Tim Bray wrote on 23 Jan 2000:
 
  |The construction and maintenance of such a website takes quite a lot of
  |expertise, also technology infrastructure, also [blush] money, and
  |finally, and most difficult to obtain, sustained and disciplined attention
  |from one or more people who have technical insight and care about the
  |subject matter.
 
  |Having said all that, a really good Pound website would be great.  And
  |I'd love to see more Cantos online.  By the way, any list members who
  |don't know about http://miyamizu.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/pound.htm
  |should go have a look at it.
 
I would like to thank Mr Bray for commenting kindly on my humble page.
 
There, however, has been a rather unfortunate side to it.
Due to differences of opinion as to how (academic) web pages should be built
between the system administrator and me, I could not implement the feature
I wished to see there: the concordancing program to _The Cantos_, which
needed perl script to be built in, but the system administrator did not
permit it (obviously) due to security reasons. Thus my dream did not materialize.
 
I believe it is a feasible reality, for there is a good precursor:
 
  http://www.missouri.edu/~tselist/cgi/tsebase.cgi
 
This is TSEbase: The Online Concordance to T. S. Eliot's Poems, maintained by
Greg Foster. He cleverly eludes the copyright issues by returning, based upon
the keyword user types, only the relevant single line from the work. The whole
work is hidden in the database at the server.  The only things you need therefore
would be the e-text of the work you wish to concordance and the program to
concordance it.
 
In _The Cantos_' case, they both exist; well, to be exact, nearly.
The e-text exists; it used to be part of Oxford Text Archive (now seemingly
deleted). I think it was created by Walter Baumann. The text is all in
capitals and attached with special tags which somewhat look like those
used in OCP program. If Mr Baumann agrees to its use in the (possible)
Pound website, it can be utilized.
The program that Mr Foster uses is written in perl script, which any
capable expert can easily modify and suit the specific needs of
Poundian scholars. (I think Mr Foster will gladly offer the script
to that expert.)
 
If (and only if) the above kind of project materializes, I can offer
a few e-texts related to Pound, such as _Hilda's Book_.
I haven't heard of any e-text of _Personae_, but it might exist somewhere.
 
Cheers,
 
Michael.
 
Michael E Hishikawa
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