will respect the terms of this agreement. The user acknowledges that some of the material, as specified below, is subject to copyright restrictions, and that violations of such restrictions may result in legal liability. 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You should not redistribute the data that you get from us, nor should you sell it, or charge for access to it, or otherwise put it to any direct commercial use. However, commercial application of "analytical materials" derived from the text, such as statistical tables or grammar rules, is explicitly permitted, as long as copyright law is observed. Copyright holders who agree to make material available are being very generous. Their contributions will make possible a resource of great general utility for research and development in language technology and linguistics. It is not our intent to deprive them of any revenues that they should receive in the ordinary course of their business. Thus it would be a violation of trust, as well as a violation of copyright law, for you to republish a dictionary or other work to be distributed under this agreement, whether in print or electronic form. European Corpus Initiative Steering Committee The current members of the Steering Committee are Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa), Robert Dale (ELSNET), Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania), Wolf Paprotte (University of Munster), Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh) and Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva). Addresses for further information and offers of material for inclusion: Henry S. Thompson (ECI) HCRC 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW SCOTLAND Fax: +44 31 650-4587 eucorp@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ECI) ISSCO 54 route des Acacias CH-1227 Geneve SWITZERLAND Fax: +41 22 300 1086 susan@divsun.unige.ch From: jslindst@waltari.Helsinki.FI (Jouko Lindstedt) Subject: Query re: criteria for distributing PCs and MACs to staff Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 17:51:23 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1567 (1863) In 5.0768, Leon Litvack wrote: [deleted quotation] We have had a similar situation at our Department, which is about as big as yours (the first microcomputers were bought in 1985). In part we have applied the seniority principle (first the full professors etc.), but the main principle has been different: You should always have one or two computers reserved for everybody's use, at a place which is nobody's own room. (It is the place where you would also have the best laser printer, if you don't have a local net.) When a year has passed and it's time to consider next purchases, you already know who are the colleagues who sit at those computers longest time -- so, they deserve personal computers of their own, and you can be sure they will actually use them. And buying computers for them will maximally free the capacity of those common computers for other users. It seldom happens that all the staff is equally ready to become computer-users. Jouko Lindstedt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki <jslindst@waltari.Helsinki.FI> or <Jouko.Lindstedt@Helsinki.FI> letters: Hallituskatu 11, SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland fax: +358-0-1912974 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: lipogram Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 19:16:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1568 (1864) The word Dennis is searching for is lipogram, a poet who writes one is called a lipogrammatist and the evil practice is lipogrammatism. One of the best examples is in Peter of Riga's Recapitulationes (ca. 1200), where he writes a series of poems, leaving out a different letter each time. Jim Marchand From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: ropaloandrist Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 19:33:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1569 (1865) If you have to explain a joke, especially a bad one, it is scarcely worth the candle, but here goes. Someone upbraided me recently on HUMANIST for saying that ropaloandrist = "batman". I tried to indicate that this was in keeping with the posting of mysandrist for "mouse-man". Andrist does not mean man in Greek, aner (gen. andros) does; ropalon is the word one uses in Greek for "baseball bat", maybe even for "cricket bat", I don't know, since my only knowledge of Modern Greek is of the American street and pool-room variety. One might have proposed pontikoaner (or pontikaner) for mouse-man; a mouse-trap is a pontiko-pagida, but automobile shows what happens when you play the game of Greek word-formation. Jim Marchand From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: misandrist Date: Sun, 22 Mar 92 18:39:53 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1570 (1866) A title I forgot in the misandrist discussion: Misogyny, misandry and mis- anthropy, ed. R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (Berkeley: UCPress, 1989). It orignally appeared in Representations, no. 20 (Fall, 1987). Jim Marchand From: Simon Rakov <SIRAKOV@VASSAR> Subject: Name of a Text without an E Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 23:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1571 (1867) A text that omits a particular letter, be it "e" or any other, is called a "lipogram" (lipo- Gk. for "lacking," I think). Specialists in lipogram-writing include English lexicologist Gyles Brandreth, who re-wrote Macbeth without a's or e's, and Ernest Vincent Wright, author of _Gadsby_, a 50,000 word novel without any e's. From: Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC> Subject: Lipograms Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 08:19:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1572 (1868) A text written by deliberately suppressing one alphabetic character (not only "e") is called a LIPOGRAM. Take this text, for instance, where I have rigorously avoided " ". Yours, Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC> From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM> Subject: works without e Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 08:06 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1573 (1869) Georges Perec wrote a novel without using the letter "e," but I don't remember its name. From: "David A. Hoekema" <hoekema@bach.udel.edu> Subject: Texts without "e" Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 10:54:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1574 (1870) The publication of a number of texts in French and in English without the letter "e", as well as without other specified letters, is described in some detail in O. B. Hardison's marvellously entertaining meditation on texts and electronic culture, DISAPPEARING THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT. --David Hoekema <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu> Executive Director, American Philosophical Association Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Delaware || Phone: 302 831-1112 Newark, DE 19716 || FAX: 302 831-8690 From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" <MDHARRIS@guvax.georgetown.edu> Subject: Stories (etc.) without e's Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 11:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1575 (1871) from O.B. Hardison's book _Disappearing Through the Skylight_, I find: "The lipogram--a composition that elects to omit one or more letters--" (p. 198) Hardison also describes 'formula poetry' (including the limerick) which formalizes meter, etc. and discusses "Oulipo" -- a group of 1950's french writers who revived such work. "So far, Oulipo inventions range from simple word-substitution formulas to formulas for increasing letter count as a composition proceeds to formulas involving repeated modifications of a text that depend on changes already made. The object of inventing the formulas is to see what happens to language when they are applied. Sometimes the formulas reveal interesting feaures of language or become expressive of themes inherent in the works that use them. At other times, the object seems to be to push language to the limits of intelligibility; or, in other words, to the point where it begins to disappear." (p. 200) Mary Dee Harris From: eugene cotter <FCOTTER@SETONVM> Subject: Re: 5.0778 Qs: Texts without E; Keyboards; Just So Stories Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 16:37:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1576 (1872) Dennis Baron is asking about what Wllard Espy (An Almanac of Words At Play, Pot ter Pub, NY, 1975, p.45) calls "lipograms". Among other examples, he gives a v ersion of "Mary had a little lam" without any "e"s. Cotter Seton Hall From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 49 05 72 27 <EISINGER@FRIBM11> Subject: Date: 20 March 92, 14:10:51 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1577 (1873) Subject : Origin and translation please There's on the St. Peter Plaza in Rome the following sentence carved in a wall : "Msaada wa kidini kwa mahujaji" Does anyone could tell me in what language it is and what it means ? Thanks, Marc From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM> Subject: news about the forthcoming Humanities Computing Yearbook 1991 ? Date: Sat, 21 Mar 92 17:59:36 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1578 (1874) Are there any news about the next edition of Humanities Computing Yearbook? Thank you to anyone knows. Maurizio ----------------------------------------------------------- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------------ From: <DACOLEMAN@FAIR1> Subject: RE: 5.0769 Queries from All Over (9/128) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 92 14:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1579 (1875) Though I'm sure the matter must have come up countless times on Humanist before my time, I'd very much appreciate knowing of a comprehensive on-line dictionary reachable on Bitnet. I'd like to thank anyone able to direct me to such a dictionary. Don Coleman From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Query Date: Sun,22 Mar 92 11:02:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1580 (1876) I am trying to track down a reference in a 16th century French text and should appreciate some help: Et Salomon dit que l'iniquite est si grande qu'il n'y a pas un artisan qui ne soit envieux contre son semblable (Solomon says that wickedness is so widespread that there is no workman who is not envious of his neighbour) - [B. Palissy] and Or Dieu est sapience. [Ibidem] Keith Cameron cameron@exeter.ac.uk From: DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS.BITNET Subject: Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 09:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1581 (1877) The current issue of *Lingua Franca* has a brief notice of Glatt Plagiarism Services, a new software product that "promises to spot 98 percent of term-paper plagiarism." There are two programs, the Glatt Pelgiarism Teaching Program and the Glatt Plagiarism Screening Program. Each are listed as selling for $250. Has anyone seen these? Does anyone know where and how they are available.? *Lingua Franca* did not say. John Dorenkamp Holy Cross College dorenkamp@hcacad.holycross.edu From: Sherman Wilcox <wilcox@carina.unm.edu> Subject: Job announcement Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 17:13:01 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1582 (1878) The University of New Mexico Department of Linguistics Position Announcement Assistant Professor The Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor appointment beginning August 17, 1992. Research experience in the structure, acquisition, and/or psycholinguistics of ASL and/or signed language interpreting is required. Demonstrated proficiency in ASL required, with current RID certification or expectation of RID certification within one year. Will be required to teach courses, supervise students, and participate in the administration of the Signed Language Interpreter Training Program. Ability to contribute to teaching, research, and graduate student supervision in the Department of Linguistics is expected. PhD to be completed by August 1992. Submit letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and supporting materials by May 15, 1992. Address applications to: Jean Newman, Chair Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico Humanities 526 Albuquerque, NM 87131-1196. EOE/AA. UNM is strongly committed to cultural pluralism and is particularly interested in receiving applications from women, members of ethnic minorities, and disabled individuals. From: "_NAME MICHAEL B. PATE" <9566PATEM@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU> Subject: Dorothy Day Text Project Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 15:33 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1583 (1879) Marquette University has begun scanning the published works of Dorothy Day (1897-1980), founder of -The Catholic Worker-. Day's writings have also appeared in the -The Commonweal- and in more than thirty other periodicals and seven books she had written in the period, 1924-1963. Day is particularly well known for her leadership in the Catholic Worker movement which she and Peter Maurin founded in New York City in the l933. Since then the movement has spread nationally. Marquette is the repository and research center for the archives of Dorothy Day and the CW movement. Permissions are being sought to include all of the writings in a fully tagged, word searchable file. Marquette is seeking extra-mural funding for the initiation of a major electronic text archive that will go beyond the present project on Dorothy Day and that will eventually include the finding aids to the records of various Catholic Indian missions and schools, to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions archives and the Marquette index to the post Vatican II publications of the United States Catholic Conference and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The full texts of selected out of print publications from the USCC output will also be included in this project. The first six issues of -The Catholic Worker- are being treated as a prototype project for testing the organization of the work, SGML\TEI tagging, indexing (using Data Retrieval, TextBOOK) and access. It is the intent of the project to eventually offer the text freely and exportable. Michael B. Pate, (414) 288-7214 or Internet, 9566PATEM@vms.csd.mu.edu Marquette University Libraries 1415 W. Wisconsin Ave Milwaukee, WI 53233 From: J%org Knappen <KNAPPEN@VKPMZJ.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de> Subject: Announce: aFrican Computer fonts available Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 20:59 GMT +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1584 (1880) Fonts for African Languages now available I'm glad to announce the first release of the fc-fonts for african languages with latin writing. The METAFONT sources are available via anonymous ftp from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de in the directory soft/tex/fonts/metafont/fc They will probably spread to other TeX archives soon. Read the file fc.rme for more information. Yours, J"org Knappen. From: Eric Crump <C509379@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU> Subject: computer distribution Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 15:02:56 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 784 (1881) Jouko Lindstedt has a good point: "It seldom happens that all the staff is equally ready to become computer-users." And that's one reason seniority and hierarchy are questionable means of deciding who should get machines first and what kind of machine they should get. I'm at a university that popped for Macs a few years ago, placing them squarely on the desks of most faculty members. Many of those computers are still collecting dust, serving as paper weights and door stops (OK, perhaps I exaggerate). But graduate students, some of whom are seriously interested in computer pedagogies and who have introduced computers into their composition and tech writing classes, have long been stuck with two ancient IBM PCs, possibly the first ones off the assembly line. Recently, those grad students managed to acquire two Mac Classics and a couple of IBM 50s, but they had to do a lot of scrapping and arm-twisting to get that accomplished. Seems a waste to put computing resources in the hands of anyone who is not really interested in making use of them. Eric Crump C509379@umcvmb.missouri.edu From: gary forsythe <gfgf@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: gender differentiation in personal names Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 14:39:45 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 785 (1882) I have a theory concerning gender differentiation in ancient Roman nomenclature and would like to outline briefly what it is in the hope that other members of Humanist can help corroborate my hypothesis by pointing out similar parallels from other times and societies. During historical times the Romans used a trinominal system. The first name (praenomen) was a kind of personal name which was given to a boy by his parents. Although the number of praenomina was quite varied in early times, by the end of the republic the Romans tended to employ only about a dozen praenomina. A Roman's second name (nomen) was inherited from the father's clan or gens. Thus this name is often termed nomen gentilicium. It roughly corresponds to last names used in the U.S. and western European countries. The Roman third name (cognomen) could either be inherited from a person's father and his ancestors and could thus signify a particular lineage or subdivision within a much larger clan or gens. The cognomen, however, could also be given to an individual by way of a nickname, which was then passed on in subsequent generations to the person's descendants. The modern orthodox view has been and continues to be that Roman women had only a nomen and cognomen, and that they did not have or were not given a praenomen. It is my hypothesis that this modern orthodoxy is wrong; and depending upon what I am able to put together, I would like to write an article which takes issue with this modern orthodoxy. We know from numerous inscriptions that the non-Roman peoples of early Italy used a nomenclature system similar to the Romans. These same inscriptions further indicate that the women from these cultures possessed praenomina. Moreover, both early Latin inscriptions and a few items in the literary sources suggest that a number of Roman women in early times also possessed praenomina. Nevertheless, during the better documented times of the late republic and empire both the inscriptions and literary sources suggest that Roman women did not have praenomina. It is due to this last point that modern scholars generally suppose that Roman women in historical times were not given praenomina as were their male sibblings. In fact, there is some small body of information which suggests that females continued to possess praenomina, but this evidence is either ignored or explained away by modern scholars. I would like to put forth the following explanation for the evidence and would like to invite any responses from fellow humanists. My view is that Roman girls were always given a praenomen by their parents, but that social and cultural factors in Roman society produced the distorted pattern that we have in our documentation. Evidence suggests that Roman females married in their early or mid teens. When they married a man, they did not change their own name in any way, and the children whom they bore took the nomen and often even the cognomen of the father, but they did not adopt any of the nomenclature from the mother. Thus, within a nuclear family the mother was the only outsider in terms of nomenclature. For example, if Fulvia Maxima married Gaius Cassius Severus, their children would all take the nomen Cassius or Cassia from the father. My theory is that given this circumstance, a woman's praenomen was used only during her early years when she was part of a family in which she had the same name (and perhaps same cognomen) as her father and her sibblings. In this setting a praenomen would have been useful, if not absolutely necessary, in order to distinguish among the children. If the daughters within the same nuclear family did not have praenomina, how would a father or mother or sibbling disaddress two sisters without pointing? The two sisters would need something in their nomeclature which would make each of them distinctive. This simple point has, I think, been totally overlooked by modern scholars. But if Roman females were given praenomina at birth and used them while they were growing up, why is our evidence the way it is? I would further suggest that when a woman married, she normally droped her praenomen because her nomen sufficed to distinguish her from other persons, especially in her new nuclear family where she was the only person who had a nomen different from everyone else. In my view this social situation would account for the apparent fact that Roman women did not have or use praenomina, but it also, I think, has the advantage of not discarding the little bit of evidence that we do have of women having praenomina. I hope that I have not been too confusing. The only model of which I can think as an approximate parallel is the phenomenon in some western societies (which seems to have gone out existence by now) in which a married women took the name of her husband: e.g., Mary Brown marries John Smith and becomes Mrs. John Smith. Can anyone offer more details on this latter phenomenon, and could we envisage a situation in which our documentation from an earlier period would be such that we would have female names of the form Mrs. John Smith, which would lead scholars to the erroneous conclusion that the women of that age did not have their own personal names but were simply known as Miss Brown before marriage? Gary Forsythe University of Chicago gfgf@midway.uchicago.edu From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM> Subject: Humanities Computing curricula Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 16:00:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1585 (1883) The CS dept. here at Yale would like to know what universities offer courses in Humanities Computing and, if possible, some details about those courses such as content, who actually offers them, and whether they count towards a particular degree or are merely electives. This is important information for a proposal currently under study in the department regarding the creation of a program in Humanities Computing, which, in turn, involves my future employment in the department and at this university. Any information would be appreciated. Please send responses to me personally and/or to Humanist. From: Paul Herman <herman@fvc.bc.ca> Subject: Centres for instructional support Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 23:03:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1586 (1884) I teach philosophy at a small community college in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Next year, we will become a four year university-college. I sit on the Learning Environment Committee that is concerned to maintain our institution's commitment to teaching. We would like to know about and perhaps contact other institutions that have centres to support excellence in teaching and instruction. Thanks for any information provided. Paul Herman, University College of the Fraser Valley, HERMAN@FVC.BC.CA From: Editors of PMC <PMC@NCSUVM> Subject: PMC invites letters, notices Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 16:30:51 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1587 (1885) _Postmodern Culture_, the electronic journal of contemporary literature, theory, and culture, invites letters and notices of events and publications for its May, 1992 issue. Letters should be substantive, rather than short queries, and notices of events and publications should be 250 words or less. Mail should be directed to PMC@NCSUVM (on Bitnet) or PMC@NCSUVM.CC.NCSU.EDU (on the internet). _Postmodern Culture_ now has over 1,700 subscribers in more than 20 countries, and it is distributed free of charge as electronic mail. For more information on submission or subscription, write to either of the addresses given above. John Unsworth Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_ From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Plagiarism info again Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 14:16:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1588 (1886) Regarding John Dorenkamp's query of 23 March 1992, there is probably a substantial file in HUMANIST's archives of last Fall or so regarding plagiarism information which several colleagues & I provided. You can reach Glatt Plagiarism Services at P.O. Box 162033, Sacramentio, CA 95816. Tel. 916-483-8773. They exhibited at the 1990 MLA convention. Regards, Joel D. Goldfield Dept. of Foreign Languages Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH; Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ jdg@oz.plymouth.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: 5.0782 Qs: Quotes; Dictionary; Yearbook; Plagiarism (5/72) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 1:24:10 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1589 (1887) [deleted quotation] Over a year ago, I had the opportunity to test the Glatt plagiarism package to write about it. As I didn't want to write devastatingly negative comments about it, I refrained from ever publishing anything about it. Glatt Plagiarism Detector (GPD) was a two-part soft which worked as follows: you had to feed the first processor with the e-copy of the suspected paper so that it would generate a copy of it with every five word missing or rather replaced by a white spaces between brackets. You then had to hand over that partially erased version of the paper to its author for him to try and fill in the missing blanks. The assumption underneath this soft was that if someone copies a text from another source, he or she is less inclined to be able to rewrite the text with the same wording as he or she used in the first version of it than if he or she has in fact written the paper him/herself. He or she may even be totally enable to fill some of the blanks space at all. The second part of GPD is the one you never had a chance to see or test since you had to send the floppy with the original paper and the filled in version of it to Glatt Plagiarism Services. They would then eventually tell you that, after careful evaluation, they had (or had not) very good reasons to believe that the paper in question was a case of plagiarism. The criteria they used to so decide was the (if I remember correctly) 70% mark, meaning that the student had filled at least seventy percents of the blank spaces correctly. They also claimed there was some ponderation taking place in cases of synonym use. To me, two major flaws had to be mentioned concerning the GPD package. First, you each time had to pay for each paper you did send to GP Services and secondly, it didn't yield sufficient evidence - except a statistical one - to convict a paper's author of plagiarism or to win an eventual court case against him or her. A decisive piece of evidence would, to me, consist in finding the references of the plagiarized work or works from which the paper's author has borrowed some passages. I deliberately used past tenses in the previous paragraph since it may well be that GPS - judging by their present pricing - may have decided since last year to sell the second evaluation processor along with the first preparation one. This woud make my first criticism irrelevant. But, the second, most important one to me, still remains valid. Michel. -- From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0782 Qs: Quotes; Dictionary; Yearbook; Plagiarism (5/72) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 23:45:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1590 (1888) Before buying any program "that promises to spot 98 percent of term-paper plagiarism" [John Dorenkamp, 5.0782], I would need a clearer understanding than I have of why a very good dictionary wouldn't enable one "to spot 100 percent" of ALL so-called plagiarism, the "term-paper" type included. That is to ask: What (in program-discernible detail) IS plagiarism? From: Marc Eisinger +33 (1) 49 05 72 27 <EISINGER@FRIBM11> Subject: Date: 24 March 92, 10:22:28 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1591 (1889) The title of Perec's book written without "e" is "La Disparition" (of course). Marc From: Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.DBP.DE Subject: war as the locomotive... Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 09:24+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1592 (1890) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ultimate source is, of course, Heraklits "Ho polemos pater panton"; Marx, beeing himself a classicist, might have reshaped it into a "modern" mataphor. Fritz Heberlein From: david j reimer f <dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca> Subject: Translation wanted Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 19:37:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1593 (1891) Someone asked after the "inscription" they saw in Rome: "Msaada wa kidini kwa muhajiji". There will probably be all sorts of help, but just in case.... This is Swahili. I can't give a translation, except to note that the first word (Msaada) means (appropriately enough) "help"! David. -- David J. Reimer, Religion & Culture Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2680 Wilfrid Laurier University Fax: (519) 886-9351 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Internet: dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca From: cormierj@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Cormier Jean-Marc) Subject: G. Perec's lipogram... Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 15:37:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1594 (1892) ... is entitled _la Disparition_. Perec also suggested to call "liponomie" a text in which the author systematically avoids the use of any chose word(s) (e.g. a love story without using the word "love" throughout the whole text). Jean-Marc Cormier E-Mail: cormierj@ere.umontreal.ca Universite de Montreal From: mlbizer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Marc L. Bizer) Subject: texts without e Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 19:24:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1595 (1893) The novel by Georges Perec written entirely without the letter "e" is called "La Disparition." From: robertj@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Robert Judd) Subject: What does "La Furugada" mean? Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 11:30:10 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1596 (1894) To the list membership Could anyone help with the word "la furugada"? It's the title of a canzona published in 1614 by GA Cangiasi (in a music collection with otherwise clear title references to esteemed personages of his local village, Castelnuovo di Scrivia). La Furugada is dedicated to "the noble and virtuous youth" of the town. I can't figure out what it means--the closest guess I have is "hurricane." Thanks in advance for your help. Robert Judd robertj@csufresno.edu From: HAROLD SJURSEN <SJURSEN@PACEVM> Subject: HANS JONAS BOOK Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 16:22:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1597 (1895) A conference was held last January in Jerusalem on the philosophy of Hans Jonas. A book (U of Chicago Press) is planned which will contain the major papers from the conference, new work by Jonas, and bibliography. Anyone interested in the work of Hans Jonas is invited to contact the undersigned (editor) for more information. Strong manuscripts on any aspect of Jonas' work can still be considered. If you are not sure, please Harold Sjursen, Phil. Dept., Pace University, NYC 10038 Sjursen@pacevm From: <TBAGLEY@DUCAIR> Subject: Genre Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 15:58 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1598 (1896) Hello, Besides Glyph 7 [Derrida's Law of Genre article and his notion of <re-mark> for literary interpretability], can anyone suggest other postmodern studies on genre? I have in mind, for example, the realtion of recit to content or the relation of textual singularity to generality for conventional interpretation. Many more questions could be asked, but . . . ! If you can help, please write direct or through open mail, whatever suits your fancy! Timothy Bagley, Univ. of Denver tbagley@ducair **So many books, so little time** From: "Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University " <K_NIGHT@DEPAUW.BITNET> Subject: angry student query Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 23:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1599 (1897) Can any humanists recall a story in which a teacher was stabbed to death by the pens of angry students? --Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University From: AEB_BEVAN@VAX.ACS.OPEN.AC.UK Subject: Pushkin/Borodin Date: Wed, 25 MAR 92 10:32:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1600 (1898) Can someone please help a colleague (recently widowed) who heard on the radio a "lied" by Borodin written upon the death of his friend Mussorgsky, using the text of a poem from Pushkin titled something like: "On travelling to your true homeland". The translation given was very rough, but the sentiments were close to her heart. I know I will be able to trace down the references, but does anyone know of a really good translation that approaches the poetic power of the original? (and references would be helpful too...) It has a lovely line where the woman says to her dead lover something like: "We will kiss again in your [our] true homeland, shaded by olives and myrtles." Edis Bevan Open University, United Kingdom. From: "Daniel Traister" <traister@a1.relay.upenn.edu> Subject: Inquiry re unique(?) Aesop Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 18:11:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1601 (1899) I am sending this inquiry for an e-mail-less colleague to ExLibris, ARCHIVES, NOTRBCAT, and HUMANIST, and I apologize to those of you who will therefore see it many more times than is necessary. Dr. Ruth Luborsky (514 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106; telefax 215 627 1945) is engaged in a long-term study of c16 woodcut book illustration. She is searching for a book supposedly extant only in a unique surviving copy; neither the *National Union Catalog: Pre-1956 Imprints* nor the British (Museum) Library catalog lists it. She would appreciate any information that can be provided about the whereabouts or actual existence of: Aesop. *Fabulae* (Antwerp: Gregoire de Bonte, 1548). Please reply directly to Dr. Luborsky. And thank you. From: RVHORIK@rulcri.LeidenUniv.nl Subject: Call for papers Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 14:23 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 790 (1900) ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR PAPERS SCANNING AND OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION IN THE HISTORICAL DISCIPLINE The Seventh International Conference of the Association of History and Computing (AHC) will take place in Bologna, Italy, from 29th August to 2nd September 1992. The Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA) will act as the convenor of a session on the use of scanners and optical character recognition software (OCR) to convert historical sources. People interested to present a communication in this session are invi- ted to send a proposal to the NHDA. Data entry often forms the bottle-neck in the conversion process of source material to machine-readable files. OCR can speed up this pro- cess. The recent improvement of hardware and software for scanning and OCR offers new prospects, but still a lot of problems have to be solved. In this session OCR will be placed in a broad context. Issues presented and discussed could be on the practical and methodological field. e.g.: - Workflow management of a conversion process - Digital image processing techniques to improve the optical reading of documents - Advantages and disadvantages of OCR - Optical recognition of handwritten material - Computer assisted identification of handwritten material - Scanning of vulnerable material or microfilm - Procedures to correct and check the results of an OCR process - Storage and retrieval of scanned documents The presentation of a communication (15-20 minutes) can be held in one of the three official languages of the conference, English, French and Italian. Proposals for a communication can be sent to the NHDA. The title and an abstract should reach the NHDA before June 4th. Papers are to be published after the conference. For further information, contact: Netherlands Historical Data Archive Rene' van Horik Peter Doorn University of Leiden P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Tel. +31 (71) 272719/272733/272742 Fax: +31 (71) 272615 E-mail: RVHORIK@RULCRI.LEIDENUNIV.NL From: Pierce@hf.uib.no Subject: Paradigma 2.0 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 09:42:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1602 (1901) Greetings: My colleague Espen Aarseth has now completed a new version of his conversion program for the Macintosh, Paradigma, which I recommended to fellow humanists a couple of years ago. The first version has been very well received, and I have myself made constant use of it to convert Greek files in TLG format for use with other fonts. I am very satisfied with the new version of Paradigma. It is very easy to use and impressively fast. I have converted files of up to three megabytes in just about a minute and have hitherto experienced no problems whatsoever. I append Aarseth's own brief notice about Paradigma 2.0 together with addresses from which it can be obtained. Sincerely, Richard Holton Pierce University of Bergen Department of Classics Bergen, NORWAY -------------***------------ Here is the new version of Paradigma, a text (ascii) file converter and manipulator helpful for anyone who is working on converting large text files such as the TLG or similar, or on any files at all. Paradigma lets you specify a number of conversion rules, such as "abc -> xyz", and so will do the same as a word processor's "Find/replace" command, only much faster and several conversions at once. New features in Paradigma 2.0 include: Up to 256 rules in a paradigm. 5-6 times faster than 1.0 (1 Mb takes ~7 seconds on a Quadra) Import paradigms from version 1.0 "Drag and drop to" program icon Create standalone "Paradoids" which will perform in "batch mode" Better "interface logic" and various minor bugs fixed Scans itself for viruses the ability to chain and/or repeat paradigms 32 bit clean Paradigma is free, and and the program or Paradoids derived from the program should not be sold or bundled with commercial products. Available by anonymous ftp from: info-mac/util/ at sumex-aim.stanford.edu, or by request from the author, espen.aarseth@hf.uib.no From: Patrick Leary <PLEARY@IUBACS> Subject: New List--SHARP-L Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 13:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1603 (1902) SHARP-L on LISTSERV@IUBVM.BITNET History of the Printed Word or LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU SHARP-L is a new list devoted to the history of the printed word. In affiliation with the newly-founded Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, SHARP-L means to give all of us who take an interest in this burgeoning field a way of exchanging ideas, information, and inquiries with other scholars in all disciplines all over the world. Whether your interest is incunabula or 20th-century American periodicals, literacy studies or the economics of the book trade, library history or literary theory, this is a list, and an organization, that hopes to bring us all together and get us acquainted. SHARP-L can be a way of bridging the occupational, disciplinary, and geographical differences among students of print culture that have tended to keep us isolated and all-too-ignorant of one another's work and interests. Subscribing to SHARP-L is easy. Just send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@IUBVM on BITNET or LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU and include in the BODY of the message (NOT the subject) the line: SUBSCRIBE SHARP-L your full name That's all there is to it. If you run into any problems with returned mail or what-not, drop me a note at the "Owner:" address below and I'll be glad to add you to the list from here. To post a message to the list, simply address it to either "SHARP-L@IUBVM" (the Binet address) or "SHARP-L@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU" (the Internet address.) If you have any questions about the list or about SHARP (and its hardcopy newsletter, "SHARP News") please feel free to drop me a note. Owner: Patrick Leary Department of History Indiana University Bitnet: pleary@iubacs Internet: pleary@ucs.indiana.edu From: CETH@ZODIAC.BITNET Subject: Humanities Computing Summer Seminar Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1992 12:07 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 792 (1903) CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools August 9-21, 1992 Summer Seminar, Princeton University, New Jersey Co-sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto This first Summer Seminar of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers and scholars in the humanities. Discussions on text creation, markup, retrieval, presentation, and analysis will prepare the participant for extensive hands-on experience with illustrative software packages, such as MTAS, Micro-OCP, WordCruncher, Tact, Collate, Beowulf Workstation, Perseus, and CD-Word. Systems of markup, from ad hoc schemes to the systematic approach of the Text Encoding Initiative, will be surveyed and considered. The focus of the Seminar will be practical and methodological, concerned with the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts in teaching and research, the typical problems one encounters and how to solve them, and the ways in which software fits or can be adapted to methods common amongst the humanities. Participants will be given the opportunity to work on a coherent project. Those with projects already in progress or preparation will be encouraged to bring them; texts and exercises will be provided for those without a specific project in mind. The seminar is intended for researchers, librarians and computer center advisers who have basic computing experience, but little or no experience of computers in a humanities research environment. The number of participants will be limited to 26. Schedule Week 1, August 9-14, 1992 Sunday, August 9. Registration Monday, August 10. The electronic text a.m. What is an electronic text and where to find them; survey of existing inventories, archives, and other current resources. History of computer-assisted text analysis in the humanities. Introduction to simple concordancing with MTAS, including practical session. p.m. Creating and capturing texts in electronic form; keyboard entry vs. optical scanning. Demonstration of optical character-recognition technology. Introduction to text encoding, surveying ad hoc methods, e.g. COCOA, WordCruncher, TLG beta code; problems of these methods. Systematic approach of the Text Encoding Initiative. Practical exercise in deciding what to encode in typical texts. Tuesday, August 11. Concordancing a.m. A focussed look at computer-assisted concordance generation; types of concordances, their specific advantages and disadvantages. Alphabetization, character sequences, sorting, and forms of presentation. Introduction to Micro-OCP; practical session in its use. p.m. Further work on concordancing with Micro-OCP. Wednesday, August 12. The interactive concordance a.m. Indexed, interactive retrieval vs. batch concordance generation. Textual problems particularly suitable to an interactive system; the continuing use of concordances in hardcopy. Preparation of text for indexed retrieval; differing roles of markup and external "rules"; kinds of displays; post-processing of displays. Introduction to Tact. p.m. Practical work using Tact: simple markup, compilation of a textual database, and methods of inquiry. Thursday, August 13. Stylistics a.m. Stylistic comparisons and authorship studies using concordance tools; basic statistics for lexical and stylistic analysis. Case studies, e.g. Federalist Papers, Kenny on Aristotle, Burrows on Jane Austen. p.m. Practical session using Micro-OCP and/or Tact for stylistic analysis. Friday, August 14. Critical editions a.m. Overview of tools for preparing critical editions. Constructing glossaries and material for commentary; application of Micro-OCP and/or Tact. p.m. Collation; single-text vs. multiple-text methods. Overview of software tools. Introduction to Collate. Week 2, August 17-20, 1992 Monday, August 17. Text analysis a.m. Review of the previous week's work. Discussion on the limitations of existing software. Advanced analytical tools not commonly available, e.g. pattern recognizers, lemmatization systems, morphological analyzers, parsers; overview of these. p.m. Simple, practical morphological analysis and lemmatization with Micro-OCP and/or Tact. Tuesday, August 18. Developing and Extending Current Resources a.m. How far do existing textual databases and software go towards satisfying the needs of teachers and scholars, e.g WordCruncher (ETC) texts, Oxford Electronic Texts, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), the ARTFL database, the Dante Database? How these are accessed and used. p.m. The electronic dictionary; from machine-readable dictionary to computational lexicon. What the New OED and other online dictionaries can do for the scholar. Uses of lexical knowledge bases in text retrieval. Building a simple online lexicon with Tact. Wednesday, August 19. Hypertext a.m. Hypertext and hypermedia: alternative or complementary approaches to text analysis and presentation? Overview of some ongoing hypertextual projects in the humanities: Beowulf Workstation, Perseus, CD-Word. What essential role does hypertext play in these? How might hypertext and concordancing methods be combined? p.m. Practical session in building a hypertextual system, using HyperCard or Guide. A brief look at Annota. Thursday, August 20. Projects (1) a.m. Illustration of how to tackle projects using one of the methods covered earlier in the seminar; beginning of practical work. a.m. Practical work continued. Friday, August 21. Projects (2) a.m. Practical work continued. p.m. Concluding discussion of methodologies and problems. Do the results justify the amount of work involved? How is one's perspective on text changed by using automatic methods? What can one learn from the collision of these methods with intuitive perceptions? How can the machine better assist the educated imagination? CETH The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities was established in October 1991 by Rutgers and Princeton Universities with external support from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is intended to become a national focus of interest in the U.S. for those who are involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the humanities, and it will act as a national node on an international network of centers and projects which are actively involved in the handling of electronic texts. Developed from the international inventory of machine-readable texts which was begun at Rutgers in 1983 and is held on RLIN, the Center is now reviewing the records in the inventory and continues to catalog new texts. The acquisition and dissemination of text files to the community is another important activity, concentrating on a selection of good quality texts which can be made available over Internet with suitable retrieval software and with appropriate copyright permission. The Center also acts as a clearinghouse on information related to electronic texts, directing enquirers to other sources of information. Instructors The seminar will be taught by Willard McCarty and Susan Hockey, with assistance from Hannah Kaufman, Toby Paff and Mary Sproule. Willard McCarty has been active in humanities computing since 1977. With its founding Director, Ian Lancashire, he helped to set up the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, of which he is now the Assistant Director. He was the founding editor of Humanist, the principal electronic seminar for computing humanists, and has edited several other publications in the field. He regularly gives talks, papers, and lectures throughout North America and Europe. McCarty took his Ph.D. in English literature in 1984; his current literary research is in classical studies, especially the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid. In support of a forthcoming book, he has an electronic edition of that poem underway for the text-retrieval program Tact. Susan Hockey is Director of the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities. Before moving to the USA in October 1991, she spent 16 years at Oxford University Computing Service where her most recent position was Director of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies. At Oxford she was responsible for various humanities computing projects including the development of the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP), an academic typesetting service for British universities, and OCR scanning. She has taught courses on humanities computing for fifteen years and has given numerous guest lectures on various aspects of computing in the humanities. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on humanities computing and has been Chair of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing since 1984. She is a member (currently Chair) of the Steering Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative. Hannah Kaufman, Toby Paff and Mary Sproule are all on the staff of Computing and Information Technology's Information Services at Princeton University. Each of them has worked extensively with humanities scholars. Hannah Kaufman's special skills include the design and use of full text and bibliographic databases; Toby Paff has worked on designing fonts and analyzing non-Roman texts; and Mary Sproule has extensive experience with critical editions and instructional technology. The seminar will include visiting talks in the evenings on specific topics or research projects, as well as the role of the library in the use of electronic texts. Fees The cost of participating in this Summer Seminar will be $850, including tuition, meals and lodging at Princeton for the two weeks. Students pay a reduced rate of $750. Tuition, lunch and dinner only will be $650. Application Procedure To apply for participation in this Summer Seminar, submit a statement of interest of no longer than one page, indicating how participating in the Seminar will affect your teaching, research or support, and possibly that of your colleagues, in Humanities Computing in the coming year. Applications must be attached to a cover sheet containing name, position, affiliation, postal and email addresses, and phone and fax numbers, as available, as well as natural language interest and computing experience. Students must also include a photocopy of a valid student ID. The statement must be received by the reviewing committee, consisting of members of the Center's Governing Board, by May 15, 1992, at the address below. Those who have been selected to attend will be notified by June 1, 1992. Payment will be requested at this time. Summer Seminar 1992 Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 U.S.A. phone: (908) 932-1384 fax: (908) 932-1386 email: ceth@zodiac (bitnet) ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu (internet) From: Ann Lillian Okerson <OKERSON@UMDC> Subject: Directory of e-journals, newsletters, lists Press Release Date: Sat, 28 Mar 92 10:36:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 793 (1904) March 30, 1992 ARL Issues Revised and Expanded Directory of Electronic Publications Responding to the library and academic communities' increasing use of and interest in the burgeoning number of electronic publications, the Association of Research Libraries has published the second edition of its hard-copy Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists. ISSN Number: 1057-1337 With the emergence of microcomputers and linked networks as vehicles for scholarly exchange, the problem of how and where to find various academic forums has arisen. Although many journals, newsletters, and scholarly lists may be accessed free of charge through Bitnet, Internet, and affiliated academic networks, it is not always a simple chore to find out what is available. The Directory is a compilation of entries for 769 scholarly lists, 36 journals, 80 newsletters, and 17 "other" titles including some newsletter-digests -- an increase in size of close to 50% since the first edition of July 1992. The directory provides specific instructions for electronic access to each publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if he or she is not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems. The frontmatter includes a reprint of scientist Stevan Harnad's visionary description of "scholarly skywriting" originally published in the electronic journal Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2 (1), as "Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge." Author/compiler of the journals and newsletters section is Michael Strangelove, Network Research Facilitator, University of Ottawa and Diane Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries created the scholarly discussion lists and interest groups section. The printed ARL directory is derived from widely accessible networked files maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory points to these files as the principal, continuously updated, and free- of-charge sources for accessing such materials. The publication is available to ARL member libraries for $12.50 and to non-members for $25.00. These charges include domestic postage and handling. NOTE: ALL COUNTRIES OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA PAY ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. PLEASE APPLY FOR RATES. The Directory is produced in 8 1/2 by 11S paper-bound format; it is 260 pages long; scholarly lists are grouped by broad subject areas, and journals and newsletters in alphabetical order. It is also available in either DOS or MAC 3.5" diskette form. All orders must be PREPAID and sent to the Association of Research Libraries. The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit organization representing 119 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Its mission is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. These programs include annual statistical publications, federal relations and information policy, and enhancing access to scholarly information resources through telecommunications, collection development, preservation, and bibliographic control. For instructions about how to retrieve the electronic files on which the print directory is based, please message the following electronic address. We can also supply an order blank electronically: ARLHQ@UMDC, or ARLHQ@umdc.umd.edu To send your prepaid order, or to inquire for an order form that contains rates outside North America, please contact: Christine Klein/ARL Directory Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 Fax inquiries: 202-462-7849 ------------------------------------------------ RETRIEVING THE STRANGELOVE/OTTAWA NETWORKED SOURCE FILE OF THE DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS & NEWSLETTERS: The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is now available from the Contex-L fileserver and consists of two files. These may be obtained by sending the commands (on a VM/CMS system): Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl1 Directry Tell Listserv at UOttawa Get EJournl2 Directry [deleted quotation]Listserv@UOTTAWA or LISTSERV@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA with the commands as the only lines in the body of mail message: GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY The files are also available from COMSERVE by sending an electronic mail message to Comserve@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or Comserve@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet) with the following command appearing on the first line of the message: Send Ejournl1 Sources Send Ejournl2 Sources No other words, punctuation, or symbols should appear in the electronic mail message. Comserve is an automated system for file retrieval; it will acknowledge receipt of your message and let you know that the files have been sent to you. On a VM/CMS system, you can send the message: Tell COMSERVE at RPIECS GET EJOURNL1 SOURCES To receive more information about how to search for, retrieve, or preview files from the database, send the following command to Comserve: Help Topics Database Please report any corrections AND UPDATES to: Michael Strangelove University of Ottawa Department of Religious Studies 441495@UOTTAWA.bitnet 441495@ACADVM1.uottawa.ca ---------------------------------------------------- RETRIEVING THE KOVACS/KENT NETWORKED SOURCE FILE OF THE DIRECTORY OF SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES: The 4th Revision of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences is available on the LISTSERV@KENTVM and via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU. The 5th revision is anticipated in summer or fall of 1992. The files available are: Filename/File type ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory) ACADLIST FILE1 (anthropology - education) ACADLIST FILE2 (futurology - Latin American studies) ACADLIST FILE3 (library and information sciences - music) ACADLIST FILE4 (political science - writing) ACADLIST FILE5 (biological sciences) ACADLIST FILE6 (physical sciences) ACADLIST FILE7 (business and general academia) ACADWHOL HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of all 7 directories) ACADSOCH HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word 4.0 document of the Social Science and Humanities files 1-4) ACADLIST CHANGES (all the major additions, deletions and alterations) How to retrieve files from the LISTSERV@KENTVM or via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU (1) To retrieve files from the LISTSERV send the message GET <filename> <filetype> to the LISTSERV@KENTVM via interactive messaging or e-mail message (leave the subject line *BLANK*) (2) To retrieve files via anonymous FTP from KSUVXA.KENT.EDU you must have an e-mail account linked to the Internet and a system running the TCP/IP. Ask your computer services people about your local situation. First, type: FTP KSUVXA.KENT.EDU at your dollar sign prompt (VAX) or ready screen (IBM). If you are on another kind of system consult with your computer services people to find out the proper procedure for FTPing. Then, when prompted for 'USERID,' type ANONYMOUS. Your password will be your actual userid on your local machine. Type: cd library You may type RdirS to review the files in that directory. To get the files, type: GET <filename> <filetype> (e.g., GET ACADLIST.FILE2) FTPing causes files to be directly sent to your filelist or directory so there is no need to 'receive' them into your account space. How to receive files sent to you by the LISTSERV into your e-mail reader: If your e-mail address is on a VAX VMS machine, when you get a message that a file has arrived at your e-mail address....type "RECE *". This command will put the file into your directory. You can then type "TYPE file_name" to read the file. If your e- mail address is on an IBM VM CMS machine, either use your mailer front end or type RLIST and RECEIVE the file into your FLIST. Go into your FLIST to look at the file. If your e-mail address is on a different kind of machine OR you are using Profs or a similar mailing system....try the above commands. If they do not work, CALL YOUR COMPUTER SERVICES manual for your mailing system commands. Please report any corrections or updates to: Diane K. Kovacs Instructor, Reference Librarian for the Humanities Kent State University Libraries Bitnet: DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms Internet: DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu From: Lon Savage at Virginia Tech <SCHOLAR@VTVM1> Subject: New E-Journal Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 15:45:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1604 (1905) NEWS RELEASE March 27, 1992 ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION AMONG FIRST TO OFFER GRAPHIC CAPABILITIES The JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, launched three years ago as a refereed scholarly print journal, has initiated simultaneous publication of an electronic edition with its first issue of 1992. The new publication includes graphics -- one of the first electronic scholarly journals to do so. The current issue of the journal, which is published twice a year by the Technology Education Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is now available in electronic form without charge via Bitnet and the Internet. The text of the journal's articles are offered in ASCII format, which is traditional for many on-line electronic journals sent via Bitnet and the Internet, while a single graphic illustration of one of the articles is available as a separate Postscript file. The journal is one of the first electronic scholarly journals, if not the first, of its kind to be offered with graphics over Bitnet and the Internet. JTE, as the journal is known, is co-sponsored by the International Technology Education Association and the Council on Technology Teacher Education. The electronic version is published with the cooperation of Virginia Tech's Scholarly Communications Project, which earlier this year initiated the publication of an electronic version of the 20-year-old print journal CATALYST. Mark Sanders, Associate Professor of Vocational and Technical Education at Virginia Tech and founding editor, said the journal was offered electronically to reach a larger and more diversified readership. "It also seemed appropriate," he said, "to try out a high tech distribution system with a journal on technology education." Offering the journal electronically without charge poses little threat to the financial base of the journal, Sanders said, because of the low cost and better appearance of the print version. Subscriptions to the two printed issues per year is $8.00 for individuals and $15.00 for institutions in the U.S., somewhat more outside the U.S. The print journal is circulated to about 500 teacher educators at colleges and universities in the field of Technology Education. To become an electronic subscriber of the JTE, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV @ VTVM1 (Bitnet) or to LISTSERV @ VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Internet): SUBSCRIBE JTE-L Firstname Lastname. Subscribers will receive information about how to access articles and how to remove their names from the electronic subscription list. Future issues will no doubt have more than one graphic, Sanders said. Consideration also is being given to placing the journal's back issues on line, accessible to electronic subscribers. The journal hopes to stay on the cutting edge of electronic publication, improving the quality of the electronic version as technology allows. For further information, contact Mark Sanders, Technology Education, 144 Smyth Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0432; telephone: 703/231-8173. E-mail to: MSANDERS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Internet) or MSANDERS@VTVM1 (Bitnet). From: CJONES@BENTLEY.BITNET Subject: HyperCard Workshops Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 15:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1605 (1906) Of potential interest to list members are two intensive HyperCard workshops I am offering at Bentley College in MAY. A Beginning Workshop will runof from May 11-13, with an Intermediate Workshop (team-taught with David Herren of Middlebury) running May 14-16. To avoid unnecessary list-clutter, those who are interested should send me either a surface or e-mail address or communicate by telephone for details. Christopher M. Jones (Director, Modern Language Learning Center) CJones@Bentley.Bitnet (617) 891-2753 You may also contact Marcia Davidson at (617)891-2864 Bentley College is in Waltham, MA in the Greater Boston are. From: <NMILLER@TRINCC> Subject: NEW LIST: MENDELE Yiddish Literature and Language Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 10:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1606 (1907) MENDELE on LISTSERV@YALEVM The purpose of this list is to promote a friendly atmosphere for the discussion of Yiddish literature and language. Submissions are acceptable in Yiddish or English. The list is moderated. It is a joint venture of Trinity College and the Classics Department of Yale University. Please address questions to: nmiller@trincc (Bitnet) nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu (Internet) To subscribe, send the following command to LISTSERV@YALEVM (or for Internet subscribers to LISTSERV@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU) via mail or interactive message: SUB MENDELE your_full_name where "your_full_name" is your name. For example: SUB MENDELE Yisroel Yoshua Singer Owner: Norman Miller <NMILLER@TRINCC> Owner: Victor Bers <VBERS@YALEVM> From: Harold Short <UDAA400@oak.cc.kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Vacant post in humanities computing at King's College London Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 16:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 795 (1908) King's College London Computing Centre Senior Analyst/Advisor A post of Senior Analyst/Advisor has become available in the Humanities and Information Management Division of the Computing Centre. The Humanities and Information Management Division supports a wide variety of computing applications in the Schools of Humanities and Laws, and runs a number of applied computing courses. In addition, it offers specialist support across the College, especially in the areas of relational and textual databases, hypermedia and textual analysis. The successful applicant can expect to have a significant involvement in teaching humanities computing courses and in supporting academic research and teaching projects. The hardware platforms include both Apple Macintosh and IBM compatible microcomputers, as well as Digital VAX mainframe systems. Applicants should possess a degree or equivalent qualification and have substantial knowledge and experience of one or more of the above application areas. Good experience of one or more of the above types of hardware is also required. Depending on age, qualifications and experience, the salary will lie in the range 22,139 to 25,781 pounds sterling p.a., including London Allowance (Academic-Related Grade 3). Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from the Personnel Department, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. Tel 071-873-2288. Fax 071-836-1799. Further information also from Harold Short, Assistant Director (Humanities), by email: h.short @ uk.ac.kcl.cc.elm The closing date for the receipt of applications is 22 April 1992. From: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 213-458-9811 <ENQ8BKG@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: The life and lore of buildings Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 18:56 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1607 (1909) A colleague is working on buildings--their lives, personalities, and place in public imagination. He seeks legends, anecdotes, nicknames, and other lore about buildings--their construction, opening, naming, maintenance--and any ceremonies associated with them. Any kind of building--domestic, religious, civic, commercial, and other structures--is of interest. He would welcome both oral traditions and citations to articles, monographs, literature, and other sources. Thank you, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities enq8bkg@mvs.oac.ucla.edu From: ussjt@unix.cc.emory.edu (Steve Taylor) Subject: Experience with "Philippe" Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 09:11:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1608 (1910) Our French department is considering the use of Project Athena's "A la Rencontre de Philippe." They would like to talk to someone who has been using it already. If you can help or know someone who can, you may contact me directly. Steve Taylor Emory University 404-727-8931 ussjt@unix.cc.emory.edu OR ussjt@emoryu1.bitnet From: "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1> Subject: SAMUEL BECKETT CORR Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 09:51:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1609 (1911) The correspondence of Samuel Beckett is being collected and edited by Lois Overbeck and Martha Fehsenfeld at Emory University. The editors would appreciate hearing from persons who have letters to, from, or about Beckett, or who know of collections of such letters. Please send postings to me directly. Many thanks. DAVID H. HESLA GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS EMORY UNIVERSITY ATLANTA GA 30322 ILADHH@EMUVM1 From: wilm@Calvin.EDU (Mark Williams) Subject: Dirk Nieland info Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 11:12:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1610 (1912) For an emeritus colleague who is not on email: Does anybody out there have any information on Dirk Nieland (1892-1960), whose _magnum opus_ was the Yankee-Dutch _'n Fonnie Bisnis_? Respond to me, and I'll pass the information along. Thanks. -- Mark Williams Internet: WILM@calvin.edu Classics Department Voice: (616) 957-6293 Calvin College Fax: (616) 957-8551 Grand Rapids, MI USA 49546 From: "Jan Eveleth, Academic Computing Services" <EVELETH@YALEVMS> Subject: 24 pin printers and font generators Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 15:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1611 (1913) Can anyone offer me the names of font generation programs that will work with 24-pin printers? (In the case, the person asking owns a Panasonic 1124 printer.) I've uncovered two in the freeware/shareware domain, LQFONT and LQMATRIX, but would be interested to know if any commercial sources might exist. The user is entering transliterated Arabic into several applications and needs to print the extra 8-10 special characters. --Jan Eveleth (Eveleth@YaleVMS) Academic Computing Services Yale University From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET> Subject: FL "translation" software Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 20:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1612 (1914) Does anyone know of a software product that will "translate" e-texts from German, French, or Spanish into English and (preferably) also do the reverse? I know of the "French/German/Italian/Spanish Assistant" series that is commercially available, but that only works _from_ English into the FL, not vice versa. Any advice would be appreciated, including tips on software available outside the US. Thanks! Michael Metzger (MLLMIKEM@UBVMS) From: "John J Hughes" <XB.J24@STANFORD.BITNET> Subject: Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 10:29:29 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1613 (1915) SUBJECT: SGML and WordPerfect Dear HUMANISTs, Does anyone know of a way to take WordPerfect files/documents and change the WordPerfect tagging/coding to SGML equivalents? The idea is to be able to create documents in WordPerfect and then automatically transform the imbedded WordPerfect codes (e.g., italic) into SGML equivalents. John John J. Hughes XB.J24@Stanford From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKE@BSUVAX1.BITNET> Subject: Re: 5.0784 Criteria for Computer Distribution Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 09:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1614 (1916) We started a program of computer competency at Ball State in 1984 that had as its goal a computer on each faculty member's desk and a ratio of labe computers to students of 1:14. Eight years later, we have very nearly achieved the first goal and have pretty much concluded that 1:20, where we have been for about two years, is more in keeping with good facilities planning. Of course, as any faculty member will tell you who places heavier demands on a machine than word processing and e-mail, the ratio means little if the right kinds of machines aren't in the right places. We began assigning computers to faculty first on the basis of who was a curricular advisor. Since they had to have access to our mainframe based advising system and student data base, they needed, and got, the first pc's we brought in, AT&T6300's (of lamented memory). After that we assigned machines by priorities set by deans and department chairs, which sometimes meant that senior faculty got doorstops, but not too often. More recently, the computer has become a negotiating tool with new faculty, with the result that in a fair number of cases new faculty have rather better systems than senior faculty, sometimes for good reason. We are on a three-year planning cycle in computing funding: Year 1--distributed computing, campus networking, server upgrades Year 2--graphics and scientific workstations Year 3--microcomputers and local area networking We are currently in Year 1 of the second time through the cycle. The cycle does not mean that only one area gets funded each year but rather that planning emphasis is place on that area for that year. What I hear from deans and department chairs is that for the next micro year they would like to look more closely at upgrading faculty systems. We still have a lot of folks using 8086 and 8088's even though we haven't bought one in the last four years. ************************************************ |* Herbert Stahlke *| |* Professor of English *| |* Associate Director *| |* University Computing Services *| |* Ball State University *| |* Muncie, IN 47306 *| |* 317-285-1843 *| |* Bitnet: 00hfstahlke@bsuvax1 *| |* Internet: 00hfstahlke@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu *| ************************************************ From: (Dennis Baron) <baron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: plagiarism Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 15:11:32 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1615 (1917) As long as Bernie brought it up, why don't we discuss what is plagiarism? It is something I deal with all the time as a writing program director, but it is something I feel very uncomfortable defining. The problems I have been wrestling with this year are the following (much of which has been prompted by Thos. Mallon's excellent book, _Stolen Words_, and by the many accounts over the past 2-3 years in the Chronicle of Higher Education). 1. There is a disparity between how we treat students and professional writers who plagiarize. Students are more severely punished for plagiarism than their professors or other professional writers are. Student plagiarism is treated as a crime, professional plagiarism as an embarrassment. In cases where faculty actually lose their jobs it is usually that the professor is not fired but voluntarily resigns, with no admission of guilt, possibly taking along a year's pay, possibly moving to a better job with no record of the (alleged) crime. A student is expelled, and courts are reluctant to interfere with such internal workings of the university. Whose career is ruined? 2. There is a sense that plagiarism is permitted all around us. Public figures (mostly politicians) have their words scripted by anonymous writers. Best-sellers are often ghosted by explicit or hidden co- authors. In administration, memos and reports are silently incorporated into other memos and reports all the way up the line. In some cases collaboration is the norm, individual ownership of text the exception. Should we then be surprised that students have trouble negotiating the difference between originality and copying, which also has a cultural spin? According to Mallon, Alex Haley plagiarized part of _Roots_. His publishers reached an undisclosed settlement with the author of the original material. Yet when Haley died recently, the reputation of _Roots_ and its (purported) author appeared untouched by scandal. The writer who admitted plagiarizing from Martin Amis's first novel left fiction (temporarily?) to become head writer for L.A. Law (there must be irony in this). The professor who quit after his plagiarism was discuvered during tenure review went on to a career at NEH, monitoring the rest of us! (These cases are all in Mallon). 3. Perhaps the most celebrated case in point is Martin Luther King's plagiarized dissertation (discussed in detail in last June's _Journal of American History_). Some people are outraged to learn of it. Others shrug it off, concluding it is insignificant in the context of King's overall achievement. Still others feel the very mention of it is racist. One line of argument suggests that ministers are expected to use other people's words as the (unattributed) subjects of their sermons, that African American rhetoric in particular encourages borrowing, and so what King did was perfectly normal. It seems to me not just the definition, but the ethics of plagiarism turns out to be more complex than we thought. Any comments? What should we do? (In case you were wondering, I do come down hard on student plagiarists, and I think I should continue to do so--no waffle there.) Dennis Baron debaron@uiuc.edu Dept. of English office: 217-244-0568 University of Illinois messages: 217-333-2392 608 S. Wright St fax: 217-333-4321 Urbana IL 61801 From: "NAME MICHEL (MGRIMAUD@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU) GRIMAUD" Subject: Re: 5.0785 Gender Differentiation in Names (1/90) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1992 16:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1616 (1918) The hypothesis concerning the existence of names for women in Rome is intriguing. However, I have two comments: KINSHIP TERMS INSTEAD OF NAMES... OR STANDARD AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES --General onomastic practices the previous centuries and of Roman times too (I believe) privileged KINSHIP TERMS... such as "daughter" in address and reference. It is easy in reference to say "my first daughter" or "my youngest daughter" or "niece". In address, one need only look at someone and say "daughter". Often, the CONTENT of one's address suffices to indicate whom we are talking to. The proof of this whole pudding of course is that in many cultures there is a taboo on calling people by name... yet all these cultures manage fine. We all know about the "mother-in-law naming problem" (most people hesitate, often for years, to call her "mother")... yet we manage fine. In many cultures TODAY women are not named either... and people manage fine --See for example China (Rubie Watson, "The Named and the Nameless gender and person in Chinese society" American Anthropologist, 13, 4, 1986, 619- 631) For abundant bibliographic references, see my two-part article "Les Onomastiques" in the NOUVELLE REVUE D'ONOMASTIQUE (# 15-16, 1990, pp. 5-23 and # 17-18, pp. 9-24) [You don't need to read much French to understand much of it; and a majority of the bib refs are in English anyway.] Michel Grimaud Wellesley College From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 5.0785 Gender Differentiation in Names (1/90) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 10:06:54 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1617 (1919) With regard to Gary Forsythe's comment about Roman women's names: I was not of the impression that those who have written on the subject were unaware of the fact that a mother with two daughters would have to distinguish them; and do we not know of sisters being distinguished as Maior and Minor, Prima, Secunda, and Tertia? One could also use nicknames: Cicero called his daughter Tullia Tulliola (and he called her that before she was married, too; but she was an only daughter). Clodia Metelli was a woman with sisters, and it is hard to see why, if she had a first name, so notable and notorious a woman would never have heard it used -- the more so as we have a speech written against her (Cicero's _Pro Caelio_), where the Greek practice, certainly, would have been to make a point of using the name that should, accor- ding to good etiquette, have been avoided (see on this "The Woman Least Mentioned" in CQ 27 (N.S., '77), 323-30). What is the secret evidence that Prof. Forsythe mentions that suggests that these women really did have praenomina? His own parallel suggests the opposite: at no period of which I know did Miss Brown lose her personal name when she became Mrs. Jones -- or even, for that matter, when she became Duchess of York. From: FCOTTER@SETONVM Subject: Re: 5.0785 Gender Differentiation in Names (1/90) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 06:41:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1618 (1920) what class are you talking about? From: Michael <MMORSE@VM1.YorkU.CA> Subject: Re: 5.0789 angry student query Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 18:41:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1619 (1921) Yes: Julius Caesar! From: mamut!nestey@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU (Nathan F. Estey) Subject: MIME Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1992 10:38:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 799 (1922) INTERNET DRAFT MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies Nathaniel Borenstein, Bellcore Ned Freed, Innosoft February, 1992 Status of this Document This draft document will be submitted to the RFC editor as a Proposed Standard protocol specification. Distribution of this document is unlimited. Please send comments to Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@bellcore.com> or Ned Freed <ned@innosoft.com>. Experimentation with the mechanisms described in this document is encouraged. It is anticipated that such experimentation will take place during the first half of 1992, after which this document will be revised and submitted as a Draft Standard. Abstract RFC 822 defines a message representation protocol which specifies considerable detail about message headers, but which leaves the message content, or message body, as flat ASCII text. This document redefines the format of message bodies to allow multi-part textual and non-textual message bodies to be represented and exchanged without loss of information. This is based on earlier work documented in RFC 934 and RFC 1049, but extends and revises that work. Because RFC 822 said so little about message bodies, this document is largely orthogonal to (rather than a revision of) RFC 822. In particular, this document is designed to provide facilities to include multiple objects in a single message, to represent body text in character sets other than US- ASCII, to represent formatted multi-font text messages, to represent non-textual material such as images and audio fragments, and generally to facilitate later extensions defining new types of Internet mail for use by cooperating mail agents. INTERNET MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 3 1 Introduction Since its publication in 1982, RFC 822 [RFC-822] has defined the standard format of textual mail messages on the Internet. Its success has been such that the RFC 822 format has been adopted, wholly or partially, well beyond the confines of the Internet and the Internet SMTP transport defined by RFC 821 [RFC-821]. As the format has seen wider use, a number of limitations have proven increasingly restrictive for the user community. RFC 822 was intended to specify a format for text messages. As such, non-text messages, such as multimedia messages that might include audio or images, are simply not mentioned. Even in the case of text, however, RFC 822 is inadequate for the needs of mail users whose languages require the use of character sets richer than US ASCII [US-ASCII]. For mail containing audio, video, Asian language text, or even text in most European languages, RFC 822 does not specify enough to provide interoperability. One of the notable limitations of RFC 821/822 based mail systems is the fact that they limit the contents of electronic mail messages to relatively short lines of seven-bit ASCII. This forces users to convert any non- textual data that they may wish to send into seven-bit bytes representable as printable ASCII characters before invoking a local mail UA (User Agent, a program with which human users send and receive mail). Examples of such encodings currently used in the Internet include pure hexadecimal, uuencode, the 3-in-4 base 64 scheme specified in RFC 1113, the Andrew Toolkit Representation [ATK], and many others. ----[end forwarded material From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: plagiarism Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 21:22:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1620 (1923) I agree with Dennis. There is so much plagiarism going around nowadays (and when did it not? as Byron might have asked, being accused of it so often), that one really ought to praise a student who does it well. If the Bidens, Haleys, Presidents of Cornell, and all the others are to profit from it, who are we to condemn it? I once was at an MLA meeting when a well-known professor was delivering a paper and Gottfried Merkel got up and revealed that the talk had been cribbed from a paper he had written. Not only did the professor involved not leave the profession, drummed out by an angry professoriat or slain by his students' quills, but he finished his career as a "distinguished" professor. As Dennis says, it's according to whose ox is being gored in this plagiarism business. Actually, it is prob- ably not too bad to get kicked out for plagiarism as a student; just like everybody else who gets caught with the hand in the till, one just moves elsewhere if one has to. Strangely enough, I can remember having been plagiarized many times, I cannot remember having plagiarized, nor can I remember ever having lost a game of billiards. Jim Marchand From: hexham@acs.ucalgary.ca (Irving Hexham) Subject: Re: 5.0787 Rs: Plagiarism (3/89) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 22:43:29 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1621 (1924) I would like to enter the discussion on plagiarism by giving some exact examples from my own field, South African history and religion, which I then want to discuss. But, before I do so what are the legal implications if any? Can I give a quotation and then compare it with an original source with impunity? What if I simply give the quotation but do not say where it came from? Could the author argue that anyone familiar with the field would recognize their work and could that cause legal problems? In other words where does academic freedom and debate cease because revealing misconduct threatens someone? From: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu Subject: Plagiarism Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 10:03:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1622 (1925) The complexities of plagiarism that Dennis Baron describes do indeed need sorting out. One can begin, I think, by distinguishing the two norms involved, norms that are often confused or left unconsidered, especially in the case of student work. The two issues are honesty and property rights. Honesty is a matter of intention; property right is a matter of overt use. The former plagiarism is primarily a moral issue; the latter is primary a legal issue. We often fail to separate these issues, or even think of them. If the same or similar material appears in two places, and in a quantity sufficient of notice, we assume plagiarism has occurred, and we feel no need to look further for evidence. We take plagiarism to have been objectively proven. In the case of student plagiagism, however, honesty should be the issue, and the student's dishonest intention should be the whole question, and that intention should be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. If property rights have been violated, then that is between the student and the copyright owner. Although the distinction between property rights and dishonesty can be made starkly, as above, there are, of course, complexities. But the distinction itself should serve as a starting point for unravelling this issue. Edward Vasta 203 Decio Faculty Hall University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46656 Voice: (219) 239-6330 FAX: (219) 239-8209 INTERNET: Edward.Vasta.1@nd.edu From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0797 Rs:...Plagiarism (2/113) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 17:30:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1623 (1926) Dr. Joel Goldfield proffers P.O.Box number and tel. number of the "Glatt Plagiarism Services," along with the reminder that the Glatt people "exhibited at the 1990 MLA convention." M. Lenoble recalls having tested the Glatt program so as to be able to write about it -- and that "as [he] didn't want to write devastatingly negative comments ... , [he] refrained from ever publishing anything about it." At the very end of his circumspect and provocative reflections on academic and non-academic varieties of plagiarism, including those exemplified in Thos. Mallon's *Stolen Words*, Dennis Baron reports his non-waffling administrative policy (to "come down hard on student plagiarists") and asserts his resolve (to "continue to do so....") A three-fold response: (1) To Dr. Goldfield: Anyone who wishes to buy a truck can reach a seller of them by addressing a (US Mail-type) letter to my cousin Jerry, at Van't Hul Motors, Inwood, Iowa. tel. 712-753-4568. Jerry has exhibited on the Rock Valley Main Street over several years. (2) To M. Lenoble: I implore you to explain: WHY EVER did you once "refrain" from writing "devastatingly about" a program that, as YOU describe it now, is so patently garbage+dollars in, then garbage out? WHO or WHAT silenced you? (3) To Dennis Baron (old friend): As I read your comments AND examples, they cry out (in my ears) against your non-waffling policy. More honestly, they confirm deep misgivings about our academic presumption that the integrity of ANYONE's public discourse can be even CONCEIVED (and then "taught" and then "enforced"!) as analogous to laws respecting the ownership of property in, say, a free-market economy. (Later, DB.) From: "NAME MICHEL (MGRIMAUD@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU) GRIMAUD" Subject: Re: 5.0797 Rs: Computer Distribution; Plagiarism (2/113) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 18:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1624 (1927) I agree with Dennis Baron that plagiarism is an interesting issue in more ways than one. As a writer I distinguish, especially in French, between "we" and "I" -- and much of the information that comes under "nous" or "we", and that I have found in more than one source, may go unacknowledged although I may have read it in one particular book. This is especially the case if I thought that referencing the book or article would give it undue weight. However, if I read the idea in a book that is good and has further things to say about the issue, then I will definitely reference it even if the idea itself is standard. Some readers will not know about what is standard in >my< subspecialty so that it is particularly important to be able to reference the idea for them. Which is what referencing is FIRST about: advancing the conversation with one's colleagues. In France, "plagiarism" is much more common than in the U.S. because what is "obviously shared knowledge" is assumed to be greater -- or the genre of criticism is viewed as more essayistic and the origin of the idea as less important than what I do with them. Or, on another front, I'm now writing two encyclopedia articles on "rhyme" and on the "line (of verse)". I am borrowing without acknowledgement from a couple of sources because there is no place for footnotes or indeed acknowledgement of people who have helped me with the versification of Japanese and Chinese. But when I rewrite the piece as part of a monograph on problems of versification, those people will be duly acknowledged. Of course, the student-prof relationship is quite unlike the kinds of audiences we write for as scholars. In a sense, before writing a dissertation, the student is writing something "in between". It's not easy . But Baron is right: better over-reference than under-reference, at least when you're a student. Michel Grimaud From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 16:07:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 801 (1928) ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 30th Annual Meeting 28 June -- 2 July 1992 Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA The program for the Annual Meeting itself, which will take place on 29 June to 2 July, features papers on all aspects of computational linguistics. Two invited lectures will be given during the meeting: ``Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and All That'' by Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University, and Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University; and ``Reflections and Projections'' by Don Walker, Bellcore and ACL. In addition, there are a special set of Student Sessions featuring papers that describe `work in progress' so that students can receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The Annual Meeting is preceded on 28 June by a set of tutorials: ``Statistics for Computational Linguists'' by William A. Gale and Joseph B. Kruskal; ``Leading Issues in Tree Adjunction'' by Yves Schabes and Stuart Shieber; ``Very Large Text Corpora: What You Can Do with Them, and How to Do It'' by Mark Liberman and Mitch Marcus; and ``Situation Semantics'' by Keith Devlin. The ACL Business Meeting will feature reports on the ACL Special Interest Groups, the ACL Data Collection Initiative, the Consortium for Lexical Research, the Text Encoding Initiative, the new Graduate Directory, the new Computational Linguistics Course Survey, the NLP Software Registry, the Linguistic Data Consortium, and other topics of current interest. There will also be an informal gathering to discuss multimedia language processing. CONFERENCE INFORMATION The Program Committee was chaired by Henry Thompson, Edinburgh University. The Tutorials were organized by Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania. For information about exhibits and demonstrations, contact Dan Chester, CIS Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, 1-302-831-1955; chester@udel.edu. Local arrangements are handled by Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, or Kathleen McCoy, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; 1-302-831-2712; acl@udel.edu. Program and registration brochures are being mailed to all ACL members. To get a brochure and other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1 201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. The full contents of the brochure follow, if the distribution medium has the room to display it. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 30th Annual Meeting 28 June -- 2 July 1992 Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA PROGRAM SUNDAY, 28 JUNE 11:00-3:00 Tutorial Registration Clayton Hall Lower Lobby 2:00-5:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS Statistics for Computational Linguists William A. Gale and Joseph B. Kruskal Leading Issues in Tree Adjunction Yves Schabes and Stuart Shieber 7:00-9:00 Tutorial Registration and Reception Clayton Hall Lower Lobby MONDAY, 29 JUNE 8:00-5:00 Tutorial and Conference Registration Clayton Hall Lower Lobby 9:00-12:30 TUTORIAL SESSIONS Very Large Text Corpora: What You Can Do with Them, and How to Do It Mark Liberman and Mitch Marcus Situation Semantics Keith Devlin MONDAY, 29 JUNE CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128 1:30-9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120 1:30-1:45 Opening Remarks and Announcements 1:45-2:10 Inferring Discourse Relations in Context Alex Lascarides, Nicholas Asher & Jon Oberlander 2:10-2:35 An Algorithm for VP Ellipsis Daniel Hardt 2:35-3:00 A Simple But Useful Approach to Conjunct Identification Rajeev Agarwal & Lois Boggess 3:30-3:55 The Representation of Multimodal User Interface Dialogues Using Discourse Pegs Susan Luperfoy 3:55-4:20 Monotonic Semantic Interpretation Hiyan Alshawi & Richard Crouch 4:20-4:45 Probabilistic Prediction and Picky Chart Parsing David M. Magerman & Carl Weir 5:15-5:40 A Functional Approach to Generation with TAG Kathleen McCoy, K. Vijay-Shanker & Gijoo Yang 5:40-6:05 Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources for Detection & Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog John Bear, John Dowding & Elisabeth Shriberg 7:00-9:00 Reception with Exhibits and Demonstrations Clayton Hall Lower Lobby and Rooms 119 and 120 TUESDAY, 30 JUNE CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128 8:00-5:00 Conference Registration Clayton Hall Lower Lobby 9:00-9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120 9:00-9:25 Conversational Implicatures in Indirect Replies Nancy Green & Sandra Carberry 9:25-9:50 Reasoning with Descriptions of Trees James Rogers & K. Vijay-Shanker 9:50-10:15 Comparing Two Grammar-Based Generation Algorithms: A Case Study Miroslav Martinovic & Tomek Strzalkowski 10:45-11:10 Recognition of Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems Giorgio Satta 11:10-12:15 Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and All That ***INVITED TALK*** Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University 1:45-2:10 Accommodating Context Change Bonnie L. Webber 2:10-2:35 Information Retrieval Using Robust Natural Language Processing Tomek Strzalkowski & Barbara Vauthey 2:35-3:00 Prosodic Aids to Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Spoken English Chris Rowles & Xiuming Huang 3:30-3:55 Understanding Natural Language Instructions: The Case of Purpose Clauses Barbara Di Eugenio 3:55-4:20 A Cognitive Approach for the Typographical Correction of Arabic Texts Abdelmajid Ben-Hamadou 4:20-4:45 Inside-Outside Reestimation from Partially Bracketed Corpora Fernando Pereira & Yves Schabes 5:15-5:40 Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems and Deterministic Tree-Walking Transducers David J. Weir 5:40-6:05 A Connectionist Parser for Structure Unification Grammar James Henderson 9:00-9:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120 WEDNESDAY, 1 JULY CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128 8:00-5:00 Conference Registration Clayton Hall Lower Lobby 9:00-6:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120 9:00-9:25 Would I Lie to You? 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NOMINATIONS FOR ACL OFFICES FOR 1993: President: Fernando Pereira, AT&T Bell Laboratories Vice President: Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University Secretary-Treasurer: Don Walker, Bellcore Executive Committee (1993-1995): Stuart Shieber, Harvard University 2:00-5:45 STUDENT SESSION (See separate program) 7:30-10:30 RECEPTION AND BANQUET Schaeffers Canal House (buses leave Clayton at 7:00) Presidential Address: Kathy McKeown THURSDAY, 2 JULY CLAYTON HALL ROOM 128 8:00-2:00 Conference Registration Clayton Hall Lower Lobby 9:00-2:00 Exhibits and Demonstrations Clayton Hall Rooms 119 and 120 9:00-9:25 Modeling Negotiation Subdialogues Lynn Lambert & Sandra Carberry 9:25-9:50 Handling Linear Precedence Constraints by Unification Judith Engelkamp, Gregor Erbach & Hans Uszkoreit 9:50-10:15 A Unification-Based Semantic Interpretation for Coordinate Constructs Jong C. 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Dorr 4:20-4:45 Using Classification to Generate Text Ehud Reiter & Chris Mellish PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Peter Brown, IBM TJ Watson Research Center; Stephan Busemann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa; Mary Dalrymple, Xerox PARC; Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Labs; Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh; Klaus Netter, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; Nicholas Ostler, Linguacubun Ltd.; Jan Pedersen, Xerox PARC; Steve Pulman, SRI International, Cambridge; Yves Schabes, University of Pennsylvania; Donia Scott, Brighton Polytechnic; Henry Thompson (chair), University of Edinburgh; Ralph Weischedel, BBN Systems and Technologies -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. ACL92 CONFRNCE. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Peter Flynn <CBTS8001@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE> Subject: Re: SGML conversion request posted to Humanist Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1992 23:09 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1625 (1929) John asks: [deleted quotation] I had a circular from WordPerfect Corp a week or two ago, soliciting comments on their plans to incorporate SGML sensitivity into WordPerfect. I replied (with reference to our own work) that it would be warmly welcomed, provided there were conversion facilities, visible DTDs (ie not compiled-only), fully-qualified parsing, and options to hide or reveal SGML tags (and a lot of other stuff). They seem very serious about it...but it was information-only, so don't hold your breath. In the meantime, I believe XGML from Exoterica and Mark-It from Sema are both capable of some conversion into and/or out of WordPerfect. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has experience of these abilities. ///Peter Flynn From: (Gerhard Obenaus) <g-obenaus@uiuc.edu> Subject: SGLM in Word Perfect Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 14:36:18 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1626 (1930) [deleted quotation] John John J. Hughes XB.J24@Stanford John, I'm not aware of anybody who has gone through the trouble of making up a few macros to perform that task. But it can certainly be done. The best would be to redefine a keyboard so that when you press F8 for underline, the SGLM code gets inserted. I'm not sure if you can also redefine function keys in WordPerfect, but if not, select some other key combination to insert the code. For example, if you wanted to insert a code for paragraph and assign it to the key combination ALT-P, all you have to do is turn the macro recording feature on (CTRL-F10), key in {P} (or whatever the SGLM code for paragraph is), then key in {\P} to mark the end of the paragraph. The result would be: {P}{\P}. The cursor will be sitting on the end-paragraph code and the last code will be pushed forward as you type. To end the marking of the paragraph, just hit the END key, and the cursor will sit right behind that code and you will be finished marking your paragraph. Anyway, you can define a special keyboard for SGLM assigning the macros to key-combinations within a particular keyboard. That way, these macros will only be available if your SGLM keyboard is selected. If you define a plain macro, they will always be available, the disadvantage being that every time you want to use a particular key-combination for another macro, it may already be taken up by your SLGM macros. Hope this helps. Gerhard From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: Electronic Lessing Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1992 15:31:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1627 (1931) SUBJECT: E-Lessing (German) FROM: Hans Rollmann (hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca;hrollman@munucs.ucs.mun.ca) Does anybody know if there is an electronic version of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's works in German which include NATHAN DER WEISE as well as his theological writings? Any help is appreciated. Thanks. From: Elli Mylonas <ELLI@BROWNVM> Subject: Mac Coptic Font Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 18:30:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1628 (1932) We continue to work on the next version of the Pandora program, (version 2.5) and have another question to pose about common usage in areas with which we are not familiar. What Mac Coptic fonts are there that are in common use? We could make a small Coptic font, to add the letters that are different from the Greek ones, but that would be useless if it was incompatible with a keymapping that is in common use. We would also prefer to use a ready made font than to have to make one of our own!! Again, if you have any suggestions, comments or complaints about the current Pandora, please send them to me. (I have already received several from the last query I posted, and we have already made Pandora work properly with the PHI disk, which had been a nuisance to many people. ) Please reply to me personally, at this address or at elli@ikaros.harvard.edu Thank you very much --Elli Mylonas From: MZIERAF@HAIFAUVM Subject: Mathematics-Education E-List? Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 00:07:10 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1629 (1933) Hi, Could any one tell me if there is an e-mail list dealing with MATHEMATICS- EDUCATION ? Thanks, Eliezer Rafaeli, MZIERAF@HAIFAUVM.BITNET From: Ken Litkowski <71520.307@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Dictionary Maintenance Utilities Date: 28 Mar 92 22:52:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1630 (1934) To whom it may concern: A year and a half ago, I put an announcement on the HUMANIST about a set of dictionary maintenance utilities (with the assistance of Mary Dee Harris). The following describes these utilities: "Utilities for creating/maintaining Natural Language Processing dictionaries - a set of PC programs for creating and maintaining dictionaries for natural language processing, including slots for ordinary dictionary definitions, feature and role lists, instance and superclass links, and semantic interpretation rules. Routines to convert dictionary into ASCII, LISP, or Prolog format. Includes sample dictionaries, Microsoft C source code, and user documentation." In September 1991, I started shipping version 2 of the software, named DIMAP-2. This version includes a machine-readable dictionary--Merriam Webster's Concise Electronic Dictionary, with utilities for converting their entries into DIMAP-2 format, thereby making this dictionary machine-tractable. Also included in version 2 are routines for converting sets of definitions, and tagging text with syntactic and semantic information (according to whatever information is available in the machine-tractable dictionary). The price of this version is $125 for a single-user copy and $500 for an academic license. On June 1, 1992, the price will increase to $350 for a single-user copy and $1,000 for an academic license. Anyone that is interested may obtain more details from me, before the price increase. Ken Litkowski CL Research 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879 (Tel.: 301-926-5904) (Email: INTERNET> 71520.307@compuserve.com) From: Editors of PMC <PMC@NCSUVM> Subject: Postmodern Culture Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 11:03:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1631 (1935) Postmodern Culture, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal of criticism, literature, and culture, will publish a special fiction issue in September 1992, to be guest edited by Larry McCaffery. Authors will be paid. The deadline for submission of unpublished postmodern fiction is June 1. Send mss. to us at Box 8105, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, or by email to pmc@ncsuvm or to pmc@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu. Thank you. --Eyal Amiran, Co-editor From: gary forsythe <gfgf@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: more on gender differentiation in names Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 9:22:07 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1632 (1936) In reply to David Schaps concerning what evidence I have for Roman women having personal names, twe possess a little treatise from antiquity entitled De Praenomine, which has come down as part of the manuscript of Valerius Maximus' collection of anecdotes on memorable deeds and sayings. It is generally supposed that this work was not written by Valerius Maximus but was written by someone else during early imperial times. At the end of this treatise the author turns his attention from praenomina for men to praenomina for women, and his discussion does not indicate that he is discussing an obsolete phenomenon (i.e., women having praenomina). In addition to this little work, there are a number of inscriptions from the empire which record praenomina for women. Many moderns assert that Roman women did not have real praenomina but simply possessed numeric names, such as Prima, Tertia, Quinta, etc. This view overlooks the fact that other non-numeric female praenomina are attested, and the fact that males also bore numeric praenomina (Quintus, Sextus, Decimus). From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Translation software(R) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 92 15:53:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1633 (1937) FinalSoft produce an application called Translate to translate from English ot Spanish. tel: (305) 477-2703. Those who looked at it were not overwhelmed by its capacities. From: Clarence Brown <CB@PUCC> Subject: Pushkin's lyric Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 16:11:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1634 (1938) I seem to have discarded the query, but someone asked recently about one of the lyrics of Pushkin. The poem in question, so far as I can determine from the questioner's fragmentary memory, is: DLJA BEREGOV OTCHIZNY DAL'NOJ, written in 1830. Line 15 contains the reference to the shade of the olive tree. From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: students kill professor with pens Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 21:14:25 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1635 (1939) The story of the students killing their professor with their pens is first told, I think, about John Scotus Eriugena, and I think it was first told by William of Malmesbury, but it was a good story and it got told about many heretics, including Abelard. In the case of John, it may have come from the circle around Hincmar. Anyway, John spoke a heresy, and his students were so overcome they threw their quill-pens through him; Irish- men were not as impenetrable then as now. Jim Marchand From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0797 ...Plagiarism Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 17:31:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1636 (1940) To Dennis Baron, whose recent reflections on plagiarism (like all of his published works on the language) were of much interest to me: Of course it is embarrassing to live and work in a world where (a) *plagiarism* is addressed by whole faculties in a doled- out set of formulaic prescriptions and penalties, and where (b) the "Glatt Plagiarism Services" of M. Lenoble's description is presumably not INTENDED as parody. Of course I know that your own policy is not in a class with ANY such grubby devices. But how DO you and your colleagues *conceive of plagiarism* so as to make a humane *policy* accessible to one another and your students? In my own experience as Director of a Writing program (rather like yours), what impresses me most vividly is not merely the greater frequency of plagiarized responses to instructors' more fatuously misguided assignments, but the psychology of instructors' responses to suspected or alleged offenders. The delight in DISCOVERY (of, say, a ripped-off paragraph or page or WHOLE essay) is febrile; the rage at the miscreant is not obviously righteous; the impulse to retaliate suppresses the concern to teach. In observing this psychology, I do not make light of anyone's pain in coming to irrefutable evidence of (a given student's) betrayal of the trust that, in teaching, is *sine qua non*. But when my students' *plagiarism* is the gesture of betrayal, they would themselves have been betrayed by my recourse to imperious handout proscriptions and such Glatt- like gimmickry of detection as M. Lenoble decribes. If I were clear on *plagiarism*, my students would profit in having a policy with regard to its manifestations in their texts. Daunted as I am to think what plagiarism may "come to" for writers, I could dole out to my students only the short eighth one of the Ten Commandments as a policy handout. On that (plagiarized!) commandment itself (hardly a policy) I would waffle, come to think -- as judges and juries must do from one to another trial in a court of law. But their system (unlike ours) is an adversarial one: they (unlike us) do not pretend to converse with defendants OR to teach them; their proper goal (unlike ours) is to reach verdicts. By pretending to a policy and clowning my way through Glatt- like or non-electronic detection and then unwaffling punishment of offenders, I would confuse and alienate most students, thus foster the cynicism out of which, with a plagiarized piece, some of them may be tempted to respond in kind. I think that my question (What IS plagiarism?) is not unfair BECAUSE unanswerable -- and that raising it yet again is made fair by the common use of proscriptions and penalties that imply a "known" thus "teachable" answer. To ask the question of students -- NOT rhetorically but in good faith -- is to discover that they take seriously as any of their pedagogs the challenge to write honestly; and that they discern more real complexity than many of us have energy or imagination to acknowledge. Afterthought about Dr. M.L. King, to whose newsmaking you referred as a best-known "case in point": As I recall (with geriatric haze), it was long before allegations vs. King made the public media that a scholar (then of Ohio State University) published a monograph in *College English* (and later a book-length study, I think) on the enriching effect -- on the essays, the public speeches, and (most especially) the sermons -- of King and a long line of other theologians and preachers among whom wholesale "borrowing" of tropes and extended discourse was received, even celebrated practice. (Of course I apologize for having mislaid the monograph, as for forgetting its author's name.) From: Anne Erlebach <AERLEBAC@MTUS5.cts.mtu.edu> Subject: Plagiarism Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 07:34:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1637 (1941) As to plagiarism? I'm against it. Don't tell me that professors don't know when they're plagiarizing. They do. As to the double standard, it's just a case of those in power holding themselves harmless. Ignorance seemingly is not the spur to plagiarism. Some of the brightest students are some of the worst plagiarizers. It makes sense that some of these folks grow up to become professors, and continue their dishonest ways. At the risk of sounding puritanical, I still say that plagiarism-- the knowing use of other's ideas and words as if they were one's own--is immoral. Its widespread presence in our profession should be a source of shame, not justification. Anne Erlebach Michigan Technological University From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 5.0800 Rs: Plagiarism Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 16:54:21 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1638 (1942) I am dismayed to see academics uncertain as to whether plagiarism by students should be condoned. "Free interchange of ideas" has nothing to do with copying on exams or (as in one case that came before our disciplinary committee) taking a masters' thesis written ten years ago, changing the numbers in the statistical tables, and handing it in as if it was the student's own work without so much as a note acknowledging the existence of the original work. These are not matters of careless research techniques, but of conscious attempts to pass off someone else's work as my own in order to receive credit for work that I did not do and usually -- since otherwise I would not have had to resort to plagiarism -- am unable to do. This is no different from writing checks on another person's bank account, and has the same effect of leaving the person fooled (in one case the merchant who accepts the checks, in the other the person or institution who hires me based on the false "proof" of my competence) at a serious loss. The fact that there are dubious cases around the edges of a crime does not cast doubt on the criminal nature of the crime itself. On the question, however, of dubious cases, allow me to present one of my own that occurred some years ago in an exam of mine at an Israeli university: on an essay question that had intentionally been worded in such a way as to give the student a chance to show what he knew -- that is, loosely worded to allow a broad range of answers -- two students, one an Arab and one a recent immigrant from Georgia (then USSR, not USA), handed in answers that were identical in wording, but both chock-full of totally independent spelling errors. The wording seemed to prove that they had copied, but why were the spelling errors different? And who had copied from whom? And furthermore, I seemed to remember that they had sat on opposite sides of the room during the exam. What to do? I handed in my grade-sheet with no mark for these two students; they both came to me (individually), and the matter was cleared up quickly. Islamic scholarship is based heavily on memorization; the Arab student had (on my recommendation to all my students) prepared himself well on what he had judged to be a major subject of the course, written (in advance of the test) an essay on the subject, and then memorized his own essay. The Georgian had borrowed the Arab's notes, and he, too, memorized them. Then both of them wrote them on the test, word for misspelled word. What could I do? There was no question that I had to give the Arab the 80 that the answer deserved; he was giving his own answer, and surely should not have been punished for letting the Georgian see his notes before the exam. After consideration, however, I gave the Georgian the same 80: comparing notes is a legitimate form of study, and what difference did it make whe- ther he had learned the information directly from my lectures or indirectly from the Arab's notes? What I did do was add to my exams, since that time, a notice that the answers must respond to the question asked, and that I will no longer give a passing mark to "pre-fab" answers. Although memorization is one way of study, I try to test the student's ability to think for himself as well. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Call for Book Reviews Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 20:05:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1639 (1943) Call for Book Reviews: The Religious Studies Publications Journal frequently calls for reviewers of new books in religious studies that have been sent to the CONTENTS project by participating publishers. Self-nominated reviewers interested in reviewing the volumes listed below should contact the project director at 441495@Uottawa (BITNET) or 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA (Internet). Please indicate your qualifications as a reviewer of the volume in question. Note that selected reviewers will be asked to return an electronic review within three months. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. The Religious Studies Publication Journal will also consider unsolicited reviews and book notes for publication. Reviewers will maintain the right to republish their review in any other medium. VOLUMES FOR REVIEW: Anderson, Gary A. _A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Blanchette, Oliva. _The Perfection of the Universe According to Aquinas: A Teleological Cosmology_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. Camporesi, Piero. _The Fear Hell: Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe_. Trans. Lucinda Byatt. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. Collins, Christopher. _Reading the Written Image: Verbal Play, Interpretation, and the Roots of Iconophobia_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Dickens, A.G. _The English Reformation_. Second Edition. University Press: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989. Greer, Rowan A. _ Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church_. University Press: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. Hess, David J. _Spirits and Scientists: Ideology, Spiritism, and Brazilian Culture_. University Press: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Mayr-Harting, Henry. _The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England_. Third Edition. University Press: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Westphal, Merold. _Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society_. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Ziolkowski, Eric J. _The Sanctification of Don Quixote: From Hidalgo to Priest_. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univserity Press, 1991 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS is an electronic journal that disseminates table of contents, abstracts, reviews and ordering information on new and recent print and electronic publications of relevance to Religious Studies. There are presently nine participating publishers: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Catholic University of America Press, Sheffield Academic Press (JSOT Press), University of Scranton Press, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford), Jewish Bible Association, Columban Enterprises, Penn State Press and the State University of New York Press. Electronic subscriptions are free; to subscribe, send a mail message to Listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca with the text: SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name. Inquires regarding the CONTENTS project should be sent to the project director: Michael Strangelove Department of Religious Studies University of Ottawa 177 Waller, Ottawa K1N 6N5 (FAX 613-564-6641) <441495@Uottawa> or <441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA> From: reach@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Eric Dahlin) Subject: Electronic REACH Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 11:17:11 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1640 (1944) REACH, Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities, the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is now available to subscribers in a new electronic form which permits automatic circulation. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to the address: listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet containing the single line: subscribe reach "your name" with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. REACH will continue to be available through anonymous FTP at the address ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, or 128.111.122.50, using the cd hcf command to get to the proper directory. The Winter 1992 issue is now available. All back issues will be available both through FTP and in the archive of the list server. Eric Dahlin reach@ucsbuxa.bitnet reach@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 5.0805 Rs: Names Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 16:12:11 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1641 (1945) Thanks to Gary Forsythe for the reference about Roman women's names. As for the parallel with men's names, there is a significant difference: no man had Primus, Secundus, Tertius, or Quartus for a praenomen; there was nothing notable about being the second or third son. Naming a child Quintus (or more) may have been a form of bragging (like Callias who named his son Hipponicus after winning the Olympic chariot-race). Women, on the other hand, are often referred to as Prima, Secunda, &c. Why? It is also worth noting that the names Quintus, etc. were not, as far as I know (again, I am speaking off the top of my head), "numeric" names any more: I don't know of any reason to believe that Cicero's brother Quintus had had three otherwise unknown brothers born between Marcus and himself, and I am pretty certain that Quintus' own son, also named Quintus, was not the fifth anything at all; he was simply named after his father. Was a woman ever called Secunda who was not in fact the second daughter? I know of no information on this either way. A further thought: even if you demonstrate that some women had names (and Valerius, though suggestive, doesn't prove the fact about women even of his own time), does it follow that all of them did? Middle names (and for that matter Roman cognomina) are common but not universal. And even modern first names are not entirely universal: some American blacks carry only initials -- not the same as being called Prima or Secunda, but not every American considers it a name. For that awful anecdotal evidence that is so encouraged by the e-mail (sitting at the computer instead of sitting in the library) evironment, I can quote the case of R.B. Jones, whose recruiting officer refused to fill in R. B. as the name until R. B. explained that he _had_ no other name at all. Thereupon the officer recorded in the blank spaces "R only, B only", and the soldier went through his military career known to the army as Ronly Bonly Jones. Mr. Jones' mother surely thought that R.B. sufficed as a name; someone in the military didn't. Perhaps some Roman women had names and others didn't; according to the "orthodox" view, that would almost certainly have been true in the period of transition from the proto-Italic situation to the historical one. The historical Romans surely knew that a feminine praenomen was conceivable ("Ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia"), which might weaken the use of Valerius as proof that it was also practiced. From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU> Subject: Forwarded Mail from WORDS-L Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 11:39:29 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1642 (1946) I just ran across this on another list (words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu) and thought it relevant in light of recent discussions. dan ***************************************************************************** * Dan Lester Bitnet: alileste@idbsu * * Associate University Librarian Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu * * Boise State University * * Boise, Idaho 83725 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak * * 208-385-1234 for them and they don't speak for me. * ***************************************************************************** *-*-*-*-*-* How fast can you spot what is unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you might think nothing was wrong with it at all and, in fact, nothing is. But it is atypical. Why? Study its various parts, think about its curious wording, and you may hit upon a solution. But you must do it without aid; my plan is not to allow any scandalous misconduct in this psychological study. No doubt, if you work hard on this possibly frustrating task, its abnormality will soon dawn upon you. You cannot know until you try. But it is commonly a hard nut to crack. So, good luck! I trust a solution is conspicuous now. Was it dramatic and fair, although odd? *-*-*-*-*-* From: mlbizer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Subject: Paraclausithyron Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 08:35:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1643 (1947) To those interested, I am working on Joachim Du Bellay's use of various poetic conventions in his Amores cycle. Although the motif of the paraclausithyron (the lover before the closed door) is extensively used in classical elegiac love poetry (Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid), it seems to be rare in the Latin love poetry of the Renaissance. I am aware that Pontano wrote "Carmen nocturnum ad fores puellae", included in his own *Parthenopeus sive Amorum* collection (I,3). Can any of you indicate other uses of the theme in the Renaissance? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marc Bizer (mlbizer@phoenix.princeton.edu) Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Princeton University From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Pro-Cite IBM/Mac Compatibility Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 10:05:08 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1644 (1948) This has probably been discussed to death and I wasn't paying attention; but a friend has asked me to find out how easy it would be to build a bibliography on an IBM laptop using ProCite, then transfer it to a Mac for additional work. In other words, how compatible are the two versions, and how easy is it to port data back and forth? From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" <ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET> Subject: Sorting Out Plagiarism Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 00:10 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1645 (1949) The plagiarism discussion seems to me to be more opaque than necessary, as a result of a lot of different issues being jumbled together. Let me try to sort some of these out, and see if this throws more light on the situation. Plagiarism basically consists in representing another's words as one's own. As such it is a kind of implicit lying: if I don't cite another source, I'm saying the words are my own. One could hold that all lies are is wrong, quite independently of the use to which they are put. But for most of us, the question of what sanctions should be applied depends upon the intended or actual _effect_ of the lie in question. These effects can vary widely in the case of ordinary lies. Some "white lies" are relatively innocuous ("That was a very interesting paper!", "You've lost weight!"); lies in the service of a greater good may even be praiseworthy (lies to the Gestapo). But if you lie to gain an advantage over other job applicants or to damage a rival, some sanctions seem called for, and perjury statutes provide for legal sanctions for lies in court. _Any_ lie seems to damage the community at least slightly by weakening trust in another's word, though this could be outweighed by other factors (as in the Gestapo case). Plagiarism, I think, can be handled in a similar fashion. If I fail to cite the source of my bon mot in a lecture or at a dinner, I may gain a reputation for wit I don't deserve, but it's not a very serious offense. I might even drop a few Faulkner lines without attribution just to see if an alleged expert picks them up. When a student submits someone else's work as his own, what is the intended, and what is the actual effect of this "lie"? The intended effect is, pretty clearly, to gain credit for a mastery of the subject he does not in fact possess. It's a misrepresentation of one's competence, a kind of fraud, like turning back a used car's odometer. But how serious is it? It may not be serious at all: it's a one-time event, the student gets an A instead of a B or C, but the difference makes little difference (no scholarship, grad school admission or job is affected). But it could be more serious. A single fraudulent grade could in principle make the difference; a series of them certainly could. In this case some other, presumably honest student who would otherwise have gotten the scholarship, admission or job has been wronged. And the higher the level, the greater the wrong, from the plagiarized intro-course essay to the term paper to a masters and doctoral dissertation. The misrepresentation gets you a place on the bench, and somewhere down at the end, in the dark, somebody falls off. Another wrong that's seldom noted in cases like this is the wrong to those served by the people who obtained their position through the fraud. The professor, doctor or engineer who faked his way through school presumably serves his students, patients and clients less well than one whose credentials were gained honestly. The connection between a case or two of plagiarism and a later error from incompetence may be tenuous, but I'd like to think that my blood is being tested, my plane flown and my nuke inspected by people who did their exams themselves. Gaining an unearned advantage may be the intended effect of plagiarism, but it is not the only one: there is a collateral effect as well. Behind the competence being faked there is, usually, some reality, and when someone who got an A in a subject turns out to know little about it, the credibility of the teacher and institution certifying the student's A-level competence in the subject suffers at all levels. The students who did their own work become discouraged or cynical. The deceived grad school or employer stop trusting the teacher's and institution's grades, to the detriment of all the other students. Interestingly (this is the basis of Kant's analysis), this effect is _not_ intended: the plagiarist wants his fraudulent grade to be accepted as genuine, and so wants to be the only plagiarist in town. But aren't I making a mountain out of a molehill? Some kid turns in an obscure article as his term paper, and civilization as we know it collapses. After all, Harvard survived Teddy Kennedy's academic dishonesty, and BU will survive King's. I think this objection turns on a mistake similar to what's known as the Sorites Paradox, in that it infers from the fact that there's no _discernable_ effect of a given case of plagiarism that there's no effect at all. There's an effect all right, one that's cumulative and progressive: if you forgive one intro student for plagiarizing an essay, how can you fail to forgive the second, third, and fourth? Can you allow it in intro, but not in advanced courses? Grad courses? Dissertations? By this I don't mean that any freshman who copies from his neighbor should be broken on the Wheel. Prof. Baron indicates that student plagiarists are expelled at his school; in the places I've taught, even ones with strict honor codes, this is rare except in flagrant cases. More often, the student is simply failed in the course (often only on the test). This seems reasonable to me: anybody, especially a freshman, can get in a time bind and make a mistake. But a regular pattern of academic dishonesty undermines the trust between student and teacher, and the good faith and credit of the institution; such students should make way for those who take credit only where credit is due. The effect of the plagiarism in the other cases Prof. Baron mentions varies widely. A number of these cases are also academic, and the same considerations apply: if there were no sanctions, there should have been (that is, the injustice is not that the students received sanctions, but that the professors did not). In the King case, his non-academic achievements far overshadow his academic ones; retroactively pulling his PhD wouldn't mean he didn't march on Selma. The effect of plagiarism by working novelists, it seems to me, is different. There is no institutional certifying authority whose credibility is compromised by the plagiarism. The main advantage gained is financial (and to some extent reputation), and the courts take care of that. The public may feel cheated a bit, but if Dashiell Hammitt actually wrote Raymond Chandler's early novels, I still had a good read; it's Hammitt's heirs who've really been cheated. The case of Sen. Biden seems to be relatively innocuous, sort of like my bon mot: he's taking credit for someone else's thoughts, all right, but not much turns on it. To summarize: plagiarism, it seems to me, is a kind of lying, the seriousness of which depends on the use to which it is put. Since it's used in the academy to produce false certifica- tion of competence in particular fields, and since the academy's credibility depends upon the acceptance of its certification, sanctions for plagiarism are entirely appropriate, and if professors are exempted, they shouldn't be. The uses of plagiarism outside the academy are different, and it's reasonable that the sanctions, if any, should be different as well. Let me end with an anecdote. I once taught at a school with an honor code enforced entirely by the students: a professor could accuse a student of plagiarism (or another form of academic dishonesty), but guilt and punishment were decided by a student committee. The punishments the students meted out to their own were much harsher than even the most hard-nosed professor would have suggested. They recognized that the integrity of their own achievement's certification was threatened by another student's plagiarism, and they acted accordingly. From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0800 Rs: Plagiarism (5/154) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 02:37:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1646 (1950) D. M. Schap says (Vol. 5, No. 0806. Wednesday, 1 Apr 1992): "The fact that there are dubious cases around the edges of a crime does not cast doubt on the criminal nature of the crime itself." Definition, enforcment, and adjudication of criminal law keep emerging as self-explanatory analogue of teacherly policy on the plagiarism of student writers. Let's pick a crime and agree: Murder "itself" is heinous. What keeps court dockets full is that best-founded allegations launch only "dubious cases," never attain to the thing itself. Here on HUMANIST, meanwhile, I have not "seen" what Schap is dismayed to have seen -- "academics uncertain as to whether plagiarism by students should be condoned." Like Anne Erlebach (Vol. 5, No. 0806. Wednesday, 1 Apr 1992), I am *against* plagiarism (along with all other crimes and misdemeanors); nor would I think to "tell [her] that professors don't know when they're plagiarizing." In trying to help my students to clarity on plagiarism, my challenge is to imagine precisely WHAT it is that writers know and do in what Erlebach calls their "knowing use of others' ideas and words as if they were [their] own." Of course it does NOT impugn Erlebach's own honesty to observe that those ones of her words are not indisputably her very own, or that her very idea has a familiar ring too. For teachers who know both that and how honesty in writing relates to honesty in meditating or in thinking or in keeping one's hand out of an unattended cookie jar or in (Schaps') non-bouncing of checks, the challenge is to explain the relationship to students, I think. One's glad sense of students' striving for honesty is not diminished by respect for this formidable problem: In most uses of language, memory and invention are all of a piece; "present texts" are not conceivably INdependent of "prior" ones. I wonder: Whether my own "plagiarism policy" for students would begin with the Eighth Commandment (attributed) or with Erlebach's "knowing-use of words and ideas not one's own" (attributed), should I muddy the students' waters by quoting, also, the fourteenth verse of Psalm 19 ("Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord....")? But where, then, is the exegetical scholar who will gloss the psalmist's enigmatic utterance so as to make clear for students that it constitutes rather a command than a petition -- and is thus APPLICABLE to students' morals as banking laws, say, to the morals of writers of checks)? To read the psalmist's utterance AS a petition -- it would tempt students to think of a writer's honesty as a state of grace (cf. American English "good luck" or "good genes") -- impervious by any name to teacherly policies, though fostered, as one hopes, by teacherly candor and example. In a long Middle-English poem attributed to one Wm. Langland, its narrator is troubled in heart to ponder the eternal damnation of the children of the ancient heathen who, having pre-dated the Christian gospel, were without the narrator's own assurance of salvation. I am all untroubled in heart to ponder the plagiarism of that poet, or of his greater contemporary Chaucer, or of their uncountable predecessors -- who flourished without the concept of "words and ideas" as PROPERTY; whose "knowing use of others' ideas and words as if they were [their] own" was the *modus scribendi* that yielded such moral-seeming glories as the Canterbury Tales and then some. From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL Subject: RE: 5.0806 Rs: More on Plagiarism (3/161) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 16:12:03 +0300 (EET-DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1647 (1951) David Schaps' reminiscences of his Arab and Georgian students who both memorized and reproduced the same essay reminds me of a high- school experience, when I reproduced from memory, in an exam, a page or so of the textbook almost exactly word for word. I had not in fact intended to learn the textbook word for word, I simply had at that time a somewhat more photographic memory than I have now, and carefully reading a text twice (as one did before exams) was enough to fix it in memory at least for the next few days. The resulting casual but somewhat suspicious questions I received from the teacher were enough to fix the experience (if not, alas, the text) in my memory for the next 30 years... But is reproducing a text in an exam a case of possible plagiarism, or rather of possible cheating in exams? Hm -- now I come to think of it, I can't define the difference between those two, though I intuitively feel they aren't really the same thing. Incidentally, in case anyone is interested in this sort of thing, I had no idea that the answer I wrote in the exam contained a near-verbatim reproduction of a page from the textbook, i.e. I did not in fact *know* that I had memorized the book. Of course a certain percentage of plagiarism is similarly "unconscious" rather than intended. Judy Koren, Haifa, Israel. From: Harold Short <UDAA400@oak.cc.kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Reply to Stephen Clausing at Yale Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 9:45 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 811 (1952) Subj: Humanities Computing courses The following is an extract from the School of Humanities prospectus here at King's College London (one of the constituent colleges of the University of London). The course it refers to is a 'minor', which means that it counts for one third of the student's total credit towards a BA degree. ====== Humanities with Applied Computing In conjunction with the Computing Centre, the School offers a variety of options with Applied Computing. The emphasis is very much on the 'applied' aspect - the ways in which computing can be used. In the first year a number of basic skills will be acquired covering such areas as text processing and analysis, databases, and introductory programming. The second year programme will extend these skills, and augment them with topics such as systems analysis and design, machine readable corpora, and computer assisted learning. As an important part of this programme, there will be a project involving the use of computing techniques in a humanities discipline. The third year will be almost entirely taken up with a major practical project, applying computing in the student's major discipline. ====== Most of the 'computing' teaching on this course is undertaken by members of the Humanities Division of the Computing Centre; the 2nd year project work is jointly supervised by us and academics from the 'home' departments; the final year project work is almost entirely supervised by 'home' dept academics. If you would find it helpful, I would be glad to send further details of the course content. In addition to the above course, the Humanities Division of the Computing Centre also teaches three non-credit courses. These consist of ten 3-hour sessions, and cover a range of basic computing skills, including Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Databases, Communications, Bibliographic software, and textual analysis. One of the courses is run for Humanities postgraduates - in the autumn term each year, another is for 2nd year Historians (a non-credit optional course!), and the third is for Humanities staff. This third one is run during the Easter or summer vacations each year. Once again, I would be glad to send further details if they are of interest or use. Best Wishes Harold Short Assistant Director (Humanities) Computing Centre King's College London h.short @ uk.ac.kcl.cc.elm From: Douglas Herman <DHERMAN@BRANDEIS.BITNET> Subject: Help with quotes; Spanish poetry Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1992 17:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1648 (1953) Can anyone help me identify the following two quotations? [deleted quotation] Perdon si les digo unas locuras, en esta dulce tarde de febrero Y si te va el corazon caminando... The person on whose behalf I'm asking this believes that the poem is about imperialism and mentions Lyndon Johnson. [deleted quotation] Somos la vida, la fuerza, la mujur... The lines were recorded from an oral reading and may not be completely accurate. Thanks, --Douglas Herman Brandeis University dherman@brandeis dherman@binah.cc.brandeis.edu From: (Gerhard Obenaus) <g-obenaus@uiuc.edu> Subject: Glossary of French-English Computer Terms Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 10:25:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1649 (1954) Hi there, I'm posting this message for a colleague of mine who says he is in desparate need of a glossary of English-French computer terms. Don't ask me why he doesn't use a dictionary, but if you know of a glossary or are willing to share one, please drop me a line: g-obenaus@uiuc.edu Thanks a lot in advance. From: gary forsythe <gfgf@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: names once again Date: Wed, 1 Apr 92 20:41:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1650 (1955) In response to David M. Schaps' response to my response to his initial message, let me the following observations. Although I have not yet completed my study of praenomina, I know of no instance in which a woman bore Prima or Secunda as a first name. The only numeric female first names that are attested are the three: Tertia, Quarta, and Quinta. Similarly, there are only three numeric praenomina used for males in later Roman times: Quintus, Sextus, and Decimus. All these names may have begun as having numerical significance (i.e., indicating the order of birth), but as in so many things in Roman institutions and customs, there seems to be to be a very strong likelihood that by the end of the late republic or early empire all such numeric significance had long been overlooked, and these names (both male and female) were employed by parents without any thought for what the names meant literally. Furthermore, it is noteworthy in my view that we find Primus and Prima, Secundus and Secunda as fairly common cognomina, not praenomina. Moreover, the cognomina Maximus-Maxima and Postumus-Postuma are also attested and could have been used to indicate the eldest and last born within a family, but these were not praenomina in imperial times. They were cognomina applied to both males and females. From: Mark Littlefield <LITTLEMG@SNYBUFVA> Subject: CIDELLUS Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 13:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1651 (1956) Information on Josef b. Ferrusiel can be found in Yitzhak Baer, "A History of the Jews in Medieval Spain. Mark G. Littlefield BITNET: littlemg@snybufva Foreign Language Department INTERNET: littlemg@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu Buffalo State College TELEPHONE: (716) 878-5810 Buffalo NY 14222 From: hexham@acs.ucalgary.ca (Irving Hexham) Subject: Re: 5.0806 Rs: More on Plagiarism (3/161) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 18:37:38 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1652 (1957) On Plagiarism and Integrity in Scholarly Activity from Irving Hexham It is, I believe, very important that the scholarly community gives a very clear and unambiguous definition of plagiarism. To apply undergraduate standards to established academics is clearly foolish. Any plagiarist who has obtained a Ph.D. is clearly skilled at covering their tracks. The academic plagiarist is like the successful embezzler. A bank clerk who takes $100,000 for one account is clearly likely to be caught fairly quickly. Therefore, the professional embezzler steals $100 from 1,000 accounts over a ten year period on the assumption that few people will miss $10 a year and that it is possible to disguise such transactions so that should one be discovered it looks like a genuine mistake or appropriate bank charge. Established academics who plagiarize are unlikely to copy an entire book. Instead they will take paragraphs from many books while at the same time providing false leads which make their borrowings look like genuine mistakes or poor footnoting. In checking various writers works I have found the following techniques used to disguise plagiarism. I am not providing specific examples at this time because I am unsure of the legal implications of posting them on a computer network. PART ONE: TYPES OF PLAGIARISM 1. Straight plagiarism: where only capitalization and sentence structures are changed and the odd word is added or deleted. The minor change in wording, changed capitalization, sentence structure and other visible features alter the appearance of the passage giving the appearance that it is original work. 2. Plagiarism using a citation: from the real author while making minor changes to the text without using either quotation marks or footnotes. Such examples are usually found when an author begins by saying "Dr. X, brilliantly observes..." But, although the wording is identical with Dr. X's work no quotation marks are used and no reference is given. 3. Simple plagiarism using a footnote: which makes minor changes to a text while providing a reference but failing to use quotation marks when academic rules for citation demand their use. These cases often read: "In an insightful article Dr. Y argues..." The argument is then given in almost exactly the same words that are used in the source. In this case the correct reference is given but no quotation marks are used in the text when they ought to have been used. 4. Complex plagiarism using a footnote: where various change and paraphrasing, from more than one page, is used with a footnote but without appropriate quotation marks. For example: a reference is given, although it may not be to exactly the correct page, and many words and phrases are taken from the original text. Paraphrasing is used to condense lengthy arguments. But, little or no indication is given that the passage is paraphrase nor are quotation marks used when needed. Another technique found in this type of plagiarism is a deliberate attempt to change the appearance, but not contents, of the sentences, thus making the plagiarism less noticeable. 4. Plagiarism using misleading quotations: where the effect is to give a false impression of the nature of the citation used. For example by quoting a secondary source which in turn quotes a primary source so that the reader is led to believe that the quotation represents the words of the original author. This form of plagiarism usually occurs when the primary source appears in a language other than English. Thus someone appears to be quoting from a Latin text which they seem to indicate is quoted by their source when, in fact, they are quoting the source itself and not the Latin text found in that source. Because this is difficult to explain, and sometimes to spot, I will give a another example. Once I read a book which appeared to quote a Buddhist text found in one of Edward Conze's works. When I read Conze I found that the quotation used by the plagiarist was not the Buddhist text as his footnote implied but Conze's comment on the text. 6. Paraphrasing as plagiarism: paraphrasing without reference to the original and extensive paraphrasing, even when the source is mentioned, is plagiarism although it may be very difficult to prove. Legitimate paraphrasing takes place where the source is acknowledged, when the practice does not dominate a writer's work, and where it is done to interact critical with a person's views in dialogue, not simply expound them. When a chapter contains an introductory and closing paragraph written by an author followed by other paragraphs which are all paraphrased from other people's work then the chapter is plagiarized. A further indication of plagiarism is when a paraphrased passage appears to expound the work of a major author although the footnotes refer to secondary sources. For example, if a writer appears to be expounding the views of Kant but is really paraphrasing the interpretation of Kant given by writers like Stephan Krner and Norman Kemp Smith then plagiarism has occurred even though the footnotes may refer to the paraphrased works. The plagiarism can be clearly seen when some of the footnotes refer to the original text, e.g. Kant, but are, in fact, taken from the paraphrased works. In practice many plagiarists give themselves away by using many of the actual words found in their sources and by copying mistakes, especially in footnotes, from the works they use. 7. Self-plagiarism: must be distinguished from the recycling of one's work which to a greater or lesser extent everyone legitimately does. Self- plagiarism occurs when no indication is given that the work is being recycled and where a clear effort has been made, through changing the paragraph breaks, capitalization, and the substitution of English with foreign terms, to cause the reader to believe they are reading something completely new. The extent of the re-cycling is also an indication of self-plagiarism. Republishing one's Ph.D. thesis in a revised form is expected of academics. To republish the same material in a misleadingly changed but unrevised, and unacknowledged, form in two books and to further publish articles which reprint material found in the books and thesis as though the articles contain new work and are thus worthy of merit is the type of self-plagiarism which should be condemned. In some institutions self-plagiarism may not be a problem but at others the existence of a merit system makes it an issue. To gain merit increments two or three times for the same work is clearly unjust. Finally, the existence of extensive self-plagiarism with evidence of other forms of plagiarism may be proof of a deliberate attempt to fool colleagues in the other case too. Some people argue that self-plagiarism is by definition impossible. They argue that because plagiarism is theft a person cannot steal from their own work. But, this is not correct in law. There are circumstances, insurance fraud, embezzlement, etc. where it is possible to steal from oneself. PART TWO: DISCUSSION AND CAUTIONS In judging that an author plagiarizes care must be taken to ensure that careless mistakes, printing errors etc. are not used against an innocent person. Further, it is necessary to recognize "common usage" and the nature of the writing itself. I also believe that it is probably impossible to prove plagiarism when only ideas, and not actual words, as suspected of having been plagiarized. For example many basic textbooks contain passages which come very close to plagiarism as do dictionary articles. In most cases the charge of plagiarism would be unjust because there are a limited number of way in which a short article or text can comment on a well known event like the outbreak of the French Revolution or birth of St. Augustine and, in the case of dictionary, newspaper and similar types of article, space does not allow for the full acknowledgement of sources or the use of academic references. The intent of the writer should also be recognized. For example in the early years of this century the German author Karl May was accused of plagiarism because his adventure stories contained descriptions of landscapes and urban settings which were clearly culled from travel books. May did not deny this but simply argued that to judge his works as plagiarized because he borrowed a description in which to set his story was to totally misunderstand the function of the storyteller. Someone spinning a yarn may borrow freely if they reuse the original material in such a way that the final product is not dependent on what has been borrowed to create the setting. It therefore seems necessary to distinguish between academic and other types of writing and to ask what is the reader led to believe the author is doing. If a book contains academic footnotes, is written in academic style, and is presented as a work of scholarship then it must be judged as such and measured against the accepted rules for citation found in sources such as the Chicago Manual of Style. An academic author who gives the impression that they are following standard procedures, by their use of footnotes etc., when they are actually borrowing the words and ideas of others without appropriate references or quotation marks is plagiarizing. This must be made absolutely clear in any statement on plagiarism issued by scholars. For example I recently found an author who said that A.J. Ayer described someone as "a mere rhetorician and literary gadfly whose ideas" were not to be taken seriously. The reference given was: A.J. Ayer, Wittgenstein, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984, p. 159. In fact, when I checked, A.J. Ayer said nothing of the sort. His book was published in London by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1985 and contained only 155 pages. Clearly, the author I was reading was plagiarizing another author, whom I quickly located from the books footnotes, who had made the original mistakes. It should be added that one important evidence that plagiarism has taken place is when mistakes found in secondary texts appear in works which claim to be using primary sources. For example in two books on Indian religion by the same author I found references to the Rig Veda which read "RV. 10.10.125.3" and "RV. 10.10.114.8" when in fact they ought to have read "RV. 10.125.3" and "RV. 10.114.8." In this case the source of the error was a printing mistake in an article published by John Arapura, "Language and Phenomena," Canadian Journal of Theology, XVI, 1970, p. 43. The fact that Arapura was the source of the mistake is clear from the fact that in both books where it occurred page 44 of Arapura's article is cited in the same section as the references to the Rg Veda! Although nobody familiar with the Rg Veda ought to have made such a simple mistake even here one has to allow that perhaps the author was writing under pressure and, although he knew the original source, took a short cut because he did not have a copy of the Rg Veda at hand when writing. But, when this mistake is compounded in other passages by the repetition of the exact words and phrases found in other authors works without the use of appropriate quotation marks etc. it seems certain that deliberate plagiarism has taken place. I recognize that most academics find it very hard to believe that some of their colleagues deliberately plagiarize. While this attitude reflects well on the basic honesty of most scholars it reflects badly on their willingness to check footnotes and compare works they read against other works and source material. Since I became sensitive to the abuse of scholarship through plagiarism, because I experienced a situation where abuse of scholarship by a recognized scholar occurred, I have regularly carried out random checks against both footnotes and passages which simply look familiar. To my horror I have discovered that while most academics are very honest a small minority abuse the trust of their colleagues. These individuals appear to have a complete contempt for academic values. I can only assume that they are motivated by greed and ambition. Knowing that scholarship depends on a degree of trust they realize that most readers will assume their basic honesty and that scholars lack the time and motivation to check everything they read. Therefore, they plagiarize confident that they are unlikely to be caught. They also know that, even if plagiarisms are discovered in their work they can usually be explained away as careless note taking due to the pressure they are under in their work. Clearly, both scholars and editors are not doing a very good job in detecting cases of academic dishonesty. Finally, I want to draw attention to the following works which deal with this issue: Michael Meyer, The Little, Brown Guide to Writing Research Papers, Boston, Little, Brown and Company. Frederick Crews, The Random House Handbook, New York, Random House, 1984. Edward P. Bailey, Jr., Philip A. Powell, Jack M. Shuttleworth, Writing Research Papers: A Practical Guide, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Donald E. Miller, Barry Jay Seltser, Writing and Research in Religious Studies, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, 1991. Ralph D. Mawdsley, Legal Aspects of Plagiarism, Kansas, National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, 1985. Irving Hexham, Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4. Tel. 403-220-5886 From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: RE: Plagiary Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 17:51 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1653 (1958) The most recent communication on plagiarism concentrates on lying. There is also simple theft. When a high-ranking professor is accused up an down the USA for having lifted many paragraphs of her wor, accused by another eminence in the field, and when this professor is not castigated, not examined, not made an example in a large an important department, but is instead recommended for promotion as an international authority, the case being set aside, one learns, by the ad hoc committee as not directly relevant to the promotion to 75K$/year, and then more promotion the year following, and then when the Dean and the higher authorities pass over it, and when the professor comes back, after a year in purdah abroad, or so one presumes, and comes back swinging, to dominate hiring choices and bully others in general, because approved an backed, after a mingy apology in the journal in question that doesnt ask for pardon for plagiary, but simply says, in effect, I mixed up my notes (as the late Alex Haley did for his mil- lions of $ ROOTS fraud), then am I to recommend to bright students to come and do graduate work here? Professors have nothing left to fear in the USA, since they are not bothered for much in the way of their sexual mores, not hounded or shamed, nor should they be, nor bothered for their failures to serve this and that in the profession, nor even bothered much for lack of production, not de-merited. But we do have one thing left to us in this profession without respect in the university, I mean the Humanities: we have our scholarly integrity togu ard with some eye to honor. But no...outright theft is condoned and here rewarded. It was a stupid thing to have done, some say, deploring. Stupid is what a professor should not be, when it comes to copying another's text and publishing it in a scholarly review as one's own, not the whole text, to be sure, but enou gh to outrage the victim, who presented evidence, made threats, wrote the Chair and the Dean and made a stink...to no avail...so far. I myself care not to recommend my own school to others now. I am, well, shamed, and ashamed. After a lifetime. All we have left is gone, our honor. Well fancy that, and imagine her falling on her/my sword? no way. It is serious. But then again, it is not. We are nothing anymore, diminished, since we are not quite islands, eh? Kessler @ ucla From: Joseph Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM> Subject: Re: 5.0812 French-English Computer Terms Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 11:18:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1654 (1959) Several years ago, Ian Richmond at the University of Western Ontario compiled a bilingual (French/English) disctionary of computer terms. Whether he has updated it and how to reach him by e-mail are questions I cannot answer. From: Michael Hancher <MH@UMNACVX.BITNET> Subject: hand-held scanners and OCR? Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 20:28 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1655 (1960) Can anyone recommend a successful combination of a hand-held scanner and OCR software? From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: NOTA BENE/SIGNATURE April 15 NEACH Date: Thu, 2 Apr 92 22:35:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 816 (1961) An Invitation from NEACH (Please forgive any multiple postings.) The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities invites you to attend its next meeting in New York City at the IBM Building, 57th Street & Madison Avenue on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1992, at 1:30 p.m. for a panel and demonstration of two new word processing packages using the XyWrite format, NOTA BENE 4.0 and SIGNATURE 1.0. The featured presenters will be STEVE SIEBERT of Dragonfly Software, who will demonstrate NOTA BENE 4.0 LINGUA with its extensive new language capability, and CHRISTINE RIVERA of MicroDynamics Plus, who will demonstrate XyQuest's new SIGNATURE program with its many new features and graphical interface. Mr. Siebert will also demonstrate ORBIS, a new textbase package designed to work with Nota Bene and Signature. Other panelists will include ALLEN HILL of Skadden, Arps, who will discuss Atex, the mainframe ancestor of XyWrite, and GEORGE VALLASI, v.p. of Chernow Editorial and director of the New York XyWrite SIG, who will discuss XyWrite III Plus. XyWrite was for a long time time program of choice for writers, journalists, editors, programmers, and typesetters. Nota Bene was endorsed by the MLA and became a favorite of humanists and users of multi-lingual writing software. Now Signature has been released to replace XyWrite III Plus and as an upgrade path for IBM's Displaywrite. Don't miss this unusual and exciting presentation. NEACH Program Calendar for 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Proj. Elaine Brennan, Humanist Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman, ex-Wolff Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, CETH Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Library Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry & Natural Lang. Proc. Mary Dee Harris, Language Tech. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - WED., APR 15 NOTA BENE 4.0 AND SIGNATURE STEVE SIEBERT, et al Note: Formerly scheduled for April 8. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tues. May 5 Gutenberg Text Project Michael Hart, Exec. Dir. All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Ask at the desk when you enter the IBM Building for a pass to NEACH or HUMANITIES. For information on NEACH membership, write ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu. Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President From: Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM> Subject: Humanist Goes to a Conference Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 11:18:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 817 (1962) Humanist will most likely appear sporadically over the next 10 days or so, while the editors (and a certain percentage of the readership) are in Oxford, England at the 1992 Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computing in the Humanities Conference. Please bear with us if postings are somewhat more erratic than we'd like. Elaine From: "Jan Eveleth, Academic Computing Services" <EVELETH@YALEVMS> Subject: Perseus Presentation at Yale: April 16th Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1656 (1963) April 16, 1992 Dunham 220 3:00-4:00pm Yale University New Haven, Connecticut ********** Continuing the Tradition of Humanities Computing with the Perseus Project: A discussion of a multi-media hypertext on ancient Greek civilization and the origins of this work in earlier computing efforts Speaker: Elli Mylonas Managing Editor, Perseus Project, Harvard University Sponsored by the Consortium for Language Teaching & Learning ************ For more information and directions, please contact Jan Eveleth, Academic Computing Services, Yale University. 432-6639 or Eveleth@Venus.YCC.Yale.edu From: "Daniel Traister" <traister@a1.relay.upenn.edu> Subject: Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 15:05:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1657 (1964) ACRL Rare Book and Manuscript Section Preconference University of California, Santa Cruz Tuesday, June 23 -- Friday, June 26, 1992 "Scholarly Communication and the Future of Special Collections" In recent years the structure and processes of scholarly communication have undergone a transformation as radical as that witnessed by the introduction of moveable type in the fifteenth century. The plenary sessions will examine the nature of this transformation, and speculate on the impacts that will be felt in the world of rare book, manuscript, and special collections librarians. Speakers: "Not What it Used to Be: Scholarly Communication Then and Now," John Budd, School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University; "The Coevolution of Networks, Networked Information, and Learning Communities," Paul Peters, Director, Coalition for Networked Information; "Informal Publication and the Scholarly Record: Bits and Bytes from the Experience of Editing Humanist and Other Electronic Lists," Elaine Brennan, Women Writers Project, Brown University, Co- Editor, Humanist; "Concepts of 'Text' in the Electronic Environment," Gordon Neavill, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama; "Copyright Issues in Electronic Publishing," Brian Kahin, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; "Preserving the Intellectual Record in the Electronic Environment," Peter Graham, Associate Vice-President for Information Services, Rutgers University; Panel: Reactions from Scholars. Plenary sessions will be complemented by a series of continuing education seminars addressing such topics as: fundraising strategies, collecting western Americana, exhibition catalog awards, use of thesauri, broadsides and fine printing, history of science collections, trends in the use of special collections, conservation for exhibition, and administering grants. Social events will include a reception sponsored by the local chapter of the ABAA; a reception sponsored by local book artists and printers; and a trip to Monterey and a tour of the Monterey Aquarium, dinner on your own Monterey. The UCSC campus is situated in a redwood forest overlooking the city of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. Daytime temperatures in late June may range from the lower 70s to the upper 80s, with low humidity. Evening temperatures may drop into the low 60s as fog rolls in from the Bay. The UCSC campus is wooded and hilly; casual clothes and comfortable shoes are recommended. Accommodations and meals will be provided in new, apartment-style dormitories on the UCSC campus. Fees: Before May 15: $135, ACRL Members; $175, non-members; after May 15 add $25. Limited to the first 225 applicants. For additional information call Merri Monks at ACRL, (800) 545-2433, ext. 3248. -------------------- [ ... ] a description of the ACRL Rare Book and Manuscript Section Preconference, which will be at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Tuesday, June 23 -- Friday, June 26, 1992. Brochures describing the program and arrangements in detail are being mailed next week to RBMS members (and selected others). Other interested parties may call the ACRL office noted below to receive a copy of the brochure. For additional information feel free to contact me directly. Robert S. Martin LSU Libraries Louisiana State University Chair, 1992 RBMS Preconference Program Committee notrsm @ lsuvm From: Jean-Pierre Laurent <jplaure@imag.fr> Subject: IJCAI-93 Server Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:02:54 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1658 (1965) IJCAI-93 : Information is available on a special automatic IJCAI server. At present you can get from this server the different Calls for Papers, Videos, Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, as well as the coordinates of all responsibles and a process to follow in order to be sure to receive the Conference Brochure in early 93. People must send an email to: ijcai-serv@imag,fr subject: anything content: for first time used type only 'help' J.P. LAURENT University of Chamb{ry LIA - BP 1104 F - 73011 CHAMBERY Tel: (+33) 79 96 10 62 Fax: (+33) 79 96 34 75 email: jplaure@imag.fr JP Laurent From: Richard Tuerk <TUERK@ETSUACAD> Subject: Call for Papers Date: Sat, 04 Apr 92 16:58:12 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1659 (1966) CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are solicited for the 1992 annual meeting of the American Studies Association of Texas, November 19-21, in Denton, Texas. Host institution is the University of North Texas. Papers are welcome on any aspect of American studies. Papers are especially welcome on anything having to do with Christopher Columbus. Reading time should be no more than 20 minutes. Send two copies of finished paper and a 100 word abstract by August 1, 1992, to Richard Tuerk Department of Literature and Languages East Texas State University Commerce, TX 75429 Phone 903-886-5266 TUERK@ETSUACAD.BITNET To read a paper at the annual meeting, one must be a member of the American Studies Association of Texas. Dues are $15 per year. One can join after having the paper accepted for presentation. From: ksalzber@hamline.edu (Kenneth Salzberg) Subject: call for papers Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 11:34:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1660 (1967) Call For Papers Call For Papers Call For Papers The South Central Modern Language Association and THE INTERNATIONAL COURTLY LITERATURE SOCIETY invite submissions of papers for a session at the SCMLA Convention to be held in Memphis, TN 29-31 October 1992. Papers concerning any aspects of medieval courtly literature in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or other languages are welcome. Please send a 100-word abstract by 15 April 1992 to: Susanne B. Rinne, Asst. Prof. Dept. of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy Lincoln University Jefferson City, MO 65102-0029 FAX (314) 681-5511 From: ksalzber@hamline.edu (Kenneth Salzberg) Subject: Welsh at K'zoo Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 11:34:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1661 (1968) WELSH SESSIONS AT KALAMAZOO Fred Suppe is soliciting session titles and paper abstracts and titles for 1993 sessions on Medieval Welsh Culture, History, Literature, Folklore, and Arthurian Studies. If you are interested, please contact him by May 5 at: Ball State University Department of History Muncie, Indiana 47306-0480 or speak with Fred or with Pat Price at Kalamazoo. From: stephen clark <AP01@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> Subject: Re: 5.0763 Qs: Philosophy E-List Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 10:15:53 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1662 (1969) I tried to respond directly to KWINKLER's question about philosophy e-lists, but have perhaps failed to reach him. There are several philosophy lists in existence, but there is room for more. PHILOSOP@YORKVM1 is the oldest, and operates as an information exchange. So does APF@vulcan.anu.edu.au (the Australasian Philosophy Forum - include ADMIN in your subject line to avoid sending the mail to every subscriber), which is the latest. NSP-L@RPIECS is a chat-line, but often interesting. PHILOS-L@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK is an information exchange which occasionally starts discussions - membership is worldwide but it's centred on Europe. Both PHILOSOP and PHILOS-L keep long essays on the server for people to retrieve at their leisure. PHILRELSOC@HAMPVMS is a more occasional discussion list. Those lists are all general philosophy lists. The specialist lists include DERRIDA@CFRVM, HEGEL@VILLVM, AYN-RAND (actually there are several Rand lists - the one @IUBVM features lengthy reviews of Rand's work) ETHICS-L@POLYGRAF (peered) (computer ethics), RELIGION @HARVARD.HARVARDA.EDU, PHILCOMM (a COMSERV@RPIECS list), PRNCYB-L. Also try THINKNET-REQUEST@WORLD.STD.COM, for details of a regular cross-list, circulation of philosophical argument. Anyone who wants more details can ask me for them. Stephen Clark, Liverpool (ap01@liverpool.ac.uk) From: DJT18@hull.ac.uk Subject: Re: 5.0812 Qs: Quotes; French-English Computer Terms (2/41) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 14:57:33 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1663 (1970) English-French glossary Termex background dictionaries offer one for Computer Science, price 120 pounds per language pair. Available from Multi Lingua, 61 Chiswick Staithe, London W4 3TP, tel 081 995 0478, fax/voice 081 747 1853 (UK). Order code is BDEC2. Alternatively, on receipt of full postal address I can send a small but useful glossary (printed) entitled "Say IT in French". Regards June Thompson, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, HULL HU6 7RX, UK. From: FRN373B@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: 5.0812 Qs: Quotes; French-English Computer Terms (2/41) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 00:48 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1664 (1971) In reply to the inquiry from G. Obenaus concerning a glossary of French-English computer terms, Librairie Larousse published a Dictionnaire de l'informatique (4th ed) in 1981 which could be of use. In principle the (300 page) dictionary is French monolingual, but virtually every entry begins with an indication of the English source of the expression. For a more up to date lexical source, I'd suggest buying a copy of the French equivalent of PC-World magazine. The articles and advertisements are a very rich source of authentic terminological usage. Jack Burston Monash University Melbourne Australia From: KRAFT at PENNDRLS Subject: Mission to NEHGS Date: 7 April 1992, 01:25:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1665 (1972) Opportunity Knocks! As a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society for several years now, it has always concerned me that NEHGS seemed uninterested, if not even sometimes hostile, with reference to electronic research and publication possibilities. So when the usual request for additional funds came around a couple of months ago, I responded that I would be interested in contributing to getting the NEHGS connected to the rest of us who are using electronic tools. A reply from Ralph Crandall, NEHGS Director, arrived recently in which he expresses the desire to "hook up to nationwide library networks" and shows an awareness "that many of our members are using electronic networks in their genealogical research," allowing also that "it makes a lot of sense for us to participate at some level in the transfer of information over these networks." Progress! Mirabile dictu! Mr. Crandall then suggests that since "so many are already using Prodigy," that it might be a good way to get started -- NEHGS already has an IBM PC. He thinks that it would cost about $300 for the Prodigy disk, splitter, and year's subscription. Before I respond to Mr. Crandall, I wanted to draw on the wisdom of the networked masses. My impression is that Prodigy is not necessarily the best route to go (is there a two-way gateway between Prodigy and the Internet? I seem to recall that there was some problem with this earlier), but I am not conversant enough with the alternatives to make a clear alternative suggestion (Cleveland FreeNet? CompuServe?). I do intend to give some funds to this project, although I may not be able to fund it completely. I suspect that some of you may also be interested in helping to bring this marvelous resource into electronic contact (although I suspect that at first, NEHGS will be a rather passive participant, especially when they see the flow of communications that come over the nets!). Please let me know, privately or publicly, as appropriate, what seems to you to be the best way to proceed: specifically, what service would you recommend to get NEHGS connected to as many of us as possible (i.e., to the Internet, I would argue), and what will it cost to do that? And if you would like to contribute in other ways to this endeavor, let me know that as well. Bob Kraft, UPenn [[Replies to R Kraft's query]] Summary: None of the 10 or so messages received thus far are enthusiastic about Prodigy as the point of connection, and most of them are explicitly negative. Other commercial and "free" possibilities are mentioned, but the suggestion that seems to be most appropriate is to try to find a Boston-locality University Internet site (probably a Library) to which NEHGS can be connected via modem. This would not only get them involved via the Internet, but would also move them towards the highly desirable Library connectedness. Related to this suggestion and worth exploration in its own right is the possibility that a link through or with RLIN can be made. Interestingly, noone has yet offered to contribute funds to the project. [RAK 7 April 1992] From: Christian Boissonnas <CBY@CORNELLC> Subject: [Aqueduct Agenda for Serials Problem] Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 20:10:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 822 (1973) Printed below is the action agenda formulated at a February retreat by nineteen librarians concerned with serials pricing and access. It is the subject of an article in the April 8 CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (pp. 33-34). Because the article does not give the entire agenda, we want to make it available quickly to interested persons and groups. AQUEDUCT ACTION AGENDA INTRODUCTION From February 7-9, 1992, nineteen serials, acquisitions, and collection development librarians met in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for a retreat at the Aqueduct Conference Center. They discussed pres- sing issues in regard to serials acquisition and scholarly communica- tion. Participants in the retreat came from ten states and the Dis- trict of Columbia. After fifteen hours of intense discussion on five topics (strategies for counteracting high prices, the library's role in docu- ment delivery, library treatment of electronic journals, serials can- cellation projects, and copyright), the retreat participants developed the following action agenda. The points are directed to individual librarians and their libraries, and to library organizations. The issues must be addressed at a grassroots level, as well as by organi- zations. ACTION AGENDA The Aqueduct participants urge all librarians to discuss, adopt, and promulgate the points in this Action Agenda. 1) Examine carefully all of the implications and ramifications of the access versus ownership debate. Access and ownership are both critical library functions. While access has many advantages, a critical mass of library ownership must be maintained as ownership is the ultimate form of access. 2) Article delivery services using research libraries' journal col- lections are becoming highly effective. If libraries are to maintain a competitive role in information and article delivery they must enhance technical and human resources to speed and improve interlibrary ac- cess. Likewise, libraries relying on article delivery from other li- braries must accept the costs incurred by the supplying library in providing access. 3) Standards, strategies, costs, and responsibilities for archiving electronic journals are uncertain. Librarians should respond to this opportunity by working with publishers and computer centers to create standards and cost-effective strategies, and to determine libraries' role in storing, accessing, and archiving electronic journals. 4) Donald Koepp, Director of Libraries at Princeton University, tar- getted Pergamon Press journals for cancellation because of inordinate- ly high price increases on top of already high prices. His action is an example of focused cancellations intended to send a message to publishers. Librarians should share the Koepp letter with library users and pursue additional measures of focusing attention on the expensive prices of some publishers. 5) In selection and cancellation decisions, openly acknowledge jour- nal price and price history as significant criteria. 6) Notify journal editors and publishers directly of reasons for cancelling journal titles. 7) Share cancellation lists and criteria for cancellation within a consortium or region in order to promote cooperative collection devel- opment. 8) Research articles produced by federal employees as a consequence of their employment are exempt from copyright. Likewise, librarians and library organizations should seek regulations which prohibit copy- right of written reports of all publicly funded research. 9) Encourage authors to retain the rights to their written work for their own use, for teaching, and for use by their libraries and insti- tutions. 10) Engage library users in a continuing dialog about the issues associated with serials pricing. Among these issues is the wide dis- parity between individual and institutional prices. Devise strategies for identifying excessive institutional journal prices and seek user support in eliminating these journals from our collections. 11) Encourage authors and editors to consider price-competetive pub- lishers for dissemination of their research. 12) Inform subscription agents that firm prices must be distinguished from preliminary prices on all invoices. Further, inform vendors that additional billings will not be accepted on titles where previous billings indicated firm prices. 13) Analyze subscription invoices carefully and verify the accuracy of vendor service charges. 14) The Aqueduct group will compile and produce a benchmark list of 100 journal titles for comparison of prices paid to various subscrip- tion agents and directly to the publishers. AQUEDUCT PARTICIPANTS Astle, Deana - Clemson University Boissonnas, Christian - Cornell University Crump, Michele - University of Florida Early, Caroline - National Agricultural Library Farkas, Doina - University of Florida Freeman, Suzanne - Virginia Commonwealth University Hamaker, Chuck - Louisiana State University Hepfer, Cindy - SUNY - Buffalo Health Sciences Center Ivins, October - Louisiana State University Jones, Danny - University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Lonberger, Jana - Georgia Tech McLaren, Mary - University of Kentucky Martin, Sylvia - Vanderbilt University Mouw, Jim - University of Chicago Murden, Steve - Virginia Commonwealth University O'Neill, Ann - University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Information/Library Science Okerson, Ann - Association of Research Libraries Robnett, Bill - Vanderbilt University Tuttle, Marcia - University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill From: "Beverly B. Madron" <MADRON@ZODIAC.BITNET> Subject: Source/wording of academic politics quote Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 15:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1666 (1974) Can someone supply the precise wording and source of the frequently quoted "academic politics [feuds] are so mean [bitter] [vicious] because the stakes are so small"? I have seen it attributed to Woodrow Wilson, Henry Kissinger, and Santayana, but without any indication as to where it was first said/ printed. Thanks! Beverly B. Madron From: Alan David Bulley <458507@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: John of the Cross Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 15:53:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1667 (1975) I have a friend here at Saint Paul U. who is interested in contacting anyone who is doing studies in phenomenology concerning the writings of John of the Cross. Anyone who fits this bill can reach my friend through me at either of the addresses below. I expect that he will be getting his own Internet/Bitnet account shortly. Thanks in advance for your help, Alan D. Bulley Saint Paul University/ Universite St-Paul 458507@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Internet) 458507@uottawa (Bitnet) From: VILLERS@OUACCVMB Subject: allocation of scarce resources Date: 5 Apr 1992 , 12:17:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1668 (1976) Could anyone recommend some good sources of information on the legal and ethical issues of allocation of scarce resources. I'm particularly interested in the delivery of health care.Oregon is in the process of reorganizing its health care program and many insurance companies and employers are reviewing their benefits based ona rationing system. Any information would be helpful. Thank you. Anne Villers Villers@ouaccvmb.bitnet From: "HOKE ROBINSON, MSU" <ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET> Subject: Address Query Date: Sun, 5 Apr 92 17:07 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1669 (1977) Does anyone know someone with an e-mail address at the University of Hamburg, Germany? I have a friend visiting there to whom I need to send a message. Thanks, Hoke Robinson Dept. of Philosophy Memphis State University Memphis TN 38152 USA Tel: 901-678-3356 E-mail: ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET From: Rudolf WYTEK <Z00WYR01@AWIUNI11.BITNET> Subject: Two requests relating to India Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 12:07:43 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1670 (1978) Could someone help me with the following two questions: 1.) Which commented texts of the Upanishads, in English or German, are for the present the most recognized one? 2.) How could someone learn Sanskrit from books? Many thanks for your kind help. rwy, Univ. of Vienna, Austria From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright) Subject: Arnold J. Toynbee Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 12:14:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1671 (1979) I have a client who would like to know where or in what context Toynbee made the following statement: "The human race made a big mistake in moving to monotheism" Is there a Toynbee scholar out there who can offer some help. Many thanks Phyllis Wright Librarian From: rkallet@epas.utoronto.ca (Robert Kallet-Marx) Subject: Q: "Constantinian Excerpts" Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:40:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1672 (1980) Will a kind Byzantinist (or anyone, for that matter) tell me, a benighted Classicist, whether there has been any significant recent work on the 10th-century "Constantinian Excerpts" (= *Excerpta historica iussu imperatoris Constantini Porphyrogeniti confecta*)? Robert Kallet-Marx RKALLET@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu Subject: Fat city Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 11:08:50 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1673 (1981) A student of mine is interested in colloquial expressions of the type "X city", such as "fat city" ("You overeat and it's fat city.") or "trouble city" ("That was trouble city.") He'd be interested in more (real) examples of this type, together with any insights folks might have as to origin (how the expression arose, semantic mechanisms, etc.), usage, restrictions, meaning of the expression, and observations on who uses it when, where, and why. Any and all comments welcome. Please send responses to me. If there is interest, I'd be happy to provide a summary for the list. tom shannon uc berkeley, german department tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu PS: I'm posting this on several lists. Please pardon the repetition! From: Paul Pascal <paulpasc@u.washington.edu> Subject: Stabbing teachers with styluses Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:10:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1674 (1982) Welcome back from your wanderings. I hope it is not too late to set the record straight on the poignant matter of the schoolmaster who was stabbed to death by his pupils' styluses. The issue was still sub iudice when you left. Perhaps the story is told about Duns Scotus and about Abelard, as James Marchand has it, but it goes back a lot farther than that. The most prominently recorded victim was St. Cassian of Imola (Aug. 13), whose martyrdom forms the subject of one of Prudentius' poems (Peristephanon IX). A similar story is told about St. Mark of Arethusa (Mar. 29). Styluses (or graphia) must have been formidable weapons indeed; in classical sources their use as instruments of execution is recorded bSeneca (De Clementia I.14) and Suetonius (Caligula 28). From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 5.0808 Rs: More on Names; X-Posting from WORDS-L (2/71) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 92 20:23:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1675 (1983) Dan Lester's forwarded paragraph ("How fast can you spot. . . ?") is a-typically verbal (vs. Jos. Wms.' "nominalized"). This is to stick out one neck by guessing that its author's own moral would be that the paragraph is accordingly "direct," "forthright," "UNbureacratic," ergo admirably "honest." But the agentive "abnormality [that may 'dawn on (a reader)']" -- it "calls attention to itself," no? From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: 5.0826 New List for Religious Studies (1/58) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 825 (1984) Announcing a new list for full text reviews in Religious Studies ---------------------------------------------------------------- The CONTENTS project has made available a separate listserv list, REVIEW-L, for those who wish to automatically receive the FULL TEXT of all reviews and book notes published by the RELIGIOUS STUDIES PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL. Subscribers to REVIEW-L will receive the complete text of any new reviews and book notes published by the CONTENTS project and will also receive any republished reviews or book notes that CONTENTS receives from participating journals. Abstracts of these reviews will be posted to the existing RELIGIOUS STUDIES PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL - CONTENTS (CONTENTS@Uottawa, CONTENTS@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA). 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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 21:07:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 827 (1985) Humanist is back in operation again -- yes, it has been over a week since the last digest was sent. ALLCACH92 was terrific!!! Absolutely *superb*. ...I would continue but my jet lag has disconnected my mind from my pineal gland and so I must quit for the night. And Elaine is still in England I think, or perhaps somewhere over the North Atlantic. But we will recover and be posting news, reports, and post-conference discussions as they come in. -- Allen From: Eric J Cadora <70373.2576@CompuServe.COM> Subject: David Schaps' letter in 5.0806 Rs: More on Plagiarism (3/161) Date: 05 Apr 92 22:36:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1676 (1986) I recently read David Schaps' commentary on "dubious cases" of plagiarism (See 5.0806 Rs: More on Plagiarism (3/161)). I was fascinated and confused (if not a bit disturbed) by the conclusions he reached concerning an anectodal example of such "dubious cases" of plagiarism in which two of his students wrote the same essay on an exam. Let me recount my confusion, and maybe Professor Schaps can clarify his account. So as to avoid any accusations of plagiarism of Professor Schaps' letter, I will to the best of my ability enclose in quotations all of his text that I use in illustrating my confusion. On one of his exams, Professor Schaps presented an essay question to his students that was "loosely worded to allow a broad range of answers". In response to the essay question, two of his students (an Arab and a Georgian) wrote, word for word, exactly the same essay (although both had misspelled words differently). The Professor was confused; but, after speaking with both students separately, the matter became clear and he found that "the Arab student had (on [the Professor's] recommendation to all [his] students) prepared himself well on what he had judged to be a major subject of the course, [then] written (in advance of the test) an essay on the subject, and then memorized his own essay". The Professor goes on to write that "the Georgian had borrowed the Arab's notes, and he, too, memorized them. Then both of them wrote them on the test, word for misspelled word". Since both students memorized answers and because "comparing notes is a legitimate form of study", the Professor felt obliged to give both students the "80 that the answer deserved". But, asserts the Professor, he decided that in the future he would add to his exams "a notice that the answers must respond to the question asked, and that [he] will no longer give a passing mark to 'pre-fab' answers". After all, the Professor reasons, "although memorization is one way of study, I try to test the student's ability to think for himself as well". In fact, the originality of the Arab's answer is cast in doubt by the Professor because he felt obliged to put "notices" on future exams which would prevent the morally "dismaying" act of passing off "'pre-fab'", "memorized" answers as authentic acts of independent thinking. If "comparing notes is a legitimate form of study", and the Arab "had prepared himself well" and "written" "an essay on the subject" and then "memorized his own essay", "what difference does it make whether" the "Georgian had borrowed the Arab's notes" or not! The Arab had written an "essay" in preparation for the exam, while the Georgian had simply memorized and recounted what the Arab had himself written. Professor Schaps' confusion is evinced in his failure to recognize the difference between "notes" and an "essay", a distinction he makes himself. A "note" for Professor Schaps has a quasi-factual status, a status which is accorded immunity to the accusation of plagiarism for the very reason that it is morally open to an act of "memorization". But an "essay" is "proof" of one's "ability to think for himself". The professor diminishes the value of the Arab's original essay when he says that "the Georgian had borrowed the Arab's notes, and he, too, memorized them". But the Georgian had done much more than simply borrow notes; he had memorized an original essay that the Arab had written, and simply recounted it on the exam. Why does Professor Schaps conflate the Arab's "essay" into "notes" that the Georgian borrowed and then fail to recognize the difference between the Arab's original essay and the Georgian's memorization of it? For Professor Schaps, spelling errors were a sign. They marked a deeper mistake than was immediately recognizable, so he "handed in [his] grade-sheet with no 'mark' for these two students", waiting until they "came to [him] (individually)" so that he could better discern their differences, "and the matter was cleared up quickly". "Spelling errors" of a sort abound in Professor Schaps' text. As I noted, the Professor confuses "essay" with "notes"; in a sense, he misspells essay as notes. A different ambiguity, or if you will, mispelling, occurs when the Professor notes that he had "two students, one an Arab and one a recent immigrant from Georgia". Why not an Arab and a Slav? Who is this Arab? Is he a Saudi Arabian, Bahraini, Iraqi, Egyptian? Unlikely. Is he perchance, Palestinian? Why is Professor Schaps specific about the national origins of the "immigrant", a Georgian, while so general and effacing about the "Arab". If political contingencies prevent the Professor from seeing the national origin of the "Arab" as Palestinian, and forces him to "misspell" Palestinian as Arab (an error in discerning differences), is this "misspelling" the root of the more superficial error of mistaking an essay for notes? The Professor gives us a clue to an answer when he defends his decision to give "the Georgian the same 80 [the same score he gave the Arab]". He asks "what difference did it make whether he [the Georgian] had learned the information directly from my [the Professor's] lectures or indirectly from the Arab's notes"? The Professor reduces the Arab's original essay to notes which come "directly" from the Professor's lecture, and which are simply "learned" "indirectly" by the Georgian. In this way, the Professor claims as his own, the Arab's original essay, insofar as he effaces the Arab's original work and implies that it is simply a transmission of his own lectures: the Professor says that the Georgian gets the same thing "indirectly" from the Arab that he would otherwise get "directly" from the Professor. Is the Professor saying that the original and "well prepared" essay of the Arab is of no more value than the Georgian's memorization of it, and that the Arab's original essay contributes nothing original to the subject other than simply transmitting the Professor's lectures? Is this a sort of unintentional plagiarism on the part of the Professor, himself? Eric Cadora Brooklyn, NY P.S. -- Since I am no expert in Islamic studies, I would ask that the Professor please cite the sources for his assertion that "Islamic scholarship is based heavily on memorization". Thank you. From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.DBP.DE Subject: Plagiarism Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 10:28+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1677 (1987) I'm sympathetic on the whole to Irvine Hexham's definition, but I think he goes too far. Plagiarism isn't theft; it's a misleading claim to ownership, and is thus more like fencing (selling stolen goods as if you had a legitimate title to them). Thus his 2 and 3, since ownership is acknowleged, aren't plagiarism, though they may be formal offences against Rules of some kind (it's rather Amerocentric to assume that MLA, Chicago etc. are universally recognised as arbiters of correct practice, incidentally). The kind oborrowing summed up as pinching other people's footnotes _can_ be plagiarism, and no doubt usually is when mistakes are transmitted from one footnote to another. But what of the case, not infrequent in my experience, when you read X, who cites passage Y in a footnote in such a way as to make you realise that it's relevant to your concerns (which are not X's)? What Hexham calls self-plagiarism also seems to me to be a questionable definition. There must surely be a legal and moral distinction between claiming other people's property as mine and claiming that my old property is a new creation. What this amounts to is that there are a number of possible offences against the canon of good conduct; it's not helpful to call them _all_ plagiarism. Timothy Reuter MGH Munich From: "David A. Hoekema" <hoekema@ravel.udel.edu> Subject: Plagiarism Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:00:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1678 (1988) A small but diverting sidelight on the perplexing issue of plagiarism--which is more difficult both to define and to prevent than commonly assumed, as Bernard Van't Hull has argued: In preparing a forthcoming study of campus discipline (_Campus Rules and Moral Community: In place of _In Loco Parentis__, forthcoming in a series of volumes on academic ethics from Rowman and Littlefield) I obtained student conduct codes from about 30 colleges across the country. One contained a very detailed, four-page account of plagiarism, illustrated by a passage from a secondary work on Locke's _Second Treatise_, followed by helpful examples of wholesale borrowing, borrowing of key phrases, rephrasing major ideas, and so forth. The advice was detailed and helpful; there was no attribution, but it had a familiar ring. Sure enough: more browsing turned up precisely the same essay on plagiarism, all four pages reproduced verbatim, in two other college handbooks, in both of which it was duly credited to a published rhetoric handbook. (To find out which university it was that plagiarized its plagiarism policy you'll have to buy the book, or wait until nearer press time.) --David Hoekema <hoekema@brahms.udel.edu> Executive Director, American Philosophical Association Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Delaware || Phone: 302 831-1112 Newark, DE 19716 || FAX: 302 831-8690 From: CHURCHDM@VUCTRVAX Subject: Swahili quote Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 09:50 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1679 (1989) The Swahili inscription (Msaada wa kidini kwa muhajiji) has given no little trouble to my native informants. Up to the last word, it's fairly simple ... "Help (of a religious nature) for (or to)...." But none of them recognize the last word. The first theory was that it's a place name, but no one recognizes it as such. The most promising subsequent theory is that is was misread and that the actual word is "muhubiri," which means "the preacher." Given that it was seen in Rome, that interpretation may make sense. At any rate, that's as far as we can get with it here at Vanderbilt. From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright) Subject: Re: 5.0822 Aqueduct Action Agenda for Serials Problems (1/126) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 12:42:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1680 (1990) I read with interest the "Action Agenda" report. I wonder if I could be send a copy of the benchmark list of 100 journal titles which will be compared for agent/publisher prices??? I think the timing for this is really appropriate. Thanks for the work. From: rich@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Paul Rich Education) Subject: Re: 5.0821 Internet for Genealogical Library (1/80) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 21:32:55 WST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1681 (1991) I am a life member of the NEHGS and think they owe it to their farflung constituency to do something about online -- they always are sending out material about their national and international role, and it is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate their sincerity. -- P.J.Rich From: Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM> Subject: Oops ... Slippery Fingers Strike an Editor Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:02:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 830 (1992) I just accidentally deleted the file containing queries sent to Humanist since last evening. If those of you who had queries would resend them, I'd be grateful. Thanks from your red-faced editor, Elaine From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR> Subject: IJCAI information available Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1682 (1993) ***************************************************************** IJCAI-93 : Information is available on a special automatic IJCAI server. At present you can get from this server the different Calls for Papers, Videos, Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, as well as the coordinates of all responsibles and a process to follow in order to be sure to receive the Conference Brochure in early 93. People must send an email to: ijcai-serv@imag.fr subject: anything content: for first time used type only 'help' ***************************************************************** Please redistribute the above information on appropriate local blackboards. Thanks very much in advance. J.P. LAURENT University of Chamb{ry LIA - BP 1104 F - 73011 CHAMBERY Tel: (+33) 79 96 10 62 Fax: (+33) 79 96 34 75 email: jplaure@imag.fr -- JP Laurent From: Selmer Bringsjord <brings@rpi.edu> Subject: Story Generation Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 23:25:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1683 (1994) On story generation, and in response to a recent inquiry from Michel Lenoble: Autopoeisis is arguably the Earth's (we like hyperbole) largest and most stable research project in Story Generation. It's based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY USA. The three Principals are Selmer Bringsjord (novelist and specialist in the logical/mathematical/philosophical foundations of AI & Cog Sci), David Porush (creative writer, critic), and Marie Meteer (an expert in the areas of natural language generation within AI). Bringsjord is an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Philosophy; Porush is a Professor in the Dept. of Literature; Meteer is a Research Professor in Computer Science (with joint appointments in Philosophy and Literature). Autopoeisis was launched 7/1/92 with $300,000 from the Henry R. Luce Foundation, equipment from Apple Computer, internal $ from Rensselaer, and some corporate support. The group is a present composed of aprox. 4 grad students, and 10 undergraduates (in addition to the Principals). Applied work is on the Mac, in LISP/CLOS, with KR tools that run the full gamit, and SPOKESMAN (a generator created by Meteer). Current research focussed on story grammars, cognitive models of creative writing, the generation of narrative (to be distinguished from stories) from events transpiring in a siumator (WE are using SCORE at the moment), and story generation as gaming. For a formal description of the project, request one from Selmer Bringsjord Autopoeisis Sage Lab - RPI Troy NY 12180 selmer@rpi.edu F: (518) 276-4871 P: (518) 276-8105 From: ussjt@unix.cc.emory.edu (Steve Taylor) Subject: Electronic Texts Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 08:23:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1684 (1995) Can anyone direct me to either of these texts in machine-readable form? 1) Spenser's "Faerie Queene." (I know that Oxford has this, but I'd like to avoid all of their restrictions.) 2) Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Unknown lines of verse Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:22:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1685 (1996) Elaine, here's a query I sent in last night -- must be one of the ones you lost. Germaine ----- I'm in the last phases of editing an Anthology of English-Canadian exploration writing, and I've come across a quotation from some 18th century verse which I don't recognize. It's possible that I am just dumb and it's something famous, but a learned friend thinks not. Does anyone recognize these lines? Peace to the ashes, and the virtuous mind, Of her who lived in peace with all mankind; Learn'd from the heart, unknowing of disguise, Truth in her thoughts, and candour in her eyes; Stranger alike to envy and to pride, Good sense her light, and nature all her guide; But now removed from all the ills of life, Here rests the pleasing friend and faithful wife. Anyone who can help will make me grateful, likewise my publisher, and doubtless also the spirits of Samuel Hearne, Mary Norton (his country wife, whose death he was lamenting) and the poet in question. ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@epas.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: neabo01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (H. Borchers) Subject: searching email ID Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 09:07:23 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1686 (1997) I need to contact Professor Dorothy Z. Baker, Dept. of English, University of Houston. Does anybody know her email address? Professor Hans Borchers University of Tuebingen Department of American Studies Wilhelmstrasse 50 Voice: +49 7071 292910/4833 7400 Tuebingen Fax: +49 7071 294282 Germany Email: neabo01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Literature of Trinidad and Jamaica Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 08:38:04 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1687 (1998) I have been trying to learn more about the anglophone literature of the Caribbean and have done a modest amount of reading in the area. A chance to take an inexpensive trip to Jamaica and Trinidad came up and I grabbed it. Anyone have any suggestions about people to contact, sights to see, etc. for giving me a sense of the cultural background, intellectual life, etc. of these islands? From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM> Subject: HumComp Yearbook 1991 Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 17:05:55 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1688 (1999) I'm sorry, perhaps this is a re-posting of a message that didn't get any answer and in the meantime my e-mail was down, so I try another time. Any news about the Humanities Computing Yearbook 1991? If you have any news could you write to my e-mail address? Thank you. Maurizio ----------------------------------------------------------- MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET CISI - Universita' di Torino | phone & fax: 39-11-837262 Via Sant'Ottavio 20 | I-10124 Torino | ------------------------------------------------------------ From: John F Huntley <jhuntley@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> Subject: Subject: a college course in Computing and Humanities Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 10:54:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 833 (2000) A college-level course called "Computers for Research and Teaching in the Humanities," being taught this semester for undergraduate and graduate students, Dept. of English, at the Univ. of Iowa. In response to two inquiries on Humanist about the existence of such such courses, let me reply that I've got 9 undergraduates and 2 graduate students enrolled this term. We're using networked Macs: LocalTalk with MacSE, SE/30, and MacIIsi's and ci's. Here's the schedule, more or less: The first two weeks: hardware, Mac techniques, navigating the network, the HFS. 2nd two weeks: personal computing tools: word processor, outliner, "idea processor," note-taker. Next 5 weeks: research strategies: biblio programs, the library's on-line catalogue and search routines; cd-Rom devices. Final 6 weeks: create a teaching module using computer apps to make something that teaches, entertains, intrigues, delivers something interesting. Students are using MacRecorder, the OneApple Scanner, QuickTime movies, MediaMaker, Director, More, the Multi-Media Annotator, and other such applications to build (and later demonstrate to their colleagues) projects involving K Acker, the Kentucky Derby, native American narratives, etc. There's a lot of collaboration and cooperation, group learning, and sharing of tricks and insights. Students appear to be enthusiastic. For more information or follow up, e-mail me at john-huntley@ uiowa.edu Or snail-mail me at Dept. of English, 308 E.P.B., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. From: Henry "S." Thompson <ht@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: European Corpus Initiative Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 834 (2001) European Corpus Initiative Call For Contributions March, 1992 The European Corpus Initiative was founded to oversee the acquisition and preparation of a large multi-lingual corpus to be made available in digital form for scientific research at cost and without royalties. We believe that widespread easy access to such material would be a great stimulus to scientific research and technology development as regards language and language technology. 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The ECI is carrying out the first phase of this activity on a purely voluntary basis, under the guidance of an ad-hoc steering committee, using facilities donated by the Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh and a small sum for expenses and production costs provided by the European Network for Language and Speech under its Linguistic Resources programme together with the Network of European Reference Corpora. Our present goal is to produce in short order (we're currently aiming for October 1992) a multi-lingual corpus covering as many as possible of the major European languages, in a consistent format, with standardised (TEI-conformant) markup, insofar as resources allow. Our primary focus in this first effort is on textual material of all kinds, including transcriptions of spoken material, but if space and resources permit we may be able to include some sampled speech data as well. 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Students in the course can be anywhere in the world if they can send and receive electronic mail. CHUM 650, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FOR THE HUMANITIES, is an introduction to programming using SNOBOL4 for applications in the humanities such as analysis of texts, arranging data from research, and formatting for printing and desktop publishing. The primary emphasis in the course will be on computer applications with texts. The course is designed for humanists who want to learn to write useful computer programs for research and teaching. The language of choice for this course is SNOBOL4 because it is a powerful language designed for non-numeric computing; students can write useful programs in SNOBOL4 almost from the start. The course will begin with an introduction to programming, then cover techniques of structuring SNOBOL4 programs, and it will finish with students completing individual projects of their own creation. Students in the course can work at their own pace; they can begin immediately. Students should plan to finish all course requirements by August 1. Programming assignments for the course will be designed for MS-DOS microcomputers. Although most assignments can be modified for Macintosh users, students using a Macintosh would have to purchase MaxSPITBOL, and they would need an understanding of Macintosh file structures. It is a prerequisite for the course that students have a sound understanding of how to upload and download files from the mainframe that runs electronic mail to the DOS microcomputer used for the programming assignments. In addition, students must be familiar with DOS commands. The total cost of the course is $239.82. No textbook is required. Students will be sent a disk containing a public-domain SNOBOL4 compiler and a text editor. Lectures and data files will be sent electronically. Students may audit the course or enroll for credit and receive a grade of Pass or Fail. The cost to audit the course is the same as enrolling for credit. Those who want an electronic registration form or who have questions about the course should send a message to Eric Johnson ERIC@SDNET.BITNET From: rsiemens@epas.utoronto.ca (Ray Siemens) Subject: Re: E-Texts Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 08:13:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1689 (2003) Concerning the two electronic texts that were sought, I can't help with Tolstoy and can't help very much with Spenser, except to tell you that I searched for the "Faerie Queene" several months earlier and found only the Oxford copy. The reason I write is that the Oxford copy, through an earlier happening, is not complete; the text's owner, however, was very obliging and sent me the missing components, for which I was quite grateful. This still may be the only route to an accurate copy of the text, but I would be interested in hearing if there is a text more openly available. Ray Siemens From: CETH@zodiac.rutgers.edu Subject: Heptameron Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 11:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1690 (2004) The French original of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron is available from the Oxford Text Archive, no. 499. The computer file is compiled by Paul Chilton, from an edition by Michel Francois published Editions Garnier in Paris. Annelies Hoogcarspel Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Rutgers and Princeton Universities ceth@zodiac (bitnet) or ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu (internet) From: Doug Arnold <doug@sx.ac.uk> Subject: LLI 92 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 837 (2005) Message date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 10:04:26 BST FOURTH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION. *******CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION APPROACHES******** The Fourth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information will be held at the University of Essex, U.K., from August 17th - August 28th 1992. The School is organised by the European Foundation for Logic, Language and Information. Financial support is derived form a variety of sources, including the Commission of the European Communities through the ERASMUS programme, National Research Councils and industrial sponsors. A meeting of the European Foundation for Logic, Language and Information will be held during the School. The first Summer School took place in 1989 at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (NL). Subsequent hosts were the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (B) and the Universitat des Saarlandes (D). The main focus of the programme is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation where it concerns the modelling of human linguistic and cognitive ability. The courses this year cover a variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. They are cast at introductory or advanced level. Some topics support workshops providing an opportunity for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research. There will also be a series of invited lectures. Fees (UK pounds): Student 70 Visiting Scholar 137 Industrial Affiliate 270 Registration by Fax or Email is possible For further details, please contact: European Summer School in LLI University of Essex Wivenhoe Park COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ United Kingdom Tel: +44-206-872083 Fax: +44-206-872085 or +44-206-872788 e-mail: folli@essex.ac.uk Tel +44-206-2088 Local organising Committee: Doug Arnold (Department of Language and Linguistics) Anne De Roeck (Department of Computer Science) Louisa Sadler (Department of Language and Linguistics) Sabine Klinger (Department of Language and Linguistics) Courses and Workshops in: LOGIC AND COMPUTATION COMPUTATION & LANGUAGE Johan van Benthem Lisette Appelo Wil Dekkers Dale Gerdemann Sol Feferman Erhard Hinrichs Dov Gabbay Yves Kamp Nadim Obeid Martin Kay Allan Ramsay Jan Landsbergen Aarne Ranta John Lee Erik Sandewall Jan Odijk Jan Smith Mats Rooth Colin Stirling Remko Scha Goran Sundholm Gerhard Widmer Henk Zeevat LANGUAGE AND LOGIC LANGUAGE Gennaro Chierchia Anne Abeille Robin Cooper Elisabet Engdahl Jaap van der Does Dafydd Gibbon David Dowty Mark Hepple Jeroen Groenendijk Ruth Kempson Fritz Hamm Andras Kornai Jack Hoeksema Anthony Kroch Hans Kamp Alexis Manaster-Ramer Katalin Kiss William Marslen-Wilson Tanya Reinhart Glyn Morrill Eric Reuland Hans Uszkoreit Martin Stockhof LOGIC COMPUTATION Ian Hodkinson Klaus Ambros-Spies Rachel Lunnon Egon Boerger Maria Manzano Bruno Buchberger Uwe Moennich Alex Leitsch Michel Parigot Christoph Meinel Lorenzo Robbiano Joerg Siekmann Robert I. Soare Gerd Wechsung Paul Young From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR> Subject: ICML 93 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:50 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 838 (2006) I International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics (ICMLØ93) Barcelona (Spain). April 4-7, 1993 With the financial support of CIRIT (Generalitat de Catalunya) 2nd. announcement and call for papers (March 1992) ICML intends to become an open forum for the presentation and discussion of current research on mathematical models of natural language. ICMLØ93 aims to show the actual state-of-art in the different fields of the discipline. The language of the Congress is English. Scientific Programme Committee: For this Conference, all the staff belonging to the Research Group in Mathematical and Computational Linguistics at the University of Barcelona. Organizing Committee: Carlos Martin Vide (Chairman); J. Busquets F. Di©guez; J. Reiss and A. Ure|a. Invited speakers: At this moment, the following invited lecture is confirmed: David Weir (Sussex) "Forms of mild context-sensitivity" More invited lectures will be reported in a third announcement. Papers: Papers for a presentation in 20 minutes are accepted. Authors must send a single copy of an abstract (1 page). Timetable: Abstract submission deadline: October 31, 1992; Notification deadline of acceptance: November 30, 1992 and Final text deadline: January 31, 1993. The programme will be sent to all pre-registered participants in January 1993. Fees: Registration before December 15, 1992: U.S.A & 200 (students: U.S.A. & 100). (Pesetas 20.000 and 10.000, respectively) Registration after December 15, 1992: U.S.A. & 250 (Students: U.S.A. & 125). (Pesetas 25.000 and 12.500, respectively). They include the access to all sessions and the Proceedings. Manner of payment: Fees may be paid from abroad by an international check made out to Universitat de Barcelona (it is acceptable only if U.S.A. $ 13 13 -Pesetas 1.300- are added to cover bank charges) or by means of a bank transfer to the account n. 2100-3233-2200104870, Caixa dØEstalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, Of. Urgell, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 521, 08015 Barcelona (please, send us a copy of your transfer); from Spain, by a check "al portador" or by means of a bank transfer to the same account. Publications: It is likely that an edited volume derived from ICMLØ93 will be published by Elsevier/North-Holland. Accommodation, travel information and social events: They will be reported to all pre-registered participants in a third announcement. Information and registration: Carlos Mart¥n Vide. Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat de Filologia. Secciì de Lingõ¥stica. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585. 08007 Barcelona (Spain) Fax: 34-(9) 3-318.81.63 E-mail: D1FRCMV0 at EB0UB011.BITNET Registration form: Name: Contact address: Postal code: City: Country: Phone: Fax: E-Mail Date Signature Please, send this registration form, together with the check or the copy of the transfer, to the name and address above mentioned. From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@vassar.bitnet> Subject: CIKM-92 (Information and Knowledge Management) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 06:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1691 (2007) CIKM-92 First International Conference on INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT November 8 - 11, 1992 Radisson Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by ISMM in cooperation with AAAI, SIGART, SIGIR, IEEE, ACM The conference provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for tutorials concerned with theory or practice or both. The focus of the conference includes but is not limited to, the following: application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic data modeling; development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases; automatic acquistion of data and knowledge bases especially from raw text; object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques; transaction management; high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; performance evaluation; hypermedia; unconventional applications; parallel database systems; physical and logical database design; data and knowledge sharing; interchange and interoperability; cooperation in heterogenous systems; domain modeling and ontology building; knowledge discovery in databases; information storage and retrieval and interface technology. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline - May 31, Acceptance notification: July 15, Final copy due: August 10. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU for an automatic reply containing more information and to CIKM@CS.UMBC.EDU for queries. From: Martin Davies <UBTY003@cu.bbk.ac.uk> Subject: Euroepan Philosophy and Psychology Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:01 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1692 (2008) ****** EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY ****** *********** INAUGURAL CONFERENCE *********** **** 17 - 19 JULY, 1992 **** The Inaugural Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology will take place in Louvain (Leuven) Belgium, from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July, 1992. The goal of the Society is 'to promote interaction between philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern'. The programme for this inaugural meeting will comprise invited lectures - by Dan Sperber and Larry Weiskrantz - and invited symposia. Topics for symposia include: Intentionality, Reasoning, Connectionist Models, Consciousness, Theory of Mind, and Philosophical Issues from Linguistics. There will also be a business meeting to inaugurate the Society formally. The conference will be held in the Institute of Philosophy, University of Louvain. The first session will commence at 3.00 pm on Friday 17 July, and the conference will end at lunchtime on Sunday 19 July. Accommodation at various prices in hotels and student residences will be available. To receive further information about registration and accommodation, along with programme details, please contact one of the following: Daniel Andler CREA 1 rue Descartes 75005 Paris France Email: azra@poly.polytechnique.fr Martin Davies Philosophy Department Birkbeck College Malet Street London WC1E 7HX England Email: ubty003@cu.bbk.ac.uk Beatrice de Gelder Psychology Department Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg Netherlands Email: beadegelder@kub.nl Tony Marcel MRC Applied Psychology Unit 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 2EF England Email: tonym@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR> Subject: TMI conference Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:49 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 840 (2009) Originally From: <tmi@ccrit.doc.ca> FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN MACHINE TRANSLATION (TMI-92) with special emphasis on the theme of: Empiricist vs. Rationalist Methods in MT June 25-27 1992 Le Grand Hotel, Montreal, Canada Organized by The Canadian Workplace Automation Research Center With the cooperation of The Canadian Department of Secretary of State and the sponsorship of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Please find enclosed the preliminary program for the Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-92), which will take place in Montreal, Canada between June 25-27, 1992. Organized by the Canadian Automation Research Center (CWARC), this year's Conference has as its main theme the opposition between empiricist and rationalist methods in MT. The Conference is being held at Le Grand Hotel, which is situated right in the heart of downtown Montreal and which offers an ultra-modern auditorium seating 145 people. This means that we will not be able to accept more than 145 registrants. Therefore, if you wish to attend, you are advised to reserve your place by registering right away. To do so, complete the enclosed registration form and return it to us, along with the appropriate payment in Canadian dollars, as soon as possible. Registration fees for the Conference are $125 CDN (tax included), for those who register before May 15. These fees include a copy of the Proceedings, lunch on Thursday and Friday, and all coffee breaks. After May 15, registration is $175. A banquet will be held on Friday night, and all participants are encouraged to attend; cost of the banquet is $30 CDN (tax included). For students, Conference registration is $100 CDN (tax included) before May 15, and $125 CDN after May 15. A block of rooms has been reserved in the hotel for Conference participants, at a preferential rate of $95 CDN per night (plus tax). To obtain this rate, participants must make their own reservations before May 15. Reservations may be made by phoning the hotel at (514) 879-1370, or by fax at (514) 879-1761; in either case, be sure to mention TMI-92. For those seeking less expensive accommodations, information on two alternative hotels is included in this mailing. You may be interested to note that Montreal will be hosting an exceptional choice of tourist activities this summer, owing to the celebration of the city's 350th anniversary, as well as the 125th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. If you have any questions, or need any further information regarding registration, contact Denise Dufresne by telephone at (514) 682-3400, ext. 334; by fax at (514) 686-1990; or by e-mail at tmi@ccrit.doc.ca. ... material deleted [eds.] -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement, including program details and registration material, is now available through the fileserver, s.v. MACHTRAN PROGRM92. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Harry Whitaker <R12040@UQAM.BITNET> Subject: political correctness strikes again Date: 15 April 92, 22:25:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1693 (2010) Source: The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday April 11, 1992, p. B6 Article: "Not Correct: Padlocking the Minds of Writers" Author: Neil Bissoondath, a Montreal novelist and short story writer who wrote a Special to the Gazette, from which the follwoing direct quote is taken: "Two months ago Quebec artist Lyne Robichaud had her painting "Woman with Bananas" banned from exhibition at Concordia University Women's Centre: the depiction of a black woman by a white painter was deemed unacceptable. Calls were raised for artists to restrict their imaginative explorations to their own culture and gender. Not long after, Canada Council director Joyce Zemans waded into the issue of "cultural appropriation" by suggesting that before exploring lives or cultures different from their own, artists should seek consultation with, even permission from, such groups. Implicit in her stand was that failure to do so would have an unhappy effect on Council grants to artists." From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: 5.0828 Final Words on Plagiarism (3/165) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:11:57 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1694 (2011) Who said it was a final word on plagiarism? We just started discussing the matter a few messages ago. Self plagiarism is a fairly frequent form of plagiarism among essayists and academics... and it is also a theft since the author leads the book-buyer to think that there is a new book of his on the market and that the reader should have it and read it. The author is misleading his/her readers: to me, it is just the same think as to sell a second-hand car while claiming it's a brand-new one. Self plagiarism seems to me to be one of the symptoms of the running dry of the writer's inspiration or intellectual evolution. It might also be motivated by the desire to publish at all costs. And one of the consequences of it is that the publishing company which markets the last book of a self-plagiarising author might be suited by the publisher(s) of the author's preceding book(s). -- Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Outrageous Plagiarism Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 08:40:17 PLT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1695 (2012) I thought I'd lighten up the debate about plagiarism with my favorite story. I once had a student who was doing very poorly, then turned in a professional piece of prose which was obviously plagiarized. When I confronted him with it, he denied he was guilty, arguing, "My girlfriend wrote it for me; but honest, if I'd known she was going to plagiarize, I would never have had her do it." From: Vicki Fromkin <IYO1VAF@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: New Yorker article on Genie Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 17:16 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 842 (2013) Reply-To: IYO1VAF@UCLAMVS.BITNET TO: Colleagues and Friends who have or will read the two part article 'A Silent Childhood' by Russ Rymer FROM: Susie Curtiss and Vicki Fromkin When Part 1 of the article on Genie appeared in the April 13th issue of The New Yorker, we were somewhat concerned about some of the misrepresentation of facts, the 'sensationalism' regarding the case, and the implication that those of us, both linguists and psychologists who worked with Genie over many years were overly concerned with thesearch research to the neglect of Genie and further impliled that we were unconcerned with Genie as a person and her tragedy. As one of our colleagues pointed out, once again, what linguists really 'do' is distorted. But overall we, Susie and I, did not think it was a really terrible article. However, Susie has just read part 2, and is very upset with the inaccuracies and defamatory implications. Although Vicki Fromkin has not yet read Part 2, both of us feel we should alert the academic community as soon as possible to misrepresentations in the article and we are therefore sending this out to illustrate the kinds of concerns and misrepresentations in the article. We would appreciate your informing your friends and colleagues of our concerns so that when they read the article (if they do) they will realize that the true story is far from what Rymer states. Below are just a few examples. 1) Jean Butler Ruch, who is presented very favorably in the article, created a nightmare for everyone concerned with Genie, herself, and with the study. She sent anonymous letters to everyone involved as well as NSF and NIMH. She gave false information to Genie's mother, and was instrumental in a law suit against the Hospital, the psychologists there, Curtiss and others, a suit which was thrown out of court. It is interesting that Rymer talks of Ruch's unfailing concern for Genie and her mother but does not state that Ruch never phoned or visited Genie for years while she was in the Rigler home and after she left there. 2) Rymer implies that we benefitted monetarily from the study and the NIMH grant. Vicki Fromkin never received one penny, even for expenses, and Susie Curtiss received $2.20/hr for 10-12 hours/per week as a graduate student researcher from the NIMH grant, and then continued the work as well as hours spent socially with Genie each week without receiving any funds at all. 3) Rymer implies that none of us did much research on the NIMH grant despite our many publications, including the articles in LANGUAGE, Brain and Language, Curtiss's book, and over 20 other papers, and countless reports to scholarly meetings and lectures. 4) Curtiss showed Genie's mother the book before publication (not mentioned by Rymer) although Genie's mother showed no interest in looking at it or reading it. Susie Curtiss was accepted by Genie's mother at that point as Genie's 'true friend'. 5) The article does not mention that the personal history had been published in many newspapers and presented at conferences (e.g. the American Psychological Association meeting in Hawaii) prior to the publication of S Curtiss's book. The article makes it appear as if Curtiss broke confidentiality constraints which is totally wrong. 6) The article fails to mention that everyone, Genie's mother included knew before the publication that all royalties would go into a trust for Genie. Curtiss has never received any funds from the book. The royalties were never offered as a compromise in the lawsuit, as Rymer inaccurately states, since years before,the agreement regarding the trust for Genie had been established. 7) Much of the scientific 'garble' must be due to the fact that Rymer never used a tape recorder when he interviewed any of us, Curtiss, Fromkin, Lila Gleitman, etc. Many of the so-called 'quotes' attributed to individuals were never spoken by them (and some were not even discussed -- for example, the Fromkin, Curtiss reaction to Genie's puberty) Incidentally, have any of you out there ever referred to the publication of 'Syntactic Structures' as 'the event'? I never heard this before. We hope these points do not seem trivial. We are deeply concerned not so much for ourselves but for the misrepresentations of what we as linguists do and what we feel and our basic humanity. We are considering writing our own 'story' which would clarify the important issues but we may be over-reacting. We would, however, be very appreciative to hear from any of you regarding what you think should be done, including our forgetting the whole thing. We would, of course, be happy to answer any questions which any of you may have. From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU> Subject: German e-texts? Other langs? Date: 17 Apr 92 22:03:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1696 (2014) Re-habilitating my German, it occurs to me that since I spend so much time in front of the screen, it wouldn't be especially stupid to find ways to make lots of German words run across the screen at me. Are there (1) downloadable or otherwise easily available bodies of German e-text ready to hand? and (2) commercial *German* e-products, such as a CD of *Zukunftsbibliothek*, with junky but serviceable e-texts of all the world's great books in German translation. A subsidiary benefit of wiring the globe with this network ought to be greater facility at locating materials in numerous foreign languages: it's worth asking about French and Spanish and Italian, I suppose. Russian would be lovely, but somehow I don't think they've had a lot of kopeks free for setting up CD-ROM factories yet. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. From: wilm@Calvin.EDU (Mark Williams) Subject: Crash Barrier for Mac Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 16:10:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1697 (2015) Does anybody out there use "Crash Barrier" for the Mac? Or know of any reviews? Does it do what it claims to do? Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Mark Williams Internet: WILM@calvin.edu Classics Department Voice: (616) 957-6293 Calvin College Fax: (616) 957-8551 Grand Rapids, MI USA 49546 From: FRAE141@UTXVMS Subject: Locating Benjamin's Ethnography Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1992 13:21 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1698 (2016) A friend and colleague would expire with gratitude if someone could provide a location for: Robert C. O. Benjamin. Ethnography, of the origin of the negro; giving a history and scientific account of the origin of other races. Lexington, KY: Lexington Standard Office, 1899. 50p. ill. 18cm. The L of C had a copy which was sent off for microfilming, and then [probably?] destroyed before that process took place. George Wright has followed thru with LC, and other places. The above description was pro- vided by LC. Ethnography is not listed in various, usual sources (NUC, NUC:S, BLC, BNC...). A copy was apparently displayed at the 1900 Exposition in Paris (a black/ negro annex to the -- I assume -- US pavilion). Benjamin was a writer (largely of pamphlets), thinker, first black lawyer in Calif., etc. Murdered in 1901. Help, help help! Merci a` l'avance, --Bob Dawson French-Italian UTx-Austin Internet: FRAE141@UTxVms.cc.UTexas.Edu From: Nahum Goldmann <ACOUST@BNR.CA> Subject: Livre: Intelligent Information Retrieval Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1699 (2017) Announcement: ONLINE INFORMATION HUNTING, by Nahum Goldmann (Please also pass this announcement to the Library/Information Resource Center in your organization. Reply to: N. Goldmann <acoust@BNR.CA>) This book (McGraw-Hill/Windcrest, ISBN 0-8306-3945-4, tel. 1-800-233-1128, price Paper $17.95, Hard $29.95) is amongst a limited number of publications on computerized information retrieval specifically addressed to the end-user. The book describes what kind of information is available online, how to search for it, and how to use it to your professional advantage. Also included is a brief introductory section on academic e-mail networks. The book outlines the SUBJECT EXPERT SEARCHING TECHNIQUE - a new methodology for online information gathering. This efficient research method is especially tailored for the end-users of information who are working in rapidly developing scientific areas, and can be used as a means of professional survival in rapidly changing scientific and professional areas. It has been successfully used by several R&D organizations. With this technique, occasional users such as scientists and students can now master the use of online databases for themselves. "... Although intended for end-users, the book could serve as... an introductory online search course for librarians." - Dr. Roger K. Summit, Dialog "... I recommend that practicing physicians, researchers, and students start with this very useful book." - Can. Med. Ass. J "... A definite basis for an undergraduate course in '(Intelligent) Information Retrieval.'" - Dr. Alex Meystel, Drexel U. From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: MICHAEL HART: Apr 28 NEACH Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:12:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1700 (2018) An Invitation from NEACH: Northeast Association For Computers and the Humanities (Please forgive any multiple postings.) The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities invites you to Room 25A of the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street in New York City on Tuesday, APRIL 28, 1992, at 1:30 p.m. to hear Prof. MICHAEL HART discuss the GUTENBERG ELECTRONIC TEXT PROJECT to collect and distribute a large number of literary and humanistic texts in electronic form. (This meeting was previously scheduled for May 12 and then for May 5.) The announced goal of the Gutenberg project is "to create and distribute ten thousand etexts, to a predicted audience of one hundred million computer users by the end of the year 2001." Prof. Hart will discuss and illustrate issues of text selection, copyright, public domain status, typeface representation in electronic text, text markup, distribution and duplication, downloading, and providing user support. Michael S. Hart is Professor of Electronic Text and Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext at Illinois Benedictine College in Lisle, Illinois. Don't miss this unusual presentation, which will be the final NEACH meeting for 1991-1992. NEACH Program Calendar for 1991-1992: Wed. Oct. 9 Humanist & Women Writers Proj. Elaine Brennan, Humanist Tues. Nov 12 The Writer's PC: New Horizons Judith Glassman, ex-Wolff Wed. Dec. 11 Center for Electronic Texts Susan Hockey, CETH Tues. Jan. 21 Global Network Resources Mary Sproule, Princeton Wed. Feb. 12 Managing Textual Variants F. W. Wilson, Morgan Library Tues. Mar. 10 Poetry & Natural Lang. Proc. Mary Dee Harris, Language Tech. Wed., Apr. 15 Nota Bene 4.0 and Signature Steve Siebert, Christine Rivera - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Tues., Apr. 28 GUTENBERG E-TEXT PROJECT MICHAEL HART, Exec. Dir. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Ask at the desk when you enter the IBM Building for a pass to NEACH or HUMANITIES. NEACH disks are available only at meetings. From: FRAE141@UTXVMS Subject: Black/Afro-American e-group? Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1992 14:20 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1701 (2019) Does anyone know of an e-group centering on Afro-Americans and/or blacks in general (Africa, etc.)? Thank you. --Bob Dawson R.L.Dawson French-Italian UTx-Austin 78712 Internet: Frae141@UTxVms.CC.UTexas.Edu Bitnet: Frae141@UTxVms From: "L.LITVACK" <ENG1787@VAX2.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK> Subject: LitTerms Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 10:23 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1702 (2020) Do any Humanist list members know anything about a teaching package called LitTerms, developed by Richard Rust at the University of North Carolina? I have heard from a colleague that it does many wonderful things, including providing visual clues to metrical patterns in poetry. Does anyone know (1) more about the package; (2) how to order it; (3) how to get in touch with Richard Rust? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Leon Litvack School of English Queen's University of Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland ENG1787@uk.ac.qub.v2 Many thanks! From: HARRIS@SCSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU (ED HARRIS, ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, SCSU) Subject: Easter/Passover coincidence Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1992 9:34:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1703 (2021) If Easter's origin was during Passover, and the occurrences of the two holidays is based on a lunar calendar, how do they happen to vary today? Apologies in advance if this is obvious to everyone but me. And thanks. Ed <HARRIS@SCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU> Southern Connecticut State U, New Haven, CT 06515 USA Tel: 1 (203) 397-4322 / Fax: 1 (203) 397-7076 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: the idea of the university Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1992 17:53:22 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 846 (2022) Let me recommend to all Humanists the following recently published book: Jaroslav Pelikan. The Idea of the University: A Reexamination. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 1992. This is, as the title suggests, an extended reflection on the character and aims of the modern university in the light of John Henry Cardinal Newman's famous treatise, The Idea of a University (1852, 1858). Pelikan is most noted for his multivolume history, The Christian Tradition; he is Stirling Professor of History at Yale and in my opinion one of the great scholars of this century. I do not intend here a full review; all I can manage is a strong recommendation of it to anyone concerned with the intellectual life and its institutional home -- and some idea of why it should be of particular interest to computing humanists. For our crowd there are two principal reasons: the brief remarks on the effects of technology on scholarship, and the institutional role of "support services" as Pelikan sees it. I'll quote two passages. First on the technology. "The more recent evolution of technology in the service of scholarship does carry the promise of instruments that can, to repeat Whitehead's words about slaves, `perform services which were unworthy to engage the activities of a fully civilized man.' Among other benefits, the arrival of that technology, which Robert Maynard Hutchins before the age of the computer described as `the substitution of machines for slaves,' has raised with new force the distinction between knowledge and information mentioned earlier, and if properly handled it can assist the university in the evaluation of knowledge as an end that has been attained by going through information but beyond it." Pelikan goes on to say that he is skeptical of such promises, "which often seem not to have factored Original Sin and the Fall into their calculations. There is no guarantee that the university will not, as it has all too often in the past, permit itself to be corrupted also in its cultivation of this technology." Note that Pelikan devotes an entire chapter to the topic, "Initiating a Work of Self-Reformation". Second, research support. "Just as the reexamination of the idea of the university implies new attention to the university's definition of itself as a community in its teaching, so the definition of the university as a community of research requires significant reconsideration in the light of the `sisterly disposition' of the sciences toward one another. That applies in the first instance to those departments, agencies, and personnel of the university who usually stand outside the classroom but without whom research would halt. Because of its unique position among these as the heart of the university, the university library ... must be seen as a collegial part of a total university network of support services for research, and the network in turn must be seen as a free and responsible community if it is to be equal to the complexities that are faced by university-based research. Indeed, even such a term as `providers of support services' is becoming far too limited to describe both the skills and the knowledge required of those who hold such positions. Scholars and scientists in all fields have found that the older configurations of such services, according to which the principal investigator has the questions and the staff person provides the answers, are no longer valid, if they ever were; as both the technological expertise and the scholarly range necessary for research grow, it is also for the formulation and refinement of the questions themselves that the principal investigators have turned to `staff', whom it is increasingly necessary -- not a matter of courtesy, much less as a matter of condescension, but as a matter of justice and accuracy -- to identify instead as colleagues in the research enterprise." Willard McCarty From: Roland Hjerppe <rhj@ida.liu.se> Subject: Re: 5.0782 Qs: Quotes; Swahili Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 16:29:31 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1704 (2023) I haven seen any repsonse since April 15, by Vanderbilt, to the qustion by Marc Eisinger. The original citation provided was "Msaada wa kidini kwa mahujaji", not muhajiji (which could be construed as: mhaji = the pilgrim, mhajiji = the (regular) pilgrim, but usually with the pilgrimage referring to Mecka) My Swahili is very rusty but msaada = help, assistance, support wa = of ki - = diminutive, or noun made from verb dini = worship, religion, creed kwa = for ma = plural of the ma-class of nouns, or in words of Arabic origin a formative of verbal nouns or particles huja = want, need, necessity -ji = terminal conveying the the notion of habitual, customary, general action hence literal translation: (The) help of religion for those who (regularly) need (it). Slogan: Religious help for the needy. Roland Hjerppe LIBLAB Dept. of Computer and Information Science Link|ping University S-581 83 Linkoping Sweden Internet: rhj@ida.liu.se T. +46 13 281965 BITNET: rhj@SELIUIDA F. +46 13 142231 From: "Jean Pfleiderer, UMS Publications, 492-9892" Subject: Re: 5.0845 Queries: AfroAm List; LitTerms; Easter/Passover (3/45) Date: 21 Apr 1992 08:33:28 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1705 (2024) Passover/Easter Pesach (Passover) is on the full moon of Nisan (14th day of the Jewish lunar month of Nisan), regardless of the day of the week that may fall on. Easter is always on Sunday. Right there, it becomes clear that the two will not usually coincide in the way they did when Jesus supposedly joined with his disciples in a seder prior to his crucifixion. Also, the church determines that Easter will be the first Sunday after "the Pascal full moon" which my dictionary says is arbitrarily defined as "the 14th day of a lunar month occurring on or next after March 21 according to a fixed set of ecclesiastical calendar rules and without regard to the real moon." How one constructs a lunar calendar without regard to the moon is a mystery to me, but then mystery is after all the foundation of Christianity, isn't it? From: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 213-458-9811 <ENQ8BKG@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: 5.0845 Queries: AfroAm List; LitTerms; Easter/Passover (3/45) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 08:43 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1706 (2025) [deleted quotation] If this is of interest to the list, please post. For a fascinating treatment of calendars, and in particular the deliberate efforts to ensure that Passover and Easter would NOT coincide (a way that Christianity in its early days tried to differentiate itself from Judaism), see Eviatar Zerubavel's Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life (University of Chicago Press) and a fine article where he discusses the topic in detail. He may cite it in Hidden Rhythms (I do not have the article citation handy), but believe he teaches in sociology at Rutgers, if you want to contact him for it. From: Peter Hellwig <C87@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Subject: children exchange Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 13:41:53 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1707 (2026) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- My 15 year old son would like to spend July 1992 (four weks) in a family in the US with a boy of about same age, who would like to come to Heidelberg, Germany, in exchange. If you know someone interested send notice to Peter Hellwig University of Heidelberg Computational Linguistics Karlstrasse 2 D-6900 Heidelberg e-mail: C87@DHDURZ1.bitnet fax: + 49 6221 - 543242 phone: + 49 6221 - 543247 From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: Gadamer Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 19:41 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1708 (2027) An offline friend is seeking any bibliographic information on an article by H.-G. Gadamer which appeared in a collection of essays. The only title information that he has is "The Historicity of Understanding" -- this may be the title of Gadamer's essay or of some larger subdivision of the book. It is *not* the essay in M. Murray (ed.), _Heidegger and Modern Philosophy_. Any help would be greatly appreciated. George Aichele Adrian College From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: Hart at Neach Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 18:28 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1709 (2028) Unfortunately I won't be able to get to the NEACH meeting recently publicised here at which "Professor of Electronic Text" Michael S Hart will be speaking, due to a prior engagement in Kingston upon Thames. I would therefore be *very* grateful for any detailed record of the event which anyone who does attend might be able to send me -- in confidence if necessary. A spoken transcript marked up according to the recommendations of the TEI would of course be ideal. I'm making a collection of 'Hartiana' which I hope to get published next year some time, under the title 'The wit and wisdom of Michael S Hart' Lou Burnard From: Joan Fiscella <U46028@UICVM> Subject: request for information Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 12:21:38 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1710 (2029) Some University of Illinois at Chicago faculty and staff working in centers or funded programs have approached the library for help in organizing their own office collections of books and research materials. Two of us librarians have developed a generic outline of issues to consider for organization and access, and we are writing an article on it. Has anyone had experience with such a project or know of others who have? Please reply directly to me, and I'll summarize if there are many responses. Thank you. Joan Fiscella U46028@UICVM Bibliographer for Professional Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Library From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl> Subject: humanities computing courses Date: Sun, 19 Apr 92 19:55:09 METDST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 850 (2030) I have been reading the reports on humanities computing courses offered elsewhere with special interest. That is particularly so since I am a member of the Alfa Informatica dept in Groningen. The name appears to be opaque to those outside the Netherlands. Here the hard sciences and maths are referred to as beta, social sciences as gamma. What is left over (arts, philosophy, law, and theology) are called alfa. We offer major and minor programmes in Historical and Cultural Informatica (working with text and data), natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. There are similar programmes in Utrecht and Amsterdam with slightly different enphases. We have a staff of 10 including doctorate candidates and a new person will be coming in September. We have just finished our study guide for next year and I could post it if people are interested. I have no time to translate it from Dutch, but it is not as difficult to understand as you might first think. What has strck me about the discussion so far is the unclear distinction between 'academic' and service courses. Should academic credit be given for service courses? How many units can be given credit? The growing tendency is to give credit to increease student incentive. The service courses are very necessary in many cases for getting students started and one wishes that colleagues could and would take the time out to follow some courses or engage in self study to become computer literate. A student needs time at the beginning of an academic career to learn how to use the library facilities. It took longer for my freshman son at U Wisc this year than it did me at Yale in 1961. But he has direct access to the catalogues of the 54 libraries on campus from a terminal plus electronic bibliographies and probably cd-rom texts. Every hour that someone at university spends without being aware of these new sources of information is less efficiently and profitably used. Yet even using the modern library systems is categorically different from a programme of study for library sciences. The students may start at the same point, but ... My feeling is that a very limited amount of credit on a pass/fail basis should be a required part of the first year programme of every humanities student. But there should be a low ceiling on how many of these service courses would count towards the academic degree. I would be very interested what others think. Happy Easter and Pesach. Harry From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: African American email group??? Date: 20 Apr 1992 20:55:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1711 (2031) A recent posting asked if there were an African American email group. So, far as I know there is not. I have been trying to start one for maybe a year and a half. My institution is not too eager to use its listserve capability in a major way. This might change now that we have better connectivity. I think, however, it would be better to have a host institution where there was an entire department related to African American studies. This would have the person power to stand behind it. One college wanted to assist in the idea for about a year but was unable to get its African American studies department interested in electronic communication or not enough so to respond to the idea. If someone with good connections can assist in providing a home, I'd be eager to volunteer some person hours to assist in some of its functioning. If I am wrong and there is such a group, I'd be very happy to learn that also. Norman Coombs Rochester Institute of Technology From: Alan D Corre <corre@convex.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Easter and Passover Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 09:26:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1712 (2032) The Jewish Calendar is lunisolar. In former times the authorities in Jerusalem declared a new month on the basis of testimony that the new moon had been observed. Since twelve lunar months are appreciably shorter than a solar year, a full month had to be intercalated every three or four years. This was similarly done by observation; if the authorities were convinced that the lambs were not ready to be born, and signs of spring were not appearing in the fields, they intercalated a month. Subsequent to the time when the current mode of determining Easter was fixed, this ad hoc method was replaced by a calculated calendar based on the nineteen year cycle discovered by the Greek astronomer Meton (5th century BCE) who made calculat- ions astonishingly accurate for his time. According to this fixed calendar, the first day of Passover cannot occur on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. This is a side-effect of provisions built into the calculated calendar which prevent the Day of Atonement falling on a Friday (which would make preparation for the Sabbath difficult) or a Sunday (which would make preparation for the fast difficult) or the Seventh Day of Tabernacles falling on a Sabbath (since this would make the ceremony of beating the willow difficult.) Accordingly Passover can vary rather substantially in terms of the solar year, and does not have to fall on Sunday. Actually it occurs rather rarely on Sunday (perhaps twice in a couple of decades) and this produces special difficulties for observant Jews who have special rules how to remove their leaven in such a case. In 325 the Council of Nicea decreed that Easter should occur on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. So there is now no connection between the formulas that produce Passover and Easter, and, as has already been pointed out, this is no accident. I might add that some Jewish authorities hold that the sages used calculations even in the time when actual observation of nature was used. I'll be pleased to send the code for a visually equivalent Jewish/Civil calendar that I published a while ago to anyone that would like to have it. I have to stress that this has to be compiled in order to work. It displays a parallel Jewish and civil calendar for any year you designate. If you want a copy, send me a message at corre@convex.csd.uwm.edu. From: koontz@bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 5.0847 Rs: ...; Easter/Passover Coincidence Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1992 08:30:52 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1713 (2033) I believe that the timing of Easter (and other events in the liturgical calendar) has often been a bone of contention between Christian sects, e.g., the argument over the timing of Easter between the Celtic and Roman churches in the British Isles. Thus, there has been no Christian unity, historically speaking, on the timing of Easter. From: "Paul F. Schaffner" <USERGFNK@UMICHUM.BITNET> Subject: Easter/Passover Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 09:21:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1714 (2034) A brief and convenient list of references having to do with the early Christian dating of Easter can be found (as often) in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F.L. Cross (2nd ed. by F.L. Cross & E.A. Livingstone) (Oxford, rev. 1983), s.v. "Paschal Controversies" and (especially) "Quartodecimianism" ("the early custom in some places of following Jewish practice in always observing Easter..on the 14th day of.. Nisan, whatever the day of the week, and not (as elsewhere) on the following Sunday.") The day of the week aside, the date of Pasch for both Jews and Christians has always been tied nominally to the lunar calendar; divergences have arisen from competing methods of calculating the lunar cycle, for which the complexity of the problem and the inaccuracies of ancient astronomy seem chiefly to have been responsible. Paul Schaffner U. of Michigan From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Job postings for French Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 13:15:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 852 (2035) Here are two job postings which have come to my attention. They are of potential interest to HUMANIST readers & their colleagues. Regards, Joel Goldfield Lecturers in French Department of Romance Languages Applicants should have native or near native proficiency in French, familiarity with communicative teaching methods and teaching experience and research interests in either of the following areas: Contemporary French literature (especially poetry) and comparative literature - critical theory; Applied psycholinguistics combined if possible with a proven interest in the application of cultural studies to contemporary France. Because appointees will be expected to assume a certain degree of responsibility in course co-ordination and departmental administration, administration and co-ordinating experience are desirable. Two continuing appointments commencing early 1993. Salary range $39,463- $47,150 AUS ($1AUS = $0.75 US). Inquiries to Professor Brian Nelson. Phone 03 565 2215 (international: 61-3-565-2215) Fax 03 565 2137 (international: 61-3-565-2137) Applications including reference no 92A50, CV, and 3 referees to Professor Brian Nelson, Department of Romance Languages, Monash University, Clayton Victoria 3168 AUSTRALIA by May 8, 1992. From: John Lavagnino <LAV@BRANDEIS.BITNET> Subject: ALLC-ACH Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1992 18:15 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 853 (2036) ALLC-ACH '92 conference report Session: Literary applications; Paul Fortier (University of Manitoba), chair ``Phrasal Repetends in Literary Stylistics'', Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) ``A Literary Apprentice'', Elli Mylonas (Harvard University), Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems) ``The Henrik Ibsen Project'', Knut Hofland and Kjell Morland (Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities) This was a session with two hidden themes: repetition and the history of humanities computing. Repetition, for the Bergen Ibsen project, was the repetition of single words throughout Ibsen's works, as revealed when their concordance was generated from their electronic text---though that concordance can tell us about things more subtle than the plain repetition of words, because their text is lemmatized and contains indications of the references for pronouns. Ian Lancashire's study of Chaucer extends the unit of repetition to phrases, which don't always have precisely fixed forms: they're open and they're often linked together into large networks that suggest related ideas and persistent concerns, more suggestively than the atomized viewpoint of a concordance usually can. And Elli Mylonas and Mark Bernstein talked about their program to seek and graphically display even more loosely constrained clusters of repeated elements, both of words and of sounds; not as a direct pointer to significance, but as a method of discovery, of suggesting possible avenues of investigation to the scholar. These papers cover the ground from the study of single repeated words, to the fuzzier category of phrasal repetends, and then to the speculative search for possibly interesting patterns: and they also cover the historical span from a project involving large computers, equally large stacks of printed listings, and years of labor, to work done on a desktop machine as part of everyday scholarly inquiry, when a question about a pattern in a text can be answered in minutes rather than in years. But they also show the continuing and growing value of a well-designed project: the Ibsen project is now moving on to the creation of a hypertext Ibsen, a world far beyond what they had in mind when they got started in 1977. All the work presented in this session depended on the painstaking preparation of electronic texts, which, once created, make possible continuing innovations in computer-assisted studies. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University From: "John T. Harwood 814-865-4764" <JTH@PSUVM> Subject: Word Processor for Japanese/DOS Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 22:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1715 (2037) Do any Humanists have recommendations for a wordprocessor that will provide WYSIWIG under DOS, preferably with Windows, for faculty and students who wish to have Kanji and English characters on the same page? WordPerfect is not satisfactory. Sorry for the jargon. But you know what I mean. From: John F Huntley <jhuntley@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu> Subject: How to "present a screen" & save a tree Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 10:06:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1716 (2038) We humanists characteristically say, "I'm going to give a paper at the so-and-so conference." But my colleague, Tom Lutz (whose book, American Nervousness, 1991, was widely and well reviewed) was scheduled to give a paper at the American Psychological Association in Philly last week. On Friday, he picked up his new Powerbook 170; Friday night, he started typing what he wanted to tell the psychologists; he finished his essay on the plane. Then, at the podium on Saturday, he opened up the Powerbook and read his words off the screen scrolling down a page at a time when he got to the bottom. Interesting. Will we all be "giving screens" in our professional futures? We will surely be chopping down fewer trees and using up less paper to record our academic prowess in the future. John-Huntley@uiowa.edu or Dept. of English, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. From: nearo01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Subject: e-mail address of Ken Peacock and Roby Ariew Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1992 19:35:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1717 (2039) Dear Humanists, I would be grateful if someone could supply the e-mail address of Professor Ken Peacock, Dept. of Music, New York University. I inadvertently obliterated it during a kermit transfer. Also, I would be glad if I could reach Prof. Roby Ariew, Dept. of French, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA by e-mail. Vielen Dank! Michael Rodemer rodemer@mailserv.zvd.uni-tuebingen.de . From: Jim Kelly <JRKJAN8@GWUVM> Subject: Address inquiry Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 16:20:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1718 (2040) Does any one have a Bitnet/Internet address for Susan Jarratt in the English De pt. at the University of Miami of Ohio? Or, failing one for her specifically, one for the English Dept. at large? Thanks very much. Jim Kelly, Gelman Libra ry, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (202) 994-6848 From: BOLTON@ZODIAC.BITNET Subject: Translation theory Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1992 15:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1719 (2041) I'd be grateful for some introductory bibliography on translation theory, especially as relates to literature. Is there a translation BBS or electronic forum? Thanks... Whitney Bolton Rutgers Univ bolton@zodiac.rutgers.edu From: W Schipper <schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> Subject: Africa Email lists Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 19:40:00 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1720 (2042) The following Bitnet lists have something to do with African studies. At least one of should be of some interest, I would think Bill Schipper schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca AASNET-L AASNET-L@UHUPVM1 African American Student Network AFAM-L AFAM-L@UMCVMB African-American Research AFRICA-L AFRICA-L@BRUFPB FORUM PAN-AFRICA AFROAM-L AFROAM-L@TEMPLEVM African american issues in higher education ASA-L ASA-L@TAMVM1 African Students Association Discussion List From: Harriet Ottenheimer <MAHAFAN@KSUVM> Subject: Re: 5.0851 Rs: Afro-American E-Mail; Date Coincidences (4/90) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 09:04 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1721 (2043) In response to Norm Coombs' query, I am aware of several lists which might be of relevance. AASNET-L @ UHUPVM1 : African American Students Network AFAM-L @ UMCVMB : African-American Research AFRAM-L @ TEMPLEVM : African American Issues in Higher Education AFRICA-L @ BRUFMG : Forum Pan-Africa ASA-L @ TAMVM1 : African Students Association Discussion List I would be pleased to learn of others. Harriet Ottenheimer (MAHAFAN @ KSUVM) From: "David H. Hesla" <ILADHH@EMUVM1> Subject: AFRICAN DISCUSSION GROUP Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 14:59:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1722 (2044) A list of listservs compiled 25 October 1991 shows "ASA . . . African Stu Association discussion group." The address is ASA-L@TAMVM1. DAVID H. HESLA GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF THE LIBERAL ARTS EMORY UNIVERSITY ATLANTA GA 30322 ILADHH@EMUVM1 From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: 5.0846 Pelikan on the University and Technology Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 10:46 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1723 (2045) Dear Willard, One must admire your admiration for Pelikan, and your quotation of the idea of collegiality and collaboration. But, of whom with whom? And to what end(s?) A proper skepticism, which I take to be part of one's Humanist training, would not rely as a guide, not really, on a definition of the enterprise of the University (pace newman/Pelikan) that has at its core the notion of Original Sin, and the Fall of Man. These ideas do not consort well with a universe that has been traced back to within 300,000 years of an explosion that we must think originated from a condition in which all was contained in a "spaceless/time" no larger than the period that follows at the end of this sentence: viz.: punkt! . Where is the original sin in that period that exploded? And why should these walking agglomerations that our bodies/minds have risen or fallen to such a condition? That wont help. Neither will the mathematics of the computer speeding up the Tantric prayer wheels that are counting till the end of this era of the expansion of the universe... I suspect, Willard, that we have to take a better view of the history of this failing enterprise, the university, which is seems sometimes today no more than a procession of professors. Jascha K From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Proofread Medieval E-Texts Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 09:04:30 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 856 (2046) 25 April 1992 I am seeking volunteers to proof-read transcriptions of the attached list of medieval texts, prepared for the _Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espan\*~oles_ (_ADMYTE_), a CD-ROM disk to be published this summer by the Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario. In addition to several hundred medieval texts transcribed according to the norms of _A Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language_, 4th ed. (Madison, 1986), the disk will also contain a special version of TACT, the text analysis and retrieval program of the U. of Toronto, the _Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts_, and UNITE, a program for computer-assisted textual criticism. The available texts represent an interesting cross-section of medieval Spanish literary culture--from histories in the Alfonsine tradition to medical and legal works to translations from the classics and other medieval literatures. I will provide: - a photocopy of the original MS or printed edition - a printout of the transcription - an electronic version of the transcription - a copy of the Madison _Manual_ mentioned above - a copy of the special version of TACT and its 200-page manual Participants in the project will also receive full credit for their work in _ADMYTE_--not to mention the satisfaction of having helped bring to fruition one of the most important scholarly projects of the Quincentenary. Lista de los textos castellanos que se han transcrito expresamente para ADMYTE. Actualmente obran en mi poder y esta/*'n listos para corregir. Abreviaturas BNM = Madrid. Biblioteca Nacional BU = Biblioteca Universitaria Esc. = Escorial. Monasterio Cuando se trata de varios textos dentro de un mismo MS o edicio\*'n, se han agrupado bajo la signatura del volumen que los contiene. Al final de cada texto se indica su taman\*~o o en "bytes" o en folios. Alfonso Marti\*'nez de Toledo. Invencionario. BNM 9219. 126 ff. (transcr. P. Gericke) Cro\*'nica de 1344 (parte I). Madrid: Zaba/*'lburu 11-109, ff. 1r-107 (1.33 Mb) (listo para corregir) (transcr. J. da Cruz) Domingo Marcos Dura/*'n. Lux bella. Impreso Sevilla, 1492. BNM I 2165. 6 ff. (mu\*'sica) (transcr. D. Burton) Domingo Marcos Dura/*'n. Glosa sobre Lux bella. Impreso Salamanca, 1498-6-17. BNM I 2165. 38 ff. (mu\*'sica) (transcr. D. Burton) Fueros de la Novenera. Salamanca BU 2652, ff. 140r-156v (transcr. F. Waltman) BNM I 2157. Impreso Zaragoza, ca. 1490 (transcr. H. Torres): Thomas a Kempis. Imitatio Christi, ff. a2r-o2r Jean Gerson. De meditatione cordis, ff. o3r-o9v Pablo de Santa Mari\*'a. Suma de las cro\*'nicas de Espan\*~a. Esc. h.II.22, ff. 52r-98v (transcr. J. Krieger) Seudo-San Bernardo. Infancia del Salvador. Impreso Burgos: Juan de Burgos, ca. 1495. BNM I 1424 (279 Kb) (es realmente una traduccio\*'n de las Meditationes de Seudo-Agusti\*'n) (transcr. F. Waltman) From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" <goer@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Gamma's MLS wordprocessor Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 20:25:27 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1724 (2047) I just got a copy of Gamma's MLS 4.0. Before I post a review, which I will do in a week or so, I'd like to hear other people's reactions. Anyone who's gotten a copy, and had a chance to look it over: Please drop me a line. -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%ellis@uchicago.bitnet goer@ellis.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer From: "Alan_W.Fisher" <22302AWF@MSU> Subject: HUMANIST Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 13:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1725 (2048) I am interested in learning the institutional organization of the teaching of Religious Studies at various colleges and universities. Is it more typically done through a department (with or without major) or program or merely as elements of any number of disciplinary units such as history, literature, classics, Asian Studies, etc.? I am also interested in pros and cons of each form as seen by someone on a campus with one or the other. Thanks. From: "Shef Rogers" <CRogers@gandalf.otago.ac.nz> Subject: job opening in film/theory Date: 27 Apr 1992 13:42:40 GMT+1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 858 (2049) Applications are invited for a lectureship in the field of film and contemporary critical theory. The successful applicant will be expected to teach a second-year paper on the history and theory of film, and contribute to a graduate paper on contemporary critical theory. Preference may be given to candidates who can also teach in other fields relevant to courses offered by the Department of English. Expertise in American literature would be a particular advantage. Apart from teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, the successful applicant will be expected to pursue, stimulate, and supervise research in his or her field(s) of expertise. The current salary range is NZ$37,440-NZ$49,088 per annum with a bar at NZ$45,448. The position is available from 1 July 1992, and it is hoped that the successful applicant can assume duties as close as possible to that date. Applications quoting reference number A92/19 close with the Registrar, University of Otago, P. O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand (Fax (64)(3) 474-1607) on 22 May 1992. Equal opportunity in employment is University policy. Lecturer, Dept. of English University of Otago P. O. Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand crogers@gandalf.otago.ac.nz From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: Translation Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 14:21 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1726 (2050) for Bolton: try inquiring of ALTA, American literary translators association, based at U of Texas at Dallas, rainer Schulte founder and presiding genius. He ought to have more than what you need to find, to start with. Jascha Kessler From: (Gerhard Obenaus) <g-obenaus@uiuc.edu> Subject: RE:Translation (5/69) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1992 15:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1727 (2051) [deleted quotation] Whitney, There is a translation BBS called Transnet. You can reach it by having your modem dial 217-384-5101. An extensive bibliography of books, articles on translation studies is provided. It does encompass more than literary translation, but it may be a good start. Leave a message to the SYSOP and to indicate you heard about it on HUMANIST, and you'll get the download priviledges you need to transfer that file. There is also a discussion group on Internet called LANTRA-L which deals with translation theory, etc. To subscribe, send the usual message to LANTRA-L@finhutc.bitnet. Hope this helps. Gerhard Gerhard Obenaus (217)-333-1288 Department of Germanic Languages g-obenaus@uiuc.edu University of Illinois 707 S. Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 From: Charles Robinson <robinson@brahms.udel.edu> Subject: Re: 5.0854 Qs: Japanese; Presentations; Addresses; Translation (5/69) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1992 09:37:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1728 (2052) TRANSLATION: One book that might be very useful to Bolton but that might not show up in a translation *theory* bibliography is Tim Webb's *The Viiolet in the Crucible: Shelley and Translation* (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976). Shelley in addition to translating from many texts had a number of things to say about translation per se, including "it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet" (Defence of Poetry). Charles E. Robinson English Department University of Delaware Newark DE 19716 (302) 831-2363 robinson@brahms.udel.edu From: Jack Kolb <IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: 5.0806 Rs: More on Plagiarism (3/161) Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 05:24 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1729 (2053) Excuse a late comment, probably anticipated by now. I served on a university committee investigating--but not prosecuting: that was the province of another committee--charges against faculty members. I was temporarily involved with a clear case of plagiarism in an field very close to my own (hence my necessary withdrawal). This person was not simply and clearly guilty, but ridiculously so; the person was a senior member of the department and the case in point was a book review. The evidence was clear, based upon the accusation of a person in the field, whose work had been plagiarized. This august institution did little to punish the senior member, and promoted that member the following year. For political reasons. From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: African lists. Date: Sun, 26 Apr 92 16:53:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1730 (2054) In the area of Francophone literatures of Africa and the Carabean one could contact CELACEF (Centre d'Etude de la Litterature Africaine et Caraibe d'Expression Francaise) at Temple University in Philadelphia. The director is Wilbert J. Roget, e-mail: v5276e@templevm.bitnet . -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------===== Michel Lenoble | Litterature Comparee | NOUVELLE ADRESSE - NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS Universite de Montreal | ---> lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca C.P. 6128, Succ. "A" | MONTREAL (Quebec) | Tel.: (514) 288-3916 Canada - H3C 3J7 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------===== From: Christopher Currie <c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk> Subject: Should the Anglo-American Conference of Historians be Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 10:35:43 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 860 (2055) advertised on E-Lists? This (private) inquiry is initiated to determine whether it would be useful to advertise the annual Anglo-American Conference of Historians on electronic mailing lists and bulletin boards. It is being sent to the Humanist and History lists. Please cross-post it to any other relevant lists. The Sixty-First Anglo-American Conference of Historians will be held at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, from 7 to 10 July 1992. The theme this year (surprise, surprise) is Europe and the Americas from the Middle Ages to the present. (The registration fee is #30 sterling, with reductions for postgraduates and the unwaged. Lunches and teas are extra. Attenders arrange their own overnight accomodation.) The Conference is advertised annually by a paper mailshot of several thousand copies to individuals and departments in the U.K., North America, and elsewhere. The Institute's administration is as yet not very network-minded. Should it be encouraged to advertise electronically, or are the paper mailshots already reaching all interested parties? If you have NOT seen any notice on paper of this year's Conference, and would be interested /might have been interested in registering, please complete the following (very brief) questionnaire and return it to me, NOT to the list on which you see this post. Please do NOT reply if you have already received notice on paper. I cannot answer, and shall not acknowledge, detailed enquiries about the Conference. If there is a significant response I can then organize a full post, including registration forms, on this and other lists, either for this year's conference or next year's. Christopher Currie c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk -------------------------- CUT HERE -------------------------- Please return this form to: c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk (Internet) c.currie%uk.ac.ulcc.clus1@UKACRL.BITNET I have NOT seen any notice on paper of the 61st Anglo-American Conference of Historians. [Please delete 1 or 2 as appropriate]: 1. Yes, I would be interested in registering for the conference. I should like to see a full notice and registration form for this year's Conference posted. 2. I would have been interested in registering if I had seen a post and registration form on the network earlier in the year. I might be interested in future years. Name: Institution and department: Street address: Email address: ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: norman fraser <norman@logcam.co.uk> Subject: TWO RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 12:29:44 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 861 (2056) UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Department of Linguistic and International Studies and Social and Computer Sciences Research Group TWO RESEARCH FELLOWS These positions, funded by the ESRC and the Leverhulme Trust, are for work on a computer implementation of Russian morphology using DATR, under the direction of Professor G. Corbett and Mr. N. Fraser. The ideal candidate would have considerable theoretical knowledge of Russian, and some familiarity with computing. However, the required skills may be balanced between the two appointments and so enquiries and applications are welcome from those with a Russian linguistics or a computational linguistics background. Salary on the 1A scale, depending on age and experience, maximum starting salary #14,359. Appointment for three years. Applicants should submit three copies of a letter of application and CV, with the names of two referees, quoting reference 076, to Personnel Office (JLG), University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, U.K.), from where further particulars are available. Closing date for applications 22 May 1992. Informal enquiries to Greville Corbett (0483-300800 ext 2849, email: g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk) or Norman Fraser (0223-66343, email: norman@logcam.co.uk). From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Fwd: CAP7 Information Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 16:27:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 862 (2057) THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY (CAP) will be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando August 14th, 15th, and 16th, 1992 _Keynote Speakers_ Professor Paul Churchland Virtual Reality Keynote Speaker To Be Announced _Registration_ Early registration is $75. Registrations postmarked after 31 July are $90. Student registration is $50. Registration forms will be mailed and posted shortly after 1 May. _Housing_ Housing is at the Holiday Inn - University of Central Florida Area. Conference room rate is $56 (plus 10% tax) per room, regardless of the number of persons in the room. Conference room rate applies three days prior to and three days after the Conference dates for those who desire an extended stay. _Further Information_ For further information contact Don Jones at <asdhifaa@ucf1vm> or <asdhifaa@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu>. By surface mail, Don Jones, Philosophy, UCF, Orlando, Florida 32816. Phone 407 823 2273. The Conference is sponsored by the Committee on Computer Use in Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association, the Department of Philosophy together with the Department of Computer Science, and the journal _Philosophy and Computing_. From: John T. Harwood <JTH@psuvm.psu.edu> Subject: New Historicism Seminar Date: Tuesday, 28 Apr 1992 09:01:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 863 (2058) PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SEMINAR SERIES ISSUES IN CRITICISM Summer Seminar HISTORICISMS AND CULTURAL CRITIQUE June 25-30, 1992 State College, Pennsylvania WAI-CHEE DIMOCK, Department of English, University of California, San Diego. Author of Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (1989) and Symbolic Equality: Political Theory, Law, and American Literature (forthcoming); co-editor of the forthcoming Class and Literary Studies. Professor Dimock will focus on the shifting configurations of gender and history. MARJORIE LEVINSON, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. Editor of Rethinking Historicism (1989) and author of Keats's life of Allegory: the Origins of Style (1988) and other monographs treating Romantic poetry. Professor Levinson's general title is "The Dialectic of Enlightenment: To Be Continued," considering paradigms from the preCartesian to the present deep ecology movement. BROOK THOMAS, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine. Author of Cross-Examination of Law and Literature (1987) and The New Historicism and Other Old- Fashioned Topics (1991). Professor Thomas's central topic "The Turn to History and the Crisis of Representation." Participants will hear presentations by three well-known scholar- critics--Wai Chee Dimock, Marjorie Levinson, and Brook Thomas--and engage in seminar-type discussions organized by these leaders. Registrants are asked to indicate their first and second choices for morning seminar groups. The schedule and atmosphere are intended to encourage informal discussions among participants. For further information contact: Wendell Harris Department of English Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Telephone: 814-863-2343 or 814-865-9243 From: W Schipper <schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> Subject: URGENT APPEAL for IAUPE Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 15:55:00 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 864 (2059) Posted on behalf of Sarah L. Keefer [skeefer@trentu.ca] TO THE ATTENTION OF SCHOLARS IN ENGLISH, AMERICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN AND CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES I apologise for double-posting this on different nets, but it is a matter of considerable urgency: these are PROFESSORS OF ENGLISH, not all medievalists, but I need to reach them as soon as possible. Can you please help us? The third circular for the International Association of University Professors of English has gone out with the wrong telephone number for the Conference Office on it, and we have a great many members who may need to telephone, especially from the Toronto Airport upon arrival, and thus will not be able to reach us. Could you please check the list below, which is set out BY COUNTY AND STATE/PROVINCE/ or CITY. If you 1) know anyone 2) belong to the same institution or 3) recognize any name from another network to which you subscribe, could you please let him/her know by e-mail or intercollege mail that the Conference Office telephone number for the IAUPE Conference, to be held at Trent University this August is NOT 705-876-0208. The correct number is *705-876-0280* If you are able to help in this way, please drop me a private line letting me know whom you have contacted, and I can then cross him/her off my list. To those of you who have already passed on messages, my sincerest thanks indeed. Sarah Larratt Keefer Conference Committee, IAUPE Trent University, Canada K9J 7B8 SKEEFER@TRENTU.CA -------------------- CANADA Quebec: Universite de Montreal: B.M. Hosington : McGill: David Williams Alberta: U of Alta, Edmonton: R.T. Harrison B.C.: UBC: P.G. Sianwood ---------------------- UNITED STATES California: U of Cal, Irvine: M. Krieger, G Schwab :UCLA: A.K. Mellor, English, F. Ridley, English; D. Minkova, Linguistics Illinois: UIUC: J. Klein Kansas: U of Kansas (?): R.J. Schoeck (emeritus of a number of places-- anyone who knows him, please?) Maine: U of Maine, Orono: W. Randel (emeritus?) Maryland: U of Maryland: C. Winton Massachusetts: U of Mass, Amherst: R.P. Creed Michigan: U of Mich at Dearborn: T.L. Pebworth New York: City College, CUNY: M. Allenturk (emeritus?), H. Wasser : U of Rochester: G.H. Ford : SUNY-Binghamton: W.F. Nicolaisen Oklahoma: U of Tulsa: G.H. Gilpin, H. de Almeida, N.S. Grabo Pennsylvania: Franklin & Marshall College: S. Woods Rhode Island: Brown: R. Scholes, E.D. Kirk Texas: Baylor: W.V. Davis Virginia: U of Virginia, Charlottesville: M.C. Battestin, D. L. Vander Meulen Wisconsin: U of Wisconsin, Madison: T.K. Bender : U of Milwaukee: I. Hassen --------------------------------------------- UNITED KINGDOM IRELAND Dublin (Mount Marrion): Denis Donoghue GREAT BRITAIN Cambridge: S.A. Ashraf, The Islamic Academy J. Beer, Peterhouse Lancaster: U of Lancaster: D.R. Carroll, S. Hussey, M. Wheeler, English Manchester: U of Manchester: R.M. Hogg, C. McCully, English Newcastle-upon-Tyne: University of Newcastle: J. Batchelor, J. Honigmann (& Mr G. Packman), English Norwich: U. of East Anglia: C.W.F. Bigsby, M. Bradbury, English Reading: U of Reading: C.C. Brown, English ---------------------------------------- CONTINENTAL EUROPE AUSTRIA: Vienna: W. Zacharasiewicz DENMARK: Copenhagen Business School: N. Davidsen-Nielsen Copenhagen Universiteit: A. Zettersten FRANCE: Dijon: J.M. Rabate Paris-Nord: S. Dayras Paris-Sorbonne: M. M. Martinet GERMANY: Aachen: H. Weinstock Bochum, Ruhr Universitat: H.J. Diller Dusseldorf: D. Stein Erlangen, Nurnberg: K.J. Holtgen Giessen, Justus-Liebig Universitat: R. Borgmeier, H. Grabes Hamburg: R. Haas Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg Univ: K. Lubbers, D. Rolle Munich: O (?) Broich, H.W. Gabler Tubingen: H. Ludwig Wilhelms Universitat: B. Gibbons Wurzburg: R. Ahrens, Englische Philologie SWEDEN: Lund University: S. Backman, English Linkoping (home address only): C. Lindberg Uppsala: R. Lunden SWITZERLAND: Basel: H. Isherhagen ---------------------------------- AUSTRALIA Armidale: U. of New England: A.G. Sandison Canberra: Australian National U: R.M.V. Elliott : Univ. of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy: P. Eggert : U of New South Wales: M. Hollington Melbourne: Monash: C.T. Probyn Stirling: Adelaide University: C.J. Horne From: Ramon <R_ALEMAN@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU> Subject: Graduate Programs in Philosophy of Science Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 08:20 AST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 865 (2060) I am interested in doing graduate work leading to the Ph.D. in the area of Philosophy or History of Science. I have a Master's degree in Chemical Physics and am teaching a course in Physical Sciences for a General Studies Faculty in which the emphasis is more in the historical, sociological and developmental aspects of scientific revolutions such as those related to Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Planck, Dirac, Dalton, etc. I have been following the discussions in Humanist for a few months by now, and given the breadth of backgrounds and knowledge of the participants, I would like to request information, recommendations, and ideas for good graduate schools (both in the US or in Europe or Latin America) who have good graduate study programs in areas such as Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, etc. Thank you in advance for all the guidance you can give me in this matter. Prof. Ramon Lopez-Aleman University of Puerto Rico R_ALEMAN@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU R_ALEMAN@UPRENET From: <fass@cs.sfu.ca> Subject: CFP: PACLING '93 computational linguistics conference Date: 29 Apr 92 15:20 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 866 (2061) CALL FOR PAPERS PACLING '93 1st Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (formerly JAJSNLP, the Japan-Australia Joint Symposia on Natural Language Processing) April 21-24 (Wed-Sat) 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada HISTORY AND AIMS PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan-Australia joint symposia on natural language processing (NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in October 1991 in Iizuka City, Japan. PACLING '93 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant "schools of thought," and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also more regional with extensive representation from the Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern). TRANSCENDING LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES The theme of PACLING '93 is "transcending language boundaries" by: o facilitating communication between speakers of different languages -- e.g., with machine translation and computer-aided language learning, o going beyond limitations of natural language as a communicative medium -- the conference has a particular interest in the theory and practice of natural-language centred multi-modal architectures, systems, interfaces and design issues, not only in work that improves existing computational linguistic techniques, but also in computational (or computationally oriented) research for complementing the communicative strengths of natural language and overcoming its weaknesses. TOPICS Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following: Language subjects: text, speech; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, the lexicon, morphology, phonology, phonetics; language and communication channels, e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound; language and input/output devices, e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens, mice, light pens, graphics (including animation); language and context, e.g., from the subject domain, discourse, spatial and temporal deixis. Approaches and architectures: computational linguistic, multi-modal but natural-language centred; formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist; dialogue, user, belief or other model-based; parallel/serial processing. Applications: text and message understanding and generation, language translation and translation aids, language learning and learning aids; question-answering systems and interfaces to multi-media databases (text, audio/video, (geo)graphic); terminals for Asian and other languages, user interfaces; natural language-based software. SUBMISSIONS Authors should prepare full papers, in English, of not more than 5000 words including references, approximately 20 double-spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; some key words for classifying the submission. Please send four (4) copies of each submission to: Paul McFetridge and Fred Popowich email: mcfet@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Program Co-Chairs tel: (604) 291-3632 Centre for Systems Science email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca Simon Fraser University tel: (604) 291-4193 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 fax: (604) 291-4424 SCHEDULE Submission deadline: Monday Nov 30th 1992 Notification of acceptance: Friday Jan 29th 1993 Camera-ready copy due: Friday Mar 5th 1993 PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS The conference will take place at the downtown Vancouver extension of Simon Fraser University. We are negotiating preferential rates from downtown hotels which should be $Canadian 60-75 per person. On one day of the conference, we are planning an optional steam train and boat trip. For further information on the conference and on local arrangements, contact Dan Fass email: fass@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Publicity and Local Arrangements tel: (604) 291-3208 Centre for Systems Science fax: (604) 291-4424 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 PACLING '93 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Members: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia) Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Yorick Wilks (New Mexico State University, USA) Local Members: Hiroaki Tsurumaru (Nagasaki University, Japan) Roland Sussex (Queensland University, Australia) Dan Fass, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Advisors: Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada) Observers: Minako O'Hagan (New Zealand Translation Center, New Zealand) SPONSORS Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication interest group of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, the Australian Computer Science Society, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems of Canada, the Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia. From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 5.0828 Final Words on Plagiarism Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 19:23:41 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 867 (2062) When I consider myself unfairly criticized -- and that does not happen often, I am happy to say -- I normally do not reply, since I do not think that the net (or academic journals) exists for the purpose of self-justification, however justified. Since, however, Eric J Cadora phrased his criticism of my behavior in the form of questions, I feel constrained to answer. My story concerned two students -- an Arab and a Georgian -- who turned in examination papers with an essay identical in wording but differing in the numerous misspellings; it turned out that both were memorized copies of the Arab's notes, which he had lent to the Georgian the night before the examination. I gave them both an 80. Mr Cadora's criticisms are phrased in what seems to me a rather irate tone, which I take to be a result of the suspicion that I was unfair to the Arab student, and that my unfairness stemmed from anti- Arab prejudice. I certainly try to treat all my students fairly, but beyond that I will not try to answer Mr Cadora on this point, since in so far as his suspicion relates to my subconscious attitudes, I am not the person to know whether it is true or not. I can, however, explain the story more clearly, and some of it may be of interest to others on the net. (1) When I was preparing for my comprehensive exams at the end of my senior year at Swarthmore College, Leonard Barkan (now a distinguished professor at Yale, but then distinguished by having received Highest Honors the year before -- a distinction awarded by outside examiners entirely on the basis of these exams) advised me: "If you look over the course, you will see that there are a certain number of major topics in the course -- things that the examiner can't ignore. Prepare four to six of these topics well and forget the rest. Since they always give you a choice of question, you will be able to choose the questions that relate to the topics you have prepared and give a very good impression." The advice seemed reasonable, and served me very well on my own exams. When I began to teach, I remembered Prof. Barkan's advice again, and considered that it was not only a good way to prepare for an exam, but a good way to study. I would be delighted if my students came to the exam knowing four to six major topics of the course well, and I think it would be far preferable to having them know a little bit of undigested information about every topic discussed. I therefore make it a practice to give my own students the same advice that Prof. Barkan gave me. The Arab student had in his notes a summary of what I had said in class about Athenian democracy. It was in no way an "original essay", merely a summary of my own words in class. I presume that the Arab student had made the summary himself, though that is merely a presumption-of-innocence: the photocopying of notes at Israeli universities before exam time is so widespread that one has to wait on long lines at the numerous copying machines, and virtually every student's notebook will include many items of which he is not the author. This activity is considered perfectly legitimate, so that it would be no reflection at all on the student if the summary had been copied from another student's notes. By "notes" I meant merely the student's notebook, by "essay" an answer given on the examination. The summary in question having been both, I referred to it with both terms. (2) Mr Cadora is correct in distinguishing (as I thought I had clearly distinguished) the case of the Arab from the case of the Georgian. Although it was not necessarily the case that the Arab had originally authored the summary, I certainly presumed that to be the case, and, as stated, still do; the Georgian had admittedly gotten his information second-hand at best (and by any account, at one remove further than the Arab, and only by the Arab's generosity). For this reason, once the Georgian admitted to me that he had memorized the Arab's notes (and both the students also referred to them as "notes"), there was no question of giving the Arab student any less than the mark that I thought it deserved. The Georgian's case required more thought, and it was because of the Georgian's case that I thought the story relevant to a discussion of plagiarism. (3) In the final analysis, I found I could not justify giving the Georgian a lower mark. It is true -- and I knew -- that his work was not worthy of a university student; but I did not feel that I could properly make the examination mark reflect this, for a simple reason: had the Arab student not used the same method of memorization, I would never have caught him; and even when I had caught him, I had not caught him in any illegitimate activity. It was not the last time that a student who did not know the material properly succeeded in answering examination questions correctly. Can I fail a student who writes a good examination paper because "I know" -- from outside information -- that he doesn't really deserve it? As long as he did not do anything illegitimate, I don't think I can do so without invalidating entirely the function of the examination process as an objective check on the teacher's subjective impressions of a student's work. So although I didn't think he deserved the 80 (and I did think that the Arab did), I did not feel I had any justification for denying it to him simply because I had "caught him" memorizing somebody else's notes. (4) It was because of the Georgian's case, not the Arab's, that I have felt it necessary since then to notify students that I would not accept "pre-fab" answers. Since such summaries can and do circulate freely among the students (to a much greater extent than they would at American universities, for a reason not relevant), they make it impossible for me to prevent precisely the sort of quasi-plagiarism that the Georgian had practiced. The only way to make sure (or at least surer) that I was getting the student's own thinking was to write the questions in such a way that a pre-written essay would not answer them if it was merely repeated by rote, to make sure that the thought is taking place in the examination room, where proctors are supposed (sigh!) to see to it that the more blatant forms of plagiarism are prohibited. If, indeed, the Arab was the author of the summary involved, he would presumably have been able, if required, to rephrase his information in such a way as to answer the question; the Georgian would not have; and that was precisely the discrimination that I wanted my future exams to make. (5) The nationality of the students involved is of course irrelevant to the ethical question, and to the relative value of their work. I did, however, mention it, for two reasons: (a) to indicate what I take to have been the source of the unscholarly behavior: although both students spoke Hebrew, for neither of them was it their mother tongue, nor did either of them write it easily or elegantly. This would indeed have made it harder for either of them to compose an essay on the spot during the exami- nation; and indeed, in marking humanities exams at an Israeli university, I must routinely try to judge whether the student's problem is ignorance of the material or merely difficulty with the language, a problem that is real when it occurs, but much less common, in other countries. (b) I had occasion once to read an American journalist who wrote of a particular case of Israeli consideration of Arab students' needs (in this case it was allowing Arab students to cross the border to Egypt to study at Egyptian universities, during the pre-'78 period when Egypt and Israel were not at peace) that it was "on the face of it so unlikely that it must wait for further confirmation". (I in fact had served in the unit that controlled the border point through which these students passed, and can confirm it.) It occurred to me that some readers of this list might harbor similar misconceptions and not be aware that Arab students study freely at Israeli universities, organize their own students' organiza- tions, etc., and I thought I might mention the fact by the way. I did not anticipate Mr Cadora's understanding of the incident. (6) In referring to one student as an "Arab" and one as a "Georgian" I was merely using the current terms for those two groups; I meant no political commentary. He was in fact, an Israeli citizen, and I have never known an Arab, Palestinian or otherwise, to consider it offensive to be called an Arab. On the ques- tion of whether this part of the continent is properly called "the land of Israel" or "Palestine" much can be said, and I will admit to holding a strong opinion on the matter; but since too much has already been said in many other fora, I urge Mr Cadora, and other subscribers, not to renew a subject that does little to advance scholarship and nothing at all to advance peaceable relations among peoples. (7) I did not refer to the "Georgian" as a "Slav" because he was not a Slav, but a Jew. The Georgian language, which was his native tongue, is not in fact Slavic, nor even Indo-European. (8) The source for my assertion that "Islamic scholarship is based heavily on memorization" is a good deal of personal experience; but if Mr Cadora would like a published source, I quote, for example, Bernard Lewis, "Islam and Development, The Revaluation of Values", in id., _Islam in History_, pp. 298-9: "For the old-style teachers and scholars, knowledge consisted of a finite number of pieces of information; learning consisted of acquiring them. Neither the scientists and philosophers of Islam on the one hand, nor the mystics on the other, would have accepted this view of knowledge and education. The schoolmasters and professors and their pupils did, however, and they applied it in the schools." Jewish schools, even the old-fashioned kind, did not place as high a value on rote learning (though they did not denigrate it as thoroughly as we are accustomed to do), and so the Arab students arrive at our universities much less used to original thinking than their Jewish counterparts; this is only one of the disadvan- tages under which they labor, and like most of the disadvantages, it is not one that the Jews created, but it is our job as teachers to teach them to think critically and originally no less than those students who have been brought up to such thought from the cradle. (9) I am not a professor. Academic advancement comes slowly in our small country. (Dr.) David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: "Allen Renear, Brown Univ/CIS, 401-863-7312" <ALLEN@BROWNVM> Subject: ACHALLC92 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 23:28:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 868 (2063) Usually I'm the guy who wants to talk shop -- and who wants everyone else to talk shop too. Character sets, encoding theory, methodological problems of Very Large Corpora, methodological problems of Very Small Corpora, Incorporeal Problems of Medium Size Methodologies ... the stuff of life right? This time I'm going to chill. Elaine probably expects a nice critique of a session or two. But I don't feel like it just at the moment. Instead I'd like to raise a more important question. A *much* more important question. A very serious question. A difficult and profound question... Why are these ACHALLC conferences so damn much fun? Oxford was glorious. Part of it was the setting of course: Christ Church was exquisite, the University wonderful and exciting. The hospitality was absolutely terrific -- Marilyn, Lou, Susan, Katy, and the others were *delightful*. xoxo The sessions I went to were almost all first rate: fresh, thought- provoking. Some were even unsettling and there were not a few satisfyingly earnest disputes. The conversation at tea and meals was perhaps every bit as engaging and wonderful as the talks themselves. Who wanted to sleep? Four days of arguing about texts, writing systems, editing, encoding, technology, subjectivity, interpretation, method, truth, the future, the past, THE HUMANITIES, the sciences... four days of comparing notes about computing services ... four days of enlisting support for mad schemes and projects... four wonderful days of talking about, thinking about, and planning humanities computing Yet I still don't feel I've got a handle on it, on why these ACHALLC conferences are so wonderful, so satisfying. After all, sometimes the American Philosophical Association meets in a nice place (no, not that nice, I mean, say, Baltimore). And there often is a good paper or two; and I see my friends and we gossip, argue, and scheme. But it just isn't the same. Is it just me? Or the APA? What do you all think? Maybe the Aristotelian Society compares...? Nah. I think we are the last intellectuals. Somehow, despite our bizarre mix of specialities and roles, or because of them, at ACHALLC we approximate some mythical community of engaged inquirers, happy to be on the planet, nourished by the Great Conversation, delighted to have companions in our enthusiasms. But yet that still doesn't explain why everyone in the ACH and ALLC seems so ... so *nice*. Or is monitor radiation affecting my limbic system? From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Romanian metrical analysis Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 14:55:08 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1731 (2064) I am sending this message for a visiting colleague, Mihai Pop, who is interested in a metrical analysis of Romanian poetry. He would like to know: 1) If any existing software would help him to carry it out. 2) Failing that, is there any suitable lexical software which would allow him to specify stress and syllabification so that he could then modify an existing program (developed for Spanish) for the purpose. 3) Are there any machine-readable dictionaries of Romanian. He seems to believe that he will have to set up a lexical corpus of Romanian with stress and syllabification explicitly marked in order to carry out a metrical analysis. Any responses should go to: mpop@qal.berkeley.edu Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber ) From: Michael Sikillian/Annotext <76264.1323@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Logic Inquiry Date: 29 Apr 92 10:23:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1732 (2065) To: LN@FRMOP11.BITNET Does anyone know of any Internet or Bitnet lists pertaining to the philosophy of logic or symbolic logic? I am particularly interested in temporal logics and the history of logic. Thank you Michael Sikillian Annotext 76264,1323@compuserve.com From: Brian W. Ogilvie <ogil@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Bibliographic databases for the IBM PC/clones Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 16:39:25 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1733 (2066) My girlfriend is interested in buying a bibliographic database for her PC. She wants to use it primarily for maintaining bibliographies in various subfields of history. She would like a program which (a) is relatively cheap, (b) omits articles in sorts (or has customizable sorting), (c) includes fields for keywords, notes, etc. which will not be printed in bibliographies themselves, and (d) has provision for accented characters (many of her sources are in French). The last is not essential since TSR keyboard remapping utilities are available. Her present system is a PC clone with 640Kb and (of course) a hard drive running version 3.x of MS-DOS. She is going to buy a 386 with Windows soon, however, so don't limit suggestions to programs which will run on the clunker. As far as I know the main contenders are ProCite and EndNote Plus. I use the latter on my Mac but have no experience with the PC version. Any contented or malcontented users of either of those, or other programs with similar capabilities, are encouraged to send their advice directly to her: j-heuer@uchicago.edu. (I think that Bitnet users can use the address j-heuer%uchicago.edu@UCHIMVS.) If mail doesn't work, I'll forward messages posted to the list. Thanks in advance for your help! From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@vassar.bitnet> Subject: Colloque index-mat / ann off Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 09:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 870 (2067) Originally From: NUVOLONE@CFRUNI51.BITNET RESEAU DES BIBLIOTHEQUES ROMANDES ET TESSINOISES BIBLIOTHEQUE CANTONALE ET UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRIBOURG BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L'UNIVERSITE LAVAL SOUS LE PARRAINAGE DE L 'ABCDEF RENCONTRES FRANCOPHONES SUR L'INDEXATION-MATIERE PRINCIPES ET PRATIQUES DE L'INDEXATION ALPHABETIQUE DES MATIERES DANS LES BIBLIOTHEQUES UNIVERSITAIRES ET DE RECHERCHE DES PAYS FRANCOPHONES DU NORD FRIBOURG (Suisse), College Saint-Michel, 1 - 2 juin 1992 ----------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME LUNDI 1er JUIN 1992 Journee ouverte a toute personne interessee Presidence assuree par M. Pierre Gavin, coordinateur REBUS 9 h 00 Ouverture de la Rencontre par M. Martin Nicoulin, directeur de la Bibliotheque cantonale et universitaire de Fribourg PRINCIPES ET PRATIQUES DE L'lNDEXATION-MATIERE DANS CHACUN DES PAYS (survol de la situation globale et developpement d'une experience precise) 09 h 15 CANADA par M. Michel Fournier, coordonnateur a la normalisation de l'indexation-matiere, Bibliotheque de l'Universite Laval 09 h 55 Discussion 10 h 10 Pause 10 h 40 FRANCE par Mme Cecile Maury, responsable du Service d'autorites- matiere du Centre de coordination bibliographique et technique de la Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris 11 h 20 Discussion 11 h 35 LUXEMBOURG par M. Claude Loutsch, chef de projet SlBIL, Bibliotheque Nationale du Luxembourg 12 h 15 Discussion 12 h 30 Pause de midi 14 h 30 BELGIQUE Mme Jacqueline Clement, Centre de gestion des bibliotheques, Universite libre de Bruxelles 15 h 10 Discussion 15 h 25 SUISSE Mme Joèlle Walther, coordinatrice-matiere du Reseau des bibliotheques romandes et tessinoises 16 h 05 Discussion 16 h 20 Pause 16 h 45 MULTILINGUISME: QUELLES PERSPECTIVES ? Informations et discussions, avec la participation de l'ensemble des rapporteurs de la journee et d'autres invites 18 h 00 Fin MARDI 2 JUIN 1992 Journee reservee aux divers responsables, selon invitation Presidence assuree par M. Pierre Gavin, coordinateur REBUS 09 h 00 SYNTHESE DES DIVERSES PRATIQUES par M. Claude Bonnelly, directeur de la Bibliotheque de l'Universite Laval 09 h 30 Discussion 09 h 45 ACCORD ET MECANISMES DE COOPERATION ENTRE LA FRANCE ET LE CANADA (RAMEAU / REPERTOIRE DE VEDETTES-MATIERES DE LAVAL) par Mme Chantal Freschard, directrice de la Cellule nationale de coordination de l'indexation-matiere, Paris et M. Claude Bonnelly, directeur de la Bibliotheque de l'Universite Laval 10 h 15 Discussion 10 h 30 Pause 11 h 00 POSSIBILITES D'UNE COLLABORATION ELARGIE ENTRE PAYS FRANCOPHONES DU NORD Table ronde avec la participation de l'ensemble des rapporteurs 12 h 20 CLOTURE DE LA RENCONTRE par M. Pierre Gavin 12 h 30 Fin ------------------------------------------------------ LIEU Aula du College Saint-Michel Rue Saint-Pierre Canisius 10 1700 Fribourg (en face de la Bibliotheque cantonale) INSCRIPTIONS au moyen du bulletin ci-joint a envoyer a l'adresse suivante jusqu'au 15 mai 1992: Bibliotheque cantonale et universitaire Rencontres sur l'indexation-matiere Rue Joseph-Piller 2 CH-1700 Fribourg FINANCES frs. 50.- pour la participation a la journee du 1er juin a verser sur le CCP de la BCU Fribourg: 17 - 205 - 2 Les repas sont a la charge des participants. Des informations vous seront donnees sur place SIGLES ABCDEF Association des responsables des bibliotheques et centres de documentation universitaires et de recherche d'expression franÄaise BCU Bibliotheque Cantonale et Universitaire REBUS Reseau des Bibliotheques utilisant SIBIL RERO Reseau des bibliotheques romandes et tessinoises SIBIL Systeme informatise pour bibliotheque, Lausanne ------------------------------------------------------ bulletin d'inscription a envoyer jusqu'au 15 mai 1992 a la Bibliotheque cantonale et universitaire Rencontres sur l'indexation matiere Rue Joseph-Piller 2 CH-1700 FRIBOURG Rencontres francophones sur l'indexation-matiere Inscription pour la journee du 1er Juin 1992 Je participerai a la journee du 1er juin nom, prenom .................................................... fonction .................................................... adresse .................................................... .................................................... telephone .................................................... FAX / Email .................................................... bibliotheque .................................................... Je verse un montant de fr. 50.- sur le CCP de la BCU Fribourg: 17-205 - 2 Je prevois de participer a la journee du 2 juin: OUI NON ----------------------------------------------------- Pour information et secretariat s'adresser a: Bibliotheque Cantonale et Universitaire Kantons- und Universit¿tsbibliothek Rte Joseph-Piller 2 - PB 1036 CH - 1700 Fribourg Tel. +41 (37) 25'13'33 ou Fax +41 (37) 25'13'78 au nom du Comite d'organisation Flavio G. Nuvolone, Ch. c. Bibliotheque Interfacultaire d'Histoire et de Theologie Universite de Fribourg - Misericorde (BP 23) CH - 1700 Fribourg Tel.: +41 (37) 21'93'56 ou 21'93'82 Fax: +41 (37) 21'93'55 Email: NUVOLONE@CFRUNI51.BITNET From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 5.0865 Qs: Grad Programs in Philosophy of Science (1/23) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 15:37:41 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1734 (2068) Although I cannot give specifics, the U. of California at Berkeley has a very strong program in the History of Science, focusing particularly on the physical sciences in the 20th century. For more information: Professor Roger Hahn Dept. of History UC Berkeley, CA 94720 Charles Faulhaber From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Re: 5.0865 Qs: Grad Programs in Philosophy of Science (1/23) Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 19:10:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1735 (2069) [deleted quotation]Try the program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA. Leslie Burkholder From: John Lavagnino <LAV@BRANDEIS.BITNET> Subject: TEI in TLS Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 19:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1736 (2070) A recent issue of the Times Literary Supplement out of London ran a curious article on the Text Encoding Initiative (Geoffrey Sampson, "Writing within bounds"; April 17, 1992, page 14). It's nice to see the TEI getting some publicity in the larger scholarly world, even if this presentation has a very peculiar point of view: it represents the TEI as a conspiracy of Americans and book publishers united against the freedom of expression of British authors. When it sticks to the actual program of the TEI and doesn't wander into extravagant invention, though, it grants that the whole thing is in fact a fairly good idea. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University From: HuntleyJ@epb-po.epb.uiowa.edu Subject: Teaching Milton with computers Date: 29 Apr 92 09:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1737 (2071) Text item: Text_1 Teaching Milton by computer, or How can you use computers to help teach literature, poetry, and stuff like that? Humanists may be interested in one classroom experiment using Macintosh computers and a HyperCard annotator to teach Paradise Lost to undergraduates. The Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 3 (1991), 62-83, has just published my account of the course--which was a lot of fun. If you'd like to see what the students turned out, and how they did it, e-mail me at john-huntley@uiowa.edu, or slow-mail me at Dept. of English, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Three bucks to cover the diskettes would help, but it's not essential. From: Ch. Boitet <boitet@imag.fr> Subject: COLING-92: scientific programme & other information Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 11:26:06 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 873 (2072) Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- COLING-92 and PreCOLING tutorials ------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME and VARIOUS INFORMATION (English version for e-mail) 20-28 July 1992 NANTES, FRANCE Organized on behalf of the ICCL (International Committee on Computational Linguistics) sponsored by Ministe`re de la recherche et de la technologie ACL, AFCET, ATALA, CNRS, IMAG, SITE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair Antonio ZAMPOLLI Secretariat Christian BOITET, Nicoletta CALZOLARI, Sergio ROSSI Coordinators of the reviewing committee Eva HAJICOVA Marc LIBERMAN Martin KAY Makoto NAGAO Antoine OGONOWSKY Stephen G. PULMAN Candy SIDNER Hans USZKOREIT Don WALKER ORGANIZING COMMITTEE COMITE D'ORGANISATION Chair : Franc,ois PECCOUD Universite's de Grenoble - IMAG : Christian BOITET, Jacques COURTIN Universite' de Nantes : Jacques-Henri JAYEZ Palais des Congre`s de Nantes : Michel GILLET, Florence MENARD INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ICCL) Martin Kay, Palo Alto (President), Eva Hajicova, Prague (Vice President), Donald E. Walker, Morristown (Secretary General), Christian Boitet, Grenoble; Nicoletta Calzolari, Pisa; Brian Harris, Ottawa; David Hays, New York (Honorary); Kolbjorn Heggstadt, Bergen; Hans Karlgren, Stockholm; Olga Kulagina, Moscow; Winfried Lenders, Bonn; Makoto Nagao, Kyoto; Helmut Schnelle, Bochum; Petr Sgall, Prague; Hiroshi Wada, Tokyo (Honorary); Yorick Wilks, Las Cruces; Antonio Zampolli, Pisa. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- List of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome Overall Schedule General information Scientific Programme Announced presentations ==> sent in a separate message ("comm") PreCOLING Tutorials Excursion day Accompanying persons' programme Accomodation form ==> sent in a separate message ("forms") Fiche de re'servation hotelie`re ==> sent in a separate message ("forms") Registration form ==> sent in a separate message ("forms") -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WELCOME TO COLING-92 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are happy to invite you to participate in the fourteenth COLING. COLING conferences take place every two years, each time in a new location. COLING is organized in France for the second time (the first was at Grenoble in 1967). Nantes is a very beautiful city located on the Loire and Erdre rivers, in a region famous for its architectural treasures, its wineyards, its cuisine, and its modern industries. Nantes University is also actively pursuing several research themes in computational linguistics. All topics in Computational Linguistics were acceptable. Papers concerning real applications have been especially welcome. About 120 topical papers and 90 project notes will be presented, 60 of them with demos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERALL SCHEDULE - PROGRAMME GENERAL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday 20/7 9:00 -- Wednesday 22/7 12:30: PreCOLING tutorials Wednesday 22/7 16:00 -- 20:00 & Thursday 23/7 8:00 -- 9:15: registration & issue of documents Thursday 23/7 8:45 -- Saturday 25/7 18:30: congress + exhibition 24/7 20:45: organ concert at the cathedral -- concert d'orgues Sunday 26/7: excursion day Monday 27/7 8:45 -- Tuesday 28/7 18:30: congress Tuesday 28/7 20:00: banquet -------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-92 GENERAL INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VENUE CITE DES CONGRES DE NANTES 1, RUE de VALMY 440041 NANTES CEDEX 01 - FRANCE Tel : 33/ 51 88 20 00 - Fax : 33/ 51 88 20 20 The Cite' des Congre`s is located in the centre of Nantes, 5 minutes walk from the TGV Atlantique Train Station (South Exit), 15 minutes by car from the International Airport Nantes-Atlantique. The Cite' des Congre`s has parking for 500 cars. Registration and issue of documents to the participants will start on 22 July from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and continue on 23 July from 8:00 a.m. LANGUAGES The main languages of COLING-92 are French and English. However, all, other languages are welcome. Simultaneous translation will not be provided. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings will be available during the Congress. Their cost is included in the registration fees. LUNCHES AND DINNERS Lunches and dinners are not included in the registration fees. A list of restaurants close to the Cite' des Congre`s will be provided. It will also be possible to have lunch on site. LOCKERS Lockers will be available for participants throughout the Congress. PLANE AND TRAIN TRAVEL DISCOUNTS Participants may benefit from a special discount on AIR INTER "blue" and "white" return flights (35% average discount depending on flight schedules) and on return rail journeys within France (20% off). Corresponding discount coupons must be requested from the administrative secretariat (please see registration form). On site, ask the secretariat to validate your discount by stamping your return tickets with the official congress stamp. ACCOMODATION In the centre of Nantes, within 10 minutes walk from the Cite' des Congre`s, there are more than 1,000 rooms rated from 1* to 3*. About 60 rooms in a workers' hostel will be available for students and eventually for members of the teaching profession, in the limit of the number of rooms available. for REGISTRATION, ACCOMODATION, TOURS contact CITE DES CONGRES DE NANTES 1, Rue de Valmy 44 041 NANTES CEDEX 01 - FRANCE Tel : 33/ 51 88 20 00 - Fax : 33/ 51 88 20 20 for COMMUNICATIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS contact GETA, IMAG-campus COLING-92 BP 53X 38041 GRENOBLE Cedex FRANCE Tel : 33/ 76 51 48 17 - Fax : 33/ 76 51 44 05 COLING-92 REGISTRATION FEES (inc.taxes) Before Between 1 June 1 June 1992 and 15 July 1992 On site ------------ ---------------- ---------- Student 900 FF 1,100 FF 1,400 FF University staff 1,900 FF 2,300 FF 3,000 FF Other 3,000 FF 3,600 FF 4,500 FF The participants' registration fees include participation to all sessions, one copy of the proceedings, the official reception by the mayor of Nantes, the gala dinner, and the organs concert on 24 July 1992. Pre-COLING TUTORIALS The tutorials will take place from 20 to 22 July at the University of Nantes. Registration and issue of documents for the tutorials will take place on 19 July from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Cite' des Congre`s and on 20 July from 8:00 a.m. at the University. REGISTRATION FEES FOR THE TUTORIALS (inc.taxes) Before Between 1 June 1 June 1992 and 15 July 1992 On site ------------ ---------------- --------- Student 600 FF 700 FF 900 FF University staff 1,200 FF 1,500 FF 1,800 FF Other 1,800 FF 2,200 FF 2,700 FF All registration must be made using the registration form or the photocopy of the form (one form per participant). No registration form will be accepted unless accompanied by evidence of payment (check or photocopy of a bank transfer). PAYMENT All payment must be made in French Francs - either by bank check or eurocheck payable in France, to the order of : COLING-92 - or by bank transfer, made out to the following order : COLING-92 CIO NANTES Account number 30047 00020 0000064881H46 Avenue Bonduelle F-44000 NANTES The duplicate or photocopy of the transfer should be sent along with the registration form to : Cite' des Congre`s de Nantes COLING-92 1 rue de Valmy F-44041 NANTES CEDEX 01 The name and the address of the sender should be clearly indicated as well as the details of payment (transfer fee charged to sender). On site, all payments will also have to be made in French Francs only (cash, eurocheques, cheque payable in France). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topical papers and project notes without demonstrations will be presented in 3 parallel sessions (8:45-9:15, 9:20-9:50, 9:55-10:25, pause, 10:45- 11:15, 11:20-11:50, 11:55-12:25, lunch pause & demos, 14:45-15:15, 15:20- 15:50, 15:55-16:25, pause, 16:45-17:15, 17:20-17:50, 17:55-18:25). The project notes without demos will be presented in 2 sessions on Monday 27, in parallel with the session on large international projects. Project notes with demonstrations (as well as a few demos accompanying topical papers) will be presented in 12 parallel sessions (12:45-13:15, 13:20-13:50, 13:55-14:25). Each presentation will be repeated 3 times. Presentators will have time to set up their demo from 8:45 to 12:45, and may keep their allocated room until 18:25. It should be possible to have lunch and to watch 2 or 3 demos between 12:25 and 14:45. Any presentation (topical paper or project note) will have 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. SPECIAL EVENTS -------------- Thursday 23 Opening session 9:15--9:45 Opening ceremony, official greetings, last minute information 9:45-10:25: Invited lecture by Prof Dr W. Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbru"cken): "Computational Models of Face-to-Face Dialogs: Multimodality, Negotiation and Translation". Panel of representants of organizations funding NLP research 16-45-18:25 (for all 3 sessions) Saturday 25 Panel on language industry 16-45-18:25 (in parallel with the two other sessions) Monday 27 Project day Sessions 1 & 2: project notes without demos Session 3: presentation of results of large international projects Tuesday 28 Panel of the coordinators of the reviewing committee 16-45-18:25 (for all 3 sessions) Closing session 18:30-18:45 PreCOLING-92 TUTORIALS (Nantes, 20-22/7/92) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- These tutorials (given in English) will be centered on MULTILINGUAL PORTABILITY. While that topic is an important issue for developers and investors in language industry as well as in computer industry, and offers many interesting aspects to researchers in NLP, it is rarely addressed specifically. Three aspects will be covered: multilingual portability of software, of documents, and of dictionaries. They will be covered in ten 1 1/2 hours lectures. PROGRAMME --------- A. Multilingual software engineering --------------------------------- I. Basic notions on writing systems & computerization problems Handling several writing systems at the same time in a computer application can not be reduced to the definition of collections of atomic characters and associated fonts. The presentation, by Ch.Boitet (GETA-IMAG & Esprit project Multilex) will address the definition and use of character sets, transcriptions of various types, orderings of characters and strings, correspondence with existing norms, and usages. II. Multilingual or localizable applications under "monolingual" O/S Editors, text-processors and formaters are the first targets for multilingualization. However, almost all current applications running under "monolingual" operating systems are at best "localized" to one writing system besides the English one. M.Fanton (CERTAL, Paris) will give a lecture on the specific problems in the arabization of TEX as well as on more general related questions. III. Towards truly multilingual or easily localizable O/S K.Gaddas (WinSoft) is a specialist for writing multilingual software for the Macintosh. His lecture will present current techniques for localization offered by the operating system MacOS itself, and probable future evolution towards true multilinguality at the OS level. B. Multilingual documents ---------------------- IV-V. Structured documents (SGML, Grif) These two lectures will be given by V.Quint (INRIA & Bull-IMAG, Grenoble), the main author of Grif, a commercially available wysiwyg editor of structured documents running under Unix/X11. A research version of Grif has recently been extended to offer multilingual facilities. VI-VII. TEI The "Text Encoding Initiative" is a large project co-sponsored by ACH, ALLC & ACL. The TEI builds over SGML to propose a set of normalized tags, attributes and "entities" to obtain portable computer representations of texts and dictionaries, possibly showing several independent structural levels and annotations or results of various processes. L.Burnard (Oxford) is one of the editors of the TEI Guidelines. His lectures will present the basics of these guidelines, the current solutions to the representation of writing systems, and future perspectives: (a) basic notions of the TEI -- encoding for interchange -- design principles for extensibility -- basic notions of SGML (b) applications of TEI in corpus markup and linguistic analysis. C. Multilingual dictionaries ------------------------- VIII-IX. Lexicons (standards for exchanging terminology) These lectures concern standards for the representation and exchange of multilingual terminological information. A.Melby (BYU, Provo) is one initiator of the Micro-MATER format for PC-based applications such as Mercury/Termex. These standards are developed in close relation with the TEI. Multilingual aspects of terminological data bases will also be addressed. X. Dictionaries Multilingual dictionaries must contain much more information than terminological data bases. G.Thurmair (SNI, Munich) participates in Esprit project Multilex, which aims at producing standards for multilingual data bases. He will present the current results of that project, and discuss related work. Further information ------------------- Provisional planning: From Monday 20th July at 9:00 until Wednesday 22nd July at 12:30. Lectures: 9:00-10:30, 11:00-12:30, 15:00-16:30, 17:00-18:30. Location : IUT (University Institute of Technology) of Nantes University, down-town, withing walking distance of the railway station and the Palais des Congre`s. Attendance is limited to 100 participants, the maximal capacity of the auditorium. Almost all lecturers will be able to present demonstrations. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. COLING92 ENGLISH. The registration materials are available on the filleserver under the name COLING92 REGSTRTN. The list of papers to be presented at COLING92 are available through the fileserver, s.v. COLING92 PAPERS. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: Ch. Boitet <boitet@imag.fr> Subject: COLING-92: programme scientifique et autres informations Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 11:48:45 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 874 (2073) Quatorzie`me confe'rence internationale en linguistique informatique ---------------- COLING-92 et cours PreCOLING ------------------- PROGRAMME SCIENTIFIQUE ET INFORMATIONS DIVERSES (version franc,aise pour courrier e'lectronique) 20-28 juillet 1992 NANTES, FRANCE Organise'e sous l'e'gide de l'ICCL (International Committee on Computational Linguistics) avec le patronage de Ministe`re de la recherche et de la technologie ACL, AFCET, ATALA, CNRS, IMAG, SITE COMITE DE PROGRAMME Pre'sident Antonio ZAMPOLLI Secretariat Christian BOITET, Nicoletta CALZOLARI, Sergio ROSSI Coordinateurs du comite' de lecture Eva HAJICOVA Marc LIBERMAN Martin KAY Makoto NAGAO Antoine OGONOWSKY Stephen G. PULMAN Candy SIDNER Hans USZKOREIT Don WALKER COMITE D'ORGANISATION Pre'sident : Franc,ois PECCOUD Universite's de Grenoble - IMAG : Christian BOITET, Jacques COURTIN Universite' de Nantes : Jacques-Henri JAYEZ Palais des Congre`s de Nantes : Michel GILLET, Florence MENARD INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ICCL) Martin Kay, Palo Alto (President), Eva Hajicova, Prague (Vice President), Donald E. Walker, Morristown (Secretary General), Christian Boitet, Grenoble; Nicoletta Calzolari, Pisa; Brian Harris, Ottawa; David Hays, New York (Honorary); Kolbjorn Heggstadt, Bergen; Hans Karlgren, Stockholm; Olga Kulagina, Moscow; Winfried Lenders, Bonn; Makoto Nagao, Kyoto; Helmut Schnelle, Bochum; Petr Sgall, Prague; Hiroshi Wada, Tokyo (Honorary); Yorick Wilks, Las Cruces; Antonio Zampolli, Pisa. Table des matie`res -------------------- Bienvenue Programme ge'ne'ral Informations ge'ne'rales Programme scientifique Pre'sentations annonce'es ==> dans un message se'pare' ("comm") Cours PreCOLING Journe'e d'excursion Programme touristique accompagnants ==> dans un message se'pare' ("forms") Fiche de re'servation hotelie`re ==> dans un message se'pare' ("forms") Bulletin d'inscription ==> dans un message se'pare' ("forms") BIENVENUE A COLING-92 --------------------- Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter a` participer au quatorzie`me COLING. Les congre`s COLING ont lieu tous les deux ans, a` chaque fois dans un nouveau site. COLING est organise' pour la seconde fois en France (la premie`re e'tait en 1967 a` Grenoble). Nantes est une tre`s belle ville situe'e sur la Loire et l'Erdre, dans une re'gion fameuse pour ses tre'sors architecturaux, ses vignes, sa cuisine, et ses industries modernes. L'Universite' de Nantes poursuit aussi activement plusieurs the`mes de recherche en informatique linguistique. Tous les the`mes en linguistique informatique e'taient acceptables. Les articles concernant des applications re'elles ont e'te' particulie`rement appre'cie's. Environ 120 confe'rences the'matiques et 90 notes de projet seront pre'sente's, dont 60 avec de'monstrations. PROGRAMME GENERAL ----------------- Lundi 20/7 9:00 -- Mercredi 22/7 12:30: cours preCOLING Mercredi 22/7 16:00 -- 20:00 et jeudi 23/7 8:00 -- 9:15: inscription & remise des documents Jeudi 23/7 8:45 -- samedi 25/7 18:30: congre`s + exposition 24/7 20:45: concert d'orgues a` la cathe'drale Dimanche 26/7: excursions Lundi 27/7 8:45 -- mardi 28/7 18:30: congre`s Mardi 28/7 20:00: banquet COLING-92 INFORMATIONS GENERALES ------------------------------------------ LIEU CITE DES CONGRES DE NANTES 1, RUE de VALMY 44041 NANTES CEDEX 01 - FRANCE Tel : 33/ 51 88 20 00 - Fax : 33/ 51 88 20 20 La Cite' des Congre`s se situe au coeur de la ville, a` 5 minutes a` pied de la gare TGV Atlantique (sortie Sud), a` 15 minutes en voiture de l'ae'roport international Nantes-Atlantique. Le Palais des Congre`s dispose d'un parking de 500 places. L'inscription et la remise des documents aux participants commencera le 22 juillet de 16:00 a` 20:00 et continuera le 23 juillet a` partir de 8:00. LANGUES Les langues principales de COLING-92 sont le franc,ais et l'anglais. Cependant, toutes les autres langues sont e'galement bienvenues. Aucune interpre'tation simultane'e ne sera assure'e. ACTES Les actes seront disponibles pendant le congre`s. Leur cout est inclus dans le montant des droits d'inscription. DEJEUNERS et DINERS Les de'jeuners et diners ne sont pas inclus dans le droit d'inscription. Une liste de restaurants situe's a` proximite' du site sera fournie sur place. Il sera e'galement possible de de'jeuner sur place. CONSIGNES Des consignes payantes seront a` la disposition des participants, pendant toute la dure'e du Congre`s. REDUCTIONS D'AVION ET DE TRAIN Les participants au Congre`s peuvent be'ne'ficier d'un tarif spe'cial sur les vols AIR INTER aller-retour "bleus" et "blancs" (35% en moyenne en fonction des vols) et sur les parcours ferroviaires aller-retour effectue's en territoire franc,ais (20 %). Les fichets de re'duction seront adresse's par le secre'tariat (voir bulletin d'inscription). Sur place, demandez au secre'tariat de valider votre re'duction en apposant le cachet officiel du congre`s sur vos billets. HEBERGEMENT Au coeur du centre ville, a` moins de 10 minutes a` pied du Palais des Congre`s, Nantes dispose d'une capacite' hotelie`re de plus de 1.000 chambres de 1* a` 3*. Un contingent de 60 places environ, en foyers de jeunes travailleurs, sera prioritairement mis a` disposition des e'tudiants, puis des universitaires, dans la limite des places disponibles. INSCRIPTIONS, LOGEMENT, EXCURSIONS contacter CITE DES CONGRES DE NANTES 1, Rue de Valmy 44041 NANTES CEDEX 01 FRANCE Te'l : 33/ 51 88 20 00 - Fax : 33/ 51 88 20 20 COMMUNICATIONS, DEMONSTRATIONS contacter GETA, IMAG-campus COLING-92 BP 53X 38041 GRENOBLE Ce'dex FRANCE Te'l : 33/ 76 51 48 17 - Fax : 33/ 76 51 44 05 DROITS D'INSCRIPTION a` COLING-92 (Prix TTC) Avant le Entre le 1er juin Apre`s 1er juin 1992 et le 15 juillet le 15 juillet ------------- ------------------ ------------- Etudiant 900 FF 1.100 FF 1.400 FF Universitaire 1.900 FF 2.300 FF 3.000 FF Autre 3.000 FF 3.600 FF 4.500 FF Les droits d'inscription incluent la participation aux sessions, les actes, la re'ception officielle de la Mairie de Nantes, le diner de gala, et le concert d'orgues du 24 juillet 1992 . COURS pre'-COLING Les cours pre'-COLING se de'rouleront du 20 juillet au matin au 22 juillet a` midi, dans les locaux de l'Universite' de Nantes. L'accueil des participants aux cours pre'-COLING sera effectue' le 19 juillet de 16:00 a` 20:00, a` la Cite' des Congre`s, et le 20 juillet a` partir de 8:00 a` l'Universite' de Nantes. DROITS D'INSCRIPTION Pre'-COLING (Prix TTC) Avant le Entre le 1er juin Apre`s 1er juin 1992 et le 15 juillet le 15 juillet ------------- ----------------- ------------- Etudiant 600 FF 700 FF 900 FF Universitaire 1.200 FF 1.500 FF 1.800 FF Autre 1.800 FF 2.200 FF 2.700 FF MODALITES D'INSCRIPTION Toute inscription doit e^tre faite au moyen du bulletin d'inscription ci- joint (1 seul bulletin par participant). Aucune inscription ne sera prise en compte sans paiement (che`que, copie du virement bancaire). MODALITES DE PAIEMENT Tous les paiements devront e^tre effectue's en francs franc,ais, - soit par che`que bancaire payable en France, libelle' a` l'ordre de : COLING-92 - soit par transfert bancaire libelle' a` l'ordre de : COLING-92 CIO NANTES compte no 30047 00020 0000064881H46 Avenue Bonduelle F-44000 NANTES Un duplicata ou une photocopie de l'ordre de virement doit e^tre joint au bulletin d'inscription, qui devra e^tre adresse' a` : Cite' des Congre`s de Nantes COLING-92 1 rue de Valmy F-44041 NANTES CEDEX 01 Le nom et l'adresse de la personne pour le compte de laquelle le re`glement est effectue', ainsi que le motif de'taille' du paiement, doivent figurer sur ce document (frais de virement a` la charge de l'expe'diteur). Pendant le Congre`s, tous les paiements devront e'galement e^tre effectue's en Francs Franc,ais (espe`ces, Euroche`ques, che`ques payables en France). PROGRAMME SCIENTIFIQUE ---------------------- Les communications the'matiques et les notes de projet sans de'monstrations seront donne'es en 3 sessions paralle`les (8:45-9:15, 9:20-9:50, 9:55-10:25, pause, 10:45-11:15, 11:20-11:50, 11:55-12:25, pause de'jeuner & de'mos, 14:45-15:15, 15:20-15:50, 15:55-16:25, pause, 16:45- 17:15, 17:20-17:50, 17:55-18:25). Les notes de projet sans de'monstrations seront pre'sente'es en 2 sessions, le lundi 27, en paralle`le avec les grands projets internationaux. Les notes de projet avec de'monstrations (ainsi que quelques de'monstrations accompagnant des confe'rences the'matiques) seront pre'sente'es en 12 sessions paralle`les (12:45-13:15, 13:20-13:50, 13:55- 14:25). Chaque pre'sentation sera re'pe'te'e 3 fois. Les pre'sentateurs auront le temps de monter leur de'mo de 8:45 a` 12:45, et pourront garder la salle qui leur aura e'te' alloue'e jusqu'a` 18:25. Il devrait e^tre possible de de'jeuner et d'assister a` 2 ou 3 de'mos entre 12:25 et 14:45. Chaque pre'sentation (communication the'matique ou note de projet) disposera de 30 minutes, comprenant 10 minutes de discussion. EVENEMENTS PARTICULIERS ----------------------- Jeudi 23 Session d'ouverture 9:15--9:45 Ce're'monie d'ouverture, discours de bienvenue, information de dernie`re minute 9:45-10:25: Confe'rence invite'e par le Prof W. Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruck): "Computational Models of Face-to-Face Dialogs: Multimodality, Negotiation and Translation". Table ronde de repre'sentants d'organisations financ,ant la recherche en traitement automatique des langues. 16-45-18:25 (pour les 3 sessions) Samedi 25 Table ronde sur l'industrie de la langue 16-45-18:25 (en paralle`le avec les deux autres sessions) Lundi 27 Journe'e des projets Sessions 1 & 2: notes de projet sans de'monstrations Session 3: pre'sentation des resultats de grands projets internationaux Mardi 28 Table ronde des coordinateurs du comite' de lecture 16-45-18:25 (pour les 3 sessions) Session de clo^ture 18:30-18:45 COURS Pre'COLING-92 (Nantes, du 20 au 22 juillet 92) ---------------------------------------------------- Les cours (donne's en anglais) seront centre's sur divers aspects de la PORTABILITE MULTILINGUE. Ce the`me, enjeu important pour les de'veloppeurs comme pour les investisseurs dans l'industrie de la langue, est aussi un sujet inte'ressant pour les chercheurs en informatique linguistique par bien des aspects. Il est cependant rarement traite' en tant que tel. Trois domaines seront aborde's : la portabilite' multilingue du logiciel, des documents et des dictionnaires. Ils seront traite's en 10 confe'rences d'une heure et demie. PROGRAMME --------- A. Ge'nie logiciel multilingue --------------------------- I. Notions de base sur les syste`mes d'e'criture et les proble`mes d'informatisation La manipulation simultane'e de plusieurs syte`mes d'e'criture ne peut se ramener a` la de'finition d'un ensemble de caracte`res atomiques et des fontes associe'es. La pre'sentation, par Ch. Boitet (GETA-IMAG & projet Esprit Multilex) abordera la de'finition et l'usage d'ensembles de caracte`res, les diffe'rents types de transcription, les relations d'ordre entre caracte`res et chaines de caracte`res, la correspondance avec les normes existantes et les questions d'usage. II. Applications multilingues localisables sous des syste`mes d'exploitation "monolingues" Editeurs, traitements de texte et formateurs sont les cibles privile'gie'es de la multilinguisation. Cependant, presque toutes les applications fonctionnant sous un OS "monolingue" sont au plus "localise'es" pour un seul syste`me d'e'criture en plus du syste`me anglais. M.Fanton (CERTAL, Paris) pre'sentera les proble`mes spe'cifiques de l'arabisation de TEX et les questions plus ge'ne'rales qu'elle soule`ve. III. Vers de ve'ritables syste`mes d'exploitation multilingues facilement localisables K.Gaddas (WinSoft) est un spe'cialiste de l'e'criture d'applications multilingues pour le Macintosh. Il pre'sentera les techniques actuellement disponibles sous Mac-OS pour faire une localisation. Il e'voquera les probables e'volutions a` venir pour obtenir un re'el multilinguisme au niveau des syste`mes d'exploitation. B. Documents multilingues ---------------------- IV-V. Documents structure's (SGML, Grif) Ces deux confe'rences seront pre'sente'es par V.Quint (INRIA & Bull-IMAG, Grenoble), l'auteur principal de Grif, un e'diteur wysiwig de documents structure's disponible sous Unix/X11. Une version de recherche de Grif a e'te' re'cemment e'tendue pour offrir des possibilite's de multilinguisme. VI-VII. TEI La "Text Encoding Initiative" est un grand projet supporte' conjointement par l'ACH, l'ALLC et l'ACL. TEI propose, au-dessus de SGML, un ensemble de balises, d'attributs et d'entite's normalise's permettant d'obtenir des repre'sentations portables de textes et de dictionnaires. Il est possible de mettre en e'vidence plusieurs niveaux inde'pendants de structure, ainsi que des annotations ou les re'sultats de divers processus. L. Burnard (Oxford) est un des editeurs du document de re'fe'rence de TEI. Sa confe'rence pre'sentera les bases de TEI, les solutions actuellement retenues pour la repre'sentation des syste`mes d'e'criture et les perspectives d'e'volution possibles: (a) notions de base de la TEI -- encodage pour l'e'change -- principes de la conception en vue de l'extensibilite' -- notions de base de SGML (b) applications de la TEI au balisage de corpus et a` l'analyse linguistique. C. Dictionnaires multilingues -------------------------- VIII-IX. Lexiques : des standards pour l'e'change de terminologie Ces confe'rences seront consacre'es aux standards de repre'sentation et d'e'change de l'information technologique multilingue. A.Melby (BYU, Provo) est un des promoteurs du standard Micro-MATER, utilise' sur PC-DOS pour des applications comme Mercury/Termex et de'veloppe' en relation e'troite avec TEI. Il e'voquera plus ge'ne'ralement les aspects multilingues des bases de donne'es terminologiques. X. Dictionnaires Les dictionnaires multilingues doivent contenir beaucoup plus d'informations que les bases de donne'es terminologiques. G.Thurmair (SNI, Munich) participe au projet Esprit Multilex qui vise a` produire des standards pour les bases de donne'es multilingues. Il pre'sentera les re'sultats de ce projet tout en e'voquant des travaux connexes. Informations comple'mentaires ----------------------------- HORAIRES : Du lundi 20 juillet a` 9h au mercredi 22 juillet a` 12h30. Confe'rences : 9h-10h30, 11h-12h30, 15h-16h30, 17h-18h30. LIEU : IUT (Institut Universitaire de Technologie) de l'Universite' de Nantes. Situe' au centre-ville, il est proche a` la fois de la gare et du Palais des Congre`s. Le nombre d'inscrits sera limite' a` 100 personnes, capacite' de l'amphithe'a^tre retenu pour cette manifestation. Presque toutes les confe'rences seront associe'es a` des de'monstrations. [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. COLING92 FRENCH. The registration materials are available on the filleserver under the name COLING92 REGSTRTN. The list of papers to be presented at COLING92 are available through the fileserver, s.v. COLING92 PAPERS. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@VASSAR> Subject: Int'l Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 20:45 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 875 (2074) Originally From: Bill Hefley <weh@SEI.CMU.EDU> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------- 1993 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES Sponsored by: ACM SIGCHI - Special Interest Group on Computer & Human Interaction ACM SIGART - Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence In Cooperation with: AAAI - American Association for Artificial Intelligence British HCI Group January 4-7, 1993 Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Walt Disney World Village, Orlando, Florida OBJECTIVES Advances in multidisciplinary research are creating a new generation of intelligent interfaces that use computers to facilitate the interaction of people with information, knowledge, tasks and situations. These interfaces rely on advanced computational techniques and cognitive science theories to build systems that enhance user performance. Such systems can help users to accomplish complex tasks by interpreting ambiguous input, phrasing multimodal output in ways sensitive to users' abilities and situations, and providing effective advice and assistance. This new event stems from a prior successful workshop in 1988 on Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces (sponsored by AAAI/ACM SIGCHI). The 1993 International Workshop will focus on a diversity of approaches to human-computer interaction, from those employing advanced computational techniques to those incorporating cognitive and user models to amplify human cognitive abilities. GOAL The goal of the workshop is to explore ways in which techniques for knowledge representation, inferencing, modeling, and presentation can provide the adaptability and reasoning capabilities required for more intelligent human-computer interaction. We aim to stimulate high quality discussion amongst participants from different countries and from disciplines such as cognitive science, human-computer interaction, computational linguistics and artificial intelligence. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in methods, techniques, tools, and technology for constructing and evaluating intelligent systems. FORMAT The intimate size, single track, and comfortable surroundings make this workshop an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences. Attendance will be limited to 100 participants with presentations spread over three days. The format is split into two and a half days of presentations with one half day of working sessions, enhanced by three thought-provoking plenary speakers. SCOPE Interested participants should submit an original paper for review. Submissions addressing theory, system building, or evaluation issues are welcomed. Papers may address human-computer interaction or artificial intelligence/computational perspectives on (but not limited to) the following topics: - - Intelligent User Interfaces in a diverse range of application areas including tutoring and advisory systems; natural language processing; generation and understanding of nonverbal media; planning and explanation; information retrieval; computer-supported cooperative work, decision support and supervisory control. - - Interface-Building Tools and Techniques: knowledge-based and user modelling techniques for intelligent interface design, including plan and intent recognition, automatic presentation, explanation, user aiding (aids, critics, tutors), knowledge representation and modeling of users, systems, tasks. - - Intelligent front-ends to interactive, multimedia, hypermedia, and knowledge-based systems. - - Adaptive and customisable systems. - - Intelligent Agents and agent-based interaction. - - Requirements and architectures for intelligent, cooperative, and multimodal interfaces. - - Methods for analyzing, designing & evaluating users' needs & performance, intelligent interfaces & systems. SUBMISSIONS Papers will be accepted either for presentation as talks or posters. Authors are encouraged to submit work-in-progress to the poster session whilst longer papers should highlight both the general scientific contribution of the research and its practical significance. Six camera- ready copies of original papers written in English should be submitted, as long papers (presented as a talk: 8 pages) or as short papers (interactive poster presentation: 4 pages). Submitted papers must be unpublished, substantively different from papers currently under review and must not be submitted elsewhere before notification date. A book, including revised papers and workshop results, may be published following the meeting. Each paper should have a separate cover page containing the title of the paper; author(s) and affiliation(s), contact address of main author, phone, fax and e-mail address; an abstract (100-200 words) and a list of up to five key words or phrases linked to the submission topics describing its content. Detailed formatting instructions are available (for an example, see the ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, July 1991, pp. 93-96). DEADLINES You are requested to send notification of intention to participate and potential titles of submissions before July 1, 1992, to iiWorkshop93.chi@xerox.com. lnterested participants should forward SIX camera-ready copies of their paper to Wayne Gray, Graduate School of Education, Room 1008, Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023 U.S.A.; +1-212-636-6464. E-mail or fax submissions will not be considered. Papers must be received before July 17, 1992. Authors will be notified by September 25, 1992. For further information, contact the Conference Secretariat at iiWorkshop93.chi@xerox.com or at the mailing address below. STUDENT SUPPORT Limited financial support is available to support attendance of deserving students at the 1993 Workshop in an attempt to help foster the field and expose students to a broad base of current research. The 1993 Workshop acknowledges the support of AAAI in providing this funding. Interested students should submit to the Workshop Secretariat a letter describing their research interests and current projects along with an endorsement from their advisor no later than August 25. SCHEDULE July 1, 1992 -- Intention to Participate due July 17, 1992 -- Camera-ready workshop paper due August 25, 1992 -- Student applications due September 25, 1992 -- Notification of acceptance November 1, 1992 -- Early registration deadline December 15, 1992 -- Late registration deadline January 4-7, 1993 -- Workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs: William E. Hefley, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Dianne Murray, University of Surrey, U.K. Treasurer: Steven Roth, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Publications: Wayne Gray, Fordham University, U.S.A. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David Benyon, The Open University, U.K. Joelle Coutaz, IMAG, Grenoble, France Steven Feiner, Columbia University, U.S.A. Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary, Canada Bob Kass, EDS Center for Advanced Research, U.S.A. Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Lisa Neal, EDS Center for Advanced Research, U.S.A. Reinhard Opperman, GMD, Germany Elaine Rich, MCC, U.S.A. Michael Wilson, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, U.K. WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT: International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces c/o Bill Hefley Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 U.S.A. +1-412-268-7793 ii-Workshop93.chi@xerox.com INFORMATION and REGISTRATION A complete workshop registration package can be requested by completing and returning the form below : ------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- Name____________________________________________________________ Last First Middle Organization____________________________________________________ Street__________________________________________________________ City ___________________ State/Country __________ Zip/Code______ Phone ______________________ FAX ______________________________ Email ______________________________ Please note that attendance is limited. Would you like to reserve a space at no obligation? YES. Please reserve a space subject to later confirmation by me _______ NO. But send me the registration package while I decide _______ Return via postal mail, email, or fax to : International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces c/o Bill Hefley Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 U.S.A. Internet: ii-Workshop93.chi@xerox.com Fax: +1-412-268-5758 From: "Allen Renear, Brown Univ/CIS, 401-863-7312" <ALLEN@BROWNVM> Subject: Logic E-Conferences Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 15:06:37 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1738 (2075) The Netnews newsgroup for logic is sci.logic Logical topics also come up in sci.philosophy.tech sci.philosophy.meta comp.ai.philosophy Well, maybe these latter groups are less apt to discuss logic than to rant about some logical result is or is not relevant to the philosophical issues under discussion. As usual the variation in quality and topic is quite unpredictable. Personally I rather like these groups though. I find more good stuff in them then many critics do. And even the not-so-good stuff is often interesting and provocative. But you must have a high tolerance for lots of off-topic foolishness and lots of participation by persons with diverse backgrounds, preparations, and ... uh ... conversational norms. Still, there is frequently good stuff and it is all fairly diverting. Do be prepared for even more than the usual amount of netnews vehemence -- sometimes even viciousness. There is also a discussion list (not on Netnews) on relevant logic(*) which is *very* on-topic and *very* high quality. For information try relevant-logic-interest@exeter.ac.uk If that fails contact GBKeene@exua.exeter.ac.uk ----------------------------- (*) Appendix: What's "relevant logic"? Most formal logics have these odd properties: 1) *anything* "follows" from a set of premises that is demonstrably inconsistent and 2) a proposition that is itself demonstrable "follows" from *any* premise(s) whatsoever. Formalizations of conditionals (If P, then Q) have some related and similar odd results. Relevant logic is concerned with exploring logics that avoid these queer results. It can be very technical at times and very philosophical at times. It is called "relevant" because of notion that if such-and-such "follows" from such-and-so then such-and-so must be *relevant* to such-and-such -- merely being a "logical conseqence" in the narrow sense defined by most formal logics is not enough. It is precisely this relevance that is lacking in the odd results mentioned above, and in which their oddness lies. Now why did I go on about that? I'm sure some real relevant logician is going to pipe up and tell me I haven't got it quite right. From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: E-Logic Lists Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 09:30:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1739 (2076) [deleted quotation]Try netnews.sci.logic. LB From: jwf3885@usl.edu (Ferstel John W) Subject: Conference Update Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 05:50:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 877 (2077) SWACS '93 UPDATE: MAY 1992 NEWS ABOUT THE NEXT ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES (SWACS) DATES: February 18-20, 1993 [The Weekend before Mardi Gras] PLACE: Lafayette, Louisiana (University of Southwestern Louisiana) [ The Heart of Cajun Country in French Louisiana PROGRAM CHAIR: Benedicte Mauguiere, Dept. of Foreign Languages University of Southwestern Louisiana Quebec Politics SESSIONS TENTATIVELY PLANNED AS OF APRIL 25, 1993 Canadian Architecture Quebec Cinema Multicultural Writing in Canada NOTE: All Canadian Topics are Welcome. Deadline for 150-word abstracts of papers is October 15th; deadline for proposed sessions is September 1st. (SEE ADDRESS BELOW) FEATURED SPEAKERS A major Quebec writer and possibly an English-Canadian writer will be featured during the conference. Look for more details in the next UPDATE in July. OTHER EVENTS BEING PLANNED The supper on Friday of the meeting (February 19th) will be a sampling of authentic Cajun cuisine at one of the areas' finest restaurants. TWO POST-CONFERENCE SIDE TRIPS BEING PLANNED At least two side trips around the Acadiana area are planned for Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning (February 20-21) after the meeting concludes. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WRITE TO: John W. Ferstel Host Chair, SWACS '93, and Chair, Canadian Studies Committee Dept. of English U. of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70504 U.S.A. E-Mail: jwf3885@USL.EDU From: "C. David Frankel" <D7BAIAD@CFRVM> Subject: Religious Studies Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 23:49:33 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1740 (2078) Here at Saint Leo College the current structure locates religious studies courses in the Division of Humanities; we offer a major in religious studies, and also require religious studies courses in our gen. ed. sequence -- these courses range from Old Testement to Eastern Religions to Religion and Environmental Ethics. In the new structure of the college, beginning July 1, a department of philosophy and religious studies (or religious studies and philosophy -- a hot debate rages) will exist within the Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences. | C. David Frankel_________Phone: 904-588-8395 Asst. Prof. of Theatre BITNET: D7DBAIAD@CFRVM Saint Leo College________INTERNET: D7BAIAD@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Grad Programs in Philosophy of Science Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 07:22:31 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1741 (2079) The person looking for grad programmes in history and philosophy of science might like to make inquiries about the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. The address is: IHPST, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1K7, Canada. FAX: (416) 978-3003; Voice: (416) 978-5397 (to reach the Graduate Co-ordinator). ******************************************************************************* Germaine Warkentin warkent@epas.utoronto.ca English, Victoria College, University of Toronto ******************************************************************************* From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: Biblio D/Bs Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 09:32:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1742 (2080) [deleted quotation]Look at the extensive review of bibliographic software: Sue Sigleman, "Bibliography formatting software: A buying guide", Database, Feb 1992, p 15-27. LB From: "Geoffrey S. Koby" <GSKOBY@UKCC.uky.edu> Subject: Re: 5.0871 Rs: Grad Programs in Philosophy of Science (2/25) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 09:46:13 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1743 (2081) There is also a grad program both in History of Science and History of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706. It is reputed to be quite good, though I cannot say from experience. Geoffrey S. Koby, Ph.D. › / 606/257-4641 (O) University of Kentucky › / 606/273-9896 (h) › Department of Germanic Languages | / › 1055 Patterson Office Tower | › Lexington, KY 40506-0027 | Internet: GSKoby@UKCC.UKY.EDU From: alaakso@sdcc3.UCSD.EDU (Aarre Laakso) Subject: Re: 5.0865 Qs: Grad Programs in Philosophy of Science (1/23) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 17:54:58 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 865 (2082) [deleted quotation]Dear Ramon-- My name is Kyle Stanford and I am a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego. We have one of the few Interdisciplinary programs in the United States that I think is really geared for your interests. Here we have a Science Studies Program that attempts to unify approaches from Philosophy, History and Sociology of Science. I might add that you will find most straight philosophy departments in this country to be fairly hostile to your interests in the history of science (with many notable exceptions). For more info on the program here you may write to Science Studies Program Office Humanities and Social Sciences Building 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 If you have no luck at our program, you might investigate similar programs at Cornell or look into History and Philosophy of Science Programs (eg. Pittsburgh, Indiana University). Good Luck. Kyle Stanford pstanfor@ucsd.edu t From: Donald A Spaeth <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK> Subject: Wordprocessor exchange Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 13:09:17 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 879 (2083) In my capacity as a review editor, I'm looking for software to convert documents between word-processor formats (on DOS computers). I need a package which is reliable, knows about as many formats as possible, and is up-to-date with recent versions. Names of products and reports on good/bad experience would be much appreciated. I know this question has been asked before, but not recently, and I didn't keep the answers! Many thanks, Don Spaeth CTI Centre for History University of Glasgow D.A.Spaeth @ glasgow.ac.uk From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk> Subject: Baltimore Date: Fri, 1 May 92 13:13:52 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 880 (2084) I agree with Allen Renear's sentiments that the ACH/ALLC conference in Oxford was a great success, though I wouldn't go so far as to describe my colleagues there as 'nice'. Where I went to graduate school, Columbia, 'nice' is a code word for 'idiot' (for instance, "He's a nice guy" really means, "Hey, the guy doesn't have a theoretical bone in his body, but at least he's not a schmuck"). My objection, if you can call it that, to Allen's posting is his insinuation that Oxford is a better place to be than... Baltimore. I've lived in a number of cities (grew up in New York, was an undergraduate in Boston and a graduate student in New York, worked at Princeton, lived in Washington, lived and worked in Baltimore, and now am currently teaching at, of all places, Manchester in England), and now that I live in England I go to Oxford every chance I get. I, too, love the ancient pubs, the gardens where you can be alone with your thoughts, the spires, the punters, and the American and Japanese tourists, not to mention the drive there from the Nortwest along the brand-new M40. Yes, Oxford is a, well, *nice* place, some might even say it's a *very nice* place. But it's not Baltimore. Baltimore is one of those cities that you get to know over time, but to know it is to love it. Unlike Oxford, Baltimore has an indigenous local accent, ("Hiya hon" means "hello"), it has indigenous food (steamed crabs in bay seasoning which you eat with your hands and create a glorious mess), indigenous architecture (the row house with the fake stone exterior or the simple red-brick Federal Style row with white marble steps), an indigenous dance (The Madison) and what I considered to be the best race relations in any city I have lived in, including Manchester. It's an authentic working city with no pretensions. The difference between Baltimore and Oxford is the difference between a well-manicured French poodle and a mutt. Sure, the poodle might be smart and pretty and know how to impress, but can one love a poodle? On the other hand, the mutt... Let's face it, you love the mutt. On the day we moved to Baltimore, my wife and I stopped at a bookstore to buy a roadmap, and the cashier, sensing that we were newcomers, just out of the blue said, "You're new here, 'arncha? Don't worry, you're gonna love it here, hon." She was right. Rich Giordano Computer Science University of Manchester From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Post-conference synopsis of ALLC-ACH talk Date: Sun, 3 May 92 20:50:45 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 881 (2085) Accessing and Using Electronic Texts in Academia by Joel D. Goldfield Associate Prof. of French Plymouth State College/Univ. System of New Hampshire; Associate Fellow in Computing and the Humanities Institute for Academic Technology Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill 10 Key Points Developed for the 1992 Annual Convention of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities Oxford University. 11:15 Session on Thursday, April 9, 1992: Electronic Texts: Policy, Acceptability, and Control (Note: Many of the points given below were developed from comments made by attendees at the IAT Colloquium referenced in #1. However, the elaboration of each point is solely the responsibility of the author and does not ne- cessarily reflect the position of any organization with which he is affili- ated.) 1. Infrastructure & fees. The number #1 concern of attendees at the 1991 IAT Colloquium on Computational Approaches to Textual Studies was the pos- sible inaccessibility of extant electronic texts owing to exclusionary res- trictions imposed by those controlling a distribution infrastructure or by those determining subscription fees for a product. These aspects need our close attention. 2. Display standards. There was unanimous consensus, as in #1 above, regarding the importance of this category, which consists of three com- ponents: a) screen resolution; b) physiological ramifications; and c) predictable (standardized) encoding for the appearance of text and graph- ics. Starting with the first two items, some colleagues note that reflected light, rather than direct light, would be preferable in their work, especially where long hours of intense reading and editing are neces- sary. Straddling both items, viewers would like a standard enlargement feature for zooming in on any section of the screen. Researchers would like more data on possible advantages of high-resolution LCD displays, both monochrome and color, versus incandescent (i.e., CRT-produced) screen displays under various lighting conditions for varying periods of high- intensity reading. Regarding item c, colleagues are looking forward to evaluating the impact of SGML and the Text Encoding Initiative on the use of electronic texts. 3. CD-ROM and similar media. Software should be separated from the tex- tual and graphical data. Scholars need to implement stylometric and other programs to process the textual information in ways often unanticipated by the producers. On-board software usually renders this pursuit impossible. 4. Professional organizations. We need professional organizations to for- mulate a collective, cogent policy on the: a) creation of e-texts; b) reliability of e-texts; c) distribution of e-texts; d) legal use of e-texts. 5. Copyright Policy. Elaborating on #4d, a re-evaluation of copyright restrictions on the use of e-texts for purely research purposes is strongly recommended. This does not imply a naive assumption that scholars should be able to acquire all e-texts gratis, particularly those texts not yet in the public domain. Where stylo-statistical or linguistic research is involved, for example, if the text is still in-print, an "archival" copy might be purchased, then scanned or typed into machine-readable form by the researcher's organization (unless such a medium could be purchased) with the understanding that it would not be redistributed for reading purposes in lieu of a student textbook. Legal conditions might vary if the book is no longer in print. Patrimony restrictions should be re-evaluated. For example, restrictions on the use of out-of-copyright texts seem particularly noxious for literary researchers desiring to download e-texts for local processing. As distri- bution centers for nationally controlled e- texts do not always have the particular software tool a researcher may require to analyze some feature of a sub-corpus or corpus, more flexibility is needed in the relationship between such sites and users. 6. Infrastructure of scholars. An infrastructure or consulting group of scholars working with administrators should be created to evaluate and pro- mote the production of e-texts in a timely manner for designated projects. These projects would be evaluated and funded by grant organizations, par- ticular institutions or private enterprises. Projects could be requested by individual academic researchers or by institutions. 7. Peer-review. A procedure should be established by professional organi- zations and the e-text center for the peer-reviewing of annotated e-texts if they are tagged beyond screen mark-up (e.g., morphological and literary tagging). This reviewing could take place prior to or following in-house editing, depending on the expertise of the reviewers. 8. Technical assistance. High-quality technical assistance would be required for determining the best data-entry process, encoding, distribu- tion possibilities, in-house applications programs and interfacing with client needs (e.g., statistical, audio, video). 9. Referral service and professional development. Academic institutions would benefit from a regional or national referral service which would put potential or current users of the e-text distribution center in touch with the appropriate personnel for advice on research problems. Tutorial software would be available on-line to assist researchers in learning to use e-texts for particular projects such as determining authorship, developing concordances, tracking changes in linguistic features over time within a genre in a particular national literature, identifying semantic webs, etc. 10. Mainstreaming literary computing. We need to move our computationally-informed research into the mainstream journals and meet- ings. Scholars submitting manuscripts to specialty journals might be encouraged to contact particular mainstream journals for re- publication of a revised version. Model studies should be publicized (see also #9 above). From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" <ERIC@SDNET> Subject: International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing Date: Mon, 04 May 92 06:28:47 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 882 (2086) DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY I C E B O L 6 Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing October 15-16, 1992 Madison, SD 57042 ICEBOL6, The Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing, is designed for teachers, scholars, and programmers who want to meet to exchange ideas about computer programming for non-numeric applications -- especially those in the humanities. In addition to a focus on SNOBOL4, SPITBOL, and Icon, ICEBOL6 will feature presentations on processing in a variety of programming languages such as FORTRAN, C, C++, Lisp, and Prolog. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Mark Olsen Author of many articles and papers on computing and analysis of texts. Technical Review Editor for Computers and the Humanities. Assistant Director of ARTFL and professor at the University of Chicago. FEATURED SPEAKER Ralph Griswold One of the creators of the Icon programming language and SNOBOL4. He is the editor of two newsletters, and the author of six books and dozens of articles on computer languages and string and list processing. He is Regents Professor of Computer Science at The University of Arizona. BANQUET SPEAKER Robert B. K. Dewar Creator of SPITBOL and of Realia COBOL. Author of books and articles on computer programming languages. Professor of Computer Science at New York University. SCHEDULED TOPICS Parsing Texts Tools for Text Analysis Graphics for Computational Linguistics Grammar Checkers Punctuation Checking Hypertext Generation Converting Text to Hypertext Translation from C++ to C Parallel Algorithms for Text Processing Grammars and Computational Linguistics Machine Translation Text Generation and Indexing Natural-Language Query Processing Logic Programming and Heuristics Artificial Intelligence and Backtracking Object-Oriented Approach to Text Implementation of SNOBOL4/J Intelligent Message Systems Analysis of the Language of Victor Borge Visualizing Program Execution in Icon For a REGISTRATION FORM, contact Eric Johnson 114 Beadle Hall Dakota State University Madison, SD 57042 USA 605-256-5270 ERIC@SDNET.BITNET From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu Subject: Origin of "String"? Date: Sun, 3 May 92 15:49:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1744 (2087) Can you help me identify the origin of the term "string" as applied to computing languages? As used in BASIC and other languages, a "string" is a sequence of text characters such as letters, digits, other symbols on the keyboard, etc., delimited in some way. (In BASIC, a string constant is enclosed in double quotes.) I have drawn blanks in standard books on the history of computing. The 1971 OED (p. 3097) quotes an 1891 Century Dictionary on a source in the Milwaukee Sentinel of 11 Jan. 1898 (section 3, p. 1) to the effect that this is a compositor's term. Printers would paste up the text that they had generated in a long strip of characters. (Presumably, they were paid by the foot, not by the word!) The quote says that it was not unusual for compositors to create more than 1500 (characters?) per hour. If this is, in fact, the origin of the term "string" as applied to computing, I want to do a Gutenberg minute in a national CS1 telecourse which we are now taping. Your help --- citations would be better yet --- would be greatly appreciated. ********************************************************************* Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cpswells.cps.msu.edu Computer Science Dept. weinshank@msuegr.bitnet A-732 Wells Hall weinshankdj@clvax1.cl.msu.edu Michigan State University COMPUSERVE 76154,704 East Lansing MI 48824 USA GEnie XTX90068 Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 336-1061 ********************************************************************* From: edm@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu Subject: Query: Academics in Pop Culture Date: Mon, 04 May 1992 17:31:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1745 (2088) I'm interested in contemporary popular representations of academics in the United States. These should be restricted to, say, college-level professors of humanities as portrayed in mass media (magazines, television, popular film, etc.). Please send responses directly to my e-mail address to avoid cluttering up the list. Christine Hutchins EDM@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU From: "John M. Unsworth" <JMUEG@NCSUVM> Subject: Re: 5.0879 Q: Word-Processor Coversion Software (1/13) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 23:27:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1746 (2089) Donald-- I can't give you the benefit of any experience with this product, but I did recently receive a mailing from Advanced Computer Innovations (30 Burncoat Way, #A5 / Pittsford, NY 14534-2216), advertising two programs, R-Doc/X and WordPort, which they claim convert documents "with only a few keystrokes" between "more than 32 different [word-processing] programs" including all the ones I've ever heard of and many I haven't. Price is about $150 per program, or $195 for both. This is not advertising, since I'm not *recommending* the programs. By the way, you might also direct your query to SOFTREVU@BROWNVM, a Listserv-based discussion group for exchange of information concerning computer software. John Unsworth Co-editor, _Postmodern Culture_ From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: IA... Date: Fri, 1 May 92 0:38:41 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1747 (2090) Where else could the American Association for Artificial Intelligence meet but in... Walt Disney World Village? Is there a more artificial place on earth than that? Very seriously yours 8-)))) Michel Lenoble From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 5.0879 Q: Word-Processor Coversion Software (1/13) Date: Mon, 04 May 92 09:02:59 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1748 (2091) I have read (on the Nota Bene list) a good deal of positive comment on Word for Word as a word-processor converter, but I have no personal experience with it. From: "Geoffrey S. Koby" <GSKOBY@UKCC.uky.edu> Subject: Re: 5.0879 Q: Word-Processor Coversion Software (1/13) Date: Mon, 04 May 92 12:08:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1749 (2092) The journal _Monatshefte_, published at the Dept. of German, University of Wisconsin, 818 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, has been using the program _Word for Word_ for the last two years for conversion of both articles and reviews, with reasonable success. With the advent of the MacIntosh SuperDrive, it is also *relatively* easy to convert even MacIntosh MS Word/WordPerfect files into the DOS format of your choice. For more info, contact the current Editorial Assistant, Ralph Morris, at MONA@MACC.WISC.EDU or voice (608) 262-3008. Geoffrey S. Koby, Ph.D. › / 606/257-4641 (O) University of Kentucky › / 606/273-9896 (h) › Department of Germanic Languages | / › 1055 Patterson Office Tower | › Lexington, KY 40506-0027 | Internet: GSKoby@UKCC.UKY.EDU From: hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy M. Cook) Subject: RE: 5.0879 Q: Word-Processor Coversion Software (1/13) Date: Mon, 04 May 1992 17:41:22 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1750 (2093) I've been very pleased with Word for Word Professional. From: "Lorraine Olley, Preservation, 855-6281" Subject: RE: 5.0865 Qs: Grad Programs in Philosophy of Date: Mon, 4 May 92 13:28 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1751 (2094) Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, has a good program. You may want to correspond with Barbara Halporn (halporn@ucs.indiana.edu) who is the subject librarian for the field of history and philosophy of science. I think her husband teaches in the program. Hope that helps. Good luck. Lorraine Olley Indiana University Libraries olley@ucs.indiana.edu From: W Schipper <schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> Subject: New undergrad program in Medieval Studies Date: Sun, 31 May 1992 10:46:00 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1752 (2095) New Major Undergraduate Program in Medieval Studies Memorial University of St John's, Newfoundland, Canada announces a new program in Medieval Studies, beginning September 1992. The interdisciplinary program will allow undergraduates to do a double major of which one will be Medieval Studies. In theory any second subject will do, though in practice students will probably end up doing English and MS, History and MS, Classics and MS, Religious Studies and MS or Romance Languages and MS. At the core of the program are four courses: Medieval History, Medieval Literature, Art and Architecture, and Medieval Books. The rest of the program will consist of courses in the medieval period selected from a list of core courses, and chosen with the advice of the program co-ordinator. For further information, talk to Bill Schipper or David Bell at Kalamazoo, or write to one of the following: Michael Staveley (Dean of Arts), William Schipper (English), David Bell (Religious Studies), Aileen MacDonald (French and Spanish), or Richard Gyug (History). Brochures should be ready by the end of June. -- Bill Schipper From: Jim Cocks <JACOCK01@ULKYVM> Subject: New List ANCIEN-L History of the Ancient Mediterranean Date: Fri, 01 May 92 10:35:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1753 (2096) ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM.BITNET or ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU I am pleased to announce the establishment of a list for the study of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean. Subscriptions should be made to LISTSERV AT ULKYVM with the command SUB ANCIEN-L yourfirstname yourlastname adding your full name; LISTSERV will accept both BITNET and Internet addresses. Postings should be made to ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM. ANCIEN-L is a forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by students and scholars of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean. ANCIEN-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest. The list currently does not maintain a FTP directory nor is archiving available. Hopefully, this will change in the near future. ANCIEN-L is associated with the general discussion list HISTORY, and co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated. If you have any questions please contact the owner. Owner: James A. Cocks BITNET: JACOCK01@ULKYVM Internet: JACOCK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU The University of Louisville From: "Daniel Traister" <traister@a1.relay.upenn.edu> Subject: Pierpont Morgan Library summer schedule Date: Fri, 01 May 92 11:03:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1754 (2097) The following message is posted for Dr. Anna Lou Ashby of The Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 East 36th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA (ph 212 685 0008). She has thought that people planning research visits to New York might need to know that: Some portions of the Library's exhibition rooms will be open to the public throughout the month of August. HOWEVER, the Reading Room and Print Room of the Pierpont Morgan Library will be closed from Monday, August 17 through Monday, September 7, Labor Day. Both will reopen on September 8. I am cross-posting this message for her to ARCHIVES and HUMANIST. Daniel Traister, Curator of Special Collections Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 215 898 7088 (phone); 215 898 0559 (fax) traister@a1.relay.upenn.edu@in (e-mail) From: TIBBO.ILS@mhs.unc.edu (TIBBO) Subject: Electronic journals Date: Tue, 05 May 92 10:46 X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1755 (2098) Can anyone tell me if they know of any electronic journals such as _Postmodern Culture_ or _EJournal_, that provide subscribers with abstracts of articles from which the subscribers can make selections rather than sending out the entire issue electronically? Do all ejournals this? most? any? Helen Tibbo School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tibbo@ils.unc.edu From: Mark Olsen <mark@tira.uchicago.edu> Subject: Works of Samuel Richardson Date: Tue, 5 May 92 11:57:37 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1756 (2099) I am looking for MR copies of three works by Samuel Richardson, _Pamela_, _Clarissa_, _Sir Charles Grandison_. Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me. Mark Olsen University of Chicago From: delany@sfu.ca (Paul Delany) Subject: CD texts Date: Tue, 5 May 92 13:10:58 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1757 (2100) I remember a discussion about a year ago about a CD containing a variety of standard literary texts. Can anyone remember the name of the CD, the company publishing it, and the price? Thanks. From: Thomas B. Ridgeway <ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu> Subject: query re: attribution of quote Date: Tue, 5 May 92 16:20:14 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1758 (2101) I am forwarding a request from Howard Nostrand: Can anyone supply an attribution for: "To protect your mountains, protect your rivers." It is thought to originate from an emperor of China. Tom Ridgeway ridgeway@u.washington.edu From: SHARRI HEATH <HEATHS@CWU.BITNET> Subject: Request for Information Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 11:44 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 5 Num. 1759 (2102) Greetings! I am part of an effort here at Central Washington University to coordinate a lecture series on the topics relating to Diversity and Affirmative Action in higher education. Can anyone suggest a possible speaker, preferably from the west coast, who could frame the issues surrounding the importance of diversity for higher education? If you've heard or heard of individuals that you think are particularly effective in speaking to faculty members, I would appreciate it very much if you could send me their names and a means for contacting them. Please contact me directly by E-Mail. I will be glad to send a summary of responses to anyone who contributes! Thank you -- HEATHS@CWU Sharri Heath Central Washington University