Subject: The Scout Report: selection Aug 7-Sept 4
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:23:50 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011722b1fdf18031b5@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:23:50 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: The Scout Report: selection Aug 7-Sept 4
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
Sept 6, 1998
SCOUT REPORT AUGUST 7-SEPT 4, 1998
Below is a compendium of selected sites from the University of Wisconsin's
weekly "Scout Report," from August 7 to September 4, 1998.
This opens with a simple list of sites and URLs, followed by Scout Report
reviews.
David Green
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>From the Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-1998.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
CONTENTS
Middle English Compendium
>http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/
>
Disc-O-Logue--French Language Popular Recording Catalog
>http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/discologue/
>
A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico--SI
>http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/ve/vidal/index.htm
>
Corbis Picture Experience
>http://safari.altavista.digital.com/
>
The FPLC Intellectual Property Mall
http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu
Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature
http://www.uib.no/neolatin/
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
_Choice_ Web Reviews URLs
http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html
_Choice_ Special Issue Purchasing Information
http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/98sup.html
The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library [IPIX]
http://www.frick.org/
Council of European Social Science Data Archives
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/index.html
Three New Titles--JSTOR
_The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs_ (continued by _China Journal_)
http://www.jstor.org/journals/01567365.html
_The Philosophical Review_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318108.html
_Population Studies_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00324728.html
Participating JSTOR Sites
http://www.jstor.org/about/charter.html
Medieval Feminist Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
Logic Resources at Texas A&M University
Logic Primer
http://logic.tamu.edu/Primer/ [frames]
The Logic Daemon Proof Checker
http://logic.tamu.edu/daemon.html [frames]
http://logic.tamu.edu/checker.html [no frames]
The Logic QuizMaster
http://logic.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/quizmaster
Semiotics for Beginners
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/semiotic.html
The Heuneburg Museum: Early Celts on the Upper Danube [frames]
http://www.dhm.de/museen/heuneburg/indexe.html
National Museum of the American Indian Conexus [QuickTime]
http://www.conexus.si.edu/
Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html
The Nordic Metadata Project: Final Report
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm
Second Release of George Washington Papers--LOC
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
NASA's Fortieth Anniversary: Pioneering The Future
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/40thann/40home.htm
Two From American Memory--LOC
The Leonard Bernstein Collection (Preview)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
Mark Rothko Web Feature
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html
The Household Cyclopedia of General Information
http://members.xoom.com/mspong/
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts [.pdf]
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
http://www.artlex.com/
Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (SARA)
http://www.carfax.co.uk/SARA.htm
MoMA Online Projects [RealAudio, RealVideo]
http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/index.html
SELECTED REVIEWS
>======== The Scout Report ==
>======== August 7, 1998 ====
>2. Middle English Compendium
>http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/
>
>The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) of the University of Michigan has
>created a virtually seamless connection between three important Middle
>English resources: the Electronic Middle English Dictionary (MED), the
>HyperBibliography of Middle English, and the Corpus of Middle English Prose
>and Verse, along with "an associated network of electronic resources." The
>MED is encoded in SGML and currently contains almost 16,000 entries,
>covering letters M through U (one third of the print original). Many MED
>entries provide context to words through quotations, which are themselves
>linked to an entry in the Hyperbibliography. 1,073 entries covering 1,526
>texts in the Hyperbibliography can be searched or browsed by author,
>stencil (short title), location of manuscript, or document name. The Corpus
>of Middle English Prose currently contains 42 SGML full texts that may be
>accessed using multiple search strategies. To take full advantage of all
>the features of this resource, users should refer to the help
>documentation. The Compendium will be freely available until December 31,
>1998, after which time it will be limited to institutional site license
>holders. [AG]
>
>4. Disc-O-Logue--French Language Popular Recording Catalog
>http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/discologue/
>
>Can't remember who sang "La Machine a Laver"? Disc-O-Logue, the catalogue
>of French-language popular music recordings, has the answer for you.
>Disc-O-Logue, a music publication created by Louise Lamothe listing French
>language songs from Canada, France, and other parts of the French-speaking
>world, was available in Canada for LPs and 45-rpm discs from 1962 to 1979.
>The National Library of Canada acquired the Disc-O-Logue archive in 1986
>and has converted part of the it, information on 90,000 songs, into a
>database which can be searched by song title, performer, composer, format,
>and label. In addition, the site features a gallery of album cover artwork,
>examples of best seller lists from 1963 to 1966, and a description of
>Madame Lamothe's process of creating Disc-O-Logue. [DS]
>
>
>12. A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico--SI
>http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/ve/vidal/index.htm
>
>The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History provides
>this site, a glimpse of Puerto Rican history and culture as seen through
>175 artifacts from the 3,200-artifact collection of Teodoro Vidal, an aide
>to Puerto Rico's first governor Luis Munoz Marin. Vidal's collecting
>activities span more than 40 years, and his artifacts date from the 18th
>through the 20th centuries. The collection can be browsed or searched (the
>easiest access to the entire collection is through the index browse), and
>it is contextualized through explanatory sections on Puerto Rican history,
>religion, every day life, carnivals, music, tourism, and "the Great Puerto
>Rican family." [JS]
>
>14. Corbis Picture Experience
>http://safari.altavista.digital.com/
>
>Corbis (discussed in the July 3, 1998 Scout
>Report--http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-980703.html#13)
>and the Digital Equipment Corporation's AltaVista search service have
>teamed up to provide this resource, a searchable database of about 500,000
>images from Corbis's collection of over 20 million images. What is unique
>about this site is the amount of accessible images. At this time, however,
>there is little if any descriptive information about the images, and no
>browseable interface structure. Users can send the images as an electronic
>postcard if they wish, basically a gimmick attached to what is, in essence,
>a combination demonstration database and very large banner ad for the two
>sponsoring companies. [JS]
>
August 14, 1998 ====
4. The FPLC Intellectual Property Mall
http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu
Law Librarian and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Jon R. Cavicchi
created and manages the Intellectual Property Mall at the Franklin
Pierce Law Center (FPLC), a law school in New Hampshire renowned for its
focus on intellectual property law, issues, and policies. The IP Mall
serves as a centralized resource for information about patents,
copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The site provides tools and
strategies for IP research, a listing of IP holdings at the FPLC
library, and online copies of previous United States Patent & Trademark
Office patent exams. The site's newest feature is the IP Mall Pointer
Box, a comprehensive index of IP resources available on the Internet.
The Pointer Box is divided conveniently into ten subject categories to
help attorneys, academics, and entrepreneurs quickly locate relevant IP
resources. The index includes resources related to publishing and
electronic commerce as well as global directories for patent and
trademark offices, IP agencies, and non-governmental organizations. [AO]
5. Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature
http://www.uib.no/neolatin/
Originating from a research project that involved latinists from all
five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), this
database is currently maintained and edited by professors Lars Boje
Mortensen and Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Department of Greek and Latin,
University of Bergen, Norway, and Peter Zeeberg, Institut for Graesk og
Latin, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. It lists selected Latin texts,
written between the reformation (c. 1530) and 1800, that pertain to Nordic
people or locations. Scholars can search the database by keyword or by
author, place of publication, language, and dedicatee. Visitors can also
browse a list of current Neo-Latin scholars, consult a bibliography, view
an historical map of Scandanavia, and read a brief note on the historical
background of the region. [JR]
10. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
Dr. James Fieser (general editor) of the University of Tennessee at
Martin, together with Dr. Bradley Dowden (philosophy of science and
logic editor), has put together this online compendium of information
about philosophy. The encyclopedia can be searched or browsed by
keywords or browsed via a timeline of philosophical movements and
thinkers. In addition, the site features a selection of texts, from Lao
Tzu to Locke, which can be read online or downloaded. Currently, the
articles are either adapted from public domain sources or from Feiser's
course material or they are contributed by professional philosophers. In
the future, the editors hope to replace all of the adapted articles with
original contributions. [TK]
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======== The Scout Report ==
======== August 21, 1998 ====
3. _Choice_ Web Reviews URLs
http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html
_Choice_ Special Issue Purchasing Information
http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/98sup.html
The second annual edition of _Choice_ magazine's Web supplement is
available, and this site contains links to 482 reviewed sites. Of these,
390 are compiled from reviews in the magazine dating back to the August
1997 Web supplement, and 93 are newly reviewed. Twenty-five major topics
are covered in the areas of Reference, Humanities, Science & Technology,
and Social & Behavioral Sciences. "Teaching faculty and librarians at
academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada" choose and review sites
relevant to undergraduate academic libraries. _Choice_ is a product of
the Association of College & Research Libraries, part of the American
Library Association. Note that this site contains URLs only. For the
reviews, three special articles, and a listing of forthcoming Internet
related books, magazine purchasing information is provided. [JS]
4. The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library [IPIX]
http://www.frick.org/
IPIX Navigation Instructions
http://www.ipix.com/support/fmnavsupport.html
FRESCO Online Catalog
telnet://fresco.frick.org
Telnet to: fresco.frick.org
One of the great steel and railroad barons of the last century, Henry
Clay Frick used some of his wealth to amass an awesome collection of
art, which he bequeathed to the public upon his death in 1919. Visitors
to the Frick site can browse through over 120 of the 1,100 artworks in
the collection, including paintings (an eclectic selection of works by
Bellini, Constable, Gainsborough, El Greco, Piero della Francesca,
Rembrandt, and Vermeer, among others), sculpture, and decorative arts.
This can be most easily accessed through the Collection link (select The
Frick Collection from the homepage). Each image is accompanied by an
annotation and bibliographic information. Those with higher bandwidth
connections can take the Virtual Tour and browse the collection via the
IPIX Virtual Reality plug-in. Links from the art to the annotations are
available. The site also features a link to the Frick Collection's Art
Library (select Art Library from the homepage), which is highlighted by
the availability of FRESCO (Frick Research Catalog Online), a telnet
resource with bibliographic information about more than 40,000 books,
periodicals, and exhibition catalogs in the library. [JS]
======================
======== The Scout Report for Social Sciences ==
======== August 25, 1998 ====
1. Council of European Social Science Data Archives
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/index.html
Integrated Data Catalogue UK Mirror:
http://dasun3.essex.ac.uk/Cessda/IDC/
Integrated Data Catalogue Australian Mirror:
http://ssda.anu.edu.au/Cessda/IDC/
The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) facilitates
the distribution of electronic data for social science education and
research in Europe. CESSDA promotes data sharing by providing the
Integrated Data Catalogue (IDC) at its Website. The multilingual IDC allows
users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data
catalogs located all over the world, including catalogs in Israel,
Australia, the US, and Europe. The IDC's simple catalog design--based on a
Z39.50-WAIS protocol--and interface make it easy to use. The clearly
displayed search results are ordered in accordance to the amount of hits
per record in proportion to the total size of the record. Mirrors for the
IDC are available in both the UK and Australia to foster quicker searching
around the globe. In addition to the IDC, the CESSDA site supplies three
clickable international maps that link users to the sites of 32 other data
archives. [AO]
3. Three New Titles--JSTOR
_The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs_ (continued by _China Journal_)
http://www.jstor.org/journals/01567365.html
_The Philosophical Review_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318108.html
_Population Studies_
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00324728.html
Participating JSTOR Sites
http://www.jstor.org/about/charter.html
JSTOR has recently added three titles to its collection of full-text online
journals: _The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs_ (continued by _China
Journal_) issues 1-33, covering 1979 to 1992; _The Philosophical Review_
volumes 1-103, covering 1892 to 1994; and _Population Studies_ volumes
1-48, covering 1947 to 1994. Note: access to JSTOR contents is currently
available only on a site license basis to academic institutions. A list of
institutions with site licenses is available. [AO]
5. Medieval Feminist Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
The librarians and scholars who maintain the Medieval Feminist Index (MFI)
compile citations for journal articles, book reviews, and essays relating
to women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 CE to 1500 CE).
Currently, MFI contains over 2500 citations from over 350 journals and
essay collections, covering publications in English, French, German, and
Spanish from 1994 through 1997. The entire MFI is searchable by title,
author, subject, source, and date. In addition to these standard search
fields, the descriptive indexing provides searchable fields for geographic
region, century, and article type to facilitate detailed cross-field
searches. Searching the MFI is quite simple, but users should note the
following peculiarities: vague or allusive titles are appended with a
summary sentence to enhance description; subject headings are controlled by
a customized thesaurus, which can be viewed but not browsed; and some full
citation records supply abstracts, but abstracts are not searchable by
keyword. [AO]
7. Logic Resources at Texas A&M University
Logic Primer
http://logic.tamu.edu/Primer/ [frames]
The Logic Daemon Proof Checker
http://logic.tamu.edu/daemon.html [frames]
http://logic.tamu.edu/checker.html [no frames]
The Logic QuizMaster
http://logic.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/quizmaster
Associate Professor Colin Allen and Professor Michael Hand, both of Texas
A&M University, have created an online version of their introductory logic
textbook, _Logic Primer_ (The MIT Press), to supplement the instruction of
formal logic at the university level. The online text consists of four
chapters that provide students with definitions, comments, examples, and
exercises about natural deduction systems, truth tables, and the basic
ideas of model theory. To accompany their text, Allen developed The Logic
Daemon, an automatic proof checker. Students can enter logical proofs into
the form fill-in interface of The Logic Daemon to test the validity of
their arguments. This is an excellent method for immediate feedback on
course assignments. In addition to the primer and the proof checker, the
philosophy department at Texas A&M University offers The Logic QuizMaster,
an interactive question generator produced by Associate Professors
Christopher Menzel and Colin Allen. Students wishing to test their
knowledge of logic can select among several quiz topics, and QuizMaster
will offer help to students who need it. Both instructors and students of
logic will benefit from this integrated learning experience. [AO]
8. Semiotics for Beginners
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/semiotic.html
US Mirror Site:
http://www.argyroneta.com/s4b/semiotic.html
Daniel Chandler, lecturer in Media Theory at the Department of Education in
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and developer of the Media and
Communications Studies (MCS) Site (discussed in the June 28, 1996 issue of
the Scout Report), has written and updated an online introductory textbook
for the study of Semiotics. This very accessible hypertext consists of
fifteen chapters covering the basics of sign creation, sign analysis, and
sign-using behavior, including chapters entitled Modality, Paradigms and
Syntagms, Metaphor and Metonymy, Codes, and Intertextuality. The text also
has a comprehensive linked index, a list of references and suggested
readings, and a list of relevant Websites for further study of Semiotics.
[AO]
9. The Heuneburg Museum: Early Celts on the Upper Danube [frames]
http://www.dhm.de/museen/heuneburg/indexe.html
The Heuneburg on the upper Danube near the town of Hundersingen provides an
on-site archaeological museum that exhibits the history and culture of the
early Celts who were settled in the region from the eighth to fifth
centuries BC. The museum also documents the region's 120 year
archaeological history. This well designed Website demonstrates the
potential for online education and documentation. The online Heuneburg
Museum provides expository information about the early Celts, a chronology
of the Heuneburg region, information about the latest research conducted on
or about the archaeological site, and a virtual Hiking Trail, which allows
visitors to take a detailed tour of the burial mounds and settlements along
the upper Danube. [AO]
10. NMAI Conexus [QuickTime]
http://www.conexus.si.edu/
NMAI Conexus, the online component of the Smithsonian's National Museum of
the American Indian (NMAI), shares the collection of the NMAI "beyond the
Museum's walls" to preserve and exhibit the life, art, history, and
literature of Native Americans. The exhibits currently featured at the site
are "Indian Humor," "Memory & Imagination: The Legacy of Maidu Indian
Artist Frank Day," and "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions."
The work of visiting artists Mario Martinez, a Yaqui painter, and Susie
Silook, a Southern Yup'ik and Inupiaq sculptor, are also highlighted in the
Artist-in-Residence Program. Most of the exhibits at NMAI Conexus consist
of a series of photographic slides accompanied by a brief explanatory
narrative, although one exhibit requires QuickTime. For teachers of all
levels, a free curriculum comprised of four lesson plans to support the
Native Quilts exhibit is available by request. [AO]
11. Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html
The objective of the Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP), an initiative
affiliated with Indiana University's Library Electronic Text Resource
Service (LETRS), is to transcribe the written work of nineteenth-century
British women authors using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. The Victorian
texts in the collection are selected by an intercollegiate advisory board
of experts. The scope of the project encompasses novels, poetry, verse
drama, political pamphlets, religious tracts, and children's books. The
VWWP collection currently contains over 100 complete works by over 30
different writers. More texts are being processed, and the site maintains a
list of proposed transcriptions. Users can access and view the collection
in both HTML and SGML. [AO]
15. The Nordic Metadata Project: Final Report
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm
Word 97 version:
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.doc
The final report of the Nordic Metadata Project is now available in two
formats. The collaborative Nordic Metadata Project created an indexing and
retrieval system based on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. The report
evaluates the existing uses of metadata, recommends enhancements to the
Dublin Core, and discusses three of the project's initiatives: the creation
of Dublin Core to MARC converter, the development of a metadata template
for end-users, and the construction of a metadata-compliant search engine.
[AO]
==============
======== The Scout Report ==
======== August 28, 1998 ====
2. Second Release of George Washington Papers--LOC
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
The Library of Congress (LOC) National Digital Library has recently made
the second Web release of the George Washington Papers. The first
release (discussed in the Scout Report for February 20,
1998--http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-980220.html#1)
featured Series 2, a collection of 41 letterbooks dating from 1774 to
1799. This second release contains Series 2 and also incorporates Series
3, 44 letterbooks from the Revolutionary War Period, and Series 5, 34
volumes of financial papers dated 1750 to 1796 (most of which have not
been published previously). Together, these new additions total
approximately 23,000 images offering excellent insights into both the
Continental Army and Washington's private, public, and military
households. All three series can be searched by keywords or phrases.
Additional resources at this unparalleled online resource for studying
Washington and the young American republic include a comprehensive
bibliography, a timeline, and three essays on the Washington Papers.
[MD]
9. NASA's Fortieth Anniversary: Pioneering The Future
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/40thann/40home.htm
Since its inception on October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) has been a forerunner in many areas of
advanced scientific research, especially in the fields of space
exploration and aeronautics. NASA celebrates forty years of "Pioneering
the Future" with a site that chronicles its illustrious history by
providing access to numerous publications, including detailed
biographies of influential people and declassified government documents.
Together, the texts detail the scientific origins, objectives, and
achievements of NASA. Audio and video clips of the Apollo missions and
archived photographs from the dawn of the space age complement the rich
textual history offered at the site. [AO]
10. Two From American Memory--LOC
The Leonard Bernstein Collection (Preview)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
The US Library of Congress American Memory site has added two more
features to its burgeoning digital historical collection. The first new
offering is a preview of the online Leonard Bernstein collection. With
over 400,000 items, the Bernstein collection is one of the largest held
by the LOC Music Division. This preview offers 85 photos, a complete
Finding Aid (SGML viewer required), a Chronology, and a Bibliography.
The second new addition to American Memory is a collection of
approximately 2800 lantern slides of American buildings and landscapes
constructed between 1850 and 1920. Users can view slides of cities,
specific buildings, public and private parks and gardens, as well as
plans, maps, and models. Special features include a history of Boston's
Park System, an exhibit on New York City Parks in Use in 1912, and a
history of Lantern Slides. Users can search the photo database by
keyword or browse by subject, state, or name. [MD]
12. Mark Rothko Web Feature
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html
Not a virtual exhibition, the Mark Rothko Web Feature by the National
Gallery of Art is really a reference work, providing context and
background information on the artist. The Web Feature was produced in
conjunction with the exhibition, Mark Rothko, at the National Gallery
from May 3 through August 16, 1998, now travelling to the Whitney Museum
of American Art, September 17-November 29, 1998. The resemblance to a
reference book is enhanced by the design of the site, which encourages
visitors to page through images of over 30 paintings in chronological
order. The Gallery has divided Rothko's career into five periods, and a
highlighted navigational bar shows visitors where they are in the
chronology. Rothko's explanations of the philosophies behind his work
and photographs of the artist help to place the work in context. The
actual application of the paint on the canvas is important in Rothko's
work, as in that of other abstract expressionists, and some of this
nuance is not visible in the Web Feature. In fact, three paintings
reproduced as flat black squares, but it is doubtful that these pictures
would reproduce any better in the type of art reference book the Web
Feature emulates. [DS]
14. The Household Cyclopedia of General Information
http://members.xoom.com/mspong/
This 1881 reference book was designed to help nineteenth-century
households stay healthy and productive. Need to know how to winter your
bees? Build a barometer? Bleed a patient with leeches? Your answers are
here. The site, a part-time project of freelance webmaster Matthew
Spong, evokes a time when many households were largely self-sufficient,
and the value of a book explaining how to amputate a limb, for example,
could be immeasurable. Spong discovered Henry Hartshorne's wonderful
compendium in a market in Sydney and has almost completed scanning the
text and converting it to HTML. We look forward to the final chapter,
Miscellaneous, containing everything from Proof-reading to Dialysis.
[TK]
======================
>From The Scout Report (Sept 4,
4. Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts [.pdf]
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
This catalog, maintained by Eric Lease Morgan, a systems librarian at North
California State University, specializes in American literature, English
literature, and philosophy. Alex is particularly helpful because the search
interface allows researchers to both look for documents and search the
content of those documents. Users first search standard fields such as
author, title, or publication date; then they can search the content of
documents they select from their returns list. Though returns in content
searches would be more convenient were they hyperlinked to the complete
record for the text, such a search nonetheless has obvious utility for
someone writing on, for example, flower imagery in Shakespearian sonnets or
Emerson's vision of democracy. Another nice feature of the catalog is the
ability to convert documents to .pdf files on-the-fly (with the font and
spacing customizable). Alternately, users can download the whole collection
of American or English literature or philosophy texts and the tools to
search the texts. [TK]
6. ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
http://www.artlex.com/
Michael Delahunt, an elementary school art teacher, began ArtLex in 1996
"to contribute to the Web's enrichment with an art site both rich with
meaning and dense with links." Currently, ArtLex is a browseable collection
of terms and definitions, often accompanied by images, graphics and links
to museum sites. For example, the definition of papyrus is accompanied by
an image of a fragment of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Clicking on its
caption takes you to the Michael Carlos Museum at Emory University, where
you can view more ancient Egyptian art if you wish. Artists' names are not
included within ArtLex's terms and definitions, but art styles and
movements are, so you can find Monet and at least three example of water
lilies under "Impressionism." Elementary and high school students and
teachers will find ArtLex particularly helpful.[DS]
8. Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (SARA)
http://www.carfax.co.uk/SARA.htm
Carfax, a UK publisher specializing in academic journals, offers this free
service to help academics stay current in their fields. Although the
service is limited solely to journals published by Carfax, users have
hundreds to choose from. Subscribers can select individual titles or
subjects and receive tables of contents by email before the print version
is released. Registration information is provided at the site. [MD]
13. MoMA Online Projects [RealAudio, RealVideo]
http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/index.html
The Museum of Modern Art presents this listing of online projects. Two
featured sites are Stir-Fry and InterNyet, by Associate Curator of Film and
Video, Barbara London. Like the musicologists of the 1930s, who set off to
discover and record blues and folk music in the rural American south,
London travelled to China in 1997 and Russia in 1998, sending back these
"dispatches" on the local arts scenes. She embarked on these journeys
equipped with a laptop computer, Hi-8 video camera, digital still camera,
and cassette tape recorder. Stir-Fry and Internyet are online scrapbooks,
chronicling her experiences via written journal entries, still photographs
of artists and their work, and audio and video clips. Also included are a
time capsule made for the tenth anniversary of World AIDS Day, Peter
Halley's Exploding Cell, and Technology in the 1990s, an ongoing series of
symposia that explore the promise and impact of new technologies on
contemporary culture. [DS]
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