multilingual computing: request for non-expert comments
Kevin Hawkins
kshawkin at UMICH.EDU
Mon Sep 20 01:39:13 UTC 2004
** Article on Slavic multilingual computing: request for comments on preprint by non-experts **
Colleagues:
Vol. 5, no. 1/2 of Slavic and East European Information Resources (SEEIR) ( http://www.stanford.edu/~rondest/SEEIR/ ), a journal for librarians working in the field of Slavic and East European studies, will be a special issue entitled "Virtual Slavica: Digital Archives, Digital Libraries".
I have been asked to write an article on confusing aspects of using Slavic scripts and computers but have been struggling with how to best present this information. It began as a prescriptive tutorial, but I have been rewriting it -- unfortunately with very little time left -- as a FAQ (a popular Internet genre consisting of a somewhat organized list of frequently asked questions and answers to them) with a bit of prescriptivism. Since I now claim to be addressing frequently asked questions, I figure that it would be sensible of me to check with Slavists of all types (librarians, teaching faculty, and others who might read this article) to see if I have indeed addressed your frequently asked questions.
I would be grateful to hear from you as well if you feel I have misrepresented any technical matters or would like to offer any editorial advice. While the journal is read mostly by Slavic librarians, I see the target audience as non-expert computer users as a whole, especially since I hope to continue to revise this text and republish it online for the benefit of others. So comments from non-librarians are definitely welcome.
Text in square brackets needs to be fleshed out, and highlighted text needs to be verified. That is, it's not a complete draft of the text.
The preprint is available at http://www.umich.edu/~kshawkin/preprints/20040919.rtf .
Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you by Friday if at all possible. Thanks in advance,
Kevin Hawkins
http://www.umich.edu/~kshawkin/
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