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From: rooks@unc.cs.unc.edu (Mark Rooks)
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Subject: Re: where to get machine readable text?
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Date: 18 Sep 90 20:36:15 GMT
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In article <2945@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes:

>I am looking for places (hopefully free, via ftp) to get machine
>readable text

>e.g.
>	the Bible
>	the Talmud (sp?)
>	works of literature/philosophy (Shakespere, Aristotle, etc)
>	political/social documents (Bill of Rights, etc)
>	.
>	.
>	.
>
>I am interested in such texts solely for research purposes and
>will not be reselling them.
>
>Thanx for any pointers,
>
>Paul Biron      pbiron@ucsd.edu        (619) 534-5758

Someone has already posted that the Bible is available through simtel.
You could also pick up a computer shopper and order a KJB for not much
more than the cost of the disks.

A few of the major text projects ongoing:

Oxford Text Archive: already mentioned by Ed. Some of the text little
more than a raw scan. Very spotty collection in the humanities. Not free,
though cheap.

ARTFL project: Massive collection of 16th through 20th cent. French M-R
texts; based at the Univ. of Chicago.

Renaissance Textbase project: U. of Toronto. What the name implies.

Elec. Text. Corp.: Published a CD (for only $250) last year with 50 MB of
American lit. (from the Lib. of America series), the Riverside Shakespeare,
a couple of Bibles, and a few other things.

Georgetown Univ.: Publishing translations of Hegel. Additional material in
the works.

Thesaurus Lingua Grecae (TLG): Virtually the whole of ancient Greek. Based
at UC-Irvine.

Thesaurus Lingua Latinae (TLL): Comparable project to TLG, but Latin. Based
in Germany.

Most of the major works in philosophy (through the 19th cent.) should be
available by this time next year.

Mark Rooks