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Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 19 Jul 89 19:15:54 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 268. Wednesday, 19 Jul 1989.
(1) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 23:21:30 EDT (29 lines)
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: return of CHE
(2) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 23:37:51 EDT (22 lines)
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: AIIM
(3) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 23:46:48 EDT (24 lines)
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: information needs--scholars
(4) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 15:05:30 +0100 (35 lines)
From: iwml@UKC.AC.UK
Subject: BIBLICAL DATABASE EXHIBITION
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 23:21:30 EDT
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: return of CHE
I get the Chronicle of Higher Education for a number of reasons,
so I don't want to seem to be pushing it but, this week's issue
(July 19) seems also relevant to HUMANIST.
Cover page--article by Katherine Mangan
"Trinity's 'Logical Detectives' stalk Jack the Ripper:
Would Socrates have approved?"
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas has a
Center for Undergraduate Philosophical Analysis.
The article explains that students can practice their skill of
logic, critical reasoning, and moral responsibility in decision making.
They have game played through Jack the Ripper's killings, reviewing
the evidence and deciding on motives via querying the computer.
(The kicker is that the professor has the answer programmed in
already and students have to come closest to HIS answer. Hmm?)
(Of course I am summarizing from a summary in the CHE, so doubtless
this explanation could be expanded.)
Students also created an AIDS experts system, and are working on
"a report to the drug czar."
I'm not a philosopher, so would some HUMANIST philosopher provide
some commentary on work at Trinity?
Matthew Gilmore
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 23:37:51 EDT
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: AIIM
Reviewing the HUMANIST logs (my sparetime fun) I see lots of
technical questions.
One source of information on all sorts of "information management"
concerns is AIIM--the Association for Image and Information Management.
This note is prompted by the catalog I received from them today which
has a number of items on optical technologies and on scanners and
expert systems, etc., as well as a lot of information on
micrographics.
If anyone wants any more information:
Matthew Gilmore
LIBRSPE@GWUVM
"History adds a dignity to life
and a charm to existence." Polybius
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 23:46:48 EDT
From: "Matthew Gilmore, Special Collections GW" <LIBRSPE@GWUVM>
Subject: information needs--scholars
A more general note.
In thinking about what the role of technology should be in the
humanities, HUMANISTs might want to check into what scholars
are working on in lis (library and information science schools).
The whole aim of l/is (library and information science) is to
organise information (data/knowledge/etc.) for use and train
people to provide it.
A recent emphasis has been to try to find out what the research
process consists of and how l/is can be better involved, so
there is a literature of information needs (& uses) connected
with research methods and scholarly communication. So l/is(ers)
are thinking about e-mail and electronic publishing and databases
and online catalogs, etc.
Cites to follow.
Matthew Gilmore
LIBRSPE@GWUVM
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 15:05:30 +0100
From: iwml@UKC.AC.UK
Subject: BIBLICAL DATABASE EXHIBITION
I was fortunate to call in at the Abbaye de Maresous in Belgium on the day
that they were launching the exhibition of computer applications in
biblical studies. It is an exhibition which is open until the first week
in October, and this message is to alert you to it, and encourage you to
call in as well, if you are in the region. The Abbaye is just south of
Namur, and I can provide directions if you are interested.
The exhibition records the fifteen years during which the monks have been
committed to exploring the biblical text with the help of the computer. They
are led by the notorious Br Ferdinand Poswick, who threatens to join the
BITNET network one day!
The surprise is the extensiveness of the displays. They take up half of the c
cloister area, and cover historical development, varying approaches to
examining the biblical text through the ages and the place the computer has
in that development. On hands experience is available for adults and children
to explore databases, together with a video presentation created especially
for the event. Maredsous is responsible for the complete and most modern
translation of the Bible in French, and the stages of that process are on
view, together with sensitive and honest recognition of the contribution of
Judaism.
The Abbaye is worth visiting in its own right, and is used by trippers as
a place for quiet and picnicking (an English pasttime where you take your
meal out with you and eat it in the country!) quite apart from the value
of experiencing the simplicity of the church itself.
Well worth visiting, and entry fees are low and reasonable.
Ian Mitchell Lambert