Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0185. Wednesday, 12 Aug 1992. Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:22:16 +0100 (BST) From: Oxford Text Archive Subject: Oxford Text Archive: new catalogue available A new version of the Oxford Text Archive's Shortlist is now available, from the usual sources (details at the end of this message). A few copies of the last published catalogue (April 1992) are also still available on request; we're not sure when we'll be reprinting again, as it's now getting rather too expensive to print. Since April of this year, we've acquired about 30 new texts. The text number and brief details, including depositor's name and affiliation, follow. We'd like to record our gratitude, on behalf of the scholarly community, to those depositors who support the Archive by depositing texts with us, and also those who take existing texts, enhance them and then re-deposit them. We greatly appreciate their altruism, which shines 'like a good deed in a naughty world' even though we may not always get the time to say so! Lou Burnard Alan Morrison OTA ACCESSIONS SINCE APRIL 1992 1. Newly deposited texts: 1696: Joyce, Finnegans wake (Donald Theall, Trent Univ) 1699: Treaty on European Union: Maastricht, February 1992). (David Pollard Publishing) 1700: Serbo-Croatian text corpus (Henning Moerk, Aarhus Univ.) 1681: Selected Harley lyrics, ed Brooks (John Price-Wilkin, Michigan) 1683: Octovian (John Price-Wilkin, Michigan) 1690: Pope, Rape of the lock (Hugh Robertson, Huddersfield) 1703: Wordlists derived from the CHILDES database (Jane Edwards, Berkeley) Plus the following new titles from Project Gutenberg: 1697: Hawthorne, The scarlet letter 1692: Sophocles (translations), Oedipus trilogy 1695: Gilman, Herland 1701-2: Wells, War of the Worlds; The time machine 2. New versions of existing texts 1691: The King James Bible (Andrews, Saskatchewan) 1704: Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (Bear, Oregon) 52: Malamud, The Assistant (Peter Gilliver, OED) Plus the following titles, all reformatted using an SGML-like encoding by John Price-Wilkin at Michigan: 1694: The works of Mr William Shakespeare (1623) 1675: Alliterative Morte Arthure 1676: Anthology of Chancery English 1677: Gower, Confessio amantis 1678: Chaucer, Canterbury tales 1679: Everyman 1680: Sir Gawayne and the grene knyght 1682: Layamon,Brut 1684: Owl and the nightingale 1685: Paston family, Letters and papers of the 15th century vol 1 only 1686: Pearl 1687: Langland, The vision of Piers Plowman (B text) 1688: The siege of Jerusalem 1689: Chaucer,Troilus & Criseyde 1693: Michigan early modern English materials HOW TO GET COPIES OF THE OTA SHORTLIST 1. By FTP You must have an account on a machine which is connected to the Internet to use this method. If you do, type FTP black.ox.ac.uk at it. If it gives an unhelpful response, try FTP 129.67.1.165 instead. If all is well, it will reply Connected to ... (blah blah blah) You will be prompted to supply a Name. Enter FTP You will prompted for a password. At this point you can type 'strawberry jam' or whatever you like; we'd be grateful if you just typed in your real e-mail address. It will say Guest login ok: access restrictions apply. ftp> You are now talking to the standard File Transfer Protocol program. You can do a variety of things, which your local computer support people can explain to you a lot better than I. For the purposes of illustration however, let's assume you want to (a) check what is currently available (b) obtain a copy of the current shortlist from the Archive. To do (a), you should type cd /ota (this selects the Text Archive directory ls (this lists all the filenames and directories there or ls -l (this does the same thing, but with an embarassing wealth of (detail about their sizes, access permissions etc. To do (b), you should type cd /ota (this selects the Text Archive directory get textarchive.list (this requests a copy of the formatted version (of the OTA snapshot. It will be transferred then and there (to a file of the same or similar name on your machine. or get textarchive.list foo.bar (this does the same thing, but renames the file as 'foo.bar' Other useful files: textarchive.info : general information about the Archive textarchive.sgml : same information as in textarchive.list, but in SGML textarchive.form : order form (also included in textarchive.info) When you've finished, remember to type bye to return to your own machine. 2. By request from the Humanist ListServer Send a mail message to Listserv@brownvm.brown.edu, containing the line GET OTALIST SGML (for the SGML version) or GET OTALIST LIST (for the formatted version) 3. By request You can send us email requests to either of the following addresses, and we'll do our best to reply within 24 hours -- holidays and other committments permitting. ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX (Janet) archive@ox.ac.uk (InterNet) Oxford Text Archive Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN, UK tel. +44 (865) 273238 fax +44 (865) 273275