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A Digital Edition of the Literary Remains of Phileas Fogg
ITST Saskatchewan – 2004 May 13
Terry Butler, University of Alberta
The Fogg Effects
The Fogg Effects
Verne’s fictionalization – helpful, or not?
discovery of the materials in an old trunk in India
the role of Passepartout
Travels
• Fogg prepares for his trip
Cartography
maps and atlases can be scanned and saved as digital images, manipulated by imaging programs
Places and people
illustrations and prints can also be scanned
Works
Tracking works
• a bibliography of works can be recorded
use a special purpose bibliographic program
Correspondents
Tracking letters
• a database to track correspondents and letters
a database captures
relationships between pieces
of information
Tracking numeric information
use a spreadsheet
to track numbers,
dates, amounts
TextsAROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
Chapter I
IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER,THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, BurlingtonGardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one ofthe most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemedalways to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage,about whom little was known, except that he was a polished manof the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at leastthat his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron,who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Foggwas a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank,nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came intoLondon docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment;he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple,or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resoundedin the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench,or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer;nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strangeto the scientific and learned societies, and he never was knownto take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institutionor the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or theInstitution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact,to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital,from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainlyfor the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
a printed book is scanned
and converted to text by an OCR (optical
character recognition)
program
Tagging
the text is tagged in XML to facilitate searching and to mark features of interest
Tagging
an XML editor program is used to introduce the tags and valid the document (check it against its model – the DTD)
Display
the tagged XML text can be displayed on the web, through a stylesheet or by converting it to HTML
Availability to the audience
the materials can be presented through the web, and made accessible through searching and display interfaces
Thanks
Jules Verne on the web– www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j/– jv.gilead.org.il/pg/80day/– library.thinkquest.org/J002459F/
My sincerest thanks are also extended to the staff of the William Wonders Map Library, and the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, who have helped me follow in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg– www.library.ualberta.ca/scitech/#william– www.library.ualberta.ca/specialcollections/index.cfm