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. <br /><br />later,<br /><br />Phil<br />UofA<br /><br />Quoting
Neskie Manuel <neskiem@gmail.com>:<br />
<br />
> Weytk Heather,<br />
><br />
> A somewhat answer to your first question would be that Content<br />
> Management Systems and Drupal in particular are interesting<br />
> technologies that can be used to implement online dictionaries. They<br />
> allow anyone with a bit of experience to create an online dictionary<br />
> with all kinds of interesting features, including audio, video, and<br />
> any of the necessary fields you would need to classify the words.<br />
><br />
> You could even have it so that the online dictionary is developed in<br />
> more of a wiki style where anybody could add words. For control<br />
> purposes you could have someone check over words that have been<br />
> entered.<br />
><br />
> On top of this Drupal has an internationalization module [1] that<br />
> allows you to translate the Drupal interface into whatever language<br />
> you want. I started an online wordlist [2] one afternoon, but haven't<br
/>
> got into filling in the rest of the info.<br />
><br />
> Drupal is free to downoload and is open source.<br />
><br />
> -Neskie<br />
><br />
> [1] - <a" target="_blank"
href="https://www.email.arizona.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrupal.org%2Fproject%2Fi18n">http://drupal.org/project/i18n<br
/>
> [2] - <a" target="_blank"
href="https://www.email.arizona.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsecpewt.sd73.bc.ca%2Fwordlist">http://secpewt.sd73.bc.ca/wordlist<br
/>
><br />
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Heather Souter <hsouter@gmail.com>
wrote:<br />
>> Taanshi kiiyawaaw, hello,<br />
>><br />
>> (Sorry about sending this email without a subject line previously!
Oooops!)<br />
>><br />
>> I wanted to pose a couple of questions to the list.<br />
>><br />
>> If you were to list some of the top technologically innovative
online<br />
>> dictionaries for endangered languages, what would they be and why?
Also, if<br />
>> you were to list some of the most user friendly online dictionaries
that<br />
>> also can also supply solid linguistic information to further research
what<br />
>> would they be and why?<br />
>><br />
>> I look forward to any and all posts regarding the above questions.<br
/>
>><br />
>> Eekoshi pitamaa. That's it for now.<br />
>><br />
>> Heather,<br />
>> Metis, Emerging Michif speaker, community language researcher, grad<br
/>
>> student....<br />
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