Recent News--not exactly music

[Judy Fertig <fertig...>]

Forwarding this from the Book People list. Hope it is of interest....
Not exactly music.....but reminded me of our former topic of Yiddish and
standards..... 
perhaps relevant to those talking about standards for transliterations and
so forth as these items are digitized and catalogued. j.

>Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 18:44:26 -0500
>From: Gary Young <younggr (at) echo-on(dot)net>
>Subject: Recent News
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>1998 Dec 07
>The following item appeared in today's Toronto _Globe and Mail_
>
>"Fewer than 1 per cent of Jews still read Yiddish.  In January, a project
will be launched to put the literature into computers.  "Yiddish will be
the first literature to be 100 per cent digitized," Aaron Lansky says.  The
digital library will be named after filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who donated
$500,000 (U.S.) to the project."
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>Good luck to them.
>
>Maybe they can establish a de facto standard re markup and file format.
>
>Gary
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