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From Concordances to Subject Portals: Supportingthe Text-Centred Humanities Community

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This paper discusses selected aspects of the work ofthe CTI Centre for Textual Studies, a Centre which hasits roots in a 1984 initiative and ceased to operatein 1999. The work of the Centre was grounded inhumanities computing, a subject area which itself hasdeveloped over time. The article compares earlierobservations made by Joseph Raben and Susan Hockeyabout the integration of resources within humanitiesteaching and learning, to current realities. Its focusis the development of access to distributed resources,beginning with an interface between the early PC andthe mainframe and ending with a vision of a humanitiesportal to distributed resources.

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Fraser, M. From Concordances to Subject Portals: Supportingthe Text-Centred Humanities Community. Computers and the Humanities 34, 265–278 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002630710402

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