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From the Ted Talk by William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

Now we at the _______ Art Museum have followed this example, and we have put up all our manuscripts on the Web for people to enjoy — all the raw data, all the descriptions, all the ________. under a Creative Commons license. Now the Walters Art Museum is a _____ museum and it has beautiful manuscripts, but the data is fantastic. And the result of this is that if you do a Google search on ______ right now and you type in "Illuminated manuscript Koran" for example, 24 of the 28 images you'll find come from my ___________.

Solution

  1. images
  2. metadata
  3. institution
  4. small
  5. walters

Original Text

Now we at the Walters Art Museum have followed this example, and we have put up all our manuscripts on the Web for people to enjoy — all the raw data, all the descriptions, all the metadata. under a Creative Commons license. Now the Walters Art Museum is a small museum and it has beautiful manuscripts, but the data is fantastic. And the result of this is that if you do a Google search on images right now and you type in "Illuminated manuscript Koran" for example, 24 of the 28 images you'll find come from my institution.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
prayer book 6
unique texts 3
archimedes manuscript 2
candle wax 2
archimedes text 2
fourth century 2
powerful light 2
light source 2
athenian law 2
law courts 2
medieval manuscripts 2
creative commons 2
commons license 2
walters art 2
art museum 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
powerful light source 2
athenian law courts 2
creative commons license 2
walters art museum 2

Important Words

  1. art
  2. beautiful
  3. commons
  4. creative
  5. data
  6. descriptions
  7. enjoy
  8. fantastic
  9. find
  10. google
  11. images
  12. institution
  13. license
  14. manuscript
  15. manuscripts
  16. metadata
  17. museum
  18. people
  19. put
  20. raw
  21. result
  22. search
  23. small
  24. type
  25. walters
  26. web