• Automatic extraction of dates from historical documents 

      Mckay, Dana; Cunningham, Sally Jo
      Published 2001-01-01
      The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates and it would be useful ...
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    • Creators of Culture: Encoded Archival Context 

      Pitti, Daniel. V.
      Published 2001-01-01
      Encoded Archival Context (EAC) is an ongoing initiative within the international archival community to design and implement a prototype standard based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) for encoding descriptions of record ...
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      Conference paper
    • Publishing in the Humanities: The Challenges and the Possibilities in New e-Book and d-Book Technologies 

      Cope, Bill
      Published 2001-01-01
      Publishing in the humanities occurs in one of two major ways. The first is through conventional commercial academic channels which are skewed towards longer production run 'general' books; which often produce an outrageously ...
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      Conference paper
    • Imaginary Knitting. Historical record linkage in the Caversham project 

      Hood, David
      Published 2001-01-01
      The Caversham Project began 20 years ago to study the Caversham region of Dunedin, New Zealand, using systematic methods and comparative analysis. It is the largest project in social history or historical sociology in ...
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      Conference paper
    • Online Support for Learning French at University 

      Caffarel, Alice; Develotte, Christine
      Published 2001-01-01
      This paper will focus on ways in which the Internet is being used at the University of Sydney for teaching and learning French at introductory and advanced levels. First, we will discuss the online component of the ...
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