============================================================ _REACH_, Winter 1993 ------------------------------- Research & Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities ----------------------------------- Newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California at Santa Barbara ------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS * HCF ESTABLISHES AN INFORMATION SERVER AT UCSB * NEW E-GROUP ON CHARLES DICKENS AT UCSB * DIRECTORY OF COMPUTING IN MUSICOLOGY AVAILABLE * E-GROUP ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE * EUROCALL 1993 CONFERENCE IN HULL, U.K. * HISTORY COMPUTING AT A HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY * CHINESE COMPUTING * NEW CHAUCER SOCIETY SPONSORS E-GROUP * ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON POSTMODERN CULTURE * CETH OFFERS SUMMER SEMINAR IN ELECTRONIC TEXT * ORAL TRADITION * CONFERENCE ON CALL AT UNIVERSITY OF EXETER * E-GROUP ON VLADIMIR NABOKOV FORMED AT UCSB * TURKISH E-GROUP * E-GROUP ON WELSH LANGUAGE ESTABLISHED * ELECTRONIC TEXT CENTER AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA * ELECTRONIC REACH * E-GROUP ON MILITARY HISTORY FORMED * ELECTRONIC JOURNAL IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY FOUNDED * REACH GETS ISSN * E-GROUP ON RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA * TWO AUTHORS USE ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION * A-GOPHERING WE WILL GO! ------------------------------------------------------------ * HCF ESTABLISHES AN INFORMATION SERVER AT UCSB (The new information source will contain material of interest to computing humanists.) The UCSB Humanities Computing Facility has established a "Gopher server" (see page 8) designed to function as a convenient source of information of interest to the humanities computing community. Among the initial items which have been placed on the server are a calendar of conferences and workshops on topics related to humanities computing, and the current issues of the electronic versions of both _REACH_ and the _ACH Newsletter_, the newsletter of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Present plans for additional material include a projected section containing descriptions of current HCF initiatives and activities, another section of announcements of developments in humanities computing, and a third section of brief pieces of documentation on various processes in electronic communication. The HCF Gopher server can be reached through the central UCSB Administrative Services Gopher server, which appears as an entry in the comprehensive directory of all Gopher servers. This central UCSB server also leads to other UCSB servers in the College of Engineering and the College of Letters and Science, and to the directory of UCSB e-mail addresses. The HCF is now assisting the College of Letters and Science in developing the College Gopher server as an information source in the field of student affairs. If you have any questions about the HCF server, or any suggestions for material to be included, please send them to the server administrator: Eric Dahlin hcf2goph@ucsbuxa.bitnet hcf2goph@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * NEW E-GROUP ON CHARLES DICKENS AT UCSB by Patrick McCarthy An electronic forum for students and scholars of Dickens has been set up at UCSB under the name of Dickns-L. Its object will be to stimulate and expedite discussion of matters connected with the great novelist, and it plans to keep subscribers informed on conferences, new publications, current trends, and so on. The forum will be associated with the Dickens Project at Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz, and like the Project will seek to be useful to faculty and graduate students alike. In time Dickns-L hopes to make available the journal _Dickens World_, published at the University of California, Riverside. The journal publishes work by faculty and, in large measure, by graduate students. The addresses of the group and its list server are: dickns-l@ucsbvm.bitnet listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet Those interested may subscribe in the usual way by sending the list server the following message: subscribe dickns-l "your name" The current editor is Patrick McCarthy of the UCSB English Department. Any questions may be referred to him at: mccarthy@humanitas.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * DIRECTORY OF COMPUTING IN MUSICOLOGY AVAILABLE (The latest issue of the directory contains 75 contributions from 18 nations.) _Computing in Musicology: An International Directory of Applications_, Volume 8, is now available from the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities in Menlo Park, California. Edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field, _Computing in Musicology_ covers applications involving both textual and musical information. The latest issue contains 75 contributions from 18 nations. Of particular interest to humanities scholars is Sandra Pinegar's article on the encoding of scribal traits in medieval manuscripts, which is complemented by Thomas Mathiesen's progress report on the _Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum_, in which Latin manuscript sources of music- theoretical information are encoded and made available through an electronic archive at Indiana University. A 30-page tutorial on using networks in music research provides a foundation for novice users of electronic mail, list servers, and archives which may be accessed through file transfer protocols. The tutorial includes a table of commands for interacting with existing services for music research and is complemented by a forum on practical and theoretical issues raised by the use of electronic media in music research. Topics in musical information processing bear on many kinds of traditional analysis--melodic, harmonic, contrapuntal, and rhythmic--as well as on emerging needs for sound analysis, stylistic simulation, modelling of cognitive processes, data representation, and potential standards for data interchange. The annual survey of musical notation software features a set of extracts taken from Handel's opera "Ottone" and Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio. The essential problems that these excerpts illustrate are related to text underlay and cue-sized parts in chamber music scores and continue a series featured in earlier volumes. Solutions and free contributions are offered by _CMN_, _COMUS_, _The Copyist_, _Erato Music Manuscriptor_, _Finale_, _Lime_, _MusE_, _Music Engraver_, _Nightingale_, _Personal Composer_, _Philip's Music Scribe_, and _SCORE_. Contact information for 54 vendors of notational software and suppliers of related tools is provided. The Current Chronicle reports on conferences, societies, academic programs, and publications in progress. _CM_ is fully indexed. Volume 8 is available for $24 plus $2 postage. Standing orders can be accepted from institutions; special rates for back issues are available to individuals. To place an order, please communicate with the CCARH at the address below. If enquiring by electronic mail, please be sure to include a complete postal address. CCARH 525 Middlefield Road, Suite 120 Menlo Park, CA 94025, U.S.A. Phone: 415/322-3307 Fax: 415/329-8365 xb.car@forsythe.stanford.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-GROUP ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Jeff Taylor of the English Department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has recently announced a new electronic discussion group on medieval English literature. Its addresses are: medevlit@siucvmb.bitnet medevlit@siucvmb.siu.edu listserv@siucvmb.bitnet listserv@siucvmb.siu.edu The new electronic discussion group is at present unmoderated. To subscribe to the group send the e-mail message: subscribe medevlit "your name" to the address of the list server, with your own full name in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. For further information on the new discussion group, please communicate with the owner: Jeff Taylor gr4302@siucvmb.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * EUROCALL 1993 CONFERENCE IN HULL, U.K. This year's EuroCall conference, "Emancipation Through Learning Technology," will be held at the University of Hull, England, from September 15-17, 1993. EuroCall has evolved from a small group of enthusiasts in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) who met at the University of Li ge in 1986 with the aim of disseminating information and exchanging ideas about CALL, as well as sharing research interests. In recent years the group has held international conferences in Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Austria. The most recent and largest EuroCall conference was held in Helsinki in 1991. The Hull conference will focus on the possibilities of the new computer technologies in the language teaching professions. For further information about the conference, please communicate with: June Thompson CTI Centre for Modern Languages University of Hull Hull HU6 7RX Phone: 0482 466373 Fax: 0482 465991 eurocall@hull.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ * HISTORY COMPUTING AT A HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY (A faculty member at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest is the head of a new center.) Karoly Halmos, the head of a small center for history computing at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, is organizing a new undergraduate course on using computers in history research and teaching and is interested in learning of the experience of others in setting up courses of this kind. The new center was founded with the support of TEMPUS, a Common Market program designed to assist Central European institutions of higher education and to promote inter- university student exchanges in Europe. Halmos is now organizing a course with the objective of introducing undergraduate students of history to a wide range of the computer applications available to historians. The initial part of the course will consist of presentations by various guest lecturers with computer expertise in their own areas. Halmos has found that even those of his students who show an interest in computing are not entirely convinced of the value of quantitative methods in the discipline. This is why Halmos has decided to devote the first segment of the course to demonstrations rather than to the teaching of applications. He believes he first has to convince his students of the importance of the computer as an instrument. Then he can teach them how to use it. Since the center does not as yet have any e-mail access, electronic messages should be directed to: Laszlo Turi h4489tur@huella.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * CHINESE COMPUTING CCNET-L is an electronic discussion group devoted to the use of Chinese on computers. The Bitnet and Internet addresses of the group and its list server are: ccnet-l@uga.bitnet ccnet-l@uga.uga.edu listserv@uga.bitnet listserv@uga.uga.edu Group topics include announcements of new software, hardware and technologies; product reviews; ideas and inspirations; comments; and questions and answers. To subscribe to CCNET-L, send the usual e-mail message to the address of the list server. If you have any questions about the group, please communicate with the owner: Yuan Jiang yjj@ctr.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * NEW CHAUCER SOCIETY SPONSORS E-GROUP CHAUCER is new scholarly electronic discussion group recently announced by Thomas Bestul of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The addresses of the group and its list server are: chaucer@unlinfo.unl.edu listserv@unlinfo.unl.edu CHAUCER is an unmoderated discussion group devoted to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and medieval English literature and culture in the period 1100-1500. The list is sponsored by the New Chaucer Society and is open to all who are interested in Chaucer. To subscribe to CHAUCER, send the usual message to the address of the list server saying: subscribe chaucer "your name" For further information about the group, please communicate with: Thomas Bestul tbestul@crcvms.unl.edu tbestul@unlvax1.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON POSTMODERN CULTURE _Postmodern Culture_, a peer-reviewed electronic journal of interdisciplinary criticism on contemporary literature, theory, and culture, which has appeared three times a year since its founding in September of 1990, will now in addition be published in disk and microfiche form by Oxford University Press. The electronic journal is currently published at North Carolina State University and is supported by the NCSU Department of English, the NCSU Libraries, NCSU Campus and Engineering Computing, the NCSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the NCSU Research Office. At present, _Postmodern Culture_ has over 2,300 subscribers in more than 40 countries. The addresses of the journal and its companion discussion group are: pmc-list@ncsuvm.bitnet pmc-talk@ncsuvm.bitnet To subscribe to either, send the usual subscription message to their list server: listserv@ncsuvm.bitnet If you have any questions please communicate with the editors at: pmc@ncsuvm.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * CETH OFFERS SUMMER SEMINAR IN ELECTRONIC TEXT (The Center's second annual seminar will cover a wide range of topics related to electronic texts.) This year the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) will again be offering its intensive two-week summer seminar on electronic texts in the humanities. The seminar is scheduled for August 1-13, 1993, and will be held at Princeton University, New Jersey. The seminar will be taught by Susan Hockey and Willard McCarty, with assistance from Michael Sperberg-McQueen (SGML and TEI), Elli Mylonas (hypertext), and the staff of Computing and Information Technology, Princeton University. The number of participants in the seminar will be limited to 30, and applications are due by April 15, 1993. The seminar will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers, scholars and librarians in the humanities. Discussions on the capture, markup, retrieval, presentation, transformation, and analysis of electronic text will prepare students for extensive hands-on experience with illustrative software, e.g., MTAS, Micro-OCP, WordCruncher, Tact, and hypertext. Resources on CD-ROM and the Internet, such as the OED, Perseus, CDWORD, and several large textual collections in classical Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and English, will be demonstrated so that participants may make informed evaluations of their significance in the light of current and future technologies. Approaches to markup, from ad hoc schemes to the systematic design of the Text Encoding Initiative, will be surveyed and considered. The focus of the seminar will be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of assisting participants in their own teaching, research, and advising. It will be concerned with the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts, with typical problems and how to solve them, and with the ways in which software fits or can be adapted to common methods of textual study. Participants will be expected to work on coherent projects, preferably of their own devising, and will be given the opportunity to present them on the last day. Throughout the seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available 24 hours a day. A small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing will be on hand to supplement printed seminar materials, which will include an extensive bibliography. For further information on the seminar, please communicate with: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08903, U.S.A. Phone: 908/932-1384 Fax: 908/932-1386 ceth@zodiac.bitnet ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * ORAL TRADITION John Foley of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, Columbia, recently announced the formation of an electronic discussion group for the discussion of oral tradition. The addresses of the discussion group and its list server are: ortrad-l@mizzou1.bitnet ortrad-l@mizzou1.missouri.edu listserv@mizzou1.bitnet listserv@mizzou1.missouri.edu The group, according to Foley, "should be useful for specialists in language and literature, folklore, anthropology, history, and other areas." To subscribe, send the usual message to the address of the list server. For further information, please communicate with the owner: John Foley csottime@mizzou1.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * CONFERENCE ON CALL AT UNIVERSITY OF EXETER The fifth conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to be held at the University of Exeter has been scheduled for September 12-14, 1993. Its theme is "Reactive and Creative CALL." Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. It is hoped that the conference will be well supported by international scholars. Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of CALL, but in particular on topics dealing with CALL and programs which correct, or which allow a creative use of language. Papers will be refereed subsequently for publication in Computer Assisted Language Learning. The organizer of the Exeter conference is: Keith Cameron cameron@exeter.ac.uk Phone: (0392) 264222 Fax: (0392) 264377 All conference correspondence should be directed to: Daphne Morton CALL '93 Conference Department of French University of Exeter Queen's Building The Queen's Drive Exeter EX4 4QH, U.K. ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-GROUP ON VLADIMIR NABOKOV FORMED AT UCSB (The works of Vladimir Nabokov are the focus of a new electronic discussion group.) A new electronic discussion group devoted to the works of Vladimir Nabokov has just been founded at UCSB by D. Barton Johnson of the Department of Germanic, Oriental, and Slavic Languages and Literatures. The addresses of the new group, Nabokv-L, and its list server are: nabokv-l@ucsbvm.bitnet listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet To subscribe, send the usual e-mail message to the address of the list server. The group is moderated. Nabokv-L is designed to serve as a forum for the discussion of the Russian and English writings of Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), novelist, short story writer and dramatist, literary scholar, lepidopterist, and chess problemist. The group is open to anyone interested in Nabokov. Nabokov, best known as the author of Lolita, has been the subject of more than 50 scholarly volumes (in half-a-dozen languages), thousands of articles, and dozens of dissertations. Since the advent of glasnost, Nabokov's work has also become an object of research in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Nabokov scholars throughout the world are linked by the Vladimir Nabokov Society and its biannual newsletter _The Nabokovian_, which publishes bibliography, annotations, short documents, and news of the field. The Society also sponsors several Nabokov sessions annually at meetings of the MLA, AATSEEL, AAASS, and other bodies. Nabokv-L is informally connected with the new print journal Nabokov Studies, sponsored by the Nabokov Society and edited by D. Barton Johnson. Journal contributions, of any length, may deal with any subject as long as they concern Nabokov in some substantive way. For further information please communicate with the editor: D. Barton Johnson chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * TURKISH E-GROUP Kemal Oflazer of Bilkent University and Cem Bozsahin of Middle East Technical University have announced a new electronic discussion group for issues of natural language processing and computational linguistics in the Turkish language. The addresses of the group and its list server are: bildil@trmetu.bitnet listserv@trmetu.bitnet At the present time the list is not moderated. Contributions may be in Turkish, English, or any other language that may find an audience in the group. To subscribe, send the usual message to the address of the list server. Questions about the group should be directed to the owners: Kemal Oflazer ko@trbilun.bitnet Cem Bozsahin bozsahin@trmetu.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-GROUP ON WELSH LANGUAGE ESTABLISHED A new electronic discussion group for those interested in the Welsh language has just been announced by owners Michael Everson and Briony Williams. The Bitnet and Internet addresses of the discussion group and its list server are: welsh-l@irlearn.bitnet welsh-l@irlearn.ucd.ie listserv@irlearn.bitnet listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie According to Everson and Williams, the group is designed "to foster the amicable discussion of questions of the Welsh language, Welsh culture, history, and politics, and to offer a forum for speakers and learners of the Welsh language. Both Welsh and English may be used." The owners add that "users are encouraged to exchange their opinions in Welsh, if they can, and special consideration may be given to Welsh learners expressing themselves in Welsh." Everson and Williams indicate that "the emphasis will be on Welsh as a living language, and Welsh culture as actually lived out in Wales at the present day." They remark that "discussions of Celtic myth in general, the relationship between Celtic paganism and Anglo-Saxon Wicca, etc. will probably find a more ready audience on the CELTIC-L discussion group at irlearn.ucd.ie." The two owners comment further that "if there is an interest in expanding the range of topics to include discussion in and about the language and culture of Welsh's close sister languages, Breton and Cornish, WELSH-L will be able to serve as a forum for that as well." Subscription is through the usual method. Send an e-mail message to the address of the list server containing the single line: subscribe welsh-l "your name" with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. To obtain a list of the files stored in the archives of WELSH-L, send the command "index welsh-l" as an e-mail message to listserv@irlearn.bitnet. Questions about the new discussion group should be directed to the two owners: Michael Everson everson@irlearn.bitnet Briony Williams briony@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------ * ELECTRONIC TEXT CENTER AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA (A center for electronic text has recently been established at the University Library.) by David Seaman As part of an ongoing commitment to the use of computers in education and research, the University of Virginia Library has established an Electronic Text Center and an on-line collection of electronic texts. The initial set of on-line electronic texts includes the new _Oxford English Dictionary_; the entire corpus of Old English writings; several versions of Shakespeare's complete works; and the currently released parts of two massive databases from Chadwyck-Healey: J-P. Migne's _Patrologia Latina_, and the _English Poetry Full-Text Database_, comprised of the complete works of 1,350 English poets from AD 600 to 1900. A principal aim of the Electronic Text Center is to help create a new broad-based user community within the humanities at Virginia. We work daily with individual users to introduce them to new working methods, new teaching possibilities, and new types of equipment. The Library was adamant from the earliest stages of this enterprise that these new services had to be introduced and taught through ongoing workshops and demonstrations in order to become a mainstream part of the teaching and research resources on which our faculty and students draw. New users need to see for themselves that they can sit at a large color monitor and simultaneously search multiple on-line databases (say, the Oxford English Dictionary and the English Poetry database) while manipulating color images of manuscript pages (which they may have just created in the Center), and then can open another window to e-mail a colleague about the results, or to log into another library's catalogue before using our on-line document delivery service to order a book through Inter-Library Loan. Such a hands-on demonstration typically overcomes any initial trepidation a new user may feel. For further information on the new center please communicate with: David Seaman dms8f@minerva.acc.virginia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * ELECTRONIC REACH Readers of the paper edition of _REACH_ are reminded that the newsletter is also available in an electronic edition through two avenues. First, it can be retrieved through anonymous ftp from the location: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu 128.111.122.50 FTP to the above address in either of its forms, log on as "anonymous", and enter your e-mail address as a password. Then enter the command "cd hcf" to change to the appropriate directory. Begin by using the "get filename" command to retrieve the "readme" file, which contains a list of the file names of all the various issues. Second, you can subscribe to the electronic edition of _REACH_ as you would to any other electronic group. Simply send an e-mail message, with no subject, to the address of its list server: listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet The message should contain nothing more than the single line: subscribe reach "your name" with your own name, not your e-mail address, in place of "your name," without the quotation marks. If you have any questions about either of the processes, please send a note to the editor: Eric Dahlin HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ----------------------------------------------------------- * E-GROUP ON MILITARY HISTORY FORMED Owners Patrick Hughes and Lynn Nelson have announced the formation of a new electronic discussion group on military history. Its Bitnet and Internet addresses are: milhst-l@ukanvm.bitnet milhst-l@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu listserv@ukanvm.bitnet listserv@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Its owners describe MILHST-L as "an unmoderated list provided as a forum for discussion by scholars and students of Military History. It is intended to serve Service historians, academic historians, and those for whom military history is a non-professional but abiding interest." They add that "comments and discussions of the military affairs of any period or place are welcome, and social, economic, and political factors are considered an integral part of the subject." Given the wide scope of the subject, they request that subscribers "take particular care to make their subject lines clear and descriptive." The owners further comment that "MILHST-L is an international list and will have no `official' language. Contributors may choose the idiom in which they feel most comfortable and which they believe will be best suited for communicating their thought to the list membership." To subscribe to this new electronic discussion group, send the usual e-mail message to the address of the list server containing the single line: subscribe milhst-l "your name" If you have any questions about the new group, please communicate with the owners: Patrick Hughes jphughes@ukanvm.bitnet jphughes@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Lynn Nelson lhnelson@ukanvm.bitnet lhnelson@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * ELECTRONIC JOURNAL IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY FOUNDED (The new peer-reviewed electronic philosophy journal will be published twice a year.) April 15, 1993, will mark the appearance of the first issue of the _Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy_. The new journal, scheduled to be published semi-annually, will contain peer-reviewed articles and reviews relevant to analytic philosophy. According to the two editors of _EJAP_, "subjects of interest include, but are not restricted to, philosophical logic, metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophies of language, science, and mind, and the history of analytic philosophy." The editors plan to make the complete ASCII text of the journal freely available through both anonymous ftp and a gopher information server. Those interested may also subscribe to _EJAP_. Subscribers will receive through e-mail an initial, more detailed description of the project, and, coinciding with the publication of each issue, an e-mail message announcing the availability of the issue, together with abstracts of the issue's contents. To subscribe to the new electronic journal, send a note to: ejap@phil.indiana.edu specifying "EJAP Subscription" as the subject of the message. _EJAP_ is now accepting submissions of articles and reviews in English for future issues. The editors encourage graduate students in particular to submit their work. For further information about the procedure and appropriate format for submissions, please communicate with the editors: Craig De Lancey cdelance@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Tim Maletic tmaletic@indiana.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ * REACH GETS ISSN _REACH_ has recently received an ISSN designation, and this and all future issues will carry the designation, together with the usual volume and number indications. The following is a list of volumes and numbers of all earlier issues. Dec. 1989 Vol.1, No. 1 Jan. 1990 Vol, 2, No. 1 Feb. 1990 Vol 2, No. 2 Mar. 1990 Vol. 2, No. 3 Apr. 1990 Vol. 2, No. 4 May 1990 Vol. 2, No. 5 Sep. & Oct. 1990 Vol. 2, No. 6 Nov. & Dec. 1990 Vol. 2, No. 7 Jan. & Feb. 1991 Vol. 3, No. 1 Mar. & Apr. 1991 Vol. 3, No. 2 May & Jun. 1991 Vol. 3, No. 3 Fall 1991 Vol. 3, No. 4 Winter 1992 Vol. 4, No. 1 Spring 1992 Vol. 4, No. 2 Summer 1992 Vol. 4, No. 3 Fall 1992 Vol. 4, No. 4 Winter 1993 Vol. 5, No. 1 Since the electronic version of _REACH_ is not an exact image of the paper edition it will carry a different designation, ISSN 1066-1719, but volume and number indications will be the same for both editions. ------------------------------------------------------------ * E-GROUP ON RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA REED-L is an electronic discussion group administered by Abigail Ann Young of the Records of Early English Drama Project at Victoria College, University of Toronto. The addresses of the group and its list server are: reed-l@epas.utoronto.ca listserv@epas.utoronto.ca According to Young, the group was established to encourage "the exchange of news, information, and queries on the subjects of drama, music, dance, and ceremony before 1642." Young adds that "anyone with an interest in the area is invited to join in and enliven our discussions." To subscribe to the REED-L discussion, send an e-mail message to the owner of the group: Abigail Ann Young reed@epas.utoronto.ca ------------------------------------------------------------ * TWO AUTHORS USE ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION Paul Oppenheimer and Ed Zalta describe their recent interesting collaborative effort, conducted entirely electronically, as follows: "Our article, `On the Logic of the Ontological Argument' (_Philosophical Perspectives_ 5, J. Tomberlin (ed.), Atascadero: Ridgeview, 1991) was selected for the 1992 _Philosopher's Annual_ as being among the ten best articles in philosophy to appear in print the previous year. "The seminal idea in the article was conceived and formalized in a face-to-face discussion, but with the exception of a few phone calls, our subsequent work took place via the Internet. "Drafts of the paper were exchanged and discussed by ftp and e-mail, respectively. The fine tuning of the paper, however, was accomplished by `talk' sessions, in which we used the cut and paste functions of a windowing system to transfer text from the `talk' session into the sourcefile. And, of course, we used e-mail to keep in touch about the subsequent publication details. "Before its publication and selection by _Philosopher's Annual_, an earlier draft of our paper was accepted for presentation at the 1990 Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association." For further information on the methods used in the project, please communicate with: Paul Oppenheimer peo@think.com ------------------------------------------------------------ * A-GOPHERING WE WILL GO! I've recently established a Gopher information server for the Humanities Computing Facility, as the article on page 1 indicates, and along the way I've been learning a bit about this interesting new form of electronic publication, the Internet Gopher. Gopher started life as a campus information system at the University of Minnesota. The name comes from the name of the University team, the "Golden Gophers," which in turn comes from the nickname of the state, the "Gopher State." It's also a play on the colloquial term "gofer," meaning someone whose function it is to run errands and to "go for" things. There are now many different Gopher computers in operation at locations throughout the world, each set up and maintained by its own administrator. Briefly, Gopher is a program running on a computer connected to the Internet which gives you convenient access to a wide variety of Internet resources by letting you choose items of interest from a set of menus. You can also use it to connect to another Gopher computer. Gopher doesn't give you access to anything you couldn't reach with other techniques; it just makes the process a great deal easier. In one sense, it's simply a friendly front end to the ftp and telnet procedures. Gopher gives you a menu of what's available and then helps you make use of anything that looks interesting. Its great advantage is that you have the power to browse through a huge number of resources in a very short period of time. You may well already have the Gopher program running on your own electronic mail machine. Many academic institutions now have the program installed. Once you've started up your own campus gopher, try selecting the menu item titled "Other Gopher Servers," or something of the sort, which usually appears somewhere in the menu system. You'll then find yourself looking at a list of all known Gophers worldwide, probably the overall list maintained at the University of Minnesota. And, off you go! During my Gopher investigations, my chief work of reference has been Ed Krol's _The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog_, published by O'Reilly & Associates. Krol, the author of _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet_, has given us an excellent introduction to the electronic networks. It answers many of the questions of new users. If you can't find it in your bookstore, the address of the publisher is: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 103 Morris St., Suite A Sebastopol, CA 95472 707/829-0515 --Eric Dahlin ------------------------------------------------------------ _REACH_ is published four times a year by the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Advisory Committee: Marla Berns Art Museum Richard Bolton Art Studio Edward Branigan Film Studies Henri Dorra Art History Robert Egan Dramatic Art Ronald Egan East Asian Lang. & Cult. Studies H.S. Gopal Linguistics Gunther Gottschalk, Chair Germanic, Oriental, & Slavic Carl Gutierrez-Jones English Barbara Harthorn Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Michael Ingham Music Sydney Levy, Vice Chair French & Italian Albert Lindemann, Vice Chair History Giorgio Perissinotto Spanish & Portuguese W. Clark Roof Religious Studies Nathan Salmon Philosophy John Sullivan Classics Muriel Zimmerman Writing Program ------------------------------------------------------------ HCF Executive Director & Editor of _REACH_: Eric Dahlin Phone: 805/893-2208 HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ The electronic version of _REACH_ is prepared from the files used to produce the paper edition. A few formatting changes have been made to adapt the text to electronic transmission, but the content of the two versions is identical. A complete table of contents has been included for the convenience of e-mail readers. ======================= end of file ======================== .