Centre for Technology and the Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, has a number of interesting research projects involving digital library collections or electronic texts. Peter Robinson, Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Director of the Centre for Technology in the Arts, developed the texual-editing program Collate and the Anastasia electronic publishing system. He is director of the Canterbury Tales Project, and was editor of its first major electronic publication, The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM (Cambridge UP, 1996). In 2000 he founded a new electronic publishing house, Scholarly Digital Editions, specializing in high-quality electronic publications.

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CLIOH (Cultural Digital Library Indexing Our Heritage) (http://clioh.informatics.iupui.edu/) is an unusual multimedia digital library that includes a virtual reality (VR) component. CLIOH is a project of the "Informatics Research Institute (IRI), an academic research and development entity of the Indiana University School of Informatics. CLIOH is [also] a collaboration between the IUPUI School of Informatics, IU Library system, the Mathers Museum in Bloomington, IN and the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana."

"CLIOH is a searchable collection and digital archive housing original multimedia acquired from threatened world heritage cultural sites. Currently, the collection contains multimedia from the Mayan city of Uxmal in Yucatan, Mexico and a Native American Mississippian site, Angel Mounds." U.S.A.

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