Subject: The Scout Report -- June 5, 1998
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:58:02 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130509b1a1fcbe325e@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:58:02 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: The Scout Report -- June 5, 1998
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 8, 1998
THE LIFE OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR--CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY WEBSITE
<http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/>
This site was not only recommended by the current "Scout Report," but was
further praised by an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic
Design at the Norwegian School of Management on the DIGLIB list.
David Green
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>Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:16:07 -0500
>From: Scout Project <scout@CS.WISC.EDU>
>Subject: The Scout Report -- June 5, 1998
>======== The Scout Report ==
>======== June 5, 1998 ====
>======== Volume 5, Number 6 ======
>====== Internet Scout Project ========
>==== University of Wisconsin ========
>== Department of Computer Sciences ========
>
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>5. The Life of Edward the Confessor--CUL
>http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
>
>Cambridge University library has recently made available online "the only
>copy of a thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman, illuminated Life of St. Edward
>the Confessor." The manuscript, written in the 1230s or 40s and executed in
>the 1250s or 60s, is well-preserved, and its new availability should be a
>boon for medievalists. Cambridge's site allows users to page through all 37
>folios, beginning with the first, or to obtain descriptions of each folio
>and view them selectively. Users can zoom in on all or part of a page or
>view pages side-by-side. The site also includes a brief introduction to the
>manuscript and suggestions for further reading. [TK]
>
>The Scout Report (ISSN 1092-3861) is published every Friday of the year
>except the last Friday of December by the Internet Scout Project,
>located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Computer
>Sciences.
>
> Managing Editor Susan Calcari
> Editor Jack Solock [JS]
> Production Editor Travis Koplow [TK]
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>Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 13:03:24 +0200
>From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman@BI.NO>
>Subject: This site is worth a visit ....... ------
>To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA
>This is one of the best organized and most beautiful sites I've ever come
>across. The focus here is a medieval manuscript. The site features are a
>paragon of simplicity and user-friendly management of scholarly knowledge.
>The information structure and close-up zoom features can be adapted to
>dozens of disciplines.
>
>This site is worth a visit for anyone planning a web site or interested in
>information design, information structures and knowledge hierarchies.
>
>
>5. The Life of Edward the Confessor--CUL
>http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
>
>Cambridge University library has recently made available online "the only
>copy of a thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman, illuminated Life of St. Edward
>the Confessor." The manuscript, written in the 1230s or 40s and executed in
>the 1250s or 60s, is well-preserved, and its new availability should be a
>boon for medievalists. Cambridge's site allows users to page through all 37
>folios, beginning with the first, or to obtain descriptions of each folio
>and view them selectively. Users can zoom in on all or part of a page or
>view pages side-by-side. The site also includes a brief introduction to the
>manuscript and suggestions for further reading. [TK]
>
>
>Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
>Department of Knowledge Management
>Norwegian School of Management - BI
>Box 4676 Sofienberg
>N-0506 Oslo, Norway
>
>+47 22.98.51.07 Direct Telephone
>
>+47 95.05.95.65 GSM Mobile Phone + Voice Mail (After June 20)
>+47 95.00.95.65 GSM Fax (After June 20)
>+47 95.00.95.65 GSM Data (After June 20)
>
>+47 22.98.51.11 Telefax
>
>email: <ken.friedman@bi.no>
>
>
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