Tag: reference
Dead Sea Scrolls brought to life online by Google
The 2,400 years old Dead Sea Scrolls are being brought into the digital age by Google, who've announced that the ancient texts are the latest they've managed to digitise and make available to all readers via the web. The…
Google now mapping the human body too
They've mapped most of the urbanised world with their Street View maps, are aiming to digitise every book ever published, and now Google are turning their hand to a bit of biology. The Google Body Browser is the latest addition…
Next Oxford English Dictionary will only be available digitally
21 years in the making, and with at least another decade's left of work for the team of 80 odd lexicographers working on it, compiling the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is a pretty mammoth undertaking, to say…