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My e-mail is: batke@princeton.edu	Peter Batke clowning for the camera in the General and Humanities Reference Room during the 1994-95 Computer Information Fair sponsored by Firestone Library. Peter coordinated the CIT - Computer and Information Technology - part of the event.

Web Projects
In the table below you will find a sampling of my current Web Projects. "If you build it, they will come."
The Princeton Shahnameh Project - July 2001	Current Production version.
The Princeton Shahnameh Project - July 2000	This is the testbed for the most recent prototype of a database of Persian Miniatures, illustrations of the Persian book of Kings. The pages are written on the fly by means of epl scripts. The back-end of this testbed is the Oracle. The idea is to present the text and the images together and to develop display tool to serve both textual scholars and art historians. NOTE: Not all menu choices may work as the code is being revised and the data retrieval refined.
The Princeton Shahnameh Project - March 2000	This is an early prototype of a database of Persian Miniatures, illustrations of the Persian book of Kings. The pages are written on the fly by means of epl scripts. The back-end of this prototype is MS Access. The idea is to present the text and the images together. Images available through password only. Please note: the server is not a production system and will not be on-line 24/7.
List Based Searching - November 1999	This site pulls together some of the examples and theory I have been working on for some time. Check it out.
Searcher/Browser for Dante's Opere minori - September 1999	This "Browse and Search" program contains the minor works of Dante: Vita nuova, De vulgari Eloquentia, Convivio, Monarchia, Epistulae, Egloghe, Questio Aqua et Terra, Rime, Rime dubbie, Il Detto Amore, and Il Fiore. The texts have been vetted by the Società Dantesca Italiana and are presented in the traditional citation practice of Dante scholarship. The browse function allows quick loading of texts and quick jumping from section to section. The search function is based on wordlists of the works. Lexical items can be typed into the search window or moved via "cut and paste" from the wordlists.
The Geniza Browser - August 1999	The Geniza Browser is a prototype for a dictionary based browser that delivers transcriptions from the "Documentary Geniza" of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo. (approx 1800 Documents)             Read all about it!
The Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America	This site publishes short notes on aspects of the work of Dante.
Toynbee Dante Dictionary Search Engine	This is a prototype for searching the Toynbee Dante Dictionary via a list of entries.
The Princeton Dante Project	This site requires the latest browsers. From the text of the Comedia users can access line specific information.
Al-Khazina - The Treasury	This site delivers material to support courses in the introduction of Islamic Civilization.
The Roman Republic The Roman Empire	This site delivers material to support courses in Roman History. Mmost of the work waas done by graduate students.
The Islamic Timeline	As part of the Al-Khazina these pages attempt a schematic representation of Islamic Dynasties from 500 to 1400. I am experimenting with "scrolling bitmaps" as a user interface and an unusual 2-dimensional representation of a time/place matrix.
The Princeton Geniza Project	This site delivers transcriptions of "Documentary Material" found in the Geniza of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.
The Charrette Project.	The Main Archive of the Princeton Charrette Project.
New design for the Charrette Project using NetObject Fusion	Under Construction - but having some doubts about NetObjects working in this situation.
The Chevalier de la Charrette Browser	The Charrette Browser is a prototype for a dictionary based browser that delivers citations from the Foulet-Uitti Edition [Chretien de Troyes, Chevalier de la Charrette. Paris: Bordas, c.1989].
A Pixel Font for the Chevalier de la Charrette Transcriptions	We are developing a "pixel font" - a font made of gif images that will be substituted for the SGML codes that represent Old French scribal marks - there will be about 180 glyphs when the project is completed.
Synoptic view of MSS A,C,E,F,G,T and V	The transcriptions have been divided up into the text of individual leafs and displayed in parallel. Text only in this prototype. Requires 1024.
East Asian Slide Collection Prototype	We have designed a series of Oracle forms to input and retrieve digitized slides.
The Electronic Robin	This project is an experiment to use Richard Robin's Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce, University of Massachusetts Press, 1967 to deliver texts and facsimiles to the web.
The Philology and Philosophy Project	This project is an experiment to deliver wordlists keyed to the page numbers of Gadamer's Gesammelte Werke. Tuebingen:Mohr, 1985. The web portion of this effort is dormant right now due to seemingly insurmountable intellectual property issues. The Husserl part of the project has the most chance of seeing the light of day. For a slightly different slant on the problem see: Gadamer essay
The Bicycle and the Engineer	This web site is associated with a new undergraduate engineering course which concentrates on a range of issues in the design and use of bicycles. The pages were authordd in Toolbook II and transferred to the web. REQUIRES 1024x768!!
The Interactive Laboratory Notebook	This project delivers material for the Sophomore Engineering Labs in Materials Science. The source of these pages are stand-alone Toolbook Stacks which are tied to the experimental apparatus; they were transferred to the web via Asymetrix Toolbook II to give additional access outside of the laboratory. REQUIRES 1024x768!!

The Text Archive
The Text Archive contains HTML versions of the following works:
The Collected Works	George Eliot
The Collected Papers	Charles S. Peirce (off line)
Moby Dick	Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman
Walden	Henry David Thoreau.
An archive of the Novels of Anthony Trollope is in an early stage of construction.
All texts were located using the Alex site downloaded from the Web, and reformatted in HTML using Perl scripts developed at Princeton. The texts are searchable using Glimpse . Access to the searching is restricted to Princeton Only.
The texts were linked to the class page of Prof. Howarth's undergraduate course on the "American Renaissance" in the '95 Fall semester. The Archive is an experiment to determine the feasibility of using indexing and retrieval in literature courses.

However - the stuff below is a layer of artifact dating to 1994 seems like ages ago...

I can't wait till someone does Merlot.

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If time is heavy on your hands ...