[Lexicog] Collaborative lexicography software?

Wed Apr 30 16:44:35 UTC 2008

You are true Ron. WeSay cannot be compared to Fieldworks or Toolbox. But it is quicker and easy to customize than any other software. Some issues I can consider as shortcomings are:
- Its state of not allowing a collaborative data collection;
- Its status of not allowing people to merge their individual collected words;
Besides, the required Microsoft .Net Framework 3 confuse people who heard about it at the first time.

Emmanuel Habumuremyi
>From Rwanda

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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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From:lexicographylist@ yahoogroups. com [mailto: lexicographylist@ yahoogroups. com ] On Behalf Of Dr. Jon Mills
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3:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [Lexicog]
Collaborative lexicography software?

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

--- In lexicographylist@ yahoogroups. com,
"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
> http://eduphil. org/
> 
> --- In lexicographylist@ yahoogroups. com,
"Vincent Isles" <islesv@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I was so happy after I've seen Matapuna <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
> > http://eduphil. org/
> >
>

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