1. Mediums of access to the Oxford English Dictionary John Simpson Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary EFNIL conference – October 2012

2. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com 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…?

3. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com The basics

4. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Part of the OED’s automatically generated profile of the word ‘paprikash’

5. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Filtering results With Italian and French as test cases

6. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com When did Italian words start to enter English?

7. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com The first occurrence of French words in English

8. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Scientific vocabulary entering English from Italian

9. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Flying out from the OED to its historical thesaurus: Example: microphone

10. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com And digging down into this area of the thesaurus’

11. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Linking out to a non-historical, everyday dictionary

12. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com … the Oxford Dictionaries Pro web site

13. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com...or linking out to another historical dictionary

14. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com … for even more detailed information

15. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com 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…

16. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com The OED on an iPad A good read on an iPad…

17. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com The Concise Oxford on an iPhone app 17

18. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Hunting for Science Fiction vocabulary

19. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com The latest OED public appeal for information

20. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com 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)

21. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com Flagging work-in-progress in stub entries…

22. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com And if you still read books about the OED…!

23. Oxford English Dictionary Online www.oed.com