[1] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (20)
Subject: dictionary
[2] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (24)
Subject: TLS Centenary Archive
[3] From: Rossen Rashev <rashev@gmd.de> (19)
Subject: Educational Technology & Society Journal - Second
issue contents
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:33:11 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: dictionary
Humanists, especially the lexicographers and linguists among us, will want
to know about and perhaps to exercise The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary,
<http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/rapdict/>, the work of Patrick Atoon and Niels
Janssen, two Dutch students. Not for a Tipper Gore. You'll have to decide
for yourself whether the Dictionary is really fat, but in order to know
you'll have to get busy.
Recommendations of online dictionaries of any sort would be most welcome. On
my list are the following:
The Wordsmyth English <http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/>
Florida State Neuroscience dictionary page
<http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/diction.htm>
Lexical Freenet <http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn/>
Ariga Yiddish <http://www.ariga.com/yiddish.htm>
WordNet <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/>
Yours,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081
<Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>
maui gratia
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:33:23 +0000
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: TLS Centenary Archive
In its 5,000th issue, for 29 January 1999, the Times Literary Supplement has
announced its Centenary Archive project, which aims by December 2000 to put
all back numbers of the TLS online in an image database. Currently a *free*
(which suggests later not at all free) trial for the year 1921 is
accessible, at <http://www.psmedia-online.com>. The software used for the
retrieval has been developed by a company called Primary Source Media
(formerly Research Publications), <http://www.psmedia.com/site/>. As part of
the project authors of articles (which up to 1974 were almost always
anonymous) are being identified, as a result of which "a store of new
discoveries" are coming to light. The TLS article boasts that "The back
numbers of The Times Literary Supplement are among the prime sources of
twentieth-century Western cultural history". So it would seem.
The demo for 1921 would appear to work much better with Internet Explorer
than with Netscape. The Java applet involved slows with the latter to the
speed of molasses in January (among worshippers in the circumpolar bear
cult), whereas with the former response times are acceptable. But then I was
making my trial on a obsolete Pentium 166 with only 64MB of RAM, so perhaps
the trial was not a fair one....
Yours,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081
<Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>
maui gratia
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:35:05 +0000
From: Rossen Rashev <rashev@gmd.de>
Subject: Educational Technology & Society Journal - Second issue contents
The second issue (January 1999) of the 'Educational Technology & Society'
(ISSN 1436-4522), peer-reviewed online journal is now complete. It is
freely accessible at:
http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/periodical/
The contents of the issue are listed below.
The journal invites articles, case studies, review papers and other items
of interest to educators and educational system developers. The author
guidelines are also available at the journal website.
The journal editorial board and reviewer team consists of esteemed academics
and professionals who are committed to keep the authors' research work
current. The articles are typically published in about one and a half months
from submission if no major revisions are required.
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