From: 6500card%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (Cheryl A. Cardoza) Subject: Gopher Intertextuality Date: Sat, 8 May 93 07:07:31 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 1 (1) This is in response to the recent debate about the reliability of texts on gopher because of the multiplication of texts. Recently Donald Spaeth made a good point about the reader's perspective of the whole issue when he said that responsible scholars prefer authoritative editions. Kyle Barger and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen both responded to this point by claiming that it is not the gopher systems which are at fault in these matters, and besides, there are numerous text versions of say Shakespeare and the bible. My response to this as a literary scholar is that there came a point when the prolification of unauthorized and often blatantly mutated versions of texts made scholarship difficult and unap- petizing. The institutional response to this was to work out standardized methods for building an authoritative text. Good scholars go to those volumes to do their work. The problem with gopher texts is that they are somewhat ephemeral and they don't always come tagged with the year of "publication" (I suppose in cyberspace it might be better to have the day of publication. Since there is an uncertainty as to which text came first in this schema, it seems like a good idea to start making some rules about how to identify texts in the first place. At any rate, there's no reason whatsoever why we should repeat the mistake we made with published (on paper) works. That is, we need not wait until scholarship becomes difficult and unap- petizing before we act. Why not institute some sort of control now instead of waiting until this problem becomes so big, we must solve it or perish in the attempt. Cheryl Cardoza University of California Santa Barbara Department of English From: Douglas Greenberg Subject: Re: 6.0715 Rs: Gopher and Copyright and Variant Texts (2/79) Date: Sat, 08 May 93 15:28:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 2 (2) The discussion of gopher and texts and copyright is an extremely important one, whose complications and implications are likely to increase as the number of users of e-texts increases and the number of available texts grows and as the quality of tools like Veronica improves (Now that we have archie and veronica, can jughead be far behind?). The point that needs emphasis, however, is that despite the obvious fact that we have many versions of texts in the print environment too, we also have standards and mechanisms for the evaluation of the authenticity of printed text. We also have some way of judging the quality of a given text based on who the publisher is. Generally, we will have more confidence in a text reproduced by, let us say, Cambridge University Press than one reproduced by Vanity Press, Inc. On the net, though, we lack this sign of quality and authenticity because everyone can literally self-publish not only her or his own texts but those of others as well. We desperately need on the the net the value-added that publishers provide in the print world. Until we have that (as well as a fuller elaboration of fair use in the electronic environment) it will be very difficult for us to have the same confidence in material we get electronically as we now do in material we acquire from reputable publishers of printed texts. Douglas Greenberg Vice President American Council of Learned Societies 228 E. 45th St., 16th Floor New York, N.Y. 10017 Tel:212 697 1505 X133 Fax:212 949 8058 BITNET:sdgls@cunyvm INTERNET:sdgls@cunyvm.cuny.edu From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL (Judy Koren) Subject: RE: 6.0715 Rs: Gopher and Copyright and Variant Texts (2/79) Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 23:22:12 +0300 (EET-DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 3 (3) Re. Donald Spaeth's plea for "pointers" to the One Authorized Text rather than multiple copies of it: the World Wide Web (WWW) aims to provide at least a partial solution, being a hypertext system in which each user is encouraged to create personal "links" to documents of interest, wherever on the net they may be, rather than copying them locally (its motto, as it were, is: don't *get* it, get *to* it). You need your own client software to do so; but then you need a gopher client to do a lot of what gopher can do, too. Most public-access WWW sites I've seen are pretty tepid: they look just like gophers; but U. Kansas just came up with a really cute application called Lynx, which is the first I've seen that actually gets the "look and feel" of hypertext on a public-access site. QUOTING FROM MEMORY!! - the site is ukanaix.ukans.edu, login either lynx or www. I don't think it'll let you create personal links, though: for that it'd need a separate account for every user (like the freenets have); but it's a nice demo. of WWW. Of course that still begs the question of whether people will be prepared to rely on the network for important documents. The advantages are most obvious when the document is frequently updated; it quickly gets to be a pain to keep track of such things and re-copy them every 2 or 3 months; a customized menu set with direct links to the updated copy is much better. Judy Koren, Haifa, Israel. From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: 6.0715 Rs: Gopher and Copyright and Variant Texts (2/79) Date: Mon, 10 May 93 10:17:08 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 4 (4) Kyle Barger and Michael Sperburg-McQueen both make the same point: there's already a lot of variation about, and the scholar has to cope with it. I couldn't agree more. This occurs in early modern historical documents just as much published texts. I spent yesterday evening reading four witnesses' statements on the same event and trying to re-construct what happen. There are four versions of the Compton religious census for Wiltshire, and I can think of three scholars who have devoted considerable time to comparing them. I was making two points, one of degree and one of validation. Electronic reproduction multiples the version problem many times. Books and articles are published, and the process ensures that both the publisher and the author/editor have an opportunity to check the text before it is printed. The fact that this process was not available in, say, the 17th century when the King James Bible and Shakespeare plays were produced isn't necessarily relevant since most of us use modern editions which *do* rely on the process. Electronic reproduction removes the publisher and enables texts to be "reprinted" without reference to an author/editor. In other words, I am not convinced that the analogy with Shakespeare plays and the Bible is a good one. Perhaps Kyle has the answer, though: some servers will come to be recognised as reliable "publishers", perhaps because they will only accept documents directly from their authors. Donald Spaeth From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: TLS on information technology Date: Sun, 9 May 93 12:38:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 2 (5) The Times Literary Supplement for 30 April 1993 (no. 4700) is a special issue on information technology, with articles on virtual reality, hypertext (unfavourably reviewing David Jay Bolter's _Writing Space_), cyberpunkery and techno-futurism of the wilder sort, CD-ROM textual collections and reference works, and finally, an article by Hugh Kenner, "The scholar's friend: The irresistible rise of the word processor". There's considerable matter for discussion in this TLS, but I would like to draw attention only to Kenner's article, in which he raises some matters particularly relevant to Humanist and its relations. The first half of the article is devoted to the `irresistible rise' of Kenner's subtitle, to the early history as he observed it, including some telling anecdotes of resistance from the likes of editors and publishers. The second half turns to the computerisation of the humanities in our universities, beginning with classics, David Packard's work, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and its Classical Latin counterpart. (Kenner appears not to realise that the TLG and Latin corpora are available on CD-ROM, which most of us now access via MS-DOS or Macintosh machines. But this is a minor point.) The most interesting part of the article occurs at the end, where he discusses the crisis in scholarly publishing and some electronic means of dealing with it. Why, Kenner asks, need we incur the rising costs of niche journals when these could be published electronically? There are two points to be made here: first that this is already beginning to happen, and second that mere imitation of print is not the answer, or at least not a particularly good answer. Note, in particular, the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) and recent announcements on Humanist from the American Philological Association, the journal Arethusa, and Johns Hopkins University Press. BMCR is my favourite example, not so much because it publishes good reviews via e-mail, keeping networked classicists up to date with work in their field free of charge. Rather, it and a few others are interesting from our perspective because they use the medium to do something it is particularly suited for. Consider the role reviews, as distinct from articles and books, play in research; wouldn't it be better on the whole to have these things not merely delivered free very soon after they are written, but more significantly, perhaps, in electronic form, so that a collection of them can be searched for key terms? Consider what kind of work the ability to search especially favours, and what such work can do for fields characterised by narrowly defined specialities. It may be that the only way for many journals to survive will be to publish electronically, although there are some very serious social and technical problems to be solved before exclusive e-publication can be a practical alternative. I am bothered, however, by the imitative approach, both because it lacks wit and because it avoids the systemic problems of the academy, of which the crisis in scholarly publishing is only one manifestation. Let me suggest that instead of trying to figure out how to make e-publication as secure and respectable as print perhaps we should be using our energies to reconstruct the academic world so that free interchange of ideas in electronic forums (such as Humanist) can replace premature, and very expensive, print publication. Kenner notes that, "For marginal pockets of civilized discourse, computer networks are likely to be the last hope." My point is that right now we can realise this hope, indeed we already have to some degree, but that the attempt to realise it within the existing structures of academic reward is profoundly procrustean. Where is our Theseus? -- i.e., to allegorize, how can we arrive at the understanding and will necessary for the civilized discourse of the humanities to survive its monstrous impediments? I said that the imitative approach lacks wit, i.e. is uninteresting and unintelligent. At root what makes it so is the tired assumption that the computer is merely a tool, which is to say (curiously ignoring the fact that no tool is JUST a tool) that it has no inherent characteristics of its own. Thus, we assume, `computer-mediated communications' can simply be used as a means to repeat what we've been doing all along, though more expensively, via the printing press. The same attitude also surfaces in most novices' approach to computing, away from which they must gently be weaned, that the machine offers them not new ways of thinking but merely a faster, more convenient, more accurate, cheaper way of getting the old job done. How many of our colleagues, for example, still use their computers as typewriters? Of course the computer can be used only thus, but at the great cost of abusing the enormous potential of our most interesting invention. Are we so wealthy that we can afford this abuse? Automata, of which the computer is the latest manifestation, turn up in Homer (e.g. Iliad 18.376-7) and have been the subject of attention ever since. The computer is not, then, an object foreign to us, just as the communication it enables is not a foreign process. It is, perhaps, a `monster' in the etymological sense (L. monstrum), a somewhat spooky object with much to tell us about ourselves and our situation. If we cannot figure out how to use it intelligently, who can? Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Diane Kovacs Subject: ARL Expands 3rd Edition of Directory of Electronic Publications Date: Sun, 09 May 93 11:58:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 3 (6) ARL Expands 3rd Edition of Directory of Electronic Publications AVAILABLE for delivery as of May 15th, 1993 For Further Information Contact: Ann Okerson Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing ann@cni.org Responding to the library and academic communities' increasing use of and interest in the burgeoning number of electronic publications, the Association of Research Libraries is publishing the third edition of the hard-copy Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Scholarly Discussion Lists. With the extraordinary expansion of microcomputers and linked networks as vehicles for scholarly exchange, the problem of how and where to find various academic forums grows continuously. 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 what is available. The new edition of the Directory is a compilation of entries for 1152 scholarly lists and 240 electronic journals, newsletters, and related titles such as newsletter-digests -- an increase in size of close to 60% since the second edition of March 1992 and nearly 2.5 times the size of the first edition of July 1991. 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. Author/compiler of the journals and newsletters section is Michael Strangelove of the University of Ottawa. Diane Kovacs of the Kent State University Libraries, continues to lead the KSU team -- nine individuals who collaboratively created the third edition's scholarly discussion lists and interest groups section. The ARL directory is derived from network-accessible files maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory points to these files as the authoritative sources. The third edition is produced in 8.5 x 11 paperbound format. Scholarly lists are grouped by broad subject areas, and journals and newsletters are in alphabetical order. In a new enhancement, a substantial index of keywords, titles, and institutional affiliations is provided. As in the previous two years, front matter of value to electronic serial readers is included. Again, a scholarly article on networked scholarly publications leads (James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania with a provocative view of "St. Augustine to NREN"), followed by bibliographies commissioned from David Robison, University of California at Berkeley Libraries and an editor of the e-journal Current Cites, on electronic publishing; and Michael Strangelove on electronic networking. Finally, a widely felt need is addressed by inclusion of the standard format for citation of electronic serials, bulletin boards, and electronic mail. This was prepared by the National Library of Medicine and is now accepted for use among many scholars and scientists wishing to make adequate reference ot networked information. 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. The Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing works to identify and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly and scientific information. DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, AND ACADEMIC DISCUSSION LISTS (ISSN: 1057-1337), Third Edition, April 1993 To order, contact: Gloria Haws Publications Manager Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 Voice: 202-296-2296 Fax: 202-872-0884 E-mail: osap@cni.org ALL ORDERS MUST BE PREPAID in US DOLLARS, Please. Name: Organization: Address: (street, city, state, country) Price per copy: $42 US PLUS: Postage, Shipping, Handling: $ 5.00 USA $ 8.00 CANADA $12.00 EUROPE (air mail) $15.00 OTHERS (air mail) N.B. 1. Some copies of the 1992 edition are available for sale at a reduced price. 2. A diskette version will be available. Contact us for price and details. 3. Special prices for orders of 5 copies or more and Special prices for the 119 libraries which are members of the Association of Research Libraries are available. Please contact us for these. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST From: Andy Lakritz Subject: Re: 6.0710 Rs: Literacy; Memory; Legend; Writing Date: Sat, 08 May 93 10:36:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 4 (7) Although Dean Hoekema has already written the "Afterword" to this discussion on writing and memory, perhaps the book has yet to be put bed and pressed to the page. Professor Rabkin's remarks about not taking a camera to Europe in favor of one's memory reminded me of Franklin's account in the of the Dunker's, and Michael Welfare's refusal to publish his sect's beliefs and principles, even if it meant that a rival sect might continue with their calumnies against them. Franklin was fascinated by their modesty, for they claimed (or feared) that they had yet to receive the full and final wisdom of God, and if they were to set down their theology in a book they would feel "as if bound& confin'd by it, and perhaps unwilling to receive farther Im- provement" (1417, Library of American edition, ). It makes a certain sense that this incident would have stuck in Franklin's memory, along with the other heroic tales of inventions and civic improvement; it constitutes a rare instance of the refusal to be conscripted by technology, even though Franklin was offering this group social power. Perhaps it sticks in my memory as one who is admonished each year by the department chair to finish and publish my work. Be that as it may, what occurs to me is that we would not be in this situation of near fear or whorship or awe of technology--the book, the image-- if we had not in first place granted it such power. It is unnecessary that we do so. I understand that Rabkin doesn't take a camera to Europe because he doesn't want his memory tyrannized by the technology, but that assumes that memory is totally dominated by the image: the sunsets, rainbows, waterfalls, peaks in exotic places. What I remember most about my travels typically has nothing to do withthe photographs I bring home, or the postcards I send to friends. I am one of those sensualists condemned by Hawthorne who can recall nearly every meal I've ever had, and that is only to talk about two of the other senses. On my last trip to Greece I brought a sketchbook and watercolors and saw the landscape in a different way than I had the first time there. No doubt my memory will be different for this trip, but it seems to me that placing higher value on one form of seeing over another is a mistake because it presumes that say photography is an intrinsically suspect way of seeing the world--it produces complacency, it mediates experience, protects us from the "other," whatever. It certainly can do all of those things. I traveled with my father recently through Europe and he was trying out his new video camera. In Berlin he found a man on the street who was selling images of him- self, with extravagant claims that he was the ugliest man alive. My father was shooting him from somewhere on the sidewalk 10 meters beyond when the man caught him "stealing" his image; he became instantly enraged, making ob- scene gestures at my father, and my father, realizing that he was suddenly being looked at, quickly put his camera in the bag and motioned for us to make haste. On the other hand I have a friend who just came back from Romania with astonishing photos of peasants; she had made friends with everyone she met, ate mealsand shared conversations with them, spent time with each one, and used the camera as a medium for the encounters, so that her subjects took pictures of her, just as she took pictures of them. She also sent prints to each person she had taken. What one does with the technology we have available is what is important. The more difficult question for me is what we are doing with this e-mail gaget. Don DeLillo the novelist has written that the family is the cradle of mis- information, and his family in is a fun instance of that maxim. There is so much information, that memory is stressed in new ways. If it is "true" then that more people do not die by home electrocution, according to Rabkin's almanac, and that memory is a pliable and sly thing, what we perhaps should try to remember is not to say "absolutely" or "in truth" when we use such media as this one here. Or is that just a cop-out? We do tolerate really nasty consequences of technology, the automobile I think is the best example, but there are hundreds of other major technologies in operation now that the government determines tolerances for--pollution, injury, death. The technology of writing is a threat to tyrrants I think because it disperses authority. The new technologies are threats to all of us, but only if we fail to find ways of using them that do not establish a healthy relation between the subject and the technology. But how do we come upon that healthy relation when it is precisely the subject that is in question? That government agencies determine the tolerances for its subjects? That social organization is so complicated that decisions have to consider such wide ranges of groups, segmented in multiple ways? Is it enough to say, I can go it alone, with or without my camera in hand? Andy Lakritz, Miami University AL6HENGF@MIAMIU From: Paula Jeannet Subject: Italian list Date: Sat, 08 May 93 13:39:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 5 (8) This has been posted to several related lists, so apologies for cross-listings. For those who are interested in Italian culture and language, I'd like to call your attention to the list LANGIT. Italian is the language of choice, though every so often someone sends a query in english. Italian language students are encouraged. Recent discussions have ranged from the critical events in national politics to the Italian cinema, while contributions include recipes, daily headlines from Italian news, and extracts from satirical publications. Contributors have logged in from Canada, the United States, and Italy. Vi invitiamo cordialmente di partecipare a questa vivacissima lista! To subscribe: Send a message without a subject heading to LISTSERV@ICINECA.BITNET (don't know what the Internet address is) and as a message write SUBSCRIBE LANGIT your first name your last name To send messages to the *list* use the address LANGIT@ICINECA.BITNET ********************************************************************* P. Jeannet E-mail: paulaj@mail.lib.duke.edu Supervisor, Mazzoni Project Phone: (919) 660-5833 Special Collections Perkins Library Duke University Box 90185 Durham, NC 27708 -0185 ********************************************************************** From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: modelling Date: Tue, 11 May 93 23:08:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 6 (9) Recently I discovered an interesting book, _The Rules of the Game: Cross- disciplinary Essays on Models in Scholarly Thought_ (London, 1972). I have yet to read anything more than the first essay, Teodor Shanin's "Models and Thought", but am encouraged to think that the rest will be rewarding also. I bring this book to the attention of fellow Humanists to 'stir the pot' of discussion on the subject of modelling, as it seems to me an essential aspect of computing and what we in particular do with computers. In his essay, Shanin argues for the fundamental importance of modelling to all forms of disciplined study, which he attributes to its use "as the major bridge" or middle ground "between the language of theory and that of empirically collected data... between subject and object", consciousness and existence (9, 18). Modelling thus represents a "transformation of the object of study inside consciousness itself" (10), which then may mobilize construction of an external model, as in a computer program or other simulacrum. Although, as he notes, models simplify reality, and so are necessarily 'unrealistic', they allow for inferences about empirical data; furthermore, "the formalization of the model permits its interdisciplinary use, in whole or in part, and opens possibilities for logical manipulation and for utilization of mathematical techniques" (10). Uncritically received (i.e. unrecognised for what they are) models tend to exert tyrannical control, he points out; at the same time, "they represent time and time again the height of human creativity, liberation, and imagination" (19). Comments? Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Memory Hard and Soft Date: Wed, 12 May 93 10:13:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 7 (10) It strikes me that the dangers being discussed in our thread on memory and technology might be seen as a conflict between "hard" memory (literacy and photograpny being the two examples we have so far used) and "soft" memory (mental images of sensory information being the example we have so far used). Hard memory has numerous advantages: relative stability, replicabilty, transportability, and therefore, in some senses, trustworthiness. Soft memory has numerous advantages: relative malleability, recombinability, privacy, and therefore, in some senses, uniqueness. Our post-romantic sense of the ego demands uniqueness and so hard memory is an assault while our post- industrial sense of the importance of information demands trustworthiness and so soft memory is a weakness. It is our culture that institutes these problems and our selves that reinstitute them. Andy Lakritz is surely right to ask, "Is it enough to say, I can go it alone, with or without my camera in hand?" but one should also recognize that answering that question consciously is part of how one changes one's self and if we ever wish to change our culture, it is with our selves that we must start. Andy Lakritz recalls a passage from Franklin in which a religious sect is unwilling to *write* its books for fear it will prematurely *close* its books. This is a particularly powerful example of the problematic role of technology in memory, I think, because revelation is not supposed to be provisional knowledge at all. Once known, it is known. But if so, then the problem is not so much closing the books on revelation--one can always issue a supplement--as it is closing the books on interpretation. What does any given revelation mean? We are back, I think, to Plato's complaint that one cannot interrogate a text in the way one can a speaker. And, although I love texts, I agree with Plato. And, like Plato, I write anyway. I am not sure if Andy Lakritz approves or disapproves of the sect refusing to write its books, but I do understand the conclusion reached: "The new technologies are threats to all of us, but only if we fail to find ways of using them that do not establish a healthy relation between the subject and the technology." The problem, of course, is that "healthy" is no easy notion to define. In *Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!* (1972), Edmund Carpenter talks about the impacts modern information technologies have when introduced to various non-Western tribes. Among his stories is one of the Kandagan of the Middle Sepik River basin in New Guinea. These folks practice a lacerating, painful rite of male passage that involves scarification, bleeding, and so on at about puberty. This occurs in a special hut forbidden to women. Carpenter and his fellows, however, were given permission to record this initiation. Amazingly, the Kandagan allowed Carpenter's female camera operator to enter the hut. Now in those days there were no videocams, so Carpenter had to send his film away for processing, a lengthy affair under the circumstances. In the time that elapsed, the Kandagan, in full expectation of having the capacity to reproduce their ceremony cinematically, offered their ancient and sacred ritual implements for sale. Their intention was never to actually undergo painful initiation again. Carpenter tells, however, that the film did not arrive in a timely way, and so the Kandagan did not sell their objects and instead continued their established customs. One senses in the reading that Carpenter had arranged for the delay to become indefinite because he saw the centrality of the initiation experience in the maintenance of the culture and as a modern anthropologist he did not wish to destroy, what, these marvelous people? his object of study? The question is: would it be "healthy" to maintain a culture even at the cost of great personal pain (after all, the famous introduction of steel axes to the Yir Yoront of Australia broke their trading relationships and their culture ended in suicide and dissolution) or would it be "healthy" to allow the sanitary substitution of vicarious experience for the dangerous continuation of personal experience (after all, the move in America from sports participation to sports spectation clearly correlates with our historically rising rate of heart and circulatory disease)? In other words, while Andy Lakritz is right to say that new technologies are a problem "but only" if we fail to find "healthy" ways of using them, finding such ways is often far from easy and may, in some instances, remain forever unclear. One of the muddying matters is the very distinction between "hard" and "soft" memory. Our immune systems are just as unique records of our experience as any imagistic memory yet they are as readable as any videotape. Our mental memories may well be of a sunset but they may also be of words spoken...or read. Andy Lakritz speaks of being a "sensualist" who can remember virtually ever meal for a lifetime. I don't know whether to see that as a blessing or, with Borges' "Funes the Memorious," as a curse. I do know, however, that I cannot remember all my meals and most people with whom I speak have memory lapses all the time. Certainly my students can't all remember all the names of all the characters in the books we have just read together. In short, some sort of "hard" memory seems indispensable for modern life: apppointment calendars, phone books, the whole array of expository materials. But should we let the means overtake the end? In an information society, what is the means and what is the end? Now we are back to a chicken-and-egg situation. And as Richard Dawkins so famously pointed out in *The Selfish Gene*, the question is irrelevant from the viewpoint of the strands of genetic information. In choosing to travel without a camera, I was using my own viewpoint. I do not urge it on anyone else. From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: London Conference Computerised Learning 6/16/93 Date: 13 May 1993 06:35:54 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 8 (11) THE NEW HUMANITIES AND COMPUTER INTERFACE Pedagogy, Design and Implementation in Humanities Computing Wednesday 16 June 1993, 10.00 - 5.00 Arts Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Coorganised by the University of London Seminar in Humanities Computing, the Humanities Computing Centre, QMW and the Faculty of Human Sciences, London Guildhall University A one-day conference to explore some neglected issues in humanities computing. Now that we have almost a decade of pilot schemes, trials and experiments, how do we bridge the evident gaps between promise, delivery and implementation? Session will consist of a brief introductory paper with a response, followed by discussion. More time is allocated for discussion in order to involve the participants as fully as possible. For further details: Dr Peter Denley, Director, Humanities Computing Centre, Faculty of Arts, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road London E1 4NS Tel 071 775 3148 Fax 081 980 8400 E-mail P.R.Denley@UK.AC.QMW Dr Deian Hopkin, Dean's Office, Faculty of Human Sciences, London Guildhall University, Calcutta House, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT Tel 071 320 1129 Fax 071 320 1121 E-mail DR_Hopkin@UK.AC.CLP.TVAX 1. Design and Implementation: the Technical Issues 10.00 - 11.15 This session deals with the presentation issues. What do humanities teachers and scholars need to know about computer interface design to enable them to make the best use of the new technology? Are there particular design requirements for computer-based humanities teaching and learning which are not currently addressed in the commercial or academic fields? In which direction is the design of the human-computer interface going? 2. The Pedagogy and Psychology of CBL 11.30 - 12.45 In the past few years, considerable investments have been made to develop a new generation of computer-based teaching tools. Much of this is directed towards what might called "mechanical" modes of teaching. What does this offer the humanities student? What, beyond "question and answer" or "expect and respond" routines, can computers offer the arts student? And what about the teachers? 3. Handling Multi-sources 2.30 - 3.45 A notable advantage of the new computer technology is its ability to handle text and images simultaneously. Does this represent new challenges to the way we teach the humanities? What are the dangers inherent in having too much of a good thing? 4. Education and Politics: the Future of Humanities Computing 4.00 - 5.30 As always there are political implications including the need to teach larger numbers of students with a dwindling unit of resource, and, perhaps, a natural reluctance by many humanities teachers to become fully involved in new technology. How can the computer's potential as a resource and a tool be realised, for teaching as much as for research? Demonstrations of teaching and learning software 1.30 - 2.30 ------------------------------------------ From: Elisheva Schwartz Subject: ajl convention Date: Thu, 13 May 93 11:24:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 9 (12) CONVENTION ANNOUNCEMENT The 28th Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) will be held on June 20-23, 1993 at the New York Hilton, New York City. This year's keynote address will be given by Dr. Menahem Schmelzer of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, speaking on "When Hebrew Books are Endangered: The Jewish Response." Other presentations will cover: automation, Jewish storytelling, children's literature, media selection and storage, archives, Holocaust literature, reference cataloging, the Internet, Jewish booklore, RLIN cataloging, research resources, and MUCH MORE. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to meet and speak with distinguished authors at a reception honoring the 50th anniversary of the Jewish Book Annual. The final highlight of the convention on Wed., June 23, will be a luncheon address by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, noted author, speaking on "Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say about the Jews." EXHIBITS Judaica Books and Crafts Marketplace, June 20-22. The largest gathering of Jewish books, videos, software, and Judaic crafts and art work in New York Metropolitan Area this year. Jewish storytelling marathon led by master storytellers and author signings on Sunday, June 30. For Convention information, please contact: Edith Lubetski (212) 340-7720 FAX (212) 340-7788 For information about exhibiting at the marketplace, contact Carolyn Storman Kessel: (516) 692-8616 FAX (516) 694-0313 From: Michael Strangelove <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Internet Business Journal Date: Fri, 14 May 93 16:48:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 10 (13) Announcing: The Internet-Accessible ELECTRONIC EDITION of The Internet Business Journal Available as of May 14th, 1993 Via Gopher, LISTSERV and FTP For Further Information Contact: Michael Strangelove, Publisher The Internet Business Journal 72302.3062@CompuServe.Com Christopher Locke Editor-in-Chief chris@avalanche.com The Internet Business Journal is now freely available on the Internet via Gopher, LISTSERV and FTP. These servers have been made available through the the sponsorship of the Wladyslaw Poniecki Foundation. The electronic version *only* contains the table of contents, article abstracts, editorial, letter from the publisher, and the column, Access--Ability, by Dr. Norm Coombs. This e-version is freely available in low ascii text and will soon be available as a PostScript file. The electronic version is roughly 11 pages in length (770 lines, 31238 bytes) To access Volume One, Number One (June-July, 1993): Via LISTSERV send the command: get ibj-l ibj-1993.jun-jul to LISTSERV@poniecki.berkeley.edu Send the command in the body of the message, NOT in the subject line. DO NOT USE THE REPLY KEY TO SEND THIS COMMAND. NOTE: Only IBJ-L subscribers will be able to retrieve the LISTSERV copy. To subscribe to IBJ-L, send the command: SUB IBJ-L YOUR NAME to Listserv@poniecki.berkeley.edu Via anonymous FTP FTP to poniecki.berkeley.edu cd pub/ibj get ibj-1993.jun-jul Via Gopher gopher poniecki.berkeley.edu 70 select Info Services Contents (in brief) RFC/FYI - Editorial Christopher Locke The National Information Infrastructure Dr. Vinton G. Cerf The Rise of Commercialization in the Internet Robert Larribeau, Jr Benefits of Commercial Use and Commercialization of the Internet Bill Washburn Advertising on the Internet Adam Gaffin Internet User Survey Results Thomas J. Cozzolino & Thomas H. Pierce Corporate Cybrary Networks: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Michel Bauwens The Cornell GateDaemon Consortium Martyne Hallgren National Science Foundation InterNIC Services Regular Features: Internet in the UK Susan Hallam News From Europe Michel Bauwens Internet User Profile Access-Ability: Assistive Technologies and the Net Access-Ability: Assistive Technologies and the Net Dr. Norm Coombs Virtual Markets and Network Niches Resources for Networked Business, Commerce and Industry Government Online Network News Network The Internet in Print Queries regarding The Internet Business Journal should be sent to: Michael Strangelove, Publisher The Internet Business Journal BITNET: 441495@Uottawa Internet: 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA Compuserve: 72302,3062 S-Mail: 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 CANADA Voice: (613) 747-0642 FAX: (613) 564-6641 From: rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu Subject: Scriptorium Announcement Date: Mon, 10 May 93 13:01:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 12 (14) Product Announcement: SCRIPTORIUM 1.0 by Darl J. Dumont and Randall M. Smith < SCRIPTORIUM: A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, and illumination of manuscripts.> Scriptorium is an entirely new program by the authors of Pharos for Microsoft Windows 3.1, which provides the ability to display and search Greek and Latin-alphabet texts from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae's new CD-ROM #D (Greek texts to ca 600 ce), and the Packard Humanities Institute's CD-ROM's #5 (Classical Latin) and #6 (Greek Documentary Papyri). The first release of Scriptorium offers the ability to display several texts on the screen simultaneously, full support of the TLG Word Index, including the ability to view directly all citations for each word from within the index, and the ability to export text to other Windows applications (e.g. Word for Windows) via the Windows Clipboard. There is a basic word search capability, to be elaborated in a subsequent upgrade. There is also the ability to create a permanent list of favorite authors for word searches. Searching is done "in background" which means that a search can be started then other work continued, whether it is viewing texts in Scriptorium, using the word index in Scriptorium, or even switching to a word processor or spreadsheet (or the Windows Solitaire game). As initial results come in, the locations that have been found can be viewed without having to wait for the search to complete. Any search may also be canceled instantly. Future versions will also add a powerful interface with Word for Windows, in which a permanent link may be maintained between Scriptorium and Word, allowing you to store or print formatted documents from within Scriptorium, without having Word visible on the screen. There will also be the ability to conduct "Boolean" searches on more than one word. Scriptorium runs under Microsoft Windows 3.1 on PC-compatible computers. Windows 3.1 is required; the program definitely will not run under Windows 3.0. We intend in the future to take full advantage of new Windows features added by Microsoft and others. Therefore, it is recommended that your hardware meet the minimum requirements for a Multimedia PC (MPC), which is becoming the standard for educational computing on Personal Computers. This will ensure that your hardware will remain compatible with new versions of Scriptorium and other Windows applications into the foreseeable future. (Incidentally it will give you the ability to run the many interesting and entertaining multimedia Windows applications that are on the market today. ) According to Microsoft, the following is the minimum recommended hardware for a Multimedia PC: 80386 or higher processor, with 2 MB of RAM (bare minimum -- 4 MB recommended, 8MB is better yet). 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and Microsoft-compatible mouse. At least 30 MB hard disk drive (absolute bare minimum -- 80 MB recommended, 200 MB is better yet). VGA display capable of displaying at least 640 by 480 pixels in 16 colors. (256 colors recommended). CD ROM Drive with a minimum transfer rate of 150 K bytes per second. The multimedia specification also requires an Audio board such as Sound Blaster; however; the first release of Scriptorium does not have any sound output. But be forewarned that a multimedia tutorial with animation and a sound track will become standard for Windows applications. Scriptorium itself will take up no more than 2 MB on your hard disk; however, by the time you have installed Windows and perhaps Word for Windows, you will have used up tens of megabytes and you want to be sure to have room for your own work and for other applications. The product is at the end of its beta test phase and is now shipping. The special introductory price through September 30, 1993 will be $40 US, plus $3.30 California sales tax if shipment is to a California address. To order a copy of Scriptorium send a check for $40 US, made payable to Darl J. Dumont, to: SCRIPTORIUM c/o Darl J. Dumont or Randall M. Smith Internet: wk00634@worldlink.com rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu 15237 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 20 Pacific Palisades, California 90272 USA An unlicensed copy of Scriptorium, in "nag-ware" form, is available via FTP. Please contact us at the above address for more information. Randall M. Smith rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu //end// From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne) Subject: MLA Address Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 15:32:41 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 5 (15) Could someone give me the address and phone of the Modern Language Association? Thanks Harry Hahne hahne@epas.utoronto.ca From: "Phyllis Wright" Subject: Sociological lists/discussion groups,etc Date: Thu, 13 May 93 07:09:17 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 6 (16) A colleague of mine who is not on the Internet would like to know whether there are specific lists, discussion groups, e-journals, etc. related to the broad field of sociology. Please respond to me personally. If anyone is interested, I will summarize for the list. Many thanks. Phyllis Wright Brock University Library St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca From: dpitti@library.Berkeley.EDU (Daniel Pitti) Subject: Projects List Date: Thu, 13 May 93 08:35:22 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 7 (17) Is there an up-to-date list of electronic text projects available? Respond directly (non-subscriber) Daniel Pitti dpitti@library.berkeley.edu From: "Evan L. Antworth 214/709-3346" Subject: Looking for English word lists Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 10:12:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 8 (18) I am posting this query for a friend who teaches English conversation in Taiwan. Basically he wants English word lists that exemplify semantic field or lexical relations (e.g. generic-specific, part-whole, etc.). Please reply by email directly to Bruce Hammar, u8124529@cc.nctu.edu.tw. ----------------------- Do you have any idea where I might locate this kind of material? I am interested in getting information about relationships between lexical items. The relationship of one word as being more generic and another as being a specific of that generic word. Taxonomies. For example, plant | flowers shrubs trees grass ferns ..... | birch pine gum palm oak ...... | betel nut coconut sago limbum ..... Also I am interested in words in context. Having many examples of the use the that word or phrase in context. This is so that the students can get the feel of the use of the word. In my reading I have come across the mention of word lists by M. West, "Minimum Adequate" and "General Service" lists, Basic English, Riewald's lists, and H. Bonger K list. Where Might I get these or similar lists? I hope this will give you some idea of what I am looking for. Bruce Hammar u8124529@cc.nctu.edu.tw From: Stephen Clausing Subject: Stanford Software team Date: Fri, 14 May 93 13:06:11 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 9 (19) Does anyone know what happened to the Stanford Faculty Development Project, the people that brought us "Would Be Gentleman", "Turing's World" and other programs? I am going to be in the CS Dept. an Stanford on Monday for an interview and wanted to meet with members of this group while I am there, but my contact person in the CS dept. doesn't know anything about the group, and if truth be known, I haven't seen any work from them for a number of years now. Is this defunct? From: piersens@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Pierssens Michel) Subject: Apartment to rent Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 08:50:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 10 (20) A colleague without access to e-mail wishes to announce an apartment for rent in Paris (one bedroom with kitchen and bathroom). Located in the Latin Quarter (rue aux Anglais), next to St Michel/Cluny/Maubert metro stations. Telephone available (for Paris only) against a security deposit. Rent: US $750 per month. For more info, get in touch with Francoise Siguret in Montreal: 524-369-2782, or Philippe Siguret in Paris: 33-73-61-49 From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Judge Book by Cover Date: Sun, 16 May 93 10:23:56 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 11 (21) I am currently engaged in a conversation with a famous librarian and network personality about the following concept on which I would like your input: When the subject and title of a book are released [with no additional info], is it proper to challenge the authenticity of the book without ever opening the book to read even the first page? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532 No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC hart@uiucvmd.bitnet and hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu From: David Sitman Subject: Announcement: Network Services Conference, Warsaw, October 1993 Date: Mon, 17 May 93 13:17:32 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 14 (22) First Call for Participation / Call for Papers NSC'93 The Network Services Conference 1993 Warsaw, Poland, 12-14 October 1993 Overview Networking in the academic and research environment has evolved into an important tool for researchers in all disciplines. High quality network services and tools are essential parts of the research infrastructure. Building on the success of the first Network Services Conference in Pisa Italy, NSC'93 will focus on the issue of providing services to customers, with special attention paid to the exciting developments in new global high-level tools. We will address the impact of the new global tools on service development and support, the changing function of traditional tools and services (such as archives), new services (such as multi-media communications), the future role of the library and the effects of commercialization of networks and network services. Customer support at the institutional and campus level, and the role of support in accessing global services, will also be covered. Talks, tutorials, demonstrations and other conference activities will address the needs of the research, academic, educational, governmental, industrial, and commercial network communities. NSC'93 is being organized by EARN in conjunction with EUnet/EurOpen, NORDUnet, RARE, and RIPE. Conference Venue Warsaw, the capital of Poland, lies in the center of the country on the Mazovian Lowland. Located on the banks of the Vistula River, it has a population of 1,700,000. Legends speak of Warsaw's past. One of them tells of a mermaid swimming in the waves of the blue Vistula before Mazovian fishermen and foretelling of the founding of an indestructible city. Another account speaks of the founders of the city, Wars and Sawa, lovers whose names were combined to give the city its name. Today, Warsaw is an important administrative, scientific, cultural and communication center. The city, destroyed during World War II, has been faithfully rebuilt and almost all historic buildings have been restored. The conference will be held at the Victoria Intercontinental Hotel, situated in the heart of the city's business and professional center, within walking distance of Warsaw University and just a minute away from the Opera House, Royal Castle and the Old Town of Warsaw. Conference Information Dates to remember: Deadline for papers - 4 June 1993 Deadline for demonstrations - 3 August 1993 NSC'93 - Tuesday, 12 October 1993 - Thursday, 14 October 1993 Location: Hotel Victoria Inter Continental, ul. Krolewska 11, Warsaw, Poland Accommodations: Rooms will be reserved for conference participants at the Victoria Intercontinental, and at other nearby hotels. Transportation: LOT Polish Airlines is the official carrier for NSC'93. LOT is offering a 50% discount off published IATA fares for conference participants. Language: The official language of the conference will be English. Conference fee: covers entry to all conference sessions, tutorials and demonstrations, conference material, coffee breaks, lunches and social events: EARLY Registration by 15 August 590 DeutschMark LATE Registration by 30 September 650 DM DESK Registration 710 DM Tutorials, Demonstrations and Posters There will be tutorial sessions on specific network services as part of the regular conference program. A room will be available for workstations and PCs to be used for demonstrations throughout the conference. Proposals for tutorial sessions and demonstrations are welcome. See the section "Call for papers" of this announcement for details. A poster wall will be available to participants for the display of their posters and projects. Terminals with connectivity to EARN and the Internet will be available to delegates. Further Information and General Inquiry Further information will be available through the conference mailing list, NSC93-L@FRORS12.BITNET (or NSC93-L@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR). If you want to make sure you receive registration information as well as the preliminary program and other information of interest to conference participants, join the list by sending e-mail to: LISTSERV@FRORS12.BITNET (or LISTSERV@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR) with the line: SUB NSC93-L Your Name If you have any questions or require any assistance, you can contact the conference organizers at: NSC'93 EARN Office c/o CIRCE BP 167 F-91403 Orsay France Tel: +33 1 6982 3973 Fax: +33 1 6928 5273 E-mail: NSC93@FRORS12.BITNET or NSC93@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR Program and Organizing Committees Program Committee Hans Deckers, France (Chair); Daniel Jozef Bem, Poland; Howard Bilofsky, Germany; Klaus Birkenbihl, Germany; Rob Blokzijl, The Netherlands; Daniele Bovio, France; Paul Bryant, United Kingdom; Vasco Freitas, Portugal; Tomasz Hofmokl, Poland; Dennis Jennings, Ireland; Glenn Kowack, The Netherlands; David Sitman, Israel; Marco Sommani, Italy; Iain Stinson, United Kingdom. Organizing Committee Frode Greisen, Denmark (Chair); Paul Bryant, United Kingdom; Hans Deckers, France; Nadine Grange, France; Tomasz Hofmokl, Poland; Tadeusz Wegrzynowski, Poland. Call for Papers The Program Committee for NSC'93 is soliciting proposals for papers, tutorials and demonstrations in all fields related to network services. Subject areas for presentations include, but are not limited to, the following: - Network resource tools - Network directory services - Multimedia Communications - Electronic Publishing - Libraries and Networking - Special Interest Communities - Groupware, Cooperative Work over the Network - Networking for Schools - User Support - Delivering Services to the Desktop - Commercialization of Network Services - Networking in Eastern and Central Europe Speakers will be entitled to a 25% discount on the registration fee. There will be a reception for speakers on the evening before the conference. Proposals for presentations, tutorials and demonstrations, including a short biography and an abstract should be sent by mail, fax or PREFERABLY e-mail, to: NSC'93 EARN Office c/o CIRCE BP 167 F-91403 Orsay France Tel: +33 1 6982 3973 Fax: +33 1 6928 5273 E-mail: NSC93@FRORS12.BITNET or NSC93@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR Please use the form appended below for proposals. Proposals for papers and tutorials should be sent not later than 4 June 1993. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 18 June 1993. Proposals for demonstrations should be sent not later than 3 August 1993. Notification of acceptance of demonstrations will be sent by 17 August 1993. ------------------------------ cut here -------------------------------- The Network Services Conference 1993 Proposal for Presentation Name(s): Affiliation(s): E-mail address(es): Postal address(es): Title of presentation: Type of presentation (paper, demo, tutorial): Biographical sketch (5-10 lines): Abstract (25-40 lines): Equipment required: From: "Brett Charbeneau, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation" Subject: Database formats: universal?iv Date: Mon, 17 May 93 12:55:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 15 (23) FROM THE TERMINAL OF: Brett Charbeneau (INTERNET: BWCHAR%WMVM1.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.ED) -------> Also posted to EXLIBRIS <------- { It was suggested to me that all of you on HUMANIST might } { have some thoughts on my quandry. Responses to this list } { will be seen by me as I *just* subscribed " --------------------------------------------------------------- A recent comment on the nets got me to thinking about something that I would like to throw out to all subscribers for reactions and further comments. Diana Patterson recently stated on Exlibris that: "We bibliographers could, and probably should, provide (librarians) with information we discover about a copy of a book. And if we could do it in a way that would be easy for (them) to toss into the MARC format, then that information would be sharable." The descriptive bibliography I shall be compiling will involve a sizable number of imprints and quite a bit of detailed information that I am anxious to share. Not only would I like to leave the libraries where I work a "copy" of the information I record in their collection, but I want to be able to upload the data to larger projects across the country like the North American Imprints Program at the American Anitquarin Society. My question now is: what format? All my preliminary work (an enumerative bibliography based almost completely on other people's work) has been in DBASE III and a related utility, Alpha IV. I have looked over MARC and decided that is may be worth the effort to learn, but it would essentially cut off any in-house viewing here at Colonial Williamsburg because of its complexity and ambiguity. The AAS seems to use a format that is unique and yet somehow compatible to the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalouge. Eeek! What should I do? I could easily supply print-outs to the libraries, but how can I best make the data accessible electronically? I chose DBASE initially because many non-bibliophiles are familiar with it and as a universal format in the business world it is unlikely to disappear. There are also many nice utilities and report- generating out there that read ".dbf" files. Am I too concerned about this at this stage of the project? Would it be better to collect the data in this well known format and worry about converting it later? Or should I consider changing to something like ProCite to guarantee compatibility with other institutions and scholars? Any and all comments are welcome. Brett Charbeneau Journeyman Printer/Williamsburg Imprints Program The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, Virginia From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 6.0709 Mme. Bovary (3/60) Date: Tue, 11 May 93 02:35:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 12 (24) To be dubbed as at one time "our colleague" and "our friend" by Doctor T. Unwin (whose friend or whose colleague it hasn't been my blessing to be) is OK, as a gracious bit of epistolary rhetoric, by me. So, for that matter, is the very probable idea that one has "missed the point." My own point, lost on or unclearly stated for Dr. Unwin, was that fiction is no exception to a rule of common sense -- all unrefuted by more exotic rules of literary-critical fashion: that ALL of art, not excluding the novel, is selective, as is consciousness in life itself. That Flaubert's principles of selection should not coincide with Dr. Unwin's penchant for the odds (in one-time real-life French sexual promiscuity) on cenception -- it is all unsurprising. It is with a hearty *obviously* that Dr. Unwin modifies my being a partisan of THE ""fiction-has-nothing-to-do-with-reality" approach." About that he is wrong: I can't conceive of fiction EXCEPT as having only-ever and alone "to do with reality." Reality is the problem. From: Douglas Greenberg Subject: Re: 7.0001 On Gopher and Copyright and Variant Texts (4/132) Date: Tue, 11 May 93 20:18:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 13 (25) I've learned my lesson. I made what I thought was a joke about Jughead following on the heels of Archie and Veronica and waspromptly informed that Jughead lives in several gopher holes. No one has told me yet what he does, however. Perhaps he registers copyrights for all the titles that Archie and Veronica point to!! Douglas Greenberg Vice President American Council of Learned Societies 228 E. 45th St., 16th Floor New York, N.Y. 10017 Tel:212 697 1505 X133 Fax:212 949 8058 BITNET:sdgls@cunyvm INTERNET:sdgls@cunyvm.cuny.edu From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL (Judy Koren) Subject: RE: 7.0001 On Gopher and Copyright and Variant Texts (4/132) Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 12:57:35 +0300 (EET-DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 14 (26) "Now that we have Archie and Veronica, can Jughead be far behind?" -- indeed not! Jughead has been on the net for some time, I believe, as a particular site's application of gopher (it is, *of course* :-) an acronym for: Just Use Gopher Heavily, Especially After Dark) But, alas! -- I've forgotten which site: someone else will have to fill us all in on that one. Judy Koren, haifa. From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: James Joyce Discussion List Date: Mon, 17 May 93 13:23:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 15 (27) There have been several queries in the last few months about a general discussion list for James Joyce. There is an unmoderated list at the University of Utah which does not behave like some listservs. To add your name to the mailing list, send a message to j-joyce-request@cc.utah.edu To send a message to persons on the list, write to j-joyce@cc.utah.edu Since the postmaster who manages the request list is not a member of the mailing list itself, you must use the first address to get on or off the list. A message send to the second address will not ordinarily be seen by the postmaster. Since the Joyce list operates like a simple alias the usual listserv commands do not apply. Heyward Ehrlich, Dept of English, Rutgers Univ, Newark NJ 07102 (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: "Eric Johnson DSU, Madison, SD 57042" Subject: Drama position Date: Mon, 17 May 93 14:01:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 16 (28) THEATRE GENERALIST/DIRECTOR OF THEATRE Position starting fall, 1993, in a small undergraduate program with Fine Arts Administration and Fine Arts Education majors and Speech/Theatre minor. Tenure-track, assistant professor to teach courses in basic oral communication and theatre. Courses include Introduction to Theatre, Acting, Directing, Creative Dramatics, and other areas of expertise. Direct the major production each semester and oversee theatre program. Facilities include 700 seat proscenium stage, small arena stage, costume shop, etc. MFA or PhD in theatre or speech/theatre required. Located 55 miles NW of Sioux Falls, Dakota State University is a small state-supported school which integrates computer information systems technology in all curricular areas. Applications will be reviewed beginning June 15 and will continue until the position is filled. Send complete dossier (vita, letter of application, graduate transcript, three letters of reference, and current phone numbers for references) to Eric Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042. EOE From: Evert Volkersz Subject: Long Island Book Collectors Journal 5 Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 15:25:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 17 (29) The following message has beeg cross-posted to Archives, Exlibris, and Sharp-l. If of interest Humanist subscribers, I hope that you can post it also. Evert Volkersz Special Collections SUNY at Stony Brook 516-632-7119 Bitnet: evolkersz@sbccmail Internet: evolkersz@ccmail.sunsyb.edu THE LONG ISLAND BOOK COLLECTORS ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION OF JOURNAL 5 The fifth issue of the Journal of the Long Island Book Collectors was, once again, written and edited by its collector-members. The Journal is illustrated by children's book illustrator Lili Cassel Wronker. She has also contributed an article about becoming an illustrator and collector of children's books. This issue also includes a bibliography of her published illustrations. The co-editors are Carol Meyerson and Evert Volkersz. Paulette Greene opens with a reminiscence on the founding of the LIBC 25 years ago, followed by Helen Hurewitz's appreciation of Herman Abromson, the Christopher Morley collector and LIBC's founder and guiding spirit for many years. Howell J. Heaney memorializes Frederick R. Gardner, a foremost collector of children's books. A group of general articles about books and collecting begins with contributions by Annette Rosenstiel and Alexander Lurkis. Norman Jung, a major collector of Chicagoana, relives some of his experiences with booksellers at book fairs, and Rudolf Hertz tells about collecting early imprints. David King, an avid collector of Rolls-Royce literature, argues his case for a bibliography of rejected titles, and Roslyn Grand recounts her love of books in Jewish literature. This section includes several poems by Gerard Previn Meyers. "Hats Off to Capp," Mike Marrell's tribute to Al Capp, leads off a series of articles on collecting illustrated books. Murray Robin writes about books illustrated and autographed by the artist. Alida Roochvarg tells of her long interest in collecting posters, followed by Hank Salerno's account of collecting "his" incunabula--early writings on Japanese woodblock prints. Travel guides of the 19th century are discussed by Werner Elias, starting a group of articles on author and subject collecting. David Galerstein pursues Sherlockian collecting interests, Max Kleinman describes his Winston Churchill collection, and Carol Meyerson writes about collecting the works of John Hersey. Fan Parker shares some of the difficulties facing the Nabokov collector, while Lee Temares lists the earliest Limited Editions Club ephemera. Evert Volkersz describes Thomas Coryate's early solo walk. Issues of Journal 5 may be ordered from the Long Island Book Collectors, c/o David M. King, Treasurer, 5 Brouwer Lane, Rockville Centre, N.Y. 11570. Only prepaid order can be accepted, in U.S. currency, $16 per issue, which includes domestic shipping and handling. This is an occasional, non- subscription journal. All previous issues are out-of-print. For further information, contact Evert Volkersz, Special Collections Department, SUNY at Stony Brook. Voice: 516-632-7119. Bitnet: evolkersz@sbccmail. Internet: evolkersz@ccmail.sunysb.edu From: "Peter I. Kuniholm" Subject: Re: 7.0006 Modelling (1/33) Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 17:42:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 18 (30) Re. modelling: I have always looked on the notion of modelling with a certain amount of suspicion as colleagues (humanists and social scientists) tried to use them (models) to make their work seem more like that of the hard scientists. At lunch the other day I asked Alfred Kahn (the economist chap who is responsible for our cramped seats on the airlines) what he thought about models, particularly the econometric ones. He replied that he thinks they are a fad which will sooner or later pass. For whatever THAT is worth.... Peter Kuniholm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter Ian Kuniholm, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology, G-35 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-3201. Tel. (607)255-8650 lab.; (607)255-9732 office; (607)257-7845 home. BITNET address = MCG@CORNELLC INTERNET address = PETER@DENDRO.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 7.0006 Modelling (1/33) Date: Tue, 18 May 93 17:11:49 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 19 (31) Willard as usual has proposed challenging material....my first reaction was to wonder if the computer modelling referred to might more likely prove to be analog rather than digital, but I see no restrictions on the form and type of the chosen model. Being the sort whose first response to many questions is "probably not", I do feel the need to suggest that although my computer databases are in fact abstract modes of usng or analysing real-world data, the "model" into which I put the data does not reflect its real-world structure. Or does it ? We rarely find words with grammatical, chronological, and etymological information attached: yet I have argued in several papers that this kind of knowledge represent knowledge we "have"for speech in our own time without the need for computer databases: when we read, for instance, the "Oxen of the Sun" pasaage in _Ulysses_ we know it is a parody of the historical development of English and English prose because we can identify the words and spellings and syntax as old, older, oldest, and the style as parodic of OE prose, Malory, etc. We do not read Middle English texts with the same kind of certain awareness about the stylistics of the passage, and that is one thing my database tries to supply [base apologies for citing my own work but it is where I am]. So in terms of the article you cite, I have brought vertain kinds of verbal meta-structures into a model (database) which my own mind created, in order to let my mind analyze them and compare their modes of existence in one poem to that in another. Probably so, Willard, especially at a level of abstraction. But you should see the debates that the database has prompted among medievalists...some simply reject the notion that this kind of analysis in any way replicatews what medieval readers of ME texts would do, or even recognize. The arugment seems to be that my model is not only inadewuate, not only inaccurate, but (should be) non-existent. It is perhaps in reacting to this kind of criticism that my first response is "no, I have not modelled the vocabularoy of ME...I merely list it, in a simple set of scalars, and the listing is the result of random chance." I have the horible feeling that this does not help at all, Willard, but I'll toss it on the pile anyhow to see if anyone can use it.... -- Norman Hinton hinton@eagle.sangamon.edu From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Re: 7.0015 Database Formats (1/57) Date: Tue, 18 May 93 11:49:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 20 (32) Brett Charbeneau has asked about formats for descriptive bibliography in the context of using DBase III and/or MARC. Two brief comments: 1) If records are intended to be developed to be shared among libraries then the MARC format should be used if at all possible. A great deal of social investment has gone into making this format usable and sharable, and that shouldn't be thrown away in the interest of a local economy. Using one of the national utilities to do the work seems like the direction to go. 2) Failing that as a possibility, then the MARC format should be used as a guide to developing structures in another data base version. The goal should be to make machine conversion feasible at a later date. Implications are therefore that the MARC data elements that are essential (see: quality requirements for the favored bib. utility) should be provided as distinct data elements in the data base (DBase, e.g.) so that they could be mapped into the MARC format by a machine conversion. This might include seemingly redundant or laborious field entries e.g. for tags, fixed fields, and the like. Information that is considered useful but not required by MARC formats directly should be thought about in terms of the MARC note structures. ======== The MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) communications format is well designed and the exchange medium of choice, and in this country the LC MARC version is what is desirable to follow. I hope this helps. --pg Peter S. Graham Rutgers University Libraries (908) 932-5908 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, N. J. 08903 Fax: (908) 932-5888 From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0015 Database Formats (1/57) Date: Tue, 18 May 93 11:15:43 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 21 (33) Anybody concerend seriously with bibliographical data has to know about MARC, and it is obviously useful to be able to upload and data from any program you use into MARC format and conversely receive it. There are PC-based MARC programs, and I suspect that some of them have the capability of importing DBASE files. The librarians would be better qualified to talk about the specifics. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: "David Zeitlyn, Soc. & Cult. Anthropology, Subject: ethnomusicological gardening Qn for HUmanist Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 12:20:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 22 (34) To the readers of Humanist and Music-l Hello, I am writing on behalf of a colleague, Helen La Rue, who is not yet connected to Email to ask for suggestions for an ethnomusicological garden that she is planning behind the Balfour Building of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The Balfour building houses a collection of musical instruments from all round the world. The idea is to make a garden that is both attractive to the eye, and to follow a muscialogical theme - so suggestions are welcome for plants that are either used in the making of musical instruments - we already have arunda donax the source of the reed for oboes, clarinets, bagpipes etc or plants whose names have musical allusions - all the trumpet named flowers etc. We need plants that are hardy to survive a central/southern English climate without the benefits of hothouses. Some +/- sheltered walls are available however. Also, if you suggest an obscure plant please suggest sources! I look forward to some entertaining suggestions Many thanks in advance for your help David Zeitlyn From: Sarah L. Higley Subject: Jawbone in Judges Date: Thu, 20 May 93 11:46:15 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 23 (35) Judges 15:15-17: [Sampson] found the jawbone of an ass, all raw, and picked it up and slew a thousand men. He made this saying: With the jaw-bone of an ass I have flayed them like asses; with the jaw-bone of an ass I have slain a thousand men. What is the critical consensus on this translation of "Lehi" amongst Biblical scholars? I have heard that "jawbone" might be a mistranslation. "Lehi" is the word for both "jawbone" and a place name. Is there much commentary about this passage? Sampson goes on to name the place of slaughter _Ramath-lehi_ or "Jawbone Hill." Could this be a pun? What interpretations other than "jawbone" have been suggested? On the one hand, the vivid image of Sampson killing a whole army with a jawbone is an entrenched and famous one, but it's also so ... weird. Am I right in assuming that there is some perplexity about this passage? Sarah Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu From: ASANDERS at UMAB Subject: Date: 18 May 93, 16:56:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 24 (36) Goucher College has an opening for full-time Spanish instructor. Please contact Linda Koski (410-337-6237) as soon as possible. From: Evelyn Ehrlich Subject: PHI Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 13:39:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 25 (37) Does anyone have the address for the Packard Humanities Institute? Please address your answer to me personally, not to the list. Thank you. Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Recent Computing & Info Books Date: Fri, 14 May 93 12:15:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 26 (38) Read any good books lately? In particular, what in your opinion are the best books of the last five years on computer science and information science? What about computer literacy and information literacy? Or special aspects of these subjects? I'm interested in books published during or after 1988 and in knowing what you liked (or disliked) about them. I'm revising the article on "Computers and Information Science" for the 14th edition of _The Reader's Advisor_ and would appreciate any suggestions and comments. If you reply directly to me, I'll summarize and post the results. Thanks for any help you can provide -- and please forgive any cross-postings. Heyward Ehrlich (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) Dept. of English, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102 USA Office voice: (201) 648-5444; Office FAX: (201) 648-1450 From: robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) Subject: Chesterton poetry, e-copy Date: Mon, 17 May 93 17:23:43 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 27 (39) I vaguely recall seeing electronic copy of some of G. K. Chesterton's poems on a file server, but have lost the source. OTA appears to have nothing of Chesterton's (in the short catalogue). I'll be grateful for any leads on Chesterton's works in etext format. Thanks, 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) 709-2433 Internet: robin@txsil.sil.org From: "Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University " Subject: copyright of email discussions? Date: 18 May 1993 12:10:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 28 (40) An offlist colleague asks me to post the following: Is it a breach of copyright, or ethics, for someone to quote in published work a communication they have read on an email network like the Humanist discussion group? This kind of informal academic exchange provides great data for, say, historians of ideas or linguists. But if someone wanted to exploit it as a data source, would they have to ask permission from (a)the sender of the message, (b) network users generally? Assuming citation were permitted, should the content be cited without naming the sender (as with informants in social science research?) Who decides this kind of issue? --Deborah Cameron, University of Strathclyde, e-mail chcs07@UK.AC.STRATHCLYDE. VAXE. From: Charles.Hadley@cism.univ-lyon1.fr Subject: Genealogy data bases Date: 18 May 1993 11:24:36 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 29 (41) Does anyone know whether, and if so, how it might be possible to consult the genealogical database maintained by the Mormon Church in Salt Lake? Thanks Charles Hadley Universite Jean Moulin Lyon III home: 39 rue Conde 69002 Lyon France home phone: +33 78 92 82 14 From: Bronwen Heuer Subject: Computer Simulations in U.S. History Date: Tue, 18 May 93 17:36:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 30 (42) I am attempting to find one of Dr. John E. Semonche's "Encountering the Past: Computer Simulations in U. S. History" simulations. The one I am interested in is on the Women's Suffrage movement: "1912: Can You Get Your State to Approve a Woman's Suffrage Amendment?" I have called Harcourt, Brace, Janovich, Inc. (the advertised supplier according to the literature I have) but they do not have that one. Does anyone know where to get this simulation....or does someone have an email address for John Semonche at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? bronwen heuer phone (516) 632-8054 instructional computing frank melville, jr. memorial library s1460 stony brook, ny 11794-3350 bronwen@ccvm.sunysb.edu From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: FW: Notice of conference Date: 19 May 1993 12:17:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 22 (43) I have been asked to pass these conference details on ... please excuse the cross posting and accept my apologies if you get more than 1 copy. Simon Rae - The Open University, UK s.a.rae@open.ac.uk _______________________________________________________________________________ Subj: Conference details... INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMPUTER CONFERENCING IN HIGHER EDUCATION 6 and 7 July 1993 St Catherine's College, Oxford A conference organised by Birkbeck College, University of London and the Employment Department. Introduction: Higher education is experiencing great change and challenge to its established practices. One area of considerable change concerns the use of new technologies. In particular, computer developments are beginning to offer viable and cost-effective alternatives to traditional teaching. Computer conferencing is at the forefront of developments in teaching and learning which allow learners to become self-paced. It can achieve a number of educational goals through allowing a group of people, geographically dispersed and communicating at different times, to interact along the lines of a traditional face-to-face tutor group. Considerable knowledge has already been gained about the uses of conferencing in teaching within higher and further education, though much development and evaluation research still remains to be undertaken. This conference will take stock of what we understand about the technical and educational aspects of using computer conferencing in higher education and will take a critical perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of using this medium. This, it is hoped, will not only promote productive discussion amongst current practitioners, but will also prove beneficial to others considering using computer conferencing as a teaching medium. Conference objectives: The objectives of the conference are twofold: - to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas amongst the leading experts in the field of computer conferencing; this with a view to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of conferencing in order that it might better serve its intended purpose, i.e. as an effective teaching medium. Papers will be presented by invited speakers; in addition sessions will be run in parallel with the workshops, where a stream of refereed papers will be presented. It is the organisers' intention that both invited and refereed papers will subsequently be published as a collected volume. - to broaden the appeal of computer conferencing within institutions of higher and further education by bringing together leading practitioners and potential users (academic, computing and administrative staff). The latter will therefore have ample opportunities to discover more about a medium which is still little understood beyond a small user community. Participants The conference is directed both at those educational institutions which are considering or already planning the use of computer conferencing (both for distance and attending students) and also at those who have engaged in development work and research into computer conferencing. The conference is planned for around 100 participants. Conference structure: The conference takes place over two days, starting at 10am on 6 July and continuing until 4pm on 7 July. There are invited speakers from the USA, Canada, the Netherlands and the UK. Developments in several countries will be reviewed and assessed. In addition, there will be parallel sessions where open and invited speakers will be contributing. There are four themes: 1) Technical developments in computer conferencing. This workshop session is intended to examine issues surrounding the use of conferencing systems, plus developments - actual or proposed - which will facilitate that use by a wider audience. Contributors will critically assess the systems they are using in the light of users' experiences. 2) Getting off the ground: the management of computer conferencing. Institutions need to consider electronic innovations from the perspective of performance and resource criteria. Papers will consider the financial, staffing and other resource implications against expected gains for the institution. 3) Teaching and learning using computer conferencing. These papers will address issues of the evaluation of computer conferencing as a medium for teaching and learning and would explore the impact of the use of conferencing on different courses, with varied learning objectives and learning styles. 4) Practical sessions These will demonstrate systems in use in various educational establishments and will enable participants to raise practical questions about using conferencing. Cost: #115.00 per delegate to cover all proceedings, including meals. Accommodation at the College is available at a cost of #35.00, including breakfast. Contact: Allan Tagg Tel: +44 (0)71-631 6286, E-mail: ubjv674@ccs.bbk.ac.uk for more details on the conference content OR Catherine Hewett Tel: +44 (0)222 553829 for details of the conference organisation. From: Chris Amirault Subject: Politics and Ethics Grad Student Conference Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 20:05:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 23 (44) please post... call for papers... please post... call for papers... Politics and Ethics: A graduate student conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 23rd-24th October, 1993 This conference is motivated by a growing sense that analyses of the ethical must inform our politics and our criticisms. We want to investigate what 'ethics' or the ethical mean and how and why we might use those categories in our political and critical practices. We therefore also want to interrogate the 'political', a concept which itself seems to be in crisis at present. Questions we hope the conference will address include: What are the ethical concerns of specific political movements such as feminism, lesbian/gay activism or marxism? In these cases, does the ethical function as just a 'dogmatic moralism' or is it a fundamental factor marking a distinction from other types of theoretical practice? How do we continue to do theoretical and/or political criticism in an academy under attack for its multicultural agendas? How and why do radical or multicultural initiatives 'fail' in the undergraduate classroom? What is our pedagogical or political 'responsibility' and how do we exercise it? What strategies can we use in this climate of 'backlash'? How can we think of our work in terms other than those of marginality and centrality? How can we build coalitions with other political groups outside the academy? Are we able to construct strategies, practical philosophies, pragmatic interventions, from the positions and identities we currently occupy? We hope to address these questions in an atmosphere of informality, allowing plenty of time for discussion. 'Non- traditional' modes of presentation are therefore welcome. Presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. Please send two one-page abstracts by August 1st 1993 to: Jon Beasley-Murray or Kathy Green at Department of English and Comparative Literature, Curtin Hall, UWM, PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. or email jbmurray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu For further information, call (414) 562-2399 please post... call for papers... please post... call for papers... ** this post emailed by chris amirault/amirault@csd4.csd.uwm.edu ** From: hcf1dahl@UCSBUXA.BITNET (Eric Dahlin) Subject: Plea for support Date: Thu, 20 May 93 10:23:15 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 24 (45) Fellow Humanists: The University of California is undergoing another budget crisis, and administrators here at UCSB have indicated that it is a very real possibility that the Humanities Computing Facility here will be closed. Messages of concern and support for our position that the HCF provides an important service to the humanities computing community worldwide through its publishing of _REACH_ and the _ACH Newsletter_ will be deeply appreciated. Please send any replies to my e-mail address below. I will forward them to the appropriate individuals. Messages may be addressed to: Llad Phillips, Acting Provost College of Letters and Science University of California, Santa Barbara Eric Dahlin Humanities Computing Facility University of California, Santa Barbara HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu From: dahanson@COLBY.EDU (David A. Hanson) Subject: Jawbone in Judges Date: Fri, 21 May 93 15:44:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 31 (46) [deleted quotation] Lehi probably comes from the root lamed, het, he meaning "smoothness" but this is not certain. Lehi means "jaw" or "cheek". I've not seen anything suggesting another meaning for lehi (which is no firm assurance that no one has written such) and it is certainly used to mean "jaw" or "cheek" in other contexts in the Bible. The incident (Sampson slaying the thousands) is used to explain the origin of the name Ramat Lehi (The "heights of Lehi") since in Hebrew all names have meaning and often some such story explains how the place got its name. The section abounds in puns, especially verse 16 where the word for "donkey" and "heap" is the same word. Most translations are unable to render the clear pun in Hebrew and the translation above misses it especially badly. I would recommend, for starters, that Ms. Higley have a look at Robert G. Boling's commentary on Judges in the Anchor Bible Commentary Series (available in virtually every library - from Doubleday, 1975). She could then move to other commentaries. The verse is not a difficult one although it is hard for a reader to see all of the puns without a knowledge of Hebrew. A better rendering would be something like: With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, With the jawbone of an ass I have killed a thousand men. recognizing that the word for "ass" and "heap" is the same word. As for the story being "weird," this is the same Sampson who kills a lion with his bare hands and subsequently finds wonderful honey in the carcass. This is the same Sampson that catches 300 foxes and ties their tails together with burning torches in between to burn up all the Philistine grain. Is the account of slaying a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass any more incredible than this other legendary material? Does this help? trwl I forgot to include in my previous message a note that the root het, mem, resh (from which we get the word for "donkey" or "he-ass" and the word "heap" (here "a heap, two heaps") has many meanings. It can mean "to ferment" or "to foam up" and it can mean "to be red." The obvious allusions to violence and bloodshed would not have been lost on the ancient readers. There are far more puns here than your questioner imagined. The pun, after all, in classical Hebrew is seldom a form of humor (never the lowest form) and is much more frequently a vehicle of knowledge. It is like when I use the word "spring" you want to know whether I mean a season of year, a source of cool water, a resilient coil of metal, or the action of Snoopy leaping like a fierce jungle animal out of his tree. The ancient Semite would have looked with wonder at the meaning of the word "spring" which could simultaneously express so much. _____________ David A. Hanson dahanson@colby.edu Assoc. Dir. for Academic Computing voice/voicemail: 207-872-3291 Colby College fax: 207-872-3555 Waterville ME 04901 office: Lovejoy 105 From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Re: 7.0020 Jawbone Query Date: 21 May 93 16:01:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 32 (47) I have nothing helpful to offer on whether a jawbone was indeed Samson's weapon. But the query brings to mind the story of a speaker subjected to a tedious and insulting introduction who then begins his speech, "I come before you as a Philistine, having been slain by the jawbone of an ass." || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || || From: W Schipper Subject: InterScripta: an On-line forum for medievalists Date: Sun, 23 May 93 11:31:10 GMT-3:30 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 26 (48) The following announcement is being distributed to a large number of lists. We apologize for the inconvenience such duplication will cause. INTERSCRIPTA- A Topical On-line Forum for Medievalists Existing discussion lists such as ANSAX-L, ChaucerNet, and MEDTEXTL provide a valuable and exciting forum for sharing information in our field. Rapid dissemination of data and spontaneous exploration of topics are vital characteristics of these lists, but those of us who subscribe to more than one list often find that these characteristics are not always advantageous; we receive more information than we can digest, and we are sometimes frustrated by the repetition, randomness, and lack of focus in topical discussions. Interscripta is being developed as an on-line discussion group that will address these concerns. Rather than providing a completely open forum for unbounded proliferation of ideas, Interscripta will focus on discussion of a specified topic for a designated period of time; the topic will change on a regular basis. Each topic will be proposed and moderated by a scholar in the field, and at the close of the discussion, the moderator will shape the material into an article which will be distributed to all participants for review and commentary before its final revision. Finished articles will be published in the on-line journal Interscripta. The developers of this project believe that Interscripta will provide a forum for directing and focussing our electronic discussions into organized bodies of material representative of cutting edge work in our field. Our approach encourages collaborative work, and our method of publication allows finished articles to be made available without the lag time of traditional journals. This project is not intended to displace existing discussion lists; in fact, we encourage potential moderators to scan the archives of medieval studies lists in search of topics that deserve to be honed and polished for electronic publication. In the spirit of collaboration which is at the heart of this project, the opening topic will be a discussion of the project itself, its goals and future orientation. All those who wish to participate in this formative discussion may subscribe to Interscripta by sending the message: "sub interscripta [your name]" to listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca. Please direct questions and comments to: Deborah Everhart (everhart@cats.ucsc.edu) or William Schipper (schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca). From: cwalton@nevada.edu Subject: WSECS CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Mon, 24 May 93 08:18:53 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 27 (49) Dear Humanist List Colleagues: we would like to share with you the following invitation; as panels, musical and dramatic performances and other details begin to emerge, we shall contact you again in mid-summer: CALL FOR PAPERS "Providence & Probability, Chaos and Order: Eighteenth Century Views" Conference of the Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies University of Nevada, Las Vegas FEBRUARY 18-19-20, 1994 Our topic ranges across moral and natural philosophy, mathematics and the natural sciences, criticism, the arts, emerging themes in social as well as theological studies, dark corners as well as bright prospects of eighteenth century cultures in North, Central and South America, Europe, the Levant and Asia. We especially invite papers treating aspects of our theme among the peoples then living in what is now the southwestern United States. However, and as usual, the Program Committee will consider all papers submitted, on whatever topics are deemed of interest to those responding. Submit proposals, limited to one page, no later than September 15, 1993, to: James Malek, Program Committee Chair College of Liberal Arts P.O. BOX 455001 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV 89154-5001 fax 702-895-4097 e-mail: on internet, on bitnet, or on internet. From: Frank Di Trolio Subject: The Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901 Date: Fri, 21 May 93 12:41:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 33 (50) The _Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901_ (Saur), in 92 volumes, is essentially based on the RLIN database and the records of the American Antiquarian Society, which are also in RLIN. As a subscriber to RLIN we are wondering what the research benefits are which could not be met by the electronic database. We would appreciate any comments or views from those considering the same issues. Frank Di Trolio FRANDIT@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu From: Alan A Green Subject: Aphra Behn text to song by Allen Dwight Sapp Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 17:21:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 34 (51) Greetings: I would appreciate some assistance from any and all Aphra Behn scholars! I am trying to identify the source of a text to a song written as incidental music to a Behn play by the composer Allen Dwight Sapp. Please contact me directly if you would like to give it a try. Thanks, Alan Green Ohio State University Music Library green.200@osu.edu (614) 292-2319 From: "Marc Eisinger (+33 (1) 49 05 72 27)" Subject: Calendars Date: Tue, 25 May 93 09:34:12 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 35 (52) I'm looking for a description of calendars from Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, etc.) : the way they work, how do they deal with the .2422 of the 365.2422 days of the year, lunar cycles and so on. Not so much with the ritual, sociological, magical aspects but the "mechanical" side. Any references ? Thanks in advance. Marc From: Marilynne W. Stout, Ph.D. Subject: Antiquities Images Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 14:57:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 36 (53) I am working with a faculty member who is creating a software package on ancien t greek and roman sites. This is very different from Perseus. Anyway, we are trying to locate several items and need some pointers please. 1. name and address of someone/team/univeristy who has created a CAD rend ering of the acropolis. 2. names, etc of individuals who have already digitized images which they are willing to share -- we are very aware of copyright issues. Thanks for any help you can offer. Marilynne W. Stout, Ph.D. / / Penn State University Coordinator, / /___ 227-B Computer Bldg. Instructional Design /_______/ University Park PA 16802 CBEL ___/____/__* From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: gender and semantics Date: Tue, 25 May 93 19:07:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 37 (54) I am working on personification in a Latin text, and as a result need to become familiar with current arguments about the relation between grammatical gender and semantic structures. I know about Greville Corbett's _Gender_ (1991) but am not a linguist & so am feeling the need for a range of expert advice. Thanks in advance. Willard McCarty From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne) Subject: Re: 7.0019 Rs: Database Formats Date: Fri, 21 May 93 14:00:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 38 (55) [deleted quotation] The MARC format is better than DBASE for this purpose because it uses variable length fields and was designed for bibliographic data. However, it is not an easy format to work with and many PC users who could benefit from the data would not have access to conversion software. One program that will convert from MARC to DBASE and back is the Data Magician. If you want information on this program, contact me directly. Harry Hahne hahne@epas.utoronto.ca From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0021 E-Qs: E-Books; E-Texts; E-Copyright; Apps; Genes (5/88) Date: Fri, 21 May 93 09:55:16 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 39 (56) E-Copyright: I think that "fair use" can easily be applied to the nets, and that scholarly conventions for print can also be extended fairly easily. Thus you may cite materials which appear on the net if you credit them to their authors. To the extent to which owners have provided a structure (e.g., Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0021. Friday, 21 May 1993) that should be given; or, failing that, conventions similar to those which you would use in citing a private letter. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU Subject: Re: 7.0020 Qs: Music Garden; Jawbone; Spanish Job; PHI (4/71) Date: 21 May 1993 16:02:36 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 40 (57) Re: Music Garden, I suggest these from Theocritean/Vergilian pastoral: a pine tree from Theocritus 1.1 (_hadu ti to psithurisma kai ha pitus, aipole._._._) and common oats from Vergil Ecl. 1.1 (_Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi/silvestrem tenui Musam meditaris avena_--well it's 1.2 then). Owen Cramer From: Tom Donaldson Subject: German language "stemmers" Date: Fri, 21 May 93 12:21:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 30 (58) Back in April I submitted requests for information on language stemmers (sub-area of "morphological analysis" involving generation of roots and inflected forms) to two mailing lists: LINGUIST Thanks to Patty Schmidt, a linguist at Logos USA, for directing me to the LINGUIST mailing list, and to Lifen Chen and Arlene Puryear (more Georgetown linguists) for directing me to Patty. I believe that Patty's employer, Logos USA, develops machine translation software. INSOFT-L Mailing list primarily for those concerned with internationalization of software. Thanks to all who responded! Below is a summary of responses and other results. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] -------------------------------------------- Internet address: EVERTH@AppleLink.Apple.COM I am directing the marketing of CNS (Circle Noetic Services). We are a linguistic software company in New Hampshire (USA). CNS has developed a product called "WordFan" that is exactly aimed at the market that you describe. WordFan will produce all conjugated forms of an input word, or derive the base form from any of its conjugated forms. The first version of WordFan will be released in mid of '93 for English. Other languages to follow. German is high up on the list indeed. Japanese is currently not under development, but: Russian, Arabic and most Western European languages. CNS was founded in 1987 and has since then provided hyphenation algorithms (now in 29 languages) and spelling checking (now in 13 languages, incl. Arabic) for the computing industry. Our products have been licensed by major national and international vendors for typesetting, word processing and DTP applications. CNS also offers or has under development: IOW (In Other Words), a large lexical database with over a million concepts and relations based on over 100,000 English words. Linguistic tools for OCR and hand writing recognition. Wordlists in many languages: conjugated, with rule markings and conjugation rules, morphological breakdown, morphological cross references,.... and many more. The WordFan product will in the future also include many other relations besides "conjugation" like: synonym, antonym, homolog ... etc. Hammer -> (is a) tool -> [other tools] for example. WordFan will also come (optionally) with algorithms to split Germanic compound words like: "Bundestagsverwaltungshauptapparat" or other such tongue twisting monsters. (I am German by the way.) Splitting Germanic compound words should be a must for text retrieval software in these languages. Our technology is being developed by former linguists and programmers from MIT. Please call us at (603) 672-6151 or fax: (603) 672-8025 for further information. Via internet use: D1634@AppleLink.Apple.COM or my personal id: EVERTH@AppleLink.Apple.COM ------------------------------------ [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------ Internet address: klinden@ling.Helsinki.FI Lingsoft is a small software company in Finland. We specialize in morphology and morphosyntactic analysis. Our methods are based on the Kimmo Koskenniemi two-level model. We also sell products based on the FiniteState-syntactic model presented last week at the EACL. That paper received the Don Walker Award for best paper. We have: 0. spell-checking and hyphenation 1. morphological analysis and generation 2. stemming for information retrieval 3. part-of-speech tagging ( >99% correct, <5% ambiguity) 4. NP extraction for text indexing and retrieval ( >98% recall, >95% precision) 5. surface syntactic analysis 6. grammar checker English 1,2,3,4,5 German 1 (end of May), 0,2 (end of summer) Swedish 0,1,2,3 Russian 0,1,2 Finnish 0,1,2,3,6 Danish 1, 0,2,3 (end of year) Swahili 1,2 All the lexicons have between 40.000 and 80.000 roots. The programs are programmed in C and have been ported to various platforms. The speed of all the tools are btw 600-1000 w/s on a Sparcstation 2. In a near future we will have tools for French, Estonian, Italian and Norwegian as well. Krister Linden Lingsoft Inc. --- tomd: From sales literature send via hardcopy mail, I learned that Prof Kimmo Koskenniemi is one of the "founders and principal owners of Lingsoft." He developed a "two-level model" of morphological analysis that seems to be popular as the basis of software for morphological analysis. ------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------- Internet address: rws@research.att.com Probably the best and most general available commercial software for doing this kind of thing is PC-KIMMO, which you can actually get for free by anonymous FTP. I enclose some info (dated January 92 -- I assume it still holds) on that below. There is also a book to go with that by Evan Antworth, which you can get from the Summer Institute of Linguistics (address below). For more general discussion of various methods for doing computational morphology, you can also consult two recent MIT Press Books: 1. Computational Morphology: Practical mechanisms for the English lexicon. By Graeme D. Ritchie, Graham J. Russell, Alan W. Black and Stephen G. Pulman. ACL-MIT Press Series in Natural Language Processing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992 2. And my own 1992 book in the same series, Morphology and Computation. Mine covers a wider variety of stuff than does the Ritchie et al. book. Richard Sproat Linguistics Research Department AT&T Bell Laboratories | tel (908) 582-5296 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2d-451 | fax (908) 582-7308 Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA | rws@research.att.com --- TomD: Richard also enclosed a lengthy "news" item on PC-KIMMO from Evan Antworth. It seemed a bit too long to include here, but see the next item *from* Evan Antworth. --------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet address: evan.antworth@sil.org Here is some information on PC-KIMMO, a program for morphological parsing. It has been reviewed in _Computational Linguistics_ 17:2, June 1991 and also in _Computers and the Humanities_ 26:2, April 1992. We provide the C source code with the intention that it be used in programs developed by the user. Of course, I cannot say whether or not it could successfully be used in your application. Let me know if I can help you further. Evan Antworth evan.antworth@sil.org ------------------------------------------ PC-KIMMO: A Two-level Processor for Morphological Analysis WHAT IS PC-KIMMO? PC-KIMMO is a new implementation for microcomputers of a program dubbed KIMMO after its inventor Kimmo Koskenniemi (see Koskenniemi 1983). It is of interest to computational linguists, descriptive linguists, and those developing natural language processing systems. The program is designed to generate (produce) and/or recognize (parse) words using a two-level model of word structure in which a word is represented as a correspondence between its lexical level form and its surface level form. Work on PC-KIMMO began in 1985, following the specifications of the LISP implementation of Koskenniemi's model described in Karttunen 1983. The coding has been done in Microsoft C by David Smith and Stephen McConnel under the direction of Gary Simons and under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. The aim was to develop a version of the two-level processor that would run on an IBM PC compatible computer and that would include an environment for testing and debugging a linguistic description. The PC-KIMMO program is actually a shell program that serves as an interactive user interface to the primitive PC-KIMMO functions. These functions are available as a C-language source code library that can be included in a program written by the user. [tomd: much text deleted] HOW TO CONTACT US PC-KIMMO is a research project in progress, not a finished commercial product. In this spirit, we invite your response to the software and the book. Please direct your comments to: Academic Computing Department PC-KIMMO project 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. phone: 214/709-3346, -2418 email: evan.antworth@sil.org (Evan Antworth) REFERENCES Antworth, Evan L. 1990. PC-KIMMO: a two-level processor for morphological analysis. Occasional Publications in Academic Computing No. 16. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. ISBN 0-88312-639-7, 273 pages, paperbound. Karttunen, Lauri. 1983. KIMMO: a general morphological processor. Texas Linguistic Forum 22:163-186. Koskenniemi, Kimmo. 1983. Two-level morphology: a general computational model for word-form recognition and production. Publication No. 11. University of Helsinki: Department of General Linguistics. ---------------------- [deleted quotation] ---------------------- Internet Address: hersey@vnet.IBM.COM We do have a system that both lemmatizes ("stems") and generates all inflected forms, and it is available for about 19 European languages. We also do lemmatization for Japanese. The code is language-independent: you just plug in the dictionary you need and go from there. This same service also performs hyphenation (not for Japanese -- it isn't ever hyphenated) and spell-checking. This system is available for Windows, OS/2, AIX, VM and MVS. I should mention that our morphological processing only handles inflectional morphology: "compute" can generate "computes", "computed" and "computing" (all forms of the verb "to compute"), but it will not generate "computer". The "-er" and other affixes that change the part of speech are known as derivational morphology, and our service doesn't handle that area (yet). I'm not the one to give pricing information. Please contact Brian Gessel at 301-803-2943 for that; he's our business person. He can also provide you with an OEM fact sheet that lists all of the languages and sizes. Regards, Ian -------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] -------------------------------------------------------- Internet Address: stieger@inf.ethz.ch [tomd: Dani Stieger is responding to a query regarding a German language stemmer based on the "Porter algorithm."] As I mentioned to your colleague there is no serious report about our experiments. I am in possession of a "Semester Work" (a short report performed by a student) about this subject. It is NOT available in machine readable form [tomd: text deleted] AND ... it is written in GERMAN. The Report contains also a listing of the german Porter algorithm (written in MODULA-2 !!). Furthermore, you need the decomposition of german words so that you are really stemming the right (ending) part of the word (as you know, german words may be composed of several words). For the decomposition I used an automatically generated dictionnary (215'000 german words). [tomd: text deleted] [deleted quotation] M.F. Porter: An Algorithm for Suffix Stripping. Program, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1980, pp. 130-137. [tomd: text deleted] Dani ************************************************************************ Daniel Stieger stieger@inf.ethz.ch Institut fuer Informationssysteme ETH Zentrum, IFW E43.2 Tel: +41-1-254-7226 CH - 8092 Zuerich Fax: +41-1-262-3973 ************************************************************************ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thanks again for all your help, Tom # Tom Donaldson 2400 Research Blvd., Suite 350 # # Senior Software Developer Rockville, MD 20850 # # Personal Library Software (301) 990-1155, FAX: (301) 963-9738 # # e-mail: tomd@pls.com # From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Request for information Date: 26 May 93 15:04:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 31 (59) I would appreciate information that readers of this list may be able to provide related to an appearance on the Calvin College campus on April 22 by Colorado anti-gay activist David Noebel, whose lecture was sponsored by the College Republicans. Yesterday a national religious news program offered Noebel 90 minutes to complain of the inhospitable reception he received and of Calvin's alleged surrender to PC relativism. Also yesterday I heard reports that the incident has been cited on electronic newsgroups read by the lesbian and gay community as an example of the college's insensitivity and entrenched homophobia. These inconsistent criticisms can hardly both be accurate; I believe they are equally inaccurate. It is inappropriate here to delve into the particulars of the incident. I will say only that Noebel's demagogic harangue proved to be a catalyst for some unusually open and honest discussions among students, faculty, and members of the local community, in a subsequent forum and in our student newspaper. But I would be most appreciative of information that any reader of this list might be able to provide about references to the incident that have come to their attention in electronic newsgroups. I would also appreciate hearing from individuals who may have had experience in dealing with Mr. Noebel. Please reply privately to the address below, and accept my thanks. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || || From: "Rick H." <100113.3343@CompuServe.COM> Subject: seminar series announcement Date: 28 May 93 09:51:25 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 32 (60) Please post the following seminar series announcement on your lists. Further information can be obtained from Rick Halpern, Department of History, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. ucrahex@ucl.ac.uk or 100113.3343@compuserve.com. Many thanks. Syndicalism: Movements, Organizations, and Ideologies A Seminar Series in Comparative Labour and Working Class History All seminars are held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E, Fridays at 5:00 pm. 15 October, Introductory Session 29 October, Marcel van der Linden (International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam), "The Rise and Fall of International Syndicalism: a Global Perspective" 12 November, Baruch Hirson (London), "Currents of Syndicalism in South Africa, 1907-1917" 26 November, Carl Levy (Goldsmiths), "Currents of Italian Syndicalism Before Fascism" 10 December, Douglas Johnson (UCL), "The Syndicalist Tradition in France" * * * * * * * 21 January, Paul Henderson (Wolverhampton), "Syndicalism in Latin America" 4 February, Chris Ealham (LSE), "Spanish Syndicalism and Anarcho- syndicalism" 15 February, Ron Mendel (Birkbeck), "The Syndicalist Impulse in American Labor, 1905-1935" 4 March, David Kirby (SSEES), "Was There a Syndicalist Tradition in Scandinavia?" 18 March, Phil Taylor (Glasgow), "Syndicalism and British Labour: Looking Beyond the Shop Stewards Movement" * * * * * * 13 May, Roundtable Discussion: Towards a Definition of Syndicalism: Problems, Possibilities, and Prospects The seminar extends thanks to the Institute of Historical Research, the University College London History Department, and the Graduate School of University College London for their generous financial assistance. Rick Halpern From: ide@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr (Nancy Ide) Subject: For publication: Text Software Initiative Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:57:25 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 33 (61) The Text Software Initiative ---------------------------- An international effort to promote the development and use of free text software The widespread availability of large amounts of electronic text and linguistic data in recent years has dramatically increased the need for generally available, flexible text software. Commercial software for text analysis and manipulation covers only a fraction of research needs, and it is often expensive and hard to adapt or extend to fit a particular research problem. Software developed by individual researchers and labs is often experimental and hard to get, hard to install, under-documented, and sometimes unreliable. Above all, most of this software is incompatible. As a result, it is not at all uncommon for researchers to develop tailor-made systems that replicate much of the functionality of other systems and in turn create programs that cannot be re-used by others, and so on in an endless software waste cycle. The reusability of data is a much-discussed topic these days; similarly, we need "software reusability", to avoid the re-inventing of the wheel characteristic of much language-analytic research in the past three decades. The Text Software Initiative (TSI) is committed to solving this problem by working to o establish and publish guidelines and standards for the development of text software; o promulgate and coordinate the development of free TSI- conformant software. The scope of the TSI covers all areas of analysis and manipulation of all kinds of texts (written or spoken, mono-lingual or multi- lingual parallel, etc.), including markup of physical and logical text features, linguistic analysis and annotation, browsing and retrieval, statistical analysis, and other text-related tasks in research in computational linguistics, humanities computing, terminology and lexicography, speech, etc. The TSI software development effort is distributed, that is, anyone can contribute on a voluntary basis. This means that tools will be developed according to the contributors' priorities; however, the TSI is ultimately working towards the development of a comprehensive text handling system. To ensure software compatibility and reusability and enable distributed development, the TSI is committed to: o design and publish program interface conventions o determine and publish guidelines for programming style and documentation o stress separation of code and linguistic data to ensure (natural) language independence o emphasize breaking high-level text-handling tasks into more primitive, reusable functions o provide a library of primitive text-handling tools o maintain a task list and set priorities o circulate information such as progress reports, revisions to the standard, availability of new software, etc. o set up a mechanism for testing and evaluation o maintain mailing lists for comments, bug reports, suggestions, etc. The TSI works in relation with other standardization groups, notably the Text Encoding Initiative and the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES). All TSI software is free in the sense defined in the Free Software Foundation's General Public License, which guarantees the freedom to copy, redistribute, and modify software, and protects this freedom by requiring those who pass on the software to include the rights to further redistribute it and see and change the code. Distribution of TSI software is accomplished in relation with other dissemination groups such as the Free Software Foundation, RELATOR, and the Linguistic Data Consortium. The TSI does not provide technical support, but organizes a network of voluntary consultants and support people. PROJECT COORDINATORS Nancy Ide, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA ide@cs.vassar.edu Jean Veronis, Universite de Provence/CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France veronis@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr GENERAL ADVISORY BOARD Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Geneva Mark Liberman, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts Donald Walker, Bellcore, Morristown New Jersey Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa The TSI also includes a TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD of software developers. From: banks@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0028 Qs: [Calendars] Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 09:41:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 41 (62) Marc Eisinger writes: [deleted quotation] There is a moderately technical discussion of the Hindu calendar (though not discussing the .2422 of a day) in C. J. Fuller's _The camphor flame: popular Hinduism and society in India_ (Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 263-66. He also includes a number of suggestions for further reading. I would also suggest posting the request to the INDOLOGY list (INDOLOGY@uk.ac.liverpool). However, as an anthropologist I ought to point out that the '"mechanical" side' can't really be divorced from the 'ritual, sociological, magical aspects'! Marcus Banks University of Oxford From: ALAN COOPER Subject: Re: 7.0025 Rs: Jawbones (2/75) Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 10:37:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 42 (63) It's certainly not impossible to translate the Hebrew pun in Judges 15:16. Going back to C.F. Burney's Judges commentary of 1918, one finds "With the jawbone of an ass I have thoroughly assed them," with a learned note about the English verb "to ass," already attested in the 16th century. Even better is the French rendering of Levesque, cited by Burney ad loc., "Avec une m<^a>choire de rosse, je les ai bien ross<'e>s." And perhaps best of all is the solution often proposed orally by Marvin Pope (Professor Emeritus of Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages at Yale)--although I do not know if he ever put it into print: "With the jawbone of an ass, mass upon mass." As for the suitability of the weapon, I cite the following from George Foot Moore's Judges commentary of 1903 without comment: "A party of Meccan idolaters having come upon the believers at prayer in a retired place, words led to blows, and Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas broke the head of one of the heathen with the jawbone (lahy = Hebrew lehi) of a camel." (This tradition is reported by both Tabari and Ibn Hisham.) Both Moore and Burney, incidentally, take pains to note that the jawbone is described as "fresh" in verse 15; that means, according to Moore, "heavy and tough; an old weathered bone would be too light and brittle to serve such a purpose." With good wishes, Alan Cooper, Hebrew Union College From: AL6HENGF@MIAMIU Subject: Memory Hard and Soft Date: Fri, 28 May 93 14:43:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 43 (64) In response to Professor Rabkin's brilliant essay on memory I want to just add that although we cannot "interrogate a text" as we do a speaker, we can interrogate a text, open it up, read it against the grain, make it resonate with other texts, in short simulate the dialogic situation that we find with speakers. That has been the burden of seeing "books" as "texts" in recent critical theory, or reading in books their discursive formations. The story about the Kandagan in New Guinea is fascinating and a healthy caution to us about the meaning and function of technology in the world. I am also interested in another narrative, the one in which the contemporary westerner tries out a point or strategy of resistence to technologies that seem harmful or damaging in some way. Rabkin's discussion of the camera is compelling to me because outright rejection of this particular technology is only one possible strategy of resistence to its effects. I wanted to point out others in my last dispatch. Incidentally, I was exaggerating about my memory of meals although I trust my point was taken despite the irony of the telling. Also, I admire the Dunkers for their rejection of book technology, but only because for them and for their culture the sense of language as discourse, books as texts, was not available. Were the culture more given to understanding the book as fluid, permeable, provisional, perhaps the Dunkers would not have felt such pressure from Franklin to produce their completed revelations in print form. Andy Lakritz, Miami University From: KSBALL@ucs.indiana.edu Subject: Computers & Lit. classes Date: Mon, 31 May 93 14:25:38 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 35 (65) Dear Humanist members: I recently completed a dissertation in the English department at Indiana University on the use of computers in the teaching of literature at the college level. Thanks to all those Humanist members who helped me with the research for this project. Since my topic may be of interest to some of you, I am attaching an abstract of the dissertation. If you would like to read any part of the study (including the appendix listing relevant applications, databases, lists, e-journals, associations and centers), please contact me by e-mail at "KSBALL@ucs.Indiana.Edu" (internet) or "KSBALL@IUBACS" (bitnet), and I will be happy to send you an ascii copy of the requested text. -Kim Ball The abstract: LITERARY LOGIC: THE UNIVERSITY LITERATURE CLASS IN THE AGE OF THE COMPUTER In the first chapter of the dissertation, I examine the many reasons why the computer has not been more extensively employed in the teaching of English, including the traditional hostility of humanists toward science and technology and the struggle between hostility toward science and attraction to "scientific method" in the English department. I raise the issue of electronic text and its consequences for the distinction between literature and non- literature and for the role of the author. Finally, I observe that we, the academics who study literature and teach it to undergraduates, need to analyze the technology which is being used and to make informed decisions about it, whether we decide to use it in our own classrooms and departments or not. In chapter two, I discuss the present state of affairs in U.S. English departments, both in terms of literary theory and pedagogical approach, focusing on the current issues in the teaching of literature raised by Scholes, Graff, and Ohmann. I then consider attempts to apply current literary theory to the teaching of literature classes and conclude that few of these attempts at reform have effected real change either in terms of practice or in the power structure of the classroom. All of the approaches studied leave students in the passive role traditionally reserved for them in the literature classroom. In chapter three, I address the difficulty of evaluating educational software applications, review the available research into the effectiveness of computer-assisted learning and teaching, and conclude with a consideration of the import of active, authentic learning. This chapter sets the stage for the detailed investigations of how specific software packages are being used in the teaching of literature that comprise chapters four and five. In chapter four, I first describe what hypertext is, then I continue, in more detail, the discussion from chapter two on literary theory and from chapter three on pedagogical theory, now focusing specifically on hypertext. I then examine in chapter five the claims made for hypertext through case studies of hypertext applications in literature classes at Brown University, the College of Wooster, and the University of Texas at Austin. Chapter six follows the pattern established in chapter five but is devoted to investigating non-hypertext applications, including those being used in literature classes at the College of Wooster and at Stanford University. In the conclusion, I maintain that the most effective applications of computer technology in the English literature class allow students to actively engage in the academic conversation. Students in these classes are not just absorbing information; they are also helping decide what information is relevant, what the parameters of the literary discussion are to be. The dynamics of these classrooms are changing; students self-consciously employ intertextual approaches to learning, the role of the teacher changes from that of authoritative arbiter of meaning to that of facilitator, students accept increased responsibility for meaning- making, and the classroom becomes a community of active learners working collaboratively. Such changes, whether facilitated by the use of computers or otherwise, are necessary if the teaching of English literature is going to remain relevant to a changing student population in a world where, for many people, reading is no longer a primary mode of information gathering. From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima) Subject: TLG Workplace 2.0 Date: Mon, 31 May 93 08:30:38 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 36 (66) Silver Mountain Software is pleased to announce TLG Workplace 2.0. The TLG Workplace 2.0 is a Microsoft Windows 3.1 program for viewing and searching the TLG D CD-ROM. Features of TLG Workplace 2.0 include: View Greek texts with full diacritical marks. Several of the most common text symbols and punctuation marks are also displayed (Stigma, Alternate Stigma, Koppa, Alternate Koppa, Sampi, Dagger (Crux), Question Mark, Asterisk, Slash, Exclamation Mark, Long Vertical Bar, Equals Sign, Plus Sign, Ampersand, Colon, Oversize Period, Double Dagger, Paragraph Sign, Short Vertical Bar, Broken Vertical Bar Double Vertical Bar, Apostrophe). On screen bold and italics. Movable Toolbar (Top, Right, Left, or off) for opening files, copying text to the clipboard, print or view the Canon of Authors and Works. When viewing a text, the TLG Canon of Authors and Works can be consulted for the work by pressing a button on the Toolbar or by selecting the "View Canon" menu item. Supports intermixture of Latin and Greek in a single text. Search single author or work(s) of an author. Search a user built list of authors (includes dialog box to make the lists which are stored as a plain ASCII text file) Search a date range. When a range of centuries is chosen, all authors of each century is searched as a group. Summaries are given for each author and each century. Double clicking on an author summary brings up the list of matches for that author. Double clicking on a match for the author brings up the complete text at the match. When a list of matches or a summary of matches is being viewed, all of the matches can be copied to the clipboard or printed by highlighting the lines and giving the appropriate command. Works of authors can be selected for search by specifying a common epithet. Thus all works of Epic Poetry or Medical texts can be easily searched as a group. Searches are typed in Greek. Diacritical marks can be optionally entered. The default is to do a double wild card search but word boundaries can be indicated. AND, OR, and NOT logic is supported. The exactness of a phrase can be specified by indicating the number of allowable words (not characters) between words in the match phrase. The text is displayed with a scalable font which can be easily enlarged or reduced. True Type and Type 1 Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Coptic fonts are provided. These fonts can be used in any Windows application which supports fonts. The raw beta code can be toggled on and off. TLG Workplace copies text to the Windows clipboard as both plain text and in Rich Text Format. Bookmarks can be set. TLG Workplace 2.0 supports the TLG Word Index. Words can be found with either a single or double wild card match. The single wild card match matches from the start of a word and does a wild card match on the end of the word. The result of an index search is a list of Greek words and the total number of occurrences of the word in the TLG. If you double click on the Greek work, a list of all the works in which this word occurs and the total for each work is given. If you double click on the summary for a given work, that work will be displayed. When a index summary is displayed (either the word lists with totals or the work list with totals), a search can be launched of that word and only the relevant works will be searched. The hypertext help system includes the complete manual on-line. The TLG Workplace 2.0 costs $85. Updates from TLG Workplace 1.x costs $15 via mail or free via email (XXENCODED, ZIPped file). Updates from Lbase cost $65. The PHI Workplace 2.3 offers similar functions as the TLG Workplace but it works with the PHI CD-ROMs #5 & #6. The PHI Workplace costs $85. The Coptic Workplace 1.1 views and searches the Coptic New Testament and the Nag Hammadi library which are on the PHI CD-ROM #6. The three Workplaces can be purchased as a bundle (Workplace Bundle) for $145. An evaluation copy of TLG Workplace has been uploaded to WSMR- SIMTEL20.Army.Mil and OAK.Oakland.Edu: pd1: TLGWP20.ZIP WIN3: TLGWorkplace: View/search the TLG CD-ROM The evaluation version is also available for $15 (plus foreign shipping) via mail (3.5" diskettes only). Silver Mountain Software can now accept VISA/MC orders 1029 Tanglewood Dr. Cedar Hill, TX 75104-3019 john@ling.uta.edu Voive/Fax (214) 293-2920 From: laplante@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Laplante Benoit) Subject: Software for life histories Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 17:13:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 44 (67) This is a request I am passing on on behalf of an African colleague of mine who has no access to any form of electronic mail. Mr. Fahl, my colleague, is working on a collection of life histories and is looking for software that could help him in his work. For what I know of his preferences, he is interested more in truly qualitative analysis than in quantitative or descriptive analysis. The life histories have been collected as part of a study on internal migration to Dakar in Senegal. The sotware would have to run on a DOS machine with limited memory (no more than 2M) and limited disk space (no more than 100M). I guess that the kind of software used by field ethnologists could be of some use to him by these are really matters I am not familiar with. I will welcome all suggestions and forward all of them to my colleague. Benoit laplante Departement de psychologie Universite de Montreal Laplante@ERE.UMontreal.CA From: Subject: Access to E-Mail Date: Thu, 27 May 93 21:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 45 (68) As a list "owner," dogsbody, & factotum [C18-L *and* Latin-L], I get frequent queries about ways people can get access to the networks. Some of these people are independent scholars, or are not affiliated with universities or organizations that run email nodes. I do not know how to answer them. Therefore, I'm putting out a query for everybody on HUMANIST who uses a commercial service -- can you please tell me how well they work for you, and if you have experience with more than one, can you provide an unofficial, informal, confidential rating? And can anybody tell me where there are FREENETS? Please send replies directly to me to minimize HUMANIST traffic -- I'll summarize to the list if it's your wish. Thanks -- Kevin Berland BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU From: Brett Charbeneaui Subject: SAGER notebook computers Date: Fri, 28 May 93 15:18:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 46 (69) Hello all, I am considering spending some fellowship money on the purchase of a SAGER notebook computer. I am seeking information from anyone who knows anything about this company, its products, or the model I have in mind (NP200). Even if you know someone who has one, I would still like to hear from you. Please respond directly. Thanks very much, and I hope evryone has a wonderful holiday! Brett Charbeneau Jouneyman Printer Colonial Williamsburg Foundation INTERNET: BWCHAR%WMVM1.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.ED From: delany@sfu.ca Subject: Church doors Date: Sun, 30 May 93 17:56:06 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 47 (70) I'm writing something on NetNews, and would like to draw a parallel with the medieval practice of posting theses and other information on the local church door. Can any Humanist direct me to a source that describes such medieval bulletin boards in detail? Thank you - Paul Delany delany@sfu.ca From: rbh@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Help Requested Date: Mon, 31 May 93 10:38:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 48 (71) I am at present teaching a computing course for first-year Humanities students at the University of Kent at Canterbury. This course is in its seventh week. The students have seen demonstrated anonymous ftp, Gopher, Veronica and Archie. Now I'm pushing them towards using these systems themselves. (I.e., do such-and-such and you add three points to your mark, etc.) Here's the rub. I'm getting back-pressure. This is its generalized form: "Why are we being forced to learn all of this when there doesn't seem to be anything of relevance to our other coursework in these archives, etc." They aren't interested in e-texts of Shakespeare and the Bible. Any suggestions about things they could fetch, or look at, would be greatly appreciated. The subjects they are studying are various central humanities subjects; i.e., philosophy, history, etc. They have looked at various newsgroups. I don't wish to push them towards subscribing to bulletin boards at this stage. What they are looking for is a way to break out of the "computing is about how to do computing" circle, and into areas which they will find intellectually relevant. I'm teaching this course six hours a day. Were I not, I wouldn't have to impose upon the goodwill of fellow Humanists. Thanks. Roger Hardy rbh@ukc.ac.uk From: hbreit@leland.Stanford.EDU Subject: Krazy Kat Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 14:04:07 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 49 (72) I am interested in current research on the subject of Krazy Kat, the cartoonist George Herriman, or the popularity of Krazy Kat among intellectuals of the 1920's. Henry Breitrose Department of Communication Stanford internet: hbreit@leland.stanford.edu From: "Steven C. Perkins" Subject: Announcement & CFP: Computers, Freedom and Privacy 1994 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 93 16:44:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 38 (73) Please post the following to HUMANIST. It has been posted to news.announce.conferences, Law-Lib, TEKNOIDS, EFF, and lawschl-l. Please recommend other relevant lists. TIA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Announcement and Call for Papers Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 1994 23-26 March 1994 Announcement The fourth annual conference, "Computers, Freedom, and Privacy," will be held in Chicago, Il., March 23-26, 1994. This conference will be jointly sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and The John Marshall Law School. George B. Trubow, professor of law and director of the Center for Informatics Law at The John Marshall Law School, is general chairman of the conference. The series began in 1991 with a conference in Los Angeles, and subsequent meetings took place in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, in successive years. Each conference has addressed a broad range of issues confronting the "information society" in this era of the computer revolution. The advance of computer and communications technologies holds great promise for individuals and society. From conveniences for consumers and efficiencies in commerce to improved public health and safety and increased knowledge of and participation in government and community, these technologies are fundamentally transforming our environment and our lives. At the same time, these technologies present challenges to the idea of a free and open society. Personal privacy is increasingly at risk from invasions by high-tech surveillance and monitoring; a myriad of personal information data bases expose private life to constant scrutiny; new forms of illegal activity may threaten the traditional barriers between citizen and state and present new tests of Constitutional protection; geographic boundaries of state and nation may be recast by information exchange that knows no boundaries as governments and economies are caught up in global data networks. Computers, Freedom, and Privacy '94 will present an assemblage of experts, advocates and interested parties from diverse perspectives and disciplines to consider the effects on freedom and privacy resulting from the rapid technological advances in computer and telecommunication science. Participants come from fields of computer science, communications, law, business and commerce, research, government, education, the media, health, public advocacy and consumer affairs, and a variety of other backgrounds. A series of pre-conference tutorials will be offered on March 23, 1994, with the conference program beginning on Thursday, March 24, and running through Saturday, March 26, 1994. The Palmer House, a Hilton hotel located at the corner of State Street and Washington Ave. in Chicago's "loop," and only about a block from The John Marshall Law School buildings, will be the conference headquarters. Room reservations should be made directly with the hotel, mentioning The John Marshall Law School or "CFP'94" to get the special conference rate of $99.00, plus tax. The Palmer House Hilton 17 E. Monroe., Chicago, Il., 60603 Tel: 312-726-7500; 1-800-HILTONS; Fax 312-263-2556 Call for Papers and Program Suggestions The emphasis at CFP'94 will be on examining the many potential uses of new technology and considering recommendations for dealing with them. Specific suggestions to harness the new technologies so society can enjoy the benefits while avoiding negative implications are solicited. Proposals are requested from anyone working on a relevant paper, or who has an idea for a program presentation that will demonstrate new computer or communications technology and suggest what can be done with it. Any proposal must state the title of the paper or program, describe the theme and content in a short paragraph, and set out the credentials and experience of the author or suggested speakers. Student Papers and Scholarships It is anticipated that announcement of a student writing competition for CFP'94 will be made soon, together with information regarding the availability of a limited number of student scholarships for the conference. Timetables Proposals for papers and programs are being accepted at this time. It is intended that program committees will be finalized by 1 August 1993. Communications Conference communications should be sent to: CFP'94 The John Marshall Law School 315 S. Plymouth Ct. Chicago, IL 60604 (Voice: 312-987-1419; Fax: 312-427-8307; E-mail: CFP94@jmls.edu) \\\\\\\****/////// Steven C. Perkins 8sperkin@jmls.edu John Marshall Law School pl0124@psilink.com 315 S. Plymouth Court Chicago, IL 60604 312/427-2737 x 551 ///////***\\\\\\\ From: ACH-ALLC93 Conference Subject: ACH-ALLC93 Conference - Last Call Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 11:44:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 39 (74) LAST CALL: ACH-ALLC93 -- the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing -- will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, June 16-19, 1993. The current draft of the conference program -- of interest to anyone who develops, provides, or analyzes electronic text -- appears below. Highlights of the conference include keynote addresses by Clifford Lynch and Hugh Kenner; a report on the Text Encoding Initiative; special-interest-group meetings on Teaching Humanities Computing, the Patrologia Latina Database, and the Oxford Text Archive; a text-analysis workshop using TACT; a Software Fair with dozens of presentations; and vendor displays from major commercial producers of electronic texts and analytical software. A registration form and other conference-related information can be obtained in several ways: by anonymous ftp or gopher from the ach_allc93 directories at guvax.georgetown.edu or from Paul Mangiafico, Project Assistant, by email at ach_allc93@guvax.georgetown.edu; by surface mail at 238 Reiss Science Building, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057; or by telephone 202- 687-6096 (voice) and 202-687-6003 (fax). ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. ach_allc 93conf. 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: Paul Cubberley Subject: R.G.A. de Bray Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 13:35:32 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 40 (75) PROFESSOR R.G.A. de Bray Colleagues in Slavonic studies around the world will note with sadness the death of Professor R.G.A. de Bray on 29th May. Reginald de Bray held chairs at Monash University, the University of London, and the Australian National University. His "Guide to the Slavonic Languages" has been a standard reference for four decadea. Over the last 8 years he has been working on a large Macedonian-English dictionary, a project which the Australian National University and his colleagues will seek to carry through to completion. Paul Cubberley Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: books new and old Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 8:06:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 41 (76) Allow me to draw your attention to a small article in PC Magazine for 25 May 1993, vol. 12, nr. 10, the "Pipeline" column by a senior editor, Robin Raskin, entitled "Read Any Good Disks?" I delight in the intelligence shown here. Ms. Raskin discusses her recent experiences, "voraciously reading books on disks in an attempt to answer the question, `Can the disk replace the book?'" She notes the ones she likes, and the advantages of e-books we have all heard about before -- `nonlinear' searching, marking places, making e-notes, cutting and pasting -- and one that recalls the pleasures of childhood, reading in the dark. "The disadvantages and discomforts are still many," she declares, then goes on to remark, In the end I suspect electronic books will find their own voice and in the process become very different entities. Content will transform to suit the medium.... In the meantime, when it comes time to relax, I'm back to flipping paper pages. Once we start thinking along these lines, I'm suggesting, we'll stop wasting time trying to make spanners into hammers and get to the serious and enjoyable work of discovering what the new toys are really good for. Willard McCarty From: jrl8980@tamuts.tamu.edu (John R Lenz) Subject: Bertrand Russell conference, June, San Diego Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 21:30 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 42 (77) Please post if you find this appropriate for the list. thanks. The BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY invites all interested to attend our annual meeting in San Diego, June 18-20, 1993. Papers and social events will be of general interest. (from Fri. p.m. to Sun. noon) At this meeting, the first two winners of our "Prizes for Papers" will attend and present their papers (one undergraduate, one a graduate student). Please keep in mind submitting a paper by March 1 (to me) for next year's meeting, or let your students know. Anyone is welcome to attend the meetings held at UC, San Diego. For information on registering (for a room, meals, and other events) contact Michael Rockler, 4036 Emerson St., Skokie, IL 60076. For information on joining the BRS, please contact me. Partial Program: Tim Madigan (Free Inquiry magazine), "The Will to Doubt vs. the Will to Believe" BRS Book Award to Nicholas Griffin Nicholas Griffin (McMaster), talk on BR and "Lady Ottoline" Tyler Roberts (undergrad. prize winner, Fredonia, NY), "R., the Individual and Society" Stefan Andersson (Lund, Sweden, grad. prize winner), "BR's Search for Certainty in Mathematics and Religion" John Shosky (Wash. DC), "R & the Contemplation of Philosophy" Society Meeting Hal Walberg, "R's Autobiography--A Reader's Theater" Marvin Kohl and Michael Rockler, "Russell vs. Russell on Education" Red Hackle Hour (BR's favorite scotch, hard to get!) Banquet BRS award to Harry Ruja Harry Ruja, "R.'s Life in Photos" Dennis Darland, "What is Mathematics About?" Don Jackanicz, Workshop on BR's "A Philosophy for Our Time" Gonzalo Garcia, "Did BR Think of Himself as a Pacifist?" From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET Subject: Re: 7.0037 Qs: S/W; H/W; NetNews; Church Doors; Goodies (6/124) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 08:23 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 50 (78) RE Computing for computing: if anyone is interested in Dante, have them call up Dartmouth and do some searches on the text and commentators! It's well organized and a substantial amount of material to search. Leslie Morgan Morgan@loyvax.bitnet Morgan@loyola.edu From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Internet Access Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 08:39:07 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 51 (79) Most books on the internet will have a section on access; cf. Ed Krol, The Whole Internet (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1992), Appendix A. J. Martin's There's Gold in them thar Networks! is available by anonymous ftp as RFC 1402. Jean Armour Polly's Surfing the Internet (anonymous ftp-able) has a nice section by Daniel Dern, and Maasinfo (also ftp-able) is a veritable goldmine of information. Of course, the granddaddy list of them all is available from the info-server@nnsc.nsf.net. Ask for referral-list. Of course, this is the best source of general information about the net, just send message help. Freenets are springing up all over the place; we even have one here in Chambana. Ask for a list. The simplest thing to do is to get Ed Krol's book. Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Church-door postings Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 08:53:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 52 (80) The most famous posting on the church-door was that of Luther, which has been under question for a long time. It might be well to read, e.g. The Theses Were Not Posted, by Erwin Iserloh (Boston: Beacon Press, 1968), which also contains a survey of the controversy. I don't think the church door in the Middle Ages posted much more than bans, church announcements and the like, since this was not a literate culture. The German Litfasssaeule might be a better analogy. Contrary to the common etymology, this is not named because it is a column which holds literature, it comes from a person's name: F. Tietz, Ernst Litfass's industrielle und private Wirksamkeit (Berlin, 1871; repr. Berlin, 1921). Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: e-texts Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 09:13:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 53 (81) You don't have to restrict yourself to Shakespeare and the Bible; there are all kinds of e-texts out there: Project Gutenberg, Online Book Initiative, European Corpus Initiative, Usenet groups. You can download Old Swedish texts, Grimm's Fairy Tales (complete, in translation), all of Hans Christian Andersen, Latin texts, Genji Monogotari (Japanese and Seidensticker's translation), any number of historical documents, pictures from the Vietnam War, the Vatican exhibit, pictures from the Book of Kells, etc. You can obtain from HUMANIST the Oxford Text Archive list (some restricted use); there is the Rutgers list. It is well to get the various net guides, such as Suranet, Nysernet, Cicnet, Nordunet. Stuff is coming online all the time. There are also some dictionaries, a great deal of software, the Eurodicautom online dictionaries from ECHO, and I haven't begun yet. Your students need to get with it; there are unexplored worlds out there. Jim Marchand. From: jsolis@pucp.pe Subject: Query (Latin American colonial history) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 17:03:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 54 (82) ----EOH -------------------------------------------------------------- A historian at the Catholic University of Peru is looking for information that could lead her to obtaining a copy or transcription of the "Relacion de Meritos y Servicios de Jose Antonio de Lavalle y Cortes", a character that lived in the XVIIIth century, if such a document exists at all. Any information on Lavalle y Cortes, and his children Lavalle y Sugasti, will be of value. Of course, information on where to get information from will also be very much appreciated! Jorge Solis V. Depto. de Humanidades Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru jsolis@pucp.pe From: "Martin Irvine, Georgetown University" Subject: Internet access abroad? Paris? Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 21:25:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 55 (83) Dear colleagues, I am requesting information about getting a guest account or modem access of some kind to the Internet while I will be doing research in Paris in July. Queries to other sources have not been successful. Perhaps there is a Humanist subscriber in Paris, or who has used an Internet node there, who could help. Commercial e-mail services (like Delphi) do not provide Internet services abroad, I found. Martin Irvine Georgetown University m_irvine@guvax.georgetown.edu From: Dimitris Stefosis Subject: Information Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 03:31:16 +0200 (CET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 56 (84) Does anyone over there know how I can contact profesor Leo Buscalia, the famous psychologist? Please answer privately. Thanks, Dimitris Stefosis From: S Metsger <76260.2501@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Learning Hebrew Date: 05 Jun 93 19:16:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 57 (85) I am interested in learning Hebrew, either by correspondence or self-study, and would welcome recommendations or suggestions from those familiar with such programs, texts, or study guides. From: SNAHMOD@mail.kentlaw.edu (Sheldon Nahmod) Subject: i need advice on publishing paper on phaedo Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 15:10 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 58 (86) as a newcomer to internet, and a law professor to boot, i would like to ask your advice regarding the submission for publication of a paper on plato's phaedo. i wrote the paper (12 pages double space, in english) several months ago while a graduate student at large at the university of chicago divinity school. the paper analyzes what i call the dream motif in phaedo from a literary-philosophical perspective and connects that motif (and dream characteristics in general) to socrates's death, the immortality of the soul and the afterlife. i am very familiar with how one goes about submitting papers on legal topics for publication but do not know how to approach the phaedo paper. i certainly do not want to be unrealistic or presumpuous about this, and i do not rule out submission to a "nonacademic" publication. your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. thanks. sheldon nahmod, chicago-kent college of law. {snahmod@mail.kentlaw.edu} From: Chris Amirault Subject: Books in Print on the Internet? Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 15:38:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 59 (87) Does anyone know of a way to access the current Books in Print over Internet? I've snooped around using Gopher, but haven't had any luck. Advice and/or definitive answers would be greatly appreciated. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Chris Amirault English Department -- Modern Studies amirault@csd4.csd.uwm.edu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414/372-5153 Milwaukee WI 53201 From: Subject: PACLING-93 conference proceedings available Date: 3 Jun 93 16:25 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 45 (88) Extra copies of the PACLING '93 Conference Proceedings are now available. PACLING '93 (the First Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference) took place 21-24 April 1993 in Vancouver, Canada. The proceedings are 361 pages long and contain 37 papers, 5 posters and summaries of 3 invited talks by Dr. Kathleen R. McKeown, Dr. Takao Gunji, and Dr. George Heidorn. See below for the Table of Contents from the Proceedings. ** Rates ** The following rates are for one copy of the proceedings plus postage, and include all taxes and surcharges for credit cards: Canada -- surface rate CDN$25 -- air rate CDN$30 United States -- surface rate CDN$30 or US$24 -- air rate CDN$35 or US$28 Rest of World -- surface rate CDN$30 or US$24 -- air rate CDN$40 or US$32 ** Payment Method ** Please pay by one of the following methods: 1. bankers draft or cheque in Canadian dollars drawn on a Canadian bank, 2. bankers draft or cheque in US dollars drawn on an American bank, 3. VISA card or MasterCard (please supply full name, card type, card number and expiry date). Please make bankers drafts and cheques payable to Simon Fraser University. Send your payment, complete with your name and address, to: Fred Popowich email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Conference Proceedings tel: (604) 291-4193 School of Computing Science fax: (604) 291-3045 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 ** Table of Contents from PACLING '93 Conference Proceedings ** == Invited Talks == (page number) "An Overview of JPSG -- A Constraint-Based Grammar for Japanese." Dr. Takao Gunji, Osaka University, JAPAN 1 "Industrial Strength NLP - The Challenge of Broad Coverage." George E. Heidorn, Microsoft Research, USA 2 "Language Generation for Multimedia Explanations." Kathleen R. McKeown, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, USA 3 == Information Retrieval/Extraction and Large-Scale Lexical Resources == "Automatically Deriving Structured Knowledge Bases from Online Dictionaries." William Dolan & Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Corporation, USA 5 "Information Retrieval Based on Paraphrase." Peter Wallis, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, AUSTRALIA 15 "The Diderot Information Extraction System." Jim Cowie, Takahiro Wakao, Louise Guthrie, Wang Jin & James Pustjovsky & Scott Waterman, New Mexico State/Brandeis University, USA 23 "Text Analysis: How Can Machine Learning Help?" Stan Matwin & Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa, CANADA 33 == Pragmatics and Discourse == "Constraint of the Japanese Conjunction shikashi (but)." Tatsunori Mori & Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yokohama National University, JAPAN 43 "Reconciling Sharp True/False Boundaries With Scalar Vagueness." Alice I. Kyburg & Lenhart Schubert, University of Rochester, USA 53 "A Computational Formalism for Syntactic Aspects of Rhetoric." Marzena Makuta-Giluk & Chrysanne DiMarco, University of Waterloo, CANADA 63 "What's Going on in these Advertisements? - A Case Study of Indirect Speech." Paul Wu Horng Jyh, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE 73 == Morphology, Phonology and Prosody == "Learning Vocabulary for a Register Vector Parser." David R. Astels & Bruce A. MacDonald, University of Calgary, CANADA 92 "A Method to Improve Predictability of Simplified Markov Models for Japanese Word Succession - A Maximum Conditional-Probability Method." Toru Hisamitsu & Yoshihiko Nitta, Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory, JAPAN 102 "Understanding Spoken English Using a Systemic Functional Framework." C. Rowles, X. Huang, M. de Beler, J. Vonwiller, R. King, C. Matthiesson, P. Sefton & M. O'Donnell, Telecom Research Laboratories/Sydney University, AUSTRALIA 111 "An Experimental Discourse-Neutral Prosodic Phrasing System for Mandarin Chinese." Gina-Anne Levow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 121 == Document Structure and Language Learning Aids == "Cooperative Understanding of Natural Language and Picture Patterns in Drill Text." Tsutomu Endo, Hidehiro Ohki & Kazuhiro Takaoka, Oita University, JAPAN 131 "An Experimental Chinese Word Information Retrieval System for Language Learning Aids." Yu Zeng & John N. Crossley, Monash University, AUSTRALIA 141 "Why Johnny Can't Read the Screwiest Writing System in the World and How to Help Him Learn: On the Necessity of Japanese<->English Hyperdictionaries." Harvey Abramson, University of Tokyo, JAPAN 149 == Tools and Environments == "Graphical Interaction with Constraint-Based Grammars." Jo Calder, Simon Fraser University, CANADA 160 "STAS -- A Relation For Comparing Tree Traversals of Grammar Processing Algorithms." Miroslav Martinovic, New York University, USA 169 "A Parallel Processing Environment for Natural Language Applications" Hsin-Hsi Chen & Jiunn-Liang Leu, National Taiwan University, TAIWAN 178 == Parsing == "Grammar of Sino-Japanese Words." Nagiko I. Lee, Canadian International College/University of British Columbia, CANADA 188 "On Processing Empty Categories in English and Japanese." Tadao Miyamoto & Joseph F. Kess, University of Victoria, CANADA 194 "Context-Free Grammar Parsing by Message Passing" Dekang Lin & Randy Goebel, University of Manitoba/Alberta, CANADA 203 "Parsing With Principles." David LeBlanc, Henry Davis & Richard Rosenberg, Tilburg University/University of British Columbia, NETHERLANDS/CANADA 212 "Recovering a Logical Form Representation Using a Single-Pass Principle-Based Parser." Carl Alphonce, University of British Columbia, CANADA 222 == Natural Language Generation/Planning == "Deciding Appropriate Query Content According to Topic Features." Yukiko Ishikawa & Tsuneaki Kato, NTT Network Information Systems Laboratories, JAPAN 232 "Planning Utterances with Prominence." Shozo Naito & Akira Shimazu, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, JAPAN 242 "Coordinating Ideational and Textual Resources in the Generation of Multisentential Texts in Chinese." Licheng Zeng, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA 251 == Natural Language Generation/Explanation == "A Prototype of English Sentence Generation System Based on SD-form Semantics Model." Guifeng Shao, Masahiro Wakiyama, Sei-ichiro Kamata & Eiji Kawaguchi, Kyushu Institute of Technology/Kitakyushu National College of Technology, JAPAN 261 "Natural Language Explanation of Natural Deduction Proofs." Andrew Edgar & Francis Jeffry Pelletier, University of Alberta, CANADA 269 "The Placement of Examples in Descriptions: Before, Within or After the Text." Vibhu O. Mittal & Cecile L. Paris, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California, USA 279 == Machine Translation and Machine Assisted Translation == "Translation of Metonymy in an Interlingual MT System." Takahiro Wakao & Stephen Helmreich, New Mexico State University, USA 288 "Choosing the Right Word -- Lexical Knowledge and Context in Machine Translation." John Phillips, National Language Research Institute, JAPAN 297 "Tuning of a Machine Translation System to Wire-Service Economic News." Teruaki Aizawa, Naoto Katoh & Masoko Kamata, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, JAPAN 304 "The Integration of MT and MAT." Robert Frederking, Dean Grannes, Peter Cousseau & Sergei Nirenburg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 309 == Semantics and Cognitive Modelling == "Handling Real World Input by Abduction." Loke Soo Hsu, Chew Lim Tan & Zhibiao Wu, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE 314 "An Image-Schematic System of Thematic Roles." Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HONG KONG 323 "Beyond Deterministic Lexical Disambiguation." Jean-Pierre Corriveau, Carleton University, CANADA 333 "A Meaningful Approach to Natural Language Processing." Sait Dogru & James R. Slagle, University of Minnesota, USA 342 == Posters == "A Transformation Method between Syntactic and Dependency Structures." Hiroshi Sakaki, KDD R & D Laboratories, JAPAN 352 "Towards Context-Sensitive Dialogue Interpretation -- An Empirical Study in a Speech Translation Project." Masami Suzuki, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Tsuyoshi Morimoto & Hioshi Iida, Air International, JAPAN 354 "Clues for Detecting Unknown Words in Japanese Sentences -- Garbage Word Sequence Phenomenon and its Solution." Yoshiyuki Kotani & Nobuo Takiguchi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, JAPAN 356 "An Example Based System for English Writing Aid for Japanese." Akiko Takeda & Teiji Furugori, University of Electro- Communications, JAPAN 358 "Towards a Model of Cooperation between Natural Language and Natural Gestures to Describe Spatial Knowledge." Xavier Briffault and Annelies Braffort, Limsi, FRANCE 360 ---------- end of file From: udaa270@elm.cc.kcl.ac.uk Subject: conference announcement Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 13:29:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 46 (89) For those Humanists not going to Georgetown, enclosed are details of a conference in London on 16 June: THE NEW HUMANITIES / COMPUTER INTERFACE Pedagogy, Design and Implementation in Humanities Computing Wednesday 16 June 1993, 10.00 - 5.30 Arts Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Coorganised by the University of London Seminar in Humanities Computing, the Humanities Computing Centre, QMW the Faculty of Human Sciences, London Guildhall University A one-day conference to explore some neglected issues in humanities computing. Now that we have almost a decade of pilot schemes, trials and experiments, how do we bridge the evident gaps between promise, delivery and implementation? 9.15-10.00 Registration 10.00-11.15 Session 1. Design and Implementation: the Technical Issues This session deals with the presentation issues. What do humanities teachers and scholars need to know about computer interface design to enable them to make the best use of the new technology? Are there particular design requirements for computer-based humanities teaching and learning which are not currently addressed in the commercial or academic fields? In which direction is the design of the human-computer interface going? Speakers: Chris Jennings (Research Machines, Oxford) Marilyn Deegan (CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford) 11.15-11.30 Coffee 11.30-12.45 Session 2. The Pedagogy and Psychology of CBL In the past few years, considerable investments have been made to develop a new generation of computer-based teaching tools. Much of this is directed towards what might called "mechanical" modes of teaching. What does this offer the humanities student? What, beyond "question and answer" or "expect and respond" routines, can computers offer the arts student? And what about the teachers? Speakers: Charles Anderson (Deptartment of Education, University of Edinburgh) Bruce Ingraham (CALSA, The Language Centre, University of Teesside) David Baume (EDSS, London Guildhall University) 12.45-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.30 Demonstrations of teaching and learning software Participants are welcome to offer demonstrations. Details of facilities, and an application form, are enclosed. Demonstrations will include: Perseus (Harvard) The Anglo-Saxons Interactive (Research Machines) Shakespeare's Life and Times (Intellimation) The Dissolution of the Monasteries (HiDES) The Cognate Language Teacher (QMW) 2.30-3.45 Session 3. Handling Multi-sources A notable advantage of the new computer technology is its ability to handle text and images simultaneously. Does this represent new challenges to the way we teach the humanities? What are the dangers inherent in having too much of a good thing? Speakers: Wendy Hall (Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton) Don Spaeth (CTI Centre for History, University of Glasgow) 3.45-4.00 Tea 4.00-5.30 4. Education and Politics: the Future of Humanities Computing As always there are political implications including the need to teach larger numbers of students with a dwindling unit of resource, and, perhaps, a natural reluctance by many humanities teachers to become fully involved in new technology. How can the computer's potential as a resource and a tool be realised, for teaching as much as for research? Panellists: Graham Chesters (CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull) Deian Hopkin (Faculty of Human Sciences, London Guildhall University) Lisa Jardine (Department of English, Queen Mary & Westfield College) 5.30 End of conference The registration fee for the conference is 10 ( 5 for students and the unwaged), including morning coffee and afternoon tea. A buffet lunch is bookable at 5. Participants wishing lunch must book by Friday 11th June. The conference organisers are: Dr Peter Denley, Director, Humanities Computing Centre, Faculty of Arts, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Tel 071 775 3148; Fax 081 980 8400; E-mail P.R.Denley@UK.AC.QMW Dr Deian Hopkin, Dean's Office, Faculty of Human Sciences, London Guildhall University, Calcutta House, Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT Tel 071 320 1129; Fax 071 320 1121; E-mail DR_Hopkin@UK.AC.CLP.TVAX Booking forms are available from Dr Denley, to whom enquiries should be addressed. --------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEW HUMANITIES / COMPUTER INTERFACE Wednesday 16 June 1993, 10.00D5.30 Arts Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London BOOKING FORM Name/Title Institutional affiliation Address Phone Fax Email I should like to attend The New Humanities and Computer Interface on Wednesday 16 June. I enclose a conference registration fee of #10 (#5 for students and the unwaged), (cost includes morning coffee and afternoon tea): ............ I should like a ticket for the buffet lunch (#5: including vegetarian selection): ............ TOTAL ENCLOSED ............ Cheques should be made out to "Queen Mary & Westfield College" and sent, together with this form, to: Dr Peter Denley, Director, Humanities Computing Centre, Faculty of Arts, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, by Friday 11th June. Late bookings may be accepted but will not include lunch. ---------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEW HUMANITIES / COMPUTER INTERFACE Wednesday 16 June 1993, 10.00D5.30 Arts Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London DEMONSTRATIONS The computing facilities that are available include D 50 PCs (486/386) diskless workstations (4/8MB memory, 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drives), colour monitors D 15 Macintosh LC IIs (4/40) running System 7.0.1, colour monitors D Space for setting up of demonstrator's equipment. The rooms will all be supervised or locked during the intervals and the discussion sessions, but the organisers cannot accept responsibility for equipment left in them. If you would like to demonstrate software or courseware, please fill in the following: Name/Title Institutional affiliation Address Phone Fax Email Title of demonstration Resources required Please return this form, and address any queries, to: Dr Peter Denley, Director, Humanities Computing Centre, Faculty of Arts, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS; Tel 071 775 3148; Fax 081 980 8400; E-mail P.R.Denley @ UK.AC.QMW, by Friday 11th June From: John T. Harwood Subject: Penn State Rhetoric Conference Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:04:10 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 47 (90) The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition July 7-10, 1993 The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, now in its 12th year, is a four-day gathering of teachers and scholars. 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. Saturday Morning Sessions On Saturday morning, participants will have a special opportunity to concentrate for an extended period on one of three important areas: Rhetorical Functions of Narrative in Literary and Nonliterary Discourse, Teaching the New Stylistics, and Advances in Computers and Writing. Rhetorical Functions of Narrative in Literary and Nonliterary Discourse Since Aristotle and Quintilian, narrative has stood in uneasy but necessary relation to rhetoric, alternately enjoying ascendance and falling out of favor as a focus for inquiry. Interest in narrative has resurfaced in contemporary theories of rhetoric and composition which treat scientific, poetic, political, and cultural texts. Two current theorists of narrative and rhetoric, Don Bialostosky and Debra Journet will be chair/respondents for this session. Teaching the New Stylistics Recent composition theory has increasingly and unduly neglected such formal elements of discourse as linguistic register, figurative language, sentence style, and form. Rather than representing empty formalisms or concerns that only enter the writing process in late stages of revision, these elements can be studied and taught as generative tools of imagination, invention, and discovery. This session led by Marie Secor (Penn State) and Jeanne Fahnestock (University of Maryland) will feature workshops and papers that will illustrate new techniques of stylistic analysis and strategies for using them in the writing classroom. Advances in Computers and Writing The most advanced work on computers and writing draws on and contributes to current thoeries of the writing process, social and cultural contexts, and writing pedagogy. Dave Kaufer will chair this session that will feature hands- on demonstrations and talks on new applications of computer technology for addressing issues in writing. Plenary Session Speakers Michael Leff, our keynote speaker, is professor of communication studies at Northwestern University. A specialist in the history of rhetoric, his recent work pursues the relationship between traditional rhetoric and current problems in criticism, especially tracing the influences of political texts on later writers. His recent publications include the co-edited Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric (1989), 'Burke's Ciceronianism' in The Legacy of Kenneth Burke (1989), and 'Things Made by Words: Reflections on Textual Criticism' in Quarterly Journal of Speech. He has contributed numerous chapters to books and collections such as The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (1987), Speech Communication in the Twentieth Century (1985), and Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric (1978). He has won the Wicheln-Winans Award and Woolbert Award from the Speech Communication Association for distinguished scholarship in rhetoric and public address and for scholarship of exceptional originality and influence. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Rhetoric Society of America and editor of Rhetorica. Don Bialostosky is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Toledo. His research bridges literary and rhetorical theory, particularly in the study of dialogics, such as in his Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's Narrative Experiments (1984) and Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism (1992). He is currently working on a book on dialogics and rhetoric and an annotated bibliography of Bakhtinian criticism. He and Steven Mailloux (U Cal, Irvine) are working on a book-length project which will map out a vision of English Studies and the centrality of rhetoric within it. He has published numerous articles and chapters on poetics and teaching, and is a contributing author to the forthcoming Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. He has received several research awards and honors, most recently the University of Toledo College of Arts and Sciences Exceptional Merit Award (1991). His professional activities include serving on the editorial boards of The Bakhtin Newsletter and the Rhetoric Society Quarterly and on the NCTE Commission on Literature. Henry Giroux holds the Waterbury Chair Professorship in Secondary Education at Penn State. His numerous publications have earned him a reputation as one of the outstanding scholars in pedagogy today. His Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life (1989), Teachers as Intellectuals (1988), Education Under Siege (1986), and Theory and Resistance in Education (1984) have been named by the American Educational Studies Association as some of the most significant books in education. His most recent book, Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education (1992), reflects his constant concern with multiculturalism and politics in education. His major works often focus on writing and critical thinking in social sciences and the education of teachers. His articles on reading, writing, literacy, and political discourse, appearing in such journals as Journal of Education, College Literature, and Journal of Advanced Composition, indicate his long-standing interest in writing pedagogy and theory. Featured Speakers Debra Brandt is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She studies literacy and its relationship to epistemology, reading and writing, sociology, and testing methodology. These combined interests are central in her recent Written Communication article 'The Cognitive as the Social: An Ethnomethodological Approach to Writing Process Research.' Her work on literacy and its many aspects has appeared in The Right to Literacy (1990), Responding to Writing (1989), and College English. Her book, Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts (1990) was recognized as among the outstanding books in composition theory by the 1991 W.Ross Winterowd Awards Committee. Nan Johnson is professor of English at Ohio State University. Her research centers on the popularization of rhetoric in America and the history of cultural attitudes toward rhetorical performance by women, culminating in her book, 19th Century Rhetoric in North America (1991). Her work on these issues has also appeared in chapters such as 'Ethos and the Aims of Rhetoric' in Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse (1984) and articles such as 'Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Canada' in College English. Other articles and reviews on rhetoric and composition studies have appeared in Rhetorica, Rhetoric Review, Quarterly Journal of Speech, ADE Bulletin, English Quarterly, and in the anthology edited by James Murphy, The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing (1982). Debra Journet, professor of English at the University of Louisville, studies narrative as an outlet for scientists to describe work that other genres do not accommodate. Her fruitful conjunction of technical discourse and literary theory has appeared in such journals as Technical Communication Quarterly, Written Communication, and Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Her co-edited volume, Research in Technical Communication (1985), won an NCTE Award for Excellence. She has served as director of undergraduate, graduate, and technical writing programs and is currently serving on national technical communications committees in the NCTE and Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. David Kaufer, associate professor and associate head of the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the various facets of argumentation, both theoretical and pedagogical. His forthcoming book, Communication at a Distance: The Influence of Print on Socio-Cultural Organization and Change, and articles in journals such as Philosophy and Rhetoric and Journal of Advanced Composition explore academic argumentation and advance our theories about why certain arguments prevail. To help writers learn to argue and collaborate in their own writing, he has co-developed a range of computer tools and has co-authored the textbook Arguing [deleted quotation] Martin Nystrand, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, researches composition theory and history and instructional methodology. His book Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity between Writers and Readers (1986) and edited collection What Writers Know: The Language, Process, and Structure of Written Discourse (1982) have been recognized as significant contributions to the understanding of the relationship between readers and writers. His forthcoming publications include 'From Discourse Communities to Interpretive Communities' in Exploring Texts and 'Social Interactionism versus Social Constructionism' in Language, Thought, and Human Communication. He begins editorship of Written Communication in 1993. Social Events In addition to good papers and good talk, the Penn State Conference offers various occasions for participants to relax, eat, and get to know each other. On Wednesday evening, July 7, you are invited to a dessert reception at an art gallery on campus. An outdoor barbecue dinner is planned for Thursday, July 8, at a rustic retreat not far from State College, where you can hike, pitch horseshoes, play volleyball, and enjoy the music of Simple Gifts (a British-American folk ensemble). A wine and cheese party will be held after the concluding plenary session on Friday. The conference is held concurrently with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, one of the largest events of its kind in the country. More than four hundred jury-selected exhibitions-- paintings, ceramics, etchings, leather work, textiles, photographs, sculpture, jewelry, and more--line the streets of State College and the sidewalks of campus. Jazz bands, rock groups, mime troupes, fiddlers, and string quartets perform on outdoor stages; indoors are films, plays, and special art exhibits. Leisure Activities The Penn State campus and surrounding Nittany Valley offer facilities for camping, swimming, fishing, hiking, tennis, and golf. Within an hour's drive of State College are boating at Stone Valley, swimming at Whipple Dam State Park, fishing at Black Moshannon State Park, and hiking at Alan Seeger State Forest. History buffs will enjoy nearby Bellefonte, a town of fine nineteenth- century stores and houses, and Curtin Village, a reconstruction of an iron foundry, master's mansion, and workers' cottages. Additional information about these and other local activities is included in the conference registration packet, or is available upon request. Time and Location This conference will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 7 and will end at noon on Saturday, July 10. It will be held on Penn State's University Park Campus in State College, Pennsylvania. The campus is located in the center of Pennsylvania on Routes 26 and 322, south of Interstate 80. It is on the main east-west route of both the Greyhound and Fullington Trailways bus lines. USAir Express and United Express serve the University Park Airport, located five miles from campus; rental cars, limousines, and taxi service between the campus and the airport are available. You may qualify for special airfares by staying in town Saturday night. Accommodations You may arrange for housing in one of three ways: 1. You may stay in a University residence hall Wednesday through Friday nights or Tuesday through Saturday nights. If you stay Wednesday through Friday nights (three nights), the total cost is $41.25 (double occupancy). Family members are welcome to stay in the residence hall at the same $41.25 rate. No charge is made for infants if you provide bedding. You may list a preferred roommate on the registration form; otherwise, roommates will be assigned. A limited number of single rooms are available at $57 (three nights). If you request a single but one is not available when your application arrives, you will be assigned a double room. If you stay Tuesday through Saturday nights (five nights), the total cost is $68.75 (double occupancy) or $95 (single occupancy). The rules and procedures listed above also apply to those staying for five nights. Please note: We regret that we cannot offer daily rates for University housing. Fees remain the same for all or any part of the conference. To register for housing in a University residence hall, complete and return the attached registration form by June 21. Space may not be available after the June 21 deadline, so please register early. You can pay for your room in advance by check, money order, VISA, MasterCard or request to bill employer (accompanied by a letter of authorization). Or you may pay by check or with cash when you arrive. You may purchase meals at the residence hall cafeteria or at local restaurants both on and off campus. 2. You may stay at one of the following State College hotels/motels at special conference rates. To reserve a room, call the hotel/motel directly and identify yourself as a Rhetoric and Composition Conference participant. The rates below do not include the 6% sales tax. Reserve as early as possible--a limited number of rooms has been set aside. Rooms and conference rates may not be available after June 5. Days Inn Penn State. 240 South Pugh Street. (800) 258-3297 or (814) 238-8454. Rates: single $67-$125; double $77-$135. The lower rates apply to July 6-8, higher rates to 'peak' Arts Festival dates July 9-10, with a two-day minimum stay. Holiday Inn Penn State. 1450 South Atherton Street. (814) 238- 3001. Rates: $60 per room per night for one to four persons. Not within walking distance to campus. 3. You may arrange your own housing. A list of local hotels and motels will be sent along with your registration acknowledgment. Call early; the number of rooms is limited and the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts brings many visitors. Rates for the festival weekend may be higher than usual. Fee and Registration The $110 fee ($90 for graduate students, lecturers, and retired faculty) covers registration, materials, and three social events. It may be paid by check, money order, VISA, MasterCard, or request to bill employer (accompanied by a letter of authorization). We regret that we cannot offer daily rates for conference registration. Fees remain the same for all or any part of the conference. To register, complete the form and return it to Penn State by June 21. Those who register in advance will be notified of program changes. Registrations will be acknowledged by mail. Vehicles parked on campus must exhibit valid parking permits. To receive a parking permit, check the appropriate space on the registration form and add the amount shown to your fee payment. Refunds will be made for cancellations received by June 21. After that, the individual or organization will be held responsible for the fee. Anyone who is registered but cannot attend may send a substitute. University Policies Cancellation--The University may cancel or postpone any course or activity because of insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. If a program is canceled or postponed, the University will refund registration fees but cannot be held responsible for other costs, charges, or expenses, including cancellation/change charges assessed by airlines or travel agencies. Smoking--Penn State has adopted a policy of no smoking in its buildings, offices, classrooms, and conference facilities (including Keller Conference Center). For More Information or to Receive a Registration Form About program content: Davida Charney 117 Burrowes Building The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6200 phone (814) 865-9703 secretary (814) 863-3066 FAX (814) 863-7285 E-mail to IRJ at PSUVM.PSU.EDU About registration and housing: Roger Maclean 409 Keller Conference Center The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-1304 phone (814) 863-6106 FAX (814) 865-3749 From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL (Judy Koren) Subject: RE: 7.0044 Books in Print Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 16:13:10 +0300 (EET-DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 60 (91) Re: Books in Print on the Internet: BIP is a commercial product whose use has to be licensed, ie paid for. They sell site licenses, starting from 5 simultaneous users, but by the time you get up to "unlimited use" the charges are pretty high; and I'm not sure they would license their product for use by people who are not "on-site" or at least members of the site (eg university) licensing the product. I would therefore be very surprised if you *did* find an Internet- available BIP! It falls into the general category of things that universities put onto their local campus network but have to bar access to from outside, in order to comply with licensing restrictions. Judy Koren, Technion Library System, Haifa, Israel. From: Subject: Books in Print Date: Tue, 08 Jun 93 08:53:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 61 (92) In response to the recent request regarding access to Books in Print via the Internet: BIP is produced by Bowker and is a commercial product. Bowker charges fairly stiff licensing fees for access to the database, either in CD-ROM or as a file to be loaded on local storage. Any organization which is providing general, unprotected access via the Internet is probably in violation of its licensing agreement. BIP may well be available on the Internet was part of a library information system, but it is likely to require a password to gain access. Last I looked, BIP was available from BRS and Dialog. Individuals can get accounts with either of those services, and they are available over the Internet. However, I suggest contacting the local library reference department. They may already know of a convenient and inexpensive way to access the database from the local campus. Duane Harbin Information Services Librarian Yale University Divinity Library From: Michael Fraser Subject: Survey of Software in Religious Studies Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 11:15:51 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 49 (93) ---------------------------------------------------- A SURVEY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES RELATED SOFTWARE. ---------------------------------------------------- I am beginning what I hope will be a major review of software available specifically for teachers and students of religious studies in higher education. Such software has many sources, from large commercial suppliers to individuals in departments who have adapted pre-existing packages. Any attempt to be exhaustive in establishing what is available would be impossible without the help of others. It is with this in mind that I am circulating the following questionnaire both to individuals and to theology-related discussion lists. I would be grateful if you could take the time to complete each section where applicable or forward it to the individual who maintains software in your department. As this notice is being posted to a selection of lists I apologise for duplicate copies that people will invariably receive. Please return all completed questionnaires or any queries to me (via e-mail) rather than to the list. The final review of religious-studies software will be made available via ftp from the CONTENTS project at the University of Ottawa. I thank you for your help, and I look forward to hearing how your department uses information technology in its teaching and research. Michael Fraser (m.a.fraser@durham.ac.uk) Department of Theology University of Durham DURHAM DH1 3RS United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME: INSTITUTION: STATUS (staff/research/etc): *WORD PROCESSING* If you or your department use special character sets, such as Greek or Hebrew, in your work, then please complete the following: NAME OF WORD PROCESSING PACKAGE: SUPPLIER OR SOURCE (If not a major package): NAME OF ADDITIONAL FONT SOFTWARE INSTALLED: SUPPLIER OR SOURCE: OPERATING SYSTEM (DOS/Windows/Macintosh/etc): ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: *TEXT DATABASE AND ANALYSIS* 1. Please complete the following information, where possible, if you or your department use a multi-text database (e.g. TLG): NAME OF TEXT DATABASE: SOURCE OR SUPPLIER: FORMAT (e.g. CD-ROM, disc): OPERATING SYSTEM: COMMENTS: 2. Please complete the following information if you or your department use a mono-text database (e.g. an on-line bible, Koran): NAME OF DATABASE: TEXT: LANGUAGE (e.g. English, Greek): SOURCE OR SUPPLIER: OPERATING SYSTEM: COMMENTS: 3. Please complete the following information regarding text search and analysis software (where it is not integral to the database package): NAME OF TEXT SEARCH OR ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: SOURCE OR SUPPLIER: OPERATING SYSTEM: COMMENTS: *COMPUTER-AIDED TEACHING* 1. If you or your department employ computers in language teaching, please complete the following information: LANGUAGE(S) TAUGHT: NAME OF SOFTWARE PACKAGE(S): SUPPLIER(S): OPERATING SYSTEM(S): 2. Please specify any multmedia packages (using for example Hypercard) you or your department uses (including custom built ones) in connection with teaching or research: NAME OF PACKAGE: BRIEF DESCRIPTION: FORMAT: SOURCE OR SUPPLIER: OPERATING SYSTEM: COMMENTS: *OTHER SOFTWARE* If you or your department use any software package related to religious studies, not covered by the above categories, I would be grateful to hear about it! NAME OF PACKAGE: BRIEF DESCRIPTION: FORMAT: SOURCE OR SUPPLIER: OPERATING SYSTEM: COMMENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. You will be notified when the final review is available. If you have any further comments or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me via e-mail: m.a.fraser@durham.ac.uk From: Thomas R. Bruce Subject: WWW browser for MS-Windows: Beta release Date: Tue, 8 Jun 93 22:00:52 GMT-1:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 50 (94) Organization: Legal Information Institute (Cross-posted to many lists and groups. Please forgive necessary duplications) Folks: This is an announcement of Beta Release 0.1 of Cello, a World-Wide Web browser for Microsoft Windows 3.1 Features: -- (HTTP/HTML) browser, with user-configurable colors and fonts. -- Full-featured Gopher (though unfortunately not yet Gopher+) client, including a hyper-ized CSO which permits (sorta dumb) SMTP mailing. -- Transparent access (via WWW) to FTP, HyTelNet, Telnet, etc. etc. ad infinitum. -- Graphics and PostScript viewing and sound playing via MSWindows Associations...feature, using add-on, shareware viewers such as SNDTOOL, GV057, and the Windows version of GhostScript. -- Ad-hoc Telnet, FTP, and Gopher sessions. -- SLIP/PPP support with dialup scripting language. -- Supports wide range of LAN configurations via Distinct TCP/IP runtime stack. Things you should know: -- Hardware: Cello needs a Windows 3.1-capable machine with enhanced mode and (preferably) swapping enabled. It is hungry for extended RAM. -- Software: Cello depends (for now...we're working on a Winsock version) on the Distinct TCP/IP runtime stack. The LII has licensed the use of a runtime version of this software for use by US academic institutions for a period of one year, starting June 1, after which we will renegotiate the license. Commercial organizations and non-academic users are strongly urged to contact Distinct directly at mktg.distinct.com. The Distinct software adds enormous functionality to the package, including SLIP/PPP support with scripting, and configuration for many types of LAN and networking layers. We are working on a Winsock version which will be available without restriction later this summer. --How to get it: FTP to fatty.law.cornell.edu, the /pub/LII/Cello subdirectory. The distribution is in multiple files. At a minimum, you will need README.1ST, which contains unpacking instructions. CELLO.ZIP, which contains the executable and Help application DIS.ZIP, which contains the runtime stack. Optionally, you should also get: VIEWERS.ZIP, which contains a graphics viewer and sound player for use with Cello. GSWIN.ZIP, which contains the Windows version of GhostScript. PLEASE NOTE that fatty is but an humble little Sparc and you can bring it to its knees fairly easily, so if you have another source for the GhostScript stuff please spare me and everyone else by going to the alternate source; the file is 2+ MB. Installation: Installation is performed by following the instructions in README.1ST, then using the online help. Additional support is available from a listserv list called appropriately enough CELLO-L. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@fatty.law.cornell.edu with the one-liner: sub cello-l your full name in the body of the message. cello-l is watched by the developer and by a few folks who graciously assisted in alpha testing and who know more about the software's treacherous behavior than its author; the listowner is Will Sadler at Indiana University Law School. We are also working on an archive of installation hints and tricks. Please try to take it easy on comp.infosystems.www; Tim already has too much to deal with (grin). Who'n'heck are these guys?: The Legal Information Institute, operating under the auspices of the Cornell Law School, is an entity set up to distribute legal information in hypertextual form by various means, including the Net. Since there wasn't a Web client for the platform used most by lawyers and legal academics, we took it into our (ill-advised) heads to write one. This is it, almost. For further information: lii@fatty.law.cornell.edu. Regards, Tb. From: Paul Herman Subject: Summary re Second year Metaphysics & Epistemology course Date: 9 Jun 93 10:17 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 51 (95) Quite a while ago, I queried several lists about teaching materials and methods for a second year metaphysics and epistemology course. I was particularly interested in providing some multicultural and feminist perspectives. I promised to summarize back to the list. It's taken awhile, but here it is. I hope not to have left out anyone's responses; if I have, my apologies. Paul Herman, UCFV, Chilliwack, British Columbia HERMAN@FVC.BC.CA A couple of post-modernist teaching methods One Here's a post modernist course for you (or what it seems to me, on the basis of this discussion, might count as a post- modernist course). No uniform texts, no lectures, none of the "class discussions" which are actually ways of getting someone else to say what the lecturer wants to say herself. You begin with a set of questions: how is, and has been, the field/subject/concept/area we've agreed to study constructed? What kinds of assumptions characterize the practitioners of this field? What counts as knowledge in this field? What are the questions agreed to be important among practitioners? What "knowledge" is assumed to be necessary among them? Then you organize your class as a collaborative to find out answers to those questions. Members of the class investigate different questions and report back. Answers are questioned, new questions are generated or old ones elaborated, and the cycle is repeated. You use the library, the world, other members of faculty and other students, complimentary copies of course textbooks, whatever you might use if you decided to learn about something. Your students (and you) construct the knowledge for yourselves, as part of a group of people engaged in the same process. You replicate the way knowledge is constructed in the "outside world." You learn (if it works) not to depend on a teacher, a textbook, or an encyclopedia to deliver "the truth"; you learn that knowing is active, and that knowledge is always constructed and always changing and always socially negotiated. The teacher's role is mainly facilitative and supportive: what she knows that's most relevant is how to learn. Two Instead of using a textbook, students will be faced with the task, in groups of 4, of creating their own "Sociology of the Family" textbook. I want to use a form with which they are familiar, but change their relationship to it-- put them in a position of being authors, rather than consumers, of culture. The course is subtitled: "The Family" in Everyday Life. My goal is to investigate the social and cultural processes through which the taken-for-granted reality of "the family" is constructed as a cultural object. Data for the course (our "text" if you will) will be the pictures, portraits, accounts, tellings, stories, and renderings that produce or assume "the Family" as it comes to be used and talked about. I want to make this object available for analysis in ways that will allow us to see who has the power to author our taken-for-granted notions of "the family." Resources Usually, an item has been favourably mentioned somewhere-- either in reviews or by respondents--in order to be listed. All comments are by others, not by me! Some items are listed simply because there seem to be few of them. e.g., readers in multicultural philosophy, even though I have no information on their goodness. Epistemology Texts Dancy, Jonathan. Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology. Blackwell, 1985. Excellent up-to-date critical intro- survey for advanced undergrad and beginning grads. Lehrer, Keith, Theory of Knowledge; Westview: epistemology skepticism coherence. Moser, Paul K., Human Knowledge: classical and contemporary approaches. Good collection of articles Pollock, John L., Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, Rowman and Littlefield, 1986. Trusted, Jennifer, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Knowledge, 2nd yr epistemology course, series of reading from Plato to Kant, and beyond with running commentary extolling empirical knowledge. Accessible. MacMillan, London, ISBN 0-333-32297-5) Gender Obviously, listing in this section does not imply that the items could not serve well as, e.g., metaphysics texts, but only that gender issues are a focus. Several course syllabi are available in feminist philosophy. For an index of them, send the following message to LISTSERV@CFRVM (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU (if you're subscribed on an Internet address): INDEX SYLLABI Alcoff, Linda and Elizabeth Potter's collection, Feminist Empistemologies (Routledge): includes articles that reflect the diversity in the field and recent developments. Antony, Louise M. and Charlotte Witt (eds), A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, Westview Press, 1993. Baier, Annette, Postures of the Mind. Reason - role in metaphysics, ethics; Hume as root. Belenky, Mary Field, et al, Women's ways of knowing: the development of self, voice, and, mind, Basic Books, 1986. Code, Lorraine. What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge, Cornell UP, 1991. Duran, Jane. Toward A Feminist Epistemology. Rowman and Littlefield, 1990. Frye, Marilyn, The politics of reality: essays in feminist theory, . Crossing Press, 1983. Excellent essays. Garry, Ann and Marilyn Pearsall, Women, Knowledge and Reality; Explorations in Feminist Philosophy, Unwin Hyman, 1989. Excellent collection of important feminist philosophy on many standard fields of philo. Excellent editorial comments. Gergen, Mary Mccanney, Feminist Thought And The Structure Of Knowledge Griffiths, Morwenna and Margaret Whitford (eds), Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy. Hanen, Marsha and Kai Nielsen (eds), Science, Morality and Feminist Theory. Excellent articles Harding, Sandra and Merrill B. Hintikka (eds), Discovering reality: feminist perspectives on epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, and philosophy of science, 1983. Harding, Sandra, Feminism and Methodology Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (Cornell). Hekman, Susan. Gender And Knowledge: Elements Of A Postmodern Feminism. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Harvard UP, 1990. Not for undergrads but excellent source for instructors. Lloyd, Genevieve, The Man Of Reason, 2E, U. Minnesota, 1984. Well reviewed history of philosophical concepts of reason in terms of gender: are western notions of truth and rationality gender based? Longino, Helen. Science As Social Knowledge: Values And Objectivity In Scientific Inquiry. Princeton University Press, 1990. Longino, SCIENCE AS SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE (Princeton). Nelson, Lynn Hankinson, WHO KNOWS (Temple) Minas, Anne, Gender Basics; Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men, Wadsworth, 1993. Riley, Denise, "Am I that Name?"; Feminism and the Category of "Women" in History, University of Minnesota, 1988. Stimulating, enjoyable; upper division and grad. Tong, Rosemarie, Feminist Thought: A comprehensive Intro, Westview, 1989. Tuana, Nancy, Woman and the History of Philosophy, Paragon, 1992. Intended for students. Metaphysics Texts Carter, William, The Elements of Metaphysics, Temple UP. Coburn, Robert C., The strangeness of the ordinary: problems and issues in contemporary metaphysics, Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. Delightful invitation to serious conceptual puzzles; very accessible. Post, John F., Metaphysics; a contemporary introduction, Paragon, 1991. Swartz, Norman, Beyond experience: metaphysical theories and philosophical constraints, 1991. Excellent reviews. van Inwagen, Peter, Metaphysics, Westview, 1993. A model of how to do philosophy, clear prose, rigorous argumentation rigorous without being technical, Western (analytic) tradition. Mind Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg, Mind in action: essays in the philosophy of mind, c1988. Smith, Peter and O.R. Jones., The philosophy of mind: an introduction, Cambridge UP, 1986. Teichman, Jenny. Philosophy and the Mind. OUP, text Multicultural The Dept. of Philosophy at the University of Toronto last year received a small grant to look at non-white curriculum resources and put together a bibliography. It is probably available for a modest cost. Write to the Chair of the Dept., Wayne Sumner, for details (or fax him at 416-978- 8703). Bodde, Derk (ed), A short history of Chinese philosophy, Yu- lan Feng. short reference work Bonevac, Daniel, & Stephen Phillips, Understanding Non- Western Philosophy; introductory readings, McClelland & Stewart, 1992. Hiriyana, Outlines of Indian Philosophy. short reference. Jacobson, Nolan Pliny, Buddhism: the religion of analysis. Chapter on Buddha & Hume on no-self. Jacobson, Nolan Pliny, Understanding Buddhism. Kessler, Gary E., Voices of Wisdom: a multicultural philosophy reader. Wadsworth 1992. Koller, John M., Sourcebook in Asian Philosophy, Macmillan 1991. Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli and Charles A. Moore, A Source Book in Indian Phil Sprung, Mervyn, The magic of unknowing: an east-west soliloquy, 1987. Sullivan, Lawrence E., Native American Religions, Macmillan 1991. Valle, Ronald S. and Rolf Von Eckartsberg (eds), The Metaphors of consciousness, c1981. Selections from many and various traditions; promising source book. Wing-Tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Phil. Other Leslie, John, Physical Cosmology and Philosophy, Macmillan 1990. McCaffery, Larry (ed), Storming the reality studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction, 1991. Woolley, Benjamin, Virtual worlds: a journey in hype and hyperreality, 1992, Blackwell. Personal Identity Kolak, Daniel, Self and Identity, Macmillan 1991. Solomon, Robert C., Continental philosophy since 1750: the rise and fall of the self, 1988. Taylor, Charles, Sources of the Self From: crane@ikaros.harvard.edu (gregory crane) Subject: electronic LSJ Greek-English Lexicon Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 10:20:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 52 (96) The following summarizes current plans to put the Liddell-Scott-Jones, the standard Greek-English lexicon, on-line. We are especially anxious to hear how non-specialists in classics with a present or possible interest in Greek might respond. We have developed morphological analysis software so that if you were reading a Greek text on-line, you could select a word, get its possible morphological analyses and dictionary entries and then look them up in a dictionary. At present, we have the intermediate Liddell Scott Lexicon on-line in Perseus 1.0. Putting the "Great Scott" big dictionary on-line would make it possible to do a lot more. (We take it for granted that we will provide outline views of dictionary entries and use filters to help people navigate larger entries. The e-LSJ should be easier to use than the print versions of its smaller teaching counterparts.) It is very important that non-specialists in classics who might nevertheless benefit from such a tool speak up. The classicists who review for NEH have a hard time taking anyone very seriously besides other professional classicists, and we cannot document too well the uses to which historians of science or religion, philosophers, linguists and other might put this tool. ****** At the end of the summer, we plan to support a proposal to the NEH to place on-line the ninth edition of the Liddell Scott Jones Greek-English Lexicon (LSJ-9). This lexicon contains more than 100,000 entries and 500,000 citations. First, published in 1940, LSJ-9 remains the most important printed tool for the student of Greek language. LSJ-9 will appear in the Perseus database, but we are anxious that LSJ-9 be available from other sources as well, on both CD ROM and via network (e.g., GOPHER, WAIS). Our goal will be to make this tool accessible to every student of Greek, from the second year language student to the professional classicist. In addition, we are collaborating with Oxford University Press to produce an on-line version of the forthcoming, updatedLSJ supplement that is compatible with the electronic LSJ-9. OUP intends to publish a CD ROM that incorporates both LSJ-9 and the forthcoming supplement. The scholar working with the electronic supplement and LSJ-9 would, in a effect, have a seamless new edition of the lexicon that automatically interweave the two. Between 1843 and 1897, Henry George Liddell supervised eight editions of the lexicon. The ninth edition was not completely published until 1940. Once we have placed the lexicon in a reasonably structured electronic format, the editors of LSJ will be able to publish new editions on a regular basis for the first time since Liddell's death in 1898. Furthermore, the electronic LSJ will stimulate the study of Greek language in many ways. It will be possible to cross- reference the LSJ head-words with smaller, more specialized lexicographic entries. New lexica on medical terminology or religious language placed in the same electronic environment as LSJ can be much more prominent and readily accessible, since the user looking for the LSJ definition of a term could simultaneously be informed if other sources contain references to that entry. There are many scholars who will devote portions of their time to the study of Greek language if they can bring the results of their work quickly before many students of classical Greece. In addition, visual databases on ancient Greece have already begun to appear (Perseus 2.0, for example, will contain more than 30,000 images). New lexicographic work will be able to include not only words but drawings and pictures -- a major step forward for many topics. The electronic LSJ will, of course, do things that its printed counterpart cannot and will support readers of Greek at many levels. Users will thus be able to go from a reference in LSJ to the full text in the TLG or other appropriate Greek databases. The morphological information in LSJ will also allow new types of searching in the TLG: e.g., asking for FE/RW would also retrieve OI)/SW and H)/NEGKON. Conversely, users working with the TLG could go from any form to its dictionary entry: e.g., confronted with H)/NEGKON, one could learn that this was a form of FE/RW. The system would even make it easier to identify the probable definition, searching for entries that cite "Homer" or "Tragedy," or simply letting the user view an outline of the entry (six columns for FE/RW). Comments and reactions are welcome. A draft copy of the proposal ready by mid June and will be sent to anyone who is interested in what we are planning to do. Gregory Crane crane@ikaros.harvard.edu Tufts University Dept of Classics Eaton Hall Medford MA 02155 From: jslindst@waltari.Helsinki.FI (Jouko Lindstedt) Subject: Query: injustus aut impotens Date: Tue, 8 Jun 93 15:55:22 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 62 (97) (Posted to MedText-L, SEELangs, Humanist.) In the Slavonic Vita Constantini (Cyrilli), probably dating from the IX century, St. Cyril explains why God has given equal rights to all nations and languages, and makes use of an argument which Grivec has translated from Church Slavonic into Latin as follows: "Dicite mihi, utrum Deum facientes debilem, ita ut non possit hoc dare, an invidum, ita ut nolit?" (XVI:6 of the Vita Constantini, where those who read Church Slavonic can check the original wording.) I.e., since something is right, God should be either weak or evil if he didn't grant it. The editions of VC I have checked (Grivec & Tomsic, Angelov & Kodov) do not seem to be aware of any source for this argument. Now, there is something very similar in Cur Deus homo of Anselm of Canterbury, liber II, caput XIX (or caput XX according to another numbering): "Imo necesse esse video ut Pater Filio retribuat: alioquin aut injustus esse videtur, si nollet, aut impotens, si non posset, quae aliena sunt a Deo." (PL vol. 158) This is an almost identical argument -- albeit for a different cause. What could be the primary source, perhaps some Father of the Church? Jouko Lindstedt Institutum Slavicum, Universitas Helsingiensis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki or letters: P.O.Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland fax: +358-0-1912974 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Subject: e-mail in Madrid, Spain Date: 08 Jun 1993 11:00:52 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 63 (98) I am involved in a writing project with someone in Madrid, Spain who currently has no access to e-mail. Does anyone know of an e-mail site or address there that she might be able to use? John Hazlett e-mail address: JDHEG@UNO.EDU From: epalmer@CC.UTAH.EDU Subject: 'Story telling scarf' Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 14:38:32 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 64 (99) Could someone on the list familiar with Irish culture provide me with information concerning an object known as a 'story telling scarf'? A friend off the list is interested in finding out the proper Gaelic term, and information concerning the historical origins of the object (she speculates that it derives from a priest's mantle...). The friend is also interested in acquiring one, if anyone has leads on a material source for such material culture. Replies direct or to the list, as you like, thanks, peace eric Eric Palmer epalmer@cc.utah.edu Until Mid-August 1993: Thereafter: Philosophy, University of Utah Philosophy, University of Kentucky Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA (801) 581-8161 (606) 257-1861 From: Sarah L. Higley Subject: More Jawboning Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 17:23:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 65 (100) Many thanks for the responses about Judges 15. I have another question about "jawbones." Who has heard of the modern idiom "to jawbone," or "jawbone regulations"? It's listed in the American Heritage Dictionary as meaning "to try to influence or pressure through strong persuasion," especially in the context of governmental or extr-official armtwisting: "to urge voluntary compliance with official wishes or guidelines." One "jawbones" a company into raising or lowering its wages. Is this obsolete? Is it strictly American? What are the subtle connotations of this use? Is it pejorative? Does it have, as I suspect that it does, the double sense of persuasive rhetoric and the crushing mandible? Bones on the Brain, many thanks Sarah Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu Has anybody ever HEARD of this use of "jawbone"? From: Jan Eveleth Subject: NorthWestNet Position Opening, Documentation Specialist Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 15:15:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 54 (101) NorthWestNet and Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Inc. (NWACC) An Equal Opportunity Employer Position Title: Educational Documentation Specialist Salary Range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Location: Bellevue, WA Date Available: August 1, 1993 or as soon thereafter as possible The Organization ---------------- NorthWestNet is a regional component of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) and the worldwide Internet serving universities, colleges, elementary and secondary educational institutions, libraries, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and industry in the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, and Washington. The Position ------------ The education documentation specialist will maintain, update, and enhance in electronic and paper formats "The Internet Passport," NorthWestNet's 500+ page Internet user's manual and resource guide, and will be responsible for reports, services, and production tasks associated with the delivery of this document. This position reports to the Director of User Services. Primary Duties and Responsibilities ----------------------------------- o Regularly monitors existing and newly introduced Internet applications, services, and resources. Analyzes, evaluates, and authors documentation on these applications, services, and resources. Maintains and updates this documentation. Does in-depth investigation of Internet use specific to targeted audiences (e.g., K-12, supercomputing, health services, libraries) and prepares "modules" for these program areas. o Implements the production schedule for "The Internet Passport" including meeting deadlines for drafts, edits, reviews, formatting, publishing, and distribution. o Coordinates efforts to present user's guide material in electronic formats including information services, such as WAIS and Gopher, and an FTP server. Qualifications -------------- o The qualified applicant will be an active user of the Internet and have a working familiarity with a wide variety of Internet services. Must be fully conversant with e-mail, FTP, and Telnet and work easily with electronic texts in a wide variety of formats including text-only, MS Word, and PostScript. Intimate knowledge of the "folkways" and etiquette of the Internet community and its various services is required. o Must have highly developed, creative writing skills and be able to express technical details in engaging, easy to understand prose. o Needs to be familiar with editing and publishing processes for both paper and electronic copies and be committed to highly coordinated, collaborative teamwork processes. o A Bachelor's degree is required. A Master's degree in a liberal arts discipline preferred. The complete position description may be retrieved via anonymous FTP as follows: FTP host: ftp.nwnet.net directory: staff filename: eddoc.spec.pd Your correspondence, including a cover letter, resume, and a list of three references, should be sent to: Jan Eveleth, Director of User Services NorthWestNet 15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202 Bellevue, WA 98007 Review of applications will commence July 1, 1993, and will continue until the position is filled. From: Karla Saari Kitalong Subject: call for papers Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 15:22:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 55 (102) CALL FOR PAPERS READER: ESSAYS IN READER-ORIENTED THEORY, CRITICISM, AND PEDAGOGY Elizabeth A. Flynn and John Clifford, editors of _Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy_, are interested in receiving essays exploring the relationship between reading and the following areas: postmodernism multiculturalism and post-colonialism cultural studies composition technical communication We encourage articles that explore issues of reader-response criticism and pedagogy. Submission process: All submissions are blind reviewed. Articles of 15-20 double-spaced pages must conform to the _MLA Style Manual_. Submit one cover page with your name, affiliation, e-mail address, snail mail address, and article title. Send two copies of the manuscript without names or other identifying information. Send submissions to: Elizabeth A. Flynn, Co-Editor Reader Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931 From: ucrahex@ucl.ac.uk (Eric Halpern) Subject: Re: 7.0048 Rs: Books in Print (2/45) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 08:16:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 66 (103) RE: Books in Print BIP is also available on Compuserve, for a small (timed) fee above the basic service rate. Rick Halpern, Dept of History, University College London ucrahex@ucl.ac.uk From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: jawboning Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 08:43:31 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 67 (104) The expression `to jawbone' (= to persuade by strong talking) was common in the Middle Tennessee of my youth, and I still use it. It was one of LBJ's favorites, so it enjoyed brief popularity in the Washington crowd during his term of office. Jim Marchand. From: BKELMSS Subject: Literary Jesuits Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 15:39:02 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 68 (105) I am working on an article dealing with literary and cinematic representations of Jesuit priests. Does anyone know of a survey article on this subject or any bibliographic references? Thanks. Marcus Smith From: Ann M. Woodlief Subject: GUIDE and literature Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 20:17:37 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 69 (106) Virginia Commonwealth University has recently purchased a site license for GUIDE and we are in the process of mastering it. It's been around for a while, so surely there are people who have developed some literary applications with pedagogical value! Who are you? I am particularly interested in applications useful for introduction to literature classes from a reader-oriented theoretical perspective. Please send me descriptions of what you have developed. Ann Woodlief (send to awood@hibbs.vcu.edu) From: Eternal in Mutability Subject: Source of Quotation Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 19:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 70 (107) I would appreicate it if someone could identify the source of the following line of poetry: "Not a line of her writing have I, not a thread of her hair." Thanks, Bill Reynolds Reynolds@Hope Replies off-list would probably be more economical than ones sent through the list. From: LEONARD MARSH Subject: Eating & Digestion Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993 10:46:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 71 (108) Can anyone help me in identifying any texts (especially in European Renaissance) that contain images of eating and digestion as metaphors for hearing and under- standing the spoken (or written) word? Thank you, Leonard Marsh MARSH@LEMOYNE.bitnet From: Richard.W.Unger@mtsg.ubc.ca Subject: Question for Humanist List Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 17:54:14 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 72 (109) A graduate student here at the University of British Columbia will soon have access to e-mail wants to know if there is a list devoted specifically to Canadian history or to Canadian anthropology or to relations between Europeans and native peoples in North America. Can anyone give me the name(s) and locations so that I can pass them on to her? Richard W. Unger History University of British Columbia From: Arjan Loeffen C&L/RUU Subject: PhD Chapter on Text Models Date: 15 Jun 1993 11:53:38 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 58 (110) I am almost finished writing a chapter on text models for my PhD thesis on the definition of a textbase management system. I guess the chapter will be ready for comment in july 1993. I am willing to put the text in PostScript on FTP, but only if some people are interested, and if I may expect the readers to comment on the text (as it is, as they say, 'classified information'). I would like to hear from the HUMANIST subscriber (or any scolars in the field of electronic text handling) if he/she is interested in the draft chapter. The text models are: TDM (Desai, '85) P-string (Gonnet & Tompa, '87; Gyssens etc, '89; Tague etc, '91) PAT (Baeza-Yates & Gonnet, '89; Salminen & Tompa, '91) Bayan (King, '90) TOMS (Deerwester, '92) Containment model ("THS") (Burkowsky, '92) MdF (Doedens, '93) Note that the chapter is not a software description nor -comparison. It deals with the way electronic texts are perceived by the designers, and the models are described in terms of text structure, operations, and constraints. Other products that support an implicit text 'model' (full text retrieval systems, concordance programs, wordprocessors and the like) are treated separately, and will not be included in the chapter. As the TBMS is founded on SGML, this model is treated separately in a complete chapter, and is not included either. The report will be about 60 pages long. If you don't have a PostScript printer | previewer, only a very rough MRT may be obtained from FTP. Sincerely, Arjan Loeffen (Computer & Humanities, Utrecht, The Netherlands) From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne) Subject: Bible Program Review Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 22:58:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 73 (111) I have written an article on Bible-search programs, which will be interest to many on this list. It is an in-depth comparison of 4 IBM PC programs that use a Graphic User Interface (GUI): Bible Windows, Bible Works, The Word and Logos Advanced Study System. All of these programs allow complex searches in the Greek and Hebrew bible texts, as well as numerous English versions. All but one allow grammatical searches of considerable complexity. They are quite easy to use due to the Graphic User Interface. Most use Microsoft Windows, but The Word uses a proprietary GUI (a Windows version is coming soon). This article was published in the Computer Assisted Research Forum (CARF), Spring 1993. If your library does not subscribe to this journal, contact the editor, Todd Blayone, for subscription information. He can be reached at cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca. This is a great journal for anyone interested in computer assisted humanities research. Recent issues reviewed Macintosh Bible-search programs and multilingual word processors with Greek and Hebrew capabilities. Harry Hahne From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: CARF UPDATE Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 20:01:04 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 74 (112) ******************************************************************** Computer-Assisted Research Forum UPDATE ******************************************************************** "[The] Computer-Assisted Research Forum . . . made interesting and informative reading." Donald MacRae, Germanic & Slavic Studies, Brock University "CARF ... is nothing short of excellent. Exactly the sort of publication that I think we humanities types need." George Nahrebecky, Modern Languages & Classics, St. Mary's University "It [the Computer Assisted-Research Forum] came across my desk yesterday, and immediately struck me as a 'must have.' It looks promising and valuable..." T. R. Hobbs, McMaster Divinity College ******************************************************************** The Spring/Summer 1993 (Volume 1, No. 3) edition of the Computer- Assisted Research Forum (CARF) has rolled off the press and will reach subscribers shortly. Postings with the subject heading "CARF UPDATE" will serve as electronic companions to the print-based publication. This includes: 1. A New Introduction to CARF 2. CARF, Spring/Summer 1993 Highlights 3. Subscription Information CARF is currently published three times during the year in Fall, Winter and Spring/Summer editions. CARF UPDATE will appear periodically on a number of humanities-related lists. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO CARF -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.1 What the Computer-Assisted Research Forum IS NOT CARF is not one of those computer publications that simply applauds the latest developments in the world of computer hardware and software. CARF is not a technical humanities-computing journal. It was not designed for the presentation of intricate, case-specific quantitative literary and linguistic data. CARF is not the product of a particular university computer centre addressing issues of concern to local users only. 1.2 What the Computer-Assisted Research Forum IS The Computer-Assisted Research Forum (CARF) is a unique publication that fills a significant information void. 1.3 Intended Reader The humanities scholar-teacher and the student (from first year university/college to the doctoral level) are the focus of attention. Support staff will benefit from listening in. 1.4 Disciplinary Focus CARF spreads its web across all areas of the humanities. Suggestions for articles and reviews, which can be sent by FAX or e-mail, are warmly received. (CARF extends an invitation to the experienced user, and scholar with special computer-related interests, to join with the editorial team as a reviewer or advisor.) 1.5 General Purposes CARF seeks to meet the essential, "real-world," computer-information needs of the intended reader. For the beginner, CARF presents "how-to" articles introducing technologies and resources relevant to humanities research. For the intermediate reader, more sophisticated articles dealing with a variety of important and stimulating issues are presented. All readers will benefit from our lengthy software and literature review sections. Our fundamental assumption is that the productivity, and computer literacy of the "average" humanities student and scholar is contingent upon the availability of relevant, non-technical information. "Main-stream" computer publications cater, almost exclusively, to a business audience. By contrast, the Computer- Assisted Research Forum adopts a decidedly humanistic perspective. 1.6 Platforms Supported Both PC (i.e., IBM and compatible) and Macintosh platforms are supported. Most humanities scholars utilize one of these two types of systems. 1.7 Writer Queries CARF accepts feature articles from qualified writers on a regular basis. Contributors are asked to keep CARF's general orientation in mind (see above). The citation style adopted is the author-date style of Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers, 5th ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982). We also accept software-review queries. The ideal query highlights one's qualifications and the scope of the proposed review. It also provides information that will assist us in tracking down the publisher(s) of the software package(s) to be included. Contributions and queries may be submitted electronically to cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2. SPRING/SUMMER 1993 HIGHLIGHTS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2.1 Table of Contents/List of Contributors Electronic Shakespeare: Making Texts Compute...........1 Eric Johnson Eric Johnson is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Dakota State University. He is the Editor of TEXT Technology, and he has published more than fifty articles and reviews about computers, writing, and literary study. (johnsone@columbia.dsu.edu) FrameMaker: Desktop Publishing Power for the Humanist...5 Karla Saari Kitalong Karla Saari Kitalong is Academic Computing Specialist in the Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, where she is also a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric and Technical Communication. (kitalong@mtu.edu) High-Tech Bible Study: PC Bible Programs with a Graphical User Interface................................7 Harry Hahne Harry Hahne is Lecturer in New Testament at Ontario Theological Seminary and a Doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several published computer programs, including the Library Master bibliographic database manager. (hahne@epas.utoronto.ca) In Brief. News, Short Reviews and Annotations...........17 2.2 From the Editor In this issue Eric Johnson provides readers with a glimpse into the world of electronic text. The conversion of vast amounts of our literary heritage into machine-readable form has precipitated, at least in some quarters, the merging of technology and literary criticism. Adherents argue that electronic text not only facilitates more efficient mays of locating and manipulating data, but that it offers "new modes of access into the structure, development and meaning of a work" (Neuman 1991, 369). Johnson provides examples of research that point in this direction. Of course, many insist that computers "cannot help us to answer the questions that really count" (Burrows 1992, 167). Karla Saari Kitalong's review of FrameMaker, a desktop publishing package especially well-suited to the processing of scholarly documents, is timely. The affordability of desktop publishing technology, and the growing demand (from publishers) for camera-ready copy is forcing scholars to redefine their "trade." Without doubt, one will still frequently encounter the "remark that writers should not concern themselves with desktop publishing but ought to leave those activities to the printer. Academics and other writers, we are told, do not design well; and even if they did, the argument continues, such activities are a waste of time. Such advice which has recently become an injunction should make us ask why. After all, when told that one should not avail oneself of some aspect or form of empowerment, particularly as a writer, one should ask why. What if someone told us: Here is a pencil. Although it has a rubber apparatus at the opposite end from that which you write, you should not use it. Real writers don t use it (George Landow 1992, 49)?" Bible-search packages are reaching new levels of sophistication and user-friendliness. Given the fact that the Bible represents a relatively small corpus (readily available in electronic, text-only and grammatically-tagged forms), and that the (American) market for high-tech bible-study tools seems to be growing, it should come as no surprise that we struggled to limit our coverage to four, new, graphically-oriented packages for the PC. Harry Hahne's critical, in-depth review is an accomplishment that will be tremendously appreciated by anyone with an interest in literary analysis of the relevant ancient texts. Of course, humanists with no special interest in the Bible may wish to note how the various programs have implemented a set of text-analysis tools in a graphics environment. Finally, this issue introduces In Brief, a section presenting short reviews, software announcements and upgrade notes. I am encouraged by the response CARF continues to elicit from students, scholars, teachers and support-staff all over the world. As we continue to expand our base of individual and institutional subscribers I invite input and queries from parties wishing to contribute to this publishing venture. _______________ Burrows, J. F. 1992. "Computers and the Study of Literature." In Computers and Written Texts, ed. Christopher S. Butler, 167- 204. Cambridge: Blackwell. Landow, George P. 1992. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Neuman, Michael. 1991. "The Very Pulse of the Machine: Three Trends Toward Improvement in Electronic Versions of Humanites Texts." Computers and the Humanities 25: 363-375. 2.3 Advertising Highlights Advertisment 1: Full Page (4) "Create Perfect Bibliographies the Easy Way" Library Master 2.0 -- Special Offer! Contact: Balboa Software, Canada. (416) 730-8980 Advertisement 2: Full Page (8) "Introducing the New Version 2.0 BibleWorks for Windows: The fastest and most productive Windows research software" Contact: Hermeneutica, USA. (206) 824-WORD Advertisement 3: Two Full Pages (12-13) "Bible Windows 2.1, TLG Workplace 2.0, PHI Workplace 2.3: Unique Display. Unique Searches. With Simplicity." Contact: Silver Mountain Software, USA. (214) 293-2920 Advertisement 4: Quarter Page (19) "Personal Bibliographic Databases... These cost more (...) This does more: PAPYRUS (Version 7)." Contact: Research Software Design, USA. (503) 796-1368 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.1 Subscription Rates Individuals: $10.00Cdn - $ 8.50US Institutions: $15.00Cdn - $12.75US Outside Canada and USA add: $ 7.00Cdn - $ 6.00US These special rates are valid until August 1, 1993. Subscriptions consist of three issues, beginning with the most recent issue (unless otherwise specified). Send cheque (payable to "CARF" in Canadian or US funds) or purchase order to: Computer-Assisted Research Forum c/o Todd Blayone Birks Building, McGill University 3520 University Street Montreal, PQ H3A 2A7 - Canada Please inquire about back issues and single-issue rates. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Editorial Team Todd J. B. Blayone, Editor McGill University cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca Bruce Guenther, Associate Editor McGill University czbg@musicb.mcgill.ca William Dubie, Editorial Advisor Digital Equipment Corp dubie@tnpubs.enet.dec.com Harry Hahne, Editorial Advisor Ontario Theological Seminary hahne@epas.utoronto.ca Richard P. Hayes, Editorial Advisor McGill University cxev@musica.mcgill.ca David J. Reimer, Editorial Advisor Wilfred Laurier University dreimer4@mach1.wlu.ca Stephen B. Scharper, Editorial Advisor McGill University cy77@musica.mcgill.ca From: David Bantz Subject: Humanities Computing Position Available Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 11:36:10 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 60 (113) The University of Chicago Academic & Public Computing / Humanities Division jointly funded position Title: Humanities Computing Coordinator Department: Academic & Public Computing Reports to: Director, APC, with oversight & strategic direction from Humanities Technical Oversight Committee Position Summary: Provides hands-on support of information technology applications to research, instruction, and administration in the Division of the Humanities. Serves as informed advocate and representive of the interests of the Humanities in Academic & Public Computing and in other information technology activities at the campus level. Duties include assisting the information technology planning, assisting faculty, students and staff in identifying the best types of software and equipment for particular needs, developing training programs to aid Humanities personnel in learning specific applications, and identifying solutions to various hardware, software and network problems encountered by members of the Division. Major Duties: o Provide advice on the purchase of new equipment and on the repair and maintenance of existing machinery, oversee software installation, support the existing network, and troubleshoot. Academic & Public Computing will provide training in existing campus technologies and support services and backup expertise for this work. 35% o Develop or customize classes or training programs for faculty, staff and students on topics such as basic computer use, network information resources and specific academic applications. Coordinate these with Academic & Public Computing, which will provide basic resources for this function, including syllabi for basic training, teaching materials, classroom facilities, and, if appropriate, instructors. 20% o Serve as technical liaison to Academic & Public Computing and to other information resources in assisting members of the Division to determine appropriate information technology applications to accomplish objectives in research, scholarship, instruction and administration. The coodinator will be specifically responsible for canvasing and understanding the needs of faculty and departments in the Division and using that understanding to assist APC in supporting the Division with appropriate technology; in this role the coordinator will particpate in determining recommended hardware and software, identifying needed documentation and helping produce it, and contributing to the ongoing enhancement of information technology support activities. 20% o Provide staff assistance to the Division's Technology Oversight Committee to assist it in developing and updating as necessary a Master Information Technology Plan with a five-year time frame, which addresses equipment, software and networking needs in the Division. 10% o Keep abreast of new information technology applications appropriate for the Division. Collaborate with other support units, faculty and governing committees to facilitate informed decisions concerning these applications. 10% o Perform other related duties as may be assigned by the Technology Oversight Committee. 5% The individual filling the position will work quite independently within and for the Humanities Division. Overall direction and assignments will be determined by the Technology Oversight Committee, a group within the Division consisting largely of faculty. Assignments would often be of a general nature with the incumbent expected to identify how best to implement them and to draw on appropriate resources of APC and other campus support units. While operating within the Division under direction of the Technical Oversight Committee, the coordinator is also a member of Academic & Public Computing, which is to provide day-to-day supervision, technical expertise backing up the coordinator, and integration of divisional support efforts with campus strategies. The position is expected to communicate well with faculty, staff and students as well as computing professionals in other areas of the University. The individual will be expected to give advice and to clearly explain technical matters to those without a computer background. The coordinator must have excellent communication skills, and be conversant with the disciplines of the humanities. Familiarity with the University of Chicago, and especially with the University's information technology infrastructure, will be very advantageous. Qualifications A minimum of two years experience in providing computing support services. Also required is a demonstrated technical ability with a variety of software on differing platforms (Macintosh and MS-DOS required; Windows and Sun or other Unix desirable), as well as experience with network management. Prior work experience in a university environment is preferred. A Bachelor's degree is required and an advanced degree in a humanities field is preferred. ------------------ This a new position created to serve the needs of faculty, staff and students of the Humanities Division. It is a regular full time staff position with full benefits, initially funded for one year from University funds (not grant funds); renewal possible indefinitely based on an evaluation of effectiveness of the position. Applicants should send a letter describing their experience and expertise, a current resume, and any materials (e.g., letters of recommendation, samples of work) supporting that application to: David Bantz Director, Academic & Public Computing University of Chicago 1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745 312-702-0822 (vox) 312-702-7661 (fax) From: KIRSHENBLATT@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Subject: Re: 7.0057 Qs: Jesuits; GUIDE; Quote; Eating; Canadian E-Lists (5/59 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 17:17:20 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 75 (114) Date sent: 16-JUN-1993 [deleted quotation]Renaissance) [deleted quotation] Yes. See, of course, Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, and more recently: Michel Jeanneret, A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance. University of Chicago Press, 1991 (English translation). Originally in French, 1987. Very good bibliography. --- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Department of Performance Studies New York University 721 Broadway, 6th floor New York, NY 10003 {@}--'--,---,--'---,--- Email: kirshenblatt@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Phone: 212-998-1628 Fax: 212-254-7885 From: payers@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: eating and digestion Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:12:22 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 76 (115) Mary Carruther's excellent book *The Book of Memory* deals extensively with metaphors of rumination, digestion, and regurgitation in medieval theories of listening and reading. Much of it is applicable to later periods. It is well worth looking at in any context. Peter Ayers Memorial University From: frsfwl Subject: Re: 7.0057 Qs: Jesuits; GUIDE; Quote; Eating; Canadian E-Lists (5/59 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 14:45:40 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 77 (116) Eating & Drinking Leonard Marsh asks for texts which use eating and drinking metaphors to describe the intake and digestion of the written word. The most obvious which springs immediately to mind is Rabelais' Gargantua, in the Prologue of which the author uses the extended metaphor of the dog cracking open the bobe to get at the marrow. The author advises readers of his books to "rompre l'os et sucer la substantifique moelle", that is, grasp the seriousness which underlies the apparent frivolity. From: Eric Rabkin Subject: Jesuits in Literature and Film Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 07:07:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 78 (117) Marcus Smith writes: [deleted quotation]Two classic science fiction works you'll want to look at are *A Case of Conscience* by James Blish and the widely anthologized "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke (which you might want to look at, btw, alongside H. G. Well's famous story of the same name). Another well known SF story that may be relevant is Anthony Boucher's "The Quest for Saint Aquin" available, among other sources, in *The Science Fiction Hall of Fame*, vol. 1, ed. Robert Silverberg. Eric 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 voice msgs: 313-763-3130 From: Michael Ossar Subject: Literary Jesuits Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 09:51 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 79 (118) The Swiss playwright Friz Hochwaelder wrote a play, I believe in 1942, based on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay called _Das heilige Experiment_. It was performed in English under the title _The Strong Are Lonely_. I think the actual details of the plot are fictitious. Michael Ossar Kansas State University mlo@ksuvm From: Tom Green Subject: Re: 7.0056 Rs: Books in Print; Jawboning (2/21) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 10:56:02 LCL X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 80 (119) "Jawboning" was a term also in use during the Truman Administration, and again with Kennedy -- both, as I recall in connection with strikes or impending strikes in the rail and steel industries. "Ike" didn't use the term because he wasn't prone to do much persuading anyway. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + THOMAS F. GREEN (TFGREEN@SUVM.BITNET) + + EMERITUS FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY + + PHILOSOPHER IN RESIDENCE ON POMPEY HILL + + Box 100 Pompey, NY 13138 (315) 677-9935 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: IT COSTS $30 TO READ AN ARTICLE Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 13:53:54 +22306256 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 63 (120) The following item came my way and digests a press release for an interesting new study. Librarians will read the study with obsessive interest, of course, but it struck me that it is of great interest and importance to many of the rest of us. ILL (Interlibrary Loan) is a vehicle I use almost thoughtlessly, and have always figured it was something we did because it was cheaper than *owning* the item in question. 'Taint necessarily so. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. ------------- WHAT DOES RESEARCH LIBRARY INTERLIBRARY LOAN ACTUALLY COST? The Association of Research Libraries and the Research Libraries Group have just issued the findings of a joint project to determine the present costs of interlibrary lending and borrowing in North American research libraries. The 64-page report, ARL/RLG Interlibrary Loan Cost Study, is being distributed by ARL. Seventy-six U.S. and Canadian research libraries collected interlibrary loan (ILL) cost data for 1991, which was then verified, analyzed, and distilled into the published study. The report provides the data to inform research libraries when their best option is to buy, catalog, and hold, or to borrow research materials; whether to use fee-based suppliers or ILL for obtaining photocopied materials; what are the relative staffing costs for ILL, by staff level and function; and cost differences by geographic region and institution type (public or private). Some findings, presented in statistical detail in the study: o The major cost of ILL operations is for staff; less than one fourth of the total goes to all other elements -- communications, photocopying, supplies, equipment, materials delivery, etc. o More than half of all filled ILL transactions are done through photocopies rather than transmitting the original item. o The average cost for a completed ILL transaction (incurred by both the lender and the borrower) is close to $30 -- nearly $19 for the requester and $11 for the lender. The complete bibliographical information is: ARL/RLG Interlibrary Loan Cost Study; A Joint Effort by the Association of Research Libraries and the Research Libraries Group, by Marilyn M. Roche, Research Libraries Group. Washington, DC, Association of Research Libraries, June 1993. iv, 64 pages. ISBN: 0-918006-70-8 $10 (including first class shipping and handling; discounts for multiple orders on request) For more ordering information, contact: Gloria Haws, Program Assistant for Customer Services 202-296-2296 telephone 202-872-0884 fax e-mail to: osap@cni.org From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Subject: Etymology/Definition of "Msabu" Date: 17 Jun 1993 09:36:39 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 64 (121) I am working on an EFL guide for Spanish student that uses the script of "Out of Africa" as its base. Can anyone tell me the etymology of the term "Msabu"? I also notice that the Kikuyu servants in the film use the term "Memsaab" (a shortened version of "Memsahib"). Was it common for terms used in India to be imported into other British colonies? John Hazlett e-mail: JDHEG@UNO.EDU From: emily socolov Subject: "United States-Mexico Borderlands" at Festival Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:17:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 65 (122) Excerpted from a Press Release dated June 7, 1993 _Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife_ The Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife will be held outdoors on the National Mall, Thursday, July 1, through Monday, July 5. Festival hours are 11a.m. to 5:30p.m., with a dance party until 7p.m. and a concert from 7p.m. to 9p.m. every night. All events are free. For more information call (202) 357-2700 (voice) or (202) 357-1729 (TTY). There will be four programs at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife this year: "United States-Mexico Borderlands" celebrates the cultural creativity of various groups of people who live in the area defined by the U.S.-Mexico border. Visitors will have an opportunity to meet some 85 people from the region and to learn about their history, traditions, music, food, occupations and crafts. Artists will paint murals that depict border history and contemporary life, fusing Chicano and Mexican imagery. Corrido singers will perform traditional ballads of struggle, sing about border heroes and improvise verses on current border events. Artisans who work with natural fibers, paper, tin, animal skins and recycled materials will demonstrate their crafts and discuss how they have adapted traditional skills to establish an economic base and strengthen their cultural identity on the border. Conjunto, norte~no and string bands will invite visitors to dance in the marketplace. In narrative sessions, participants from different regions of the border will tell stories, share experiences and discuss border issues that affect their daily lives." Other programs include: American Social Dance Kid's Stuff Metro Music Contact the Smithsonian for details.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emily Socolov for FOLLAC (Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano y Caribe~no ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "R. A. Shoaf" Subject: The Ninth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Date: Sun, 20 Jun 93 16:01:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 81 (123) THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS BEING POSTED TO SEVERAL LISTS -- APOLOGIES FOR ANY DUPLICATION. Professor Lee D. Snyder, Director of Medieval-Renaissance Studies, New College of USF, Sarasota, has asked me to post the following announcement of the Ninth Biennial New College Conference; the announcement is based on the flyer he will soon be mailing to colleagues around North America. *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** THE NINTH BIENNIAL NEW COLLEGE CONFERENCE ON MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE STUDIES March 10-12, 1994 Conference will be held on the New College Campus adjacent to the Sarasota- Bradenton Airport. Motel list on request. Longer versions of nominated conference papers will be considered for publication in EXEMPLARIA. The Conference will feature two major speakers, one in history, one in literature. All aspects of Europe and the Mediterranean before 1630 A.D. and any discipline: especially interest in papers on Italian Studies, French and Spanish Studies, Medieval/Renaissance Humanism, Courtly Culture, Ritual and Drama, Urban History, and the 12th-Century Renaissance. Deadline for submission of a one-page abstract: December 01, 1993. Notification of acceptance by December 20, 1993. Please send inquiries and abstracts to Professor Lee D. Snyder, Director, Medieval-Renaissance Studies New College of USF 5700 North Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34243-2197 PLEASE SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH OTHER INTERESTED COLLEAGUES R. A. Shoaf, Editor, EXEMPLARIA 904.371-7149 Vice-President, Council of Editors of Learned Journals 904.392-5299 Alumni Professor of English 904.374-2473 (FAX) 4338 Turlington Hall EXEMPLA@NERVM.Bitnet University of Florida EXEMPLA@Nervm.Nerdc.Ufl.Edu PLEASE SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH OTHER INTERESTED COLLEAGUES From: "Paul G. Stanwood" Subject: "Richard Hooker: Celebration and Appraisal" Date: Tue, 22 Jun 93 08:32:50 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 82 (124) ---(Forwarded from: Paul G. Stanwood@UBCMTSG.BITNET, Dated: Tue, 22 Jun 93 08:31:34 PDT)--- A conference marking the 400th anniversary of the first edition of *Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity* and completion of The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker will take place September 24-26, 1993 at The Folger Shakespeare Library and The Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. Plenary speakers include William J. Bouwsma, Patrick Collinson, Brian Vickers, and Rowan Williams. Papers on Hooker's work or influence are invited. For further information, contact Professor A. S. McGrade, Richard Hooker Conference, Department of Philosophy, U-54, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2054. From: DR_HOPKIN@TVAX.CLP.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 23 JUN 93 08:52:32 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 83 (125) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ---------------------------------------- FRANCOPHONE WRITING. Language and Literature in North and West Africa LONDON GUILDHALL UNIVERSITY Faculty of Human Sciences 16-17 July 1993 Plenary sessions and sectional meetings on a wide range of topics. Plenary speakers include Mongo Beti, Albert Memmi and Charles Bonn. Cultural evening with Noor Shimaal. Full programme and conference details, including accommodation, available from Laila Ibfnassi, Department of Language Studies, London Guildhall University Calcutta House Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT 071 320 1000 or 2217 fax 071 320 1121 e-mail DR_Hopkin @uk.ac.clp.tvax From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 11:46:38 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 67 (126) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST* *PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ******************************************************************************* AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REV ******************************************************************************* Call for papers Artificial Intelligence Review Journal Special issue on INTEGRATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION PROCESSING Editor: Masoud Yazdani Department of Computer Science University of Exeter, GB- EX4 4PT, Exeter United Kingdom, EC. E-mail: masoud@dcs.exeter.ac.uk Guest Editor: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield United Kingdom, EC. E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in integrating NLP and VP. Is it because of the long-time reductionist trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, non-linear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk, to those who have worked on VP? Whatever the reason, we believe it is high time to bring together these two areas of AI research. In this endeavour, we are calling for papers for a special issue of AI Review Journal dedicated to site descriptions, surveys, tutorials, and viewpoints on integrated NLP and VP research. Papers should be sent to the addresses below by DECEMBER 30TH, 1993. Feel free to contact Paul Mc Kevitt at the address above for advice on the suitability of manuscripts. The Journals Editorial Office Artificial Intelligence Review Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 17 NL- 3300 AA, Dordrecht The Netherlands EC. Artificial Intelligence Review P.O. Box 230 Accord, MA 02018-0230 USA. ******************************************************************************* AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REV ******************************************************************************* LATEX VERSION OF ABOVE TEXT \documentstyle[art12,a4wide,alltty,epic,eepic]{article} \topmargin -20mm \textheight 11.0in \footheight -2.0in \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{centering} \Huge Call for papers \\ \vspace{3mm} \Large Artificial Intelligence Review Journal \\ \vspace{3mm} {\bf Special issue on \\ Integration of \\ Natural Language and Vision Processing} \\ \end{centering} \normalsize \vspace*{1cm} \begin{minipage}{2.5in} \begin{centering} {\em Editor:} \\ Masoud Yazdani \\ Department of Computer Science \\ University of Exeter, \\ GB- EX4 4PT, Exeter \\ United Kingdom, EC. \\ E-mail: masoud@dcs.exeter.ac.uk \\ \end{centering} \end{minipage} \ \ \begin{minipage}{3.0in} \begin{centering} {\em Guest Editor:} \\ Paul Mc Kevitt \\ Department of Computer Science \\ Regent Court \\ University of Sheffield \\ 211 Portobello Street \\ GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield \\ United Kingdom, EC. \\ E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk \\ \end{centering} \end{minipage} \vspace{0.75in} Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in integrating NLP and VP. Is it because of the long-time reductionist trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, non-linear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk, to those who have worked on VP? Whatever the reason, we believe it is high time to bring together these two areas of AI research. In this endeavour, we are calling for papers for a special issue of AI Review Journal dedicated to site descriptions, surveys, tutorials, and viewpoints on integrated NLP and VP research. Papers should be sent to the addresses below by {\bf December 30th, 1993.} Feel free to contact Paul Mc Kevitt at the address above for advice on the suitability of manuscripts. \vspace*{1cm}\\ \begin{minipage}{2.5in} \begin{flushleft} The Journals Editorial Office \\ Artificial Intelligence Review \\ Kluwer Academic Publishers \\ P.O. Box 17 \\ NL- 3300 AA, Dordrecht \\ The Netherlands \\ EC.\\ \end{flushleft} \end{minipage} \ or \hspace*{5mm} \ \begin{minipage}{2.5in} \begin{flushleft} Artificial Intelligence Review \\ P.O. Box 230 \\ Accord, MA 02018-0230 \\ USA. \\ \end{flushleft} \end{minipage} \end{document} +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST* *PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST* +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: griffin Subject: English Institute Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 14:05:34 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 84 (127) I'm interested in attending this year's English Institute, need already to make plane reservations, but haven't as yet received any information. Can anyone tell me the dates, the participants, and the topics; and/or send an email address for the organizers? Your aid is greatly appreciated. Robert J. Griffin English Tel Aviv University From: bwillis@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: ZEERUST? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 11:03:40 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 85 (128) I have it on good authority that some people (I am not quite sure which) use a word of whose spelling I am unsure, but which seems to be pronounced ZEERUST, and which refers to the quality, like the streamlining of furniture and buildings in the 30s, which gives these commodities absolutely whizzbang up-to-dateness, but makes them terribly vulnerable to datedness and desuetude. Does anyone know anything about this? Brian Willis, the University of Western Australia From: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no (Jon Lanestedt) Subject: Electronic, interactive stories for kids Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 15:30:28 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 86 (129) Elaine and Allen, I sent this message to humanist@brownvm.brown.edu on June 17. I never got any confirmation message back ("Your mailing for Humanist has been submitted...") though so maybe something went wrong. In case it did here it is again. ------ cut here ------ Does anybody know if any critical work is done--books, articles, dissertations, whatever--on the emerging genre of interactive childrens' stories to be read/interacted with on a computer screen? The kind of software I have in mind is such interactive multimedia products (sound/speech/music, color animation, sometimes text) as Broderbund's CD-ROM series of "Living Books" and _Amanda Stories_, _The Little Noisy House_ etc. from the Voyager Company (a whole bunch of software publishers now sell such products). Sincerely, Jon Lanestedt ___________________________________________________________ Jon Lanestedt Department of Linguistics University of Oslo Voice: +47-22 85 48 99 P.O.Box 1102 Blindern Fax: +47-22 85 69 19 N-0317 Oslo, Norway Email: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no ___________________________________________________________ From: D Mealand Subject: Dartmouth address please Date: 22 Jun 93 11:40:06 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 87 (130) If anyone has an address for a faculty member at dartmouth college I would be most grateful if the e-mail address could be sent to me (not to Humanist) so that I can contact one of my Edinburgh colleagues who has just gone there for the summer. Thanks in advance David Mealand **************************************************************************** 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: Yorick Wilks Subject: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 11:22:32 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 69 (131) Speech and Natural Language at the University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science The Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield in England now has a strong research program in speech and natur- al language processing, and would still welcome new graduate stu- dents for Fall 1993, although all scholarships for this year are now gone. Sheffield is specifically interested in Natural Language Engineering and has established a Centre for Language Engineering involving a number of Departments. The University also has an interdisciplinary program in Cognitive Science and a strong program in Japanese. Sheffield has a number of funded projects in speech and language processing. Such projects are funded by SERC, the European Community and Japanese and American funders. It is believed that we will soon receive a Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) award for research in speech processing. There are at least 15 staff in the Department of Computer Science involved in speech and language processing. The Centre for language Engineering brings in another 10 staff. We have a wealth of experience in speech and language processing as well as computer aided language learning. Goy Brown: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Martin Cooke: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Malcolm Crawford auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Robert Gaizauskas models of text, text processing, cognitive science Phil Green: speech processing, neural network models of speech processing, ai approaches to speech processing Mark Hepple Cognitive Science, Categorial Grammars, Grammatical models Mike Holcombe formal models of NLP, formal models of user modelling Jim McGregor: user modelling, parsing, Prolog, tutoring systems Paul Mc Kevitt: pragmatics, natural language dialogue, user-computer interfaces, hypermedia, multimedia, user modelling, intention analysis, belief analysis Bob Minors Modelling arguments in discourse, illogic of argumentation, beliefs processing Tony Simons: machine translation, syntactic parsing, chart parsing, object-oriented parsing Yorick Wilks: Artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, belief pragmatics, lexical computation, parsing, text extraction. Sheila Williams: phenology, pragmatics and intonation, hearing, speech processing The developing programme in natural language processing will seek to link to speech research and also to emphasise multi-lingual text processing applications, pragmatics-based models of belief applied to dialogue, applications of large scale lexical and corpus resources, text correcting and verifying systems, includ- ing intelligent teaching systems concerned with language, and computational models of metaphor. The growing Computer Science Department is housed in a new building and has excellent facili- ties. Sheffield has the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK: a good city for walkers, runners, limbers etc. as wellas normal people. Anyone interested in further information should contact yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Applications and requests for forms should go to j.clarke@dcs.shef.ac.uk. From: gwp@dido.caltech.edu (G. W. Pigman III) Subject: 7.0061 Rs: Eating and Digesting (3/56) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 93 08:42:10 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 88 (132) [deleted quotation] My ``Versions of Imitation in the Renaissance,'' {\it Renaissance Quarterly\/} 33 (1980), 1--32, discusses the digestive metaphor---Seneca's {\it Epistulae morales\/} 84 is the locus classicus---in Renaissance theorists of imitation. From: Don Fowler Subject: RE: 7.0057 Qs: Jesuits; GUIDE; Quote; Eating; Canadian E-Lists (5/59 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1993 18:13:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 89 (133) On eating and digestion metaphors: for the classical world, a good start might be Emily Gowers The Loaded Table, Oxford 1993. Don Fowler, Jesus College, Oxford From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: msabu Date: Sat, 19 Jun 93 12:34:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 90 (134) A strange book to teach English from. Unfortunately, I have not seen the movie and you offer no context. I think you have correctly surmised that the root -sabu must be from msabu `Mem-Sahib'. Kikuyu and Swahili are both Bantu languages of East Africa and both use the so-called ifataki `prefixes (sort of)'. Thus, ki- prefixed to a root generally has the meaning of `thing; defective person', etc., so kiswahili = the swahili language. The m- prefix usually indicates `person'. Thus, kitu = thing, mtu = person, kitoto/totu = baby, mtoto = child. The checkered history of East Africa has left its imprint in Swahili in many loan words, with the usual misunderstandings, false analogies, etc. Thus, the Swahili word for `book' is kitabu, borrowed from Semitic (cf. Yiddish ksav-yad `manuscript'), probably Arabic. By analogy, one can hear mtabu `scholar, book-man', as if kitabu were based on a root -tabu. Foreigners, even Tarzan, are notorious for not being able to pronounce the prefixed nasal, and for adding a vowel, either before or after the m-. The British carried the word mem-sahib (itself a bastard form from ma'am sahib `Mrs. Boss') everywhere; it the movie Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines, the old retired colonel who had lived in India calls his wife `The Mem-Sahib'. It would be quite natural for a Kikuyu servant (I should have said mkuyu servant) to understand the mem- of mem-sahib as the prefix to a root *-saab, *-sabu, which I don't know, nor is it in my Standard Swahili Dictionary; but, then, you said it was Kikuyu; my Kikuyu friends don't know it either. Continuing along, the Indian presence in East Africa is old and large; occasionally nationalists will try to kick all the wahindi out, as I think Idi-Amin did. Swahili, splendid language that it is, is almost like English; it has taken over words from many languages. You have to watch out for the spelling and be on the qui vive; the Labour party used to be called leba, for example. Jim Marchand. From: Paul Brians Subject: Re: 7.0062 Rs: Literary and Film Jesuits; Jawboning (3/50) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 93 22:11:08 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 91 (135) Jesuits figure prominently in Voltaire's Candide, of course. And they come in for some nasty comments in The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, who hated Voltaire, but agreed with him about Jesuits. From: "J.H.Sawday" Subject: Re: 7.0061 Rs: Eating and Digesting (3/56) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 10:30:18 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 92 (136) Richard Overton (Leveller), in _The Baiting of the Great Bull of Bashan_ (1649) poses the problem of diversity of interpretation in the following way: "The figure is but the shell; will you not crack the shell to take out the kernel? Pass through the Parable to the moral thereof?" See: Howard Erskine-Hill and Graham Storey (eds.), _Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War_ (Cambridge: CUP, 1983) 147. On eating and digesting as a means of writing texts, doesn't Erasmus (_Adages_) have something to say about this, following Quintillian? I seem to remember Terence Cave's _The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance_ (London & Oxford: OUP, 1981) talking about this. Jonathan Sawday (Dept. of English, University of Southampton Hants. England) From: Rudolf WYTEK Subject: Re: 7.0062 Rs: Literary and Film Jesuits; Jawboning (3/50) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 93 15:23:30 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 93 (137) Jesuits in Literature: Thomas Mann, Zauberberg, Naphtha is a jesuit with TBC I think... also some works of the author of LES CLEFS DU VATICAN whose name just won't come to my mind now feature a relegated jesuit... From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Early Hist. Atlases Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1993 20:24:49 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 71 (138) Please X-Post to relevant lists. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems EDITING EARLY HISTORICAL ATLASES University of Toronto, November 5-6, 1993 With the anticipated completion of the publication of the three-volume _Historical Atlas of Canada_ in 1993, it seems an opportune time to look at aspects of the problems editors have had in dealing with atlases from the very earliest times. The conference will include the following papers: WILLIAM G. DEAN, Director of the Historical Atlas of Canada project. Keynote address on the structure of atlases and the way this has influenced editorial decisions. JAMES AKERMAN of the Smith Centre for the History of Cartography, the Newberry Library, on the role of the editor in the creation of the atlas idea. MARY PEDLEY of the William L. Clements Library on problems in atlas editing in Enlightenment France. WALTER GOFFART of the Department of History, University of Toronto, on the breaking of the Ortelian pattern in the editing of historical atlases during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ANNE GODLEWSKA of the Department of Geography, Queen's University, on Edme Jomard and the development of facsimile atlases for the study of the history of cartography. R. COLE HARRIS, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, editor of Volume I of the _Historical Atlas of Canada_ on the impact of editorial decisions on the atlas as a `text'. Two exhibits: `The Atlas as a Book' (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, and an exhibit on the production of the _Historical Atlas of Canada_ will be on view during the conference. Registration: $65.00. For further information, contact: Joan Winearls, Map Librarian, University of Toronto Library, Toronto Ontario, Canada M5S 1A5. Phone: (416) 978-1958; FAX: (416) 978-7653 Internet: winearls@vax.library.utoronto.ca From: Malgorzata Wilk Subject: Setting up a Celtic Culture Center in Warsaw Date: Wed, 23 Jun 93 17:25:49 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 72 (139) Warsaw, 1993.06.23 Greetings to everybody, We are trying to set up a center/library for celtic culture and literature in Warsaw, as there is no such an institution in this city. We're aware that there is actually a Celtology at the Catholic University of Lublin and that Poznan is the site of the Polish-Irish Society, but there is a real need in Warsaw of such a center. The University of Warsaw has no facillities to start a Celtology but since autumn last year the Educational & Cultural Center at Lowicka Street has star- ted lessons on modern Irish and has also the facillities to start a real center/library for celtic culture and literature. Therefore we ask everybody, every institution and every single person to help us collecting the items without which no such center can exist; books, magazines, newspapers, tapes, compu- ter files and everything else connected with celtic culture and that you can spare. You can contact us either by sending email to the address as written in the signature, or by sending a fax to this telepho- ne number : +48 - 22 - 45 56 75 (only for letters & fax) or contact directly Ms Magdalena Zorawska, the spiritus movens of our little group of enthusiasts. Magdalena Zorawska Raszynska 15/43 02-026 Warsaw This address is for correspondence and parcels. Please pass this message to any person who didn't receive it and might be of any help to us. Thank you very much in advance, with Gaelic regards +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To fall in love is by no means the silliest thing man can do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it. A. Einstein Malgorzata Wilk ul. Locci 7 tel. +48-2-6425222 02-928 Warszawa malgowil@plearn.bitnet Poland don't use any other address, it doesn't work Boling's postulate: if you're feeling good, don't worry, you'll get over it From: jdg@coos.dartmouth.edu (Joel Goldfield) Subject: Humanities Computing Conference on 6/25/93 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 07:50:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 73 (140) June 21, 1993 Dear HUMANIST Colleague, I forward to you an invitation from Dr. Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College, for a regional conference on literary computing featuring Dr. John F. Burrows, well-known scholar on Jane Austen, dialectology and computer-assisted literary research, who will be speaking this Friday at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. There is no fee for attendance. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- INVITATION TO ATTEND CONFERENCE ON LITERARY COMPUTING FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1993, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE I'd like extend an invitation to explore the application of computing to scholarship and instruction that works with texts as its primary sources. Professor John Burrows of the University of Newcastle will be visiting Dartmouth at the end of June. He will be conducting a "master class" on the use of computer analysis tools in scholarship and teaching that has as its primary focus textual material. Professor Burrows' class will focus on a comparison of Elizabethean and Romantic tragedies. The class will include demonstrations of computer programs used to study literary and critical issues about these texts. It is a session that will be of interest to scholars in the humanities and social sciences who work extensively with texts and textual resources. The initial session is scheduled for Friday, June 25th, starting at 9:00 a.m. (please contact me at the e-mail address or telephone number below for precise information). All three sessions will be available at no cost. Advance registration (for all or part) is, however, necessary. If you are interested in attending all or part of this class (or have questions and want to know more), please contact me by e-mail at Malcolm_Brown@dartmouth.edu or by telephone at 603-646-1349. Session 1 will be in one hall (105 Dartmouth Hall). Sessions 2 & 3 will be held in 2 Rockefeller on the main Dartmouth campus. Best regards, Malcolm Brown From: ruslan@cs.usm.MY (Ruslan Mitkov) Subject: Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 12:36:49 MYT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 74 (141) SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" With emphasis on Machine Translation Under the Sponsorship of the European Association for Machine Translation Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria 5 September - 10 September '93 The annual international summer school "Contemporary topics in computational linguistics" will take place from the 5th to the 10th September 1993 at the KZU Guest house, Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. (Day of arrival 4 September, day of departure 11 September 1993). It is intended mainly for university students and young researchers, but will offer both introductory and advanced courses. Those who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can join the Bulgarian National seminar on mathematical and computational linguistics which will take place from the 8th of September to the14th September 1993 at the same place. The summer school is organized by the Institute of Mathematics, Sofia (Mitkov), LIMSI, Orsay, France (Zock) and Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen, Bulgaria (Nikolov). The preliminary program of the summer school will include the following courses (one or two more courses will probably be added): Jun-ichi Tsuji (CCL, UMIST, Manchester) - Sublanguage-based Machine Translation Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) - Meaning-Text Model and application in generation of natural language Dominique Estival (ISSCO, University of Geneva) - Transfer or interlingua? Johann Haller (IAI, University of Saarbruecken) - Unification-based Machine Translation Zaharin Yusoff (University of Science Malaysia, Penang) - The role of grammar formalisms in Machine Translation Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS, France) - Text generation Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Holland) - Introduction to Semantic Syntax Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad de Barcelona/Tarragona) New Trends in Mathematical Linguistics M. Kudlek (Hamburg University, Germany) - Formal grammars and languages Ruslan Mitkov (University of Science Malaysia, Penang /Institute of Mathematics, Sofia) - Anaphora Resolution Costs: The special participation fee at the summer school is 150 USA dollars for full-time students, 200 USA dollars for academic employees and 300 USA dollars for other participants. The fee includes attendance at the summer school, course materials, refreshments, reception party as well as meals and accommodation in two-bed rooms at the Guest House (which equals a 2-star hotel). Participants will be requested to pay in cash on site (any currency accepted). Summer school venue and Accommodation: The participants will be accommodated at the KZU Guest House, Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains. The courses will be given at the lecture hall of the Guest House. Deadlines: The registration forms should arrive no later than 31.07.1993 at the following address: Mr.Nikolai Nikolov, Incoma, P.O. Box 20, 9700 Shumen, Bulgaria. They can be also electronically mailed to ruslan@cssun.cs.usm.my. On site registration is also possible, but earlier registrations are encouraged because of possible accommodation problems. Further information: Participants who have sent the registration form, will be receiving supplementary materials and information. For further information you can also contact Dr. R. Mitkov Email ruslan@cssun.cs.usm.my (after 5.8.93 ruslan@bgearn.bitnet) or N.Nikolov Tel. (359-54) 56948, Fax (359-54) 56881. ----------------------------- SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Registration Form Name University (Organization) Address Telephone Fax Email From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: H-Net announces 13 new scholarly lists in history Date: 24 Jun 1993 14:09:09 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 94 (142) June 24, 1993 H-Net: History On-Line Dramatic changes are underway in the electronic communications infrastructure worldwide. Academics are beginning to take advantage of the new opportunities. H-Net is an initiative of the History department at the University of Illinois, Chicago, to assist historians to go on-line, using their personal computers and the Internet and Bitnet electronic communications networks. H-Net is sponsoring a series of electronic discussion groups or "lists." Subscribers automatically receive messages in their computer mailboxes. These messages can be saved, discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed to someone else. The lists are like newsletters that are published daily, and which carry announcements from the editor, and letters and mini-essays from the subscribers. Currently our largest list is HOLOCAUS with 290 subscribers in 15 countries; they receive an average of 5 messages a day. Membership is open to any historian or graduate student, and is free. Each list is moderated by a historian and has a board of editors. The moderators control the flow of messages and reject those unsuitable for a scholarly discussion group. The primary purpose of each list is to enable historians to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to share information on access to library catalogs and other electronic databases; and to test new ideas and share comments on current historiography. Each list is especially interested in methods of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse settings. The lists feature dialogues in the discipline. They publish syllabi, course outlines, class handouts, bibliographies, listings of new sources, guides to online library catalogs and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and cd-roms. Subscribers write in with questions, comments, and reports, and sometimes with mini-essays of a page or two. Most of the lists have no chronological or geographical limits. The H-Net lists currently in operation are: H-Urban Urban history H-Rural Rural and agricultural history H-Women Women's history H-Diplo Diplomatic history, foreign affairs, international relations HOLOCAUS Holocaust studies; anti-semitism; related themes of modern history H-South US South H-CivWar US Civil War H-LatAm Latin American History H-Law Legal and Constitutional history H-Ethnic American ethnic & immigration history by July 4: H-AmStdy American Studies H-Ideas Intellectual history beginning fall 1993: IEAHC-Net American colonial history; sponsored by Institute of Early American History & Culture at Williamsburg Other lists are being discussed; to volunteer as editor or member of an editorial board, please send a note to H-NET@uicvm. Each list will publish (at no cost) announcements of jobs, fellowships, conferences, conventions, new books, new journals, new e-lists, and the like. To post an announcement to all the H-Net lists, send an email copy: by Bitnet to H-NET@uicvm or by Internet to H-NET@uicvm.uic.edu or by CompuServe to >INTERNET:H-NET@UICVM.UIC.EDU or send a fax copy to (312) 996-6377, care of H-Net. Each list will publish book reviews. To volunteer as a reviewer send a note to the editor at @uicvm (For example, H-URBAN@uicvm or H-LatAm@uicvm). To submit books for review, or for other paper correspondence, write to H-Net room 723 SEO Dept of History m/c 198 851 S Morgan St Chicago IL 60607-7049 [our phone is: 312-996-3141 our fax: 312-996-6377] H-Net will be offering one-day training workshops at history conventions and at history departments across the country. It has been endorsed by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association, and has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies. H-Net is directed by Richard Jensen, professor of history at UIC u08946@uicvm voice: 615-552-9923 ========================================================= ========================================================= From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: how to subscribe to H-Net's 13 lists Date: 25 Jun 1993 11:55:39 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 95 (143) H-Net announced 13 new scholarly history lists yesterday, and has been flooded with responses. Alas, we did not clearly explain how to subscribe. Here's how: pass the word. Anyone can join any of the h-lists by sending this message to LISTSERV@uicvm [bitnet--try this first] or to LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu [Internet] sub xxxxx John Jones, Northern Vermont U where xxxxx = h-urban, h-women, HOLOCAUS, h-rural, h-law, h-latam, h-civwar h-south, h-ethnic, or h-diplo. These 10 are all operating. The first three have been going strong for several months, the others are very new. Sometime in next week or so we will add H-AmStdy, with H-Ideas (or "H-Durkheim") to follow. This fall, a colonial list will be ready. Announcements and general questions go to: h-net@uicvm Richard Jensen for H-net u08946@uicvm From: Beverly Stafford Subject: Re: 7.0063 Costs of Reading Articles (1/58) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 12:31:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 63 (144) I have not read this full study, only a summary of it in article form, but these figures do not match up with a cost study we did here in our local network of libraries this past spring. As part of an interlibrary loan committee for PORTALS (consisting of a large state academic university library, a state-supported medical library, several smaller liberal arts college libraries, the large public library, and several others) we did an interlibrary loan cost study using the criteria used for the study below. The low figure was $5.-$6. up to $11.-$12., rather than the $19. cited below. The costs vary depending upon what salaries are paid, how work for interlibrary loan is assigned, what equipment is maintained by the ILL department, and a range of other variables. If higher paid staff does a higher percentage of routine ILL processing, for example, the net cost to borrow a book goes up. If the ILL department shares a fax machine with the rest of the library, the cost is lower than if the ILL dept. has their own fax, etc.etc. As for adding in the cost for processing by the lending library, I'm not sure that this is really fair, since it is already factored in by adding the invoice from the the lending library to the borrowing charge above. A library may borrow 50% or more from free suppliers, rather than charging libraries, which is another variable in the cost to borrow on ILL. All respects to the work of the study quoted, please do not assume it is engraved in stone; it is etched in pencil. -Beverly B. Stafford, ILL Librarian, Lewis and Clark College Library Portland, OR On Fri, 18 Jun 1993, Elaine Brennan wrote: [deleted quotation] From: irena.sumi@uni-lj.si Subject: Call for papers Date: Fri, 18 JUN 93 21:17 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 96 (145) Dear Editors, I would like to ask you to publish in your conference the following Call for papers. Thanks in advance. Greetings, irena Sumi Institute for Ethnic Studies Erjavceva 26 61 000 Ljubljana - SLOVENIA irena.sumi@uni-lj.si __________________________________________________________ The INSTITUTE OF ETHNIC STUDIES (Institut za narodnostna vprasanja), Ljubljana and the SLOVENE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Drustvo antropologov Slovenije) jointly organize an international conference titled ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR. THE WARS IN THE TERRITORY OF EX-YUGOSLAVIA and invite scholars of various anthropological specialization, historians, sociologists, political scientists and others to participate in the five days conference investigating the phenomenon of warfare on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia. The following themes are proposed: 1. The collapse of the Second Yugoslavia: historical and legal background; 2. Ethnicity, statehood, federalism: are modern Balkan wars ethnic? 3. Balkan wars in the 1990': a precedent for modern warfare or an atavistic outburst? 4. Anthropology in explaining modern warfare: anthropology as a source of theoretization on war; 5. Political culture and aggressiveness: were the wars in the Balkans inevitable? 6. The attractiveness of war I.: battleground phenomena and ideology; 7. The attractiveness of war II.: "ethnic cleansing" as a genocidal strategy; 8. Shattering symbolic networks: destroying a culture? 9. The individual and the group in the war: living with war; children in the war; 10. Neutralizing the effects of war: experience and prospects. Abstracts of proposed papers are due September 15, 1993. The conference will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia November 22 - 26, 1993. For further information please contact: Ms. Ines Kvaternik Secretary of the Conference "Anthropology of War" Institute for Ethnic Studies Erjavceva 26 61 000 Ljubljana Slovenia phone (int. code) 61 210 823 fax: (int.code) 61 210 964 ean: ines.kvaternik@uni-lj.si From: banks@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: 'Visual Anthropology' Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 09:31:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 97 (146) Call For Papers VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY publishes articles, comments, discussions, film and book reviews which contribute to the following areas: * the study, use, and production of anthropological and ethnographic films, videos and photographs for research and teaching; * the analysis of visual symbolic forms from a cultural- historical framework; * the study of human behaviour through visual means; visual theories, technologies, and methodologies for recording and analysing behaviour and the relationships among different modes of communication; * the analysis of the structuring of reality as evidenced by visual productions and artifacts; * the relationship of cultural and visual perception; * ethnography of reception and the use of media in cultural feedback. Previous issues of VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY have dealt with the films of Jean Rouch, John Marshall and David MacDougall. Authors of articles on a variety of topics have included film makers David MacDougall, Karl Heider, Eric Michaels, Keyan Tomaselli, Teshome Gabriel, Marcus Banks, Peter Fuchs and Allison Jablonko. Contributing visual anthropologists have included Jay Ruby, Paul Stoller, Paulo Chiozzi, and Douglas Harper. Submissions and inquiries should be addressed to Paul Hockings, Editor, Department of Anthropology-027, University of Illinois, Box 4348, Chicago, Illinois 60680, USA. Call for Papers issued by Marcus Banks, Editorial Board Member, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, UK. From: Gary Perlman Subject: ACM Hypertext'93 Call for POSTER Submissions Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 15:30:38 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 78 (147) This is the second call for posters. Another will follow the 4th of July. HYPERTEXT'93 CALL FOR POSTERS 1993 ACM Conference on Hypertext Seattle, Washington, USA November 14-18, 1993 Gary Perlman Poster Session Chair Computer & Information Science 228 Bolz Hall, Ohio State University 2036 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1277 phone: +01-614-292-2566, fax: +01-614-292-2911 email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT: Monday, August 2, 1993 The deadline for papers, panels, and technical briefings has passed, but there is still time to submit a poster for presentation at Hypertext'93. Poster presentations will allow researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best presented in conversation. Poster sessions let conference attendees exchange ideas one-on-one with authors and let authors discuss their work in more detail with those attendees most deeply interested in a topic. (There's also time to submit a demonstration, contact william@atc.boeing.com.) Posters will be accepted much later than papers in order to provide an opportunity for presenting and getting feedback on hot new ideas. Posters will be reviewed by a panel of subject-matter experts and will be selected on the basis of their contribution to research or practice. Because of the interactive nature of poster presentations, only one submission will be accepted per author. Submit an EXTENDED abstract of at most two pages emphasizing: * the problem, * what was done, and * why the work is important. Please provide cover information: * the title, * the name and affiliation of the author(s), * a few keyword phrases, * complete contact address for the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. (including telephone, fax, e-mail) For accepted posters, authors will be asked for an ABBREVIATED abstract for dissemination at the conference and in the poster session report for the ACM SIGLINK newsletter. E-mail and fax submissions will be accepted. E-mail submissions are PREFERRED over paper which is preferred over fax. PostScript and RTF are okay. LaTeX, troff, Scribe, Word, WP, etc. are not. Answers to some expected questions follow. Q: When will the posters be displayed? A: Posters will on display almost all the time during the conference. There will be one or two 2-3-hour blocks of time dedicated to the posters and demonstrations during which poster presenters will be expected to be available to answer questions. At other times, conference attendees will be able to view the posters. Q: Will the posters be published as part of the proceedings? A: No, but abstracts of the posters will be available at the conference. Posters will be technical "presentations" but not "publications". Some posters might make good papers for the SIGLINK newsletter, or other outlets. The Hypertext'91 poster abstracts were published in the ACM SIGLINK Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 17-24. Q: How many posters will be accepted? A: We have room for 30-40 posters, but are prepared to accept fewer. For Hypertext'91 about 50% of submissions were accepted. From: "David M. Schaps" Subject: Re: 7.0061 Rs: Eating and Digesting (3/56) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 14:21:16 IDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 98 (148) More on eating, though not as useful as the books mentioned: (1) Didymus, an Alexandrian grammarian (1st c. BCE), was known as "Khalkenteros" ("bronze-guts") for the enormous number of books he had read (he is said to have written 3,500 or 4,000 works himself). (2) An item that I came across in graduate school, and sufficiently obscure that I suspect it may be overlooked: in his Life of Bruno of Segni (a Cassinese abbot and saint), Peter the Deacon writes of Bruno's education that "he drank deep at the fountain of wisdom, from which he would later vomit it forth to the thirsty multitude," a metaphor so singularly infelicitous that it has stuck in my mind for twenty years. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: 7.0068 ZEERUST Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 13:39:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 99 (149) Zeerust is a dutch word which literaly means "the calm of the sea", Zee = sea and rust = rest. I hope this helps. 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: Joseph John Rodio Subject: Jesuits Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 16:06:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 100 (150) One more depiction of the Jesuits in film I haven't seen mentioned is the Canadian movie "Black Robe". It is based on the novel of the same name by Brian Moore. Joe Rodio University of Maryland-College Park From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: Journal of European Studies (23) 1993 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 14:05:37 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 80 (151) Please X-post: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES: THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF FRANCE 1940-44 _Journal of European Studies_ is a major journal, published quarterly, which deals with the literature, ideas and culture of Europe since the Renaissance. Vol. 23, parts 1 and 2 (March/June 1993), is a special double issue entitled _The Invasion and Occupation of France 1940-44: intellectual and cultural responses_, and edited by Christopher Flood and Richard Golsan. It contains, in addition to an introduction by the editors and a section of book reviews, the following articles: "The morphology of the collaborator" (Bertram Gordon) "Ideology, cultural politics and literary collaboration at _La Gerbe_" (Richard Golsan) "Fascist ideology and theatre under the Occupation: the case of Anouilh" (Mary Ann Frese Witt) "Publish and perish: the _epuration_ of French intellectuals" (Diane Rubenstein) "A certain idea of France: Ernst Junger's Paris Diaries 1941-44" (Richard Griffiths) "A forgotten novel of the Resistance: Pierre Courtade's _Elseneur_" (John Flower) "Andre Labarthe and Raymond Aron: political myth and ideology in _La France libre_" (Christopher Flood) "Facing history: Mauriac and Levinas on Nazism" (Nathan Bracher) "French Catholic intellectuals during the Occupation" (Michael Kelly) "Independent publishing in Vichy France: the case of Pierre Seghers's _Poesie_" (Nicholas Hewitt) "Abandoning pacifism: the case of Sartre (1939-40)" (John Taylor) "Writing war in the feminine: de Beauvoir and Duras" (Mary Jean Green) Contributions for future numbers should be sent to the General Editor: Prof. J.E. 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If you are told you can't unsubscribe, please refer the error message to jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu -- this will happen most often to people who subscribed to BMCR some time ago from Bitnet addresses. From: Subject: Q: E-Interdisciplinary Studies Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 16:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 101 (153) Does anyone of the Humanist list know of any electronic discussion groups that deal with interdisciplinary and/or multicultural education? Thank you, John S. UHartford ********************************************************* John Smurthwaite, Ph.D. University of Hartford smurthwai@hartford.bitnet Foreign Languages smurthwai@uhavax.hartford.edu 200 Bloomfield Ave. Phone:(203)768-4317 West Hartford, Ct. 06117 ********************************************************** From: fcosws@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Schaufele) Subject: Query: Shakespeare's exploitation of syntactic options Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 16:23:10 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 102 (154) I recently posted the following query on LINGUIST, and was advised to send it also to this address: I've recently gotten interested in investigating the use of syntactic options (i.e. syntactically different but semantically equivalent constructions -- e.g. voice distinctions, variation in adverb placement) in Shakespeare's plays, especially as tools in characterization. Can anybody direct me to any research that has been done in this area? ------ Dr. Steven Schaufele c/o Department of Linguistics 712 West Washington Ave. University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 4088 Foreign Languages Building 707 South Mathews Street 217-344-8240 Urbana, IL 61801 fcosws@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu From: D1634@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Circle Noetic Svc, A Nizhnikov,PAS) Subject: Solipsism andthe Missing Piece Date: 28 Jun 93 19:26 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 103 (155) Dear readers of the Humanist List, My father-in-law, Don Smith, is a psychologist and philosopher who is in the process of writing a book on the 'self' and in part about our 'one-ness' with ourselves despite the existence of others. He is looking for someone with an interest in discussing the merits, etc of solipsism and the originator of the term 'solipsism'. Don's theories have to do with the perception of oneself as the whole being searching for the missing piece in his life much the way Shel Silverstein's book "The Missing Piece" describes the journey of the imperfect circle searching for its missing piece to 'complete and perfect itself'. He discusses the point that one is never complete after being born and 'disembodied' from the womb if you will and that one will never find that 'missing piece' again. If this is a subject of interest to anyone out there, and I hope my message is not ill-placed (if it is, I apologize for wasting anyone's time), then please feel free to correspond directly with me and I will forward e-mail to Don or feel free to contact Don Smith by postal mail at the following address: Don Smith Star Route 1, Box 1080-15 Bristol, NH 03222 USA phone: 603/744-8992. Don doesn't have a fax or an e-mail address, but please feel free to contact him via my e-mail address at D1634@Applelink.Apple.com@INTERNET#. Thank you for any interest. Regards, Gillian Smith From: Stephen Clausing Subject: finding e-mail addresses Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 09:14:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 104 (156) I just got an "urgent" letter from a Spanish university asking for information regarding my MacConcordance program. Since I have always distributed this free over the network I would like to do so again in this case, but as is so often the case when I receive such letters, there is no e-mail address. Rather than just posing a query about the address, I would like to ask a more general question: is there any simple way of getting such addresses over the network. I know that some universities have a postmaster who can give you local addresses, but you have to know how to reach the postmaster first. Also I believe there is a listing that you can voluntarily join and query for addresses, but few people know about this or use the service. Why can't we just have a central listing of everybody's e-mail address which everyone is put on automatically by their host institution unless they specifically request otherwise? By the way, if someone knows the address for Juan Miguel Monterrubio at the Dpt. of Filologia Espanyola i Moderna Universidad de las Islas Baleares Palma de Mallorca, then I would like to have it. This sounds like a nice place to have a vacation too. From: Charles Ess Subject: shareware mail systems? Date: Thu, 01 Jul 93 07:49:06 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 105 (157) Thanks to NSF, we are about to hook up to the Internet using our own address and host computer. I'm searching for suggestions regarding public domain software for e-mail in conjunction with the Internet connection. Comments from HUMANIST readers, especially based on their experience -- good or bad -- with a particular e-mail system for campus use would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Charles Ess Philosophy & Religion Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: help in Cambridge? Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 16:52:26 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 106 (158) A colleague of mine, now on sabbatical at Cambridge University, has just discovered that without a formal connection to the University he cannot borrow books, only read them in the Library. For various good reasons this is a severe hardship. He did not apply for a fellowship before going and won't now, so that avenue is not open to him. His credentials here, at the University of Toronto, are as respectable as they need to be (professorial level, etc.). Can anyone suggest what he might now do to obtain the necessary connection? Thanks very much. Willard McCarty From: Bernard van't Hul Subject: Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 15:21:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 107 (159) I'd be grateful to anyone who will please attribute this couplet to its author: "That frost of fact by which our wisdom gives Correctly stated death to all that lives." From: "Susan R. Harris" Subject: Oxford Text Archives via FTP? Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 13:17:50 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 108 (160) I recall seeing a note (somewhere ...) mentioning that the Oxford Text Archives are now available for anonymous FTP. Can anyone provide the address, or other pertinent details? From: Ian Budden Subject: E-text of Thomas Usk Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 16:34:05 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 109 (161) Could I resubmit this message, please (the form of name before the @ sign I gave last time might not be recognised off our own campus!) Many thanks. Can anyone tell me if they know of the existence of an e-text of Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, please? It was reprinted in Chaucerian and other pieces, edited by W.W. Skeat, Clarendon Press, 1897; this was vol.7 of his Works of Geoffery Chaucer. Many thanks, Ian Budden alfc6@central.sussex.ac.uk [deleted quotation] From: "Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University " Subject: Katherine Philips source-questions Date: 28 Jun 1993 16:15:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 110 (162) A colleague, Andrea Sununu, who is editing some works of Katherine Philips (1632-1664), has asked me to seek list-help on some source-questions. At one point Philips wrote But as that sonne whose father's danger nigh Did force his native dumbnesse, and untye The fettred organs: so here is a cause That will excuse the breach of nature's laws. To a classicist at any rate this passage seems to allude to the tale of Croesus' mute son, who spoke up to prevent his murder (Herodotos 1.85). The silence of Croesus' son became proverbial (the How-Wells commentary to Herodotus ad loc. refers to a proverb in Apostolius [Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum II.686 no. 99], "more silent than Croesus' son"). The remaining source-questions, on which list-help is sought, are (1) what are Philips' likely sources for such a tale, and (2) is this tale used elsewhere in a writer's self-justification for writing. --Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University k_night@depauw.bitnet From: Steve Taylor Subject: Spanish E-texts Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 15:02:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 111 (163) Can anyone direct me to any spanish texts (of any kind) in electronic format, especially if available via the internet? Thanks. Steve Taylor Emory University From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Quotation from Darwin Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 10:35:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 112 (164) A colleague would like to find the source and the exact phrasing of the following quotation from the works of Darwin. She believes the quotation appears in one of the works from 1872 -- either The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals or On the Origin of the Species (6th ed.) -- but she has not been able locate it through browsing. The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown. No one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, or in different species, is sometimes inherited and sometimes not so, why the child often reverts in certain characteristics to the grandfather or grandmother or more remote ancestor. A search of electronic text would help. Can anyone provide the name and address of the editor of the Papers of Charles Darwin? I understand the Papers are being prepared in both print and electronic media. Thank you. Mike Neuman Georgetown neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu From: Helen Schwartz Subject: Re: 7.0066 Confs: Med-Ren Studies; Hooker; Francophone Wr. (3/115 Date: Sat, 26 Jun 93 22:19:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 113 (165) The Modern Language Association (MLA) has recently adopted a policy that endorses the giving of credit toward reappointment, tenure and promotion for computer-related work (in research, teaching or service), with the usual external review of such work. In an effort to encourage review, MLA's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies (CET) is identifying journals (print or electronic) that publish reviews of computing software and applications in the humanities (especially for literature, foreign language and linguistics, writing and related fields). Please send the names of such journals and information about contacting them (including electronic addresses when possible) to: HSchwart@indycms [Helen Schwartz, English Department, Indiana U-Purdue U at Indianapolis (IUPUI), 425 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202] PLEASE POST THIS NOTICE ON OTHER RELEVANT ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS. Thank you. From: SCHECHNR@NYUACF.BITNET Subject: TDR Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1993 12:10:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 114 (166) ATTENTION PERFORM-L PEOPLE, NOW YOU CAN ORDER _TDR_ VIA EMAIL! The latest issue of TDR features an in-depth interview by Vicki Patraka of African American feminist performance artist/activist Robbie McCAuley. And Art Borreca;s "Political Dramaturgy: A Dramaturg's (Re)View." The cruel and powerful writings of Valere Novarina are discussed by Allen S. Weiss along with splendid translations of Valere's own texts, "Letter to the Actors" and "The Drama of Life." _TDR_'s contents this issue also include: Modern Indonesian Dance by Sal Murgiyanto Cuban-American Santaria by Michael Atwood Mason Akko Theatre's Auschwitz in Israel by Rebecca Rovit Book reviews by Marvin Carlson, David J. 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"; or via Gopher From: (Tom Goodrich) Subject: Re: 7.0082 Qs: E-Groups; Addresses; Mail Systems; Cambridge (6/125) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 10:57:48 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 115 (167) Charles Ess writes: [deleted quotation] Your choice of email software is, of course, greatly constrained by the kind of network you'll have and the sorts of workstations people will be using for mail. If you have Macintoshes or DOS machines running Windows and an Ethernet network, I would heartily recommend Eudora. This is not public-domain software, but is available free via anonymous ftp from ftp.qualcomm.com. At Stanford, we have well over a thousand Eudora users, many of them faculty in Humanities departments who otherwise would never have used electronic mail. Eudora is also in wide use on many other campuses around the country; it actually originated at the University of Illinois, but subsequently moved to a commercial vendor (Qualcomm) with its creator, Steve Dorner. While there have been discussions about charging a (small) fee for Eudora, I've heard of no decision yet, and we would certainly consider a small site license fee more than justified by the additional support. By the way, to run Eudora, you also need software (usually for a Unix machine) that implements POP (Post Office Protocol). One good version is popper, available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cc.berkeley.edu. Good luck. Tom Goodrich Internet: goodrich@leland.stanford.edu Faculty Support Group/DSG Bitnet: tom.goodrich@stanford Data Center Phone: (415) 723-2897 Polya Hall 257 Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-4136 From: banks@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0082 Qs: E-Groups; Addresses; Mail Systems; Cambridge (6/125) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 10:23:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 116 (168) In reply to: [deleted quotation] I'm not sure about the central mailing system: this would depend on what kind of site computer you had and what mailer it already had (eg. vms-mail on a vax, or Sun mail on a Sun). What I can recommend if your desktop/networked machines are Macintoshes is the *free* program Eudora (from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). In conjunction with POP server software (also freeware) running on the central machine, Eudora will pick up messages and deliver them to your desktop in a very user-friendly way. Similarly you send messages out from the desktop with Eudora, and it hands them on to the 'real' mailer. Our computer officer has even found a way to make Eudora work on shared machines, by having the users (students in our case) carry a floppy containing their own settings files (including passwords etc) and mailboxes. There is a pc equivalent to Eudora called NuPop I believe, but we haven't tried this. All the programs should be available from the normal ftp sites. It's a bit fiddly getting everything up and running smoothly but once it's going it's fine. Marcus Banks, Oxford, UK From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Darwin quote Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 08:45:26 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 117 (169) The quote Mike is seeking is in Origin of the Species, Chapter I, part 1, "Effects of Habit and of the Use or Disuse of Parts; Correlated Variation; Inheritance." There are several CD-ROMs which have the Origin of the Species on them, e.g. Desktop Library (Walnut Creek); Great Literature (Bureau Development); Desktop BookShop (Unica; The CD-ROM Source); Library of the Future (World Library) and others. I have an idea it may be available by ftp (from Online Book Initiative ?). Jim Marchand. From: (Tom Goodrich) Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 11:25:50 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 118 (170) Mike Neuman (neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu) writes: [deleted quotation] The following comes from p. 76 of The Origin of Species, NY: Avenal Books, 1979. The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown; no one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of the same species, and in individuals of different species, is sometimes inherited and sometimes not so; why the child often reverts in certain characters to its grandfather or grandmother or other much more remote ancestor; why a peculiarity is often transmitted from one sex to both sexes or to one sex alone, more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex. Hope this helps. I don't have the name of the editor of the Papers at hand. Tom Goodrich Internet: goodrich@leland.stanford.edu Faculty Support Group/DSG Bitnet: tom.goodrich@stanford Data Center Phone: (415) 723-2897 Polya Hall 257 Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-4136 From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston ) Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin; Spanish; K Philips; Usk; OTA (6/97) Date: 8 Jul 93 23:36:02 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 119 (171) The Darwin Papers Project is being conducted at Cambridge University L Library. I suggest you contact Ms. Sarah Benton at +44 223.333008 or Fax +44.223.333160. In the United States, Dr. C.A. Tripp has a rather extensive private electronic library of Darwin's works. Dr. Tripp can be reached at 914-358-0033. Both of these collections are in WordCruncher format, so it should be rather easy to find the exact quote if the particular letters are in electronic form. JW From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Q: characteristics of Latin Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 09:46:52 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 120 (172) The following is a query about those characteristics of classical Latin that one should take into account for automatic processing of the language. My query has had the benefit of comments from members of LATIN-L@PSUVM.bitnet, in particular W. Porter (Houston), C. Conrad (Washington U.), R. Coon (Indiana), H. Stahlke (Ball State), D. Wigtil (US Dept. of Energy), whom I thank. I'm circulating the updated query here in hopes that other Latinists and linguists will speak up. I'd be grateful for any bibliographical items closely related to the subject. ----- My question is this: what aspects of the language, including commonly exercised 'poetic license', might affect computer-based analysis of poetry written in classical Latin, especially Ovid? In particular, what phenomena would cause a purely automatic analysis of an unencoded text to err and so serve as an argument for encoding? Since I only know a few languages and am not a linguist properly speaking, I'm somewhat hesitant to rank Latin as being esp. challenging in certain respects. Nevertheless I must. Hence I'd very much appreciate comments from members of this group on these broadly comparative assertions: 1. Latin is highly inflected, often irregularly. 2. Relations between words are signified almost exclusively by grammatical concord or agreement rather than by word-order. 3. Word-order is very fluid, especially in poetry, where syntactically related words are often widely separated. 4. Latin has a fully developed system of gender (m,f,n), which is extensively used to mark related words. 5. As a rule, the expressive power and subtlety of Latin are based on a relatively small active vocabularly of words with comparatively broad and diverse semantic fields. (Should roots with multiple meanings be treated as polysemous or synonymous?) 6. It has a large number of homographs. 7. The notion of 'sentence' (in our sense) is not well defined. (To what extent are other structural units comparatively ambiguous?) 8. Plural nouns, pronouns, nominal adjectives, and related verbs are often used for singular subjects (i.e. where in English we would expect the singular). Are there other characteristics I should be taking into consideration? Why would you find fully automatic techniques of analysis (e.g., text retrieval by keywords, proximity tests) esp. difficult with Latin? Thanks very much. Replies to the entire group are probably best. And please circulate this note wherever it might provoke some reply. Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: "Phyllis Wright" Subject: proverb or quote?? Date: Mon, 5 Jul 93 10:56:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 121 (173) I have been trying to discover where the following appears: "We understand ourselves when we understand our parents." I have checked all the quotation/proverb books in my library. Can someone help? Phyllis Wright Phyllis M. Wright (416)688-5550, ext. 3961 Brock University Library pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: software recommendations Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 09:03:14 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 122 (174) I am in need of wisdom from experience with the following commercial software (all for MS-Windows): Paradox Access Excel Quattro-Pro I need one relational dbms and one spreadsheet package to use in a humanities computing course at the graduate (but elementary) level. I'd be very interested in comments as to which are excellent in themselves and which dbms works better with which spreadsheet. If there are questions I have forgotten to ask, then answers to these would also be welcome. Thanks very much. Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Richard Giordano Subject: Finding email addresses Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 12:10:50 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 123 (175) Someone wanted to know how to get email addresses without having to ask for them explicitly over the HUMANIST. I use NETFIND, and, more often than not, it does the job if you have some idea of where the person works. I don't know how you'd use it from a non-UNIX environment. Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of where the person works, the program "Netfind" attempts to locate information about the person. It usage is quite simple; first you have to connect yourself to the following site: bruno.cs.colorado.edu (128.138.243.151) (By typing: telnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu from Unix you'll be connected) When prompted, enter a name followed by a set of keywords, such as schwartz boulder colorado university The keywords describe for example where the person works, followed by the name of institution and/or the city/state/country. The system returns back some useful information such as the Mail and Email addresses of that person. Often it happens to all of us to have names of people without their contact addresses. The program is menu driven and is quite easy to us after a few tries. /rich Computer Science University of Manchester From: "Joan B. Fiscella" Subject: reply to J. Smurthwaite re: e-interdisciplinary studies Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 08:38:31 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 124 (176) There is an electronic discussion group for interdisciplinary studies called INTERDIS. To join send a note to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU; the body of the message should read SUB INTERDIS . For more details, send an email message to Wolfe_Chris@msmail.MUOHIO.EDU. Joan Fiscella Bibliographer for Professional Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Library From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: croesus' son Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 09:21:32 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 125 (177) The phrase "like Croesus' son" is indeed well-known, both in such phrases as "like the son of Croesus, my tongue is unlocked," as well as in "like Croesus' son, I stand silent." The story of Croesus' son, Atys, was known in 17th century England as well as elsewhere, through translations of Herodotus, through Scaliger, through many, many sources. See John Edwin Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, vol. 2 (Cambridge: CUP, 1908), s. v. Herodotus. There is some literature on the deafmute in literature, and the motif is mentioned in Stith Thompson at F1041.22 and V23.2. I have never seen it used as an exordial topos as a reason for writing, though "I cannot/dare not remain silent" is, of course, very common. Of course, I am a medievalist, and I do not get past 1500. Such topoi for the Middle Ages are well-treated by Curtius, Janson, and Simon. Jim Marchand. From: DEL2@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: [7.0082 Qs: E-Groups; Addresses; Mail Systems; Cambridge (6/125)] Date: Wed, 07 Jul 93 13:29:42 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 126 (178) W. McCarty asked what a colleague now on sabbatical in Cambridge can do, having just discovered that he cannot borrow books from the UL. One answer: be grateful that he is not in Oxford, where the Vice Chancellor himself can neither borrow nor even browse the open shelves. :-) Flippantly, Douglas de Lacey, Cambridge. From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin; Spanish; K Philips; Usk; OTA (6/97) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 23:24:16 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 127 (179) Re Spanish e-text The place to start for Spanish texts are the Oxford and Georgetown text archives, both of which can be found using archie, found on many university computer systems (talk to your local Computer Center staff). There is currently available a collection of 45 Spanish-language texts printed between 1480 and ca. 1530 on the Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espannoles (ADMYTE), a CD-ROM disk. Check with Michael Solomon (Dept. of Spanish, Emory) for more details. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: banks@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0082 Qs: E-Groups; Addresses; Mail Systems; Cambridge (6/125) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 10:12:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 128 (180) In reply to: [deleted quotation] In a limited form such things do exist. Here in the the UK there is an experimental service on the NISS Gateway, called 'Paradise', while a site somewhere in the US records the email addresses of all USENET contributors, a listing one can search using gopher (gopher searches can also access certain US university lists). I would imagine the problems in trying to compile a central listing of *everyone* with an email address would be enormous - imagine a world phone book! One of the problems must come with the enormous numbers of student users of email (and other e-systems requiring an address such as USENET): the sheer volume of these, plus their fairly short lifespan (the addresses that is, not the students) would foul up any attempt to gather a central list together. Marcus Banks, Oxford From: frsdjt Subject: Re: 7.0082 Qs: E-Groups; Addresses; Mail Systems; Cambridge (6/125) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 10:08:02 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 129 (181) Re: Cambridge library facilities - attention Willard McCarty The only way my own husband (Professor at the University of Hull) can borrow books from the UL is to send me in with a list! As I am a graduate of Cambridge I have borrowing rights. All his degrees are from elsewhere, so he does not. It's a ridiculous situation - if anybody knows a way round it (apart from obtaining a visiting fellowship) we'd be glad to know. June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull From: Subject: E-MAIL ACCESS Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 00:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 130 (182) I recently asked HUMANIST readers to comment on various ways for people without university computer centre accounts to contact Internet. Herewith are the results. There was very little personal response about experience on Compuserve or other commercial services. One correspondent related that Worldlink worked well enough, but that ftp was difficult. North American users of such services can expect to pay a minimum of $30/month, and the rates may increase with volume, and there may be problems with memory if too many (or too lengthy) messages pile up. There are several "Freenet" locations, which could provide an avenue of entry into the Internet (mostly but not exclusively in North America). A list of these locations, and of regional planning committees, can be had from Linda Delzeit, National Public Telecomputing Network Director of Education, whose email address is aa002@nptn.org. However, many Freenet sites are already heavily used, and access may be limited or slow, and the sites themselves are relatively few and far between. Several correspondents recommended that people seeking access to the nets should consult Ed Krol's book, _The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalogue_ (Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly, 1992). The most comprehensive and useful answer came from Bob Kraft, who referred me to his OFFLINE 39, which covered the subject admirably. Thanks also to Jim Marchand, Randy Smith, Cathy Ball, Peter Scott, Jack Ferstel, Mary Ellen Foley, and Nancy M. Davies. Kevin Berland (for C18-L and Latin-L) BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET or BCJ@psuvm.psu.edu English & Comparative Literature, Penn State From: Subject: CFP Women and/in the history of rhetoric Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 15:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 131 (183) I am interested in hearing from persons who want to contribute a chapter to a c ollection of essays on women and/in the history of rhetoric. The book is divid ed into sections on 1) ancient Greece and Rome, 2) Middle Ages, 3) Renaissance and Reformation, 4) Enlightenment. Essays may be on the rhetorical activities (oratorical, written) of historical women, the representations of such in liter ature/mythology, the rhetorical education of religious and/or upper class women , genres of women's rhetoric, and so on. I am interpreting rhetoric broadly to include debate and argumentation but also nonverbal communication, e.g., the na rrative style of a tapestry, series of illuminated manuscripts, garden, costume , etc. The collection is interdisciplinary with authors coming from English, C lassics, Speech, Philosophy, History, Religious Studies, etc. If you have ideas to propose, please contact: Molly Meijer Wertheimer Associate Professor of Speech Communication and Women's Studies Penn State--Hazleton Campus Hazleton, PA 18201 mmw9@psuvm (bitnet) mmw9@psuvm.psu.edu (internet) From: william@atc.boeing.com Subject: Hypertext'93 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 21:03:23 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 132 (184) HYPERTEXT'93 CALL FOR DEMOS & POSTERS 1993 ACM Conference on Hypertext Seattle, Washington, USA November 14-18, 1993 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT: Monday, August 2, 1993 Last call!!: There is still time to submit a demonstration or a poster for presentation at Hypertext'93. Posters and demos allow researchers to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or work that is best presented in conversation. Poster and demo sessions permit a more direct, one-on-one exchange of ideas.. Demos are an effective way to present a hypertext technique or application that is embodied in a working system. Please indicate hardware and software requirements. Posters are an effective way to present hypertext ideas, methods, techniques and empirical findings. Posters can also be used to describe working systems when supporting hardware/software is unnecessary or unavailable. Because of the interactive nature of poster and demo presentations, presenters should be available at all times during each of the sessions. In general, this will mean that only one submission will be accepted per presenter. This is not a trade show exhibit. Presenters should be directly involved in the work being presented rather than marketing or sales people. Demo Proposals: The proposal should include a two- to three-page description of * the problem * what was done * why the work is important. * explain how the demo will illustrate your work. * hardware/software/electrical or other special requirements for your demo. Please provide cover information: * the title, * the name and affiliation of the presenter(s) * complete address (including telephone, fax, email) for the presenter to whom correspondence should be addressed. * indicate the role(s) that the presenter(s) took in the work being presented. * Please indicate hardware and software requirements, including electrical * also include a 100-word summary for inclusion in a program description if the proposal is accepted.. Send submissions by email or surface mail (please no faxes) to: William Jones Demonstration Session Chair Boeing Computer Services P.O. Box 24346, MS 7L-44 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 USA phone: 206 865 3319 email: william@atc.boeing.com (Please send electronic submissions postScript, RTF or ASCII format). Poster Proposals. The proposal should include an EXTENDED abstract of at most two pages emphasizing: * the problem, * what was done, and * why the work is important. Please provide cover information: * the title, * the name and affiliation of the presenters(s), * a few keyword phrases, * complete contact address for the presenter to whom correspondence should be addressed. (including telephone, fax, e-mail) E-mail and fax submissions will be accepted. E-mail submissions are PREFERRED over paper which is preferred over fax. PostScript and RTF are okay. LaTeX, troff, Scribe, Word, WP, etc. are not. Send submissions to: Gary Perlman Poster Session Chair Computer & Information Science 228 Bolz Hall, Ohio State University 2036 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1277 phone: +01-614-292-2566, fax: +01-614-292-2911 email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: Discontinuities/Ren. Criticism Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 11:36:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 133 (185) DISCONTINUITIES IN CONTEMPORARY RENAISSANCE CRITICISM The editors of a volume for the University of Toronto Press's Theory/Culture Series invite submissions of previously unpublished essays addressing the discontinuities, failures, problems apparent in recent criticism of the English Renaissance. Of special interest are essays that explore the contradictions between theory and practice: e.g., inconsistencies between poststructuralist and feminist approaches; the inclination to aestheticize political criticism; the reluctance even among radical critics to decentre canonical texts; biases generated by gender or sexual orientation, such as the tendency to universalize the heterosexual subject; tensions produced by a middle-class professoriate promoting various modes of materialist criticism. Also welcome are essays that rehistoricize or recontextualize specific canonical or non-canonical literary texts. Proposals by January, 1994, completed manuscripts by June, 1994 to: Viviana Comensoli, English Department, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, CANADA OR: Paul Stevens, English Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, CANADA From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: Essays in French Literature Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 12:42:32 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 134 (186) ESSAYS IN FRENCH LITERATURE The latest issue of _Essays in French Literature_, published by the Department of French Studies at the University of Western Australia, contains the following articles: "Louvet de Couvray: le journaliste engage de la Revolution" (Thuy Huynh Einam) "Comment naissent les monstres: creation et pro-creation dans deux romans fin-de-siecle: _Bouvard et Pecuchet_ de Flaubert et _A rebours_ de Huysmans" (Francoise Grauby) "More about Eve: aspects of the 'femme fatale' in literature and art in nineteenth-century France" (Joy Newton) "A Fragment of _Les Faux-Monnayeurs_: the London Manuscript" (John Davies) "The Quest and the Allegory of Voyage in the Work of Marguerite Yourcenar" (Kay Gorman) "Update on Sartre" (Denis Boak) "Elie Wiesel's _La Nuit_ and _L'Oublie_: in pursuit of silence" (Joyce Lazarus) Copies of _Essays in French Literature_ ($A7-00) may be ordered from The University Bookshop, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009. Some copies of most previous issues are still available. _Essays in French Literature_ publishes articles on all areas of French and Francophone Literature. Submissions for future issues should be addressed to the Editor, Essays in French Literature, Department of French Studies, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009. Contributors who are Macintosh users are invited to submit a diskette version in addition to hard copy, or to send their word-processed copy as an attachment to an e-mail message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Tim Unwin Email tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Department of French Studies The University of Western Australia Nedlands Tel +61 9 380 2174/6 WA 6009 Fax +61 9 380 1080 Australia From: "Sterling G. Bjorndahl" Subject: Mail systems Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1993 11:12:52 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 135 (187) [deleted quotation] If a Novell network is part of your configuration, I heartily endorse Pegasus Mail for MS-DOS. There is also a new version of Pegasus Mail for Windows, but I have not tried it yet--reports are good, though. Pegasus Mail is freeware (although the author will accept donations if you feel so obliged). It is high quality stuff, IMHO, and is easy to install and to use. It has a large base of installed users. I don't remember the ftp address for it, but the author can be contacted via david@pmail.gen.nz and you will probably find it in an Archie search (look for pmail). -- Sterling G. Bjorndahl, bjorndahl@Augustana.AB.CA or bjorndahl@camrose.uucp Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta, Canada (403) 679-1100 When dealing with computers, a little paranoia is usually appropriate. From: andy@dep.philo.mcgill.ca (Andrew Burday) Subject: Re: 7.0088 Rs: EMail Addresses (8/173) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 14:51:44 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 136 (188) In the recent discussion of techniques for finding e-mail addresses, I don't think that anyone has yet mentioned that there is an FAQ on this topic on Usenet. If you can read news, look in News.Answers for 'FAQ: How to find people's e-mail addresses'. Also, someone mentioned that there is a site that keeps records of Usenet postings, but provided no details. Here (slightly abridged) is what the FAQ has to say: [deleted quotation]posted a message to the USENET at some point in the past, you might be able to find his/her address in the USENET address database on the machine pit-manager.mit.edu. [deleted quotation]"mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu" with "send usenet-addresses/name" in the body of the message. The "name" should be one or more space-separated words for which you want to search; since the search is fuzzy (i.e., all of the words you specify do not have to match), you should list all of the words you think might appear in the address, including (for example) first and last name, possible username, and possible components of the host name (e.g. "mit" for a person who you think is at MIT). The case and order of the words you list are ignored. [deleted quotation]to the mail server, but each request will be answered in a separate message.... [deleted quotation]fact, the script that does mail server searches is actually just a front-end to a WAIS database) on two different hosts: pit-manager.mit.edu and cedar.cic.net. In both cases, the database is called "usenet-addresses" and is on port 210.... [deleted quotation]"send usenet-addresses/help". Hope this is useful. Andrew Burday andy@philo.mcgill.ca From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" Subject: parser generator system for Humanists Date: Mon, 28 Jun 93 17:20:44 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 137 (189) I've written a so-called parser generator for Humanists, based on the Icon programming language. Unlike most such tools, it is accom- panied by documentation that requires no special experience in auto- maton or parsing theory. All it requires is familiarity with Icon and a basic understanding of what it means to parse something. The parser generator is in late beta testing stages, and I'm inter- ested in input from a broader audience. Anyone wanting a copy, please contact me. Please specify a format for mailing (e.g. tar/uuencoded, shell archived, etc.). If your sys- tem chokes on mail files over a certain size, note this. Also, make sure, before requesting the package, that the system it is to be used on has a full Icon installation. Learning to utilize a parser gen- erator - even one geared for Humanists - takes a little dedication, and it would be nuts to try to dedicate oneself to a task for which essential tools were lacking! Regards, Richard Goerwitz goer@midway.uchicago.edu From: RICHARD JENSEN Subject: a plug for Quattro Pro Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 02:31:55 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 138 (190) I have used Quattro Pro (DOS) for 3 years and recommend it very highly. It is well integrated with Paradox. I taught it at West Point a few years back. The plebes (freshmen) were learning Quattro for their math and engineering courses, and were utterly baffled when they were told their history class would have 4 hours of lab time on Quattro, and that they would be required to do a Quattro homework project. The project turned out to be coding the service records of Civil War soldiers (names, age, birthplace, service dates, wounds, illness, promotions.) Some wannabe warriors were annoyed by this sort of history ("new social history" it's called.) We were studying the Civil War--and instead of Grant and Lee and Stonewall Jackson they were getting John Doe and Richard Roe. "Sir! What value does this have for my military career, Sir? I explained that as lieutenants and captains they would be spending most of their duty time filling out forms exactly like these but rather less interesting. Quattro proved quite easy to teach (to engineers). While I do a lot of statistical work and graphics, I also use Quattro for most of my routine dbms projects, like bibliographies and mailing lists. I greatly appreciate the ability to split screens, hold multiple files simultaneously and highlight different ranges. It is very easy to move items back and forth between files. Quattro reads and writes dbase/foxbase .dbf files, so I rarely have to turn to those programs anymore. I have tried Paradox but never actually use it. I tried Excel a few times and never enjoyed it. I've never tried Access. Richard Jensen, U of Illinois Chicago From: "N. M. Houston" Subject: travel grant posting Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 14:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 93 (191) Please consider posting this announcement to HUMANIST. Questions? nmh@dukemvs.ac.duke.edu or nmh@mail.lib.duke.edu Thank you. [deleted quotation] From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Re: 7.0088 Rs: Cambridge ... Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 16:26:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 94 (192) Re: borrowing from Cambridge or elsewhere As a librarian I find it surprising that a responsible faculty member such as Willard McCarty describes has not done the advance work before going to a library to determine what priviliges are available. What he describes at Cambridge is quite often the case at large research libraries in this country as well, not to mention places like the Folger or the Huntington (which correspond more to Oxbridge college libraries or to the Bodleian; pace Douglas de Lacey, there are Oxford Libraries one can borrow from (e.g. English Faculty Library) even if one is not the V-Chancellor). I urge visiting library users to check in ahead of time to avoid such unplea- sant surprises. There are often arrangements that can be made but they are not always instantaneous. Those of you who feel this an unwarranted restriction on your scholarly rights as global thinkers and travellers might think about the effect on your own institution if open borrowing were immediately available to all -- Toronto, I expect, might be rather like Columbia (in NYC) in having many nearby institutions with responsible faculty members only too willing to withdraw books (and keep them, as faculty do, for months at a time). --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)932-5908 Fax:(908)932-5888 From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: AskSam Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 15:28+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 139 (193) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a serious prolem with askSam: i tried serveral times to import a large ascii-File consisting of records not longer than 20 lines. at least 10% of the records are scrambled after importing (missing lines, erratic lines stemming from other records etc. etc.). It is definitivela not a problem of hardware, since i tried it on serveral machines - the result is always the same. I have also checked for hiden non ascii-codes. I would be very grateful for any help! Fritz Heberlein From: simionat@unive.it Subject: addresses of Mouton publishing sought Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 13:05:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 140 (194) I would be grateful if someone could give me the address, phone and fax number of Mouton & C., The Hague, The Netherlands. They specialise in linguistics. Please reply DIRECTLY, thanks. From: simionat@unive.it Subject: email address of Professor Derek Attridge Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 13:09:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 141 (195) (This is the last one, I promise). I would be grateful if someone could give me Professor Derek Attridge's email address. I know he was Professor of English at the University of Strathclyde, England. I don't know if he still teaches there. Please reply DIRECTLY to me, thanks. From: "Phyllis Wright" Subject: Julia Emberley Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 12:54:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 142 (196) I have tried unsuccessfully to verify an article written by Julia Emberley called "Aboriginal women's writing and the cultural politics of representation" without success. I only know that the page numbers are 45 to 65 in whatever publication has it. Can someone help me? This may be a long shot. I have tried Emberley's book called "Thresholds of Difference" published by Univ. of Toronto Press, 1993; The Canadian Women's Periodicals Index; CBCA; Canadian Periodical Index; SocioFile; MLA; Arts & Literature Search; Magazine Index; Academic Index; Magazine ASAP. Many thanks for any help you can provide Phyllis Wright Phyllis M. Wright (416)688-5550, ext. 3961 Brock University Library pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 From: dene grigar Subject: translation and hypertext Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 16:14:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 143 (197) I am currently using hypertext in my translation work and would like to share my findings with other scholars who are interested in hearing about this. Can anyone suggest an organization that may be sponsoring a conference where I may present my research concerning hypertext and translation? From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: identifying lines of verse Date: Wed, 14 Jul 93 11:03:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 144 (198) Does anyone recognize these lines? Did he who thus inscribed the wall Not know or not believe S. Paul who says there is, where'er it stands, Another house, not made with hands, Or must we gather from these words That house is not a House of Lords. John Price-Wilkin jpw@virginia.edu From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: thinking ahead Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 22:13:48 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 145 (199) Mr. Graham of Rutgers, in his response to my request for assistance on behalf of a friend, is of course correct: one should plan ahead. Libraries must protect their collections, even access to which is a privilege we tend to take for granted. The fame of the Cambridge library, widely known for its ease of access, and our own liberal policies here at Toronto, perhaps misled my friend. To the others who were able to see beyond his error and offer helpful advice I offer my thanks. Willard McCarty From: DIANA PATTERSON Subject: Library Access Privileges (was Cambridge) Date: 15 Jul 1993 07:53:50 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 146 (200) Let me second Peter Graham's comments, and encourage Willard to remonstrate with his friend. Not being the Vice-Chancellor of the University, I still managed to get privileges at Bodley to go into the rare book stacks, but it took a week, and a meeting of the directors. Naturally I could not take out any rare books. But with sufficient preparation and credentials I even managed to rummage the uncatalogued books. Preparedness is all. But I may also say that I am with Bodley on its policy of not lending. When I arrived for a second year at St. Hugh's College, knowing that my room should be empty, I was astonished to find two volumes of books there printed in an eastern language I could not read, and marked Indian Institute. As a responsible bibliographer, I returned the books to the Indian Institute, and was astonished at the remonstrance _I_ received for my efforts. Of course the anger was really being vented on my predecessor in the guest room at St Hugh's--and should I ever catch her or him, I too shall give a grand remonstrance. Borrowing from any Bodley library is a rare privilege, and here some goof had ruined for him or herself, but had probably returned to India carefree--but some other more reliable soul would be given even harder restrictions. Sure, I like to read in bed, but reading in a library is not bad. Although I have to admit that the most miserable library experience I have ever had has been in CUL, where I did not manage to dry out from the pooring rain in 8 hours in that library! Still, it has food laid on, and open stacks. Using a collection of good books is a privilege, not a right. P.S. Peter's comment about Toronto is certainly correct. Self-righteously, Diana Patterson Bibliographer & good citizen Mt Royal College Calgary, Alberta DPatterson@MtRoyal.AB.CA From: veronis@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr (jean Veronis) Subject: CHum special issue Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 14:36:32 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 97 (201) I would like to bring to your attention a recently published special issue of COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES which is of particular interest to readers of this list. COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 26 Nos. 5-6 December 1992 COMMON METHODOLOGIES IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Guest editors: Nancy Ide and Donald Walker CONTENTS: NANCY IDE and DONALD WALKER / Introduction: Common Methodologies in Humanities Computing and Computational Linguistics DOUGLAS BIBER / The Multi-Dimensional Approach to Linguistic Analyses of Genre Variation: An Overview of Methodology and Findings HARALD BAAYEN / Statistical Models for Word Frequency Distributions: A Linguistic Evaluation ADAM KILGARRIFF / Dictionary Word Sense Distinctions : An Enquiry into Their Nature EVAN L. ANTWORTH / Glossing Text with the PC-KIMMO Morphological Parser FRANK SMADJA / XTRACT: An Overview WILLIAM A. GALE, KENNETH W. CHURCH, and DAVID YAROWSKY / A Method for Disambiguating Word Senses in a Large Corpus SAM COATES-STEPHENS / The Analysis and Acquisition of Proper Names for the Understanding of Free Text For information about COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES, contact Kluwer Academic Publishers, Group P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or at P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, Massachusetts 02018-0358 USA. From: Ted Brunner Subject: Help Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 09:09:42 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 98 (202) I have a rather unusual request for information and/or help. Here is some background: I am a ham radio operator (KD6UVN), and have, in recent weeks, been in shortwave radio contact with someone by the name of Mark Ellmoos (VR6ME) on--of all places--Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Pitcairn is one of the most isolated places in the world. It is approximately 1.75 square miles in size, and is the last British colony in the South Pacific. The island has no harbor, no airport, and no telegraph facilities; four times a year, basic supplies such as fuel oil and equipment are shipped by freighter from Auckland, New Zealand, and must be conveyed from the ship (which anchors approximately one kilometer offshore) by longboat. The island has a population of 52, essentially all descended from the HMS Bounty sailors who--along with several women from Tahiti--took refuge on Pitcairn after their mutiny against Captain Bligh in 1789. Mark (an Australian) is the island's minister; his wife Susan is a Registered Nurse and Picairn's medical officer. Mark (whose tour of duty on the island will run through late 1996) holds a degree in theology and psychology from Avondale College in Australia, and has begun to awaken to the fact that he is living in a researcher's heaven: Pitcairn is a living laboratory, a micro-society founded by Europeans in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing virtually untouched by the societal, political, and economic changes that have affected the world during the past two centuries. In essence, Pitcairn is a European enclave in the South Pacific that has been bypassed by the twentieth century. Given his situation, Mark is interested in in finding some program or institution that might be interested in providing him with academic guidance and supervision with respect to research activities that might lead toward a Masters degree in sociology or psychology. His primary research interests lie in the area of family structure and family process (an area most suitable for the circumstances in which he currently finds himself). Quite obviously, his uniquely isolated situation will also require a program and/or institution willing to experiment with unique and innovative approaches toward graduate education. Does anyone out there have any ideas? Does anyone have close contact with people in appropriate disciplines who might have ideas? Are there any social science oriented list servers that anyone knows about? Any help would be appreciated. Ted Brunner -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Theodore F. Brunner, Director Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717 USA Phone: (714) 856-6404 FAX: (714) 856-8434 E-mail: TLG@UCI.BITNET -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: Open University HERG Date: 15 Jul 1993 17:36:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 99 (203) - THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, Milton Keynes, UK - Institute of Educational Technology / Arts Faculty Humanities Higher Education Research Group (HERG) The Humanities Higher Education Research group was set up at the OU to foster, conduct and publish research into teaching and learning in inter-disciplinary cultural studies and within selected Humanities disciplines. It aims to investigate: - the nature of the adult student population, with the aim of fostering equal opportunities - different groups of students' expectations and experiences of study at higher levels, their preparedness for it, attitudes and approaches to it - the reasons for student 'wastage', or drop-out - those teaching methods most conducive to successful study, including uses of a-v media and computing in the humanities - the changing structure and role of the humanities in higher education, in the context of broader social and educational change within the UK and Europe. The group includes members from Oxford and Bath Universities as well as the OU Library, the BBC and its host departments. Its longer-term aims are to: - attract more funding for research into teaching and learning in the humanities - help break down barriers between 'pure' and 'applied' (educational) research in this field - help transform some subjects from elite to more popular fields of study (e.g. Classical studies, Philosophy) HERG's current projects include: Theoretical studies: the role of theories of discourse in humanities education; applications of the concept of 'interaction'; cognitive and information processing models of learning. Empirical studies: investigations into the teaching and learning of Art History, Music and Philosophy; teaching Greek and Latin texts through an anthology of passages in which key words are kept in the original; learning patterns in adult access to classical languages; the role of 'mind-mapping' in distance learning; evaluation of inter-culturally developed distance teaching materials (European Studies, with researchers in Tubingen, Germany); uses of computing in the study of Literature at-a-distance. The group aims to establish a database of active researchers in this field, and to promote networks of communication between them. We would like to know: - your name and the address of your institution; - your department and position within it - your research area(s) interests and priorities - your recent and current research projects, - publications and sources of funding. Please direct enquiries and information to: Ellie Chambers (Chair, HERG) Institute of Educational Technology The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom Tel. (+44) (0) 908 652629 Fax (+44) (0) 908 653744 e-mail: e.a.chambers@open.ac.uk (world) e.a.chambers@uk.ac.open (JANET) From: Gordon Newby Subject: New Medieval Journal Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1993 21:49:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 100 (204) Announcing a New Journal MEDIEVAL ENCOUNTERS A Journal of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue Edited by Gordon D. Newby Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 Medieval Encounters is intended as a cross-cultural, cross- disciplinary forum for discussion among scholars and students around the world about the intersections and interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture in the period from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries C.E. The subjects covered are culture in its widest definition, including History, Languages, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, and Art. PUBLISHED BY E. J. BRILL EDITORIAL BOARD Gordon D. Newby, Emory University Editor Editorial Advisors Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Temple University Islamic Studies Lewis M. Barth, Hebrew Union College Jewish Studies Remi Brague, Sorbonne University Muslim & Jewish Philosophy Ross Bran, Cornell University Muslim & Jewish Spain Elizabeth Clark, Duke University Early Christianity Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America Eastern Christianity John Riddle, North Carolina State University Medieval Science All articles should be submitted both in hard copy and on computer diskette in Microsoft Word, Wordperfect or ASCII format for either MS-DOS or Macintosh based computers. Articles will be in English but may contain citations in any Classical, European, or Near Eastern language. Transliteration of non-Romanized terms will conform to the usual system employed by journals published by E. J. Brill. All maps, diagrams, charts and photographs will be submitted in camera-ready form. If there is any need to obtain copyright permission for the use of photographs and other materials, it will be the responsibility of the author to obtain such permissions in advance, although the editors will gladly assist in the process. PHILOSOPHY OF THE JOURNAL Medieval Encounters is intended to promote discussion and dialogue across cultural, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries about the interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture during the period from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries C.E. Culture is defined in its widest form to include history, languages, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, religion, science and art. The geographic limits of inquiry will be bounded only by the limits in which the three traditions interact and intersect. After considerations of scholarly merit and contributions made to knowledge, articles will be selected on the basis of how they promote our understanding of Jewish, Christian and Muslim interactions in the medieval period. Articles may deal with specific texts, events, or phenomena as well as theories of interpretation and analysis. The journal will actively promote a representative spread across all the humanistic disciplines and from all scholarly communities. All articles will be reviewed by members of the editorial board or by such scholars as the editors choose to insure a fair and objective evaluation of each contribution. In addition to articles, the journal will publish reviews of significant books and monographs which fall within the purview of the journal. The editors will strive to include a short notice or a full review for all major works which are concerned with the interactions of the three traditions. The goal is to provide a handy reference of recent scholarly activity for those medievalists involved in cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research. PLEASE SEND MANUSCRIPTS AND INQUIRIES TO: Gordon D. Newby Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures Trimble Hall 123 Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 Telephone: 404 727-2916 Internet: gdnewby@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu From: weinshan@cps.msu.edu Subject: Following call for papers Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 10:03:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 101 (205) ************************************************************************ * Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cps.msu.edu * * Computer Science Dept. weinshank@msuegr.bitnet * * A-732 Wells Hall COMPUSERVE 76154,704 * * Michigan State University GEnie D.Weinshank * * East Lansing MI 48824 USA * * Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 336-1061 * ************************************************************************ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<< cut here >>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ############################################################ **Call For Papers** ############################################################ 1994 SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC '94) SPECIAL TRACK ON COMPUTING APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION March 6-8, 1994 Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona ############################################################ SAC'94 -=-=-=-= SAC'94 is the annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). For the past eight years, SAC's have been a primary forum for applied computing practitioners and researchers. Again this year, SAC'94 will be held in conjunction with the 1994 ACM Computer Science Conference in Phoenix. State-of-the-Art and State-of-the- Practice papers in all areas of applied computing are invited. Special track on COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A special track on Computer Applications in Education will be held as a part of SAC '94. It will provide a forum for school and university faculty, instructional technology specialists, administrators, and computer support staff to share their ideas and experiences on employing computer and allied technologies in the support of education. Original papers, tutorial( half or full day), workshop and panel proposals are invited. Some suggested topics are: APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING TO TEACHING AND LEARNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF COMPUTING ON LEARNING MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION COMPUTER NETWORK APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION COMPUTER ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS USING TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH ABOUT TECHNOLOGY ===>>> COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN HUMANITIES COURSES <<<=== COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN SCIENCE COURSES COMPUTING IN GENERAL EDUCATION MANAGING COMPUTER RESOURCES IN EDUCATION GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Original papers from the above-mentioned areas will be considered. Accepted articles will be published in the SAC'94 Conference Proceedings to be published by the ACM Press. Expanded versions of selected papers from all categories will be considered for publication in the ACM/SIGCUE'S OUTLOOK. In order to facilitate the blind external review process, submission guidelines must be strictly adhered to: o Submit 6 copies of manuscript to the SAC'94 AI and Database track chair at address below. o Author name(s) and address(es) are NOT to appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in third person. o Body of paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approx. 20 pages, double-spaced). o Separate cover sheet should be attached to each copy, containing (1) title, (2) author(s) and affiliation(s), and (3) address (including e-mail and fax number) to which correspondence should be addressed. o In order to qualify as a student paper, ALL authors must be students at the time the manuscript was submitted. o All papers and panel proposals must be submitted by October 1, 1993. DIRECT CORRESPONDENCE, INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS RELATING TO THIS SPECIAL TRACK TO: Jim Hightower California State University P. O. Box 3842 Seal Beach, CA 90740-7842 E-mail: jim@filly.calstate.edu Tel: 310-985-9403 Fax: 310-985-9400 ----------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES OCTOBER 1, 1993 PAPERS AND PANEL SUBMISSION NOVEMBER 15, 1993 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION DECEMBER 15, 1993 CAMERA-READY COPY MARCH 6,1994 CONFERENCE BEGINS ------------------------------------------------ SAC'94 Co-Sponsoring SIGs -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=-=- SIGAPL (APL), SIGAPP (Applied Computing), SIGBIT (Business Information Technology), SIGBIO (Biomedical Computing), SIGCUE (Computer Uses in Education), SIGFORTH (FORTH) and SIGSMALL/PC (Small and Personal Computing Systems and Applications. FOR GENERAL INQUIRES CONTACT THE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR: Ed Deaton Dept. of Mathematical Sciences San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182 Email: deaton@cs.sdsu.edu Tel: +1 619 594 5962 Fax: +1 619 594 6746 SAC'94 OFFICIALS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CONFERENCE CHAIR --------------- Hal Berghel, University of Arkansas PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Terry Hengl, Knowledge Technology Inc. and PC AI Magazin Joseph Urban, Arizona State University CONFERENCE DIRECTOR ------------------ Ed Deaton, San Diego State University STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Elis Awad University of Virginia (SIGBIT) Hal Berghel University of Arkansas (SIGAPP) George Hedrick Oklahoma State University Richard Hetherington University of Missouri-KC Jim Hightower California State University(SIGCUE) Abe Kandel University of South Florida S. Lakshmivarahan University of Oklahoma Irving Montanez Brookhaven Labs (SIGFORTH) William Poucher Baylor University Roy Rada University of Liverpool (SIGBIO) Lynne Shaw Consultant (SIGAPL) John Talburt University of Arkansas-LR Glenn Thompson AMOCO Elizabeth Unger Kansas State University (SIGSMALL/PC) Joe Urban Arizona State University Roger Wainwright University of Tulsa Kam-Fai Wong CUHK ############################################################## From: Evert Volkersz Subject: Dutch American memoirs and autobiographies Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1993 16:35:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 147 (206) For a writing project, I would be interested in learning about any first-hand autobiographies, memoirs, or collection of letters of Dutch Americans. Either in Dutch or in English. I have consulted Linda Doezema's _Dutch Americans_. Evert Volkersz Special Collections SUNY at Stony Brook 516-632-7119 Bitnet: evolkersz@sbccmail Internet: evolkersz@ccmail.sunysb.edu From: "" Subject: classic electronic fonts? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 23:24:04 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 148 (207) There are many electronic typefaces on the market that adapt some of the characteristics of old-fashioned styles, but most of these are rough approximations, and the emphasis is on display faces. Can anyone recommend a source for electronic versions (especially compatible with WordPerfect) of early modern book faces such as Jenson, Aldine Roman, Garamont, Caslon, or Baskerville, complete with the now-obsolete medial _s_and associated ligatures? Michael Hancher / English / Minnesota From: "zonta" Subject: R. Barthes Date: 19 Jul 1993 13:39:46 U X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 149 (208) I would be very grateful if someone could help me to find where Roland Barthes wrote: "La seule donnee c'est la facon de prendre". Thank you. in any case. Bruna Zonta Dipartimento Scienze Informazione Universita di Milano From: payers@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: *Euphues and his England* Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 12:03:12 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 150 (209) I am doing a little work on *Euphues and his England* at the moment and wondered if there was a more recent text than the 1964 reprint of Croll and Clemens. Is anyone aware of a new edition in progress? Thanks, Peter Ayers Dept. of English Memorial University From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: Frankenstein - 1818 / 1831 Date: 16 Jul 1993 16:58:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 103 (210) The Open University is developing a new Literature course credit that will be using Frankenstein as one of its set texts ... the course designers would like to be able to make the text available electronically (with the possibility of some sort of text analysis a la WordCruncher as an option for study). Basically there are two main editions of Frankenstein; the first edition of 1818 and the third revised edition of 1831. The changes from 1818 to 1831 are interesting and there would be a logic in making that an issue for study by making both the 1818 version and the 1831 version available electronically. Does anyone know if either version is available 'electronically'? Thanking you in anticipation Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) Academic Computing Service, | S.A.RAE@UK.AC.OPEN (JANET) The Open University, Walton Hall, | phone: (0908) 652413 Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. | fax: (0908) 653744 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 151 (211) Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Association for Computers and the Humanities "CONSENSUS EX MACHINA" Joint International Conference ALLC-ACH94 April 19-23, 1994 Paris Preliminary notice The ALLC-ACH conferences are the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. A particular focus of the conference "Consensus ex Machina" will be the methodological impact of computer science and mathematics on the humanities. Resorting to computer science and to mathematics is now often the most dramatic attempt to impart more objectivity (and consequently more consensus) to the humanities. What obstacles does such an undertaking meet? What successes can it claim? What failures must it admit to? Is there a way forward which will increase our knowledge and understanding of the humanities? LOCATION The conference will be held at La Sorbonne which stems from a college founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon and presently hosts the Universities of Paris IV (Arts and Humanities) as well as the famous /Ecole des Chartes (History). Accommodation for participants will be available in the lively Latin Quarter through the conference travel agency. The Latin Quarter and la Sorbonne can be very easily reached from Paris airports and stations thanks to the metro and the RER (regional express network). PROGRAMME The Paris conference will be held in April 1994. Its programme will be as follows: Tuesday 19th morning: welcome Tuesday 19th afternoon: opening and sessions Wednesday 20th: sessions Thursday 21th morning: sessions Thursday 21th afternoon: excursion (Versailles) Friday 22th morning and afternoon: sessions Friday 22th evening: banquet Saturday 23th morning: sessions TOPICS The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities invite submissions on computer-aided topics in literature, linguistics and the language- oriented aspects of the humanities disciplines such as history, archaeology and music: statistical methods for text analysis, text encoding, text corpora, computational lexicography, machine translation, etc. LANGUAGES The official languages of the conference will be English and French. However papers can also be presented in another EEC language provided that they bear on the corresponding linguistic or literary themes. The coding scheme used in this announcement for French words is : /e = e + acute accent, /E = E + acute accent, \e = e + grave accent and \a = a + grave accent. REQUIREMENTS Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that 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 that 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 sources. ABSTRACT LENGTH Abstracts of 1500 words should be submitted for presentations of 25 minutes. Abstracts of 2500 words should be submitted for lectures of 45 minutes (state of the art themes only). FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS 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. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) 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 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a word processor, and should not contain tab character or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation ot the markup scheme after the title information. Electronic submissions shoud be sent to: ALLCACH@BLIULG11 with the subject line " Submission for ALLC-ACH94." PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to the ALLC-ACH94 Programme Chair: Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Li\ege, Universit/e de Li\ege, place Cockerill, 3, B-4000 Li\ege, Belgium. DEADLINES: October 15th, 1993 (proposals of papers). December 15th, 1993 (notification of acceptance) February 15th, 1994 (advance registration) PUBLICATION OF PAPERS 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. Another one will be published as a special issue of T.A. Information. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of: Christian Delcourt, Chair Universit/e de Li\ege (ALLC) Elaine Brennan Brown University (ACH) Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University (ALLC) Paul A. Fortier University of Manitoba (ACH) Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College (ACH) Susan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton Universities (ALLC) Antonio Zampolli Universit\a degli Studi di Pisa (ALLC) Michael Neuman Georgetown University (ACH) Andr/e Salem, Local Organizer /Ecole normale sup/erieur de Saint-Cloud (ALLC) INQUIRIES Please address your inquiries to the ALLC-ACH94 Local Organizers: Andr/e Salem and Maurice Tournier, CNRS-INaLF, Lexicom/etrie et textes politiques, /Ecole Normale Sup/erieure, avenue de la Grille d'Honneur, F-92211 Saint-Cloud, France. Phone: 00+33+1+47.71.91.11 Fax: 00+33+1+46.02.39.11 From: Elaine Brennan Subject: Unexpected Humanist Hiatus Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 16:01:48 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 104 (212) My apologies to all for the unexpected and unannounced hiatus in Humanist's appearance over the last three-plus weeks. Other (not more important, just more urgent) matters required all of my attention. All of the mail that has been sent to Humanist will be distributed over the next day or two. Again, I hope that no one was excessively discomfited by Humanist's quietness -- if you were, please let me know. Elaine From: Elaine M Brennan Subject: Preliminary Call for Papers: Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:16:52 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 105 (213) ALLC-ACH '94: Consensus Ex Machina Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Association for Computers and the Humanities "CONSENSUS EX MACHINA" Joint International Conference ALLC-ACH94 April 19-23, 1994 Paris Preliminary notice The ALLC-ACH conferences are the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. A particular focus of the conference "Consensus ex Machina" will be the methodological impact of computer science and mathematics on the humanities. Resorting to computer science and to mathematics is now often the most dramatic attempt to impart more objectivity (and consequently more consensus) to the humanities. What obstacles does such an undertaking meet? What successes can it claim? What failures must it admit to? Is there a way forward which will increase our knowledge and understanding of the humanities? LOCATION The conference will be held at La Sorbonne which stems from a college founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon and presently hosts the Universities of Paris IV (Arts and Humanities) as well as the famous /Ecole des Chartes (History). Accommodation for participants will be available in the lively Latin Quarter through the conference travel agency. The Latin Quarter and la Sorbonne can be very easily reached from Paris airports and stations thanks to the metro and the RER (regional express network). PROGRAMME The Paris conference will be held in April 1994. Its programme will be as follows: Tuesday 19th morning: welcome Tuesday 19th afternoon: opening and sessions Wednesday 20th: sessions Thursday 21th morning: sessions Thursday 21th afternoon: excursion (Versailles) Friday 22th morning and afternoon: sessions Friday 22th evening: banquet Saturday 23th morning: sessions TOPICS The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities invite submissions on computer-aided topics in literature, linguistics and the language- oriented aspects of the humanities disciplines such as history, archaeology and music: statistical methods for text analysis, text encoding, text corpora, computational lexicography, machine translation, etc. LANGUAGES The official languages of the conference will be English and French. However papers can also be presented in another EEC language provided that they bear on the corresponding linguistic or literary themes. The coding scheme used in this announcement for French words is : /e = e + acute accent, /E = E + acute accent, \e = e + grave accent and \a = a + grave accent. REQUIREMENTS Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that 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 that 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 sources. ABSTRACT LENGTH Abstracts of 1500 words should be submitted for presentations of 25 minutes. Abstracts of 2500 words should be submitted for lectures of 45 minutes (state of the art themes only). FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS 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. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) 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 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a word processor, and should not contain tab character or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation ot the markup scheme after the title information. Electronic submissions shoud be sent to: ALLCACH@BLIULG11 with the subject line " Submission for ALLC-ACH94." PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to the ALLC-ACH94 Programme Chair: Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Li\ege, Universit/e de Li\ege, place Cockerill, 3, B-4000 Li\ege, Belgium. DEADLINES: October 15th, 1993 (proposals of papers). December 15th, 1993 (notification of acceptance) February 15th, 1994 (advance registration) PUBLICATION OF PAPERS 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. Another one will be published as a special issue of T.A. Information. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of: Christian Delcourt, Chair Universit/e de Li\ege (ALLC) Elaine Brennan Brown University (ACH) Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University (ALLC) Paul A. Fortier University of Manitoba (ACH) Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College (ACH) Susan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton Universities (ALLC) Antonio Zampolli Universit\a degli Studi di Pisa (ALLC) Michael Neuman Georgetown University (ACH) Andr/e Salem, Local Organizer /Ecole normale sup/erieur de Saint-Cloud (ALLC) INQUIRIES Please address your inquiries to the ALLC-ACH94 Local Organizers: Andr/e Salem and Maurice Tournier, CNRS-INaLF, Lexicom/etrie et textes politiques, /Ecole Normale Sup/erieure, avenue de la Grille d'Honneur, F-92211 Saint-Cloud, France. Phone: 00+33+1+47.71.91.11 Fax: 00+33+1+46.02.39.11 From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: AUSTRALIAN FRENCH STUDIES CONFERENCE Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 12:02:29 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 106 (214) AUSTRALIAN FRENCH STUDIES CONFERENCE, 17-19 September 1993 VENUE: MONASH CITY CENTRE (Cnr Exhibition Street and Flinders Lane, Melbourne) CONVENER: BRIAN NELSON, DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES, MONASH UNIVERSITY, CLAYTON, VICTORIA 3168, AUSTRALIA REVISED PROGRAMME All papers will be 20 minutes in duration, except for those of Naomi Segal, James Lawler and Roger Laufer. FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 9.15 Registration 9.45 Opening: Philippe Baude, Ambassadeur de France en Australie 10.00 Marie Maclean, Monash University: "Giving birth to my grandmother: _La Batarde_ of Violette Leduc" Roda Kanawati, Macquarie University, "Temps, mort et quete de l'eternite dans les ecrits de Claude Mauriac" [Coffee] 11.30 Wallace Kirsop, Monash University, "Creating networks: the strategies of scholarly communication" Jacques Birnberg, Monash University, "Some thoughts on the history and editorial policies of the _Australian Journal of French Studies_" J.C. Davies, University of Adelaide, "Gide and _La Nouvelle Revue Francaise_" [Lunch] 2.30 Peter Cryle, with Anne Freadman and Sandra Nicholls, University of Queensland, "On canonicity" Peter Poiana, University of Sydney, "Mimesis et verite: la narratologie a la derive" [Coffee] 4.00 C.D. Boak, University of Western Australia, "The Second World War and French writing: a reconsideration" Colin Nettlebeck, Monash University, "The 'post-literary' French novel: Echenoz, Pennac and company" Jean Fornasiero, University of Adelaide. "Quete et enquete dans _La Fee Carabine_ de Daniel Pennac" Evening: Conference Dinner (venue to be advised) and lecture by Naomi Segal (St John's College, Cambridge): "The Adulteress's Child" SATURDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 10.00 Margaret Sankey, University of Sydney, "On (re)reading Cyrano de Bergerac" Francoise Grauby, University of New South Wales, "Portrait de l'artiste en misereux" Peter Brown, Australian National University, "Identite et humour noir(s) chez Henri Lopes" [Coffee] 12.00 James Lawler, University of Chicago, "Remembering A.R. Chisholm" [Lunch] 2.30 Jack Burston, Monash University, and Monique Burston, University of Melbourne, "Deconstructing the narration: the use of the imperfect tense" Noelle Colombet-Sankey, University of Melbourne, "Acquisition of a reading proficiency in French" Guy Neumann, Macquarie University, "Ateliers d'ecriture" [Coffee] 4.30 Ivan Barko, University of Sydney, "The relevance of the Nicholsonian tradition to French studies in Australian universities at the close of the 20th century" Daniel Guilbaud, Macquarie University "Pour une exploitation pedagogique du neologisme en classe de F.L.E." Max Walkley, University of Sydney, "Introducing Francophone literature courses at Sydney: Swiss and Canadian French literature" [Coffee] 6.00 Business Meeting: launch of the Australian Society for French Studies SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 10.00 Philip Anderson, Monash University, "Crossing the threshold with Ponge: a study of a liminal text" Corinne Mesana, University of Sydney, "L'apport des surrealistes dans l'ecriture du roman" Marie-Joelle Porcher, University of Melbourne, "La recherche du centre dans _Le Genie du lieu_ de Michel Butor" [Coffee] 12.00 Roger Laufer, Universite de Paris 8, "Un hypertexte sur Celine" [Lunch] 2.30 Brian Nelson, Monash University, "The dream machine: Zola and the department store" Susan Yates, University of Wollongong, "The new confessor: the doctor and the bourgeois wife in Balzac" [Coffee] 4.00 John West-Sooby, University of Adelaide, "Parler eaux et clercs: etude des images aquatiques dans _Une Histoire sans nom_ de Barbey d'Aurevilly" Tim Unwin, University of Western Australia, "Stories of seduction or the seduction of stories: Barbey d'Aurevilly and Maupassant" Leisha Lecointre, Flinders University, "Etude du personnage de Frederick Lemaitre dans _Les Enfants du paradis_" ____________________________________________________________________________ To register, please write immediately to Professor Brian Nelson, Department of Romance Languages, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. Registration fee $50 ($20 students); conference dinner/lecture by Naomi Segal $40. Cheques payable to "Monash University". ____________________________________________________________________________ From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 10:43:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 107 (215) *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE... *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* * a new Short List of titles held at Oxford * 40 titles now available in TEI format for anonymous FTP * a new FTP service for licensed access via the Internet It's been a long time since we posted any news of our activities to this or other lists. It's not that we've been inactive -- quite the opposite in fact. * We have been converting texts to a standard TEI-compatible mark up (with much appreciated help from Jeffrey Triggs at Bellcore, and John Price-Wilkin at Virginia). * We have been experimenting with ways of saving time and money by using FTP, Gopher, WWW etc to deliver material rather than tapes and disks * We have been scouring the networks for new material of all kinds * We have been trying to find some additional and reliable sources of funding, but cannot report much progress. Any philanthropists out there, please form an orderly queue. ***** NEW ACCESSIONS ****** Our latest catalogue lists 1336 titles, in 28 languages. We have about 1.2 Gb of textual data, most of it freely available, some of it restricted in one way or another. We want more. We're particularly interested in scholarly minority-interest material which is not going to turn up on CD-anything in the foreseeable future. We don't charge fees to look after your material, and we keep track of what happens to it. We do our best to make sure that whatever texts you deposit with us are rendered as future-proof as we can make them but we don't change the information you recorded. We're archivists, not evangelists, for electronic text. At the same time, now that some kind of standardization is at last beginning to appear, we're eager to show that old wine can be put into new bottles. So you'll find that quite a few texts are now available in more than one form -- both the original, and a "TEI-compatible" form. (When the original form is easily available elsewhere, and particularly when the TEI form has more information in it, then we may well drop the former from the catalogue. But don't worry: it's still in the Archive....) *********** NEW FTP SERVICES ************* Our ftp address is: ota.ox.ac.uk. You can log on as anonymous, quoting your e-mail address as a password. 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We will distribute them in the same way as (b) class texts if you insist.] A CLASS TEXTS (Freely Available) You can just download these without formality using standard FTP commands. In some cases there are additional usage constraints, specified in the TEI header. We also hope that you won't redistribute these texts in a mutilated state or without acknowledgment of where you got them from. We can't enforce any of these things, obviously. We think that the Internet is successful because -- and as long as -- people trust each other. To see what (a) class texts are available now, just take a look in the directory ota. It's arranged, like the ShortList, by language, and within that by Author. There are x texts in there today, and there will be more. Each text has a conformant TEI header, and each text is a legal TEI compatible document, using a special document type definition (dtd), which you can also download from the same directory (look in ota/TEI). Eventually, there'll be some more introductory stuff on what SGML is, why the TEI is a Good Thing etc etc. Just now, we're working flat out getting the texts in there. Here's the list of what was there when I prepared this note: Anonymous: Gammer Gurtons Needle Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim; Nigger of the Narcissus Charles Darwin: Origin of Species Arthur Conan Doyle: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Casebook of Sherlock Holmes; His last bow; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Sign of Four; Valley of Fear; Hound of the Baskervilles; Return of Sherlock Holmes; A study in Scarlet Henry James: The Europeans; Roderick Hudson; The Watch Jack London: Klondike Tales; The Seawolf; The Call of the Wild; Whitefang Andrew Marvell: English Poems (1688) Herman Melville: Moby Dick John Milton: Paradise Lost Lucy M. Montgomery: Ann of Avonlea William Morris: News from Nowhere Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel Bram Stoker: Dracula Antony Trollope: Lady Anna; Ayalas Angel; The Eustace Diamonds; Can you forgive her; Phineas Finn; Phineas Redux; Rachel Ray; Dr Wortle's School; Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at the court of King Arthur H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds; The Time Machine (B) CLASS TEXTS : (Restricted access) The majority of texts in the Archive are and always have been held in trust for a Depositor. Rather than keep track of a zillion different contracts with each Depositor, we worked out a single contract which is the basis of our standard user declaration form. It has served to keep us out of the law courts for the last twenty five years, so it can't have been all bad. Because it's a contract, we have to have a signed paper copy of the declaration in our hands before we can issue copies of the texts. 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It's still free and it works like this: - you send us a signed order form, as usual - on the order form you specify the password of your choice - we place copies of the files you ordered in a special directory under ota, access to which requires you to quote both a personal identifier (which we will give you) and the password (which you have told us) - we send you e-mail giving details of how to access the directory - you download copies of the files you ordered, using conventional ftp commands - after a fixed period of time (usually about a week) your personal identifier is removed and the file copies deleted **********THE DOWN SIDE************ We save until the very end of this note the inevitable piece of bad news. After 25 years, we've been told very firmly that we have to increase our prices to something a bit nearer a realistic level. Not only that, but within the European Community we must charge VAT at 17.5% on every order. We've taken this opportunity to rethink the way in which we charge slightly. We charge only for material costs, postage and packing on orders for texts sent on magnetic media of various kinds. We have abolished the "per text" fee, and we are no longer insisting on payment in advance. We are still charging over the odds for diskettes because they take us a disproportionate amount of effort to produce. The cost is worked out as follows: Magnetic tape: #50 ($80) each DC350 tape cartridge #30 ($50) each Diskette #20 ($35) each Invoicing charge #10 ($20) payable if order is not prepaid Postage surcharge #10 ($20) for orders outside EC Add VAT at 17.5% for orders within EC We will continue to give an estimate for the cost of any order free of charge. And, of course, if you use our new FTP service, then you don't need to pay us a penny. We look forward to hearing from you in the new academic year! Lou Burnard and Alan Morrison *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* Oxford Text Archive email: archive@ox.ac.uk Oxford University Computing Services tel: +44 865 273238 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK fax: +44 865 273275 *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Data handling course announcement Date: Mon, 02 Aug 93 15:08:14 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 108 (216) Please bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues and research students. Announcing Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History Summer School USING COMPUTERS TO HANDLE HISTORICAL DATA University of Glasgow, 21-23 September 1993 This three-day summer school will introduce lecturers and research students to handling and analysing structured data using a database package. Instruction in database techniques will be set in the context of research problems and data. Most data will be from historical sources, but the course may also be of interest to archaeologists, art historians and other humanists wishing to learn about databases. The summer school is intended for research students and lecturers wishing to learn about databases and the use of computers in historical research and teaching. No previous database experience is required, although word- processing experience is strongly recommended. The software to be used will be Borland Paradox (version 3.5 or 4), a relational database management system that runs on IBM and compatible PCs and is widely used in higher education. Other types of databases will also be demonstrated. The exact sources to be used have not yet been chosen, but will most likely be those appropriate to the study of English local and community history. You are encouraged to bring copies of your own sources with you, and there will be time to discuss their input. The application deadline is 20 August 1993. PROGRAMME* Tuesday 21 September -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Introduction to the use of databases in history Simple database querying Introduction to database design, including * Data modelling: Principles and sources * Management of a research project Wednesday 22 September -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Database design (cont.), including * Creating a database * Forms design * Data entry Data clinic: Analysis of sources brought by those on the course Teaching with databases Demonstration of other choices, including * Text-oriented databases * SQL Thursday 23 September -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Advanced analysis of data, including * Querying multiple tables * Recoding and standardisation * Simple record linkage *Programme is subject to change. The course will start at 9.30 am on Tuesday and end at 1.00 pm on Thursday to enable people The course fee is 50 pounds. Accommodation is available at Dalrymple Hall, a University of Glasgow residence hall, at a cost of 27.50 pounds per night, including bed, breakfast and dinner. A limited number of rooms are available, so early booking is recommended. Lunch is not included in the fee but will be available in the University Dining Rooms. To register for the course, please send the following application form with payment to Ann Lee, CTICH, 1 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Registration forms should be sent by 20 August 1993. After that date, please contact CTICH to see if any places are available. ---------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION FORM Title & Name: Department: Institution: Address: Email address (if any): I wish to register for the workshop at a cost of 50 pounds I wish to be booked in for bed, breakfast and dinner at Dalrymple Hall, cost 27.50 per night, for the following nights: Monday, 20 September Tuesday, 21 September Wednesday, 22 September Payment must be enclosed with this form, and should be made payable to 'University of Glasgow'. If payment is through your Finance Office, please make sure that the form accompanies the cheque. Please note that registrations received after the closing date will be a subject to a late registration fee of 10 pounds. Cancellations received after the closing date will be subject to a cancellation fee of 10 pounds. The course may be cancelled if there is insufficient interest. Questions about Computing Experience The course is intended to be practical and, where possible, tailored to individuals' own needs. It would help us if you would provide information about your own experience and plans to use computers in your research or teaching. You are encouraged to bring copies of sources with you. Do you have any experience of computers? With which of the following types of software do you have experience? Word-processing 'Flat' database package (e.g. Reflex, PC-File, QUEST) Relational database Spreadsheet Statistics Email Other (please specify) How do you plan to use what you learn on this course? Thank you for your help. They should be sent to: CTICH 1 University Gardens University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: (041) 339-8855 x6336 Fax: (041) 330-5000 Email: ctich @ uk.ac.glasgow From: balestri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Diane Balestri) Subject: Job posting: Princeton Humanities Consultant Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 16:19:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 152 (217) The following position is open and we are looking to fill as soon as the right person speaks up! The Instructional and Media Services group at Princeton, which this consultant would join, includes instructional computing and interactive graphics consultants and programmers, as well as the university's language laboratory, audio, video, and television staff. Diane Balestri Manager, Instructional and Media Services PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Humanities Consultant Information Services within Computing and Information Technology at Princeton University seeks a consultant to support faculty members and students in humanities disciplines who use information technologies in teaching and research. The consultant will join the Instructional and Media Services group. Responsibilities include: proactive consulting with humanities departments and faculty about instructional and research needs; identifying, installing, testing, and documenting software tools and applications; supporting faculty and students in software use. In addition, the consultant will work closely with the language laboratory coordinator on acquisition, installation, and use of software and multimedia applications for language instruction. The consultant will provide expertise in text data bases and text analysis for faculty in all disciplines and expertise in word processing and printing with non-Roman characters and fonts. Qualifications: minimally, a Master's degree in a humanities discipline. Excellent knowledge of one or more foreign languages required; knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and/or Hebrew preferred. Strong background (at least two years) supporting computer users in one or more of the humanities disciplines taught at Princeton. Knowledge of both instructional and research applications is required, as is the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to move easily among a variety of hardware platforms, including Intel-based and Macintosh systems. Must enjoy outreach to faculty in humanities disciplines and must possess superior oral and written communications skills. Rank and salary commensurate with background and experience. Send resume and letter of application to: Bruce Finnie, Computing and Information Technology, 87 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08544 (finnie@princeton.edu). Applicants should include a resume and the names, telephone numbers, and addresses of at least three people who can comment on the applicant's professional qualifications. Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. From: ide@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr (Nancy Ide) Subject: for publication Date: Mon, 9 Aug 93 14:02:05 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 153 (218) MICROSOFT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY The Natural Language Processing group at Microsoft Research is looking for a computational linguist with a background in English syntax, an interest in stylistics and the complexity of prose, and the desire to work on a large real-world NLP system that deals with unrestricted text. To apply, send your resume and cover letter to: Surface: Microsoft Recruiting ATTN: Patricia Brooke One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Email: ASCII ONLY pattibr@microsoft.com Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer working to increase workforce diversity. From: simionat@unive.it Subject: historical atlases available on CD-ROM? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 11:04:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 154 (219) I would like to know if there's a CD-ROM containing atlases referring to different stages in world history - prehistory, classical world, Middle Ages and Modern Era. I know there are CD-ROM's with up-to-date atlases, with info on different countries as well. Please reply DIRECTLY to me, thanks. _____________________________________________________________________ Marco Simionato tel : 39 - (0)41 5225570 University of Venice Computing Centre fax : 39 - (0)41 5225570 Dorsoduro 2408/B email: simionat@unive.it 30123 Venezia, ITALY _____________________________________________________________________ From: Helen Schwartz Subject: please post on humanist Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 15:48:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 155 (220) The Modern Language Association (MLA) has recently adopted a policy that endorses giving credit toward reappointment, tenure and promotion for computer-related work (in research, teaching or service), with the usual external review of such work. To encourage adoption of this recommendation, the MLA's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies (CET) is surveying current policies and practice in the humanities. Please send information from your department, college and institution about your policies and practice giving (or NOT giving) credit toward reappointment, tenure and promotion for work with computers. Send to: HSchwart@indycms [For documents, please send copies with relevant sections highlighted to Helen Schwartz, English Department, Indiana U- Purdue U at Indianapolis (IUPUI), 425 University Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46202] PLEASE POST THIS NOTICE ON OTHER RELEVANT ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS. Thank you. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: LHA technical problem Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 09:50:43 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 156 (221) The advice of my more technically competent colleagues would be very welcome on the matter of a LHZ "broken archive". I have recently been working on a large MS-Word document (12Mb), containing many graphics. As you can easily imagine, it has been convenient, if not necessary, to compact this document before transferring it from my notebook computer to my desktop machine. Because of the preponderance of graphics, this 12Mb compresses under LHA into a 800K LHZ archive. The last time I attempted to uncompress it, LHA reported, after a short time, "Broken archive". Nothing I have been able to do seems to change the situation. All of my copies of the file are LHZ archives with the same problem. Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, da bin ich verloren! Willard McCarty From: Stuart Lee Subject: Film Studies Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 15:44:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 157 (222) I've had a request recently concerning cinematographic research. Does anyone know of a centre where scripts, articles, etc. relating to Film Studies are stored in electronic form? Thanks in advance, Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221/283282 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: Hobohm@IZ-Bonn.GESIS.D400.DE (49-228-2281-139) Subject: Arts-database: "The Thing"? Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 10:27-0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 158 (223) Dear Humanists, One of our patrons asks us about an american database called "The Thing" which is supposed to deal with arts. We never heard of it. Does anyone of you know it and can give us some hints on how to connect to it? I just searched with Veronica the gopherspace but had no results. Is it a WAIS-database? Or a commercial one? Cuadra says nothing about it neither. Thank you. Hans-Christoph Hobohm Social Science Informations Centre Lennestr. 30 D 53113 Bonn email: Hobohm at IZ-Bonn.GESIS.d400.de From: Ray Siemens <70353.3470@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Collation Software Date: 21 Jul 93 20:07:00 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 159 (224) I am preparing to conflate several editions of a text which I have entered into my computer. Having already read reviews of some shareware/freeware collation packages currently on the academic market and looked at some myself, I am interested in hearing what people on Humanist are using and, especially, would recommend. Maybe if I had a Mac, my choice would be easier, but I use an IBM PC. Any comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Ray Siemens rsiemens@epas.utoronto.ca rsiemen@ccu.umanitoba.ca 70353.3470@compuserve.com From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Subject: American Modems in Italy Date: 21 Jul 1993 11:33:53 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 160 (225) An Italian colleague of mine is here doing research and would like to purchase a fax/modem to take back to Italy with her. Question: Do American modems work on Italian phone lines, which use different plugs/jacks from those used in the U.S.? How can they be adapted? Does anyone have experience and/or knowledge of e-mail or internet addresses in Italy that might be able to provide us with information? John Hazlett University of New Orleans e-mail address: JDHEG@UNO.EDU From: "David J. Bookbinder" Subject: Japanese font for HP Laserjet Date: 22 Jul 1993 19:49:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 161 (226) Does anyone know if there is a font cartridge or soft font of a reasonable subset of the Japanese character set available for the HP LaserJet III? I'm looking for something that includes the Chinese characters or some easy way of constructing them. -David Bookbinder From: Paul Brians Subject: Chu Chin Chow Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 10:14:45 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 162 (227) The jazz musician "Chu" Berry was given his nickname because he looked Chinese to his contemporaries: "Chu Chin Chow." I have run into this name elsewhere. Does anybody know its origins? Was this a popular culture Chinese character? Please write me directly since I don't seem to be on the Humanist list any more. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: bwillis@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 16:11:59 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 163 (228) When Queneau's Duc d'Auge in LES FLEURS BLEUS says Ogre ne daigne, bougre ne veux, Auge suis that gives off a vaguely familiar resonance. Can anyone tell me why? From: Joel Elliott Subject: searching for diderot text in english Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1993 09:26:19 +0501 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 164 (229) hello, i am trying to find an english translation of diderot's "supplement to bougainville's voyage" for use in an undergraduate class. the essay is included in p. n. furbank's trans. of _this is not a story and other stories_ (univ of missouri press, 1991; isbn 0826208150), but that text is only in hardback for ca. $27.00. does anyone know if that essay ("supplement to bougainville's voyage") is available elsewhere in english translation at a cheaper price? thanks, ****************************************************************************** * Joel Elliott * Department of Religious Studies* * * 101 Saunders Hall, CB# 3225* * joel_elliott@unc.edu * The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill* * elliott@gibbs.oit.unc.edu * Chapel Hill, NC 27599* ****************************************************************************** From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Subject: Autobiographies by Female Hobos Date: 21 Jul 1993 11:28:12 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 165 (230) I have a graduate student working on the subject of autobiographies written by American female hobos. Any information or leads on texts related to this obscure subject would be appreciated. We have, of course, Boxcar Bertha's "classic" text. John Hazlett University of New Orleans e-mail address: JDHEG@UNO.EDU From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Query: Voltaire, text modification, bibliography Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 12:04:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 166 (231) In "The Kiss of Lamourette" Robert Darnton refers to the pirated editions of Voltaire's works as a means he (V.) used to further the distribution of his work, including specifically the modification and revision of his texts so as to supply "added information." Darnton's reference is useful, but I'd like to see a more thorough discussion with particular references to editions. I'm not an expert in 18C bib or Voltaire; could someone point me in the right direction? Something of Barber's perhaps? (Private responses please, and if I come up with something useful I'll post it. I'm on the track of analogues to the ease with which electronic communication and writing can be changed, and the need for means to fix electronic text with confidence. The fact of such changes having occurred in print, and intentionally, fascinates me; and I'm looking for more examples. Homer's oral text is another, though pre-printing of course.) --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)932-5908 Fax:(908)932-5888 From: PAULO FRANCHETTI Subject: Hi! Could you post this for me? Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 22:03:56 BSC (-0300 C) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 167 (232) I am looking for poems written in 1898 in Europe in celebration of the discovery of India by Vasco da Gama. Could anyone help me with quotations? Thank you very much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = * Paulo Franchetti * = = BITNET: franchet@ccvax.unicamp.br = = INTERNET: franchet@ccsun.unicamp.br = =---------------------------------------------= = Institute for Language Studies = = State University at Campinas (UNICAMP) = = FAX: 55-192-391501 - Po Box 6045 = = 13081 - Campinas - Sao Paulo - BRASIL = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: rww@ibuki.com (Richard Weyhrauch) Subject: David Banks Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 15:34:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 168 (233) I am looking for the email address od David Banks, U of Glasgow. Any help would be appreciated. Richard Weyhrauch rww@ibuki.com From: rfowler@rs6000.baldwinw.edu (Robert Fowler) Subject: SHARP?? Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 12:51:36 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 169 (234) The following may have already been asked and answered somewhere on the Net, nevertheless, I'm in the dark and I need to know: --how do I contact the "Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing"? (SHARP for short) This organization was mentioned in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, July 14, 1993, A7. So far I have been unable to find a mailing address, phone number, etc., so my thanks to anyone who can help. ****************************************************************** * Robert M. Fowler * * Assoc. Prof. and Chairperson, Dept. of Religion * * Baldwin-Wallace College, 275 Eastland Rd, Berea, OH 44017 * * Internet: rfowler@rs6000.baldwinw.edu * * Cleveland Freenet: ai248@cleveland.freenet.edu * * America Online: bobinberea@aol.com * * 216-826-2173 (office) 216-826-3264 (fax) 216-826-1162 (home) * ****************************************************************** From: Stephen Miller Subject: Ohio in the 1820s -- References wanted Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1993 15:25:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 170 (235) A friend and I are about to edit a journal of an emigrant from the Isle of Mann in the British Isles to Ohio in 1827 and we are interested in basic references for Ohio in the 1820s. Ohio was the most popular destination for Manx emigrants in the Americas. We would both be interested indeed in any references that people may have to Manx emigration into the Americas and not just for Ohio. -------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Miller National Academic Typesetting Service stephen@vax.ox.ac.uk or stephen@oxford.ac.uk Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, UK. OX2 6NN Tel +44 (0)865 273200 / 273266 (direct) / 273275 (fax) -------------------------------------------------------- From: simionat@unive.it Subject: US bookstore taking mail orders needed Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 16:14:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 171 (236) Editors, some time ago I posted this but couldn't see it in your digest - will you please 'stick' it on the bullettin board? Thanks. I would appreciate recommendations for large bookstores in the States which would process overseas mail orders - something like Blackwell's in England. Ordering American books through my local dealer or through Blackwell's is too expensive and takes too long. Please reply to me DIRECTLY, thanks. _____________________________________________________________________ Marco Simionato tel : 39 - (0)41 5225570 Technical Translator - Software Localizer fax : 39 - (0)41 5225570 Dorsoduro 2408/B email: simionat@unive.it 30123 Venezia, ITALY _____________________________________________________________________ From: Evelyn Ehrlich Subject: Re. SHARP Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 17:08:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 172 (237) Does anyone on this list know the address for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing. Any lead is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: "A.Metcalf" Subject: Student Cyrillic Date: Tue, 20 Jul 93 11:37:49 WET DST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 173 (238) Could anyone help with an enquiry, recently received by the CTI Centre for Modern Languages? If anyone is familiar with the keyboard layout called 'Student Cyrillic' for the typing of Russian, available on Locoscript; is it possible to transfer Locoscript files in Student Cyrillic to a Macintosh machine, and, are there any Macintosh programs which support Student Cyrillic? Could you please forward any information you may have to: - The CTI Centre for Modern Languages University of Hull Cottingham Road Hull HU6 7RX U.K. Tel (0482) 466373/465872 Fax (0482) 473816 Email CTI.Lang@uk.ac.hull (or) A.Metcalf@ltd.hull.ac.uk Many Thanks. Alison Metcalf From: Susan Hockey Subject: Funders' Draft Principles for Digitization Projects - Comments Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 16:06:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 113 (239) I have been asked to circulated this document to HUMANIST. Some HUMANISTs may already have seen it on other lists. Although it is now past the noted deadline for comments, I am told that the group meets next on Monday 23 August and comments will be welcome up to that time. Please send comments directly to Nanch Sahli at una@cu.nih.gov. Susan Hockey Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Rutgers and Princeton Universities ------------------------------------------------------------------- These "principles" are being circulated for comment to the community of investigators who seek NEH, NHPRC, and NSF funding for proposals that involve the digitization of scholarly resources. Please convey your comments by August 12 to Nanch Sahli (NHPRC) at una@cu.nih.gov. The "Federal Funders" Group thanks you for your assistance. DRAFT PRINCIPLES FOR DIGITIZATION PROJECTS, 7/15/93 PREFACE This document is a work in process. For nearly a year, representatives from several Federal funding agencies that make grants relating to archival, library, and other primary research materials~the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the National Science Foundation~have been meeting as the "Federal Funders Group" to discuss common concerns relating to the use of electronic media for the preservation of and access to these materials. As a result of these discussions, the group decided that a collaborative strategy should be developed that would include a common set of principles that could be used by applicants to the various funding programs in these agencies supporting work with archival and library resources, as well as by reviewers of proposals submitted to these agencies. Fostering consistency between agencies was seen by the group as being especially important, since an increasing number of projects derive support from multiple sources. The current draft document is the result of the collaboration of group members with several leaders in the digitization field: Patricia Battin, President, Commission on Preservation and Access, Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, and Clifford Lynch, Director, Division of Library Automation, Office of the President, University of California. INTRODUCTION Federal funding agents in education, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts, among other fields, are receiving more and more grant proposals for projects that involve the use of information technology, particularly to capture and make available surrogates of primary research collections and primary research collections themselves. In addition, many of these funding agencies with to consider establishing or focusing existing programs to support projects of this type. The reviewers of such grant proposals should be provided with certain basic types of information about the criteria informing associated projects if they are to render their judgements and to offer their recommendations in a timely, consistent, and high-quality manner. Applicants, in turn, should know the areas and criteria of evaluation that reviewers are using when they evaluate such grant proposals. The goal is to improve the responsiveness and to enhance the quality of the process by which grant proposals for projects that involve the use of information technology are reviewed and disposed by federal funding agencies. APPROACH The principles that are set forth below reflect the understanding that what's needed in this area is a guiding, not prescriptive, approach. It is imperative to avoid hasty adoption of technical standards that will be soon left behind by advances in the understanding and use of enabling technologies. Instead of adopting and enforcing standards for technologies and practices that are in a rapid state of evolution, it is important to espouse "life cycle management" techniques by which digitized materials are created and managed in a manner that anticipates the need for periodic technological refreshment and conversion. It is also imperative to focus on basic information that aids the judgement of reviewers and decision makers, rather than on attempting to regulate or control investigators, and to rely upon the sense of reviewers regarding whether a given project proposal reflects knowledge of and facility with rapidly evolving technological and standardization processes. BASIC INFORMATION Not all of the types of basic information listed in the following are appropriate for all types of grant proposals in education, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts, among other fields, for projects that involve the use of information technology, particularly to capture and make available surrogates of primary research collections and primary research collections themselves. Accordingly, the types of basic information listed in the following have been created to help guide individual and collaborative federal funding agency discussions regarding precisely which types of basic information are appropriate for specifically which types of grant proposals. 1. Investigators should provide context for their proposed efforts and should demonstrate awareness and understanding of comparable efforts by citing the relevant literature and by contrasting their efforts with those of others. 2. Investigators should specify a set of tasks that is clearly adequate to the objectives and outcomes of their proposed project. They also should specify a division of labor (including consideration of collaborative efforts, service bureaus, and other creative strategies) adequate to the accomplishment of the tasks. 3. Investigators should present a technical plan that makes clear whether they will adopt existing standards or innovate new practices in at least the following areas, as applicable: 3.1 What is the nature of the materials to be digitized, how will those materials be digitized and stored, and how will the quality of the digitization and storage process be assured? 3.1.1 scanned page images (at what resolution; black and white, grey scale, or color; using what compression scheme; etc.); 3.1.2 unstructured text such as ASCII (keyboarded or OCRed); 3.1.3 structured text such as SGML (keyboarded or OCRed, and structured by what tagging scheme, e.g., TEI, etc.); 3.1.4 compound documents (CALS, ODA, MIME, or something else); 3.1.5 materials that are not page-oriented: e.g., audio, video, films, and photographs; and/or, 3.1.6 something else. 3.2 How will others gain access to the digitized materials; what terms and conditions, including copyright provisions, if applicable, and costs, if any, will apply to each mode of access; and, how will security, integrity, privacy, and confidentiality be protected, as appropriate, with respect to each mode of access? 3.2.1 magnetic tapes or diskettes; 3.2.2 CD-ROM; 3.2.3 network server, operated by the investigator or by someone else; and/or, 3.2.5 something else. 3.3 How will knowledge of and proficiency with the digitized materials be promoted? 3.3.1 documentary materials; 3.3.2 reference guides and tip sheets; 3.3.3 publications, speeches, and workshops; 3.3.4 support services; and/or, 3.3.5 something else. 3.4 How will intellectual access to the digitized materials be provided and in what format(s)? 3.4.1 item control(s); 3.4.2 media header(s); 3.4.3 indexes, catalogs, and finding aids; and/or, 3.4.4 something else. 3.5 How will the preservation of the digitized materials be assured? 3.5.1 distinction between archival and use media; 3.5.2 refreshment and migration issues and strategies; 3.5.3 disaster scenarios and plans; and/or, 3.5.4 something else. 3.6 How will the technical methods, findings, and results (including, as appropriate, error rates, compression ratios, costs, and the like) be disseminated? 4. Investigators should provide a budget that clearly links requirements to the division of labor and technical plan. 5. Investigators should exhibit an understanding of the long-term change management issues and strategies regarding digitized primary research materials, both during their projects and after, and they should offer observations and plans about how best to address the risks that frame this change management process. From: Subject: Conference Announcement Date: Thu, 05 Aug 93 14:51:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 114 (240) New Haven, Conn. August 3, 1993 SUBJECT: Yale Divinity School Library to host conference A conference entitled "Language, Culture and Translation: Further Studies in the Missionary Movement" will be held at Yale Divinity School September 9-11, 1993. Invited participants will gather from across North America and the United Kingdom to focus on the cultural impact of the Christian missionary movement. This conference is the third in a series co- sponsored by the Yale Divinity School and the University of Edinburgh. The Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven is also a co-sponsor of the September conference. The conference will feature a public lecture by Jonathan Spence entitled "Missionary Interconnections in the Taiping Rebellion 1810-1864." The lecture will be presented on Friday, September 10 at 4:15 p.m. in Marquand Chapel at the Divinity School. It will be followed by a public reception in the Day Missions Reading Room. The lecture and reception will be sponsored by the George Edward and Olivia Hotchkiss Day Associates, a group of friends of the Yale Divinity School Library dedicated to making the resources of the Library more widely known. The conference will include two sessions which focus on library and archival resources for the study of Christian missions. The first will be a panel discussion on "Future Trends in Access to Archival and Library Resources," which will focus on projects involving electronic access to library and archival resources. The second will be a discussion of the Missions Studies Resource Development Project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts under the direction of Stephen L. Peterson of Trinity College in Hartford, and Jonathan Bonk of Providence Theological Seminary in Manitoba. Speakers scheduled to make presentations include Lamin Sanneh (Yale), William A. Smalley (formerly of United Bible Societies and Bethel College), William Mitchell (United Bible Societies and Edinburgh), Marcia Wright (Columbia), William Burrows (Orbis Books), Susan Billington Harper (Harvard), Robert Frykenberg (Wisconsin--Madison), Darrell Whiteman (Asbury), Edith Blumhofer (Institute for the Study of American Evangelicalism, Wheaton College) and Andrew Walls (Edinburgh). The public is cordially invited to attend the lecture and reception on Friday afternoon. Due to limited space, please contact Paul F. Stuehrenberg or Martha L. Smalley at Yale Divinity School Library at (203) 432-5290 if you are interested in attending other sessions of the conference. From: lewis@research.att.com (David Lewis) Subject: SIGIR '94 Call For Papers Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 115 (241) C A L L F O R P A P E R S 17th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval -- SIGIR'94 Sponsored by Dublin City University in cooperation with ACM, BCS-IRSG, GI, AICA-GLIR, CEPIS-EIRSG and ICS The SIGIR'94 conference will take place in Dublin. Ireland, from 3rd to 6th July, 1994. This conference is a forum for the exchange of ideas and reporting of work done in areas related to information retrieval and covers information retrieval theory, user interface issues, multimedia, natural language processing, advanced techniques implementations and system issues, networked information retrieval, applications and many other areas. Program co-chairs are Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen (Glasgow U.) and Prof. W Bruce Croft (UMass). Contributions to the conference can be in the form of papers, panels, tutorials or workshops. The deadlines for submission are 6 January 1994 (papers) and 14 february 1994 (others). For a copy of the full call for papers send e-mail to sigir-cfp@ca.dcu.ie or contact the conference chair. Full details on submission formats for papers, panels, tutorials or workshops may be obtained by sending e-mail to sigir-format@ca.dcu.ie or contacting the general conference chair. To be added to the mailing list send e-mail to sigir-info@ca.dcu.ie. Conference Chair Dr Alan Smeaton Tel: +353 - 1 - 7045262 School of Computer Applications Fax: +353 - 1 - 7045442 Dublin City University, e-mail: asmeaton@ca.dcu.ie Glasnevin, Dublin 9, IRELAND From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" Subject: Mac Int. Guide: Reviewer Wanted Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 174 (242) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- COMPUTER-ASSISTED RESEARCH FORUM E-BULLETIN -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Computer-Assisted Research Forum (CARF) is an independent, non-technical, print-based bulletin for academics and educators in the humanities. ******************************************************* WANTED: Literature/Software Reviewer BOOK: The Mac Internet Tour Guide by Michal Fraase (Ventana Press, 1993) QUALIFICATIONS: Experienced Macintosh and Internet user. NOTES: This publication includes software (e.g., the electronic mail program Eudora). Therefore, the reviewer will be asked to examine both the book and the programs contained on the included disk. ******************************************************** Please respond electronically to the editor (Todd Blayone) at cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca. You will be contacted if, and only if, you are selected. CARF reviewers retain a single copy of the reviewed software or hard-copy publication. They also receive a complimentary subscription to CARF. All inquiries concerning the Computer-Assisted Research Forum should be addressed to the editor at the above address. tb,cb:mitg:08/08/93 From: DP.LASPAU@mhsgw Subject: Network Use Survey Date: Fri, 06 Aug 93 10:10 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 175 (243) To: *SOC+LIB+HUMGROUPS LASPAU is a non-profit organization that administers a variety of scholarship grants for qualified Latin American students and faculty to continue their education in the U.S. and Canada. In conjunction with these programs, LASPAU is also involved with several telecommunications initiatives related to inter-American universities and research institutions, specifically researchers and professors in the humanities, social and information sciences. Please take a moment to answer these questions. We will use the replies to aid us in designing proposals aimed at developing network access for the inter-American research community, and to demonstrate to potential funders the utility of the Internet for researchers and universities. Thanks for your time! Please feel free to forward this along. --------------------- David Policar dpolicar@harvard.edu Project Officer for Electronic Communications Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities (LASPAU) 25 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)495-5255 (ext. 67) "We are as confused as ever. We are, however, confused on a higher level, about more important things." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 1. What do you use the 'net for in your work, in general terms? 2. What specific programs, databases, information systems or other resources on or related to the 'net do you use for your work? 3. What specific things can you do now that you could not do (or that were more difficult) before you had 'net access? 4. What kinds of services or products would make it easier for you to use the 'net in your work? From: Michael Strangelove <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Kids Online - Special Report Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 16:29:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 117 (244) Online Access Special Report - Kids Online - September 1993 (Available at your local newstand or by contacting the editor, Tracy Weisman at 70324.343@CompuServe.Com) Table of Contents Delphi Gets Competitive With Internet Access & More By Len Strazewski [page 6] Delphi heats up the competition by offering direct Internet access and modem-modem games. How to use FTP By Michael Strangelove [page 12] Here's how to use FTP-whether or not you have direct Internet access. Online Travels with a 10-Year Old By David A. Fryxell [page 14] [with research assistance by Courtney Fryxell] Our intrepid researcher and his ten-year-old assistant explore the offerings for kids on some major online services. At Play in the Fields of the Internet By Michael Strangelove [page 18] Children in grades K-12 are using the Internet to build international bridges. Young Sysop Brings Fantasy to Life By J. W.Olsen [page 24] Here's the story of a teen who started his own BBS before he was old enough to drive. Breaking Down Classroom Walls By David A. Fryxell [page 26] Unique online projects are breaking down classroom walls. Online Support for People with Disabilities By Lois S. Levine-Elman [page 34] The disabled and their families can find a wealth of information and support online. Help For Your Health Online By Kathleen Low [page 38] Learning about what ails you-and how to cure it-can be as easy as logging on to these databases. Databases: Sprouting up Green By Barbara Palladino [page 52] Making the right decisions for your business often involves environmental concerns. Here's where to find the information you need online. Editor's Choice: The Database Directory By Dana Humphrey [page 61] Descriptions of nearly 100 online commercial databases. Logging Off By Dr. Steve Eskow [page 88] A few words about online education. Editor's Letter [page 5] Letter's to the Editor [page 33] Online Briefs [page 58] Info Marketplace [page 78] Index [page 86] _______________________________________________________ ___ Michael Strangelove, Publisher The Internet Business Journal Internet: 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA Compuserve: 72302,3062 S-Mail: 60 Springfield Road, Suite One Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1M-1C7 Voice: (613) 747-0642 FAX: (613) 564-6641 From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Announcement of new list: History-News Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 14:31:12 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 118 (245) Announcing a new list: History-News HISTORY-NEWS has been established to provide a UK-based news and announcement service. It is run by the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History, at the University of Glasgow. History-News replaces the bulletin-board of the same name which ran on a VAX computer located at the University of Glasgow. Unfortunately, this was time-consuming to keep updated, particularly for items of only temporary interest, such as conference and job announcements. We have therefore not had the resources to keep the history-news bulletin-board updated. We have decided to replace the bulletin-board with a "discussion list" using Newcastle Mailbase, a service similar to Listserv, which is better-suited to temporary items. The bulletin-board will continue to run, and out-of-date items are being removed. We are currently investigating Gopher as a means of providing an information service for items of long-term interest. History-News joins two other lists run by the CTI Centre for History, History-Methods and History-Teaching. History-News will distribute any news item likely to be of general interest to historians, archaeologists and art historians, including course and conference announcements, job advertisements, seminar schedules, publications, and dataset news. We welcome announcements sent directly to the History-News list. Items need not have anything to do with computing. History-Methods and History-Teaching will be reserved for discussion about these topics, with particular reference to the application of computers. Only news items with particular relevance to methods or teaching will be circulated to these lists. To subscribe to History-News, send the following one-line message to the address Mailbase@uk.ac.mailbase (or from outside the UK, Mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk), replacing "your name" with your first and last name: join history-news your name To subscribe to History-Methods or History-Teaching, send the one-line message to the same address join history-methods your name or join history-teaching your name News items should be sent to History-News@uk.ac.mailbase (or from outside the UK, History-News@mailbase.ac.uk). Donald Spaeth Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ United Kingdom ctich@uk.ac.glasgow From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0110 E-Qs: Research Credit; LHA problem; CD-ROMs; Film; The Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:03:18 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 176 (246) If you are working with texts in verse, I would recommend Francisco Marcos-Marin's UNITE program, which collates up to six versions of a given poetic text and produces a "unified" version, along with an apparatus. Parameters are user-definable. For more information contact marcos directly, at either of the following addresses: marcos@vm1.sdi.uam.es marcos@ccuam3.sdi.uam.es Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu Subject: American Modems in Italy Date: 21 Jul 1993 11:33:53 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 177 (247) --- end of quoted material --- The modem will need an AC adpator for 220 volts rather than the US adaptor for 110 volts. The adaptor plug for connecting to the Italian phone lines is available in most department stores and all specialty electronic shops in larger cities in Italy. Because of the high cost of overseas connections when dialing from Europe to the US, it is infinitely better and cheaper to establish contact with an Italian university and use the internet connection. Starting at 2400 BAUD and going up to higher speeds, US modems should be compatible with European modems. (Most of them are made in the Far East anyway.) Otmar Foelsche Otmar@dartmouth.edu Dartmouth College From: RUEDNBRG@NYUACF.BITNET Subject: modems in italy Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 21:58:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 178 (248) Date sent: 17-AUG-1993 I have not been to Italy, but I have traveled to other countries and finding a little gadget that converts an american jack to the local hardware is very easy to find in most local electronic stores in the country to which you are going. I use to be in touch with an Italian. Haven't tried his e-mail address lately, but you can try him and ask him to confirm: Luciano Paccognella email: lpaccag@itncisti. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lucia Ruedenberg New York University Dept. of Performance Studies Email: ruednbrg@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: STANSBUM@bcvms.bc.edu Subject: Re: 7.0102 Qs: Dutch; Fonts; Barthes, Euphues (4/49) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 23:40:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 179 (249) Giampa Textware Corp., 1340 East Pender St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5L 1V8 produces a wonderful digitized Caslon complete with long medial 's' and ligatures. The company's phone is (604) 253-0815. Mark Stansbury Boston College STANSBUM@BCVMS.BC.EDU From: DIANA PATTERSON Subject: Classic Electronic Typefaces Date: 22 Jul 1993 09:27:28 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 180 (250) Baskerville of doubtful parentage is available for IBM computers from WordPerfect's allied typeface producing company--the name escaped me at the moment. They have several other classic fonts as well. To find out more, telephone WordPerfect in Oram , Utah. I hear that a new Caslon font has just come out for the Mac, I suppose someone will have specifics. I am working on perfecting a Caslon font for the Mac with has a used look, and contains all the ancient ligatures, along with a partial Greek font with 17th century ligatures. I need to do some more work, but if anyone is interested, I would be glad to discuss its availability. I should caution people that specifying WordPerfect is no longer enough. If you want IBM fonts, you must say so: WordPerfect now exists on the Mac. I use both. Diana Patterson Dept of English Mount Royal College Calgary, Alberta DPatterson@MtRoyal.AB.CA From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Re: 7.0103 Frankenstein? (1/21) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 9:12:40 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 181 (251) Regarding an e-text of Frankenstein: I found one on a CD-ROM published by Walnut Creek. As I recall it was zipped along with Dracula under some generic name (Horror?) and as such might elude a title search. I don't know anything of the source of the text as to edition. Heyward (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: Charles.Hadley@cism.univ-lyon1.fr Subject: Rhyming dictionary Date: 12 Aug 1993 16:17:27 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 182 (252) Several months ago, I asked for recommendations for a rhyming dictionary for a friend, and got one back. Just recently, someone wrote me to ask for the reference, and I have since lost his/her name/address. Here is the reference, if anyone can still use it Word Perfect Rhymer: A phonetic word finder (c) WordPerfect Corporation 1990 Orem, Utah USA Comment (from a DOS Word Perfect user): "Seems to be a pretty nifty little program, although very austere (no fancy graphics or other bells and whistles)." I offer no comments on the quality of the verse produced using the product, which is certainly better than I could manage. Charles Hadley Universite Jean Moulin Lyon III home: 39 rue Conde 69002 Lyon France home phone: +33 78 92 82 14 From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Dutch information source Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 12:03:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 183 (253) I would advise you to contact the dutch e-list NEDER-L at the following address: neder-l@nic.surfnet.nl to gat more information concerning dutch americans. Michel. -- From: wilm@legacy.Calvin.EDU Subject: Re: 7.0102 Qs: Dutch; Fonts; Barthes, Euphues (4/49) Date: 21 Jul 1993 13:42:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 184 (254) [deleted quotation] Evert Volkersz may wish to consult the "Colonial Origins Collection" here at Calvin College. Its curator is Herb Brinks; no email address for him, but you can reach him at the general college snail-mail address: Prof. H. Brinks Library Calvin College Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Hope this helps. MW === Mark F. Williams Internet: WILM@calvin.edu Classical Languages Voice: (616) 957-6293 Calvin College FAX: (616) 957-8551 Grand Rapids, Michigan USA 49546 From: Bernard.van't.Hul@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: 7.0102 Qs: Dutch; Fonts; Barthes, Euphues (4/49) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 23:20:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 185 (255) For Evert Volkersz, interested to read Dutch American memoirs and autobiographies. Herbert Brinks' *Schrijf Spoedig Terug* is a compilation of such letters as you describe. I suppose that no one in the US of A could direct you to a more ample lode of Dutch-Amn lore than Professor Brinks whose address is Colonial Origins Heritage Hall Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan 49596 tel. 616-957-6313 From: sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca (Stephanie Moskal Fysh) Subject: Re: SHARP Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 17:38:46 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 186 (256) All those looking for SHARP (the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) are in luck - it's very online! The President of SHARP, Jonathan Rose, can be contacted at jerose@drew. SHARP also operates a listserv discussion group, run by Patrick Leary (pleary@ucs.indiana.edu). The group's address is SHARP-L@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu or SHARP-L@iubvm. Subscribe in the usual listserv manner. The first SHARP members' directory just arrived, and includes e-mail addresses. -- Stephanie Moskal Fysh | The dean had "never realized that, deep down Dept. of English | inside, what he really wanted to do was make Univ. of Toronto | things go splat." (sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca) | - Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_ From: Cheryl McKee Subject: Re: 7.0112 MiscQs: Addresses; Ohio Info; Bookstore; Cyrillic Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 11:56:30 ECT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 187 (257) SHARP may be contacted through Prof. Jonathan Rose, Dept. of History, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940. SHARP also now has an electronic discussion list, SHARP-L@IUBVM.BITNET From: "Lorne Hammond, University of Ottawa" <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 7.0112 MiscQs: Addresses; Ohio Info; Bookstore; Cyrillic Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 19:28:32 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 188 (258) re: SHARP address (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) The posting for their 2nd annual conference next year, 14-16 July 1994 at the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., United States of America, is: John Y. Cole, Director, Center for the Book, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 Telephone: 202-7807-5221 Now this is only for abstracts dealing with any aspect of the history of the book, authorship, copyright, literary agency, publishing, censorship, distribution, bookselling, reviewing, libraries, canon formation, literacy, reading habits, and reader response. It is not SHARP's address. Abstracts, two pages max by Dec 10 1993 to above. {See, I knew i read something about this somewhere, book electra!} Anyone interested in doing a session on the intellectual history of microfilm technology in shaping information, drop ME a line! Hope that helps if no other addresses surface. lh From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Translation Software Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 19:38:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 189 (259) Anyone out there using Globalinks bi-directional translation software? If so, what do you think of it for translating scholarly articles? In theory you can scan and then use it to process up to a rough 90% level and do the rest by hand. This cuts down translation time, leaving your translation staff working only on the tricky parts, not the mechanical. I suspect most are like grammar checkers, complicated wastes of time, but there might be something to this one. Maybe. Any users? lh From: Subject: Ibycus vs. Pandora vs. Workplaces Date: Mon, 02 Aug 93 17:20:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 190 (260) I'm cross-posting this request to Atlantis, Humanist, and IBYCUS-L. Apologies to all who subscribe to more than one of these lists. I am in the (ahem!) fortunate position of offering our patrons the choice of Ibycus, Pandora, or the Windows Workplaces for the TLG and PHI databases on CD-ROM. Aside from advising patrons to go with what they know (e.g. Mac users to Pandora, PC/Windows users to Workplace, Ibycus users to Ibycus), I'd like to be able to give some guidance for selecting a particular system for particular needs. Would people with experience using more than one of these systems care to comment as objectively as possible on their relative strengths? I also suggest that if the results of a search are critical, the patron should attempt to duplicate them on more than one system as insurance against an unknown software glitch. Thank you, Duane Harbin Information Services Librarian Yale Divinity Library From: Jon Butler Subject: Fellowship announcement Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 23:38:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 124 (261) Grant and Fellowship Announcement Pew Program in Religion and American History 1994-1995 National Fellowships and Grants for Ph.D. Dissertations and First Books sponsored by Yale University funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts Purpose Through a generous $1.5 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Yale University has established a nationally competitive fellowship and grant program to stimulate and sustain scholarship in religion and American history between 1600 and 1980. Awards will be available to scholars in the early stages of their careers who are completing Ph.D. dissertations or first books. The first awards will be available for the 1994-95 academic year. The Pew Program in Religion and American History emphasizes direct aid to scholars through fellowships, research grants, and conferences. The awards are intended to foster a sense of community and purpose among beginning scholars and to stimulate a new body of historical literature on crucial interrelationships between religion and America's historical evolution between 1600 and 1980. The program represents a major partnership between The Pew Charitable Trusts and Yale University to provide national leadership in better understanding the dynamics of American history, particularly the role religion may have played in its unfolding. Scope The program is thoroughly non-sectarian and non-denominational. Attention may be directed to the many varieties of religion practiced in the United States throughout its history, including native American religion, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and oc- cultism, among others, and to their interrelationships with any and all aspects of American life before 1980. The program especially welcomes proposals that address causal relationships between religion and American history. These might include relationships between religion and politics, economics, for- eign policy, popular culture, intellectual life, family life, public policy, education, and public and private morality, just to name a few. Graduate Student Fellowships 1994 Summer Fellowships The program will award six $5000 fellowships for summer 1994. These fellowships are intended for students who have completed preliminary stages of dissertation research. They are intended to allow students to use the summer in dissertation research and writing and to provide funds for research whose costs would be otherwise prohibitive. The application deadline is October 15, 1993. 1994-1995 Dissertation Fellowships The program will award eight one-year dissertation fellowships of $12,000 each for the 1994-1995 academic year. These are intended as "final year" fellowships, and applicants should explain why and how they expect to complete their dissertations during the term of the fellowship. The application deadline is October 15, 1993. Faculty Fellowships and Grants 1994-1995 Faculty Fellowships The program will award six fellowships of $25,000 for the 1994- 1995 academic year to faculty members completing first books. Faculty members are expected to devote full time to final research and writing and to be free from all teaching and administrative responsibilities during the term of the fellowship. Their college or university is expected to support the scholarly project by furnishing any supplement necessary to provide a full year's salary. The application deadline is October 15, 1993. 1994-1995 Faculty Research Grants The program will award between five and ten research grants for the 1994-1995 academic year. The grants will range from $2,500 to $10,000 and are intended to pay expenses for research tasks such as unusual travel, the coding and analysis of statistical materials, or unusual kinds of research assistance. The application deadline is October 15, 1993. Conferences 1993 Northeast Regional Faculty Conference The Pew Program in Religion and American History will sponsor a brief conference for faculty members interested in the relationship between religion and American history. The conference will be held at Yale on a Friday evening and Saturday morning during the fall semester. The program will assume the costs of overnight lodging and meals for all participants; participants arrange their own transportation to Yale. 1995 Fellows Conference All recipients of fellowships and grants awarded by the Pew Program in Religion and American History will attend a conference at Yale University in the spring of 1995. Both graduate student and faculty fellows will make major presentations based on the work undertaken during their fellowship and also will discuss work by other fellows. In addition, at least one session will be devoted to problems and opportunities in teaching. Travel, room, and meal expenses for the Fellows Conference will be assumed by the program. Applications Applications for the fellowships and grants offered by the Pew Program in Religion and American History are available at the Yale address below. The application deadline for all nationally competitive fellowships and grants is October 15, 1993. Faculty members living in the northeast area of the United States should receive announcements of the Northeast Regional Faculty Seminar during the early fall. Anyone who wishes to attend the faculty seminar should contact the office of the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale for information. The confer- ence is open to all interested faculty members teaching American history. Fellowship stipends will be paid directly to recipients following certification of their status and other requirements. Research grants will be paid to the recipients' home institutions, which will oversee accounting procedures. Eligibility Fellowships and research grants are awarded on a nationally competitive basis to graduate students and faculty throughout the United States. Recipients of fellowships and grants may do their work wherever it is most feasible, and there is no requirement for residence at Yale. However, Yale University is eager to make its li- braries and other facilities available to Pew fellowship recipients, as it does for all scholars. Current Yale graduate students do not participate in this national award competition and apply instead for special fellowships available for them at Yale. For applications and information write: Pew Program in Religion and American History Yale University P. O. Box 2160 Yale Station New Haven CT 06520-2160 e-mail: pew_yale@quickmail.yale.edu The Pew Program in Religion and American History is directed by Professors Jon Butler and Harry S. Stout. The program's project assistant is Scott Cormode. From: CABAL Test Account Subject: CABAL Prototype -- English text under ARTFL Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 14:37:18 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 125 (262) Computer Archive of British and American Literature (CABAL) First Prototype As part of a software development effort at ARTFL, I have loaded a small number of English texts found at the Oxford Text Archive under PhiloLogic. The current corpus consists of 25 texts of late 19th and early 20th century literature, which I hope to expand at a later date (bibliography attached). The database is accessible thought Internet at this time. If you want to have a look at the system, please contact me for the PhiloLogic manual and account userid and password. Please send requests for documentation, bug reports, comments, and suggestions by e-mail or surface mail to: Mark Olsen The ARTFL Project (312) 702-8488 Department of Romance Languages email: mark@gide.uchicago.edu 1050 East 59th Street University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 CABAL is a cooperative effort between ARTFL and the Oxford Text Archive. PhiloLogic PhiloLogic is a full text retreival and analysis package developed by ARTFL for French text. We are currently examining the ARTFL and French specific limitations of the system in order to support multi-language databases. In addition, we are considering development of a large English database modelled closely on ARTFL. PhiloLogic supports a wide variety of search, retrieval and quantitative functions designed for literary text analysis, including co-occurence, phase, word list and UNIX regular expression searches. Sample One: Search for lover in whole corpus, showing first bibliographic citation. entire corpus: 25 document(s); PhiloLogic: 2.1 +--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ |4/499, done |Keyword in context: | |Ja+---------------------------------------------------------+decidedly , miss| |Ja|James, Henry, 1879. "Confidence," Library of America |ng to self - con| |Ja| (type-setting tapes), Oxford Text Archive, 1993. |asily conceive t| |Ja| [Confi] |ys make a certai| |Ja| |bernard noted an| [Hit any key to continue] | has got an exce| |Ja|_________________________________________________________| little . | |Mlvll, Moby 487 |unfathomable , as ever lover saw in his young bride' s| |Doyle, Advnt ch1 |d has seen , but as a lover he would have placed hims| |Doyle, Advnt ch10 |r her ? it might be a lover ; it might be a husband .| |Doyle, Advnt ch10 | the man was either a lover or was a previous husband| |Doyle, Advnt ch11 |down and talked to her lover through the window which | |Doyle, Advnt ch11 | in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other l| |Doyle, Advnt ch11 |th her wooden - legged lover , which was all perfectl| |Doyle, Advnt ch11 |s her confederate ? a lover evidently , for who else | |Doyle, Case cs03 |himself a more devoted lover . the lady , alice morph| |Doyle, Case cs10 |dered his wife and her lover . what other facts have | |Doyle, Case cs11 |at night , and soon my lover and i understood that it| |Doyle, Case cs12 |nger , on the turf , a lover of fair ladies , and , by| |Doyle, LBow ch2 |nly jules vibart , the lover of the maid , had any su| |____________________|________________________________________________________| Ready Sample Two: Comparision of forms of "reason" in Trolloper and Henry James. author=trollope: 7 document(s); PhiloLogic: 2.1 +--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+ |1/374, done |Keyword in context: | |Tr+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ . | |Tr|Word Per 1stCorpus Per 1000 Per 2ndCorpus Per 1000 (1/8): | th| |Tr|(author=trollope) (author=james) |sto| |Tr|TOTAL 374 0.258088 181 0.535791 |uld| |Tr|reason 283 0.195291 111 0.328579 |ant| |Tr|reasonable 21 0.014492 20 0.059203 |ld | |Tr|reasonableness 0 0.000000 2 0.005920 |ive| |Tr|reasonably 0 0.000000 1 0.002960 |w i| |Tr|reasoned 1 0.000690 3 0.008881 | ha| |Tr|reasoner 0 0.000000 3 0.008881 | th| |Tr|reasoning 4 0.002760 7 0.020721 |on'| |Tr|reasons 65 0.044855 34 0.100646 |er | |Tr| |d b| |Tr|______________________________________________________________________|y w| |Trllp, Anna c20 |stine marriage . other reasons he gave why daniel thwa| |Trllp, Anna c21 |ould it become mine by reason of her marriage with me| |Trllp, Anna c22 |rl lovel . there is no reason , i suppose , why you s| |Trllp, Anna c26 |ink that there was any reason why , in such circumsta| |Trllp, Anna c27 |mit that there was any reason why her visitor should n| |Trllp, Anna c28 | in fact , there is no reason why my learned friend an| |____________________|________________________________________________________| Type 'x' or 'CTRL-X' when you're done. Ready Bibliography of the CABAL Database (prototype) In order by Author and Date Conrad, Joseph. 1897. Nigger of the "Narcissus". Penguin Classics Edition, 1987, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [LdJim] Conrad, Joseph. 1900. Lord Jim. Oxford Text Archive, 1993. (Transcribed from the 1961 reprint of the first edition.) [LdJim] Doyle, Conan. 1891. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Ox- ford Text Archive, 1993. [Advnt] Doyle, Conan. 1893. A Study in Scarlet. Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Scarl] Doyle, Conan. 1902. The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Strand Magazine, August 1901 - April 1902, Oxford Text Ar- chive, 1993. [HBask] Doyle, Conan. 1917. His Last Bow. The Strand Magazine, Sep- tember 1908 - September 1917, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [LBow] Doyle, Conan. 1917. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine, December 1892 - November 1893, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Memrs] Doyle, Conan. 1927. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine, October 1921-April 1927, Oxford Text Ar- chive, 1993. [Case] James, Henry. 1871. Watch and Ward. Library of America (type-setting tapes), Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Watch] James, Henry. 1875. Roderick Hudson. Library of America (type-setting tapes), Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Rdrck] James, Henry. 1878. The Europeans. Library of America (type-setting tapes), Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Erpns] James, Henry. 1879. Confidence. Library of America (type- setting tapes), Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Confi] Joyce, James. 1904. Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man. Chester Anderson, ed. New York: Viking Press, 1964. Oxford Text Archive. [PrtMn] Joyce, James. 1907. Dubliners. Grant Richards ed. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1914. Oxford Text Archive. [Dubln] Joyce, James. 1914. Ulysses. New York: Modern Library, 1961. [Ulyss] Melville, Herman. 1851. Moby Dick . Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Moby] Trollope, Anthony. 1863. Rachel Ray. Folio Society, type- setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [RcRay] Trollope, Anthony. 1864. Can You Forgive Her?. Folio So- ciety, type-setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Forgv] Trollope, Anthony. 1869. Phineas Finn. Folio Society, type- setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [PFinn] Trollope, Anthony. 1873. The Eustace Diamonds. Folio So- ciety, type-setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Eustc] Trollope, Anthony. 1874. Lady Anna. Folio Society, type- setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Anna] Trollope, Anthony. 1881. Ayala's Angel. Folio Society, type-setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Ayala] Trollope, Anthony. 1881. Dr. Wortle's School. Folio Society, type-setting tapes, Oxford Text Archive, 1993. [Wrtl] Twain, Mark. 1889. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Oxford Text Archive, 1993. In The Writings of Mark Twain, vol. XVI, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York [Yanke] Woolf, Virginia. 1925. Mrs. Dalloway. Granada 1976, Oxford Text Archive. [Dllwy] From: wilm@legacy.Calvin.EDU Subject: Address query Date: 19 Aug 1993 12:02:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 191 (263) (X-posted to Classics-L; sorry for the duplication.) Sorry to bother you with such a trivial query, but my bookstore informs me that North Waterloo Academic Press cannot be contacted at the address given in _Books in Print_. Have they gone belly-up? Moved? Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. MW === Mark F. Williams Internet: WILM@calvin.edu Classical Languages Voice: (616) 957-6293 Calvin College FAX: (616) 957-8551 Grand Rapids, Michigan USA 49546 From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Databases on the Internet Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 18:01:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 192 (264) Susan Severtson, who is organizing a workshop on *Profit, Scholarship, and Technology* for the Society for Scholarly Publishing, would like to learn what databases (other than the bibliographic ones) or textbases are available over the Internet for a fee. One could access ARTFL for a subscription fee; what else? Has any project developed a payment system for individual scholars based on connect time? I'll forward to Susan any responses sent directly to me, though others on the list might appreciate learning about such pioneering ventures. Thanks for any leads. Mike Neuman Center for Text and Technology neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu Academic Computer Center Phone: 202-687-6096 Georgetown University Fax: 202-687-6003 Washington, DC 20057 From: Mark Olsen Subject: CABAL -- NOTICE Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 09:49:28 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 127 (265) Due to my misunderstanding of the Oxford Text Archive's distribution policy, I have removed four texts from CABAL, Joyce, James. 1904. Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man. Chester Anderson, ed. New York: Viking Press, 1964. Oxford Text Archive. [PrtMn] Joyce, James. 1907. Dubliners. Grant Richards ed. London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1914. Oxford Text Archive. [Dubln] Joyce, James. 1914. Ulysses. New York: Modern Library, 1961. [Ulyss] Woolf, Virginia. 1925. Mrs. Dalloway. Granada 1976, Oxford Text Archive. [Dllwy] Please accept my appologies for this error. Mark Olsen ARTFL Project From: "Patricia C. Willis" Subject: Re: 7.0126 Qs: Address; Databases on the Internet (2/45) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 09:54:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 193 (266) In response to Sue Severtson's request concerning scholarly databases: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has made acces sible through the Internet (GOPHER) the registers of its archival collections in American literature, Modern European literature, Pre-1600 manuscripts, and Western Americana. Included are information about authors, descriptions of the papers, and folder-level listings of the holdings. The registers are accessed through "Libraries on the Internet," by continent, state, university. Patricia C. Willis, Curator of American Literature Beinecke Library, Yale University willp@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston ) Subject: Re: 7.0120 Rs: Fonts; E-Frankenstein; Rhyming Dictionary (4/71) Date: 20 Aug 93 00:48:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 194 (267) Some time ago, there was an inquiry about an electronic version of Dracula in WordCruncher compatible format. I can arrange to provide that text. Please contact me directly. James Johnston From: Paul Brians Subject: Chu Chin Chow Identified Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 07:47:33 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 195 (268) My wife, a music librarian, solved my problem with identifying Chu Chin Chow. It was a lavish musical production of the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," staged in London in 1916, and made into films twice:in 1923 and 1924 and published by Samuel French. None of the characters seems to be named Chu Chin Chow, and the setting is the Middle East, so the meaning of the name is still somewhat unclear. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: college computing Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:51:55 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 129 (269) I need to know the current state of computing resources, support, and curricula at liberal arts colleges in the United States. I'd be enormously grateful for brief notes on the subject from Humanists at such institutions. In other words, I'd like to have a sense of what a student in any discipline might expect to find, all the way from campus stores to dorm facilities. I'd also like to know what the immediate plans are, e.g. to wire the dorms, require students to purchase computers, and so forth. For present purposes, I'm not collecting data on computing at large institutions, only liberal arts colleges. Thanks proleptically for the time, trouble, and of course the data. Please respond both directly to me at the address below and to the group as a whole. Unfortunately I am in a hurry to collect this data and so would appreciate a quick response. Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Thomas Izbicki Subject: CSLewis Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:31:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 130 (270) In 1955 C. S. Lewis published in the TLS a poem entitled "On Another Theme from Nicholas of Cusa". This poem was republished in Poems (1965) as: "On a Theme of Nicholas of Cusa". If one supposes from the earlier title that a poem entitled "On a Theme of Nicholas of Cusa" appeared before 1955, either written by Lewis or another, where might I be able to find a text of it? Please reply to: Izbicki@jhunix From: David Sitman Subject: Announcement: Network Services Conference 1993 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 16:33:54 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 132 (271) NSC'93 The Network Services Conference 1993 Warsaw, Poland, 12-14 October 1993 Invitation Networking in the academic and research environment has evolved into an important tool for researchers in all disciplines. High quality network services and tools are essential parts of the research infrastructure. Building on the success of the first Network Services Conference in Pisa Italy, NSC'93 will focus on the issue of providing services to customers, with special attention paid to the actual usage of the various tools available. We will address the impact of today's global tools on service development and support, the changing function of traditional tools and services (such as archives), new services (such as multi-media communications), the future role of the library and the effects of commercialization of networks and network services. Customer support at the institutional and campus level, and the role of support in accessing global services, will also be covered. Talks, tutorials, demonstrations and other conference activities will address the needs of the research, academic, educational, governmental, industrial, and commercial network communities. Tutorial sessions on specific network services have been integrated into the regular conference program. Practical issues in the use of these services and tools will be covered in detail by experts. Throughout the conference, participants will be able to get hands-on experience in the well-equipped demonstration area. NSC'93 is being organized by EARN in conjunction with EUnet, NORDUnet, RARE, and RIPE. To get a preliminary program and registration form, send e-mail to: LISTSERV@FRORS12.BITNET (or LISTSERV@FRORS12.CIRCE.FR) In the body of the message, write: GET NSC93 ANN2 David Sitman EARN From: melancon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Melancon Benoit) Subject: Epistolaire -- Ouvrage en souscription Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 13:18:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 133 (272) Association interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l'epistolaire Actes du Colloque de Caen 16-18 mai 1991 EXPERIENCES LIMITES DE L'EPISTOLAIRE LETTRES D'EXIL, D'ENFERMEMENT, DE FOLIE Textes reunis et presentes par Andre Magnan 432 p. Honore Champion editeur Date de parution : septembre 1993 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Des mots de moi pour etre lus de l'autre : la lettre ordinaire, la reponse attendue, ici et la. Il est des lettres ecrites de plus loin, d'ailleurs plus distants, plus douloureux, incertains parfois du retour. Plus que l'eloignement : l'exil. Plus que la separation : l'enfermement. Plus que l'alterite : l'alienation. Ou quelque confusion de tout cela : lettres de bagne, de guerre, de suicide. Dans de telles circonstances, ou l'espace et le temps, le sujet et l'autre, le langage et le lien, sont travailles a la limite, qu'est-ce qu'ecrire une ou des lettres, et a qui ? comment ? pourquoi ?... Ici la lettre repare; la, elle separe davantage. La rupture en s'ecrivant peut etre plus dechirante, le silence de l'autre ou son mensonge presque desirable. La lettre fantasme toujours a perte la presence : a defaut d'abolir l'ecart, en deplacer au moins les bords ? Les etudes reunies dans ce volume, ces exemples, documents et temoignages, ont pour visee commune d'interroger les enjeux d'un epistolaire extreme. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Camille AUBAUD : A propos des lettres d'Egypte de Nerval Jean BATANY : Un exile agressif au XIIe siecle : Thomas Becket Mireille BOSSIS : Conscience de soi et enfermement dans la correspondance de Marie Cappelle Carmen BOUSTANI : Correspondance d'exil et d'amour impossible : Gibran Khalil Gibran et May Ziade Bernard BRAY : La protestation de l'exile : les lettres de Bussy-Rabutin a Louis XIV Michel CARASSOU : Benjamin Fondane : lettres de Drancy Francoise CHENET : La lettre de tranchee Anne CHEVALIER : 'Sans feu ni lieu' : les lettres du lyceen (Tristan) Edouard Corbiere a sa famille Sylvie CLAIR : 'User le soleil avec la pierre ponce' : les deportes communards en Nouvelle-Caledonie Catherine CUSSET-JENKINS : Les lettres de Sade a Vincennes : la rhetorique de la cloture Pascal DETHURENS : Lettres d'exil de Paul Claudel : la grace devoratrice Brigitte DIAZ : 'Le bonheur dans les fers' : lettres de prison de madame Roland Jose-Luis DIAZ : 'La nuit sera noire et blanche' : lettres de suicides de l'epoque romantique Roger DUCHENE : L'expression de l'homosexualite dans les lettres de Marcel Proust Nicole EDELMAN : Lettres de l'au-dela : somnambules et mediums au 19e siecle Jean GAUDON : La figure de l'exile : Victor Hugo de Bruxelles a Jersey Genevieve HAROCHE-BOUZINAC : Voltaire : un 'cameleon' en exil Genevieve IDT et Jean-Francois LOUETTE : Sartre et Beauvoir : 'Voila de la lettre ou non ?' Odile KRAKOVITCH : Lettres de bagnardes et de prisonnieres (1855- 1890) Isabelle LANDY-HOUILLON : Les lettres de Marie de l'Incarnation : exils et jouissances Philippe LE TOUZE : Un cri incoercible : lettre d'Artaud au docteur Allendy, 30 novembre 1927. Etude de style Sophy-Jenny LINON : La lettre immobile : sur la route maritime des Indes orientales au 17e siecle Andre MAGNAN : 'Porter tout a l'extreme' : la destination des 'lettres a Malesherbes' de Rousseau Ulrike MICHALOWSKY : 'Le desir est des choses absentes et eloignees' : les reveries de l'exil dans la correspondance de Guez de Balzac Patrice MICHAUD : Place de l'epistolaire dans la vie des detenus : essai de comprehension et d'interpretation psychologique Jean-Noel PASCAL : Mademoiselle de Lespinasse : lettres de la folie ordinaire Dolores ROGOZINSKI : La consigne de proscription : sur la correspondance d'exil de Jules Valles Gisele VALENCY : Les lettres de Nerval autour de la crise de novembre 1841 Yvette WENT-DAOUST : Enfermement et cosmopolitisme : la correspondance de Belle de Zuylen et de Constant d'Hermenches Postface : un temoignage de Roger KNOBELSPIESS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Prix de souscription, jusqu'au 30 novembre 1993 : 195 F (franco de port) Apres le 30 novembre : 250 F Adresser commande et reglement a l'editeur : Librairie Honore Champion 7, quai Malaquais 75006 Paris France From: Robert Glendinning Subject: eros/thanatos Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:57:18 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 196 (273) I've been working on the love-death theme/motif in medieval and early modern literature (i.e., the type: Pyramus and Thisbe, Tristan and Isolde, Euryalus and Lucretia, Romeo and Juliet). Am also interested in the modern German texts (Kleist, Thomas Mann). It's high time I did some reading on the theoretical side. Would be grateful for some basic bibliography on the eros/thanatos axis per se, i.e., secondary literature. Please don't swamp me. Also, am I missing really important primary sources in the medieval and Renaissance (and ancient) periods? Probably. Thanks for your help. I'm posting this request on both the HUMANIST and the MEDTEXTL lists. Robert Glendinning, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Query regarding Jules Michelet Date: Sat, 21 Aug 93 22:38:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 197 (274) Does anyone on HUMANIST know of a U.S. library containing a copy of Eugene Noel's 1878 work, _Jules Michelet et ses enfants_? I can't seem to locate it on RLIN, which eliminates 20 million titles to start with.... Thanks in advance, Joel Goldfield Plymouth State College Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: 7.0126 Qs: Address; Databases on the Internet Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 19:18:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 198 (275) [deleted quotation] In order to have a good idea about what goes on in the francophone world I would advise you to read Alain Vuillemin (ed.) "Bases de donnees litteraires, comparatistes et francophones", Limoges: Presses de l'Universite de Limoges (PULIM), 1993, pp. 276, ISBN: 2-910016-17-X. 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: Re: 7.0120 Rs: Fonts; E-Frankenstein; Rhyming Dictionary (4/71) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 12:45:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 199 (276) rhyming dictionary I spent a few years in workshops with the poet Robin Skelton at the Creative Writing Dept. at the University of Victoria. He said as far as he was concerned there was only one useful dictionary: WalkerØs terminological dictionary. The words are arranged in reverse order. Most dictionaries are very poor as they assume there are no distinctions in rhyme, a word either does or does not. This is the equivalent of a volume of ten versus zero. Intruth, as any poet will tell you, there are tremendous distinctions between the two extremes to the ear. A reverse order dictionary gives you everything from hard to soft to no rhyme. Howevere, having bought one, I never use it. lh From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Re: 7.0129 Computing Resources at Liberal Arts Colleges (1/21) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 12:04:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 200 (277) Willard McCarty, you might usefully get in touch with the Center for Scholarly Technology at the University of Southern California. With EDUCOM, they do annual surveys on just the topic of "current state of college (and university) computing". The phone number in their 10/91 brochure (I seem to have misplaced last year's survey) is (213) 740-2325; oddly, no email address is given. 100 Doheny Mem. Lib., LA Calif. 90089-0182. Hope this helps your survey. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)932-5908 Fax:(908)932-5888 From: David Bantz Subject: Re: 7.0129 Computing Resources at Liberal Arts Colleges Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 11:09:41 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 201 (278) At 11:54 AM 20o08o93 -0400, W. McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation] Do you mean this in the sense usually used, namely, excluding research and comprehensive universitites, technical schools, and less-than-4-year schools? David Bantz From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Re: 7.0129 Computing Resources at Liberal Arts Colleges ( Date: 20 Aug 93 14:07:24 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 202 (279) This will be a quick and cursory reply, but I will cc the director of the computer center so that she can supplement if she wishes and time permits. At Calvin College (undergrad liberal arts college with professional programs in engineering, nursing, and education; very small Master's program in education; affiliated with the Christian Reformed Church; woefully underfunded like everyone else but distinguished from other liberal arts colleges in having only begun to construct an endowment; tuition for 93/4 just under $10K) we have neither required nor particularly recommended that students have computers in their rooms; I don't know what percentage do. We have several labs placed around the campus, some dedicated to one purpose (e.g. a new Mac lab to support an innovative calculus curriculum we are introducing this year, with the machines running only Mathematica; a room with machines suitable for CAD/CAM use by engineers; computers to support lab equipment in chemistry and physics), others available to all. We have three computer classrooms--one IBM clones, one Mac, one Sun workstations-- which are used by students when classes don't need them. A student coming here can, I think, reasonably expect to be able to get at a computer in one of the labs, perhaps after a short wait (some accept reservations). All of these machines (except the new math lab) are connected to nearby printers and to the campus network. Do all students have computers--not even all our faculty have computers yet! But we are working on it. As of this fall the campus bookstore will be selling the same machine that the college has decided on as the new IBM standard (a reasonably fast 486 with a good display), which--unless plans have changed since I was last updated--will be purchased in pieces and assembled on campus. Some faculty and staff continue to use mainframe systems, even for word processing; I believe the cost of replacing terminals with PC's is the main reason these remain in place. A mainframe (or maybe a mini or super-PC?) with registration and administrative data is readily available via the campus network. Hope this is of some help to you. --David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI (this system will insist on attaching a second signature block at the bottom) || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || || From: Eric Johnson Subject: computing resources Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 07:50:20 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 203 (280) The following is a reply to Willard McCarty's request for information about campus computing resources. At Dakota State University (about 1600 students) in Madison, South Dakota, we use computers throughout the curriculum. Art courses include computer graphics. Music majors learn to use computers to arrange and analyze music. English students learn to write with word processing, of course, and they use conferencing and communication programs; they employ computers for the analysis of literature. In addition, English majors are required to learn to program: they complete courses in at least two programming languages. Students in Education, History, Geography, Mathematics, and Science use appropriate computer packages. There is a required class for Health and Physical Education majors to learn to write programs for their applications. Students in every discipline are expected to use computers. Several hundred networked 386 and 486 PCs are located in classroom buildings, the library, and dorms. There is also a Macintosh lab. The campus has a ratio of about eight students per PC. Also, as of this fall, all dorm rooms are wired for network access: students may connect their own computers or they may rent computers from the bookstore. The computer support staff has nine F.T.E. in addition to student labor. In the College of Liberal Arts, several faculty have become on-site specialists in maintaining computer hardware and software: for example, one faculty member is knowledgeable about the installation and (minor) repair of printers, another is knowledgeable about Windows and desktop publishing software, and so on. -- Eric Johnson JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu From: dahanson@COLBY.EDU (David A. Hanson) Subject: Computing Resources at Liberal Arts Colleges Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 13:14:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 136 (281) For Willard's survey: Colby College (in central Maine) is a Macintosh school with a fairly high level of computer use. The College owns about 800 Macs, and there is one for every faculty member who has requested one. About half of our 1700 students have bought them from the Bookstore (so we are not rushing to require purchase). There are several public clusters, totalling 65 machines, with another six or so departmental labs, so term papers are routinely written on a word processor. We standardize on Microsoft Word, bundle it with every Bookstore purchase, and have a software maintenance agreement with Microsoft. In this way we can provide support with our necessarily small staff. We have a unified campus network, with Internet access from any mac in a public cluster. We are working actively toward wiring all the residence halls, but so far lack the $2 million it should cost us to finish the job. Meanwhile there is growing dial-up usage. Otherwise, however, use of the mainframe by students has declined rapidly, with the advent of Eudora for e-mail and TurboGopher. Over a third of courses require some use of computers beyond just word processing. This includes all departments and all majors. David A. Hanson dahanson@colby.edu Assoc. Dir. for Academic Computing voice/voicemail: 207-872-3291 Colby College fax: 207-872-3555 Waterville ME 04901 office: Lovejoy 105 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Net Advertiser Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 13:54:07 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 204 (282) Some e-mail discussion groups have recently been bombarded with a message from an organization calling itself the "Net Advertiser". The Advertiser offers a kind of classified advertising for anything one might wish to sell. Its address is netad@uds01.unix.st.it. Personally I find its presence on academic e-mail to be offensive. I had thought such a presence would be regarded as inappropriate, however convenient its services may be. Am I hopelessly wrong? Is commercial content on the electronic networks a current topic of discussion? Should we be worried about how operation of the Internet is to be supported? If so, it seems to me that Humanists might have contributions to make to the discussion. In any case, perhaps someone here would be interested in investigating the Net Advertiser. Willard McCarty From: Elaine Brennan Subject: Net Advertiser Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 18:09:20 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 205 (283) I purposely did *not* forward the Net Advertiser notice to Humanist, in part because of my own frustration at seeing multiple copies of it (I won't say *exactly* how many lists I read it on -- just that it was a substantial number). If any one on Humanist did not see this piece of mail and remains curious about it, please feel free to let me know and I'll forward you a copy of it privately. Elaine From: Steve Fligelstone Subject: TALC94 Call for papers Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 17:06:38 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 138 (284) CALL FOR PAPERS TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA 94 Lancaster University 11 - 13th April 1994 AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE While the use of computer text corpora in research is well established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics and in the study of foreign languages. We would like to bring together researchers and teachers who are involved in such work in order to encourage an international exchange of experience and expertise. We intend to keep costs to a minimum, and hope to be able to charge attendees no more than #{Sterling}50 a day, including accommodation and food. Papers are invited on the following topics: * the uses of corpora in the teaching of linguistics * the uses of corpora in the teaching of foreign languages * software for the use of corpora in teaching * corpus annotation * issues concerning funding and resourcing * availability of corpora * necessary skills (teacher and learner) for exploiting corpora * applications of spoken corpora * computational linguistics By "corpora" we mean: * corpora of written and spoken language * multi-lingual (e.g. parallel or translation) corpora FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION The conference will be composed of oral and poster presentations, as well as some discussion groups. A paper should last for 30 minutes including questions, and a poster presentation may consist of up to eight sheets of A3, including the title page. If you wish to offer a presentation of either kind, please submit an abstract by no later than 30th September 1993. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long. It would also help us if you would complete the attached reply form and return it as soon as possible. All papers accepted for the conference will be reviewed and considered for the conference proceedings, which we intend to publish. Any papers selected for publication should then be submitted in machine-readable form, either ASCII or word- processor (preferably Word or WordPerfect). Email submission of abstracts are encouraged. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS Surface Mail: TALC 94, Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, U.K. E-mail: talc94@uk.ac.lancaster _____________________________________________________________________ REPLY FORM * Name: * Address: * I shall/shall not be attending the TALC94 Conference * I would like to present a paper, with the following (provisional) title: * I would like to display a poster presentation with the following (provisional) title: _____________________________________________________________________ From: "Shari L. 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Willis" Subject: Beinecke Library Fellowships Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 10:56:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 140 (286) The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University VISITING FELLOWSHIPS for the Academic Year 1994-95 The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library offers short-term fellowships to support visiting scholars pursuing post-doctoral or equivalent research in its collections. The Beinecke Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. In addition to its distinguished general collections, the library houses the Osborn Collection, noted for its British literary and historical manuscripts, as well as outstanding special collections devoted to American literature, German literature, and Western Americana. The fellowships, which support travel to and from New Haven and pay a living allowance of $1,800 per month, are designed to provide access to the library for scholars who live outside the greater New Haven area. The length of a grant, normally one month, will depend on the applicant's research proposal; fellowships must be taken up between September l994 and May 1995. Recipients are expected to be in residence during the period of their award and are encouraged to participate in the activities of Yale University. There is no application form. Applicants are asked to submit a resume and a brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to the Director, Beinecke Library, Box 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-1603. The proposal should emphasize the relationship of the Beinecke collections to the project and state the preferred dates of residence. The applicant should also arrange to have two confidential letters of recommendation sent to the Director. The following named fellowships will be among those awarded; there is no special application process for these fellowships. The Frederick W. Beinecke Fellowship in Western Americana The H.D. Fellowship in English or American literature The Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American literature The A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship The Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellowship in American history The John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellowship The H. P. Kraus Fellowship in early books and manuscripts The James M. Osborn Fellowship in English literature and history The Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship in 18th-century British studies The Alexander O. Vietor Fellowship in cartography and related fields This announcement contains all of the information necessary to complete the application process. All application materials must be received by January 15, 1994. Awards will be announced in March 1994 for the period September 1994 through May 1995. Information about the Beinecke Library, guides to selected manuscript collections, and the Yale online catalog can be accessed on the Internet. E-mail inquires about the Beinecke fellowship program may be directed to Christa Sammons: CSAM@YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU From: John Rakestraw Subject: Re: 7.0129 Computing Resources at Liberal Arts Colleges Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 21:54:28 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 206 (287) I teach at Wesleyan College, a small liberal arts college for women in Macon, Georgia. Since 1989 the college has provided each entering student her own computer. Students don't see a bill for their computers, just as they don't see a bill for professors' salaries or library purchases. (Of course, students pay tuition, and so are paying at least part of the cost of the machines.) Faculty plan and teach courses knowing that each student has immediate access to a machine; most courses require computer use. Students who stay until graduation take their machines with them when they graduate. We are now in process of installing a campus-wide network. We're doing it in stages, and I'm told we have some hope of having network connections in almost all faculty offices, and perhaps the rooms in one of the student residence halls, before the end of this academic year. John Rakestraw Philosophy and Religious Studies Wesleyan College Macon, GA 31297 912/474-7057, ext. 231 From: Smith, Jacquelyn Subject: Re:Willard's computing survey Date: 25-Aug-1993 08:12am EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 207 (288) Drew University (Madison, NJ- 2300 total student enrollment in College of Liberal Arts(1500), Graduate School(365), and Seminary(430)) has what they call a "computer initiative." Every student in the graduate school and the college of liberal arts is required to buy a computer and printer when they first get here. This has pros and cons, many already have computers, but that little quibble is another post. It is possible to get info from just about anyplace on campus, on just about anything, by using one of the programs. There are also game programs available to everyone. I am not very knowledgeable about how to use a good bit of the technology available to me. I understand there is an active underground computer communications going on but I don't know anything about it. The computing system, very interesting to me, is available to all faculty (they may have to buy them) but very few actually use the system. And those that do usually only use the wordprocessing program (it's Wordperfect). All student papers are produced on computer, the library has computer wiring and all computers are portable, I have an old desktop (3 years old) last year's students got a lap top.The main use of the system is recreational, as far as I can tell. This post I consider recreational. There is no use, to my knowledge, of computer use in the classroom but I may be wrong on that. Is this the kind of information you are looking for? I realize Drew may not even fit into your parameters. But I thought it might be of interest in comparision with the other posts that I have read. Jackie Smith, Drew University Grad School From: Subject: Ibycus vs. Pandora vs. Workplaces Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 09:15:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 142 (289) I'm sorry to trouble the list with this, but someone from the University of Chicago responded directly to me regarding my inquiry about comparing the various tools for accessing the TLG and PHI databases, and I need to request that he send his message again. I accidentally deleted the message before I had a chance to store it or reply. Thanks, Duane Harbin Information Services Librarian Yale Divinity Library From: J_WARD@UPR1.UPR.CLU.EDU Subject: Telecommunications Policy Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 06:35 AST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 143 (290) The administration of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, has distributed, in draft form, a policy on telecommunications. Because the implications are so broad and deep, the College of Arts and Sciences has constituted a committee to study the issues involved. A particularly difficult point is the interpretation of a law that forbids spending public funds for "prop"sitos personales," which may be translated as unofficial activities or personal purposes. One administrative interpretation is that faculty members may not make personal telephone calls (neither local nor long distance) from their offices because the telephone company bills the University for all long distance calls and for all local calls in excess of a predetermined monthly or annual quota. Some States must have similar laws governing public funds, but has any come up with reasonable criteria for distinguishing personal from official in the context of university faculty? Are there guidelines for defining or delineating unofficial/personal/professional/official? Any objective and reasonable comments or suggestions that may help us in our evaluation of the policy statement would be appreciated. Obviously a reply directly to me would be more appropriate than a reply to Humanist. James H. Ward, Ph.D. Faculty Committee on Telecommunications Policy College of Arts and Sciences University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez From: "Claus.Huitfeldt" Subject: Wittgenstein in Electronic Facsimile Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 08:42:48 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 144 (291) Bergen, August 1993 WITTGENSTEIN IN ELECTRONIC FACSIMILE - report from a feasibility study The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) published only one book of philosophy, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. On his death, however, he left behind approx. 20,000 pages of unpublished manuscripts. Many of those (e.g. the Philosophical Investigations) have been published posthumously, but even today large parts of his writings remain unpublished. The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen aims to make all the writings of Wittgenstein available in the form of machine-readable transcriptions (tagged text files). Approx. seven thousand pages have now been transcribed. Finishing the task is expected to take several years. During November and December 1992 a feasibility study was carried out at The Wittgenstein Archives to consider the production of a facsimile CD-ROM version of Wittgenstein's collected writings, to be published by Oxford University Press prior to or in addition to the transcriptions. The following is the summary of the report from the feasibility study: The aim of this feasibility study was to provide technical specifications for and assess the costs of the production of a facsimile CD-ROM version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass, or, as we have called it, WEF (Wittgenstein in Electronic Facsimile). The study was carried out in the period 18 November to 17 December 1992. The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) was responsible for organizing and implementing the study. Representatives of Oxford University Press, the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities and the Department of Research Management at the University of Bergen also took part in the work group. Wittgenstein's Nachlass consists of 155 items of approx. 20,000 pages of manuscripts and typescripts. The typescripts (approx. 5,000 pages) and a few manuscripts are on loose sheets, the rest in bound volumes and notebooks. Maximum page size is 30 x 46.5 cm, average page size is 80% of A4 size. There are problems with low contrast, bleed-through and writing in or across the gutter. Most of the original material is held by Wren Library at Trinity College in Cambridge, a substantial part by the Austrian National Library in Vienna, and the rest by the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the Bertrand Russell Archive in Hamilton, Ontario. WEF's target audience is university libraries, philosophy departments, other research institutions, and individual scholars. Its target technological platforms (in order of priority) are (1) IBM compatible PCs with 386 CPU or higher, Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, VGA or SVGA color screen and CD-ROM player; (2) powerful Macintosh computers with QuickTime, color screen, and CD-ROM player; and (3) UNIX-based systems. Experiments with scanning of similar material and contact with possible vendors and cooperation partners provided the basis for the study. The main problems are on the one hand those of image capture combining unharmful handling of the original manuscripts with acceptable throughput and image quality, and on the other hand those of keeping storage space requirements within a reasonable number of CD-ROMs. We have defined three possible target reproduction qualities for consideration: Minimum, Medium, and Very High Quality. Minimum Quality requires 72 dpi resolution, and 16 shades of grey. Medium Quality requires between 72 and 250 dpi with an average resolution of 100 dpi, and 256 colors. Very High Quality requires between 250 and 400 dpi with an average resolution of 300 dpi, and 16 million colors. Medium Quality is considered in most respects superior to ordinary microfilm, and Very High Quality in all respects superior to ordinary microfilm. It is possible to create a Very High Quality electronic facsimile, but it is not feasible for a publication project. WEF should contain all images in two versions: Minimum Quality, i.e. 72 dpi and 4 bit pixel depth (16 shades of grey), compressed with GIF at an average ratio of 1:5, stored on one CD-ROM disk. Medium Quality, i.e. an average resolution of 100 dpi with a minimum of 72 dpi and a maximum of 250 dpi, and 24 bit pixel depth (16 mill. colors), compressed with JPEG at an average ratio of 1:20, stored on four CD-ROM disks. Most considerations, those of image quality as well as those of total costs, speak in favor of direct digital scanning from the original documents. However, direct scanning has one decisive disadvantage: The effects of subjecting the original documents to strong light for the amounts of time required by this process are unknown and may be harmful. If further investigations should indicate that this obstacle can be overcome, or one could be assured that scanning is not more harmful to the originals than photographing, direct scanning is highly recommended. However, we have found no positive indications that this may in fact happen in the foreseeable future. We therefore recommend that the original documents are captured on 35 mm color film, which is then digitized in a separate process. An in house process making use of a slide scanner will provide the necessary image quality, but is a relatively labor intensive strategy. Experiments performed so far indicate that Kodak's Photo CD may provide sufficient image quality. These strategies both have the advantage of creating a 35 mm color film version, and, with the latter strategy, also a (180-disk) Photo CD version, of the entire Nachlass. These copies are of higher quality than the distributed version and may therefore be kept as archival copies for backup or later use. As to the choice between 35 mm normal film and 35 mm microfilm, the project faces a dilemma: Capture on microfilm is inexpensive, but microfilm cannot be scanned in colors. Normal film can be scanned in colors, but capture on normal film is expensive. We believe that further investigations will provide a solution to this problem, and that transferring 35 mm color microfilm to Photo CD will be possible. The project will also include the preparation of a data structure and a user interface for accessing the images, based on von Wright's catalogue to the Nachlass and WAB's registration standard, MECS-WIT. It is important that WEF allows for inclusion of transcriptions of the texts. A 13 month project plan has been proposed according to which the first 3 1/2 months will be spent developing a prototype. On the basis of the experiences gathered during this process, the methods and technology should be evaluated, possibly leading to a reassessment and a revision of the budget. This plan includes the development of a rather simple user interface only, and does not include the suggested Macintosh and UNIX versions of the system. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Claus Huitfeldt, | | The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, | | Harald Haarfagresgt 31, | | N-5007 Bergen, | | Norway. | | | | Tel: +47-(0)5-21 29 50 (From Sept. 9, 1993: +47-55-21 29 50) | | Fax: +47-(0)5-32 26 56 (From Sept. 9, 1993: +47-55-32 26 56) | | | | E-mail: claus@pc.hd.uib.no. | ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: mlbizer@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer) Subject: Marot and Pseudo-Theocritus Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 10:15:50 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 208 (292) Dear Ficino participants, I'm looking for a poem by Marot which imitates or translates the 19th Idyll of the Pseudo-Theocritus. It's about Cupid who gets stung by a bee, complains to his mother Venus, and is told that his wounds are nothing compared to the stings he inflicts. The old "stinger gets stung" topos. Thanks. --Marc Bizer From: "David J. Bookbinder" Subject: Near Death Experiences Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 23:34:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 209 (293) I'm looking for a list or USENET group that is concerned with either research on or first-hand accounts of near death experiences. --David Bookbinder (db0965@albnyvms.bitnet) From: Alan Fisher CIS - AH MSU Subject: Technology Training in Humanities Graduate Programs Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 11:34:07 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 210 (294) Are there any universities which offer [require] their humanities graduate students training in the use of technology for research and/or teaching? We are considering this here as a necessary [in some views] component of professional training for the next generation of teachers and scholars in our disciplines. I would be very interested in receiving information about any such programs currently working. --- Alan Fisher Center for Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities Michigan State University alan@ah2.cal.msu.edu From: POOS@CUA.BITNET Subject: Re: 7.0145 Qs: Marot; Near-Death; Tech Training (3/40) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 20:37:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 211 (295) In answer to the question posted by Alan Fisher, about universities that offer/require training in the use of technology for graduate students in humanities:- At Catholic University, the History Department has required such a course for its graduate students in history for five years. I teach it. It is a one-semester course, aimed to give basic experience in the major applications of computer technology to historical research. That means: basic introduction to some statistical methods, using MINITAB; introduction to database management and machine-readable text analysis; some grounding in e-mail, discussion lists, on-line bibliographical searching, and a smattering of graphics. Emphasis is on practicalities, i.e. how to conceive and set up simple machine-based research projects (everyone, for instance, has to complete a modest-size database project using some information drawn from whatever subdisipline of history s/he is in), and on reading recent periodical literature using similar methods. This is in a constant state of evolution, so I would be extremely interested in hearing (privately, if you like) the experiences of anyone else doing similar courses. I, too, would like to know the state of play in other universities. Larry Poos Dept of History Catholic University POOS@CUA.EDU From: BushC@yvax.byu.edu (Chuck Bush) Subject: Re: 7.0145 Qs: Marot; Near-Death; Tech Training (3/40) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 12:57:19 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 212 (296) Alan Fisher asked: [deleted quotation] BYU offers a "Languages and Computers" course sequence for our students in Humanities disciplines. It's structured as an undergraduate minor, though most of the courses are numbered high enough that graduate students can include them in their elective courses when they want/need to. None of the departments require it, but a couple recommend it strongly. Is this of any help? In the past ACH has sponsored conferences on "Teaching Humanities Computing Courses", the most recent being at Fordham University in 1990. At that time I think Joe Rudman started making a collection of syllabi etc. from such courses. Perhaps he will also respond to your query. I understand there is some consideration of having another such conference--would any of you HUMANISTs be interested? ---------- Charles D. Bush EMail: BushC@Yvax.BYU.EDU Humanities Research Center HRCChuck@BYUVM.BITNET 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Phone: 801-378-7439 Provo, Utah 84602 Fax: 801-378-4649 From: Subject: Intelex Corp. "Past Masters" series Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 15:48:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 147 (297) Cross-posting to Humanist and ATLANTIS. Usual apologies to those who subscribe to both. I have before me a small catalog from Intelex Corp. outlining a series of electronic texts which they call "Past Masters." The series includes the Complete works of Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, as texts from several prominent British philosophers, the works of Kierkegaard, and the published works of Wittgenstein. Apparently, they will supply the texts on magnetic media or on custom CD-ROM's. The software is Folio VIEWS for DOS platforms and HyperKRS for the Mac. The price for the databases seem quite reasonable. Has anyone had any experience with this company and their products? Can you comment on the quality and usefulness of the texts? Some of the descriptions are more specific that others about the source of the text, and I would like some firsthand opinions. Thank you. Duane Harbin Information Services Librarian Yale Divinity Library From: stan kulikowski ii Subject: caesarian ciphers Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 19:15:54 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 148 (298) in suetonius somewhere there is a famous passage describing the ciphers that julius caesar and augustus used. this is often cited in crypto texts as the earliest examples of encryption, using monoalphabetic substitution. i once read an english translation of this passage, and as i recall it said that julius advanced the alphabet by 3 letters (so 'A' became 'D'), and augustus advanced it only 1 letter when writing in cipher. i assume that last letter in the alphabet wrapped around to the start of the sequence; and punctuation, word spacing and any digits were either nonexistent in text at the time, or were copied plaintext into the cipher. i am currently teaching a computer networking to some military cryptographers, and i would appreciate some scholarly assistance if anyone here is familiar with this text. i would appreciate a reference to the suetonius citation (i have lost mine to the english translation). indeed, if someone could copy the latin passage to here, i would be grateful. i do not think it was very long. i am assuming that at the time of julius and augustus there were 22-24 letters in their latin alphabet. i seem to recall hearing that claudius tried to add a couple letters to update their phonics, but for some reason scholars did accept these innovations. could someone provide me with the alphabetic order that the suetonian ciphers were operated upon? how accurate is this claim of suetonius that the early caesars actually used these ciphers? is there any existent text which is thus encrypted? by this i mean, ancient documents (of any age) which used these ciphers. was this a common practice in the middle ages and how many such still exist? i understand that there are documents (do i remember 'the voynich manuscript'?) which remain today undeciphered. my thanks for this help. stan stankuli@UWF.bitnet . === god created time so everything would not happen at once º º god created space so everything would not happen to me --- -- lament of the overburdened From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: training graduate students Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 10:52:47 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 149 (299) Humanist 7.0146 anticipates a project I have underway, which I was not planning to announce for a few days yet, but the question has been raised, so I will. I am now in the process of setting up an anonymous-ftp archive at Toronto for documentation of courses in humanities computing at all levels. Syllabi, reading lists, bibliographies, handouts, and other materials easily convertible to plain-ASCII text files qualify. This includes announcements, blurbs, and adverts for courses, workshops, and the like, but the primary intention is to document in as much detail as possible the contents of actual courses. At the moment I have all of my own materials (for graduate courses and faculty seminars); some from King's College, London; a collection brought together for the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities (Canada); and a few other bits and pieces. I have been promised a large collection of syllabi from U.S. institutions. This pre-announcement constitutes an invitation for anyone with such materials to submit them to me for anon-ftp posting -- WITH ONE VERY IMPORTANT CONDITION. My condition is that these materials be properly edited for the electronic, online medium. Such editing is not onerous, except in the great volumes a collector might face. It means, for example, more than simply converting WordPerfect documents to DOS files, since WP does not do a very good job with DOS-file formatting. So, I energetically request that anyone with such materials put them into shape, then look at them with an ASCII editor (such as DOS Edit), make whatever changes are required, then send these to me by e-mail. Why should we bother? I can think of four reasons at the moment: 1. to assist our colleagues who are attempting to get humanities computing courses going (those of us who have done it know how much work and experimentation is involved); 2. to allow us teachers to survey what has been done and so to benefit from each other's ideas, thus to bring into focus what humanities computing is as a teachable subject; 3. to develop a means for "distance education" in the area; 4. to lead the other disciplines in large-scale sharing of pedagogical materials. To my mind these are noble goals. So, if you please, let the disciplined flood commence! Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Jon Butler Subject: NYC religion surveys 1896-1910 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 13:54:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 150 (300) I would appreciate hearing from anyone who might be able to furnish information on surveys done in New York City between about 1896 and 1910 by the Federation of Churches and Christian Workers, directed by Walter Laidlaw, a minister and Ph.D. These surveys are briefly discussed both in Hopkins _Rise of the Social Gospel_ (276-278) and Abell, _Urban Impact on American Protestantism_ (189-191), though without any regard for their results or methodology. The surveys were unusual for their scope (more than 50,000 homes visited), method (elaborate questionaires whose answers were punched onto Hollerith cards and processed with Hollerith machines donated to the Federation by Mr. Hollerith), and detailed printed results (some of the printed results take the information down to the block level and appear in the journal _Federation_ at irregular intervals). I am especially interested in learning more about Laidlaw (who published several books on NYC census materials in the 1920s and 30s) and especially in recovering the original surveys, either in their original written form or in the form of the Hollerith cards. I am in the midst now of inquiring about these surveys among the numerous NYC historical deposi- tories and archives, and any information would be most appreciated. I also am interested in other surveys incorporating questions about religion taken BEFORE 1920. For example, there is some indication in the journal _Federation_ that religious surveys were taken by other church federations in Toledo, Columbus, and Dayton, Ohio and in Utica, NY, in 1901 and 1902, though a search of the LC catalog and other sources has not yet turned up any printed results. Should anyone be able to respond to this request, it would be helpful to respond both to my personal e-mail address, given below, as well as to the list, since I do not belong to all of the lists to which this notice may be sent. Thank you for your assistance. Jon Butler American Studies, History, and Religious Studies Yale University mailing address: American Studies Program Yale University P. O. Box 1504A Yale Station New Haven CT 06520-7425 e-mail: JBUTLER@YALEVM From: "Robert Knapp" Subject: PNRC Conference Date: 1 Sep 93 11:00:09 U X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 151 (301) Call for Papers The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference Reed College, Portland OR 18-19 March 1994 Beating the Bounds: The Formation and Interaction of the Disciplines in Early Modern Europe Plenary Speakers: Lorraine Daston Professor of History and History of Science Department of History, University of Chicago Lorraine Helms San Francisco Clown School Thomas Laqueur Professor of History Department of History, University of California at Berkeley ______________________________________________________ Papers and proposals for sessions are invited on all aspects of the culture and society of early modern Europe, c. 1300-1700. The organizers especially encourage papers and proposals that would permit the interdisciplinary exploration of such questions as the relationship between art, literature, and science, the engagement with non-European cultures, the relationship between ethics and political philosophy and practice, the history of rhetoric and literary scholarship, the protocols of representation, the reconstruction of epistemologies, etc. Abstracts and proposals should reach the organizers by 1 November 1993; acceptances will be made by 20 December; completed papers should be received by 1 February 1994. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Robert S. Knapp Roger Porter Department of English Department of English Peter Parshall David Harris Sacks Department of Art and Art History Department of History Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Portland, OR 97202 (503) 771-1112 FAX (503) 777-7769 e-mail From: "Paul Chandler" Subject: Re: 7.0147 Qs: E-Texts from Intelex (1/21_ Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:26:10 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 213 (302) Could you post address details about Intelex Corp., please, for those who might like to inquire about their products. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Chandler Titus Brandsma Instituut Tel: +31-80-61.2162 Erasmusplein 1 Fax: +31-80-60.3439 6525 HT Nijmegen email: pchandl@thomas.ped.kun.nl From: Jean Schumacher Subject: Kant Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 10:07:30 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 214 (303) Madame, our "Institut Sup©rieur de la Philosophie", here at Louvain-la- Neuve (Belgium), is looking after data bases on CD-Rom (planned or rea- lized) interesting medieval, Renaissance and modern philosophers, espe- cially KANT. Is there a special distribution list for? Can someone give information about projects or productions for this matter? Thanks by advance. Would you please post this message on HUMANIST? Merci beaucoup Jean Schumacher CETEDOC Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium. From: Robin Alston850 Subject: History of the Book Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 10:55:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 215 (304) I am planning to introduce a new MA in the History of the Book at London University in 1994, and I wondered whether this might be of interest to the Humanist subscribers? I can send more details if the answer is affirmative! Robin Alston r.alston@ucl.ac.uk From: he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Burr) Subject: search for adress Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 13:14:19 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 216 (305) As I have completely lost track of a dear friend and collegue I would like to ask everybody out there: do you know Franco Ricci? In 88 he was still teaching at Modern Languages and Literatures, 550, Cumberland, Ottawa Ontario, Canada. His field is Italian literature. If you know his present adress or e-mail number please write back to: Elisabeth Burr Universitaet-GH Duisburg FB 3/Romanistik he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de Thanks for your help From: "David A. Hoekema" Subject: Re: 7.0147 Qs: E-Texts from Intelex Date: 1 Sep 93 12:00:35 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 217 (306) I have not used the Intelex texts, but have seen them demonstrated at American Philosophical Association conventions, talked with the developers, and heard generally highly favorable reports from colleagues. It seems to have begun as a philosophical hobbyist's project and grown, modestly, from there. The texts are likely to be drawn from older editions now in the public domain: thus the Hume _Treatise_ is the Selby-Bigge edition, not the most recent Oxford critical edition (which is also available in electronic form, at many times the price). Prices are very modest, and the search engine rather staggeringly efficient--it dredged up every instance in Hobbes of "religion" and "coercion" in the same paragraph within a minute or two. Possibly the use of older editions would be a drawback for libraries. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || || From: gfgf@math.ias.edu (Gary Forsythe) Subject: Re: 7.0148 Qs: Caesarian Ciphers (1/41) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 12:44:33 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 218 (307) My text of Suetonius is not at hand, but there will probably be another person who will respond with the correct citation and quotation. I just wanted to point out two other items which might interest you. In the fifth book of his Gallic War Caesar describes how secret messages were carried through enemy Gallic territory. The messages used a substitution cipher involving the Greek alphabet. That is to say, rather than using Roman characters, Greek letters were used to spell out Latin. Another ancient means of making secret messages was devised by the Spartans of the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries. Two wooden staffs would be made of identical length and shape. Their diamters would be varied, for reasons which will soon become apparent. One staff was kept in Sparta by the state officials, while the other was sent out with a military commander or governor abroad. Whenever they wished to send secret messages, they would take a leather strap and wind it around the staff. They would then write their message in lines along the length of the staff, so that when the leather strap was removed, it was a long piece of leather bearing a series of jumbled letters which could not be read but could be easily reconstituted into a coherent text by the person with the other staff simply by wrapping the leather strap around his staff. Both the staff and the leather employed in this method of communication were termed 'skytale' and is described by Plutarch in his biography of Lysander. Gary Forsythe gfgf@math.ias.edu Institute for Advanced Study From: Thomas Izbicki Subject: Re: 7.0147 Qs: E-Texts from Intelex (1/21_ Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 13:52:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 219 (308) Johns Hopkins has had three of the Past Masters databases for about three years. They are not used as often as I would like, but they have proven easy to use. Those who do use them have been glad to have access to them. One caveat: InteLex uses whathever edition is not in copyright, so the user may need to consult another edition of more recent vintage when in doubt about the text. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: BMR 93.9.5, ALSO SEEN: Future Libraries Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 17:18:10 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 154 (309) Humanists should be aware of the special issue of `representations' devoted to the topic of "Future Libraries". It is informally reviewed below by Prof. James O'Donnell, editor of Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Willard McCarty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Intelex Corp. address Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 15:26:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 220 (310) As requested, here are the particulars on Intelex Corp.: InteLex Corporation P.O. Box 1827 Clayton, GA 30525-1827 USA Tel: (706) 782-7844 FAX: (706) 782-4489 E-mail: 70671.1673@compuserve.com Duane Harbin Yale Divinity Library From: Subject: Intelex E-texts Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 08:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 221 (311) It is not quite accurate to say that Intelex uses whatever editions are not in copyright. At least this is not the case for their "Rationalists" database (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz). This utilizes the Cottingham et al. (vols. 1&2, thus excluding the Letters) edition for Descartes (Cambridge, 1984), the Ariew/Garber edition of Leibniz's "Philosophical Essays" (Hackett, 1989), the Remnant/Bennett edition of Leibniz's "New Essays" (Cambridge, 1982), and the Curley (vol. 1) edition for Spinoza (Princeton, 1988). These are excellent, up-to-date editions. The Folio VIEWS software for managing the material also seems to me excellent. (Some time ago the company announced they would also produce original-language editions; I don't know what the status of this is.) Regarding the Hume (and Locke and Berkeley) database, even though the best or most standard editions are not used, pagination is provided for correlation with them. ------------------------------------------------------ | Richard E. Aquila, Department of Philosophy | | University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 | | BITNET: aquila@utkvx INTERNET: aquila@utkvx.utk.ede | ------------------------------------------------------ From: rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu Subject: Re: 7.0148 Qs: Caesarian Ciphers (1/41) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 20:52:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 222 (312) I assume that you are familiar with David Kahn's book _The Codebreakers_; check pages 81-84 (and the notes for those pages) for information on Greek and Roman cryptography. Unfortunately, the citations leave something to be desired in their precision. The reference to Caesar writing in cipher occurs at Suetonius _Julius Caesar_ 56.6.2: extant (sc. epistulae) et ad Ciceronem, item ad familiares domesticis de rebus, in quibus, si qua occultius perferenda erant, per notas scripsit, id est sic structo litterarum ordine, ut nullum uerbum effici posset: quae si qui inuestigare et perse- qui uelit, quartam elementorum litteram, id est D pro A et perinde reliquas commutet. And to Augustus' inferior cipher at _Augustus_ 88.1.10: quotiens autem per notas scribit, B pro A, C pro B ac deinceps eadem ratione sequentis litteras ponit; pro X autem duplex A. Note that the cipher does not wrap around to the start of the sequence but rather 'AA' is used in place of 'X', the last letter of the alphabet at that time. I'm afraid that I cannot speak to the veracity of the statements about writing in cipher, but if you like, I can do a search on 'per notas' on the PHI Latin CD and see what I come up with. I would also check Lewis and Short and the Oxford Latin Dictionary s.v. nota for more references. Randy Randall M. Smith rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Computing and Biblical Studies Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 16:15:50 +22306256 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 156 (313) As some of you know, I've been gathering information on computing and New Testament textual criticism, which has expended now to the larger context of computing and biblical studies. In the attached list, I have attempted to identify some of the more obvious markers along the way, in chronological sequence. Some of the information will be inaccurate and/or incomplete, and other equally significant developments will have been missed. It is a draft, from which a lengthy bibliography has been removed. The original orientation towards NT textcriticism remains obvious in the listing of sources near the end. I will need to expand that section to include Jewish scriptures, other versions, etc. In any event, I invite your corrections, additions, supplements, and other comments. Since we are making history, we need to be sure the recording of it is as accurate as possible. Bob Kraft, UPenn (with the usual apologies for multiple listing) reply to kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ===== Computers and Biblical Studies: a Brief Outline by RAK (2 Sept 1993) Selected highlights (by date) of computer developments of special relevance for biblical studies: 1949 Roberto Busa's Aquinas Project begun (study of literature) 1951-57 Ellison's Harvard Dissertation (NT textcriticism) 195? Ellison's Concordance of RSV, electronically produced 1955 Centre d'Analyse Documentaire pour l'Arche/ologie founded (Jean-Claude Gardin) 1960? A. Q. Morton's stylistic studies of Paul, etc. 1961 Founding of LASLA (Laboratoire d'Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes) at University of Liege, Belgium 1966 Computers and the Humanities Journal (J. Raben) 1967-1979 CALCULI newsletter by Stephen Waite (Dartmouth) 1968 British Academy Committee on the Use of Computers in Textual Criticism, chaired by K. J. Dover [when did it begin?] 1968 CETEDOC established (Paul Tombeur) [CALCULI 152] 1968 Beuron Vulgate Concordance Project (Fischer, Ott) 1969 American Philological Association Repository begun 1970 Yehuda T. Radday works on Isaiah Authorship 1970 reports & activities (SBL, SNTS-Grayston, Fischer, etc.) 1971 Arthur Baird and David N. Freedman, Computer Bible Series, Biblical Research Associates 1972 TLG Project begins (Theodore Brunner, UCal Irvine) 197?-?? Richard Whitaker, ARITHMOI (general) 1973 Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing founded (Bulletin begins 1975) 1973 David Packard Morph Analysis Program 1975 David Packard develops early IBYCUS (1977) prototypes 1976 Oxford Text Archive established 19?? Maredsous Project (biblical texts and translations) 19?? G. Weil CATAB-CNRS Project (Hebrew Scriptures; cantillation, etc.) 19?? F. I. Andersen (Hebrew scriptures; syntax) 19?? Raymond Martin (translation technique, style, etc.) 197? H. Van Dyke Parunak (Hebrew Scriptures; lexical density plots) 1977 Werkgroep Informatica at Amsterdam (E. Talstra, F. Postma) 1977 Joseph Raben Directory of Scholars Active in Computer Assisted Research in The Humanities (Pergamon) 1978 CNRS Colloquium on Computers and Textual Criticism [CALCULI 291f.; "publication of proceedings is planned."] 1978 Association for Computers and Humanities (ACH) founded 1978 CATSS Project Probes at UPenn (Greek Jewish Scriptures) 1979 GRAMCORD (Reference Manual; Paul Miller) 1981 Friberg NT Morph article published (ed Patton) 1981 Michigan-Claremont BHS text encoding begun (Parunak-Whitaker) 1982 Association Internationale "Bible et Informatique" (AIBI) 1984 OFFLINE column begins (SBL), CCAT at UPenn 1985 AIBI First International Colloquium, Louvain-la-Neuve 19?? PHI 1987 John Hughes, Bits, Bytes & Biblical Studies (Zondervan) 1987 Perseus Project begun (hypertext Classical Studies) 1988 AIBI Second International Colloquium, Jerusalem 1988? Text Encoding Initiative begun (SGML based) 1991 AIBI Third International Colloquium, Catalogue of Relevant Resources for NT Text Study (July 1993) Ancient Texts and Versions: UBS2 and 3, UBS 3 corrected Stephanus (no diacritics) Byzantine text (" ") Scrivener text of 1894 [KJV base reconstructed] (" ") Syriac (Aramaic) - The Way [BBBS 569] Syriac Peshitta MSS - Dale Johnson [BBBS 570] Coptic - CATSS/CCAT & PHI Latin - Fischer/Stuttgart Vulgate (Ott) Major Projects: Vinton Dearing [BBBS 492 n11] IGNT G.John / McReynolds (get details, CARG session) Aland - Mu%nster Concordance [BBBS 568] Ep.James ??! Software & Coding (see also Hockey; Yearbook 406ff): TUSTEP (& micro-TUSTEP) software package (Wilhelm Ott) CATSS Format and Software (for OG/LXX, originally) COLLATE program by Peter Robinson TEI Recommendations for SGML-type Markup Interpreting MSS, by Timothy W. Seid [Yearbook 27] Parsons, Gk MSS PHYLIP & BLUDGEON [Yearbook 407] Bibliography (see also CALCULI, ARITHMOI): Ott, Wilhelm. In ALLC Bulletin 2.1 (1974) 74-77. Hughes, BBBS [esp 492 n11] (Zondervan, 1987) Lancashire, Ian (ed). Humanities Computing Yearbooks for 1988, 1989. OFFLINE (passim) AIBI Maredsous Newsletters and Bibliographies (1) Cathy Vanhove-Romanik, 1981 (Reports of Centre IB) (2) Servais, Ge/rard. "Bible et Informatique: Bibliographie 1981-1985." Pp. 311-321 in Actes du Premier Colloque International Bible et Informatique: Le Texte.... Louvain-la- Neuve (Belgique) 2-3-4 septembre 1985 (Champion-Slatkine, 1986). CNRS annual bibliographies in religion chronological list of publications: [deleted here] /end/ From: Andreas Lund Subject: teacher training and technology Date: 4 Sep 93 22:25:26 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 157 (314) Regarding Alan Fisher question about technology training and future teachers: I read the question (and the response so far) with great interest. I am one of several co-ordinators engaged by the Council of Europe to do research and development work. The project is titled "The use of information and communication technologies in the learning and teaching of modern languages in vocationally oriented education [upper secondary (16-19) and adult education]". Within this framework, several groups are working on different aspects of information technology and language learning. The project I am working on is described below. The literature on the subject is (as far as I know) sparse. I welcome opinions, advice, tips etc. from anyone with an interest in the field. ************************************************************** PROJECT TITLE: WHETHER, WHERE, WHEN AND HOW TO USE IT (information technology) IN VOLL (vocationally oriented language learning) At the time of writing, this project has been in process for a year. The group members represent Italy, Switzerland and Norway, hence the R&D work will bear evidence of learning conditions in these countries although we believe the issues involved are universal. The work of the group has to do with methodology. We have made the assertion that teachers are in need of a methodological approach to the use of IT, technical know-how is not enough. The aim is to furnish teachers, administrators and teacher training colleges with methodological guidelines on how to use and benefit from the powerful tools that IT represents. The R&D work has concentrated on two major approaches: A) Teachers in the three countries in question have filled in and returned a rather extensive questionnaire. The results have been analysed and will form the first part of the final report. This part of the projects tries to uncover teachers' attitudes and approaches to VOLL, to learners' needs, and knowledge of, access to and influence on the use of IT in VOLL. This analysis and our own ideas on the subject will form the basis of a discussion on methodological guidelines for teachers venturing into the IT/VOLL field. Talks with business executives and teacher trainers will also be some of the background for this section. B) A set of quite different case studies will document and concretize these guidelines. The case studies reflect classroom experience, both from "ordinary" and experimental forms. The idea is to present a top-down approach where instead of starting with the software and looking for possibilities, we start by looking at goals, learning strategies and illustrate how they can (or cannot!) be achieved through IT. A spin-off will be a list of software used in the case studies, but again evaluated in relation to their methodological possibilities and implications. At present, the outline of the final document looks like this: 1. INTRODUCTION Reasons for the project, discussion of teacher needs, assertions 2. INTERPRETATION OF QUESTIONNAIRE An analysis of data from the separate countries will be followed by a comparison to highlight most important findings, differences and similarities. 3. METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES Various approaches to language teaching in the light of new technology 4. CASE STUDIES i) Written communication by E-mail ii) Text construction in a Hypertext environment iii) Workplace simulation in an IT environment iv) Text manipulation through IT v) IT as trigger for oral communication vi) Differentiated learning through IT 5. REFERENCE LIST WITH TYPOLOGY Software evaluated and described according to its use in the case studies APPENDIX: QUESTIONNAIRE (ORIGINAL) BIBLIOGRAPHY ************************************************************** That's it, I welcome any response from HUMANISTs. Andreas Lund Brekkeby vgs N-3727 Skien Norway slu@bbb.no From: Robin Alston Subject: Date: Mon, 06 Sep 93 15:30:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 158 (315) ------- Forwarded Message - -------- UNIVERSITY OF LONDON M.A. THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Final details regarding the proposed new M.A. in the History of the Book remain to be confirmed after the Conference to be held at the Warburg Institute on October 30. A proposal will be put to the Senate early in 1994. At the moment the course might follow roughly the following outline. Research methodology A short series of lectures and seminars with practical sessions using online sources introducing students to the essentials of research methodology in the history of the book. The seminars will concentrate on the resources available in the British Library and Senate House Library. All students will be expected to acquire admission passes to the Reading Room and the Department of Manuscripts. 10 sessions Unit 1 - Foundation - 10 sessions [mandatory] - Core course - 40 sessions [mandatory] Total: 50 sessions Unit 2 - Option I - 50 sessions Unit 3 - Option II - 50 sessions Total: 160 sessions Unit 4 - Dissertation Starting in 1994 the University moves to a three semester session with 2 semesters for teaching (each of 12 weeks). In practice it will probably be difficult to get more than 10 active weeks, and we should consider having a reading week in both semesters. This means that each teaching unit should be timetabled so that there are two hours per week. UNIT 1 Semester 1 Foundation There are various ways of putting the history of the book into a meaningful context with some chronological perspective. One approach might be to have an overview of the early period `at a gallop' bringing the story up to the point where vernacular printing becomes the rule rather than the exception (c.1520). For practical purposes I think the best way is to have illustrated lectures. Note: in practice a postgraduate session is deemed to be not less than 90 minutes and not more than 105 minutes. Antiquity [3000 BC-500 AD] Writing materials Surface materials - clay, leather, papyrus, parchment, copper, ivory, gold, wood, &c. Contents - accounts, treaties, archives, stories, epics, plays, poetry, &c. Shape - rectangular, scroll (rolled, folded), &c. Libraries in antiquity The Fall of Rome Lectures/seminars [2 sessions] The Manuscript Book [500-800 AD] The Eastern Mediterranean Development of the codex shape and form Christianity and parchment books Hebrew & Greek Codex Sinaiticus Koran Religion - literature - science Monasticism - Benedict [529] Early medieval libraries The St Gall `plan' [c. 820] Charlemagne Lectures/seminars [2 sessions] Insular Manuscripts [500-800 AD] Celtic and British Monasticism Columba and Iona [-597] Lindisfarne Jarrow and Wearmouth Kells [c. 800] Insular libraries Lectures/seminars [2 sessions] The Spread of Monasticism [800-1200] The West The Benedictines Cluny Monastic libraries The East Constantinople Lectures/seminars [1 session] The Rise of Universities [1200-1500] Paris, Bologna, Padua, Oxford, Cambridge, Prague (1348), &c. Books and students - the stationarii, &c. Academic libraries Lectures/seminars [1 session] The Invention of Printing Germany Spread of printing throughout Europe Lectures/seminars [2 sessions] Vernacular printing 1475-1520 Lectures/seminars [2 sessions] Core Course [deleted quotation] Lectures/seminars [2 sessions] Skelton to Newton [1520-1650] Lectures/seminars [6 sessions] The Rise of Science [1650-1750] Lectures/seminars [4 sessions] Enlightenment Lectures/seminars [6 sessions] The Industrial Revolution [1750-1850] Lectures/seminars [6 sessions] Public Libraries and Mass Culture [1850-1914] Lectures/seminars [6 sessions] Universities and the Mass Elite [1919-] Lectures/seminars [6 sessions] TOTAL: 50 sessions If the Options involve no more than 40 sessions of teaching (plus course-work) then students will at least have had the benefit of the Introductory lectures before deciding on what particular area interests them. It is assumed that these lectures will look forward to subsequent developments as well as providing a broad chronological perspective of dvelopments up to the beginnings of the printed book. UNIT 2 Semester 1 Option One to be selected from the following: 1. The Bible - Manuscript & printed [period to be allocated each year] 2. The illustrated book [period to be allocated each year] 3. Manuscript and print in the fifteenth century 4. Vernacular manuscripts [period to be allocated each year] 5. The book trade [period to be allocated each year] 6. Book manufacture [a) > 1850; b) 1850 >] 7. Humanism and books 8. Role of the author [period to be allocated each year] 9. Role of the reader [period to be allocated each year] 10. Publisher's and printer's archives 11. Collectors and libraries 12. The electronic book 13. Twentieth century publishing history 14. Sociology of the book UNIT 3 Semester 2 Option One to be selected from the list of options [1-14] given above. UNIT 4 Semesters 2 - 3 Dissertation Students with a clear idea of what it is they wish to study in depth for their dissertation will have the opportunity to be assigned a supervisor in Semester 1; some may choose to defer a decision until the end of Semester 1. In principle,a student may elect to do a dissertation on any aspect of the history of the book with the approval of the Course Director. The dissertation must be completed within one calendar year of the beginning of the course. Part-time Study Since it is essential that the course is offered on a part-time basis it will be necessary to teach Units 1 and 2 every year. ------- End of Forwarded Message From: nigel@cumulus.csd.unsw.OZ.AU (Dr Nigel Nettheim) Subject: "Der Lindenbaum" picture Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 21:34:57 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 223 (316) Schubert's famous song "Der Lindenbaum", to a poem by Wilhelm Mueller, refers to an actual tree, also rather famous, which stood at the town gate of Bad Sooden Allendorf in Germany. I would like to obtain a picture of the original tree. It fell in 1912 aged over 600 years and was replaced. From the kind people at the Bad Sooden tourist agency I have obtained photos of the replace- ment. But can anyone locate a sketch or other representation of the original? Dr. Nigel Nettheim E-mail: N.Nettheim@unsw.edu.au Voice: +61-2-868-4005 Home: 204a Beecroft Rd, Cheltenham NSW 2119, Australia Fax: +61-2-313-7682 From: Christopher Werry Subject: Research on word processors Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 14:56:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 224 (317) I was wondering if anyone could tell me of work that examines the view of writing (and reading) processes implicit in the design of word processing systems. I would be especially interested in some kind of historical overview that traces out the development of early word processors, and the connections they had to the text editors that programmers used to create software in the first place. I'd also like to know what writing software exists that was designed, produced or had significant input from people in departments of English or Rhetoric, and which embodies a self consciously theoretical view of what writing, or more specifically, writing with computers, might involve. I only know of 2 such projects - Jay Bolter's Storyspace, and the Prep project at CMU. Could anyone let me know of any others? Thanks in advance, Chris Werry From: D Mealand Subject: Sichel sentence length distribution Date: 06 Sep 93 10:12:00 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 225 (318) Does anyone have some examples of tests on sentence length distributions using Sichel's formula please? 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: ocramer@academic.cc.colorado.edu Subject: e-mail address query Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1993 08:17:19 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 226 (319) I'd like an address for Milena Dolezalova-Velingerova. Owen Cramer Colorado College From: D Mealand Subject: Scale in literature Date: 06 Sep 93 17:15:26 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 227 (320) Can someone please point me to some bibliography on the factor of scale in literature. The query arose from one of my postgraduates who is working on sentence length, but the issue is a larger one. There must be studies, for example, of two plays which are similar in overall structure but quite different in size. Or studies of two novels of greatly differing length but having similar structure in other respects. Any references sent to me personally would be much appreciated. David Mealand **************************************************************************** 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: rrs@uclink.berkeley.edu (Rebecca R Simon) Subject: "Future Libraries" issue of Representations Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 13:49:16 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 160 (321) Anyone interested in obtaining their own copy of this special issue which was recently reviewed in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review may purchase it from UC Press Journals for $7.50 (US$; plus $1.50 postage to foreign addresses) using one of the following methods: -FAX your request along with a credit card# for payment to UC Press Journals (510) 642-9917 - email your request along with a credit card# for payment to UC Press Journals c/o rrs@uclink.berkeley.edu (though this is dangerous due to the lack of privacy on the Net) - phone your request to Betty Dover (510) 642-4191 Thanks for your interest Rebecca Simon, University of California Press Journals From: muru.palaniappan@aldus.com (Muru Palaniappan,Eng) Subject: Hypertext '93 Conference Advanced Program Announcement (3 pages long) Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1993 16:19:39 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 161 (322) Hypertext '93 Conference Advanced Program Announcement Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Dates: November 14 - 18, 1993 Hypertext is a central part of online documents, multimedia applications, educational programs, museum guides, and computer games. Today's Hypertext research will be the foundation for future systems that support authoring, managing, and accessing large multimedia information spaces. COURSES Hypertext '93 begins with two days of introductory and advanced courses that emphasize the practical applications of hypertext in documentation, education, training, and publishing. These courses address hypertext design, standards, evaluation, deployment, legal issues, and many other topics. The courses offered are: 1 Educational Uses of Hypermedia: From Design to the Classroom 2 The HyTime Interchange Standard 3 Introduction to Hypertext and Hypermedia 4 Putting Documents Online: A Manager's Guide 5 Becoming a CD-ROM Publisher 6 SGML for Writers: An Introduction to Document Structure and Analysis 7 Automatic Information Retrieval and Text Utilization 8 Designing Electronic Publications: How We Do It 9 Visual Languages: Analyzing the Emerging New Language Combining Words, Images, and Shapes 10 Interactive Learning Environments: Where They've Come From & Where They're Going 11 Hypermedia Documents for Regulatory and ISO 9000 Compliance 12 Forging the Business of Hypertext Publishing 13 Text to Hypertext Conversion: A Practical Engineering Approach 14 Hypermedia in Museums 15 Introduction to Virtual Environments and Advanced Interfaces 16 Evaluating Hypermedia Usability 17 Hypertext in Legal Education and Law Practice 18 Metaphor Design in Hypertext Systems: Managing Expectation and Surprise 19 Cooperative Hypermedia 20 SGML for Implementers 21 Intellectual Property Protection 22JPresenting Information Visually: Graphic-Design Principles for Use-Oriented Designers 23 Resource-Based Hypermedia for Education and Training 24 Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals and the Content Data Model COMMERCIAL SYMPOSIUM On Monday, in parallel with the second day of courses, leading vendors will participate in a commercial symposium explaining how their hypertext products solve real-world problems. The commercial symposium is a new event that offers a straight-talk, moderated setting for practical advice on real hypertext applications. The sessions are: %JMultimedia Authoring and Viewing Tools % Corporate-wide Hypertext Systems % Hypertext Writing and Publishing % Corporate Conversion Strategies and Methodologies % Building Embedded Hypertext Applications % SGML Authoring and Viewing Tools % Converting Legacy Data to SGML % Minimum Platform Hypertext Tools for Technical Publications PLENARY TALKS % Irene Grief, Lotus Development Corporation - Title to be determined % George Landow, Brown University - Writing Toward the Future: What Avant-Garde Writing Has to Tell Hypertext Designers % Rob Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, Inc. - Reengineering the Field: Hypertext in the 21st Century TECHNICAL PROGRAM The technical program begins with a reception honoring Ted Nelson, the father of hypertext. At the end of the reception, he will offer his views on the future of the field. The technical program includes three days of papers, panels, posters, demonstrations, technical briefings, and videos. Papers present advances in theory, implementations, or experience with hypertext. Technical briefings offer in-depth analyses and demonstrations of hypertext systems or applications. Panels provide a forum for exploring the art and business of hypertext. The video program will be available in hotel guest rooms and run continuosly in a video theatre. Everyone is welcome to bring videos of their own to show in the video theatre. Demonstrations of recent advances or prototype systems enable conference participants to view systems in action, as well as discuss the systems with the people who created them. Posters promote in-depth interaction between presenters and participants. This format also provides an opportunity for the exploration and discussion of late-breaking developments, work-in-progress, and emerging concepts. HOTEL RESERVATIONS The Seattle Sheraton Hotel & Towers is the conference hotel. To reserve a room, phone the hotel, ask for the ACM/Hypertext conference rate, and provide your credit card number. The hotelUs phone number is +1 206-621-9000. The conference rates are only available when contacting the hotel directly. Registration Information For a complete Advanced Program and Registration information, call Sarah Amendola at 206-292-9198, fax to 206-292-0559, e-mail ht93@atc.boeing.com or write: Hypertext '93 (CSNW) Tower Building, Suite 1200 1809 Seventh Ave. Seattle, WA 98101 You may register by printing the registration form below, completing the form, and faxing or mailing it to the addresses listed above. Payment must be included. Registration is NOT available by electronic mail. The conference registration fee includes 2.5 days of technical sessions, conference proceedings, demonstrations, video program, posters, and conference banquet and receptions. Note for courses: Course numbers were indicated above. Course 1, 2, 15, and 16 are 2 units each. Couses 1 and 2 are offered for the full day on Sunday (Nov 14) while courses 15 and 16 are offered for the full day on Monday (Nov 15). All other courses are 1 units each. Courses 3 through 6 are offered on Sunday morning, courses 7 through 14 are offered on Sunday afternoon, courses 17 through 20 on Monday morning, and courses 21 through 24 on Monday afternoon.You should not register for more than 2 units on each day, and you should not register for any units on Monday if you register for the Commercial Symposium. Hypertext '93 Registration Form Name(First, MI, Last) : Company: Mailing Address: E-mail address: Phone Number: Fax Number: Name and affiliation on badge (if different from above): Are you an ACM or AICA-GLIT or STC member? If yes, affiliation/membership number: Are you a student? If yes, university and student id number: Do you require special services as disabled attendee? If you DO NOT want your name on the attendee list, mark yes: Payment Structure (in US $). Please circle the applicable options: STUDENTS $150 - Conference Only $100 - 1 tutorial unit only $175 - 2 tutorial units only $225 - 3 tutorial unit sonly $250 - 4 tutorial units only $150 - Commercial Symposium only Postmarked on or before October 7 Members $350 - Conference Only $160 - 1 tutorial unit only $265 - 2 tutorial units only $385 - 3 tutorial unit sonly $460 - 4 tutorial units only $200 - Commercial Symposium only Non-Members $430 - Conference Only $190 - 1 tutorial unit only $345 - 2 tutorial units only $500 - 3 tutorial unit sonly $655 - 4 tutorial units only $230 - Commercial Symposium only Postmarked After October 7 Members $420 - Conference Only $200 - 1 tutorial unit only $365 - 2 tutorial units only $505 - 3 tutorial unit sonly $620 - 4 tutorial units only $250 - Commercial Symposium only Non-Members $520 - Conference Only $235 - 1 tutorial unit only $435 - 2 tutorial units only $610 - 3 tutorial unit sonly $760 - 4 tutorial units only $280 - Commercial Symposium only EXTRA PROCEEDINGS $35 x ____copies EXTRA BANQUET TICKETS $50 x ____tickets TOTAL $ Credit Card Type: Visa / Master Card / AMEX Card Number: From: chris <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za> Subject: programming software:creating windows and menus Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 10:32:07 RSA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 162 (323) I am currently involved in programming (n PROLOG )a piece of software designed to analyze story structures in terms of embedded minimal action sequences. In order to make the program more accessible and user friendly I would like to create user interfaces for input/output operations that are based on pull-down menus and windows. Can anybody please give e some hints to which programming tools would be useful for this purpose - creating mnue let alone windows for graphic representation in pure PROLOG is rather cuersome!e. Any tools for creating tree-like graphics would be particularly hlpful. Chris Meister Dept.Modern Languages and Literatures - German Studies Wits University Johannesburg, RSA From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: Libraries of the Future Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 10:51 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 163 (324) The Libraries of the Future issue of Representations (Spring 1993) has some interesting reading, though it all adds up to a strange package in some ways. Geoffrey Nunberg's essay ``The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction'' is the first article in the issue and is certainly the most general consideration of electronic texts that it contains, but its conclusions seem dubious to me. Its claim is that, by virtue of the limitations of print, printed texts can play a role in the cultural functions of ordering and selection that electronic texts can never fill---precisely because they have no physical limitations. The most astonishing part of his argument is this: his observation that great changes in the economic and legal workings of publishing will be needed if we're to have big electronic libraries available over wide-area networks---which seems true enough---is followed by the calm statement that he'll simply assume that all this will happen, and will go on to discuss electronic libraries with no reference to those changes whatsoever. This is an amazing thing to read in Representations, which is known for printing articles that try to bring exactly those economic and legal questions into literary and cultural studies; and Jane C. Ginsburg's fine article on copyright is right there in the same issue to point out the importance of the legal questions. What he's left with to base an argument on is the considerable amount of work that's been done on the history of literacy, and the small amount of work on electronic textuality (which in any case he doesn't refer to much). And what happens is something that you see a lot in these discussions: for all its scholarship and theoretical baggage, eventually everything is based on the author's limited experiences. You've heard people argue that electronic texts are intrinsically unstable who were clearly thinking mainly about that time WordPerfect trashed their file; what's behind this article is the alarmed observation: I'm on Linguist and there's already too much traffic! What will this come to in the future? That the future might offer different ways of sorting your electronic mail (to mention only the most mundane answer to this question) doesn't come up. But the article does say a lot of interesting things along the way, and is worth looking at for those things. And don't skip the introduction to the issue (by its editors, R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse): it culls a lot of intelligent points from the rather odd collection of articles that form this issue. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University From: FRN373B@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Comparative Literature Lists Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1993 00:36:56 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 228 (325) Can anyone help direct me to any lists which focus on comparative literature ? Thanks Jack L. Burston Monash University FRN373B@VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU From: Chuck Brownson Subject: want to locate copies Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1993 10:58:23 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 229 (326) I am beginning some research on the computer analysis of translator style. There are two texts which I would like to work on, but have been unable to locate convenient copies. They are both translations of Theophile Gautier: Avatar. London: Vizetelly, 1888 (Capital Stories, II) The Evil Eye. Tr Alexina Loranger. Chicago: Morrill Higgins, 1892. repr. Chicago: WB Conkey, 1893 (Jettatura p 9-183) I have seen both of these, but only in libraries which are quite a ways from home and won't circulate them. For my purposes I need copies to digitize, which means photocopying the whole thing, or (better) buying it. Has anyone encountered either of these titles on a library shelf or a used book dealer's stock? I would be grateful for any tips. -- Charles W Brownson, Humanities Co-ordinator ___Collection Development, ASU Libraries ___(602) 965-5250 Fax (602) 965 9169 ___IACCWB@ASUACAD.BITNET (asuvm.inre.asu) From: Charles Ess Subject: Internet gateway for Compuserve addresses? Date: Tue, 07 Sep 93 16:03:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 230 (327) We are trying to reach a colleague who has a compuserve address by using the following: xxxxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com where the xxxxxx.yyyy represent his compuserve numerical address. While I've seen mail arrive on the Internet from compuserve with this form of address, we cannot seem to reach him: we get the mail returned as undeliverable. Is there a more successful way of reaching those on compuserve? Thanks in advance -- Charles Ess * Life is change Drury College * How it differs from the rocks Springfield, MO 68502 USA * -- Grace Slick From: jporter@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jim Porter) Subject: Univ. of Hamburg contact Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 17:30:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 231 (328) I am looking for a scholar from the University of Hamburg who might be interested in collaborating on a project involving the use of electronic communications to promote the study of rhetoric and/or business/technical communication. The project would involve setting up and promoting international electronic "class discussions" between students and faculty at Hamburg and at Purdue (which already have a cooperative faculty exchange program in place)--and might eventually involve some other sites as well. For further details, please send e-mail directly to the address below ... and feel free to forward this note. -------------------- Jim Porter Associate Professor and Director of Business Writing Department of English Purdue University West Lafayette, IN USA jporter@mace.cc.purdue.edu From: Onno Boonstra Subject: AHC '94 Conference Date: Wed, 08 Sep 93 12:12:14 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 165 (329) ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL FOR PAPERS `Structures and contingencies in computerized historical research' IXth Congress of the Association for History and Computing, August 30 - September 2, 1994 Nijmegen, the Netherlands Scientific historical research aims at constructing an image of the past which comprises more than the sum of the historical events that serve as its basic material. Historical researchers, therefore, have much to gain from instruments that can be used to extract structures from the contingencies of historical events. The IX AHC Conference will offer a platform to all those who can contribute towards the unravelling of the problem of historical 'structures and contingencies' with help of a computer. The Conference includes main sessions, special sessions, project presentations and demonstrations all related to one of the following themes: - Computer structures, computer software and historical research - Structuring historical data - The dynamics of historical structures - Structuring data-processing - The study of historical structures All who would like to participate in the Congress are kindly invited to contact the Congress Secretary before January 15, 1994. The address is: AHC '94 Vakgroep Geschiedenis Nijmegen University P.O. Box 9103 6500 HD Nijmegen The Netherlands Tel: +80 - 612825 FAX: +80 - 615939 E-mail: U204015@HNYKUN11.UCI.KUN.NL From: istvan@psych.ualberta.ca (Istvan Berkeley) Subject: New Phil Preprints Service. Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 15:00:05 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 166 (330) PLEASE POST -=- PLEASE POST -=- PLEASE POST -=- PLEASE POST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Announcing The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange at phil-preprints.l.chiba-u.ac.jp (Chiba University, Japan) Coordinated by Richard Reiner (York University) rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca Syun Tutiya (Chiba University) tutiya@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp With the assistance of Andrew Burday (McGill University) andy@dep.philo.mcgill.ca Istvan Berkeley (University of Alberta) iberkele@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca Carolyn L Burke (York University) cburke@nexus.yorku.ca George Gale (University of Missouri - Kansas City) ggale@vax1.umkc.edu Paul Osepa (TDS) osepa@tds.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The benefits of circulating pre-publication drafts of one's work are well known: one can learn from the comments, criticisms, and suggestions of one's peers, and thereby improve one's work; and one can enter into fruitful dialogues with others doing related research. The benefits of timely access to pre-publication drafts of the work of others are also well known: one can gain access to current work in one's specialty without the delays associated with print publication; and one gains in a more general sense by participating in a richer, extended professional community. However, until now, philosophers have had no organized means of sharing preprints. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Introducing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange is a new service on the Internet intended to make it easy for philosophers with Internet access of any kind to exchange working papers in all areas of philosophy, and to comment publicly on each other's work. The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange provides storage for working papers, abstracts, and comments, and provides a variety of means by which papers and abstracts may be browsed and downloaded. 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Berkeley, email: istvan@psych.ualberta.ca Biological Computation Project Department of Philosophy / Department of Psychology University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Tel: +1 403 492 4106 T6G 2E9, Canada Fax: +1 403 492 9160 From: Eric Crump Subject: Computers & Writing Call for Proposals Date: Wed, 08 Sep 93 13:53:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 167 (331) ----------------------------------------------------------- Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists, newsgroups, bbs, and individuals. ***Deepest apologies for those who see this announcement millions and millions of times*** ----------------------------------------------------------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Call for Proposals The Tenth COMPUTERS AND WRITING CONFERENCE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Hosted by the University of Missouri Columbia, MO May 20-23, 1994 THEME: The Global Web of Writing Technologies THE CONFERENCE This conference serves a growing and diverse community of writing teachers, students, and scholars who are interested in the convergence of computer technology and writing education. Many schools are now poised for their first leap into computer writing instruction, while in other places writing teachers and their students are making forays into new domains such as the wide world of the Internet. This conference brings together people from those extremes and from all points on the intervening continuum to share their ideas, research, and experiences. ************************ ---------------- * Tight travel budget? * ************************| ELECTRONIC ACCESS | The program for this year's conference will emphasize the role of | the wide-area academic networks in writing education. And | electronic access will, we hope, make attending the event possible| to people who for some reason cannot travel to Columbia. It seems | only appropriate that conferences--especially those that are | concerned with computers and computer networks--should employ | the reach of the Internet in order to give more people access | to the conversation. ******************** <--| ---------------- * Attend C&W94 via * * the Internet (at * * a reduced fee) * ******************** PROPOSALS We invite proposals that pertain in some way to the use of computers at any level of writing education, K-12 to community colleges to colleges and large universities, from technologically rich environments to places where instruction with computers is just getting started. Hands-on sessions, demonstrations, or any other format that encourages audience participation and interaction are particularly welcome. Here is a short list from among innumerable possible topics: --The latest reports from teachers and students--K-12 through college level--who are exploring the possibilities of networked classrooms --Tales of adventure from teachers and students who are venturing from the classroom into the wider network world --Help taking the first steps toward incorporating computers into writing instruction and research --Possibilities for using computers to forge better connections between K-12 and college educators --Hypertext theory, its classroom applications and cultural implications --Hypermedia applications and their impact on how we view "text," "rhetoric," and "writing" --Writing in distance education programs --Computers and networks in writing across the curriculum programs --The legal, economic, and cultural impact of computer technology --The latest studies of and experiences with word processing and computer-assisted instruction programs --The impact of computer technology on writing and editing in journalism --How global information networks may affect the nature of journalism --Hypertext and network collaboration and new shapes in creative writing --The changing relationship between writers and information sources: libraries and librarians of the future SPECIAL FOCUS --The history and future of the computers and writing field The tenth Computers and Writing Conference seems like an appropriate place and time in which to indulge in some retrospection, introspection, and prognostication. We hope veterans and novices in the field will suggest opportunities for exploring the State of the Field, whether via special forums or by weaving the subject into regular sessions. VIRTUAL SESSIONS? We hope to have adequate access to a multiple user environment (MediaMOO, probably, or Internet Relay Chat) for conference activities. Presenters who are interested in trying something rather new might want to consider proposing sessions that include realtime conferencing over the Internet using these systems. CW94:FORUM The electronic forum offered this year by the University of Michigan was a great success, and we plan to continue the practice. Although the technical details have not yet been nailed down, we expect to make available a similar bulletin- board-type conferencing system that will allow participants to read presentation summaries and discuss the issues they raise well in advance of the May 20-23 gathering in Columbia. Presenters whose proposals are accepted will be asked to submit longer versions for use in conjunction with the electronic conference. Details will be included in acceptance notices. -------------------------------------------------- Proposals for sessions on any subject related to computers and writing will be accepted from August 1 to November 1, 1993. We encourage electronic submission, but acceptance is not in any way contingent upon it. Submissions can also be made in print or on 3.5 inch computer disks, initialized either in Macintosh or IBM format, as long as the text is saved in ASCII (text) format. Notification will be made in January 1994. Please submit a 200- to 300-word abstract plus title for individual presentations, for poster sessions, and for each portion of panel presentations. For roundtables, think tanks, and readings (creative writing, for example), please submit a single 300-word abstract with names and addresses of each participant along with descriptions of the contribution each participant will make. For workshops, please include, in addition to a single 300-word abstract, an estimated timetable of activities. We also invite alternative session formats to the ones listed here. Past conference-goers have expressed interest in more of the hands-on and demo-type sessions, but presenters should also feel free to suggest presentation formats that best fit their work (although in the interest of the organizers' sanity, it might be good to also suggest standard options in case the preferred version simply can't be made to fit the program). Include name, institutional affiliation, postal address, and electronic mail address for each presenter. Each submission should include a description, as precise as possible, of equipment needs, if any. We do not guarantee absolutely that equipment requests will be fulfillable, but we will do our best to provide excellent technical support and will work with presenters to make the best arrangements we can. Computer classrooms and labs sporting IBM 55s with OS/2 2.1 or DOS 6.0 and Macintosh Centris computers with System 7.1 will be available. Any additional hardware or software requirements will need to be arranged on a case-by-case basis. Send electronic submissions (and any other correspondence) to: Eric Crump at LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu. Please include somewhere in the subject line: CWC94. Send disks and print submissions to: Eric Crump, 231 Arts & Science, University of Missouri. Columbia, MO 65211. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * C&W94: * * * * * * A conference leaks into cyberspace * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: POT@LEICESTER.AC.UK Subject: Date: Wed, 8 SEP 93 18:25:57 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 168 (332) I would very much like to make contact with anyone who is (or has) used a social networking programme. I currently use Ucinet IV v1.06, but have no experience of such software as STRUCTURE and GRADAP (or, indeed, anu other products on the market). I would particularly be interested in any differences in algorithms/analysis in the packages. In Ucinet, for example, density of networks is calculated, I am told, by blockmodelling the data matrix. Is this the same in all packages and are their output thus compatible? David Postles, Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester, England. pot@uk.ac.leicester From: George McClintock Subject: Re: 7.0162 Software Tools? (1/14) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 19:53:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 232 (333) For the PC, Visual Basic and/or Visual C/C++ are excellent products for creating graphical user interfaces. The programmer/designer draws the desired visual objects, the programs generate *most* of the code, then the programmer fills in the blanks. There are plenty of books available about Visual Basic containing sample code. For UNIX, nothing beats the X Window System, but the programming tasks are much greater in scope. George /******************************************************************* * The opinions expressed are those of the author and in no way * * represent the opinions of CUNY, its agencies or personnel. * * mcc@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu || CMCGC@CUNYVM.BITNET * *******************************************************************/ From: Grant Stirling Subject: Internet Access via Compuserve Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 20:14:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 233 (334) I, too, am on Internet and regularly correspond with over-seas relatives who subscribe to CompuServe. I think your problem may lie in the possibility that CompuServe addresses are case sensitive. Thus, you might try addressing your missives xxxxx.yyyy@CompuServe.COM rather than xxxxx.yyyy@compuserve.com Hope this works for you. But if it doesn't, why not call your local CompuServe office and ask them? Good luck. From: Dr. S. Totosy Subject: 7.0164 Qs: Comp Lit; Translation; Compuserve; U of Hamburg (4/73 Date: Wed, 8 Sep 93 09:18:21 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 234 (335) Comparative Literature University of Alberta Reply to Burston re Comp.Lit. I am not aware of Comp.Lit. bibliographies on electronic mail, if that is what you are asking about. Otherwise, hard- copy comp.lit bibliographies are many.... In any case, at a recent meeting with the ICLA president, Maria-Alzira Seixo at the FILLM in Brasilia, we discussed the publication of Complit bibliography both in hard-copy and electronically. The decision of how and when and who will be made at our executive meeting in Venice this October. I hope this helps. Regards, S. Totosy From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Computer generated literature Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 18:05:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 170 (336) CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTER GENERATED LITERATURE SPECIAL SESSION DURING ALLC-ACH 94 CONFERENCE 19-23 april 1994 Paris - Sorbonne = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = As we are planing to ask the ALLC-ACH 94 organizers to include in their conference programme a special session on "Computer Generated Literature" (CGL), we are gathering submissions on this very topic. These will be forwarded all together to the ALLC-ACH 94 selection comittee with our proposal for a special session. CGL, in its broadest sense, includes, among others, these research fields: - animated typography, animated poetic video - sound and spatial poetry - computer generated poetry, theater and fiction - computer generated scripts, scenarios and tales - interactive literature, poly-auctorial literature Papers could deal with the following research topics: - literary text generators: theoretical or practical approaches - methods and programming environments for generator developpment - historical or typological survey of CGL - pedagogical applications - legal implications (copyright), commercial implications (publication, distribution) - relationships between CGL and literary institutions and archiving facilities and libraries of the future and genetic studies and critical studies - particular project or realization in CGL * * * PRACTICAL INFORMATION Refer to ALLC-ACH94's "Preliminary Call for Papers" for further details. Please note the following particulars of the proposed CGL session. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES Papers will be accepted both in French and in English. ABSTRACTS LENGTH 1500 words for 25 minute presentations 2500 words for 45 minute lectures SUBMISSION FORMAT In order to speed up the submission process, e-mail usage is *strongly* encouraged. Submission should all include the following information: TITLE: AUTHOR(S): AFFILIATION: POSTAL ADDRESS: E-MAIL ADDRESS: FAX NUMBER: PHONE NUMBER: Please mention the name of the author as the "subject" of the e-submission message. Submission for this particular CGL-session should be sent directly to Michel Lenoble: lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca DEADLINES October 1, 1993 - Proposal for CGL session October 15, 1993 - CGL Session proposal sent to ALLC-ACH December 15, 1993 - Notification of acceptance February 15, 1994 - Advanced registration PUBLICATION OF PAPERS In case of CGL-session acceptance by ALLC-ACH, the organizers of this particular session are planning a selective paper publication, most probably in cooperation with a french research center. Negociations with the publishers are currently under way. |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| | More info: contact Michel Lenoble: lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca | |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| -- 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: stan kulikowski ii Subject: voynich ms? Date: Thu, 09 Sep 93 08:54:39 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 235 (337) in a recent post i mentioned an undeciphered document called 'the voynich manuscript'. i have heard this appears to be a 16th century document about 300 pages long, written in an unknown script. it also has illustrations in the manner of a natural history. someone responded that this manuscript is an academic myth. does thing actually exist? and if so, where? stan . stankuli@UWF.bitnet === life is a tragedy to those who feel, º º and a comedy for those who think. --- -- jean delabruyere From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: communication s/w Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 15:36+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 236 (338) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Could somebody point me to a easy-to-use communication software-package running under DOS (not WINDOWS). I want to connect my PC both to the mainframe in our departement and to the private PC's of several colleagues. Thanks for anny suggestion. Fritz Heberlein, Classics, U Eichstaett, Bavaria. From: Jim Campbell Subject: Compuserve Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 08:47:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 172 (339) I correspond fairly regularly with book dealers in the US and in Europe who have Compuserve accounts and have had no problem using addresses of the form xxx.xxxx@compuserve.com. Perhaps the problem is with your local mailer or with the server that looks up ip addresses. Check with your local computer folks first. - Jim Campbell (campbell@virginia.edu) From: Prof Norm Coombs Subject: Making Info Tech Disability Accessible Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 21:27:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 173 (340) The EASI Seminar Series Computers and Students with Disabilities New Challenges for Higher Education EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information Has the Americans with Disabilities Act left you with more questions than answers about providing computing services for individuals with disabilities? Are you trying to find the most effective, efficient way to support your disabled students, faculty and staff? If you're struggling to find answers to these and other hard questions, come to the EASI Seminar Series. This one-day seminar focuses on: *The demographics of disabilities *Taking a pro-active approach to complying with the spirit of such laws as the Americans with Disabilities Act and Sections 503 and 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act *Technology and equipment necessary for students, faculty and staff with disabilities *Setting up accessible labs and workstations *Establishing support services for technology-use by students, faculty and staff with disabilities *Funding and planning strategies for establishing adaptive computing services on campus Howard University Nov. 12, 1993 Medger Evers College Nov. 19, 1993 *Atlantic-Bell Charitable Foundation and EASI are making available a limited number of scholarships to minority participants and city school district participants. For information write: ) NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET or call (716) 475-2462 or CSMICLC@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU or (310) 640-3193. Page 2 EASI Answers to Hard Questions EASI's one-day, three module seminar presentation is designed to offer strategies for developing and enhancing adaptive computer technology services on college and university campuses. The Seminar Series was created by a group of specialists who have a wide variety of expertise working with computer technology and people with disabilities. Seminar modules are designed to accommodate a wide variety of audiences. Certain modules are specifically aimed at computing services personnel, disabled student services providers, college and university faculty, staff members, and campus administrators. EASI Presenters When you're trying to figure out how to do something, the best advice usually comes from the experts--the people who have done it before. EASI presenters are people who have already set up the kinds of services your school needs. Our presenters are experts who have developed and implemented adaptive computing technology service programs at colleges and universities across the country. The people presenting the EASI Seminar Series are the people who have pioneered the field of adaptive computing. They've taken a pro-active approach to meeting legal mandates. They've advocated for services at their schools. They've struggled for funding. They've tried new equipment and new technologies. They've worked with students. After all that, they know what works. And they're willing to share that knowledge with you. Page 3 EASI Seminar Registration (Check Location) Registration Fee (includes lunch and materials) $150 Early Discount (Before Nov. 1, 1993 ) $ 25 EDUCOM Members $125 _____ Howard University -- Washington, D.C. (Nov. 12, 1993) _____ Medger Evers College -- New York (Nov. 19, 1993) (Last Name) (First Name) (Title) (Organization) (Address) (City) (State) (Phone) (Fax) (E-Mail) Payment must be made by check or credit card. Make checks payable to EDUCOM. ____ Check Total Enclosed _________ ____ American Express ____ VISA ____ MasterCard Card Number __________________________ Exp. Date _______ Authorized Signature __________________________________ MAIL TO: EASI P. O. Box 1278 El Segundo, CA 90245-6278 For more information call Carmela Castorina at (310) 640-3193 or send e-mail to: CSMICLC@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU Please forward this message. From: David E. Latane Subject: Victorians Institute Meeting Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 8:12:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 174 (341) Victorians Institute Meeting 1993 The annual meetings of the Victorians Institute are congenial get togethers of Victorianists from a number of disciplines. Papers are read in plenary session, with time for discussion and conversation. All are welcome to attend. The 1993 Meeting of the Victorians Institute will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 15-16. THEME: "Scientific Fantasy and Fantastic Science." KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania PAPERS: Howard Fulweiler, University of Missouri, "'A Dismal Swamp': Darwin, Design, and Evolution in *Our Mutual Friend*" Donald Rackin, Temple University, "Apes, Angels, and the Alices: Lewis Carroll's Darwinian Dream-Visions" Thomas Strychacz, Mills College, "'Rock Rodendo': Herman Melville's Critique of Victorian Natural History" Paul Johnson, Conception Seminary College, "Imperial Science in the Avu Observatory" Susan J. Navoretta, UNC Chapel Hill, "The Shape of Fear: Horror, Language, (d)Evolution" Nancy M. West, Wichita State University, "Beyond the Frame: Photography, Spiritualism, and the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle" Martin A. Danahay, Emory University, "Retro- Techno- Victorians: From *Sybil* to *The Difference Engine*" David Cody, Hartwick College, "'A Being Possessed of Unbounded Knowledge': Babbage, Poe, and the Power of Words" Laurie Lew Brown, University of Chicago, "Modern Science and Modern Painters: The Colors of 'Realism' in Ruskin's *Academy Notes* L. Robert Stevens, University of North Texas, "John Ruskin's Fanciful Taxonomy" James W. Maertens, University of Minnestoa, "Prometheus ex Machina: The Technician-hero and the Fire of Logos" Sherri Wolf, Columbia University, "Gathering and Ungendering the Scientific Dimensions of *Middlemarch*" Linda Seidel, Northwestern Missouri State University, "Camille Paglia's 'Darwinian Nature'" For registration information, contact Beverly Taylor, VI Conference Department of English, CB #3520 UNC-CH Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 (919) 962-5481 FAX (919) 962-3520 (Note: Victorians Institute members should be receiving their packets shortly.) e-mail inquiries about the conference or the Victorians Institute may be addressed to: David Latane President, Victorians Institute Dept. of English VCU Richmond, VA 23284-2005 dlatane@hibbs.vcu.edu From: Onderzoeks Instituut Taal en Spraak Subject: Robustness Conference Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 15:20:13 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 175 (342) PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME, September 1993 *************************************************************** THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY: COPING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION Organized by the Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS) on the occasion of its 5th anniversary 28-30 October 1993 Theme Description The human language faculty shows a remarkable robustness with respect to incomplete information. Many possible features are not realized in the signal of a normal linguistic utterance; and on the meaning side too, the interpretation is highly underdetermined by the expression itself. Yet, in the normal case, understanding is not in any way hampered by this. It may well be that the availability of knowledge from other cognitive domains contributes to the overall success, or perhaps this robustness is caused by the modular structure of the linguistic system itself. Information that disappears from one module would be compensated for via another module. The central question of this conference will be how this robustness of the language system can be explained, focusing in particular on the role of non-linguistic information and higher order redundancy. Preliminary programme Thursday, October 28 1993 10.00 Welcome, S. Nooteboom (director OTS, Utrecht) 10.15-11.30 Theme: Language Acquisition How is it that the child is able to extract the necessary information from an incomplete analysis of language data to proceed successfully in the acquisition process? Speaker: K. Wexler (MIT) Comments: J. Weissenborn (MPI, Nijmegen) 11.30-12.00 Coffee 12.00-13.15 Theme: Aphasia Aphasia can be characterized by the existence of blockades in the transmittance of information between various cognitive domains. What kind of strategies are used to avoid these blockades? What role does the modular structure of the language faculty play here? Speaker: G. Dogil (Stuttgart) Comments: L. Blomert (MPI, Nijmegen) 13.15-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.45 Theme: Language Processing Various cognitive domains, partly linguistic, partly also extra-linguistic, are involved in the interpretation of language utterances. It is often assumed that these various processes operate in parallel fashion. With such a parallel form of processing interpretation can be the result of different independently operating subprocesses; that is to say, information within one module is not accessible to the other module. This presupposes that processes act as filters on each other's output. A feasible alternative is that modules are not informationally encapsulated and that processes do affect the operation of one another. The discussion will address the question in how far models of human language processing shed light on the optimalisation of processing modals of machine languages. Speaker: M. Tanenhaus (Rochester) Comments: L. des Tombe & S. Krauwer (Utrecht) 15.45-16.15 Tea 16.15-17.30 Theme: Sign Language The development and acquisition of sign language is a typical example of the robustness of human linguistic competence. The canonical medium is not available and its role is taken over by another medium with principally other constraints. This also means that the language faculty is not bothered by such constraints in its operation. The obvious question is what compensatory mechanisms are at work, and how the activities of the various modules are influenced by the alternative medium. Speaker: D. Perlmutter (San Diego, UCSD) Comments: A. Mills (Amsterdam) 18.00- Reception Friday October 29 1993 Session: Computational Linguistics and Logic Session Theme: Partial information In computational studies of linguistic competence the notion of "information" is an important one, in particular partialness of linguistic information, and the dynamics of reasoning with respect to this partial information. In feature grammars unification is the central operation for combining partially specified linguistic descriptions. In categorial frameworks unification is enriched by a dimension of type inference. The general research goal in these computational models of linguistic competence is the characterization of what one might call "linguistic inference": a theory of reasoning by means of linguistic objects. It has proven fruitful not to separate linguistic inference from other modes of inference which play a role in broader cognitive frameworks. Linguistic inference is sensitive to the structure of linguistic constructs in the form and meaning dimensions. Current developments in logic offer an excellent starting-point for the systematic study of such a structure-sensitive inference. 9.00-12.30 Invited speakers are: I. Sag (Stanford), R. Kempson (SOAS, London), H. Verkuyl (Utrecht), J. van Benthem (Amsterdam) 12.30-14.00 Lunch Session: Phonology Theme: Overdetermination and underspecification in phonology In phonology the problem of robustness takes the form of constraints on the distance between lexical and phonetic representations. Such constraints can be sought in lexical representations (the theory of underspecification), or in rule application (theory of lexical phonology). In addition, the robustness of lexical representation can perhaps also be explained by means of overdetermination in prosodic structure (syllable structure, metrical structure). Central research questions associated with robustness are the following. Are lexical phonological representations maximally underspecified, or only partially? What is the role of prosodic structure in the characterization of lexical representation? Which constraints are the null positions in phonological representation (empty syllables, onsets) subject to? 14.00-17.30 Invited speakers are: P. Kiparsky (Stanford), R. Kager (Utrecht), K.P. Mohanan (Singapore), S. Anderson (Johns Hopkins) Evening lecture 20.00-21.00 D. Lightfoot (Maryland) 21.00- Drinks Saturday, October 30 Session: Phonetics Theme: Phonetic Underspecification In natural speech many features of speech sounds are not always realized. In producing artificial speech it can be observed that realization of all features leads to an unnatural result. It seems that the human perceptual mechanism is so specifically designed for under-information that is caused by natural sloppiness that complete information is perceived as over-information. In light of this fact the question arises what the rules are for realizing the features of speech sounds. What are the thresholds of tolerance, and what are these determined by? What is acceptable sloppiness? To what extent are these determined by the nature of the production and perception processes, and to what extent by formal and substantive properties of the utterance itself? Are there parallels to be drawn with demands for underspecification in syntax? 9.00-12.30 Invited speakers are: B. Lindblom (Austin), C. Darwin (Sussex), L. Pols (Amsterdam), S. Anderson (Johns Hopkins) 12.30-14.00 Lunch Session: Syntax and Semantics Theme: Contextual vs Grammatical Conditions on Interpretation In addition to elements which can independently have a referential function (such as common nouns and pronominals) the language system also has elements which do not have such a function. Anaphors form a large group of the latter class, their interpretation being dependent on other elements. In principle, anaphors are underspecified for one or more grammatical properties. A fundamental question in this regard is what is the connection between the syntactic/lexical property of the absence of features, and the semantic property that independent interpretation is impossible. Under strict conditions on the non- linguistic context, however, certain types of anaphors can get an interpretation without having a linguistic antecedent. These then occur as logophors. This leads to two fundamental questions: 1. What intrinsic properties of anaphors determine their ability to show up as logophors? 2. How can contextual information show interaction with strictly grammatical conditions on interpretation? 14.00-17.30 Invited speakers are: T. Reinhart (Tel Aviv/Utrecht), M. Diesing (Cornell), J. Huang (Irvine), D. Delfitto (Utrecht) Organization Peter Coopmans Research Institute for Language & Speech Martin Everaert Utrecht University Eric Reuland Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht Wim Zonneveld tel:+31-30-536006, fax:+31-30-536000, e-mail:ots@let.ruu.nl *************************************************************** Conference sites: - Academy Building Domplein, Utrecht - CSB Building Kromme Nieuwe Gracht 39, Utrecht *************************************************************** Accommodation: The organisation will not take care of hotel accommodation. 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This lecture was mentioned and has been in subsequent contributions to the LRB by correspondents. I have had so mnay requests for copies of this lecture that I am making it available on the Internet. An expanded version of it will be published later in the year. Robin Alston University College London September 10, 1993 r.alston@ucl.ac.uk # # # # # THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS In preparing this lecture I decided to follow Montaigne's advice and abstain from talking too seriously about serious matters, and it occurred to me that Swift's little allegory might serve as a convenient fiction for my purpose. For those who remember their Swift it provides a shroud of ambiguity which seriousness needs these days. It does not really matter how you interpret the players in the quarrel (Temple, Wotton, Bentley, Swift and Fontenelle) or even the implicit presence - off-stage as it were - - of the Royal Society upon which so many hopes were pinned. Some of the deliberations and experiments proposed in the Philosophical Transactions were plainly ridiculous, but we can understand these a little better if we remember that the founding fathers were careful to arrange the inauguration of their Society in conformity with the predictions of the astrologer Flamsteed, a frequent contributor to its proceedings. We do not know precisely the occasion for Swift's immortal mock- heroic pamphlet, though it may well have been the publication in 1697 of Richard Bentley's single-sheet proposal for the establishment of a properly managed Royal Library, a theme which has its origin in another proposal - by John Dee to Queen Mary in 1556. The allegory draws its strength from a theme as old as knowledge: the ordeal of ideas which evolve through all the stages whereby darkness becomes light; a re-enactment of the Greek story of the war between the gods and the giants. Reverence for the ancients has waxed and waned at various times in the history of Europe, and usually with quite different consequences. Thus, the rediscovery of the "Master" Aristotle in the thirteenth century led Aquinas to the conviction that Christianity and Aristotle were in perfect harmony, and the dogmatic mind found comfort in an intellectual apostle of the strictest sort. And so the great architect of logic, dialectic, metaphysics and natural science became the unquestioning hero of both Church and University. But, just as these two institutions began to feel secure, the Doctor Mirabilis Roger Bacon was busily reminding a baffled Europe that there was more in the universe to discover than there ever was hinted at in Aristotle. "It is most wretched to be using what has been attained, and never look to that which is to be attained." Especially, he added, when our knowledge of the ancients is derived from corrupt and obscure translations. A rebellion against scholasticism of another sort found expression in his contemporary Dante's daring preference for Italian instead of Latin. It is tempting to see in Georgius Gemistus (referred to in his time as Pletho) the source for the debate about the ancients and the battles which ensued between the followers of Aristotle and those of Plato in Florence at the court of the Medici in which the "moderns", Ficino and Pico, were to play such a crucial role. In spite of the passion for "truth" which characterised both men, a real understanding of Plato had still not been achieved when the sixteenth century dawned. Progress, as with the classicism of the thirteenth century, was still a backward-looking hope. In Northern Europe the "new age", which eventually dissipated itself in religious controversy and a general optimism about the ways in which a knowledge of the past could sustain hopes for a progressive future, found its most persuasive expression in Erasmus whose vision of the Republic of Letters and the exercise of intelligence was to be thwarted by the Protestant revolution in Germany led by Luther. The bloodbath which followed - and which Erasmus had predicted - engulfed Europe in civilian discord and frustrated the emancipation from uncritical dependence on the ancients which had been the dream of the humanists. For a new voice, arbitrating between the ancients and the moderns, we must turn to Montaigne whose affection for the former is based on nothing more intellectually challenging than pure delight and a feeling of companionship with spirits as present as they were indubitably past: I have been bred up from infancy with these dead. I had knowledge of the affairs of Rome long before I had any of those of my own house; I knew the Capitol and its plan before I knew the Louvre; and the Tiber before I knew the Seine. ... They are all dead; so is my father as absolutely dead as they, and is removed as far from me and life in eighteen years as they are in sixteen hundred; whose memory, nevertheless, friendship and society, I do not cease to hug and embrace with a perfect and lively union." Montaigne's delight in, and admiration for, the ancients is wholly without servitude. The end of all knowledge is quite simply to better understand man: "the common and human model, without miracle, without extravagance." What would we give now for a voice like Montaigne's! As so many times in the past the opposing armies are set to do battle, and in the study and importance of books there are those who would persuade us that the moderns have won; that paper will give way to electronics; that librarianship as we have known it for a hundred years is as dead as Aristotelian science; that the library has become less a nursery of knowledge than a play-room in which those with antiquarian obsessions indulge their fantasies and must be transformed into electronic warehouses invisibly connected to all other warehouses; that there can be no real progress until every scrap of paper has been digitised and rendered tractable to electronic manipulation and distribution via the telecommunication networks being built in space. If this were so - and I seriously doubt that it is - then our intellectual future will be comprehensivly entrusted to engineers. That may be a fine prospect for faculties of engineering, and the makers of electronic devices on which the librarian is increasingly dependent, but it might have serious consequences for a balanced view of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going. Montaigne dismissed the physician writing about war as an absurdity, just as he dismissed those who uncritically follow others: "Who follows another, follows nothing, finds nothing, nay is inquisitive after nothing." Without bothering to examine the basis for our contemporary obsession with computers and the interminable novelty of every new piece of software which promises undreamt-of opportunities to perform a variety of tasks simultaneously we have decided to reconstruct our libraries on a new model. That model presupposes that the information which libraries have traditionally supplied is somehow more meaningful in electronic form, and therefore capable of being stored, interrogated and transmitted to any part of the globe. Now, it has to be admitted that some kinds of information undoubtedly benefit from universal and near-instantaneous access: we would not be able to book an airplane ticket in London for a journey from Singapore to Djakarta if this were not so. But the half-life of such information is trivially small and the evidence for the transaction can be discarded after a period generally prescribed by law. But the world's research libraries, archives and record centres contain a vast amount of printed and manuscript information the half-life of which we are unable to predict. And while we hear a great deal today about multi-tasking and multi- functional devices such as the digital copier, the research library remains the only available model enabling the simultaneous consultation of a wide variety of materials. It seems to me an irony that would not have escaped Swift that at precisely the point in time when scholarship has begun to accept the principle of the unity of knowledge and the value of interdisciplinary research we are bent upon its fragmentation. The battle facing the books today has nothing to do with arguments between Plato and Aristotle or Paganism and Christianity: it has to do with the survival of the books themselves. Of course it is possible to digitise and index the contents of all the world's important libraries and archives. In the 1930s Eugene Power demonstrated that it was possible to persuade libraries that what they needed was microfilm and created that juggernaut of unselective micropublishing University Microfilms . The question we must answer is, who would benefit from such a colossal enterprise? Commerce or knowledge? Are libraries in the control of visionaries or are they in the control of irresistible economic forces which we ignore at our peril? That is not an easy question to answer. We have escaped from the tyranny of the task-specific, and therefore dimension-specific, devices associated with the Industrial Revolution. The manufactory, with its dependence upon labour to run the machines, has all but disappeared in the developed countries: we have no taste today for servility and the offensive consequences of having to do what machines controlled by computers do better. And, as we all know, it is possible to program computers to perform an amazing variety of tasks. It is, without doubt, an approximation of the universal machine. But there remain a host of socially necessary tasks which machines cannot yet perform. One of those socially necessary tasks is undoubtedly research: by which I mean a steady, discriminating and intelligent assessment of such evidence as we have about whatever it is that interests us. I have deliberately avoided the word rational because it is quite possible that there are non-rational explanations for some things, and while science has both its limits - and its limitations - there seems to be no limit to what the mind can propose or create. What it is that nourishes this astounding ability has troubled every thinker for thousands of years, and must have caused surprise even to primitive man when he first discovered he could draw and make weapons. But if we do not easily understand this phenomenon of mind still less do we understand what it is that drives curiosity. The search for truth, I suppose, is the answer generally given; but that presupposes that there is such a thing as truth. If it does exist, why have we failed to find it? Why is it that every time we propose an answer to a question the answer raises other questions we never even considered? Does truth lurk in the books and manuscripts our libraries are filled with? Or are we condemned to search forever for what does not exist? These are questions of some weight. In his remarkable little book The Limits of Science Sir Peter Medawar tried to address what is essentially a metaphysical question. He did so with an intellectual generosity that is as rare today as anything I know. For Medawar, the universe consists in evidence which can be subjected to principled analysis, and evidence which can not be so subjected. He remained uncertain to the end about how to deal with the latter, but of one thing he was certain: that it is not possible to plan for either progress or discovery. The great discoverers have always been more embarassingly modest of their achievements than we would wish, and Newton, you may remember, said: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Our contemporary love-affair with the universal engine sometimes seems to me a misplaced enthusiasm for its marvellous capabilities - witness the plethora of perfectly useless software which has been developed to feed its inexhaustible appetite. Musicians disagree on the number of truly original tunes which can be identified: I wonder how many original programs have been written for the microcomputer. Not more than a handful, I suppose, and after fifteen years of painstaking effort attempting to evaluate the intrinsic merits of hundreds of ingenious solutions to a very small number of real problems I am left with the depressing suspicion that my time might have been better spent reading all those books I promised myself twenty years ago I would one day read. Perhaps we can no more look at the computer with detachment today than early man could look at the wheel and the wonders it could be harnessed to perform. On more than one occason Swift reminded his readers of Aesop's fly, perched upon the hub of a chariot wheel, exclaiming "See what a dust I raise!" [deleted quotation]and the Moderns must be judged absurd. Eighteenth-century thinkers might be understandably reluctant to adopt a belief in the permanent values of the classics, but we, emancipated from the past, can find comfort in the absolute power of science to improve our lot, prevent the despoliation of the planet, cure dread diseases and generally make our lives a little easier. In part, so it does. But the discoveries which have contributed to this have also had malign consequences: none more malign, I think, than the notion that knowledge is amenable to mechanical transference. Information without doubt, but knowledge decidedly not. That, of course, is heresy on a grand scale, but I would remind you that heresy is an ancient transgression in the history of universities. It may even be one of the principal reasons for having them. It seems to me that the tireless computations which we have come to expect of the device which so governs our lives is part of the problem. The reduction of analogue information to digital form, and the transformations which are then possible, is without doubt a process as fascinating as anything in the history of technology. Every generation of microprocessors promises greater potential for handling prodigious quantities of data at ever- increasing speed. So rapidly is this technology advancing that not even the bravest dare predict what we shall have at the dawn of the new millenium. For institutions independent of the past and all its inconvenient clutter this may prove beneficial, but for institutions like libraries, which have evolved at the mere speed of man's curiosity, the instability of the technology poses problems of extraordinary magnitude and complexity. This is hardly helped by those who would propose that books and documents (whether manuscript and printed) are just so much information. Research libraries do, of course, possess items which have little more than informational importance - rainfall tables for every village in India in the nineteenth century or membership lists of defunct societies. It requires a fairly generous interpretation of what might one day be of use to a researcher to explain why large research libraries possess so much historical ephemera; but there is little room these days for generosity and curators may have to reconsider the wisdom of acquiring, storing and preserving books like Jon-Stephen Fink's Cluck! the true story of chickens in the cinema (1981), or Fred Newman's Gurgle! cluck! ping!: the complete guide to making noises (1985). These tend to be the least used materials and common sense would dictate that they be left firmly in their analogue state. The more used materials, on the other hand, are precisely those which will benefit least from transformation, because readers nearly always wish to consult them in conjunction with other materials, which may well be of the lesser-used kind. It may be useful to provide those who still preach sermons with a compact and searchable electronic version of the Bible, but to convert all versions and editions of that venerable text would be a stupendous waste of resources. A close examination of the products currently available in electronic form might well suggest to an unprejudiced mind that we have a wonderful solution in search of problems. This is also suggested, I believe, by the exaggerated manner in which those newly converted to automation can be found promoting its benefits. In his introduction to a book by Charles Dollar of the National Archives in Washington on Archival Theory and Information Technologies Oddo Bucci, Professor of Archive Studies at the University of Macerata, writes: This book pertains to the culture of the technological society. By now, social life has come to gravitate with ever greater intensity around the use of the new technologies now operating over a broad spectrum of sectors. The use of such technologies itself works to disseminate new mental patterns, to remould the structure of language, to modify the very organization of the social plexus, to promote the formation of new knowledge and, at the same time, the emergence of equally new goals. The economically advanced world is by now firmly yoked to the technological sector, to the point where it tends to identify itself with the latter and to assume its basic characteristics, which may be summarized as the overcoming of spatial limitations, the acceleration of time, and the increasingly widespread spirit of logic and rationality. There is less here than meets the eye. It is not at all clear to me what he means by stating that the use of technologies can remould the structure of language. This is tantamount to saying that the transition from manual to electronic processing of data can have as profound an effect on our conceptual grasp of the universe as that which characterised the transition from oracy to literacy. It is a claim which simply cannot be substantiated. The second claim, that technology can promote the formation of new knowledge is true, but only with the help of considerable interpretive skills; skills which librarians must learn to develop. As for technology contributing to the increasingly widespread spirit of logic and rationality the 9 o'clock news would seem to suggest otherwise. As a comment on a civilisation rapidly going bankrupt, and insisting that the rest of the world go bankrupt with us, I find that Dollar makes a great deal more sense than Bucci, for he has given us some timely warnings about the problems associated with electronic information. One of these concerns the vulnerability of electronic information to electronic misuse and sabotage. Books and documents are also vulnerable, of course, which is why good conservation practice today includes disaster planning. But, as more libraries participate in projects like those at Seville to digitise the Archives of the Indies, the principle of benign neglect of the originals is likely to be an inevitable consequence, requiring libraries and archives to adopt security procedures for their electronic data no less rigorous than those in use by banks, insurance companies and building societies. I have yet to read a manual of librarianship or archive practice which addresses this matter. We hear a great deal today about the necessity to improve organisational efficiency by means of networks. Networks can be static - like our roads and railways - or dynamic, like the international telecommunication systems which guarantee that panic in Tokyo is immediately followed by panic in London, New York and Paris. As agents for the instantaneous transmission of information, whether important or trivial, they can have consequences not necessarily beneficial, and their development has been so rapid in the past ten years that we do not have as yet a legal framework within which the validity of the information they carry can be verified. In a Local Area Network, for example, in which information flows downwards (from the managers), upwards (from the drones), or sidewards (between the managers or between the drones) the opportunities for deception are limitless. Files can be modified or deleted and unless every modification is logged and time-stamped in a tracing file there is no way of determining how decisions come to be made. The administrative paper which lands on my desk in an average week amounts to the storage capacity of a floppy disc, and while it is possible to tell at a glance from the notepaper or cover sheet what can be safely entrusted to that round file-store - which is the only preservative of mental health in a modern institution - such methods of appraisal are impossible in an electronic environment. Corporate networks are reporting symptoms of electronic fatigue with prodigious quantities of data needing to be purged to make room for future demands. Faced with the possibility that such purging might remove some scrap of vital information the units ( reticulati so to speak) have no choice but to dump their files to a printing device which will produce documents, in no particular order, which must then be appraised and filed. What an essay Swift would have written on such absurdity! It would seem to be perfectly obvious that the existence of electronic networks which enable us to discover the existence of books, articles and manuscripts important to our research is a positive benefit. These tend, with a few notable exceptions, to be the work of the `Moderns', since virtually no major research libraries have complete electronic records for their holdings of the `Ancients'. For anyone bent on tracing the bibliographical history of the Epistles of Phalaris - the occasion of Bentley's celebrated Dissertation and also of Swift's allegory - the task is as tiresome today as it would have been fifty years ago. We have the British Library Catalogue on CD-ROM as well as online, but the promised abundance of riches in Bodley's pre-1920 catalogue is still unfulfilled. We have ESTC, in due course to widen its scope to include all printing up to 1700. And there are numerous other databases in the making which scholars will be able to consult in the future. But even with all the electronic records available through JANET, and the networks for which it is a gateway, the great mass of historical materials, printed and manuscript, remain inaccessible to the computer. From the viewpoint of someone who spends a great deal of time trying to assist scholars in their search for sources at the British Library the dream of Universal Bibliographical Control seems as remote now as it was when it first became a declared objective of all libraries twenty years ago. And that other grand objective - Universal Availability of Publications - seems even more remote. It is not that we do not have the technology to achieve these admirable goals: it is rather that we do not have the resources demanded by such ambitious projects. Nor, I fear, are we likely to have them in the future. And the reason why this should be so is due to the fact that the Sciences and most of the Social Sciences - receiving the lion's share of research funding in cultures dedicated to material progress - have little interest in materials with a half-life of more than five years. For the Humanities, the situation is quite different. This is not an occasion on which to re-open the quarrel between the Arts and the Sciences, but it has to be said that those concerned with history, whether it be of poetry or medicine, are poorly served by governments and universities. The trouble is that such people never seem to come up with socially useful conclusions. What useful purpose is served by disproving the existence of Phalaris? Or that Athens could not have been supplied with grain from the Black Sea because the Bosphorus flows at an average of 5 knots and their best sailing ships could only just manage that speed, so that while they could come down they had no way of going up? Perhaps, the case that needs to be made is to establish how much that passes for scientific research produces socially useful conclusions. The great American philosopher of mind, Charles Peirce, wrote: "the conclusions of science make no pretense to being more than probable." That kind of modesty is hard to find these days. All research, it has to be said, represents a collective exploration of the probability that anything can be understood. Knowledge has, since the fifteenth century, been largely enabled and expanded as a result of the invention of printing, and it is to bibliography that generations have turned for an understanding of what is known about any particular subject. That the fruits of bibliographical endeavour (whether enumerative or analytical) should be made available in electronic form as well as printed is obvious enough, and the modern research library generally provides readers with some sort of online access (not necessarily free, by the way) to remote databases as well as to the increasing number available on CD-ROM . For databases devoted to periodical literature and scientific abstracts it does not normally require great skill to find what one wants. Even so, the sheer number of such databases has given rise in America to a new type of information broker: the surfer. Surfers are specialists in knowing which databases to interrogate in order to find particular information, and surfing is a fast-growing industry. They charge, of course; but if you want to know how many English gardens have gnomes there is a surfer who can provide the answer [8%]. As Pam Leslie, a high-earning surfer, explains: To use a database efficiently, you need to use it every day. The moment you plug into a database it starts costing you money, and you can sit there for hours just pressing buttons and still not have the answer unless you know what you are doing. Really sophisticated surfing has existed for some time in the highly competitive patent business. Information regarding garden gnomes may have a certain commercial edge over that on Greeks and the navigation of the Bosphorus, but patent surfing is very serious business. For one thing, it is obvious that patent agents go to considerable lengths to disguise the primary purpose of patents, while the large multinational companies are perpetually vigilant to detect ingenuity which they can put to good use. Thus, companies monitor the activities of competitors in order to discover the direction in which they are going, and this is done by far more refined search algorithms than are possible in the average bibliographical or citation database. On ORBIT , for example, it is possible for an experienced searcher to circumvent semantic gobbledegook and find quickly patents relevant to a customer's interests. This activity has more in common with genuine research than merely surfing through a multiplicity of fairly straightforward databases, and is not unlike the problems that have beset generations of readers in the British Museum grappling with Panizzi's rules for cataloguing works of anonymous or corporate authorship. Thus, it takes some knowledge of English administrative history to predict that the catalogue of the National Art Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum is entered under the Privy Council. As electronic databases grow in number and complexity libraries will surely discover that readers will demand more not fewer reference librarians with an understanding of how traditional as well as modern practices coexist in an electronic environment. The temptation to transform research libraries into commercially driven surfing is already in evidence and conforms politically to the Friedman doctrine which holds that the notion of public service is obsolete and that libraries and education must be paid for by users or they will have to do without. This principle, which has its origins in social Darwinism, may be all very well in resource-rich countries like America in the 1960s when Friedman published Capitalism and Freedom, but as Jim Traue, a distinguished New Zealand librarian has observed, it is unworkable in resource-poor countries, and these constitute an ever-growing majority. The battle of the books is now not one in which disputes can be arbitrated but a battle for survival. Their survival, and the survival of the institutions we call libraries, will depend, as always, on enlightened and imaginative librarians able to develop within a hostile political environment a model which can adapt to the evolving needs of research in all disciplines. Those needs will, within a decade, include access to information in a wide variety of databases, electronic archives of images and sounds, as well as the cultural inheritance in print and manuscript, most of which will, I am certain, remain in its present form for the foreseeable future. One consequence of this is the self-evident need for librarians in the future to develop both ancient and modern skills. The notion that knowledge can prosper by creating vast knowledge warehouses based on the hypermarket model - you can buy it if you can find it - is sheer fantasy as well as being intellectually suspect. The problem with research - and this has persistently worried those who profess to be concerned with its importance - is that so much of what we now take for granted came about less through design than accident: Roentgen's discovery of X-rays, Dausset's discovery of HLA polymorphism in genetic tissue matching, to name two such. The fact that much scientific discovery has depended upon the rare combination of imagination and method is regularly attested. Could DNA have been discovered by a government plan? Crick and Watson thought not. Medawar certainly rejected the idea that there exists a calculus for discovery. Whatever it is that we study it seems to me that we are all in search of some version of truth, whether about the functioning of the universe we inhabit, our role in that universe, our understanding of what preceded us, or the purpose of existence. There can never be any profit in determining priorities in this search. As Karl Popper put it: The fact that science cannot make any pronouncement about ethical principles has been misinterpreted as indicating that there are no such principles while in fact the search for truth presupposes ethics. We are perhaps too close to the fevered enthusiasm for all things electronic to be able as yet to judge their real value, and I suppose it would be churlish of me to observe that much of what passes for information exchange between some of my American colleagues is part of a new and elaborate game, indulged in with excitement only because, at the moment, it is free. I suspect that when navigating the electronic highways is subject to tolls their enthusiasm is likely to diminish. There are already a growing number of electronic archives being planned for major writers, and the Chadwyck-Healey database of English Poetry has recently been launched. Yet no-one seems to be addressing the formidable problems which the free exchange of information between networked institutions poses for copyright law, because access provides the opportunity to commit piracy, and while most libraries are willing to provide researchers with unique materials on a private and fair use basis, they are likely to take considerable interest in extension of that use to third parties. For printed matter librarians may well take a relaxed view, though publishers will not: for the potential threat to their economic survival posed by the new technology is very real. For manuscript, archive and non-book materials custodians are more than likely to adopt a strictly capitalist position. But, since policing the electronic highways is virtually impossible, we may well see them trying to join the game. That, I think, would be a great pity, for it runs counter to the social functions which libraries are presumed to fulfil. It may well be that refusing to participate in the cyberspace game is the only hope for the survival of libraries as we know them. My own involvement with computers goes back to 1956 when I persuaded Jess Bessinger, the newly appointed Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Toronto, that the university's UNIVAC could be harnessed to produce a concordance to Anglo-Saxon poetry. I imagine there are few here tonight who will understand the agony which that reckless endeavour involved. It may have taken a decade to get the job done, and it may not have been worth the effort, but I well remember the problems created by having to develop mark-up tagging for an inflected language like Anglo Saxon and the need to persuade the boffins at Yorktown Heights about the inadequacy of the ASCII character set for printing the concordance. The problem with computers is that it is quite impossible to constrain expectations. It is an axiom of good marketing that expectations must only be satisfied in carefully determined phases: by saving treats for the future you guarantee the obsolescence of today's product and a future for your company. Most of the current offerings in the microcomputer industry (including Object Oriented Programming and Graphic User Interfaces like Windows) were available at the Palo Alto Research Center (sponsored by the Xerox Corporation) in the 1960s. The community of librarians in the 1970s was `hijacked' in one of the most wonderful of conspiracies in the history of librarianship. What have been the proven benefits? Well, we undoubtedly have at our disposal today a vast body of bibliographical records available for searching on major networks like OCLC, RLIN and DIALOG in the United States, UTLAS in Canada, PICA in Holland and BLAISE in the United Kingdom. Such networks provide access to a variety of databases (from a variety of sources) and they adopt different protocols for searching. There are, in addition, databases of every kind increasingly available on CD-ROM. But the very diversity of record structures makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to master the intricacies of developing search arguments which will effectively eliminate the noise inevitably generated by keyword or subject word searches. Surfing on OCLC demands as much technical and intuitive skill as surfing on a patent file. Any notion that automation provides libraries with the opportunity to reduce the level of skilled staff is wholly illusory. The new administration in Washington is, as I speak, pressing the Senate for approval to allocate huge sums of money (in the hundreds of millions of dollars) for the creation of digital libraries and the software to handle retrieval from truly enormous electronic archives of whole-text data. Some of this funding will undoubtedly be reserved for the space program and NASA (deeply involved with prodigious quantities of earth satellite data), but some of it will undoubtedly find its way into education and research libraries. What no one seems to be sure of is the hidden agenda behind this sudden interest in digital text data storage. That it could well have to do with the soaring costs of university staff and the cost-benefits of remote networked teaching is not an unreasonable guess. This is something which we will soon be facing in Britain: for when SUPERJANET is in place with the capability to transmit multimedia information anywhere there can be no doubt that it will be seen as a device to reduce teaching staff while at the same time increasing the number of students. Remote teaching, supported by vast digital libraries, may be the only way forward, but it does raise a number of crucial questions concerning the re-use of copyright materials. The Higher Education Funding Council, under its Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, is currently supporting a number of development projects to explore the uses of the new technology in creating interactive courseware and its marketing potential. Such courseware must, it seems to me, make use of library and archive materials. What is not at all clear is how copyright owners are to be recompensed for the commercial exploitation of their property. The selling-on of printed, manuscript and audio-visual materials has implications for libraries, archives, publishers, authors and literary agents. Central to the problem is the consortium strategy, increasingly being adopted by libraries and universities, since it seeks to undermine the familiar concept of the site licence . Unless we are prepared to face anarchy these implications must be addressed. There is a sense in which the new technology, particularly that associated with digital scanning of printed and manuscript documents, shows signs of encouraging anti-intellectual attitudes. This is what I call the dustbin approach, which seeks to digitise every document associated with a writer, artist or thinker, deposit them in an electronic archive and, with the modest help provided by hypermedia techniques, abdicate responsibility for establishing the relationship between them to the user, be they scholars (who can be presumed to possess some fundamental editing skills), or students (who are presumably in search of such skills). For the scholar, such abdication represents a form of indemnity against criticism. For the student, such an enterprise must represent no more than a bewildering aggregation of uninterpreted data. That the possibility exists for approaching the problems presented by texts and their transmission in this manner does not necessarily imply its suitability. Experience suggests that progress in our understanding of man and mind is unlikely to be assisted by information overload. The battle for the books has just begun and the contest raises questions which the time available does not permit me to address here in any other than a premonitory manner. This is, after all, an occasion on which it is traditionally preferable to avoid over-seriousness. Like all of us who find ourselves in administrative positions I am conscious that life today provides so little time to `sit and think'; and I thought that just a hint of heresy, amiably put I hope, would not be amiss. So I leave you with Macaulay's verdict on Dryden - it could provide an apt epitaph for many a librarian, past, present and future: His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. # # # # # # ------- End of Forwarded Message From: Subject: Re: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 22:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 237 (344) Re: Mr. Heberlein's request for a communications package, I recommend Procomm Plus. It is expensive, but extremely versatile and one of the few packages that works with databases like Medline, etc. GMP@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Gerald M. Phillips (Professor Emeritus), Speech Communication Trade and Applied Books Editor, Hampton Press Editor, IPCT: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century ISSN 1064-4326. Send submissions to GMP3 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Manuscripts are being accepted for the October, 1993 issue From: ath@linkoping.trab.se Subject: Re: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w (2/30) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 07:47:12 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 238 (345) Stan Kulikowski ii asks: [deleted quotation] As far as I understand it exists: it is said to be in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. There's a lot of information on it in the Rec.puzzles Usenet newsgroup archives. Here are some of the references quoted there: TITLE Thirty-five manuscripts : including the St. Blasien psalter, the Llangattock hours, the Gotha missal, the Roger Bacon (Voynich) cipher ms. Catalogue ; 100 35 manuscripts. CITATION New York, N.Y. : H.P. Kraus, [1962] 86 p., lxvii p. of plates, [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 36 cm. NOTES "30 years, 1932-1962" ([28] p.) in pocket. Includes indexes. SUBJECT Manuscripts Catalogs. Illumination of books and manuscripts Catalogs. AUTHOR Brumbaugh, Robert Sherrick, 1918- TITLE The most mysterious manuscript : the Voynich "Roger Bacon" cipher manuscript / edited by Robert S. Brumbaugh. CITATION Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1978. xii, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. SUBJECT Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Ciphers. AUTHOR D'Imperio, M. E. TITLE The Voynich manuscript : an elegant enigma / M. E. D'Imperio. CITATION Fort George E. Mead, Md. : National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1978. ix, 140 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. NOTES Includes index. Bibliography: p. 124-131. SUBJECT Voynich manuscript. [NOTE: see alternate publisher below!] There's also some information in David Kahn's book The Codebreakers @book{dImperio78, author = "D'Imperio, M E", title = "The Voynich manuscript: An Elegant Enigma", publisher= "Aegean Park Press", year = 1978} Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se 013-23 55 32 Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden From: POT@LEICESTER.AC.UK Subject: RE: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w (2/30) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 8:07 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 239 (346) Re- the enquiry by Fritz Heberlein in Bavaria, in Leicester we use emutec and kermit with an ethernet prom to connect PCs into our irix (version of Unix) network service. From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: e-address of William Dickey - San Francisco Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 10:39:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 240 (347) Could somebody send me William Dickey's e-address at the Department of English and Creative writing, San Francisco University State University. He apparently specializes in hyperpoem writing. Thanks. -- 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: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705" Subject: Q: Female Lit/Crit Theorists Date: 10 Sep 1993 12:12:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 241 (348) I'm teaching a history of critical theory course, using Hazard Adams's standard anthology ...Since Plato. I wasn't but five minutes into the introduction to the class when the question arose--Where are the women in this text? Well, there's only a sparse representation--Godwin, De Stael, Wolfe, and a few moderns. So what I'm seeking is suggestions for early (pre-1900) female literary theorists--European, British, American. If you respond directly to me, I will summarize the responses for HUMANIST. Thanks. Malcolm Hayward MHayward@oak.grove.iup.edu or Mhayward@iup.bitnet From: tom@sailfish.cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) Subject: Re: 7.0169 Software Tools Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 13:51:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 179 (349) George McClintock responded to a query about software tools for building software with good user interfaces. He mentioned Visual Basic or Visual C/C++ for the PC and X Windows for UNIX. There are now a number of impressive tools (i.e. software to help you build software) for graphical user interface (GUI) development. Most of these work in only one hardware/operating-system environment (e.g. Visual C++ works on for Windows on PCs or NT). But some are designed to allow you to move your application between platforms without any changes. These include at least commerical tool (from a company called XVT) and also a free one (SUIT from the Univ. of Virginia). These support Windows, Mac, UNIX (at least Motif), and a number of others. So someone can create an application on, say, the PC and then simply recompile the program on any of these other platforms and have a new version that uses the natural GUI of that system. (Of course, you have to have the libraries for each system you wish to recompile on.) I'd strongly urge anyone creating software for use by humanists to consider using one of these tools to build an application that can be used on more than one platform. Or at the very least one should insure that the system is written in a portable language (like C) and that the user-interface is as "separate" from the main functionality of the system as possible. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu Bitnet: HortonT@fauvax From: "Robert C. Schweik Dr" Subject: Thomas Hardy Conference Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 1:28 pm EDT (17:28:53 UT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 242 (350) This notice of the forthcoming Eleventh International Thomas Hardy Conference is being posted now because early registration allows for greater choice of lodging arrangements in the Dorchester area. ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL THOMAS HARDY CONFERENCE DORCHESTER, DORSET, U.K. 23 JULY TO 30 JULY 1994 Conference proceedings will include papers by Lance St. John Butler, Lawrence Lerner, Peter Levi, Michael Millgate, Rosemary Morgan, and others from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There will be about a dozen lectures, fourteen seminars, walks, coach trips to the Hardy country, a visit to Max Gate, and a variety of readings, musical performances, and museum exhibitions. Anyone interested in obtaining a brochure providing further information about the conference and a booking form can obtain one by sending an email message to SCHWEIK@FREDONIA.BITNET or surface mail to ROBERT SCHWEIK DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT FREDONIA FREDONIA, NY 14063 From: emily socolov Subject: REGIONAL IDENTITY AND CULTURAL TRADITION Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1993 18:10:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 243 (351) Dear Listmembers, Hope your fall is going well. I've attached the tentative program for an upcoming symposium at the University of Texas, Austin. I hope many of you will be able to attend. REGIONAL IDENTITY AND CULTURAL TRADITION: THE TEJANO CONTRIBUTION A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF DON AMERICO PAREDES BASS LECTURE HALL, LBJ SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN Wednesday, October 20, 1993 1:00- 1:30 Welcome and opening remarks UT President Dr. Robert Berdahl Dr. Gilberto Cardenas, Mexican-American Studies 1:45- 3:15 Regional Identity and Cultural Tradition Intro: Dr. Steven Feld, ethnomusicologist Lecture: Dr. Manuel Pen~a, folklorist 3:30- 5:00 Panel: Identity & Tradition moderated by Maria Martin, radio producer Dr. Olga Najera Ramirez, folklorist Dr. Ramon Saldivar, literary scholar Dr. Martha Menchaca, anthropologist Dr. Gerald Behague, ethnomusicologist Dr. Suzi Seriff, folklorist Thursday October 21, 1993 1:00- 1:30 Opening remarks Dr. Ricardo Romo, historian 1:45- 3:15 Panel: Borders and Frontiers moderated by Dr. Nick Spitzer, folklorist Dr. Raymond Paredes, literary scholar Dr. Norma Cantu, literary scholar Dr. John McDowell, folklorist Dr. David Montejano, historian 3:30- 5:00 The Paredes Legacy: A Continuing Contribution Intro: Dr. Joel Sherzer, anthropologist Dr. Richard Bauman, folklorist Dr. Alicia Gonzalez, folklorist Also note: corridos y canciones/romance and remembrance A Concert Tribute to Don Americo Paredes Wednesday, Oct. 20, 8:00 pm; Admission $15 Bates Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, UT-Austin Featuring Tish Hinojosa, Mingo Saldivar, Valerio Longoria and others Masters of Ceremonies Gonzalo Barrientos and Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Tickets available through UT-Ticket Master. For information on tickets call (512) 477-6060. Co-sponsors of this event are Texas Folklife Resources, The University of Texas-Austin Office of the President, The Center for Mexican-American Studies, the English Department, The Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Anthropology Department and the Performing Arts Center. For more information contact (512) 320-0022. Symposium participants and schedule are subject to change. = Emily Socolov /<|>\ Folklore Latino, Latinoamericano = = University of Texas \<|>/ y Caribe~no = = /<|>\ = From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Job Opening: Computing Coordinator CJS Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 17:59:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 181 (352) Due to miscommunication, this position did not get posted on the network when it should have during the summer, but it did appear in local listings in Philadelphia. Thus the closing date for the search is now, but if someone with just the right qualifications is interested and can get the appropriate material together immediately, we can wait a couple of days. Please contact me immediately if an application is forthcoming or if clarification is needed -- telephone 215 898-5827. The position would be filled best by someone who can combine the technical competence described below with knowledge and experience in working with the sorts of research appropriate to the Center for Jewish Studies (formerly the Annenberg Research Institute). Bob Kraft, UPenn, for David Goldenberg, Assoc Director CJS/Annenberg ===== [deleted quotation] goldenberg@annenres.bitnet David Goldenberg Associate Director, CJS (formerly Annenberg Institute) 420 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA /end/ From: Dr. S. Totosy Subject: 7.0178 Qs: E-Address; Female Lit/Crit Theorists Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 17:28:25 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 244 (353) Comparative Literature University of Alberta For Prof. Hayward: If you read German, Gisela Brinker-Gabler's DIE FRAU IN DER GESELLSCHAFT: FRUEHE TEXTE - ZUR PSYCHOLOGIE DER FRAU (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1978) has such, although the book covers other types of early women's theoretical writings. The span is about 1876 to the Interwar period. Also, Elizabeth K. Helsinger, Robin Lauterbach Sheets, and William Veeder, eds. THE WOMAN IN QUESTION, vol. I Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883: Defining Voices and vol. II Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883: Literary Issues (Chicago and London: The U of Chicago P, 1983) has early women theorists. Regards, S. Totosy From: mcc@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu (George McClintock) Subject: 7.0179 R: Software Tools (1/31) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 22:43:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 245 (354) Many thanks to Thomas B. Horton for his information about GUI tools. He is absolutely correct to point out portability as a fundamental factor to be considered when choosing a GUI tool. I would appreciate more information about SUIT. George /******************************************************************* * The opinions expressed are those of the author and in no way * * represent the opinions of CUNY, its agencies or personnel. * * mcc@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu || CMCGC@CUNYVM.BITNET * *******************************************************************/ From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: Robin Alston's lecture Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 10:55 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 246 (355) Robin Alston's jeremiad sounded familiar to me---because I'd already read it: another version of this lecture was published in June, in a book called The Politics of the Electronic Text, edited by Warren Chernaik, Caroline Davis, and Marilyn Deegan, and published by the Office for Humanities Communication at Oxford. The electronic version seems to have a different opening and closing but much the same body; and, of course, it is a far more appropriate aesthetic experience to read this in a book than on a screen or printout. It's a valuable book---there are some other denunciations of the Moderns, and some level-headed accounts of things people are actually doing with computers. The London Review of Books should have given this a plug rather than encouraging the masses to pester Robin Alston. I gather that information about ordering it may be had from CTITEXT@VAX.OX.AC.UK. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University From: A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Address for Andreas Lund? Date: Sat, 11 Sep 93 15:48:31 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 247 (356) If Andreas will please send me his full e-mail address (the posted one results in bounces, even for our list-owner) I will reply privately to his last posting. Avril Henry A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.D400.DE Subject: Snobol4 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 11:49+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 248 (357) Having for many years used and loved the freeware Vanilla SNOBOL4 I find sadly that the program no longer runs on most of our new 486-powered DOS machines: attempts to load it simply cause a hang-up. Does anyone know of a fix (new version, some kind of workaround, or whatever), or an alternative version? I suppose I really ought now to learn ICON instead, but old dogs prefer old tricks. Timothy Reuter MGH Munich From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: seeking SUNY Buffalo's "Unrequired Reading List" Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 13:54:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 249 (358) Hi. In the 8-SEP-1993 issue of _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, on p. A19, there is brief mention of an "Unrequired Reading List" of 48 books that is in distribution at SUNY Buffalo. The note lists just enough titles to be tantalizing, but not the full list or a pointer on how to get it. I've tried Gopher to several Buffalo systems on the chance it would be there but did not locate it. I was able to look-up the one person at Buffalo mentioned in the article, in an on-line phone directory, but could not translate their alias into a valid e-mail address. So, if someone has a copy perhaps they could post it to HUMANIST? -- Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H. jim.cerny@unh.edu From: ksalzber@hamline.edu (Kenneth Salzberg) Subject: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 12 Sep 93 17:48:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 184 (359) CALL FOR PAPERS KALAMAZOO 1994 - MEDIEVAL LAW SECTION Wanted: Papers for the 29th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 5 - May 8. (Date for section to be announced by March, 1994.) Length limited to 20 minutes reading time and to the topic: BREACH OF THE KING'S PEACE in the Section on Medieval Law. Please forward abstracts by September 20th to Karl Van D'Elden Asst. Minneapolis City Attorney Suite 2304 1920 S. 1st Street Minneapolis, MN 55454 or to E-mail svandeld@maroon.tc.umn.edu [This call is posted to a number of lists. Please forgive the duplications.] From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: science Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 22:39:32 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 185 (360) A characteristic story of naive (dogmatic) falsificationism that should be just the thing for beginning of term: "The story is about an imaginary case of planetary misbehaviour. A physicist of the pre-Einsteinian era takes Newton's mechanics and his law of gravitation (N), the accepted initial conditions, I, and calculates, with their help, the path of a newly discovered small planet, p. But the planet deviates from the calculated path. Does our Newtonian physicist consider that the deviation was forbidden by Newton's theory and therefore that, once established, it refutes the theory N? No. He suggests that there must be a hitherto unknown planet p' which perturbs the path of p. He calcu- lates the mass, orbit, etc., of this hypothetical planet and then asks an experimental astronomer to test his hypothesis. The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes cannot possibly observe it: the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one. In three years' time the new telescope is ready. Were the unknown planet p' to be discovered, it would be hailed as a new victory of Newtonian science. But it is not. Does our scientist abandon Newton's theory and his idea of the perturbing planet? No. He suggests that a cloud of cosmic dust hides the planet from us. He calculates the location and properties of this cloud and asks for a research grant to send up a satellite to test his calculations. Were the satellite's instruments (possibly new ones, based on a little-tested theory) to record the existence of the conjectural cloud, the result would be hailed as an outstanding victory for Newtonian science. But the cloud is not found. Does our scientist abandon Newton's theory, together with the idea of the perturbing planet and the idea of the cloud which hides it? No. He suggests that there is some magnetic field in that region of the universe which disturbed the instruments of the satellite. A new satellite is sent up. Were the magnetic field to be found, Newtonians would celebrate a sensational victory. But it is not. Is this regarded as a refutation of Newtonian science? No. Either yet another ingenious auxiliary hypothesis is proposed or . . . the whole story is buried in the dusty volumes of periodicals and the story never mentioned again." Imre Lakatos, "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes," in _Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge", ed. Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (Cambridge, 1970): 100-1. From: Stuart Lee Subject: _Computers & Texts_ CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 14:30 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 186 (361) Computers & Texts CALL FOR PAPERS Newsletter of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies Computers & Texts has now been running for over two years and is the newsletter of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, based at Oxford University Computing Services. It has a selection of short articles relating to computer-aided learning in textual studies, a section devoted to the Office for Humanities Communication, and has a mailing of over 2,000 world-wide. This issue will concentrate on software development. Format: Submissions should be of approximately 1000 words although this is open to discussion with the editors. Footnotes should be limited and placed at the end of the article. References to published works should be of the form (Smith, 1992) with full bibliographical details given at the end of the article. Screen dumps are accepted, preferably in TIFF or PICT format for the Macintosh. Deadline: 15 October, 1993 Computers & Texts (issue 6) This issue will continue on from some of the themes explored in Computers & Texts 5. In the last issue problems of integrating software into the classroom were discussed. In this issue we would like to focus on the pedagogical implications of the designing and creation of new software. We would like contributions from anyone who has written their own software with relation to the teaching of humanities subjects, in particular those of literature, linguistics, classics, theology, theatre arts & drama. Material is especially welcome on interface design, structuring the software, and evaluation procedures. Send all details to: Lorna Hughes or Stuart Lee Research Officers CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: CTITEXT@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: tom@sailfish.cse.fau.edu (Tom Horton) Subject: 7.0179 R: Software Tools Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 14:19:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 187 (362) Regarding GUI software development tools that create software portable across platforms.... There is an article in the October issue of the trade magazine *UNIX Today* (pages 65-74) that describes 5 such tools, including one that I mentioned, XVT. To learn more about SUIT, the available-for-free-for-educators GUI package from the Univ. of Virginia, send an empty e-mail message to suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu and you'll automatically get back a message describing the software's features and you can get it. (You can get it off the Internet using ftp.) I have a student who will look at SUIT this term, but right now I can't say much about it. (Can anyone else out there?) I am interested in this package and how it (and other things) could be used to facilitate software development for text processing in the humanities. Here's an extract from SUIT's introduction message: [deleted quotation] Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Thomas B. Horton, Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA Phone: 407/367-2674 FAX: 407/367-2800 Internet: tom@cse.fau.edu Bitnet: HortonT@fauvax From: Prof Norm Coombs Subject: EASI has moved its email discussion list Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 15:48:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 188 (363) EASI" Equal Access to Software and Information EASI has moved its email discussion list to the listserve machine at St. Johns University. It is now open to public subscriptions. To join send email to listserv@sjuvm.bitnet or listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu Leave the subject blank and for the text input: sub easi "Yourfirstname Yourlastname" So what is EASI and why might you want to be on its public email discussion list? Our mission is to serve as a resource primarily to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access- to-information technologies by persons with disabilities. We are dedicated to staying informed about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and to spreading that information to schools, colleges, universities and into the workplace. Our membership is comprised of people from a wide range of schools, colleges, universities, businesses and other institutions. They include computing staff, disabled student services staff, faculty, administrators, vendors, representatives of professional associations, private consultants, heads of both non-profit and profit organizations and companies for people with disabilities. Students are also encouraged to join EASI EASI has created a number of useful publications related to disability access to computing and information technology. They can be found by anonymous ftp at um.cc.umich.edu or by gopher from the St. Johns gopher menu. Any major gopher that lists most New York State gophers will get you into St. Johns. We want to be a place where knowledgeable people on adaptive computing can serve to reach others and where anyone with questions can write and see if someone on the list has info or experience relevant to that question. There is a lot we do not know, but we are eager to learn and equally eager to share. Norman Coombs nrcgsh@ritvax.isc.rit.edu From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: Bill Dickey's E-Mail address Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 15:16:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 189 (364) For William Dickey's E-Mail address, one can try WDickey@sfsuvax.sfsu.edu or Dickey@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu or BDickey@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu Sorry that I cannot be more specific. I do not know his exact address (if it were published, it would be available on SFSU's gopher telephone directory), but the VAX accounts tend to use a variation of the individual's name as chosen by that individual. Michael_Kessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU ---------------------- Replied Message Body ----------------------- Could somebody send me William Dickey's e-address at the Department of English and Creative writing, San Francisco University State University. He apparently specializes in hyperpoem writing. Thanks. -- 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: P_MCNAMARA@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: RE: 7.0185 Science (1/40) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 18:37:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 190 (365) I feel compelled to register a complaint. The least Professor McCarty could do is inform us of the agency from which the scientist in question received funds for his magnetic field detector satellite! I, for one, have a proposal all ready to go! Desperately yours, Paul McNamara Philosophy UNH :) From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: Battle of the Books Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 08:28:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 191 (366) Robin Alston's *Battle of the Books*' appearance on HUMANIST reminds me of the fifteenth century abbot Johannes Trithemius' publication in print form of his treatise *de laude scriptorum*, usually read as a defense of the manuscript culture against the printed book. In fact what both have in common is that they express vividly what is already a nostalgia for a *culture* that is threatened, that is, for a particular form of social organization that, if it does not adapt itself wisely to new circumstances, may very well dry up and blow away in the new environment. The Benedictine monastery that Trithemius cherished is still with us, but remarkably diminished and limited in its powers. If we insist, we as scholars of the humanities can certainly go the same way. At the same time it must be remembered that attachment to the present order of things is attachment to a technology that floods the world with Danielle Steel, Tom Clancy, and the National Enquirer, and actively discourages publishers from keeping serious scholarly materials available in print. The hope that new technologies may lead to some improvements is not a priori absurd. One point to make, perhaps. Alston points to the inability at present of e-libraries to incorporate even universal bibliographical data much less universal texts. Quite rightly, but perspective must be maintained. The vast majority of books in our libraries are of recent production: as near as I can tell, half the books in a major university library came there in my lifetime, and a much higher percentage during this century. A hundred years from now, under a waterfall of e-information, the percentages of materials on deposit of various kinds will be something like this: rare, historical, uncatalogued, non-e-accessible: small printed materials e-accessible in one way or another: large e-materials: vast That does not change the responsibility to maintain and protect those rarer items, whose value will surely increase. But it suggests that the totality of the information environment will as heavily emphasize electronic materials then as it emphasizes now print materials (over manuscript). Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. From: Roland Hjerppe Subject: Re: 7.0189 Rs: E-Mail Address (1/29) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 00:16:06 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 250 (367) Netfind is a nice service for finding email-addresses of people. The following log should be self-explanatory (I hope) ntelnet bruno.cs.colorado.edu Trying [128.138.243.151]... Connected to bruno.cs.colorado.edu. Escape character is '^]'. SunOS UNIX (bruno) Login as `netfind' to access netfind server Login as `da' to access CU Boulder directory assistance login: netfind -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Welcome to the University of Colorado Netfind server. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alternate Netfind servers: archie.au (AARNet, Melbourne, Australia) bruno.cs.colorado.edu (University of Colorado, Boulder) dino.conicit.ve (Nat. Council for Techn. & Scien. Research, Venezuela) ds.internic.net (InterNIC Directory and DB Services, S. Plainfield, NJ) lincoln.technet.sg (Technet Unit, Singapore) macs.ee.mcgill.ca (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) malloco.ing.puc.cl (Catholic University of Chile, Santiago) monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk (Imperial College, London, England) mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) netfind.oc.com (OpenConnect Systems, Dallas, Texas) netfind.vslib.cz (Liberec University of Technology, Czech Republic) nic.nm.kr (Korea Network Information Center, Taejon, Korea) nic.uakom.sk (Academy of Sciences, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia) redmont.cis.uab.edu (University of Alabama at Birmingham) I think that your terminal can display 24 lines. If this is wrong, please enter the "Options" menu and set the correct number of lines. Top level choices: 1. Help 2. Search 3. Seed database lookup 4. Options 5. Quit (exit server) --> 2 Enter person and keys (blank to exit) --> dickey sfsu Please select at most 3 of the following domains to search: 0. sfsu.edu (san francisco state university, california) 1. admin.sfsu.edu (administration office, san francisco state university, california) 2. bus.sfsu.edu (business school, san francisco state university, california) 3. ccs.sfsu.edu (san francisco state university, california) 4. cs.sfsu.edu (computer science department, san francisco state university, california) 5. library.sfsu.edu (library, san francisco state university, california) 6. math.sfsu.edu (mathematics department, san francisco state university, california) 7. psy.sfsu.edu (psychology department, san francisco state university, california) 8. stat.sfsu.edu (statistics department, san francisco state university, california) Enter selection (e.g., 2 0 1) --> 0 ( 1) check_name: checking domain sfsu.edu. Level = 0 ( 1) get_domain_addr: Got nameserver sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu ( 1) get_domain_addr: Got nameserver sutro.sfsu.edu ( 1) check_name: checking nameserver sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu. Level = 2 ( 2) check_name: checking nameserver sutro.sfsu.edu. Level = 2 SYSTEM: sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu Login name: wdickey In real life: William Dickey Directory: /usr/f1/wdickey Shell: /bin/csh Last login Thu Sep 9 00:15 on ttyq8 from modem15.sfsu.edu No Plan. ( 2) Attempting finger to current indication of most recent "Last login" machine modem15.sfsu.edu ( 2) check_name: checking host modem15.sfsu.edu. Level = 1 ( 2) connect timed out SUMMARY: - Among the machines searched, the machine from which user "dickey" logged in most recently was modem15.sfsu.edu, on Thu Sep 9 00:15. - The most promising email address for "dickey" based on the above search is wdickey@modem15.sfsu.edu. Continue the search ([n]/y) ? --> n Enter person and keys (blank to exit) --> Top level choices: 1. Help 2. Search 3. Seed database lookup 4. Options 5. Quit (exit server) --> 5 Exiting Netfind server... Connection closed by foreign host. Roland Hjerppe LIBLAB Dept. of Computer and Information Science Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping Sweden Internet: rhj@ida.liu.se T. +46 13 281965 F. +46 13 142231 From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz) Subject: Re: 7.0189 Rs: E-Mail Address (1/29) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 09:47:06 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 251 (368) Michael_Kessler@HUM.SFSU.EDU writes: [deleted quotation] The network command finger can be used to check things like this out, though what it can accomplish depends on the remote system. In this case finger Dickey@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu returns: -------------------------------------------------------------------- [sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu] Login name: wdickey In real life: William Dickey Directory: /usr/f1/wdickey Shell: /bin/csh Last login Thu Sep 9 00:15 on ttyq8 from modem15.sfsu.edu No Plan. -------------------------------------------------------------------- So the mailbox is wdickey. From: Annelies Hoogcarspel - CETH Subject: New e-list: ETEXTCTR Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 10:10:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 193 (369) This announcement will be sent to HUMANIST, PACS-L, LIBREF-L, LIBADMIN and CETH. My apologies for the multiplication. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- New discussion list: ETEXTCTR@RUTVM1 At the first Humanities Computing Summer Seminar, organized by the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities in August 1992, the librarian participants suggested that there be some way for participants and other librarians actively developing electronic text centers to come together and share their experiences so that all could benefit and expand their expertise. As a result of this suggestion, the ALA ACRL Discussion Group on Electronic Text Centers was established in January 1993, with Marianne Gaunt (Associate University Librarian at Rutgers University) as its Chair. At the first meeting of this group, in June 1993 in New Orleans, a suggestion was made and accepted to take this further and set up an electronic discussion list for electronic text centers. This list has now been established. Its name is ETEXTCTR (Discussion Group on Electronic Text Centers), and will be administered from the listserv at Rutgers University, listserv@rutvm1 or listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu. It is a moderated list, meant to cover broad issues: budgets, acquisitions, cataloging, public services, management, training and staff development, etc. but to be focused initially on full-text files that are primarily monographic in nature rather than e-journals or numeric data files. If you would like to join in with this discussion, or would like to learn from the discussion among others, please subscribe to this list by sending a message to listserv@rutvm1 (bitnet address) OR listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu (internet address) Leave the subject line blank, and send as the body of the message the following line subscribe etextctr Firstname Lastname where Firstname is your first name and Lastname is your last name. The minutes of the first meeting of the ALA ACRL Discussion Group on Electronic Text Centers will be posted to this list shortly. You may respond to these minutes through the list, or post questions, comments or ideas on anything related to the development of electronic text centers. Send your postings to etextctr@rutvm1 (bitnet) OR etextctr@rutvm1.rutgers.edu If you have any questions about this list, or problems with technicalities, please write to the moderator, Annelies Hoogcarspel, at hoogcarspel@zodiac or hoogcarspel@zodiac.rutgers.edu. I look forward to a good discussion! Annelies Hoogcarspel P.S. I am new at moderating a list, so please bear with me :-). Center for Electronic Texts phone: (908) 932-1384 in the Humanities fax: (908) 932-1386 169 College Avenue bitnet: hoogcarspel@zodiac New Brunswick, NJ 08903 internet: hoogcarspel@zodiac.rutgers.edu From: Dana Paramskas Subject: Need address Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 22:57:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 252 (370) Our department urgently needs to contact the following person: Prof. Padraig O'Gormaile Department of Romance Languages University College Galway Galway, Ireland Attempts to contact the University College by phone have resulted only in contact with an answering machine... presumably the College is closed during intersession. If someone knows how to contact Prof. O'Gormaile via e-mail, or personal address or personal phone number, please send a message to me directly rather than to the list. With many thanks in advance... Dana Paramskas Lngdanap@vm.uoguelph.ca FRENCH STUDIES DANAP@UOGUELPH.CA University of Guelph, Ont. Canada From: simionat@unive.it Subject: outlining text with a tree structure Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 15:57:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 253 (371) I would like to sort my notes about American literature - from Realism up to the present - for myself and a couple of friends who would like to take college papers on that subject. I was thinking of simply using MS Word's outlining facility, but this would only give me a hierarchically sequence of texts ordered from top-left to bottom-right. I would rather have the possibility of giving a more accurate layout to the tree so that - for example - if an upper-level string expands onto a lower level, the former is always positioned at the middle right of the lower-level list. I wouldn't like to do that manually. Also, when I need to reposition some blocks of texts, I would like to just move the block, with all the "expanded" text automatically following it. I know this is something quite basic, but I cannot think of any software program which could relieve me of all the "handicraft" work. BTW, the resulting image would be taken to a service center in the form of a Postscript file and printed on - at least - A0 size paper. There, I expect, would fit quite a few pages of notes using character size as small as 5. Thanks. _____________________________________________________________________ Marco Simionato tel : 39 - (0)41 5225570 University of Venice, Computing Centre fax : 39 - (0)41 5225570 Dorsoduro 2408/B email: simionat@unive.it 30123 Venezia, ITALY _____________________________________________________________________ From: Dr. S. Totosy Subject: 7.0191 R: Battle of the Books (1/38) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 21:33:41 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 195 (372) Comparative Literature University of Alberta I agree with O'Donnell's reply to the "Battle of the Books." Perhaps Alston should participate in next year's Paris conference of the Associa- tion of Literary and Linguistic Computing with the general theme "con- sensus ex machina"? Despite my agreement with O'Donnell's position voices like Alston's are valuable in adiscussion aimed at ways of investing in the electronic revolution on our part, humanists. Regards, S. Totosy From: Elaine M Brennan Subject: Second Call for Papers: ALLCACH '94 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 10:56:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 196 (373) Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Association for Computers and the Humanities "CONSENSUS EX MACHINA" Joint International Conference ALLC-ACH94 April 19-23, 1994 Paris Second Call for Papers: The ALLC-ACH conferences are the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing. A particular focus of the conference "Consensus ex Machina" will be the methodological impact of computer science and mathematics on the humanities. Resorting to computer science and to mathematics is now often the most dramatic attempt to impart more objectivity (and consequently more consensus) to the humanities. What obstacles does such an undertaking meet? What successes can it claim? What failures must it admit to? Is there a way forward which will increase our knowledge and understanding of the humanities? LOCATION The conference will be held at La Sorbonne which stems from a college founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon and presently hosts the Universities of Paris IV (Arts and Humanities) as well as the famous /Ecole des Chartes (History). Accommodation for participants will be available in the lively Latin Quarter through the conference travel agency. The Latin Quarter and la Sorbonne can be very easily reached from Paris airports and stations thanks to the metro and the RER (regional express network). PROGRAMME The Paris conference will be held in April 1994. Its programme will be as follows: Tuesday 19th morning: welcome Tuesday 19th afternoon: opening and sessions Wednesday 20th: sessions Thursday 21th morning: sessions Thursday 21th afternoon: excursion (Versailles) Friday 22th morning and afternoon: sessions Friday 22th evening: banquet Saturday 23th morning: sessions TOPICS The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities invite submissions on computer-aided topics in literature, linguistics and the language- oriented aspects of the humanities disciplines such as history, archaeology and music: statistical methods for text analysis, text encoding, text corpora, computational lexicography, machine translation, etc. LANGUAGES The official languages of the conference will be English and French. However papers can also be presented in another EEC language provided that they bear on the corresponding linguistic or literary themes. The coding scheme used in this announcement for French words is : /e = e + acute accent, /E = E + acute accent, \e = e + grave accent and \a = a + grave accent. REQUIREMENTS Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that 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 that 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 sources. ABSTRACT LENGTH Abstracts of 1500 words should be submitted for presentations of 25 minutes. Abstracts of 2500 words should be submitted for lectures of 45 minutes (state of the art themes only). FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS 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. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) 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 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a word processor, and should not contain tab character or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation ot the markup scheme after the title information. Electronic submissions shoud be sent to: ALLCACH@BLIULG11 with the subject line " Submission for ALLC-ACH94." PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to the ALLC-ACH94 Programme Chair: Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Li\ege, Universit/e de Li\ege, place Cockerill, 3, B-4000 Li\ege, Belgium. DEADLINES: October 15th, 1993 (proposals of papers). December 15th, 1993 (notification of acceptance) February 15th, 1994 (advance registration) PUBLICATION OF PAPERS 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. Another one will be published as a special issue of T.A. Information. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of: Christian Delcourt, Chair Universit/e de Li\ege (ALLC) Elaine Brennan Brown University (ACH) Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University (ALLC) Paul A. Fortier University of Manitoba (ACH) Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College (ACH) Susan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton Universities (ALLC) Antonio Zampolli Universit\a degli Studi di Pisa (ALLC) Michael Neuman Georgetown University (ACH) Andr/e Salem, Local Organizer /Ecole normale sup/erieur de Saint-Cloud (ALLC) INQUIRIES Please address your inquiries to the ALLC-ACH94 Local Organizers: Andr/e Salem and Maurice Tournier, CNRS-INaLF, Lexicom/etrie et textes politiques, /Ecole Normale Sup/erieure, avenue de la Grille d'Honneur, F-92211 Saint-Cloud, France. Phone: 00+33+1+47.71.91.11 Fax: 00+33+1+46.02.39.11 From: Diane Kovacs Subject: Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, 7th Revision Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 22:32:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 197 (374) The 7th Revision of the _Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences_ is now available on the LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU and via anonymous FTP to ksuvxa.kent.edu in the library directory. This announcement is extracted from the ACADLIST README file ***************** This directory contains descriptions of electronic conferences (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars. E-conference is the umbrella term that includes Bitnet and Internet discussion lists, Internet interest groups, Usenet newsgroups, distributions for e-journals, e- newsletters, electronic fora, etc. We have used our own judgment in deciding what is of scholarly interest, and will consider any advice or critique about our decisions. ******** The Files Available ******** ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory) ACADSTAC HQX (binhexed, self-decompressing, HYPERCARD version of the Directory - Keyword searchable) 498 ACADSMAL HQX (the above only smaller for small screen Macs) ACADLIST FILE1 (Anthropology- Education) 85 k ACADLIST FILE2 (Geography-Library and Information Science) 115k ACADLIST FILE3 (Linguistics-Political Science) 64k ACADLIST FILE4 (Psychology-Writing) 68k ACADLIST FILE5 (Biological Sciences) 55k ACADLIST FILE6 (Physical Sciences) 51k ACADLIST FILE7 (Business, Academia, News) 31k ACADLIST FILE8 (Computer Science; Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Computing; and Academic Computing Support) 139k ACADLIST CHANGES (Listing of all deleted e-conferences deleted because they no longer function) *********** How to retrieve files from the LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU *********** 1. Send an e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU. 2. Leave the subject and other info lines blank. 3. The message must read: GET Filename Filetype f=mail (e.g., ACADLIST FILE1 or ACADSTAC HQX or whatever) 4. If you need assistance receiving, etc. contact your local Computer Services people *********** How to retreive files via anonymous FTP to KSUVXA.KENT.EDU *********** 1. type: ftp KSUVXA.KENT.EDU at your dollar sign prompt (VAX) your shell prompt (Unix) or ready screen (IBM VM). If you are on another kind of system consult with your computer services people to find out the proper procedure. 2. when prompted for 'USERID,' type ANONYMOUS. 3. Your password will be your actual userid on your local machine. 4. Type: cd library 5. Type: get Filename.Filetype (e.g., ACADLIST FILE1 or ACADSTAC HQX or whatever) 6. The files will be transferred directly into the directory you ftp'ed from. ******** The Directory Team: ******** Diane Kovacs-Editor-in-Chief (Bitnet) dkovacs@kentvm (Internet) dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu Laura Bartolo (Bitnet) lbartolo@kentvm (Internet) lbartolo@kentvm.kent.edu Gladys Bell (Bitnet) gbell@kentvm (Internet) gbell@kentvm.kent.edu Paul Fehrmann (Bitnet) pfehrman@kentvm (Internet) pfehrman@kentvm.kent.edu Michael Kovacs (Internet) mkovacs@mcs.kent.edu Leslie Haas (Bitnet) lhaas@kentvm (Internet) lhaas@kentvm.kent.edu Jeannie Langendorfer (Bitnet) jlangend@kentvm (Internet) jlangend@kentvm.kent.edu Amey Park (Bitnet) apark@kentvm (Internet) apark@kentvm.kent.edu Kara Robinson (Bitnet) krobinso@kentvm (Internet) krobinso@kentvm.kent.edu From: ian@epas.utoronto.ca (Ian Lancashire) Subject: Early Dictionaries Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 01:25:34 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 198 (375) Conference on EARLY DICTIONARY DATABASES Sponsored by The Centre for Computing in the Humanities & the Departments of English and French University of Toronto with the generous support of The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Friday and Saturday 8-9 October 1993 Room 179, University College (*) 15 King's College Circle St. George Campus, University of Toronto (*) Friday afternoon sessions in Room 140 The first CCH conference on early dictionaries in October 1991 discussed encoding methods. This conference focuses on a wider range of issues. Central to these are the impact that future research into early dictionaries will have on scholarship, the scholarly principles inherited from traditional lexicography that should guide this new research, and the ways in which computing technology makes possible the integration of early dictionaries and texts. Speakers will identify decisions to be taken during a dictionary project and discuss how differences among early texts influence what those decisions are. Typical questions of concern include: ~ what is the early dictionary corpus? what should be included? ~ which edition should be captured electronically? ~ how can the new guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative help in using early dictionaries? ~ what kinds of new knowledge are emerging from computerized corpora? ~ what do particular dictionaries have to offer? ~ how do contemporary texts (in electronic form) relate to dictionaries of the period? ~ to what extent can early dictionaries be of use to historical dictionaries written today? ~ which types of software are relevant to research on early dictionaries and how do they lead to scholarly discovery? ~ what ways and means do we have to publish electronic dictionaries? Early manuscript and printed English and French bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, prior to Murray and Littre, offer neglected resources for the study of European languages, whether by lexicographers and historical linguists, or by scholars seeking a historical context in which to study early literature. PROGRAMME FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER Keynote address (9 a.m.) B. Quemada (Tresor de la langue francaise, Nancy) Manuscript Dictionaries (10 a.m.) A. Healey: Old English Glossaries (Dictionary of Old English, Toronto) V. McCarren: Medulla Grammatice (Middle English Dictionary, Michigan) A. Grondeux: Glossaire latin-francais, Montpellier H236 (Bureau Du Cange, Paris) B. Merrilees: Papias and Firmin Le Ver (Toronto) Renaissance Dictionaries (2 p.m.) D. Kibbee: Baret's Alvearie of 1573 and 1580 (Illinois at Urbana) R. Siemens: Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall of 1604 (British Columbia) I. Lancashire & S. Armstrong-Warwick: Early English Bilingual Dictionary Database 1500-1658 (Toronto, Geneva) Perspectives on Computerizing Early Dictionaries (3.45 p.m.) L. Catach: Graphist lemmatization, indexation and modernization software (CNRS-HESO, Paris) L. Jones: Applying technology to dictionary databases (Open Text Corp.) R. Weyhrauch: Historical dictionaries and texts in hypermedia (Ibuki) A. Collier: Software for the Johnson dictionary project (Birmingham) Reception (Croft Chapter House, 6 p.m.) SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 Keynote address (9 a.m.) R. Bailey: Old dictionaries, new knowledge (Michigan) Historical Dictionaries (10 a.m.) F. Dolezal: The canon of the English dictionary (Georgia) C. Poirier & A. Auger: TACT et le Dictionnaire du francais quebecois (TLFQ, Laval) A. Renouf: Corpora and historical dictionaries (Research and Development Unit for English Language Studies, Birmingham) 17th-18th-century Dictionaries (1.30 p.m.) I. Leroy-Turcan: Le Dictionnaire etymologique de Gilles Menage (Lyon III) N. Catach: Les dictionnaires de l'Academie francaise (CNRS-HESO, Paris) A. McDermott: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary as an encyclopedia (Birmingham) P. Caron: Le Dictionaire critique de l'abbe Feraud (GEHLF, Paris et Limoges) Publishing Electronic Early Dictionaries: How and Why (3.45 p.m.) M. Sperberg-McQueen: TEI guidelines (Illinois at Chicago) J. Triggs: the needs of OED 3 (Oxford University Press at Bellcore) R. Wooldridge: the scholar's viewpoint (Toronto) Chadwyck-Healey: the publisher's viewpoint REGISTRATION 1. Regular: $25.00 * wine-and-cheese reception on Friday at 6:00 pm 2. Full: $85.00 * regular registration * copy of published proceedings Students are admitted free. Register at the door, or send this slip with cheque (only) to Early Dictionary Databases, CCH, Robarts Library, 14th Floor, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1A5, Ont. CANADA. Voice: (416) 978-6391 Fax: (416) 978-6519 E-mail: cch@epas.utoronto.ca Name: ______________________________ Affiliation: _______________________ Address: ___________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Voice: _____________________________ Fax: _______________________________ E-mail: ____________________________ From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: TLG gopher Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 14:13:09 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 254 (376) The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae has activated an information server meant to prese nt general information about the TLG, and to provide answers to frequently as ked questions. Postings include listings of the contents of TLG CD ROMs, inf ormation about the sources of TLG CD ROM-compatible software, addenda and co rrigenda to the printed Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Canon of Greek Authors and Works, samples of TLG license agreements, instructions on how to order TLG pr oducts and resources, special announcements, and other items of potential int erest to the TLG user and to the field at large. Access to the server is pos sible via gopher. The gopher gateway is University of California-Irvine; fr om there, go to Departmental Information Sources. The host name is gopher-server.cwis.uci.edu on port 70. We welcome suggestions. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Theodore F. Brunner, Director * * Thesaurus Linguae Graecae * * University of California Irvine * * Irvine, CA 92717 * * * * Phone: (714) 856-6404 * * FAX: (714) 856-8434 * * E-Mail: TLG@UCI.BITNET * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: Jon Butler Subject: Mormon hearings on scholars Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 22:04:39 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 255 (377) Historians and historians of religion may be interested in reading the story appearing in today's New York TIMES on hearings allegedly being held by authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints regarding the views of several scholars, among them the historian D. Michael Quinn. Quinn and other scholars face criticism, censure, and, reputedly, excommunication for their views, including their published scholarship. Historians with access to NEXIS may find additional stories by combining the keywords MICHAEL QUINN and MORMON. --Jon Butler JBUTLER@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Subject: Re: libraries and old books Date: Fri, 17 Sep 93 13:16:30 MDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 256 (378) I had the privilege in July of viewing a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (1609), along with a number of other contemporary book treasures, at the Shakespeare Library in Stratford-on-Avon in England. We were told by the librarian that when the Second Folio appeared in 1623, Cambridge University Library discarded its copy of the First Folio. Fortunately, someone rescued it and preserved it, but Cambridge had to pay a large sum in the last century to get it back. [The dates are from memory, and may well be inaccurate.] Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 581 4148 Department of Mathematics, 105 JWB Internet: beebe@math.utah.edu University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Politics of E-Text, once more please Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 19:06:30 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 200 (379) John Lavagnino recommended the recent book, _The Politics of Electronic Text_, ed. Cherniak, Davis, and Deegan. I'd say that this book is essential reading and feel irresistibly moved to give you all a listing of the contents: Introduction Warren Chernaik and Marilyn Deegan 3 Manuscript Politics Peter Robinson 9 Authorship and Collaboration: The Problem of Editing Shakespeare Peter Holland I7 Text-editing and the Computer: Facts and Values Ian Small 25 The Fluid Text and the Orientations of Editing Marcus Walsh 3I Electronic Editions and the Hierarchy of Texts Michael Leslie 4I Challenging Assumptions: Women Writers and New Technology Kathryn Sutherland 53 The Politics of Knowledge Christopher Shelley 69 The Politics of Access Clive Bradley 73 The Politics of the Electronic Text: An Historian's View Peter Denley 77 Books and Electronics Robin C. Alston 8I It is available, I understand, for 5 pounds (shipping not included?) from the Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX26NN. Willard McCarty From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: teaching in the university Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 18:47:55 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 257 (380) Two questions. Who in recent times has written with insight and persuasive recommendations on the nature and role of teaching in the university? Of these, who (if anyone) has touched on the role computers might play, not as surrogate teachers but as means for thinking and exploring the subject matter? Any suggestions will be most welcome. Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: "Phyllis Wright" Subject: literary agent Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 17:59:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 258 (381) Can someone provide me with the address for the following literary agent: Janet Turnbull-Irving At one time she had a Toronto address. I cannot seem to locate it. I've tried the trade book directories, telephone books, etc. Many thanks Phyllis Phyllis M. Wright (416)688-5550, ext. 3961 Brock University Library pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 From: Chris Scheurweghs Subject: New List: NATOSCI from NATO Scientific Affairs Division Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 20:24:50 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 202 (382) COMING SOON - COMING SOON - COMING SOON In addition to the information on various topics though NATODATA, NATO will shortly make available through NATOSCI information on the NATO Science Programme and the Environmental projects of the CCMS (Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society). It is planned to introduce this service around 27th September. Following initial descriptions of the activities and the possibilities of support for collaborative projects, updates will be posted on an occasional basis, and a quarterly newsletter and tri-annual list of scientific meetings will be provided. 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William Mathews (Research Publications) - Placing the Format in its Proper Perspective 2:45 - 4:00 SESSION IV: SCHOLARSHIP: BYTING THE DUST? OR REACHING FULL POTENTIAL? David Seaman (University of Virginia Electronic Text Center) - Supplying the Scholar with Integrated Resources: the Seamless Information System Susan Hockey (Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities) - Beyond the Reference Tool: Large Full Text Databases and their Importance to Scholarship ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFIT, TECHNOLOGY & SCHOLARSHIP REGISTRATION FORM Last Name: First Name: Title: Organization: Address: City: State: ZIP: Phone: FAX: E-Mail: Do you need disabled or other special services? If so, please describe: Vegetarian meal required? ___ SSP Member: Early Registration - $195 Postmarked after October 8 - $245 ___ Non-Member: Early Registration - $245 Postmarked after October 8 - $295 $_________ Amount Enclosed ___ This form confirms a FAX registration ___ Check made payable to SSP ___Visa ___ MC Credit Card #: Name of Cardholder: Signature: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CANCELLATION POLICY: Full refund for cancellation received at least one week prior to the seminar date. All others subject to $50 service fee. There are no refunds for cancellations received less than 72 hours prior to the seminar. Mail this form to: SSP Seminar Registration 10200 West 44th Avenue Suite #304 Wheat Ridge CO 80033 Phone: 303 422-3914 FAX: 303 422-8894 ---------- Marcia Tuttle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tuttle@gibbs.oit.unc.edu From: Charles Ess Subject: handy word? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 11:21:04 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 259 (384) I appeal to my more literate colleagues on this list to help me find (invent?) a word which means "serving to justify/legitimate violence." I'm working on a paper which explores Genesis 2-3 in both historical and contemporary interpretation, with regard to how specific interpretations work as _myth_ defining a basic image/value of woman, and thus "serving to justify or legitimate violence against women." I would like to be able to convey this function with a single adjective, so that I can refer to "the __________ (=serving to justify/legitimate violence against women) myth" without having to always use this cumbersome phrase. "Misogynist" is too broad. I would appreciate any suggestions, and, of course, happily credit the contributor who hits the phrase on the head, so to speak. Thanks in advance, Charles Ess * "Life is change; Drury College * How it differs from the rocks" Springfield, MO 65802 USA * -- Grace Slick (voice) 417-873-7230 * From: Tim Unwin Subject: Discussion Lists on (French) Film Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 19:48:05 +0800 (WST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 260 (385) At a recent French Studies conference in Melbourne, Australia, colleagues asked me if I knew of any discussion list devoted to cinema, and particularly to French cinema. A related question was whether I knew of a source of information about forthcoming conferences in this area. Since I am personally unable to offer an answer to either of these questions, I would be grateful for any information that could be passed on to me. Please respond either to me personally, or to our French Studies bulletin board: ozfrench@uniwa.uwa.edu.au. With thanks, Tim Unwin. -- Tim Unwin Phone: 09 380 2174/2176 Department of French Studies (+61 9 380 2174/2176) The University of Western Australia Fax: 09 380 1080 Nedlands (+61 9 380 1080) WA 6009 Internet: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au From: BushC@BYUVAX.BITNET (Chuck Bush) Subject: E-texts of the Bible Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 15:54:06 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 261 (386) I've had an inquiry for electronic texts of the Bible in different modern European languages. English is easy, of course. Can anyone give me leads to others? Chuck Bush ---------- Charles D. Bush EMail: BushC@Yvax.BYU.EDU Humanities Research Center HRCChuck@BYUVM.BITNET 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Phone: 801-378-7439 Provo, Utah 84602 Fax: 801-378-4649 From: Jim_Cahalan Subject: Re: 7.0201 Qs: Teaching in the University Date: 20 Sep 1993 13:37:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 205 (387) In reply to Willard McCarty's query about writing on the role of computers in teaching as means for thinking and exploring, may I suggest James J. Sosnoski, "Students as Theorists: Collaborative Hypertextbooks," in PRACTICING THEORY IN INTRODUCTORY COLLEGE LITERATURE COURSES, ed. James M. Cahalan (that's shameless me) and David B. Downing (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1991, ISBN 0-8141-3653-2) ? Jim Cahalan, English Department BITNET: JCAHALAN@IUP 110B Leonard Hall, Internet: jcahalan@grove.iup.edu Indiana University of Pennsylvania FAX: 412-357-6213 Indiana, PA 15705-1094 Tel: (412) 357-2262 From: arb1@ukc.ac.uk Subject: PALA ARTICLE COMPETITION Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 14:07:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 206 (388) PALA ARTICLE COMPETITION The PALA/LONGMAN Prizes The Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), in conjunction with Longman, the publishers of the journal "Language and Literature", will award two prizes per year for the next three years for the best papers published in areas of interest to PALA members, and typically covered by "Language and Literature". The PALA Prize (#100, a year's free membership of PALA and free attendance at a PALA conference) and the Longman prize (#100 worth of Longman literature and/or linguistics books and one year's free subscription to Language and Literature) will be awarded by a specially appointed committee. The competition for the first two prizes will cover papers published in 1992 and 1993. The closing date for nominations is 31 January 1994. For further details, contact one of the editors of "Language and Literature" (for addresses see the inside front cover of the journal; or send to Dr.M.Short . From: KIRSHENBLATT@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Subject: Faculty opening in Performance Studies Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 00:04:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 207 (389) FACULTY OPENING IN PERFORMANCE STUDIES Entry-level appointment (PhD in hand by 9/1/94) in one of two areas: * Gendered performance: drag, transvestite performance, queer theories. Candidates with research interests in historical and cross-cultural approaches are encouraged to apply. OR * Hispanic and/or Native American Performance Studies. Candidates with research interests in music and/or dance, as well as other performance forms, are specially encouraged to apply. Send vita and three letters of recommendation to: Joseph Roach, Chair Department of Performance Studies 721 Broadway, 6th floor New York University New York, NY 10003 Deadline: November 15, 1993. New York University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. From: Judy Boss Subject: CFP: Romance Readers and Writers Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 08:32:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 208 (390) CALL FOR PAPERS ROMANCE READERS AND WRITERS CONFERENCE March 25-27, 1994 Omaha, Nebraska Plan to attend this unique multidisciplinary event, now in its second year. You may present a paper on any aspect of the popular romance novel, including literary, feminist, and historical. Possible topics include: the foremothers of romance, teen romance, seduction and rape in the romance, ideologies of love, and romance novels in the classroom. Abstracts due by October 19, 1993, to Conference Coordinator: Mary Macchietto, Conference Coordinator College of Continuing Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska 68182 Phone (402) 595-2355 Fax (402) 595-2345 Email queries or abstract submissions should be sent to: Susan Naramore Maher maher@cwis.unomaha.edu From: Dominick Stanzione Subject: Re: 7.0205 Lonely R: Teaching in the University (1/11) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 14:50:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 205 (391) [deleted quotation]excellent chapter on writing, including a vibrant review of CSILE ("Cecil"). Also interesting for text-based computing is "The Digital Word', Landow and Delany (MIT Press 1993) Dominick Stanione Stanzi@panix.com From: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca (Claire Smith) Subject: Early English Text Society Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 12:42:15 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 210 (392) (I am sending this message for Gary Shawver, at the University of Toronto) Would someone know the e-mail address and fax number of Wendy Collier, of the Early English Text Society? I need to contact her about a failed subscription. My e-mail address is: gshawver@epas.utoronto.ca Thanks. Gary Shawver. From: JSOSNOS@uoft02.utoledo.edu Subject: Guidelines for Software Reviews for Tenure? Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 14:42:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 211 (393) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON EXISTING GUIDELINES FOR SOFTWARE REVIEWS The Emerging Technologies Committee of the Modern Language Discussion is gathering information on any existing guidelines for evaluation of computer-related work during tenure and promotion reviews. If you know of such guidelines please send an email message to James Sosnoski JSOSNOSKI@MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU If you happen to be in possession of a copy of such guidelines it would be much appreciated if you sent a copy to The Emerging Technologies Committee % Bettina Huber The Modern Language Association 10 Astor Place New York, NY 10003 From: JSOSNOS@uoft02.utoledo.edu Subject: Request for Information on Guidelines for S/W Reviews Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 14:42:09 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 212 (394) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON EXISTING GUIDELINES FOR SOFTWARE REVIEWS The Emerging Technologies Committee of the Modern Language Association is gathering information on any existing guidelines for evaluation of computer-related work during tenure and promotion reviews. If you know of such guidelines please send an email message to James Sosnoski JSOSNOSKI@MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU If you happen to be in possession of a copy of such guidelines it would be much appreciated if you sent a copy to The Emerging Technologies Committee % Bettina Huber The Modern Language Association 10 Astor Place New York, NY 10003 From: NAME Subject: CONF: Maritime History Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 15:47:24 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 213 (395) The quinquennial congress of the International Commission for Maritime History (ICMH) will be held in conjunction with the Congress of the International Commission of Historical Sciences in Montreal, Canada in August 1995. The Programme Committee of the ICMH has therefore issued a call for papers on the theme "Ports, Port Cities and Maritime Communities." To participate, members of the International Maritime Economic History Association (IMEHA) should prepare a one-page synopsis of the proposed paper, including title, principal argument(s), and sources to be employed. They should also prepare a one-page curriculum vitae, which should include affiliation (if any) and major publications. These can be submitted either to members of National Commissions in those countries in which they exist or to Professor Lewis R. Fischer, Secretary-General, ICMH, Maritime Studies Research Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7. Proposals must be submitted no later than 31 October 1993. The authors of successful proposals will be notified early in 1994. A selection of the papers will be published. For further information on this congress, please contact the Secretary-Gen- eral, ICMH, at the address above. From: jkohi@unity.ncsu.edu Subject: Position in East Asian Religions (fwd) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 23:05:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 214 (396) I'm posting this for my colleaguesin Philosophy and Religion. Thanks. Jonathan Ocko Email: jkohi@unity.ncsu.edu Department of History Phone: (919) 515-2484 North Carolina State University Fax: (919) 515-3886 [deleted quotation] From: Christian.Bauer@uibk.ac.at Subject: Virtual Reality Vienna '93, Dec. 1-3 Date: 25 Sep 93 19:11:31 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 215 (397) Dear Colleagues, just to keep you informed... Yours faithfully, Christian Bauer Cut here: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************** * * * Pre-Agenda * * * * Virtual Reality Vienna 1993 * * --------------------------- * * * * The Global VR-Focus in Europe * * 1st to 3rd of December 1993 * * Palais Ferstl Vienna/Austria * * * ***************************************************************** Simulation in Progress ---------------------- The cutting-edge in simulation technologies and the continuous development in Computer Science led towards a new and fascinating field: "Virtual Reality". The symposium offers the opportunity to attend discussions and present and respond to presentations and papers about Virtual Reality (VR) and closely related fields. Participants will also have the opportunity to test VR-Systems, exhibited in an industry showcase. Special topics featuring Asian and European VR-research and development as well as academic- and industry-activities make VRV 1993 a unique possibility of information exchange. 1. General Remarks ------------------- * Conference languages are English and German, simultaneous translation services will be offered in all presentations. * Workshops and exhibits are not included in this pre-agenda. We will follow up with this information later, several exciting demonstrations are under final preparation like a MARS- WALKTHROUGH of NASA / Xtensory, "life" interactive VR-links and others. * On request we offer a detailed description of each speech in English and German. 2. The "Virtual Polis" ----------------------- We have the honour to cooperate with Prof.Carl Eugene Loeffler. He is Project Director for Telecommunications and Virtual Reality at Carnegie Mellon University and is working on a project called "Virtual Polis". VIRTUAL POLIS ************* Overview: The virtual polis or city is an actual three dimensional city, inhabited by a multitude of participants, each with their own purposes. Tele-existence is an essential aspect. Imagine a virtual city complete with private spaces or domiciles, parks, stores, entertainment centers. As much as a grand social experiment, it also is a far reaching graphical user interface (GUI) for electronic home shopping and entertainment. The salient points of the virtual city include: ~ a distributed, three dimensional inhabitable environment ~ investigation of tele-existence in a distributed virtual construct ~ capability of supporting potentially unlimited participants ~ private spaces, property and moral code ~ exploration of tools to alter the environment, while inhabiting it ~ interface (GUI) for home shopping and entertainment The idea of a distributed application based on the notion of an inhabited city, is fascinating. Traversing the city and encountering other inhabitants will be a startling experience. VRV '93: The premier and first presentation to the public of the ~Virtual Polis~ prototype will be presented at Virtual Reality Vienna-93. People from three different locations, including Pittsburgh in the USA, Tokyo in Japan and the VRV '93 location Palais Ferstel in Vienna, Austria will be inhabitants of a virtual city, as a dynamic example of networked Virtual Reality. They explore a city that is sound intensive, inclusive of high-rise buildings, private domiciles and a park. Tele-existence is an essential aspect. This new way of meeting and interacting is possible through Virtual Reality (VR) and new telecommunications technologies, developed at Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh, USA. Date and time: December 1, 1993, starting at 15:00 EMT 3. Preliminary Agenda ---------------------- 3.1. The Day Before, November 30, 1993, Tuesday ------------------------------------------------ * Press conference * Dinner with Speakers 3.2. First Day, December 1, 1993, Wednesday ------------------------------------------- 3.2.1. Morning Session ----------------------- Working Pool VRV'93 Vienna, Austria "About the VRV '93" Introduction 20 Austrian State Dpt. of Science and Education Vienna, Austria "Official Opening of the VRV '93" Politics, Austria, Education 20 Linda Jacobson Wordswork San Francisco, USA "An Introduction to VR" Introduction, History, Sociology 45 Scott Fisher, Ph.D. Telepresence Research USA "Building Virtual Worlds: An Overview of Current Applications." Application, Industry 60 Lew Hitchner, Ph.D. Xtensory Inc. Scotts Valley, USA "Virtual Planetary Exploration - Walking on Mars" Fundamental Research, Application 60 3.2.2. Afternoon Session ------------------------ FOCUS ON VR AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Univ.Prof.Dr.Robert Trappl University of Vienna Vienna, Austria "The Role of Artificial Intelligence in VR" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, AI 45 Dipl.Ing. Yong Cao + Dipl.Ing. Ipke Wachsmuth University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Technology Bielefeld, Germany "Situated Space Agent for 3D Graphics Design" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, AI 30 ******************************************** * * * Special Feature starting at 3 p.m.: * * * * "VIRTUAL POLIS" * * * * presented by * * * * Prof. Carl Eugene Loeffler * * * ******************************************** FOCUS ON HYPERTEXT / HYPERMEDIA: Dipl.Ing. Andreas Dieberger + Mag. Jolanda Tromp Technical University of Vienna, Dept. for Design and Assesment of Technology + University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Psychology Vienna, Austria + Amsterdam, Netherlands "VR User Interface for Collaborative Navigation in Hypertexts" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Collaborative Navigation 30 Keith Andrews, M.S. University of Technology at Graz Graz, Austria "Constructing Cyberspace: VR and Hypermedia" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Hypermedia 30 Additional Industry-Presentations 3.2.3. Night Session --------------------- * Panel Discussion on TV (Club 2 in ORF, ev.CNN) "VR as a new Technology - How will it change your life?" * Formal Dinner - with all Speakers, Exhibitors and VIPs * Vienna Sightseeing 3.3. Second Day, December 2, 1993 Thursday --------------------------------------------- 3.3.1. Morning Session ----------------------- Prof. Carl Eugene Loeffler Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA "Inhabiting the Domain: Distributed Virtual Reality" Fundamental Research, Academic, Application, Distributed VR 60 Susan Wyshynski Mandala Systems Toronto, Canada "Virtual Cities" Application, Industry, Entertainment, Education 30 FOCUS ON VIRTUALITY AND EDUCATION: Mag. Wolfgang Schinagl Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Graz, Austria "The Interactive Information Center - A New Way in Education and Teaching" Education 30 Morten Soby, M.S. University of Oslo Oslo, Norway "Possessed by VR" Fundamental Research, Academic 30 Ola Odegard Norwegian Telecom Reasearch Oslo, Norway Selected Speaker "Terminals and Applications in Education and Work" Fundamental Research, Education, Application, Industry 30 Additional Industry-presentations 3.3.2. Afternoon Session FOCUS ON VR AND 3D USER INTERFACES: Dipl.Ing. Klaus Boehm + Dipl.Ing. Michael Sokolewicz Fraunhofer Institute, Computer Graphics Center Darmstadt, Germany "GIVEN++ - A Toolkit for Advanced 3D User Interface Construction" Fundamental Research, Application, Toolkit, HCI 30 Mag. Sabine Musil University of Vienna, Vienna User Interface Group Vienna, Austria "Virgets: Elements for Building 3D User Interfaces" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI 30 D.I. M.Rauterberg + D.I. M.Kuehni + D.I. E.Styger + D.I. K.Szabo University of Zuerich + Swiss Federal Instiute, Multimedia Lab Zuerich, Switzerland "2 1/2 D vs. 3D - A Classification Concept and an Experimental Comparison" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Experiment 30 FOCUS ON VR AND MEDICINE: Col.Dr. Richard Satava US Army Washington DC, USA "Teleprecence and VR - A Framework for Surgery in the 21st Century" Fundamental Research, Concptual, Medicine, Application, Industry 60 Dr. Duane Boman Stanford Research Institute Stanford, USA VEDA: Virtual Environment Design Applications Fundamental Research, Industry, Application, Medicine 60 Zhaowei Jiang, Ph.D. Wayne State University, Dept. of Computer Science + Dept. of Neurological Surgery Wayne, USA "VR and Tele-Presence Nerro Surgery - Basic Theory and a Prototype" Fundamental Research, Application, Medicine 45 Dr. Rudolf Morawetz University Clinic for Anaestesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Innsbruck, Austria "The Olfactory Dimension - The Forgotten Part of the Virtual World?" Fundamental Research, Academic 45 3.3.3. Night Session --------------------- * Panel-Discussion "VR in Japan and the USA - Two Different Approaches" * Reading: "Street Tech" - a new book of Linda Jacobson * Techno-Party * Vienna Sightseeing 3.4. Third Day, December 3, 1993, Friday ------------------------------------------- 3.4.1. Morning Session ----------------------- Dr. Robert Jacobson Worlddesign Inc. Seattle, USA "Through the Looking Glass - The Virtual Worlds Industry in 2010, a Prospective Retrospective" Fundamental Reasearch, Theory 60 Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria "The Ars Electronica Center" Science, Education, Entertainment, Industry 60 3.4.2. Evening Session ----------------------- Carolina Cruz-Neira, M.S. University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic Visualization Lab Chicago, USA "The Cave Automatic Environment" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Application, Visualization 45 Florian Brody + Dr.Peter Gathmann Consultant for New Media + Vienna Medical School, Dept. for Psychosomatics Los Angeles, USA + Vienna, Austria "Psychopathology of Virtual Worlds" Phsychology, Sociology, History 45 Paco Xander Nathan Writer Austin, USA "Practical Cybernetic Environs" Sociology, Homebrew, Street-Tech 30 3.4.3. Night Session -------------------- * Panel-Discussions "Hype in VR - What possibilities do we have to avoid that?" "Results and Comments on the VRV'93" * Partying till the morning... * Vienna Sightseeing - end of pre-agenda - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair ----- * IDG-International Data Group World's leading company of information for success with information technology, offices in > 50 countries worldwide. Dr. Manfred Weiss, Gen.Manager, IDG Austria * ICON - Int.Comm.Network Christian Klezl Initiator --------- * Christian Bauer & Freunde Christian Bauer Organizing Committee -------------------- * Worlddesign Dr. Robert Jacobson 128 NW 56th. Street Seattle, WA 98107 USA * Wordswork Linda Jacobson Box 31263 San Francisco, CA 94131 USA * Dentsu Inc. Chubu, Project Planning and Development Dept. Etsuroh Kitauchi 4-16-36 Sakae Naka-ku, Nagoya 460 Japan * JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization Yoshiyasu Imazu Mariahilferstr. 41-43 / 3 1060 Wien Austria * Systems Education Centre Pte Ltd. David Ong 12th Floor WTC Convention Centre, World Trade Centre 1 Maritime Square Singapore 0409 * University of Oslo, The Faculty of Social Science Morten Soby Helga Engs Building, 4th Floor, Room 414 P.O. Box 1092 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway * Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Economic Reasearch Mag. Wolfgang Schinagl Mozartgasse 14 8010 Graz Austria * Ars Electronica Center - Austrian Broadcasting Corp. (ORF) Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder Franckstrasse 2a 4010 Linz Austria * University Clinic for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Dr. Rudolf F. Morawetz Anichstrasse 35 6020 Innsbruck Austria Location -------- Vienna is the capital city of Austria. It is a beautiful and friendly city, located in the very center of Europe. Vienna is well known as a place for international fairs and exhibitions, but also for its cultural riches and its unique, relaxed atmosphere. The symposium will be held in the center of the 1,5 Mio city. The Palais Ferstl, an old castle in Vienna's first district, is located right in the central heart of Vienna. Accommodation and Travel ----------------------- Rooms in Vienna vary from US $65 to $400. Accommodation can be easily booked through IDG (see below). Fees & Grants ------------- Full conference fee (incl.lunch & beverages, social programm, exhibits and all sessions) ATS 12.980,- Special Fare (Academic personal of schools and universities, "early bird" for registration till Sept. 1, 1993, member of special institutions, second attendant of the same company) ATS 9.990,- Student Fare (limited amount of reduced full registrations, only for students with recommendation by university teachers) ATS 2.980,- Visitor to the Exhibition ATS 240,- Remark: UDS 1,- equals approx. ATS 12,- Registration & Information -------------------------- Dr. Manfred Weiss IDG Communications GMBH Zieglergasse 6 A-1070 Vienna Austria / Europe Tel +43 / 1 / 523 05 08 - 0 Fax +43 / 1 / 523 05 08 - 33 ICON Int.Comm.Network Christian Klezl Gobergasse 34 / 13 A-1130 Vienna Austria / Europe e-mail: 100276,1277 (Compuserve) Christian Bauer e-mail: christian.bauer@uibk.ac.at -end- From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Closing of Penn ReligSt Dept Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 00:59:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 262 (398) With the usual apologies for posting to several lists, and the invitation to cross-post as seems appropriate -- [deleted quotation] From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: update on Penn ReligSt crisis Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 01:03:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 263 (399) A more detailed presentation of the Dean's recommendation to close the department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania has now appeared in the University's official publication Almanac for Tuesday, 28 September, 1993. The timetable for action on this and the related recommendations [see the "news release" posted earlier] has also been clarified: the recommendations will be the subject of a faculty meeting of the School of Arts and Sciences on 12 October 1993, although it does not appear that the faculty is empowered to overturn or modify the recommendations if they wish to do so; then on 14 October, there is a scheduled meeting of the Trustees at which the recommendations are to be presented for approval. Whatever is to be done in an attempt to overturn or modify the action must be done quickly! Here is the text of the section on Religious Studies in the Dean's published letter to the SAS Faculty (in Almanac): As is the case in American Studies [also recommended for closing], the array of talent across the School in the field of religious studies -- including Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, History, Classics, Anthropology [to which could be added Folklore, Sociology, Art History, Philosophy, and English, among others] -- is impressive. The recent merger of the Annenberg Research Institute into Penn -- now the School's Center for Judaic Studies: Classical and Modern -- further symbolizes our commitment to religious studies as a field. But, as in the case of American Civilization, fields are not always best or necessarily served through the structure of a specialized department. The programs of the Religious Studies Department at both the graduate and undergraduate levels are inadequate reflections of the strength of interest in religious studies across the School; for example, the Department has had few undergraduate majors in recent years (2 graduates in May 1993), and the department's graduate program has consistently fallen short of attracting the financial resources that it needs to flourish. In the present economic climate we cannot make the significant investment that it would take to bring this department into a competitive position vis-a-vis other first-rate Departments of Religion or Religious Studies across the world. Nor can we justify shifting resources from other departments. I am recommending that the Department be closed as of June 30, 1994 with transfer of the six standing faculty (five tenured) to other departments, and to reconceive religious studies as an inter-departmental teaching program which will attract the best and the brightest students in the future. The shape and scope of this program at both the undergraduate and graduate levels will depend on the degree of faculty interest and involvement. ----- Brief responses from the interdisciplinary religious studies graduate group, which already exists and is the degree granting program for graduate studies in the field, and from the department, will appear in next week's Almanac. They will include such points as: (1) The Dean's office does not seem to understand the nature of the current departmental and graduate group structures, which do exactly what is recommended as the future for religious studies at Penn; (2) The Dean's office does not seem to understand the nature of the field of the academic study of religion, which requires some attention to core concerns (comparative, methodological, synthetic) that cannot be expected to survive in or emerge from the various departments that currently supply other specific courses and resources for the study of religion(s), and into which the current faculty will be incorporated; (3) The perception of the quality of the current religious studies programs as reflected in the Dean's presentation is inaccurate for those select sub-fields that the current program has chosen to support (e.g. Ancient Near East, Early Judaism/Christianity, Medieval Popular Religion, Religions of India, Modern Western Religious Thought, Hermeneutics) -- fields in which our graduates compete successfully on the job market, for example. (4) The failure to follow normal procedures of consultation and collegiality in developing and presenting these recommendations is deplorable, and seems to preclude the otherwise desirable possibility of a smooth transition from the existing situation to something deemed more appropriate for Penn's future; instead, destructive disruption -- even as attempts are made to cooperate -- seems inevitable. Whether this sort of response -- a combination of compliance (we already are doing these things and are anxious to improve) and opposition (so why destroy the mechanisms?) will have any effect remains to be seen. But time is short, and any responses that we can gather from the academy at large will be appreciated. Materials can be addressed to Dean Rosemary Stevens, Arts and Sciences 116 College Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6377 (Internet: rstevens@pilot.sas.upenn.edu); or to Alvin Shoemaker, Chair of the Trustees 121 College Hall [as above] 19104-6382 Bob Kraft, UPenn (Religious Studies ?) From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Re: Closing of Penn ReligSt Dept: clarification Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 11:28:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 264 (400) Let me hasten to clarify some issues raised by Paul Swarney's welcome, if disconsolate, note (on IOUDAIOS) that is appended below. The dean is not proposing to close the graduate program in religious studies at Penn, although exactly how it would function in a departmentless situation is not yet clear. Thus the issue of graduate education here is not as problematic as the announcements might suggest, on the surface. But just how it will be possible to maintain core courses in religious studies for both undergraduates and graduates without a department is a serious issue, and our considered contention is that in the long run, if there is no stable mechanism to insure such core commitment (whether it is called a "department" or not), the study of religion as a phenomenon (as opposed to the study of religious dimensions of specific subjects) will not survive with integrity. That is the main battle we are currently fighting, and for which intelligent support is greatly appreciated. I hope to post the formal responses of the department and of the graduate group later today, which should help to pinpoint the issues. Unfortunately, it is not a bad joke. Bob Kraft, UPenn [deleted quotation] From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Penn ReligSt Dept Crisis Responses Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:06:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 265 (401) Again, with apologies for multiple postings and for a subject that will not interest everyone, here are the formal responses from the department and the graduate group to the Dean's recommendation to close the Religious Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. If you missed the first two postings -- the news announcement and the detailed explanation from the Dean -- please contact me (kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) and I will forward them to you. The earlier postings also include suggestions about where to register any reactions -- I will include the pertinent addresses below as well. Bob Kraft, UPenn ===== September 30, 1993 RESPONSE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES On behalf of my colleagues, I wish to respond to the proposal of the SAS administration to close the Department of Religious Studies. I think it is necessary to begin by carefully distinguishing between the undergraduate study of religion at Penn and the existing interdepartmental Religious Studies Graduate Group [RSGG]. The RSGG is already made up of virtually all faculty in the School who have shown interest in the study of religion as an academic discipline. The contribution of the Department to the graduate program includes coordination and administration, which could be handled in other ways, and the locus for important core courses dealing with religion as a phenomenon, which would be very difficult to replace otherwise. Commonly, half of the course work taken by our graduate students originates in other departments. RSGG members with appointments outside the Department play active roles in the training of every graduate student in the program through courses, final examinations, and throughout the dissertation process. In some cases the extra-departmental members of the RSGG serve as chairs of dissertation committees. We are perplexed, therefore, at the suggestion that the graduate program does not adequately reflect "the strength of interest in religious studies across the School." That the graduate program does not attempt to encompass all possible specializations within the broad field of Religious Studies represents a consistent policy of the RSGG. We admit graduate students to our program only in fields in which we do compete successfully on an international basis, an assessment readily confirmed by both the quality of our applicants and by the success of the program in placing our Ph.D.'s in academic positions. Given this, we are mystified by the assertion that we are not in "a competitive position vis-a-vis other first-rate Departments of Religion or Religious Studies across the world." Ironically, in this world of shrinking academic resources, Religious Studies is an expanding field. Even Cornell University, explicitly forbidden by its charter from religious instruction, is initiating steps to establish a formal program in comparative religion. This is a field which does offer careers for young scholars and teachers, and in which our graduates have competed successfully against candidates from programs with far better support. With regard to the undergraduate program in Religious Studies, it is true that we consistently have a small number of majors, seldom more than ten. We think this is consistent with the atmosphere of undergraduate education at Penn. The Department offers both a coherent undergraduate major - invariably involving interdisciplinary study to the same degree as the graduate program - as well as a number of service courses at the introductory level. Despite our small size, we contribute regularly to interdisciplinary programs such as Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and Women's Studies. Our faculty has also participated generously in School-wide undergraduate seminar programs (Freshman Seminars, General Honors Seminars, "Writing About" Seminars). While we welcome the support (and resources) of the administration in helping us rethink the undergraduate program and course structures for the purpose of their improvement, we are at a loss to know how the closing of the Department would further the goal to "reconceive religious studies as an interdepartmental teaching program." What disturbs us most of all is that the dissolution of the Department will make impossible the study of religion as a phenomenon. The study of religion is not circumscribed by isolated movements (e.g. Hinduism, Judaism), or specific approaches (e.g. sociology of religion, history of Christianity), or creative expressions (religious art, literature, music). It is a coherent field of its own. We believe the deans of SAS are people of good will who have been basically misinformed and misguided about our department. It is easy to see how they were, since in our case, "no consultation" means no effort at all on their part to see what sort of program we have. The department has not been evaluated for over a decade, in spite of our repeated requests for an internal or an external review. Nor did the deans discuss our five-year plan with us before making this decision. Religious Studies is not a field that receives national rankings; but it would have been possible to make inquiries to other departments at Ivy League Schools and other competitive institutions, or indeed, to consult with us. To our knowledge, no such attempt was made before passing judgment. It is the conviction of the Department of Religious Studies that the closing of the Department will culminate in the abolition of the study of religion as a coherent discipline at the University, a tragic move at a time when events all over the world fully demonstrate the need for critical academic understanding of religion as a distinct, discrete cultural phenomenon. E. Ann Matter, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies ===== September 30, 1993 RESPONSE OF THE GRADUATE GROUP IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES The interdisciplinary Religious Studies Graduate Group [RSGG], composed of a wide array of talented faculty from across the entire School, met on Wednesday, September 29 to discuss the recommendation to close the Department of Religious Studies. The RSGG has authorized me as Graduate Chair to communicate the following four points: 1. The RSGG deplores the decision to close the Department of Religious Studies. 2. The RSGG, as a separate entity from the Department, most of whose members hold primary appointments in other departments, particularly deplores failure to consult with either the Department or the Graduate Group. 3. After extensive discussion, members of the RSGG are unable to see any merit whatsoever in the arbitrary decision to freeze graduate admissions for the coming year. We are concerned that this precipitous move would cause irreversible damage to graduate study of religion at Penn, which takes place across departmental lines. We recommend reconsideration of that decision in consultation with the RSGG. 4. The RSGG reaffirms its commitment to excellence in this area, and stands ready to work together with the SAS administration to enhance the graduate study of religion at Penn. Stephen N. Dunning, Chair of the Religious Studies Graduate Group ===== [deleted quotation]/end/ From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) Subject: Preprint exchange update Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 12:07:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 217 (402) We apologize for the recent 12-hour service interruption at the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange, which was due to a network router failure. In the future, we will be posting the abstracts of recently submitted papers to PHILOS-L and NSP-L, and placing them on PHILOSOP's filelist. However, in a shameless fit of self-promotion, we're giving this first batch wider circulation. Here, then, are the abstracts of some of the papers recently uploaded to the IPPE. I have also appended a copy of our initial public announcement, for those we have not yet seen it. Richard Reiner, Coordinator International Philosophical Preprint Exchange The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abstracts of recent submissions, as of Sep 27 04:21:33 JST 1993: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin Korb : Monash University : korb@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au Infinitely Many Resolutions of Hempel's Paradox preprints/Phil_of_Science What sorts of observations could confirm the universal hypothesis that all ravens are black? Carl Hempel proposed a number of simple and plausible principles which had the odd ("paradoxical") result that not only do observations of black ravens confirm that hypothesis, but so too do observations of yellow suns, green seas and white shoes. Hempel's response to his own paradox was to call it a psychological illusion--i.e., white shoes do indeed confirm that all ravens are black. Karl Popper on the other hand needed no response: he claimed that no observation can confirm any general statement--there is no such thing as confirmation theory. Instead, we should be looking for severe tests of our theories, strong attempts to falsify them. Bayesian philosophers have (in a loose sense) followed the Popperian analysis of Hempel's paradox (while retaining confirmation theory): they have usually judged that observing a white shoe in a shoe store does not qualify as a *severe* test of the hypothesis and so, while providing Bayesian confirmation, does so to only a *minute* degree. This rationalizes our common intuition of non-confirmation. I shall demonstrate that all these responses to the paradox are wrong--granting an ordinary Bayesian measure of confirmation. A proper Bayesian analysis reveals that observations of white shoes may provide the raven hypothesis *any degree of confirmation whatsoever.* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert Pierson : York University : pierson@nexus.yorku.ca The Epistemic Authority of Expertise preprints/Epistemology All of us defer to the authority of experts, but to what extent is this a rational thing to do? How should our cognitive labour be divided between the layperson and the expert? I argue that expertise is of two dominant sorts: closed-system oriented and lay-person oriented. The first sort of expertise is concerned primarily with controlling and manipulating a discipline's defining set of variables as a closed or relatively closed system. The second sort of expertise is simply in the business of "advising" clients. When expert claims are the result of the first sort, then there is no rational room for lay evaluation of those claims, and so the layperson must defer to the experts. However, when experts either extrapolate from their closed-systems to produce programmes for personal or lay action, or if experts are of the second sort, then the layperson is rationally obliged to think for herself, which amounts to nothing more than determining whether the *benefit* of following the expert's advice is worth the *cost* of doing so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Fuller : University of Pittsburgh : CAN SCIENCE STUDIES BE SPOKEN IN A CIVIL TONGUE? preprints/Phil_of_Science The emerging field of "science studies" has finally reached a field of public visibility. Indeed, it is perceived as a threat to the future of science. Two prominent works of science popularization -- Steven Weinberg's _Dreams of a final theory_ and Lewis Wolpert's _The Unnatural nature of science_ -- devote entire chapters to describing and criticizing science studies. While neither Weinberg nor Wolpert believe that science studies will warp the minds of scientists, they do believe that it can have an unsavory influence on science policymakers who are looking for excuses to trim down expensive science. I examine the arguments that Weinberg and Wolpert make on behalf of science and against science studies, with an eye toward turning their charges into an opportunity for public debate about the future of science. I especially focus on how Weinberg and Wolpert mobilize the history of science for their purposes, and their implicit notions of the "scientific mind" and what constitutes a "rational" attitude toward science. One notable feature of their critiques is that they put positivist philosophy of science and relativist sociology of science -- normally at loggerheads with one another -- in the same boat as opponents to the idea that scientists should set the course of their own inquiries. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrea Austen : York University : F.H. Bradley and feminist ethics preprints/Ethics In this paper I argue for the re-evaluation of ethical idealism on the basis of its consistency with feminist ethics. Bearing on the work of Carol Gilligan and others, I outline how standard moral theory fails to account for the different voice. My paper takes seriously Gilligan's challenge to the comprehensiveness of standard conceptions of morality, but goes further to argue that ethical idealism can accommodate feminist criticism without excluding issues of justice and impartiality. Finally, I argue that a thoroughgoing *feminist* ethic must account for both orientations without relegating the different voice to some form of moral immaturity or underdevelopment. 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To upload a paper or comment: see pub/submissions/README. -- Richard Reiner..............rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca..............416-538-3947 Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. -- Bellamy Brooks From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" Subject: Call for Contributors (CMC) Date: 27 Sep 1993 10:29:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 266 (403) Call for Contributors ... forwarded on from: D.A.O.Barry@open.ac.uk (apologies if you get this more than once!) INSTRUCTIONAL SCIENCE - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEARNING AND COGNITION Special issue on the use of Computer Mediated Communication to support learning. It is proposed to produce a special issue devoted to applications of CMC in education and training. If sufficient papers of high quality are received it may be a double issue. Contributers who wish to register an interest should contact the guest editors NOW. (With abstracts to follow by 3 December 1993) Email may be sent to:- D.A.O.BARRY@OPEN.AC.UK Post may be sent to Dr Paul Barber at:- The Department of Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London Malet Street LONDON WC1X 7HU United Kingdom Faxes may be sent (marked for the attn. of Dr Barber as above) to:- 071 531 6270 IF SENDING BY MORE THAN ONE MEDIUM PLEASE STATE THIS ON EACH COPY Phone calls are not encouraged but may be made at caller's risk..... Further information about the Special issue. ************************************************************ CMC is no longer a novel, interesting technology seen to have an enormous (but so far unfulfilled) potential for the support of the learning process. While still largely novel in the world of education and training there have been a number of cases in which it has been used. It has begun to move beyond the pilot stage where merely using CMC at all was remarkable enough (and worth reporting) to the implementation stage. There are increasingly many examples of creative and innovative uses of CMC and an increasing need for practioners to share their often hard won insights into what makes CMC succeed or fail (or even what counts as success or failure). The papers we wish to attract will report experiences of CMC in use. They may do this from a wide range of points of view (including aspects NOT mentioned in this notice!) examples of topic areas could include:- *introducing CMC into an institution ("selling CMC?") *aspects of instructional design where CMC is to be used *Orientating tutors to CMC *problems in using CMC *CMC and Distance Study *CMC in support of otherwise conventional courses *CMC in support of tutors *CMC and the non traditional student *CMC and the disabled *Evaluating courses that use CMC *Training in the use of CMC For the purposes of this discussion CMC includes computer conferencing (usually, but not always asynchronous), electronic mail (which would cover Listservers and UNIX news) and bulletin boards. It is assumed to be a text based medium but news of multimedia applications would be welcomed as would accounts of the combination of CMC with other teleconferencing media such as audioconferencing and video conferencing. The implications for CMC users of the INTERNET and the Clinton administration's "information highways" initiative might be another fruitful area. Intending authors should register their interest now and deliver an abstract of the proposed paper to the guest editors Paul Barber and David Barry by 3 September 1993. The abstract should be about 250 words in length and may be submitted by email, fax or post as you wish. (You may like to note that this notice is about 500 words long.) Paul Barber David Barry From: Pierre_J._Hamel@INRS-URB.UQuebec.CA (Pierre-J. Hamel) Subject: Housing Beijing 1994.09.21-24 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 10:07:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 267 (404) 6e conference internationale 6th international research de recherche sur l'habitat conference on housing 21-24 septembre 1994 september 21-24 1994 Beijing Defi global - defis locaux Global challenge - Local challenges du 21e siecle in the 21st century Appel de communication Call for papers d'ici le 30 octobre 1993 deadline: october 30 1993 Ateliers: Worshops: Habitat urbain et politiques publiques Housing and Public Policies Habitat et qualite de vie Housing and Quality of Life Marche du logement The Housing Market Construction de l'habitat urbain Construction of Urban Housing et environnement urbain and the Urban Environment Urbanisation et developpement urbain Urbanization and Urban Development Sociologie de l'habitat Sociology of Housing Pour plus de details: For more details: Ye Qimao Liu Hanju CIRH 94 Institut de recherche Urban Studies Institute sur l'urbanisation B.P. 2822 100044 Beijing, Chine tel.: 86-1-831-1882 fax: 86-1-831-3158 hamelpj@inrs-urb.uquebec.ca From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Computer generated literature conference - Paris 1994 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 12:14:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 219 (405) LAST CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS FOR THE CGL CONFERENCE Please note that two minor modifications have been added to the original text of the call for papers; these are indicated by --> in the left margin of the text. Alain Vuillemin Michel Lenoble -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTER GENERATED LITERATURE SPECIAL SESSION DURING ALLC-ACH 94 CONFERENCE 19-23 april 1994 Paris - Sorbonne = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = As we are planing to ask the ALLC-ACH 94 organizers to include in their conference programme a special session on "Computer Generated Literature" (CGL), we are gathering submissions on this very topic. These will be forwarded all together to the ALLC-ACH 94 selection comittee with our proposal for a special session. CGL, in its broadest sense, includes, among others, these research fields: - animated typography, animated poetic video - sound and spatial poetry - computer generated poetry, theater and fiction - computer generated scripts, scenarios and tales - interactive literature, poly-auctorial literature --> - hypertextual literature Papers could deal, among others, with the following research topics: - literary text generators: theoretical or practical approaches - methods and programming environments for generator developpment - historical or typological survey of CGL - pedagogical applications - legal implications (copyright), commercial implications (publication, distribution) - relationships between CGL and literary institutions and archiving facilities and libraries of the future and genetic studies and critical studies - particular project or realization in CGL --> - CGL publications on computer readable medium * * * PRACTICAL INFORMATION Refer to ALLC-ACH94's "Preliminary Call for Papers" for further details. Please note the following particulars of the proposed CGL session. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES Papers will be accepted both in French and in English. MAXIMUM ABSTRACTS LENGTH 1500 words for 25 minute presentations 2500 words for 45 minute lectures SUBMISSION FORMAT In order to speed up the submission process, e-mail usage is *strongly* encouraged. Submission should all include the following information: ------------------------------CUT HERE------------------------ TITLE: AUTHOR(S): AFFILIATION: POSTAL ADDRESS: E-MAIL ADDRESS: FAX NUMBER: PHONE NUMBER: ------------------------------CUT HERE------------------------ Please mention the name of the author as the "subject" of the e-submission message. Submission for this particular CGL-session should be sent directly to Michel Lenoble: lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca DEADLINES October 1, 1993 - Proposal for CGL session October 15, 1993 - CGL Session proposal sent to ALLC-ACH December 15, 1993 - Notification of acceptance February 15, 1994 - Advanced registration PUBLICATION OF PAPERS In case of CGL-session acceptance by ALLC-ACH, the organizers of this particular session are planning a selective paper publication, most probably in cooperation with a french research center. Negociations with the publishers are currently under way. | More info: contact Michel Lenoble: lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca | From: ericj321@aol.com Subject: Folksongs of the Vietnam War Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 15:41:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 268 (406) "FOLKSONGS OF THE VIETNAM WAR" On Saturday, October 16th, 7:30 p.m. at New York University's Loeb Student Center Auditorium, join us in a lecture and concert by Vietnam Vets. The click of a rifle in the jungle...a rescue helicopter names "Jolly Green"..getting drunk on Vietnamese beer... The songs of soldiers in Vietnam vividly recreate these experiences. Lecture: "Music of Americans in the Vietnam War" 7:30 pm FREE by Lydia Fish, Director, Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project, Buffalo State College Concert: "Folksongs of the Vietnam War" 8:30 PM, suggested contribution $9, students/seniors $5, The concert will feature Toby Hughes, known as the baladeer of the In Country air war, an F4-C Aircraft commander who flew 204 missions with the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron, and flew in support of the the Khe Sanh during the Tet offensive on 1968. Chip Dockery, who did two tours of duty with the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron, he performs a series of songs written from the point of view of the North Vietnamese truck drivers on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Chuck Rosenberg, who served as an A-Team Communications Supervisor in Company C, Sixth Special Forces Group at Forg Bragg from 1965 to 1968, sings many of the songs composed by ground soldiers in the war. For more information contact CITY LORE: 212/529-1955 Program sponsored by New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Performance Studies School of Arts and Sciences Metropolitan Studies American Studies Department of Anthropology Department of History. - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Department of Performance Studies New York University 721 Broadway, 6th floor New York, NY 10003 {@}--'--,---,--'---,--- Email: kirshenblatt@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU Phone: 212-998-1628 Fax: 212-254-7885 From: Marc Nelissen Subject: STUDIUM. University history discussion list Date: Sat, 02 Oct 93 11:51:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 269 (407) STUDIUM University History discussion list STUDIUM intends to be a forum for scholars involved with university history and the history of higher education. An interdisciplinary approach will be appreciated. No chronological or geographical limits are imposed. The list is moderated : list-owners control the flow of messages and try to shield members from superfluous messages. STUDIUM is maintained at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Subscribers to the list are invited to post communications and questions (the language of communication is English). Possible topics are announcements of colloquia and all kinds of meetings, questions on current research, bibliographical information, short book reviews, job announcements, the sharing of information on access to other electronic information and so on. 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Could you help me. Where can I find out this information. Thank you very much. Jose Luis Espinosa. From: Jean-Michel Boulay Subject: Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 14:52:58 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 271 (409) Does anybody know about a multilingual text-analysis software called SATO? I would like to know if it is a good program and if it is readily available. Do you know of any other program that would be as good, or better? Jean-Michel Boulay Music, Un. of Ottawa Ottawa, CANADA boulay@acadvm1.uottawa.ca From: Vicky_A._Walsh@Quadzilla.Apple.COM Subject: Lakota Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 15:18:24 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 272 (410) Does anyone have any information on computerized Lakota (Sioux language)? I am interested in instructional materials as well as spoken language. There is a conference called Native Voices which has sound files for various SW languages and there is interest in Sioux as well if we can find someone to do them. Thanks for your help, Vicky ------- OneNet member Network Prime Hub. Providing access to Information, Tools & Community From: CNOWENS@DEPAUW.BITNET Subject: Self Induced Slavery Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:54:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 273 (411) I'm presently working on an argument against a persons right to give up his rights and willingly become a slave. I have encountered some arguments that claim a person may if he wishes sell himself into slavery, but the ones I've seen have pretty obvious flaws. While I certainly intend on refuting those, I want to make sure I attack the hardpoints of the opposing view. Can any- one direct me to a fairly strong set of arguments supporting a person's right to enter into slavery willingly? Please reply directly, if it is no trouble. CNOWENS.BITNET@DEPAUW From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: tinker toys Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 07:22:44 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 274 (412) For serious scholarly reasons (really), I need to know if the phrase "tinker toy" is immediately familiar to Anglophones, not necessarily maternally tongued, educated outside the United States. The OED 2nd edn. notes "tinkertoy" as "orig. and chiefly U.S., the proprietary name of a type of child's construction set; a toy made of this; also fig.", and for example cites "1972 Newsweek 19 June 23/3 McGovern will go into the campaign against Nixon with those Tinkertoy proposals of his." It would be especially helpful if I could discover usage among scientists, physicists in particular, who are claimed to use the term to describe a deliberately over-simplified model. Thanks. Willard McCarty mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Romantic literature Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 08:15:21 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 275 (413) On behalf of a colleague I am looking for a discussion group devoted to Romantic English literature or, more generally, early 19th-century English lit., esp. prose fiction. I have checked the recently published (and exellent) list of academic discussion groups by Kovacs et al. Thanks. Willard McCarty From: turi@ludens.elte.hu Subject: Q: Peter Shaffer Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1993 13:33:27 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 276 (414) Dear Subscribers, A friend of mine, a graduate student of English, is writing a thesis on Peter Shaffer's most recent play, _The_Gift_of_the_Gorgon_. Since the play was first published only two years ago no literature is available on it in our university library. Could any of you recommend some review or other publication on this play? My friend would also appreciate a general "reading list" on Peter Shaffer. Please, reply directly to me. Thank you in advance. Laszlo Turi Dept. of English Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary E-mail: "turi@ludens.elte.hu" From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Oct 20 NEACH: New Directions Panel Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 8:28:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 222 (415) An Invitation from NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities [Please distribute this announcement but forgive any cross-listings] Where is humanities computing heading? NEACH invites you to a special panel on NEW DIRECTIONS IN HUMANITIES COMPUTING on Wednesday, October 20, 1993 at 1:30 p.m. room 25B, the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, in New York City. The event, the first of 1993-1994, marks the start of NEACH's tenth anniversary season. The pace of change is increasing in such areas as text analysis, networking, the human-computer interface, artistic creativity, new operating capabilities, and multimedia. The members of the panel will select for discussion significant changes and unexpected challenges as well as opportunities that will face us in the mid-1990s. The panel members for New Directions in Humanities Computing will present overviews, explore special topics, and share discussions in their areas of expertise: Susan Hockey, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Joseph Raben, SCHOLAR listserv, CUNY Kurt DeBelder, Bobst Library, New York University Louie Crew, Academic Foundations, Rutgers University Put the NEACH meeting schedule for 1993-1994 on your calendar: Wed. Oct. 20 New Directions in Humanities Computing Panel: Hockey, Raben, DeBelder, Crew Tues. Nov. 9 The Alliance for Writing with Computers Trent Batson (Gallaudet & George Mason) Wed. Dec. 8 To be announced All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. NEACH usually meets on the second Tuesday or the second Wednesday of the month from October to May. NEACH is an affiliate of the ACH, the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Joint ACH/NEACH membership is available. All visitors to the IBM Building must obtain a pass at the entry desk on the ground floor: ask for "NEACH" or the "Humanities." For membership information, please contact Nan Hahn, NEACH sec'y-treas., 322 Second St., Dunellen, NJ 08812. Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston ) Subject: Re: 7.0201 Qs: Teaching in the University; Literary Agent (2/40) Date: 27 Sep 93 02:53:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 277 (416) In response to Willard McCarty's inquiry about who has used computers not as surrogate teachers, but rather as a means to enhance discovery -- I sent Humanist a copy of three articles written by a Long Island High School teacher who has used WordCruncher and the electronic OED as a means to assisting twelfth grades to develop critical thinking skills. While certainly not a panacea, the approach has met with success and excitement. JWJ From: allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Allegre Christian) Subject: list BALZAC-L Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 278 (417) I would like to mention to the HUMANISTS a typing mistake in the 7th Revision Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. The list BALZAC-L (French Studies; French Literature) address is wrong and should read as: Balzac-l@cc.Umontreal.ca To subscribe, the address is : Balzac-l-request@cc.Umontreal.ca (The "U" is missing in the directory's listing) Ch. Allegre Co-owner Balzac-L allegre@ere.umontreal.ca Universite de Montreal Departement d'etudes francaises From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Kudology and computers Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 20:26:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 279 (418) I have been somewhat disturbed at the trend to follow what we Germans used to call Lohnmoral in computer aided research. The MLA wants to set guidelines for who gets rewarded, for example. An example: suppose that I decide to do a concordance of the works of Thomas Mann. I obtain an e-text from somewhere, ask my university's research board to pay for a programmer to write a concordance routine for me, ask the same university to provide me with a computer, printer, etc. and an assistant to run it for me. My German is not so good, so I ask friends to help, perhaps even get another research assistant to help there and run to the library for those inevitable problems which arise. I also ask the university to help with the subvention the publisher requires. {If you think this is an unlikely scenario, you are naive} Who gets the kudo? Suppose there is another person who types (or scans) in the text himself, writes his own concordance routine, uses his own equipment and has no assistant. Does he get more kudo? These may seem to be frivolous questions, and I always treated them so, but force nous est. When I. J. Good invented the term "kudology", he had no inkling of how the problem might grow. Jim Marchand. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Politics of Electronic Text bibliographized Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 07:59:18 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 280 (419) My apologies for the table of contents & strong recommendation of The Politics of Electronic Text without the bibliographic information. The missing follows: The Politics of Electronic Text. Ed. Warren Chernaik, Caroline Davis, and Marilyn Deegan. Office for Humanities Publications, No. 3. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, Oxford Univ. Computing Services, with the Centre for English Studies, Univ. of London, 1993. ISBN 1 897791 04 6. It is, as I said, available from OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX26NN, for 5 pounds, but I do not know about shipping charges. A note to CITTEXT@VAX.OX.AC.UK might do the trick. I wonder (mischievously in public) if an electronic publication might not be possible. The book is, however, handsomely produced, and so very reasonable for the price. Willard McCarty From: rrs@uclink.berkeley.edu (Rebecca R Simon) Subject: RE: REPRESENTATIONS 42 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 11:01:40 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 281 (420) To: HDOW@delphi.com Message-id: <9309271801.AA14571@uclink.berkeley.edu> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thank you for your interest in the "Future Libraries" special issue of Representations. Unfortunately, the journal is currently available only in hardcopy. You may order a copy from the University of California Press Journals for $7.50 (US$; add $1.50 for foreign surface mail). Orders must be prepaid and may be placed by: - FAX (510) 642-9917 credit card information to UC Press Journals - email payment and credit card information to rrs@uclink.berkeley.edu (this is dangerous, however, due to lack of privacy on the net) - phone Betty Dover at (510) 642-4191 We look forward to hearing from you. I would also appreciate your posting the order information on the Humanist list, if it has not already appeared. Thanks again. Rebecca Simon, University of California Press Journals -*- Harmon Dow HDow@Delphi HDow@MCImail.com "The trouble with the world is not what people don't know; it's what they know that ain't so." - Will Rogers From: Grant Stirling Subject: Freud in translation Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 09:19:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 225 (421) Anyone familiar with Luce Irigaray's reading of Freud's "Femininity" paper in her *Speculum of the Other Woman* is probably also aware of the problematic issues of the inter- lingual translation of Freud raised by Irigaray. In her "The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry" Irigaray acknowledges that she is using a French translation of Freud's "Femininity" paper which she identifies as: "La f=82mininit=82" Nouvelles conf=82rences sur la psychoanalyse. Gallimard, Ide=82s. But at the same time, Irigaray states that this French translation of Freud's German text is fragmentary and in places, incomplete. In her *The Enigma of Woman*, Sarah Kofman criticises Irigaray's use of this "quite dreadful" French translation and turns instead, to the German language %Gesammelte Werke% 18 vols. (Frankfurt and London, 1952-1968) edition of Freud's work.=20 Kofman states by turning to the German text, she is "manifesting the minimum intellectual honesty that consists in criticising an author in terms of what he has said [in the original German] rather than what someone has managed to have him say [in the corrupt French translation]." So clearly, what is at stake here is an issue of "textual adequacy": the adequacy of a French translation in terms of a German "original." To wrap up this long-winded question, I would ask if anyone can direct me to any materials that examine the "adequacy" of the French Freud %vis-=85-vis% the German Freud. Further, I would also ask if anyone can direct me to any materials that discuss the editorial procedures by which the standard edition of the German Freud was created. Please reply off-list and, if responses warrant, I will summarize and post all citations to the list. Thanks in advance. Grant Stirling York University Toronto, Ontario E-mail: stirling@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca From: LEINWAND@vax.museum.upenn.edu Subject: ARIT Fellowships Date: Mon, 4 Oct 93 00:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 226 (422) AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN TURKEY ANNOUNCEMENT OF FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED FOR 1994-1995 - American Research Institute in Turkey Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 1994-1995 ARIT Fellowships offered in 1994-1995 cover all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Fellowships are given for up to 12 months, but shorter term awards are favored. Applications must be submitted to ARIT before November 15, 1993. The committee will notify applicants by late January, 1994. - - American Research Institute in Turkey / National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 1994-1995. ARIT/NEH Fellowships offered for 1994-1995 cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history. The fellowships are held for a full or half year term. Stipends range from $15,000 to $30,000. Applications must be submitted to ARIT before November 15, 1993. The committee will notify applicants by late January, 1994. For further information and application forms contact: American Research Institute in Turkey University Museum 33rd and Spruce Streets Philadelphia PA 19104-6324 telephone (215) 898-3474 fax (215) 898-0657 e-mail leinwand@vax.museum.upenn.edu + + + + + + PLEASE POST + + + + + + From: yngve.skramm@ilf.uio.no (Yngve Skramm) Subject: Hypertext & History (research) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 15:35:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 227 (423) I'm a graduate student at the University of Oslo. I'm also assistant teacher in an introductory class in "Hypermedia in the Humanities" here at the university. I'm looking for information about current research projects dealing with hypertext/ -media for use in history research/teaching. The reasons for this is that I'm writing my thesis on the subject and would like to know more what's going on in this field. More important is that I would like to get ideas where to study a semester or more abroad to get new impulses and get in touch with others dealing with the same subject (I'm the only one here). Hope to hear from you, Yngve |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| | Yngve Skramm | | | Priv.: | | Institutt for lingvistiske fag | Sigurdsgate 36 | | Postboks 1102 Blindern | 2000 LILLESTROM | | 0317 OSLO | NORWAY | | NORWAY | Tlf. +47 63803147 | | e-mail: Yngve.Skramm@ilf.uio.no | | |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| From: tshannon@garnet.berkeley.edu Subject: Berkeley Dutch Linguistics Conference Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 18:15:40 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 228 (424) Please pass the following conference information along to any and all potentially interested colleagues. Thomas F. Shannon, UC Berkeley Europe After 1993: Dutch Linguistics in an International Context October 15-16, 1993 Program Friday Morning Session Moderator: Thomas F. Shannon, U.C. Berkeley 9:30 Coffee 10:00 Welcome. Johan P. Snapper, Director of Dutch Studies, U.C. Berkeley John L. Heilbron, The Vice Chancellor, U.C. Berkeley Representatives of the Netherlands and Belgian governments 10:30 Roeland van Hout (University of Brabant, Tilburg) "The Future of Standard Dutch" 11:15 Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl (California State University, Chico) "Language Policy in the Netherlands after 1993: A Macro-sociolinguistic Perspective" 12:00 Lunch Friday Afternoon Session Moderator: Marco Haverkort, U.C. Berkeley 1:30 Guus Extra (University of Brabant, Tilburg) "Ethnic Minorities, Language Diversity and Education in the Netherlands" 2:15 Anthony Buccini (University of Chicago) "The Dialectal Origins of New Netherland Dutch" 3:00 Intermission 3:15 Ludo Beheydt (Catholic University, Louvain) "Dutch Linguistics at the Crossroads of Development in Linguistics" 4:00 Wine and Cheese Friday Evening Program 8:00 The Mariska Huynen Memorial Lecture, Sponsored by the Netherlands America University League The Alumni House, U.C. Berkeley Werner Abraham Professor of Germanic Linguistics, University of Groningen Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley "German 'Cold and Male' vs. Dutch 'Warm and Female.' Culturemes and Some of Their Linguistic Counterparts in German, Dutch, and English." Reception following the lecture Saturday Morning Session Moderator: Orrin W. Robinson III, Stanford University 9:30 Ad Foolen (Catholic University of Nijmegen) "Dutch Modal Particles: Frameworks For their Functioinal Analysis" 10:15 Theo Janssen (Free University of Amsterdam) "Heterosemy or Polyfunctionality of Dutch maar 'but, only, just?" 11:00 Coffee 11:15 Thomas Shannon (University of California at Berkeley) "Exptraposition of NP Complements in Dutch and German: An Empirical Comparison" 12:00 Lunch Saturday Afternoon Session Moderator: Robert S. Kirsner, UCLA 1:30 Marco Haverkort (University of California at Berkeley) "Romance and Germanic Clitics: A Comparison of their Syntactic Behavior" 2:15 Wim de Geest (Catholic University, Brussels) "A Critical Confrontation Between West Flemish and East Flemish Cliticization Phenomena" 3:00 Intermission 3:15 Henny Broekman (University of the Orange Free State) "A Comparison Between Germanic and Afrikaans Verbal Cluster" 4:00 Wine and Cheese From: Elaine Brennan Subject: Query to Humanist members Date: Tue, 05 Oct 93 16:24:20 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 229 (425) A list member is writing a paper on "reassessing prospects for electronic scholarly communication" and would like to use the Humanist subscription list as a source for a random selection of names for personally addressed surveys. How do list members feel about this? Is there anyone who would prefer that her or his address be excluded from the subscription list if I were to make it available to this list member? Elaine From: sjd@ebt.com Subject: New edition of "SGML tutorial" Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 17:18:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 230 (426) For users of Eric van Herwijnen's online "SGML Tutorial:" Electronic Book Technologies, publisher of the SGML Tutorial, has released a second edition. It addresses certain font problems experienced with XVGA monitors, includes additional stylesheets for alternate views, and uses version 2.1 of the DynaText(tm) Browser software. Along with many other enhancements, 2.1 permits the reader to globally scale text in a document up or down to suit personal preference. Owners of the first edition can upgrade to the second at no charge beyond $7.50 to cover postage/handling costs. To upgrade, send your original distribution diskette, the address to which we should send the upgrade, and p/h charges, to: Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. 1 Richmond Square Providence, RI 02906 USA Or call 401-421-9550 for further information. Steven J. DeRose System Architect EBT, Inc. sjd@ebt.com From: Joseph Raben Subject: Re: 7.0225 Freud in Translation (1/47) Date: Mon, 04 Oct 93 17:14:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 282 (427) One person who should know about the validity of Freud translation is Randy Jones at Brigham Young University; he programmed the software for the Freud concordance. By coincidence, as I was flying into Salt Lake City to meet him about ten years ago, I was reading a New Yorker article by Bettelheim that criticized the Ernest Jones translation for introduc- ing concepts that did not match their counterparts when expressed in German. I understand that Bettelheim expanded on this problem elsewhere. From: ksalzber@hamline.edu (Kenneth Salzberg) Subject: Re: 7.0225 Freud in Translation (1/47) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 13:04:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 283 (428) Grant, Could you clue me in on which program/scheme/whatever uses % as the beginning and end of (underlining or italics) and =85 as a-grave (If I've got that right). Thanks. --Ken Salzberg ksalzber@hamline.edu From: Minott Kerr Subject: Re: MA in Humanities Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 13:57:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 284 (429) Reed College in Portland, Oregon (USA) has a small program leading to a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. For information contact: Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program c/o Ms Toinette Menashe Director of Special Programs Reed College Portland, OR 97202-8199 (USA) From: Stuart Lee Subject: RE: 7.0224 Rs: Politics of E-Text; Future Libraries (2/64) Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1993 12:08:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 285 (430) Postage for Politics of the Electronic Text is 1 pound within the UK, 2 pounds within Europe, and 3 pounds elsewhere (just to save me answering hundreds of queries on CTITEXT!). Dr Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221/283282 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: Michael Strangelove <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: The Internet: Your Guide to the Information Super Highway Date: Tue, 05 Oct 93 18:12:42 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 232 (431) The Internet -- Special Issue -- Online Access (BBS Edition, October 1993) Your Guide to the Information Super Highway Michael Strangelove -- Guest Editor Available on Newsstands Everywhere (almost) For Further Information: Tracy Weisman, Editor-in-Chief Online Access 920 North Franklin, Suite 203 Chicago, IL 60610 FAX: 312-573-0520 70324.343@CompuServe.Com Table of Contents Internet Soup: An alphabetical Guide to the Net Aneurin Bosley (054408@acadvm1.uottawa.ca) Editor-in-Chief, Internet Insanity NREN Explained: The National Research and Education Network Program Ross Stapleton BIX: New Windows to the Internet Larry Krumenaker Internet Tips and Tools: Free Internet Guides, Manuals and Information Files Natalie Strangelove (mstrange@ccs.carleton.ca) Editor-in-Chief , ElectroPolis The Essential Internet: The Birth of Virtual Culture and Global Community Michael Strangelove (Mstrange@Fonorola.Net) Publisher, Strangelove Internet Enterprises, Inc. Internet Hunt Kevin M. Savetz BBS Spotlight: Internet Access Providers The Online Access BBS Phone Book Connecting to the Internet: A Buyers Guide Susan Estrada For more information on the quickly expanding line of Strangelove Press Internet publications, including the Internet Business Journal, contact Michael Strangelove at mstrange@fonorola.net or call collect: 613-747-6106. Michael Strangelove, Publisher The Internet Business Journal 441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA (for academic correspondence) MSTRANGE@Fonorola.Net (for commercial correspondence) STRANGELOVE PRESS - Purveyors of Fine Internet Publications S-Mail: 60 Springfield Road, Suite One Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1M-1C7 Voice: (613) 747-6106 FAX: (613) 564-6641 From: Gregg=Boalch%IS=Staff%CURTIN@ba1.curtin.edu.au Subject: Research Date: Tue, 5 Oct 93 11:59:44 WST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 233 (432) I am doing research into the use of expert systems as a tool for hypothesis validation and generation in historical research, in particular in chronology determination. I would like to spend a term or two during either 1994 or 1995 at a University where this research is either of interest or already underway - preferably under a fellowship (young family and all that). Can anyone on the list please suggest any campuses (campii?) or contacts with whom I can discuss this matter directly. Apologies for any duplication - this is being posted to a number of lists (ANE-L, AHC-L, HALBION-L, ANCIEN-L, KLIEO-L). Thanking you all for your time... ************************************************************************ * Gregg Boalch E-Mail: Boalch@ba1.curtin.edu.au * * School of Information Systems Phern: (619) 351 7246 * * Curtin University of Technology Fax: (619) 351 3076 * * Snail: GPO Box U1987 * * ...seek grace, elegance and PERTH W. AUSTRALIA 6001 * * understanding in all things... _--_|\ * * / \ * * Here--->\_.--._/ * * v * ************************************************************************ From: Michael Strangelove <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: The Internet Business Journal Vol. 1.2 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 93 18:11:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 234 (433) The Internet Business Journal Commercial Opportunities in the Networking Age Volume 1, Number 2 - August, 1993 Michael Strangelove (Mstrange@Fonorola.Net) Publisher Electronic version featuring the full text of Robert Larribeau Jr.'s article, "The Future For The Commercial Internet Service Providers". NOTE: This freely available electronic edition contains a table of contents and abstracts only. Also note that it has been designed to be compatible with electronic reader devices for the print challenged, therefore, no extraneous characters, lines or tags have been used. Copyright (C) 1993 by Strangelove Press. All rights reserved. This document may be archived for public use in electronic or other media, so long as it is maintained in its entirety and no fee is charged to the user; any exception requires written consent from Strangelove Press. Contents: RFC/FYI - Editorial Michael Strangelove The Internet Hunt Rick Gates The Future For The Commercial Internet Service Providers Robert Larribeau Jr. Internet Company Profile Archie - A Canadian Internet Success Story Kevin M. Savetz The Internet and E-Mail Internet Continues to Exert Influence on E-Mail Jim Carroll The Gender of Cyberspace Leslie Regan Shade and Gladys We Internet Use At Carnegie Michael Bauer Regular Features: Internet in the UK - SuperJANET Explained Susan Hallam Government Online Carl Briggs Resources for networked Business, Commerce and Industry Internet Access News ABSTRACTS The Internet Hunt Rick Gates The Internet Hunt is a monthly "game" intended to sharpen the skills of Internet users. Every month its creator, Rick Gates, sends a set of questions out to the Internet community. Participants have a limited amount of time to discover the correct answers and e-mail these back to Rick for scoring. The August Hunt focused on business related questions. Internet Providers: The Future for the Commercial Internet Service Providers Robert Larribeau Jr. The growth of the Internet is well documented. In 1992 the number of hosts grew from 750,000 to 1.4 million. The current growth rate for the number of networks connected to the Internet is about 7% per month and about 14% per month for hosts. The backbone traffic at the end of March 1993 was about 5.3 terabytes and increasing about 10% per month. The commercial use of the Internet is an important component of this prodigious growth. The Internet is a hierarchical network with the NSFNET is at the top. The NSFNET is the backbone that connects separately administered and operated mid-level networks and NSF funded super computer centers. The approximately 35 mid-level networks provide Internet connection services for local academic or commercial networks. When the Internet was formed by the NSF in 1987, its objective was to provide data services for the research and education communities. The NSF instituted an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) that limited the use of the NSFNET backbone to research and education purposes. Specifically it says that use "for-profit" and that "extensive use for private or personal business" are unacceptable uses of the Internet. However, the AUP explicitly permits the use of the Internet by for-profit organizations where this use is "covered by the General Principles or as a specifically acceptable use." .This opens the door wide enough to allow the engineering departments of many companies to use the Internet, especially those in computer and communications companies. The AUP does not apply to the mid-level networks, which permits the formation of for-profit, commercial mid-level networks. As the Internet grew, commercial companies started using it more and more. Today more than half the hosts connected to the Internet are said to be in commercial organizations. At first commercial companies accessed the Internet through the existing nonprofit mid-level networks whose primary objective is to serve the research and education community. These mid-level networks were generally organized as nonprofit associations of the academic institutions that they served. Their commercial users are generally offered a lower level of membership than the academic members. These networks typically enforce the NSF AUP on their own network. However the nonprofit mid-level networks still provide Internet access for many commercial companies today. These nonprofit mid-level networks are providing "Commercial use" of the Internet. This is different from the "commercialization" of the Internet. In January 1990 the commercialization of the Internet started when both Performance Systems International (PSI) and UUNET started offering Internet commercial Internet services. PSI and UUNET are for-profit organizations that offer TCP/IP network services and access to the Internet. They do not require conformance to the NSF Acceptable Use Policy on their own networks. PSI was formed in 1989 as a spin-off from the NYSER- Net, a nonprofit academic network based in Syracuse, NY. NYSERNet continues to use PSI as its network service sup- plier. PSI's network has grown to the point that it now has 51 points of presence in over 40 cities in the U.S. and includes 31 dialup terminal servers. PSI can be contacted at info@psi.com or 1-800-82PSI82. UUNET began offering UUCP based information services in 1987. It created its AlterNet network in 1990 to provide Internet services. AlterNet currently has twelve backbone nodes located in the U.S. and provides several connections to international Internet networks. UUNET can be contacted a info@uunet.uu.net or 1-800-4UUNET3. A third network, CERFnet, which provides AUP-free services in California was formed in 1988. It is managed by General Atomics of San Diego, a high- technology research and development company. CERFnet has seven nodes located in both Northern and Southern California. CERFnet can be contacted at help@CERF.net or 1-800-876-CERF. The first challenge for PSI, UUNET, and CERFnet was to provide an NSF AUP-free path for their customers to communicate with each other. At the time they were formed, PSI, UUNET, and CERFnet were interconnected by the NSFNET backbone. This meant, for example, that a PSI customer communicating with a UUNET customer had to conform to the NSF AUP. These three networks were isolated islands of commercialization that had to be bridged. In March 1991 the islands were linked by the Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). The CIX was formed to provide a direct AUP-free interconnection among the three original members: PSI, UUNET, and CERFnet. The membership of CIX has expanded from three members to 12 members today. The CIX members connect directly or indirectly using T1 facilities to a router, called CIX-West located in Santa Clara, CA that is managed on a 24 hours per day, seven days per week basis. CIX-West provides an AUP-free path between the CIX members. CIX can be reached at info@cix.org. One interesting aspect of the CIX is that there are no settlement fees. Members pay an annual membership fee of $10,000 and a one-time start-up fee of $5,000. Each member arranges for its own connection to CIX-West. CIX members do not charge each other for the traffic that they exchange at CIX-West. This is quite unlike the public telephone networks. Soon after the commercial Internet providers started business a significant event in the development of the Internet occurred. Advanced Network & Service, Inc. (ANS), a not-for-profit company, was formed by IBM, MCI, and Merit, Inc. in September 1990 to implement and operate an upgraded T3 backbone for the NSFNET. ANS quickly became a major factor in development of the Internet and began to take a strong role in the commercialization of the Internet. ANS formed a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary in May 1991 called ANS CO+RE Systems, Inc. to serve com- mercial customers and link them to the research and education community. ANS CO+RE provides AUP-free access to the NSFNET T3 backbone for a premium over the price charged to a research and education organization. Net returns from ANS CO+RE are returned to ANS for reinvestment in the network infrastructure. CIX and ANS CO+RE provide alternative and competing means of providing AUP- free access to the Internet. This competition has created issues that have been difficult to resolve. ANS has recently connected its network to the CIX without becoming a CIX member. This has created routing issues that prevent complete, bi-directional AUP- free communication between customers connected to the CIX and customers connected to ANS CO+RE. As a result both BARRnet in California and NEARnet in Massachusetts have subscribed to ANS CO+RE and have become CIX members. Not every Internet provider that serves commercial companies can afford to do this. ANS and the CIX will have to resolve these issues in order for the commercialization of the Internet to reach its full potential. ANS and ANS CO+RE can be contacted at info@ans.net or 1-800-456-8267. The commercial Internet providers offer a range of services. Typically they offer full TCP/IP leased-line access at speeds of 56 kbps to full T1 rates. They also offer dialup SLIP or PPP access at speeds up to 14.4 kbps using modems or up to 56 kbps using switched digital services. Asynchronous modem dialup access is offered for PCs using standard terminal emulation software. These services are quite similar those offered by the nonprofit mid-level networks. The nonprofit mid-level networks typically have low overhead and can set prices very competitively. This can make it difficult for the commercial providers to compete in regions where there are strong regional nonprofit mid-level networks. The larger commercial Internet providers have several advantages over the academic regionals. They have nationwide networks that offer lower cost toll- free dialing in the important locations around the country. Some of them offer unique connection options. For example, ANS CO+RE offers T3 access for the truly high speed application. PSI offers a frame relay access service at 56 kbps. The commercial Internet providers offer added value services beyond Internet connectivity. PSI offers Clarinet (clarinet@psi.com), an electronic publishing network service that provides professional news and information, including live UPI wire service news. UUNET offers global networking and archive services for international electronic mail and electronic news with publicly available UNIX software and information. Network security on the Internet is a major concern for commercial organizations. Both PSI and ANS have come up with solutions that provide security for private network applications of the Internet. PSI uses its frame relay service to define fixed private connections across its own network. The frame relay architecture prevents access from the public Internet. ANS offers the InterLock service that is a family of application level security services that establishes a barrier between a private IP network and the public Internet. Unauthorized users cannot gain access from the Internet to proprietary data residing on the private network. These services also prevent unauthorized communication from the private network to the Internet. In addition, InterLock services can be used to provide enhanced access control between segments of any given enterprise private network. By its very nature, network connectivity tends to be a commodity. The non-profit mid-level networks have, on the whole, been able to build and operate networks successfully. The challenge for the commercial providers will be to develop services that differentiate themselves in terms of quality of service, coverage, support, ease of use, and added value services. As they grow and start to compete with the established added value network providers such as CompuServe and Prodigy, the commercial Internet providers will have an even more difficult challenge to face. The revenue for commercial Internet providers in 1992 appears to have been about $15 million. PSI accounted for approximately half this figure. This is an educated guess because many of the commercial providers are privately held and do not disclose their revenues. This is a significant accomplishment for the third year of operation for these businesses. The rate growth of the commercial Internet providers will in all likelihood continue or even increase its current high rate. The tremendous growth of the Internet itself will generate significant growth for the commercial Internet providers. The revenue for the commercial Internet providers could reach $50 million or more by 1995. This growth will create management challenges that will include organization growth, rapid product development, and network expansion. Maintaining the quality of their service and support will become increasingly difficult as these networks grow in size and their customer base expands. The competitive environment will become more diffi- cult. Some nonprofit mid-level networks, such as JvNCnet in Princeton, NJ (market@jvnc.net or 1-800-35-TIGER), are converting into for-profit commercial operations. The formation of SprintLink by Sprint (1-703-904-2000) and the participation in ANS by MCI are examples of how the telephone carriers are starting to enter the market. Pacific Bell and other RBOCs seem to be looking at the developments in the Internet and its conversion to the NREN with great interest. Everybody is wondering when and how AT&T will enter the market. The current commercial Internet providers will need to develop strong marketing strategies and programs to support their growth. They need to differentiate themselves from their current and future competitors. Even more importantly they must define a strong market position for themselves and for the Internet to continue their growth in the long term. There are still too many people who really do not know what the Internet is or how they can connect to it, even among sophisticated users. Accomplishing all this will not be easy. The current revenue levels probably do not generate enough profits to finance the growth, the product development, and the mar- keting programs required for long term success. The chal- lenge for the current commercial providers will be to finance and manage their growth so that they end up among the winners of this game. Robert Larribeau Jr. has been working with ISDN technology and applications for the last seven years. Internet Company Profile: Archie - A Canadian Internet Success Story Kevin M. Savetz In this article Kevin Savetz traces the growth of Archie from it's genesis at McGill University in 1986 to the Creation of Bunyip Information Systems Inc. in 1992. An excellent example of a software company that has found its main source of revenue in the Internet. Kevin Savetz is a freelance writer living in Arcata, California with his fiancee (Peace), his cat (Kinsey) and his Mac Ilsi (Tofu). The Internet and E-Mail: Internet Continues to Exert Influence on E-Mail Jim Carroll "Anyone involved with electronic mail today has to consider how they are going to deal with the Internet. It is a complex and difficult issue; denying its existence will not make it go away ... Estimates of the number of individuals accessible via e-mail through a simple form of domain addressing through Internet connected networks is now said to be surpassing 40 million." The Gender of CyberSpace Leslie Regan Shade and Gladys We This article provides an overview of issues that relate to women's use of the Internet and discusses ways to make the Net more accessible and welcome to women, particularily in the business arena. This subject should be of great interest to any business concerned with creating a comfortable working environment on the Internet for all of its employees. Gladys We is a Master's student in the Department of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Leslie Shade is a Doctorate student in the Graduate program in Communications at McGill University. Internet Use At Carnegie Michael Bauer The author explores Carnegie Group Incorporated's current use of the Internet and takes stock of the benefits of CGI's Internet connectivity. He also points out that CGI, in recognition of the excellent commercial potential of the Internet, has undertaken a program to review its Internet usage and develop a plan to better use its Internet connection. Michael Bauer is the principal consultant at Internet Business Information Services in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Internet in the UK SuperJANET Explained Susan Hallam The Internet in the UK column continues to monitor Internet developments and issues in Great Britain. In this month's column Susan Hallam informs us that the academic community in the UK is implementing a four-year, $30 million project to provide a state-of-the-art high- speed computing network. "Complementing the existing Joint Academic Network (JANET), SuperJANET will use high-performance optical fibre technology to transmit voices, data and images. It will transmit up to a billion bits of information per second, about 1,000 times faster than the existing JANET service. The breadth and potential importance of application exploiting this new resource present a tremendous opportunity, and great emphasis is being placed on collaborative ventures between academia and industry. Discussions are already under way on ideas for links with the USA and across Europe." This article's further exploration of the uses to which SuperJANET will be put provides food for thought for commercial enterprises. Susan Hallam is a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at The Nottingham Trent University. Other Items Covered In This Issue: Internet Business Snapshot A look at a motion picture soundtrack composer's use of the Internet Access - Ability: Assistive Technologies and the Net Online IBJ Supplement The Internet Business Journal is pleased to announce the electronic publication of a regular feature, Access - Ability: Assistive Technologies and the Net, by Dr. Norman Coombs. Dr. Coombs has written a series of articles that focus on the different types of disabilities and discusses some of the adaptive computing solutions for each. To receive the first in this series of articles, e-mail mstrange@fonorola.net. 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Gold" Subject: UNIV BUFFALO LIST OF UNREQUIRED READING - as requested Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1993 16:50:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 235 (434) ***************************************************** UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE, LIST OF UNREQUIRED READING ****************************************************** The Undergraduate College of the State University of New York at Buffalo created the List of Unrequired Reading by asking professors, librarians, advisers, and administrators from the University at Buffalo an unusual question. Instead of asking "What are The Great Books that all students should read?" we asked for a more personal recommendation: "What have you enjoyed reading? What books have been important to you, as a scholar and as a person?" Their answers may surprise you. Plato, Dante, and Emerson did not make the final list--but a cookbook, a science fiction novel, an account of a famous scientific expedition, and a history of Coney Island did. Some of the books on the list were published a year or two ago, while a few have been around for over a century. Out of nearly two hundred nominations, the Selection Committee chose 48 books for this list--enough to keep students reading for pleasure, at a rate of one book per month, for four years of their college careers. We hope you'll enjoy reading these books as much as we enjoyed reading them and building this list. ******************************************************* Please send your comments or requests for a poster to the Undergraduate College, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-1607, or PROPETER@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. ******************************************************** The List of Unrequired Reading is brought to you by the Undergraduate College, the Office of Student Life, the Oscar A. Silverman Undergraduate Library (UGL), Lockwood Memorial Library (LML), the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and the Vice President for Student Affairs. This is a 1993 "September Welcome" gift to new and returning undergraduates. ******************************************************** "One good book a month for four years [of college]" is the theme ********************************************************* --Each title on the list also includes the name and affiliation of the recommender and the Library of Congress call number. --Also included are comments about many of the books from the recommenders. --A list of the Selection Committee is provided. **********LIST OF UNREQUIRED READING*********** *******Fiction******* Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Claude Welch, Political Science UGL & LML: PR 6051 C5 T4 Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Barbara Bono, English UGL & LML: PR 6051 T9 H3 Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Jeanette Ludwig, Modern Languages UGL & LML: PS 3503 R167 F2 Dunn, Katherine. Geek Love. Stephen Bradley, Music UGL & LML: PS 3554 U47 G4 Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. James Bono, History UGL & LML: PS 3555 L625 I5 Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman. Jeannette Ludwig, Modern Languages UGL & LML: PR 6056 O85 F7 Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. Charles Fourtner, Biology, and Mark Kristal, Psychology UGL & LML: PS 3558 E476 C3 Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Gerald Rising, Learning and Instruction UGL & LML: PS 3562 E4 T6 Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Judith Adams, Lockwood Library, and William Fischer, English UGL & LML: PS 3563 O8749 S6 Paton, Alan. Cry the Beloved Country. Barbara Bono, English UGL & LML: PR 6031 A757 C7 Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth. Jeannette Ludwig, Modern Languages UGL & LML: PT 9150 R55 I213 Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. James Bono, History LML: PS 3569 I44 C4 Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Gerald Rising, Learning and Instruction UGL & LML: PS 1305 A1 Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle. Stephen Bradley, Music UGL & LML: PS 3572 O5 C3 *******History******* Boorstin, Daniel. The Discoverers. Charles Ebert, Geography UGL & LML: CB 69 B66 Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones). Blues People. William Fischer, English UGL: ML 3556 J73 Brown, Dee Alexander. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Charles Fourtner, Biology UGL & LML: E 81 B75 Carter, Howard. The Tomb of Tutankhamen. Fred See, English UGL & LML: DT 87.5 C4 Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. Judith Adams, Lockwood Library UGL: F 129 C75 K37 Mattingly, Garrett. The Armada. Orville Murphy, History UGL & LML: DA 360 M3 Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. Alfred D. Price, Planning and Design UGL & LML: HT 111 M8 Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. Charles Ebert, Geography UGL & LML: D 530 T8 *******Psychology and Social Relations******** Axelrod, Robert. The Evolution of Cooperation. Newton Garver, Philosophy UGL & LML: HM 131 A89 1984 Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. Ruth Meyerowitz, Women's Studies UGL & LML: HQ 1420 F7 Goffman, Erving. Stigma. Ann McElroy, Anthropology UGL & LML: BF 727 H3 G6 Mayeroff, Milton. On Caring. Ann Hicks, Student Life UGL & LML: BV 4639 M36 Rogers, Carl. On Becoming a Person. Charles Behling, Psychology UGL & LML: BF 173 R64 Sheehy, Gail. Passages. Mary Anne Rokitka, Physiology UGL & LML: HQ 1064 U5 S522 Tannen, Deborah. You Just Don't Understand. Clyde Herreid, Biology UGL & LML: HQ 734 T24 *******Science******* Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Gerald Rising, Learning and Instruction UGL & LML: SB 959 C3 Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle. Charles Fourtner, Biology, and Clyde Herreid, Biology UGL & LML: QH 11 D2 Dyson, Freeman. Disturbing the Universe. Warren Barbour, Anthropology UGL & LML: QC 16 D95 A33 Gould, Stephen J. The Mismeasure of Man. Clyde Herreid, Biology UGL & LML: BF 431 G68 Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine. Judith Adams, Lockwood Library UGL: TK 7885.4 K53 Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed.). Hugh Petrie, Graduate School of Education, and Roger Des Forges, History UGL & LML: Q 175 K95 McPhee, John. Coming Into the Country. John Dings, English UGL & LML: F 910 M29 Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell. Michael Metzger, Modern Languages, and John Dings, English UGL & LML: QH 307.2 T4 *******Biography and Autobiography******* Chesnut, Mary B. A Diary From Dixie. Karen Noonan, Undergraduate Academic Services UGL & LML: E 487 C52 Churchill, Winston. My Early Life. Rowland Richards, Civil Engineering UGL & LML: DA 566.9 C5 A3 Cousins, Norman. Anatomy of an Illness. Michael Hudecki, Biology UGL & LML: RC 924 C65 Feynman, Richard. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. Robert Daly, English, and Mary Anne Rokitka, Physiology UGL & LML: QC 16 F49 A37 Kerouac, Jack. On The Road. David Gerber, History UGL & LML: PS 3521 E735 O6 Robinson, Roxana. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. Karen Noonan, Undergraduate Academic Services UGL: N 6537 O39 R64 Wright, Richard. Black Boy. Stefan Fleischer, English UGL & LML: PS 3545 R815 Z5 1950 *******Other******* Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. Warren Barbour, Anthropology, and Mark Kristal, Psychology UGL & LML: PS 1097 D4 Leopold, Aldo. Sand County Almanac. Rowland Richards, Civil Engineering UGL: QH 81 L56 Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Margaret Wells, Undergraduate Library UGL & LML: CT 275 P648 A33 Rombauer and Becker. The Joy of Cooking. Orville Murphy, History UGL: TX 715 R67 COMMENTS BY RECOMMENDERS The Devil's Dictionary is as true today as it was 100 years ago when it was written. --Warren Barbour Stigma is a really focused book whose central themes helped me (as an undergraduate) integrate what I was learning from a mix of anthropology, psychology, and sociology courses. --Ann McElroy I read The Joy of Cooking as a "how-to" manual that is clear, explains the vocabulary, and introduces students to the many cultures that inform our society. --Orville Murphy There are maybe 5000 books in my library, but I knew exactly where to go for The Tomb of Tutankhamen--virtually could have put my hand on it in the dark. --Fred See In my opinion, no one should leave college without reading at least one Kurt Vonnegut book. He is one of the most keen observers of the Human Condition in print today (and terribly funny at the same time). --Stephen Bradley I recommend Giants in the Earth because the hard work and the sense of community of the early settlers give a spectacular insight into American values today. Per Hansa and his wife Beret are unforgettable. --Jeannette Ludwig I believe that Things Fall Apart is the best novel dealing with "traditional" Africa. --Claude Welch On the Road is the sad, funny, manic, and deeply felt narrative of Kerouac's own search for an ethical, meaningful way to live. --David Gerber I really enjoyed historian John Kasson's lighthearted look at thepyrotechnic insanitarium of Coney Island: Coney as a marvelous democratic force, the place that made America "feel good." --Judith Adams Blues People is a book that has profoundly affected my understanding of personal and national identity. --William Fischer Leslie Marmon Silko's and Ralph Ellison's novels are among the very best of twentieth-century novels; in addition, each forces the reader to examine the belief-systems and values of Western society from the perspective of the "Other." --James Bono Some authors will help you learn how to live; some will help youlearn why it matters; and Richard Feynman will help you to have a happy time doing it. --Robert Daly When I first read On Becoming a Person, back in the Sixties, I was inspired. Even now, I still feel helped by Rogers' vision; I'm still inspired by his description of a good life. I love this book! --Charles Behling I believe that architects, sociologists, cultural anthropologists, political scientists, philosophers, historians, architects and city planners all find Lewis Mumford's comprehensive "story" of the city to be fascinating. --Alfred Price The Handmaid's Tale is a book that makes readers think hard about individual rights, as we see these rights taken away from the citizens of a world--defensive, polluted, technologically sophisticated--that is very much like our own. --Barbara Bono I remember Boo Radley as one of the great characters of modern fiction: his appearance in the last few pages of To Kill a Mockingbird produces a heart-stopping and finally heart-expanding reading experience. --Gerald Rising The Voyage of the Beagle is an exotic trip through and around South America in the 1830's. Charles Darwin's thorough descriptions from the perspective of a biologist is a beautiful entree to the themes of evolution. --Charles Fourtner Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is a history of the western American Indians, emphasizing the wars after 1860. Told from a Native American perspective, we see both the divine right (white) of conquest and the tragic loss of cultures. --Charles Fourtner The Lives of a Cell is a mind-bending collection of short essays, quick reads, which explain and celebrate the wonders of contemporary cell biology as a window on the whole, ecologically-connected natural and human world. --John Dings Coming into the Country recounts the adventures of America's best roving journalist as he explores and celebrates the Alaskan wilderness and all the creatures it supports - Natives and river people and crazy prospectors, as well as grizzlies and caribou. --John Dings ************SELECTION COMMITTEE*********** Judith Adams, Lockwood Memorial Library Barbara Bono, English James Bono, History Stephen Bradley, Music Leah Doherty, Millard Fillmore College Stefan Fleischer, English Ann Hicks, Office of Student Life Joanne Koszuta, Millard Fillmore College Jeannette Ludwig, Modern Languages Michael Metzger, Modern Languages Carmello Privitera, Biological Sciences Rowland Richards, Civil Engineering Gerald Rising, Learning and Instruction Mary Anne Rokitka, Physiology Margaret Wells, Undergraduate Library Dorothy Wynne, Academic Advising -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=END=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Grant Stirling Subject: Freud in Translation Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 09:40:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 286 (435) My original posting has caused some confusion due to the typographic irregularities contained within it. These irregularities are due to the difference between the fonts supported by WordPerfect and the fonts supported by Internet. My original message, written on WP, contained accented French letters (e-grave) which when posted to Humanist became the non-sensical "=f8" or some such thing. Sorry for the confusion. As for the notation of % to indicate italics and * to indicate bold/underline, these are conventions that I have picked up from other postings on other listservers. Grant Stirling From: Michael Metzger Subject: MA in Humanities Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1993 17:46:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 287 (436) The University at Buffalo offers an interdisciplinary MAH that has been popular and successful over many years; for information write to: Alan Spiegel, Director, MA in Humanities Program, 306 Clemens Hall, Buffalo NY 14260 - M Metzger From: Subject: InteLex Corp.: Past Masters e-text Date: Thu, 07 Oct 93 17:01:00 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 288 (437) Several weeks ago I posted an inquiry to Humanist asking for information about e-texts from InteLex Corp. under the title "Past Masters." I'd like to thank those who responding regarding their own use of the InteLex e-texts, or referring me to colleagues who were familiar with them. I'm particularly grateful to William Fontaine of Dartmouth, who passed along the following citation: Cowley, Edwin, et al. "Report on the Past Masters Project." _Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie_, Bd. 75(1993), p. 89-102. This article reviews several of the texts supplied by InteLex, and provides some general background on the project: "In August 1989 Mark Rooks, a young philosopher in North Carolina with considerable computer expertise, founded a company, InteLex Corporation, whose goal was to produce a database containing the major works of the great philosophers." It seems that the texts are taken from editions now in the public domain, but are compared with more recent editions for accuracy. The retrieval software on the PC platform is Folio Views. The information in the article must be a bit dated, since the brochure which I have indicates that texts are provided for the Macintosh using the HyperKRS software. Options for obtaining the files on CD-ROM have also been added since the article was written. The article includes reviews of several sections issued to date: Locke, reviewed by Edwin McCann Berkeley, reviewed by Douglas M. Jesseph Hume, reviewed by Don Garrett Sidgwick, reviewed by Bart Schultz The various reviews provide some sense into the strengths and weaknesses of the texts, and well as some basic insight into usefulness of e-texts generally. For Humanists who may not have seen the previous posting with contact information: InteLex Corporation POB 1827 Clayton, GA 30525-1827 USA Voice: (706) 782-7844 FAX: (706) 782-4489 E-mail: 70671.1673@compuserve.com Duane Harbin Information Services Librarian Yale Divinity Library Caveats: This constitutes neither an endorsement nor a review of these products. I have no affiliation with InteLex Corporation. Any opinions expressed herein are strictly my own and not those of my employer. From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) Subject: IPPE one-month status report Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1993 23:10:30 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 237 (438) Since our opening (one month ago this week), the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange has handled a total of 3131 requests for the working papers and other documents available on the system. These requests came from a total of 845 distinct users, in dozens of countries. We find this level of usage very encouraging, and we thank all of those who have supported our fledgling effort. We have plenty of room for growth, and we encourage all to browse the papers available on the IPPE, and to submit their own working papers for instant, free distribution to colleagues worldwide. To get started using the IPPE, try the command "gopher apa.oxy.edu" on your host computer. If that doesn't work (presumably because your host system doesn't yet have Gopher software--ask your system adminstrator to install it!), send a piece of email containing the following four lines: begin send getting-started send INDEX end to the address phil-preprints-service@phil-preprints.l.chiba-u.ac.jp, and a beginner's guide will be sent to you by email. We are now in the process of preparing a short document explaining how to place a working paper on the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange, and explaining other factors relevant to submitting a paper (that copyright remains with the author,that the paper remains publishable, etc.). This guide is not yet ready, but we strongly encourage submissions. Please contact me by email at the address rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca if you have a paper you'd like to make available through the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange, and I or one of our volunteers will be happy to guide you through the submission process. Richard Reiner, Coordinator International Philosophical Preprint Exchange -- Richard Reiner..............rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca..............416-538-3947 Litigant, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary From: Subject: Records of Libr. Symposium Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 10:11 N X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 238 (439) Just issued (limited number of copies) a book containing the Records of the first French Meetings about subject headings (Fribourg (Switzerland), 1-2 June 1992, cf. Humanist 30 Apr. '92): ************************************ Bibliotheques et vedettes, Principes et pratiques de l'indexation matiere dans les pays francophones du nord, ed. P. Buntschu, M. Nicoulin, F.G. Nuvolone, Fribourg, Editions Universitaires - Quebec, Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1993, 256 p. 39.- frS ISBN 2-8271-0602-7 (Fribourg) ISBN 2-7637-7340-0 (Quebec) ************************************* Table of contents: Table des matieres (1), Sommaire (5) Preface: L'elan de Fribourg, MARTIN NICOULIN (7) Introduction: Interet des "Rencontres", PIERRE GAVIN (9) PRINCIPES ET PRATIQUES DE L'INDEXATION MATIERE DANS LES PAYS FRANCOPHONES DU NORD Canada, MICHEL FOURNIER (13) France, CECILE MAURY (37) Luxembourg, CLAUDE LOUTSCH (61) Les universites francophones en Belgique: Experience des LCSH et de LAVAL a l'Universite libre de Bruxelles. Pour une recherche bilingue, JACQUELINE CLEMENT (73) Suisse romande: Le langage d'indexation matiere RERO JOELLE WALTHER (97) TABLE RONDE SUR LE MULTILINGUISME (131) Introduction, PIERRE GAVIN (133) Les differents aspects du multilinguisme GENEVIEVE CLAVEL (135) Quelques problemes d'organisation dans la gestion d'un vocabulaire multilingue, MICHEL FOURNIER (145) Presentation des problemes du multilinguisme lies a l'acces-matieres d'ETHICS, MAGALI DOUMONT (147) L'elaboration a la Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique d'une liste trilingue de mots sujet sur base des LCSH PAULA GOOSSENS - YVES DENEULIN (160) SYNTHESE ET LIGNES DE COLLABORATION Synthese des diverses pratiques, CLAUDE BONNELLY (179) Accord et mecanismes de cooperation entre la France et le Canada (RAMEAU / RVM de LAVAL) CHANTAL FRESCHARD - CLAUDE BONNELLY (201) TABLE RONDE SUR LA COLLABORATION (217) ANNEXES (243) Annonce du colloque (245) Proposition de canevas pour les exposes (247) Liste des participants (249) ************************** for further information contact directly the editors (Editions universitaires, Perolles 42, CH-1700 Fribourg, Tel. +41 (37) 86.43.00, FAX +41 (37) 86.43.00 // Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4, Tel. (418) 656-2803, FAX 656-3305), or exceptionnally the undersigned at the University where teachs: Flavio G. Nuvolone Universite de Fribourg - Misericorde (BP 23) CH - 1700 Fribourg Fax: +41 (37) 21'93'55 Email: NUVOLONE@CFRUNI51.BITNET From: "Filip J.R.C. Dochy" Subject: NEM ASS&EVAL EUROPEAN LIST Europ. Assoc. for Research on Learning and Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 14:33 +0000 (N) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 289 (440) CALL FOR JOINING NEW DISCUSSION LIST EARLI-AE discussion list ****************************************************************** European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction - SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION' ******************************************************************* Subscription is free for anyone. Read the goals and discussion topics below. 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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP A&E The Special Interest Group, entitled 'Assessment and Evaluation' will cover the following themes: - Assessment as tool for facilitating future learning. - Assessment of learning processes. - Assessment and evaluation of knowledge, skills, attitudes. - Measurement of educational quality. - The use of educational indicators. - Performance measurement. - Assessment of instructional processes. - Assessment of prior knowledge. - Adaptive testing. - Classroom testing. - Evaluation of educational programmes. - Item Response Theory. - Criterion referenced measurement. - Psychometric qualities and item analysis. - Evaluation research. - Research methods and strategies. - Ethics of evaluation studies. - Industrial training testing. - Computer testing (interactive testing). - Software for educational assessment. At this moment this SIG is chaired by two researchers who coordinate the SIG: - Dr Filip J.R.C. 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For participating the activities such as SIG meetings, EARLI conferences, joint publications or other, one must be a member of EARLI and the SIG Assessment and Evaluation. ************************************************************************ MEMBERSHIP EARLI EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH INTO LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION ************************************************************************ Anyone interested in the activities of the Association can become a member of EARLI (also people from outside Europe). In order to become member (costs are 85 D Mark & 5 D Mark for the SIG) send a message to Prof. Andreas Helmke, Secretary of EARLI on Email: Helmke@SUN.RHRK.UNI-KL.DE put the following in the body of your message: membership EARLI / SIG Assessment & Evaluation Yourfirstname yourlastname your address From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: New Address for James Joyce List Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 21:16:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 290 (441) Re: The James Joyce list has a new address. I received a message from the Postmaster who handles the James Joyce list at Utah. The addresses are being changed and the service will be better supported as a listserv. The changes will take place on October 15, 1993. To subscribe, etc., use the "request" address. To communicate use the first address. Send queries to the postmaster whose address is given below. I quote and condense the message. Heyward Ehrlich (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) :::::: In order to provide a faster delivery service and prevent multiple copies of messages sent to the j-joyce mailing list, the mailing list has been moved to a better machine. The name of this machine is called: lists.utah.edu The address j-joyce@cc.utah.edu is now j-joyce@lists.utah.edu The address j-joyce-request@cc.utah.edu is now j-joyce-request@lists.utah.edu [deletion] On a futher note: Once the new address has been in place for sometime I will be placing this mailing list under the control of a list server process. [end of quote] :::: The notice is signed Jonzy postmaster@cc.utah.edu postmaster@utahcca.bitnet (801) 581-8810 From: jkrehnb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Joan K Krehnbrink) Subject: Position in Swarthmore College available Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 14:52:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 291 (442) Social Sciences Computing Coordinator SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, a highly selective liberal arts college located in suburban Philadelphia, has an immediate opening for a Social Sciences Computing Coordinator. Selected candidate will be responsible for dealing with the curricular computing needs of the Social Sciences division. Responsibilities include Macintosh system and application support, technical support for centralized Help Desk, supporting divisional faculty with their curricular and research computing needs. Reports to the Manager of Academic Computing. Qualified applicants will possess a Bachelor's Degree in a Social Science discipline, 3-4 years experience in academic-based microcomputer support with very strong Apple Macintosh OS experience. Must be able to work independently on assigned projects and as a team member in the Computing Center. Strong oral and written communication skills, knowledge of Social Science databases, experience with Macintosh and UNIX-based statistical packages such as JMP, Statview, SPSS and SAS are necessary. For immediate consideration, please send letter of interest and resume to: Office of Personnel Services Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081 Swarthmore College is an equal opportunity employer. From: Donald A Spaeth Subject: Job announcement: Coordinator, History Courseware Consortium Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 17:26:15 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 292 (443) Job announcement: Please circulate University of Glasgow COORDINATOR for HISTORY COURSEWARE CONSORTIUM -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A Research Officer is required to coordinate the History Courseware Consortium, funded in phase 2 of the HEFCs' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). The Consortium, which includes the University of Glasgow, the University of Southampton and over 40 other institutions, will produce computer-based tutorials which present core resources with the aim of teaching history students more efficiently and effectively. Appointments will be on Research scale 1A (12,828-20,442 pounds) with placement according to age, qualifications and experience. The post, which will be held at the University of Glasgow, will be for one year in the first instance. Applicants should be graduates in history with experience of teaching, research and the use of computers in history. Further particulars may be obtained from Mrs A. V. Lee, TLTP Applications, CTICH, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, tel. 041 339-8855 x6336, email ctich @ uk.ac.gla.dish, to whom applications with full CV and the names of two referees should be sent no later than 29 October 1993. FURTHER PARTICULARS -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The History Courseware Consortium will produce history tutorials which present core resources on key historical topics. The Consortium aims to make teaching more efficient while enhancing the quality of the learning experience. It was funded in August 1993 under phase II of the HEFCs' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme TLTP and includes over forty institutions of higher education in the UK. All TLTP phase II projects, including the History Consortium, have initially been funded for one year only. However, TLTP II is a three year programme, and the Consortium has applied for funding for a further two years. The Coordinator will join the staff of the CTI Centre for History with Archaeology and Art History (CTICH) at the University of Glasgow, which is the lead site. The postholder will work closely with the Centre's Deputy Director, Dr Donald Spaeth, and with other members of the Centre's staff, including the Consortium secretary and Coordinator of the TLTP Archaeology Consortium. The Coordinator will also work closely with the HiDES Project at the University of Southampton, which will make production services available to the entire Consortium, as well as with other institutions within the Consortium. The Coordinator will manage the work of the Consortium on a day to day basis, under the supervision of Dr Spaeth. The postholder's duties will include the following tasks: (1) Coordination of all aspects of the development of Consortium tutorials, from design to implementation and evaluation, ensuring adherence to the work timetable and to Consortium standards. (2) Promotion of cooperation between all members of the Consortium, including the Advisory Committee, Steering Group, course teams, and history departments, and collection of information, e.g. on course offerings, to assist planning of new tutorials. (3) Administration of Consortium resources and purchasing of equipment for the Consortium. (4) Presentation of conference papers, demonstrations and other publications on Consortium tutorials and activities. (5) Contribution to other Centre activities and projects to promote the use of computers in the teaching of history, archaeology and art history. The Coordinator will report to the Consortium's Steering Group and Advisory Committee, and to CTICH's Management Committee. However, the postholder will be expected to exercise initiative in realising the aims of the Consortium. The Coordinator will be based within the CTI Centre for History at the University of Glasgow, but regular visits to other institutions, conferences and workshops will form an essential part of the duties. The successful candidate will be a graduate in history and will have experience in history teaching and/or research, and particularly in the application of computers to these areas. Good administrative and communication skills will be essential. Computing skills should include demonstrable experience in using a word- processor, database and electronic mail. Familiarity with hypermedia authoring, image processing, image capture, spreadsheets, or programming will be to the candidate's advantage. Appointment will be on Research scale 1A (12,828-20,442 pounds) with placement according to age, qualifications and experience. The post, which will be held at the University of Glasgow, will be for one year in the first instance. Secondment may be possible. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post as soon as possible. Applications (including a full c.v. and the names of 2 referees) should be submitted to arrive no later than 29 October 1993, to Mrs. A. V. Lee, TLTP Applications, CTICH, 1 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ (041-339-8855, ext. 6336). Further details about CTICH, HiDES and the History Consortium are also available. The University of Glasgow is an equal opportunities employer. From: bob_taylor@nwu.edu (Bob Taylor) Subject: Instructional technology job opening at Northwestern Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 18:57:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 293 (444) HUMANIST colleagues: Please feel free to pass this notice on to folks that you think are well-qualified and interested in this position. I will be attending the EDUCOM conference in Cincinnati this coming week and am willing to meet with candidates who happen to be at this conference. Thanks, Bob Taylor Northwestern University -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Instructional Technology Specialist, Northwestern University Academic Computing & Network Services (ACNS), a division of Information Systems & Technologies at Northwestern University, is looking for an Instructional Technology Specialist to join its Instructional Technology Group. The Instructional Technology Group (ITG) is composed of eight people. ITG works to support effective use of technology in the classroom and other learning environments at Northwestern. ITG also promotes the use of networked information resources, including Northwestern's campus-wide information system NUinfo. The successful candidate for this position will be an energetic, well-organized, and outgoing project leader, with experience in introducing instructional software into the university environment. She or he should have a proven track record in working successfully with faculty on multimedia development projects, as well as introducing faculty to existing instructional software. During the last year ACNS has developed a well-received program for introducing faculty to learning technologies during a three-day conference of presentations and hands-on training. We look to the successful candidate for this position as our project leader for this effort. The continuing development of this conference program calls for considerable grace-under-pressure, good teambuilding skills, sound budgeting capabilities, and a strategic vision for the role that computing technologies will best play in university education during the coming years. We are looking for someone with Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or else a good Humanist with great computing skills acquired on-the-job. An advanced degree is useful. The candidate should have strong Macintosh and Windows skills, as well as significant experience using Internet resources in support of instruction. Northwestern is making large investments in computing and networking technology. The next few years promise significant excitement as we complete our backbone, bring Ethernet to all students in their rooms, implement a distributed computing model for the campus, and continue to work with faculty and deans to introduce technology into the curriculum. If you have the skills, background and desire to be part of this, we'd like to hear from you. Send your resume to bob_taylor@nwu.edu, in either text or MS Word format. We are ready to fill this position as soon as the right candidate is found. Bob Taylor Manager, Instructional Technology Group Northwestern University 2129 North Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60201 fax: 708-491-3824 email: bob_taylor@nwu.edu From: Allen Renear Subject: Jobs: Director of Textbase Project Date: Fri, 15 Oct 93 08:19:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 294 (445) The NEH/Brown Women Writers Project is adjusting its organizational structure to cope with the increasing scale and complexity of its projects. Part of this restructuring is hiring a new Director to replace the two part-time Co-Directors. We believe this new position is an unusual opportunity for a qualified manager of scholarly projects to participate in an influential enterprise -- one that is both recovering previously inaccessible women's writing and at the same time exploring the new technologies of scholarship. We would appreciate your posting this notice and bringing it to the attention of anyone you think would be qualified and interested. Susanne Woods, Franklin and Marshall College Allen Renear, Brown University Co-Directors, Brown Women Writers Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Position Available Director Women Writers Project Brown University The Director administers a major NEH-funded computer textbase project that is collecting women's writing in English, 1330-1830; conducting new research on texts, cultural history, and information technology; producing print and electronic publications and curricular materials; and developing innovative approaches to scholarship and teaching. The Director reports to the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University and to the Chair of the WWP Board of Scholars and has full managerial and administrative responsibility for the Project, overseeing all WWP activities and personnel, allocating resources, coordinating workflow; determining, in concert with the Chair of the Board of Scholars, strategic directions for research, development, and fund raising; and representing the Project to the scholarly community. Qualifications: three years of experience managing scholarly publishing, editing, bibliographical, or textbase projects, or equivalent. Advanced degree in literary or library studies required, Ph.D. preferred. Desirable: experience in textual criticism, scholarly editing, pre-Victorian women's literature, or humanities computing. A adjunct faculty appointment in an appropriate academic department may be possible for qualified candidates. This position may involve considerable travel to academic conferences in North America and Europe. To apply send a current c.v. to Marilyn Netter, Search Coordinator, Box 1852, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 by October 29. For further information phone 401-863-3729 or fax 401-863-7412. Please post or distribute From: walker@bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL-94 CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 13 Oct 93 11:17:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 241 (446) ACL-94 CALL FOR PAPERS 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 27 June - 1 July 1994 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, 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 modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. 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The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserv@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l <file>" to get a particular file named <file> from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user typein is underlined): $ ftp cs.columbia.edu ------------------- Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous --------- Password:pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ------------------------ ftp> cd acl-l -------- ftp> get membership-form.txt.Z ------------------------- ftp> quit ---- $ uncompress membership-form.txt.Z -------------------------------- [10-1-93] From: Onderzoeks Instituut Taal en Spraak <ots@let.ruu.nl> Subject: Robustness Conference Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 15:21:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 242 (447) THE ROBUSTNESS OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY: COPING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION Organized by the Research Institute for Language and Speech (OTS) on the occasion of its 5th anniversary 28-30 October 1993 Theme Description The human language faculty shows a remarkable robustness with respect to incomplete information. Many possible features are not realized in the signal of a normal linguistic utterance; and on the meaning side too, the interpretation is highly underdetermined by the expression itself. Yet, in the normal case, understanding is not in any way hampered by this. It may well be that the availability of knowledge from other cognitive domains contributes to the overall success, or perhaps this robustness is caused by the modular structure of the linguistic system itself. Information that disappears from one module would be compensated for via another module. The central question of this conference will be how this robustness of the language system can be explained, focusing in particular on the role of non-linguistic information and higher order redundancy. PROGRAMME Wednesday, October 27 1993 (OTS Building, Trans 10) 18.00-21.00 Registration & drinks Thursday, October 28 1993 (Academy Building, Domplein 29) 9.00-10.00 Registration 10.00 Opening Wiecher Zwanenburg (Dean Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht) 10.15-11.30 Theme: Language Acquisition Speaker: Ken Wexler (MIT) Title: `Recent developments in the modular theory of language acquisition: Parameter-setting and the underspecification of tense' Comments: Juergen Weissenborn (MPI, Nijmegen) 11.30-12.00 Coffee 12.00-13.15 Theme: Aphasia Speaker: Greg Dogil (Stuttgart) Title: `Coping with incomplete information in aphasia' Comments: Leo Blomert (MPI, Nijmegen) 13.15-14.45 Break 14.45-16.00 Theme: Language Processing Speaker: Michael Tanenhaus (Rochester) Title: `Toward a constraint-based framework for language processing' Comments: Louis des Tombe & Steven Krauwer (Utrecht) 16.00-16.30 Tea 16.30-17.45 Theme: Sign Language Speaker: David Perlmutter (San Diego/Rochester) Title: `What happens when the language faculty encounters a non-natural language?' Comments: Ann Mills (Amsterdam) 18.00- Reception Friday October 29 1993 (CSB Building, Kromme Nieuwegracht 29) Theme: Partial information 9.30-10.15 Speaker: Ivan Sag (Stanford) Title: `Toward a constraint-based framework for knowledge of language' 10.15-11.00 Speaker: Ruth Kempson (SOAS, London) Title: `How we understand sentences. And fragments too?' 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-12.15 Speaker: Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht) Title: `The lazy ticket controller. or: How do we manage to (under-)inform each other?' 12.15-12.45 Comments: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam) 12.45-13.00 General Discussion 13.00-14.30 Break Theme: Overdetermination and underspecification in phonology 14.30-15.15 Speaker: Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) Title: `On the architecture of the phonological component' 15.15-16.00 Speaker: Rene Kager (Utrecht) Title: `Generalized alignment and morphological parsing' 16.00-16.30 Tea 16.30-17.15 Speaker: K.P. Mohanan (Singapore) Title: `The formal interpretation of robustness: Storage or processing?' 17.15-17.45 Comments: Stephen Anderson (Johns Hopkins) 17.45-18.00 General Discussion Evening lecture (Academy Building, Domplein 29) 20.00-21.00 Speaker: David Lightfoot (Maryland) Title: `Small causes: Big effects' 21.00- Party (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80) Saturday, October 30 (CSB Building, Kromme Nieuwegracht 39) Theme: Phonetic Underspecification 9.30-10.15 Speaker: Bjorn Lindblom (Austin) Title: `The H&H Hypothesis' 10.15-11.00 Speaker: Chris Darwin (Sussex) Title: `Separating speech from other sounds' 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-12.15 Speaker: Stephen Anderson (Johns Hopkins) Title: to be announced 12.15-12.45 Reaction & Comments: Louis Pols (Amsterdam) Title: `Vowels in context: Production and perception' 12.45-13.00 General Discussion 13.00-14.30 Break Theme: Contextual vs Grammatical Conditions on Interpretation 14.30-15.15 Speaker: Tanya Reinhart (Tel Aviv/Utrecht) Title: `Syntactic encoding of referential properties' 15.15-16.00 Speaker: Molly Diesing (Cornell) Title: `NP types and conditions on interpretation' 16.00-16.30 Tea 16.30-17.15 Speaker: James Huang (Irvine) Title: `Two types of donkey sentences' 17.15-17.45 Comments Denis Delfitto (Utrecht) 17.45-18.00 General Discussion Organization Peter Coopmans Research Institute for Language & Speech Martin Everaert Utrecht University Eric Reuland Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht Wim Zonneveld tel:+31-30-536006, fax:+31-30-536000, e-mail:ots@let.ruu.nl **************************************************************************** Accommodation: The organisation will not take care of hotel accommodation. Please contact the VVV Tourist Information Office: Utrecht VVV Tourist Information Office address: VVV Utrecht Vredenburg 90 Postbus 19107 3501 DC Utrecht Holland tel.: +31-6-34034085 fax: +31-30-331417 **************************************************************************** Registration Fee for registration: Employed: Dfl 90 Unemployed/student: Dfl 60 Payment: All payments must be made in Dutch guilders. **************************************************************************** - You can transfer the appropriate amount to our bank account: Coopmans en/of Buenen, Inz.Congres Account no 40.84.68.939 ABN-AMRO Bank Postbus 362 3500 AJ Utrecht Reference : OTS-Robustness registration fee A copy of the bank transfer should be sent to us together with your registration form. 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Tel: +31-30-536006 Fax: +31-30-536000 Email: OTS@let.ruu.nl From: koehler@ldv01.Uni-Trier.DE (Prof. Dr. Koehler) Subject: Dateitransfer Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 10:11:07 +0100 (MEZ) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 295 (448) (* PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS CALL FOR PAPERS *) CALL FOR PAPERS QUALICO - 94 Second International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics Moscow, Russia, September 20(Tue)-24(Sat), 1994 The Permanent International Qualico Committee invites the submission of papers and participation in this conference, which will be organized by Moscow State University in cooperation with the University of Trier Chair of the Organizing Committee: Anatoliy A. 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OTHER ACTIVITIES: 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 Ana- toliy A.Polikarpov and Reinhard Koehler. From: Mark Glazer <MGLAZER@PANAM> Subject: 1994 Contemporary Legend Conference Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1993 08:35 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 296 (449) P E R S P E C T I V E S O N C O N T E M P O R A R Y L E G E N D The Twelfth International Conference Paris, France July 19-22, 1994 The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR) is pleased to announce that the Twelfth International Perspectives on Contemporary Legend Seminar is to be held in Paris, France. The conference will be hosted by the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France from the nineteenth to the twenty-second of July 1994. VÊronique Campion-Vincent,Paris, France and Mark Glazer, Edinburg, Texas are co-chairs of the conference. First held in 1982 at the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, Sheffield, England, these meetings have provided scholars working in this area with a forum for the exchange of ideas and with an opportunity to keep in touch with current research. The 1994 meeting is to be organized as a series of seminars, at which the majority of individuals attending will present papers and/or contribute to the discussion sessions. If you wish to participate in the conference, please forward a title and a four hundred word abstract of your paper and conference fee of $22.00 for ISCLR members ($40.00 for non- members) to reach the convener at the address below by February 1, 1994. Similarly, if you would like to propose any special discussion sessions or events, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Send abstracts to: [deleted quotation]VÊronique Campion-Vincent 27 Rue de LiËge 25008 Paris, France [deleted quotation]Mark Glazer, College of Arts and Sciences The University of Texas - Pan American 1201 West University Drive Edinburg, Texas, 78539.2999, U.S.A. Telephone: (210) 381-3551 Fax: (210) 381-2177 E-Mail: MGLAZER@PANAM.BITNET MGLAZER@PANAM.EDU (Internet) P E R S P E C T I V E S O N C O N T E M P O R A R Y L E G E N D The Twelfth International Conference Paris, France July 19-22, 1994 A 400 word (i.e. two double spaced pages) abstract is required for papers, panels, forums and workshops. Please attach three copies of your DOUBLE-SPACED abstract to this page. Abstracts are due on February 1, 1994. FOR PAPERS: 1. Name of author: 2. Title of paper: 3. Is this paper being submitted as part of a proposed panel? Yes __________ No _________ 4. 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Send check to: [deleted quotation]VÊronique Campion-Vincent 27 Rue de LiËge 25008 Paris, France [deleted quotation]Mark Glazer, College of Arts and Sciences The University of Texas - Pan American 1201 West University Drive Edinburg, Texas, 78539.2999, U.S.A. Telephone: (210) 381-3551 Fax: (210) 381-2177 E-Mail: MGLAZER@PANAM.BITNET MGLAZER@PANAM.EDU (Internet) From: trobb@ksuics.kyoto-su.ac.jp (Thomas Robb) Subject: TESL-EJ: Now Accepting Manuscripts Date: Mon, 11 Oct 93 13:46:21 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 244 (450) ***********************CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS******************* ************************************************************** TESL-EJ is a refereed electronic journal publishing articles in the research and practice of the teaching of English as a second or foreign language. TESL-EJ welcomes, for quarterly publication, studies in ESL/EFL pedagogy, second language acquisition, language assessment, applied socio- and psycholinguistics, and other related areas. 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From: AU100@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: MultiLingual Computing Conference Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 12:48:09 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 245 (451) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * University of Cambridge Centre of Middle Eastern Studies announces I C E M C O 94 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing (Arabic and Roman Script) London, 7-9 April 1994 Provisional Programme 1st October, 1993 I. List of Contributors, Discussants and Chairmen --------------------------------------------------- Australia --------- Mr Darabi Golshani, A., School of IT & Maths, Edith Cowan University. Republic of China ----------------- Prof. Hsu, Cheng-Hsiang, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, National Chengchi University. Cyprus ------- Mr Ubaidly, Ubaidly, Dilmun Publishing Ltd. Czech Republic -------------- Dr Zemnek, Petr, Charles University. Denmark ------- Ass Prof. Wien, Charlotte, Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, Odense Universitet. Egypt ------ Mr Emam, Ashraf, Information Technology Department, Alexandria University. Mr Emam, Ossama, IBM Cairo Scientific Center. Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center. Prof. Hegazi, Nadia, Electronics Research Institute. Mr Ismail, Mohamed, Information Technology Department, Alexandria University. Mr Korany, Ezzat, Information Technology Department, Alexandria University. France ------ Mr Meddeb Hamrouni, Boubaker, Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatique and WinSoft. Germany ------- Prof. Lagally, Klaus, Institut fr Informatik, Universitt Stuttgart. Dr. Wedel, Gerhard, Freie Universitt, Berlin. Italy ----- Ms. Correale, Daniela, Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici, University of Venice. Jordan ------ Dr al-Ajeeli, Abid, Department of Computer Science, Yarmouk University. Dr Jazaa, Abed, Yarmouk University. Dr Mashhour, Ahmad, Yarmouk University. Ms al-Rujoob, Khulode, Department of Computer Science, Yarmouk University. Lebanon ------- Ms Nassar, Hilda, Saab Medical Library, American University of Beirut. The Netherlands ---------------- Dr Ditters, Everhard, TCMO, University of Nijmegen. Russia ------ Mr Kondybaev, Nurlan, Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. Saudi Arabia ------------ Dr Ahmed, P., King Saud University, College of Computer and Information Science. Dr Aref, Mustafa, Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Mr al-Kulaib, Ali. Mr Mathkour, Hassan I. , King Saud University, College of Computer and Information Science. Mr al-Muhtaseb, Husni, Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Dr SharafJEldin, A., College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University. Spain ----- Dr Baez, Valerio, Departmento de Humanidades, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid. Dr Berge, H. Dr Snches, Francesco, Instituto de Electrnica de Comunicaciones, Univ Politecnica-Madrid. Syria ----- Mr Farah, Mansour, Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Gaudic, R., Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Malek, M., Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Razouk, R., Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Tunisia ------- Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohammad, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information. Mr Ben Miled, Z, Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Boussetta, Slim, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information. Mr Fehri, Mohammed, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information. Garbout, N., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Ghazali, Salem, Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Labed, L., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Salhi, R., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Dr Zrigui, Mounir , Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information. UK -- Mr Bachir Imad, al-Hayat Information Centre. Prof. Brockett, Adrian, Darlington. Mr Clews, John, John Clews Associates. Goraine, H., School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Reading University. Mr Knight, Andrew. Mr Rochford, Thomas, Computer Services, Anglia Polytechnic University. Dr Usher, M, School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Reading University. USA --- Abdelazim, H., Apple Computers, Inc. Ms Bernstein, Debbie , Training Systems Research Division, Army Research Institute. Dr Hassibi, Khosrow, Mitek Systems Inc., Automatic Document Recognition Group (ADRG). Dr Jiyad, Mohammed, Mount Holyoke College. Dr al-Khatib, Hasan, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University. Mr Martin, Jeffery, Training Systems Research Division, Army Research Institute. Mr Mcconnell, J., Apple Computers, Inc. Dr Roochnik, Paul, Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Dr Saba, Mohamed. II. Provisional List of Papers ------------------------------- "Arabic computer-based assistant systems for handicapped", MrEmam, Ossama and Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center, Egypt. "Automatic generation of the Arabic theoretical lexicon using morphematic structure combination", Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohammad, Dr Mounir Zrigui and Mr Slim Boussetta, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information, Tunisia. "Automatic translation of Arabic language to English and vice versa", Dr Mashhour, Ahmad and Dr Jazaa, Abed, Yarmouk University, Jordan. "The basic structure of a formal Arabic-English verbal lexicon", Dr Ditters, Everhard, TCMO, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. "Books in Arabic in the Danish library system" Ass Prof. Wien, Charlotte, Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, Odense Universitet, Denmark. "Character recognition of Arabic script" Dr al-Khatib, Hasan, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University USA, Mr Ismail, Mohamed, Mr Korany, Ezzat and Mr Emam, Ashraf, Information Technology Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. "A complete assisted language learning programme used at a Spanish university", Dr Baez, Valerio, Departmento de Humanidades, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, and Dr H. Berge, Spain. "A computer-assisted Arabic poetry prosody", Dr SharafJEldin, A., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. "A computer-based tutoring system for modern standard Arabic", Mr Martin, Jeffery and Ms Bernstein, Debbie, Training Systems Research Division, Army Research Institute, USA. "Computer recognition of Arabic script based text: the state of the art", Dr Ahmed, P. and Mr Mathkour, Hassan, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. "Computerized critical editions of medieval Arabic manuscripts. Requests for high standard features in software applications", Dr,JWedel, Gerhard, Freie Universitt, Berlin, Germany. "Connectivity between Arabic systems: a case study in reference to the Chinese systems", Prof. Hsu, Cheng-Hsiang, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, National Chengchi University, Republic of China. "Description of some support programs (utilities) applied in the Lirica Persica research project" , Ms.JCorreale, Daniela, University of Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici, Italy. "Detection and correction of misspelled isolated words in Arabic language", Dr Zrigui, Mounir and Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohamed, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information, Tunisia. "The development of Arabic support on the Macintosh", Mr Mcconnell, J. and Abdelazim, H., Apple Computers, Inc., USA. "The encoding of non-Latin scripts under MS-DOS", Zemnek, Petr, Charles University, Czech Republic. "Escala: musical measure and notation of oriental scales", DrJSnches, Francesco, Instituto de Electrnica de Comunicaciones, Univ Politecnica-Madrid, Spain. "An intelligent teaching system of Arabic language", DrJal-Ajeeli, Abid and Ms al-Rujoob, Khulode, Department of Computer Science, Yarmouk University, Jordan. "The IRSIT Arabic text-to-speech synthesis system", Mr Ghazali, Salem, Mr Ben Miled, Z., Dr Zrigui, M. and Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. "KHOOL: Khabeer object orientated language" Dr Aref, Mustafa, MrJal-Muhtaseb, Husni and Mr al-Kulaib, Ali, Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. "Logic compression of multi-lingual dictionary" Mr Meddeb Hamrouni, Boubaker, Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatiqu and WinSoft, France. "Machine-printed Arabic OCR using neural networks", DrJHassibi, Khosrow, Automatic Document Recognition Group (ADRG), Mitek Systems Inc., USA. "Multi-lingual (Arabic & Roman) strategies for checking Arabic name dataJbases", Dr Roochnik, Paul, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA. "A multimedia archaeological knowledge-based system", MrJFarah, Mansour, Gaudic, R., Malek, M. and R. Razouk, Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Syria. "A new approach to Arabic character recognition in multi-font document", Mr Fehri, Mohammed and Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohamed, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information, Tunisia. "New approach to the automatic classification of symbol's image: automatic classification of Kufi letters from early Qur'anic MSS", Mr Kondybaev, Nurlan, Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch, Russia. "An overview of the application of multi-media computer based training for Arabic and Persian speakers", Mr Darabi Golshani, A., School of IT & Maths, Edith Cowan University, Australia. "Pan-Arabic script computing: implication for creating systems, fonts, printing and data base applications", Mr Clews, John, John Clews Associates, UK. "Printed Arabic text recognition", Dr Usher, M. and Goraine, H., School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Reading University, UK. "A proposal for an Arabic standard code for information interchange", DrJSaba, Mohamed, USA. "Steps towards Arabizing LATEX", Prof. Lagally, Klaus, Institut fr Informatik, Universitt Stuttgart, Germany. "Technology, proficiency and the integrative culture - learning process", Dr Jiyad, Mohammed, Mount Holyoke College, USA. "Torjomane: An Arabic-to-English computer assisted translation system", Mr Labed, L., Salhi, R., Garbout, N., and Mr Ghazali, Salem, Institut Regional des Sciences Information et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. "The use of computer to format and produce printed Arabic indexes for daily newspaper", Mr Bachir, Imad, al-Hayat Information Centre, UK. "User evaluation of Aldoc information system", Mr Ubaidly Ubaidly, Dilmun Publishing Ltd., Cyprus. "Using Urdu page layout. Programmes for community development" Mr Knight, Andrew, UK. **************** **************** Please use the form appended below for applications. ------------------------------ cut here -------------------------------- I C E M C O 94 To: Dr Ahmad Ubaydli (ICEMCO 94, Convenor) Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK Telephone: +44 (223) 334749/335106 F a x: +44 (223) 335110, Telex: 81240 CAMSPL G Email: AU100@UK.AC.CAM.PHX [JANET] AU100@PHX.CAM.AC.UK [EARN/BITNET] * I wish to attend ICEMCO 94; send me a Registration Form: Yes [ ] No [ ] * I wish to contribute a paper entitled: Yes [ ] No [ ] related to the following theme no. (see list of themes): PLEASE ENCLOSE A 100-WORD ABSTRACT Deadline for camera-ready copy: 17th December 1993 * I wish to act as a discussant on papers related to the following theme/themes no. * I wish to participate in the Exhibition Yes [ ] No [ ] Surname: other names: Title and affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail address(es): From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall) Subject: Q: Timeline-generating software? Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 11:30:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 297 (452) Howdy, historians. I had an interesting query from a group of honors students who want software that does the following: takes a set of dates and a text annotation for the date and generates a traditional 2-D timeline (for printing or on-screen viewing). Any major platform would do, but Unix or Macintosh greatly preferred. If you email me information, I can summarize back. If nothing seems to be out there, I will look at maybe doing a simple version in Hypercard; if you have a similar interest, let me know so I can gauge how useful this might be beyond this group of students. It doesn't seem like it would generally be preferable to just using your average draw/paint program, but this group seems to want to generate a rather large set of time-lines for preparing for their honors exams. Thanks for any leads... - Matt Matthew Wall * Humanities Coordinator * Swarthmore College - wall@cc.swarthmore.edu - From: "ERIC W. NYE" <NYE@corral.uwyo.edu> Subject: Making Sense of Words? Date: 07 Oct 1993 09:08:25 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 298 (453) Could we have a brief report from anyone who attended the recently concluded conference at the University of Waterloo called "Making Sense of Words"? It was the ninth annual conference of the University's Centre for the New OED and Text Research, and was held in Oxford. Proleptic thanks, Eric Nye, Dept. of English, Univ. of Wyoming NYE@UWYO.EDU From: Luc Herman <lherman@reks.uia.ac.be> Subject: Electronic Pynchon Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 11:59:52 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 299 (454) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Elaine Brennan, Could you please a message on HUMANIST, asking people to let me know if they possess (and would be willing to share) electronic versions of any text by Thomas Pynchon. Thanks a million! Regards, Dr. Luc Herman Department of Germanic Philology University of Antwerp B-2610 Wilrijk Belgium Internet E-mail: lherman@reks.uia.ac.be From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.D400.DE Subject: PHI reader software Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 14:46+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 300 (455) Does anyone know of good, straightforward, reliable software for reading the PHI CD-ROMS under DOS or (preferably not) Windows? We have PHAROS and the PHI Workplace, but neither really does all that we want (or, I'm tempted to say, all that the manuals claim, but I will make allowances for the way in which my irritation at Grotesquely Unnecessary Interfaces gets in my way). All we really want to be able to do is regular expression searches on an author or user-defined group of authors and viewing of the results with some indication of context and some marking of the finds; but nothing I have yet tried can fulfil these simple needs. Timothy Reuter, MGH Munich From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: cinema Date: 11 Oct 1993 17:05:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 301 (456) I recently viewed the movie 'THE MUSIC OF CHANCE' which was directed by Philip Haas and featured James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, Joel Gray, and Charles Durning (sp?). It concerns a former Boston firman who "by chance" hooks up with a cardshark named Jim (corr. "fireman"). They then travel to Pennsylvania to the home of two eccentric and wealthy men played by Grey and Durning. What happens beyond that seems to be to me a parable about the fortuitous nature of human existence. However, my tendency to view things through Augustinian eyes (or Calvin if you like) left me confused about the message intended by Haas--assuming there was one. Comments from other HUMANISTS who have seen the movie and have formed a conclusion about it or have a philosophical perspective on it are invited. James McSwain Tuskegee University From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press) Subject: IBJ Special Issue on Internet Advertising Date: Sat, 16 Oct 93 18:04:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 247 (457) The Internet Business Journal Commercial Opportunities in the Networking Age Volume 1, Number 3/4 - September/October 1993 Including a Special Report on Internet Advertising Free sample copy available on request to mstrange@fonorola.net Contents: RFC/FYI - Editorial Michael Strangelove Partnering on the Internet - A Primer Tyson Macaulay Corporate Use of the Internet Edward J. Tully Internet in Canada CANARIE: A New Billion Dollar IT Market Dr. Hawley L. Black Creating a Corporate Presence on the Net A New User's Guide Joel H. Maloff The Internet and the Law Law Schools Integrate Internet into Curriculum Michael B. Rizik Jr. Internet Company Profile Horse Horse Lion Lion: A Consulting Co-op Steven Hodas Internet Provider Profile ClarkNet: Enabling Technology Stephen Balbach The Japan That Can't Say No Directory of Internet Trainers and Consultants SPECIAL REPORT - Internet Advertising Internet Advertising Services Advertising on the Net Limitations to Internet Advertising Elizabeth Lane Lawley Selling Software on the Internet USENET as an Advertising Forum Stephen Balbach Advertising by E-Mail Philip M. Tsang & Ken Eustace Features: Gopher Business Resources Internet Publishing News Resources for Networked Business, Commerce, and Industry Internet Marketplace Government Online Internet Access News ABSTRACTS Partnering on the Internet - A Primer Tyson Macaulay Tyson Macaulay discusses the competitive advantages realised by companies using Internet-facilitated communications. He also warns of the challenges faced by Internet partnerships in the areas of trust, economic assurances, and secure communication. He concludes with a number of potential communications scenarios pointing out the pros and cons of each. Corporate Use of the Internet Edward J. Tully This article encourages the use of the Internet High Speed Backbone for corporate networking. Mr. Tully explains the robust nature of the Internet Backbone and offers a number of reasons why the corporate world is not making full use of the Internet for its corporate networking. Mr. Tully then discusses the advantages of corporate Internet connections and weighs them against the many perceived, and the very few real, problems corporations anticipate. Edward J. Tully is Director of Client Services of Advanced Network & Services and has been a telecommunications professional for over thirty years. Internet In Canada - CANARIE: A New Billion Dollar IT Market Dr. Hawley Black Dr. Black provides an up-to-date overview of Canada's CANARIE project. CANARIE stands for Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry, and Education and will become as common an acronym as NREN over the next few years. CANARIE's goal is to build a national electronic information highway by 1999. Dr. Black points out the potential opportunities for the commercial Internet sector. Creating a Corporate Presence on the Net - A New User's Guide Joel H. Maloff This article explores some of the commercial possibilities for the expansion of electronic commerce over interconnected, worldwide Internet. Mr. Maloff divides the business functionality afforded by the Internet into three distinct areas: rare remote devices, databases, and collaborative activities. Each of these functionalities are explored and actual examples of how businesses have used them are given. Joel Maloff is vice-president of Client Services at ANS CO+RE Systems, Inc. ANS CO+RE provides a variety of WAN and TCP/IP outsourcing services, including network design, security services, consulting, and connectivity. The Internet and the Law - Law Schools Integrate Internet into Curriculum Michael B. Rizik Jr. Largely through an interview with Linda Karr O'Connor, a reference librarian at the Cornell Law Library, Michael Rizik explores the impact that the Internet is having in the legal community. In his article he looks at the current status of Internet training as part of legal training and discusses the benefits lawyers and legal firms will experience as a result of using the Internet as an information gathering tool. Michael B. Rizik Jr. is a Flint, Michigan attorney specialising in, among other things, computer law. He is also sysop of The Law Review BBS and pro-bono legal counsel for the Genesee FreeNet. Internet Company Profile - Horse Horse Lion Lion: A Consulting Co-op Steven Hodas "Horse Horse Lion Lion started about ten years ago in New York. We formed to study and work with what we called 'interactive information communities.' ... Around 1985, we realised that the future of information communities was going to be electronically mediated and networked. Most of our work from that point on involved the introduction of computers into work or learning environments as Trojan Horses whose ultimate end was the restructuring of that environment. We started providing telecommunications training on a large scale in 1989, and a great deal of our work now involves instruction in the appropriate and effective use of Internet resources." See how Horse Horse Lion Lion has mined the potential of the Internet in this month's Internet Company Profile. Internet Provider Profile - ClarkNet: Enabling Technology Stephen Balbach "Late in 1992, Jamie cashed in some family stocks and bonds, borrowed money from a bank and began his Internet provider business with $100,000 in start-up capital ... What drove Jamie, traditionally considered a handicapped and disabled citizen, to get into the high-tech business of providing Internet access? Quite simply that on the Internet there are no physical barriers to keep someone from reaching their full potential." In this article Stephen Balbach looks at Jamie Clark: his concept, his methods and his service - ClarkNet. The Japan That Can't Say No - English Translation of Controversial Book On Net It was a best seller in Japan. The writers did not want it published in the United States. The publisher had no plans to publish the book in English and had not authorised any translations. All the same, in 1990 an anonymous group made the book The Japan That Can't Say No available in English translation on the Internet. Prefaced to their edition was the note, "We hope that reading The Japan That Can't Say No will help to jolt Americans out of their complacency." This month's IBJ tells you how to access this controversial book on the Internet. ADVERTISING SPECIAL REPORT Advertising on the Net - Limitations to Internet Advertising Elizabeth Lane Lawley In this article Elizabeth Lane Lawley attempts to find advertising's place on the Internet by looking at the history of advertising on the Internet, user reaction to advertising, the potential for advertising in Cyberspace and the question of what is acceptable advertising practice. Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the founder of Internet Training & Consulting Services, as well as an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Alabama's School of Library and Information Studies. Selling Software on the Internet - Usenet as an Advertising Forum Stephen Balbach "The possible ways to use the resources of the Internet for distributing services and software is a business opportunity that has yet to be defined, an opportunity that, given current trends of exponential Internet growth, will take off for those willing and able to see that it exists." Stephen Balbach has created a business for himself in distribution of free software through the mail. Find out how he uses his Internet connection for advertising and much more. Stephen Balbach is currently following his dream of working on the Internet and is also an employee of Clark Internet Services, Baltimore's first public dial-up Internet provider. Advertising by E-Mail Philip M. Tsang & Ken Eustace This article provides some preliminary findings from the Internet Signature Project and will be of interest to commercial Internet users who are considering using electronic mail to advertise events, products, and services. The Internet advertising techniques discussed in the article are: the use of personal signatures in daily e-mail communications, the use of .plan or similar files for finger inquiry, and the use of animated advertisements. Regular Features: Telecom Review Mr. William Park has written a review of events in the telecommunications industry for September and October. Directory - Internet Trainers and Consultants One of the most frequent requests the IBJ editors receive is for information on Internet trainers and consultants. As a result, IBJ is now compiling a directory of Net trainers and consultants and will make this document freely available on the Internet. Contact mstrange@fonorola.net to be included in the IBJ Directory of Internet Trainers and Consultants. Internet Publishing News A new regular feature, the Internet Publishing News will track developments in Internet facilitated publishing. Internet Marketplace IBJ will be offering Internet Marketplace as a regular feature that will provide readers with information about new Internet-facilitated businesses that are using the Net to sell their wares. Other Items Covered In This Issue: The WELL: Small Town on the Internet Highway Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides Law Related Internet Archives Carpal Tunnel Syndrome National Awards for Excellence in Business-Education Partnerships Telephone Code Indexes Nafta Documents Catalogue of Free Database Software Shareware Book Online The Internet Hunt Creating a Finger File Animated E-Mail Cello Winsock The Net Advertiser Internet Marketing Service for Advertisers Online Catalog of Goods and Services Roswell Computer Books Legal Researchers Online Travel Savings Via E-Mail Realtors Online Commercial Users Discover Internet ANS CO+RE Introduce Nationwide Internet Access First Commercial Network for Women Murdoch Buys Delphi Senator Kennedy Online The Management Archive, University of Minnesota Centre for Labour Studies, University of Adelaide Asia Pacific Business & Marketing Resources International Marketing Insights - Japan East and Southeast Asian Business and Management Japanese Business and Management Korean Business and Management Economics and Business Journals USA Federal Jobs U.S. Federal Budget 1993 Singapore's IT2000 Plan for Info Technology Texas A&M (Business) Texas A&M (Economics) Resources for Economists on the Net Israeli R&D Archive Catalogue of Free Databases Journalism Resource Directory Economics Bulletin Board at U of Michigan New England Electronic Data Centre Service Models for Packet Networks National Online Media Association Free Access to Commerce Business Daily Environmental Protection Agency Gopher Softlocks for Software and E-Texts National Export Strategy, TPCC Report to Congress Patent Titles Via E-Mail List for Business Faculty Economic Bulletin Board of the U.S. Department of Commerce Note: This freely available electronic edition contains a table of contents and abstracts only. Also note that it has been designed to be compatible with electronic reader devices for the print challenged, therefore, no extraneous characters, lines or tags have been used. Copyright (C) 1993 by Strangelove Press. All rights reserved. This document may be archived for public use in electronic or other media, as long as it is maintained in its entirety and no fee is charged to the user; any exception requires written consent from Strangelove Press. For The Internet Business Journal subscription information or a free sample copy contact mstrange@fonorola.net (Tel: 613-747-6106). From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Update: Penn ReligSt Dept Crisis Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 01:19:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 248 (458) Very briefly, the scheduled Arts and Sciences Faculty meeting was held today with much discussion of the Dean's recommendation to close three departments, etc. [see earlier postings]. The discussion was still in progress when the room had to be vacated for an evening class! Thus the discussion will be continued on 21 October. A proposal has been made to suspend the recommended actions until proper consultation, including external review of the departments in question, can be effected. Several colleagues addressed the specific situation with regard to Religious Studies, in an encouraging show of understanding and support. Look for a further update in two weeks or so! Your letters and responses thus far have been very heartening and helpful to us. Don't stop now. Bob Kraft, UPenn From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: perspective Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 23:03:40 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 249 (459) The following was found on a colleague's door in the dept. of Near Eastern Studies here. It certainly helps to put the godlike behaviour of our colleagues in perspective, and perhaps to ameliorate those mid-term blues: Why God Never Received Tenure at the University 1. Because He had only one major publication. 2. And it was in Hebrew. 3. And it had no references. 4. And it wasn't published in a refereed journal. 5. And some even doubt He wrote it himself. 6. It may be true that He created the world but what has He published/done since ? 7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited. 8. The scientific community has had a very rough time trying to repeat His results. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: phil-preprints-admin@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: New preprints on the IPPE Date: Tue, 19 Oct 93 16:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 250 (460) The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abstracts of recent submissions, as of Sat Oct 16 06:33:37 JST 1993: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stevan Harnad : Princeton University : harnad@princeton.edu Artificial Life: Synthetic vs. Virtual preprints/Phil_of_Mind Artificial Life III (Santa Fe, June 1992) (to appear) Artificial life can take two forms: synthetic and virtual. In principle, the materials and properties of synthetic living systems could differ radically from those of natural living systems yet still resemble them enough to be really alive if they are grounded in the relevant causal interactions with the real world. Virtual (purely computational) "living" systems, in contrast, are just ungrounded symbol systems that are systematically interpretable as if they were alive; in reality they are no more alive than a virtual furnace is hot. Virtual systems are better viewed as "symbolic oracles" that can be used (interpreted) to predict and explain real systems, but not to instantiate them. The vitalistic overinterpretation of virtual life is related to the animistic overinterpretation of virtual minds and is probably based on an implicit (and possibly erroneous) intuition that living things have actual or potential mental lives. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bernhardt Lieberman : University of Pittsburgh : Bernie1@vms.cis.pitt.edu What the Controversies Over the Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Tell Us About the Debates Between Objectivists and Social Constructionists preprints/Phil_of_Science Some social analyses of scientific knowledge are based on objectivist assumptions, while others assume that scientific knowledge is social constructed. The condemnation of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) by the antismoking movement affects the life of virtually every American and uncounted millions of others throughout the world. Investigators who argue that ETS causes lung cancer claim the influence, objectivity, and authority of scientific inquiry, while critics of the results of the investigations argue that the conclusion that ETS causes lung cancer is unwarranted. The present study uses this fascinating and important sociotechnical controversy to shed light on the debate between objectivists and social constructionists and reaches the conclusion that the condemnation of environmental tobacco smoke is a deliberate social construction of an elite social movement which mixes advocacy and alleged objective inquiry so that the actual relationship between ETS and lung cancer will probably never be determined. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THEORIES By GEORGE GALE University of Missouri Kansas City MO 64110 ggale @vax1.umkc.edu It is useful to hybridize some of Steven Toulmin's and Rom Harre's ideas about theories. Toulmin thinks that maps provided an informative analogy for the structure and function of theories in science. So do I. Harre thinks that icons and propositions fit together to make of theories statement-picture complexes. So do I. The first two sections of this paper show how the two sets of notions might be put together. In the next section I show how Harre's ideas about models can be used to trace out the progress of Robert Boyle toward his theory of pneumatics. Finally, these ideas are joined by some ideas of Ron Giere about how Mendel's theory is structured; in the end I produce a fairly full picture of the scheme of neo-Mendelian genetics. Unfortunately, the picture itself isn't included in this special internet version of the paper. If anyone manages to slog through the paper to the end, and STILL would like to see the figures, I'll be glad to snailmail them to you. Request them either via e-mail or snailmail. By the way, this material was prepared for my sophomore/junior level scientific methods class, and as a possible candidate for a new chapter in my imagined revised edition of _Theory of Science_, McGraw-Hill, 1979. I'd sure appreciate your comments on this essay. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gregory R. Mulhauser : University of Edinburgh : <scarab@ed.ac.uk> Materialism and the "Problem" of Quantum Measurement preprints/Phil_of_Mind Forthcoming in _Minds and Machines_ For nearly six decades, the conscious observer has played a central and essential role in quantum measurement theory. I outline some difficulties which the traditional account of measurement presents for material theories of mind before introducing a new development which promises to exorcise the ghost of consciousness from physics and relieve the cognitive scientist of the burden of explaining why certain material structures reduce wavefunctions by virtue of being conscious while others do not. The interactive decoherence of complex quantum systems reveals that the oddities and complexities of linear superposition and state vector reduction are irrelevant to computational aspects of the philosophy of mind and that many conclusions in related fields are ill founded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stevan Harnad : Princeton University : harnad@princeton.edu Does the Mind Piggy-Back on Robotic and Symbolic Capacity? preprints/Phil_of_Mind To appear in: H. Morowitz (ed.) "The Mind, the Brain, and Complex Adaptive Systems. Cognitive science is a form of "reverse engineering" (as Dennett has dubbed it). We are trying to explain the mind by building (or explaining the functional principles of) systems that have minds. A "Turing" hierarchy of empirical constraints can be applied to this task, from t1, toy models that capture only an arbitrary fragment of our performance capacity, to T2, the standard "pen-pal" Turing Test (total symbolic capacity), to T3, the Total Turing Test (total symbolic plus robotic capacity), to T4 (T3 plus internal [neuromolecular] indistinguishability). All scientific theories are underdetermined by data. What is the right level of empirical constraint for cognitive theory? I will argue that T2 is underconstrained (because of the Symbol Grounding Problem and Searle's Chinese Room Argument) and that T4 is overconstrained (because we don't know what neural data, if any, are relevant). T3 is the level at which we solve the "other minds" problem in everyday life, the one at which evolution operates (the Blind Watchmaker is no mind-reader either) and the one at which symbol systems can be grounded in the robotic capacity to name and manipulate the objects their symbols are about. I will illustrate this with a toy model for an important component of T3 -- categorization -- using neural nets that learn category invariance by "warping" similarity space the way it is warped in human categorical perception: within-category similarities are amplified and between-category similarities are attenuated. This analog "shape" constraint is the grounding inherited by the arbitrarily shaped symbol that names the category and by all the symbol combinations it enters into. No matter how tightly one constrains any such model, however, it will always be more underdetermined than normal scientific and engineering theory. This will remain the ineliminable legacy of the mind/body problem. Those attending this conference and those reading the published volume of papers arising from it will be struck by the radical shifts in focus and content among the various categories of contribution. Immediately preceding mine, you have heard the two most neurobiological of the papers. Pat Goldman-Rakic discussed internal representation in the brains of animals and Larry Squire discussed the brain basis of human memory. Others are presenting data about human behavior, others about computational models, and still others about general classes of physical systems that might share the relevant properties of these three domains -- brain, behavior, and computation -- plus, one hopes, a further property as well, namely, conscious experience: this is the property that, as our brains do whatever they do, as our behavior is generated, as whatever gets computed gets computed, there's somebody home in there, experiencing experiences during most of the time the rest of it is all happening. It's the status of this last property that I'm going to discuss first. Traditionally, this topic is the purview of the philosopher, particularly in the form of the so-called "mind/body" problem, but these days I find that philosophers, especially those who have become very closely associated with cognitive science and its actual practice, seem to be more dedicated to minimizing this problem (or even declaring it solved or nonexistent) than to giving it its full due, with all the perplexity and dissatisfaction that this inevitably leads to. So although I am not a philosopher, I feel it is my duty to arouse in you some of this perplexity and dissatisfaction -- if only to have it assuaged by the true philosophers who will also be addressing you here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sule H. Elkatip : Bosphorus University : elkatip@trboun.bitnet Individuation and Scotus preprints/History_of_Phil/ INDIVIDUATION AND SCOTUS Dr. Sule H. Elkatip Dept. of Philosophy Bosphorus University Istanbul In the texts written by Scotus the most striking philosophical achievement is his method of analysis. It is perhaps surprising to see that he is often unwilling to adopt the philosophical analyses of his predecessors. The major reason for this probably was that Scotus had not found Aristotle's treatment of philosophical problems such as "substance", "individuation", "being" ultimate. For Scotus individuation applies to entities which in general give us our predicates such as quality and quantity and so forth. One of his arguments is to the effect that these predicates enjoying being are where we should start our philosophical analyzing rather than with substance. A second argument considers the alternative of beginning with substance and after criticizing it rejects it. This second argument points out that starting with predicates the principle for individualizing is attained not by introducing things in addition to predicates but through further analysis. The case for the substance theory is of course different. It does not begin with predication. It sets out with substances. These substances are both particular and universal entities and are spoken of as primary and secondary by Aristotle. The task, then, is to explain how this happens to be so. Scotus indicates that there is a logical difficulty in this procedure: not an outright contradiction perhaps but still some inconsistency. In Aristotle's framework the problem of substance presents itself as the central question to be addressed. In Scotus' philosophical texts the need to explain what substance is or what substances are is not felt as the most urgent question of philosophy. He concentrates not on the criteria for calling something "a substance" but on how in fact we do talk about things. Parellel to this there is the following difference in the two frameworks. Aristotle wishes to classify exhaustively the kinds of sentences to be formed about the substances which he allows for according to his criteria about categories. Scotus analyzes the inferential relationships of statements about things. It may be better indeed to mark statements or even sentences as his starting point instead of predication because the latter is arrived upon after clarification. Naming something as "substance" was for Aristotle a way of calling it "a being". But, normally people do not go around visualizing or describing things as "substances". Why should they do something like this? They look to see whether they are there or not. If we talk of something as "a being" or as "substance" we do this indirectly for Scotus. For him being is a presupposition. It is not, however, an implicit one because we make this explicit when we use the verb "to be". As we use predicates to pick out the determinations of things we engage in a claim to truth. This claim for truth values, according to Scotus, necessitated verification so as not to end in a vicious infinite regress. It is a fact, according to Scotus, that we use language to make statements. There are things to begin with although one may not be certain as to whether they are substances or not. What is interesting for Scotus are the conditions or requirements which make this fact possible, in other words, the determinations of so called "substances". In epistemology these are studied as those things which are present to the five senses. In logic they are known as predicates. In metaphysics as universals. It would be incorrect to see in these arguments of Scotus a great figure in epistemology only because obviously at times they are strictly logical or at times metaphysical in character. To put it roughly, in a generally Aristotelian framework it is taught that predicates presuppose substances and that substances presuppose being. It is possible to come across this interpretation in Thomist literature, for instance, in an article by Herbert McCabe, O.P., as well as in Allan Wolter's, O.F.M., notes to his translated selections from Scotus. Thomists do add and emphasize that the being presupposed comes analogically in different senses. Given a classical understanding of validity, inference and implication, predicates do not presuppose substances. "Rational" for instance does not presuppose "human". "Human", on the other hand, would imply "rational". According to Wolter both "rational" and "human" presuppose being from Scotus' point of view. But since the notion of being is simple, there must be univocity. However this can not be the position that Scotus is arguing for because it requires not only a postulate on the simplicity of being but also a postulate to insure the being of entities in addition to substances, namely predicates. Hence according to this Scotist point of view endorsed for example notably by Wolter and also by historians of philosophy Scotus is presented as a realist Aristotelian with various weighty epistemological arguments on the side. The postulate that is attributed to Scotus in the notes of Wolter in relation to the being of predicates asserts that all predicamental entities are included in (or implied by when construed in sentences) at least one substantial entity. If this postulate were not added univocity of being would not follow and we would be left with a doctrine that is close to McCabe's standpoint instead of Scotus' for univocity of being is not reached and analogy remains. The only significant difference between the two would now be that Scotists would be reinforcing logical standards by pointing out that predication does not presuppose substances but substantial statements imply some truths about predicates. Hence there are here two problems to be discussed. Does Scotus maintain substances along with predicates? Does he say that all predicates are included in some substance or other? The first question addresses Scotus' treatment of the traditional doctrine of substance. The second question seems to have a negative answer for it is thought that Scotus' views on possibility can not tolerate absolutely necessary connections among all predications. This may be true for mathematics but not for every predication otherwise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Accessing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By gopher: "gopher apa.oxy.edu" or "gopher kasey.umkc.edu". By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" By email: "mail phil-preprints-service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". To place a paper or comment on the IPPE: see pub/submissions/README. If you have questions: send mail to <cburke@nexus.yorku.ca>. From: Eric Crump <C509379@MIZZOU1> Subject: Computers & Writing reminder Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 14:09:19 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 251 (461) ----------------------------------------------------------- This is a wee little voice, which normally speaks from the back of your head, but is rendered in text here for ease of wide distribution. This is, of course, a *reminder*. ----------------------------------------------------------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Call for Proposals: The Tenth COMPUTERS AND WRITING CONFERENCE Deadline: November 1, 1993 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hosted by the University of Missouri Columbia, MO May 20-23, 1994 THEME: The Global Web of Writing Technologies SPEAKERS: Australian feminist scholar Dale Spender and MIT media researcher Amy Bruckman have agreed to serve as featured speakers. PROPOSALS We invite proposals that pertain in some way (any way!) to the use of computers at any level of writing education, K-12 to community colleges to colleges and large universities, from technologically rich environments to places where instruction with computers is just getting started. Hands-on sessions, demonstrations, or any other format that encourages audience participation and interaction are particularly welcome. Here is a short list from among innumerable possible topics: --The latest reports from teachers and students--K-12 through college level--who are exploring the possibilities of networked classrooms --Tales of adventure from teachers and students who are venturing from the classroom into the wider network world --Help taking the first steps toward incorporating computers into writing instruction and research --Possibilities for using computers to forge better connections between K-12 and college educators --Hypertext theory, its classroom applications and cultural implications --The legal, economic, and cultural impact of computer technology --How global information networks may affect the nature of journalism --The changing relationship between writers and information sources: libraries and librarians of the future SPECIAL FOCUS: --The history and future of the computers and writing field The tenth Computers and Writing Conference seems like an appropriate place and time in which to indulge in some retrospection, introspection, and prognostication. We hope veterans and novices in the field will suggest opportunities for exploring the State of the Field, whether via special forums or by weaving the subject into regular sessions. VIRTUAL SESSIONS? We hope to have adequate access to a multiple user environment (MediaMOO, probably, or Internet Relay Chat) for conference activities. Presenters who are interested in trying something rather new might want to consider proposing sessions that include realtime conferencing over the Internet using these systems. NOTE: Presenters whose proposals are accepted will be asked to submit longer versions for use in conjunction with the electronic conference. Details will be included in acceptance notices. -------------------------------------------------- PROCEDURES: We like electronic submission, but acceptance is not in any way contingent upon it. Submissions can also be made in print or on 3.5 inch computer disks, initialized either in Macintosh or IBM format, as long as the text is saved in ASCII (text) format. Notification will be made in January 1994. Please submit a 200- to 300-word abstract plus title for individual presentations, for poster sessions, and for each portion of panel presentations. For roundtables, think tanks, and readings (creative writing, for example), please submit a single 300-word abstract with names and addresses of each participant along with descriptions of the contribution each participant will make. For workshops, please include, in addition to a single 300-word abstract, an estimated timetable of activities. We also invite alternative session formats to the ones listed here. Past conference-goers have expressed interest in more of the hands-on and demo-type sessions, but presenters should also feel free to suggest presentation formats that best fit their work (although in the interest of the organizers' sanity, it might be good to also suggest standard options in case the preferred version simply can't be made to fit the program). Include name, institutional affiliation, postal address, and electronic mail address for each presenter. Each submission should include a description, as precise as possible, of equipment needs, if any. We do not guarantee absolutely that equipment requests will be fulfillable, but we will do our best to provide excellent technical support and will work with presenters to make the best arrangements we can. Computer classrooms and labs sporting IBM 55s with OS/2 2.1 or DOS 6.0 and Macintosh Centris computers with System 7.1 will be available. Any additional hardware or software requirements will need to be arranged on a case-by-case basis. Send electronic submissions (and any other correspondence) to: Eric Crump at LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu. Please include somewhere in the subject line: CWC94. Send disks and print submissions to: Eric Crump, 231 Arts & Science, University of Missouri. Columbia, MO 65211. From: HOKE ROBINSON <ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET> Subject: Re: 7.0235 Unrequired Reading List -- Univ at Buffalo Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 17:57:08 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 302 (462) The list is nice. Some of the entries I've gotten a great deal out of myself (in particular, Catch-22), and I could add more (Raymond Chandler, for instance). But it misses the point of a canon. The question is not, "What's fun to read, enjoyable, even meaningful and relevant?" but, "What does an educated person need to _have read_, whether it's fun or not? What will you need to have read, 5, 20, 50 years from now?" Many of the books on this list are already beginning to fade, and will be forgotten in 10 or 20 years. Look back 20 or so: Khalin Gibran or "Zen and the Art" may have been more fun to read, but would you trade your ability to recognize themes such as "Who shall guard the guardians?", "He doth protest too much," "The life of man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," "Man was born free, yet everywhere he is in chains," "You have nothing to lose but your chains," to _have read_ "Zen"? If you think this list is more relevant to "today," remember that today's students will presumably live some 40-50 years after graduation, and that this education will have to last them that time. Then figure what the staying power of these contemporary works is likely to be. How? Again, go back a few decades and look at the books that occupied the same place then that these do now, and see how they've held up. I hated Thomas Mann's _Magic Mountain_, and enjoyed "Trout Fishing," but I'd have missed very little not reading "Trout Fishing," and _Magic Mountain_ has enriched me. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with recreational or "light- weight" reading, just as there's nothing wrong with partying. But reading light-weight stuff _instead of_ the classics is like partying _instead of_ going to your lectures: more fun now, but ultimately a waste of a good education. -- Hoke Robinson From: A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0235 Unrequired Reading List -- Univ at Buffalo (1/396) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 18:06:41 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 303 (463) What a lovely thing to offer us: thank you! Avril Henry Univ. Exeter, UK From: blspahr@garnet.berkeley.edu Subject: Unrequired Reading List Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 11:19:52 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 304 (464) Inspired by the Univ. at Buffalo, Undergrad. College List of Unrequired Reading, I was reminded of Grad. School teaching assistant days, when some of our students at Yale asked us for summer reading, the implication being that they wanted something "interesting," the reading of which they could justify by claiming its importance (or at least by the fact that it had been recommended by "their teachers"). The late Cecil Wood (Jim Marchand will remember him) and I compiled a list of what we called "The Damnedest Books." Today it will no doubt show the generation gap, but such wonderful books should not be forgotten. I reproduce what memory brings back: Beerbohm, Max: Zuleika Dobson (the most beautiful of all beautiful women). Butler, Ellis Parker: Pigs is Pigs -- a beautiful oldie (l906) that should not be forgotten; reissued by Dover. Chevalier, Gabriel: Clochemerle (and its sequel Clochemerle Babylon), the first of which has been produced as a not-so-good movie. Douglas, Norman: Southwind. Field, Eugene: Echoes from a Sabine Farm. If you like poetry and/or are a frustrated classicist--a translation of Horace into the same sort of slangy language that he himself wrote. Karig, Walter: Zotz. Munro, H.H.: The short stories of Saki--try "Sredni Vashtar," and you will be hooked for the rest (in Modern Library series). Romains, Jules: Les Copains (translated as 'The Boys in the Back Room")-- supposedly written at daily snits while its author was commuting by train, it is the story of a group of amiable drunks who conceive a hatred of a little village which they find on the map. Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy--don't be discouraged by the fact that it is a classic--it is still one of the funniest books ever written. Wylie, Elinor: The Venetian Glass Nephew. Sorry, that is all my ancient memory can bring up. I would be glad to hear of other "damnedest books." Blake Lee Spahr (blspahr@garnet.berkeley.edu.) From: wmiller@garnet.berkeley.edu (Wayne Miller) Subject: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in Berlin Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 09:44:20 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 253 (465) Hi, I would like to post the following announcement on the behalf of Professor Anton Kaes. I am not directly associated with this seminar; please don't send inquiries to me. The proper email address for questions, information and applications is shlowent@garnet.berkeley.edu. Thanks. Wayne Miller Workstation Support Services University of California, Berkeley -------------------- NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in Berlin TOPIC: "The City and Modernity: Film, Literature, and Urban Culture in the Weimar Republic" Location: Berlin Director: Professor Anton Kaes Dates: June 13-August 5, 1994 (8 weeks) Stipend: $4,000 APPLICATION Deadline: March 1, 1994 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: March 28, 1994 RESTRICTIONS: US Citizenship or permanent resident status; finished degree; teaching at a college that does not grant a Ph.D.in German or Film; interest in the Weimar Republic and/or modernism. The seminar will focus on the responses of German filmmakers (Lang, Murnau, Pabst, among others) and intellectuals (Benjamin, Kracauer, Brecht) to the contradictory experience of rapid modernization and urbanization. College teachers of film, history, German literature and culture, feminist studies, mass communication, and popular culture are encouraged to apply. A knowledge of German is not required. For application forms and further information, please call: (510)642-7445, or write *shlowent@garnet.berkeley.edu* or Professor Anton Kaes, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: Journal of European Studies 23:3 (1993) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:18:37 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 254 (466) JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES _Journal of European Studies_ is a major journal, published quarterly, which deals with the literature, ideas and culture of Europe since the Renaissance. Vol. 23, part 3 (September 1993), contains the following articles: "Image and body: the optical alignment of Walter Benjamin and Luis Bunuel" (E.D. Yeats) "Changing perceptions of Jules Michelet as historian: History between Literature and Science, 1831-1874" (John Hooper) "Something about nothing: Michel Tournier's _La Jeune Fille et la mort_" (W.D. Redfern) "The triumph of chance over necessity" (essay review of Jean Baudrillard, _L'Illusion de la fin_) (Amal Banerjee) The volume also contains an extensive review section divided into the following area studies: European and General Studies, German and Austrian Studies, Russian Studies, French Studies. Contributions for future numbers should be sent to the General Editor: Prof. J.E. Flower, Department of French and Italian, University of Exeter, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, Exeter EX4 4QH, England. If your library does not already subscribe, please ask them to address enquiries to: Alpha Academic, Halfpenny Furze, Mill Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. HP8 4NR, England. Institutional subscription: 58.00 pounds sterling per annum; private subscription: 30.00 pounds sterling per annum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Tim Unwin Email tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Department of French Studies The University of Western Australia Nedlands Tel +61 9 380 2174/6 WA 6009 Fax +61 9 380 1080 Australia From: NADELHFT@MAINE Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 10:34:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 255 (467) Call for papers for the second annual conference on NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY the topic PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPES June 9-11 1994 The WASHBURN HUMANITIES CENTER in association with the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine The Washburn Humanities Center welcomes the submission of papers representing a broad range of disciplines illustrating differences and commonalities within the region of northern New England during the nineteenth century. Topics might include but are not limited to the general subjects of agriculture, climate, education, popular culture, art, and literature. The Center encourages the submission of complete two or three person sessions. The annual Washburn Humanities Conference is designed to illuminate the social, cultural, political, and economic history of northern New England, the region's impact on the nation and the nation's on the region. Last year, inaugurating the annual event, the conference theme was WOMEN AND MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR ERA, 1840-1880. In 1995 the conference will focus on the general topic of MIGRATIONS (of people, ideas, culture, crops, animals) into/out of/ within northern New England. The Conference will be held at the Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, a 445 acre site containing a restored one room school house, farmer's cottage, free standing library (housing the extensive Washburn family collections), a 200 seat 1828 Universalist Church, and the 1867 Washburn mansion. Submit a one page abstract and a one page vita by January 31 to: Nadelhft@Maine.maine.edu (Jerome Nadelhaft History Department University of Maine) OR TO: Billie Gammon Washburn Humanities Center R. R. 2, Box 3395 Livermore Falls, ME 04254 Phone: (207) 897-4366 Previously published material should not be submitted. Room and Board will be provided for people presenting papers. From: Kathleen Margaret Lant <klant@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu> Subject: A Job Announcement Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 17:43:15 -800 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 256 (468) ETHNIC STUDIES POSITION: Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track, Ethnic Studies. Beginning September 1994. Rank and Salary contingent on qualifications and experience. concentrations in Chicano/Chicana Studies, Latino Studies, and Social Science disciplines. QUALIFICATIONS: PhD in Ethnic Studies or comparable interdisciplinary program. University teaching experience required and evidence of some publishing record expected. Course work in Latino, Chicano/Chicana Studies and in aspects of gender analysis preferred. HOW TO APPLY: For a full job announcement and instructions on how to apply, email to Kathleen Lant (klant@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu). CLOSING: 30 November 1993 From: Ted Parkinson <parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Re: 7.0246 Qs: S/W: Timelines, Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 12:58:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 305 (469) This is a reply to the question about the movie _The Music of Chance_ and its "meaning." This movie is adapted from a work by the novelist Paul Auster. Much of his fiction involves issues of chance, the meaning of interpretation, etc. He likes to play lots of games with language and sometimes he writes himself into his own work (in fact, he had a bit part in the movie). He writes what some call postmodern detective fiction including _The New York Trilogy_ which includes _The City of Glass_, _Ghosts_, and _The Locked Room_. For more information you could search out criticism of his work, or read his own volume of essays titled _The Art of Hunger_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Parkinson Department of English McMaster University parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca Hamilton, Ontario From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: Unrequired Reading List Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 21:45:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 306 (470) B.L. Spahr's consistently excellent list, and the collection of three postings praising the Buffalo list, inspires me to ask, was I the only one who thought there were some perfectly *awful* books on that list? Gail Sheehy? Carl Rogers? Barbara Tuchman? Those are the kinds of books that I find in student hands and immediately think to myself, how can I put a *real* book into those hands? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: "G. Bencivengo" <benciven@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: God in law firms Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 16:16:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 307 (471) God also exists in law firms. Even a law librarian who is an attorney is painfully aware of this. I had had senior partners bark orders over the phone to me and not even identify themselves. I guess they assumed I would know the voice of God when I heard it. I did, but just to be a devil I asked them to identify themselves. I knew my days as a law firm librarian were numbered. Now I deal with God in a law school. Librarians learn to work with God every day. Does this mean we will all go to heaven? From: Alan D Corre <corre@convex.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Query Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 11:03:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 258 (472) In Meredith's novel *The Ordeal of Richard Feverel* there is a passage where a lower-class British speaker c. 1850 is describing the happy recovery of a young lady from a typical Victorian fainting-fit. She declares that the black ox has not stepped on her foot. Is this some kind of classical reference? What is the black ox? From: Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM> Subject: ALLC-ACH '94 submission problems Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 12:50:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 259 (473) The mailer at Lieges, Belgium, was quite unhappy last week, and vented its spleen by eating mail coming in on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (14-16 October). All proposals that were received as of 20 October 1993 have now been acknowledged. If you have not yet received an acknowledgment of a proposal submitted for ALLC-ACH '94, please re-send it immediately. The address for electronic submissions is: allcach@bliulg11.bitnet Elaine Brennan for the Program Committee ALLC-ACH '94 Consensus ex machina From: Dr Christiane Rahner <RAHNER@mtb.und.ac.za> Subject: Q: Traven, "Land des Fruehlings" Date: 20 Oct 93 15:36:27 +0200 (SAST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 308 (474) I would be grateful for any information on an English or Spanish translation of Bert Traven's travel diary "Land des Fruehlings" [Tierra de la Primavera; Land of Spring]. Has anyone ever come across a translation? From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net> Subject: German volunteer regiment in 1870 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 9:59:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 309 (475) I'm working on G.E. Mueller, who was a professor at Goettingen from 1881 to 1920. He wrote a biographical abstract to an American psychologist in 1928 in which he said he volunteered for a Berlin regiment in 1870. As a university student, Mueller would have qualified for a one-year assignment, or _Einjahriger_. I have a table of organization of the Imperial army from 1899, and all the Berlin regiments are the personnel for Guards regiments, with perhaps the exception of the 3rd artillery regt., which might also have been the artillery for the guards. Later, my American psychologist turned this around and said Mueller joined a volunteer regiment. I assume there was no such thing as a volunteer regiment in 1870, simply because the time was too short and because the army was fully structured with each person assigned to a regiment in which he had already trained. While this seems obvious to me, I would like some sort of citation to make the point that a volunteer regiment in 1870 was an impossibility. I have found a quotation in Sybel's _Founding of the German Empire_ that indicates that students tried almost anything to join a regiment, often joined reserve battalions, and sometimes in "emergency corps" (Not-corps?). Any help will be appreciated. Edward J. Haupt snail: voice: 1(201) 655-4327 Department of Psychology internet: haupt@pilot.njin.net Montclair State bitnet: haupt@njin 1 Normal Ave. fax: 1(201) 655-5455 Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-1624 USA From: Arjan Loeffen C&L/RUU <Arjan.Loeffen@let.ruu.nl> Subject: Tags, codes, marks Date: 20 Oct 1993 14:07:49 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 310 (476) Does anyone have any strong ideas about terminology for: Mark Markup 'Standard generalized markup language' Tag Tagging 'Starter set of tags' Code Encoding 'Text encoding initiative' What's the difference? What's the same? Thanks, Arjan. From: Shirley Arora <ILX3ARO@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: 7.0258 Q: Black Ox Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 10:25 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 311 (477) An earlier response was accidentally transmitted before it was complete. I was referring to Archer Taylor's article on the proverb "The black ox has not trod on his foot," originally published in _Philological Quarterly_ 20 (1941), 266-278, and I had intended to add to that the article has been reprinted in _Selected Writings on Proverbs by Archer Taylor_, ed. Wolfgang Mieder, Folklore Fellows Communications #216 (Helsinki, 1975), 152-164. You will also find a substantial number of citations of the proverb in Morris Tilley's _A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_ (Ann Arbor, 1950), p. 517, entry O103. Shirley Arora Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese U.C.L.A. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: black ox Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 09:43:28 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 312 (478) The expression "the black ox has trod upon his foot" and such like is found under ox in the OED2, with the meaning of "misfortune has happened to him". The black ox is, of course, Satan. Heywood's proverb dictionary mentions the expression; I think the earliest instance in English may be from 1546. The examples cited in OED2 are all from the latter half of the 19th c. The fact that the expression is found in other languages makes it quite likely that it is old. Curiously enough, a black bull (Satan) appears in Alfonso el Sabio's Cantigas (good pictures). Jim Marchand. From: gene <FCOTTER@SETONVM> Subject: Re: 7.0258 Q: Black Ox Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 10:11:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 313 (479) Black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto and other infernal deities - Brewer, Dictio nary of Phrase and Fable From: G.R.Hart@durham.ac.uk Subject: Black ox Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 14:37:46 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 314 (480) The only classical reference which comes to mind is from Aeschylus' Agamemnon, where the Watchman says that a great ox has stepped on his tongue (meaning that he doesn't intend to talk about what he knows). I'm sorry that I don't have the exact reference to hand. I can't see how this fits the situation in the novel, however, unless the speaker is being ridiculed for his inept attempt at classical allusions, perhaps. From: nelro01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Rommel) Subject: black ox Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 12:48:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 315 (481) Alan Gorre asks about the "black ox" in Meredith's _The Ordeal of Richard Feverel_. Cf. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable: Black ox. The black ox has trod on his foot, i.e. misfortune has come to him. Black oxen were sacrificed to PLUTO and other infernal deities. Thomas Rommel, Uni Tuebingen From: "F.W.Langley" <F.W.Langley@french.hull.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 7.0258 Q: Black Ox Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 13:29:56 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 316 (482) The 'black ox' appears in proverbs ('the black ox has/has not trod upon his/her foot') with the meaning 'hardship', 'adversity', 'misfortune', 'old age' from as eaerly as the 16th century (see examples in the Oxford English Dictionary). The OED offers no explanation as to the origin of the expression, nor does it suggest that it is classical in origin. From: Lamar Hill <lhill@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu> Subject: Used books Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 00:36:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 262 (483) Please feel free to cross-post this query. * * * * * * * I am sending this message in the hope that my colleagues and I in the Department of History at UC,Irvine will be able to benefit from your counsel and advice. We are exploring ways to deal with the problem presented by the practice in our campus bookstore of ordering used text books even if we call for new ones. I'll outline the problem and solicit your remarks. Students at UCI have only one practical source for textbooks: our campus bookstore which is a profit-making arm of the Student Center. When we place our orders for books, the bookstore first buys as many used copies as possible (regardless of edition in some cases) from used book suppliers and only then orders the remainder new from the publisher. Although the bookstore management insists that it applies a uniform mark-up on all books, some of us suspect that they make more money on used books because we know what they pay our students when they sell back their books. The high cost of text books has been a source of aggravation for our students, many of whom choose not to buy a text if they must pay full price. Instead they use library copies or make xerox copies for themselves. Because of this resistance to buying new books, the bookstore claims that it must return unsold stock to the publisher and eat the cost. As a result, if I were to submit an order and specify only new books, the bookstore would order a reduced number in anticipation of reduced sales. Many of us feel that the use of used text books makes publishers even more than ordinarily reluctant to publish and stock titles that don't sell. Those of us in fields such as Latin America or Medieval or Early Modern Europe find it exceptionally frustrating to assemble a list of required texts as old titles go out of print and are not reprinted, while new titles have such small print runs that they are only available for a year or two. The source of this problem may be, in part, the sluggish sales in university bookstores. There is also a fairness issue that concerns the authors of the books we use for our courses. They are deprived of the fruits of their work when a used copy is purchased instead of a new one because royalties are paid only on the initial sale. I should add, I am aware of a potential abuse when a professor orders his own book and I am not suggesting that we want a procedure that will ensure that we can deeply feather our own nests. We have negotiated an interim agreement with our bookstore according to which no less than 33% and no more than half of any order will be filled with new copies. Needless to say, the bookstore wants to study this again before the ink has dried. At one point they wanted us to post a notice that would indicate that any shortage of used books was occasioned by the faculty's insistence upon new copies. If any of you have advice or tales from the trenches that would illuminate our problem, please write. Thank you, Lamar M. Hill Professor of History University of California, Irvine From: Judy Koren <LBJUDY@vmsa.technion.ac.il> Subject: RE: 7.0223 Rs: Teaching; Balzac-l; Kudology (MLA) (3/61) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 14:41:04 +0200 (EET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 263 (484) [deleted quotation] I've been away for a week at a conference so you may have all moved on past this discussion, but I haven't seen anyone take Jim up on this. I take Jim's point, but the only thing in the above list that in my opinion justifies re-apportioning kudos is the writing of the concordance program. Nobody ever suggested you should get less kudos for paying a typist rather than typing yourself, and IMHO if you scan or type in a text that's available from a reliable source you're a darn fool and deserve *less* kudos than the fellow who bothered to find out that the OTA has it... If you have no research assistant you'll undoubtedly be busier than if you had, but how much kudos are you entitled to expect for doing things that a student could do for you? As for the university's help with the "subvention the publisher requires", does it merit academic kudos to be rich enough to pay it yourself? All these forms of help belong in the "acknowledgements" section. Period. HOWEVER, if the concordance was actually produced by a paid programmer I personally would think that merited a by-line, and if it was produced by an unpaid programmer it certainly does. (This is a grey area, isn't it? Most books are actually written to some extent by an editor working for the publisher, who is however not responsible for content, and who is never mentioned because s/he's simply doing his/her job. If the programmer turns out code that does what you have decided the concordance ought to do, and is paid for it, does he/she deserve more kudos than the publisher's editor? But if you thought the concordance should include such-and-such and the programmer persuaded you to do it differently, then the programmer is partly responsible for the academic/intellectual content and deserves some of the credit and/or blame.) This seems to be a subset of the problem in the sciences: if you have a research team of 500 people, how many of them get their names on the article? What about the 300 technicians? Life is more complicated these days and often you get academic kudos for being able to manage a team, and you get the team by being able to win friends and influence people (esp. those in Senate House); that's life; is it a bug or a feature? Judy Koren, The Technion, Haifa, Israel. From: Brian.Opie@vuw.ac.nz Subject: Early Modern Studies Conference - Call for Papers Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 15:45:05 +1300 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 264 (485) Dear Editors Please publish the following on Humanist. Best Wishes, Brian Opie CALL FOR PAPERS An interdisciplinary conference jointly organised by the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Victoria University of Wellington TITLE: Freedom and Modernity?: Early Modern Studies in the Pacific To be held at the National Library, Wellington, N.Z., 5-7 August 1994 The main purpose of the conference is to examine the relation of early modern studies (to c.1850) to contemporary thinking about 'freedom' and 'modernity', with particular reference to the significance of European intellectual culture in the Pacific. Possible topics might include law and censorship, toleration, privilege, elite and popular cultures, gender and sexuality, literature and literacy, bibliography,the state and political freedom, global and local economies, travel and communication, scientific investigation and race. Offers of papers are invited from scholars working in the humanities on any aspect of early modern studies related to these issues, or which take an inter-disciplinary approach to the issues involved in studying the 'early modern' in a Pacific context FREEDOM is the 1994 theme of the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University. MILTON will be the subject of a major exhibition presented by the Alexander Turnbull Library, whose Milton collection is ranked fifth in the world in terms of the scope and quality of its holdings. The conference is timed to coincide with the opening of this exhibition. Enquiries and offers of papers to Dr Glyn Parry History Department Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand Phone: (04) 472 1000 x 8363 Fax: (04) 471 2070 E-mail: glyn.parry@rata.vuw.ac.nz Abstracts must be submitted no later than 1 February 1994, IN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT: ABSTRACT GUIDE TITLE (caps, centred) (space) AUTHOR(S) PERSONAL NAME AND FAMILY NAME (caps, centred) (space) AFFILIATION(S) (caps,centred) (space) Start text ... GUIDELINES 1. Paper size A4 2. Maximum length one page 3. 2.5cm margins 4. Single space typing 5. Use printing which photocopies distinctly (at least near-letter-quality) Provide full address, with fax number and E-mail address if available. From: Alan_Rudrum@sfu.ca (Alan Rudrum) Subject: The journal "Connotations" Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 10:23:57 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 265 (486) I should like to bring to the attention of list-members a fairly new journal called "Connotations" ed. by Prof. Dr. Inge Leimberg and others. Its editorial address is Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Department of English, Johannisstr. 12-20, 4400 Munster, Germany; Fax (251) 834827. An abbreviated version of information from the journal follows: Connotations wants to encourage scholarly communication in the field of English literature (from the Middle English period to the present), as well as American and Commonwealth Literature. It focuses on the semantic and stylistic energy of the language of literature in a historical perspective and aims to represent different approaches. Each issue consists of articles and a forum for discussion.... As a rule, articles should not exceed 12,000 words and follow the MLA Handbook (2nd or 3rd edition) with notes at the end of the text. Contributions to the forum should not exceed 4000 words. If possible, all contributions should be submitted on a 3.5" or 5.25" disk in Word Perfect or any other DOS word processing program, accompanied by a hard copy. Orders for subscriptions should be sent (in America) to Waxmann Publishing Co. P.O. Box 1318, New York, NY 10028. In the U.S. and all other countries except Germany subscriptions are $50 a year. Please cross-post. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Alan Rudrum, Dept of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 rudrum@sfu.ca Telephone (604) 263-7321(H); (604)291-3125(O) Fax (604) 291-5737 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall) Subject: Info on Timeline software for the Mac Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 16:17:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 266 (487) Thanks to Lynne Bolduc of MIT for the initial lead on this, and to a modestly intelligent AT+T operator for figuring out what I meant when I called directory assistance. A company called Tom Snyder Productions makes two products, MacTimeline and Chronos, that generate timelines. I'm told that since they specialize in K-12 Timeline might be too 'elementary' for Higher Ed, but that Chronos can do all sorts of things, such as attach sounds, graphics, etc. to the generated timeline. They have prices for lab packs ($209 and $499 for Timeline and Chronos respectively), site licenses, and reasonable single copy prices ($70 and $170) that can be applied to the lab packs or site licenses; reasonable, that is, if it's useful software. We'll see...They will ship 30-day approval copies via phone order. I've ordered up trial copies and will report back to Humanist with an evaluation since there was modest interest at my query. Sorry if this is redundant, I don't recall this coming up recently. Directory info: 617-926-6000 Tom Snyder Productions 80 Coolidge Hill Rd. Watertown MA 02172 - Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Wall * wall@cc.swarthmore.edu * Swarthmore College Humanities Coordinator * Swarthmore, PA 19081 * 215-328-8506 From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <U35395@UICVM> Subject: Re: 7.0260 Qs: Tag Terms Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 10:25:42 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 267 (488) On Thu, 21 Oct 1993 14:17:29 EDT, in Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0260. Thursday, 21 Oct 1993, Arjan Loeffen asked: [deleted quotation] Of course, any descriptive linguist will do well to be skeptical of native-speaker introspection, but for what it's worth, here is my mix of observation and introspection. In most usage I am familiar with, these terms refer to much the same thing, but there are, I think, differences of scope. An 'encoding scheme' is (at least as I understand and endeavor to use the term) any method of representing information of any kind in a specific given medium; the most common use is to refer to methods of representing text in electronic form. Encoding schemes for electronic text must determine at least: - how to represent each character of the text - how to represent (if at all) characteristic features of the source text such as quotation, language shifts, font shifts, font size, ... - whether and how to represent structural divisions of the text (e.g. book, chapter, verse, ...) - how to reduce the source to a single linear stream of bytes. This is fairly easy for conventional running text; it is harder for running titles (transcribe where?), catch-words, footnotes, end-notes, parallel texts printed in parallel columns, text-critical apparatus, and other common disturbances of linearity. - whether and how to represent analytic or interpretive information not present, or not explicitly present, in the source (e.g. morphological or syntactic analysis) - whether and how to represent ancillary information relevant to the use of the encoding (identity of the transcriber(s), source edition used, nature of the encoding, ...) The TEI, for example, answers these questions more or less as follows: - represent characters with their analogues in the local character set, or with SGML entity references - represent quotation, etc., with SGML tags; represent language shifts by changes in the LANG attribute. - represent structural divisions of the text with <div> or with <div1>, <div2>, ... <div7>, or with special-purpose elements for the appropriate divisions (<entry>, <termEntry>, <list>, ...) - transcribe running titles, catchwords, etc., in <skel> elements, or omit them; transcribe footnotes and endnotes either at the point of attachment or at their point of appearance, and link them to their target appropriately. And so on. Word Perfect also must answer all these questions, though the answers are more often 'omit the information' or 'make it look like it looks on the source page'. So must every piece of software that works with electronic text. Most encoding schemes choose to represent at least some information by means of 'markup', which is usually held to apply to everything not part of the character stream of the running text (a definition not without its problems, given the difficulty of defining the 'running text'!). Among other things, markup is what you see when you press the Reveal Codes key in Word Perfect. Often, the units of markup in an encoding scheme are referred to as 'tags', and the process of inserting them as 'tagging'. SGML elements are marked with 'tags' at their beginning and end; the Brown and LOB corpora use 'tags' to encode part-of-speech and morphological information, COCOA, OCP, and TACT use 'COCOA tags' to indicate where certain textual features change value, or begin or end. Thus, the extensions of the terms nest rather neatly, at least in some usages. A 'tag' is a unit of 'markup', and 'markup' is a tool of 'encoding'. N.B. tags are not necessarily the only kind of markup: no one refers to Word Perfect's proprietary markup as 'tags', and SGML defines other types of markup beyond tags: notably entity references and markup declarations. Similarly, not all encoding schemes use markup explicitly identifiable as markup: Project Gutenberg, for example, prides itself on having no markup in its texts. Since some authorities give 'markup' a broad sense which includes punctuation and the like, Project Gutenberg's claim to have markup-free texts is at best problematic. But no one disputes that their texts have a peculiarly impoverished markup, if any. So the three terms in the middle column are not mutually exclusive, but nested in their extensions. The left-hand terms, however, simply don't match: 'code' is not a general term for the units of encoding; although Word Perfect does use the term, any similarity between Word Perfect's 'codes' and the work of the Text Encoding Initiative is purely superficial. Nor is 'mark' used at all to denote the units of a markup language: for this denotation, 'tag' and 'code' are typically used instead, 'tag' almost universally, and 'code' somewhat less frequently. All this to be taken, as usual in cases of usage discussion, with a grain or two of salt. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen ACH / ACL / ALLC Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago u35395@uicvm.uic.edu / u35395@uicvm From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: black ox Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 20:02:29 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 317 (489) Since Archer Taylor discussed it, there is little reason to return to the black ox. I did find a nice note in Wander (Ochs, *350), where English, Dutch, German and Low German examples are given, and where Schleicher is quoted as giving the saying in Lithuanian. Wander also points out that the black ox is the devil. G. L. Apperson, English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (Black, 24), has a nice set of quotations, including Heywood (1546), Lyly, Jonson (Tale of a Tub), Swift, Scott (Nigel). Jim Marchand. From: Richard Tuerk <TUERK@ETSUACAD> Subject: Re: 7.0262 Used Books (1/71) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 15:28:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 318 (490) Frankly, my sympathies are with the students. New textbooks are extraordinarily expensive. I can't blame students for buying used books if they are even slightly cheaper than the new ones. I also cannot understand how the university bookstores get away with charging so much for used textbooks when they buy them back so cheaply from the students. By the way, as the parent of an undergraduate, I also am glad the used books are available. When my daughter tells me she bought a used textbook for only $40, I gulp, but I realize that a copy of a new textbook would cost more. Still, you do have what I consider to be two legitimate problems: a university bookstore that ignores your request for a particular edition of a textbook and misleads students into thinking that they have the right edition when they don't, and a bookstore that does not make new textbooks available for those students who want them and can afford them. Please, however, have pity on us poor parents and don't demand that your bookstore only stock new books or that it make available at least half of the books you order in the form of new textbooks. If anyone can figure out how to get a bookstore to order the exact edition the instructor wants, please let me know. RICHARD TUERK DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES EAST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY COMMERCE, TX 75429 TUERK@ETSUACAD TUERK@ETSUACAD.ETSU.EDU (903) 886-5266 From: rww@ibuki.com (Richard Weyhrauch) Subject: The price of Textbooks Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 11:37:14 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 319 (491) My mane is Richard Weyhrauch, president of IBUKI, a new publisher of electronic texts. As a startup in this area, let me tell you some of my experiences concerning selling books through college bookstores. 1) From the point of view of college bookstores, books come in two kinds: books adopted for courses; and, "trade" books. In fact most college bookstores are subtly divided into these two parts and there are usually different buyers for each type of book. The difference is this: books adopted for courses are the ones the professors require for courses. Thus the sale is "sure" ... thus the discount off list for such books is only 20%. The drive for used books in this area is the result of only giving a 20% discount for these types of books. It's easy to see why used books are attractive to bookstores. Even though the prices "may" be less they make more, because their cost is lower. This means that, for a publisher, the "lifetime" of a textbook is realistically only 3 years. After that almost all sales are of used copies. It makes publishing tough, but part of the fault in in the LOW discount for adopted courses. This situation is further encouraged by the existence of centralized clearing houses for used text books, so that it is not necessary that your school teaches from the same textbook next quarter or year, but simply that some shcool somewhere is. You create the supply of used books they need, they create the ones you need. It is further exaggerated by the fact that more than 50% of the college bookstores are owned by 4 companies, who use centralized purchasing. 2) trade books. These are the books not required for courses. For these books a publisher gives a 40% discount and the dymanics are different. This is the discount common for ordinary bookstores. 3) under ordinary circumstances, all bookstores can return unsold books to a publisher. In practice many bookstores do not pay until just before this return priviledge runs out and they return everything they haven't sold. This "service" is usually free except the bookstore must pay return shipping (and sometimes, but infrequently, a restocking charge) 4) we intend let people order our books over the internet, and possibly ignore the bookstores entirely. In this way we can pass some savings on to our customers. Richard Weyhrauch President, IBUKI rww@ibuki.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBUKI - Publisher of Scholarly Texts and Reference Works in electronic form 340 Second Street Phone: +1 (415) 961-4996 Los Altos, CA 94022 Fax: +1 (415) 961-8016 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: kudology Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 19:57:15 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 320 (492) In my fictitious (though not much so) case of the person who publishes, e.g. a concordance, using a text gotten by e-mail, with a concordance routine written by someone in the Computer Dept., etc. etc., I was not worried about the person who scanned/typed the original missing out on his kudo, I was concerned that the "author" was misappropriating. There are those in academe who do not have student help or assistants (I am one). Another concern is the lowly status of the "guru", who gets asked everything, but who gets little thanks or recognition for it. In fact, we ought to rethink the kudology of computer work, since people seem to want to be paid for their work. At my age, to put in a personal note, I do not have to worry about such things; it is not likely I would get a raise or a promotion. One does encounter people who can do little more than turn a computer on, but who boast of their computer work and expertise. What else is new? Jim Marchand. From: Cathy Ball <CBALL@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0263 R: Credit Where Credit is Due: Computer Work (1/59) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 18:06:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 321 (493) The recent discussion of apportioning kudos for a hypothetical concordance to the works of Thomas Mann raises a basic issue - why should *anyone* get kudos for a concordance in these days of e-text and freeware concordancers? In the 19th century, when it took Mary Cowden-Clarke 16 years to produce a concordance to Shakespeare, it was an incredible feat to produce a complete concordance, but now ...unless there's some scholarly added value that I'm missing ... -- Cathy Ball (cball@guvax.georgetown.edu) From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: PMC and GST Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 22:31:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 322 (494) First, does anyone on the list know whether Post Modern Culture is still reachable at the same address: listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu -------------------------------- Second, I find it strange that an american book publisher/distributer charges GST (General Sales Tax = Canadian tax) to its canadian customers. - Do they repay the amount to the Canadian Revenue Department? (I doubt it) - Are they legally entitled to do so? (I doubt it) - Do they make more profit by charging GST? (I am just asking) Did anyone on the list have the same experience? 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: "William Winder" <winder@unixg.ubc.ca> Subject: Computer lab design Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 20:31:07 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 323 (495) I have a question about computer lab design that I would like to put to the Humanist community. At UBC we are in the process of designing a lab and find that several incompatible layouts for the room are needed, or at least desirable. For example, sometimes we may wish to use the lab for drop-in and would need to pack as many machines as possible into the room; probably the best configuration for that use would be by rows. At other times we may wish to hold a class in the lab, and then the center of the room would have to be open and the machines arranged around the perimeter only, perhaps in clusters. Most labs I have seen have stations that are indeed stationary. Which generally means that the room layout is decided once and for all during construction. What I would like to know is whether anyone has ever seen a lab that is designed around less stationary stations. One could imagine a PC sitting on a cart, that could be wheeled anywhere. Portable computers are in some sense mobile workstations. But it would seem technically difficult to design a unit that could be easily attached to a power supply and to the Lan. I suppose cables could be combined and run to a single coupling, and a single cable could perhaps drop down from the ceiling for each machine. But it doesn't seem like one could ever design a system that would be simple enough to allow the room to be rearranged quickly, say in 30 min. between a class and a drop-in session. Plus there are all the problems associated with machines careening around the room, such as wear and tear on the mechanical parts. But perhaps someone could enlighten me: is there any way to design a workstation that is as mobile as an office chair on casters? Any remarks would be most welcome. -- William Winder: French, U. of British Columbia, WINDER@UNIXG.UBC.CA From: Antony Dugdale <antdugl@minerva.cis.yale.edu> Subject: Heidegger and Cyberspace Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 18:20:38 -0400 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 324 (496) Heidegger and Cyberspace I am currently working on a project that seeks to open a space within the Heideggerian vocabulary for a non-primitivist, non-technophobic perspective. I will be using cyberspace as a model for this movement through technology towards what I will construe as a utopic vision that is in accord with Heidegger's language of the "Holy", "Revelation/Manifestation" and "Being/Appearance". If anyone out there has any knowledge about literature that has philosophically addressed the phenonemon of cyberspace (I have Michael Benedikt's book _Cyberspace_), preferably within the perspective of Continental philosophy, could you please send me some information about it? You can send to the list or private email at: antdugl@minerva.cis.yale.edu Sincerely, Antony Dugdale Dep't of Religious Studies Yale University From: "William Winder" <winder@unixg.ubc.ca> Subject: Job announcements Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 20:30:42 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 270 (497) VACANCIES - FRENCH The Department of French of the University of British Columbia invites applications for 2 tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1st, 1994. First postion: Requirements: doctorate by September 30, 1994, in >the teaching of French as a second language<; experience in the development and co- ordination of French language courses at the post-secondary level, in teacher training and in CALL; research and publications in this area; excellent teaching evaluations; bilingual; or doctorate by September 30, 1994, in >French Stylistics<; research and publications in this area; demonstrated teaching ability in advanced language courses; bilingual. Second postion: Requirements: doctorate by September 30, 1994, in >francophone literature (outside France and Canada)<; research and publications in this area; secondary specialisation in 20th century poetry an advantage; demonstrated excellence in teaching both literature and French language; bilingual. Salary for both positions will be determined according to qualifications and experience. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Closing date for application is 1 December 1993 or later if position not filled. Send applications, including a C.V. and the names of at least three referees, to Valerie Raoul, Head, Department of French 797-1873 East Mall The University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Fax: (604) 822-6675 Tel.: (604) 822-2879 In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to citizens and permanent residents of Canada. U.B.C. welcomes all qualified applicants, especially women, aboriginal people, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities. Appointment may be considered at a higher rank for a woman with exceptional qualifications. -- William Winder: French, U. of British Columbia, WINDER@UNIXG.UBC.CA From: Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor <JVTAYLOR@macc.wisc.edu> Subject: request to post call for papers--thank you! Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 20:38 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 271 (498) ********************************************* * * * Call for Papers * * for the * * * * Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference * * on Netherlandic Studies * * * * June 1-5, 1994 * * Indiana University in Bloomington (USA) * * * ********************************************* The American Association for Netherlandic Studies (AANS) is pleased to announce that the Seventh Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies will take place June 1-5, 1994 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, USA. Our goal is once again the holding of a conference that is multidisciplinary in nature. Accordingly we are inviting proposals for papers in literature, language, art, history, culture, social sciences, and other related disciplines. Papers must be based on original, unpublished research and should be no longer than 20 minutes. Selected papers will be published in the series _Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies_. Please send the text of your proposed paper or a detailed abstract as soon as possible, but in no case later than November 15, 1993, to either of the following: Prof. William Z. Shetter Prof. Molly Faries Dept. of Germanic Studies Dept. of Art History Indiana University Indiana University Bloomington, UN 47405 Bloomington, UN 47405 USA USA Tel. (812) 855-1080 e-mail: shetter@ucs.indiana.edu In submitting papers or abstracts, please be sure to indicate your need of any special audiovisual equipment such as projectors. Contributors outside the United States are encouraged to forward submissions to us, and to seek funding from their local institutions, as soon as possible. __________________ submitted by ,==. Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor, Asst. Professor, Department of German /U | ("Department of Dutch and Deutsch"), 818 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr., /_ < University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. =" `g' FAX:(608) 262-7949 EMAIL:jvtaylor@macc.wisc.edu PHONE:(608) 262-2192 From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: pmc address Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 18:08 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 325 (499) To reach the editors of Postmodern Culture, send email to pmc@unity.ncsu.edu. The other pmc addresses now end @listserv.ncsu.edu. George Aichele From: John Merritt Unsworth <jmu2m@jefferson.village.virginia.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0269 Qs: PMC; GST; Lab Design; Heidegger/Cyberspace (3/93) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 15:01:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 326 (500) In answer to Michel Lenoble's question about PMC, the journal has moved its listserv operations from ncsuvm. The new address for listserv commands (sub, unsub, etc.) is listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu The listname, for listserv purposes, remains pmc-list, so you would subscribe yourself by mailing a message to listserv@listserv.ncsu.edu with the text: sub pmc-list [your name here] The email address for correspondence with the editors, submissions, etc., is: pmc@unity.ncsu.edu Finally, all published issues of pmc are available by anonymous ftp at ftp.ncsu.edu, and can be found in the directory pub/ncsu/pmc/pmc-list. John Unsworth Co-editor, PMC From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: concordance value Date: Sun, 24 Oct 93 17:47:54 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 327 (501) Judy and Cathy are both right, of course. I think it was Joseph Raben who said "The technology which gave us the concordance will make it obsolete," or words to that effect. I am not sure that etexts are all that easily come by, but I had a Middle High German text I wanted to use as illustration in a class last week. It took me two hours and seven minutes to scan in the 3500 or so lines of MHG, about 30 minutes for cleanup. I could then make a concordance using WordCruncher and show it to my class "online" as it were. I don't know how much further I would have to go for a publishable concordance, presumably a week-end's work, glossing and making bucs. Putting it into WordPerfect format and getting it camera-ready is a bagatelle. Unless I add some value, as Cathy said, I should get very little credit if I submit such a work as a part of my portfolio for promotion. Even if I had laboriously typed it in, I am not sure that that should count for promotion, since it involves no scholarly work. So much for concordances. But there are other uses of the computer for which one looks for credit out there in the world at large. I am not sure that academe has a good handle on kudology in general, but I know it does not for computer work. Jim Marchand. From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.D400.DE Subject: 7.0268 Rs: Computer Work Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 11:29+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 328 (502) Cathy Ball asks why _anyone_ should get the credit for a concordance in these days of e-texts and freeware concordancers. The answer is that even these days e-texts don't drop from heaven: they have to be prepared and their structure marked up, and that means hard work and the exercise of scholarly judgement (or at least that is what it _should_ mean). Deciding on the format of the concordance as well as on what to leave out is also a matter of scholarly judgement. That doesn't mean that _all_ concordances should get kudos. In that respect, they're just like monographs: some good, some bad, some mediocre. Timothy Reuter, MGH Munich From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: scholarship in concording Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 08:33:39 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 329 (503) In Humanist 7.268, Cathy Ball wanted to know why anyone should get kudos (which, by the way, is a singular noun, Greek, meaning "glory, fame, renoun") for producing a concordance. Much depends on the nature of the concordance. One can certainly imagine a concordance which to produce would require little scholarly intervention. To the degree the text would need to be prepared for concording, however, that intervention might well be an absolute necessity. William Ingram and Kathleen Swaim begin their introduction to _A Concordance to Milton's Emglish Poetry_ (Oxford, 1972) by saying, "By now we have all grown weary of being told how quickly and effortlessly concordances are produced by computer.... while it is true that the computer expanded the prepared text of Milton's English poetry into separate entries and arranged those entries in alphabetical order in a matter of minutes, it is equally true that the editorial preparation of the text, as the necessary preliminary to this dazzling preformance, took several years" (p. v). As in many things, "ars celare artem". Consider also that even if the text is well edited and ready to go, what we may wish to concord may not be the word-forms of the text itself, but meta-textual forms, such as lemmas. These may be simply grammatical lemmas (1st person singular, present indicative active forms of verbs, for example), but they may also be "conceptual lemmas". There may be a use for us scholars still! WM -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca From: Timothy.Reuter@MGH.BADW-MUENCHEN.D400.DE Subject: Lab design Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 11:34+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 330 (504) I've seen cableless connections for PCs (PC to screen and to other peripheries); and I actually have a cableless mouse on the PC on which I'm writing this. All work with infrared, as far as I know. Obviously you couldn't do power supply like that: but you could design the floor so that there were rows of plugs with cover flaps so that there was access to power from anywhere in the lab. Then all you'd need to do is put your equipment on trolleys (and of course, probably harder, make sure your network software is not hostile to the cableless connections!) Timothy Reuter MGH Munich From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0269 Qs: PMC; GST; Lab Design; Heidegger/Cyberspace (3/93) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 93 12:14:32 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 331 (505) Lab design. For classes I think the best design is in rows with all students facing the same way, and the capability of large-screen projection at the front of the room. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA> Subject: Call for Papers: Philosophical Perspectives on CMC Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 21:50:22 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 332 (506) Call for Papers: Philosophical Perspectives on CMC While CMC is the subject of a considerable body of literature within the domain of communications theory proper, relatively few theoreticians approach CMC from primarily _philosophical_ standpoints. For example, while numerous writers claim that CMC and hypertexts will "democratize" communication and the learning process, few have examined with care the specifically philosophical dimensions of such a claim -- e.g., the possible meanings of democratization, why one form of democratization should be prefered over other forms of social organization, whether the preference for democratization can be grounded in anything other than individual and cultural preferences, how democratized communication and education would fit within a larger ethical and political framework, etc. I am editing a collection of essays in which diverse authors bring philosophical perspectives to bear on CMC and its attendant issues, with the intention of providing new insight for both theoreticians in communications and CMC, as well as for philosophers interested in CMC, technology in general, and the philosophical issues these implicate. Essays already committed to the volume include the following topics: The role of imagination in the arts, how CMC may favor some styles of imagination over others, and the probable social and philosophical consequences of amplifying imagination via CMC. The application of Habermas' theory of communicative action to CMC design, with a view towards using CMC as a _praxis_ in which the theory may be tested. Gender and the ethics of CMC, especially in light of evidence that males and females tend towards different communication styles, and that "netiquette" may serve to reinforce male over female styles. The structures of philosophical thought and how these may be amplified and/or cancelled out by the interactions allowed in CMC and hypertexts. How CMC and electronic texts may encourage new forms of theft and plagiarism, and thereby transform our notions of intellectual property and texts. How electronic texts may redefine the notions of authors, textual authority, and textuality, especially as this relates to the importance of sacred texts in modern religions. Ethical considerations in communication, as these guide the design of a new CMC system -- and how these considerations will be reshaped in light of the actual behavior of users on the system. I would be interested in receiving abstracts for additional essays which share the same general structure -- i.e., of approaching CMC and related issues from a perspective or perspectives solidly grounded in one or more philosophical disciplines and/or viewpoints, intended to provide insight for both theoreticians in CMC and philosophers -- but which complement the essay topics already committed for the volume. Abstracts should describe the topic(s), philosophical and/or theological/religious studies perspectives, and probable positions and conclusions regarding CMC and/or one or more philosophical/theological/ religious studies to be discussed in the essay. As well, some indication of familiarity with the pertinent literatures would be helpful, perhaps in the form of a preliminary bibliography, etc. Abstracts should reach me by December 1, 1993 (either by regular post or e-mail -- see below). I will respond to the abstracts as quickly as possible, but no later than by January 30, 1994. Completed essays will be due in March/Aprin, 1994. Anyone interested in more information regarding the volume, possible essay topics, etc., should feel free to contact me at the following addresses. As well, HUMANISTS are encouraged to forward and/or post this message where it may be seen by interested parties. Thanks in advance -- Dr. Charles Ess Internet:dru001d@vma.smsu.edu Philosophy and Religion Department BITNET:dru001d@smsvma Drury College Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA Fax: 417-873-7435 From: srp@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: CFP: Cantigas de Santa Maria Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 18:27:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 333 (507) COBRAS E SOM A COLLOQUIUM ON THE TEXT, MUSIC AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARIA JULY 8-9, 1994 SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, OXFORD Organiser: Stephen Parkinson, Taylor Institution, Oxford University Participants include: Martha Schaffer, University of California at San Francisco, David Wulstan, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Lisbon, Synfonye, directed by Stevie Wishart. Papers are invited on all aspects of the analysis and edition of the texts and music of the cantigas, including issues of manuscript tradition, manuscript organisation and authorship. Purely literary, historical or iconographical papers are excluded. The deadline for receipt of proposals and abstracts is 28 February 1994. All enquiries to: Dr S. Parkinson Cantigas Colloquium 47 Wellington Square Oxford tel 0865-270496/7 fax 0865 270757 email stephen.parkinson@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk From: koehler@ldv01.Uni-Trier.DE (Prof. Dr. Koehler) Subject: Dateitransfer Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 16:01:55 +0100 (MEZ) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 334 (508) 1st Announcement and Call for Papers Gesellschaft fuer Klassifikation e.V., 18th Annual Conference, University of Olenburg, March 9-11, 1994 Section "Data analysis in linguistics and computational linguistics" Topics of interest for papers comprise all problems of measurement, analysis, interpretation and classification of linguistic data, epistemological and methodological issues of defining linguistics units, operationalizition of theoretical concepts and empirical testing of linguistic hypotheses. For further information please contact: Universitaet Trier FB II, LDV/CL Peter Schmidt D-54286 Trier, Germany Phone: +49-651-201-2252 Fax: +49-651-201-3946 e-mail: pschmidt@ldv01.Uni-Trier.de From: "Joan B. Fiscella" <U46028@UICVM> Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 15:47:56 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 335 (509) This notice is being cross-posted to HUMANIST and to INTERDIS; please excuse the duplication. 16th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ASSOCIATION FOR INTEGRATIVE STUDIES Sponsored by Duquesne University Hyatt Regency, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 29-October 2, 1994 Beyond Babel How does interdisciplinarity encourage learning, communication, and understanding? How can the academician engage in conversation with the broader public? How can boundaries, both internal and peripheral, be bridged in order to link scholars, professionals, and the public? We invite your responses to this theme and its variations, including, for example: * Making Connections: General Education and the Professional School Curriculum * Interdisciplinary Studies for Non-traditional Students * The Lifelong Learner as Interdisciplinarian * Integrative Perspectives in Professional Practice * High Art and Popular Culture, an Integrative Relationship * Integrative Approaches to the Health Care Crisis * Who is "the Public" in Public Policy? * Integrative Roles: Academic Scholar, Public Intellectual * School-College Partnerships While formal presentations are invited, the conference organizers will also welcome formats that encourage audience participation (poster sessions, panels, round tables, and so forth). We extend a special invitation to students to submit proposals and to attend. Please send the title and a detailed summary of your proposal, along with your name(s), title(s), address(es), and telephone and fax numbers, and specify the length of your presentation and any anticipated AV needs. PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED OR FAXED BY APRIL 4, 1994 TO: Constance Ramirez Assistant V.P. for University Programs Duquesne University 314 Administration Bldg. Pittsburgh, PA. 15282-0203 INTERNET: RAMIREZ@DUQ2.CC.DUQ.EDU PHONE: 412-396-6393 FAX: 412-396-6577 From: The Centre for Lexical Information <CELEX@MPI.NL> Subject: CELEX lexical data on CD-ROM Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 17:28 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 274 (510) Dear Madam or Sir, This message is posted to announce the release of a CD-ROM with lexical data by the Dutch Centre for Lexical Information in collaboration with the Linguistic Data Consortium in the USA. This CD-ROM, which contains the CELEX lexical databases of English (version 2.5), Dutch (version 3.1) and German (version 2.0), is now available for research purposes from the Linguistic Data Consortium for $150. For each language, the CD-ROM contains detailed information on the orthography (variations in spelling, hyphenation), the phonology (phonetic transcriptions, variations in pronunciation, syllable structure, primary stress), the morphology (derivational and compositional structure, inflectional paradigms), the syntax (word class, word-class specific subcategorisations, argument structures), and word frequency (summed word and lemma counts, based on recent and representative text corpora) of both wordforms and lemmas (English: 52446 lemmas, 160594 wordforms; German: 50708 lemmas, 359611 wordforms; Dutch: 124136 lemmas, 381292 wordforms). Postscript files describe the available lexical information in detail. The original Celex databases can be consulted interactively either by using the SQL*PLUS query language within an ORACLE RDBMS environment, or by means of the specially designed user interface FLEX. The databases on this CD-ROM have not been tailored to fit any particular database management program. Instead, the information is presented in a series of plain ASCII files in a UNIX directory tree that can be queried with tools such as AWK or ICON. Unique identity numbers allow the linking of information from different files. As in the original databases, some kinds of information have to be computed on-line. Wherever necessary, AWK functions have been provided to recover this information. README files specify the details of their use. The CD-ROM is mastered using the ISO 9660 data format, with the Rock Ridge extensions, allowing it to be used in VMS, MS-DOS, Macintosh (*) and UNIX environments. Anyone who would like to purchase the CD-ROM should send a check or purchase order made payable to the "Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania" to Judith Storniolo Administrative Assistant, LDC Linguistic Data Consortium 441 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 storniol@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +1/215/898-0464 Fax: +1/215/573-2175 (*) If someone has a Mac with a cdrom drive that was obtained before 12/92, and has not installed any system upgrades since that date, then that system will not be able to read the CELEX CD-ROM. In such a case, all that is needed is to obtain the upgraded driver software (a very small amount of code), and copy it onto the system in place of the existing driver. The upgrade can be obtained as follows: Connect to ftp server: ftp.apple.com Go to directory: dts/mac/sys.soft/cdrom Get file: cd-rom-setup A brief overview of the English data on this CD is given below: THE ENGLISH DATABASE When starting to use the English database, the user first has to choose between two so-called `lexicon types': - a lemma lexicon - a wordform lexicon Each lexicon type uses a specific kind of entry. The CELEX lemma lexicon is the one most similar to an ordinary dictionary since every entry in this lexicon represents a set of related inflected words. In a lexicon, a lemma can be represented by using a headword (cf. traditional dictionary entries) such as, for example, `call' or `cat'. The wordform lexicon yields all possible inflected words: every entry in the lexicon is an inflectional variant of the related headword or stem. So, a wordform lexicon contains words like `call', `calls', `calling', `called', `cat', `cats' and so on. For both types of lexicons, the user may subsequently select any number of columns -- from approximately 150 database columns -- combining information on the orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and frequency of the entries. The information sheet `Lexical Data, English' summarizes the types of information available. An exhaustive overview of the columns available is given in the CELEX User Guide. LEXICAL DATA, ENGLISH The lexical data that can be selected for each entry in the different English lexicon types can be divided into five categories: orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and frequency. In a separate section, example data are given for each of these categories. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Orthography - with or without diacritics (spelling) - with or without word division positions - alternative spellings - number of letters/syllables Phonology - phonetic transcriptions (using SAMPA notation or (pronunciation) Computer Phonetic Alphabet (CPA) notation) with: - syllable boundaries - primary and secondary stress markers - consonant-vowel patterns - number of phonemes/syllables - alternative pronunciations Morphology - Derivational/compositional: (word structure) - division into stems and affixes - flat or hierarchical representations - Inflectional: - stems and their inflections Syntax - word class (grammar) - subcategorisations per word class Frequency - COBUILD frequency(*) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (*)These frequency data are based on the COBUILD corpus (sized 18 million words) built up by the University of Birmingham, Great Britain. EXAMPLE DATA, ENGLISH An arbitrary query using a small English lemma lexicon (that is, one with very few columns) might yield the following result: ----------------------------------------------------------- Headword Pronunciation Morphology: M: Cl Freq Structure Cl ----------- ---------------- ------------------- -- -- ---- celebrant "sE-lI-br@nt ((celebrate),(ant)) Vx N 6 celebration %sE-lI-"breI-Sn, ((celebrate),(ion)) Vx N 201 cell "sEl (cell) N N 1210 cellar "sE-l@r* (cellar) N N 228 cellarage "sE-l@-rIdZ ((cellar),(age)) Nx N 0 cellist "tSE-lIst ((cello),(ist)) Nx N 5 cello "tSE-l@U (cello) N N 25 cellular "sEl-jU-l@r* ((cell),(ular)) Nx A 21 celluloid "sEl-jU-lOId ((cellulose),(oid)) Nx N 29 ----------------------------------------------------------- An example selection from a small English wordform lexicon, showing the inflectional variants of the headwords given in the previous example, is presented in the next table: ----------------------------------------------------------- Word Word division Pronunciation Cl Type Freq ------------ --------------- ----------------- -- ---- ---- celebrant cel-e-brant "sE-lI-br@nt N sing 2 celebrants cel-e-brants "sE-lI-br@nts N plu 4 celebration cel-e-bra-tion %sE-lI-"breI-Sn, N sing 144 celebrations cel-e-bra-tions %sE-lI-"breI-Sn,z N plu 57 cell cell "sEl N sing 655 cells cells "sElz N plu 555 cellar cel-lar "sE-l@r* N sing 187 cellars cel-lars "sE-l@z N plu 41 cellarage cel-lar-age "sE-l@-rIdZ N sing 0 cellarages cel-lar-ag-es "sE-l@-rI-dZIz N plu 0 cellist cel-list "tSE-lIst N sing 5 cellists cel-lists "tSE-lIsts N plu 0 cello cel-lo "tSE-l@U N sing 24 cellos cel-los "tSE-l@Uz N plu 1 cellular cel-lu-lar "sEl-jU-l@r* A pos 21 celluloid cel-lu-loid "sEl-jU-lOId N sing 29 ----------------------------------------------------------- With best regards, Richard Piepenbrock CELEX Project Manager C C -- C E L E X -- C C C C Max-Planck-Institut fuer Psycholinguistik C CCCCCC Wundtlaan 1 C CCCCCCCCCCCCC 6525 XD NIJMEGEN C C C CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The Netherlands CCCCCCCCCC CC C CCCCCCCC CCCCCCCC Tel: (+31) (0)80 - 615797 CCCCCCCC Fax: (+31) (0)80 - 521213 CCCCCCCC CCCCCCCC EARN/BITNET: celex@hnympi51 CCCCCCCC Internet: celex@mpi.nl CCCCCCCC SURFNET: celex::celexmail CCCCCCCC JANET: celex%hnympi51@uk.ac.earn-relay CCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCC From: Christian.Bauer@uibk.ac.at Subject: Virtual Reality Vienna '93 - Agenda Date: 28 Oct 93 12:17:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 275 (511) Dear interested fellows, this is the last update of our pre-agenda. So enjoy reading and be there! Yours, Christian Bauer ---------------- ***************************************************************** * * * Pre-Agenda * * * * Virtual Reality Vienna 1993 * * --------------------------- * * * * The Global VR-Focus in Europe * * 1st to 3rd of December 1993 * * Palais Ferstl Vienna / Austria * * * ***************************************************************** Simulation in Progress ---------------------- The cutting-edge in simulation technologies and the continuous development in Computer Science led towards a new and fascinating field: "Virtual Reality". The symposium offers the opportunity to attend discussions and present and respond to presentations and papers about Virtual Reality (VR) and closely related fields. Participants will also have the opportunity to test VR-Systems, exhibited in an industry showcase. Special topics featuring Asian and European VR-research and development as well as academic- and industry-activities make VRV 1993 a unique possibility of information exchange. 1. General Remarks ------------------- * Conference languages are English and German, simultaneous translation services will be offered in all presentations. * Workshops and exhibits are not included in this pre-agenda. We will follow up with this information later, several exciting demonstrations are under final preparation like a MARS- WALKTHROUGH of NASA / Xtensory, "life" interactive VR-links and others. * On request we offer a detailed description of each speech in English and German. 2. The "Virtual Polis" ----------------------- We have the honour to cooperate with Prof.Carl Eugene Loeffler. He is Project Director for Telecommunications and Virtual Reality at Carnegie Mellon University and is working on a project called "Virtual Polis". Overview: The virtual polis or city is an actual three dimensional city, inhabited by a multitude of participants, each with their own purposes. Tele-existence is an essential aspect. Imagine a virtual city complete with private spaces or domiciles, parks, stores, entertainment centers. As much as a grand social experiment, it also is a far reaching graphical user interface (GUI) for electronic home shopping and entertainment. The salient points of the virtual city include: ~ a distributed, three dimensional inhabitable environment ~ investigation of tele-existence in a distributed virtual construct ~ capability of supporting potentially unlimited participants ~ private spaces, property and moral code ~ exploration of tools to alter the environment, while inhabiting it ~ interface (GUI) for home shopping and entertainment The idea of a distributed application based on the notion of an inhabited city, is fascinating. Traversing the city and encountering other inhabitants will be a startling experience. VRV '93: The premier and first presentation to the public of the ~Virtual Polis~ prototype will be presented at Virtual Reality Vienna-93. People from three different locations, including Pittsburgh in the USA, Tokyo in Japan and the VRV '93 location Palais Ferstel in Vienna, Austria will be inhabitants of a virtual city, as a dynamic example of networked Virtual Reality. They explore a city that is sound intensive, inclusive of high-rise buildings, private domiciles and a park. Tele-existence is an essential aspect. This new way of meeting and interacting is possible through Virtual Reality (VR) and new telecommunications technologies, developed at Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh, USA. Date and time: December 1, 1993, starting at 15:00 EMT 3. Preliminary Agenda ---------------------- 3.1. The Day Before, November 30, 1993, Tuesday ------------------------------------------------ * Press conference * Dinner with Speakers 3.2. First Day, December 1, 1993, Wednesday ------------------------------------------- 3.2.1. Morning Session ----------------------- Working Pool VRV'93 Vienna, Austria "About the VRV '93" Introduction 20 Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research Vienna, Austria "Official Opening of the VRV '93" Politics, Austria, Education 20 Linda Jacobson Wordswork San Francisco, USA "An Introduction to VR" Introduction, History, Sociology 45 Scott Fisher, Ph.D. Telepresence Research USA "Building Virtual Worlds: An Overview of Current Applications." Application, Industry 60 Lew Hitchner, Ph.D. Xtensory Inc. Scotts Valley, USA "Virtual Planetary Exploration - Walking on Mars" Fundamental Research, Application 60 Etsuroh Kitauchi Dentsu Inc. Chubu Nagoya, Japan "The VR EXPO - Organizing the Biggest Japanese VR-Fair" Application, Industry 30 Etsuroh Kitauchi Dentsu Inc. Chubu Nagoya, Japan "The VR Techno Center - A New Industrial VR-Consortium in Japan" Application, Industry 20 3.2.2. Afternoon Session ------------------------ FOCUS ON VR AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Univ.Prof.Dr.Robert Trappl University of Vienna Vienna, Austria "The Role of Artificial Intelligence in VR" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, AI 45 Dr. Yong Cao + Prof. Dr. Ipke Wachsmuth University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Technology Bielefeld, Germany "Situated Space Agent for 3D Graphics Design" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, AI 30 ******************************************** * * * Special Feature starting at 3 p.m.: * * * * "VIRTUAL POLIS" * * * * presented by * * * * Prof. Carl Eugene Loeffler * * * ******************************************** FOCUS ON HYPERTEXT / HYPERMEDIA: Dipl.Ing. Andreas Dieberger + Mag. Jolanda Tromp Technical University of Vienna, Dept. for Design and Assesment of Technology + University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Psychology Vienna, Austria + Amsterdam, Netherlands "VR User Interface for Collaborative Navigation in Hypertexts" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Collaborative Navigation 30 Keith Andrews, M.S. University of Technology at Graz Graz, Austria "Constructing Cyberspace: VR and Hypermedia" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Hypermedia 30 Industry-Presentation: Richard Huddy Canon Research Center Europe Surrey, England "Meeting the Performance Criterea of VR" Application, Industry 30 Diego Montefusco University of Milan Milan, Italy "Virtual Worlds in Italy: An Overview" Application, Industry 30 3.2.3. Night Session --------------------- * Panel Discussion on TV (Club 2 in ORF, ev.CNN) "VR as a new Technology - How will it change your life?" * Formal Dinner - with all Speakers, Exhibitors and VIPs * Vienna Sightseeing 3.3. Second Day, December 2, 1993 Thursday --------------------------------------------- 3.3.1. Morning Session ----------------------- Prof. Carl Eugene Loeffler Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA "Inhabiting the Domain: Distributed Virtual Reality" Fundamental Research, Academic, Application, Distributed VR 60 FOCUS ON VIRTUALITY AND EDUCATION: Mag. Wolfgang Schinagl Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Graz, Austria "The Interactive Information Center - A New Way in Education and Teaching" Education 30 Morten Soby, M.S. University of Oslo Oslo, Norway "Possessed by VR" Fundamental Research, Academic 30 Ola Odegard Norwegian Telecom Reasearch Oslo, Norway "Terminals and Applications in Education and Work" Fundamental Research, Education, Application, Industry 30 3.3.2. Afternoon Session FOCUS ON VR AND 3D USER INTERFACES: Dipl.Ing. Klaus Boehm + Dipl.Ing. Michael Sokolewicz Fraunhofer Institute, Computer Graphics Center Darmstadt, Germany "GIVEN++ - A Toolkit for Advanced 3D User Interface Construction" Fundamental Research, Application, Toolkit, HCI 30 Mag. Sabine Musil + D.I. Georg Pigel University of Vienna, Vienna User Interface Group Vienna, Austria "Virgets: Elements for Building 3D User Interfaces" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI 30 D.I. M.Rauterberg + M.Kuehni + E.Styger + D.WI. K.Szabo Multimedia Lab (University of Zuerich) + Usability Lab (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zuerich, Switzerland "2 1/2 D vs. 3D - A Classification Concept and an Experimental Comparison" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Experiment 30 FOCUS ON VR AND MEDICINE: Col.Dr. Richard Satava US Army Washington DC, USA "Teleprecence and VR - A Framework for Surgery in the 21st Century" Fundamental Research, Concptual, Medicine, Application, Industry 60 Dr. Duane Boman Stanford Research Institute Stanford, USA VEDA: Virtual Environment Design Applications Fundamental Research, Industry, Application, Medicine 60 Zhaowei Jiang, Ph.D. Wayne State University, Dept. of Computer Science + Dept. of Neurological Surgery Wayne, USA "VR and Tele-Presence Nerro Surgery - Basic Theory and a Prototype" Fundamental Research, Application, Medicine 45 Dr. Rudolf Morawetz University Clinic for Anaestesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Innsbruck, Austria "The Olfactory Dimension - The Forgotten Part of the Virtual World?" Fundamental Research, Academic 45 3.3.3. Night Session --------------------- * Panel-Discussion "VR in Japan and the USA - Two Different Approaches" * Reading: "Street Tech" - a new book of Linda Jacobson * Vienna Sightseeing 3.4. Third Day, December 3, 1993, Friday ------------------------------------------- 3.4.1. Morning Session ----------------------- Dr. Robert Jacobson Worlddesign Inc. Seattle, USA "Through the Looking Glass - The Virtual Worlds Industry in 2010, a Prospective Retrospective" Fundamental Research, Theory 60 Dr. Werner Kuhn + Dr. Andrew U. Frank Technical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria "Virtual and Real Spaces: The Synergy between VR and Geographic Information Systems" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, GIS 30 Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria "The Ars Electronica Center" Science, Education, Entertainment, Industry 60 3.4.2. Evening Session ----------------------- Carolina Cruz-Neira, M.S. University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic Visualization Lab Chicago, USA "The Cave Automatic Environment" Fundamental Research, Academic, HCI, Application, Visualization 45 Florian Brody + Dr.Peter Gathmann Consultant for New Media + Vienna Medical School, Dept. for Psychosomatics Los Angeles, USA + Vienna, Austria "Psychopathology of Virtual Worlds" Phsychology, Sociology, History 45 Paco Xander Nathan Writer Austin, USA "Practical Cybernetic Environs" Sociology, Homebrew, Street-Tech 30 3.4.3. Night Session -------------------- * Panel-Discussions "Hype in VR - What possibilities do we have to avoid that?" "Results and Comments on the VRV'93" * Partying till the morning... * Vienna Sightseeing --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chair ----- * IDG-International Data Group World's leading company of information for success with information technology, offices in > 50 countries worldwide. Dr. Manfred Weiss, Gen.Manager, IDG Austria * ICON - Int.Comm.Network Christian Klezl Initiator --------- * Christian Bauer & Freunde Christian Bauer Organizing Committee -------------------- * Worlddesign Dr. Robert Jacobson 128 NW 56th. Street Seattle, WA 98107 USA * Wordswork Linda Jacobson Box 31263 San Francisco, CA 94131 USA * Dentsu Inc. Chubu, Project Planning and Development Dept. Etsuroh Kitauchi 4-16-36 Sakae Naka-ku, Nagoya 460 Japan * JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization Yoshiyasu Imazu Mariahilferstr. 41-43 / 3 1060 Wien Austria * Systems Education Centre Pte Ltd. David Ong 12th Floor WTC Convention Centre, World Trade Centre 1 Maritime Square Singapore 0409 * University of Oslo, The Faculty of Social Science Morten Soby Helga Engs Building, 4th Floor, Room 414 P.O. Box 1092 Blindern N-0317 Oslo Norway * Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for Economic Reasearch Mag. Wolfgang Schinagl Mozartgasse 14 8010 Graz Austria * Ars Electronica Center - Austrian Broadcasting Corp. (ORF) Dr. Hannes Leopoldseder Franckstrasse 2a 4010 Linz Austria * University Clinic for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Dr. Rudolf F. Morawetz Anichstrasse 35 6020 Innsbruck Austria Location -------- Vienna is the capital city of Austria. It is a beautiful and friendly city, located in the very center of Europe. Vienna is well known as a place for international fairs and exhibitions, but also for its cultural riches and its unique, relaxed atmosphere. The symposium will be held in the center of the 1,5 Mio city. The Palais Ferstl, an old castle in Vienna's first district, is located right in the central heart of Vienna. Accommodation and Travel ----------------------- Rooms in Vienna vary from US $65 to $400. Accommodation can be easily booked through IDG (see below). Fees & Grants ------------- Full conference fee (incl.lunch & beverages, social programm, exhibits and all sessions) ATS 12.980,- Special Fare (Academic personal of schools and universities, "early bird" for registration till Sept. 1, 1993, member of special institutions, second attendant of the same company) ATS 9.990,- Student Fare (limited amount of reduced full registrations, only for students with recommendation by university teachers) ATS 2.980,- Visitor to the Exhibition ATS 240,- Remark: UDS 1,- equals approx. ATS 12,- Registration & Information -------------------------- Telephone and Fax: Dr. Manfred Weiss IDG Communications GMBH Zieglergasse 6 A-1070 Vienna Austria / Europe Tel +43 / 1 / 523 05 08 - 0 Fax +43 / 1 / 523 05 08 - 33 or with email: ICON Int.Comm.Network Christian Klezl Gobergasse 34 / 13 A-1130 Vienna Austria / Europe e-mail: 100276.1277@compuserve.com From: NADELHFT@MAINE Subject: LEOPARD MAN SOCIETIES Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 10:12:02 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 336 (512) I would appreciate a few book or article references describing and analyszing African leopard man societies. Jerome Nadelhaft History Department University of Maine Nadelhft@Maine From: petersen@epas.utoronto.ca (Eric Petersen) Subject: Urban literature Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:15:46 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 337 (513) I am seeking information on literary journals dedicated to the study of urban/city literature, whether printed journals or electronic. So far I have not been able to find any journals this specific, though I imagine one exists. Otherwise, I would appreciate information on journals that often carry articles on poets such as Paul Blackburn, Frank O'Hara, Philip Levine, Charles Reznikoff, etc. I have been reading _Literature and the Urban Experience_, _The Poet and the City_ and _The Poet in the City_, so I have a fair idea on work done on city poet through say 1950, but I am more interested in seeing what work is being done on contemporary city poets. Thank you. Eric Petersen University of Toronto petersen@epas.utoronto.ca From: "Mary Dee Harris, Language Technology" <MDHARRIS@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Animation software Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 21:48:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 338 (514) I'm interesting in animation software for the PC (or Mac) that I could use to develop my own animated programs. Can anyone help? I haven't a clue of where to start. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 202/387-0626 (voice) Language Technology, Inc. 202/387-0625 (FAX) 2153 California St. NW mdharris@guvax.georgetown.edu Washington, DC 20008 mdharris@guvax.bitnet From: S50786@BC750 Subject: Query on John Richardson Date: Thu, 28 Oct 93 09:20 +08:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 339 (515) I am looking for any biographical information about a scholar by the name of John Richardson, an Englishman who has the distinction of being the first person to translate the writings of Immanuel Kant into English. In 1798 and 1799 his two volume work, _Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, Religious and Various Philosophical Subjects_ was published in London by William Richardson. This virtually unknown book contains English translations of _nineteen_ of Kant's books and essays. It was never reprinted and is rarely cited in the literature. When it is cited, the translator is identified wrongly as often as rightly, because his name does not appear on the title page (or anywhere else in the book). Instead, the title page says "translated by the translator of _Principles of Critical Philosophy". The latter book was written by Kant's disciple, J.S. Beck, and was published in 1798 in an English translation (_not_ anonymous) by John Richardson. The new Cambridge Edition of Kant's Works has recently published a volume on Kant's early theoretical writings, in which _J.S. Beck_ is consistently (and wrongly!) named as the translator of _Essays and Treatises_. John Richardson's other translation of Kant's writings was published in 1736, and consisted of Kant's _Logic_ and his _Prolegomena_. The style of translation and commentary is unmistakeably consistent with that of the earlier translation of 1798-99. I am currently editing four of the essays in _Essays and Treatises_ for republication. These four essays have never to my knowledge appeared in print in English since 1799. In my editor's Introduction I would like to give some description of who the "mystery translator" of this book actually was. But from Hong Kong I am finding it very difficult to locate any sources that might contain any clues. All I have been able to discover is that (1) there have been quite a few famous people named John Richardson over the past few centuries; and (2) a priest living in London wrote an autobiography entitled _Recollections_, which was published in 1856. This date would fit nicely with the John Richardson I'm interested in. And his two translations of Kant were both published in London. (If he was an intelligent youth he might have published his first translation in 1798 at, say, age 23; he would then have been at the ripe old age of 81 when his autobiography was published.) But beyond what I have described above, I know nothing about this man. If any members of Humanist know anything or can discover anything about this scholar's life, I would be most appreciative! In addition, I would like to hear from anyone who: - has access to, or knows of a library that holds, a copy of _Essays and Treatises_ (I've only ever seen two copies, both in Oxford libraries); - has access to, or knows of a library that holds, a copy of an autobiography entitled _Recollections_ by a priest named John Richardson (I've never seen a copy of this book, and my librarian could not locate it on her inter-library loan system; I've only seen it referred to in a reference book listing all autobiographies ever published in Britain); - knows who William Richardson (publisher of _E&T_) was and/or how (if at all ) he was related to John Richardson; - knows or has ideas about how to find any other facts about John Richardson's life. Your assistance may save me the trouble (and my college the expense of paying for) a trip to London! Stephen Palmquist S50786@bc750.BITNET From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Aguirre: The Wrath of God Date: 29 Oct 1993 15:59:23 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 340 (516) I am involved in a project that concerns Werner Herzog's movie 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' which featured among others Klaus Kinsky as a Spanish adventurer. I would greatly appreciate any book titles, journal article references, citations of critical reviews, collections of critical essays, etc. which anyone may have at hand and could send along to me. Thanks for any help provided. James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: TFGREEN@SUVM Subject: CDROM, OED, Lidell and Scott etc. Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 10:18:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 341 (517) I have noted comment from time to time concerning the availability of OED on CD, and I use it. Is it possible to secure Lidell and Scott on CD? What is the status of that effort? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + THOMAS F. GREEN (TFGREEN@SUVM.BITNET) + + EMERITUS FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY + + PHILOSOPHER IN RESIDENCE ON POMPEY HILL + + Box 100 Pompey, NY 13138 (315) 677-9935 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: waltu@theol.unizh.ch (Dr. Marianne Wallach) Subject: Q: Keyboarding firms Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 09:39:29 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 342 (518) Can anyone give me adresses of keyboarding firms (off-shore keyboarding) for ent ry of a large amount of text? Thanks! Marianne From: POOS@CUA.BITNET Subject: Position announcement Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 23:51:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 277 (519) Due to the rather late authorization for this position, I hope it will be appropriate to post this announcement to subscribers of HUMANIST:- MEDIEVAL HISTORY:- The Catholic University of America invites applications from historians of any area of Medieval Europe (excluding the British Isles) for an appointment as a tenure- track Assistant Professor. Successful applicant must have Ph.D. in hand and should have publications and teaching experience. Search committee intends to conduct interviews at AHA convention. Send letter of application, _curriculum vitae_, and three letters of recommendation, preferably by 15 December, to Professor L.R. Poos, Chair of Medieval Search Committee, Department of History, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064. AA/EOE. Larry Poos POOS@CUA.EDU From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Subject: Re: 7.0267 R: Tag Terms Definitions (1/106) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 16:53:25 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 278 (520) Regarding this query: [deleted quotation] While I found Michael Sperberg-McQueen's response highly useful as always, there is one point that I wanted to elaborate on a little. As editor of a book with "Coding" in its title (Talking Data: Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research, 1993, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum) - I wanted to note that "code" is indeed widely used, but distributed across different disciplines, and largely synonymous with "tag." There are probably historical reasons for this, and I know of no substantive consequences. Where "codes" is used, the process of adding them to a text is called "coding the text" rather than "text encoding." Here again I think that it is a matter of disciplinary differences, since "coding" has a different specialized sense among computer scientists (i.e., that of writing programs or lines of code) than it has among linguists and psychologists. At an abstract level, whether called markup, coding or tagging, the goal is the same: the quest is for precision and uniform treatment of the contents of the text. So it seems to me that the original writer is probably safest to simply choose whichever term is the one in vogue in his particular discipline and to demonstrate it with example for readers from other disciplines. In closing, for interest's sake, I wanted to elaborate a bit more on codes. They may be of any of various levels of abstraction or specificity and are typically defined both verbally and by example. They are typically contrasted with other categories in the same domain and then illustrated by core and boundary examples (to bracket the concept). The following are a couple of examples from different domains or levels of abstraction. More details would be needed for them to be fully specified for actual use, and would be found in the full documentation of the coding system. Code Category Category Definition Example D Directive or An action is required or Can I have some of that? Positive Request requested of the hearer, involving goods or services. These may have similar surface forms to codes of Topic 10, but unlike that Topic, the focus here is who is going to act. If it is the addressee, it is a directive. Category: Clause Definition: ... any unit that contains a "unified" predicate. By "unified," we mean a predicate that expresses a SINGLE situation (activity, event, state). Predicates include finite and nonfinite verbs, as well as predicate adjectives. [etc.] Single Clause example: "He stopped running" Two Clause example: "He thought he could get the bees." Code Category N Noun P Preposition T Particle etc. In practice, it is common to have multiple researchers assign the codes to the text and to double-check the reliability of their assignments (methods and statistics are discussed in a chapter by Lampert & Ervin-Tripp). Hope this helps, -Jane Edwards From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall) Subject: Q: Quality and Evaluation Process, Humanities Software Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 16:12:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 279 (521) This query is directed to anyone who has selected and used software for use in humanities courses, or anyone who had had a stab at developing your own -- whether a simple Hypercard stack or a complicated multimedia project. For a term project in one of my grad school classes, I'm trying to develop a set of testing and evaluation criteria appropriate to software for humanities disciplines in higher ed. If this seems a little broad, it's because the field is not well-covered by the computing "industry" literature on the subject. The types of thing humanists are interested in tend to get lumped into "subjective" evaluation criteria according to the conventional wisdom, from which few good generalizations are made. What I'm looking to develop for this project is a reasonable set of guidelines that will be *useful* in planning, developing, testing, and evaluating software that's specifically intended for use in undergraduate humanities courses. Part of this is adapting general principles, but the more important part is getting "expert" advice on what's important and what isn't. Consequently, I'm asking for *your* help in developing these guidelines. (I will be combining these responses with other research.) Ha ha! Sounds hard! you say. Not really. I have a fairly simple, open-ended questionnaire (following), which I am NOT going to scientifically analyze (this is not anything like a thesis) but which I feel is essential for getting a broad set of responses about things which you do (or do not) care about in your software. I'm just asking for your personal experience; anything you want to add above and beyond the questions, great! Unique answers will be as valued as ones which are common. Please answer any or all of the questions below, by sending me email (wall@cc.swarthmore.edu). If you'd like a copy of the final paper, please let me know, and I can email it back to you. This won't be a magnum opus, I can assure you, but I appreciate any help you have to offer and will try to make the final project useful in some way. Again, I'm just interested in your personal reactions. (the funny delimiters will be useful to me in analyzing your responses, but if you can't include them in a reply, no problem. Thanks.) - Matt Wall wall@cc.swarthmore.edu ------- 0. Definition (feel free to skip this one if you have nothing to say). Is there any characteristic or set of characteristics you feel could be used to "define" humanities software? ####### 1. Quality; what are the hallmarks of quality in humanities software? What's "good" software in this area? How do you know what good software is? (Possible areas of interest to you might be: user interface elements, appropriateness of content in software, content issues vs. general task performance, ease of adaptation of the software to your curriculum, replacement of the "old" way of doing things vs. addition of new capabilities you never had before, use of software as supplementary to, a replacement for, or an enhancement to the curriculum) +++++++ 2. Evaluation. Do you employ some sort of evaluation technique for software you use in courses? How is it unique to the humanities, do you think? What criteria do you use to evaluate humanities software? What would you like built-in to the software if it were available? (Possible areas of interest or comment: quantitative measures, "games" or built-in tests, how students benefit from it, how much time you save, how you measure student achievement, what non-quantifiable benefits you perceive, how you decided whether to keep using a piece of software after you've been using it for a while, and so on) ******* 3. Permanence of benefit. When you use or design a piece of software or an on-line exercise, how important is it that the item be re-usable? For how long should different types of programs be useful? (Some things to consider: repeatibility of use of a particular program, use between classes, use outside of class, use from year to year, use as curriculum changes, use as faculty come and go, availability of software to students, and so on) !!!!!!! 4. Curricular issues. What do you think are the important curricular issues, in your experience, in using software in humanities courses? @@@@@@@ 5. Examples. What are some of your favorite examples of good, bad, or ugly software intended for undergraduate humanities courses? (To consider: what has been good or bad and what effects you look at to judge that, particular features you like, things you worked on yourself vs. products, content which has been applicable to more than one course, techniques of analysis or presentation you liked or disliked, and so on.) ======= 6. Ideals. What are some characteristics of an ideal piece of software for the humanities? (what would be included in your ideal piece of software, the best most useful thing you could imagine at this point to help your teaching?) ....... Would you like a copy of the final guidelines for this paper? (Yes/No) Matthew Wall * wall@cc.swarthmore.edu * Swarthmore College ------------------------------------------------------- "We're number 2! We're number 2!" - Larry Andersen From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Subject: list of corpus-related resources Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 20:12:57 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 280 (522) I have prepared a compilation of corpus-related resources which may be of interest to the readers of this list, and wanted to mention it explicitly as it is too recent to be widely-known. Edwards (1993) Survey of Electronic corpora and related resources for language researchers (pp. 263-310). In Edwards & Lampert (eds) Talking data: transcription and coding in discourse research. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. My goal was to bridge some gaps between corpus-using researchers in linguistics, lexicography, computational linguistics and the humanities (though with a particular emphasis on linguistics). In service of this goal, the survey describes the most frequently used corpora in corpus linguistics (since these are often referred to only by name or acronym) with access information and contact addresses; describes and gives access information for the corpus surveys by Lancaster, Georgetown, Oxford, Rutgers which include these corpora plus several hundreds of other corpora including literary sources and non-English; and gives information on organizations and institutes involved in distributing corpora and disseminating corpus-related research results; describes electronic discussion groups pertinent to corpus linguistics (e.g., ln, prosody, corpora, humanist, etc.); and lists a couple bibliographies of corpus research from humanities, lexicographic and linguistics perspectives. I'd be interested in comments and reactions. -Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu) From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: Trent Batson at 11/9 NEACH Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 11:56:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 343 (523) An Invitation from NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities [Please distribute this announcement but forgive any cross-listings] NEACH invites you to hear Trent Batson, director of the new Alliance for Computers and Writing, speaking on "Why Writing Teachers Don't Use Computers, Why They Should, and How the Alliance for Computers and Writing will Help" on Tuesday, November 9, 1993 at 1:30 p.m. in room 25B of the IBM BUILDING, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York City. Dr. Batson will discuss how computers are now used to teach writing and how the Alliance can improve their use. Director of the ground- breaking ENFI Project and author of _Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities_, Dr. Batson is a professor at Gallaudet University and George Mason University. The Alliance for Computers and Writing is sponsored by Gallaudet University, George Mason University, and Texas Tech University. Put the NEACH meeting schedule for 1993-1994 in your calendar: Tues. Nov. 9 The Alliance for Computers and Writing Trent Batson (Gallaudet & George Mason) Wed. Dec. 8 Software for a Big Text Project: Columbia Encyclopedia George Vallasi, Chernow Editorial Tentative 1994 dates: Jan. 11, Feb. 9, Mar. 8, Apr. 13, May 10 All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. NEACH meetings usually alternate on the second Tuesday and the second Wednesday of the month from October to May. Visitors to the IBM Building must obtain a pass at the entry desk on the ground floor: ask for "NEACH" or "Humanities." NEACH is an affiliate of the ACH, the Association for Computers & the Humanities. Separate NEACH and joint ACH/NEACH memberships are available. For membership information, contact Nan Hahn, Benjamin Databank, 322 Second Street, Dunellen, N. J. 08812, USA. Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President Department of English, Rutgers University, Newark, N. J 07102 (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu From: Joseph Galron <jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Seminar on Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 21:00:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 344 (524) St. John's to Offer Workshop on Book Indexing in New York City "Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques" is the theme of a Professional Development Seminar to be taught by Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg, Professor, Division of Library and Information Science, St. John's University, on Friday, April 22, 1994 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Sixty East Club, 60 East 42nd St., New York City (the Lincoln Building opposite Grand Central Station, the 27th floor). The fee for the seminar is $95 including lunch, coffee breaks, and handouts. There will be discounts for pre- registration and students. The seminar will introduce the preparation of "back-of-the-book" indexes, covering concepts of indexable matter, structure of index entries, cross references, filing, format, and indexer-publisher relations. Manual and computer-assisted techniques will be discussed. Continuing Education Units (.6 CEU) will be available to those attending. Authors, publishers, information scientists, librarians, and indexers should benefit from the seminar. The 1992 seminar was rated "excellent" by 72% of those attending, including many experienced indexers. Dr. Weinberg is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers, and former Chair of its Indexer Education Committee. She teaches graduate courses in Information Science and Indexing and Abstracting at St. John's. She has compiled several highly praised book indexes and consults on the design of indexes and thesauri. Dr. Weinberg has published extensively on indexing theory, and edited Indexing: the State of Our Knowledge and the State of Our Ignorance (Learned Information, 1989). For further information, contact: James A. Benson, Director Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica NY 11439 Phone: (718) 990-6200; Fax (718) 380-0353 10/20/93 From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: Announcing E-journal on Info Tech and Disabilities Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 22:32:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 282 (525) INTRODUCTION AND CALL FOR ARTICLES AND NEWS ITEMS _INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES_ _Information Technology and Disabilities_ is a refereed journal devoted to the practical and theoretical issues surrounding the development and effective use of new and emerging technologies by computer users with disabilities. Founded by EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information), _Information Technology and Disabilities_ will feature articles on issues affecting educators (K through college), librarians, adaptive technology trainers, rehabilitation counselors, human resources professionals, and developers of adaptive computer hardware and software products. In addition to refereed, in-depth feature articles on issues of concern to our target audience, _Information Technology and Disabilities_ will feature a number of regular departments, each edited by an expert in the field. _Information Technology and Disabilities_ is intended for educators, librarians, academic computing staff, job accommodations/human relations professionals, and others interested in new technology and its effective use by people with disabilities. The premier issue of _Information Technology and Disabilities_ will include invited feature articles by leaders in the field of computing and disability. Future articles will be refereed, and the editorial board plans to have the contents of the journal indexed in a number of standard reference sources. The editors invite submission of feature articles as well as news of forthcoming publications, research in progress, upcoming events, or any other tidbits of interest to the many professionals concerned with the impact of technology on the lives of people with disabilities. Interested authors should contact Tom McNulty for a copy of "Guidelines for Authors." News items, publication notices, and other ephemera may be submitted via electronic or paper mail to: Tom McNulty Editor-in-Chief _Information Technology and Disabilities_ Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 voice: 212/998-2519 TDD (leave message): 212/998-4980 Internet: MCNULTY@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU Bitnet: MCNULTY@NYUACF Editorial Board Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Danny Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Alistair D. N. Edwards, PhD, University of York, UK Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Lawrence A. Scadden, PhD, National Science Foundation Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University FORMAT: Plain ASCII electronic text, made available via Internet at St. John's University gopher. Future plans include production of a print version through a commercial press. AUDIENCE: Computer Users with Disabilities Educators (K-College) Rehabilitation Professionals Research and Development (Adaptive Technology) Professionals Campus Computing Faculty and Staff Public, Academic and Research Librarians Human Resources Professionals Librarians From: Alan D Corre <corre@convex.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Concordances Date: Mon, 1 Nov 93 08:38:13 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 345 (526) In the current issue of Computers and the Humanities (26, page 463) I have a review of a concordance program, and point out that much as the computer helps in manufacturing concordances, a good deal of human work remains to be done. I would agree, though, that making a concordance is not a very high level of scholarly achievement, however you do it. From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA> Subject: Re: 7.0273 CFPs: CMC; Cantigas de Santa Maria; Data Transfer; Int Date: Mon, 01 Nov 93 18:10:07 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 346 (527) In response to several good HUMANISTS who pointed out to me that 'CMC' (in my call for papers on 'Philosophical Perspectives on CMC') is not a universally understood acronym, allow me to unpack it: CMC stands for Computer-Mediated Communication, refering usually to communication enabled by computer networks (though the definition itself is somewhat open to -- guess what -- philosophical discussion). Sorry for the potential and actual confusion. Cheers -- Charles Ess From: mhocks@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mary Hocks) Subject: Hypertext Fiction Survey Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 15:13:30 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 284 (528) Feel free to forward this survey to anyone who might be interested. My apologies to those who belong to *every* list I'm cross-postings! Mary ****************************** HYPERTEXT FICTION SURVEY Please Read the Following: I would appreciate it if you would take some time to answer the questions on this electronic form and return it directly to me (and not to the list) through electronic mail. I am conducting these interviews via e-mail to determine the practice of people who read and write hypertext fictions. This survey is designed to discover your personal ideas and observations about reading and writing in hypertext. It also aims to describe some of the general social practices of those who read and write electronic texts. Most questions can be answered with a "short answer" response (a few words to several sentences). I plan to follow up this preliminary survey with in-depth interviews conducted over electronic mail over the next few months. Please understand that your participation is completely voluntary, but I would appreciate if you would tell me at the end of this survey that you don't wish to participate. Thank you very much for your cooperation. Mary E. Hocks mhocks@uiuc.edu Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I. ABOUT YOU What are your job(s) and vocation(s)? Gender? Ethnic Background? Age? When did you first begin using a computer? How often do you write on a computer? How much do you read on a computer? What software programs do you most often use? In regards to computer technology, put an "x" by any of the following that describe you: teacher writer critic fan worker artist cyberpunk hacker developer phobic novice comfortable expert other: II. ABOUT READING PRINTED FICTION How much do you read for pleasure each month (excluding magazines and newspapers)? Describe in whatever terms are appropriate, such as numbers of books, articles, parts of books, numbers of pages, etc. What kinds of *printed* narrative fictions do you read regularly for pleasure? Feel free to name writers or styles that you particularly like. How would you describe your reading style when you read printed fictions? For example, do you often read in one sitting, skip around in the text, skim the text, read three books simultaneously, and so on. Feel free to use any terms that you like that help describe your reading style. III. ABOUT READING HYPERTEXT FICTION Where did you first hear about hypertext fiction? What other kinds of texts and media does hypertext remind you of? Put an "x" by any of the following: novels essays verse encyclopedias dictionaries paintings films performance art museums science experiments other (please specify) What was the title of the first hypertext fiction you read? Where did you get it? How would you describe your reading style when you read a hypertext fiction? For example, do you often read in one sitting, skip around in the text, skim the text, read three fictions simultaneously, and so on. Feel free to use any terms that you like that help describe your reading style. IV. ABOUT WRITING HYPERTEXT FICTION (If you've never written in hypertext, go on to Section V) When did you create your first hypertext fiction? What software and system(s) do you use to create hypertext fictions? How would you describe the reader or audience for your hypertext writing? Do you write creatively in non-electronic forms? If so, what do you write? Do you believe that your compositions receive adequate attention and recognition, professional, popular or otherwise? What responses do you receive from other people when they discover that you write hypertext fiction? Any other comments about reading or composing in hypertext? V. ABOUT THIS SURVEY I will be using this information to come up with a preliminary description of hypertext reading and writing practices. Do you give me permission to use the contents of this survey, including anonymous quotations, in my work about hypertext? Would you be willing to participate in an interview with me over electronic mail? Please mail this file *directly* back to me at mhocks@uiuc.edu. Thanks for your participation! From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: for posting/inclusion in newsletter Date: 04 Nov 1993 14:17:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 285 (529) LL L L LLLLLL LLLLLL L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L LLLLL LLLLLL L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L LL LLLLLLLLL LLLLLL L L Natural Language Software Registry ****************************** * 2nd EDITION NOW AVAILABLE * ****************************** The Registry team is proud to announce the 2nd edition of the Natural Language Software Registry. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange and evaluation of natural language processing software within the research community. To this end, the Natural Language Software Registry is cataloging natural language software projects, both commercial and non- commercial. The new updated and enlarged version contains more than 100 descriptions of natural processing software. Registry listings include: + speech signal processors, such as the Computerized Speech Lab (Kay Electronics) + morphological analyzers, such as PC-KIMMO (Summer Institute for Linguistics) + parsers, such as Alveytools (University of Edinburgh) + semantic and pragmatic analyzer, such as NLL (University of the Saarland, Germany) + generation programs, such as FUF (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) + knowledge representation systems, such as Rhet (University of Rochester) + multicomponent systems, such as ELU (ISSCO), PENMAN (ISI), Pundit (UNISYS), SNePS (SUNY Buffalo), + NLP-Tools, such as GULP (University of Georgia) or Linguist (Kansai Research Laboratory) + applications programs (misc.) We are most thankful to these and other research teams who have taken the time to document their achievements. If you have developed a piece of software for natural language processing that other researchers might find useful, you can include it by returning the questionnaire available from the sources below. In the coming months, the Registry team will also be involved in a study of linguistic software repositories for the European Community. Researchers who regard their systems as potential EC resources are encouraged to contact us for consideration of their software in this pilot study. The document and the questionnaire can be obtained through ftp: Germany: ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de (134.96.188.252) (directory: pub/registry, password:anonymous) e-mail: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de post: Natural Language Software Registry Deutsches Forschungsinstitut fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany We are also grateful to the Center for Lexical Research and to the Design Research Institute for providing ftp service in the US: crlftp.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.33) The directory is pub/non-lexical/NL_Software_Registy dri.cornell.edu (128.84.180.39) The directory is /pub/Natural_Language_Software_Registry/ or /pub/NLSR ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Herman <herman@fvc.bc.ca> Subject: Modern Languages Position Date: 4 Nov 93 10:24 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 347 (530) University College of the Fraser Valley: Modern Languages Position The University College of the Fraser Valley, located 60 kilometres from Vancouver in British Columbia's beautiful Fraser Valley, is a multi-campus facility offering a diversity of programs. UCFV has main campuses in Abbotsford and Chilliwack, and currently enrolls more than 6000 students each year. The emphasis at UCFV is on teaching excellence while acknowledging active scholarship as an integral part of the teaching process. Subject to budget approval, the following regular, continuing faculty positions are available beginning in the fall 1994 (September) semester. Bachelor of Arts Degree Program Preferred candidates should have a completed Ph.D, in their related disciplines. Prior teaching experience is desirable. Candidate should provide evidence of their commitment to teaching excellence and related scholarship. Successful candidates will be expected to teach lower division introductory courses as well as upper division courses in their respective disciplines as part of their normal assignment. Modern Languages One position to teach: * Spanish, and * one other language (preferably French) at the university level. Fluency in both languages and teaching experience at a college or university required. Preference will be given to candidate with interest and experience in either Latin American Studies or educational technology. Competition no. UC007.94. Applicants should submit resumes with a covering letter qutoing competition number to: University College of the Fraser Valley Director of Personnel 33844 King Road Abbotsford, B.C. V2S 4N2 FAX (604) 853-9990 TEL (604) 854-4508 It is the policy of the Government of Canada that Canadian citizens and permanent residents will have the first chance to fill jobs in Canada. Therefore, these advertised positions are open only to Canadian and permanent residents (whether in Canada or abroad). University College of the Fraser Valley is an Employment Equity Employer. From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: two items for posting/inclusion in newsletter Date: 04 Nov 1993 14:20:45 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 348 (531) UNITED KINGDOM - University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) - Department of Language and Linguistics LECTURING POSITION Applications are invited from experienced French language specialists or applied linguists with an interest in computational approaches to linguistics and language teaching. Research interests may include pragmatics and discourse analysis, lexicography/terminology, corpus linguistics, LSP, language-teaching media, information technologies, Artificial Intelligence, etc. The list is not limitative. The Department offers undergraduate courses integrating Computational Linguistics and Modern Languages, as well as modern language courses for scientists and engineers. It also runs a number of postgraduate courses in various areas of Natural Language Processing. The successful candidate will be expected to make an active contribution in existing courses and to run new courses in his/her specialist areas. Research opportunities and computing resources in this multilingual Department are excellent. The successful candidate will be expected to participate actively in existing research projects and to initiate research in his/her area(s). Candidates will be expected to have a good understanding of the British higher education system and a good working knowledge of English. Prior managerial or administrative experience will be considered an advantage. Commencing salary will be within the scale: 14k pounds sterling - 22k pounds sterling Requests for application forms and further particulars should be sent to: The Personnel Office, Registrar's Department, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD. Please quote reference LL/EML. UMIST is an equal opportunity employer. epean, Ontario, K2E 8C4 From: Daniel Jones <danny@ccl.umist.ac.uk> Subject: CFP: Intl Conf. on New Methods in Language Processing (NeMLaP) Date: 04 Nov 1993 14:20:45 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 287 (532) ************ REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS ************ ************ ************ ************ Due to the late announcement ************ ************ of another conference the ************ ************ dates for NeMLaP have been ************ ************ changed. Please see the ************ ************ revised CFP below for details ************ ******************************************************* **************************************************** * * * International Conference on * * New Methods in Language Processing * * * **************************************************** (***REVISED***) CALL FOR PAPERS Dates: 14-16th September 1994 (inclusive) Location: Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, UK. Purpose: In recent years there has been a steadily increasing interest in alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic computational linguistics. This international conference will provide a forum for researchers in the broad area of new methods in NLP, i.e., symbolic and non-symbolic techniques of analogy-based, statistical, and connectionist processing, to present their most recent research and to discuss its implications. In order to focus the conference, however, it is intended to concentrate on research primarily involving written NLP. It is also hoped that the conference will promote discussion in general terms of what this branch of NLP hopes to achieve and how far this paradigm can take NLP in the future. Topics of Interest: * Example- and Memory-based MT * Corpus-based NLP * Bootstrapping techniques * Analogy-based NLP * Connectionist NLP * Statistical MT/NLP * Theoretical issues of sub-symbolic vs. symbolic NLP * Hybrid approaches Programme Committee: Co-chairs: Harold Somers, Daniel Jones (UMIST) Ken Church (AT&T) Hitoshi Iida (ATR) Sergei Nirenburg (CMU) David Powers (IMPACT) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Satoshi Sato (JAIST) Noel Sharkey (Exeter University) Royal Skousen (Brigham Young University) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST) Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Preliminary paper submission deadline: 31st March 1994 Acceptance Notification by: 1st June 1994 Camera-ready copy due: 1st August 1994 Submission Requirements: Authors should submit FOUR *hard* copies of a preliminary version of the paper (NOT an outline or abstract) which should be no longer than 6 (A4) pages long, printed no smaller than 10-point. Papers should include a brief abstract, and a list of key words indicating which of the above topics are addressed. A contact address for the author(s) (preferably e-mail) should also be included. Send papers to: NeMLaP, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK. Enquiries : nemlap@ccl.umist.ac.uk From: RVHORIK@rulcri.LeidenUniv.nl Subject: Proceedings Workshop "OCR in the Historical Discipline" Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1993 11:06:16 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 288 (533) Subject: Proceedings workshop "OCR in the Historical Discipline" ************************************************************ * * * NOW AVAILABLE : * * * * Proceedings of the workshop "Optical Character * * Recognition in the Historical Discipline" * * * ************************************************************ Now available are the proceedings of the international work- shop : "Optical Character Recognition in the Historical Discipline" that was held from 10 to 12 June 1993 in Leiden, the Netherlands. This workshop was organised by the NETHERLANDS HISTORICAL DATA ARCHIVE and the NIJMEGEN INSTITUTE FOR COGNITION AND INFORMATION. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together a limited number of specialists in the area of optical character recognition, in order to exchange expertise on the possi- bilities and problems of the optical reading of historical documents. The workshop took place under the auspices of the International Association for History and Computing. Special sessions were held on four topics: 1. Applications of OCR on historical sources 2. Recognition of handwritten material 3. Pre- and post-processing in the conversion proces 4. Recognition of non-Latin fonts Each participant of the workshop was invited to present a paper on one of these topics. Four papers per topic were scheduled. The papers that were presented on this workshop are published by Manfred Thaller, Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte in co-operation with Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, in: Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik, Serie A, Band 18, "Optical Character Recognition in the Historical Discipline. Proceedings of an International Workgroup" (St. Katharinen 1993). ---------------------- | TABLE OF CONTENTS | ---------------------- 'Preface' by the organizing committee 'Introduction' by Leen Breure, general secretary of the International Association for History and Computing and for- mer chairman of the Low Countries Association for History and Computing (VGI). I. Applications of OCR on Historical Sources: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Historical OCR Projects in Norway' by Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Norwegian Historical Data Centre, University of Tromso, Norway. 'The Bakunin Project and Optical Character Recognition' by Bernedine Bos and Anke van der Moer, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 'Optical Frisian Character Recognition' by Jogchum Reitsma, Fryske Akademie, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. 'The Irish Database Project: a Case for OCR ?' by Ann McVeigh, Queens University of Belfast, Ireland. II. Recognition of Handwritten Material: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Off-line and On-line Handwritten Recognition' by Eric Helsper and Lambert Schomaker, Nijmegen Institute for Cog- nition and Information, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 'An Interactive System for Recognition of Manuscripts' by Susan Laflin, School of Computer Science, University of Bir- mingham, United Kingdom. 'A Recurrent Network Approach to the Automatic Reading of Handwriting' by Andrew Senior, Cambridge University Engi- neering Department, United Kingdom. 'Computerized Script Analysis and Classification: Some Directions for Research' by John B. Friedman, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA. III. Pre- and Post-Processing in the Conversion Process: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Pre- and Post- Processing in the Conversion Process for Optical Character Recognition' by Harold C. Ogg, Information Services, Academic Computer Faculty, Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA. 'Scanning, Keyboarding, and Data Verification: Factors in Selecting Data Collection Technologies' by Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago, USA. 'Symbol Correspondence for Integrating Multiple OCR Outputs' by Vincente P. Concepcion and Donald P. D'Amato, MITRE, McLean, Virginia, USA. 'Converting the Historical Dictionary of Dutch to Electronic Form' by Truus Kruyt and John van der Voort van der Kleij, Institute of Dutch Lexicology INL, Leiden University, The Netherlands. IV. Recognition of non-Latin Fonts: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Applications of OCR in Russian Historical Sources: a Com- parison of Various Programs' by Leonid Borodkin, Valery Lazarev and Evgeny Zlobin, Historical Informatics Lab., His- tory Faculty, Moscow State University, Russia. 'Optical Recognition of Music' by William McGee and Paul Merkley, Electrical Engineering and Musiology, University of Ottawa, USA. 'Pattern Recognition of Gothic Fonts' by Ren van Horik, Netherlands Historical Data Archive, Leiden University, The Netherlands. ------> Copies of the proceedings can be ordered at: Netherlands Historical Data Archive Dept. of History Leiden University Ms E. Leenarts P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands Phone: 31 71 272742 E-mail: NHDA@RULLET.LeidenUniv.NL Fax: 31 71 272615 After we have received your order by mail, e-mail or fax we will send you the publication and an invoice. The price of the publication is 40 Dutch florins/guilders (approximately 23 USD) forwarding-charges included. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Jill C Burstein <jburstein@rosedale.org> Subject: Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 10:15:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 289 (534) ********************************************************* * * * The Educational Testing Service * * Conference on Natural Language Processing Techniques * * in Assessment and Education * * * ********************************************************* ***CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT*** Dates: May 18th - 19th, 1994 Location: Chauncey Conference Center Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Princeton, New Jersey 08541 Conference Purpose: Natural Language Processing Techniques have been found to be increasingly useful in the domains of assessment and education. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from both the NLP, and assessment and education communities and to share ideas about how NLP techniques can be implemented to aid in tasks for assessment and education. Speakers are being invited from industry and academia to discuss their research and applications of NLP in assessment and education. We anticipate that the conference will encourage on-going discussion between the NLP, and assessment and education communities. Topics: * NLP Techniques for Assessment of Natural Language Responses to Test Items * Computer-Aided Design in Education * Automatic Spelling Correction for Automated Scoring of Natural Language Responses * Intelligent Tutors The conference will be held at the Chauncey Conference Center on ETS' Princeton campus. Chauncey Conference Center has rooms for conference guests who choose to stay overnight. The price of the conference varies depending on the type of accommodations requested. Prices for DAY GUESTS and OVERNIGHT GUESTS are the following. DAY GUESTS: OVERNIGHT GUESTS: (1-DAY Complete Package) $60.00 includes: $225/single Continental Breakfast $170/twin Lunch --------------------------- Coffee Break Dinner Meeting Overnight Dinner ($28.00 extra) Continental Breakfast Lunch Coffee Break Meeting COSTS FOR ENTIRE CONFERENCE: DAY GUEST: $120: 2 Days OVERNIGHT GUEST: $285 (single): 1-DAY COMPLETE MEETING PACKAGE + 1 DAY $230 (twin): 1-DAY COMPLETE MEETING PACKAGE + 1 DAY Registration is limited. Please return Reply Form and address inquiries to either Corrine Cohen, Eleanore DeYoung or Jill Burstein at the following addresses: Corrine Cohen Mailstop 16-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Princeton, NJ 08541 phone: (609) 734-1108 Eleanore DeYoung Mailstop 17-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Rd. Princeton, NJ 08541 e-mail: edeyoung@rosedale.org phone: (609) 734-5834 Jill Burstein* Mailstop 11-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Rd. Princeton, NJ 08541 e-mail: jburstein@rosedale.org phone: (609) 734-5823 (*Not available between November 8, 1993 - February 1, 1994) ------------------------------------------8<cut>8------------------------------- ------------------ REPLY FORM Overnight guests must return Reply Form by March 15, 1994. Day guests must return Reply Form by April 18, 1994. Name: Affiliation: Address: Phone: Email: FAX: DAY GUEST I will attend for ______ day(s) at $60.00 per day. (If for one day, please specify either May 18 ___ Amount Enclosed $_________ or May 19 ___.) I would like Dinner at $28.00. $_________ OVERNIGHT GUEST I would like a 1-DAY COMPLETE PACKAGE for $225.00 (single) $_________ $170.00 (twin) $_________ (Please specify either May 18____ or May 19____.) I will attend the ENTIRE CONFERENCE for $285.00 (single) $________ $230.00 (twin) $________ Total Enclosed $________ Please make checks payable to the Educational Testing Service. From: Jim Kelly <JRKJAN8@GWUVM> Subject: WRBG meeting Date: Mon, 08 Nov 93 09:51:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 349 (535) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Washington Rare Book Group will hold its November meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 23rd, from 11:45 until 1:30 at the National Museum of American History. The speaker will be Dr. Donald Ritchie, Associate Historian of the United States Senate; he will deliver a talk entitled "Confessions of a Washington Research- er" following the reception and buffet luncheon. For further details or re- servations, contact Jim Kelly, Cat. Dept., Gelman Library, George Washington University, 2130 H St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20052; 202 994-6848; 202 994- 1340 (fax). The deadline is 17 Nov. From: Mark Olsen <mark@TIRA.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: ARTFL WWW Server Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 13:32:38 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 350 (536) I have mounted ARTFL manuals, bibliographies, Newsletters and other information on World Wide Web. The ARTFL home page is: <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu:/ARTFL">http://tuna.uchicago.edu:/ARTFL</a> World Wide Web servers can be queried using a number of sophisticated interfaces, such as Mosiac for X-Windows, Macintosh, and MS-Windows. Programs and Manuals for all three Mosaic flavors are available by anonymous FTP from: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu. Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago From: phil-preprints-admin@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: Announcements from the IPPE Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 20:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 351 (537) We are pleased to report that the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange continues to serve upwards of 150 users per day, and that submissions continue to arrive steadily. We are also glad to report that we shall soon be able to announce several exciting new services on the IPPE, which devolve from cooperative ventures between the IPPE and journal editors and conference organizers. (We encourage the editors of scholarly journals, and the organizers of philosophical conferences, to contact us regarding the possibility such ventures.) We are also involved in establishing a North American mirror archive, which will maintain a copy of the IPPE's holdings at a location with better and faster connectivity to our largest user population. Despite the high level of activity, we have considerable resources which remain unused. Not only do we have large amounts of online storage still available, but we have been able to hold the time required for review of submissions to only a few days. Thus we remain able to offer philosophers a means of bringing a working paper to the attention of colleagues almost immediately. We encourage the submission of working papers in all areas of philosophy. Papers are subjected to a process of "minimal refereeing", designed to assure only that they meet the standard of being "of interest to contemporary academic philosophers". (Thus far, we have been fortunate in receiving fewer than a dozen unacceptable papers.) If you wish to submit a working paper to the IPPE, please contact Carolyn Burke, who will be pleased to assist you. Carolyn can be reached by email at the address cburke@nexus.yorku.ca, and by telephone at (416) 736-5113, or from outside North America +1 (416) 736-5113. If you are in a hurry and are familiar with Internet file transfer techniques, just read the instructions available in the README file in the submissions directory on the IPPE; or mail a diskette (MSDOS or Macintosh format) containing your paper (in any well-known wordprocessor format) to: IPPE IPPE, c/o Syun Tutiya Dept. of Philosophy Dept. of Philosophy York University or Faculty of Letters 4700 Keele St. Chiba University Toronto, Ontario 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba M3J 1P3 Canada 263 JAPAN In either case, please provide a separate file containing a 150 word abstract of your paper, in the format used for abstracts on the IPPE. Accessing the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". By gopher: "gopher apa.oxy.edu" or "gopher kasey.umkc.edu". By email: "mail phil-preprints-service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". Questions: "mail phil-preprints-admin@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". To upload a paper or comment: see pub/submissions/README. From: walker@bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: ACL-94 student Call for Papers Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 14:03:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 291 (538) ACL-94 CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS Student Sessions at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 27 June - 1 July 1994 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA PURPOSE: The goal of these sessions is to provide a forum for student members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community, particularly senior researchers. The sessions will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations and discussion. The papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. Note that the student sessions in NO way influence the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student sessions will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. 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 (or be students even though paying the regular member rate because they earn a regular income) at the time of the conference. Membership information is referred to below in the section on ``ACL and Conference Information.'' Papers submitted to the main conference can not be considered for the student sessions. Students may, of course, submit DIFFERENT papers to BOTH the main conference and the student sessions, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit papers limited to 3 pages (including a mandatory abstract, references, figures, and appendices) as well as a title page and identification page in the format described below. Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area(s). Since reviewing will be ``blind'', the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., ``We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . .'') should be avoided. Instead, use references like ``Smith previously showed (1991) . . .'' To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, and a specification of the subject area(s). MEDIA OF SUBMISSION: Authors must submit their papers by BOTH hardcopy and email if possible or by hardcopy only. Unlike the ACL main session, there is no email only option, but we do encourage you to use the hardcopy and email option. Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file). Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the following format: title: <title> author: <name of first student author> address: <address of first student author> ... author: <name of last student author> address: <address of last student author> abstract: < abstract> subject areas: <first area>, ..., <last area> Papers should be submitted to: Beryl Hoffman, Computer and Information Sciences University of Pennsylvania 200 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; phone: +1-215-898-5868; fax: +1-215-898-0587 e-mail: hoffman@linc.cis.upenn.edu SCHEDULE: Submissions in either format must be RECEIVED by 1 FEBRUARY 1994. Late papers will not be considered. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by 5 FEBRUARY 1994. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 MARCH 1994. Authors will then have time to revise their papers, taking the reviews into account. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 1 MAY 1994, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. STUDENT SESSIONS INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student sessions, contact Beryl Hoffman at the addresses above. ACL AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-914-478-1802 phone/fax; acl@cs.columbia.edu. General information about the ACL and electronic membership and order forms are also available from the ACL LISTSERV. ACL LISTSERV: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserv@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are ``help'' for general help on using LISTSERV, ``index acl-l'' for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l <file>" to get a particular file named <file> from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user typein is underlined): $ ftp cs.columbia.edu ------------------- Name (cs.columbia.edu:smith): anonymous --------- Password:smith@cs.school.edu << not echoed ------------------- ftp> cd acl-l -------- ftp> cd Information -------------- ftp> get membership-form.txt.Z ------------------------- ftp> quit ---- $ uncompress membership-form.txt.Z -------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE: The committee is co-chaired by Beryl Hoffman (UPenn) and Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia U). Sheila Rock (U Edinburgh) is the Committee Organizer, and Eric Iverson (NMSU) is in charge of Student Local Arrangements. The remaining student members of the committee are: Jennifer Chu (U Delaware), Jason Frank (Ohio State U), Steve Green (U Toronto), Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia U), Peter Heeman (U Rochester), Chris Manning (Stanford U), Gaelle Recource (U Paris 7), Suzanne Stevenson (U Toronto/U Maryland). The nonstudent members are: Chinatsu Aone (SRA), Alan Black (ATR Japan), Ken Church (AT&T), Robert Frank (U Delaware), Megumi Kameyama (SRI), Robert Kasper (Ohio-State U), Mark Liberman (U Penn), Chris Mellish (U Edinburgh), Gord McCalla (U Saskatchewan), John Nerbonne (U Groningen), and Ingrid Zukerman (Monash U Australia). From: "Prof. Dr. H. Joachim Neuhaus" <neuhaus@VES102.UNI-MUENSTER.DE> Subject: Shakespeare Database Project enters publication phase Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 13:02:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 292 (539) The Shakespeare Database Project at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany published its first book publication at the 1993 Frankfurt Book Fair. Marvin Spevack (1993), A Shakespeare Thesaurus, Hildesheim, Zuerich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag. XXVI/541 pp. cloth ISBN 3-487-09775-3 DM 98.00; paperback ISBN 3-487-09776-1 DM 39.80 This new work is the first attempt to organize and classify the entire Shakespearean vocabulary. It presents the "world" which is to be derived from Shakespeare's ideolect and gives a vivid impression of the surrounding Elizabethan world. The perspective is thus not solely personal or literary or linguistic but also historical, sociological, and cultural. This classified inventory consists of 37 main groups and 897 subgroups, ranging from the Physical World to Sense Perception to Law to Religion to Time to Space. Special attention is given to such dominating interests as Communication and Motion, Solidarity and Warfare. Detailed are such things and words as horses and health, clothes and colours, swords and social structures, earth and education, gout and government, plants and pride. To account for the entire vocabulary, certain groups not normally found in a work of this kind have been formed. The largest consists of the names of places and persons arranged so as to constitute a map and a pocket history, mythology, and onomasticon. Others include malaproprisms, oaths, Latin and French words. ----------------------------------------------------------- The Shakespeare Database Project will publish further printed reference works early in 1994. For personal computer users there will also be a selfcontained Shakespeare Database CD-ROM product. Since 1990 the project has been using a dedicated VAXstation cluster as a production platform. The database uses Digital's rdb database software. The relational database design stresses the integration of editorial, linguistic, literary, and theatrical information by setting up 17 database *entities* with well over a hundred *attributes*. The Thesaurus Entity, just published in book-form, is one of these. *Cardinality* values for database entities range from 2,500 to over one million records per entity. Statistical and graphical data are included in the database. Besides standard query-languages such as SQL various custom-made access methods are also supported. There are traditional, philological entry points such as textual collation and editing with access to all copy-texts and variant readings. Electronic facsimile pages of early quarto and folio printings are accessible via play (act, scene, line, speech prefix) and word (lemma, wordform, morpheme) references. Linguistically oriented *datastructures*, such as wordformation down to the level of the morpheme, and inflection can be explored directly. Shakespeare's vocabulary is also accessible by means of etymological or chronological query strategies, including information on first occurrence in Early Modern English. The CD-ROM version for personal computer users will first support Microsoft Windows and will include navigational support. It will not presuppose relational database technicalities, such as SQL, etc. ____________________________________________________ Shakespeare Database Project Univ.-Prof. Dr. H. J. Neuhaus Direktor des Englischen Seminars Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Johannisstrasse 12-20 D-48143 Muenster, Germany Internet Address: <neuhaus@nwz.uni-muenster.de> Telephone (voice & answering): +49 251 834294 (fax): +49 251 838353 ____________________________________________________ From: choueka@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il (Yaacov Choueka) Subject: Grammar Checkers Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 11:40:18 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 352 (540) I would be grateful for any pointers on Grammar Checkers in English and French: products, papers, reviews, references, etc. Many thanks for your help. You can also answer directly to the address below. If i get enough interesting material, I'll try to edit it and send it to anyone interested. Thanks again! Yaacov Choueka Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 52900 choueka@bimacs.biu.ac.il.bitnet Fax: 972-2-781245 From: Tito Orlandi <TRTIDU2@ITCASPUR> Subject: OCR/ICR Date: Tue, 09 Nov 93 17:32:56 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 353 (541) Does anybody know whether it is possible that an OCR or ICR treats at the same time two or more ALPHABETS (e.g. latin-greek) latin-greek-coptic etc.) and puts tags where the alphabet changes? And whether it is possible to teach an OCR or ICR an entirely new alphabet, bypassing its embedded knowledge? With many thanks, Tito Orlandi (trtidu2 at itcaspur.caspur.it) From: gmunro@cabell.vcu.edu (George E. Munro) Subject: address? Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 14:46:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 354 (542) Could anyone tell me the e-mail address of Jennifer Newman at the University of Edinburgh? It would be enough if someone could provide me with the address "string" for Edinburgh University. While I'm at it, could anyone provide the e-mail address of Elisabeth Harder-Gersdorff at Universitaet Bielefeld? Please respond directly to me: gmunro@cabell.vcu.edu George Munro, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University Thanks From: Paul Herman <herman@fvc.bc.ca> Subject: Philosophy media Date: 10 Nov 93 14:42 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 355 (543) We have a bit of money at UCFV for the purchase of media (videos, laserdiscs, CD-ROMs) relevant to philosophy. Any recommendations as to items or sources of such media would be greatly appreciated. I will summarize responses to the list. Thank you. Paul Herman: HERMAN@FVC.BC.CA University-College of the Fraser Valley Chilliwack, British Columbia From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: opera CD Date: 11 Nov 1993 17:12:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 356 (544) I have been told that someone wrote an opera based on Philip Dick's novel _VALDIS_. Does anyone know if this has been produced in CD format, and if so what is the label/catalogue number, assuming it is still available. thank you, James McSwain, Tuskegee University MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: Ian Budden <I.D.Budden@sussex.ac.uk> Subject: Etext CDROMs Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 17:45:38 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 357 (545) (I'm sending this to several lists; apologies for repetition.) Has anyone any experience of using the following CD-ROMs (they contain literary texts)? How satisfactory are the selections? How easy are they to network? Is it possible (both in practical terms and in terms of copyright restrictions) to download substantial portions of text of them? I have some information about one or two of them, but I'd be very grateful for accounts of the experience of end-users. Complete Bookshop (from Unica, UK) Desktop Bookshop (from Unica, UK) Great Literature (don't know producer, but distributed in UK by Unica) Greatest Books Collection ( " " " " ) Library of the Future, Vols. 1 and 2 (from World Library; distributed by DAK Industries in U.S.A. and Unica in U.K.) Thanks very much in anticipation ... Ian Budden, Information Services, The Library, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, BN1 9QL email: I.D.BUDDEN@SUSSEX.AC.UK (INTERNET) I.D.BUDDEN@UK.AC.SUSSEX (JANET) phone: 0273 678440 fax: 0273 678441 From: UHAA017@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK Subject: Electronic Dante Date: Thu, 11 NOV 93 12:04:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 358 (546) Dear Humanist, A colleague is trying to locate electronic versions of the works of Dante. Initially the Vita Nuova and the Inferno, but possibly later other works. Does anyone know of a possible source for this? Thanks in advance, Catherine Harbor, Computer Centre Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Surrey TW20 0EX. 'phone: 0784 443165 e-mail: C.Harbor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: source for Le Jongleur? Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 14:26:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 359 (547) A retired colleague has sent me the following query, asking that it be passed on to Humanist. If you have clues, would you please send them directly to Norman Zacour at the address below? Thanks very much. W. McCarty ---------- [deleted quotation] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Dr Karl Signell <SIGNELL@UMDD> Subject: Hackney's Press Club speech Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 16:51:48 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 360 (548) Has NEH Chairman Hackney's speech yesterday at the National Press Club been made available electronically? Hackney says he's found funding for a series of electronic town meetings on the national identity, according to today's Washington Post. From: chris <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za> Subject: Goethe for PC DOS Date: Tue, 09 Nov 93 15:22:36 RSA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 361 (549) Dear Elaine could you kindly distribute the following query? Thanks a lot, Regards - Chris xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Can someone please help with information on machine readable editions (stiffy/floppy/CD/ or ftp) of J W Goethe's works, in particular the "Unterhaltungen Deutscher Ausgewanderten"? I know that there's an edition on stiffieemeyer publ., but that's a complete edition i.e. "Hamburger Ausgabe") at a horrendous price. Also, if anybody has already used such material on a PC I'd be grateful for some hints regarding reliability, problems experienced, software used etc.. (I'm using a platform.) Thanks a lot, Chris From: jbravo@condor.dpi.udec.cl (Julio Bravo Cortes-Monroy) Subject: Maastricht in French or Spanish? Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:11:06 +22311841 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 362 (550) Dear Mrs Brennan and Mr. Renear: I'm a student in law from Chile, South America. Recently I found a Maastricht Treaty Text in English Language at Internet. There are any version of this treaty in French or Spanish Language accesible by FTP or Gopher?? Please, that is very important for us, because we are studying the interpretation's troubles about different languages in this treaty. Thanks in advance PS: Please, excuse me my poor english, but it is not my native language. -- Julio Andres Bravo Cortes-Monroy jbravo@condor.dpi.udec.cl Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales phone(home):56-41-372920 Universidad de Concepcion fax (univer):56-41-259136 CHILE - South America Postal Address: Casilla 796 - Concepcion CHILE From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: Thoreau Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1993 10:24:08 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 363 (551) I am interested in finding out whether there are any electronic materials related to Thoreau's life and works available. Ted Brunner ****************************************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine E-Mail: TLG@UCI.BITNET Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU ****************************************************************** From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET> Subject: Irish Lit. Anthologies Date: Wed, 03 Nov 93 09:42:34 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 364 (552) Next semester I have the opportunity to teach an upper-level undergraduate course in Irish literature from 1890 to the present. I plan on having the students buy Yeats's Collected Poems and the new corrected-text _Ulysses_, but I would like to find an anthology of poems, plays, and stories, from Lady Gregory and Somerville and Ross to Seamus Heaney and Edna O'Brien. Can anyone recommend one or two? Any suggestions about other lists on which I might post this query? Please send replies to me off-line, at the address below. Glenn Everett English Department University of Tennessee at Martin ivaa@utmartn.bitnet From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: NEH Summer Seminars For SCHOOL TEACHERS Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 15:26:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 295 (553) Posted as a courtesy to the NEH. Not for college teachers, but an extraordinary program of great value. A copy of this will be available on the ccat.sas.upenn.edu gopher all year. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu 1994 NEH SUMMER SEMINARS FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS The Division of Fellowships and Seminars of the National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring seminars on a variety of texts in the humanities for four, five, or six weeks during the summer of l994. Each seminar will provide fifteen teachers with the opportunity to work under the direction of a distinguished teacher and active scholar in the field of the seminar. Amount of Award All teachers selected to participate in the program will be awarded a stipend of $2,450, $2,825, or $3,200, depending on the length of the seminar. The stipend is intended to cover travel costs to and from the seminar location, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for the tenure of the seminar. Eligibility Although seminars are designed primarily for full-time teachers at public, private, or parochial schools, grades 7 through l2, other school personnel, K-l2, are also eligible to apply. Substitute teachers are not eligible to apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, native residents of a U.S. jurisdiction, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline, March 1, 1994. Participants in Summer Seminars for School Teachers in l992 and l993 are not eligible to apply to the l994 seminars. How to Apply Applicants must write to the seminar directors for application instructions and forms and for detailed information about the structure, special requirements, site, and housing of seminars. Applicants may apply to only one seminar. However, applicants may write to more than one seminar director for information. When writing to several directors, please request the NEH application booklet from only one director. Applicants who apply to more than one seminar will not be eligible for a place in any seminar. The director and a selection committee will decide who will attend the seminar. Therefore, the complete application should be mailed directly to the seminar director and should be postmarked no later than March 1, 1994. Information N.B. this is *not* the summer seminar program for college teachers, which offers a separate list. For information about that and other NEH programs, contact the Public Information Office, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. Telephone: 202/606-8443. Equal Opportunity Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write to the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD 202/606-8282 (hearing impaired only). Ovid's Metamorphoses: Myth in its Physical and Poetic Landscapes June 20-July 22, 1994 (5 weeks) Frederick M. Ahl Department of Classics 120 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 (Seminar Location: Spetses, Greece) [deleted quotation]June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Peter J. Awn c/o Summer Sessions 418 Lewisohn Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Mozart: The Man, His Music, and His Vienna June 13-July 8, 1994 (4 weeks) Richard P. Benedum Department of Music University of Dayton Dayton, Ohio 45469-0290 (Seminar Location: Vienna, Austria) African American Women's Autobiography June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Martha H. Brown Department of History Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0091 The Gothic Cathedral as a Mirror of Medieval Culture June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Robert G. Calkins Department of History of Art 35 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-3201 (Seminar Location: Paris, France) Four Texts and Japanese Culture: The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, Chushingura, The Makioka Sisters, and Snow Country June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) John W. Connor Department of Anthropology California State University Sacramento, California 95819-6106 Thirteenth-Century "Lives" of St. Francis of Assisi June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) William R. Cook Department of History State University of New York 1 College Circle Geneseo, New York 14454-1401 (Seminar Location: Siena and Assisi, Italy) The Stalinist Legacy June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) David R. Costello Department of History Canisius College Buffalo, New York 14208 Classic Texts in Caribbean Literature June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Selwyn R. Cudjoe Africana Studies Department Wellesley College Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 Nathaniel Hawthorne: In Detail and in Context July 4-August 5, 1994 (5 weeks) Robert Daly Department of English 306 Clemens Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Amherst, New York 14260 Herman Melville: Two Masterworks: Moby-Dick and Billy Budd June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Andrew H. Delbanco c/o Summer Sessions 418 Lewisohn Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Happiness and Freedom, Justice and Equality: The Life and Work of John Stuart Mill June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Daniel R. DeNicola Department of Philosophy and Religion 1000 Holt Ave., Box 2659 Rollins College Winter Park, Florida 32789-4499 Reinterpreting Democracy and Modernity: Lukacs, Horkheimer, Adorno, Arendt, Foucault June 20-July 29, 1994 (6 weeks) Frederick M. Dolan Department of Rhetoric University of California Berkeley, California 94720 Great Theorems of Mathematics in Historical Context June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) William W. Dunham Department of Mathematics Muhlenberg College Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104 (Seminar Location: Ohio State University) Islam and Democracy in Arab North Africa July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) John P. Entelis Middle East Studies Program, DE 640 Fordham University Bronx, New York 10458 (Seminar Location: Lincoln Center Campus, Manhattan) Reading Don Quixote June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Salvador J. Fajardo Department of Romance Languages State University of New York Binghamton, New York 13902 The Epic and Saga Tradition in Medieval Ireland June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Patrick K. Ford Celtic Department 61 Kirkland St. Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 The Bhagavadgita: "Song of the Lord" June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Allie M. Frazier Department of Philosophy and Religion Hollins College Roanoke, Virginia 24020 Machiavelli's The Prince July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) Eugene Garver McNeely Chair in Thinking Saint John's University Collegeville, Minnesota 56321 The Brontes June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Janet Gezari Department of English Connecticut College New London, Connecticut 06320 Shakespeare: Text and Theatre June 20-July 29, 1994 (6 weeks) Miriam Gilbert Department of English University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 (Seminar Location: Stratford- upon-Avon, England) Visions of the Dark Years: Literary and Cinematic Portraits of the German Occupation of France, 1940-1944 June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Richard J. Golsan and Nathan Bracher Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-4238 (Seminar Location: Caen, France) Myths of Cultural Identity in The Labyrinth of Solitude and One Hundred Years of Solitude (In Spanish) July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) Ricardo Gutierrez Mouat Department of Spanish Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 The Tales of the Brothers Grimm: Discovering Their Literary and Cultural Significance July 4-July 29, 1994 (4 weeks) Donald P. Haase Department of German and Slavic Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan 48202 Montaigne's Essays July 4-July 29, 1994 (4 weeks) Patrick G. Henry Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures Whitman College Walla Walla, Washington 99362-2083 Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels July 11-August 12, 1994 (5 weeks) Katherine C. Hill-Miller Department of English C. W. Post Campus/Long Island Univ. Greenvale, New York 11548 (Seminar Location: London, England) Authority, Democracy and the Representation of Women: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Kathleen B. Jones Department of Women's Studies San Diego State University San Diego, California 92182-0437 Thomas Jefferson: Political Thought and Action June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Robert F. Jones Department of History Fordham University Bronx, New York 10458 Shakespeare's Hamlets June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) David S. Kastan c/o Summer Sessions 418 Lewisohn Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Classic Studies in the History of Immigration June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Thomas Kessner Ph.D. Program in History 33 West 42nd Street City University of New York Graduate School New York, New York 10036 An American Aesthetic: John Dewey's Art as Experience June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) Joseph H. Kupfer Department of Philosophy Ross Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 Jack London: The Major Works June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Earle G. Labor Department of English Centenary College of Louisiana Shreveport, Louisiana 71134-1188 (Location: Sonoma State U, California) Literature of the Holocaust June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) Lawrence L. Langer Sponsored Programs Office (NEH) 300 The Fenway Simmons College Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Nationalism in South Africa June 20-July 22, 1994 (5 weeks) Michael D. MacDonald Department of Political Science Stetson Hall Williams College Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267 The Works of Adam Smith July 4-July 29, 1994 (4 weeks) Kenneth J. McCormick Department of Economics University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0129 Mark Twain's Political Thought July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) Wilson Carey McWilliams Department of Political Science Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 (Seminar Location: Elmira College) Shakespeare and the Creative Act: Othello and Hamlet June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Barbara C. Millard Department of English La Salle University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141 Four Classic African-American Novels June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) James A. Miller Department of English Trinity College Hartford, Connecticut 06106 Greek Tragedy and Its History June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Martin Mueller Department of English Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 Principles of Classical Lyric: A Comparative Approach July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) Gregory Nagy Attn: NEH Seminar Department of Classics 319 Boylston Hall Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Reading Joyce's Ulysses July 4-August 5, 1994 (5 weeks) Robert D. Newman Department of English Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843 Augustine's Confessions June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) James J. O'Donnell Department of Classical Studies 720 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6305 (Seminar Location: Bryn Mawr College) The Victorian Illustrated Novel: Vanity Fair and David Copperfield June 20-July 29, 1994 (6 weeks) John C. Olmsted Department of English Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio 44074 (Seminar Location: London, England) The American Documentary Movement of the 1930s: Lorentz, Wright, Evans, Agee, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck June 20-July 29, 1994 (6 weeks) Miles Orvell American Studies Program Gladfelter Hall--025-01 Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 The Political World of Ancient Democracy: Thucydides' History June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Michael J. Palmer Department of Political Science 5754 N. Stevens Hall University of Maine Orono, Maine 04469-5754 Society, Slavery, and Civil War July 4-July 29, 1994 (4 weeks) Phillip S. Paludan Hall Center for the Humanities University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2967 Classic Texts of Social Analysis: Engels, Marx, Zola, Sorel June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) Nicholas Papayanis Department of History Brooklyn College Brooklyn, New York 11210 (Seminar Location: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York) Freud and the Roots of the Moral Life: Three Core Texts July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) Thomas Parisi Department of Psychology Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5001 Virtue, Happiness, and the Common Good in Plato's Republic June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) Richard D. Parry Department of Philosophy Agnes Scott College Decatur, Georgia 30030 Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Russell A. Peck Department of English University of Rochester Rochester, New York 14627 Novels of William Faulkner June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Noel Polk Department of English University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-5037 Walden and the American Transcendentalist Movement: Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller June 20-July 22, 1994 (5 weeks) David M. Robinson Department of English 224 Moreland Hall Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5302 Voices Reaching Back, Creating Anew: Five 20th-Century American Indian Texts June 20-July 15, 1994 (4 weeks) Kenneth M. Roemer Department of English Box 19035 University of Texas Arlington, Texas 76019 Jane Austen: Self and Society June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Gene W. Ruoff Institute for the Humanities MC 206 701 S. Morgan University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois 60607 Transformations of Electra: From Aeschylus to O'Neill July 11-August 5, 1994 (4 weeks) Peter M. Schaeffer Department of German University of California Davis, California 95616 American Women as Writers: Wharton and Cather July 4-July 29, 1994 (4 weeks) Janet Sharistanian Hall Center for the Humanities University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2967 The Poetry of Wordsworth and Keats June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) Ronald A. Sharp Department of English Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio 43022 Swift and Twain: Satiric Contrasts June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) John E. Sitter Department of English Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 The Theatre of the Holocaust June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Robert Skloot Department of Theatre and Drama 821 University Ave. 6173 Vilas Hall University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Dante's Commedia June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) William A. Stephany Department of English University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont 05405 American Environmental History: Critical Texts June 20-July 15, 1994 (4 weeks) Mart A. Stewart Department of History Western Washington University Bellingham, Washington 98225 Major Paintings of Winslow Homer June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) David Tatham Department of Fine Arts 441 H.L. Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244 William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience July 4-July 29, 1994 (4 weeks) Terrence W. Tilley Department of Religion Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1029 The Canterbury Tales June 20-July 29, 1994 (6 weeks) Peter W. Travis Department of English Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 Versions of the Mexican Revolution June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) John Tutino Department of History Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057 The Shape and Message of the Psalms June 20-July 15, 1994 (4 weeks) William J. Urbrock Dean's Office College of Letters and Science University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901 Latin American Nationalism, 1845-1928 July 11-August 12, 1994 (5 weeks) George L. Vasquez Department of History San Jose State University San Jose, California 95192-0117 Reading The Tale of Genji: The Politics of Love in Classical Japan June 27-July 22, 1994 (4 weeks) Meera S. Viswanathan Department of Comparative Literature Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Modern Utopias: Dreams or Nightmares? June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) Richard F. Weisfelder Department of Political Science University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio 43606-3390 Philosophy & Medicine in Ancient Greece June 27-July 29, 1994 (5 weeks) William R. Wians Department of Philosophy 745 Commonwealth Ave. Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Beowulf and the Heroic Age June 27-August 5, 1994 (6 weeks) Robert F. Yeager Department of Literature and Language University of North Carolina Asheville, North Carolina 28804 From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0279 Evaluating Humanities Software (1/121) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 13:44:24 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 365 (554) The term "humanities sofware" seems to me to be so broad as to be virtually useless. What distinguishes these products from software tout court? Perhaps some examples of what the author has in mind might be useful. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: visual grabbing & fixing software? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1993 20:22:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 366 (555) I need some recommendations for software. The tasks at hand are first to grab screen images, then to manipulate them. What I need are highest quality images for later reproduction in a book; I may want to sharpen the contrast on these images, change brightness, expand or contract them, perhaps overlay them with comments and simple graphics, such as arrows. I need to produce image files in a variety of standard formats, e.g. .BMP, .EPS. The system I am using is an MS-DOS machine, 486/66MHz, with a Diamond Stealth video card & drivers, running 1024 x 768 on a 17-inch colour monitor -- and, of course, Windows 3.1. I'm sufficiently uneducated in the technical aspects of the equipment, however, not to know what the setup has to do with the quality of images obtained, so I would appreciate detailed advice here as well. I have looked at and briefly used GrabPro, and I own a copy of PhotoFinish. I'm not looking for the cheapest solution necessarily, rather the one that will give me the best results. The images are intended for a professionally produced book. I do not have large sums of money at my disposal, however. While on the subject allow me to add that screen-capture is an excellent technique for producing class handouts, overheads, and even quick manuals. So I suspect that some good recommendations would do many of us a considerable favour. Thanks. WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Eric Crump <LCERIC@MIZZOU1> Subject: Computers & Writing Conference: Deadline extension Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 21:59:27 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 297 (556) ----------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended to November 30 due to a delay in mailing the print version of the call. ----------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Call for Proposals: The Tenth COMPUTERS AND WRITING CONFERENCE DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 30, 1993 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hosted by the University of Missouri Columbia, MO May 20-23, 1994 THEME: The Global Web of Writing Technologies PROPOSALS We invite proposals that pertain in some way (any way!) to the use of computers at any level of writing education, K-12 to community colleges to colleges and large universities, from technologically rich environments to places where instruction with computers is just getting started. Hands-on sessions, demonstrations, or any other format that encourages audience participation and interaction are particularly welcome. VIRTUAL SESSIONS? We will have adequate access to a multiple user environment (MediaMOO, probably, or Internet Relay Chat) for conference activities. Presenters who are interested in trying something rather new might want to consider proposing sessions that include realtime conferencing over the Internet using these systems. NOTE: Presenters whose proposals are accepted will be asked to submit longer versions for use in conjunction with the electronic conference. Details will be included in acceptance notices. -------------------------------------------------- PROCEDURES: We like electronic submission, but acceptance is not in any way contingent upon it. Submissions can also be made in print or on 3.5 inch computer disks, initialized either in Macintosh or IBM format, as long as the text is saved in ASCII (text) format. Notification will be made in January 1994. Please submit a 200- to 300-word abstract plus title for individual presentations, for poster sessions, and for each portion of panel presentations. For roundtables, think tanks, and readings (creative writing, for example), please submit a single 300-word abstract with names and addresses of each participant along with descriptions of the contribution each participant will make. For workshops, please include, in addition to a single 300-word abstract, an estimated timetable of activities. We also invite alternative session formats to the ones listed here. Past conference-goers have expressed interest in more of the hands-on and demo-type sessions, but presenters should also feel free to suggest presentation formats that best fit their work (although in the interest of the organizers' sanity, it might be good to also suggest standard options in case the preferred version simply can't be made to fit the program). Include name, institutional affiliation, postal address, and electronic mail address for each presenter. Each submission should include a description, as precise as possible, of equipment needs, if any. We do not guarantee absolutely that equipment requests will be fulfillable, but we will do our best to provide excellent technical support and will work with presenters to make the best arrangements we can. Computer classrooms and labs sporting IBM 55s with OS/2 2.1 or DOS 6.0 and Macintosh Centris computers with System 7.1 will be available. Any additional hardware or software requirements will need to be arranged on a case-by-case basis. Send electronic submissions (and any other correspondence) to: Eric Crump at LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu. Please include somewhere in the subject line: CWC94. Send disks and print submissions to: Eric Crump, 231 Arts & Science, University of Missouri. Columbia, MO 65211. From: Jill C Burstein <jburstein@rosedale.org> Subject: Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 10:34:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 298 (557) This revised conference announcement contains a list of "confirmed" speakers. Another announcement will be sent at a later date with the complete list of speakers. * ---------------------------------------------------------------- * ***************************************************** * * * The Educational Testing Service * * Conference on Natural Language Processing * * Techniques in Assessment and Education * * * ***************************************************** Dates: May 18th - 19th, 1994 Location: Chauncey Conference Center Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Princeton, New Jersey 08541 Conference Purpose: Natural Language Processing Techniques have been found to be increasingly useful in the domains of assessment and education. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from both the NLP, and assessment and education communities and to share ideas about how NLP techniques can be implemented to aid in tasks for assessment and education. Speakers are being invited from industry and academia to discuss their research and applications of NLP in assessment and education. We anticipate that the conference will encourage on-going discussion between the NLP, and assessment and education communities. Speakers include: Karen Kukich (Bellcore) George Miller (Princeton University) Lisa Rau (General Electric-Corporate Research and Development) Thomas Landauer (Bellcore) Louis Gomez (Northwestern University) Steve Clyman (National Board of Medical Examiners) Ana Bersky (National Council of State Boards of Nursing) Linda Suri (Educational Testing Service) Topics: * NLP Techniques for Assessment of Natural Language Responses to Test Items * Computer-Aided Design in Education * Automatic Spelling Correction for Automated Scoring of Natural Language Responses * Intelligent Tutors The conference will be held at the Chauncey Conference Center on ETS' Princeton campus. Chauncey Conference Center has rooms for conference guests who choose to stay overnight. The price of the conference varies depending on the type of accommodations requested. Prices for DAY GUESTS and OVERNIGHT GUESTS are the following. DAY GUESTS: OVERNIGHT GUESTS: (1-DAY Complete Package) $60.00 includes: $225/single Continental Breakfast $170/twin Lunch --------------------------- Coffee Break Dinner Meeting Overnight Dinner ($28.00 extra) Continental Breakfast Lunch Coffee Break Meeting COSTS FOR ENTIRE CONFERENCE: DAY GUEST: $120: 2 Days OVERNIGHT GUEST: $285 (single): 1-DAY COMPLETE MEETING PACKAGE + 1 DAY $230 (twin): 1-DAY COMPLETE MEETING PACKAGE + 1 DAY Registration is limited. Please return Reply Form and address inquiries to either Corrine Cohen, Eleanore DeYoung or Jill Burstein at the following addresses: Corrine Cohen Mailstop 16-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road Princeton, NJ 08541 phone: (609) 734-1108 Eleanore DeYoung Mailstop 17-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Rd. Princeton, NJ 08541 e-mail: edeyoung@rosedale.org phone: (609) 734-5834 Jill Burstein Mailstop 11-R Educational Testing Service Rosedale Rd. Princeton, NJ 08541 e-mail: jburstein@rosedale.org phone: (609) 734-5823 (Not available between November 8, 1993 - February 1, 1994) ------------------------------------------------------------- REPLY FORM Overnight guests must return Reply Form by March 15, 1994. Day guests must return Reply Form by April 18, 1994. Name: Affiliation: Address: Phone: Email: FAX: DAY GUEST I will attend for ______ day(s) Amount Enclosed $_________ at $60.00 per day. (If for one day, please specify either May 18 ___ or May 19 ___.) I would like Dinner at $28.00. $_________ OVERNIGHT GUEST I would like a 1-DAY COMPLETE PACKAGE for $225.00 (single) $_________ $170.00 (twin) $_________ (Please specify either May 18____ or May 19____.) I will attend the ENTIRE CONFERENCE for $285.00 (single) $________ $230.00 (twin) $________ Total Enclosed $________ Please make checks payable to the Educational Testing Service. From: jrl8980@tamuts.tamu.edu Subject: submission (not sure if you got it) Date: Sat, 13 Nov 93 21:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 299 (558) PLEASE ANNOUNCE!!! Deadline: April 1 TO STUDENTS & COLLEAGUES Announcing . . . THE BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY PRIZES FOR PAPERS The Bertrand Russell Society is offering Prizes for Papers for the second consecutive year. We will award two Prizes annually for the best papers, one prize for undergraduates, and one Prize for "young professionals" (graduate students, junior professors, non-academics). The Prize-winners will present their papers at the Society's next Annual Meeting, to be held in Toronto, July 8-10, 1994, in conjunction with meetings of the Humanist Association of Canada and the International Humanist and Ethical Union. All expenses will be paid, including travel, lodging, and meals. (Winners outside North America will receive a portion of their airfare.) Each Prize also includes a first-year membership in The Bertrand Russell Society. This includes a subscription to the quarterly _Russell Society News_ and to the semi-annual academic journal, _Russell_, published by the Russell Archives at McMaster University. Papers can be on any aspect of Russell's life, work, or influence. They must be suitable for presentation to a general audience. They may be broad or narrow in scope and in any of the many fields that interested Russell: logic, mathematics, ethics, history, politics, religion, education, peace, nuclear war, history of ideas, etc., etc., or on Russell's relations with his contemporaries. Papers should be suitable for a 40-minute presentation, that is, about 15 double-spaced pages of text. Submit a complete or nearly complete paper, not an abstract. State that you would, if chosen, attend the July 8-10, 1994 Annual Meeting. Those who have previously appeared on an Annual Meeting program are not eligible for these Prizes. Submit your paper by APRIL 1, 1994 to Prof. John Lenz, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. Telephone: (409) 845-4742; Fax: 409-845-6421; e-mail: jrlenz@tamu.edu. Prize winners for 1993 [the first year of the program] were Tyler Roberts, State University of New York, Fredonia, N.Y., U.S.A., "Russell, the Individual, and Society" and Stefan Andersson, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, "Russell's Search for Certainty in Mathematics and Religion." Alex Lo, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and Santosh Makkuni, State University of New York, Albany, N.Y., U.S.A. each received Honorable Mention. * * * The Annual Meeting is an informal weekend gathering of BRS members of diverse interests and backgrounds. We also award annually the Russell Society Award to an individual or organization whose work exemplifies Russell's ideals and the Russell Society Book Award for the best recent work on Russell. For information on the Bertrand Russell Society, send your snail-mail address to: jrlenz@tamu.edu. From: kwc@research.att.com (Ken Church) Subject: SECOND ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Date: 19 Nov 1993 21:08:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 300 (559) SECOND ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Call for Papers WHEN: August 4, 1994 (just before Coling-94) WHERE: Kyoto International Community House (Tentative), Kyoto, Japan Corpus linguistics continues to be a hot topic. Text is more available than ever before. All of this data provides a great opportunity, as evidenced by all of the recent activity in Europe, Asia and America, some of which was discussed at last year's meeting in Ohio, just before ACL-93. This year, there will be a special emphasis on parallel texts such as the Canadian Hansards. Parallel texts have been used to study machine translation, bilingual lexicography, and terminology research for human translators. As a result, there has been considerable interest in alignment programs that decide which parts of the source text correspond to which parts of the target text. Performance has been extremely promising, especially for pairs of European languages, though it remains an open question how well these methods might generalize to a broader range of language pairs such as English/Japanese. Authors should submit three copies of a full-length paper (5-10 pages) to the program chair by March 1, 1994. Paper submissions are strongly preferred over electronic submissions. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by April 15, 1994. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) Text Analysis Techniques: - alignment of parallel text - ``robust'' parsing - part of speech tagging - sense tagging - identification of phrases - collocation - morphology - discourse structure Applications: - Translation - Lexicography - Terminology - Information Retrieval (IR) - Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. - Spelling Correction Program Chairs: Pierre Isabelle Kenneth Church Program Committee: to be announced Registration fees: 10,000 Japanese yens Contact: Pierre Isabelle / WVLC2 CITI 1575 Chomedey Blvd. Laval, Quebec Canada H7V 2X2 e-mail: isabelle@citi.doc.ca From: Bjorn Granstrom <bjorn@speech.kth.se> Subject: ICPhs 95 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 09:52:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 301 (560) XIIIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHONETIC SCIENCES (ICPhS 95) Stockholm, Sweden, August 13-19, 1995 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - please respond (see end of mail) - please post/distribute Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you to the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 95. It will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 13-19, 1995. The congress is a joint venture of our two departments, but with organisational and scientific support from the entire Swedish phonetics community. As usual, the congress will invite contributions from all aspects of the phonetic sciences in the broadest sense. With four years between congresses in this series, we look forward to intense discussion and exchange of new results in phonetics. We believe that Stockholm, in August 1995, will be a good setting for this. The weather in Stockholm in August is often very comfortable, with long daylight and daily high temperatures around 20: C. The Stockholm Water Festival will most likely take place immediately preceding ICPhS 95. We are also pleased to report that the recent economic changes have made prices of accommodation and food in Sweden very reasonable for most visitors. Our two departments, the Swedish phonetics community and the Congrex congress bureau will do our best to make your stay both enjoyable and scientifically rewarding. Welcome to Stockholm in 1995! Bjorn Granstrom Olle Engstrand President Secretary General Speech Communication Linguistics and Music Acoustics Stockholm University KTH VENUE The congress will take place on the campus of Stockholm University, conveniently located near an underground station, a few stops from the city centre. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME The format of the congress will follow the pattern of earlier ICPhS meetings with a mixed format of plenary and semi-plenary lectures, topical workshops and symposia, poster sessions and parallel oral sessions. We invite participants to suggest topics for such events (see reply slip). SOCIAL PROGRAMME A reception at the Stockholm City Hall and a congress banquet will be included in the programme. Wednesday, August 16, will be a free day, with the possibility of visiting the many attractions of Stockholm and its vicinity. Post-congress tours will be offered through the congress bureau, Congrex. EXHIBITIONS Technical exhibitions and book exhibitions will be arranged as part of the congress PUBLICATION The proceedings will be available at the time of the congress. ACCOMMODATION A wide range of accommodation alternatives will be offered, from first class hotels to on-campus student accommodation and youth hostels. LANGUAGE The official language of the congress will be English. PRELIMINARY DATES AND DEADLINES September 1994 Call for participation/abstracts November 1994 Deadline for submission of abstracts January 1995 Notification of acceptance. Preregistration deadline for lower fees April 1995 Deadline for full paper May 1995 Distribution of congress programme August 13-19 1995 Congress CONGRESS SECRETARIAT ICPhS 95, c/o Congrex P.O. Box 5619 S-114 86 Stockholm Sweden Phone: +46-8-612 69 00, Fax: +46-8-612 62 92, Email: congrex@ask.se SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT ICPhS 95, Department of Linguistics Stockholm University S-106 91 Stockholm Sweden* Phone: +46-8-16 23 47, Fax: +46-8-15 53 89, Email: icphs95@speech.kth.se - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- REPLY SLIP (mail NOW to: congrex@ask.se ICPhS 95 Stockholm, Sweden August 13-19, 1995 * I would like to receive further information about ICPhS 95 * I preliminarily intend to submit a paper on the following topic: ............................................................................... ............................................................. ... * I would like to suggest the following topic(s) for a workshop/special session (all ideas are welcome, including suggestions on session organisers or invited participants): ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... 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Please mail, fax or email this information to ICPhS 95, Congrex, as soon as possible to guarantee that we reach you with further information about the congress. ------- End of Message From: lessard@francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard) Subject: CFP: spoken French (ASCII format) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 09:46:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 302 (561) APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS Colloque Langue parlee: stabilite, variation et representation Centre Donald Gordon Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada 3 - 5 mai 1994 Organisateurs: Departement d'etudes francaises, Queen's University Departement des lettres et communications, Universite de Sherbrooke Depuis quelques annees, on constate un interet croissant pour l'etude de la langue parlee, interet rendu possible, entre autres choses, par l'existence de corpus importants, par des moyens d'analyse informatisee et par des modeles theoriques plus orientes sur les realites de l'oralite. On voit maintenant dans la langue parlee, non pas une masse amorphe et mal structuree, mais plutot le produit d'un ensemble complexe de strategies et de contraintes. Le colloque se definit avant tout comme un lieu de rencontre pour ceux et celles qui se servent de corpus pour l'analyse du francais oral. Dans le but de fournir un forum commun pour les diverses orientations theoriques et methodologiques, nous invitons des propositions de communication portant sur les aspects phonetique, morphologique, lexical, syntaxique ou discursif de la langue parlee. Le colloque vise surtout le contexte quebecois et canadien; toutefois, des chercheurs travaillant sur d'autres varietes du francais sont invites a confronter leurs resultats avec les travaux canadiens et quebecois. Les propositions de communication, basees sur des recherches originales et non publiees, s'appuyeront sur des donnees empiriques, plutot que sur des exemples construits. Il n'y aura pas de seances paralleles. Nous prevoyons un maximum de 25 communications. Selon la formule consacree, les communications dureront 20 minutes chacune, plus 10 minutes pour les questions. Les propositions de communication d'une page, redigees en francais (sur papier, sur disquette en format WordPerfect ou ASCII, ou sous forme de courrier electronique) doivent parvenir aux responsables avant le 1er fevrier 1994. Toute proposition comprendra les nom, adresse, numero de telephone, numero de telecopieur et adresse electronique de l'auteur principal. Les reponses du comite d'evaluation seront envoyees avant le 1er mars 1994. Les auteurs retenus auront alors jusqu'au 1er avril 1994 pour soumettre le texte final d'un resume etendu (2000 mots). L'ensemble des resumes etendus sera distribue a tous les participants et participantes au colloque. Une selection des communications choisie par le comite d'evaluation sera publiee _in extenso_ dans un numero de la revue _Presence Francophone_. Adresse pour l'envoi des propositions de communication et pour renseignements supplementaires: Colloque ORALITE Departement d'etudes francaises Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-545-2088 Fax: 613-545-6522 Email: lessard@francais.queensu.ca From: "Nancy Davis Bray" <nbray@mail.gac.peachnet.edu> Subject: conference at Georgia College Date: Tue, 23 Nov 93 09:55:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 303 (562) I am not a member of your listserv, but wondered if the following would be of any interest to your subscribers: An international symposium commemorating the 30th anniversary of writer Flannery O'Connor's death will take place April 13-16, 1994, at Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia. "The Habit of Art: An Interdisciplinary Celebration of the Legacy of Flannery O'Connor" will focus on the vitality and diversity of O'Connor's influence, not only on writing, but on the visual and performing arts. Activities will include dance and musical performances, art exhibits, readings by renowned writers, and discussions, lectures, and tours. Writers Jill McCorkle, Cecil Dawkins, Lee Smith, Louise Erdrich, and Joyce Carol Oates will read from their works. There will be exhibitions featuring the works of artists Douglas Powers, Martha Dillard, Chris Daunt, and Barry Moser. Guitarist Leo Kottke will perform, and there will be a premiere performance of a mass written in O'Connor's honor by composer Clyde Tipton. Actress Polly Holliday will read O'Connor's "Revelation," and Sue Schroeder's Several Dancers Core will perform a piece choreographed to O'Connor's work. Professor Ralph Wood of Wake Forest University will be the keynote speaker on a panel of theologians and literary scholars, which will include professors Willie B. Jennings of the Duke Divinity School, Henry Russell of Anderson College and Sharyn Dowd of Lexington Theological Seminary. Professor Louise Westling of the University of Oregon will discuss O'Connor's literary legacy and Sally Fitzgerald will speak on O'Connor's friendships. For detailed information on conference registration, scholarly sessions, community events, and accommodations, FAX Georgia College at (912) 453- 6271, call (912) 453-6928 between 8 and 10 a.m. EST Monday-Friday, or write Department of English, Georgia College, Campus Box 44, Milledgeville, Georgia 31061-0490. Thanks for your help. Nancy Davis Bray Special Collections Georgia College Library Milledgeville, GA 31061 Internet: nbray@mail.gac.peachnet.edu From: Sebastien Jean <sebastij@ERE.UMONTREAL.CA> Subject: artificial intelligence Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 21:22:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 367 (563) Here's something that certainly should be circulated on Humanist. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hello, I found this item in a group which doen't sound the most appropriate for it, so I am forwarding it in this group where it might have more effect. Jean Sebastien sebastij@ere.umontreal.ca [deleted quotation] From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: Special issue of journal on CMC (again) Date: 24 Nov 1993 16:01:30 U X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 368 (564) Call for Papers on CMC (second notice - apologies for multiple copies) INSTRUCTIONAL SCIENCE - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEARNING AND COGNITION It is proposed to produce a special issue devoted to applications of CMC in education and training. If sufficient papers of high quality are received it may be a double issue. Contributors who wish to register an interest should contact the guest editors NOW. (With abstracts to follow by 3 December 1993). Please e-mail D.A.O.BARRY@OPEN.AC.UK direct or reply via me, S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK I have appended a copy of the original notice below for information. Cheers Simon Rae, User Services Officer, | S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) Academic Computing Service, | S.A.RAE@UK.AC.OPEN (JANET) The Open University, Milton Keynes. | phone: (0908) 652413 MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. | fax: (0908) 653744 [deleted quotation] Call for Contributors ... forwarded on from: D.A.O.Barry@open.ac.uk (apologies if you get this more than once!) INSTRUCTIONAL SCIENCE - AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEARNING AND COGNITION Special issue on the use of Computer Mediated Communication to support learning. It is proposed to produce a special issue devoted to applications of CMC in education and training. If sufficient papers of high quality are received it may be a double issue. Contributers who wish to register an interest should contact the guest editors NOW. (With abstracts to follow by 3 December 1993) Email may be sent to:- D.A.O.BARRY@OPEN.AC.UK Further information about the Special issue. ******************************************** CMC is no longer a novel, interesting technology seen to have an enormous (but so far unfulfilled) potential for the support of the learning process. While still largely novel in the world of education and training there have been a number of cases in which it has been used. It has begun to move beyond the pilot stage where merely using CMC at all was remarkable enough (and worth reporting) to the implementation stage. There are increasingly many examples of creative and innovative uses of CMC and an increasing need for practioners to share their often hard won insights into what makes CMC succeed or fail (or even what counts as success or failure). The papers we wish to attract will report experiences of CMC in use. They may do this from a wide range of points of view (including aspects NOT mentioned in this notice!) examples of topic areas could include:- *introducing CMC into an institution ("selling CMC?") *aspects of instructional design where CMC is to be used *Orientating tutors to CMC *problems in using CMC *CMC and Distance Study *CMC in support of otherwise conventional courses *CMC in support of tutors *CMC and the non traditional student *CMC and the disabled *Evaluating courses that use CMC *Training in the use of CMC For the purposes of this discussion CMC includes computer conferencing (usually, but not always asynchronous), electronic mail (which would cover Listservers and UNIX news) and bulletin boards. It is assumed to be a text based medium but news of multimedia applications would be welcomed as would accounts of the combination of CMC with other teleconferencing media such as audioconferencing and video conferencing. The implications for CMC users of the INTERNET and the Clinton administration's "information highways" initiative might be another fruitful area. Paul Barber David Barry From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET> Subject: German Job Opening / U at Buffalo Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 18:56:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 369 (565) POSITION AVAILABLE The German program at the University at Buffalo is seeking an Assistant Pro- fessor for tenure-track appointment beginning in Fall 1994. Applicants should hold the Ph.D in German linguistics, demonstrate commitment to teaching and research in applied linguistics, and have strong credentials as a teacher with excellent proficiency in German. A background in educational technology, especially CAI, is highly desirable, as is interest in German cultural studies. The successful candidate will teach general and applied linguistics of German to graduates and undergraduates, share supervision, as necessary, of German instruction and training of graduate assistants, and cooperate with faculty in the department and in other units to improve lan- guage learning, develop uses for instructional technology, and plan curricula for training high school and college language teachers. Occasional teaching in university-wide, interdisciplinary programs for undergraduates such as "Ame- rican Pluralism" may also be required. Women and members of minority groups are strongly urged to apply. The University at Buffalo is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Letters of application and dossier should be sent by December 10 to: Prof. Michael M. Metzger German Search Committee Chair Department of Modern Languages 910 Clemens Hall Buffalo NY 14260 From: Richard Giordano <rich@COMPUTER-SCIENCE.MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Subject: Another job at Manchester Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 13:48:34 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 370 (566) Greetings again fellow humanists. The Department of Computer Science is undertaking a research project in conjunction with the University's Enterprise in Higher Education initiative to develop computer-based learning (CBL) courseware for problem oriented learning specifically aimed at teaching from case studies in information systems design. We are looking for someone to help us set-out a research agenda in the Department to support computer-based learning, and to strengthen our existing relationships with publishers, and to forge new ones. Applicants should have a good honours or postgraduate degree preferably in education, cognitive science, or a related field, but we will consider applicants with degrees in other fields who have relevant work experience. Experience in one or more of the following areas would be advantageous: authoring tools, learning strategies and producing CBL courseware. There would be opportunities to register for a higher degree. The period of contract would be nine months in the first instance, tenable from 1st January 1994. The post is possibly renewable in September 1994. Salary will be on Grade 1b in the range 12828-14396 pro-rata for nine months initially. For application forms and further information, please contact T.J.Howkins, Dept.,of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, fax 061-275-6236, Email tjh@cs.man.ac.uk. Closing date for applications 10th December 1993. From: Richard Giordano <rich@COMPUTER-SCIENCE.MANCHESTER.AC.UK> Subject: Lectureship at Manchester Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 12:35:11 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 371 (567) Fellow Humanists: It might at first appear odd to post an announcement for a lectureship in computer science on the Humanist Discussion, but I want to ensure that people in the computational linguistics, advanced text processing, and information systems (including multi-media information systems), communities are fully aware that there is a possible teaching and research opportunity for them at this department. This is a large and open-minded department, which defines computer science in the broadest possible context: we have about 55 academic staff and about 65 full time researchers, and some of the strongest research facilities in Europe. We are a very diverse group: on my corridor alone, two people have medical degrees, one is a psychologist, there are two computer scientists, and then there is yours truly with degrees in American Intellectual History (I teach systems analysis and design as well as organizational behavior). Around the corner you'll find a PhD in philosohy, computational linguistics, physics. As with any CS Department, most of our teaching staff have CS or Mathematics degrees. If you have the background and experience where you feel that you can make a real contribution to Computer Science, both in teaching and in research, please feel free to contact us. I personally feel that we need people in the areas of advanced text processing, information systems design, advanced networking, computational linguistics and cognitive science. My colleagues may feel otherwise when decision-time comes, but don't select yourself out if you think you might have the right background and experience. We are serious when we say that we are looking for quality, not for a specific subject area. Please send me some email if you'd like more information. My address is rich@cs.man.ac.uk. You can call me at work at +44 61 275-6266, but remember that Manchester is 5 hours ahead of New York. By the way, I'm American (having been here now for three years), so I'll be happy to answer any questions about living in England or Manchester for my compatriots. /rich [deleted quotation] From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au Subject: Job Announcement: Monash University Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1993 13:01:57 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 372 (568) MONASH UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: FRENCH -- LECTURER, LEVEL B Applications are invited for a fixed-term appointment of five years to begin in July 1994 (but an earlier start may be possible). Applicants should have native or near-native proficiency in French, experience and an active interest in language teaching, and strong reseach interests in any aspect(s) of French Studies. An ability to contribute to courses in twentieth century studies may be an advantage. Deadline: January 10, 1994. Applications and enquiries to Professor Brian Nelson in the Department of Romance Languages, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Vic. 3168, Australia, on (03) 565 2215 Fax: (3) 565 2137. Applicants should supply the names, phone and fax numbers of at least three referees. From: big5mrs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Subject: positions available Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 15:50:54 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 373 (569) Several tenure track posibtions available in Dept. of English of Chicago State University, 9501 S. King Dr., Chicago, Il 60628. Seeking expertise in Secondary Endglish Education, linguistics, prof/tech writing, journalism, and ESL, in most advantageous combination with strong ability in composition teaching. PhD and experience required. Rank/salary to be determined. Women/minorities encouraged to apply. Send vita, 3 recommendations and graduate transcript by Dec. 6 to Prof. Joyce A. Joyce, Chairl, Search Committee. (Fax 312/995-3809) ./ From: Noam Flinker <RHLE810@UVM.HAIFA.AC.IL> Subject: Job Opening for Linguist Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 00:44:02 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 374 (570) The English Department of the University of Haifa is looking for a full-time, tenure track linguist beginning in 1994-95. We are especially interested in a sociolinguist and/or a semanticist. Ph.D. required. Some publications preferred. Contact Dr. S. Gilead, Chairperson, English Department, U. of Haifa, Mt. Carmel 31905, Haifa, ISRAEL. Fax: 972 4 240128. E-Mail RHFL401@UVM.HAIFA.AC.IL From: Sara Brownmiller <SNB@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Software for the TLG Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1993 08:59:59 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 375 (571) We are considering switching the software we use to search the TLG cd-rom from a DOS based software to one that is used on a Macintosh. Some of the softwares we are considering are Pandora, the TLG Engine combined with Any Text Search Engine, or Ibycus. I would appreciate receiving any comments, experiences or evaluations you have of these softwares and their usefulness in searching the TLG. Please send comments to Sara Brownmiller, Coordinator, Electronic Resources, University of Oregon Library; snb@oregon.uoregon.edu. Thanks in advance for your help. Sara Brownmiller From: "Marta Steele" <Marta_Steele@pupress.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Greek in WP5.1 Date: 17 Nov 93 13:20:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 376 (572) Elaine, Do you know of anyone on the list who could advise me how to create a macro for overwriting within the system I have mostly completed for typing Greek directly onto keyboard in WordPerfect 5.1? I want to avoid having to create all possible vowel and diacritic combinations that exist in ancient Greek; an overwrite macro would allow me to code all diacritics onto keys and then just type in the Greek vowel needed. I know it's complicated, but perhaps some extremely knowledgeable person could "talk" me through it. I've had courses through the intermediate level of WP5.1. thank you, Marta Steele Princeton University Press (Marta_Steele@PUPRESS.princeton.edu) From: mbathrick@vnet.IBM.COM Subject: Source of epitaph sought Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 11:14:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 377 (573) In my gravestone research I've come across the following epitaph often. Can anyone refer me to the source? Nor sex, nor age can death defy Think mortal what it is to die Any help is appreciated Mike From: A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0293 Qs: Grammar Checkers; OCR; Address; Philosophy (5/71) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 12:35:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 378 (574) [deleted quotation] I second that! -- Avril Henry A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Courier to Kiev needed Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 13:09:45 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 379 (575) Once more I need help in delivering some materials to Chernobyl victim and poet Liubov Sirota. Hoping to come to the U.S. she sent me the originals of many of her publications plus copies of her medical records. It turned out that we could not finance her trip here; so I cannot return the materials by hand as I had hoped. I would much appreciate it if someone headed for Kiev would be willing to carry the documents (mostly copies of magazines which have printed stories about her or printed her poems) back to her. I don't trust the mails. There is nothing contraband or dangerous about any of this stuff, but it needs the personal touch. She is a very friendly and interesting person and deserving of help. If you can assist, please email me: brians@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: Allegre Christian <allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Persian language wordprocessing Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1993 10:59:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 380 (576) Dear Editor, Could you post the following message to the list: A friend of mine from the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, not member of this list, needs to do word-processing in Persian on a Macintosh. Does anyone know of software doing this or have any element of information about where I could find information. Please send answers directly to me: Thanks Christian Allegre Universite de Montreal Departement d'etudes francaises allegre@ere.umontreal.ca From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: differences Date: 24 Nov 1993 11:07:22 U X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 381 (577) My eldest boy is involved in a class presentation at his school on the subject of the USA. It's a class of 11 & 12 year olds and they are concentrating on the (perceived) differences between their UK culture and the US culture at a kid's level. I wondered if it would be possible for any Humanist's kids to send a note to him, via my e-mail address, saying what they feel about the differences (especially in view of Thanksgiving Day!) Joel, my son, seems to think that all american kids swear allegiance to the flag before doing anything and all play american football! (Such is the image received from TV!) Thanks in anticipation Simon Simon Rae | S.A.RAE@OPEN.AC.UK (Internet) The Open University, Milton Keynes. | phone: (0908) 652413 MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. | fax: (0908) 653744 From: chris <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za> Subject: narratology list Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 18:44:19 RSA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 382 (578) Dear Humanists, I would be very grateful for any information with regard to the following: 1. Is anybody aware of a list specialising on Narratology? 2. I would like to establish contacts with colleagues in Canada and New Zealand who specialise in Narratology, particularly in plot analysis - if you can help with addresses etc. or pass on this message this would be much appreciated ! 3. Should there be no Narratology list as yet I would be very grateful if Humanist colleagues working in this field could perhaps drop me a line. If you are interested I can also re-distribute the compiled info. Thanks a lot! Chris xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Prof. Jan Christoph Meister Department of Modern Languages and Literatures - German Studies - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa E-Mail: 120MEIS@WITSVMA.WITS.AC.ZA Tel.: (0027)11-716 3804 or 726 6640 Fax: (0027)11-403 2317 or 726 6640 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: "William A. JOHNSON" <WJOHNSON@uci.edu> Subject: Francois Jouan Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 12:52:21 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 383 (579) Does anyone have a current address for Francois Jouan? Our address for him is 19 rue des Carmelites, Caen 14300 France, but our most recent correspondence has been returned without a forwarding address. Many thanks, William A. Johnson Assistant Director and Director of Research Thesaurus Linguae Graecae University of California, Irvine (714) 856-7031, fax 856-8434 From: Arjan Loeffen C&L/RUU <Arjan.Loeffen@let.ruu.nl> Subject: ISO8879 in disk Date: 16 Nov 1993 10:09:42 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 384 (580) For those interested, I've got an electronic version of the productions in ISO8879-1986 (+ '88), and am willing to share it. You can get them in encoded form (NOT sgml, just ASCII with simple formatting codes), and/or in postscript (ordered by production reference number, or by syntactic variable. Note that it's ONLY the productions, not the complete text! I have not found any restriction in the ISO standard on using, copying or otherwise dissiminating the ISO standard, so I guess there's no restriction in passing this file. Send a mail to LOEFFEN@LET.RUU.NL (internet), subject "ISO8879 copy". Arjan. From: zeitlyn@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Digitised transcript available via gopher Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1993 17:17:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 385 (581) Announcement. An electronic version of a transcript from a paper that appeared in the anthropology journal Man earlier this year has been placed in the archives of Yale Anthropology and is available via Gopher. This includes a digitised version of the original sound recordings as voice annotations (in MS Word 5.1 format for Macintosh) so the transcript can be read alongside the original recording which is an extract of a court room dispute in a village in Cameroon. The language spoken is Mambila, a (Niger Congo) Mambiloid language. The purpose of doing this is to make more of my data available. I trust that this will be of interest to linguists as well as to anthropologists. The file will be found in Anthropology and Archaeology Archives at Yale University within the directory called Menu for Anthropological Resources. the file is called Digitised article from Man -- David Zeitlyn In order to protect the copyright of the RAI (the journal publishers) only the transcript is being made. The full reference to the article is: David Zeitlyn, 1993. Reconstructing Kinship or the pragmatics of kin talk. Man (n.s.) 28(2), 199-224. David Zeitlyn British Academy Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PF, UK. From: Cathy Ball <CBALL@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Re: Concordancing Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1993 12:16:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 386 (582) Timothy Reuter and Willard McCarty observe that there may be considerable preliminary work required before producing a concordance, e.g. in editing or marking up the text for morphology, syntax, or even semantic categories. The production of electronic editions and annotated text is certainly scholarship, and *that*'s what deserves the kudos - in fact, it seems to me that it's the electronic editions that ought to be published; then the rest of the scholarly community can use what tools they prefer for their own literary and linguistic analysis! -- Cathy Ball (Georgetown) cball@guvax.georgetown.edu From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: e-texts on CD-ROM Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 11:32:37 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 387 (583) In answer to Ian's question about e-texts on CD-ROM. Being a CDROM freak, I own all of these, most of them strongly overlapping: The Complete Bookshop is originally from Chestnut. It is a potpourri of programs of all sorts, mostly shareware; it also contains a number of texts, and is best used by your own viewer. The front-end is rudimentary. Desktop Bookshop, from Unica, is a mirror of the old Walnut Creek Desktop Library, with the exception that it no longer contains Peter Pan. Best used with LIST or some such. Great Literature is somewhat more sophisticated in its front-end than the above two, and costs a little more. They all contain much the same texts. It is the product of the Bureau Development Corporation. Greatest Books Collection is by World Library and is a subset of their Library of the Future, containing 150 titles. Library of the Future, 1st edition, contained about 450 titles. It is put out by World Library and is marketed (usually in a bundle) by DAK, as Ian pointed out. Good front-end. If you get it from DAK, good launcher. Library of the Future, 2d edition, contains about 950 titles. This is the Cadillac/Rolls-Royce of the e-texts on CD-ROM, though Desktop Bookshop has more texts, I think. All of the above have only English language items. The translations are frequently good (Dryden), frequently miserable. There are, of course, no modern editions, since copyright has to have lapsed. Since all but the Library of the Future items can often be purchased for under $20.00, it is well to look them up in Computer Shopper before buying, even in the UK. ! Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Dante e-texts Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 11:38:27 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 388 (584) I don't know of any Dante e-texts, but of course Dartmouth has their Dante project online for interrogation by telnet. There are occasional snippets, such as my edition/translation of the Can Grande letter, available from various places, particular its origin at the University of Pennsylvania (thanks to O'Donnell). It seems to me that there is a great deal of duplication, wasted effort, etc. We all ought to back the Georgetown Project and list our works in progress. There is more to be done than can be done, and it would be good for all of us to keep up with the bibliographic tools available online for keeping up. Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Jongleur de Notre Dame Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 18:36:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 389 (585) The medieval source for this story has been published by a number of people. It was discovered in 1872 by Wendelin Foerster, who published it in the 2d volume of Romania (1873). It is often referred to as Tumbeor de Nostre Dame, in German as Der Springer unserer lieben Frau. Anatole France loved the Miracles of the Virgin and took many themes from Gautier de Coincy. There is an excellent edition of the Old French by H. Waechter, "Der Springer unserer lieben Frau," Romanische Forschungen 11.1 (1897). He mentions several modern works based on the story, even at that early date. It _is_ a splendid example of medieval recta ratio theory, "do your thing and you will be saved." I think I saw a recent translation into English, perhaps in the Toronto series. Jim Marchand. From: Joe Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM> Subject: Re: 7.0294 E-Texts: CDs; Goethe; Thoreau; Irish; Dante; Treaties; Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 14:13:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 390 (586) Back in the 1960s, Antonio Zampolli at CNUCE in Pisa published a concordance to either Dante or the Divine Comedy. He must still have the etext and may have put it out on CD ROM. If he hasn't, a request for it may motivate him to do so. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Goethe on diskette Date: Sun, 14 Nov 93 18:44:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 391 (587) There is indeed an e-Goethe, published by the Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen. The texts are encoded in WordCruncher format and are meant to be used through WordCruncher. Our library has a copy, I think. It _is_ expensive, but it is so easy to use. It is the Hamburger Ausgabe, so is not entirely complete, and you have to take it as it is, but it is something. The editors are, I think, Randy Jones and Stephen Sondrup. It seems to be expensive, and it comes on lots of diskettes, but it is good and usable, since we are not likely to have printed concordances of Goethe for some time. For my money, it is better than a printed concordance. It began to be published in 1989. Jim Marchand. From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 12:56:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 309 (588) Posted at the request of Michael Hall of NEH. This file and that listing the corresponding program of seminars for secondary and other school teachers are also available on gopher through ccat.sas.upenn.edu under menu item 12, Other Information and Services. Other gophers are welcome to point to that menu entry to make the information availble on their own clients. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 1994 SUMMER SEMINARS FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS Stipend and Duration: Eight-week seminars: $4,000 Seven-week seminars: $3,600 Six-week seminars: $3,200 Five-week seminars: $2,825 Four-week seminars: $2,450 Eligibility: Applicants must have completed their professional training by March 1, 1994. Although an applicant need not have an advanced degree in order to qualify, candidates for degrees are not eligible. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. How to Apply For detailed information about the requirements and subject matter of individual seminars and 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 1, 1994, and awards will be announced on March 28. ANTHROPOLOGY ANDREI SIMIC Department of Anthropology University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089 Understanding Culture Through Visual Media Films and other visual media, as aids in studying ethnography and as cultural artifacts themselves Location: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) See also: Foreign and Comparative Literature--Foley History--Perdue and Green ARTS ROBERT BAILEY AND DAVID PITUCH Department of Music New York University New York, New York 10003 Richard Wagner's Festival Dramas Wagner's revolution in opera and its literary, social, and philosophical contexts Location: NYU and BAYREUTH, GERMANY June 27 to August 19, 1994 (eight weeks) WALTER M. FRISCH Department of Music c/o Summer Session Office 419 Lewisohn Hall Columbia University New York, New York 10027 Music and German Modernism, 1885-1915 The transition from romantic music, focusing on Mahler, Strauss, and Schoenberg, with attention to modernism in the other arts June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) ELAINE K. GAZDA AND MIRANDA MARVIN Kelsey Museum of Archaeology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 The Roman Art of Emulation The theoretical problem of artistic imitation, with attention to Roman sculpture and its Greek prototypes Location: AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME June 6 to July 22, 1994 (seven weeks) JOHN T. PAOLETTI AND WENDY S. SHEARD Art Department Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut 06459 Constructing the Image of the State, the Family, and the Individual in Renaissance Florence and Venice Works of art as expressions of political identity and of familial and individual self-image June 27 to August 5, 1994 (six weeks) See also: Foreign and Comparative Literature--Kaes, Scher, Ungar and Andrew History--Spitzer and Walters CLASSICS STEPHEN L. DYSON Department of Classics State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, New York 14260 The History and Legacy of the Western Roman Empire Recent research on the Romanization of Europe, examining conquest, continuity, and resistance, with comparisons to other colonial systems June 27 to August 5, 1994 (six weeks) TIMOTHY E. GREGORY Department of History Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 Classical Archaeology in a Greek Context: Theory and Practice The history and theoretical basis of classical archaeology, explored through participation in work at the Isthmia excavation site Location: CORINTH, GREECE June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks) See also: Arts--Gazda and Marvin Religion--Gager ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER Department of English Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36949 Biography and the Uses of Biographical Evidence: The Restoration through the Eighteenth Century The relationship between critical theories of biography and the practices of locating, interpreting, and using evidence Location: PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON June 22 to August 10, 1994 (seven weeks) JAMES E.B. BRESLIN Department of English University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Biography: Theory, Practice, History Implications for the study and writing of biography posed by critiques of "the author," "events," "documents," etc. June 20 to August 12, 1993 (eight weeks) GILES B. GUNN Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106 Pragmatism and Cultural Criticism The disciplinary diffusion of pragmatism in contemporary theory, and its roots in works of Emerson, Dewey, and the Jameses June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) ELIZABETH D. KIRK Department of English Brown University Providence, Rhode Island 02912 Worlds on Pilgrimage: Piers Plowman and the Canterbury Tales The responses of Langland and Chaucer to literary and religious traditions and social change, examined in the context of developments in medieval studies June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) R.W.B. LEWIS Department of English c/o NEH Summer Seminars Yale Summer and Special Programs 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722 The Literary Figure and the Public Scene The writer who speaks out on social and political challenges as a recurring figure in American cultural history from Thoreau to Ralph Ellison July 18 to August 12, 1994 (four weeks) A. WALTON LITZ AND TIM REDMAN Department of English Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Ezra Pound and his Contemporaries Pound as a poet-critic among such figures as Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, and H.D., with attention to their Italian connections Location: POUND ARCHIVE, MERANO, ITALY July 4 to August 12, 1994 (six weeks) ANNE K. MELLOR Department of English University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90024 Romanticism and Gender Constructions and representations of masculinity and femininity in poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by canonical and unfamiliar writers June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks) JAMES OLNEY Department of English Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Memory, Narrative, and Life-Writing The twin processes of remembering and narrating a life story, through case histories, fiction, and autobiography June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) DONALD E. PEASE Department of English Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Civil Imagination, 1845-1900 Literary representations of civic life and their transformation by the Civil War, as seen through seven American writers June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks) JOHN J. RICHETTI Department of English University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Social Change in Early Modern Britain and the Rise of the Novel The eighteenth-century novel as a form of cultural production, viewed against a background of social and political change June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) A. LaVONNE B. RUOFF Department of English University of Illinois at Chicago 601 S. Morgan Street Chicago, Illinois 60680 American Indian Written Literature Influences of tribal oral traditions and non-Indian literature on autobiographies and fiction from 1829 to the present June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks) ERIC J. SUNDQUIST Department of English University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90024 Literature of the Civil Rights Era Post-World War II novels, prose, and poetry written by blacks and whites, linked with sources in law, social theory, and film July 4 to August 12, 1994 (six weeks) FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE DAVID BATHRICK Department of German Studies Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 The Writer and the Socialist State The rise of opposition to the state among literary intellectuals, focussing on the German Democratic Republic June 6 to July 22, 1994 (seven weeks) JOHN M. FOLEY Center for Studies in Oral Tradition University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65211 The Oral Tradition in Literature Theories of creation and transmission, studied in living oral literature, the Bible, the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Cid June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks) BENJAMIN HARSHAV Department of Comparative Literature c/o NEH Summer Seminars Yale Summer and Special Programs 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722 The Modern Jewish Renaissance: Literature, Culture, and History Modernity expressed in Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and in the works of assimilated Jews like Kafka and Freud June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) ANTON KAES Department of German University of California Berkeley, California 94720 The City and Modernity: Film, Literature, and Urban Culture in the Weimar Republic The responses of German filmmakers, writers, and intellectuals to mass culture and modernity Location: BERLIN June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) GIUSEPPE F. MAZZOTTA Department of Italian c/o NEH Summer Seminars Yale Summer and Special Programs 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510 Dante and the Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages The development of the soul in the Vita nuova and Divine Comedy, and its sources in theories and modes of education June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) EARL R. MINER Department of English Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Literary History in Conception and Practice The contemporary revival of literary history, explored with attention to literary theory and questions of justice, race, and gender June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) STEVEN P. SCHER Department of German Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 Literature and Music Interrelations of the two arts, studied through readings in German and English romantics, French symbolists, and contemporary writers June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks) MARCEL TETEL Department of Romance Studies Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27706 Framing the Tale in the Renaissance The meanings and perspectives of short narratives set within a written work (by Rabelais, Jeanne Flore, Boccaccio, et al.) and within a literary tradition June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks) KARL D. UITTI Department of Romance Languages Princeton University Ithaca, New York 14853 The Languages of "Courtliness" in Medieval Europe Literary understandings of courtesy, chivalry, and love, and their role in forming medieval values June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) STEVEN R. UNGAR AND J. DUDLEY ANDREW Program in Comparative Literature University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Images of the Nation in Interwar France Debates over nationhood and colonialism and their impact on high culture and the mass media, explored through the study of films and literature June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) HISTORY GREGORY L. FREEZE Department of History Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 Church, Religion, and Society in Modern Russia, 1860-1930 Religious reform, social revolution, and relations between the Orthodox church and the Soviet state, drawing on newly available archives Location: MOSCOW June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) PETER GAY Department of History c/o NEH Summer Seminars Yale Summer and Special Programs 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722 Psychoanalysis in History The promise and peril of applying psychoanalytic methods and insights to the writing of history June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) DAVID M. KATZMAN Hall Center for the Humanities Lawrence, Kansas 66045 The Growth of African-American Urban Communities Influences that shaped communities through the 1920s, with attention to migration, family, gender, education, social classes, and leadership June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) RACHEL C. LAUDAN General Science University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Images of Science, 1789-1914 Scientific writings and the public image of science in relation to changes in Europe's political and cultural ambience June 13 to July 22, 1994 (six weeks) THEDA PERDUE AND MICHAEL D. GREEN Department of History University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40507 The Ethnohistory of Southeastern Indians Ethnographers' questions applied to historical sources, exploring economic and political developments and the retention of ethnic identity June 13 to July 22, 1994 (six weeks) JOHN SPITZER AND RONALD WALTERS Peabody Conservatory 1 East Mt. Vernon Place Baltimore, Maryland 21202 American Song and Culture in the Nineteenth Century The words, music, and cover art of American songs as indicators of U.S. cultural history, explored through modern theories of popular culture Location: PEABODY CONSERVATORY and JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) ROBERT WOHL Department of History University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90024 Intellectuals and Power in Twentieth- Century Europe Modernist intellectuals in relation to political power, with attention to their responses to Fascism, Nazism, and Communism June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks) See also: Classics--Dyson, Gregory English and American Literature-- Backscheider PHILOSOPHY ALLEN E. BUCHANAN Department of Philosophy University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 The Philosophy of Political Self- Determination Philosophical understandings of political self-determination, examined through historical and contemporary case studies June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) THOMAS P. KASULIS Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210 Themes in Japanese Philosophy Reality, humanity, and creativity in the Buddhist, Shinto, Confucian, and modern academic traditions June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) LARRY L. LAUDAN Department of Philosophy University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 The Concept of Evidence Different philosophical standards for and accounts of evidence, with attention to natural science, psychiatry, history, and law June 13 to July 22, 1994 (five weeks) BERND MAGNUS Center for Ideas and Society University of California, Riverside Riverside, California 92521 Postmodernism: A Philosophical Genealogy Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, exploring the claim that philosophy has ended and become a literary genre June 27 to August 19, 1994 (eight weeks) RICHARD L. MENDELSOHN Ph.D. Program in Philosophy City University of New York 33 West 42nd Street New York, New York 10036 Reference: Language and Reality Theories of Frege, Russell, and contemporary philosophers, exploring how mind and language are connected to reality June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks) JAMES W. SCHMIDT University Professors Program Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 "What is Enlightenment?": Eighteenth- Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions German Enlightenment and 20th-century explorations of religious faith, public opinion, and political authority June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks) See also: English and American Literature--Gunn POLITICS AND SOCIETY JOEL BEST Department of Sociology Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois 62901 Social Problems: The Constructionist Stance The processes by which certain social conditions are labeled social problems, examined through historical and contemporary examples June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) ELLIS S. KRAUSS Department of Political Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 The Democratic Experience in Japan The emergence and evolution of democracy in postwar Japan, with comparisons to Western democratic philosophy and experience July 11 to August 12, 1994 (five weeks) ALAN J. RYAN Department of Politics Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 Democracy and Liberty in Mill and Tocqueville The prospects for liberal democracy and the dangers of "tyranny of the majority," studied through classic 19th- century analyses July 4 to July 29, 1994 (four weeks) VLADIMIR TISMANEANU Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in East Europe Today The collapse of Communism, the emergence of pluralism, and the prospects for democracy in eastern and central Europe June 27 to August 5, 1994 (six weeks) ALAN WOLFE Department of Sociology Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Morality and Society Kantian philosophy and Durkheimian sociology as approaches to moral obligation, used to analyze issues like affirmative action and abortion June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks) M. CRAWFORD YOUNG Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Cultural Pluralism and the Nation-State The political impact of cultural pluralism in the contemporary world, and the attempt to achieve unity in the face of diversity June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) See also: Philosophy--Buchanan RELIGIOUS STUDIES CALUM M. CARMICHAEL Department of Comparative Literature Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 Law and Religion in Biblical Antiquity Biblical law in relation to the historical narratives of the Bible, with attention to views of sexuality and statecraft Location: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks) JOHN G. GAGER Department of Religion Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 The Problem of Religion and Magic Assessments of the theory of magic evolving into religion and then to science, using anthropological, literary, and philosophical sources June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks) See also: History--Freeze Philosophy--Kasulis From: jschmidt@acs.bu.edu (james schmidt) Subject: NEH Summer Seminar Announcement Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 08:54:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 310 (589) CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - NEH SUMMER SEMINAR FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS I am writing to encourage applications for an NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers that I will be directing on the topic "What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth Century Answers and Twentieth Century Questions" at Boston University from June 13 to August 5, 1994. The seminar will explore the relationship between philosophical criticism, religious faith, public opinion, and political authority in a group of eighteenth-century German thinkers (including Kant, Mendelssohn, Jacobi, Hamann) and in the writings of such twentieth century thinkers as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno, Juergen Habermas, and Michel Foucault. The seminar will be interdisciplinary in character and applications from all disciplines are encouraged. To a large degree, the specific direction of the seminar will be shaped by the particular interests of the participants and applications proposing alternative ways of examining the nature and legacy of the Enlightenment are welcome. NEH Summer Seminars are intended primarily for individuals teaching undergraduate courses, full- or part-time, at two-, four- and five-year colleges and universities. Individuals who are not college teachers but who are qualified to carry out the work of the seminar are also eligible. Participants receive a stipend of $4000 to cover travel expenses, books, and living expenses. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. Individuals desiring more information and application forms should write to: Prof. James Schmidt University Professors Program Boston University 745 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 Completed applications must be received by March 1, 1994. From: The Centre for Lexical Information <CELEX@MPI.NL> Subject: CELEX lexical CD-ROM -- updated information Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 19:52 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 311 (590) Detailed information concerning the English, German and Dutch lexical databases on the CELEX CD-ROM can now be obtained by anonymous ftp from the Linguistic Data Consortium as follows: connect to: ftp.cis.upenn.edu go to directory: pub/ldc set transfer mode: binary get file: celex.readme (information about the CELEX CD) celex.intro.ps.Z (linguistic introduction) celex.userguide.tar.Z (the complete User Guide) The readme file is uncompressed and in ASCII-format. The other two, which correspond to sections of the hardcopy CELEX User Guide written by Gavin Burnage and which are subject to CELEX copyright, can be decompressed and output to a postscript-capable printer. The content of this document should provide answers to most questions regarding the content and use of CELEX. Persons outside of Europe who are interested in CELEX, but are unable to retrieve and print the introductory text themselves, may request a hard copy of the document from the LDC. Persons in Europe who want a hard copy of the document mailed to them, and anyone who still has technical questions after reading the document, should direct their inquiries to: Richard Piepenbrock CELEX Project Manager Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Wundtlaan 1 6525 XD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands Tel: (+31) (0)80 - 615797 Fax: (+31) (0)80 - 521213 EARN/BITNET: celex@hnympi51 Internet: celex@mpi.nl SURFNET: celex::celexmail JANET: celex%hnympi51@uk.ac.earn-relay Apart from making the introductory text freely available, the LDC is not equipped to provide detailed replies as to technical details of the CELEX CD-ROM. Please contact the LDC only if you need assistance in obtaining the document, or would like to purchase the disc. From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: RECENTIORES: network e-publishing in Latin Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 17:45:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 312 (591) (please repost) e-Recentiores: a marriage of paper and networked publishing I am happy to announce the availability of the first hard-copy volume in a new monograph series I edit for the University of Michigan Press. The series is called "Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts", and the first volume in it is by Michael Roberts of Wesleyan University: *Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The "Liber Peristephanon" of Prudentius*. In it, the author examines how Prudentius creates an idiom to express devotion to the martyrs, particularly in the structuring of narrative and the use of poetic language. Roberts demonstrates how Prudentius employs the model of the martyr cult to articulate the status of Christian literature, the role of the bishop in the Christian community, and the symbolic status of Rome in the Christian West. With the cooperation of the University of Michigan Press, and in particular of the press's director, Colin Day, and its classical/medieval editor, Ellen Bauerle, it is my intention to provide each volume in this series with some value-enhancing complement available at no charge over the Internet. For the Roberts volume, which deals with poems as vivid (not to say graphic) as they are little-known, it seems logical to provide a copy of the Latin text of all fourteen of the poems in the "Liber Peristephanon". These may be found on gopher in the directory called "Recentiores" (on the ccat.sas.upenn.edu gopher under menu item 12, but traceable by veronica from anywhere), whence they may be retrieved by gopher or by anonymous ftp. The text is an out-of- copyright text and may be copied and redistributed freely. Later volumes in the series will have different e-enhancements. For Robert Hollander's study of Dante's "Epistle to Cangrande", for example, the Latin text and an English translation of the letter itself (courtesy of James Marchand of the University of Illinois) are already available in the same place, along with the texts of lectures delivered last spring in London by Professor Hollander that form the basis of the book to be published in a month or so. For Siegfried Wenzel's "Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England", to appear in June, we expect to have a collection of some of the English/Latin sermons he studies, offering a body of material for further study much larger than could ever be economically published in hard cover along with the study itself. In similar ways, each volume in the series will be accompanied by some e-text(s) that add to what the published book can offer. For further information about the published volumes, contact the University of Michigan Press directly (by e-mail to michael_kehoe@um.cc.umich.edu or regular mail to Michael Kehoe, The University of Michigan Press, 839 Greene Street, P.O. Box 1104, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106) or your bookstore; for further information about the e-texts, contact the undersigned. A standard blurb for the series follows. Professor James J. O'Donnell Department of Classical Studies 720 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Voice: 215-898-8734 FAX: 215-898-0933 Internet: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Recentiores: Later Latin Texts and Contexts Series Editor: James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania) Editorial Board: Paula Fredriksen (Boston University), James W. Halporn (Indiana University), E. Ann Matter (University of Pennsylvania), Carol Neel (The Colorado College), Stephen G. Nichols (The Johns Hopkins University), Mary Wack (Washington State University) Latin culture survived Rome's fall by more than a millennium. The study of Latin texts and the cultural history they embody offers a rich vein still far from exhaustively mined. This series will embrace monographs, critical texts, and annotated translations from any period in the history of post-classical Latin writing. Literary history, manuscript studies, cultural history, the 'liberal arts' and the technical literature they spawn, and what may still be called 'intellectual history' of all periods will be welcome -- from late antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. The following volumes have appeared or are firmly scheduled to appear in early 1994: Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University): *Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs: The "Liber Peristephanon" of Prudentius* Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993 [available now] 232 pages ISBN 0-472-10449-7 Robert Hollander (Princeton University) *Dante's Epistle to Cangrande* Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994 [due in February] 150 pages ISBN 0-472-10476-4 Siegfried Wenzel (University of Pennsylvania) *Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England* Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994 [due in June] c. 400 pages ISBN 0-472-10521-3 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 392 (592) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- If you are still holding meetings in NYC, could I receive announcements of them? Thanks. From: Dr. S. Totosy Subject: 7.0308 Rs: Concording; Dante; Goethe; Jongleur; CDs (6/105) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 23:36:52 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 393 (593) Comparative Literature University of Alberta For the e-Goethe: Stephen Sondrup is at Brigham Young and has e-mail. Regards, S. Totosy From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 394 (594) [deleted quotation] You should take a look at HiJaak Pro, Version 2.0 from Inset Systems. It is their latest Windows version and it supports just about any graphics format you can think of. It also provides several options for screen capture to allow you to capture a window, the entire screen, or an area which you define. You can then save the captured image as a graphics file or copy it directly into your application. PhotoFinish PC Paintbrush, and, to a limited degree, the Windows Paintbrush program will let you edit the graphics file to suit your needs. If you are only interested in screen snap shots, no editing is required with HiJaaK Pro. I don't have Inset's address handy, but they can be reached on CompuServe by typing GO INSET. They should also be listed in any computer magazine. Another program you may want to try is Shootit. It is shareware and available at various ftp sites. It does a good job capturing an area of the screen which you define. However, it will only allow you to paste the bitmap into a another Windows application. You cannot save the file from within shootit. If you want a clean capture of the screen, it is easier to do it with HiJaak Pro. HiJaak Pro retails for about $ 180 I believe, but Inset offers an educational discount. Hope this helps. Regards, Gerhard Obenaus Translation Laboratory University of Iowa gerhard-obenaus@uiowa.edu From: Joanna Johnson <johnson@offsv1.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Position in Humanities Computing Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 11:23:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 314 (595) HUMANITIES COMPUTING The Faculty of Humanities of McMaster University seeks an expert in Humanities Computing to assist in developing technologically-aided research and teaching. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in a humanities discipline and be assigned part-time to an appropriate academic department. Demonstrated skills in research and teaching and strong capacities for leadership are essential qualities. General familiarity is expected with the operating systems and architecture for both IBM PC and Macintosh platforms, multi-media technology, instructional software delivery systems and trends in technology-assisted instruction and research. Responsibilities will include the design and teaching of undergraduate courses in humanities computing, overall supervision of the Humanities Word Processing Centre and Instructional Laboratories, liaison with the University's committees on computing and technology, the identification of appropriate markets for self-study materials, and encouragement to colleagues to develop new instructional techniques and course formats. The position is subject to final budgetary approval and will initially be contractually limited to two years but convertible to tenure track. Base salary for Assistant Professor is $39,981. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and letters from three or more referees, should be addressed to Dr. Evan Simpson, Dean of Humanities, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9. Those received before February 15, 1994 will be assured of consideration. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. McMaster is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and women. From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: Dec 8 NEACH: George Vallasi Date: Sat, 27 Nov 93 9:27:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 315 (596) An Invitation from NEACH: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities [Please share this announcement but forgive any cross-listings] NEACH invites you to hear George Vallasi, vice president of Chernow Editorial Services, speaking on "Software for a Big Text Project: the Columbia Encyclopedia" on Wednesday, December 8, 1993 at 1:30 p.m. in room 25B of the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York City. Mr. Vallasi will discuss the strengths and limitations of existing software and the needs for writing new software for large text and information management projects. Vice president of Chernow Editorial, Vallasi co-edited the _Columbia Encyclopedia_ (5th ed., Houghton Mifflin and Columbia), the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia_ (2nd ed.), _The Reader's Adviser_ (13th ed., Bowker), and the _Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence_ (Wiley). He is chair of the XyWrite SIG of New York. Chernow Editorial Services is at 1133 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10010. Put the NEACH meeting schedule for 1993-1994 in your calendar: Wed. Dec. 8 Software for a Big Text Project: Columbia Encyclopedia George Vallasi, Chernow Editorial Tentative 1994 dates: Jan. 11, Feb. 9, Mar. 8, Apr. 13, May 10 All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. NEACH meetings usually alternate between the second Tuesday and the second Wednesday of the month from October to May. Visitors to the IBM Building must obtain a pass at the entry desk on the ground floor: be sure to ask for "Humanities" or "NEACH." NEACH is an affiliate of the ACH, the Association for Computers & the Humanities. Separate NEACH and joint ACH/NEACH memberships for 1994 are now available. For membership information, contact Nan Hahn, NEACH Treasurer, Benjamin Databank, 322 Second Street, Dunellen, N. J. 08812, USA. Telephone: (908) 752-5841. E-mail: 72066.644@compuserve.com . Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President Department of English, Rutgers University, Newark, N. J 07102 (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Query: TLG by FTP? Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 17:53:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 395 (597) It's been a while since I've used the Thesaurus Linguae Grecae, and I wonder if (a) it's finished and corrected and (b) it's available by FTP. (Actually, I doubt the latter is the case because that would mean it's free, right?) I've been told it's available on CD-ROM -- does anyone know about this? Please reply to me directly, and if there's interest, I'll post a summary to the group. Thanks! Joan C. Cook Department of Linguistics Georgetown University gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: L. T. Milic Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 21:55:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 396 (598) Could someone on the list tell me how to contact Louis T. Milic, pioneer in literary computing, based in Ohio? 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: Arno_Bosse@NeXT.COM (Arno Bosse (Temp)) Subject: Afrikaans Literature Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 16:15:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 397 (599) Hello, Can anyone recommend a list of essential Afrikaans literature from approximately 1933 onwards? "Essential" in the sense of influential, important or classic. Also, does anyone know the address of a bookstore that carries Afrikaans titles in Europe? many thanks, Arno Bosse Univ. of Munich abosse@romulus.reed.edu From: "Shef Rogers" <CROGERS@gandalf.otago.ac.nz> Subject: Call for Papers--5th Int'l Milton Symposium Date: 30 Nov 1993 9:32:58 GMT+1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 317 (600) The Fifth International Milton Symposium will be held in Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, 9-14 July 1995. The local organiser is Thomas N. Corns (e-mail: ELS009@ BANGOR.AC.UK) and the Chair of the Programme Committee is H. Neville Davies of the University of Birmingham. The Symposium will be wide-ranging, and the Programme Committee welcomes papers on any significant aspect of Milton's life, work and context. Papers must be amenable to unhurried delivery in no more than twenty minutes. The Programme Committee will be pleased to receive proposals of about 300 words, though it may require to see the full text of papers before arriving at its decision. The deadline for submissions is 1 September 1994 (though the Programme Committee would welcome and will respond to earlier submissions). The Programme will be confirmed by 1 February 1995. Situated on the edge of Snowdonia National Park in a site of outstanding natural beauty, Bangor offers and ideal location for the conference. Well served by road and rail, Bangor is also close to the Dublin-Holyhead ferry service and numerous sites of Miltonic interest. The shaggy top of Mona high is half an hour away by road. There will also be optional visits to Ludlow Castle and the ancient walled city of Chester. Participants will be housed in new accomodation with en suite facilities. Details of booking arrangements, costs, and conference fees will be announced in due course. Proposals, full-text submissions, and enquiries should be addressed to Thomas N. Corns, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2 DG, UK. From: GURT@GUVAX.BITNET Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 1994 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:06:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 318 (601) Preliminary Announcement * Please Post Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 March 13 - 16, 1994 Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence Chaired by James E. Alatis, Dean School of Languages and Linguistics Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Plenary Speakers Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University Braj Kachru, University of Illinois Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California Tom McArthur, Oxford University Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University Invited Speakers Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan and University of Illinois Leslie Beebe, Columbia University Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois Jerry Cline-Bailey, Xavier University (Cincinnati) Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago Donald Freeman, School for International Training Rebecca Freeman, University of Pennsylvania Celeste Kinginger, University of Maryland at College Park Ronald Leow, Georgetown University Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies Yu-Hwei Lii-Shih, National Taiwan Normal University Joan Morley, University of Michigan Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania Ren Shaozeng, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China) Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University (Israel) Larry E. Smith, East-West Center, University of Hawaii Zhuang Gen-Yuan, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China) For more information, please contact Joan C. Cook, Coordinator * GURT 1994 Georgetown University * School of Languages and Linguistics 303 Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1067 e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet * gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-5712 Presessions: March 11 and 12, 1994 The presessions will be held in the Intercultural Center. Please contact the individual organizers for more information. African Linguistics V (Saturday morning) Rev. Solomon Sara, S.J., organizer Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5956 or ssara@guvax.georgetown.edu Arabic Dialect Teaching Workshop (Friday) Karin Ryding, Ph.D., and Margaret Nydell, co-organizers Department of Arabic Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1082 202/687-5646 or rydingk@guvm.bitnet Colloquium on Academic Listening Across Language-Culture Areas (Saturday) Abelle Mason, organizer Department of English as a Foreign Language Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1083 202/687-5978 Community Interpreting (Friday) Margareta Bowen, Ph.D., and Monika Gehrke, co-organizers Division of Interpretation and Translation Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0993 202/687-5848 History of Linguistics (Saturday) Rev. Francis P. Dinneen, S.J., organizer Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5812 Hypermedia Environments Open House (Friday) Jackie Tanner, organizer Language Learning Technology Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0984 202/687-5766 or jtanner@guvax.georgetown.edu Issues in Greek Linguistics (Saturday) James E. Alatis, Ph.D., and Pavlos Pavlou, co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5956 or pavlos@guvax.georgetown.edu Issues in Slavic Linguistics (Friday and Saturday) Cynthia Vakareliyska, Ph.D., organizer Department of Russian Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0990 202/687-6108 Issues in Teaching ASL as a Second Language (Saturday) Jeff Connor-Linton, Ph.D., Ceil Lucas, Ph.D., and Clayton Valli, Ph.D., co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-6156 or clucas@gallua.gallaudet.edu Pragmatics in ASL and English (Friday) Catherine Ball, Ph.D., and Clare Wolfowitz, Ph.D., co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5949 or cball@guvax.georgetown.edu Problems in Portuguese Linguistics (Saturday) Clea Rameh, Ph.D., organizer Department of Portuguese Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0991 202/687-6120 Special Student Session Discourse Analysis: Works in Progress (Sunday) Elif Tolga Rosenfeld and Scott Kiesling, co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5956 or rosenfeld@guvax.georgetown.edu Fees: Full conference (five days, including presessions): Professional $100.00 Students $ 50.00 Retired $ 50.00 Presessions only $ 20.00 Sunday or Wednesday only $ 40.00 Monday or Tuesday only $ 55.00 G.U. 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Students $ 10.00 (Waived for 5 hours of volunteer work) G.U. Faculty/Staff waived From: "Marta Steele" <Marta_Steele@pupress.Princeton.EDU> Subject: responses to my query Date: 29 Nov 93 16:25:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 319 (602) I have been trying to thank individually the people who responded to my query about typeover within a Wp5.1 Greek keyboarding system, and my email will not accept the addresses quoted. All the advice I received was most helpful; I plan to alternate between the Character Set and my Greek keyboard macros until I come across an extra $75 to purchase the necessary software. Best wishes, Marta Steele (Marta_Steele@PUPRESS.Princeton.edu) From: ian@epas.utoronto.ca (Ian Lancashire) Subject: mla forum on computing Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 19:48:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 320 (603) MLA FORUM: Reconfiguring the Discipline in the Electronic Age: An Information Package November 1993 Available from ian@epas.utoronto.ca or WordPerfect (binary) file: infopapr.wp5 DOS (ASCII) file: infopapr.dos available by anonymous ftp from epas.utoronto.ca (/pub/cch/mla) Contents: 1. Purpose and Schedule of Forum and Workshops 2. Forum Speakers' Abstracts 3. Personal Statements by Forum Chairs 4. Select Bibliography 1. PURPOSE AND SCHEDULE OF FORUM AND WORKSHOPS (a) Forum A forum on `Reconfiguring the Discipline in the Electronic Age' is being held at the 1993 Modern Language Association Convention in Toronto because many MLA members believe that information technology has truly revolutionized our profession, not just by changing the mechanics by which we teach students and disseminate our research, but substantively by altering our knowledge itself. Computing has challenged theories of intertextuality, narrative, reading and authorship, shifted our understanding of the `canon' by merging different kinds of text and media electronically, fused language idiom and culture in the teaching of idiomatic language and culture, and given the critic, scholar and editor new tools for analysis and publication. The purpose of the Forum and Workshops is to acquaint the profession with the new potential of technology and to ask the questions that its emergence poses. Computing offers better tools to the social sciences and the humanities alike, but for the MLA membership it is fundamentally reshaping our knowledge, on one hand because it is being used to model writing and reading processes of common interest to all, on the other because it is breaking down the distinction between text and film, language and culture, and writing, thinking and speaking. Electronic media are `reconfiguring' our disciplines. Participants in the forum and two workshops, one on teaching and the other on research, will discuss the intellectual impact of new technologies on the profession. The forum and two workshops will not include live demonstrations (these will be handled in the convention's demonstrations room) but will present any information in brief hand-outs or short videotapes. Our focus will be on arguments about the effects of technology on teaching and research in language and literature, not about existing software. Many MLA members believe that the profession is currently experiencing a turning point in humanities computing that makes this forum of vital interest. The computer medium has matured to a new level of usefulness in text- and language-based teaching and research. For a long time, computing was synonymous with bibliographies, language drills, quantitative frequency lists of words and parts-of-speech, word processing, and desktop publishing. Recently, computer applications have moved from these marginal or supporting activities towards issues more central to the profession, in part because the enabling technology has become more capable, flexible, and native to the needs of sophisticated literary and language studies. Several technical developments have produced this more plastic and expressive medium. Computers have become more powerful, faster, and less costly in the past decade, making it possible to do complex processing easily, to store, share and retrieve large bodies of texts and images, and to provide language laboratories, writing centers, and classrooms with advanced equipment at a fraction of the early costs. Software has become more sophisticated and also inexpensive; hypertext, large text database management systems, literary works in electronic form, foreign character sets, text-analysis packages, computer-aided design programs (such as can create `walk-through' models of theatres), digital image-analysis techniques (for studying handwriting and typeface in analytic bibliography), and multimedia systems that combine moving images with text are available in off-the-shelf form. The Internet, with its gateways to library catalogues, online academic journals, academic and government databases, and to the MLA membership itself, has enabled members of the profession to `work at' distant institutions and to conference with collaborators elsewhere daily, not just semi-annually. Networks have also enabled teachers to extend their student seminars outside the classroom. Scholarly communication has been explosively democratized, at no or small cost to MLA members personally. As computers reveal cognitive processes of reading and writing in literature, so they nurture them in helping students to think and write. Word processing can facilitate revision, but in writing instruction the computer-supported power to annotate and store text while linking reviewers also allows the modelling and study of revision strategies themselves. The inclusion of sound and graphics in texts calls for new rhetorical understandings of structure, coherence and argumentation. In foreign languages, communicative language-learning methods have found a new home in a multimedia environment in which language can be presented as it is used among native speakers rather than as a form of sterile `teacher talk.' Dense linguistic and cultural material can be presented on the computer because of the student's ability to replay, seek subtitles, glossary, and cultural notes, rather than being passively overwhelmed as one is by raw videotape. In teaching, literary works are being presented in new electronic editions with multiple texts, critical collation, film versions, and apparatus ... with almost no size limitations. In research, hypertext and multimedia -- and the `virtual edition' they make possible - - have empowered reading to the point where it goes well beyond human cognitive and perceptual constraints, challenging intertextuality theory to propose workable models. As well, artificial intelligence, computational and corpus linguistics, neuropsychology and cognitive studies are approaching consensus on how people process language. This consensus has an immediate bearing on how our authors think, read and write. Computational stylistics has broad-based evidence that writing exhibits national dialectal, period, idiolectal and even gender `signatures' of which authors are largely unaware. In practice, online text libraries are also opening up entire literatures, as in women's studies, that lay obscured. In creative writing, the more capable computer is an aesthetic medium, host to new literary forms made possible by freedom in the electronic presentation of text and image. Hypertext and interactive fiction are good examples. Forum speakers appeal to the profession in its widest definition: researchers and teachers of literature, language and writing. Norman Holland (University of Florida) has popularized psychoanalytic and cognitive approaches to both readers and authors in English, Michael Riffaterre (Columbia University) has elaborated structural stylistics and discourse analysis in French studies, and Cynthia Selfe (Michigan Technological) has persuasively shifted discussion of the theory and practice of computers in writing from the margins of the association into its center. The forum chairs are: Ian Lancashire (Toronto) Janet Murray (MIT) The topics will be: The Cybercritic (Norman N. Holland, University of Florida, Gainesville) The Problem of Intertextuality (Michael Riffaterre, Columbia University) Politicizing and Inhabiting Virtual Landscapes as Educational Spaces (Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological University) (b) Workshops The two workshops will explore the impact of recent technical advances on what we think and do. The workshop on Teaching in the Electronic Age will explore these issues by having a number of scholars discuss the types of classroom applications created by the new technologies. Computers and related technologies offer challenges to instruction in college study of foreign languages, literature and writing. Computer-supported assignments can make student involvement with the study more active and authentic while also changing the relationship between student and teacher. These speakers will describe innovative projects in the context of theory in their field. Chairs: Helen Schwartz (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis) James J. Sosnoski (Miami University) 1. The Computer as Context in Foreign Language Teaching. Peter C. Patrikis (Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, New Haven). 2. Modelling Narrative Theory. Peter Havholm (College of Wooster) and Larry Stewart (College of Wooster). 3. Multimedia Computer-based Instruction in the Teaching of Writing. Mark Ferrer (University of California at Santa Barbara). Dr. Patrikis, Executive Director of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning and a member of the MLA Advisory Committee on Foreign Language and Literature, will discuss how multimedia can simulate the context of the target culture and language and how it can create a context of language acquisition and use. He will relate the capabilities of multimedia to recent theoretical advances in language: contextualization of utterance, sociolinguistic codes, and the rhetoric of learning. This presentation will review some recent efforts to contextualize and to alter classroom teaching and learning. Illustrating how computers can involve students in testing and applying literary theory are two educators honored for Distinguished Curricular Innovation by an EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL award in 1989. Peter Havholm and Larry Stewart will discuss a computer program they have developed which students use to model the operation of narrative theory. The program allows students to create a generator that operationalizes the theory's criteria and produces results (in this case skeletal narratives) that test both the theory and the students' understanding of it. Mark Ferrer will speak on `The Present State and Future Role of Multimedia in the Teaching of Writing'. The presenter will show how constructivist theories of writing are supported and utilized with multimedia's power to enhance communication and collaboration, to increase motivation and learning. The talk will be illustrated by students' computer-based course work. The workshop on Textual Research in the Electronic Age will explore how `virtual editions' implicitly modify the nature of reading, thinking, and remodeling the text in the Electronic Age. Intertextuality and the empowerment of readers, users, and viewers to `annotate' the text with variant versions, critical commentary, performance moments with sound and full-motion video (in the case of Shakespeare's plays), and their own comments make a virtual text that challenges the notion of canonicity. The audience will be invited to consider what impact this new set of textual dynamics will have upon the profession as well as to see new convergences and combinations of critical methods. Chair: Joel Goldfield (Plymouth State College) 1. Intersections of Teaching and Research: The Construction of the <it>Charrette</it> Database. Karl D. Uitti (Princeton University), Gina L. Greco (Portland State University), Toby Paff (Princeton University) 2. The Shakespeare Interactive Video Archive: Integrating Textual and Performance Study in the Age of Multimedia. Peter S. Donaldson (Literature, MIT) 3. Electronic Texts and Tools: What Do They Do and Are They Better than Books? Elaine Brennan (Brown University). Karl Uitti, Gina Greco, and Toby Paff will speak on `Intersections of Teaching and Research: the Construction of the Charrette Database.' The medieval vernacular poem <it>Lancelot</it> (1180) exists in a fluid, even problematic, state in eight variant manuscripts. No single manuscript is the work. Since the poem, written mainly by Chr tien de Troyes, but partially also by scribes through their alteration of the text, is actually a `virtual' one, Karl Uitti views it virtually by displaying variants and commentary seamlessly according to critical needs. Employing a team of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and database professionals, Uitti is constructing a database to answer linguistic, editorial, codicological, and rhetorico-poetic inquiries. Exercises also permit students to come to grips, in direct ways, with the realities of medieval French textuality. Peter Donaldson will speak on `Theory and Development of the Multimedia Shakespeare Projects.' His NEH projects seek to provide literary and performance-based `presence' for both students and scholars of Shakespeare. His computer-based projects on <it>Hamlet</it>, <it>Romeo and Juliet</it>, and other Shakespearean plays will give access to performance moments, commentaries, lexica, on-line tutorials, multimedia notetaking or montage, and text archives, thereby linking the textual with the theatrical, and empowering the user to create multimedia documents for critical commentary. The theoretical underpinnings related to reception studies, hypermedia, and intertextuality will be explored. Elaine Brennan, a member of the MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies, will speak on `Electronic Texts and Tools: What Do They Do and Are They Better than Books?' As editor of the Women Writers' Project at Brown, and as moderator of the electronic discussion group <it>Humanist</it>, she has a critical perspective on the usage students and scholars make of networked texts, including browsers, indexers, and hypertext linkage among texts. She will report on needs, actual applications and recommendations related to her activities and tools. 2. FORUM SPEAKERS' ABSTRACTS (a) Norman N. Holland. `The Cybercritic'. Computers are deeply changing the premises of our profession, but not in the ways usually said. Hypertext and multimedia simply improve (dazzlingly, to be sure!) our familiar technology of footnotes, bibliography, tables, and illustrations. Similarly, those interactive fictions that only allow readers to choose among different plot sequences do not fundamentally change the existing relation of an active reader to an essentially passive text. Hypertext and multimedia do not confirm the erroneous (neo-Saussurean) claims by theorists that texts cause mental events. One computer technology does lead to truly active literary works, texts that do things. These are the programs embodying rule-based characters and plots, programs like <it>Eliza</it>, <it>Parry</it>, <it>Conversations</it>, <it>Oz</it>, and some interactive fictions. The literary `pre-creation' consists of variables that the author inserts in the program. When the reader talks to the program, it responds to each reader's unique initiatives in ways that are equally unique but bounded by the variables preset by the writer. The final, physical text that results is created partly by the writer and partly by the reader. It will differ for each reading. Such programs take literature into forms it has never had before, radically challenging today's concepts of text, reader, and writer. (b) Michael Riffaterre. Not yet available. (c) Cynthia Selfe. Not yet available. 3. PERSONAL STATEMENTS BY FORUM AND WORKSHOP CHAIRS (a) Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College New Hampshire As a teacher and researcher in the fields of French language/culture and literature first, as a foreign language methodologist second, and educational technologist third, I view technology in our language/literature fields as a force and vehicle for merging media and thus ideas in teaching and research. The effervescent synergy in our profession parallels that in the realm of popular culture where we are witnessing the melding of telephony, television, information, transactional needs and entertainment. Just as many members of this latter group may shy away from the complexity necessary to master information access and manipulation, so may many in our profession. We need colleagues who will facilitate our research and teaching goals through helpful technological implementations of communications tools, databases and their querying tools, and through the creation of high-quality materials for computer-assisted language/culture learning. But what information managers might term our "databases" are really far more than, say, clients' names and addresses for us: they are actually primary and secondary texts, our encylopaedias and thesauri as well. They have a history of circulation and debate. In book form they have a smell and feel. Will future generations be immaterial enough to forego these last aspects? The nostalgia of physical book properties aside, we need to take a hard look at the way we read, the ways we would like our students to read, the authority of the text, and the appropriate uses of various analytical tools to derive meaning from the text. It is time to carry out an epistemological survey of the profession. Most of us probably believe that the avenues to pursue any and all types of knowledge should remain free from constraint. Freer access to various media, greater ease in their synchronous or sequential connection, and necessarily new methodologies for skillful syntheses, interpretations and criticism will lead ever more of us to be interdisciplinary and beholden to no narrow critical approach. We are likely to find new collegial strengths in our teaching and research, as many of us are already finding in integrative core curricula, panel sessions and grant applications. The small steps we are taking in many technology-facilitated applications enable us to start extrapolating our paths of exploration. There are computer-based textual analysis tools receiving common use by undergraduates, graduate students and faculty; electronic, bilingual readers with highly useful querying tools and modes of literary and morpho-syntactical commentary economically or technically unfeasible for hardcopy text; computer- and videodisc-based teaching and research tools for Shakespearean drama and Classics; foreign language writing environments complete with grammar primers, functional/notional cross-referencing, transactional language video clips, etc. We can expect students and faculty to use in other courses and forums than their original ones the knowledge thus made available. Hypermedia-based authoring tools allow researchers and teachers to link textual, graphic, audio and video materials as a presentation aid in the classroom and to create an "intelligent tutor" with the ability to interact with the self-paced individual or groups of users located on- or off-campus. Interactive television already allows two-way communication for pay-per-view classes in a virtual campus, paving the way for unknown additional numbers and types of students to participate in what might be space-constrained or otherwise restricted classrooms. I suspect that this powerful combination of new information channels and interactive modes will contribute to an alteration of the economic and pedagogical assumptions regarding the way we teach and engage in research as well as for the evaluation of these activities by students, administrators and our communities. The political ramifications within the profession regarding access to, use and assessment of these new information sources (electronic texts, archives, etc.), tools, equipment, research methodologies, pedagogical implementations and other service-related applications will be significant. As we debate the roles for all these, we must guide and support the professional organizations which represent our best interests and those of our students in the concomitant reconfiguration of the profession. (b) Ian Lancashire Department of English University of Toronto Literary scholarship, perhaps like archaeology, restores the work of past cultures by enabling us to understand their writings as contemporaries might have. Computer database, text-retrieval and analysis software, electronic text corpora, and an Internet capable of linking researchers to each other and to online libraries empower individual researchers, in this process of restoration, to reach out to far more texts, reference materials, and colleagues in five years than would have been possible in a lifetime of hard work only a decade ago. Modern languages that in 1985 watched with astonishment as the entire remains of ancient languages like Classical Greek and Old English were made available online are now seeing their own major authors, discipline bibliographies, and even period collections of texts and historical dictionaries appear in electronic form. With new standards emerging for electronic text encoding, scholarly editors of literary texts are seeing that the electronic editions now being prepared in their studies can form the living basis for every edition of that text in the future. A renewed battle of the books, paper and electronic, is at hand. The information of information technology will then make scholarship more accurate and comprehensive, but just as exciting are the new models for thinking about texts and authors that emerge at the boundary points where computers bring together different disciplines. Literary text analysis and cognitive pyschology both use electronic texts, the former to study style and content, the latter to gauge human memory. Computational linguistics devises parsing techniques for representing meaning unambiguously in machine translation systems, while language teachers create software that enables students to study translation in process interactively. Whatever theoretical perspective we begin from, we are going to learn a great deal about authors and texts in the next decades. The diversity of approaches, and the common choice of tools, increasingly force us to re-examine our assumptions about language and meaning. Information technology invites fundamental questions about our subject. What is a text when it forms part of a hypertext, or of holdings on the Internet? What happens when texts have electronic addresses rather than being physical artifacts? How do electronic text libraries affect word-meaning? If a critical edition derives from all principal early texts of a work, should the textual collation be done automatically and interactively, by software, on the basis of electronic copies of those texts rather than as manual apparatus to a single conflated text? Given the capabilities of information technology, how many kinds of scholarship will have to be redone from scratch? For the past 30 years, a quite small number of researchers have computerized texts, developed software, established standards in encoding, and most of all experimented at the junctions of the humanities and computer science. My own work has been in directing the development of, and experimenting with, <it>Textual Analysis Computing Tools</it> (<it>TACT</it>) at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Toronto, and in compiling <it>The Humanities Computing Yearbook</it>. From the early 1980s, when most of us acquired microcomputers and became our own personal data-processing professionals, the entire profession has become part of this group. This social and intellectual change is important in itself and will continue as more academic products (such as academic journals and textbooks) become electronic, as we face issues such as proper citation methods for electronic materials, and as we discover new ways of extending the classroom, the library, and the study into cyberspace. (c) Janet Murray Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. In my work as a Victorianist and fiction specialist and as the director of a laboratory for humanities computing projects, I am witnessing the effects of advanced computing on literary studies, the creation of narrative, and the field of my major collaborators -- language studies. Interactive video is changing the ways in which language can be studied, allowing the introduction of authentic language from the beginning levels and promising to supplant the textbook as the central medium for presenting the language. It is also changing the teacher's role from that of informant and sole representative of fluent (but not always native) language to that of task-designer, shaping the tasks that students can bring to the computer-based materials which can serve as a database of authentic language. In the field of literary research, the computer allows us to create a reference and teaching environment in which multiple primary texts, criticism, and visual materials (such as performances of a play) can all be accessed, cross-referenced and excerpted. Provided we develop the right structures forelectronic scholarship, the synthetic and concrete nature of the medium promises to increase the range of things we can think clearly about at the same time. One look at a cramped and cryptically annotated variorum edition of a major author is enough to convince us that paper is an inadequate medium for the complexity of the humanist's hypertexted thoughts. The new electronic media offer us the chance to sort things out in a space whose dimensions more closely approximate our multi-planar minds. We can refer with precision to parts of texts and chart intersections among various texts, while still preserving the context and integrity of each individual referent. The criticism that results from this more capacious and plastic medium could allow us to synthesize areas of discourse -- e.g. close textual analysis and film criticism -- with a lucidity and accountability not possible before. The danger of course is that we will surrender to the seductive plenitude and get lost in the raptures of cyberspace. As a medium for literature, the computer allows writers to write procedurally, to create not just word-objects but a system of presentation, related to theater, in which the conditions under which words appear is also specified. It also allows for a literature in which the "reader" can participate, making choices that affect the story or co-creating a conversation with an interlocutor. It will ultimately allow us to think freshly about the patterns of meaning in human life, just as any art form offers new structures for human experience. As a teaching, research, and artistic medium the electronic environment is coming into a new maturity and proving that it is not merely additive -- not just text plus moving pictures -- any more than cinema is merely photographed plays. The structures that emerge for this new medium will be new representations of human thought processes. The classic processes of humanists -- e.g. the gathering of large variora, the need for precise reference, the need for contextualization of sources, the emphasis on multiple few points -- are ideally suited to shaping the new medium making it crucial that we secure access to the technology necessary to fashion our own tools. (d) Helen Schwartz Department of English Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis Computers support greater ease and capacity for students to discover and create through writing. Although word processors make revision easier to accomplish, students need instruction to learn how to revise, but the ease of revision reduces the commitment level required. Previously, a substantial prison term seemed the best incentive for constant reading, writing and revision, but computer access to research texts, storage and search capacity and revision tools reduce the difficulty of literary activities for novice writers. Electronic storage and communication also support the paradigm of learning and creation of knowledge as a conversation in a community of scholars. Hard copy has clear boundaries -- manuscripts pile one a-top the other, books in a library sit next to each other with no visible interpenetration except through cross-references. But electronically-stored text questions the done-ness, the separateness of text: what constitutes a draft? -- a printout? a precipitation inot publication (paper or electronic)? what are the degrees of collaboration (co-author, editor, commenter, inspiration)? The lack of a sense of closure resembles continuing conversation with its open invitation to add, but also its lack of authority. Computers in writing can also raise political and ethical questions of equitable access and the ways deserved authority can be negotiated in such an open space. (e) James J. Sosnoski Executive Director Alternative Educational Environments Department of English Miami University (Ohio) As a teacher of English literature whose research has concerned literary theory, I believe that emerging technologies will reshape what literature professors do. The courseware now becoming available to teachers seems likely to make electronic textbooks more common than printed ones in the next decade; the explosion of interest in the Internet seems likely to result in a correlative increase in online research and publication; and, technological advances such as hypertext software seem likely to necessitate changes in our theories of the production, reception, and distribution of texts. Our society is on the verge of becoming a technoculture. This development has profoundly effected our schools. Card catalogues are being replaced by computer terminals. Campus mail is now often e-mail. Texts are electronic. It's faster, easier, and more efficient to search a bibliographic database than its print equivalent. Information technology will soon be a pervasive feature of most university campuses. In sum, as we shift from print environments to electronic ones the changing conditions of our work invite a reconfiguration of what we do. The reconfiguration most characteristic of the electronic revolution is convergence. As technologies merge, the activities associated with them converge. As phones, TV's, stereos VCR's, tape recorders, CD's, and computers merge, our daily activities converge. Games become education; learning geography metamorphoses into a game; family pictures turn into TV programs; and home computers transform themselves into checkbooks that pay bills automatically over phone lines. Similar effects can be forecast for the future of education as classrooms, libraries, computers, and telecommunication systems merge. Similar possibilities exist for departments, many of which are being networked. However, the effects of such "convergences" will only be as beneficial as we make them. The persons using technology have the greatest impact on its cultural effects. David Downing and I have been studying what can be done to facilitate literary-critical practices by taking advantage of new technologies. During the past three years, we have been working on a series of experiments under the rubric of the Cycles project which investigates the implications of telecommunications for the conduct of literary criticism and scholarship. In these experiments, teaching and research tend to converge, collapsing the traditional divisions of our work. Various academic sites (such as classrooms, libraries, presses, and scholarly societies housing newsletters or journals) are linked through tele-communication into a single networked cycle of critical exchanges. Whereas in a print environment, scholars might first propose their ideas to students in a classroom, then present them for debate among their colleagues at a scholarly conference organized by the relevant professional society, and finally submit them in publishable form to a university press, the Cycles project turns this traditional pattern into an ongoing cycle of critical exchange in which the research conducted is presented in dialogical form and made available to other researchers without the time lag required of print processes. In sum, the Cycles project integrates the functions of a seminar, a textbook, a conference, a symposium, a newsletter, and a journal through scholarly correspondence conducted via electronic media following a set of protocols which facilitate the ongoing dialogue by channeling it through various stages into its publication in a database as well as in print. The Modern Language Association could be a leader in these new directions much as the Association for Computers and the Humanities has been. We need the MLA, an organization that historically has been dedicated to our concerns, to explore and assess the implications of changes in technology which we daily witness. MLA could become a telecommunication center for its members that allows them to share documents across local area and wide area networks, a kind of MLAnet, so to speak. MLAnet could be a vehicle to enable a wide range of knowledge workers to share their ideas and comments on projects. It could act as a cooperative textbase, tracking its own development. It could also gather and archive input from departments, pulling together material for large-scale brainstorming and grant seeking. Many of the services which the MLA convention now provides could be more effectively handled via telecommunication. MLA could provide guidance, assistance, and even services for language and literature scholars whose home institutions cannot afford to match the technological benefits of better endowed universities. Times have changed and so have we. Just a few years ago, few persons working in literature departments had e-mail addresses. Recently, a colleague remarked to me that he was embarrassed to say that he did not yet have an e-mail address. Let us hope that the post-print era is a significant period in the history of literary study. Indeed, accessing the Internet in the 1990s could have more significance for the future of literary study than becoming a member of the MLA had in the 1890s. I hope that this forum will be an inaugural event, inspiring an MLA/ACH coalition (if not a merger) which will allow scholars and critics to benefit from the resources that technology is making available to us. 4. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR COMPUTING IN THE MODERN LANGUAGES This handlist is based on my <it>Humanities Computing Yearbook</it> (1991) and on additions added to it since then at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. Ian Lancashire, Toronto (a) Journals and Serials <it>The CALICO Journal.</it> Quarterly. Frank Borchardt, Executive Director. Contact: Eleanor M. Johnson, Mgr., 014 Language Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706. <it>CETH Newsletter.</it> Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton University and Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. Director: Susan Hockey. 1992-. Address: ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu. <it>Computers and Composition.</it> Fort Collins, Colorado, 1983--. Three times a year, edited by Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe. Available from Dept. of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931. <it>Computational Linguistics. Journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics</it>. 1984--. <it>Computers and the Humanities.</it> 6 times per year. [The official journal of the ACH, membership in which includes subscription to this journal. Contact Charles Bush, Humanities Computing Center, Brigham Young University. <it>Computers and Philosophy Newsletter</it>. Three times per year. Carnegie Mellon University, CDEC Bldg. B, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.] CTI Centre for Textual Studies. <it>Resources Guide.</it> Ed. Caroline Davis, Marilyn Deegan, and Stuart Lee. Oxford University Computing Services, 1992. Address: ctitext@vax.ox.ac.uk. Hewlett, Walter B., and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. <it>Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology.</it> Menlo Park, CA: Centre for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. <it>ICAME News</it>. Newsletter of the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME). The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Harald H rfagresgate 31, PO Box 53, N-5014 Bergen, Norway. <it>The Humanities Computing Yearbook 1989-90.</it> Ed. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. [A comprehensive reference work listing articles, books, resources, and software related to the application of the computer in the humanities. One of the first places to look for more information about the field.] <it>Literary and Linguistic Computing.</it> Quarterly. Journals Subscription Department, Oxford University Press, Pinkhill House, Southfield Road, Eynsham, Oxford OX8 1JJ, UK <it>Postmodern Culture.</it> Online electronic journal. Anonymous ftp address: ftp.ncsu.edu. <it>Processing Arabic</it>. Reports 2--4. Ed. Everhard Ditters and Nelleke Oostdijk. Katholieko Universiteit, Nijmegen: Instituut voor Talen en Culturen van het Midden -- Osten, 1987. [Available from the Editors, TCMO -- Nijmegen University, PO Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands.] <it>REACH: Research and Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities Newsletter.</it> Anonymous ftp site: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu. <it>ReCALL Journal.</it> Hull, UK: CTI Centre for Modern Languages. University of Hull, HU6 7RX, cti.lang@hull.ac.uk. <it>ReCALL Software Guide.</it> Hull, UK: CTI Centre for Modern Languages, 1990. <it>Revue: Informatique et Statistique dans les Sciences Humaines.</it> Centre Informatique de Philosophie et Lettres (CIPL), place du A ut, 32, B-4000 Li <it>Scholar: An Online Listserv for Text Analysis and Natural Language Applications.</it> Ed. Joseph Raben. Address: listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu (or jqrqc@cunyvm.edu). <it>TEXT Technology.</it> Ed. Eric Johnson. Madison, SD: Dakota State University, 1991-. (b) Online resources <it>ARTFL.</it> The American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago, 1050 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637; voice: (302) 702-8488, artfl@artfl.uchicago.edu. [Online collection of about 2000 French literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works published between the 17th and 20th centuries.] <it>Computer Bulletin Boards for Individual Languages, or, The List of Language Lists.</it> Comp. by Bernard Comrie and Michael Everson. Jan. 1993-. Ftp address: irlearn.ucd.ie (in /everson subdirectory). <it>Corpora.</it> A list-serve on the Internet for corpus linguistics sponsored by ICAME (the International Computer Archive of Modern English) and located at the Norwegian Centre for Computing in the Humanities; not limited to the English language. Address: corpora@x400.hd.uib.no. <it>The Dartmouth Dante Database.</it> Over 60 commentaries on the <it>Divina Commedia</it> that span over 600 years of tradition and are written in Latin, Italian and English. Robert Hollander, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Princeton University, Princeton. Telnet address: library.dartmouth.edu. <it>Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences.</it> Comp. Diane Kovacs. Anonymous ftp address: ksuvxa.kent.edu. <it>ETEXTCTR.</it> Discussion group on Electronic Text Centers. CETH, Princeton and Rutgers. Address: etextctr@rutvm1.rutgers.edu. Join by sending the message "subscribe etextct firstname lastname" to listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu. <it>Catalogue of Projects in Electronioc Text.</it> Director: Michael Neuman. Centre for Text and Technology, Georgetown University. [Covers all languages.] Anonymous ftp address: guvax.georgetown.edu. Gilster, Paul. <it>The Internet Navigator: The Essential Guide to Network Exploration for the Individual Dial-up User.</it> New York: John Wiley, 1993. [A good introduction to resources on the Internet.] <it>Humanist</it>, an international electronic seminar for computing humanists. Inquiries may be sent to Allen Renear and Elaine Brennan, Brown University, editors@brownvm.brown.edu. See Willard McCarty, `HUMANIST: Lessons from a Global Electronic Seminar,' <it>Computers and the Humanities</it> 26 (1992): 205- 22. <it>Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts.</it> List-serve, moderated by Norman Holland, University of Florida. Address: psyart@nervm.bitnet. <it>InterNIC Directory of Directories.</it> Anonymous ftp address: ds.internet.net. [Information on access, directories, databases, whitepages, and mail services.] Oxford Text Archive. Lou Burnard, Oxford Text Archive, Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. E-mail address: archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk. Anonymous ftp address: black.ox.ac.uk. [A repository for machine-readable texts; a database of information about texts at other centres.] Strangelove, Michael, and Diane Kovacs. <it>Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists.</it> Ed. Ann Okerson. 3rd edn. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1993. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Michael Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago. Listserve on all issues relating to text encoding and SGML. Anonymous ftp site: sgml1.ex.ac.uk. Discussion list: tei-l@uicvm.bitnet. Text Software Initiative (TSI). Coordinated by Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu) and Jean Veronis (veronis@grtc.cnrs-mrs.fr). (c) Bibliographies <it>ACM Guide to Computing Literature.</it> New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1960-. <it>Computers -- Linguistics -- Communications Bibliographical Database.</it> 67,000+ references. Conrad F. Sabourin, Montreal. Address: sabourco@ere.umontreal.ca. Davis, D. <it>Computer Applications in Music: A Bibliography.</it> Madison, WI: A-R Edition, 1988. <it>German and Medieval Scandinavian Computer Research Ongoing in North American Universities</it>. Comp. Evelyn S. Firchow, Director, Computer Clearing House Project, German Dept., 219 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant St. SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. <it>ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English) Online Bibliography.</it> Comp. Bengt Altenberg. FTP address: nora.hd.uib.no. Stevens, Vance, Roland Sussex, and Walter Tuman. <it>A Bibliography of Computer- Aided Language Learning.</it> New York: AMS Press, 1986. (d) Monograph and Essay Series <it>Research in Humanities Computing 1</it>. Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Toronto, June 1989. Ed. Susan Hockey, Nancy Ide, and Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Pp. 70-92. <it>The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information.</it> Ed. E. Barrett. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989. <it>Hypermedia and Literary Studies.</it> Ed. Paul Delaney and George P. Landow. Technical Communications. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. <it>The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities.</it> Ed. George P. Landow and Paul Delaney. Technical Communication and Information Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. CCH Working Papers. Occasional, 1991-. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Univ. of Toronto. [Bilingual, on computer-assisted textual studies. Vol. 1, <it>A TACT Exemplar</it> (1991); vol. 2, <it>Historical Dictionary Databases</it> (1992); vol. 3, <it>Computer-Based Chaucer Studies</it> (1993).] (e) Monographs and Collections Andrews, Derek, and Michael Greenhalgh. <it>Computing for Non-Scientific Applications.</it> Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1987. Biber, Douglas. <it>Variation across Speech and Writing.</it> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Brunet, E'tienne. <it>Le Vocabulaire Franc,aise de 1789 a' nos Jours d'apre`s les Donne'es des Tre'sor de la Langue Franc,aise.</it> 3 vols. Ge'neve: Skatkine, 1981. Burrows, J. F. <it>Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austin's Novels and an Experiment in Method.</it> Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. <it>Computer Applications to Medieval Studies.</it> Ed. Anne Gilmour-Bryson. Studies in Medieval Culture, 17. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1984. <it>Computers and Written Texts.</it> Ed. Christopher S. Butler. Applied Language Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. <it>Computers and the History of Art</it>. Ed. W. Vaughan and A. Hamber. London: Mansell Publishers, 1989. <it>Directions in Corpus Linguistics: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 82, Stockholm, 4-8 August 1991.</it> Ed. Jan Svartvik. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. <it>Editing, Publishing and Computer Technology: Papers given at the twentieth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 2--3 November 1984</it>. Ed. Sharon Butler and William P. Stoneman. New York: AMS Press Inc., 1988. <it>English Language Corpora: Design, Analysis and Exploration.</it> Ed. Jan Aarts, Pieter de Haan, and Nelleke Oostdijk. Amsterdam: Atlanta, 1993. Fortier, Paul A. <it>De'cor et dualisme: L'Immoraliste d'Andre' Gide.</it> Stanford French and Italian Studies, 56. Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri, 1988. Gould, Constance C. <it>Information Needs in the Humanities: An Assessment.</it> Stanford, CA: The Research Libraries Group, 1988. Grishman, Ralph. <it>Computational Linguistics: An Introduction.</it> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Hockey, Susan. <it>A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities</it>. London: Duckworth; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1980. Hockey, Susan. <it>SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities.</it> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. <it>Humanities and the Computer: New Directions.</it> Ed. David S. Miall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. 123-35. Ide, Nancy M. <it>Pascal for the Humanities.</it> Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. <it></it>Kenny, Anthony. <it>The Computation of Style.</it> New York: Pergamon, 1982. [Probably the best introductory text for humanists.] <it>Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Practical Essays on Theme and Rhetoric.</it> Ed. Rosanne G. Potter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. <it>Looking Up: An Account of the COBUILD Project in Lexical Computing.</it> Ed. J. M. Sinclair. London: Collins ELT, 1987. Nagao, Makoto. <it>Machine Translation: How Far Can It Go?</it> Trans. Norman D. Cook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Nardocchio, Elaine, ed. <it>Reader Response to Literature: The Empirical Dimension.</it> Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. Oakman, Robert L. <it>Computer Methods for Literary Research</it>. 1980; repr. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1984. <it>The Politics of the Electronic Text.</it> Ed. Warren Cherniak, Caroline David, and Marilyn Deegan. Office for Humanities Communication Publications, Nr. 3. Oxford: Office for Humanities Publications, Oxford University Computing Services, 1993. Sinclair, John. <it>Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Describing English Language.</it> Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991. Smith, Peter D. <it>An Introduction to Text Processing.</it> Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990. <it>Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics.</it> Ed. Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. Tribble, Chris and Glyn Jones. <it>Concordances in the Classroom: A Resource Book for Teachers.</it> Harlow: Longman, 1990. (f) Some Electronic Texts and Text Series <it>British Library, General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 on CD-ROM.</it> Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., Cambridge, UK. <it>English Poetry Full-Text Database.</it> CD-ROM in progress. Chadwyck- Healey, Ltd. <it>FRANCIS</it> (Ficher de recherches bibliographiques automatise'es sur les nouveaute's, la communication et l'information en sciences socials et humaines. [Includes Art and Arch ologie, Droit Antiques, Histoire et Sciences de la Literature, Histoire et Sciences des Religions, Philosophie, Prehistorie et Protohistoire, Repertoire d'Art et d'Arche'ologie, and Sciences du Langage. Vendor: Telesystemes-Questel, 83-5 boulevard Vincent Auriol, 75013 Paris France.] <it>Le Robert E'lectronique.</it> Chadwyck-Healey, Ltd. Modern Language Association. <it>Bibliography.</it> 1981-. <it>Oxford English Dictionary.</it> 2nd edn. Oxford Electronic Publishing. (g) Articles Barnard, D. T., C. A. Fraser, and G. M. Logan. `Generalized Markup for Literary Texts.' <it>Literary and Linguistic Computing</it> 3 (1988): 26-31. [Describes the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).] Frye, Northrop. `Literary and Mechanical Models.' In <it>Research in Humanities Computing 1</it>. Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Toronto, June 1989. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Lancashire, Ian. `Back to the Future: Literary and Linguistic Computing 1968-1988.' In <it>Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research: Literary and Linguistic Computing 1988</it>. Paris-Gen Champion-Slatkine, 1990. Pp. 36-47. Potter, Rosanne G. `Literary Criticism and Literary Computing: The Difficulties of a Synthesis.' <it>Computers and the Humanities</it> 22 (1988): 91-7. Schwartz, Helen J., and others. `Computers in Writing Instruction: Blueprint for Progress.' <it>Computing Across the Curriculum: Academic Perspectives.</it> Ed. William H. Graves. EDUCOM Strategies Series on Information Technology. McKinney, Texas: Academic Computing Publications, 1989. Slatin, John M. `Text and Hypertext: Reflections on the Role of the Computer in Teaching Modern American Poetry.' In <it>Humanities and the Computer: New Directions.</it> Ed. David S. Miall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. 123-35. Sperberg-McQueen, Michael. `Text in the Electronic Age: Textual Study and Textual Encoding, with Examples from Medieval Texts.' <it>Literary and Linguistic Computing</it> 6 (1991): 34-46. From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT> Subject: data needed to subscribe to L&LC and to CHum Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 16:02:11 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 398 (604) I'd like to get info up to date on how to subscribe to Literary and Linguistic Computing, and to Computers and the Humanities, hopedly - by e-mail or fax - by credit card. Many thanks. If possible, CC: your message to me. Maurizio MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT | fax 39-11-899 0458 CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy From: rajones@uiuc.edu (Robert Alun Jones) Subject: bibliographic software Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 09:51:55 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 399 (605) I'm evaluating two alternative bibliographic database applications -- Pro-Cite and EndNote Plus -- for a Mac lab here at the University of Illinois. I'd appreciate any real-life experience with either of these packages that might be relevant to our decision. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Alun Jones Professor of Sociology, History and Religious Studies University of Illinois Urbana, IL 61801 Home: (217) 367-3899 Office: (217) 333-4969 Fax: (217) 333-5225 E-mail: rajones@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu From: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Subject: Networked Fellowships Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:25:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 322 (606) Opportunities for Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities was established in 1992 to provide researchers in the arts and humanities with an opportunity to employ sophisticated technical support and advanced computer technology in the service of their scholarship. The Institute encourages collaborative research proposals from humanists on the internet, and it can offer creative technologists a broad range of research needs and opportunities. The Institute's Fellowships are open-ended, continuing until the termination of the research for which they are awarded, but in all cases the Institute's technical consulting is intended to be concentrated in the first year, with the projects becoming more or less self-sufficient after that time. Call for Proposals: Each year the Institute awards several fellowships for computer-assisted research in the humanities. Members of the arts and humanities faculties of the University of Virginia are eligible to apply for On-Campus Fellowships; successful applicants will be designated by the selection committee as Fellows in Residence or Associate Fellows. Faculty at other institutions, technologists with an interest in the work of the Institute, and independent scholars on the internet are eligible to apply (individually or in groups) for Networked Associate Fellowships. All those selected as Fellows of the Institute are expected to publish a research report, via the Institute's networked publishing facilities, at the end of the first fellowship year. All proposals should address the questions on the form at the end of this announcement. Facilities: The Institute maintains a suite of offices on the third floor, west wing of Alderman Library. Each Fellow in Residence is provided with an RS6000 workstation, and all on-campus Fellows are given access to X-stations, laptops, scanners, PCs, fax machine, printers, and telephone service. All Fellows, on-campus or networked, have the use of the suite of networked services maintained by the Institute: these include an anonymous ftp site, a gopher server, a World-Wide Web server, Listserv, and real-time virtual conferencing facilties (in the form of a MOO). In addition, the Institute maintains nearly 300 gigabytes of data storage space for use by its Fellows. Most importantly, the Institute gives its Fellows access to one another and to the accumulated expertise of its technical staff. History and Goals of the Institute: The Institute was founded in 1992 with a major grant from I.B.M. and a commitment of support from the University of Virginia. The Institute is unique among humanities computing facilities for its combination of a broadly interdisciplinary charge with a project-centered and research-oriented plan of work. In addition, it is unusual for its success at bridging the gap between the two cultures of academe: from its inception, the Institute has depended on the synergy of computer science and humanities; its fellows meet regularly with computer science faculty and graduate students, and they confer and collaborate on a daily basis with the Institute's staff of computer professionals. The principal goal of the Institute is to see that humanists have the tools, the training, and the support to make the most of computer technology. In part, this entails a consolidation of existing facilities in order to produce an integrated environment for the use of networked information resources. In addition, the Institute's support is often concentrated on converting information into electronic form and addressing issues of standards and formats that arise in the process of that conversion. Finally, where existing software does not meet the needs of scholars in the humanities, the Institute's technical staff will work with the Institute's Fellows to produce broadly useful software tools. The Institute also addresses itself, wherever possible, to topics and challenges of general importance for electronic scholarship across the disciplines. These include (but are by no means limited to) testing methods for collaborative networked research, peer-review, and editing, investigating the possibilities for networked hypermedia archives, developing practical models for cost recovery in networked scholarly publishing, exploring the creative potential of the networks, negotiating cooperation with the private sector and with government, studying the implications of the digital library, and addressing the impact of electronic media on intellectual property, with regard to both the author's right to credit and the user's right to access. On-Campus Fellows: Fellows in Residence: Fellows in Residence receive office space, teaching release time, partial support for a graduate research assistant, computer equipment, software, and maximum technical support. Past Fellows in this category are Jerome McGann and Hoyt Duggan (Dept. of English), Ed Ayers (Dept. of History), and John Dobbins (Dept. of Art). These Fellows have embarked on ambitious, multi-year projects that will, in many cases, redefine scholarship in their respective disciplines. Much of the work of the Fellowship year is devoted to project design, collection of primary data, digitizing of analog information, and testing of technical and methodological approaches. Fellows in Residence become associate fellows after the first year. Associate Fellows: Associate fellows receive equipment, software, and technical support appropriate to the project. Past fellows in this category are Ellen Contini-Morava (Anthropology), Bernie Carlson and Mike Gorman (Engineering Humanities), and Duane Osheim (History). Associate fellows often come to the Institute earlier or later in the development of their projects than do full fellows: what this means is that their projects often no longer need, or are not yet ready for, the intensive technical support and equipment provided for Fellows in Residence. Associate fellows are provided with consulting on project design and on technical issues, are invited to attend Institute staff meetings with the Fellows in Residence and the technical staff, and are given access to a wide variety of Institute-maintained facilities. Associate Fellows retain their status until the completion of their projects or until they are selected as Fellows in Residence. Networked Associate Fellows: Networked Associate Fellows receive access to Institute facilities via the internet, project design consultation, and support for a wide range of software facilities (described below) for collaborative networked scholarship and networked publishing. Scholars may apply for these fellowships individually or as workgroups. The Institute particularly encourages applications involving open-systems or unix-based projects, projects that require large storage facilities for text and image data, projects that would benefit from collaborative editing facilities, and projects that aim to publish their results with the assistance of a university press. The Institute also invites applications from technologists interested in the work of the Institute. At the moment, our research technical development priorities include (but are not limited to) the implementation of SGML in networked applications, World-Wide Web (especially the development of the Web's annotation facilities), MUDs and their scholarly uses, distributed databases, query-by-example, and optical character recognition. Networked Associate Fellows retain their status until the completion of their projects, or until they or the Institute find outside funding to bring them on campus as Fellows in Residence. Publishing: Through World-Wide Web, the Institute can provide the means for publishing networked hypermedia. The Web is platform- independent, which means that it can be accessed from Macs, DOS machines, or Unix workstations. Using the Web, the Institute publishes its own technical/research reports, and it can permit scholars to share their research among limited working groups, or to publish it for the general public. In the latter instance, we encourage scholars to work with university presses, and we hope to provide a workable, realistic model for scholarly production and non-profit cost recovery in this medium. As a first step in this direction, a World-Wide Web version of Postmodern Culture is now available on the Institute's server, <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/home.html">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/home.html</a>. Seminars: From time to time, the Institue hosts visiting lecturers, roundtable discussions, and networked conferences. Information on these events is available through the Institue's WWW server. If you have a suggestion for a topic or speaker, please let us know. Deadlines: Applications for fellowships in the 1994-95 academic year are due by January 31st, 1994. Decisions of the selection committee will be made by the end of February. Applications should answer the questions listed on the form supplied below. Information: For further information concerning the Institute and its research, please contact us in one of the following ways: electronic mail: iath@virginia.edu World-Wide Web <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ho">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ho</a> me.html U.S. Post: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Alderman Library Charlottesville, VA 22903 MOO: hero.village.virginia.edu 8888 Voice: (804) 924-4527 Fax: (804) 982-2363 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fellowship Application: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Deadline: January 31st, 1993 Applications may be submitted by e-mail (iath@virginia.edu), U.S. Mail (Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903), or U.Va messenger mail. (Note: Scholars applying for Networked Associate Fellows, as part of a workgroup, should fill out the "workgroup" line consistently. Others may leave this line blank.) Name: Dept.: University: Workgroup: E-mail: Phone: Postal: Applicants should respond to each of the following items in their Fellowship proposals, and may include whatever other supporting information they wish to provide. 1) Please describe the research that you would pursue if you were granted a fellowship at the Institute. 2) Please describe the role of information technology in your project. 3) Please suggest ways in which the Institute's tool-building or data-gathering efforts, on behalf of your project, might also benefit the research or teaching of other scholars. 4) Please list any specialized equipment, software, analog-to- digital conversion, or electronic information that you think will be necessary to the successful completion of your project, and estimate the cost of these items. 5) What other grant or teaching-release support have you secured, or do you plan to seek, for this project? 6) What other electronic research are you aware of that is relevant to your own project, either in content or in method? Please include the following with your application: a current curriculum vitae. (on-campus applicants only:) A statement of support from your department's Chair, agreeing to provide you with at least half-time teaching release and ten hours a week from a graduate assistant, should you receive a Resident From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: manuscripts Date: 30 Nov 1993 17:06:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 400 (607) I wish to know if there is a GOPHER or FTP/TELNET site where one can access a national union list of manuscripts or the manuscripts of the Library of Congress/National Archives? I vaguely remember someone mentioning this at the University of Maryland, but I may be mistaken. Thanks for your help; James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: "C. David Frankel" <D7BAIAD@CFRVM> Subject: Two Queries Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 08:11:36 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 401 (608) 1) A collegue newly hired to teach humanities at a community college wishes to know if there is a national professional organization of Humanities scholars. 2) In the spring I will be teaching a course entitled "Greek myth, tragedy, and culture." I'm still searching for a text of Greek myths for use in the class -- unless I find something better I will probably choose between Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves. Could anyone suggest something more appropriate? Thanks. C. David Frankel_________BITNET: D7BAIAD@CFRVM Assoc. Prof. of Theatre__INTERNET: D7BAIAD@CFRVM.CFR.USF.EDU Saint Leo College________VOICE: 904-588-8395 St. Leo, Fl. 33574 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: real-life bibliographic experience Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 19:21:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 402 (609) This in response to the recent call for "real-life experience" with bibliographic management software, specifically EndNote Plus and ProCite. Years ago I encountered ProCite, was repelled by it, and so haven't looked since. Perhaps it has improved. I use EndNote (for MS-DOS; there's a Mac original) and teach with it. The MS-DOS version has some interfacial infelicities, but the basic design is brilliant, in fact better than the manual will lead you to believe. Essentially the virtue of the design is that templates are allowed on input and output, so you can specify or determine what kind of entity you wish to record as well as how you want it to be presented. This allows the software to be extended to something more general that a mere bibliographic manager, namely a manager of research materials, such as notes. The whole discussion of bibliographic management needs to be raised to the level at which the discussants see that it is a special case of a larger problem. This problem EndNote makes a fairly good attempt at solving -- a strong recommendation from the likes of any scholar who asks for what he or she really wants. WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: John Hilton <HILTON@mtb.und.ac.za> Subject: Re: Biblio software (2/35) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:29:51 +0200 (SAST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 403 (610) The University of Natal, Durban, recently (1993) went through the process of evaluating bibliographic software. Our final two choices were ProCite and Endnote Plus. We decided on the latter mainly on the grounds that Endnote Plus had a better price structure and licencing policy. We also had people with experience of the package on campus who could help with training as "expert partners". We tried to avoid 'feature wars' but the lack of a global edit facility in Endnote Plus was worrying. We believe though that this will be put right in an imminent release. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hilton@Classics.und.ac.za * * * * John Hilton * * Department of Classics * * University of Natal * * King George V Avenue * * DURBAN * * 4001 * * South Africa * * * * Fax: (031) 816 2214 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: BushC@BYUVAX.BITNET (Chuck Bush) Subject: Subscription to Computers and the Humanities Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 13:34:14 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 404 (611) Maurizio Lana asked about subscribing to "Computers and the Humanities". The *best* way to subscribe to CHum is to join the Association for Computers and the Humanities--ACH membership includes a subscription to CHum plus a subscription to the ACH Newsletter. ACH Membership Application Name: _________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ Phone: _____________________________ E-mail: _____________________________ Interests: ____________________________________ ____________________________________ [ ] $60 Individual Regular Member [ ] $45 Student/Emeritus Faculty Member [ ] Add $5 for joint Northeast ACH membership [ ] Add $7 for joint membership (couples) Membership for calendar year [ ]1993 [ ]1994 Annual membership includes subscriptions to Computers and the Humanities ACH Newsletter Method of Payment [ ] Check payable to Association for Computers and the Humanities [ ] VISA [ ] MasterCard ________________________________ ________ card number exp date ___________________________________________ signature Send To Charles D. Bush, Treasurer Association for Computers and the Humanities 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 8460 U.S.A Phone: 801-378-7439 FAX: 801-378-4649 E-mail: Chuck_Bush@BYU.EDU ---------- Charles D. Bush EMail: BushC@Yvax.BYU.EDU Humanities Research Center HRCChuck@BYUVM.BITNET 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Phone: 801-378-7439 Provo, Utah 84602 Fax: 801-378-4649 From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: magazine recommendation Date: 01 Dec 1993 17:01:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 325 (612) I recently discovered a new magazine which I would like to recommend to HUMANIST subscribers and other interested parties. I do not work for this publication, am not receiving compensation for this, nor will I receive payments of any kind from the publishers. The magazine is entitled _WIRED_, and I bought it off the news stand. I believe the first hard copy edition was Nov. 1993. The current issue contains much fascinating material on the intersection of media, knowledge, experience and culture, precipitated by computers and computer- related knowledge. The magazine is also visually impressive, written in a lively fashion, and admittedly contains alot of material about computer games, virtual reality and other subjects not of immediate interest to me. However, it serves for me as a fascinating window into how we gain knowledge and organize experience under the influence of computers, INTERNET etc. Further, many of the regular writers and editors place their e-mail address at the end of articles to invite reader feedback and comments. If anyone else has had a different reaction to the magazine, I would enjoy hearing from you. Regards, James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Islamic Studies Opening Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 17:49:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 326 (613) With the usual apologies for multiple list postings, and with permission to circulate this as widely as seems appropriate (from Bob Kraft): [deleted quotation] languages [deleted quotation] From: Minott Kerr <mkerr@reed.edu> Subject: Myth (2/28) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 17:59:13 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 405 (614) Though perhaps too specific, you might look at Thomas Carpenter, _Art and Myth in Ancient Greece_.London: Thames and Hudson. ca. 1991. Minott Kerr Reed College From: Don Fowler <dpf@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 7.0323 Qs: Manuscript GOPHER; Humanities Scholars; Myth (2/28) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 13:03:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 406 (615) Greek myth textbooks: there's a new one just out by Barry Powell of Madison which is supposed to be very good. Don.Fowler@Jesus.Oxford.ac.uk From: kbarger@ACC.HAVERFORD.EDU (Kyle Barger) Subject: Re: Bibliographic software experiences Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 09:41:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 407 (616) We have a number of faculty members using EndNote for the Mac, and people seem very pleased with it, with one major caveat: It won't really do footnotes, which is a big problem for certain citation styles such as Chicago Manual. However, there is a new version recently out which is supposed to solve this problem. We haven't had a chance to try it out yet. -- Kyle Barger Haverford College Academic Computing kbarger@haverford.edu From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: NUCMC Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 13:38:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 408 (617) James McSwain asked about online access to the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections, and he thought that the University of Maryland might be the source. Frank G. Burke, on the faculty of the College of Library and Information services at the University of Maryland (and former Chief Acting Archivist at the National Archives) served as a consultant to Chadwyck-Healey in their creation of NIDS (National Inventory of Documentary Sources). NIDS is available on a compact disc, so I doubt that access is available via the Internet. The Johns Hopkins Ulinversity LIbrary Special Collections -- according to a recent posting by Mike Showalter on publib -- provides a set of pointers to collections of finding aids on their gopher server at musicbox.mse.jhu.edu. Mike Neuman Georgetown Univ. From: eng_zuchowsk@emunix.emich.edu Subject: request for posting a query Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 11:36:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 409 (618) This looks more like an item for Humanist. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I received this address from a colleague of mine and I'm not sure what the procedure is but I would really appreciate it if you could either post my query to your list or let me know what I need to do to sign up and post it myself. I've already tried with the Linguist list but the response to my query was not satisfactory. My message runs as follows; I'm looking for sources on phoneme frequencies in French based on a L e x i c o n sample; not text samples. I'm also looking for a French-English dictionary of onomatopoeia or any list of French onomatopoeic words, preferably translated into English. I would very much appreciate complete information about each source and, if possible, where they can be located. Thanks a lot in advance. Rafal Zuchowski. Thank you very much for your help, Rafal Zuchowski. From: RUTH STERNGLANTZ <STRNGLNTZ@NYUACF.BITNET> Subject: run of Speculum available Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1993 17:21:12 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 410 (619) My supervisor has a partial run of Speculum (1947-1976, mostly complete) which he would like to donate to a non-profit organization. If you fit the bill and are interested, please contact me privately for further information. This message is being liberally cross-posted, so sorry for duplication. Cheers, Ruth ******************************************************************************** Ruth E. Sternglantz strnglntz@acfcluster.nyu.edu New York University Department of English strnglntz@nyuacf 19 University Place, Room 200 New York, New York 10003 From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: MLA '93 technology-related sessions Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 16:04:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 329 (620) Modern Language Association of America Convention Toronto, Canada Dec. 27-30, 1993 Technology-related demonstrations and sessions. For further information: Tel. 212-475-9500 E-mail: MLAOD@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Compiled by Joel D. Goldfield Software Demonstrations The MLA's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto are mounting noncommercial software demonstrations at this year's convention. The demonstrations will be on view in Room 428 (Executive Suite), fourth floor, Sheraton Centre Toronto, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Weds., Dec. 29th, and from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 30th. Specific software programs developed for modern language teaching and research will be demonstrated in two-hour sessions. The schedule of demonstrations will appear in the Dec. 27th issue of the _Convention News_ and will be posted at the information areas in the Sheraton Centre Toronto and the Royal York Hotel. Session # Type of session, title, place, date, time, Chair(s) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- #144 Forum arranged by the MLA Executive Committee on Emerging Techno- logies in Teaching and Research ("ETC"): "Reconfiguring the Discipline in the Electronic Age," Sheraton Centre Toronto, Civic Ballroom, Tues., Dec. 28th, 12:00 noon - 1:45 p.m., Ian Lancashire & Janet Murray. #215 Assoc. for Computers and the Humanities session: "Software for the Study of Literature," Royal York, Imperial, Tues., Dec. 28th, 1:45-3:00 p.m., Paul A. Fortier. #245 Workshop (derivative panel from #144) arranged by the ETC: "Teaching in the Electronic Age," Sheraton Centre Toronto, Dufferin & Simcoe, Tues., Dec. 28th, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Helen Schwartz. #382 Workshop (derivative panel from #144) arranged by the ETC: "Textual Research in the Electronic Age," Sheraton Centre Toronto, Essex, Weds., Dec. 29th, 10:15-11:30 a.m., Joel Goldfield. #644 Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature: "The Quantitative Debate: What the Hell Does Statistics Have to Do with Literature?" Sheraton Centre Toronto, Conference Room B, Thursday, Dec. 30th, 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m., Daniel T. Brink. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: references works for classical myths Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 18:20:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 411 (621) Don Fowler's news is welcome. I still use Lemprie\re, Classical Dictionary of Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors (1788), which is out of copyright and available in various reprintings -- for some things. Here's an interesting opportunity for someone: an electronic text of Lemprie\re, with at least headwords and sources tagged, could be put online legally, used by students everywhere. The type in the edn. I have & those I have seen could not be scanned easily with the usual commercial software, such as OmniPage Pro. But perhaps Type Reader could do it, or something better. A collaborative project, perhaps? WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Terry Butler <TBUTLER@UALTAVM> Subject: Re: Bibliographic software experiences Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 12:54:29 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 412 (622) I can report that at the University of Alberta we have found Pro-Cite to be an effective and easy to use program for managing bibliographies. In addition to a large number of individual faculty members using it, last year we distributed one copy of the software to every Faculty and Department office on campus, and used the software to collect citations to scholarly works produced at our University. The process of collecting, editing, and producing a publication which reported over 4,000 citations was successful. Pro-Cite comes in both Macintosh and PC (DOS) flavours, and the files from the two versions are completely compatible. We have negotiated a volume purchase agreeement with the supplier (Personal Bibliographic Systems) which gives purchasers through our campus bookstore a 70% discount off list price. Network-runnable versions of the program are available, and a search-only version has also been released. Terry Butler CALL/Humanities Computing Coordinator University of Alberta TButler@VM.UCS.UALBERTA.CA From: <SMTP@AWIUNI11.EDVZ.UniVie.AC.AT> Subject: wired subscription Date: Sun, 05 Dec 93 15:24:43 MEZ X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 413 (623) To: editors@brownvm.edu, mcswain@acd.tusk.edu wired is definitely to be recommended - I do know the editors - Jane and Louis have been editing Electric Word out of Amsterdam years ago and have worke d very hard for over a year to get Wired to what it is now. Wired is less than a year old and has been selling out sice it exists. I do not get anything from Wired either in recommending it - if you have not go tit you either need it or you are not into the e-mail-Cyberspace-etc world, Subscription by e-mail : subscription@wired.com --- yes they have their own int ernet domain - editorial send to editors@wired.com if you hate e-mail try 1-800 SO WIRED From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: AUGIE-L? Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:04:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 331 (624) (please repost) In the spring term beginning 10 January and running through early May, I will be teaching a course for grads and advanced undergrads at Penn that will comprise an introduction to the professional study of the life, works, and influence of Augustine of Hippo, as well as directed reading of pieces of his works in the original Latin. The course will include an orientation to the primary and secondary literature, identification of and some discussion of main themes, and reading of specimen passages, both in English and in Latin, in A.'s works. I am also of a mind to find a way to make as much as possible of this course available by Internet, through a controlled listserv list (AUGIE-L?). I'm posting now to invite suggestions how this can best be done. A minimal approach would consist of: posting syllabus, bibliography, etc. at the outset, then each week having one liveware participant in the Monday afternoon seminar detailed to post a summary of discussions on the net that evening, with the net part of the seminar then continuing through that week. Liveware participants would be more or less coerced to have e-access (our students can get this now) and to participate in both parts of the course. I am tempted by the possibilities of MUD/MOO interaction, but have no facility handy for doing that. It would probably not be possible to offer "credit" for work done by net, but I would entertain proposals from those who wished to do sustained work, e.g., write a serious paper. I *suppose* I could charge a modest fee (suggestions for how much?) to read and criticize drafts of such a paper, and in return would be willing and able to write a letter of recommendation for such an author. (If the paper is so bad I can't write you a letter, you pay no fee . . .) This is just at the vaporware stage and there is time to refine the idea: I will certainly publish to relevant lists signup instructions when the time comes, but in the meantime would very much appreciate suggestions, cautions, expressions of outrage, etc. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Association of Computational Linguistics <acl@cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Memorial Service for Donald E. Walker Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 10:44:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 332 (625) A memorial service for Donald E. Walker, Director of Language and Knowledge Resources Research at Bellcore, Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Secretary-Treasurer of IJCAII, will be held on Sunday December 19th from two to four PM at the Unitarian Fellowship Church in Summit, 4 Waldron Avenue, Summit, New Jersey. Don passed away peacefully with his wife Betty and all three daughters at his side on Friday November 26, 1993, after a long battle with cancer. Friends and colleagues of Don's who are unable to attend the service might want to send written reminiscences, photographs or other materials remembering him, for a booklet to be presented to his family. Please send these to: Kathy McKeown 20 Prospect Rd. Wayne, New Jersey 07470 USA In addition, any charitable contributions in his memory may be sent to: ACL Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund Association for Computational Linguistics c/o Judith Klavans Box 105 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706 Please forward this message. Thank you, Fernando Pereira ACL President Directions (please note: ON-STREET PARKING ONLY): [deleted quotation]exit 14 for Route 24 West. [* Get off at Hobart Avenue exit. At 1st light turn left. Stay straight, up the hill to the first STOP sign. Turn right. Take your first left turn (Waldron Avenue). The church is at the end of the block on the right.] Garden State Parkway northbound: Take exit 142-A. Stay to the right. You will be on Route 78 West, which will become Route 24 West. Continue as in [*] above. Garden State Parkway southbound: Take exit 142. Stay in the right-hand lane and exit right away at the Hillside/Irvington exit but stay to the far right and continue to the STOP sign. Again turn right and go to the first right turn, crossing over the highway. There may or may not be a sign saying Route 78/24. You will be going in a circle to get onto Route 78 West which turns into Route 24 West. After the third consecutive right turn you will be on route 78 west. Look for Hobard Avenue exit, and proceed as in [*] above. [deleted quotation]Avenue). Turn left at the light and go to the STOP sign. Go up the hill past OVerlook Hospital. At the 1st light turn right onto Summit Avenue. At the 2nd light turn right onto Springfield Avenue. The church is one block on the left. [deleted quotation]Summit Road (Getty Station). Stay on Summit Road, turns into Baltusrol Road until you come to a fork, stay left -- do not go down the hill under the overpass. make a sharp left up the hill and pass Overlook Hospital on the right. At the first light make a right onto Summit Avenue. At the second light make another right onto Springfield Avenue. The church is 1 block on the left. [deleted quotation]8 following sign to Summit Ave. Turn right at the first light. Stay on Summit Avenue for 0.8 mile turning left onto Whittredge Rd. Take the first right onto Waldron Ave. The church is at the end of the block on the right. Address any questions to: pereira@research.att.com or klavans@cs.columbia.edu. From: Irving Hexham <hexham@acs.ucalgary.ca> Subject: Re: Edwin Mellen Press Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 12:06:00 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 333 (626) Since it was founded in the late 1970's the Edwin Mellen Press has been surrounded by controversy. First, it was accused of being a "Moonie." More recently it received bad publicity in the Canadian newspaper the GLOBE AND MAIL, 1 October, 1993, p. A8; and LINGUA FRANCA, September/October, 1993, pp. 1, 22-25 & 62; and has been called a "vanity press." My own interest in the press arises from the fact that I teach African religions in a Religious Studies Department. Anyone who looks at the DIRECTORY OF FACULTY OF DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES IN NORTH AMERICA, edited by Watson E. Mills, Macron, Conucil for the Study of Religion, 1988, p. 581, will see that although there are thousands of religious studies professors in North America only 34 list an interest in African religions. Worse still at most half of these teach courses in the area and only about 12 actually do ongoing research. As a result there is virtually no market for books about African religions. The result is that compared to other areas of religious studies, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, etc. very few resources are available for the study of African religions. Therefore, a vicious circle exists which perpetuates the marinalization of African religions. To help overcome this problem I have edited several collections of papers by African scholars dealing with African religions which were published by the Edwin Mellen Press. Because I am the editor and not author of these works I feel free to say that while the quality of papers varies these books meet a real need. Although I must admit they have not received the publicity I would like the reviews they have received have been excellen. In fact the JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN AFRICA, XXIII, 1, 1993, recenlty described one of them, edited by G.C. oosthuizen and myself, as "a major contribution," p. 89. Against this background I am curious to know other scholar's reaction to the Edwin Mellen Press. My experience with this publisher has been a good one. All the manuscripts they have published for me have received editorial/peer reivew, no subventions were asked or given, and, as stated, journal reviews have been good. What concerns me is whether or not the press is simply the victim of rumours by rival publishers or if it has recently changed its policies and is becoming a vanity press. A further question I would like answering is how is a vanity press identified? I understand and have published with commercial presses. But, most university presses, in Canada at least, are highly subsidized, and many "good" presses like E.J. Brill regularly require subventions. From: John Lavagnino <LAV@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> Subject: MLA '93: More technology-related sessions Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 14:23 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 414 (627) As an addendum to Joel Goldfield's list, here is my own list of a few more technology-related sessions at the MLA---a list that is based entirely on the titles of the sessions: I don't know how deeply into these matters any of them will delve. Inevitably, several of these overlap with sessions on closely-related topics. Because I am lazier than Joel, I supply only the session number, title, date, and time. John Lavagnino Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University Session # Title, date, time -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- #174 "Gonzo Scholarship? Policing Electronic Publication" Tues., Dec. 28th, 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m. #238 "The Advent of the Virtual University: The Changing Worlds of Academe and Scholarly Publishing" Tues., Dec. 28th, 3:30-4:45 p.m. #295 "Electronic Editing: Theory and Possibilities" Tues., Dec. 28th, 7:15-8:30 p.m. #489 "W(h)ither the Romantic Author: Technology and Text" Wed., Dec. 29th, 3:30-4:45 p.m. #526 "Virtual Spaces, Postmodern Maps" Wed., Dec. 29th, 7:15-8:30 p.m. From: MLAOD@CUVMB.Columbia.edu Subject: Computer Equipment, Customs, and the MLA Convention Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 17:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 415 (628) A reminder to anyone who is planning to attend the MLA convention in Toronto from 27-30 December 1993: If you are planning to bring a personal computer or any other computer equipment with you to Toronto, please be sure to register it with US customs before leaving the United States. It is also a good idea to register newly purchased cameras or tape recorders and equipment that looks or is new. Registration will insure that you encounter no difficulties with US Customs when reentering the country. From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) Subject: ANLP-94 preliminary call for papers Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:59:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 335 (629) PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Stuttgart, Germany October 13-15, 1994 sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics This conference will follow the theme and style of previous ACL Applied conferences. Specific areas of interest and other details will be provided in subsequent announcements. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Authors should submit, by 2 May 1994, a) six copies of a full-length paper (min 9, max 15 double-spaced pages, minimum font size 12, exclusive of references); and b) 16 copies of a 20-30 line abstract. A paper accepted for presentation at the meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers arriving after the deadline will be returned unopened. FAX papers will not be reviewed; however, electronic submissions will be allowed using the same guidelines as the 1994 ACL conference. Papers should be sent to the Program Chair: Paul Jacobs (ANLP-94) (215) 898-0332 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science 3401 Walnut St., Suite 400C, Rm. 420 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 5 July 1994. Full-length versions of accepted papers, prepared according to instructions, must be received, along with a signed copyright release statement, by 22 August 1994. TUTORIALS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION The conference will have facilities for a variety of special events, including tutorials and workshops before the conference. For information regarding facilities and local arrangments, contact: Uwe Reyle and Sabine Schmidt Institut f"ur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universit"at Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany phone: +49-711-1211379 fax: +49-711-1211366 e-mail: sabine@ims.uni-stuttgart.de For other information on ACL, contact Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-914-478-1802 phone/fax; acl@cs.columbia.edu. From: Zubin Dittia <zubin@olympus.wustl.edu> Subject: ACM MULTIMEDIA 94 --- CALL FOR PAPERS Date: 08 Dec 1993 12:38:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 336 (630) NOTE: Please send all your responses and/or questions to the various program chairs listed in this posting; I am only concerned with publicity for the event, so do not direct any queries to me. Also, please accept my apologies if you receive more than one copy of this posting. -- Zubin. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ACM MULTIMEDIA 94 ----------------- October 15-20, 1994, San Francisco, California THE SECOND ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery SIGBIO, SIGBIT, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGIR, SIGLINK, SIGMM, and SIGOIS in cooperation with SIGAPP, SIGCAPH, SIGCPR, SIGMOD, SIGOPS, and the IEEE Communications Society. PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM Multimedia 94 will provide an international forum for papers, panels, courses, workshops, and exhibits focusing on the synergies between processing and communicating information represented in multiple media (multimedia). Research ideas, emerging technologies, engineering methodologies, prototype demonstrations, and experiences should be submitted for review. Technical areas for Multimedia 94 include, but are not limited to: applications and tools; video information systems; interactive television; collaboration environments; database and information systems; distributed systems; operating system extensions; hardware and architectures; networking and communication; media integration and synchronization; image, video and audio compression techniques; programming paradigms and environments; storage and I/O architectures; and user interfaces. PAPERS: ------- Technical papers, preferably accompanied by electronic and videotape software, on completed or in-progress research, innovative applica- tions, or experience with multimedia systems are solicited. Where applicable, prototype demonstrations or videotape presentations are encouraged to supplement the talks. Outstanding papers on different areas of multimedia will be given awards. Selected papers will be forwarded to ACM/Springer-Verlag Multimedia Systems, the Communications of the ACM (CACM), or the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Submit six copies of each paper (no more than 15 double-spaced pages including figures, tables, and references) to: Prof. Domenico Ferrari, Program Chair Computer Science Division EECS Department University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. Voice: +1 510 642 3806 Fax: +1 510 642 5775 Email: multimedia94@tenet.berkeley.edu PANELS: ------- We are soliciting proposals for panels that examine an innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issue of interest to the field. Panel proposals should include the issue to be addressed, the members of the panel with a brief statement of their positions on the issue, and a description of the panel format. The best panels, in our experience, have been structured as a debate with an opportunity for audience participation, but we are open to other stimulating ideas. Panels consisting of a collection of short paper presentations are not encouraged. The Panel chair is willing to work with prospective session chairs in advance of submission to discuss panel concepts or the form of a proposal. Panel proposals should be at most 3 pages, and should include a brief description of each panelist's relevant expertise. Submit six copies of each panel proposal to: Allan Kuchinsky, Panels Co-Chair Hewlett-Packard Co. 1501 Page Mill Rd. M/S 1U-17 Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA. Voice: +1 415 857 7423 Fax: +1 415 857 8526 Email: kuchinsk@hpl.hp.com COURSES: -------- Proposals (at most 5 pages, including biographical sketches of instructors) for both 1/2- and 1-day tutorial courses are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will be based on expertise and experience of instructors, relevance of subject matter, and the use of multimedia technology in the presentation. Submit six copies of each course proposal to: Ephraim Glinert, Courses Chair Department of Computer Science and Engineering FR-35 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 USA. Voice: +1 206 543 4305 Fax: +1 206 543 2969 Email: glinert@cs.washington.edu WORKSHOPS: ---------- During the first two days of Multimedia 94, we would like to hold workshops on specific areas of multimedia research and technology. Evening sessions during the main conference (last three days) will be held to report on the results of the workshops. For more information, contact: D. Shepherd, Workshops Chair Computer Center University of Lancaster Lancaster, UK LA1 4YW. Voice: 44-52-459-3827 Fax: 44-52-484-4011 Email: doug@comp.lancs.ac.uk EXHIBITS: --------- ACM Multimedia 94 offers a unique opportunity for vendors and researchers to exhibit and demonstrate multimedia products and research prototypes. For more information, contact: Prof. Patrick Mantey, Exhibits Chair Computer Engineering Department Applied Science Building University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA. Voice: +1 408 459 2158 Fax: +1 408 459 4829 Email: mantey@cse.ucsc.edu DEMONSTRATIONS: --------------- As part of ACM Multimedia 94, we plan to hold a referreed technical and artistic demonstration program. We solicit working systems that demonstrate the essence of multimedia: the integration of technologies and media (e.g., computers, television, facsimile, communications/networking, databases, user interfaces, hypermedia, operating systems, virtual reality, data compression, interface hardware, publishing, etc.). Submissions (at most 4 pages) should consist of a description of the exhibit, demo requirements, biography, and a single VHS video. Electronic submission of the description is encouraged. Send submissions to: Tom Little, Demonstrations Chair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University 44 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215 USA. Voice: +1 617 353 9877 Fax: +1 617 353 6440 Email: tdcl@spiderman.bu.edu VIDEO: ------ We are solicting videos of innovative multimedia technology. Videotape submissions should be between 5 to 8 minutes, and should be accompanied by a 2 page overview. We expect to show the Multimedia 94 Video Program in a special room in the Conference Center during the conference, and the videotape will be available for purchase. For more information, contact: Marc Brown or Dave Redell, Video Co-Chairs DEC Systems Research Center 130 Lytton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301 USA. Voice: +1 415 853 2152 or 2131 Fax: +1 415 853 2104 Email: {mhb,redell}@src.dec.com ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: ---------------------- The proceedings of Multimedia 94 will be available both on CD-ROM and via electronic network. Accepted papers will be expected to be finally provided in several formats including postscript, and authors are strongly encouraged to provide about 2 minutes of video and also software and other relevant information that complements the content of the paper. For more information, contact: Roy Rada, Electronic Publishing Chair Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK L69 3BX. Voice: 44-51-794-3669 Fax: 44-51-794-3715 Email: rada@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT PARTICIPATION: ---------------------- Papers with a student as the primary author can enter the student paper award competition. A cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate for the competition. Graduate and undergraduate students are invited to participate in Multimedia 94. Student volunteers receive complimentary registration, complimentary meals and the opportunity to interact with conference attendees in return for helping with day-to-day operations of the conference. Housing costs for student volunteers may be reduced by sharing hotel rooms. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- All submissions due: March 10, 1994. Notification of acceptance: June 10, 1994. Submissions in final form due: July 20, 1994. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: --------------------- Co-Chairs: J. O. Limb, Hewlett-Packard. M. Blattner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of California, Davis. Steering Committee Chair: E. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and SU. Treasurer: R. Allen, Bellcore. Proceedings: J.J. Garcia-Luna, University of California, Santa Cruz. Workshops: D. Shepherd, Lancaster University, UK. Demonstrations: T. Little, Boston University. Video: M. Brown, Digital Equipment Corporation. D. Redell, Digital Equipment Corporation. Elec. Publishing: R. Rada, University of Liverpool, UK. Panels: A. Kuchinsky, Hewlett-Packard. S. Bulick, US WEST Advanced Technologies. Courses: E. Glinert, Renssaeler Polytechnic Institute. Local Arrangements: J.D. Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Publicity: G. Parulkar, Washington University in St. Louis. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Chair: Prof. Domenico Ferrari Computer Science Division EECS Department University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. +1 510 642 3806 multimedia94@tenet.berkeley.edu Co-Chairs: S. Ahuja, AT & T Bell Laboratories. F. Kitson, Hewlett-Packard. T. Kunii, University of Aizu, Japan. R. Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory. R. Rada, University of Liverpool, UK. R. Sacks-Davis, University of Melbourne, Australia. ----- End Included Message ----- From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk> Subject: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 18:02:01 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 337 (631) Advance Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA 2 days during July 31st-August 4th 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Guest Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and VP there has been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in integrating NLP and VP. Is it because of the long-time reductionist trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, non-linear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk, to those who have worked on VP? We believe it is high time to bring together NLP and VP. Already we have advertised a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of AI Review to focus on the integration of NLP and VP and we have had a tremendous response. There will be three special issues focussing on theory and applications of NLP and VP. Also, there will be an issue focussing on intelligent multimedia systems. The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and VP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and VP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume (Issues 1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on three themes: * Theoretical issues on integrated NLP and VP * Systems exhibiting integrated NLP and VP * Intelligent multimedia involving NLP and VP The following issues will be focussed upon during the workshop: * Common representations for NLP and VP * How does NLP help VP and vice-versa? * What does integration buy us? * Symbolic versus connectionist models * Varieties of communication between NLP and VP processors * Designs for integrating NLP + VP * Tools for integrating NLP + VP * Possible applications of integration WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have as much discussion as possible during the workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion rather than having formal paper presentations. We will also organize a number of presentations on Site Descriptions of ongoing work on NLP + VP. There may be a number of invited speakers. Day 1: Theory and modelling for integrated NLP and VP. Day 2: Systems for integrated NLP/VP, and intelligent multimedia. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted by electronic mail to Paul Mc Kevitt at p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Preferred format is two columns with 3/4 " margins all round. Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit your paper by e-mail please submit three copies by snail mail. *******Submission Deadline: March 18th 1994 *******Notification Date: April 8th 1994 *******Camera ready Copy: April 29th 1994 PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EC. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. John Frisby (Sheffield, England) Dr. Eduard Hovy (USC ISI, Los Angeles, USA) Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA) Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC, Tsukuba, Japan) Dr. Terry Reiger (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA) Dr. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) *PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST* From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: FW: 7.0321 Qs: Subscription info; Biblio software (2/35) Date: 7 Dec 1993 11:20:17 U X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 416 (632) Robert, [deleted quotation] It would be worth subscribing to the BIBSOFT list which debates such things constantly ... another bonus is theat many of the creators/writers/sources of such software (eg EndNote Plus) are subscribed to the list and offer non-commercial comment. The e-addresses etc. of the BIBSOFT list are: BIBSOFT - Discussion of software for citations and bibliographies 'normal' listserv rules apply ... to subscribe to the list send a message saying: SUBSCRIBE BIBSOFT firstname lastname to the listserv address: listserv address - LISTSERV@INDYCMS (Bitnet) or LISTSERV@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (Internet) and to contribute to the list discussion (after subscribing) send your input to the list address: list address - BIBSOFT@INDYCMS.EARN Cheers Simon From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Philip Dick/Religion Date: 07 Dec 1993 17:18:35 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 417 (633) Recently, I made an inquiry regarding an opera based on PDK's trilogy _VALIS_. It is available on CD from Bridge Records, BCD 9007. I obtained a copy from TOWER RECORDS in NYC and sent to me via UPS; since PKD was obsessed with religious visions or transcendent experiences, I also wish to recommend here a pamphlet available from the Department of Religion at Arizona State University entitled 'The Exhaustion of Heaven: Constructing and Deconstructing Natural Rights in Meiji Japan,' by Winston Davis of Washington & Lee University. This is a printed version of a guest lecture Davis presented at Tempe April 1993. It is quite good and contains some fascinating material from late 19th c. Japanese thinkers set in a context of the history of natural rights doctrine in the west. The address is Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0402; 602-965-7145/ regards, James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: WMISHLER@vx.cis.umn.edu Subject: Re: 7.0325 Wired (1/18) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 19:12:22 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 418 (634) Regarding James McSwain's information about a new magazine Wired, does he have an address? Bill Mishler From: phil-preprints-admin@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: News from the IPPE Date: Wed, 08 Dec 93 20:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 339 (635) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= News from the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 30 Nov 93 ------------------------ Usership and submissions ------------------------ In recent weeks, usage of the IPPE has remained steady at about 4500 accesses per month. 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By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp", or "ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu" By email: "mail phil-preprints-service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp". To place a paper or comment on the IPPE: see pub/submissions/README. If you have questions: send mail to <cburke@nexus.yorku.ca>. From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press) Subject: The Internet Business Journal Issue 1.5 Online Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 10:25:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 340 (636) The Internet Business Journal Commercial Opportunities in the Networking Age The first and foremost information source for the commercial Internet community. Volume 1, Number 5 - November 1993 For subscription information, contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net Note that The Internet Business Journal is a hardcopy (print) publication. For a complete electronic sample copy, e-mail Mstrange@Fonorola.Net and request the file ibj.6 New Editor The publishers are pleased to announce a new Editor-in- Chief for The Internet Business Journal -- Aneurin Bosley. Mr. Bosley will continue to guide the growth of IBJ into a resource-orientated, practical, and easy-to- read survey of the latest trends, resources, tools, and strategies for both the new and experienced business user of the Internet. CONTENTS IN BRIEF: Advertising on the Internet This article discusses some of the pitfalls that advertisers will encounter when they venture onto the Internet. Satellite-Delivered Usenet Newsfeed Home satellite receivers are now available which can deliver Usenet news from over 6000 groups right to the user's home. Ideal for those without access to all newsgroups. Software on the Net Documentation on eight useful pieces of publicly available software that will help you use the Net more effectively. The Newspaper of the Future The electronic newspaper can offer many advantages over its paper counterpart. Here is one idea about what newspapers may look like in the future. 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Yet most advertisers will fail in their initial attempt at Internet-facilitated advertising. This is not at all surprising given that most advertising in any medium is woefully ineffective, mind-bogglingly boring, and uncreative at best -- deceptive and annoying at worst. Why will most advertisers fail when they succumb to the seduction of the virgin fields of the Internet? Traditional advertising will fail to achieve results on the Internet because this virtual community is oriented towards content. In contrast, advertisers usually sell through promoting image and style -- broad archetypes delivered to mass audiences. But the language of the Internet, for the majority of its population, and for some time to come, is low ASCII (Aa-Zz, 1-9 text plus a few miscellaneous characters). More than being a mainly text-based environment, the Internet is first and foremost an oral culture, where the keyboard mediates the spoken word to a complex matrix of subcultures. 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There are no mass markets on the Internet -- only micro communities with distinct histories, rules, and concerns. The challenge for the Internet-facilitated business is to find a way to reach these communities on their terms, respecting their local customs. Watch this column for specific techniques on using the Internet to engage in that unique form of business communication called advertising. For subscription information, contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net (TEL: 613-565-0982 FAX: 613-564- 6641, Subscription Manager, 208 Somerset Street East, Suite A, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1N 6V2) Copyright (C) 1993 by Strangelove Internet Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. This document may be archived for public use in electronic or other media, so long as it is maintained in its entirety and no fee is charged to the user; any exception requires written consent from Strangelove Internet Enterprises. From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com> Subject: Free Trial, Computists' Communique Date: Tue 7 Dec 93 10:56:03-PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 419 (637) Greetings! I'm the editor of the Computists' Communique, an AI/IS/CS weekly news service of Computists International. Send me email saying where you saw this announcement for a free two-month get-acquainted subscription. You'll get job ads, journal calls, NSF announcements, grant and research news, online resources, career and business tips, and commentary. The Communique is about 32KB (8 pages) per week, with a high signal-to-noise ratio -- eclectic, but with special focus on AI research, information technology, software applications, and entrepreneurship. I try to capture "old boy" knowledge in a way that's time-saving, timely, and useful. Write for your free trial now, or for membership details and testimonials. (Full membership is $135/year, but discounts may apply. Unemployed computer scientists may join free.) Sample issues are available on request. Dr. Kenneth I. Laws Computists International (415) 493-7390, Palo Alto Internet laws@ai.sri.com Feel free to forward this message to other lists, with or without your own comments. When requesting a free trial, remember to say where you saw the offer. You must respond by 12/31/93, to laws@ai.sri.com. ------- From: Michaelyn Burnette <mburnett@library.Berkeley.EDU> Subject: help for writing humanities grant proposals Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 10:48:40 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 420 (638) *Scholarly Arguments; Strategies for Writing Persuasive Proposals in the Humanities* by Christina M. Gillis may be useful to those new to the art of writing grant proposals. Using her extensive experience as both grant reviewer and writer, Dr. Gillis, currently Associate Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, includes not only strategies for writing and an appendix of humanities sources. Those interested in acquiring the booklet should send $5 to the Townsend Center, 460 Stephens Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 94720. Checks should be payable to the Regents of the University of California. The usual disclaimer applies: I do not profit in any way from the sale of *Scholarly Arguments* May all your proposals be funded. Michaelyn Burnette Humanities Librarian University of California, Berkeley mburnett@library.berkeley.edu From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: Online Workshop on Adaptive Tech by RIT and EASI Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 14:01:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 342 (639) ADAPT-IT: ADAPTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTING January 31 - February 12, 1994 Online Workshop sponsored by: Rochester Institue of Technology and EASI (Equal Access to Software & Information) Has the Americans with Disabilities Act left you with more questions than answers about providing computing services for individuals with disabilities? Are you trying to find the most effective and efficient way to support your disabled students, faculty and staff? Rochester Institute of Technology has developed a two-week, online workshop, in conjunction with EASI, to provide answers to these and other questions about adapting information technology and computing. The course relies on the distance learning technology of RIT, the adaptive technology resources of EASI and the computer resources of NYSERNET. INSTRUCTORS: Norman Coombs, Chairman of EASI, is a professor of history at RIT and has been teaching distance learning courses for over a decade. Richard Banks is an adaptive technologist for the University of Wisconsin, Stout, library and serves as moderator for EASI's Axslib-l, the leading internet discussion list on libraries and adaptive technology for persons with disabilities. TOPICS COVERED: 1) Introduction and Background 2) Reasons to Adapt 3) Legislative History 4) Americans With Disabilities Act 5) Lab Environment 6) Alternate Output Systems 7) Alternate Input Systems 8) Computing as Compensatory Devices 9)Planning and Funding 10) Review and Other Resources WORKSHOP: Participants will be expected to do homework assignments which will focus on the use of the internet to locate a vast array of disability resources and to share with other participants their findings as well as their institution's or organization's experiences in becoming accessible. Instructors will encourage questions but keep in mind that the workshop is intended to be participatory and interactive. Participants may expect that the workshop will require at least half an hour's work per day on average. CERTIFICATIOn: At the successful conclusion of the workshop, and upon completing at least three specified assignments, Rochester Institute of Technology will issue a Certificate of Completion. The workshop may also be taken to obtain K-12 In-service Credit. COST AND REGISTRATION: Workshop registration fee is $99 and includes all resource materials. Registration will begin immediately and will be limited to the first 100 confirmed registrants. Payment instructions will be mailed upon acceptance to the workshop and reservations will be held for one week until payment is received. Those who do not make the 100 cut-off will be placed on a waiting list for the second workshop offering April 4-16, 1994. How to register: You may register for this workshop by subscribing yourself to the listserv which will run it. To do this send email to: listserv@nysernet.org and leave the subject line of the email blank. Put one line of text into the body of the message: sub adapt-it "Firstname Lastname" If you need help send email to Suzan Warner, smwodl@ritvax.isc.rit.edu. If you have questions about the course materials, send email to either Norman Coombs nrcgsh@ritvax.isc.rit.edu or to Dick Banks, dxb9940@ritvax.isc.rit.edu From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Workshop Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition Date: 15 Dec 1993 11:42:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 343 (640) [deleted quotation] *************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Workshop on 'Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition' April 21-23, 1994 Tilburg University, The Netherlands ****************************************************** Organizers: Peter Broeder (Tilburg) Jaap Murre (Cambridge) Scientific committee: Melissa Bowerman (Nijmegen) Peter Coopmans (Utrecht) Guus Extra (Tilburg) Peter Jordens (Amsterdam) Sponsored by: L.O.T. (Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde), The Dutch national Ph.D. program in Linguistics AIM OF THE WORKSHOP The workshop is centered around two basic questions with respect to the nature and origins of language as "an individual phenomenon": (1) What constitutes knowledge of language? (2) How is knowledge of language acquired? Currently, these questions are being addressed within different cognitive models of language acquisition which derive from strongly contrasting research paradigms. The paradigms start from fundamentally different assumptions about language (symbolic or subsymbolic) and the mechanisms that drive the process of language acquisition (inductive or deductive). The workshop will focus on processes of language acquisition in children and adults and on modelling theses processes. In particular, the acquisition and representation of words will be a central topic. The workshop aims to bring together researchers willing to discuss the merits and constraints of the various models based on the interdisciplinary approaches of linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, NLP, and AI. PARTICIPANTS Melissa Bowerman (Nijmegen), Harald Clahsen (Colchester), Vivian Cook (Colchester), Peter Coopmans (Utrecht), Walter Daelemans (Tilburg), Guus Extra (Tilburg), Michael Gasser (Indiana), Steven Gillis (Antwerp), Peter Jordens (Amsterdam), Gerard Kempen (Leiden), Brian MacWhinney (Pittsburg), Paul Meara (Swansea), Dennis Norris (Cambridge), Kim Plunkett (Oxford), Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg), Mike Sharwood-Smith (Utrecht), Paul Smolensky (Colorado), Sven Stromqvist (Goteborg). ABSTRACTS We invite those interested to submit a two-page abstract (for a 30 minute oral presentation) by January 15, 1994. We would prefer to receive the abstracts by e-mail. The organizers can be contacted at the following addresses: Peter Broeder Jaap Murre Department of Linguistics Medical Research Council University of Tilburg Applied Psychology Unit P.O. Box 90153 15 Chaucer Road 5000 LE Tilburg Cambridge CB2 2EF The Netherlands United Kingdom tel: +31 13-662239 tel: +44 223 355294 fax: +31 13-663110 fax: +44 223 359062 e-mail: peter.broeder@kub.nl e-mail: jaap.murre@mrc-apu.cam.ac.apu From: cedwards@acs.bu.edu (Christopher Edwards) Subject: Re: 7.0325 Wired (1/18) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 15:41:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 421 (641) I also recommend WIRED. It is philosophical enough and far-reaching enough to appeal to academics. The editors are interested in concepts and ideas rather than new toys (although there are plenty of new toy advertisers). The editors haven't had their noses punched yet by the realities of publishing today (ie. subs vs. costs vs. advertisers). I suspect and fear the publicatio will be toned down soon. It's definitely worth a look. -Chris Edwards CEdwards@acs.bu.edu From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Re: 7.0338 Rs: Biblio S/W; Philip Dick; Wired (3/58) Date: 16 Dec 1993 00:18:06 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 422 (642) In response to Bill Mishler and others who may be interested, _WIRED_ is published in San Francisco. The snail mail address is WIRED, 544 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107-1427; subscription information is available at subscriptions@wired.com or through 1-800-SO-WIRED/ 415- 904-0660; and the editor can be reached at editor@wired.com. The "patron saint" of the magazine is Marshall McLuhan, whose photograph is accompanied by the quote: "When a thing is current, it creates currency." I just bought my second issue and found it as visually striking and well written as the first. I wish textbooks exhibited equal measures of careful art work, illustrations and thought-provoking material. It has explained something to me: the world in the twilight of the enlightenment will be one in which education will no longer be the authoritative transmission of structures for understanding experience, but insight into how to construct "utterly personal experiences" (a very free paraphrase of a quote by Brenda Laurel near the front of the magazine). Regards, James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: Stephen Clark <srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk> Subject: Philip K Dick Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 12:05:45 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 423 (643) There are several papers on Dick in *Foundation* 26.1982 Speaking of him as `obsessed' seems unnecessarily pejorative. Why on earth shouldn't he find visions and metaphysical speculations both interesting and important? The new M.A. in Science Fiction Studies here at Liverpool University, UK (based around the Science FIction Foundation Library) has Dick as a principal subject. Stephen Clark srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk From: W Schipper <schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> Subject: Paris, BN MS 987 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 11:44:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 424 (644) I am looking for a microfilm of Paris, BN, MS lat 987 (the 'Ramsey' Benedictional). I have sent for a copy, but that will take some time. Meanwhile, I have an article on the Benedictional of St Aethelwold due soon, and need to check several things. If someone has a copy they would be willing to let me borrow I should be ever so grateful. Bill -- ....................................................................... W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4000 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 ........................................................................ From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: from one machine to another Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 10:19:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 425 (645) It's just in the last couple of years that many people have gotten really big hard drives on home/office machines. I bought one in 1991 with a 200 MB drive and now DOS 6.0 has oomphed it to almost 400. I just had a qualm at the thought that someday I will leave this machine. What's the most efficient way to transfer a disk load of files like that to a new machine? Is there a way to cable a to b and do it rapidly? The thought of some version of DOS backup and hundreds of floppies (the extension of my old technique when abandoning a mere 30MB drive) does not appeal to me. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Rick Whitmore <RICKALAN@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Electronice Publishing Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 08:27:55 -0600 (UTC -06:00) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 426 (646) There is a push here at the University of Kansas to install hardware and software for on-demand and custom textbook publishing on Kodak Lionheart or Xerox Docutech or some such equipment. Does anyone have any experience with this? It seems like a great help to blending research with teaching. Is this a great pedagogical boon, or a another high-tech distraction? From: "Prof. John Rager" <JERAGER@AMHERST> Subject: Query: Macintosh Hieroglyphic Fonts Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 22:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 427 (647) Does anyone know of any readily available Macintosh fonts for doing Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics? Thanks. John Rager Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Amherst College jerager@amh.amherst.edu 413-542-5810 413-542-2550 (Fax) From: Donald A Spaeth <GKHA13@CMS.GLASGOW.AC.UK> Subject: Announcing the release of the English version of Kleio Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 16:48:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 346 (648) I have been asked to post the enclosed announcement by Dr Peter Denley of Queen Mary and Westfield College (London), email: p.r.denley@qmw.ac.uk Donald Spaeth Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History ctich@glasgow.ac.uk --------------------------------------------------- K K L EEEE I W W W K K L E I W W W K K L E I W W W KK LL EEE I W W W K K L L E I W W W K K L L E I W W W K K L L EEEE I WWWW WWWW --------------------------------------------------- Version 5.1.1; The English Version of KLEIO --------------------------------------------------- The pioneering software system KLEIO, developed by Dr Manfred Thaller of the Max-Planck-Institut at Goettingen, has revolutionised historical computing in the German-speaking world. Starting with the principle of "source-oriented data processing", KLEIO provides historians with a range of sophisticated, discipline-specific tools which enable them to preserve the integrity of their source material while handling that material in a wide variety of ways. To this end, KLEIO offers powerful text handling facilities, routines for dealing with varieties of historical dating systems and interlocking currency systems, hierarchical and non-hierarchical relationships, record- matching algorithms, fuzzy and context-sensitive data handling, mapping, image retrieval and information exchange routines. The approach has been accurately defined as that of the "historical workstation". The English version of KLEIO is now released, allowing a wider community of historians access to the software at last. This version consists of a substantial revision of the software itself, and a completely new tutorial written English historical practice data sets. The tutorial has been tested on classes of students during 1993, but is equally suitable for individual work. Version 5.1.1 of KLEIO is suitable for PCs of 386 specification or above. The release also includes StanFEP, the Standard Format Exchange Program also developed by the KLEIO team. A "high- tech" version of KLEIO incorporating the features of this version as well as KLEIO's Image Analysis System (KLEIO IAS) is also available, at present only for UNIX systems. The English Version of KLEIO has been made possible by the support of The British Academy: The Royal Historical Society: The Max-Planck-Institut fuer Geschichte, Goettingen: The Committee for Advanced Studies, University of Southampton: The Arts Faculty, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. How to Order KLEIO ------------------ Version 5.1.1 of KLEIO comes as a package consisting of the following: * a software disk (3.5") * a tutorial disk (3.5") * the reference manual (Manfred Thaller, KLEIO. A Database System) * the tutorial volume (Matthew Woollard & Peter Denley, Source-Oriented Data Processing for Historians: a Tutorial for KLEIO) * the KLEIO IAS manual (Gerhard Jaritz, Images. A Primer of Computer-Supported Analysis with KLEIO IAS), supplied as a taster for the image analysis system (currently available for Unix systems only) Version 5.1.1 incorporates both the German and the English versions of KLEIO: you are asked at installation which version you wish to use. Purchase of the package entitles you to multiple use; the only restriction is that you may not sell KLEIO to third parties. Further copies of the individual volumes are available as books in the Halbgraue Reihe zur historischen Fachinformatik, for which a price list and order form are attached. English KLEIO users are also entitled to the services of the KLEIO Support Team, which will answer questions and help to resolve any problems encountered. Users will receive information about updates and enhancements to the software. Cost and method of payment -------------------------- The cost of the package is L30 excluding postage and packing. The amount to be added for postage and packing is L4.50 for orders from within the United Kingdom and L6.50 for orders from outside the United Kingdom. Payment must be by cheque, made out to "Queen Mary & Westfield College", and must reach the suppliers in sterling, free of bank or international exchange charges. Invoices and receipts can be supplied on request. Orders should be sent to: KLEIO Support Team, Humanities Computing Centre, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom: fax. +44 81 980 8400: email kleio@qmw.ac.uk from whom information about the image analysis system, KLEIO IAS, can also be obtained. ------------------------------------------------------------------ KLEIO: Order Form ----------------- I wish to order KLEIO Version 5.1.1. Name ................................................... Address ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... Signature ................................................... I enclose a cheque for: KLEIO 5.1.1 L30 Postage & packing (L4.50 within UK, L6.50 outside UK) ...... TOTAL ...... Payment must be by cheque, made out to "Queen Mary & Westfield College", and must reach the suppliers in sterling, free of bank or international exchange charges. Invoices and receipts can be supplied on request. Orders should be sent to: KLEIO Support Team Humanities Computing Centre Queen Mary & Westfield College University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS United Kingdom fax. +44 81 980 8400 email kleio@qmw.ac.uk From: P.R.Denley@uk.ac.qmw Subject: Half Gray Series in Historical Computing Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 16:51:56 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 347 (649) The Historical Workstation Project Halbgraue Reihe zur historischen Fachinformatik ----------------------------------------------- The "Half-Grey" Series aims to provide a rapid and economical method of publication for up-to-date literature on aspects of historical computing. Series A, "Issues and Methods", includes volumes dedicated to problems and trends in historical computing generally, ranging from detailed exposition of problems with particular source types (hitherto mainly in German) to overviews of themes addressed by the workshops of the Association for History and Computing (in English and other languages). Series B, "Techniques", includes manuals for software developed under the auspices of The Historical Workstation Project. Series C, "Databases as Editions", consists of machine-readable texts and/or databases published together with an introductory commentary. The Historical Workstation Project is a collaborative venture directed from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Geschichte, Postfach 37018, Goettingen, Germany. Publications and software are distributed in the United Kingdom and beyond by The Humanities Computing Centre, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom: fax. +44 81 980 8400: email kleio@qmw.ac.uk. Series A: Issues and Methods ---------------------------- A1: Peter Becker & Thomas Werner, KLEIO. Ein Tutorial. 353 pp., ISBN 3-922661-60-2. 10.00. A2: Thomas Werner & Thomas Grotum, Saemtlich Hab und Gut ... Die Analyse von Besitzstandslisten. 110 pp., ISBN 3-922661-61-0. 7.50. A3: Juergen Nemitz, Die historische Analyse staedtischer Wohn- und Gewerbelagen: die Auswertung sozialtopographischer Quellen. 114 pp., ISBN 3-922661-62-9. (Out of print.) A4: Barbara Schuh, "Von vilen und mancherlay seltzamen Wunderzaichen": die Analyse von Mirakelbuechern und Wallfahrtsquellen. 86 pp., ISBN 3-922661-63-7. 7.50. A5: Peter Becker, Leben, Lieben, Sterben: die Analyse von Kirchenbuechern. 123 pp., ISBN 3-922661-64-5. (Out of print.) A6: Martin Gierl, Thomas Grotum & Thomas Werner, Der Schritt von der Quelle zur historischen Datenbank. StanFEP: Ein Arbeitsbuch. 435 pp., ISBN 3-928134-38-8. 10.00. A7: Josef Smets, Cr er une base de donn es historiques avec KLEIO. (Avec un contribution de Nathalie Gardiol.). iii + 163 pp., ISBN 3-928134-40-X. 7.50. A8: Thomas Engelke, Juergen Nemitz & Carolin Trenkler (eds.), Historische Forschung mit KLEIO. Ergebnisse des ersten Treffens der KLEIO-User-Group im Stadtarchiv Regensburg vom 18. bis 21. Maerz 1990. 123 pp., ISBN 3-928134-41-8. 7.50. A9: Steffen Wernicke, Martin Hoernes, "Umb die unzucht die ich handelt han...": Quellen zum Urfehdewesen. iii + 136 pp., ISBN 3-928134-42-6. 7.50. A10: Gerhard Jaritz: Bildanalysen. c. 110 pp. with 8 colour plates. (Forthcoming: English version has appeared as A22). ISBN 3-928134-43-4. 7.50. A11: Daniel Greenstein (ed.), Modelling Historical Data. Towards a Standard for Encoding and Exchanging Machine- Readable Texts. xi + 223 pp., ISBN 3-928134-45-0. (Out of print) A12: Donald Spaeth, Peter Denley, Virginia Davis & Richard Trainor (eds.), Towards an International Curriculum for History and Computing. A Workshop of the International Association for History and Computing, University of Glasgow, 15D17 May 1992. iii + 109 pp., ISBN 3-928134-54-X. 7.50. A13: Jan Oldervoll (ed.), Eden or Babylon? On Future Software for Highly Structured Historical Sources. 124 pp., ISBN 3-928134-55-8. 7.50. A14: Manfred Thaller (ed.), Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing. ii + 158 pp., ISBN 3-928134-53-1. 7.50. A15: Leonid I. Borodkin & Wolfgang Levermann (eds.), Istorija i komp'juter: Novye informacionnye technologii v istoricheskich issledovanijach i obrazovanii. iv + 278 pp., ISBN 3-928134-74-4. 7.50. A16: Jurij Fikfak & Gerhard Jaritz (eds.), Image Processing in History: Towards Open Systems. 80 pp., ISBN 3-928134-99-X. 7.50. A17: Virginia Davis, Peter Denley, Donald Spaeth & Richard Trainor (eds.), The Teaching of Historical Computing: An International Framework. A Workshop of the International Association for History and Computing, University of London, 26D28 February 1993. iv + 137 pp., ISBN 3-928134-98-1. 7.50. A18: Optical Character Recognition in the Historical Discipline. Proceedings of an International Workgroup organized by: Netherlands Historical Data Archive, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information. iv + 165 pp., ISBN 3-928134-97-3. 7.50. A19: Kevin Schuerer & Herman Diederiks (eds.), The Use of Occupations in Historical Analysis. v + 162 pp., ISBN 3-928134-96-5. 7.50. A20: Seamus Ross & Edward Higgs (eds.), Electronic Information Resources and Historians: European Perspectives. ISBN 3-928134-95-7. 7.50. A21: Leonid I. Borodkin & Wolfgang Levermann (eds.), History and Computing in Eastern Europe. 150 pp., ISBN 3-928134-94-9. 7.50. A22: Gerhard Jaritz, Images. A Primer of Computer-Supported Analysis with KLEIO IAS. 187 pp., ISBN 3-928134-93-0. 10.00 A23: Matthew Woollard & Peter Denley, Source-Oriented Data Processsing for Historians: a Tutorial for KLEIO. xxi + 412 pp., ISBN 3-928134-92-2. 10.00 Series B: Techniques -------------------- B1: Manfred Thaller, KLEIO 4. Ein Datenbanksystem. vi + 296 pp., ISBN 3-928134-91-4. 10.00. B2: Manfred Thaller: Query Net I/O. iv + 88 pp., ISBN 3-922661-66-1. (Out of print.) B3: Extended Character Library. c. 60 pp., ISBN 3-922661-67-X. 7.50. (Forthcoming). B4: Wolfgang Levermann, CMATCH: Mustererkennung in Zeichenketten. ii + 92 pp., ISBN 3-922661-68-8. (Out of print.) B5: Ingo H. Kropac und Ursula Leiter-Koehrer, KLEIO. Der Datenbankeditor. (New edition in preparation). vi + 86 pp., ISBN 3-922661-69-6. B6: Kathrin Homann, StanFEP. Ein Programm zur freien Konvertierung von Daten. ii + 103 pp., ISBN 3-928134-39-6. 7.50. B7: Dagmar Koebsell-Hofmann, Weighted-Net: Aufbau und Verwaltung terminologischer Thesauren in Form von gewichteten semantischen Netzen. (Forthcoming). c. 60 pp., ISBN 3-928134-44-2. 7.50. B8: Wolfgang Levermann, Kontextsensitive Datenverwaltung. iv + 128 pp., ISBN 3-928134-46-9. 7.50. B9: Jan Oldervoll, CensSys. Eine Softwareumwelt fuer die Analyse historischer Daten. iv + 134 pp., ISBN 3-928134-48-5. 7.50. B10: Gabriele Gross, KLEIO. Eine Einfuehrung in die Menuesteuerung. vi + 219 pp., ISBN 3-928134-52-3. 7.50. B11: Manfred Thaller, KLEIO. A Database System. iv + 349 pp., ISBN 3-928134-91-4. 10.00. Series C: Databases as Editions ------------------------------- This series currently includes machine-readable editions of medieval German literary texts. Other sources, including image data banks, will shortly be published. For a full catalogue, contact the distributors. ------------------------------------------------------------- Halbgraue Reihe: Order Form --------------------------- Name ................................................... Address ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... ................................................... Signature ................................................... I wish to order the following volumes: Volume No Title Amount .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... .......... ..................................... ...... Prices include UK postage; for overseas orders please add 1 per book. I enclose a cheque for: TOTAL ...... Payment must be by cheque, made out to "Queen Mary & Westfield College", and must reach the suppliers in sterling, free of bank or international exchange charges. Invoices and receipts can be supplied on request. Orders should be sent to: Humanities Computing Centre, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom: fax. +44 81 980 8400: email kleio@qmw.ac.uk From: P.R.Denley@uk.ac.qmw Subject: Institute of Historical Research course on Kleio Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 16:53:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 348 (650) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Historical Research Computing courses, 1993-94 Source-oriented data processing: KLEIO ----------------------------------------------------------------- One of the options in the Institute's MA in Computer Applications for History, this course is also offered to students not registered for the MA. General historical computing experience is advised for those contemplating the course. The course will provide students with a theoretical and practical knowledge of the source-oriented approach to databases. The option makes available for the first time in the UK the German package KLEIO, and associated software developed as part of the "Historical Workstation" project at Goettingen. This will include text handling, hierarchical and non-hierarchical relationships, record-matching algorithms, fuzzy and context- sensitive data handling, image retrieval and information exchange routines. The merits of this approach will be compared with those of traditional commercial software as an integral part of the course. The course will cover the following areas: 1. Principles and fundamentals of KLEIO. 2. Establishing a structure, setting up and querying a KLEIO database. 3. Retrieval, formatting and analysing data. 4. Catalogues, codebooks and indexing with KLEIO. 5. Full text analysis. The StanFEP conversion package. 6. Record linkage. 7. Mapping in KLEIO. 8. Image retrieval and handling. The course is taught by Dr Peter Denley; it takes place on Fridays at Queen Mary & Westfield College, 10.00 am to 3.30 pm. The course lasts 12 weeks, starting on Friday 28th January 1994, with a four-week break for the Easter vacation. The cost is L550. A maximum of 15 students will be admitted to the course. Should demand warrant it, arrangements for subsequent short courses will also be considered. Enquiries and applications should be directed to: Dr Peter Denley, Department of History, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS: Tel. 071-775 3148: Fax 081-980-8400: E-mail kleio@uk.ac.qmw. From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Re: 7.0333 Edwin Mellen Press Date: 16 Dec 1993 00:02:02 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 428 (651) Regarding the Mellen Press, I have read some of the recent material on the press, but my experience with the press have been quite normal. I made proposals to various US university presses, but received polite "no thanks" for several reasons: the proposed work is too narrow and will not sell; it is a topic already well covered by people far more famous, accomplished and recognized than me (assumption: so you, a teacher in a college south of the Ohio River could not possibly have anything to say worth listening to); our press does not specialize in that area, etc. All are valid reasons. I then made the same proposal to Mellen, they thanked me for the proposal and said we will be back in touch. Several months later I got a letter stating that their editorial committee had carefully considered my porposal, and had agreed conditionally to accept my proposal for publication. No royalties, but the book would remain in print and would be sold in a limited number to research libraries. In other words Mellen took me seriously, which can mean one of several things: I am incompetent as my southern accent indicates (that is what someone in New England once told me in all seriousness), and so Mellen will take almost anyone because it is a big ripoff; Mellen will take material no one else will touch because they just want to make money; or maybe they want to make a profit and make it possible for material to be published which has scholarly value but is not financially feasible through normal channels . . . Which are true I cannot say, but after years of working on a manuscript and finally finding an interested publisher, to have the publisher labelled "vanity" is the kiss of death. If your book is published, you will never escape this charge. So, I am not sure what to do at this point. Since my manuscript is still several years from completion, maybe this will be sorted out in the meantime, but in terms of professional advancement, it seems to be quite damaging for those already published by Mellen, and potentially for people who are working on major projects with the goal that Mellen will put it into print. James McSwain, Tuskegee University MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: RE: 7.0333 Edwin Mellen Press Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 07:33:21 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 429 (652) Irving, it seems to me that MELLEN, UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF AMERICA, and PETER LANG are considered less reputable than the solid University Presses or academic publishers, because of their lack of refereeing. The exceptions are series within those presses, where editors undertake a rigorous editorial control. Individual volumes even outside of specific series may be quite good. It's the lack of a uniform quality control that makes colleagues I have spoken to somewhat unsure about their academic stature. HANS ROLLMANN (RELIGIOUS STUDIES/MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND) From: Thomas Izbicki <izbicki@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0333 Edwin Mellen Press Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 10:39:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 430 (653) As a publishing scholar, as well as a librarian, I have given a great deal of thought to Mellen. I have severe reservations about many, but not all, of the titles which I have seen. Certain of the titles have been little more than extended articles with wide spacing and margins, bindings and price tags. As a publishing scholar, Mellen would be among my last choices for a monograph or collection from my hand; but I understand the value of an outlet like that for materials with restricted markets. Izbicki@jhunix From: Charles L. Creegan <ccreegan@uncecs.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0333 Edwin Mellen Press Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 11:26:03 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 431 (654) The catalogue I just recieved from Edwin Mellen Press includes a statement of policy, which says among other things that the Press neither accepts subventions nor pays royalties. To my knowledge this has always been their policy. According to Dr. Ruth Richardson, an editor at the Press and daughter of its founder and head Dr. Herbert Richardson, the recent negative commentary is instigated by a disgruntled former employee, who was fired for reasons the Press considered sufficient. I gather that lawsuits are pending. In my opinion, the high physical quality and scholarly value of books in my field published by the Press speaks for itself. Others should form their own opinions based on first-hand examination. (For the record I know Ruth Richardson from graduate school; I have no financial connection with Edwin Mellen Press.) -- Charles Creegan NC Wesleyan College ccreegan@uncecs.edu From: "Tony Schwartz, Rice U." <SCHWART@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: Re: Edwin Mellen Pr. Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 12:53:36 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 432 (655) Irving Hexham's concern about African Religion studies published by Edwin Mellon Pr. raises a number of issues. 1) Mellon Pr. was able to publish books in highly specialized areas, such as Mr. Hexham's, because it relied on a huge academic library market to acquire books somewhat indiscriminately. In the age of the Internet, that strategy may be doomed. The negative press reports Mr. Hexham referred to received a lot of attention in Internet discussion groups of collection development librarians. What we found is that many of us had outright excluded Mellon Pr. from our approval plans, which meant that acquisition of Mellon Pr. depended completely on a direct order for a specific title. Undoubtedly, after that exchange of views, and with Mr. Hexham's note on HUMANIST, more and more libraries will exclude Mellon Pr. and rely on faculty requests for its titles. 2) In 1990 the Am. Assoc. of Univ. Presses published a monograph on book publication output trends. This report concluded with a list of research areas that were nearly extinct, partly because they were too small to be economically viable to a press. The list is dominated by African area studies: architecture, dance, economics, music, religion, sociology, theater. Mr. Hexham's specific concern reflects a general situation. 3) As Mr. Hexham probably knows, both Lang and Indiana Univ. Press have been committed to African Studies, essentially subsidizing titles by sales in more "popular" areas (e.g., local Indiana history). I mention that only because it reflects a somewhat unusual situation-- most univ. presses are under too much pressure to break even financially to subsidize marginal research areas. 4) Academic librarians have as much interest as Mr. Hexham in trying to resolve this problem. The Am. Assoc. of College and Research Libraries publishes AFRICAN LIBRARIES NEWSLETTER, which is a very thorough review of what is on the market worldwide. The editor, Joe Lauer at Michigan State Univ. Libraries, East Lansing, MI would be a good source for alternative sources to publishing and promoting books in this area. (I myself know very little about African bibliography but am broadly interested in the problem of adverse market forces for scholarly publishing.) From: Robin Alston <uczcroa@ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Robert Graves Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 10:22:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 350 (656) Robin Alston School of Library & Archive Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. email: r.alston@ucl.ac.uk It is hoped that a research student will be appointed early in 1994 to begin work on identifying material and establishing a suitable format (within the constraints of RLIN/AMC) for the records. ------- End of Forwarded Message From: Robin Alston <uczcroa@ucl.ac.uk> Subject: Robert Graves Date: Mon, 13 Dec 93 10:22:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 351 (657) The Leverhulme Trust has recently approved a pilot project to assess the feasibility of establishing a complete inventory of the manuscripts, printed works, photographs and recordings of Robert Graves. If successful, this one-year pilot will seek funding for the creation of a machine- readable archive of all materials relating to the poet and will provide researchers with a revision of Higginson's Bibliography; the locations of Graves manuscripts and letters; &c. &c. The project will be based at St John's College (Oxford) under the aegis of the Robert Graves Trust established by William Graves the poet's son. The principal administrators of the Trust are John Kelly (Vice President of St John's) and Patrick Quinn. As advisor to the project I am putting this announcement on the Internet in the hope that it will attract the attention of Graves scholars everywhere. Although the major collections are well known there are still many hundreds of letters and photographs in private possession, and these are likely to present problems - since Graves was a prolific correspondent. If anyone knows of the existence of Graves materials in librareis which may be overlooked please communicate with me at the following address until the Trust is in a position to receive email: Robin Alston School of Library & Archive Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT. email: r.alston@ucl.ac.uk It is hoped that a research student will be appointed early in 1994 to begin work on identifying material and establishing a suitable format (within the constraints of RLIN/AMC) for the records. ------- End of Forwarded Message From: "Evelyn Ehrlich" <EHRLICHE@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu> Subject: Edwardian Novels Date: 16 Dec 93 10:02:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 352 (658) The following announcement may be of interest to members of this list. It is also being posted on other lists, please excuse any duplication. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ACQUIRES EDWARDIAN NOVELS The Fales Library of New York University has acquired over 300 Edwardian novels written between 1901 and 1915 to supplement its holdings of minor Edwardian novelists. Women authors are especially well represented in this acquisition, including Rhoda Broughton, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Bithia Coker, Frank Danby [Julia Frankau], Mary and Jane Findlater, Emily de Gerard, Florence Henniker, Lucas Malet [Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison], Elizabeth Thomasina Meade, Katherine Tynan, and Ethel Voynich. Suffragette novelists are represented in the works of Beatrice Harraden, Gertrude Renton, and Elizabeth Robins, whose personal papers are held in the Fales Library. Other novels depict life in the South Seas, Australia, India, and the East End of London as in the works of George Louis Becke, Hugh Charles Clifford, Robert Murry Gilchrist, William LeQueux, Ernest William Horning, William Jacobs, Frederic Manning, Arthur Morrison. These novels supplement the Fales Library's strong holdings of Conrad, Forster, Kipling, Henty and other authors of the period. The Fales Library, comprises over 150,000 volumes, in English and American literature from the middle of the 18th century to the present and documents developments in the novel. A complete list of the authors represented in the Edwardian acquisition is available. For more information please contact Marvin Taylor, Fales Librarian, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University, 70 Washington Sqare South, New York, New York 10012. Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu> Subject: _TEXT Technology_ Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 06:02:03 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 353 (659) Announcement for readers of _TEXT Technology_ Please read and pass on to friends and to other electronic lists. Due to the unanticipated level of its success, the journal TEXT Technology will be substantially expanded. Starting, with Volume 4 (the 1994 calendar year), each issue will contain more articles and reviews -- many of them presenting subjects in greater depth. The journal will be published quarterly, and the Editorial Board will be expanded. The format will also change to 7-by-9-inch pages with perfect binding. The full title of the publication will now more completely describe its contents: TEXT Technology The Journal of Computer Text Processing TEXT Technology will continue to publish articles and reviews about all facets of using computers for the creation, processing, communication, and analysis of texts. It is designed for academic and corporate researchers, writers, editors, and teachers. The quarterly journal contains timely reviews of books and software, discussions of applications for the analysis of literary works and other texts, bibliographic citations, and much more. Recent issues of TEXT Technology have contained articles about the ideal computing lab for composition classes, counting the amount of quotation in novels, programming in Icon, converting documents from Macintosh to PC formats, as well as reviews of books about Internet and reviews of new versions of WordPerfect, AmiPro, and OS/2. Submissions of articles are welcome. They should be sent to the Editor as ASCII files via email to JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu. Writers of book or software reviews are encouraged to contact the Editor before submitting reviews. Authors will normally receive notices of acceptance and referees' comments promptly via email. New yearly subscription rates are in effect immediately: in the U.S., Individuals: $45.00; Institutions: $72.00. Canadian orders add $7.00; all other nations add $15.00 (all prices U.S. funds). To subscribe using a MasterCard or Visa credit card, send name and address, card number and expiration date via email to LangnerS@columbia.dsu.edu. To subscribe by regular mail, send credit card information, check, or institutional purchase order to TEXT Technology, 114 Beadle Hall, Dakota State University, SD 57042-1799 USA. From: "A.G.MILES [ECONOMIC HISTORY]" <MILESAG@commerce.birmingham.ac.uk> Subject: HISMA Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 10:34:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 354 (660) HISMA - Historical International Social Mobility Analysis - is a new project set up to stimulate collaborative work on social mobility and stratification. It aims to draw together a network of researchers with an interest in the patterns, determinants and consequences of mobility and stratification over a broad historical sweep, and from a comparative perspective, and then to co-ordinate and implement new initiatives within the field. Project details, and a questionnaire, were sent out to a number of people earlier this year. Will those who have not yet responded please forward their replies to Dr Andrew Miles, Department of Economic and Social History, School of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom (FAX: 021 414 6625 E- Mail: MILESAG@uk.ac.bham.css) as soon as possible. For those who have not heard about HISMA, and would like to know more, please contact the same address. From: chhenry@VASSAR.BITNET Subject: National Initiative for Humanities Computing Date: 17 Dec 1993 09:31:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 355 (661) Notice of a National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing The following is a summary of two meetings: 1. November 19, 1993: Special meeting at the Coalition for Networked Information's (CNI) National Task Force 2. December 1, 1993: Meeting of the Ad Hoc Steering Committee for the National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing Meeting 1. CNI Task Force On Friday 19 November 1993, as part of the Coalition for Networked Information's fall Task Force, a special meeting was called to forge a national voice for humanities and arts computing as plans for the National Information Infrastucture progress. This meeting was co-sponsored by the CNI and the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP). Attending were representatives from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the Association of Research Libraries, the Commission on Preservation and Access, the American Association of University Presses, the National Humanities Alliance, the National Cultural Alliance, the Association of Computers and the Humanities, the American Association of Museums, Kodak, and other organizations. The task force members resolved to publish widely a statement (see below) of committment to a national initiative to integrate humanities and arts computing into the coordination, planning, and promulgation of the National Information Infrastructure. Three general goals were articulated (also listed below). An ad hoc steering committee was formed to execute the first stages of this initiative, with the goal of forming a permanent steering committee soon. Members of the ad hoc steering committee are Stanley Katz, President of ACLS; Charles Henry, CNI and Vassar College; Peter Lyman, CNI and the University of Southern California; Susan Siegfried, Getty AHIP; Marilyn Schmitt, Getty AHIP. I. Task Force Statement: A National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing The absence of the humanities and arts in the development of a national information infrastructure ignores the value of the American people's cultural heritage, and the network as a medium of creativity and learning, in the crucial formation of technology policy. The members of the Task Force on a National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing endorse the principle that humanities and arts voices are critical--indeed equal to the recognized interests of the sciences--in the balanced development of the nation's technological infrastructure. Reinstating the humanities and arts in the dialog shaping this public policy is of utmost urgency. We call for the reintroduction of the humanities and arts in the formation of such policy. II. Goals agreed upon by the Task Force, to be facilitated by a steering committee: 1. Define a rubric that articulates the value of humanities and arts computing for a democratic society. 2. Build a profile of humanities and arts computing using data that identifies the breadth and vitality, as well as the needs, of technology in these fields. 3. Form alliances with identified stakeholders in order to engage programmatically in national policy development and planning. Meeting 2: Ad Hoc Steering Committee 1 December 1993 Members of the Ad Hoc Steering Committee (S. Katz, C. Henry, M. Schmitt, and S. Siegfried) met on 1 December 1993 to determine the next steps of the Initiative. The ad hoc committee reaffirmed chief objective articulated at the special task force meeting : to assure that the purposes and goals of the National Information Infrastructure will be formulated in ways that further the development, utilization, and integration of computing in the humanities and arts. To this end, the Ad Hoc Steering Committee will begin at once to: a.Work for the inclusion and respresentation of humanities and arts computing in the planning and development of the NII. This will include meetings with appropriate federal funding agencies, private foundations, and relevant organizations; announcements; and attendance at discussion and planning forums b. Seek funding for the inclusion of humanities and arts computing in the development of the NII, as well as funds to assure a more solid structure to support the goals of this initiative and to address issues relating to computing in the humanities and arts A progress report of this national initiative will be published by the Ad Hoc Steering Committee within the next two months. Note: Comments and remarks can be sent to chhenry@vassar.edu. List of Participants Attending the CNI Special Task Force Meeting Prue Adler Assistant Executive Director for Federal Relations Association of Research Libraries Patricia Battin President Commission on Preservation and Access David Bearman Editor Archives and Museum Informatics Elaine Brennan Women Writers Project Editor, HUMANIST Brown University Alexander Crary Director of External Relations and White House Liaison National Endowment for the Arts Lisa Freeman Director University of Minnesota Press and Chair, Electronic Caucus, American Association of University Presses Martha Chomiak Division of Research Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Chet Grycz Coordinator Scholarship and Technology Study Project University of California Office of the President Charles Henry CNI, Working Group on the Transformation of Scholarly Communication and Director of the Libraries Vassar College Nancy Ide President Association for Computers and the Humanities Michael Joyce Hypertext novelist Department of English Vassar College, Box 360 Stanley Katz President American Council of Learned Societies Peter Lyman CNI, Working Group on the Tranformation of Scholarly Communication and Dean of the University Libraries University of Southern California Patrick Melia Office of Planning and Research National Endowment for the Arts Avra Michelson Member, Technical Staff The MITRE Corporation Don Olson Director of Higher Education U.S. and Canada Regions Eastman Kodak Company Marc Pachter Deputy Assistant for External Affairs Smithsonian Institute Susan Siegfried Research Projects Manager Getty Art History Information Program Marilyn Schmitt Program Manager Getty Art History Information Program Margaret Wyszomirski Senior Research Fellow Graduate Public Policy Program Georgetown University Observers Sara Dubberly Technical Information Services Coordinator American Association of Museums Thomas J. DeLoughry Senior Editor for Information Technology The Chronicle of Higher Education John Hammer Director National Humanities Alliance Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Rutgers/Princeton Universities Carolyn Lesinski Director of Development National Cultural Alliance Ronald J. Overmann Program Director Science and Technology Studies, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research National Science Foundation From: fehrenbach robert j <rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu> Subject: Transferring large files Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 06:33:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 433 (662) To answer Jim O'Donnell's inquiry re: transfer of large files: such a transfer can be executed by cable, but a file-transfer program is required. One that I have had very good success with is Lap-Link; it is available from Traveling Software, 19310 North Creek Parkway, Bothell, WA 98011-8006. The program is placed on both machines, which are connected by a cable that comes with the software. At a rate of about 115,000 Baud, even a transfer of the size that you describe (200-400MB) can be accomplished in a reasonably short time, especially when compared with a transfer by floppies. R.J. Fehrenbach / Department of English / College of William and Mary / Williamsburg, VA 23187 From: "Hardy M. Cook" <hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu> Subject: Transferring Files from One Machine to Another Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 18:47:11 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 434 (663) I can suggest two possibilities for transferring files from one machine to another. One way might be to get an external tape backup. Use it to backup the old machine and then use it to restore to the new one. What I did, however, when I upgraded to my new computer at home was to use LAPLINK. With it and the proper cable, you can move entire directories or individual files quickly and with little effort. Hardy M. Cook HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu From: marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0345 Qs: Paris, Bn, MS; Transferring files; E-Publishing; Mac Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 10:40:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 435 (664) Jim O'Donnell asks: [deleted quotation] I confess the move to larger and larger drives slightly mystifies me. Long before the question of moving arises the problem of backing up must confront you, and I would recommend solving that problem before even getting a large drive. Given that your software should still exit on master floppy sets and is therefore ready to transport, is there really any need to keep 1000s of small files on the hard disk which then have to be ported off? People who use really large files (digitized images, very large databases etc.) will need to have solved the portability problem (removable hard drives, flopticals etc.) at the time of starting the project using those files, as these obviously won't fit on floppies. I use a 40MB drive and find it tight, but adequate. Such a small disk forces me to think whether I really need to keep all those bits of novelty shareware that I keep downloading, as well as copies of letters I wrote years ago. It also means I can back up my data onto about 10 floppies. I'm sorry, this won't help you with your problem (if you have network access, I'd give up a day or two and ftp or kermit the whole lot to a friendly server somewhere, and upload it later to the new machine), but I'm constantly worried by people who work around me who seem to think their hard disks will go on for ever and never crash. Marcus Banks, Oxford From: cwalton@nevada.edu Subject: Re: 7.0349 Rs: Edwin Mellen Press (5/136) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 07:12:07 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 436 (665) I am surprised and saddened to read Tony Schwartz's message to the effect that this discussion about Edwin Mellen [not Mellon ] Press must be banished from automatic purchase plans because of things said here (or previously) alleging poor quality. Their series of "Studies in the History of Philosophy" has produced several valuable volumes, including Michael Seidler's translation of Samuel Pufendrof's ON THE NATURAL STATE OF MEN, not otherwise available. It would seem that two recommendations ought to be justified, based on what I have read so far on the net: the library acquisitions people can kill or sustain a small press, so ought to proceed with great caution with negative broad- scale judgments; and also, if a series within that press or any other, has a good reputation, then keep the series, if not everything published. Notice that no one reported evidence of lack of refereeing, and the one person who had submitted a ms. reported what might have been the procedure for the usual refereeing of mss. Why not ask the Press? Clearly this is not only about African studies, but any studies considered by larger presses to be minor or negligible business opportunities. In philosophy we have the Philos. Research Archives for odd-sized mss. not likely to reach traditional print circulation, and we now have IPPE, a "pre-print " exchange via e-mail. So it may be that other routes will or do lie open not only to those in African studies, but all of us working on topics not currently profitable. - Craig Walton, Philosophy and Instit. for Ethics and Policy Studies, UNLV From: Ferstel John W <jwf3885@usl.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0344 Rs: Wired; Philip K Dick (3/49) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:06:31 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 437 (666) Wired is available free on Gopher. If your campus system has GOPHER, simply type: gopher wired.com Jack Ferstel U. of SW Louisiana From: kelsey@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Kelsey Libner) Subject: Re: 7.0344 Rs: Wired; Philip K Dick (3/49) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 21:58:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 438 (667) I happen to have the Brenda Laurel phrase in _Wired_ quoted by McSwain in front of me. It is "In the world of immersion, authorship is no longer the transmission of experience, but rather the construction of utterly personal experiences." Given the lavish four-page layout in which this quote appears, with its uninterrupted swathes of neon-orange, I had to stare for a while to realize this was not an advertisement; this was the prodigal 'zine. It may be financially foolhardy, but it's good to see a magazine competing with its advertisers for visual pizazz--and having too much fun. That magazine manages to sustain, throughout its 140 pages, the occasional euphoria I've felt cruising the Internet. What *are* they Wired on over in the San Francisco office? -Kelsey Libner From: George Aichele <0004705237@mcimail.com> Subject: Wired Magazine Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 16:55 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 439 (668) An address for WIRED magazine: 544 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107-1427 Better yet, send email to editor@wired.com WIRED is one of the most interesting computer/network-oriented magazines that I've seen. George Aichele 470-5237@mcimail.com From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Conference: Teaching and language corpora (TALC94) Date: 17 Dec 1993 10:27:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 358 (669) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA (TALC94) Lancaster University 10 - 13th April 1994 AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign languages. Talc94 will bring together researchers and teachers who are involved - or who would like to be involved - in such work, to take part in an international exchange of current experience and expertise. DATE AND VENUE The conference will be held on the campus of Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, from 4.00 p.m. on Sunday 10th April to 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 13th April. Accommodation will be provided in high-standard student residences, with en suite facilities. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Steven Fligelstone (Lancaster University) Graeme Hughes (Lancaster University) Gerry Knowles (Lancaster University) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire) COST The full registration fee for Talc94 is {\Sterling}190. This includes 3 nights' accommodation, meals and refreshments throughout the conference and a collection of conference abstracts to be given to participants on arrival. It does not include the cost of drinks taken with meals. For participants who do not require accommodation, the registration fee will be {\Sterling}100, including meals and refreshments. ACCOMMODATION All accommodation will be in single rooms with en suite bathroom facilities, and shared kitchen facilities. Extra nights' accommodation before and after the conference may be provided. Please contact the organisers for details. PRE-REGISTRATION The latest date for pre-registration is 1st February 1994. If you wish to attend Talc94, please return the attached reply form as soon as possible. Pre- registration will be formally completed by the payment of a deposit of {\Sterling}50, payable to "Talc94", but this need not accompany the reply form. Please note, however, that conference places are limited, so early payment of deposits is advisable. GETTING THERE By road: Lancaster University lies close to the M6 motorway, about 15 miles north of Preston. Whether you are approaching from the North or the South, we recommend that you use Junction 33, which lies South of the City of Lancaster. At the roundabout, take the right-hand exit towards Lancaster. After about half a mile, you will pass through the village of Galgate. Continue along this road (A6) for another mile and you will come to a set of traffic lights at the beginning of a short stretch of dual carriageway. Turn right at these lights, and you will find yourself entering the University grounds. A map of the conference site and details of parking arrangements will be sent out in a future mailing to participants. By rail: Lancaster lies on the West Coast line, linking Glasgow and London. Most InterCity trains stop at Lancaster, but some do not, and it may be necessary to change at Preston to a local train. There are also direct connections from Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and cities in the South West. Timetable details will be sent out in a future mailing. A taxi from the station to the University will cost about {\Sterling}3.00. We will arrange transport to the station to enable people to get away quickly after the conference ends. By air: There are good rail connections to Manchester and London, which lie about 60 and 250 miles from Lancaster, respectively. Leeds-Bradford airport is also not far away, but prospective passengers might want to take into account that trains connecting Leeds and Lancaster are now all of the "local" variety - which is to say that you should reckon with a 2-hour journey with plenty of stops and not much leg-room! _____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE Surface Mail: TALC 94, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, GB - Lancaster LA1 4YT, Email (JANET/Internet): talc94@lancaster.ac.uk or talc94@cent1.lancs.ac.uk -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TALC94 REPLY FORM (Please return to: Talc94, Dept. of Linguistics & MEL, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, GB-Lancaster LA1 4YT) 1. Name:___________________________________________________ 2. Position:_______________________________________________ 3. Institution:____________________________________________ 4. Address: 5. Email:__________________________________________________ 6. Residential/non-residential (circle as appropriate) 7. Special dietary requirements: 8. Extra nights required (state which):____________________ 9. Are you enclosing payment with this form? YES/NO (circle as appropriate). Please note details of payment such as cheque no. as a precaution:____________________________________________ Group discussions and workshops On day 3 of the conference, we plan to run, in parallel, a range of small group discussions or workshops to enable colleagues to take part in a more direct exchange of questions, ideas, experience and insights. These will include topics not covered by the conference papers. We feel it would be productive for groups to include a mixture of experts and relative newcomers to the particular field in question. The format of these workshops need not be uniform, though we would expect groups to comprise not more than 12 poeple. Computing facilities may be made available to some groups, and some discussions may be more "led" than others. The range of workshops to be offered has yet to be determined, and these decisions will be taken in the light of feedback received from prospective participants. Please complete the following section to assist us in the planning of this part of the conference: 10. Which of the following would interest you as topics for group discussions or workshops? (Please indicate preferences where you are marking more than one): * Using speech corpora (hands-on session) * Software and hardware requirements for corpus work * Using corpora in schools * The development and use of multi-lingual corpora * Creating a corpus 11. If you would be interested in participating in a group discussion on a topic not mentioned above, please state your interest(s): 12. Would you be interested in leading one of the above workshops, or a workshop on some other topic(s)? If so, please state briefly what you would like to do. We will contact you for further details. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-= PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME FOR TALC94 ________________________________________________________________ Sunday 10th April - Day 1 Registration and tea (4.00 - 6.30) Dinner (6.30) followed by informal reception ________________________________________________________________ Monday 11th April - Day 2 Late registration (9.00 - 9.30) Introductory session (9.30 - 10.15): Welcome and introductory address: Geoffrey Leech : Text Corpora in Education: the Grand Design Coffee (10.15 - 10.45) Session One (10.45 - 12.15) - Learners investigate I P. Peters: Micro- and macro-linguistics M. Ljung & D. Minugh: Looking at language usage in British and American newspapers (provisional title) E. Tognini-Bonelli Corpus work and linguistic issues: the corpus of modern Italian at Birmingham University Lunch (12.15 - 1.30) Session Two (1.30 - 3.30) - Learners investigate II W. Dodd: Teaching German with the Mannheim corpus of German newspapers G. Aston: Training learners to use corpora G. Holmes & A. Ossowski: Scanning electronic corpora to develop language skills J. Kirk: Teaching and language corpora - the Queen's model Tea (3.30 - 4.00) Session Three (4.00 - 5.30) - Software descriptions A. Kilgarriff: Corpus use at Longman H. van Halteren: Syntactic databases in the classroom T. Johns: CONTEXTS: A computer program for generating concordance-based exercises Dinner (6.30) ________________________________________________________________ Tuesday 12th April - Day 3 Session four (9.00 - 11.00) - Developing corpora G. Inkster: First catch your corpus: building LANFRANC, a French language text bank for teaching purposes P. King: Creation and processes of corpora in Greek and Cyrillic alphabets R. Jones : Using a corpus of spoken German (provisional title) F. Zanettin: Retrieving and editing texts in different languages: corpus-based activities for language learning Coffee (11.00 - 11.30) Session five (11.30 - 12.30) - Corpus-based teaching and learning materials I D. Mindt Corpora and the teaching of English in Germany (provisional title) E. Wilson: Corpora as a source of CALL exercises Lunch (12.30 - 2.00) Group discussions and workshops (2.00 - 3.30) (see reply form for details) Tea (3.30 - 4.00) Posters, demonstrations and displays (4.00 - 6.30) Conference Dinner : 7.00 onwards ________________________________________________________________ Wednesday 13th April - Day 4 Session six (9.00 - 10.30) - Corpus-based teaching and learning materials II D. Quinn & A. Quinn: Linguistic modelling for a corpus- based CALL system H. Paulussen & G. Deville: Automating vocabulary learning material: a step by step experience J-M. Lange & E. Bonnet: The multiple uses of parallel corpora Coffee (10.30 - 11.00) Session seven (11.00 - 12.30) - Theory and practice I J. Sinclair: Rumours about English W. Louw: The role of the classroom concordance in the revaluation of traditional literary critical terminology B. Kettemann: How POW can help us decide between UG and CC Lunch (12.30 - 1.45) Session eight (1.45 - 3.15) - Theory and practice II T. Virtanen: Teaching text linguistics to EFL students: problems and aspects of a corpus-based approach I. Bos: A systematic approach to the teaching of collocation G. Knowles: Using corpora for the diachronic study of English: a new approach to historical linguistics Tea and plenary closing session 3.15 - 4.00 From: CHRISTINE BOHLEN <CETH@zodiac.rutgers.edu> Subject: CETH 1994 Summer Seminar Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 11:28:45 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 359 (670) CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools The Third Annual Summer Seminar at Princeton University, New Jersey June 19 - July 1, 1994 organized by The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton and Rutgers with the co-sponsorship of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is again offering an intensive two-week seminar in June 1994. The seminar will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers, scholars and librarians in the humanities. Discussions on the capture, markup, retrieval, presentation, transformation, and analysis of electronic text will prepare students for extensive hands-on experience with illustrative software, e.g., TACT, Micro-OCP, Dynatext, SGML tools, and hypertext. Several large textual collections will be demonstrated so that participants may make informed evaluations of their significance in the light of current and future technologies. Approaches to markup, from ad hoc schemes to the systematic design of the Text Encoding Initiative, will be surveyed and considered. The focus of the Seminar will be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of assisting participants in their own teaching, research, and advising. It will be concerned with the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts, with typical problems and how to solve them, and with the ways in which software fits or can be adapted to common methods of textual study. Participants will be expected to work on coherent projects, preferably of their own devising, and will be given the opportunity to present them at the end of the seminar. Throughout the Seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available 24 hours per day. A small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing will be on hand to supplement printed seminar materials, which include an extensive bibliography. Special lectures will describe current research in the field and address research topics, as well as the role of the library in the use of electronic texts. The Seminar is intended for faculty, students, librarians, technical advisers, and academic administrators with direct responsibilities for humanities computing support. It assumes basic computing experience but not necessarily with its application to academic research and teaching. The number of participants will be limited to 30. Provisional Schedule Week 1, June 19-24 Sunday, June 19. Registration, reception and introductions Monday, June 20. The electronic text a.m. What electronic texts are 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. Practical exercise in deciding what to encode in typical texts. Tuesday, June 21. 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. Review of other concordancing programs. Further work on concordancing with Micro-OCP. Wednesday, June 22. The interactive concordance a.m. Indexed, interactive retrieval vs. batch concordance generation. Textual problems and interpretative approaches 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 "queries"; kinds of displays and their augmentation through post-processing. Introduction to TACT. p.m. Practical work using TACT: simple markup, compilation of a textual database, and methods of inquiry. Thursday, June 23. Stylistics; SGML a.m Stylistic comparisons and authorship studies using concordance tools. Case studies, e.g. Federalist Papers, Kenny on Aristotle, Burrows on Jane Austen. Introduction to and overview of corpus linguistics. p.m. Introduction to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Document structure and SGML elements. Document type declarations. SGML entities and their uses: character representation, boilerplate text, file management. Introduction to TEI Core tags and base tags for prose. Group tagging of examples using TEI tags. Friday, June 24. SGML and TEI a.m. The TEI Header: documentation for electronic texts. The file description; the encoding description; the text profile; the revision history. Overview of the TEI DTDs: base tag sets, additional tag sets, and auxiliary document types. p.m. Using TEI in practice. Overview of available commercial and public-domain software. Creating TEI texts; validation; processing. Tools for processing SGML texts: commercial and public-domain. Practical session creating and validating TEI-conformant texts. Week 2, June 27 - July 1 Monday, June 27. Scholarly editions a.m. Overview of tools for preparing critical editions. Introduction to Collate. Cladistics and database analysis of corpora of variants. Preparing electronic editions. Introduction to digitization of images. p.m. Electronic publication. Discussion of methods and implications. Role of Dynatext in publishing editions. Tuesday, June 28. Electronic Dictionaries a.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. p.m. Individual project work. Wednesday, June 29. Hypertext a.m. Development of hypertext and hypermedia for the humanities. Techniques of presentation and organization of hypertextual material. Comparative survey of major hypertextual systems (e.g., Hypercard, Toolbook, Storyspace), and their advantages and limitations for humanities material. p.m. Demonstration of Perseus and discussion of how it is built. Demonstration and discussion of hypertexts such as In Memoriam. Thursday, June 30. Evaluation; Projects a.m. 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. The contributions of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence, and where research in these areas is headed. Examination of some existing resources. p.m. Presentation of participants' projects. Banquet. Friday, July 1. a.m. Presentation of participants' projects. p.m. Concluding discussion of basic questions. What from a scholarly and methodological perspective is to be gained? What are the probable effects on research and teaching? What can one learn from the collision of automatic methods with intuitive perceptions? What it is the role of humanities computing: merely an efficient facilitator of traditional work or a fundamental component for pursuing new questions? Where do we go from here with software, and with its application? How can the machine better assist us in educating the imagination? The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities was established by Rutgers and Princeton Universities in October 1991 to provide a national focus for those who are involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the humanities. CETH's mission is to advance scholarship in the humanities by the use of high quality electronic texts. CETH's major activities are: (1) cataloguing existing electronic texts within the Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities which is held on RLIN (2) providing access via the Internet to well-defined collections of good quality SGML-encoded humanities electronic texts and using these texts to act as a testbed for research on their "uses and users" (3) the CETH Summer Seminar. CETH publishes a newsletter twice per year and provides other support facilities. CETH is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Booth Ferris Foundation and the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities. Instructors The seminar will be taught by Susan Hockey and Willard McCarty, with assistance from C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (SGML and TEI), Peter Robinson (electronic editions), Elli Mylonas and David Durand (hypertext), and staff of Computing and Information Technology, Princeton. David Durand has worked with hypermedia systems for several years, specializing in literary applications, version management, and persistent linkage. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Boston University. He is an active member of the Text Encoding Initiative and the HyTime committee, and has served as an advisor to several hypertext projects. He helped organize the Brown Computing in the Humanities User Group and has given several talks there and elsewhere on hypertext systems, linguistic software, and revision maintenance systems. 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. She has taught courses on humanities computing for eighteen years and has given numerous guest lectures on various aspects of computing in the humanities. She is the author of A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities, SNOBOL Programming for the Humanities, and the Micro-OCP manual as well as numerous articles on humanities computing and has been Chair of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing since 1984. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative. 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. Since 1990 he has taught a series of graduate courses in humanities computing at Toronto. Willard McCarty took his Ph.D. in English literature in 1984; his current literary research is in classical studies, especially the Metamorphoses of Ovid. He is working on a heavily-encoded electronic edition of that poem, from which will be generated a forthcoming reference book, An Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Elli Mylonas is a Research Associate in Classics at Harvard University, and was the Managing Editor of the Perseus Project where her responsibilities included the creation and structuring of the textual component of the project, and working together with the user interface designers and documentation specialists. She is also the project leader for Pandora, a Macintosh search program for the TLG and PHI disks. Mylonas is a founding member and one of the two organizers of CHUG (Computing in the Humanities User's Group), a humanities computing seminar that has been meeting biweekly at Brown University for the last 4 years. She is also on the Text Representation Committee of the Text Encoding Initiative, where she has worked on identifying SGML structures for tagging reference systems, drama and verse in literary texts. She has published and spoken on hypertext, descriptive markup and literary texts, and the use of computers in education and has co-taught tutorials on "Teaching with Hypertext" at the Hypertext meetings in San Antonio and Milan (1991, 1992). Peter Robinson is Executive Officer for the Canterbury Tales Project, which aims over a ten-year period to issue machine-readable transcripts of the 88 manuscripts and pre-1500 printed editions of the Canterbury Tales, together with analyses and computer images of each manuscript page. He is the developer of Collate, a widely-used computer collation program, and head of the Text Encoding Initiative Working Group on Textual Criticism. He has edited Old Norse poetic texts, has published on matters relating to computer-assisted textual editing and on digitization of manuscript images, and acts as a consultant to several large editorial projects. He is based at the Oxford University Centre for Humanities Computing. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen studied Germanic medieval literature in the comparative literature program at Stanford University; since 1980 he has been working to bring computing technology to bear on problems of textual research. In 1985 and 1986, he served as a consultant for humanities computing in the Princeton University Computer Center; since 1987 he has worked at the academic computer center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is now a senior research programmer. He is a member of the Steering Committee, and the editor in chief, of the Text Encoding Initiative. Fees The cost of participating in this Summer Seminar will be $995, including tuition, use of computer facilities, and lunch at Princeton for the two weeks, and banquet and reception. Students pay a reduced rate of $845. Student accommodation is available at a cost of approximately $25 per night. CETH will also assist successful applicants in finding hotel accommodations. There will be 24-hour access to networked microcomputers in the student accommodation throughout the seminar. Application Procedure To apply for participation in this Summer Seminar, submit a one-page statement of interest. The statement should indicate (1) how participation in the Seminar would be relevant for your teaching, research, advising or administrative work, and possibly that of your colleagues; (2) what project you would like to undertake during the Seminar, or what area of the humanities you would most like to explore; and (3) the extent of your computing experience. Applications must be attached to a cover sheet specifying your name, current institutional affiliation and position, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers, as available, as well as natural language interest and computing experience. Currently enrolled students must also include a photocopy of a valid student ID. E-mail submissions should have a subject line `Summer Seminar Application'. The statement must be received by the reviewing committee, consisting of members of the Center's Governing Board, by FEBRUARY 9, 1994, at the address below. Those who have been selected to attend will be notified by March 9, 1994. Payment will be requested at this time. Summer Seminar 1994 Center for Electronic phone: (908) 932-1384 Texts in the Humanities fax: (908) 932-1386 169 College Avenue bitnet: ceth@zodiac New Brunswick, NJ 08903 internet: ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu U.S.A. From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: INTEGRATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE AAAI-94 WORKSHOP Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 17:51:42 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 360 (671) Advance Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA 2 days during July 31st-August 4th 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing (SP). The aim here is to bring to the AI community results being presented at computational linguistics (e.g. COLING/ACL), and speech conferences (e.g. ICASSP, ICSLP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and SP we have just started to see progress on integrating these two subareas of AI. Most success has been with speech synthesis and less with speech understanding. However, there are still a number of important questions to answer about the integration of speech and language processing. How is intentional information best gleaned from speech input? How does one cope with situations where there are multiple speakers in a dialogue with multiple intentions? What corpora (e.g. DARPA ATIS corpora, MAP-TASK corpus from Edinburgh) exist for integrated data on speech and language? How does discourse understanding occur in multi-speaker situations with noise? How does prosodic information help NLP systems? The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and SP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and SP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume (Issues 1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on three themes: * Theoretical issues on integrated NLP and SP * Systems exhibiting integrated NLP and SP * Intelligent multimedia involving NLP and SP The following issues will be focussed upon during the workshop: * Common representations for NLP and SP * How does NLP help SP and vice-versa? * What does integration buy us? * Symbolic versus connectionist models * Varieties of communication between NLP and SP processors * Designs for integrating NLP + SP * Tools for integrating NLP + SP * Corpora for integrated NLP + SP * Testing of integrating NLP + SP systems * Possible applications of integration WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have as much discussion as possible during the workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion as well as having formal paper presentations. We will also organize a number of presentations on Site Descriptions of ongoing work on NLP + SP. There may be a number of invited speakers. Day 1: Theory and modelling for integrated NLP and SP. Day 2: Systems for integrated NLP/SP, and intelligent multimedia. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted by electronic mail to Paul Mc Kevitt at p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Preferred format is two columns with 3/4 " margins all round. Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit your paper by e-mail please submit three copies by snail mail. *******Submission Deadline: March 18th 1994 *******Notification Date: April 8th 1994 *******Camera ready Copy: April 29th 1994 PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EC. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Ole Bernsen (Roskilde, Denmark) Dr. Martin Cooke (Sheffield, England) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan) Prof. Dr. Walther V.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Dr. Sheryl R. Young (CMU, USA) *PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST**PLEASE POST* From: BRILL@rulcri.LeidenUniv.nl Subject: Edwin Mellen Press Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 15:28:08 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 440 (672) I read with a certain dismay Irving Hexham's comment that Brill regularly requires subventions for its publications. I contacted him and discovered that he had based this remark on contacts with Brill in the middle seventies. The situation is different in the nineties. Brill asks subventions "regularly" in the sense that subventions are received for a small number of very specialist books and some large prestige projects each year, but this is not the case for the vast majority of our publications. Julian Deahl Classics Editor E.J. Brill From: "Sarah L. Higley" <slhi@troi.cc.rochester.EDU> Subject: Edwin Mellen: power and prestige and other myths of academia Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 13:45:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 441 (673) I suppose this discussion of the Edwin Mellen press is instigated by the recent excoriating review in _Lingua Franca_? Before anyone jumps whole- heartedly to the defense of EMP, or into a refutation of the charge that EMP does not referee or revise submissions, go read the article. It has some interesting revelations about the press's activities and philsophies, and a few appalling case histories. Bear in mind, though, that the article is opinionated, that the ad hominem attack on Richardson is reproachable, and the fun poked in the title and opening paragraphs at Washington's book (published by the press) doesn't examine the spirit of the book or the tradition that W. is writing in. Forgive me for not providing titles and dates. The article is at school and I am at home, and I haven't looked at it recently. I also don't know what controversies the article stirred up and would like to be informed. Perhaps it has been addressed on Humanist already. To be sure, W's book is excessively wordy and ornamental-- almost to the point of ludicrousness (he writes as much for alliterative effect as he does for content, it seems), but I and a colleague looked it up (yes, our library bought it, just like the article accused libraries of doing without reviewing), and it struck me that the style of the book, while impenetrable to me, imitated certain features of Black gospel or religious speaking/writing. I may be entirely wrong here. What was clear was that it wasn't written in the coded style of received, standard academic English that most of us in the field take for good writing, and consequently it's no wonder that it came under attack in an article that found fault with EMP's buying. It's full of chapter headings like (and here I have to adlib, not remembering the titles exactly): "Pontificating Upon the Princely Patterns of Patriarchic Paternity." We noticed, though, that Washington has published other books with other presses, many of them sporting titles just as flamboyent--perhaps the Mellen Press gives him an outlet for the writing style of his choice that few other presses do. The article in LF failed to mention that the book addressed the economic status of African nations vis a vis the first world, and perhaps the author intended to challenge the language of white academia. I'm not saying I liked the book or found its writing to be excellent or even commendable; I'm saying that the article in Lingua Franca omitted important orienting information that contextualized it. They made it seem idiotic, point blank. On the other hand, though, I don't think the rest of the article has invented some of the peculiarities of the press and its procedures. It is out for the big sell. It offers you the convenience of publishing what you want to write about and in the style you choose without the hassle and rejection that most University Presses give you. That EMP has published some valuable works goes without saying, but many of them are on subjects so obscure that most other presses won't touch them. Perhaps the EMP is the wave of the future: after all, look at the rising power of the InterNet. Our libraries are so overflowing with books published by "accredited presses" that they can hardly contain all of them. Publishing a book is now _de rigour_ for promotion; not to publish is professional death for many scholars, and yet we kill more trees and buckle the floorboards of our libraries doing so. It's crazy. The InterNet offers free publication, and it's open to many many different styles. As a critical voice, I think it will eventually outshout the old forms of publication and commentary, but we are still terrifically attached to the beautifully edited and presented BOOK. And this, finally, is what I dislike about Edwin Mellen. It caters to that kind of conservative mentality. Why not admit under a more radical rubric that anyone can seize the podium in the Halls of EMP? But you see EMP doesn't want to be radical or underground. It aims for the LOOK of "respectability" that it hasn't earned yet. It's a blockbuster movement that relies on the author's need to publish and willingness to go to any expense to do so. The author gives the press camera-ready copy, which can look quite nice what with the desktop printing options we have available. The final edition is beautifully and tastefully bound, and horrendously expensive. Only libraries can usually afford to buy these books at prices like $90 for five hundred pages on usually quite obscure topics. It also bothered me to learn from the article that EMP is in the process of establishing an "accredited" university in some third world nation in order to buy academic respectability. This is really putting the cart before the horse. And I do believe it's true that they will publish everything that they solicit or that is submitted to them. I was approached THREE TIMES by EMP to publish my Berkeley dissertation. I was mailed long explications about why MY work "deserved" to be published without payment or royalties, how publication was "reward enough"; I was told that they could probably even get two books out of my dissertation. A professor emeritus in Wales wrote me a personal letter (that I still have) asking me to allow them to publish my manuscript. Not "consider" it, "publish" it. He hadn't even seen my revised manuscript, and being the scrupulous and traditional scholar that I know that he is, in any other context he would have been wary of my applications of canon revisionist and feminist theory to the study of early Welsh poetry. The message I repeatedly got from these people in Wales who kept recommending me to EMP was that I was not respectable enough for the University of Wales Press, but that my subject was too narrow for any other press. I found this annoying, and published with a good university press which refereed and had me revise my text; the book costs $45 dollars hardback: less, I believe, than even Boydell and Brewer would publish it for. The upshot, then, of this verbose and irritable letter is that I have very mixed feelings about the Edwin Mellen Press, but also VERY mixed feelings about our canons of "respectability" and power. To be frank about the exigencies of tenure and the competitive and critical nature of many departments, I would not advise an untenured colleague to publish with EMP as it does not yet give quite the message that publishing with an accredited University Press does, despite EMP's former appeals to the pressures of tenure that it will alleviate. I say "former," because I think it may have revised its soliciting strategies and is not coming on so strongly as it did six years ago. And it does not reduce the stress upon the trees or library shelving space and floorboards-- or your own pocketbooks for that matter. On the other hand, it allows many people to publish their serious scholarship who don't want to or can't afford to go through the hassles of submission and rejection and revision and division and collision that all the "accredited" University Presses put you through. But if a press publishes just about EVERYTHING it solicits or gets sent, having you pay a large part if not most of the cost, how much can it inspire our confidence that what it accepts of ours is based on merit and demand, and not on the money it can rake in from libraries? Just to complicate things, I might add that respected University Presses are quite as commercial, but would still have us cling to the myth of learned poverty: we like to think that we publish for art's sake, and not for money, hence we spend years on a 60,000 word manuscript for a promotion without raise that would earn us maybe 15,000 dollars plus residuals were it a reasonably popular novel or a good cookbook. Note, however, how hard it is to publish these, how competing skills COUNT. Like the barristers of England who turn their backs on their remunerators (what else can that little dangling pouch symbolize?), scholars like to think that they publish for intellectual purposes only, and not for prestige or gain, and that this way they are FREE of the pressures of competition. HA. This huge myth was RAMPANT at the university of Geneva when I was there, where I had to listen to sanctimonious lectures on the evils of the merit system in American Universities from all the maitre-assistants who were infatuated with keeping up with the Derridians and other fashionable isms of europe. Nonetheless, I love any critical argument which explores and exposes the myths of intellectual asceticism, and I can see, as I write, how I'm warming up to a supportive comment for EMP. We should all pay to get published. We should all be required to buy a certain amount of airtime, the way we do on the Net, and dispense with the laborious and classist machinery of submission, reference and rejection. Something like EMP would offer the best and truest forum for what people are thinking out there. I only wish it would stop posing as a member of the club, flashing its newly bought credentials, and appealing to the same old anxieties and needs of the same old Academy. So I take it all back. Publish and be damned! ;-) Working on my cookbook-- do you think Edwin Mellen will buy it? if I make it academic enough? Sarah Higley Associate Professor of English The University of Rochester slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu From: Karla Poewe <kpoewe@acs.ucalgary.ca> Subject: Edwin Mellen Press Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 9:10:02 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 442 (674) Although I am not a regular subscriber to THE HUMANIST, I have read the recent correspondence on the Edwin Mellen Press and hope that you will accept the following comments:-- In the early 1980's I completed extensive fieldwork among Herero living in the Black township of Katura, Namibia. When I had written up my research I submitted a manuscript to possible publishers. The response was generally positive except that I was asked by several of them to "add a chapter on SWAPO" because, they explained, this would increase sales. Most wanted me to say good things about SWAPO, although one publisher was prepared to accept a highly critical chapter. Unfortuantely, I had to refuse because the people I studied had virtually no contact with SWAPO and to have added a chapter about them would have been fraudulent. One publisher, the Ravan Press in Johannesburg, which is closely associated with Indiana University Press, accepted my book but warned me that it would be 3 to 4 years before they would be able to publish it. Therefore, they suggested I might want to take the manuscript elsewhere. Because of the rapidly changing political situation in Southern Africa I decided to give the manuscript to the Edwin Mellen Press which produced it in under six months without making any changes to my text. The book, THE NAMIBIAN HERERO: A HISTORY OF THEIR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISINTEGRATION AND SURVIVAL, Lewsition, Edwin Mellen Press, 1985, subsequently received excellent reviews, including one in the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, 20 February 1987, p. 190. Later I published RELIGION, KINSHIP AND ECONOMY IN LUAPULA, ZAMBIA, Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. Once again the background to my decision to use the Edwin Mellen Press was political. In this case the original manuscript had been accepted for publication by a major publihser in the mid-1970's. But, before publication someone pressured the press to have me falsify certain medical data for poitical reasons. I refused to make any changes. After a prolonged discussion the press suddenly found that it had "financial problems" and was unable to publish my book. After this experience I left the manuscript alone and published several other books with different presses. In 1989 I revised my Zambian manuscript and sent it to the Edwin Mellen Press which published it. Since then it has been extensively cited in medical journals and very well reviewed. These two experiences convince me that the Edwin Mellen Press plays an important role in small, politically volatile, and uneconomic fields like African Studies. Karla Poewe Professor of Anthropology University of Calgary From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Edwin Mellen Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 18:51:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 443 (675) I break no lance for the Mellen company; I _have_ bought some books from them and reviewed some. Some are good, some are bad, that's the way books are. To condemn a whole press because of a poor book or two seems to be folly. The line between vanity presses and non-vanity presses has been blurred for a long time now. Many noble presses require subventions, and the time of letterpress and good peer review (who pays for peer review?) is long since gone. Unfortunately, libraries have neither the staff nor expertise to decide on a book-by-book order policy; I used to suggest books to the library, but I gave up on that long ago. At any rate, blanket orders, unless your library has a great deal of many, seem to be a poor way to solve the problem. Jim Marchand. From: Tony Schwartz <SCHWART@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: Mellen Pr. (one more time) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 15:45:12 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 444 (676) Craig Walton expressed "surprise and sadness" at my message that academic libraries generally do not include Mellen Press in their approval plans and suggested that such "negative broad-scale judgments" could "kill a small press." A point of clarification: Academic libraries do not have as one of their purposes to support small presses; that sort of altruism became untenable a quarter-century ago in face of the extraordinary growth and price inflation of scholarly publishing. *However,* academic libraries are vitally concerned with the economic plight of small research _fields_. Tony Schwartz, Rice U. From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0345 Qs: Mac Fonts Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 2:04:40 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 445 (677) John Rager asks about Egyptian hieroglyphic fonts for the Macintosh. Ogden Goelet (goelet@acfcluster.nyu.edu) has an article on an MS Windows program, Glyph, which mentions the Mac without details: "Computer Advances in Egyptology..." in Academic Computing at NYU, Nov 93. Heyward (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET> Subject: large file transfers Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 17:33:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 446 (678) In response to Jim O'Donnell's Q: LapLink is the best bet; it comes with both serial and parallel cables and you just connect the two machines at the proper ports and, if instructed accordingly, the software will transfer all drives with full contents fairly quickly, although 200MB might take a while, but, I would think, well under an hour. Good luck, Michael Metzger From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: file transfer Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 18:45:24 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 447 (679) An answer to Jim O'Donnell's question as to how to transfer the contents of one computer to another. The best method is through the use of a so!called null!modem device attached to the parallel ports of the two computers. You can buy a null!modem device and the (telephone type) cables needed from Radio Shack, and there are shareware programs for transfer. It is probably best (and certainly easiest) to buy one of the programs which come with cables, such as LapLink (Traveling Software), The Brooklyn Bridge (Fifth Generation Systems), or FastLynx (Rupp Corp.). Everybody seems to prefer LapLink. There is a good book on all this, which even contains the pinouts for making your own null!modem cable (lots of fun!): Bill Howard, PC Magazine Guide to Notebook and Laptop Computers (Berkeley: Ziff Davis, 1991). I just bought a new ThinkPad with a 250 meg hard disk which I stacked to 500, and I transferred the contents of my office machine to it in a short period of time. I think that such managers as PC-Tools also have file transfer programs. The point is to use the parallel and not the serial port (slow, slow!). Jim Marchand. From: "Dr D.A. Postles" <pot@leicester.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 7.0356 Rs: Transferring Files (3/70) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 13:30:21 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 448 (680) I invested in Laplink too, but when I upgraded to DOS 6, I thought that I noticed that there was a file transfer facility in that too, similar to Laplink. I haven't actually checked this out, and I suspect that, if there is one, it may not be as fast as Laplink. David Postles. From: danf_cm@wugcrc.wustl.edu Subject: WIRED: a little too much speed... Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 00:31:19 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 449 (681) [deleted quotation] Whatever WIRED is, and I do read it occasionally (but I prefer to be wired, if you know what I mean), but i don't consider it to be very skillful at communication. WIRED is hip. It is in-group subgroup grab-our-ball-and-run-and-the-rest -of-you-try-to-follow-along-as-best-you-can. It's layout, graphics and design are NOT, whatever they may claim, an effective way to impart much of anything but someone who is trying to put as many widgets, dingbats, font styles and gimmicks into the magazine as he/she can. Type fonts are abysmally tiny, the overlaid colored bars and underlying pictures are distracting and sometimes, simply impossible to read. The first issue it was sort of fun. After that, it got wearying and now i can't bear to sturggle through one. We have been through this before. Check out magazines and books published from 1967 to 1973 or so. Wired, though it does publish some good writing on occasion, is going to look just as dated as those old hippie rags do now. Not a flame, just a plea for some legibility and thought behind magazine style instead of 'why-not-the-kitchen-sink-too?'. Dan f From: Scott Kelley <AA0345@UOKMVSA.BITNET> Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 20:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 363 (682) It requires several voices, even assent requires several voices, not to repeat but to confirm if possible, to try a variant statement in a different way, to define in more than one direction, a moving space constantly pushing outward, here, then there, then there, which becomes at all because it moves, because it holds itself to certain lines. ---William Bronk "Some Musicians Play Chamber Music for Us" CALL FOR PAPERS: VOICE(S) IN LITERATURE AND WRITING The University of Oklahoma Graduate Students in English announce a Graduate Student Conference for Saturday, April 16, 1994. This year's subject is VOICE(S)--a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and trans-historical investigation of voice(s) in literature and writing. The conference is open to all disciplines and includes (but is not limited to) literature, rhetoric, composition, women's studies, Native American studies, education, letters, history, film, communications and modern languages. Suggestions for possible papers include (but are not limited to) poetic, mystic, ancestral, or regional voices, the oppressed or suppressed voice, and the voice of madness. Treatment of any and all other voices in literature and writing are encouraged. This year's speakers are Vivien Ng, current President of the National Women's Studies Association and author of _Madness in Late Imperial China: From Illness to Deviance_, and Robert Con Davis, author of _The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father in Early Western Culture_ and co-author of _Criticism and Culture: The Role of Critique in Modern Literary Theory_. Papers should be 15 minutes in length. Deadline for a 250 word abstract is January 31, 1994. Please send abstracts and all correspondence to: Beth McDonald Department of English 760 Van Vleet Oval University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma 73019 FAX--(405) 325-5068 E-mail--AA0586@UOKMVSA (BITNET) OR AA0586@UOKNOR.EDU (INTERNET) From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM> Subject: horns Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 18:57 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 450 (683) Why do cuckolds wear horns? From: fcdrake@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA Subject: Re: 7.0346 Kleio S/W for Historians: English Version (1/174) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 93 12:21:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 451 (684) Is there a Mac version of Kleio? From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Information superhighway Date: 17 Dec 1993 19:48:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 365 (685) In light of the high level advocacy for an information superhighway from the Clinton administration, I wish to point readers to Howard Rheingold's book _THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY: HOMESTEADING ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER_ (Addison-Wesley). It proposes what I think is an interesting thesis about on-line communication and interactive entertainment and information. Rheingold argues that many people hope to gain from on-line activities relationships with other people on a meaningful level through debate, exchange of information, queries etc. (what we do on HUMANIST I guess). He also insists that the billons spent on interactive entertainment is a misleading paper trail that only offers participants an unsatisfactory simulation of the longed for reality of commitment to other people (real people with minds and a will). There is a good review of the book in _BusinessWeek_ magazine, December 20, 1993, pp. 15, 18-19, by Evan I. Schwartz Regards, James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: Ian Budden <I.D.Budden@sussex.ac.uk> Subject: Etext CDs Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 16:10:05 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 366 (686) Electronic Texts: Product Descriptions, Suppliers, Recommendations A few weeks ago, I sent out a request for information on some specified etext CD-ROMs. Many thanks to all who replied; I found the information really helpful. As promised, here is a summary, addressed both to the lists I sent the original requests to, and to individuals who particularly asked for a summary. I've also incorporated information derived from raiding listserver archives. Many thanks again. General points All the CD ROMs I asked about seem to contain public domain texts, so there probably aren't too many worries over downloading material. There are, of course, other ways of getting hold of electronic texts - commercially on CD (e.g. the Chadwyck Healey poetry database) or disk (e.g. from Oxford Electronic Publishing); from the Oxford Text Archive; over the Internet from Gutenberg, OBI, etc (gopher to riceinfo.rice.edu, select Information by Subject Area, then the Literature, electronic books and journals option for a fairly full display of what's around). With commercial products there may well, of course, be copyright restrictions on what can be downloaded, etc. Some of these products seem to contain digitised music and/or speech files. Some possible UK suppliers are: Unica Limited, Unica House, Mowbray Street, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 3EJ Tel: 061-429-0241 Fax: 061 477 2910 Micro-Anvika 220 Tottenham Court Road, London W1 Tel: 071-636-2547 Inmac Ltd Stuart Road,Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1TH Tel:0928-579000 Powermark, Premier House, 112 Station Road, Edgeware Middx HA8 7AQ Tel:081-951-3355 The publishers of Desktop Bookshop also mention a couple of PD libraries. The Products Desktop Bookshop Quite well recommended. No special software needed, but "several viewers and search programs for a variety of platforms" are provided, including the WinSmooth viewer for Windows. I emailed the producers asking whether it was networkable over Novell/Optinet ("yes, it will be") and whether there were any restrictions about downloading texts ("no"). Producer: Walnut Creek CDROM, Suite 260, 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Phone: +1 800 786-9907 +1 510 674-0783 Fax: +1 510 674-0821 Email: info@cdrom.com ftp: ftp.cdrom.com Great Literature The CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford, UK are just getting this; perhaps this indicates they don't think it's too bad. Someone else who'd got it, though, wasn't that happy with the selection. Another person says that you can only print/download one chapter/section at a time, and that the user interface (on the Mac version) is "horrible". Yet another described it as having "a somewhat friendlier interface [than Library of the Future], using the convenient DiscPassage software". You pays your money ... I have emailed the producers for futher details, but have yet to be favoured with a reply. Producer: Bureau of Electronic Publishing 141 New Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 Phone: +1 201 808 2700 +1 800 828 4766 Fax: +1 201 808 2676 Library of the Future, Vol.1 450 titles. No reference to printed originals, no page references. Some abridgements. Search software provided; different estimates as to how good it is. Downloading possible, though on a page by page basis. Overall judgements vary; majority opinion seems to be that it's useful and fun, but not primarily directed at scholarly market. Possibly only installable on drive C: (i.e. not networkable). Availability: see below Library of the Future, Vol.2 950 titles (those from vol.1 plus 500 others). Some improvements on vol.1; for example, downloading can be done for whole texts rather than on a page by page basis, and it has a Windows interface (see also Greatest Books Collection, below). Producer: World Library Inc. 12894 Haster Street Garden Grove CA 92640. tel: 800-443-0238 or 714-748-7197. fax: 714-748-7198 Order from: DAK Industries, 8200 Remmet Avenue, Canoga Park, CA 91304. tel: 800-325-0800 fax: 818-888-2837 Greatest Books Collection A subset of Library of the Future (see above). Possesses search software variously described as "a search engine that allows you to search for words across multiple works", and as "an appalling retrieval program which requires you to select various directories from the DOS prompt". (It's probably the same software as for Library of the Future, Vol 2; like Vol. 2, it allows whole works to be downloaded at once, quite fast - "Huckleberry Finn took only 50 seconds on a 486X/25".) Generally described by different correspondents as "not very good" and "easier still" (than either Library of the Future or Greatest Literature. Producer: World Library Inc. (see above). Project Gutenberg The Gutenberg texts, 1991-93. Producer: Project Gutenberg Complete Bookshop As this note is intended for family reading, I shall not reproduce some of the remarks made about this. Producer: Chestnut (no further details) Ian Budden, Information Services, University of Sussex Library, Brighton, United Kingdom, BN1 5PN. Tel: 0273 678440 Fax: 0273 678441 Email: i.d.budden@uk.ac.sussex (JANET) i.d.budden@sussex.ac.uk (INTERNET) From: Susan Hockey <HOCKEY@ZODIAC.BITNET> Subject: Text Systems Manager position at CETH Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1993 12:21:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 367 (687) CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES TEXT SYSTEMS MANAGER The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, which is sponsored by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Princeton University invites applications for a Text Systems Manager. The position is responsible for the design, development and management of a UNIX-based client/server text system and associated software that runs on the Internet and serves the needs of humanities scholarship. Supervises SGML markup of texts and ensures conformity to the Text Encoding Initiative specifications. Manages CETH's text access system both for maintenance purposes and planned future developments which include linking images to texts and providing linguistic analysis tools and a lexical database to aid retrieval. Provides technical supervision for access to texts by members of a consortium which CETH is establishing. CETH's text collection will act as a testbed for research on the `uses and users' of electronic texts in the humanities. Requires a bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience related to computers and/or the humanities, plus three years experience relevant to the same. Knowledge of design and maintenance of UNIX-based systems, Standard Generalized Markup Language, Text Encoding Initiative, and programming ability in C, Perl and UNIX utilities, and PCs and Macintosh computers used in a client/server environment is required. Must also have strong communication and interpersonal skills. Knowledge of the use of electronic texts in the humanities, image handling techniques, and foreign language is preferred. CETH's other activities include an Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities which is held on RLIN, an international summer seminar which is co-sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, and information services for humanities computing. CETH is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities and the Booth Ferris Foundation. A one year grant funded position is immediately available for a suitably qualified candidate. Salary: $42,857. Submit a letter of application, resume, and the names of three referees to Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue New Brunswick NJ 08903 to whom informal enquiries may also be addressed. E-mail: hockey@zodiac.rutgers.edu Rutgers is an EO/AA employer. We encourage applicants with disabilities and Vietnam era veterans to self-identify in a cover letter. From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: Announcing Electronic Journal on Info Tech and Disabilities Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 23:39:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 368 (688) Announcing A New Quarterly Electronic Journal INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES ISSN 1073-5127 ************************************************ _Information Technology and Disabilities_ is a new, quarterly electronic journal devoted to all aspects of computer use by persons with disabilities. It is intended to fill a void in the professional literature by bringing together articles by educators (K through College), librarians, human resources and rehabilitation professionals, as well as campus computing and other professionals concerned with the effective use of technology by people with all kinds of disabilities. The premier issue of _Information Technology and Disabilities_ reflects the breadth of coverage that the journal's editorial board plans to maintain in future issues. Feature articles include a case study of an accessible CD-ROM workstation at the Seattle Library for the Blind, a profile of the St. John's University UNIBASE system, including the many rehabilitation resources housed there, and an article on the Royal Society for the Blind (Australia), which provides excellent screen design principles for enhanced accessibility. Feature articles are supplemented by news of interest to computer users with disabilities as well as educators, librarians, rehabilitation and other professionals interested in the uses of new and emerging technologies by people with disabilities. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES The first issue of _Information Technology and Disabilities_ will appear on January 15, 1994. Individual subscriptions are free of charge, and two subscription options are available: 1. Receive ENTIRE ISSUE AUTOMATICALLY. Please note: individual issues will range from 75 to 150 pages. address e-mail message to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu leave subject line blank, send the following one line message: sub itd-jnl John Smith 2. The journal will be made available at the St. John's University gopher. To receive each issue's TABLE OF CONTENTS ONLY: address e-mail message to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu leave subject line blank, send the following one line message: sub itd-toc Jane Doe The Table of Contents will provide abstracts of articles as well as explicit instructions for using the gopher-based version of _Information Technology and Disabilities_. SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES _Information Technology and Disabilities_ is a peer-reviewed journal. Requests for authors' guidelines should be submitted to: Tom McNulty Editor-in-Chief Bobst Library, New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, N.Y. 10012 voice: 212/998-2519 TDD (leave message): 212/998-4980 e-mail to: mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu mcnulty@nyuacf (bitnet) From: Philip Harriman <EGS2G1B@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Subject: Greek fonts for Macintosh? Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 14:24 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 452 (689) I've had a request for Greek fonts for Macintosh. The requester specifically asked for the Bacchus font, and also mentioned SuperGreek. SuperGreek is bundled with the TLG Engine product from Linguist's Software, who also sell LaserGreek. Can someone help me with recommendations about these products (or possibly others), and pointers as to where I can buy them? Thanks, Phil Harriman The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities egs2g1b@mvs.oac.ucla.edu From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Mac Hieroglyphics Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 17:19:46 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 453 (690) The inquiry about hieroglyphic fonts suitable for the Macintosh arrived by e-mail at the same time as snail mail brought me an advertisement for MacHieroglyphics 3.4 (now over 1050 hieroglyphs, they say), from Linguist's Software, PO Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020-0580, telephone (206) 775-1130, fax (206) 771-5911. The flyer I have does not tell me how much it would cost new; the upgrade cost is twenty dollars. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: horny cuckolds Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 18:47:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 454 (691) The etymology of "cuckold" is not helpful to answer Michael Ossar's question about why cuckolds wear horns: "The origin of the sense is supposed to be found in the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest" (OED, 2nd edn.). I suspect that the ancient association of sexual energy with the head and that which grows from it is ultimately the origin. See in particular the amazing book by Richard Broxton Onians, <t>The Origins of European Thought about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate</t> (Cambridge, 1951; rpt. New York, 1973) for many clues of where to look. I quote here from the pages cited in the index as having to do with cuckolds (243-5): ----- In any case, if 'horn' had in early times such sexual significance, we can understand, as it has not been possible hitherto, how a man's wife, who receives lovers, prostituting herself ..., could be said 'as the saying is, to make horns for him ....' She thus supplements him. Possibly there is a joking suggestion also of her working for his benefit. From such an idiom it would be but a step to say that the husband who 'has many a Paris in his house'... has horns. The lemma to this epigram describes him as keraspho/ros. These appear to be the earliest references to this association. Mediaeval poems (e.g. in the thirteenth century) show a belief that a horn grew upon the forehead of him whose wife had received a lover. Presently it was a custom in England and elsewhere in Europe for neighbours to put actual horns upon the head of the husband, apparently to show with what his wife had supplemented him. Possibly on occasion the association of horns with the pugnacious anger (see pp. 148 ff.) of the sexual element played a part. In The Story of Rimini Leigh Hunt describes how an enemy Had watched the lover to the lady's bower And flew to make a madman of her lord. The putting of horns upon the head of the patient cuckold might by some be intended to endow him with that which he seemed to lack, sexual power and pugnacity, what belonged to the element in the head. Their use (see pp. 148 f.) of cerebrum and cerebrosus (cf. eenchainneach) implies that for the Romans to have more brain was to have more of the substance active in aggressive anger, and the conception traced of the horns as an outcrop of that substance will help us to understand Ovid's reference to his becoming angry at last because his mistress receives other lovers: venerunt capiti cornua sera meo, and Petronius' aerumnosi quibus prae mala sua cornua nascuntur, also Virgil's irasci in cornua of a bull extending its anger into its horns (cf. Ovid's armenti modo dux vires in cornua sumo).... ----- I hope this helps. Merry Christmas! WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 7.0356 Rs: Transferring Files (3/70) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 16:05:28 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 455 (692) For transferring files from computer to computer, I use a shareware program called ZIP.COM, which is, I believe, cheaper than LAPLINK and very serviceable. MS-DOS 6.0 comes with a INTERSRV, which allows your own computer to treat the other computer's drives as its own, which means reading its disks without bothering to move them to yours. My experience so far suggests that it is much slower than ZIP.COM, but that really depends on what you are planning to do with the file, and how much room you have on which computer. From: AHC 94 <U204015@HNYKUN11> Subject: Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 13:26:10 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 371 (693) Possibilities for Eastern European participants to obtain grants for the IXth AHC Conference, `Structures and contingencies in computerized historical research', 30 August 1994 - 2 September 1994, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 1. Students and scholars from all Eastern European countries: Try the TEMPUS agency in your country. TEMPUS normally gives gives grants to people who want to prepare Tempus Projects, etc., but it is also possible to get funds in order to participate in conferences. 2. Scholars from the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic: Due to an agreement between the Academies of Science of these countries and the Netherlands, it is possible to get grants for scholars who want to get in touch with colleagues in the Netherlands. The AHC Conference, which will be attended by 200 people, is a good opportunity to do so! Applications should be made to the Academia of Science in the country of origin. 3. Scholars from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Russian Federation, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic: There is a cultural agreement between the Netherlands and these countries. In the framework of that agreement grants are available for scientific axchange. Contact your university (International Relations office) or the Ministry of Education for the procedures. 4. Scholars from countries which used to belong to the USSR: Due to an agreement between the Universities of Leiden en Utrecht, the Dutch branch of the Association for History and Computing, and the GOS-branch of the AHC, a limited number of scholars can obtain a grant to cover travel expenses, registration fee and hotel accomodation. Applications should be made to Prof. Dr. Leonid Borodkin Historical Informatics Lab Moscow State University 119899 Moscow Russia For more information on the AHC'94 Congress, contact: dr. O.W.A. Boonstra Vakgroep Geschiedenis Postbus 9103 6500 HD Nijmegen the Netherlands tel. + 80612825 fax + 80615939 e-m U204015@HNYKUN11.UCI.KUN.NL From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com> Subject: Re: 7.0365 Virtual Books (1/15) Date: Tue 21 Dec 93 20:33:37-PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 372 (694) James McSwain mentioned Howard Rheingold's new book. I haven't read it, but I have read the Business Week review and I've heard Howard on the radio. I think he's right that people want to interact with other people. (That became evident from the French Minitel system and from the extremely popular chat lines on CompuServe and other services.) However, Howard Rheingold has little experience with the nets outside The WELL, a very elite net community that is active in the arts, environmental concerns, and other social causes. Email or newsgroup reading involves a single interface program -- for any one person -- and is not too difficult to learn. The richness of personal interaction easily pays back the effort to learn this interface. It's harder to imagine people ordering pizzas and bank statements from disparate visual interfaces provided by individual service vendors. Yet that has to be the next step. I really think that Howard is missing the money angle. There's no money to be made in people talking to people, beyond basic communication charges. The large cash flows are in other services, and those services will evolve to the point that people are willing to pay for them and to learn to use the interfaces. Acceptance will be slow, but it will come. There will always be people talking to people, but there will also be reporters summarizing the discussions, authors selling their books, celebrity interviews, fee-based data services, and everything else that you find in other markets. Distribution costs are near zero, so only a small audience is needed for each service. We haven't worked out yet how to "draw a crowd" to a new service, but advertising will also finds its place. The commercial infrastructure is developing; whether rapidly or slowly depends on your historical perspective. -- Ken Laws ------- From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" <CXFW@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA> Subject: CARF UPDATE 2.1 !!! Date: Wed, 22 Dec 93 01:37:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 373 (695) _______________________________________________________________________ COMPUTER-ASSISTED RESEARCH FORUM - ELECTRONIC UPDATE - 2,1 _______________________________________________________________________ In this UPDATE ________________________________________________________ 1. About CARF (and Announcement) 2. Table of Contents (Volume 2, No. 1 - Fall/Winter 1993/94) 3. Sample Article: "Touring the Internet, Macintosh Style..." 4. From the Editor 5. Advertising Highlights 6. Coming in Future Issues 7. Publication and Subscription Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 1. About CARF _________________________________________________________ The _Computer-Assisted Research Forum_ (CARF) continues to be an independent, non-technical bulletin for academics and educators in the humanities (ISSN: 1195-9657). It is currently published in hard-copy format, three times a year at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Electronic CARF UPDATES are posted periodically to a number of humanities-related lists. CARF helps humanists better utilize computers by introducing resources, providing software and literature reviews, and encouraging critical thinking about technology from humanistic perspectives. CARF's assumption is that the computer literacy and productivity of the average humanist can be greatly enhanced through the dissemination of relevant, non-technical (!) information. ****** ANNOUNCEMENT ****** **************************************************************** * * * CARF is expanding! 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Should you wish to become * * part of this exciting project, please contact the editor * * (Todd Blayone) cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca. * * * **************************************************************** 2. Table of Contents (Volume 2, No. 1 - Fall/Winter 1993/94) _________ Touring the Internet, Macintosh Style: A Review Essay............1 Universe: True Multilingual Word Processing......................6 TwinBridge: Turning Windows Japanese.............................8 Resources for Writers I: The Writer's Toolkit...................11 In Brief. Short Reviews, News and Annotations...................14 From the Editor.................................................16 3. Sample Article _____________________________________________________ "Touring the Internet, Macintosh Style: A Review Essay." By Philip M. Howard. _CARF_ (2,1) 1-4. IF YOU ARE A MACINTOSH USER and have friends or colleagues who have dived into the Internet from a PC, or heaven forbid, a UNIX platform, then you have probably heard tales of commands and procedures more intimidating than darkest DOS. Put away your fears! Michael Fraase's Mac Internet Tour Guide: Cruising the Internet the Easy Way introduces the reader to Macintosh-style networking. More than a book, Fraase's guide provides software that replaces typed instructions with "pointing and clicking" on (properly configured) Macintosh systems. Concerns about the meaning and spelling of enigmatic Internet commands can be virtually eliminated. Play as a Learning Mechanism The Macintosh is inherently playful. Macintosh users like to add funny sound effects to their systems. (A system down the hall from me ejects disks with a vomiting sound). They install software to replace the standard arrow cursor with a cartoon of a pointing finger or a spinning UFO. The Internet, too, has its lighter side. For all of its importance as a system of light-speed communications and a repository of valuable information, it has developed a light-hearted culture. Some of its most effective tools have names like Archie, finger, and Gopher. The Macintosh and the Net play well together. On the Macintosh, the Internet File Transfer Protocol (FTP), becomes Fetch--an easy to learn program featuring an animated cursor in the shape of a dog that sprints across the screen while files are being downloaded. The Internet is a complex phenomenon, so any guide must begin by answering the question, "What is the Internet?" Here, Fraase does not stop at the technical description of the Internet as a network of computer networks. He describes it as having a "sense of place" (4) that does not exist on any one local area network. He takes the time to communicate something of the culture of the Net: the history of its beginnings as a communications medium between American military and academic research establishments (designed to with stand the disruption of nuclear war); its governance, which he describes as "consensual anarchy" (7); and the issues of commercialization, privatization, and bandwidth--the capacity to transmit information. The Popularization of the Internet Why should you use the Internet? Fraase asks us to "imagine downloading Dante's Inferno from a computer in Massachusetts or California, just as quickly as if we were copying a file from a floppy disk" (1). Throughout the book, other examples illustrate the kind of information that the Net provides. The last chapter includes an annotated bibliography of Internet resources. These include on-line library catalogs (like the Library of Congress), electronic texts and magazines ("Zines," for short), weather reports, travel advisories, the Smithsonian's photo archive, and even White House Press Releases. Fraase provides comprehensive instruction on the installation, configuration, and use of almost all of the Macintosh software one needs to access the Internet. Information on the basic network systems which are usually installed by those who manage your Internet connection (your computer support department or independent Internet service provider) are omitted. Even here, however, the author takes pains to explain how to deal with support services. For example, he lists questions your computer support staff may ask, together with recommended answers for you to give. As a support specialist, I can assure you that Fraase's suggestions are sound. In institutions with a charge-back policy, however, you may want to add an inquiry about the relative costs of the options on this list. The author offers chapters on electronic mail, USENET network news, FTP file transfer, and information browsing (with tools like Gopher). Each chapter includes an explanation of the service, enough technical background to understand what input is required of the user, and step-by-step practical examples. Examples are well illustrated with images from the Macintosh screen. The illustrations are well chosen and instructive. Throughout the book there are stories and anecdotes about the Net and its citizens (or denizens) and miscellaneous resources. These are presented in shaded sidebars with icons that distinguish between "People profiles," "Software Reviews," "Hot spots and cool resources," and "Found text excerpts." They make it pleasant to browse through the book-in much the same manner as one would browse the Internet. Fraase offers two, free electronic updates of The Mac Internet Tour Guide--just fill in the Internet e-mail address on the card at the back of the book. Updates are published quarterly and there is a subscription fee if you wish to continue the service. In this way, Fraase leads his readers into the new world of electronic publishing. User-Friendly Software and The Visitors Center Since I work in a basement, away from fresh air and the light of day, the Internet has become an alternate view of the world--a view through Macintosh windows. Fraase writes about the tools I use every day: StuffIt, Fetch, Eudora, and others. I first heard about these programs from other Internet users, in the days before Internet guidebooks. I was pleased to find that the author not only offers clear directions for their use, but that he has included these three programs on a companion disk. I was even more pleased to find that he maintains The Electronic Visitors Center, a computer-software archive which houses the latest versions of these and other interesting Macintosh programs. The Center is accessible via the Internet. Fetch and StuffIt Expander Fetch and StuffIt Expander work together to transfer computer files from the treasure troves of the Internet to your machine. Fetch is a Macintosh implementation of the Internet File Transfer Protocol (FTP) system. Given the network address of any Internet-connected computer system, and a valid user name and password for that system, Fetch will let you upload, download, and perform file or directory maintenance. On a DOS or UNIX machine, FTP requires you to use commands like DIR, CD, BINARY, GET, etc. With Fetch, one has only to point and click with the Of course, all this would be of limited use if you did not have access to several computer systems. Fortunately, the Internet is populated with publicly accessible computers which permit you to log on as "anonymous." In this way you can access countless programs and documents. The Electronic Visitors Center is one of thousands of such systems. Utilities Within Utilities FTP archives can be huge-containing hundreds of files on all types of computer systems. To save disk space, files are usually "compressed" by special software. In addition to being compressed, Macintosh files, which most often reside on non-Macintosh systems, are converted to BinHex format. Experienced Macintosh users may already be familiar with BinHex and Stuff It, the most common pair of utilities for rendering Macintosh files suitable for Internet transfer. StuffIt compresses Macintosh files and BinHex converts the result into ASCII (plain-text) form. BinHex files look like pages of random keyboard characters. In this form, they are able to pass through FTP and e-mail software where the original binary (program) file would cause problems. When Fetch downloads a file, it can tell whether it is text or BinHex, and it will automatically convert it from BinHex form; no separate BinHex program is required. Under System 7.x, the newer Macintosh operating system, Fetch will automatically start up StuffIt Expander to "decompress" the downloaded file. Those of us still using System 6 will have to double-click on the file to tell StuffIt Expander to decompress it. If you find all this confusing, don t worry. Like most Macintosh software, Fetch is easier to use than it is to describe. Eudora, a POPular E-mail System for Your Macintosh The third Internet utility provided on the Tour Guide's disk is the e-mail system Eudora. Eudora is a POP mail "client" which must be set up to work with an automated mail "server." Let me explain. "Client" software connects to "server" software, which does the real work. In most cases a client is an easy-to-operate, front-end for a more complex, server system. In the context of e-mail systems, the client program usually includes a mail editor with which to prepare a message. When a message is prepared, the client sends ("uploads") it to a "mail-box" on the server. The server functions like a Post Office. It sends out the mail you have dropped off. Moreover, it sorts incoming mail for you and other users. When it receives mail for you, it places it in a "mail-box" for your client to pick up. The client fetches the mail and delivers ("downloads") it to your own computer system. The whole process of uploading, checking for new mail, and downloading takes only a few moments. Keep in mind that a client-server relationship only works if both the client and the server "speak the same language" (adhere to the same protocol). Eudora is a POP3 (Post Office Protocol, Version 3) compatible mail program designed to work with POP3 mail servers. POP3 is a very common protocol which permits a client (running on any platform) to interact with the server. As noted above, it is the server which launches your message into the Internet and it is the server which receives your e-mail. The client contacts the server when mail is to be sent, or to check for new mail. On my own Macintosh I have Eudora running in the background (with MultiFinder), contacting our central academic minicomputer to check for mail every thirty minutes. When a message arrives Eudora alerts me by sounding a tone and flashing a flag over the apple icon in the Macintosh menu bar. I can then read and respond to the message without exiting other programs I might be using. In general, the Eudora client frees Macintosh users from having to learn a "user-hostile," e-mail program on a central computer system. It also offers a custom menu of e-mail "nicknames" to replace long addresses or lists, and it includes a system of nested mail folders to organize correspondence. Finally, and most notably, Eudora features a built-in BinHex system like the one in Fetch. This means that files that have been sent to you in the BinHex format (e.g., word processing documents, graphic images, or programs) can be "de-BinHexed" by Eudora. You will not need a separate BinHex program to restore your files. Fraase fails to mention that the popularity of Eudora has led publishers to create a DOS/Microsoft Windows version. Indeed, both the Macintosh and Windows versions are on the verge of becoming commercial packages with new and enhanced features. TCP/Connect II, an Integrated Package of Internet Tools A demonstration copy of the commercial package TCP/Connect II comes with the companion disk. It integrates the main Internet services into one pro gram for e-mail, USENET news-reading, FTP, and TELNET. Integration allows one, for example, to FTP a file immediately upon reading about it in an e-mail or USENET message. I find that the Macintosh system allows me to run Eudora and Fetch at the same time anyway. Still, the demo version will help you decide whether TCP/Connect II is worth the cost. Hardware and Software Requirements All the above software has similar hardware requirements: "almost any Mac intosh will do" (26). Fraase recommends at least 4MB of RAM and a hard drive. If you don't have enough memory (or disk space) for System 7, then you should use the latest version of System 6 (Version 6.0.8) and Finder. (Note that some software requires System 7 for full functionality.) You will also need a network interface card, data-card or high-speed modem, de- pending on whether you have direct access to a local institutional network or you have a dial-in connection. If you have direct access to a local network and need a network card, your network administrator will help you find the right card. If you must use a modem do not purchase anything less than a 14.4bps modem. Some additional software (not included on the disk) is also required. Most often this is installed and configured by the Internet service provider, your local computer department or commercial networking company. It is usually available at little or no cost. Contact your local computer services for details. Finally, Eudora requires that your site has a POP3 e-mail server installed on one of the mainframes or minicomputer systems. At some sites this may be a smaller system dedicated to e-mail use. In either case, it is up to the central computer department or commercial Internet service to install and maintain the mail server system. If your site does not offer a POP 3 mail service, Eudora will not work on your Macintosh. "Go Out And Play!" Given the anxiety with which many of us approach computer learning, you may be delighted to find that exploring the Internet with a Macintosh can be a fanciful romp across a digital playground. The Macintosh Internet Tour Guide combines clearly written instructions with entertaining anecdotes, electronic updates, professional quality software and The Electronic Visitors Center, to provide Macintosh users with all that is required to explore this electronic universe. The Mac Internet Tour Guide is Michael Fraase's twenty-second book, "...and the first one in a long time that has been a load of fun" (vii). ---------------------- Philip Howard is a technical support analyst at Saint Mary's University Computer Services, Halifax, NS. He is currently developing support for electronic publishing. (phoward@husky1.stmarys.ca) ---------------------- The Mac Internet Tour Guide: Cruising the Internet the Easy Way. Michael Fraase, Ventana Press, 1993. ISBN 1-56604-062-0. Pp. xxii+282. 800K Macintosh disk. Price: $27.95US Address: Ventana Press PO Box 2468 Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA Phone: (919) 942-0220 Fax: (919) 942-1140 Internet: Diane Lennox (dilennox@aol.com) Notes: Ventana Internet guides for DOS and Windows will be released early in 1994. 4. From the Editor_____________________________________________________ I recently came across The Last Book You'll Ever Read (Ogden, 1993)--a work that trumpets, among other things, the imminent demise of the printed page. Like other futurists, IT-empowered technofiles and cyberspace junkies, its author fails to learn from the past. Can we really expect electronic publications to replace older forms of written communication immediately and completely? After all, as the classicist Jay David Bolter observes: [i]n the past, even a major new technology of materials or power has seldom done away with its predecessor entirely. Instead one technology relegates another to subservience, to tasks at which the new technology is either inappropriate or uneconomical. The invention of iron did not eliminate bronze tools, which were cheaper and easier to make, nor did effective windmills and waterwheels eliminate the use of harnessed animals, since there was no convenient way to pull a cart over land with wind or water power. The steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and now the nuclear reactor are unlikely to replace the workman using nothing more sophisticated than a dolly to get a heavy load up a short flight of stairs (Bolter, 1989). Why will The Last Book You'll Ever Read not be the last book you'll ever read? A well-rounded, but not exhaustive, reply can be reduced to five words: usability, portability, readability, accessibility and bibliophilia. When booting up a computer, troubleshooting software, logging onto a remote archive, and wrestling with menus becomes effortless; when reading an electronic device on the subway becomes convenient and dropping the same device on the floor inconsequential; when very high-resolution electronic displays become affordable and software-based navigation tools simple and efficient; when electronic reading devices and remote textual archives become as accessible to the masses as a cheap paperback; when everyone who has ever been enchanted by the smell and feel of inked paper ceases to exist, or when VR technology can provide these individuals with a virtual "traditional" reading experience-- only then, I suspect, will we witness the last gasps of the the printed page. Before I am misconstrued as representing the Luddites of this world, I must point out that there are some good reasons for hastening the demise of the printed page. For example, print publication is extremely expensive and the typical long delays between submission of a piece and its publication is self defeating; our natural resources are diminishing; international computer networks are growing and becoming widely accessible; and, the electronic medium presents exciting new ways of authoring, accessing, augmenting and manipulating textual data. The relevance of this discussion is that through a series of promising new alliances, we are developing an electronic version of CARF. Our approach will be to superimpose the electronic version onto the print version, not to discontinue production of the latter. In this way, we hope to enjoy the best of both worlds. On the one hand, the electronic medium will allow us to diseminate more information at a faster pace, and it will provide an interactive forum for our readers. On the other hand, the printed version, drawing from a deeper reservoir of material, will continue to present information in a usable, portable, readable, accessible and bibliophilic manner. (An official announcement will appear in the next issue.) ---------------------- Bolter, Jay David. 1989. The computer as a defining technology. In Computers in the Human Context: Information Technology, Productivity and People, ed. Tom Forester, 36. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Ogden, Frank. 1993. The Last Book You'll Ever Read. Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter and Ross. 5. Advertising Highlights _____________________________________________ *** MILLENIUM 1.21 for DOS *** A detailed cartographic guide to the history of Europe from the year 1000 AD to the present. Clockwork Software .......................... clockwk@delphi.com *** BIBLEWORKS FOR WINDOWS 2.0 *** The fastest and most productive Windows Bible research software. Hermeneutika ...................................... 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ISSN: 1195-9657. ********************************************************************** From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press) Subject: Internet Business Journal Gopher Date: Wed, 22 Dec 93 12:44:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 374 (696) INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL GOPHER ARCHIVE Gopher gopher.fonorola.net THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL now has a freely accessible Gopher archive. The complete text of the November 1993 issue is now available. Also available is the complete text of Internet Advertising Review issue 1.1. All future issuesof Internet Advertising Review will also be made available through this Gopher. Stay tuned to this Gopher for the complete text of the Directory of Internet Trainers and Consultants (First Edition) and the Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters (Third Edition) -- both will be available in the next two weeks. Special thanks to fONOROLA Inc., for making this Gopher archive possible. gopher.fonorola.net Select: Internet Business Journal/ Sample Issues/ November 1993/ 1. November_1993_Full_Text_[1866-lines]. 2. Table_of_Contents. 3. Advertising_on_the_Internet. 4. The_Newspaper_of_the_Future. 5. Industry_Profile. 6. Satellite-Delivered_Usenet_Newsfeed. 7. The_Essential_Internet. 8. The_Merger. 9. Resources_for_Business. 10. Government_Online. 11. How_to_Use_the_Internet. 12. Internet_Publishing_News. 13. Software_on_the_Net. 14. Internet_Access_News. For a complete sample copy by e-mail (Issue 1.5), contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net From: Peter Graham <psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Subject: Vice President meets humanists Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 11:25:16 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 375 (697) I excerpt below the brief remarks by Al Gore made yesterday, taken from a CNI distribution and available no doubt on the usual White House distribution servers (the speech is 12-15 pages long). Some of the questions from the audience were to be supplemented by some that came in over the Internet: someone in charge picked one question, and it was ours. (The transcriber was clearly uncomfortable in this environment and should be pardoned for taking "artists and scholars" for what you see below.) -=-=-=-=- [deleted quotation][...] Q One last question that came in from the Internet -- [deleted quotation][...] -=-=-=-=- That's all, folks; but it's on the scope now. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)932-5908; fax (908)932-5888 From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: Holiday closure Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 08:50:28 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 376 (698) In the interest of budgetary savings, the University of California Irvine campus will be closed down between Friday, December 24, 1993 and Monday, January 3 1994. In consequence, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae will be unreachable during that period. We will do our best to catch up, as quickly as possible, with the mail, e-mail, and phone messages that will have accumulated by January 3. All the best for the holidays to all of you, Ted Brunner ****************************************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU ****************************************************************** From: Donald Spaeth <DSPAETH@dish.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Job announcement: History Courseware Consortium Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1993 12:28:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 377 (699) Job announcement COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER for HISTORY COURSEWARE CONSORTIUM -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A Research Officer is required to coordinate the development of tutorial software by the History Courseware Consortium, funded in phase 2 of the HEFCs' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). The Consortium, which includes the University of Glasgow, the University of Southampton and over 40 other institutions, will produce computer-based tutorials which present core resources with the aim of teaching history students more efficiently and effectively. The post, which will be held at the University of Southampton, will be for one year in the first instance. Applicants should be graduates in history or related subjects with experience of teaching, the use of computers in history and the development of computer-based teaching materials. Programming experience is essential. Salary will be on the University Research Grade 1A Scale, L12,828- L19,542 per annum, according to age, qualifications and experience. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Personnel Department (R/153), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO9 5NH (telephone (0703) 593793). The closing date for the return of completed application forms is 11 January, quoting reference number R/153/EDGU. This the first advertisement of this post. The Consortium has recently filled the post of Coordinator, based at the University of Glasgow. *********************** * FURTHER PARTICULARS * *********************** The History Courseware Consortium will produce history tutorials which present core resources on key historical topics. The Consortium aims to make teaching more efficient while enhancing the quality of the learning experience. It was funded in August 1993 under Phase II of the HEFCs' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme TLTP and includes over forty institutions of higher education in the UK. All TLTP Phase II projects, including the History Consortium, have initially been funded for one year only. However, TLTP II is a three year programme, and the Consortium has applied for funding for a further two years. The Courseware Development Officer will be based at the University of Southampton, which will provide production services to the Consortium. The postholder will work closely with the Dr Frank Colson, Director of the HiDES Project, and with other HiDES staff. The Officer will also work closely with the Consortium's Director and Coordinator at the University of Glasgow, which is the lead site, and with other members of the Consortium. The Coordinator will manage the production of tutorials by the Consortium on a day to day basis, under the supervision of Dr Colson. The postholder's duties will include the following tasks: (1) Advising the Steering Group on issues concerning the design and production of tutorials, including standards, the selection of authoring software and interface design. (2) Advising Consortium members and Course Teams about the costing of development projects. (3) Supervising the provision of production services at the University of Southampton on development projects funded by the Consortium, including management of production staff. The CDO will be responsible for meeting deadlines to quality standards, in both cases as agreed between the Steering Group and the University of Southampton. (4) Supervising the provision of technical support and advice to authors funded by the Consortium, including those involved in academic development only and those involved in both academic and technical development. (5) Liaising with other providers of information and services, including the ESRC Data Archive, the IHR, the British Library and the BUFVC. (6) Assisting members of the Consortium with the implementation and evaluation of tutorials, including distribution of prototypes. The successful candidate will be a graduate in history or a related subject and will have experience in history teaching and/or research, particularly in the application of computers to these areas, and in the development of computer-based teaching materials and in programming. Good administrative and communication skills will be essential. Computing skills should include demonstrable experience in using a word-processor, electronic mail and hypermedia authoring. Familiarity with image processing, image capture, databases, spreadsheets, or programming will be to the candidate's advantage. The Courseware Development Offier will report to the Steering Group and Advisory Committee. However, the postholder will be expected to exercise initiative in realising the aims of the Consortium. The Officer will be based at the University of Southampton, but regular travel to other institutions, conferences and workshops will be an important part of the duties. Salary will be on University Grade 1A Scale: L12,828 - L19,642 per annum, according to age, qualifications and experience. The post, which will be held at the University of Southampton, will be for one year in the first instance. Secondment may be possible. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post as soon as possible. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Personnel Department (R/153), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO9 5NH (telephone (0703) 593793). The closing date for the return of completed application forms is 11 January, quoting reference number R/153/EDGU. Further details about CTICH, HiDES and the History Consortium may be obtained from Dr Frank Colson (JANET: hii005@uk.ac.soton.ibm) or Dr Donald Spaeth (JANET: ctich@uk.ac.glasgow). From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: Re: 7.0369 Fonts: Qs and As (2/30) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 93 17:48:47 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 456 (700) I have been delighted with SuperGreek. There is now a PC Windows version available, too. The only alternative I know is GreekKeys, which belongs to the American Philological Association, though I believe it is now distributed by Scholar's Press. GreekKeys is not actually a font but a system; I haven't succeeded in installing it, but that is only because I have been so satisfied with SuperGreek that I haven't made much effort. From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: 7.0370 Rs: Horny cuckolds; Transferring files (2/76) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 93 17:29 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 457 (701) May one ask, Willard, why then the horns on Michelangelo's Moses? Freud's essay tries to explain those horns, but...what that has to do with cuckoldry stumps me. Jascha Kessler, Happy New Year From: guedon@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Guedon Jean-Claude) Subject: Re: 7.0372 R: Virtual Interactions Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 14:23:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 379 (702) [deleted quotation] I have read most of Rheingold's book and he displays a good knowledge of a wide variety of nets, including Minitel. Knowing that latter network rather well, I can testify to the general accuracy of most of what he states and claims about it. [deleted quotation]Again, this is not to be the next step. This has been available on Minitel for the last seven or eight years. In this regard, one must carefully distinguish between standardized function keys such as those that Minitel provides, and the peculiar uses of the same function keys (or combination thereof) within a given service provider. On Minitel, there are about 17,000 services available and each has its own peculiarities. [deleted quotation] Again, this is false. Minitel was launched because communication took over as the main usage and a lot of money was (and is still being) made in this fashion. Beside, communication is now coupled with games, online shops and the like, so that the chat line act a bit like a tv program: it attracts users who pay about $12-$15.00/hr and who may move on to other activities with greater added value than mere chat. The large cash flows [deleted quotation] Precisely, and that is why the chatlines are so crucial to the launching of commercial CMC systems: they act like a booster for a multi-stage rocket. There will always be people talking [deleted quotation] Again, the Minitel example is clear: look at how Trois Suisses or La Redoute, big mail-order houses, use Minitel. Sears consulted with La Redoute, several years back. Sears is now involved with Prodigy (but I won't go into that as I believe Prodigy to be fraught with some bad growing pains, to say the least). [deleted quotation]I agree with the last statement, but being a historian by training, I would argue that "telematics" is growing at a phenomenal pace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Claude Guedon Tel. 514-343-6208 Professeur titulaire Fax: 514-343-2211 Departement de litterature comparee Surfaces Universite de Montreal Tel. 514-343-5683 C.P. 6128, Succursale "A" Fax. 514-343-5684 Montreal, Qc H3C 3J7 Canada guedon@ere.umontreal.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: yorick@crl.nmsu.edu (Yorick Wilks) Subject: Date: Fri, 31 Dec 93 16:24:39 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 380 (703) Natural Language and Speech Research at the University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science The Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield has established a strong emphasis on and expertise in speech and language processing, and seeks applications from students who want to study for doctoral degrees and perhaps apply for graduate studentships. Sheffield is specifically interested in Natural Language Engineering and has just established ILASH (the Insti- tute for Language, Speech and Hearing) linking researchers in more than ten departments. The University also has an interdisciplinary program in Cognitive Science and a strong program in Japanese. We have B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Speech and Language Processing, as well as the join of Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Sheffield has a number of funded projects in speech and language processing. Such projects are funded by SERC, the European Com- munity and the USA. We have also received a Human Capital and Mo- bility (HCM) award for research in speech processing. We are a node on Europe's ELSNET (European Language and Speech Network) and will run the British Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AISB-95) in 1995. In 1994 we will run two workshops at AAAI on the integration of speech, vision and language. There are at least 15 staff in the Department of Computer Science involved in language and speech processing, with substantial ex- perience in the area and good research facilities: Guy Brown: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Martin Cooke: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Malcolm Crawford: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Robert Gaizauskas: logical models of natural language texts, information extraction from corpora Phil Green: speech processing, neural network models of speech processing, ai approaches to speech processing Mark Hepple: formal models of grammar, categorial grammars, parsing, cognitive models Mike Holcombe formal models of NLP, formal models of user modelling Jim McGregor: user modelling, parsing, Prolog, tutoring systems Paul Mc Kevitt: pragmatics, natural language dialogue, user-computer interfaces, hyper/multimedia, user modelling, integration of speech, language and vision processing Bob Minors Modelling arguments in discourse, illogic of argumentation, belief processing Amanda Sharkey: Connectionist and cognitive models of language processing Noel Sharkey: Connectionist and cognitive models of language processing. Tony Simons: machine translation, syntactic parsing, chart parsing, object-oriented parsing Yorick Wilks: artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, belief pragmatics, lexical computation, parsing, text extraction. Sheila Williams: phenology, pragmatics and intonation, hearing, speech processing Enquiries and expressions of interest should be sent to: Professor Yorick Wilks Regent Court, 211 Portobello Rd., Sheffield, S1 4DP, Sheffield, England. yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: stan kulikowski ii <STANKULI@UWF> Subject: seeking old tests Date: Mon, 27 Dec 93 17:02:49 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 458 (704) i am interested in the history of knowledge testing, especially back into antiquity. i would appreciate any references you might be able to supply me. most texts i have read so far claim objective testing begins with horace mann (1845) when instituting written tests in place of oral examination in the boston common schools. i have no examples of these tests or their responses. there seems to be considerable room for finding ancient tests. i am familiar with egyptian and sumerian problem sets in mathematics, but it is not clear it these were texts for study or given as problems for the apprentice scribes to solve. dubois (1966) is often cited for civil service testing from the chan dynasty in 1115 BCE. but his reporting is second hand based on 19th century scholars and only general problem areas are given (eg, confucian ethics, geography, arithmetic, etc). i am interested in particular problems given to assess knowledge or skill. apparently civil service exams were given in paris from 1791, until napolean discontinued them. someone has tried to cite the book of judges 12, 5-6 where the gileadites questioned the edamites trying to cross the river, "say now 'shibboleth'" and slew any who answered 'sibboleth'. an articulation test, i guess. 2040 were reported to fail. i have seen this cited as the first password in cryptography security texts. i would date this late 5th century BCE when the text enters our history after the jewish captivity in babylon. from 6th century BCE, plato's reporting of socratic method involves questioning and student answering. but this is more often cited as an instructional technique leading students to answers, rather than discovering learned information or skills. from here there is a huge void until the 20th century. so far, the earliest actual test items i could find in the university library are as follows (stanley 1964): (1913) Courtis standard research tests. Arithmetic Test No.1 Addition Series B Form 1 : You will be given eight minutes to find the answers to as many of these addition examples as possible. ... 927 297 136 486 384 176 277 837 379 925 340 765 477 783 445 882 756 473 988 524 881 697 682 959 837 983 386 140 266 200 594 603 924 315 353 812 679 366 481 118 110 661 904 466 241 851 778 781 854 794 547 355 796 535 849 756 965 177 192 834 850 323 157 222 344 124 439 567 733 229 953 525 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- and there are two more rows of these problems to complete in 8 minutes. what a test. i doubt i could complete it with a calculator. since this is research test, i suspect i will try to find a report of its results when given to students. so i ask the assembled scholars on the internet to help me fill in the gaps of such a history. i am particularly interested in the questions asked, the answers given, and the sources we have for this. i would consider even zen koans if anyone has good dated sources for them. stan references p h dubois (1966) a test dominated society: china 1115 bc - 1904 ad; _testing problems in perspective_ (a anastasi, ed) american council on education; washington dc. h mann (1845) report of the annual examining committees of the boston grammar and writing schools; _common school journal_ vol 7 no 21 pp 326-336. j c stanley (1964) _measurement in today's schools_ prentice hall; englewood cliffs, nj. . stankuli@UWF.bitnet === º º trust no one who uses the term 'empowerment' --- -- a primer of late 20th century rhetoric From: jernudd@ctsc.hkbc.hk (ENG) Subject: Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 09:15:11 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 459 (705) What should I read/whom should I contact about the present state of glottochronology/lexicostatistics, esp in computer implementation? Bjorn H Jernudd (Hong Kong) From: "Don W." <webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU> Subject: Visiting scholar query Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 16:49:04 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 460 (706) This posting is made on behalf of Ruth Sanders rsanders@miamiu.bitnet because of e-mail limitations at her node. Apologies to those who find this message repeated on related lists. =-=-=-=-= (original query follows) -=-=-=-= Is there anyone out there who would be interested in having a guest scholar from the University of Jena in eastern Germany for next year? This person is writing a dissertation in philosophy of language for a Ph.D. in Linguistics and German as a Second Language. He would like a part-time position in teaching or research to support himself while he does dissertation research. Most desirable is a university where there is a compatible program in linguistics or philosophy; he can teach German language or be a research assistant. If there is interest I can put you in touch with the candidate. Write me (rsanders@miamiu.bitnet). From: William E Mishler-1 <mishl001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: OED on CD ROM Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994 13:38:47 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 461 (707) I've heard that the OED is available on CD ROM. Can anyone tell me where I might get some information about it? I would appreciate it. Bill Mishler Mishl001@maroon.tc.umn.edu From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: Augustine: The Seminar Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 12:50:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 382 (708) SPECIAL NOTE: THIS SEMINAR BEGINS MONDAY 10 JANUARY. IF YOU SIGN UP LATE, YOU *MUST* READ THE MESSAGES POSTED TO THE GOPHER ON 10 JANUARY TO AVOID CONFUSION AUGUSTINE The Seminar (Please repost) As foretold on most of these lists a few weeks ago, I am to conduct a course this spring targeted at beginning graduate students designed to introduce the thought and works of Augustine of Hippo. This course, taught in the usual way at the University of Pennsylvania, will also be opened to an Internet audience. By signing up for the listserv (instructions below), you may participate in all discussions. No prerequisites. I expect Internet participants to resemble the Internet humanist community generally, ranging from smart undergrads eager to learn to wise old professors still eager to learn. Topics in the course will broadly cover main issues and major works of Augustine. A syllabus will be posted next week. "Influence" will be addressed indirectly, but I hope to follow on the seminar with an "interscripta" seminar (through the courtesy of the organizers of that medtextl-based enterprise) that would be expressly devoted to Augustine's influence: that should happen in late spring. The pattern will be roughly this: On Sunday evening, I will post materials preliminary to the Monday afternoon liveware seminar. On Monday evening, students in the liveware seminar will take turns posting minutes of the day's discussions. The Internet discussion will then continue through the week. In addition, we hope to experiment with a MOO-based method of arranging "live" on-line discussion through the net. (No MOO-experts at this end: if anyone interested in the course has worked in a MOO environment, I'd be glad for a little advice and encouragement.) There is also already a gopher entry on the gopher at ccat.sas.upenn.edu (menu 7, Course Materials, then menu 3, Classical Studies, then menu 2, Latin 566: Augustine [in the same folder, Classical Studies 28, The Worlds of Late Antiquity, is an undergraduate course I teach; the listserv for that is closed to the liveware students in the room, but there will be some interesting things on the gopher]), which contains an English translation (by E.B. Pusey) of the *Confessions* of Augustine, shortly to be WAIS-indexed, and will contain other "handouts". First meeting of the liveware class is Monday, 10 January, so it is time to begin subscribing. Simply send an e-mail message to listserv@ccat.sas.upenn.edu and say in it only SUBSCRIBE AUGUSTINE. To remove yourself from the list, do likewise but say only UNSUBSCRIBE AUGUSTINE. Textbooks on order for the course include Peter Brown's biography of Augustine, Brown's *Body and Society*, my own *Augustine* in the Twayne World Authors Series, and Gillian Clark, *Augustine: The Confessions* (new in paperback from Cambridge Press); laying hold of copies of Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and whatever other works of A. appeal to you would be a good precaution. Jim O'Donnell Department of Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: MMARVIN@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU Subject: NEH SUMMER SEMINAR FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 18:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 462 (709) NEH SUMMER SEMINAR FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME JUNE 6-JULY 22, 1994 Topic: "The Roman Art of Emulation" Directors: Elaine Gazda (University of Michigan), Miranda Marvin (Wellesley College). Venue: American Academy in Rome The seminar will test some new approaches to the phenomenon of Roman emulation of Greek classical sculpture. Instead of seeing Roman artists as mechanical copyists, one current of contemporary scholarship sees them as the first neo-classicists. Rather than literal copies, a surprising number of their works are being recognized as new creations in the manner of the Greek masters the Romans so much admired. In twice-weekly discussion sesions and on visits to sites and museums, participants will explore this new model of Roman-Greek relations. The seminar will trace the history of the scholarship on Roman art that led to the position that virtually all Roman "Idealplastik" consists of literal copies of lost Greek works. It will examine the evidence for copying (including a hands-on workshop in a sculptor's studio). It will discuss Roman rhetorical education and translations and imitations of Greek literary genres to understand better the intellectual climate of thought in which the sculptures were made. The notion of originality as a value will be examined critically. Comparative evidence from later periods--- especially the Renaissance and Neo-Classical eras---will help participants understand an era in which imitation of earlier models was standard. The concern of contemporary art theory with issues of originality and reproduction will form a useful framework for much of the discussion. This seminar is intended for classicists, classical archaeologists, and art historians who specialize in ancient art as well as those who work in later periods in whi{h the imitation of earlier (especially classical) models is a significant issue. Artists and art critics with an interest in classical art and artistic emulation in general are also welcome. ELIGIBILITY: The NEH Summer Seminars for College teachers are primarily intended for individuals who teach undergraduate courses full or part-time at two-, four-, or five-year colleges and universities. Independent scholars and scholars employed by museums and other organizations are also eligible and encouraged to apply. Teachers in PhD granting departments are , however, not normally eligible. Applicants must have completed professional training by March 1, 1994. Degree candidates are not eligible nor are former students of the directors. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years immediately preceding the application deadline. PLease note also that individuals may apply to no more than two summer seminars in any one year. FURTHER INFORMATION: The deadline for receipt of applications is MARCH 1, 1994. For detailed information about the seminar and application information, please contact: Professor Elaine K. Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1390. Tel:313- 763-3555, FAX 313-763-8976. Please address e-mail queries to Professor Miranda Marvin at: MMARVIN@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU. From: alan ryan <AJRYAN@PUCC> Subject: NEH Seminar Date: Tue, 04 Jan 94 20:27:34 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 463 (710) Alan Ryan, Department of Politics, Prince ton University, is giving an NEH summer seminar for college teachers, July 3-29 1994, on "Liberty and Democracy in Mill and Tocqueville." The seminar is open to college teachers and other scholars in politics, history, philosophy, and other relevant fields. Details and application forms from Alan Ryan; by e-mail to ajryan@pucc.princeton.edu, phone to (609) 258-4752, fax to 258-4772, mail to the above address. Many thanks Alan Ryan From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: ARTS FACULTY COMPUTER FUNDING FOR FACULTY OFFICES Date: Sat, 08 Jan 1994 18:27:49 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 464 (711) SUBJECT: ARTS FACULTY COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR FACULTY OFFICES I would be very much interested to know what provisions are made in your university to equip the ARTS FACULTY with computer hardware and software. I have one question in particular for colleagues in the Faculty of Arts: HOW DOES YOUR UNIVERSITY SUPPORT OR INTEND TO SUPPORT THE FACULTY MEMBERS WITH COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN THEIR OFFICES? (E.g., are you supplied with a computer and/or the necessary software? Or do you receive computer allowances? advantageous purchases? Do you have competitions for Information Technology funds?) I'd appreciate replies to the address below and will be glad to summarize the answers in a future communication. HROLLMAN@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA DR. HANS ROLLMANN; Professor; Department of Religious Studies; Memorial University of Newfoundland; St. John's, NF, Canada, A1C 5S7; PHONE: 709-753-0045; FAX: 709-737-4569; E-MAIL: hrollman@morgan.ucs.mun.ca; also: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca; From: "Hope A. Greenberg" <hag@moose.uvm.edu> Subject: Defining Humanities Computing Specialist Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 15:00:16 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 465 (712) If a definition for Humanities Computing is hard to determine, a definition for a position to support it is almost as difficult. I am in the Academic Computing section of our Computing and Information Technology Division. We are trying to develop a position titled Humanities Computing Specialist to act as a support person for humanities computing. Could you help? I do not wish to limit suggestions by providing detailed information but the following questions may be helpful. How would you define such a position? What would you include? Would it tend towards supporting the technical infrastructure or to educating and providing project support for faculty and students? Supposing that other types of support already existed for the former, how would you define the latter? Any and all comments or suggestions would be appreciated. This is an opportunity to clarify the needs of computing and new-to-computing humanists and to provide a model for future computing staff to follow as they attempt to aid their humanities faculty. Thank you. ---------------- Hope Greenberg Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu Academic Computing "There isn't a book too long, a chair too comfortable Univ. of Vermont or a cup of tea too large." - C.S. Lewis Burlington, VT 05490 From: p5o@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Salvatore Attardo) Subject: Post for Humanist Date: Sat, 1 Jan 94 21:45:50 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 385 (713) Call for papers: The Linguistics of Humor High quality papers are solicited for a symposium on the state of the art in the linguistic analysis of humor to be held at the forthcoming ISHS '94, the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Humor Studies in Ithaca, NY (June 22-26, 1994). Papers in all areas of linguistics dealing with theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of the study of humor, joking, laughter, etc., from the point of view of linguistics are invited for the first ever symposium on the linguistics of humor. Send three copies of a one page (250 words max) abstract to Salvatore Attardo, Youngstown State University, Dept. of English, Youngstown, OH, 44555-3415, USA. E-mail attardo@cc.ysu.edu. E-mail submissions (ASCII text, TeX/LaTeX or binhexed Macintosh MSWord) are encouraged. Abstracts should state name, affiliation and address of the author(s) and state clearly the problem(s) addressed, the solution(s) provided, and the methodology adopted. An extra page for references, examples, etc. is allowed. References and citations should use the LSA or HUMOR style sheets. Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 1994. Submitters will be notified of acceptance by March 20, 1994. Authors should register for the ISHS conference with M. A. Rishel, Writing Program, 375 Roy H. Park School of Communications Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850. Ph. (607) 274-3324, Fax (607) 274-1664, E-mail rishel@ithaca.bitnet. If you have already submitted an abstract to M. A. Rishel and wish to be considered for the symposium, submit the abstract to S. Attardo with a cover letter clearly stating this fact. From: fehrenbach robert j <rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu> Subject: Private Libraries in Renaissance England PROJECT Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 17:25:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 386 (714) As a result of a number of inquiries, the following description/invitation is being posted on several electronic conferences/discussions. I apologize to anyone who receives duplicate messages. R.J. Fehrenbach =09*=09=09*=09=09*=09=09* PRIVATE LIBRARIES IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND A Collection and Catalogue of Tudor and Early Stuart Book-Lists Purpose =FE Design =FE Availability =FE Participation Purpose By a statute enacted under Henry VIII in 1521, a deceased person's property was required to be inventoried and appraised for probate whether the person died with or without a will. As a result, thousands of inventories on decease were compiled during the early-sixteenth century and the mid-seventeenth century in England, and many of them itemize books owned by the deceased. In addition, lists of books belonging to men and women of this period were recorded in a variety of other documents, including wills, account books, receipts, and inventories of goods distrained. The aim of PRIVATE LIBRARIES IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND (PLRE) is to transcribe and to codify such book-lists still in manuscript, to reconstruct private library holdings from extant books, to merge both in a uniform computer database with other published book-lists, and to make that information readily accessible to scholars. Design 1. Published Book-Lists In the published volumes of PLRE, each entry in the book-lists is reproduced as it appears in the manuscript source and provided with the following: a reference number (PLRE number); as identifiable, the title, author and other contributors (such as editors, translators, and illustrators); its STC status; publication information such as place, stationers, and date; its language; cost or appraised value; and the location of that particular copy if extant. Additional information is provided in a general annotation section. Each book-list is prefaced with a brief bio-bibliographical introduction. Three fully indexed volumes containing 86 book-lists (dates range from 1507 to 1644) with a total of over 4,000 books have thus far been published: Volume 1, PLRE 1-4 (1992); Volume 2, PLRE 5-66 (1993); Volume 3, PLRE 67-86 (1993). Volume 4, PLRE 87-112, is scheduled for publication in 1994 and will add another 1700 books. Book-lists in Volumes 2-4 are all drawn from inventories taken under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor of Oxford University and, for the most part, detail the libraries of sixteenth-century Oxford University scholars. 2. The Electronic Cumulative Catalogue This database contains all the annotated book-lists that appear in the published volumes of PLRE as well as book-lists that have appeared elsewhere in serials, in monographs, and in books. These previously published book-lists are regularly entered in the Electronic Cumulative Catalogue as rights to do so are acquired, and are identified in the database as APND (Appended) lists. 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Until a planned CD-ROM of the Electronic Cumulative Catalogue is issued, information from the PLRE database may be obtained by contacting either PLRE editor below. Participation Any information about published or unpublished book-lists suitable for the PLRE project will be gratefully received. Please send such information to one of the PLRE editors below. Scholars interested in preparing a list for the project should also contact either of these editors. GENERAL EDITOR EDITOR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Professor R.J. Fehrenbach Dr. Elisabeth S. Leedham-Gree= n Department of English Deputy Keeper of the Archives College of William and Mary Cambridge University Library Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 (USA) Cambridge CB3 9DR (UK) (RJFEHR@aardvark.cc.wm.edu) (EL17@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk= ) * PLRE is supported by a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities an independent federal agency ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= ~~~ =09R.J. Fehrenbach=09=09=09Tel:=09(804) 221-3920 =09Department of English=09=09Fax:=09(804) 221-1773 =09College of William and Mary=09Email:=09rjfehr@mail.wm.edu =09Williamsburg VA 23187-8795=09=09rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~= ~~~ From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: horny Moses Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 11:56:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 466 (715) This in response to Kessler on Moses' horns. Lars Martin Fosse, in a separate note, reminds me of the following: I vaguely seem to remember the following explanation: When St. Hieronymus translated the Bible, he made a mistake when translating the episode where Moses descends from the mountain with the Law in his hands. I do not have the Bible at hand here in my office, but I think it says (in Hebrew) that he descended "with a resplendent (or shining) face". St. Hieronymus, however, misread the Hebrew and translated "facie cornuta", or "with a horned face". Michelangelo evidently follows the Latin vulgate. I will not vouch for the correctness of this explanation, but maybe it can be confirmed. If it is true, it is probably the only time in the history of art that a philological gaffe has contributed to a masterpiece. Gaffe it may be, but an interesting question remains: why did the attribution of horns stick? Sometimes an accident (is there such thing as PURE coincidence?) happens to produce a result congruent to an existing pattern. Perhaps the gaffer was well educated with respect to ancient lore. I'm suggesting, then, that Moses' horns are cognate with the cuckold's, not derived from them. Both represent a form of power. Remember that Moses died mysteriously. I borrow the following from a dissertation that will thankfully never see print -- but which may have a few bright spots: The author of Deuteronomy comments that at death "his eye was not dimmed, nor his natural force abated" (34:7). This "natural force" (Heb. lecha, moisture, freshness) is in its adjectival form used of trees (Gen 30:37; Ezek 17:24; 20:47), fruit (Num 6:3), and animal tendons (Judg 16:7-8). For the meaning of this 'greenness' or 'moisture,' see Onians, <t>The Origins of European Thought</t> 272-4, 287-91, etc. William Foxwell Albright points out that the cognate of lecha in Ugaritic means "life-force," as in the epic of Dan'el ("The 'Natural Force of Moses' in the Light of Ugaritic", <t>Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research</t>, 94 (1944): 32-5. It might be argued, then, that at the climax of his Wilderness journey Moses, having metaphorically taken possession of the Promised Land, suddenly dies full of that form of life-energy most characteristic of the upper or paradisal level of existence. After noting that Moses' horns come from a mistranslation of the Hebrew into Latin facies cornuta, Manfred Lurker comments that "The artistic representation of this misunderstanding in the Vulgate speaks first, however, correctly for the expressive power of the ancient symbol, so that one still gives credence to the horned state of Moses, perceiving the power that he derived from God" (<t>Woerterbuch biblischer Bilder und Symbole</t>, s.v. Horn; see his brief bibliography). Supporting NE materials are abundant; see, for example, Othmar Keel, <t>The Symbolism of the Biblical World</t>, 86, 146, 206, 212, 258. What does all this have to do with humanities computing? Allow me to play devil's advocate with a former self. Such an exchange might be more appropriate to another group, but would it ever take place anywhere else than in this electronic piazza? Happy New Year! WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: AHARRIS - Alan Harris <VCSPC005@VAX.CSUN.EDU> Subject: RE: 7.0378 Rs: Fonts; Horns (2/19) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 19:51:50 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 467 (716) the horns on Michaelangelo's Moses resulted from a mistranslation in the Septuaginta of "karne' or" --rays of light. "keren," even in Modern Hebrew comes out variously as either "horn" or "ray" soooooo M. was just following the Vulgate's rendereing of the already screwed up Greek translation, I believe. ach Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. telno: off: Professor, Communication/Linguistics 818-885-2853/2874 Speech Communication Department hm: California State University, Northridge 818-780-8872 SPCH CSUN fax: 818-885-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 Internet: AHARRIS@VAX.CSUN.EDU From: theobible@VAX.STMARYTX.EDU Subject: RE: 7.0378 Rs: Fonts; Horns (2/19) Date: Sun, 02 Jan 1994 23:43:52 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 468 (717) Jascha, I believe Michelangelo's horned Moses was simply an older convention occasioned by Jerome's translation of Hebrew qarnaim ("rays" or "horns") as cornua. I don't believe it had anything to do with cuckoldry, simply a mistranslation that became classical. Charlie Miller--St. Mary's U of Texas From: carlg@ralph.txswu.edu (Dr. Glenda Carl) Subject: Horny Moses Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 16:20:55 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 469 (718) The statue of Moses has horns because Moses was a Jew--for the Middle Ages, a devil. QED. Glenda Carl Southwestern University Georgetown TX carlg@ralph.txswu.edu From: Virginia Knight <ZZAASVK@cms.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: Moses Date: Tue, 04 Jan 94 10:06:11 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 470 (719) Moses was often represented with horns in the mediaeval/Renaissance period. This arose from a misunderstanding of representations of him with rays of light streaming from his head, as he descended from Mount Sinai after meeting the Lord. Virginia Knight University of Manchester From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press) Subject: Internet Business Journal PostScript Version Online (Issue 1.6) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 12:15:15 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 388 (720) THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL Commercial Opportunities in the Networking Age The first and foremost information source for the commercial Internet community. Volume 1, Number 6 - December 1993 A free PostScript version of THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL (December 1993, 1.6) is now available. FTP to nstn.ns.ca Directory: /pub/internet-business-journal/ Files: ibj6_1-11.ps and ibj6_12-19.ps Special thanks to Nova Scotia Technology Network for making this FTP archive available. Please note that the pages may not print properly (or at all) on some printers. Also note that Issue 1.6 (December) will only be freely available as a PostScript file. For a low ASCII sample copy (Issue 1.5 November), Gopher to gopher.fonorola.net or retrieve the file ibj5.txt from nstn.ns.ca (or contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net). CONTENTS IN BRIEF: Advertising on the Internet Resources for Business, Commerce and Industry Air Force Medical Clinics Use the Internet Software on the Net Harvard Business Review Online Internet Garage Sale The Mass Media, Misinformation and Internet Hysteria Direct Marketing by E-Mail Government Online Internet Publishing Profile -- Meta Internet Publishing News RFC/FYI -- Editorial An Inevitable Consensus on Internet Advertising Advertising has become one of the hottest and most contentious issues on the Internet. Many people are outraged at the idea of having unsolicited mail arriving at their e-mail boxes. And of course when we think of unsolicited mail, we always think of the reams of junk- mail we receive with our snail mail. This example is a good one insofar as it represents a condition into which we would never want Internet-based advertising to degenerate. The "junk-mail" model is bad, however, insofar as it is meant to be representative of advertising in general. Let's face it; people do not usually find advertising objectionable when it is clever and creative, or when it introduces products in which they happen to be interested. Advertising is here to stay One of the questions which has been considered on some forums is whether or not advertising should be allowed on the Net at all. There have, for example, been postings which suggest that the Internet is a "sacred ground" which should not be soiled by advertising. This, however, ignores the reality that business is already being conducted on the Internet (or you would not be reading this publication), and that advertising usually goes hand-in-hand with business. In other words, the question concerning whether advertising should be allowed is a moot point. What the Internet business community needs to decide is how to do it properly. And there have been a number of suggestions in this vein. Some have suggested the establishment of lists or newsgroups devoted to advertising. Users could subscribe to these forums if they were interested in being kept up to date on new products and services. This would avoid the problem of receiving unwanted mail, though of course it would restrict the advertiser's ability to target potential customers. Another suggestion is that all e-mail advertisement messages have distinguishing characters in their subject lines so that users could easily identify them as such. This would allow advertisers to target potential customers, and would make it possible for users to decide whether they are interested, and if not, remove the advertisement with the push of a button. At the heart of this issue is that users and advertisers be able to come to an agreement. The Internet is in a unique position to redefine the relationship between advertisers and consumers. Never before has it been so easy to contact an advertiser who is annoying you with a poorly conceived advertising campaign. Never before has it been easier to deliver advertising right to a consumer. These communication lines between Internet users and advertisers should be used to strike a balance between the needs of both groups. In fact, many Internet users have expressed the belief that this reciprocal form of communication will effectively regulate advertising itself, since the members of the Internet community are able to collaborate and effectively undermine any particular advertising campaign. This process should not be seen so much as a policing force as a moderating one. The Internet user can help advertisers become more effective (and less offensive), and advertisers can do a better and more efficient job of promoting their products. Users have to realize that businesses are not going to forego the use of the Internet as an advertising tool, and businesses have to be sensitive to the needs of the user. The problem of how to advertise is a problem just like many others which have arisen on the Internet: there is no specific policy in place which would govern its resolution, and no authoritative body which would enforce it. Instead, this resolution will require sensitivity by the business community to the Internet user, and vice versa. However, with the kind of dialogue which the Internet makes possible, there is no reason that Internet advertising could not peacefully co-exist with any other aspect of doing business, and not degenerate into the mass junk mail-outs which we have all come to know ... and hate. Aneurin Bosley Editor THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL ak943@freenet.carleton.ca For subscription information, contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net (Subscription Manager, 208 Somerset Street East, Suite A, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1N 6V2 -- TEL: 613-565-0982). From: A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk Subject: International Summer School in British Life & Culture Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 17:43:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 389 (721) UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, U.K. 60th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN BRITISH LIFE AND CULTURE Thursday 21st July - Thursday 11th August, 1994 LITERATURE SEMINARS - THEATRE WORKSHOPS - FILM SEMINARS - POETRY READINGS - POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS - INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES - EXCURSIONS - SPORTS AND SOCIAL EVENTS - ALL WITH NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ALL ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS INCLUDED IN THE COST The International Summer School offers an intensive three-week course in all aspects of British culture, based at the University of Exeter's beautiful parkland campus. Students and tutors form a close international community for the duration of the course, with English as the working language. Teaching is mainly by discussion in small groups and seminars, but includes practical drama work, performances, and excursions to places of cultural interest. The cost is 800 for the three weeks, which includes all accommodation, meals, tuition, and some of the local excursions. Age: Any age over 18 years. Academic level: Undergraduate or equivalent, but interest is more important than formal educational qualifications. Language level: Intermediate or advanced English (or native speaker). 1994 PROSPECTUS AVAILABLE FROM: The International Summer School, University of Exeter, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, Exeter EX4 4QH, U.K. Telephone: + 44 392 264313 Fax: + 44 392 264377 E-mail: R.Crangle@exeter.ac.uk From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA> Subject: License study opportunities in France? Date: Sat, 01 Jan 94 22:20:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 471 (722) The daughter of a friend is graduating this spring with a French major from a respectable mid-Western state university. Thanks to her French father and several summers spent in Besancon, her mastery of French language and culture is markedly greater than one might otherwise expect of a U.S. undergraduate. She is interested in pursuing the License in France, perhaps in order to teach English in France. Any suggestions regarding programs, contact persons, etc. would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance, and best wishes to all for the new year. Charles Ess voice: 417-873-7230 Drury College fax: 417-873-7435 Springfield, MO 65802 USA From: steinach@epas.utoronto.ca (Mark Steinacher) Subject: 16th C French Law Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 23:28:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 472 (723) I'm doing some work on the Huguenots and need some precise technical information. In 16th century French Law, were *lettres de cachet* and *letters patent* synonymous? If not, could someone direct me to a succinct discussion of the differences? Thanks Mark Steinacher Wycliffe College, Univ. of Toronto steincher@epas.utoronto.ca From: N.Nettheim@unsw.EDU.AU (Dr Nigel Nettheim) Subject: German to English translator. Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 08:40:08 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 473 (724) I am interested in obtaining a computer program to assist translation from German to English. I am not fluent in German but know it sufficiently well to do the necessary polishing-up. It has been hard to get demonstrations or even information in Australia. From the special issue of Byte January 1993 I requested information from several advertisers but received no answers. I have seen Power Translator (Globalink) demonstrated. In its basic version the facility to see alternative translations for given words while working on the translation has been disabled - one can see them only later from the dictionary - but the professional version increases the cost from $A500 to $A1500 (about 30% less in $US). I would be willing to spend something from my own pocket in that approximate range. Can any readers provide advice on this program or others? Nigel Nettheim. E-mail: N.Nettheim@unsw.edu.au Voice: +61-2-868-4005 Home: 204a Beecroft Rd, Cheltenham NSW 2119, Australia Fax: +61-2-313-7682 From: mlbizer@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer) Subject: Erasmus Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 16:18:56 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 474 (725) Dear Colleagues, A medal of Erasmus executed by Quentin Metsys in 1519 bears the following inscription in Greek: "thn kreittw ta suggrammata deiksei," or literally "the writings show the better portrait." This inscription is later reproduced in Albrecht Duerer's engraving of Erasmus (1526). My question is this: where does this "devise" comme from? Many thanks. Sincerely, Marc Bizer From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT> Subject: General inquirer: who knows it? Date: Fri, 07 Jan 94 22:46:41 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 475 (726) I'd like to know if there is any Humanist-er that did ever use the General Inqu irer; if anyone knows of recent works in humanities done with the G.I.; any opi nion about its use in the humanities. Could you be so kind as to CC: your message directly to me? Many many thanks to anyone will help. Maurizio MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT | fax 39-11-899 0458 CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy From: Dan <DANRYAN@YaleVM.CIS.Yale.edu> Subject: StorySpace software or the equivalent Date: Fri, 07 Jan 94 21:13:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 476 (727) Greetings -- Does anyone have any experience with or news about "Storyspace Reader" by Eastgate Systems, Civilized Software? Alternatively, any ideas on Mac software that lets you display several versions of the a work simultaneously so that students can see how an author went through revisions on the way to final product. Thanks, in advance. DanRyan (@yalevm.cis.yale.edu) Consultant for Humanities Computing -- Yale University From: helgeson@clipper.ens.fr (James Helgeson) Subject: Re: 7.0382 Augustine Seminar Begins Jan 10 (1/63) Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 13:35:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 477 (728) To the editors (for posting): Does anyone know of any internet accessible Ficino texts (in Latin)? Any information would be greatly appreciated. J. Helgeson ENS 45, rue d'Ulm 75005 PARIS E-mail: helgeson@clipper.ens.fr From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown) Subject: Historical Maps Date: 10 Jan 94 08:51:53 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 478 (729) I've had a number of inquiries recently from faculty in the history department about the availability of on-line maps for teaching and research. I'd be very grateful if anyone knows of sources of maps for this purpose. These don't have to be gratis; we'd be willing to pay fees for their use. Please send any information directly to me malcolm.brown@dartmouth.edu and I'll summarize the responses back to Humanist. This way will cut down a bit on the volume on Humanist. with many thanks! Malcolm Brown Dartmouth From: mef@netcom.com (Mary Ellen Foley) Subject: OED on CD ROM Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 21:02:06 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 479 (730) somebody asked... [deleted quotation] I got the Compact OED of Modern English on disc as a Christmas gift, with all the HW necessary to use it. On the same disc I got a couple of dictionaries of quotations, a thesaurus, the Bible, a complete Shakespeare, and more. Sounds great, right? Too bad the user interface is so terrible, the stuff is practically useless. In order to look up anything in the dictionary, you have to use about 60 zillion keystrokes, because the information is in a format only readable by stupid book-reading SW from IBM. For example, when you ask it to look up a word, it searches not only the dictionary entries but also all of the text in the whole dictionary (might be a useful feature, if you could also limit the search to dictionary entries). Then it tells you it found the word you're looking for, but you have to go through several keystrokes to get the thing to display what it found. In addition, the preface to one of the dictionaries of quotations says that since we have this great SW for reading books, they haven't included the index! Unfortunately, the searching SW brings up the names of the people who originated the quoted material, but none of the contextual information that is USUALLY found in an index to such a volume. So if you want to know "who said...<something>", you get to look through EVERY entry for "something." So does anybody know whether there is aftermarket SW for reading IBM formatted (ISSC) files? And if I pay the bucks for the whole OED, do I get a decent UI? Thanks, Mary Ellen From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell) Subject: end of an ear Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 15:54:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 480 (731) With thanks to those who replied to my query about how to get data from one huge hard disk to another, the chief useful suggestions are: (1) Use Laplink or something like it; (2) Think about unplugging an old hard disk and putting it in the new machine, even if only temporarily; (3) Integrate what you are doing for backup now with what you will do when the time comes to move on. Reflecting on this I realized that I've reached a watershed. Cleaning off my desk today in a pre-term burst of energy, I saw that since I bought my Kaypro II in February 1983, I've always had a box or more of floppies (and lately a pile of 3.5's) taking up space on my desk. But now they are only backups, and originals of things friends have sent me, and the like, and they can be decently relegated to a file cabinet drawer, giving me back a square foot or two of desktop. And whatever happened to "Elephant" brand diskettes ("They Never Forget")? Forgotten already? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: computerholism? Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 19:57:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 392 (732) Just now I was looking up words in the OED2, and came across the wonderful suffix "-aholic". I offer the following in the spirit of fair use, with thanks to the OED and to the Press that produced it, stirred by the conviction that we who are humanistic computerholics in the northern hemisphere need some homorous self-mockery at the moment. Just look at what company the word puts us in: -aholic .... colloq. (orig. U.S.). Also -(o)holic. The final element of workaholic (after alcoholic n. 2) used as a suffix forming ns., as computerholic, newsaholic, spendaholic, etc., (chiefly humorous nonce-words) denoting one who appears to be addicted to the object, activity, etc., specified; a person subject to an inordinate craving for or obsession with (something). 1965 P. Wyden Overweight Society vi. 106, I was a sugarholic...Mom kept saying, _You eat your spinach and I'll give you a piece of candy.' 1971 Southern Living May 29/1 Donald Goldstein ..probably knows more manufacturers personally than Porter and other club manufacturers. Goldstein, you see, is a 'golfaholic'. 1972 Time 24 July 53/1 Thousands of men were on it consistently enough to be dubbed 'hashaholics' by their buddies. 1973 Times 19 Mar. 7/1 The organization called Weightwatchers describes_its members as carboholics. 1974 Washington Post 2 Dec. a25/1 Until Thanksgiving Day, I had considered myself just another enthusiastic fan of pro football, not an abuser, a footballaholic. 1977 New Scientist 19 May 405 There are clearly more 'computerholics' in Britain than many in the business ever imagined. 1979 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 15/8 All journalists, in some degree, are newsaholics. 1982 Chicago Sun-Times 31 Aug. 37 The guy is a womanizer, a spend-a-holic, uses dope and is strictly no good. 1985 N.Y. Times 13 Jan. 14/5 Barbara Shepherd, owner and manager of Book Tree, ..said she was a 'bookaholic'. WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "Betty McBride" <bmcbride@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> Subject: Advertisement - Brock University, Dean of Humanities Date: Tue, 4 Jan 94 12:00:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 481 (733) ------------------------------ On behalf of Dr. Susan Clark, Vice-President, Academic, I am appending a copy of an advertisement for a Dean of Humanities for Brock University. It would be appreciated if this advertisement could reach multiple recipients of list HUMANIST. I can be reached at bmcbride@spartan.ac.brockU.CA. Telephone 905-688-5550 ext. 4086. Thank you very much for your assistance. Betty McBride, Associate Secretary to the University DEAN, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES BROCK UNIVERSITY invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean, Faculty of Humanities, effective July 1, 1994. The Faculty of Humanities includes some 112 faculty and staff members and the teaching of approximately 1670 full-time equivalent students. The Faculty consists of the following Departments and Programs: Applied Language Studies; Canadian Studies; Classics; English Language and Literature; Film Studies, Dramatic and Visual Arts; French, Italian and Spanish; Germanic and Slavic Studies; History; Liberal Studies; Music; and Philosophy. In addition, the Dean is responsible for The Centre for the Arts. The University seeks an individual with an established record of academic achievement and proven administrative experience to provide leadership in a Faculty where teaching and scholarship are equally valued. The Faculty is one of six Faculties at Brock and part of a university with a total full-time equivalent student enrolment of 8,600 and 830 faculty and staff members. Brock University is committed to the principles of equity in employment and encourages applications from all qualified persons. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. Nominations and/or letters of application to be submitted together with a curriculum vitae and the names of three referees in confidence to: Dr. Susan M. Clark Vice-President, Academic Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 The closing date for the receipt of applications is February 11, 1994. ! From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu> Subject: Position in Speech & Technical Theatre Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 06:13:05 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 482 (734) FACULTY POSITION in SPEECH and TECHNICAL THEATRE Tenure-track faculty position in a small baccalaureate program with Fine Arts Administration and Fine Arts Education majors and Speech/Theatre minor. Teaching includes courses in basic oral communication, public speaking, argumentation and persuasion, stagecraft, and other areas of interest and expertise. Other duties include designing and executing sets and may include assisting with lights, and, possibly, costumes for a major theatre production each semester. Facilities include 700-seat proscenium stage, small arena stage, costume shop, etc. PhD (in speech or in speech/theatre) or MFA (in technical theatre) strongly desired. Located 55 miles NW of Sioux Falls, Dakota State University is a small state-supported school which integrates computer information systems technology in all curricular areas. Consideration of applications will begin February 1, 1994, and continue until the position is filled. Duties begin August 29, 1994. Rank and salary based on qualifications. Send letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts, letters of recommendation, and current phone numbers of at least three references to Eric Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799; FAX: (605) 256-5208; email: JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu. Disabled applicants are invited to identify any accommodations required in the application process. EOE. From: AU100@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Subject: CO.94 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 94 15:30:02 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 394 (735) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * University of Cambridge Centre of Middle Eastern Studies I C E M C O 94 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing (Arabic and Roman Script) London, 7-9 April 1994 Provisional Programme -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (17th December, 1993) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I. List of Contributors, Discussants and Chairmen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Australia --------- Mr Darabi Golshani, A., Edith Cowan University. Bahrain ------- Mr al-A'li, M., University of Bahrain. Mr Girgis, M., University of Bahrain. China, Republic of ---------------------- Prof. Hsu, C., National Chengchi University. Cyprus -------- Mr Ubaidly, U., Dilmun Publishing Ltd. Czech Republic ------------------ Dr Zemnek, P., Charles University. Denmark ---------- Asst. Prof. Wien, C., Odense University. Egypt ------- Mr Emam, A., Alexandria University. Mr Emam, O., IBM Cairo Scientific Center. Dr Goneid, A., American University in Cairo. Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center. Prof. Hegazi, N., Electronics Research Institute. Mr Ismail, M., Alexandria University. Mr Korany, E., Alexandria University. France -------- Meddeb Hamrouni, B., Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatique and WinSoft. Germany ----------- Prof. Lagally, K., Universtt Stuttgart. Dr Wedel, G., Freie Universitt Berlin. Iran ----- Mr Mohadjer, A., Brain Computer Systems Group. Mr Torabi, B., Iran Info-Tech Development. Italy ----- Ms Correale, D., University of Venice. Jordan -------- Dr al-Ajeeli, A., Yarmouk University. Dr Mashhour, A., Yarmouk University. Ms al-Rujoob, K., Yarmouk University. Lebanon ----------- Ms Nassar, H., American University of Beirut. Malaysia ---------- Ms Ahmad, F., University of Agriculture. Dr Yusoff, M., National University of Malaysia. Dr Sembok, T., National University of Malaysia. The Netherlands ------------------- Dr Ditters, E., University of Nijmegen. New Zealand --------------- Mr Dodd, G., Auckland University. Mr Yaghi Hussein, Auckland University. Russia -------- Mr Kondybaev, N., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. Saudi Arabia ---------------- Dr Ahmed, P., King Saud University. Dr Aref, M., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. Mr al-Kulaib, A. Mr Mathkour, H., King Saud University. Mr al-Muhtaseb, H., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. Dr Sharaf Eldin, A., King Saud University. Spain ------- Mr Aedo, I., Universidad Carlos III. Dr Berg, H., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Castaeda, C., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Daz, P., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Fontecha, M., Universidad Carlos III. Dr. Eng. Gonzlez, F., Instituto de Electrnica de Communicaciones. Ms Martnez, M., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Pascual de la Cueva, P., Universidad Carlos III. Dr San Jos, V., Universidad Carlos III. Syria ------- Mr Farah, M., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Gaudic, R., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Malek, M., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Razouk, R., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Tunisia --------- Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Dr Ben Hamadou, A., Facult des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax. Mr Ben Miled, Z, Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Boussetta, S., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Mr Fehri, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Garbout, N., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Ghazali, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Labed, L., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Salhi, R., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Dr Zrigui, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. UK ---- Dr Abdallah, A., Reading University. Mr Bachir, I., al-Hayat Information Centre. Mr Bolton, A., Cambridge University. Prof. Brockett, A., Darlington. Mr Clews, J., John Clews Associates. Mr Crocker, M., University of Edinburgh. Dr Goraine, H., Reading University. Mr al-Jabri, S., University of Edinburgh. Mr Kiraz, G., Cambridge University. Mr Knight, A., Cambridge. Mr Mellish, C., University of Edinburgh. Mr Ponsford, D., Cambridge University Press. Mr Rezaei, S., University of Edinburgh. Mr Rochford, T., Computer Services, Anglia Polytechnic University. Dr Shanley, A., Edinburgh Regional Council Chambers Encyclopaedia. Dr Usher, M, Reading University. USA ------ Abdelazim, H., Apple Computers, Inc. Mr al-Badr, B., University of Washington. Ms Bernstein, D., Army Research Institute. Mr al-Hmedan, A., World Information Services Inc. Dr Hassibi, K., Automatic Document Recognition Group (ADRG) Mitek Systems Inc. Dr Jiyad, M., Mount Holyoke College. Dr al-Khatib, H., Santa Clara University. Mr Martin, J., Army Research Institute. Mr McConnell, J., Apple Computers, Inc. Dr Peeters, J., U.S. Department of Energy. Dr Roochnik, P., Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Dr Saba, M., Key Technology, Inc. Mr Wilson, A., Apple Computers, Inc. II. Provisional List of Papers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1. Archaeology and computing; Islamic architecture ------------------------------------------------------------- * A multimedia archaeological knowledge-based system S, Mr Farah, M., Gaudic, R., Malek, M. and Razouk, R., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Syria. * Puertra: Islamic geometric design S, Dr. Eng. Gonzlez, F., Instituto de Electrnica de Communicaciones, Spain. *** 2. Character recognition of Arabic script ----------------------------------------------- * Character recognition of Arabic script S, Dr al-Khatib, H., Santa Clara University USA, Mr Ismail, M., Mr Korany, E. and Mr Emam, A., Alexandria University, Egypt. * Computer recognition of Arabic script based text: the state of the art S, Dr Ahmed, P. and Mr Mathkour, H., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. * Machine-printed Arabic OCR using neural networks S, Dr Hassibi, K., Mitek Systems Inc., USA. * Maximum entropy approach in automatic classification of symbolic images S, Mr Kondybaev, N., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch, Russia. * A new approach to Arabic character recognition in multi-font document S, Mr Fehri, M. and Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique, Tunisia. * Printed Arabic text recognition S, Dr Goraine, H. and Dr Usher, M., Reading University, UK. * Recognizing Arabic without prior segmentation S, Mr al-Badr, B., University of Washington, USA. 3. Computer based lexicography and machine translation ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Automatic generation of the Arabic theoretical lexicon using morphematic structure combination S, Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Dr Zrigui, M. and Mr Boussetta, S., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique, Tunisia. * Automatic translation of Arabic language to English and vice verse S, Dr Mashhour, Ahmad, Yarmouk University, Jordan. * The basic structure of a formal Arabic-English verbal lexicon S, Dr Ditters, E., University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. * Coreva: an automated method for the assessment of simultaneous translation by signal correlation S, Mr Yaghi, Hussein and Mr Dodd, G., Auckland University, New Zealand. *** * Detection and correction of misspelled isolated words in Arabic language S, Dr Zrigui, M. and Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique, Tunisia. * Logic compression of multi-lingual dictionary S, Meddeb Hamrouni, B., Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatique and WinSoft, France. * Torjomane: an Arabic-to-English computer assisted translation system S, Mr Labed, L., Salhi, R., Garbout, N. and Mr Ghazali, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Information et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. 4. Computing in other Semitic language: Syriac ------------------------------------------------------- * The Arabic-Syriac Lexicon Project-report 1 S, Mr Kiraz, G. and Mr Ponsford, D., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University, UK. * The Syriac Hypertext Project: an electronic encyclopaedia on Syriac studies S, Mr Bolton, Anthony, and Mr Kiraz, G., Cambridge University, UK. 5. Computing in Malay, Persian and Urdu ------------------------------------------------------- 5.1 Malay ------------ * Characterization of an experimental collection S, Ms Ahmad, F., University of Agriculture, Dr Sembok, T. and Dr Yusoff, M., National University of Malaysia, Malaysia. * A Malay stemming algorithm for retrieval system S, Dr Sembok, T., Dr Yusoff, M., National University of Malaysia and Ms Ahmad, F., University of Agriculture, Malaysia. 5.2 Persian -------------- * Farsi computing in UNIX environment S, Mr Torabi, B., Iran Info-Tech Development, Iran. * Parsing a free word order language: Persian S, Mr Rezaei, S. and Mr Crocker, M., University of Edinburgh, UK. * Some support programs applied in the Lirica Persica research project S, Ms Correale, D., Italy. 5.3 Urdu ----------- * Using Urdu page layout. Programmes for community development S, Mr Knight, A., UK. 6. Editing Arabic manuscripts using computers -------------------------------------------------------- * A computer-assisted Arabic poetry prosody S, Dr SharafJEldin, A., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. * Computerized critical editions of medieval Arabic manuscripts. Requests for high standard features in software applications S, Dr. Wedel, G., Freie Universitt, Berlin, Germany. 7. Multi-lingual computers for the handicapped ------------------------------------------------------- * Arabic computer-based assistant systems for handicapped S, Mr Emam, O. and Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center, Egypt. 8. Multi-lingual data bases ------------------------------- * Arabic books in the Danish research library system S, Asst. Prof. Wien, C., Odense University, Denmark. * Exchanging scientific information with the United States S, Dr. Peeters, J., Department of Energy, USA. *** * Multi-lingual (Arabic & Roman) strategies for checking Arabic name data bases S, Dr Roochnik, P., Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA. *RThe use of computer to format and produce printed Arabic indexes for daily newspapers S, Mr Bachir, I., al-Hayat Information Centre, Kensington Centre, UK. 9. Multi-lingual software industry ----------------------------------------- * Arabization: actual and objectives S, Mr al-ATali, M., and Mr Girgis, M., University of Bahrain, Bahrain. * Connectivity between Arabic systems: a case study in reference to the Chinese systemsS. Prof. Hsu, H., National Chengchi University, Republic of China. * RThe development of Arabic support on the Macintosh S, Mr Abdelazim, H., Mr McConnell, J. and Mr Wilson, A., Apple Computers, Inc., USA. * The encoding of non-Latin texts under MS-DOS S, Zemnek, P., Charles University, Czech Republic. * Generating Arabic words from semantic description S, Mr al-Jabri, S. K. and Mr Mellish, C., University of Edinburgh, UK. *** * The IRSIT Arabic text-to-speech synthesis system S, Mr Ghazali, S., Mr Ben Miled, Z., Dr Zrigui, M. and Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. * KHOOL: Khabeer object orientated language S, Mr al-Muhtaseb, H., Dr Aref, M. and Mr al-Kulaib, A., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. * Pan-Arabic script computing: implication for creating systems, fonts, printing and data base applications S, Mr Clews, J., John Clews Associates, UK. * A proposal for an Arabic standard code for information interchange S, Dr Saba, M., Key Technology, Inc., USA. * Some problems in Arabizing LATEX S, Prof. Lagally, K., Universtt Stuttgart, Germany. * The Unicode character encoding standard: support for Persian and Arabic scripts S, MrJMohadjer, A., Brain Computer Systems Group, Iran. * User's evaluation of MS Word for Windows with Arabic support S, Mr Ubaidly, U., Dilmun Publishing Ltd, Cyprus. *** 10. Notation of Oriental music on computers ----------------------------------------------------- * Escala: automatic measurement of Oriental scales S, Dr. Eng. Gonzlez, F., Instituto de Electrnica de Communicaciones, Spain. 11. Teaching of languages by computer ----------------------------------------------- * A computer assisted language learning programme used at a Spanish university S, Dr San Jos, V., DrJBerg, H., Ms Castaeda, C., Ms Fontecha, M., Ms Martnez, M., Ms Pascual de la Cueva, P., MrJAedo, I. and Ms Daz, P., Universidad Carlos III, Spain. * A computer-based tutoring system for modern standard Arabic S, Mr Martin, J. and Ms Bernstein, D., Army Research Institute, USA. * An intelligent teaching system of Arabic language S, Dr al-Ajeeli, A. and Ms al-Rujoob, K., Yarmouk University, Jordan. * An overview of the application of multi-media computer based training for Arabic and Persian speakers S, Mr Darabi Golshani, A., Edith Cowan University, Australia. * Technology, proficiency and the integrative culture - learning process S, Dr Jiyad, M., Mount Holyoke College, USA. *** Papers for publications in the Proceedings _____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ ... like to participate as a discussant? ___________ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you think you would like to be a discussant of any paper from the following, please let us know so as to send you a copy of the paper in full. There will be one or two discussants who will prepare a commentary on a paper in advance. The time for each discussant will be 2-5 minutes for each with maximum of two discussants leaving a minimum of 5 minutes for questions from the floor. Discussants are encouraged to present their commentary on a camera-ready copy. Please use the form appended below for applications. ------------------------------ cut here -------------------------------- I C E M C O 94 To: Dr Ahmad Ubaydli (ICEMCO 94, Convenor) Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK Telephone: +44 (223) 334749/335106 F a x: +44 (223) 335110, Telex: 81240 CAMSPL G Email: AU100@UK.AC.CAM.PHX [JANET] AU100@PHX.CAM.AC.UK [EARN/BITNET] * I wish to attend ICEMCO 94; send me a Registration Form: Yes [ ] No [ ] * I wish to contribute a paper entitled: Yes [ ] No [ ] related to the following theme no. (see list of themes): PLEASE ENCLOSE A 100-WORD ABSTRACT Deadline for camera-ready copy: 17th December 1993 * I wish to act as a discussant on papers related to the following theme/themes no. * I wish to participate in the Exhibition Yes [ ] No [ ] Surname: other names: Title and affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail address(es): From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press) Subject: Directory of Internet Trainers and Consultants Date: Sun, 9 Jan 94 19:03:47 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 395 (736) Now available on the Internet: DIRECTORY OF INTERNET TRAINERS AND CONSULTANTS A free Internet publication from the editors of The Internet Business Journal January 1994 -- Version 1.0 Compiled by Lindsay Fraser-Fazakas This document may be archived on any freely-accessible file server, so long as no fee is charged to the user. Available by GOPHER to gopher.fonorola.net Select Internet Business Journal/ Directory_of_Trainers_and_Consultants or by e-mail request to mstrange@fonorola.net Request the file Trainers Directory. HOW TO SUBMIT AN ENTRY: If you or your company would like to have your training and/or consulting services listed in the Directory of Internet Trainers and Consultants please send the relevant information by e-mail to mstrange@fonorola.net. There is no charge for submiting an entry. When compiling the information please adhere to the following format: Company Name Individual to contact and position of said individual e-mail address full postal address telephone and fax number Short description, not to exceed seven lines, of the services provided. Submit new entries or changes to: STRANGELOVE INTERNET ENTERPRISES, Inc. Lindsay Fraser-Fazakas, Training Director (mstrange@fonorola.net) 208 Somerset Street East, Suite A, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6V2 Tel: 613-565-0982 Strangelove Internet Enterprises, publishers of THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL, offers a wide variety of Internet training programs. Seminars, hands-on training sessions, and advanced resource discovery classes are offered for individuals and groups either at the client's site or on SIE premises. Introductory courses, as well as advanced level courses, are available and all are tailored to meet the specific needs of the client. In addition Strangelove Internet Enterprises is offering, in conjunction with the Toronto School of Business, a two-week course entitled "Business and the Internet". Strangelove Internet Enterprises also consults for the publishing industry and provides advertising consultancy to companies who wish to market their products and services on the Internet. For a free sample copy of THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL, contact Mstrange@Fonorola.Net A PostScript sample copy is available by FTP to nstn.ns.ca in the directory /Internet Business Journal/ (December 1993). From: "C.M.Woolgar" <C.M.Woolgar@soton.ac.uk> Subject: Hartley Institute, University of Southampton, UK Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 12:06:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 396 (737) Applications are invited from established scholars in any field of the humantities and social sciences for one senior fellowship and not more than two junior fellowships for programmes of research focused on the collections of the Hartley Library. The holdings include the Wellington, Palmerston and Mountbatten papers, the Parkes Library (relations between the Jewish and other peoples, Anglo-Jewish arcive material) and extensive British official publications. Fellowships will be available for periods of between 3 and 6 months and will attract subventions at the rate of 1000 pounds [sterling] per month for the senior position and 800 pounds per month for the junior. They will be available from and after 1 October 1994. Intending applicants are invited to write for further particulars. Applications should be addressed to teh University Librarian, Hartley Library, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO9 5NH, United Kingdom, to be received by 14 March 1994. Informal enquiries may be made to Dr C.M.Woolgar (tel.: (+44) 0703 593724; fax: (+44) 0703 593007; or e-mail to C.M.Woolgar@soton.ac.uk). Working for equal opportunities < From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown) Subject: "Advertising is here to stay"?!!? Date: 11 Jan 94 08:38:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 397 (738) Anyone else bothered by the posting of the "internet business journal"? As Humanist fallen to this? First, it's a bad sign when the sender is an organization, in this case, "mstrange@fonorola.net (Strangelove Press)". I think the posting's ostensible discussion of "how to advertise" on the internet is merely a smokescreen for their advertising their own undertaking. Second, I really don't see how their discussion is relevant to the Humanist list. Third, the positing is alive with propositions that are simply silly. They seem to think that advertising can escape being junk mail, that if it's "clever and creative" it's somehow OK and elevates it above mere junk mail. Junk mail is in the eye of the receiver! Anything arriving unsolicited is junk; I receive electronic mailings that, while not advertising, are, in my opinion, so devoid of worthwhile content that they fall into my category of junk mail. If anyone compares this posting with Willard's recent note on Moses, then I think you'll see a dramatic contrast. One is junk, the other isn't. I'm annoyed. Grrrr. Malcolm From: Brett Sutton <sutton@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> Subject: Conference Announcement: Electronic Texts Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 14:46:40 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 398 (739) [Posted to multiple lists--Please forgive any duplication.] Conference Announcement LITERARY TEXTS IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: SCHOLARLY IMPLICATIONS AND LIBRARY SERVICES 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing April 10-12, 1994 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Electronic technologies are not replacing the book so much as they are changing its form and its role in scholarship. Rising interest in electronic texts is evident in the development of new computational approaches to the study of literature, the appearance of electronic text centers on university campuses, and an expanding publishing industry in electronic books. This conference will examine the role of electronic texts in the humanities and the implications of these technologies for libraries. Conference speakers will discuss this latest development in the human pursuit of the literary arts from a variety of perspectives, including the production and acquisition of electronic texts, strategies for storage and dissemination, software for the retrieval and analysis of electronic texts, problems of bibliographic control and intellectual property, and publishing trends. Offered in conjunction with the conference is an optional preconference workshop in the practical use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in the organization of electronic texts for interchange and research. Conducting the workshop will be C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, an editor of the recently released Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange, a text- representation standard based on SGML syntax. Who should attend: This conference will be of interest to librarians, academic computing staff, publishers and distributors of electronic texts, and humanities scholars interested in the possibilities of electronic texts. PROGRAM SUNDAY, APRIL 10 11am-5pm Registration 1-4:30pm Preconference Workshop on using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Editor, Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago 5-6:30pm Reception 6:30-7:30pm Dinner 8pm Keynote Address (Lincoln Hall Theater) AUTHORS AND READERS IN AN AGE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS Jay David Bolter Professor School of Literature, Communication, & Culture Georgia Institute of Technology MONDAY, APRIL 11 8-9:30am ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES: A COMING OF AGE Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Rutgers and Princeton Universities THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE: ELECTRONIC TEXT MARKUP FOR RESEARCH C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Editor, Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago 9:30-10am Break 10-11:30am ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND MULTIMEDIA IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: A VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINE Anita Lowry Head, Information Arcade, Main Library University of Iowa HUMANIZING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ELECTRONIC TEXT PROCESSING Mark Tyler Day Associate Librarian Indiana University 11:30am-1pm Lunch (on your own) 1-2:30pm COHABITING WITH COPYRIGHT IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT Mary Brandt Jensen Director, Law Library Professor, School of Law University of South Dakota STANDARDS, INTERCONNECTIONS, AND THE NONPROFIT DOMAINS Michael Jensen Electronic Media Manager University of Nebraska Press 3-5pm Software Demonstrations 5-7pm Dinner (on your own) 7-9pm Software Demonstrations Tuesday, April 12 8-9:30am THE FEASIBILITY OF WIDE-AREA TEXTUAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS IN LIBRARIES: A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS John Price-Wilkin Information Management Coordinator Alderman Library, University of Virginia THE SCHOLAR AND HIS LIBRARY IN THE COMPUTER AGE James W. Marchand Professor Department of Germanic Languages and Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9:30-10am Break 10-11:30am THE CHALLENGES OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE LIBRARY: BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND ACCESS Rebecca Guenther Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress PROJECT GUTENBERG: TRYING TO GIVE AWAY A TRILLION ETEXTS BY THE END OF 2001 Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College 11:30am-1pm Lunch (on your own) 1-2:30pm DURKHEIM'S IMPERATIVE: THE ROLE OF HUMANITIES FACULTY IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES REVOLUTION Robert A. Jones Professor, Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign THE MATERIALITY OF THE BOOK: ANOTHER TURN OF THE SCREW Terry Belanger University Professor, University of Virginia GENERAL INFORMATION Location: Except as noted, all conference events will take place in the Illini Union on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois. Registration and Fees: The fee for the conference is $340 ($380 after March 11, 1994), which includes the Sunday night dinner, refreshments, and a copy of the Clinic proceedings. Registration for the optional SGML workshop is $40. Registration is limited, and early registration is recommended. A limited number of reduced-fee registrations are available for those who might otherwise be unable to attend; for consideration, submit a written request by March 11, 1994. Transportation: Champaign-Urbana is served by TWA, Midway Express, American Eagle, and Northwest Commuter. AMTRAK service is available from Chicago and points south. Champaign is located 135 miles south of Chicago on Interstate routes 72, 74, and 57. Accommodations: Rooms have been allocated for participants at the hotels listed below. Participants must make their own reservations, and should do so before March 9, 1994. Please indicate that you are attending the library data processing conference. Illini Union University Inn 1401 W. Green St. 302 E. John St. Urbana, IL 61801 Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-1241 (217) 352-8132 Single: $54 + tax Single: $54 + tax Double: $62 + tax Double: $61 + tax Continuing Education Units: Participants will earn 1.1 CEU for attending this meeting. Refunds: Refunds will be made if you find that you cannot attend and you notify us in writing by March 16, 1994. You must cancel your own hotel reservations. IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CLINIC, PLEASE CALL (800) 982-0914 OR (217) 333-2973, OR SEND YOUR QUESTION VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL TO DPC@ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU. --------------REGISTRATION FORM------CUT HERE-------------------- Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing April 10-12, 1994 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Registration Form Name ____________________________________________________________ Title____________________________________________________________ Organization Name________________________________________________ Business Address_________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Phone Number (___)_______________________________________________ Email address____________________________________________________ Registration Fees: $340 ($380 after March 11) ________ $40 SGML workshop ________ TOTAL FEES ________ Method of Payment: __Check enclosed (make payable to GSLIS/University of Illinois) __Charge to credit card __Visa __MasterCard Card #___________________________Exp. date_______ Signature________________________________________ Any special needs (access, meals, etc.)?_________________________ _________________________________________________________________ If there are issues you are especially interested in, or if you have particular questions about the topics that will be addressed at this conference, please write them below. We will pass them along to the speakers. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ You may register by mail by sending this form to the address below, by phone (217-333-2973 or 800-982-0914), by fax (217-244-3302), or by electronic mail (dpc@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science Building 501 E. Daniel St. Champaign, Illinois 61820-6212 From: "Stefan Werner, kielitiede, p. 4334" <WERNER@FINUJO> Subject: Language Diversity Summer School announcement Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 12:37 O X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 399 (740) The First Scandinavian Summer School On Language Diversity: A Postgraduate Course in Contact, Typological and Areal Linguistics University of Joensuu, Finland June 13-20, 1994 THE FIRST SCANDINAVIAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE DIVERSITY University of Joensuu, June 13-20, 1994 1. General Description The Language Departments of the University of Joensuu are pleased to announce that The First Scandinavian Summer School on Language Diversity will be held in Joensuu on June 13-20, 1994. The program of the School will consist of intensive eight-hour lectures given by four major authorities in contact, typological and areal linguistics (see below). Moreover, the lectures will be accompanied by workshops tailored to the needs of the participants. These workshops will be chaired by the invited lecturers. The coursework will begin on Monday morning (June 13) and run until Friday afternoon (June 17). The official language of the School will be English. The Summer School is geared towards post-graduate students working on the topics of the School as well as junior and senior researchers interested in the latest developments in contact linguistics, typology and areal linguistics. Owing to the nature of the School, the organizers are compelled to limit the number of participants to 30. Preference will be given to participants who best indicate how the School will facilitate their work or studies. A brief (one A4 page) description of the studies/work will be required in order to check for this criterion (see Registration Form, below), as well as to inform the lecturers about the background and aims of the participants. 2. Lecturers and Their Topics Professor Osten DAHL (Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm): Grammaticalization, Typology and Areal Linguistics Professor Johanna NICHOLS (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley): Structural Implications of Linguistic Diversity Professor Sarah G. THOMASON (Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh): Contact-induced Language Change Professor Kalevi WIIK (Department of Finnish and General Linguistics, University of Turku): Language Contacts and Language Change in the Finno-Ugrian Area It is expected that the lecturers will provide us with lists of required pre- Summer School readings. In case of journal articles and other brief texts, the organizers will do their best to copy each text and send them to all registered participants in early April (see section 5, below). 3. Participant Fee, Travel and Accommodation The participant fee will be a modest 400 Finnmarks, FIM (an equivalent of c. 580 Swedish Crowns), which is to be pre-paid to the Summer School account by March 15, 1994. The School account is: "Language Diversity", Foreningsbanken, account number 201618-123610. This fee may be waived for students from the Baltic countries and Russia. The participants who wish to apply for this waiver should contact the organizers by March 1 (see Registration Form below). All participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation arrangements and expenses. As the Finnish Mark is relatively low in value at present, these expenses are expected to be rather moderate. At the beginning of 1994 a return train ticket from Helsinki costs 362 FIM and a return flight ticket from Helsinki costs 580 FIM, which requires a minimum of seven-day prepurchase with a Saturday-Sunday stopover in Joensuu, otherwise a regular flight ticket would cost 1140 FIM. The organizers will negotiate for accommodation packages with local hotels, summer hotels and hostels and will send the registrants more specific information on these with the Second Information Package (see below). 4. Post Summer School Field Trip to Russia (Saturday June 18-Monday June 20) The Summer School will end in an optional three-day field trip to Karelian villages in near-by Russian Karelia. The trip will be guided by Joensuu linguists and the means of transport will be comfortable Finnish buses. This tour will only be arranged on the proviso that a sufficient number of participants will register for it (for details, see the Second Information Package). 5. Second Information Package Those who have sent in their registration forms (see below, either by hard copy, fax or e-mail) by March 1 1994 and have paid the fee by March 15 will receive from us the Second Information Package in early April. That package will contain: (a) information on and/or required pre-School readings, (b) an hour-by-hour timetable of the School, (c) more specific information on travel (within, as well as to and from, Finland) and accommodation (e.g. hotel listings with phone/fax numbers), and (d) final plans for the Russian tour (including a detailed timetable and tour charge information). 6. Further Information If you would like to know more about the School before you register, do not hesitate to contact the organizers at: Language Diversity (Attn: Jussi Niemi) General Linguistics University of Joensuu, FIN 80101 Joensuu, Finland phone: +358-73-151 4306 fax: +358-73-151 4211 em: niemi@joyl.joensuu.fi _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M Registration to The First Scandinavian Summer School on Language Diversity, Joensuu, June 13-20, 1994 Send by March 1 to: Language Diversity (Attn: Jussi Niemi) General Linguistics University of Joensuu, FIN 80101 Joensuu, Finland Name: _________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ Phone: ________________________ Fax: __________________________________ E-mail: _____________________@__________________________ Affiliation/Student at: _________________________________________________________ Please attach a one-page description of the type of studies and/or work, where you indicate the usefulness of the School for your needs. CHECKLIST ___ I have paid the participant fee to the School account. ___ I will pay the fee to the School account by March 15. ___ I have enclosed a one-page description of my studies/work. ___ I would like to participate in the field-trip to Russia. ___ I am applying for a fee waiver. From: Francisco Marcos Marin <MARCOS@vm1.sdi.uam.es> Subject: ADMYTE. The Digital Archive of Spanish Manuscripts and Texts Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 14:47:04 HOE X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 400 (741) MICRONET published in 1992 ADMYTE-I, a CD-ROM containing 61 fasimiles, accompanied by their respective ASCII transcription, a formal dictionary for text retrieval and other tools. ADMYTE-0 has just been published. This new CD-ROM contains 64 ASCII texts (transcribed according to the standard of the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Madison, Wisconsin), tools for information retrieval, and three additional packages: Philobiblon is a utility for bibliographical databases. Databases included are BOOST (Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts), BOPT (B.O. Portuguese T.) BOCT (B.O.Catalan T.). BOOST has been printed repeatedly, the electronic version constitutes a most valuable tool for archivists, documentalists, librarians and scholars in the fields of Bibliography, Documentation and Spanish. TACT is included in its special HSMS2TDB version, which allows the processing of text coded following the norms of Madison (the current standard for Old Spanish). TDB generated by HSMS2TDB are compatible with TACT2.1gamma, that is being distributed these days. UNITE is a package for critical editing of texts in verse (automatic and interactive collatio and recensio). [deleted quotation] literature is been offered in electronic form combining full facsimiles and full transcriptions with tools for text retrieval, printing or copying to ASCII files. For information and orders, write to MICRONET Maria Tubau 7. Edificio Auge III E-28050 Madrid SPAIN fax: (34-1) 358 9544 FRANCISCO A. MARCOS MARIN Ap. 46348 E-28080 Madrid, Spain PHONE: (34-1) 397 4529 / 4109 / 5250 FAX: (34-1) 535 2463 ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL: MARCOS@CCUAM3.UAM.ES From: Michael Hall <NEHFELL@gwuvm.gwu.edu> Subject: NEH deadlines for Gopher Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:05:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 401 (742) To: Jim O'Donnell <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> NEH DEADLINES ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Below is a full list of application deadlines for NEH programs, plus contact numbers for individual programs. All telephone numbers are in area code 202. To receive guidelines for any NEH program, contact the Office of Publications and Public Affairs at (202) 606-8438. Guidelines are normally available at least two months in advance of application deadlines. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS James C. Herbert, Director (606-8373) PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Higher Education in the Humanities (Lyn Maxwell White; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994 + Institutes for College & University Faculty (Barbara Ashbrook; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 Summer 1995 + Science & Humanities Education (Susan Greenstein; 606-8380) 15 March 1994 October 1994 + Core Curriculum Projects (Fred Winter; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994 + Two-Year Colleges (Judith Jeffrey Howard; 606-8380) 1 April 1994 October 1994 + Challenge Grants (Thomas Adams; 606-8380) 1 May 1994 December 1994 Elementary & Secondary Education in the Humanities (F. Bruce Robinson; 606-8377) 15 March 1994 December 1994 + Teacher-Scholar Program (Annette Palmer; 606-8377) 1 May 1994 September 1995 Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education + Higher Education (Lyn Maxwell White; 606-8380) 15 March 1994 October 1994 + Elementary & Secondary Education (F. Bruce Robinson; 606-8377) 15 March 1994 October 1994 DIVISION OF FELLOWSHIPS & SEMINARS Marjorie A. Berlincourt, Director (606-8458) PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Fellowships for University Teachers (Maben D. Herring; 606-8466) 1 May 1994 1 January 1995 Fellowships for College Teachers & Independent Scholars (Joseph B. Neville; 606-8466) 1 May 1994 1 January 1995 Summer Stipends (Thomas O'Brien; 606-8466) 1 October 1994 1 May 1995 Faculty Graduate Study Program for HBCUs (Maben D. Herring; 606-8466) 15 March 1994 1 September 1995 Younger Scholars Program (Leon Bramson; 606-8463) 1 November 1994 1 May 1995 Dissertation Grants (Kathleen Mitchell; 606-8463) 15 November 1994 1 September 1995 Study Grants for College & University Teachers (Clayton Lewis; 606-8463) 15 August 1994 1 May 1995 Summer Seminars for College Teachers (Joel Schwartz; 606-8463) + Participants 1 March 1994 Summer 1994 + Directors 1 March 1994 Summer 1995 Summer Seminars for School Teachers (Michael Hall; 606-8463) + Participants 1 March 1994 Summer 1994 + Directors 1 April 1994 Summer 1995 DIVISION OF PRESERVATION & ACCESS George F. Farr, Jr., Director (606-8570) PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Library & Archival Research Projects (Vanessa Piala/Charles Kolb; 606-8570) 1 June 1994 January 1995 Library & Archival Preservation/Access Projects (Karen Jefferson/Barbara Paulson; 606-8570) 1 June 1994 January 1995 National Heritage Preservation Program (Richard Rose/Laura Word; 606-8570) 1 November 1994 July 1995 U. S. Newspaper Program (Jeffrey Field; 606-8570) 1 June 1994 July 1995 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS Marsha Semmel, Acting Director (606-8267) PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Humanities Projects in Media (James Dougherty; 606-8278) 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Humanities Projects in Museums & Historical Organizations (Fredric Miller; 606-8284) 3 June 1994 1 January 1995 Public Humanities Projects (Wilsonia Cherry; 606-8271) 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Humanities Projects in Libraries (Thomas Phelps; 606-8271) + Planning 4 February 1994 1 July 1994 + Implementation 11 March 1994 1 October 1994 Challenge Grants (Abbie Cutter; 606-8361) 1 May 1994 December 1994 DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS Guinevere L. Griest, Director (606-8200) PROGRAM / CONTACT DEADLINE PROJECTS BEGINNING Scholarly Publications (Margot Backas; 606-8207) + Editions (Douglas Arnold; 606-8207) 1 June 1994 1 April 1995 + Translations (Helen Aguerra; 606-8207) 1 June 1994 1 April 1995 + Subventions (606-8207) 15 March 1994 1 October 1994 Reference Materials (Jane Rosenberg; 606-8358) + Tools (Martha B. Chomiak; 606-8358) 1 September 1994 1 July 1995 + Guides (Michael Poliakoff; 606-8358) 1 September 1994 1 July 1995 Challenge Grants (Bonnie Gould; 606-8358) 1 May 1994 December 1994 Interpretive Research Programs (George Lucas; 606-8210) + Collaborative Projects (Donald C. Mell; 606-8210) 15 October 1994 1 July 1995 + Archaeology Projects (Bonnie Magness-Gardiner; 606-8210) 15 October 1994 1 April 1995 + Humanities, Science, and Technology (Daniel Jones; 606-8210) 15 October 1994 1 July 1995 + Conferences (David Coder; 606-8210) 15 January 1994 1 October 1994 Centers & International Research Organizations (Christine Kalke; 606-8210) + Centers for Advanced Study 1 October 1994 1 July 1995 + International Research 1 April 1994 1 January 1995 DIVISION OF STATE PROGRAMS Carole Watson, Director (606-8254) Each state humanities council establishes its own grant guidelines and application deadlines. Addresses and telephone numbers of these state programs may be obtained from the NEH Division of State Programs. CHALLENGE GRANTS PROGRAM Applications are submitted through the Divisions of Education, Research, and Public Programs. Deadline is 1 May 1994 for projects beginning December 1994. From: "Phyllis Wright" <pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> Subject: LITERARY JOURNAL Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 06:57:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 483 (743) Dear Humanists: The University of California at Riverside publishes a literary journal edited by Professor Stanley Stewart. It is a fairly new journal. Can someone provide me with the exact title? Many thanks for your help. Phyllis Phyllis M. Wright (416)688-5550, ext. 3961 Supervisor, Interlibrary Loans/Document Delivery Brock University Library pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 From: BushC@BYUVAX.BITNET (Chuck Bush) Subject: "Time flies like an arrow" Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 13:20:13 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 484 (744) I received the following note from a colleague. Though I certainly remember the famous sentence (who doesn't?), I don't remember the poem. Can any of you help us? [deleted quotation]---------- Charles D. Bush EMail: BushC@Yvax.BYU.EDU Humanities Research Center HRCChuck@BYUVM.BITNET 3060 JKHB Brigham Young University Phone: 801-378-7439 Provo, Utah 84602 Fax: 801-378-4649 From: Jean Alexander <ALEXANDE@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU> Subject: interdisciplinarity Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 14:28:25 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 403 (745) For a research project on interdisciplinarity in the humanities, I would be gratefrul for responses to these questions. Has the increasing use of electronic communication affected the boundaries of your discipline? Specifically: --Has technology led to increased interdisciplinarity? --Do you communicate or collaborate electronically with scholars in other disciplines? --Have you used bibliographic or full-text electronic resources that are interdisciplinary or non-disciplinary? Please send responses to the address below. Thank you. Jean Alexander, Northwestern University Library, 1935 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208. e-mail: jalexander@nwu.edu fax: (708)491-8306 telephone: (708) 491-2998 From: AHARRIS - Alan Harris <VCSPC005@VAX.CSUN.EDU> Subject: RE: 7.0387 Rs: Moses (5/116) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 6:47:02 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 485 (746) what a wonderful bit of folk etymology, Dr. Glenda Carl has given us! I would assume that this belief about Moses's horns being related to a perception of Jews as devils in the Middle Ages is not original with her. Where did it come from? where is it prevalent? Joshua Trachtenberg would have loved it! a. Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. telno: off: Professor, Communication/Linguistics 818-885-2853/2874 Speech Communication Department hm: California State University, Northridge 818-780-8872 SPCH CSUN fax: 818-885-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 Internet: AHARRIS@VAX.CSUN.EDU From: <BCJ@PSUVM> Subject: Re: 7.0387 Rs: Moses (5/116) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 10:42 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 486 (747) This topic was covered in _The Horn and the Sword_ -- but, to my chagrin, I can't remember who wrote it, or anything else about it, except that I read it many years ago and I lost the book... Kevin Berland From: rob@PSULIAS.BITNET (Roger Brisson) Subject: German to English translations Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:21:07 +0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 487 (748) [I hope this is the correct address for contributions for distribution...] Topic: German to English translations I have found the 'Language Assistant' translators by MicroTac Software surprisingly helpful. I have used the 'French Assistant' for the past couple of years now. I have been impressed by the polished user-interface of the product, and by a number of its features. I know there is a German and an Italian version, and I believe it is also available in Spanish. MicroTac support has been very good, and they have offered regular upgrades at a fair price. This has included a continual increase in the size of the working vocabulary- I believe that it is now well over 100,000 words. They have recently made a Windows version available, though I have yet to test its features. In order to use the software, a rudimentary knowledge of the language is necessary, for Language Assistant makes liberal use of dialog boxes for deciding on the proper vocabulary selections. Correct grammar is for the most also a manual operation, though the software provides utilities for working out reasonable choices. The translations produced are strictly working texts that allow one to ferret out the meaning; they will not win awards for composition (and are not meant to do so). I also find Microtac's pricing very fair, as Language Assistant can be purchased for around $60 (the last time I checked). In re-reading this I realize that it sounds awfully like a (commercial) pitch for MicroTac, but I have nothing to do with the software company and am simply pleased with their product. Roger Brisson Penn State University rob@psulias.psu.edu From: TFGREEN@SUVM Subject: Moses et Horns Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 14:02:06 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 488 (749) The author of Deuteronomy comments that at death "his eye was not dimmed, nor his natural force abated" (34:7). This "natural force" (Heb. lecha, moisture, freshness) is in its adjectival form used of trees (Gen 30:37; Ezek 17:24; 20:47), fruit (Num 6:3), and animal tendons (Judg 16:7-8). For the meaning of this 'greenness' or 'moisture,' see Onians, <t>The Origins of European Thought</t> 272-4, 287-91, etc. William Foxwell Albright points out that the cognate of lecha in Ugaritic means "life-force," as in the epic of Dan'el ("The 'Natural Force of Moses' in the Light of Ugaritic", <t>Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research</t>, 94 (1944): 32-5. It might be argued, then, that at the climax of his Wilderness journey Moses, having metaphorically taken possession of the Promised Land, suddenly dies full of that form of life-energy most characteristic of the upper or paradisal level of existence. ================================================================ ================================================================ Am I wrong in supposing that this reference to Moses' condition at the end of his life could be rendered more simply and with no loss of accuracy, by observing that to the end he was of sound mind and a success in bed? -- A rendering, by the way, so at odds with the general impression of the Biblical texts that my Methodist teachers had sought to convey to me in my youth, that it stirred a life-long love of ancient texts and a distrust of my teachers. I was determined to find there much of what I believed (profoundly stated), and very little of what I was told. ================================================================ ================================================================ What does all this have to do with humanities computing? Allow me to play devil's advocate with a former self. Such an exchange might be more appropriate to another group, but would it ever take place anywhere else than in this electronic piazza? ============================================================== ============================================================== In keeping with Willard's entry, I should acknowledge that this intervention of my own is relevant to nothing in particular having to do with humanities computing except that it voices modestly, my gratitude for this "electronic piazza" in which such irrelevancies appear and thus enliven my own life in dozens of ways. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + THOMAS F. GREEN (TFGREEN@mailbox.syr.edu) + + EMERITUS SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY + + PHILOSOPHER IN RESIDENCE ON POMPEY HILL + + Box 100 Pompey, NY 13138 (315) 677-9935 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET> Subject: Re: End of an Era (2/70) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 14:08:05 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 489 (750) [deleted quotation] Jim O'Donnell is, I'm sure, too wise and experienced in the ways of the computer not to know this, but the phrase "only backups" rang warning bells for me, since I have just been through two successive hard disk crashes. "Only backups" or not, don't file those floppies so far away that (like me) you decide it is too much trouble to back up every single thing you work on every day. Making backups and duplicates may be tedious, but it is absolutely necessary. Glenn Everett English Department University of Tennessee at Martin ivaa@utmartn.bitnet From: "Filip J.R.C. Dochy" <OICFDO@OUH.NL> Subject: Int. Electronic Conference on A&E Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 10:34 +0000 (N) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 405 (751) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% First Announcement International Electronic Conference ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::Call for participation and for chairpersons :::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1st EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS ********************************************************************** EARLI European Association for Research into Learning and Instruction SIG Assessment & Evaluation ********************************************************************** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * EARLI-AE LIST February 21-22-23 1994 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ********************************************************************** If you want to attend the conference, print this file. Organizing committee and program board -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dr. Gudrun Balke, Department of Educational Research & Development, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Dr. Richard Shavelson, School of Education, University of California, USA Dr. David Nevo, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dr. Filip Dochy, Centre for Educational Technology and Innovation, University of Heerlen, The Netherlands EC Management and Secretary of the EECAE Drs. George Moerkerke Dr. Filip Dochy Centre for Educational Technology and Innovation, Heerlen, The Netherlands The E.E.C.A.E. is a world-wide, distributed, electronic conference focused on issues of importance to assessment and evaluation related to learning and instruction. Conference Procedure The conference will last for 3 days. Participants should schedule during these days two or three different moments each day for active participation. For example each day between 9 am and 10 am and between 4 pm and 5 pm you can attend the conference interactively. The conference will be running along the EARLI-AE list. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% If you want to attend the conference, you should send the message Subscribe EARLI-AE yourfirstname yourlastname to the listserv management (listserv@nic.surfnet.nl) or (listsrv@hearn.bitnet)) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If you are a member of the list and you do not want to attend the conference then send the message set EARLI-AE nomail to the listserv management on Februari 18 1994 and send the message set EARLI-AE mail to the same address on Februari 24 1994 for receiving the normal list postings again. One week before the conference you will receive the abstracts and papers of the three invited addresses. In this way, each discussion will be introduced by an internationally known 'first speaker'. Anyone can act as a 'second speaker' before the conference. The conference will be discussing three discussion group topics. The board will select the topics. Any list member is asked to send in topics and one screen abstracts to be proposed as conference topic. Suggestions for invited addresses on the given topic are welcome (if including the Email address). During the conference all messages will go over the same EARLI-AE list. However, each topic will get its own subject line. In this way anyone will be able to take part in one, two or three discussions by reading the mail with the corresponding subject lines. For example PREFASS for perfomance assessment. Two chairpersons for each topic discussion group will moderate when necessary. They will be on line during the whole conference. One will be from the American continent, the other one from the European continent in order to be able to moderate across time differences. CONFERENCE RATE As there are no costs for becoming an EARLI-AE member, there will be no cost for participation other then that for normal access to any of the distribution networks. There is no formal registration process, other than keeping your list on the 'mail' mode. PUBLICATION After the conference, the board will consider the invited addresses, the entries and discussions for publication as a whole on each topic. If publication is considered worthwhile the board will contact editors for an appropriate outlet. One can think of the EARLI journals L&I or EARLI-news or the SIG book series. The EECAE discussions The quality of the conference will depend upon quality discussion, skilful porters and efficient electronic distribution on the networks. For this reason it is important to read the discussion guidelines beforehand. AIM The EECEA is directed towards all scholars, students and practitioners who are interested in new developments concerning A&E. TOPICS and CHAIRS (prelimenary examples) Suggestions for topics, abstracts and chairs can be send now to OICFDO@OUH.NL TOPICS SUBJECT HEADING CHAIRS Performance Assessment PERFASS Dynamic Assessment DYNASS Program Evaluation PROGEVA Balanced Assessment BALASS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Final Topics will be send together with the Second Call for Participation. If you want to act as a chairperson, contact OICFDO@OUH.NL (especially US scientists) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TIME SCHEDULE February 10 Distribution of 'invited addresses - first speakers' February 14 - 17 Time for entry of 'second speakers' who want to add an substantive paper for discussion February 21-22-23 Conference - topic discussion groups DISCUSSION GUIDELINES 1. Schedule you participation in you agenda during two or three different moments each day of the conference. For example each day between 9 am and 10 am and between 4 pm and 5 pm you can attend the conference interactively. 2. Enter the discussion by putting a "REPLY' to the EARLI-AE list or a 'SEND' to the list. 3. Start your entry with the appropriate SUBJECT HEADING, referring to the discussion group you are addressing. 4. Restrict your message to one screen. Two screens is a maximum. (Reading long text can be tiresome; some colleagues have local disk quota restriction or less endowed systems to cope with long entries) 5. Identify yourself. Close your entry with 'yourfirstname yourlastname' and affiliation. 6. Use short sentences and simple English. Avoid running prose. 7. For relevant background materials to your entry, refer to your publications or to other literature. Enclose the complete references in your message. 8. Use short paragraphs with spacing in between. Put questions on separate lines. 9. Use numbered items for ideas, examples, references, etc. 10. Annotation: Do not reproduce the entire original, extract only the part you which to comment on or paraphrase or summarize this earlier message. 11. Use UPPER CASE to denote emphasis. 12. Keep always the subject heading in the subject line, but refresh the content of the subject line regularly. Replies keep the subject line identical by default. People select messages on the subject line. Try to be considerate and word it sensibly. For example : RE: PERFASS - validity skills and attitudes 13. Some humour can be a good break in a stuffy conference and breaks ice. Too much jokes can be irritating. 14. Etiquette: Acknowledge and thank colleagues for their comments. Try to think positively and keep negative comments for personal communication. From: phil-preprints-admin@phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: Placing a paper on the IPPE Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 20:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 406 (752) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Time to place a paper on the IPPE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- With the beginning of the new year and the new semester, the rate of submissions to the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange has climbed dramatically, suggesting that over the last few months many people have postponed submitting a paper until quieter times. This note, then, is a reminder to all these (conjectural) postponers. If you have a paper you'd like to place on the IPPE, please contact Carolyn Burke, cburke@nexus.yorku.ca, who will be pleased to assist you. For the impatient, I attach some notes on how to submit a paper without assistance. Richard Reiner, Coordinator International Philosophical Preprint Exchange -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Call for Comments -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The purpose of a preprint exchange is to provide the authors of working papers with access to a large number of their peers world-wide so that their pre-published work can nonetheless receive the benefits of criticism and commentary. Many of our submitters have indeed received interesting and useful comments, although so far these have all been addressed through private email. At this time, I would like to encourage you to get involved, either by sending a private comment on some a paper to its author(s) (their email addresses may be found in the first line of each abstract), or by submitting a comment or discussion of publishable quality for inclusion within the IPPE paper directory beside the corresponding preprint. If you would like to submit a comment, see the attached notes on how to submit a comment below. Please note that it is in order to receive feedback on their work that many of our submitters have placed preprints with the IPPE. Carolyn L Burke, International Philosophical Preprint Exchange -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submitting a paper to the IPPE: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You can submit papers by ftp or by mail. 1. by ftp: ftp to Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp, cd to pub/submissions, and put your paper there (full instructions on how to use ftp are available on the system in the file pub/info/preprints-manual). 2. by email: mail your paper to phil-preprints-admin@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp. To make life easier for the coordinators of the service, please abide by the following guidelines when uploading papers. If you're uploading a comment, please see the section "Uploading comments" later in this file. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Uploading papers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If you're uploading a paper, please include at least the following: - a short file named e.g. frege.abs, containing an abstract of the paper in plain ASCII format. Please start your abstract as follows, with a few lines stating who you are, the title of the paper, and where you'd like us to store it. Jane Jones : University of Wisconsin : jones@foo.wisc.edu The Problem of Universals in Frege's Grundlagen preprints/Phil_of_Language < text of the abstract starts here > - if at all possible, a file named e.g. frege.txt containing the text of the paper in plain ASCII format. - the text of the paper in Postscript (in a file named e.g. frege.ps), SGML/TEI (frege.sgm), and/or in the form in which it was prepared (frege.wp, frege.tex, etc.). You may upload these files separately, or all together in a zip, zoo, tar.Z, or tar.gz file. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Uploading comments -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Comments should be in plain ASCII if at all possible, and named e.g. frege.cmt. Please start your comment as follows, with a few lines stating who you are, what paper you're commenting on, and where the paper is stored, as follows: Harry Halden : Australian National U. : halden@bar.anu.au Comment on Jane Jones, The Problem of Universals in Frege's Grundlagen preprints/Phil_of_Language/Jane_Jones.Frege < text of the comment starts here > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you absolutely can't use ftp, you can also submit papers by email to the address displayed when you logged on. Please remember that you CANNOT email documents in formats like WordPerfect or Microsoft Word without uuencoding them first (please ask your local computing guru for help if you do not know what uuencoding is). As a last resort, you can mail us your paper on a diskette. Please format the paper as described above, and mail it to IPPE Dept. of Philosophy Ross S424 York University 4700 Keele St Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Quick Access to the IPPE -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- By ftp: "ftp Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" or, "ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu" By gopher: "gopher apa.oxy.edu" or, "gopher kasey.umkc.edu" By email: "mail phil-preprints-Service@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" Questions: "mail phil-preprints-Admin@Phil-Preprints.L.Chiba-U.ac.jp" To upload a paper or comment: see pub/submissions/README (Copyright remains with the author(s), unless otherwise indicated.) From: Allegre Christian <allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: A literary gopher server Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 22:29:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 490 (753) --> Announcing the "gopheur LITTERATURES" at the Universite de Montreal. Address: gopher.litteratures.Umontreal.ca 7070 or through the University of Montreal Main Gopher: Address: gopher.Umontreal.ca Dear Humanists, Gopher servers are sprouting like mushrooms these days. Not only universities have gopher servers, but also departments now. They can be very useful tools to locate information and students here are very fond of them. They are also the first step towards much more sophisticated modes of accessing collections of research and bibliographic data, e-texts, etc... The "Gopheur LITTERATURES" at the Universite de Montreal (UdM) just happens to be the first gopher dedicated to teaching, research and publications on French Literature, Quebecois Literature and Francophone Literatures, and also the first gopher to do so in french, albeit without the accents for the moment. (In the future we will offer the choice between ASCII and ISO-LATIN, as is currently being done on others gophers in the province of Quebec). The "Gopheur LITTERATURES" is **in construction**. This means it will be evolving. Items on the main menu indicate a program of research conducted at the Department of etudes francaises. The goal of the gopher is to offer electronic documentation on the Departement d'etudes francaises, and to establish a resource center for information, tools, links, documents, local and international, to be used by the computing community of French scholars and students. All comments and suggestions of sites of interest to French Studies should be sent to: Gophlitt@ere.Umontreal.ca Christian Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca Universite de Montreal Departement d'etudes francaises From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries Subject: Li/Crane "Electronic Style" review on ftp Date: Wed, 12 Jan 94 12:31:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 491 (754) The book *Electronic Style* by Xia Li and Nancy Crane has been discussed some on this list. I made some preliminary comments a couple of months ago. The review I submitted will not appear for a few months and the editors of *Internet Research* have kindly allowed me to make it available electronically. (The book provides a guide to citation of electronic texts.) Accordingly, I have placed an ascii text version on my machine available for anonymous ftp. Logon as anonymous, password your node address, to aultnis.rutgers.edu (or 128.6.54.10). You will then be in the .pub directory, in which is the file "litext"; it is about 15K long (about 4 typed pages). As italics won't be available some detail of the citation patterns will be lost. My review is both supportive and (I hope constructively) critical. I will welcome comments but barring unforeseen need I won't make further comments myself in the interests of bandwidth and of moving on. It's now being advertised at $24, by the way, as opposed to the earlier notice of $15. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)932-5908; fax (908)932-5888 From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Colloque de l'ACFAS 1994 Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:28:03 -0500 (EST) (6 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 408 (755) APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS Colloque de l'ACFAS du 16 au 20 mai 1994 Universite du Quebec a Montreal FIGURES DISCURSIVES DANS LES TEXTES FRANCOPHONES DE L'AFRIQUE, DU MAGHREB ET DES ANTILLES * * * Le champ des figures est vaste et a ete largement explore. Mais qu'en est-il des textes francophones d'Afrique et des Antilles? Quels rapports peut-on etablir entre les differents types de figures dans l'ecriture de ces textes? Y aura-t-il des figures specifiquement africaines, antillaises ou maghrebines? Nos travaux pourraient donc nous amener a identifier des convergences de figures ou des differences significatives qui font la veritable valeur discursive des figures. Conferenciers / ecrivains invites: - Ahmadou Kone - Daniel Maximin - Emile Ollivier - Hedi Bouraoui - Joel Des Rosiers - Gerard Etienne Les propositions de communication (20 min.) avec une description d'environ 200 mots doivent parvenir au plus tard le 31 janvier 1994 a l'une des deux personnes suivantes: Christiane Ndiaye Josias Semujanga Etudes litteraires Departement des Litteratures UQAM, C.P. 8888, Universite Laval Succ. Centre-ville Pav. Charles-De Koninck Montreal (Quebec) Cite Universitaire, Ste-Foy H3T 3P8 - Canada Quebec (Quebec) G1K 7P4 - Canada Tel : (514) 987-4125 (418) 656-5373 Fax : (514) 987-8218 (418) 656-7701 -- From: balestri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Diane Balestri) Subject: humanities consultant job posting Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:15:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 409 (756) The position of humanities computing consultant at Princeton University is part of a dynamic and forward-looking team of instructional and media specialists whose mission is to support teaching and learning. Please submit resumes to the address below -- e-mail submissions are particularly welcome. Apply promptly, as we would like to fill the position immediately. You may also send questions about the position directly to me: balestri@phoenix.princeton.edu. Diane Balestri Manager, Instructional and Media Services Princeton University SEARCH REOPENED Humanities Consultant Information Services within CIT at Princeton University seeks a consultant to support faculty members and students in humanities disciplines who use information technologies in teaching and research. The consultant will join the Instructional and Media Services group. Responsibilities include: proactive consulting with humanities departments and faculty about instructional and research needs; identifying, installing, testing, and documenting software tools and applications; supporting faculty and students in software use. In addition, the consultant will work closely with the language laboratory coordinator on acquisition, installation, and use of software and multimedia applications for language instruction. The consultant will provide expertise in text data bases and text analysis for faculty in all disciplines and expertise in word processing and printing with non-Roman characters and fonts. Qualifications: minimally, a Master's degree in a humanities discipline. Excellent knowledge of one or more foreign languages required. Strong background (at least two years) supporting computer users in one or more of the humanities disciplines taught at Princeton. Knowledge of both instructional and research applications is required, as is the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and to move easily among a variety of hardware platforms, including Intel-based and Macintosh systems. Must enjoy outreach to faculty in humanities disciplines and must possess superior oral and written communications skills. Application deadline: February 10, 1994. Send resume and letter of application to Bruce Finnie, Computing and Information Technology, 87 Prospect Avenue, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544; 609-258-3943 (fax) ; finnie@pucc.princeton.edu (e-mail). Princeton University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. From: TFGREEN@SUVM Subject: OED on CD Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 23:35:57 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 492 (757) I received the OED on CD as a retirement gift. Published by Oxford Univ. Press. Inquire thereof. It is wonderful!! None of the problems cited before on this topic. Search routines are useful, powerful and convenient. I use it in Windows. From: Cathy Ball <CBALL@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0391 Rs: OED on CD-ROM; End of an Era (2/70) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 15:29:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 493 (758) Mary Ellen Foley takes note of user interface problems with the PC version of the OED on CD-ROM. I recently got the Mac version, which doesn't seem to have these problems. For example, to look up a word, the user double- clicks on the word in the wordlist, and the definition comes right up. To follow a thread of cross-references is a matter of clicking on an item in the definition; a phonetics search is just as simple. The only thing that takes any amount of time is a wildcard search (e.g. *gry to get all words ending in 'gry') or a search using the query language facility (e.g. to investigate how the meanings of words for women have changed over time). There's a bug in the Print function which they're fixing, but otherwise it's great! -- Cathy Ball (Georgetown) From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: OED2 on CD-ROM Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 14:31:27 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 494 (759) The OED2 on CD-ROM, purchasable from Oxford University Press, has for me an excellent interface. I do know, however, as an occasional writer of up-front software, that tastes and skills differ. If your data is in ascii, you can use the shareware program LIST from Vernon Buerg, available widely on BBS' and from PC-SIG. There are also 3d party introductions to the OED2, such as: Donna Lee Berg, "The Research Potential of the Electronic OED2 Database at the University of Waterloo: A Guide for Scholars," UW Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary (May, 1989). I use the OED2 CD-ROM constantly and find it quite satisfactory, but I do prefer CD-ROMs with no interface or one you can bypass without trouble. Jim Marchand. From: cedwards@acs.bu.edu (Christopher Edwards) Subject: Re: 7.0397 Advertising on Humanist (1/27) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 09:53:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 495 (760) I join the chorus of people who were irked by the Strangelove ad. As a former member of the "Industrial Fiction" (Advertising and Public Relations) community, I am particularly irritated. I consider any form of advertising -- including rhetoric about the virtues of advertising on the Internet -- to be contrary to the spirit of Internet and scholarly communications. Any more chorus members out there? --Chris Edwards cedwards@acs.bu.edu Grrrr from me too. From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: Re: 7.0397 Advertising on Humanist (1/27) Date: 12 Jan 1994 19:21:06 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 496 (761) Regarding advertising on HUMANIST, I too am disturbed by the posting of the publication in question; I am trying to restrain myself, but I am very angry about the information highway proposals, which I see as transparent fraud to convert networks into channels of consumption, spending and profit rather than personal communication. And right or wrong, I see the journal mentioned by Malcom as a first step towards the corruption of the networks. Excuse me for being self-serving, but as someone who needs access to libraries and to talk to other adults who teach, write and think, I get very edgy about INTERNET, HUMANIST and other forms/means of communication. I do not want to read, see or be bothered by a zillon people trying to cheat, steal and lie to me about their amazing products. Regards, James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: horns Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 09:26:51 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 497 (762) Since this thread has gotten quite long now, I thought you mgiht be interested in the raisonnement given by Kluge's Etymologisches Woerterbuch der deutschen Sprache. I just looked up its entry for Hahnrei `cuckold' and got the following, which I translate: "Hahnrei `cuckold', masc. Middle Low German (16th century) _hanerei, hanreyge_; brought into Early New High German from Lower Saxony from the 16th Century. The point-of-departure meaning is `castrated rooster, capon'. From this arises the Modern German meaning `betrayed husband', as in the expressions: `to put horns on someone, to wear horns': in order to distinguish them from the others, one put the spurs of a capon in his comb, where they grew and formed a sort of horns. The (impotent and therefore) betrayed husband is thus sneered at as `capon'. This is why the spouse of the unfaithful wife is called in French _belier_ `ram' (actually `castrated ram'), _cerf_ `horned one' (actually `stag') and _cocu_ `cuckoo'. The second part of _Hahnrei_, which must mean `castrated one', is explained by East Frisian _hanrune_ `capon, betrayed husband'; here _rune_, Modern Dutch _ruin_ `castrated horse' is the second part (see _wrinschen_)... Further information in Dunger, Germania 29, 62ff.; Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Wortforschung 1, 64; 3, 228; 14, 166." The OED2 (another thread; see `horn') seems to accept Dunger's etymology, although under `cuckold' it seems to lean towards the theory that we use that particular word because the cuckoo lays eggs in others' nests. On the horned Moses, those who would like more information ought to look at R. Mellinhoff, The Horned Moses in Medieval Thought and Literature (1970). As to the horns being on Moses because he was a Jew ... I don't think people in the Middle Ages in general stressed Moses' being a Jew. He was a favorite of medieval Christianity, as the number of depictions of him will show. He was also often looked upon as a prefiguration of Christ, and the legislator/dator par excellence. Horns are not always bad things, cf. the cornucopia, the horn of salvation, the horn as a symbol of epiphany, anointing, etc. A large book could easily be written on the applications of horn. ! Jim Marchand. From: Alan D Corre <corre@convex.csd.uwm.edu> Subject: Moses Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 08:01:21 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 498 (763) The recent admirable set of contributions on Moses's horns convinced me of something I have long suspected, namely, that any statement ending with the peremptory, univerbal, totally unbritish sentence "Period." is almost invariably wrong. Period. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: OED on CD-ROM Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 21:26:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 499 (764) I suspect that the OED on CD-ROM that provoked the severe criticisms is not the OED on CD-ROM that I use daily, i.e. the CD of the 2nd edition that for MS-DOS runs only under Windows. It is the most impressive scholarly tool on CD that I have seen, worth every penny of its not inconsiderable cost. A friend of mine, a lexicographer of Renaissance French dictionaries, told me after using it for a week that it made him wish that he worked in English. I have a bone to pick with its query language, which I can never remember the syntax of and is the only reason that the manual remains at my side, but otherwise it is an utterly intuitive tool. Another friend of mine, a computer scientist who works with dictionary software, says harsh things about the way it cannot remember that it has already looked up a word, but being undereducated in CS I don't notice. After a microcomputer entered my house, I never opened up my typewriter again, not even to type an envelope. (Ok, I admit to using the typewriter in the office once or twice....) Since I installed the OED on CD-ROM, I have not once opened up my copy of the micro-edition. But I am puzzled: what OED on CD-ROM is the infelicitous culprit? The first one, based on the 1st edn. of the OED? If so, then I can understand. WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Jon Butler <jbutler@minerva.cis.yale.edu> Subject: please post as appropriate Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 18:59:41 -0400 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 413 (765) Yale University University Librarian Yale University invites applications and nominations for the position of University Librarian. The Librarian directs the Yale library system, overseeing its collections, activities, staff, and budget. The system is the second largest university library in the United States, containing more than ten million bound volumes and almost four million microforms. It has a yearly operating budget of thirty-nine million dollars, occupies 800,000 square feet of space in more than thirty buildings, and employs over six hundred staff members. It is actively undertaking major new initiatives in electronic information services, book preservation, and facilities renovation, as well as expanding services to its users, which include Yale students, staff, and faculty and the world-wide community of scholars. Applicants and nominees should have five or more years of successful management experience with a major library. Applications and nominations will be taken until March 1, 1994 or until the position is filled. Yale University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified women and minority group members are especially encouraged to apply. Applications (which should include a resume and names of three suggested referees) and nominations should be sent to: Professor Jon Butler, Chair Search Committee for the University Librarian Office of the Provost Yale University P. O. Box 208236 New Haven CT 06520-8236 From: bowen@epas.utoronto.ca (William Bowen) Subject: ISSGRM Announcement (fwd) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 15:16:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 414 (766) Members of HUMANIST might be interested in the following announcement: [deleted quotation] From: Antoine Marcel Compagnon <amc6@columbia.edu> Subject: Colloquium Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 21:07:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 415 (767) COLLOQUIUM Columbia University, New York Centre National de la Department of French and Recherche scientifique, Paris Romance Philology Institut des Textes et Maison francaise Manuscrits modernes FROM MANUSCRIPTS TO TEXT: GENETIC CRITICISM AND LITERARY STUDIES THEORIES CONTEXTS CORPUS A CASE STUDY: FLAUBERT EDITIONS FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 8-10, 1994 Developed during the 1970s, and yet indebted to the philological tradition, GENETIC CRITICISM has become a major field of literary studies in France. Based on the reading of manuscripts and all documents related to the genesis of a text, its focus is less the text and its edition "ne varietur" than the dynamic process of writing and textual production. An original relation to litera- ture follows: instead of being viewed statically, literature is understood as always "in actu," implying all the possibilities sketched out by its writing. Genetic criticism has renewed literary studies in positing that the manuscript is as relevant as the text. Recent critical editions of Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Valery, and Sartre have exemplified this approach. In the United States and Canada, genetic criticism has met with increasing interest. Scholars use its theories and methods, but no group has yet claimed an affiliation with it. It is time for the best international specialists to meet with North American experts on TEXTUAL CRITICISM to discuss their theoretical premises, their aims, and their achievements to date. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 9:00-12:30 THEORIES Introduction: Antoine Compagnon, Columbia University Louis Hay, CNRS, "Critique de la critique genetique" Jacques Neefs, Universite de Paris VIII, "Genetique et histoire litteraire" Graham Falconer, University of Toronto, "La critique genetique: un retour a l'histoire?" Presiding: Frank Bowman, University of Pennsylvania FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 8, 2:30-5:45 CONTEXTS Florence Callu, Bibliotheque nationale, Paris, "La construction du manuscrit" Andre Guyaux, Universite de Haute-Alsace, "Peut-on redefinir une critique des variantes?" Bernard Beugnot, Universite de Montreal, "Silences et beances du manuscrit: l'exemple de Ponge" Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia, "Hyperediting" Presiding: Michel Pierssens, Universite de Montreal SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 9:30-12:45 CORPUS Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania, "Accidents or Coincidences in Joyce and Pound?" Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario, and Daniel Ferrer, CNRS, "Post-genetic Joyce" Christine Froula, Northwestern University, "'Half Talk Half Soliloquy': Virginia Woolf's Portraits of the Artist and/as the Audience" Edward Mendelson, Columbia University, "'We are changed by what we change': Revision and Revelation in W.H. Auden" Presiding: Michael Seidel, Columbia University SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9, 2:30-5:45 A CASE SUDY: FLAUBERT Pierre-Marc de Biasi, CNRS, "Les phases genetiques dans 'Saint Julien'" Anne Herschberg-Pierrot, Universite de Paris VIII, "Les dossiers de 'Bouvard et Pecuchet'" Claudine Gothot-Mersch, Facultes Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, "Con- tinuite / discontinuite dans le travail de Flaubert" Raymonde Debray Genette, Universite de Paris VIII, "La critique genetique: les conditions de sa validite chez Flaubert" Presiding: Michael Riffaterre, Columbia University SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 9:30-12:30 EDITIONS Claude Pichois, Vanderblt University, "La tradition francaise de l'edition critique" G. Thomas Tanselle, Columbia University, "Critical Editions and Genetic Texts" Jean-Louis Lebrave, CNRS, "Ecriture, lecture, edition" Presiding: Henri Mitterand, Columbia University Discussion and concluding remarks: Almuth Gresillon, CNRS SPONSORS: Sterling Currier Fund, Delegation generale a la langue francaise, Universite de Paris VIII, Departement des Sciences de l'homme et de la societe du CNRS, Ministere des Affaires etrangeres, Ecole normale superieure The colloquium will be held at the Maison Francaise, Buell Hall, Columbia University, 116th Street and Broadway. Papers will be presented in both English and French. All sessions are free and open to the public. For information and registration, please contact: Maison Francaise, Buell Hall Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027 Tel: (212) 854-4482 Fax: (212) 854-5863 From: Stuart Lee <STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: CATH '94 Conference: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 16:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 416 (768) Please distribute the following accordingly, Dr Stuart Lee Research Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221/283282 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX ***************************************************************************** CATH '94 "COURSEWARE IN ACTION" Computers and Teaching in the Humanities Glasgow University 9 - 12th September, 1994 CALL FOR PAPERS CATH is the annual forum of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication. It provides an opportunity for those using computers in humanities teaching and research to discuss new developments, achievements, and methods in the field. The theme of this year's conference is "Courseware in Action". Papers are welcomed which concentrate on the practical applications of courseware in the classroom. In particular submissions are invited on the following topics: -courseware development -practical issues pertaining to the implementation of CAL in the classroom -evaluation procedures We would especially welcome papers from those new to the subject of humanities computing. The conference will be made up of a series of sessions. Each session will last 90 minutes and will include three papers. Submissions are invited for individual papers (lasting 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions) or for entire sessions. Furthermore, if you would like to organise a workshop presentation, or classroon simulation, then please contact the organisers directly for more information [It is expected that each workshop or simulation will last approximately two hours]. During the conference there will also be a software fair. If you would like to show material at this, then please contact the organisers as soon as possible to discuss hardware and software requirements. Format of Submissions 1) All submissions (paper or electronic) should begin with the following inforamtion: 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 2) Length: -Individual papers: abstracts should be 300 - 500 words. -Sessions: The proposer should submit a statement of approximately 300 - 500 words describing the overall topic, and also include abstracts of 300 - 500 words for each of the papers in the session. 3) Guidelines for Electronic Submission of Abstracts: These should be plain ASCII files, not word-processor 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: CATH94@VAX.OX.AC.UK with the subject line "<Author's surname> Submission for CATH94". 4) Paper submissions: Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Two copies should be sent to the organisers. 5)Deadline for submission of abstracts or workshop proposals: Tuesday March 1st All enquiries and submissions should be directed to: CATH 94 Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6N UK Telephone: 0865-273221 Fax: 0865-273221 E-Mail: CATH94@VAX.OX.AC.UK From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA> Subject: resource persons, sexual harassment Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 14:24:13 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 417 (769) Would my sister/fellow HUMANIST readers have suggestions regarding resource persons to lead/facilitate a faculty workshop on sexual harassment? We are looking for a person who can help raise faculty consciousness on this topic with a faculty largely quite open and supportive of the need for more faculty development in this area -- probably for a one- or two-day workshop sometime this spring. Persons and/or further contact points would be appreciated. Cheers, and best wishes for the new year -- Charles Ess / Drury College From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Re: 7.0384 Humanities Computing: Support and Jobs (2/58) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 15:30:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 418 (770) I suggest that all those investigating these & similar questions about computing humanists be sure to consult the MLA Guidelines for university support that we published recently in an MLA Newsletter. A revised version is available from Dr. Bettina Huber at the MLA: mlaod@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu. Mention her name in your subject header. We're currently working on recommendations for P & T committees, etc., evaluating lang. & lit. faculty who have incorporated aspects of technology in their work. Joel D. Goldfield Associate Professor of French Plymouth State College (NH); Member, Modern Language Assoc. Executive Comm. on Computers & Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston ) Subject: Re: 7.0411 More comments on advertising Date: 15 Jan 94 23:13:16 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 500 (771) I need guidance from recipients of HUMANIST. I am a member of the commercial community. I sell a product called WordCruncher. WordCruncher for Windows is ready to be released in beta form to those who are interested. Insofar as WordCruncher continues to be developed on a University campus, and given that mine is a very small company, there are very limited resources with which to advertise the impending release of a new product. Because we are a small company, we will have to charge even for the beta version of the product. It is bound to have bugs, and anyone who uses it will have to be patient. Is it permissable or ethical for me to publish the details of this offering on HUMANIST, or other discussion groups or lists on the INTERNET? If not, where should I turn to make the members of the ever-expanding computer users in the humanities aware that such a product exists? I realize that by merely mentioning this, I am engaging in a sort, "I am not going to tell you se, but I will accept the risk. While I certainly do not wish to engage in the sort of electronic junk mail that now assaults us through the post and fax, I would like to understand what members of this community think about simple announcements. Is even this a breach ? James Johnston (801) 756-1111 (801) 756-0242 (Fax) Johnstonj@attmail.com P.O. Box 446, American Fork, UT 84003-0446, USA From: abrook@ccs.carleton.ca (Andrew Brook) Subject: Re: 7.0411 More comments on advertising Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 23:28:39 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 501 (772) My response to the cries of outrage about the message on how to advertise in the Internet business ma: AMEN!! It would be a disaster for anything to mess up this wonderful service. -- Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy Director, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies 1101 Dunton Tower, Carleton University 1125 Col. By Drive, Ottawa, CANADA K1S 5B6 Ph: (613) 788-3597 Fax: (613) 788-3985 From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com> Subject: Re: 7.0411 More comments on advertising Date: Sat 15 Jan 94 11:59:50-PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 502 (773) I can certainly understand members' concern at HUMANIST becoming an advertising channel, but what is the concern about Internet? Academic use doesn't deteriorate as commercial use increases (within limits). The opposite is true, as the military is now discovering with their obsolete MILNET system. And ARPANET/NSFNet funding was always considered a stop-gap until commercial R&D became feasible. NSFNet was funded to open new technologies, not to choke off commerce. As for HUMANIST itself, I would accept a "social contract" view that permits the members (or moderators) to choose what kind of speech is acceptable. Then there is also a social contract with the sysops who decide whether or not a given discussion list will propagate over their systems. Perhaps even a further social contract with the taxpayers (in each country) who pay for the sysops and their systems. Before we reach too quick an agreement on a no-advertising policy, I should mention that my offer last month of a 2-month free trial subscription to my Computists' Communique drew 17 takers from HUMANIST. I would like to think that they were well served by HUMANIST's tolerance for my announcement. (And there was tolerance: no member of the discussion list raised any objection to me.) Commerce itself isn't the problem; but good net citizenship is required. Commercial messages should be relevant, short, and infrequent, individually and in aggregate. Otherwise they interfere with the chief purpose of the list. -- Ken Laws ------- From: George Lang Subject: Corruption of Internet? Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 16:40:32 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 503 (774) With all due respect to all concerned, it seems to me that the recent objections to "advertising" on Internet raise at least as many questions as the original message (which I admit I deleted without reading, once I saw its subject heading). The first is that it seems extremely naive to imagine some zero degree of personal communication either on or outside of Internet, a state in which disinterested scholarly individuals exchange points of view with no institutional distortion or "profit" involved. I don't know how the rest of you are connected, but my hard and soft contact is deeply embedded in an institution with agendas that are far from neutral; and though this might be extremely obvious in the case of scientific exchange (including the social sciences), it remains true for the humanities. It is of course an accepted platitude among us humanists that we are not tainted by considerations of profit or career, and that there is another group of humans out there who are -- though our annual salary and promotions evaluations and collective negociations with our employers do, I've noticed, occupy a lot of our attention. As any one who has ever been involved in entrepreneurial activity can attest, the line between one's intellectual and creative energy on the one hand and "business" is not always cut and dried. Indeed, I noticed during the years that I worked for a living as a salesperson (mea culpa!) that in some ways business people are, apart from being more pleasant than at least some scholars, occasionally more honest, the need to sell again to the same customer enforcing some fine points of behavior missing in academe. My personal point of view on this matter notwithstanding, it seems that the issue here is ultimately one of truth in labelling, and that our editor is perfectly capable of determining when there is a discrepency between what is advertised, as it were, in the "come-on" subject heading and the content of the message. If we don't like the subject, we can delete it with no more ado. Personally, I would rather have that freedom than accept someone else's arbitrary judgement about what is junk and what is not. George Lang University of Alberta glang@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca .............................................................. ..George Lang, Romance Languages FAX: 403-492-9112.. ..University of Alberta E-MAIL: GLANG@VM.UCS.UALBERTA.CA.. ..Edmonton, CANADA T6G 2E6 OFFICE PHONE: 403-492-3272.. From: trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp (Robb) Subject: New list for K-12 ESL Teachers Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 09:41:54 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 420 (775) [deleted quotation]NEW ACADEMIC LIST TESLK-12, Teachers of English as a second or foreign language to children. Although primarily an academic discussion forum for teachers of children around the world, the list is open to all other interested parties. The discussion focuses on the teaching and learning of English as a second or foreign language in primary and secondary schools around the world. TESLK-12 is a "sister" list to TESL-L, which is also for teachers of English as a second or foreign language, but tends to deal mainly with issues related to students in colleges and universities. The TESLK-12 project is a collaborative project of the City College of New York, the City University of New York, the Department of Education of the State of New York, and the Teachers' FREENET of Finland. To subscribe to TESLK-12, send a message to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subscribe TESLK-12 firstname lastname The owners of the list are: ABTHC@CUNYVM (Anthea Tillyer, City College of New York) R1TR@AkronVM.Bitnet (Tim Rushing, University of Akron) TRobb@CC.Kyoto-su.ac.jp (Tom Robb, Kyoto Sangyo University) PByron@SED.bitnet (Peter Byron, NY State Education Department) Reija.Kujala@lut.fi (Reija Kujala, Finland Free-net) The list in unmoderated. There are archives (for subscribers only) of logs and materials related to the teaching of ESL/EFL in primary and secondary school. From: trobb@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp (Robb) Subject: School calendars around the world Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 12:29:35 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 504 (776) I am trying to compile a list of school calendars around the world which would be useful for anyone contemplating working or doing research in another country, establishing class-to-class cooperative learning programs, etc. Once completed, the info will be made available in the Humanist archives and elsewhere. To make the data easy to understand, I've adopted a graphical format, giving credit to the person who supplies the data, for example, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | Austria(Univ) -11111---222*22*222222--------------->11111111-- Austria (P/S) -1111-111111*1111*1111--------->11111111111111-- (Karl Heinz Schmid) Belgium -222222*2222**3333333333------->1111111-1111111- (Michael Goethals) Brazil ------>111111111111111111-->111111111111-111G--- (Dina Tanners) [Start is after Carnival] Format: 1 first term, 2 second term, etc. P/S Primary/Secondary Level * Movable holiday week (Easter,etc) x exam period, G graduation, - break > Start of year (next char position) Each month has four character positions representing 4 weeks/month beginning with the leftmost position under that month's number I have data on the following countries. If one that YOU are familiar with is not listed, PLEASE send me your info, either in the graphical format or just in words. (Or if you know of an existing data source, for this kind of info, I'd be overjoyed!) Countries already listed: Australia, Austria, Belg, Braz, Can, China, Costa Rica, Czech, Den, Ecuador, Fin, Fr, Ger, Hon, HK, Hung, Ice, Iran, Isr, It, Jpn, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Mex, Namibia, NZ, Nor, Peru, Phil, Pol, Rus, Senegal, Sing, Sp, Switz, Taiwan, Thai, US /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ /Thomas N. Robb, Ph.D. TROBB@JPNKSUVX.bitnet\ < Professor trobb@ksuics.kyoto-su.ac.jp > \Kyoto Sangyo University +81-720-44-7303 (Fax)/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ From: he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Burr) Subject: BICS Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 11:32:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 505 (777) I am posting this on behalf of a friend who does not have access to e-mail. She is finishing a dissertation on Seneca. The question is: can anyone identify the Classics journal "BICS"? What is the full name of the journal? Where is or was it published. Please send your answers to he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de Thanks in advance Elisabeth From: Todd Blayone, Editor Subject: CARF Reviewers Wanted ! Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 01:21:43 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 422 (778) Re: SOFTWARE and BOOK REVIEWERS WANTED ____________________________________________________________ The Computer-Assisted Research Forum is currently seeking individuals to review the following software and book items. Interested parties should respond by e-mail (to cxfw@musica. mcgill.ca) with a subject line in the form: CARF REVIEW [project number] (Project numbers are listed below.) Interested parties should also include a short bio highlighting their institutional affiliation and relevant humanities-computing skills/interests. CARF reviewers will retain a copy of each item reviewed. Due dates (where they are not mentioned) and format/style concerns will be transmitted to reviewers. We cannot reply to everyone who contacts us. Therefore, we thank you in advance for you interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Reviews Project: "C2B1" Description: George P. Landow and Paul Delany, eds., _The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities_ (The MIT Press: 1993). Project: "C2B2" Description: George P. Landow and Paul Delany, eds., _Hypermedia and Literary Studies_ (The MIT Press: 1991). Project: "C2B3" Description: Edward Barret, ed., _Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia and the Social Construction of Knowledge_ (The MIT Press: 1992). Project: "C2B4" Description: Mark Stover, ed., _Electronic Information in the Humanities_. This is the Spring 1992 issue of _Library Trends_, Vol. 40, No. 4. Project: "C2B5" Description: Christine Mullings, _Computers and Communications in the Humanities: A Survey of Use_ (Office for Humanities Communication Publications: 1992) Project: "C2B6" Description: Caroline Davis and Marilyn Deegan, eds., _Computers and Language_ (Office for Humanities Communication Publications: 1992) Project: "C2B7" Description: CTI Centre for Modern Languages, _ReCALL Software Guide_ (No. 3, February, 1993). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Software Reviews Project: "C2S1" Description: English Dictionaries for Macs and PCs. This comparative review will include: a) Concise Oxford Dictionary, b) Random House Websters, and c) MultiLex. Note: Due March 11, 1994. Project: "C2S2" Description: DOS-Based Bibliography Program Roundup. This review, the third in a series, will feature notes on the latest versions of Library Master and Pro-Cite, provide complete reviews of Note Builder and Reference Manager, and present a Feature Comparison chart comparing the latest versions of Library Master, Pro-Cite, Papyrus, EndNote, Note Builder and Reference Manager. This review will end CARF's coverage of DOS-based bibliographic programs. ***CARF is seeking a co-author who will review Note Builder and Reference Manager. Note: Due March 7, 1994. Project: "C2S3" Description: Cyrillic Support for Windows and SlavicSwiss Cyrillic (TrueType and Type 1) Fonts. These packages provide keyboard and font-level support for processing all modern Slavic languages (i.e., all those that use the Cyrillic alphabet) in a Microsoft Windows environment. Note: Due March 4, 1994. Project: "C2S4" Description: WinGreek and BibleScript. This is a comparative review of two keyboard/font utilities that support the processing of biblical languages under Microsoft Windows. ***Thats all for now folks! From: Jack Kolb <IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> Subject: Re: 7.0410 Rs: OED (3/40) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 22:57 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 506 (779) There is some confusion here that perhaps I can clarify. Mary Ellen Foley's previous post spoke of the "Compact OED of Modern English" on CD-ROM (together with a number of other worthy texts). Everyone else is talking about the 2nd edition of the complete OED on CD-ROM. I believe everyone is correct in their respective evaluations of the two disks: I have both. The Compact OED is on one called "The Oxford English Reference Library," and it does have a less than desirable interface, though not perhaps quite as bad as Ms. Foley suggests. It seems to be pushed by IBM; it advertizes itself as for use with OS/2 as well as the IBM Bookmanager, and is available from IBM via direct mail for about $140, though I have seen it advertized in a film catalog for $30 (contact me privately for details). The latter is not a bad price, even with the cumbersome protocol, for a disk containing the Oxford Thesaurus, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, the Revised English Bible, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Complete Works of Shakespeare (presumably the new Oxford edition--the documentation, which is pitiful, does not say), among other things. The OED2 is quite another thing, as others have suggested: the Windows version is far superior to the first (rather clumsy and buggy) CD version for DOS, even for those like me who don't like Windows. It isn't cheap-- about $900 + postage and handling--but it's a wonderful tool if you can afford it. Jack Kolb IKW4GWI@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU From: "LEE A. JACOBUS" <JACOBUS@UCONNVM> Subject: Re: 7.0402 Qs: Literary Journal; Time Flies (2/70) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 17:59:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 507 (780) I believe Stanley calls it THE BEN JONSON JOURNAL. I just spoke with him at ML A about the journal. Good luck in checking on this. From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM> Subject: 7.0412 Rs: Moses and Horns Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 15:27:02 IST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 508 (781) I have no doubt that Moses' horns are indeed due to the mistrans- lation of Ex. 34.29-35, have nothing to do with cuckoldry, and nothing to do with his being a Jew (Aaron, for example, never has them). Nevertheless, since exclamations seem to have been made about the "medieval" belief that Jews have horns, allow me to assure the e-world that the belief is alive and well. A friend was once informed by a girl that he couldn't be a Jew, "because you leave your head uncovered, and I can see that you haven't got horns." She was speaking in perfect seriousness. "I had them surgically removed," said my friend. It is not the only case that has come to my attention, only the one I remember at the moment. I am only guessing, but I suppose that Jews' alleged horns come from the belief that Jews are demons or close to them; and demons' horns are there because of their bestial associations, and presumably because of satyrs (who were taken as equivalent to the "se'irim" -- literally goats, but used of some sort of idolatrous deity -- of the Bible), who had horns, as far as I know, before the Greeks knew who the Jews were. David M. Schaps Department of Classical Studies Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel FAX: 972-3-347-601 From: RGLYNN@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK Subject: OED and CD-ROMs Date: Mon, 17 JAN 94 17:08:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 509 (782) Re: OUP and CD-ROMs Mary Ellen Foley has confused the OED2 on CD-ROM, published by Oxford University Press, with a CD-ROM published by IBM which includes a number of OUP copyright titles. OUP merely licensed these titles to IBM. The retrieval software and the publication are IBM's; they are nothing to do with OUP and cannot be ordered from us. Ruth Glynn Managing Editor Electronic Publishing, OUP From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens@unixg.ubc.ca> Subject: Cawdrey's _A Table Alphabeticall_ Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 23:35:45 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 424 (783) Some time ago, there was an inquiry on HUMANIST for an electronic copy of R. Cawdrey's _A Table Alphabeticall_, after which some discussion followed. Would those involved in that discussion be kind enough to contact me at the address below? A copy of that text is now available. RS Ray Siemens University of British Columbia siemens@unixg.ubc.ca From: "Tom Benson 814-865-4201" <T3B@PSUVM> Subject: Re: 7.0419 Humanist & Advertising: Question & Comments (4/129) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 18:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 510 (784) I agree with Ken Laws and George Lang that occasional quasi-commercial uses of HUMANIST and other network lists is useful and should be continued, on a case by case basis. I, for one, am happy to hear about new books and new software that are useful to my work and to my students. Is a product announcement, or a book announcement, different, in principle, from the announcement of a new journal, a call for papers for a conference, the announcement of a conference, or a call for manuscripts for books and journals? The line seems fuzzy to me, and in principle as well as practice, I'd prefer to allow more rather than less communication. Tom Benson Penn State From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: academic good vs. commercial evil? Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 19:35:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 511 (785) The history of Humanist has been one of crises and delights, interspersed with enough plain tedium to keep its members from suffering core-meltdown. It seems now that we have arrived at one of the occasional crises at which much is revealed about who we are, what we want, and what opportunities the medium presents to us. Each crisis on Humanist that I can remember almost immediately brought up the question of what Humanist was for, that is, what we wanted it to be for. At each turn in the road -- and this road started turning almost immediately after the thing was started -- there was much gnashing of teeth and groaning about corrupting compromise, loss of original spirit, and so forth. (I won't for one minute fool myself into thinking that there have not been Good Old Days, for I can remember many of them myself, but we do have to be careful not to mistake any and all change as bad, yes?) Perhaps it's been too long since Humanist has had a real crisis. Things are getting too settled. But enough old timer's talk, and on to fanning the flames. Ken Laws and George Lang, with their points about "good net citizenship" and "truth in labelling", have both indicated a heart of the matter: that the opposition of academic to commercial is a distraction from the more interesting and telling problem of decorum. James Johnston, proprietor of WordCruncher, indicates with his decorous though lengthy note a problem the anti-commercialist's stance creates for us all. Good work is done outside the academy, sometimes by giant corporations, sometimes by very small businesses that somehow have to keep going. (The rough history of Nota Bene is relevant here also.) I for one am glad to hear from Mr. Johnston, whose product has not only been influential in the development of untainted, academic software but has itself contributed to some very important scholarship. It seems to me that we cannot afford to be kept ignorant of what small software companies are doing. Again, decorum is the issue, and this puts the ball into the editor's court. If I may offer a blunt observation, Humanist is NOT analogous to one's postbox nor to one's telephone. If it becomes so, then I will be leaving by the nearest window. I seem to remember a penetrating invitation we might keep in mind while discussing the sins of the commercial world: to anyone without taint to cast the first stone. I mean, really, is there a source of clean money somewhere, or are the only real differences how it gets into the bank and whether the flow of it is guaranteed or not? The issue as I see it is to continue to build a productive community by discovering the ways of behaving that will make it work. WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0419 Humanist & Advertising: Question & Comments (4/129) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 17:31:59 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 512 (786) I think that notices about WordCruncher should be perfectly permissable on HUMANIST, just as notices about the MLA's publication of TACT would be. Humanist computing is what we are here for. We need to know about commercial products that make our life easier. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: "Mark Olsen" <mvo2@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: Re: ads Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 20:59:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 513 (787) I'm surprised to see so much consternation over advertising on this list and HUMANIST. A recent issue of _UNIX World_ was devoted to the Internet and the potential profit that companies may derive from network services/products/advertising. I don't know how many of SHARP (or HUMANIST) members have been looking at the World Wide Web -- a global multi-media hyper-text protocol/environment, but there are **many** commercial and non-academic concerns beginning to assert a presence on the network. On of my favorite journals, _Mother Jones_ has gone to full electronic publication: <a href="http://www.mojones.com/motherjones.html">http://www.mojones.com/motherjones.html</a> (This is a WWW address. Many journals are being published with graphics under WWW and the Mosaic series of clients) A look at the Mosaic "What's New Page" found at: <a href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html">http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html</a> indicates the range of commercial interests already here: Wavefront Technologies Santa Barbara, CA now has a WWW server running. Wavefront is the leader in professional workstation-based 3D animation software. The server offers information on products, customer training, support, production profiles, and much more! Lego bricks! Maybe you remember them from your youth, maybe you've started using your children as an excuse to buy more, maybe you just enjoy building things with them. If you do, check out this archive of Lego information including the FAQ for rec.toys.lego (nee alt.toys.lego), information on building your own lego robot, and variety of gif images. The S-Cubed Division of Maxwell Labs, a high technology research and development organization announces it's World Wide Web server. In addition to providing information about Maxwell products and services, as a public service we're providing Taxing Times 1994, an Internet collection of tax-related resources and information to help you deal with April 15th. The DTP Direct Catalog is now online as part of the InterNex Server Bureau. DTP Direct specializes in Macintosh hardware and software tools for desktop publishers. The World Wide Web implementation of this catalog features offerings from Adobe, Seagate, Fujitsu and Aldus, along with other quality solutions for the graphics professional. The Company Corporation (TCC) - Incorporate easily, quickly and inexpensively in any state online. TCC is the #1 direct incorporator in the world and has formed over 100,000 corporations. And this is only the last couple of **days**. The debate over whether the Internet should be non-commercial is passe', precisely because the technology has developed to a point where commercial interests can see the potential for profit. This is not an un-mixed blessing, but it does have the advantage of making the Internet a source for considerably better and well supported information. Some of this information is of direct interest to researchers, such as vendor support for numerous hardware platforms and software systems, such as: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Inc now has a Web server. It is running under MS-DOS and DESQview/X. Of interest: QEMM technotes; ports to DESQview/X (including Mosaic 2.1). Novell has added some nice new utilities and services on their Web server. Now you can run a wais search on the news using the archive of Novell-related Newsgroups. Another new utility is a form for submitting UnixWare Product Enhancement requests. This form is routed to the UnixWare product managers so users can tell Novell what they'd like to see in future versions of UnixWare. The debate concerning the commercialization of the Internet needs to be conducted with a realization that 1) commerce is already on the Internet and 2) there are as many benefits as pitfalls to this commercialization. And finally, I'd be remise if I did not plug my own ARTFL Project, a non-profit research outfit for French studies holding 2,000 French texts :-) <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html">http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html</a> Mark Olsen University of Chicago From: lexical@crl.nmsu.edu (Consortium for Lexical Research) Subject: Consortium for Lexical Research Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 16:35:15 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 426 (788) The Consortium for Lexical Research is designed to serve as a repository for software and resources of importance to the linguistics and natural language processing research community. Sharable resources, and the task of centralizing lexical data and tools, are of foremost concern in lexical research and computational linquistics. It is our objective to help alleviate the repeated re-creation of basic software tools, and to assist in making essential data sources more generally available. *********************************************** * For more information on CLR, please write * * to lexical@crl.nmsu.edu. You may also ftp * * to clr.nmsu.edu, and get our "catalog.ps" * * (postscript) or "catalog" (ascii). * *********************************************** If you have developed a piece of software for computational linguistics or natural language processing that other researchers might find useful, you can include it in the CLR archives by returning the following description form. We would be very pleased to review your contribution. __________________________________________________________________ TODAY'S DATE: AUTHOR'S NAME: SOFTWARE NAME or NAME OF THE RESOURCE: TYPE: (type of tool or data) DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF THE RESOURCE: AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTATION, MANUALS, OR README FILE: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: PLATFORM: (Hardware, OS, etc.) COPYRIGHT: PRICE OR LIMITATIONS: (academic use only, freely available, etc.) NOTES: (any additional info) _______________________________________ Please be sure to include the following: Author Name: Complete Address: Telephone: Email address: __________________________________________________________________ Thank you very much, Katherine A. Mitchell Consortium for Lexical Research email: lexical@nmsu.edu postal: Box 30001/ 3CRL New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 phone: (505)-646-5466 From: Donald Spaeth <DSPAETH@dish.gla.ac.uk> Subject: AHC'94 -- Hull Conference Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 10:10:32 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 427 (789) Association for History and Computing UK Branch Conference The Seventh Annual Conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK Branch) will be held at the University of Hull between 12 and 14 April 1994. As well as existing members of the Association, we are anxious to see those of our "mainstream" colleagues who have so far resisted the blandishments of Information Technology, but think they might now want to get involved -- particularly with the impending arrival of courseware products coming out the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). The "major" theme of the conference will be to explore what computerate historians have to learn from disciplines cognate with History, or those from which we have traditionally filched elements of our methodology. We hope to have sessions which focus on Anthropology, Art History, Economics, Geography, Sociology and Textual Studies, with reference to time-frames ranging from the medieval to the near-contemporary. The "minor" theme is to be the role of computing in the modern History Curriculum, broadly defined: from what's going on in secondary schools and colleges post-National Curriculum; through the undergraduate programme, with special reference to TLTP products; to the IT component of postgraduate training courses being developed under the 1+3 arrangements favoured by ESRC and the British Academy. We shall, of course, be issuing invitations to a number of keynote speakers, but would be very grateful to receive offers of papers on any of the subjects identified above. Further particulars and booking forms can be obtained from Steve Baskerville, Dean of the School of Arts, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX. Phone: 0482-465684 (Secretary: Louise Danby). E-mail: s.w.baskerville@amstuds.hull.ac.uk Ten years ago, before the celebrated Westfield Conferences that gave life to the AHC, there was a select gathering of people interested in historical computing met at Hull to discuss their common interests. We would like to see as many of you as possible come here again in 1994 to discuss the agendas of the next decade! Steve Baskerville University of Hull From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: First Issue of INfo Tech and Disabilities Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 16:20:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 428 (790) Announcing the Availability of a New Electronic Journal: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES Below is information about the journal, including the table of contents for Volume I, no. 1, as well as information on editorial staff and explicit instructions for subscribing or using the journal via gopher. IT&D V1N1 Table of Contents 230 lines ********************************************* INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES ISSN 1073-5127 Volume I, No. 1 January, 1994 ********************************************* ARTICLES ********************************************* INTRODUCING _INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES_ (itdV01N1 mcnulty) Tom McNulty, Editor ********************************************* BUILDING AN ACCESSIBLE CD-ROM REFERENCE STATION (itdV01N1 wyatt) Rochelle Wyatt and Charles Hamilton ABSTRACT: This case study describes the development of an accessible CD-ROM workstation at the Washington Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Included are descriptions of hardware and software, as well as selected CD-ROM reference sources. Information is provided on compatibility of individual CD-ROM products with adaptive technology hardware and software. ********************************************* DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCESSIBLE USER INTERFACE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISION IMPAIRED AS PART OF THE RE-COMPUTERISATION OF ROYAL BLIND SOCIETY (AUSTRALIA) (itdV01N1 noonan) Tim Noonan ABSTRACT: In 1991, Royal Blind Society (Australia) and Deen Systems, a Sydney-based software development company, undertook a major overhaul of RBS information systems intended to enhance access to RBS client services as well as employment opportunities for blind and vision impaired RBS staff. This case study outlines the steps taken and principles followed in the development of a computer user interface intended for efficient use by blind and vision impaired individuals. ********************************************* THE ELECTRONIC REHABILITATION RESOURCE CENTER AT ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY (NEW YORK) (itdV01N1 holtzman) Bob Zenhausern and Mike Holtzman ABSTRACT: St. John's University in Jamaica, New York, is host to a number of disability-related network information sources and services. This article identifies and describes key sources and services, including Bitnet listservs, or discussion groups, the UNIBASE system which includes real-time online conferencing, and other valuable educational and rehabilitation-related network information sources. ********************************************* THE CLEARINGHOUSE ON COMPUTER ACCOMMODATION (COCA) (itdV01N1 brummel) Susan Brummel and Doug Wakefield ABSTRACT: Since 1985, COCA has been pioneering information policies and computer support practices that benefit Federal employees with disabilities and members of the public with disabilities. Today, COCA provides a variety of services to people within and outside Government employment. The ultimate goal of all COCA's activities is to advance equitable information environments consistent with non-discriminatory employment and service delivery goals. ********************************************* DEPARTMENTS ********************************************* JOB ACCOMMODATIONS (itdV01N1 jobs) Editor: Joe Lazzaro lazzaro@bix.com K - 12 EDUCATION (itdV01N1 k12) Editor: Anne Pemberton apembert@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu LIBRARIES (itdV01N1 library) Editor: Ann Neville neville@emx.cc.utexas.edu ONLINE INFORMATION AND NETWORKING (itdV01N1 online) Editor: Steve Noble slnobl01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu CAMPUS COMPUTING (itdV01N1 campus) Editor: Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, Ph.D., hilton-chalfen@mic.ucla.edu ********************************************* Copyright (c 1994) by (IT&D) Information Technology and Disabilities. Authors of individual articles retain all copyrights to said articles, and their permission is needed to reproduce any individual article. The rights to the journal as a collection belong to (IT&D) Information Technology and Disabilities. IT&D encourages any and all electronic distribution of the journal and permission for such copying is expressly permitted here so long as it bears no charge beyond possible handling fees. To reproduce the journal in non-electronic format requires permission of its board of directors. To do this, contact the editor. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Tom McNulty, New York University (mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu) EDITORS Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University EDITORIAL BOARD Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Danny Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Alistair D. N. Edwards, PhD, University of York, UK Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA Lawrence A. Scadden, PhD, National Science Foundation Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University ********************************************* ABOUT EASI (EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION) Since its founding in 1988 under the EDUCOM umbrella, EASI has worked to increase access to information technology by persons with disabilities. Volunteers from EASI have been instrumental in the establishment of _Information Technology and Disabilities_ as still another step in this process. Our mission has been to serve as a resource primarily to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access to information technologies. We seek to spread this information to schools, colleges, universities and into the workplace. EASI makes extensive use of the internet to disseminate this information, including two discussion lists: EASI@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (a general discussion on computer access) and AXSLIB-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (a discussion on library access issues). To join either list, send a "subscribe" command to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU including the name of the discussion you want to join plus your own first and last name. EASI also maintains several items on the St. Johns gopher under the menu heading "Disability and Rehabilitation Resources". For further information, contact the EASI Chair: Norman Coombs, Ph.D. NRCGSH@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU or the EASI office: EASI's phone: (310) 640-3193 EASI's e-mail: EASI@EDUCOM.EDU ********************************************* Individual _ITD_ articles and departments are archived on the St. John's University gopher. To access the journal via gopher, locate the St. John's University (New York) gopher. Select "Disability and Rehabilitation Resources," and from the next menu, select "EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information." _Information Technology and Disabilities_ is an item on the EASI menu. To retrieve individual articles and departments by e-mail from the listserv: address an e-mail message to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu leave subject line blank the message text should include the word "get" followed by the two word file name; for example: get itdV01N1 contents Each article and department has a unique filename; that name is listed below the article or department in parentheses. Do NOT include the parentheses with the filename when sending the "get" command to listserv. NOTE: ONLY ONE ITEM MAY BE RETRIEVED PER MESSAGE; DO NOT SEND MULTIPLE GET COMMANDS IN A SINGLE E-MAIL MESSAGE TO LISTSERV. To receive the journal regularly, send e-mail to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with no subject and either of the following lines OF text: subscribe itd-toc "Firstname Lastname" subscribe idt-jnl "Firstname Lastname" (ITD-JNL is the entire journal in one e-mail message while ITD-TOC sends the contents with information on how to obtain specific articles.) To get a copy of the guidelines for authors, send e-mail to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with no subject and the following single line of text: get author guidelin From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: Conference Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 08:33:36 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 429 (791) "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: New Directions for Electronic Lexicography in Latin and Greek" on the campus of the University of California at Irvine (UCI). Thirty-three international scholars (see attached roster) met to discuss plans for creating an electronic lexicon based on the published text of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) and to consider possible lexicographic directions UCI's Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) might take in the future. The conference succeeded in its goal of formulating definite plans for the production of TLL in a machine-readable format at UCI. The participants unanimously endorsed the project and pledged their support by ratifying a motion which is quoted at the conclusion of this report. The first day of the conference was entirely devoted to the subject of converting TLL to an electronic format. The papers read by Peter Flury (General Editor of TLL), Richard Tarrant (Chair of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University), Cornelis van Leijenhorst (an associate editor of TLL), and Patrick Sinclair (Department of Classics at UCI) respectively set out the basic principles of organization in TLL, described some scholarly desiderata of an electronic version, discussed some aspects of the printed TLL that will require special treatment in the process of computerization, and suggested ways in which an electronic lexicon might be realized through textual encoding and the development of search software. Paul Tombeur (Director of the Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents--CETEDOC) spoke about his institute's experience developing and distributing electronic texts on CD ROM. The second day opened with two papers about the contents of TLG's data bank. Francisco Rodriguez Adrados (General Editor of the Diccionario Griego-Espanol in production in Madrid, Spain) described how his institute for Greek lexicography has benefited from using TLG in its research. Then William Johnson (TLG's Assistant Director and Director of Research) delivered a paper outlining one way in which TLG's data might be encoded and organized so as to facilitate linguistic analysis that would be useful to the broadest range of scholarly interests. Johnson suggested that "morphological categorization" would be an especially useful method of using the TLG data bank to create an electronic Greek historical lexicon. The afternoon of the second day returned to the subject of planning the computerization of TLL. Theodore Brunner (TLG's Director) assessed the previous day's discussions and then proceeded to describe the practical steps necessary to create an organizational structure and to secure funding for the project. At the conclusion of his address he put forwardOn December 17-18, 1993, Patrick Sinclair convened an invitational conference entitled the following motion: We, the members of the December 1993 Planning Conference, representing a broad spectrum of international academic expertise and interests, firmly and unanimously endorse the concept of creating an electronic version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Availability of such an electronic resource will significantly enhance opportunities for research and scholarship as Classics and the humanities move into the 21st century. We envision the project leading to the creation of this resource as one of international scope and import, and one offering unique opportunities for collaboration between the University of California, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and other American and European research entities and organizations. We pledge our endorsement and support to Professor Patrick Sinclair as he creates, at UC Irvine, the organizational, scholarly, technological, and financial structures upon which the electronic Thesaurus Linguae Latinae will rest, and we emphasize that the creation of an electronic TLL is sufficiently important to research and scholarship to justify the investment of extensive private, institutional, and governmental funds. The motion was seconded by Richard Tarrant and ratified by a positive vote of all the participants. Arrangements are being made to publish the conference papers in an appropriate journal or monograph series. Conference Participants: Francisco R. Adrados, General Editor, Diccionario Griego-Espanol, Madrid, Spain. Athan Anagnostopoulos, Director, The Greek Institute, Cambridge, Mass. George Anagnostopoulos, Department of Philosophy, UC San Diego. Stephen A. Barney, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine. Theodore F. Brunner, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project, UC Irvine; Director. Dee Clayman, Professor of Classics, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; Director of the American Philological Association's Database of Classical Bibliography Project. Anthony T. Corbeill, Department of Classics, University of Kansas; past American Philological Association Fellow to the TLL (1990-91). Andrew Dyck, Professor of Classics, UCLA; member of the American Philological Association's Committee on Reserarch. Peter Flury, General Editor, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany. William Johnson, Director of Research and Assistant Director, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project, UC Irvine; member of the American Philological Association's Committee on Electronic Texts. Cornelis G. van Leijenhorst, Associate Editor, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Germany. Marianne McDonald, Professor of Classics and Theater, UC San Diego; founder of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project, UC Irvine. Charles Murgia, Professor of Classics, UC Berkeley; past member of the American Philological Association's TLL Fellowship Committee. Wilkins Poe, Department of Classics, Yale University; research Classicist and computing consultant. Barbara Shailor, Professor of Classics and Vice President for Student Services, Bucknell University; Chair of the American Philological Association's TLL Fellowship Committee. Patrick Sinclair, Department of Classics, UC Irvine; past American Philological Association Fellow to the TLL (1987-88); member of the American Philological Association's TLL Fellowship Committee. Juan Rodriguez Somolinos, Research Associate, Diccionario Griego-Espanol, Madrid, Spain. Richard Tarrant, Professor and Chair of the Department of the Classics, Harvard University; past Chair of the American Philological Association's TLL Fellowship Committee. Paul Tombeur, Director of the Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents (CETEDOC). Brent H. Vine, Department of Classics, Princeton University. Shirley Werner, Department of Classics, UC Irvine; past American Philological Association Fellow to the TLL (1992-93). ****************************************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU ****************************************************************** From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: BICS Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 10:01:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 514 (792) According to my Periodica philologica abbreviata, by Tor Ulving (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1963), BICS stands for Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London. A casual look at the MLA list did not turn up a listing, so it may be moribund. Jim Marchand. From: ocramer@cc.colorado.edu Subject: RE: 7.0421 Qs: School calendars; BICS (2/61) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 09:06:20 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 515 (793) BICS is the _Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London_ From: Vivian Hilda Price <eaog095@orion.oac.uci.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0403 Interdisciplinarity (1/19) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 22:58:52 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 516 (794) Yes, I have begun corresponding with scholars in other disciplines because of e-mail, and I have used interdisciplinary bibliographic sources since getting access to a modem. -vivian price, uci grad student in politics and society eaog095@orion.oac.uci.edu From: he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Burr) Subject: BICS and thanks Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 10:21:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 517 (795) Dear Humanists, thanks to everybody who has responded to my query about bics, I am always amazed about the friendlyness and efficency of the people who belong to this list. It is great to part of this comunity. Elisabeth Burr Romanistik Universitaet-GH Duisburg From: RELIHAN@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Query--16th c. references to Arcadia Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 11:19 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 518 (796) For a project on the relationship between literature and geography, I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has run across references to Arcadia, the Greek province not Sidney's or Sannazaro's romance, in 16th c. texts. Thanks for your help. Constance C. Relihan (e-mail: relihan@ducvax.auburn.edu) From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: fish names Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 17:05+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 519 (797) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A colleague of mine has tried unsuccessfully to identify two types of fishes, the latin names of which are LUTIANIDAE and PRISTIPOMOIDES ZONATUS. I told him that there might be some HUMANIST or other with a well-populated fish tank... Thanks for any info. Fritz Heberlein From: rand@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Rand David) Subject: Advertising Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 14:21:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 520 (798) I have mixed feelings about commercial use of the Internet. Basically I favour more rather than less control of such use. I don't want to receive tons of junk mail. Yet I also have a foot on the other side of the debate. About a year ago I submitted to HUMANIST a brief posting (a few sentences) announcing a for-sale software product of which I am co-author. My posting never appeared, and I concluded that it must have been censored because it constituted advertising. HUMANIST probably has a policy of excluding advertising, thought I (am I right?), so I chalked this incident up to an error on my part. Now it would appear that that policy (if it exists) is being questioned. I hope that the current discussion will lead to the elaboration of clear guidelines. I would suggest that product announcements, if allowed, should be kept brief and concise. Anyone desiring more detailed information could request it privately. If such announcements are not allowed, then this restriction should be clearly stated. .................................................................. David Rand, CRM, U. de Montreal, CP-6128-A Montreal Quebec H3C 3J7 Telephone: 514-343-6111:4726 --|-- Internet: rand@ere.umontreal.ca From: Elaine Brennan <Elaine_Brennan@Brown.edu> Subject: Date: Fri, 20 Jan 94 3:25:45 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 521 (799) I hope that this note will serve primarily as an extraordinarily belated apology to David Rand, whose notice about his software progrm (dated 10 May 1992) should have been posted to Humanist at the time we received it. I suspect that while one of the then editors intended to post it, it may have gotten caught in a transition between us, and was inadvertently ignored. (I still have the note, and if it's still valid, Prof. Rand, please let me know -- I *will* post it.) Advertising seems to me to be a rather large puzzle on the net; I am myself more frustrated by advertising that pretends to be substantive than by a more obviously identifiable "buy me! buy me!" notice. But sometimes, I don't find it an easy call. On the one hand, much of the information that we deal with on Humanist is necessarily related to products -- be it font packages, CD-ROM products, computer systems -- and just the mention of some of those products could easily be construed as (at least) tacit advertisments. And there are tools, developed in many instances by our colleagues, which can be very helpful in our work, and which simply are not available through other channels. On the other hand, I don't want to be any more overwhelmed than I am already with notices of products or cries of the end of the world, or internet dating services for that matter. I put up with them because, at the moment, the signal as a whole is still better than the noise. But some days I wonder. Is there any easy answer here? I doubt it; I assume that while wearing my editorial hat (as opposed to my bad hair day hat) I will continue to make some decisions that members of the Humanist community disagree with. My editorial biases and mistakes are just that -- mine -- and I try to be clear about them, and to share with the members of Humanist many of those comments that call me to task for my lapses. Elaine From: cedwards@acs.bu.edu (Christopher Edwards) Subject: Re: 7.0419 Humanist & Advertising: Question & Comments (4/129) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 94 17:03:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 522 (800) The problem with advertising on the Internet: First of all, it is not clear that what is promised in an advertisement (or as they say in the magazine business, an advertorial) is what is delivered. I have no objection to commercial channels of the Internet somehow devoted to advertising -- as long as everyone knows it and the advertisers are clearly labelled as advertisers. The ads should support Internet with ad rates in this case, instead of draining taxpayers' and university money. Several other problems: people on Internet are often very busy, too busy to answer all the relevant mail or even read relevant mail. When Internet is seen as cheap advertising, the volume of junk e-mail will probably dwarf problems encountered with junk faxes. I come to the Internet to learn other peoples's positions. I don't have the time or investigative ability to sort out whether speaking truthfully is a conflict of interest for an advertiser -- as it often is in industries where all of your competitors are fudging in big and small ways. Internet advertorials cannot be tested. Unlike a scientific experiment which can be duplicated, a statement of fact or opinion by an owner/academic about a product cannot be easily challenged (without buying the product). People will therefore tend to buy products based upon the reputations of the advertorial sponsers. This tendency will further tempt scholars to compromise their "academic agendas" for their "commercial agendas." I have seen this happen repeatedly in other areas, especially biotechnology, and I have talked with the scholars caught between the two agendas. Everybody on the Internet has agendas, people are honest or dishonest in academia and industry, depending upon who they are. But let's not be forced to be suspicious of Internet opinions when sifting through the messages. And advertisers: don't junk my mailbox! I won't buy your products. Chris Edwards cedwards@acs.bu.edu From: MCSWAIN@Acd.Tusk.Edu Subject: advertising Date: 18 Jan 1994 20:34:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 523 (801) That material of whatever nature is available on gophers or other computer sources is irrelevant to whether or not commercial material should appear on HUMANIST. If one wishes to search out information at some location, that obviously is a private decision. The question as I understood it for debate here is whether or not commercial material should appear on HUMANIST, not the INTERNET in general. I think the point has been well stated that strictly speaking a ban on all commercial material is unwise, since various products are relevant and useful for humanists/computing/teaching. Further, I am sure no one wishes to cast doubt on the ability of the moderators/editors of HUMANIST to screen out obviously inappropriate material. The parallel here is a book advertisement in the back pages of scholarly journals. My concern is that I do not want to be showered with commercial messages without someone screening out much that might be thrown my way. I currently receive 30-40 new messages per day, and many more would make the situation unmanageable not to mention the possibility of exceeding my disk space allowance. Perhaps, the solution is to have listservers dedicated to commcials ends and divided by product type, so that one could voluntarily send in one's address and receive vast quantities of 'for hire' 'for sale' messages. Regards, James McSwain MCSWAIN@acd.tusk.edu From: bjoe@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Barry W. K. Joe) Subject: Position Available Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 15:52:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 433 (802) Prof. K. M. McKay, Chair of English Language and Literature at Brock University, St. Catharines, CANADA has asked me to post the following two notices of vacancies on HUMANIST: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BROCK UNIVERSITY Faculty of Humanities DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TENURE-TRACK APPOINTMENT Brock University Department of English Language and Literature invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, subject to budgetary approval, beginning July 1, 1994. The successful candidate will have demonstrated scholarly and teaching competence in Commonwealth and Post-Colonial literature in English and will be prepared to teach in one or two other English areas, including an historical survey at the Year 1 level. Applicants should have the Ph.D. or equivalent. Brock University is committed to a positive action policy aimed at reducing gender imbalance in faculty; qualified women are especially encouraged to apply. Letters of application, dossiers, and three letters of reference should be sent to: PROFESSOR KENNETH M. MCKAY, PH.D. CHAIR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE BROCK UNIVERSITY ST. CATHARINES, ON L2S 3A1 CANADA The closing date for completed applications is FEBRUARY 28, 1994. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BROCK UNIVERSITY Faculty of Humanities Department of English Language and Literature 9-MONTH SESSIONAL APPOINTMENT Brock University Department of English Language and Literature invites applications for a 9-month sessional appointment, subject to budgetary approval, beginning September 1, 1994. The successful candidate will have demonstrated scholarly and teaching competence in 16th and early 17th century English literature, and will be prepared to teach an historical survey at the Year 1 level. Applicants should have the Ph.D. or equivalent. Brock University is committed to a positive action policy aimed at reducing gender imbalance in faculty; qualified women are especially encouraged to apply. Letters of application, dossiers, and three letters of reference should be sent to: PROFESSOR KENNETH M. MCKAY, PH.D. CHAIR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE BROCK UNIVERSITY ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO L2S 3A1 The closing date for completed applications is FEBRUARY 28, 1994. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. From: William_Crossgrove@brown.edu (William Crossgrove) Subject: Fish Names Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 17:03:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 524 (803) I would urge your colleague who is interested in fish names to contact Professor Richard C. Hoffmann Department of History York University 226 Vanier College 4700 Keele Street North York, Ontario CANADA M3J 1P3 for information on names or anything having to do with fishing in the Middle Ages. He has an email address, but I do not have it in front of me at the moment. -- William Crossgrove German Department Brown University Providence, RI 02912 From: henrich@theol.unizh.ch (Rainer Henrich) Subject: Re: 7.0431 Qs: Arcadia Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 09:12:54 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 525 (804) In a letter to Joachim Vadian, Johannes Faber (the later enemy of the reformation) writes about a preacher who had criticized Erasmus: "Hunc azinum (asinum) in Archadiam relegato; hic suas lactucas inveniet." (See Vadianische Briefsammlung vol. II, St. Gallen 1894, p. 290[98].) -- Rainer Henrich, lic. theol. Bullinger-Briefwechsel-Edition Phone: xx41 1 257 67 54 Kirchgasse 9 FAX: xx41 1 262 14 12 CH-8001 Zuerich e-mail: henrich@theol.unizh.ch From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <jgt@hum.gu.se> Subject: Discussion List for Old Norse Studies Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 9:49:21 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 435 (805) OLDNORSENET The aim of OLDNORSENET is to provide a forum for discussion of problems that concern the medieval Scandinavian and North Atlantic societies. The network will be open for contributions from researchers in all branches of medieval studies concerning the Nordic area. Our hope is to start a lively and open discussion of new and old problems within the subject, and that ideas and suggestions will be presented and discussed by the members of the network. We hope that the participants realise the importance of not using the network for personal feuds that should better be solved in personal correspondence so that the rules for contributions to the network can be as loosely formulated as possible. Any one who wishes to contribute to the network should include his or her e-mail-address in all contributions so that personal answers could be directed outside the list. Owner of the network is: Forum foer fornnordisk forskning, (Center for Old Norse Studies), Gothenburg University The administrator of the network is: Karl Gunnar Johansson, Gothenburg University E-mail: kgjohansson@svenska.gu.se All messages to the distribution network "OLDNORSENET" shall be sent to: oldnorsenet@hum.gu.se To subscribe to OLDNORSENET, please write a letter to: listproc@hum.gu.se and the only line: subscribe OLDNORSENET Your Name There is an address to the technical staff if you have any problems or suggestions: oldnorsenet-request@hum.gu.se ---------------- -- ****************************************************************** Jan-Gunnar Tingsell <tingsell@hum.gu.se> Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice tel: +46 (0)31 773 4553 G|teborgs universitet fax: +46 (0)31 773 4455 From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Arcadia Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 21:37:05 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 526 (806) I have the definite feeling that the word Arcadia was more in use on the continent in England. At the risk of telling you what you already know: Bruno Snell has a nice chapter on Arcadia as an ideal landscape in his The Discovery of Mind (Torchbook) (has nothing of interest to the Renaissance, except for the origin of the topos). He refers, of course, to Panofsky's famous "Et in Arcadia ego," Cassirer Festschrift, a locus classicus. Hellmuth Petricioni, "Das neue Arkadien," Antike und Abendland 3 (1948), 187-200, discusses later uses of Arcadia, as does also H. Wendel, Arkadien im Umkreis bukolischer Dichtung in der Antike und in der franzoesischen Literatur. Giessener Beitraege zur romanischen Philologie, 1933. Of course, the historical dictionaries (OED, Grimm, etc.) are of some use, but not much. Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Arcadia again Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:54:15 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 527 (807) I just popped my handy-dandy MLA CD-ROM into the reader and noted that it has 137 hits for Arcadia (more for adjective, etc.), most of which are on Sidney and Sannizaro, but some on Lope and a few seeming to be surveys of the topos in the Renaissance. Looking those up and combing through them ought to yield something. Jim Marchand. From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown) Subject: Digital Maps summary Date: 21 Jan 94 16:47:02 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 528 (808) A week or two ago, I posted a plea for information on the state of digital maps for use in research and instruction. I promised to summarize the replies I received. Several respondents (Michael Metzger, Roger Brisson, Ed Haupt, Nicholas Whyte) mentioned the program Millenium, published by Clockwork Software. This program was apparently praised last August in a discussion on the MEDIEV-L list. All other comments were also laudatory. I contacted Clockwork and found that the program currently runs only under Windows. This is tough luck for me, since Dartmouth is a Mac school. But I was told that a Macintosh version was under development and might be ready next summer. Clockwork will send a demonstration disk with its Windows version. They can be reached at (312) 281-3132 - PO Box 148036 Chicago IL 60614. I've not yet set eyes on the program, but have requested a demo disk. Other than that, digital maps seem to be, as Donald Spaeth phrased it, a "real problem." Most other resources have been created to solve a specific need; there's no "TEI" for digital maps and apparently no "OTA" for maps either. For example, Roy Wolfe reports that a collection of 18th and 19th century maps of Paris are available at Columbia available in .gif format. These can be downloaded from their gopher. There are also some limited collections available through America On-Line (in the Mac Graphics and PC forums), but these are limited and vary widely with respect to quality. Up to now, this is all the information I've received. Don Spaeth was kind enough to forward my original note to CTICH's History-All list. If additional responses come in, I'll send summaries to Humanist. Many thanks to those who took the trouble to reply to my note! Malcolm Brown Dartmouth College From: "Don W." <webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU> Subject: Egyptian hieroglyphs font Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:49:50 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 529 (809) Some time ago a query appeared concerning a Macintosh font that would print Egyptian hieroglyphs. I posted a query to Info-Mac (Info-Mac@sumex-aim.Stanford.Edu) and have received a few replies offlist. Two of them mentioned: Dubl-Click Software, Inc. 18201 Gresham Street Northridge, CA 91325 (818) 349-2758 It appears uncertain that this information is still current. In any case, it's a lead. Don W. (DonWebb@CSUS.Edu) From: HOKE ROBINSON <ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET> Subject: Re: 7.0432 More on Advertising and Humanist (4/124) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 16:50:02 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 530 (810) A suggestion: I don't know how other people's systems work, but when I connect to my e-mail account, I go automatically into a directory ("folder") called NEWMAIL. When I type in DIR, I get a list of all the messages I've received since last time I cleaned out NEWMAIL. I can delete messages unread; the difficulty is that it's not always clear where the message came from, or what it's about. My directory headings are: #, FROM, DATE, SUBJ. I always know when a message is from HUMANIST, since FROM is always EDITORS@BROWNVM. (The same, incidentally, can't be said for PHILOSOP, whose messages appear to have come directly from their author.) The subject line gives about 30 characters on screen. If other people's directories are similar, how about requiring that advertising have a subject line beginning AD: or ADS:. Then I can browse through them if I have time, or delete them unread if not, secure in the knowledge that I'm deleting an ad. (Another alternative is to have a separate HUMANIST-ADS list to which ads are sent, and to which one can subscribe or not, as one chooses.) Reactions? -- Hoke Robinson, Philosophy, Memphis State From: Joe Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM> Subject: Re: 7.0432 More on Advertising and Humanist (4/124) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 17:10:41 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 531 (811) Perhaps one way out of the dilemma of humanists who want to be kept in- formed of new products but not be deluged with junk mail is the method adopted for SCHOLAR. Succinct one-sentence descriptions of new products are sent periodically to subscribers, along with instructions for retriev- ing more substantial information, including the address of the vendor. Only individuals interested in the product will download the full note. The residual benefit is that the full information remains permanently available in the databases at CUNY and Hopkins for anyone who discovers a need for it long after the original notice appeared. Joseph Raben From: John Younger <jyounger@acpub.duke.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0403 Interdisciplinarity (1/19) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 20:50:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 532 (812) [deleted quotation] I subscribe to several BBS in Classics and have started one for Aegean Bronze Age archaeology. We now have 171 subscribes as of now. Besides keeping in touch with new developments in the field instantaneously, I find myself coming up with new ideas. As a gay political activist on Duke campus, I've created a e-mail discussion group in G&L classical studies, and subscribe to various G&L BBS which also has allowed me to examine GL course syllabi and with these in mind, design a GL introductory course that is running for the first time this semester -- I keep in contact with the graduate instructors and my committee through e-mail. John G. Younger Professor of Classical Archaeology Dept of Classical Studies Duke University email jyounger@acpub.duke.edu From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Arima notebook users on HUMANIST? Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 13:53:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 437 (813) Several colleagues in the U.S. & I are thinking of starting an e-list for humanities computing involving work on notebook computers, particularly where multimedia is concerned. Since we incipient founders happen to have Arima notebook computers, we're particularly interested in finding others who do because of the hardware issues that come up. These particular computers are often configured and sold by Austin Computers, Ergo Computing, and several vendors in Taiwan, France, and Germany, to name a few other countries. Naturally, anyone interested in other notebook computers is welcome to respond. The notebook factor here is tied to additional aspects like classroom use, mobile use, demonstrations & conference presentations. If you are interested in a hardware/software forum combining notebook computing with work in the humanities, please let me know. Joel D. Goldfield Associate Professor of French Plymouth State College (NH); Editor, Educational Technology, _The Ram's Horn_ Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_ Member, Modern Language Assoc. Executive Comm. on Computers & Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research From: Paul Tombeur <THOMDOC@BUCLLN11.BITNET> Subject: Answer to Mr. T. Brunner Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 08:08:50 CET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 438 (814) I have examined the electronic message, as it was sent by Professor Theodore F. Brunner to all participants of the "Classics" study group on Friday, January 14th, regarding the conference held on December 17th-18th on the campus of the University of California at Irvine (UCI) on "Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: New Directions for Electronic Lexicography in Latin and Greek." I was appalled to read the report by Theodore F. Brunner and am compelled to issue a categorical denial to its main points. 1. Indeed, Theodore F. Brunner did present at our latest session a TENTATIVE motion. 2. Yet, the participants DID NOT endorse the project or pledge their support by ratifying a motion. 3. The motion WAS NOT "ratified by a positive vote of all the participants." There was NO VOTE. 4. The text of the motion was NOT EVEN MADE AVAILABLE to the participants, and so NO SIGNATURE whatsoever was appended to any text. 5. Nobody was entrusted with a mandate for the production of TLL in a machine-readable format, and the general editor of the TLL confined himself to general expectations. 6. The session was adjourned leaving the discussion open and NOT having made ANY DECISION. I deeply regret having to set things straight in such a categorical way. This can only be confirmed by all the participants mentioned in the message. Prof. Paul TOMBEUR Director of the CETEDOC Louvain-la-Neuve From: rand@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Rand David) Subject: THIS IS AN AD! Date: Fri, 21 Jan 94 18:13:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 533 (815) Thanks to Elaine Brennan for clearing up my confusion about the acceptability of product announcements on HUMANIST. So I will now push my product, but I'll be brief. A concordance software package "Concorder" (or "Le Concordeur" in its French version) for Macintosh is available from: Les Publications CRM Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128-A Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada The software was developed by myself in collaboration with T. Patera of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at McGill University. It was reviewed in Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 26, pages 463-464. The software and accompanying user's manual sell for CDN$100 or US$92 (or significantly less for multiple copies). For further information, contact me by e-mail, phone or fax (see the footer of this message). As Ms. Brennan addresses me as "Prof. Rand" -- and in the interests of truth in advertising -- I point out that although I work in an academic environment, I am a programmer, not a professor. .................................................................. David Rand, CRM, U. de Montreal, CP-6128-A Montreal Quebec H3C 3J7 Telephone: 514-343-6111:4726 --|-- Internet: rand@ere.umontreal.ca From: Jonathan Shay <jshay@world.std.com> Subject: Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 17:26:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 534 (816) Dear Editor of HUMANIST, The above-captioned book may be of great interest to those teaching introductory humanities courses or implementing core curricula. It has interdisciplinary appeal in classics, American Studies, psychology, history, anthropology, religion, and ethics. The writing style is accessible to most college students. I am attempting to identify people who will be willing to review _Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character_ for journals in their specialties, newspapers, magazines, or broadcast media, so that I may send them spiral-bound copies of the corrected galley proofs. I have been extremely fortunate in getting a first-rate U.S. publisher [Atheneum, May, 1994] and in receiving very heartening "advance comment" from a number of quarters. A selection of these, and a detailed table of contents is attached. [text of reviews deleted. --Ed.] SUMMARY: ACHILLES IN VIETNAM places the powerful words of Vietnam combat veterans next to the story that Homer tells of Achilles in the Iliad. Modern combat soldiers can teach us something new about this great ancient Greek epic. And Homer saw within the heart of the soldier many things that we in modern psychiatry have missed. Achilles' story -- betrayal of "what's right" by his commander; shrinkage of his moral and social horizon to the small group of his combat-proven comrades; death of his closest friend; grief; guilt; feeling like he is "already dead;" going berserk and committing atrocities -- is one that we hear again and again from former Vietnam combat soldiers. Veterans speak their own words in this book. This is a realistic and respectful portrait of men whose war experiences caused severe life-long psychiatric symptoms and undid their good character. ACHILLES IN VIETNAM raises the level of discourse about the Vietnam War, and with trustworthy scholarship uncovers important new meaning in Homer's war epic. This readable and accessible book is outstanding for the emotional power of the veterans' narratives and for its fascinating insights into war, the mind, and society. I am the psychiatrist for a group of American combat veterans of the Vietnam War who have severe, chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and personality changes. A number of years ago I was struck by the similarity of their war experiences to Homer's account of Achilles in the Iliad. This observation led to an article in the Journal of Traumatic Stress, "Learning about Combat Stress from Homer's Iliad," which led to my book, _Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character_, forthcoming from Atheneum in May. The thrust of this work is that Homer's epic gives center stage to bitter experiences that actually do arise in war; and further, it makes the claim that Homer has seen things that we in psychiatry and psychology have more or less missed. Homer's Iliad was composed about 27 centuries ago; it is about soldiers in war. ACHILLES IN VIETNAM: COMBAT TRAUMA AND THE UNDOING OF CHARACTER by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. Forthcoming from Atheneum [imprint of Macmillan], May, 1994 DEDICATION TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I 1. BETRAYAL OF "WHAT'S RIGHT" An army is a moral construction Victory, defeat, and the hovering dead Some veterans' view -- What is defeat? What is victory? Dimensions of betrayal of "what's right" On danger in war The fairness assumption The fiduciary assumption Soldiers' rage -- the beginning 2. SHRINKAGE OF THE SOCIAL AND MORAL HORIZON One American soldier's social space Tracking Achilles through social space Desertion Simplification of the social world to a single comrade Achilles' character before his psychological injuries Respect for the dead Taking prisoners alive Moral luck War destroys the trustworthy social order of the mind Combat is a condition of captivity and enslavement "Don't mean nothin'" -- Destruction of ideals, ambitions, affiliations 3. GRIEF AT THE DEATH OF A SPECIAL COMRADE Soldiers' love for special comrades -- Vietnam and Troy Homer on the relationship between Achilles and Patroklos The specialness of the special comrade Portrait of Patroklos The grief of Achilles Being already dead Grief and the warrior's rage Communalization of grief in the Iliad and in Vietnam When were the dead brought to the rear? Who brought the dead to the rear? When were the dead mourned? What was the level of trust, safety, and social cohesiveness in the rear during mourning? Use of mind-altering substances Who wept for the dead, and how were tears valued? Who washed and prepared the dead for cremation/burial, shipment home? The importance of thwarted grief 4. GUILT AND WRONGFUL SUBSTITUTION Abandonment and wrongful substitution Deserving the death sentence Homecoming renounced An unintended outcome of religious education? Soldier's rage -- fatal convergence and completion 5. BERSERK Triggers of the berserk state "Don't get sad. Get Even!" Characteristics of the berserk state A beast A god Above and beneath -- disconnection from human community Loss of all restraint Revenge as reviving the dead The berserker in the eyes of other soldiers Flaming ice -- berserk physiology Aristeiai of American Soldiers in Vietnam -- The differences Naked berserkers and Achilles' invulnerability Clinical importance of the berserk state PART II 6. DISHONORING THE ENEMY The enemy as enemy: Images in common to Vietnam and Troy Image of the Vietnamese enemy Homer: Valor does not depend on contempt for enemy Enemy soldiers talk to each other at Troy Soldiers talk about the enemy at Troy Religious roots of the enemy as vermin: Biblical anti-epic in 1 Samuel 17 Clinical importance of honoring or dishonoring the enemy Abuse of the Dead Enemy 7. WHAT HOMER LEFT OUT Deprivation Friendly fire Fragging Suffering of the wounded Civilian suffering Suffered by all civilians during war Suffered exclusively or primarily by women 8. SOLDIERS' LUCK AND GOD'S WILL The social spectrum of luck Equipment failure Attributing blame Job's paradox and the possibility of virtue 9. RECLAIMING THE ILIAD'S GODS AS A METAPHOR OF SOCIAL POWER Armies as creators of social power Gods as REMFs Heartlessness of the Gods Readiness to "waste" lives Sunk costs argument Sinister demographic agendas Inconsistent, unreliable, inattentive, distractable Homeric irony and god's love PART III 10. THE BREAKING POINTS OF MORTAL EXISTENCE -- WHAT BREAKS? The official diagnostic criteria for PTSD of the American Psychiatric Association PTSD and the ruins of character Persistence of the traumatic moment -- Loss of authority over mental function Untrustworthiness of perception Memory Persistent mobilization for danger Persistence of survival skills Persistence of betrayal Persistence of isolation Persistence of suicidality Persistence of meaninglessness Destruction of the capacity for democratic participation 11. HEALING AND TRAGEDY Is recovery possible? Return to "normal" is not possible We don't know if recovery is possible Yes -- recovery is possible What is the best treatment? Why and how does narrative heal? The law of forgetting and denial CONCLUSION Prevention Protect unit cohesion by unit, rather than individual rotation Griefwork Do not encourage berserking Eliminate intentional injustice as a motivational technique Respect the enemy as human Acknowledge psychiatric casualties War is not an industrial process Pissing contests Species ethic ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: Re: Answer Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 11:32:16 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 440 (817) Since (as I am told) Professor Tombeur's comments about the recent TLL/TLG conference were posted on the Humanist server, I take the liberty of posting a response here also. Ted Brunner ******************************************************************* Dear Paul (if I may): Good to hear from you, even though your message seems somewhat spirited. Let me address your concerns paragraph by paragraph: [deleted quotation]****************************************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU ****************************************************************** From: OLAF <olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca> Subject: Job: Canadian Studies, Edinburgh Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 22:00:57 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 441 (818) What follows was sent to me by Ged Martin, Director of the centre of Canadian Studies at Edinburgh University. Please note that he has asked bulletin boards to copy & post. Olaf Janzen Tel: (709) 637-6282 Department of History FAX: (709) 639-8125 Sir Wilfred Grenfell College e-mail: olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca Corner Brook, Newfoundland Canada A2H 6P9 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Edinburgh University Centre of Canadian Studies seeks a permanent lecturer in Canadian Studies from October 1994. The post calls for a broad range of talents and enthusiasm. Details from Ged Martin on 011-44-31-662-1254. (e-mail: gmartin@afb1.ssc.edinburgh.ac.uk) Bulletin Boards please copy. From: eng_zuchowsk@emunix.emich.edu Subject: request for posting a query Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 10:59:16 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 535 (819) I haven't subscribed to HUMANIST but I was told that I could post a query to the list and receive responses to my email address. I would very much appreciateyour help here as I have already tried posting my query to a few other lists and I haven't received any satisfactory responses. Here's my query: I'm looking for sources on phoneme frequencies in French based on a L e x i c onsample; not text samples. I'm also looking for a French-English dictionary of onomatopoeia or any list of French onomatopoeic words, preferably translated into English. I would very much appreciate complete information about each source and, if possible, where they can be located. Thanks a lot in advance. Rafal Zuchowski. Thanks again for your help. With best regards. Rafal Zuchowski. From: Adrian Mitchell <mitchell@uoguelph.ca> Subject: citation of internet sources Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 13:57:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 536 (820) I am a Graduate student at the University of Guelph. I am finishing up my M.A. by compiling a list of resources on the internet for scholars of English Literature, Language, and Theory. I was wondering if there is any accepted format for citing electronic sources. I will be listing Conferences, newsgroups, ftp sites, telnet sites, gopher, wais, and www among others. I have been investigating the IETF's proposed URL format, but I realize it is only a draft version. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Adrienne Mitchell mitchell@uoguelph.ca From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET> Subject: Re: Maps/Millennium Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:57:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 537 (821) The demo that Clockwork sent me (ver 1.2, with 1.21 evidently ready for shipment) is explicitly for MS-DOS computers and ran just fine on a 386; I wouldn't try it on a PC/XT, tho it might be OK on a 286 machine too. As far as I can tell, Millennium doesn't even exist in a Windows version, but that may not be true. As for e-maps without a historical perspective, PC-Globe and World Atlas (Software Toolworks) are OK in their ways, but a generation behind Millennium in terms of sophistication. On the other hand, they are global. I haven't seen the US versions of either (PC-USA, etc.) Michael Metzger From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: Re: 7.0439 Ads: Concorder S/W; Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 18:11 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 538 (822) How much better is this concorder than the free one offered through Humanist ab out 14 months or so ago? MacConcordance? Kessler From: brenda danet <msdanet@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: Journalism and Communication Job Opening Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:02:54 +0200 (WET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 444 (823) THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT The Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University is seeing candidates for a tenure track position in the field of Journalism at the Lecturer level (equivalent to Assistant Professor) for Fall 1994 or 1995. A higher rank will be considered if appropriate. The position requires minimally a Ph.D. in journalism, communication, or a related field, and specialization in at least two of the following areas: history of journalism, journalism as a profession (including journalism ethics), and journalism as cultural practice (including social and/or political aspects). Candidates should have evidence both of a strong commitment to research and to excellence in teaching. Candidates who have professional experience in journalism as well as a strong academic background will be especially welcome. Command of Hebrew is not essential for the appointment, but is expected with time. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the oldest university in Israel. The graduate program in communication was founded in 1965; the department has just recently initiated a B.A. program in journalism and communication. The Smart Family Institute for Communication, founded in 1986, supports research in communication in Israel. Formal evaluation of applications will begin on March 1, 1994, and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a curriculum vitae (with fax and email addresses included, if available) and three references to: Prof. Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Department Head, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905, Israel (Fax 972-2-827069). From: Francesco Ruggiero <ruggiero@hp2.sm.dsi.unimi.it> Subject: italian Literature on WWW Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 11:02:44 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 539 (824) Hi I wont segnalate on the URL : <a href="http://www.crs4.it/HTML/homecrs4.html">http://www.crs4.it/HTML/homecrs4.html</a> are available : o Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari o La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri o Dei Sepolcri di Ugo Foscolo o I Malavoglia di Giovanni Verga o Pinocchio di Carlo Lorenzini (under construction) -- bye-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Francesco Ruggiero From: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no Subject: overview of hypersystems on all platforms Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:49:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 540 (825) Does anybody know of an updated and "complete" overview of hypertext/hypermedia systems on the Mac, Windows, workstations and other platforms? Ideally I need a complete annotated list or directory of all existing systems, with bibliographical references to articles etc. Jon Lanestedt ___________________________________________________________ Jon Lanestedt Department of Linguistics University of Oslo Voice: +47 22 85 48 99 P.O.Box 1102 Blindern Fax: +47 22 85 69 19 N-0317 Oslo, Norway Email: jon.lanestedt@ilf.uio.no ___________________________________________________________ From: Evert Volkersz <XEVOLKERSZ@SBCCMAIL.BITNET> Subject: Dutch Booksellers Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:26:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 541 (826) I am looking for a Dutch bookseller who will accept orders for in-print books by internet and who will accept a credit card for payment. I had no luck identifying someone on the Exlibris list. Evert Volkersz, Head evolkersz@ccmail.sunysb.edu Special Collections Department Fax: 516-632-7116 SUNY Library Voice: 516-632-7119 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3323 From: John Morris <JMORRIS@UALTAVM> Subject: Universities under serious threat Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 13:41:28 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 446 (827) X-posted to other lists. Please excuse (and delete) duplications. Profound apologies for the length. It was gratifying to see the response of the international scholarly community to the proposed elimination of the Religious Studies department at Penn State. Unfortunately we in the province of Alberta in Canada have a far more serious situation in which our government has announced its intention to cut 19.5 per cent of its grants to our universities. You should understand that Canadian universities have no traditions of support from large foundations or other private sources. Throughout our entire history funding has come almost entirely from the government. Reductions in grants at this level will, without exaggeration, devastate advanced education in Alberta. Last fall, the government announced that it was cutting its grants to all government-funded institutions by 20 per cent over three years in an effort to eliminate its annual budget deficit. Despite the many suggestions offered during a "roundtable" consultation process, the government has resolutely refused to consider any other solutions to the very real debt problem other than cutbacks. Advanced and elementary education, health, and welfare are the departments which will bear the brunt of the cuts. As you can imagine, we are quite concerned about the possible ramifications of the cutbacks. The government is urging that "accessibility" be maintained or increased, which means that our enrollments cannot be reduced. Members of the government have recommended the elimination of tenure on the grounds that it only serves to protect supernumerary faculty, and they have recommended that the universities cooperate in eliminating whole faculties in order to reduce "duplication of services." The government is discouraging any substantial rise in tuition fees. Since we cannot simply close down 20 percent of the physical plant, nor reduce enrollments, nor raise tuitions significantly, the cuts must be made primarily in teaching and research. The kinds of cut we expect to make include "voluntary" early retirement of senior faculty, lay-offs of non-academic staff, significantly increased class sizes, the elimination of non-student sessional appointments, reductions in graduate teaching and research assistantships, and reductions in course offerings. Tenure-track appointments to replace retiring faculty and faculty who, as a result of the cuts, have sought appointments elsewhere have already been completely frozen and will remain frozen for the foreseeable future. Like the rest of the known universe, we have been taking somewhat more modest cutbacks for several years. We have already had to eliminate one department. As our university president has said, "There is no more fat to cut." Nevertheless, we are told to expect a minimum cut of 11 per cent as of April 1, 1994 even though the precise amount will not be made known to us until the provincial budget is brought down on February 24. If you feel that the cutbacks should be at least moderated, it would be a tremendous help to all of us here in Alberta if letters of support for advanced education could come from the international scholarly community. It should be noted that members of the government appear to have little knowledge of universities and little appreciation for arguments about the nature and value of a liberal education. They seem to be more impressed by economic arguments. If you come from a jurisdiction that has been damaged by severe cutbacks, you might wish to relate those experiences instead. Since the Premier and his ministers have expressed an interest in hearing opinions on the cuts, letters may be sent to: The Honorable Ralph Klein The Honorable Jack Ady, Minister Premier of Alberta -or- Department of Advanced Education Legislative Assembly Legislative Assembly Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2B6 T5K 2B6 Yours truly, John Morris, Graduate English, <JMORRIS@UALTAVM> University of Alberta. <jmorris@vm.ucs.UAlberta.ca> From: "Filip J.R.C. Dochy" <OICFDO@OUH.NL> Subject: E-CONFERENCE ON ASS & EVAL: Call for participation Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 09:45 +0000 (N) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 447 (828) FINAL CALL for participation 1st EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE ON ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: RECENT AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS ********************************************************************** EARLI European Association for Research into Learning and Instruction SIG Assessment & Evaluation ********************************************************************** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * EARLI-AE LIST February 21-22-23 1994 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ********************************************************************** TOPICS : BALANCED ASSESSMENT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT INVITED ADDRESSES: Prof. Alan Schoenfeld Prof. Jim Ridgway Prof. Richard Shavelson ******************************** If you want to attend the conference, print this file. Organizing committee and program board -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dr. Gudrun Balke, Department of Educational Research & Development, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Dr. Richard Shavelson, School of Education, University of California, USA Dr. David Nevo, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dr. Filip Dochy, Centre for Educational Technology and Innovation, University of Heerlen, The Netherlands EC Management and Secretary of the EECAE Drs. George Moerkerke Dr. Filip Dochy Centre for Educational Technology and Innovation, Heerlen, The Netherlands The E.E.C.A.E. is a world-wide, distributed, electronic conference focused on issues of importance to assessment and evaluation related to learning and instruction. Conference Procedure The conference will last for 3 days. Participants should schedule during these days two or three different moments each day for active participation. For example each day between 9 am and 10 am and between 4 pm and 5 pm you can attend the conference interactively. The conference will be running along the EARLI-AE list. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% If you want to attend the conference, you should send the message Subscribe EARLI-AE yourfirstname yourlastname to the listserv management (listserv@nic.surfnet.nl) or (listsrv@hearn.bitnet)) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If you are a member of the list and you do not want to attend the conference then send the message set EARLI-AE nomail to the listserv management on Februari 18 1994 and send the message set EARLI-AE mail to the same address on Februari 24 1994 for receiving the normal list postings again. One week before the conference you will receive the abstracts and papers of the three invited addresses. In this way, each discussion will be introduced by an internationally known 'first speaker'. Anyone can act as a 'second speaker' before the conference. The conference will be discussing three discussion group topics. The board will select the topics. Any list member is asked to send in topics and one screen abstracts to be proposed as conference topic. Suggestions for invited addresses on the given topic are welcome (if including the Email address). During the conference all messages will go over the same EARLI-AE list. However, each topic will get its own subject line. In this way anyone will be able to take part in one, two or three discussions by reading the mail with the corresponding subject lines. For example PREFASS for perfomance assessment. Two chairpersons for each topic discussion group will moderate when necessary. They will be on line during the whole conference. One will be from the American continent, the other one from the European continent in order to be able to moderate across time differences. CONFERENCE RATE As there are no costs for becoming an EARLI-AE member, there will be no cost for participation other then that for normal access to any of the distribution networks. There is no formal registration process, other than keeping your list on the 'mail' mode. PUBLICATION After the conference, the board will consider the invited addresses, the entries and discussions for publication as a whole on each topic. If publication is considered worthwhile the board will contact editors for an appropriate outlet. One can think of the EARLI journals L&I or EARLI-news or the SIG book series. The EECAE discussions The quality of the conference will depend upon quality discussion, skilful porters and efficient electronic distribution on the networks. For this reason it is important to read the discussion guidelines beforehand. AIM The EECEA is directed towards all scholars, students and practitioners who are interested in new developments concerning A&E. TOPICS and CHAIRS TOPICS SUBJECT HEADING CHAIRS Performance Assessment PERFASS Dr. Hoi K. Suen Drs. George Moerkerke Balanced Assessment BALASS Dr. Alan Schoenfeld Dr. Jim Ridgway %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TIME SCHEDULE February 10 Distribution of 'invited addresses - first speakers' February 14 - 17 Time for entry of 'second speakers' who want to add an substantive paper for discussion February 21-22-23 Conference - topic discussion groups From: Judith Klavans <klavans@cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Workshop on Combining Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Language Date: Sun, 30 Jan 1994 13:52:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 448 (829) THE BALANCING ACT: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language 1 July 1994 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA A workshop in conjunction with the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (27-30 June 1994) A renaissance of interest in corpus-based statistical methods has rekindled old controversies -- rationalist vs. empiricist philosophies, theory-driven vs. data-driven methodologies, symbolic vs. statistical techniques. The aim of this workshop is to set aside a priori biases and explore the balancing act that must take place when symbolic and statistical approaches are brought together. We plan to accept papers from authors having a wide range of perspectives, and to initiate a discussion that includes philosophical, theoretical, and practical issues. Submissions to the workshop must describe research in which both symbolic and statistical methods play a part. All research of this kind requires that the researcher make choices: What knowledge will be represented symbolically and how will it be obtained? What assumptions underlie the statistical model? What is the researcher gaining by combining approaches? Questions like these, and the metaphor of the balancing act, will provide a unifying theme to draw contributions from a wide spectrum of language researchers. ORGANIZERS: Judith Klavans, Columbia Univerisity Philip Resnik, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work; they should clearly emphasize the type of paper to be presented (e.g. implementation, philosophical, etc.) and the state of completion of the research. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. In addition to the workshop proceedings, plans for publication as a book require that papers not have been published in any other publicly available proceedings. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Following guidelines for the ACL meeting, authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. 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Department of Computer Science Mailstop UCHL03-207 500 W 120th Street Two Elizabeth Drive New York, NY 10027, USA Chelmsford, MA 01824-4195 USA klavans@cs.columbia.edu philip.resnik@east.sun.com Phone: (212) 939-7120 Phone: (508) 442-0841 Fax: (914) 478-1802 Fax: (508) 250-5067 [94-01-27] --QAA04780.759791000/cs.columbia.edu-- From: Fred Winter <NEHEDU@GWUVM> Subject: NEH Institutes Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 11:46:08 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 449 (830) The Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities is pleased to announce its 1994 Institutes for College and University Faculty. Institutes for College and University Faculty provide opportunities for intensive study of ideas, issues, texts, and historical periods relating to undergraduate teaching in the humanities. They take place in settings with resources suitable for research in the humanities, and they offer an environment in which faculty may examine significant material under the direction of a group of recognized scholars. They thus prepare faculty to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of important scholarship in key fields of the humanities. Institutes are sponsored by colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and professional organizations. They are normally scheduled for a period of four to six weeks during the summer. Participation is open to full-time teachers in U.S. two-year and four-year colleges and universities, with twenty to thirty participants in a given institute selected in open competition by the institute's staff. The study program of an institute is designed to emphasize collaborative work under the direction of a group of scholars. Participants will receive stipends of $250 per week and an allowance toward the cost of travel, room, and board. Prospective participants should write or call the directors of the institutes in which they are interested. There is no need to communicate directly with the Endowment. The institute application deadline is March 1, 1994. The following institutes may be of particular interest to subscribers of this bulletin board: Embodiment: The Intersection of Nature and Culture University of California, Santa Cruz June 27 - August 5, 1994 Directors: David Hoy, University of California, Santa Cruz Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley Information: Cher Bergeon, Research Assistant c/o Linguistics Research Center Cowell College University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: 408/459-2386 Fax: 408/459-4880 E-mail: embod@ling.ucsc.edu Cultural Tools: Realities and Representations of Technology in American Society Case Western Reserve, under the auspices of the Community College Humanities Association June 5 - July 1, 1994 Director: Robert Badra, Kalamazoo Valley Community College Carroll Pursell, Case Western Reserve University Information: Robert Badra Humanities Division Kalamazoo Valley Community College? 6969 West "O" Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49009 Phone: 616/372-5381 Technology and Science Within American Culture, 1830-1950 Iowa State University June 19 - July 23, 1994 Director: Alan Marcus, Iowa State University Information: Alan Marcus Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science 635 Ross Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50111-1202 Phone: 515/294-7386 Fax: 515/294-6390 E-mail: aimarcus@iastate.edu Rethinking Technology: Philosophical Reflection on Technology Since World War II Pennsylvania State University June 6-July 8, 1994 Directors: Carl Mitcham, Pennsylvania State University Leonard Waks, Pennsylvania State University Information: Carl Mitcham or Leonard Waks Science, Technology, and Society Program 133 Willard Bldg. Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Phone: 814/865-9951 Fax: 814/865-3047 To receive a complete list of 1994 institutes, on topics ranging from classical antiquity to contemporary philosophy and technology, send a postal address to: nehedu@gwuvm/nehedu@gwuvm.gwu.edu Scholars interested in conducting an institute should contact the Higher Education in the Humanities Program at: Higher Education in the Humanities Division of Education Programs, Room 302 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 E-mail: nehedu@gwuvm/nehedu@gwuvm.gwu.edu From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: Feb 15 NEACH: Surviving DOS & Windows Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 13:26:04 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 450 (831) An invitation from N E A C H: NORTHEAST ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES NEACH invites you to a member request meeting, featuring an expert panel and sampling session on SURVIVING DOS AND WINDOWS on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1994 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 26A of the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York City. The panel will present a sampling session and open discussion of DOS and Windows topics such as anticipating & handling data disasters, backup & archiving, startups for DOS and Windows, disk compression & defragmentation, file and directory organization, memory managers, migrating to Windows, upgrading on a budget, and comparisons of standard DOS and Windows software. Put the NEACH meeting schedule Spring 1994 in your calendar: Tues. Feb. 15: SURVIVING DOS & WINDOWS: Expert Panel/Sampling Session Wed., March 16: INTERNET TOPICS (at NYU Bobst Library) Wed., April 13: ACCESS AND PRESERVATION ISSUES: Hans Rutimann Tues., May 10: TEXT SOFTWARE PACKAGES: Susan Hockey, CETH, and panel Please note the new day/date for the February and March meetings. New day/date: Replaces: Tues. Feb. 15 Wed. Feb 9 Wed. Mar. 16 Tues. May 8 All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. NEACH meetings usually take place on the second Tuesday or the second Wednesday of the month from October to May. Visitors to the IBM Building must obtain a pass from the desk on the ground floor: be sure to ask for "Humanities" or "NEACH." NEACH memberships are available at $15 for calendar year 1994. If you already belong to the national ACH, a combination membership with NEACH is only $5 additional. NEACH is an independent, self-sustaining organization. Joining NEACH or renewing your NEACH membership: Please address your check or money order to "NEACH" as payee (in U.S. dollars please) and send it to Nan Hahn, NEACH Treasurer, Benjamin Databank, 322 Second Street, Dunellen, N. J. 08812 USA. Please address membership queries and address changes to Nan Hahn at the above address. She may also be reached by e-mail at 72066.644@compuserve.com or by telephone at (908) 752-5841. From: Peter Graham <psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0442 Qs: Phonemes; E-Citations (2/35) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 23:15:18 EST(4) (1 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 542 (832) Re: e-Citations There is a book out entitled *Electronic Style* by Xia Li and Nancy Crane (Meckler, 1993), which in 49 pages for $24 purports to tell us how to cite electronic references. It is a useful first cut. I believe it has a number of flaws, and my review of it (for a journal) is available by anonymous ftp: aultnis.rutgers.edu/.pub/litext (128.6.54.10) The italics of the review are lost as the ftp-able review text is ascii. It is about 4 pages long. --pg Peter Graham psgraham@gandalf.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (908)932-5908; fax (908)932-5888 From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Divina commedia Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 14:30:45 CST(5) (3 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 543 (833) It was such good news to hear that the Divina commedia was available on the internet, and much thanks to Francesco Ruggiero for posting the news. I tried to access it and, though I could access the other items, even including Pinocchio, I could not get to the Divina commedia. Only a title page and acknowledgments were available. Perhaps someone (Francesco?) could post some information on how to get into the DC. Jim Marchand. From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re Dutch booksellers Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 22:43:14 -0500 (EST)(6) (3 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 445 (834) [deleted quotation]------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would advise you to get in touch with the NEDER-L list devoted to dutch & flemish studies. Michel. -- Michel Lenoble lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca From: Todd Blayone, Editor Subject: Cyrillic Windows-- Reviewer Wanted Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 19:59:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 452 (835) Re: REVIEWER WANTED for Cyrillic Support for Windows ____________________________________________________________ The Computer-Assisted Research Forum is seeking a qualified reviewer for the following software item. Cyrillic Support for Windows and SlavicSwiss Cyrillic (TrueType and Type 1) Fonts provide keyboard and font-level support for processing all modern Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet) in a Microsoft Windows environment. Due March 21, 1994. Interested parties should respond by e-mail (to cxfw@musica. mcgill.ca) with a subject line reading: CARF REVIEW C2S3 Include a short bio highlighting your institutional affiliation, and relevant research and humanities-computing skills/interests. CARF reviewers will retain a copy of the reviewed program. Specific instructions and a Contributors Guide will be transmitted directly to the selected individual. We cannot reply to everyone who contacts us. Therefore, we thank you in advance for you interest. From: S50786@BC750 Subject: E-texts, advertising & scholarly publishing Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 17:51 +08:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 453 (836) Dear fellow Humanists, Three apparently divergent discussion topics have caught my attention recently: the respectability (if any) of Edwin Mellen Press, the effect (if any) of the rapidly increasing availability of e-texts on the future of conventional books, and the propriety (if any) of using e-mail discussion groups such as ours for the purpose of advertising. These issues can all be regarded as pointing toward a fourth topic that draws the other three together: namely, the implications of e-groups for the prospects of "self-publishing". I apologize in advance for the length of this message--but if you can make it to the end, there may be a payoff! I join those who believe computers and computerized texts will never replace the experience of cuddling up with a good book in the evening, or dusting off the same old library copy that countless past scholars must have handled, perhaps while standing in the same spot. Books, surely, are here to stay, not necessarily because of their utility, but because they generate a spiritual "space" that simply cannot be reproduced by "e-space" (virtual reality notwithstanding). Just as sure, however, is the fact that computers are having an irreversible effect on conventional books. Most of us now do all our writing on computers, with the result that many publishers ("respectable" and otherwise) now require their authors to submit "camera-ready" copy. Yet this is only the beginning.... With e-groups we are seeing the growth of international communities of scholars who are _actually communicating_ in a way that is unprecedented in the history of academia. Increasingly, business- minded individuals are recognizing and attempting to exploit the amazing potential of such groups for various sorts of profit-making. And so the question of "advertising" inevitably has to be addressed. Along these lines, I can sympathize with much of what has been said lately about advertising, in response to Malcolm Brown's 11 Jan. complaint about Strangelove Press. Having some interest in using e- mail for advertising, I once requested a "free copy" of IBJ's special issue on advertising, as offered in their Oct. 93 posting. All they sent me was a copy of exactly the same message that had already been posted on Humanist, consisting of _abstracts_ of the issue, not the full articles. It looks as if Mr. Strangelove's interest in our e-group does not extend very far beyond his wallet. (My sincerest apologies if this is not true! Anyway, I'll be interested to see whether or not anyone at The Internet Business Journal reads this complaint, since this would indicate the extent to which they actually _participate_ in our e-group.) In _this_ sense, I agree that advertising should not appear on Humanist. Or if it does, then by all means, it should be clearly identified as such, using a system like that suggested by Hoke Robinson on 21 Jan., whereby the word "Ad" would appear in the message's subject line. Either approach has its own danger associated with it. If advertising is banned, then there is always a chance that the proverbial "baby" will be "thrown out with the bathwater", as unfortunately happened to David Rand (18 Jan.). If, on the other hand, word gets out that Humanist is allowing ads as long as they say "Ad" in the subject heading, then messages like Mr. Rand's would be in danger of being "drowned" in the tub of dirty bathwater that would then collect; in other words, those of us who tend to skip "mere ads" might end up missing such announcements from fellow Humanists, even though we would have been interested in reading them. Even worse would be the possibility, suggested by Chris Edwards (18 Jan.), that the influx of advertisers would lead to the requirement that ads be paid for. If this ever happened, then I hope members would be exempt from paying such a fee, otherwise the fee would inhibit many of us from sharing the products of our labor with other Humanists who might be interested. I looked up the word "advertise" in my dictionary and found that it is closely related in meaning to the word "publish". The second definition given for both words is exactly the same: "to announce publicly"! There is nothing about "advertising" that _necessarily_ implies a profit- motive. On the contrary, what is necessary is that the content of one's announcement must include a claim that the product has some "worth" in order for it to be a true advertisement. (The word "advertise" comes from the Latin "ad-vertere", and "vertere" is etymologically related to the word "worth".) Have you ever seen an advertisement that said "_Don't_ buy me, I'm worthless!"? If so, there must have been some reverse psychology intended. Given a sufficiently broad understanding of the word "advertise", it seems clear that advertising _as such_ should not be banned from Humanist. Indeed, much (if not most) of the messages posted on our e- group could be regarded as advertisements of one sort or another. What I find distasteful about _some_ of these ads (Strangelove Press included, as far as I can tell) is not the fact that they advertise, but rather that they do so by announcing to the public (i.e., _us_) something most of us find to be of little or no value, _and_ that their apparent motive is to _make a profit_. I guess this makes me one of those who affirms what George Lang called the "accepted platitude among us humanists that we are not tainted by considerations of profit or career" (16 Jan. 94)--though like him, I must confess to have worked as a salesman before studying philosophy. Seriously, since nothing any of us presents to the e-group is likely to be deemed "worthwhile" by _everyone_, I suggest that the absence of a profit- motive (rather than any judgment of intrinsic "worth") should be used as one of the basic criteria for judging whether or not a given "advertisement" should be allowed any e-space in our group. And for borderline cases, the question (as hinted by Ken Laws' example of "good net citizenship" on 15 Jan. 94) should be: Is this person a real, participating member of Humanist? If so, then let's be a bit more lenient and let the person give us the sales pitch! So how does all this relate to Edwin Mellen Press? They don't advertise on Humanist. And as far as I know they are not planning to replace their book publishing with the production of e-texts at any time in the foreseeable future. Moreover, I have no strong opinion about the merits of that particular press. However, I do have some experience with another academic press with a similar "borderline" reputation: the most substantial book I have written to date was published last year by the University Press of America. Although this press, like Mellen, has the reputation in some circles for being a "vanity" press, I can report that my book was by no means automatically accepted. Not only was it reviewed, but the reviewer submitted several pages of invaluable comments and criticisms-- giving rise to changes that took me a full year to implement. I had to prepare the entire manuscript myself, and submit it in camera-ready form. Although I was not required to pay for the printing as such, I _was_ required to purchase (in advance) a certain number of copies of my book. And at US$57.50 each, it doesn't take many copies to add up to a large bill--even with a generous author's discount! Anyway, when it was too late to change my mind, it occurred to me that, if I had invested about 20% more money and paid a printer here in Hong Kong to print the book, I would have received _ten times_ more copies and retained the "ownership" of my book! I calculated that by doing so, and by limiting my own monetary gain from its sale to a maximum 10% royalty, I could have sold the 478+ page hardback to fellow scholars for roughly ten dollars apiece! Since then I have started a publishing company that has published two of my other, smaller books, and I have done a fair amount of research into what it takes to be a "self-publisher". The main service provided by many publishers nowadays (and by _all_ publishers in the not-too- distant future) is, without a doubt, marketing (i.e., _advertising_ and sales). Prior to the days of e-mail, this left writers living in twentieth century, mass-market societies with virtually no choice but to go through the disagreeable motions of searching for a publisher, only to find that their work was judged according to market concerns with little or no relation to its "academic worth". E-mail in general, and e-groups in particular, have the potential to change what seemed like a necessary evil only a decade or two ago. We scholars who are not yet such a household name that our books are sure to sell in the tens of thousands now have a free and easy way of "announcing" the availability and merits of our work to a wide and _interested_ "public". That is, we have this opportunity as long as e-groups are ready and willing to allow--or better yet _encourage_-- their members to "advertise". When such marketing-by-e-mail of self-published books becomes the _standard practise_ among academics, then we can stop debating over whether or not the likes of Mellen or UPA are or are not "respectable". We can stop because we will not need to resort to such "borderline" presses--or for that matter, to the likes of OUP and CUP, provided we gradually earn the respect and cooperation of "the library acquisitions people", who, as Craig Walton so keenly observed (17 Dec. 93) "can kill or sustain a small press". Instead, by spending a little extra time announcing the availability of our book(s) and shipping them off to interested readers, we can offer books of high academic quality at prices that are _affordable_, even on the modest income of an academic! Well, that's my idea in a nutshell. I'd be very interested in any comments from fellow Humanists on its feasibility (or lack thereof). What e-ideals (if any!) does this vision of academic self-publishing violate? What problems are self-publishers likely to encounter in using e-groups to market their books? Could the use of IPPE and other such "e-review" methods eventually supplant the existing system of peer review used by conventional publishers (the lack of which is one of the reasons libraries are reluctant to buy self-published books)? Are there any other Humanists out there who have experimented in self-publishing? The name of my publishing company is "Philopsychy Press" (PPP). If other interested scholars present themselves, I would be happy to make this press more than just a vehicle for publishing my own books, by extending it to assist other scholars in self-publishing (perhaps enabling them to avoid the time-consuming process of setting up a company). PPP is a _non-profit_ company and I am an active member of Humanist, so I believe it is appropriate to "advertise" PPP in this way. I have no intention of "lining my pockets" with any money that might come from the sale of PPP books, though I wouldn't mind lining the walls of my office with something other than the stacks of ready- to-ship books that are currently decorating it! With that in mind, and especially in light of Elaine Brennan's message of 20 Jan., confessing she is "more frustrated by advertising that pretends to be substantive than by a more obviously identifiable 'buy me! buy me!' notice", let me say here and now that I think it would be just great if everyone who reads this message would actually _buy_ one of the two books I have "self-published" so far. One is a textbook with a novel approach to introducing philosophy to non-majors, called _The Tree of Philosophy_. The other is an interpretation of the biblical vision of politics that supports something akin to the "anarchy" (in a good sense of the word) that we see operating on networks such as Humanist; it is entitled _Biblical Theocracy_. The books cost US$6.25 each, including postage. Longer blurbs describing these books are available upon request (see below). Since this--the willingness of e-group members (perhaps even you, Chris Edwards!) to buy each other's books--is the acid test as to whether or not the computer can serve as the "missing link" that makes scholarly self-publishing really feasible, I want to make it as easy as I can for you to respond. If you are a member of Humanist, simply post a note to my e-mail address, requesting one (or both!) of these books, and I'll send it to you immediately (by sea), along with a bill. If you wish, you can send me a check at the same time, on the understanding that your money would be returned if you are not satisfied. Otherwise, you can wait until you receive the book and have a look at it first. If it doesn't look like a "real book" to you, or if for any other reason it is not what you expected, then simply send it back (but pay the return postage please). In hopes of promoting the idea of scholarly self-publishing to the e-public at large, I recently wrote a general announcement "advertising" the availability of PPP. I will append a copy of that announcement to this message. I would very much appreciate it if fellow members of Humanist could assist me by posting that announcement to any scholars who might be interested in self-publishing (and who are not members of Humanist, of course), and even to other relevant e-groups if you know of any. Responses to the general idea of self-publishing should be sent through Humanist, while book purchases and specific comments or questions regarding PPP should be sent as a personal message to me (at S50786@bc750.bitnet). When the time comes, I will endeavor to post to Humanist a summary of the salient points raised in any such private responses. Yours, Steve Palmquist * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *** Please feel free to post this message to any other relevant lists -- with apologies to those who end up seeing it more than once! *** What do the following twelve authors all have in common? William Blake, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Stephen Crane, Washington Irving, D.H. Lawrence, Anais Nin, Thomas Paine, Ezra Pound, Edgar Allen Poe, Upton Sinclair, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. No, they did not all dream of a day when computers would rule the world! Actually, none of them even had access to computers. Yet they were all "self-publishers", writers who for one reason or another decided not simply to _write_ their books, but to _present them to the public_ as well. With the advent of the computer, self-publishing has become a more viable option than it has ever been before. Many commercial publishers now require authors to submit their work in computer-readable form. And it is only a small step from there to the stage of authors simply publishing their own work--with far less suffering than that endured by many of the above-mentioned "heroes" of self-publishing history. As a result of frustrations in dealing with various commercial and university publishers over the past decade, I decided last year to "self- publish" two of my own books. To do this, I set up a company called "Philopsychy Press" (abbreviated "PPP"). ("Philopsychy" means "love of the soul".) It's still too early to tell whether this experiment will be a smashing success, a dismal failure, or (as is likely) something in between. But the initial signs are good. And in any case, I have learned a lot about how to be, and what it _means_ to be, a self-publisher. I would be happy to share what I have learned so far with anyone else who is, or might be, interested in publishing their own book(s). Indeed, one of the main reasons I set up PPP as an actual _non-profit company_ is because I hope its primary function will eventually be to assist other self-publishers in publishing their own books, with the publication of my books becoming only a secondary emphasis. My idea is that, for a minimal fee (to cover PPP's costs), such authors would use the PPP imprint and have their books printed inexpensively in Hong Kong. I would share useful information such as computerized address lists of potential buyers in return for PPP authors agreeing to share such information with PPP whenever they come across it. Although PPP is still in its infancy, it has the potential, I believe, to lead the way into a new era in academic publishing. This is especially true because of the far-reaching implications of the opportunity we now have to "spread the word" about such things by means of electronic discussion groups. If you are interested in knowing more about how PPP operates-- especially if the prospects of self-publishing interest you-- please let me know and I will gladly send you (either by e-mail or by conventional post, as you wish) a copy of the brochure, "Introducing Philopsychy Press". The two books I've published so far are entitled: _The Tree of Philosophy_ (subtitled: "A course of introductory lectures for beginning students of philosophy") and _Biblical Theocracy_ (subtitled "A vision of the biblical foundations for a Christian political philosophy"). A third book, called _Four Neglected Essays by Immanuel Kant_, will soon go to press and should be ready in March or April. PPP is also distributing a limited number of copies of my book, _Kant's System of Perspectives_, as previously published by University Press of America. Please let me know if you would like to receive a copy of the PPP leaflet describing these four books. Or if you prefer, I can post the description(s) of one or more book(s) directly to your e-mail address. All PPP books are professionally printed and bound using high quality materials. The price of the first two books (published in paperback) is just US$4.50 each, while the prepublication price for the third book (hardcover) is US$10. Postage in all three cases is an additional US$1.75 for sea mail or $5.25 for air mail. _Kant's System of Perspectives_ (hardcover) is _not_ a self-published book, so it costs US$35 (which, believe it or not, is 40% off the list price!), plus an additional $2.75 for sea mail postage or $8.25 for air mail. Checks can be sent in any major currency. For currencies other than US$ and HK$, simply use the current exchange rate; but please add 5% to the total in order to cover the cost of transferring the funds. If you are willing to write a review of any of these books for an appropriate scholarly publication, I will gladly send you a copy of the book free of charge. However, please do not request a free copy unless you genuinely intend to write a review. If you later decide not to write a review, you may either pay for the book or return it in saleable condition. Any comments or responses to the general idea of self-publishing, or to the idea of PPP in particular, are welcome. Please send these, as well as orders and requests for further information, directly to me, either at my e-mail address (S50786@bc750.bitnet), or via Philopsychy Press (P.O. Box 1224, Shatin Central, N.T., Hong Kong). Thank you. Yours, Steve Palmquist P.S. The documents listed below are all available (in either electronic or printed form) from Philopsychy Press: - Introducing Philopsychy Press - 12 Initial Questions for Prospective Self-Publishers - Some Classic Self-Published Authors and Books - Helpful Reference Books for Self-Publishers - Sample PPP Pricing Scenarios - PPP Address Lists Currently Available - A Sample PPP Copyright (Title Verso) Page - Brief Descriptions of: - _The Tree of Philosophy_ - _Biblical Theocracy_ - _Four Neglected Essays by Immanuel Kant_ - _Kant's System of Perspectives_ From: Tito Orlandi <TRTIDU2@ITCASPUR> Subject: Seminari Lincei Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 13:48:49 SET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 454 (837) ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI (Roma, Italy) CENTRO LINCEO INTERDISCIPLINARE BENIAMINO SEGRE Attivit<a`> Scientifica 1993-94 DISCIPLINE UMANISTICHE A CONFRONTO CON I METODI E LE TECNICHE DELL'INFORMATICA a cura di Tito Orlandi Definizione della ricerca: In tempi recenti prevale presso gli ambienti pi<u`> avanzati l'opinione che l'uso strumentale della macchina computer sia del tutto secondario rispetto ai problemi metodologici posti dalla necessit<a`> di strutturare i dati da sottoporre ai procedimenti resi possibili dall'informatica (modelling, modellizzazione). In questa prospettiva il rapporto fra informatica e discipline umanistiche si pu<o`> esprimere nella questione se vi sia un particolare modo informatico di attuare, con risultati scientificamente soddisfacenti, le metodologie proprie delle discipline umanistiche. Il modo informatico prevede la formalizzazione dei dati (in senso molto lato), e la formalizzazione delle procedure per analizzarli e valutarli (utilizzazione degli algoritmi); ma non consiste affatto nella quantificazione e tanto meno matematizzazione dei dati, n<e'> nell'usare procedure, cio<e`> metodi, quantitativi, in particolare statistici. Un'attenta considerazione storica delle discipline umanistiche rivela d'altra parte che le esigenze che l'informatica dovrebbe imporre alle discipline umanistiche sono state sentite abbastanza ampiamente ben prima che il computer fosse, non si dice utilizzato, ma addirittura inventato. Infatti il desiderio da parte di alcuni studiosi, particolarmente attenti agli aspetti metodologici, di formalizzare le procedure relative alla propria disciplina, nasce almeno nel sec. XIX, e costituisce un movimento che coinvolge i migliori esponenti di quelle discipline. Lo scopo del progetto Le Discipline Umanistiche a confronto con i Metodi e le Tecniche dell'Informatica - Continuita della tradizione e rinnovamento strutturalec <e`> quello di approfondire i maggiori temi di ricerca nell'ambito dei rapporti metodologici fra informatica e discipline umanistiche secondo la prospettiva che abbiamo esposto sopra. Tali temi sono stati individuati come segue: - Al di l<a`> della macchina. I principi logico-formali della computazione. - Rapporti interdisciplinari e unificazione delle metodologie. - Teoria della ricorsivit<a`> (Hartley Rogers). - Continuo e discreto, e rapporti con l'intenzionalit<a`> (Edmund Husserl). - Codifica come formalizzazione dei dati (modelling) nelle differenti discipline. Scrittura, testo, alfabeto; redazioni, versioni; tipologie e seriazioni storiche e archeologiche. - Formalizzazione del ragionamento nelle diverse discipline. Analisi storica della situazione prima e dopo le applicazioni informatiche. Questi temi saranno affrontati mettendoli a confronto con le metodologie convenzionali che si sono sviluppate storicamente nell'ambito delle singole discipline umanistiche. PROGRAMMA PER IL 1994 Tavole rotonde o seminari con discussione. 14 gennaio: Jean-Claude GARDIN. Tema: Le raisonnement traditionel en archeologie et sa mise en forme dans le milieu informatique. 28 gennaio: Luigi E. ROSSI, Tito ORLANDI. Tema: Costituzione e codifica del testo critico. 25 febbraio: Claude CAZALE, Claude BREMOND, Giuseppe GIGLIOZZI. Tema: Structures du texte litteraire. 4 marzo: Walter BELARDI, Louis GODART. Tema: Formalismi razionalistici e linguaggio. 18 marzo: Aurelio RONCAGLIA. Tema: Procedimenti formali e divinatio nell'ecdotica. 15 aprile: James DORAN, Paola MOSCATI. Tema: Metodologie archeologiche fra tradizione e informatizzazione. 29 aprile: Cesare SEGRE, Raul MORDENTI. Tema: Procedure formali e strutturali nell'analisi del testo. 13 maggio: Giorgio AUSIELLO, Carlo CELLUCCI, Valerio VERRA. Tema: Fondamenti della formalizzazione dentro e fuori l'informatica. 3 giugno: Ignazio BALDELLI, Ugo VIGNUZZI, Giovanni ADAMO. Organizzazione: c/o Segreteria del Centro Linceo, via della Lungara, 10, 00165 Roma. n Tel. 6833131, Fax 6893616. From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT> Subject: Unicode (new universal characters coding) (q) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 23:45:31 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 544 (838) I remember that about two years ago some people spoke here on Humanist about Un icode, consortium from Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and others, to define a new char acters coding (a 24-bit coding) able to represent all the characters used in th e world, or something like. Now I'd like to get a pointer to a summary of information about this project an d the new coding. I already tried FTP to unicode.ord (or was it ftp.unicode.org ) but there is only some very technical stuff (e.g. the actual coding for vario us characters families). Many thanks to anyone will help; double thanks if you cc: your answer to me (I' m in a hurry, and this way I may finf your answer more quickly). Maurizio From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT> Subject: latin morph. analysis in KLEIO? (q) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 20:31:00 ITA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 545 (839) I read the KLEIO english version that appeared some weeks ago. It seems to me t hat it should contain a latin morphological analyzer: am I true? did anyone use it? is it possible to use Kleio almost only as a shell to run the analyzer ont o latin texts (I'm not an historian, but would like to use Kleio if it does all ow a wide access to the morph. analysis functions)? does it analyze also diffic ult words (e.g.: qua propter / quapropter; quisque/ not quis + que; ktl.)? I'm very interested to know something about this matter in order to decide if I should buy my copy of Kleio or not... Please, cc: your answer directly to me, I'm having some trouble here with mail from the list I subscribe to. Many thanks. Maurizio From: pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Phyllis Wright) Subject: longest name Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 15:43:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 546 (840) Can someone help me out with two longest questions? 1) I need the Scottish village with the longest name and 2) the longest British surname (I think it has 20 characters). Many thanks for your help Phyllis Wright Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 (905) 688-5550, ext. 3961 pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca From: nelro01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Rommel) Subject: Quote query Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 14:20:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 547 (841) Dear Humanists, a colleague of mine needs to know in what issue of the Guardian Chomsky's "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" was called "the government's white paper on the environment." Any suggestions? Thomas Rommel Rommel@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de From: Michael Peterson <mipeters@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Where to Find MLA Bibliography Online Date: Mon, 31 Jan 1994 15:45:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 548 (842) Dear Elaine: Could you please post this query on HUMANIST for me, if you deem it appropriate? ------------ A friend of mine would like if it is possible to find a way of accessing the MLA Biliography online, and if so where can he find it? Replies to this query via private email would be most appreciated. Michael Peterson English, McMaster University Mipeters@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca From: edwards@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jane A. Edwards) Subject: stylistic analysis in legal contexts Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 12:49:11 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 549 (843) Below are appended two queries from other lists concerning stylistic analysis in legal contexts. I'd like to add a query of my own: Does anyone happen to know of a book or review of the literature on this topic? Thanks for any information. -Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu) [deleted quotation] From: P_MCNAMARA@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: RE: 7.0446 Funding at the University of Alberta (1/77) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:23:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 550 (844) John, sorry to here about your plight. sounds horrible. But let me ask a question that might occur to others here. Why can't you turn to the student population and say education just got a lot more expensive here? I'm not aware of how your system works there. So maybe this makes no sense. But others might need to be informed also. At our senate mon, we were introduced to and had a brief talk from our new president of the Univ foundation. They raise money via gifts, trusts, etc. they are closely aligned wtih our alumni center. It sounded promising. sounded like they had done quite a lot in Texas (A & M, or austin?). We are downsizing here by 5%. But that's the little leagues compared to your plight. I wish you well. sincerely, Paul From: John Morris <JMORRIS@UALTAVM> Subject: More on 19.5 per cent cuts in Alberta Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 21:44:50 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 551 (845) X-posted to other lists. Please excuse (and delete) duplications. Profound apologies again for the length. Note to HUMANIST readers: the 19.5 per cent cuts to institutional grants mentioned in a previous message are for all colleges and universities in the province of Alberta in Canada, not just the U of Alberta as the previous header suggested. Sorry to continue to harp on our plight in Alberta, but I have been asked by the faculty coalition organized against our looming cutbacks to ask one more little thing from you. If you plan to send a letter to the government of Alberta to protest against the 19.5 per cent cuts to institutional grants to Alberta colleges and universities, it would be appreciated if you could also send a copy to our local daily newspaper, the Edmonton Journal. The Journal has been a consistent voice against the cutbacks, and they have published a few guest columns from alumni who have left the province. They are likely to publish a selection of the letters received. Please remember that government grants to the institutions account for most of our funding and that we are allowed neither to cut enrollments or raise tuition. Almost all of the cuts are going to have to be made in the classroom in the form of larger classes, "efficiency" of teaching, and a professoriate which will dwindle through absolute hiring freezes, "voluntary" early retirement, and salary rollbacks. Here once again are the addresses to which you can write, including the Edmonton Journal: The Honorable Ralph Klein The Honorable Jack Ady, Minister Premier of Alberta -or- The Department of Advanced Education Legislative Assembly Legislative Assembly Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2B6 T5K 2B6 Fax: (403) 427-7462 The Editor, The Edmonton Journal, The Journal Building, P.O. Box 2421 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 2S6 If you could also e-mail me just to let me know that you have sent a letter, I would be very pleased. Sometimes one feels like a voice in the wilderness. Yours truly, John Morris, Graduate English, <JMORRIS@UALTAVM> University of Alberta. <jmorris@vm.ucs.UAlberta.ca> From: tbrunner@orion.oac.uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: TLG e-mail address Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 11:54:38 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 552 (846) UC Irvine's BITNET membership will end effective February 1, 1994. After that date, please use TLG@UCI.EDU to reach the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. ****************************************************************** Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU ****************************************************************** From: Robin Alston <uczcroa@ucl.ac.uk> Subject: HISTORY OF THE BOOK Date: Tue, 01 Feb 94 09:55:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 553 (847) ------- End of Forwarded Message From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Subject: computational linguistics articles in Encyclopedia of AI, 2/e Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 09:29:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 458 (848) Judith Klavans, Executive Director of the Association for Computational Linguistics, suggested I send you the following guide that I developed for my graduate course in natural-language understanding at SUNY Buffalo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. Rapaport Associate Professor of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science Dept. of Computer Science | (716) 645-3193, 3180 SUNY Buffalo | fax: (716) 645-3464 Buffalo, NY 14260 | rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A GUIDE TO COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ARTICLES IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2nd Edition Stuart C. Shapiro (editor) (John Wiley & Sons, 1992) compiled by: William J. Rapaport Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu AUTHOR TITLE PAGES Volume 1: Bookman, L. A., & Alterman, R. Analog Semantic Features 27-28 Alvarado, S. J. Argument Comprehension 30-52 Kucera, H. Brown Corpus 128-130 Srihari, S. N., & Hull, J. J. Character Recognition 138-150 Ballard, B., & Jones, M. Computational Linguistics 203-224 Hardt, S. L. Conceptual Dependency 259-265 Hindle, D. Deep Structure 328-330 Ingria, R.; Boguraev, B.; & Pustejovsky,J. Dictionary/Lexicon 341-365 Scha, R.; Bruce, B. C.; & Polanyi,L. Discourse Understanding 365-379 Tennant, H. Ellipsis 445-446 Novak, V. Fuzzy Logic: Applications to Natural Language 515-521 Woods, W. A. Grammar, Augmented Transition Network 552-563 Bruce, B., & Moser, M. G. Grammar, Case 563-570 Gazdar, G. Grammar, Generalized Phrase Structure 570-573 Joshi, A. K. Grammar, Phrase Structure 573-580 Burton, R. Grammar, Semantic 580-583 Bateman, J. A. Grammar, Systemic 583-592 Mallery, J. C.; Hurwitz, R.; & Duffy,G. Hermeneutics 596-611 Hill, J. C. Language Acquisition 761-772 Fass, D., & Pustejovsky, J. Lexical Decomposition 806-812 Pustejovsky, J. Lexical Semantics 812-819 Volume 2: Nagao, M. Machine Translation 898-902 Klavans, J. L., & Tzoukermann, E. Morphology 963-972 McDonald, D. D. Natural-Language Generation 983-997 Carbonell, J. G., & Hayes, P. J. Natural-Language Understanding 997-1016 Petrick, S. Parsing 1099-1109 Small, S. L. Parsing, Word-Expert 1109-1116 Wilks, Y., & Fass, D. Preference Semantics 1183-1194 Cruse, D. A. Presupposition 1194-1201 Dyer, M. G.; Cullingford, R. E.; & Alvarado, S. J. Scripts 1443-1460 Sowa, J. F. Semantic Networks 1493-1511 Devlin, K. J. Situation Theory and Situation Semantics 1541-1547 Briscoe, E. J. Speech Recognition 1553-1559 Norvig, P. Story Analysis 1568-1576 Alterman, R. Text Summarization 1579-1587 Sparck Jones, K. Thesaurus 1605-1613 Knight, K. Unification 1630-1636 Additional articles from the 1st edition (1987): Coelho, H. Grammar, Definite Clause 339-342 Berwick, R. Grammar, Transformational 353-361 Newmeyer, F. J. Linguistics, Competence and Performance 503-508 Wilks, Y. Machine Translation 564-571 Tennant, H. Menu-Based Natural Language 594-597 Koskenniemi, K. Morphology 619-620 Bates, M. Natural-Language Interfaces 655-660 Riesbeck, C. K. Parsing, Expectation-Driven 696-701 Keyser, S. J. Phonemes 744-746 Webber, B. Question Answering 814-822 Smith, B. C. Self-Reference 1005-1010 Hirst, G. Semantics 1024-1029 Woods, W. Semantics, Procedural 1029-1031 Allen, J. F. Speech Acts 1062-1065 Allen, J. Speech Recognition 1065-1070 Allen, J. Speech Synthesis 1070-1076 Briscoe, E. J. Speech Understanding 1076-1083 Lehnert, W. G. Story Analysis 1090-1099 From: DAN GREENSTEIN <DIGGER@dish.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Comments requested on new hum.comp.course Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 17:57:48 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 459 (849) Dear colleagues, 1 February 1994 I am writing to ask your help in launching a new university undergraduate degree course in humanities computing which is described below. At Glasgow University, quality assessment procedures demand that we consult as widely as possible within both academic and non-academic communities before new courses can be mounted. To this end, we need to attract comment from university teachers involved in related areas as that covered in the proposed course, university examiners used to reviewing and examining in courses offered in related areas, employers used to hiring undergraduates with arts backgrounds, recent university graduates with a background in arts disciplines. If at all possible, would you take a moment to read through the appended documentation where we have set out our aims and objectives, and a brief overview of the course content. Then send any comments, criticisms, and the occasional glowing testimonial to me. Our timescale is terribly tight if we are going to launch the course beginning in autumn, 1994 so I need as much feed back as possible by Monday 7 February (but will certainly take anything I can get thereafter). To facilitate this, I am happy to print locally any comments you care to send by e-mail (digger@dish.glasgow.ac.uk). Thank you in advance for your assistance in helping us to develop this relatively new and important by bringing it into the undergraduate degree program in our university. Yours sincerely, Daniel Greenstein Department of Modern History Glasgow University G12 8QQ Scotland e-mail: digger@dish.gla.ac.uk phone: (041) 339-8855 x6115 fax: (041) 330-5000 HUMANITIES COMPUTING: ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS NEW COURSE FOR FIRST- AND SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS AT GLASGOW UNIVERSITY REQUEST FOR COMMENTS AND CRITICISM The above course is being proposed at Glasgow University for the 1994/95 academic session. Given the course's interdisciplinarity, and its focus on a relatively new area, it would be helpful to the course team to have your comments and criticisms. To this end, we have provided a brief synopsis of the course's aims, content, work, and method of assessment. We are particularly interested in comments from: anyone with experience in teaching, examining, or evaluating such courses; members of relevant professional associations; heads or members of humanities computing or like departments within universities or colleges; university graduates with arts backgrounds or majors who can reflect on the value of such a course in light of their subsequent career paths; employers who hire university graduates with backgrounds or majors in arts subjects. I. DEPARTMENTS INVOLVED IN COURSE TEAM: Archaeology, Archives, English Language, English Literature, Glasgow University Library, Hetherington [modern] Language Centre, Hunterian Museum, Modern History, Music, STELLA II. AIMS OF THE PROPOSED COURSE: to introduce students to those computing concepts which will enable them to comprehend and evaluate rapid changes in information technology; to provide a basic understanding of computer applications frequently used in humanities disciplines, and in libraries, museums and archives; to show how substantive problems arising out of humanities disciplines have been solved through the application of computers, and examine the impact that computers have had on the development of the disciplines themselves; to examine some of the broader social and educational issues involved in the revolution in information technology; to extend the computing skills acquired in schools, basic IT or computing science courses. IV. COURSE CONTENT. The course will run over three terms (25 weeks - 10 weeks in the first term, 10 weeks in the second and five weeks in the third) and consist of lectures, practical work in computer laboratories, and seminars. There will be two or three one-hour lectures per week depending on the subject being addressed. Lab work in the first term will provide basic familiarity with a range of applications. In the second term, lab work will provide students with more extensive experience of computer usage in one specific subject area (here students will choose between modules offered in archaeology, history, English, and modern languages, and music). Seminars will provide a forum for discussion of those issues arising out of the lectures and the lab work. THE FIRST TERM (ten weeks), lectures will introduce students to computing concepts and application areas. Concurrent practical work in computer labs will consolidate basic computing skills and extend them to applications most widely used by humanities scholars. THE SECOND TERM (ten weeks), lectures will focus on the application of computers in archaeology, English, history, modern languages, and music. The subject will be developed in five thematic lectures for each discipline covering: 1) the origins of computing within the discipline, early challenges and subsequent developments; 2) computer tools and applications currently used within the discipline; 3) strengths (where computer applications are particularly successful/productive within the discipline); 4) limitations (where computers applications have been unsuccessful/unproductive and cannot readily be used within the discipline); 5) future challenges and direction of computational developments within the discipline. In addition to lectures, students will choose one lab-based module (from amongst archaeology, history, English) where they will conduct a computer-based project within a specific discipline. THE THIRD TERM (five weeks) lectures will broaden out from the core humanities disciplines to address wider themes including: the future of information storage and retrieval (the storage, delivery, and use of computers in libraries and museums); the changing shape of humanities education (the strengths and limitations of computers in teaching); computers and society (how computers change the nature of work, home, and community life); V. WORK OF THE COURSE: All items are required for successful completion of the course. Only those items marked with an asterisk will be counted in the assessment. Term 1 * Lab-based exam testing familiarity with applications Essay developing computing concepts introduced in the first term Term 2 * Computing project based in either archaeology, history, English Essay (c.1500 words) requiring students to choose at least one application area (e.g. databases, text-processing systems) and to examine its use, strengths, and weaknesses in at least two humanities disciplines Term 3 * Essay (c.1500 words) from topics which will require students to integrate themes from several sections of the course. * Two-hour degree examination. From: "David R. Chesnutt" <Chesnutt@hsscls.hssc.scarolina.edu> Subject: Quotation Date: 1 Feb 1994 16:34:36 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 554 (850) Can anyone identify this quotation: "A virtuous woman is never solicitous to resound her chastity, although she feels a proper degree of resentment at being called a Whore, even by implication." Henry Laurens, a leader in the American Revolution, used the quote at the beginning of a letter he published in the Pennsylvania Packet, Oct. 3, 1778. David Chesnutt/U. South Carolina email: CHESNUTT@HSSCLS.HSSC.SCAROLINA.EDU From: "David A. Hoekema" <DHOEKEMA@legacy.Calvin.EDU> Subject: Query on French study abroad Date: 1 Feb 94 17:12:14 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 555 (851) My wife and I are investigating possibilities for overseas French study for our soon to be 16 year old daughter for next summer. We have identified an interesting homestay program (NACEL is the sponsor) in the Cote d'Ivoire; and friends in Avignon have sent information on a study program there, but unfortunately without any indication of whether it regularly enrolls students (the brochure is pitched at adults). Anyone have specific suggestions, experience with either program, or other alternatives to suggest? To offer my own advice in return: my daughter and (younger) son have attended Concordia Language Villages in northern Minnesota for 3 years, and we've been delighted with the program and with the progress they have made. I'd be happy to say more about those programs to any interested readers of this list. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || <dhoekema@calvin.edu> || From: "David A. Hoekema" <DHOEKEMA@legacy.Calvin.EDU> Subject: Addendum Date: 1 Feb 94 17:14:01 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 556 (852) I should probably have advised those who respond to my previous query about French study to do so privately, since the topic is rather afield from the mainstream of this list. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || <dhoekema@calvin.edu> || From: Terry Belanger <tb3e@poe.acc.virginia.edu> Subject: HUMANIST contribution Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 20:18:34 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 461 (853) May I submit the following as of possible interest to subscribers to HUMANIST? BOOKS AT VIRGINIA RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1994 Books at Virginia: Rare Book School (RBS) offers five-day, non- credit courses on topics concerning rare books, manuscripts, and special collections. Students make a full-time commitment to any course they attend, from 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday; most students also attend an informal dinner on the Sunday evening before their first class on Monday. In addition to the formal classes, there are early evening public lectures and other events throughout the five weeks of RBS. The educational and professional prerequisites for RBS courses vary. Some courses are primarily directed toward research librarians and archivists. Others are intended for academics; persons working in the antiquarian book trade; bookbinders and conservators; students of the history of books, writing, and printing; and those generally interested in the subjects being treated. The tuition for each course is $525. Low-cost, air-conditioned dormitory housing will be offered on the Grounds of the University, and nearby hotel accommodation is readily available. Students are encouraged to take advantage of RBS's housing to arrive a few days before their course, or stay a few days later, in order to give themselves (and their families) a better chance to explore the Charlottesville area, which includes many sites of historic interest as well as various vacation attractions. For a copy of the RBS 1994 Expanded Course Descriptions sheet (providing further details about the courses offered this year) and an application form, write, fax, email, or telephone Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498: fax 804/924-8824; e-mail books@virginia.edu; telephone 804/924-8851. WEEK ONE Monday 11 July - Friday 15 July 11 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITHOGRAPHY. This course, which will explore a wide range of applications of lithography in Europe, is aimed at those who are concerned with books, prints, and ephemera especially of the first half of the 19th century. Topics include: Senefelder and the discovery of lithography; lithographic stones and presses; the work of the lithographic draftsman, letterer, and printer; early lithographed books and other printing; the development of particular genres, including music printing; chromolithography in the context of color printing. Instructor: Michael Twyman. 12 PUBLISHERS' BOOKBINDINGS, 1830-1910. The study of publishers' bookbindings, chiefly in the United States, but with frequent reference to England, and occasional reference to Continental developments. Topics include: the rise of the edition binder; design styles and how they developed; new techniques, machines, and materials introduced in the 19th century; the identification of rarities; the physical description of bindings; the preservation of publishers' bindings. The course will make extensive use of the Book Arts Press's notable collection of 19th-century binding exemplars. Instructor: Sue Allen. 13 PRINTING DESIGN AND PUBLICATION. In today's museums and libraries, the texts for readers' instructions, call slips, signs, announcements, posters, checklists, and full-dress catalogs are generally composed on microcomputers, often by staff members with little graphic design experience. This course will teach the principles of good design within the limits of readily available software programs, centering on work generated by a laser printer and reproduced on a photocopier (but without neglecting more complex projects requiring the use of a commercial printer). The course will include critiques of past examples and project work which students bring with them to class. There will be a field trip to a commercial printer. Instructor: Greer Allen. 14 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FRIENDS AND RELATIONS. This course is aimed at three interlocking constituencies: donors (and potential donors); the officers of friends-of-the-library groups; and special collections librarians with part-time responsibilities for development and donor relations. The following topics will be considered from the point of view of each of these groups: why, when, and how collectors and other donors give (and why, when, and how libraries accept) special collections materials; special collections development and fundraising, and what friends groups can (and cannot) do to help; contributions, tax law, and dealing with the IRS (including the new requirements on contribution reporting). Instructor: Wm P. Barlow, Jr. 15 THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOK TRADE: An Introduction for Rare Book Librarians. This course is intended to improve rare book librarians' ability to deal effectively with the antiquarian book trade. Topics include: the interlocking structure of the used and antiquarian book business; the movement of rare books (including book fairs and auctions); the ABAA; how dealers see libraries; successful library-dealer business relationships. Instructor: Peter Howard. WEEK TWO Monday 18 July - Friday 22 July 21 HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK. The production and impact of the printed book in the West since the 15th century. The transition from MS to printed book; technical and stylistic aspects of book production (paper, ink, type, presswork, illustration, binding); the professions of authorship, printing, and publishing; changing patterns of book distribution; the book as an economic, social, and cultural force. Aimed at those who have had little or no previous formal exposure to this field. Instructors: Alice Schreyer and Peter M. VanWingen. 22 EUROPEAN DECORATIVE BOOKBINDING. An historical survey of decorative bookbinding in England and on the European Continent, concentrating on the period 1500-1800, but with examples drawn from the late 7th century to the late 20th century. Topics include: the emergence and development of various decorative techniques and styles; readership and collecting; the history of bookbinding in a wider historical context; the pitfalls and possibilities of binding research. Enrollment in this course is limited to those who have taken Nicholas Pickwoad's RBS course (see below, no. 43). Instructor: Mirjam Foot. 23 MANAGING THE PAST. This course is intended for librarians and others for whom the custody and deployment of books printed or written before 1850 is part of the day's work. How to make the most of what you've got, what to buy, how to buy, whether to sell (and if so, how and when) is on the agenda; but the core of the course will be the analysis of copy-specific data: what makes this copy in (or about to be in) my library different from and more important than anyone else's? Instructor: Nicolas Barker. 24 BOOK ILLUSTRATION TO THE YEAR 1880 (Session I). The identi- fication of illustration processes and techniques, including woodcut, etching, copper engraving, drypoint, stipple, aquatint, mezzotint, lithography, wood engraving, steel engraving, color printing, process relief prints, collotype, and photogravure. The course will be taught from the extensive Book Arts Press files of examples of illustration processes. As part of the course, students will make their own etchings, drypoints, and relief cuts in supervised laboratory sessions. Offered again in Week 3. Instructor: Terry Belanger. 25 INTRODUCTION TO RARE BOOK LIBRARIANSHIP (Session I). Overview of the theory and practice of rare book librarianship. Topics include: the function of rare books in libraries; the interpretation of rare book collections to their publics; patterns of use; special collections' reference materials; security; environmental desiderata; exhibitions and publications; friends' groups. Offered again in Week 3. Instructor: Daniel Traister. 26 INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET. A practical introduction to accessing and navigating the Internet. Topics include: options for connecting to the Net, and ways and means for doing so; introduction to the global range of online resources available (e-mail, information servers, library catalogs); techniques for finding what you need; a look at what is coming in the near future. Familiarity with basic computer skills such as word- processing is expected, but it is assumed that applicants will be individuals (eg antiquarian booksellers, independent scholars, or librarians at institutions not yet supporting network usage) who have no previous experience with electronic communications. Instructor: David Seaman. WEEK THREE Monday 25 July - Friday 29 July 31 COLLECTING TRAVEL LITERATURE. Travel literature in research library collections through consideration of the following topics: travel literature as a genre; the development of travel literature from ancient times to the end of the 19th century; major themes in travel literature (commerce, religion, science, adventure, journalism); travel literature as an approach to many disciplines (anthropology, ecology, geography, geology, natural history, oceanography, sociology); maps and illustrations; bibliographies and major collections; philosophy of collecting (originals, facsimiles, modern editions). Instructor: John Parker. 32 MUSIC AS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARTIFACT. An introduction to the most common music printing processes--letterpress, engraving, and lithography--and the music publishing practices that have resulted from each. The primary evidence--originals and reproductions, archival sources, and secondary scholarship--will be evaluated and discussed. Instructor: D. W. Krummel. 33 BOOK ILLUSTRATION TO THE YEAR 1880 (Session II). For a description of this course, see above, no. 24. The first session of the course (18-22 July) is aimed particularly at those whose background in print identification is weak. This session of the course is aimed particularly at those who have some background in print identification, but who would like further exposure to the subject. Instructor: Terry Belanger. 34 INTRODUCTION TO RARE BOOK LIBRARIANSHIP (Session II). For a description of this course, see above, under no. 25. The first session of the course (18-22 July) is intended for professional librarians who have had no formal training in this field but whose duties now include the administration or care of rare book collections. This session of the course is open to all those with an interest in rare book librarianship, whether or not they are currently working in a library or have had formal training in the field. Instructor: Daniel Traister. 35 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ADMINISTRATION. Tactics special collections librarians may use for interpreting needs and objectives to their library and university administrations; assuring an active role for special collections in the research and curricular programs of their institutions; fundraising, including the most effective use of friends' groups; coping with tight budgets; measuring the success of the strategies selected. The design of the seminar will emphasize group discussion. Participants will be expected to contribute pertinent ideas, approaches and strategies based on their experience. Instructors: Samuel A. Streit and Merrily E. Taylor. 36 ELECTRONIC FORMATS IN A RARE BOOKS ENVIRONMENT. Taking advantage of Alderman Library's computer instruction facilities, this course will provide practical training in the conversion of printed records to electronic formats. The course's emphasis will be on the character-based SGML texts, but it will also discuss image formats and strategies for making resources available on the Internet. Instructor: John Price-Wilkin. WEEK FOUR Monday 1 August - Friday 5 August 41 AIMS AND METHODS OF CODICOLOGICAL RESEARCH. The archeology of the book, especially of the 12th-15th centuries, including (1) the study in depth of the single MS, particularly the links between codicological features (structure, layout, script, decoration, &c.) and text and illustration; and (2) the statistical study of groups of MSS as a contribution to our knowledge of medieval and Renaissance book production. Aimed at researchers in the field of medieval studies, MS librarians, and antiquarian booksellers. Applicants should have at least an introductory knowledge of Latin and of paleography. Instructor: Albert Derolez. 42 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL AND EARLY RENAISSANCE BOOKBINDING STRUCTURES. An explanation of the diversities of European bookbinding structures, up to and including the early period of more generalized practice and divisions of labor. Topics include: identification (where possible) of the main types of binding structures; their dating and provenance; the recognition and recording of materials and techniques. Instructor: Christopher Clarkson. 43 EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING, 1500-1800. How bookbinding in the post- medieval period developed to meet the demands placed on it by the growth of printing: techniques and materials employed to meet these demands; the development of temporary bindings (eg pamphlets and publishers' bindings); the emergence of structures usually associated with volume production in the 19th century; the development of decoration; the dating of undecorated bindings; the identification of national and local binding styles. Instructor: Nicholas Pickwoad. 44 THE BOOK IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA: 1820-1914. The physical description of 19th-century American and English books. A major part of the course will consist of small, supervised laboratory sessions in which students will study various manufacturing and publishing patterns. Restricted to those who have taken the RBS course Introduction to Descriptive Bibliography, or those who already have a good basic knowledge of bibliographical description, including format and collation, of books produced during the handpress period. Instructor: Michael Winship. 45 RARE BOOK CATALOGING. Aimed at catalog librarians who find that their present duties include (or shortly will include) the cataloging of rare books and/or special collections materials. Attention will be given to cataloging both books from the handpress period and 19th- and 20th-century books in a special collections context. Topics include: comparison of rare book and general cataloging; application of codes and standards; uses of special files; problems in transcription, collation and physical description; setting cataloging policy within an institutional context. Instructor: Suzy Taraba. 46 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS. An introductory exploration of the range of research, preservation, and pedagogical tasks that can be performed with electronic texts. Topics include: finding and evaluating commercial and other e-texts; the creation of e-texts through OCR scanning and other methods; introduction to SGML tagging; introduction to text analysis tools; the management and use of online texts and related network resources. The course assumes familiarity with e-mail and basic computer skills such as word-processing, but no previous experience with electronic texts. Instructor: David Seaman. WEEK FIVE Monday 8 August - Friday 12 August 51 INTRODUCTION TO LATIN PALEOGRAPHY. Introduction to early scripts (Caroline, Gothic, Humanistic) and their abbreviations, studied from a practical viewpoint. The principal aim of the course is to teach students how to read and correctly transcribe book scripts of varying degrees of difficulty covering the period 800-1500. The course will deal with Latin, English and French texts. Students are expected to be proficient in Latin. Instructor: Albert Derolez. 52 TYPE, LETTERING, AND CALLIGRAPHY, 1450-1830. The development of the major formal and informal book hands, the dominant printing types of each period, and their interrelationship. Topics include: the Gothic hands; humanistic script; the Renaissance inscriptional capital; Garamond and the spread of the Aldine Roman; calligraphy from the chancery italic to the English round hand; the neoclassical book and its typography; and early commercial typography. Instructor: James Mosley. 53 PUBLISHING HISTORY, 1775-1850. Changes that occurred in the publishing and related industries during the late 18th and the earlier 19th centuries, especially in Great Britain, but with frequent reference to the US. The transformation of organizational structures (from bookseller to publisher, the decline of the Stationers' Company, the rise of unionism); new technologies (machine-made paper, the power press, edition binding in cloth); the rise of a mass market (the growth of periodicals and newspapers, changes in patterns of distribution). Instructor: Michael Turner. 54 INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Introduction to the physical examination and description of books, especially of the period 1550-1875. The course is designed both for those with little or no prior exposure to this subject and for those with some general knowledge of the field who wish to be presented with a systematic discussion of the elements of physical description (format, collation, signings, pagination, paper, type, illustrations and other inserts, and binding). A major part of the course will consist of small, closely-supervised laboratory sessions in which students will gain practice in determining format and collation. Instructors: Terry Belanger and David Ferris. 55 RESEARCH LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT. This course is aimed at those who have recently assumed (or who are about to assume) development duties in research libraries. Topics include: developing a solid foundation (a dependable annual fund); the big gift (identifying, cultivating, and securing major gifts); corporate and foundation possibilities; politics (dealing with the realities of institutional competition); matchmaking (reconciling the interests of donors with the library's documentary and technological requirements). Instructors: Lynda Corey Claassen and Myrna Jackson. SUMMARY: WEEK ONE: Monday 11 July - Friday 15 July 11 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITHOGRAPHY 12 PUBLISHERS' BOOKBINDINGS, 1830-1910 13 PRINTING DESIGN AND PUBLICATION 14 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS FRIENDS AND RELATIONS 15 THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOK TRADE: An Introduction for Rare Book Librarians WEEK TWO: Monday 18 July - Friday 22 July 21 HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK 22 EUROPEAN DECORATIVE BOOKBINDING 23 MANAGING THE PAST 24 BOOK ILLUSTRATION TO THE YEAR 1880 (Session I) 25 INTRODUCTION TO RARE BOOK LIBRARIANSHIP (Session I) 26 INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET WEEK THREE: Monday 25 July - Friday 29 July 31 COLLECTING TRAVEL LITERATURE 32 MUSIC AS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ARTIFACT 33 BOOK ILLUSTRATION TO THE YEAR 1880 (Session II) 34 INTRODUCTION TO RARE BOOK LIBRARIANSHIP (Session II) 35 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ADMINISTRATION 36 ELECTRONIC FORMATS IN A RARE BOOKS ENVIRONMENT WEEK FOUR: Monday 1 August - Friday 5 August 41 AIMS AND METHODS OF CODICOLOGICAL RESEARCH 42 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL AND EARLY RENAISSANCE BOOKBINDING 43 EUROPEAN BOOKBINDING, 1500-1800 44 THE BOOK IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA: 1820-1914 45 RARE BOOK CATALOGING 46 INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS WEEK FIVE: Monday 8 August - Friday 12 August 51 INTRODUCTION TO LATIN PALEOGRAPHY 52 TYPE, LETTERING, AND CALLIGRAPHY, 1450-1830 53 PUBLISHING HISTORY, 1775-1850 54 INTRODUCTION TO DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 55 RESEARCH LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT FACULTY GREER ALLEN has designed publications for the Beinecke Library, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Houghton Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Newberry Library, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and many other libraries and museums. He was formerly Yale University Printer. SUE ALLEN is recognized as the foremost authority on 19th-century American book covers. Her detailed research, lectures, writings and exhibitions guide librarians and conservators to the selective preservation of English and American bookbindings of the 19th century. NICOLAS BARKER is Libraries Adviser to the National Trust. He has written many books on bibliographical subjects, among them STANLEY MORISON (1972) and BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA (1977). He is Editor of THE BOOK COLLECTOR. WM P. BARLOW, JR. is a partner in the Oakland, CA, accounting firm of Barlow & Hughan. He has advised many individuals and institutions on bibliographical tax matters both in a professional capacity and as an officer of a number of Bay area library friends groups. A well-known book collector, he is President of the Bibliographical Society of America. TERRY BELANGER founded RBS in 1983 at Columbia University, where he had various positions in the School of Library Service. Since 1992, he has been University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. LYNDA COREY CLAASSEN is both Head of the Mandeville Department of Special Collections and Library Development Officer at the University of California, San Diego, where she has had oversight for the creation and growth of a library development program in a large public university. CHRISTOPHER CLARKSON directs the Book and Manuscript Conservation Workshops and their related internship program at West Dean College, Sussex. Formerly Conservation Officer at the Bodleian Library, he also help develop rare book conservation at the Library of Congress. ALBERT DEROLEZ is Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Library of the State University of Ghent and Professor at the Free Universities of Brussels. He is a specialist in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. He is the author of CODICOLOGIE DES MANUSCRITS EN E'CRITURE HUMANISTIQUE SUR PARCHEMIN (1984). DAVID FERRIS is Curator of Rare Books at the Harvard University Law School Library, where one of his interests is the descriptive bibliography of early printed books. He has been connected with RBS since 1986 and its Associate Director since 1990. MIRJAM FOOT is Director of Collections and Preservation in The British Library. She is the author of many books and articles on the history of bookbinding, including STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING (1993) and (with Howard Nixon) THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING in England (1992). PETER HOWARD is the owner of Serendipity Books in Berkeley, CA. He has recently completed a term as President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. MYRNA JACKSON is Director of Development for the Duke University Libraries, before which she worked in arts and sciences develop- ment at Duke. D. W. KRUMMEL is Professor of Library Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana. His recent studies include The LITERATURE OF MUSIC BIBLIOGRAPHY (1992) and the Norton/Grove handbook, MUSIC PRINTING AND PUBLISHING (1990). JAMES MOSLEY is Librarian of the St Bride Printing Library in London, the largest library of its kind in the English-speaking world. He has lectured widely in the United States on typographical subjects. He was Founding Editor of the JOURNAL OF THE PRINTING HISTORICAL SOCIETY. JOHN PARKER recently retired as Professor and Curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota/Twin Cities. He has written extensively on the history of exploration and discovery, and on rare book librarianship. NICHOLAS PICKWOAD recently became Conservator at the Harvard University Library. He was formerly Adviser for Book Conservation to the National Trust in the United Kingdom. This will be the 14th time he has taught this celebrated course in RBS. JOHN PRICE-WILKIN is Systems Librarian for Information Services at the University of Virginia, before which he was Data Services Librarian at the University of Michigan, where he pioneered the provision of campus-wide electronic access to literary and linguistic texts. ALICE SCHREYER is Curator of Special Collections at the University of Chicago. She is the author of THE HISTORY OF BOOKS: A GUIDE TO SELECTED RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (1987). [deleted quotation]LIBRARIANSHIP, a journal published by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and she is a past chair of the ACRL's Rare Books & Manuscripts Section. DAVID SEAMAN is Coordinator of the Electronic Text Center at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. He is the co-compiler (with John Kidd) of THE ELECTRONIC JOYCE. He lectures frequently on the use of electronic texts in the humanities. SAMUEL A. STREIT is Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Brown University, where his duties have included renovating the John Hay Library, developing public relations strategies, and undertaking a major expansion of the Friends of the Library. SUZY TARABA is Public Services Librarian in the Regenstein Library's Department of Special Collections at the University of Chicago, before which she was Head of the Rare Materials Cataloging Unit, Perkins Library, Duke University. MERRILY E. TAYLOR assumed her present post of University Librarian at Brown University after working in libraries at Yale and Columbia. Her duties have required extensive involvement with planning, budgeting, public relations, building projects, and fundraising. DANIEL TRAISTER is Curator of Research Services in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania. A past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL, he has published important articles dealing with aspects of rare book librarianship. MICHAEL TURNER is Head of Conservation at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, before which he was Head of Special Collections at the Bodleian. He lectures frequently in the United States. A former President of the Printing Historical Society, he is Editor of PUBLISHING HISTORY. MICHAEL TWYMAN is head of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He is the author of LITHOGRAPHY 1800-1850 (1970) and other important works on the history of lithography. PETER M. VanWINGEN is Specialist for the Book Arts in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress, where he has been concerned with many aspects of the history of the book. He is a past chair of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Section of ACRL and former President of the American Printing History Association. MICHAEL WINSHIP is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is Editor of the recently- completed 9-volume BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, and he is a frequent lecturer on subjects dealing with American bibliography. -- Terry Belanger : University Professor : University of Virginia Book Arts Press : 114 Alderman Library : Charlottesville, VA 22903 Tel: 804/924-8851 FAX: 804/924-8824 e-mail: books@virginia.edu From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Re: Stylistics and Law Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 00:07:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 557 (854) Proving plagiarism is a tricky business too; but at least you can find similarities between texts. I have spent quite a long time studying how to perform semi-automated literary plagiarism detection. We therefore used several programms to gather pieces of evidence of similitude, stylistic, grammatical and structural similarities. -- 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: Virginia Knight <ZZAASVK@cms.manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk> Subject: Re: 7.0455 Qs: Unicode; KLEIO; Long Names; Quote Query; MLA Online; Date: Thu, 03 Feb 94 12:00:36 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 558 (855) A. Kenny 'The computation of style' discusses the history and applications of stylometrics in his first chapter. He cites some literature on the use of the technique in legal cases, though this particualar use is not his chief concern. Virginia Knight University of Manchester From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber) Subject: Re: 7.0453 Opinions: E-text, Advertising, Publishing (1/335) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 21:42:23 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 559 (856) Self-publishing is going to become increasingly more prevalent, because it's so easy. The reason it will continue to be viewed with suspicion by the academic world is precisely the same. Few of us are capable of writing a really good book first crack out of the box. And the succession of readers provided by a good press --from anonymous readers to style editors-- help turn mediocre books into good ones and good ones into great ones. They also prevent a lot of bad books from being published, which is probably as it should be. If we wrote half as much and thought twice as hard before we did, we'd all be a lot better off. Charles Faulhaber UC Berkeley From: Ken Laws <LAWS@ai.sri.com> Subject: Self-Publishing Date: Fri 4 Feb 94 00:46:55-PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 560 (857) <grin> I just read Steve Palmquist's infomercial for his self-publishing venture. It clearly shows the difficulty of screening out ads based on whether the writer reads HUMANIST. I believe that you would have equal problems with screening on the basis of profit motive. (I happen to be a for-profit proprietor who is not making enough "salary" to afford print advertising. Compare that with a non-profit that spends millions on junk mail. Perhaps we are equal threats on the net, but I should think that the product and the way it is presented would be more important than the legal structure.) Commerce prompts people to do things they would not otherwise do. It prompts them to write books that the public might actually want to read (e.g., the works of Twain), and it prompts them to hawk their creations in public places. You can't have one without the other, but there does seem to be value in local ordinances against posting handbills on every flat surface. FWIW, I strongly support Steve's recommendation of self-publishing. I haven't tried it myself, other than my online newsletter, but I've read a bit about it. At its worst, self-publishing is the ultimate vanity press -- and with poor layout and typography as well. But anything can be done badly. With proper training or peer support, self-publishing can be done well. Consider, for instance: Remember Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"? Tufte is a Yale graphics professor who hocked his house in 1983 to self-publish the book. Forbes estimates his pre-tax profits at about $750K by 1987, on 61K copies. He's now sold 140K copies (for $1.7M total?). Tufte's sequel, "Envisioning Information," was published in 1990 with $700K from the first book. At $48 list, 60K copies so far have probably brought him $1.2M. His next book, "Visual Explanations," will be out by 1995. [Forbes, 11/23/92, p. 18.] I'll close with some more tidbits from the same issue of my Computists' Communique, V3 N7, 7/27/93. (But first, let me mention that my experience with Strangelove Press has been much better than Steve Palmquist's. I asked for the net-advertising issue and it was sent to me. I didn't learn a whole lot, but Michael Strangelove seems to be doing OK for a humanities major caught up in the Internet publishing explosion. His previous claim to fame was a survey of resources for religious studies.) Self-published books include Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" and Richard Nelson Bolle's "What Color is Your Parachute?" Two self-published books are now on the Times best-seller list (4/93); others are doing well in regional or specialty markets. Marilyn and Tom Ross of About Books (Buena Vista, CO) are self-published authors who tells others how to self-publish. Major wholesalers accept very few of the 100 self-published submissions they get each day, but self-published books often do well through direct mail, gift shops, sporting goods stores, 800 numbers, or as premiums for other products. [Esther B. Fein, NYT. SJM, 4/26/93.] I highly recommend the Ross's book, "The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing" (Writer's Digest Books). Tracy LaQuey Parker says that network publication of her book chapters (in ASCII) has increased sales. Addison Wesley and the Online Bookstore (obs@world.std.com) have received orders from countries where they had never done business before. This could be a special case, though, as her book is about the internet. [Stu Weibel (weibel@oclc.org), VPIEJ-L, 4/20/93.] Brendan Kehoe had a similar experience: network copies of the first edition boosted sales of the second edition. His first draft had already circulated on the net, and Prentice Hall had been nervous about allowing it to remain available for FTP. "Don't let anyone copy it, just let them look at it." [brendan@lisa.cygnus.com.] Harald Lux has seen several studies finding that net access to technical abstracts does not affect journal subscriptions by end users, but does lead to more journal subscriptions by for-profit institutions. [lux@dmrhrz11.hrz.uni- marburg.de.] Minitel's LISIERE Publishing service has put writers in contact with their audiences since 1991. More than 200 authors and poets are online, and more than 10K people read them (and sometimes write to the authors or become authors themselves). One limitation is that Minitel currently supports only fourteen 40-column lines per page. Service rates in France and much of North America are about $.24/minute or $14.40/hour; 2/3 goes to the author or publisher. Call (212) 399-0080 or (914) 694-6266 for access software. [Jack Kessler (kessler@well.sf.ca.us), PACS-L, 4/16/93.] The enabling technology is in the billing, as for phone service or dial-up information services. -- Ken Laws ------- From: cni-announce@cni.org (by way of chhenry@vaxsar.vassar.edu) Subject: National Initiative on Arts and Humanities Computing Date: 04 Feb 1994 15:47:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 464 (858) The following may be of interest to HUMANIST subscribers Charles Henry Executive Committee National Initiative for Humanities and Arts Computing __________ [deleted quotation] From: DR_HOPKIN@TVAX.LGU.AC.UK Subject: Date: Tue, 8 FEB 94 14:44:50 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 561 (859) The history and evolution of freemasonry. Information would be gratefully received about any recent research on the 19th /early 20th century history of freemasonry in any country. In particular, recently published articles off-the-mainstream or in the non-academic press would be most useful. Please contact: Dr Deian R Hopkin Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences London Guildhall University Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT UK DR_Hopkin @ uk.ac.lgu.tvax Thank you in anticipation. From: stan kulikowski ii <STANKULI@UWF> Subject: inside bigger that outside? Date: Wed, 09 Feb 94 12:04:02 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 562 (860) i am preparing a brief technical note on transdimensional mechanics and i would like some assistance from historians and scholars on the internet. please share this message with other networks that may have interest in math or historical scholarship. the particular phenonmena i am working with is "the inside is bigger than the outside" property of 4D objects. i would like to check out my little history and solicit comments and additions. perhaps since the time of semimythical pythagoras and certainly since plato, we have characterized the universe according to geometrical dimensions: point, line, plane, and space. there is agreement upon these dimensions since the 5th century BC. as near as I can tell (boyer and merzbach 1991), geometries of higher dimensions did not get started until 1854 when riemann at the university of gottingen formulated "hypotheses which lie at the foundation of geometry". by this, the geometry of euclid is found to be a small subset of the geometries of riemann. the foundations for einstein's relativity of spacetime were set here. so, the notion of dimensions beyond 3D does not seem to appear in history until 1854. on the night that john kennedy was assassinated (22 nov 1963), the BBC began broadcasting a television program which features a properly constructed 4D vehicle (an unearthly child, _dr who_). the TARDIS is bigger inside than out, and this is mentioned often in the series. _dr who_ became one of the most successful fantasy programs ever broadcast, being discontinued in 1989 after 27 years of production. so november 1963 which is the earliest popular media protrayal of a 4D structure that I know of. edwin abbott (18??) _flatland, a romance in many dimensions_ is the earliest text on beyond 3D i know of, coming out shortly after riemann. but there are others. how long have illusionists been pulling the rabbit out of the hat? something-out-of-the-hat and similar illusions are based on the surprise of drawing large objects out of small spaces. this is basically a property of 4D containers-- you could put a lot in them. it would not surprise me if out-of-the-hat illusions began appearing after riemann's famous lecture at the university of gottingen. i have studied some ancient magic and occutlism and i recall no reference to creating containers that are bigger inside than out. so did these illusions begin only after riemann introduced the math needed to imagine this property? or could it have been the other way around: riemann saw the rabbit out of the hat trick and then considered higher dimensional geometry? stan stankuli@UWF.bitnet . === god created time so everything would not happen at once º º god created space so everything would not happen to me --- -- lament of the overburdened From: Allegre Christian <allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Electronic Bookstores ? Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 15:06:50 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 563 (861) As I was hopping along from site to site in gopherspace recently, I noted the presence of an *Electronic Bookstore* accessible through a telnet session (it was a commercial organization, with a .com domain name). On the same menu the OCLC was available. But I forgot to keep a bookmark and now I have lost the reference. I wonder if someone has seen this or any Electronic Bookstores on the net and would kindly send their e-addresses to me. Thanks. Ch. Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca Universite de Montreal Departement d'etudes francaises From: Demetra Agelopoulos <da23@columbia.edu> Subject: ANCIENT GREEK TRANSLATIONS Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 17:41:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 564 (862) To: corpora@hd.uib.no Cc: da23@columbia.edu Message-Id: <Pine.3.05.9402101727.A5760-a100000@ciao.cc.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII *** HAVE YOU WORKED WITH ANCIENT GREEK TEXTS / TRANSLATIONS? *** I am an undergraduate student at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. I am currently in the process of selecting a specific project for a class called Computing and the Humanities. My interest lies in working with Ancient Greek texts and their translations, such as Sophocles' Antigone. My goal is to analyze the translations and compare them to both the original text, and to different translations, and to determine the correctness of these translations. I would like to know if anyone has done a tagger for Ancient Greek, or if anyone has done similar work with comparisons of translations, so as to assist me with my project. My initial findings will be available on WWW by May and will be accessable to all. Please forward any responses to me at: e-mail da23@columbia.edu Thanks, Demetra Agelopoulos From: phil-preprints-admin@phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: IPPE now accepting papers on disk Date: Wed, 02 Feb 94 20:10:03 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 565 (863) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= IPPE Now Accepting Submissions on Diskette -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Fri 28 Jan 94 Thanks to an increase in the size of our volunteer staff, the International Philosophical Preprint Exchange is now able to accept submissions of working papers and discussion pieces on diskettes (submissions are, of course, still accepted through our ftp server as well--see below for details). We are able to accept submissions on MS-DOS and Macintosh diskettes of all sizes, in all popular wordprocessor formats. As always, copyright remains with the author, and works remain fully publishable. Works submitted to the IPPE are made available for reading and browsing to philosophers worldwide via the Internet, free of charge to both submitters and readers (see below for access instructions). To speed the appearance of your submission on the IPPE, please adhere to the following simple guidelines: 1. Please begin your paper with a few lines giving your name, etc., in the following format: Your Name : Your Institution : Your email address The Title of Your Paper 2. In addition to the file containing your paper, please provide a short abstract in a separate file. 3. 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From: Robert Ponterio <PONTERIOR@SNYCORVA> Subject: New List announcement (FLTEACH) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 06:34 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 566 (864) List Name: FLTEACH on LISTSERV@UBVM (LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU) The Foreign Language Teaching Forum list was formed to serve as a forum for communication among foreign language teachers at the high school and college levels. Our aim is to improve communication among the professionals involved in training student teachers for certification in language teaching in New York State and beyond. Its audience includes Methodologists, University Supervisors, Cooperating Teachers in junior high and high school, Student Teachers, and anyone involved in developing or implementing the NYS curriculum or engaged in the certification process. Although our initial focus is on language teaching in New York State, we foresee the possibility that this LIST could develop a broader base. Archives of FLTEACH and related files are stored in the FLTEACH FILELIST. To receive a list of files send the command 'INDEX FLTEACH' (without the ' ') to LISTSERV@UBVM or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU as the first line in the body of a mail message (not the Subject: line). To subscribe to FLTEACH, send the command 'SUB FLTEACH your name' (without the ' ') to LISTSERV@UBVM or LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU via a mail message (again, as the first line in the body of the mail, not the Subject: line). For example: SUB FLTEACH John Doe Owners: Jean W. LeLoup <LeLoupJ@snycorva.cortland.edu> Robert Ponterio <PonterioR@snycorva.cortland.edu> From: TBrunner@uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: TLG CD ROM exchange Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 12:13:54 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 567 (865) TLG CD ROM version D has been available to TLG licensees for some time in exchange for TLG CD ROM C. To date, only about 600 licensees have availed themselves of the new disk. Anyone wishing to obtain the most recent disk version should feel free to return the older disk to us--we usually manage to mail out the replacement within 24 hours. There is, of course, no charge to individuals and institutions whose licenses are current. Reminder, however: use of TLG CD ROM D requires the use of upgraded software. Before returning your C disk to us in exchange for a D version, please contact your software source(s) to make sure that you have appropriate software in hand. The C disk contained approximately 42 million words of text; the D disk contains roughly 57 million words. It also contains a number of new indices which (with the proper software) may prove useful to TLG users. Ted Brunner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "Evan L. Antworth 214-709-3346" <evan.antworth@SIL.ORG> Subject: SIL IPA fonts 1.2 Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 16:39:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 568 (866) Many people are writing to ask how to obtain the SIL IPA fonts. So at the risk of repetition, here is the information. Note also that users of version 1.0 may want to upgrade to version 1.2 which was released Nov. 1993. Please direct e-mail queries to Margaret.Swauger@sil.org. --Evan Antworth --------------------------------------------------------------- SIL Encore IPA Fonts version 1.2 -------------------------------- Available for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows only The SIL Encore IPA Fonts are a set of scalable IPA fonts containing the full International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 Kiel revisions. Three typefaces are included: SIL Doulos (similar to Times), SIL Sophia (similar to Helvetica), and SIL Manuscript (monowidth). Each font contains all the standard IPA discrete characters and non-spacing diacritics as well as some suprasegmental and puncuation marks. Each font comes in both PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats. The fonts are freeware and may be obtained by anonymous FTP from: linguistics.archive.umich.edu [141.211.32.2] Windows version: /msdos/windows/fonts/truetype/sil-ipa12.exe Mac version: /mac/system.extensions/font/type1/silipa1.2.cpt.hqx Or GOPHER to gopher.archive.merit.edu and look in "Merit Software Archives". They are also available on diskette for $5.00 plus postage: $2.00 in U.S. or $5.00 outside U.S. Order from: SIL Printing Arts Department 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. tel: 214-709-2495, -2440 fax: 214-709-3387. e-mail: Margaret.Swauger@sil.org From: John Merritt Unsworth <jmu2m@jefferson.village.virginia.edu> Subject: PMC by WWW Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 13:38:07 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 569 (867) Humanist's readers may be interested to know that _Postmodern Culture_ (at three and a half, one of the oldest peer-reviewed electronic journals) is now available by World-Wide Web in a hypermedia format. If you do not have a web client, you can obtain one by anonymous ftp from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu; if you haven't seen what the Web can do, you owe yourself a look. When you've located a client, aim it at: <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html</a> and you will find all back issues of the journal as well as the January, 1994 issue, which contains the journal's first hypermedia publication, a popular culture column on Krazy Kat by Elisabeth Crocker. PMC also has a new gopher site at jefferson.village.virginia.edu. Listserv distribution of a text-only version will continue as before (from pmc-list@listserv.ncsu.edu), as will disk and fiche production. The anonymous ftp site remains ftp.ncsu.edu, where you will find journal articles in /pub/ncsu/pmc/pmc-list. John Unsworth Co-Editor, PMC From: ocphs@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: Fellowship Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 11:21:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 570 (868) Sender: ocphs@vax.ox.ac.uk The Jerusalem Trust Visiting Fellowship, 1994-95 The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications for a Visiting Fellowship in the field of Jewish- Christian relations. The Fellowship is open to scholars working primarily in the field of Christianity (e.g. New Testament, Church History, Christian Thought) who wish to carry out research on some aspect of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. The Fellowship will be of ten months' duration (September 1994 - June 1995). The successful candidate will be provided with accommodation on the Yarnton Manor Estate and will receive the sum of =9C1,000 per calendar month of the tenure. Applications, including a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a short statement of the research which would be undertaken, should be sent to: Ms. Joan Sinclair, Personal Assistant to the Bursar Yarnton Manor Yarnton Oxford OX5 1PY Applicants should also arrange for two academic references to be sent directly to the same address. All papers should reach the Centre by 4 March 1994. Tel: 0865 511869 Fax: 0865 311791 e-mail: ocphs@vax.oxford.ac.uk 4 February 1994 From: E S Atwell <eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk> Subject: UK PhD studentships at Leeds, England Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 13:35:51 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 571 (869) THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS) PhD RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS The University of Leeds has up to 5 Research Scholarships for full-time PhD study available for take up by UK students in October 1994. The scholarships cover academic fees at the UK rate and a maintenance grant of #4,950 a year. CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 11 MARCH 1994. To join the CCALAS research centre, you will need a BSc/BA (ideally First Class Honours) in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, English, Linguistics, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Psychology or a related discipline; and interest in corpus-based computational linguistics. Informal enquiries about research opportunities in CCALAS may be made to: Eric Atwell, tel 0532 335761, fax 0532 335468, email eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk ; or Clive Souter, tel 0532 335460, email cs@scs.leeds.ac.uk ; or Peter Roach, tel 0532 335759, fax 0532 335749, email peterr@psychology.leeds.ac.uk Application forms may be obtained from the Research Degrees and Scholarships Office (UK Studentships), The University, Leeds LS2 9JT, tel 0532 335771 **************************************************************************** COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS RESEARCH AT LEEDS UNIVERSITY Computer Analysis of Language And Speech is a thriving research area, at Leeds as well as nationally and internationally. We are still a long way from general, robust systems that can fully `understand' Natural Languages such as English. However, it is possible to identify specific subproblems or `niche' applications where current theory and technology can be applied usefully. Several research funding agencies support research in this interdisciplinary area, including the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Ministry of Defence (MoD), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), British Council, and Higher Education Funding Councils (HEFCs) special initiatives such as Knowledge Based Systems Initiative (KBSI) and New Technologies Initiative (NTI). Leeds University researchers have an excellent track record in winning research grants from these sources, and will continue to seek external research funding; the University is also contributing internal support. CCALAS is a focus for researchers from a range of departments at Leeds University, providing a `critical mass' of expertise and sharable resources for research over a broad range of fundamental and application-oriented topics involving the computer analysis of language and speech. CCALAS members offer postgraduate research supervision and taught course modules leading to the degree of MSc, MA, MPhil, or PhD. CCALAS members are also involved in externally-funded Research and Development projects, and welcome PhD students with research interests linked to these larger projects. CCALAS covers a broad range of computer corpus- and dictionary-based research including: computers in lexicography (Atwell, Cowie, Roach, Setter, Souter), corpus annotation (Arnfield, Atwell, Bull, Ghali, Hughes, Roach, Souter), corpus collocation analysis (Howarth, Cowie, Davidson), grammar-based reasoning (Mott, Silver), grammatical inference (Arnfield, Atwell, Demetriou, Hanlon, Hughes, Jost, Souter, Tarver, Ueberla), handwriting recognition (Atwell, Boyle, Hanlon), language and linguistics teaching (Atwell, Davidson, Hunter, Roach, Shivtiel), probabilistic parsing (Atwell, Hogg, Jost, O'Donoghue, Souter), speech act theory (Holdcroft, Millican, Wallis, Wynne), speech recognition (Atwell, Kirby, Lockhart, Mair, Sergant, Roach, Ueberla), speech synthesis (Moore, Roach, Scully), text generation (Cole, Grierson, Tawalbeh), word-sense semantic disambiguation and tagging (Atwell, Demetriou, Jost). **************************************************************************** Leeds University has over 15,000 students and 2,000 academic and research staff, making it one of the largest in Britain. Leeds is half-way between London and Edinburgh, linked by rail, motorway and air to the rest of the UK and Europe. It is the 20th largest city in the European Community, with the excellent arts, sport and other social facilites expected of a growing, multi-cultural metropolis; but it is also close to four National Parks. More background information on CCALAS, the University, and Leeds and its environs can be found in the University Postgraduate Prospectus. From: mark <mark@dragonsys.com> Subject: Job: Dragon Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:28:23 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 572 (870) RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FRENCH Should have a very strong academic background in quantitative science or mathematics and an interest in research. Independent and efficient C programmer. Expert knowledge or native fluency in French required, including a large vocabulary and an excellent grasp of grammar. Academic background or practical experience with probability, speech science or linguistics would be an asset. C++, DOS and Windows experience a plus. LANGUAGE SPECIALIST - FRENCH Native French language skills and linguistics background and interest in applying syntactic and semantic knowledge to text analysis is required. Must be detail-oriented and methodical. Job involves working with large amounts of text to analyze vocabulary. Strong marketing interest and experience with DOS and text editors is needed. C programming skills and other foreign languages a plus. LANGUAGE SPECIALIST - SWEDISH Native Swedish language skills and linguistics background required. Interest in applying syntactic and semantic knowledge to text analysis with marketing experience desirable. Must be detail-oriented and methodical. Must have excellent communication skills, project management skills. Familiarity with DOS and Windows environments and fluency in other foreign languages a plus. ------------------------------ Interested candidates should address resumes and inquiries to: Linda Manganaro Dragon Systems, Inc. 320 Nevada Street Newton, MA 02160 USA email: lin@dragonsys.com fax: +1 617 332-9575 (attention: Linda Manganaro) Please indicate position of interest and salary requirements in a cover letter. No phone calls, please. Dragon Systems offers a relaxed yet highly intellectual work environment, excellent benefits and competitive compensation. Affirmative Action/EEO employer. Women, minorities and others are encouraged to apply. From: Hanna Kassis <kassis@unixg.ubc.ca> Subject: Call for Papers (Correction) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 07:30:51 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 573 (871) CALL FOR PAPERS HERESIES AND HERETICS IN THE MIDDLE AGES THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL WORKSHOP OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES Faculty Of Arts The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada 18-19 NOVEMBER, 1994 Papers summarizing completed research or research in progress are invited. Please submit title and abstract (200-250 words) of proposed paper together with a brief biographical sketch (name, degrees, university affiliation, important recent publications) before March 31, 1994 to: Professor Hanna E. Kassis Tel.: (604) 822-6523 Department of Religious Studies Fax: (604) 822-4978 Buchanan Building, E270 University of British Columbia E-mail: kassis@unixg.ubc.ca Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1 --1900024562-940130511-760375960:#22792-- From: "Charles J. Stivale" <CSTIVAL@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU> Subject: MLA Special Session Call Date: Mon, 07 Feb 94 13:13:29 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 574 (872) Please list the following on the HUMANIST List: The following announcement will appear as a Special Session Call-for-Papers in the Spring 1994 MLA _Newsletter_: _Strategies of Discourse in Cyberspace_. Analyses of communicative and discursive forms and modes of interaction in the electronic environment, including interface of gaming/play and research/pedagogy, and reconceptualizations of space, emotion and reality. Inquiries and 2-page abstracts (by March 7). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHARLES J. STIVALE WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEPT. OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES & LITERATURES PHONE: 313-577-6240/3002 487 MANOOGIAN, DETROIT, MI 48202 FAX: 313-577-3266 BITNET: CSTIVAL@WAYNEST1.BITNET INTERNET: CSTIVAL@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Gordon Newby <gdnewby@unix.cc.emory.edu> Subject: Call for Manuscripts Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 15:52:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 575 (873) Could you please post the following call for manuscripts on your list? Thank you. A CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS: The editors of the new journal, Medieval Encounters, A Journal of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue, are seeking articles in all fields of medieval inquiry. PLEASE SEND MANUSCRIPTS AND INQUIRIES TO: Gordon D. Newby Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures Trimble Hall 123 Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 Telephone: 404 727-2916 Internet: gdnewby@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu Medieval Encounters is intended as a cross-cultural, cross- disciplinary forum for discussion among scholars and students around the world about the intersections and interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture in the period from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries C.E. The subjects covered are culture in its widest definition, including History, Languages, Literature, Medicine, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Science, and Art. PUBLISHED BY E. J. BRILL EDITORIAL BOARD Gordon D. Newby, Emory University Editor Editorial Advisors Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Temple University Islamic Studies Lewis M. Barth, Hebrew Union College Jewish Studies Remi Brague, Sorbonne University Philosophy Ross Brann, Cornell University Muslim & Jewish Spain Elizabeth Clark, Duke University Early Christianity Sidney Griffith, Catholic University of America Eastern Christianity John Riddle, North Carolina State University Medieval Science PHILOSOPHY OF THE JOURNAL Medieval Encounters is intended to promote discussion and dialogue across cultural, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries about the interactions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim culture during the period from the fourth through the fifteenth centuries C.E. Culture is defined in its widest form to include history, languages, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, religion, science and art. The geographic limits of inquiry will be bounded only by the limits in which the three traditions interact and intersect. After considerations of scholarly merit and contributions made to knowledge, articles will be selected on the basis of how they promote our understanding of Jewish, Christian and Muslim interactions in the medieval period. Articles may deal with specific texts, events, or phenomena as well as theories of interpretation and analysis. The journal will actively promote a representative spread across all the humanistic disciplines and from all scholarly communities. All articles will be reviewed by members of the editorial board or by such scholars as the editors choose to insure a fair and objective evaluation of each contribution. In addition to articles, the journal will publish reviews of significant books and monographs which fall within the purview of the journal. The editors will strive to include a short notice or a full review for all major works which are concerned with the interactions of the three traditions. The goal is to provide a handy reference of recent scholarly activity for those medievalists involved in cross-cultural and cross- disciplinary research. All articles should be submitted both in hard copy and on computer diskette in Microsoft Word=A8, Wordperfect=A8, or ASCII format for either MS-DOS=A8 or Macintosh=A8 based computers. Articles will be in English but may contain citations in any Classical, European, or Near Eastern language. Transliteration of non-Romanized terms will conform to the usual system employed by journals published by E. J. Brill. All maps, diagrams, charts and photographs will be submitted in camera-ready form. If there is any need to obtain copyright permission for the use of photographs and other materials, it will be the responsibility of the author to obtain such permissions in advance, although the editors will gladly assist in the process. From: LORENDCROW@delphi.com Subject: Humanities Curriculum Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 20:49:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 576 (874) Hello, Our college is currently evaluating its Humanities course. The course exists alongside courses in literature, history, religion, and art/music appreciation as part of a general education program. We're wondering what successes or failures other schools have had in trying to integrate the disciplines, either using a single course (as we currently do) or using an interdisciplinary approach to the whole core curriculum. If anyone has experiences in this area that you wouldn't mind sharing with me and with the Wiley College division of Humanities, I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you. Please respond directly to me in email. Thank you very much. # Loren Crow ## Home # : (903) 753-4880 # # Wiley College, Dept of Religion ## Office # : (903) 927-3219 # # 711 Wiley Avenue ## Fax # : (903) 938-8100 # # Marshall, Texas 75670 ## Email : LorenDCrow@delphi.com # From: "Ronald Tetreault English/Dalhousie Univ." <TETRO@ac.dal.ca> Subject: Humanities Computing Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 10:10:44 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 577 (875) Daniel Greenstein's recent request for feedback on his proposal for a Humanties Computing course reminds me that there has been a lot of discussion here recently about what our students in the Humanities need to know. Here at Dalhousie, we are just beginning to think about developing a program in Humanities Computing that could be blended with traditional Arts majors' programs. I know there is an abundance of expertise among us; also, some specific information and suggestions have probably been gathered in response to other similar requests in the past months. So I am asking anyone with experience or ideas re: organizing Humanities Computing courses to please contact me by e-mail; summaries of responses you may have received to your messages seeking advice on course content would be especially welcome. Please address TETRO@AC.DAL.CA Many thanks from Ron Tetreault, Dept of English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. From: vieu@irit.irit.fr (Laure Vieu) Subject: Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 09:41:53 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 471 (876) CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION PARTS AND WHOLES: CONCEPTUAL PART-WHOLE RELATIONS AND FORMAL MEREOLOGY Monday, August 8, 1994 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Held in conjunction with ECAI-94 (11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Currently, there are two main approaches to the study of "parts" and their relations. The conceptual (cognitive) approach looks at the variety of part-whole relations and their role in language processing, perception, and action planning; the philosophical/logical approach, on the other hand, looks at formal theories of parts, wholes and related concepts in the framework of formal ontology. There are important differences between the two views. Philosophical systems tend to focus on a single "part-*of*" relation used for modeling ontological domains like time, space, or pluralities; conceptual approaches tend to assume a whole family of different "part-*whole*" relations for a variety of entities and tasks. Classical logical theories such as Lesniewski's or Goodman's privileged extensional aspects of the part-wholerelation, while for conceptual approaches and intensional formal mereology the old proverb holds that a whole is more than its parts. While disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy and psychology have contributed significantly to the research in this field, their impact on artificial intelligence is extremely limited, although AI could represent the ideal workbench for a unification of approaches dominant in different fields. Knowledge about parts is of great importance for a wide variety of AI domains, like vision, qualitative and naive physics, robotics, and natural language processing. For example, the structure of an object can be used for visual recognition, for reasoning about the functionality of the whole, or for planning its assembly. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these various disciplines in order to explore (i) the benefits and limits of formal mereology in modeling commonsense part-whole relations; (ii) the import for knowledge representation formalisms of the two current approaches to the study of "parts" and their relations; (iii) the possibility of a unified theory of parts and wholes. The workshop topics will include the following: - Classical extensional mereology: uses, extensions and adaptations; comparison with alternatives to mereology: set theory and lattices. - Intensional mereology: essence, dependence, and integrity; individual properties as parts. - Conceptual distinctions among wholes: masses, collections, complexes; natural entities and artifacts; sums and scattered individuals. - Parts and structure: physical connection, spatial, temporal, functional and other constraints among parts; Gestalt theories and perceptual parts; granularity issues. - Parts, space and time: relationships between mereology, topology, geometry; boundaries and surfaces; relationships between parts of physical objects (continuants) and parts of events (occurrents). - Parts and natural language: parts, part-names and possessive constructions; plurals and mass terms. - Reasoning about parts: transitivity, upper and downward inheritance of properties. - Dealing with parts within existing KR formalisms: distinguishing parts from other attributes, computational issues of reasoning about parts. Two possible kinds of contributions are solicited from interested participants: (a) regular papers of 10 pages max, presenting on-going research; (b) position papers of 3 pages max, motivating the interest in the field and explaining particular points of view. A limited number of regular papers will be chosen for an oral presentation at the workshop, while suitable space will be devoted to discussions based on contributions from participants (rejected regular papers are automatically treated as position papers). Participation will be limited to around 35 people. Preference will be given in the workshop schedule to contributions underlining the impact of mereological issues on AI practice, especially on: knowledge representation, natural language processing, qualitative and naive physics, spatial and temporal reasoning, vision, and robotics. Submission of papers, regular and position, to any member of the workshop organizing committee is due by April 15 1994. Hard copy (4 copies) and electronic submissions (either PostScript, LaTex or MacWord converted in BinHex format) are equally acceptable, with a strong preference for the latter. All submissions should include an exact address and an e-mail address. TIMETABLE: Paper submission deadline: April 15, 1994 Notification: May 20, 1994 Final version due: June 6, 1994 Workshop: August 8, 1994 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Participants will be requested to register for the main ECAI conference. Organizing committee: Nicola Guarino LADSEB-CNR Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35020 Padova tel: +39 49 8295751, fax: +39 49 8295778 email: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it Simone Pribbenow University of Hamburg, Computer Science Department, Bodenstedtstr. 16, D-22765 Hamburg tel: +49 40 4123-6111, fax: +49 40 4123-6159 email: pribbeno@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Laure Vieu Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31326 Toulouse tel: +33 61556091, fax: +33 61558325 email: vieu@irit.fr From: Nicola Guarino <GUARINO@ladseb.pd.cnr.it> (par les soins de vieu@irit.fr Subject: Cognitive and Ontological Foundations of Knowledge Engineering Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 12:23:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 472 (877) FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE Buffalo 5-30 July 1994 Participant Symposium on COGNITIVE AND ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING 23-24 July 1994 During the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science to be held in Buffalo in July, participant symposia will be scheduled in all three weekends during the course of the Institute (9-10, 16-17 and 23-24 July). All registered participants may submit papers to be presented at one or more of the participant symposia. Registration must extend for at least one week beginning or ending with the relevant weekend period. Within this general framework, a participant symposium has been scheduled in the weekend of 23-24 July, with the title "Cognitive and Ontological Foundations of Knowledge Engineering". The main purpose of this symposium is to assess the cognitive and ontological status of various notions used as primitives in KR systems as well as in work on databases and on object-oriented systems, notions such as concept, object, individual, property, quality, attribute, part, role, relation, state, situation, event, process, action, etc. Related issues involve the development of adequate tools for domain analysis capable of improving the cognitive transparency of knowledge and data bases, and therefore their potential reusability. Expected topics include: 1. Cognitive and ontological adequacy of KR primitives - Primitives for knowledge structuring: intended meaning, formal semantics; - Epistemological vs. conceptual primitives. 2. Ontological instruments in knowledge engineering - Ontological distinctions between kinds of knowledge; - Ways of knowledge structuring: dependency analysis, role of mereology; - The notion of ontological commitment for a knowledge base. 3. NL instruments in knowledge engineering - Language as a privileged domain for conceptual analysis; - The role of linguistic competence in knowledge engineering: ontological assumptions from lexical items or NL descriptions; - Role of terminological choices in knowledge engineering; discipline for compound terms; - Use of on-line linguistic resources in knowledge engineering. 4. Case analyses: concrete experiences of ontology design or reuse - Striving for reusability: task-oriented vs. domain-oriented analysis; experiences of ontology reuse. - Top-level ontologies; - Existing modeling methodologies and environments for domain analysis. Symposium organizer: Nicola Guarino National Research Council LADSEB-CNR, Corso Stati Uniti 4 I-35020 Padova, Italy email: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it phone: +39 49 8295751 fax: +39 49 8295778, 8295763 Intending participants are invited to send a brief statement of interest to the symposium organizer as soon as possible, together with comments and organization suggestions; the final deadline for papers (max 12 pages) is April 15th. REGISTRATION AND FEES The partial registration fees for one week of the Summer Institute for Cognitive Science are US$ 350 for academic affiliates (faculty/student), and US$ 650 for corporate affiliates. Send a message to cogsci94@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu to receive detailed information on the Institute, including course offerings, speaker series, workshops, fees, living accomodations, and scholarship and travel support for students. From: trobb@ksuics.kyoto-su.ac.jp (Thomas Robb) Subject: Announcing CELIA Language Software Database Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 23:58:14 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 473 (878) COMPUTER ENHANCED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARCHIVE (CELIA) INTRODUCTION WHAT is CELIA? CELIA is an archive or storage space (like a library) of software for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). The software is either shareware or freeware. Except for demos, commercially sold software cannot be archived in CELIA. The software comes from you the users and developers of CALL materials. CELIA can be accessed by gopher-server at USA/michigan/Merit software archive or by FTP at archive.umich.edu. Further detailed instructions on how to use CELIA appear in the long document headed: HOW TO USE CELIA. The archive is organized in a tree so that the first major choice is language, the next the language learning activity (e.g. vocabulary, grammar, etc.), and last the operating system under which the software runs. Software running under any operating system, (MS-Dos, Windows, OS/2, Mac, Unix, Amiga, etc.) is accepted for archiving. At present there are files for only MS-Dos and Mac in the archive. The files may also be executable binary files OR text only ascii files. It is hoped that teachers will use CELIA to exchange software on an international co-operative basis by uploading it to CELIA in order to cut down development time and create more choices in CALL courses for language learners. There are many software packages that allow teachers to author CALL "exercises." These authored files are the teacher's copyright property (even if the program needed to run them is a commercial product), and can be shared free of charge with other teachers who also own the same authoring software. Typically such files are often ascii files. Such "authored exercises," the instructions to use such exercises, files to be printed as handouts to students, etc., can all form part of material uploaded to CELIA. WHO can use CELIA? Anybody who has access to Internet. It is a free service. If teachers in your local community do not have Internet access you may think of organizing local funding so that they can access CELIA. WHO runs CELIA? CELIA is run and maintained by CELIA-L a special closed list created by Anthea Tillyer as a TESL-L related activity. The co-owners of CELIA-L are Anthea Tillyer ABTHC@cunyvm.cuny.edu Lloyd Holliday L.Holliday@latrobe.edu.au In effect the archive is currently staffed and run by: Deborah Healey dhealey@oregon.uoregon.edu Macintosh Lloyd Holliday L.Holliday@latrobe.edu.au MS-Dos/CELIA sites Jeff Magoto jmagoto@oregon.uoregon.edu Macintosh Fred Swartz fred.swartz@merit.edu Gopher/CELIA sites Many other members made valuable contributions to the original discussion on CAUSLI-L about setting up CELIA. Currently, the following members of CELIA-L may also be contacted with offers of help: Tom Robb trobb@KSUICS.KYOTO-SU.AC.JP TESL-L Management/Help Jack Burston frn373b@VAXC.CC.MONASH.EDU.AU Calis/French Julie Falsetti jefhc@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU MS-DOS Janet Sutherland sutherland@VAX1.RZ.UNI-REGENSBURG.D400.DE Tim Rushing RUSHING@WSUVM1 TESL-L Management The management of CELIA cannot troubleshoot or answer questions about access as each local network setup varies. USERS HAD BEST ASK THEIR LOCAL SYSTEMS OR NETWORK MANAGERS IF THEY HAVE DIFFICULTIES. (Detailed help is provided to the best of our ability in CELIA-HOW-TO.) We need more long term committed VOLUNTEERS to take on bits of CELIA as it grows. Contact any of us if you are able to help. You need not be a computer scientist or network manager :), even some knowledge of email will be a big plus. We need VOLUNTEERS to help with keeping the index00.txt files up to date, checking that software is correctly compressed, uploading it into appropriate directories, actively soliciting software for archiving, making CELIA known at conferences, suggesting gopher links to other source material useful to language teachers, etc. And we need more storage sites. For the latter you need to be at a NETWORK SITE like a university computing service with whom you have already liaised and from whom you already have received a commitment to house a subdirectory branch of CELIA. The HISTORY of CELIA In mid-1993 a discussion about sharing CALL resources took place on TESLCA-L and Anthea Tillyer decided the time was ripe to initiate this CALL project. Anthea created the list CAUSLI-L with Lloyd Holliday as co-owner to discuss setting up the project. Sometime in September when the name CELIA was suggested CAUSLI-L became CELIA-L. This electronic committee debated many issues involved. In October and November, Lloyd Holliday met Anthea Tillyer in New York and Fred Swartz in Ann Arbor to discuss further practical issues in setting up CELIA. Some of the decisions were taken as a result of these discussions in which Fred's computer expertise was invaluable. Without his ability to set up the gopher server and fill us in on the practical issues we would not have been able to proceed. The Macintosh side of the archive was begun with files from TESOL's CALL Interest Section (CALL-IS) Macintosh Library. CELIA was a way to expand the CALL-IS's service, which has been on a mail-a-disk basis since 1988. The FUTURE of CELIA Depends largely on YOU. The discussions on CELIA-L did include representatives from LLTI-L who are interested largely in teaching languages other than English. Although CELIA has begun as a TESL/TEFL/TESOL initiative, users will see that provision has been made to include material on ALL languages. Thus it is hoped that language teachers from other organizations will offer to join CELIA-L to co-operate in creating the archive. CELIA-L is not funded at present. Various groups who work on CELIA-L may have to look to their own national and local funding bodies for funding to develop the parts of CELIA-L they are most concerned about. This may be a particular type of software, language or index of available software. Although CELIA has been set up initially to run on a gopher-server, as WWW, and other developments take place and become more universally available, it is likely that CELIA may also get various platform-lifts. Nevertheless, CELIA is probably a unique first in the world of Internet computing as it has deliberately been set up to be a distributed archive appearing as one virtual whole to the user even though not all the files are physically located in one place. We intend to spread CELIA around to more sites than currently is the case, but this depends on more folk with universities and computing network managers who will set up CELIA storage sites in co-operation with us. Eventually we hope, entry to the top level of CELIA will be accessible from at least one gopher server on each continent of the world that will lead to subdirectories that are managed and stored in many different locations around the world. CELIA is truly an effort in worldwide democratic co-operation. Without various of us at different levels: software creators, users, students, teachers, uploaders, archivists from different language groups and countries, etc., creating and managing various bits of CELIA, she doesn't exist. Please become part of this initiative to foster a multilingual and multi-cultural world through language learning Lloyd Holliday for CELIA-L Management 2 February 1994 (see also CELIA-HOW-TO) You are encouraged to post this message to any relevant LISTS or BBS. From: John Spitzer <amsong@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Subject: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 21:04:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 474 (879) AMERICAN SONG AND AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY NEH Summer Seminar College teachers and independent scholars are invited to apply to participate in this 7-week seminar in Baltimore, Maryland. Dates: June 20 to August 5, 1994 Location: Peabody Conservatory of Music Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland Directors: John Spitzer and Ronald G. Walters Stipend: $3,600 Application Deadline: March 1, 1994 The seminar will study 19th-century American song as a manifestation of popular culture. Songs will be examined in the contexts of political and social history, the history of the entertainment industry, and 20th-century theories of popular culture. Participants will work with primary sources: sheet music in the collections of the Baltimore-Washington area. The seminar aims to attract teachers and scholars from diverse fields: historians, musicologists, librarians, folklorists, and others. It is designed for teachers at 4-year colleges, independent scholars, persons in non-academic employment, and university teachers in departments that do not offer a Ph.D. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals who have resided in the U.S. for at least 3 years immediately preceding the application deadline. For more information and/or application materials, respond via one of the routes below. Include your current mailing address, so we can send you an application. E-mail:amsong@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Write: John Spitzer, Peabody Conservatory, One E. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD, 21202 Call: 410-659-8158 Fax: 410-685-0657 John Spitzer and Ron Walters From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Second Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:24:02 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 578 (880) SECOND ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Final Call for Papers WHEN: August 4, 1994 (just before Coling-94) WHERE: Kyoto International Community House (Tentative), Kyoto, Japan Corpus linguistics continues to be a hot topic. Text is more available than ever before. All of this data provides a great opportunity, as evidenced by all of the recent activity in Europe, Asia and America, some of which was discussed at last year's meeting in Ohio, just before ACL-93. This year, there will be a special emphasis on parallel texts such as the Canadian Hansards. Parallel texts have been used to study machine translation, bilingual lexicography, and terminology research for human translators. As a result, there has been considerable interest in alignment programs that decide which parts of the source text correspond to which parts of the target text. Performance has been extremely promising, especially for pairs of European languages, though it remains an open question how well these methods might generalize to a broader range of language pairs such as English/Japanese. Authors should submit three copies of a full-length paper (5-10 pages) to the program chair by March 1, 1994. Paper submissions are strongly preferred over electronic submissions. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by April 15, 1994. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) Text Analysis Techniques: - alignment of parallel text - ``robust'' parsing - part of speech tagging - sense tagging - identification of phrases - collocation - morphology - discourse structure Applications: - Translation - Lexicography - Terminology - Information Retrieval (IR) - Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. - Spelling Correction Program Chairs: Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Canada) Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Laboratories, U.S.A.) Program Committee: Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Switzerland) Chengming Guo (University of Beijing, China) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, U.S.A.) Hiroshi Maruyama (IBM Japan) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of S&T, Japan) Katashi Nagao (Sony, Japan) Keh Yi Su (BDC, Taiwan) Ryoichi Sugimura (Matsushita, Japan) Jean Veronis (University of Marseille, France) Local Arrangements: Ryoichi Sugimura (Matsushita, Japan) Masashi Sakamato (Oki Electric, Japan) Registration fees: 10,000 Japanese yen Contact: Pierre Isabelle / WVLC2 CITI 1575 Chomedey Blvd. Laval, Quebec Canada H7V 2X2 e-mail: isabelle@citi.doc.ca From: Jeffrey Goldberg <goldberg@nytud.hu> Subject: Appel: LL5 Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:27:07 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 579 (881) PLEASE POST PLEASE POST PLEASE POST PLEASE POST SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Symposium on Logic and Language The Fifth Symposium on Logic and Language (LL5) will be held in Hungary from September 2 to September 5 or 6 [Note: the finishing date is subject to change depending on the number of participants]. Abstracts are welcome on all subjects of natural language semantics and logics related to natural language, but abstracts specifically addressing issues of focus, contrast and presupposition are especially encouraged. Abstracts should be detailed (at least 2 pages, or 500 words) and may be sent either by E-mail to LL5@nytud.hu or 3 copies by post to Jeff Goldberg (Rm 119) Linguistics Research Institute PO Box 19 H-1250 Budapest Hungary Deadline for receipt of abstracts is April 15, 1994 The Logic and Language Symposia are held every second year in varying places in Hungary. We are currently exploring a new venue for the symposium, in a mansion in the mountains of north-east Hungary. Please: In order to make arrangements, we need to have some idea of how many people will be participating. If you are interested, please let us know as soon as possible, stating, as best you can at this point, whether you expect to participate. For more information concerning the symposium or to be added to our mailing list, please feel free to get in touch with us at the addresses above, or by FAX (36-1) 115-14-18. PLEASE POST this notice lor pass it on to others who may be interested. -- Jeffrey Goldberg Linguistics Research Institute of the goldberg@nytud.hu Hungarian Academy of Sciences FAX: (36-1) 115-1418 From: FRN373B@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Conference announcement - Melbourne, Australia Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 22:22:48 +1100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 580 (882) AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE "Issues and innovations in the teaching of French" *************************************************** The Second Annual Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies will be held at The University of Melbourne, on the 12th, 13th and 14th of July, 1994. The programme will broadly cover such topics as: o Changes in French language curricula in Australian schools and universities o Issues related to communicative methodology o Development of new methods and materials o Use of technology (a CALT workshop is planned for the afternoon of July 14) o Content-based language teaching o Teaching of literature, linguistics, culture o Language across the curriculum o Placement and proficiency testing o Teaching and "action" research o and others Two half days will be devoted to papers dealing with a wider range of (not strictly pedagogical) matters. Keynote speaker: Claire KRAMSCH, University of California, Berkeley Associated events: Nineteenth Congress of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia, 14-17 July, 1994 Papers are now called for and abstracts should reach the Convenor by March 31st, 1994. Proposals may be submitted by surface or e-mail. Please direct any enquiries to the Convenor: Monique Burston, Department of French and Italian Studies, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia Telephone: (61 3) 344 5179 - Fax: (61 3) 347 2489 E-mail: monique_burston@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au Organizing committee: Jack Burston (Monash University) Alastair Hurst (La Trobe University), Colin Nettelbeck (University of Melbourne) *************************************************** AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE "Issues and innovations in the teaching of French" (12-14 July, 1994) University of Melbourne INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL 1. Paper Papers will be 30 minutes in length, including discussion time and should emphacise current research. They may be presented in French or English. 2. Intending presenters should a. complete the presenter form b. provide an abstract of their paper 3. Abstract details Length: Not more than 250 words Format: Double-spaced; title: centre top Number of copies: Provide 3 copies of abstract with title but without presenter's name. NOTE: Information about registration, accommodation and conference dinner will be forthcoming. *************************************************** AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE "Issues and innovations in the teaching of French" (12-14 July, 1994) University of Melbourne PRESENTER FORM Name: _______________________________________________ (Ms/Mrs/Mr/Dr/Prof) Given name: __________________________________________ Institution: __________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________ _________________________________ Postcode: __________ Telephone: ___________________________________________ E-mail address: _______________________________________ Please supply a summary of your paper in about 50 words, for inclusion in the Conference Programme. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ Audio-visual equipment required Please tick appropriate box Overhead projector [ ] Slide projector [ ] VHS video [ ] Other (Please specify) _________________________________ The deadline for submission of papers is 31 March 1994 Please return this form to: Dr Monique Burston ASFFS Conference Convenor Deprtment of French and Italian Studies The University of Melbourne Parkville, Vic. 3052 From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Call for Abstracts - 1994 Joint Conference - ACLIC/PacFoCoL Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:26:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 581 (883) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 1994 JOINT CONFERENCE OF THE 8TH ASIAN CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION AND THE 2ND PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON FORMAL AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS The Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan is pleased to announce that the 1994 Joint Conference of the 8th ACLIC/the 2nd PacFoCoL is going to be held at Shiran Kaikan in Kyoto on August 10-11, 1994. This is the first effort to bring together the two conferences which have been specifically concerned with the development of milieus conducive to the exchange and mutual understanding of current research trends among the researchers working on theoretical and computational linguistics in this region. Topics of the conference include theoretical and computational studies in syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, discourse and dialogue analysis, corpus linguistics, and logic grammars. Around 20 papers will be presented at plenary sessions. The authors will have 30 minutes for presentation and quesion period. Abstracts should not exceed in length three A4 pages with one additional page for reference and/or data. 4 hard-copies of the abstract with the title, the author's name, affiliation, Mailing address, phone number and/or e-mail address on a separate page should be sent to by April 30, 1994: Dr Akira Ishikawa 1994 ACLIC/PacFoCoL Dept of English Language & Studies Sophia University 7 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, 102 Japan Tel: 81-3-3238-3917 Fax: 81-3-3238-3910 e-mail: ishikawa@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp The notice of abstract acceptance will be mailed out by June 10,1994. For further information, please contact Akira Ishikawa ishikawa@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp, or Masahito Kawamori kawamori@atom.ntt.co.jp. Programm Committee Chairperson: Akira Ikeya, Toyo Gakuen University Co-chairpersons: Byungsoo Park, Kyun Hee University Benjamin K T'sou, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Organizing Committee Takao Gunji, Osaka University Yasunari Harada, Waseda University Koiti Hasida, Electrotechnical Laboratory Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica Akira Ishikawa, Sophia University Masahito Kawamori, NTT Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University Kiyong Lee, Korea Universtiy Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology K.P. Mohanan, National University of Singapore Yoshihiko Nitta, Advanced Research Laboratory Hitachi, Ltd. Keh-yi Su, Tsing Hua University Paul Horn Jyh Wu, National University of Singapore Yun-Mei Ying, Chengchi University Hongming Zhang, National Universtiy of Singapore From: KR94 Conference Service <kr94@mail2.ai.univie.ac.at> Subject: KR'94 Date: 10 Feb 1994 10:27:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 477 (884) KR'94 - Program and Registration Information Fourth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Gustav Stresemann Institut Bonn, Germany May 24-27, 1994 With support from the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence, the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of In- telligence, and the European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelli- gence; in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelli- gence and the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. ABOUT KR'94 KR'94, the first in its series to be held in Europe, provides a more intimate setting than that of general AI conferences for researchers studying explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms, which pro- vide an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence from na- tural language to expert systems. The conference emphasizes both the theoretical principles of knowledge representation and reasoning and the relationships between these principles and their embodiments in working systems. Presented papers, invited talks, panels, and audience discussion will address the following important ques- tions: (1) What issues arise in representing and using knowledge about real problems, and how can they be addressed? (2) What are the theoretical principles in knowledge representation and rea- soning? (3) How can these principles be embodied in implemented knowledge representa- tion systems, and what practical tradeoffs arise? (4) How do these approaches to problems relate to corresponding approaches in other parts of AI (natural language, robotics, etc.) or in other fields (psychology, philosophy, logic, economics, cognitive science, computer science, management, engineering, etc.) LOCATION The KR'94 Conference will be held at the Gustav Stresemann Institut (GSI) in Bonn, Germany. The GSI is located just south of the downtown area within easy reach of the main train station. Major airports are Cologne/Bonn (with regular bus service to downtown Bonn), Duesseldorf (1 hour by train) and Frankfurt (2 hours by train). Registered participants will receive detailed information about the GSI and how to get there. CORRESPONDENCE KR'94 information: E-mail: kr94@cs.uni-bonn.de Regular KR'94 Mail: Institute of Computer Science III University of Bonn Roemerstr. 164 D-53117 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-550-281 Fax: +49-228-550-382 Automatic E-mail: If you send a message to kr94-info@cs.uni-bonn.de, a reply containing a copy of this announcement will be sent to the address in the sender field (without being read by a person). ORGANIZERS Conference Chair: Erik Sandewall, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linkoeping University, Sweden Program Chairs: Jon Doyle, Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT, USA Piero Torasso, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Torino, Italy Local Arrangements Chair: Gerhard Lakemeyer, Institute of Computer Science III, University of Bonn, Germany Publicity Chair: Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Attardi (U. Pisa, Italy), Franz Baader (DFKI, Germany), Fahiem Bacchus (U. Waterloo, Canada), Philippe Besnard (IRISA, France), Piero Bonissone (GE, USA), Craig Boutilier (UBC, Canada), Ron Brachman (AT&T, USA) Maurice Bruynooghe (KUL, Belgium), Anthony Cohn (U. Leeds, UK), Ernest Davis (NYU, USA), Rina Dechter (UC Irvine, USA), Johan de Kleer (Xerox, USA), Oskar Dressler (Siemens, Germany), Jennifer Elgot-Drapkin (Arizona State U., USA), Richard Fikes (Stanford U., USA), Alan Frisch (U. York, UK), Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar U., Venezuela), Georg Gottlob (TU Wien, Austria), Pat Hayes (U. Illinois, USA), Hirofumi Katsuno (NTT, Japan), Henry Kautz (AT&T, USA), Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan U., Israel), Maurizio Lenzerini (U. Rome, Italy), Vladimir Lifschitz (U. Texas, USA), David Makinson (Unesco, France), Joao Martins (IST, Portugal) David McAllester (MIT, USA), John-Jules Meyer (U. Amsterdam, Netherlands), Katharina Morik (U. Dortmund, Germany), Johanna Moore (U. Pittsburgh, USA), Hideyuki Nakashima (ETL, Japan), Bernhard Nebel (U Ulm, Germany), Hans Juergen Ohlbach (Max Planck Institut, Germany), Lin Padgham (Linkoeping U., Sweden), Peter Patel-Schneider (AT&T, USA), Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI, USA), Raymond Perrault (SRI, USA), David Poole (UBC, Canada), Henri Prade (IRIT, France), Anand Rao (AAII, Australia), Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew U., Israel), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley, USA), Len Schubert (U. Rochester, USA) Marek Sergot (Imperial College, UK), Lokendra Shastri (ICSI, USA), Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA), Lynn Stein (MIT, USA), Devika Subramanian (Cornell U., USA), William Swartout (USC/ISI, USA), Austin Tate (AIAI, Edinburgh, UK), Peter van Beek (U. Alberta, Canada), Michael Wellman (U. Michigan, USA) INVITED TALKS Beyond Ignorance-Based Systems, W. A. Woods --- Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., USA The field of artificial intelligence has a long tradition of exploiting the potential of limited domains. While this is beneficial as a way to get start- ed and has utility for applications of limited scope, these approaches will not scale to systems with more open-ended domains of knowledge. Many "knowledge-based" systems actually derive their success as much from ignorance as from the knowledge that they contain. That is, they succeed because they don't know any better. Too great a reliance on a closed-world assumption and default reasoning in a limited domain can result in a system that is fundamen- tally limited and cannot be extended beyond its initial domain. If the field of knowledge-based systems is to move beyond this stage, we need to develop knowledge representation and reasoning technology that is more robust in the face of domain extensions. Nonmonotonic reasoning becomes a lia- bility if the fundamental abilities of a system can be destroyed by the addi- tion of knowledge from a new domain. This talk will discuss some of the chal- lenges that we must meet to develop systems that can handle diverse ranges of knowledge. Non Standard Theories of Uncertainty in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Didier Dubois --- IRIT-CNRS Universite' Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France The last 15 years have witnessed a noticeable but scattered research effort towards a rational theory of plausible reasoning. While Bayesian nets have recently blossomed in this area, the role of logic and symbolic representa- tions continue to be prominent. Besides, the monopoly of probability theory as a tool for modelling uncertainty has been challenged by alternative ap- proaches such as belief functions and possibility theory. Current efforts search for a knowledge representation framework that combines the merits of classical logic and Bayesian probability. The aim of this talk is to try and provide a perspective view of uncertainty theories in plausible reasoning. The lecture will touch on the following issues: - The use of ordering relations in uncertainty modelling and its link to non-monotonic reasoning. - The problem of compositionality, and the difference between partial truth (as in fuzzy logic) and uncertainty. - Why Bayesian probabilities might be questioned in reasoning tasks that are not decision-driven. - The importance of representing generic, exception-tolerant, knowledge as distinct from uncertain evidence in plausible reasoning tasks. - The analysis of three forms of belief change: updating, revision, and focusing and their role in defeasible inference systems. Knowledge Representation Issues in Integrated Planning and Learning Systems Jaime Carbonell --- Carnegie Mellon University, USA Advances in Machine Learning and in non-linear planning systems in Artificial Intelligence have proceeded somewhat independently of Knowledge Representation issues. In essence, both fields borrow from KR the very essentials (e.g. typed FOL, or simple inheritance methods), and then proceed to address other important issues. However, the increasing sophistication of integrated archi- tectures such as SOAR. PRODIGY and THEO at CMU (that combine problem solving, planning and learning) place new demands on their KR infrastructures. These demands include reasoning about strategic knowledge as well as factual knowledge, supporting representational shifts in domain knowledge, and meta- reasoning about the system's own reasoning and learning processes. The presentation will focus on the PRODIGY architecture and its needs and implica- tions for KR, especially when these may be in divergence with the primary ac- tive topics in modern KR research. -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. knowledg rep94. 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: "Michael L. Hall" <NEHFELL@gwuvm.gwu.edu> Subject: Overview of NEH Programs Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 14:49:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 478 (885) Below is an ASCII text version of the current Overview of Endowment Programs. We'd like to make it available to subcribers to HUMANIST. It can also be found by GOPHER at the University of Pennsylvania: ccat.sas.upenn.edu. National Endowment for the Humanities Affairs Office of Publications and Public Affairs OVERVIEW OF ENDOWMENT PROGRAMS 1994 For more information or hard copy, contact: Public Information Office National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Room 407 Washington, D.C. 20506 202/606-8438 INTERNET (NEH will not accept grant proposals sent through INTERNET): Public Information Office (OPPA): NEHOPA@GWUVM.GWU.EDU Division of Education Programs: NEHEDU@GWUVM.GWU.EDU Division of Fellowships and Seminars: NEHFELL@GWUVM.GWU.EDU Division of Preservation and Access: NEHPRES@GWUVM.GWU.EDU Division of Public Programs: NEHPUB@GWUVM.GWU.EDU Division of Research Programs: NEHRES@GWUVM.GWU.EDU Division of State Programs: NEHSTATE@GWUVM.GWU.EDU 202/606-8282 TDD (for the hearing impaired only) Alternative format publications will be made available upon request. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS Overview The Humanities What the Endowment Supports What the Endowment Does Not Support Eligibility Applying for a Grant How Applications Are Evaluated Office of Outreach Equal Employment Opportunity Statement PROGRAMS Division of Education Programs Division of Fellowships and Seminars Division of Preservation and Access Division of Public Programs Division of Research Programs Division of State Programs Challenge Grants Deadlines 1994 Application Deadline Dates How To Apply Helpful Hint General Information NEH Telephone Directory The National Council on the Humanities The Jefferson Lecture The Charles Frankel Prize NEH Publications State Humanities Councils +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens" -- National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 In order "to promote progress and scholarship in the humanities and the arts in the United States," Congress enacted the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. This act established the National Endowment for the Humanities as an independent grant-making agency of the federal government to support research, education, and public programs in the humanities. Grants are made through six divisions--Education Programs, Fellowships and Seminars, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, Research Programs, and State Programs. THE HUMANITIES The act that established the National Endowment for the Humanities says "The term 'humanities' includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following: language, both modern and classical; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; those aspects of social sciences which have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods; and the study and application of the humanities to the human environment with particular attention to reflecting our diverse heritage, traditions, and history and to the relevance of the humanities to the current conditions of national life." WHAT THE ENDOWMENT SUPPORTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports exemplary work to advance and disseminate knowledge in all the disciplines of the humanities. Endowment support is intended to complement and assist private and local efforts and to serve as a catalyst to increase nonfederal support for projects of high quality. Although the activities funded by the Endowment vary greatly in cost, in the numbers of people involved, and in their specific intents and benefits, they all have in common two requirements for funding: significance to learning in the humanities and excellence in conception. In the most general terms, NEH-supported projects aid scholarship and research in the humanities, help improve humanities education, and foster in the American people a greater curiosity about and understanding of the humanities. More specific information about the types of projects supported by the Endowment may be found in the section titled "Endowment Programs," beginning on page 14. WHAT THE ENDOWMENT DOES NOT SUPPORT The statutory definition of the humanities given on page 07 establishes the general range of subjects appropriate to requests for Endowment assistance. The Endowment does not fund projects that o Are undertaken to satisfy requirements for an academic degree (with the exception of Dissertation Grants, the Faculty Graduate Study Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities--within the Division of Fellowships and Seminars--and, in some instances, projects within the Division of Education Programs); o Create musical composition, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, short stories, and novels or provide for performance or training in these arts. Inquiries about federal support for the creative arts should be addressed to the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. 20506; o Are directed at persuading an audience to a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view, or that advocate a particular program of social action or change; or o Examine controversial issues without taking into account competing perspectives. ELIGIBILITY The Endowment welcomes applications from individuals, and nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations. Except where otherwise specified, individuals eligible for Endowment assistance include U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for a period of at least the three years immediately preceding the submission of the application. For additional rules on eligibility, an applicant should refer to the program guidelines. APPLYING FOR A GRANT Those planning to apply for Endowment assistance should write to the appropriate Endowment division or office, describing briefly the proposed project and requesting guidelines and application forms. Current guidelines and descriptive materials are available from the NEH Public Information Office. To apply, an individual or organization submits a proposal for a project to one of the Endowment's funding categories, described in the section, "Endowment Programs." HOW APPLICATIONS ARE EVALUATED Each Endowment application is assessed first by knowledgeable persons outside the agency who are asked for their judgments about the quality and significance of the proposed project. About 1,200 scholars, professionals in the humanities, and other experts serve on approximately 250 panels throughout the course of a year. Panelists represent a diversity of disciplinary, institutional, regional, and cultural backgrounds. In some programs the judgment of panelists is supplemented by individual reviews solicited from specialists who have extensive knowledge of the specific subject area or technical aspects of the application under review. The advice of evaluators is assembled by the staff of the Endowment, who comment on matters of fact or on significant issues that would otherwise be missing from the review. These materials are then forwarded to the National Council on the Humanities, a board of twenty-six citizens nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. The National Council meets four times each year to advise the Chairman of the Endowment. The Chairman, who is appointed for a four-year term by the President with the consent of the Senate, takes into account the advice provided by this review process and, by law, makes the final decision about funding. A final decision can normally be expected about six months after the application deadline. OFFICE OF OUTREACH The Office of Outreach coordinates the agency's efforts to insure that individuals and institutions in all fifty states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the District of Columbia, Guam, The Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa are aware of the full range of NEH grant opportunities. Working in rural and inner-city communities, with particular emphasis on minority and tribal peoples, the outreach staff seeks to inform elementary and secondary school teachers, two- and four-year college faculty, librarians, curators, archivists, and other interested individuals about the many Endowment programs available to them. Those interested in learning more about the National Endowment for the Humanities programs, or who have suggestions for outreach conferences or workshops, should write or call the Office of Outreach National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 202/606-8384 202/606-8282 hearing impaired/TDD EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY By accepting an award a grantee has agreed not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write to the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER FEDERAL LAWS Applicants should be aware that a number of other federal laws and regulations apply to Endowment-supported projects. Depending on the project, these may include compliance with o the NEH Code of Ethics governing research, publication, and public programming in projects related to American Indian, Aleut, Eskimo, or native Hawaiian peoples; o Department of Labor minimum compensation requirements; o a congressional preference for the purchase of American-made equipment and products. Other requirements may apply, and applicants are encouraged to review pertinent program guidelines with Endowment officers early in the application process. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ENDOWMENT PROGRAMS DIVISION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS Through grants to elementary and secondary schools, two- and four-year colleges and universities, and other educational institutions, this division supports projects designed to improve the substance and coherence of education in the humanities at all levels. Higher Education in the Humanities Grants support a variety of activities, including institutes for college and university faculty; national conferences; curriculum development efforts, and various types of faculty study programs within individual institutions. Most projects are designed to foster the reinvigoration of teaching that occurs when faculty members study and discuss texts and topics central to the curriculum. Because the higher education program seeks principally to serve undergraduate education, projects that aim to improve the teaching of core humanities courses or that propose to widen the audience for such courses are particularly encouraged. The Endowment is also interested in projects that improve the humanities preparation of new teachers at all levels, enhance the teaching of foreign languages, and promote the study of the humanities in two-year institutions. Eligible applicants: Two- and four-year colleges and universities, nonprofit academic associations, and cultural institutions, such as libraries and museums. Application deadline: April 1, 1994 Room 302, 202/606-8380 Leadership Opportunity in Science and Humanities Education NEH's Division of Education Programs, the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education of the Department of Education have established joint procedures to fund proposals for the development of undergraduate courses and curricula that integrate the study of the sciences (including the social sciences) and the humanities. Applications are invited that focus on comprehensive reform of general education programs or core curricula, on new interdisciplinary majors or minors, or on senior capstone courses. Projects should be based on a close collaboration of faculty in the sciences and the humanities and should have potential for replication at the national level. Eligible applicants: Two- and four-year colleges and universities, and nonprofit academic associations and cultural institutions, such as libraries and museums. Application deadline: March 15, 1994 Room 302, 202/606-8380 Elementary and Secondary Education in the Humanities Grants support national and regional summer institutes, state and local collaborative projects, masterwork study by small groups of teachers, and special projects designed to improve the teaching of the humanities in elementary and secondary schools. Projects engage precollegiate educators with significant humanities texts and topics devoting some attention to their application in the classroom. Elementary and secondary teachers and school administrators work in partnership with college and university faculty. Projects in history, literature, and foreign languages are particularly encouraged because these fields generally form the core requirements of humanities education in the schools. Eligible applicants: Public and private elementary and secondary schools, school systems, colleges and universities, museums and other nonprofit educational and cultural organizations. Application deadline: March 15, 1994 Room 302, 202/606-8377 Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education As part of its effort to improve the teaching of foreign languages in the nation's schools, colleges, and universities, the division seeks applications in all foreign languages, and particularly in such less commonly taught languages as Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic. Grants support summer institutes for school teachers on incorporating authentic materials from the target culture into curriculum at all levels of language instruction, including introductory courses; college and university curriculum development and related faculty study aimed at strengthening undergraduate language programs, including those for prospective school teachers; and various special projects to strengthen foreign language education. Eligible applicants: Public and private elementary and secondary schools, school systems, two- and four-year colleges and universities, nonprofit academic associations, and cultural institutions, such as libraries and museums. Application deadline: March 15, 1994 Room 302, 202/606-8373 Teacher-Scholar Program As part of its effort to improve the content and quality of humanities education in the nation's schools, the division invites teachers to submit proposals for an academic year of full-time independent study in a discipline of the humanities. Eligible applicants: Full-time humanities teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. Librarians may also be eligible to apply. Application deadline: May 1, 1994 Room 302, 202/606-8377 Independent Study in the Humanities The Endowment has awarded a grant to the Council for Basic Education to support a program of summer fellowships for elementary and secondary school teachers with at least five years of teaching experience. School principals and librarians also may be eligible to apply. Fellowships of $3,000 support six weeks of independent study in one of the disciplines of the humanities. For information, call or write to: Independent Study in the Humanities P.O. Box 135 Ashton, MD 20861 202/347-4171. Independent Study for Foreign Language Teachers K-12 The Endowment has awarded a grant to Connecticut College to support a program of fellowships for elementary and secondary school foreign language teachers with at least three years of prior teaching experience. Fellowships of $3,750 support six weeks of summer study abroad. For information, call or write to: NEH Fellowships Program for Foreign Language Teachers K-12 Connecticut College 270 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT 06320 203/439-2282. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIVISION OF FELLOWSHIPS AND SEMINARS NEH fellowships afford individual scholars, teachers, and other interpreters of the humanities opportunities to undertake study or research for periods ranging from several weeks to one year. Fellowships for University Teachers Grants provide support for members of the faculty of Ph.D.-granting universities to undertake full-time independent research and writing in the humanities. Eligible applicants: Individuals Application deadline: May 1, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8466 Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars Grants provide support for teachers in two-year, four-year, and five-year colleges and universities that do not grant the Ph.D.; for individuals employed by schools, museums, libraries, etc.; and also for independent scholars and writers to undertake full-time independent research and writing in the humanities. Eligible applicants: Individuals Application deadline: May 1, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8466 Faculty Graduate Study Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities Grants provide support for HBCU faculty to undertake one year of full-time study leading to a doctoral degree in the humanities with preference given to those individuals who are at the dissertation stage of their work. In addition to the fellowships offered by NEH, the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, will offer one fellowship within the Faculty Graduate Study Program. Eligible applicants: Faculty members at historically black colleges and universities. Grants will be made through the applicant's institution. Application deadline: March 15, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8466 Summer Stipends Grants provide support for college and university teachers; individuals employed by schools, museums, libraries, etc.; and individual scholars to undertake full-time independent research and writing in the humanities for two consecutive summer months. Applicants whose projects require significant travel to libraries, archives, or other collections may also apply for a travel supplement to the stipend. Eligible applicants: Individuals. College and university teachers must be nominated by their institutions; others apply directly to the division. Application deadline: October 1, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8466 Study Grants for College Teachers Grants provide support for college teachers with heavy teaching responsibilities to undertake independent study in order to increase knowledge of their own disciplines or related disciplines, to enrich their understanding of the humanities, and to pursue intellectual projects that will inform their teaching. Awards are made for six weeks of intensive study rather than for research intended primarily for publication. Eligible applicants: Individuals Application deadline: August 15, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8463 Younger Scholars Grants provide support for high school and college students to conduct research and writing projects in the humanities for nine weeks during the summer under the supervision of a humanities scholar. Eligible applicants: A college student who is below the level of senior or any high school student may apply. College students must be pursuing an undergraduate degree at the time of application. Individuals who will have received or expect to receive a bachelor's degree by October 1, 1995, are not eligible to apply. Application deadline: November 1, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8463 Dissertation Grants Grants provide support for doctoral candidates in the humanities to complete the writing of their dissertations. Eligible applicants: Doctoral candidates who have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation. Applicants must be nominated by their graduate institutions. Application deadline: November 15, 1994 Room 316, 202/606-8463 Summer Seminars for College Teachers Participants' grants provide support for teachers in two-year, four-year, and five-year colleges and universities and for others who are qualified to do the work of the seminar and make a contribution to it. Participants attend summer seminars directed by distinguished scholars and teachers at institutions with collections suitable for advanced study. Applications are submitted to the seminar director. A list of seminar offerings may be obtained from the program. Eligible applicants: Individuals Application deadline: March 1, 1994 (for 1994 seminars) Room 316, 202/606-8463 Directors' grants provide support for scholars of the humanities to direct summer seminars at institutions with collections suitable for advanced study. Eligible applicants: Potential directors apply through institutions. Application deadline: March 1, 1994 (for 1995 seminars) Room 316, 202/606-8463 Summer Seminars for School Teachers Participants' grants provide support for full-time school teachers K-12 and other school personnel to participate in summer seminars focused on significant texts in the humanities and directed by accomplished teachers and scholars. Applications are submitted to the seminar director. A list of seminar offerings may be obtained from the program. Eligible applicants: Teachers of grades K-12 and other school personnel. Application deadline: March 1, 1994 (for 1994 seminars) Room 316, 202/606-8463 Directors' grants provide support for accomplished teachers and scholars to direct summer seminars at colleges, universities, museums, libraries, and similar institutions. Eligible applicants: Potential directors apply through institutions. Application deadline: April 1, 1994 (for 1995 seminars) Room 316, 202/606-8463 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIVISION OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS Grants are made for projects that will preserve and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities. These may include books, journals, newspapers, archives and manuscript collections, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other repositories. Proposals may combine preservation and access activities within a single project. Historically black colleges and universities with significant institutional collections of primary materials are encouraged to apply. Preservation and Access Projects Grants support projects to preserve the intellectual content of nationally important collections of brittle books, serials, archival materials, still and moving images, and sound recordings held by single institutions, as well as consortial projects involving a number of institutions; the conservation treatment of original materials when it can be demonstrated that reformatting will result in the loss of information that makes the material valuable for research; the creation and implementation of preservation education programs on a regional or national basis; the work of regional preservation services and the development of statewide preservation plans; research undertaken to improve procedures and technology for preservation and access; and projects involving issues of national significance to the library and archives field. Support is also provided for the bibliographic control of printed works; the arrangement and description of archival and manuscript collections; archival surveys; the cataloging of graphic material, still and moving images, and recorded sound collections; the documentation of collections of art and material culture, the microfilming of collections in non-U.S. repositories; and the preparation of oral histories. Eligible applicants: Individuals and nonprofit institutions. Application deadlines: June 1, 1994; November 1, 1994 Room 802, 202/606-8570 Stabilization of Material Culture Collections (National Heritage Preservation Program) Grants assist institutions in preserving material culture collections important to the humanities through support for housing and storage of objects, improved environmental systems, and the installation of security, lighting, and fire-prevention systems. Funds are also available to establish national and regional training programs for the care and conservation of material culture collections, as well as for projects that will document collections significant to the humanities. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit museums and historical organizations, universities, and state agencies. Application deadline: November 1, 1994 Room 802, 202/606-8570 U.S. Newspaper Program Grants support projects in states and U.S. territories for the bibliographic control and preservation of U.S. newspapers. Among the activities funded are the planning of statewide projects, the cataloging of newspapers and the entry of bibliographic information and holding records in the Library of Congress CONSER data base, which is housed in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), and preservation microfilming of endangered newspapers considered important to humanities research. Eligible applicants: State agencies, nonprofit organizations, institutions, and libraries. Application deadline: June 1, 1994; November 1, 1994 Room 802, 202/606-8570 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS This division fosters public understanding and appreciation of the humanities by supporting projects that bring significant insights of these scholarly disciplines to general audiences through interpretive exhibitions, radio and television programs, lectures, symposia, printed materials, and reading and discussion groups. Out-of-school projects for youth are welcome in all programs. Humanities Projects in Media Grants support the planning, writing, or production of television and radio programs in the humanities intended for general audiences. The collaboration of scholars in the humanities with experienced producers, writers, and directors is required. The Endowment has a special funding opportunity for documentary film series. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit institutions and organizations including public television and radio stations. Application deadlines: March 11, 1994; September 14, 1994 Room 420, 202/606-8278 Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations Grants support the planning and implementation of exhibitions, the interpretation of historic sites, and the production of related publications and educational programs. Awards are also made for humanities self-studies, and professional development in the humanities. Eligible applicants: Museums; historical societies; historic sites; state, regional, or national museum associations; and other nonprofit organizations and institutions. Application deadlines: June 3, 1994; December 2, 1994 Room 420, 202/606-8284 Public Humanities Projects Grants support projects designed to increase public understanding of the humanities. Through this program, the Endowment makes awards for exemplary public programs and model humanities projects of potential national significance. Projects may include public symposia, community forums, debates, interpretive pamphlets, or a combination of these formats. Eligible applicants: Colleges and universities, nonprofit professional organizations and associations, cultural and community organizations, agencies of state and local government, and nonprofit community groups. Application deadlines: March 11, 1994; September 14, 1994 Room 426, 202/606-8271 Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives Grants support projects to enhance public appreciation and understanding of the humanities through the use of books and other resources in the collections of American libraries and archives. Projects supported in this category include book discussion programs, lectures, symposia, and interpretive exhibitions of books, manuscripts, and other library resources. Awards are also made for institutional self-study and for seminars that strengthen the ability of libraries and librarians to present educational programs in the humanities. Eligible applicants: Public, academic, special, or institutional libraries and archives; local, statewide, or regional library systems; and state, regional, or national library associations and other nonprofit organizations. Application deadlines: Planning grants: February 4, 1994; May 6, 1994; August 5, 1994 Implementation grants: March 11, 1994; September 14, 1994 Room 426, 202/606-8271 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS The purpose of the division is to strengthen the intellectual foundations of the humanities through the support of significant and influential research. Grants in this division provide up to three years of support for the preparation for publication of editions, translations, and other important works in the humanities; the preparation of reference materials; the conduct of large or complex interpretive studies; research conferences; and research opportunities offered through independent research centers and scholarly organizations. Scholarly Publications Grants provide support for the preparation for publication of texts, documents, and other materials that promise to make major contributions to the study of the humanities. Application guidelines are available for three programs: Editions, Translations, and Subventions. Editions grants support various stages in the preparation of authoritative and annotated editions of works and documents that are of value to humanities scholars and general readers and have been either previously inaccessible or available only in inadequate editions. The Endowment encourages proposals to edit important historical and literary materials in the collections of historically black colleges and universities, texts and documents pertaining to Native-American and Hispanic-American history and culture, and documentary editions dealing with important historical topics and events. Translations grants support individual or collaborative projects to translate into English works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures and that make available to scholars, students, teachers, and general readers the thought and learning of those civilizations. Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit professional associations, scholarly societies, presses, and individuals. Application deadline: June 1, 1994 Room 318, 202/606-8207 Subventions grants of $7,000 support the publication and dissemination of excellent works in all fields of the humanities. Applications are particularly encouraged for projects that will be of enduring importance to general readers as well as scholars. Eligible applicants: Scholarly presses and publishing entities. Individuals and presses whose place of business is not in the United States are not eligible. Application deadline: March 15, 1994 Room 318, 202/606-8207 Reference Materials Grants support the preparation of reference works that will enhance the availability of information and research materials. Support is available for the creation of dictionaries, historical or linguistic atlases, encyclopedias, concordances, reference grammars, data bases, text bases, and other projects that will provide essential scholarly tools for the advancement of research or for general reference purposes. Grants also support the creation of scholarly guides that enable researchers to locate information and determine the usefulness or relevance of specific humanities materials for their work. Eligible for support are such projects as bibliographies, catalogues raisonn s, other descriptive catalogs, indexes, union lists, and other guides to materials in the humanities. Support is also available for projects that address important issues related to the design or accessibility of reference works. Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit professional associations, scholarly societies, and individuals. Application deadline: September 15, 1994 Room 318, 202/606-8358 Interpretive Research Grants provide support for scholarly research and interpretation that will advance knowledge and enhance the understanding of topics, themes, or issues of central importance to the humanities. Grants can be for periods of up to three years, and all projects are expected to result in significant scholarly publications. Multi-year Collaborative Projects entail the close cooperation of two or more scholars investigating topics of broad-ranging significance to the humanities, leading to important scholarly publications. Archaeology Projects that promise to strengthen understanding of history and culture are eligible, including projects that involve survey and excavation components as well as analysis and interpretation. Grants in the Humanities, Science, and Technology program support research that employs the theories and methods of humanities disciplines to study science, technology, and medicine. Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit professional associations, scholarly societies, and individuals. Application deadline: October 15, 1994 Room 318, 202/606-8210 Grants are also available to support conferences designed to advance the state of research in a field or topic of major importance in the humanities. Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, nonprofit professional associations, scholarly societies, and other nonprofit organizations and institutions. Application deadlines: January 15, 1994; October 1, 1994; April 1, 1995 Room 318, 202/606-8210 Centers and International Research Organizations Centers for Advanced Study grants support postdoctoral fellowship programs at independent centers for advanced study. Individual scholars must apply directly to the centers. A list of centers offering NEH fellowships may be obtained from the Endowment. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit research libraries and museums, and other independent centers for advanced study. Application deadline: October 1, 1994 Room 318, 202/606-8210 International Research Organizations grants to national organizations, learned societies, and institutions for international research enable American scholars to pursue research in the United States and abroad on foreign cultures and to collaborate with foreign colleagues. Examples are the humanities programs of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China and the programs of the International Research and Exchanges Board. Individual scholars apply directly to sponsoring organizations. Eligible applicants: Research organizations, learned societies, and institutions for international research. Application deadlines: April 1, 1994; October 1, 1994 Room 318, 202/606-8210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIVISION OF STATE PROGRAMS The purpose of the division is to foster public understanding of the humanities throughout the nation, primarily through locally developed programs aimed at general audiences. To reach this goal, the division provides support for state humanities councils in the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. Each state council establishes its own grant guidelines and sets its own application deadlines. State humanities councils support a wide variety of projects in the humanities, including library reading programs, lectures, conferences, seminars and institutes for teachers and school administrators, media presentations, and museum and traveling exhibitions. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit agencies, cultural and educational institutions, civic organizations or groups may apply to the council in their states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, or American Samoa. (See addresses at end of document.) Room 411, 202/606-8254. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHALLENGE GRANTS Nonprofit institutions interested in developing new sources of long-term support for educational, scholarly, preservation, and public programs in the humanities may be assisted in these efforts by an NEH Challenge Grant. Grantees are required to raise three or four dollars in new or increased donations for every federal dollar offered. All funds may be used to establish or increase institutional endowments and thus guarantee long-term support for a variety of humanities needs. Funds may also be used for construction, renovation, equipment purchases, and retirement of debt, where such needs are clearly related to improvements in the humanities. Applications in this category are reviewed in one of three NEH divisions: Education Programs, Public Programs, and Research Programs. Eligible applicants: Nonprofit postsecondary, educational, or cultural institutions and organizations working within the humanities. Application deadline: May 1, 1994 Division of Education Programs, Room 302, 202/606-8380 Division of Public Programs, Room 426, 202/606-8267 Division of Research Programs, Room 318, 202/606-8358 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Schedule of Application Deadlines Program Deadline For Projects for Receipt Beginning of Applications After Division of Education Programs Higher Education in April 1, 1994 October 1994 the Humanities October 1, 1994 April 1995 Science and Humanities Education March 15, 1994 October 1994 Elementary and Secondary March 15, 1994 October 1994* Education in the December 1994** Humanities December 15, 1994 August 1995 *national and multi-state institutes only **all other projects Special Opportunity in March 15, 1994 October 1994 Foreign Language Education Teacher-Scholar Program May 1, 1994 September 1995 Independent Study in the Please see narrative above for details. Humanities Fellowships for Foreign Please see narrative above for details. Language Teachers K-12 Challenge Grants May 1, 1994 December 1, 1993* *Grant period may begin approximately one year before the decisions on applications to facilitate advance fund-raising. Division of Fellowships and Seminars Fellowships for University May 1, 1994 January 1, 1995 Teachers Fellowships for College May 1, 1994 January 1, 1995 Teachers and Independent Scholars Faculty Graduate Study March 15, 1994 September 1, 1995 Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities Summer Stipends October 1, 1994 May 1, 1995 Study Grants for August 15, 1994 May 1, 1995 College Teachers Younger Scholars Program November 1, 1994 May 1, 1995 Dissertation Grants November 15, 1994 June 1, 1995 Summer Seminars for College Teachers Participants: 1994 Seminars March 1, 1994 Summer 1994 Directors: 1995 Seminars March 1, 1994 Summer 1995 Summer Seminars for School Teachers Participants: 1994 Seminars March 1, 1994 Summer 1994 Directors: 1995 Seminars April 1, 1994 Summer 1995 Division of Preservation and Access Preservation and Access June 1, 1994 January 1, 1995 Projects November 1, 1994 July 1, 1995 Stabilization of November 1, 1994 July 1,1995 Material Culture Collections (National Heritage Preservation Program) U.S. Newspaper Program June 1, 1994 January 1,1995 November 1, 1994 July 1, 1995 Division of Public Programs Media March 11, 1994 October 1, 1994 September 14, 1994 April 1, 1995 Museums and Historical June 3, 1994 January 1, 1995 Organizations December 2, 1994 July 1, 1995 Public Humanities Projects March 11, 1994 October 1, 1994 September 14, 1994 April 1, 1995 Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives Planning grants: February 4, 1994 July 1, 1994 May 6, 1994 October 1, 1994 August 5, 1994 January 1, 1995 Implementation grants: March 11, 1994 October 1, 1994 September 14, 1994 April 1, 1995 Challenge Grants May 1, 1994 December 1, 1993* *Grant period may begin approximately one year before the decision on applications to facilitate advance fund-raising. Division of Research Programs Editions June l, 1994 April 1, 1995 Translations June l, 1994 April 1, 1995 Subventions March 15, 1994 October l, 1994 Reference Materials September 15, 1994 July 1, 1995 Collaborative Projects October 15, 1994 July 1, 1995 Archaeology Projects October 15, 1994 April 1, 1995 Humanities, Science, October 15, 1994 July 1, 1995 and Technology Conferences* January 15, 1994 October 1, 1994 October 1, 1994 April 1, 1995 April 1, 1995 October 1, 1995 Centers for Advanced October 1, 1994 July 1, 1995 Study* International Research April 1, 1994 January 1, 1995 Organizations* October 1, 1994 July 1, 1995 Challenge Grants May 1, 1994 December 1, 1993** *These are deadlines for applications to NEH from the sponsoring organizations; individual scholars who are interested in fellowships or research awards or who want to attend an NEH-supported conference should contact the institution, organization, or conference organizer about procedures and deadlines. **Grant period may begin approximately one year before the decision on applications to facilitate advance fund-raising. Division of State Programs Each state council establishes its own grant guidelines and application deadlines. Write or call for further information. (Addresses for state humanities councils appear at the end of this document.) How to Apply Guidelines and application forms are available from the program or the Public Information Office, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506, telephone 202/606-8438. For the hearing impaired, the TDD number is 202/606-8282. The Public Information Office does not maintain a general mailing list. Instead, the Endowment responds to specific requests for publications. For faster service, please enclose a self-addressed mailing label when requesting information. Helpful Hint Applicants are encouraged to consult with NEH staff by phone or letter before submitting a formal proposal. Given enough lead time, staff in some programs will comment on draft proposals. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEH Telephone Directory Endowment divisions and offices (area code 202) Division of Education Programs, Room 302 606-8373 Division of Fellowships and Seminars, Room 316 606-8458 Division of Preservation and Access, Room 802 606-8570 Division of Public Programs, Room 426 606-8267 Division of Research Programs, Room 318 606-8200 Division of State Programs, Room 411 606-8254 Office of Outreach, Room 308 606-8384 Office of the Chairman, Room 503 606-8310 Office of the General Counsel, Room 530 606-8322 Office of the Inspector General, Room 801 606-8350 Public Information Office, Room 407 606-8438 Personnel Office, Room 417 606-8415 Telecommunications Device for Deaf 606-8282 and Hearing Impaired People (TDD) NEH Chairman's Staff Sheldon Hackney Chairman Donald Gibson Acting Deputy Chairman Michael S. 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Bass Pensacola, Florida Bruce Benson Denver, Colorado Patrick Butler Washington, D.C. Paul A. Cantor Charlottesville, Virginia Bruce Cole Bloomington, Indiana Helen Gray Crawford New Orleans, Louisiana Edwin J. Delattre Boston, Massachusetts Margaret P. Duckett Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hillel Fradkin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Billie Davis Gaines Atlanta, Georgia Joseph H. Hagan Worcester, Massachusetts Theodore Hamerow Madison, Wisconsin Mikiso Hane Galesburg, Illinois Henry H. Higuera Annapolis, Maryland Alicia Juarrero Bethesda, Maryland Donald Kagan New Haven, Connecticut Alan Kors Wallingford, Pennsylvania Michael J. Malbin Delmar, New York Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts Anne Paolucci Beechhurst, New York John Searle Berkeley, California Peter Shaw New York, New York Kenny J. Williams Durham, North Carolina William Wright Abilene, Texas +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Jefferson Lecture The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, established by the Endowment in 1972, is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. The lecture, traditionally delivered each spring, provides the opportunity for an outstanding thinker to present in a public forum matters of broad concern in the humanities. The lecturer is chosen each year by the National Council on the Humanities. The twenty-third Annual Jefferson Lecture will be delivered on May 4, 1994. Former lecturers were Lionel Trilling, Erik Eriksen, Robert Penn Warren, Paul Freund, John Hope Franklin, Saul Bellow, C. Vann Woodward, Edward Shils, Barbara Tuchman, Gerald Holton, Emily Townsend Vermeule, Jaroslav Pelikan, Sidney Hook, Cleanth Brooks, Leszek Kolakowski, Forrest McDonald, Robert Nisbet, Walker Percy, Bernard Lewis, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Bernard Knox, and Robert Conquest. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Charles Frankel Prize The Charles Frankel Prize, established in 1988, annually recognizes up to five individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the public's understanding of the texts, themes, and ideas of the humanities. Charles Frankel (1917-79) was a teacher, statesman, and author known for his commitment to scholarship and public affairs. The 1993 prize winners were anthropologist Ricardo Alegr!a, historian John Hope Franklin, educator Hanna Holborn Gray, philanthropist Andrew Heiskell, and historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Nominations for the Charles Frankel Prize can be made by individuals or by organizations that conduct public humanities programs. The next deadline for nominations is June 27, 1994. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NEH Publications The National Endowment for the Humanities produces a variety of publications to keep potential applicants, grantees, and the general public abreast of agency programs and activities. HUMANITIES magazine, the Endowment's bimonthly review of current work and thought in the humanities, is available by subscription through the Government Printing Office. Interested parties may also wish to order the National Endowment for the Humanities annual report. The report contains brief descriptions of Endowment programs and policies as well as a complete listing of all Endowment grants and awards for the fiscal year concerned. Single copies of the most recent NEH annual report are available at no cost from the Public Information Office (address and phone number are located at the beginning of this document). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ State Humanities Councils ALABAMA Alabama Humanities Foundation 2217 Tenth Court South Birmingham, AL 35205 205/930-0540 ALASKA Alaska Humanities Forum 430 West Seventh Avenue, Suite #1 Anchorage, AK 99501 907/272-5341 AMERICAN SAMOA American Samoa Humanities Planning Group P.O. Box 1935 Department of Education Pago Pago, AS 96799 684/633-4255 ARIZONA Arizona Humanities Council The Ellis-Shackelford House 1242 North Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004 602/257-0335 ARKANSAS Arkansas Humanities Council 10816 Executive Center Drive Suite 310 Little Rock, AR 72211-4383 501/221-0091 CALIFORNIA California Council for the Humanities 312 Sutter Street, Suite 601 San Francisco, CA 94108 415/391-1474 COLORADO Colorado Endowment for the Humanities 1623 Blake Street #200 Denver, CO 80202 303/573-7733 CONNECTICUT Connecticut Humanities Council 41 Lawn Avenue Wesleyan Station Middletown, CT 06459 203/347-6888 DELAWARE Delaware Humanities Forum 1812 Newport Gap Pike Wilmington, DE 19806-6179 302/573-4410 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA D.C. Community Humanities Council 1331 H Street, NW Suite 902 Washington, DC 20005 202/347-1732 FLORIDA Florida Humanities Council 1514 1/2 East 8th Avenue Tampa, FL 33605-3473 813/272-3473 GEORGIA Georgia Humanities Council 50 Hurt Plaza, SE, Suite 440 Atlanta, GA 30303-2936 404/523-6220 GUAM Guam Humanities Council 123 Archbishop Flores Street Suite C Agana, Guam 96910 (671) 472-4507/8 HAWAII Hawaii Committee for the Humanities First Hawaiian Bank Building 3599 Waialae Avenue, Room 23 Honolulu, HI 96816 808/732-5402 IDAHO Idaho Humanities Council 217 West State Street Boise, ID 83702 208/345-5346 ILLINOIS Illinois Humanities Council 618 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605 312/939-5212 INDIANA Indiana Humanities Council 1500 North Delaware Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317/638-1500 IOWA Iowa Humanities Board Oakdale Campus N210 OH University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 319/335-4153 KANSAS Kansas Humanities Council 112 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 210 Topeka, KS 66603 913/357-0359 KENTUCKY Kentucky Humanities Council 417 Clifton Avenue University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40508-3406 606/257-5932 LOUISIANA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 1001 Howard Avenue, Suite 3110 New Orleans, LA 70113 504/523-4352 MAINE Maine Humanities Council 371 Cumberland Avenue Portland, ME 04112 207/773-5051 MARYLAND Maryland Humanities Council 601 North Howard Street Baltimore, MD 21201 301/625-4830 MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities One Woodbridge Street South Hadley, MA 01075 413/536-1385 MICHIGAN Michigan Humanities Council 119 Pere Marquette Drive Suite 3B Lansing, MI 48912-1231 517/372-7770 MINNESOTA Minnesota Humanities Commission 26 East Exchange Street Lower Level South St. Paul, MN 55101 612/224-5739 MISSISSIPPI Mississippi Humanities Council 3825 Ridgewood Road, Room 311 Jackson, MS 39211 601/982-6752 MISSOURI Missouri Humanities Council 911 Washington Avenue Suite 215 St. Louis, MO 63101-1208 314/621-7705 MONTANA Montana Committee for the Humanities P.O. Box 8036 Hellgate Station Missoula, MT 59807 406/243-6022 NEBRASKA Nebraska Humanities Council Suite 225 Lincoln Center Building 215 Centennial Mall South Lincoln, NE 68508 402/474-2131 NEVADA Nevada Humanities Committee 1101 N Virginia Street P.O Box 8029 Reno, NV 89507 702/784-6587 NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire Humanities Council 19 Pillsbury Street P.O. Box 2228 Concord, NH 03302-2228 603/224-4071 NEW JERSEY New Jersey Committee for the Humanities 390 George Street, Suite 602 New Brunswick, NJ 08901-2019 908/932-7726 NEW MEXICO New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Onate Hall, Room 209 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 505/277-3705 NEW YORK New York Council for the Humanities 198 Broadway, 10th Floor New York, NY 10038 212/233-1131 NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina Humanities Council 425 Spring Garden Street Greensboro, NC 27401 919/334-5325 NORTH DAKOTA North Dakota Humanities Council P.O. Box 2191 Bismarck, ND 58502 701/255-3360 COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Council for the Humanities Caller Box AAA 3394 Saipan, MP 96950 670/235-4785 OHIO The Ohio Humanities Council 695 Bryden Road P.O. Box 06354 Columbus, OH 43206-0354 614/461-7802 OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities Festival Plaza 428 W. California, Suite 270 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 405/235-0280 OREGON Oregon Council for the Humanities 812 SW Washington Street, Suite 225 Portland, OR 97205 503/241-0543 PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania Humanities Council 320 Walnut Street, Suite 305 Philadelphia, PA 19106 215/925-1005 PUERTO RICO Fundacion Puertorriquena de las Humanidades Box S-4307 Old San Juan, PR 00904 809/721-2087 RHODE ISLAND Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities 60 Ship Street Providence, RI 02903 401/273-2250 SOUTH CAROLINA South Carolina Humanities Council 1200 Catawba Columbia, SC 29250 803/771-8864 SOUTH DAKOTA South Dakota Humanities Council Box 7050, University Station Brookings, SD 57007 605/688-6113 TENNESSEE Tennessee Humanities Council 1003 18th Avenue South Nashville, TN 37202 615/320-7001 TEXAS Texas Committee for the Humanities Banister Place A 3809 South Second Street Austin, TX 78704 512/440-1991 UTAH Utah Humanities Council 350 South 400 East Suite 110 Salt Lake City, UT 84111 801/531-7868 VERMONT The Vermont Council on the Humanities Main Street, P.O. Box 58 Hyde Park, VT 05655 802/888-3183 VIRGINIA Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy 145 Ednam Drive Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629 804/924-3296 VIRGIN ISLANDS Virgin Islands Humanities Council P.O. Box 1829 St. Thomas, VI 00803-1829 809/776-4044 WASHINGTON Washington Commission for the Humanities 615 Second Avenue, Suite 300 Seattle, WA 98104 206/682-1770 WEST VIRGINIA West Virginia Humanities Council 723 Kanawha Blvd., East Suite 800 Charleston, WV 25301 304/346-8500 WISCONSIN Wisconsin Humanities Committee 716 Langdon Street Madison, WI 53706 608/262-0706 WYOMING Wyoming Council for the Humanities P.O. Box 3643--University Station Laramie, WY 82071-3643 307/766-6496 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ HUMANITIES Magazine Featured in every issue of HUMANITIES: o articles by nationally known scholars and writers o information about noteworthy Endowment-supported projects o findings from statistical studies supported by NEH o descriptions of recent NEH grants, arranged by discipline o a calendar of application deadlines with the names and telephone numbers of key program staff o the Humanities Guide for those thinking of applying for an NEH grant. HUMANITIES is sold by subscription at $13 ($16.25 foreign) for six issues a year, or $26 ($32.50 foreign) for two years. From: trobb@ksuics.kyoto-su.ac.jp (Thomas Robb) Subject: Accessing CELIA (long!) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 94 23:59:34 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 479 (886) COMPUTER ENHANCED LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ARCHIVE (CELIA) HOW TO USE CELIA: (last updated February 2, 1994) Contents: 1.0 General 1.1 Gopher access from a desktop to an email account 1.2 Downloading files from host to local computer 1.3.1 Decompressing Mac files 1.3.2 Decompressing MS-DOS files 2.0 Using a gopher client to access CELIA 2.1 Using a local gopher client and gopher server 2.2 Using a local gopher client to access gopher server at umich 3.0 FTP to access CELIA 3.1.1 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.umich.edu, directory celia-ftp to submit files 3.1.2 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.umich.edu, directory celia-ftp to retrieve files 3.2.1 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.latrobe.edu.au (or ftp.latrobe.edu.au), directory pub/celia/incoming to submit a file 3.2.2 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.latrobe.edu.au (or ftp.latrobe.edu.au), directory pub/celia to retrieve files 1.1 Gopher access from a desktop to an email account This file contains Examples of User Sessions with CELIA. The communications package Procomm is used on a local MS-DOS PC desktop computer to dial into the user's account on a VAX machine on the university network which is linked to Internet via Aarnet. Using the desktop computer as terminal, a gopher-client at the user's university was used to access CELIA for the purpose of both submitting and retrieving files. Secondly, FTP was used to submit and retrieve files. Please remember that local conditions vary greatly depending on how your systems manager has set up your personal account and the network from which you are accessing CELIA. The management of CELIA cannot troubleshoot or answer questions about access. USERS HAD BEST ASK THEIR LOCAL SYSTEMS OR NETWORK MANAGERS IF THEY HAVE DIFFICULTIES. 1.2 Downloading files from host to local computer Users will have to download files from their host computer to their local desktop Mac or PC computer if their desktop is not configured as a node on network with Internet access. Two common methods are to use FTP from a desktop computer connected by optic fibre cable (ethernet or appletalk) to copy files from a host computer their desktop or to use a communications program like kermit to download files from the host computer to the local computer via a modem. The first method is fast, and the second fairly slow. Once the file is on their desktop computer the user then has to decompress the files. 1.3.1 Decompressing Mac files Mac files are binhexed, self-extracting archives. If you are using Fetch or TurboGopher, these will automatically un-binhex the files. Otherwise, you will need to use Stuffit Expander, Binhex 4.0, CompactPro, or a similar decompression tool as the first step to using the programs. All the files are self-extracting, which means that double-clicking on a file will cause it to automatically uncompress in the location you select. 1.3.2 Decompressing MS-DOS files PC files, compressed with pkzip 1.1 and made self-decompressing with zip2exe.exe 1.1, will automatically decompress when run. A good first step is to download and read the 00index file first to get information about what's in the archive. 2.0 Using a gopher client to access CELIA A line _____ has been drawn below between the various screens users will see when they use a gopher-client. 2.1 Using a local gopher client and gopher server _______________________________________________________________________ Notice the User's Mainframe account contains the file teaching.txt which will be used as an example to submit files to CELIA. The User's directory also does not contain the files flashcards.hqx, cloze1.exe and vocab.idx which will be retrieved from CELIA during these example sessions: $ dir Directory TEACHING.TXT;1 FTP_SERVER.LOG;8 GOPHERRC.;1 MAIL.DIR;1 NEWS.RC;1 NEWSRC.;1 NEWSRC.LUGB;1 Total of 7 files. _______________________________________________________________________ $ set terminal/inquire (this command is necesary with the modem) $ gopher _______________________________________________________________________ Internet Gopher Information Client 2.0 pl11 Root gopher server: gopher.latrobe.edu.au 1. About La Trobe University Gopher Services 2. About Network resources/ 3. Administrative Information/ 4. Campus Information/ 5. Computing Services/ 6. Faculty-Department Information Servers/ 7. Library Services/ --> 8. Links to other Gophers and Information Servers/ 9. Subject Related Services/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit Page: 1/1 _______________________________________________________________________ Links to other Gophers and Information Servers 1. All the Gopher Servers in the World/ 2. Search all Gopher menus worldwide (Veronica)/ ... --> 12.United States Gophers/ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu _______________________________________________________________________ United States Gophers 1. All/ 2. General/ ... 18. louisiana/ Page: 1/3 _______________________________________________________________________ United States Gophers 19. maine/ 20. maryland/ 21. massachusetts/ --> 22. michigan/ ... Page: 2/3 _______________________________________________________________________ michigan 1. Andrews University/ 2. Andrews University School of Business/ ... 12. Merit Network/ --> 13. Merit Software Archives/ Page: 1/2 _______________________________________________________________________ Merit Software Archives 1. Archive Introduction ... --> 9. CELIA (Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive)/ Page: 1/2 _______________________________________________________________________ CELIA (Computer Enhanced Language Instruction Archive) 1. 00info/ 2. 00readme.txt --> 3. English/ 4. Esperanto/ 5. French/ 6. Other information sources (archives, searches, reports, ...)/ 7. Polish/ 8. Swedish/ 9. Welsh/ Page: 1/1 _______________________________________________________________________ English 1. TESLEJ - TESL Electronic Journal/ --> 2. cloze exercises/ 3. concordance programs and exercises/ 4. games (adventure)/ 5. games (other)/ 6. grammar/ 7. reading/ 8. simulations/ 9. teacher utilities (grading, fonts, virus checkers, ...)/ 10. testing/ 11. vocabulary/ 12. writing/ Page: 1/1 _______________________________________________________________________ cloze exercises --> MS-DOS cloze software (La Trobe University, Australia)/ Page: 1/1 _______________________________________________________________________ MS-DOS cloze software (La Trobe University, Australia) 1. 00index.txt --> 2. cloze1.exe <PC Bin> Page: 1/1 _______________________________________________________________________ +------------------------------cloze1.exe------------------------------+ | | | Save in file: | | | | cloze1.exe | | | | [Cancel: ^G] [Erase: ^U] [Accept: Enter] | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________ +---------------00concordance-index.txt 94-01-18 1K-----------+ | | | Mail current document to: | | | | (email address or login name) | | | | [Cancel: ^G] [Erase: ^U] [Accept: Enter] | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ (This option is apparently not universal) _______________________________________________________________________ 2.2 Using a local gopher client to access gopher server at umich $ gopher gopher.archive.merit.edu _______________________________________________________________________ 3.0 FTP to access CELIA EXAMPLES of FTP sessions to CELIA at both umich and latrobe to either submit or retrieve files: 3.1.1 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.umich.edu, directory celia-ftp/english/incoming to submit the text file teaching.txt to CELIA for archiving $ ftp archive.umich.edu LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU MultiNet FTP user process 3.2(106) Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections) <pogue.admin.lsa.umich.edu FTP server (ULTRIX Version 4.1 Tue Mar 19 00:38:17 ES T 1991) ready. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>user anonymous <Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: <Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>cd celia-ftp/english/incoming <CWD command successful. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>dir <Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.172.4.8,1092) (0 bytes). total 26 -rw-rw-rw- 1 32766 31 2400 Jan 12 17:37 .HSancillary -rwxr-xr-x 1 32766 31 0 Nov 27 02:43 .cache drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:08 concordance drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 25 15:43 demo drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:09 games drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:11 grammar drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:10 listening drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 28 23:09 reading drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 20 12:12 simulations drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:24 teacher-utils drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 28 17:05 testing drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:32 vocabulary drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:07 writing <Transfer complete. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>cd reading <CWD command successful. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>ascii Type: Ascii (Non-Print), Structure: File, Mode: Stream POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>put teaching.txt To remote file: teaching.txt <Opening data connection for again.txt (131.172.4.8,1094). <Transfer complete. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>quit <Goodbye. _______________________________________________________________________ 3.1.2 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.umich.edu, directory celia-ftp/english/grammar to retrieve the Mac verb-flashcards.hqx file from CELIA: $ ftp archive.umich.edu LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU MultiNet FTP user process 3.2(106) Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections) <pogue.admin.lsa.umich.edu FTP server (ULTRIX Version 4.1 Tue Mar 19 00:38:17 ES T 1991) ready. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>user anonymous <Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: <Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>cd celia-ftp/english <CWD command successful. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>dir <Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.172.4.8,1097) (0 bytes). total 91 -rw-r--r-- 1 5193 31 1457 Jan 28 23:31 .cache -rw-r--r-- 1 5193 31 1309 Jan 24 09:37 00index.txt drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 28 17:55 concordance drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 25 23:31 demo drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 18 17:20 games drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 20 12:15 grammar drwxr-xr-x 13 5193 31 2048 Jan 25 15:42 incoming drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 20 12:18 listening -rw-r--r-- 1 32766 31 61686 Jan 23 19:59 maclibrary_files_word.hqx drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 20 12:17 reading drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 20 12:16 simulations drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:24 teacher-utils drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Oct 16 11:47 teslej drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:25 testing drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 18 17:20 vocabulary drwxr-xr-x 3 5193 31 2048 Jan 18 17:20 writing <Transfer complete. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>cd grammar <CWD command successful. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>dir <Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.172.4.8,1098) (0 bytes). total 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 5193 31 87 Jan 28 23:31 .cache drwxr-xr-x 2 5193 31 2048 Jan 24 09:11 mac <Transfer complete. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>cd mac <CWD command successful. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>dir <Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.172.4.8,1099) (0 bytes). total 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 5193 31 248 Jan 28 23:31 .cache -rw-r--r-- 1 32766 31 42062 Jan 23 21:22 verb-flashcards-beg.hqx -rw-r--r-- 1 32766 31 37435 Jan 23 21:23 verb-flashcards.hqx <Transfer complete. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>binary Type: Image, Structure: File, Mode: Stream POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>get verb-flashcards.hqx To local file: flashcards.hqx <Opening data connection for verb-flashcards.hqx (131.172.4.8,1100) <Transfer complete. POGUE.ADMIN.LSA.UMICH.EDU>quit <Goodbye. _______________________________________________________________________ Notice in the User's directory on the computer from where the FTP session was started the file FLASHCARDS.HQX appears: $ dir Directory TEACHING.TXT;1 DHDISS.TXT;1 FLASHCARDS.HQX;1 FTP_SERVER.LOG;8 GOPHERRC.;1 LOGIN.COM;1 MAIL.DIR;1 NEWS.RC;1 NEWSRC.;1 NEWSRC.LUGB;1 Total of 10 files. _______________________________________________________________________ 3.2.1 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.latrobe.edu.au (or ftp.latrobe.edu.au), directory pub/celia/incoming to submit the text file teaching.txt to CELIA for archiving $ ftp archive.latrobe.edu.au LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU MultiNet FTP user process 3.2(106) Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections) <LUGA FTP server (Version 6.31 Thu Apr 15 11:10:07 EST 1993) ready. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>user anonymous <Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password. Password: <********************************************************************** <* * <* This is the main archive for La Trobe University, Australia * <* * <* If your FTP client crashes or hangs shortly after login please * <* try using a dash (-) as the first character of your password. * <* This will turn off the informational messages that may be * <* confusing your FTP client. * <* * <* This system may be used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The local * <* time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia is Fri Jan 28 22:08:57 1994 * <* * <* OS2 MIRROR CONTRIBUTIONS: * <* NOTE that this site is not set up to accept incoming * <* contributions to the OS2 archives. Such contributions* <* should be directed to ftp.cdrom.com. Any files * <* dropped in the /upload directory may be forwarded to * <* cdrom but there is no guarantee. * <* * <* Report any problem by email to postmaster@latrobe.edu.au * <* * <********************************************************************** < <Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>cd pub/celia/incoming <CWD command successful. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>ascii Type: Ascii (Non-Print), Structure: File, Mode: Stream LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>put teaching.txt To remote file: teaching.txt <Opening ASCII mode data connection for teaching.txt <Transfer complete. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>quit <Goodbye. _______________________________________________________________________ 3.2.2 HOW TO FTP TO CELIA at archive.latrobe.edu.au (or ftp.latrobe.edu.au), directory pub/celia/english/cloze/dos to retrieve the ascii file 00index.txt and the MS-DOS file cloze1.exe from CELIA: $ ftp archive.latrobe.edu.au LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU MultiNet FTP user process 3.2(106) Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections) <LUGA FTP server (Version 6.31 Thu Apr 15 11:10:07 EST 1993) ready. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>user anonymous <Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password. Password: <Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>cd pub/celia/english/cloze/dos <CWD command successful. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>dir <Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 25 -rw-r--r-- 1 795 16 470 Jan 13 01:47 00index.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 795 16 23759 Jan 13 01:46 cloze1.exe <Transfer complete. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>ascii Type: Ascii (Non-Print), Structure: File, Mode: Stream LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>get 00index.txt To local file: vocab.idx <Opening ASCII mode data connection for 00index.txt (470 bytes). <Transfer complete. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>binary Type: Image, Structure: File, Mode: Stream LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>get cloze1.exe To local file: cloze1.exe <Opening BINARY mode data connection for cloze1.exe (23759 bytes). <Transfer complete. LUGA.LATROBE.EDU.AU>quit <Goodbye. _______________________________________________________________________ Notice both files are now in the user's directory. Remember the user renamed 00index.txt as vocab.idx: $ dir Directory TEACHING.TXT;1 CLOZE1.EXE;1 FTP_SERVER.LOG;8 GOPHERRC.;1 MAIL.DIR;1 NEWS.RC;1 NEWSRC.;1 NEWSRC.LUGB;1 VOCAB.IDX;1 Total of 9 files. _______________________________________________________________________ Lloyd Holliday for CELIA-L Management (see also INTRODUCTION) You are encouraged to post this message to any relevant LISTS or BBS. From: Donald Spaeth <DSPAETH@dish.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Readvertisement: TLTP History Courseware Consortium Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 16:28:25 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 481 (887) Please post: Readvertisement COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT OFFICER for TLTP HISTORY COURSEWARE CONSORTIUM -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A Research Officer is required to coordinate the development of tutorial software by the History Courseware Consortium, funded in phase 2 of the HEFCs' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). The Consortium, which includes the University of Glasgow, the University of Southampton and over 40 other institutions, will produce computer-based tutorials which present core resources with the aim of teaching history students more efficiently and effectively. The post, which will be held at the University of Southampton, will be for one year in the first instance. Applicants should be graduates in history or related subjects with experience of teaching, the use of computers in history and the development of computer-based teaching materials. Programming experience is essential. Salary will be on the University Research Grade 1A Scale, L12,828- L19,542 per annum, according to age, qualifications and experience. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Personnel Department (R/153/GU), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO9 5NH (telephone (0703) 593793). The closing date for the return of completed application forms is 1 March 1994, quoting reference number R/153/GU. This the is a readvertisement of the post. *********************** * FURTHER PARTICULARS * *********************** The History Courseware Consortium will produce history tutorials which present core resources on key historical topics. The Consortium aims to make teaching more efficient while enhancing the quality of the learning experience. It was funded in August 1993 under Phase II of the HEFCs' Teaching and Learning Technology Programme TLTP and includes over forty institutions of higher education in the UK. All TLTP Phase II projects, including the History Consortium, have initially been funded for one year only. However, TLTP II is a three year programme, and the Consortium has applied for funding for a further two years. The Courseware Development Officer will be based at the University of Southampton, which will provide production services to the Consortium. The postholder will work closely with the Dr Frank Colson, Director of the HiDES Project, and with other HiDES staff. The Officer will also work closely with the Consortium's Director and Coordinator at the University of Glasgow, which is the lead site, and with other members of the Consortium. The Coordinator will manage the production of tutorials by the Consortium on a day to day basis, under the supervision of Dr Colson. The postholder's duties will include the following tasks: (1) Advising the Steering Group on issues concerning the design and production of tutorials, including standards, the selection of authoring software and interface design. (2) Advising Consortium members and Course Teams about the costing of development projects. (3) Supervising the provision of production services at the University of Southampton on development projects funded by the Consortium, including management of production staff. The CDO will be responsible for meeting deadlines to quality standards, in both cases as agreed between the Steering Group and the University of Southampton. (4) Supervising the provision of technical support and advice to authors funded by the Consortium, including those involved in academic development only and those involved in both academic and technical development. (5) Liaising with other providers of information and services, including the ESRC Data Archive, the IHR, the British Library and the BUFVC. (6) Assisting members of the Consortium with the implementation and evaluation of tutorials, including distribution of prototypes. The successful candidate will be a graduate in history or a related subject and will have experience in history teaching and/or research, particularly in the application of computers to these areas, and in the development of computer-based teaching materials and in programming. Good administrative and communication skills will be essential. Computing skills should include demonstrable experience in using a word-processor, electronic mail and hypermedia authoring. Familiarity with image processing, image capture, databases, spreadsheets, or programming will be to the candidate's advantage. The Courseware Development Officer will report to the Steering Group and Advisory Committee. However, the postholder will be expected to exercise initiative in realising the aims of the Consortium. The Officer will be based at the University of Southampton, but regular travel to other institutions, conferences and workshops will be an important part of the duties. Salary will be on University Grade 1A Scale: L12,828 - L19,642 per annum, according to age, qualifications and experience. The post, which will be held at the University of Southampton, will be for one year in the first instance. Secondment may be possible. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post as soon as possible. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Personnel Department (R/153/GU), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO9 5NH (telephone (0703) 593793). The closing date for the return of completed application forms and the names of two referees is 1 March 1994, quoting reference number R/153/GU. Further details about CTICH, HiDES and the History Consortium may be obtained from Dr Frank Colson (JANET: hii005@uk.ac.soton.ibm) or Drs Astrid Wissenburg (JANET: astrid@uk.ac.gla.dish). From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Call for papers for MLA '94 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 20:43:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 482 (888) I would like to direct the attention of HUMANIST readers to two sessions sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) at the upcoming convention of the Modern Language Association to be held in San Diego, California, Dec. 27-30, 1994. (Also see p. 26 of the Spring 1994 _MLA Newsletter_.) 1) Electronic Texts, Hypertexts, and the Study of Literature; 2) The Role of Electronic Texts Archives in the Study of Literature. (Preference will be given to presentations reporting concrete results.) In both cases, 500-word abstracts are due by 10 March 1994. Joel Goldfield, Plymouth State College (NH, USA). E-mail: Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu Regards, Joel Goldfield From: Maurizio Lana <lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it> Subject: online bookstores Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 12:05:54 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 582 (889) Online bookstores are of two types: those that allow you to browse their catalog online those that allow you to place the order by e-mail. In the first category is Roswell (gopher to nstn.ns.ca; they are down at menu level three; or do a veronica search for Roswell). They are OK: you may pay by credit card, they delete the electronic record of credit card number after receiving it; you retrieve by gopher the order form. In the second are those bookstores (I only cite them, knowing nothing by direct experience): SoftPro Books (softpro@world.std.com) with booklist available by ftp at world.std.com in dir /ftp/Softpro). Wordsworth Books (hillel@netcom.com) SSC (bel@ssc.com) Quantum Books (quanbook@world.std.com) Computer Literacy Bookshop (info@clbooks.com) Hope this helps. The truly useful and viable way of doing en electronic bookstore is Roswell's, in my opinion. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI - Universita' di Torino lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it fax: 39-11-8990458 From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: panel on humanities computing courses Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 21:37:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 583 (890) In response to Ron Tetreault's recent note about courses in humanities computing, I send along the following description of a panel to be held at the ALLC/ACH 94 conference in Paris this April. Willard McCarty ------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Curriculum ex machina: discovering humanities computing in the classroom Participants: Robert Gauthier (Sciences du Langage \a l'Universit/e Toulouse-le Mirail, France) Christian Koch (Computer Science, Oberlin College, USA) Willard McCarty (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Toronto, Canada) Tito Orlandi (Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi per l'Automazione nelle Discipline Umanistiche, Roma, Italia Harold Short (King's College, London, UK) Chair: T. Russon Wooldridge (French, Toronto, Canada) Organizer: Willard McCarty The question. Humanities computing is by nature interdisciplinary: it affects as well as draws from all the sciences humaines to which it is applied. What is its role in relation to the humanities? to computer science, to which it is indebted, and to mathematics, on which computer science depends? Is it a subject in its own right, or merely a "service" better rendered within the traditional disciplines? Should it aspire to the increased rigour, precision of thought, and objectivity of a scientific discipline, or are its benefits to be found by going in a somewhat different direction, e.g. toward the notion of modeling, and so the illuminating discrepancies between mechanical models and intuitive perceptions? What, in brief, is humanities computing? Experience in the classroom may help us to answer these persistent, if annoying and intractible, questions, or perhaps to make better questions from them. The task of sifting this pedagogical experience is not easy: since there are no commonly recognized models for curricula in humanities computing, courses vary widely as to their content, structure, departmental affiliation, and institutional status. Nevertheless, there are now a sufficient number of cases for us to be able to consider, from the evidence of what has been taught and from the research that has been assisted by this teaching, what kind of a discipline may be upon us, and in what direction we would like to see it develop. In one way or another computers and computational models of thought will be used in courses throughout the disciplines. If we are to have a case for saying how, then we need to pay close attention to what becomes of computing when it is taught to humanists, especially in an interdisciplinary setting. Panel members will consider the above questions from the varying perspectives of the courses they have designed and taught for undergraduates, (post)-graduate students, researchers, and members of teaching faculty in North America and Europe. After a brief presentation from each panel member, attendees will be invited to ask questions and raise further matters for discussion. The idea for this panel arose at the ALLC/ACH 93 in Georgetown, in consequence of an informal session on the subject organised by Malcolm Hayward (Indiana). It became clear at this session that a more broadly based panel, formally constituted in the programme of the conference, was needed. The panel at ALLC/ACH 94 attempts to meet this need by expanding the context of discussion and selecting members from several countries in North America and Europe. Composition of the panel. Robert Gauthier, responsable de l'initiation \a l'utilisation de l'ordinateur en Sciences du Langage \a l'Universit/e Toulouse-le Mirail exposera les points suivants: Quel contenu peut ou doit faire l'objet d'un enseignement, en se fixant quels objectifs, en s'appuyant sur quels langages et en utilisant quel environnement de programmation, sur quelle plate-forme? Apr\es avoir enseign/e pendant cinq ann/ees l'utilisation de l'ordinateur en Sciences humaines \a des /etudiants de Ma^itrise, de DEA, et en Th\ese, est-il possible d'/evaluer la valeur d'un enseignement \a la fois formel et pratique de la programmation, du d/eveloppement d'applications didactiques, de la PAO, de l'analyse automatique des textes, de l'analyse statistique, de la cr/eation de bases de donn/ees bibliographiques et lexicographiques , de la PREAO, de la manipulation d'images, et de l'utilisation des r/eseaux internationaux et nationaux? Enfin on se posera le probl\eme de l'aptitude des informaticiens de m/etier ou des professeurs de lettres \a enseigner l'usage de l'ordinateur \a des /etudiants de lettres. Christian Koch, Professor of Computer Science (Oberlin College, USA) will discuss Oberlin's new minor in "Computing in the Liberal Arts", which relates computer science and mathematics to the needs of those talented humanities students of tomorrow who want to use computers in support of their interests. He will draw on the results from the first two years of this minor. Willard McCarty, Asst. Director of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (Toronto, Canada), will discuss his series of interdisciplinary graduate courses and faculty workshops in research computing over the last 3 years. He will emphasize the methodological common ground that emerges as the principal subject of these courses, as well as strategies for working with faculty and administrators to get humanities computing integrated into the departmental programmes. He will also describe a new online archive of syllabi and course materials maintained at Toronto. Tito Orlandi, Professor of Coptic and Director of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi per l'Automazione nelle Discipline Umanistiche (La Sapienza, Rome), will describe his post-graduate courses and workshops in humanities computing at the Facolt\a di Lettere. Based on experience with these courses, he will emphasize methodological issues, specifically the need for a better grasp of the fundamental theories of informatics, which would then lead to an improved understanding of how humanities computing relates methodologically to the traditional disciplines in its scope. He will also discuss briefly the distinction between human-social sciences and historical-liberal arts disciplines in applying computerized procedures. He will note difficulties in conventional curricular structures and in the laws governing them, and discuss helpful relations with colleagues from the Facolt\a di Ingegneria. Harold Short, Director, Research Unit in Humanities Computing, King's College London, will discuss the undergraduate, postgraduate and academic staff courses which have been offered for the past three years. The undergraduate programme covers a wide range of computing techniques and skills; however the real emphasis is on developing analytical skills - students being able to assess which (if any) computing tools may be of value in different contexts, and application skills - being able to apply the tools in an appropriate way. With the postgraduate and academic staff courses, the focus is on computing tools in humanities research, and on how the research enterprise is changed by their use: is it a matter of doing old things in new ways, or does the new technology change the questions which can be asked? *****END***** From: George Welling <welling@let.rug.nl> Subject: Re: 7.0470 Courses: Humanities Curric.; Humanities Computing (2/45) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 09:25:12 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 584 (891) Within the Association for History and Computing(AHC) there has been a long discussion about this topic and two volumes have been published about it: the articles and course discriptions of the last volume can be ftp-ed from the Groningen Historical Electronic Text Archive (GHETA). Use gopher (gopher gopher.let.rug.nl) or anonymous ftp (ftp tyr.let.rug.nl) and go to the directory pub/ftp/GHETA/AHC/curriculum. There you will find the articles in two formats: ASCII and WordPerfect 5.01. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George M. Welling - dep.Alfa-Informatica HCI - University of Groningen phone : +31 50 63 54 74 | fax : +31 50 63 49 00 | welling@let.rug.nl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Eric W. Nye" <NYE@UWYO.EDU> Subject: Scanner+Printer=?FAX Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:46:45 -0700 (MST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 585 (892) Does anyone have knowledge of software that would integrate a scanner and a printer with a FAX modem to produce the equivalent of a good FAX machine? I haven't heard much lately of plans to manufacture a combined laser printer and scanner in a single box. But surely the software to link these peripherals must exist for a Windows platform? I'd appreciate a note from anyone who can report success in this. Eric W. Nye, Department of English, University of Wyoming, Laramie Net: NYE@UWYO.EDU Voice: 307-766-3244 FAX: 307-766-5247 From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston ) Subject: Re: 7.0455 Qs: Unicode; KLEIO; Long Names; Quote Query; MLA Online; Date: 14 Feb 94 16:05:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 586 (893) A colleague of mine is searching for a company that can do OCR on Chinese characters . . . word has it that there is a firm in Germany that has such a product . . . alas, no information on who, where, etc. Anyone? Also, WordPerfect Corporation has just released a Chinese version of their word processor -- unfortunately, no on in Orem seems to know where they got their version of the Chinese character set . . . it was apparently purchased in Taiwan. Does anyone know who is selling a Windows version of Chinese characters? Thanks. James Johnston johnstonj@attmail.com (801) 756-1111, Fax 756-0242 Snail Mail -- P.O. Box 446, American Fork, UT 84003-0446, USA From: David Sloboda <DSLOBODA@ac.dal.ca> Subject: Request for back issue of ACH newsletter Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 14:06:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 587 (894) I am trying to track down an article that appeared in the _ACH Newsletter_ in 1988. The article is: Moulthrop, Stuart. "Containing Multitudes: The Problem of Closure in Interactive Fiction" _ACH Newsletter_ 10 (Summer 1988): 21-46 Through my local Gopher I have only been able to find a 1992 issue in an electronic storage form. Could someone tell me where to FTP or Gopher to for the back issue that I'm looking for? Many thanks, David Sloboda Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada From: RUEDNBRG@NYUACF.BITNET Subject: announcing - TDR: the journal of performance studies Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:12:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 588 (895) Dear listowner and project director: we thought your subscribers might be interested in us. If you agree, please post the following announcement. Thanks. __________________________________________________________________ ...You may have never heard us, yet you may be interested in... __________________________________________________________________ ________________ _____________ _____________ /_______________/| /____________ \ /____________ \ |||||||||||||||||/ |||||||||||||\ \ |||||||||||||\ \ |||| | |||| | |||\ \ |||| | |||\ \ |||| | |||| | |||\ \ |||| |______||||/ |||| | |||| | |||| | ||||/______||||/ |||| | |||| | ||||/ |||||||||||||\ \ |||| | |||| |______||||/ |||| | ||||\ \ |||| | ||||/______||||/ |||| | ||||\ \ ||||/ ||||||||||||||/ ||||/ ||||\/ __________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Performance Studies T140 (Winter 1993) TDR is a journal that explores the diverse world of performance. How does this relate to you? It emphasizes the intercultural, inter- disciplinary and spans numerous geographical areas and historical periods. TDR addresses performance issues of every kind: theatre, dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics, aesthetics of everyday life, games, play, and ritual. TDR is for people in the performing arts, the social sciences, academics, activists and theorists--anyone interested thinking about the "performance" paradigm. The journal, is edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of Performance Studies, New York University, and is published quarterly by MIT Press. Now, TDR has joined the Internet community! The TDR_FORUM: on the discussion list Perform-L, you can participate in a forum that will focus on the latest issue, with both contributing authors and fellow readers. See instructions below. You can browse through sample articles on the Electronic Newsstand. You subscribe through MIT or the Electronic Newsstand. See directions below. 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Gray - Casting the Audience - By Natalie Crohn Schmitt - Happenings in Europe in the '60s - by Gunter Berghaus - Book review essays by Richard Trousdell, Edith Turner, and David J. DeRose Each TDR issue is provocative in content, with photographs, artwork, and scripts illustrating every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is 7 x 10, and 184 pages per issue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ // Join our electronic TDR_Forum on Perform-L \\ ------------------------------------------------ We invite you to join us in a discussion of the latest issue of TDR, featuring an article by Richard Gess - "Magister Macintosh: Shuffled Notes on Hypertext Writing." 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MIT Press Online You can explore the MIT Press Online Catalogue and obtain subscription information: telnet techinfo.mit.edu. Choose: Around MIT/MIT press/ journals/arts/. Through Gopher go to: USA?massachusetts/MIT. To subscribe to TDR send e-mail to: journals-orders@mit.edu MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 USA Tel: (617) 253-2889 Fax: (617) 258-6779 ------------------------------------------------------end of msg--------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: DB.PRESSBKS@press.uchicago.edu (DB) Subject: New Book Excerpt Available Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 12:36 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 589 (896) To: *LANHAM Please post the following announcement to the list or journal you moderate. Reposting to other lists is OK, too. Dean Blobaum The University of Chicago Press dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu *** ASCII enclosure follows. Original filename: LANHAM.ANN --------------- The University of Chicago Press is making available on the Internet an excerpt from _The Electronic Word_ by Richard Lanham. In _The Electronic Word_ Lanham, a professor of English at UCLA, surveys the effects of electronic text on arts and letters, on the academy, and on the future of democratic education. The excerpt includes the book's fourth chapter: "Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and the University Curriculum". The excerpt may be retrieved via gopher, anonymous FTP, or e-mail. The ASCII text file is about 65K. View and/or retrieve via gopher: Gopher to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu (port 70) and choose the menu item "New Books from Chicago" Retrieve the ASCII text file LANHAM.TXT via anonymous FTP: FTP to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu cd pub/Excerpts lanham.txt Retrieve the ASCII text file via e-mail: Send e-mail to etext-request@press.uchicago.edu with the subject field blank and a message consisting of SEND ELECWORD; the request is handled by a human, not a machine. ************ Dean Blobaum The University of Chicago Press dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu ************ This message may be reposted. From: nomi shir <shir@bgumail.bgu.ac.il> Subject: Request for support! Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 12:21:04 +0200 (IST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 486 (897) Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben Gurion University of the Negev P.O.Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. Tel: 972-7-461129 Fax: 972-7-281340 e-mail: SHIR@BGUMAIL.bgu.ac.il Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am turning to colleagues throughout the world with a request to write a letter in support of our department, as we face an extremely unpleasant and unfortunate situation. An unsupportive administration appears to be on the verge of suggesting severe cuts and perhaps even the closure of our department. This threat is posed despite our distinguished, collective professional record and loyal service to the University, i.e., outstanding and frequent publications, numerous competitive research grants and prestigious fellowships, excellence in teaching, solid enrollment statistics, placement of our graduates in top graduate programs and in employment sectors contributing to the educational needs of our country, and the organizing and hosting of numerous national and international conferences of high academic quality. We are facing an untenable situation, in which the continued existence of our department is in jeopardy. I will be grateful if you would write a letter, addressed to me, in support of our department, emphasizing such points as the importance of our programs, the academic standing and the professional contributions of our faculty, our courses and teaching, and your impression of the level of our students. Please indicate your position in the profession and any relationship to our department that you may have. Every letter from you, our colleagues, including suggestions you may have, will be extremely valuable to us in our meetings with the administration and a planned academic review committee which we hope will be effective. I regret having to take up your time with this request, but the gravity of our situation warrants it. The department has prepared a package of materials describing the department which will be sent to you should you wish it. Thank you for any support you can give us. Sincerely, Dr. Haim Finkelstein Chair (On behalf of: Gerda Elata, Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Mark Gelber, Hanita Goodblatt, Feodor Mauler, Carol Troen, Tova Rapoport, Efraim Sicher, Karina Wilkinson) From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedale@columbia.edu> Subject: Electronic Reserves listserv Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 10:20:22 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 590 (898) It's up and running- the listserv for issues related to implementation and management of Electronic Reserves systems. The discussion should be wide-ranging, and anyone with an interest in the technological, legal, policy and management issues should feel free to subscribe and contribute. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@cni.org leave the subject field blank. The text of the message should read subscribe arl-ereserve <your name> where <your name> is just your first and last name. Thanks to Diane Harvey of ARL and Craig Summerhill of CNI for making this long-awaited listserv a reality. From: "Evan L. Antworth 214-709-3346" <evan.antworth@SIL.ORG> Subject: E-mail address for SIL IPA fonts Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 09:52:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 591 (899) An addendum to my previous message about the SIL IPA fonts: the best e-mail address to use is FONTS@SIL.ORG . --Evan From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: LGO-CGL (Computer generated literature) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 12:28:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 592 (900) -- JUST PUBLISHED -- JUST PUBLISHED -- JUST PUBLISHED -- JUST Special issue of "Les cahiers du CIRCAV", gathers the texts of the papers presented at the Lille 1993 conference "Nord Poesie et Ordinateur" as well as the transcripts of the debates organized after each communication. This publication is bilingual (francais/english), and texts are printed in a parallel edition. The book also contains two floppy disks with computer generated literary (CGL) texts. This publication gathers texts written by researchers from several countries, working on various approaches of "Computer generated texts". These articles deal with the history of these approaches, with poetic e-journals from Europe, with relationships between CGL and criticism, with the contribution of informatics and video to literature. Other articles also analyze various textual productions (hypertexts, generators, animated poetry, unique-reading poems) and present authors' view point and innovative theoretical perspectives. Texts by J-P Balpe, Ph. Bootz, O Carreno, J Clement, J Donguy, J-M Dutey, S Joachim, M Lenoble, P Louget, C Maillard, T Papp, C Petchanatz, A Vuillemin. Floppy disks with creations by: J-P Balpe, P Bootz, J-M Dutey, C Maillard, T Papp. ---- "A:\LITTERATURE <--", Bootz, Ph. (ed.), Lille: MOTS-VOIR & Le GERICO-CIRCAV, pp.151, 1994. ISBN 2-9508156-0-X MOTS-VOIR. Distribution: MOTS-VOIR, 27 alle'e des Coquelicots, 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. P.S. The title is reproducing the syntax of a DOS command. The <-- is representing a CR (carriage return). -- From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedale@columbia.edu> Subject: ARL workshop Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 14:27:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 593 (901) Many of you have been asking for details about ARL's forthcoming workshop "Transforming the Reserve Function: Providing Instructional Support in an Electronic Age" at Duke University. ARL has a preliminary announcement (a flyer) and will have more detailed information and registration forms in early March. If you want a copy of the flyer and/or more information as it becomes available, contact Diane Harvey of ARL; her email address is diane@cni.org You can also subscribe to the arl-ereserve listserv! -Jeff Rosedale Columbia University Libraries From: Evert Volkersz <XEVOLKERSZ@SBCCMAIL.BITNET> Subject: Tibetan Sorting Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 10:28:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 488 (902) A colleague is looking for a software program that will sort (alphabetize) Tibetan. If you know of such a program, I will be happy to forward the information to her. Evert Volkersz, Head evolkersz@ccmail.sunysb.edu Special Collections Department Fax: 516-632-7116 SUNY Library Voice: 516-632-7119 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3323 From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 489 (903) date: Tuesday from: Robert Greer (212) 346-8450, 8452 Greer at BMAcadm re: combination printer / scanner / fax i. Fax. machines with computer interfaces have been marketed without much success; their resolution, both printing and scanning, has been too low to be of much interest, 200 d.p.i. ii. A few weeks ago I saw an ad in a business publication for an all-in-one system; it mentioned a plain-paper printer, which is all the rage in the fax. community. It didn't say whether it was a laser printer or an ink-jet; most plain-paper faxes are the latter.) iii. There are many MS-DOS and Windows fax. programs availble; are you looking for some special feature? iv. At least one company, Practical Peripherals, makes a plug-in fax. cartridge for the H.P. LaserJet; it does not, of course, transmit, but allows the laser printer to connect to both the 'phone line and the p.c. From: jmrabate@sas.upenn.edu (Jean-Michel Rabate) Subject: Barthes Conference Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 19:17:26 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 490 (904) From Jean-Michel Rabate , English, University of Pennsylvania. Please announce an International Conference on Roland Barthes "After Roland Barthes", Philadelphia, PA. 15-17 April 1994 Since Barthes's death in 1980, his influence has not ceased to grow in Europe as in the United States. Barthes, who used to fascinate wide audiences with his mixture of theoretical radicality, urbane skepticism and delightful wit, has been called a master of the essay in the Gide tradition and also belongs to a period which has seen radical innovations in the field of literary and cultural studies, most of which have been either launched or influenced by him. The aim of this international conference is to provide a fresh and unprejudiced evaluation of Barthes's heritage today. If he is still taken as the author of text-books introducing students to Structuralism and Semiology in domains as varied as film-studies, the analysis of advertisement, modern rhetorics of the image, the semiology of fashion, the structural analysis of narrative, his later work shows a marked tendency to return to questions of history, biography and subjectivity. Barthes's genius has lain in his ability to adapt scientific models to the classical study of the humanities. His curiosity led him to constantly broaden the scope of his investigations, moving from the reading of texts to the debunking of contemporary mythologies, from the interpretation of popular culture to more personal acounts of his encounters with music, painting and photography. The starting point of this conference is the later Barthes, as much of a novelist as a versatile critic, always ready to qualify or even dismiss his prophecy of a coming "death of the author", in order to stress the individual enjoyment one derives from literature and art. Barthes's awareness of the values at stake in apparent random encounters with different worlds of signs led him to write his last moralities, such as his famed meditation on the nature of love or his reflexive aphorisms on his own teachings. This culminates with Camera Lucida, Barthes's moving autobiographical disclosure of his love for his mother under the guise of a study of photography. Whereas in the former essays on the image, Barthes had emphasized the artificial nature of the medium and the ideological role of their manipulations, Camera Lucida defines photography as opening to pure reference. Each photography testifies to past presence, and appears as a Japanese haiku, forcing us to stare directly at death. The studium, or scientific approach, which misses the point of the photograph, is opposed to the punctum, the small detail or "point" likely to capture the eye of the beholder. Accordingly, a display of original photographs will recreate the space of Camera Lucida at the Phildadelphia ICA.in April 1994 in conjunction with "After Roland Barthes". AFTER ROLAND BARTHES International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania April 15 - 17 1994 -- PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY APRIL 15: 11:00-1:3O REGISTRATION Lauder-Fischer Hall FRIDAY 1:30-3:30 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Jean-Michel Rabate (U Penn) Francois Brunet (Paris VII) "Barthes and American Photography" Colin MacCabe (Pittsburgh University) "Barthes after Bazin". Michael Wetzel (Kassel University) "Green Stuff: Phantasy and Photography in Barthes and Carroll". FRIDAY 4:00-6:00 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Frank Bowman (U Penn) Hubertus von Amelunxen (Mannheim University) "Ponctualite : point d'aprJolanta Wawrzycka (Radford University) "Photographeme: Semioti(sizing) in Camera Lucida". Wendy Steiner (U Penn) "'The Vast Disorder of Objects': Towards an Aesthetics of Content". I.C.A. : RECEPTION AND BUFFET. 6:30-7:45 SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION : "CAMERA LUCIDA" AT THEINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (I.C.A.) EVENING TALK at the I.C.A.: 8:OO-9:00 Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University) "What Has Occured Only Once" : Barthes"s Winter Garden, Boltanski's Mickey Mouse Club". RESPONDENT : Nancy Shawcross (U of Penn) SATURDAY APRIL 16 9:00-11:00 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Gerald Prince (U Penn) Marjorie Welish (Brown University) "The art of being sparse, porous, scattered" Jacques Leenhard (EPHESS) "Il n'y a plus d'aprSATURDAY 11:15-1:15. Chair Margreta de Grazia (U. Penn) Carol Shloss (West Chester University) "Narrative liaisons: dangers of the Photography Essay" Steven Ungar (University of Iowa) "Bodies in Time : Rereading the 1950s" Philippe Roger (CNRS Paris) "Barthes and Marx". SATURDAY. 2:30-4:30. Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair. D.A. Miller (Harvard) Derek Attridge (Rutgers University) "Barthes's Obtuse, Sharp meaning" Diana Knight (University of Nottingham) "Barthes and the Woman without a shadow" Antoine Compagnon (Columbia University) "Where Is the Real One?" SATURDAY 5:00- 7:30. Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Richard Sieburth (NYU). Daniel Ferrer "Genetic Criticism in the Wake of Roland Barthes"(ITEM ) Patrizia Lombardo (Pittsburgh University) "Literature and nostalgia in Roland Barthes" Pierre Force (Columbia University) "Barthes and Bathmologia". Elene Cliche (UQAM Montreal) "The later Barthes" EVENING TALK : 8:30 - 9:30 Lauder-Fischer Hall Victor Burgin (Santa Cruz): "Barthes's Discretion" SUNDAY APRIL 17. 9:00-11:00. Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: Michele Richman (U Penn) Dalia Kandiyoti (N.Y.U) "Exotic Barthes" Craig Saper (U. Penn) "Learning from being Lost: A Barthesian Multiculturalism" Beryl Schlossman (Mellon University) "The Luxury of Language: Reading (Proust) with Barthes". SUNDAY 11:15 - 1:30 Lauder-Fischer Hall Chair: David Wills (Louisiania SU) Arkady Plotnitsky (U Penn) "Un-scriptible". Francoise Gaillard (Paris VII) "Mythologies today" Hayden White (U of California, Santa Cruz): "The Historical Fantastic". Information: Francoise Gramet French Institute for Culture and Technology 401 Lauder-Fischer Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104-6330 University of Pennsylvania tel. 215. 573. 35. 50. fax. 215. 573. 21. 39. fax. 215. 573. 21. 39. From: johnstonj@attmail.com (James Johnston ) Subject: Re: 7.0455 Qs: Unicode; KLEIO; Long Names; Quote Query; MLA Online; Date: 14 Feb 94 16:05:18 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 594 (905) A colleague of mine is searching for a company that can do OCR on Chinese characters . . . word has it that there is a firm in Germany that has such a product . . . alas, no information on who, where, etc. Anyone? Also, WordPerfect Corporation has just released a Chinese version of their word processor -- unfortunately, no on in Orem seems to know where they got their version of the Chinese character set . . . it was apparently purchased in Taiwan. Does anyone know who is selling a Windows version of Chinese characters? --- end of quoted material --- I saw a Chinese Windows version together with a Microsoft Word version recently (apparentlyboth still in beta). The experts here (at Dartmouth) tell me that it is still rather primitive compared to running NISUS with both traditional and simplified Chinese plus the cihui dictionary on the Macintosh. From: Maurizio Lana <lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it> Subject: experience with WinWord 2.0 and a big file of text and images Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 15:34:13 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 595 (906) This is a report about my recent experience: I think it can be useful for= others. Notes on use of Winword 2.0 with large text file (1,2M) I publish these notes to share my experience with others about a subject not quite known. As I worked with an italian version of Winword, I'll indicate which menu choice is used. My file contained text and images. Six images were produced including (master menu, fourth choice "Inserisci oggetto") a MSDraw object, two were Paintbrush objects. The file wasn't splitted into smaller files, as Microsoft advices, because I had a number of internal references (made using fields "rif" and "pagrif"). After the file had grown up, I got an error "The file is too big to be saved" (the last save had written a 2M file, even if I hadn't doubled its dimension adding so much stuff). I splitted it recursively in two parts, one of which always gave the error message "The file is too big...". I ended up discovering that the error was given by the Paintbrush images: I erased them, reimported them from the files where they were saved as .bmp, and all went right. After some days I got another time the error message "The file is too big to be saved" (now the last saved file was 2.9M; still I hadn't put into so much text or images). The problem were always the .bmp images *and* the option "allow quick save". The .bmp images added about 600K (the .bmp files alone were instead 80K each) when included; and after saving two or three times the files, I always ended with that error. (I must use a Paintbrush image because I needed an area filled in color). For the images growing from 160 to 600K I avoided the problem this way: for each one of the .bmp images I opened a new Winword file; included the .bmp alone; saved the file as a Winword doc; opened Word 5 for Macintosh; imported into Word for Mac the doc containing the bitmap; without doing anything saved it as a Word for Windows 2.0 doc; included into my big doc that file saved from Mac; and - voila=E0 - the big doc was about 170K bigger, as expected. For the (probably) faulty "save file" command I deactivated the option "allow quick save": after being saved two or three times the file was *smaller*, the backup save and normal save were *faster*, and I got no more error messages about the file dimensions. Conclusions: big text files are a viable solution, if you need them; beware of "quick save" option with big text files; beware of Paintbrush objects. Maurizio Lana - CISI - Universita' di Torino lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it fax: 39-11-8990458 From: Stuart Lee <STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: CATH 94 : Reminder Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 15:23 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 492 (907) Just a reminder that the deadline for the Call for Papers for CATH 94 is nearly at hand. If you have any questions please contact the organisors below. Stuart Lee **************** CATH '94 "COURSEWARE IN ACTION" Computers and Teaching in the Humanities Glasgow University 9 - 12th September, 1994 CALL FOR PAPERS CATH is the annual forum of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication. It provides an opportunity for those using computers in humanities teaching and research to discuss new developments, achievements, and methods in the field. The theme of this year's conference is "Courseware in Action". Papers are welcomed which concentrate on the practical applications of courseware in the classroom. In particular submissions are invited on the following topics: -courseware development -practical issues pertaining to the implementation of CAL in the classroom -evaluation procedures We would especially welcome papers from those new to the subject of humanities computing. The conference will be made up of a series of sessions. Each session will last 90 minutes and will include three papers. Submissions are invited for individual papers (lasting 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions) or for entire sessions. Furthermore, if you would like to organise a workshop presentation, or classroom simulation, then please contact the organisers directly for more information [It is expected that each workshop or simulation will last approximately two hours]. During the conference there will also be a software fair. If you would like to show material at this, then please contact the organisers as soon as possible to discuss hardware and software requirements. Format of Submissions 1) All submissions (paper or electronic) 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 2) Length: -Individual papers: abstracts should be 300 - 500 words. -Sessions: The proposer should submit a statement of approximately 300 - 500 words describing the overall topic, and also include abstracts of 300 - 500 words for each of the papers in the session. 3) Guidelines for Electronic Submission of Abstracts: These should be plain ASCII files, not word-processor 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: CATH94@VAX.OX.AC.UK with the subject line "<Author's surname> Submission for CATH94". 4) Paper submissions: Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Two copies should be sent to the organisers. 5)Deadline for submission of abstracts or workshop proposals: Tuesday March 1st All enquiries and submissions should be directed to: CATH 94 Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6N UK Telephone: 0865-273221 Fax: 0865-273221 E-Mail: CATH94@VAX.OX.AC.UK From: sj26 <Susan_H_JENSON@umail.umd.edu> Subject: Sappho and Lady Mary Wroth Summer Institute ANNOUNCEMENT Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 11:23:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 493 (908) The Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland announces a Summer Institute supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Sappho and Lady Mary Wroth: Major Writers of Classical Antiquity and the English Renaissance May 31 - July 1, 1994 **Application Deadline: March 1, 1994** The five-week residential summer institute for community college, college, and university faculty will focus on the work of Sappho and Lady Mary Wroth as representative writers of their respective societies. The program will offer close comparative readings of texts by important women writers of the ancient Greco-Roman world and Renaissance England situating these texts in their larger historical contexts, and suggesting strategies for integrating the new scholarship about women into the undergraduate college classroom. Humanities and Social Sciences teachers (Classics, Literature, History, Communications) are invited to apply. **Participants will receive NEH stipends** Participating faculty include: Jane Donawerth, Judith P. Hallett, Ann Rosalind Jones, Gordon Kirkwood, Barbara McManus, Josephine Roberts, Catherine Schuler, Marilyn Skinner, Jane Snyder, Eva Stehle, and Gary Waller. For further information and applications write: Sappho/Lady Mary Wroth, Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, 1120 Francis Scott Key Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Phone: (301) 405-6830, Fax: (301) 314-9148, E-Mail Address: SJ26@UMAIL.UMD.EDU From: Eric Crump <LCERIC@MIZZOU1> Subject: Computers & Writing Conference registration Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:52:39 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 494 (909) Please forgive the multiple copies zinging about. And feel free to forward to appropriate lists, newsgroups, and individuals. Thanks. --Eric ------------------------------------ ****Conference Registration Form**** ----- ----- -- -- ----- ----- -------- The Tenth Annual -------- ----- ----- -- Computers & Writing Conference -- <--- ----- ----- | -------- May 20-23, 1994 -------- | ----------- hosted by ----------- Including -------- the -------- CW94:Forum, ----- University of Missouri ----- the 2nd annual -- Columbia, Missouri USA -- Online Computers & ----- ----- Writing Conference -------- -------- ----------- Theme: ----------- Global Web of Writing Technologies ------------------------------------ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Program: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Tenth Computers and Writing Conference will straddle two worlds, the real and the virtual, and will include as much commerce across the borders of those worlds as we can manage. We'll keep one foot firmly on the ground, with traditional-type sessions addressing practical, pedagogical, and theoretical issues faced by most teachers, whether or not their classrooms are laden with computer technology. But we'll also have presentations that take us to the boundaries of current educational structures and show us how technology is offering the means to put pressure on traditional constraints and create new learning environments. The on-site conference will follow many C&W traditions and will include featured speakers, concurrent sessions, workshops, poster sessions, and exhibits. Events will begin at 5:30 p.m., Friday, May 20 and will continue until noon Monday, May 23, not including pre- and postconference workshops. The online conference, CW94:Forum, is scheduled to begin April 29 and run through June 12 and will follow the precedent set at the University of Michigan in 1993, serving as a geographic and temporal extension of the on-site event. It will include asynchronous discussion about important issues in the field using Electronic Forum, an easy-to-use, award-winning conferencing program that can be reached via telnet by anyone who has access to the Internet (and, of course, to telnet). This year there will also be real-time events, conference sessions and social gatherings, held on MediaMOO (accessible directly via telnet or via Electronic Forum). MediaMOO is a a textual virtual environment developed by Amy Bruckman, one of the featured speakers. We hope the combination of Electronic Forum and MediaMOO will help blur, to some extent, the differences between the on- site and online conferences. The idea is to make the issues and conversations that swirl around this community available to more people and to enrich the community by bringing more voices to bear on its concerns. Everyone who registers for the conference and provides a viable electronic mail address will receive instructions about how to reach and use Electronic Forum and MediaMOO, though we want to note that differences in individual systems can affect the means of gaining access to resources on the Internet. We'll do the best we can to advise everyone about reaching CW94:Forum, but some folks may need to consult with local computer system experts, as well. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Featured Speakers: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * DALE SPENDER * An eclectic and prolific feminist scholar from Australia, she is the author of Man Made Language, and Women of Ideas, and a number of other books. Her forthcoming book (due out early this year) is called Nattering on the Nets: Women, Information, and Power. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * AMY BRUCKMAN * A media researcher at MIT who studies and develops Internet- based textual virtual environments. Her work includes studies of gender and identity as they are constructed on computer networks and her current project involves creating a virtual environment for children. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * JOHN UNSWORTH * Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology at the University of Virginia, co-founder and co-editor of Post-Modern Culture, an electronic journal for interdisciplinary criticism, and developer of the NCSU Virtual Campus. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Preconference Workshops: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ****Workshop 1 The First Four Weeks in a Computer Mediated Composition classroom: Integrating Computer Skills into the Design and Sequence of Writing Assignments with Judith Kirkpatrick A hands-on workshop for teachers who are new to or considering teaching in a computer mediated classroom environment. Some first year composition teachers expect the introduction of computers to intrude on class time that should be spent on writing. This workshop will demonstrate how class time can be use to integrate beginning computer skills with beginning writing activities. ****Workshop 2 A Model for Integrating Online Resources Into a Begin-ning Journalism or Creative Writing Course with Michael McKean A model for including online information into a beginning journalism or creative writing course. A sample syllabus, including several class exercises, will be offered for discussion. Participants will go through some of the exercises online via the Internet. Resources to be accessed and searched include the Dialog and Lexis/Nexis commercial database services, the COIN freenet, Bitnet LISTSERVs, USENET News and gopher. ****Workshop 3 Exploring Resistance to Technology: Developing Models for Faculty Involvement in Computer-Supported Communication Pedagogy with Richard Selfe, Karla Kitalong, and Allan Heaps This workshop will provide an environment in which instructors, lab directors, and others interested in computers and composition can collaboratively develop models for encouraging faculty involvement at their institutions. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Postconference Workshops: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ****Workshop 4 Interactive Text: Helping Teachers Design Educational Software For Their Own Learning Environments with Bill Condon, Michael Day, Susanmarie Harrington, Molly Hepler, Joan Huntley, Paul LeBlanc, Rae Schipke, and Paul Taylor, coordinated by Jeff Galin Authoring programs like HyperCard, StorySpace, and Toolbook enable non-programmers to create sophisticated applications. There are potentially as many good program designs as there are teachers of writing who can conceive of them. This four- hour workshop will help 30 participants to: 1) understand the issues and obstacles they face in designing their own software, 2) conceptualize their own designs with guidance from experts in the field, and 3) integrate these applications into their classes. All participants should bring a paragraph sketch describing the applications they want to develop or are currently developing. ****Workshop 5 Michelangelo's Pocketbook: How Electronic Texts Challenge the Rules of Intellectual Property, and the Renaissance Ideology of Genius Which Underlies Them with Giles Slade A look at issues of intellectual property rights and the effect computer technology is having on those values. Participants will create an interactive, conferenced multi-media hypertext on the history of intellectual property in which the participants' collective involvement will demonstrate the inapplicability both of the current rules concerning plagiarism, and of the laws concerning copyright. ****Workshop 6 Building Collaborative Relationships Among Rural Teachers with Roy E. Roper, Sue A. Dole, R. Edward Dole, and Nancy Hyland This workshop will share with participants the results so far of the Hughes Life Sciences Curriculum Development project, which has provided opportunities for middle school science teachers from small or rural school districts to develop professionally collaborative relationships through the use of telecommunications. Participants will be introduced to the technologies deployed, the training presented, and the maintenance issues associated with virtual community creation. The presenters will show how a combination of curriculum development activities supported by telecommunications and Internet access provides a model for other outreach programs with the goals of circumventing teacher isolation and encouraging professional growth. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A few of the titles that will grace the program: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In the Making: Constructive hypertext over the Internet. Pedagogical and Professional Uses of MUDs: Lessons from the Virtual Trenches WAC Learns to Fly: the Birth of an OWL WAC and WAN: Newlyweds in Cyberspace A sleep of causes: towards a cognitive theory of hypermedia. Organizing the Profession: Issues of the First Year of the Alliance for Computers and Writing Separation Anxiety: problems of human alienation in the computer classroom Writing and Computers Across Grades and Curriculum: What K thru 12 Can Teach the University Old Fashioned Writing on the Computer: Resisting the Modular Nature of Writing in the Info Age Using The Internet In High School/University Collaborations: Possibilities And Problems. Times of the Electronic Sign: the Cultural, Social and Pedagogic Significance of the NREN Flames Over the Gulf: Conflict in a Computer Forum Historical Perspectives on Computers and Composition: The Emergence and Growth of a Field Cultural (Multi-)Mediation: Using Computers to Revitalize Native Languages * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lodging: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Holiday Inn Executive Center 2200 I-70 Drive SW Columbia, MO 65203 (314) 445-8531 $56/single $66/double Deadline: Rooms reserved for the conference will be released April 22, so please make reservation arrangements prior to that date. Note: The hotel is located at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Stadium Boulevard, adjacent to the Columbia Mall on the west edge of town. Most conference events during the day Saturday and Sunday will take place on campus. 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Preconference Postconference ____ (1) ____ (4) ____ (2) ____ (5) ____ (3) ____ (6) __________Total Amount Enclosed Please make checks payable to the University of Missouri and mail to: C&W Conference University Extension Conference Office 344 Hearnes Center Columbia, MO 65211 (314) 882-4349 FAX: (314) 882-1953 Circle one: Visa Mastercard Discover Card #_____________________________________ Expiration Date____________________________ Signature__________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- | If you have any disability that requires special materials or | | services, please call 314-882-2429 or TDD 314-882-4349 | ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- ______________________________________________________________ FOR OFFICE USE ONLY C#2961 cc pc ca ido inv MC VISA DISC Date Amt Pd Recpt# ______________________________________________________________ From: A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk Subject: The late poet W.S.Graham: letters please? Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 12:34:20 +0000 (GMT)(5) (1 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 596 (910) This request is posted on behalf of M & M Snow, 38 Medrose Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall, UK TR18 2BS, to whom replies should be addressed unless you wish to route e-mail answers through me. -- Avril Henry ************************************************************************ A.K.Henry@exeter.ac.uk START OF MESSAGE: We are preparing a book of selected letters of Sydney Graham, in association with his widow Nessie Graham. Would anyone possessing such letters and who would be willing to let us use them, or who knows of the whereabouts of such letters, please communicate with the editors at the above address in Cornwall. From: BOMBACIG@IMICLVX.BITNET Subject: OCR for ancient greek Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 21:41:11 MET-DST(6) (7 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 597 (911) The Philosophy Department of my University - Catholic University of Milan - is looking for OCR programs for ancient greek. Recognita plus works only with modern greek (without accents and spirits). Does anybody have the same problem? And does anybody know of this kind of software? Thanks in advance Roberto Bombacigno ************************************************************************* Universita' Cattolica di Milano bombacig@icil64.cilea.it tel. 0039-2-58300767 From: AEVANS@DEPAUW.BITNET Subject: query: teaching Surrealism Date: 16 Feb 1994 14:53:27 -0500 (EST)(7) (3 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 598 (912) Dear fellow Humanists, I am a professor of French at a 4-year undergraduate liberal-arts university. And I'm considering offering a course on Surrealism to our Senior majors next year, a course which would (almost necessarily) be interdisciplinary in nature yet geared primarily toward Surrealism in France. Has anyone out there taught such a course? Would you be willing to share some of your ideas about the various materials you used (literary, artistic, etc.)? Any help would be sincerely appreciated. You may contact me directly at <aevans@depauw.edu>. Thanks to one and all. Art Evans From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Address of ALLC-ACH 94 organizing committee Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 20:21:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 599 (913) Does the ALLC-ACH 94 organizing committee have an e-address where they can be contacted for practical information about the Sorbonne conference? When will schedules of the papers be available? -- 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: Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM> Subject: Further Information on ALLC-ACH '94 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 22:35:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 496 (914) This is a draft of the information on local arrangments from the local organizer of the 1994 ALLC-ACH Conference in Paris, April 19-23. I'll be checking to see if there are any changes in the arrangements, and will post anything I learn about. The program committee has finished its work, and a version of the program ought also to be available soon. Elaine ************************************************************* * Colloque international * * CONSENSUS EX MACHINA ? * * ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing * * ACH Association for Computers and the Humanities * * Paris - Sorbonne - 19-23 avril 1994 * ************************************************************* =*=*=*=*=* Informations compl/ementaires *=*=*=*=*=*=*=* =*=*=*=*=* Further information *=*=*=*=*=*=*=* Les colloques ALLC-ACH constituent le forum international le plus important pour les etudes linguistiques, litteraires, politiques, historiques et autres, pratiqu/ees avec l'aide de l'ordinateur. La rencontre de 1994 s'interessera tout particulierement a l'im- pact methodologique de l'informatique et de la mathematique sur les Humanit/es. Le recours a ces sciences exactes represente sou- vent, de nos jours, la tentative ultime pour faire entrer davantage d'objectivit/e (et, partant, un meilleur consensus) dans les sciences humaines. Quels obstacles rencontre une telle facon de faire ? De quels succes peut-elle se parer ? Quels defauts se doit-elle d'avouer ? Se profile-t-il, au-dela, une voie de re- cherche ou progresseront nos connaissances et notre compr/ehension de l'homme ? The ALLC-ACH conferences are the major forum for literary, linguistic, political and historical computing. The conference will focus on the methodological impact of computer science and mathematics on the humanities. Resorting to computer science and to mathematics is now often the ultimate attempt to impart more objectivity (and conse- quently more consensus) to the humanities. What obstacles does such an undertaking meet? What successes can it claim? What failures must it admit to? Is there a way which will increase our knowledge and understanding of the humanities ? ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e de patronage Honorary committee ____________________________________________________________________ Jean-Pierre Poussou president de l'Universit/e de Paris 4 - Sorbonne et Etienne Brunet professeur a l'Universit/e de Nice Blanche-Noelle Grunig directrice adjointe, ENS Fontenay Saint-Cloud Jean-Louis Lebrave directeur scientifique au CNRS Robert Martin professeur a l'Universit/e de Paris 4 - Sorbonne Charles Muller professeur em/erite, Universit/e de Strasbourg Bernard Quemada directeur de recherches au CNRS ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e du programme Programme committee ____________________________________________________________________ Christian Delcourt Universit/e de Liege, president ALLC Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group ACH Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University ALLC Paul A. Fortier University of Manitoba ACH Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College ACH Suzan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton University ALLC Michael Neuman Georgetown University ACH Andr/e Salem ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud ALLC Antonio Zampolli Universita degli Studi di Pisa ALLC ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e d'organisation Organization committee ____________________________________________________________________ Andr/e Salem Organisateurs locaux / Local organizers Maurice Tournier CNRS / ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud Francoise Dougnac Anne-Marie Hetzel Camille Montaldo Pierre Muller Gabriel Peries Marie-France Piguet ____________________________________________________________________ Etat d'avancement Progress report ____________________________________________________________________ Le comit/e du programme etudie les 178 propositions de communication recues a ce jour. Le programme definitif sera communiqu/e en janvier 1994. Le colloque tiendra ses assises dans les amphith/eatres Richelieu, Descartes et Guizot (Sorbonne) du mardi 19 avril 10h au samedi 23 avril 1994 a midi. Entree : hall de la bibliotheque, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, Paris 5eme. Accueil le mardi 19 avril 1994, a partir de 8 h 30. Une exposition d'ouvrages et des demonstrations de logiciels auront lieu dans la "Salle des Autorit/es", meme adresse. The Programme committee is now assessing the 178 proposals which were received. The final programme will be issued in January 1994. The conference will be held in the lecture-rooms : Richelieu, Descartes and Guizot (Sorbonne) from Tuesday April 19 - 10h to Saturday April 23, 12h. Entrance : hall of the Library, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, Paris 5th. Reception : Tuesday april 19 1994, from 8 h 30 am. Books exhibition and software demonstrations will be held in the "Salle des Autorit/es", same address. ____________________________________________________________________ Stage Tutorial Statistique Textuelle Use and Misuse ____________________________________________________________________ Deux stages sont prevus dans la semaine qui precede le colloque /Two Tutorials will take place in the week preceding the conference. Stage no / 1 (en francais) Statistique textuelle Initiation aux methodes de la Statistique textuelle et aux traitements lexicom/etriques sur micro-ordinateur. Ateliers. Tous publics. par A. Salem & M. Tournier Tutorial no / 2 (in English) Use and Misuse of Statistics in Literary and Linguistic Studies For an audience of philologists and linguists with some experience in quantification but no mathematical training. by Chr. Delcourt (Univ. de Liege) 14 & 15 avril 1994 a / at : Ecole normale sup/erieure de Lettres et Sciences humaines Saint-Cloud (pres de Paris / near Paris) ____________________________________________________________________ Droits d'inscription Registration fees ____________________________________________________________________ avant / before apres / after 1 / 2 / 1994 1 / 2 / 1994 membres ALLC /ACH members 580 FF 100 US$ 700 FF 120 US$ non membres / non members 870 FF 150 US$ 990 FF 170 US$ stage / tutorial at St.Cloud 290 FF 50 US$ 350 FF 60 US$ *** Important ***: Le reglement des droits d'inscription pour le col- loque et les stages doit etre adress/e aux organisateurs locaux par cheque personnel ou virement bancaire (pas de carte de cr/edit). *** Important ***: Registration fees for the conference and tutorials are to be sent to the local organizers by cheque or bank transfer. (credit cards are not accepted) ____________________________________________________________________ Hotellerie Accommodation ____________________________________________________________________ Les reservations d'hotel, l'excursion a Versailles et le diner (au S/enat) doivent etre r/egl/es, par carte bleue ou virement ban- caire a l'agence WAGONS-LITS TOURISME Hotel reservation, local excursion (Versailles) and dinner (at the Senate-house) are to be paid by visa card or bank transfer to the agency WAGONS-LITS TOURISME Departement CONGRES 50 rue de Londres 75008 Paris tel : (33-1) 44.90.33.10 fax: (33-1) 44.90.33.15 ____________________________________________________________________ Renseignements Information ____________________________________________________________________ Consensus ex machina ? 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Apres le 20 mars / after March 20 : aucun remboursement / no refund US$ 990 FF 170 US$ stage / tutorial at St.Cloud 290 FF 50 US$ 350. tel: (33-1) 47.71.91.11 (ext. 337-339) From: GURT@GUVAX.BITNET Subject: GURT 1994 Program Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 20:24:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 497 (915) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 March 13-16, 1994 Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence Sunday, March 13, 1994 Plenary Session - Gaston Hall Opening Remarks: James E. Alatis, Chair Dean, School of Languages and Linguistics The Speaking Tree: A Medium of Plural Canons Braj Kachru, University of Illinois Beyond a Culture of Critique: The Framing and Reframing of Academic Discourse Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University Monday, March 14, 1994 Morning Concurrent Sessions (additional speakers to be announced) Gaston Hall Teaching Learning Strategies and Cross-Culturalism in the Language Classroom Rebecca Oxford, University of Alabama Towards an Action-Oriented Syllabus Zhuang Gen-Yuan, Hangzhou University (China) ICC Auditorium The Use of Language Testing for Power and Control Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University Plenary Session - Gaston Hall Beginnings of Language Testing as a Profession Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Afternoon Concurrent Sessions Gaston Hall: Political Implications Language Choices for West Africa in the Global Village Jerry Cline-Bailey, Xavier University (Cincinnati) Politics, Language Policy, and Textbook Construction: A Case Study Joan Morley, University of Michigan Retooling for Communication: Hungary Reorients its FL Teaching Katalin Nyikos, Georgetown University ICC Auditorium: Pragmatics Politeness Across Cultures: Implications for Second-Language Teaching Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan (Nigeria) What Do "Yes" and "No" Really Mean in Chinese? Yu-Hwei Lii-Shih, National Taiwan University Culture, Discourse, and Choice of Structure Ren Shaozeng, Hangzhou University (China) Plenary Session - Gaston Hall Teaching Global Interdependence as a Subversive Activity Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University Tuesday, March 15, 1994 Morning Concurrent Sessions (additional speakers to be announced) ICC Auditorium: Computers Locating Contingency in E-Mail Celeste Kinginger, University of Maryland Computer-Based Classrooms for Language Teaching Stephanie J. Stauffer, Georgetown University Plenary Session - Gaston Hall Organized Babel: English as a Global Lingua Franca Tom McArthur, Oxford University Afternoon Concurrent Sessions Gaston Hall: Native Speakers The Fiction of the Native Speaker in L2 Research Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois Cross-Cultural Communication and Comparative Terminology Faina Citkina, Uzhgorod State University (Ukraine) French Native-Speaker Use of the Subjunctive in Speech and Writing Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago ICC Auditorium: Language Education Educational Linguistics and the Knowledge Base of Second-Language Teaching Donald Freeman, School for International Training Educational Linguistics: Field and Project Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies The Language Educator at Work Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania Plenary Session - Gaston Hall The Pleasure Hypothesis Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California Wednesday, March 16, 1994 Morning Concurrent Sessions (additional speakers to be announced) Gaston Hall: Curriculum A Model for Learning-Strategy Instruction in the Foreign-Language Classroom Anna Uhl Chamot, Georgetown University Educational Linguistics and Coherent Curriculum Development: The Crucial Link Ronald Leow, Georgetown University ICC Auditorium: Bilingualism An Alternative to Mainstream Educational Discourse: Expecting, Tolerating, Respecting, and Celebrating Diversity Rebecca Freeman, University of Pennsylvania Educational Linguistics: Looking to the East Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore Plenary Session - Gaston Hall Sources of Language Teachers' Instructional Decisions Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Closing Remarks: James E. Alatis, Chair Dean, School of Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Registration form. Please send this form and your check (payable to Georgetown University) to: Joan C. Cook, Coordinator, GURT 1994, School of Languages and Linguistics, 303 Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057-1067, USA. Registration forms must be postmarked no later than February 21, 1994. After the deadline, add $10.00 to the fee. So that the University may provide reasonable accommodations, we ask that you notify the GURT 1994 Coordinator of any disability as soon as possible. Because of the need to schedule sign language interpreters in advance, please request interpreters no later than February 28. Any information you provide will be treated confidentially. Name (to appear on badge): ____________________________________ Professional Affiliation: _____________________________________ Mailing address: ______________________________________________ City: __________________________ State/Prov.: _________________ Postal code: ___________________ Country: _____________________ Please circle the category for which you are registering: Full conference (including presessions) Professional $100.00 Students $ 50.00 Retired $ 50.00 G.U. Students $ 10.00* G.U. Faculty/Staff waived *Waived for 5 hours or more of volunteer work Presessions only $ 20.00 Sunday or Wednesday only $ 40.00 Monday or Tuesday only $ 55.00 For more information, please contact Joan C. Cook, Coordinator, GURT 1994 Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics 303 Intercultural Center, Washington, DC 20057-1067 e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet or gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-5712 From: BORASCHI@ALF.LET.UVA.NL Subject: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 10:38 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 600 (916) Dear colleagues, I am working at the Italian Departement of the University of Amsterdam. Here we are developing a project consisting of a databank of the Italian langu- age. Within this work, we are compiling a special kind of bilingual dictionary Italian - Dutch, which we would like to automatically turn - for some aspects - to the Dutch side. Is there someone who was already concerned with this kind of problem, or someone who has some texts or idea to suggest me ? I'll be very grateful to you. Paolo Boraschi Universiteit van Amsterdam Italiaans Seminarium - Room 415 Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam - The Netherlands Tel.: ++31 2 5253903 Fax : ++31 2 5253052 From: Barbara Diederichs <bdiederi@artsci.wustl.edu> Subject: Literary Computing discussion group? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 1994 13:59:56 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 601 (917) I am working on my Ph.D. thesis about a contemporary German novel ("The Loser" by Thomas Bernhard), trying to compare it to Bach's "Goldberg Variations" on the basis of its structure. I am analyzing the vocabulary, semantic fields, phonetical and narrative structures using quantitative methods. Around St. Louis, I don't know anybody who is working on anything even close to that, but maybe there is a "humanist" or even an already existing discussion group that is dealing with literary computing specifically, giving each other feedback about projects and ideas etc.?! Please write to Barbara Diederichs 6633 Washington Ave. St. Louis, MO 63130 Tel. (314) 725-1944 e-mail: bdiederi@artsci.wustl.edu From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Arabia Odorifera Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 07:26:53 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 602 (918) Herodotus is the earliest source I know of to describe the famous perfumes of Arabia; but then I'm no classicist. Does anyone know who originated the term "Arabia Odorifera" to describe this area of the world, or in what context it became standard? Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Teaching Surrealism Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 07:22:20 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 603 (919) Although I've never taught a course covering surrealism, I did some work on the subject in the early 70s, when the lyrics of "psychedelic" rock provided a convenient entry point for the subject. I think today's students could probably quickly perceive the links between classic surrealism and the visual imagery in many of today's more imaginative rock videos. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: OCR for Ancient Greek Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 21:37:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 604 (920) I have trained an old Kurzweil 4000 to do Ancient Greek, and it did a good job. You have to train for each font, of course, and it would probably be better to use some trainable modern software, e.g. Caere's OmniPage Pro, which has a really quite simple training program. For proofreading ancient Greek, WordPerfect's Greek Language Module is quite serviceable. The old Kurzweil 4000 and the German Optopus can be trained to read almost anything, including Chinese, if you have time enough. I have a Kurzweil Discover, and I have been told that the company/ies involved offer trainable software, but I have been unable to obtain it. It is a great machine, since it is self-contained to a great extent, but without being trainable it is of limited use. Nothing comes easy. Jim Marchand. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: ancient Greek OCR Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 21:43:34 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 605 (921) I forgot to mention about ancient Greek. Maybe you wouldn't want to have it read accents and breathing, or maybe you ought to consider the problems this entails. I had a colleague who recently wanted to use eilikrineia in a talk, and I could not tell him whether it had a rough breathing or not, since only we moderns put those in and it depends in this case on the "etymology". Or take the case of the Stoic word lekton. It makes all the difference in the world whether you put the accent on the first syllable, le/kton "that which is/was, etc. said" or on the second, lekto/n, translated by St. Augustine and Cicero as "dicibile" (the sayable). The same can be said for long marks and the like in editions of medieval manuscripts, since these are inserted by (often ignorant) modern editors. Nemo sine crimine. Jim Marchand. From: Peter Wei He <PETERHE@ALBNYVMS.BITNET> Subject: Job Vacancy - Humanities Bibliographer Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 16:13:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 499 (922) ************************************************* Vacancy Notice POSITION: Humanities Bibliographer RESPONSIBILITIES: Evaluates and develops subject collections in the humanities, monitoring allocated funds, continuing commitments and approval plans. Serves as liaison to faculty and students in departments of Classics, German, English, Philosophy, Art, Music, and Judaic Studies, providing in-depth bibliographic instruction, assistance in use of electronic sources, and specialized reference for them. Also provides general reference services during assigned hours, including some evenings and weekends. Reports to Assistant Director for Collection Development. Research, publication and service to the Libraries and University are expected to satisfy criteria for continuing appointment and promotion. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: MLS from an ALA accredited library school. Masters degree in English, German, or Philosophy or a minimum of three years' experience as a Humanities Librarian at an academic/research library. Reading knowledge of German. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated experience in use of electronic resources. SALARY: Commensurate with education and experience. Minimum $30,000.00. TERMS & BENEFITS: Twelve month appointment; sick leave and annual leave @ 1.25 days each per month; health insurance, major medical or Health Maintenance Organization and dental. Social Security coverage. TIAA/CREF or New York State Teachers Retirement available (employee contribution rate = 3%). CAMPUS & COMMUNITY: The University at Albany is one of four university centers in State University of New York system. It is a comprehensive University serving a student body of over 11,000 undergraduate and 5,000 graduate students in 45 academic departments. The university is committed to providing quality education to a diverse student body and is actively engaged in the recruitment and retention of minority and non-traditional students. Approximately 18% of undergraduates are Latin or African American. The Albany area provides a wide range of cultural and recreational opportunities. The University is located in New York's capital city, 150 miles north of New York City, 150 miles west of Boston. The tri-city metropolitan area (Albany-Schenectady-Troy) has a population of approximately 850,000. APPLY TO: Christine M. Travis Library Personnel Officer University Libraries - UL 139 University at Albany State University of New York 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12222 DEADLINE: Review of letters of application and resumes will begin February 28, 1994. Please include the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references whom we can contact. THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN, MINORITY PERSONS, HANDICAPPED PERSONS, SPECIAL DISABLED AND VIETNAM ERA VETERANS ARE ESPECIALLY WELCOME. From: GURT@GUVAX.BITNET Subject: GURT '94 Presessions Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 11:38:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 500 (923) Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 March 13-16, 1994 Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence PRESESSIONS The presessions will be held in the Intercultural Center. Please contact the individual organizers for more information. Friday, March 11, 1994 Arabic Dialect Teaching Workshop Karin Ryding, Ph.D., and Margaret Nydell, co-organizers Department of Arabic Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1082 202/687-5646 or rydingk@guvm.bitnet Community Interpreting Margareta Bowen, Ph.D., and Monika Gehrke, co-organizers Division of Interpretation and Translation Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0993 202/687-5848 History of Linguistics Kurt Jankowsky, Ph.D., organizer Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5812 or jankowsky@guvax.georgetown.edu Hypermedia Environments Open House Jackie Tanner, organizer Language Learning Technology Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0984 202/687-5766 or jtanner@guvax.georgetown.edu Issues in Slavic Linguistics (Part 1) Cynthia Vakareliyska, Ph.D., organizer Department of Russian Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0990 202/687-6108 Issues in Teaching ASL as a Second Language Jeff Connor-Linton, Ph.D., Ceil Lucas, Ph.D., and Clayton Valli, Ph.D., co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-6156 or clucas@gallua.bitnet ASL Pragmatics Catherine Ball, Ph.D., and Clare Wolfowitz, Ph.D., co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5949 or cball@guvax.georgetown.edu Saturday, March 12, 1994 African Linguistics V (morning) Rev. Solomon Sara, S.J., organizer Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5956 or ssara@guvax.georgetown.edu Colloquium on Academic Listening Across Language-Culture Areas Abelle Mason, organizer Department of English as a Foreign Language Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1083 202/687-5978 Issues in Greek Linguistics James E. Alatis, Ph.D., and Pavlos Pavlou, co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5956 or pavlos@guvax.georgetown.edu Issues in Slavic Linguistics (Part 2) Cynthia Vakareliyska, Ph.D., organizer Department of Russian Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0990 202/687-6108 Problems in Portuguese Linguistics Clea Rameh, Ph.D., organizer Department of Portuguese Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-0991 202/687-6120 Sunday, March 13, 1994 Special Student Session Discourse Analysis: Works in Progress Elif Tolga Rosenfeld and Scott Kiesling, co-organizers Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-5956 or rosenfeld@guvax.georgetown.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Registration form. Please send this form and your check (payable to Georgetown University) to: Joan C. Cook, Coordinator, GURT 1994, School of Languages and Linguistics, 303 Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057-1067, USA. So that the University may provide reasonable accommodations, we ask that you notify the GURT 1994 Coordinator of any disability as soon as possible. Because of the need to schedule sign language interpreters in advance, please request interpreters no later than February 28. Any information you provide will be treated confidentially. Name (to appear on badge): ____________________________________ Professional Affiliation: _____________________________________ Mailing address: ______________________________________________ City: __________________________ State/Prov.: _________________ Postal code: ___________________ Country: _____________________ Please circle the category for which you are registering: Full conference (including presessions) Professional $100.00 Students $ 50.00 Retired $ 50.00 G.U. Students $ 10.00* G.U. Faculty/Staff waived *Waived for 5 hours or more of volunteer work Presessions only $ 20.00 Sunday or Wednesday only $ 40.00 Monday or Tuesday only $ 55.00 For more information on the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, please contact Joan C. Cook, Coordinator, GURT 1994 Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics 303 Intercultural Center, Washington, DC 20057-1067 e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet or gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-5712 From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Delivering a book to Kiev Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 15:22:33 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 606 (924) In the past Humanist members have helped me deliver materials to Chernobyl poet and victim Lyubov Sirota in Kiev. I need help once again to have a copy of a book containing her poetry hand-delivered to her. Is anyone going soon that would be willing to carry this substantial volume (about the size of a moderate Stephen King novel, hardbound) to her. She has been waiting for well over a year, and an earlier attempt ended with the volume going astray before it reached her. She is a very interesting person, speaks some English, works in the documentary film industry, and is still battling the aftereffects of the fallout she received from the Chernobyl explosion. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: petersen@epas.utoronto.ca (Eric Petersen) Subject: no subject (file transmission) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 02:04:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 607 (925) All queries should be sent directly to me (petersen@epas.utornto.ca) or better yet to Carrie Hintz (chintz@epas.utoronto.ca) THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY OF LITERARY TERMS [chintz@epas.utoronto.ca] ATTENTION critics, scholars, writers, paragons of wit! Does the current crop of literary glossaries, encyclopedias, and indices make your eyes glaze over? Have you ever suppressed a sneer at a particular school of criticism, a baffling exemplum of Lit. Crit. jargon, or even at the entire discipline of literary studies? Do you agree that the most entertaining academic disagreements should no longer be relegated to the letters columns of book review journals? If so, take heed: you can finally do something about it! The editors of THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY OF LITERARY TERMS have conspired to provide a public forum for the critical disgruntlement which until now has been suppressed in the name of scholarly propriety. Those other dictionaries have no sense of the inherent absurdity of the academic study of literature, and therefore don't allow for the scornful repartee and whimsical commentary which will characterize our dictionary. You are invited to send us as many original definitions as you wish. Choose a term, a theoretical approach, or a literary personage, and let loose a volley of your most scintillating wit. Be assured that others will be merrily attacking the literary theories YOU hold most dear. The completed DICTIONARY will be a compendium of bemused reflections, pointed critiques and satiric reformulations. Each definition will have a by-line to identify its author. Don't miss the chance to add your voice to the most heteroglossic glossary ever! Anything goes, style-wise. Here are a few sample definitions, but don't feel obligated to imitate their format: Allegoresis: A text-specific form of paranoia, in which the patient appears to find a rigid structure of meaning beneath the "surface" of the text. Baudrillardian: Someone who may not believe in Santa Claus but certainly believes in the omnipresence of Disneyland. Irony: A conjuring. The true ironist is not the speaker but the perceiver, who insists on pulling something out of nothing's hat. MLA: Hypercarnivalesque. Attendees display a remarkable disseverment of the link between the upper, reasoning portion of the body and the "material bodily lower stratum". Sexuality is the only topic of discussion here, yet actual sex is regarded as affrontery. Job interviews are conducted in hotel rooms which lack beds. Nothing: That thing about which everything can be said without fear of censure, since even the most outrageous statements about it will still come to naught. Romanticism: A term ingeniously devised by literary historians to describe a movement composed of writers and artists who, if they were alive today, would immediately and without hesitation dissociate themselves from each other. ************************************************************************ Send your submissions to: chintz@epas.utoronto.ca Or send with a SASE to: The Editors, The Devil's Dictionary of Literary Terms 252 Westmoreland Avenue Toronto, Ontario Canada M6H 3A4 You will be notified when our editorial decisions have been made. Feel free to forward this call for submissions to anyone who might be interested. Please do not change the text of this announcement. The Devil's Dictionary of Literary Terms (Copyright 1994 Warren Cariou and Carrie Hintz) From: bmr@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Bryn Mawr Reviews) Subject: BMR 94.2.16, J. Solomon, ed., Accessing Antiquity Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 17:33:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 502 (926) Jon Solomon, ed. *Accessing Antiquity: The Computerization of Classical Studies*. Tucson and London: The University of Arizona Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 188. ISBN 0-8165-1390-2. Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell -- University of Pennsylvania The powers of memory are vastly over-rated. It is now eleven years since I bought a computer, nine years since TLG announced its CD, four years since I found the Internet, and I simply cannot remember how we ever lived without these tools. What dark hovels did we dwell in? What vast caverns of ignorance did we patrol in search of elusive scraps of information that now leap to our call and dance in serried ranks before us? And with feebleness of memory comes lack of prophetic vision as well. The transformation of our worlds by information technology that looms before us beggars all description, but the most timid ventures in projection are chided as unrealistic. Thought-experiments help: imagine the transformation of the world that this year's new *emeriti* have seen in their lifetimes, from Coolidge to Clinton, and then imagine the *acceleration* of that rate of change that we now see extrapolated however conservatively you wish. Look carefully at the next blue-haired nose-pierced fresher who comes into your office and think that she could retire from a classics department somewhere (if classics departments still there be) around the time the ENIAC computer becomes the first hundred-year old computer anywhere. So how do we make sense of where we are? This volume stakets out a precise piece of territory and does a good job. It contains reports from the field from all the major American projects applying information technology to datasets from classical antiquity. There are natural delays in publication (at one point I noticed a future tense speaking of something that would happen in 1990), but all the projects are still very much in business and on course. So Ted Brunner writes with abundant detail of the outer history of the TLG project and its relations with the American Philological Association (APA), and includes a survey of APA- related activities in a wide range of computer projects. (There is a separate inner history of TLG which is not here.) Brunner's colleague Luci Berkowitz has very little to say about computers at all, but her piece is important nonetheless: it is an account of the history, travails, and bibliographical adventures of that part of the TLG operation that set out to define and identify the extant corpus of Greek literature to be added to the database. You would think that we knew c. 1970 what there was of Greek literature to know: but it is astonishing to see how scrappy and haphazard were our bibliographical resources. The Berkowitz- edited Canon makes a quantum leap past what any other reference source has ever been able to do. Further articles outline other projects. John Oates writes of the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri, Jocelyn Penny Small of the computer index for the *Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae*, Carolyn Koehler and Philippa Matheson of the AMPHORAS project registering tens of thousands of Greek wine-jars, Dee Clayman writes of the project to produce an electronic version of *L'Annee Philologique*, and a group of authors who are well accustomed by now to hearing of themselves as the "Perseus Gang" outline the history of that project. A final essay by the polymath Jay David Bolter is in quite a different vein, discussing the theory and practice of the classicist's traditional commentary and arguing that it already provides a model for hypertextual access to information, one readily (more or less) transferrable to the new information environment. Bolter's article is the least well-assorted with the others, addressing the substance of things we might do with the data rather than describing ways of creating useful sets of them; his books, notably *Writing Space*, have done similar things in similar ways. There are several audiences for this work. The most important, perhaps, is posterity. This will be an extremely valuable record, written by the people in the best position to know, of where we came from and where we had gotten to by 1990. The next audience will be individuals interested in humanities computing outside classics who want to be briefed about what the Greeks and Romans and the students thereof are up to. Among classicists, the primary audience will be those who are already a little bit smitten and eager to know more, while patient to sit through discussions of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). For the approach is not proselytic but homiletic, preaching to the choir or at least the congregation already in the church. The subtitle alone will have an apotropaic effect on those idling in the street outside wondering whether to come in. Indeed, in two ways, this book is the last gasp of a phase of classical scholarship that is now past. It belongs to the period when "computerization" was something that the few did and the many admired. There is hardly a mention anywhere here of network access to information resources, for indeed it is just since 1990 that this possibility has suddenly opened up for serious scholars. We ought to begin phasing out the word "computer" as anything except a neutral descriptor for the glowing boxes that we use for our work. This is no longer a business for hobbyists or specialists. Rather, the combination of computers and the wires and fibers linking them has created what should already be seen as a new environment within which we *must* work if we are to be taken seriously and (more importantly) one in which our traditional expertise as manipulators of words and images becomes the most important relevant skill. "Computer" skills per se fade in importance. In this light, the Berkowitz piece in this volume is in a way the most important precisely for the way it shows the enhancement and transformation of traditional forms of scholarly activity by the mere fact of assuming an electronic environment. Soon enough we will tire of showing off all the neat tricks our gadgets can do and discover that what we do with them will be judged by the same standards that have been used for our books and articles in the past. But at the same time, all will be changed, changed utterly . . . *****END***** From: sabourco@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Sabourin Conrad) Subject: New Books : Linguistics and Computers : Bibliographies Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 18:53:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 503 (927) Following our message of many months ago concerning our bibliographies we have received more than 200 responses containing information, suggestions, and inquiries on the availability of the material. The list that follows should answer most of the inquiries. Other inquiries necessitating specific answers will receive a response shortly. Conrad F. Sabourin sabourco@ere.umontreal.ca ************************************************************************** Infolingua Bibliographical Series in Linguistics - Informatics - Communications LITERARY COMPUTING : Style Analysis, Author Identification, Text Collation, Literary Criticism : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 581p ISBN=2-921173-12-3 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 4060, style analysis = 700, author identification = 340, text collation = 220, literary concordances and indexes = 840, fiction = 670, poetry = 670, theatre = 200, bible/tora/quran = 500, theme analysis = 100, creative text generation = 140, etc. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE TEACHING : Teaching Vocabulary, Grammar, Spelling, Writing, Composition, Listening, Speaking, Translation, Foreign Languages ; Text Composition Aids, Error Detection and Correction, Readability Analysis : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN and Elca TARRAB 1994, 2 volumes, 1066p, ISBN=2-921173-13-1,2-921173-14-X prepaid US$ 150 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 8010, teaching orthography = 130, writing = 1500, composition = 770, grammar = 430, listening/comprehension = 150, reading = 830, speaking = 200, vocabulary = 250, keyboarding = 60, foreign languages = 1900 ; lexical/grammatical error detection/correction = 500, text composition support = 440, etc. COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION : Computer Conferencing, Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Computer Interviewing, Interactive Text Reading, Group Decision Support Systems, Idea Generation Support Systems, Human-Machine Communication, Multi-Media Communication, Hypertext, Hypermedia, Linguistic Games : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 2 volumes, 862p, ISBN=2-921173-15-8,2-921173-16-6 prepaid US$ 130 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 5680, hypertext = 1500, hypermedia = 440, computer conferencing = 550, electronic mail = 400, electronic publishing = 370, multimodal communication = 100, human-machine communication = 960, computer interviewing = 100, etc. ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING : Document Editing, Formatting, Typesetting, Coding, Storing, Interchanging, Managing : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 551p, ISBN=2-921173-17-4 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 4260, document editing = 2400, formatting = 140, typesetting = 540, coding/mark-up = 420, interchanging 170, management = 260, etc. COMPUTATIONAL CHARACTER PROCESSING : Character Coding, Input, Output, Synthesis, Ordering, Conversion ; Text Compression, Encryption, Display ; Hashing ; Literate Programming : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 580p, ISBN=2-921173-18-2 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 4120, character coding = 550, input = 900, output = 260, conversion = 360 ; text compression = 240, hashing = 110, etc. QUANTITATIVE AND STATISTICAL LINGUISTICS : Frequencies of Characters, Phonemes, Words, Grammatical Categories, Syntactic Structures ; Lexical Richness, Word Collocations, Entropy, Word Length, Sentence Length : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 508p, ISBN=2-921173-19-0 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 3100, frequencies of characters = 60, phonemes = 90, words = 640, grammatical categories = 90, grammatical features = 250 ; lexical richness = 100, word collocations = 230, entropy = 150, word length = 70, sentence length = 90, etc. MATHEMATICAL AND FORMAL LINGUISTICS : Grammar Formalisms, Grammar Testing, Logics, Quantifiers : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 612p, ISBN=2-921173-20-4 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 3840, formal linguistics = 1470, mathematical linguistics = 1910, grammar formalism = 480, grammar testing = 90, logic = 820, quantifiers = 300, etc. COMPUTATIONAL SPEECH PROCESSING : Speech Analysis, Recognition, Understanding, Compression, Transmission, Coding, Synthesis ; Text to Speech Systems, Speech to Tactile Displays, Speaker Identification, Prosody Processing : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 2 volumes, 1187p, ISBN=2-921173-21-2,2-921173-22-0 prepaid US$ 150 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 8290, speech analysis = 1110, speech recognition = 2600, speech understanding = 600, speech coding = 560, speech synthesis = 1500, text-to-speech = 560, speaker identification = 290, prosody processing = 600, etc. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE : Information Retrieval (Full-Text or Conceptual), Automatic Indexing, Text Abstraction, Content Analysis, Information Extraction, Query Languages : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 2 volumes, 1047p, ISBN=2-921173-23-9,2-921173-24-7 prepaid US$ 150 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 6390, information retrieval = 2100, full-text = 890, conceptual = 60 ; automatic indexing = 930, text abstraction = 270, content analysis = 530, information extraction = 520, etc. OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION AND DOCUMENT SEGMENTATION : Character Preprocessing, Thinning, Isolation, Segmentation, Feature Extraction ; Cursive and Multi-Font Recognition, Writer/Scriptor Identification : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 512p, ISBN=2-921173-25-5 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 3700, recognition of cursive characters = 910, hand printed characters = 490, printed characters = 390, multi-font characters = 140 ; on-line recognition = 170, writer identification = 330, document segmentation = 320, etc. COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY : Morphological Analysis and Generation, Lemmatization : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 492p, ISBN=2-921173-01-8 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 2350, morphological analysis = 1300, morphological generation = 290, lemmatization = 260, etc. COMPUTATIONAL PARSING : Syntactic Analysis, Semantic Analysis, Semantic Interpretation, Parsing Algorithms, Parsing Strategies : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 2 volumes, 1029p, ISBN=2-921173-02-6,2-921173-03-4 prepaid US$ 150 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 5180, syntactic analysis = 1110, semantic analysis = 710, semantic interpretation = 260, parsing algorithm = 200, parsing strategies = 70, etc. COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY : Dictionaries, Thesauri, Term Banks ; Analysis, Transfer and Generation Dictionaries ; Machine Readable Dictionaries ; Lexical Semantics ; Lexicon Grammars : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 2 volumes, 1031p, ISBN=2-921173-04-2,2-921173-05-0 prepaid US$ 150 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 5910, dictionaries (production) = 1380, thesauri = 680, term banks = 680, analysis dictionaries = 1230, transfer dictionaries = 140, generation dictionaries = 60, lexical database/machine readable dictionaries = 550, lexical semantics = 780, lexicon grammar = 110, etc. COMPUTATIONAL TEXT UNDERSTANDING : Natural Language Programming, Argument Analysis : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 657p, ISBN=2-921173-06-9 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 3830, natural language programming = 110, argument analysis = 80, etc. COMPUTATIONAL TEXT GENERATION : Generation from Data or Linguistic Structure, Text Planning, Sentence Generation, Explanation Generation : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN with a survey article by Mark T. Maybury 1994, 649p, ISBN=2-921173-07-7 prepaid US$ 80 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 2870, text generation from data = 1060, text generation from structure = 730, text planning = 180, sentence generation = 310, explanation generation = 330, etc. NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES : Interfaces to Databases, to Expert Systems, to Robots, to Operating Systems, and to Question-Answering Systems : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN 1994, 2 volumes, 847p, ISBN=2-921173-08-5,2-921173-09-3 prepaid US$ 130 INFOLINGUA inc., P.O. Box 187 Snowdon, Montreal, Canada, H3X 3T4 Number of references : Total = 4100, interface to database = 1100, to expert system = 70, to question-answering system = 640, to robot = 70 ; conversation system = 300, etc. MACHINE TRANSLATION : Aids to Translation, Speech Translation : BIBLIOGRAPHY, by Conrad F. SABOURIN and Laurent R. 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Shipping date : March 28, 1994 and after ******************************************************************************* From: Michael_Kessler.Hum@mailgate.sfsu.edu Subject: [No Subject] Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 08:37:00 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 608 (928) Have you checked out Lexica by Microlytics and distributed by WordStar, at least in the U.S.? I believe that it contains a Dutch dictionary along with a French, Spanish, English and German one. It can be set up to work with a specified source and target language. It does not have Italian, but the company might be interested in including such a database in its options. Michael_Kessler@hum.sfsu.edu ---------------------- Replied Message Body ----------------------- Dear colleagues, I am working at the Italian Departement of the University of Amsterdam. Here we are developing a project consisting of a databank of the Italian langu- age. Within this work, we are compiling a special kind of bilingual dictionary Italian - Dutch, which we would like to automatically turn - for some aspects - to the Dutch side. Is there someone who was already concerned with this kind of problem, or someone who has some texts or idea to suggest me ? I'll be very grateful to you. Paolo Boraschi From: Glenn Everett <IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET> Subject: Re: 7.0489 R: Printer/Scanner/Fax (1/28) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 94 12:01:09 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 609 (929) [deleted quotation] (Sorry to reply directly to HUMANIST, but I could not make out your e-mail address.) I am interested in this last item; could you send the address, e-mail or us-mail, for Practical Peripherals? Thanks. Glenn Everett English Department University of Tennessee at Martin ivaa@utmartn.bitnet From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: The Plight of Higher Education in Israel (fwd) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 01:36:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 505 (930) At the request of my colleague at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Michael E. Stone, I am forwarding the following information to selected discussion groups. Cross posting and further circulation is encouraged -- and letters of support for our beleaguered colleagues! Bob Kraft, UPenn Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] elected. [deleted quotation] From: Daniel Traister <traister@pobox.upenn.edu> Subject: The Politics of Culture in the Cold War Era/Howard Fast exhibition Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 21:54:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 506 (931) The following announcement is being cross-posted to AMLIT-L, H-AMSTDY, HUMANIST, and ExLibris. Please excuse any duplication. It may be cross-posted without permission to other lists where it may be of interest. Symposium and Exhibit at Penn: March 23, 1994 On March 23rd, the University of Pennsylvania Library together with Penn's English and History Departments will host a symposium on "The Politics of Culture in the Cold War Era." The half-day event will bring to Penn a trio of noted scholars who, together with Penn faculty, will explore the political context of cultural production in a post-war America confronting a new adversary, the Soviet Union. Concentrating on litera- ture and popular culture, scholars will discuss some of the implications a new and more wary political climate had for writers and artists as well as for their audiences. What was written? what was produced? and what was written out? Which artists and what types of culture thrived and which did not during the 1950's? What happened to traditions of writing on the Left after the War? In addressing these and other questions, speakers will revisit the literary and artistic canons that emerged in the '50s, arguing the need for a thorough reappraisal of the culture of the period. The symposium marks the opening of a major new exhibit, "Being Read: The Career of Howard Fast." Based on the Fast archive in the University of Pennsylvania Library, the exhibit chronicles the turbulent career of one of America's most acclaimed writers who himself was profoundly affected by the political currents of his times. Best known for such historical novels as *Citizen Tom Paine*, *Freedom Road*, *April Morning*, and *Spartacus*, Fast is also the author of more recent best- sellers, notably the series of novels beginning with *The Immigrants* which relate the story of modern Jewish immigration to the United States. However, as recounted in his 1990 memoir, *Being Red*, Fast's career has been anything but conventional. A government servant working for the Office of War Information during the early days of World War II, foreign correspondent later in the War, political journalist, candidate for public office, and prisoner for his political beliefs in a federal penitentiary, Howard Fast has also been his own publisher when his politics made it difficult for him to publish with established houses. His career has been inextricably intertwined with the chilling political climate of the late 1940s and '50s. Mr. Fast will also participate in the symposium. Chaired by Penn historian Thomas Sugrue, the symposium features Barbara Foley of Rutgers University (Newark), who will speak on pre-war contexts of radical literature; Alan Wald of the University of Michigan, who will talk about writers on the Left during the 1950s; and Paul Buhle of the University of Rhode Island, who will explore forms and expressions of popular culture in the '50s. The symposium will conclude with a conver- sation with Howard Fast, led by Alan Filreis of Penn's English Department and Alan Wald. A reception will immediately follow the symposium, during which members of the audience will have a chance to view the exhibit and talk with the speakers and with Howard Fast. The symposium is being made possible by the Thomas S. Gates Fund. The program is on Wednesday, March 23rd, and runs from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Dietrich Reading Room on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. It is free and open to the public. Photo ID is required for admission to the Library. For more information, contact either Michael Ryan or Daniel Traister of the Library's Special Collections Department at 215 898 7088. From: David Potts <MFEPGDP@fs1.art.man.ac.uk> Subject: Mailing lists. Date: 21 Feb 94 16:35:17 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 507 (932) I have been compiling a list of Internet Resources for philosophers at the University of Manchester. The goal been to create a list of the best sources rather than try and list all possibles. What follows is the section on E-mail discussion lists. Further lists of Telnet, Gopher and Usenet sources will follow. Please help me to maintain this list by mailing me suggestions for lists to add or (if a list is under-used) delete. Remember I am after the GOOD sources that you actually use. Thanks to Ian Budden, Stephen Clark, Bruce Edmonds, Jim McNeil and Paul Rutherford. David Potts. E-Mail : MFEPGDP@FS1.ART.MAN.AC.UK Mailing Lists.(v1.0) To use a mailing list you must subscribe to it. 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Subscribe : E-mail : G.B.Keene@exeter.ac.uk Text : A note requesting subscription. From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedale@columbia.edu> Subject: E-reserves Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 9:32:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 610 (933) Two quick notes: -the arl-ereserve listserv is alive and well, but messages are in the queue waiting to be sent out. ARL is preparing an introductory message and plans on distributing the waiting messages some time this week. -I am in the process of preparing a more detailed summary of the LAMA SASS Circulation/Access Services midwinter discussion on electronic reserves. It should be posted this Friday. --Jeff Rosedale Columbia University Libraries From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: Used Books Available (fwd) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 22:37:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 611 (934) Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] [NOTE: the list is over 700 lines long]] From: wilcox@triton.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox) Subject: Call for Papers: ICLA Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 06:30 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 509 (935) 4th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference July 17- July 21, 1995, Albuquerque, New Mexico * Aims and Scope The International Cognitive Linguistics Conference offers a forum for research within the perspective of cognitive linguistics. This perspective subsumes a number of concerns and broadly compatible theoretical approaches that share a common basis: the idea that language is an integral part of cognition which reflects the interaction of cultural, psychological, communicative, and functional considerations, and which can only be understood in the context of a realistic view of conceptualization and mental processing. Topics of interest for cognitive linguistics include the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, metaphor, mental imagery, and cognitive models), the functional principles of linguistic organization (such as iconicity and naturalness), the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics, the experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use, and the relationship between language and thought. In addition, topics of special interest for the 1995 conference include cross-linguistic studies and cognitive linguistic approaches to signed language research. * Conference Site The 1995 conference will take place on the campus of the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque. Albuquerque lies between the foothills of the Sandia Mountains (with peaks of more than 10,000 feet) and the West Mesa (which is dotted with the cinder cones of long-extinct volcanoes); dividing the city is the winding Rio Grande valley, famous for its Bosque nature preserve. At an altitude of roughly 5000 feet, the university campus enjoys warm summer days and cool nights. Excursions to nearby pueblos, Santa Fe, and the Sandia Mountains are being planned. Also taking place at UNM during the summer of 1995 is the Linguistic Society of America's biennial Linguistic Institute. Under the direction of Joan Bybee, LI-95 will run for six weeks from late June to early August and will include over 50 courses taught by visiting faculty as well as special lectures. The conceptual structure for LI-95 applies cross-linguistic comparison and a functional orientation to the major areas of linguistics and the language emphases of the University of New Mexico program: signed languages, Spanish, and Native American languages. Several other conferences are planned to precede and follow the 1995 ICLA conference. * Submission of Abstracts Authors are requested to submit four copies of a one-page abstract in hardcopy format to the address below. Abstracts must be received before November 30, 1994. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by January 1, 1995. Sherman Wilcox/ICLA95 Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 From: JSOSNOS@uoft02.utoledo.edu Subject: TECHEVAL (please post) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 16:49:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 510 (936) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Colleagues: This message is to announce a new listserv entitled TECHEVAL which is an open forum for discussing the evaluation of computer related work in the humanities. Its address is: TECHEVAL@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU You may subscribe in the usual way. Send a message to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU You can leave the subject line blank. The message should read as follows: subscribe TECHEVAL your@email.address firsname lastname If you have any questions, send an e-msg to me JSOSNOSKI@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU One of the purposes for instituting this list is to collect information and points of view on the evaluation of computer related work in language and literary study for the Modern Language Association's Emerging Technologies Committee. jjs (Jim Sosnoski) From: feldweg@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (Helmut Feldweg) Subject: Wanted: book index software Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 10:21:06 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 612 (937) I am helping out with some technical advice on how to effectively create an index for a major two volume linguistic handbook. Automatic indexing is not an issue for this project since we are concerned about indexing quality and the book is not available for us in an easily tractable machine readable format. What I am looking for is some piece of software (preferably running on Macintoshes) that allows for quick and consistent entry of keywords per page. The sceanrio would be as follows: a) entries for the index will be marked intellectually/manually in the printed edition of the book. b) the marked entries will then be keyed into a computer. For the second step it would be very helpful to have some program that allows entry completion, so that it is no longer necessary to type a complete entry once that entry has been entered into the index. E.g., one types SY and the system completes to SYNTA since SYNTAX and SYNTACTIC are already in the index. Typing an additional X or C would then be sufficient for a disambiguation of the first word of the index entry etc. Such a procedure would not only speed up typing, what is more important is that it helps creating consistent index entries. Has anybody done this before? Does anybody know of software supporting this? Helmut Feldweg Seminar f"ur Sprachwissenschaft, Universit"at T"ubingen Wilhelmstr. 113, D-72074 T"ubingen, Germany Tel: +49 7071 294279 Fax: +49 7071 550520 E-mail: feldweg@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de From: Maurizio Lana <lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it> Subject: spanish texts on cd-rom? (q) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 16:48:24 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 613 (938) Does anyone know if any cd-rom of spanish texts exist? or some archive? This is a question I pose on behalf of a friend of mine, who must define which textual sources exist in machine readable form and particularly on cd-rom. Many thanks. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI - Universita' di Torino lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it fax: 39-11-8990458 From: hans@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: Study Break Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 09:50:00 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 512 (939) SUBJECT: Study Break I am sending the following message for Prof. Marcella Rollmann. Would you please reply to her E-Mail address below. Thank you. Hans Rollmann -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I am serving on a committee that is trying to find time in our short Canadian semester to offer the students a few more days of study time, either at mid-term or between the last day of classes and the first day of exams. To find out how other universities manage this, both Canadian and U.S., could you please post how your Fall 1993 semester looked. WHEN DID YOUR SEMESTER BEGIN AND END, WHEN DID EXAMS BEGIN AND END, AND WAS THERE A STUDY BREAK? Our lectures began September 7 and ended Friday, December 3 with exams beginning Monday December 6 and ending December 15. The only study break was the so-called mid-term break, which since we couple it with a holiday to make it longer does not really occur at mid-term but later. This break meant no lectures on November 10, 11, and 12. If you have the exact dates for Fall 1994 that would be helpful too. One reason our semester is so cramped is that we offer three full semesters: Fall (Sept.-Dec.), Winter (Jan. - April), and Spring (May - August). A different design with two longer semesters and a shorter summer session might be better. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks for all input. Please answer to my e-mail address below. Marcella Rollmann/Dept. of German/Memorial University of Newfoundland/marcella@morgan.ucs.mun.ca From: brpray@garnet.berkeley.edu (Bruce R. Pray) Subject: position at Berkeley Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 19:17:20 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 513 (940) ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW POSITION ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR BERKELEY LANGUAGE CENTER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY The University of California at Berkeley seeks an individual with a broad vision of the goals and methods of language pedagogy and the application of technology to foreign language learning for the new full-time staff position of Associate Director of the Berkeley Language Center, being developed in collaboration with language faculty and the Language Laboratory. This position (classified as Principal Administrative Analyst I), pending final approval by the University of California at Berkeley, will begin on July 1, 1994, or as soon thereafter as possible. The Berkeley Language Center (BLC) will serve as the central forum for service, development, teaching, and research relating to the application of technology to foreign language instruction, language pedagogy research and its dissemination, and professional development of language instructors. Resources include audiotape materials in 100 languages, audio- and video-equipped classrooms and listening facilities, a recording studio, an audiotape duplication facility, technical shop, library, audiotape archive, and a new language microcomputer facility. The Associate Director reports to the half-time faculty Director. He/she provides involved, hands-on management of the Berkeley Language Center and has overall administrative and managerial responsibility for BLC programs, activities, and resources-translating ideas and plans into practical applications and facilities. He/she manages the professional staff of the six service areas: administrative, classroom, duplication, library, recording and technical. The Associate Director consults proactively with BLC staff, language instructors, faculty, and administrators to determine and analyze needs, resources and goals; oversees the acquisition, evaluation, development, and utilization of courseware, equipment, and facilities; coordinates BLC programs with those of the growing number of units on campus concerned with technology and instruction. The Associate Director, in collaboration with the Director and independently, pursues intramural and extramural grants and contracts to expand and diversify the Center's programs and facilities; assists the Director in advocating new paradigms of language pedagogy and the potential for the application of technology to language instruction; keeps informed of advances and innovations in instructional technology and language pedagogy; oversees outreach and training activities in new methods and approaches to language teaching and in the use and utility of instructional technology. Qualifications: Management experience in an organization of similar size and complexity. Knowledge of foreign language pedagogy and familiarity with the applications of instructional technology to the teaching and learning of languages. Organizational, administrative, and communication skills. Experience working with equipment relevant to language learning/teaching; experience obtaining and administering grants and contracts; language teaching experience and/or competence in one or more languages other than English. Salary range: $40,400 - $60,600. Applicants should submit a cover letter, a complete resume, three letters of reference, copies of relevant publications, and samples of instructional materials which have been developed. Deadline for receipt of application and supporting materials is March 23, 1994. Address: University of California at Berkeley Job Number: 02-208-20 2200 University Avenue, 7G Berkeley, CA 94720. The University of California at Berkeley is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. END OF ANNOUNCEMENT Bruce R. Pray, Director Language Laboratory B-40 Dwinelle Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-1610 From: JSOSNOS@uoft02.utoledo.edu Subject: TECHEVAL: correction of syntax error Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 11:54:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 514 (941) In subscribing to the TECHEVAL list, send a message to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU You can leave the subject line blank. The message should read as follows: subscribe TECHEVAL firstname lastname Apologies for giving the syntax for the ADD command in my earlier message. jjs From: Charles.Hadley@cism.univ-lyon1.fr Subject: Typing S/W Date: 23 Feb 1994 05:55:47 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 614 (942) HELMUT FELDWEG writes, regarding indexing S/W: "...it would be very helpful to have some program that allows entry completion, so that it is no longer necessary to type a complete entry once that entry has been entered into the index. E.g., one types SY and the system completes to SYNTA since SYNTAX and SYNTACTIC are already in the index." _TypeIt4Me_, a Mac shareware program written by Riccardo Ettore, tho it is not indexing S/W, might be of use. It performs _almost _ exactly the task described: on typing SYX, for example, it could be configured to expand to SYNTAX, SYC might expand to SYNTACTIC. It is available on ftp sites, and registration ($30) brings the latest version. I use it constantly. Charles C. Hadley work: ! home: Faculte des Langues ! 39 rue Conde Universite Jean Moulin Lyon III ! 69002 Lyon, France 74 rue Pasteur ! telephone +33 78 92 82 14 69007 Lyon France ! From: Charles Faulhaber <cbf@athena.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0511 Qs: Book Index S/W; Spanish Texts on CD-ROM (2/5 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 21:39:59 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 615 (943) The Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Espan~oles (ADMYTE) has released two CD-ROMS to date. The first contains the transcriptions and digitized facsimiles of 45 incunabula and early 16th-c. printed books. The second contains 65 texts, both MS and printed, but without digitized images. However, it alsco contains machine-readable bibliographical data bases for medieval Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan literature, a program to assist in the preparation of critical editions of poetic tests, and a version of TACT designed to work with the texts included on both CD-ROMs. I can provide complete lists of the texts included. Both disks are available from: Micronet Maria Tubau, 4 Edificio Auge III - 6o 28050 - Madrid FAX 1 358 95 44 Please contact Micronet for prices Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-2107 cbf@athena.berkeley.edu From: bnielsen@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: Book indexing software Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 11:15:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 616 (944) In response to Helmut Feldweg's search for book indexing software, I would recommend a close look at a commercial product for DOS called "CINDEX". It is QUITE powerful and flexible for the kind of index you contemplate, though I don't recall specifically whether it handles the typing completion as you described. What it does offer is excellent views of the data-in-process, including ordering the data by page number for checking, providing for hierarchies of terms, and a number of other features. I believe this program is a re-write of something originally done on unix, though it's quite possible that the dos version has gone farther. My wife was a freelance back-of-the-book indexer for a number of publishers and found the program thoroughly satisfactory. Publisher is in Rochester, NY; I don't have the address here, but at home. Write back if you need. Brian Nielsen, Ph.D. Networked Resources Coordinator Instructional Technology Group Academic Computing & Network Services Northwestern University 2129 N. Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2850 phone: 708 491-2170 fax: 708 491-3824 internet:b-nielsen@nwu.edu From: Elaine Brennan <EDITORS@BROWNVM> Subject: ALLC-ACH '94 Local Arrangements Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 22:44:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 516 (945) I am attempting to get updated information on local arrangements for the ALLC-ACH conference to be held in Paris from April 19-23, 1994. As soon as I have more information, I will post it to Humanist. For those who have inquired, as far as I know there is no way to circumvent the request that registration fees be paid in francs. ELaine Elaine_Brennan@brown.edu From: kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft) Subject: OFFLINE 44 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 01:42:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 517 (946) ---------------------- <<O F F L I N E 4 4>> full version, coordinated by Robert Kraft [11 January 1994 draft, copyright Robert Kraft] [HUMANIST, IOUDAIOS, RELIGION, ELENCHUS, etc., 21 February 1994] [Religious Studies News 9.1 (February 1994)] [CSSR Bulletin 22.2 (April 1994)] [codes: <t>...</(t)> titles, <emph>...</> emphasis, <h>/<h1>/<h2>...</(h)> levels of headings.] ---------------------- April 1994 marks the tenth anniversary of OFFLINE, if the initial column "In Quest of Computer Literacy" is included in the series. With regard to the original aims of the column, much has changed in that decade, and much remains the same. The number of "literate" scholars has increased tremendously, and the requirements for "literacy" have changed significantly. Nevertheless, there is still a great need to provide information and encouragement concerning the use of computers in religious studies at a variety of levels. Relative newcomers still need basic orientation, while those further advanced look for ever expanding levels of information. Noone controls it all. As for myself, ten years at the helm is enough. If you have been alert with respect to recent columns you will have noted the overwhelming dependance on the Internet and its resources. That somewhat onesided emphasis has been born of necessity -- most of my electronic life is spent on the Internet, and that has become my primary source of relevant information. I have little time anymore to take a more balanced stance. Yet there is more, and readers of OFFLINE are entitled to know about it. Thus this seems an appropriate time to pass the responsibility for OFFLINE to new hands. At long last, formal steps are being taken to reshape the steering committee and explicit orientation of the (originally SBL) Computer Assisted Research Group (CARG) to represent both the AAR and SBL in all their various interests. An aspect of this restructuring effort involves finding effective ways to integrate OFFLINE as fully as possible with the reconceived CARG mission to provide information and guidance to the constituencies of the sponsoring scholarly societies. Discussions are underway to facilitate a smooth transition to a new coordinator of OFFLINE. I look forward to sharing with that person whatever experience and insights might be useful. On the whole (except for the deadlines!), I have enjoyed the decade of involvement in this endeavor. And I wish for my successor the same cooperation and good will I have experienced from all of you during that period. It has been greatly appreciated! Those wishing to contribute to the transition with suggestions or offers of more concrete support are invited to contact the RSN editor at bmackie@unix.cc.emory.edu (Beth Mackie, Editor; Religious Studies News; P. O. Box 15399; Atlanta, GA 30033-0399). The AAR and SBL executive offices will be working together with the CARG steering committee to chart the future of the group and of OFFLINE. Once again, this OFFLINE column is created from the world shaped by the Internet -- a world of discussion lists and their "servers," of gophers and WAIS, of WWW and Mosaic and all the rapidly evolving rest. In its early days, OFFLINE began a glossary of special terms used in the computing world. Many of the current "hot" terms are different from those, but the need for definitions still exists. Fortunately, there seem to be more guides (printed and electronic) available now to provide such information. And that is perhaps a good place to begin the solid part of this column. Then, after a long section on exploiting the Internet resources, attention will be given to some new software products of note, and finally to various issues and resources that emerge from the production and use of electronic data. Don't miss Jim Marchand's contribution to this final section, on inexpensive CD-ROM sources and on connecting various peripherals through your computer's parallel port! Thanks once again for sharing your experiences, Jim. In the printed form of OFFLINE 44, only a skeleton outline of some of the topics can be presented. Fuller details are available in the electronic version, which will also be archived (see the endnote to the column). ===== Table of Contents: OFFLINE 44 <h>Mapping the Internet</> Guides to Internet new topical Internet guides available Internet Guide to Book Discussions and Book Reviews Internet Advertising Mac Internet book Int Bus Journal Internet Business Journal Gopher <h>New Electronic Lists and Publications list of lists list of lang lists Public Dialup Access System Brittanica CD-ROM Public Accessible E-literature, e.g., Plotinus DScriptorium (Medieval Studies) Int philosophy preprint exch <h1>Archaeology</> a new list CAAL (ancient languages) archaeology WWW Announcing The Archaeological Data Archive Project ASOR eNewsletter <h1>Biblical and Jewish Studies ONLINE BIBLE (Mac) JewStJ french judaism-l <h>Software Developments</> bibliog software Mosaic for Mac AcCordance = Gramcord for Mac CELEX Ling Soft Announcing the release of the English version of Kleio <h>Working with Electronic Resources</> inexpensive CD-ROMs (Jim Marchand) using your parallel port for peripherals (Jim Marchand) corpus related resources foreign language etexts citing etexts Demotic coding concordance To retrieve the complete version of OFFLINE 44, telnet gopher.upenn.edu choose Penn gophers, ccat.sas choose Electronic Publications, OFFLINE From: Andre Salem Colloque ALLC-ACH <salem@ALLCH94.MSH-PARIS.FR> Subject: Rep : information Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 11:34:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 518 (947) As promised, here's the updated local information for the 1994 ALLC-ACH conference in Paris. I look forward to seeing many Humanists there. --Elaine ************************************************************* * Colloque international * * CONSENSUS EX MACHINA ? * * ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing * * ACH Association for Computers and the Humanities * * Paris - Sorbonne - 19-23 avril 1994 * ************************************************************* ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e de patronage Honorary committee ____________________________________________________________________ Jean-Pierre Poussou president de l'Universit/e de Paris 4 - Sorbonne et Etienne Brunet professeur a l'Universit/e de Nice Blanche-Noelle Grunig directrice adjointe, ENS Fontenay Saint-Cloud Georges Th. Guilbaud directeur d'etudes EHESS, Paris Jean-Louis Lebrave directeur scientifique au CNRS Robert Martin professeur a l'Universit/e de Paris 4 - Sorbonne Charles Muller professeur em/erite, Universit/e de Strasbourg Bernard Quemada directeur de recherches au CNRS ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e du programme Programme committee ____________________________________________________________________ Christian Delcourt Universit/e de Liege, president ALLC Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group ACH Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University ALLC Paul A. Fortier University of Manitoba ACH Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College ACH Suzan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton University ALLC Michael Neuman Georgetown University ACH Andr/e Salem ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud ALLC Antonio Zampolli Universita degli Studi di Pisa ALLC ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e d'organisation Organization committee ____________________________________________________________________ Andr/e Salem Organisateurs locaux / Local organizers Maurice Tournier CNRS / ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud Francoise Dougnac Anne-Marie Hetzel Camille Montaldo Pierre Muller Gabriel Peries Marie-France Piguet ____________________________________________________________________ Stage Tutorial Statistique Textuelle Use and Misuse ____________________________________________________________________ Deux stages sont prevus dans la semaine qui precede le colloque /Two Tutorials will take place in the week preceding the conference. Stage no / 1 (en francais) Statistique textuelle Initiation aux methodes de la Statistique textuelle et aux traitements lexicom/etriques sur micro-ordinateur. Ateliers. Tous publics. par A. Salem & M. Tournier Tutorial no / 2 (in English) Use and Misuse of Statistics in Literary and Linguistic Studies For an audience of philologists and linguists with some experience in quantification but no mathematical training. by Chr. Delcourt (Univ. de Liege) 14 & 15 avril 1994 a / at : Ecole normale sup/erieure de Lettres et Sciences humaines Saint-Cloud (pres de Paris / near Paris) ____________________________________________________________________ Droits d'inscription Registration fees ____________________________________________________________________ avant / before apres / after 1 / 2 / 1994 1 / 2 / 1994 membres ALLC /ACH members 580 FF 100 US$ 700 FF 120 US$ non membres / non members 870 FF 150 US$ 990 FF 170 US$ stage / tutorial at St.Cloud 290 FF 50 US$ 350 FF 60 US$ *** Important ***: Le reglement des droits d'inscription pour le col- loque et les stages doit etre adress/e aux organisateurs locaux par cheque personnel ou virement bancaire (pas de carte de cr/edit). *** Important ***: Registration fees for the conference and tutorials are to be sent to the local organizers by cheque or bank transfer. (credit cards are not accepted) ____________________________________________________________________ Hotellerie Accommodation ____________________________________________________________________ Les reservations d'hotel, l'excursion a Versailles et le diner (au S/enat) doivent etre r/egl/es, par carte bleue ou virement ban- caire a l'agence WAGONS-LITS TOURISME Hotel reservation, local excursion (Versailles) and dinner (at the Senate-house) are to be paid by visa card or bank transfer to the agency WAGONS-LITS TOURISME Departement CONGRES 50 rue de Londres 75008 Paris tel : (33-1) 44.90.33.10 fax: (33-1) 44.90.33.15 Approx rates (you will receive more information sending your fax number to the agency ) : hotel category 1/2** FF280/320 (US $52/60) 2** FF435/460 (US $81/86) 3*** FF570/760 (US $106/141) Youth hostel (no age limit) FF600 (US $111) 4 nights ____________________________________________________________________ Renseignements Information ____________________________________________________________________ Consensus ex machina ? ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud Grille d'honneur du Parc 92211 Saint-Cloud tel : (33-1) 47.71.91.11 (ext 337-339) fax: (33-1) 46.02.39.11 e-mail:salem@allch94.msh-paris.fr -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Fiche d'inscription -------------------------------Registration Form a envoyer a/ to be sent to -> CONSENSUS EX MACHINA ? ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud Grille d'honneur du Parc 92211 Saint-Cloud Cedex tel: (33-1) 47.71.91.11 (ext. 337-339) fax: (33-1) 46.02.39.11 e-mail: salem@allch94.msh-paris.fr -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nom / Surname : Pr/enom / Name : Membre / Member : ALLC yes/no ACH yes/no Universite / University : Adresse / Address : Ville / City : Pays / Country : Tel : : Fax : e-mail : Veuillez trouver ci-joint / please find enclosed : * cheque bancaire libell/e (en FF de preference) a l'ordre de / Cheque payable (in FFr if possible) to : Agent comptable. ENS Fontenay Saint-Cloud ou/or * copie de mon virement bancaire que j'adresse au compte / Copy of my bank transfer sent to the account : RGFIN Paris Nanterre TG - Compte no / 00044004322 Code Banque 40071 - Code Guichet 92000 - cle RIB 59 Agent comptable. ENS Fontenay Saint-Cloud Date : Signature : Envoyer une facture a / Invoice to be sent to : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage ou / or Tutorial <> J'aimerais assister au stage "Statistique Textuelle" <> I would like to attend the tutorial "Use and Misuse . . ." ****** Annulation --------------------------- Cancellation Avant le 20 mars / before March 20 : remboursement moins 60 FF pour frais de dossier / refund less 60 FFr (US$ 11) registration fees. Apres le 20 mars / after March 20 : aucun remboursement / no refund From: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca (Germaine Warkentin) Subject: CFP: De-centring the Renaissance Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 19:57:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 519 (948) PLEASE CROSS-POST TO RELEVANT LISTS: CALL FOR PAPERS: DE-CENTRING THE RENAISSANCE: Canada and Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective 1350-1700 On March 7 - 10, 1996, the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, will host an innovative conference bringing together the fields of Early Modern and Canadian Studies. The occasion is the 500th anniversary of Henry VI's grant of letters patent to the Italian explorer John Cabot on March 5, 1496. Cabot was given "full and free authority . . . to set up our aforesaid banners and ensigns in any town, city, castle, island or mainland whatsoever, newly found by them." Intellectually, those banners have flown for a long time. But the transformation in our concepts of discovery and exploration during the past decade has shown how unfruitful it is to confine the study of the "newly found" lands within traditional conceptual boundaries. This conference will challenge such boundaries even further by addressing the extent to which Canada, in the period roughly 1350-1700, was not merely an arena of European operations - - whether Renaissance, Reformation, or Early Modern -- but an authentic historical sphere interacting with forces and events from within and without. To do this will involve bringing together specialists from a variety of fields: students of Italian Humanism with those in Native North American studies, investigators of the Bristol trade with those studying Jesuit learning, economists working on French financial policy with students of Mohawk culture, of the lives of women and working people, of English courts from Henry VII to Charles II, of Huron land-use, and juxtaposing the work of researchers working on Basque and Portuguese fishing practices with those studying the life of aboriginal nations living far in the interior and in the north. The Organizing Committee will be looking for papers which are solidly based in ongoing research and at the same time framed in interdisciplinary ways which reflect this broad representation of fields. Format: The conference programme will include invited plenary sessions, sessions for which the papers will be circulated ahead of time, and "Work-in-Progress" sessions structured around a problem rather than presenting formal papers. We hope that confirmed acceptances can be issued by January, 1995. Proposals for Papers: proposals of 300 words maximum, accompanied by a one-page CV should be submitted by October 1, 1994 to the address below. Papers may be in English or in French. The Organizing Committee may ask to see completed papers before confirming acceptance. Note that papers will be circulated ahead of time and the Committee must therefore receive them in finished form by December 1, 1995. Proposals for sessions: A 500-word position paper outlining the purpose of the session should be submitted along with the CVs of chair and participants. Sessions may be in English or French, or in both languages. Organizing Committee: Germaine Warkentin, English, Victoria College, University of Toronto (Chair) Jennifer S. H. Brown, History, University of Winnipeg Jane Couchman, French Studies, Glendon College, York University, Toronto Deborah Doxtator, Graduate student, History, University of Western Ontario Franc,ois Pare`, Department of French, University of Guelph Krystyna Sieciechowicz, Anthropology/Canadian Studies, University College, University of Toronto Conference Sponsors: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto Canadian Studies Programme, University College, University of Toronto Rupert's Land Research Centre, University of Winnipeg Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Soci~Bt~B Canadienne d'Etudes de la Renaissance Please send proposals by October 1, 1994 to: Germaine Warkentin Victoria College University of Toronto Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7 Canada. E-mail: warkent@epas.utoronto.ca Fax: (416) 585-4584~Z From: Jeff Rosedale <rosedale@columbia.edu> Subject: midwinter report Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 17:56:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 520 (949) Here it is, hope you enjoy it; all subsequent postings on this topic from me will go to the arl-ereserve listserv which is now definitely in full swing. --Jeff _________________________________________________________________________ LAMA SASS Circulation and Access Services Discussion Group Meeting of February 6, 1994 in Los Angeles Summary prepared by Jeff Rosedale Susan Marks of the University of Iowa requested that a discussion on Electronic Reserves systems take place at the meeting. As a result, a panel was formed consisting of the following individuals: Jeff Rosedale, Columbia University Libraries (moderator) Duane Webster, Association of Research Libraries Don Bosseau, San Diego State University Kay Flowers, Rice University Paul Kobulnicky, University of Pittsburgh. I began the discussion with a brief overview of electronic reserves issues. In my role as a department head at Columbia, I have felt inclined to find alternatives to traditional reserves services due to pressures of staffing, workflow, and the vision of implementing the virtual library. The attitudes of vendors and permissions services in this process have been helpful, but ultimately they have been unable and/or unwilling to deliver the goods- so it's up to us as academic librarians to define and shape direct instructional support in the electronic environment. Doing so represents a challenge and also an opportunity in reshaping the expectations and behaviors of faculty. Doing so effectively means sharing experiences on our plans, visions, assumptions, and real-life experiences. Although there are some complex and unresolved questions of intellectual property and costs, work in planning, design and implementation continues. Duane Webster followed my introduction with a dynamic and inspiring presentation. ARL will sponsor a presentation entitled "Transforming the Reserve Function: Providing Instructional Support in an Electronic Age" at Duke University from June 2-4, 1994. This workshop will showcase existing solutions for electronic reserves that have been developed at Duke University, San Diego State University, and Rice University. It will be a hands-on workshop including case studies, demonstrations and discussions lead by experts in the field. Technical issues, copyright concerns, policy issues, campus partnerships and the larger context of instructional support will be addressed. This workshop is designed for institutions intending to implement some form of electronic instructional support by next fall- between five and ten out of the 100 attendees at the meeting indicated they are in such a position. For more information contact Diane Harvey at ARL, 21 Dupont Circle NW, Washington DC 20036 (or email diane@cni.org). Duane indicated that there might be another gathering planned for the institutions that are "just thinking about it". Duane spoke about the intellectual property issues directly. ARL is not advocating lawlessness or trying to provoke one or more publishers into litigation. The Library community has worked hard to establish the right of fair use and re-use of materials. Advancing the rights of fair use and special uses for libraries should be one of the goals of the Electronic Reserves initiative. We need to put systems into practice to determine what constitutes reasonable use. Lawyers should alert us to the potential risks of our system designs, but the values and goals of scholarly communication should not be sacrificed on the altar of risk avoidance. Duane also mentioned that ARL has teamed up with the National Association of College Stores because they share a common interest in supplying information to students. The aforementioned workshop is co-sponsored by NACS, and institutions wishing to participate are asked to invite a representative of their college store to join the librarians in the discussion. After Duane, Don Bosseau took the podium to relate some real-life experiences from the first practitioners in electronic reserves. Don began his talk by indicating that technology is not the issue in delivering electronic reserves, rather it is the campus politics and policy issues surrounding copyright that challenge the developers of such systems. He mentioned several opinions about the definition of the scanning and networking process involved in electronic reserves, including the view that the reformatting of documents into electronic form constitutes republication. The differences of opinion have limited the technological development of the access side of SDSU's system; efforts have gone towards the development of item-level tracking of the use of materials, and to establish an audit trail to assess and collect fees for use. Nonetheless SDSU is working on a second generation system which will represent great strides over the original, featuring UNIX compatibility and off-site access; it will be designed to be a turnkey system. To date, friendly advice from University counsel to "keep the University out of court" has limited the possibility of taking the technology as far as it can go. Nonetheless, the new system will represent the implementation of a service-driven agenda, not something technology-driven. The current system provides the equivalent of access to an unlimited number of "copies" of an item, since nothing is ever "off the shelf" or "checked out"; it is possible for a student to print out the entire semester's worth of readings for a class, in effect manufacturing his or her own "course pack". One unanticipated benefit of the system is that it is used to print up "replacements" for paper copies that had been lost, stolen or damaged. The system is based on bit-mapped images, which publishers find more acceptable since they are difficult to download or manipulate. In fact, SDSU does not allow downloading, but they have not had complaints about this. There is a charge for laser printing of the images. This represents some continuity with pre-electronic systems when as many as 85% of users used to take physical items directly to photocopiers. Interestingly, users are not allowed to sit at workstations and view entire readings on the screens. Just as interesting is the fact that no suggestions requesting that facility have been received. Don gave some valuable data about his experiences thus far: SDSU's experience is that a large number of items (50%) change from year to year in Reserves lists. Copyright permissions were obtained through the bookstore; 1059 permissions were required for a single semester. However, of the publishers contacted, only 1.8% asked for royalty payments. Over 4200 documents, representing over 50,000 pages had been scanned, and over 238,000 pages had been printed over the course of the last two semesters. The printing was roughly evenly split between copyrighted and non- copyrighted materials. Marketing of the electronic reserves system has not been undertaken due to the lack of resolution of the copyright issues. In summarizing his experiences, Don expressed the view that libraries and publishers should find common ground in providing networked electronic access to educational resources. There are currently millions of pages being photocopied with no commission for the publishers. 24 hour 7-day access should be possible on and off the main campus, and this kind of system could support distance education applications. The broad implications of these services merit a unified approach from the library community. The next speaker was Kay Flowers. She described a "small library" solution for electronic reserves, based on Virtual Notebook System (hereafter VNS) software. The service is networked via a file server for the reserves operation (a shared SUN workstation) which is probably inadequate for the long-term support of this service. Electronic Reserves at Rice was conceptualized as a part of the Electronic Studio project, which aimed at applying technology to instruction. Mosaic is under examination as a platform for X, Windows, and the Macintosh. "Notebooks" of materials are created from scanned articles and organized by class. Access is provided both within the library and elsewhere on campus. Whole books are not scanned as a part of this project; books continue to be circulated as a part of the reserves operation. Non-copyrighted articles or photocopies can be scanned with the permission of the author; with respect to copyrighted articles, royalties could be charged for the reformatting involved in the scanning process, and for each copy as well; alternatively, the scanned copy could be treated as a master, with free access to other "copies" for one semester. Royalty payments should be arranged if the use extends beyond one semester. Other variables include the interpretation of specific sections (language in sections 101 and 107 in particular), of the copyright law. Mary Brandt Jensen's article of last March does the most comprehensive job of explaining rights and obligations to date. It is generally agreed that image format is more parallel to traditional reserves uses, and thus to fair use rights, than is ASCII text. In Kay's experience, the utility of the Copyright Clearance Center for electronic services is currently limited to the production of anthologies; rights for electronic access to individual documents have not been negotiated. Access through the CCC means tracking use at the item level and paying royalties for all use. Monitoring of use has been added to the functionality of VNS. The VNS system is UNIX-based and runs best on an X-Windows interface. There is also a Macintosh version in production, and a Windows version in development. There may be problems in trying to provide access in a "least common denominator" form. Charging for copies is currently done through the use of debit cards; it is also possible to charge to an account over the network. This is desirable because it reduces money handling. Initially, the scanning resolution was set at 150 dpi (equivalent to a monochrome fax); this was found to be insufficiently clear, and the best way to ascertain the ideal resolution remains old fashioned trial and error. Optimal resolution is governed by the conflicting goals of maximizing legibility and minimizing file size. Other problems include the variation in screen resolution; the X-windows screen is 108 dpi, while the Macintosh is 72 dpi. A 150 dpi scan is about 1/3 larger on both sides than an X-terminal; on a Mac it's twice as big in both directions, or 4 times as big. This makes for a lot of scrolling around for some users. Photoshop software was used for the scanning. Enhancing and altering the images is possible but the time needed to do so makes the operation very expensive- there are a lot of potential tradeoffs in time/cost that could reduce the efficiency of this service overall. Security has been a concern, and access is currently governed by two layers of IDs and passwords. Class accounts are also possible but would reduce accountability and accuracy in tracking use. Evaluation of the service is to be based on accessibility, legibility and utility of the information in the system. This fall, the system will be used for 2-6 test classes; full implementation is hoped for by the fall of 1995. Finally, Paul Kobulnicky addressed the group. The University of Pittsburgh 's libraries are using an electronic course reserves system as the beginning of a learning process of distributing textual and graphic information over a campus network, and concurrently trying to improve reserve services. Local foundation support in the neighborhood of $250,000 serves as seed money for this process. The University library system is complex, including an autonomous law and medical library as well as four regional campuses. Student computing fees are used to generate capital funding for automation projects, and all of the various parties collaborate on planning. The development of electronic reserves is envisioned as a 2-year process, with a pilot in place by next fall. The ultimate goal is for open access to the University community even if a user is off-site. Searching will lead to the possibility of multiple forms of display and/or use, from "lowest common denominator" terminals to laser printing and FAX transmission. High-end display devices on campus will be utilized and client software will be available. The system will initially be image-based. Paul anticipated that momentum from user demand for such a system will fuel its development and will motivate faculty to get further involved. Paul's intention is that systems planning and copyright policy issues be addressed on two separate tracks that will converge in time and action. Reserves can and should evolve into a more effective vehicle of instructional support through the use of technology- including full-text reserves articles, textbooks, multi- and hypermedia. In a synergy session that Paul co-lead at a meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information last fall, the consensus was that assuming access to electronic information will be based on collecting royalties undermines the right of fair use. We can and should extend the rights of fair use (as expressed in the 1982 ALA guidelines) to electronic formats, differentiating access according to the type of information and/or user group. A sense of common practice in this area needs to be developed. Much of the work in dealing with copying of materials has been undertaken since the arrival of the photocopier. We should not have such difficulty devising rules for electronic copying. Effective planning for these services, and in fact the nature of electronic information itself, demands an opening to access across institutional boundaries. Planning for electronic reserves is not an endpoint, just a milestone. We need to avoid "legal free fall"- a situation in which there is too much uncertainty and change is happening too fast to codify. We should start by defining sets of principles to allow for restructuring of operational guidelines. Forerunners in this area include the Triangle Research Libraries Group and the AAU Intellectual Property task force. On the local level, Paul has created a local Pitt task force with broad constituency to develop intellectual property policy in the networked environment. The task force includes representation from the libraries, the faculty, the computer center, academic administration, legal counsel, the University Press, the bookstore and the law school. This is part of the process to educate the University community on the legal and ethical issues in instruction and learning. Paul believes that the scholarly information community can build on existing relationships with publishers in ways that include some accountability for the use of copyrighted information but that also recognizes the importance of fair use. In the brief question and answer period that followed these presentations, Don Bosseau mentioned that publishers are more likely to put time limits on access to materials in electronic form than they are to restrict access by user or ask for a fee. Duane announced the initiation of a new listserv dedicated to electronic reserves issues on the server operated by the Coalition for Networked Information. To subscribe, send a message to listproc@cni.org with the text: subscribe arl-ereserve <your name> I was struck by Duane's comment during the question and answer period to the effect that "experimentation will become practice, and practice will become policy". This is the ultimate Electronic Reserves wake-up call. With the attendance list now in hand, I can say that the following institutions had at least one attendee at this discussion: University of Arizona, UCLA, San Diego State University, University of Pittsburgh, Wheaton College, University of Iowa, Boston College, Florida International University, Loyola University, CSU Northridge, Stanford University, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, Washington University, University of Chicago, MIT, Colorado State University, Rice University, University of Michigan, Occidental College, Purdue University, Oregon State University, Appalachian State University, Reed College, University of Akron, Ohio State University, Penn State, Triangle Research Libraries network, University of Florida at Gainesville, Columbia University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, University of California at Santa Cruz, Brandeis University, Ball State University, USDA National Agricultural Library, Brown University, Library of Congress, Florida Center for Library Automation, University of Pennsylvania, University of California at San Diego, University of the Pacific, University of Delaware, University of Maryland, Yale University, Vanderbilt University, University of Rochester, University of Wisconsin- Stout, University of California at Santa Barbara, Michigan Technological University, St. John's University, Texas A & M University, Arizona State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Northwestern University, San Jose State University, George Washington University, Rutgers University, University of Minnesota; also a representative of University Microforms International. From: Elad David <elad@ENG.TAU.AC.IL> Subject: corrections and additions Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:33:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 521 (950) X-To: academia@technion.technion.ac.il Update from Cheder Mazav (Wed, Feb 23, 12:30pm) Hello friend, In the document "Crisis in Israeli Higher Education" we found errors in the a few fax numbers. Please correct them in your file: Rabin - 972-2-664-838 Rubinstein - 972-2-292-246 Shohat - 972-635-769. We also advise you to add to the list the fax numbers of ambassadors and consuls of Israel in major cities abroad. New York: General Consul - Collete Avital: 212-490-9186 or 212-697-6272 Washington: Ambassador - Itamar Rabinovitch: 202-364-5607 Boston: General Consul - Dan Kiram: 617-338-5449 Los Angeles: General Consul - Uri Oren: 213-651-3123 San Francisco: General Consul - Yehudi Keinar: 415-398-8589 Chicago: General Consul - Arthur Avnon: 312-565-2063 London: Ambassador - Moshe Raviv: 44-71-957-9555 Paris: Ambassador - Yehuda Lankri: 33-1-40.76.55.55 Hague (Holland): Ambassador - Michael Bavli: 31-70-376-0555 Rome: Ambassador - Avi Pazner: 39-6-321-5762 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= end From: jrichard@ACC.HAVERFORD.EDU (Jan Richard) Subject: Language Center job at Haverford College Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 18:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 522 (951) Director of the Language Center, Haverford College Haverford College is seeking a Director for its new Language Learning Center currently under construction. The new Center, scheduled to open in Fall '94, will provide computer-based multimedia as well as traditional audio and video capabilities for up to twenty-five students. The Language Center is designed to accommodate both classroom instruction and independent study. The Director's role will be to manage the lab and to help faculty integrate these new technologies into their curricula. In addition, the Director will teach one year-long language course which makes extensive use of the Center and another one-semester language course to be determined later. He/she will devote fifty percent of his/her time to the management of the lab and fifty percent to teaching . This position will report directly to the Provost and will begin in early summer 1994. Qualifications: Advanced degree (Ph.D. preferred) in a language or in educational technology. Experience teaching one of the languages taught at Haverford (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian or Spanish), with French, German, Japanese or Spanish preferred. Current knowledge of CAI, multimedia and other technologies related to language instruction, and experience using technology in the classroom. Preferably, experience in a leadership role. Good oral and written communication and organizational skills. Please send letter of application detailing appropriate training and experience together with resume and list of three references to: Carol Wilkinson, Search Coordinator, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041, by March 15, 1994. Email address: cwilkins@haverford.edu. Haverford College is an EOE/AA employer. From: Paula Presley <AD15%NEMOMUS.BITNET@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: 7.0511 Qs: Book Index S/W; Spanish Texts on CD-ROM (2/54) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 14:49:33 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 617 (952) I haven't indexed anything on CD-ROM. But for back-of-book indexing, I use Cindex. I use it on my Macintosh Quadra with the software Universal SoftPC. I make "abbreviations" in the Cindex program, which work as described by your inquirer. It sure sounds to me like what he wants is Cindex and SoftPC software packages. Paula Presley Assoc. Editor, The Thomas Jefferson University Press Copy Editor, The Sixteenth Century Journal Northeast Missouri State University McClain Hall 111L Kirksville, MO 63501 (816) 785-4525 FAX (816) 785-4181 Bitnet: AD15@NEMOMUS Internet: AD15%NEMOMUS@Academic.NEMOState.EDU From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel) Subject: Spanish texts on CD-ROM Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:53:00 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 618 (953) LETRA: multimedia interactive project. XXth century Literature from Spain and Latin Americas on CD-ROM. Produced by FYCSA. Reference: Jose Femenia Coordinador del proyecto LETRA FYCSA C/ Cardenal Marcel Spinola, 12 28016 MADRID Espana FAX 1 - 38 39 815 -- Michel Lenoble Litterature Comparee Universite de Montreal -- Tel.: (514) 288-3916 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca From: John O'Brien <john@para.cps.com> Subject: Typing S/W ... Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 8:32:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 619 (954) [deleted quotation] Indeed, UNIX's vi editor has always had this facility. One creates a file named .exrc in the home directory (where you'll be editing) and fill it with your favorite abbreviations. Then when editing and you happen to type that string of characters, magically the abbreviation appears in the text and the abbreviation disappears. The format for the file is: ab <short abbreviation> <phrase (what you are abbreviating)> The phrase part is not limited to one word, it may be an entire line long. But watch out for line wraps. The simplest way to create a .exrc is to invoke the vi editor just for the purpose of entering abbreviations. Type the command :ab then follow it with your abbreviations, as above. John O'Brien john@para.cps.com From: ppzohav@aol.com Subject: Re: 7.0511 Qs: Book Ind... Date: Thu, 24 Feb 94 11:11:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 620 (955) Hi, The Indexing Siftware I use, called CINDEX. will do all that you ask and much more. They have excelllent macros that will repeat an entry by the code you indicate. The address: Indexing Research P.O. Box 18609 Rochester, NY 14618-0609 Telephone - 716-461-5530 Yours truly, Paul Zohav From: mef@netcom.com (Mary Ellen Foley) Subject: Re: Q: Academic Schedules (1/33) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:31:54 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 621 (956) I've experienced various academic calendars and have found none better than that of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky when I started there as a freshman (many years ago...) They had what they called a quarter system, a full term before Christmas, another after Christmas and before Easter, a third after Easter. I believe these were 10-week sessions. The interesting part is that there was a 4-day classroom week, leaving Wednesdays free as 'Reading Day' (though it was also used for longer labs for science classes and rehearsals for the fine arts). Most classes met 4 times per week, M, T, Th & F. There was also a 2.5 week term called Short Term just before Christmas where professors could try out new classes to see how they flew, or do a small-interest special topic, or try something far-out -- I remember learning to hand-set type during my first Short Term class. And I remember WONDERFUL Wednesdays spent with my textbooks all alone at a nearby nature preserve, studying all day outdoors in peace and quiet. Unfortunately they decided to switch to a 2-semester system without the Wednesday Reading Day just before my junior year, ostensibly to curtail Tuesday-night partying but really to qualify for a federal grant that was available only to schools using a semester system (as I recall, they didn't get the grant, either). Both students and teachers were reluctant to give up Short Term, so the new calendar had 2 13-week semesters and a 4 week term in May. Unfortunately for those of us there during the switch, different professors interpreted the purpose of May Term differently, and I remember a bunch of us just about having nervous breakdowns trying keep up with the prof who was trying to cram his 10-week biochemistry course into 4 weeks - I remember being elected to call him at home and tell him we just couldn't take it anymore! Other professors used the May Term in a more Short Term-ish way, with experimental courses and special topics. I remember sweating over my biochem while some friends blissed away the Spring taking Eurhythmics... Hope this hasn't been too long-winded for you. My vote is for a Reading Day each week, rather than a mid-term and/or finals special study period. Mary Ellen Foley From: Paul Pascal <paulpasc@u.washington.edu> Subject: Calvino text Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 17:45:45 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 524 (957) In the translation recently published by Pantheon Books of Italo Calvino's *The Road to San Giovanni* the concluding words of the text are, "...a contrivance at the service of the world for knowing if it exits." I am almost positive that the last word is a typographical error for "exists," but reluctant to conclude absolutely that it is so, since a kind of sense (a strange kind) can be tortured out of the text as printed. Would someone with access to the original Italian (*La Strada di San Giovanni*) please be kind enough to inform me how the text reads there? Many thanks. Paul Pascal Classics, University of Washington From: Helen Aguera <NEHRES@GWUVM> Subject: Humanist posting Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 07:27:43 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 525 (958) The TRANSLATIONS PROGRAM of the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES supports individuals or collaborations among scholars to translate into English works that are germane to the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures, thereby making the thought and learning of those civilizations available to scholars teachers, students, and the public. The program has supported a broad range of projects, including the translation of single works, the complete works of a particular writer, and anthologies. Translations of texts from virtually all of the European languages have garnered support from the Endowment, as well as texts from a vast array of languages--ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, oral and written. American citizens and institutions and foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years are eligible to apply. The next application deadline is June 1, 1994 for projects beginning after April 1, 1995. For more information call Helen Aguera or Meghan Laslocky at (202) 606-8207 or write to: Translations, Room 318, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506; FAX (202) 606-8204; E-mail nehres@gwuvm.gwu.edu From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. E. Foelsche) Subject: AGE-Tagung in Goettingen 23.-25.3.94 PROGRAMM Date: 25 Feb 94 08:35:30 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 526 (959) --- Forwarded Message from h04m@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Klaus Peter Busche) --- [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1. Annual Conference "History and Computing in Germany" held at Goettingen, GWGE, March 23nd-25th 1994 !!! Conferencelanguage will be German! Program anclosed in this mail. For more details please contakt: Dr. Helge Steenweg Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung, Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen GERMANY Telefon: +49 (0)551/201526 Telefax: +49 (0)551/21119 e-mail: hsteenw1@gwdg.de ************************************************************************ 1. Jahrestagung der AGE "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Geschichte und EDV: Probleme und Fortschritte - Probleme mit dem Fortschritt?" 23.-25. Maerz 1994, Goettingen in der GWDG, Am Fassberg Die AGE ist eine "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV" und wendet sich an Historiker/-innen, die an Universitaeten, in Rechenzentren, in Archiven, in Bibliotheken und anderen Institutionen die elektronische Datenverarbeitung im Zusammenhang mit der Geschichtswissenschaft einsetzen, und zwar in folgenden Bereichen: Datenbanken Literatur- und Texterfassung und Textanalyse Statistische Auswertung Historische Kartographie Historische Informationssysteme Erstellung von Graphiken Veranstaltungsort ist das Gebaeude der Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung, Am Fassberg in Goettingen Veranstalter: Ulrike Albrecht (Universitaet Goettingen) Helge Steenweg (GWDG, Goettingen) Manfred Thaller (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Geschichte, Goettingen) Kontaktadresse: Dr. Helge Steenweg Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung, Am Fassberg, D-37077 Goettingen Telefon: 0551/201526 Telefax: 0551/21119 e-mail: hsteenw1@gwdg.de ************************************************************************ VORTRAEGE des TAGUNGSPROGRAMMs: "Probleme und Fortschritte - Probleme mit dem Fortschritt?" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Eine Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV (AGE) in Goettingen, 23.-25.3.1994, Sektionen, Referenten und Themen: Datenbanken (Leitung: Klaus-Peter Busche) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ludger Wess, Hamburg: Das Projekt zur B- und C-Waffengeschichte an der Hamburger Stiftung fuer Sozialgeschichte: Archivalienverwaltung mit AskSam Stefan Brakensiek, Bielefeld: Lebensweisen und Karrieren hessischer Amtstraeger 1750-1830. Eine KLEIO-Datenbankanwendung Meinolf Nitsch, Berlin: Die Funktionaere der vereinsgetragenen Sozialreform im Berlin des Kaiserreichs. Eine Anwendung mit dem Datenbanksystem ORACLE fuer 123 Karl Haerter, Frankfurt/Main: Repertorium der fruehneuzeitlichen Policey- Gesetze. Eine relationale Datenbank unter FoxPro Fachkommunikation und Informationssysteme (Leitung: Helge Steenweg) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Helge Steenweg, Goettingen: Akademische Netze fuer den Historiker. Eine Uebersicht Bernd Stickfort, Bremen: Bibliographien auf CD-ROM Klaus-Peter Busche, Bremen: Das Internet als Fundgrube fuer die Informationsbeschaffung und Literatursuche Historische Kartographie (Leitung: Andreas Kunz) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dieter Schott / Volker Jung, Darmstadt: HIST: Ein Geoinformationssystem fuer Stadtgeschichte" Ingwer Momsen, Kiel: Computeratlas zur Verkehrsgeschichte Schleswig- Holsteins im 19. Jahrhundert Juergen R. Winkler, Mainz: Computergestuetzte historische Wahlgeographie der Weimarer Republik Albert Carreras, Andrea Giuntini, Michael Goerke, Florenz: A Computerized Historical Atlas of European Transport and Communication (19th and 20th Centuries): A Progress Report Andreas Kunz, Mainz: Computergestuetze thematische Kartographie im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Verkehrsgeschichte Deutschlands im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert Joerg Baten, Muenchen: Thematische Computerkartographie und Geographische Informationssysteme am Arbeitsplatz des Historikers Historische Statistik (Leitung: Ralph Ponemereo) Juergen Sensch, Koeln: Vergleich statistischer Analysesysteme Thomas Rahlf, Halle-Wittenberg: Statistische Grafik Textanalyse und Edition (Leitung: Wolfgang Petke) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ines Grund, Mainz: EDV-Anwendung im Projekt "Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III." an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz Tobias Ulbrich, Goettingen: Die Erstellung eines komplexen Registers fuer die Regesten Kaiser Lothars III. Felix Muehlberg, Berlin: Computer und qualitative Textanalyse Thomas A. Schroeder, Duesseldorf: 1789 - Die Franzoesische Revolution auf einem Hypermedia-Informationssystem Archiv und EDV (Leitung: Hans-Heinrich Ebeling) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Hans-Reinhard Fricke, Hann. Muenden: EDV-gesteuerte Benutzerabfrage in kleineren Archiven unter Verwendung von PC und Standardsoftware Markus Holmer, Hamburg: Die Anwendung von LARS II in einem historischen Unternehmensarchiv bei der Hamburg-Mannheimer Versicherung Hans-Heinrich Ebeling, Duderstadt: Das Projekt "Haeuserbuch" im Stadtarchiv Duderstadt Curriculumentwicklung (Leitung: Franois Hendrickx) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Franois Hendrickx, Saarbruecken: EDV und Geschichte an deutschen Universitaeten Armin Heinen: EDV im Universitaetsstudium. Ein Erfahrungsbericht Thilo Koehn, Potsdam: EDV und Geschichte in Potsdam Jean-Paul Lehners, Luxemburg: Die Konferenz "Computers in the History Classroom". Geschichte und Ausblick ************************************************************************ 1. AGE-Arbeitstagung in Goettingen 23.3.-25.3.1994 ------------------------------------------------- Hinweis auf das "Beiprogramm/Demo-Sektion": -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ausser den Sektionen sind paralle Demonstrationen von Programmen, CD- Bibliographien und Anwendungen in Projekt geplant; u.a. --> 'lector: Transkriptionen von mittelalterlichen Quellen computergestuetzt ueben ein Uebungsprogramm' --> 'abbreviationes' (TM): Zur Auflsung von Krzungen in Handschriften --> CD-ROM-Bibliographien: -OEHB auf der CD-ROM "Sofia", -Historcal Abstract on CD, -British National Bibliographie (BNB) eben so die deutsche (DNB), -"The Eighteenth Century Short Titel Cataloge" (ESTC) und vieles mehr --> Es wird Zugnge zum INTERNET und seinen Kommunikations- und Informationsmglichkeiten geben, wie z.B. Datenbankanbieter wie 'dialog', 'dimdi', 'dbi' etc. und zu Informationssystem wie dem "H-Net" (History- Network) Termine der Sektionen / Tagungsprogramm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Geschichte und EDV: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Probleme und Fortschritte - Probleme mit dem Fortschritt? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mittwoch, den 23. Maerz 1994 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 15.30 Uhr: Registrierung und Begruessung 16.30 Uhr: Historische Demographie - Berichte von Frangois Hendrickx und Jean Paul Lehners 19.00 Uhr: Gemeinsames Abendessen in Goettingen Donnerstag, den 24. Maerz 1994 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 9.00 Uhr: Historische Kartographie I. Leitung: Andreas Kunz 10.30-11.00 Uhr: Kaffeepause 11.00 Uhr: Datenbanken Leitung: Klaus-Peter Busche 12.30-14.00 Uhr: Mittagspause 14.00 Uhr: Fachkommunikation und Informationssysteme Leitung: Helge Steenweg 15.30-16.00 Uhr: Kaffeepause 16.00 Uhr: Textanalyse und Edition Leitung: Wolfgang Pethke 17.45 Uhr: Mitgliederversammlung der AGE 19.30 Uhr: Gemeinsames Abendessen in Goettingen Freitag, den 25. Maerz 1994 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.00 Uhr: Historische Statistik Leitung: Ralph Ponemereo 10.30-11.00 Uhr: Kaffeepause 11.00 Uhr: Archiv und EDV Leitung: Hans-Heinrich Ebeling 12.30-14.00 Uhr: Mittagspause 14.00 Uhr: Historische Kartographie II. Leitung: Andreas Kunz 15.30 Uhr: Curriculumentwicklung Leitung: Francois Hendrickx 17.00 Uhr: Ende der Veranstaltung From: GURT@GUVAX.BITNET Subject: GURT '94 Preconference Tutorials Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:06:47 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 527 (960) PRECONFERENCE TUTORIALS March 13, 1994 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 The preconference tutorials will be held in the Intercultural Center of Georgetown University on Sunday, March 13. Tuition is $75.00 per tutorial. Please contact the individual organizers for more information. Concordances and Corpora for Classroom and Research Catherine Ball, Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068, 202/687-5812 or cball@guvax.georgetown.edu In this tutorial, we will survey free and commercial sources for electronic text corpora and will provide a critical review of concordancers as tools for discovering facts about language. The tutorial will include a demonstration of a popular scanner (HP and OCR package for creating electronic text, and we will use Internet resources to find and retrieve free texts in various languages. Participants will be introduced to a suite of concordancers. There will be opportunity for hands-on use of our textual resources on both Macs and PCs, including the above-mentioned concordancers, major text corpora and collections, and several on-line dictionaries and encyclopedias on CD-ROM. Participants will receive a copy of the tutorial notes (including fact sheets for each area covered), and those who bring diskettes may take away copies of the freeware. Enrollment is limited to 15 participants. Criterion-Referenced Curriculum and Test Development for Language Teachers and Administrators, Jeff Connor-Linton, Ph.D. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-6156 or connorlinton@guvax.georgetown.edu This workshop is intended for second and foreign language teachers and administrators at all levels of education. A model process for "bottom-up" teacher development of a proficiency-oriented, criterion-referenced second/ foreign language curriculum and testing program will be described. The development process is designed to enhance articulation and coherence between levels of instruction and to foster communicating teaching practices. Tools for Computer-Aided Analysis of Language Acquisition Data: Training in Use of COALA, Catherine Doughty, Ph.D. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 202/687-6252 or doughtyc@guvax.georgetown.edu The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce participants to a soon-to-be- released software package designed for the automated analysis of language acquisition data. COALA (computer-aided linguistic analysis; Pienemann, Jansen, and Thornton 1992) is essentially a relational database with an interface offering the language analyst a transcription aid, coding tools, analysis tools (formulaic searching), and report generation. From: John Coldewey <jcjc@u.washington.edu> Subject: A Symposium on Scholarly Publication in Crisis Date: Friday, March 4, 1994 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 528 (961) **************************************************************************** Panels and Presentations in Room 220 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Ongoing Demonstrations of Electronic Resources and Texts in Room 320 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. **************************************************************************** This symposium will focus on recent profound changes occurring in scholarly publication with emphasis on escalating journal subscription costs; strained library budgets; the advent of electronic journals, books, and reference tools; quantity of faculty publication; and administrative research support policies. Program 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: G. Wayne Clough, UW Provost "Old Issues from the 80s, New Strategies for the 90s" by Ann Okerson, Director of the Office of Scholarly and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. "The Electronic Deus ex Machina: New Solutions, New Problems" by James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, Editor, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review and The Bryn Mawr Medieval Review LUNCH BREAK: 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.-2:45 p.m. "Intellectual Property and Electronic Publishing" by Scott Bennett, Director of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University and consultant to Johns Hopkins University Press electronic journal production 3:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. "Hear My Story: The Major Stakeholders in Scholarly Publishing" with panel participants: Betty Bengtson, Director, UW Libraries; Ellen Bauerle, Acquiring Editor, Classical Studies and History, University of Michigan Press; Paul Hodge, Professor of Astronomy, UW, editor of the Astronomical Journal; and James Q. Arnold, Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories Closing Remarks: John C. Coldewey, Chair, Faculty Council on University Libraries; Former President, Council of Editors of Learned Journals This symposium is being sponsored by the University of Washington Faculty Council on University Libraries, the Faculty Senate, the Graduate School, the Provost's Office, the Office of Research, the Friends of the UW Libraries, and the UW Libraries. There is no charge to attend, and you are welcome to come to any presentation if you cannot attend the entire day. Contact Marie Spears by email at spears@u.washington.edu or call at 206-543-1763, if you need further information. From: Francisco Marcos Marin <MARCOS@vm1.sdi.uam.es> Subject: Spanish Libraries in the Internet Date: Mon, 28 Feb 94 13:02:16 HOE X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 529 (962) Lista de bibliotecas En cuanto a bibliotecas espannolas, damos a continuacio'n aquellas de las que tenemos noticia, junto con el modo de entrar en el sistema. La lista inicial fue distribuida por John Dagenais para los miembros del boleti'n electro'nico MEDIBER (Mediaeval Iberia) y le hemos annadido los resultados de nuestra propia bu'squeda: Centro Informa'tico Cienti'fico de Andaluci'a TELNET SEVAX2.CICA.ES (o 150.214.4.14) usuario: ALEPH Tipo de terminal: 11 (VT100) Para salir, teclee ADIOS Centro de Investigaciones Energe'ticas, Medioambientales y Tecnolo'gicas TELNET DEC.CIEMAT.ES usuario: ibi Persona de contacto: Jesu's Sanz de las Heras (heras@dec.ciemat.es) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cienti'ficas TELNET CTI.CSIC.ES (o 130.206.32.31) usuario: ALEPH Tipo de terminal: 11 (VT100) Para salir, teclee STOP CSIC Madrid: Biblioteca principal TELNET bib.csic.es (130.204.32.31) usuario: ALEPH Tipo de terminal: 2 (VT100) Para salir, teclee ADIOS Persona de contacto: Elvira Gonza'lez Serrano (bib_pribic@bib.csic.es) CSIC Sevilla TELNET sevax1.cica.es usuario: ALEPH Tipo de terminal: 11 (VT100) Para salir, teclee ADIOS Persona de contacto: Pilar Marti'nez Olmo (bib_roca@bib.csic.es) Universidad Auto'noma de Barcelona TELNET BABEL.UAB.ES (o 130.206.10.214) Aparecera': Ordinador BABEL de les Biblioteques UAB. Entreu HELLO UAB.BIB Se teclea HELLO UAB.BIB tras Premeu RITORN per a continuar ... se presiona la tecla INTRO Aparecera': Enter line number of TERMINAL TYPE Se teclea 10 Aparecera' Entreu una comanda, HELP, o ? per al menu de cerca assistida Si se teclea HELP LANG se vera'n las posibilidades de seleccio'n lingui'stica (/lang 1 es el ingle's) Se sale con /quit. Persona de contacto: Marta Tort (m.tort@cc.uab.es) Universidad Auto'noma de Madrid TELNET OLMO.BIBCEN.UAM.ES (o 150.244.9.7) Username: BIBLIOTECA OPAC = LIBERTAS <OP010> Se sale con /exit. Personas de contacto: M& A'ngeles Rodri'guez (syslib@olmo.bibcen.uam.es) Antonio Paton (apaton@olmo.bibcen.uam.es) Universidad de Alcala' Cata'logo: LIBERTAS TELNET BIBLIOTECA.ALCALA.ES (130.206.82.2) Username: BIBLOS Terminal type [VT100] : teclear [intro] Para salir: EXIT Persona de contacto: M. Carmen Ferna'ndez-Galiano Peyrolo'n (biblioteca@alcala.es) Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) TELNET sauron.uc3m.es Username: EBLA Terminal type [VT100] : teclear 11 Para salir: 0 Persona de contacto: Pilar Alonso (pilara@db.uc3m.es) Universidad de Cantabria, Santander TELNET BUC.UNICAN.ES (130.206.5.140) Username: capelbuc (minu'sculas) Para salir: desconexio'n automa'tica a los 2 minutos. Persona de contacto: Gonzalo Odriozola (odriozog@buc.unica.es) Universidad Complutense de Madrid Cata'logo: LIBERTAS TELNET EUCMVX.SIM.UCM.ES (o 147.96.1.3) Username: BIBLIOTECA Para salir: EXIT Persona de contacto: Ana Santos Aramburu (asantos@bibccee.ucm.es) Universidad de las Islas Baleares TELNET VX4000.UIB.ES (o 130.206.33.6) Username: BIBLIOTECA1 OPAC = LIBERTAS <OP010> Se sale con /exit. Universidad Jaume I (Castello'n de la Plana) TELNET VIOLANT-TELNET.UJI.ES (o 150.128.1.5) Aparecera': MPE XL: Se teclea hello name, user.clas01 Se selecciona el tipo de terminal 10 (Select terminal type 10) Se sale con /quit. Persona de contacto: Vicent Falomir del Campo (falomir@sg.uji.es) Universidad Polite'cnica de Catalunna TELNET TAHAT.UPC.ES (o 147.83.2.9) USERNAME: BIBLIOTECA (y se presiona INTRO dos veces) Aparecera': Biblioteca de la UPC. ENTREU HELLO LEIBNIZ.BIB Se teclea HELLO LEIBNIZ.BIB y se presiona la tecla INTRO Se teclea 10 para el tipo de terminal Aparecera' Entreu el Codi de Localitzaci. Si sou USUARI EXTERN entreu 100 Se teclea 100 Se sale con /quit. Persona de contacto: Jordi Serrano (jordi@bib.upc.es) Universidad Polite'cnica de Valencia TELNET BIB.UPV.ES (130.206.56.1) USERNAME: libros (en minu'scula) Se presiona [INTRO] en el reclamo de la contrasenna Se sale con s Personas de contacto: Jose' Llorens (Llorens@bib.upv.es) Teresa Ferraz (Ferraz@bib.upv.es) Universidad Pompeu i Fabra TELNET SAHARA.UPF.ES Aparecera': login: Se teclea biblio e [intro] Aparecera' una lista de diez tipos de terminal, entre los que se selecciona. Se sale con /quit. Persona de contacto: Josep Sort (sort@upf.es) Universidad de Valencia TN3270 147.156.1.5 USERNAME: (se presiona [INTRO]) Se presiona [INTRO] en el reclamo de la contrasenna En el reclamo de la aplicacio'n se teclea bluv Limpiar la pantalla con [clear] o [PF1] teclear libis Se sale con 5 y cssf logoff Persona de contacto: Celi Arago'n (celi@graf.ci.uv.es) FRANCISCO A. MARCOS MARIN Ap. 46348 E-28080 Madrid, Spain PHONE: (34-1) 397 4529 / 4109 / 5250 FAX: (34-1) 535 2463 ALTERNATIVE E-MAIL: MARCOS@CCUAM3.UAM.ES From: Eric Rabkin <USERGDFD@UMICHUM.BITNET> Subject: What do you call...? Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 17:12:24 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 622 (963) One, two, three, etc. are cardinal numbers. First, second, third, etc. are ordinal numbers. I have been unable to locate a name for the series first, second, third, etc. Does anyone know a name for this? Also, does anyone know any further terms in the series? I've already looked in the obvious places so I thought HUMANIST would be the right place to look next. Eric Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umich.edu Department of English esrabkin@umichum.bitnet University of Michigan office : 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 deptl fax : 313-763-3128 voice msgs: 313-763-3130 From: Mila Ramos-Santacruz <MILA@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Spanish Corpora Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 16:07:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 623 (964) We are posting this query in order to gather information on existing (commercial or private) computerized corpora (annotated text, dictionaries ...) and related software (parsers, taggers, concordancers...) FOR SPANISH, as well as information centers, data sources... In brief, anything related to electronic corpora that might be useful for the study of Spanish. Our aim is to create a Catalog of Spanish Corpora and Related Resources, that will be available through anonymous ftp when completed. We have started our search with Edwards' 'Survey of Electronic Corpora and Related Resources' in Edwards, Jane A. & Martin D. Lampert (eds). TALKING DATA: TRANSCRIPTION AND CODING IN DISCOURSE RESEARCH. As a first step, we are especially interested in, in order of priority: i) name of corpus/software ii) Compilers and/or project coordinator (if under development) iii) Available through ... iv) Content description v) Availability status: for free, for academic research only,etc / price vi) References vii) Miscellaneous We would greatly appreciate your help. Please, address your answers to: Mila Ramos mila@guvax.georgetown.edu Jorge Baldizon baldizoj@guvax.georgetown.edu Dpt. of Linguistics Georgetown University From: Maurizio Lana <lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it> Subject: any way to mail to Usenet with full subscription? Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 19:06:54 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 624 (965) Does anyone know if it is possible to send messages to usenet groups without a full subscription? something like a mailserv? I have the name cs.utexas.edu, but it doesn't accept my mail. Many thanks to anyone can help me. Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI - Universita' di Torino lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it fax: 39-11-8990458 From: Dr. S. Totosy Subject: 7.0521 Corrections: Israeli University Crisis (1/80) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 08:30:22 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 625 (966) Comparative Literature University of Alberta I think Canadian (Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) fax numbers should also be added to the list. Regards, S. Totosy From: George Byrnes <BYRNES@ADMIN.HumberC.ON.CA> Subject: Announcing Winhlp-L Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 20:28:00 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 626 (967) I have set up a listserv for people creating hypertext information files for the Windows environment using winhelp (.hlp). This list will enable authors to share ideas and provide each other with answers to technical questions concerning the Microsoft compiler and WinWord formatting. To subscribe, send an unsigned (no signature file appended) email message to Via Internet ~~~~~~~~~~~~ listserv@Admin.HumberC.ON.CA Via Bitnet ~~~~~~~~~~ listserv.Humber.Bitnet The body of your message should contain only the following: sub winhlp-L I would appreciate you forwarding this message if you are a member of other Windows lists. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GEORGE BYRNES, HUMAN STUDIES/LAKESHORE, HUMBER COLLEGE 3199 LAKESHORE BLVD. W., TORONTO, ON. CANADA M8V 1K8 BITNET: BYRNES@HUMBER INTERNET: BYRNES@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA PHONE: (416) 675-6622 X3324 FAX: (416) 252-8842 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Brett Sutton <sutton@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> Subject: Etext conference--Revised Program Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 11:19:37 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 532 (968) [REVISED PROGRAM] Conference Announcement LITERARY TEXTS IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE: SCHOLARLY IMPLICATIONS AND LIBRARY SERVICES 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing April 10-12, 1994 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Electronic technologies are not replacing the book so much as they are changing its form and its role in scholarship. Rising interest in electronic texts is evident in the development of new computational approaches to the study of literature, the appearance of electronic text centers on university campuses, and an expanding publishing industry in electronic books. This conference will examine the role of electronic texts in the humanities and the implications of these technologies for libraries. Conference speakers will discuss this latest development in the human pursuit of the literary arts from a variety of perspectives, including the production and acquisition of electronic texts, strategies for storage and dissemination, software for the retrieval and analysis of electronic texts, problems of bibliographic control and intellectual property, and publishing trends. Offered in conjunction with the conference is an optional preconference workshop in the practical use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in the organization of electronic texts for interchange and research. Conducting the workshop will be C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, an editor of the recently released Guidelines for Text Encoding and Interchange, a text- representation standard based on SGML syntax. Who should attend: This conference will be of interest to librarians, academic computing staff, publishers and distributors of electronic texts, and humanities scholars interested in the possibilities of electronic texts. PROGRAM SUNDAY, APRIL 10 11am-5pm Registration 1-4:30pm Preconference Workshop on using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Editor, Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago 5-6:30pm Reception 6:30-7:30pm Dinner 8pm Keynote Address (Lincoln Hall Theater) AUTHORS AND READERS IN AN AGE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS Jay David Bolter Professor School of Literature, Communication, & Culture Georgia Institute of Technology MONDAY, APRIL 11 8-9:30am ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES: A COMING OF AGE Susan Hockey Director Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities Rutgers and Princeton Universities THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE: ELECTRONIC TEXT MARKUP FOR RESEARCH C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Editor, Text Encoding Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago 9:30-10am Break 10-11:30am ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND MULTIMEDIA IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: A VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINE Anita Lowry Head, Information Arcade, Main Library University of Iowa HUMANIZING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ELECTRONIC TEXT PROCESSING Mark Tyler Day Co-Director Library Electronic Text Resource Service Indiana University 11:30am-1pm Lunch (on your own) 1-2:30pm COHABITING WITH COPYRIGHT IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT Mary Brandt Jensen Director, Law Library Professor, School of Law University of South Dakota THE ROLE OF THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHER IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT Lorrie LeJeune Electronic Publishing Specialist University of Michigan Press 3-5pm Software Demonstrations 5-7pm Dinner (on your own) 7-9pm Software Demonstrations Tuesday, April 12 8-9:30am THE FEASIBILITY OF WIDE-AREA TEXTUAL ANALYSIS SYSTEMS IN LIBRARIES: A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS John Price-Wilkin Information Management Coordinator Alderman Library, University of Virginia THE SCHOLAR AND HIS LIBRARY IN THE COMPUTER AGE James W. Marchand Professor Department of Germanic Languages and Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9:30-10am Break 10-11:30am THE CHALLENGES OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE LIBRARY: BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND ACCESS Rebecca Guenther Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress PROJECT GUTENBERG: TRYING TO GIVE AWAY A TRILLION ETEXTS BY THE END OF 2001 Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College 11:30am-1pm Lunch (on your own) 1-2:30pm DURKHEIM'S IMPERATIVE: THE ROLE OF HUMANITIES FACULTY IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES REVOLUTION Robert A. Jones Professor, Department of Sociology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign THE MATERIALITY OF THE BOOK: ANOTHER TURN OF THE SCREW Terry Belanger University Professor, University of Virginia GENERAL INFORMATION Location: Except as noted, all conference events will take place in the Illini Union on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana, Illinois. Registration and Fees: The fee for the conference is $340 ($380 after March 11, 1994), which includes the Sunday night dinner, refreshments, and a copy of the Clinic proceedings. Registration for the optional SGML workshop is $40. Registration is limited, and early registration is recommended. A limited number of reduced-fee registrations are available for those who might otherwise be unable to attend; for consideration, submit a written request by March 11, 1994. Transportation: Champaign-Urbana is served by TWA, Midway Express, American Eagle, and Northwest Commuter. AMTRAK service is available from Chicago and points south. Champaign is located 135 miles south of Chicago on Interstate routes 72, 74, and 57. Accommodations: Rooms have been allocated for participants at the hotels listed below. Participants must make their own reservations, and should do so before March 9, 1994. Please indicate that you are attending the library data processing conference. Illini Union University Inn 1401 W. Green St. 302 E. John St. Urbana, IL 61801 Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-1241 (217) 352-8132 Single: $54 + tax Single: $54 + tax Double: $62 + tax Double: $61 + tax Continuing Education Units: Participants will earn 1.1 CEU for attending this meeting. Refunds: Refunds will be made if you find that you cannot attend and you notify us in writing by March 16, 1994. You must cancel your own hotel reservations. IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CLINIC, PLEASE CALL (800) 982-0914 OR (217) 333-2973, OR SEND YOUR QUESTION VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL TO DPC@ALEXIA.LIS.UIUC.EDU. --------------REGISTRATION FORM------CUT HERE-------------------- Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing April 10-12, 1994 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Registration Form Name ____________________________________________________________ Title____________________________________________________________ Organization Name________________________________________________ Business Address_________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Phone Number (___)_______________________________________________ Email address____________________________________________________ Registration Fees: $340 ($380 after March 11) ________ $40 SGML workshop ________ TOTAL FEES ________ Method of Payment: __Check enclosed (make payable to GSLIS/University of Illinois) __Charge to credit card __Visa __MasterCard Card #___________________________Exp. date_______ Signature________________________________________ Any special needs (access, meals, etc.)?_________________________ _________________________________________________________________ If there are issues you are especially interested in, or if you have particular questions about the topics that will be addressed at this conference, please write them below. We will pass them along to the speakers. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ You may register by mail by sending this form to the address below, by phone (217-333-2973 or 800-982-0914), by fax (217-244-3302), or by electronic mail (dpc@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science Building 501 E. Daniel St. Champaign, Illinois 61820-6212 From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu> Subject: New Gopher Server Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 07:40:56 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 533 (969) Other net-surfers may already have found this, but I haven't seen any references to it. The Association of Research Libraries (Washington DC) has an interesting new gopher server with material of interest to library users of all kinds: gopher to arl.cni.org and see what you find. What was most striking is an apparently brand new report (under "Scholarly Communication") from the Mellon Foundation in New York, laying out their view of the world of electronic scholarly publication and calling at the end for proposals from people who wish to get money from them for demonstration projects. The report itself is very interesting, and the prospect of Mellon support for these things is potentially important. Apparently they would welcome inquiries. (The short report appears side by side on the gopher with the much longer text of the book they did last year, -University Libraries and Scholarly Communication-, that is more or less a historical and analytical survey of all the issues involved, and is very interesting in its own right.) --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu) From: Eric Rabkin <USERGDFD@UMICHUM.BITNET> Subject: What do you call...? Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 18:22:18 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 627 (970) My sincere apologies, fellow HUMANISTS. I see that I sleepily wrote the following: [deleted quotation] What I _meant_ to be asking about was the series "once, twice, thrice." What's it called? What comes next? Please excuse this double posting caused by a braino. Eric From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: Searching the PHI 5 CD Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 14:31+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 628 (971) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I wonder what has happened to the development of PHAROS. Is there an upgrade from the 02-version? Or could somebody recommend a program which has the features lacking in Pharos02 - it should be able to search the entire CD or a subset of the author list. Thanks for any information Fritz Heberlein sla019@ku-eichstaett.d400.de From: Michael Ossar <MLO@KSUVM> Subject: Israeli crisis Date: Tue, 1 Mar 94 00:09 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 629 (972) I wonder if someone would be kind enough to resend to me the relevant fax numbers of people to write to about the Israeli academic crisis. Since most people didn't lose them, I assume, they could be sent off list. From: Spectrum Press <73774.2733@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Available Etext List Date: 01 Mar 94 16:30:52 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 535 (973) PLEASE POST WHERE YOU THINK RELEVANT ------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic texts on floppy disks for PC and Mac by the following authors can now be ordered online: Modern Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Criticism: Daniel Vian, Tim W. Brown, D.J. Barton, Ewing Campbell, Ray Dittmeier, Elizabeth R. Downing, Laura Fairburn, Gregory FitzGerald, Martha Larche Lusk, Clinton Machann, Marlene Miller, William O'Keefe, Joanna C. Scott, Barbara Sheen, Mark Spitzer, Julian Dacanay, David Hauptschein, Cathy Khadmy, Gloria Klein, Howard Rawlinson. Lesbian/Feminist Fiction and Nonfiction: Bren Fleming, Rachel Perez, Susan Anders, Emily James Putnam. Gay Fiction and Nonfiction: Stuart Edelson, Robert Klein Engler, Marsh Cassady. Classics: James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, John Buchan, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Sir A.C. Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Pierre Louys, John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Lew Wallace, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton. Nonfiction and Reference: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Alexis de Tocqeville, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Howard Rawlinson, Plato, Voltaire, U.S. Supreme Court. For a complete list and ordering info, transmit "send list" to the following Internet address: 73774.2733@compuserve.com Karen Olsen Spectrum Press 73774.2733@compuserve.com From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: Conference: HERG - practice and priorities Date: 2 Mar 1994 09:48:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 536 (974) Research into Higher Education in the Humanities practice and priorities. HERG Conference at the Open University The Humanities Higher Education Research Group (HERG) at the Open University are hosting this one day conference on Saturday 23rd April 1994 in Milton Keynes. The conference aims to explore recent research in the teaching and learning of the arts/humanities in higher/adult education, to look at aims and priorities for future research and to set up a network of communication between active researchers. The keynote speakers include: - Prof. Anthony Snodgrass, University of Cambridge and - Heather Eggins, Director: Society for Research into Higher Education The Conference will be from 10am until 4:30pm, a charge of 20 pounds will cover the cost of the conference papers, coffee, lunch and tea. For further details please contact either: Jan Rae or Ellie Chambers Institute of Educational Technology The Open University MILTON KEYNES MK7 6AA UK phone: (0908) 652577 (Jan) 652629 (Ellie) 652914 (Sec) fax: 0908 653744 email: j.l.rae@open.ac.uk or e.a.chambers@open.ac.uk The schedule for the day is as follows: START, COFFEE & WELCOME: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 - 10:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1: Prof. Anthony Snodgrass . . . . . 10:30 - 11:15 "Defeat into Victory? The Academy, the ESRC and the Government" Prof. Snodgrass was a member of the British Academy/ESRC Joint Working Party on the future of research funding in the humanities that recommended to the government that a Humanities Research Council be established. KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2: Heather Eggins . . . . . . . . . 11:15 - 12:00 "Research priorities in Higher Education in the 1990s" Heather Eggins is currently Director of SRHE and specialises in the field of education policy. RESEARCH MAPPING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:00 - 12:45 A summary of recent and current research interests, methods and projects in humanities HE. LUNCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:45 - 1:45 RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:45 - 3:00 a) Humanities computing b) Uses of multi-media c) (Other) teaching/learning strategies; subject specialisms (in parallel). TEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 - 3:30 PLENARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:30 - 4:30 Report back from previous session / future plans for Humanities HE Research Network. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: S French <phl6sf@gps.leeds.ac.uk> Subject: Jobs at Leeds Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 12:20:08 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 537 (975) [deleted quotation] permanent [deleted quotation] proven [deleted quotation] applications [deleted quotation] From: John Saillant <SAILLANT@BROWNVM> Subject: Review of CD-ROM, _Metropolis_ Date: Wed, 02 Mar 94 15:28:27 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 538 (976) _Metropolis: A Multimedia History of Western Civilization from the Neolithic to the Global Village_, Prototype 2.1, 1993, by Metropolitan Arts, Inc., 21 Jones Street, New York, New York 10014, 75366.3234@compuserve.com. Development supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities & the U.S. Department of Education. Reviewed by John Saillant, Brown University & IEAHCNET (Institute of Early American Culture & History & H-NET). Saillant@Brownvm.Brown.EDU This CD-ROM describes itself this fashion: "_Metropolis_ is an interactive multimedia program for high-school and college students about the history of Western civilization, focusing on the evolution of the City as a human institution, from its beginnings in the Neolithic village of 8,500 years ago to the Global Village that we will all inhabit in the next century. The program allows you to 'Time-Travel' through a chronological series of 1500 'events'--major works of art, key political events, scientific and technological advances, social trends. Slides and hypertext commentaries, dramatic re-enactments, debates, readings and musical excerpts are all used to explore these events further. At a dozen points along the way, you can visit a great city at a pivotal moment in its development--a moment when it played a decisive role in the history of the West: a Neolithic village (c. 6500 BC), Ur (c. 2100 BC), the Egyptian city of El-Amarna (1365 BC), Athens (385-375 BC), Rome (105-115 AD), Bruges (1190-1200), Venice (1500-1510), London (1720-1730), Paris (1860-1870), Vienna (1904-1914), New York (1945-1955), the Global Village (2025)." For technical details, this prototype is an advance copy, only 10% complete, for teachers interested in computer use in teaching. I installed it on a PC with no problem. Its system requirements are (1) IBM-compatible 286 or above with 3 Mb RAM, (2) Windows 3.1 or above & Mouse, (3) VGA (or better) Windows supported graphics monitor (256-color SVGA highly recommended [I did not have this]), (4) 1.5 Mb free hard disk space, (5-optional) Windows-compatible sound card. It seems likely that CD-ROMS such as _Metropolis_ (in its final version) will soon begin replacing textbooks in high-school and college teaching. CD-ROMS themselves are part of a booming business. A March 1, 1994, article in _The New York Times_ notes that Microsoft's CD-ROM multimedia titles now provide about a third of the company's consumer business, up from less than 2% two years ago. Dell Computer will sell roughly 500,000 PCs with CD-ROM players this year, five times last year's level. And Link Resources Corp. says the number of households with CD players has increased fourfold last year to 1.9 million. (A1) Having taught a Western Civilization survey course several times with a textbook, several volumes of primary writings, and in-class slides, as well as having taught an American History survey to 1877 with a textbook, I welcome the change. Although this prototype is only 10% complete, its structure shows the utility of Hypertext and multimedia teaching materials. Hypertext is text with a built-in dictionary or encyclopedia. As a student reads, certain key words appear highlighted on the screen. A click on the word opens up an explanation ranging from a dictionary definition of the word to an essay equivalent to a short encyclopedia article. The explanation may itself have Hypertext references; once all is read, the original text is easily brought back to the screen. Images & maps as well as primary sources--all mainstays of interdisciplinary teaching--appear on screen. In Bruges, a burgher's house appears in floor plan, with some areas highlighted. A click calls up reproductions of windows, furniture, silverware & the like, with a detailed description along with explanations of their creation & use. In London, a menu offers a selection of coffee houses to visit--Button's, Lloyd's, St. James's, White's, & Don Saltero's. The visit reveals contemporary descriptions of the activities, conversations, & curios found in each establishment. In ancient Rome, a click on "Rhetoric" brings forth a good discussion of rhetoric from the exordium to the peroration along with some of the correspondence between Trajan & Pliny the Younger. The 1500 events recorded can be modified once _Metropolis_ is installed. As an experiment, I added the signing of the Declaration of Independence & composed a short essay as an explanation that the student would pull down from the top of the screen where "Event Information" is noted. The addition worked perfectly. Moreover, a note section is built into the program, so that students at any time can open up a "Notes" section to record their thoughts as they read. One excellent feature of _Metropolis_ is a "Connect Events" function, again invoked with a click at the top of the screen. Here is an example, although the series of events given now are short, reflecting the fact that this prototype is incomplete. One event is "The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862." "Connect events" places this in a series: (1) "Abolition of slavery in the British Empire, 1833," (2) "Emancipation of the Russian serfs, 1861," (3) "Jim Crow laws ruled constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, 1896." A click on (1) here then reconfigures the context as (1) "Peasants' Revolt led by Wat Tyler, 1381," (2) "Portuguese begin African slave trade, 1441," (3) "British women gain right to own property, 1870." Again, a click on (3) here reconfigures the context as (1) "Arranged marriages begin to disappear in Europe, 1868," (2) "North Carolina becomes the first state to outlaw wife-beating, 1890," (3) "American women gain right to vote, 1920." Thus students can see events as elements in various trends, not as isolated incidents. The format of _Metropolis_ has the advantage of providing narrative, interpretation, dictionary or encyclopedia references, images, & music in one package. The feeling one gets is that history is an environment, not just a string of events--this I believe is something closer to the actuality of history than a textbook can achieve. Historians & other scholars should be aware that products such as _Metropolis_ are coming on to the market & should exert a professional influence to ensure that such products maintain a high standard. The professional time & energy that once were devoted to the creation of textbooks & encyclopedias probably will be diverted in part to the creation of CD-ROMS. Many scholars will be excited by this prospect. In my own area--American History to 1830, with special interests in race, religion, & political thought--there is nothing like _Metropolis_, but there is fantastic potential to reconceptualize the textbooks as multimedia CD-ROMS. Probably any historian can imagine an environment for his or her teaching--a narrative, in-depth explanations, primary materials, & a collection of images, maps, &, frequently enough, music. My message to publishers is that the age of the textbook & its companions is over--the age of the CD-ROM is begun. Furthermore, although there's some feeling today that "snazzy new technology" is elitist, the opposite is true, I believe. A similar belief is expressed by John V. Lombardi in "Campuses Need Not Wait for Snazzy New Technology to Enter Cyberspace," _The Chronicle of Higher Education_, March 2, 1994, A48. At Brown, for instance, a vast slide library is available for in-class slide presentations, but I know first-hand that nothing like it exists in local colleges, much less of course in public high schools around Brown. Wider use of CD-ROMS & Internet will serve to open up the doors of the new information age, to bridge some of the gap between the elite institutions & the ordinary. Likely John Lombardi is right in arguing that use of electronic media in education is a paradigm of the delivery of "low-cost, high-value material," which "would open up access, reduce the economic barriers to learning, and encourage universities and schools to find ways to speak to larger, more extended audiences." Indeed, it seems an imperative to extend the benefits of advances in the technology of education. From: Christine Jewell <liboff69@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Gophers of Scholarly Societies - suggestions? Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:19:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 539 (977) ..................................................... GOPHERS & OTHER SERVERS of SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES ..................................................... GENERAL INFORMATION The University of Waterloo Library is building an area of our CWIS (UWinfo) that provides links to gophers and other servers of scholarly societies, such as the American Philosophical Association, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). At present, the area provides links to 16 gophers/servers of scholarly societies. To the best of our knowledge, no similar directory of gophers/servers of scholarly societies exists anywhere on the Internet. At the end of this post is a reproduction of the menu as it currently stands. If you know of other gophers/servers of scholarly societies, we would appreciate hearing from you. LOCATION OF THE AREA This area is available on UWinfo. To reach UWinfo: (1) if you have access to a CWIS, follow the menus for other servers or CWISs through North America, Canada, Ontario, to the University of Waterloo. (2) otherwise use either gopher or telnet as follows: gopher uwinfo.uwaterloo.ca OR telnet uwinfo.uwaterloo.ca Then login as uwinfo (that is, whatever the system asks you for, type in "uwinfo") Once you are in UWinfo, follow the pathway: Electronic Resources Around the World Campus and other information systems (CWIS, gophers, BBS) Gophers of Scholarly Societies CONTACTS This list is maintained by the University of Waterloo Library. To make suggestions or queries, please contact: Christine Jewell [for Humanities & Social Sciences] liboff69@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca or Jim Parrott [for Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, & Medicine] liboff10@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca SCOPE "Societies" is taken to mean organizations in which membership is determined by scholarly credentials, not by the existence of a contract of employment or of visitation rights, as in the case of a research centre. A society will typically have a word like "Society", "Association", or "Union" in its name, but other variants exist. An interesting variant is the word "Institute", which sometimes refers to a society (e.g. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), but sometimes refers to a research centre (e.g. National Cancer Institute). "Gophers & Other Servers" is taken to mean information systems containing a variety of information about the society (not just ftp archives). For example, such an information system would contain more than one of the following types of information: general information about the society, a calendar of meetings, lists of publications, ftp archives, links to gophers of related interest, etc. SUB-BODIES of SOCIETIES Some societies (e.g. ACM) maintain an overall gopher and also separate gophers for sub-bodies (e.g. ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM SIGDA). If a gopher for a sub-body of a society can be reached through the overall gopher for the society, no separate entry is given in this list. Otherwise a separate entry will be provided. ARRANGEMENT The gophers are arranged alphabetically by full name of the society, unless the full name will not fit on one line, in which case the acronym of the society will be used. THE MENU (as of Feb.18/94): Gophers of Scholarly Societies --> 1. About the Scholarly Society Gophers area. 2. American Astronomical Society Gopher/ 3. American Chemical Society (ACS) Gopher/ 4. American Mathematical Society (AMS) Gopher/ 5. American Philosophical Association Gopher/ 6. American Physiological Society Gopher/ 7. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gopher/ 8. Australian Computer Society/ 9. Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Gopher/ 10. International Astronomical Union (IAU) Gopher/ 11. International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Gopher/ 12. International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Gopher/ 13. Internet Society (includes IETF) Gopher/ 14. Society for Electronic Access (SEA) Gopher/ 15. Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Gopher/ 16. The Hume Society Gopher/ From: Maurizio Lana <lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it> Subject: PHI and Pharos Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 15:14:31 +0000 (CUT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 630 (978) R. Smith and D. Dumont are writing and upgrading the successor of Pharos: Musaios. For any query: rsmith@cerf.net Maurizio Maurizio Lana - CISI - Universita' di Torino lana@rs950.cisi.unito.it fax: 39-11-8990458 From: Joseph.Jones@library.ubc.ca Subject: once, twice, thrice ... Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 16:39:20 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 631 (979) I hope this isn't one of the obvious places: A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985) has two sections that touch on once, twice, thrice. At 5.18 they are classed as multipliers, under predeterminers, under determinatives - chapter is nouns and determiners. At 8.64 they are classed under occasion frequency, under time-frequency adjuncts, under adjuncts of time, under grammatical realization of semantic roles - chapter is the semantics and grammar of adverbials. In both instances, the examples suggest continuing with four times, five times ... Joseph Jones jjones@unixg.ubc.ca University of British Columbia Library From: Robert OBrien <Robert_OBrien@macgate.csuchico.edu> Subject: MLA session: Early Modern European-Native American Date: Sat, 26 Feb 1994 13:33:19 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 632 (980) Call for papers for a special session of the San Diego MLA convention: "Early Modern Discourses of the European-Native American Encounter." Please send detailed abstracts or 8-10 page papers by March 20 to Robert O'Brien (robrien@oavax.csuchico.edu), Department of English, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0830. From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: MLA '94 call for papers on electronic media Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 20:28:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 633 (981) This is a call for papers on "Using Electronic Media in Classes: Its Impact on Pedagogy and Students" to be held on behalf of the MLA Executive Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research during the convention in San Diego, CA, Dec. 27-30, 1994. Abstracts of 500 words or full papers are due by March 23, 1994, and should be submitted to me by electronic mail if at all possible. Tables or graphs can be sent by FAX or postal mail to the FAX number or address, respectively, provided below. Preference will be given to studies reporting and analyzing results as part of the presentation although insightful theoretical papers are also requested. Dr. Joel D. Goldfield Associate Professor of French Plymouth State College; Member, Modern Language Assoc. Executive Comm. on Computers & Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research FAX: 603-535-2723 E-mail: Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu Mail: Dept. of Foreign Languages, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 03264-1600 USA Tel.: 603-535-2277 From: Denis Dutton <FINA012@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: a new email list Date: 4 Mar 1994 11:08:13 +1300 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 634 (982) Dear Elaine Brennan, We'd appreciate it if you would carriy the follwing announcement on HUMANIST. Many thanks! Denis Dutton "Philosophy and Literature," in cooperation with Texas A&M University, announces an electronic symposium on topics in the field surveyed by the interdisciplinary journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscribers receive news, job and book announcements, calls for papers, and conference plans. They post queries, trade information, offer advice, preview drafts of articles and reviews, dispute, praise, congratulate, insult, refute, and defend one another. The idea is to provide a single source of information which is also a place to exchange ideas--an electronic newsletter run on democratic principles. To subscribe send the following message SUBSCRIBE PHIL-LIT your full name E.g., SUBSCRIBE PHIL-LIT Herman Northrop Frye And send it to LISTSERV@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Eventually the list service will offer full notebooking, file retrieval and data-base search capabilities, etc. For more information contact the List Manager, David Gershom Myers: DGMYERS@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU Dr. Denis Dutton Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Art Editor, Philosophy and Literature University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand Phone: (03) 366-7001 [office]; (03) 348-7928 [home] Fax: (03) 364-2858 From: libby@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Subject: New List Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 23:22:21 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 635 (983) THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES INVITES YOU TO JOIN IATH-L IATH-L is the main discussion group for the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. The Institute was established in 1992 with a grant from IBM and support from the University, with the aim of exploring and demonstrating the applications of computer technology to research, scholarship, and creative activities in the humanities. Fellows at the Insitute are scholars in the humanities who receive project-specific technical support from computing professionals; the Institute is also dedicated to developing software and promoting the application of information technology to research and publication in the humanities. The purpose of this list is threefold: to function as a general list for IATH, where local and networked Institute fellows and their associates may communicate, to provide a forum for discussion of the disciplinary and professional aspects of computing in the humanities, and to archive and publish reference materials and excerpted discussions from this and related lists. 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In addition to archiving discussion threads and informational posts to the list, as many lists do, IATH-L extracts from its archives to publish articles and reference documents on the World Wide Web. TO SUBSCRIBE, SEND MAIL TO: LISTPROC@JEFFERSON.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU WITH THE MESSAGE: SUBSCRIBE IATH-L <NAME> -- ~@#$%&*#&$%@*#$%@%$#$%#@*%$#&%$#@*#$%&%$#%$*#@#%&@#@$%#*$#@%$@&@$#%*@%#&%$#@%$~ Elisabeth Crocker Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia libby@jefferson.village.virginia.edu (804)924-4527 ~@%$#@&@%$#@%*@&#@%$@#*$@%&@%$@#%@*%$#$@%@&@*@%$@#%@&*@%$#*@%#$#%@&@*@%&@#$#$%~ From: Susanna Pathak <spathak@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Subject: JHU's Project Muse Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 09:35:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 636 (984) Please post the enclosed announcement on HUMANIST. Thanks. Susanna Pathak ---------- Forwarded message ---------- PROJECT MUSE: A NEW VENTURE IN ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION In one of the first joint ventures of its kind, the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, and Homewood Academic Computing have joined forces to launch Project Muse, an initiative that enables networked electronic access to the Press's scholarly journals. This collaboration draws the Johns Hopkins University community together to move scholarly communication into the electronic age and develop an economic model that addresses rising costs and diminishing budgets. The first phase of the project, completed in February 1994, is a freely accessible prototype consisting of current issues of Configurations, MLN (Modern Language Notes), and ELH (English Literary History). The fully formatted text of these journals is now available on the Internet via online access to the library's server (<a href="http://muse.mse.jhu.edu">http://muse.mse.jhu.edu</a>). Features include subject, title, and author indexes; instant hypertext links to tables of contents, endnotes and illustrations; Boolean searches of text and tables of contents; and voice and textual annotations. Several members of the scholarly community at Johns Hopkins have already used this resource, and one professor describes it as "an intelligent, incredibly easy system to use . . . an actual research tool." The prototype is accessed through a networked hypermedia information retrieval system known as the World Wide Web (WWW). It can be viewed and searched using any of a number of freely available WWW readers, but runs optimally under the Mosaic reader developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Users of Mosaic can annotate text, record paths taken during online sessions, download text for printing, and create "hot lists" of frequently accessed documents. Mosaic readers are available for a variety of operating systems, including Unix, Mac, and Windows machines. Users of the prototype may send comments and suggestions with the online form provided in the prototype or via regular e-mail (ejournal@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu). The short-range goals of Project Muse, which the prototype enables us to achieve, are the creation of an easy-to-use electronic-journal environment with searching and multimedia features that cannot be duplicated in print, and the collection of data on amounts and types of usage for an access and costing model. Long-range goals are to offer reasonably priced electronic journals to university libraries and to use online technology to make works of scholarship more widely available within individual university communities. If funding for capital costs can be raised, the project team aims to mount about forty of the Press's journals in math, the humanities, and the social sciences. These issues will appear on a prepublication basis and will be available electronically a few weeks in advance of the printed version. Beyond developing a prototype, Project Muse has enabled the university press, the library, and the computing center to engage in a meaningful dialogue about the current state of the scholarly communication process. We believe that this dialogue will not only influence the final appearance, price, and distribution method of the Press's online journals, but the shape of scholarly publishing in the information age. Susanna Pathak Project Muse Team Johns Hopkins From: root@wln.com (System Admin) Subject: new list Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 14:31:32 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 637 (985) dkovacs at Kent suggested I get in touch with you in regard to the new 'listserv' list I'm putting up at rpoetik@wln.com. I believe it to be the first literary little magazine worthy of the name on the internet. Folks can subscribe by emailing to listserv@wln.com with the line "subscribe rpoetik Your Name" in the text. Subscriptions are free. Subscribers may submit materials to rpoetik@wln.com, others to salasin@wln.com. And I accept floppy and diskette in ascii format at the mail address below. We're already open for submissions and subscriptions, I'll begin sending out material as soon as I have some subscribers. I've attached the welcome message for new subscribers: WELCOME TO REALPOETIK, the little magazine of the Internet. RealPoetik is a moderated listserv available to anyone with an email address on the internet. As a subscriber, you may submit material for distribution, comment on material previously distrib- uted, poetry, prose, criticism, whatever. Nonsubscribers may contribute by snail mail with work in ascii formate on a 5.25 inch floppy disk. Snail mail address below. What we're looking to publish is the new, the lively, the witty and the exciting in vernacular English. Any mutually comprehen- sible dialect will do, as long as it represents a vernacular. We are not interested in pornography (unless it's really great pornography), vampire or other genre fiction, or deftly worked little pieces of middle-class, middle-aged angst-at-the-Cote-d' Azure. We're modeling ourselves after little magazines like Exquisite Corpose, New American Writing and Another Chicago Mag- azine who have shown an openness to new writers and new work. And who are not bound to some weirdly academic/fascist/factional clique of selfpromoting hacks. One difference between this and a hardcopy little magazine is that it's possible to be more interactive here. So we welcome your comments and criticism of any of the works which appear, and if in the opinion of the editors those opinions, critiques, essays etc. are of general interest, we'll see they also get distributed. Feel real free to write us with such comments. Pleased address all email, submissions, etc. to rpoetik@wln.com. The snail mail address is Salasin, 206 Lilly Rd NE, Apt K-8, Olympia, WA 98506. WLN IS OUR SERVICE PROVIDER ONLY, AND THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THIS MAILING LIST IN NO WAY REFLECT THE BELIEFS OR VIEWS OF WLN WHICH ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR CONTENT. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Sal Salasin salasin@wln.com From: John Price-Wilkin <jpw@jpw-slip1.lib.virginia.edu> Subject: UVa Internet access to SGML Textual Analysis Resources Date: Sat, 5 Mar 94 14:23:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 543 (986) UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY presents INTERNET ACCESS TO SGML TEXTUAL ANALYSIS RESOURCES The University of Virginia Library is pleased to announce the Internet-accessibility of several of its text collections indexed with Open Text's PAT search engine. With the generous permission of Open Text Corporation and depositors of the texts included in this effort, we are now able to provide client/server access to several collections, including a growing body of Middle English texts, the King James and Revised Standard Versions of the Bible, and the Michigan Early Modern English Materials. Although no remote login to the University of Virginia system will be supported, access is possible through several client software packages, including Open Text's PatMotif and a freely- available vt100 client developed by the University of Virginia. A full description of the client software and the textual resources offered is available via anonymous ftp from etext.virginia.edu (128.143.22.16), as /pub/announce (URL: <a href="file://etext.virginia.edu/pub/announce">file://etext.virginia.edu/pub/announce</a>). From: Otmar.K.E.Foelsche@Dartmouth.EDU (Otmar K. E. Foelsche) Subject: contacts in the field of medicine Date: 04 Mar 94 14:50:14 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 638 (987) I am a University of Munich, Germany based physician working in intensive care medicine and medical informatics. I was a visiting professor at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center last year, hence my contacts to the faculty. I would like to establish contacts with Russian/Ukranian computer scientists. We work on a electronic patient record project and will be offering two fellowships for computer scientists. If you have any contacts, ideas or e-Mail addresses I' appreciate any advice from you. With best regards Joerg J. H. Hohnloser, MD Intensive Care Unit "Electronic Patient Records" Med. Klinik, Klinikum Innenstadt University of Munich Ziemssenstr. 1 80336 Muenchen Germany Phone/Fax: +49-89-5160-2341 E-Mail:100015.3015@compuserve.com From: Merri Beth Lavagnino <MLAVAGNI@UVMVM> Subject: Humanist question Date: Fri, 04 Mar 94 11:51:05 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 639 (988) Dear Editors: A group here has funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a public educational program where the participants read good quality literature from the humanities that illustrates problems in medical ethics. They are trying to identify some literature that might illustrate the issues surrounding when, how, and why we should limit the use of complex medical technology in medical care. Any titles your readers could suggest would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Merri Beth Lavagnino University of Vermont MLAVAGNI@UVMVM (Bitnet) MLAVAGNI@UVMVM.UVM.EDU (Internet) From: Lorne Hammond <051796@UOTTAWA> Subject: Re: 7.0515 Rs: Typing S/W; Spanish Texts; Indexing (3/83) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 94 20:40:37 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 640 (989) I would like the address of the publisher of CINDEX please. Thank you, Lorne Hammond From: David Potts <MFEPGDP@fs1.art.man.ac.uk> Subject: Philosophy Resouces (1/3) Date: 3 Mar 94 16:13:41 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 641 (990) As promised I have completed the list of Philosophy resources with two more files: one about on-line resources the other on Usenet groups. Both are rather small and probably don't tell many people anything new. I hope however that they prompt people to mail me with the REALLY interesting things that they are getting upto on the Net so that the next version of the list can be more informative. Cheers, Dave. From: AHC 94 <U204015@HNYKUN11> Subject: Conference registration Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 14:55:14 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 545 (991) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = == = = IX International Conference of the Association for History & Computing = = -=-=-=-=-=-=- = = 'Structures and contingencies in computerized historical research' = = -=-=-=-=-=-=- = = August 30 - September 2, 1994, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands = = == = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ===> Announcement / Call for papers <=== ==> Registration form at the end of this message <== == About the Conference == Scientific historical research aims at constructing an image of the past which comprises more than the sum of the historical events that serve as its basic material. Historical researchers, therefore, have much to gain from instruments that can be used to extract structures from the contingencies of historical events. The IX AHC Conference will offer a platform to all those who can contribute towards the unravelling of the problem of historical 'structures and contingencies' with help of a computer. The Conference includes main sessions, special sessions, project presentations and demonstrations all related to one of the following themes: - Computer structures, computer software and historical research - Structuring historical data - The dynamics of historical structures - Structuring data-processing - The study of historical structures A selection of already proposed papers is shown on the backside of this brochure. Conference language will be English. == Registration procedures == Proposals for sessions, papers and other contributions are invited for main sessions (30 min. reading time), special sessions (20 min. reading time), project presentations (10 min. reading time) and demonstrations all related to one of the themes mentioned above. A one-page abstract should be forwarded before March 31, 1994. The deadline for final registration, including hotel booking, is July 1, 1994. The normal registration fee for the Conference is Dfl. 325, however there is a discount for students, for members of the AHC and for members of the VGI. When payment is made before July 1, an additional discount will apply. The Conference registration fee will cover: - Admission to all Conference meetings - Conference volume of abstracts - Coffee and tea during conference breaks - Daily 3-course meal at luncheon - The latest publications of the `Halbgraue Reihe f r historische Fachinformatik', covering the work done by AHC-working groups. All who would like to participate in the Conference are kindly invited to fill in the registration form. People who have already sent in a preliminary registration form, are kindly requested to fill in this official form as well. == Books on display == Dekker & van de Vegt, the local booksellers, will have a display in the Conference Hall. People who would like their own publications to be sold at the Conference, can list them on the Registration Form. == Social Program == Tuesday, August 30 Welcome reception offered by the University of Nijmegen Wednesday, August 31 Guided walk through the city of Nijmegen Reception offered by the Mayor of Nijmegen Thursday, September 1 A Lowlands Excursion Tour which will take participants along the river Rhine to one of the small-scale medieval towns which are typical for this region of the Netherlands. Departure at 12.00 hours, return at 19.00 hours. Costs: Dfl 35, including luncheon. Friday, September 2 Farewell party thrown in by the VGI == More information == More information can be obtained from the Conference Secretary at the following address: AHC '94 P.O. Box 9111 6500 HN Nijmegen The Netherlands Tel: + 31 - 80 - 615968 FAX: + 31 - 80 - 567956 E-mail: u204015@vm.uci.kun.nl -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- A selection of papers proposed for the IXth Conference of the Association for History & Computing == Computer structures, computer software and historical research == Qualitative data analysis with QDE software Knowledge modelling: formalising the processes of historical interpre- tation The possibilities of image processing and image analysis == Structuring historical data == Hypertext techniques in historical data bases The collection of census data Data modelling of historical sources == The dynamics of historical structures == A set of dBase language programs for studying social dynamics The relational representation of criminal network formation, 18th century Computer text analysis as a tool for the analysis of structure and change == Structuring data-processing == Corpus-based name standardisation Using computerized classification methods Genesis: a multi-source family-reconstruction system == The study of historical structures == Computer-assisted simulation of social mobility Computerized analysis of economic consequences for different social groups of peasants Changing migration patterns == Special sessions on: == - education in computing and history - image processing and image analysis - social structure and social mobility research (organized by HISMA) - historical data archives - text analysis -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Registration Form Please complete all information requested and mail the registration form to: AHC '94 P.O. Box 9111 6500 HN Nijmegen The Netherlands == Personal information == Name: Institution: Full address: Telephone: FAX: E-mail: == For paper presentations only == (submission of a one-page abstract (*) required before March 31, 1994) Title: Theme: == For demonstrations only == (submission of a one-page abstract (*) required before March 31, 1994) Title: Hardware to be provided by the organisation: Software to be provided by the organisation: (*) Please enclose the abstract as an ASCII-file on a DOS-formatted diskette. == For book display only == (if you want your publications to be displayed and sold by the Conference Booksellers) Publication title(s), year of publication and publishing company: == Conference fees == ( ) I wish to register for the AHC '94 Conference Dfl. 325 (normal fee) Dfl. 300 (AHC Members) Dfl. 275 (VGI Members) Dfl. 175 (Students) Dfl. .......... ( ) I wish to take part in the AHC Lowlands Tour on 1 September 1994 Dfl. 35 Dfl. .......... ( ) I will pay before July, 1, 1994 minus Dfl. 25 Dfl. .......... --------------- total Dfl. .......... == Method of payment == The above amount is ( ) remitted to ABN-AMRO Bank, Nijmegen, Account no. 53.77.28.783 in favour of KUN Congresorganisatie, Nijmegen, projectno. 302002. ( ) remitted to Postgiro, Arnhem, Account no. 1781085 in favour of KUN Congresorganisatie, Nijmegen, projectno. 302002. ( ) remitted by enclosed Eurocheque in favour of KUN Congresorganisa- tie, Nijmegen, projectno. 302002. The amount per Eurocheque must not exceed Dfl. 300. == Hotel reservation == AMS Hotel Belvoir ( ) single Dfl. 145 ( ) double Dfl. 175 Hotel Mercure ( ) single Dfl. 150 ( ) double Dfl. 170 Hotel Atlanta ( ) single Dfl. 90 ( ) double Dfl. 115 Hotel Catharina ( ) single Dfl. 65 ( ) double Dfl. 130 Date of arrival: Date of departure: ( ) I will share my room with: ( ) I will make my own hotel arrangements: Place, date, and signature: From: AHC 94 <U204015@HNYKUN11> Subject: Microcosm workshop Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 14:56:08 MET X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 546 (992) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--= = == = = IX International Conference of the Association for History & Computing = = -=-=-=-=-=-=- = = Workshop HiDES/Microcosm = = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = = August 29, 1994, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands = = == = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ==> Announcement <== ==> Registration form at the and of this message <== Please direct all communications to: Dr. Frank Colson, at the HiDES Project Southampton University Southampton SO9 5NH United Kingdom = Referencing and handling multimedia sources: the HiDES/Microcosm approach = Southampton's HiDES Project offers a one-day workshop for historians wishing to incorporate the argument of multimedia into their work. The workshop will use PCs and will be located at the University of Nijmegen on 29th August, 1994. Please note that the workshop will take place the day before the start of the actual Conference of the Association for History & Computing. Students will be asked to bring their own data, in whatever form, oral and film [moving image] would be particularly appreciated. We would also hope that students might bring data related to the period 1940-1949. Students would be introduced to some of the latest software being developed at Southampton's 'scholar's workbench' project. Applications for this course should be sent to: Dr. Frank Colson, at the HiDES Project Southampton University Southampton SO9 5NH United Kingdom E-Mail: hii005@ibm.soton.ac.uk Registration required before 5th June, 1994. Costs: approx. 60 British pounds. Information on payment will be sent to you after registration for the workshop. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Registration form for the HiDES/Microcosm Workshop I want to ( ) receive more information on the workshop ( ) take part in the workshop Personal information Name: Institution: Full address: Telephone: FAX: E-mail: N.B. Please mail this form to the address mentioned above and not to the AHC-Conference address From: Howard Gaskill <GERHGS@srv0.arts.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: Edinburgh Conferences July 1995 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 12:45:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 547 (993) Humanists might be interested in the following conferences, to be held within a few days of each other in Edinburgh in July 1995 ****************************** BRITISH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION First Announcement and Call for Papers Seventh International Conference 12-15 July 1995 University of Edinburgh `CITIES, GARDENS, WILDERNESSES' There will be five sections; the areas listed for each section serve as suggestions and are not meant to be exclusive. Section 1 Labyrinths Labyrinthine Texts. Narrative Metaphors: Threads, Weaving, Building, Paths Texts about Labyrinths. Mazes and Jungles (Natural and Artificial) Labyrinthine Minds. Psychoanalysis; Order and Organization; Underworlds and Otherworlds Section 2 Translation/Transplantation Translation and Appropriation; Intertextuality and Influence Cultural Transfers: Meeting and Conflict, History and Discourse East and West/Europe and the Americas/Ancient and Modern Section 3 Culture and Civilization Multitudes and Solitudes/Crowds and Individual Consciousness. Experience and Experiment: Ways of Seeing the City and Problems of Urban Form The Urban and Urbane: the Poor and the Rich Images and Realities/Visible and Invisible Cities Gender and Identity in City Space Modernism, Postmodernism and the City Section 4 Paradises Paradises Lost, Sought, Regained; Retreats, Illusions, Idylls Paradises Constructed, Imagined, Fought for Deceptive, Hollow paradises; Subjective Edens; Innocence and Loss of Innocence Section 5 Travel Travel Writing as an Exploration (in Language) of the Meeting or Conflict of Cultures Discovery of City, Garden or Wilderness as a Place of Otherness Travel from `Centre' to `Periphery', or from `Periphery' to `Centre' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Offers of Papers (including 300-word abstract) should be sent by the end of June to the BCLA Secretary: Dr Howard Gaskill, Department of German, University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower, George Square, GB - Edinburgh EH8 9JX (tel. 031 650 3627; Email H.Gaskill@ed.ac.uk) BCLA members attending the Edinburgh Conference will receive a discount equivalent to the cost of a year's membership. *********************************************** TENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC EDINBURGH JULY 19-22 1995 Call for papers. The conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from the morning of Wednesday July 19 1995 (with registration beginning on the previous afternoon) until the evening of Saturday July 22. The principal themes are a) Rhetoric, Poetics and Literary Theory; b) Prudence, Decorum, Taste; c) Rhetoric, National Identity and War; d) Rhetoric in Scotland. In addition there will be a range ofpanels on periods and other topics which may be proposed. Groups of three or four related proposals are welcome, but the programme committee will not feel bound to accept group proposals in their entirety. Proposals (titles and brief abstracts) for papers not exceeding 20 minutes in duration should be sent (with the proposer's address) on one side of a sheet of A4 or quarto paper to the following address by 15 May 1994. If you do not wish to offer a paper but would like further information and booking forms (available Autumn 1994) please send your name and address: Professor Peter France (President ISHR) Department of French University of Edinburgh 60 George Square EDINBURGH EH9 1RP United Kingdom. (Fax 031,650.6538) e-mail (for correspondence, not proposals) p.france@ed.ac.uk. From: jgp@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Degree Course Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 11:24:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 548 (994) To: lists Linguist, HUMANIST, SCHOLAR, with apologies for overkill. Would you mind publicising this, please, if it is not regarded as inadmissible advertising? M.A. by coursework and dissertation in Applied Language Studies: Computing The M.A. in Applied Language Studies: Computing is designed to provide the skills and knowledge the increasing use of computer technology in the languages field requires: it has all too often been the case that computer work in languages has failed to match the needs and abilities of the language specialist with the technical capacities of the computer specialist, and this programme aims to redress this imbalance. No previous knowledge of computing is presumed, nor does the programme, which is aimed primarily at language (including English) graduates, itself specifically on any one language. It is not intended as a programme in computer programming. It is anticipated that on the basis of their new skills and knowledge successful MA students will find career enhancement at their own or other establishments, perhaps set up or run language schools and language consultancies, or work as advisers and software producers in the expanding language technology publishing sector. The areas of study include word-processing; operating systems; materials production and evaluation; electronic publishing; network establishment and management; the use of on- line services and databases; a hardware review; and with a specific view towards languages applications, description of languages, based on English; computational linguistics; language typology; CALL methodology and translation packages. Essential requirements are: 1) a good language degree or equivalent from an accredited institution OR 2) a good degree and relevant experience in language-teaching or translation 3) a good knowledge of English. The programme is taught by a number of staff with specialisms in a variety of languages, in linguistics and in computing. The majority of the teachers are active language teachers, members of the School of European and Modern Language Studies, which has responsibility for teaching modern foreign languages, their literatures, and linguistics. The School has its own new, modern building equipped with two networked CALL Laboratories, one strictly for postgraduate use, two language laboratories and a video and audio workroom receiving and recording satellite and terrestrial television and radio transmissions in a wide range of languages. In addition computer facilities are available across the campus, providing access to the campus network and thus to electronic mail and other on-line services. Structure: The degree package, which is available on a full- (one-year) or part-time (two-year) basis, is based on coursework and a dissertation/project. Teaching takes place during the first two terms of the academic year, the third term being essentially devoted to supervised work on the dissertation/project to be submitted by the end of September in the year in which all coursework is completed. Currently the programme attracts European Social Fund bursaries (covering fees and maintenance grant) for candidates fulfilling certain prerequisites laid down by the European Union, but the award of such bursaries cannot be guaranteed for the future. Courses 1) Utilities 1: Word-processing, operating systems, editors, e-mail, on-line and CD- ROM information retrieval services. 2) Description of English. 3) Software evaluation 1: Computer-Assisted Language-Learning (CALL). 4) Software evaluation 2: Dictionaries and translation software packages. 5) Electronic publishing and hypertext. 6) Computational linguistics and language typology. 7) Software design and implementation. 8) Utilities 2: a) Further software utilities: advanced word-processing, spreadsheets and databases. b) Local networks. c) Hardware: overview and selection criteria. Distribution of courses: Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 1 5 dissertation 2 6 (12-15000 words) 3 7 4 8 Assessment: Stage 1: Continuous (1 essay or equivalent per course per term for terms 1 & 2, thus 8 pieces of assessed work overall). In general, assignments are negotiated on an individual basis. No examination. NB: This does not apply to Electronic publishing and hypertext, which is assessed by coursework and an examination in the third term. Stage 2: M.A. dissertation or diploma project, counting as 2 courses. It may be possible for the dissertation to be completed under local supervision at an overseas university. Research: Applications are welcomed to undertake research leading to the award of the M.Phil or Ph.D in this area. Prior to the establishment of the UKC Centre for Languages and Computing, postgraduate language students gained research MAs in the area of the application of technology to language studies, and this avenue is still open. Potential supervisors have expertise in a range of languages, in linguistics and in computing. Currently a Teaching and Learning with Technology Programme project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council is being run here in a consortium with the Universities of Cambridge and Southampton. A hypertext Spanish audio-comprehension course with funding from Enterprise Kent, and Dr. Partridge and a hypertext English-German grammatical and linguistic term glossary are at present under development here. While both these projects are at present restricted to specific languages, they are being constructed in such a way as to allow them to be extended to other languages. These projects are not Ph.D programmes, but are indicative of the type of work currently going on at the UKC Centre for Languages and Computing. Application forms and the UKC Graduate Prospectus are available from: The Graduate Office, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK. [Phone ++44 0227 764000, Fax ++44 0227 452196] For further details, please contact Dr. John Partridge Course Director, M.A. in Applied Language Studies: Computing School of European and Modern Language Studies, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK. [Phone ++44 0227 764000 x3617, Fax ++44 0227 475479, E-mail jgp@ukc.ac.uk] |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| | Dr. John Partridge (<jgp@ukc.ac.uk>) | | Course Director | | MA in Applied Languages: Computing | | School of European and Modern Language Studies | | University of Kent at Canterbury | | Canterbury | | Kent CT2 7NF | | UK Phone ++44)(0227 764000 x3617 | | Fax (++44)(0)227 475476 | Thanks. John Partridge From: David Potts <MFEPGDP@fs1.art.man.ac.uk> Subject: Philosophy Resources (3/3) Date: 3 Mar 94 16:17:40 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 549 (995) Usenet Groups. I have found only a few Usenet groups relevant to philosophy. The material carried on Usenet is on the whole of a lower standard. As access is more widespread than other Net resources hence these groups tend to be very chatty in nature and a lot of the philosophy about whether or not there is a God. But by the same reasoning they also reach a larger audience if you are seeking help. Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind. Groups : comp.ai comp.ai.philosophy These are two good groups for the discussion of consciousness, theories of mind etc. Clearly the comp.ai.philosophy deal with more philosophical issues but the two groups tend to overlap. General Philosophy. Groups : sci.philosophy.meta sci.philosophy.tech Both these groups deal with general discussions of philosophy. The "tech" group aimed at more technical matters however both are at a fairly low level. Logic Group : sci.logic This groups discusses both philosophical and formal logic but tends to be based strongly from a computer science outlook. Any more? To state the obvious this is a very short list. If you know of any other Usenet groups that are good philosophical sources please let me know. David Potts. E-Mail : mfepgdp@fs1.art.man.ac.uk 3 March 1994. From: David Potts <MFEPGDP@fs1.art.man.ac.uk> Subject: Philosophy Resources (2/3) Date: 3 Mar 94 16:14:27 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 550 (996) Internet Resources for Philosophy. 1 Gopher The beauty of the Gopher system is that it allows one to browse throughout information sources all over the globe. Such is gopher's scope that a directory of what to look for is as impossible as it is pointless - the net changes so rapidly that it would become almost instantly obsolete. All that the new gopher user needs is a pointer to show them where to start looking. The first link in the chain leads on to the next. I will assume that you can obtain a Gopher home page in your locality with access to a Veronica search. Having got onto gopher I recomand three Gophers of special interest to philosophers: 1) The American Philosophical Association Gopher. 2) The "Coombsquest" Humanities Gopher in Australia. 3) Subject Tree. [deleted quotation] These Gophers all provide lists of where to search next along with lots of other information. The A.P.A. has a "Requests for information." board that is usually very effective at getting help from other Net users. 1.1 Zen and the Art of Internet. "Zen" is a good source of detailed information about many sources available on the net. You can access it by choosing the Veronica search option on the Gopher and then searching for directories that match "zen and internet". 1.2 International Philosophical Preprint Exchange. This is an internet repository for working papers in all areas of philosophy. It allows a medium by which philosophers can comment on each other's work. Access the IPPE via the American Philosophical Association's Gopher (see above). 2 Getting Software - Archie and FTP. If there is publicly available software that you want to get hold of but don't know where to find it then there is a database that you can search called "Archie". To search Archie : 1) TELNET to src.doc.ic.ac.uk 2) Login as "archie" 3) At the prompt type "set pager" to stop things scrolling off the screen. 4) Type "Find <search-text>". This will give you a list of the sites where the program can be FTP'ed from. Choose a site in the U.K. if possible as it will transfer data much faster. As with most other resources if you have trouble using Archie type "Help" to get assistance. 3 HUMBUL. Humbul is the Humanities Bulletin Board maintained by Oxford University. To access it you must: 1) TELNET sun.nsf.ac.uk 2) Login as "JANET" 3) Give the password "UK.AC.HUMBUL" You will then have to register your name and E-Mail address to use Humbul. Any more? I would like to hear of any other on-line resources that are of use to philosophers. I realise that this list is quite short so if you know of something that should go on here then please let me know. David Potts. E-Mail : mfepgdp@fs1.art.man.ac.uk 3rd March 1994. From: RANDY BASS <RBASS@GUVAX.BITNET> Subject: New List on American Literature Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 19:51:26 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 642 (997) Announcing a New List for Teachers of American Literature: *"Teaching the American Literatures" (T-AMLIT)* "Teaching the American Literatures" (T-AMLIT) is a new electronic forum for teachers and scholars interested in the literatures of the United States. T-AMLIT is dedicated to fostering discussion about innovative and effective ways to teach a radically expanded American literature. "Teaching the American Literatures" (T-AMLIT) has several aspects. It is a moderated Discussion List for teachers to ask questions, converse and debate critical and pedagogical approaches to American literature, as well as provide a forum for the exchange of information on both print and electronic resources in American literature, including syllabi, bibliographies, study guides, and other pedagogical materials. "Teaching the American Literatures" is also an Electronic Conference, with extended electronic seminars on topics such as "Teaching Native American Literature," "Teaching Class Issues Through American Literature," "Introducing Literary Theory into American Literature Courses" and so on; there will also be online seminars focussed on accessing and utilizing internet resources related to American literature for both scholarship and teaching. * T-AMLIT and The Database of American Literature * [deleted quotation]as the complement to a partner project: "The Database of American Literature," being created through Georgetown University. "The Database of American Literature" will be an online archive of pedagogical, critical, and scholarly materials on American literature, as well as a gateway to hundreds of American literature resources available on the Internet. "Teaching the American Literatures," as a discussion list and electronic conference, will serve as a primary source and clearinghouse for the generation of information and materials for "The Database of American Literature." "The Database of American Literature" is under construction; its first phase will be accessible by late Spring, 1994. *Subscribing to "Teaching the American Literatures" (T-AMLIT)* To subscribe to T-AMLIT, send a mail message to LISTSERV@BITNIC.BITNET or LISTSERV@BITNIC.EDUCOM.EDU, with the single line message: subscribe T-AMLIT [your name] ** "Teaching the American Literatures" is moderated and edited by Randy Bass (Georgetown University) ** From: "Norman N. Holland" <NNH@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> Subject: PSYART Date: Mon, 07 Mar 94 15:24:58 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 643 (998) PSYART the list-conference of IPSA, the Institute for Psychological Study of the Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611-2036. Our list is interested in the psychological study of literature in particular, but also film and, in practice, any of the arts. We tend to be psychoanalytically focused, but we welcome comments from any psychological orientation. We also carry postings simply dealing with psychoanalysis or psychology in general. Recent queries and discussions have focused on: course syllabuses in the field; arts and the Internet; the Gates profile in the _New Yorker_; blind and deaf patients and therapists; chaos theory as applied to human identity; the validity of Lacan; art therapy. The list has been running since January 1993. As of March 1994, PSYART has about 180 subscribers from 16 countries, including humanists, clinicians, artists, students, and experimenters. To subscribe, send a one-line message as follows: SUBSCRIBE PSYART <yourfirstname> <yourlastname> to: LISTSERV@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Also, IPSA files can be obtained from PSYART@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU by anonymous ftp. Presently posted is the IPSA Abstracts and Bibliography for 1993. Also, messages are logged and kept in files of the form: PSYARTLG <YYMMDD>, where the date is the ending date. +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Norm Holland Department of English | | University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611 Tel: (904) 377-0096| | BITNET: nnh@nervm INTERNET: nnh@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu | +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ From: Eric Rabkin <USERGDFD@UMICHUM.BITNET> Subject: "Once, Twice, Thrice" Again Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 08:01:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 644 (999) A while back I asked the list if anyone knew the name, parallel to "cardinal numbers" and "ordinal numbers," for the series "once, twice, thrice," and any further terms in the series. I thought the list now might be interested to learn that no one has sent me a precisely parallel, established term. Clarence Brown, however, says he would propose calling these "iterative numbers." Martti Nyman notes that they are "adverbia numeralia" in Latin grammar and so could be called "numeral adverbs" in English, which is not quite parallel but darned close, IMHO. Joseph Jones points out that these words are treated twice in _A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language_ (1985), in section 5.18 they are classed as "multipliers" under predeterminers, under determinatives in a chapter on nouns and determiners, and in section 8.64 they are classed under occasion frequency but apparently given no specific name. Paul McNamara points out that all sets such as "one, two, three," "first, second, third," and "once, twice, thrice" are technically known as "well ordered series." Only one person, Joseph, suggested further terms in the series: "four times, five times, etc." On the basis of the responses we've had so far, I propose "adverbial numbers" as the parallel term, although the word "adverbial" suggests more how the number words are used than how they are constructed. If anyone cares to send me other suggestions, I'll collect them, and the reasoning that may accompany them, and report to the list. I think, like astronomers who first spot a comet, we have the right to name this heretofore unnamed phenomenon, the list serving as the International Union. Many thanks to all. Eric Eric Rabkin esrabkin@umich.edu Department of English esrabkin@umichum.bitnet University of Michigan office : 313-764-2553 Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 dept : 313-764-6330 deptl fax : 313-763-3128 voice msgs: 313-763-3130 From: Evert Volkersz <XEVOLKERSZ@SBCCMAIL.BITNET> Subject: Dutch Booksellers Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 12:02:04 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 645 (1000) This message was posted to Exlibris last week. Sorry for this delay. I followed up on Lucia Diamond's suggestion and contacted Arnoud Gerits of A. Gerits & Son b.v., Prinsengracht 445, P.O. Box 664, 1000 AR Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Voice (0) 20-627 2285, Fax (0) 20-625 89 70. A summary of his response is as follows: 1. Individuals may order books and pay with a credit card. Currently Master/Eurocard and Visa are accepted. 2. They are in the process of setting up an email account. 3. They will send catalogs or recently published European titles. Books that have been orders are bought by Gerits, inspected for completeness, and invoiced and mailed by a commercial service by airmail. Gerits charges regular surface mailing costs and pays the difference between the two rates. This means rapid delivery with reasonable transportation costs. Because Gerits will have paid its suppliers long before the customer pays, they claim the right to charge one's credit card at the time of mailing. Mr. Gerits writes that his business has a number of satisfied customers in the U.S., and encourages potential customers to write, fax, or call. His father, A.H.J. Gerits, current president of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, will be in New York to moderate the "Collector & Bookseller: Fellowship of the Book" conference at the Grolier on April 20, and may be contacted there. Perhaps the first Exlibris reader who finds out Gerits's email address can post it to Exlibris. If you know of other dealers in the Netherlands, or other countries, who will accept orders by email and payment by credit card, please share these with the list. Evert Volkersz, Head evolkersz@ccmail.sunysb.edu Special Collections Department Fax: 516-632-7116 SUNY Library Voice: 516-632-7119 Stony Brook, NY 11794-3323 From: bosley@aix1.uottawa.CA (Aneurin Bosley) Subject: Internet Advertising -- A Special Report Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 17:14:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 553 (1001) Internet Advertising -- The Internet Speaks Out The April issue of THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL will be a special report on Internet Advertising. Members of the Internet community have strong and divided opinions about Internet-facilitated advertising, and we would like to include a sampling of these opinions in this special report. Here is a chance to tell the business community what you feel about advertising on the Internet. We also invite extended commentary on the subject (up to 2,000 words). Also, if you provide an Internet advertising service of any kind, send details to ak943@freenet.carleton.ca for inclusion in the special report's resource section. If you have an interesting story to tell about your business using the Internet to advertise -- or about being the recipient of advertising on the Internet, we would also like to hear from you. This special issue will be freely available on the Internet in low ASCII and Postscript format. Send your submissions to me at ak943@freenet.carleton.ca by March 11, 1994. THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL welcomes letters from Internet users on any subject but reserves the right to condense them as necessary. Letters must include name, address and telephone number. Aneurin Bosley Editor The Internet Business Journal ak943@freenet.carleton.ca The following commentary on one aspect of Internet-facilitated advertising appeared in the February issue of THE INTERNET BUSINESS JOURNAL. Internet Advertising and a Level Playing Field When it comes to the issue of Internet-facilitated advertising, the Internet will never mean the same thing to large corporations as it does to the world of small to medium size enterprises. The key difference between small business and the corporate world is access to national and international markets through advertising. Until the arrival of the Internet as a business communication tool, small businesses never had access to affordable global marketing capability -- exorbitant advertising costs represented the final barrier to growth. The high costs of traditional means of advertising has served to ensure that small businesses rarely grow beyond local markets. Now that the commercial Internet has come of age, the privileged access to global audiences previously held by the corporate world can no longer be counted on to ensure market domination. Privileged access to international audiences has been effectively and permanently broken by the rise of Internet entrepreneurs. Unlike the Internet, the coming Information Superhighway will not have a significant immediate impact on small to medium size enterprises. This is because the Information Superhighway will primarily consist of interactive entertainment services controlled by multinationals. The cost of entrance into this digital consumer Disney land will undoubtedly remain out of reach of the typical small business. Television advertising has never provided more than local advertising capability to small businesses. There is little reason to believe that even the next generation of "smart TV's" hooked into the InfoHighway will be significantly less expensive. The critical difference between the Internet and the coming Information Superhighway is ownership and membership fees. The ownership of the InfoHighway of tomorrow will rest in the hands of an exclusive consortium consisting of telecommunications, cable, and entertainment industries. The Internet will remain a stark contrast -- no primary owners, no content controllers, and almost insignificant entrance fees. Whereas the largest mergers in history are occurring as a result of multinationals jockeying for position of dominance over the InfoSuperhighway, a quiet paradigm shift marked by the evolution of multimedia, bi-directional Internet advertising is quietly and swiftly growing. In the middle of this decade, the corporate world will experience a rude awakening when they finally discover that tens of thousands of small businesses are gaining an increasing share in the international delivery of products and services due to the empowering effect of Internet- facilitated advertising. With an ever increasing percentage of the economy and job creation tied to the rise of home-based business, there exists the distinct possibility that the balance of power may shift from inefficient, slow moving corporate bureaucracies to highly adaptive telecommuting entrepreneurs and virtual partnering collectives. Often, the true significance of a new phenomenon lies not in the phenomenon itself, but in the convergence between two or more new social systems. The Internet as a communication system is historically unique in many aspects: its size, growth rate, decentralized structure, multi-cultural character, and subversive potential (note that any wide spread phenomenon that displaces the distribution of power in society is inherently "subversive" to those who experience loss of power and control). At the very time in history when we are witness to the rise of the Internet, we are also faced with the globalization of markets and cultures. This generation is also witness to an unparalleled return to home-based businesses and cottage industries. The economic bases of North America is shifting away from the hands of the multinationals to the microeconomics of small businesses. The economic significance of small businesses is occurring at the very time that the Internet is able to empower small businesses to effectively compete in the international market. Neither the growth of small businesses nor the arrival of the commercial Internet as isolated phenomenon represent a sufficient precondition for a paradigm shift within the global economy. But together, they will prove to be a radical agent of change. Up until now, the most widely held assumption in macroeconomics is that multinationals would continue to dominate global markets. But this assumption can no longer be maintained when, in the midst of this information age, both the medium of information is changing (paper to digital), and the centralized control over the mass distribution of sanctioned knowledge is eroding (the second gutenberg revolution -- every computer on the Internet is a potential printing press serving a global audience). Information and the knowledge it yields is power, and today we are witnessing the beginnings of a fundamental change in both the nature of information, the flow of information, and the control over information. When these changes are fully realized, we will be faced with a very different society and entirely new global economy. A key, but by no means isolated, factor in the coming economic revolution is the Internet and its affordable bi-directional advertising capabilities. Michael Strangelove Mstrange@Fonorola.Net From: fehrenbach robert j <rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu> Subject: PLRE PuzzleBatch 1 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 10:20:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 554 (1002) PRIVATE LIBRARIES IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND annotates and publishes lists of books owned by English men and women living between 1500 and 1650. These book-lists derive from a variety of manuscript sources, most notably inventories compiled upon the owners' deaths. Now and again, manuscript entries--often in erratic spelling fashioned in nearly illegible hands--resist identification. Seeking help with such stubborn items, PLRE periodically throws wide the investigative net and asks subscribers to various electronic lists to join in the bibliographical sleuthing: what book did a compiler hold in his hand before scribbling down what now, over four centuries later, has become a mystery? Sometimes nothing more than a fresh look at a long-puzzling entry will do the trick; therefore, the possibilities that PLRE editors have already come up with are not provided. Suggestions for identifications should be sent to me, the General Editor of PLRE, or to the entire list if you think the puzzle- solving will have a wider interest. If possible, please cite a bibliographical source in which the author/work can be found. Since accepted identifications will be acknowledged in both the PLRE database and its published volumes, be sure to identify yourself when sending in a suggestion. NEH supports the PLRE project but, alas, does not provide prize money for `correct' solutions. The entries currently puzzling PLRE editors are presented as transcribed and are accompanied by the date of the manuscript (NOT the book) in which they were found. DATE OF MS ENTRY 1571 gunzagar super kyromansiam 1571 Borcerus in metora 1576 2a pars postille siriensis 1576 hollond de ordine heremetarum 1576 tirosinus de sacro altare ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R.J. Fehrenbach . Department of English . College of William and Mary Williamsburg VA 23187-8795 rjfehr@aardvark.cc.wm.edu OR rjfehr@mail.wm.edu 804 221-3920 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: Summer School on Comp.Ling. Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 08:02:08 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 555 (1003) *PLEASE POST* Advance Announcement International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" ____________________________________________________________________ 1 - 5 Sept 1994 Varna, Black Sea Coast, BULGARIA Sponsored by: European Association for Machine Translation and ECCAI-European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence Dates: 1 - 5 Sept 1994, (arrival 31 August, departure 6 September) Location: near Varna, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria The exact location of the Summer School will be given in the second announcement. Who should attend: The school is intended mainly for university students and young researchers, but will offer both introductory and advanced courses. Those who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can join the Bulgarian National seminar on Mathematical and Computational Linguistics which will take place from the 4th to the 10th of September 1994 at the same place. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME: (three or four more courses will be added) Margaret King (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Latest Developments in Machine Translation Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Introduction to Semantic Syntax Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Multilingual Natural Language Interfaces Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Discourse Structure and Reference resolution Manfred Kudlek (University Hamburg, Germany) Models for Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Languages Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain) Mathematical Linguistics: Its relevance for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science ORGANISERS: R.Mitkov Institute of Mathematics BULGARIA M.Zock LIMSI, Orsay FRANCE M.Kudlek University of Hamburg GERMANY N.Nikolov Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen BULGARIA COSTS: in the second announcement. FURTHER INFORMATION: People wishing to participate should contact one of the people mentioned below. Please use the attached registration form. Ruslan Mitkov E-mail: ruslan@cslab.kaist.ac.kr Nicolas Nicolov E-mail: nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk Nikolai Nikolov Tel: +359-54 56948 Fax: +359-54 56881 ____________________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION REPLY FORM: International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Name: (Last)_________________________ (First)_______________________ Affiliation:________________________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________________ Country:_____________________________ Phone:_______________________________ Fax :_______________________________ Email:_______________________________ * Mail Registration Reply Form to: Mr. Nikolai Nikolov P.O. Box 20, Incoma, 9700 Shumen BULGARIA *PLEASE POST* From: S50786@BC750 Subject: Help with Latin Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 17:03 +08:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 646 (1004) Can anyone adept in Latin language and/or literature assist me in translating and/or tracing the following quotation (which I believe comes from Seneca)? Nihil magis proestandum est quam ne pecorum ritu sequamur antecedentium gregem, pergentes, non qua eundum sed qua it ur. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Yours, Steve Palmquist S50786@bc750.bitnet From: anixon@carleton.edu (Andrea Nixon) Subject: EPIE Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 11:55:34 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 647 (1005) While at the Society for Applied Learning Technology conference last month I heard about EPIE (Educational Products Information Exchange). I understand that they publish a journal that is dedicated to reviewing software. My questions for the list are: Does anyone on the list recieve this journal? Does it focus on higher ed or is it more general in scope? Have you found the reviews accurate and/or useful? Would you be so kind as to post contact information for this group? Thanks in advance! Andrea Nixon Academic Computing Coordinator - Humanities and Languages Carleton College anixon@carleton.edu From: Aleksander Murzaku <0006353692@mcimail.com> Subject: Query: Spanish verbs? Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 17:56 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 648 (1006) /up load xmodem ascii Does anybody know if there exist a verb conjugator for Spanish or a list of conjugated verbs or a rule database etc. (for sale or free)? I would be more interested on American Spanish but even Castilian Spanish would be welcome. Thanks in advance, Aleksander Murzaku Microlytics, Inc. P.S. You can answer me on 6353692@mcimail.com or microlytics.roch898@xerox.com From: Diane Kovacs <DKOVACS@KENTVM> Subject: 8th Revision Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences now Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 18:36:59 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 557 (1007) ____________________________________ 8th Revision Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences ____________________________________ Contents: 1. How to Retrieve the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. 2. Scope of the Directory 3. The Directory Team 4. Subscription Instructions 5. Definitions 6. Archives ********** 1. How to retrieve the Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences ********** ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory) ACADLIST INDEX (Listname and Keyword Index of the Directory) 96 k ACADSTAC HQX (binhexed, self-decompressing, HYPERCARD version of the Directory - Keyword searchable) 587 k (1 meg. decompressed.) ACADSMAL HQX (discontinued but the regular stack should work on small screen Macs now. ACADLIST FILE1 (Education and Library and Information Science) 120 k ACADLIST FILE2 (Art and Architecture through Linguistics and Text Analysis) 79 k ACADLIST FILE3 (Literature through Writing) 98 k ACADLIST FILE4 (Social Sciences) 141 k ACADLIST FILE5 (Biological Sciences) 63 k ACADLIST FILE6 (Physical Sciences) 77 k ACADLIST FILE7 (Business, Economics, Publishing and News) 38 k ACADLIST FILE8 (Computer Science) 77 k ACADLIST FILE9 (Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Computing; and Academic Computing Support) 96 k ********* PRINT version is available from the Association for Research Libraries. The print version is combined with the Directory of Electronic Journals and is called _The Directory of Electronic Journals Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists_ Contact Ann Okerson - ann@cni.org for more information. ********* How to retrieve files from the LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU 1. Send an e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU. 2. Leave the subject and other info lines blank. 3. The message must read: GET Filename Filetype f=mail (e.g., ACADLIST FILE1 or ACADSTAC HQX or whatever) 4. If you need assistance receiving, etc. contact your local Computer Services people How to retreive files via anonymous FTP to KSUVXA.KENT.EDU 1. type: ftp KSUVXA.KENT.EDU at your dollar sign prompt (VAX) your shell prompt (Unix) or ready screen (IBM VM). If you are on another kind of system consult with your computer services people to find out the proper procedure. 2. when prompted for 'USERID,' type anonymous 3. Your password will be your actual userid on your local machine. 4. Type: cd library 5. Type: get Filename.Filetype (e.g., ACADLIST.FILE1 or ACADSTAC.HQX or whatever) 6. The files will be transferred directly into the directory you ftp'ed from. GOPHER gopher.usask.ca and gopher.cni.org (there are several other sites as well) ****** 2. Scope of the Directory ****** This directory contains descriptions of electronic conferences (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars. E-conference is the umbrella term that includes discussion lists, Internet interest groups, e-journals, e- newsletters, Usenet newsgroups, forums, etc. We have used our own judgment in deciding what is of scholarly interest, and accept any advice or argument about our decisions. We have placed the entries into categories by deciding the *dominant* academic subject area of the electronic conference. Usenet Newsgroups have been directly reviewed for inclusion in this version. The Internet and Bitnet addresses are marked with an (I) or a (B) respectively. Earn and Usenet sites are marked with an (E) or a (U) respectively. Many LISTSERV e-conferences have peer sites, in order to save space we have only listed the main LISTSERV node for these. Where possible, the information in each record has been checked for currency and accuracy by contacting the moderators or other contact person. We chose the term *moderator* as the umbrella term to describe: contact person, coordinator, listowner, editor, moderator, etc.; whoever is in charge. **************************************************** The field labels are as follows: LN: (e-conference name) TI: (topic information) SU: (subscription information) ED: (edited? Yes or No - Private lists were called edited) AR: (archived? if Yes, frequency, Private=subscribers only) MO: (moderator, editor, listowner, manager, coordinator,etc.) SA: (submission address(es)) KE: (keywords) **************************************************** Topic descriptions are taken in whole or part from the descriptions provided by each moderator. Thank you to Marty Hoag, Listowner of New-List for providing the archives of New-List as a clearing house for list information. Special thank you to David Hartland. NISP/Mailbase Project, Computing Service, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne for information on 235 of the United Kingdom MAILBASE e-conferences. Thank you also to Teri Harrison for updating and providing information on the COMSERVE conferences, Pedro Saizar for providing information on Latin American Studies electronic conferences, Joseph Van Zwaren for Israeli electronic conference information, and Joan Korenman for information on Women's Studies conferences, Jean Schneider for confirming european e-conferences and Hunter Monroe for checking on the unannounced and relocated e-conferences. Thank you very sincerely to all the individuals who contributed conference names, information and feedback about conference statuses. Any errors are the responsibility of the compilers of each section. If you can provide corrections or additional information about any of these electronic conferences, please contact the Directory Team member responsible for that area or: Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief (Bitnet) DKOVACS@KENTVM (Internet) DKOVACS@KENTVM.KENT.EDU ********** 3. The Directory Team: ********** Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief (Bitnet)dkovacs@kentvm (Internet)dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) Humanities: Comparative & Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies Languages Linguistics and Text Analysis Literature Writing Education: Computer Assisted Instruction/Educational Technology Education: Educational Research (general), Grants and Funding Education: Higher, Adult and Continuing Education Education: Primary, Secondary (K-12), Vocational and Technical Education: Miscellaneous Education, Alumni and Student Groups Gladys Bell (Bitnet) gbell@kentvm (Internet) gbell@kentvm.kent.edu Anthropology and Archaeology Geography and Misc.Regional and Individual Country Studies History Latin American Studies Social Work Social Activism Sociology and Demography Michael Kovacs (Internet) mkovacs@mcs.kent.edu Computer Science; Social, Cultural and Political aspects of Computers and Academic Computer Support FILE Paul Fehrmann (Bitnet) pfehrman@kentvm (Internet) pfehrman@kentvm.kent.edu Communication Studies Journalism Philosophy and Ethics Psychology Religious Studies Leslie Haas (Bitnet)lhaas@kentvm (Internet)lhaas@kentvm.kent.edu Education: Special Education, Developmental Disabilities, Physical Disabilities and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Law and Criminal Justice Political Science and Politics Business News Weather and Meteorology Animal Sciences (Zoology) Environmental Sciences (ADA) Americans with Disabilities Act Interest Section --- Jeannie Langendorfer (Bitnet)jlangend@kentvm (Internet)jlangend@kentvm.kent.edu Biological Sciences FILE (except Animal Sciences and Environmental Sciences) Womens Studies/Gender Studies Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Jolene Miller/Amey Park (Bitnet)apark@kentvm (Internet)jmiller@kentvm.kent.edu / apark@kentvm.kent.edu Physical Sciences FILE(except Weather) Kara Robinson (Bitnet)krobinso@kentvm (Internet)krobinso@kentvm.kent.edu Art Library and Information Science Publishing and Related Issues Music Theater, Film and Television ********** 4. General Subscription Instructions: ********** To subscribe to a LISTSERV (both Unix Internet and IBM/VM LISTSERV software is in use. Both Internet and Bitnet addresses are provided where possible), COMSERVE, LISTPROC, MAILBASE, MAILSERV, MAJORDOMO, NEWSERV or SARASERV discussion list send an e-mail message addressed to the Bitnet or Internet address provided in the SU: field. Leave the subject line blank. The text of the message *must* read: SUBSCRIBE LISTNAME Yourfirstname Yourlastname Your Institution (LISTNAME means the name of the list..e.g. if the LN: field says LIBREF-L@KENTVM.KENT.EDU..the LISTNAME is LIBREF-L) Bitnet users should use the Bitnet address. Internet users should use the Internet server address. Do not include any other text and *leave the subject line blank* as this is being read by a computer and not a person....the machine just won't understand and will bounce back your command if it is not worded as specified above. To subscribe to Internet Interest Groups, you send an e-mail message to list-REQUEST@host (e.g., SOC-CULTURE-GREEK- REQUEST@CS.WISC.EDU). The -REQUEST address gets you to the Coordinator, rather than to the membership of the entire e- conference. Please look carefully at the entry for each list you are interested in, to see if a -REQUEST address has been provided. Include your name, address, and institutional affiliation in your message Usenet Newsgroups are generally accessed by typing "RN" or "NN" at the shell prompt, ready screen or $ prompt on your e- mail account. Check with your Computer Services People to find out what the local availability and procedures are for access to Usenet Newsgroups. Subscription directions for other types of discussions are included with individual entries. ********** 5. Definitions ********** BITNET--Because Its Time Network...BITNET was established as an academic network for scholars from different universities all over the world to communicate with each other. BITNET uses RSCS protocol. This means that messages/commands are "leap-frogged" from one BITNET connected Computer to another (e.g., Kent State University to Ohio State University to University of Houston). EARN-- is the European Academic Research Network and works similarly to (and is directly connected to) the Bitnet. FTP-- File Transfer Protocol, allows moving files from one computer to another using the Internet protocols. Internet-- The international network of networks based on the TCP/IP protocol. That is, to be connected to the Internet, a computer must be running the TCP/IP software, have a registered domain, and a telecommunications connection to other computers running TCP/IP (e.g., connected through OARNET). Usenet-- A worldwide Unix-based network that supports the distribution of messages; e.g., USENET NEWS *If you find other terms that you would like to understand please contact us and we'll be glad to help. ********** 6. Archives ********** Archives are available for many discussions. On LISTSERV, COMSERVE, MAILSERV and MAILBASE to receive a list of files available from a server send the command: INDEX LISTNAME to SERVER@NODEID You can then send the message: GET Filename Filetype to the SERVER@NODEID. (SERVER means LISTSERV or COMSERVE or MAILBASE or MAILSERV or whatever, NODEID means the site of the server which runs the e-conference) It is also possible to search Bitnet LISTSERV and COMSERVE discussion archives for items of particular interest to you. For details on archives searching: For LISTSERV send the message INFO DATABASE to a LISTSERV of your choice. (e.g. LISTSERV@PSUVM) For COMSERVE send the message HELPFILE to COMSERVE@RPIECS Some discussions maintain archives available via anonymous FTP. This is noted where available. In the next revision sites where archives are maintained on other types of Internet server, e.g. GOPHER, WWW. --------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1994 by Diane K. Kovacs, The Directory Team and Kent State University Libraries. Single copies of this directory from its networked sources, or of specific entries from their networked sources, may be made for internal purposes, personal use, or study by an individual, an individual library, or an educational or research institution. The directory or its contents may not be otherwise reproduced or republished in excerpt or entirety, in print or electronic form, without permission from Diane K. Kovacs, Kent State University Libraries.(dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Diane K. Kovacs, Editor-in-Chief _Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences_ (via anonymous ftp ksuvxa.kent.edu, library directory) dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu dkovacs@kentvm (216)672-3045 From: AU100@phx.cam.ac.uk Subject: Subject: ICEMCO Program Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 08:26:22 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 558 (1008) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * University of Cambridge Centre of Middle Eastern Studies I C E M C O 94 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing (Arabic and Roman Script) London, 7-9 April 1994 I. Provisional Programme 1st March 1994 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Wednesday 6th April 15:00 - 19:00 Registration, London School of Economics (for those arriving early). Thursday 7th April 08:45 - 09:50 Registration and coffee, (London School of Economics) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 10:00- 11:30 Session 1: * * Opening of the Conference * * Old Theatre * * Chairman: Sir Roger Tomkys, * * Chairman of the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge * * * * HE Mr Tareq al-Moayed * * (Minister of Information, State of Bahrain) * * "Information and copyrights laws, protection of intellectual properties" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 11:30 - 12:30 Session 2: Multi-lingual data bases (I) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chairman: Mr Khoury, F., University of Washington Libraries, USA. * "Exchanging scientific information with the United States", Dr Peeters, J. and Dr Gebus, G., Department of Energy, USA. Convenor's address: Dr Ubaydli, A. 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Session 3: Character recognition of Arabic script (I) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chairman: Prof. Hegazi, N., Electronics Research Institute, Egypt. * "Character recognition of Arabic script", Dr al-Khatib, H., Santa Clara University USA, Mr Ismail, M., Mr Korany, E. and Mr Emam, A., Alexandria University, Egypt. * "Computer recognition of Arabic script based text: the state of the art", Dr Ahmed, P. and Mr Khan, M., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. * "Machine-printed Arabic OCR using neural networks", Dr Hassibi, K., Mitek Systems Inc., USA. 14:00 - 15:00 Session 4: Computer based lexicography and machine translation and multi-lingual computers for the handicapped -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chairman: Dr. Wedel, G., Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany. * "Automatic generation of the Arabic theoretical lexicon using morphematic structure combination", Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Dr Zrigui, M. and Mr Boussetta, S., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique, Tunisia. * "Automatic translation of Arabic language to English and vice verse", Dr Mashhour, Ahmad, Yarmouk University, Jordan. * "Automatic parsing of Arabic sentences", Mr Chalabi, A., al-Alamiah Software, Egypt. * "Arabic computer-based assistant systems for handicapped", Mr Emam,O. and Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center, Egypt. 15:00 - 16:00 Session 5: Character recognition of Arabic script (II) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: Mr Ubaidly, U., Dilmun Publishing Ltd, Cyprus. * "Maximum entropy approach in automatic classification of symbolic images", Mr Kondybaev, N., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch, Russia. * "A new approach to Arabic character recognition in multi-font document", Mr Fehri, M. and Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique, Tunisia. * "Printed Arabic text recognition", Dr Goraine, H. and Dr Usher, M., Reading University, UK. 16:00 - 16:20 Coffee 16:20 - 17:40 Session 6: Multi-lingual data bases (II) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: Ms Nassar, H., American University of Beirut, Lebanon. * "Arabic books in the Danish research library system", Asst. Prof. Wien, C., Odense University, Denmark. * "Multi-lingual (Arabic & Roman) strategies for checking Arabic name data bases", Dr Roochnik, P., Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA. * "The use of computer to format and produce printed Arabic indexes for daily newspapers", Mr Bachir, I., al-Hayat Information Centre, Kensington Centre, UK. 16:20 - 17:40 Session 7: Computing in other Semitic languages (Syriac) and editing Arabic manuscripts usingn computers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chairman: * "The Arabic-Syriac Lexicon Project-report 1", Mr Kiraz, G. and Mr Ponsford, D., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University, UK. * "The Syriac Hypertext Project: an electronic encyclopaedia on Syriac studies", Mr Bolton, Anthony, and Mr Kiraz, G., Cambridge University, UK. * "A computer-assisted Arabic poetry prosody", Dr Sharaf Eldin, A., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. * "Computerized critical editions of medieval Arabic manuscripts. Requests for high standard features in software applications", Dr. Wedel, G., Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany. Friday 8th April **************** 09:00 - 10:20 Session 8: Multi-lingual software industry (I) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: * "Arabization: actual and objectives", Mr al-ATali, M., and Mr Girgis, M., University of Bahrain, Bahrain. * "Connectivity between Arabic systems: a case study in reference to the Chinese systems". Prof. Hsu, H., National Chengchi University, Republic of China. * "Developing an affordable computer hardware and software to solve various market needs in Jordan", DrJal-Assaf, Y., University of Jordan, Jordan. * "The development of Arabic support on the Macintosh", Mr Abdelazim, H., Mr McConnell, J. and Mr Wilson, A., Apple Computers, Inc., USA. 09:00 - 10:20 Session 9: Teaching of languages by computer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: Prof. Brockett, A., Darlington, UK. * "A computer assisted language learning programme used at a Spanish university", Dr San Jos, V., Dr Berg, H., Ms Castaeda, C., Ms Fontecha, M., Ms Martnez, M., Ms Pascual de la Cueva, P., Mr Aedo, I. and Ms Daz, P., Universidad Carlos III, Spain. * "An intelligent teaching system of Arabic language", Dr al-Ajeeli, A. and Ms al-Rujoob, K., Yarmouk University, Jordan. * "An overview of the application of multi-media computer based training for Arabic and Persian speakers", Mr Darabi Golshani, A., Edith Cowan University, Australia. * "Technology, proficiency and the integrative culture - learning process", Dr Jiyad, M., Mount Holyoke College, USA. 10:20 - 11:20 Session 10: Multi-lingual software industry (II) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chairman: Prof. Hsu, H., National Chengchi University, Republic of China. * "The encoding of non-Latin texts under MS-DOS", Zemnek, P., Charles University, Czech Republic. * "Generating Arabic words from semantic description", Mr al-Jabri, S. K. and Mr Mellish, C., University of Edinburgh, UK. * * "The IRSIT Arabic text-to-speech synthesis system", Mr Ghazali, S., Mr Ben Miled, Z., Dr Zrigui, M. and Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. * "KHOOL: Khabeer object orientated language", Mr al-Muhtaseb, H., Dr Aref, M. and Mr al-Kulaib, A., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. 11:20 - 11:35 Coffee 11:35 - 12:45 Session 11: Archaeology and computing; Islamic architecture and notation of Oriental music on computers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: Mr Rochford, T., Computer Services, Anglia Polytechnic University., UK. * "A multimedia archaeological knowledge-based system", Mr Farah, M., Gaudic, R., Malek, M. and Razouk, R., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Syria. * "Puertra: Islamic geometric design", Dr Eng. Snchez, F., Instituto de Electrnica de Communicaciones, Spain. * "Asiatic Museum Project: 1. Data-base on Muslim seal", Dr Rezvan, E., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch and Dr Polosin, V., Russia. * "Escala: automatic measurement of Oriental scales", Dr Eng. Snchez, F., I nstituto de Electrnica de Communicaciones, Spain. 11:35- 12:35 Session 12: Computing in Malay, Persian and Urdu (I) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: Malay and Urdu * "Characterization of an experimental collection", Ms Ahmad, F., University of Agriculture, Dr Sembok, T. and Dr Yusoff, M., National University of Malaysia, Malaysia. * "A Malay stemming algorithm for retrieval system", Dr Sembok, T., Dr Yusoff, M., National University of Malaysia and Ms Ahmad, F., University of Agriculture, Malaysia. * "Using Urdu page layout. Programmes for community development", Mr Knight, A., UK. 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:.20 Session 13: Multi-lingual software industry (III) Chairman: * "Pan-Arabic script computing: implications for operating systems, fonts, printing and data base applications", Mr Clews, J., John Clews Associates, UK. * "A proposal for an Arabic standard code for information interchange", Dr Saba, M., Key Technology, Inc., USA. * "Some problems in Arabizing LATEX", Prof. Lagally, K., Universitat Stuttgart, Germany. * "The Unicode character encoding standard: support for Persian and Arabic scripts", Mr Mohadjer, A., Brain Computer Systems Group, Iran. * "User's evaluation of MS Word for Windows with Arabic support", Mr Ubaidly, U., Dilmun Publishing Ltd, Cyprus. * 15:20 - 15:50 Session 14: Open Forum -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: Mr al-A'li, M., University of Bahrain, Bahrain. * "Centre for Documentation and Research- Projects", Dr Abdullah, M., A., UAE. * "Notables of Arabia", Dr Bidwell, R., Suffolk, UK. * "Question-answer system for Arabic language: project", Mr Yamani, A., Greenwich University, UK. * "Computer facilities at Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries", Dr Rais, M., Turkey . 15:50 - 16:05 Coffee 16:05 - 17:25 Session 15: Computer based lexicography and machine translation (II) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Chairman: * "The basic structure of a formal Arabic-English verbal lexicon", Dr Ditters, E., University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. * "Coreva: an automated method for the assessment of simultaneous translation by signal correlation", Mr Yaghi, Hussein and Mr Dodd, G., Auckland University, New Zealand. * * "Detection and correction of misspelled isolated words in Arabic language", Dr Zrigui, M. and Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l' Informatique, Tunisia. * "Logic compression of multi-lingual dictionary", Meddeb Hamrouni, B., Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatique and WinSoft, France. * "Torjomane: an Arabic-to-English computer assisted translation system", Ms Labed, L., Salhi, R. and Mr Ghazali, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Information et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. 16:05 - 17:05 Session 16: Computing in Malay, Persian and Urdu (II) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chairman: Mr Cooper, J., Cambridge University, UK. Persian * "Farsi computing in UNIX environment", Mr Torabi, B., Iran Info-Tech Development, Iran. * "Parsing a free word order language: Persian", Mr Rezaei, S. and Mr Crocker, M., University of Edinburgh, UK. * "Some support programs applied in the Lirica Persica research project", Ms Correale, D., Italy. * Papers for publications in the Proceedings Saturday 9th April 10:00 - 16.00 Exhibition A.85 and A86 * The Exhibition is open to the public, entry free (18 years and over). * All events will take place at the London School of Economics, Old Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE (Holborn Station-Piccadilly/Central line). II. List of Contributors, Discussants and Participants -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Australia Mr Darabi Golshani, A., Edith Cowan University. Bahrain Mr al-A'li, M., University of Bahrain. Mr Girgis, M., University of Bahrain. China, Republic of Prof. Hsu, C., National Chengchi University. Dr Gautier, G., Wen-Tzao School of Foreign Languages. Cyprus Mr Ubaidly, U., Dilmun Publishing Ltd. Czech Republic Dr Zemnek, P., Charles University. Denmark Asst. Prof. Wien, C., Odense University. Egypt Mr Chalabi, A., al-Alamiah Software. Mr Emam, A., Alexandria University. Mr Emam, O., IBM Cairo Scientific Center. Dr Goneid, A., American University in Cairo. Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center. Prof. Hegazi, N., Electronics Research Institute. Mr Ismail, M., Alexandria University. Mr Korany, E., Alexandria University. France Meddeb Hamrouni, B., Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatique and WinSoft. Germany Prof. Lagally, K., Universitat Stuttgart. Mr Munford, D., ETEC-E. Dr Wedel, G., Freie Universitat Berlin. Iran Mr Mohadjer, A., Brain Computer Systems Group. Mr Torabi, B., Iran Info-Tech Development. Ireland Ms O'Hanlon J., Pan Arab Arabic Translation. Italy Ms Correale, D., University of Venice. Jordan Dr al-Ajeeli, A., Yarmouk University. Dr al-Assaf, Y., University of Jordan. Dr Mashhour, A., Yarmouk University. Ms al-Rujoob, K., Yarmouk University. Kuwait Dr al-Kenai, J., Kuwait University. Lebanon Ms Nassar, H., American University of Beirut. Malaysia Ms Ahmad, F., University of Agriculture. Dr Yusoff, M., National University of Malaysia. Dr Sembok, T., National University of Malaysia. The Netherlands Dr Ditters, E., University of Nijmegen. Hansen, C., Utrecht. New Zealand Mr Dodd, G., Auckland University. Mr Yaghi Hussein, Auckland University. Russia Mr Kondybaev, N., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. Dr Polosin, V. Dr Rezvan, E., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. Dr Tikhonova, I., Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch. Saudi Arabia Dr Ahmed, P., King Saud University. Dr Aref, M., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. Mr al-Kulaib, A. Mr Khan, M., King Saud University. Mr al-Muhtaseb, H., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. Mr al-Sabban, H., Muslim World League. Dr Sharaf Eldin, A., King Saud University. Spain Mr Aedo, I., Universidad Carlos III. Dr Berg, H., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Castaeda, C., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Daz, P., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Fontecha, M., Universidad Carlos III. Dr Eng. Snchez, F., Instituto de Electrnica de Communicaciones. Ms Martnez, M., Universidad Carlos III. Ms Pascual de la Cueva, P., Universidad Carlos III. Dr San Jos, V., Universidad Carlos III. Sweden Eiserjoe, B., University of Uppsala. Syria Mr Farah, M., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Gaudic, R., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Malek, M., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Razouk, R., Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Tunisia Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Prof. Ben Ahmed, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Dr Ben Hamadou, A., Facult des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax. Mr Ben Miled, Z, Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Mr Boussetta, S., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Mr Fehri, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Mr Ghazali, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Ms Labed, L., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Salhi, R., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications. Dr Zrigui, M., Laboratoire RIADI, Centre National de l'Informatique. Turkey Dr Rais, M., Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries. UAE Dr Abdullah, M., Centre for Documentation and Research. UK Dr Abdallah, A., Reading University. Dr Abu Taleb, M., University of Westminster Mr Bachir, I., al-Hayat Information Centre. Dr Bidwell, R., Suffolk. Mr Bolton, A., Cambridge University. Prof. Brockett, A., Arabesque, Darlington. Mrs Chawishly, T., London. Mr Clews, J., John Clews Associates. Mr Crocker, M., University of Edinburgh. Mr Cooper, J., Cambridge University. Dr Goraine, H., Reading University. Mr Healey, A., intellect. Mr al-Jabri, S., University of Edinburgh. Mr Kiraz, G., Cambridge University. Mr Knight, A., Cambridge. Mr Musallam, A., DIWAN, Science and Information Tecnology Ltd. Mr Mellish, C., University of Edinburgh. Ms Murphy, N., Middle East International. Mr Ponsford, D., Cambridge University Press. Mr Rezaei, S., University of Edinburgh. Mr Rochford, T., Computer Services, Anglia Polytechnic University. Mr Saleh, G., Cambridge University. Col. Taylor, O., Kent. Dr Ubaydli, A., Cambridge University. Dr Usher, M, Reading University. Prof. Willett, P., University of Sheffield. Mr Yamani, A., Greenwich University. USA Abdelazim, H., Apple Computers, Inc. Dr Anderson, J., Southern University. Mr Eilts, the Research Libraries Group, Inc., Dr Gebus, George R., U.S. Department of Energy. Mr al-Hmedan, A., World Information Services Inc. Dr Hassibi, K., Automatic Document Recognition Group (ADRG) Mitek Systems Inc. Dr Jiyad, M., Mount Holyoke College. Dr al-Khatib, H., Santa Clara University. Mr Khoury, F., University of Washington Libraries. Mr McConnell, J., Apple Computers, Inc. Dr Mneimneh, H., Cambridge. Dr Peeters, J., U.S. Department of Energy. Dr Roochnik, P., Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Dr Saba, M., Key Technology, Inc. Ms Whitaker, A., National Institute of Health. Mr Wilson, A., Apple Computers, Inc. Prof. Yaghi, H., Southern University. _____________________________________________________________________________ __________________ ... like to participate as a discussant? ___________ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you think you would like to be a discussant of any paper from the following, please let us know so as to send you a copy of the paper in full. There will be one or two discussants who will prepare a commentary on a paper in advance. The time for each discussant will be 2-5 minutes for each with maximum of two discussants leaving a minimum of 5 minutes for questions from the floor. Discussants are encouraged to present their commentary on a camera-ready copy. Please use the form appended below for applications. ------------------------------ cut here -------------------------------- I C E M C O 94 To: Dr Ahmad Ubaydli (ICEMCO 94, Convenor) Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK Telephone: +44 (223) 334749/335106 F a x: +44 (223) 335110, Telex: 81240 CAMSPL G Email: AU100@UK.AC.CAM.PHX [JANET] AU100@PHX.CAM.AC.UK [EARN/BITNET] * I wish to attend ICEMCO 94; send me a Registration Form: Yes [ ] No [ ] * I wish to contribute a paper entitled: Yes [ ] No [ ] related to the following theme no. (see list of themes): PLEASE ENCLOSE A 100-WORD ABSTRACT Deadline for camera-ready copy: 17th December 1993 * I wish to act as a discussant on papers related to the following theme/themes no. * I wish to participate in the Exhibition Yes [ ] No [ ] Surname: other names: Title and affiliation: Address: Phone: Fax: E-mail address(es): From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: P.S. on MLA Call for papers on Electronic Media Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 20:43:36 -0500(3) (7 lines) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 649 (1009) Please note that participants in MLA conventions must be MLA members by April 1st of the convention year if they wish to be listed in the program issue of _PMLA_. Dr. Joel D. Goldfield Associate Professor of French Plymouth State College (NH); Member, Modern Language Assoc. Executive Comm. on Computers & Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield) Subject: Call for papers for MLA '94 Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 11:50:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 650 (1010) I would like to direct the attention of HUMANIST readers to two sessions sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) at the upcoming convention of the Modern Language Association to be held in San Diego, California, Dec. 27-30, 1994. (Also see p. 26 of the Spring 1994 _MLA Newsletter_.) 1) Electronic Texts, Hypertexts, and the Study of Literature; 2) The Role of Electronic Texts Archives in the Study of Literature. (Preference will be given to presentations reporting concrete results.) In both cases, 500-word abstracts are due by 10 March 1994. Joel Goldfield, Plymouth State College (NH, USA). E-mail: Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu Regards, Joel Goldfield FAX: 603-535-2723 E-mail: Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu Mail: Dept. of Foreign Languages, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH 03264-1600 USA Tel.: 603-535-2277 From: Daniel Traister <traister@pobox.upenn.edu> Subject: The Politics of Culture in the Cold War Era Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 16:53:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 560 (1011) Symposium and Exhibit at Penn: March 23, 1994 *Second announcement* On Wednesday, March 23rd, the University of Pennsylvania Library together with Penn's English and History Departments will host a symposium on "The Politics of Culture in the Cold War Era." The symposium marks the opening of a major new exhibit, "Being Read: The Career of Howard Fast." A reception will immediately follow the symposium (both made pos- sible by the Thomas S. Gates, Jr., Fund) during which members of the audience will have a chance to view the exhibit and talk with the speakers and with Howard Fast. The program runs from 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM in the Dietrich Reading Room on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. IT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Photo ID is required for admission to the Library. PROGRAM: 1 PM - Thomas Sugrue (History, University of Pennsylvania), INTRODUCTION 1:15 - Barbara Foley (English, Rutgers University-Newark), THE RETREAT FROM PROLETARIANISM: RE-NARRATING THE '30S 2 - Alan M. Wald (English, University of Michigan), LEFT-WING LITERARY RESISTANCE IN COLD WAR AMERIKA 3:15 - Paul M. Buhle (American Civilization [visiting], Brown University), LEFT/POPULAR CULTURE IN THE DARK YEARS: SHADES OF OPPOSITION 4 - A CONVERSATION WITH HOWARD FAST (Alan Filreis, English, University of Pennsylvania, and Alan M. Wald) 5:15 - Thomas Sugrue, CONCLUDING REMARKS A reception (in the Gates Room) and opening of the exhibition (Kamin Gallery) will immediately follow the program. For more information, contact either Michael Ryan or Daniel Traister of the Library's Special Collections Department at 215 898 7088. From: unlisted <heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Subject: Call for manuscripts Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 16:39:23 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 561 (1012) U N D E R C U R R E N T Call for Manuscripts [Please post] UNDERCURRENT is a free journal available on the Internet through e-mail subscriptions. (See end of this message for how to subscribe for free.) We are seeking article submissions or queries with abstracts providing an analysis of the present in terms of discourses, events, representations, classes, or cultures. We seek to publish analysis of the present from diverse intellectual perspectives--feminist, historical, ethnological, sociological, literary, political, semiotic, philosophical, cultural studies, and so forth. We seek applied analysis rather than theory. 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UNDERCURRENT is founded on four editorial principles which together make it unique among journals. It is interdisciplinary, applied, accessible, and focussed on the present. What do we mean by these four principles? 1. "Interdisciplinary" means that it begins with academic disciplines and works through/with/against them in new combinations either within articles or between articles--in order to see what might be revealed by crossing or fusing disciplinary borders and/or creating new hybrids as tools of analysis. 2. "Applied" means that it publishes only articles which perform an actual analysis rather than explore theoretical issues. Theoretical discussions already have plenty of journals devoting space to them in every discipline. This is not the same as saying that theory is banished from UNDERCURRENT, but rather that it is only theory in action that we wish to publish. 3. 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Submissions and queries can be sent in any of the following ways, in order of preference: 1.> e-mail to "heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu" and note in the subject field that this is a submission to UNDERCURRENT 2.> Mail a floppy diskette with your text in ASCII or WordPerfect (address below). 3.> Mail two copies of your essay by traditional post to: UNDERCURRENT Erick Heroux Dept. of English University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 ABOUT FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS: You can subscribe yourself to UNDERCURRENT by sending a one-line e-mail message: SUBSCRIBE UNDERCURRENT YOURNAME@DOMAIN.WHERE Address it to: mailserv@oregon.uoregon.edu Problems or questions can be e-mailed to heroux@darkwing.uoregon.edu From: Virginia Knight <ZZAASVK@cms.manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Numbers Date: Tue, 08 Mar 94 09:35:37 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 562 (1013) Latin has a 'distributive' series of numbers meaning 'one each, two each, three each etc.' - singuli, bini and so on. Virginia Knight University of Manchester From: "CE van Zyl" <RENE@ccnet.up.ac.za> Subject: conference announcement Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:25:09 GMT+2 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 563 (1014) International Conference on Computer-assisted Education and Training in Developing Countries (First announcement) October 1994, Pretoria, South Africa WHY? WHEN? WHERE? WHAT? Overview -------- Computer-assisted education and training is one strategy that has the potential to change the educational backlog in developing countries around the world. If used wisely and correctly, on a large scale, it could be the key to quality education for every citizen in these countries. The purpose of this conference is to analyse this statement. Questions on Computer-assisted learning that will receive specific attention are WHY, WHEN, WHERE and WHAT. Programme --------- Day One: Why? ------------- Papers by experts in the field of computer-assisted education and training on its potential in developing countries. Days Two and Three: When? Where? What? -------------------------------------- Reports on research findings, innovative applications or new technologies. Panel discussions on specific topics. Day Four (and Five): Workshops ------------------------------ a. Courses on the development of skills in the use of interactive video using videodisc and CD-ROM technology. b. Instruction in the development of quality computer-based lessons for training and education. c. Instruction in the use of graphics in computer-based lessons. d. Hypermedia. Who should attend? ------------------ Day one: Decision makers ------------------------ Persons responsible for policy making, management and development of education and training and individuals with an interest in computer-based systems will benefit greatly from attending this one day programme. Days two and Three: ------------------- Experts and novices. Practitioners will share actual experience in implementing systems and focus on methods and structures. Ample time will be provided for discussion and cross- fertilisation of ideas. Day Four (and Five): Workshops ------------------------------ Persons interested in acquiring hands-on experience with new technology, instructional design and the development of computer- based lessons. Vendor exhibits --------------- Exhibit space will be available for displaying hardware, software, courseware, literature and other products related to computer-assisted learning. Additional attractions ---------------------- A comprehensive programme for spouses as well as organised tours will be arranged before, during and after the conference. Details will be given in subsequent announcements. Organising committee -------------------- The conference is organised under the auspices of The CATER group (South Africa) and ADCIS (USA) The University of Pretoria Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education The University of South Africa Centre for Software Engineering The Medical University of Southern Africa Kellogg Centre for Computer-Based Education The University of Illinois (USA) Computer-Based Education Research Laboratory Purdue University (USA) School of Veterinary Medicine Other institutions to be announced Mailing list ------------ If you are interested in having your name on our mailing list and receiving further announcements please complete the pre-registration form and return or write to: Johan van Staden Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002 South Africa Fax: (012)43 6867 SA e-mail: jcvs@scinet.up.ac.za or Trish Alexander Centre for Software Engineering University of South Africa P.O. Box 392, Pretoria 0001 South Africa Fax: (012) 429 3221 e-mail: alexapm.admin10@mhs.unisa.ac.za Prospective sponsors are invited to contact the organisers. Pretoria, South Africa ---------------------- This conference will be taking place in Pretoria, the Jacaranda city! What is more it will take place in October, spring time, when Pretoria is at its most beautiful, the streets are lined with mauve clouds of blossom and a purple carpet on the pavement. The weather at this time of the year is ideal for visitors. It is sunny, warm (temperatures in the range 14 degrees (min) to 34 degrees (max) with short sharp thunder showers in the late afternoon or evening to refresh the earth. Pretoria is the administrative capital of the Republic of South Africa and is home to two large universities, the University of Pretoria with a student body of about 23 000, and the largest distance teaching university in the southen hemisphere, the University of South Africa with more than 120 000 students. The Medical University of Southern Africa is situated just outside Pretoria. Pretoria city centre is 70km north of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa and five hours drive from the Kruger National Park. It has a variety of good hotels. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Pre-registration form | | | | | | Title/Name: ................................................ | | Address: ................................................ | | ................................................ | | ................................................ | | Fax No: ................................................ | | E-mail: ................................................ | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: Steven Gilbert <AAHESG%GWUVM.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU> Subject: Info Tech Sessions at AAHE Chicago Conf 3/23-26 Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 10:32:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 564 (1015) Sender: "AAHE Info. Tech. Activities & Projects Steven Gilbert, Moderator. " <AAHESGIT%GWUVM.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU> To: Multiple recipients of list AAHESGIT <AAHESGIT%GWUVM.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU> Reply-to: "AAHE Info. Tech. Activities & Projects Steven Gilbert, Moderator. " <AAHESGIT%GWUVM.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU> Message-id: <01H9RLIV3C4291WMM1@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT From: Eric Crump <C509379@MIZZOU1> Subject: CCCC Online is online Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 09:46:37 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 651 (1016) It's a start... Every year, about a third of the Conference on College Composition and Communication membership makes it to the convention. Probably that's a fairly good attendance rate, especially considering the persistent anemia suffered by so many travel budgets. But just because it's typical doesn't mean we have to be satisfied... With the kind permission of this year's program chair, Jacqueline Jones Royster, and with the help of numerous colleagues, I put together four files with convention (and related) information in them. They are available to anyone with an Internet or Bitnet connection (file fetching instructions below). We offer this tiny slice of the conference not as a substitute for being there, but as gesture toward better inclusion. In an increasingly networked world, we can often find ways to peck away at the limitations geographic distances and financial constraints put on our ability to interact as a community. This is a modest gesture, perhaps, but perhaps it's also the beginning of future efforts that will be more effective. I hope. --Eric Crump * * * * * * * * * * The four files are: CCCC94 CALL The text of Jacqueline Jones Royster's Call to Convention as published in the Convention Preview guide. CCCC94 ONLINE The text of a proposal asking the CCCC Executive Committee to, in some fashion, support a more complete online conference in conjunction with the 1995 convention. CCCC94 SAMPLING A selection of abstracts offered by presenters at the convention in Nashville. CCCC94 RHETNET An online flier announcing the development of a new netjournal devoted to rhetoric and writing--not specifically or officially tied to the convention, but some CCCC members might be interested in joining the effort. To get any of these files, send email addressed to: listserv@mizzou1.bitnet or listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu leave the subject line blank, and in the first line of the note, put: get <filename> <filetype> So, to get the Call to Convention file, type: get cccc94 call to get the CCCC Online proposal, type: get cccc94 online and so on. After typing the 'get' command, send the note as you would any other email message. If anyone has trouble getting these files, write to me at: LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu From: Tharon Howard <tharon@hubcap.clemson.edu> Subject: Re: CCCC Online Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 09:14:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 652 (1017) FYI --Eric ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Eric, I made the CCCC's files available via gopher. I would suggest that those of us at sites which maintain gopher servers request that links be made to the server here at Clemson in order to maximize the distribution of these files, and I've provided the necessary link-info below. Perhaps you should also announce this to lists like PURTOPOI, MBU-L, HUMANIST, RHETORIC, WAC-L, WPA-L, etc. and encourage people on those lists to do the same. Tharon # Type=1+ Name=CCCC Online Path=1/Academic Departments/College of Liberal Arts/Department of English/Electronic Publications and Texts/CCCC Online Host=hubcap.clemson.edu Port=70 URL: <a href="gopher://hubcap.clemson.edu:70/11/Academic">gopher://hubcap.clemson.edu:70/11/Academic</a> Departments/College of Liberal Arts/Department of English/Electronic Publications and Texts/CCCC Online Size Language Document Type ---------- ------------- ---------------------------- .5k English (USA) application/gopher-menu .5k English (USA) application/gopher+-menu .5k English (USA) text/html Server Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tharon Howard Internet: tharon@hubcap.clemson.edu Clemson University BITNET: THARON@CLEMSON From: Search Committee <ZCVS@adm.angelo.edu> Subject: Position Announcement - English Department Head Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 13:45:00 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 653 (1018) Please excuse the multiple posting if you receive more than one of these postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Position: Associate or Full Professor of English and Head, Department of English. 1994-1995 Academic Year. Date of Appointment: August 24, 1994 Salary: $45,378 to $54,200 for nine months, plus attractive University fringe benefits. Full-time summer session assignment with additional salary is normally provided for department heads at the same rate of pay. Responsibilities: Provide direction and leadership and carry out administrative responsibilities for a department of approximately 20 faulty members. The department head normally assumes a one-half time teaching load. Administrative responsibilities include management of departmental budgets, curricula, scheduling, and personnel, as well as advising and other duties. Qualifications: Ph.D. in English, credentials commensurate with those of an associate or full professor. Interest in innovative teaching techniques, especially those using technological advances, and in research. Significant and effective experience in teaching on the university level. Relevent experience in administration and curriculum development preferred. The University: Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, is a highly-rated regional university. The University is fully accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award degrees at the associate, bachelor's, and master's levels. Apply to: Dr. E. James Holland, Dean College of Liberal and Fine Arts and Chairman of the Search Committee, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX 76909 Deadline: Deadline is open but may be closed at any time after April 1, 1994. Women and minority scholars are especially urged to apply. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Colegate Spinks, Analyst/Network Specialist, Angelo State University : : 2601 West Avenue N, Box 11020, San Angelo, Texas 76901 : : Internet:ZCVS@ADM.ANGELO.EDU, Voice:915-942-2333, Fax:915-942-2109 : +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: "Michael G. Southwell" <southwell@ycvax.york.cuny.edu> Subject: Composition and American Lit vacancies Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 14:50:20 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 654 (1019) Please re-distribute the following message to anyone who might be interested. Thank you. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= V A C A N C Y N O T I C E =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= York College of the City University of New York (a four-year liberal arts college located in Jamaica, Queens) expects to hire two persons on tenure-track lines at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in September 1994. Candidates are expected to have the Ph.D. degree in hand. 1. A specialist in American Literature, to teach courses in American literature, as well as developmental and freshman composition, and to carry out other duties as appropriate to rank. 2. A specialist in Composition, to teach courses in composition at all levels, and to carry out other duties as appropriate to rank. Applicants should submit by mail a Vita (including names of references but no supporting materials or copies of publications) and a cover letter to: Michael Southwell, Chair <which vacancy> Department of English York College/CUNY Jamaica, NY 11451 The deadline for receipt of applications is 25 March 1994 (subject to change). Receipt of applications will be acknowledged. Please do not attempt to call, fax, or e-mail. 9 March 1994 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "Marta Steele" <Marta_Steele@pupress.Princeton.EDU> Subject: Ezra Pound obscure citation Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 655 (1020) Elaine, Could you please post this in the hope that some list user will know where to rechannel it? Thank you. An author I am working with has unearthed EP's parody of Yeats' epitaph. I will quote enough of it to work with, and please forgive the PG-13 (more or less)-rated nature of the material: 'Neath Ben Bulben's buttocks lies Bill Yeats, a poet twoice the soize Of William Shakespear, as they say Down Ballykillywuchlin way . . . etc. We have traced it to the book of a deceased author, Richard Ellman (EMINENT DOMAIN, Oxford, 1967) and find that even Humphrey Carpenter stops there, saying only that it was written around the time of Yeats' death, 1939. If anyone can supply any further leads in terms of which of EP's publications this can be found in, if any, please let me know. (ref. is, by the way, to Carpenter's 1988 biography, A SERIOUS CHARACTER) Thank you in advance, Marta Steele Manuscript Editor, classics Princeton University Press (Marta_Steele@PUPRESS.Princeton.edu) From: BOMBACIG@IMICLVX.BITNET Subject: Metrics computer-aided analysis Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 10:40:52 MET-DST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 656 (1021) The computational linguistics of the University of Milan is looking for metrics analysis & recognition computer programs (with particular attention to latin). Does anybody know any program, and did anybody work with them? Thanks in advance Roberto Bombacigno University of Milan From: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca (Claire Smith) Subject: RENATER, French/International Network Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 10:06:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 657 (1022) I am sending this query on behalf of a French faculty member, not yet on e-mail....answers, if any, may be directed to me at: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca The query regards a new upcoming network named RENATER. Apparently it is to be launched sometime this Spring. It may be affiliated with CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), and is supposed to be an indispensable source for information both nationally (France), and internationally. If anyone has any details, please let me know. Claire Smith Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto (416) 978-6391 csmith@epas.utoronto.ca From: Dan Mandell <dmandell@saintmarys.edu> Subject: Summer Faculty Information Technology Workshops Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 17:52:37 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 658 (1023) Our faculty must meet deadlines of late November to be eligible for funding for teaching and research. Yet, notices for many Summer Workshops seem to arrive after this deadline. It strikes me it would be valuable if someone were to maintain a calendar of future information technology workshops, with sufficient lead time to meet early funding application deadlines. I am planning to start a database for next year (which could be accessed by gopher/WWW) but I'd like to know if such a database is already published or maintained in some accessible format. -- "Always promise a little less than you can deliver" : Montaigne From: CRAIG WALTON <cwalton@nevada.edu> Subject: Dutch publishers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 11:37:11 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 659 (1024) TO Elaine Brennan: A few days ago someone gave the e-mail address of a Dutch publisher, and asked if any other Dutch publishers allowed book purchases by e-mail. Since I have two books in the "International Archives of the History of Ideas" with Kluwer (used to be Martinus Nijhoff), I faxed them and asked whether or not they allow e-mail ordering. Here is the reply, in case you would like to post it:Dear Colleagues; In response to the recent message about whether or not other publishers in the Netherlands might accept book orders via e-mail, I asked Kluwer Academic Publishers if this were possible. They publish the "International Archives of the History of Ideas" and other series. Here is the reply from Maja de Keijzer: "I investigated the possibility of ordering our books via modern media: It is possible to order our books and journals via fax (see below) and even via email with a specification of the credit-card number. However, as it is a legal obligation to have an original signature with an order it is impossible to directly send the book upon receipt of the emailorder, even if we have the creditcard number. Instead a pro-forma invoice will be sent to the client and upon receipt of payment, the book(s) will be forwarded. The email address for ordering books is: HANS.DEVOGT(@)WKAP.NL I will also quote the routine ordering information from Kluwer Academic Publishers: Orders from individuals accompanied by payment or authorization to charge a credit card account will ensure prompt delivery. Postage and handling on such orders will be absorbed by the publishers. All book series are available on continuation order which may commence or be cancelled at any time. New volumes are billed and shipped upon publication. Orders can be sent to the regular supplier or to Kluwer Academic Publishers, Distribution Center, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Tel.: (0)78 - 524400. Fax: (0)78 - 524474. Customers in the USA, Canada and Mexico may use the USA-address: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358, USA. Tel.: (617) 871-6600 (for creditcard customers only) or Fax: (617) 871 6528. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- signed, Craig Walton (UNiversity of Nevada, Las Vegas) From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Titles in Renaissance England Date: Sun, 13 Mar 94 10:54:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 660 (1025) I cannot help in deciphering the titles offered by Robert Fehrenbach. I am sure that they have searched Klibansky, Sarton, Zinner, Gotendorf and Hain and all the various Fabricii out there. The first thing one does, and I am sure they have done this, is to try to put them in "canonical" form: gunzagar super kyromansiam = gonzaga super ch(e)iromantiam, a book on magic. Borcerus in metora = Borcerus in met(h)eora/rum, a commentary on Aristotles Meteorologica, Borcerus could be a number of things, e.g. Berchorius. etc. etc. My reason for mentioning these obvious steps is a suggestion. Someone should make a soundex routine for medieval names, perhaps even titles, something that would, for the unknowing (and there are so many of us), suggest logica for loyca, perhaps even turn Tullius into Cicero, tell one to look at the syllogism rigamarole for felapton, etc. If someone started such a project and needed a database, we could all supply many examples. Jim Marchand. From: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities Subject: IATH Fellows Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 13:09:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 569 (1026) Please Post on Humanist: March 14, 1994 The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is pleased to announce its fellows for the 1994-95 academic year. The terms for these fellows will begin July 1, 1994. Based on the recommendations of a selection committee made up of faculty from across the college and the university, the Director made offers of Fellowship-in-Residence to Gary Anderson of the Department of Religious Studies and Kenneth Schwartz, Chairman of the Department of Architecture, and those offers have been accepted. Judith Shatin of the Department of Music and Michael Stern of the Department of Landscape Architecture have accepted positions as Associate Fellows of the Institute. Mr. Anderson's project, The Life of Adam and Eve: the Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity, will produce an electronic synoptic edition of the textual history of the Adam and Eve story. Mr. Schwartz's project, Urban Design Strategies and Housing for the City of Charlottesville, involves analysis and design of several neighborhoods in Charlottesville to explore ways in which the fabric of these communities might be carefully rebuilt after decades of neglect and decay with a particular emphasis on affordable housing. Ms. Shatin's project develops an extensible computer music program, HACK (Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit), designed by UVA Systems Engineer Pete Yadlowsky. HACK synthesizes, manipulates, and processes sound, and will be used for music composition and as a teaching tool. Mr. Stern's project, Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD, will conduct a case study of urban design in a suburban context using computer aided design and GIS programs. For the first time, the Institute has also chosen several groups of off-campus scholars as networked associate fellows. These groups will use the resources of the Institute for networked collaboration and dissemination. The projects selected are: The Blake Archive: Morris Eaves, Robert Essick , and Joe Viscomi. This project will produce an electronic archive of selected books, paintings, drawings, and commercial illustrations by William Blake. The archive will be a powerful reference tool for art historians, making available high-quality reproductions of many works that are not currently available to the scholarly community in any form The Dickinson Editing Collective: Martha Nell Smith, Ellen Louise Hart, Catherine Dauterman, Annette Debo, Brianne Friel, Fran Gulino, Rachel Hutchinson, Patti Porcarelli, Margaret Sands, and Marta Werner. The Dickinson Collective will compile a hypermedia archive of Emily Dickinson's writings, including photographic reproductions and publication histories. Waxweb: David Blair, Michael Joyce, Larry McCaffery, Mark Amerika, Scott Bukatman, Kathryn Cramer, Jane Douglas, Arnold Dreyblatt, Heinz Fenkl, Carolyn Guyer, Ross Harley, Erkki Hutamo, Nora Ligorano, John McDaid, Tom Meyer, Stuart Moulthrop, Florence Ormezzano, Barbara Page, Simon Penny, Bobby Rabyd, Marshall Reese, Takayuki Tatsumi, Reiko Tochigi, Jalal Toufic, Thecla Schiphorst. Waxweb is a hypertext project based on David Blair's electronic cinema feature Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees. This project is an experiment in group hypertext authoring, proposing to investigate how artists can produce multiple-media integrated narratives out of a single dataset. Working as a networked collective, this group is producing variants of Wax in Storyspace, MOO, and World-Wide Web. Sixties: Marc Adin, John Andrew, Peter Brush, Dan Duffy, David Erben, Jeff Finlay, Cynthia Fuchs, Steven Gomes, Ann Kelsey, Kali Tal. The Sixties project intends to assemble a digital archive of '60s ephemera, including out-of-print classics, government documents, underground publications, as well as sound, still images, and video clips. It will also make available back issues of the journals Vietnam Generation and Viet Nam Forum, and it will encourage the collection and translation of international scholarship on the 1960s, from Prague to Paris to Ha Noi. The group also hosts a very active networked discussion group, sixties-l@jefferson.village.virginia.edu (subscription requests should take the form of a one-line electronic mail message with the text "sub sixties-l [your name]", addressed to listproc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu). Piers Plowman: Thorlac Turville-Petre and Eric Eliason will work as networked associate fellows on the Piers Plowman project already underway at the Institute. Hoyt Duggan, a fellow-in-residence for 1993-94, is directing this project in cooperation with SEENET and the University of Michigan Press. Pompeii Forum Project: Karim Hanna, Larry F. Ball and Harrison Eiteljorg will work as networked associate fellows on the Pompeii Forum Project already underway at the Institute. John Dobbins, a fellow-in-residence for 1993-94, is directing this project. From: Yorick Wilks <yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 03:49:59 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 570 (1027) UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Applications are invited for the established post of Research Facilitator with ILASH, the Institute for Language Speech and Hearing which has recently been established in Sheffield with University funding. The mission of ILASH is to promote interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research in all aspects of computation applied to language, speech and hearing. ILASH links 30 academics, as well as some 100 research students, working in various aspects of information retrieval, natural language processing, speech/hearing modelling, artificial intelligence, linguistics, speech and language pathology, speech technology, computational psychology and neural networks. The Facilitator should be familiar with a wide range of computer-based research tools in these areas of study and should be competent in applying and extending the capabilities of typical tools (and of developing further tools) in one or more of these areas. This post is primarily to assist and support the research of others, and the successful candidate will thus require communication skills in addition to subject knowledge and technical ability in addition to UNIX systems skills. The work will include guiding and assisting members of ILASH in the selection and use of tools and methods appropriate to their research, maintaining a comprehensive view of the tools available locally and remotely, and assisting with research, all as directed by the Board of ILASH. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Yorick Wilks, the Director of the Institute , Regent Court, 211, Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP; Fax (0742) 780972; Internet: yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk. Formal applications should go to: Director of Human Resource Management, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN. Closing date for applications: 4 April 1994. From: piersens@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Pierssens Michel) Subject: RENATER Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 10:23:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 661 (1028) There's a listserv dedicated to the discussion and use of the french multi- media network RENATER. One can subscribe by sending a "sub renater [name]" to: listserv@univ-rennes1.fr. There is also a special section of the University of Valenciennes' gopher dedicated to the experimental production and transmission of images via Renater. The address is: gopher.univ-valenciennes.fr. The whole gopher is strictly french-speaking for a (welcome) change. Michel Pierssens Universite de Montreal From: Mark Olsen <mark@TUNA.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: Re: 7.0567 Qs: Ezra Pound; Renater; Info Tech; Metrics (4/82) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:20:16 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 662 (1029) [deleted quotation] RENATER is affiliated with the CNRS and has mounted a few documents under the CNRS WWW server: <a href="http://web.urec.fr/docs/renater/renater.html">http://web.urec.fr/docs/renater/renater.html</a> is an overview of RENATER. UREC: Unite REseaux du CNRS is obviously related. See <a href="http://web.urec.fr/">http://web.urec.fr/</a> The best list for French goodies on Internet is the Le coin des francophones et autres grenouilles at <a href="http://cuisg13.unige.ch:8100/franco.html">http://cuisg13.unige.ch:8100/franco.html</a>. I also have a number of French resources pointed out in my ARTFL home page: <a href="http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html">http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html</a> Mark From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: "Standard Lin Jack Unit"? Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 09:01+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 572 (1030) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I will go to Scotland next month and want to bring along my notebook / modem. Could please sombody tell me what a "Standard Line Jack Unit" (LJU) is. I have been told that this is the type of plug which is in use in Enland & Scotland Is it the same thing as a `normal' Western plug? Tanks, Fritz Heberlein From: Susan Hockey <HOCKEY@ZODIAC.BITNET> Subject: ALLCACH94 Programme Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:37:54 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 573 (1031) ************************************************************* * Colloque international * * CONSENSUS EX MACHINA ? * * ALLC Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing * * ACH Association for Computers and the Humanities * * Paris - Sorbonne - 19-23 avril 1994 * ************************************************************* ___________________________________________________________________ Programme ___________________________________________________________________ \a = a + grave accent :e = e + dieresis :A = A + dieresis +e = e + circumflex accent /e = e + acute accent /i = i + acute accent /E = E + acute accent +i = I + circumflex accent \e = e + grave accent :O = O + dieresis -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thursday 14th and Friday 15th April 09.00-17.00 /Ecole normale sup/erieure de Fontenay Saint-Cloud SALEM (Andr/e) and TOURNIER (Maurice), S/eminaire: "Statistique textuelle" or DELCOURT (Christian), Tutorial: "Use and misuse of statistics in literary and linguistic studies" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tuesday 19th April 10.15-11.00 Room "Richelieu" SALEM (Andr/e), POUSSOU (Jean-Pierre), GRUNIG (Blanche-No:elle), MARTIN (Robert), HOCKEY (Susan), IDE (Nancy) and TOURNIER (Maurice), Welcome speeches. Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Room "Descartes" Epistemology GANTS (David L.): Toward a rationale of electronic textual criticism. LIEBERT (Wolf-Andreas): Metaphora ex machina: how to use the creative potential of the humanities for the "hard sciences". MEISTER (Jan Christoph): Against the quest for "zero meaning". Theory and practice of a computer based analysis of "action" - structures in literary texts. 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" Databases SIMONS (Gary F.): Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus. STORRER (Angelika) and HAUSER (Ralf): Automatic recognition of textual structures of dictionaries. ZARRI (Gian Piero): Automatic representation of the semantic content of complex legal texts. 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" Computational linguistics BOUCHAFFRA (Djamel), LALLICH-BOIDIN (Genevi\eve) et ROUAULT (Jacques): Des mots et des nombres. HABERT (Beno+it): Hi/erarchie sur les r\egles syntactiques et s/emantiques pour l'analyse des textes MOLIA (Andr/e): Une approche computationnelle de la coordination de cat/egories diff/erentes en fran'cais. Lunch 14.00-15.30 Room "Descartes" Greek GRIGAR (Dene) and CORWIN (Mindi): The Loom and the Weaver: Hypertext and Homer's Odyssey? SCALTSAS (Theodore): Project Archelogos. VAGELATOS (Aristidis) et al.: An Analysis of the Literary Style of Poet A. Sikelianos: A Computer Based Approach. 14.00-15.30 Room "Guizot" TACT (Chair: Edward Heinemann); JACQUET-PFAU (Christine): TACT appliqu/e \a un corpus de po\emes, Alcools de Guillaume Appolinaire. WOOLRIDGE (T. Russon): Acquisition de la langue assist/ee par TACT. HEINEMANN (Edward A.): Vers un corpus /electronique de chansons de geste index/ees sous TACT. 14.00-15.30 Room "Richelieu" Textual studies BEHAR (Henri): Traitement /electronique des donn/ees en histoire de la litt/erature fran'caise, bilan premier. GICQUEL (Bernard): Stylistique litt/eraire assist/ee par ordinateur. POSWICK (R/eginald-Ferdinand): Recherche sur texte(s) : l'art reste difficile! Coffee break 16.00-18.00 Room "Descartes" Hypertext (Chair: Elli Mylonas); MYLONAS (Elli): Directions in Hypertext Research: Four systems. An Introduction. BERNSTEIN (Mark): On Writing Hypertexts: Tools for Information Farming. MARSHALL (Catherine): Aquanet and VIKI. NANARD (Marc): Knowledege-Based Hypertext STREITZ (Norbet A.): Computer Support for Authoring with a Cooperative Hypermedia System 16.00-18.00 Room "Guizot" Humanities computing KOCH (Christian): Redirecting Humanities Computing: Emphasizing Technique in Support of Point of View. SEAMAN (David M.) From Margin to Mainstream, Creating a Broad-Based Humanities Computing User Community at the University of Virginia. SHORT (Harold), ORE (Espen) and SCOTT (Catherine): Resources and structures to support Humanities Computing 18.00-19.00 Room "Richelieu" ACH Annual Meeting -=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Wednesday 20th April 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Linguistics and the computer COPPEN (Bas) and VAN BAKEL: The Computerization of Linguistics. GREEN (Georgia) and LAKE (J. Michael): Grammar Development Environments in Teaching and Research. MORENO-TORRES (Ignacio): Computer Assisted Learning of Computational Linguistics. 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" English literature DAWSON (John L.): The Ring of "The Lord of the Rings": A Dimensional Analysis of Narrative and Dialogue. ROBINSON (Peter M. W.): The Canterbury Tales Project. ROMMEL (Thomas): Temporal and Topographical references in Robinson Crusoe. 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Lexicometry and politics BOURQUE (Gilles) et DUCHASTEL (Jules): Pour une analyse du discours politique assist/ee par ordinateur GUILHAUMOU (Jacques): L'analyse de discours et la lexicom/etrie. Le" P\ere Duchesne" et le mouvement cordelier (1793-1794) ROMEU (Lydia): L'approche statistique d'une s/erie textuelle chronologique: les discours du G/en/eral Franco. Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Room "Descartes" Corpora BRODDA (Benny): Automatic Tagging of Turns in the London-Lund Corpus with respect to Type of Turn ERMAN (Britt): Computer analysis of female and male conversational strategies in same-sex and mixed-sex interaction in the London-Lund Corpus. K:ALLGREN (Gunnel), ERIKSSON (Gunnar) and H:OGLUND (Magnus): Introducing the SUC: A large Balanced Corpus, Linguistically Analyzed and Marked-up in Accordance with Recommendations Issued by the Text Encoding Initiative. 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" History and the computer CRAVEN (Paul) and HAY (Douglas): Spreading the word, the imperial dissemination of English employement law, 1562-1950 - a textual approach. OLSEN (Mark): The Parisian Stage from 1789 to 1799, a Study of the Social, Economic and Political Contexts of Text. ROCKWELL (Geoffrey) and BRADLEY (John): A Growing Fascination with Dialogue: Bibliographic Databases and the Recent History of Ideas 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" Literary statistics BEAUDOUIN (Val/erie): Corneille et Racine BRUGIDOU (Mathieu): Distribution irr/eguli\ere des mots-th\emes. LABB/E (M. Dominique) and HUBERT (Pierre): La richesse du vocabulaire. Lunch 14.00-15.30 Room "Descartes" Preservation BOZZI (Andrea) and SAPUPPO (Antonio): Digital imaging and diachronical lexicography: a proposal for the old printed French Dictionaries Archive of the Biblioth\eque de France. CONNER (Patrick W.): Morphing anglo-saxon scripts. STAPLES (Thornton): Using digital images of texts in humanities research. 14.00-15.30 Room "Guizot" Non European languages CANFIELD (Kip): Tagging navajo texts for linguistic research - A database capture methodology. HAVILAND (John B.): Morphological profiles: extracting categories of Tzotzil verbal roots from textual and lexical corpora. THOMPSON (P. M.) and PEI-CHUAN (Wei): The ULAS Corpus of Ancient Chinese Texts - Implications for the Study of the Language and the Texts of Chinese Antiquity. 14.00-15.30 Room "Richelieu" Statistics and methodology BENZ/ECRI (Jean-Paul): Title to be announced FOSSAT (Jean-Louis), AURREKOETXEA (Gotzon), RABASSA (Lidia), LANGARD (Michel), PEYTAVI (Marc), ZAFAR (Choeb) et HAMERLAIN (Mustapha): /El/ements de choroscopie g/eolinguistique : du calcul num/erique \a la mod/elisation des donn/ees linguistiques : traitement de donn/ees empiriques dans le cadre d'une th/eorie de la variabilit/e langagi\ere. LEBART (Ludovic): Discrimination \a partir de textes. Coffee break 16.00-18.00 Room "Descartes" Hypertext and English literature (Chair: Janet H. Murray); DONALDSON (Peter S.): The Shakespeare Interactive Archive and the Future of Multimedia Interpretive Research. FINNERAN (Richard J.) and FIZGERALD (Mary): Towards a Hypermedia Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats FRIEDLANDER (Larry): The Stage and Beyond: Theater as a Model for Multimedia Design. MURRAY (Janet H.): Hamlet on the Holodeck or Towards an Aesthetics of Cyberspace. 16.00-18.00 Room "Richelieu" Large projects DENDIEN (Jacques): L'informatisation du dictionnaire T.L.F. MAIGNIEN (Yannick): Texts and Libraries) MARTIN (/Eveline): Vers un syst\eme de reconnaissance de concepts dans un corpus textuel 18.00-19.00 Room "Richelieu" ALLC Annual Meeting 20.00-22.00 Room "Richelieu" TEI open session -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Thursday 21st April 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Metrics BARQUIST (Claudia) and SHIE (Duane): Phonological Patterning in Old English Prose and Verse. HAYWARD (Malcolm): Analysis of a Large Corpus of Poetry by a Connectionist Model of Poetic Meter. ROBEY (David): Computer analysis and the process of interpretation: the meter of Dante's Divine Comedy. 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" CALL IRIZARRY (Estelle): Tampering with the text to teach awareness of poetry's art (Theory and Practice with a Hispanic Perspective) LESSARD (Greg) Prepositional usage in French 2. TSCHUMI (Corinne) et al. Developing an English writing tool and grammar checker for French-speakers. 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Approaches CHARPIN (Fran'cois): TELA, un logiciel multi-media pour le traitement de la langue et de la civilisation latines. NUNES (Geraldo): Propositions pour une m/ethode d'analyse du discours entrepreneurial br/esilien PANCKHURST (Rachel): Constitution d'une base lexicale verbale. 11.00-13.00 Room "Descartes" Standardization CALZOLARI (Nicoletta): Standardization in linguistic resources: EAGLES and its first result IDE (Nancy) and VERONIS (Jean): Let's not rebuild the encoding Tower of Babel MCCARTY (Willard) and WRIGHT (Burton): Modeling and method: encoding names in Ovid's Metamorphoses. SPERBERG-McQUEEN (C. M.) and BURNARD (Lou): The Odd System of Tag Set Documentation 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" Text theory BAAYEN (R. Harald): Derivational Productivity and Text Typology. DELMONTE (Rodolfo) and PIANTA (Emanuele): Discourse structure and linguistic information. JAPPY (Tony): Cohesion, Information and Verbal Transitions. 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu" Corpus exploration CABR/E (Teresa) et YZAGUIRRE (Llu/is de): Strat/egie pour la d/etection semi-automatique de n/eologismes de presse. DEROUBAIX (Jean-Claude): de La s/ecurite/ sociale \a l'ins/ecurit/e. Le mod\ele social belge dans le lexique des d/eclarations gouvernementales. LOCHARD (Åric-Olivier: Questions de m/ethodes autour d'un thesaurus informatis/e de configurations narratives. Lunch Excursion to Versailles 14.00- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Friday 22nd April 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Textual analysis BRADLEY (John) and ROCKWELL (Geoffrey): What Scientific Visualization Can Teach Us about Text Analysis HEATHER (M.A.) and ROSSITER (B.N.) Category Theory - a mathematical breakthrough for the humanities. HORTON (Thomas B.): Applying Advances in Software Engineering to the Domain of Text Analysis Software. 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" Speech and spelling BORELLO (Erico): Italian Text-to-Speech Synthesis: the Linguistic Processor. GEORGIEV-GOOD (Hristo): SYNTPARSE and SYNTCHECK ROCHET (Bernard L.): Computer technology in the understanding and reduction of foreign accent: Toward more objectivity and a better consensus. 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Models and methods ACHARD (Pierre): La construction discursive du sens : un mod\ele cat/egorique. LAHLOU (Saadi): Mod/elisation des repr/esentations sociales par l'analyse lexicale des /enonc/es de dictionnaires : une nouvelle approche pour la psychologie sociale. SARRAZIN (Mich\ele): Pour une utilisation raisonn/ee de l'informatique dans les sciences humaines. Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Room "Descartes" Quantitative linguistics BURR (Elisabeth): Occupational termes in Italian - A corpus based approach. KELLE (Udo), KLUGE (Susann) and PREIN (Gerald): Computer-aided Methods for the Analysis of Verbal Data in Ethnography and Interpretative Sociology. KRETZSCHMAR, Jr. (William A.): Linguistic Theory and Computer Modeling of Linguistic Survey Data. 11.00-12.30 Room "Guizot" The psychological dimension KIBBEE (Douglas A.): Male Language/Female Language and Translation: A Computer-Based Approach. OPAS (Lisa Lena): A cross-linguistic study of stream-of-consciousness techniques POTTER (Rosanne): Creating and Searching a Reader Response Database on Modern Drama 11.00-12.30 Room "Richelieu Lexical statistics JUILLARD (Michel): Quels outils pour quelle linguistique ? LAFON (Pierre): Analyse statistique d'un corpus sociopolitique : quelles unit/es? Application \a un corpus de Congr\es syndicaux CGT (1972 \a 1992) MULLER (Pierre): Lexicom/etrie et structures de l'/enonciation. Lunch 14.00-15.30 Room "Descartes" Projects BEEKEN (Jeanne) and SPEELMAN (Dirk): Electronic writing: the CONST-Project. HARTWICK (Laura): Qbic Visual Query: KEELER (Mary) and KLOESEL (Christian): Testbeds and Tool Development in the Humanities. 14.00-15.30 Room "Guizot" Stylometry LAAN (Nancy M.): Stylometry reconsidered: some points of method. MEALAND (David L.): Discriminating Paul. SCHILS (Erik) and DE HAAN (Pieter): New experiments on authorship attribution. 14.00-15.30 Room "Richelieu" Language and machine LASKRI (M.T.), BOULAKRADECHE (M.) et KNIPPEL (J.M.): Analyse de premi\ere approche du langage naturel \a base de connaissances pour la construction de th/esaurus LOUBEJAC (Richard): Informatique, langues de sp/ecialit/es et aide \a la traduction. MOSCAROLA (Jean): Actes de langages : Statistique lexicale et protocole d'enqu+ete. Coffee break 16.00-18.00 Room "Guizot" Teaching computers and the humanities GAUTHIER (Robert): Curriculum ex machina: DEUG, Licence, Ma¡trise DEA, post-DEA. KOCH (Christian: Minor in Computing in the Liberal Arts. ORLANDI (Tito): Corso di Perfezionamento Informatica per le Scienze Umanistiche. SHORT (Harold): Humanities Computing Courses at King's College London. MCCARTY (Willard): Graduate Courses in Humanities Computing. 16.00-18.00 Room "Richelieu" Generated literature ANIS (J.): La g/en/eration de textes litt/eraires : cas particulier ou discipline \a part ? BALPE (J.-P.): Pourquoi /ecrire avec un ordinateur ? BERNARD (Michel): Lire l'hypertexte. CL/EMENT (Jean): L'hypertexte de fiction: Naissance d'un nouveau genre. PAPP (Tibor): Formes po/etiques visuelles et ordinateur. 19.00- Senate House Banquet -=-=--=-=-=-=-=- Saturday 23rd April 09.00-10.30 Room "Descartes" Hypermedia BIERMAN (James): Interactive interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. DEVITO (Ann F.): Linking Concepts within a Hypermedia Shell Designed for Literary Research. SPAETH (Donald A.): In Search of Metaphor for Hypermedia: The Enriched Lecture 09.00-10.30 Room "Guizot" Applications BASS (Randall): "Jesuit Plantation Project": Integrating Research and Pedagogy through an Electronic Archive Project in an American Studies Curriculum. GURNEY (Penelope J:): Enhanced Content Analysis of Inflected Languages Through A System of Computer-Assisted Lemmatization. OTT (Wilhelm): Strategies and tools for safer computing in the humanities. 09.00-10.30 Room "Richelieu" Applications CATACH (Nina) et CATACH (Laurent): Le projet GRAPHIST et la recherche en industries de la langue. PETITJEAN (Luce): Mod/elisation d'une typologie. MEUNIER (Jean Guy): Approches connexionnistes dans l'analyse de texte par ordinateur. Coffee break 11.00-11.45 Room "Richelieu" BRUNET (/Etienne), Bilan 11.45-13.00 Room "Richelieu" SALEM (Andr/e), TOURNIER (Maurice), ZAMPOLLI (Antonio), IDE (Nancy) and DAHLIN (Eric), Concluding speeches. ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e de patronage Honorary committee ____________________________________________________________________ Jean-Pierre Poussou president de l'Universit/e de Paris 4 - Sorbonne et Etienne Brunet professeur a l'Universit/e de Nice Blanche-Noelle Grunig directrice adjointe, ENS Fontenay Saint-Cloud Georges Th. Guilbaud directeur d'etudes EHESS, Paris Jean-Louis Lebrave directeur scientifique au CNRS Robert Martin professeur a l'Universit/e de Paris 4 - Sorbonne Charles Muller professeur em/erite, Universit/e de Strasbourg Bernard Quemada directeur de recherches au CNRS ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e du programme Programme committee ____________________________________________________________________ Christian Delcourt Universit/e de Liege, president ALLC Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group ACH Gordon Dixon Manchester Metropolitan University ALLC Paul A. Fortier University of Manitoba ACH Joel D. Goldfield Plymouth State College ACH Susan Hockey Rutgers and Princeton University ALLC Michael Neuman Georgetown University ACH Andr/e Salem ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud ALLC Antonio Zampolli Universita degli Studi di Pisa ALLC ____________________________________________________________________ Comit/e d'organisation Organization committee ____________________________________________________________________ Andr/e Salem Organisateurs locaux / Local organizers Maurice Tournier CNRS / ENS de Fontenay Saint-Cloud Francoise Dougnac Anne-Marie Hetzel Camille Montaldo Pierre Muller Gabriel Peries Marie-France Piguet ____________________________________________________________________ Stage Tutorial Statistique Textuelle Use and Misuse ____________________________________________________________________ Deux stages sont prevus dans la semaine qui precede le colloque /Two Tutorials will take place in the week preceding the conference. Stage no / 1 (en francais) Statistique textuelle Initiation aux methodes de la Statistique textuelle et aux traitements lexicom/etriques sur micro-ordinateur. Ateliers. Tous publics. par A. Salem & M. Tournier Tutorial no / 2 (in English) Use and Misuse of Statistics in Literary and Linguistic Studies For an audience of philologists and linguists with some experience in quantification but no mathematical training. by Chr. Delcourt (Univ. de Liege) 14 & 15 avril 1994 a / at : Ecole normale sup/erieure de Lettres et Sciences humaines Saint-Cloud (pres de Paris / near Paris) ____________________________________________________________________ Droits d'inscription Registration fees ____________________________________________________________________ avant / before apres / after 1 / 2 / 1994 1 / 2 / 1994 membres ALLC /ACH members 580 FF 100 US$ 700 FF 120 US$ non membres / non members 870 FF 150 US$ 990 FF 170 US$ stage / tutorial at St.Cloud 290 FF 50 US$ 350 FF 60 US$ *** Important ***: Le reglement des droits d'inscription pour le col- loque et les stages doit etre adress/e aux organisateurs locaux par cheque personnel ou virement bancaire (pas de carte de cr/edit). *** Important ***: Registration fees for the conference and tutorials are to be sent to the local organizers by cheque or bank transfer. 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Apres le 20 mars / after March 20 : aucun remboursement / no refund From: "Holly GrossettaNardini" <Holly_GrossettaNardini@quickmail.yale.edu> Subject: Yale Hypertext Conference Date: 16 Mar 1994 15:16:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 574 (1032) Yale Hypertext Conference Please excuse any duplication as a result of cross-posting. ************ CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ************** Beyond Gutenberg: Hypertext and the Future of the Humanities Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut When: Thursday-Friday, May 12-13, 1994 Sponsor: Yale University Library The emerging technology of hypermedia, which allows users to search and interact with text, graphics, audio, and video in one format, is expected to launch a fifteen-billion dollar publishing industry by 1995. Mainstream publishers are already establishing electronic publishing divisions in anticipation of the growth of the creation and use of hypertextual materials. Scholars in the humanities around the world are discussing the implications of electronic resources for their research and teaching. In response to a broad range of practical and theoretical issues arising from hypertext, we have assembled a distinguished group of speakers to discuss the implications of hypermedia on scholarship, publishing, and authoring in the humanities. ******* P R O G R A M ******** THURSDAY, May 12 3:00-6:00 Registration, Colony Inn 6:00-7:30 Optional buffet dinner with guest speakers 7:30-10:00 Hypertext Preconference FRIDAY, 13 May 8:00-6:00 Publisher exhibits 7:30-9:00 Registration; continental breakfast 8:00 *CONFERENCE KICK-OFF* INTRODUCTION Alphonse Vinh, Yale University Library WELCOMING COMMENTS Millicent D. Abell, Yale University Library INAUGURAL ADDRESS: COGNITIVE ARTS Edward Tufte, Yale University 9:00 *SCHOLARS AND HYPERTEXT* PERSEUS AND OTHER CURRENT PROJECTS Greg Crane, Tufts University THE "WHO BUILT AMERICA" PROJECT AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH Stephen Brier, Hunter College (CUNY) Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 *HYPERTEXT CHALLENGES FOR THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY* HYPERTEXT AND THE FUTURE OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS Patricia Willis, Yale University Library WORLD WIDE WEBS AND HYPERTEXT John Price-Wilkins, University of Virginia 12:45 Lunch Break. Exhibits and Demonstrations. 1:45 *HYPERFICTION/HYPERLITERATURE* (RE)PLACING THE AUTHOR: "A BOOK IN THE RUINS" Michael Joyce, Vassar College 2:30 *HYPERTEXT PUBLISHING TODAY AND TOMORROW* A Discussion Panel FINDING, ENCOURAGING AND PUBLISHING HYPERFICTION AUTHORS Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems PENGUIN'S OPERA HYPERMEDIA AND OTHER PROJECTS BREWING IN PENGUIN-USA'S HYPERTEXT LAB Julie Hansen, Penguin USA DEVELOPING THE HYPERTEXT MARKET FOR SCHOLARLY AUDIENCES Roger Devine, Voyager 4:00 Break 4:30 *GETTING A HYPERTEXT EDUCATION* HYPERLITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND THE ACADEMY George P. Landow (Brown University) 5:30 HYPERTEXT AND ITS FUTURE IN THE ACADEMY Panel Discussion with Michael Joyce, George Landow, Roy Rosenzweig, Stephen Brier, Greg Crane, and Edward Tufte 6:00 End of Conference The following publishers and vendors are expected to hold demonstrations throughout the conference: Yale University Press The Voyager Company Eastgate Systems Penguin-USA In conjunction with the conference, a preconference consisting of demonstrations of current student hypertext projects will be held on Thursday evening. A buffet dinner with the conference speakers will be held on Thursday evening. Conference attendees can register for $20. Space is limited. ******** I N F O R M A T I O N ******** "Beyond Gutenberg: Hypertext and the Future of the Humanities" will be held at Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street, Yale University. ** ACCOMMODATIONS AND PARKING A block of rooms has been reserved at the Colony Inn, 1157 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Telephone 203-776-1234. The special conference room rate is $76/single and $86/double. Please make your reservation before April 12 and indicate that you are part of the hypertext conference. Parking is available at the hotel. Day visitors can park in public lots on Church Street and Whitney Avenue. A map with directions to the lots and Davies Auditorium will be mailed to you. ** CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS Refunds cannot be given on Conference registration fees after May 2, 1994. All cancellations received before May 2, 1994, will be subject to a $25 service fee. ** QUESTIONS If you have any questions concerning registration or location, call Yale University Conference Services at 203-432-0465. For program-related questions please call Library Administration at 203-432-1818. You will receive your registration information when you arrive. Registration packets can be claimed on Thursday, May 12, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm in the lobby of the Colony Inn. If you are staying at the Colony Inn and arrive after 6:00 p.m., you may pick up your packet at the front desk. On Friday, May 13, registration will be in the foyer of Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street, from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. ** TRAVEL INFORMATION By Air: We encourage participants to use Tweed/New Haven airport. USAir, United and Continental fly into New Haven. Taxis are available for transportation to the Colony Inn and Yale ($10-12). There are many limousine services that travel from Kennedy and La Guardia to New Haven (approximately 3 hours). By Train: Amtrak and Metro North service New Haven. Union Station is about ten blocks from the Colony Inn and Yale. Take a taxi to either location. ($6-8) By Car: (Via I-91) Take exit 3. Go straight off the exit ramp onto Trumbull Street. At the fourth traffic light, turn left onto Prospect Street (you will pass the Becton Center entrance to Davies Auditorium on your left while on Prospect Street). At the third traffic light, turn right onto Chapel Street. The Colony Inn is on the right after the next traffic light. (Via I-95) When nearing New Haven, follow signs for I-91 and proceed as above. ****************************************************************** R E G I S T R A T I O N Please PRINT this form, complete in black ink and send with payment to: Yale University Conference Services 246 Church Street, Suite 101 New Haven, CT 06510 or fax to 203-432-7345 Please return before April 25, 1994. Register early--enrollment is limited to 250 participants. Registration fee $50.00 ___________ student registration fee* $20.00* ___________ May 12 buffet dinner (optional) $20.00 ___________ with speakers TOTAL: ___________ *Please enclose a photocopy of your valid student ID. Name:____________________________ Title:________________________ Name as you want it to appear on name tag:_______________________ Organization (for name tag):_____________________________________ Address:_________________________________________________________ City:_______________________ State:_____________ Zip:__________ Country:___________________ Phone:___________________________ Fax:_________________________ Email:___________________________________________________________ Any special needs (access, meals, etc.)?_________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Fees must be paid in full with the registration form. Please enclose check or money order in U.S. dollars, payable to Yale University. Your canceled check is your receipt. Conference registration includes a continental breakfast, a box lunch, and two coffee breaks on Friday, May 13. Registration also includes a pre-conference on Thursday night, a name tag and all registration materials. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: "David M. Seaman" <dms8f@etext.lib.virginia.edu> Subject: UVa British Poetry Archive -- texts available Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 22:26:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 575 (1033) BRITISH POETRY 1780-1900: AN ARCHIVE OF SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC EDITIONS. This announcement invites scholars interested in Romantic and Victorian literature and poetry to help build an Internet-accessible electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books of poetry produced between 1780-1900. The project is being inaugurated with this letter, which is being sent at the same time that the first two works in the Archive are being put up for use. These are two works produced by my graduate classes in the past two years, Mary Robinson's _Sappho and Phaon_ (1796) and Richard Polwhele's _The Unsex'd Females_ (1798). The idea is to publish this Archive on the Internet and thus make the works freely available for study and classroom use. We are especially interested in works that have gone out of copyright, or copyright editions that an editor might wish to include in the Archive. (In the latter case, it would be up to the editor to secure permission to publish in this Archive, if such permission were needed.) The Archive will be put up through the U. of Virginia Library's World Wide Web server. The texts will be ASCII texts marked up in HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), a form of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). Copies of the texts conforming to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (and parsed against the Oxford Text Archive DTD) will be available for use with the user's own text analysis software. ["Guidelines for Submission" are available on the World Wide Web server and via anonymous ftp from the addresses below]. This HTML text will be prepared for use through World Wide Web clients such as Mosaic and Cello. Mosaic is a very useable front end, and HTML is an easily-learned hypertext markup system that has excellent digital image capability (so that full color images of textual or contextual materials can be included in the edition, e.g., facsimiles of mss or printed pages, etc.). The Archive's http address is: <a href="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/britpo/britpo.html">http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/britpo/britpo.html</a> The Archive's anonymous ftp address is: ftp etext.lib.virginia.edu cd pub/britpo The two initial titles are available now at the above addresses. They have introductions, notes, and glosses, as well as other scholarly materials for elucidating the works, including sample facsimiles of the original texts. Complete facsimiles of the original documents can be made part of these original models, and contributors to the Archive are encouraged to think of their editions in those terms. The Archive's texts are imagined as having more additional scholarly material than is commonly available in comparable Archives (e.g., Chadwyck Healey's English Poetry Full-Text Database, or Brown University's Women Writer's Project). What most sets this Archive apart, however, is (a) that it will be freely available to all, and immediately accessible; (b) that it will be able to include facsimile and other illustrative material in a hypertext structure; and (c) that the Archive's texts can grow over time (e.g., if someone has a note or other material to add to one of the Archive's works, it can be added). As to the last feature, additions would have to be made after consulting with the original editor(s), and then having the changes made on site by those managing the Archive. (A history of such changes will be provided.) If scholars get their students to contribute to the Archive, the students will learn some extremely useful professional skills, they will have publications added to their records, and they will be making significant contributions to work in the field. Anyone can submit an edition to the Archive, however; indeed, all are encouraged to do so. Editorial oversight will be provided here at the U. of Virginia. I will serve as general editor and UVA's Electronic Text Center will put up the texts through Alderman Library's World Wide Web server. Anyone interested in participating in this project should contact Jerome McGann or David Seaman. Jerome McGann Dept. of English, U. of Virginia email: jjm2f@lizzie.engl.virginia.edu David Seaman Electronic Text Center Alderman Library, U. of Virginia email: etext@virginia.edu From: "George L. Donaldson" <USAGLD@asnusa.asn.net> Subject: spirituality institute Date: 17 Mar 94 12:11:00 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 663 (1034) For those subscribers to the list who might be interested in such topics: Spring Hill College Summer Institute of Christian Spirituality Graduate/undergraduate/audit options available in two one-week sessions from 6-18 June 1994. Course offerings (1 credit each) include: Story Spirituality and the Gospel Parables; Confessions of St Augustine; Desert Fathers; The Way of Zen; Feminine Quest I: Women Contemplatives; Feminine Quest II: Women and Christian Action; The Spiritual Exercises; Ignatian Prayer and Discernment; and Medieval Spirituality. Courses will be supplemented by optional workshops, seminars and cultural opportunities. Contact: Department of Theology, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama 36608. Phone/Fax: (205)460-2169/460-2244. Sheri Katz Philosophy Department Spring Hill College From: Joseph Galron <jgalron@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Subject: Book Indexing: Principles and Techniques Date: Friday, April 22, 1994 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 664 (1035) Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm 9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Coffee 9:30 - 10:40 Principles of Indexing 10:40 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:30 Cross Reference Structure 12:30 - 1:45 Lunch 1:45 - 3:00 Format of Indexes 3:00 - 3:20 Break 3:20 - 4:20 Techniques of Indexing 4:20 - 5:00 Questions and Answers Place: Sixty East Club 60 East 42nd Street New York City (The Lincoln Building, opposite Grand Central Station, 27th floor) Fees: $95 including lunch, coffee breaks, and handouts $60 for students and St. John's University staff $5 for .6 Continuing Education Units (optional) Preregistration fees (until April 8, 1994) $85 regular $55 students and SJU staff Seminar Instructor Dr. Bella Hass Weinberg is a Past President of the American Society of Indexers and former Chair of its Indexer Education Committee. As a Professor in the graduate Division of Library and Information Science at St. John's University, she teaches courses in indexing and abstracting as well as information science. Dr. Weinberg has compiled several highly praised book indexes, and consults on the design of large-scale indexing and thesaurus projects. She is a reviewer of national and international standards related to indexing, and has published extensively on indexing theory. The book she edited, Indexing: The State of Our Knowledge and the State of Our Ignorance (Learned Information, 1989), has received many favorable reviews. ______________________________ For further information, write or call: James A. Benson, Director Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University, Jamaica, New York 11439 Fax (718) 380-0353 Tel. (718) 990-6200 ____________________________ Early registration is recommended, as space is limited. Please photocopy the registration form for additional attendees. 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JOHN'S UNIVERSITY and mailed by April 14, 1994 to: BOOK INDEXING SEMINAR Division of Library and Information Science St. John's University Jamaica, New York 11439 From: awood@hibbs.vcu.edu (Ann M. Woodlief) Subject: Shakespeare in GUIDE? Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 6:51:12 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 665 (1036) Has someone put any Shakespeare plays in a hypertext format using GUIDE for Windows? If you have or know anyone who has, please contact me privately at awood@hibbs.vcu.edu. Thanks. Ann Woodlief From: KFINCK@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Catholic U of America, Finck,STU) Subject: IPA font for Mac needed Date: 18 Mar 94 15:04 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 666 (1037) A colleague of mine is pursuing a linguistic project, and has asked me if I could help him locate an IPA font. I would greatly appreciate any information about how I might find an IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) font for the Mac. If it is commercially available, my colleague will pay. Clearly, a free FTP would be preferable. Archie and other FTP searches have thus far proved futile. Please respond personally, Instead of through HUMANIST. My E-mail address follows. Thanks in advance for your help! J. Kurt Finck II Medieval Studies Catholic University of America FINCK@CUA.EDU KFINCK@APPLELINK.APPLE.COM From: "Ray Siemens" <siemens@unixg.ubc.ca> Subject: C-H _English Poetry_ Database Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 16:36:07 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 667 (1038) Our library is currently considering the purchase of the C-H _English Poetry_ database. Any thoughts, or references to reviews, which may aid the decision-making process would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! Ray Siemens University of British Columbia siemens@unixg.ubc.ca From: orso steven n <sorso@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: The Information Omniverse Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 14:50:33 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 578 (1039) The following review of a publication of interest to net-surfing scholars recently appeared in the electronic journals that share the family name *Bryn Mawr Reviews*. As its contents will be of interest to many on this list, I am reposting it with the kind permission of the *BMR* editors. STEVEN N. ORSO University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * * * * * * * * * * ALSO SEEN: Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles Ann Okerson and Dru Mogge, edd., Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles in the Information Omniverse: Proceedings from the Third Symposium (November 13-15, 1993). Washington DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1994. ISBN 0-918006-73- 2. Pp. viii, 176. $24. Ordering information from osap@cni.org. Noted by James J. O'Donnell -- University of Pennsylvania The near-annual symposia on the present and future of electronic scholarly publishing, co-sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and the American Association of University Presses, are emerging as a well-frequented and influential marketplace for ideas in a rapidly changing environment. The proceedings of the Nov. 1992 symposium were printed and found an audience; those of the 1993 symposium are now available three months after the event itself, still timely and refreshing. The theme is pragmatic. What is happening, what will happen next. There is particular interest for scholars in our traditional disciplines here, signaled by a Kelmscott Chaucer illustration on the cover, alluding to the presentation by Mary Wack of her rivetingly successful Chaucer image/text database project. Keven Kiernan similarly displays Beowulf MSS, and the present writer found that he (miraculously) had a few opinions left to share on historical issues illuminating the present day. But the range of topics is broad: discussion of copyright issues from one university press publisher, economic analysis from another, discussion of the nitty-gritty of "going electronic" by the publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica (due out shortly with a networked text-only EB for campus use), and descriptions of numerous current experiments. (The project MUSE journals enterprise at Johns Hopkins, for example, is described here; for those with Mosaic access, <a href="http://muse.mse.jhu.edu/">http://muse.mse.jhu.edu/</a> takes you to a serious attempt at putting full text of three JHU-published journals, with search capacities, on the network along with images. The book is worth a detour for many, but it is enhanced by electronic availability of parts. If you gopher to arl.cni.org, you may inspect the following items: a detailed summary (also in the printed book) of the proceedings of the whole symposium, the table of contents of the printed book, two of the keynote papers (one by the present writer, the other by cyberpunk sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling), and as a bonus the full text of Sterling's entertaining study of real life crime, punishment, and other misadventures in cyberspace, published by Bantam as *The Hacker Crackdown*. A USNews cover story a few weeks ago quoted one pundit saying that story a few months ago the words of one pundit opining that "For many people, the network revolution has already happened." 'Tis true, and this is one good snapshot, addressing the intellectual and institutional concerns of the academic, of what it has done and what it will do. Traditional publishing is in deep trouble; alternatives loom, but what we will make of them is far from clear. From: Yorick Wilks <yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 16:41:27 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 668 (1040) THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD The Department of Computer Science wishes to recruit a Lecturer Grade A to a fixed 5 year appointment arising from the award of an SERC Advanced Research Fellowship to Dr.P Mc Kevitt, who lectures in natural language processing. The lectureship is to replace his teaching and will be tenable from 1/10/94 and applications are invited from anyone with research interests in the following areas: Cognitive Systems Computational Models of Hearing Speech Technology Natural Language Processing Computer Graphics Intelligent Tutoring Systems Computer Argumentation Connectionist Language Processing Formal Methods and Software Engineering Theory of Computer Science Software and systems engineering Communication Networks Neural Networks Parallel Systems Safety Critical Systems Parallel Databases CASE Tools for Parallel Systems Further details are available from the Department of Computer Science: jean@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk. Closing date for applications 1st April, 1994 to the Personnel Department, Western Bank, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN. From: Ken Allott <fren007@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Position in French Date: 21 Mar 1994 12:26:58+1300 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 669 (1041) NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY LECTURER IN FRENCH Applications are invited for the above position. The Department of French is seeking a well qualified full-time member of staff to undertake teaching and research. The appointee will be required to take a major role in graduate and undergraduate language teaching. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or an equivalent degree. A good publishing record or a clear indication of research potential is expected. The appointee will be required to share in the administrative duties of the Department. The salary for Lecturers is on a scale from NZ$40,000 to NZ$50,000 per annum. Applications close on 31 May 1994. Further particulars and Conditions of Appointment may be obtained from the undersigned. Applications, quoting position No. FR95, must be addressed to : Mr A. W. Hayward, Registrar, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. The University has a policy of equal opportunity in employment. Enquiries by email : enquiries of an academic nature should be addressed to P.Tremewan@csc.canterbury.ac.nz. Administrative enquiries can be addressed to K.Allott@csc.canterbury.ac.nz, who will forward them to the appropriate administrator. From: Daniel Traister <traister@pobox.upenn.edu> Subject: 1994 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography at the University of Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 12:46:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 670 (1042) The University of Pennsylvania Libraries and The French Institute of Culture and Technology announce the A. S. W. ROSENBACH LECTURES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1994. ROGER CHARTIER, Directeur d'Etudes in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales will deliver three lectures on FORMS AND MEANINGS: TEXTS, BOOKS, AND READERS FROM SCRIBAL TO PRINT CULTURE Each lecture begins at 5 P.M. in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gallery on the 6th floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Nearby parking is available at 36th and Walnut Streets. LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please bring a photo i.d. for admission to the Library. Schedule: April 7: "Representations of the Written Word" April 8: "Authorship and Patronage: The Prince, the Library, and the Dedication" April 14: "'Popular' Culture and 'Popular' Litera- ture: Reading as Appropriation" For further information, please call the Department of Special Collections at 215 898 7088. From: "Evelyn Ehrlich" <EHRLICHE@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu> Subject: Symposium Date: 16 Mar 94 10:22:09 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 671 (1043) The following announcement is being posted to several lists: A one-day symposium, SIR WILLIAM JONES: SCHOLARLY REFLECTIONS, will be held at New York University on Thursday, April 21, 1994, honoring Jones on the bicentenary of his death. The symposium, sponsored by the NYU Division of Libraries, will include presentations by Garland Cannon, Texas A&M University; O.P. Kejariwal, All-India Radio; Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, Cornell; David Kopf, University of Minnesota; W.P. Lehmann, University of Texas at Austin; James C. Oldham, Georgetown University Law Center; R.H. Robins, University of London; and Rosane Rocher, University of Pennsylvania. For further information and to make reservations, contact Reina Schratter at (212) 998-6909. Evelyn Ehrlich Humanities Bibliographer New York University, 70 Washington Sq. South New York, New York 10012 (212) 998-2568 ehrliche@elmer1.bobst.nyu.edu From: VAX2::SFH "SID HUTTNER, THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA" 20-MAR-1994 Subject: V.S. Naipaul Archive Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 15:46:33 -0600 (CST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 672 (1044) 15:44:37.32 To: VAX1::NAIPAUL CC: Subj: V.S. Naipaul Archive This message will be posted to several lists. We regret duplication. The archive of writer V.S. Naipaul will be formally opened to scholars during a ceremony Tuesday evening, March 22, 1994 in McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The ceremony, which precedes a formal dinner, will take place between 7 and 7:30 p.m., Central Standard time. Friends of Mr. Naipaul and of the University are invited to participate in the ceremony by sending an electronic message to: Naipaul@Vax1.UTulsa.Edu Messages which arrive during the half-hour of the ceremony are particularly welcomed, but the address is open now and will remain open through March 23. All messages will be shared with Mr. Naipaul, who is visiting Tulsa to help with the organization of his papers. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932 and educated at Oxford University. The first of his now twenty books was published in 1955. _A House for Mr Biswas_ was his first international success. He has written on Argentina (_The Return of Eva Peron_), Africa (_A Bend in the River_), India (_India: A Million Mutinies Now_), the world of Muslim fundamentalism (_Among the Believers), and the American south (_A Turn in the South_). McFarlin Library now houses all Naipaul's surviving manuscripts and his personal and professional correspondence through 1984. Naipaul will continue to add materials throughout his life. An inventory of the current archive will shortly be placed on a University gopher for anonymous FTP. Readers who wish access information about this, or who would like to be sent an electronic copy when it is ready, may mention this in their message or later contact: Sidney F. Huttner, Curator of Special Collections The University of Tulsa Library, 2933 East 6th Street Tulsa, OK 74104-3133 Internet: SFH@Vax2.UTulsa.Edu From: sjy@eng.cam.ac.uk Subject: Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 18:12:52 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 673 (1045) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER LABORATORY ONE-YEAR M.PHIL COURSE COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE PROCESSING Applications are invited for a one year postgraduate course at Cambridge University leading to an MPhil Degree in Computer Speech and Language Processing. The aim of this course is to provide a training for graduates from various disciplines in the techniques of computer speech and language processing, and a theoretical foundation drawing upon work in linguistics, psychology, computer science, engineering and mathematics. The course consists of two terms of lectures and practical work followed by a project in the 3rd term. Assessment is by examination, coursework and project. The course is run jointly by the Engineering Department Speech Group and the Computer Laboratory Natural Language Processing Group with the assistance of the Dept of Linguistics and the MRC Applied Psychology Unit. Topics covered include: o Speech Recognition/Synthesis o Speech Analysis o Acoustic Modelling o Neural Networks o Speech Systems o Applications o Syntax and Parsing o Semantics & Inference o Discourse Processing o Language Systems o Applications o Phonetics and Phonology o Perception o Psycholinguistics o Programming Techniques The coursework includes practical experience in speech analysis, recognition using Hidden Markov models, text-speech synthesis, parsing and semantic analysis. Candidates should normally have a 2i honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g. computer science, engineering, linguistics, etc) and should have some programming experience. SERC Studentships are available for UK and EC students. For further details contact: Mrs Mavis Barber (M.Phil Computer Speech & Language Processing) Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ Tel: 0223-332752 e-mail: mavis@eng.cam.ac.uk CLOSING DATE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS: 31ST MARCH 1994 From: Yorick Wilks <yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 15:21:09 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 674 (1046) University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE This strongly research-orientated department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate students with a start date of October 1994 in our main areas of research interest below. Successful applicants will work towards an M.Phil or Ph.D within research teams working in the following areas: Cognitive Systems Computational Models of Hearing Speech Technology Natural Language Processing Computer Graphics Intelligent Tutoring Systems Computer Argumentation Connectionist Language Processing Formal Methods and Software Engineering Theory of Computer Science Software and systems engineering Communication Networks Neural Networks Object-Oriented Programming Parallel Systems Safety Critical Systems Parallel Databases CASE Tools for Parallel Systems Neural Networks and Parallel Hardware We welcome applications from candidates with a good honours degree (or its overseas equivalent) in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), including those who expect to attain such a degree by October 1994. A number of awards are available. Application forms and further particulars are available from: The Departmental Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr. P.D. Green, phone (0)742-825578, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Prof Yorick Wilks, phone (0)742-825563, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Closing Date: Friday 22nd April 1994. From: "Dr. Al Bento, EARVABEN@UBE.UB.UMD.EDU" <earvaben@UBE.BITNET> Subject: New CIS-L list Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 22:12:17 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 675 (1047) CIS-L ON LISTSERV@UBE.BITNET - Careers in Information Systems or LISTSERV@UBE.UBALT.EDU CIS-L is an unmoderated discussion list for anyone interested in trends, opportunities and changes in Careers in Information Systems. 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Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 Ü Ü EARVABEN@UBE.UB.UMD.EDU Ü Ü (410) 837-5272 Ü ü–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––¶ From: phil-preprints-admin@phil-preprints.L.chiba-u.ac.jp Subject: News from the IPPE (11 Mar 94) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 94 20:10:04 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 676 (1048) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= International Philosophical Preprint Exchange Update -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Fri 11 Mar 1994 Many of you have inquired as to the easiest way to view the contents of the IPPE, which currently includes: a large collection of preprints covering every area of philosophy; the abstracts, tables of contents, and editorial summaries of the journals and book series in our Journals, Books, and Conferences directory; and which will soon include a Dialogues directory. I personally prefer our graphic illustration of the IPPE, Map_of_the_IPPE, although more textually minded philosophers will prefer our INDEX file. Both are updated daily and are available on the IPPE in our main directory. --------------- Map_of_the_IPPE --------------- This is a map of the directory structure of the IPPE. For information on what each directory contains, see the file INDEX (or feel free to browse). The International Philosophical Preprint Exchange -- directory map ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a map of the directory structure of the IPPE. 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Robert O'Brien robrien@oavax.csuchico.edu From: BAER@macalstr.edu Subject: indexing Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 16:07:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 678 (1050) I am contemplating the indexing of a 350-400 page book with loads of names, places and topics. The thought of doing this in WordPerfect intimidates me. I would greatly appreciate information about indexing software superior to the feature in WordPerfect for Dos. Joel Baer English Department Macalester College 612-696-6513; FAX 612-696-6430 From: TBrunner@uci.edu (Theodore F. Brunner) Subject: Addresses Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 09:00:15 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 679 (1051) We are looking for addresses (mail, e-mail, etc.) for the following two individuals: George L. Greaney and James Wesley Wiles. Please provide information off-list. Ted Brunner =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Professor Theodore F. Brunner, Director Phone: (714) 856-6404 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae FAX: (714) 856-8434 University of California Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-5550 USA E-Mail: TLG@UCI.EDU =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: "Gunther Gottschalk" <gs01gott@humanitas.ucsb.edu> Subject: Literary CD-Rom editions Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 09:35:34 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 680 (1052) Is there a list available somewhere about existing or projected literary CD-Rom editions of single authors, including possibly CD-Rom indices and concordances of their work? We are contemplating proposing several projects and need material to help us convince several (conservative) European publishers and holders of rights to do a feasibility study. Please respond to me directly unless you feel the information would be useful for a wider audience. Thanks. From: Mark Olsen <mark@TUNA.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE - ACCESS ISSUES Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:11:14 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 584 (1053) I am posting this policy statement from the ACM's (Assocation for Computing Machinery [sic]) which is, I believe, the largest and oldest professional computing organization in the country. The policy issues discussed here will have a significant impact on the future of the network. I believe it is important that scholars and students in the humanities have a voice in this process, since they are rarely have a presence in such debates. Please forward comments and suggestions to Dr. Simons. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation]Committee (USACM); Researcher, Applications Development Technology Institute, IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory THE U.S. NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE - ACCESS ISSUES Statement of USACM, the Public Policy Committee of ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) endorses the creation of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) in the United States. An NII that brings an open flow of information to U.S. citizens can improve economic well-being and can bring major advances in areas such as education, public health, public libraries, and a wide range of government and social services. As users of the precursors of the NII, ACM members are well aware of the benefits such a system can offer for business, education, communication, information, improved productivity, and quality of life. USACM believes that such wide-reaching infrastructure must guarantee that the system be affordable and accessible for all. Access has several dimensions, most of which require public policy attention. o Availability--An eventual NII must be geographically ubiquitous and accessible to everyone, both users and service providers. o Protection of information rights--Privacy, property rights, public access rights, and freedom of speech will have to be protected. Lack of such protections will discourage public access and exchange of ideas. o Affordability--Connection to a NII should be priced so that there can be universal access to a basic level of services. Also, access should be made available through public schools and public libraries, especially those in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. o Access to public services--The U.S. government will need to assure that applications with broad public benefit, such as interaction with government agencies and access to public data, are developed and made available. o Lack of bias--Explicit efforts are needed to ensure that the NII addresses the entire spectrum of citizens and decreases the current cultural and gender gaps in technologically oriented services. All members of society should be encouraged to become information-technology literate. o Ease of use--Access to the network and its basic services must be made so simple that even novices can use them and experts can work rapidly and effectively. USACM believes that such an NII is technically feasible. That is not to say all problems are solved. Many of the technical issues are at the frontier of computer research and must receive proper attention. Many of the applications envisioned are large and complex, and will require the cooperation of much of the computer/communications industry, in areas that have posed substantial difficulties in the past. We urge that the goals listed above be considered of primary importance in the research, design, and implementation of the NII, and that the broader public be included in the discussions among technical and political participants that will lead to decisions. It will not be easy to forge the necessary agreements among the many different voices to be heard, but it is a crucial part of shaping the information future. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Paul Brians <BRIANS@WSUVM1> Subject: Admission to most public museums in France free to teachers Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 09:48:08 PST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 681 (1054) Maybe I'm the last person to learn this, but just maybe it may help some others. It seems that many French museums do not charge admission to teachers. Just show your faculty card, and--if requested--some confirming ID like passport or driver's license, and you get "entree gratuite." None of the museums where my wife and I used this technique had any reference to it posted publically--your're just supposed to know it. This rule applies only to state and city museums like the Louvre, not to private museums like the Marmottan or the Musee du monde arabe. Most of the time the deal is good only for general admission; you still have to pay to see special exhibits (though at the Musee des arts populaires in the Bois de Boulogne we got in free even to the special exhibit). This makes bopping into the Louvre for a quick look at some special part of the permanent collection very attractive--bypass the long ticket lines and go straight to the ticket collectors at the entrance. Paul Brians, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5020 From: epalmer@UTAHCCA.BITNET Subject: Philosophy Electronic texts: 3/ed. Announcement Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 12:31:50 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 682 (1055) The third edition of the American Philosophical Association Guide to Electronic texts in Philosophy (March 1994) is now available from the APA gopher. To access the document, get to the gopher by typing "gopher apa.oxy.edu" at your main system prompt. The guide can be found under the "Books and journals" and "Electronic Texts" nested directories. Please feel free to reproduce and distribute the guide in its entirety onto other servers and onto paper. If you cannot access the guide through the gopher, please make requests for copies via email to the electronic mail address below. Eric Palmer epalmer@cc.utah.edu After July 1994: Philosophy, U. of Kentucky Philosophy, Allegheny College Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA Meadville, PA 16335-3902 (606) 257-7103 fax. 606 257-3286 (814) 332-3314 From: Mark Olsen <mark@TUNA.UCHICAGO.EDU> Subject: CHum makes good, finally!! Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 13:59:29 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 683 (1056) Well, for all my moaning and complaining about the failure of scholars to cite _Computers and the Humanities_, I must stand corrected. John Price-Wilkins of U. Virginia notes the following citation from the OED: OED Entry Search Term: lemmatization Found: 1 match(es) lemmatization lemmatization le_ma't@ize+i-S@n. f. next + -ation. The action or process of lemmatizing; an instance of this. 1967 Computers & Humanities II. 75 Method:... 3. Alphabetic sorting into word forms with context. 4. Lemmatisation. 1971 A. J. Aitken in R. A. Wisbey Computer in Lit. & Ling. Res. 14 The methods of lemmatization..so far mentioned necessitate informing the computer explicitly of the destination in terms of head&dubh;word of every single instance of each word which it has to treat. 1972 Computers & Humanities VI. 212 Not all lemmas could, of course, be made to come out correctly from the computer... In fact, the accomplished wrong lemmatizations are more notable than the missing correct ones. BIG TIME!! Mark From: "K.E.Hirschkop" <K.E.Hirschkop@southampton.ac.uk> Subject: Lectureships at Southampton Date: Wed, 23 Mar 94 17:03:06 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 586 (1057) WPCL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ENGLISH LECTURESHIPS (2) Applications are invited from candidates with proven research records for two lectureships in the following areas of English Studies: (1) 18th/19th century Literature in English (2) Cultural Theory Preference will be given to applicants whose work engages with contemporary debates on criticism, theory and history. With reference to both posts, potential applicants may include those with an interest in the following fields: colonialism; language and discourse; philosophy and literature; American, gender and theatre studies. The Department especially welcomes applications from women and members of ethnic minorities. Salary will be on the University Lecturer Grade A/B Scales: ,13,601 ) 25,107 pounds sterling per annum. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Personnel Department (R/230), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ [Telephone (0703) 593793; Fax (0703) 593833]. The closing date for the return of completed application forms is 15 April 1994, quoting reference number R/230. Working for Equal Opportunities From: Robert Kraft <kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: End of Israeli Univ Strike Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 01:46:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 587 (1058) Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] From: "James O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: Latin text + hypertext on the net Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 11:38:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 588 (1059) I'm happy to announce a new net resource, quite experimental, but betokening an interesting future. The traditional student commentary, of the sort we have been publishing in Bryn Mawr Commentaries since Rick Hamilton had the stroke of genius for that series fifteen years ago, is a codex book crying out to be hypertext. I can now offer a single, short but amusing example of a Bryn Mawr Commentary as an Internet-accessible hypertext. You can call up the Latin text on screen, read it: if a word is highlighted, you click on it and it takes you immediately to the commentary; another click brings you back to the text. The text in question is the witty "Council of Remiremont", the tale of twelfth century nuns debating solemnly whether knights or scholars make better lovers. (The answer should have been obvious, readers of this list will say.) The print version was prepared with great care and learning by Paul Pascal, professor emeritus of Classics at the University of Washington, and all we have now done is massage his work into hypertext form. The poem is about 250 lines long and makes "a good read". It's meant for the reader whose Latin is still a little rusty. To access this text, you must have some form of World-Wide Web browser. The fancy ones, Mosaic and the like, are quite pretty, but you can do this with a pure vt100 terminal as well, using the www application or, my preference, lynx. If you don't know how to get at the Web from your network connection, ask locally among the wizards: they should know. What you need to know to get at this text is this mystic sequence of runes: <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/remiremont.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/remiremont.html</a> Comments, suggestions, and the like are most welcome. There are occasionally these days bugs in the "links" between files, so be prepared for the occasional anomaly; if it recurs and is annoying, let me know. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Edwin Duncan <E7E4DUN@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> Subject: Texas Medieval Conference Call for Papers Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 18:32:06 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 684 (1060) CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE TEXAS MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION hosted by OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS SEPTEMBER 8-11, 1994 As always, papers on all medieval topics are welcome. This year, we are especially soliciting papers and sessions on... Medieval Influences in Spanish Texas, Colonial Mexico and Latin America Medieval Philosophy in General Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Please submit paper and session abstracts by JUNE 15, 1994 to Edwin Duncan Department of English Towson State University Towson, MD 21204 PHONE: (410) 830-2847 FAX: (512) 436-0824 or by e-mail to E7E4DUN@TOE.TOWSON.EDU This year's official conference hotel will be the historic Menger, across the street from the Alamo and just a short stroll to the River Walk. From: Stuart Lee <STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: _Computers & Texts_: CFP Date: Tue, 22 Mar 94 11:58 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 685 (1061) Computers & Texts # 7 CALL FOR PAPERS Newsletter of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies Computers & Texts has now been running for three years and is the newsletter of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies, based at Oxford University Computing Services. The subjects covered by the Centre include literature, linguistics, classics, theology, philosophy (& logic), theatre arts, and media studies. The newsletter has a selection of short articles relating to computer-aided learning in textual studies, a section devoted to the Office for Humanities Communication, and has a mailing of over 2,000 world-wide. In this issue we are continuing our discussion of courseware development and are particularly interested in quality assessment issues. We are also keen to have contributions from the "new" universities. Format: Submissions should be of approximately 1000 words although this is open to discussion with the editors. Footnotes should be limited and placed at the end of the article. References to published works should be of the form (Smith, 1992) with full bibliographic details given at the end of the article. Screen dumps are accepted, preferably in TIFF or PICT format for the Macintosh. Deadline: 13 May, 1994 Send all details to: Lorna Hughes or Stuart Lee Research Officers CTI Centre for Textual Studies Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel:0865-273221 Fax:0865-273221 E-mail: CTITEXT@UK.AC.OX.VAX From: Afsrgs <Afsrgs@soton.ac.uk> Subject: MA courses Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 12:16:40 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 590 (1062) The Faculty of Arts of the University of Southampton, UK,announces its new MA programme within the School of Research and Graduate Studies. Its interdisciplinary focus combines academic rigour with the excitement of research across the boundaries of traditional disciplines, and its core course:option structure secures intellectual coherence for each MA while allowing flexibility in the choice of specialisms. The MA (2 core units, 2 option units, 2 research skills units and a dissertation) and Diploma (without dissertation) courses may be followed full-time (over 1 year) or part-time (over two years); UK students may seek funding under the British Academy or ESRC studentship schemes, and in addition the Arts Faculty offers a number of postgraduate bursaries for overseas students as well as some postgraduate studentships. The following MAs/Diplomas are available: Archaeological Theory Culture and Social Change Early Modern European Culture European Cultural Studies Film Studies French Language and Culture Gender and Culture Medieval Studies Nationalism and Cultural Difference Philosophy of Mind Theatre and Performance Studies Arts (General) Applications for 1994 must be made by 15 September 1994 at the latest, but earlier if possible, especially if seeking funding (BA and ESRC deadline is 1 May 1994). Further details of course content, qualifications required, funding etc are available from the SRGS Secretary at the address below. ************************************************** * School of Research and Graduate Studies (SRGS) * * Faculty of Arts * * University of Southampton * * Southampton SO9 5NH * * United Kingdom * * Tel: 0703 592206 * * Fax: 0703 593868 * * Email: afsrgs@southampton.ac.uk * ************************************************** From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: 4/13 NEACH Access & Preservation Issues Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 16:02:35 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 686 (1063) An invitation from N E A C H: Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities Hear Hans Ru"timann talk on * Issues in Data Preservation and Access * at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 1994, in room 601, the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York City. Mr. Ru"timann, a consultant to the Commission on Preservation & Access, will discuss problems facing archives and libraries in the preservation of endangered artifacts, access to digitized data with unusual formats, and issues of storage and dissemination. One current project entails the digitization of a portion of the 45 million documemts in Seville pertaining to the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 15th to 19th centuries. ************************************************************************** Put the NEACH meeting schedule for Spring 1994 in your calendar: Wed., April 13: ACCESS AND PRESERVATION ISSUES: Hans Ru"timann Tues., May 10: TEXT SOFTWARE PACKAGES: Susan Hockey, CETH, and panel !!! Note: This meeting will take place at CETH in New Brunswick, N. J. !!! **************************************************************************** All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. NEACH meetings usually take place on the second Tuesday or the second Wednesday of the month from October to May at the IBM Building in New York City. Visitors to the IBM Building must obtain a pass from the desk on the ground floor: ask for "Humanities" or "NEACH." NEACH memberships are available at $15 for calendar year 1994. If you already belong to the national ACH, a combination membership with NEACH is only $5 additional. NEACH is an independent, self-sustaining organization. Joining or renewing NEACH membership: Please address your check or money order to "NEACH" as payee (in U.S. dollars please) and send it to Nan Hahn, NEACH Treasurer, Benjamin Databank, 322 Second Street, Dunellen, N. J. 08812 USA. Send membership queries and address changes to Nan Hahn at the above address or by e-mail at 72066.644@compuserve.com or by telephone at (908) 752-5841. --Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: lessard@francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard) Subject: Info on ORALITE Conference Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 12:40:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 687 (1064) APPEL A LA PARTICIPATION Colloque ORALITE Langue parlee: stabilite, variation et representation Centre Donald Gordon, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada du 3 au 5 mai 1994 PROGRAMME PROVISOIRE Johanne Benard (Queen's) Representer ou presenter la langue parlee? Le texte celinien Gisele Chevalier (Moncton) Les valeurs du futur en acadien Denise Deshaies (Laval) Le projet PROSO: perception de l'accent Gaetane Dostie (Montreal) Les marqueurs discursifs "ecoute" et "regarde" Khadiyatoula Fall (Chicoutimi), Daniel Simeoni (McMaster) Le sens en construction dans les discours oraux Karin Flikeid (St. Mary's) Stabilite et variation en francais acadien Cynthia Fox, Louise Charbonneau (SUNY) Le francais de la Nouvelle-Angleterre Michel Francard (Louvain) La banque VALIBEL: variation linguistique en Belgique Troy Heisler (Laval) Analyse de fonctions discursives de OK en situation d'entrevue en francais montrealais Sylvia Kasparian, (Moncton) Alternance de langue et dynamique conversationnelle Marty Laforest, Troy Heisler (Laval) Strategies d'ecoute et modes d'organisation discursive en situation d'entrevue Jean-Marcel Leard (Sherbrooke) Particules enonciatives en langue parlee Pierre Martel (Sherbrooke) Variation orthographique lexicale dans les textes oraux du francais quebecois France Martineau, Virginia Motapanyane (Moncton) Les infinitives hypothetiques en francais du Canada Francoise Mougeon (York) Les deux chapeaux de l'emprunt ou le role de l'emprunt comme marqueur sociostylistique au Canada et en France Raymond Mougeon, Edouard Beniak (Toronto) Nivellement des formes du pluriel Christine Nivet (Simon Fraser) La phrase et le syntagme du francais oral: realite, diversite et complexite Shana Poplack (Ottawa) La dynamique sociolinguistique de la convergence apparente Christine Rouget (UBC) "espece de, genre de, sorte de" a l'oral et a l'ecrit Laurent Santerre (Montreal) Analyse phonetique instrumentale Diane Vincent (Laval) Analyse phonetique et sociolinguistique du changement: le cas de "par exemple" en francais quebecois DEROULEMENT DU COLLOQUE Inscription: les 3, 4 et 5 mai, 9h - 17h. Seance d'ouverture: le 3 mai, 13h. Communications: le 3 mai, 14h - 17h; les 4 et 5 mai, 9h - 17h. L'horaire final sera distribue aux participants a l'inscription. INSCRIPTION L'inscription se fait en deux etapes: (1) l'inscription au colloque; (2) la demande de logement. Pour vous inscrire au colloque, veuillez contacter le departement d'etudes francaises, par telephone, par fax, par courrier electronique ou par la poste (voir indications ci-dessous). Colloque ORALITE Departement d'etudes francaises Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-545-2090 Fax: 613-545-6522 Email: lessard@francais.queensu.ca Au moment de contacter le departement, veuillez fournir vos nom, titre, adresse et numeros de telephone et de fax, ainsi que votre adresse pour le courrier electronique. Le cout total de participation pour les trois jours du colloque est de 62.68 $ (taxes comprises). Cela comprend les frais de participation, les resumes etendus, les pauses-cafe au Centre Donald Gordon, et les repas de midi du 4 et du 5 mai. Un taux journalier est egalement disponible. Les frais du colloque seront a regler par cheque personnel a l'arrivee au Centre Donald Gordon. C'est a ce moment-la que seront distribues les resumes etendus des communications, les macarons, ainsi que d'autres documents. LOGEMENT Le Centre Donald Gordon est une vieille maison construite en 1840 et amenagee en centre de colloque. Le Centre offre non seulement des salles de conference, mais egalement une residence de type universitaire. Adresser toute demande de logement directement au Centre, soit par telephone, soit par fax. Donald Gordon Centre Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-545-2090 Fax: 613-545-2221 Le logement au Centre est disponible en format modulaire, comme suit: - logement (une nuit) petit dejeuner compris: 48.50 $ plus taxes - repas du soir: 22.43 $ (taxes comprises) Dans la demande de logement, veuillez specifier votre nom, votre adresse et vos dates d'arrivee et de depart. Un nombre limite de chambres a ete retenu jusqu'au 15 avril 1994. Il serait bien de prendre contact avec le Centre avant cette date. Ceux qui voudraient loger ailleurs que dans le Centre Donald Gordon pourront obtenir des renseignements sur les hotels et d'autres logements aupres du bureau de tourisme de Kingston, soit par telephone (613-548-4415), soit par fax (613-548-4549). From: "Ronald Tetreault English/Dalhousie Univ." <TETRO@ac.dal.ca> Subject: Multimedia in Teaching Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 13:06:51 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 592 (1065) I would enjoy seeing a discussion among us Humanists about the impact of computer technology on our teaching. What I would most welcome just now is to hear from folks with experience using Interactive Multimedia in their classes. Perhaps some Classicists out there would be willing to share tales of the joys and sorrows of using Perseus, for example. Has anyone tried using Metropolis, the system for Historians that was reviewed here recently? How about software for Theatre and Drama courses? And does anyone know anything about The Literature Navigator, or any other hypermedia that could be used for English (or American) Lit? Finally, who among us might be interested in developing such material for future application? Let us hear about your project, so we can get some idea of what to expect in the classroom of the future. Ronald Tetreault Halifax, Nova Scotia Department of English CANADA Dalhousie University "the college by the sea" From: fendt@MIT.EDU (Kurt Fendt) Subject: Workshop/Seminar Announcement Date: Fri, 01 Apr 94 15:44:20 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 593 (1066) Workshop/Seminar Announcement Integrating Interactive Media into the Humanities Curriculum Applications and Models Workshop/Seminar May 31 - June 4, 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts organized by the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and the Language Learning and Resource Center The Laboratory for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities (LATH) and the Language Learning and Resource Center (LLARC) are offering an intensive five-day workshop on the integration of interactive media into the humanities curriculum. The Workshop will focus on teaching and learning models for advanced media applications in literature, writing and foreign languages. Presentations by experienced faculty will introduce participants to the design and the use of emerging media genres such as interactive documentaries and interactive fiction, as well as to multimedia authoring tools for both collaborative and individualized learning. Several interactive applications, including integrated media packages developed at MIT will be demonstrated so that participants may make informed evaluations of a variety of pedagogical models applicable to interactive media and assess the potential of current and future technologies for changing the humanities curriculum. Special work sessions will allow participants to acquire hands-on experience with sample applications. The workshop will focus on learning and teaching methodologies and will provide practical experience with interactive media. Morning presentations of typical applications and their integration into the humanities curriculum will be followed by concurrent afternoon hands-on sessions that will give participants first-hand experience in effective pedagogical and technological design. The workshop is intended for humanists, language educators, media center directors, developers from educational institutions on the college, university and high school level, as well as corporations. Provisional Program ___________________________________ Tuesday, May 31 - Day 1: am Registration Introductory session Interactive Documentaries: models for learning culture and language: - G. Furstenberg: "Dans le Quartier St. Gervais" - S. Miyagawa: "Tanabata - The Star Festival" pm Workshops: - Teaching with Interactive Documentaries - Multimedia Authoring with the Apple Media Tool - Introduction to HyperCard ___________________________________ Wednesday, June 1 - Day 2: am Interactive films for learning foreign languages and cultures - G. Furstenberg: "A la rencontre de Philippe" - D. Morgenstern: "No Recuerdo" pm Workshops - Teaching with Interactive films - Advanced HyperCard (Scripting) - Creating interactive texts using the Expanded Books Toolkit evening Reception ___________________________________ Thursday, June 2 - Day 3: am - Interactive texts and creative writing (J. Murray) - Designing an interactive multimedia project for foreign languages: building blocks and models (J. Murray/M. Roper) pm Workshops: - Creating interactive narratives with HyperCard - Turning existing video into interactive video - Developing multimedia lessons using LIBRA ___________________________________ Friday, June 3 - Day 4: am Multimedia annotation of literary texts: scholarly and pedagogical concepts (Otmar Foelsche) pm Workshops: - Annotating Texts with Annotext - Creating interactive texts using the Expanded Books Toolkit - Multimedia Authoring with the Apple Media Tool evening Dinner (optional) ___________________________________ Saturday, June 4 - Day 5: am Interactive Shakespeare: Models for Teaching Literature and Theater (P. Donaldson) pm Workshop: - Building multimedia archives for language, culture, and literature Evaluation Throughout the workshop participants will be able to work independently with the applications covered in the presentations/hands-on sessions as well as commercially avaibale materials, such as System D, and The Dickens Web. LATH/LLARC MIT's Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (LATH) was founded in 1992 as the successor to the Athena Language Learning Project. LATH is concerned with creating the building blocks for humanities comput ing in the twenty-first century by focussing on exemplary applications in lan guage, literature, and other humanistic disciplines. LATH applications are de signed to have broad educational impact and to expand the computational en vironment as a medium for exploring language, texts, and culture. Among the technologies LATH is exploring are Interactive Video, Hypermedia, Natural Language Processing, and Speech Processing. LATH research is aimed at do mesticating advanced technologies and putting them to use on platforms that are accessible to humanists and educational institutions. The Language Learning and Resource Center (LLARC) is a teaching and learning facility for Foreign Language faculty and students at MIT. LLARC resources include 2 fully-equipped classrooms, 20 computer/video workstations, 3 studios, audio stations, an extensive materials library and a development/production area. LLARC develops software for foreign language faculty and serves as a demonstration and evaluation site for LATH programs under development. Presenters: Peter Donaldson, Professor of English Literature, MIT Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Japanese and Linguistics, MIT Janet Murray, Senior Research Scientist, Director of LATH, MIT Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer of French, MIT Douglas Morgenstern, Senior Lecturer of Spanish, MIT Michael Roper, Interactive Video Producer Otmar Foelsche, Director Language Learning Center, Dartmouth College Ruth Trometer, Director of LLARC, MIT Catherine White, LLARC Programmer, MIT Kurt Fendt, Lecturer of German and Research Associate, MIT Fees The cost of participation in this workshop is $450, including use of multimedia facilities, coffee, and the evening reception on day 2. The optional dinner on day 4 is an additional $35. Participants will receive a list of hotels in the area. Prices range between $60 and $110. The number of participants is limited to 25. Applications and payments must be received by April 30, 1994. Please register at the following adress: Conference Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 7-111 77 Massachusetts Aveneue Cambridge, MA 02139 phone: (617) 253-1700 fax: (617) 253-7002 For requests concerning the workshop please refer to: Laboratory for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities Massachusetts Institute of Technology Room 20B-231 18 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 USA phone: (617) 253-6346 fax: (617) 253-5633 internet: fendt@mit.edu --------------REGISTRATION FORM------CUT HERE-------------------- Integrating Interactive Media into the Humanities Curriculum Applications and Models Workshop/Seminar May 31 - June 4, 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Registration Form Name ___________________________________________________________________ Title __________________________________________________________________ Institution ____________________________________________________________ Address ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Phone Number ___________________________________________________________ Email address __________________________________________________________ Registration Fees: $450 ________ $35 dinner ________ TOTAL FEES ________ Method of Payment: __Check enclosed (make payable to FL&L, MIT) __Charge to credit card __Visa __MasterCard Card #___________________________Exp. date_______ Signature________________________________________ From: Ann Okerson <ann@cni.org> Subject: AAUP/ARL Symposium IV -- Call For Presentations Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:20:57 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 594 (1067) ************************************************************************ MAKING THE FUTURE WORK TODAY ************************************************************************ ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS Association of American University Presses Association of Research Libraries In Partnership with: The American Physical Society The Johns Hopkins University Press The University of Virginia Library Sponsor the Fourth Symposium of the ARL and AAUP Visions and Opportunities in Electronic Publishing November 5-7, 1994 Washington, DC The symposium series sponsored by the ARL and the AAUP has become a space apart, where stakeholders in academe and scholarly communications -- faculty, librarians, and publishers from university presses and learned/professional societies -- can gather to exchange information about their interests and concerns. The Fourth Symposium will focus on four issues: fair use, cost recovery, developing content, and cooperative ventures. As the title indicates, the organizers are especially keen to explore those areas where the interests of the various participants may appear to diverge and in stimulating productive discussions, particularly within academe, about concrete ways in which we can work together to resolve any differences. As customary, the Symposium will open late Saturday afternoon with keynote addresses, reception, and convivial dining opportunities in cafes and restaurants of Washington, DC. Both Sunday and Monday will feature a mix of plenary and breakout sessions. Plenary sessions will focus on the overarching themes of: o Defining Fair Use in the Networked Environment o Exploring Alternative Cost Recovery Mechanisms o Filling the Pipeline: Innovations in Electronic Scholarship o Realigning Campus Roles and Relationships Breakout sessions are designed to encourage small group interaction with symposium participants. The presentations will be a concentrated introduction to inform the audience of what is involved in the work being described. Visual presentation and detailed handouts will be emphasized. The breakouts will be of two types. o Demonstrations of innovative applications of new technologies (e.g., multimedia, Mosaic, Acrobat, hyperlinks) to a *publishing* activity, which might include business innovations such as advertising, cost recovery. o Case studies of successful networked publishing projects that emphasize the content and look/feel of the work, rather than the technology per se. We seek a range of offerings that include administration and management, theory, legal issues, the practice of publishing and librarianship as it embraces networked electronic cooperative ventures, economics, specific projects, live demos, scholarly projects, and any other related areas. The proposals may come from the wide range of people involved in academic scholarly and scientific communications: scholars, scientists, administrators, press and society personnel, librarians, software and hardware creators, and others in related fields. ***We are particularly interested in proposals for papers that offer new perspectives on, and propose solutions to, the issues mentioned above in the not-for-profit higher education environment.*** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS & PROPOSALS: April 30, 1994 Submit your name, affiliation, title of presentation, type of presentation (paper, technical demonstration, case study), need for technology support at the meeting site, and comprehensive abstract to: symposium@e-math.ams.org CO-CHAIRS: Lisa Freeman, Director, University of Minnesota Press lfreeman@maroon.tc.umn.edu Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries ann@cni.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Robert Kelly, American Physical Society Susan Lewis, The Johns Hopkins University Press Karen Marshall, Alderman Library, University of Virginia David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Speakers and presenters will be offered assistance with expenses. Speakers must supply copies of their papers, demonstrations, or case studies in publishable form at the time of the symposium. These will be published in the Symposium proceedings. The Third Symposium, Gateways and Gatekeepers, held in November 1993 attracted 160 participants and featured one post-event optional excursion, "A Day in the Electronic Village," created by the University of Virginia Library. The November 1994 will offer two excursions: o "Day in the Village" (University of Virginia Library) and a o "Day at the University Press" (The Johns Hopkins University Press with the support of the Eisenhower Library, JHU). From: F.Heberlein@KU-EICHSTAETT.D400.DE Subject: Blind-l Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 11:29+0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 595 (1068) (See enclosed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A blind colleague of mine has been told that there was a list called "blind-l", but was unable to locate it. He would be grateful for any information. Write to me off-list: sla019@ku-eichstaett.d400.de From: John Lancaster, Amherst College (jlancaster@amherst.edu) Subject: Of catalogues and books Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 12:48:44 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 596 (1069) There has been much fuss lately over a tendentious and often silly article in the latest _New Yorker_ about the computerization of library catalogues (though I too am dismayed at the loss of much that could have been saved, with a little forethought and effort, from our card catalogues). It might be worth some attention to the much more substantial losses that have been going on even longer in the name of preservation, i.e. destruction of the books themselves. G. T. Tanselle's article in _Common Knowledge_ for Winter 1993 (vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 172-77), "The Latest Forms of Book-Burning," succinctly treats that matter, and may be of interest to members of this list. John Lancaster | Curator of Special Collections | Amherst College Library Campus Box 2256 | Amherst College | P.O.Box 5000 | Amherst, MA 01002-5000 Internet: jlancaster@amherst.edu | Tel. 413-542-2299 | Fax 413-542-2662 From: "David A. Hoekema" <DHOEKEMA@legacy.Calvin.EDU> Subject: Indexing Date: 1 Apr 94 15:07:26 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 597 (1070) Having just this week received page proofs (and having forgotten my promise to prepare the index), I can offer only a word of caution. My editor, local editors whom I have consulted, and the Chicago Manual, 14th Edition, are unanimous in regarding computer-generated indexes as inadequate, because too inclusive and incapable of recognizing equivalences, let alone adjusting the level of detail to fit the discipline, the weight of a topic in the whole, and so on. Perhaps some on the list will have used them successfully. I have resolved either (a) to use index cards (as I have done previously) and rely on the computer simply to alphabetize and clean up or, if I can manage the cost, (b) to hire an indexer, which my editor friends strongly advise. The account in the Chicago Manual is well worth reading in any case; the first few paragraphs, on whether authors should prepare their indexes and how burdensome is the task, are even amusing. || David Hoekema, Academic Dean, Calvin College (Grand Rapids MI 49546) || || tel. 616 957-6442 || fax 616 957-8551 || <dhoekema@calvin.edu> || From: WALLACHP@CSUSYS.CTSTATEU.EDU Subject: RE: 7.0597 Indexing Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 9:22:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 688 (1071) The inadequacy of computer indexing, an issue raised by David Hoekema, is only relevant in relation to automatic indexing programs. If one indexes as one goes along, or edits the volume, by simply telling a sophisticated word processor what terms to index, one has the same results as with index cards, but with far less work. In Word for Windows (2 or 6) one can build any custom indexes with subcategories quite easily. I have even added an index button to my tool bar. As a result I mark a term I want indexed, and click the button. The rest is automatic. I can also click the button at a specific spot and then fill in a box as I find appropriate. There are separate means for formatting the actual index. From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Re: 7.0597 Indexing Date: Mon, 04 Apr 1994 10:18:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 689 (1072) I've indexed dozens of books professionally, and I feel compelled to put in my $.02. First: it's true, you can always tell a machine-generated index because it's just an inadequate list of words with strings of page numbers. Your readers are probably better off looking at the table of contents or the running heads. If you don't want to do it yourself, hire somebody. Your publisher can suggest some indexers they know and trust. Second: may I suggest a method? You need two highlighters and a pencil. Use a highlighter in one color for the main entries, a highlighter in another color for the subentries. Use the pencil for listing page numbers or for drawing lines connecting main and subentries. You read the book and highlight, adding page numbers. For example, suppose you use pink to highlight main entries, blue to highlight subentries (like the lines on index cards), and the following appears in your book (actually, it appears in Georgia Green's _Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding_, references deleted, sense retained): In most modern semantic theories, including various intensional logics, the sense of an expression is supposed to determine its reference, and the goal of the intensional logic that makes explicit the mechanism by which this can happen is to determine the possible sorts of functions from possible indices to their extensions or denotations. I would highlight "semantic theories" in pink, "modern" in blue, and I would type them into the index as semantic theories modern, 42 "Intensional logics" would be pink, with "goal of" in blue: logic, intensional goals of, 42 And so on. When you've marked up your page proofs, you take them to the computer and just start typing, alphabetizing as you go. There's software that will help you with the sorting, but unless you index professionally, it's probably not cost-effective. Or you could just hire someone for $3 a page ... Joan C. Cook Department of Linguistics Georgetown University cookj@guvax.georgetown.edu From: "James O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: Augustine on the WWW Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 22:01:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 690 (1073) The materials posted on gopher (and still available there) for my Internet-based seminar on Augustine are now available by World-Wide Web at this address: <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html</a> It is my intention to make this collection the nucleus of a growing collection of materials related to Augustinian studies over time, and welcome offers of papers, texts, translations, and links to other net-accessible information of interest. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (This follows earlier posting in the same place of the file remiremont.html, pointing to a medieval Latin poem accompanied by exegetical commentary for those with rusty Latin. In answer to numerous requests, alas, there is no English translation I know of for that poem, but if any qualified body will make one that passes the scrutiny of the editor of the text, Prof. Paul Pascal, we'll gladly link it to the web that's already there.) From: zeitlyn@vax.ox.ac.uk Subject: World Wide Web speaks Mambila Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 05:37:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 691 (1074) A version of a Mambila transcript with digitized recordings has now been prepared for World Wide Web and hence is accessible to those using a wide variety of machines. The document in question is an electronic version of the transcript included (pp 213-215) in my paper that has appeared in the anthropology journal Man in 1993. This version, includes digitised sound recordings of the talk transcribed in the text. The purpose of doing this is to make more of my data available. I trust that this will be of interest to linguists as well as to anthropologists and others. In order to protect the copyright of the RAI (the journal publishers) I am only making the actual transcript available in this package. The full reference to the article is: Zeitlyn, David 1993. Reconstructing kinship or the pragmatics of kin talk. Man 28 (2), 199-224. The files can be found at <a href="http://rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/mambila/mambila.html">http://rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/mambila/mambila.html</a> The earlier version for users of Word 5 on Macintosh is available on the RSL Gopher server in the directory <a href="gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk/11/anthro-corn/">gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk/11/anthro-corn/</a> If you are using a gopher client, connect to rsl.ox.ac.uk, and look inside the anthropology corner. Comments on these files are welcome, especially reports from those who do NOT succeed in accessing the sound files. With the considerable help and encouragement of David Price from the Radcliffe Science Library these are in a UNIX 'ulaw' format which we have succeeded in playing on unix machines and on the Macintosh on which the files were processed. reports from those on other platforms would be welcomed. Dr David Zeitlyn, British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 51 Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX2 6PE, UK Tel. 44-865-274685 FAX 44-865-274630 From: Eric Crump <LCERIC@MIZZOU1> Subject: Computers & Writing Registration Date: Sun, 03 Apr 94 21:52:37 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 600 (1075) It's not too late (but it's *-----------------------------* *getting* kind of late) to | Computers & Writing 1994 | register for the tenth | May 20-23 | Computers & Writing Conference. | CW94:Forum Online | | April 29-June 12 | If anyone who is interested in | Theme: | joining us in Columbia or online | "The Global Web of Writing | for some reason hasn't gotten in | Technologies" | the way of a registration form yet, | Speakers: | it is now available from | DALE SPENDER | listserv@mizzou1.bitnet or | JOHN UNSWORTH | listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu. | AMY BRUCKMAN | *-----------------------------* Send a note to that address, leave the subject line blank, and in the first line of the note, put: get cw94 register Anyone who has trouble retrieving the file or who has questions about the conference not answered therein can write to me at LCERIC@mizzou1.bitnet or LCERIC@mizzou1.missouri.edu. --Eric Crump From: Jim Kelly <JRKJAN8@GWUVM> Subject: WRBG meeting Date: Mon, 04 Apr 94 16:53:06 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 601 (1076) ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- There will be a day trip of the Washington Rare Book Group to the University of Delaware and Oak Knoll Books on Saturday, April 16, from 10:00 am (departing Washington environs ca. 8:00 am) until 7:00 pm (returning to Washington by 9:00 pm approx.). Limited seating is available on two vans (one leaving from the Van Dorn Metro stop in northern Virginia and one from the Wheaton Metro stop in suburban Maryland), and there is the likelihood of several ad hoc car pools. If interested or to obtain further details, please contact Jim Kelly, Gelman Library, George Washington University, at the above e-mail address or by tele- phone at 202 994-6848; 202 994-1340 (fax). From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: archive of syllabi Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 12:54:17 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 602 (1077) Toronto archive for course-materials in humanities computing ------------------------------------------------------------ The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, would like to announce an online archive for syllabi and other course-materials in humanities computing. The objective of the archive is to collect and publish such materials so as to assist beginning instructors and to allow a clearer understanding of the field to develop from the evidence of individual efforts around the world. The archive is for courses whose major focus is humanities computing, computing in the liberal arts, or other interdisciplinary form, including those in computer science. It is not meant to document all applications of the computer to academic subjects, e.g. to language instruction, except if the consequences of using the computer take a prominent role in the course. The archive is also intended for descriptions of workshops in humanities computing, course proposals, essays and discussions ofcurricula. To access the archive, gopher to: gopher.epas.utoronto.ca then select Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Humanities computing resources, Courses. Submissions to the archive are most eagerly invited. They should be edited and formatted for online display, then sent by email to me, Willard McCarty, at this address: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca Please note that only materials prepared for online display can be accepted. This means they have to be in plain-ASCII (DOS format), with hard returns at the end of each line, margins set to about 65, and all accented characters encoded according to a scheme explained at the beginning. Graphics and software, suitably compressed and encoded, are welcome, but anyone with such things should consult with me first. For materials on a computer accessible by Gopher, only the Gopher address is needed. Each file should be clearly identified as to the instructor, department, course number, and institution. WM 4 April 1994 From: Eric Johnson <johnsone@dsuvax.dsu.edu> Subject: History position Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 15:31:30 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 603 (1078) Faculty Position in American History Tenure-track position teaching American History and an introductory course in American Government. Ability to use computers in teaching strongly desired. Ph.D. in History preferred, ABD considered. Ability to teach additional areas of History or an introductory course in Philosophy or Geography would be an asset. Located 55 miles NW of Sioux Falls, Dakota State University is a small state-supported school which integrates computer technology in all curricular areas. Consideration of applications will begin May 2, 1994, and continue until the position is filled. Duties begin August 29, 1994. Appointment anticipated at the Assistant Professor level. Send letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts, letters of recommendation, and current phone numbers of at least three references to Dr. Eric Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042, Email: JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu. Disabled applicants are invited to identify any accommodations required in the application process. EOE. From: John Merritt Unsworth <jmu2m@jefferson.village.virginia.edu> Subject: ESE Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 14:15:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 604 (1079) The recent discussion from ESE (electronic scholarly editing) of critical editing has been put up for retrieval in several ways. FTP: ftp to jefferson.village.virginia.edu, and login as anonymous. Give your email address as your password. Once you're logged in, type: cd /gopher-data/projects get ese.txt quit and you will have retrieved the text of the ESE exchange. Gopher: For those who use gopher and want to read the exchange online, connect to the institute's gopher server at jefferson.village.virginia.edu and choose, in sequence, 4. Project-Related Resources 3. Excerpts from Electronic Scholarly Editing World-Wide Web users can find the document at: <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/readings.html">http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/readings.html</a> under the heading "Literary Studies" as "Excerpts from discussion on ESE (Electronic Scholarly Editing)" From: Joseph.Jones@library.ubc.ca Subject: New Canadian CD-ROM Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 11:51:48 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 605 (1080) Please feel free to repost the following on any list you believe appropriate. Initially it is being posted only on Humanist. THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POLITICS & SOCIETY (on CD-ROM) By Iza Laponce A new reference tool useful for Canadian studies is now available in CD-ROM. The publication and compilation was made possible by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The biblio- graphy contains about 30,000 citations to academic studies published as articles, books, and essays in collectively published works, theses, dissertations and data files. It provides selective access to scholarly literature in the field of Canadian "politics", published between 1960 and 1993, covering the time period from sixteenth century to the present, with emphasis on the post-1945 period. The term "politics" is interpreted broadly and includes related fields such as international relations, public policy, public administration, political sociology social psychology, political history, political geography, political anthropology, constitutional law and industrial relations. While it has been developed with a focus on Canadian politics, within these confines, it is of particular use in the study of Canadian history, culture and society. The strengths of the bibliography are in the following fields: Federal-Provincial Relations Constitutional Process Political Parties (Federal & Provincial) Electoral Studies Provincial Politics Regionalism Economic Policy Social Policy Environmental Policy Public Administration Foreign Policy & Foreign Relations Political Culture Canadian & Quebecois Nationalism Aboriginal Question Multiculturalism Gender and Politics Language Question Mass Media and Politics Social Classes & Social Conflict Social Movements & Social History The bibliography is updated locally at the University of British Columbia Library. Should it prove to be popular, the CD version will be reissued annually. Anyone who might be interested in this publication could contact either the publisher or the author: Mr. Dave Carson, Library Products Development, Apak Systems Limited, Suite 2233 Argentia Road, Mississauga, Ontario L5N 2X7 Toll-free telephone 800-265-2791 (only in Canada) Iza Laponce Political Science Reference Librarian, Main Library, 1956 Main Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 Telephone (604) 822-5923 Fax (604) 822-9122 Internet address Iza_Laponce@Library.ubc.ca From: Milena <DOBREVA@BGEARN> Subject: submission on book Date: Thu, 07 Apr 94 16:38:02 BG X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 606 (1081) Scientific Articles On the Occasion of the Seventeeth Anniversary of Professor Miroslav Yanakiev. Sofia, 1993 First edition , 389 p. Compiled by Nadejda Deleva, Alexander Ivanov. Technical Design - Boyko Kacharmazow Price - $20 (including the postage). Publishing House: 1993 Boyko Kacharmazov Sole Prop. tel. ++359 (2) 584 928 Bulgaria Str. bl.2, entr.1 1680 Sofia Bulgaria There is a bibliography of publications of Professor Miroslav Yanakiev. There is a survey in Bulgarian, Russian and English. There are two indexes: an index of scientific quotes and names of scientists and writers, mentioned in the book, and an index of terms. SURVEYS Alexander Ivanov The Way To a New Humanism (On the Occasion of 70 Anniversary of Prof. M.Yanakiev's Birthday) (Bulgarian) This article makes a review of Prof. M. Yanakiev's total research works from the end of 40-th years till nowadays. The author bases on the view that M. Yanakiev has open up a way to overcome the crisis in philology of the XX century.That way enlarges the subject of science and traces out human designations, which will have an important place in the XXI century. S.B.Bernshtein On the Occasion of 70 Anniversary of Prof. M. Yanakiev's Birthday (Bulgarian) The article begins with a review of N. Haytov's book "The Magic Mirror", in which the Bulgarian writer chalenges some of M. Yanakiev's conceptions. The autor's opinion is that the book is emotionaly coloured and is not scientific. He highly estimates Prof. Yanakiev as a scientist and recommends glottometry to become an obligatory subject in the education of students of philology. Maya Bayramova When M.Yanakiev's "Stylistics Notes" Appeared - a Little While Ago and Much Time After That (Bulgarian) The author, who assisted much in publication of M. Yanakiev's "Notes", speaks about the appearance of this book. She describes the scientific circle, where Prof. Yanakiev worked and goes on working. Ernest Scatton Low Vowels in the History of Bulgarian Dialects (English) [deleted quotation]interpreting of a historical development of low vowels after alveopalatal consonants, that differs from Stoyko Stoykov's conception. Vyara Maldgieva The Grammatical Information in Two-Way Dictionaries as a Linguistic Problem (Bulgarian) The two-way and explanatory dictionaries in Bulgarian, Polish and Russian are critically reviewed according to the way the grammatical information is described. The author suggests a concrete research programme for improving the grammatical information in the dictionaries. Borjana Velcheva Historical Phonology or Historical Phonetics? (Bulgarian) The author grounds the conception that it's not suitable to speak about "historical phonetics" towards dead languages, for which tape recordings are missing, and especialy towards Old Bulgarian. It's better to speak about "historical phonology". A.E.Suprun About the Canon's Lexical Structure in the Service of St. Cyrill (Special Lexical Dominants) (Russian) This article analysis the lexical structure of the service of St. Cyrill. The author uses the copy from the 11th-12th century, published by P.A.Lavrov. He gives many statistic data and fixes three topic themes (lexical dominants). Yezhi Rusek The Middle Bulgarian Word "fist" (kulak) (Bulgarian) The author's attention is captured by that rather unusual word, which he found in a Middle Bulgarian prologue from the 14-th century. This, probably, supports the slavonic etimology of the word, allthough the matter is not definitly settled. V.P.Gudcov [deleted quotation]Russian Linguistics (Russian) The author defends his opinion, that the history of reception of the comparative-historical method in Russian linguistics is not properly interpreted. He pays attention to A.A.Cotliarevsky's publications from 1859, which work out in detail the pattern, shown by V.V.Kolesov. B.U.Norman Between Lexis and Syntax (To the Semantics of Relative Adjectives) (Russian) The author points, that some of the relative adjectives are predominantly a result of shortening of some bigger syntactical constructions and they can't be explaned by lexically-semantics changes. That also explains the enlargement of their distributive characteristics. I. A. Sedakova About Some Retorts-Cliche in Bulgarian Folk Language (Russian) This article analysis some types of retorts-cliche in Bulgarian Folk language. These retorts are stimulated by a word in previous speech and their purpose is to stop the communication, to chandge the subject of conversation or to correct the way the interlocuter speaks. A.G.Shirocova Multifunctionality of Some Subordinating Condjunctions in Colloquiel Czech Speech (Russian) The author considers in details the condjunction "jak". She compares its functions in colloquiel speech to literary speech and gives practical recommendations. N.E.Ananieva About One Functional-Semantic Pecularity of The Polish Verb (Russian) That article points the possibility to express repeated or continuos actions by past verbal forms in perfective aspect in Polish. The author makes a comparison with different dialects, with Czech and Slovak languages , with the documents from 15th - 17th century. She describes a wider Indo-European context of the occurance. R.M.Frumkina The Linguistic Gestalts and the Problem of Presenting of Knowledge (Russian) Both, on the grounds of review of the exist researches and on the basis on her own researches, the author bases on the conception, that complicated objects from our reality, for example, obscure case of ilness, can be identified more likely gestalts, than by logical implications.The language constructions which realise or assist to create or identify these gestalts are rather fascinating object of research. N.V.Cotova The Glottometry and the Problem of the Beginning of the New Period in the History of Bulgarian Literary Language (Russian) The author shows many different opinions about the beginning of the New Bulgarian literary language and after that she takes notes of M. Yaroslavska's little-known glottometrical research on that problem from 1968. In connection with this work, which uses monomorpha as a measure of length of the text, this article discusses the possibility to use different measures. The author presents her own research on the ten morphemes, the most frequently founded, which are significant for defining the grammatical structure of the text. She expresses the reasons for the different conceptions about the beginning of the New Bulgarian literary language and specifies the earlier period of its origin. V.N.Glivinskaya About the Glottometrical Descriptions of the Preposition- Prefix Morpheme " –" in Bulgarian and in Russian (Bulgarian) This is a presize glottometric research on morpheme – like a prepozition and like a prefix. The distribution of that morpheme in Russian doesn't give possibility to differentiate texts from separate styles, while in Bulgarian that morpheme divides scientific and publicistic texts, on the one hand, and dramaturgycal and fictional, on the other hand. The differences between Russian and Bulgarian on that criterion don't surpass inner style differences in Bulgarian and owing to the same reasons - the development of the possesive usage of that morpheme in Bulgarian. Cornelia Ilieva The Semantics-Syntax Functions in Data Base of the Bulgarian Linguistic Processor (Bulgarian) After the critical review of the exist systems of semantic- syntax functions, the author proposes a system from 36 semantic-syntax functions. She studies their appearance in different syntax positions and their distribution between Bulgarian prepositions. The author believes, that this way the computer syntax analisys of Bulgarian sentence can be improved. Lydia Dachkova Learners' Ideas of Studying a Foreign Language (English) The author presents the results from her own researches among learners English about : 1.The most useful in studying a foreign language; 2. The most difficult in studying a foreign language; 3. The most important in studying a foreign language. Ljubima Yordanova Kolcho Kovachev (Bulgarian) Two Computer Uni-Lingual Dictionaries of the New Words in Bulgarian L. Yordanova compiled two dictionaries of the new words in Bulgarian (for the 70-th and 80-th years) and K.Kovachev made their computer realization. The object of this article is mainly the computer realization of the dictionaries. Nicola Georgiev Is There a Theory of Literature in This Class? (Bulgarian) With sense of humour the author studies the relations between the different directions in theory of literature in our century. He fixes six types relations between literary texts. The author emphasizes that the list is not final. Allthough the conclusions are optimistic - there is still a theory of literature. Ivan Dobrev About the Old Bulgarian Verse and About the Metrics of Bulgarian Folk Song (Bulgarian) The author compares the metrics of three Old Bulgarian poems from the end of the 9-th and the beginning of the 10-th century to Bulgarian folk songs. He fixes the similarity and corrects some earlier conceptions. Miroslav Dachev Speculum Speculorum (Bulgarian) The author presents an exact research on semiotic functions of speculum and speculorum in the poetics of Bulgarian symbolism. He describes the way this system had been shaken to pass to the poetics of expressionism. Raya Kuncheva About the Spoken Form of Folk Song like an Object of Research in "Study of the Bulgarian Verse" (Bulgarian) The model of study of Miroslav Yanakiev is critically examined and compared to tne model of Roman Yacobson. The author traces out the prospects for new researches. Blagovest Zlatanov The Scientific Model of Miroslav Yanakiev's "Study of the Bulgarian Verse" (Bulgarian) This article presents a viewpoint of the appearance of M.Yanakiev's book as a result of overcoming and, at the same time, inheritis the features, which are typical of structuralism. From: BARRYRO@bcvms.bc.edu Subject: 1994 LONERGAN WORKSHOP Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 10:46:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 692 (1082) Conference Announcement: ***************************************** * 1994 LONERGAN WORKSHOP * * * * LANGUAGE OF THE HEART: * * LONERGAN, IMAGES AND FEELINGS * * * * Boston College * * June 20-24, 1994 * ***************************************** MORNING SPEAKERS 9:00-10:15 and 10:45-12:00 (Higgins 304) Andres Ancona (Universidad Iberoamericana) Glenn 'Chip' Hughes (St. Mary's University) Paul Kidder (Seattle Univesity) Richard M. Liddy (Seton Hall University) Sebastian Moore, OSB (Downside Abbey, Bath, England) John Ranieri (Seton Hall University) Pierre Robert (Bellarmine Press, Montreal) Philip C. Rule (College of the Holy Cross) Hamish F.G. Swanston (University of Kent, Canterbury) Colleen Webster (St. Michael's College) DISCUSSION GROUPS 2:00-3:30 pm (Carney Hall Classrooms) *Insight* with Frank Braio *Method: System and History* with Philip McShane *Strategies Towards a Pedagogy of Self-Appropriation* with Joseph Flanagan, SJ *Ethics and Business* with Kenneth Melchin *Lonergan and Aesthetics* with Hugo Meynell *Spirituality and the Dramatic Pattern of Living* with Sebastian Moore and Paul Marcoux *Lonergan Goes to the Theatre* with Hamish Swanston DOCTA IGNORANTIA afternoon panels 4:00-5:15pm (Higgins 304) Monday: *The Fifth Level of Consciousness: Pros and Cons* Charles Hefling, Richard Liddy, Pierre Robert Tuesday: *Feelings as Intentional Responses* Joseph Flanagan, Chip Hughes, Sebastian Moore Wednesday: *Aesthetics and Systematics* Andres Ancona, Fred Lawrence, Philip McShane Thursday: *Symbols and Artistic Carriers of Meaning* Paul Kidder, John Ranieri, Hamish Swanston EVENINGS Sunday: Get-acquainted meeting and dessert 7:00-9:00 pm (70 St. Thomas More Hall) Monday: Reports on Applications of Lonergan's Thought 7:30 pm (Gasson 100) Tuesday: Speaker: William Mathews, SJ *Images, Feelings and Lonergan's Intellectual Biography* 7:30 pm (Gasson 100) Wednesday: Interview: *Towards Interiority- The Imaginal and Nonlinear in Adult Learning* St. Thomas More Institute for Adult Education 7:30 pm (Gasson 100) Thursday: Liturgy, 6:30 pm (St. Mary's Chapel) Banquet, honoring BC President J. Donald Monan, SJ 7:30 pm (Faculty Dining Room, McElroy Commons) REGISTRATION: Registration for the Workshop will be from 8:00-9:00 am on Monday, June 20, in Higgins Hall, room 304 FEES: For the Lonergan Workshop only (non-credit), $15 registration fee plus $135 payable either in advance or on Monday, June 20. For full-time students and retired people, the fee is $85 plus $15 registration fee (all fees are US dollars) CREDIT OPTION: Three units of academic credit may be earned from either the Philosophy or the Theology Department of Boston College. Those who enroll for credit will continue in directed study after the Workshop. They must register directly with the Summer Session office as well as with the Workshop. HOUSING: Shared Apartments: Single Bedroom $38 per day; double bedroom, $26 per day. 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From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: HERG Conference Session Date: 7 Apr 1994 12:25:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 693 (1083) HERG (the Humanities Higher Education Research Group) are holding a one day conference here at the Open University on April 23rd. The theme of the conference is RESEARCH into the TEACHING of HUMANITIES in Higher (or adult or post-K12) Education, reviewing both practice and priorities. I will be chairing one of the afternoon discussion sessions ... looking at Humanities Computing. In view of the topic (and my own research interest: the use of CMC [Computer Mediated Conferencing/Communication] in the teaching of the humanities) I thought it might be good practice to open the discussion out to include the worldwide humanities audience represented through HUMANIST. If you have any views or news regarding recent or forthcoming projects in the use of computers in the teaching of the humanities I would be grateful if you would share them with me (and, through me, the delegates on the 23rd). Looking forward to any comments ... cheers Simon Rae The Open University Milton Keynes UK From: danon gabi <danon@ccsg.tau.ac.il> Subject: Accusative marking and definite/indefinite objects Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 10:34:32 +0300 (IDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 694 (1084) Hi, In Hebrew and Turkish there is a distinction in case marking of definite vs. indefinite objects (definites receive accusative, indef.- not). I wonder: 1. If this happens in other languages too. 2. If there are any good explanations for this. Gabi =-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-=-~^~-= Gabi Danon "Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, danon@ccsg.tau.ac.il Never drive a car when you're dead" From: OLAF <olaf@kean.ucs.mun.ca> Subject: Seek Bowater Corp. Archives Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 16:50:50 -0230 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 695 (1085) Help! I need to get in touch with Bowater House in London, England. This is the corporate headquarters of the Bowater Corporation, which is (or was) a major pulp & paper manufacturer. Specifically, I wish to make contact with their corporate archives for some information concerning one of the ships they owned in the 1930s and '40s to transport paper between Newfoundland and England, and which was torpedoed by a German submarine in 1940. Can anyone provide me with a mailing address? Many thanks in advance. From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: Voltaire quotation Date: Wed, 6 Apr 94 07:59:33 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 696 (1086) Over on Gerlingl, a list devoted to Germanic linguistics, the problem of a famous quotation came up. Voltaire is said to have said "Etymology is a science in which the consonants count for very little and the vowels for nothing," or words to that effect (l'etymologie est une science dans laquelle les consonnes comptent pour tres peu et les voyelles pour rien). It is given in various forms, but no one has been able to find it in Voltaire's works. One hears occasionally that it derives from Max Muller of Chips from a German Workshop fame. Does anyone have a better lead? Jim Marchand. From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty) Subject: Wellcome Institute catalogue Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 08:29:12 -0500 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 697 (1087) According to an advert in the TLS for 1 April, the Wellcome Institute Library Database and Catalogue (for the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine) is accessible via Internet at WIHM.UCL.AC.UK. Unfortunately the announcement does not say by what mechanism (telnet? gopher? other?). I have tried telnet and gopher without success. Perhaps someone from the Institute, reading this, will publish the details on Humanist. The problem may simply be that my machine does not yet know the IP address corresponding to WIHM.UCL.AC.UK. Thanks for any help. WM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- From: Phyllis Wright <pwright@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> Subject: Napoleon Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 08:39:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 698 (1088) I have searched all the books of quotations in our Library and checked many books on Napoleon; however, I have not been able to verify the following line attributed to him. Can someone help? The line is: "Let China Sleep" Many thanks Cheers! Phyllis Wright Brock University Library St. Catharines, Ontario Canada L2S 3A1 pwright@spartan.ac.brocku.ca From: billday@aol.com Subject: Qs: Lord Beaverbrook Date: Sun, 10 Apr 94 11:55:27 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 699 (1089) I may be pushing the Humanist envelope a bit, but I recently tried to track down a quotation which I believe is attributed to the British newspaper magnate William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Neither my local library with its books, biographies, and database, nor the Library of Congress, nor even one of Beaverbrook's former bureau chiefs could place it. In any case, though I am not quite positive about either the attribution or the wording of the quotation, it is roughly as follows: "Journalism is what somebody doesn't want you to print, everything else is publicity." I would be very grateful to anyone who could verify the attribution, provide the exact form of the quote, and ideally, provide a citation. Thanks, Bill Day From: marcus.banks@anthropology.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Re: 7.0608 Qs: Markup; Quotes; Wellcome Inst.; Napoleon (5/88) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 09:55:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 700 (1090) W. McCarty asks for details about the Wellcome Institute's on-line access. The address he gives (WIHM.UCL.AC.UK) is a telnet login address and has just worked ok for me (in the UK). But I will contact a friend there and tell him of W. McCarthy's problem. Marcus Banks, Oxford From: Judy Koren <LBJUDY@vmsa.technion.ac.il> Subject: RE: 7.0608 Qs: Markup; Quotes; Wellcome Inst.; Napoleon (5/88) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 16:10:32 +0300 (EET-DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 701 (1091) re: [deleted quotation] I telnetted to this catalog with no problems. Can't tell you the ip number because Telnet didn't echo it to the screen (sometimes it does, sometimes not). However, since IP number hunting is distributed (ie your nameserver sees "uk" and sends the address to England, which sends it on to the UCL nameserver), the reason is unlikely to be that your particular nameserver didn't know the address. I'm sure my campus nameserver doesn't know any more than yours! If you look at the *reason* Telnet gives for not connecting, you can sometimes figure out what's happening: "unknown host" == nameserver problems, but in 99% of cases the reason is a typo you didn't notice "timed out" == got the address but couldn't reach the machine -- either network problems, or the machine is having maintenance work done and offline; may alternatively give the message "no response" "connection refused" == reached the machine but it wouldn't let the program (Telnet in this case) connect. If you're using gopher, www etc, this is the answer you get if they've moved the server to a different machine... If you got no error message, Telnet just got stuck, the reason may be problems running it on your machine. NB when I reached the Wellcome Inst. they told me to login, if coming from the net, with an uppercase W. As said I got in with no trouble. Try again, and good luck! Judy Koren, Haifa. From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk> Subject: RE: 7.0608 Qs: ... Wellcome Inst. ... Date: 11 Apr 1994 16:30:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 702 (1092) Willard asks about an address/connect information for the Wellcome Institute catalogue. [deleted quotation] I had a bit of trouble as well ... I suspect that it is a new service and that the addresses and names have not yet percolated through all the system directories ... however I was able to telnet to them: $ TELNET 128.40.22.221 Trying...128.40.22.221 Connected to . Escape character is '^]'. Logon please (network users type W in UPPER CASE): W (new screen) ***************************************************************************** *** McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International. *** *** 7.0 Rev P Sysgen created 09:47AM 22OCT90 *** *** Wellcome Institute Library Database and Catalogue *** *** *** *---------------------------------------------------------------------------* (zips past!) (new screen) WELLCOME INSTITUTE LIBRARY DATABASE AND CATALOGUE ------------------------------------------------- Terminal selection menu: ----------------------- 1. PC/Mac using VT100 2. PC using WORKS (VT52) 3. tvi905 with VP A2 emulation 4. McDonnell Douglas 5. Sun with Shelltool window Select: 1 (new screen) WELLCOME INSTITUTE LIBRARY DATABASE AND CATALOGUE SYSTEM (WILDCat) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. About WILDCat 1. About the INSTITUTE 2. INSTITUTE LIBRARY CATALOGUES 3. BIBLIOGRAPHIC CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICES 4. Logoff and disconnection etc. Hope the Internet number helps. Cheers Simon Rae The Open University From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@aaai.org> Subject: IJCAI'95 Date: 11 Apr 1994 09:41:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 610 (1093) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: IJCAI-95 IJCAI-95 will take place at the Palais de Congres, Montreal, August 20-25 1995. The biennial IJCAI conferences are the major forums for the international scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The Conference Technical Program will include workshops, tutorials, panels and invited talks, as well as tracks for paper and videotape presentations. PAPER TRACK: SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES Topics of Interest Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: * Architectures and languages for AI (e.g. parallel hardware and software for building AI systems) * Artistic, entertainment and multimedia applications. * Automated reasoning (e.g. theorem proving, abduction, automatic programming, search, context management and truth maintenance systems, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability checking) * Cognitive modeling (e.g. user models, memory models) * Connectionist and PDP models * Distributed AI, autonomous agents, multi-agent systems and real-time issues. * Intelligent teaching systems * Knowledge Engineering and Principles of AI applications (e.g. for design, manufacturing control, grand challenge applications) * Knowledge representation (e.g. logics for knowledge, action, belief and intention, nonmonotonic formalisms, complexity analysis, languages and systems for representing knowledge) * Learning, knowledge acquisition and case-based reasoning * Logic programming (e.g. semantics, deductive databases, relationships to AI knowledge representation) * Natural language (e.g. syntax, semantics, discourse, speech recognition and understanding, natural language front ends, generation systems, information extraction and retrieval) * Philosophical foundations * Planning and reasoning about action (including the relation between planning and control) * Qualitative reasoning and naive physics (e.g. temporal and spatial reasoning, model-based reasoning, diagnosis) * Reasoning under uncertainty (including fuzzy logic and fuzzy control) * Robotic and artificial life systems (e.g. unmanned vehicles, vision/manipulation systems) * Social, economic and legal implications * Vision (e.g. color, shape, stereo, motion, object recognition, active vision, model-based vision, vision architectures and hardware, biological modeling). Timetable Submissions must be received by 6th January 1995. Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably delayed, especially over the new year period, and should take this into account when timing their submissions. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection: successful authors will be notified on or before 20th March 1995. Unsuccessful authors will be notified by 27th March 1995. Notification will be sent to the first author (or designated author). Camera ready copies of the final versions of accepted papers must be received by the publisher in the USA by 24th April 1995. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. General Authors should submit six (6) copies of their papers in hard copy form. All paper submissions should be to the following address. Electronic or fax submissions cannot be accepted. IJCAI-95 Paper Submissions, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445, Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA. 94025, USA. (telephone (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org). Appearance and Length Papers should be printed on 8.5'' x 11'' or A4 sized paper. They must be a maximum of 15 pages long, each page having no more than 43 lines, lines being at most 140mm long and with 12 point type. Title, abstract, figures and references must be included within this length limit. Papers breaking these rules will not be considered for presentation at the conference. Letter quality print is required. (Normally, dot-matrix printout will be unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will be made for submissions from countries where high quality printers are not widely available.) Title Page Each copy of the paper must include a title page, separate from the body of the paper. This should contain: * Title of the paper * Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses (where these exist) of all authors. The first postal address should be one that is suitable for delivery of items by courier service * An abstract of 100-200 words * A set of keywords giving the area/subarea of the paper and describing the topic of the paper. This information, together with the title of the paper, will be the main information used in allocating reviewers. * The following declaration: ``This paper has not already been accepted by and is not currently under review for a journal or another conference. Nor will it be submitted for such during IJCAI's review period.'' Policy on Multiple Submissions IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience. Review Criteria Papers will be subject to peer review, but this review will not be ``blind'' (that is, the reviewers will be aware of the names of the authors). Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. Distinguished Paper Awards The Program Committee will distinguish one or more papers of exceptional quality for special awards. This decision will in no way depend on whether the authors choose to enhance their paper with a video presentation. Other Calls Calls for tutorial and workshop proposals and video presentations for IJCAI-95 will be issued shortly. For questions or comments, (415) 328-3123, email ijcai@aaai.org From: lessard@francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard) Subject: Correction: Colloque ORALITE Date: Mon, 11 Apr 94 14:40:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 612 (1094) CORRECTION! COLLOQUE ORALITE Queen's University du 3 au 5 mai 1994 Une erreur s'est glissee dans l'appel a la participation pour le colloque ORALITE. Voici les bons numeros de telephone. Pour l'inscription: Etudes francaises Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-545-2090 Fax: 613-545-6522 Pour le logement: Donald Gordon Centre Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-545-2221 <-- Notez les Fax: 613-545-6624 <-- corrections Toutes nous excuses pour les ennuis que cela aurait pu causer. Greg Lessard Etudes francaises From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Conference : TWLT7 Date: 12 Apr 1994 09:36:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 613 (1095) 7th TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (TWLT7) Computer-Assisted Language Learning 16 and 17 June 1994 University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands Goal ---- TWLT7 aims to present both the state of the art in CALL and the new perspectives in the research and development of software that is meant to be used in a language curriculum. By the mix of themes to be addressed in 15 papers we hope to bring about the exchange of ideas between people of various backgrounds. Both developers and users are invited to join the workshop. Overview of papers ------------------ Henry Hamburger (GMU, Washington, USA) Viewpoint Abstraction: a Key to Conversational Learning Marjolein van Bodegom (Eurolinguist, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) The Eurolinguist testing system: from an adaptive to a predictive system Bas Cartigny (Escape, Tilburg, The Netherlands) CD-ROM: ideal for language learning Jozef Colpaert (Didascalia, University of Antwerp, Belgium) Object oriented linguistic contents and strategies in multimedia CALL H. Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University, Ankara) Using a Corpus to Teach Turkish Morphology Jos Jaspers/Gellof Kanselaar/Wil Kok (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Foreign language learning with IT'S ENGLISH Gerard Kempen (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) Towards an integrated computational environment for spelling, grammar and writing instruction Kurt Kohn (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Multilingual communication and language learning: a challenge for technology development Anja Krueger/Petra Ludewig/Friedrich Kronenberg (University of Osnabrueck, Germany) CAVOL, Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning Sylvia Lobbe (Rotterdam Polytechnic, The Netherlands/EUROCALL) Teachers, Students and IT: how to get teachers to integrate IT into the language curriculum Joep Rous/Lisette Appelo (Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) The APPEAL system: interactive language learning in a multimedia environment Camilla Schwind (Universite de Marseille, France) A Knowledge Based Approach to Language Tutoring Roberta Stock (SLO, Enschede, The Netherlands/Qmultimedia, Israel) Interactief Nederlands: a multimedia system for learning Dutch as a second language June Thompson (CTI, Hull, United Kingdom/EUROCALL) TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) into the mainstream curriculum Michael Zock (Limsi, Paris, France) Language in action, or learning a language by watching how it works Demonstrations -------------- There will be at least 10 system demonstrations. Registration ------------ Registration should be received before May 31. Registration can be done by sending mail or email to the organizing secretariat (address below). Please include: Mr/Mrs, first name, initials, surname, institute/company name and address, telephone/telefax/email address. (Form attached below.) The workshop fee is Dfl. 150,- Undergraduate students pay Dfl. 60,. The fee includes the proceedings of the workshop, lunches on June 16 and 17, coffee and tea during the breaks and the informal reception on June 16. Payment ------- Payment can be done in advance: a) preferrably by Visa, American Express or Eurocard (the form attached below should be returned by post or by telefax!!) b) by Bank transfer in Dutch guilders to: ING-Bank, account nr. 66.48.88.003 Department of Computer Science University of Twente PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands mentioning: nr. 5335315/TWLT7, plus your name(s) and affiliation c) by sending a (euro)cheque to convention bureau BASICS (cheque must be made payable to the address under b above) or on arrival at the conference site (June 16). All payments must be free of transfer charges. Transfer charges will be deducted from your hotel deposit or must be paid upon arrival at the registration desk. Workshop Organizing Secretariat ------------------------------- Convention Bureau BASICS PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 53 332035, Fax: +31 53 356770, E-mail: J.A.Spierenburg@basics.utwente.nl Organization ------------ TWLT7 is an initiative of Franciska de Jong, (University of Twente) and Lisette Appelo (Institute for Perception Research (IPO), Eindhoven) and is organized in cooperation with the Parlevink Project, a language theory and technology project of the University of Twente. Overview of the previous TWLT workshops: TWLT1, March 1991: Tomita's Algorithm: Extensions and Applications. TWLT2, November 1991: Linguistic Engineering: Tools and Products. TWLT3, May 1992: Connectionism and Natural Language Processing. TWLT4, September 1992: Pragmatics in Natural Language Processing. TWLT5, June 1993: Natural Language Interfaces TWLT6, December 1993: Parsing Natural Language Workshop proceedings can be ordered via the organizing secretariat. Convention Bureau BASICS P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands Telefax : +31 53 356770 From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: DL '94 Date: 12 Apr 1994 09:39:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 614 (1096) DIGITAL LIBRARIES '94 Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries June 19-21, 1994 -- College Station, Texas, USA REGISTRATION FORM We invite you to join us for Digital Libraries '94, the first conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Digital Libraries '94 will bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts to initiate the formation of a wide-ranging, innovative, open community of scholars. The attendees will reflect the diversity of knowledge needed to address the challenge of understanding, defining, implementing, disseminating, and evaluating digital libraries. Current interest in digital libraries is based on the increasingly ubiquitous availability of wide-spread computer network interconnections, high-powered, highly-capable personal computing environments, and low-cost high-capacity storage media. The study of digital libraries is becoming feasible because of the maturation of techniques for multimedia information storage, location, retrieval, representation, and presentation. The study raises issues, both social and legal, about compatibility with today's practices and protocols. Realizing the potential of the digital library presents the exciting challenge of establishing new alliances and relationships that cut across traditional boundaries of study. Come and join us in beginning this process. Name: Address: Email: Phone: Fax: Registration (Includes banquet, sessions, receptions, and proceedings): Registration $125 $_______ Extra Proceedings $ 20 $_______ Total $_______ I will pay my conference registration by: ____ MasterCard ____ Visa ____ American Express Card Number Exp. Date Print Name Signature* *If returning registration by email, disregard signature line. Make check or money order (in U.S. dollars) payable to "TEES" and return to: Digital Libraries '94 Hypermedia Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112 Phone: 409-845-0298; Fax: 409-847-8578 Email: DL94@bush.cs.tamu.edu Further information about hotels in College Station and about special airline rates can be obtained by anonymous ftp to host bush.cs.tamu.edu (IP address 128.194.134.200). Look in directory dl94 once you've connected. The same material may be obtained at the URL <a href="ftp://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl94/README.html">ftp://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl94/README.html</a> on the World Wide Web. You may also contact the conference office through the address given on this form. More information will be provided as the conference date approaches. Sponsored by: Texas A&M University, Hypermedia Research Laboratory Washington University School of Medicine Library and Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, Inc. In Cooperation With: ACM SIGLINK, SIGBIT, SIGCUE, and SIGIR (pending) American Society for Information Science (ASIS) The George Bush Presidential Library Foundation The Center for Presidential Studies, Texas A&M University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Univ. of Texas at Austin From: Johannes C. Scholtes <100322.250@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Workshops on Neural Networks and Information Retrieval in Amsterdam Date: 03 Apr 94 15:21:09 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 615 (1097) Preliminary Program Neural Networks and Information Retrieval in a Libraries Context Amsterdam , The Netherlands Friday June 24, 1994 and Friday September 16, 1994 M.S.C. Information Retrieval Technologies BV, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is currently undertaking a study on Neural Networks and Information Retrieval in a Libraries Context, in collaboration with the Department of Computational Linguistics of the University of Amsterdam and the Department of Information Technology and Information Science at Amsterdam Polytechnic. This study is funded by the European Commission as a complementary measure under the Libraries Programme In this study the general application of artificial neural net (ANN) technology to information retrieval (IR) problems is investigated in a libraries context. Typical applications of this technology are advanced interface design, current awareness, SDI, fuzzy search and concept formation. In order to discuss and disseminate the results obtained through this study, two one-day workshops will be organized by M.S.C. Information Retrieval Technologies BV, the first one after compilation of the State of the Art Report and the second one after completion of the prototyping and experimentation phase. During both workshops, there will be much room for discussions on how to commercialise such applications of ANN in a libraries context. Both workshops are open to participants from other organizations, commercial and academic, that are interested in various applications of ANNs in existing libraries systems. For who: Interesting for all: - Computer Companies - Information Management and Supply Companies - Government Agencies - Libraries - Universities and Polytechniques That are Interested in: - Neural Networks - Information Retrieval - Libraries Sciences - Natural Language Processing - Advanced Computer Science - Data compression For applications such as: - Current Awareness - Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) - Information Filtering - Automatic Contents Based Information Distribution - Categorization - Advanced Interface Design - Fuzzy Retrieval (Information recognized by Optical Character Recognition and Speech Recognition). - Retrieval Generalization - Thesaurus Generation - Information Compression - Juke box staging General Information Costs per participant for both days: Commercial companies Dfl. 950,- Universities and non-profit institutions (*) Dfl. 500,- Students (*) Dfl. 150,- (*) Letter of university or non-profit institution must be shown at registration These costs include: Workshop Proceedings State of the Art report on Neural Networks in Information Retrieval as composed by MSC Achievements report on Neural Networks in Information Retrieval as composed by MSC Ongoing coffee & tea Lunch Diner Future mailings on progress Limited availability of travel grants for students (please apply) All other expenses such as traveling, hotels, short stays, etc. are not included in the fee. Payment The following payment methods are accepted: 1. Credit Cards 2. Prepayment by bank 3. Personal cheques More information: M.S.C. Information Retrieval Technologies BV Dr Johannes C. Scholtes Dufaystraat 1 1075 GR AMSTERDAM the Netherlands Telephone: +31 20 679 4273 Fax: +31 20 6710 793 Internet: 100322.250@compuserve.com or scholtes@msc.mhs.compuserve.com Compuserve: MHS: SCHOLTES@MSC or 100322,250 Background & Introduction Recent research of artificial neural networks (ANN) in the field of pattern recognition and pattern classification applications has provided successful alternatives of traditional techniques. Products applied for optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition, hand-written character recognition and prediction of non-linear time series are good examples of commercialization of these ANN techniques. So far, the European Commission has funded more than 40 projects of different sizes under the ESPRIT and other programmes which involve research on or the application of ANN technology. The task of Information Retrieval (IR), that is the matching of a large number of documents against a query, can also been seen as a pattern recognition or pattern classification task. Therefore, there have been several approaches to the application of ANN in IR in order to increase the quality of the retrieval process. Despite the theoretical and practical evidence that ANN are good tools for pattern recognition tasks, it is still an open question whether they are appropriate tools within the specific domain of Bibliographic Information Retrieval. Apart from some minor studies it seems no real attempt has been made up until now to integrate an ANN as a main component of a bibliographical information retrieval system or an on-line library catalogue (OPAC). It is therefore not clear whether and how ANN techniques can be combined with more "classical" methods, for instance rule-based or statistical approaches. By the same token it is not clear either to what extent existing OPACs could benefit from ANN technology. Objectives The objectives of this study are: to ascertain the State-of-the-Art of the application of Artificial Neural Net (ANN) technology to Information Retrieval (IR), with particular emphasis on bibliographic information in a libraries context; to assess the (potential) quality of ANN-based approaches to IR in this particular domain of interest, in comparison with traditional practices. Here "quality must be understood in terms of both (measurable) efficiency and practical benefits; to stimulate interest in the practical application of ANN technology to bibliographic information retrieval in a libraries context. Information Retrieval It can be stated that Information Retrieval (IR) is the ultimate combination between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). On the one hand there is an enormous amount of NLP data that needs to be processed and understood to return the proper information to the user. On the other hand, one needs to understand what the user intends with his or her query given the context of the other queries and some kind of user model. Most of these systems still use techniques that were developed over thirty years ago and that implement nothing more than a global surface analysis of the textual (layout) properties. No deep structure whatsoever is incorporated in the decision to whether or not retrieve a text. There is one large dilemma in IR research. The data collections are so incredibly large, that any method other than a global surface analysis would fail. However, such a global analysis could never implement a contextually sensitive method to restrict the number of possible candidates returned by the retrieval system. Information retrieval can also be a very frustrating area of research. Whenever one invents a new model, it is difficult to show that it works better (qualitatively and quantitatively) than any previous model. The addition of new dependencies often results in much too slow a system. Systems such as Salton's SMART exist for over 30 years without having any serious competition. The field of information retrieval would be greatly indebted to a method that could incorporate more context without slowing down. Since computers are only capable of processing numbers within reasonable time limits, such a method should be based on vectors of numbers rather than on symbol manipulations. This is exactly where the challenge lies: on the one hand keep up the speed, and on the other incorporate more context. Artificial Neural Networks The connectionist approach offers a massively parallel, highly distributed and highly interconnected solution for the integration of various kinds of knowledge, with preservation of generality. It might be that connectionism or neural networks (despite all currently unsolved questions concerning learning, stability, recursion, firing rules, network architecture, etc.), will contribute to the research in natural-language processing and information retrieval. Distributed data representation may solve many of the unsolved problems in IR by introducing a powerful and efficient knowledge integration and generalization tool. However, distributed data representation and self-organization trigger new problems that should be solved in an elegant manner. Current Problems in Information Retrieval The main objectives of current IR research can be characterised as the search for systems that exhibit adaptive behaviour, interactive behaviour and transparency. More specifically, these models should implement properties for: Understanding incomplete queries or making incomplete matches, Understanding vague user intentions, Ability to generalise over queries as well as over query results, Adapting to the needs of an evolving user (model), Allowing dynamic relevance feed-back, Aid for the user to browse intelligently through the data, and Addition of (language) context sensitivity. Different Approaches in Information Retrieval and Neural NetworksTwo main directions of neural network related research information retrieval can be observed. First, there are relatively static databases that are investigated with a dynamic query (free text search, also known as document retrieval systems). Next, there are the more dynamic databases that need to be filtered with respect to a relatively static query (the filtering problem also known as current awareness systems and Selective Dissemination of Information, SDI). In the first case the data can be preprocessed due to their static character. In the second case, the amounts of data are so large that there is no time whatsoever for a preprocessing phase. A direct context-sensitive hit-and-go must be made. Early neural models adapt well to the paradigms currently used in information retrieval. Index terms can be replaced by processing units, hyperlinks by connections between units, and network training resembles the index normalisation process. However, these models do not adapt well to the general notion of neural networks. In addition, it is difficult to imagine what to teach a neural information retrieval system if it is used as a supervised training algorithm. The address space will almost always be too limited due to the large amounts of data to be processed. A combination of structured (query, retrieved document numbers) pairs does not seem plausible either, considering the restricted amount of memory of (current) neural network technology. Nevertheless, most of the neural IR models found in literature are based on these principles. Also problematic are the so-called clustering networks. Due to the large amounts of data in free text databases, clustering is very expensive and is therefore considered irrelevant in changing information retrieval environments. More interesting are the unsupervised, associative memory type of models, that can be used to implement a specific pattern matching task. This type of neural networks can be particularly useful in a filtering application. Here, the memory demands of the neural network only need to fulfil the query (or interest) size, and not the size of the entire data base. It is in this area where neural networks are expected to be most useful and relevant for information retrieval. Especially topics such as fuzzy retrieval, current awareness, SDI, concept formation and advanced interface design are in the scope of the project. However, input from the workshops is very important for the final determination of the direction of the research. Program Day 1: June 24, 1994 9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction Dr Ir Johannes C. Scholtes, President of MSC Information Retrieval Technologies B.V. 9.30-11.00 Tutorial Neural Networks (Back Propagation Kohonen Feature Maps) Dr Ir Johan Henseler, Forensic Laboratories, Head of Section Computer Criminality 11.00-11.15 Break 11.15-12.30 Information Retrieval Application in Libraries Dr E. Sieverts, Professor at Amsterdam Polytechnique. Library Program 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Presentation Findings & State of the Art Report 15.00-15.15 Break 15.15-16.00 Directions for (Commercial) Applications Dr ir Johannes C. Scholtes 16.00-17.00 Panel Discussion 17.00-18.00 Reception 19.00-... Diner and evening program Day 2: September 16, 1994 9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction Dr Ir Johannes C. Scholtes. President of MSC Information Retrieval Technologies B.V. 9.30-11.00 Achievements Dr Ir Johannes C. Scholtes. President of MSC Information Retrieval Technologies B.V. & Dr E. Sieverts. Professor at Amsterdam Polytechnique Library Program 11.00 - 12.30 Hands on demonstrations 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Problem Issues by Dr E. Sieverts. Professor at Amsterdam Polytechnique. Library Program 15.00-15.15 Break 15.15-16.00 Commercial Implications by Dr Ir Johannes C. Scholtes. President of MSC Information Retrieval Technologies B.V. 16.00-17.00 Panel Discussion 17.00-18.00 Reception 19.00-... Diner and evening program During the day, demo's of the prototypes will be available to the participants of the workshop. Each demo will be guided by a specialist who demonstrates the software From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Date: 12 Apr 1994 09:48:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 617 (1098) ----- Begin Included Message ----- RELEASE 3 OF THE SUSANNE CORPUS AVAILABLE Release 3 of the SUSANNE Corpus is now complete and is available, like earlier releases, by anonymous ftp from the Oxford Text Archive. Release 3 incorporates several thousand modifications dealing with errors and inconsistencies in the Corpus which came to light during the process of preparing the book ENGLISH FOR THE COMPUTER for publication. It also includes additional information in the documentation file. To obtain a copy of SUSANNE Release 3, log in by anonymous ftp to black.ox.ac.uk, move to the directory ota/susanne, and follow the instructions in the README file in that directory. A number of users have enquired about the publication schedule for the book. The manuscript of ENGLISH FOR THE COMPUTER was delivered to Oxford University Press in August 1993, and the copy-editing process was completed in March 1994. Publication is expected late in 1994. I am sorry that it is taking a long time; but it is a very long and complex book, and the Press are putting a great deal of effort into getting details right. For those not familiar with the SUSANNE Corpus: this is an annotated sample comprising about 130,000 words of written American English text, produced to exemplify a set of annotation standards which attempt to specify an explicit notation for all aspects of the surface and logical grammar of real-life English in sufficient detail that analysts independently applying the standards to the same text must produce identical annotations. These standards are defined in the book ENGLISH FOR THE COMPUTER; a skeleton outline of the scheme is included in the electronic documentation file which accompanies the Corpus. The texts of the SUSANNE Corpus are a subset of the texts included in the (unannotated) Brown University Corpus. Geoffrey Sampson School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex From: shieber@das.harvard.edu (Stuart Shieber) Subject: Computation and Language Electronic Preprint Server Date: 12 Apr 1994 09:49:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 618 (1099) (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)) Dear colleagues: Increasingly, preprints of papers on topics relating to computation and language are being distributed electronically over the Internet and other networks connected to it, by email, anonymous FTP, and other means, through informal mailing lists and ad hoc arrangements. In an effort to promote and rationalize this burgeoning mode of information exchange, we have set up a fully automated electronic archive with email, ftp, and WWW/Mosaic interfaces for papers on the topics of: o computational linguistics, o natural-language processing, o speech processing, o and related fields The success of such a system depends on its being actively supported, promoted, and used by the community. I hope that you will make your own papers available through this service, and will encourage your colleagues and students to do the same. In particular, I hope you will: o Retrieve a longer announcement message from the server, by sending a message to cmp-lg@xxx.lanl.gov with subject `get announce.txt' and empty body. o Retrieve information about how to subscribe to and use the server, by sending a message to cmp-lg@xxx.lanl.gov with subject `help' and empty body. o Subscribe to the server, so that you will automatically get regular listings of titles/authors/abstracts of papers submitted to the server. (I highly recommend subscribing, even if you expect to retrieve papers primarily through cmp-lg's WWW interface. Subscription means that you will be kept up to date on available papers without your having to remember to actively check for new papers. And the service will not stuff your mailbox; you will receive at most one message per day, and even that only on days new papers are submitted.) o Submit your own papers to the server, to make them widely and easily available to the community. ooo Most importantly, pass the word to your colleagues and students, either by forwarding this message to them, or sending them a personal note. I realize that this message may leave you with many unanswered questions about the functionality and operation of the cmp-lg archive server. Many of these questions will be answered in the announcement and help messages available as described above. However, if you have any further questions (or just want to register an opinion about the endeavor), please do not hesitate to contact me directly by reply email, or send a message to cmp-lg@xxx.lanl.gov with subject `comment' and your comments and questions in the body of the message. Thank you for your help in getting this project underway. Stuart Shieber shieber@das.harvard.edu From: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Prof. Roly Sussex) Subject: request to post to Humanist Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 22:22:37 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 619 (1100) CALL FOR PAPERS (Second Circular) PACLING '95 Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2nd Conference April 19-22 (Wed-Sat) 1995 The University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ******************** * 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. The first meeting of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in April 1993. PACLING '95 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). ********** * 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, 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 (incl. 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 corpora and large-text linguistics 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. ************************ * SUBMISSION OF PAPERS * ************************ Authors should prepare full papers, in English, 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; and some key words for classifying the submission. Please send four (4) copies of each submission to: Christian Matthiessen Department of Linguistics University of Sydney Sydney 2006 AUSTRALIA tel: +61 2 692 4227 fax: +61 2 552 1683 email: xian@brutus.ee.su.oz.au ************ * SCHEDULE * ************ Submission deadline: October 31st, 1994 Notification of acceptance: January 16th, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: March 1st, 1995 ******************************* * CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR * ****************************** The Conference Committee Chair of PACLING'95 is Roland Sussex Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia telephone: +61 7 365 6896 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ************************************ * PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS * ************************************ The conference will take place at the Centre for Language Teaching and Research of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. We are negotiating preferential rates from downtown hotels. Delegates may wish to visit attractions like the Barrier Reef, Australia's desert centre or tropical rain forests before or after the Conference, and we shall be negotiating with travel companies to provide tour and travel information. For further information on the conference and on local arrangements, contact Hongliang Qiao Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia tel: +61 7 365 6897 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: qiao@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ************************************ * PACLING '95 COMMITTEES * ************************************ 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) Charles Fillmore(University of California, Berkeley, USA) Conference committee Chair: Roland Sussex (University of Queensland, Australia) Members: Dan Fass(Simon Fraser University, Canada)* Randy Goebel(University of Alberta, Canada) Kiyoshi Kogure(NTT, Japan)* Paul McFetridge(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Jun-ichi Nakamura(Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Minako O'Hagan(Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) Fred Popowich(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Hiroshi Sakaki(KDD, Japan) Stanley Starosta(University of Hawaii, USA)* Roland Sussex(University of Queensland, Australia) Masami Suzuki(KDD, Japan) Hiroaki Tsurumaru(Nagasaki University, Japan) * Program Coordinator From: alex@compapp.dcu.ie (Alex Monaghan) Subject: Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 21:37:56 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 620 (1101) Second Call for Papers for the Third International Conference on The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Dublin City University, 7-8 July 1994 Subject Areas: This is a non-exclusive list of subjects which fall within the scope of CSNLP. It is intended as a guide only. * Corpus-based NLP * Connectionist NLP * Statistical and knowledge-based MT * Linguistic knowledge representation * Cognitive linguistics * Declarative approaches to NLP * NLG and NLU * Dialogue and discourse * Human language processing * Text linguistics * Evaluation of NLP * Hybrid approaches to NLP Submissions may deal with theoretical issues, applications, databases or other aspects of CSNLP, but the importance of cognitive aspects should be borne in mind. Papers should report original substantive research. Theme: Corpus-Based Approaches Since the conference follows on the heels of the SIGIR'94 meeting, we have decided to emphasise the use of corpora in NLP. Papers dealing with corpus- based approaches (advantages, disadvantages, applications, etc.) will be preferred. Text and speech corpora are equally welcome. Invited Speakers: The following speakers have been invited to give keynote talks: Roger Garside, University of Lancaster Hans Kamp, Universitaet Stuttgart Cathy Sotillo, University of Edinburgh Not all are confirmed as yet. Registration and Accommodation: The registration fee will be IR#40, and will include proceedings, lunches and one evening meal. Accommodation can be reserved in the campus residences at DCU. Accommodation will be "First come, first served": there is a heavy demand for campus rooms in the summer. To register, contact Alex Monaghan at the addresses given below. Payment in advance is possible but not obligatory. This conference immediately follows SIGIR'94, a major Information Retrieval conference, also at DCU. There is a limited amount of funding available under the CEC Human Capital & Mobility program for SIGIR'94 participants who are under 35 and citizens of one of the 12 EC member states and this funding may be stretched to cover their attendance at CSNLP also. A full call for participation for SIGIR'94 in ASCII or Postscript form may be ontained by anonymous ftp from ftp.compapp.dcu.ie/pub/sigir/call-for-participation.ps (132k) or .txt (31k). Alternatively, the less-preferred method would be to send e-mail to sigir94@dcu.ie and we will send one by return. Details of the CEC funding may be obtained from asmeaton@compapp.dcu.ie (fax +353-1-7045442) and the deadline for applications for the CEC funding is May 13th. Submission of Abstracts: Those wishing to present a paper at CSNLP should submit a 400-word abstract to arrive not later than 13/5/94. Abstracts should give the author's full name and address, with Email address if possible, and should be sent to: CSNLP Alex Monaghan School of Computer Applications Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Email submissions are also acceptable, plain ASCII text please to: alex@compapp.dcu.ie (internet) Completed papers should be around 8 pages long, although longer papers will be considered if requested. Camera-ready copy must be submitted to arrive in Dublin by 27/6/94. No particular conference style will be imposed, but papers should be legible (12pt laser printed) and well-structured. Deadlines: 13th May --- abstracts to arrive in Dublin 1st June --- notification of authors 27th June --- camera-ready copy to arrive in Dublin 1st July --- final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc. From: Intrnl Society <isct@acs.bu.edu> Subject: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 11:09:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 621 (1102) CALL for PAPERS: Third Meeting of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Boston University, Boston, MA (USA), March 8-12, 1995 Papers are invited on all aspects of the transmission, reception, and impact of Greco-Roman Antiquity from the ancient world to the present time. Conference languages will be: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Presentations of 20, 30, or 45 minutes will be arranged in thematic sessions and panels. Abstracts (not more than 25 lines) of prospective papers, as well as suggestions and inquiries, should be sent to: I.S.C.T., Wolfgang Haase / Meyer Reinhold, Co-Presidents, either at: Institute for the Classical Tradition, Boston University, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA, or at: Universitaet Tuebingen, Arbeitsstelle ANRW, Wilhelmstr. 36, D-72074 Tuebingen, GERMANY, or to our e-mail address at: isct@acs.bu.edu. Posted by A. Ingle, RA ICT aingle@acs.bu.edu From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: Information Technology and Disabilities ejournal v1n2 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 19:21:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 622 (1103) ITDV01N@ CONTENTS 310 lines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DISABILITIES ISSN 1073-5127 Volume I, No. 2 April, 1994 ********************************************* Individual _ITD_ articles and departments are archived on the St. John's University gopher. To access the journal via gopher, locate the St. John's University (New York) gopher. Select "Disability and Rehabilitation Resources" and from the next menu, select "EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information." _Information Technology and Disabilities_ is an item on the EASI menu. To retrieve individual articles and departments by e-mail from the listserv: address an e-mail message to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu leave subject line blank The message text should include the word "get" followed by the two word file name; for example: get ITDV01N2 contents Each article and department has a unique filename; that name is listed below the article or department in parentheses. Do NOT include the parentheses with the filename when sending the "get" command to listserv. NOTE: ONLY ONE ITEM MAY BE RETRIEVED PER MESSAGE; DO NOT SEND MULTIPLE GET COMMANDS IN A SINGLE E-MAIL MESSAGE TO LISTSERV. To receive the journal regularly, send e-mail to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with no subject and either of the following lines for text: subscribe ITD-TOC "Firstname Lastname" subscribe ITD-JNL "Firstname Lastname" (ITD-JNL is the entire journal in one or more e-mail messages while ITD-TOC sends the contents with information on how to obtain specific articles.) ********************************************* ARTICLES ********************************************* ITD TECHNOTES: SPEECH SYNTHESIS (ITDV01N2 Edwards) Alistair D. N. Edwards alistair@minster.york.ac.uk ABSTRACT: This is the first in a series of ITD articles on the basics of adaptive technologies. In simple, non-technical language, the author provides a brief introduction to synthetic speech technology which is currently used by individuals with speech and/or visual impairments. ********************************************* PROJECT LINK: CONSUMER INFORMATION FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (ITDV01N2 MANN) William C. Mann, OTR, PhD ABSTRACT: Project LINK, established in 1993 at the Center for Assistive Technology at the University of Buffalo in New York, is a free information service to help people learn about assistive devices. Assistive devices are essentially tools--they make it easier to do various tasks. Many people with disabilities are not aware of the wide variety of available assistive devices, or they lack information on where to obtain them. At the same time, companies marketing assistive devices have difficulty reaching people who most need their products, as listings of people with disabilities are confidential. Project LINK bridges the information gap between the people who purchase assistive devices and the companies which make and/or sell them. ********************************************* C-NOTE: A COMPUTERIZED NOTETAKING SYSTEM FOR HEARING-IMPAIRED STUDENTS IN MAINSTREAM POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION (ITDV01N2 CUDDIHY) Andrew Cuddihy Brian Fisher Rick Gordon Elizabeth Schumaker For Further Information About C-Note, contact: Elizabeth Schumaker Learning Support Counsellor Queen's Counselling Service St. Lawrence Bldg. Ground Floor Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Telephone: 613-545-2893 E-Mail: Schumakr@QUCDN.QueensU.CA ABSTRACT: Computerized notetaking is an effective tool being used by hearing-impaired students at lectures and seminars in mainstream classes in colleges and universities. This article describes C-Note, a program that provides significant benefit over existing computerized notetaking. C-Note -- developed by a computer programmer who is a student with a hearing impairment and a learning specialist -- allows communication between the student and the notetaker, independent use of linked computers, and production of hard copy notes from each. The C-Note system architecture is described in detail. Advantages of the system for the student with a hearing impairment are discussed. Educational implications of using C-Note, and other computerized notetaking systems for hearing-impaired students in the mainstream classroom, are noted. Potential modifications to C-Note are suggested. The need to develop additional learning strategies to help students make effective use of the enhanced quantity and quality of lecture material is identified. ********************************************* JOB EVALUATION (ITDV01N2 DIPALERM) Frank DiPalermo Internet 72274.2272@compuserve.com ABSTRACT: The task of evaluating the job site for a disabled employee can be a complex one, but breaking down the job into its individual components can simplify the evaluation procedure. This article describes the requirements and process used to evaluate, design and implement workplace strategies and technology for a new employee who has a disability. ********************************************* ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FUNDING IN THE WORKPLACE (ITDV01N2 MENDELSO) Steven B. Mendelsohn ABSTRACT: Many employers are unaware of the funding sources available for adaptive technology in the workplace. In this article, Steven B. Mendelsohn discusses some of the potential sources of funding. ********************************************* AN INNOVATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM: REHABILITATION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (ITDV01N2 MILLER) Darlene Miller, Associate Professor Rehabilitation Engineering Technology Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, VT ********************************************* ABSTRACT: The United States currently faces a shortage of rehabilitation professionals with expertise in engineering technology. The need for rehabilitation engineering technicians, in particular, has been recognized in the wake of new legislation that ensures the civil rights of persons with disabilities and highlights a need for their improved access to rehabilitation services and assistive devices. Responding to this national need, Vermont Technical College (VTC) was the first educational institution in the country to offer an associate's degree program in Rehabilitation Engineering Technology. The curriculum, which focuses on applied science, production, problem-solving and assistive technology modification, promises to produce skilled technicians who can offer a range of specialized products and services to persons with disabilities. As an innovative program, VTC's new Rehabilitation Engineering Technology (RET) program has gained national notice and sparked considerable interest. Other institutions interested in establishing similar programs are eager for information about program content and curriculum. ********************************************* DEPARTMENTS JOB ACCOMMODATIONS (ITDV01N2 JOBS) Editor: Joe Lazzaro lazzaro@bix.com K - 12 EDUCATION (ITDV01N2 K12) Editor: Bob Zenhausern zenhausern@sjuvm.stjohns.edu LIBRARIES (ITDV01N2 LIBRARY) Editor: Ann Neville neville@emx.cc.utexas.edu ONLINE INFORMATION AND NETWORKING (ITDV01N2 ONLINE) Editor: Steve Noble slnobl01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu CAMPUS COMPUTING (ITDV01N2 CAMPUS) Editor: Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, Ph.D., hilton-chalfen@mic.ucla.edu ********************************************* Copyright (c 1994) by (_ITD_) _Information Technology and Disabilities_. Authors of individual articles retain all copyrights to said articles, and their permission is needed to reproduce any individual article. The rights to the journal as a collection belong to (_ITD_) _Information Technology and Disabilities_. _ITD_ encourages any and all electronic distribution of the journal and permission for such copying is expressly permitted here so long as it bears no charge beyond possible handling fees. To reproduce the journal in non-electronic format requires permission of its board of directors. To do this, contact the editor. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Tom McNulty, New York University (mcnulty@acfcluster.nyu.edu) EDITORS Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Daniel Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Lois Elman Michael Holtzman, St. John's University Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Mohamad Neilforoshan, Wentworth Institute of Technology Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA Sheila Rosenberg Linda Scott Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Melissa Anderson Brenda McPhail EDITORIAL BOARD Dick Banks, University of Wisconsin, Stout Carmela Castorina, UCLA Danny Hilton-Chalfen, PhD, UCLA Norman Coombs, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Alistair D. N. Edwards, PhD, University of York, UK Joe Lazzaro, Massachusetts Commission for the Blind Mohamad Neilforoshan, Wentworth Institute of Technology Ann Neville, University of Texas, Austin Steve Noble, Recording for the Blind Anne L. Pemberton, Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA Lawrence A. Scadden, PhD, National Science Foundation Bob Zenhausern, PhD, St. John's University ********************************************* ABOUT EASI (EQUAL ACCESS TO SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION) Since its founding in 1988 under the EDUCOM umbrella, EASI has worked to increase access to information technology by persons with disabilities. Volunteers from EASI have been instrumental in the establishment of _Information Technology and Disabilities_ as still another step in this process. Our mission has been to serve as a resource primarily to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access to information technologies. We seek to spread this information to schools, colleges, universities and into the workplace. EASI makes extensive use of the internet to disseminate this information, including two discussion lists: EASI@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (a general discussion on computer access) and AXSLIB-L@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU (a discussion on library access issues). To join either list, send a "subscribe" command to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU including the name of the discussion you want to join plus your own first and last name. EASI also maintains several items on the St. Johns gopher under the menu heading "Disability and Rehabilitation Resources". For further information, contact the EASI Chair: Norman Coombs, Ph.D. NRCGSH@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU or the EASI office: EASI's phone: (310) 640-3193 EASI's email: EASI@EDUCOM.EDU ********************************************* From: rog@cns.brown.edu (Roger B. Blumberg) Subject: Hans Jonas quotation (for HUMANIST) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 22:50:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 703 (1104) ****************************************************************** I am trying to locate the source of a remark attributed to the late philosopher Hans Jonas. I have tried the usual philosophy bboards without success, and a friend thought the readers of HUMANIST might be able to help. The quotation is this: "..the capacity for feeling, which arose in all organisms, is the mother value of all." Could someone please mail me the source of this quotation? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much for your consideration. Sincerely, Roger B. Blumberg Institute for Brain & Neural Systems Brown University rog@cns.brown.edu ********************************************************************* From: Gregg=Boalch%IS=Staff%CURTIN@ba1.curtin.edu.au Subject: Sanskrit transliteration Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 17:14:11 WST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 704 (1105) This notice is being posted to HUMANIST, CORPORA, AHC, ANCIEN-L, ANE - apologies for any duplicaion. A colleague off-list is doing Sanskrit transliteration using WordPerfect 5.2 (for Windows I believe), and is having a problem with macrons not appearing on capitalised letters. If you have any expertise, please advise off-list. ************************************************************************ * Gregg Boalch E-Mail: Boalch@ba1.curtin.edu.au * * School of Information Systems Phern: (619) 351 7246 * * Curtin University of Technology Fax: (619) 351 3076 * * Snail: GPO Box U1987 * * ...seek grace, elegance and PERTH W. AUSTRALIA 6001 * * understanding in all things... _--_|\ * * / \ * * Here--->\_.--._/ * * v * ************************************************************************ From: Robert OBrien <Robert_OBrien@macgate.csuchico.edu> Subject: medieval texts on internet Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 16:58:31 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 705 (1106) One of my students would like information about the availability of medieval texts over internet. Please send the information to robrien@oavax.csuchico.edu. From: "Ronald Tetreault English/Dalhousie Univ." <TETRO@ac.dal.ca> Subject: Multimedia inquiry Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 13:44:46 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 706 (1107) Has anyone ever used an interactive multi-media package called "Literature Navigator"? I am interested in learning whether it might be suitable for use in an undergraduate English course. Has this software been reviewed at all? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ronald Tetreault Halifax, Nova Scotia Department of English CANADA B3H 3J5 Dalhousie University e-mail: TETRO@AC.DAL.CA "the college by the sea" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perhaps someone could direct me to the source. Many thanks! From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Date: Sun, 24 Apr 94 16:00:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 624 (1108) M.SC. in LANGUAGE, SPEECH AND AUDITORY PROCESSING ONE-YEAR M.SC. COURSE Department of Computer Science in collaboration with Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH) Department of Information Studies Department of Psychology Speech Science Unit UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD United Kingdom ** The Aims of the Course ** This advanced M.Sc. programme provides a sound professional education and research training in new areas of information technology concerned with computer perception and processing of human language in all its forms. It is designed to provide an academic and practical grounding in part of what is known in Europe as `The Language Industry'. It aims to provide training for further research in this rapidly growing field in this Department or elsewhere. Language, speech and auditory processing is an inherently interdisciplinary field, involving elements of linguistics, phonetics, computer science, signal processing and artificial intelligence. Graduates generally come into the field with training in a subset of these disciplines, which will vary from person to person. One role of this Master's degree is to fill out the profile of each student in the areas which are appropriate for that person. We therefore aim for a wide choice of modules which can be tailored to individual needs. The course also provides skills in demand in today's world of language and information in electronic publishing, political/economic and scientific information handling, computer aids to translation, speech technology, composition, language learning, and legal retrieval and information handling etc. This course is offered subject to final approval by the University Senate. ** The Academic Profile ** The Department has a substantial research base in these areas, which has now resulted in University funding for ILASH: the Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, with which the MSc. is associated. ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield is a node on the EU-funded ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech) network and participates in many Europe-wide programmes that give opportunities to link to work across the Community. We are coordinating the 11-laboratory Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) EU network SPHERE: `Representations in Speech and Hearing' We also participate in EU ERASMUS programmes in speech and language where students can complete their dissertations abroad. ** Staff ** The course teaching will draw on staff in the Computer Science Department and other Departments in the University. The following is a list of current Computer Science academic staff working in Language, Speech and Hearing together with their research interests: Guy Brown: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Martin Cooke: auditory models, sound source separation, audition, speech Robert Gaizauskas: logical models of natural language texts, information extraction from corpora Phil Green: Speech perception, automatic speech recognition. Mark Hepple: Computational linguistics, grammatical formalisms, parsing, categorial grammar Mike Holcombe: formal models of NLP, formal models of user modelling visual formal specification languages Jim McGregor: user modelling, parsing, Prolog, tutoring systems Paul Mc Kevitt: pragmatics, intentions, natural language dialogue, revision in dialogue, user-computer interfaces, hyper/multimedia, user modelling, integration of speech, language and vision processing Bob Minors: Modelling arguments in discourse, illogic of argumentation, belief processing Amanda Sharkey: Connectionist and cognitive models of language: language acquisition, symbol grounding, parsing, translation. Noel Sharkey: Connectionist Natural Language Processing, Neural Network models of Cognition, Neural Representations underlying language and thought, Sensory and Action grounding of concepts. Tony Simons: machine translation, syntactic, chart, and object-oriented parsing Yorick Wilks: artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, belief pragmatics, lexical computation, parsing, information extraction. ** Entrance Requirements ** Applicants will normally be expected to have, or be expected to obtain before joining the programme, a 2-2 or better in any subject, but those with degrees in computing, mathematics, psychology, physics, electrical engineering, linguistics, phonetics and cognitive science will be preferred. Work in an information service, computer department, advanced publishing environment or anything similar is considered advantageous, but candidates without such experience will be given equal consideration. International student applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide evidence of English language competence. ** Structure and Content ** The course consists of a taught part for two University Semesters, followed by examinations and then a project examined by dissertation and oral examination. The taught part of the course will consist of twelve modules. (A module occupies 1 semester and typically breaks down into 20 lecture hours and 10 practical/tutorial hours). Since? we aim to cater for students coming from multidisciplinary backgrounds, we endeavour to make the course as flexible as possible. Students choose six core modules and six electives. The advice and approval of tutors must be sought before deciding on the choice of elective. The six core modules are 'Natural Language Processing (I and II),' `Speech and Hearing (I and II),' and `Research topics in speech and language' (I and II). `The latter consists of a series of guest lectures and local seminars which students must attend, discuss, analyse and write essays on. Such modules are valuable both for technical content and for research skills, since understanding the research of others is a valuable asset which requires practise. The Elective modules offered from year to year depend upon the availability of staff and the trends in research and professional practice. Among possible electives modules are (with other departments noted where the courses are theirs): `(Psych/CS) Language and Logic', `Knowledge Engineering (I and II)'. `Data Structures', `Connectionism', `Graphics and HCI', `Machine Reasoning ', `Functional Programming', `Logic Programming', `(Speech Science) Phonetics', `(IS) Information Resources I', `(IS) Information Storage and Retrieval I', `(IS) Computers and Information II', `(IS) Information Storage and Retrieval II', and `(IS) Scientific and Technological Information'. The period from June to 31st August will be devoted to the preparation of a supervised dissertation to be submitted on or before 30th September. ** Assessment ** Students will be required to pass continuous assessment and examinations for all twelve modules, and produce an acceptable dissertation. These three hurdles will be independent, in that to pass a student must pass all of them and to get a distinction a student must at least approach distinction standard in all of the continuous assessment, the examinations and the dissertation. ** Fees ** The University charges the standard fees 2260 for EU and 7360 for non EU students (Figures in Pounds Sterling). ** Sheffield ** Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in Britain and is well-situated, having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three mulitplex cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important 'stately homes' are close to Sheffield, such as Chatsworth House and Hardwicke Hall. By 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. Sheffield has outstanding sporting facilities, many constructed for the World Student Games in 1991. We have an olympic standard swimming pool and sports complex that is regularly used for international competition. The Sheffield Arena, is becoming an increasingly important venue for touring rock bands. ENQUIRIES AND APPLICATIONS: Please send enquiries and requests for application forms to: Ms. Liz Compton M.Sc. Admissions Department of Computer Science Regent Court 211 Portobello Street University of Sheffield GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England. E-mail: liz@dcs.shef.ac.uk Fax: 44 742 780972 Phone: 44 742 825590 ***************************************************************************** From: Judith Klavans <klavans@cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Machine Translation Special Issue - call for submissions Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 18:12:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 625 (1109) THE MACHINE TRANSLATION JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON BUILDING LEXICONS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION Editor: Sergei Nirenburg Guest Editors: Bonnie J. Dorr and Judith L. Klavans The Journal of Machine Translation is planning a Special Issue on the Lexicon in Machine Translation (MT). The lexicon plays a central role in any MT system, regardless of the theoretical foundations upon which the system is based. However, it is only recently that MT researchers have begun to focus more specifically on issues that concern the lexicon, e.g., the automatic construction of cross-linguistically valid lexical-semantic and knowledge-based representations for use by multi-lingual systems. The need for large dictionaries is overwhelming in any natural language application, but the problem is especially difficult for MT because of cross-linguistic divergences and mismatches that arise from the perspective of the lexicon. Furthermore, scaling up dictionaries is an essential requirement for MT that can no longer be dismissed; researchers need to move from toy-dictionary MT systems into larger-scale MT systems so that they will be in a better position to demonstrate the validity of the theoretical underpinnings of their systems. The intent of this Issue is to address critical issues concerning the automatic and semi-automatic acquisition of lexical representations for MT dictionaries. Among traditional approaches to constructing dictionaries for natural language applications has been the massaging of on-line dictionaries that are primarily intended for human consumption. Given that many natural language applications have focused primarily on syntactic information that can be extracted from the lexicon, these methods have constituted a reasonable first-pass approach to the problem. However, it is now widely accepted that natural language processing in general, and MT in particular, requires language-independent conceptual information in order to successfully process a wide range of phenomena in more than one language. Thus, the task of lexicon construction has become a much more difficult problem as researchers endeavor to extend the concept base to support more phenomena and additional languages. Added to this is the standard size, coverage, efficiency trade-off, combined with the fundamental question of anticipated vs actual functionality. High-quality original research papers are invited on issues relevant to this topic including, but not limited to: - Lexical levels required by a machine translation (syntactic, lexical semantic, ontological, etc.) and interdependencies between these levels. - Automatic procedures for the construction of lexical representations. - Semi-automatic methods for the acquisition of lexical knowledge. - Use of existing resources and aids for transforming these resources into appropriate representations for MT. - Augmentation of statistically driven corpus analysis with linguistically motivated techniques for extracting lexical knowledge. - Role of bilingual dictionaries, including example sentences and phrases. Extraction of information from pairwise data in dictionaries. - MT mappings (transfer, interlingual, statistically based, memory-based, etc.) and the effect of these mappings on the representation that is used in the lexicon. - Language universals in the lexicon and the construction of an interlingua for MT. - Incorporation of lexical/non-lexical knowledge for selection of suitable candidates for target constructions in MT. - Accommodation of MT divergences and mismatches in the lexicon; implication for automatic construction of lexicons. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DEADLINE for submission of articles: July 15, 1994 Articles may be submitted in hard-copy, electronic (either plain text or .ps format) to either guest editor. If submitting hard-copy, please send four copies of the paper. Bonnie J. Dorr Judith L. Klavans Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science A.V. Williams Building Mudd Building Room 420 University of Maryland 520 W. 120th Street College Park, MD 20742 New York, New York 10027 Email: bonnie@umiacs.umd.edu Email: klavans@cs.columbia.edu Fax: 301-314-9658 Fax: 914-478-1802 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From: Annelies Hoogcarspel - CETH <HOOGCARSPEL@zodiac.rutgers.edu> Subject: Job Announcement: Cataloging Electronic Texts Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 15:27:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 626 (1110) ACADEMIC POSITION PROFILE April 8, 1994 107 (APP.107) TITLE: Catalog Librarian Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities AVAILABLE: Immediately RESPONSIBILITIES: Performs original cataloging and complex editing cataloging for electronic text files in the humanities; catalogs materials in a variety of languages and subject areas. Provides research support for the activities of the Center, in particular for the Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities. Acts as moderator of ETEXTCTR electronic discussion list. QUALIFICATIONS: MLS from an ALA accredited library school plus previous experience in a research library preferably for cataloging; knowledge of MARC formats, the latest edition of AACR2, LC classification and LC subject headings; experience with OCLC and/or RLIN required. Reading knowledge of one or more European languages and experience with computer applications in humanities research required; advanced degree in the humanities and/or some experience with SGML preferred. SALARY: Salary dependent upon experience and qualifications with a minimum compensation of $30,800 for a one year grant funded, non-tenure track appointment. STATUS/BENEFITS: Faculty status, calendar year appointment, TIAA/CREF, health and life/disability insurance, prescription drug, dental and eyeglass plans, tuition remission, one month vacation. LIBRARY PROFILE: The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is sponsored jointly by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Princeton University. The Center's administrative headquarters is located in the Archibald Stevens Alexander Library, the main humanities and social sciences research library of Rutgers located on the College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The CETH is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and acts as a national focus for all who are involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the humanities. CETH's activities also include providing access over the Internet to collections of SGML-encoded scholarly material in the humanities, organizing international programs on methods and tools for electronic texts in the humanities, and general information services for electronic text centers and humanities computing. SUBMIT RESUME AND THREE SOURCES FOR CURRENT REFERENCES IMMEDIATELY TO: Sandra Troy (APP. 107) Libraries Personnel Officer Rutgers University Libraries 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903 FAX # (908) 932-7637 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey upholds a commitment to affirmative action and equal opportunity. From: billday@aol.com Subject: Journalism quote Date: Mon, 18 Apr 94 07:59:54 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 707 (1111) Well, I was barking up the wrong tree, but I finally found the quote I was looking for. Apparently, it wasn't Beaverbrook at all, but Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of The Times. "News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress. All the rest is advertising." Martin Mayer, Making News (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987) p. 9. from Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times (New York: Atheneum, 1983) p. 10. Thanks to all who replied. From: "Marta Steele" <Marta_Steele@pupress.Princeton.EDU> Subject: EP quest Date: 22 Apr 94 09:09:32 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 708 (1112) Thanks to those who responded to my query about the enigmatic Pound parody of a Yeats epitaph: the original is traceable after all and in print in _Pavannes and Divagations_, published by New Directions, 1975, but we had to look far and wide for this reference. Marta Steele Manuscript Editor, classics (Marta_Steele@PUPRESS.Princeton.edu) From: Gregory Bloomquist <GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: Carnegie Report on Children Date: Wed, 13 Apr 94 10:01:08 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 628 (1113) I am looking for an network-accessible version of the just-released Carnegie Report on the condition of children in the US. I have checked gopher sites via Veronica but have found nothing (as of yesterday). I also submitted a posting to ECENET (Early Childhood Education NET), but have not heard anything. Any leads? Greetings, L. Gregory Bloomquist Faculty of Theology | Faculte de theologie Saint Paul University | Universite Saint-Paul (University of Ottawa | Universite d'Ottawa) 223 Main, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1C4 CANADA Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA iNET: DR.BLOOMQUIST Fax: (613) 236-4108 Voice: (613) 782-3027 / (613) 236-1393 From: Jim Kelly <JRKJAN8@GWUVM> Subject: Upcoming meeting Date: Wed, 20 Apr 94 10:48:44 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 629 (1114) Please post at your convenience. ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The Washington Rare Book Group will hold its last meeting of the season at the Fort Lesley J. McNair Officers Club in Washington from 11:30-1:30 on Thursday, May 12. There will be a cash bar followed by a luncheon at 12:15. At 1:00 PM, Michael Dirda, Assistant Editor of The Washington Post Book World, will speak on the pleasures of book collecting and sundry other matters. For further in- formation or reservations, please contact Jim Kelly at the above e-mail address or at 202 994-6848/202 994-1340 (fax). Jim Kelly, Gelman Library, George Washington University, 2130 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20052 From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) Subject: Job announcement - please post as soon as possible Date: 28 Apr 1994 13:28:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 709 (1115) Content-Length: 1476 THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF ENGLISH RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS WORK WITH LANGUAGE Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced graduates for the above post. The job entails handling most of the computing side of the development of software tools for studying large samples of natural language, principally but not exclusively English. Candidates should be familiar with UNIX and the C programming language, as well as having all-round skills in computing. They should have a flexible approach to research and should be interested in helping to find practical solutions to problems that arise in research. The samples of language run to many millions of words, and although the responsibility for the corpora is shared among a number of groups, the English School needs to maintain its own independent facility. The appointment is from as soon as possible until 31st July 1995. Salary in the range of 12,828 to 25,107 pounds per annum. Application forms (returnable by 20th May 1994) and further particulars available from: The Director of Staffing Services, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, BIRMINGHAM B15 2TT Telephone +44 - (0) 21-414-6483 (24 hours) Please quote reference no. A 14763/94. Working towards equal opportunities. From: Franklin Steen <steen@minerva.cis.yale.edu> Subject: Yale job: humanities support Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 18:15:17 -0400 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 710 (1116) Job Description Humanities computing support specialist One year term, full time position Expires June 30, 1995. GENERAL PURPOSE Support computing and networking for humanities research and teaching TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Maintain close contact with faculty and other researchers in the humanities in order to understand their current projects and problems using computing and networks. Maintain a full knowledge of and appropriate library of humanities computing and networking equipment and software for evaluation and use at Yale. Maintain close contact with Yale library staff to help coordinate the use of computers in library functions with those in academic computing. Advise faculty on computing and networking resources appropriate to meet particular needs for research and teaching. Deliver training and orientation sessions for faculty and students using computing in humanities disciplines. Assist instructors with the production of instructional material using computers. Participate in projects to introduce widespread use of existing programs and equipment into use at Yale. Participate in projects to develop new programs and equipment for use in humanities computing at Yale. Coordinate direct end-user support for humanities computing and networking activities. MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree in a field in the humanities highly desirable; minimum two years experience in end-user support environment; minimum two years experience in personal computer and networked information system environment; specific experience with humanities' applications highly desireable. Full competence with personal computer and networking systems; outstanding interest in humanities research and ability to support academic end-users successfully; ability to work independently; demonstrated excellent oral and written communications skills. Ability to work in teams . Yale University offers a liberal fringe benefits program which includes 22 vacation days, 4 personal days, 13 holiday/recess days, comprehensive health and life insurance, retirement plan and tuition assistance. The salary range this job begins at $30,900. To apply send via U.S. mail a cover letter and resume including your email address and the place you saw this listing to: E. Dubois Yale University, Dept of Human Resources, P. O. Box 208256, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8256 Please list the job requisition #41042. Please use this number in all correspondance Yale University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer Frank Steen Director, Instructional Computing Services Yale University email: steen@minerva.cis.yale.edu, phone: 203-432-6687 From: "Martin Irvine, Georgetown University" <M_IRVINE@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: Labyrinth on WWW: Demo and Opening Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 12:06:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 632 (1117) ANNOUNCEMENT: Demonstration and Opening of THE LABYRINTH A World Wide Web Disciplinary Server for Medieval Studies Co-Directors: Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine LIVE DEMONSTRATION OF THE LABYRINTH: Washington, DC area: Georgetown University MONDAY, MAY 2, at 4:30 112 REISS HALL Kalamazoo International Congress on Medieval Studies: Western Michigan University SATURDAY, MAY 7, 12:00-1:30 1035 FETZER AN INTRODUCTORY, TRIAL VERSION OF THE LABYRINTH WILL BE OPEN FOR WORLD WIDE WEB ACCESS STARTING ON MON. MAY 2. If you have a WWW client (Lynx, Mosaic), after May 2 point it at: <a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html">http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html</a> The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. Easy-to-use menus and hypertext links will provide automatic connections to databases, services, and electronic texts and images on other servers around the world. In addition, the Labyrinth will include a full range of new resources: an electronic library, on-line forums, professional directories, on-line bibliographies, an "on-line university" of teachers and scholars available for consultation via e-mail or real-time "talk," and an archive of pedagogical tools. This project will not only provide an organizational structure for medieval studies, but will also serve as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and will be designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies. You are also invited to participate in an on-line discussion about the Labyrinth on Interscripta from now through the end of May. To join in this discussion, send the mail message sub interscripta [your name] to listserv@morgan.ucs.mun.ca You will receive a welcoming statement outlining the discussion agenda. Please contact the Co-Directors with your questions and suggestions: Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine labyrinth@gusun.georgetown.edu (202) 687-7533 From: Judith Klavans <klavans@cs.columbia.edu> Subject: Congres: The Balancing Act Date: 28 Apr 1994 13:35:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 633 (1118) ACL-1994 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT THE BALANCING ACT Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language 1 July 1994, just after ACL '94 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA Organized by: Judith Klavans (Columbia), Philip Resnik (Sun) A renaissance of interest in corpus-based statistical methods has rekindled old controversies -- rationalist vs. empiricist philosophies, theory-driven vs. data-driven methodologies, symbolic vs. statistical techniques. The aim of this workshop is to set aside a priori biases and explore the balancing act that must take place when symbolic and statistical approaches are brought together. PROGRAM INVITED TALK : Qualitative and Quantitative Designs for Speech Translation Hiyan Alshawi The Noisy Channel and the Braying Donkey Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, and Paola Velardi Study and Implementation of Combined Techniques for Automatic Extraction of Terminology Beatrice Daille Parsing with Principles and Probabilities Andrew Fordham and Matthew Crocker Do we Need Linguistics When We Have Statistics? A Comparative Analysis of the Contributions of Linguistic Cues to a Statistical Word Grouping System Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou Complexity of Description of Primitives: Relevance to Local Statistical Computations Aravind K. Joshi and B. Srinivas The Automatic Construction of a Symbolic Parser Via Statistical Techniques Shyam Kapur and Robin Clark Integrating Symbolic and Statistical Approaches in Speech and Natural Language Applications Marie Meteer and Herbert Gish Combining Linguistic with Statistical Methods in Automatic Speech Understanding Patti Price Exploring the Statistical Derivation of Transformational Rule Sequences for Part-of-Speech Tagging Lance A. Ramshaw and Mitchell P. Marcus Bootstrapping Statistical Processing into a Rule-Based Natural Language Parser Stephen D. Richardson Statistical versus Symbolic Parsing for Captioned-Information Retrieval Neil C. Rowe Learning a Radically Lexical Grammar Mary McGee Wood REGISTRATION Registration fees are $25 for participants who register by 15 May 1994. Late registrations will be $30. Registration includes a copy of the proceedings, lunch, and refreshments during the day. Acceptable forms of payment are US$ cheques payable to "ACL" or credit card (VISA/Mastercard) payment. Please submit the following form along with payment: name:_________________________________________________________________ institution: (for name tag)___________________________________________ address: (postal address)_____________________________________________ email:________________________________________________________________ payment: (specify cheque or credit card)______________________________ credit card info: (name on card, card number, expiration date)________ ______________________________________________________________________ dietary requirements: (vegetarian, kosher,etc.)_______________________ Please send to: Philip Resnik Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. Mailstop UCHL03-207 Two Elizabeth Drive, Chelmsford, MA 01824-4195 USA Email: philip.resnik@east.sun.com Fax: (508) 250-5067 This announcement can be found on the World Wide Web at <a href="http://crl.nmsu.edu/acl94/acl/postconference.html">http://crl.nmsu.edu/acl94/acl/postconference.html</a>, and full information about ACL-94 (plus some great photos of attractions around Las Cruces!) can be found at <a href="http://crl.nmsu.edu/acl94/Home.html">http://crl.nmsu.edu/acl94/Home.html</a>. From: "Hardy M. Cook" <hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu> Subject: Q: Black Male Sexual Abuse Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 13:35:05 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 711 (1119) Dear HUMANISTS: A former undergraduate student of mine who is now in graduate school would like to know if any HUMANISTS have historical information pertaining to black male sexual abuse by white slave owners during the American slavery period. Please reply personally to me at HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu. Thanks in advance. Hardy M. Cook Bowie State University HMCook@boe00.minc.umd.edu From: Douglas Herman <DHERMAN@BRANDEIS.BITNET> Subject: Humanities meet the neurosciences Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 14:59 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 712 (1120) I am posting this query for a faculty member in Brandeis's Psychology Dept. He is looking for extended literary passages to introduce each chapter of a book he is writing, as he describes below. The passages are not for decoration; they are intended as a serious, non-technical, anecdotal introduction to the ideas he will go on to discuss in technical terms. Since the only way I can think of to locate such passages it to remember them from one's own reading I suggested to him that we appeal to the well-read body of Humanists for help. Any suggestions or tips will be welcome, and may be sent directly to Professor Sekuler at "sekuler@binah.cc.brandeis.edu." Thanks in advance for any help you can give us with this. ________________________________ Robert Sekuler writes: I'm doing a neuroscience book in which literary and biographical excerpts are used to introduce, coordinate or focus some of the key ideas. These excerpts are no more than 400-500 words. If needed, I edit a longer original text to bring it to the needed length. I'm working on a chapter that requires two more excerpts and hope that you can help me identify potential sources. The first excerpt I need describes someone learning a complex motor skill, such as playing the piano, typing, perforing a martial art, dancing, or doing surgery. The excerpt would contrast the early stages of skill acquisition (when the act is labored, full of errors, and clumsy) to later stages in which performance were effortless, error free and nearly automatic. At first, the fingers have to be moved in a deliberate and effortful fashion; after practice, the picture is very different. Has any musician, for instance, described this process in an autobiography? The second excerpt would show someone who is able to exploit a vivid visual image as as a substitute for actually seeing some object, place, or situation. I'm not looking for an image that came to someone in a dream, but for a vivid mental image that came from actually seeing what is represented the image. For example, the visual image might allow someone to "replay" or mull over the details of a complex event in which he or she participated. Or, by manipulating the image, someone is able to solve a complex problem or puzzle. The closer the image is to an actual visual experience, the more appropriate the excerpt would be. A good, autobiographical description of "photographic memory" might work as well. Robert Sekuler, Psychology Department From: Novak <IBENAIV@UCLAMVS.BITNET> Subject: queries Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 08:18 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 713 (1121) I have two queries, one for myself, the other for Mitzi Meyers. Hers first. 1. At the end of Maria Edgeworth's novel, BELINDA, there is the following quotation: "Our tale contains a moral; and, no doubt, You all have wit enough to find it out." Where is it from? 2. Around 1705, Daniel Defoe refers to a work "published at Rome" with a title something like: "The Groans of ----- and Moravia," supposedly telling of the horrors committed by the Turks in 1683, at the time they were besieging Vienna. I found one other reference to this tract, but I suspec t it was in another anonymous tract by Defoe. Was Defoe making this up or did it actually exist. From: Stephen Miller <stephen@vax.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Greek font query Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:56:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 714 (1122) Has anyone heard of a font for Classical Greek called "Bacchus"? A colleague has the screen font but not the printer font and the book is nearly finished... I suspect that it may be a one-off but if anyone has a copy by chance or any info please email me. stephen -------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Miller National Academic Typesetting Service stephen.miller@oucs.ox.ac.uk Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, UK. OX2 6NN Tel +44 (0)865 273200 / 273266 (direct) / 273275 (fax) -------------------------------------------------------- From: Judi Moline <moline@sst.ncsl.nist.gov> Subject: posting for humanist Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 08:38:49 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 635 (1123) Dear Colleagues, We are currently preparing to do a user survey for the National Archives and are looking for suggestions. Basically, we are seeking preliminary information from individuals who use the NARA resources or who would like to use them. We are seeking information on the following topics. If you have comments, please send them to feedback@sst.ncsl.nist.gov. (a) What kinds of records or information might you need from NARA (including the Presidential Libraries, the Regional Offices, and the Federal Records Centers)? Would you need information about NARA's holdings, information from the records and other documentary materials in NARA, and/or information held by NARA about other Federal records? What are the topics for which you might need the information? (b) Where and when would you need this information? For example, would you need this information delivered to your home, school, business, or to a public library? What would you estimate to be the time frame within which you would need delivery of each type of information? (c) How would you typically search for and locate the desired information. What access points (such as geographic or date) and information retrieval and navigation techniques would you be likely to use in a search of the records and information holdings of the component units of NARA? (d) In what formats would you like to receive the information, and how would you like it delivered to you? For example, would your information needs be met by a system that provided an overview or index of NARA holdings, direct on-line access to a specific set of records, or a combination of both approaches? Judi Moline and Steve Otto The National Institute of Standards and Technology feedback@sst.ncsl.nist.gov From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Subject: May 10 NEACH: Hockey & Burnard at CETH Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 8:08:38 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 636 (1124) An Invitation from NEACH: NORTHEAST ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES NEACH invites you to hear Lou Burnard and Susan Hockey in a symposium on COLLECTING AND ACCESSING ELECTRONIC TEXTS at 1:30 pm on TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1994 at CETH: CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES in New Brunswick, N. J., USA. The discussion will include different types of software packages and future prospects for collecting and accessing electronic texts. The talks will be followed by a tour of CETH. Please note the location. SPEAKERS: In the Pane Room, first floor, Alexander Library, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J.: Lou Burnard (Oxford University): "The Oxford Text Archive" Susan Hockey (CETH): "Texts and Software at HERC: the Humanities Electronic Resources Center at CETH." TOUR: In CETH HERC, third floor of Alexander library: Demonstrations of the OED on CDROM, Perseus, WordCruncher CDROM, ICAME CDROM, Storyspace hypertexts, Typereader OCR software, Pandora, CETEDOC CDROM, TACT, and Micro-OCP. Hands on access will be limited. LOCATION: Alexander Library is located at 169 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus (main campus) of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. The main entrance, between Huntingdon and Senior Streets, is recessed from the street front on College Avenue. TRAVEL SUMMARY: By railroad to New Brunwick. By car via the New Jersey Turnpike (Exit 9), Garden State Parkway (Exit 129 from north or 109 from south), US 1, Route 287, or Route 18. TRAVEL INFORMATION: For additional travel information or to receive a map by FAX, telephone (908) 932-1384, send a FAX to (908) 932-1386, or send E-mail to ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu. NEACH MEETINGS AND MEMBERSHIP: All NEACH meetings are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required, but seating space may be limited. Send membership queries to Nan Hahn, NEACH Treasurer, Benjamin Databank, 322 Second Street, Dunellen, N. J. 08812 USA, or send e-mail to 72066.644@compuserve.com or telephone (908) 752-5841. --Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) From: Don Keefer <dkeefer@risd.edu> Subject: Query on Computers and Disabilities Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 14:39:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 715 (1125) A recent posting on one of the Lists, possibly this one, mentioned a new electronic journal devoted to issues involving the use of computers for individuals with dissabilities. In a rush to clean house recently I inadvertantly deleted this posting. If anyone recalls this post, or knows of this journal, would you please drop me a note as to its address. Thanks in advance. Don _________________________________________________________ Don Keefer Dept. of History, Philosophy dkeefer@risd.edu and Social Sciences (o) 401 454-6263 Rhode Island School of Design (h) 401 351-7436 2 College St., Providence, RI 02903 From: Karen Ruhleder <ruhleder@WPI.EDU> Subject: Re: humanist posting Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 15:46:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 716 (1126) Thanks for your help. Here is my query: ----- I'm interested in the evolution of the textual edition. According to Reynold and Wilson ("Scribes and Scholars...", p. 141), early books printed the scholia in the margins in the manner of the medieval manuscript. Does anyone know when the current form of the apparatus criticus (as a set of footnotes) began to emerge? And by when this form had become the standard? Please respond directly to me at <ruhleder@wpi.wpi.edu> as I am not a regular member of the list. Thank you in advance, Karen Ruhleder Worcester Polytechnic Institute ----- From: chris <120MEIS@witsvma.wits.ac.za> Subject: Hypertext Software Date: Tue, 03 May 94 15:21:24 RSA X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 717 (1127) Can someone please help re: good software for designing Hypertexts (similar to Storyspace, perhaps) that runs on IBM compatibles (Windows)? Any experiences, any suggestions? Thanks a lot! Jan Christoph Meister Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa From: "Prof. Dr. Alfred Suhl" <SUHL@DMSWWU1A.BITNET> Subject: Callr help Date: Wed, 04 May 94 14:03:18 MES X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 718 (1128) I am member of the humanist-group, but I set mail off. Could you please help me to find out whether Martin Luther (Gman Reformator) is delt whith electroni-ca llyanywhere in the world? One of my colleages in the faculty of "Wirtschaftswis senschaften" (economics?) wants to give a lecture on Martin Luther next tuesday alreadyand asked me for help. I would be very grateful to anyone who would giv e me an answer in time! If you cannot send me an direct answer pleasset "mail o n" for m again (or whatever might be the correct command). Please notice that m y e-mail-address has changed to "suhl@uni-muenster.de". Thanks for your help! Y ours ASuhl From: Tzvee Zahavy <maic@uminn1> Subject: Dual Tenure Date: 5 May 1994 08:28:57 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 719 (1129) I am compiling information on faculty and administrators who hold tenure at two institutions concurrently. Please reply directly to me with any data you may have. All information will be of value but public facts are preferable to rumors or hearsay. Professor Tzvee Zahavy *************************************************************** Bitnet: MAIC@UMINN1 Internet: MAIC@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU Land-Mail: University of Minnesota 2717 Lynn Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55416 ÿÿ " Dual Tenure From: Maunu H{yrynen <hayrynen@csc.fi> Subject: A double inquiry Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 20:15:03 +0300 (EET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 638 (1130) Dear editor to the HUMANIST, I have made an inquiry on the same topics a while ago, but I hope that new people with fresh knowledge have joined the list since that. I am writing a doctoral thesis about the history of public parks in Helsinki, Finland. If anyone has got any ideas about the ideological, symbolic, iconographical, discoursive or social/political meanings of the public parks in various countries, I would be extremely glad to hear about them. I would also appreciate comments on theoretical or methodological approaches to parks, be they from the field of urban history, urban geography, sociology, architectural and garden history or any combination of the abovesaid. I am also involved with another research project about the landscapes - natural or cultural - that have a particular national esteem in Finland. I would be interested to hear about any connections between the landscape and the nationalist thought that someone might have come across in his/her study. These may cover the history of landscape or topographic art as well as cartography, tourism or landscape conservation/preservation. Especially valuable would be information about "hallowed" sites and their historic development (such as that of the Hudson River valley in O'Brien's book). Also references to national myths about forests or wildernesses would be highly welcome. Maunu Hayrynen Helsinki University of Technology Institute for Research of the Built Environment Otakaari 24 02150 ESPOO Finland tel. 358-0-135 92 13 fax 358-0-455 45 08 From: Prof Norm Coombs <NRCGSH@RITVAX.BITNET> Subject: Using e-mail delivery for distance course content Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 14:45:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 639 (1131) During the past few months, I have explored the use of e-mail as a course delivery system. I have been active in distance learning with the use of CMC (computer mediated communication) for at least a decade, but previously I have always used computer conference systems. Such systems permit the use of several topics with the reader selecting a topic and following that thread. I had avoided e-mail because, instead of providing a two-dimension matrix access, it is entirely linear. I felt that such a system would jumble discussions of various topics into one single stream resulting in chaos. The danger is there, but by spacing the broadcast of topics by a few days, and by encouraging participants to work hard to stay current, it worked better than I thought. Why use an inferior system? Well, we wanted to reach the maximum, potential audience including members from fidonet and other systems without the possibility of having a telnet access to something more sophisticated. We (Rochester Institute of Technology and EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information) offered an online non-credit course on how to make the computing and information technology systems of schools, organizations and businesses more accessible to persons with physical disabilities. At least, it worked and let us reach out to many participants in k-12 and from across the ocean. Below is a reprint of an article about our project. ** Note: we will send an announcement to this list in a very few days announcing the next presentation on June 8. Watch for a subject line about disability access workshop....... Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu Adapt-it Workshop Reproduced with permission from Rochester Institute of Technology _ISC NEWSLETTER_ May 1994 Current attendees of an on-line workshop are "surfing the Internet" to participate in "Adapt-it: Adapting Information Technology & Computing," targeting access to information for the disabled or challenged. Spurred on by the American Disabilities Act, access for the disabled has become a sizzling issue among academic, government, and business facilities around the world. Attended by academic administrators and disabilities advocates in industry and business, the current session began April 4 and includes 75 participants hailing from Germany, Spain, Thailand, Australia, Canada, and more than 25 states in the U.S. The workshop is being presented as a collaborative effort between Norman Coombs, an RIT history professor who is visually impaired and Chairman of Equal Access to Software & Information (EASI); Richard Banks, a visually impaired adaptive technologist with the University of Wisconsin-Stout's library who serves as moderator for EASI's AXSLIB1 (the leading Internet discussion list on library and adaptive technology for persons with disabilities); and RIT's Educational Technology Center. It is supported by net work resources provided by Information Systems and Computing. Run on a quarterly basis, the first workshop was offered January 31 through February 12, at a cost of $99 per person. With an enrollment of 75 members from Canada, Great Britain, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., the initial workshop ran two weeks. The content included: o Reasons to Adapt o Legislative History o Americans with Disabilities Act o Lab Environment o Alternate Output Systems o Alternate Input Systems o Computing as Compensatory Devices o Planning and Funding o Review and Other Resources Designed to be accessible at the lowest connecting common denominator, Dr. Coombs chose e-mail to deliver the workshop. "I had always thought that a single stream discussion wouldn't work." Delighted to be proven wrong, e-mail allowed attendees from K-12, businesses, libraries, and Fidonet (a bulletin board that shakes hands in the middle of the night and trades messages) to connect. For the majority of participants it was their first on-line course. Heralded as "extremely successful," by Dr. Coombs, the producers of the workshop were stunned by the glowing comments they received in their post-workshop evaluations. "Well worth both the time and money spent." "This course was a great opportunity." "This has been a great workshop. I have gotten so many new resources to tap ..." "I thoroughly enjoyed the content, format, and instructors. I learned a great deal more than I expected to." "The format was a little fast-paced. I... really had to scramble to kee p up." Sensitive to the pleas of too heavy a schedule, the time frame has been extended to three weeks and the review lesson has been dropped. Subsequent workshops will be offered in June and September at a cost of $99. Information is available electronically by sending a message to listserv@listserver.isc.rit.edu with one line of text saying: info workshop. For additional information or registration contact Susan Warner, Educational Technology Center, 716-475-7186 or SMWETC@RIT.EDU -Jackie Paterson Educational Technology Center (ALL-IN-1, or JKPETC in VMS Mail) (Internet: JKPETC@RIT.EDU) From: rbh@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Professorial Appointment in English Date: Wed, 04 May 94 08:56:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 720 (1132) The English Board at the University of Kent at Canterbury is seeking to enhance its research and teaching strengths in the period between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century by making a new Professorial appointment. The appointee will have a distinguished record of research and publication in some area or areas of English literature between 1500 and 1800 and will have a broader remit to provide research leadership within the subject. There will also be opportunities for the appointee to initiate curriculum developments in the pre-1800 period at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Further particulars and an application form can be obtained from: The Personnel Office, The Registry, The University, Canterbury, UK, CT2 7N2 Fax: [Your code for UK, if any] 0227 452196 Closing date: Friday, 13 May 1994. From: wittmann@dfki.uni-kl.de (Matthias Wittmann) Subject: Job: DFKI Date: 05 May 1994 10:05:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 721 (1133) The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is a research institute founded in 1988 which has about 100 employees at its two locations in Saarbruecken and Kaiserslautern. For VERBMOBIL, an ambitious speech-to-speech translation project, we seek a ***** software engineer with NLP background ***** to work in the system group located in Kaiserslautern. His/her responsibility will be the integration of heterogeneous software modules developed by several industrial and university partners. The ideal candidate should have experience in: - software engineering - object oriented software development - large application system development - natural language processing - programming in LISP, Prolog, C++ - UNIX and Motif The position can be taken up immediately. Please send a short resume (preferably via email) to Thomas Bub DFKI Postfach 2080 D - 67633 Kaiserslautern e-mail: bub@dfki.uni-kl.de From: dmccaffr@cscsun.rmc.edu (Dan McCaffrey) Subject: ideas for worshop? Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 14:46:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 641 (1134) Dear Colleagues, I would like advice on having a workshop at the start of the school year to get humanities faculty more interested and active in the use of computers in their disciplines. Our committee is considering two possible versions. The first is to have someone give us a general overview of the teaching and research projects currently being done, the applications and facilities presently available for classroom and research use, etc. Another approach would be to bring one or two people to present particular applications (e.g. hypertext or conferencing) which would be less abstract and would allow more active, hands-on experience. The particularity of the applications, however, might limit the relevance of the workshop to certain disciplines. We are a small undergraduate liberal arts college with small departments, so we need broad applicability to draw enough people to make a workshop work. I would be happy to hear (off-list if that seems best to the editors) what you think, what you have tried, what has worked, what has not worked and even who you think might be a good presenter. I look forward to hearing from you. Daniel V. McCaffrey Randolph-Macon College Ashland, VA 23005 USA office (804) 752-7276 fax (804) 752-7231 dmccaffr@rmc.edu From: Ann Okerson <ann@cni.org> Subject: Joint ARL/AAUP E-Publishing Symposium/Call For Papers Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 11:09:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 642 (1135) The organizers of the conference are re-posting this Call. A number of proposals have been received, but a number of others have asked for an extension. The Final Date to receive proposals is May 27th to: symposium@e-math.ams.org The programs will be mailed in early August. ************************************************************************ MAKING THE FUTURE WORK TODAY ************************************************************************ ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS Association of American University Presses Association of Research Libraries In Partnership with: The American Physical Society The Johns Hopkins University Press The University of Virginia Library Sponsor the Fourth Symposium of the ARL and AAUP Visions and Opportunities in Electronic Publishing November 5-7, 1994 Washington, DC The symposium series sponsored by the ARL and the AAUP has become a space apart, where stakeholders in academe and scholarly communications -- faculty, librarians, and publishers from university presses and learned/professional societies -- can gather to exchange information about their interests and concerns. The Fourth Symposium will focus on four issues: fair use, cost recovery, developing content, and cooperative ventures. As the title indicates, the organizers are especially keen to explore those areas where the interests of the various participants may appear to diverge and in stimulating productive discussions, particularly within academe, about concrete ways in which we can work together to resolve any differences. As customary, the Symposium will open late Saturday afternoon with keynote addresses, reception, and convivial dining opportunities in cafes and restaurants of Washington, DC. Both Sunday and Monday will feature a mix of plenary and breakout sessions. Plenary sessions will focus on the overarching themes of: o Defining Fair Use in the Networked Environment o Exploring Alternative Cost Recovery Mechanisms o Filling the Pipeline: Innovations in Electronic Scholarship o Realigning Campus Roles and Relationships Breakout sessions are designed to encourage small group interaction with symposium participants. The presentations will be a concentrated introduction to inform the audience of what is involved in the work being described. Visual presentation and detailed handouts will be emphasized. The breakouts will be of two types. o Demonstrations of innovative applications of new technologies (e.g., multimedia, Mosaic, Acrobat, hyperlinks) to a *publishing* activity, which might include business innovations such as advertising, cost recovery. o Case studies of successful networked publishing projects that emphasize the content and look/feel of the work, rather than the technology per se. We seek a range of offerings that include administration and management, theory, legal issues, the practice of publishing and librarianship as it embraces networked electronic cooperative ventures, economics, specific projects, live demos, scholarly projects, and any other related areas. The proposals may come from the wide range of people involved in academic scholarly and scientific communications: scholars, scientists, administrators, press and society personnel, librarians, software and hardware creators, and others in related fields. ***We are particularly interested in proposals for papers that offer new perspectives on, and propose solutions to, the issues mentioned above in the not-for-profit higher education environment.*** DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS & PROPOSALS: April 30, 1994 **(Rev. May 27th)** Submit your name, affiliation, title of presentation, type of presentation (paper, technical demonstration, case study), need for technology support at the meeting site, and comprehensive abstract to: symposium@e-math.ams.org CO-CHAIRS: Lisa Freeman, Director, University of Minnesota Press lfreeman@maroon.tc.umn.edu Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries ann@cni.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Robert Kelly, American Physical Society Susan Lewis, The Johns Hopkins University Press Karen Marshall, Alderman Library, University of Virginia David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Speakers and presenters will be offered assistance with expenses. Speakers must supply copies of their papers, demonstrations, or case studies in publishable form at the time of the symposium. These will be published in the Symposium proceedings. The Third Symposium, Gateways and Gatekeepers, held in November 1993 attracted 160 participants and featured one post-event optional excursion, "A Day in the Electronic Village," created by the University of Virginia Library. The November 1994 will offer two excursions: o "Day in the Village" (University of Virginia Library) and a o "Day at the University Press" (The Johns Hopkins University Press with the support of the Eisenhower Library, JHU). From: dpcole@mail.wm.edu (Coleman Dorothy P) Subject: Hume and 18th-Century America Date: 29 Apr 94 15:04:15 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 722 (1136) ****CALL FOR PAPERS**** HUME AND 18TH-CENTURY AMERICA Co-directors Dorothy Coleman (College of William and Mary) and Wade Robison (Rochester Institute of Technology) are pleased to announce a call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme of "Hume and 18th-Century America" to take place at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, April 6-8, 1995. Papers on any aspect of Hume's connection with 18th-Century American thought are welcome. Among the several organizations supporting this conference are the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, the Hume Society, the Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture, and the Institute for Early American History and Culture. Papers should be no more than forty minutes reading length with self- references deleted for blind reviewing; the author's name should appear only on a front cover sheet. Submissions should be accompanied by a brief abstract. Proposals will also be considered if accompanied by a vitae, although the program committee will give preferential consideration to blindly-reviewed, completed papers. Please send all inquiries and triplicate copies of submissions to: Professor Dorothy Coleman, Department of Philosophy, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, e-mail <dpcole@mail.wm.edu>. Submissions must be postmarked by November 1, 1994. Early submissions are encouraged. From: Helen Ostovich <ostovich@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Call for Papers Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 12:55:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 723 (1137) CALL FOR PAPERS "Expanding the Canon: New Dimensions in English Renaissance Studies", this year's McMaster University English Association Conference, will be held on November 18, 1994. Scholars are invited to submit papers which rediscover and explore neglected areas of English writings, 1560-1625, such as lesser known dramatic, poetic, and prose works, travel literature, emblem books, women's writing, masques, and popular culture. Plenary speaker: Jean Howard (Columbia). Respondent: Paul Stevens (Queens). Send completed 10-page/20-minute papers by OCTOBER 3, 1994, to Dr Helen Ostovich or Dr Mary Silcox, Dept of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L9 e-mail inquiries: ostovich@mcmaster.ca From: caedmon@violet.berkeley.edu Subject: UCLA CELTIC STUDIES CONFERENCE Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 08:46:15 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 644 (1138) UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CELTIC CONFERENCE UCLA -- MAY 20-22, 1994 This year the honor falls to our sister institution in Celtic Studies, the University of California at Los Angeles, to host the Sixteenth Annual University of California Celtic Conference. Hildegard Tristram (University of Freiburg), Toma/s O/ Cathasaig (University College, Dublin), John MacInnes (University of Edinburgh) and Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales) are scheduled to be the invited speakers this year. The conference program boasts a range of other speakers as well; topics to be discussed range from music, drama, folk art, and "Celtification" to infixed pronouns and "sinister cheese." To obtain a copy of the conference program or lodging information, please telephone Karen Burgess at the Folklore and Mythology Program (310/825-3962) or fax a request to Professor Joseph Nagy at the Department of English (310/206-5093). - Laura Morland U.C. Berkeley [This notice excerpted from the Celtic Colloquium Newsletter] From: ted@crl.nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Subject: Demos ACL Date: 05 May 1994 10:06:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 645 (1139) CALL FOR DEMOS ACL-94, JUNE 28-30, 1994 NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY --------------------------- The 1994 meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held on June 28-30, on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. The local arrangements committee at NMSU is currently looking for exhibits and demonstrations for this conference. Specifically, we are looking for demos in the areas of Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Computational Morphology, Lexical Semantics, Machine Readable Dictionaries, Speech/Handwriting Recognition, Natural Language Query Systems, or anything else in the area of computational linguistics. People interested in organizing exhibits or in demonstrating programs at the conference should contact Ted Dunning, Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA; +1-505-646-6221; ted@crl.nmsu.edu</a> - AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Those with papers on the program and academics without grant or contract support can present demonstrations without charge, to the extent that scheduling permits. From: fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be (Francis Heylighen) Subject: Announcing Principia Cybernetica Information Server Date: Thu, 5 May 94 17:53:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 7 Num. 646 (1140) Please spread this announcement to related mailing lists/newsgroups... Announcing the Principia Cybernetica Information Server -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP) aims at the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic world view. Put more simply, it tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies. Principia Cybernetica has developed an elaborate information server reachable by everybody on the Internet: directly through World-Wide Web (WWW) and anonymous FTP, indirectly through email and Gopher (see further). The server contains over 600 hypermedia documents, plus lots of traditional papers, reports, etc, and is regularly updated. It provides: * general information about the project * extensive information on Cybernetics and Systems Theory (glossary, bibliographies, societies, journals, ...) * information on related topics, including evolution, self-organization, complexity, cognition, philosophy, epistemology, ethics, transdisciplinary integration of knowledge, cyberspace and memetics. * lots of pointers to related servers on the Internet * definitions of fundamental concepts and principles linked by semantic relationships * a first attempt to weave all these ideas into an integrated philosophy For facilitating quick retrieval, the server has a Boolean searchable index, a hypermedia "clickable map", an extensive table of contents and other overview documents. It also allows users to add their own comments to the served information. Introduction to Principia Cybernetica -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PCP is about Philosophy. Philosophy intends to answer questions such as: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? What is knowledge? What is truth? What are good and evil? What is the meaning of life? Every time has its own approach to these eternal philosophical questions, deriving from its knowledge and technology. We hold that in our time, the age of information, it are systems theory and cybernetics, as the general sciences of organization and communication, that can provide the basis for contemporary philosophy. Therefore, our philosophical system is derived from, and further develops, the basic principles of cybernetics. Moreover, we start from the thesis that systems at all levels have been constructed by evolution, which we see as a continuing process of self-organization, based on variation and natural selection of the "fittest" configurations. Evolution continuously creates complexity and makes systems more adaptive by giving them better control over their environments. We consider the emergence of a new level of complexity as the quantum of evolution, and call it a "metasystem transition". As cybernetic theory informs our philosophy, so cybernetic technology lets us do things that philosophers of other times could only dream of. Using computer technology, we develop a large philosophical text from many nodes which are linked together with different relationships. Readers can navigate among the many concepts, guided by their individual understanding and interests. Disparate material can be integrated together while being written and read by collaborators from all around the world. We hold that PCP is more than an interesting experiment, and that there is an acute need for an approach similar to PCP. The ongoing explosion and fragmentation of knowledge demands a renewed effort at integration. This has always been the dream of the systems theorists; all they lacked was the appropriate technology to attack the complexity of the task. This effort has been ongoing since 1989, and has recently entered a stage of real implementation. Of course, the task is enormous, and we are still beginning. If you are really interested in our Project, we invite you to join our efforts and become a contributor. (more information on joining the project is available on the server, or by an email request to PCP@vnet3.vub.ac.be). Accessing the server through World-Wide Web -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Principia Cybernetica server is reachable at the World-Wide Web address (URL): <a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/">http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/</a> If you don't know how to use this address, read the following introduction to World-Wide Web (WWW): WWW allows you to fetch documents, containing hypertext links to other, related documents, which may reside in different parts of the world. By selecting one of the links, you automatically fetch the linked documents. In that way you can navigate through a world-wide network of interconnected documents, without having to type in any commands. WWW also offers multimedia support on the appropriate platforms: hypertexts can contain color images, sounds and even animations. WWW is an extension to, and integration of, other services on the global Internet, such as telnet, newsgroups, ftp, gopher and WAIS. WWW combines extreme power (it does everything the other systems do and more), with maximal simplicity and ease of use. WWW software is freely available for all major computer platforms, and only requires an Internet connection. More information about WWW can be found by anonymous ftp to info.cern.ch, (directory: /pub/www/doc for "paper copies" of articles on WWW). An even better introduction can be got by directly logging in to the Web, using telnet to one of the following hosts (in mainframe systems, the command is normally "telnet " followed by one of the following addresses or IP numbers): info.cern.ch : (IP number 128.141.201.74) ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (Full screen browser, requires a vt100 terminal. Log in as www.) Free WWW-software ("browsers") can be found by anonymous ftp at the following places: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, in directory /Mosaic, /Mac/Mosaic, or /PC/Mosaic: Mosaic multimedia browser for X-Windows, Mac and MS Windows. fatty.law.cornell.edu, in directory /pub/LII/cello:Browser for Microsoft Windows. info.cern.ch, in directory /pub/www/bin: Several browsers (Mac, NeXT, DEC...). Once you are connected to WWW, the PCP Web can be found on the geographical list of all WWW-servers under "Europe: Belgium", or on the above WWW-address ("URL"). General info about WWW can be found at the following addresses: <a href="http://siva.cshl.org/~boutell/www_faq.html">http://siva.cshl.org/~boutell/www_faq.html</a> <a href="http://pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu/guide/www.guide.html">http://pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu/guide/www.guide.html</a> <a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html">http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html</a> Accessing the server by email -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- People who are not directly connected to the Internet, yet who can use email (e.g. through Bitnet or CompuServe) can still get WWW-files by sending a message to the email address: test-list@info.cern.ch (if this doesn't work, try listserv@info.cern.ch, or send a "HELP" command line). The message should consist of one or more lines, each containing the command "SEND " followed by the WWW-address (URL) of a desired document. E.g. for the PCP server home page a command line would read: SEND <a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/">http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/</a> This will return the hypertext document (text-only), with links numbered. A separate list at the end gives the document-addresses of the linked documents, which can then be requested by a subsequent message. In this way you can navigate through the web, albeit only at mail speed. It is possible to search for documents in PCP web by using the address: <a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Index.ind?search+string">http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Index.ind?search+string</a> where 'search+string' stands for the keyword(s) you are looking for (with spaces " " replaced by "+" signs). E.g. SEND <a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Index.ind?systems+theory">http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Index.ind?systems+theory</a> will retrieve the list of all documents that have 'systems theory' in their title. Accessing the server by FTP -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- If you have an Internet connection, but WWW is not yet installed, you can also retrieve files on PCP by anonymous FTP at host is1.vub.ac.be, in directory /pub/projects/Principia_Cybernetica (this will not allow you to use the WWW hypermedia features, though). On mainframes or UNIX computers you would normally connect to the host by typing: ftp is1.vub.ac.be When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter your email address as password. Then change directories ("cd" command) by typing: cd /pub/projects/Principia_Cybernetica To show the available files and directories, type: ls If necessary, change directories again. If you have made your choice, transfer the chosen file to your computer, by typing "get " followed by the filename, e.g.: get Workbook.txt When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit In case of doubt or difficulty, consult your system manager. Accessing the server by Gopher -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The PCP ftp server (no hypertext) can also be reached through the gopher protocol, via the host: wachau.ai.univie.ac.at (port 70) (on mainframes/UNIX the command would be "gopher wachau.ai.univie.ac.at"). Select from the gopher menu ":Anonymous FTP-archives", then "Artificial Intelligence Archives", and finally "BEL: Principia Cybernetica project". _______________________________________________________________________ Dr. Francis Heylighen Systems Researcher PO, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B -1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone:+32-2-6412525;Fax:+32-2-6412489 **from May '94:change 641 to 629! Email:fheyligh@vnet3.vub.ac.be; WWW: <a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html">http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html</a>