The Dutch comptoir as information centre

The Centre for Dutch Language and Speech Technology (TST Centre)

Functioning of the Centre for Dutch Language and Speech Technology

The TST Centre manages a broad collection of Dutch digital language resources. It is an initiative of the Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie), and is meant to reinforce research in the area of language and speech technology. It does this by stimulating the reuse of these language resources. The TST Centre keeps these resources up to date, facilitates their availability, and offers servi...

The UK Technical Information Centre

The UK Technical Information Centre (TIC, URL-3 1999) is one of a set of Internet-based services developed in the EC funded project CONNET (URL-1 1999). The TIC aims to provide a single source of information on any purchasable publication of relevance to the built environment in the UK. Over 220 publishers have been identified and it is estimated that information on about 50,000 publications wi...

The Novel as Dutch Painting

In a memorable review of Jane Austen’s Emma (1816), Walter Scott cele­ brated the novelist for her faithful representation of the familiar and the commonplace. Austen had, according to Scott, helped to perfect what was fundamentally a new kind of fiction: “the art of copying from nature as she really exists in the common walks of life.” Rather than “the splendid scenes of an imaginary world,” h...

NARCIS: The Gateway to Dutch Scientific Information

NARCIS, National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System, is a project in the Netherlands to build a portal for research information which combines structured research information with information from OAI repositories (publication and other scientific results), websites, and news pages of research institutes. The main goal of NARCIS is to create a central place for searching al...