An XML DTD for Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is an electronic collection of documents and literature, the majority of which exist in ASCII format. While the ASCII format has been an almost universally accessible format since the Project started in 1971, the possibilities and advantages of marking up the texts with the Extensible Markup Language (XML) are compelling. Related efforts are detailed and analyzed for viability with the Gutenberg texts. This project presents a direction for the future of this effort and a DTD suitable for the collection. The prepared DTD provides the schema against which 5 test documents are marked up with XML. A tutorial based on my experiences marking up the text and an index of the available elements are included

Proceedings Eighth Bird Control Seminar: Frontmatter and Contents

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; 30 October - 1 November 1979 SPONSORED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CENTER, BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND NATIONAL PEST CONTROL ASSOCIATION VIENNA, VIRGINIA DR. WILLIAM B. JACKSON, Conference Chairman and Editor SHIRLEY S. JACKSON and BETH A. JACKSON, Assistant Editor

Investigations of the Ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan Lakes: Frontmatter

Dedication Commentary on this Compendium Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Content

Frontmatter and Contents

These proceedings consist of 38 presented papers on a variety of subjects relative to the prevention and control of wildlife damage. Subject sessions included: Wildlife Damage Management and the Public, Predators, Rodents, Birds, Programs and Projects, USDA-APHIS-ADC Activities, Professionalism, and General

Opening the Book of Marwood: English Catholics and Their Bibles in Early Modern Europe

In Reformation studies, the printed Bible has long been regarded as an agent of change. This dissertation interrogates the conditions in which it did not Reform its readers. As recent scholarship has emphasized how Protestant doctrine penetrated culture through alternative media, such as preaching and printed ephemera, the revolutionary role of the scripture-book has become more ambiguous. Historians of reading, nevertheless, continue to focus upon radical, prophetic, and otherwise eccentric modes of interaction with the vernacular Bible, reinforcing the traditional notion that the conversion of revelation to print had a single historical trajectory and that an adversarial relationship between textual and institutional authority was logically necessary. To understand why printed bibles themselves more often did not generate unrest, this study investigates the evidence left by a subset of Bible readers who remained almost entirely unstudied -- that is, early modern Catholics. To the conflict-rich evidence of ecclesiastical prohibitions, court records, and martyrologies often employed in top down narratives of the Counter-Reformation, this project introduces the alternative sources of used books and reading licenses. What these records reveal is that Catholic lay readers were not habituated to automate critical reading practices in the presence of biblical texts; what they demanded from ecclesiastical authorities and publishers instead were books that could provide them with access to their church\u27s sacred rituals and to its public expression of exegesis. The liturgical context of appropriation apparent in these Catholic books became visible in their evangelical counterparts enabling a cross-confessional history of sacred reading. This broader story is situated within the annotated Bible of one Catholic reader, Thomas Marwood (d.1718). The components of his book expose his overlapping reading communities and the disparate social and institutional contexts that structured them. Contextualizing each part illuminates the extent to which the conditions and traditions for reading the scriptures were shared across confessions and contested within them. This dissertation recovers a place for Bibles and their readers not only within early modern Catholicism, but within the Reformation era generally