Month: May 2013

  • Digitizing print books for research and corpus integration

    Digitizing print books for research and corpus integration

    One of the bigests tasks in planning the dictionary I want to make is just collecting and organizing the data I’m basing my definitions on, and putting them into some kind of searchable interface. Part of this is building a corpus, and part is organizing other sources and references that can help me. Some of…

  • Google Fonts take off from the web

    Google Fonts take off from the web

    Web design has come a long way since the days of black text in a single font on a white background. Over the years typography on the web has jumped ahead, first to what were called ‘web safe’ fonts, which were a group of 18 fonts that were found on both Mac and Windows machines,…

  • Combining interests in Lexicography, Genealogy and Technology

    Combining interests in Lexicography, Genealogy and Technology

    I’ve been blogging about genealogy for a few years on my other blog, Blood and Frogs: Jewish Genealogy and More. I’ve found that when I go off-topic too much some readers sometimes get annoyed, so I’m starting this new blog as a way to document my combined interest in the fields of Lexicography, Genealogy and…