Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 2 Diachronic Databases

A range of electronic corpora has become increasingly accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This development coincided with improvements in the standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. Less attention, however, has been paid to making other types of digital data available. This is especially true of that which one might describe as 'unconventional', namely, the fragmentary texts and voices left to us as accidents of history. This book is a first step toward developing similar standards for enriching and preserving these neglected resources.

JOAN C. BEAL is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield. KAREN P. CORRIGAN is a Personal Reader in Linguistics and English Language at Newcastle University. HERMANN L. MOISL teaches and researches at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.