French Electronic resourcesTrinity 2008Nick Hearn

Three readers

John - undergraduateLes contemplations Peter - Postgraduate

Montaigne

Freda – freelance researcherAnimals in literature

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 trésor; online bilingual dictionaries) and encyclopedias (Quid, wikipédia)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 littérature mediévale), Voltaire électroniqueExercises

Structure of the session

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

Online catalogues

“Landscape” of Electronic Resources (Online Catalogues) for “Anglophone World”

Problems with OLIS

1. Cannot sort more than 500 items (in WebCat)2. Cannot search by medium ie cannot search for dissertations in Oxford3. Cannot input diacritics ie accents and cedillas4. 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

COPAC to the rescue!

User-friendly

30 million records

More than 30 UK and Irish Research libraries including the British 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

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

KeywordAuthor Author phrase Personal name Personal name phraseSubject Subject phrase Named personTitle Title phrase

Types of (advanced) search on WorldCat

Avoid any search with the word ‘phrase’ in it unless you knowthe exact name of author, exact subject term or exact title!

Structure of LC Subject Headings for 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

Animals in literature

Browsing by shelfmark for French authors

Library of Congress Classification for Individual Authors (By period)

French literature – Modern French Literature – Individual authors – 18 th century…………………………………………………………………………..PQ1947

French literature – Modern French Literature – Individual authors – 19 th 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

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

Wish List

The ideal dictionaryPolysemyOppositesSynonymsHyponymsIdiomsMorphologyPronunciationEtymologyDefinitionsExamples

Online dictionaries for French studies

ATILF (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

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Encyclopedias for different information needs

John - undergraduateLes contemplations Peter - Postgraduate

Montaigne

Freda – freelance researcherAnimals in literature

Online French encyclopediasHistorical:

L'encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers de

Diderot at d'Alembert

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

Online:

Imago Mundi

http://www.cosmovisions.com/

L'encyclopédie Quid

http://www.quid.fr

French wikipedia

http://fr.wikipedia.org

Standard non-electronic:

Encyclopaedia universalis Paris: Encyclopaedia universalis, 1968-1982

Shelfmark: REF.F.48

Francophone online catalogues for French studies

French electronic resources landscape

Catalogue collectif de Francehttp://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. institutions

SUDOC

Online digital libraryGallica

Online catalogue of French National

library

BN-Opale

Karlsruher virtueller Katalog (KVK)

KVK!

But what about Belgium?...

Electronic resources for locatingjournal articles in French Studies,Lang. and Lit...

Electronic Resources for Journalsmostly non-Francophone

Needs to be combined with electronic ones below

MLAJSTORWeb of Science

FRANCIS

Printed source:

Klapp, Otto Bibliographie der franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft=Bibliographie d’histoire litteraire francaise

MLA Bibliography

MLA BibliographyContains over 1m records. Subject coverage: Modern languages and literatures, folklore and linguistics. To see what journal/periodicals are covered go to http://www.mla.org/pdf/masterlist07.pdfWide variety of formats: not just periodical articles also books,working papers and proceedingsOnly keywords – no abstracts but that is changing.Should be one's first port of call

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

Web of knowledge (Arts and Humanities)

Contains 2.5m records. Subject coverage: Arts and HumanitiesTo 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 proceedingsUnlike MLA and FRANCIS: retrospective and currentUnlike 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

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 – includingbook 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 Journal Articles in French Studies: JSTOR

The Internet...

Portals for French Studies

British Library:http://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.htmlhttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htmIntute: Arts and Humanities available from:http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htmLa toile du Quebechttp://www.toile.comOxford University Language Centrehttp://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.htmlTaylor Institution Libraryhttp://www.taylib.ox.ac.ukSearch engines for French studies:Google Francehttp://www.google.fr/Voilahttp://voila.fr

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/

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

Je nommai le cochon par son nom; pourquoi pas?Guichardin a nommé le Borgia! TaciteLe Vitellius! Fauve, implacable, explicite,J'ôtai du cou du chien stupéfait son collierD'épithètes; dans l'herbe, à l'ombre du hallier,Je fis fraterniser la vache et la génisse,

Part of a poem for identification

Corpora

Desktop instructionsHow to input accents

In each case hold down the Alt key and type the number (using the numeric keypad):

à (Alt +133)â (Alt +131)ä (Alt +132)æ (Alt +145)ç (Alt +135)é (Alt +130)è (Alt +138)ê (Alt +136)ë (Alt +137)î (Alt +140)ï (Alt +139)ô (Alt +147)œ (Alt +0156)ù (Alt +151)û (Alt +150)ü (Alt +129)

Laptop instructionsTo type accent grave (à, è, etc), type ` then the vowel.Accent aigu (é), type ' (single quote) then e.Cédille (ç), type ' then c.Circonflexe (ê), type ^ (shift + 6) then e.Tréma (ö), type " (shift + ') then o

French keyboards: inputting accents

Animal hierarchy

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 Trésor de la langue française (roughly equivalent to the OED).

Results (from FRANTEXT)

Victor Hugo Totality of texts311 13,491

lion 221 lion 4224104 3194

80 2933

aigle chien

chien aigleâne âne

Other corpora on OxLIP

Voltaire électronique

Le corpus Montaigne

Corpus de littérature médiévale des origines à la fin du Xve siècle

Conclusion

Many similarities between Anglophone and Francophone electronic resource ‘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 bête noire’

Exercises

ThursWed

10-710-6

Working hours at Main Taylor:

Nick Hearn

French Studies (Lang. and Lit. Subject Specialist

nick.hearn@taylib.ox.ac.uk