Excellent Adventure

Here's what we went to and the proposed schedule for it

Here's why we went: we're working on interactive Web sites for classes -- for instance, the current Truth in Society project, and Russ' Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama site from last term -- and we hoped to get some insight into better ways of doing this.

Here's some of what we learned about:

• The Dalhousie Electronic Text Center
• David Seaman and the Virginia Electronic Text Center, including
• Some background on SGML and what it lets you do
• What's available at the ETC
• John Barnstead's site on Mikhail Kuzmin
• David Jaffee at CCNY and his course on The Historian and the Computer
• Ronald Tetreau'scourse on Electronic Texts and Textual Criticism, and his site for the 200th anniversary of Lyrical Ballads

• The demonstration Halifax Explosion site
• The room we met in, as it looked in December 1917
• The Jefferson Village site on "The Valley of the Shadow"
• The Mark Twain Project