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In view of our now-nearly-two-year-old discussion of what we might like to see in an electronic REED volume, I thought that this might be of general interest. I remain convinced that we need to think of a way, in conjunction with the University press, of making our records electronically searchable, but I am equally sure that any such text needs not only to be tagged in SGML but also in some kind of HTML format. That of course is the sting in the tail, because the resources of 'time, talent, and treasure' which would be needed to do that not even well, but just adequately, are immense. In any case, I think it will be worthwhile for those of the net.privileged who have WWW access to browse this text and see what their solution to a similar problem is like. A. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:04:15 -0600 From: John Nathan Tolva <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list FICINO <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Hypertext _Shepheardes Calender_ Hi there. It has been a while since I posted to the group so I'll reintroduce myself. My name is John Tolva and I am a grad student in English lit at Washington University in St. Louis. My advisor and I are hard at work on a hypertext edition of Spenser's poem _The Shepheardes Calender_. This edition, about a third finished, will include a full facsimile reproduction (Q1), linked access to all textual variants, and annotations. In addition, E.K.'s glosses have been linked to their lemmata in the text of the poem. We're working on other features such as a concordance and a Hinman collator-type method of analyzing different copies of Q1. Estimated completion date is the end of summer. We are editing in the environment known as Storyspace but we will eventually export it to the WWW for free public access. For more information please check out my home page at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jntolva The page is mostly devoted to the subject of the technology of writing and how the effects of the printing press, the slow end of scribal culture, and coterie dynamics changed English literature--with a discussion of the correlative changes being wrought by today's widespread computerization. I'd like to hear your comments including places that I should be linked to/from and things that I need to discuss more fully. Thanks. If you don't have web access my address is listed below. I can send you info. Note: This message has been cross-posted (in slightly altered format) to the lists ht_lit and H-CLC. Sorry. ______________________________ John Tolva [log in to unmask] http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~jntolva/ (314) 727-7547