Re: How the Oxford English Dictionary went online

[Ted Freeman <tfreeman@allenpress.com>]

Agreed. It also strikes me that compared to the gargantuan task of
establishing the first complete edition of the OED described in The
Professor and the Madman, putting OED online, though certainly a
milestone, sounds relatively painless.

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At 05:26 PM 6/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
>An interesting article and what a change from the story of earlier  
>editions!  Anyone interested in stories behind great works who 
>hasn't read "The professor and the madman" is missing a real treat.
>
>Kitty Porter
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>> For those of you interested in the technical aspects of publishing on the
>> Web, there'e a piece in the latest issue of Ariadne titled "How the Oxford
>> English Dictionary went online."  It's written by Laura Elliott of OED/OUP 
>> 
>> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/oed-tech/
>> 
>> Bernie Sloan
>> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
>> University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
>> Urbana, IL  61801
>> E-mail:  bernies@uillinois.edu