Hi all,
I have something coming out very soon (it may already be up, though there was a delay) in Heroic Age #7 (Winter 2003) about the question of making work last until retirement. It looks at the increasingly famous case of the BBC's digital Domesday book as an example of what not to do (though their mistakes were the result of historical infelicity). I'll pass on the URL as soon as I'm home next week or I know it is up (which ever is first). -dan
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That's what UVA's Electronic Text Center does when it can. But it can't always get permission to do so. CETEDOC, to take an example well known to this mob, must be used in situ on CD only. Back when Patrologia Latina was on CD, they gave permission to network it as long as access could be restricted to UVA users. Guess which I was most likely to use?
Peter
Martin K. Foys wrote:
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Sure, sure. But can't you archive most of the CDs, and even run them in network environments, once you have purchased them?
~ Martin Foys
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:14:30 -0600 "Binkley, Peter" Peter.Binkley@ualberta.ca wrote:
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From the point of view of a librarian, CDs are the worst way to distribute
this kind of project. We've got lots of CDs purchased in the '90s on our shelves, that are now unusable due to deterioration of the media or obsoleteness of the platform. Anything that depends on current browsers will suffer the same fate before many more of us have tenure. An online source, with institutional backing that ensures it will stay online and be maintained as technology changes, is much to be prefered. I'd be willing to sacrifice a lot of functionality for the sake of permanence, since the functionality will evaporate anyway with the next generation of browsers. The ongoing institutional support has to be sufficient to re-engineer the project from time to time to keep it working with new browsers and other tools as yet unimagined, which is no small commitment. It makes sense therefore to avoid doing one-off development and instead develop standard tools and protocols for presenting these projects. Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services 4-30 Cameron Library University of Alberta Libraries Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 Phone: (780) 492-3743 Fax: (780) 492-9243 e-mail: peter.binkley@ualberta.ca
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Thanks for this clarification, Elizabeth. I was very excited > to
find the > Bod's images site just as I was preparing to teach Exodus to my >grad. > seminar last spring. What the Bod is doing here seems a good > solution: > the images are available for free; you can get an accurate > text of the > Junius poems free too. But the CD adds value for those > willing and able > to pony up the (perfectly reasonable) £50.
Well, it adds value for most. Not for me, since I run Linux. >
Not for the > large numbers of medievalists who run Mac OS X. I think it a really > dreadful mistake to use MS's extensions to JavaScript,
forcing people to > use The Worst Browser Now Available. On the
other hand, the > Dictionary > of Old English made the same mistake, so at least you're in > good company.
Peter Elizabeth Solopova wrote:
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Dear All,
The Junius 11 CD-ROM (Bodleian Digital Texts 1) was published by the Bodleian rather than OUP. The Bodleian supported the project >
financially (the development of software), provided the images and > contributed to the development of the interface. All the > technical
and > >academic work was done by Burnard Muir and his team. The > images published > >on the CD were already available when the work on the > project started six > >years ago: they are still available free of charge for > personal use by > >researchers via Early Manuscripts at Oxford University > >(http://image.ox.ac.uk/). The next project in the series > will be MS. Auct. > >F. 2.13 (Terence's Comedies). The images are also available > via the Early > >Manuscripts at Oxford University site. The CD-ROM works only > with Internet > >Explorer because Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript > was used (you may
have noticed the use of JavaScript in the extract posted by >
Martin). As far > >as I know Burnard Muir's team will try to overcome this > limitation in the > >next CD-ROM.
Elizabeth
Dr. Elizabeth Solopova Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts Bodleian Library Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG Tel.: +44 (0)1865-277073 E-mail: es@bodley.ox.ac.uk Internet: > >http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/
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