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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:48:41 EST
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- From: Ed Haupt <haupt@PILOT.NJIN.NET>
- Subject: Re: Lowry speaking on electronic texts
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- I heard Lowry speak. I found her comments mainly directed to two paradigms
- for making text materials available. Her program at Columbia focussed mainly
- on getting everything available and then trying to find the hardware support
- necessary for the very heterogeneous materials. Sounded like a good approach
- for a research library.
-
- The alternative model is to try to fit everything to a standard format, say
- SGML and make the materials widely available on a campus, as with Michigan
- and now Virginia. This, like Kemeny's use of BASIC, seems good for under-
- graduate instruction.
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- My own questions had to do with the availability of encyclopedias. One
- person there mentioned that there is an Italian encyclopedia available
- electronically. Ehrlich also had a number of disks of electronic texts
- available from NEACH.
-