A Digital Edition of the Literary Remains of Phileas Fogg.ppt

1、A Digital Edition of the Literary Remains of Phileas Fogg,ITST Saskatchewan 2004 May 13 Terry Butler, University of Alberta,The Fogg Effects,The Fogg Effects,Vernes fictionalization helpful, or not?,discovery of the materials in an old trunk in India,the role of Passepartout,Travels,Fogg prepares fo

2、r his trip,Cartography,maps and atlases can be scanned and saved as digital images, manipulated by imaging programs,Places and people,illustrations and prints can also be scanned,Works,Tracking works,a bibliography of works can be recorded,use a special purpose bibliographic program,Correspondents,T

3、racking letters,a database to track correspondents and letters,a database captures relationships between pieces of information,Tracking numeric information,use a spreadsheet to track numbers, dates, amounts,Texts,AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYSChapter IIN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT E

4、ACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MANMr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical pers

5、onage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron-at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful wheth

6、er Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the “City“; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincolns

7、 Inn, or Grays Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queens Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and h

8、e never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisans Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the

9、 Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.,a printed book is scanned and converted to text by an OCR (optical character recognition) program,Tagging,the text is tagged in XML to facilitate searching and to mark features of interest,Tagging,an XML editor program

10、is used to introduce the tags and valid the document (check it against its model the DTD),Display,the tagged XML text can be displayed on the web, through a stylesheet or by converting it to HTML,Availability to the audience,the materials can be presented through the web, and made accessible through

11、 searching and display interfaces,Thanks,Jules Verne on the web www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j/ jv.gilead.org.il/pg/80day/ library.thinkquest.org/J002459F/My sincerest thanks are also extended to the staff of the William Wonders Map Library, and the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, who have helped me follow in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg www.library.ualberta.ca/scitech/#william www.library.ualberta.ca/specialcollections/index.cfm,