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Abstract:

The CD-ROM has been developed so as to underline the interaction between the hypermedia interface (Director) and the topics presented: maps of Edinburgh, Bath and London, leading to screens and animations on architecture, literature, society and the arts. Various time-based effects (e.g. changing location of sprite or use of fields) alternates texts and pictures in different ways to evoke each writer's distinct sense of narrative progression, or to illustrate musical passages; whereas the several types of architectural and pictorial cityscapes, from the framed view to the panorama, are mediated by either visible/invisible scripts or by animations. Site maps allow the user to change from close-up to overview, in accordance with the combination of scales in the Georgian mental space organised by cartographic techniques. The interface options offered by the software thus cause the viewer to reflect on the modes of vision of the eighteenth century.

Liliane Gallet-Blanchard, professor of English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and co-director of the Research Centre Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l'Information (CATI), conducts graduate seminars on humanities computing. As an eighteenth-century specialist, she contributes to the ESTC database at the British Library. She has published books and articles on IT for the Humanities.

Marie-Madeleine Martinet, professor of English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and co-director of CATI, conducts research methodology seminars. As a specialist of the history of aesthetics, she works on hypermedia versions of artistic representational techniques; she has published in those fields.

CATI has for several years worked on IT for the Humanities. It organises conferences and presentations as well as publications; its members are currently designing a CD-ROM on Georgian cities. It has just been recognised as a humanities computing centre by the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology.