Re: [Corpora-List] Corpus Benevolence

From: Lou Burnard (lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 12:24:10 MET

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    Steven Bird wrote:
    > On 2/10/07, Adam Kilgarriff <adam@lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
    >> - how do you describe a corpus?
    >
    > One minimalist answer to this question is "Use OLAC Metadata", because
    > it provides uniform descriptors that help with resource discovery.
    >

    OLAC is a grand way of describing a collection of corpora -- that's what
    it's for after all. But I would have thought that the best minimalist
    answer to the question "how do you describe a corpus" would be "in its
    TEI Header".

    Maybe I'm biassed....

    Lou

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