From @VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:owner-histnews@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU Thu Mar 31 23:04:26 1994 Received: from vm.cc.purdue.edu by mace.cc.purdue.edu (5.61/Purdue_CC) id AA23955; Thu, 31 Mar 94 23:04:24 -0500 Message-Id: <9404010404.AA23955@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Received: from VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU by VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6702; Thu, 31 Mar 94 23:04:09 EST Received: from VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@PURCCVM) by VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5296; Thu, 31 Mar 1994 23:04:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 22:57:58 -0500 Reply-To: Historians' Newsletter <@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:HISTNEWS@UKANVM> Sender: Historians' Newsletter <@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:HISTNEWS@UKANVM> Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was Robert_Pasker@POSTOFFICE.BROWN.EDU From: rbp@brown.edu Subject: HistNews, Vol. 2, No. 10 To: Multiple recipients of list HISTNEWS <@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU:HISTNEWS@UKANVM> Status: OR ***************************************************************************** Histnews: The Electronic History Newsletter Thursday, March 31, 1994 Vol.2, No.10 Subscriptions: listserv@ukanvm.bitnet or listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Submissions: histnews@ukanvm.bitnet or histnews@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu FTP Archive: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu:/pub/history/internet/hist_news Editor: Bob Pasker (rbp@brown.edu) ***************************************************************************** Table of Contents 1. The History Index Information Server (HN-Source) (100 lines) 2. CFP: "Pilgrims and Travelers to the Holy Land" (35 lines) 3. IX International Conference of the Association for History & Computing: Referencing and handling multimedia sources: the HiDES/Microcosm approach (12 lines) 4. North East Popular Culture Association Annual Conference (4 lines) 5. Workshop: "Coordinates for Historical Maps" (24 lines) 6. RESOURCE: Center for Research Library Catalog (132 lines) 7. RESOURCE: WWW in Roman Law (16 lines) 8. CFP: STATE FINANCE: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE, c. 1200-1800 (46 lines) 9. KLEIO on anonymous ftp (11 lines) 10. IATH Fellows, '94-'95 (85 lines) 11. Department of English Local History Seeks N. American Contacts (26 lines) /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 1. The History Index Information Server (HN-Source) FFI: Lynn Nelson There are a lot of resources stored in various places on the Internet that an historian might find very useful. The number and variety of these resources are such that listing them would be an endless task, particularly since new materials are being made available at a rapid rate. One really does have to browse through them even to begin to get an idea of their potential and to identify those relevant to one's own research and professional activities. But that makes something of a difficulty. How does one find out where these things are, and, even if one can find out, how can one keep all of the addresses, methods of access, logins, and so forth straight? And how much time would it take "to browse through" all of these sources? The History Index information server is designed to overcome those difficulties. Without getting into technicalities, the History Index is an easily accessible interactive site. Once you have logged in, you find lists of sites that might interest you and brief descriptions of what they contain. Short instructions at the bottom of the screen tell you what keys to use in working the system (and there are only five that are really necessary). You select a site that you want to look at, press a key, and the server connects you with that site automatically. You can pick out any of the materials at that site, even ftp files, press a key, and the server automatically calls up those materials for you to browse through. If you would like to have a copy, pressing another key and entering your electronic address tells the server to send a copy to you by e-mail. When you are finished browsing one site, you can leave by pressing another key and find yourself back at the server's list, where you can either choose another site to investigate or simply quit. The capacities of the History Index are greater than would appear at first sight. Among the sites appearing on its list are other information servers such as IHR-UK (Britain), COOMBESQUEST (Australia), HEIDELBERG (Germany), CLASSICS (United States), and (soon) GRENOBLE (France) and LABYRINTH (United States). All of these servers are interlinked, and each provides a list of sites as does the History Index, but one that concentrates on their own country or subject area. So the number of sites listed by the History Index is augmented by the locations listed by its sister- servers. But there is even more than that. World Wide Web (or WWW) is a network of subject-oriented information servers, each of which keeps track of the sites in its assigned subject and sets up automatic connections to them as the History Index does for sites of interest to historians. As a matter of fact, the History Index is the WWW information server assigned the task of maintaining the index and connections for the subject of History. This means that the History Index has a site listed as WWW which you can access in the same fashion as any other site. When you click on WWW, however, you are not presented with lists of sites, but a list of subjects. You can select the subject that interest you, such as Law, Agriculture, Economics, Government, or what have you, press a key, and be connected to the Index site for that subject. The other Index servers work much like the History Index, and provide you with connections to a large number of sites containing materials of interest. All WWW information servers, including the History Index, have the capacity to access color graphics, animations, video, and sound. If your computer is equipped with MOSAIC software, you can view (or listen to) these materials on-line. How many sites can you reach through the History Index, its sister-servers, and the other Index sites of WWW? I really don't know, but the number is quite large. Each WWW index site receives regular reports of new sites and servers coming on-line and adds the necessary notations and commands to its list, so we are out to establish access to everything there is. The total number of accessed sites must be in the thousands, and that number is growing steadily. How valuable is this sort of service to historians? Again, I cannot say. Our access log, however, tells me that about a thousand anonymous users log into the History Index/WWW site every day, and that each day they ask the History Index to send them some 250 documents. Moreover, these numbers are increasing by 10-15% each month, and the Academic Computer Services of the University of Kansas has shifted some operations off the system on which the History Index is located in order to accommodate continued growth of traffic. If use can be equated with usefulness, then I would have to conclude that the History Index is useful. What makes it useful? I would hope that the "user-friendly" design has something to do with it. It is really very simple to use, and people quickly become quite comfortable with it. But its main utility lies in the fact that you no longer have to keep a list of the sites that you want to investigate or wonder if there are important sites that you don't know about. A single address will get you anywhere you want, or ought, to go. That address is: telnet://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu (username: history) After that, you can take off in whatever direction you wish. There's a lot to explore. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 2. CFP: "Pilgrims and Travelers to the Holy Land" FFI: Menachem Mor The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Creighton University's Center for the Study of Religion and Society will host the Seventh Annual Klutznick Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska, on October 2 and 3, 1994. The Symposium theme is "Pilgrims and Travelers to the Holy Land." Throughout the ages, travelers from many cultures, for many reasons, have been drawn TO and THROUGH the geographical area known as "The Holy Land." The land sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims has been a crossroads or a destination for soldiers, scholars, and plain simple people. The Seventh Symposium will survey the major sites, consider the character of the pilgrimages and rituals, and explore the concepts and geographical definition of "The Holy Land" as it applies to each of the three religions. Other topics will relate to the literature of this extended hegira and community of explorers, travelers and traders, as well as to the art and sciences influenced by their experiences. Those chosen to be presenters at the symposium will have twenty minutes to deliver their papers. Subsidies for the cost of the transportation and accommodation of presenters will be arranged. It is expected that the proceedings of the symposium will be published in book form. For further information contact Professor Bryan Le Beau, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society (402-280-2652), or Professor Menachem Mor, Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization (402-280-2303/4), at Creighton University; Omaha, Nebraska 68178. One page abstracts and vitae should be submitted to Professor Mor by April 30, 1994. The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization PHONE (402) 280-2303/4 INTERNET: MMOR@CREIGHTON.EDU The Center for the Study of Religion and Society PHONE (402) 280-2652 INTERNET: BLBEAU@CREIGHTON.EDU Creighton University 2500 California Plaza; Omaha, Nebraska 68178 FAX (402) 280-4731 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 3. IX International Conference of the Association for History & Computing: Referencing and handling multimedia sources: the HiDES/Microcosm approach FFI: Frank Colson Southampton's HiDES Project offers a one-day workshop for historians wishing to incorporate the argument of multimedia into their work. The workshop will use PCs and will be located at the University of Nijmegen on 29th August, 1994. Please note that the workshop will take place the day before the start of the actual Conference of the Association for History & Computing. Students will be asked to bring their own data, in whatever form, oral and film [moving image] would be particularly appreciated. We would also hope that students might bring data related to the period 1940-1949. Students would be introduced to some of the latest software being developed at Southampton's 'scholar's workbench' project. Registration required before 5th June, 1994. Costs: approx. 60 British pounds. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 4. North East Popular Culture Association Annual Conference FFI: peter c holloran The North East Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will holds its annual conference at Bates College on October 28-29, 1994. Papers or panels may be submitted (abstract and cv) by July 1 to the program chair: Dennis Browne, Bates College, Lewiston, ME 02420. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 5. Workshop: "Coordinates for Historical Maps" FFI: Michael Goerke Following a proposal discussed at previous AHC-meetings the workshop should - report about projects creating or using computerized maps for historical research, - evaluate cartographical software available, - discuss the ways of compiling historical maps as well as the means of their electronic dissemination, - make suggestions for geographical requirements and exchange formats. The workshop would try to initiate a "network" throughout Europe, where coordinates for historical maps could become readily available. The invitation is addressed to historians, geographers and software specialists as well. The organizing body, the European University Institute, will cover participants' accommodation and working-time hospitality, while participants are normally expected to pay their own travel expenses. Please address all communication to Michael Goerke, European University Institute, C.P. 2330, I-50100 Firenze telephone: +39-55-4685-264 (voice), -4685-205 (fax) e-mail: michael@datacomm.iue.it /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 6. RESOURCE: Center for Research Library Catalog The Center for Research Libraries' Online Public Access Catalog is now available through internet. What is CRLCATALOG? * It is the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the Center for Research Libraries. The system is Innovative Interfaces, Inc. which has a menu-driven user interface. telnet://crlcatalog.uchicago.edu (username: guest; password: guest) What does CRLCATALOG include? * Virtually all of the bibliographic and authority records in CRL's card catalog (retrospective conversion projects have added 98% of CRL's catalog records to the machine readable database). * 385,000 records representing titles in CRL's cataloged collections: oo cataloged monographs oo newspapers oo serials oo archival materials in microform oo microform sets and title analytics * CRL's cataloging for holdings that appear in OCLC and RLIN. * Acquisitions (order) records for purchase proposals and demand purchases: oo major microform sets oo foreign dissertations oo retrospective newspaper files oo individual reels from microform sets of archival materials that record the activities of national governments (CRL began adding order records in fall 1993) * Serial check-in records for currently-received journal and newspaper titles (CRL began adding check-in records in fall 1993). What holdings information is included in CRLCATALOG? * All bibliographic records include at least summary holding statements and call number information. * Issue-specific holdings statements and call number information for all records are systematically being added to the OPAC. * Current receipts of serials and newspapers display in the check-in records. What materials are not included in CRLCATALOG? * Records for titles in comprehensive collections that are not cataloged by policy: oo foreign dissertations oo college catalogs oo U.S. state documents oo textbooks * Titles in the cataloging queue: oo additional newspaper holdings oo archival materials in microform, especially U.S. National Archives holdings oo monographs published by the Russian Academy of Sciences * Records for some South and Southeast Asian monographs in non-roman languages that have not yet been converted to machine readable format What are the access points to CRL bibliographic records? * Search by these access points: oo Author oo Title or Series Title oo Words in the title or series oo OCLC bibliographic record number oo CRL call number oo ISSN or ISBN oo Subject (CRL's cataloging does not always include subject headings, so keyword searching often is more effective) * Search results can be further limited by these factors: oo Language oo Bibliographic level oo Reproduction type oo Words in the Author oo Words in the Title oo Words in the Subject oo Publisher oo Where item is located oo Place of publication oo Year of publication Interlibrary loan requests can be transmitted to the Center through an interlibrary loan office via the OCLC and RLIN ILL subsystems, CLASS OnTyme, Internet, Envoy (for Canadian libraries), telephone, telefacsimile, and mail. The terms of loan to members are that the Center will lend any materials from its collections in unlimited quantities for an indefinite loan period. This enables a researcher engaged in a long-term project to have ready access to materials. The Center will provide a photocopy of an article or other portion of a work when copyright compliance is indicated on the request. Also, the Center will transmit photocopies via telefacsimile to improve delivery time. Telefacsimile delivery is a routine service for which there is no extra charge to members. Under its demand purchase program, the Center will consider acquiring material in the following categories in response to a member library's interlibrary loan request: * archival materials in microform that record the activities of national governments * doctoral dissertations written at institutions outside the U.S. and Canada * newspapers in microform that add to the file of a title to which the Center currently subscribes Researchers may visit the Center to use materials in the reading room. Arrangements must be made in advance of a visit in to insure that needed materials are available. For more information on CRL collections, specific holdings information, or on how to borrow materials, contact: ACCESS SERVICES DEPARTMENT THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES 6050 SOUTH KENWOOD AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60637-2804 (312) 955-4545 EXT.313 OR 314 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 7. RESOURCE: WWW in Roman Law FFI: Thomas Ruefner In the course of the next month it is planned to add some pages dedicated to Roman Law to the information available from the legal World Wide Web server of the University of Saarbruecken. Up to now, everything there is related to German law and in German. There will be a Hypertext representation of parts of the digest plus the Glossa Accursii. In the beginning of course only small parts of the digest will be available. Further plans include the creation of Hyperlinks from the text of the digest to information on modern research and possibly some biographical information about classical and medieval jurists. Any suggestions for additional features are welcome. Furthermore, I am looking for people willing to help creating the Hypertext glossa by typing in one or several leges of the digest and the corresponding parts of the glossa. Please contact me if you have the time to do something in this area. URL: http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/index.html /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 8. CFP: STATE FINANCE: THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE, c. 1200-1800 FFI: Sheila Anderson To be held at UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, COLCHESTER, ENGLAND, 5-8 JULY 1995 This conference has been called to mark the release, through the Economic and Social Research Data Archive at the University of Essex, of the materials collected by the European State Finance Database Project and the publication of two major collections arising from that project: R.J. Bonney, ed., Economic systems and state finance; and R.J. Bonney, ed., The rise of the fiscal state in Europe, 1200-1815. Papers are invited from scholars working on all aspects of state finance in Europe during the period c. 1200-1800 and particularly from those who have undertaken quantitative analysis of fiscal data. The conference will include workshop sessions advising participants on access to the European State Finance Database Project. There is a possibility that the proceedings will be published. The conference will take place at the University of Essex in modern purpose-built facilities (including en-suite individual bedrooms); the cost, which will be the responsibility of individual participants, will be in the region of 130 150 sterling (a deposit will be required in advance). Those persons wishing to offer papers of up to 45 minutes (to be delivered in English) should communicate their intention, and a provisional title, NO LATER THAN 1 JUNE 1994 to: Dr W.M. Ormrod Department of History University of York York YO1 5DD United Kingdom Tel: (international code +) 904 433913 (messages: 433910) Fax: (international code +) 904 433918 As places will be limited, those not offering papers but wishing to attend the conference are also advised to contact Dr Ormrod without delay. In addition, we would be grateful if you could bring this matter to the attention of colleagues and research students and suggest further names for our mailing list. Mark Ormrod, University of York Richard Bonney, University of Leicester Sheila Anderson, University of Essex March 1994 /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 9. KLEIO on anonymous ftp FFI: mthalle@gwdg.de It is now possible to access all versions and features of KLEIO, including the image processing version (KLEIO IAS) by anonymous ftp. URL: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/kleio see in particular the files NEWS and READ.ME Please note that this distribution will run unattended until the end of March. In April we will circulate fuller information. If you have any queries please address them to mthalle@gwdg.de, who will answer them in April. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 10. IATH Fellows, '94-'95 FFI: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is pleased to announce its fellows for the 1994-95 academic year. The terms for these fellows will begin July 1, 1994. Based on the recommendations of a selection committee made up of faculty from across the college and the university, the director made offers of Fellowship-in-Residence to Gary Anderson of the Department of Religious Studies and Kenneth Schwartz, Chairman of the Department of Architecture, and those offers have been accepted. Judith Shatin of the Department of Music and Michael Stern of the Department of Landscape Architecture have accepted positions as Associate Fellows of the Institute. Mr. Anderson's project, The Life of Adam and Eve: the Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity, will produce an electronic synoptic edition of the textual history of the Adam and Eve story. Mr. Schwartz's project, Urban Design Strategies and Housing for the City of Charlottesville, involves analysis and design of several neighborhoods in Charlottesville to explore ways in which the fabric of these communities might be carefully rebuilt after decades of neglect and decay with a particular emphasis on affordable housing. Ms. Shatin's project develops an extensible computer music program, HACK (Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit), designed by UVA Systems Engineer Pete Yadlowsky. HACK synthesizes, manipulates, and processes sound, and will be used for music composition and as a teaching tool. Mr. Stern's project, Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD, will conduct a case study of urban design in a suburban context using computer aided design and GIS programs. For the first time, the Institute has also chosen several groups of off-campus scholars as networked associate fellows. These groups will use the resources of the Institute for networked collaboration and dissemination. The projects selected are: The Blake Archive: Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joe Viscomi. This project will produce an electronic archive of selected books, paintings, drawings, and commercial illustrations by William Blake. The archive will be a powerful reference tool for art historians, making available high-quality reproductions of many works that are not currently available to the scholarly community in any form. The Dickinson Editing Collective: Martha Nell Smith, Ellen Louise Hart, Catherine Dauterman, Annette Debo, Brianne Friel, Fran Gulino, Rachel Hutchinson, Patti Porcarelli, Margaret Sands, and Marta Werner. The Dickinson Collective will compile a hypermedia archive of Emily Dickinson's writings, including photographic reproductions and publication histories. Waxweb: David Blair, Michael Joyce, Larry McCaffery, Mark Amerika, Scott Bukatman, Kathryn Cramer, Jane Douglas, Arnold Dreyblatt, Heinz Fenkl, Carolyn Guyer, Ross Harley, Erkki Hutamo, Nora Ligorano, John McDaid, Tom Meyer, Stuart Moulthrop, Florence Ormezzano, Barbara Page, Simon Penny, Bobby Rabyd, Marshall Reese, Takayuki Tatsumi, Reiko Tochigi, Jalal Toufic, Thecla Schiphorst. Waxweb is a hypertext project based on David Blair's electronic cinema feature Wax, or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees. This project is an experiment in group hypertext authoring, proposing to investigate how artists can produce multiple-media integrated narratives out of a single dataset. Working as a networked collective, this group is producing variants of Wax in Storyspace, MOO, and World-Wide Web. Sixties: Marc Adin, John Andrew, Peter Brush, Dan Duffy, David Erben, Jeff Finlay, Cynthia Fuchs, Steven Gomes, Ann Kelsey, Kali Tal. The Sixties project intends to assemble a digital archive of '60s ephemera, including out-of-print classics, government documents, underground publications, as well as sound, still images, and video clips. It will also make available back issues of the journals Vietnam Generation and Viet Nam Forum, and it will encourage the collection and translation of international scholarship on the 1960s, from Prague to Paris to Ha Noi. The group also hosts a very active networked discussion group, sixties-l@jefferson.village.virginia.edu (subscription requests should take the form of a one-line electronic mail message with the text "sub sixties-l [your name]", addressed to listproc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu). Piers Plowman: Thorlac Turville-Petre and Eric Eliason will work as networked associate fellows on the Piers Plowman project already underway at the Institute. Hoyt Duggan, a fellow-in-residence for 1993-94, is directing this project in cooperation with SEENET and the University of Michigan Press. Pompeii Forum Project: Karim Hanna, Larry F. Ball and Harrison Eiteljorg will work as networked associate fellows on the Pompeii Forum Project already underway at the Institute. John Dobbins, a fellow-in-residence for 1993-94, is directing this project. /\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\-/\ 11. Department of English Local History Seeks N. American Contacts FFI: David Postles I'm posting this on behalf of the Department of English Local History, as a feeler really. The Dept is a postgraduate department, which specialises in inter-disciplinary approaches to English Local History (topographical, anthropological, popular culture etc), whose staff comprises Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, Dr Harold Fox, and Dr Keith Snell. The department would be very much interested in liaison with N. American universities under the ECSA scheme funded by the European Commission and the U.S. governments. Is there anyone out there who might be interested in such a liaison? On behalf of the department, I recently mailed copies of our literature to a number of U.S. universities, but perhaps the following might add to that. Charles Phythian-Adams is perhaps best known for his book _Desolation of a City. Coventry and the Urban Crisis..._, but his interests range broadly. Dr Harold Fox is interested in most aspects of medieval agrarian society and economy. Both have a substantial interest too in Anglo-Saxon history. Dr Keith Snell's major book is _Annals of the Labouring Poor..._, but he too has very wide interests in popular culture, religious pluralism, gender, historical demography etc. The University also houses the Centre for Urban History in its Department of Economic and Social History, of which the director is Professor Peter Clark, as well as a History Department. If there is any interest in contact, perhaps you could reply initially by e-mail to me, although I am only a contact person who is tangentially attached to the department. ------- End of HistNews Vol.2 , No.10 -------