R I Caddel wrote:
> . Without promising any
> quick fixes, can I ask WHAT people - including the expressers of
> concern,
> but not excluding the others - wd like to see / or even participate
> in?
>
> By the end of the month the list should be accessible by way of
> Chadwyck
> Healey's Literature Online (LION) project
How about a conversation about the LION project? See
http://www.chadwyck.co.uk/lion/
CH say this project "defines the future of publishing on the Web".
Defines, mind you. A commercial service that puts large resources of
full-text literature at the disposal of those who buy or (now) annually
subscribe, (including lots of educational institutions who can network
it for free use by staff & students) and which also, through the element
they call the "Master Index", is going to start pointing its customers
at other literary websites, including free & independent ones, that it
deems of a suitable quality. (Not sure whether the selected sites will
be offered profit shares...) Approaching the end of out-of-copyright
stuff, they're busily acquiring rights to electronic publication of
recent and contemporary authors too.
Sorry, you all probably know all that. (I'm always trying to introduce
old friends at parties, too.) But what do you think about it? (I think
someone from Chadwyck Healy is on this list?)
elizabeth
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Elizabeth James
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7 2RL
+44 (0)171 938 8460; fax +44 (0)171 938 8461
"to catalogue is not merely to ascertain ... but also to appropriate"
(R. Barthes)
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