[Corpora-List] Corpus Benevolence

[Lou Burnard]

Steven Bird wrote:
> On 2/10/07, Adam Kilgarriff <adam at lexmasterclass.com> wrote:
>> - how do you describe a corpus?
>
> One minimalist answer to this question is "Use OLAC Metadata", because
> it provides uniform descriptors that help with resource discovery.
>

OLAC is a grand way of describing a collection of corpora -- that's what 
it's for after all. But I would have thought that the best minimalist 
answer to the question "how do you describe a corpus" would be "in its 
TEI Header".

Maybe I'm biassed....

Lou