A recommended web site including many pointers to other SGML resources is:
http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html
A recommended newsgroup is comp.text.sgml
Beside SGML as such, there is the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) which
has published so-called TEI Guidelines intending to provide a kind of
standardized framework for text encoding for the humanities. For dictionary
people, especially interesting is chapter 12 on printed dictionaries.
TEI's web site is http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei
TEI's mailing list is TEI-L at LISTSERV@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU
Programs to use - among others I assume - in order to turn a dictionary
(or any other document) into SGML, viz. to use it once it is in electronic
form are
- "sgmls" (free)
- "Author/Editor" (SoftQuad, http://www.softquad.com)
- "XGML" (the company is called Exoterica, based in Canada,
http://www.exoterica.com).
Special dictionary parsers are
- "DIPA" (used at the Danish Dictionary) and
- "LexParse" (used at the University of Tuebingen, Germany).
Other programs.
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Suggested and/or used by replicants to build databases (among them
dictionaries) are:
- "the SIL program Shoebox"
unable to comment on this one
- Access (Microsoft; for Win)
well-known RDBMS
- FileMaker Pro (Claris; for Mac and Win)
as well
- HyperCard (for Mac)
one of the first hypertext tools
- AskSam (for DOS)
DBMS
- World Translator (for Win and Mac)
look at http://www.net-shopper.co.uk/software/ibm/trans/index.htm
- Folio VIEWS
"a free-text database management tool"; http://www.folio.com
(educational price approx. 300 USD)
- MultiTerm (for Win)
look at http://www.trados.com "a commercial product and market
leader in the field of terminology database systems"
Misc.
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A suitable programming language to create a database that can
include graphics and sound seems to be LPA Win_Prolog.
Dictionary and similar projects I was referred to are:
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- The New OED (http://bluebox.uwaterloo.ca/OED/index.html)
- The Danish Dictionary (email: olenc@coco.ihi.ku.dk)
- Sound Database (email: ralf@kfs.oeaw.ac.at)
- Dictionary of Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi (put on the W3 at
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/GAMDICT/GAMDICT.HTM)
- De Woordenboek van de Vlaamse Dialecten (email:
Jacques.VanKeymeulen@rug.ac.be)
- Dictionary of the Slovene Language (no contact address)
- Atlante Linguistico del Ladino Dolomitico e Dialetti Limitrofi (ALD)
(http://www.sbg.ac.at/rom/people/proj/ald/allgemei.htm)
Books.
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An overview of electronic dictionaries in connection with SGML is given in
- Bergenholtz & Tarp (eds.): Manual of Specialized Lexicography. John
Benjamins Publishers. 1995 (in particular, pp. 37-46).
ISBN (Europe): 90 272 1612 6
ISBN (USA): 1-55619 693-8
The following book was quite useful to get a first impression of SGML:
- van Herwijnen, Eric: Pracitcal SGML. 2nd edtion. Kluwer Academic
Publishers. 1995. (ISBN: 0-7923-9434-8)
Two interesting and pretty specialized titles for the lexicographer are:
- Frakes, William B. and Ricardo Baeza-Yates: Information Retrieval. Data
Structures and Algorithms. Prentice Hall. 1992.
- Witten, Ian H., Alistar Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell: Managing Gigabytes.
Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1994.
In reference to MS Access although not focusing on dictionaries there
were two books recommended:
- Rob, Peter and Treyton Williams: Database Design and Application
Development with Microsoft Access 2.0. New York, London: McGraw-Hill.
1995. (ISBN: 0070530513)
- Ortmann, Dirk: Access 2.0 fuer Datenbankentwickler. Muenchen: Hanser
(= Hanser Programmier Praxis.) 1995. (ISBN: 3-446-18122-9) [German]
This is the first summary I have written to a mailing list so far. If
this one is too short, too long, too imprecise, etc. please tell me. Although
I have looked at several others before composing it I am not sure if it
fulfills its purpose.
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