Tue May 15, 2018
Sarah Ogilvie: Words from the Crowd, The Collaboration That Made The OED
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The world's first crowd-sourced project, the first Edition Oxford English Dictionary took 70 years and the work of hundreds of people to complete. Dr Sarah Ogilvie, Stanford linguist and former OED lexicographer, shares untold stories of the volunteers who created the authoritative historical dictionary of the English language, based on more than a decade of new research. She is the author of Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary which will be on sale at the talk.
The Interval at Long Now welcomesSarah Ogilvie (author, linguist and lexicographer Stanford / CASBS)
Words from the Crowd: The Collaboration That Made The Oxford English Dictionary
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
"Sarah Ogilvie brings a unique conjunction of abilities to this book: deep practical knowledge of [the] OED and its archives, powerful analytical skills, and personal warmth and flair as a storyteller."— John Considine, University of Alberta, about Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Dr. Ogilvie is currently a fellow.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Dr. Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist and lexicographer who works at the intersection of technology and the social sciences. She teaches in the linguistics department at Stanford and this year is a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Ogilvie is also Director of the Stanford Dictionary Lab and Co-Director of Stanford's Digital Humanities Minor. Her books include Words of the World: a Global History of the OED and Keeping Languages Alive. Before Stanford, Ogilvie was an Editor on the OED, taught linguistics at Cambridge University, and worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley.More about CASBS at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
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The Interval at Long Now welcomesSarah Ogilvie (author, linguist and lexicographer Stanford / CASBS)
Words from the Crowd: The Collaboration That Made The Oxford English Dictionary
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
"Sarah Ogilvie brings a unique conjunction of abilities to this book: deep practical knowledge of [the] OED and its archives, powerful analytical skills, and personal warmth and flair as a storyteller."— John Considine, University of Alberta, about Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Dr. Ogilvie is currently a fellow.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Dr. Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist and lexicographer who works at the intersection of technology and the social sciences. She teaches in the linguistics department at Stanford and this year is a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Ogilvie is also Director of the Stanford Dictionary Lab and Co-Director of Stanford's Digital Humanities Minor. Her books include Words of the World: a Global History of the OED and Keeping Languages Alive. Before Stanford, Ogilvie was an Editor on the OED, taught linguistics at Cambridge University, and worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley.More about CASBS at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
The world's first crowd-sourced project, the first Edition Oxford English Dictionary took 70 years and the work of hundreds of people to complete. Dr Sarah Ogilvie, Stanford linguist and former OED lexicographer, shares untold stories of the volunteers who created the authoritative historical dictionary of the English language, based on more than a decade of new research. She is the author of Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary which will be on sale at the talk.
The Interval at Long Now welcomesSarah Ogilvie (author, linguist and lexicographer Stanford / CASBS)
Words from the Crowd: The Collaboration That Made The Oxford English Dictionary
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
"Sarah Ogilvie brings a unique conjunction of abilities to this book: deep practical knowledge of [the] OED and its archives, powerful analytical skills, and personal warmth and flair as a storyteller."— John Considine, University of Alberta, about Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Dr. Ogilvie is currently a fellow.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Dr. Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist and lexicographer who works at the intersection of technology and the social sciences. She teaches in the linguistics department at Stanford and this year is a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Ogilvie is also Director of the Stanford Dictionary Lab and Co-Director of Stanford's Digital Humanities Minor. Her books include Words of the World: a Global History of the OED and Keeping Languages Alive. Before Stanford, Ogilvie was an Editor on the OED, taught linguistics at Cambridge University, and worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley.More about CASBS at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
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You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
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The Interval at Long Now welcomesSarah Ogilvie (author, linguist and lexicographer Stanford / CASBS)
Words from the Crowd: The Collaboration That Made The Oxford English Dictionary
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
"Sarah Ogilvie brings a unique conjunction of abilities to this book: deep practical knowledge of [the] OED and its archives, powerful analytical skills, and personal warmth and flair as a storyteller."— John Considine, University of Alberta, about Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Dr. Ogilvie is currently a fellow.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
Dr. Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist and lexicographer who works at the intersection of technology and the social sciences. She teaches in the linguistics department at Stanford and this year is a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Ogilvie is also Director of the Stanford Dictionary Lab and Co-Director of Stanford's Digital Humanities Minor. Her books include Words of the World: a Global History of the OED and Keeping Languages Alive. Before Stanford, Ogilvie was an Editor on the OED, taught linguistics at Cambridge University, and worked at Amazon's innovation lab in Silicon Valley.More about CASBS at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
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You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
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