4.0333 Queries I: NUDIST; OCR; Writing SW; Centers (4/78)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 31 Jul 90 22:30:39 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0333. Tuesday, 31 Jul 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 12:55 GMT (18 lines)
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: NUDIST?

(2) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 15:33:24 PDT (11 lines)
From: 6600ca@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: re multilingual OCR

(3) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 1990 10:28:18 EDT (34 lines)
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: Mac software query

(4) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 21:09:45 EDT (15 lines)
From: "Matthew B. Gilmore" <GY945C@GWUVM>
Subject: Humanities computing in the university


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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 12:55 GMT
From: Lou Burnard <LOU@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: NUDIST?

A document has landed on my desk describing a piece of software with the
somewhat unlikely name of NUDIST (supposedly an acronym for
Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theorizing). It
is apparently the brainchild of Thomas J Richards, reader in AI at La
Trobe University, who is planning to visit Europe and North America
later this year with it. He also mentions the first International
Conference on Computing and Qualitative Analysis, to be held at
Breckenridge, Col. Has any Humanist anterior knowledge of NUDIST or of
this conference? It seems to be about content analysis, e.g. of the
General Enquirer flavour.

Lou Burnard


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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 15:33:24 PDT
From: 6600ca@UCSBUXA.BITNET
Subject: re multilingual OCR

After glacing at Mel Smith's note regarding mulitlingual 5100 OCR,
I'm wondering if anybody has any ideas/tips/techniques/tricks/ideas
for using the 5100 to scan Arabic and/or Hebrew.

I'm fishing.

Charles Ashley /UCSB
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 1990 10:28:18 EDT
From: grgo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Greg Goode)
Subject: Mac software query

This is a query about collaborative text-critiquing software for the Mac.

Here at the University of Rochester our Humanities Writing Center, as
well as the Office of Administrative Information Services, is looking
for Mac software that allows users on an AppleTalk network to review and
comment upon a piece of writing.

Imagine this scenario. In a networked composition class, a student
writes a text in MacWrite, MS Word, or WordPerfect, and leaves a copy on
the AppleTalk server. Then the instructor, fellow students, etc., would
somehow access this text and make marginal comments. (And by "marginal
comments" I mean comments placed in the margins, not, like RightWriter,
interspersed through the text.) This critiquing software would allow
commentary from several reviewers sitting at other nodes on the network,
and would identify the authors of the comments to other readers of the
reviewed text. Ideally, this software would itself run on the server.

We seem to remember a package called Proof that did something like this,
and I myself attended sessions at Brown University's MacAdemia that
featured software along these lines. Any suggestions?

You can mail to Humanist, or directly to me and I will summarize.
Thank you.
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 90 21:09:45 EDT
From: "Matthew B. Gilmore" <GY945C@GWUVM>
Subject: Humanities computing in the university

Mel Smith's posting prompts me to this inquiry--is there a list of
humanities computing centers in universities in the US? If not, is
anyone willing to help me compile one? (Name, Address (e- and
snail-mail), contact) Or will the Editors? (compile one)

[Perhaps Willard will update us on the _Humanities Computing Yearbook_
schedule and contents? -- Editors]

Matthew Gilmore
DCPL
Washington, DC