Technical
Information
In terms
of user access, there will be a preface to the basic electronic word index
which will include a foreword, notes on the Compilation and Presentation
of the index, and an Explanation and Directions for its use, plus a list
for each alphabetical letter indexed of those "unessential" words excluded
on the basis of high frequency, e.g. articles or auxiliary verbs, or others
of probable low pertinence for reference purposes. In addition, there will
be consecutive listings, keyed to the Weimarer Ausgabe source volume
numbers of indexed words, of the tables of contents of those volumes which
include the year associated with the subject titles. Given the locus data
for each word in the index, a user with access to the pertinent volumes
of the Weimarer Ausgabe will be further enabled to approach the
scope of an individually suited "concordance." The ready reference via
the location of successive instances of any word in the index, and hence
by research in the texts immediate to such a target word, will facilitate
analysis in the fashion of a concordance. The index will be contained in
a text database, basically a file with tab delimited fields containing
the data. The number of records will be in the order of 775,000 lines of
data, which at a maximum of 30 characters per line will amount to 23.25
million characters of information. This index is to be a cross-platform
textbase for ease of importation into databases or word processors, independent
of which machine they are running on.
It is also intended to enchance
access to the Index beyond scanning the database. A choice of templates
for existing, royalty-free programs, e.g. FileMaker Pro, will also be provided
on the disc for users to effect additional data applications such as extraction
of index subsets. Since the data is an index, the type of searches that
will be performed are basically boolean searches (using logical
connectors such as the words, "and, or"). These optional offerings based
on menus are intended to make access as easy as possible for the user.
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