Download or read book Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 2 written by Joan C. Beal and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.