Libraries and the creation of electronic texts for the humanities

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 535-553

  Smith, Natalia ^a   Tibbo, Helen R ^a  

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EID: 0030355357     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl_57_06_535     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Clifford Lynch, "Networked Information: A Revolution in Progress," in Networks, Open Access, and Virtual Libraries: Implications for the Research Library, eds. Brett Sutton and Charles H. Davis (Urbana, Ill.: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1992), 12-13.
2. James H. Billington, "The Electronic Library," Media Studies Journal 8 (winter 1994): 109.
3. _, "Electronic Access: Dr. Billington Testifies on the Role of Libraries," LC Information Bulletin 53 (May 16, 1994): 187.
4. Humanities and Arts on the Information Highway: A Profile, Final Report, a national initiative, sponsored by the Getty Art History Information Program, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Coalition for Networked Information, September 1994 (Santa Monica, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1994), 2; see also, URL: gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/00/cniftp/projects/humartiway/ humartiway-rpt.
5. See the following URLs for periodic reports on these programs: http://www. grainger.uiuc.edu/dli/; http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/; http://http2.sils.umich.edu/UMDL/; http:/ /fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/im/informedia.html; http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu; http:// diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/.
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8. Computers and the Humanities (New York: Pergamon, 1966).
9. "Literary and Linguistic Computing," in Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1986).
10. Humanist listserv: humanist@lists.princeton.edu. See also, the Humanist Web site: URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/.
11. URL: http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/info/ectrdir.html.
12. Katharina Klemperer, "Electronic Texts: Introduction," Information Technology and Libraries 13, no. 1 (Mar. 1994): 6.
13. URL: http://www.unc.edu/~nsmith/.
14. Dan Ream, "The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center: An Interview with David Seaman," Virginia Librarian 39 (Apr.-June 1993): 7.
15. David M. Seaman, "The Electronic Text Center: A Humanities Computing Initiative at the University of Virginia," Electronic Library 11 (June 1993): 195-99; and "'A Library and Apparatus of Every Kind': The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 15-19. See also, URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html.
16. David M. Seaman, "The Electronic Text Center: A Humanities Computing Initiative at the University of Virginia," Electronic Library 11 (June 1993): 195-99; and "'A Library and Apparatus of Every Kind': The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 15-19. See also, URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html.
17. The Humanities Text Initiative, begun at the University of Michigan (UM) in the fall of 1994, seeks to bring textual analysis resources to the UM campus, "focusing on networked delivery of text and text encoding in a standardized format." URL: http://www.hti.umich.edu/hti/ vitality.html. See also Beth Forrest Warner and David Barber, "Building the Digital Library: The University of Michigan's UMLibText Project," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 20-24.
18. Michael Neuman, "The Very Pulse of the Machine: Three Trends toward Improvement in the Development of Electronic Versions of Humanities Texts," Computers and the Humanities 25 (spring 1992): 363-75;
19. Michael Neuman and Paul Mangiafico, "Providing and Accessing Information via the Internet: The Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text," Reference Librarian 41/42 (1994): 319-32. See also, URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/guhome.hlml.
20. Indiana University's Victorian Women Writers Project can be found at: http:// www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/.
21. See CETH electronic distribution list (list owner: Pamela Cohen, Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, New Brunswick, N.J.) and CETH Newsletter (New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, spring 1993-).
22. Marianne I. Gaunt, "Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 9.
23. Susan Hockey, "Evaluating Electronic Texts in the Humanities," Library Trends 42, no. 4 (spring 1994): 677.
24. Gaunt, "Center for Electronic Texts," 7.
25. Oxford Text Archive, A Shortlist of Machine-Readable Texts Held at Oxford Text Archive (Oxford: Oxford Text Archive, Oxford Computing Service, 1994). See also, URL for ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk.
26. Susan Hockey, "Developing Access to Electronic Texts in the Humanities," Computers in Libraries 13 (Feb. 1993): 41-43.
27. URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~archive/ota.html.
28. Ibid.
29. John Price-Wilkin, The Feasibility of Wide-area Textual Analysis Systems in Libraries: A Practical Analysis, URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/staffpubs/jpw/dpc.html.
30. Judith Zidar, "Text Conversion," in Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, ed. James Daly (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992), 65. See also, URL: gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/ 00/loc/pubs/am/e-text/e-sess4.txt.
31. Ibid.
32. Guy Lamolinara, "Metamorphosis of a National Treasure," American Libraries 27 (Mar. 1996): 32.
33. The following sources were used to identify participants for the survey: Workshop on Electronic Texts. Library of Congress. Proceedings. Appendix III: Directory of Participants, June 9-10, 1992; The Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (CPET): Electronic Text Projects in Literature (information on the projects with contact address, etc.); The CETH Catalog of Electronic Text Centers in the U.S.; descriptions of relevant projects in specialized literature; and introductions of relevant projects in professional discussion groups such as ETEXT.
34. The following sources were used to identify participants for the survey: Workshop on Electronic Texts. Library of Congress. Proceedings. Appendix III: Directory of Participants, June 9-10, 1992; The Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (CPET): Electronic Text Projects in Literature (information on the projects with contact address, etc.); The CETH Catalog of Electronic Text Centers in the U.S.; descriptions of relevant projects in specialized literature; and introductions of relevant projects in professional discussion groups such as ETEXT.
35. The following sources were used to identify participants for the survey: Workshop on Electronic Texts. Library of Congress. Proceedings. Appendix III: Directory of Participants, June 9-10, 1992; The Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (CPET): Electronic Text Projects in Literature (information on the projects with contact address, etc.); The CETH Catalog of Electronic Text Centers in the U.S.; descriptions of relevant projects in specialized literature; and introductions of relevant projects in professional discussion groups such as ETEXT.
36. Due to space limitations, the survey was not included in this article. Please contact the authors for a copy.
37. Hockey, "Evaluating Electronic Texts," 678.
38. Encoding, or markup, is the explicit formatting of information contained in a computer file other than the text itself. These instructions tell an output device, such as a screen or printer, how the material should appear.
39. ISO 8879, Information Processing-Text and Office Systems-Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) (Geneva: International Organization for Standardization, 1986). See also, Sharon Adler, "The Birth of a Standard," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43 (Sept. 1992): 556-58.
40. ISO 8879, Information Processing-Text and Office Systems-Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) (Geneva: International Organization for Standardization, 1986). See also, Sharon Adler, "The Birth of a Standard," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 43 (Sept. 1992): 556-58.
41. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard, eds., Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (Chicago and Oxford: Text Encoding Initiative, 1994), 14.
42. Lori Grunin, "Publish without Paper," PC Magazine 14 (Feb. 7, 1995): 112.
43. Ibid., 116.
44. URL: http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html.
45. See, for example, Martin Bryan, SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley, 1992); Charles F. Goldfarb, The SGML Handbook (Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1993); Anneli Heimbürger, "Introduction to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)," Microcomputers for Information Management 11/4 (1994): 239-60; Eric van Herwijnen, Practical SGML, 2nd ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pubs., 1994).
46. See, for example, Martin Bryan, SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley, 1992); Charles F. Goldfarb, The SGML Handbook (Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1993); Anneli Heimbürger, "Introduction to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)," Microcomputers for Information Management 11/4 (1994): 239-60; Eric van Herwijnen, Practical SGML, 2nd ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pubs., 1994).
47. See, for example, Martin Bryan, SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley, 1992); Charles F. Goldfarb, The SGML Handbook (Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1993); Anneli Heimbürger, "Introduction to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)," Microcomputers for Information Management 11/4 (1994): 239-60; Eric van Herwijnen, Practical SGML, 2nd ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pubs., 1994).
48. See, for example, Martin Bryan, SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wokingham, England: Addison-Wesley, 1992); Charles F. Goldfarb, The SGML Handbook (Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1993); Anneli Heimbürger, "Introduction to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)," Microcomputers for Information Management 11/4 (1994): 239-60; Eric van Herwijnen, Practical SGML, 2nd ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Pubs., 1994).
49. URL: http://www.sq.com/products/panorama/panor-fe.htm.
50. See Malcolm B. Brown, "What Is the TEI?" Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 8.
51. Susan Hockey, "Approaches to Preparing Electronic Texts," in Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, ed. James Daly (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1992), 66. See also, URL: gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/00/loc/pubs/am/e-text/e-sess5.html.
52. Charles F. Goldfarb, "Preface," Computers in the Humanities 29/1 (1995): 1.
53. URL: http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/info/guide.html.
54. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/semdigdocs/seminar.html.
55. More information on this project can be found through the OCLC Web site at http:// www.oclc.org/oclc/man/catproj/catcall.htm.
56. The Guidelines for Cataloging Monographic Electronic Texts are available in PostScript version at http://cethmac.princeton.edu/Docs/catguid.ps; or as an ftp file (ftp to ceth.princeton.edu). For the print version, see Annelies Hoogcarspel, Guidelines for Cataloging Monographic Electronic Texts at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, CETH Technical Report no. 1 (New Brunswick, N.J.: CETH, 1994).
57. The Guidelines for Cataloging Monographic Electronic Texts are available in PostScript version at http://cethmac.princeton.edu/Docs/catguid.ps; or as an ftp file (ftp to ceth.princeton.edu). For the print version, see Annelies Hoogcarspel, Guidelines for Cataloging Monographic Electronic Texts at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, CETH Technical Report no. 1 (New Brunswick, N.J.: CETH, 1994).
58. URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html.
59. CATRIONA URL: http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/catriona.html; ERP: http:// www.fis.utoronto.ca/ejournals/.
60. "Columbia Catalogs Electronic Texts," Library Journal 119 (Feb. 1, 1994): 22.
61. Sperberg-McQueen and Burnard, eds., Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange, 89.
62. Ibid.
63. Richard Giordano, "The Documentation of Electronic Texts Using Text Encoding Initiative Headers: An Introduction," Library Resources and Technical Services 38 (Oct. 1994): 389-401.
64. Edward Gaynor, "Cataloging Electronic Texts: The University of Virginia Library Experience," Library Resources and Technical Services 38 (Oct. 1994): 403-13; Annelies Hoogcarspel, "The Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities: Cataloging and Access," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 27-34. See also "Berkeley Finding Aids Conference," URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/.
65. Edward Gaynor, "Cataloging Electronic Texts: The University of Virginia Library Experience," Library Resources and Technical Services 38 (Oct. 1994): 403-13; Annelies Hoogcarspel, "The Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities: Cataloging and Access," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 27-34. See also "Berkeley Finding Aids Conference," URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/.
66. Edward Gaynor, "Cataloging Electronic Texts: The University of Virginia Library Experience," Library Resources and Technical Services 38 (Oct. 1994): 403-13; Annelies Hoogcarspel, "The Rutgers Inventory of Machine-Readable Texts in the Humanities: Cataloging and Access," Information Technology and Libraries 13 (Mar. 1994): 27-34. See also "Berkeley Finding Aids Conference," URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingAids/.
67. Gaunt, "Center for Electronic Texts," 11.
68. Ibid.
69. URL: http://www.ach.org.
70. URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/ETC.html.
71. "Themes Common to the Five Working Groups," in Technology, Scholarship, and the Humanities: The Implications of Electronic Information. Conference, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1992. Summary of Proceedings (Santa Monica, Calif.: The American Council of Learned Societies and the J. Paul Getty Trust, 1993), 23.
72. "Themes Common to the Five Working Groups," in Technology, Scholarship, and the Humanities: The Implications of Electronic Information. Conference, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 1992. Summary of Proceedings (Santa Monica, Calif.: The American Council of Learned Societies and the J. Paul Getty Trust, 1993), 23.
73. Billington, "Electronic Access," 112.