7.0029 Rs: DBs; E-Copyright; Music Garden (3/52)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 26 May 1993 14:59:21 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0029. Wednesday, 26 May 1993.


(1) Date: Fri, 21 May 93 14:00:23 EDT (22 lines)
From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne)
Subject: Re: 7.0019 Rs: Database Formats

(2) Date: Fri, 21 May 93 09:55:16 PDT (20 lines)
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 7.0021 E-Qs: E-Books; E-Texts; E-Copyright; Apps; Genes

(3) Date: 21 May 1993 16:02:36 -0700 (MST) (10 lines)
From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: 7.0020 Qs: Music Garden; Jawbone; Spanish Job; PHI

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Date: Fri, 21 May 93 14:00:23 EDT
From: hahne@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Hahne)
Subject: Re: 7.0019 Rs: Database Formats


> 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.

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


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Date: Fri, 21 May 93 09:55:16 PDT
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 7.0021 E-Qs: E-Books; E-Texts; E-Copyright; Apps; Genes (5/88)

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
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Date: 21 May 1993 16:02:36 -0700 (MST)
From: OCRAMER@CCNODE.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Re: 7.0020 Qs: Music Garden; Jawbone; Spanish Job; PHI (4/71)

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