Six Canadian Universities to create giant online database

NationalPost.com is Reporting The Canadian federal government has given $2.6-million to six Canadian university libraries to create one of the world\’s largest online databases of old texts and archives. They say it\’s believed to be the largest single grant to a humanities project.


Called the Text Analysis Portal for Research, the libraries will combine their electronic databases, which include legal documents, stories in aboriginal languages, rare poetry, oral statements and Old English texts. The schools are University of Victoria, University of Alberta, McMaster University, Université de Montréal, University of Toronto and UNB.

February 9, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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