Message-Id: <199706191538.IAA30166@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:35:43 -0400 From: Bob Rosenberg <mailto:rarosenb@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> Subject: Edison Papers on line To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
The Edison Papers web site is now up at <http://edison.rutgers.edu>. Like other websites, and unlike the paper and microfilm publications we are used to, it is and will remain a work in progress. At present it contains editorial material from the microfilm and book editions, including some images and maps, a chronology of Edison's life, the text of our motion picture catalog edition, lists of Edison's patents, and an annotated list of the companies he founded or with which he was associated. It also contains a searchable version of our database of 80,000 documents and 14,000 names, covering Edison's life up to 1898 (with a scattering of later documents). As we edit more of the Edison collection that database will grow, and when our microfilm is digitized (now finally underway) and linked to the database over the next year or two the images of the documents will be retrievable through the search (as exhibited in the on-line examples under "Still to come..."). As we move our database to a new platform we will implement new search capabilities. We welcome feedback--there is a "mailto" link at the bottom of our home page.(My apologies for cross-posting.)
Robert Rosenberg * Voice: (732) 932 8511 Thomas A. Edison Papers * Fax: (732) 932 7554 Rutgers University * Email: mailto:rarosenb@rci.rutgers.edu New Brunswick, NJ 08903 * WWW: http://edison.rutgers.edu