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I would be willing to donate web space after the conversion is done. ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@n...> To: <xml-dev@i...> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 12:36 AM Subject: English dictionary in XML? > MICRA, Inc. (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/MICRA/) is working on a > freely-available online knowledge base, which currently includes a marked-up > version of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G&C Merriam Co., 1913, > edited by Noah Porter), with over 100,000 headwords. It's still a work in > progress: many of the pronunciations and Greek etymologies are missing, and > it needs a lot of proof-reading, but it's a huge start. (It's the basis for > a searchable dictionary at > http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html, hosted by the > University of Chicago's ARTFL Project.) > > The marked-up text of the dictionary can be downloaded from > ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/misc/webster. There are 24 files (generally one file > per letter). Zipped, they total 11.4 Mb. Unzipped, I'd guess 35-40 Mb. > > Now they're not in XML format, but they're close. I'd be willing to do the > conversion, but I don't have the space to host the result. Does anyone want > to volunteer some web space? > > -Michael Dyck > jmdyck@n... > > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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