6.0002 EQs: E-Lists; E-Text Legalities; Text Retrieval (3/78)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 10 May 1992 23:43:30 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0002. Sunday, 10 May 1992.


(1) Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 15:49:22 -0500 (29 lines)
From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Q: E-Lists for Medieval history, Legal history,
Renaissance poetry

(2) Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 15:56:58 -0500 (25 lines)
From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Q: Legal question on etext

(3) Date: Sun, 10 May 92 18:45:11 -0500 (24 lines)
From: Brian W. Ogilvie <ogil@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Text Retrieval Software on the Mac

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Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 15:49:22 -0500
From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Q: E-Lists for Medieval history, Legal history,
Renaissance poetry


Hello hello...

I'm looking for mailing lists, listservs, Usenet groups, or other
electronic discussion groups concerning

Medieval history (I know about MEDTEXTL for texts)
Legal history
Renaissance poetry (languages not important)

Subscription information, of course, would be welcome.

If response warrants, I'll re-post a summary here.

Speaking of which, do we have a FAQ sheet for humanist lists floating
around anywhere?

Thanks,

Matt
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Matthew Wall * wall@cc.swarthmore.edu | "It's time for reform NOW."
Swarthmore College Academic Computing | --G. Bush at a $9 million
Swarthmore, PA 19081 <-> 215-328-8506 | campaign dinner, 4/28/92

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Date: Fri, 8 May 1992 15:56:58 -0500
From: Matthew Wall <wall@cc.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Q: Legal question on etext


I know this has been discussed before, but as usual, one doesn't remember
these discussions at the time...8-)

are there expert (or other) opinions on the legality/ethicality of scanning
a text which is apparently in copyright, but which is out of print, and for
which a good faith effort to contact the current holder of the copyright
has been unsuccessfully made, for the purposes of searching and reference
on-line for a single small undergraduate class?

???

thanks

matt

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Matthew Wall * wall@cc.swarthmore.edu | "It's time for reform NOW."
Swarthmore College Academic Computing | --G. Bush at a $9 million
Swarthmore, PA 19081 <-> 215-328-8506 | campaign dinner, 4/28/92

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Date: Sun, 10 May 92 18:45:11 -0500
From: Brian W. Ogilvie <ogil@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Text Retrieval Software on the Mac

Greetings, fellow Humanists. I am looking for freeform text retrieval
software for the Mac. I would like to be able to search through a set
of Microsoft Word files (or some other format; if absolutely
necessary, text-only files) and retrieve either all documents or all
paragraphs containing a specified search pattern. The search
instructions would need to include Boolean operators.

The purpose of this system would be to give me access to notes on
sources without much thought about organization and keywords at the
notetaking stage. If anyone has suggestions for another way to
approach the problem, please let me know. I would like to keep all my
notes on one source together but access notes by subject while writing
papers or trying to remember where I read something (which occurs more
and more frequently, unfortunately).

The only product I've heard of which does this kind of search is
Sonar; I'd appreciate it if Sonar users could let me know how well it
works.

advaTHANKSnce!