The Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents
 
                       The Womens Writers Project
 
                           by Elaine Brennan
                 Project Manager, Womens Writers Project
 
8:00 pm                                                     Room 241  CIT
Wednesday, July 26, 1989
 
The Women Writers Project (WWP) is a research project on pre-Victorian
women writers that is located at Brown and funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities.  The long range goals of the project
include the creation of a full-text database, or textbase, of printed
books and manuscripts.  This textbase will eventually include the works
of more than 1000 women, and will run the gamut of genres, including
many not normally considered literary.  With so many different kinds of
document types and editorial objects, the issues of tagging and
organizing these texts so they will support sophisticated scholarly
research are quite complex.
 
After a productive first year the project is now preparing to review its
methodology for computer encoding and processing, and, after reflecting
on its experiences, develop more sophisticated strategies and procedures
for handling literary texts as electronic textbases.  The project invites
suggestions from the Brown humanities computing community on how to deal
with the problems of large full-text literary databases.
 
Elaine Brennan is Manager of the Womens Writers Project and Department
Computing Coordinator for the Brown English Department.  She has
given talks on the WWP to the Society for Textual Scholarship and CHUG,
is a member of the Association for Computing in the Humanities, and
is the coordinator for CHUG's Literary Tagging Working Group.
 
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CHUG provides a forum for discussing the use of computers in the
humanities and for sharing ideas and information about computing
techniques and applications. We regularly have talks and discussions by
members of the Brown community and others about ongoing and future
projects, research ideas, and computing techniques.  We meet every other
Wednesday, as announced on BRUNO.  Within CHUG special interest groups
form periodically and meet at other times.  At present there are five
such groups: the Hypertext Working Group (contact David Durand,
DURAND@BROWNVM), the Interactive Fiction and Criticism Working Group
(contact Stuart Moulthrop, SMOULTHR@YALEVM), the Manuscript Criticism
Working Group (contact Tim Seid, RELISTU@BROWNVM), the Literary
Tagging Working Group (contact Elaine Brennan, WOMWRITE@BROWNVM).
and the CHUG/(CS)DUG Programming Group (contact Andrew Gilmartin,
ANDREW@BROWNVM or Jeff Vogel, [log in to unmask]).
Interested public is welcome.  We always have refreshments.
 
For more information contact Elli Mylonas (ELLI@BROWNVM) or Allen Renear
(ALLEN@BROWNVM, 863-7312).