Questions Regarding Innovative Online Dictionaries

[phil cash cash]

Nice interface you got going there Neskie.  There are several others here on
ILAT, including myself, that use Drupal.  I think it would be great if
somebody someday created a Drupal module for MDF (multidictionary formatter),
data field markers, and the like that is commonly found in a field linguist's
coding toolkit. 
later,
Phil
UofA
Quoting Neskie Manuel :

> 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  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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