A Brief Description of the Labyrinth Project

Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine, Co-Directors

Sponsored by Georgetown University

The Labyrinth is a global information network providing free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and hypertext links provide automatic connections to databases, services, and electronic texts on other servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of information on the Internet and World Wide Web.

In addition, the Labyrinth will include a full range of new resources: an electronic library, on-line forums, professional directories and news, on-line bibliographies, an on-line "university" of teachers and scholars available for electronic conferencing, and an archive of pedagogical tools.

This project will not only provide an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but it will also serve as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.

If you would like to contribute to this collaborative project, please send your suggestions and questions to the Co-Directors:
Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart
labyrinth@gusun.georgetown.edu


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