|
Mark Davies created
these corpora at BYU (Brigham Young University), starting in 2004. During this time, they
were available online at corpus.byu.edu, and they were known as the "BYU Corpora".
Starting in 2016, Scott Miller,
the new dean of the College of Humanities, took several actions that seriously
threatened the future of the corpora. This was in spite of the fact that the
corpora were used more by people outside of
BYU than any other resource at BYU.
(In fairness, part of the explanation for Scott Miller's actions might be that
BYU has
a
mission that is not primarily academic in nature, and therefore some
administrators are ignorant about how to behave intelligently and professionally
in an academic setting.)
In order to protect the corpora, Mark
Davies received formal approval from BYU in 2019 to move the corpora off-campus to
www.english-corpora.org.
Fortunately, there is no longer any connection
between Mark Davies and BYU, or between the corpora and BYU. This will help to protect the corpora, and to ensure their long-term availability for
researchers, teachers, and students.
|
