Hello folks, I recently added support for Google Book Search's public domain books to my reprints project: http://www.publicdomainreprints.org In technical...
... Corpus collection and online edition of the correspondence concerning the periodical Van Nu en Straks (Van Nu en Straks was a rather famous and important...
1) Name of project Renascence Editions 2) Supporting and funding organizations (if any) None -- disk space at the University of Oregon and mirrors at U of ...
Curious about the recently announced position: Metadata Librarian, Washington, D.C. (Smithsonian)? Have a question or two about the job? A few staff members...
Dear Digital text members from a new member: I am trying to locate an e-text having the following format: (Greek word in ancient Greek) (Latinized word)...
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By the way the lexicon Nick Hodson recommended can be found at: http://www.archive.org/details/lexiconabridgedf00liddrich This rendition is the Abridged...
Allen Kleiman
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Jan 6, 2008 9:01 pm
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From Shelf Awareness today (http://news.shelf-awareness.com): Yale University Press has received a $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to...
Saturday, January 12th from 1:30pm to 3:30pm, Chestnut room in the Radisson Plaza hotel The JPEG2000 Interest Group of LITA will be holding a business meeting ...
My British Columbia Digital Library (http://www.bcdlib.tc.ca) is first and foremost a guide to international text-based digital collections from cultural...
We are grappling with the issue of simultaneous editions of print/ebooks, in preparation for training on cataloging ebooks. How have you answered these...
Everyone, Since my last "welcome" message in November, the Digital Text Community (DTC) has appreciably grown, currently with 300+ subscribers. A warm welcome...
Hello, I've been lurking for awhile, but Jon's message has convinced me to introduce myself. My name is Nick Ciske. I work for a Christian book printer in...
Hello, Spurred on by Jon's message below, I'd like to introduce myself. I am the Librarian for Digital Collection Development at the UCLA Digital Library...
Hello, My name is Devhra BennettJones. I am the Digital Archivist for the Abilene Library Consortium. We are embarking on a large digitization project of the...
Devhra BennettJones
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Jan 11, 2008 10:23 pm
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I know that several projects represented here in the Digital Text Community employ TEI in some fashion. If your project does, I invite you to briefly describe...
Dear Digital Text Community Participants, Jon Noring and I have prepared "Version 0.1" of a list of text digization projects and posted it to the "Files"...
We all know that copyright laws differ somewhat between countries, but in my case text and illustrations are covered for life+70 years. Sometimes a book has...
Greetings!~ My name is Ryan Anthony Donaldson, and I am an archivist with the Durst Organization, a real estate company based in New York City. The company...
I am another lurker but happy to introduce myself. I am the Director of Digital Content Development for University of California Press. In collaboration with...
I'm John Laurie, Digital Initiatives Librarian, at the University of Auckland. I'm in charge of two ongoing digitisation projects - Early New Zealand Books...
Someone else could probably answer this question better, but I think that I'm the only one associated with the Spenser Archive actually on this mailing list,...
It might be useful for Allen to know that there is a standard method of transliteration from Greek to Western European characters, which is expounded in one of...
Of course you would, but that isn't the point. Allen is looking for a way of reconciling a Greek word in a text with the same Greek word in another text, for...
Dear Friends: One problem is that the Greek is embedded in the English. I attach 4 manipulations of such a page which show different results depending on the ...
Allen Kleiman
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Jan 17, 2008 6:32 pm
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Hi Nick: You have it exactly right. Of course the other members of this group in trying to be helpful don't realize my history and have not been communicating...
Allen Kleiman
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Jan 18, 2008 12:08 am
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Hi All, Here's another introduction along with a question or two. I am scholar in residence at Jews for Jesus in San Francisco. A project I've undertaken is...
... Not sure the metadata is there in the first place. Most libraries that have both clean and useful metadata collections do not provide a public network API...
You might get some ideas by looking at LibraryThing. http://www.librarything.com/ http://www.librarything.com/blog/ You could perhaps create a library in...