3.666 queries, not beastly (179)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Mon, 30 Oct 89 20:11:07 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 666. Monday, 30 Oct 1989.


(1) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 89 09:46:00 EDT (22 lines)
From: N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 3.637 wordprocessing and textbases, cont. (82)

(2) Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 14:45:03 +0200 (14 lines)
From: choueka@bimacs (Yaacov Choueka)
Subject: Query - OCR

(3) Date: 30 October 1989 (77 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: information on archives and projects?

(4) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 10:17:32 PST (10 lines)
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Humanists in Hungary

(5) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 10:29:30 PST (23 lines)
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: IPA in TeX

(6) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 16:23 EST (11 lines)
From: "Tom Benson 814-238-5277" <T3B@PSUVM>
Subject: Trying to locate MELVYL through TELNET

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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 89 09:46:00 EDT
From: N.J.Morgan@vme.glasgow.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 3.637 wordprocessing and textbases, cont. (82)

I have certainly found TACT user friendly (and cheap) also. Partly for
the former reason, but (alas) mainly for the latter, we are thinking
of using TACT with classes of third year honours history students
next term (say late January) to give them a basic grounding in
handling text.

Are any humanists using TACT with students (or for that matter are any
humanists using TACT at all) ? I would be very interested to hear.



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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 89 14:45:03 +0200
From: choueka@bimacs (Yaacov Choueka)
Subject: Query - OCR

After everything on OCR has been said and discussed, has anyone compiled
(or would anyone be ready to compile) an updated list of available OCR
trainable (Trainable!) software, with summary of pertinent details:
name, company, contact person, tel., price, machine (IBM/MAC), reference
(literature), installations, etc.? or does anyone know if such a
comprehensive list has been recently published?
Yaacov Choueka.

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Date: 30 October 1989
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: information on archives and projects?

[The following query arrived without its mail header but seems otherwise
intact. Please respond to the address at the end of the message. --W.M.]

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The Georgetown Center for Text and Technology is currently
involved in a project of compiling a list of archives and
projects in machine-readable text. The list at this
time consists of 230 such projects in 30 different countries.
Eventually the information that we have catalogued will be made
available through the HUMANIST bulletin board and
through an on-line database with dial-in access.

I am writing to HUMANIST to request some assistance in
tracking down a contact person or an address for projects
of which we have little information. If anyone has any
suggestions, specific or general, which might facilitate
this process for us, please send them directly to us in order to
avoid unnecessary distractions to fellow HUMANISTS.

The following projects, in alphabetical order according
to country, are those for which we have limited information:

1) Berrimah -- Australian Aborigines and Islanders Branch
2) Liege -- Institut de Lexicologie Francaise
3) Montreal -- Institut d'E/tudes Me/die/vales
4) Montreal -- Centre d'Analyse de Textes par Ordinateur
5) Newfoundland -- Folklore & Language Archive
6) Quebec -- Projet RELAI
7) Toronto -- Records of Early English Drama
8) Denmark -- DANwORD
9) Go%ttingen -- Europaische Rechtsgeschichte
10) Reykjavik -- Stofnun Arna Magnussonar
11) Ferrara -- Instituto Studi Rinascimentali
12) Udine, Italy -- Sartor Fabio
13) Tartu, Estonia -- ?
14) Edinburgh -- Edinburgh University Data Library
15) Leeds -- Centre for Computer Analysis of Language and Speech
16) London (Univ) -- School of Oriental and African Studies
17) Berkeley -- Anthologies of Italian Music and Lyric
Poetry of the Renaissance
18) Boulder -- Siouxan Languages Archive
19) Boulder -- Center for Computer Research in Humanities
20) Cambridge -- Boston Dainas Project
21) Durham -- Duke Humanities Data Base
22) Ithaca -- Cornell Blake Concordance Texts
23) Ithaca -- Freud Corpus
24) New York (Columbia) -- Buddhist Canon Project
25) New York (NYU) -- The Verdi Archive
26) Philadelphia (Drexel Univ) -- The Latin Writings of Milton
27) Philadelphia (Univ PA) -- Language Analysis Project
28) Providence -- Romanian Love Incantations

We would appreciate any assistance you could lend us in
acquiring further information on these projects.

Sincerely,

Jean Feerick
Project Assistant
Georgetown Center for Text and Technology
Reiss Science Building, Room 238
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057

Tel. (202) 687-6096
BITNET: jfeerick@guvax
Internet: edu%"jfeerick@guvax.georgetown.edu"

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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 10:17:32 PST
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Humanists in Hungary


I have sitting in my office a young woman from Hungary
who wants to know if there are any people doing
humanities computing there. She is currently working
on her dissertation on John of Salisbury at the
Canon Law Institute of UC Berkeley.
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 10:29:30 PST
From: cbf%faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: IPA in TeX

Does have or know of an IPA font for TeX?
Charles B. Faulhaber
Department of Spanish
UC Berkeley CA 94720
bitnet: ked@ucbgarne
internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu
telephone: (415) 642-2107
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 16:23 EST
From: "Tom Benson 814-238-5277" <T3B@PSUVM>
Subject: Trying to locate MELVYL through TELNET

Can any reader help me to discover the number for the MELVYL
computer on TELNET? I am told that if I have this I will be able
to consult the University of California library system from my
mainframe. Thanks.

Tom Benson
Penn State