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"The Augusta Archive," by Edward Ayers.

The Augusta Archive provides information about antebellum Augusta County, Virginia. It was developed as a museum exhibit and was installed in the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Museum in October, 1994. The Archive was developed from Ayers' The Valley of the Shadow project, under construction at IATH.

"Some Un-Revolutionary Aspects of Computer Editing," by Hoyt N. Duggan

What presently occupies the stage as "theory" is already beginning to fret quite as much as it struts. Editors determined to appear "revolutionary" may well fail to grasp what is truly revolutionary in the technology, its capacity to help us collect, organize, analyze the empirical evidence to answer more precisely and comprehensively the perennial questions.

"The Rationale of HyperText," by Jerome McGann.

The essay discusses the relation of hypertextuality to paper-based textuality in the context of literary documents, and especially the scholarly editing of literary documents. The argument is carried by a series of examples drawn from the past two-hundre d years.

"The Rossetti Archive and Image-based Electronic Editing," by Jerome McGann

This is a report on the evolution of the Rossetti Archive. It includes an argument for an image-based approach to scholarly editions of literary works as well as a general description of key elements of the Archive.

"Radiant Textuality," by Jerome McGann

This is a preprint of an essay forthcoming in Victorian Studies. It discusses computerization in the humanities, and especially in literary scholarship and criticism. (It is still in process of construction.)

"Electronic Scholarship, or Scholarly Publishing and the Public," by John Unsworth

This is a preprint of an essay forthcoming in The Literary Text in the Digital Age, ed. Richard Finneran (Ann Arbor: U Michigan P). A version of this essay was also delivered at the 1994 MLA convention.

"Living Inside the (Operating) System" by John Unsworth

This essay is a draft version of a chapter for Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st-Century University, forthcoming from SUNY Press. It attempts to describe and explain the way that an unusual (but by no means anomalous) culture has developed under the aegis of PMC-MOO, a text-based virtual-reality program that runs on a networked Unix workstation. It is also an attempt to describe the scholarly and pedagogical trajectory of this program, by identifying the conceptual coordinates of its origin.

"Not Your Average Fool: The Humanist on the Internet," by John Unsworth

This paper was delivered at the National Institutes for Health on October 24th, 1994, as part of a conference on the network infrastructure and its uses.

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