OED: major update to the OED science fiction project
Mike Christie
project at http://www.jessesword.com/sf , which has intermittently been
discussed here, has been redesigned and relaunched.
The biggest change is that the OED's database of citations of SF words
is now made (mostly) available via the website. The OED (a nonprofit
organization) does not usually make its work available in this way, but
OED has agreed to publicly open up this part of its database to
acknowledge the great contribution volunteers have made to this project.
That means that if you contribute a cite, it's viewable by everyone.
Here's a link with more information about the citations
http://www.jessesword.com/sf/about_citations
We are also adding quite a few new words: there is an internal list of
pending words we have been maintaining and over the next few weeks many
of those words will be moved to the main pages. This link:
http://www.jessesword.com/sf/newest_adds
takes you to a list of the most recent additions.
Finally, I also wanted to point out that the site now includes
definitions for every word. These are in many cases taken directly from
the OED's existing definition; in other cases they are draft definitions
from the site maintainers. Comments on those are welcome, of course, as
are any other comments or suggestions.
We hope these changes make the site into more of a general resource for
the vocabulary of sf, instead of just a catalog of OED research needs.
Mike