6.0321 Qs: HyperText; Addresses; S/W; CAI; etc (7/141)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 27 Oct 1992 10:13:33 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0321. Tuesday, 27 Oct 1992.


(1) Date: 21 Oct 92 09:41:35 U (25 lines)
From: "Wolfe Chris" <wolfe_chris@msmail.muohio.edu>
Subject: Homespun HyperText

(2) Date: 22 October 92, 09:14:20 EDT (28 lines)
From: CSHUNTER@vm.uoguelph.ca
Subject: Software Query

(3) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 09:29:40 +0100 (19 lines)
From: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
<banks@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: email addresses

(4) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 23:21:20 ITA (21 lines)
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: how much do we trust in e-mail and lists?

(5) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 23:18:54 ITA (12 lines)
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: query: translation from MARC towards DBaseIV, or like?

(6) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 07:56:12 PDT (14 lines)
From: John Sandys-Wunsch <JWUNSCH@UVVM.UVic.CA>
Subject: Request

(7) Date: 23 Oct 1992 09:44:25 -0400 (EDT) (22 lines)
From: Joanna Johnson <JOHNSON@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: CAI for Critical Thinking

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Date: 21 Oct 92 09:41:35 U
From: "Wolfe Chris" <wolfe_chris@msmail.muohio.edu>
Subject: Homespun HyperText

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett tells me some of you do work in hypertext. I'm
teaching a course at Miami University called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
University" inwhich we're doing a segment on hypertext/hypermedia. To provide
some context, we're reading the following authors: Landow, Delaney, Dickey,
Dougherty, Yankelovich et. al., Bolter, Moulthrop, Slatin, Irish & Triggs,
Charney, Brockman et. al., and Cumming & Sinclair.

We're also exploring some of Dickey's hyperpoems, and Dougherty's hypercard
courseware "Contour." We're also creating our own "homespun hypertext" as a
whole class project using some linking rules I made up.

My questions for you are:

(a) what kinds of things are you doing with hypertext,
(b) any suggested readings for future consideration
(c) any experience/words of wisdom about creating a hypertext as a group
project, and
(d) where might I write up this kind of work?

Please respond to me directly at Wolfe_Chris@msmail.muohio.edu
Thanks -Chris Wolfe
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Date: 22 October 92, 09:14:20 EDT
From: CSHUNTER@vm.uoguelph.ca
Subject: Software Query

I have a variety of text files containing masses of data. The
format of the files varies in terms of layout, although all of
the files are standard ascii files. I want to be able to search
through this mass of files and form connections between various
files that I can then follow again or re-structure as the need
arises. While I can use a flat-file database for this to some
extent -- given the fact that the size limitations on "memo"
fields is small -- I can't use it with large text blocks. Can
anyone suggest where I might look for information on MS-DOS
software that might provide a solution to my difficulty?

E-mail your comments directly to me and I'll undertake to provide
a summary of the responses for this list if the volume of mail
proves worth the effort.
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1992 09:29:40 +0100
From: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology <banks@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: email addresses

Does anyone have an email address for Peter Grahame or George
Psathas at the Harvard Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies,
_or_ for David Bogen at Emerson College?

With mant thanks,

Marcus Banks
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Marcus Banks
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
51 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6PE

banks@vax.ox.ac.uk
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 23:21:20 ITA
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: how much do we trust in e-mail and lists?

I recently discovered a problem related to my use of e-mail.
I was writing a paper for a Congress (in Venice, you all already know, as I man
y times asked for help about some topics related to that paper), and discovered
then that I rely a lot on news I can get through Humanist or e-mail.
But this morning I discovered that some queries I posted never arrived to the r
ecipients because of some mysterious fault of my node's mainframe (mysterious b
ecause 'they' only said to me that there was a problem that had been corrected)
. This made me realize how much I rely on email thinking of it as a mail system
immune from snail mail defects, while also e-mail has its defects.
Did anyone else met with those problems with his/her mainframe?
Does anyone else sometimes think of e-mail as the only way to get things done '
presto e bene' (quickly and well)? or is this my symptom of some technomania?
I'd like to hear from you.
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 23:18:54 ITA
From: maurizio lana <LANA@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: query: translation from MARC towards DBaseIV, or like?

A friend of mine who's a librarian, asked me if there are programs that allow
translation of MARC bibliographical records into other usual database formats.
An ideas?
Thank you.
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 07:56:12 PDT
From: John Sandys-Wunsch <JWUNSCH@UVVM.UVic.CA>
Subject: Request

I would like to ask for suggestions.
I am compiling for private publication a small anthology of pieces about
writing along with a few examples of exceptionally good prose. I already
have the section in the Phaedrus which treats writing as the way to
forgetting but would like similarily intriguing selections from other
authors. For my examples of good prose I would prefer to have pieces from
less known authors who have been allowed to fall into undeserved oblivion
or semi-oblivion.
John Sandys-Wunsch JWUNSCH@UVVM.UVIC.CA

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Date: 23 Oct 1992 09:44:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joanna Johnson <JOHNSON@SSCvax.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: CAI for Critical Thinking

Is anyone using computer-assisted instruction in a Critical
Thinking course?

What product are you using?
In conjunction with what text?
Is this working well?

Thanks,
Jill LeBlanc
Department of Philosophy
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
leblancj@sscvax.cis.mcmaster.ca

(This has been posted on PHILOSOP as well.)

Posted by Joanna M. Johnson, Computing Services Coordinator (Humanities)
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. JOHNSON@MCMASTER.CA