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• General Humanities Resources
• Postindustrial Business Theory
• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Architecture
• Area & Regional Studies
• Art (Modern and Contemporary)
• Art History
• Classical Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Cyberculture
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• Literary Theory
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• Philosophy
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• Science, Technology, & Culture
• Technology Of Writing
• Unvetted
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• Academe
• Teaching Resources
• Libraries & Museums
• Reference
• Journals & Zines
• Publishers & Booksellers
• Listservs & Newsgroups
• Conferences
• Travel
• Laws Of Cool
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Today's
three links, randomly drawn from VoS (
)
•
"What's Good About Bad Reviews?" (1992) (DanceView; reprinted from Dance Ink)
•
"History of Books and Printing"
•
C. Volpilhac-Auger (U. Stendhal, Grenoble), " 'Mon siège est fait', ou la méthode historique de l'abbé de Vertot" (1997) (Cromohs)
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Welcome
to the new VoS. Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages,
VoS has now been rebuilt as a database
that serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater
flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able
to work more efficiently and flexibly.
We've tried to maintain most of the original structure of the
site, which models the way the humanities are organized for
research and teaching as well as the way they are adapting to
social, cultural, and technological changes. But some shifts
in organization and navigation are necessary for technical reasons.
(Navigating
and Bookmarking VoS) Important: the new VoS is still
a work in progress, but we have turned it on because it is already
more functional than the original site. There are still some
mis-orderings of categories and author names that we are fixing
as we convert our legacy resources. We've also temporarily removed
as many of the broken links as we could find and will restore
them when we can (or find substitutes). Some categories have
thus been temporarily decimated. If Michel Foucault wrote about
The Order of Things, then VoS may be said to be about
"the ordering of things"—the ceaseless reconfiguration
of humanities knowledge assisted by the new technologies of
dynamic information.
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•
VoS
on Forbes "Best of Web":
Forbes magazine lists VoS in its Summer 2002 Best
of the Web directory (in the category for Academic
Research).
•
Google's
"Glossary": Experimental new feature
on the Google search site. Searching for "words, phrases,
and acronyms" yields definitions and links to originating
glossary or definition sites. Try searching on string
theory or Gothic.
•
Sign
up for free VoS accounts that allow you to suggest
links for specific pages on the site (how
to contribute links). Suggestions appear right away
under "Unvetted
Submissions" (and later on the regular pages after
being reviewed by VoS editors). [Our apologies: due
to changes on our server, the sign up process is currently
disabled. We hope to have it back up soon.]
Currently, the site is best viewed in Internet Explorer 5+ and Netscape
6+. We are still working on full compatability with Netscape 4.x.
Other interface and usability improvements will be introduced in the
future.
In a later implementation phase of the new
VoS, users who have signed up for accounts
will have additional editorial privileges allowing them to maintain/revise
links that they have contributed. There will also be group accounts
that enable classes, organizations, conferences, etc. to build subsets
of VoS resources that will appear both on the regular VoS pages and
on a special page set aside for the group (e.g., the "English
130," "History 186," or "Conference 2001"
VoS Resources Page). VoS will thus be an open platform serving the
needs of both general and specific communities of users. (Contributions
will be subject to editorial review by Alan Liu and VoS editorial
assistants to maintain overall quality, consistency, and sense of
context.)
VoS is woven by Alan
Liu of the U. California, Santa Barbara, English
Department with a team of department graduate students and others.
Robert Adlington and Jeremy Douglass developed the SQL Server database
and ASP and VB code for the site (their creative ideas were instrumental
to the project). Brian Reynolds built the server machine for the database,
integrated it with the separate Web server, and oversaw networking.
Bo Kinloch took the lead in graphic design. And Andrea Fontenot, Christien
Hoffpauir, and Jennifer Jones assisted with editing and other tasks
during the migration to the new format.
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Navigating
& Bookmarking | Searching
VoS
Accounts on VoS
| Contributing
Links | Helping
Edit VoS
About VoS | Technical
Specs | Credits
What
the Title of VoS Means
VoS is woven by
Alan Liu and a development
team
in the U.California, Santa Barbara, English
Department.
Contact:
ayliu@english.ucsb.edu
To suggest links for inclusion in VoS, please use the "Suggest
a Link" button on the relevant category page. To offer feedback
on the site, please use the feedback
form.
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