Last updated Thursday, 15-Mar-2007 14:04:17 EDT
WWP and WWP-Related Electronic Mailing Lists
Carole E. Mah and Jennifer K. Rowley
The following is a summary of electronic mailing lists to which
members of the WWP community are already subscribed or which they may
find of interest. In the case of all lists, the number of people
subscribed is a dynamic rather than absolute number, depending upon
waxing and waning interest as people subscribe and sign off (in the
case of the public list), and depending upon how many STG people and
old encoders, and/or board members are subscribed (in the case of the
non-public lists).
WWPSTF-L
- Description:
- WWP staff List
- Subscribers:
- WWP students, staff, and some STG members (total to date is 39
people subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Announce meetings
- Ask who stole your coffee mug
- Tell rest of office about your vacation plans
- Tell rest of office about your sicknesses, etc.
- For STG to tell us of server shutdowns, etc.
- Other such miscellany
WWPTAG-L
- Description:
- WWP encoding or "tag" discussion list
- Subscribers:
- WWP students, staff, and some STG members (total to date is 33
people subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Forum for the discussion of encoding problems
- Forum for the resolution of encoding problems
- Forum for announcing some encoding policies
WWPALL-L
N.B.: This list is currently moribund, but may be
revived in the future
- Description:
- WWP general list
- Subscribers:
- WWP students, staff, some STG members; Advisory Board members, Research
Board members (total to date is 71 people
subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Discussion of literary and encoding issues
- Notes:
- To illustrate: board members, who are experts in various literary
and technical fields, might answer questions WWP staff & students
need answered, for which no in-office expertise is available.
WWP-L
- Description:
- WWP public list
- Subscribers:
- The General Public; WWP staff, students, board are encouraged but
not required to subscribe (total to date is 567 people
subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Discussion of pre-Victorian writing in English by women
- Discussion of humanities text encoding
- Other closely related topics
- Notes:
- Many professors/graduate students who teach our authors' texts use
this forum to discuss, for example, the construction of syllabi,
teaching methods, the canon, etc. Humanities text encoding discussion
does not seem to take place much here, and in fact people are reminded
that such discussions are often most beneficially conducted on
TEI-L.
WWPBRD-L
- Description:
- WWP Board list
- Subscribers:
- WWP Advisory Board members only (plus the WWP director, Allen
Renear, and Project Manager Julia Flanders) (total to date is 14
people subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Forum for discussing Board-related matters.
- Notes:
- A list of the members of the Executive Committee of the Advisory
Board (i.e. the kernel of that board) can be found on the staff portion of
our homepage, but note that this does not include descriptions of who
they are or what they do (although one of them, Stuart Curran, has his
own homepage to which you can go if you are so inclined).
WWPOUP-L
- Description:
- WWP books list
- Subscribers:
- WWP-affiliated scholars and/or board members and any others
associated with the books (total to date is 12 people
subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Forum for discussing Oxford University Press-related matters.
- Notes:
- Since book production no longer formally involves the WWP directly,
the number of WWP staff subscribed to this list is very small.
WWPACQ-L
- Description:
- WWP text acquisition list
- Subscribers:
- WWP Text Acquisition Committee, which consists of some staff and
some Board members (total to date is 11 people subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Forum for timely communication among acquisition committee members.
WWPRWO-L
- Description:
- WWP Renaissance Women Online list
- Subscribers:
- Some WWP staff, some Board members, and many volunteer scholars
involved in producing (especially) contextual material and other
material for RWO (total to date is 99 people subscribed).
- Purpose:
- Forum for communication among RWO-related scholars; especially
useful for communication from Paul to the group of volunteers.
ORLWWP-L
- Description:
- Orlando/WWP Technical Discussion list
- Subscribers:
- Orlando staff, WWP staff.
- Purpose:
- To facilitate cooperation and communication between the Orlando
Project and the Women Writers Project.
WWPRES-L
- Description:
- WWP Research list
- Subscribers:
- Anyone who wishes to volunteer may sign up as a beta-tester.
- Purpose:
-
This list provides a discussion forum for special research
projects at the Brown University Women Writers Project. It
provides a space for interaction and collaboration between
WWP staff and a selected group of outside participants.
Projects may include user testing, planning for WWP-sponsored
conferences, development of new encoding initiatives, and the
like. The list may be used for a given project and then
reused later, with a different subscriber list, for a
different project.
The address of all these lists is LISTNAME@listserv.brown.edu,
where you replace LISTNAME with the name of the list in question,
e.g. WWPTAG-L@listserv.brown.edu.
In addition, there are public lists at other sites which may
interest many of us; all are highly encouraged though certainly not
required to subscribe to TEI-L in particular. TEI-L is a general
forum for discussion of TEI-related topics, while TEI-TECH is a forum
for advanced discussion of technical issues concerning the TEI
guidelines. To subscribe to TEI-L, send an email message to
LISTSERV@listserv.brown.edu, with the message SUBSCRIBE TEI-L [your name] in
the body of the message. To subscribe to TEI-TECH, send an email message to
LISTSERV@listserv.brown.edu, with the message SUBSCRIBE TEI-TECH [your name]
in the body of the message.
The major Usenet group of interest is comp.text.sgml, for discussion of
SGML-related issues. This is of course a very broad field, so the
volume of postings is high and wide-ranging, e.g. newbie questions,
job announcements, anti-SGML tirades, SGML/HTML arguments, discussions
of pros and cons of various SGML software, discussion of various DTDs
(CALS, TEI, DOCBOOK, APA, HTML, etc. etc.)
There are also a few more literarily-oriented lists which focus on
particular time periods:
- Ficino (Renaissance; you have to apply to subscribe to this one)
- C18-L (18th century)
- NASSR-L (Romanticism)
- VICTORIA (Victorian)
Finally, there is the Scholarly Editing Forum's List, SEDIT-L@umdd.umd.edu This list
of 184 subscribers largely reflects the membership of the Association
for Documentary Editing. ADE is a group that tries to be a meeting
ground for both literary and historical editors (i.e. both "hits" and
"lits"), and this list is a good source for information on the
politics of public funding for editing projects.
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