4.0709 Queries (5/83)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 13 Nov 90 09:41:16 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0709. Tuesday, 13 Nov 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 22:23 +0200 (19 lines)
From: <SHLOMO1@HUJIVMS>
Subject: OCR

(2) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 13:49 EST (14 lines)
From: ENCOPE@MCMASTER
Subject: Admiral De Fonte

(3) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 13:52 EST (13 lines)
From: ENCOPE@MCMASTER
Subject: Missing Cartographers

(4) Date: 7 November 1990, 08:22:45 EST (20 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: CD-ROM disks from DAK

(5) Date: 03 Nov 90 09:4:00 EST (17 lines)
From: DAVID REIMER <REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Bibliography software

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 22:23 +0200
From: <SHLOMO1@HUJIVMS>
Subject: OCR

Having spent several months abroad, I was unable to follow the ongoing
discussion reOCR developments at HUMANIST.

We were advised to consider purchasing a Kurzweil 5100 scanner to
transform a huge number of U>S. Nat. Archive originated documents
related to WWII, partially in German aas rpt as well to electronic
readable texts. However we are not sure which additional technology is
necessary to scan handwritten remarks on the same documents, and whether
typed letter scanning and handwritten letter scanning were successfully
merged in one scanner. I shall appreciate any updated info re Kurzweil
5100 or 5200 - if alreadt rpt already in use, and any other info reboth
technologies.

With all the best wishes and many thanks in advance,
Shlomo Aronson, Professor, Poli.Sci. Dept. Hebrew U. Jerusalem
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 13:49 EST
From: ENCOPE@MCMASTER
Subject: Admiral De Fonte

I'd appreciate any help you might offer in discovering anything at all
about one Admiral De Fonte, whose "voyage" is the topic of a map here at
McMaster University Library. Apparently the voyage is fantastical--but
I'd still like to know whether this Admiral is a real person, a fiction,
or who-knows-what else. Thanks.

Kevin L. Cope
ENCOPE@MCMASTER
or
ENCOPE@LSUVM
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 90 13:52 EST
From: ENCOPE@MCMASTER
Subject: Missing Cartographers

I'd appreciate any leads concerning T. Kitchen (or Kitchen), Hermann
Moll, Bowen, and Condor, all prominent cartographers of the eighteenth
century. Are t here any books on these gentlemen? How can I find out
about them?

Kevin L. Cope
ENCOPE@LSUVM
or
ENCOPE@MCMASTER
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Date: 7 November 1990, 08:22:45 EST
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: CD-ROM disks from DAK

The current DAK catalogue lists a CD-ROM package of a Sony player and
"$2,452 worth of FREE CD Software," including individual discs with a
21-volume encyclopedia, an 8-volume reference library (not the Microsoft
one), world and U.S. atlases, 17 "translation dictionaries in 12
different languages," and a "Library of the Future" with 450 titles,
from most of Conan Doyle to Confucius to Richard Henry Dana to Epictetus
to Milton to Voltaire. Does anyone know where Drew Kaplan, the
boistrous director of DAK, might have picked up everything from texts of
Plato to the *New York Public Library Desk Reference*? Four of
Harrap's dictionaries are included and Zanichelli's respectable Italian,
plus Webster's New World, so someone got paid distribution rights. The
whole package costs $699 and looks like a good deal, considering that
CD-ROM players start at about $500 nowadays. Any opinions from you
about where the texts came from (the "Library of the Future" has a
little trademark symbol next to it) or how all those different disks
might have been distributed? Roy Flannagan
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Date: 03 Nov 90 09:4:00 EST
From: DAVID REIMER <REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET>
Subject: Bibliography software

There has been discussion on this list concerning bibliography software.
I am aware of a number of good packages for micros under MS-DOS. My
question is this: does anyone know of a good bibliographic utility that
operates under UNIX and can be site- licensed? We are looking for a
package to install on our mainframe, just as we have WordPerfect (albeit
4.2) for the mainframe.

Thanks for assistance with this.

David Reimer, Wilfrid Laurier University
REIMER@WLUCP6.BITNET