American Council of Learned Societies
Occasional Paper No. 37



Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship:
Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges—
The United States Focus



APPENDICES:

Links to Projects and Services
Brief Bibliography and References
Acknowledgements



LINKS TO PROJECTS AND SERVICES

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R |
S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

A
a.k.a.
ALEX: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
Alexandria Digital Library
AltaVista search engine
American Arts and Letters Network (AALN)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
American Verse Project
ARCH-L <ARCH-L@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU>
ARGOS: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet
ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Arts and Humanities Data Service
AUSTEN-L <AUSTEN-L@vm1.mcgill.ca>
Up to Index

B
Bakhtin Centre
Beazley Archive
Berkeley Finding Aid Project
BLAISE-LINE
British National Corpus
Brown Storyspace Cluster
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
BUBL
Up to Index

C
Canterbury Tales Project
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology
Clearinghouse of Image Databases and IMAGELIB listserv archives
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Collaboratory for the Humanities
Collate <PETERR@VAX.OX.AC.UK>
Collate
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive
Critical Inquiry
CTI Centre for Music
Critical Inquiry
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D
DAEDALUS (A Video-Database of Images and Sources for Ancient Greek Sculptures and Their Work) <UDCL006@UK.AC.KCL.CC.OAK>
Dartmouth Dante Project <Telnet://baker.dartmouth.edu:1835/>
DESCARTES-L <DESCARTES-L@bucknell.edu>
DELEUZE-GUATTARI
Dictionary of Old English <healey@doe.utoronto.ca>
Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Project <mcgrathm@doaks.org>
Dynatext
Up to Index

E
Early American Fiction Archive
Early Modern Literary Studies
Eastgate Systems, Inc.
Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction
Electronic Beowulf
Electronic Text Library
Electronic Poetry Center
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Centre on Micro-Social Change
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Ethnomusicology Online
European State Finance Database Project <his2@uk.ac.leicester>
Up to Index

F
Ford Foundation
Up to Index

G
Getty Information Institute (GII)
William Elliot Griffis Collection
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Up to Index

H
Hartlib Papers Project <HARTLIB@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
History Reviews Online
H-Net
HUMANIST
Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute
Humanities Text Initiative
HUMBUL
Huntington Library's William Blake Works <Roosa@romeo.caltech.edu>
HyperCard
Up to Index

I
Infoseek search engine
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
INTERDIS <INTERDIS@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU>
International Philosophical Preprint Exchange
Internet Archaeology
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Up to Index

J
Johns Hopkins University Press e-publishing
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
Journal of Seventeeth Century Music
JSTOR
Up to Index

L
Labyrinth
Language Visualization and Multilayer Text Analysis
Linguistic Data Consortium
LION: Literature Online
Literary Resources on the Net
Lycos search engine
Up to Index

M
Macromedia
Making of America Project
Mapping London in the 1690s <metrolon@ulcc.clus1.ac.uk>
Machine-Readable Spoken English Corpus <EIA008@UK.AC.LANCASTER.CENTRAL>
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Mississippi Review
Morelli Project <UBWC002@BBK.CU.AC.UK>
Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
Up to Index

N
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Digital Library Federation (NDLF)
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
NISS (National Information Services and Systems)
Up to Index

O
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)
Oriental Institute Virtual Museum
Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) <OCP@VAX.OX.AC.UK>
Oxford Text Archive
Up to Index

P
Panorama
Perseus
Pew Charitable Trusts
PHIL-LIT <phil-lit-request@tamvm1.tamu.edu>
PHILOS-L <PHILOS-L@UK.AC.LIVERPOOL>
Postmodern Culture and PMC-MOO
Project Muse
Project Open Book
Project Utopia, Cornell University <hth2@comell.edu>
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire <UDLC052@uk.ac.kcl.cc.elm>
Prosopography of Italian Renaissance University Teachers and Students <P.R.DENLEY@UK.AC.QMW>
Project Open Book
PSYCHE-D <PSYCHE-D@iris.rfmh.org>
Psycholoquy
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R
REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources
Research Libraries Group
Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN)
RIF/T
Rockefeller Foundation
Roman Bath <A.Bowyer@uk.ac.bath>
Rossetti Room
Up to Index

S
SGML Web Page
Slavic Review
Smithsonian
Spencer Foundation
SPIRO: Architecture Image Database
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University's Digital Library Project
STELLA
Storyspace (Eastgate)
Up to Index

T
Teaching and Learning Technology Programme: Music Consortium <CTIMUSIC@UK.AC.LANCASTER>
Text Encoding Initiative
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Thesaurus Linguarum Hiberniae
TORGO: WebTool for On-Line Journal Research
Toolbook (Asymetrix)
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Up to Index

U
UC Berkeley Digital Library Project
University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign Digital Libraries Initiative
University of Michigan Digital Library Project
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
University of Michigan Press Digital Publishing Department
Up to Index

V
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Victorian Web
Victorian Women Writers Project
Voice of the Shuttle
VRoma
Up to Index

W
Web-Cite
Webcrawler search engine
Wellington Papers Database <C.M.WOOLGAR@UK.AC.SOTON>
Wesleyan Confucian Project
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Women Writers Project
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BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES

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Bailey, C. W., Jr. "Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 6.1 (1995). Web version 26(10/25/96).http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.html.

Baker, K. M. Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Bearman, D., ed. Research Agenda for Networked Cultural Heritage. Santa Monica: Getty Art History Information Program, 1996.

Besser, H., and J. Trant. Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database. Santa Monica: Getty Art History Information Program, 1995.

Burkholder, L. (ed.), Philosophy and the Computer. Boulder, Co.: Westview, 1992.

Burnard, L., and H. Short. An Arts and Humanities Data Service: Report of a Feasibility Study Comissioned by the Information Systems Sub-Committee of the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils.Oxford, 1994.

Burrows, J. F. Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels and an Experiment in Method. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

Conway, P.. Preservation in the Digital World. Washington, D.C: Commission on Preservation and Access, 1996.

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Kouzes, R. T., J. D. Myers, and W .A. Wulf. "Collaboratories: Doing Science on the Internet," Computer 29.8 (1996): 40-46.

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Leslie, M. "The Hartlib Papers Project: Text Retrieval with Large Datasets." Literary and Linguistic Computing 5.1 (1990): 58-69.

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Mawdsley, E., N. Morgan, L. Richmond, and R. Trainor, eds. History and Computing III, Historians, Computers and Data: Applications in Research and Training. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.

McCarty, W. "Selective Bibliography for Humanities Computing." 2nd ed. http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/info/biblio/index.html.

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Michelson, A., and J. Rothenberg. `Scholarly Communication and Information Technology: Exploring the Impact of Changes in the Research Process on Archives." American Archivist 55.2 (Spring 1992).

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Mulvaney, J., and C. Steele. Changes in Scholarly Communication Patterns: Australia and the Electronic Library. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1993.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Any errors and omissions are the sole responsibility of the editors. The energy and spirit behind this publication can be attributed to many creative, thoughtful individuals who have supported humanities computing and fostered excellence in the projects and programs with which they are associated. These people include Susan Hockey, University of Alberta; David Bearman, Archives and Museum Informatics; Janet Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Michael Joyce, Vassar College; Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky; Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan; N. Katherine Hayles, University of California at Los Angeles; Jennifer Trant, Archives and Museum Informatics; Joseph Busch, Getty Information Institute; Ann Kenny, Cornell University; Willard McCarty, Kings College, London; and Peter Lyman, University of California at Berkeley.

Thanks also to Stanley N. Katz, President, American Council of Learned Societies; Douglas C. Bennett, President, Earlham College (formerly Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies); Joan Lippincott, Associate Director, Coalition for Networked Information; David Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage; and Duane Webster, Executive Director, Association for Research Libraries, for their ongoing support of a better understanding of the transformational potential of humanities computing.

Special recognition is due to the late Paul Evan Peters, whose encouragement and tireless efforts on behalf of the humanities will remain an invaluable part of his legacy. One need only look about to see what he helped build.

Contents
Preface | I. Background
II. Information Technology and Scholarship | III. New Developments and Change
IV. To Challenge and Invigorate Future Scholarship | V. Principal Recommendations and Follow-up Activities
APPENDICES