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initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In 2014 there will
be some changes in the way that the British National Corpus (BNC)
is distributed.</p>
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initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It is now possible
to download the British National Corpus at no cost from the Oxford
Text Archive at the following URL:</p>
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color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a
href="http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2554" title="BNC-XML from the
OTA" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;
color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2554</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">BNC Baby, a
4-million word sample of the BNC is also available:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a
href="http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2553" title="BNC-Baby from
the OTA" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2553</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Click on the ‘apply
for approval’ link to request a copy. The BNC continues to be
subject to the same user licence conditions, which can be viewed
at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/docs/licence.html" title="BNC
User Licence" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(116, 51, 153); background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/docs/licence.html</a>.
If you have already paid for permission to use the BNC, you should
consider that this continues to be valid in perpetuity.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There is an even
simpler download option if you have a login ID from a UK or
eduGAIN Shibboleth identity provider (usually, this applies to all
members of UK universities, and many European institutions). You
can follow the links at the locations above to download the corpus
directly without applying for approval. We hope that this facility
will soon be extended to users from other countries who
participate in the CLARIN Federation.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It will remain
possible to order the BNC on disks from the University of Oxford
until the end of March 2014, with the current administrative
charges still applying, from the following URL:</p>
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vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a
href="http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/category.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=1049"
title="BNC products from the University shop" target="_blank"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(116, 51,
153); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat:
initial initial;">http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/category.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=1049</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As part of this
process, I have to announce that the University of Oxford can no
longer offer any support for the XAIRA software, which has for
many years been made available with the corpus. We have tried to
offer support on a ‘best efforts’ basis in recent years, but we do
not have the resources or expertise to help with the installation
or use of XAIRA on the latest hardware and software. Users of
XAIRA are encouraged to visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xaira.sourceforge.net/">http://xaira.sourceforge.net/</a> and
check out the forums and mailing lists which you will find there.
The future of XAIRA depends on a committed user community, so
please get involved if you have questions or can contribute
expertise.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There are excellent
services offering instant online access to the BNC, such as those
listed at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/">http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/</a>. I am convinced that there
is still further potential for the integration and use of the
corpus in online services and web applications. There are plans to
integrate access to the BNC with the emerging CLARIN
infrastructure, enabling a range of applications and web services
to be used in conjunction with this and many other corpora. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.clarin.eu/">http://www.clarin.eu/</a> for more details.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If you know of other
ways of using the BNC, or have any more ideas about its future, I
would welcome a discussion on this email list, or email me.<br>
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vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">See this message at
my blog:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/martinw/2014/01/13/changes-to-the-distribution-of-the-british-national-corpus/">http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/martinw/2014/01/13/changes-to-the-distribution-of-the-british-national-corpus/</a><br>
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Martin Wynne
IT Services, University of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk">martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk</a>
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