A Digital Edition of the Literary Remains of Phileas Fogg

ITST Saskatchewan – 2004 May 13

Terry Butler, University of Alberta

The Fogg Effects

The Fogg Effects

Verne’s fictionalization – helpful, or not?

discovery of the materials in an old trunk in India

the role of Passepartout

Travels

• Fogg prepares for his trip

Cartography

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

Places and people

illustrations and prints can also be scanned

Works

Tracking works

• a bibliography of works can be recorded

use a special purpose bibliographic program

Correspondents

Tracking letters

• a database to track correspondents and letters

a database captures

relationships between pieces

of information

Tracking numeric information

use a spreadsheet

to track numbers,

dates, amounts

TextsAROUND 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, BurlingtonGardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one ofthe most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemedalways to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage,about whom little was known, except that he was a polished manof the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at leastthat 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 Foggwas a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank,nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came intoLondon 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 resoundedin 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 strangeto the scientific and learned societies, and he never was knownto take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institutionor the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or theInstitution 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 mainlyfor the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.

a printed book is scanned

and converted to text by an OCR (optical

character recognition)

program

Tagging

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

Tagging

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

Display

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

Availability to the audience

the materials can be presented through the web, and made accessible through searching and display interfaces

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