The Italian virtual community (IVC)
- Goals: to list, coordinate, expand online resources in the Italian
language and their use.
- Targets:
a. Italians with Internet access (IA)
b. Professors and students of Italian at institutions outside Italy, with
IA
c. Professors and Students in the humanities or interested in the field,
at
Italian institutions, and with IA
d. Anybody with IA and interested in using the Italian language
- Tools:
a. Gopher server on IVC at the University of Utah, "open system" (anybody
can post information), I will be the Editor
b. Gopher or Mosaic clients at the U of U and elsewhere
c. "Virtual" (Italian hardbound magazine), 1. advertising 2. newspapers
online
Stefania Garassini, chief editor virtual@relay1.iunet.it
d. Ricciardi 1. italian philological association 2. C.N.R. 3. existing
corpora of Italian electronic texts no yet online. Prof Ricciardi, Mario,
University of Vercelli, MRICC@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT
tecnuman@itocsivm.bitnet.it
e. Little Italy (LambdaMoo at the University of Milan)
online text based virtual reality environment in Italian
Degli Antoni, Giovanni, Prof. University of Milan
degliantoni@hermes.mc.dsi.unimi.it
Palladini, Fabio, Project Assistant palladin@ghost.dsi.unimi.it
f. Italian online library catalogs
- Le Biblioteche del Vercellese (541 righe).
- Polo Veneziano del Sistema Bibliotecario Naz. (solo VT100)/
- Catalogo Bibliogr. Collettivo Univ. Padane (solo VT100)/
- ALMATEL, Universita' di Bologna (solo VT100)/
- Scienza dell'Informazione, Milano (solo VT100)
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (solo VT100)/
- Dipartimento di Matematica, Univ. di Pisa (solo VT100)
- IROE (Ist. di Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche), Firenze/
- SBN (Sistema Bibliotecario Nazionale), Firenze (solo VT100)/
- Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze (solo VT100)
g. Windows on Italy, Freenet at Carleton, CA
Dr. Enzo Coniglio
Cultural Attache'
Tel. (613)236-0279
Italian Embassy - Ottawa K1P 5H9
275 Slater St. 21 Floor
Fax (613)233-1484
ae068@freenet.carleton.ca
h. Frequently Asked Question document of the Soc.Culture.Italian newsgroup
editors:
Marco Bertamini mb2p@fermi.clas.virginia.edu
Semenzato, Luigi luigi@paris.cs.berkeley.edu
i. Society.Culture.Italian, Usenet newsgroup forum of discussion on Italy
in Italian or via mail gateway, soc-culture-italian@cs.utexas.edu
l. Di Porto, Piero
Addetto Consolare per gli Affari Scientifici
Italian Consulate, San Francisco
diporto@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU
m. Headlines from the Italian newspaper "Repubblica" in
Soc.Culture.Italian
Lanfranconi, Max, editor bogart@BPB.IT
Headlines from the Italian Newspaper "Corriere della Sera" in
Soc.Culture.Italian
Arrigo Triulzi, editor <{agbt,a.triulzi}@{imperial,ic}.ac.uk>
Mathematics Dept. - Imperial College of Science and Tech., London - UK
[or arrigo@tera.ma.ic.ac.uk, agbt@madfsa.ma.ic.ac.uk
agbt@nile.ma.ic.ac.uk]
n. Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (CPET)
Center for Text & Technology
Academic Computer Center, Reiss 238
Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057 USA
tel: 202-687-6096 fax: 202-687-6003
Contacts:
Paul Mangiafico, CPET Project Assistant
pmangiafico@guvax.georgetown.edu
Dr. Michael Neuman, Director, Center for Text & Technology
neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu
ELECTRONIC TEXT PROJECTS IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE
This 42K file contains information on 16 projects, and was last
updated in February, 1993.
CPET#144 Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics
CPET#184 Thesaurus of Texts in Ancient Indo-European Languages
CPET#358 Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali
CPET#225 Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
CPET#247 European Science Foundation Second Language Data Bank
CPET#168 The Body and Flesh in the Sermons of Giordan of Pisa: An
essay in computer analysis
CPET#298 Oxford Text Archive
CPET#14 Anthologies of Italian Music and Lyric Poetry of the
Renaissance
CPET#8 PHI Demonstration CD-ROM #1 (LBASE/CCAT)
CPET#310 Index of Medieval Medicine Images in North America
CPET#27 Nietzsche Corpus
CPET#333 Georgetown Center for Text and Technology
CPET#317 Le Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale
CPET#63 Dartmouth Dante Project
CPET#81 The Verdi Archive
CPET#95 CHILDES Database
o. Massagli, Massimo, Vice-Director, Library of the Catholic University of
Milan, massagli@imicilea.cilea.it
p. Italian based gopher servers
1. I Gopher Servers italiani e la lista NIR-IT-L (18 righe).
2. GARR Gopher Server (Gruppo Armonizzazione Reti di Ricerca)/
3. DIR ITA Info Server (CSATA, Bari)/
4. Tecnopolis CSATA Novus Ortus (Master Gopher, Bari)/
5. CINECA Centro di Calcolo Interuniversitario (Bologna, vm)/
6. CINECA Centro di Calcolo Interuniversitario (Bologna, gopher)/
7. Dipartimento di Filosofia, Universita' di Bologna/
8. Universita' di Bologna, Scienze Politiche/
9. Ist. per la Ricerca sulle Onde Elettromagnetiche, CNR, Firenze/
10. Universita' di Genova/
11. Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro (Genova)/
12. CILEA, Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo (Milano)/
13. Centro Servizi di Informatica, Universita' di Milano/
14. Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione, Univ. di Milano/
15. SIAM, Servizio Informatica Area Milanese (CNR, Milano)/
16. Istituto di Cibernetica (CNR, Napoli)/
17. CRIAI, Consorzio Campano di Ric. per l'Informatica/
18. Universita' di Padova/
19. CCE - Universita' di Perugia/
20. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/
21. CNUCE, Istituto del CNR, Pisa (gopher)/
22. CNUCE, Istituto del CNR, Pisa (macgopher, di solito non funziona)/
23. Universita' di Pisa/
24. IEI (Pisa, CNR)/
25. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa (ipifidpt)/
26. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa (mann1)/
27. Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa/
28. Universita' di Pisa, Dip. di Informatica (apollo)/
29. Istituto per l'Elaborazione dell'Informazione (CNR, Pisa)/
30. SERRA, Universita' di Pisa/
31. CNUCE, Laboratorio di Ingegneria del SW (Pisa)/
32. Centro di Ricerche Informatiche Beni Culturali (Pisa)/
33. Economia e Business, Universita' di Pisa/
34. Virgilio, Universita' di Pisa/
35. CSI Piemonte (Consorzio per il Sistema Informativo, Torino)/
36. CSP: Centro di Supercalcolo del Piemonte, Torino/
37. Politecnico di Torino/
38. Universita' di Trento/
39. AREA Science Park, Trieste/
40. ICGEB, Centro Internaz. per l'Ing. Genetica e le Biotec. (Trieste)/
41. Centro Internaz. per la Fisica Teorica (Trieste)/
42. SISSA, Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste)/
43. Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste/
44. Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venezia/
45. Universita' di Venezia, Ca' Foscari/
46. MC-link Gopher Server/
47. Agora Telematica/
q. Oxford Text Archives
ftp:ota.ox.ac.uk@ota/italian
============ Italian ==============
Collections, corpora etc
U-1723-D | Corpus of Italian newspapers. Depositor: Elisabeth
Burr, FB 3/Romanistik, Universitaet-GH Duisburg.
Alighieri, Dante
A-695-A | Il paradiso. [On RLIN]
A-694-A | Il purgatorio. [On RLIN]
A-693-A | L'Inferno. [On RLIN]
Ariosto, Lodovico
A-1041-D | Orlando furioso. [On RLIN]
Boccaccio, Giovanni
A-1120-E | Decameron.
A-1099-B | Il Teseide. [On RLIN]
Boiardo, Matteo
A-1100-C | Orlando Innamorato. Ed. A. Zottoli. Milan, 1944.
Depositor: David Robey, D of Italian, U of Manchester.
[series : I Classici Mondadori]
Calvino, Italo
U*-406-A | Seven dialect tales. Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse,
Magdalen College. [Various texts used. No publication
details; on RLIN]
Castiglione, B.
A*-302-B | Il Cortegiano. Ed. B. Maier. Turin, 1964: U.T.E.T.
Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse, Magdalen College. [On RLIN]
Della Casa, Giovanni
U*-407-A | Galateo. Ed. P.Pancrazi. Florence, 1949: Le Monner.
Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse, Magdalen College. [On RLIN]
Machiavelli, Niccolo
A*-303-A | Discorso o dialogo intorno alla nostra lingua.
Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse, Magdalen College. [On RLIN]
Michelangelo
A*-304-A | Rime 1-85. Ed. N. Girardi. Bari, 1967: Laterza.
Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse, Magdalen College. [On RLIN]
Nievo
U*-408-A | Canzoni popolari greche. Milan: Mondadori, BMM
series. Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse, Magdalen College. [On
RLIN]
Pigna, G.B. and Magnanini,O
A-1062-A | Amori and Discorsi. Ed. Typescript by Prof.David
Nolan,N.U.I,Dublin. Both MSS. Milan and London. Depositor:
A. Bullock, D of Italian, U of Leeds. [Amoria from
Bib.Ambrosiana,Milan.Discorsi from BL,London; on RLIN]
Pulci
A-1390-C | Morgante. Ed. R. Ramat. Milan, 1961: Rizzoli
Editore. Depositor: David Robey, D of Italian, U of
Manchester. [On RLIN]
Rossetti, Gabriele
A*-702-B | Lettere familiari: letters to Charles Lyell 1826-49.
Ed. edited from orig. MSS by J.R Woodhouse & P.R Horne.
1983: Vasto. Depositor: J.R. Woodhouse, Magdalen College.
[copyright with Lyell family; on RLIN]
Svevo, Italo
A-1043-B | La coscienza di Zeno. Ed. Gabriella Contini. Milan,
1985: Arnoldo Mondadori. Depositor: Brian Richardson, D of
Italian, U of Leeds. [On RLIN]
Tasso, Torquato
A-872-B | Gerusalemme Conquistata, vols 1-2. Ed. Luigi
Bonfigli. Bari, 1934. [On RLIN]
A-871-B | Gerusalemme Liberata. Ed. Lanfranco Caretti. 1957.
[On RLIN]
Verga, Giovanni
U*-305-A | Six short stories. Milan, 1967: Biblioteca moderna
mondadori. Depositor: Andrew Wilkin, D of Italian, U of
Strathclyde. [Stories from "Tutte le novelle, vol.1"; on
RLIN]
r. Dartmouth Dante Project
telnet lib.dartmouth.edu
connect dante
s. Project Gutenberg, Italian Section
(classics in electronic format in public domain)
Project Gutenberg Email List
editor: "Michael S. Hart"
t. Manuzio, Liber Liber
(Italian classics in electronic format in public domain)
editor: Marco Calvo
Marco Calvo
u. Internet Relay Chat, channel #italia
multi-user, multi-channel, text based Internet chat service
v. Mailing lists
langit@icineca.bitnet
mario@searn.sunet.se
%caci-l@ualtavm.bitnet
%tcp-ita@icnucevm.bitnet
%caro-dir@icnucevm.bitnet
%ISYP@ICNUCEVM.BITNET
ITALIA-L - Discussion list for Italianists
AIB-CUR@IVEUNCC.BITNET Associazione Italiana Biblioteche
z. Leslie Z. Morgan
American Association of Italian Studies
aa. "Canzoni d'autore italiane", Augusto Sarti, marzo 1993
asarti@nefeli.eecs.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti) (Aug 11 93)
asarti@nefeli.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti) (Aug 3 93)
asarti@bellini.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti) (Feb 11 93)
asarti@milano.berkeley.edu (Augusto Sarti) (Jun 30 93)
bb. Luca Toschi, di Firenze - italianista - italiani@vm.idg.fi.cnr.it
ipertesto con le principali opere teatrali di Goldoni
cc. Pasquale Stoppelli - italianista - Roma mc4841@mclink.it
CD-ROM per Zanichelli (sistema di ricerca Zampolli) 300 classici italiani
dd. Maurizio Lana - CISI
ee. Hypertexts online via Mosaic (WWW) at:
http://www.crs4.it/HTML/homecrs4.html
- la Divina Commedia (Dante)
- Dei sepolcri (Foscolo)
- I malavoglia (Verga)
- Pinocchio (Collodi)
ff. Mailing list dei
Italian language teaching
#01. The world
Content Based Language Learning
Languages Across Curriculum
Learner Centred Language Learning
Cooperative Learning
Language as a means of communication
Study abroad and full immersion programs
American English as electronic koine' and other cultures
Physical displacement and electronic ubiquity; the case of Gopher links
Interest in network resources
Not creation but good use of existing resources
Use of network resources
Number of Internet hosts in July, 1993: 1,776,000
TABLE 1. The growth of the Internet ( adapted from the Matrix gopher
server)
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+------------------------------------------------->
year 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93
mon th 8 5 8 10 10 11 12 10 7 10 7 4 1
Internet Hosts, Worldwide
(Linear Scale)
Drawn by MIDS, Austin, Texas .
Worldwide host information (see RFC 1296)
by Mark Lottor .
Excludes MX-only domains.
@: Worldwide hosts
##Shared resources
##Open System
##Written communication
Synchronous (e.g. IRC)
Asynchronous (e.g. E-Mail, NEWS, Gopher, Libraries)
Interactive (e.g. E-Mail, NEWS, IRC)
Non-interactive (e.g. Gopher, Libraries)
Private bi-party (e.g. E-Mail)
Private Multi-party (e.g. Mailing lists)
Public (e.g. Gopher, Libraries)
##Cultural immersion
Interaction with native speakers similar to study abroad
##Computer literacy
- Achieved through the use of computer and network resources during the
coursework.
- Their use of the skills they acquired in the Italian class in academic
environment or at work.
- A community of students, of present and past Italian classes, that can
still be reached and communicate via E-Mail.
##List of and pointers to existing Italian electronic resources accessible
from the Language Resource Center gopher server
###electronic texts
Oxford Text Archives
Catalog of Projects in Electronic Text of Georgetown University
Dante Project at Dartmouth College
Project Gutenberg, Italian Section
Manuzio
###Mailing lists
langit@icineca.bitnet
mario@searn.sunet.se
%caci-l@ualtavm.bitnet
%tcp-ita@icnucevm.bitnet
%caro-dir@icnucevm.bitnet
%ISYP@ICNUCEVM.BITNET
ITALIA-L - Discussion list for Italianists
AIB-CUR@IVEUNCC.BITNET Associazione Italiana Biblioteche
###Newsgroups
soc.culture.italian (world)
%alt.politics.italy (world)
%trial.soc.culture.italian (world)
uu.community.italian (local)
+-- Estimated total number of people who read the group,
worldwide.
| +--- Actual number of readers in sampled population
| | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at
all
| | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
| | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
| | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
| | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V
1 230000 4611 92% 1 100% 10.0% news.announce.newusers
2 230000 4447 88% 1 100% 9.7% news.answers
. . . . . . . .
429 35000 693 67% 1641 1% 1.5% soc.culture.italian
The compete document, as well as the explanation of how they got these
numbers is posted periodically on news.groups and news.lists.
#02. University of Utah
##Hardware
PC's LAN
a big server 2 gig (present)
SUGGESTION: one PC not on the LAN, running winsock, on which to try all
the new stuff the comes out in freeware on the Internet
##Software
###System
NOVELL (to be upgraded to Windows NT)
###Programs
Automatic account set-up process (by computer, with information from the
registrar office, see Edward Sharp)
zw Chinese newsreader interface
IMail (E-Mail)
###Servers
Gopher
###Clients
Telnet
Remote login
FTP
File Transfer Protocol
NEWS (Usenet) Trumpet version
Worldwide electronic bulletin board
Internet Relay Chat, Trumpet version
Multi-user, multi-channel powerful chat service
%WAIS (text based, graphic version requires winsock)
User friendly interface to remote text retrieval and search
%World Wide Web (text based, graphic version requires Winsock)
Multimedia capable user friendly read and write interface to network
information systems
Hytelnet
User friendly Interface to library catalogs and other information services
Libs
User friendly Interface to library catalogs and other information services
Finger
Information retrieval system on remote users
%Talk/Ytalk
Bi/multi-party chat service
either already in place, or already licensed to the University of Utah,
freeware, shareware etc.
##Policy
All the student of Italian will receive an account on the PCs LAN upon
registering for an Italian class.
Italian might develop as a pilot program, other languages may follow.
##Maintenance
Ken Burcham & Computer Center Stuff
##Ideas and questions
Why PCs? And why NOVELL?
Intelligent use of existing resources
=---=-=====-=-
Maurizio Oliva, Instructor, Dept. of Lang. and Lit., U. of Utah
moliva@cc.utah.edu, (801) W 581-4058, H 537-7016, FAX 581-7581
Ritorni in Italia
Maurizio: 24 gennaio 1994