On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:19:48AM -0600, Hahn, Harvey wrote: > 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
You might also check BackPAN: http://backpan.perl.org/ http://backpan.cpan.org/ The oldest I saw (from a cursory search) was MARC-0.81 from 1999-10-05: http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/B/BB/BBIRTH/ Paul. -- Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
