Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (01/12/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 924. Thursday, 11 Jan 1990. (1) Date: 11 January 90, 10:40:33 MEZ (73 lines) From: Dr. Gerd Willee 0228 - 73 56 20 UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1 Subject: German e-texts (2) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 07:42:22 EST (53 lines) From: munnari!csc2.anu.OZ.AU!dgn612@uunet.UU.NET (David Nash) Subject: Archiving (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 January 90, 10:40:33 MEZ From: Dr. Gerd Willee 0228 - 73 56 20 UPK000 at DBNRHRZ1 Subject: German e-texts ============================================================ Machine readable texts and lists available in Bonn, FRG: ======================================================= The IKS e.V., related to the University of Bonn, distributes the following machine readable texts and lists on floppies to be used under DOS to scientific users: 1) The works of Immanuel Kant (Vol I - IX of the Akademie-Edition) The texts are marked for page and line respectively, so that an identification of text references in the printed version is possible. contains about 1.4 million current wordforms, 10 MB) As the text had been keypunched originally without indicating the capitals, the texts are available in lowercase only in the moment. The insertion of the capitals is presently being done. - File preindexed with WordCruncher(TM) including the text as plain ASCII-files ........................... 1,250.00 DM - Plain ASCII-files only .............................. 1,000.00 DM ==> The use of the preindexed file is possible only with the ViewETC component of WordCruncher. 2) LIMAS Corpus of Modern Written German a representative corpus compiled following the same principles which have been used for the Brown Corpus, contains about 1 million current wordforms, 10 MB) - File preindexed with WordCruncher(TM) including the text as plain ASCII-file ............................ 1,250.00 DM - Plain ASCII-file only ............................... 1,000.00 DM ==> The use of the preindexed file is possible only with the ViewETC component of WordCruncher. 3) Frequency lists to the LIMAS Corpus (lemmatized) - List of the 2,000 most frequent wordforms ............ 200.00 DM - List of the 10,000 most frequent wordforms ............ 950.00 DM 4) BONNLEX - Word Data Base of Modern German Contains about 300,000 entries (basic forms and wordforms) with morphologicals, syntactic, and semantic indications. The part containing the LIMAS-word forms (about 110.000 entries) (ca. 30 MB) can be obtained either on mag tape or on optical disk (WORM) ................................. 2,500.00 DM Please contact for further information and/or orders IKS e.V. c/o Dr. Gerd Willee Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 5300 Bonn 1, FRG EARN/BITNET: upk000 at dbnrhrz1 All prices listed above are indicated in German Marks. (2) --------------------------------------------------------------75---- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 90 07:42:22 EST From: munnari!csc2.anu.OZ.AU!dgn612@uunet.UU.NET (David Nash) Subject: Archiving MEETING NOTICE... The Canberra On-line Users Group of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) is convening a seminar "Punch-cards on PCs? : Coping with machine readable records in libraries and archives" Wednesday 28 March 1990 Burgmann College, ANU Canberra It is proposed to consider such questions as: [selection] * how do you restore your backups on DOS 2.3 if you have a new 4.0 machine? * how do you manage today's data so it can be accessed in the future e.g. thirty years time? * how do you supervise access to machine readable records to prevent massaging of data? * is a computer produced map a publication? Programme items include: * Findings of ACLIS Working Party on preservation of Machine Readable Records * Report from Australian Council of Archives Standing Committee on Machine Readable Records * Report on Australian Archives Workshop for Disposal Staff Cost including morning and afternoon teas and lunch: ALIA members $30 non-members $50 For further details contact: Jean Geue Telephone: (062)832303 Geraldine Triffitt Linguistics Bibliographer Library Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) GPO Box 553 Fax: (062)497310 Canberra ACT 2601 Telegraphic: ABINST Telephone: (062)461177 or through the poster of this note, David Nash <dgn612@csc2.anu.oz.au>.