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WordHoard is a joint project of the Northwestern University departments of English and Classics and NU-IT Academic Technologies. We are deeply grateful for a substantial grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which supported the development of WordHoard.
At various stages of this project the Perseus Project at Tufts University, and in particular Gregory Crane, Anne Mahoney, and Clifford Wulfman provided support and information. Professor Larry Benson graciously permitted the inclusion of his Chaucer data in our project. Craig Berry played a key role in preparing the Chaucer and Spenser data for inclusion in WordHoard.
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This document is the user manual for WordHoard. It is reasonably complete and detailed, with many screen shots and examples. Some of the screen shots are from Apple Macintosh systems, and others are from Microsoft Windows or UNIX systems. While the program looks different on these systems, the differences are mostly cosmetic, and all of the windows present the same information and behave the same way. You should be aware that WordHoard's windows are usually quite a bit taller than you see them here in the screen shots. In most cases, we have made them shorter so they would fit more gracefully on these web pages along with the text.
WordHoard is a cross-platform Java Swing application with a traditional direct-manipulation graphical human interface. It works on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, and UNIX systems.
While we distribute WordHoard on the web, and you must have an active network connection to use the program, it is not a web-based application. Its interface is not presented on a web page, and you do not need to have a web browser running to use the program.
WordHoard communicates over the network with a large database which contains the static text and tagging data for all the corpora and their works. We use the open source Hibernate and MySQL products to manage the data.
WordHoard also communicates over the network with the WordHoard server, using the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocol. The server manages authentication and logging, and mediates access to private and shared dynamic objects.
WordHoard is distributed and updates are automatically installed using Sun's Java Web Start technology. See the Getting Started chapter for more information on how WordHoard uses Web Start.
Please see Software Copyrights and Licenses for details on the WordHoard license and the licenses for the third-party applications and libraries incorporated into WordHoard. Information about the texts and their copyrights may be found in The Texts: Provenance, Copyrights and Licenses
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