: Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings 9-10 June 1992 by Library Of Congress Daly James Editor - Text processing (Computer science) Congresses; Electronic books; Electronic publishing Congresses

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Proceedings Welcome Prosser Gifford and Carl Fleischhauer

Appendix I: Program

Appendix II: Abstracts

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Carl Fleischhauer and Prosser Gifford for the opportunity to learn about areas of human activity unknown to me a scant ten months ago, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for supporting that opportunity. The help given by others is acknowledged on a separate page.

INTRODUCTION

The Workshop on Electronic Texts drew together representatives of various projects and interest groups to compare ideas, beliefs, experiences, and, in particular, methods of placing and presenting historical textual materials in computerized form. Most attendees gained much in insight and outlook from the event. But the assembly did not form a new nation, or, to put it another way, the diversity of projects and interests was too great to draw the representatives into a cohesive, action-oriented body.

Everyone attending the Workshop shared an interest in preserving and providing access to historical texts. But within this broad field the attendees represented a variety of formal, informal, figurative, and literal groups, with many individuals belonging to more than one. These groups may be defined roughly according to the following topics or activities:

This summary is arranged thematically and does not follow the actual sequence of presentations.

NOTES: In this document, the phrase electronic text is used to mean any computerized reproduction or version of a document, book, article, or manuscript , and not merely a machine- readable or machine-searchable text.

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