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Since April 1989, the Center for Text and Technology at Georgetown University has gathered information on the structure of projects that produce electronic text in the humanities. This report — based on the April, 1991 version of the Georgetown Catalogue and emphasizing its full-text projects in humanities disciplines other than linguistics —surveys the countries in which projects are found, the languages encoded, the disciplines served, and the auspices represented. Then the report explores three trends toward the improvement of electronic texts: increased scope of the new projects, improved quality of the editions used, and greater sophistication in the text-analysis tools added. Included among the notes is a list of titles and contacts for 42 projects cited in the report.
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Michael Neuman is Director of Georgetown University's Center for Text and Technology, whose mission is the creation and dissemination of electronic text for the enhancement of teaching and research in the humanities. He has taught English literature, but his recent articles and presentations focus on electronic editions of philosophical works.
James A. Wilderotter 11, Project Assistant at the Center for Text and Technology, has provided many of the compilations in this report and gathered much of the data in the current version of the Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text.
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Neuman, M. The very pulse of the machine: Three trends toward improvement in electronic versions of humanities texts. Comput Hum 25, 363–375 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141186
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00141186