[Lexicog] online publishing

[Lou Hohulin]

Ron,

This is an excellent idea. What can we do to implement it?

Lou

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:08:08 -0700
 "Ronald Moe" <ron_moe at sil.org> wrote:
>[Note: Thanks for the contributions to this discussion from several of you.
>This is a followup posting in which I would like to present a few general
>observations about online publishing. I also posted what follows on the FLEx
>users list. My apologies to those of you on both lists. I am compiling a
>list of publication options which I will post in a later email. RM]
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>All Martin Diprose wants is a website where he can (at least temporarily)
>publish his dictionaries. Apparently SIL is working on a place within the
>SIL website where he can publish them, but it may take some time before it
>is ready. Martin is going to run the dictionaries through Lexique Pro. The
>question then is, where does he post the files? We've got Toolbox and MDF
>and Lexique Pro. We've got FLEx and WeSay and Pathways. We can produce these
>beautiful dictionaries. But we have no easy way to publish them.
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>Currently if you want to publish a dictionary, it appears that you have two
>choices. You either have to find an existing website (e.g. a university
>website) that will permit you to publish your dictionary under their
>auspices, or you have to buy a website and get someone to develop it for
>you. It seems to me that the smartest and most efficient thing to do is for
>the linguistic (or lexicographic) world to pool their resources and just
>develop one big site.
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>So I think the real need is for a website where people can post dictionaries
>(and other linguistic descriptions) for the world to see. Such a website
>could simply be a means of publishing electronically. But it could also be a
>place for people to post dictionaries that are "in process". We need to
>create a climate in which dictionaries are seen as "incremental
>approximations" of an exhaustive unabridged dictionary. No dictionary is
>complete or perfect. So those of us who are building dictionaries,
>especially first time dictionaries, of minority languages ought to feel OK
>about posting an imperfect dictionary. As it is, people are afraid that
>their scholarly reputations will be hurt if they post something that isn't
>perfect. But dictionaries are such massive undertakings that we need to view
>them differently.
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>Once a dictionary is posted, others can benefit from our work and/or
>contribute to it. So I would like a website where every language has a page
>devoted just to it. Anyone working on that language can post a dictionary,
>word list, grammar, text, or article about it. Ideally someone could run a
>query and search all the dictionaries on the website. Ideally other
>linguists and especially speakers of the language could contribute to the
>dictionary in a wiki environment. But at least we need a place to post
>dictionaries and an easy way to upload our databases. Minimally the public
>should be able to search it for a language and see what is there. The
>website should be free. A person who wants to post a dictionary should not
>have to be a programmer or have to set up the webpage. It should already be
>set up with easy to follow instructions on how to post something.
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>Ron Moe
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>Subject: [Lexicog] online publishing
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>Does anyone know of a website where a dictionary can be published? A
>colleague of mine, Martin Diprose, has been working on dictionaries for four
>Ugandan languages. He needs to find a place to publish them.
>Thanks,
>Ron Moe
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