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Intercontinental Dictionary Series project CD-ROMs
MS.F.015
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Intercontinental Dictionary Series project CD-ROMs
Creator:
Intercontinental Dictionary Series
Creator:
Key, Mary Ritchie
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.015
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1994-1999
Abstract: This collection comprises three CD-ROMs and accompanying printed memoranda and advertising material prepared by Mary Ritchie
Key, General Editor of the Intercontinental Dictionary Series, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Linguistics. CD-ROMs
are titled:
1. South American Indian Languages Computer Database
2. Uralic, Semitic, Pacific, and Misc. Languages CD-ROM
3. Indo-European Languages Computer Database
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English and Indo-European, South American Indian, Uralic, Semetic, Pacific, and other languages.
The collection is open for research. Access to archival originals is restricted.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Intercontinental Dictionary Series project CD-ROMs. MS-F015. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of Mary Ritchie Key, 2001.
Processed by Zoe MacLeod, 2012.
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (IDS) is a database of vocabulary lists in different world languages. The IDS allows
users to make custom tables that compare different languages side-by-side. The idea for the IDS originated in 1957 when Mary
Ritchie Key, the general editor of the IDS, was on a Fulbright in Chile. After she returned from Chile she initiated different
pilot projects at the University of California, Irvine. In 1982, a computer science and math major created a program they
called "SYNCOG," which later became the International Dictionary Series.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises three CD-ROMs and accompanying printed memoranda and advertising material prepared by Mary Ritchie
Key, General Editor of the Intercontinental Dictionary Series, University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Linguistics. CD-ROMs
are titled:
1. South American Indian Languages Computer Database
2. Uralic, Semitic, Pacific, and Misc. Languages CD-ROM
3. Indo-European Languages Computer Database
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Indo-European languages.
Oceanic languages.
CD-ROMs
Indians of South America -- Languages
Uralic languages.
Semitic languages.
Northwest, Pacific -- Languages.
Intercontinental Dictionary Series