Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 14:46:15 -0800 (PST) From: Pasi Ahonen <pahonen@sol.uvic.ca> To: H-VERKKO <H-VERKKO@sara.cc.utu.fi> Subject: HUMANITIES CANADA PROJECT
Tervehdys!
Ohessa kiintoisia uutisia 'informaatiovaltatien' ulottumisesta Kanadan humanistien saataville. Olisiko Suomeen mahdollista saada samantyyppinen jarjestelma?
Pasi, Kanadan kirjeenvaihtajanne. pahonen@sol.uvic.ca
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 13:34:39 -0500 (EST) From: Bulley Alan David <bulleya@CA.UMontreal.ERE> Original-Sender: Bulley Alan David <bulleya@CA.UMontreal.ERE> Reply-To: Bulley Alan David <bulleya@CA.UMontreal.ERE> Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Humanities Canada Project To: humgrad <humgrad@uk.ac.mailbase> Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9501261330.A21281-0100000@tornade.ERE.UMontreal.CA>
* What is the Humanities Canada Project?
The CFH invites you to visit and explore an ambitious project that will be of great benefit to the entire humanities community in Canada. The bilingual project, entitled Humanites Canada / Humanities Canada (HC), is designed as an electronic information service that will perform several important functions for Canadian humanists. First among these functions will be the creation of a window on humanities resources available on the "Information Highway." Scholars in the humanities have begun to reap some of the benefits of the emerging "Highway," but it is still a common complaint that materials pertinent to humanities studies are difficult to locate and access. Humanities Canada will make a significant contribution at just this point by making possible simple and rapid connections to the resources of major libraries, government departments, on-line text archives, electronic journals, archives of digitised art and sound, academic job announcements, and many other services.
* The Role of CFH Member Societies
CFH member societies have the opportunity not only to exploit the resources already available on the world-wide computer networks, but also to make distinct contributions in their areas of interest and specialisation. Space is being reserved on the project servers for each member society to "publish" materials of use to its members and to others working in the same discipline. One society, the Canadian Association for Translation Studies (Association canadienne de traductologie), has already taken advantage of the Humanities Canada project to make available information regarding their goals, information on membership in CATS, a directory of the CATS executive and contact people, a call for papers for their Annual Congress at the 1995 Learneds at the UQAM, invitations to participate in two special seminars to be held at the Montreal Learneds, and a detailed description of the society's journal (_TTR_) including the Tables of Contents of previous issues. Another society, the Canadian Association of Classicists, is using the project facilities to publish on-line their electronic newsletter and to archive its back-issues.
The Humanities Canada project will also be an ideal place to disseminate discussion documents and position papers related to annual meetings, to archive documents related to the society or its field of interest, to "publish" academic writing, to display art, and to seek out potential members from a world-wide audience.
* How Does One Connect to Humanities Canada?
Humanities Canada is presently under construction and exists in both "gopher" and World-Wide Web (WWW) formats:
gopher://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca:7071 http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html
Contributions to HC are made available at both sites to ensure maximum access to the project's contents and offerings. In addition to the two server sites, an e-mail discussion list (HUMCAN-L) is also being launched in order to provide a forum where one can ask questions related to HC and about how to contribute to it. It will also be the perfect place to post announcements and comments on the HC project as a whole.
To subscribe to HUMCAN-L, send e-mail to LISTPROC@CC.UMONTREAL.CA with the following line in the letter body (not in the subject line):
Subscribe HumCan-L <first name> <last name>
You will receive a confirmation of your subscription and a welcome message explaining all you need to know to interact with the list and post your messages and questions.
* Anything Else?
Further information related to the Humanities Canada project is available from the project co-managers who may be reached at the following e-mail addresses:
Christian Allegre allegre@ere.umontreal.ca Alan D. Bulley bulleya@ere.umontreal.ca
The Executive of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities may be reached at the following e-mail address:
Humanites Canada / Humanities Canada (HC) is the Electronic Information Service of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities (CFH).
Alan D. Bulley bulleya@ere.umontreal.ca
Co-Manager, Co-directeur,
HUMANITIES CANADA HUMANITES CANADA Electronic Information Service Service d'Information electronique of the Canadian Federation de la Federation canadienne for the Humanities (CFH) des Etudes humaines (FCEH)
via Gopher -- gopher://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca:7071 via WWW -- http://137.122.12.15/HumCanada.html