I will forward this one more example of the text-e pages to be sure it isn't missed (typos and all). It appears quite interesting. See the link at the bottom. --pg
info@text-e.org wrote:
> Text-e is on line since October 15th. Some eight thousand people have visited it and opened an average of ten pages in the site. The first text by Roger Chartier was downloaded in one of the formats on offer by more than a thousand people, in all three languages. Around sixty comments, sent by participants all over the world - from Moscow to San Paolo and from London to Ottawa - made up thirteen different discussion strings, to which was added Roger Chartier's exhaustive response, available in the thre
> All kinds of messages were e-mailed to us; some expressed interest in the initiative and offered encouragement, while others were requests for help or clarifications; others still were critical of the format, the modalities of use or the technical tools we adopted. In sum: this is text in all its states. In order to understand the needs of the public, respond to technical queries, deal with issues of organization and content and find out, on the basis of this
> first conference, about whbility of digital texts and the editorial need to 'seal' a text.
> We have made changes to the site in response to your various requests: only through trial and error could we find out what did not work. Text-e is not just the place where the symposium is happening - it is the very object of the symposium. It is a set of texts in various formats which at once perform and reinvent the social and cultural event that is a symposium. It is a new object, a cultural hybrid whose very definition is modified by each new discussion and each new comment. All of us, here in text>
> Gloria Origgi & Noga Arikha
>
>
> ________________________________________________
>
> http://text-e.org/index.cfm
--
Peter S. Graham Syracuse University Library psgraham@syr.edu
Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 315/443-5530 fax 315/443-2060 NW4.7 w1/01