Re: Dictionaries, practical question
Charles Muller <[email protected]>
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On 1/12/2017 12:37 AM, Paul Schaffner wrote: > But in the meantime: is there in fact a popular software choice amongst > working lexicographers? (To the extent that anything used by > lexicographers could be called 'popular'!) I run two online dictionaries that are TEI-based, the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb) and the Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vietnamese/English Dictionary [CJKV-E] (www.buddhism-dict.net/dealt). Both are long-running, well-used resources in the fields of East Asian Studies. (See http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/subscribing_libraries.html) Using an XML format (mainly) based on the TEI dictionaries module, we develop the dictionaries locally using Word macros and XML software (mainly oXygen and Emacs). On the web, the dictionaries are delivered through a relatively simple and straightforward combination of Perl search and XSLT output. You can search and open up an entry using the username "guest" with no password, and you can see the XML source of any entry by clicking on the XML Source link on the top menu. The creator and administrator of the back end is Michael Beddow, who employs a similar TEI/Perl/XSLT framework to run the Anglo-Norman Hub (http://www.anglo-norman.net/). It's not a simple, prebuilt package, but an example that dictionaries built in XML (using TEI or whatever) can be managed and delivered well. Chuck -- --------------------------- A. Charles Muller Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology Faculty of Letters University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongō, Bunkyō-ku Tokyo 113-8654, Japan Office Phone: 03-5841-3735 Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.net Twitter: @H_Buddhism