Historians on the Internet Many German historians are not sure yet what to think about the possibilities offered by electronic communication and by the new information systems. Therefore I want to show some examples of what historians on the internet are currently engaging with. One of these systems has become accepted in considerable degree, particularly because it is very easy to handle and does not need previous computer skills: "Gopher" (American vole). If we want to describe it by concepts from librarianship, it is an - interlibrary loan system, as - freehand redaing room, with - placement by systematic classification. It enables access to information that is stored anywhere in the world, and one needs not care about WHERE this is. One sees a menu of categories or titles, and upon pressing a key, one gets the information sought after, or more menus with increasingly finegrained categories. What is being stored there? Besides many other types of information (ranging from publication announcements to historical documents as fulltexts), some of the most interesting texts are probably the contributions to the current scholarly "online" discussions. These so-called discussion lists function like, so to speak, a "perpetual historian's day" ["Immerwaehrender Historiker-Tag", alluding to the perpetual diet]: one scholar sends a short contribution or a question to such a list, using "electronic mail", and this list distributes it (likewise via "email") to the participants worldwide. The participants now have the opportunity to reply. More precisely, they can write directly in between the individual text passages or comments (which may remind us of the old communication technique by means of marginalia in medieval monastery libraries). The remainder of this information leaflet contains the topics that were recently being discussed on two of such lists (where the figures in brackets denote the number of contributions or the number of the "threads" in a category, resp.). So how to get into the internet to take a closer look to all this? In most cases, the first step is to talk to the local computer center. There you will be told about the available possibilities and will be shown how to arrive via Heidelberg at the History Gopher. Matthias Melcher, URZ, Im Neuenheimer Feld 293, D-69120 Heidelberg Tel. +49-6221-5645-23, Fax -5581, E-Mail x28@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de ------ Mediev-L List ------------------- French History Texts (8) Asia (2/25) Historia Gaufredi (5) Middle-East (1/15) Jean Leclercq (3) east meets west (15) Jean Yver (2) Cyprus (1/10) Joan of Arc: new studies? (8) Templars (10) Joana D'arc (3) Europe (52/330) Montforts (7) Belgium (1/6) Paris students' texts? (7) Sources for 12,13th C. 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