[Lexicog] online publishing

Sat Apr 23 01:03:45 UTC 2011

Hi,

I am a web developer and also interested in publishing dictionaries in minority languages.  I would like to create a web site like the one Ronald described.  Although you can get web hosting for about $75 per year, this would only work if you had very few users and little content.  I suspect a decent website will cost a few times this, not including payroll (Wikipedia spends millions on its severs each year).

If anyone is interested in contributing to or funding this project, I am willing to create it and even setup a 501(c)(3) organization to back it and handle donations if needed.

There are similar websites where users can publish content or contribute to a dictionary, but none quite like this, especially one targeting linguists and allowing for importing from dictionary software, like Lexique.

Nathan Rugg

--- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Ronald Moe" <ron_moe at ...> wrote:
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> [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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 
> Ron Moe
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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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