Authoring Shell and Training for Hypermedia in
                       Languages and Literature
                              Oxford Univ
                            Marilyn Deegan
      
     The Oxford hypermedia project will develop an authoring shell
     and allied training for the teaching requirements of academics
     in languages and literature.  This shell will be based on
     standard hypermedia software (Guide and Hypercard to begin
     with).  Existing systems were not designed specifically for
     academic use in the humanities and therefore need extensions
     in areas such as lexical handling, special fonts, etc.  To
     assess the needs of academics a survey of current systems will
     be carried out and several academic `partnership' hypermedia
     projects are being set up.  The partner academics will provide
     the academic content and materials from which we will build
     the systems. The projects we envisage cover medieval drama;
     women in the French Revolution; phonetics; and Old English and
     Old Icelandic texts.
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