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Re: [gutvol-d] Pepys' birthday
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

In a message dated 2/23/2005 10:33:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, shimmin(a)uiuc.edu writes: In the US, a work first published in 1970 has a 95-year term, and won't hit the public domain until 2066. In the UK, posthumous works are no different than other works today, but that has only been the case since 1988. Before 1988, posthumous works got a 50-year copyright (2021). This may have been extended to 70 years since then (2041). So who is going to complain? There is a new edition as of about 24 years ago, which includes all Pepys's XXX comments that are omitted from the earlier edition. Anne

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Good site
by N Wolcott 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

http://copac.ac.uk/ is a marvellous site I just discovered, at the University of Manchester, propbably already known to you experts. On it you can search all the combined british, scottish, and irish library catalogues at one time with results which can be sorted etc, downloaded in various formats, and saved. A real boon if you are looking for pre 1900 books. The expanded catalogue entries often have information as to pseudonyms publisher dates etc etc. N Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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one more thing, for jon noring
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

oh yeah, one more thing before i return to my laboratory. for jon noring. or 2 things, actually. no, make that 3. first, jon, since you've been makin' some big noises about "my antonia", could you please make available a .zip file containing all of your image-scans and the o.c.r. output? i plan on using them in a nice little project of mine, and downloading the scans one at a time is a pain in the neck. second, since you regularly assert your insistence that markup must be "semantic" rather than "presentational", can you elucidate the structural aspects that typically should be marked up in books? that list would include things like chapter-headings, footnotes, block-quotes; and what else? would also be nice if you could say _how_ these things should be marked up, with actual examples, but since even the .tei experts can't seem to agree on it... third, over on the bookpeople list, john mark ockerbloom moderated out my replies to your late-december posts where you issued some "friendly challenges" to me; but let it be known that my replies accepted your challenges. i'll be creating a space soon where we can discuss them... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] Enlightened Self Interest
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

jon niehof said: > (pie-in-the-sky: > being able to on-the-fly convert TEI > to format of user's choice on download > would be nearly Grail-like.) well, then _totally_ "grail-like" would be for users to have a tool that enables them to convert the sole maintained download format to any other format they might have a need for. i created the format -- zen markup language -- and am rapidly finishing programming the tool... that is all for now. talk amongst yourselves... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Pepys' birthday
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

In a message dated 2/23/2005 2:36:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, krooger(a)debian.org writes: I seem to recall that Pepys diaries were written in a special shorthand. The current editions may claim copyright on their "transcriptions" of the shorthand. Anyone game for scanning in the original shorthand, and transcribing it? I don't know how you could get a copy of the diaries OR the shorthand. I'm sure the recent edition would claim copyright, but I still don't think the older edition is likely to be a problem. It's been up for a while and so far as I know, nobody's complained. Considering how long it took to transliterate them the two times they were transliterated, I expect most of us have more to do with the next fifteen years of our lives. I think we should stay with what we have. If anybody needs something more thorough, that person will probably need to go to the closest major university library. Anne

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Fwd: Project Googleberg
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

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Re: [gutvol-d] Pepys' birthday
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

In a message dated 2/23/2005 8:50:44 AM Mountain Standard Time, nwolcott(a)dsdial.net writes: Pepys gave his memoirs to Cambridge University, but the full text was not published until 1970. That being the case would not the text (minus editorial comment and added footnotes) be now public domain as it is now more than 75 years since the author's death? Oh horrors! I forgot Pepys's birthday! Oh well, there's still time to bake a cake. (We celebrate the birthdays of Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling already.) As to the diaries, they're already posted. I gave them on CD to a very dear neighbor for Christmas two or three years ago. She never got around to reading them, mainly because despite an IQ somewhat stratospheric, she never did figure out her computer. But she was grateful that I had thought of giving them to her. Anne

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Pepys' birthday
by N Wolcott 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Being his birthday maybe this is appropriate. Pepys gave his memoirs to Cambridge University, but the full text was not published until 1970. That being the case would not the text (minus editorial comment and added footnotes) be now public domain as it is now more than 75 years since the author's death? N Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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Gutenbergprosjektet (PG mentioned in Norwegian web site)
by Marcello Perathoner 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

http://www.dinside.no/php/art.php?id=117187 -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Understatment of the day
by Andrew Sly 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Here's a little mention of PG from usenet... Newsgroups: alt.games.video.nintendo.gameboy.advance Date: 2005-02-19 12:22:54 PST Files for books? Text files are available for books all over. Project Gutenberg has hundreds of public domain text files.

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