Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 711.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) (31)
Subject: Gutenberg ASCII to be XMLized
[2] From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance) (19)
Subject: Democratic Visions and Computer-Mediated Communication
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:36:52 +0000
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Gutenberg ASCII to be XMLized
Subscribers to Humanist, especially those who devote much time and energy
to questions of text encoding, might be interested in an item reported in
>
> HTML Writers Guild Newsletter
> Volume 7 Number 4, 02 March 2001
> http://www.hwg.org/
>
> 2. Project Gutenberg
>
> The HTML Writers Guild is pleased to announce our new Project
> Gutenberg director, Carole Gay. Carole is a long-standing member of
> the Guild and the instructor for Introduction to HTML and HTML Level
> II. HWG oversees a project that marks up Gutenberg documents as XML.
> What better way is there to leave a gift to future generations than to
> mark up documents in XHTML or XML, and who is better to do this than
> members of the worlds largest organization of 'markup professionals',
> namely ourselves. Why XML? Plain ASCII text has several downfalls,
> the most obvious being that it only covers the western alphabets,
> omits potentially crucial illustrations, and vital formatting is
> difficult, if not impossible. Marking up documents in XML will solve
> all these problems. Get involved in the Guild's Gutenberg project at
> http://gutenberg.hwg.org/
This development raises for me a question: what is to be the relation of
the academy to the extra muros "amateur" (there being apparently few
"amateurs" left within its walls), let alone to the extra muros
"professional"?
I'm puzzling over a wallless enclave as a model for networks connected to
networks.
--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:37:17 +0000
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Democratic Visions and Computer-Mediated Communication
Humanists-at-large,
I would like to recommend an article appearing in philTech.
Linkname: We are the Borg: The Web as Agent of Assimilation or
Cultural Renaissance, by Charles Ess
URL: http://www.ephilosopher.com/120100/philtech/philtech.htm
Some of you will recognized Charles as a frequent and intelligent
contributor to Humanist. In this article he takes up the image or icon of
the "global village" and suggests a long American tradition of
similar utopian manifestations similar to Jeffersonian plans for
"academical villages". He calls for cross-cultural fluency. He also
sketches out the very useful distinction between technological
instrumentalism and technological determinism.
Well worth consulting in light of the questions of cultural
appropriation/assimilation that have been raised by Aimee Morrison in
recent postings. Well worth consulting in its own right.
Happy reading and responding.
--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
some threads tangle in tassles, others form the weft
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
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