Oxford English Dictionary at Brown University
| STG lead(s): | Richard Goerwitz, Geoffrey Bilder |
STG rewrote and upgraded a series of Common Gateway Interface scripts (developed originally by John Price-Wilkin at the University of Michigan) to make the text of the Oxford English Dictionary and its search engine (PAT) accessible to the Brown community through the Web. The OED implementation developed here at STG was, at the time, groundbreaking in the sense that it offered ways of saving state (i.e., building on previously constructed searches) that few contemporary Web systems offered. Close collaboration with the Brown University Library Reference and Systems staff ensured that the system design would meet the needs of faculty and students.
Brown University's library has subscribed to the OED online. This gives Brown users access to the newer edition of the OED, and since it is the version supported by the library, we are no longer supporting a local version.
The Oxford English Dictionary is a comprehensive dictionary organized upon historical principles. The introduction and evolution of all senses of each word in the dictionary are documented with citations from literary and scientific writing in English.
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): | |
| Richard Goerwitz Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University |
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| Research domains: | full-text retrieval |
| Type: | tool |
| STG involvement initiated: | 1996 | Status: | archived | |
| STG consulting completed: | 1998 | Funding support: | Computing and Information Services Brown University Library |
| Contact: | STG_info@brown.edu |
Record last modified: 13-Sep-2005