Mediums of access to the Oxford English Dictionary John Simpson Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary EFNIL conference – October 2012
Oxford English Dictionary Online Outline 1) How we can enhance national/historical dictionaries online? The basics Filtering Thesaurus Linking out and in Visualization 2) How are we planning for the future…?
Oxford English Dictionary Online The basics
Oxford English Dictionary Online Part of the OED’s automatically generated profile of the word ‘paprikash’
Oxford English Dictionary Online Filtering results With Italian and French as test cases
Oxford English Dictionary Online When did Italian words start to enter English?
Oxford English Dictionary Online The first occurrence of French words in English
Oxford English Dictionary Online Scientific vocabulary entering English from Italian
Oxford English Dictionary Online Flying out from the OED to its historical thesaurus: Example: microphone
Oxford English Dictionary Online And digging down into this area of the thesaurus’
Oxford English Dictionary Online Linking out to a non-historical, everyday dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary Online … the Oxford Dictionaries Pro web site
Oxford English Dictionary Online linking out to another historical dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary Online … for even more detailed information
Oxford English Dictionary Online Investigating the future… where do we go now? Some ideas: Maintain editorial standards AND – access on new-generation devices crowd-sourcing/wikis free access stub entries etc…
Oxford English Dictionary Online The OED on an iPad A good read on an iPad…
Oxford English Dictionary Online The Concise Oxford on an iPhone app 17
Oxford English Dictionary Online Hunting for Science Fiction vocabulary
Oxford English Dictionary Online The latest OED public appeal for information
Oxford English Dictionary Online Free access – what are the possible models? Government funding… Restricted access (number of searches) (open day once a month) (limit depth of searching) (premium v. regular)
Oxford English Dictionary Online Flagging work-in-progress in stub entries…
Oxford English Dictionary Online And if you still read books about the OED…!
Oxford English Dictionary Online