8.0027 Research Reports: Inst. for Advanced Technology (1/181)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 23 May 1994 22:37:05 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0027. Monday, 23 May 1994.

Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 17:42:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Merritt Unsworth <jmu2m@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: new IATH Publications on the WWW

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Publishes it First and Second Series of Research Reports:

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As of May 20th, 1994, the following reports are available via
the World-Wide Web, at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/

Under the heading Publications:

Research Reports, First Series (1993)

Ed Ayers, "The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil
War in Pennsylvania and Virginia"
Overview
The Archive
Census
Geographic Information
Military Rosters
Diaries
Newspapers
The Story

Jerome McGann, "The Complete Writings and Pictures of
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive"
Introduction
The Paintings, Drawings, and Designs
The Poems
The Prose Works and Fragments
The Translations
Context


Research Reports, Second Series (1994)

Ellen Contini-Morava, "Semantic Stucture of Swahili
Noun Classes"
Introduction
The Swahili Noun Class System
Methodology
Preliminary Results
Conclusion

John Dobbins, "The Forum at Pompeii"
Introduction
Background
Objectives
Methods
Significance
Nature of This Report
Acknowledgements
The Macellum
The Imperial Cult Building
Introduction
Date
Identification
Conclusions
The Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus
The Eumachia Building

Hoyt Duggan, "Piers Plowman"
Creating an Electronic Archive of Piers Plowman
The Nature of the Problem
The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive
Activity at IATH from July 1993-May 1994
The Electronic Archive--a sample
Critical Text
B Archetype
Documentary Editions
Manuscript Descriptions
Linguistic Descriptions of Manuscripts
Textual Facsimiles
Sample Collations

Mike Gorman, "The Bell Notebooks"
Help
Master Map
Sound Into Visible Form
Sound into Current
Introduction
References


In addition to the research reports, the Institute also makes
available the following:

Staff, Technical Reports
Minutes from IATH Meetings, 6/92 - present
Hardware
Overview
Virtual Disk on Tape
Songs from Naked Lunch on an RS6000
Digital Images
Overview
Capturing Digital Images
Manipulating Digital Images
An Image Annotation Tool
A General Archival Format
Using Autocad to Reconstruct Pompeii
Using the Net
Using the World-Wide Web
Setting up a server
Controlling access
Managing Web Documents
Creative Uses of Imagemapping
Using Fill-out Forms
ToolBook to HTML
Moving Text and Images
Using Ismapping
Approximating ToolBook
Upgrading the Server
MOOS, MUDs, and Other Virtual Hangouts
Standard Generalized Markup Language
Overview
The Rossetti Archive

"The Rationale of Hypertext," by Jerome McGann

Postmodern Culture: an interdisciplinary electronic journal
(published with North Carolina State University and Oxford
University Press)
V1 N1, September 1990
V1 N2, January 1991
V1 N3, May 1991
V2 N1, September 1991
V2 N2, January 1992
V2 N3, May 1992
V3 N1, September 1992
V3 N2, January 1993
V3 N3, May 1993
V4 N1, September 1993
V4 N2, January 1994
PMC-MOO
Archives of PMC-Talk


And elsewhere on our World-Wide Web Server, you can find:

Information about Work in Progress on the 1994-95
Research Projects:
Gary Anderson, "The Life of Adam and Eve: The
Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity"
Ken Schwartz, "Urban Design Strategies and Housing
for the City of Charlottesville"
Judith Shatin, "The Hierarchical Audio Construction
Kit: Composition and Design"
Michael Stern, "Visions for a Sustainable City:
Owings Mills, MD"

Related Readings: a selection of resources available
elsewhere on the internet, in the following categories:
General Resources
Archaeology
Electronic Publishing
Film
History
Hypermedia
Legal Issues
Linguistics
Literary Studies
Medieval Studies
Music
Philosophy
Teaching Resources
Technical Research and Information
Text-Based Virtual Reality
Other IBM-Supported Projects

IATH Software development, demonstration, and distribution
Forms-Based Demonstration of the Image Annotation Tool
A Sound Driver for the RS6000

IATH-MOO: A Real-Time Multi-User Conference Facility

Access to other Networked Resources at the University of
Virginia

Information about the Institute's History, Personnel, and
Fellowship Opportunities