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From: Jack Kessler
Subject: French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (pt.1/3) (15 Dec 94)
FYIFrance: French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (pt.1/3)
Headnote #1: FYIFrance on BIBLIO - FR
This December 15, 1994 issue marks the debut of FYIFrance on the
BIBLIO - FR e - conference, and thus an increased readership of several
hundred librarians and other information specialists who actually are
in France. This is an extra appeal to readers, then -- particularly to
those new readers who are in France -- to update the following list:
any corrections, additions, or deletions which might be suggested will
be gratefully received via email to kessler@well.sf.ca.us .
Headnote #2: the Bibliothe`que Nationale de France -- latest news
"Les nouvelles" on the TGB/BDF/BNdF include (these from an official BNdF
report, _Le site Tolbiac, 1994_, just released):
1) there will be a "free access" collection of 4 - to - 500,000 volumes,
which gradually will expand its store of microforms, digitized and
audiovisual documents;
2) there will be 3600 "reading places", of which 1556 in the "upper
garden" will be for users of the "free access" collection, who must be
over 18 or holders of a baccalaure'at degree, and 2034 in the "lower
garden" will be "reserved for researchers" (no, I don't know who gets
the 10 extra seats) -- the new premises are designed to accommodate
3,600,000 visitors per year;
3) the general collections are being reorganized (goodbye to the
syste`me Cle'ment, although I'm told that the old "cotations" will be
retained) into four sections: a) "sciences et techniques", b)
"litte'rature et art", c) "science politiques, juridiques et
e'conomiques", d) and, "philosophie, histoire, sciences de l'homme et de
la socie'te'", and yes there do happen to be four towers in the
building's design;
4) numerous meetings and exhibitions (a 1400 sq.m. exhibit center, and a
meeting center with a 350 - seat auditorium, one 200 - seat room, and
six 50 - seat rooms, plus "shops, cafe's and restaurants" will be
provided), and the publication of special editions, are anticipated;
5) hi - tech will be used for reader registration, advance reservation
of reading places and of specific documents, both on - site and dial -
in catalog consultation (7 million records), stack delivery (an
"automatic document transport system" is being built, using 8 km. of
rails and 150 collection sites), and computer - assisted workstations
for digitized text and audiovisual documents;
6) the formal association with various regional libraries will be
continued (with 54 bibliothe`ques municipales and 31 bibliothe`ques
universitaires), for ILL and general cooperation and for the
creation of a French Union Catalog (13 million records);
7) acquisitions are to be shared with several "associated" libraries:
the BM Poitiers, the BU Strasbourg, the BM and BU and ENSSIB (national
library school) in Lyon, the BU Grenoble, and three Paris libraries;
7) completion date for the building now is "Spring 1995";
8) moving the books, etc., now is expected to take 18 months, for an
opening date of "Autumn / October, 1996".
The collection at that date will contain: 400,000 volumes in the "free
access" section (a note says this will expand to 850,000 "eventually");
10 million volumes in stacks; 350,000 periodicals titles (32,000 French
current, 8,500 foreign current); 75,800 microfilms; 1 million
microfiches; 100,000 digitized texts (30 million pages); 80,000 hours of
animated images; 300,000 digitized fixed images; 650,000 "images coming
from diverse banks of edited images" (? unsure myself what this means);
and 600,000 hours of sound documents.
Fe'licitations, messieurs / mesdames de la BNdF, et bonne chance!
French Libraries Online (Selected)
As of: December 15, 1994
France leads the world in significant increases in Internet
nodes this year (through July): 117%!
by: Jack Kessler
kessler@well.sf.ca.us
Outline:
A) Libraries
1) Minitel "kiosk" libraries
2) Minitel "V23" Direct - Dial Libraries
3) telnet (ie. from the Internet)
4) WEBsites, Mosaic "home pages", etc.
5) President's Report, Conseil Supe'rieur des Bibliothe`ques
B) Fulltext
1) anonymous ftp sites
2) gophers
3) Fulltext archives
C) Discussion
1) Electronic Conferences
2) Usenet
3) "Frognet"
A) Libraries
1) Minitel "kiosk" Libraries.
These now may be reached from nearly anywhere via Minitel. Minitel is
generally available in Europe. Free MAC or DOS diskettes for Minitel may
be obtained in the US and Canada from voice telephone 800-MINITEL. (They
will fax you a form.) Access policies do change from time to time.
Access to all of this is very IN- expensive:
3615 BMLYON Bibliothe`que Municipale de Lyon
3614 BMDIJON Bibliothe`que Municipale de Dijon
3614 BIB Bibliothe`que Municipale de Grenoble
3614 BIB38 Grenoble, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3614 BIB38 code ECH Echirolles, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3614 BIB38 Pont de Claix, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3614 MADOC Bibliothe`que Professionelle de France Te'le'com
3614 MEDVIL Me'diathe`que, Cite' des Sciences et de l'Industrie
3614 NANCY Bibliothe`que Municipale de Nancy
3614 VDP14 Vide'othe`que de Paris
3614 VINBIB Vincennes, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3615 ABCDOC Archives, Bibliothe`ques, Centres de Documentation
(directory)
3615 BIBNAT Bibliothe`que Nationale (info. -- no opac, yet)
3615 BMLIM Limoges, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3615 BPI Bib. Publique d'Information (Centre Pompidou, Paris)
3615 BRISE Bibliothe`ques de St. Etienne
3615 DASTUM Photote`que Dastum, Breton culture
3615 MARSEILLE Marseille, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3615 MIRADOC Bibliothe`que Universite' de Metz
3615 VDP15 Vide'othe`que de Paris
3617 BIUP Bibliothe`que Inter-Universitaire de Pharmacie
3617 CCN Catalogue Collectif National des Publications en
Se'rie (national union catalog project, serials)
3617 PANCA Pancatalogue (national union catalog project, books)
2) Minitel "V23" Direct-Dial Libraries.
The following French library services are among a quickly increasing
number which may be reached by a telephone call, either from a Minitel
which can do so (European terminals can, but North American Minitel
service distributed per the above cannot), or using a V23 modem,
available in European computer stores. French scholars will be pleased
to see a number of famous resources appearing here. Even cheese
connoisseurs will find something familiar. Public librarians everywhere
will be pleased to see some very tiny and obscure institutions
appearing here, and they might note the extraordinary breadth of the
French "Bibliothe`que Municipale" (not quite a "public" library, but
the closest thing) offerings online:
39.11.10.04 Ache`res, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
79.37.17.22 Albertville, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'
22.97.11.11 Amiens, Bibliothe`que d'
41.86.18.00 Angers, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'
50.87.06.96 Annemasse, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'
75.67.90.50 Annonay, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'
90.49.38.88 Arles, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'
90.82.97.08 Avignon, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
59.25.51.75 Bayonne, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
44.06.36.17 Beauvais, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
21.56.69.72 Be'thune, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
43.77.01.22 Bonneuil sur Marne, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
75.43.13.10 Bourg les Valence, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
74.28.64.93 Bourgoin Jallieu, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
98.34.30.47 Brest, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
31.86.14.14 Caen, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
56.89.88.89 Canejan, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
92.98.19.19 Cannes, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
56.38.39.10 Carbon Blanc, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
56.78.16.18 Cestas, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
51.68.39.91 Challans, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
50.53.28.70 Chamonix, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
43.78.27.94 Charenton le Pont, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
92.64.01.80 Chateau Arnoux, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
80.51.98.91 Chenove, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
16.1.64.48.60.07 Chilly-Mazarin, Bibliothe`que de
46.48.38.38 Clamart, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
64.88.64.04 Combs La Ville, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
70.64.55.82 Commentry, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
98.50.84.85 Concarneau, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
34.90.04.89 Conflans Ste. Honorine, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
49.05.36.10 La Cre`che, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
92.31.09.69 Digne, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
69.39.35.00 Epinay sous Senart, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
69.10.05.57 Epinay sur Orge, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
78.70.60.38 Feyzin, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
43.48.53.65 La Fle`che, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
33.64.97.24 Flers, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
63.81.20.24 Gaillac, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
92.51.76.35 Gap, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
35.68.93.72 Grand Quevilly, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
28.65.59.43 Gravelines, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
57.93.11.84 Le Haillan, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
59.20.42.27 Hendaye, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
31.44.46.60 Herouville, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
16.1.42.77.19.16 IRCAM, Institut de Recherche et Coordination
Acoustique/Musique, Centre Pompidou, Paris
(more -- to be continued in part 2/3)
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From kessler@well.com Fri Oct 18 17:08:53 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jack Kessler
Subject: French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (pt.2/3) (15 Dec 94)
FYIFrance: French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (pt.2/3)
(continuation: French libraries which may be reached by Minitel/telephone)
47.57.51.51 Levallois, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
64.91.05.07 Limours, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
43.88.17.17 Livry Gargan, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
67.44.35.30 Lode`ve, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
96.28.64.99 Loudeac, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
83.26.18.28 Ludres, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
76.41.20.21 Meylan, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
58.09.42.98 Mimizan, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
76.35.64.82 Moirans, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
60.60.21.86 Moissy Cramayel, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
88.38.06.15 Molsheim, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
43.51.20.30 Montfermeil, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
21.76.21.25 Montigny en Gohelle, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
98.88.19.29 Morlaix, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
78.91.60.05 Neuville sur Sao^ne, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
49.73.23.30 Niort, Bibliothe`que de
37.52.50.15 Nogent le Rotrou, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
38.64.13.11 Olivet, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
78.50.11.35 Oullins, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
98.05.45.00 Plouzane, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
97.27.97.97 Pontivy, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
30.32.21.71 Pontoise, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
75.64.68.98 Privas, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
61.75.72.33 Ramonville St. Agne, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
40.04.08.43 Reze', Bibliothe`que Municipale de
69.25.99.17 Ris Orangis, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
77.75.99.99 Rive de Gier, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
75.05.18.08 Romans sur Ise`re, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
50.01.04.96 Rumilly, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
45.12.80.77 Rungis, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
50.58.57.85 Sallanches, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
90.56.28.49 Salon de Provence, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
46.02.70.61 St. Cloud, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
78.86.82.31 St. Genis Laval, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
38.86.35.85 St. Jean de Braye, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
55.02.18.23 St. Junien, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
33.72.00.46 St. Lo^, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
76.38.31.78 St. Marcellin, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
74.86.49.04 St. Maurice l'Exil, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
69.25.19.96 Ste. Genevie`ve des Bois, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
46.61.61.61 Sceaux, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
74.05.06.62 Tarare, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
62.34.38.38 Tarbes, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
49.66.24.94 Thouars, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
20.25.43.50 Tourcoing, Me'diathe`que de
93.58.31.05 Vence, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
54.80.25.59 Vendo^me, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
39.76.12.59 Le Vesinet, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
74.60.64.44 Villefranche sur Sao^ne, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
69.96.94.06 Viry Chatillon, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
3) telnet (ie. from the Internet)
caen1.unicaen.fr Bibliothe`que Universitaire de Caen; username :
Bibliotheque or Library
FRMOP22.CNUSC.FR Centre National Universitaire Sud de Calcul,
Montpellier, provides access to PANCATALOGUE and
SIBIL and numerous other French services, account
required (fax, in French, to 67-52-37-63, at
Montpellier); also available via Minitel (see above)
or French Transpac #134022271494 (account required)
IFBIBLI.GRENET.FR Instit. Fourier, St.Martin d'Hye`res, login bib
LIMVX4.UNILIM.FR Universite' de LIMOGES, user id: GRACE
STROPH.UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR Universite' de St. Etienne; Username: brise;
At %PAD-I-COM, enter
CRISV2.UNIV-PAU.FR Universite' de Pau; login: grace
FRPOLY11.POLYTECHNIQUE.FR Ecole Polytechnique, Paris: at userid screen
hit , type DIAL VTAM , at Menu des
Applications screen type DIAL VTAM. (tn3270 only).
FTP.IRCAM.FR Ircam-CNRS library catalog -- login: libquery -- to
switch to english, type: l=e
4) WEBsites -- W3, WWW, Mosaic "home pages", etc.
http://web.urec.fr/cgi-bin/list: an authoritative - looking list of
French W3 servers, current count totals many dozens, including lots of
pure scientists and hi - tech researchers and private firms and
universities, and the capacity to find servers using maps, and:
http://solcidsp.grenet.fr:8001: Banque de Donne'es Socio - Politiques
-- French representative of the CESSDA / Council of European Social
Sciences Data Archives and the ICPSR / Inter - university Consortium for
Political and Social Research;
http://web.citi2.fr: Centre Interuniversitaire de traitement de
l'Information -- U.Rene' Descartes, Paris;
http://www.cnam.fr: Conservatoire National des Arts et Me'tiers, Paris;
http://dodge.grenet.fr:8001: Catalogues Collectifs nationaux des
bibliothe`ques du CNRS - SHS, Grenoble;
http://w3.cnusc.fr: Centre National Universitaire Sud de Calcul,
Montpellier, including access to the SIBIL catalog (550,000 French, 1.3
million Swiss, bibliographic records), and in theory the Pancatalogue
(the Pancatalogue link didn't work when I tried it);
http://web.cr-aquitaine.fr: Conseil Re'gional d'Aquitaine - Bordeaux;
http://www.univ-rennes1.fr: U.de Rennes 1, includes many well -
presented and well - organized resources, including the archives of the
BIBLIO - FR e - conference;
http://web.culture.fr: Ministe`re de la culture et de la francophonie,
Paris;
http://dmf.culture.fr: Direction des Muse'es de France;
http://www.ecp.fr: Ecole Centrale, Paris;
http://www.ens-lyon.fr: Ecole Normale Supe'rieure de Lyon;
http://www.ens.fr: Ecole Normale Supe'rieure de Paris;
http://www.ensmp.fr: Ec.Nat.Sup.des Mines de Paris;
http://web.enst.fr: Ec.Nat.Sup.des Te'le'communications, Paris;
http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr: ESCA / European Speech Communication Assoc;
http://www-gams.cnrs-mrs.fr: Ecole d'Architecture de Marseille - Luminy;
http://gtl.georgiatech-metz.fr: "Georgia Tech Lorraine" (truly one of
the great W3 / WEBsite / URLs so far, n'est-ce pas y'all?);
http://cristal.icp.grenet.fr:8080: ICP / Institut de la Communication
Parle'e, Grenoble;
http://iep.univ-lyon2.fr: IEP / Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Lyon;
http://www.ina.fr: INA / Inst.Nat.de l'Audiovisuel, Bry - sur - Marne;
http://www.inist.fr: INIST - CNRS / Institut de l'Information
Scientifique et Technique, Vandoeuvre - les - Nancy;
http://zenon.inria.fr:8003: INRIA / Insitut National de Recherche en
Informatique et Automatique;
http://www.ircam.fr: IRCAM / Institut de Recherche et Coordination
Acoustique / Musique, Paris;
http://www.lirmm.fr: LIRMM / Labo. d'Informatique, de Robotique, de
Micro - e'lectronique de Montpellier;
http://info.msha.u-bordeaux.fr:8001: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
d'Aquitaine - Bordeaux;
http://www.urec.fr/Renater: Reseau NAtional de Te'le'communications pour
la Technologie, l'Enseignemenet et la Recherche, Paris;
http://www.grenet.fr/anteserveur: REDOC / Reseau Documentaire de
Grenoble -- acces aux bibliothe`ques / catalogues / documents
e'lectroniques;
http://web.univ-orleans.fr: U.d'Orle'ans, including "Les chateaux de la
Loire";
http://ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr: Centre de la Vielle Charite' -- Muse'es, etc.;
http://mistral.enst.fr: WebLouvre -- including "peintures ce'lebre's,
mini - expo sur l'art medie'val, mini - visite de Paris".
As with the Internet generally, it is nearly impossible to keep up with
the phenomenal growth of French online resources. The Minitel's own
"Guide de Services" now lists nearly 20,000 services, while published
accounts claim more than 25,000 currently in operation; and these
numbers don't begin to account for the many online services which rely
on the omnipresent Minitel "boxes" found throughout France -- and
Minitel "V23" norm emulation software now found throughout France and
increasingly elsewhere -- to act as simple terminals for their
connections. Many new library services (see the list at item 2), above),
use this latter function -- un-tabulated and un-indexed -- so that until
libraries go into the marketing business no one really knows how many
online French library services there are.
5) President's Report, CSB
a) complete printed text, in French:
_Rapport du Pre'sident (Michel Melot) Pour L'Anne'e 1993_ (Paris :
Association du Conseil Supe'rieur des Bibliothe`ques, 1994). ISSN 1157-
360. 128 pages. Available from: Association du Conseil Supe'rieur des
Bibliothe`ques, Palais Garnier, 8 rue Scribe, 75009 Paris.
b) complete electronic text, in French:
1) Par ftp anonyme: ftp.grenet.fr
2) Par gopher: gopher.grenet.fr rubrique "OPAC" puis "rapport du CSB"
3) Par mosaic par l'URL file://ftp.grenet.fr/pub/doc/csb.ps (ou csb.txt)
4) Par mosaic a travers la page du "reseau documentaire de grenoble"
dont l'URL est http://www.grenet.fr/anteserveur/anteserveur.html
c) portions have been translated into English:
Published in _FYI France_ archived at (gopher) infolib.berkeley.edu 72
or well.sf.ca.us , and in the PACS (PACS-L electronic conference)
archive found via telnet to a.cni.org , login brsuser (April 15 and
May 15, 1994, issues of _FYI France_).
(more -- to be continued in part 3/3)
XXX
From kessler@well.com Fri Oct 18 17:10:00 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:18:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jack Kessler
Subject: French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (pt.3/3) (15 Dec 94)
FYIFrance: French Libraries Online (Selected), and BNdF news (pt.3/3)
(continuation: French Libraries Online, December 15, 1994)
B) Fulltext
Fulltext French may be reached and read online now, in addition to the
bibliographic citations and pointers traditionally offered by online
libraries. A small selection of what is available in materials of
interest to French scholars follows:
1) anonymous ftp sites (online text archives)
ftp.inria.fr INRIA/Inst.Nat.de Rech.en Informatique et Automatique
zenon.inria.fr INRIA in Sophia Antipolis
ftp.cicb.fr Univ. Rennes1 ("gopher" in French!)
ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/ota/french// contains Molie`re's _Don Juan_
fulltext (Oxford Text Archive version) and Queneau's
_Exercices du style_ fulltext (OTA version)
epas.utoronto.ca /pub/cch/french// contains Molie`re's _Don Juan_
fulltext (Oxford Text Archive version) and a French
wordlist in ascii
ftp.cnam.fr "Association des Bibliophiles Universels" files,
including fulltext (sgml marked - up?) of texts by St.
Augustine, Plutarch, Jules Verne, Th. Moreux, and E.
Dubreucq, and other things relevant to fulltext.
ftp.ircam.fr IRCAM / Institut de Recherche et Coordination
Acoustique/Musique, Centre Pompidou, Paris
ftp.ens.fr Ecole Normale Supe'rieure
2) gophers (interactive index plus archiving)
CIRIL Centre Interuniv.de Ressources Informatiques de Lorraine (Nancy)
CITI Centre Interuniv.de Traitement de l'Information (Lille)
Cite' Colle'giale (Ontario, Canada)
CITI2 Universite Rene Descartes (Paris)
CNUSC Centre National Univ.Sud de Calcul (Montpellier)
CRIHAN Centre de Ressources Informatiques de Haute-Normandie (Rouen)
EMBNET Bioinformation Resource (not strictly
a "non - hi - tech - scientific" resource, but one possessing
one of the better tongue - in - cheek electronic addresses)
ENST Ec.Nat.Sup.des Te'le'communications (Paris)
Ecole Normale Supe'rieure (Paris)
Ecole Polytechnique Fe'de'rale de Lausanne (Suisse)
French Embassy, Washington D.C.
Genethon (Human Genome Research Center, Paris)
Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Lyon)
IMAG Institut d'Informatique et de Mathe'matiques Applique'es de
Grenoble
INRIA Inst.Nat.de la Rech.en Informatique et Automatique
INRIA/inria-graphlib : a Computer Graphics service of INRIA
Institut Pasteur (Paris)
IRISA Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Syste`mes Ale'atoires
(Rennes)
Ministe`re de la culture et de la francophonie (St. Quentin en Yvelines)
UREC Unite' Reseaux du CNRS (Paris) (the CNRS' network)
USHS Univ. des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg)
Univ.Jean Monnet, CIT (St-Etienne)
Univ.Jean Monnet, CRITeR (St-Etienne)
Univ.de Lyon I
Univ.de Nice - Sophia Antipolis
Univ.de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
Univ.de Rennes I
Univ.de Savoie (Chambe'ry)
Univ.de Valenciennes
Univ.s P. & M. Curie - D. Diderot (Paris)
Univ.de Montreal, Litte'ratures (Que'bec, Canada)
(GOPHER LITTERATURES is a
relatively recent effort to establish a truly comprehensive gopher
devoted to online humanities resources in French. It has an
ambitious structure, not yet filled, but at least a promising
effort to follow for anyone interested in online humanities.)
gopher.grenet.fr -- Grenoble - net, maintained at the CICG / Centre
Interuniversitaire de Calcul de Grenoble, which gives you a
software package entitled "G.R.A.C.E (Gestion du Reseau
Automatise' de Catalogues En-ligne)", and a "help" feature
wonderfully - entitled, for a "help" feature, "B.I.P.E.D.
(Bulletin d'Information Pour Etudiants en De'tresse)". See
particularly the following, in path 8.Catalogues de
Bibliothe`ques (OPAC) et Autres Serveurs Documentaire../:
1.Catalogues des Bibliothe`ques de la Region Grenobloise/,
and 2.Catalogues des Bibliothe`ques Franc,aises/
3) Fulltext archives
There are many interesting and frustrating issues associated with
fulltext archiving, among them issues of copyright, democratic access
to texts, and markup. This last currently is the most controversial
fulltext issue on the nets: archives exist which have no markup
whatsoever -- volunteer contributors merely type in the texts -- and
there are archives with full SGML / Standard Generalized Markup
Language encoding -- enabling textual analyses which some never will
use but which is indispensable to others. Proponents of both approaches
are fierce in their advocacy, and they fight a lot online.
Online fulltext appears to be an inevitable trend, however, whatever
are to be the niceties which accompany it eventually. (There is talk of
texts presented with more than just SGML, after all: multimedia, and
"interactive text", using techniques like Internet Relay Chat and
Virtual Reality -- people now are working on a VRML / Virtual Reality
Markup Language -- are waiting in the wings.) The trend is propelled by
both the increasing popularity of the networks, and the increasingly
untenable finances of the print publishing industry. One way or
another, print publishing quickly, albeit reluctantly, is "going online".
a) The Oxford Text Archive
One of the largest and most rigorous online fulltext general archives
still is the Oxford Text Archive, assembled and maintained at that
university's computing center by Lou Bernard. At the moment the OTA
contains over 50 French fulltexts, from Sartre to Froissart to the
Chanson de Roland. References to the OTA, with its informational files,
may be found online easily at several sites using gopher's veronica
index, and OTA holdings are cataloged on the online bibliographic
service RLIN. The OTA ftp archive adress is ota.ox.ac.uk .
b) Georgetown
A comprehensive effort to keep track of the many thousands of local
online fulltext projects currently being pursued on isolated computers
all over the world is that of Georgetown University's CPET / Catalog of
Projects in Electronic Text. There are many gopher references to CPET.
The CPET telnet address is guvax3.acc.georgetown.edu , login CPET .
c) FRANTEXT
FRANTEXT is an online database of 3241 texts, taken from 2330 works of
French literature dating from the 16th century, including a large
group of non - literary works from the 19th and 20th centuries. The
corpus was assembled for the purpose of compiling word - occurrences --
there are 183 million of them -- for French dictionary research.
The database is administered by the Tre'sor Ge'ne'ral des Langues et
Parlers Franc,ais, 27, r.Damesme, 75013 Paris, telephone 45.80.36.00 or
Mme. Evelyne Martin at 45.80.77.09, fax 45.80.79.26. This is a division
of the INALF, the Institut National de la Langue Franc,aise, a unit of
the CNRS. The FRANTEXT database software is STELLA -- Syste`me de
Textes En Ligne en Libre Acce`s -- and has its critics and defenders.
An enthusiastic proponent of STELLA - searching may be found in:
Jacques Lemarignier, "Le point de vue d'un interrogateur sur FRANTEXT:
FRANTEXT a` la Bibliothe`que Publique d'Information", in _Les banques
de donne'es litte'raires, comparatistes et francophones_, edited by
Alain Vuillemin, Limoges: Presses de l'Universite' de Limoges et du
Limousin, 1993, ISBN 2910016-17-X.
d) ARTFL
In North America, FRANTEXT is available -- with an entirely different
interface and "PhiloLogic" client software -- under the name of "ARTFL /
project for American and french Research on the treasury of the French
Lanuguage". ARTFL offers many new and exciting things as part of its
joint U.of Chicago / CNRS effort, including online analytical tools, and
databases of: Provenc,al poetry, Segond's French and other Multilingual
Bibles, and Jean Nicot's _Thresor de la langue franc,aise_ (1606).
Imaging experiments are under way to mount: Diderot's _Encyclope'die_, 9
editions of the _Dictionnaire de l'Acade'mie Franc,aise_, Montaigne (and
Dante) editions and variants, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, and the Plan
Turgot (1739). See Mark Olson, director: email mark@gide.uchicago.edu,
telephone 312-702-8488. ARTFL is at http://tuna.uchicago.edu or
gopher://uchicago.edu/11/uscholarly/artfland .
C) Discussion
The best -- most manageable, disciplined, up - to - date -- method for
getting and staying current with French networking is to subscribe to a
good "e-conference". Normally this will gain you a dozen e-mail
messages per week on a subject of your interest, and a whole list of
international correspondents with whom you can discuss issues and of
whom you very usefully can ask questions.
1) Electronic Conferences
In most cases, an e-mail message to the address shown, saying, exactly:
subscribe
will obtain a subscription. Subscriptions are free.
ADBS-INFO "Association Franc,aise des Documentalistes et
Bibliothe'caires Specialise's"; subscribe to adbs-info-
request@univ-rennes1.fr ; for ADBS members, un - moderated.
BALZAC-L "French literature and culture"; subscribe to balzac-l-
request@cc.umontreal.ca; French/English; 250 subscribers.
BIBLIO-FR "Bibliothe'caires Franc,ais"; subscribe to biblio-fr-
request@univ-rennes1.fr; in French; 400 subscribers,
archive: gopher.univ-rennes1.fr, http://www.univ-rennes1.fr.
FRANCEHS "List for French history scholars"; 275 subscribers;
subscribe to francehs-request@uwavm.bitnet or
listserv@uwavm.u.washington.edu; in French and English.
There are others. The most useful tool for locating professional online
discussion of a particular topic is the list maintained by Diane Kovacs,
of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (there are many thousands more which
are un - scholarly -- Ms. Kovacs and her team perform an invaluable
filtering service). The Kovacs list, now on its 8th edition (1994),
is available in many places online. Most usefully here, it is
available from the University of Caen -- telnet caen1.unicaen.fr login
bibliotheque -- complete with a French interface and keyword searching
by subject (in English), title, and moderator's name.
2) Usenet
Usenet groups I personally do _not_ recommend, although it is good to
know that they exist. My problem is the lack of editorial control on
Usenet, and my own busy schedule and impatience. It is important to
realize, though, that France and the French have a Usenet presence.
The following is from a March 1993 general online announcement, from
Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr , who should be consulted for
more information: "...send a note to 'fr-news-distribution@grasp1.univ-
lyon1.fr', preferably in french indicating you are searching for a feed.
Messages arriving to this address will be sent to the fr.news.
distribution newsgroup as well as to the peer mailing-list. To subscribe
to the mailing-list send the command "sub fr-news-distribution First
Lastname" to the address . More
information, as well as an INN groups creation script can be retrieved
by anonymous ftp to grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr in pub/faq/fr.If you don't have
ftp access, ftpmail@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr will furnish the same service."
3) "Frognet"
This nicely - named resource is a selection of daily Agence France
Presse wire postings, usefully assembled and posted online by a group
affiliated with the French Embassy in Washington. If you don't have the
patience to wade through daily reports of agricultural production
statistics and Olympique de Marseilles football scores along with other
news, you can avoid this by downloading the postings, either to a word
processor on an Internet account or to a pc / laptop, and then using the
word processor's "string search" capacity to look for material of
interest to you. Those with accounts on The WELL -- voice telephone
(USA) 415 - 332 - 4335 -- can take advantage of an even more useful
presentation of Frognet in the "france" conference there.
The original announcement of the "Frognet" service:
"En mars 1992, a l'initiative de la Mission Scientifique de l'Ambassade
de France a Washington et avec la collaboration du Service de Presse et
d'Information, se creait FROGNET. FROGNET permet aujourd'hui a tout
titulaire d'une adresse electronique de recevoir gratuitement une revue
de presse quotidienne en francais et une fois tous les 15 jours "News
from France", bulletin d'information en langue anglaise. Pour les
personnes residant en France, seul News from France est accessible pour
des raisons de copyright." Applications are obtained by e-mail request
to: FROG@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU .
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