Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Projects:

The World of Dante Parker, Deborah, Professor of Italian Resident Fellow 1997 [2006] The World of Dante The World of Dante offers a hypermedia environment for the study of the Inferno. This project is designed to appeal to the different purposes of a wide range of readers, not simply those with scholarly interests. This version of the Inferno is generated by software from a densely encoded electronic text. Unlike other versions of the poem presently online, this copy of the Inferno has been tagged using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).

Aquae Urbis Romae Rinne, Katherine Wentworth, Independent Scholar Resident Fellowship: 1998 [2006] Aquae Urbis Romae An interactive cartographic history of the relationship between hydrological and hydraulic systems and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Italy from 753 BC to the present day. Aquae Urbis Romae examines the intersection between natural hydrological elements such as springs, rain, streams, marshes, and the Tiber River, and tectonic hydraulic elements such as aqueducts, fountains, sewers, bridges, conduits, etc., that together create the water infrastructure system of Rome.

English Medieval Architecture: A Model for Design Process Analysis Reilly, Lisa, Associate Professor Resident Fellowship: 2006-2008 English Medieval Architecture: A Model for Design Process Analysis This project will explore the extent to which later medieval ecclesiastical architecture in England is determined by the fact that it is typically an addition to a pre-existing physical structure and how it is a response to cultural issues such as program, patronage and external stylistic influences. Multi-dimensional dynamic digital models will be developed for this investigation, which will be available on the web for those with an interest in the specific case studies as well as scholars concerned with developing new methodologies for research in architectural history.

The Vivarium Digital Library of Latin Literature Nancy Llewellyn, Independent Scholar Independent Scholar 2005-2006 The Vivarium Digital Library of Latin Literature The Vivarium Digital Library of Latin Literature is new kind of online library of Latin texts in which all periods of Latin literature will be represented and made accessible to a wider public. The texts themselves will act as portals, putting the user in instant contact with a universe of digital tools for interdisciplinary research, interpretation, study and teaching. The name Vivarium Digital Library was chosen by an international group of scholars working on the project to honor the original Vivarium, a unique library and cultural institution founded by the great 6th-century Italian philosopher and diplomat Cassiodorus.

Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive Dobrin, Lise, Assistant Professor Associate Fellowship: 2005 Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive The project will create a rich digital repository of sound recordings, text, and grammatical information about the endangered Arapesh family of languages, which are known to linguistic science for their unusual sound-based noun classification and agreement systems. Traditionally spoken by people living along the New Guinea north coast, in many villages Arapesh is no longer being learned by children, who grow up speaking the local lingua franca Tok Pisin instead. In addition to ensuring that Arapesh is preserved in a robust form for future generations, the Digital Language Archive will serve as a research tool for the other part of Dobrin's project, producing a written grammar of Arapesh focusing on the Cemaun dialect. A multilingual, multimedia web site will also be developed to provide the public with an accessible resource on this remarkable group of languages.

The Lives of Saints : The Medieval French Hagiography Project Ogden Amy, Associate Professor of French Resident Fellow 2005-2007 The Lives of Saints : The Medieval French Hagiography Project The "Lives of the Saints" Project will focus on those Lives that were written in French (including Anglo-Norman but not Occitan), in verse or prose or both between c. 880 and 1504 of the Christian era. These texts (also known collectively as hagiography) were arguably the most widely enjoyed literary and religious works of the Middle Ages. Today, however, most of them languish in manuscript vaults and in faulty, rare, century-old editions; very few have been translated into modern French or English. One main goal of this project is to demonstrate both the central role of hagiography in medieval French culture and the inherent appeal of the works in order to stimulate further research, especially the preparation of editions and translations that will make the Lives accessible to all readers.

St. Gall Monastery Plan Frischer, Bernard, Director of IATH Resident Research: 2005 St. Gall Monastery Plan This site will provide access to the results of our long-term project of creating an extensive collection of the Plan of St. Gall. In addition to a variety of digital representations of the plan itself, the collection will include detailed information on each element of the plan, its contemporary context and its impact on early medieval monastic architecture and culture. The resulting collection, as made available via this site, will have the breadth and depth of information that will enable substantive new scholarship. The Plan of St. Gall is the earliest preserved and most extraordinar visualization of a building complex produced in the Middle Ages. Ever since th Plan was created at the monastery of Reichenau sometime in the period 819-2 A.D., it has been preserved in the Monastic Library of St. Gall (Switzerland)

Leonardo Da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting Fiorani, Francesca,, Assistant Professor Resident Fellowship: 2004-2006 Leonardo Da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting The main scope of the project is the creation of an electronically based archive for a comparative search of the textural and graphic tradition connected to Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, The only text by Leonardo that circulated widely from the mid-sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century.

Digital Roman Forum Frischer, Bernard, Director of IATH Principal Investigator Digital Roman Forum The Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVRLab UCLA) created a digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity. The notional date of the model is June 21, 400 A.D. The purpose of the modeling project was to spatialize information and theories about how the Forum looked at this moment in time, which was more or less the height of its development as Rome's civic and cultural center. The digital model includes over twenty features (buildings and major monuments) filling up the western zone of the Roman Forum from the Temple of Vesta and Temple of Antoninus and Faustina on the east to the Tabularium facing the western slope of the Capitoline Hill.

Chaco Canyon: Building a Digital Research Archive Plog, Stephen, Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology Resident Fellowship: 2003-2005 Chaco Canyon: Building a Digital Research Archive The goal of the Chaco archive is to electronically integrate the widely dispersed information on Chacoan history in order to allow scholars to more effectively and efficiently address the many unresolved issues regarding culture change and organization in the canyon and in the broader region. These issues have broader implications as well since they are central to achieving a better understanding of Pueblo history throughout the Southwest and to more broadly studying the nature of human sociopolitical organization and change.

The Circus in America: 1793-1940 Hoh, LaVahn G., Professor Resident Fellowship: 2002-2004 The Circus in America: 1793-1940 The Circus In America, 1793 - 1940 examines the unique characteristics, cultural impact, and relationships in the development of the circus as one of the most popular and significant forms of entertainment in America. The site looks at the circus' transition from small performer operated shows into big business. As circuses grew so did the associated problems. The circus developed unique solutions to their problems and these solutions were adopted by other industries. Likewise, the circus learned valuable lessons from industry and used those ideas to their benefit. One prominent example was the switch from wagons to railroads for transporting the shows. The circus shared many of the recurring problems of theatre and vaudeville such as maintaining fresh shows with unique acts.

Traditions of Exemplary Women: Liu Xiang's Lienü zhuan Kinney, Anne Behnke, Professor of Chinese Resident Fellowship: 2001 Traditions of Exemplary Women: Liu Xiang's Lienü zhuan This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Traditions of Exemplary Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists of biographical accounts of female role models in early China and became the standard textbook for women's education for the next two millennia. The Lienü zhuan offers important insights into the culture, politics, and social structure of early China, as well as into the representation of women in various phases of China's history. This project includes a translation of the text, a book-length study, and a digital archive that will serve as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly exploration (in both English and Chinese) of women's social, legal, and ritual status as represented in the texts of specific periods in Chinese history.

The Ukrainian Village Project Kononenko, Natalie, Professor of Slavic Languages, Literatures and Folklore Associate Fellowship: 2001 The Ukrainian Village Project The Ukrainian Village Project seeks to present the folklore and ethnography of Ukraine. Folklore is the artistic expression of the most fundamental beliefs of a culture. It articulates ideas about the relationships among people and between humans and the world around them. It is the key to understanding a culture at the grassroots level. At present, the project focuses on material culture, namely a three-dimensional model of a real village house located in the village of Iavorivka, Drabivs'kyi raion, Cherkas'ka oblast, Ukraine and samples of costumes and ritual towels from the same region.

Social Justice: History and Education Vasquez-Levy, Dorothy, Associate Fellowship: 2000 Social Justice: History and Education The aim of this project was to provide reliable scholarly documentary and simulations of the United States Civil Rights Movement to encourage critical analysis of social responsibility, social change, and social justice.

The Salem Witch Trials, Documentary Archive and Transcription Project Ray, Ben, Professor Resident Fellowship: 2000 The Salem Witch Trials, Documentary Archive and Transcription Project The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records. The Documentary Archive is created under the supervision of Professor Benjamin C. Ray, University of Virginia. The Transcription project is supervised by Professor Bernard Rosenthal, University of Binghamton. Together with a team of scholars, Professor Rosenthal is undertaking a new transcription of the original court records, titled Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, to be published by Cambridge University Press.

Evolutionary Infrastructure: Boston's Back Bay Fens Poole, Kathy, Independent Scholar Resident Fellowship: 2000 Evolutionary Infrastructure: Boston's Back Bay Fens The case study is Boston's Back Bay Fens and its surrounding urban landscape. The Fens is an urban park designed in 1878 by legendary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., his inaugural jewel for the chain of parks dubbed the Emerald Necklace. It is also central to the planned districts ofBack Bay and the Fenway, critically important additions to Boston Enabled by a massive 19th c. landfill operation. Together the park and its neighborhoods form the Fens landscape, a model urban design.

The Samantabhadra Project Germano, David, Associate Professor Resident Fellowship: 1999 The Samantabhadra Project The Samantabhadra Collection is a collaborative electronic project centered around the reproduction, analysis, interpretation, and translation of Tibetan literature in the Nyingma tradition. The Nyingma (rnying ma) schools of Tibetan Buddhism represent the oldest lineages of Buddhism in Tibet, dating back to the eighth century during the height of the great Tibetan Empire and continuing to thrive in the twenty-first century. The Collection is named after Samantabhadra (Tibetan, kun tu bzang po), the primordial Buddha understood as the ultimate source of these traditions. Our initial focus is on the various editions of the great canonical collection of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures known as The Collected Tantras of the Ancients (rnying ma rgyud 'bum).

The Thomas MacGreevy Archive Schreibman, Susan, Assistant Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Networked Associate Fellowship: 1999 The Thomas MacGreevy Archive The Thomas MacGreevy Archive is a long-term, interdisciplinary research project committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies. To date, the Archive has focused on publishing an on-line bibliography of writings by and about Thomas MacGreevy. Over 300 texts, augmented with enhanced search and navigation features, have been encoded in Standard Generalised Markup language (SGML).

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture : Multimedia Archive Railton, Stephen, Professor Resident Fellowship: 1999 Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture : Multimedia Archive The project is founded on three premises. First as the best-selling novel and most frequently dramatized story in the 19th Century America, Uncle Tom's Cabin can teach us an enormous amount about our history and culture. No text has more to say about how American society has understood relations between the races, the meaning of slavery, the nature and place of women and men, the significance of Christians, the South as a region, and so on. Second, access to original texts and manuscripts of Stowe's work will enrich the learning experience and further an understanding of society during the 19th century. Third, modern electronic technology can give us powerful new ways to research and appreciate our past.

The Salisbury Project Roberts, Marion, Professor Associate Fellowship: 2000 The Salisbury Project The Salisbury Project is the creation of Professor Marion Roberts, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. The Project is an archive of color photographs designed for teachers, students and scholars to supplement visually books and articles published on the cathedral and town of Salisbury. The project consists of views of the exterior and interior of the cathedral. Views of the choir have yet to be added. In the future the project will include photographs of the Close, the Town, Old Sarum and some Parish Churches. There is a guide for teachers and students, a section devoted to texts and essays, and an annotated bibliography.

Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii Martini, Kirk, Associate Professor of Architecture and Civil Engineering Resident Fellowship: 1998 Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii The Pompeii Forum Project, is a multi-disciplinary study of the development of the Forum as the civic center of Pompeii. The study is approached from the perspective of a structural engineer, applying engineering principles to interpret the currently visible areas of damage and repair, plus information available from historic records. The study employs a variety of computer-based technologies in the inquiry, in particular digital photogrammetry to document the geometry and construction of key areas of the building, plus three dimensional modelling to depict the state of the building in various states of damage and repair.

The Melville Electronic Library Bryant, John, Professor, Hofstra University Networked Associate Fellowship: 1998 The Melville Electronic Library In some ways it is true that we already know what Herman Melville wrote, and can find it in many bookstores and libraries. But, as with some other authors now being reedited electronically, much has actually lain concealed and can now be revealed. Because Melville's surviving manuscripts show versions and structures not even hinted at in most printed editions; because he himself suggested that print alone could not accomplish his goals; because some of his writing remains unpublished; and because we now look at texts differently than in the recent past seeing in them evidence of intellectual flux, social construction, and the workings of the marketplace the writings of Herman Melville call for electronic editing.

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London Levenson, Michael, William B. Christian Professor Resident Fellowship: 1998 Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London Subtitled "New Technologies and Sociologies of Research," the project seeks to extend both the terms and forms of the study of London, the dominant metropolis of the nineteenth century, a center of social and cultural meanings, and a resonant locus for interdisciplinary exchange. The large scale of the research endeavor will lead to the construction of an archive of primary materials-journalism, literary works, paintings, census data, maps, tracts, cartoons, sermons-open to scholars and teachers in a wide range of disciplines, and at the same time it will be the occasion for ongoing electronic publication, essays and books linked to the repository of artifacts. From the beginning of 1999 both the archive and the scholarship will appear on the internet under the sponsorship of Cambridge University Press.

The Walt Whitman Archive Folsom, Ed, The Carver Professor of English at The University of Iowa Price, Kenneth M., The Hillegass Professor of American literature at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln Networked Associate Fellows 1997 The Walt Whitman Archive The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Whitman, America's most influential poet and one of the four or five most innovative and significant writers in United States history, is the most challenging of all American authors in terms of the textual difficulties his work presents

The Center for Ethics, Capital Markets, and Political Economy Feldman, John, Networked Associate Fellow 1997 The Center for Ethics, Capital Markets, and Political Economy The Center for Ethics, Capital Markets and Political Economy is a non-profit organization established in 1994 to provide a discussion forum and information resource for persons who believe that moral concerns should be taken into account in economic and political thinking.

Inscriptions from the Land of Israel Satlow, Michael, Resident Fellow 1997 Inscriptions from the Land of Israel This project seeks to collect and make available all the inscriptions from the Land of Israel that date from the Hellenistic period (c. 330 BCE) through the Persian conquest (614 C.E.). These inscriptions were written and carved in stone (and other durable materials) and inlaid in mosaics. They were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek by Jews, Christians, and pagans. They include epitaphs, commemorations, mile markers, and acknowledgements of gifts.

The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson Wilson, Richard Guy, The Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia Resident Fellow 1996 The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson Jefferson Architecture Electronic Archive Center (JAEAC) is an "in process" archive that brings together materials related to the architecture of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). In spite of the near universal aclaim accorded to Jefferson's architecture no comprehensive publication exists that covers his work in detail. Working with curators from other institutions and Jefferson properties this archive will assemble both primary and major secondary materials.

Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia Grizzard, Frank E., Jr., Senior Associate Editor, The Papers of George Washington Graduate Fellow 1996 Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia This electronic database consists of 1,750 manuscript documents related to the construction of the original buildings of Thomas Jefferson's nineteenth-century architectural masterpiece, the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia. When completed, it will consist of transcriptions and annotations for the documents, nearly 3,000 digital images from microfilm and from originals for many of those documents, a book-length historical narrative based on those documents, and hundreds of digital photographs of the university's historic grounds. The analytical and textual components of the project are largely completed, and most of the material is already in a searchable electronic format, but the text encoding and hypertext links necessary to make this a fully integrated and searchable sgml database have not been completed. The database is now permanently maintained by the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center

A New Interpretive Study of the Evolution of Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Greece Meyer, Elizabeth A., Associate Professor of History, Corcoran Department of History Resident Fellow 1996 A New Interpretive Study of the Evolution of Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Greece The overall long-term goal of this project is to create an electronic archive of all Greek manumission inscriptions that can be of use to epigraphists (scholars specializing in the study of ancient inscriptions) and historians (of antiquity, but also of slavery in other historical periods) alike.

Barbarians on the Greek Periphery Witt, Constanze M., Professor University of Texas at Austin Graduate Fellow 1996 Barbarians on the Greek Periphery The project�s goal is to establish a different context in which to ask art-historical questions. I compare like with like in terms of material, function, and date. In identifying interaction, relative chronologies, the nature of the find contexts and proof of "Celtic" familiarity with postulated models must be considered. Finally, the approach suggested here straddles the fine line of identifying aesthetic priorities without plunging into the maelstrom of ethnic and nationalist controversies. Individual, local and regional style should be subjects for study in "Celtic" art as it is for other arts of the period; this study suggests a contextual and formalist approach.

The Palmyra Project Barton, Craig, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Director of the Urban Studies Program Associate Fellow 1996 The Palmyra Project The Palmyra Project is an attempt to collect and present information about and from the town of Palmyra, Virginia. The layout of the town and its urban center have been drastically changed over the years by a series of major events. Recent times have brought about proposals to to reunify the core of Palmyra.

Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities Leventhal, Rob, Associate Fellow 1996 Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities Responses to the Holocaust: A Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities is intended to introduce the viewer/reader to the various discourses, disciplines, media and institutions that have produced significant critical and theoretical positions and discussions concerning the Nazi Genocide of the Jews of Europe, 1933-45. In this hypermedia sourcebook, a hypertextual research, teaching, and learning archive, the responses of disciplines, various media and institutions includes, but is not limited to, literature, philosophy, literary criticism and theory, sociology, psychoanalysis, history and historiography, religious studies, film, art and architecture, political theory, informatics and the history of technology, and popular culture or cultural studies.

The Spoon Collective Askanas, Malgosia, Independent Scholar Networked Associate Fellow 1996 The Spoon Collective The Spoon Collective is dedicated to promoting discussion of philosophical and political issues

The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project Alvarado, Rafael, Manager, Humanities Computing Research Support, Princeton University Graduate Fellow 1996 The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is an experiment in networked scholarship with the purpose of enhancing Classic Mayan epigraphic research. At present, MED consists of a relational database of glyphs ("gnumbers"), images, phonetic values ("pvalues"), and semantic values ("svalues") according to the consensus among various American Mayanists (MacLeod and Reents-Budet 1994). Also present is the beginning of an archive of digitally transcribed Mayan texts.

A Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments used by William Stansby in the Printing of the Workes of Benjamin Johnson Gants, David, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing, Univeristy of New Brunswick Graduate Fellow 1995 A Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments used by William Stansby in the Printing of the Workes of Benjamin Johnson Bibliographical research is both inductive and positivist, and as a consequence it relies heavily upon the availability of abundant evidence. This project aims to create a model archive for the storage and circulation of material evidence concerning the printing industry in late Tudor and early Stuart London. All images stored in this archive are freely available for scholarly use, and source document information is included in the header of each image.

The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity Anderson, Gary, Professor, University of Notre Dame Resident Fellow 1995 The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity The Life of Adam and Eve is an apocryphal story about the experience of the first human couple after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Of the numerous apocryphal works that were written regarding Adam and Eve in the ancient world, this text certainly has pride of place. Not only was its influence in antiquity quite evident and widespread but the tale also enjoyed enormous popularity in the medieval world as well. The text has proven very difficult to date and one can be no more accurate than to say it must have been composed between the 3rd and 7th centuries. It is quite possible of course that certain literary units of the work are considerably older than this as there can be no question that the present form of the work is the result of a complex redactional process that wove together different source materials into a single story.

American Newspaper Editorial in the Secession Era Benson, Lloyd, Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History, Furman University Networked Associate Fellow 1995 American Newspaper Editorial in the Secession Era When completed this collection will include accurate transcriptions of many important and representative primary texts from nineteenth century American history, with special emphasis on those sources that shed light on sectional conflict and transformations in regional identity. Because of our location in South Carolina and the salient role of its natives in the era's history there will also be a number of materials relevant to South Carolina or South Carolinians.

Charlottesville Urban Design and Affordable Housing Schwartz, Kenneth A., Associate Professor of Architecture Resident Fellow 1995 Charlottesville Urban Design and Affordable Housing This project combines and reconciles traditional town planning principles with essential concerns about modest and low cost housing. This project, including the text and various forms of graphic and visual support, is available to anyone with an Internet connection through the "World Wide Web"

Identity in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Crocker, Elisabeth, Graduate Fellow 1995 Identity in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction "'Some Say it With A Brick': George Herriman's Krazy Kat' is part of Crocker's analysis of popular culture and its impact on individual and collective American identity formation. The essay focusses upon the cultural work Herriman was attempting in the Krazy Kat cartoons, drawing attention to moments in which Herriman directly addresses issues of class, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, and technology.

The Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit: Composition and Design Shatin, Judith, Director, Virginia Center for Computer Music Associate Fellow 1995 The Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit: Composition and Design The Hierarchical Audio Construction Kit (Hack) is a computer music language developed at the Virginia Center for Computer Music by Pete Yadlowsky. Judith Shatin's fellowship consisted of further development of Hack for compositional and pedagogical applications. Shatin used Hack when writing her oratorio COAL, scored for chorus, Appalachian ensemble, and electronics; and Elijah's Chariot, a piece scored for string quartet and electronics that was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet. Hack was the main language taught in MUSI 540, Computer Music 2, where students used it to create their final compositions. Shatin also began revising and adding to the tutorials for Hack, so that users can add their own scripts with functions in Common Lisp, and began developing a library of Lisp functions that generate Hack scripts, enabling the composer to algorithmically generate groups of events with desired characteristics rather than individually specifying each note event.

Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD. Stern, Michael, Associate Fellow 1995 Visions for a Sustainable City: Owings Mills, MD. This project uses the emerging edge city of Owings Mills in Baltimore County, MD as the focus of a case study of urban design in the suburban context, and in particular, the reconsideration of the urban form of the edge city. Edge cities are the latest evolution of the dispersal and decentralization of American urban form into multiple centers of retail, office and residential developments concentrated around highway interchanges surrounding an older central city

Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees Blair, David, Independent Filmmaker Networked Associate Fellow 1995 Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00, 1991), is a electronic-cinema feature. This hybrid feature, which can be called a film both from habit, and because modes of distribution necessitated a transfer to 16mm,is made completely of electronic images; the majority of it's 2000 shots were either digitally post-processed, or synthesized using analog and digital techniques.

Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone Gorman, Mike, Professor, Chair of Technology, Culture, and Communications Associate Fellow 1994 Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone This site is an attempt to reconstruct, in fine-grained detail, the path taken by Alexander Graham Bell, with links to other inventors and ideas.

The Pompeii Forum Project Dobbins, John, Professor Resident Fellow 1994 The Pompeii Forum Project The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologicaly based, heavily dependent upon advanced technology, and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design. Evidence gathered to date challenges commonly held and widely published notions about the evolution of the forum, especially during the final years of the city's life. The goals are to provide the first systematic documentation of the architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence as it pertains to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the history of urbanism and contemporary problems of urban design.

Piers Plowman Electronic Archive Duggan, Hoyt, Professor Resident Fellow 1994 Piers Plowman Electronic Archive The long-range goal of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive is the creation of a multi-level, hyper-textually linked electronic archive of the textual tradition of all three versions of the fourteenth-century allegorical dream vision Piers Plowman.

The William Blake Archive Eaves, Morris, Professor, University of Rochester Essick, Robert, Professor, UC Riverside Viscomi, Joseph, G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Networked Associate Fellows 1994 The William Blake Archive In the broadest terms, the William Blake Archive is a contemporary response to the needs of this dispersed and various audience of readers and viewers and to the corresponding needs of the collections where Blake's original works are currently held. The Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility.

The Sixties Project Tal, Kali, Networked Associate Fellow 1994 The Sixties Project The Sixties Project began as a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties.

Noun Classification in Swahili Contini-Morava, Ellen, Associate Professor Associate Fellow 1994 Noun Classification in Swahili This is a report on a two-phase study of the semantics and syntax of noun classification in Swahili. Phase I, the topic of the present paper, is an investigation of the semantic structure of the noun classes, from a cognitive-semantic perspective. Data for this study include all the nouns from the Standard Swahili-English Dictionary (Johnson 1939), entered into a computer database and subcategorized according to over 75 semantic and morphological criteria. This paper proposes a semantic analysis of Classes 3, 7, 5, 9, and 11. A diagram of the semantic structure of each class is provided, showing relations of instantiation, metaphoric and metonymic extension within the class. Each diagram node is associated with a list of Swahili nouns exemplifying the relevant semantic category, which may be viewed by clicking on that portion of the diagram.

Dickinson Electronic Archives Smith, Martha Nell, Independent Scholar Networked Associate Fellow 1994 Dickinson Electronic Archives The Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA), a website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work. The DEA is produced by the Dickinson Editing Collective, with four general editors working collaboratively with one another and with numerous coeditors, staff, and users.

Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe Osheim, Duane, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Europe Associate Dean Associate Fellow 1994 Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe This project involves the creation of a hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530. When completed researchers will be able to follow themes and issues geographically across Europe in any given time period or chronologically from the first cases of bubonic plague in 1348 to the early sixteenth century.

The Valley of the Shadow Ayers, Edward L., Hugh P. Kelley Professor Of History Resident Fellow 1993 The Valley of the Shadow The Valley Project details life in two American communities, one Northern and Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid through the era of Reconstruction. In this digital archive you may explore thousands of original letters and diaries, newspapers and speeches, census and church records, left by men and women in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Giving voice to hundreds of individual people, the Valley Project tells forgotten stories of life during the era of the Civil War.

The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti McGann, Jerome, The John Stewart Bryan Professor Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, History and Theory of Texts Resident Fellow 1993 The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Rossetti Archive is a hypertextual instrument designed to facilitate the scholarly study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter, designer, writer, and translator who was, according to both John Ruskin and Walter Pater, the most important and original artistic force in the second half of the nineteenth century in Great Britain. This is the first of four planned installments of the Archive.