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- There are dictionary servers running, but the polite thing
- to do is to limit their use to your own site. There is a pd
- client and server system (not w3 compatible unfortunately
- but I am sure very easily hackable) for the NeXT. Every NeXT
- comes with Webster's and Roget's thesaurus. We could make
- the dictionary of some NeXT available to teh CERN site
- but it would be less than nice tomake it available worldwide.
- (We can make a W3 server which only allows .cern.ch connections).
-
- Good summer student project for a few days/weeks.
-
- There is a public WAIS server for an early out of coipyright
- Roget's thesaurus. Find it under "Reference" in the subject list
- or www http://info.cern.ch:8001/wais.cic.net:210/roget-thesaurus
-
- The copyright situation for online stuff is not well defined as far
- as I know. You could trythe El;ectronic Frontier Foundation's
- archives or their personel for leads .. theat is their speciality
- (law of the electronic information revolution).
-
- J-P and I spent a few seconds on the problem, but did not have
- much time.
-
- The Roget's thesaurus on that server (at CICnet) by hte way
- is provided from teh Gutenberg project collection of out-of-copyright
- littereature.
-
-
- Tim
-
- Anyone else on the list know of a dictionary server on the web?
-
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- From: Judy Richards <JUDY@crnvma.cern.ch>
- Subject: on-line dictionaries/thesaurus
- To: Tim <timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch>
-
- I understand that a month or two back you discussed this with Jean-Pol
- Matheys and got hold of some software but it didn't work properly.
-
- My question is more general - do you know of any software, commercial or
- not, that would allow us to put a 'dictionaty server' in the computer
- centre? I find it hard to imagine that you could get something completely
- for free without breaking some sort of copyright law - at least the
- dictionaries themselves must be protected in some way. How much do you know
- about this subject, and how should one set about finding out more? Any
- leads would be appreciated!
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