Current Joycean Hypertext Projects

• BARGER, JORN jorn@mcs.com: available, a WWW assemblage at http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/home.html. This assemblage includes various photographs of Joyce, general information and critical notes on Joycean genetics. Also of interest are the various links to existing versions of Joyce's works on the Internet.
• CALLAHAN, ROB callahan@astro.ocis.temple.edu: available, a WWW assemblage titled Work in Progress, located at http://www.temple.edu/~callahan/joyce.html. WIP serves as a centre for Joycean research and exploration on the World Wide Web. Its goal is to provide resources of use to both Joycean neophytes and more experienced Joyce scholars. Presently, the materials available to users of WIP include the following: a hypermedia bi(bli)ographical timeline of Joyce's life and works; links to Joycean scholarship located elsewhere on the Internet; pointers to e-texts of all Joyce's major works (available only where copyright laws permit); announcements of upcoming symposia, conferences, and workshops; calls for papers; information about the International James Joyce Foundation; information about electronic Joycean discussion groups (e-mail and real-time) on the 'Net; maps, photographs, and images; and links to other WWW sites of Joycean interest. Less than three months old (Work in Progress first opened to the public for Joyce's 113th birthday) the site continues to grow, and Callahan enthusiastically seeks the contributions and suggestions of Joyceans on the Internet in order to help make WIP better serve the needs of the community.
• CROOK, LAURA laura@seapath.alaska.net: in progress, a hypertext version of "Sirens." Crook plans to include the notes from the Gifford volume, as well as music (so that the user can, for example, play whatever Bloom is listening to in the text at the same time that the user is reading the text). The project will include a critical introduction, as well as critical analysis. The project is planned for an IBM platform using either Internet Assistant or HOTMETAL, although eventually it should be accessible to most browsers.
• FERRER, DANIEL and ITEM ferrer@item.msh-paris.fr: in progress, three Joycean hypertext projects under development by the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, a part of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
  1. an edition of FW notebook VI.B.19, emphasizing the part played by the notebooks as crossroads between sources and drafts.
  2. an edition of the drafts of FW III.4 (this is in collaboration with Bob Jansen from CSIRO, Sydney).
  3. an hypertext organizing versions (not annotations) of "Sirens" including the drafts and proofs, the French translation and its drafts.
• GRODEN, MICHAEL mikeg@bosshog.arts.uwo.ca: in progress, a hypermedia presentation of Ulysses for the University of Pennsylvania Press. The project is still in the beginning stages of planning, but it is expected that it will contain a mixture of previously existing commentary, analyses, and criticism (annotations, commentary on passages, maps, visual and aural accompaniments) and material newly written for this version. The emphasis will probably be on reading and interpretation rather than on establishing a text. The presentation will be released on CD-ROM by University of Pennsylvania Press.
• KIDD, JOHN: there is a rumour that Mr. Kidd is about to release a CD- ROM version of his revised Ulysses.
• KURZ, NATHAN 95njk@williams.edu: in progress, a hypertext application for Ulysses to be accessible via the WWW (limited to local access, though, unless copyright issues can be resolved). It is being designed for use as the centre of an undergraduate Joyce course that will be offered in the 1995-96 academic year. The application will be centred around the text of Ulysses (copyright allowing) and Don Gifford's Notes for Joyce (copyright resolved). Clicking with a mouse anywhere on the text will show Gifford's annotations for that part of the text. Images appropriate to that portion of the text, an on-line dictionary, a calendar of events, and other reference works will also be immediately available. Each student will be able to annotate the text, and to read other's annotations. It will differ from most other hypertext application because of its emphasis on a communal text that can be added to by any user. Technical Details: students will probably access the application using Netscape 1.0, unless the other WWW browsers come up with support for tables (in some form) by next year. The text of Ulysses will be HTML-ed beforehand with a Perl script such that each word is a link to a Perl CGI script. When a word is selected, that word and the line and page number it occurs on will be passed to the Perl script. The Perl script will pass this data on to a variety of subroutines, and a command centre screen will be generated based on what information is available in the databases for that part of the text. Some information will be presented on this screen immediately, and some it will be referred to as a link.
• ROUGHLEY, ALAN; CROFT, JULIAN; and JAMES, LAWRENCE aroughle@metz.une.edu.au: nearing completion, an interactive CD-ROM package designed for teaching Joyce's story The Sisters from four critical perspectives: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Deconstruction. The CD incorporates Joyce's text, an introduction and critical commentary, as well as a digitalised video adaptation of The Sisters.
• SCHRODER, GERRIT and MURPHY, TIM (eds.) gerrit@earthlink.net: forthcoming, a Joycean hypertext apparatus for Windows-based PC's. The project follows from various prototypes of hypertext databases for Finnegans Wake which have been exhibited over the past few years by Gerrit Schroder at Venice, Philadelphia, and Monte Carlo. The project is based on the text of the Wake with links from individual lines to files based on the Census, Gazetteer, Hart's Motifs, etc. Technical Details: the project uses Microsoft's Multimedia Viewer, Microsoft's new Mediaview (an API for Viewer), and Borland C++. Viewer has been around for a while, but was previously judged to be too inflexible until Mediaview was released last year. Viewer files may be distributed without a license fee, which is another significant advantage of this product.
• SENN, FRITZ and THE ZURICH JOYCE FOUNDATION joyce@es.unizh.ch: available, a hypertext version of a paragraph from Finnegans Wake called HyperWake. This project was first conceived five years ago and was on show at a Joyce exhibition in 1991 (Joyce and Cage), part of Zurich June Festival. The following is a quote from the exhibition's description:

  In our James Joyce exhibition we put up a little trial run of Finnegans Wake on computers. HyperWake is simply a labyrinthine presentation of 6.13-28 ("Shize . fuddled, O!"), a sort of extended annotation. You can hear the text (spoken by two different Irish voices), switch to 2 German and a French or an Italian translation; or follow the text's growth and genesis in several stages (in facsimile and transcriptions); the main part is a sentence by sentence annotation, with further thematic groupings and cross-references, as well as a marginal fringe of further echoes. And you can listen to the respective songs. This pristine version is entirely didactic and intended for non-Wakeans, to give them some feel of the text's behaviour. In also puts some of its fun and the intricate nature across. It might become a prototype for insiders and computer experts more skilled than we have been up to now. Of course the main point is that everything will become expandable ad libitum. I hope some others can take up the (not very original) idea and principle and develop it. It had to be done sooner or later. Something like it could become the basis of a communal effort to be locally adapted and trimmed for class room, introductory, or special uses. Naturally we'll pass it around for further development.

  
  The technical aspects of HyperWake were devised by Andrea Ventura, using SuperCard (which Fritz suggests is not suitable for longer texts). The existing HyperWake sample was also shown in a corner of the Dublin Symposium in 1992, and once at a Joyce conference in Trieste.
• THEALL, DONALD cudft@blaze.trentu.ca: available, the first e-texts of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake on the Internet , produced in 1990, and which in an updated version are still available by FTP or Gopher from blaze.trentu.ca. This year Donald Theall will be publishing a book with the U of Toronto Press on Media, Text, Communication: Literature, the Arts and Communication and is currently planning a series of books involving James Joyce and the transdisciplinary. His work on Joyce and Hypertext goes back to the McLuhan-Carpenter journal Explorations where in 1953 he published an article on Joyce and communications.
• WILLIAMS, TREVOR Trevor@UVVM.UVIC.CA or TWILLIAM@SOL.UVIC.CA: forthcoming, a hypermedia approach to Ulysses. The main inspiration and technological brain for the product is Trevor's 16-year-old son, Tom, who has his own software company and is a developer for Apple and a Hypertext consultant. The project is about half way through development. The program will be available initially for Macintosh in CD-ROM format, including Quicktime video-clips, full-screen pictures, Hypertext and much more, all in an entertaining, yet educational and informative product. Comments and queries welcomed.