[Michael Engle <moe1@cornell.edu>: Running e-texts from external

Heyward Ehrlich (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
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From: Michael Engle <moe1@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Running e-texts from external hard disks
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Hello,

Yesterday I saw a demonstration of HarpWeek, an indexed image database
containing all of Harper's Weekly from 1857 to 1865. The database will be
distributed on 12 CD-ROMs but the demo of this 4.5 GB database was run from
an external hard disk hooked up to a PC laptop. Should we buy this title,
I'm inclined to use the same strategy--buy a large external disk, download
the CD-ROM data to it, and run the database from the hard disk. I'd also
like to do this with other multi-disk CD-ROM titles, most notably the
Patrologia Latina, and maybe with all our titles on CD-ROM as well as texts
we are allowed to download from text archives on the Internet. Searches
run much faster and there's not the everlasting haggling with the
installation and maintenance of multi-disk CD-ROM drives.

My questions are
1. Is anyone else doing this?
2. What is the down side of making e-texts available this way?

The HarpWeek folks said that, as far as they are concerned, running the
data off a hard disk to one computer was the same as running it off the
CD-ROMs.

Michael

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Michael O. Engle E-MAIL: moe1@cornell.edu
Electronic Text Coordinator
Reference Division, Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries
106A Olin Library, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
PHONE: (607) 255-1884 * FAX: (607) 255-9346

Electronic Text Center:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/cet/cet.html
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