How collaborative is the OED?

[Shapiro, Fred]

Jesse can speak to this much better than I can, but I assume the OED volunteer reading program has somewhat diminished in importance because of the power of historical text collections in retrieving word-usages.  I am not certain to what extent the database searching is done by staff vs. volunteers, but I assume a lot of it is done by staff.

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: How collaborative is the OED?

On another list, someone remarked:
>The OED was and to a lesser extent is a highly collaborative, highly
>edited venture.

How collaborative is it these days?  In numbers of volunteers vs.
staff?  In numbers of quotations submitted by volunteers that are
"admitted" vs. numbers from staff?  How does that compare to the old days?

Joel

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