[Lexicog] Collaborative lexicography software?

[Ronald Moe]

I’m not a member of the WeSay team and can only give my impressions of what
they are trying to accomplish. WeSay is currently being developed by SIL as
a tool to support non-linguists who wish to help in the development of a
dictionary for their language. It is designed to require very little in the
way of computer skills or knowledge of linguistics or lexicography. It is
also designed to run on rugged portable machines that could be operated in
environments where there is no internet or even electricity. The idea is
that someone could be trained to work on a particular task such as
collecting words or glossing words in the national language. Their work
could be in support of a larger project which is being managed in a central
location. So their work could be integrated into a master database
maintained at “project headquarters”. WeSay could be set up on multiple
(handheld or laptop) computers and operated by a group of “field workers”
who would all be working simultaneously on the same dictionary. I believe
this could be a very useful approach in minority language situations where
the community wishes to be involved or where multiple researchers are
working on the data and cannot always be connected via the internet or a
network. However the program has not yet been released in version 1. It is
still under development and being field tested. Their website has more
information.

 

Ron Moe

SIL International

 

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[mailto:lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dr. Jon Mills
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:35 AM
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Collaborative lexicography software?

 

Vincent,
I came across this website about WeSay dictionary compilation 
software HYPERLINK
"http://www.wesay.org/wiki/Main_Page"http://www.wesay.-org/wiki/-Main_Page .
I haven't tried the 
software personally. Let us know what you think.
Jon Mills 

--- In HYPERLINK
"mailto:lexicographylist%40yahoogroups.com"lexicographylist at -yahoogroups.-co
m, "Vincent Isles" <islesv at ...> 
wrote:
>
> We're currently using PBwiki.com for our collaboration.-.. Now, I 
know
> that PBWiki is a primitive tool for lexicography (its only advantage
> over word processor programs is the collaboration part), but PBwiki
> had been successful in the past for a collaboration with this 
partner,
> so I'm crossing my fingers. (The alternative would be yet another 
wiki
> system.)
> 
> Meanwhile, I've came across source version control software, and I'm
> wondering if anybody had experience with this sort of thing for
> lexicographical collaboration. What I'm looking at is just keeping a
> most recent copy of the Toolbox data file in a server somewhere; the
> system would keep track who made what changes.
> 
> --Vincent Isles
> HYPERLINK "http://eduphil.org/"http://eduphil.-org/
> 
> --- In HYPERLINK
"mailto:lexicographylist%40yahoogroups.com"lexicographylist at -yahoogroups.-co
m, "Vincent Isles" <islesv@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was so happy after I've seen Matapuna <HYPERLINK
"http://matapuna.org"http://matapuna.-org> I 
failed
> > to realize I don't have Python support in my webhost... So it 
seems
> > I'm back to square one.
> > 
> > --Vincent Isles
> > HYPERLINK "http://eduphil.org/"http://eduphil.-org/
> >
>

 


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