Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 606.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: Charles Ess <cmess@drury.edu> (19)
Subject: indexing software?
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (16)
Subject: preservation of oral "literature"?
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:32:18 +0000
From: Charles Ess <cmess@drury.edu>
Subject: indexing software?
Dear Sister/Fellow Humanists:
For some years, I was a fan of Prof. Schwartz's _Indexx_ software - an
elegant DOS/ASCII-based program that served my needs well. This is _not_
the sort of indexing program bundled with Nota Bene or Word that
automatically searches for specified terms, identifies page numbers, etc.
(which, interestingly enough, the Chicago Manual of Style warns _against_
using). Rather, _Indexx_ was an independent program that would take entries
typed in with page numbers, and then collate, eliminate duplicates,
alphabetize, and format (roughly) according to specified styles.
Alas (for DOS-based programs), I now work primarily on Macintosh (though I
also use Windows and Linux) and my copy of Indexx seems to have disappeared
(perhaps carried away on a dead machine?)
In any case - I'd appreciate suggestions for indexing software along these
lines. Or have all such things (elegant but functionally simple programs,
written by academics primarily for academics, _priced_ for academics, etc.)
gone the way of the dinosaurs?
Please reply privately off-list: I'll compile good suggestions for a later
posting.
Cheers and best wishes for the new Millennium!
Charles Ess
Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department
Drury University
900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230
Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435
Home page: http://www.drury.edu/Departments/phil-relg/ess.html
Co-chair, CATaC 2000: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/
"Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. Persons appear by
entering into relation to other persons." -- Martin Buber, _I and Thou_
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:25:44 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: preservation of oral "literature"?
Can anyone direct me (actually a friend who is interested in quecha
specifically) to sources for discussion of the preservation of oral
"literature" and other cultural forms such as music? I mean LONG TERM
preservation of the sounds. Isn't this a terribly difficult problem? --
because, I take it, there's no standard way to encode aural data digitally.
And by "standard" I mean across decades or longer.
What does one do when the only practical means for preservation is to make
sure that the data (whatever that means) is transferred from one medium to
the next as the former becomes obsolete?
And does anyone know what happened to Systeme-D (which knew quecha)?
Thanks.
Yours,
WM
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