Re: The Oxford English Dictionary

[Chris <cud -at- telecable -dot- es>]

Another interesting thing about it is the OED Project (I think it was 
called) - an online version of the OED.  This was a remarkable project 
that converted the OED into a vast hypertext, back in the old days 
before your inlaws all had their own web pages.  It was done by Frank 
Tompa and Daryl Raymond (spelling???) at U. of Waterloo in Canada.  Ther 
devised an Entity-Relationship diagram for the thing, used their own GML 
(SGML was too rigorous), and set to work.

So they pioneered hyperText as a database and GML (today XML) as a 
database format.  Very cool stuff - very much worth a look if you can 
get your hands on it.

Cheers           cud


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