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From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries / Moderator, ExLibris
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 14:23 EST
From: Susan Hockey <HOCKEY@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject: Possible and impossible queries
The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is now making plans
to provide some texts for access over the Internet. Our focus
is on scholarly texts in the humanities and we want to provide
texts with software that really addresses the concerns of humanities
scholarship.
I would like to find out from HUMANISTs what queries (or tasks) they
would like to perform on electronic texts, which they have been
unable to do with existing software tools and text databases. In
order to keep this discussion focussed, anything to do with printing
or screen display should be excluded. Anything else, whether big
or small, is of interest. Please do not be constrained by what you
know of existing tools, although it's often useful to start by
comparison with those.
Susan Hockey
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Rutgers and Princeton Universities