Galen Charlton wrote: |As part of a class project, I and my colleagues Diana Weaver and Kevin |Ford plan to create a digital archive to record the history of |MARC/Perl (i.e., MARC.pm and MARC::Record).
As Ed Summers pointed out, "It seems that the archives for the original list at vims.edu are no longer available." However, they *are* partially available on the Internet Archive. If you go to <http://www.archive.org/> and search for "http://vims.edu/perl4lib"; (an educated guess on my part, based on Ed Summers' info; perhaps there were other later addresses along the way) on the Wayback Machine, you will find 26 snapshots of that address. However, except for one circular reference (Apr 15, 2001), only the pages from Dec 6, 1999, to Jun 30, 2001, actually contain any information; the remaining pages show only an empty directory. If you use the latest address (Jun 30, 2001), you will find viewable articles and viewable Perl4Lib archive messages from Jul 29, 1999 to Jul 30, 2000. (Based on a very cursory examination, these include the seemingly earliest list messages relating to MARC.pm and its development.) You can also find downloadable files of the earliest versions of MARC.pm available there via archived CPAN links. (I checked the current CPAN site, and the oldest--that is, less than 1.0--are not there; but they *are* available through the IA Perl4Lib links to the IA-archived CPAN site.) The link to the IA-archived MARC.pm SourceForge site also has some of the early/experimental versions (but not the earliest, as found on IA CPAN) of the software that you're seeking. Hope this gives you some leads to the early history that you're documenting! Harvey -- =========================================== Harvey E. Hahn Arlington Heights (Illinois) Memorial Library 847/506-2644 - FX: 847/506-2650 - Email: hhahn(at)ahml(dot)info OML & Scripts web pages: http://www.ahml.info/oml/
