Questions Regarding Innovative Online Dictionaries

[s.t. bischoff]

the sami language project has a number of interesting features (
http://giellatekno.uit.no/english.html), one of which is a number of
dictionaries which can be found here:

http://giellatekno.uit.no/dict.eng.html#Our+dictionaries




On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Neskie Manuel <neskiem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Weytk Heather,
>
> A somewhat answer to your first question would be that Content
> Management Systems and Drupal in particular are interesting
> technologies that can be used to implement online dictionaries.  They
> allow anyone with a bit of experience to create an online dictionary
> with all kinds of interesting features, including audio, video, and
> any of the necessary fields you would need to classify the words.
>
> You could even have it so that the online dictionary is developed in
> more of a wiki style where anybody could add words.  For control
> purposes you could have someone check over words that have been
> entered.
>
> On top of this Drupal has an internationalization module [1] that
> allows you to translate the Drupal interface into whatever language
> you want.  I started an online wordlist [2] one afternoon, but haven't
> got into filling in the rest of the info.
>
> Drupal is free to downoload and is open source.
>
> -Neskie
>
> [1] - http://drupal.org/project/i18n
> [2] - http://secpewt.sd73.bc.ca/wordlist
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Heather Souter <hsouter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Taanshi kiiyawaaw,  hello,
> >
> > (Sorry about sending this email without a subject line previously!
>  Oooops!)
> >
> > I wanted to pose a couple of questions to the list.
> >
> > If you were to list some of the top technologically innovative online
> > dictionaries for endangered languages, what would they be and why?  Also,
> if
> > you were to list some of the most user friendly online dictionaries that
> > also can also supply solid linguistic information to further research
> what
> > would they be and why?
> >
> > I look forward to any and all posts regarding the above questions.
> >
> > Eekoshi pitamaa.  That's it for now.
> >
> > Heather,
> > Metis, Emerging Michif speaker, community language researcher, grad
> > student....
>
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