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[SeaBird]

GoodAfterNoon EveryOne

CNN.com newsletter delivered to me this interesting piece of information:

Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia
Web site will have free, pay versions

Friday, April 28, 2006 Posted: 0421 GMT (1221 HKT)


Frustrated with the poor quality of many Web sites dealing with ancient Egypt, a professor at the University of California has decided to create an online encyclopedia devoted to Egyptology.

Willemina Wendrich, a professor of Egyptian archaeology, had watched in dismay as the best resource for her subject, a seven-volume encyclopedia in German, got more and more out of date because of the prohibitive cost of updating it.

Meanwhile, her students at UCLA were doing research for papers on the Internet, and being led astray. "The Web has a lot of wonderful information, and a lot of horrible information," she told Reuters in a telephone interview Thursday.

The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, which will go online in 2008, will be peer-reviewed and will update when there are new discoveries, Wendrich said.

One version, in PDF format, will be available for free to anyone using the Web, while a second version, with a better search function and more graphics, will be available by subscription.

"I'm doing this because I think it's necessary," she said.

People accessing the Web site from Egypt, however, will be able to use both versions for free, she said. And she hopes to have much of the site translated into Arabic.

"I think it's really important that people realize that all this material that we're working with is from Egypt, and people in Egypt speak Arabic," she said. "I'm actually surprised that it hasn't happened earlier."

SeaBird Comment:

Wish to hear many more of such Nice things coming out of America - the Evil Empire.
I confess that Politics, the American Politics in the MidEast, managed to Poison me about whatever relevant to America, expecting getting hurt
getting humiliated, getting occupied and in Genocide/Fragmentation of our country like in Iraq.

My psychology is shaped to expect nothing but destructive out of America

I think I need a long time after seeing Iraq recover from its present humiliations to regain my previous admiration of the American culture.

Salam

[stellaspice]

BTW
do you have a link for this site ?

[Neofret]

http://www.uee.ucla.edu/index.htm

[SeaBird]

Quote: "BTW
do you have a link for this site ?"

Had to disappear from the Internet until I get my home PC updated and better protected against Viruses.

BTW, abbreviation of what?

I consider it as: between me and you
but I think it has another meaning.

Appreciate a reply.

Salam

[stellaspice]

Hi there;

BTW = by the way

sorry, using abbreviations is a bad habit of mine LOL

:D :D

[SeaBird]

Thanks for the caring to reply.
It is me who is lazy to think of the corresponding words
The Internet generations are much younger than me
so they use their own Cyber language/abbreviations

I am trying to adapt but can't get rid of half a century living without Internet communication. Just writing classical letters, either to friends or to job-related persons.

Have a Good Day
Salam

[stellaspice]

Well I'm no spring chicken either - sadly :( - but with me perhaps it's the 'secretary' in me that tries to shorten things - I never learnt shorthand but developed my own style of abbreviating in order to take minutes at meetings.

You have a good day too and take care;
Salem

Stella