[open-humanities] [okfn-labs] Best practice for OCR workflows (re OED 1st edition project)

Sat Aug 24 10:28:38 UTC 2013

Regarding plans for an open version of the 1st edition of the OED, I
thought some of you might be interested in this piece from Cory Doctorow
yesterday:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/23/oxford-english-dictionary-future-digitally

What do we need to move forward with an Open OED project [1]? It would be
really cool if there were any way to break the dictionary down into entries
that people could help to proofread and correct. Any thoughts on that
front? Anyone else interested in helping?

If there were any simple tasks that people could do, Adam said he could
help publicise this to readers of the Public Domain Review.

[1] https://github.com/okfn/oed

On 24 June 2013 17:40, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> On 21 June 2013 21:45, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to get the Abby version direct from the Archive online
>> or would one need to ask them specially?
>>
>
> The Abby version is one of the formats in the directory.  Look for the
> file that ends _abby.gz  There's also a torrent containing all the files if
> that's easier.
>
> Tom
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