| -- British National Corpus: XML Edition -- The latest version of the British National Corpus: BNC XML Edition has recently been released. BNC XML Edition is a revised and enhanced version of BNC World, with many corrections, and enriched annotation. It is distributed in XML format together with pre-built indexes for use with XAIRA, an open source XML search engine. BNC XML Edition is distributed on two DVD-roms under licence from the BNC Consortium. For more information see the BNC website: [http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/XMLedition/]
. -- Extending the European Infrastructure - the CLARIN initiative --The Common Language Resources and Technology (CLARIN) initiative is committed to establishing an integrated and interoperable research infrastructure for language resources in Europe. --AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics-- is one of the leading organisations behind the inititiative. Martin Wynne is one of the four co-ordinators organising the project, and the AHDS is co-ordinating the UK activities of this network. This initiative has been inspired by the success of the AHDS in the UK, and can be seen, in part, as an attempt to extend the AHDS framework to the European level. Research groups or academic departments who are involved in archiving or sharing language resources, or associated technologies, are welcome to get involved with the CLARIN initiative. For more information on CLARIN, and other AHDS activities in the field of linguistics, please visit our [linguistics webpages]
. -- Developing Linguistic Corpora: a guide to good practice ----Developing Linguistic Corpora--, the latest in the series of AHDS Guides to Good Practice is now available in print and online. In this volume, a selection of leading experts in various key areas of corpus construction offer advice in a readable and largely non-technical style to help the reader to ensure that their corpus is well designed and fit for the intended purpose. The Guide can be viewed for free online at [http://ahds.ac.uk/linguistic-corpora/]
, and can be ordered online from Oxbow Books at [http://www.oxbowbooks.com/]
For review copies, bulk orders, and any questions, please contact martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk. -- --OTA at 30--: Celebrating the History of the Oxford Text Archive and Humanities Computing --The Oxford Text Archive is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and as part of its celebration it is holding a one day conference on the archive and the state of humanities computing on Thursday 21st September 2006 in Oxford. The event will be free to attend but places will be limited. It is scheduled to follow on the next day from the [Methods Network's TEI workshop]
. Registration is now closed. For more details and a full programme including abstracts see: [http://ota.ox.ac.uk/OTA30/index.html]
For more information on recent events organised by --AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics--, please visit our [past events page]
. -- New resources --For an overview of our latest accessions, please visit the [New Deposits page]
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