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The "New Oxford English Dictionary" Project.
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Fawcett, Heather – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1993
Describes the conversion of the 22,000-page Oxford English Dictionary to an electronic version incorporating a modified Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) syntax. Explains that the database designers chose structured markup because it supports users' data searching needs, allows textual components to be extracted or modified, and allows…
Descriptors: Database Design, Databases, Dictionaries, Online Systems