Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 765.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:56:42 +0000
From: Kathryn Harvey <kharvey@iworks.net>
Subject: New e-edition of correspondence
On behalf of members of the committee that made this electronic edition of
letters possible, I am pleased to send the Humanist list our official
announcement of the completion of the first phase of the project:
Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives Project
The Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives Project is creating an electronic
archive featuring selected significant writings by Thomas Raddall, one of
Canada's and Nova Scotia's foremost authors and historians. Dalhousie
University Libraries announces the electronic publication of Selected
Correspondence of Thomas Raddall, a selection of Raddall's letters dating
from 1937 to 1979. Visitors may search the electronic archive for
references to people, places, literary works (both Raddall's own and by
others), as well as subjects ranging from Guglielmo Marconi to Mi'kmaq
history, Rudyard Kipling to Hugh MacLennan, the American Revolution to the
history of Halifax, and nautical studies to natural history.
The Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives Project is available to users
world-wide through the Dalhousie Libraries' website,
http://www2.library.dal.ca/archives/trela/trela.htm.
Supported by a grant from the Birks Family Foundation and with the
assistance of Dalhousie University's Electronic Text Centre, a project team
based in the Killam Library designed and edited the electronic version of
Raddall's correspondence. The HTML version of each transcribed letter is
accompanied by a thumbnail and a full-size image of the original page, a
content summary, subject headings and annotations. Letters are marked up
in TEI-conformant SGML using Word Perfect SGML. Searches are not performed
on the live SGML, but on a database index compiled using sgrep (structured
grep), a software application for searching and indexing SGML, XML and HTML
files.
Dalhousie University Libraries is proud to hold the papers and personal
library of Thomas Head Raddall. Considered one of Canada's most successful
writers of the 20th century, Raddall wrote such classics as The Nymph and
the Lamp and Halifax, Warden of the North. The Libraries also hold the
copyright to these and Raddall's other published works, as well as to his
papers, research files, correspondence and photographs related to his life
and writings.
For information on the Thomas Raddall Electronic Archives including the use
of works by Thomas Raddall, please contact Holly Melanson, Assistant
University Librarian, Collection Development, Organization & Management,
Dalhousie University Libraries, Halifax, NS B3H 4C7.
___________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Kathryn Harvey
Assistant Professor, Part-time
Department of English;
Project Manager, Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project
Production Manager, Dalhousie Review
E-mail: Kathryn.Harvey@dal.ca or kharvey@iworks.net
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