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Article #2983Re: Public Domain Dictionary
From: Erik Naggum
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 00:37
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 00:37
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Lar Kaufman <lark@greylock.tivoli.com> writes: | | It would be interesting to see what the guys at U. of Waterloo did | with the online O.E.D. project. I understand it is very SGML-like. They have used a portion of SGML's syntax, which, I'm sorry to say, does not make it SGML-conformant. As I heard the story, it was too many inconsistencies in the original material to try to make a DTD for OED2. What I've seen of the OED2 is not pretty, so they obviously had a very hard job figuring out how to encode it and actually do the encoding. We're creating a dictionary from scratch (aren't we? :-), so we could, perhaps, be better at consistency... Let's try to look at how other people did their dictionary entries, and what we would like to include, in what order, then test that by submitting numerous entries to these constraints before continuing. Changes in the structure is going to make a lot of people unhappy and create a lot of unnecessary work. (Converting between structures is possible, but generally difficult.) </Erik> -- Erik Naggum Professional Programmer +47-2-836-863 Naggum Software Electronic Text <ERIK@NAGGUM.NO> 0118 OSLO, NORWAY Computer Communications <enag@ifi.uio.no>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!ifi.uio.no!enag From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Public Domain Dictionary Message-ID: <ENAG.91Jun13023731@gyda.ifi.uio.no> Date: 13 Jun 91 00:37:35 GMT References: <1991Jun9.025529.21722@sq.sq.com> <1991Jun2.015314.5771@wlbr.imsd.contel.com> <3797@naucse.cse.nau.edu> <91156.144339GONTER@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> <811@tivoli.UUCP> Sender: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: gyda.ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: lark@greylock.tivoli.com's message of 10 Jun 91 17: 19:45 GMT Originator: enag@gyda.ifi.uio.no