4.1237 Qs: PC biblio SW; Mac concordances; CD-I; ... (7/141)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 14 Apr 91 21:48:04 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1237. Sunday, 14 Apr 1991.


(1) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 09:13:01 BST (45 lines)
From: Lee Davidson <LNP6TTLD@CMS1.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Subject: Opinions sought on PC bibliography software

(2) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 15:58:11 EDT (14 lines)
From: Charles Elliott <CEE@CORNELLA>
Subject: Mac concordance

(3) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 09:00 EDT (29 lines)
From: RKENNER@Vax2.Concordia.CA
Subject: CD-I Interactive Video

(4) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 09:42 CDT (15 lines)
From: crisp@engr.uark.edu (Crisp Group)
Subject: Hermes Project info wanted

(5) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 08:58:38 EDT (16 lines)
From: Jan Eveleth <EVELETH@YALEVM>
Subject: Humanities Computing Yearbook 89/90

(6) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 13:34:51 EST (8 lines)
From: GENE DAVIS <EWD100N@oduvm.cc.odu.edu>
Subject: Commodore 64

(7) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 09:28:02 GMT (14 lines)
From: Dan Greenstein <digger@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: please help me? [use of bbss, OPACs &c.]

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 09:13:01 BST
From: Lee Davidson <LNP6TTLD@CMS1.LEEDS.AC.UK>
Subject: Opinions sought on PC bibliography software

A group in my institution is beginning the process of selecting
a piece of PC software to manage personal bibliographies. I would
be grateful for any of the following from Humanist subscribers:

1. Personal experiences, good and bad, with particular products
in this area.

2. Locations of published reviews of products.

3. Details of products (name, address of supplier etc)
which may not be very well known, but interesting.

The group has not yet decided the criteria which the product selected
will have to meet, but clearly we are likely to bear in mind
flexibility, ease of importing and exporting data, size of fields
offered, quality of user interface etc.

One problem I have encountered in the past which arises quite frequently
in an academic bibliography is that of the edited collection and the
items in it. How do packages which other have used deal with the
problem of minimising the amount of data entry in such a case, so that
from one entry (containing the details of the collection as a whole, and
of the individual papers contained in it) it would be possible to
generate references to the collection or to individual items without
having to duplicate the information in the database?


T.T.L.Davidson @ uk.ac.leeds.cms1 [within U.K. univ net, JANET]
lnp6ttld @ uk.ac.leeds.cms1 [within U.K. univ net, JANET]
lnp6ttld % cms1.leeds.ac.uk @ UKACRL [from BITNET/EARN]
lnp6ttld % cms1.leeds.ac.uk @ nsfnet-relay.ac.uk [from Internet]

T.T.L.Davidson
Dept of Linguistics & Phonetics
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK

Tel: (0532) 333565
Fax: (0532) 333566

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 15:58:11 EDT
From: Charles Elliott <CEE@CORNELLA>
Subject: Mac concordance

Can someone please refer me to a PD or commercial Macintosh concordance ?
I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions...and please send direct to
me, since I am no longer on the useful and fecund Humanist list. Charles
Elliott

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1991 09:00 EDT
From: RKENNER@Vax2.Concordia.CA
Subject: CD-I Interactive Video

I have recently been asked to participate in an interactive video
project involving the use of CD-I, the new standard from Phillips and
Sony. I am used to doing interactive video where a computer controls
and uses a peripheral videodisk player. Researching this Phillips
system, it seems to be all in one: computer and player together. It
seems to have the advantage of being able to mix text, graphics, sound,
and video all on the same compact disk. What worries me is the need to
use the native, built-in computer. I am also worried that the specs
seem to allow for only about 10 video frames per second, which is not
exactly full featured video.

I have four questions that I hope someone out there can comment on:

1) Is CD-I on its way to becoming a new standard, as claimed,
or is it going to be marginal, or a dead issue?
2) Can it show proper video sequences?
3) Are there software tools out there written for this CD-I
computer, which would allow an author to set up fancy database
retrieval type operations?
4) Can a CD-I unit still be hooked up as a peripheral controlled
by a remote computer?

Roger Kenner
Concordia University
RKENNER@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 09:42 CDT
From: crisp@engr.uark.edu (Crisp Group)
Subject: Hermes Project info wanted

Please post this query to HUMANIST.

A few days ago someone made reference to an internet legal database
called project Hermes. Can someone out there supply us with the ftp
address, e-mail address, and/or access codes to Hermes?

Please reply directly via e-mail to crisp@engr.uark.edu

Thanx.

cws@rcrisp.uark.edu
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 08:58:38 EDT
From: Jan Eveleth <EVELETH@YALEVM>
Subject: Humanities Computing Yearbook 89/90


The preparations for the '93 issue of the Humanities Computing Yearbook
make me wonder what has become of the Humanities Computing Yearbook
1989/1990. I ordered a copy from Oxford Press 10 months ago but have
not seen the book yet.

Does anyone know if the book has been shipped or when it is expected to
ship?

Jan Eveleth
Yale University
eveleth@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 13:34:51 EST
From: GENE DAVIS <EWD100N@oduvm.cc.odu.edu>
Subject: request for help

Please post on Humanist: A friend who has written several business
programs for use on a Commodore 64 has been unable to find a conversion
package to make them usable on an IBM-DOS system. Suggestions?

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 91 09:28:02 GMT
From: Dan Greenstein <digger@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: please help me?

I am trying for various antiquarian reasons to compile a list of
electronic bulletin boards, on-line library catalogues and the like most
used by academics in humanities disciplines. It would be terribly
useful if those of you who use such bulletin could forward their names
to me (at the above address) and perhaps a few words describing the
particular service and why you find it useful (or otherwise). E-mail
contact addresses for the services described would also be helpful.

Thanks
Daniel Greenstein