To members of SAS-C!
July 27th, we lost Lex Jansen. His sudden passing was a shock to SAS users community and left many of us heartbroken. I wanted to honor Lex contributions and selfless dedication towards collecting, organizing, and archiving SAS knowledge. I'm not good at talking and writing, so I want to celebrate Lex by doing.
I've spent the last weeks working on recreating, recovering, and restoring as much of the content that Lex gathered as possible, and I have built a SAS LEXICON, or, as I like to write it: SAS LEX.ICON. According to Wiki, a lexicon means the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge. I want SAS LEX.ICON to be this kind of a place, that is both: honoring Lex's work and is a knowledge base for our community.
https://saslexicon.org
I thought that Lex's birthday would be a good day to launch the page. Thus I'd like to announce: the webpage is officially enabled.
Propagation of the address around the world DNS servers may take up to 48h, whence if the address is not working for you give it a few more hours.
At the moment of launch the page serves 37,341 papers and presentations written by 20,876 authors over 16 conferences, spanning the years from 1976 to 2026. For some conferences those articles are offered as local copies of conference proceedings, as links to sources for others.
I'd like to thank Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science for hospitality and hosting SAS LEX.ICON!
Bart
