Walt Whitman Archive a leader in knowledge migration to the internet
The Walt Whitman Archive feature on The Wired Campus Archive Watch is aptly titled: All Whitman, All Digital. The feature introduction (followed by an interview with Professor Folsom) gives its history. This is a leader project for literary migration to to internet:
In the mid-1990s, Ed Folsom, a professor of English at the University of Iowa, and another scholar, Kenneth M. Price, set out to create a digital scholarly edition of Walt Whitman’s works. The Walt Whitman Archive began life as a CD-ROM. Now housed at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where Mr. Price teaches, the archive contains thousands of digital facsimiles of Whitman’s poetry and letters as well as writings about Whitman, and it’s constantly growing. It averages more than 20,000 visits a day from scholars, students, and Whitmaniacs everywhere. Money to keep the archive afloat comes from the co-directors’ home institutions and a series of grants, and an endowment is in the works.
Ancient Roman resource found in open courseware
On Bill Thayer’s Web Site he explains that “LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World” which is his creation is: “a major site on Roman antiquity, including a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments (with a very large site on the city of Rome of course); a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions; the complete Latin texts of [major authors, and much more].”
One way people find LacusCurtius is through MIT Open Courseware (“OCR”) where the collection is recommended on the Ancient World: Rome course for: “More ancient sources in translation; useful collections of photos of Latin inscriptions and theatres inter alia; a few old secondary works on ancient Rome.”
Thor’s homepage
Thor is presented on the page here that is part of the University of Pittsburg’s Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts presided over by retired professor D. L. Ashliman. Clicking through a few pages reveals that Professor Ashliman is clearly extremely knowledgeable in his speciality. In 2005 his book on Fairy Lore was published about elves, dwarfs, gnomes, trolls, mermaids, brownies, pixies, leprechauns, and many other beings found in world folklore. Somehow it makes me enjoy the Internet more to know the delightful folks of mythology can be found amoung the zeroes and ones of the digital world.
I hope it will not be long until these merry folk find their way on to mobile phones as mobile browsers are more welcoming to the open web. May Thor soon cast thunder through your ringtone! Literature
Marxist Internet Archive
For the past decade knowledgeable volunteers have compiled this distinguished collection of Marxist literature. The website is an excellent example of how the Internet gives advocates a showcase for their point of view and students an unsullied understanding that it is a viewpoint they are studying. This is not balanced educationist synthesis. It is unabashed, healthy advocacy — something students need to encounter and learn to assess. Literature
Documenting the American South
The University Library of the University of North Carolina opens its virtual doors here to many of its primary resources for the study of Southern United States history, literature and culture. The riches of the Internet to be browsed include from the Southern past books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral histories and songs open for your virtual visit. Literature
Luminarium
Calling it a “labor of love,” since 1996 Anniina Jokinen has maintained the collection here of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century literature that is the Internet standard for this subject. Literature
Caribbean Studies Journal
The online only journal here publishes literature and commentary from the Caribbean. This excellent website is hosted by the University of Miami. The journal is peer reviewed and open to all on the Internet.
via Scout Report. Literature
Be a storyteller in a pocket
Here is a way for you to add literary content to the global virtual knowledge ecology: Volunteer to read a chapter for LibriVox. In the spirit of the project’s slogan, acoustical liberation of books in the public domain you will help to create free podcasts. The LibriVox volunteers have already recorded a slice of important literature. The download catalog of free recordings is here. Literature.
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