Eleanor Culley
Department of Anthropology
Electronic Text Center 
Alderman Library
University of Virginia

Electronic Implementation of an Americanist Text 
Collection: The Online Version of Harry Hoijer's Chiricahua 
and Mescalero Texts.

I will demonstrate a project at the University of 
Virginia's Electronic Text Center to electronically archive 
and publish Harry Hoijer's 1938 Chiricahua and Mescalero 
Texts.  Hoijer's original monograph is a complexly 
annotated document built around a set of 55 Apache language 
texts.  These are accompanied by English translations and 
cross-referenced with a grammatical sketch, as well as 
linguistic and ethnological notes.    I will demonstrate 
our strategy to augment Hoijer's original notation system 
by creating hyperlinks between corresponding units within 
the texts, translations, and linguistic notes, and 
presenting these on the screen simultaneously in parallel 
frames.   This text collection represents one of the few 
publications documenting a diversity of Apache speakers and 
speech genres at a critical juncture in their recent 
history. As such, it is of interest to multiple communities 
of users, including scholars, teachers, as well as Apache 
language speakers.  I will provide an example of our 
SGML-based TEI encoded source files, and discuss some of 
the innovations introduced in order to represent oral 
genres. I will also demonstrate what we have done to make 
these source files available in a variety of different 
presentation formats. The advantage of this is that it 
allows us to treat the archive as a database that can be 
tailored to the needs of different communities of users. In 
conclusion, what I hope to demonstrate is the value of 
these emerging technologies to the make resources like 
Hoijer's monograph both more available as well as more 
useful to people interested in issues related to both 
linguistics, pedagogy, and language preservation.