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French Electronic resources

Trinity 2008Nick Hearn


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Three readers

John - undergraduate

Les contemplations Peter - Postgraduate

Montaigne

Freda freelance researcher

Animals in literature


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OLIS (Telnet and web-based)Union Catalogues (COPAC, OCLC FirstSearch)

French online catalogues (BN-Opale, SUDOC, CCFR)

Francophone online catalogues (Karlsruher virtueller

Katalog)

Dictionaries (Le grand trsor; online bilingual

dictionaries) and encyclopedias (Quid, wikipdia)Journal articles (JSTOR, MLA, FRANCIS, WEB OF

SCIENCE)

French studies on the Internet (Portals, discussion lists,

electronic libraries)

French studies and corpora: French keyboard

Corpora (FRANTEXT, Corpus de littrature medivale),Voltaire lectronique

Exercises

Structure of the session


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12.20-12.30Exercises

12.10-12.20Corpora etc

12.05-12.10Internet

11.55-12.05Looking for articles

11.45-11.55Francophone online catalogues

11.40-11.45Electronic reference sources

11.35 11.40Anglophone online catalogues

11.30 -11.35Introduction

Plan of campaign


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Online catalogues


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Landscape of Electronic Resources

(Online Catalogues)

for Anglophone World


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Problems with OLIS

1. Cannot sort more than 500 items (in WebCat)

2. Cannot search by medium ie cannot search for

dissertations in Oxford

3. Cannot input diacritics ie accents and cedillas

4. Does not show all available electronic resources

(or older titles)5. Possible to limit search by library only in Telnet

version of OLIS (two versions of cat. awkward)

6. Not very user-friendly (but allows browsing)

7. HOWEVER, sometimes possible to supplement

OLIS by using COPAC


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COPAC to the rescue!

User-friendly

30 million records

More than 30 UK and Irish

Research libraries including theBritish Library

If item not held by Oxford possible

to get through interlibrary loan from

one of the COPAC libraries

Can be used to search OLIS


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OCLC databases relevant to

French Studies

AllMonographs?105mWorldCat

Lang and

lit.,

Folklore

Articles +1926-1m+MLA

Hums,

Social Sc.

Articles +1984-1.6mFRANCIS

SubjectMaterial typeTimeNo. of

Records

Database


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Keyword

Author

Author phrase

Personal name

Personal name phrase

SubjectSubject phrase

Named person

Title

Title phrase

Types of (advanced) search on WorldCat

Avoid any search with the word phrase in it unless you know

the exact name of author, exact subject term or exact title!


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Structure of LC Subject Headingsfor French Studies

French literature To 1500 History and criticism

French literature - 16th century History and criticism

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Appreciation

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Biography

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Criticism and interpretation

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Homes and haunts

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Contemplations



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Browsing by shelfmark for French authors

Library of Congress Classification for Individual Authors (By period)L

French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 18th century

..PQ1947

French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 19th century

PQ2152

French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 1900-1960

PQ2251.Z5

French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 1961-2000

.PQ2660

French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 2001-

PQ2700


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Electronic resources for Referencein French Studies (Lang. and Lit,)


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Wish List

The ideal dictionary

PolysemyOpposites

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Idioms

Morphology

PronunciationEtymology

Definitions

Examples


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Online dictionaries for French

studiesATILF (Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue francaise)

http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/SIXIEME/search.form.fr.html

Centre nationel de ressources textuelles et lexicales

http://www.cntl.fr/

Lexilogos

http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm
http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/SIXIEME/search.form.fr.htmlhttp://www.cntl.fr/http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htmhttp://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htmhttp://www.cntl.fr/http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/SIXIEME/search.form.fr.html


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Encyclopedias for different

information needs

John - undergraduate

Les contemplations Peter - Postgraduate

Montaigne

Freda freelance researcher



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Online French encyclopedias

Historical:L'encyclopdie, ou Dictionnaire raisonn des Sciences, des Arts et des Mtiers de

Diderot at d'Alembert

http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/

Online:

Imago Mundihttp://www.cosmovisions.com/

L'encyclopdie Quid

http://www.quid.fr

French wikipedia

http://fr.wikipedia.orgStandard non-electronic:

Encyclopaedia universalis Paris: Encyclopaedia universalis, 1968-1982

Shelfmark: REF.F.48
http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/http://www.cosmovisions.com/http://www.quid.fr/http://fr.wikipedia.org/http://fr.wikipedia.org/http://www.quid.fr/http://www.cosmovisions.com/http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/


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Francophone online catalogues forFrench studies


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French electronic resources landscape


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Catalogue collectif de France

http://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/pub/fr/welcome.jsp

Database of 20th century manuscriptsPalme

Database of illuminated manuscriptsMandragore

Database of manuscriptsCGM

Special collectionsBase patrimoine

Online catalogue of Higher Ed. institutionsSUDOC

Online digital libraryGallica

Online catalogue of French National

library

BN-Opale
http://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/pub/fr/welcome.jsphttp://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/pub/fr/welcome.jsp


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Karlsruher virtueller Katalog

(KVK)

KVK!

But what about Belgium?...


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Electronic resources for locating

journal articles in French Studies,Lang. and Lit...


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Electronic Resources for Journals

mostly non-Francophone

Needs to be combined with electronic ones below

MLA

JSTOR

Web of Science

FRANCIS

Printed source:

Klapp, Otto Bibliographie der franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft

=Bibliographie dhistoire litteraire francaise


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MLA Bibliography

MLA Bibliography

Contains over 1m records. Subject coverage: Modern

languages

and literatures, folklore and linguistics. To see what

journal/periodicals

are covered go tohttp://www.mla.org/pdf/masterlist07.pdf

Wide variety of formats: not just periodical articles also

books,

working papers and proceedings

Only keywords no abstracts but that is changing.

Should be one's first port of call
http://www.mla.org/pdf/masterlist07.pdfhttp://www.mla.org/pdf/masterlist07.pdf


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FRANCIS:

Contains 1.6m records. Subject coverage: Humanities and

Social Sciences.

To see what journals/periodicals are covered go to:

http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.php

Like MLA wide variety of formats: not just periodicals but

also books working papers and proceedings

Includes abstracts for better keyword searching

Unfortunately not as many relevant journals as MLA

bibliography

FRANCIS
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.phphttp://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.phphttp://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.php


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Web of knowledge (Arts and Humanities)

Contains 2.5m records. Subject coverage:

Arts and Humanities

To see what journals/periodicals are

covered go to:

http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC

=HUnlike MLA and FRANCIS: ONLY

periodical articles. Ie NO books,

working papers or proceedings

Unlike MLA and FRANCIS: retrospective

and current

Unlike MLA or FRANCIS, possible to

search on references that a given article

cites as well as articles which cite a given

article.

Web of Science
http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=Hhttp://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=Hhttp://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=Hhttp://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=H


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JSTOR:Contains 1.8m articles + 1.3m book reviews.

If you want to see which articles are covered by the database you don't haveto go outside the database to a web-site the information is availableas part of the database itself which is as it should be.Subject areas covered: ALLTypes of material: As is the case with the Arts and Humanities Index ofWeb of Science it consists exclusively of journal articles including

book reviews.Unlike all of the previous databases, all of the articles on JSTORare available in full-text.Unlike the previous databases, all searching is by keyword.Unlike the previous databases, JSTOR does not contain current articles butthere is an intervalor moving wall between the actual most recent issue ofa journal and the last issue that JSTOR is allowed by the publisher to show.

Electronic resources for locating JournalArticles in French Studies: JSTOR


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The Internet...


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Portals for French Studies

British Library:

http://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.html

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htm

Intute: Arts and Humanities available from:

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htm

La toile du Quebechttp://www.toile.com

Oxford University Language Centre

http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.html

Taylor Institution Library

http://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk

Search engines for French studies:

Google France

http://www.google.fr/

Voila

http://voila.fr
http://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.htmlhttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htmhttp://www.toile.com/http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.htmlhttp://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk/http://www.google.fr/http://voila.fr/http://voila.fr/http://www.google.fr/http://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk/http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.htmlhttp://www.toile.com/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htmhttp://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.html


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French Studies on the Internet:Discussion lists

French mail-lists/discussion lists:

http://jiscmail.ac.uk

FRANCOPHIL: French Studies Electronic Discussion List

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/
http://jiscmail.ac.uk/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/http://jiscmail.ac.uk/


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Electronic libraries

Athena

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_lng.html

Gallica

http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Patrimoine numerique

http://www.numerique.culture.fr/mpf/pub.fr/index.html

Wikisource

http://wikisource.org/wiki/

FRANTEXT
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_lng.htmlhttp://gallica.bnf.fr/http://www.numerique.culture.fr/mpf/pub.fr/index.htmlhttp://wikisource.org/wiki/http://wikisource.org/wiki/http://www.numerique.culture.fr/mpf/pub.fr/index.htmlhttp://gallica.bnf.fr/http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_lng.html


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Je nommai le cochon par son nom; pourquoi pas?

Guichardin a nomm le Borgia! Tacite

Le Vitellius! Fauve, implacable, explicite,

J'tai du cou du chien stupfait son collier

D'pithtes; dans l'herbe, l'ombre du hallier,

Je fis fraterniser la vache et la gnisse,

Part of a poem for identification


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Desktop instructionsHow to input accents

In each case hold down

the Alt keyand type the number(using thenumeric keypad):

(Alt +133) (Alt +131)

(Alt +132) (Alt +145) (Alt +135) (Alt +130) (Alt +138) (Alt +136) (Alt +137)

(Alt +140) (Alt +139) (Alt +147) (Alt +0156) (Alt +151) (Alt +150) (Alt +129)

Laptop instructions

To type accent grave (, , etc), type ` then the vowel.Accent aigu (), type ' (single quote) then e.Cdille (), type ' then c.Circonflexe (), type ^ (shift + 6) then e.Trma (), type " (shift + ') then o

French keyboards: inputting accents


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Animal hierarchy


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The hypothesis:

That Victor Hugo's treatment of the animal kingdom is less hierarchicalthan that of other French writers.

What is a 'corpus'?A large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed)They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating linguisticrules on a specific universe.

What is FRANTEXT?A corpus of some 3700 works from the 16th to the 20th centuries originally developedas a citations database for the Trsor de la langue franaise (roughly equivalent to theOED).


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Results (from FRANTEXT)

Victor Hugo Totality of texts

311 13,491lion 221 lion 4224

104 3194

80 2933

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chien aigle

ne ne


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Other corpora on OxLIP

Voltaire lectronique

Le corpus Montaigne

Corpus de littrature mdivale des origines la fin du Xve sicle


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Conclusion

Many similarities between Anglophone and Francophone electronicresource landscape

Anglophone 'landscape' excels at journal articles

Francophone good at online reference, audiovisual (multimedia)

Have not covered: FRANTEXT in depth, Web 2.0, Voltaire, Montaigne

Future developments: Electronic enlightenment project

As for John, Peter and Fred:

John went on to get a good degree in French

Peter still finishing his PhD on Montaigne

Fred about to publish his book La bte noire

Exercises


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Nick Hearn

French Studies (Lang. and Lit. Subject Specialist

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