[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (78)
Subject: On The Web: from The Scout Report -- June 12, 1998
[2] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (35)
Subject: sine qua non
[3] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (12)
Subject: history of mathematics
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:53:28 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: On The Web: from The Scout Report -- June 12, 1998
NINCH ANNOUNCMENET
June 12, 1998
ON THE WEB (from the SCOUT REPORT)
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic--LOC
<http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html>
They Still Draw Pictures:
Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the
Spanish Civil War, Circa 1938--UCSD MSCL
<http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html>
The Gateway to Educational Materials
US Department of Education
<http://thegateway.org/>
Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society
<http://www.events.broadcast.com/edu/harvard/conference/>
======== The Scout Report ==
======== June 12, 1998 ====
======== Volume 5, Number 7 ======
====== Internet Scout Project ========
==== University of Wisconsin ========
== Department of Computer Sciences ========
>From the Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout
Project 1994-1998. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
3. Religion and the Founding of the American Republic--LOC
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html
This magnificent companion site to a new US Library of Congress exhibit
draws upon the holdings of the Library and other archives to illustrate the
importance of religion in the founding and making of America during the
17th through 19th centuries. The site is divided into eight parts,
including America as a Religious Refuge, Religion and the American
Revolution, and Religion and the New Republic. Each section consists of
background information and thumbnail images of manuscript fragments,
portraits, book title pages, documents, or other artifacts. These images,
which users can enlarge by clicking on the thumbnails, are contextualized
by the accompanying detailed captions and bibliographical information. In
addition to the over 200 images, the site contains a complete object list
of the exhibition. [JS]
4. Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society
[RealPlayer]
http://www.events.broadcast.com/edu/harvard/conference/
This conference, recently held at Harvard University, brought together such
Internet and computer luminaries as US Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer,
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (CEO of IBM Corporation), Scott G. McNealy (CEO of
Sun Microsystems), Steve Ballmer (Executive Vice President of Microsoft),
Esther Dyson (Chairperson, EdVenture Holdings), Kim Polese (CEO of Marimba,
Inc.), and Ira Magaziner (Policy Development Advisor to President Clinton).
RealPlayer Speeches and question and answer sessions are available at the
site, as well as selected sessions and socratic panels. In addition, the
entire three hour and 45 minute proceedings of the first day are available.
Note that the most direct access to the audio content is via the day links
on the home page. [JS]
5. The Gateway to Educational Materials--NLE, US Department of Education
http://thegateway.org/
Spurred by President Clinton's 1997 call to prioritize education in the
Information Age, the National Library of Education (NLE) and the US
Department of Education collaborated to create this one-stop educational
resource. Current sites listed provide information, lesson plans, and
activities pertaining to all K-12 subjects. Users can browse sites by
subject or keyword, or they can search by subject, keyword, title, or
full-text of the site description. GEM sources are derived from a
consortium that includes the AskERIC Virtual Library, the Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse, Math Forum, Microsoft Encarta, the North Carolina
Department of Public Instruction, and the US Department of Education.
Future plans include the ability to search by state and national curriculum
standards. [JR]
10. They Still Draw Pictures: Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the
Spanish Civil War, Circa 1938--UCSD MSCL
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San
Diego, presents this exhibition of 609 drawings made by school children in
Spain and in refugee centers in France during the Spanish Civil War. Images
of war through children's eyes predominate, but some drawings show scenes
unaffected by the war. The Spanish Board of Education and the Carnegie
Institute of Spain collected the drawings and, in 1938, published 60 in a
book entitled _They Still Draw Pictures_, with a forward by Aldous Huxley,
to raise funds for children's relief efforts in Spain. Visitors to the site
can view the black and white plates from the book by clicking on published
drawings. The hundreds of additional pictures from library collections are
arranged by location, and are reproduced in color. Captions include title,
artist's name and age, school, and some description. [DS]
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:04:49 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: sine qua non
Humanists who collect examples of publications that without the Internet
certainly or probably would not exist may wish to record Retiarius:
Commentarii Periodici Latini, a early journal publishing articles
exclusively in Latin, at
<http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/retiarius/>. Among the items
listed in the collection of links to other things (Et alibi) is Lupa (sub
aegide VRomae, <http://www.colleges.org/~vroma/>), a limited area search
engine, which is to say, Subsidia interretialia quae ad Romanos antiquos
pertinent.
Never very far away, now even from the world of Latin studies, is the
Perseus Project, whose e-version of the Lewis and Short lexicon is worth
trying out (see <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/newlatin.html>). If you need
examples of applications that are difficult or impossible to accomplish in
older forms of publication, note the English to Latin word search facility
-- but before you try it, if possible either make a list of all Latin words
for a given English one, or what may be better, consult one of the old
printed English to Latin dictionaries, such as Riddle and Arnold (1854) or
Smith (1870). It is illuminating to reflect on the scholarly difference
between consulting such a "reverse" lexicon in print, necessarily by
headword, and one in electronic form, by all words in every entry. As an aid
to the study of literature, especially poetry (as opposed to the writing of
compositions, clearly the purpose of the older printed reverse
dictionaries), the new tool represents a significant advance, no? When
pursuing the occurrence of an idea or image in poetry by text-analytic
means, do we not want for our vocabulary at least to know about all words
that are even tangentially related? Thus, for example, we find "coquo"
(cook, etc.) through the reversed Lewis and Short for "burn", and so are
pushed to consider as related the idea of ripening, making mature, or the
notion of disturbance of mind. A rather different semantic field than the
one expected may by this means come into focus.
WM
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voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801
e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:42:24 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: history of mathematics
Many Humanists will be interested in the MacTutor History of Mathematics
archive, <http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/>, based at the
University of St Andrews (Scotland). One might, for example, look up the
biography of Wilhelm Schickard, who invented a calculating machine in 1623.
Since he was professor of Hebrew at the University of Tuebingen, one might
be tempted to date the beginnings of humanities computing rather earlier
than is usually done.
WM
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voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801
e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/>
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