[Lexicog] online publishing

[Wayne Leman]

Nick,

I had the same issue that Peter did, several years ago. In fact, Peter and I commiserated over the issue. I was able to contact Phillip Parker and ask him to remove his “thesaurus” of Cheyenne words which he has squeezed into an English thesaurus mold which distorted the Cheyenne lexicon. He complied.

A word to the wise is, hopefully, sufficient. Be careful about making lexical data available in a way that others can take, distort, and publish under their own names. Perhaps use PDF files with electronic signatures to ensure integrity of the data and proper attribution for work and ownership of the data.

Wayne

From: Nick Thieberger 
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:28 PM
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com 
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Re: online publishing

  
On Panlex it may be worth knowing about Peter Austin's experience, recounted in this blog item: http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2011/04/theyre-out-to-get-you-or-your-data-at-least/

With comments from Panlex's Jonathon Pool to add to the mix.

Nick



On 24 April 2011 14:14, Wayne Leman <wayne.leman at gmail.com> wrote:

    


  From: autoling 
  Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 8:09 AM
  To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com 
  Subject: [Lexicog] Re: online publishing

    
  --- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "Ronald Moe" <ron_moe at ...> wrote:
  >
  > Does anyone know of a website where a dictionary can be published?

  In addition to the options described in other answers so far, there are these two:

  (1) The Rosetta Project. It has archives on potentially all languages and welcomes new resources that document languages. See http://rosettaproject.org/get-involved/ .

  (2) PanLex. It is an integrated lexical resource supporting lexical translation among all languages, so far documenting about half a billion translations among 17 million words in 6 thousand languages. If you contribute a dictionary to PanLex, your dictionary will be listed at http://utilika.org/info/plrefs.shtml  and editors will include translations from your dictionary in PanLex. You can contribute a dictionary file to PanLex by writing to info at panlex.org .


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