8.0403 Humanities Canada Project (2/186)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 22 Mar 1995 00:59:28 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0403. Wednesday, 22 Mar 1995.
(1) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:23:12 -0500 (EST) (38 lines)
From: Christian Allegre <allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Humanities Canada Project : ERROR Correction
(2) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 20:34 PST (148 lines)
From: hraham@awinc.com (Helen Raham)
Subject: Re: 8.0393 Humanities Canada Project (1/111)
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:23:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Christian Allegre <allegre@ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Humanities Canada Project : ERROR Correction
Dear Editor,
In the Announcement posted by my collegue Alan Bulley about the Humanities
Canada Project, an error has occurred in the address of the Gopher site.
The word "gopher" is missing before "fceh-cfh". The correct URL is as
follows :
> * How Does One Connect to Humanities Canada?
>
> Humanities Canada is presently under construction and exists
> in both "gopher" and World-Wide Web (WWW) formats:
>
> gopher://gopher.fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071
^^^^^^
> http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html
>
--
Christian B. Allegre
allegre@ere.umontreal.ca
Co-gestionnaire, Co-manager,
HUMANITES CANADA HUMANITIES CANADA
Service d'Information electronique Electronic Information Service
de la Federation canadienne of the Canadian Federation
des Etudes humaines (FCEH) for the Humanities (CFH)
via Gopher -- gopher://gopher.fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071
via WWW -- http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 95 20:34 PST
From: hraham@awinc.com (Helen Raham)
Subject: Re: 8.0393 Humanities Canada Project (1/111)
David suggested a reform project. You know, that's not a bad idea! maybe we
shoul begin to toss around some ideas that might be written up as a proposal?
Who would fund such a project?? Government? Private enterprise? Foundations?
The exciting support for school reform measures happening in other
jurisdictions to stimulate innovation keyed to better school practices makes
me envious. Washington DC has just taken on a major role promoting education
reform. Many states have state sanctioned and financed Charter Agencies to
support the charter movement, and a few states have State Superintendents
assigned to School Reform, and universities have Education Reform Institutes.
It seems here in Canada that most Education Ministries have been dragged
kicking into real reforms and have inexcusably protected the status quo of
non-performance oriented schooling for too long.
Back to the question David raised: Could we, should we think about research
project proposals???
>After reading this perhaps you might have some ideas about how to
>create a similar project in educational reform.
>
>David.
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0393. Wednesday, 15 Mar 1995.
>
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 19:59:07 -0500 (EST)
>From: Bulley Alan David <bulleya@ERE.UMontreal.CA>
>Subject: Humanities Canada Project
>
>* What is the Humanities Canada Project?
>
>The Canadian Federation for the Humanities (CFH) invites you to
>visit and explore an ambitious project that will be of real
>benefit to the entire humanities community in Canada. The bilingual
>project, entitled Humanites Canada / Humanities Canada (HC), is
>designed as an electronic information service that will perform
>several important functions for Canadian humanists. First among these
>functions will be the creation of a window on humanities resources
>available on the "Information Highway." Scholars in the humanities have
>begun to reap some of the benefits of the emerging "Highway," but it is
>still a common complaint that materials pertinent to humanities
>studies are difficult to locate and access. Humanities Canada
>will make a significant contribution at just this point by making
>possible simple and rapid connections to the resources of major
>libraries, government departments, on-line text archives,
>electronic journals, archives of digitised art and sound,
>academic job announcements, and many other services.
>
>* The Role of CFH Member Societies
>
>CFH member societies have the opportunity not only to exploit the
>resources already available on the world-wide computer networks,
>but also to make distinct contributions in their areas of
>interest and specialisation. Space is being reserved on the
>project servers for each member society to "publish" materials
>of use to its members and to others working in the same
>discipline. One society, the Canadian Association for Translation
>Studies (Association canadienne de traductologie), has already
>taken advantage of the Humanities Canada project to make
>available information regarding their goals, information on
>membership in CATS, a directory of the CATS executive and contact
>people, a call for papers for their Annual Congress at the 1995
>Learneds at the UQAM, invitations to participate in two special
>seminars to be held at the Montreal Learneds, and a detailed
>description of the society's journal (_TTR_) including the Tables
>of Contents of previous issues. Another society, the Canadian
>Association of Classicists, is using the project facilities to
>publish on-line their electronic newsletter and to archive its
>back-issues.
>
>The Humanities Canada project will also be an ideal place to
>disseminate discussion documents and position papers related to
>annual meetings, to archive documents related to the society or
>its field of interest, to "publish" academic writing, to display
>art, and to seek out potential members from a world-wide
>audience.
>
>* How Does One Connect to Humanities Canada?
>
>Humanities Canada is presently under construction and exists
>in both "gopher" and World-Wide Web (WWW) formats:
>
>gopher://fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071
>http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html
>
>Contributions to HC are made available at both sites to ensure
>maximum access to the project's contents and offerings. In
>addition to the two server sites, an e-mail discussion list
>(HUMCAN-L) is also being launched in order to provide a forum
>where one can ask questions related to HC and about how to
>contribute to it. It will also be the perfect place to post
>announcements and comments related not only to the HC project,
>but also to questions touching on information technology and
>the humanities in the Canadian context.
>
>To subscribe to HUMCAN-L, send e-mail to LISTPROC@CC.UMONTREAL.CA
>with the following line in the letter body (not in the subject
>line):
>
> Subscribe HumCan-L <first name> <last name>
>
>You will receive a confirmation of your subscription and a
>welcome message explaining all you need to know to interact with
>the list and post your messages and questions.
>
>
>* Anything Else?
>
>Further information related to the Humanities Canada project is
>available from the project co-managers who may be reached at the
>following e-mail addresses:
>
>Christian Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca
>Alan D. Bulley bulleya@ere.umontreal.ca
>
>The Executive of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities may
>be reached at the following e-mail address:
>
>cfhxt@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
>
>
>Humanites Canada / Humanities Canada (HC) is the Electronic
>Information Service of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities
>(CFH).
>
>
>Alan D. Bulley
>bulleya@ere.umontreal.ca
>
>Co-Manager, Co-gestionnaire,
>HUMANITIES CANADA HUMANITES CANADA
>Electronic Information Service Service d'Information electronique
>of the Canadian Federation de la Federation canadienne
>for the Humanities (CFH) des Etudes humaines (FCEH)
>
> via Gopher -- gopher://gopher.fceh-cfh.umontreal.ca:7071
> via WWW -- http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html
>