Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 135.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Nigel Williamson <N.P.Williamson@sheffield.ac.uk> (21)
Subject: New on the Web
[2] From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU> (37)
Subject: Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation
[3] From: "Jerome J. McGann" (25)
<jjm2f@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: ROSSETTI ARCHIVE ONLINE RELEASE
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:36:14 +0100
From: Nigel Williamson <N.P.Williamson@sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject: New on the Web
The Electronic Texts in East Asian Languages Pilot Project are pleased to
announce the publication on the web of their first Electronic Text. The work
"Shin Nihon no Shisô Genri" (The Ideological Principles of the New Japan)
was written by the eminent Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi and is provided
in Japanese with a parallel English translation. Both versions of the text
are full annotated and include a line by line comparisons.
The project web site is: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~jsgml/
Access to this text is free and comments and feedback are welcomed.
Yours
Nigel Williamson
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:58:57 CDT
From: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation
_Two Major Reports on Digital Preservation_
I recently learned about two major reports relating to the issues
surrounding digital preservation and believe that they will be of interest
to MyWebColleagues.
The first of these was prepared by Gail Hodge of Information International
Associates on behalf of the International Council for Scientific and
Technical Information (ICSTI) [http://www.icsti.org/ ]. The publication,
_Digital Electronic Archiving: The State of the Art and the State of the
Practice_ was published in April 1999. It is accessible at the following
addresses:
http://www.icsti.org/icsti/whats_new.html
http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_TOCP.pdf
[Table of Contents]
http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_ExecP.pdf
[Executive Summary]
http://www.icsti.org/icsti/99ga/digarch99_MainP.pdf
[Main Report]
The second is a report prepared by a committee for the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) and provides recommendations on the digital preparedness and
the Library of Congress in collecting and preserving digital resources. A
general summary of the report recently appeared in the New York Times on
July 27 2000 ["Saving The Nation's Digital Legacy" / by Katie Hafner
( http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/circuits/articles/27libr.html )
[NB: This article was also published as "Library of Congress Lags in
Archiving Digital Preservation" in the July 26th NYTimes Web edition ]
[NOTE: A free account is required to access this article]
The title of the report is _LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of
Congress_. The Library of Congress (LoC) commissioned the study. The
report's recommendations are more fully described in a press release
available from the LoC [http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-100.html ]
A *pre-publication* copy of the report is available at:
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071445/html/
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
"Life is What Happens While You're Making Other Plans"
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:24:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jerome J. McGann" <jjm2f@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: ROSSETTI ARCHIVE ONLINE RELEASE
ROSSETTI ARCHIVE ONLINE RELEASE
This announces the online release of the first installment of The Rossetti
Archive. It can be accessed at the following address:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/
There are more than 10,000 files in this installment, which will be most
useful for teaching and research focussed on the 1870 _Poems_. But the
installment has copious materials on all of DGR's works, textual as well
as pictorial and design.
This release is in fact a "research installment" and lacks certain
functionalities that will be added this fall. A brief "Preface to the
First Installment" is pasted into the first page of the general
Introduction to the Archive, which is accessed from the "work in progress"
link on the homesite page.
For those interested in the subjects of humanities computing, electronic
editing, theory of textuality, and related matters, I recommend that you
look at the materials in the section headed "Resources".
We of course welcome any feedback, critical in particular. And we hope
that students and scholars find as much pleasure and instruction in this
work -- there will be four installments -- as we have had in building it.
Jerome McGann
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