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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 496.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

[1] From: Matt Kirschenbaum (51)
<mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: Blake Archive's March Update

[2] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (15)
Subject: Zeitschrift für Computerphilologie

[3] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (61)
Subject: ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A
Retrospective."

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:02:02 +0000
From: Matt Kirschenbaum <mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: Blake Archive's March Update

9 March 1999

The editors of the William Blake Archive
<http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> are pleased to announce the
publication of three new electronic editions of Blake's most popular work,
_Songs of Innocence and of Experience_. They are of copies C, F, and
L -- none has been reproduced before now.

_Songs_ copy C is one of the first copies of the combined _Songs_. Along
with copies B, D, and E, it was formed in 1794 of _Innocence_ plates
printed in raw sienna on both sides of the leaf in 1789 and _Experience_
plates lightly color printed in yellow ochre in the same format in 1794.
By this time, Blake had decided to move plates 34-36 ("The Little Girl
Lost" and "The Little Girl Found") to _Experience_, but since plate 34 was
printed on the verso of the leaf with plate 26 ("A Dream"), plate 26 is
read in this copy, as well as in copies B and D, as an _Experience_ poem.
And, like copies B and D, copy C is missing plate 52 ("To Tirzah") but has
the small vignette known as plate a (five cherubs carrying a naked
figure), one of Blake's earliest relief etchings used here as a tailpiece.
Copy C is in the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress.

Bibliographically, copy F is even more interesting. It, too, consists of
two sections printed differently and at different times. Its _Innocence_
plates were printed in green ink on both sides of the leaf in 1789,
probably before the raw sienna printing. Its _Experience_ plates were
heavily color printed on one side of the leaf in 1794, before those in
copy C, possibly while _Experience_ was still in progress. The impressions
of _Experience_ were printed with those now in _Songs_ copies G, H, and
T, which are all missing plates 39, 44, 45, and 48. Together, these four
plates form one sheet of copper. The fact that all four plates
are missing from all four copies suggests that the plates were
not yet part of _Experience_ at the time of this printing. These four
color-printed copies of _Experience_ appear to have been intended as
autonomous publications. At any rate, there are no extant sets of
_Innocence_ impressions printed in this style, copies G and H remain
without _Innocence_, and copies F and T were assembled by someone other
than Blake.

_Songs_ copy L, like copy F, is in the Yale Center for British Art. Unlike
copies C and F, though, its two parts were printed together in a uniform
style, dark brown ink on one side of the leaf, ca. 1795. It has all 54
plates, including plate 52, that make up the combined _Songs_ and is
numbered by Blake 1-54.

All of these editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and all are
fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the unique
Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. We
now have twenty-nine copies of sixteen illuminated books in the Archive.
We will soon be adding two more copies of _The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell_ and an in-depth illustrated Tour highlighting the Archive's features
and some ways to use its resources. We will continue to add new electronic
editions of illuminated books throughout the spring and summer.

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, Editors
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager
The William Blake Archive

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:06:01 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: Zeitschrift für Computerphilologie

Humanists able to read German will be interested in the Computerphilologie
site, online at <http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/>, and perhaps
especially the Zeitschrift für Computerphilologie, "ein Forum für die
Diskussion der vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, den Computer in der
literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeit einzusetzen: z.B. für die
computergestützte Inhaltsanalyse und Stiluntersuchung, für
computerunterstützte und elektronische Editionen, für digitale
Fachinformationen, Hypertexterstellung und -analyse u.a.m.", at
<http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/ejournal.html>.

Yours,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081
<Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>
maui gratia

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:08:04 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective."

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
March 15 1999

ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective."
Article in March 1999 Issue of D-Lib Magazine
<http://www.dlib.org/>

In this month's issue of D-LIB Magazine, Eleanor Fink, until recently the
director of the Getty Information Institute (GII), writes a farewell
retrospective on the Institute, which is being closed by the new leadership
of the Getty Trust this June, as part of a new strategic plan for the
entire organization.

The Getty Information Institute was one of the three co-founders of NINCH,
together with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Coalition
for Networked Information. In the future, NINCH will work in more
integrated ways with the Getty Trust as a whole. But in this interim
period, we should like to pay tribute to all of those who have worked for,
and collaborated with, the GII and trust that its genius will continue in
new guises within the Getty Trust.

David Green
===============================================================

David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax

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See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at
<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>.
==============================================================
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
March 15 1999

ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective."
Article in March 1999 Issue of D-Lib Magazine
<http://www.dlib.org/>

In this month's issue of D-LIB Magazine, Eleanor Fink, until recently the
director of the Getty Information Institute (GII), writes a farewell
retrospective on the Institute, which is being closed by the new leadership
of the Getty Trust this June, as part of a new strategic plan for the entire
organization.

The Getty Information Institute was one of the three co-founders of NINCH,
together with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Coalition
for Networked Information. In the future, NINCH will work in more integrated
ways with the Getty Trust as a whole. But in this interim period, we should
like to pay tribute to all of those who have worked for, and collaborated
with, the GII and trust that its genius will continue in new guises within
the Getty Trust.

David Green
===============================================================

David L. Green
Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
http://www.ninch.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax

==============================================================
See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at
<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>.
==============================================================

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