From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Thu May 02 09:51:15 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_1); 2 May 2002 16:51:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 7798 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 16:51:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 May 2002 16:51:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 May 2002 16:51:13 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g42GpDJ23181 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 10:51:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 10:51:12 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [lojban] Re: Fwd: Lojban dictionary in TEI In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Thu, 2 May 2002, Nick Nicholas wrote: > What I don't know is whether that might not overlap with what Jay had > already gotten started with his own work on the dictionary. We'd > obviously want the one to talk to the other. doi djez. pe'ipei XML TEI would make a nice export target for whatever system I finally end up producing. However, XML is just a very structured flat file. You're limited in the number of people who can work on it convinently. As has been demonstrated, one person will not complete a dictionary in a useful amount of time. So, um, really, what I mean to say is that there isn't any overlap. Single person efforts have a poor track record, but collaborative efforts (Alice, the Wiki), produce nice results, quickly. Further, having a big XML file solve any problems I've so far identified. (The main two being that: 1) We need a quality typeset printed dictionary 2) We need a really nice, canonical searchable online dictionary.) This is not meant to in any way say that TEI isn't good stuff, I just don't see how it solves any of our real problems. - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose