3.422 announcements and resources (225)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Fri, 1 Sep 89 20:13:41 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 422. Friday, 1 Sep 1989.


(1) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 10:34 (18 lines)
From: TCFA002@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL)
Subject: Archeologia e Calcolatori

(2) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 17:07:19 EDT (30 lines)
From: George Brett <ghb@uncecs.edu>
Subject: Online Resources file

(3) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 17:15:54 EDT (26 lines)
From: George Brett <ghb@uncecs.edu>
Subject: Online resources

(4) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 09:15:00 EDT (7 lines)
From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET
Subject: RE: 3.417 forums for librarians (95)

(5) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 22:21:52 CDT (24 lines)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: Forum for discussion of electronic texts

(6) Date: 1-SEP-1989 13:55:32 (80 lines)
From: COM3RAE@CLUSTR.TRENT.AC.UK
Subject: (Re: 3.360 queries) Review of Hypermedia 1.1

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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 10:34
From: TCFA002@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID (on GEC 4190 Rim-C at UCL)
Subject: Archeologia e Calcolatori

A new journal, with this title, is seeking contributions for its first issue.
The deadline is November 1989. They are looking for articles, notes and news
about the use of computers in historical archaeology (i.e. classical and
post-classical). Any potential contributions should be sent to me in the
first instance.

Clive Orton


Institute of Archaeology, University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London WC1H OPY
email tcfa002@uk.ac.ucl.euclid

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 17:07:19 EDT
From: George Brett <ghb@uncecs.edu>
Subject: Online Resources file


This file contains information that has been collected from various
sources. It should help to locate resources on BITNET and the
INTERNET. This is just a beginning. If you all have other sources or
resources please let me know.

This file is also available as an PC Outline, ThinkTank [MS DOS or
Macintosh], or MORE (Macintosh) file which permits collapsed views of
the file. If you are interested in such a file please let me know and
we can arrange to send it to you.

George H. Brett II, Asst. Dir.
UNC Educational Computing Service
ghb@uncecs.edu -- ghb@ecsvax.bitnet



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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 17:15:54 EDT
From: George Brett <ghb@uncecs.edu>
Subject: Online resources

Copyright 1989 -- George H. Brett II

Higher Education ONLINE Resources in the 1990's
Presented at Seminar on Academic Computing, August 1989

(Including annotations, questions, and other comments
from the audience.)

[see also NETWORK SOURCES on Humanist's file-server]




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[A complete version of this announcement is now available on
the file-server, s.v. ONLINE SOURCES. A copy may be obtained
by issuing either an interactive or a batch-job command, addressed to
LISTSERV@UTORONTO -- not to HUMANIST. See your Guide to HUMANIST
for information about how to issue such a command. Problems
should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you
have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.]

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 09:15:00 EDT
From: MORGAN@LOYVAX.BITNET
Subject: RE: 3.417 forums for librarians (95)

I don't know if they want it widely known, but Johns Hopkins in Baltimore
also is accessible on line; its system is called JANUS. For information,
contact the reference librarian.
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 22:21:52 CDT
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: Forum for discussion of electronic texts


ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW DISCUSSION GROUP
SUBJECT: ELECTRONIC TEXTS, THEIR CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION

With the generous assistance of the University of Illinois,
I am proud to announce the public opening of Project Gutenberg.
The purpose of Project Gutenberg is to promote the distribution
and creation of electronic texts.

The electronic discussion group associated with the project
has been inaugurated and tested over the summer and is ready to
provide an arena for discussions of e-texts and other topics of
related interest. You may subscribe to the discussion group by
sending the following message to LISTSERV@UIUCVME.BITNET

"SUB GUTNBERG YOUR NAME"

You may use either the MAIL or TELL options for subscribing
to the GUTNBERG discussion group. Further details will arrive
with acknowledgement of the processing of your subscription.
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Date: 1-SEP-1989 13:55:32
From: COM3RAE@CLUSTR.TRENT.AC.UK
Subject: (Re: 3.360 queries) Review of Hypermedia 1.1

"HYPERMEDIA" (ISSN 0955-8543) Vol 1 Num 1 1989
published by Taylor Graham Publishing, 500 Chesham House,
150 Regent Street, LONDON, W1R 5FA, UK. Subscription
rate: 45 pounds / 85 US dollars (to include handling,
postage and surface mail), three issues per year: Spring,
Summer and Winter.

Editor: Patricia Baird, Department of Information
Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK.

Editorial Board includes: Robert Akscyn; Mercedes
Caridad, Phil Chauveau, Blaise Cronin, Elizabeth Duncan,
Leslie Hills, Ann Irving, J.T. Mayes, Barry McIntyre,
Cliff McKnight, Ted Nelson, Jakob Nielsen, Roy Rada,
David Raitt, David Riddle, Iain Ritchie, Randall Trigg
and Nicole Yankelovich.

To quote from the aims printed on the last page of
the first issue, "HYPERMEDIA is an international journal
designed to provide a focus for research and a source of
information on the practical and theoretical developments
in hypermedia, ..."

Volume 1 Number 1 contains 5 articles; 4 reviews and
1 bibliography. The first two articles by the editor and
Ted Nelson are essentially welcoming introductions to
this new journal and take up just 5 of the small format
(15.5 x 23 cm) pages. The following three articles begin to
explore the journal's aim as stated above.

"Hypermedia as an interpretive act" by Virginia M.
Doland of Biola University, La Mirada, California
explores the cognitive issues behind hypertext especially the
idea that the 'links' inherant in hypertext systems are
'conceptually fixing', 'critical/ideological statements of
value ...' and are assertions 'about reality which, accepted
or not, does not leave the reader conceptually unaffected'.
'Hypermedia systems' she writes 'could create their own mystique,
the glamour, flexibility and sheer slickness of the system could
be mistaken for intellectual authority ...' (Similar fears I
guess were voiced at the introduction of printed books, radio,
TV, video, ...?)

"Structuring knowledge bases for designers of
learning materials" by Elizabeth B. Duncan of the
University Teaching Centre, University of Aberdeen, UK
describes ways a system (based on NoteCards on a Xerox 1186)
can allow hypertext packages to be created without inhibiting
the expert's expression of what he knows and discusses various
'link types' and index/browser/map formats.

"Evaluating the usability of the Glasgow Online
hypertext" by Lynda Hardman of the Scottish HCI Centre,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK looks at the use made of an
existing hypertext system (one designed to give information to
tourists/visitors to Glasgow, eg hotels, road map, shops etc).
She comments on the various techniques used to present information,
guide users around information, use of menus, use of 'shortcuts' etc.

The reviews cover: INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA eds. Ambron & Hooper;
TEXT, CONTEXT, AND HYPERTEXT ed. Barrett; HANDS-ON HYPERCARD by Jones &
Myers and NEUROMANCER by Gibson.

The bibliography, compiled by Jakob Nielsen of the Technical
University of Denmark covers the literature available on hypertext and
hypermedia in books, papers, journals, conferences and, inevitably,
hypertexts - a good starting point for anyone wishing to find out more
about this new format.

My copy arrived through the post - I guess because I attended
the HYPERTEXT II conference in York earlier this summer. I can't afford
the time or money to subscribe but the first issue seems a useful one.

Simon Rae, Trent Polytechnic Nottingham, UK
COM3RAE@UK.AC.TRENT.CLUSTR or
COM3RAE@CLUSTR.TRENT.AC.UK (from BITNET)