Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Dictionary Syncing

On 01/01/11 18:46, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> My apologies for the mis understanding there Lee. I think the problem we
> would run into is 2 different schools of thought on how the same goal should
> be achieved.

Possibly, but then that is the nature of collaboration is it not? In any
case, both projects share something in common, and that is
crowd-sourcing. Thus both would presumably benefit from merging those
'crowds' together.

What I would suggest is pursuing my first idea as a starter (assuming
the wiktionary people are amenable at all to it)

> 1) Define a HTML standard which would allow the scraping of wiktionary
>   articles for spellings, alternatives and localised spellings,
>   definitions, etymological information, synonyms and antonyms.

It could be as simple as adding custom tags (i.e. <alt-spelling>,
<loc-spelling lang="fr-FR>, <antonym>, <synonym>, etc...) to wiktionary
articles. If implemented properly this provide the grounds for dicollect
(and other similar projects) to scrap wiktionary for alternative and
localised spellings, antonyms, synonyms and alike.

In any case, I suspect this would represent a large undertaking.
Especially if such a collaboration went beyond the above suggestion into
other territories involving language. Which is why I suggested starting
up a separate (from LibO) language standardisation project under the
broader banner of The Document Foundation.

Kind Regards

Lee Hyde

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