3.924 German e-texts; archiving (146)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 11 Jan 90 21:35:33 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 924. Thursday, 11 Jan 1990.
(1) Date: 11 January 90, 10:40:33 MEZ (73 lines)
From: Dr. Gerd Willee 0228 - 73 56 20 UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1
Subject: German e-texts
(2) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 07:42:22 EST (53 lines)
From: munnari!csc2.anu.OZ.AU!dgn612@uunet.UU.NET (David Nash)
Subject: Archiving
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Date: 11 January 90, 10:40:33 MEZ
From: Dr. Gerd Willee 0228 - 73 56 20 UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1
Subject: German e-texts
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Machine readable texts and lists available in Bonn, FRG:
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The IKS e.V., related to the University of Bonn, distributes
the following machine readable texts and lists on floppies
to be used under DOS to scientific users:
1) The works of Immanuel Kant (Vol I - IX of the Akademie-Edition)
The texts are marked for page and line respectively, so that an
identification of text references in the printed version is possible.
contains about 1.4 million current wordforms, 10 MB)
As the text had been keypunched originally without indicating the
capitals, the texts are available in lowercase only in the moment.
The insertion of the capitals is presently being done.
- File preindexed with WordCruncher(TM) including the
text as plain ASCII-files ........................... 1,250.00 DM
- Plain ASCII-files only .............................. 1,000.00 DM
==> The use of the preindexed file is possible only with the
ViewETC component of WordCruncher.
2) LIMAS Corpus of Modern Written German
a representative corpus compiled following the same principles
which have been used for the Brown Corpus, contains about 1 million
current wordforms, 10 MB)
- File preindexed with WordCruncher(TM) including the
text as plain ASCII-file ............................ 1,250.00 DM
- Plain ASCII-file only ............................... 1,000.00 DM
==> The use of the preindexed file is possible only with the
ViewETC component of WordCruncher.
3) Frequency lists to the LIMAS Corpus (lemmatized)
- List of the 2,000 most frequent wordforms ............ 200.00 DM
- List of the 10,000 most frequent wordforms ............ 950.00 DM
4) BONNLEX - Word Data Base of Modern German
Contains about 300,000 entries (basic forms and wordforms) with
morphologicals, syntactic, and semantic indications.
The part containing the LIMAS-word forms (about 110.000 entries)
(ca. 30 MB) can be obtained either on mag tape or on
optical disk (WORM) ................................. 2,500.00 DM
Please contact for further information and/or orders
IKS e.V.
c/o Dr. Gerd Willee
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
5300 Bonn 1, FRG
EARN/BITNET: upk000 at dbnrhrz1
All prices listed above are indicated in German Marks.
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 07:42:22 EST
From: munnari!csc2.anu.OZ.AU!dgn612@uunet.UU.NET (David Nash)
Subject: Archiving
MEETING NOTICE...
The Canberra On-line Users Group of the
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
is convening a seminar
"Punch-cards on PCs? :
Coping with machine readable records in libraries and archives"
Wednesday 28 March 1990
Burgmann College, ANU
Canberra
It is proposed to consider such questions as: [selection]
* how do you restore your backups on DOS 2.3 if you have a new 4.0
machine?
* how do you manage today's data so it can be accessed in the future e.g.
thirty years time?
* how do you supervise access to machine readable records to prevent
massaging of data?
* is a computer produced map a publication?
Programme items include:
* Findings of ACLIS Working Party on preservation of
Machine Readable Records
* Report from Australian Council of Archives Standing Committee
on Machine Readable Records
* Report on Australian Archives Workshop for Disposal Staff
Cost including morning and afternoon teas and lunch:
ALIA members $30
non-members $50
For further details contact:
Jean Geue
Telephone: (062)832303
Geraldine Triffitt
Linguistics Bibliographer
Library
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS)
GPO Box 553 Fax: (062)497310
Canberra ACT 2601 Telegraphic: ABINST
Telephone: (062)461177
or through the poster of this note, David Nash <dgn612@csc2.anu.oz.au>.