This has not a lot to do with the pricing issue. But I will say that the Bodleian is to be praised for making images available on the web without charge and on the CD for a very reasonable cost.
What I DO want to address (only on the basis of Peter Baker's comment about Mac OS X) is the question of the use of the CD on Macs, either OS 9.x or X. To make CDs that run only on Microsoft operating systems is to exclude a significant subgroup of potential users.
(I only hope that the info about Mac X and the CD is wrong; I suspect it is not.)
In any case, thanks to the Bodleian; I can use the online images. Maybe I'll buy a program to run "the other OS" on my mac or go to the library. Sigh!
Grover Zinn
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--On Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:35 AM -0400 Peter Baker psb6m@virginia.edu wrote:
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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:
Digital Medievalist Journal (Inaugural Issue Fall 2004). Call for papers: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/cfp.htm ---------------- 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
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