Fieldworks or Toolbox?

[Nick Thieberger]

Hi Jasmin,

If you are only working on a lexicon (and not linking to interlinear
texts) then there are various options (for example, Matapuna,
Tshwanelex).  And you can also use LexiquePro, which works with
Fieldworks too.

I think that Fieldworks is most likely your best option now if you do
want to link to texts as Toolbox is getting long in the tooth.

Reviews of these have appeared in the journal Language Documentation
and Conservation and are available for free download.
Tshwanelex - http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/1729
Matapuna - http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4477
Fieldworks - http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4471
LexiquePro - http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/1720

Hope this helps,

Nick



On 5 January 2011 16:29, Jasmin Laura Morley
<jasmin.morley at adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear RNLDrs,
> I am planning a dictionary project for a local language and am considering
> whether
> to use Toolbox or Fieldworks.
> Currently we have a number of files which had previously been imported into
> Toolbox but which require a lot of editing (rewriting of definitions, complete
> orthography rehaul, adding reversals, etc...). The plan is to produce a printed
> dictionary and a CD with recordings of pronunciations, which I had planned to
> create in LexiquePro.
> Can anyone comment on the desirability of transferring to Fieldworks at this
> point? Some of the bulk editing features look like they would be helpful in
> making
> the whole-of-data-base changes which are required. Does anyone have experience
> in
> exporting a Fieldworks dictionary to LexiquePro?
> I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.
> Thanks,
> Jasmin Morley
> Mobile Language Team
> University of Adelaide
>