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Subject:OED and net-accessible dictionaries From:Chet Ensign <Chet_Ensign%LDS -at- NOTES -dot- WORLDCOM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:14:15 EDT
One comment about the idea of a net-accessed dictionary; The OED was handled as
an SGML data structure. Well, not formal SGML -- they never actually created a
Document Type Definition for it. But the information was encoded in a formal
element-based markup scheme and, as a result, could be maintained and
manipulated by automated programs. They said that the volume of entries made it
impossible to do it any other way.
What this means is that a Web-version of the OED (or any other dictionary done
following the same approach) would actually be a reasonably easy system to set
up. I wonder if anyone with access to such data has thought about it.
/chet
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