The Women Writers Project: Using Dynaweb 4.1 for Online Textbase Delivery

The Women Writers Project: Using Dynaweb 4.1 for Online
Textbase Delivery

Carole
E.
Mah
Women Writers Project Brown University
Carole_Mah@brown.edu

1999

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

ACH/ALLC 1999

editor

encoder

Sara
A.
Schmidt

The mission of the Brown University Women Writers Project is to create, develop,
and make accessible a state-of-the-art electronic textbase of women's writing in
English before 1830. The purpose of this demonstration of the premiere release
of our textbase is twofold:
to showcase our textbase in a peer forum with the expectation of peer
evaluation and review useful in fine-tuning or in developing future
releases of the textbase;
to share the results of our research and Dynaweb customization, with
the expectation that other projects may be able to apply these results
to their own work.

Released at the end of 1998, INSO's Dynaweb version 4.1 provides many new
features especially attractive to humanists. To make the potential if these
features apparent to humanists in a way that is not readily accessible in the
Dynaweb documentation, this demonstration and poster session will show not only
the working features in action, but will also provide documentation and code for
other humanist Dynaweb users on how to achieve such functionality. This new
functionality includes things which have been possible before in INSO's
stand-alone SGML browser (Dynatext) and in other web systems such as
OpenText/Pat, but which have heretofore not been possible in Dynaweb, such as
keyword-in-context (concordance) search results.
This demonstration and poster session will require a computer with an Internet
connection and with at least Netscape 4.x or Internet Explorer 4.x installed.
The demonstration will also include both handouts and posters. Until August
1999, access to our textbase is free; our URL is <>.