Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 753.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:07:28 +0100
From: cbf@socrates.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: 17.749 posting Humbul resources
Dear Colleagues:
The problem with simply posting materials to Humbul is that only a very
small number of scholars know about it and consult it on a regular basis.
The solution is to make sure that these materials are adequately copied on
one of the large international bibliographic utilities, such as RLIN or
OCLC. They have to become part of the standard information stream in order
to be available for scholarly use.
Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
(510) 642-3782 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard
McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 749.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
> www.princeton.edu/humanist/
> Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:32:01 +0100
> From: Michael Fraser <mike.fraser@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
> >
>
> > Many here will share my joy at discovering, thanks to a colleague
here, The
> > Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834,
> > http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/, "A fully searchable online edition
of the
> > largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever
> > published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at
> > London's central criminal court." Truly a treasure-trove of misery.
>
> We've actually had this catalogued in Humbul since March 2003
> (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/output/full2.php?id=6010). This is no criticism
> of anyone, except perhaps Humbul, but we'd welcome suggestions of the best
> ways to alert humanities people to the stuff that gets catalogued in
> Humbul each week. We maintain RSS newsfeeds, for example, and an
> email-based alerting services (for which you need to register) but are
> there other things we should be considering? We could, for example, think
> about posting a brief list of recently catalogued resources to humanist
> once a week?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Mike
>
> ---
> Dr Michael Fraser
> Co-ordinator, Research Technologies Service & Head of Humbul
> Oxford University Computing Services
> 13 Banbury Road
> Oxford OX2 6NN
> Tel: 01865 283 343
> Fax: 01865 273 275
> http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/
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>
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