3.320 various (87)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 3 Aug 89 18:52:45 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 320. Thursday, 3 Aug 1989.


(1) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 14:41:00 EDT (11 lines)
From: "Vicky A. Walsh" <IMD7VAW@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.318 making dictionaries?

(2) Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 11:56:05 EDT (17 lines)
From: Walter McCutchan <WALTER@watdcs.UWaterloo.ca>
Subject: Database Managment Systems.

(3) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 10:15 BST (17 lines)
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: IT

(4) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 12:09:22 EDT (12 lines)
From: Randal_Baier@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: 3.209 citing e-documents, cont. (19)

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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 14:41:00 EDT
From: "Vicky A. Walsh" <IMD7VAW@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.318 making dictionaries?

The Humanities Computing Facility at UCLA is working on some Hypercard
stacks to aid in creating dictionaries of various kinds. One tool that
is done is a script that will take a text and create a stack with one
word per card for use as a lexicon for students reading the original
text. Other such things are in the works but we are not yet ready
to distribute so this for information only at present.
Vicky Walsh
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 11:56:05 EDT
From: Walter McCutchan <WALTER@watdcs.UWaterloo.ca>
Subject: Submission for Humanist; Database Managment Systems.


I found the recent round of postings about micro-based DBMS's such as
DataPerfect interesting and informative. Currently I am interested in
DBMS's for Unix platforms. Can people tell me what they use, and what
their experiences have been? I am particularly interested in DBMS's
that handle large fields of text well.

People may wish to post directly to the group, but if reports and
recommendations are sent directly to me (WALTER@WatDCS.UWaterloo.ca) I
will summarize them and post the result.

thanks in advance
walter mccutchan
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 10:15 BST
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject:

At the severe risk of being very boring, may I quote from a glossy report
entitled `Information Technology and the Conduct of Research' published by the
National Academy Press, Washington DC, 1989. "Information Technology is
that set of computer and telecommunications technologies that makes possible
computation, communication, and the storage and retrieval of information. The
term therefore includes computer hardware... communications networks ... and
computer software."
Some awkward cusses might argue that IT is just whatever technology
you use to ship information around, and could thus be applied equally well to
inscribed stones, knotted strings or illuminated mss. But I suppose no-one
thought of those media as `technologies' at the time.


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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 12:09:22 EDT
From: Randal_Baier@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: 3.209 citing e-documents, cont. (19)

You are correct: ISBNs are different for both paperback
and hardcover, AND for different countries of
publication. this means that a book can be published in
Britain and the US simulataneously and have two almost
identical numbers (save for the first digit). The value
of the ISBN is very apparent in computer searching,
which is why reprints and new editions get new ISBNs as
well.