c-medium college here. Far more computers, more computing staff,
flat screens. Students do everything by computer, use Gaelic
spell-checking, Gaelic online terminology database. More hits on our
web site. More use of sound. Gaelic radio (both Scottish and Irish) now
available continuously worldwide via the internet. Major project has
been translation of the Opera web-browser into Gaelic - the first
software of any size available in Gaelic."

Published by SIL International (SIL: Summer Institute of Linguistics),
The Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a catalogue of more than
6,700 languages. A paper version and a CD-ROM are also available.
Barbara Grimes was the editor of the 8th to 14th editions, 1971-2000.
She wrote in January 2000: "It is a catalog of the languages of the
world, with information about where they are spoken, an estimate of the
number of speakers, what language family they are in, alternate names,
names of dialects, other sociolinguistic and demographic information,
dates of published Bibles, a name index, a language family index, and
language maps."

2000: ONLINE BIBLE OF GUTENBERG

[Overview]

The Bible of Gutenberg went online in November 2000, on the website of
the British Library. As we all know, the Bible of Gutenberg is
considered as the first print book. Gutenberg printed it in 1455 in
Germany, perhaps printing 180 copies, with 48 copies that would still
exist in 2000. Three copies - two full ones and one partial
one - belong to the British Library. The two full copies - a little
different from each other - were digitized in March 2000 by experts
from the Keio University of Tokyo and NTT (Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Communications).

2000: DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS

[Overview]

Conceived in October 2000 by Charles Franks, Distributed Proofreaders
was launched online in March 2001 to help in the digitization of public
domain books. The method is to break up the tedious work of checking
eBooks for errors into small, manageable chunks. Originally meant to
assist Project Gutenberg in the handling of shared proofreading,
Distributed Proofreaders has become the main source of Project
Gutenberg eBooks. In 2002, Distributed Proofreaders became an official
Project Gutenberg site. The number of books processed through
Distributed Proofreaders has grown fast. In 2003, about 250-300 people
were working each day all over the world producing a daily total of
2,500-3,000 pages, the e