5.0341 Qs: tree-diagrams; BL/Janet; Shakespeare;... (5/108)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 28 Sep 1991 20:20:52 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0341. Saturday, 28 Sep 1991.
Subject: Qs: tree-diagrams; BL/Janet; Shakespeare;...

(1) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 16:58:47 EDT (12 lines)
From: SIMION@IVEUNCC
Subject: tree-diagram drawing program wanted

(2) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 16:46:39 EDT (12 lines)
From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA>
Subject: Genealogy Software Query

(3) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 16:44:38 -0500 (11 lines)
From: vyc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Alan T. McKenzie)
Subject: british library

(4) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 11:50:33 -0400 (35 lines)
From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Q: Shakespeare on Mac CD

(5) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 19:57:02 CST (38 lines)
From: "Robin C. Cover" <ZRCC1001@SMUVM1>
Subject: IMAGE PROCESSING AND CD-ROM

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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 16:58:47 EDT
From: SIMION@IVEUNCC
Subject: tree-diagram drawing program wanted

I'm looking for a program - preferably for the Macintosh - which would
draw the tree structure of a given sentence, where constituents had
already been marked with, for example, the square-bracket notation.

I'm sure there must be one!

Thanks,
Marco Simionato

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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 91 16:46:39 EDT
From: Michael Strangelove <441495@UOTTAWA>
Subject: Genealogy Software Query

I am trying to locate a reasonably useful genealogy program on behalf of
a colleague. What are some of the recommended programs for an IBM
environment?

Michael Strangelove
University of Ottawa
<441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
<441495@UOTTAWA>

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 91 16:44:38 -0500
From: vyc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Alan T. McKenzie)
Subject: british library

Anyone out there had any luck logging into the British Library over
JANET? I can get through to UK.BL.BLAISE, but I get stumped by the
"PLEASE ENTER /LOGIN" prompt. I and several colleagues would be
grateful for any help.

Alan McKenzie
English, Purdue

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 11:50:33 -0400
From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Q: Shakespeare on Mac CD

We are interested in obtaining an electronic version of Shakespeare
(complete works) for a Shakespeare seminar and several classes. There
are a number of different editions for the Mac, and I am requesting
input from anyone who's seen/used any of them. We have both stand-alone
and networked CD drives available, and disk space and reasonable cost
are not issues. We *would* like to have something that was legally
network-accessible and that had both good search software and, very
important, the ability to export text, preferably through a live cut and
paste.

I also have a couple of more specific questions:

1 - what is COCOA encoding, and are their Mac readers (or a description
of the format) for COCOA-encoded texts?

2 - does anyone have specific information about a Hypercard-based
Shakespeare from Stanford?

If I get a good volume of responses, I would be happy to report back to
the list or make an ftp-able summary.

thanks in advance...

- Matt
-----

Matthew Wall
Swarthmore College Academic Computing
wall@cc.swarthmore.edu
215-328-8506

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 91 19:57:02 CST
From: "Robin C. Cover" <ZRCC1001@SMUVM1>
Subject: IMAGE PROCESSING AND CD-ROM

I have been asked by another party to inquire about image processing
technologies as they pertain to delivering a digitized library (yes, a
book collection) on CD-ROM. Personally, I see limited value in
digitized page images of books which offer browsing but no searching; in
certain environments, I suppose this would be useful. I understand that
IEEE at one point proposed delivering back issues of the journal in this
format, but I don't know if it materialized. The RLG's ARIEL project
supports something similar for document delivery as alternative to FAX,
but to my knowledge they don't support the creation of indexed, static
media with browsing software.

The objective would be to create a full 660 megabyte CD-ROM library of
compressed page images (belonging to books), supported by browsing
software that could lead the reader to book sections or pages based upon
high-level indexing. Rather like electronic fiche, it sounds. I
suppose the software would decompress the first target page on the fly,
then use free CPU cycles to decompress and write to (virtual) memory the
successive pages that are likely to be requested the following moments.

What good off-the-shelf or OEM software supports this for PCs? What is
the maximum compression that can be used for an average text page (I
hear quotes of 15:1 and better) if decompression is to take place on
demand?

Thanks for your help.

Robin Cover

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