Challenges of Electronic Dictionary Publication
From the webpage:
April 8-9th, 2016
Venue: University of Leipzig, GWZ, Beethovenstr. 15; H1.5.16
This April we will be hosting our first Dictionary Journal workshop. At this workshop we will give an introduction to our vision of „Dictionaria“, introduce our data model and current workflow and will discuss (among others) the following topics:
- Methodology and concept: How are dictionaries of „small“ languages different from those of „big“ languages and what does this mean for our endeavour? (documentary dictionaries vs. standard dictionaries)
- Reviewing process and guidelines: How to review and evaluate a dictionary database of minor languages?
- User-friendliness: What are the different audiences and their needs?
- Submission process and guidelines: reports from us and our first authors on how to submit and what to expect
- Citation: How to cite dictionaries?
If you are interested in attending this event, please send an e-mail to dictionary.journal[AT]uni-leipzig.de.
Workshop program
Our workshop program can now be downloaded here.
See the webpage for a list of confirmed participants, some with submitted abstracts.
Any number of topic map related questions arise in a discussion of dictionaries.
- How to represent dictionary models?
- What properties should be used to identify the subjects that represent dictionary models?
- On what basis, if any, should dictionary models be considered the same or different? And for what purposes?
- What data should be captured by dictionaries and how should it be identified?
- etc.
Those are only a few of the questions that could be refined into dozens, if not hundreds of more, when you reach the details of constructing a dictionary.
I won’t be attending but wait with great anticipation the output from this workshop!