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... levels of headings.] ---------------------- OFFLINE is sponsored by the Computer Assisted Research Group (CARG) of the SBL. Thus it should cause no surprise that the initial section of the current column reports on the activities and plans of CARG as discussed at the recent annual meetings in San Francisco. With the growing awareness and use of electronic tools and resources in the scholarly communities, CARG feels that adjustments in its goals and procedures are in order. Ray Harder outlines some of the thinking of the steering committee. If you have comments or additional suggestions, now is a good time to make them known. Once again, this column is heavily dependent on the information made available on the electronic networks. The major way the editor gathers items of possible interest is by offloading them from the network and by requesting similar input from his electronic advisory group. Thus is seemed only reasonable to focus here on some new sources of information about how to use the networks, especially as provided in the hardcopy book by Ed Krol (described by Dan Lester) and in the electronic compilation about to become hardcopy as well by Michael Strangelove. At this point it also made sense to insert a notice about changes in the goals and procedures of Michael Strangelove's electronic "CONTENTS" list, as well as the invitation from Jim O'Donnell for participation in the new electronic "preprint/paraprint" project. Note that in listing electronic addresses, a Bitnet address has only one element to the right of the "@" sign, while Internet addresses have at least two elements, with "." as the separator. Normally Bitnet addresses will be listed first in what follows. Flowing quite naturally from the discussion of general sources of electronic information is the specific example of biblical software packages and data that can be acquired without charge from the networks. Here Michael Strangelove briefly surveys the materials, followed by the more detailed description by Robert Weiss of one of the most extensive such packages -- The OnLine Bible. Although its primary target audience would seem to be pastors and students of a relatively conservative Protestant Christian orientation, many of the texts and tools included in this growing data bank are also valuable for biblical scholars and other academics. It is possible to purchase many of the same materials separately on diskette or on a CD-ROM (e.g. "The New Bible Library" just announced by Ellis Enterprises and IBM for $495 [half price for orders to the end of 1992]), but for people who can learn to manipulate the networks, the alternatives offered there are very attractive and will continue to become even more enticing. To this discussion of biblically oriented tools, is also appended the notice from Pat Graham of a new electronic discussion group focussing on biblical developments in the Persian period. The next section, dealing with data archives, starts with an item concerning an old friend trying to keep up with the times. The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) is perhaps the best single resource for electronic textual material in the world, and although it has often been mentioned in OFFLINE, details have been sparse. That is corrected in this issue, with Lou Burnard's current description of the project -- including the possibility of receiving some OTA texts via the networks, without charge. The standard order form has not been included below, but is easily obtained from OTA if needed. Another way of exploiting the electronic data is provided by the Georgetown Center and its database of electronic archives. A radically streamlined list of "religion" type projects throughout the world is included below, based on the data provided by Paul Mangiafico. Finally, in this category of collecting and identifying data, announcements of a proposed new archive for history of philosophy texts (from Eric Palmer) and of sources of electronic information on European history (from Erwin K.Welsch) are appended. OFFLINE 40 closes with a glimpse of activities in a related discipline, history. The proposed H-Net project aims at bringing more cohesion and effective operation to that field by exploiting the possibilities of electronic communication. A brief summary of Richard Jensen's proposal should provide us with much to think about in relation to our own disciplinary interests. ----- Notes from 1992 CARG Meetings, by co-chair Raymond G. Harder (5614 Cambridge St., Montclair, CA 91763; 909-983-4713; rharder@eis.CalState.EDU) The CARG Steering Committee met on Sunday November 22, 1992 at the annual SBL meetings. Several items are worth noting here: Next year's program will consist of only three formal sessions. The main session will involve 2-4 people who are recognized experts in traditional fields of Ancient Near Eastern and/or biblical studies who are using computers in their specific fields of expertise. These invited presentations should emphasize methodology and technques as well as results. Computer equipment may be used to demonstrate various points, techniques, problems, etc. The second part of the program will be reserved for those who respond to the traditional call for papers. The third part of the program will consist of a panel discussion relating to computers, technology, and scholarship. This year's discussion about electronic publication and distribution brought together several excellent suggestions from the audience and was well received. Last year's discussion of Electronic mail and other telecommunications topics was also very popular and well received. This session becomes a way to help keep the academic public informed of the progress and trends in this field. Over the years, we have maintained an active role in presenting new tools to our colleagues and constituencies. We have always provided free access to computers in order to allow small vendors and non-commercial developers to demonstrate their "products." This has become extremely difficult as well as costly. Thus for 1993, we have arranged to have booth space in the exhibit hall set aside for our use throughout the annual meeting. We will attempt to have a published schedule of concentrations and staff these booths throughout the meetings. Graduate students, faculty, and staff with particular expertise are solicited as volunteers to staff the booths. We plan to have a block of time set aside to answer archaeological computing questions and to demonstrate software and hardware related to archaeology. Another block would be dedicated to Hebrew Bible, another to NT, another to text manipulation software for textual criticism, etc. Suggestions for additional topics would be appreciated. Finally, we hope to continue to lead a cooperative effort to actively pursue electronic development, publication, and distribution of scholarly tools and resources. This will become the main focus of this group in terms of being able to help the scholarly community at large with our expertise. This initiative will involve not only this group, but the AAR and SBL publication committees and scholar's press as well as other humanities organizations. We need to begin recursively to define our role in this process as well as to define the process itself. For these purposes, the AIBI (Association International Bible et Informatique) discussion list would seem to be an excellent electronic forum for continuing discussion as it pertains to biblical studies. The listserv administrator, L. Gregory Bloomquist of the University of Saint Paul in Ottawa, has agreed to support this effort on AIBI-L. One can subscribe to the list by sending the following message to: LISTSERV@UOTTAWA.bitnet (or internet @ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA) sub AIBI-L For more general discussion, the ARACHNET list of persons engaged in electronic publication would also be appropriate. (Use the same instructions to the Ottawa LISTSERV but substitute ARACHNET for AIBI-L). It was also proposed that we take steps to begin a formal network collection of resources immediately. The basic outline would be to supply FTP (File Transfer Protocol) space with a directory that allowed anonymous transfers of materials from anywhere on the internet. These would be edited and maintained collections of materials and software that we determined to be of use to the scholarly community. We will need volunteers to help collect, edit, and maintain these materials. A series of groups with various areas of expertise probably would be preferable to a single main group, although the CARG steering committee could act as the final arbitrators of how the disk space is best used. Since FTP is not accessible to all scholars we should use Bitnet listservers and other archiving methods as well. Comments and suggestions are most welcome. ----- General Information about Using the Networks

Book Notice, by Dan Lester (Associate University Librarian, Boise State University, Boise ID 83725; 208-385-1234; ALILESTE@IDBSU, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU) A number of guides to the Internet have been published recently, and others have been announced for the near future. As of this writing there is a new, undisputed champion that is available at a reasonable price. Recently FedEx delivered our copy of Ed Krol's The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog direct from the publisher, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This latest publication in their renowned Nutshell Handbook series is worth every penny of the $24.95 list price. The ISBN is 1-56592-025-2. O'Reilly can be reached at 103 Morris St., Suite A, Sebastopol CA 95472, or 800-998-9938. Many are familiar with the Nutshell Handbooks that O'Reilly has published, mostly for the Unix and X Window environments. This book is a high quality paperback of 376 pages that is printed on acid-free paper (not that it will need to last that long, considering the rate of change of the Internet). Those not familiar with O'Reilly's publications may be familiar with Krol's electronic RFC [= Request for Comments] 1118, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet," which this new book updates and obsoletes. To indicate how comprehensive and current the book is, I'll take the liberty of listing the chapter titles of the Guide portion: 1. What is this book about? 2. What is the Internet? 3. How the Internet works. 4. What's allowed on the Internet? 5. Remote login. 6. Moving files: FTP 7. Electronic mail 8. Network News 9. Finding software [all about Archie] 10. Finding someone 11. Tunneling through the Internet: Gopher 12. Searching Indexed databases: WAIS 13. Hypertext spanning the Internet: WWW 14. Other applications [fax, chatting, games, etc.] 15. Dealing with problems [error messages, dealing with operations folks, etc.] This is followed by a brief (277-331) and fairly spotty Catalogue of Resources on the Nets, organized by topic (e.g. aeronautics, cooking, education, genealogy, humanities, libraries, music, pets, recreation, religion, zymurgy), then appendices on how to get connected, international connectivity, acceptable use, and other matters. The glossary is adequate, but does not try to compare to The New Hacker's Dictionary. The index is very good. A nifty "quick reference card" is also included at the end on a tear-out page, for machine-side assistance. In conclusion, I recommend this very highly. Although there are many other competing works out there, this one covers almost everything anyone could want to know, is well written for both the novice and the experienced user, and is available now at a very reasonable price. All who are serious about networking should have a copy on their desk, and a copy in their public, academic, or special library for reference by other potential users. Obligatory disclaimer: I do not know the author and have no business or other connections with the author or publisher. I'm just a very happy consumer. -----

Announcement of Increased Availability of The Electric Mystic's Guide

, by Michael Strangelove (Department of Religious Studies, University of Ottawa; 177 Waller, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 CANADA; 613-747-0642; 441495@UOTTAWA; 441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA) In mid 1993 Scholars Press will publish the first printed edition of Michael Strangelove's The Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet: A Directory of Electronic Documents, Online Conferences, Serials, Software, and Archives Relevant to Religious Studies. This represents the first time that a network-accessible Postscript document will be used as the master text for the production of a hardcopy version. The publication of The Electric Mystic's Guide will expand the present models of concurrent print and electronic publication in the following ways: (1) The guide will be printed in three-ring binder format to allow users to add supplements. Supplements will be provided via the Net in Postscript and low ASCII text on LISTSERV and FTP file servers. Scholars Press will publish annual revised editions. (2) The author will maintain full copyright over the work. (3) The full text of The Electric Mystic's Guide will continue to be fully and freely available on FTP and Listserv as a WordPerfect, Postscript, and low ASCII files. These network- accessible texts will be updated regularly. Volumes One and Three of the guide may be accessed via Listserv at LISTSERV@UOTTAWA or LISTSERV@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA as MYSTICS V1-TXT and MYSTICS V3-TXT. The guide also may be accessed via FTP at the node PANDA1.UOTTAWA.CA in the directory /pub/religion/ as a variety of files. (4) The full text of the guide will be mounted on a gopher server, which will allow Net users to read the guide from a remote site while online, without having to retrieve the document. Not only will the gopher server allow for full text, online browsing of the guide, but it will enable users to actually read many of the network-accessible files indexed by the guide. For example, users will be able to read an index of electronic reviews and also read the actual reviews, all through the gopher server. (5) The guide will be maintained as three separate volumes. This is done to accommodate the large size of Postscript texts. Scholars Press' proactive support of this project will enable the creation of a central index to network-accessible resources in religious studies. The creation of such an index represents a necessary step in the further development of the Net as a research and pedagogical tool. Scholars Press is a consortium of over two dozen university presses. -----

Changes to the Contents Project, from Michael Strangelove [address as above] The Contents Project is going to shift in focus from attempting to provide reviews and table of content (TOC) information. The primary focus of the project will now be to provide central source of information on network-accessible resources in religious studies. The following changes will occur shortly. (1) A separate list, TOC-L, will be created early in January, 1993. TOC-L will disseminate table of content information on a continued experimental basis. Henry Leyenhorst has taken on the role of TOC managing editor and will be responsible for soliciting the participation of new journals. Once the CONTENTS Gopher server is operational in mid 1993, we will experiment with creating a gopher database of journal table of contents. Due to the high cost of photocopying and postage, the CONTENTS Project is suspending the review of journal articles. Book reviews will continue to be posted to REVIEW-L (2) Any attempt to establish a software review by the CONTENTS Project has been abandoned. Gregory Bloomquist (GBLOOMQ@acadvm1.uottawa.ca) is pursuing this matter through AIBI-L. (3) Lists In Review, with its summaries of discussions on selected electronic lists, will continue to be archived monthly on FTP and LISTSERV and announced to CONTENTS. Michael Bradley is the managing editor. (4) CONTENTS will shift in focus and concentrate on providing information on network-accessible resources in Religious Studies. This will be done through occassional postings of updated sections from the Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet to the CONTENTS list. Along with indexing these resources through the EMG, CONTENTS will also establish a new FTP fileserver for archiving research and pedagogical material. This FTP archive will be operational by February 1993, if not sooner. (5) CONTENTS will provide the complete text of the Electric Mystic's Guide on a gopher server by mid 1993. This will allow Internet users to browse the entire text of the guide while online. This gopher server will also allow users to read online many of the actual texts indexed by the Electric Mystic's Guide. The EMG will also continue to be available in low ASCII, Postscript and WordPerfect versions. Through the combination of a new FTP archive, a gopher version of the Electric Mystic's Guide, and with the cooperation of the coordinators of IOUDAIOS, AIBI-L, RELIGION and related lists, the CONTENTS project will eventually provide a central gopher-based index that will allow users to actually browse online bibliographies, reviews, articles, and related material. -----

Electronic Pre-Print and Para-Print Databases: an Invitation to Collaboration, from James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania; jodonnel@sas.upenn.edu) Following a working group meeting earlier this year, a small committee of researchers, librarians, and scholarly society publishers has been laying groundwork to create a standard interface and a common searching engine for independent databases of scholarly and scientific "preprints." These might comprise any form of academic discourse not yet ready for "publication." We have labelled another category of publications "paraprints," works which may exist in network databases alongside formally printed counterparts. There are already individual databases of either citations or aritlces, in numerous fields, chiefly sciences, and in the humanities many listserv discussion groups have collections of scholarly papers available for list members on the listserver. The purpose of the preprints initiative is to rationalize such forms of distribution and make the material they contain as widely and easily available as possible. Several specific initiatives are on the point of coming on-line in the next weeks and months. The preprint group is now broadening its initiative. First, we are inviting other parties with a serious interest -- i.e., those who would be interested in actively participating in creating and maintaining such databases as part of a loose consortium -- to join the ongoing discussion as we formulate standards and discuss practical issues of management and finance. Appropriate participants in the expanded working group might include (but would not be limited to) -- representatives from learned societies -- individuals from research libraries -- university presses publishing journals -- listowners maintaining adjunct files of scholarly articles -- specialists in disciplines or subdisciplines with an interest in and a commitment to enhancing the flow of information and discussion. Business of the group is conducted on a closed listserv list. To express interest in joining the electronic working group, contact Listowner: James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania, Classics Department jodonnel@mail.sas.upenn.edu Second, we are beginning a Preprints/Paraprints database clearinghouse and invite your submissions and listings of such enterprises. They will be maintained in a central file updated as new information arrives. The descriptions will be detailed as to type of files and access. To add listings to the Clearinghouse files, contact: Ann Okerson, Association of Research Libraries, ann@cni.org This project is conducted under the auspices of: Association of Research Libraries (Washington, DC) Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Ann L. Okerson Center for Computer Analysis of Texts University of Pennsylvania James J. O'Donnell American Mathematical Society Mathematical Review David L. Rodgers ----- Network Resources for Biblical Studies

Bible Software on the Net, by Michael Strangelove [address, etc., listed above] The following is a list of Bible related software programs or packages available for the taking on the Net, as of November 1992. If I have overlooked any, I would appreciate information on the names and locations. Bible Browser for UNIX. (1992). Created by Richard L. Goerwitz (goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet goer@sophist.uchicago.edu). Available via FTP from the node cs.arizona.edu in the directory /icon/contrib/ as bibleref-2.1.tar.Z Bible Quiz Game - 1000 questions. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as bibleq.arc. Bible Promises Macintosh Hypercard Stack. Available via FTP from the node 128.163.128.6 (f.ms.uky.edu) in the directory /pub/mac/hypercard/ as bible-promise-stack.cpt.bin Bible Retrieval System (BRS) for UNIX. Created by Chip Chapin (chip%hpda@hplabs.hp.com or chip%hpda@hp-sde.hp.com). Available via FTP from the node ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9) in the directory /doc/literary/obi/Religion/Bible.Retrieval.System/ as a variety of files. Bible Search Tools (also for other literature). (Rather primitive). Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory as /pub/msdos/bible/ as kjv-tool.arc Bible Verses (RAM-Resident Pop-Up). Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as biblepop.arc Bible Words and Phrases Counts of King James Version. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as kjvcount.txt Biblical Search and Extraction Tool. Available via FTP in three sections from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as refrkjv1.zip refrkjv2.zip refrkjv3.zip Fast Bible Search Program. (Rather primitive). Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as bible14.arc God's Words for Windows. God's Word For Windows Version 1.1 is a Shareware Bible search program for Windows 3.X. Enter keywords, optionally using logical connectives (AND, OR, and NOT) and God's Word For Windows searches the Bible for verses conforming to your search parameters. Wild cards in keywords are supported. Matching verses may be viewed, then copied to the clipboard for insertion into your word processor. Perfect for Ministers, Theologians, Philosophers of religion, etc. Includes a 270 topic user extensible topical index. Currently available in King James version. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as gw4win11.zip Genesis -- Study Aid/Reference for KJV Version. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as genaidc.zip Hebrew Quiz. Biblical Hebrew Language Tutor. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/hebrew/ as hebquiz.zip Learn the Ten Commandments - CGA or MONO. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as journey.arc Online Bible (Version 6). Available via FTP from the node wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in the directory /doc/bible/ as journey.arc [for more details get the file README and see also the description below]. Revelation -- Study Aid/Reference for KJV Version. Available via FTP from the node oak.oakland.edu in the directory /pub/msdos/bible/ as revaidc.zip -----

Online Bible Version 6, described by Robert Weiss (University at Buffalo; PSYROBTW@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu) [and slightly updated with comments from David Reimer] A major new release of "The OnLine Bible" (=OLB) is now available. It can be obtained by: ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) cd /doc/bible/ibm-pc (or cd /doc/bible/mac) get readme.txt The readme.txt file contains information about the different modules on the server. The program is still "freeware." Anyone using OLB v.5 should get ALL new modules and RE-INSTALL EVERYTHING. All MS-DOS version files are in the directory /doc/bible/ibm-pc [53 separate files, mostly 360 K each!] and the Mac version is in /doc/bible/mac. Obtaining the files involves a significant investment of time. The biggest change in version 6 is that the basic text module now comes in a combined AV/Darby Bible with Webster's 1833 word updates. The Darby Bible is very similar to to the NASB, and has been described (F. F. Bruce) as the most accurate English translation. (This is not meant to spark arguments about translations!) The topics (based largely on the Thompson Chain Reference Bible) have been expanded and revised and work in a point'n'shoot manner. The cross referencess as previously used were taken from "Treasury of Scripture Knowledge," and now there is an additional set of modules which contain textual notes from the same source. These use a lot of disk space, but are well worth it! You will see them as "TSK" modules. Hebrew and Greek verb parsing is now available when you display Strong's numbers. There is also a typset manual available for $5. More information is found in "to-order.doc" after installation. Appended is some additional information excerpted from the FAQ (= Frequently Asked Questions) sheet which comes with OLB version 6. Enjoy! o Requires about 14 megabytes on a hard disk on IBM PC, 384K and DOS 2.11 or later. o Almost any monitor can be used. Supports 43-line EGA, 28-line VGA, and 50-line VGA, and others. o Menu driven design with extensive context sensitive helps. o Complete search facilities include word, phrase, multiple words, and much more; AND, OR and NOT operators to select verses. o All verses can be displayed in context or out of context. o The basic text for the Online Bible is the 1769 Authorised Version (AV or KJV) indexed using Strong's numbers. The 1833 Webster update is included free as a footnote toggle. Also the extremely accurate 1890 Darby version is part of the base package. Other Bible texts are available. o 1977 Stuttgartensia Hebrew Consonantal Text (BHS). o Four [unaccented] Greek NT texts in one combined version, 1550 Stephanus, Scrivener 1894, Majority, and Nestle's. o Displays actual Greek and Hebrew on EGA and VGA monitors. (The Greek text is currently being parsed and keyed to Strong's numbers; after that we plan to do the Hebrew.) o Support included to print in Greek and Hebrew on most printers. o Bilingual Versions include the AV and a foreign language text (Spanish 1989 RVA; French 1910 Louis Segond; German 1905 or 1985 Darby Elberfelder; Dutch Saten Vertaling; Creole Version (Haiti)) Strong's numbers, verb parsings and the lexicons; a combined AV and 1947 RSV is also available. New European languages are being added every month or so. Italian, Danish, Portuguese are planned for the next year. o English definitions of Biblical Greek and Hebrew words, but knowledge of Greek and Hebrew is NOT required. o Lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. The Old Testament is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." o Hypertext features added to Notes facility, point and shoot. o Visually Impaired option for use with screen reader hardware. o Bulletin board version for users that would like to try the program or do not have a hard disk to run the program. o Manual completly rewritten by a professional English publisher. o NO ROYALTIES, DISTRIBUTE FREELY. Please write our European distributor for ordering and pricing information. Peter van der Schelde, Online Bible Ministries, St. Publishare, P.O. Box 9187, 3301 AD Dordrecht, Netherlands, Tel: (31)- (0)78- 163853 or Fax: (31) - (0)78 - 211111 -----

New List on Biblical Materials in the Persian Period, announced by Matt Patrick Graham An unmoderated list devoted to interdisciplinary approaches to biblical texts and related literature of the Persian Period (6th-4th centuries BCE) has been formed. Subscription requests (SUB PERSIA-L YOURFULLNAME) may be sent to LISTSERV@EMUVM1 (BITNET) or LISTSERV@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU (internet). The formation of the list was commissioned by Tamara Eskenazi and the steering committee of the new Literature and History of the Persian Period Group of the SBL and grew out of earlier discussions that took place among participants in the Sociology of the Second Temple Group and the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah Section of the SBL. Inquiries may be addressed to the list coordinator, Pat Graham, at LIBMPG@EMUVM1 or LIBMPG@EMUVM1.CC.EMORY.EDU. ----- Locating and Accessing Electronic Texts and Data

Oxford Text Archive Information Update, by Lou Burnard (Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK; voice +44 (865) 273 238; fax +44 (865) 273 275; archive@vax.ox.ac.uk)

WHAT IS THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE? The Oxford Text Archive is a facility provided by Oxford University Computing Services. It has no connexion with Oxford University Press or any other commercial organisation and exists to serve the interests of the academic community by providing archival and dissemination facilities for electronic texts at low cost. The Archive offers scholars long term storage and maintenance of their electronic texts free of charge. It manages non-commercial distribution of electronic texts and information about them on behalf of its depositors.

WHAT TEXTS DOES IT CONTAIN? The Archive contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more other languages. It contains collections and corpora of unpublished materials prepared by field workers in linguistics. It contains electronic versions of some standard reference works. It has copies of texts and corpora prepared by individual scholars and major research projects worldwide. The total size of the Archive exceeds a gigabyte and there are about a thousand titles in its catalogue.

WHERE CAN I GET A CATALOGUE? The Catalogue is available in paper form by post from the address below. New editions are published at least twice a year. It is also available in electronic form, either as a formatted file for display at a terminal or in a tagged form using SGML. These files are available from a number of different places under various names... (1) on the Oxford VAX Cluster as OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.LIST and OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.SGML (2) from various ListServers, e.g. LISTSERV@BROWNVM (send the mail message GET HUMANIST FILELIST for details) (3) by anonymous FTP from Internet site black.ox.ac.uk (129.67.1.165) in the directory /ota Wherever you are, you can send a note to ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK specifying which form you want.

WHAT ARE THE TEXTS LIKE? Because the texts come from so many different sources, they are held in many different formats. The texts also vary greatly in their accuracy and the features which have been encoded. Some have been proof read to a high standard, while others may have come straight from an optical scanner, Some have been extensively tagged with special purpose analytic codes, and others simply designed to mimic the appearance of the printed source. The Archive does not require texts to conform to any standard of formatting or accuracy.

HOW USABLE ARE THE TEXTS? Most of the texts can be used with commonly available text indexing and concordancing software, or can easily be converted for that purpose. All texts are held as "plain ASCII" files on magnetic tape, with no special formatting codes. Documentation of the coding scheme used in each text is supplied with it, wherever possible.

WHAT ABOUT COPYRIGHT? Many of the texts in the Archive are subject to some form of copyright restriction. The Archive's obligations to its depositors generally restrict use of the texts to private study and research. In some cases, depositors have also authorised use of the texts in teaching. In all cases, users of the texts must agree not to use the texts commercially and not to redistribute copies of them without consultation.

HOW DO I ACCESS THE TEXTS? If you are a registered user of Oxford University Computing Services (i.e. you have an account on OXFORD.VAX or black), just send an e-mail message to the username ARCHIVE (on either machine) specifying which texts you want to use and for what purpose. Texts coded "X" are available only to registered OUCS users and may not be copied. If you are not a registered OUCS user, you can access only texts in categories P, U and A as described below. P category texts are in the public domain. No formality is needed for these texts. They can be downloaded directly by anonymous FTP, from black.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.165] or from other FTP servers on the InterNet. At present, very few texts are in this category; subject to agreement with our depositors we hope to increase the number greatly in the future. Texts in categories U (= Freely available for scholarly use in private research) or U* (= U but also available for teaching purposes) and A (= Available for scholarly use, but only with written authorisation from the depositor) are usually distributed on magnetic tape or cartridge, though smaller texts can be sent on diskette. We will also send copies to you via the network, if you send us the required information (i.e. a secure account-name and password), provided that this can be done with reasonable success. Where copies are made on disk or tape, we make a small distribution charge to cover media and postage which *must* be paid in advance.

WHAT DO THE CODES IN THE CATALOGUE MEAN? Each title in the list is preceded by a code made up of a single letter indicating the availability of the text as described above (P, U, A, or X), in some cases followed by a star, a number identifying the text and another single letter which gives some idea of the size of the text (A = less than 512 Kb, B = between 512 Kb and 1 Mb, C = between 1 and 2 Mb, D = between 2 and 5 Mb, E = greater than 5 Mb). Depending on format, a standard 600 foot magnetic tape will hold up to 50 texts of size category A. Most texts of size code A will fit on a standard double density floppy diskette; any text of size code A or B will fit on a standard high density diskette.

WHAT DO I DO TO ORDER A COPY OF A TEXT? Texts with availability code P may be downloaded directly, as noted above. For more information on using FTP, please contact your local computing service or other appropriate sources. At present, there is no charge for texts supplied over the network. For all other texts, you must complete and return the available proforma [not included here]. For texts with availability code U, the only authorisation needed is your signature on the Order Form. For A category texts, you must also provide written authorisation from the depositor of the text; you should therefore ask us for depositor details before ordering. All orders must be prepaid to the account of Oxford University Computing Service, in sterling or in US dollars. We cannot issue invoices, and any orders which are not prepaid or not submitted on the standard order form will be ignored. -----

Electronic Texts in Religion [November 1992], extracted by Paul Mangiafico (PMANGIAFICO@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu) from the Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (CPET) at the Center for Text & Technology, Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057 Following is a list of electronic text projects that may be of interest to scholars in the field of religion. This list was created by a simple search of the CPET database using keywords such as bible, biblical, theology, religion, islam, patristics, and so forth. The information in CPET is organized according to the eleven headings (fields) that appear below, and projects are listed in alphabetical order by geographic location. In the interests of space, the information has been reduced by the OFFLINE editor to its bare essentials below, with focus on projects that do not deal primarily with biblical materials. The complete information for this and similar searches is available from Georgetown.

The Fields of Information 0. Identifying Acronym 1. Name and Affiliation of Operation (with collaborators noted). Reference to any published description [esp. most recent or most complete] 2. Contact Person and/or Vendor with Addresses (including telephone, BITNET, and Internet) 3. Primary Disciplinary Interest (and Secondary Interests) [e.g. Literature, Language, Linguistics, Music, Art, Biography] 4. Focus: Time Period, Location, Individual, Genre, or Medium 5. Language(s) encoded (English, German, French, et.al.) 6. Intended Use(s) [e.g. textbank, database, bibliography] with Goal (or Statement of Purpose) and Size [number of works, or entries, or citations] 7. Format(s), including choice of sequential text or data base excerpts, file formats, analytical programs and programming languages, text markup and encoding schemes, hardware and operating systems, etc.) To what extent are the formats consistent throughout the archive? 8. Form(s) of Access: if online, what policies? if tape, what track, bpi, block size, labels, parity setting? if diskette, what size and operating system or microcomputer? if CD-ROM, what format? What software is needed for accessing? 9. Source(s) of the Archival Holdings: Encoded in-house, or obtained from elsewhere (where)? Textual authority used for encoding? Availability and price. 10. List of materials in the corpus [if applicable].

Selected Projects BELGIUM Dene/e (Benedictine Abbey Maredsous)/ CIB = Centre: Informatique et Bible Louvain-la-Neuve (Catholic University)/ CETEDOC = Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents email: thomdoc@buclln1.bitnet 6. Study of the occidental Latin tradition from antiquity to present day. 8. CD-ROM. ISO9660 standard. 9. Texts donated to and by Oxford Text Archive. Current projects include: Corpus Patrum Latinorum Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, Continuation Medievalis Thesaurus Forarum Latinarum (classical Latin; patristic Latin; medieval Latin; recent Latin; Latin texts (ie: Franciscan sources, Oecumenical councils, Bonaventure, Index Thomisticus, Salimbene, etc...) Thesaurus Patrum Grecorum (study of Greek church fathers). Bernardus Claraevallensis, opera omnia Corpus of Cistercian sources Gregorius Magnus, opera omnia Concilia Oecumenica s. XI-XX Petrus Lombardus, Sententiae Medieval Latin Dictionary of Belgian sources (DLMN) (from VII to XII centuries) Tresor de la Langue Francaise de Belgique (study of all French texts written in Belgium. Database of 1 million words exists) Texts without critical apparatus: Augustinus, De civitate Dei Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Job, etc... CANADA Quebec (Laval Univ)/ BIBP = Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics 3. Patristics and its sub-disciplines: archaeology, iconography, epigraphy, papyrology, codicology, history of christianity, history of theology, history of the councils, history of liturgy, history of spirituality, history of monasticism, history of biblical exegesis, hagiography, philology of Christian texts, history of Christian philosophy. 8. Access via print, Macintosh diskettes; in the near future access on BITNET; in the future on CD-ROM and IBM diskettes Toronto (Univ)/ Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (Text and Concordance) FINLAND Helsinki (Academy of Finland)/ CNA = Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project BITNET: whiting@finuh parpola@finuh Internet: whiting@cc.helsinki.fi parpola@cc.helsinki.fi 4. Transliterations of cuneiform texts from the Sargonid period (Neo-Assyrian) 7th-6th centuries BC, ancient Mesopotamia and Northern Syria FRANCE Montpellier (Univ Prot, CNRS)/ CDMB = Centre de Documentation sur les Manuscrits de la Bible 3. Database of New Testament manuscripts (texts and translations) in a dozen different languages from the second to the sixteenth centuries (and eventually the full texts of the manuscripts) 5. Eventually full text of 30,000 manuscripts in Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Aramaic, Georgian, Ethiopic, Syro- Palestinian, and Arabic Biblical texts and translations Villeurbanne (Universite/ Jean-Moulin)/ CATAB = Centre d'Analyse et de Traitement Automatique de la Bible BITNET: catab@frsun12 4. Qumran to the present, primarily Middle Ages 10. Works in the database include: Leningrad Or4445 de Londres Prophetes du Caire Aleppo Codex Le Grand Rouleau d'Isaie de Qumran GERMANY Go%ttingen (Institut fu%r Spezialforschungen)/ Syriac Concordance Project Bitnet: Rzellwe@Dgogwdg1 Internet: rzellwe@ibm.gwdg.de 6. Concordance to the Syriac Bible (Peshitta, Old Versions of the Syriac New Testament, Heraclensis), database. 9. Encoded in-house. Sources: Urmia, Walton, Syriac New Testament (ed.: Pusey-Gwilliam, British and Foreign Bible Society, Revelation ed. Gwynn), Sinaiticus (Smith-Lewis), Cureton, Heraclensis (ed. White, "Philoxeniana," new critical edition of Heraclensis in preparation), Revelation ed. Voeoebus. Mu%nster (University of Mu%nster Westfalischen)/ Institut fu%r Neutestamentliche Textforschung Stuttgart (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft)/ Die Bibel 6. Textbank of four Biblical texts, including the Luther Translation, Greek Translation, Einheits Translation, and Bible in Modern German to facilitate comparisons of the texts. 7. CD-ROM; Tu%bingen (Seminar fu%r Indologie und Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft)/ Tu%bingen Parana Project 5. Sanskrit 6. Published indicies on microfiche; deposit of the input with the Oxford Text Archive has been announced but not yet carried out. The Brahmapurana is a single Sanskrit text with ca. 14000 verses. ICELAND Reykjavi/k / Ha/sko/li I/slands (Icelandic Texts) 5. Icelandic. 6. Textbase for linguistic analysis, dictionaries, etc. Texts include: Poetic Edda, the Bible in Icelandic; some novels and other texts in Icelandic. INDIA Bombay (Univ)/ DOKAN = Database of Kannada Texts 3. Literature, Kannada language, religion, culture 6. Textbank, hierarchic vocabularies 7. Sequential text, database of poets' key words ISRAEL Bene Brak (ATM)/ Biblical Concordance in Hebrew 6. Textbank for Biblical studies; includes the Talmud, Midrash and other classical rabbinic works 8. Available on CD-ROM Jerusalem (Academy of the Hebrew Language) / Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language 7. Lexical and grammatical analysis for each word-token; Products: Concordances organized according to lexical entries and Roots; grammatical and statistical indices Jerusalem (Jewish Theological Seminary)/ Talmud Text Databank BITNET: f12016@barilan.bitnet 6. Textbank for scholarly research; manuscripts and early printed editions of all the tractates of the Babylonian Talmud (and rabbinic literature); goal to imput all manuscripts of a group of texts (and subsequent software to process this multiplicity of versions of one text) Jerusalem (Ecole Biblique)/ EBAF = Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Ramat Gan (Bar Ilan Univ)/ GJD/RP = Global Jewish DataBase & Responsa Project BITNET: choueka@bimacs INTERNET: choueka@bimacs.bui.ac.il 7. Full-text system, developed in house. 8. On-line access. 9. Works: Tanach (Bible), Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud), 253 volumes of She'elot U'tshuvot (Responsa literature), Rambam's Yad Hahazaka (Maimonides' Code), Midrashic Literature and Paurshanut Hamikra (Biblical commentaries of Rashi, Rambam, Radak, Sforno, and Metzudot); all works except Bible encoded in-house. THE NETHERLANDS Amsterdam (Free Univ)/ OTIK = Old Testament in the Computer Leiden (Univ)/ Leiden Armenian Database BITNET: lettjw@hlerul2 6. Textbank of Biblical and nonbiblical texts; 8. Access of texts on-line, floppy, tape SAUDI ARABIA Riyadh (King Saud University)/Textbank of Qur'a-n and H+adi-th SWITZERLAND Lausanne (Universite de Lausanne)/ The Body and Flesh in the Sermons of Giordan of Pisa: An essay in computer analysis 6. Textbank of the sermons of Giordan da Pisa: His conception of the feminine, the body and the flesh, the family, morality of sex (adultery, marriage, virginity, concupiscence), and the Holy Family Zurich (Univ)/ Sanskrit texts 3. Indology, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Indian philosophy 4. Visnupurana, Manu, Sakuntala, Asvaghosa, Buddhacarita, Gaudapada-Karika, Adisesa, Paramarthasara, Bhagavadgita, Narayaniyam, Mahabharata, Svetasvatara-Upanisad. THAILAND Bangkok (Mahidol University)/ Pali Canon Project 5. Pali transliterated into Roman script; Thai translation 8. Plans in progress to make text available on CD-ROM. TIBET Sera Mey Tibetan Monastic University / Asian Classics Input Projects 5. Tibetan. 9. Works from the Kangyur and Tengyur collections include: _Abhisamayalamkara_, _Madhyamakavatara_, _Abhidharmakosa_, _Pramanavarttika_, _Vinayasutra_, _Mulaprajna_, _Uttaratantra_, Catalogue to the Kangyur (Derge Edition and Lhasa Edition), Catalogue to the Tengyur (Derge Edition), and the United States Library of Congress Tibetan-Language holdings. UNITED KINGDOM Cambridge (Univ)/ JIP = Jewish Inscriptions Project Internet: del2@phx.cam.ac.uk 4. Graeco-Roman 6. Textbank and index of inscriptions. Dyfed (Saint Davids University College)/ Morris and James Pentateuch 7. Consonantal text with only long vowels vocalized, uncantillated with morphological tagging. London (Islamic Computing Centre)/ Islamic Databases 6. Textbank for Islamic studies; thesaurus of Islamic terms; full texts of Al-Hadith from Sahih-al Bukhari, Muslim, al-Muwatt, Abu Dawud, Tirmizy, and Nasai 10. Al-Qur'an Database (full translations of Abdullah Yusuf Ali & Mohammad M Pickthall) Al-Hadith Database (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Muslim, Al- Muwatta, Abu Dawud Tirmizy, Nasa'i, and Mishkat Al-Masabih) Islamic LawBase (over 6000 pages of 9 Major Islamic Legal Resource Literature) UNITED STATES CA Berkeley (New College)/ Masoretic Text of Hebrew Bible 3. Fully lemmatized, fully parsed linguistic dictionary of the entire vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible CA Irvine (Univ CA)/ TLG = Thesaurus Linguae Grecae bitnet: TLG@UCI 6. Data Bank of 62 million words of text on the CD-ROM reflecting some 2,900 Greek authors and nearly 8,400 discrete literary works. CA Los Altos (The Packard Humanities Institute and Univ. of Penn. CCAT)/ PHI Demonstration CD-ROM #1 (LBASE/CCAT) Bitnet : xb.m07@stanford 4. Latin literature through A.D. 200; Biblical and miscellaneous of various periods. 8. CD-ROM (High Sierra format) distributed under license to individuals and institutions, for non-commercial use. CA Los Angeles (Univ)/ The Greek New Testament Before the Tenth Century 4. II-IX Centuries, New Testament before the Tenth Century 6. Textbank; critical edition based on genealogical principles CA San Jose (Beacon Technology Inc.)/ Gems of the Word 5. English 6. 1000 topically organized passages from the Bible CO Salida (Catspaw, Inc.)/ King James Version of the Bible DC Washington (Georgetown Univ)/ HUMETEXT 1.0 10. Hume's works in electronic form (all are edited by T.L. Beauchamp, D.F. Norton, and M.A. Stewart): A Treatise of Human Nature An Abstract of . . . A Treatise of Human Nature A Letter from a Gentleman An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding A Dissertation on the Passions An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals The Natural History of Religion My Own Life Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion DC Washington (Georgetown Univ)/ Center for Text and Technology BITNET: neuman@guvax Internet: neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu 4. Contemporary Italian literature, 18th-19th Century Philosophy (Hegel), Italian Renaissance Artists and Philosophers 10. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, ed. P.C. Hodgson. (Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press [1984]) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Phenomenology of the Mind, trans. J.B. Baillie. (New York, NY: Macmillan [1931]) FL Orlando (Medina Software, Inc.)/ MacGospel 9. King James Version or International Version of the NT GA Clayton (InteLex Corporation)/ Past Masters Internet: 70671.1673@compuserv.com 4. 18th-19th Century: the works of John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Sidgwick. 7. ASCII text with Folio Corporation's VIEWS Program: 10. Aristotle. Complete works. Aquinas. Summa Theologiae. Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. London: Mews-Gate [1776]. Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. (2 vols.). London: Royal Exchange [1823]. Bentham, Jeremy. "Historical Preface, intended for the Second Edition", The Works of Jeremy Bentham (Vol. 1). Edited by John Bowring. Edinburgh: W. Tait [1838-1843]. Berkeley, George. Alciphron (Third Edition). (London [1752]). Berkeley, George. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, from the Works of George Berkeley, ed. G.N. Wright (London [1843]) Berkeley, George. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, from the Works of George Berkeley, ed. G.N. Wright. (London [1843]) Berkeley, George. Of the Principles of Human Knowledge, from the Works of George Berkeley. (London [1843]) Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Descartes, Rene. various works. Edited by Adam and Tannery. Vrin Publishers. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. various works. Hobbes, Thomas. De Cive (The Citizen). ([1651] with variants from edition of Sir William Molesworth, London: [1839]) Hobbes, Thomas. Elements of Law. Edited by Ferdinand To%nnies. 1889. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan (with variants from edition of Sir William Molesworth). (London: ? 1839) Hume, David. "Appendix to a Treatise of Human Nature", from The Philosophical Works of David Hume. (Boston: [1854]) Hume, David. "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", from The Philosophical Works of David Hume. (Boston: [1854]) Hume, David. Dissertation on the Passions, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. "Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. "Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. "Essays Withdrawn" from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. "The Natural History of Religion" from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. "Of the Immortality of the Soul" from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. "On Suicide" from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. T.H. Green and T.H. Grose. (London: [1898]) Hume, David. A Treatise of Human Nature. (London: Everyman Library [1911]) Kant, Immanuel. various works. Kierkegaard. Samlede Vaerker (4th edition). Edited by Alaistair McKinnon. McGill University. von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. various works. Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Prince (Italian and English). Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty (4th ed.) London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1869]. Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism (4th ed.) London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1871]. Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1869]. Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. (3rd ed.) London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1865]. Mill, John Stuart. "Chapters on Socialism", Fortnightly Review (February 1879), 217-237; (March 1879), 373- 382; (April 1879), 513-530. Mill, John Stuart. "Bentham", Dissertations and Discussions. (2nd ed. - Vol. 1) London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1867]. Mill, John Stuart. "Dr. Whewell on Moral Philosophy", Dissertations and Discussions. (2nd ed. - Vol. 2) London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer [1867]. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. various works. Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man. Poinsot, John. Tractatus de Signis (Treatise on Signs). Plato. various works. Ricardo, David. Principles of Political Economy. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. On the Social Contract; Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts; Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; Discourse on Political Economy. Sidgwick, Henry. Methods of Ethics. London: Macmillian & Co., Ltd. [1907]. Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Spinoza. Opera of 1913. Edited by Carl Gebhardt. Spinoza. Opera of 1913. Edited by von Vloten and Land. IA Cedar Rapids (Parson's Technology)/ QuickVerse 4. Biblical: King James, Revised Standard, New International, and New King James Translations. ID Greenleaf (Biblesoft Company)/ KJV Hypertext Bible 7. CD-ROM; implementing PC-Hypertext 1988. IL Champaign/Urbana (Duncan Research)/ Project Gutenberg: 100 Great Books BITNET: hart@uiucvmd Internet: hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu 4. Books of every genre 8. CD-ROM; on-line via FTP 10. U.S. Declaration of Independence U.S. Bill of Rights U.S. Constitution The Bible The Complete Shakespeare Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Hunting of the Snark CIA World Factbook Moby Dick Peter Pan The Book of Mormon The Federalist Papers The Song of Hiawatha Paradise Lost Aesop's Fables Frederick Douglass O Pioneers! Willa Cather Far From the Madding Crowd Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde IL Deerfield (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)/ GramCord = The GramCord New Testament Greek Grammatical Concordance System IN Indianapolis (Kirkbride Technology) Thompson Chain HyperBible 9. King James Version / New International Version Parallel Translation MI Grand Rapids (Zondervan Electronic Publishing)/ NIVPC = New International Version of the Bible for Personal Computers MI Grand Rapids (Zondervan Electronic Publishing House)/ MACBIBLE 9. Authorities: New International Version, Revised Standard Version, King James Version, Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, and The Greek New Testament UBS Third Edition (corrected). MI Grand Rapids (Baker Book House)/ Analytical Concordance of the Greek New Testament MI Grand Rapids (Baker Book House)/ Analytical Lexicon of New Testament Greek MI Ann Arbor (Univ MI)/ MPCABS = Michigan Project for Computer- Assisted Biblical Studies [dormant] NC Ayden (Encycloware)/ MacBible 9. King James or International versions (ISPN 29087-450) NJ Princeton (Priceton Theological Seminary)/ Qumran Machine- Readable Non-Biblical Texts Bitnet: Q2835@Pucc 6. Create a concordance of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Biblical and non-Biblical), and phototypesetting of the texts. NY Brooklyn (Mikrah Computer Research Systems)/ Compu-Bible and Compucord NY New York (Columbia Univ)/ Buddhist Text Archive 8. Presently only a list of texts that are being added to the Archive is available, but not the texts themselves. NY New York (American Bible Society) AGNT = Analytical Greek New Testament 6. To provide a morphologically and syntactically tagged database of the Greek New Testament OH New Knoxville (The Way International)/ ACP = Aramaic Computer Project 9. Syriac (Peshitta) version of the New Testament OH Wooster (College of Wooster)/ Computer Generated Critical Concordances of the Bible in Hebrew and Greek OK Oklahoma City (Ellis Enterprises Inc.)/ The Bible Library PA Fort Washington (Tri Star Publishing)/ Master Search Bible PA Philadelphia (Univ PA)/ CCAT = Center for Computer Analysis of Texts Internet: kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu PA Philadelphia (Westminster Theological Seminary)/ WCP = Westminster Computer Project Internet: Groves@penndrls.upenn.edu 9. Michigan-Claremont Old Testament as machine-compared against CIB's Masoretic Text, Dr. Richard Whitaker's version, and IRCOL's version from the Global Jewish Database Project. PA Philadelphia (Univ PA)/ CATSS = Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies Internet: kraft@penndrls.upenn.edu PA Villanova (Villanova Univ)/ Augustine Concordance Project BITNET: fitzgeral@vuvaxcom INTERNET: fitzgeral@ucis.vill.edu 6. Textbank of 5 million words for scholarly research, can be searched for various kinds of information, e.g use and frequency of specific words and/or phrases. 10. Complete works of Saint Augustine of Hippo [Latin] according to available critical editions. TX Austin (Bible Research Systems)/ THE WORD Processor TX Dallas (Dallas Theological Seminary)/ CDWord 6. Biblical studies reference tools linked in hypertext with associated Greek texts and English translations to form a full exegetical library of biblical texts, Greek lexica, dictionaries, graphics libraries and grammatical tables; TX Dallas (International Linguistics Center)/ Analytical Greek New Testament Project TX Lubbock (National Software Systems Co.)/ CompuBIBLE 9. King James Version, New King James Version, New International Version, Revised Standard Version and American Standard Version VA Arlington (Chadwyck-Healey Inc.)/ Patrologia Latina Database 6. Database of some of the most influential works of Western history, theology, philosophy, and literature. 8. Available on CD-ROM. WA Edmonds (Linguist's Software Inc.)/ MacGreek and MacHebrew New and Old Testaments WA Kelso (Zion Christian College)/ Syriac Research Center 6. Textbank of approx. 40 Peshitta manuscripts WA Seattle (Hermeneutika Computer-Aided Bible Research)/ Bible Word Program WA Seattle (Hermeneutika Computer-Aided Bible Research)/ PC Study Bible WA Seattle (Hermeneutika Computer-Aided Bible Research)/ On- Line Bible & Concordance WA Seattle (Hermeneutika Computer-Aided Bible Research)/ FRB (Foundation for Advanced Biblical Studies Reference Bible) -----

Call for Texts, for the American Philosophical Association Electronic Text Archive Project, adapted from a posting by Eric Palmer (University of Utah; epalmer@cc.utah.edu) that appeared on the Humanist, Philos-L, sci-tech-studies, and Hopos lists, with permission to repost as appropriate.

NEW HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF ELECTRONIC TEXTS The Committee on Computer Use of the American Philosophical Association is organizing a new archive of classic historical texts in philosophy and in the history of science in the electronic medium. The goal is to make the texts freely available to scholars on an open computer server, accessible by the Internet. If you wish to contribute texts, or expect that you know of resources that the organizers would not know of, please contact Eric Palmer, preferably by e-mail, at epalmer@cc.utah.edu, or by paper mail at the Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112. At this point, information received will simply be filed, or (when permitted) used to answer queries. What form the text project will subsequently take is to be determined (hopefully by summer 1993) with guidance from members of the sub- committee on electronic texts (currently, David Owen, Leslie Burkholder, Allen Renear, Charles Young, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Syun Tutiya, Saul Traiger, Eric Palmer, and David Stern). In the near future it is hoped that submitted texts that are allowed to circulate can be posted on a listserver and/or made available by "anonymous file transfer protocol" (ftp), a system that allows free access through the Internet. Persons who do not wish to submit texts to the archive, but would like to make known the existence of the texts they have, are also encouraged to reply. Please do not send texts at this point, but feel free to include in your response texts that you expect to have available within the next year. Reply by electronic mail if possible. Please include: Authors, titles, and translations where applicable; Individuals, departments and institutions involved in the project; If this is part of a larger project, expected timetable for completion of various aspects, including current progress; Grants and funds applied for, and results (rejections, acceptances, and expectations -- this will allow us to advise others regarding possible funding sources). To the best of your knowledge, is this resource in the public domain? (Almost all texts/translations copyrighted before 1917 in the USA would be public domain; others may be.) ------

Electronic Resources for European History, from Erwin K. Welsch (West European History Librarian, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison; EWelsch@WISCMACC; EWelsch@vms.macc.wisc.edu) Perhaps the following may be of interest: The first version of a guide called "Electronic Sources for West European History and Culture" is now available through the FTP site ra.msstate.edu. It has the title european.guide in the subdirectory pub/docs/history/resources. The guide identifies listservers and electronic newsletters or ejournals in European history and related fields (particularly literature), describes two history text archives, and will be expanded in future versions to include other electronic sources and resources. Corrections, comments, or additions are welcome. ----- Other Uses of the Networks

Integrating the Field: the H-Net Proposal, extracted from the "H-Net Planning Document (version 3.1; Dec 6, 1992)" by Richard Jensen (Professor of History, U of Illinois, Chicago, 60680; 615-552-9923; U08946@uicvm; u08946@uicvm.uic.edu) We are organizing a team of historians at the University of Illinois, Chicago, that is planning to assist the history profession to go on-line and make use of the remarkable advances in computers in recent years. Our main goal is to get historians to use their equipment for communications. H-Net will comprise two parts. 1) H-Net will primarity operate as a bulletin board system, using the widely-used "Wildcat" software. It will have Listserv, Fileserve, Gopher and FTP services (these are ways to disseminate files electronically.) 2) The second part of H-Net will be a hands-on training program to show historians how to use their PCs more effectively to communicate to each other. The logic of H-Net is that a valuable service can be performed by working through an established discipline, and its departments and associations. Eventually, we will invite the established area/chronology electronic discussion groups to join; also the established topics/methods groups. The national H-Net bulletin board will have a number of "doors" that provide a variety of services. a) Useful and timely information will be posted. b) H-Net will set up (free) private meeting "rooms" for groups of historians. c) We will invite volunteers (historians from across the country, or the world) to moderate the various doors. d) There are already several dozen Bitnet-based history conferences; we will publicize these groups and show historians how to join. We will provide technical help for anyone who wants to start a new history conference. e) One door will lead to course syllabi, outlines and handouts donated by teachers. f) As interest grows, rather specialized doors can be opened. One might be a service for users of a major textbook in Western Civ, allowing instructors and teaching assistants around the country to exchange ideas, handouts, tests, and helpful hints. g) Doors will lead to bibliographies donated by historians. h) The major new source we will create is a combined retrospective index to the major history journals. i) There are many electronic texts, CD-ROMs and finding aids becoming available. Our H-Net board will tell historians about them, and exchange tips on how to use them. j) Especially vital are library catalogues (including the major universities) which are now available free to people who know how to use Internet. Many historians do not know how to use them. We will show how. Undergraduate teaching is an area that is poorly served by the printed journals. National and local on-line boards can provide a variety of services. a) Nationally, H-Net will set up discussion groups for professors and teaching assistants who teach the large survey courses. b) We will set up a model "departmental" board here at UIC, where faculty can communicate with students. c) We will show departments how to set up their own local boards for their large courses. d) Undergraduate and graduate seminar-style courses can set up their own local boards. The whole project will be operated as a model that can be emulated in other disciplines. We will keep logs and "how-we-did- it" guides, and will be delighted to help anyone with their technical questions. a) The American Philosophy Association sponsors an excellent bulletin board that we will monitor and emulate. b) "HUMANIST" is an excellent discussion group, with very well edited messages. We will monitor HUMANIST (and other lists) and cross list good items. H-Net will be run from the History department of the University of Illinois, Chicago. A national council will set policy, a local council will direct operations and coordinate with campus entities like the History department, the Library, and the Computer Center. H-Net will be entirely non-political. The doors and conferences will be moderated (by us and especially by volunteers around the country) to provide a smooth flow of information to the users and to avoid overloading their e- mailboxes with irrelevant material. (Our model: HUMANIST.) One ideological commitment of ours: we are keen on broadening the access opportunities of all historians, especially those at smaller schools and historical societies. We will include both the IBM-compatible and the Apple tribes. We will "give away" (in the form of shareware) the necessary software (like the Procomm terminal program.) H-Net has been endorsed by the AHA (Professional Division and Research Division), the Southern Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians. ACLS has expressed support-- it considers H-Net an ambitious project that would put history well ahead of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. We will work with major history organizations to reach their members (via conventions, journal, newsletter, membership directory), and upload newsletter-type information generated by the organizations. <-----> Please send information, suggestions or queries concerning OFFLINE to Robert A. Kraft, Box 36 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6303. Telephone (215) 898- 5827. Internet address: KRAFT@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (please note that the previous BITNET address is no longer operational). To request printed information or materials from OFFLINE, please supply an appropriately sized, self-addressed envelope or an address label. A complete electronic file of OFFLINE columns is available upon request (for IBM/DOS, Mac, or IBYCUS), or from the HUMANIST discussion group FileServer (BROWNVM.BITNET). OFFLINE is also being made available by ftp and/or by gopher on the ccat.sas.upenn.edu site. Contact the coordinator for details. //end #40//