6.0061 Rs: E-Publishing (2/49)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 8 Jun 1992 16:42:12 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0061. Monday, 8 Jun 1992.
(1) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 07:38 EST (26 lines)
From: DELAHUNT@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Subject: Rs: E-PUBLISHING AND REMUNERATION
(2) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 13:55:12 -0400 (23 lines)
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Re: 6.0056 Rs: E-Publishing and Remuneration
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1992 07:38 EST
From: DELAHUNT@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU
Subject: Rs: E-PUBLISHING AND REMUNERATION
Many thanks to George Fowler and Annelies Hoogcarspel for their responses,
outlining both problems and possibilities, to my posting on E-PUBLISHING AND
REMUNERATION. Coincidently, the day after I posted the piece, *The Chronicle
of Higher Education* the June 3, 1992 issue arrived with a feature article
entitled "Major Scholarly Publisher to Test Electronic Transmission of
Journals." It's an interesting article in which the publisher, Elsevier
Science Publishers, details its intention to transmit "pictures" of pages
which will be able to incorporate graphics - of prime necessity for a
scientific journal. However, the stumbling block here is that one cannot
treat the information as text, e.g. making it impossible to search on
keywords. Anyway, there is other interesting information in the article on
this issue.
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R. Scott deLahunta
Graduate Student
Gallatin Division
New York University
Internet: in%"delahunt@acfcluster.nyu.edu"
Bitnet: bitnet%"delahunt@nyuacf"
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 92 13:55:12 -0400
From: jdg@oz.plymouth.edu (Dr. Joel Goldfield)
Subject: Re: 6.0056 Rs: E-Publishing and Remuneration (2/79)
Some of this discussion overlaps what Ted Nelson and Autodesk/Autocad
have been proposing for several years, an e-text "bartering" system (my
term from the 1990 MLA panel/audience discussion). If MIME or some future,
ISDN-compatible INTERNET incarnation allows for a near-universal
data interchange, the system which Annelies Hoogcarspel describes and
which many of us currently use will be outmoded. We will have nearly
instantaneous transmission of textual, audio, video and graphics
information, all for some sort of fee, we can be fairly sure! We're
seeing precursors of the building blocks and infrastructure for this
instant information ("instinformation"?) in WAIS, MIME, TEI, UNICODE and other
sometimes cryptic names and acronyms.
Regards,
Joel D. Goldfield
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Plymouth State College/Univ. System of NH;
Inst. for Academic Technology/UNC-Chapel Hill;
Assistant Editor, _Computers and the Humanities_
Joel.Goldfield@plymouth.edu