A Digital Edition of the Literary Remains of Phileas Fogg

1. A Digital Edition of the Literary Remains of Phileas Fogg ITST Saskatchewan – 2004 May 13 Terry Butler, University of Alberta

2. The Fogg Effects

3. The Fogg Effects • discovery of the materials in an old trunk in India • Verne’s fictionalization – helpful, or not? • the role of Passepartout

4. Travels • Fogg prepares for his trip

5. Cartography maps and atlases can be scanned and saved as digital images, manipulated by imaging programs

6. Places and people illustrations and prints can also be scanned

7. Works

8. Tracking works • a bibliography of works can be recorded use a special purpose bibliographic program

9. Correspondents

10. Tracking letters • a database to track correspondents and letters a database captures relationships between pieces of information

11. Tracking numeric information use a spreadsheet to track numbers, dates, amounts

12. Texts AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS Chapter I IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old. Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects. a printed book is scanned and converted to text by an OCR (optical character recognition) program

13. Tagging the text is tagged in XML to facilitate searching and to mark features of interest

14. Tagging an XML editor program is used to introduce the tags and valid the document (check it against its model – the DTD)

15. Display the tagged XML text can be displayed on the web, through a stylesheet or by converting it to HTML

16. Availability to the audience the materials can be presented through the web, and made accessible through searching and display interfaces

17. Thanks • Jules Verne on the web • www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j/ • jv.gilead.org.il/pg/80day/ • library.thinkquest.org/J002459F/ • My sincerest thanks are also extended to the staff of the William Wonders Map Library, and the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, who have helped me follow in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg • www.library.ualberta.ca/scitech/#william • www.library.ualberta.ca/specialcollections/index.cfm