[Lexicog] News and Offers from TshwaneDJe

[Nick Thieberger]

There is a review of TshwaneLex by Claire Bowern in the journal
Language Documentation & Conservation 1(1):94–99.
Bowern, Claire. 2007. Review of TshwaneLex dictionary compilation software.
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1729

Nick

2009/3/20 Kenneth C. Hill <kennethchill at yahoo.com>:
> Jan--
>
> Unfortunately my knowledge of Shoebox is second-hand. I have worked with
> people who use Toolbox and have seen that it is quite a challenge to get
> started with. And I understand that the learning curve with Toolbox's
> successors from SIL have an even steeper learning curve. My experience with
> TshwaneLex is that it's pretty easy to get started. And when you change your
> mind mid-stream, it's easy to make serious formatting changes.
>
> TshwaneLex is fairly mouse-intensive. This is partly a result of its
> hierarchical structure, which is one of its great strengths, as I have come
> to understand from a colleague who is much more knowledgeable about data
> structures than I am.
>
> My experience prior to TshwaneLex has been with an old DOS database,
> Notebook II, whose latest and final version is 1992. It has no mouse
> capacity at all and its hierarchical structure depth is but 1: database -
> field, but it has served me well and I know haw to do many important things
> there that I have yet to find out how to do in TshwaneLex. The Hopi
> Dictionary database (33,494 records as of today) remains in Notebook II for
> the time being.
>
> I'm still very much a beginner with TshwaneLex and still have not
> experimented with importing data. So far, I've simply been typing in
> material. I've started with Serrano, the Californian Uto-Aztecan language,
> on which I did my 1967 dissertation, and with Tübatulabal, another
> Californian Uto-Aztecan language, from published material by C.F. Voegelin.
>
> --Ken
>
> --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Jan F. Ullrich <jfu at lakhota.org> wrote:
>
> From: Jan F. Ullrich <jfu at lakhota.org>
> Subject: RE: [Lexicog] News and Offers from TshwaneDJe
> To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 3:55 AM
>
> Dear Ken,
>
>
>
> Thank you for your review of TshwaneLex. I was very interested in reading
> it.
>
> About four years ago and seriously considered moving from Toolbox to
> TshwaneLex but after very careful consideration I didn’t.
>
> My main problem was the data entry procedure which I felt was significantly
> more time consuming and complex in TshwaneLex, since adding fields is a
> hierarchical process involving mouse clicks and dialog boxes. In this regard
> I love the simplicity of Toolbox especially since I can create an entry and
> enter data pretty much without touching the mouse. And I never really had a
> problem keeping the filed hierarchy consistent in toolbox. But Toolbox has
> its shortcomings, so I keep checking the new developments of TshwaneLex and
> wondering whether or not it is time to move our dictionary database to that
> software, especially for the sake of those features that Toolbox lacks.
>
> Would you be able to share your perspective on the data entry process in
> TshwaneLex in comparison to Toolbox? And do you know if they made the data
> entry process less mouse oriented?
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
>
>
> Jan Ullrich
>
> Lakota Language Consortium
>
> www.lakhota. org
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