4.0931 Queries (6/110)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 23 Jan 91 17:41:36 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0931. Wednesday, 23 Jan 1991.


(1) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 91 21:20:41 EST (30 lines)
From: Geoffrey Rockwell <Geoffrey_Rockwell@poczta.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: A Query

(2) Date: 22 Jan 91 23:12:52 EST (23 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: Unicode

(3) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 91 23:59:43 EST (10 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Electronic Thomas Hardy?

(4) Date: 23 January 91, 11:13:49 ITA (13 lines)
From: Maurizio Lana <U245@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: searching for corpora of contemporary (written) English

(5) Date: 23 Jan 91 11:33 -0600 (18 lines)
From: Phyllis Wright <lbswright@brocku.ca>
Subject: shakespeare's cymbiline

(6) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 09:36:11 PST (16 lines)
From: David Graber <GRABER@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Contacts

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 91 21:20:41 EST
From: Geoffrey Rockwell <Geoffrey_Rockwell@poczta.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: RE>4.0921 Queries (6/83)

Date 1/22/91
Subject:RE>4.0921 Queries (6/83)
From:Geoffrey Rockwell

I have been asked to teach a session on online resources. Here is the
relevant part of the course outline:

Online resources (G. Rockwell; TBA). Bibliographical and
textual resources via mainframe, network, and
microcomputer; electronic seminars, conferences, and
bulletin boards. Various online media and their
characteristics. (Data Library; ARTFL; Dante; CD-ROMs:
TLG, OED; Internet libraries; Humanist &c.)

I would appreciate knowing which online resources you actually use for
your research and how? Your answers will not only give these graduate
participants a sense of how humanists use these resources but will be an
example of the use of one such resource. I will present the answers, or
lack thereof, to the participants as an example of how a conference like
Humanist can be interesting.

Thanks in advance,

Geoffrey Rockwell
rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca

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Date: 22 Jan 91 23:12:52 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: Unicode

I have just received the impressive printout of the Unicode 1.0 proposed
system for a vastly improved way of representing `foreign' character
sets in computer use: the product of a consortium that includes Apple,
IBM, Microsoft, NeXT and others, this proposal, recently described on
HUMANIST, is clearly an attempt to set a standard for the next
generation. First, I would recommend that all interested HUMANIST's
with a concern write by e-mail for a review copy of the document -- they
want comments by 15 February. Address: microsoft!asmusf@uunet.uu.net

But I have a concern and would appreciate hearing from anyone with more
experience with this project than I: the document as I receive it shows
that they intend to include Greek, but apparently only modern Greek --
and even there I'm suspicious that they are incomplete. But the fuller
character set of accents and breathings and diacritics necessary for
professional representation of ancient and Byzantine Greek seems to be
missing. Am I missing something? Has TLG been in contact with this
(economically very powerful) outfit?

Jim O'Donnell, Classics, U. of Penn
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 91 23:59:43 EST
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Thomas Hardy

A colleague here is looking for the complete poetry of
Thomas Hardy in electronic form. Any clues will be greatly
appreciated.


Willard McCarty
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Date: 23 January 91, 11:13:49 ITA
From: Maurizio Lana <U245@ITOCSIVM>
Subject: searching for corpora of contemporary (written) English

I am writing on behalf of professor Zagrebelsky. She's interested in
contempora ry written English; she'd like to know which corpora on
computer can be bought.

She's especially interested in the COBUILD corpus.

Any answer can be addressed to me. Thank you to anyone will help.

Maurizio Lana
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Date: 23 Jan 91 11:33 -0600
From: Phyllis Wright <lbswright@brocku.ca>
Subject: shakespeare's cymbiline

I am looking for an edition of the above in which the word sow'd is used
as sown in Act IV, Scene 2, line 181. Can anyone help???

Many thanks

Phyllis Wright
Reference Librarian
Brock University Library
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada L2S 3A1

BITNET: LBSWRIGHT@BROCKU.CA
416-688-5550, ext. 3235
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 09:36:11 PST
From: David Graber <GRABER@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: Contacts

I am trying to locate a Janet Sedg(e)ley at the U of Montana, and am
also trying to make contact with the Editorial Center(?) at the
Computer Center at the U of Delaware. Thanks in advance.
David Graber

David S. Graber
Humanities and Arts Computing Center
DR-10
University of Washington
GRABER@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
graber@blake.acs.washington.edu
(206) 543-4218