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ninch-announce: Journal of Electronic Publishing--New Issue

Journal of Electronic Publishing--New Issue

David Green (david@ninch.org)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:42:20 -0500 

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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:42:20 -0500
To: ninch-announce@cni.org, judith@turner.net
From: david@ninch.org (David Green)
Subject: Journal of Electronic Publishing--New Issue  


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
December 2, 1997


Below is an announcement of a meaty issue of the highly worthwhile
Journal of Electronic Publishing, featuring articles by John Unsworth,
Morris Eaves, Michelle Miller-Adams/Eve M.  Trager, Bill Rosenblatt,
Lorrie LeJeune and the editor, Judith Axler Turner. 

David Green



               NEW ISSUE OF JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING
           <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/gloss0302.html>




From:
              Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 436.
      Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
              <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
             <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>

              Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 07:53:11 +0000
            From: "Judith A. Turner" <judith@turner.net>
      Subject: The new issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing


Dear JEP Subscriber:

The December 1997 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is now
available at http://www.press.umich.edu/jep


      WORDS from the WISE:
      Lessons Learned in Electronic Publishing


            "For the things we have to learn before we can do
            them, we learn by doing them."
            --Aristotle

      There are those who would amend Mr. A. by pointing out that
      we learn best by doing them *wrong.*

      In this new world of electronic publishing, though, we learn
      any way we can -- by doing things right, by doing things
      wrong, and by learning from others' successes and failures,
      because when you don't know where you're going, any road you
      take will be the right one.

      This issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing is about
      a host of different roads, all of them right for those of us
      who are trying to master the medium.

      In "The Importance of Failure" John Unsworth exhorts us to
      attempt projects that have a good chance of failure, and
      then to document that failure as assiduously as we document
      our successes, to leave a trail for those who might follow.
         <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/unsworth.html>

      Morris Eaves explores the fascinating world of virtual
      collaboration, explaining how the William Blake Archive was
      conceived and developed by editors, programmers, and project
      managers at different universities using e-mail (and
      occasionally the phone) to create something new. However, he
      cautions, "Collaboration Takes More Than E-Mail."
         <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/blake.html>

      Michelle Miller-Adams and Eve M. Trager remind us that
      CD-ROM is still a viable and useful digital technology, and
      they write about their adventures on the way to publishing
      a new take on the Bible. Their "Catechism for Digital
      Publishing" proves that even "older" digital technology has
      its pitfalls if you don't plan ahead.
         <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/bible.html>

      One of the most exciting events of 1997 was the
      introduction at the Frankfurt Book Fair of the Digital Object
      Identifier, a system that will allow all of us to manage our
      intellectual-property rights in ways we probably can't
      imagine today. Bill Rosenblatt tells us how that achievement
      came about, and the ideas that were jettisoned on the trip,
      in "Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection."
         <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/doi.html>

      Some ideas seem great at the time, but they are just not
      right for the time. The Internet Public Library may be one
      of them. The IPL came out of the traditions of public
      libraries espoused by Ben Franklin and Andrew Carnegie, but
      the Internet has no town meeting and very little true
      selflessness in a communal sense. Lorrie LeJeune writes
      about a lovely project that just won't make it in "Before
      Its Time."
         <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/IPL.html>

      And this issue I check in with my own lessons, learned as
      I put The Chronicle of Higher Education on the Internet
      -- one of the first full-text newspapers to grace the 'net.
      I reveal some of the mistakes I made, the expectations I
      didn't meet, and, yes, the success of "Pioneering an
      Online Newspaper."
         <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/chronicle.html>


      Come read and enjoy!

                                         --Judith Axler Turner
                                         --Editor

       The Journal of Electronic Publishing
       December, 1997   Volume 3, Issue 2
       ISSN 1080-2711
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/gloss0302.html


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David L. Green
Executive Director
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Washington DC 20036
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david@ninch.org
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